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New Drama School production resets ‘Julius Caesar’ in Facebook age

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Alumni vets support ROTC

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Conceiving Sex Weeks

It’s no Florida. The website

“TopRetirements” is out with a list calling Connecticut the worst state in the nation for retirees. The list ranks states on the basis of their fiscal health, property taxes, income taxes, cost of living and climate, each of which is worth up to 1 negative point depending on severity.

Connecticut got 4.05 out of five possible points, tied with Illinois.

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en years ago, a group of Yalies launched the University’s first Sex Week. While the past year has brought the program under fire from both students and administrators, sex weeks have since been hosted on at least six other college campuses across the country — and faced many of the same challenges. DAN STEIN reports.

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other college campuses — Brown, Northeastern, the University of Kentucky, Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis — have held “sex weeks,” and Harvard is poised to hold its first sex week this year. Several campus organizers said they have looked to Yale’s Sex Week as a model.

Each is student-run and shares the

As the University prepares for the Naval and Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps to return to campus in the fall, the Association of Yale Alumni is also making plans to support the programs.

Since University President Richard Levin announced ROTC’s return in May 2011, the Yale Veterans Association, a shared interest group within AYA that helps connect Yale affiliates who have served in the armed forces, has worked to help integrate the program with both Yale and its alumni base. The association is organizing meetings between Yale alumni and the midshipmen and cadets who will arrive next fall — an effort that Naval ROTC instructor Lt. Molly Crabbe said is designed to provide guidance and continuity to the returning program. “[The Yale Veterans Associ-

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But they keep trying. In his

State of the State address on Wednesday, Gov. Dannel Malloy named statewide education reform, changes to state pension funding, redlight cameras and, crucially, Sunday liquor sales as his top priorities this legislative session.

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o celebrate a delivery of delicious tequila direct from Mexico, Geronimo’s summoned a donkey to Crown Street. The donkey was on display in front of the restaurant until 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Eager students snapped photos and posted them to Facebook.

In 2006, Trojan conducted its first annual review of sexual health on college campuses. In the so-called Sexual Health Report Card, Yale ranked first.

The report card pointed to Sex Week at Yale as a reason for the University’s perfect score. Since its founding by two undergraduates in 2002, the week had fostered dialogue and awareness about sexual health issues.

As Sex Week at Yale garnered national

Ward 1 co-chair race uncontested

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER

The team grows. Kevin

Morris, former head football coach at the University of Massachusetts, has been hired as Yale’s offensive coordinator under newly hired head coach Tony Reno, several news outlets reported Wednesday. During Morris’ three years at the helm of the UMass football team, the Minutemen compiled a 16-17 record. Morris was “released from his contract” at UMass in November, the Boston Globe reported.

Grand Strategy, Jr. The Magazine Foreign Affairs is offering a two-week American foreign policy summer camp at Yale for high school students. Participants will study American foreign policy, play foreign policy war games and visit the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations, according to the Washington Post.

She & Them. The Yale

Whiffenpoofs will perform with actress, songstress and indie muse Zooey Deschanel on March 10 at Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Calif. The benefit concert, scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., will support arts education for youth.

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1919 The Bulldogs’ men’s hockey team falls to Harvard, 4-1, in Brooklyn.

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media attention, the idea of a multi-day event dedicated to exploring topics of sexual health also caught the attention of students at other schools. “Sex Week at Yale: The Magazine” was soon distributed on 18 college campuses. In a word, Sex Week became contagious.

“We were inspired by Sex Week at Yale,” said Stella Fayman, who founded Sex Week at Northwestern in 2006.

Over the past three years, at least five

It’s almost election season again in New Haven — this time, for seats on the Democratic Town Committee.

The deadline to register to run for ward co-chair in each of New Haven’s 30 wards passed last week, with only Ben Crosby ’13 and Nia Holston ’14 entering the race together in Ward 1, which includes Old Campus and eight residential colleges. The two co-chairs form a ward committee to endorse aldermanic candidates and serve on the 60-person Democratic Town Committee, which elects delegates for state primary elec-

tions and endorses candidates in city races.

“I’m very excited about using my role as co-chair to involve Yale students more deeply in the civic and political life of this city,” Crosby said in a Wednesday email. “I believe that the Democratic Committee in our ward can and must be a forum for information and skill sharing amongst Yale progressives and an avenue for Ward 1 involvement in city politics as a whole.”

Amalia Skilton ’13, who has served as Ward 1 co-chair since 2010 with Rachel Payne ’12 and then Mac Herring ’12, said the ward co-chairs are also responsible for political organizing at the ward level:

keeping voter files up to date, registering students to vote and making decisions at ward committee meetings that reflect what students want in their Board of Aldermen representative. The Ward 1 Democratic Committee, which is comprised of politically active ward residents, meets three or four times per year to determine how they wish to run elections in the ward.

Crosby and Holston said they would continue the policy Skilton and Herring began last year of not endorsing a candidate or holding a pre-primary endorsement vote during the 2013 aldermanic

Research points toward ‘intelligent’ buildings’

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NIA HOLSTON ’14

Political action chair of the Black Student Alliance

BY DEVIKA MITTAL STAFF REPORTER

Yale’s Intelligent Buildings Project found that the power costs of LEED-silver-certified Rosenkranz Hall could be reduced by roughly 30 percent with a novel air-handling system, which it hopes will eventually feature in buildings across the country.

A five-person research team, led by electrical engineering professor Andreas Savvides and School of Architecture professor Michelle Addington, is designing a power system that divides the building into zones in which air handling is individually and automatically operated based on realtime occupancy. Utilities and Engineering Director Anthony Kosior, whose department has helped carry out the evaluation of Rosenkranz, said Yale would not likely install the proposed system in buildings on campus in the near future, though he added that the University could benefit from the group’s monitoring system to measure energy use on campus.

“Taking what is already there, we can manipulate the way heating and cooling systems function and adjust it to the

A story of possession, magic and love, “Good Goods” has made its world debut on the Yale stage under the direction of Drama Desk Award nominee Tina Landau ’84.

“Good Goods,” conceived by playwright Christina Anderson DRA ’11, premiered Feb. 3 at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Anderson said she started writing “Good Goods” as a second year student at Yale’s School of Drama as part of a class assignment to write a play in 48 hours about the idea of possession.

Anderson said that in consulting a dictionary, she discovered six meanings of the word and set out to capture all six in her play. With its focus on Black American history and setting in a general store called Good Goods, the show deals with ownership of material items as well as with notions of selfpossession and spiritual pos-

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‘Good Goods’ makes world premiere

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A Yale research team aims to design an energy-saving mechanism for Rosenkranz.

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In setting the play in a small Southern town that cannot be visited or found on a map, Anderson said she was inspired by her own childhood visits to Asheville, N.C.

I hope [audiences] see the level of love that exists between all the characters through it all.

CHRISTINA ANDERSON DRA ’11 Playwright, “Good Goods” “When I was young, my family in Asheville would take me around, and I would see roads named after someone who had lived there,” Anderson said. “I was fascinated by the way that people there defined location SEE GOOD GOODS PAGE 6

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n Saturday night, a number of Yale students raided Occupy New Haven. I don’t need to explain how outrageous it is that these Yalies raided the Green.

It’s disrespectful and childish and intensifies the protesters’ resentment toward our school.

Sure, it’s college, and we sometimes do stupid things. But it’s frightening to me that we can have such disregard for a movement, so much disdain for the Occupiers, that we go out of our way to harass them.

By no means should our entire student population be blamed for the theft. But I think a sense of disregard, even contempt, for grassroots movements of change is pervasive in many parts of our student body today.

How many times have you heard someone say that Occupiers are stupid or that their movement consists of homeless people and pot smokers? How many times have you walked on the other side of College Street just to avoid passing by the protest site? Many of us, including me, have said or done these things. But if we inspect what we’re doing closely, we’ll come to realize that these attitudes are dangerous. They cause us to judge people instead of debate ideas worth discussing.

In general, we have a tendency to think that protest movements are extremist or naïve. We chuckle at Occupy’s “End the Fed” signs. They’re uneducated, we think to ourselves. We ridicule the fact that they’re camping outside in the cold to advocate for something that Congress would never pass. When someone mentions the Tea Party, we automatically prepare a quick, standard retort to what they are about to say: Is the Tea Party actually serious?

These protesters — as uneducated as some of them may be — at least have the audacity to go out and fight for what they believe in. We may not think their views are entirely correct, but they do have a worthy point to make. If we truly believe the Occupy protesters endure living in tents in freezing conditions simply to smoke pot — or Tea Partiers rallied in thousands simply to boost their own egos — then we are the ones who are naïve.

We can’t live in our bubble forever. Regrettably, many of us would rather get good grades and excel in extracurriculars than join protests we can’t put on a résumé. We just don’t feel obligated to speak out anymore.

We then caricature protests as places where we, college students, don’t belong. This is the

attitude many of us share — perhaps the same mindset of the students who raided Occupy.

This isn’t how it used to be.

Forty years ago, Yalies were called to demonstrate against a foreign policy they disagreed with, rallying against the Vietnam War. They marched together and created change.

Back then, colleges were centers of solidarity where people who believed in a cause could gather and demonstrate together freely.

Today, in many places around the world, college students still do so. They are the first to create new ideas for resistance. We have some of these people here at Yale, but we need more. I’m not saying you should feel obligated to join a protest group. But if you believe in something, act.

If you feel strongly about AIDS prevention, join the ongoing protest to end the ban on federal needle exchange. If you disagree with Occupy, try talking to them.

When Occupy New Haven began last fall, a few suitemates, my freshman counselor and I visited the Green. The Occupiers were in the middle of a daily meeting. They were grouped in a large circle, chanting and yelling. We walked around the outside of the circle and discussed why the Fed was so important in our financial system.

Two teenage Occupiers overheard us and confronted us.

They told us to go back to Yale and that our ideas were stupid. They came even closer and yelled in our faces that the Fed was a corrupt organization, that corporations and banks had been cheating them for years and that society was unfair.

They told us to take our elitism elsewhere.

Then an older man appeared.

He was almost bald, with a grey beard. He extended his arm between us and said softly, “Wait, stop. I want to hear. Why is the Fed important?”

We had to leave the Green because those two teenagers were starting to throw insults at us. But ever since that day, I’ve wished we had the time to explain to the man the role of the Fed in our financial system.

The students who raided the Occupy protests last weekend stole from that old man. But they didn’t just steal signs. They stole from us the ability to have a constructive, civil dialogue, to safely ask questions and to have our outlook on the world respected.

GENG NGARMBOONANANT is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact him at wishcha.ngarmboonanant@yale.edu .

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he last week has seen its share of particularly biting partisanship among undergraduates. Some of the most prominent have been the protests at the Harvey Mansfield Master’s Tea and True Love Week’s “The Person as a Gift” lecture. In addition, the alleged sign-taking at Occupy New Haven has sparked controversy across campus. You almost wish that Clint Eastwood could walk onto campus and remind us of who we are and why we are here.

The political climate here is not simply heated. It’s combative.

And while we view these instances through our Ivy League lens, what we see here is not so different from the scattered vitriol on our national stage.

I’m not going to write about civility. Granted, there is a strong case to be made for tempering our dialogue. But let’s face it — civility has become a hackneyed refuge, joining the umbrella constructs of tolerance, fairness and community.

Lost in the tempestuous climate of political opinion both at Yale and in America is something more distressing: We are losing our sense of common purpose.

At Yale, we seem to forget that we have pledged to seek truth, explore ideas and thoughts from all perspectives and leave here capable of bringing light to our endeavors. In

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America, the very language that defines us as a country — success, prosperity, virtue and patriotism — has HARRY become a batGRAVER tleground.

But, as Gravely E d m u n d Burke said, mistaken “To make us love our country, our country must be lovely.” Our nation’s leaders’ defining job, ultimately, is to awaken in each of us a sense of what is lovely about our country and to rally us to that vision. In our highest office, we have a president who has failed at accomplishing this. But, in all fairness, the alternatives seem equally incapable.

Is it any wonder that the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad struck such a powerful nerve? Both parties were claiming his message of American resilience, strength and purpose for their own. And while Eastwood disavowed any politics in his message, it resembled nothing so much as — and echoed as nothing recently has — Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.”

Earlier this week, Ronald Reagan would have celebrated his 101st birthday. At first reaction, Reagan is far from a great unifier of Yale students. As the conser-

vative paradigm, he is often ridiculed, mocked and debunked — and only occasionally revered. But as we look back on the Reagan legacy, we all ought to admire an apolitical aspect of Reagan.

Looking back on the prospect of running against Reagan for president, Ted Kennedy once wrote, “He was more than a candidate at that time; he was a movement.”

Reagan was not only able to make Americans hope again; He was able to ground that hope in a set of principles, values and morals that allowed our nation to hope for a shared purpose.

“The source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual,” Reagan said in his famous “Evil Empire” speech. Today, in a national dialogue almost exclusively encumbered with economic measurements and social statistics, the shallowness of our rhetoric lacks the ability to produce any greater aspiration to mitigate fixed ideological divisions.

There is arguably no greater testament to Reagan’s enduring inspiration than the number of statues of him erected beyond America’s borders. In town squares across the world, people pass his image with a quiet appreciation and affection. None of that comes from a global endearment for the Laffer Curve, the War on Drugs or the appointment of San-

dra Day O’Connor to the bench.

The values Reagan championed — belief in life, natural rights and human liberty — transcend the temporarily political.

In essence, Reagan had the gifted persona that earned the trust of a nation. People trusted Reagan not primarily for his policies but for his principles.

Certainly, I don’t expect to convince my readers of Reagan’s overall value to our nation — but I would say that it does us all good to look at the chord he struck with all Americans. He saw the presidency as a trust granted him by the people. He believed in an American identity, and although one can dispute the merits of his programs and policies, he caused our country and the world to believe in it, too.

We pay a lot of lip service to the virtues of bipartisanship. But beyond the realm of legislative agendas and compromise, it takes a real intellectual courage and dispositional maturity to respect the opposition. So perhaps today we can take a step back from the fiery pettiness of late and wish President Reagan a happy belated birthday.

Come on, do it for the Gipper.

HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

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n a society that separates groups of people for extended periods of time, two distinct cultures often emerge. Yale is no different. In the early 20th century, African-Americans made up about 1 percent of Yale’s student body and were scattered among the University’s various schools. They students were excluded from many campus activities and had to devise their own forms of entertainment and means of socialization. Their stories are often left out of Yale’s history.

African-American alumni come up twice in the commonly told story of Yale University.

Edward Bouchet became the first African-American graduate of Yale College in 1874 and the first African-American to earn a doctorate, also from Yale, in 1876. Next comes the set of African-Americans in the late 1960s and early 1970s who created the many organizations that represent the African-American community on campus today: the Black Student Alliance at Yale (1967), the Afro-American Cultural Center (1969) and the African American Studies Department (1969).

Little is known of the almost hundred-year gap of African-American Yalies between Bouchet’s graduation and the creation of the BSAY. Many of the names, stories and experiences of early African-American Yalies have been forgot-

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ten. However, the stories that have been uncovered show that, through its African-American population, Yale University has played a major role in the history of African-Americans in Connecticut.

A LOOK AT EARLY 20TH CENTURY BLACK ALUMNI African-American students in the early 1900s carved their own niche to make their time at Yale more enjoyable. In lieu of a network of support on campus, students developed strong connections to each other and the city of New Haven. Many of these early Yalies frequently participated in events around the city, from public debates and mock trials to church Christmas plays. Yale students also taught classes, mentored high school students and invited prominent African-American figures of the era to campus.

In October 1915, for example, Booker T. Washington spoke at a symposium in New Haven.

Washington fell ill and passed away not long after appearing at the event, making the visit to New Haven his last public appearance.

In May 1925, members of

Don’t let up on politicians No disrespect to either Jack Schlossberg (“Rally Behind the President,” Feb. 6) or President Reagan, but Schlossberg’s suggestion that Democrats adopt Reagan’s golden rule — the idea that one should not criticize a politician simply because of the letter beside their name — is absurd. If there is a legitimate criticism of a political figure, it should be heard and responded to. Presenting an incomplete picture of a political figure is at best misleading and at worst a good way to elect someone whose true positions people abhor.

Criticism is an integral tool for constituents’ voices to be heard by the politicians they elect. Without it, politicians have no reason to change their positions on important issues. It is all well and good for Republicans to criticize Democrats and vice versa, but the people whose opinions truly need to be heard by their elected officials are the people who actually vote them into office. If supporters of Democratic (or Republican) candidates don’t let their chosen politicians know which positions they agree with or disagree with through criticism, then it’s their own fault when they end up with an elected official who isn’t what they wanted.

Criticizing or choosing candidates based solely on party affiliation enables uninformed voting. Elections, whether at the local or presi-

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, a Black Greek Letter Organization that chartered a chapter at Yale in 1909, brought author and leading Harlem Renaissance figure Countee Cullen to Yale.

African-American students of the early 20th century followed New Haven politics closely. The decisions made in City Hall often had a profound effect on students’ close friends and neighbors. Although New Haven’s African-American population was sizable, it did not include any elected officials until 1921. Harry G. Tolliver was a 1908 graduate of the Yale Law School and a successful New Haven attorney. At the New Haven Republican caucus in 1921, Tolliver received the Republican nomination for Ward 19 alderman. He was elected, becoming the first African-American alderman in New Haven and the first AfricanAmerican elected to a position of prominence in Connecticut.

During football season, African-American students organized receptions where they could mingle with students and alumni of color from rival institutions. One such event was organized at the Yale-Harvard game in 1916. Noted author and Harvard alumnus W.E.B. DuBois traveled from New York City for the festivities. Yale Law student John Francis Williams LAW ’22 later recounted that “football songs and cheers by members

of the rival colleges lent proper tone to the occasion.”

The festivities continued at away games. For the 1923 YaleHarvard game, for example, African-American Harvard students hosted a reception for the visiting students and alumni of color from Yale. On Thanksgiving 1916, Yale students traveled to Brown to support friend and frequent guest of the Yale football receptions Fredrick Douglas “Fritz” Pollard. Pollard was the star running back for Brown in a season that would make him the first African-American AllAmerican running back and the first African-American to play in the Rose Bowl.

The Yale history we know does not often include the experiences and accomplishments of its African-American alumni.

Maybe Yale believes that admitting a segregated history would be closely followed by negative press. However, there could also be an outpouring of support and admiration for such a great step in the right direction. Whatever the reason, the exclusion of the African-American experience from the history of Yale is most disheartening. As we observe Black History Month, we should commemorate the full history of Yale, which includes the experiences of African-American Yalies of the past.

local or presidential level, should not simply be viewed as a way to get your team into office. Instead, they should be used to vote into office the candidate whose platform includes the most ideas you believe in. Without criticism, a candidate’s true positions on these ideas might never be revealed, and their position on them will undoubtedly never change.

versity has an explanation, and that it is not privileging its public image above the truth.

If, as President Levin has said, “there is no place for any form of sexual misconduct on this campus,” students and alumni deserve an explanation as to why an allegation of sexual assault was not considered important enough to question Witt’s endorsement, or to report — in confidence — to the Rhodes Trust. Surely the selection committee was capable of recognizing that an informal allegation cannot ascertain guilt or innocence, and in the United States of America, one is innocent until proven guilty. This is an opportunity for institutional transparency, not only about Patrick Witt, but also about the sexual harassment policy in general.

The university would do well to follow Cecil Rhodes’s vision: “Fight the world’s fight.”

Yale seems determined, at the moment, only to maintain the status quo.

SYDNEY SHEA FEB. 8 The writer is a sophomore in Trumbull college.

Yale must come clean As a Yale alumna and a Rhodes scholar, I am divided between allegiance to my alma mater, that standard bearer of “Lux et Veritas,” and shame that it now refuses to uphold the truth.

On Friday, the Rhodes Trust confirmed that Patrick Witt’s application had been suspended.

Why didn’t university administrators counsel Witt to tell the truth? When he lied by omission, why didn’t they contest Witt’s version of events? I hope the Uni-

JEREMY HARP is a 2010 graduate of Trumbull College.

ALICE BAUMGARTNER FEB. 5 The writer is a 2010 graduate of Berkeley College.

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“The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar.” ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER HAMILTON FORMER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, UNITED STATES

Activists speak out on wage theft

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 11:45 AM “The Night the Roof Caved In: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Public Housing.” Sociology professor Marcus Hunter will give this Endeavors Talk. African American Studies (81 Wall St.), Gordon Parks Room 201.

4:30 PM “Life After Yale: The Modern Asian-American.” Do you ever wonder how your cultural interests and current activism might translate into a career someday? Interested in social justice, civil rights or public sector work? Come to this conversation with civil rights attorney Chiraag Bains ’03 and and judge Ramey Ko ’02 to hear two alumni’s thoughts about ethnicity, law and contemporary civil rights. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), room 101.

6:30 PM “Prometheus: Poem of Fire.” Documentary and concert featuring the music of Alexander Scriabin and the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Presented in conjunction with the “No Boundaries” series. Free to the general public. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8

The article “Music School hires first career strategist” stated that Astrid Baumgardner began Saturday Seminars at the School of Music. In fact, the seminars are not a new program, but Baumgardner has joined Music School Associate Dean Michael Yaffe in running them. The article also stated that she left the Alliance Francaise in 2008. In fact, she left the institute in 2003.

‘Julius Caesar’ reimagined in 2012

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Rome is just down Chapel Street this term, with today’s opening of “Julius Caesar,” the first of three of Shakespeare’s “Roman” plays to come out of the Drama School this spring.

The show is part of the Yale School of Drama’s Studio Series, which coincides with Shakespeare at Yale, a semester-long celebration of the Bard’s works.

Director Ethan Heard DRA ’13 said he decided to reset the play, updating the tragedy from 44 B.C. to the modern day. The production incorporates the press, social media platforms and other modern forms of communication technology into the Elizabethan-era script.

I have the citizens in the famous ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ scene on Facebook and Twitter, updating their statuses and commenting. I’m setting [‘Julius Caesar’] in a 2012 world.

ETHAN HEARD DRA ’13 Director, “Julius Caesar” “I have the citizens in the famous ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ scene on Facebook and Twitter, updating their statuses and commenting,” Heard said. “I’m setting [the production] in a 2012 world, which is in conversation with the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and demonstrations in Russia.”

Marissa Neitling DRA ’13, who plays a variety of roles in “Julius Caesar” including Calpurnia and Octavius Caesar, said the modern interpretation is meant to highlight the role of technology in today’s politics.

“You’ve got a lot of mob scenes in ‘Julius Caesar.’ We wanted to look at what our modern day mobs look like: how do we congregate, how do we come together as a unified force to fight for what we believe and have our voice be heard? We do that now heavily through technology,” Neitling said.

Heard said he drew inspiration for “Julius Caesar” from the 2012 presidential election and imagery such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 reacting to the assas-

sination of Osama Bin Laden.

He added that the production served as an opportunity to immerse himself in the politics section of the newspaper and absorb today’s current events.

“The Yale bubble is often quite strong, especially at the Drama School, so I’m really trying to challenge my whole production team and company to become engaged in current events,” Heard said.

Heard said he was drawn to the political aspects of “Julius Caesar” and their modern-day connections from the start of the Shakespeare project. He imagined a scenario in which Antony speaks to a row of cameras from a podium, with “a pin on his lapel and perfectly coiffed hair.” As Antony delivers his persuasive speech, Heard said he projected the politician’s face onto a screen behind him.

“Shakespeare is immediate and it is of the now,” Neitling said. “It’s not old. History repeats itself. We have many Julius Caesar stories going around in the world right now, and we’re talking about the same things [Shakespeare] was years ago.”

Heard said that while the production team has been ambitious in their design for the play, they nonetheless put a heavy emphasis on Shakespeare’s original language.

The production has a smaller cast and the original text has been cut down, Heard said, as he reduced the number of characters by 20 and shortened the line count from 2,700 to 1,500. Heard added that some male characters are played by actresses.

The Studio Series is a requirement for second-year Drama School students; each production has up to 10 actors and a rehearsal time of about four weeks.

The second and third plays in the Studio Series — “Antony and Cleopatra,” directed by Margot Bordelon DRA ’13, and “Titus Andronicus,” directed

by Jack Tamburri DRA ’13 — are set to open later this term.

Bordelon, Heard, and Tamburri were enrolled in Directing professor Karin Coonrod’s Shakespeare class last term. Heard said he thought it would be interesting to see how audiences react to the three Roman-set plays in relation to each other, with their shared political themes.

“Julius Caesar” is showing through Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Iseman Theater on Chapel Street.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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Representatives of Unidad Latina en Accion, a Latino advocacy group, urged students to take action against wage theft and other labor issues in the city.

BY CHRISTINA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a meeting with members of the immigrant advocacy group Unidad Latina en Accion last night, Yalies confronted the problem of wage theft at restaurants and businesses on and surrounding Yale’s campus.

On Tuesday night in Dwight Hall, five representatives from ULA spoke aboutlabor issues in New Haven, including wage theft, sexual harassment and unsafe work environments. The event was organized by MEChA de Yale, a student group that serves New Haven’s Chicano community through education and political action, and drew a crowd of over 20 students from various campus organizations.

At the meeting, ULA members discussed their personal experiences with unfair treatment in the workplace and urged students to take action.

“There are a lot of injustices happening right now in downtown New Haven,” said ULA member John Lugo. “Many things happen in this community and nobody knows about it.”

Lugo added that New Haven

has a large immigrant community of 15,000 people performing many different jobs crucial to the city’s functioning. But, he added, “they’re the ones who are abused the most.”

Wage theft has been a highprofile issue in the Elm City in recent months. ULA’s lobbying and support helped six former kitchen workers at the restaurant Downtown at the Taft win a $50,000 lawsuit three weeks ago, after the restaurant failed to pay minimum wage and overtime to its cooking staff. Last April, a branch of ULA called the New Haven Workers Association organized a successful boycott of Café Goodfellas because its owners refused to pay minimum wage to kitchen workers.

Over the course of the evening, three ULA members recounted their personal experiences of workplace injustice occurring close to campus.

ULA member John Molina said he held a job at Caffé Bravo on Orange Street for four years, working 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for “very low pay.” When he finally decided to quit because of the long hours and low pay, Molina gave his boss his two weeks’

notice. After weeks of waiting and repeated requests for for his final paycheck, Molina sought out his boss in person, only to be accused of stealing and ordered to leave the premises.

Molina said he later faced a similar situation at Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue just a few weeks ago, where a contractor who hired him refused to pay him for his cleaning work.

Companies that need workers for construction, cleaning and landscaping, Molina said, tend to “hire private contractors that then hire workers, so [the companies] cannot be held accountable for anything.”

To fight against such workplace injustices, Lugo said, ULA stresses the importance of direct action to help enact immediate change in the community.

“When someone doesn’t get paid, there’s always a long process to go through with the U.S. Labor Department — sometimes it takes up to two years, sometimes nothing happens at all,” he said. “Eighty percent of the cases taken on by ULA were solved because we use direct action. We rally around the community, work in a coalition with many people and make

things happen.”

ULA also seeks to create alliances both within and beyond Yale, Lugo said, emphasizing the need for a dialogue between people from diverse communities.

Roselyn Cruz ’15, a member of MEChA who helped organize the event, said that one of MEChA’s goals for the night was to inspire Yalies to support workers’ rights and get involved in some of ULA’s ongoing projects. In addition, she added, MEChA hopes to start a New Haven restaurant guide for Yalies this semester to guide them in choosing restaurants and shops that treat their workers fairly and avoiding those that do not.

But MEChA’s overarching goal, Cruz said, is not specific to justice for the immigrant community.

“So many other workers suffer from these issues, and we are working for social justice for everyone and with everyone, regardless of what community you come from,” she said.

The current minimum wage in Connecticut is $8.25 per hour.

Contact CHRISTINA WANG at christina.wang@yale.edu .

Slifka hosts green ethics course

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Students interested in the intersection of religion and environmental studies can engage in a special interdisciplinary course this month at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.

Starting Thursday night, a three-part series of classes on the intersection of environmentalism and Jewish ethics will be taught by Noah Cheses, an associate rabbi at the Slifka Center, and Willis Jenkins, the Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The educational series will explore how the Jewish traditions and texts can be used to approach environmental moral issues, Jenkins said.

“If we have a few people who want to look at some texts with some new critical lenses, then we’re undoubtedly going to have interesting conversations,” he said.

Cheses said that while the course is geared toward Jewish students interested in the environment, everyone is welcome.

He added that the classes will

likely contain a mix of undergraduates and FES students both of Jewish and non-Jewish faiths.

The idea for the course began when a group of undergraduates approached Cheses in the final weeks of fall semester asking for guidance on Judaism’s view on environmental issues such as climate control and urban pollution, he said.

“I actually had no clue how to respond,” Cheses said, adding that these questions led him to investigate and research the Jewish tradition for answers. After sharing his findings with FES and undergraduate students, the group decided to create a threepart class series based on these issues.

Jenkins said his personal goal for the course is to engage in stimulating conversations. On the first day, the group will look at the two creation stories at the beginning of Genesis — which differ on whether God’s mandate to humanity was to dominate or serve the environment — and explore the role of man in nature.

The second class, Cheses said, will explore how a legal system can shift in the face of new problems. Since the environmental crisis did not exist when Jew-

ish law was formed, the second meeting will focus on how tradition adapts, he added. The final class will examine ethical and historical issues that the Jewish wisdom texts raise about environmentalism, Cheses added.

Religion and environmentalism try to transform the language of “I and now” to “we and forever.”

NOAH CHESES Associate rabbi, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale Although religion and environmental studies are distinct fields, Cheses said both focus on thinking beyond the individual self.

“Religion and environmentalism try to transform the language of ‘I and now’ to ‘we and forever,’” he said.

Jenkins added that he hopes students leave the course with a sense of the resources in Jew-

ish traditions for thinking about environmental problems, as well as how modern ecological problems raise questions about Judaism.

Cheses said he would love for the class to evolve into a more task-oriented group that will apply the information learned to the community. If the class receives serious interest, he added, there might be an opportunity to bring a similar course to FES or the Divinity School.

“I think that people who come from faith backgrounds — and even people who don’t — can look toward faith as a real reservoir to inform their environmental passion,” Cheses added.

Hody Nemes ‘13, a member of the steering committee for the class, is active in environmental and Jewish groups on campus.

He said he hopes this course will teach him how the two realms of his life intersect.

“I’m excited to delve deeper,” he added.

Classes will be held Thursdays from 7:15-8:30 p.m. in the Slifka library.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.”

BRUNO BETTELHEIM CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST

Beyond Yale, sex weeks face similar challenges SEXWEEK FROM PAGE 1 challenge of striking a balance between events focused on the concept of safe sex and events dedicated to its pleasures. All sex weeks have experienced varying levels of criticism.

But a decade after its founding, the existence of Yale’s own Sex Week was seriously called into question by campus administrators and fellow students alike: From the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, which recommended that Sex Week be eliminated in its November report, to the newly formed group Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, who circulated a petition to ban Sex Week 2012 in protest of the current sexual culture at Yale, the controversy has brought scrutiny to the mission and purpose of the student-driven project.

“With something like Sex Week, you’re always going to get a negative reaction,” said Megan Lane, a Sex Week chair at Wash. U, adding that the amount of negative reaction varies among campuses.

In response to this criticism, Lane said organizers have to return to their goals and ask themselves: “Why did Sex Week start happening?”

LAUNCHING SEX WEEK

After seeing Trojan’s report card, Northwestern organizer Fayman said she called Eric Rubenstein ’04, co-founder of Sex Week at Yale, and exclaimed, “This is so cool, tell me about how it works.”

Rubenstein had founded Sex Week in 2002 along with Jacqueline Farber ’03 simply with an intention “to raise awareness about health issues,” Farber said.

She had been working as a Peer Health Educator and, after leading workshops for freshmen on safe sex, she began to see the need for an event dedicated to encouraging dialogue about sex across Yale’s campus. She added that she especially noticed a lack of awareness about the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among college students.

Four years later, at Northwestern, Fayman echoed Farber’s concerns surrounding the lack of knowledge on her college campus.

Fayman said she was shocked that girls knew so little about sexual health. She did not recall having the opportunity to attend any events about sexual health during her freshman orientation.

At Yale, Farber said the first Sex Week was “fairly well received.”

She said that while some individuals felt uncomfortable at an event held with Al Goldstein, founder of a pornographic magazine called Screw, they nonetheless remained present and vocal at the talk with Goldstein.

Still, she said avoiding the impression that Sex Week was “flippant” about sex proved difficult, especially when a separate

group of Yale students announced plans to release a pornographic film entitled “StaXXX” around the same time as the inaugural Sex Week at Yale commenced.

“It was not our intention to be affiliated in any way [with the film],” Farber said.

Farber then expressed concern that Sex Week at Yale may have changed since she graduated, becoming “more of a sensationalist thing.”

SEEKING SUPPORT

Maintaining and appropriately conveying the mission of Sex Week has proved challenging at both Yale and schools around the country, especially in dealings with campus administrators.

While Yale’s Sex Week began as an independent student organization, Fayman convinced the Northwestern’s College Feminists organization, of which she was director, to host Sex Week.

Fayman did recall running into difficulties with Northwestern administrators after surveying 500 students about their sexual practices and conceptions of sex.

Fayman said she had planned to publish the results in the campus newspaper. But she received a call on her cell phone from a campus administrator who said the results could not be published because a campus research board had not approved the survey.

The next year, when the group applied to the board, it denied their request.

Still, the event itself lives on.

“Overall, the administration was never supportive, but it didn’t really stand in the way,” Fayman said.

At Northeastern, Jimmy Okuszka, vice president of programming for Northeastern’s Resident Student Association, which hosts the school’s Sex Week, said the advisor for the event prohibited him from speaking with the News. (The advisor could not be reached for comment.)

With something like Sex Week, you’re always going to get a negative reaction.

MEGAN LANE Sex Week chair, Washington University in St. Louis But administrative protest does not always occur: At Brown, Sex Week co-chairs Aida Manduley and Jennifer Conti said their week — sponsored by a student group devoted to sexual health — has remained relatively free from controversy since its start in 2009.

Students have also never protested the event, she said, though she said she is aware of some students who dislike the event. Manduley only knew of one alumnus who had made an effort to raise concerns in 2010, but the

COMPARISON SEX WEEKS Year Founded

Sponsoring Organization

Frequency Hosted

Selected Event

Yale

2002

Founded as an independent organization. Now part of Sexual Literacy Coaltion

Bi-Annual

“Babeland’s Lip Tricks: Blow Jobs and Going Down”

Northwestern

2006

Northwestern College Feminists

Annual

A documentary on homosexuality and Orthodox Judaism, with a discussion from the campus rabbi

2009

Sexual Health Education & Empowerment Council

Annual

“Food Porn” — an oral sex workshop with catered appetizers based on traditional aphrodisiacs

School

Brown Indiana University

2008

IU Health Center

Annual

“Pleasure and Plastic Surgery: Reshaping Gender and Genetics” – a lecture from David Teplica, a photographer and plastic surgeon

Washington University in St. Louis

2002

Student Health Advisory Committee

Annual

A “Porn Star vs. Priest” debate

Only occurred once

“Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” — Male students walked a mile in women’s heels to end to sexual violence

University of Kentucky

2009

Independent organization

Northeastern

2004

Resident Student Association

Annual

Condom Carnival

Harvard

2012

Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College

Annual

Female Orgasm Seminar

University reviewed the week in response. Manduley, who served as chair at the time, said Brown administrators told her, “You’re doing everything right, so continue.”

Unlike Northwestern, they were able to conduct a survey, and found that Brown students were eager for the campus-wide conversation about sex.

INVOLVING STUDENTS

Beyond navigating administrators’ scrutiny, organizers must consider that the success of their week depends largely on the opinions of their peers.

“Sex weeks should not only be happening on college campus, [they]should be happening wherever people are,” Manduley said.

But at Northwestern, and other schools, sex week organizers have encountered resistance among students as the events progressed.

For Yale, this has most recently taken the form of Undergraduates for a Better Yale College’s True Love Week.

Northwestern Sex Week founder Fayman said she knew her campus was “a little more conservative than Yale” and said that they had tried to make their event more “intellectual.” But after seeing the fliers announcing the first Sex Week at Northwestern, Fayman said the President of North-

Project identifies energy savings in Yale buildings INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS FROM PAGE 1 behavior of occupants,” Savvides said. “Even in a building with new infrastructure and equipment [like Rosenkranz], we can cut down electricity costs significantly.”

The Intelligent Buildings Project, which began in 2010, received a $200,000 grant from Wells Fargo in December, but Addington said the group “could really use” more researchers and architects. She added that she is reaching out to “extremely large international organizations” to help with the data analysis.

As part of the Intelligent Building Project’s efforts to recruit researchers, it is hosting an informal seminar this spring semester. Savvides said the seminar, which has met twice so far and invites professors to speak about topics related to the project, attracted around 50 graduate students to the first meeting and around 100 to the second.

In the group’s first project, it installed sensors and power meters throughout Rosenkranz to track temperature and power consumption. The current heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in Rosenkranz is operated according to a rigid schedule, comprising 52 percent of the building’s total electricity consumption, according to the group’s report of initial findings.

The team calculated that implementing its “intelligent” HVAC system throughout cam-

pus would save $5 million dollars annually if it reduced electricity costs by 20 percent — a conservative estimate compared to the predicted savings in Rosenkranz.

Addington said the group hopes to replicate their study in buildings on West Campus and eventually extend the model beyond Yale’s campus.

“We have to see how generalizable this system is [to other buildings],” Addington said. “It might take some years, and we’re focusing not just on buildings on campus, but also standard office buildings.”

But Kosier said the group’s estimation of 20 percent cost reduction across the University may be too “aggressive” since Rosenkranz houses primarily offices and classrooms, which offer more potential savings for occupancy-driven systems than would buildings with labs that require 24-hour ventilation and operation of equipment.

He added that Yale Facilities already conducts seasonal reviews of buildings on campus to find ways to optimize the heating schedule.

Rosenkranz Hall, built less than three years ago, houses faculty and staff members from the Political Science Department, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale and the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs.

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

western College Republicans launched a “crusade against Sex Week,” starting her own organization, named Women of Worth, to host events scheduled to conflict with Sex Week. For example, during an event sponsored by sex toy company Pure Romance, Women of Worth held a spa and manicure event off campus.

Now, executive directors of this year’s Northwestern Sex Week Kelsey Sheridan and Amanda Mather said, the organizers are working to incorporate differing perspectives and opinions into their event. By involving more students with a variety of viewpoints, the two hope to avoid protest from their fellow students.

At Washington University in St. Louis, which Lane said also modeled its program on Yale’s Sex Week, a similar student protest caused Lane, a chair of the event, to evaluate the purpose of Sex Week for this year. In 2011, the organizers at Wash. U invited Bristol Palin to be the keynote speaker on a panel about sexual responsibility. After outraged students protested Palin’s abstinence-only stance and the use of university funding to support her appearance, Palin’s invitation was cancelled.

Six years after the founding of Northwestern’s Sex Week, Laura Stewart, who works at North-

western University Health Service as the Sexual Health Education and Violence Prevention Coordinator, said that “the best sex weeks represent a variety of different viewpoints about sexuality and do not vilify or shame anyone for their sexual identities, behaviors or choices.”

ONE MORE, AT HARVARD

At the end of March, Sex Week will begin for the first time at Harvard.

“We noticed that there were a lot of events about sex, love, and gender already happening on campus, but weren’t really connected in any coherent way,” said Samantha Meier, a co-president of Sex Week.

Like Northwestern and Wash.

U, Harvard’s organizers have contacted Yale’s Sex Week organizers for advice. Connie Cho ’13, an executive director of Yale’s Sex Week 2012, said the two groups of organizers have discussed ideas for speakers, sources of funding and issues of legality. Cho said that she and other sex week directors have been communicating for some time, and they have even discussed forming a “national council” for sex weeks.

At Harvard, administrative support hasn’t been a problem, Meier said, adding that graduate students and campus groups have

been reaching out to the Sex Week organizers and have offered to help host events.

“Even our office of career services has signed on for an event,” Meier said.

Like many other sex weeks, Harvard’s week will be run by a sexual health group on campus.

When asked about the criticisms that other sex weeks have received, Meier said she believed that education about sexual morals and sexual enjoyment could co-exist.

“I don’t know if morals aren’t fun,” Meier said. “We’re interested in the full range of sexuality — that includes not having sex.”

But most importantly, Meier said that sex weeks must be “attentive to community feedback,” in order to deal with criticism like the situations seen at Yale and Wash U. At Yale, Cho said she hopes that other sex weeks have seen Yale’s example as inspiration to keep “being bold, and addressing issues of sex and sexuality in bold terms.” Meier said the Harvard team has been consistently meeting with students about proposed events. “[Sex Week] will be part of the ongoing conversation of Harvard,” Meier said.

Contact DAN STEIN at daniel.stein@yale.edu .

Holston, Crosby unopposed WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 election. This was done, Herring said, because the pair were concerned that freshmen would not be able to vote for their alderman, which she said felt “undemocratic.”

With record-breaking voter turnout in last fall’s Ward 1 aldermanic election, Herring said she wants to see Holston and Crosby continue a trend of increasing political engagement among Yale students.

“I really hope that they use their official position to continue a lot of the exciting political participation that we got in November,” Herring said. “I think the Ward 1 co-chairs can really play a role in making sure that doesn’t die between elections.”

The two candidates for cochair worked on competing aldermanic campaigns last fall, with Holston campaigning for Vinay Nayak ’14 and Crosby working for Sarah Eidelson ’12, who defeated Nayak by a vote of 563 to 399. But the pair said they think this will help them reach out to different communities on campus.

“Because we come from such diverse backgrounds and are affiliated with different networks on campus, we will be able to reach out to many students that have demonstrated interest in New

Haven politics,” Holston said in a Wednesday email to the News.

“This is absolutely vital in forming an engaged Ward 1 Democratic Committee that fulfills its purpose of voicing the opinions of our constituents and creating a climate on campus that is conducive to collective work.”

I think the Ward 1 co-chairs can really play a role in making sure [political participation] doesn’t die between elections.

MAC HERRING ’12 Former Ward 1 co-chair Crosby and Holston will also attend meetings of the Democratic Town Committee, comprised of all 30 wards’ co-chairs, which is a center of political power in overwhelmingly Democratic New Haven. There, they will vote to endorse candidates in city races — including mayoral and aldermanic campaigns — as well as to elect delegates in state elections.

The Democratic Town Committee also votes on a chair, who

functions as the head of the Democratic Party in New Haven. In even-numbered years, Skilton said the chair is responsible for working with federal and statewide campaigns to manage voter turnout and run the “ground game” for the party in New Haven during elections.

But during odd-numbered years, when the focus returns to city politics, Skilton said the chair becomes New Haven’s “kingmaker,” convincing people to run in elections and keeping tabs on politics across the city. Current Democratic Town Committee chair Susie Voigt is rumored to step down this year — although she has not announced her plans — and four people, including Ward 3 Alderwoman Jackie James, have said they will or are considering running for the position.

In Ward 22, Josef Goodman ’14 and Jayuan Carter, a lab assistant at the School of Medicine, will run for co-chairs against Gina Phillips and former aldermanic challenger Cordelia Thorpe, who currently hold the seats.

Elections for ward co-chairs will take place March 6, with the races in 21 of the 30 wards uncontested.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE GERMAN POET

Barbara Bush urges engagement in global health

BY ROBERT PECK STAFF REPORTER Barbara Bush ’04 wants young people to work in global health — even if their training doesn’t seem to fit the job.

Bush, the eldest child of President George W. Bush ’68, addressed nearly 40 undergraduate and graduate students at the Yale School of Public Health Wednesday morning. Bush encouraged the students to get involved in global health in unconventional ways, such as through logistics, policy and advocacy instead of medicine, the more traditional route. She suggested that health careers can be financially rewarding and added that the long-term viability of such careers is often underestimated.

Bush said many students wrongly think global health jobs are economically infeasible, but some organzations have managed to make global health work more lucrative by helping employees specialize in profitable fields.

“That way, when your uncle in Florida [former Gov. Jeb Bush] asks why you didn’t go into finance, you have an answer,” Bush said.

Bush began her presentation by asking all audience members to briefly outline their interest in health to demonstrate the diversity of perspectives in the room, each of which could lead to meaningful global health work.

She said her own interest in health began when she was an architecture student at Yale. During her work as

a student, she interacted extensively with members of the gay and lesbian community, which she said gave her deeper insight into HIV due to the stigma she saw LGBTQ people facing, even if they were HIV-negative.

[Barbara Bush] is an incredible person. All the work [the Global Health Corps does] is so relevant to what we’re learning.

STEPHANIE PLATIS SPH ’12 In 2009, Bush and five others cofounded the Global Health Corps — a nonprofit that sends students around the globe to work on solving health-related problems — after winning a $250,000 grant from Google. So far, the program focuses on East Africa and urban centers in the United States, she said, but it has plans to expand to Latin America.

The event, hosted by the Global Health Leadership Institute, primarily consisted of members of the “Strategic Thinking in Global Health” class, which is co-taught by Michael Skonieczny, Leslie Curry and Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley GRD ’96.

To help attendees understand the diverse range of skills needed in global health fields, Bush broke

the students into smaller groups to create business plans targeted at addressing specific concerns about youth involvement in global health.

This technique, she said, was similar to the way she came up with the idea for the Global Health Corps.

Students submitted plans including establishing a high school honor society oriented toward global health and building a network of bloggers to hype raise awareness about global health messages.

Audience members said they found Bush’s advice extremely relevant to their lives as university sudents.

Alex Bowles GRD ’12 said promoting programs like the Global Health Corps directly to students at Yale would be effective at interesting students who might otherwise not have become involved. Stephanie Platis SPH ’12 agreed, adding that she found Bush’s focus on youth voices to be inspirational. “[Bush] is an incredible person,” said Platis. “All the work they do is so relevant to what we’re learning. I think it affords all of us the opportunity to put these skills to use and get some incredible groundwork experience.”

Bradley is the faculty director of the Global Health Leadership Institute, which is an offshoot of the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs.

Skonieczny is the executive director of GHLI. Contact ROBERT PECK at robert.peck@yale.edu .

Panelists defend BDSM

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Barbara Bush ’04, daughter of former President George W. Bush ’68, spoke to SPH students Wednesday about her global health initiatives.

Speaker condemns casual sex

BY KARIN SHEDD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

VIVIENNE JIAO ZHANG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Panelists at a Sex Week event Wednesday defended the sexual practices known as BDSM.

BY CATHERINE DINH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three panelists convened on Wednesday to dispel what they deemed myths surrounding a controversial sexual practice known as bondage and domination, sadism and masochism (BDSM).

SEX WEEK Roughly 40 people filled a room in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to hear clinical sexologist Charley Ferrer and two representatives of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Judy Guerin and Richard Cunningham, discuss issues relating to BDSM, including safe practices and attributes of what they called the BDSM community.

The panelists said people often consider BDSM to be illegal, violent and impersonal, but argued that these are misconceptions and that BDSM can be part of a healthy relationship.

Ferrer, who has written several books on sex, explained that BDSM is about people exploring their bodies and personal preferences — not just about sex. She said many people in the BDSM community do not interact sexually, adding that dominance and submission can be seen as normal components of relationships.

“It is not domestic violence,” Ferrer said. “In [BDSM] you are sharing yourself with someone else and they care about you.”

Guerin, a former executive director of the National Coalition

for Sexual Freedom — a group that advocates for adult privacy rights — said BDSM is about “comfort with your own body.” Cunningham, the group’s legal consultant said BDSM is not a hidden practice and that the community is open to everyone.

The panelists stressed the importance of practicing BDSM safely and maximizing communication between participants.

BDSM practitioners use “safewords,” Cunningham explained, using the word “red” for “stop” and “yellow” for “slow down.”

It is not domestic violence.

In [BDSM] you are sharing yourself with someone else and they care about you.

CHARLEY FERRER Clinical sexologist Cunningham said the BDSM community values consensuality, and Ferrer added that BDSM is “a lot about respect.”

Exploring BDSM can help people become more open to alternative types of sexuality and sex practices, the panelists said.

“If you have any reluctance to embrace diversity, spend some time with a member of BDSM,” Cunningham said.

The panelists said the BDSM community is small and that peo-

ple within it gain reputations for their individual practices. Ferrer said BDSM members often refer to people outside the group as “vanilla,” adding that those who have not tried BDSM have not explored the full possibilities of sexual experience. Ferrer and Guerin advised those interested in trying BDSM to talk to people in the community.

“If you don’t like it, you can stop,” Ferrer said. “It’s like if you don’t like something on TV, you can change the channel.”

Cunningham cautioned that people practicing BDSM must be able to distinguish fantasy from reality and Guerin said to “keep it light-hearted.”

The discussion also briefly addressed how homosexuality has sometimes been stigmatized as a mental illness, drawing parallels with BDSM’s evolving public image. Ferrer defended BDSM by saying that people are “all kinky in some way.”

As the discussion wrapped up, the panelists answered questions from audience members.

In response to a question on the legal status of BDSM, Cunningham explained that BDSM is not criminal so long as no one is injured. If people are hurt, it is then considered assault, he said, adding that people need to understand boundaries.

The panel was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Co-op at Yale.

Contact CATHERINE DINH at catherine.dinh@yale.edu .

Richard Panzer ’73, founder of the Institute for Relationship Intelligence, condemned the “hook-up” culture in a True Love Week event that drew about 20 students Wednesday afternoon.

In the talk, sponsored by Undergraduates for a Better Yale College (UBYC), Panzer drew from studies in sociology and evolutionary biology to describe how romantic and physical intimacy have changed over the past several decades. He said a modern tolerance of casual sex has complicated the process of finding long-term relationshipsand caused many people to feel pressured to have sex.

“I feel like today our culture is kind of harsh, especially for women, who have to take the view that sex is meaningless,” he said. “But I don’t think most women view it that way.”

He said men have always had the natural tendency to accept casual sex, but it was not until the sexual revolution in the 1960s and ’70sthat women came to adopt this “immature view of sex.” The recent empowerment of women has had the negative effect of undermining the idea that women should avoid uncommitted sex, he said.

The portrayal of sex in the media has contributed to women’s sense that they must view sex with the same casual air as men, he said, who see sex as a “survival of the fittest” mechanism to dominate or even “humiliate” women.

Still, Panzer said while men often approach sex casually, studies show that most hope to eventually find a long-term relationship. He referenced a 2008 study by the Kinsey Institute, which promotes sexual health and education, which found that the majority of 28,000 men questioned said harmonious family life and a strong relationship with a partner contributed significantly to “quality of life.”

“To the women in the audience, this should be good news for you!” Panzer said.

“In case you’re disappointed with the male race, I assure you they do grow up. Most of them.”

Panzer said modern long-term relationships tend to form from “shared interest and mutual happiness” more often than in the past, when marriage was more “about divid-

ing domestic and economic duties.” Relationships begin in a “cloud nine” phase, he said, when people are still ignorant of each other’s flaws. Eventually, relationships “ebb” into long-lasting love based on “internal traits and a realistic view of the other person.”

In one of his responses to questions he fielded at the end of his talk, Panzer said the current sexual environment at Yale is similar to the climate he experienced as an undergraduate.

“When I was a student here, our attitudes were fairly similar because the 1960s and ’70s were the time of the sexual revolution, so the predominant view was not for waiting [to have sex],” Panzer said.

Today our culture is kind of harsh, especially for women, who have to take the view that sex is meaningless.

RICHARD PANZER ’73 Founder, Institute for Relationship Intelligence Grace Hirshorn ’15, who attended the event, said she appreciated that Panzer presented view that differed from many presenters of Sex Week 2012 events. True Love Week, sponsored by UBYC, is holding seven events between Feb. 5-14 as an alternative to Sex Week 2012, which is running from Feb. 4-14.

“I think these events fit into the larger discussion and intent of what Sex Week is,” Hirshorn said. “I think it’s important to hear both sides, and I appreciated his use of the science behind relationships.”

Eduardo Andino ’13, founder of UBYC, said he agreed with Panzer’s claim that society has reached an “age of ambivalence” about sex, and he was glad Panzer could share some of the “fruits of relationships and sex based on love.”

True Love Week’s next event, titled “The State of Marriage Today,” will take place Thursday in Linsly-Chittenden Hall at 4 p.m.

Contact KARIN SHEDD at karin.shedd@yale.edu .

VIVIENNE ZHANG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

In a Love Week event Wednesday, Richard Panzer ’73 denounced the modern “hook-up culture.”

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FROM THE FRONT

“As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.” RUTH ST. DENIS DANCER

Rep play emerges from Drama School classroom GOOD GOODS FROM PAGE 1 — based on people, and not on maps.”

To construct a store onstage that could have existed in the mid-20th century, Anderson said she drew on her memories of the storefronts she saw during a visit to Uganda. She added that she wanted the town and its store to look as though it had been invaded.

Though race tensions are clear undercurrents in the show, Anderson said she did not give the play a specific time period or place setting, choosing instead to combine aspects of numerous periods in American history such that the issues of the times came together cohesively.

The show has only six characters: twins Patricia and Wire, the store owner Stacey Goods, his assistant Truth, Patricia’s newfound friend Sunny and Wayman, a factory worker with the ability to call spirits. The play begins as Stacey and Patricia, a comedy duo, return to their hometown — one to manage his family’s general store and the other to enlist a new performance partner. In the story’s 24-hour time span, the characters complicate each other’s lives with ulterior motives, supernatural occurrences and romantic entanglements.

As Landau said, the play is one of vulnerability, new beginnings and birth — “a combination of a William Inge play and a black Twilight Zone with some doses of Tyler Perry.”

De’andre Aziza (Patricia) said that while her character may appear conniving at first, Patricia’s greatest desire is simply to be adored.

“Others like to think I have ulterior motives, but at my character’s core, what drives her is love and the need to be loved in return,” Aziza said. “Although

the love is somewhat romantic, it is more about the masses loving her, and never having to lose that love.”

Anderson said she hoped to accomplish three goals through the characters’ interweaving stories.

The great thing about the play is that the different permutations of relationships leave you with … many things to talk about.

TINA LANDAU ’84 Director, “Good Goods” “I want [audiences] to go back, having understood three things. The first is how gender roles and gender identities play out. Second is the absolute magic of theater — varying scenarios are played out through the power of imagination, and of the play. Third, I hope they see the level of love that exists between all the characters through it all,” she said.

Aziza added that she hopes audience members will walk away realizing that love has no boundaries and is often the purest feeling that exists among people.

“The great thing about the play is that the different permutations of relationships leave you with not one, but many, things to talk about,” director Landau said.

“It tries to not preach a lesson.”

“Good Goods” will run at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Feb. 25.

Contact DEVIKA MITTAL at devika.mittal@yale.edu .

JOAN MARCUS/YALE REPERTORY THEATRE

The storefront set of “Good Goods” was constructed to resemble storefronts playwright Christina Anderson DRA ’11 had seen in Uganda.

Alumni enthusiastic for ROTC

YALE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

The Yale Veterans Association will reach out to the ROTC cadets who train at Yale beginning this fall.

VETERANS FROM PAGE 1 ation] is really important for our midshipmen because there are no upperclassmen, and the alumni are going to be able to provide some mentorship,” Crabbe said. “We have a 40-year gap, but we do have this body of people, a lot of whom were Yale undergrads, who will have a lot in common, sharing the same values and interests.”

Alumni veterans would help answer ROTC students’ questions about training or serving in the military, which would be especially valuable for cadets without other military connections, said Henry Kwan GRD ’05, AYA’s director of shared interest groups.

Of the 10,000 veteran alumni of Yale, roughly 2,000 participated in ROTC, he added.

The veterans association is a relatively new organization that began about 18 months ago, shortly before Levin announced ROTC’s return, association president and co-founder Lt. Thomas Opladen ’66 said. In addition to working with ROTC, the group is trying to create a comprehensive database of Yale veterans, he said.

Kwan said Wednesday that many members of the veterans association have expressed interest in meeting the new ROTC cadets when they arrive. He added that the return of ROTC has “doubled” many veterans’ pride in the University. “[Yale veterans] are really enthusiastic about the return of the program,” Kwan said. “A lot of alumni who are veterans consider that a large part of their identity.

In some ways, it is a more important part of their identity than their Yale connection.”

Capt. Rusty Pickett ’72, a member of Yale’s last ROTC class under the old program, said the University has not helped veteran alumni meet in the past, despite Yale’s long tradition of military service. “[Alumni] haven’t really interacted as much,” Pickett said. “They might talk at the reunions or something like that, but there was no formal organization that I knew of.”

Opladen said he decided to approach AYA about establishing a veterans group after realizing that Yale did not have one. He added that because Harvard already had a veterans association, he “couldn’t let Yale not have one.”

Interest in Yale’s veterans association has spiked since the University announced the return of ROTC, Pickett said, adding that he has already spoken with Naval ROTC officials about meeting with midshipmen in the fall.

The veterans group also plans to organize local chapters at Yale Clubs across the country, sponsor awards for outstanding cadets and midshipmen in Yale’s ROTC program, and organize an honorary ceremony for ROTC students with Levin, Opladen said.

“I wanted to raise the profile of the Yale men and women who had served in the military,” Opladen said. “I thought that being a veteran and serving in the military needed to be pointed out and recognized.”

Yale formerly had ROTC units between 1926 and 1972.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

YA L E VETERANS A S S O C I AT I O N CREST The Yale Veterans Association presented the crest of the old ROTC program to Yale Naval ROTC Commanding Officer Capt. Ron Harrell this winter. The crest was immediately adopted by the new program, Yale Veterans Association president and cofounder Lt. Thomas Opladen ’66 said.

The association also passed along pictures, files and a plaque to Harrell as memorabilia of the old ROTC program.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 9:40 AM Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association New England Regional Conference. The theme of this full-day conference is “Doctor 2.0: Generation Y in Medicine,” designed to explore the ethical, social and cultural issues that Asian-Pacific doctors and patients face in this era. Free, but register at https://sites.google.com/site/ apamsanewenglandconference2012. Hope Memorial Building (315 Cedar St.).

11:00 AM World Micro-Market Valentine’s Day Sale. Stop by between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. to buy jewelry, chocolate, stuffed animals, purses, and more! World Micro-Market sells handicrafts from disadvantaged artisans in developing countries. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), chapel.

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Wash. legalizes gay marriage

BY RACHEL LA CORTE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, saying it was a violation of the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples.

The Washington House passed the bill on a 55–43 vote. The state Senate approved the measure last week. And Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire is expected to sign the measure into law next week.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a gay lawmaker from Seattle who has sponsored gay rights bills in the House for several years, said that while he and his partner are grateful for the rights that exist under the state’s current domestic partnership law, “domestic partnership is a pale and inadequate substitute for marriage.”

Pedersen cited Tuesday’s ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during his remarks on the House floor.

“The court addressed the question of why marriage matters directly,” he said, and read a section from the ruling that stated “marriage is the name that society gives to the relationship that matters most between two adults.”

“I would like for our four children to grow up understanding that their daddy and their poppa have made that kind of a lifelong commitment to each other,” he said. “Marriage is the word that we use in our society to convey that idea.”

Several Republicans argued

against the bill, saying that it goes against the tradition of marriage.

Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, said that the measure “severs the cultural, historical and legal underpinnings of the institution of marriage.”

“This bill is really an exercise of raw political power,” he said. “It contravenes human nature and it will hurt families and children.”

Two Republicans crossed the aisle and voted in favor of the bill.

Three Democrats voted against it.

Democrats hold a 56-42 majority in the House.

Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-College Place, said that the bill was a matter of equality.

“Why in the world would we not allow those equal rights to those individuals who are truly committed to each other in life?” she asked. She noted that her daughter told her she was gay a few years ago.

“Nothing’s different,” she said.

“She’s still a fabulous human being. And some day, by God, I want to throw a wedding for that kid.”

Gregoire watched from the wings with the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ed Murray of Seattle, a gay lawmaker who has spearheaded the domestic partnership and marriage push in the Legislature.

“I’m happy,” Murray said after the vote. “It’s a great day for families across the state. It’s a great day for my family.”

However, gay couples can’t begin walking down the aisle just yet.

The proposal would take effect 90 days after the governor signs the measure but opponents have promised to fight gay marriage with a ballot measure that would allow voters to overturn the legislative approval.

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BY BRIAN BAKST AND JACK GILLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLEN, Texas — One day after Rick Santorum’s startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was evidence of his challenge in converting sudden momentum into victories in the rush of contests ahead.

“We definitely are the campaign right now with the momentum, the enthusiasm on the ground,” the former Pennsylvania senator said Wednesday, hours after capturing Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri.

“We feel like going forward we’re going to have the money we need to make the case we want,” he said.

To replenish his coffers, Santorum arranged a weekend of fundraising events in California. He plans to start campaigning in Washington state on Monday, and then Ohio and Michigan in the following days.

At the same time, aides conceded he was making little or no effort in the caucuses in Maine that end this weekend, and they are still working on plans for competing in primaries in Michigan and Arizona on Feb. 28, as well as the delegate-rich, 10-state Super Tuesday a week later.

Santorum’s caucus successes vaulted him ahead of Newt Gingrich into second place in the competition for Republican National Convention delegates. The Associated Press count showed Mitt Romney leading with 112 delegates, followed by Santorum with 72, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 32 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 9.

“I believe that conservatives are beginning to get it, that we provide the best opportunity to beat President Obama,” Santorum said, a jab at both Romney and Gingrich.

Yet he came under fresh attack during the day from Romney as a supporter of earmarked federal spending, and a resumption appeared likely

soon in the ad wars that so far have worked to the advantage of the better-financed former Massachusetts governor.

“We’re always going to have a huge spending gap, but money can’t buy people’s hearts,” said Ron Carey, an unpaid volunteer who was Santorum’s chief adviser in Minnesota and whose car served as a travelling campaign office.

“He has a huge upside when people get to know him,” added Carey, a former state party chairman.

Even so, an AP analysis of year-end spending reports showed Santorum may have to stretch to cover all the states that vote in the next few weeks.

While current figures are not available, he reported that at year’s end he had a 10-member campaign payroll at a quarterly cost of $49,000 the smallest of any of the Republicans in the race. He also is helped by paid consultants and unpaid volunteers, as are other candidates.

We definitely are the campaign right now with the momentum, the energy on the ground.

RICK SANTORUM U.S. presidential candidate By comparison, Romney reported a 92-member staff and a quarterly payroll of $1.3 million. Gingrich said he had 23 paid aides, at a cost of $279,000, and Paul, who has yet to win a primary or caucus, paid $381,000 for a staff of 33.

President Barack Obama reported a 430-person campaign staff, which cost $4.7 million for the final three months of 2011.

Santorum downplayed his financial disadvantage during remarks to a Republican women’s club outside Dallas.

“We’re not going to win this race the way Gov. Romney has won the states he’s won already, by out-

spending his opponent by 5-to-1 and beating them up. He’s not going to outspend Barack Obama 5-to-1,” Santorum said. “How are you going to win an election if your greatest attribute is `I’ll spend more money than the other person’?”

While Santorum plotted his next moves, Romney spoke with reporters in Atlanta, where he said he expects to do better in future contests in winning the votes of conservatives who delivered Santorum his triumphs on Tuesday night.

The former Massachusetts governor said the tea party movement was created to fight Washington insiders who spend too much. Santorum and Gingrich “are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats” when it came to spending in Congress, he said.

For his part, Paul hoped for a breakthrough of his own in Maine, and Gingrich campaigned for a second straight day in Ohio, one of the Super Tuesday states.

Speaking to a small audience of employees at a Jergens metal manufacturing plan in Cleveland, Gingrich said the United States could pay a terrible price if Iran develops nuclear weapons.

“Remember what it felt like on 9/11 when 3,100 Americans were killed.

Now imagine an attack where you add two zeros. And it’s 300,000 dead.

Maybe a half million wounded,” he said.

This is not the first time Santorum has awakened to new campaign energy in the 2012 race, and he is not the only contender to have the experience.

He appeared to finish a surprising second in the lead-off Iowa caucuses a month ago, then sank in New Hampshire’s primary a week later and seemed to disappear.

Gingrich, too, was the candidate on a roll after he stunned Romney with a double-digit victory in South Carolina on Jan. 21. He was buried in Florida 10 days later under an avalanche of attack ads from Romney and Restore Our Future, an organization that supports him.

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WORLD

“Some in France call me Sarkozy the American.

I am proud of it, I am a man of action, I do what I say and I try to be pragmatic. I share a lot of American values.” NICOLAS SARKOZY PRESIDENT OF FRANCE

EU builds Syria pressure

BY BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime’s siege of the restive city of Homs.

Russia, a close ally of Syria, and the West are pushing down starkly different paths in trying to deal with Syria’s nearly 11 months of bloodshed. After blocking a Western and Arab attempt to bring U.N. pressure on President Bashar Assad to step down, Russia has launched a bid to show it can resolve the turmoil.

Moscow is calling for a combination of reforms by the regime and negotiations, without calling for Assad to go. Its provisions are so far finding no traction with the opposition, which dismisses promises of reform as empty gestures, refuses any negotiations while violence

continues and says Assad’s removal is the only option in the crisis.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said outside forces should let Syrians settle their conflict “independently.”

“We should not act like a bull in a china shop,” Putin said, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency. “We have to give people a chance to make decisions about their destiny independently, to help, to give advice, to put limits somewhere so that the opposing sides would not have a chance to use arms, but not to interfere.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with Assad Tuesday in Damascus, told reporters in Moscow that the Syrian president delegated to his vice president, Farouk al-Sharaa, responsibility for holding a dialogue with the opposition.

Lavrov blamed both Assad’s regime and opposition forces for instigating the violence, which the U.N. says has killed well over 5,400 people.

“On both sides, there are people that

aim at an armed confrontation, not a dialogue,” Lavrov said.

Rebel soldiers are playing a bigger role in Syria’s Arab-Spring inspired uprising, turning it into a more militarized conflict and hurtling the country ever more quickly toward a civil war.

In their meeting Tuesday, Assad said the government was ready to talk to the opposition and would cooperate with “any effort that boosts stability in Syria.”

The regime’s crackdown on dissent has left it almost completely isolated internationally and facing growing sanctions. The U.S. closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday and five European countries and six Arab Gulf nations have pulled their ambassadors out of Damascus over the past two days. Germany, whose envoy left Syria this month, said he would not be replaced.

In Brussels, a senior EU official said the 27-nation bloc will soon impose harsher sanctions against Syria as it seeks to weaken Assad’s regime.

Sarkozy urges caution on Iran

BY JAMEY KEATEN ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy put his reputation as a stalwart friend of Israel on the line Wednesday, warning that military action was no way to deal with nuclear-minded Iran at a dinner hosted by France’s main Jewish group — and his likely presidential election rival in the audience.

In the wake of new U.S. concerns that Israel might strike Iran’s nuclear facilities this spring, Sarkozy reiterated his ironclad commitment to Israel’s security but emphasized “the solution is never military.”

“The solution is political, the solution is diplomatic, the solution is in sanctions,” Sarkozy said, referring to

a string of U.N. sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, which the West fears mask designs to build weapons.

“We want the leaders of this country to understand that they have crossed a red line, and to reassure Israeli leaders so that the irreparable is not carried out,” Sarkozy said of possible military action.

Tehran, whose Islamist leaders have called for Israel’s destruction, insists its nuclear program is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity and civiliansector projects.

Sarkozy said Israel needs a peaceful Palestinian state as its neighbor, and pointed to France’s historic rivalry with Germany — turned into a crucial European alliance today — as a possible model for Palestinians and Israelis.

JACKY NAEGELEN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at the Representative Council of Jewish Associations (CRIF).

Russians reach Antarctic lake

BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV AND SETH BORENSTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.

Lake Vostok could hold living organisms that have been locked in icy darkness for some 20 million years, as well as clues to the search for life elsewhere in the solar system.

Touching the surface of the lake, the largest of nearly 400 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, came after more than two decades of drilling, and was a major achievement avidly anticipated by scientists around the world.

“In the simplest sense, it can transform the way we think about life,” NASA’s chief scientist Waleed Abdalati told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday.

The Russian team made contact with the lake water Sunday at a depth of 12,366 feet, about 800 miles east of the South Pole in the central part of the continent.

Scientists hope the lake might allow a glimpse into microbial life forms that existed before the Ice Age and are not visible to the naked eye. Scientists believe that microbial life may exist in the dark depths of the lake despite its high pressure and constant cold — conditions similar to those believed to be found under the ice crust on Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Valery Lukin, the head of

Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, said reaching the lake was akin to the Americans winning the space race in 1969.

“I think it’s fair to compare this project to flying to the moon,” said Lukin, who oversaw the mission and announced its success.

American and British teams are drilling to reach their own subglacial Antarctic lakes, but Columbia University glaciologist Robin Bell said those are smaller and younger than Vostok, which is the big scientific prize.

“It’s like exploring another planet, except this one is ours,” she said.

At 160 miles long and 30 miles wide, Lake Vostok is similar in size to Lake Ontario. It is kept from freezing into a solid block by the more than twomile-thick crust of ice across it that acts like a blanket, keeping in heat generated by geothermal energy underneath.

Lukin said he expects the lake to contain chemotroph bacteria that feed on chemical reactions in pitch darkness, probably similar to those existing deep on the ocean floor but dating back millions of years. “They followed different laws of evolution that are yet unknown to us,” he said.

Studying Lake Vostok will also yield insights about the origins of Antarctica, which is believed by many to have been part of a broader continent in the distant past.

And the project has allowed the testing of technologies that could be used in exploring other icy worlds. “Conditions in subglacial lakes in Antarctica are the closest we can get to those where scientists expect to find extraterrestrial life,” Lukin said.

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The university’s voluntary contributions to its home city are about half those that Yale makes to New Haven.

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BY ALEXANDRA MACFARLANE SENIOR STAFF WRITER Faculty members voted unanimously at yesterday’s faculty meeting to support President Ruth Simmons’ actions in dealing with the city’s demands for additional payments.

The faculty also voted on the academic calendar and heard reports on the presidential search process, athletics and brain science research at the University.

Simmons discussed the city’s requests for increased contributions from the University to help bridge the city’s $22.5 million deficit and also outlined plans the University has made to help the city. Simmons explained the commitments that the University had made to the city, starting with a memorandum of understanding made in 2003 between the city and other in-state universities. In all, Simmons said, the University pays $4 million to the city in voluntary contributions and tax payments annually.

We have no choice but to work hard to see what we can do to help without crippling the University.

RUTH SIMMONS President, Brown University Simmons drew a comparison between the University’s level of donations and the funds given to New Haven by Yale. Though Yale gives considerably more to its hometown, Brown proportionally pays more of its endowment to the city of Providence than Yale.

Simmons also explained the chronology of the negotiations between Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and the University, saying that last April the mayor asked her for an additional $5 million to aid the city. Simmons said she told him, based on faculty governance,

that it was complicated to deliver additional donations in a timely manner, though Taveras was invited to make a pitch to the meeting of the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, BROWN last May. Going forward, Simmons said she set terms for future discussion between the city and the University regarding donations. The University should not be the only nonprofit singled out, she said, adding that she could not partner with the city if the mayor continued to vilify the University to the press.

The University “cannot see the city fall apart,” she said, but donations must be made in a rational way. “We have no choice but to work hard to see what we can do to help without crippling the University,” she said.

Faculty members also voted not to change the academic calendar, which is determined by the faculty rules and regulations. This motion was separate from the four other options proposed in the December faculty meeting, which proposed changing the starting date of the school year in 2013 since it conflicts with Rosh Hashanah.

This motion was approved after much debate about the merits of beginning before or after Labor Day as well as University attempts to accommodate religious holidays within the calendar. Faculty members also discussed the role of teaching versus the role of research, as a shorter summer break would conflict with many faculty plans to conduct research.

Chung-I Tan, professor of physics and chair of the Campus Advisory Committee, spoke on behalf of the Campus Advisory Committee for the Presidential Search. The process is ongoing and on schedule, he said, and the Corporation and the committee are working together in the next steps of the search process. He emphasized the need for confidentiality to ensure the best results for the next president and did not take any questions.

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Language programs threatened

BY CAROLINE FLAX STAFF WRITER Nearly a year after the Department of Education slashed funding for “critical language” programs, University administrators say they have not determined how to support the 11 departments affected by the cuts and warn that additional, upcoming DOE cuts could endanger additional language programs.

After the DOE cut 40 percent of funding for “critical languages” in 2011, Provost Kent Fuchs decided to provide 90 percent of the funding that was cut by the DOE, allowing these languages to be taught for one more year. Critical language programs offer students instruction in lesser-known languages that hold national importance, like Khmer and Burmese.

The additional funding was

not a longterm solution, Fuchs to l d T h e Sun in 2011.

With the p r o v o s t ’s decision set CORNELL to ex p i re this year, there is a possibility the cuts from the DOE could be worse, according to Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Walter Cohen, comparative literature. A decision has not been made regarding which languages will be cut for the next budget cycle, Cohen said.

Prof. Tamara Loos, director of the Southeast Asia Program, said that it is unlikely that the DOE will refund these programs.

“We’re facing the potential of similar cuts for next year,” Loos said.

According to Heike Michelsen, director of program-

ming for the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the University needs to consider the effects of the budget cuts and potential future cuts.

“The Einaudi Center is very concerned about the languages. It’s not just the 11 Asian [languages], but many more less commonly taught languages that are ‘endangered,’” Michelsen said. “It’s not only students, but also faculty that are affected.”

Michelsen that added Cornell needs a more “systematic approach” for preserving its critical languages. She emphasized the importance of including languages in discussions about the future of Cornell.

“I’m hoping that languages are included in the discussion,” Michelsen said.

Dick Feldman, director of the University’s Language Resource Center, said additional budget cuts could hurt Cornell.

BY SOPHIA PEDLOW STAFF WRITER TEDxDartmouth, a conference that drew 1,500 participants last year to discuss “ideas worth spreading,” will not happen this year due to the inexperience of new leaders and lack of returning membership, according to this year’s former TEDx president Maggie Tierney ’14, who stepped down at the start of Winter term for personal reasons.

The student-run organization “ran into logistical difficulties” when it failed to get a license from the TED organization for the event, Tierney said. There were also communication difficulties about the logistics of obtaining a license, according to Tierney.

The annual TEDx conference invited speakers from various fields to speak for a maximum of 18 minutes on a topic of their choosing. TEDx conferences are held at a wide variety of locations around the country under the oversight of the national TED organization. In order to qualify for a TEDx license for events hosting over 100 people, TEDxDartmouth had to pay a $2,000 fee to send a member to San Francisco to attend a four-day TEDactive conference during Winter term, according to Tierney. She said she was not aware of this requirement when she took on the responsibility, and the organization failed to gain a license.

Tierney also said the obligations of running the event were far more cumbersome than she had anticipated.

“When I took it on, I really did think that it was something that I could dedicate time to,” she said. “I do wish I was given a better idea of what it takes to be the president of TEDxDartmouth before I took on the position.”

T ierney was one of two returning active members of the organization, both whom DARTMOUTH of had specialized exclusively in marketing, she said.

Although she felt a responsibility to the organization, she lacked the knowledge to oversee all aspects of the event, Tierney said.

“I wasn’t trained at all or really explained in any detail what the responsibility would be,” she said.

Partially due to the large turnover in members, “it was kind of like starting from scratch,” Tierney said.

Gina Greenwalt ’14, co-chair of event planning for TEDx, said she believes that a lack of communication on all levels contributed to the current situation.

Greenwalt said that too few people had the proper experience with the event, giving Tierney too much responsibility. “[Tierney] was the only one who held a leadership position of great importance last year,” she said. “Other members of the group just didn’t have the connection with former upperclassman leaders, and that put too much stress and pressure on one person.”

Greenwalt has every intention of continuing her role in TEDxDartmouth next year, and considers this pause “necessary to preserve the integrity of the event,” she said.

Former TEDxDartmouth events were time-consuming and “a near full-time job” for many participants, Jason Goodman ’12, vice president of TEDxDartmouth in 2011. Goodman pointed out the difficulty of attaining

such a large amount of funding for the event and said TEDxDartmouth had trouble sustaining itself in terms of membership and organization.

“At that scale, it was almost unsustainably difficult in terms of time and money,” he said.

“This event needs a leader willing to sacrifice everything for the cause.”

Tierney said that she was inspired by TEDxDartmouth organizers, Goodman and Branko Cerny ’13, and their ability to make things happen. Although Tierney doubts she will ever take on such a leadership commitment with TEDxDartmouth again, she has faith that TEDxDartmouth will not end this year, she said.

Cerny is a member of The Dartmouth Senior Staff.

“TEDxDartmouth consistently attracts a group of dedicated kids, and I have no doubts that it will come back again in the future all the stronger for the lessons it learned this year in time management and TED bylaws,” Tierney said.

Catherine Bryt ’15, who signed up to take the executive office of TEDx for this year’s event, was disappointed by the news that the event could not occur, she said.

She said that she and Riley Ennis ’15 have plans to spend this year “essentially restructuring how TEDx was organized in the first place.”

Bryt emphasized the commitment students have to bringing TEDx to campus and said she plans to avoid repeating this year’s leadership transition issues.

“One of the reasons [Tierney] quit was that she didn’t have time for the huge commitment,” she said. “We want to restructure it so that not just one person has that responsibility.”

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS AUSTIN RIVERS Rivers. a freshman on the Duke basketball team, drained a a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift the No. 10 Blue Devils to an 85-84 win over their archrival, No. 5 North Carolina, on Wednesday night. The Duke win snapped a school-record 31-game home winning streak for the Tar Heels.

Elis see growing pains

Elis enter nat’l picture TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 aration that had been going on prior to the match, which included working with a mental coach and simulating high pressure situations during practice, though none would comment on the specifics of the training.

“Our biggest problem leading up to this year was that we were too intimidated going up against the bigger names,” McNamara said. “We put our players in high-pressure situations so that they would have the confidence when they were in these types of situations and be successful.”

The reason that we’ve had such a good start to the season is that we are motviated by each other to do the best possible forr the team.

HANNA YU ’15 Women’s tennis

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Andrew Miller ’13 has had to step up on offense this season after after the graduation of three of Yale’s top four goal scorers from last year.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 earn a bid to the same NCAA Tournament in which they were the favorites last year.

After a season in which the Bulldogs earned their first ever national No. 1 ranking and held it for two months, anything short of a conference title and an appearance in the Frozen Four was going to disappoint the Yale faithful this year. But with the team in the bottom half of the conference, and its NCAA hopes hanging in the balance, many Yale fans have been left scratching their heads and wondering what has gone wrong.

In reality, this is not the same team fans saw last year. Last year’s group set the bar high, but nine of the players who made that success possible graduated in May. Forward Charles Brockett ’12 said the Class of 2011 was a big asset to the program.

We have a lot of younger players that are getting acclimated to our style of play, and that takes time.

BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 Captain, men’s hockey “They were an unbelievable group of guys, both talent-wise and leadership wise,” Brockett said. “They did a great job of leading by example. That’s apparent in the fact that seven or eight of them play professional hockey right now.”

On the defensive side, the most painful departure may have been goaltender Ryan Rondeau ’11. Rondeau entered the season as a question mark with little experience, but the Albertan proved superb all season and ended up first in the nation in shutouts with six, second in goals against

average at 1.92 and third in save percentage at .928.

Jeff Malcolm ’13, another player who entered the season without much experience, has taken to the net in Rondeau’s stead. Unlike Rondeau last year, however, Malcolm has not been a consistent shotstopper. Recording three straight shutouts in November against Colgate, RPI and Union, Malcolm came out of the gate on fire. But this year’s netminder, also from Alberta, has cooled off since then.

He has posted a 3.36 goals against average since the team’s 4–0 win over Union on Nov. 12.

But the defense in front of the goal has also taken a hit. The team graduated three defensemen last year, each of whom played at least 34 games. The group included the team’s captain Jimmy Stewart ’11. Allain filled those gaps with four players, three freshman and Gus Young ’14, who played only five games last season.

Perhaps the most noticeable change to observers has been the offense. Last year’s high-octane attack skated circles around opponents, scoring 100 goals through the team’s first 23 games. This year’s team has tallied just 78 goals through as many contests, nearly one goal fewer per game.

The most obvious explanation is the loss of three of the team’s top four goalscorers. Broc Little ’11, Denny Kearney ’11 and Chris Cahill ’11 scored 19, 16 and 15 goals respectively, behind only current captain Brian O’Neill ’12, who tallied 20.

Last year’s team thrived off depth, with its top six forwards combining for 234 points. But this year’s team has been inconsistent past the first line. The top six forwards have combined for just 122 points thus far.

Last year’s team could rely on its older players almost exclusively, and Agostino was the only freshman who saw regular ice time. Allain has consistently rotated

five freshmen through the lineup this season, and although the Class of 2015 has been brilliant at times, the squad has been less consistent from top to bottom.

O’Neill said the transition to a younger lineup has hit speed bumps, although the team is improving.

“We have a lot of younger players that are getting acclimated to our style of play and that takes time,” O’Neill said. “But we’re starting to gel as a team, and we’re getting more comfortable on the ice.”

The good news is that the season is not over yet. After Friday night’s disheartening loss to St. Lawrence, the Elis got back on the ice and played one of their strongest games this season against Clarkson, a team higher in the ECAC standings than St. Lawrence. The Bulldogs thumped the Golden Knights 5–1 in front of a sold-out Ingalls Rink. Although Yale fell behind 1–0 just two minutes into the game, the Elis bounced back and scored five straight behind solid goalkeeping from Malcolm.

After the game, forward Andrew Miller ’13 said that the win could give the Elis some much needed momentum.

Winning a postseason tournament is all about getting hot at the right time. Although this season has not gone according to plan so far, and time is running short, there is still a long way to go for the men’s hockey team.

“For the past couple weeks, we’ve put together one really good game, and one night that hasn’t gone our way,” Brockett said. “Coming out and making sure that we’re consistent not only this weekend but also heading into the last two weeks of the season is extremely important heading into the postseason.”

The Bulldogs have six games remaining before the ECAC tournament, which begins March 2.

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

Notre Dame became an actual high-pressure situation very quickly. The match score traded off evenly, with Yale eventually pulling ahead 3–1 by the end of the fourth match. No. 2 spot doubles competitors Annie Sullivan ’14 and Elizabeth Epstein ’13, a pair unranked nationally, played one of Yale’s toughest matches against the Fighting Irish’s Brittany Sanders and Katherine White, a duo ranked No. 25 in the country. The Notre Dame pair got to match point in three games, but Sullivan and Epstein managed to hold them off each time. The pair came back to win the last three games and clinched a 9–7 victory.

“It was a pretty up-anddown match. It was an adrenaline rush,” Epstein said. “Danielle talks about enjoying the moment, and we tried to enjoy

the moment for what it was worth.”

The next day the women’s tennis team took on Michigan in yet another tight competition. The Yale doubles teams led the way by starting the match off 2–1. Sullivan and Epstein won 8–6 at No. 2 and Blair Seideman ’14 and team captain Steph Kent ’12 won 9–8 at No. 3. (Seideman is a staff photographer for the News.)

Hanna Yu ’15 began the singles matches with a victory at the No. 5 spot, her second consecutive win of the tournament, but Yale ended up losing the singles round at the top four spots.

Epstein came close to upsetting No. 36 ranked Emina Bektas at No. 1 but ended up falling short in both sets 7–5.

The three players interviewed said the team would not have come so close to taking down Michigan without the intense team dynamic and closeness both on and off the court.

“When we’re playing matches and my teammates are playing alongside me, I get more pumped and work harder.” Yu said. “The reason that we’ve had such a good start to the season is that we are motivated by each other to do the best possible for the team,” As for achieving their goals, the Elis’ level of play during the kickoff tournament demonstrated that they are right on track. The end goal for this year, McNamara said, is to break the top 20, to win the Ivy League Championships in April and to reach along with the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. Yale’s closest competitor for the Ivy title is currently Brown, but the Bears trail the Bulldogs by 18 spots in the national rankings.

The tennis team will continue its season this weekend in Arkansas against No. 31 Oklahoma and No. 32 Arkansas at the George M. Billingsley Tennis Center.

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

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Vicky Brook ’12 and the women’s tennis team are ranked No. 25 nationally.

Late strategy leaves more questions than answers COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 wide hole for the running back, parting the seas for Bradshaw to score. As reported by the New York Times, Manning screamed “Don’t score! Don’t score!” at Bradshaw, who heard the screams and squatted on the one-yard line. The running back, however, couldn’t stop his momentum, rolling backwards into the end zone as the defenders stood motionless.

We all know what happened next.

With 57 seconds and one timeout remaining, Tom Brady took the ball for one last game-winning touchdown drive. The drive, however, never materialized. After two dropped passes and a narrow Hail Mary incompletion, the Giants were crowned champions of Super Bowl XLVI. I’d be happy to leave it at that.

Coughlin chose to go for the score.

Belichick chose to let him. Brady simply ran out of magic with only a minute left on the clock. Eli cemented his legacy with his second ring, and a dejected Brady narrowly missed joining Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the winningest

quarterbacks in Super Bowl history.

There are a few bizarre details, however, that I can’t seem to let go.

There are a few burning questions that remain unanswered. For me, a disinterested Jets fan, these questions will remain the legacy of Super Bowl XLVI. First of all, what was Coughlin thinking? He clearly chose to go for the touchdown, as Bradshaw had received no pre-play instructions to pull up before the goal line. But why? Of course, it’s possible that kicker Lawrence Tynes would have missed the game-winning 20-yard field goal as time expired. I would guess he only makes that kick 95 percent of the time. But to give Brady the ball back with one minute and one timeout was far more risky.

Brady certainly scores a touchdown in that situation more than 5 percent of the time. With that in mind, how could Coughlin possibly have called for a touchdown? I understand that it’s not in a player’s DNA to avoid a score, and I agree that that is not how football was meant to be played. But this was the Super Bowl!

For all the marbles, this seems like a no-brainer that Coughlin badly

missed. The coach is lucky that it didn’t come back to haunt him.

Even more puzzling are Manning’s choices. When the quarterback entered the huddle, he clearly gave no instructions to pull up and avoid the score. When he handed the ball to Bradshaw, he had every hope that the running back would pick up six points. Upon seeing the Patriot defenders pull up, however, he suddenly changed his mind.

Manning recalled in the Los Angeles Times, “As I’m handing the ball off I saw that their defensive line was just standing up and not rushing and I start yelling not to score.” But why did it matter what the Patriots were doing? Why was it their indifference that convinced him it was a bad idea to score? Given that Coughlin told him to go for it, he should have been thrilled at the gift-wrapped touchdown. Rather than do what Coughlin wanted, Manning tried and failed to do what Belichick didn’t want.

Third, I’m not convinced that Bradshaw really tried to pull up before the goal line. I understand that the back had a tremendous amount of momentum when he planted his bottom on the one-

yard line. But having watched the replay dozens of times, it really does appear that he had successfully stopped himself, only to launch into an awkward backward twist into the end zone. According to the LA Times, Bradshaw claims he genuinely failed to arrest his motion: “I tried to go down and declare myself down, but my momentum just took me into the end zone.” I encourage you to watch the play again in slow-motion. It seems more likely to me that Bradshaw just couldn’t mentally bring himself not to score.

As reported in ESPN, Manning appears to agree: “I think something almost must have been in the top of his head like, ‘This is a little bit too good to be true.’ But I’m yelling and he obviously heard me and he thought about going down but he didn’t know what to do and he thought, ‘I’ve got a touchdown, I’ll take it.’ And I’m glad he did.” At the end of the day, only Bradshaw will know for sure.

Finally, I don’t understand why more teams don’t follow Belichick’s strategy of allowing an opponent to score. It was easily the smartest and gutsiest call of the game. For

that matter, I don’t understand why more coaches don’t avoid Coughlin’s strategy when the situation clearly calls for a knee and a chipshot field goal. I understand that it’s tough to tell players not to play the game. As Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes recalled, “It definitely was tough.” But this is football. You play the game to win. Over my football-watching career, I’ve seen this same situation play out with surprising frequency. I’m shocked more coaches don’t take a page out of Belichick’s brilliant playbook.

At the end of the day, none of this matters. At the end of the day, Brady’s game-winning drive never materialized. At the end of the day, it was Manning and Bradshaw hoisting the Lombardi trophy after scoring the game-winning touchdown. Had the game ended differently, however, commentators would have been searching for answers to these bizarre questions for years to come. To me, this baffling play is the true legacy of Super Bowl XLVI. Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .

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JEREMY LIN HARVARD GRAD MAKES NBA MARK The Knicks point guard, who was playing in the NBA Development League 19 days ago, scored 23 points and added 10 assists against Washington on Tuesday. Lin has been a surprise success for the Knicks, with more than 20 points in each of his past three games.

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By building on past years and establishing our program, I think that this year could be a breakout year for us.

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W. TENNIS

Super Bowl decisions perplex Super Bowl XLVI will be remembered for many things: a failed shot at revenge, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning’s cemented legacy, and what might have been for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick. Indeed, the game was chock full of juicy storylines and dramatic twists, earning it a spot as one of the most intriguing matchups in NFL history. But what stands out to me about Sunday’s matchup was one of the most bizarre plays I’ve ever seen on a football field. It also happened to be the most important play of the game.

Only 1:04 remained on the clock and both teams had one timeout remaining. The Giants were down17–15 but found themselves lurking on the Patriots’ six-yard line thanks to yet another masterful last-minute drive orchestrated by Manning. Giants coach Tom Coughlin’s team faced second and goal.

The Giants knew that if they ran the football in for a touchdown, they would go up by four points with a minute left to play. That would give Brady and the Pats one minute and one timeout for a potential game-winning touchdown drive. Alternatively, the Giants could have taken a knee, camped out on the six-yard line and forced the Patriots to use their last timeout. That would have left the Giants with a chip-shot field goal to go up by one, leaving the Patriots with virtually no time to respond.

Coughlin and Belichick thus each faced a career-changing decision. Coughlin was forced to choose between going for the score or taking a knee. Going for the score would put the ball back in Brady’s dangerous hands, but taking a knee bore the risk of missing a short field goal and losing the game. Belichick, meanwhile, was forced to choose between playing defense or freely allowing the Giants to score.

Manning took the snap and handed the ball off to Ahmad Bradshaw. The Patriots defenders stood up and opened a doubleSEE COLUMN PAGE 11

CRISTIANA MANOLE

Women’s tennis took down No. 21 Notre Dame and lost 4–3 to No. 10 Michigan last weekend, a performance that helped it jump 10 spots in the national rankings.

BY ADLON ADAMS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Although the season began just last week, the women’s tennis team has already started to climb the NCAA Division I rankings.

WOMEN’S TENNIS The No. 25 Bulldogs proved that they have what it takes to become a top 20 team by the end of their season at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kick-off in Ann Arbor, Mich. last weekend. The team upset the No. 21 University of Notre Dame with a 4–3 win and

came close to the No. 10 University of Michigan in a 4–3 loss. The weekend’s matches boosted Yale’s ranking by 10 places.

“We knew at the very start that we had a talented group,” head coach Danielle McNamara said. “By building on past years and establishing our program, I think that this year could be a breakout year for us.”

The kickoff weekend for the ITA allows teams to compete for a spot at the ITA national indoors tournament, one of the most prestigious college team events outside of the NCAA Tournament that takes place each year in February. In order to

participate in the kickoff, a team needs to be ranked within the top 64 in the country. The team broke into the top 75 in the nation five years ago and has been moving up since, finishing at No. 31 at the end of last year.

This year, Yale chose to compete at Michigan to gain experience against two highly ranked teams, McNamara said.

“We choose to play at Michigan because I could see that we would have played Notre Dame, which is exactly what happend last year,” head coach Danielle McNamara said. “We got smoked, and I really wanted to play them again as a

measuring stick to see how we have progressed. I played [at Michigan] too so it was nice to go back and possibly play Michigan.”

Competing against the top tennis schools in the nation is not an easy task. In the Ivy League, only three schools — Brown, Dartmouth and Yale — received a berth at the Kick-off Weekend in women’s tennis this season.

The Notre Dame match was a huge step for the women’s tennis team. Both the three players interviewed and McNamara attributed their success to the prepSEE TENNIS PAGE11

Bulldogs struggle to regain powerhouse status

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER Last Friday’s loss against St. Lawrence was characteristic of how the hockey team has played this season, but Saturday’s victory against Clarkson might indicate that things are on their way up.

MEN’S HOCKEY The team played a strong first period Friday but was outskated in the second and fell into a 3–1 hole. In the third period, the Bulldogs picked things up and managed to tie the game with just 34 seconds remaining. But with the crowd’s hopes running high, the Elis gave up a power play goal two minutes into overtime, which caused at least one Yale skater to smash his stick and sent the Yale fans into the night shaking their heads.

Friday’s game was emblematic of the Bulldogs’ entire season — two periods of great play, ruined

by 20 sluggish minutes and a bad break in overtime. Such inconsistent performances have led to the team’s 10–11–2 overall record and its seventh place standing in the ECAC.

Making sure that we’re consistent...heading into the last two weeks of the season is extremely important heading into the postseason.

CHARLES BROCKETT ’12 Forward, men’s hockey At this point, the Bulldogs will need to make a run in an ECAC postseason tournament filled with strong teams if they are to SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

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Kenny Agostino ’14 was the only freshman on men’s hockey to see regular ice time last year. This year five freshmen have been rotated through the lineup.

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THE NUMBER OF PLACES THE WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM LEAPT IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS LAST WEEKENDFOLLOWING THE ITA KICK-OFF IN ANN ARBOR, MICH. The now No. 25 Bulldogs defeated No. 21 Notre Dame 4–3 and lost a close match to No. 10 University of Michigan, 3–4.