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Urban design. Five Yale graduate students have been named finalists in the Urban Land Institute’s annual urban design competition, a venture that may win them $50,000 and the opportunity to contribute to the city’s long-term development.

Titled “MinneDi,” short for “Minneapolis Millennial Innovation District,” the group’s proposal centered on the city’s thriving creative industry and aimed to attract recent college graduates.

Fifteen minutes of fame.

Both WYBC General Manager Konrad Coutinho ’13 and the radio station’s studio made a special guest appearance on “Made,” a self-improvement reality television series broadcast on MTV. In the clip, students discuss the work of anti-bullying organization “Mean Stinks” against the backdrop of WYBC’s studio.

Life of a diplomat. Yale alum and recently confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 announced on Thursday that the U.S. government will provide the Syrian opposition with nonlethal aid — including food and medical supplies — as well as $60 million in assistance to rebel forces. The decision marks a significant policy shift in the U.S.’s position regarding Syria.

Rap city. Yale rapper Da

Legend has continued the Elm City’s thriving rap scene with a new music video titled “Anything Goes Down.” In the 3:10 minute video, Da Legend drops some beats next to a number of Yale locales, including Old Campus and the walkway by the Yale Bookstore.

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1919 The Academic Student Council votes to review the cases of each major team athlete who has been placed on probation. Council members will speak with each athlete and see whether tutoring arrangements can be made for those struggling with their academics.

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Thursday night, Yale-New Haven Hospital held a ribboncutting ceremony for a new clinic space in North Haven, marking an end to the threeyear effort to build the community-based outpatient facility. The center will offer a full range of services, including lab work and radiology.

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER

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New Haven’s Tweed Airport has been placed on a list of 238 small airports around the country that might face $86 billion in automatic, acrossthe-board federal budget cuts scheduled to take place today.

If so, the cuts would take effect in April, according to a joint statement by the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation.

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If you thought flying couldn’t get more rough, think again.

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have led to nine arrests in the past two weeks.

This series of drug raids has involved the participation of several law enforcement agencies, said Sgt. Alfonso Vazquez, an officer in

As Yale approaches the end of the first full academic year under a new University calendar, students, faculty and administrators are contemplating how best to allocate the days that make up a school year — an effort that requires careful balancing.

In January 2011, University President Richard Levin and Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced that Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences would implement a new calendar in the 2012–’13 school year which would make the fall and spring semesters equal in length, while adding a five-day break to the fall semester and shortening the reading and finals periods of both semesters. Though students and professors said the fall break came as a welcome respite after midterms in October, they also raised concerns that the changes result in heightened anxiety and stress at the end of the semester. But any change to an academic calendar requires a give-and-take between downtime and classtime, and administrators said it is too early to tell whether the new calendar found the correct balance.

“Whenever you do a calendar, there are always tradeoffs — there is no perfect calendar that satisfies everyone,” said John Meeske, associate dean of Yale College and a member of the University Calendar Committee. “So far I have been largely pleased, but I think it wasn’t a slam dunk by any means.”

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said changing the University calendar had been on the agenda since well before she became dean in 2008. Responding in part to almost 20 years’ worth of student demand for a fall break, the University Calendar Committee proposed the new format, which equalizes class days

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BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Police Department saw a successful end to the month of February — the city’s first murder-free month since August.

After two homicides hit New

Haven in late January, the number of violent crimes is down citywide by almost 50 percent compared to this time last year, according to data from the NHPD. Meanwhile, the city’s Police Department wrapped up this month with a number of narcotics raids that

Downtown Crossing construction begins

BY MONICA DISARE AND YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS The Elm City’s Downtown Crossing project, one of New Haven’s largest and most anticipated construction ventures in years, finally began this week.

The project will close exits 2 and 3 of the Route 34 expressway and replace the College Street Bridge in an effort to reconnect the downtown core with the Hill, a neighborhood in the city’s southwest. Yale’s medical, nursing and public health schools and hospital are all located in the Hill, which is currently separated from the rest of the University and downtown New Haven by part of Route 34. The Downtown Crossing project is expected to create traffic disruptions for at least two years, but city officials believe the project will be worth it in the long run for increased economic development, better connection within the city and more pedestrian walkways.

“For half a century, Route 34 divided the city and served as a reminder of the homes and businesses that were lost.

No more — work is now beginning to remove the highway and restore the street grid,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said in a statement last week. “What was once a symbol of lost opportunity will again become a thriving part of our community.”

School of Architecture urban design professor Elihu Rubin ’99 said that when Route 34 was first constructed in the 1950s, the Oak Street neighborhood — considered a “slum” at the time — was torn down by city planners to make room for the new highway.

While the highway, designed to bring suburban residents into downtown

New Haven, was considered to be the lifeline of the city at the time of its construction, over the decades, the focus of city planners has shifted to remaking the continuous fabric of the city, he said.

Rubin added that the planning intervention of the 1950s, under the nationwide city planning philosophy known as Urban Renewal, is now considered a mistake, and the city views the Downtown Crossing project as an opportunity to make amends.

“The project is based on a very powerful idea,” he said. “It’s the idea that we can heal this cut, this wound, in the city.”

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said that it has taken the city so long to start the project because it involves juggling ownership rights between the state of Connecticut, the city of New Haven and the project’s private developer.

New direction for Buddhist programs

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Four months after the University ended its nine-year relationship with former Buddhist Chaplain Bruce Blair ’81 and Indigo Blue, the nonprofit center for Buddhist life at Yale, the Chaplain’s Office has unveiled a series of new religious activities and acquired two interim staff advisers for the University’s Buddhist community.

In January, the University hired Steve Kanji Ruhl and Anne Dutton as

interim Buddhist advisers, and the Buddhist Shrine in Harkness Chapel was reopened last December. The Buddhist activities currently offered this semester include Dharma talks twice per month as well as a weekly formal practice with open discussion, said Nathaniel DeLuca, the Chaplain’s Office program coordinator. Students interviewed who previously attended Indigo Blue programs said they have not attended the new programs SEE BUDDHIST LIFE PAGE 4

The project is based on a very powerful idea. It’s the idea that we can heal this cut, this wound, in the city.

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To support the Yale Buddhist community after severing relations with Indigo Blue, the Chaplain’s Office is offering activities such as Dharma talks in Harkness Tower.

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he second of two views on Yale College’s grading policy. meant to incentivize harder work assumes that students aren’t already working, or that the main goal of our education is to make us work, not make us learn. Ultimately, the core of the liberal arts model means placing trust in students, acknowledging that our primary motivation is not a series of numbers or letters, but knowledge.

And that knowledge comes from so many sources. Our clubs, athletic teams, productions and publications have been the lifeblood of the Yale tradition for generations.

Each day, this newspaper reflects an extracurricular vibrancy only possible in a community that forgets cutthroat competition and makes time for real learning — often taking place outside of the classroom.

So the future of grading at Yale College must not entail a drastic overhaul.

Rather, a small change can have a lasting impact.

We should acknowledge the limits of grades as an evaluative tool, and ensure every professor and teaching fellow gives students consistent qualitative feedback, emphasizing individual growth and longterm development over either letters or numbers devoid of explanation.

With transparency, but without deflation, we will find a balance. As a company of scholars, we must speak out to preserve the culture we knew we could find only at Yale — before our College accepts the numerical and distributional recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading.

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Transparency in grading at Yale College will lead to a healthier academic community — one in which grading across the departments is even, and students do not leave majors due to disparities in difficulty.

Once this college-wide equilibrium has been reached, students who achieve academic excellence will be impossible to miss. Public pressure will keep Yale from embarking on a runaway train of higher and higher, or lower and lower, grades.

But the further recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee — those suggestions designed to make our current grading system artificially harder — are antithetical to the culture of our College.

Replacing letters with numbers and suggesting grade distributions can do nothing but create a culture of academic competition.

Yalies, unlike students at so many other Ivy League schools, reject academic competition. We do not believe that we gain from the loss of others, or that academic success is a zero-sum game. We collaborate. We share notes with our ill classmates, and we help our friends tackle that last tricky question on our problem sets. But the competition that occurs at other universities does not occur because those students are inherently malevolent. Rather, deflated grade distributions foster a culture of competition, which forces students to view their education as direct comparison between peers.

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way to make that happen.”

ver since the blessed LKL served us up a petite amuse-bouche in the wake of Winter Storm Nemo, I’ve been starving for spring break. But for those of you whose ivory towers have no windows (or calendars), here’s a heads up: It starts next week.

Unfortunately, I’ll be in the Slavic Reading Room, writing my thesis and occasionally screaming “SPRING BREAAAAK!” to a group of unamused graduate(?) students (those people are ageless; I think they were born, bespectacled, at their desks). But I’m sure you’ll fare better over the holiday.

What’s that, you say? You have no plans? Fear not, O Gentle Unprepared! For I have been down this path before. Let me share with you my wisdom, the virtue of my years. Let me provide you with: Your Guide To The Best Spring Break Ever.

Begin by realizing that spring break starts in a week, and that you neglected to make plans.

Suffer a pang of excitement and longing as the gritty snowscape melts before your eyes and you imagine, if you can remember what warmth is, warm breezes blanketing your sea-dampened skin as you dig your toes into sunsoaked sand grains of an island paradise. Remember, looking at the mirror, that you are pale, pasty and have not been to the gym in over a month. Discover,

also, that tickets to the tropics are now prohibitively expensive.

Cry yourself softly to sleep.

MICHELLE sultC o nwithTAYLOR your friends regarding Tell It Slant their spring break plans.

You will then learn that they are all touring with their a cappella/improv/sketch comedy/ glee club/humanitarian-themed singing sketchprov troupes for the entire two-week vacation. When you admit to yourself that you have no other option, call your parents and beg for last-minute plane tickets home. Describe, in your persuasive efforts, the ice-nugget core of loneliness you’ve been harboring for so long, which only homemade food and a mother’s love can cure. Realize that you were not exaggerating about your loneliness. Cry yourself softly to sleep.

Arrive, unnaturally early, in your small, sleepy, Midwestern hometown. Wonder how everyone wakes up before 9 a.m. Optimistically, plan to meet up with your high school friends. Send out a mass Facebook message to friends you haven’t spoken to in years, to which you receive

mostly this one-line response: “I’m still at school, bro.” Fall asleep watching reruns of "Two and Half Men," which is only marginally better than crying yourself softly to sleep.

YOUR GUIDE TO THE BEST SPRING BREAK EVER Visit your old high school because you have nothing better to do. Notice how tiny, awkward and young all the students look; feel strangely distanced from your childhood. Enjoy the unwarranted pride your teachers have in you, and feel heartened that, to them, you are still “successful.” Have your wave of nostalgia disrupted when you meet two other friends from high school who have both turned “punk.” Hide your revulsion at how unappetizing their face piercings have rendered them.

You will consider, but reject, the impulse to inform them that eyeliner on the lower lid is in almost all cases unbearably tacky. Sleep well, knowing that you remain the supreme arbiter of tastes.

Resign yourself to a Productive Spring Break, then spend the remainder of your dwindling vacation waking up midafter-

noon and watching television in your underwear (if you haven’t seen it yet, make sure you watch all three seasons of "Arrested Development"; it’s on Netflix). Eat cereal for all your meals at extremely odd hours. When it dawns on you that you’ve developed an addiction for it, you will insist that your family go out for Asian food, and, when the food sucks, you will become totally disillusioned with your hometown. Cry your dissatisfied taste buds to sleep.

Panic when you receive a flight reminder in your inbox because you left all 500 pages of your reading for the last 36 hours of your break. Attempt to cram a book in on the plane; fall asleep instead. Ditto for your ride from the airport.

Smile as you see, in the distance, the spires and towers of Yale stretching into a predictably grey sky. Marvel at how joy washes over you every time you pull up to Old Campus after a week or two away, at how you always seem to forget exactly how beautiful this place is, at how you never realized it but you love New Haven. Forget your reading yet again. Seek out your friends.

Go out tonight. Be glad: You’re finally home.

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

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Almost there

Remember the birds I

spent Saturday mornings this fall with borrowed binoculars around my neck, following a 91-year-old man named Arne up and down windswept Connecticut beaches.

We bent our necks and lifted our lenses, scanning the sky for birds. Arne told me three types of stories: swimming (he often recited his daily mileage), opera (he puzzled over Wagner’s endings) and birding (he catalogued many of the species he has seen, making his life story sound like a field guide).

When I asked where he used to work before retiring a few years ago, though, he stumbled. He told me that it didn’t matter. After reciting memorized passages from his Peterson guide about the way a dowitcher’s bill moves in and out of the sand, he forgot the name of an agency where he worked for several years.

I am a bad birder. For all of the time I have spent with a borrowed field guide, I still can’t tell sanderlings from sandpipers. I exclusively remember random facts. For example, sanderlings, these small, grey-speckled, skinny-legged shorebirds, migrate thousands of miles from the Alaskan Arctic to the

southern tip of Patagonia every year.

S a n d p i p e rs, also small, grey-speckled, skinnylegged shorebirds, someDIANA times eat SAVERIN frogs. I love birds, but I For the Birds have dabbled instead of committed — never memorizing the number of spots on the tops of their heads or the cadence of their songs. But I could recite to you every job I’ve had since I was 15.

This is a silly imbalance.

Birds fascinate me, and I think the sanderlings skirting up and down the beach with the waves deserve much more attention than my lame résumé staring back at me from a screen. It’s easy, though, to fall into the habit of obsessing over and trying to calculate how a string of positions might lead to the next, and how one of those positions will someday be great and important. It’s what some people call a career. On the other hand, birds are, well, “for the birds.”

Nowhere on my résumé will I

have to puzzle over whether it is worth it to admit my so-called “proficiency” (euphemism for not and never going to be fluent) in shorebird identification. So, why improve?

Arne doesn’t stumble over this question; he has identified 373 species of birds in Connecticut. In total, 431 species have been recorded in the state.

His state list, most think, is second only to Noble Proctor’s, the author of several field guides and ornithology textbooks. Birding has never been Arne’s career, but it has remained his passion.

Reasons to keep improving and searching for new species may not be immediately obvious to non-birding-addicts, but for him, that’s no reason to stop.

There are many things I want on a moment-to-moment basis, without what some might call “reason”: a hilly trail marathon, a long poem to memorize, a tricky recipe for homemade bread, a poorly played harmonica or guitar session. This list of half-learned skills and brief fixations goes on, full of things I have done without a particularly firm grasp on how they might help me “succeed.” Sometimes longing is too near for logic.

When I’ve been lucky enough

to hear myself through the hubbub of advice in this busy town, that voice has been the one thing that I trust. It drives me toward obsession and helps me shun mere mention of moderation.

It has yanked me out of habit to have the kinds of adventures I crave. I hope I’ll be fortunate enough to have a career full of projects I’m addicted to, but I still cannot forget the importance of hobbies, even if the skills I pick up from them have no clear value in an equation for the future.

I still find shorebirds impossibly similar, but am trying to be more like Arne. I am trying to create space in my life for the things I love, even if I’m not sure why. I called him last week.

Once the snow melts, we’ll be back to the coast with our binoculars, watching feathered wings flap over the water. Maybe soon, I’ll spot and identify some sanderlings. I bet if I make it to 91 years old and forget where and for whom I’ve worked, I will still remember the white bellies of those sanderlings gleaming in the tide-sheathed sand.

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

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PARIS HILTON “The way I see it, you should live everyday like it's your birthday.”

YALE TALKS EDUCATION G U E ST C O LU M N I ST J OA N NA Z H E N G

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t’s 9:02 a.m. Thirteen pairs of bright brown eyes stare at me from inside a sparsely furnished, too-cold classroom: A few reflect eager attentiveness, a few curiosity, but the eyes of a group of four or so boys clustered together in the corner show nothing but wariness, boredom and a hint of animosity.

It was going to be a long first day.

This past winter break, I spent two and a half weeks living at the Yonsei University dorms in Seoul, South Korea, with a group of 10 other young adults teaching various groups of Korean elementary school, middle school and high school students the mechanisms of debate. As a preface, it is important to note that the kids we taught were not your typical Korean students: Most of them spoke broken but comprehensible, if not semifluent English. Their parents were mostly businessmen or involved in international diplomatic affairs. Almost all of them had visited or lived in the United States, and they were privy to all the benefits and privileges that going to an international school in South Korea had to offer. In other words, these were the kids that had it easy. But they were still being forced to spend their winter vacations in and out of various math, English and science camps, all of which ran for over eight hours a day.

In the process of teaching them about debate, I also received some unexpected anecdotes about their lives and experiences. One especially memorable moment came when a shy, timid 9-year-old girl who had the unfortunate luck of being placed into a classroom with only six other boys, stood up to give an oratory about why schools shouldn’t ban junk food: “Sometimes, when it’s 3 a.m. and you are tired, you can use chips and cookies to wake yourself up so you can keep studying!”

Even as I stared at her in horrified surprise, no one else seemed to be surprised. In fact, many of her peers were nodding along in agreement. Unsure how to respond, I shelved the curriculum for a while in order to have an honest conversation with my students: “How many of you sleep less than eight hours a night?” Nearly every hand in the classroom went up. “Six hours?”

A couple dropped. “Five?”

Only one student, a lanky high schooler swaddled in a black hoodie and baggy jeans, kept his hand in the air.

The Korean school system is emblematic of the kind of mindset that is pervasive throughout

many of the education systems in Asia. Education felt like only a buzzword given in short, pithy sound bites to appease overzealous parents. The awards ceremonies at the end of each camp were always too long, too ostentatious and too lavish; each child was presented with a velvet completion certificate and forced to take a picture with the American directors. They seemed to genuinely believe that there was a magic formula for success (success narrowly defined as admission into a top-tier American university). Any deviation from this well-beaten path was more than just an unacceptable aberration: It was a guaranteed first step towards failure in life.

LESSONS FROM TEACHING ABROAD My brief exposure to the South Korean school system, with all of its uncompromising views on education, was a stark glimpse into the realities that hundreds of thousands of children have to live with every day. It was a reminder of how lucky I am to go to a liberal institution like Yale and to have had open-minded support systems of teachers, counselors and parents in my high school. Despite good motives and sincere goals, the droves of Yalies who traverse the sea to teach in Asia are unintentionally furthering a system that is not only predicated on, but sustained by, unhealthy superficiality. This is not to say there are no good teaching programs for the internationally minded, but merely to suggest that a closer consideration of the social structures furthered by these programs might be a good idea for burgeoning philanthropists and teachers. Should we really be encouraging a system that often feels like slave-driving rather than educating? One Yalie may not be able to make a difference, but collectively, the informal condemnation of an international group may cause officials at the top of a flawed educational system to reconsider their methods.

As I hugged my kids goodbye on the last day, I couldn’t help but put myself in their shoes. But for a strange twist of fate, I might easily have grown up in the shoes of those I was teaching, staring at a foreign lecturer through suspicious, desensitized eyes.

JOANNA ZHENG is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact her at joanna.zheng@yale.edu .

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Solving the real problems I

grew up in an upper-middle-class white household, where my good liberal parents did their good liberalparent duty of teaching me about educational inequality. I knew bad schools existed, and I knew they were a problem, but I couldn’t have told you where those schools were and what kind of problems they had. For me, part of having privilege was being able to live in a bubble where, even though I could acknowledge educational disparities, I didn’t actually have to deal with them.

When I got to Yale, I started volunteering at a New Haven public school. Kids have come and gone, but there are two kids, in particular, whom I have been mentoring long term. In addition to working two jobs apiece, these kids are at the top of their classes and on their school’s debate team, where they discuss a range of issues, from parental consent laws to the efficacy of economic sanctions. And when they wanted to learn even more, we started meeting on weekends. One of them voluntarily spends two to three hours every Sunday working on SAT math prep.

BRIDGE PROGRAMS ARE A START, BUT THEY'RE NOT ENOUGH These kids, who have so much intelligence and so much motivation, simply don’t have the background and the resources that they deserve.

It’s a problem when a kid who can have a nuanced debate about the warrants for paternalism asks me what the word “liberal” means, because she’s never heard it used before. It’s a problem when a kid with an A in his honors precalculus class struggles to understand exponents, because the class, despite its “honors” label, doesn’t actually explain them.

These are problems. Not because these students are stupid. Not because these students don’t try. But with limited resources at school and limited resources at home, these kids can’t be expected to know things that they simply

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haven’t been taught.

When we think of educational disparities, we often compare the students at the top of the charts to those floundering at the bottom. In the process, we neglect to discuss the perverse impacts that a flawed education system creates for kids who are doing well despite their circumstances — the kids who appear to be succeeding in struggling schools.

One of the reasons these students are ignored is the standards we use to evaluate them. One of the measures that New Haven uses to track the performance of its public schools is the percentage of kids enrolling in a third semester of college. Another such measure is the high school graduation rate. Don’t get me wrong — these measures are important, but do not fully reflect the shortcomings in our schools. Statistics like these capture the picture of who graduates and who doesn’t, and of who stays in college and who drops out. But they ignore the kids who are learning, but could learn more; the kids who are doing well, but could be doing better; the kids who’ve gotten to college, but don’t know what to do when they get there.

Education is not a binary of who finishes and who doesn’t.

Rather it is a gradient of success, and these numbers don’t reflect that gradient. The kids I’m mentoring will graduate.

They’ll go to a four-year college. But these statistics don’t say anything about how the school system is failing them.

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about programs that “bridge” the gap between low-performing high schools and top-tier colleges. Yale is even starting one this summer.

This is great. These programs do a lot to help correct educational disparities and prepare kids to enter college with a greater understanding of what is expected of them.

But one summer program can’t sufficiently address years of educational inequalities. We need to start earlier.

Only by talking about education in a way that truly reflects the issues can we effectively implement programs that will address the needs of all students.

BECCA STEINBERG is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at becca.steinberg@yale.edu.

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ou may have seen me walking down the street and thought I was someone else. You may have come up to me, said hi and then walked away feeling embarrassed or confused. I may have reacted with a laugh or with a curt reply.

What’s my problem, anyway?

I’m a twin.

My twin brother Eric and I both go to Yale.

That was never supposed to happen. We attended school together from kindergarten through 12th grade, and we always wanted to go to sepaSCOTT rate colleges. Back home, we were (and are) “the STERN twins.” We were treated as a unit; we were always A Stern referred to together. If Perspective people asked, we would grudgingly concede we were “best friends.” But that sort of relationship, biological or not, is always more complicated than meets the eye. We were spending so much time together that everyone assumed that we could always be found together. It got old.

Attending the same high school with similar interests, Eric and I had to do practically everything together from classes to extracurriculars to social activities. We had basically the same friends. This wasn’t always the easiest. Our relationship was sometimes a wonderful resource, sometimes punishingly strained.

We tried very hard to apply to no colleges in common. But we both fell in love with Yale, applied early action and the rest, as they say, is history. We requested to be in separate residential colleges; we intentionally take different classes, have different majors, do different activities and, thankfully, have nearly separate friend groups.

Still, we bump into each other a lot. People mix us up. A lot.

Muggles constantly make assumptions about us twins. No, I don’t feel his pain; no, we aren’t telepathic; yes, we are genetically identical, but I’m not sure if that means I could kill someone and frame him. Thanks for asking. What is unique about our situation is just how much we look alike. We have always been treated as a pair to some extent.

And, as all twins must, we endured being dressed identically and being constantly, unceasingly compared to each other.

“Your voices so sound similar! You look so alike!” Constantly being grouped with someone else can make you feel like your individuality is undervalued. It’s convenient for teachers, coaches, even parents to refer to twins as a set, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t grate. It causes tension. And that there is some validity to this assumption — Eric and I did do many of the same things — often exacerbates that.

BEING A TWIN IS ABOUT MORE THAN LOOKING THE SAME Spending too much time with any one person is problematic. The “twin” experience illustrates two of the problems. First, the two principal players will be treated as a unit, which is degrading and lazy and really annoying. Second, constant proximity wears on both players, as we’ve all experienced with roommates, relatives and friends.

These problems can cause someone to resent his or her other half. Romulus killed Remus because Rome wasn’t big enough for both of them. That story does not apply only to twins, but to friends as well. Being seen as too close, being too close, is rough.

But let’s not forget how lost George looked without Fred. Being part of a unit is occasionally nice. When a set of twins is in a new environment, each always knows at least one person.

Above all, though, the twin experience exemplifies how friendships change. Eric and I are more mature than we were two years ago. It certainly helps that we aren’t treated as much like a unit as we were in high school, but feeling like adults, leading separate lives, has surely helped our relationship.

When we get meals or bump into each other, it’s always cordial. More than that, it’s fun. There’s still a distance, the old competitiveness still boils just below the surface, but college has definitely improved our relationship.

Friends fight and fall apart. But far too many people permanently sever a relationship, perhaps unnecessarily. My experience has convinced me that a little space and a little time sometimes do the trick.

Eric and I have different colleges, friends, classes and activities — albeit at the same university. We are more than no longer a unit; we are different people than we were two years ago.

Except, of course, we still look the same.

SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN AUTHOR OF “THE LORD OF THE RINGS” SERIES

City project to link downtown, Hill 1940

2007

Route 34 is conceived.

The city receives federal High Priority Project Transportation funds to work on Route 34.

1990s The state aids the development of the area near the Air Rights Garage.

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The building of Route 34 displaces 880 families.

Pfizer’s Clinical Research Unit opens.

2013 Downtown Crossing project begins.

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CROSSING FROM PAGE 1 and scope, but in complication.”

Karyn Gilvarg ARC ’75, executive director of the City Plan Department, explained that work on Downtown Crossing has just entered its mobilization phase, which involves preparing and moving materials into the site.

In the early stages of the project, Exit 3 of Route 34 will be closed and Massachusetts-based developer Winstanley Enterprises will build a 426,000 square foot office building. At the same time, the area currently occupied by Route 34 will be transformed into

a pedestrian and bike-friendly environment, according to a statement last week by City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti.

Officials hope that retail and housing will take root in the area.

After the project is complete, 10 1/2 new acres of land will be available in New Haven for economic development, Murphy added.

In addition to connecting an isolated region of the city and providing more area for real estate and retail, planners hope the project will bring over a thousand jobs to New Haven. Downtown Crossing is expected to create 2,000 construction jobs during the

project and 600 to 900 permanent jobs that will remain in the area after the project is complete, according to a statement released

by Mariotti.

The office building at 100 College St. will be occupied primarily by biotechnology company Alexion Pharmaceuticals. With extensive ties to Yale, Alexion was founded in New Haven and is currently located in Cheshire, Conn. Alexion’s executive director of corporate communications, Irving Adler, said the company is excited to return to its roots in the Elm City.

“Our new facility will create

employment across a wide range of specialties,” Adler said. “Jobs in anything you can do in the sciences, but most importantly, we are also an office. Marketing, finance, law, communications — every business function will be in there.”

All interviewed said the long-term benefits of Downtown Crossing will outweigh any short-term construction inconveniences. Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, whose district includes New Haven, said that all new development creates inconveniences but that the overall economic devel-

opment will be worth any temporary problems.

Hausladen agreed, recounting his experience traveling from Science Hill to the medical campus while doing clinical research at Yale. Hausladen added that under the current highway arrangement, some of the world’s most brilliant medical minds are spending a quarter of their day riding the bus.

Currently, Gilvarg said, the physical division created by Route 34 makes it difficult for pedestrians to walk across different sections of New Haven. She added that the construction project will make it more convenient to travel

back and forth between the Hill and downtown, making life in the neighborhood less isolating.

“The upper hill neighborhood is separated from downtown by this canyon,” Gilvarg said. “Psychologically and perceptually, there’s the feeling that New Haven is not a single, seamless city.”

The Downtown Crossing project is funded by the United States Department of Transportation’s TIGER II grant, the city of New Haven and the state of Connecticut.

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

Admins caught in a calendar balancing act CALENDAR FROM PAGE 1 at 64 per semester and reduces finals period from eight to six days.

There were previously 63 class days in the fall and 65 in the spring.

From discussions with the college deans, Meeske said the committee realized that students did not use all of Yale’s reading week for work, adding that the committee ultimately decided to shave two days off the reading week. Overall, Miller said equalizing the number of class, exam and reading week days across the two semesters is an “overarching good.”

Students and faculty interviewed expressed mixed opinions about the new calendar. Though the professors and students interviewed generally agreed that fall break was a positive addition, all said the shortened reading week compounded stress at the end of the semester.

“I always felt it was really hard, especially for new students, to have 12 straight weeks of classes without a break,” said philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca.

“That was a long slog.”

Still, Della Rocca said he would like to see a schedule that keeps

the fall break but does not cut into reading week so students can have more time to reflect on the semester and complete final papers.

English professor Margaret Homans said she will be less likely to assign long final papers if reading week remains shortened because she does not think students have time to complete lengthier assignments sufficiently under the new calendar. “[Last semester] everyone got their final papers in on time, but I think it was very stressful and not an optimal experience for them,” Homans said. “I guess I just view

reading period as really sacrosanct — you all really need it.”

According to a Jan. 10 survey conducted by the Yale College Council, 75 percent of 1,340 students said they felt the shortened reading week adversely affected their academic performance, though 62 percent said they would keep fall break even at the expense of a shorter reading period.

Martin Shapiro ’14 said he is concerned that the new calendar will be more detrimental in the spring semester because it will cut into Yale traditions such as residential college festivals and Spring

Fling.

“Reading period is traditionally the time when people can relax and prepare before locking themselves in a library for days on end, and I think we’re really going to feel the lack of that this spring,” Shapiro said.

Meeske said the committee will solicit feedback from students and faculty and consider “tweaks” to remedy negative effects, though he said large-scale changes would take more time to implement. But both Miller and Meeske said the four class cancellations as a result of severe weather this year will

make it difficult to evaluate the new calendar in its first year.

“I think this year’s calendar has been so pushed and pulled by the dramatic and violent weather that we’ve experienced,” Miller said.

“It’s hard to judge anything from this first year.”

Reading week this year begins on Friday, April 26, and finals will take place from Thursday, May 2 to Tuesday, May 7.

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

Chaplain’s Office hires two Buddhist advisers BUDDHIST LIFE FROM PAGE 1 hosted by the Chaplain’s Office.

University Chaplain Sharon Kugler said her office hopes to grow their current Buddhist program before looking into hiring a new fulltime Buddhist chaplain.

“Currently we are focusing on nurturing the program that we have and are working with local and regional Buddhist communities to identify appropriate next steps to form partnerships for future endeavors,” Kugler said.

The events hosted by the Chaplain’s Office are comparable to Buddhist programs at other universities and services offered for other religious communities at Yale, DeLuca said. The Chaplain’s Office has been working “slowly but deliberately” to create a community to support displaced members of the Buddhist community after the University cut ties with Indigo Blue last fall, he said.

Kugler said she sought advice from prominent members of the

national Buddhist community during the hiring process, adding that Ruhl and Dutton were chosen because their knowledge of multiple forms of Buddhist ritual is essential in a diverse college setting. The two interim fellows hold advanced degrees in Buddhist studies — Ruhl graduated from the Harvard Divinity School, and both are experienced in teaching Buddhism, she said. Dutton has been involved since the fall in efforts to “rebuild” the Buddhist program and is familiar with attendees already, Kugler added.

“I don’t have specific goals, but I do want to welcome as many Buddhist and non-Buddhist students as possible and members of Yale’s nonstudent community as well, into dynamic, meaningful conversations exploring the Dharma and how it manifests in our lives,” Ruhl said. “I want to help create a warm, inviting atmosphere for doing that.”

Dutton said she hopes to provide a space for students who wish to learn more about the Buddhist faith as

well as those who use Buddhist practices to help with stress and other challenges. The new activities focus on practical applications of Buddhist teachings that are useful for students in everyday life, she added.

Kugler said she has received positive feedback from students and particularly from attendees of the Dharma talks, which are teachings on the Buddhist faith. Roughly 10 students and community members attended the second Dharma talk on Feb. 18, filling all available seats at the Buddhist chapel, Ruhl said. Students have been open to sharing personal experiences and have shown sincere interest in discussions following the Dharma talks, he added.

Hung Pham ’15, a prior attendee of Indigo Blue events and former representative of the Buddhist community on the Inter-Religious Leadership Council, said the new programs are centered on Zen Buddhism and do not appeal to students who appreciated the more diverse, panBuddhism approach of Blair.

“I’m sure it’s not anyone’s fault — it just so happens that the new Buddhist leaders on campus are of the Zen school,” he said. “The Chaplain’s Office is refusing to hire a new full-time Buddhist chaplain who would appeal to multidimensional Buddhism.”

But Kugler said both advisers are educated on the diverse range of Buddhist thought, and that no students have approached her office with complaints recently.

Pham said separate groups of students attend the Chaplain’s Office’s Buddhist programs than those that attend the Indigo Blue programs still offered at Blair’s home on Mansfield Street. The two options have not created a cohesive community environment, Pham said.

Ruhl previously co-chaired the Harvard Buddhist Community.

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

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The Buddhist Shrine in Harkness Tower was reopened last December.

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“Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.” H.G. WELLS ENGLISH WRITER BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK IN THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE

CORRECTION AND C L A R I F I CAT I O N

Former cyclists discuss doping

THURSDAY, FEB. 28

The article “Courant launches website sans pay-wall” misspelled the name of Matt DeRienzo, group editor for Journal Register Company’s Connecticut papers.

THURSDAY, FEB. 28

Due to an editing error, the article “Applied Physics, postSEAS” included a headline on page 4 that stated “Applied Physics still reeling.” The headline did not accurately characterize the state of the Applied Physics Department.

While the department is concerned with its long-term relationship with the School of Engineering & Applied Science, it has been able to operate independently since being moved from the school.

State braces for sequester KATHRYN CRANDALL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In light of massive federal spending cuts due to take effect today, Connecticut public programs are facing unprecedented budget reductions.

After Congress failed to reach a deal that would avert $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, both Connecticut’s public and private sectors are facing a new shock to an already uncertain economic environment.

Although the cuts — which were designed to reduce government spending by a total of $1.2 trillion in the coming decade — will officially begin today, they will not reach their full severity until several weeks from now when the cuts fully kick in.

“It hurts in Connecticut. It’s not one cut that hurts — it’s an accumulation of cuts that will hurt an already damaged economy,” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told the News. “I think Congress should act like grownups and either postpone it or come up with a package [of more reasonable reductions].”

On Monday, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 told reporters that job losses throughout the state, resulting from sequestration, could reach as high as 36,000.

Nevertheless, Pat O’Neil, a spokesman for the Connecticut House Republicans, suggested that sequestration would not be as destructive as many politicians are claiming. He added that the cuts would serve to put the country’s budget back on track in the long term.

Half of the federal budget cuts will come from the country’s defense budget, a move that governors and members of the military have characterized as detrimental to the nation’s security. In Connecticut, the Department of Defense would be forced to furlough approximately 3,000 civilian employees, according to a White House statement. In addition, projects at the New London submarine base, including the repair of the USS Providence and two demolition projects, would be delayed.

Because Connecticut is home to several military contractors, including Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky and Electric Boat, reductions in defense spending would inflict job losses beyond Connecticut’s military bases.

The other half of the automatic reductions will come from nondefense discretionary spending, including education, law enforcement, public health, child care and clean air protection. According to the White House fact sheet, Connecticut would face approximately $8.7 million in cuts to primary and secondary education, placing 120 teacher and aide jobs in jeopardy. Addition-

ally, 500 Connecticut children would lose access to preschool education due to reductions to Head Start, a national program that provides low-income families free preschool education and related social services.

The sequester was proposed during budget negotiations in the summer of 2011, when Congress and President Barack Obama sought a mechanism that would force both parties to negotiate a long-term debtreduction strategy. Republicans and Democrats at the time considered sequestration so radical a solution that it would force their hand in reaching a more desirable deal.

The emphasis on debt reduction, however, has drawn criticism from economists nationwide. Earlier this week, 350 economists — including Yale professors Jacob Hacker and John Roemer — signed an open letter urging politicians to reach an agreement to avert the cuts.

The letter, entitled “Jobs and Growth, Not Austerity,” warned, “The fragile recovery is threatened by obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties.”

I think Congress should act like grown-ups and either postpone [the cuts] or come up with a package [of more reasonable reductions].

Prominent cyclists and anti-doping regulators addressed the frequent abuse of performance-enhancing drugs at a Thursday panel.

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Professional cycling athletes, former adversaries and regulators gathered Thursday evening to discuss the role of performance-enhancing drugs in the midst of a sport in turmoil.

The panel, which drew a crowd of roughly 150 people, featured Floyd Landis, who won the 2006 Tour de France but was eventually stripped of his title for doping; Travis Tygart, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency; Jonathan Vaughters, team manager of the Garmin-Sharp cycling team who formerly took performance-enhancing drugs; and professor Thomas Murray, president emeritus of the Hastings Center. During the talk, the panelists explained the ways doping became prevalent in the sport and touched on the future of drug usage in cycling.

“At the highest level, it was obligatory to use drugs,” Vaughters said. “We need to change the way this sport is.”

Landis and Vaughters, both former professional cyclists who used performance-enhancing substances, now speak out against doping in cycling. In Janu-

ary, well-known cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to doping during each of his seven Tour de France victories, which were stripped last year, and he was handed a lifetime ban from the sport. The panel marked Landis’ first public appearance after accusing Armstrong of doping in 2010.

Vaughters now manages a team that supports and practices clean racing, he said, adding that he thinks riders artificially enhance their performance because of their “ambitious and driven” nature.

Athletes feel they continually need to use an increasing amount of performance-enhancing drugs just to stay competitive, Murray said.

“It’s like an arms race,” he said.

Tygart, who led the recent doping charges against Lance Armstrong, said to protect clean athletes, the USADA had “to dismantle the system that allowed this culture to flourish.” He suggested that removing drug usage from cycling requires increasing the funding that goes toward independent anti-doping agencies and developing a commission that encourages past users to be honest about their activities so the sport maintains a

policy of transparency.

Once adversaries, Tygart and Landis have now become allies in the effort against doping, said professor Jacob Hacker, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, who moderated the panel.

Audience members interviewed said they enjoyed hearing a candid conversation about what some consider a sensitive subject.

Will Gardner ’15 said the discussion was positive because acknowledging doping usage will help make the sport clean.

“I think it was good getting this into the open,” Gardner said.

Michael Reagan, coordinator of the Cycling Tour of Connecticut, said the talk was “absolutely fantastic” because the panelists appeared honest and open.

Spencer Gilbert LAW ’13 said he does not think the talk included information that he had not heard before.

Landis served on the U.S. Postal Service cycling team from 2002 to 2004, and Vaughters was on it from 1998 to 1999.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Panelists address corruption in Africa

CHRIS MURPHY U.S. senator, Connecticut “Worrying about the size of the deficit in the United States is just totally inappropriate at this point,” Roemer said, characterizing the sequestration debate as one focusing more on ideology than economics. “A recession is the time when you need stimulus. The experience of the European countries that have engaged in austerity proves this.”

Opposition to sequestration is widespread, with 62 percent of Americans saying the cuts would have a negative impact on the economy, according to a Pew poll released earlier this week.

Furthermore, the poll found that 70 percent of Americans believe the sequester would have at least some effect on their personal finances.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, without sequestration, the federal government will run a $845 billion deficit this year.

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

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

BY THE NUMBERS SEQUESTRATION IN CONNECTICUT 3,000 500 120 $85b

Connecticut Department of Defense civilian employees furloughed Children no longer with access to preschool education Teacher and aid jobs in jeopardy In cuts nationwide

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Thursday’s Corruption, Accountability and Governance in Africa conference delved into the intricacies of contemporary African politics.

BY EMMA GOLDBERG STAFF REPORTER Experts from the fields of policy and academia came from across the country to present their research at a conference on corruption in Africa this Thursday.

The panelists addressed issues including recent elections, local government accountability and transparency in natural resources in Africa. The Corruption, Accountability and Governance in Africa conference, funded by the Hendel Fund for Innovation in Africa, drew a diverse crowd ranging from political science scholars to students of African origin.

Elizabeth Carlson, a Yale lecturer in African Studies who organized the event, said the conference aimed to inspire discussion on the complexities of African politics.

“We wanted to take the most sophisticated and nuanced issues and make them more accessible,” Carlson said.

The conference featured a panel on local government accountability with California Institute of Technology professor Jean Ensminger, Georgetown University professor Andrew Zeitlin and Kenedy Opalo ’09, a doctoral candidate at Stanford. The three scholars explained that local district funding in Africa is often squandered by politicians rather than invested in services that support low-income constituents.

Opalo presented strategies used to combat government corruption, though he warned that simply telling communities that elected officials are misusing

government funds is not always an effective technique.

“It turns out that telling voters that their members of parliament are corrupt makes them more apathetic to the political process,” Opalo said.

Opalo’s presentation on local corruption was particularly engaging to audience members from Africa who have seen firsthand the challenges he addressed. One audience member addressed the panelists during their talk to say that, as someone who grew up in Africa, he was not surprised by their findings. The audience member added that he appreciated that they took the trouble to document evidence of corruption carefully.

The conference’s third panel focused on transparency in the natural resource sector, addressing the tendency of oil and mineral industries to spiral into corruption. Revenue Watch policy analyst Juan Carlos Quiroz told audience members that few governments are willing to tell the public how they generate revenue from natural resources and conduct business with extractive companies.

“Only one country is willing to publish timely reports of its sources of revenue, and that’s Morocco,” Quiroz said. “And there, the companies operate for the benefit of the king.”

The conference also linked political issues in Africa to other fields. Angelo Izama, a writer for the Daily Monitor, explored the connections between different types of corruption. Misuse of funds in

the natural resources sector could encourage injustices in legal institutions, Izama said.

Audience members interviewed at the conference said they enjoyed the opportunity to engage in discourse about the newest developments in African Studies research.

“These are the people on the forefront of examining institutions and corrupt governments,” economics professor Christopher Udry said. “It’s exciting to hear about recent work in my field of study.”

Assistant political science professor Ana De La O Torres canceled lecture for her class “Challenges of Young Democracies” and told her students to attend the conference instead. Rudi-Ann Miller ’16 said it was interesting to hear where the research presented differed from what she had learned in Torres’ class.

Fodei Batty, a political science professor at Quinnipiac, said he valued the interactions between speakers and audience members, as they highlighted areas for further research.

“These are such complex issues, and I just wish we had more time to explore the questions we raised about the panelists’ research,” Batty said.

Yale’s Council on African Studies ran the conference.

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

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“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.” NOAM CHOMSKY AMERICAN LINGUIST AND PHILOSOPHER

NHPD completes nine drug arrests charge of the NHPD’s Investigative Services Bureau, adding that this kind of cooperative approach has been fundamental in keeping violent crime down this month. In February, the city registered a total of eight nonfatal shootings, almost a 50 percent reduction from the 15 nonfatal shootings reported in February 2012.

“It has been a good month, but we hope to do better next month,” Vazquez said, adding that the Police Department’s focus lies in containing the frequency of shootings and robberies.

The most recent of February’s drug busts was conducted on the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 26. At around 5:30 p.m., officer David Acosta — a member of the Police Department currently assigned to the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force — raided an apartment at 75 Daggett St. in search of a fugitive wanted by the Drug Enforcement Agency. A subsequent search of the premises led Acosta, federal agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and agents from the DEA to discover 80 grams of cocaine, 174 grams of marijuana, 807 grams of bath salts and over $2,000 in cash, according to a statement released by the Police Department. Federal agents and New Haven police officers also discovered three firearms, one

sawed-off shotgun, one 9 mm Ruger, one .22-caliber handgun with obliterated serial numbers, a bulletproof vest and several boxes of ammunition.

In another apartment within the same 75 Daggett St. complex, police found sophisticated marijuana-growing equipment, including 108 marijuana plants, lighting, packaging and scales.

I want to acknowledge the remarkable Detectives who pursued this case relentlessly to bring justice to a grieving family.

DEAN ESSERMAN Chief, New Haven Police Department The two apartments’ residents — 36-year-old Brian Farrell and 38-year-old Jerry Britt — were arrested and charged with multiple gun and drug violations, said Vazquez.

According to Vazquez, investigations on Tuesday’s raid are still ongoing. This week’s bust was the last of a series of successful drug arrests this month, including the Feb. 16 arrest of Luis Martinez, a 30-year old New Haven resident who was transporting 126 bags of heroin, 36 bags of crack cocaine

and $1,304 in cash in his white Chrysler 300.

Meanwhile, the NHPD has concluded its investigation into the Jan. 22 homicide that killed Abdul L. Rawas, 55, who was fatally shot in the back and arm inside his convenience store at 738 Orchard St. As NHPD spokesman David Hartman suggested last month, the murder originated from a robbery attempt gone awry. Examination of the surveillance footage from two cameras at the market led investigators to Milton Daniels Jr., a 20-year-old New Haven resident who was arrested on Feb. 15 and charged with felony murder and murder. Daniels is currently being held on a $2 million bond, police said.

“I want to acknowledge the remarkable Detectives who pursued this case relentlessly to bring justice to a grieving family,” NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said in a Feb 15. statement following the arrest.

The second investigation into the Jan. 23 homicide of Lonni Star, 29, concluded soon after the incident in January when the NHPD arrested two minors connected to the crime.

In 2012, the number of homicides in New Haven reached a three-year low, with a total of 17 murders reported.

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

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, MARCH 1 12:30 PM “The Quagmire of American Health Care and Suggestions for Radical Change” Join the Public Health Coalition for lunch with professor Sherwin Nuland, a surgeon and Yale professor of bioethics, history of medicine and medicine. Nuland has published several books, including the award-winning “How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapters” and “Lost in America: A Journey with My Father,” and has also written extensively for publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 2 5:30 PM “Edwardian Modernities: Art and Music in London, 1901–1910” Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the history of art, will give the keynote lecture for the “Art, Anxiety and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque” symposium. Free and open to the general public. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

SUNDAY, MARCH 3 2:00 PM Lighting Designer Throw Down Undergraduate lighting designers will give demonstrations. Sponsored by Undergraduate Production. Free and open to students only. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.).

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BY JULIE PACE AND MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California’s same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the country.

The Obama administration’s friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a U.S. president has urged the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed. The filing unequivocally calls on the justices to strike down California’s Proposition 8 ballot measure, although it stops short of the soaring rhetoric on marriage equality Obama expressed in his inaugural address in January.

California is one of eight states that give gay couples all the benefits of marriage through civil unions or domestic partnership, but don’t allow them to wed.

The brief argues that in granting same-sex couples those rights, California has already acknowledged that gay relationships bear the same hallmarks as straight ones.

“They establish homes and lives together, support each other financially, share the joys and burdens of raising children, and provide care through illness and comfort at the moment of death,” the administration wrote.

Obama’s position, if adopted by the court, would likely result in gay marriage becoming legal in the seven other states: Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.

In the longer term, the administration urges the justices to subject laws that discriminate on sexual orientation to more rigorous review than usual, a standard that would imperil other state bans on same-sex marriage.

The brief marks the president’s most expansive view of gay marriage and signals that he is moving away from his previous assertion that states should determine their own marriage laws. Obama, a former constitutional law professor, signed off on the administration’s legal argument last week following lengthy discussions with Attorney General Eric Holder and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.

In a statement following the filing, Holder said “the government seeks to vindicate the defining constitutional ideal of equal treatment under the law.”

Friend-of-the-court briefs are not legally binding. But the government’s opinion in particular could carry some weight with the justices when they hear oral arguments in the case on March 26.

Despite the potentially wideranging implications of the administration’s brief, it still

falls short of what gay rights advocates and the attorneys who will argue against Proposition 8 had hoped for. Those parties had pressed the president to urge the Supreme Court to not only overturn California’s ban, but also declare all gay marriage bans unconstitutional.

Still, marriage equality advocates publicly welcomed the president’s legal positioning.

“President Obama and the solicitor general have taken another historic step forward consistent with the great civil rights battles of our nation’s history,” said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign and co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which brought the legal challenge to Proposition 8.

President Obama and the solicitor general have taken another historic step forward.

CHAD GRIFFIN President, Human Rights Campaign The president raised expectations that he would back a broad brief during his inauguration address on Jan. 21. He said the nation’s journey “is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.”

“For if we are truly created equal, than surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well,” he added.

Obama has a complicated history on gay marriage. As a presidential candidate in 2008, he opposed the California ban but didn’t endorse gay marriage. He later said his personal views on gay marriage were “evolving.”

When he ran for re-election last year, Obama announced his personal support for same-sex marriage, but said marriage was an issue that states, not the federal government, should decide.

Public opinion has shifted in support of gay marriage in recent years.

In May 2008, Gallup found that 56 percent of Americans felt same-sex marriages should not be recognized by the law as valid.

By last November, 53 percent felt they should be legally recognized.

Gay marriage supporters see the Supreme Court’s hearing of Proposition 8, as well as a related case on the Defense of Marriage Act, as a potential watershed moment for same-sex unions.

In a well-coordinated effort, opponents of the California ban flooded the justices with friendof-the-court briefs in recent days.

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BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Squabbling away the hours, the Senate swatted aside lastditch plans to block $85 billion in broadbased federal spending reductions Thursday as President Barack Obama and Republicans blamed each other for the latest outbreak of gridlock and the administration readied plans to put the cuts into effect.

So entrenched were the two parties that the Senate chaplain, Barry Black, opened the day’s session with a prayer that beseeched a higher power to intervene.

“Rise up, O God, and save us from ourselves,” he said of cuts due to take effect sometime on Friday.

The immediate impact of the reductions on the public was uncertain, and the administration pulled back on its earlier warnings of long lines developing quickly at airports and teacher layoffs affecting classrooms.

On the Senate floor, a Republican proposal requiring Obama to propose alternative cuts that would cause less disruption in essential government services fell to overwhelming Democratic opposition, 62-38.

Moments later, a Democratic alternative to spread the cuts over a decade and replace half with higher taxes on millionaires and corporations won a bare majority, 51-49, but that was well shy of the 60 needed to advance. Republicans opposed it without exception.

In a written statement after the votes, Obama lambasted Republicans. “They voted to let the entire burden of deficit reduction fall squarely on the middle

class,” he said.

He noted that he would meet with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Friday, but no one is expecting action before the cuts begin taking effect. Obama said, `We can build on the over $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction we’ve already achieved, but doing so will require Republicans to compromise. That’s how our democracy works, and that’s what the American people deserve.”

They voted to let the entire burden of deficit reduction fall squarely on the middle class.

BARACK OBAMA President, United States Said House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress: “Obama and Senate Democrats are demanding more tax hikes to fuel more `stimulus’ spending.”

Though furloughs are a fear for some, especially certain federal workers, there is little sign of business worry, let alone panic in the nation. Stocks declined slightly for the day after trading near record highs. And unlike the “fiscal cliff” showdown of two months ago, there are no deadlines for action to prevent tax increases from hitting nearly every American.

Still, there was talk of crisis.

“We have the opportunity to avoid the kind of calamity and disaster that is being threatened and is completely unneces-

sary,” said Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who co-authored the Republican proposal.

“The question is, are we going to achieve these savings through badly designed spending cuts that make no attempt whatever to distinguish between more sensible government spending and less sensible spending?”

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said that was precisely what Democrats had tried to do by proposing the deferral of Pentagon cuts until U.S. combat troops have come home from Afghanistan in two years’ time.

At the same time, she said the Democrats had reasonably proposed replacing half of the pending cuts with higher taxes on “the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations.”

In fact, the Democratic measure also included small increases for a variety of small programs such as biodiesel education, assistance for biomass crops and certification of organic foods.

Boehner and House Republicans show no hurry to alter the cuts, contending they provide leverage with Obama in their demand for savings from government benefit programs. Yet they are expected to launch legislation next week to replenish government coffers after current funding expires on March 27, and that measure could become a magnet for new attempts to change Friday’s “sequester.”

Already, some Republicans held out hope the current struggle might lead to talks on completing work on the final piece of a deficit reduction package that has been more than two agonizing years in the making.

GI pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case

BY BEN NUCKOLS ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military prosecutors said they plan to move forward with a court-martial on 12 remaining charges against him, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.

“I began to become depressed at the situation we found ourselves mired in year after year. In attempting counterinsurgency operations, we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists,” the 25-year-old former intelligence analyst in Baghdad told a military judge.

He added: “I wanted the public to know that not everyone living in Iraq were targets to be neutralized.”

It was the first time Manning directly admitted leaking the material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and detailed the frustrations that led him to do it.

The slightly built soldier from Crescent, Okla., read from a 35-page statement through his wire-rimmed glasses for more than an hour. He spoke quickly and evenly, showing little emotion even when he described how troubled he was by what he had seen.

The judge, Col. Denise Lind, accepted his plea to 10 charges involving illegal possession or distribution of classified

material. Manning was allowed to plead guilty under military regulations instead of federal espionage law, which knocked the potential sentence down from 92 years.

He will not be sentenced until his court-martial on the other charges is over.

Manning admitted sending hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department diplomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010. WikiLeaks posted some of the material, embarrassing the U.S. and its allies.

He said he was disturbed by the con-

duct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the way American troops treated the populace. He said he did not believe the release of the information he downloaded onto a thumb drive would harm the U.S. “I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information ... this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general,” Manning said.

Manning said he was appalled by 2007 combat video of an assault by a U.S. helicopter that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer. The Pentagon concluded the troops mistook the camera equipment for weapons.

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning says he sent classified material to WikiLeaks to enlighten the public about American foreign and military policy.

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“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.” POPE JOHN PAUL II HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FROM 1978 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 2005

Benedict steps down

Strikes inspire Egypt opposition

BY NICOLE WINFIELD AND FRANCES D’EMILIO ASSOCIATED PRESS CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Benedict XVI left the Catholic Church in unprecedented limbo Thursday as he became the first pope in 600 years to resign, capping a tearful day of farewells that included an extraordinary pledge of obedience to his successor.

As bells tolled, two Swiss Guards standing at attention at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo shut the thick wooden doors shortly after 8 p.m., symbolically closing out a papacy whose legacy will be most marked by the way it ended - a resignation instead of a death.

Benedict, who will spend his first two months of retirement inside the palace walls, leaves behind an eightyear term shaped by struggles to move the church beyond clerical sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world - efforts his successor will now have to take up.

For the time being, the governance of the Catholic Church shifts to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the camerlengo, or chamberlain, who along with the College of Cardinals will guide the church and make plans for the conclave to elect the 266th leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.

One of Bertone’s first acts was to lock the papal apartment inside the Vatican. In another task steeped in symbolism, he will ensure that Benedict’s fisherman’s ring and seal are destroyed.

On Benedict’s last day, the mood was vastly different inside the Vatican than at Castel Gandolfo. At the seat of the popes, Benedict’s staff tearfully bade the pontiff good-bye in scenes of dignified solemnity. A more lively atmosphere reigned in the countryside, with well-wishers jamming the hilltop town’s main square shouting “Viva il Papa!” (Long live the pope!) and wildly waving the yellow and white flags of the Holy See. “I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on

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Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful from a balcony window in Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he made his last public blessing as pope. this Earth,” Benedict told the cheering crowd in his final public words as pope.

It was a remarkable bookend to a papacy that began on April 19, 2005 with a similarly meek speech delivered from the loggia overlooking St. Peter’s Square, where the newly elected Benedict said he was but a “simple humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.”

Over eight years, Benedict tried to set the church on a more traditional

course, convinced that all the ills afflicting it - sexual abuse, dwindling numbers of priests and empty pews - were a result of a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

His successor is likely to follow in his footsteps given that the vast majority of the 115 cardinals who will elect the next pope were appointed by Benedict himself and share his conservative bent.

PORT SAID, Egypt — For nearly two weeks, protesters and strikers have shut down much of Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Port Said, filling up the streets with one angry rally after another. At the unrest’s height, they succeeded in closing off a multimillion-dollar port for days, forcing some ships to reroute, and in sealing off a major factory complex.

The strikes in this city of 750,000 at the tip of the strategic Suez Canal rattled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and his government in a way that previous protests haven’t, because they directly hit the economy. Opponents of Morsi, some of whom now openly call for his ouster, are looking to Port Said as a model for stepping up their campaign against him with a possible wave of civil disobedience in other parts of the country.

The plans for wider strikes are being pushed mainly by younger revolutionary groups. But in the process they appear to be pulling in opposition politicians, who had previously been reluctant — and at times unable — to step up street action against Morsi and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. The opposition is searching for a way to organize public anger against Morsi at a time when it has called for a boycott of parliamentary elections due to begin in April.

The main opposition political coalition, the National Salvation Front, is considering some forms of civil disobedience, along with street campaigns, to back up its election boycott call.

Ziad el-Oleimi, a former lawmaker and prominent revolutionary since the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, said Port Said’s strikes — triggered a discussion among Morsi opponents on how to develop mechanisms of revolt. One idea is to encourage the public to stop paying electricity and other bills to the government as a sign of protest.

“We are facing a regime that is now

immune to popular rallies. The revolution must develop its tactics. Strike and civil disobedience are among the measures that can harm the abilities of authority to rule,” he said. “What is happening in Port Said moves us to a new area, and gives people an example of something they have not tried before.”

We are facing a regime that is now immune to popular rallies.

The revolution must develop its tactics.

ZIAD EL-OLEIMI Egyptian revolutionary Already, calls for strikes in several cities in the Nile Delta have led to clashes. In the Nile Delta city of Mansoura this week, protesters convinced staff at the main government office to go on strike, but pro-Brotherhood residents assaulted their sit-in, beating some protesters. Police then moved in, and clashes have continued between protesters and security forces for the past four days.

A civil disobedience campaign also has its limitations, illustrated by Port Said itself.

Morsi has portrayed those who forced the factory and port closures as “thugs” and “outlaws,” seeking to discredit the protests. Shutting down factories also risks alienating workers reliant on their salaries. In some cases, protesters pressured workers into joining work stoppages.

And though Port Said strikes have been effective, they may be hard to reproduce elsewhere.

Most notably, Port Said is pervaded by an exceptional anger galvanizing the populace in a way not seen in other parts of the country.

Rodman befriends Kim Jong Un

BY JEAN H. LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — ExNBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace.

“You have a friend for life,” Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press.

Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the professional Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy and a production crew to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.

The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile

American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a “hostile” policy toward the North.

Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told the former Chicago Bulls star he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, VICE founder Shane Smith said.

Dressed in a blue Mao suit, Kim laughed and slapped his hands on the table before him during the game as he sat nearly knee to knee with Rodman. Rodman, the man who once turned up in a wedding dress to promote his autobiography, wore a dark suit and dark sunglasses, but still had on his nose rings and other piercings. A can of Coca-Cola sat on the table before him in photos shared with AP by VICE. “The crowd was really engaged, laughed at all of the

Globetrotters antics, and actually got super loud towards the end as the score got close,” said Duffy, who suited up for the game in a blue uniform emblazoned with “United States of America. “Most fun I’ve had in a while.”

Kim and Rodman chatted in English, but Kim primarily spoke in Korean through a translator, Smith said after speaking to the VICE crew in Pyongyang.

“They bonded during the game,” Smith said by telephone from New York after speaking to the crew. “They were both enjoying the crazy shots, and the Harlem Globetrotters were putting on quite a show.”

The surprise visit by the flamboyant Hall of Famer known as “The Worm” makes him an unlikely ambassador at a time when North Koreans are girding for battle with the U.S. Just last week, Kim guided front line troops in military exercises.

North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The foes never signed a peace treaty, and do not have diplomatic relations.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Hillel posters defaced

Admissions seeks to boost yield

BY AKANE OTANI STAFF WRITER Jewish students are decrying the anonymous distribution of anti-Israel posters in the Noyes Community Recreational Center last week. The pro-Palestine group that later took credit for the posters has defended its actions, calling them an act of necessity as tensions in Gaza continue to boil over.

More than 20 posters that were left in a newspaper bin in Noyes last week showed a defaced promotion for a Cornell Hillel event that brought Israeli soldiers to speak on campus. The posters, which were marked up with red scrawlings, denounced the “exclusively Jewish” soldiers — asserting that they engaged in “war crime[s],” not “combat,” and served in “massacres,” not “missions.”

On Sunday, Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization that describes itself as being dedicated to “raising awareness of the Palestinian experience,” took credit for making the posters. SJP claimed it produced the posters to “condemn the nature of Hillel’s event.”

The event “normalize[d] an illegal military occupation and illegal wars of aggression that have cause[d]

immense suffering and death in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon,” the organization wrote in a statement to The CORNELL Sun. “ We wo n der why a putatively religious organization such as Hillel would choose to step into this issue,” the statement said. “Did they consider how their glorification of military occupation and apartheid might affect Palestinian, Arab or any other students who identify with the populations living under attack and occupation?”

Although SJP said that it deliberately decided to produce posters rather than picket or interrupt Hillel’s event, some Jewish community members reacted to the posters with feelings of fear, disappointment and frustration.

When a friend told her that she had found “anti-Semitic posters” in Noyes, Jordana Gilman, president of Cornell Hillel, said she felt like she had been “attacked.”

“This felt scary. There is someone on this campus who is threatening to me,” Gilman said.

BY JESSICA AVITABILE STAFF WRITER Following a 3 percent decrease in applications from last year for the class of 2017, the Admissions Office is in the process of changing the Dimensions of Dartmouth show, the tour guide program and the financial aid website to attract more applicants and increase accepted student yield rates.

The yield for students who attend Dimensions has been steadily declining over the past seven years, said Maria Laskaris, dean of admissions and financial aid. She did not attribute the decrease specifically to the Dimensions show, but said that the Admissions Office needs to consider a multitude of possible contributing factors.

“I do look at our Dimensions program and think we’re not giving the academics portion enough emphasis,” she said. “The program is not as in balance as it should be.”

Problems with the Dimensions show include acoustics, sound amplification, crowd control and other logistical issues in Leede Arena, Laskaris said. She emphasized that the show is not canceled, but will likely be a series of smaller performances in the five freshman residential clusters as part of the welcome events.

Hopkins Center Publicity Coordinator Rebecca Bailey confirmed that admissions was in contact to reserve

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year’s Dimensions show, said he was frustrated by what he felt was a lack of student input in the decision. Students involved with the show were initially encouraged to brainstorm ideas but were later unable to share their opinions.

“I walked into the second meeting ready with ideas that I was proud of and ready to share, but when I got there I was told that they had already made the decision to completely change the show,” Slatev said.

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‘Catholic 7’ to keep ‘Big East’ name The neverending conference realignment saga took another turn Thursday, when the “Catholic 7” — the seven Catholic schools without a football program that have chosen to depart from the current Big East — annnounced that the new conference will still use the “Big East” moniker. The league will have to pay an unreported fee to retain the name when it begins play in fall 2013.

Elis on the road

Seeking a playoff bye

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 pressure from Drexel and gave up 15 goals in the second half.

One advantage Albany will have is momentum. In its first game of the season, the Great Danes won what some have dubbed one of the greatest wins in University of Albany history with a 16–15 upset over No. 18 Syracuse in double overtime.

To shut down that momentum, the Bulldogs will have to work well as a team and communicate.

“I think we have all the pieces, so we just need to put it all together and we’ll be powerful,” Zdrill said “We have good goalies, a strong defensive core, fast middies, Dylan Levings ’14 is a stud at the faceoff X and our offense can put the ball in the net.”

To help put the pieces of the puzzle together, Shay has had the team working hard on addressing the flaws that gave the Elis trouble against St. John’s last weekend, one of which was communication.

“We’ve been working out the kinks from our first game and really focusing on communication,” Zdrill said.

The Bulldogs and Great Danes will face off at 12 p.m. in Albany tomorrow for the Elis’ second game of the season.

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The Yale men’s lacrosse team will head to Albany, N.Y., on Saturday to go head-to-head with the No. 20 Albany Great Danes.

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is a possibility.”

Malcolm Friday, 7 p.m. said he has had vs. a full week of practice and feels well prepared for the upcoming Colgate games.

Saturday, 7 p.m.

“We want vs. to sweep this weekend,” he said. “That’s obviously a goal going into Cornell every weekend. Our fate is in our own hands, so we’re just going to look at this weekend starting with Colgate.”

Puck-drop will happen at 7 p.m. on both nights at Ingalls Rink.

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will have to be at our best in all facets of the game.”

While the Bulldogs lost their starting goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 to a game injury on Feb. 1 and suffered a five-game losing streak, their February rut seems to have come to an end. Last Saturday, Malcolm returned to the crease, and the Bulldogs beat Princeton 4–3, marking their first win since Feb. 1. Yale won the 2012-’13 Ivy League Championship for the third time in the past four years with their victory over the Tigers.

Allain said the team was happy to have the senior goalie back and added that Malcolm will likely play this weekend.

“He was rusty early [last Saturday], and kind of grew into the game, and for the last 40 minutes he was rock solid,” Allain said. “It’s been a month since he played, so injury or not, that rust

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Bulldogs celebrate seniors at last home games WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 rebounds. DiMagno is the Ivy League’s top rebounder, averaging 11.3 boards per game.

“Beating Columbia and Cornell just comes down to playing our game and playing to our strengths,” captain Allie Messimer ’13 said. “We can beat both of these teams, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t be work.”

The Elis will be heavily reliant on their outside shooting with guards Messimer and Sarah Halejian ’15 averaging over 39 percent from beyond the arc this season. Both rank in the top five amongst Ivy League 3-point shooters.

Like Cornell, Columbia suffered a loss against the Bulldogs earlier in conference play, the first in a string of three straight losses amidst a disappointing season. The Lions have only won one of

their past 13 games and sit in last place in the Ivy League. In the last matchup between the teams, the Bulldogs held Columbia to 29 percent from the field and only 14 percent from the 3-point line.

The Bulldogs have the upper hand going into both games this weekend, boasting a 37.2 percent field-goal average and a 73.2 percent free-throw average. According to Megan Vasquez ’13, the team plans to come out of this weekend with two wins.

“I think it’s important that we finish the season off strong,” Vasquez said. “I am looking forward to feeling the love, support and excitement from the Yale fans on Senior Night.”

The fourth-place Elis are currently two-and-a-half games behind second-place Penn and four-and-a-half games behind first-place Princeton in

the conference. The Tigers are expected to take their third straight conference title, while the Quakers will battle with third-place Harvard for second place and an automatic Women’s National Invitational Tournament bid. The Elis still have a mathematical chance to finish in second place in the league, but they will likely need to defeat both Princeton and Penn on the road in the final week of the season to have any hope of playing in the postseason.

“It is never too late to improve,” Messimer said. “I want this team to remember this season by our last few games.”

The Bulldogs will host Columbia tonight at 7 p.m., followed by a matchup with Cornell on Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Yale seeks revenge against Cornell

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The women’s basketball team currently sits in fourth place in the Ivy League, four-and-a-half games behind the leading Princeton Tigers.

M. Lax: Keys to the game

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CAPITALIZE ON CHANCES

While it sounds cliché, lacrosse is all about scoring goals. An offense must be effective and clicking for a team to win. In Yale’s last game, the Elis simply could not put the ball in the back of the net.

There is no doubt St. John’s goalkeeper Jeff Lowman played a great game in net with 17 saves on the day. However, the Bulldogs managed 48 shots in the game — including a 20-shot barrage in the fourth quarter — but registered only 26 shots on goal. If the Elis hope to bounce back with a win against another highpowered offense this weekend, they need to be more clinical with their chances. Yale’s next opponent Albany (1-1, 0-0 American East) also has a capable goalie, Blaze Riorden, who has registered doubledigit saves in both games this

MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 either team to lock up third place. Martin noted that the trip to Ithaca is always a long drive and that the Elis will need to bring enough energy to face a Big Red team hungry to capture third.

The Bulldogs’ prior game against Cornell on Feb. 15 was one of their most heartbreaking losses of the season. The team fell 68–61, shooting 12–26 from the free throw line — including 5–15 in the second half. Guard Johnathan Gray and forward Shonn Miller led the Big Red in scoring that game with 18 apiece. Combined, the two accounted for more than half of Cornell’s points.

“I think we’re going to come out with a little bit more fire [on Saturday],” guard Javier Duren ’15 said. “I think that was our biggest downfall against Cornell the last time.”

Before facing the Big Red in a battle for third place, the Bulldogs will have to take care of business against a team out for revenge. The Elis faced Columbia at home two weekends ago and embarrassed the Lions, dealing Columbia the biggest defeat of its Ivy League slate, 75–56.

In order to have similar success, the Elis will again have to shut down, or at least limit, Columbia guard Brian Barbour. Despite leading the Lions in scoring this year at 11.9 points per game, Barbour managed only one point last time against Yale.

The Elis will also look to replicate its shooting performance from its last game against Columbia. Not only did the team hold its opponent to 40.9 percent shooting, but it also lit up the Lions, shooting 62.0 percent from the field.

While no Eli tallied more than 10 points in the contest, all but two of the members of Yale’s roster scored.

“It’s a team effort,” Duren said. “We know what Barbour’s capable of. He’s a great player so I think it’s going to take a lot of team effort.”

As the season comes to a close, Eli seniors have begun to realize that only four games remain in their college careers. Martin said that this gives the seniors even more motivation to give it their all.

The Bulldogs will tip-off against the Lions at 7 p.m. at Levien Gym on Friday before facing the Big Red at the same time on Saturday at Newman Arena.

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

year and has 24 on the season.

Yale needs to score early and often to avoid another lastminute goal condemning the team to defeat.

17. Yale holds a 5-3 lead in the series but beat the Great Danes for the first time in four tries last season.

RESPECT THE OPPONENT

A good take away from the St. John’s game may have been Yale’s play on the defensive end. Yale dominated almost every facet on the defensive end including groundballs (3218), face-offs (13, 9), clears (86 percent, 77 percent), turnovers (13,14), penalties (2-6) and man-down defense (0 GA, 3 GA). Considering Yale returns almost all of its defensive core, including Michael McCormack ’13 and Peter Johnson ’13, as well as many talented backup players and freshmen, look for Yale’s defense to continue to be the cornerstone of this year’s team. The defense needs to remain stout against Albany on Saturday.

St. John’s certainly is not a lacrosse powerhouse, yet lacrosse has shown time and time again that any team is capable of winning on any day.

Loyola, a relatively unknown lacrosse program when compared to the ACC powerhouses Duke, UNC, Maryland and Virginia, won the 2012 Division 1 championship last year, surprising many traditionally good teams who might not have respected them.

With St. John’s surprising the defending Ivy League Tournament Champions, Yale cannot afford to underestimate the relatively unknown No. 19/20 Great Danes on Saturday — a team that already upset 2012 Big East Tournament Champions No. 18 Syracuse on Feb.

KEEP UP THE DEFENSE

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BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER After two successful scrimmages and a last-minute road loss to St. John’s last week, the Yale men’s lacrosse team is looking for its first nonexhibition win on the road this weekend.

MEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) will head to Albany, N.Y., on Saturday to go head-to-head with the No. 20 University of Albany Great Danes.

The Great Danes (1–1, 0–0 American East) are coming off a 19–20 loss in which they jumped out to a quick lead over Drexel but were outscored in the second half.

The Albany Men’s Lacrosse attack looks to be the bigSaturday, 12 p.m. gest challenge at for the Elis, as demonstrated by the impressive 19 goals the Albany team put up last game against Drexel. Albany midfielder Lyle Thompson contributed a team leading nine points.

“They are the most explosive offense in the country,” head coach Andy Shay said. “Their attack is putting up monster numbers, and we have to be able to contain them.”

In order to prepare for the high-powered and unconventional Albany offense, the Bulldogs have been trying to build up their defense by imitation.

“We’ve also been imitating Albany’s offense for our defense so that they can get used to seeing it and are ready for it come Saturday,” top-scoring attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 said.

While an explosive offense is an advantage to the Great Danes, a steady attack is the Elis’ best bet for topping Albany. Though the Danes jumped out to a 10–5 lead at the half over Drexel, Albany was unable to contain the sustained SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 11

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No. 15 Yale will face off at home against Colgate and Cornell on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively.

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER This weekend, the men’s hockey team returns to Ingalls Rink after a series of away games, hoping to finish season play with a few wins and a firstround bye in the upcoming ECAC playoffs.

No. 15 Yale (14–10–3, 10–9–1 ECAC) will face off against Colgate (14–14–4,

6–11–3 ECAC) and Cornell (11–13–3, 7–10–3 ECAC) on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively. In January, the Bulldogs bested the Big Red 3–2 in overtime but fell to Colgate 4–1.

MEN’S HOCKEY With the close ECAC standings this season and one of four byes already secured by No. 1 Quinnipiac (23–4–

Cornell visits for Elis’ Senior Night

BY DINÉE DORAME CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s basketball team will bid farewell to its seniors this weekend, as the Bulldogs face Columbia and Cornell in their final home games of the season at John J. Lee Amphitheater.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (10–14, 5–5 Ivy) is currently fourth in the Ivy League standings and is looking to repeat its Feb. 15 and 16 victories over Cornell (11–12, 3–6 Ivy) and Columbia (3–20, 1–8 Ivy), respectively. The Elis will also celebrate Senior Night as they take on the Big Red on Saturday.

“Our seniors have given a lot to this team, and we need to make sure we play the best we possibly can for each other and

for them,” guard Nyasha Sarju Friday, 7 p.m. ’16 said. vs.

“We have to focus on the things we h ave been workColumbia ing on, such Saturday, 6 p.m. as reboundvs. ing, communicating and playing together.”

Although Cornell the Bulldogs emerged victorious in a 67–58 matchup over Cornell in the teams’ last meeting two weeks ago, Big Red guard Allyson DiMagno tested Yale’s interior defense and finished with 23 points and 10

Women’s Basketball

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5, 16–1–3 ECAC), eight teams will be competing for three remaining firstround byes this weekend. Yale, which is currently tied in fourth place with Dartmouth, needs two wins this weekend to pass through the first round of playoffs.

“I think a bye would be helpful,” head coach Keith Allain said. “We’ve got some guys who are banged up and who are in the middle of exams. But we’ll deal with whatever comes our way.

Winning is always better than losing.”

Team captain Andrew Miller ’13 and forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 added that the first-round bye would help the team rest and prepare for the upcoming championships.

“Everybody at this point has something to play for, given that the ECAC is so tight this year,” Laganiere said. “We

Yale hopes to finish strong

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER With four games remaining in its season, the men’s basketball team has been all but eliminated from contention for the Ivy League title. The Elis would need not only to win the rest of their contests, but hope that Harvard drops its last four and Princeton goes 2–3 in its last five.

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The Elis currently sit in fourth place in the Ivy League, one-anda-half games behind third-place Harvard.

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Yet as the team travels to New York for its last road trip of the season, Yale (11–16, 5–5 Ivy) still has plenty of motivation left in the tank. The Bulldogs will travel to Columbia to face the Lions (11– 13, 3–7 Ivy) tonight and will head north to Ithaca to take on Cornell

Men’s Basketball (13–14,

5–5 Ivy) on SaturFriday, 7 p.m. day. at “We all love the game, and I think that’s the most importa n t pa r t ,” Columbia team captain Saturday, 7 p.m.

Sam Martin ’13 at said.

The most important game of the weekend for Cornell the Elis will be their contest against the Big Red. The two squads are currently tied for third in the Ivy League, and a win would go a long way for SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 11

PERCENTAGE OF 3-POINT ATTEMPTS MADE BY MEN’S BASKETBALL GUARD SAM MARTIN ’13 OVER THE LAST SIX GAMES. The senior captain has made 13 of his last 18 tries behind-the-arc.

Overall, Martin has shot 59.3 percent from long-range during Ivy League play.