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conflicting accounts over a proposed Department of Defense training center at the School of Medicine, Yale psychiatry professor Charles Morgan told The New Haven Independent that he thinks he has a “good defamation suit” against The Yale Herald for its Jan. 25 story about the center.

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER

And they canceled.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, this year’s Spring Fling headliners who are scheduled to perform on Apr. 29, have canceled their upcoming concerts at Williams College and Columbia University — scheduled for Apr. 13 and 14 — to perform on MTV, according to the Williams Record.

Zombie apocalypse. Amid the University’s push for an increased social media presence, Yale’s popularity among an online Chinese audience on micro-blogging website Sina Weibo has attracted lively attention for its curiously large number of “zombie” followers — that is, dummy online accounts made to inflate an account’s follower numbers. After debuting in December 2012, Yale’s Sina Weibo account has attracted more than 140,000 followers, far surpassing other institutions which attracted only several thousand followers after being on the website for over a year.

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University of Pennsylvania admissions officer has been fired after mocking applicants on her Facebook page, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Nadirah Farah Foley, a Princeton graduate, allegedly posted excerpts of applicants’ essays on her page adding inappropriate remarks to certain passages. In one Facebook post, Foley made fun of an applicant who wrote about his “long and deep” connection to Penn, where he had been circumcised at Penn Hillel years ago.

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Brawl erupts outside Toad’s Place

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER As a skirmish outside of Toad’s Place escalated early Sunday morning, a man identified by witnesses as a student at Quinnipiac University punched in the window of Yorkside Pizza before he was apprehended by police at the scene.

The fight originated in a disagreement between a man and a woman on the sidewalk in between Toad’s and Yorkside, according to a group of Quinnipiac students present. When the woman involved slapped the man and pushed him backwards, he stumbled into a group of men

who considered his movements provocative and began battering him. As the men exchanged blows, one was shoved toward Yorkside, which is when students and Yorkside employees interviewed said a shirtless man punched in the front window of the restaurant. Four Quinnipiac students on the scene identified the man who shattered the window as their friend and a fellow student at Quinnipiac.

When those involved in the fight that led to the shattering of the window were pursued by policemen present, an unidentified man punched one of the cops in the face, which prompted escalating violence

that eyewitnesses called a “brawl.”

As policemen flooded the scene, the fire marshal at Toad’s shut the dance club down, causing students to stampede out of the establishment and out onto the street. Those attempting to enter Toad’s after 12:40 a.m. were told by bouncers at the door that the club was “shutting down early.”

New Haven Police Department Assistant Chief Denise Blanchard confirmed Sunday evening that the Yorkside window was broken at approximately 12:35 am. She added that SEE TOAD’S PAGE 6

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BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND AMY WANG STAFF REPORTERS The Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions earned a record-high number of applications this year, reflecting the

phenomenon of rising application numbers at colleges nationwide. But across campus at the Yale Law School, admissions officers are witnessing the exact opposite trend.

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Connecticut State Senator Ernest Hewett has been stripped of his leadership position after turning a 17-year-old girl’s testimony about overcoming her fear of snakes into a sexual innuendo.

“If you’re bashful, I’ve got a snake sitting under my desk here,” he said to her, according to an audio recording posted on CT News Junkie. Hewett has since apologized, claiming he only meant to point out that the girl had overcome her fears.

School of Medicine Psychiatry Professor Charles Morgan has allegedly been conducting private research involving interview techniques with local immigrants using funding from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a Friday article in the New Haven Independent.

In a Friday statement, the University said Yale was unaware of Morgan’s private work until the Independent published the findings.

Recently, Morgan has been at the center of a controversy involving a military training center he had planned to propose to the School of Medicine using a $1.8 million grant from the United States Special Operations Command, but both the Department of Defense and Yale

legal jobs across the nation. In 2012, the American Bar Association published a study showing that only 55 percent of law students found full-time jobs that required passage of SEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 8

This past weekend, one of Yale’s longest-standing musical traditions was challenged when two women auditioned for the all-senior, male Whiffenpoofs a capella group for the first time since 1987, though neither was ultimately admitted.

Sara Hendel ’14 said she and Mary Bolt ’14, both of Mixed Company, took the audition process seriously and asked to be given equal consideration with their male counterparts, both auditioning for tenor voice parts to discredit the argument that admitting women would force the group to modify their repertoire drastically in the short term. Both Bolt and Hendel said they feel women should have a fair chance of auditioning for the Whiffenpoofs, because the prestige and opportunities afforded by the group exceed those offered

by Whim ‘n Rhythm, the allsenior female a capella group founded in 1981 as a counterpart to the Whiffenpoofs. While several current and former members of the all-male group said

they recognize the differences between the two groups, they argue admitting women would alter the Whiffenpoof’s traditional sound and image.

Bolt and Hendel sent an email to the male juniors auditioning for the Whiffenpoofs asking them to urge current members of the group to give them equal consideration based on talent.

Bolt said she encourages women to audition next year, citing the support she received from the upcoming class of Whiffenpoofs, who were selected Saturday night. Bolt and Hendel both said they do not know what ultimately happened during deliberations, and hope they were considered fairly along with everybody else.

“Everyone who auditioned was seriously considered, and the Whiffenpoofs of 2014 were unanimously selected,” current Whiffenpoofs Business Manager Max Henke ’14 said in an email to the News on behalf of the singing group.

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A stadium divided During his tenure, University President Richard Levin has had many priorities for our University.

Athletics have not been one of them. Levin capped the number of spots for recruited athletes at roughly 180 students per incoming class, down from the 230 the Ivy League allows.

Our board, like Yale’s campus, is divided on this issue. But President-elect Peter Salovey must speak now. With the athletic recruitment process winding down and the regular decision Class of 2017 set to be announced this month, prospective Yalies deserve to hear where his administration will stand on athletics before they decide where to matriculate.

Some of us believe the recruiting cap must remain in place.

Each student admitted to Yale comes with an opportunity cost. Roughly 50 more athletes in each Yale class means 50 fewer students who add to this campus in innumerable ways beyond athletics. It is unclear why athletes should receive an official advantage in an admissions process that should evaluate the whole applicant, not just a part of their resume.

Though our athletic admissions standards are particularly high compared to those at other schools, they are not at the level of regular admission, otherwise institutional athletic preference would be unnecessary. And this preference only takes away from the Admissions Office’s concerted efforts to recruit STEM majors and underrepresented minorities.

Moreover, many Yalies remain unaffected by the state of campus athletics; they did not choose to attend Yale for its sports.

Admitting one more talented musician or writer adds more value to the lives of many Yalies than an ad-

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ditional athletic recruit.

Some of us, however, believe the cap must be lifted.

It is unfair for Yale to ask the athletes it recruits to join teams with shorthanded rosters. Too many teams at Yale — especially those with less campus presence than football or hockey — are unable to compete with clear opportunities for victory because they have been handicapped by recruitment caps. At a University that purports to strive for excellence, asking our athletes to compete on half-filled teams is a hollow and unfair charge.

By disadvantaging teams via arbitrary caps, Yale creates an anti-athlete culture that devalues these contributions relative to other pursuits. At a University that supposedly prides itself on inclusivity, this policy seems hypocritical.

Returning to the Ivy standard would not risk compromising academic excellence. Yale must maintain the strict academic standards that the University already employs. Yale already holds its recruited athletes to the most rigorous standards in the Ivy League, and ensures that athletic admissions are a part of the broader processes of the Admissions Office. And even with 50 more recruits per class, Yale will have roughly 1,100 spaces in each class to find scientists and performers.

But regardless, we all recognize that athletics have tremendous power to bring people together.

On a campus often divided into small groups, we need moments like The Game to bring Yalies together with one mindset.

On a campus divided, now is the time for Salovey’s silence to end. Only he can determine how these games, ones with immense legacy and tradition for Yale, will be played in years to come.

or all of three days, Professor Ray Fair’s report on grade inflation was hot news worthy of dining hall conversations. Now, close to two weeks after its release, the report has receded from public view. In March, the Yale College Council will host a town hall with Professor Fair. In all likelihood, few students will attend.

Our community is ignoring an important opportunity — an opportunity that is more than simply a chance to discuss the serious concerns raised by the Fair Committee. Now is a rare moment in which we can — and should — rearticulate the purpose of Yale College.

Professor Fair’s report asks us to consider why universities grade: Why measure how much knowledge a student acquires in a class? To answer that question though, we inevitably find ourselves asking another: Why do we teach at all? It’s not cheap to teach Yalies. In fact by the time you factor in tuition and revenue from the endowment, it costs almost a half a million dollars to educate each of us over four years. Society invests a shock-

ing amount in every student who comes t h r o u g h Phelps Gate.

But why?

Why devote inordinate to NATHANIEL resources our higher ZELINSKY e d u c a t i o n ?

We don’t norOn Point mally hear anyone — students, faculty or administrators — ask these questions, which all boil down to: “Why does Yale and all its academic splendor exist?” And not only do we not ask these questions — we can’t answer them.

To his credit, President Richard Levin, our most public figure, has tried to address these questions before — at Yale graduations and convocations mostly.

In his 2012 baccalaureate, he argued that a Yale degree comes with a “responsibility” for public service. And in 2011, he told incoming freshman that their education was intended to prepare them to raise the tenor of public debate at a time of grow-

ing partisanship — to create freethinking citizens who are the sinews of a democratic nation.

But these two institutionalized occasions for self-reflection, once when we enter and once when we leave Yale, are few are far between. They bookend our college experience, but do not permeate our mindset.

And for the record, Mr. Levin does not always offer a consistent conception of Yale College. At the most recent freshman assembly, he simply listed a long litany of available resources, from museums to PulitzerPrize-winning professors. The takeaway: Make the most of Yale’s many opportunities.

This message comports with much of what Yalies hear when they initially set foot on campus.

They are told that they were successful to have made it to Yale; theirs peers also succeeded in high school; now, go forth and succeed again — in a myriad of fields, all equally valid.

Yet we are rarely told to find a higher purpose — beyond our own success — for which we should strive.

For all that I disliked their tone

and their tactics and their allies, last year’s Occupy Morgan Stanley protestors brought these fundamental questions into the limelight. They forced Yalies to confront the purpose of our educations and our roles in society. But muddled in the shrouds of class warfare, Occupy’s cause died quickly, and with it went the collective moment of existential introspection.

A century ago, Owen Johnson offered a vision for our community at the end of Stover at Yale: At our ideal, the College should train “men of brains, of courage, of leadership, a great center of thought to stir the country and bring it back to the understanding of what man creates with his imagination, and dares with his will.” To me, that’s almost the answer — if a little wordy and pompous. It also doesn’t tell us how to live our day-to-day lives.

Professor Fair has happily given us another chance to ask: What is Yale College for? Let’s take advantage of it.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SARA HENDEL

Let’s hear it for the girls O

ver one hundred years ago, a group of five Yalies decided to sing together, creating what is known as “the first collegiate a cappella group.”

And the Whiff name has gone far.

The Whiffenpoofs, now expanded to fourteen senior males, have travelled to all seven continents, sung at the White House and competed on the cult-hit television show, “The Sing-Off.” So, I auditioned for the Whiffs.

But I’m a woman, and therein lies the problem.

The big question is obvious: why did I audition for the Whiffenpoofs? There is, after all, an all-senior female group, cleverly named Whim ‘n Rhythm, with excellent singers each and every one. Unfortunately, Whim ‘n Rhythm does not get the great press, the good bookings or have the same exciting tours.

For over 70 years, the Whiffenpoofs enjoyed a monopolistic edge. They benefitted greatly from the support and reputation of Yale University, and now they are unwilling to share the bonanza with later generations of female undergrads.

Accordingly for me, there is no choice. My audition went very well. I vocalized in the tenor range, I nailed my musicality tests and I killed my solo of choice. I was

proud of what I did in that audition room. But I did not get into the Whiffs because of “tradition.”

Like me, any woman who wants to sing in a senior group is immediately relegated to one that simply does not have the same connections, pull or prestige — regardless of the strength of her audition — because she doesn’t have the correct plumbing.

When Whim ‘n Rhythm was founded over 30 years ago, women were not allowed into the Whiffenpoofs. But women wanted their own senior a cappella group and consequently created the all-female Whim ‘n Rhythm. However, as we all know from our middle school history classes, separate is not equal.

These women, regardless of how good of an a cappella group they form, constantly encounter discrimination and inequality in the real world, which restricts them from securing the same amount of gigs that the Whiffs inherit.

The Whiffs have history on their side. Even on-campus spots like Mory’s and Union League hire the Whiffenpoofs much more frequently than they hire Whim — because the Whiffenpoof name is seen as something “traditional,” something indefinably “Yale.”

There’s plenty of irony in those two descriptors. First, there is

nothing traditional about the group of men in the Whiffenpoofs. In fact, very few to none of the current members of the group would have even been accepted to Yale when the Whiffs were originally founded. At the time, wealthy, East Coast, hetero WASPs attended Yale. The current Whiffs represent a lot of groups, but not this particular “traditional” one.

Secondly, they do not represent Yale. Sadly for the hundreds of men that run the Whiffenpoof Alumni Association, Yale accepted women starting in 1969.

And unfortunately for me, whenever I say I’m in a cappella at Yale, I’m immediately asked if I’m in the Whiffenpoofs. The Whiffs are the way the world views Yale, especially now that a cappella is all over TV and film. This group, however, does not represent half of Yale’s student body. A group that is so visible to the world continues to portray Yale as a dated, old boy’s club. But the University has changed, and this portrayal is a disservice to the women on campus and to Yale itself.

Yale is still suffering the consequences from the Title IX scandal two years ago. When women aren’t allowed access to the Whiffenpoof name and all of the benefits it reaps – a three month

world tour instead of six weeks, a whole year filled with luxurious and paid travel and prestige and fame – I can’t in good faith say that we are recovering gracefully.

Both the Whiffenpoofs and Whim ‘n Rhythm were created years ago for specific reasons, and both organizations have served their founders well for decades. However, in 2013, when the Armed Services of the United States of America allow women to serve side by side on front lines, the Whiffenpoofs of Yale University can allow women to sing side by side with far less risk. Arguments citing physical limitations, or differences in vocal timbre, are no longer an acceptable means of masking gender discrimination, especially when vocal qualities change from person to person regardless of gender.

Traditions change and institutions adapt. The current reality for senior singing groups is separate and unequal. Female a cappella singers and all women at Yale deserve better. They warrant and are entitled to equal, non-discriminatory opportunity in their Yale-supported pursuits.

SARA HENDEL is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at sara.hendel@yale.edu .

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n Feb. 23, word got out that Dr. Cherian George, an associate professor of journalism at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and one of the foremost — indeed, one of the only — public intellectuals in Singapore, was denied tenure for the second time. In a meeting with the administration five days later, several NTU students were told that as a matter of university policy, Dr. George would have to leave the school in the next academic year.

A few here in the Yale community might remember Dr. George’s lucid account of Singaporean state-media relations at a 2011 lecture hosted by the law school. I do, and I am perplexed that the quality of his teaching reportedly counted against him. This is to say nothing of the fact that in 2010, NTU saw fit to award him its highest teaching prize. Professor Karin WahlJorgensen of Cardiff University, an external reviewer in Dr. George’s case, said that in her opinion he was an academic “superstar,” but was denied tenure because “he sometimes expresses political opinions.” Even if there were no political considerations behind the denial of tenure, it is an inexplicable decision.

Nevertheless, the curious case of Dr. George’s tenure is between him and NTU. But one wonders if Yale-NUS might face similar interference as it operates in Singapore. How will Yale-NUS deal with a similar “tenure veto,” if it should ever happen? What options does it have? What should it do if one-time incidents turn into recurring patterns?

In discussions both public and private, it is clear that the YaleNUS administration has put much thought into creating policies that maximize Yale-NUS’s freedom to operate as Yale does in New Haven. The continuing conversation between Yale-NUS administrators and concerned Yale Singaporeans has left us reassured that they have thought through every detail possible.

But I am not so sure the same is true for the mothership. Even though incoming President Salovey surely has a lot on his plate, his silence on Yale-NUS is unsettling. Few other top Yale administrators have shown many outward signs of involvement or engagement over the last year.

One hopes that they, like YaleNUS, have their contingency plans ready. But their public silence feels unnervingly like a silence of disin-

terest and complacency. Although the Yale-NUS administration has assumed the mantle of bringing Yale-NUS College to fruition, Yale now has a different role to play. It must articulate and defend its vision of Yale-NUS — even the aspects of which its partners might not like. My question for Yale’s administration is, what is its YaleNUS policy?

Why is this important? YaleNUS is technically separate from Yale, but it does share our name. What will Yale do if YaleNUS comes under pressure that, because of its location, resources and organizational structure, it cannot handle on its own? Yale cannot leave Yale-NUS to its own devices; its name is quite literally on the line. This is why the Yale administration’s outward disinterest is so worrying.

Yale’s first step is clear. Faculty critics have persistently asked for the release of Yale-NUS’s founding document, signed in 2010 by President Levin and Singapore’s minister for education. I have come to agree with them. Without knowing what has been agreed on, the soundbites dispensed from time to time have nothing to back them up, and are insufficient to quell the unease felt by many in the Yale

community. What would quell this unease is a clear, unequivocal statement of intent, binding on both sides. The founding document is precisely such a statement of intent. Why else do people make rules and sign contracts?

Unless the administration has something to hide, jointly releasing the document with NUS and the Ministry of Education is the most expedient move. Yale’s administration must let its Singaporean partners know that accountability and trust demand this.

But this is just the first step.

Looking to the future, President Salovey’s administration must remain involved. Yale-NUS must not grow up in a single-parent family; otherwise, it would be indecent for Yale to leave its name on the venture.

Yale can’t do anything for Dr. Cherian George (though others have suggested that Yale-NUS should hire him). But it has much to do to reassure the community that it will do all it can to ensure that Yale-NUS’s standards and protections are nothing short of those we have here.

RAYNER TEO is a junior in Morse College. Contact him at rayner.teo@yale.edu .

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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it’s pretty damn good.”

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BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Roughly 55 students gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Saturday evening to learn about sexual practices involving masochistic sexual practices such as those depicted in “50 Shades of Grey.”

The workshop was part of Sex Weekend, a shortened, three-day version of Sex Week — a series of events on sexrelated topics held every other year. Sex Weekend, which has been held sporadically in the past, marks the start of an effort to host sex-related events annually to make the program more institutionalized, organizers said. Sex Weekend activities included six lectures and three smallgroup discussions on topics including sexual health and AIDS activism.

“We have a lot of groups [on campus] pertaining to sexuality, but I think what Sex Week does is it clarifies all these dialogues and brings it into a space where students can figure out what should be talked about and what issues we should be discussing,” said Giuliana Berry ’14, Sex Weekend’s event director.

Berry said Yale has a reputation of being very sexually open due to the publicity given to Sex Week in the past and media attention surrounding sex-related events at Yale such as the release of Nathan Harden’s book Sex and God at Yale.

But the perception that all Yale students are highly sexually active is not necessarily true, Berry said, adding that Sex Week offers students a place to explore the accuracy of this perception through dialogue.

Organizers said they are planning to hold Sex Weeks or Weekends annually in the future and that the program size will be in between this year’s shortened program and last year’s roster of over 30 events.

During a discussion Saturday afternoon with “sexologist” Jill McDevitt, who conducts workshops on sexual

topics at college campuses across the country, roughly 40 students had to reconsider their idea of “normal” in sex when asked to take anonymous surveys that yielded surprising results. Students often do not realize the difference between normative — being in the middle of the bell curve for certain behaviors — and normal, which is a judgment call, McDevitt said, adding that what is common is not necessarily good just as what is deviant is not necessarily bad.

On the survey, nine percent of attendees reported having accepted payment for sex in the past.

“People don’t think a college student at an Ivy League university would accept payment for sex but I’ve never had asked this question on a college campus and not had ‘yes’ answers,” McDevitt said. “That brings us back to the idea that you can’t have assumptions about people’s backgrounds.”

Other survey responses revealed that three percent of attendees had engaged in bestiality, 22 percent had never had a sexual partner, 12 percent have filmed themselves during intercourse and 52 percent have engaged in consensual pain during intercourse.

At Saturday’s workshop, multiple student-submitted discussions topics were about sexual fantasies involving family members. When students shared their thoughts on incest, three responses were related to fantasies about fathers.

“At first yes, the fact that so many people brought it up surprised me but then I though it might be more of a psychological thing we might all have,” said attendee Alex Saeedy ’15.

“I think that’s what the point of the workshop was — to bring up things we thought were so taboo and desire or urges we criticize are just regular parts of sexual psychology.”

Sex Weekend was organized by a board of seven students.

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

As the Keeping Families Together Bus tour stopped in the Elm City Sunday to promote comprehensive federal immigration reform, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield called on state and federal legislators to spearhead humane immigration policy and blasted the Secure Communities deportation program.

Wielding posters of butterflies, the international symbol for immigration, about 100 immigrant families, activists and legislators gathered at City Hall on Sunday to welcome the bus tour to New Haven, one of 90 cities in 19 states along its route. Members of New Haven-based Immigrant advocacy groups Unidad Latina en Accion and Junta for Progressive Action also decried pending deportation proceedings against Josemaria Islas, a local undocumented immigrant who has previously been deported four times, under Secure Communities. ULA also held a demonstration on Friday in favor of the TRUST Act — a state bill that would limit the scope of deportations sanctioned under Secure Communities and establish uniform standards of enforcement.

“Let’s not worry about how folks in Arizona and California are going to vote,” DeStefano said. “Let’s make sure our seven [legislators] get it right.”

Secure Communities, which was implemented statewide last year, allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to check police fingerprints of criminal suspects against ICE and FBI databases in an effort to deport criminals residing in the country illegally. When ICE officials believe a suspect may be undocumented, they can issue a detainment request asking the state to hold the individual in custody pending deportation proceedings. Such hold requests are not legally compulsory, and Gov. Dannel Malloy, a strong critic of the program, has repeatedly promised since last March not to comply with those for non-violent offenders.

Nevertheless, DeStefano and Holder-Winfield came out in opposition to Secure Communities Sunday for unnecessarily

targeting nonviolent criminals and undermining community policing.

Four protesters — Yale Divinity School students Gregory Williams DIV ’15 and Jordan Scruggs DIV ’15, ULA organizer Megan Fountain ’07 and Amistad Catholic Worker Coordinator Mark Colville — were taken into custody last month during a rally outside Hartford Immigration Court after a judge ruled to keep Islas’ deportation case open.

Fountain said the judge’s decision not to drop the case signifies that Islas will likely be deported.

Despite this, she and the other protestors said they will continue to contest Islas’ detainment.

In addition to organizing the Friday rally, Amistad Catholic Worker has planned two other demonstrations in Bridgeport and Hartford.

But ICE spokesperson Ross Feinstein issued a Feb. 21 statement claiming that Islas was a “priority” for deportation.

Let’s not worry about how folks in Arizona and California are going to vote.

JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Mayor, New Haven “Jose Islas-Gonzalez is a priority for removal … As clearly stated in ICE’s civil immigration enforcement priorities, undocumented aliens who commit serious criminal offenses and repeatedly violate immigration law are a priority for the agency,” Feinstein said. “Islas-Gonzalez was originally charged with a serious criminal offense of conspiracy to commit robbery. He was also previously removed from the United States on four separate occasions in both August and September 2005.”

Hamden police arrested Islas last July, after someone claimed that a man resembling Islas had attempted to steal a bicycle.

Despite a lack of evidence, Islas was held in custody in Massachusetts for four months. His charge of attempted armed robbery was eventually changed to

NICOLE NAREA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Keeping Families Together Bus tour stopped in New Haven Sunday to promote immigration reform. breaching the peace, a misdemeanor, of which he was acquitted. Islas was released from ICE custody last November on $4,000 bail but still faces deportation.

A sponsor of the Trust Act, Holder-Winfield criticized the lack of federal action on immigration policy, claiming that Washington needs to address reform on a grassroots basis without making the “state an arm of the federal government.”

DeStefano added that New Haven remains at the forefront of immigration reform after it implemented Elm City Resident Cards last year, providing all residents with a tool to access basic public amenities regardless of immigration status.

ULA volunteer Gregory Williams said President Barack Obama’s administration’s recently leaked bill for comprehensive reform is flawed. Williams criticized the bill’s proposed use of drones and armed

guards to further secure the border as well as the legislation’s temporary worker program. He also said Obama’s proposal creates “a second class of immigrants” by selectively administering visas through programs like the DREAM Act — which provides a path to citizenship for undocumented youth seeking higher education or military service who immigrated to the U.S. before age 16 — and a bill that would give foreign-born individuals a path to citizenship if they launch startups that create jobs.

“We are encouraging public officials not to vote on legislation that does not seek to give a path to legal status to everybody,” Williams said.

Junta for Progressive Action estimates between 10,000 and 15,000 undocumented Latino immigrants reside in New Haven.

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

Elicker, Holder -Winfield engage students

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Mayoral candidates Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield are beginning to engage Yale students in their campaigns.

At a public kick-off event, Elicker met with a group of about 15 undergraduates last Saturday on Yale’s campus to introduce himself, explain his platform and answer questions from potential volunteers. He outlined education, public safety and economic development as the three main policy issues New Haven needs to address. Holder-Winfield held a similar campus event on Feb. 18.

“A lot of what we’ve historically done in the city has been behind closed doors,” Elicker said to the group. “I believe particularly with the tools we have today, we should incorporate the public in conversation and having a lot more inclusion and openness as government.”

Within his education platform, Elicker said his three primary goals are to increase accountability through instituting a hybrid Board of Education as opposed to a Board fully appointed by the mayor, improve early childhood education and initiate character development curriculum in public schools. With regards to public safety, he praised community policing policies and suggested increased collaboration with existing city organizations to find jobs and opportunities for youth, keeping the younger generation out of crime.

Finally, Elicker discussed economic development and longterm fiscal responsibility for New Haven. He explained his plan to give residents more control over how money is spent through a process called “participatory budgeting,” in which city officials will work with neighborhoods’ resi-

dents in an interactive and ongoing process to decide how to allocate a small portion of the city’s funds.

“Much of what we do in the city is based on a two-year political cycle, but we need to be thinking on a 20-year time horizon,” Elicker said. “Pension, health care and debt service payments are increasing every year. We need to start making longer-term fiscal decisions.”

Elicker, who served in the foreign service for the U.S. State Department for five years in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong and Taiwan, said that he ultimately wants to “place [his] roots in a local community” and be able to speak out about his personal opinions, which he could not do while working for the State Department. As a result, he decided to move to New Haven and enroll in both the Forestry School and School of Management at Yale.

We need to start making longer-term fiscal decisions..

JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Alderman, Ward 10 During his second year living in New Haven, Elicker ran for the Ward 10 alderman seat in 2009, beating the incumbent. He is now in his second term.

When Haley Adams ’16 asked Elicker how he would ensure that not only “affluent” people were involved in engineering change in New Haven, he spoke about his experience as alderman.

“My current ward that I represent is East Rock and Cedar Hill.

East Rock is middle to upper class and is primarily white, and Cedar Hill is mostly black and Hispanic … and is lower-income. If you talk with folks in Cedar Hill, they

will tell you that I’m very responsive to their concerns as well as folks in East Rock,” Elicker said. “It doesn’t matter what you look like or what your background is: I’m going to respond and address your issue if I can address your issue.”

In response to a question posed

by Gabe Levine ’14 about whether new jobs will go to New Haven residents or those who live in the suburbs outside of the city, Elicker said that new jobs will add to the city’s revenue in the short term regardless of who takes those jobs.

Elicker added that attracting people to live in New Haven on top of working in the city would require building a “sense of place” that depends on better transportation, city infrastructure and road design.

“I think Justin articulated very well what he stands for,” said Drew Morrison ’14, who is organizing the Elicker campaign on the Yale campus and introduced him to the rest of the students in attendance. “I think the people that came out today are very interested and excited and come from a variety of different campus organizations and backgrounds, and this is just the start.”

Holder-Winfield’s event on Feb. 18 attracted around 20 people, according to volunteer Rachel Miller ’15.

“It was exciting to have HolderWinfield come and discuss his education, crime reduction and economic policy positions with a group of dedicated students,” Miller said. “I felt like he made an effort to get to know us as individuals and valued our input on the direction of the city.”

The third candidate who has filed his papers to run for mayor, New Haven resident and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu, has not yet made any efforts on Yale’s campus to connect with undergraduates.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

DIANA LI/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 has committed to giving residents more control over budgeting via “participatory budgeting.”

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“Lemon, come here. You’ve got to see this. It’s a video of a baby panda sneezing. … Isn’t that adorable? You have to fire 10 percent of your staff.” JACK DONAGHY “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

100 attend SUN speak-out

BY COLLEEN FLYNN STAFF REPORTER A crowd of over 100 Yale community members gathered at Beinecke Plaza for a speak-out on Friday afternoon, calling attention to issues such as financial aid policy, University support for transgender students and Yale-New Haven relations.

At the speak-out, organized by the community advocacy group Students Unite Now, 13 students took the megaphone to discuss topics related to student life, University policy and relations between the University and the city. Many of the speakers called on administrators to increase transparency and student involvement in University decision-making. Sarah Cox ’15, committee member and organizer of SUN, said she thinks that the gathering was successful because of the large turnout and high participation in the day’s event.

“I’m proud of everyone who got up and spoke today,” Cox said. “We are right next to Woodbridge Hall, surrounded by all this power — to speak truth to that is really intimidating.”

SUN member Tom StanleyBecker ’13 said the group had been organizing the speak-out for the past two or three weeks, but the idea originated after group members drew up a charter last December that outlined the issues SUN plans to address. Cox said they hoped the speak-out would strengthen their charter because the speak-out inspires action instead of talk.

Several police officers were present throughout the speakout, though they did not interfere with the event. Cox said that though she was not surprised by their presence, she felt that they did not disturb the demonstration.

Four people at the speak-out said that they felt the police presence

At Tweed, politicians decry sequester

BY MONICA DISARE AND RAYMOND NOONAN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

ALISSA ANH CHU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Students Unite Now, or SUN, is a community advocacy group that seeks to give students at Yale a forum for free expression. was intimidating and unnecessary.

Cox said she was pleased with the number of people who spoke — only eight of the 13 speakers were scheduled before the event.

“I was really excited to see so many students listening and talking to each other,” Crosby said.

“There were some tremendously powerful stories told here today.”

Crosby, who is a Democratic co-chair of Ward 1, spoke together with his co-chair Nia Holston ’14 on Friday to urge the University to be more mindful of the city in its development projects and to encourage more students to become involved in the New Haven community.

The speak-out drew participants from all over the Yale community, including Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, who spoke on behalf of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization and said his group supports the actions of SUN. “We stand in solidarity with SUN to make a more democratic,

equitable and better Yale together,” he said.

Greenberg also advocated for better working and learning conditions for graduate students at Yale.

Ned Downie ’14, a SUN committee member and a senior editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine, spoke on eliminating the student contribution for financial aid.

“We care about making this place more equal,” Downie said, adding that the student contribution is one issue that puts students dependent on financial aid at a disadvantage. Stanley-Becker said that the organization is considering making the issue of financial aid student contribution the centerpiece of it campaign this year.

SUN was officially created in the January 2012 and has since worked on many issues, including the presidential search last semester.

Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at colleen.flynn@yale.edu .

Less than 24 hours before substantial federal spending cuts were to begin, four Connecticut politicians met to describe what they claimed would be the grave consequences of a national sequester.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. warned at a news conference at Tweed Airport on Friday that the sequester — a series of federal military and domestic spending cuts totaling $85 billion that went into effect Saturday at midnight — would seriously damage Connecticut’s economy if not stopped, affecting thousands of state businesses and families. They called for a bipartisan solution to the country’s fiscal woes.

“The round of arbitrary, automatic cuts threatens to throw us back into the winter of economic downturn,” Blumenthal said.

The government sequester includes $55 billion and $27 billion in cuts to defense spending and nondefense discretionary spending, respectively. According to Blumenthal, experts said this sequester could cost 700,000 jobs by the end of 2014, including thousands of jobs in Connecticut.

Blumenthal said that instead of facing the sequester, Congress should raise revenue by closing tax loopholes for oil companies and agribusiness, eliminating tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, shutting down military bases overseas, eliminating wasteful “cost-plus” military contracts and reducing the cost of health care. Most national Republicans, however, said they are unwilling to accept any solution to the sequester that involves higher taxes.

According to the politicians who held the event at Tweed Airport, these spending cuts will not have severe effects immediately but will slowly chip away at the nation’s already troubled economy. Blumenthal said that the sequester would not be “an earthquake” but would rather have a “cascading, rolling effect.”

Along the same lines, Murphy added that “[the sequester] will not hit the nation like a brick wall on Saturday.” He said the spending cuts are expected to cut the GDP by either a

half a point or a full point and that either result would be “devastating.”

Murphy emphasized how the sequester would hamper future growth in Connecticut, citing 500 slots in Head Start, a federal early childhood support program, and $24 million in state research funding as examples of what could be lost as a result of the cuts. He also pointed to Tweed Airport as an engine for economic growth in New Haven that may be threatened by the sequester.

DeLauro and DeStefano called for Congress to look beyond the numbers at how the cuts would affect local residents’ quality of life.

“Every number has a story,” DeLauro said.

“It’s about people’s lives.”

Seemingly to emphasize this same point, DeStefano called Tweed airport employees to the front of the room to show exactly who could be hurt if the sequester went into effect.

Tweed Airport, which operates on a $3 million budget, may close its air traffic control facility as a result of the sequester.

Murphy and DeLauro pointed to the sequester as evidence for the need for bipartisanship in Washington.

“Washington needs to stop legislating crisis by crisis,” Murphy said. “A lot of people I talk to aren’t even paying attention to this crisis because they think there’s going to be another one one month from now or two months from now.“ DeLauro agreed, urging legislators to overcome ideology for the sake of their constituents. She added that if policymakers do not understand the “art of compromise,” then they should not be in the legislature.

The sequester is the result of previous budget deals between the White House and Republicans in Congress. After negotiations in August 2011 to increase the debt limit created what became called the “fiscal cliff” at the end of 2012, the two parties reached a deal to increase taxes on high-income citizens and moved the sequester to the beginning of March to allow more time for budget talks.

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

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

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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”

LAURENCE J. PETER AMERICAN EDUCATOR

Panel explores artist Katz’s work

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, visitors to a School of Art panel of artists, critics, poets and writers gained new insight into “Katz x Katz,” currently on display at the school’s Edgewood gallery.

Organized and moderated by School of Art Dean Robert Storr, a longtime friend of Alex Katz and curator of the Katz exhibit, the panel helped introduce and explain Katz’s work to the public. Panelists, who all know Katz on a personal and professional level, included artist David Salle, critic Irving Sandler and Vincent Katz, a poet and the artist’s son. Discussion topics ranged from Katz’s development as an artist to how poets and other artists define and are inspired by Katz’s work.

“People have struck an attitude towards Katz without really looking at his work,” Storr said.

Panelists agreed that Katz’s ability to capture a moment in time — a “snapshot” — is a central aspect of his work. Still, the speakers could not come to a conclusion about how viewers relate to the work in terms of time — returning to a past event, reinterpreting a moment in the present or failing to place the moment at a definite time.

“I thought the idea of the immersion in time and the fugitive nature of experience was very apt in terms of how I see [Katz’s] work,” Storr said.

Salle, one of the artists on the panel, partially attributed Katz’s success to his ability to generate energy for both himself and his audience. He explained that Katz’s analytical and expressive approach to painting keeps increasingly younger audiences engaged with his work.

John Godfrey, a poet who has been inspired by Katz’s work, said Katz’s carefully planned process is instructive for poets, because they too attempt to capture a particular moment in time.

Three attendees, both School of Art students and a New Haven visitor who had already seen “Katz x Katz,” said the panel helped them better understand the show. Allen Chen ART ’14 said he now appreciates the historical context of Katz’s work, giving him a more complete perspective.

I thought the idea of the immersion in time and the fugitive nature of experience was very apt in terms of how I see [Alex Katz’s] work.

ROBERT STORR Dean, Yale School of Art “[The panel] made me think about [Katz’s] work more deeply and of how complex it is,” said Francesca Pietropaolo, an art historian and curator from Venice, Italy, who traveled from New York to see the panel. “The mix of a critic, a painter, art historians and poets was really important.”

“Katz x Katz” will be on display at the Edgewood gallery until March 10.

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

Looking beyond the US-China rivalry

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL STAFF REPORTER Business leaders from China and the United States gathered for a panel Saturday afternoon to discuss the political and economic relationship between the two nations.

The panel — presented by the China Economic Forum and sponsored by the steel company Alcoa — featured Klaus Kleinfeld, the chairman and CEO of Alcoa, Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, Mingqiang Bi, president and CEO of the US branch of the bank ICBC, and X. Rick Niu, senior managing director of Starr Strategic Partners. Kleinfeld said the recent change in China’s communist leadership was particularly significant because it will help bring banking and environmental reforms.

“China’s dependence on coal makes it ill-equipped to be a major player in the aluminum industry,” Kleinfeld said. “[The] change in China’s leadership would be good to see [banking and environmental reforms] in the new five-year [economic] plan.”

Kleinfeld said a major challenge to China’s growth is its citizens’ lack of English language skills, which impedes the building of trust in business transactions with Westerners. Recently, he said, China has made significant progress in improving its relationship with the United States by reforming its legal system, particularly including stronger patent protection.

Though the U.S.-China relationship is of “profound importance” to the world, Roach said, the codependence between the two nations will change in the future, leading to challenges for the United States.

Contrary to political rhetoric, the United States has benefitted hugely from capital and cheap goods from China as well as from China’s help in financing the federal deficit, he added.

“China’s demand for dollar-based assets will slow,” Roach said. “Whom will America depend upon to fund its deficit?”

Mingqiang Bi described the expansion of ICBC — the largest bank in the world — from its beginning based in China to its current operations in 39 countries.

X. Rick Niu said both China and the United States need to understand each

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A panel of prominent business leaders, which was organized by the China Economic Forum, focused on the political and economic relationship between the United States and China. other better in order to facilitate an increased number of business interactions. He said he thinks that China will eventually emerge as a financial center in its own right.

[China] is 5,000 years old.

There is never any shortage of entrepreneurs.

X. RICK NIU Managing director, Starr Strategic Partners “[China] is 5,000 years old,” he said.

“There is never any shortage of entrepreneurs.”

Audience members said they enjoyed the talk because it gave them a new per-

spective on the relationship between the United States and China beyond their political and economic rivalry.

Erwin Li ’16 said he was struck by the common ground shared by the speakers, all of whom were prominent business leaders.

“It’s necessary to have mindsets like these that are so distinct from the current political mindset of labeling rivals as enemies,” he said. “This can ensure cooperation at every level between the countries.”

Kevin Tan ’16, a member of the China Economic Forum, said he felt as though the speakers identified “the right problems and implementation.”

There are 800 Chinese students at Yale, representing the largest non-American nationality group at the University.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .

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“You’re one of the a cappella girls. I’m one of those a cappella boys, and we’re gonna have aca-children. It’s inevitable.”

SKYLAR ASTIN AS JESSE FROM PITCH PERFECT

Yorkside window broken in brawl TOAD’S FROM PAGE 1 there was “some sort of an interfering incident at the same time” but could not confirm its exact location.

George Koutroumanis, a Yorkside employee who was working when the window was punched in, said it was the result of an “altercation happening outside.”

“The person was apprehended and we have a case number,” Koutroumanis said.

“We’re pursuing it. It’s possible that restitution will be offered and we might not press charges.”

He identified the man who shattered the window as a student and attributed his actions to excessive alcohol consumption. Students interviewed on the scene could not identify the man who shattered the window as the same man in a verbal altercation with a female companion.

Blanchard said she did not know additional details — about either the sequence of events or the identity of the man who shattered the window — as reports from the incident had not yet been filed.

NHPD spokesman David Hartman could not be reached for comment Sunday, and other NHPD officials declined to comment. Though Yale Police was on

the scene, the club is officially outside its jurisdiction. A Yale Police Department dispatcher told the News Sunday that Yale police were there only “on standby” and that she did not know the details of the fight or its aftermath. Assistant Yale Police Chief Steven Woznyk said “Yale Police had no involvement” in the incident.

A Toad’s employee who declined to be named said a “big brawl” occurred outside the club. Police present declined to comment on the record, with one saying that “a lot of fights” happened in quick succession and another assuring those present that “everything is fine.”

“We were over capacity, and many fights broke out simultaneously,” said a Toad’s employee on the scene, who asked not to be identified.

Koutroumanis said he saw the police use pepper spray to subdue people fighting. Lauren Mezznotte, another employee at Yorkside, told the News that morning that she saw a man who had been sprayed with mace stumble from the dance club to the restaurant, where he punched in the window before being apprehended by the police. She added that she saw the police using tasers on other Toad’s-goers who had been involved in the brawl.

Quinnipiac student Jonathan Horow-

itz, who was not allowed back in the club after stepping outside to smoke a cigarette, estimated that about “five cops and five kids” were brawling and “throwing each other around.” He described the scene as “way more violent than it needed to be.”

Dwayne Jordan, another Quinnipiac student, said people were stampeding the exit of Toad’s trying to get out when he saw a shirtless man punch in the window of Yorkside.

“The cops threw him on the ground within about 35 seconds,” Jordan added.

Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14 said the YCC briefly discussed the incident at a meeting Sunday.

Though some YCC reps wanted the council to consider how the Yale administration could “better handle” Toad’s, he said, they did not settle on a definitive plan of action.

Two men unaffiliated with the University were shot at Toad’s Place in March 2011.

Patrick Casey and Diana Li contributed reporting.

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

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A man identified as a Quinnipiac University student was apprehended Sunday morning for punching a window following a fight at Toad’s Place.

Citing sound timbre, women denied entry to Whiffenpoofs WHIFFS FROM PAGE 1 Whiffenpoofs would be the next natural step in ending her time at Yale.

“If I’m going to audition for an all-senior group, why not audition for the one that has the most stuff?” Hendel said. “They have the most prestige, they have the best gigs … why don’t women have access to all of that?”

While Bolt was selected on Sunday to be the next business manager of Whim, Hendel said she did not audition for the group at all.

Unlike Whim lineups of the past few years, which were composed

entirely of members of Singing Group Council a capella groups, this year’s Whim taps will include a member of the Yale Slavic Chorus, as well as three singers who had participated in musicals but were previously unaffiliated with any singing group.

“I think it is very thrilling,” Bolt said. “I think honestly it’s a big step forward for Whim. It shows that its name on campus has breached through the a capella community [and] that other women are aware of the group.”

But Bolt added that the sheer weight of history makes it difficult to compete with the Whiffen-

TIMELINE WOMEN AND THE WHIFFS 1909 The Whiffenpoofs begin as a group of five senior members of the Yale Glee Club, meeting each week at Mory’s Temple Bar and improvising harmonies together.

1969 Women are first admitted to Yale College.

1981 Seven seniors found Whim ‘n Rhythm as a female response to the tradition established by the Whiffenpoofs of having juniors from various a capella groups audition for an all-senior group, and, according to the group’s charter, to “promote and reflect the dignity of women and women’s experience.”

1987 Nine junior women audition for the Whiffenpoofs, sparking a heated controversy on campus. Of the 1987 Whiffenpoofs, 12 voted against admitting women, one abstained and one voted in favor. Nevertheless, alumni interviewed said the outcry had a direct impact on the integration of many prominent secret societies in the following years.

1992 An 11-year-old Whim ‘n Rhythm goes on a year-long hiatus, citing low numbers of auditions by members of the junior class. “Whim is too important an institution to just let it die,” Whim ‘n Rhythm Business Manager Tina Forbush ’92 LAW ’98 wrote to the sophomore class, urging them to audition for the group in a year’s time.

2013 Two women audition for the Whiffenpoofs and are considered alongside male candidates.

poofs. While the Whiffenpoofs — the oldest a capella group in the country — now take a yearlong leave from Yale College due to their rigorous touring schedule and maintain a strong campus presence through events including weekly shows at Mory’s, nearly all Whim members remain enrolled in the College and book fewer gigs over the year than their male counterparts.

Former Whiffenpoof Michael Blume ’13 said that while he believes the discrepancy between the opportunities provided by the two groups is unfair, he thinks the Whiffenpoofs need to have a conversation that involves the female a capella community, as well as alumni of both the Whiffenpoofs and Whim, before deciding whether to admit women.

“By integrating the Whiffs are you disintegrating Whim ‘n Rhythm? Are women no longer going to want to be in Whim ‘n Rhythm? There’s not a clear path to what is Right with a capital R,” Blume said. “Do you make a new group? Disband both?”

Henke, the current Whiffenpoofs business manager, said in his email that the outgoing group takes the question of integrating the Whiffenpoofs seriously and has already begun a dialogue with Whim ‘n Rhythm about a cappella opportunities for seniors.

Former Whiffenpoof Elliot Watts ’09 said he could not imagine changing the fraternal experience he had as a Whiffenpoof, adding that he saw a “a comparable camaraderie” in Whim as an undergraduate.

“They have a special bond as women, [and] we have a special bond as men as well,” Watts said.

Watts added that he cannot say what future generations might hope to get out of the Whiffenpoof experience, and that these goals may or may not be affected by hav-

YDN

In 1909, five senior members of the Yale Glee Club banded together to form the a capella group, the Whiffenpoofs. ing women in the group.

Melinda Stanford ’87, one of the nine women who auditioned in 1987, said she, like Bolt and Hendel, had been motivated at the time by the idea that the Whiffenpoofs “wasn’t just a singing group,” particularly because of the level of opportunities, money and recognition given to them on a world stage relative to Whim ’n Rhythm.

The group voted prior to auditions not to admit women, and those who auditioned anyway did so as a sign of protest, already knowing that they would not be considered.

“Back then, Yale still felt very much like a male school,” Stanford said. “We were trying to make a statement about women’s role at Yale and bust things up.”

David Code ’87, the only Whiffenpoof who voted to admit women at the time, said he felt it was wrong for group members to remain entirely male when they functioned as the University’s “quintessential” ambassadors to the rest of the world. Code added that prior to the controversy, alumni had maintained a relatively large distance from the group. Had the group decided to admit women in 1987, alumni then would not have had the legal means to influence the choice, unlike alumni today who remain closely involved

with current members and can block their decisions due to a more formal corporate structure, Code said.

“Whiff alumni suddenly became militarized in the face of the Whiffenpoofs integrating,” Code said. “[It was] only from that point forward that they had any semblance of a structure or a governing board.”

Former Whiffenpoof Ben Wexler ’12 said those who oppose integrating the group do so because musically the Whiffenpoofs are and always have been a male choral ensemble with a repertoire designed for men.

“The Whiffenpoofs have a repertoire that has a specific sound.

All voices will be considered based on how well they fit into that sound. That sound has been male.

A woman wishing to be in the Whiffenpoofs would need to be able to vocally match that sound,” current Whiffenpoof McKay Nield ’14 said. “Does a woman have a disadvantage to the extent that the sound the Whiffs make is male?

Probably yes. Does that mean they weren’t considered very seriously?

No.” Wexler said the traditional, allmale repertoire of groups like the Whiffenpoofs is itself a product of how long it took universities to

admit women. The sound produced by entirely male ensembles is “ingrained in the public ear,” he said.

“Female singing is more specialized [and] more niche — [it’s] hard to create a sound that feels familiar and nostalgic,” Wexler said. “A lot of seeing the Whiffs is about nostalgia … You almost feel beholden to this history.”

Hendel said she believes change should come over time, perhaps by initially admitting only one or two women and allowing the group to build a new repertoire gradually.

Nield said the Whiffenpoofs, as a business, are producing a male product that appeals to a certain customer and that changing the product would inevitably change the type of customer it attracts.

He added that he does not think such a change would necessarily be a bad thing because a co-ed Whiffenpoofs group might appeal to audiences more reflective of the current, diverse Yale community.

“It’s a hundred years later — let’s give them a new product,” Nield said.

The Whiffenpoofs were founded in 1909.

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

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BULLETIN BOARD

TODAY’S FORECAST Partly sunny, with a high near 40 and a low of 27. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph.

TOMORROW High of 45, low of 34.

ON VIEW BY ALEXANDRA MORRISON

ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 4 9:15 PM Yale Undergraduate Choral Society Rehersal All are welcome; all skill levels and experience levels are welcome!

The YUCS is the only choir at Yale that is non-audition. It seeks to diversify the singing scene and Yale and to make singing more readily available to Yale students of all previous singing experiences and skill levels. Its current directors — Stephen Feigenbaum ’12 SOM ’13 and Pietro Miozzo ’15 — are former members of the Whiffenpoofs and the Yale Glee Club, respectively.

Snacks are provided at the end of each rehearsal. Brandford College (74 High St.), Dining Hall.

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

5:00 PM “Christian Doctrine and the Nazi Death Camps: The Ambiguities of Influence” with Professor Marc Saperstein Isn’t that title intriguing and provacative? Come to the lecture, sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, to find out what it means! Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Room 208.

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FROM THE FRONT

“There are more lawyers in just Washington, D.C. than in all of Japan. They’ve got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.”

LEE IACOCCA AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN

Students reconsider law University denies knowledge LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 the bar exam nine months after their 2011 graduation — and law schools nationwide are feeling the effects of the poor economic climate on their applicant pools. In 2004, 100,000 students applied to American law schools, but this year, experts and media outlets predict a total of fewer than 60,000. Yale Law School received 2,943 applications in 2012, compared to 3,173 in 2011 and 3,797 in 2010.

The jury is out on how law schools should adapt to recent changes in the job market, but professors interviewed said students have largely been right in considering their decisions to apply to law school with greater care than they might have in a more favorable economy.

Daniel Rodriguez, dean of Northwestern University School of Law, said he thinks some students are making “educated economic decisions” to hold off attending law school. Robert Berring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, said students who are unsure of their futures may be wary of the high tuition fees associated with law school.

“There are two different varieties of people who go to law school,” Berring said. “Some are set on becoming lawyers, and some enroll because it’s the next logical thing to do. But are you going to bet $150,000 to $200,000 on something you are not sure you want to be?”

With fewer students taking the bet, law schools have been forced to fight the difficulties of the current job market in whatever ways possible.

ADJUSTING TO A HARSH REALITY

Robert Rasmussen, dean of the University of Southern California Law School, said the declining number of applications to law schools nationwide has become a talking point among law deans, some of whom are concerned that they will not have enough students to fill their classes in future years.

“At some point,” he said, “what happens when we have more law school seats than qualified applicants?”

Rodriguez said he thinks all law schools will have to consider making significant adjustments to their economic models in order to remain sustainable as application counts plummet.

Every law school will have to address the decreases in applications caused by dwindling career opportunities and skyrocketing tuition rates, he said.

David Montoya, assistant dean for career services at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, said his school’s class size reductions over the past 11 years have helped it weather the downturn in the legal market.

Rasmussen said a school’s success can also hinge on whether it has a “special niche” in its community. Because the University of Southern California is located in Los Angeles, the second-largest legal market in the country, Rasmussen said the majority of his school’s graduates are able to secure jobs immediately.

Paul Rollins LAW ’98, associate dean for administration at the admissions office of the University of Georgia Law School, said his school — which charges $15,862 per year for Georgia residents, in comparison to the roughly $50,000 tuition at Ivy League law schools — will always attract in-state students because of its “reasonable cost.”

Law schools are also focusing on raising awareness about jobs outside traditional law firms.

“One of the things we have put an additional focus on is helping students identify the premium jobs in the market —

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not just the jobs in the law firms, but also the highly sought-after judicial clerkships, government positions and public policy jobs,” said William Hoye, associate dean for admissions and student affairs at Duke University School of Law.

Some [students] are set on becoming lawyers, and some enroll because it’s the next logical thing to do.

ROBERT BERRING Law professor at the University of California, Berkeley While Berring said top-tier schools and schools that use local connections or fill specific niches are likely to survive the crisis, schools “in the middle” might have more trouble. As a result, some professors at these schools might lose their jobs, he said.

WEATHERING THE STORM

The constricting legal market has forced many graduates to take lower-paying, less-coveted jobs — sending many prospective law students into panic. But administrators at top-tier law schools such as Yale Law School and Columbia Law School said their students have been less affected than others.

Romy Ganschow LAW ’12, a staff attorney at a Brooklyn non-profit, said “the Yale network and credentials” helped her secure the job she wanted, with funding from a Yale fellowship. She added that Yale Law does particularly well in securing public interest jobs for its graduates.

“I would say the average person at Yale Law wouldn’t be very apprehensive,” Ganschow said.

“The job market is really bad, but it’s not as bad for Yale Law graduates.”

UCLA Law School Dean Rachel Moran said higherranked law schools may offer better job prospects because employers can rely on the consistent quality of their students.

Since large law firms and federal judges tend to hire students relatively soon after students enroll at law schools, she said, such employers often consider students at “institutions with stringent entering credentials.”

Regardless of the prevailing economic situation, Columbia Law School Dean David Schizer said employers still seek Columbia Law graduates because of the school’s internationally recognized status and track record of producing successful lawyers.

Though administrators said Yale Law School has taken the financial crisis seriously, Director of Admissions Craig Janecek said Yale Law students and their peers at similarly prestigious institutions have not felt all of the effects of the financial crisis.

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Instead of receiving 10 job offers, for instance, Janecek said students at Yale might receive four or five offers in the current economy. All but two of 205 students in Yale Law’s class of 2011 confirmed that they were employed or working toward an academic degree nine months after graduation, according to statistics available on the school’s website.

All Yale Law School students interviewed said they are fairly confident in their job prospects.

“I have no worries at all — it would be silly if I did, because those worries would be irrational,” said Michael Wright ’11 LAW ’15. “Everyone that graduates from Yale Law gets to do almost exactly what they want to do.”

DESPITE ADVANTAGES, A ROCKY FIELD FOR ALL

Though graduates from toptier law schools might be more at ease than others, professors and students said the evolving legal market will affect everyone.

“When we get to the decision of whether to hire a law student, we consider a variety of factors, including the law school the candidate has attended,” said Tina Tabacchi, firmwide chair of recruiting at Jones Day, a law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. “But we are more focused on the student than the ranking of his or her law school.”

Securing a position in the non-profit and government sector as a law school graduate remains difficult regardless of what school a student attended, G a n sc h ow sa i d . M a t h ew Andrews ’11 LAW ’14 said the same applies to clerkships and public interest positions.

Despite having been accepted to five of the highest-ranking law schools in the country, Kat Lanigan ’13 said she is “definitely worried” about the current job market. Although she hopes doing well at a competitive law school will help her secure a job, Lanigan said she is not entirely certain of her prospects.

Shailin Thomas ’13, who will enter law school in the fall, said he thinks the decreasing application figures increase competition in admissions because applicants with generally lower qualifications and levels of interest — the “people who are on the margin of applying” — are the ones not applying.

“Law school and being a lawyer isn’t as much a guarantee of becoming well-off and having a steady job now as it used to be,” Lanigan said. “My siblings, who are lawyers, have had trouble finding jobs in this economy.

People are seeing now that it’s not an easy path.”

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The Independent article reported that Morgan has been paying local Colombians, as well as other immigrants, $150 to answer a set of questions on camera truthfully and then again untruthfully. Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern told the News that as a voluntary faculty member, Morgan is not required to disclose research he is not conducting on Yale’s behalf.

“I think the point is [Morgan’s research is] not done through Yale,” Alpern said. “[Morgan is] what we call a volunteer faculty member, which means he’s not employed by us and he’s free to do whatever he wants to do outside of Yale.”

Representatives of Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications, University President Richard Levin and Morgan could not be reached for comment Sunday night. Alpern said that the University released the Friday statement to clarify that the FBIsponsored study was not conducted within the University so it would not seem like the School of Medicine was concealing a study it never reported.

Morgan conducted the research through the “Center for Research and Development,” the Independent reported. The center is run by School of Medicine Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Vladimir Coric, according to a number of business records and directories.

Alpern said it is “hard to tell” from the Independent article whether Morgan’s study dependent on FBI funding complies with Yale research standards.

The Independent reported that the informed consent form that participants sign states that the FBI is the sponsor for the study, titled “Efficacy of Interviewing to Detect Lies about Beliefs.” The article did not say how the newspaper obtained the form, but one study participant was interviewed. The Inde-

pendent also reported that FBI Special Agent Ann Todd said she did not have any information immediately available about Morgan’s study.

Like the FBI study, the University also first learned about the potential Department of Defensesponsored center through outside media coverage.

“We’re tired of being surprised,” Alpern added.

“Right now we’re mostly trying to build up credibility with the community.”

Confusion over the USSOCOM center followed conflicting stories from news outlets in January regarding its alleged involvement of the city’s immigrant residents.

Some members of the Yale and New Haven communities protested the University’s involvement with the military and the center’s reliance on disenfranchised immigrants, but Yale initially maintained that while Morgan had not yet formally proposed the program to the University, the interviewing techniques envisioned were central to the psychiatry discipline and part of medical student and resident education. Yale also said that interviewees would be volunteers from diverse ethnic groups protected by oversight from Yale’s Human Research Protection Program.

After initially stating that the USSOCOM had provided the University with money for the center, Ken McGraw, deputy public affairs officer of USSOCOM, told the News on Feb. 24 that the USSOCOM had decided not to fund a center based on Morgan’s research roughly a year ago. Yale confirmed the center would not be opened the same day.

Morgan has conducted his research study out of his third-floor office in the Gold Building on 234 Church Street near Timothy Dwight College, the Independent reported.

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Biden leads voting rights march

BY PHILLIP RAWLS ASSOCIATED PRESS SELMA, Ala. — The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans’ votes haven’t stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.

More than 5,000 people followed Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma’s annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” beating of voting rights marchers — including a young Lewis — by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March 1965.

The 50-mile march prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act that struck down impediments to voting by AfricanAmericans and ended all-white rule in the South.

Biden, the first sitting vice president to participate in the annual re-enactment, said nothing shaped his consciousness more than watching TV footage of the beatings. “We saw in stark relief the rank hatred, discrimination and violence that still existed in large parts of the nation,” he said.

Biden said marchers “broke the back of the forces of evil,” but that challenges to voting rights continue today with restrictions on early voting and voter registration drives and enactment of voter ID laws where no voter fraud has been shown.

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Vice President Joe Biden embraces U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as they prepare to lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. “We will never give up or give in,” Lewis told marchers.

Jesse Jackson said Sunday’s event had a sense of urgency because the U.S. Supreme Court heard a request Wednesday by a mostly white Alabama county to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act. “We’ve had the right to vote 48 years, but they’ve never stopping trying to diminish the impact of the votes,” Jackson said.

Referring to the Voting Rights act, the Rev. Al Sharpton said: “We are not here for a commemoration. We are here for a continuation.”

The Supreme Court is weighing Shelby County’s challenge to a portion of the law that requires states with a history of racial discrimination, mostly in the Deep South, to get approval from the Justice Department before implementing any changes in election laws. That includes everything from new voting districts to voter ID laws.

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After months of dire warnings about the sequester, Washington did not shut down and the $85 billion budget trigger did not spell doom.

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS WAS H I NGTO N — T h e spending cuts are here to stay if you believe the public posturing Sunday.

The Senate’s Republican leader Mitch McConnell called them modest. House Speaker John Boehner isn’t sure the cuts will hurt the economy. The White House’s top economic adviser, Gene Sperling, said the pain isn’t that bad right now.

So after months of dire warnings, Washington didn’t implode, government didn’t shut down and the $85 billion budget trigger didn’t spell doom.

And no one has yet crafted a politically viable way to roll back those cuts.

“This modest reduction of 2.4 percent in spending over the next six months is a little more than the average American experienced just two months ago, when their own pay went down when the payroll tax holiday expired,” McConnell said.

“I don’t know whether it’s going to hurt the economy or not,” Boehner said. “I don’t think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work.”

And Sperling, making the rounds on the Sunday news shows, added: “On Day One, it will not be as harmful as it will be over time.”

Both parties cast blame on the other for the automatic, acrossthe-board spending cuts but gave little guidance on what to expect in the coming weeks.

Republicans and Democrats pledged to retroactively undo the cuts but signaled no hints as to how that process would start to take shape. Republicans insisted there would be no new taxes and Democrats refused to talk about any bargain without them.

“That’s not going to work,” said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. “If we’re going to increase revenue again, it’s got to go to the debt with real entitlement reform and real tax reform when you actually lower rates. … I’m not going to agree to any more tax increases that are going to go to increase more government.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said any tax increases were unacceptable.

“I’m not going to do any more small deals. I’m not going to raise taxes to fix sequestration.

We don’t need to raise taxes to fund the government,” Graham said.

All of this comes ahead of a new, March 27 deadline that could spell a government shut-

down and a debt-ceiling clash coming in May. Boehner said his chamber would move this week to pass a measure to keep government open through Sept. 30. McConnell said a government shutdown was unlikely to come from his side of Capitol Hill. The White House said it would dodge the shutdown and roll back the cuts, which hit domestic and defense spending in equal share.

I’m not going to raise taxes to fix sequestration. We don’t need to raise taxes to fund the government.

LINDSEY GRAHAM U.S. senator, South Carolina “We will still be committed to trying to find Republicans and Democrats that will work on a bipartisan compromise to get rid of the sequester,” Sperling said.

Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans last week put forward alternatives that would have avoided the cuts, but each side voted down the others’ proposals. The House Democrats proposed an alternative but the House Republicans did not let them vote on it.

House Republicans twice passed alternatives last year.

Obama has phoned lawmakers but it isn’t clear to what end; the White House refused Sunday to release the names of lawmakers Obama phoned. Boehner and McConnell said they had a productive meeting with Obama on Friday, but it didn’t yield a deal.

“Well, no one can think that that’s been a success for the president,” said Mitt Romney, Obama’s unsuccessful rival in November’s election. “He didn’t think the sequester would happen. It is happening.”

Obama and the Republicans have been fighting over federal spending since the opposition party regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections. The budget cuts were designed in 2011 to be so ruthless that both sides would be forced to find a better deal, but they haven’t despite two years to find a compromise.

The $85 billion in cuts apply to the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. But without a deal they will continue slashing government spending by about $1 trillion more over a 10-year period.

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WORLD Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay rhetoric

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS LECH WALESA A Polish politician, trade-union organizer and human-rights activist.

He co-founded Solidarity (Solidarno), the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and served as president of Poland between 1990 and 1995.

Kerry says US to aid Egypt

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$250 million in aid to Egypt was released in response to pledges made by President Mohammed Morsi.

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Polish icon Lech Walesa said that gays should not sit in Parliament, a move some say the legacy of Poland’s first democratic-era president,

BY VANESSA GERA ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to “adjust to smaller things.”

Some commentators are now suggesting that Walesa, the leading figure in Poland’s successful democracy struggle against communism, has irreparably harmed his legacy.

Walesa said in a television interview on Friday that he believes gays have no right to sit on the front benches in Parliament and, if represented at all, should sit in the back, “and even behind a wall.”

“They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking (what they want) from the majority,” he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion of gay rights. “I don’t agree to this and I will never agree to it.”

“A minority should not impose itself on the majority,” Walesa said.

The words have enraged many.

“From a human point of view his language was appalling. It was the statement of a troglodyte,” said Jerzy Wenderlich, a deputy speaker of Parliament with the Democratic Left Alliance.

In some ways the uproar says as much about Poland today as it does about Walesa.

Walesa, Poland’s first democratic-era president, is a deeply conservative Roman Catholic and a father of eight. But, the democracy he helped create in 1989 from the turmoil of strikes and other protests has had a profound social transformation in recent years.

Poland is a traditionally conservative and Catholic society that long suppressed discussions of gay rights. The topic was essentially taboo under commu-

nism, and in the early years of democracy. The Polish church, which has a strong role in political life, still holds that homosexuality is deviant, while gays and lesbians say they face discrimination and even violence.

However, much has changed. A watershed moment came in 2011 when a new progressive and anticlerical party — Palikot’s Movement — entered Parliament for the first time. Taking seats for the party were Anna Grodzka, a transsexual, and Robert Biedron, who is openly gay. These were all historic firsts.

A minority should not impose itself on the majority.

LECH WALESA Polish democracy icon The two have been in the public eye while lawmakers have debated a civil partnership law. Though lawmakers have recently struck down proposals, the discussions continue. A new campaign was just launched to fight taboos.

Some predicted the consequences for Walesa could be serious.

A national committee devoted to fighting hate speech and other crimes filed a complaint with prosecutors on Sunday in Gdansk, Walesa’s home city, accusing him of promoting “propaganda of hate against a sexual minority.”

Walesa is no longer active in Polish political life, though he is often interviewed and asked his opinion on current affairs. Much of his time is spent giving lectures internationally on his role in fighting communism and on issues of peace and democracy.

“Now nobody in their right mind will invite Lech Walesa as a moral authority, knowing what he said,” Wenderlich said.

Monika Olejnik, a leading television journalist, said Walesa “disgraced the Nobel prize.”

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CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.”

Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt’s first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional U.S. assistance would depend on it.

“The path to that future has clearly been difficult and much work remains,” Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8 billion loan package from

the International Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1 billion in U.S. assistance promised by President Barack Obama last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry’s announcement.

“The United States can and wants to do more,” Kerry said. “Reaching an agreement with the IMF will require further effort on the part of the Egyptian government and broad support for reform by all Egyptians. When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support.”

Kerry cited Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Morsi’s “assurances that he plans to complete the IMF process” when he told the president that the U.S. would provide $190 million of a long-term $450 million pledge “in a good-faith effort to spur reform and help the Egyptian people at this difficult time.” The release of the rest of the $450 million and the other $550 million tranche of the $1 billion that

Obama announced will be tied to successful reforms, officials said.

Separately, the top U.S. diplomat announced $60 million for a new fund for “direct support of key engines of democratic change,” including Egypt’s entrepreneurs and its young people.

Kerry held out the prospect of U.S. assistance to this fund climbing to $300 million over time.

Recapping his meetings with political figures, business leaders and representatives of outside groups, Kerry said he heard of their “deep concern about the political course of their country, the need to strengthen human rights protections, justice and the rule of law, and their fundamental anxiety about the economic future of Egypt.”

Those issues came up in “a very candid and constructive manner” during Kerry’s talks with Morsi.

“It is clear that more hard work and compromise will be required to restore unity, political stability and economic health to Egypt,” Kerry said.

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Brown’s President Christina Paxson has received effusive praise from faculty and students for her receptiveness.

BY SABRINA IMBLER STAFF WRITER One year after her selection, President Christina Paxson has earned acclaim on campus for what faculty members and students called receptiveness to the community and decisive leadership.

Paxson entered the University without a set agenda and with a willingness to listen, get to know people and respect the institution, said Barrett Hazeltine, professor emeritus of engineering. Many other community members interviewed echoed his opinion.

“She didn’t show up with preconceived notions of what had to happen at Brown,” said Neal Fox GS, a member of the Campus Advisory Committee that helped select Paxson as president. “She came and spent an inordinate amount of time meeting with department heads, trying to understand the culture of Brown, see where people were and understand where Brown is as a whole.”

Faculty and students interviewed praised Paxson’s success in reaching out to all members of the community through what Hazeltine called her “bottom-up” approach to setting her agenda and effecting change at the University. Paxson visited many department heads in their own offices, a choice applauded by faculty members.

Paxson’s execution of strategic planning has garnered widespread approval for her collaboration with the community and faculty-generated, interdisciplinary strategic initiatives.

She has started to implement strategic planning changes earlier than did her predeces-

sor Ruth Simmons, who took a year or two to a cc l i mate before s t a r t i n g , sa i d BROWN Chung-I Tan, professor of physics and chair of the Campus Advisory Committee. In that short time, Paxson has already developed a keen understanding of the culture of the University, Fox said.

[Paxson is] willing to listen and she’s active in getting to know people and know the institution.

BARRETT HAZELTINE Professor emeritus of engineering, Brown University W h i l e s o m e s t u d e n ts expressed approval of Paxson’s work thus far, others said they are still learning who she is and what her presidency might mean to them. Tomorrow will mark the one-year anniversary of her election as the University’s 19th president.

FACULTY PRAISE

All faculty members interviewed sensed widespread support for Paxson among professors, many of whom mentioned her solicitation of ideas for Signature Academic Initiatives, or faculty proposals for collaborative research projects.

“I’ve been impressed by her in that she’s willing to listen and she’s active in getting to know

people and know the institution,” Hazeltine said. “I respect her for that.”

Upon Paxson’s selection last March, Roberto Serrano, professor of economics and department chair, deemed her a “wonderful choice for Brown,” and he said his opinion remains the same a year later. “She’s a terrific choice.”

Hazeltine commended Paxson for coming to speak to him about his teaching, as he noted that many of her predecessors seemed most interested only in professors whose primary purpose was research.

Paxson does oversee research appropriately, Hazeltine said, concentrating on quality rather than quantity of research.

“Ninety percent of the important research is done by 10 percent of the people, and (Paxson) is really trying to reward that kind of path-breaking work,” Hazeltine said.

Tan cited what he called Paxson’s personable but no-nonsense style of leadership as a primary reason for her rapid progress so far. “She understands academic excellence. She engages all the senior administrators in the process, which in turn engages the whole academic community in this effort,” Tan said.

Several other faculty members praised Paxson’s open and gracious nature in her dealings with the community.

During Winter Storm Nemo, Paxson invited Tan — who at that point had lost power in his home — to visit her until he regained power. “My power came back, and I couldn’t take advantage of her offer,” Tan said with a chuckle. “‘Darn it,’ I thought.”

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Male students make up 54.1 percent of the new sophomore class of the six bicker clubs, according to a review of membership lists obtained by The Daily Princetonian. Of the nearly 500 sophomores these clubs accepted in February, 262 were male and 222 were female.

The University’s overall undergraduate enrollment was 51 percent male and 49 percent female last academic year, according to the University’s latest official enrollment statistics.

According to the review, the sophomore memberships of Cannon Dial Elm Club, Cap & Gown Club, Ivy Club and Tiger Inn were majority male, while Cottage Club and Tower Club had more female than male members in the Class of 2015.

TI accepted 48 male sophomores and 26 female sophomores. Including upperclassmen, the club accepted 55 male students and 33 female students.

Of the overall 24 students who were hosed by the club, including upperclassmen, 17 were female and seven were male. Former TI President Ben Barron added that of the five students lost to other clubs, four were female.

“It does seem to be suspicious,” Barron said. “It’s an unconscious thing and my instinct is that we consider each individual equally. We consider each bickeree individually and gender does not enter into the question.”

Barron, who confirmed the ‘Prince’ figures, said that more female students bickered last year and that the admitted gender ratio that year was nearly 50:50.

TI was the last eating club

to accept female members, remaining all male until 1991.

TI, Cottage PRINCETON and Ivy had been sued

by Sally Frank over their policy against admitting women.

Cottage settled and went coed in 1986, Ivy began admitting women in 1990 after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in Frank’s favor, and TI held coed bicker in spring 1991 after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

“I think it’s largely coincidental and that’s shown by our numbers from last year,” Barron said.

Barron acknowledged that the history may have something to do with the skewed numbers.

“Yes, TI has had more men,

but every year there has been an increase in how many female bickerees we get,” he said. “Anyone who comes to TI knows that it’s a welcoming environment and that we do not discriminate based on gender.”

Cottage admitted three more female members than male members in the sophomore class this year. Meanwhile, Ivy accepted 39 males and 32 females.

Former Cottage President William Minshew and current President John McGee did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Former Ivy President Jason Ramirez declined to comment, but said the numbers obtained by the ‘Prince’ were inaccurate. Ivy disclosed acceptance of 73 new members, and the membership list reviewed by the ‘Prince’ had 71 members, all sophomores.

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hile most Yalies are fast asleep at the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning, the empty campus is a place of beauty. Contributing photographer SAMANTHA GARDNER wanted to see the sun rise and set out to document the start of a new day at Yale.

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IVY LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL RACE DOWN TO TWO SCHOOLS After Yale’s loss to Columbia on Friday, Princeton and Harvard are the only two teams officially in the hunt for the Ivy League regular season title. Harvard, once the clear leader, made things interesting this weekend by losing twice, giving the Tigers a one-game edge.

“Standing on the blue line ... with the other seniors was an experience I will never forget.”

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BULLDOGS GAIN MOMENTUM AT SEASON END Two games, two wins, one overtime gamewinner, one weekend. They all add up to a first-round bye for the Bulldogs in the ECAC Tournament. PAGE B3 EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The No. 15 Bulldogs sprang back in a dramatic fashion with a 4–3 overtime win over the Colgate Raiders and a 2–1 defeat of the Cornell Big Red in their final regular season games.

Yale rips through Albany

Elis see off seniors with win

BY DINÉE DORAME CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s basketball team swept their final pair of home games this weekend as they said farewell to seniors Allie Messimer ’13 and Megan Vasquez ’13.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL After a 66–49 victory over Columbia (4–21, 2–9 Ivy) on Friday night, the Bulldogs

(12–14, 7–5 Ivy) sent their seniors out on a high note with a 71–64 win over Cornell (11– 14, 3–8 Ivy) on Saturday evening.

“It was amazing to see all our friends and family in the stands who came to support Allie and I on senior night,” Megan Vasquez ’13 said.

“My teammates gave it their all to make sure it was the perfect night and it truly was.”

Vasquez led the team in scoring with 18 points and six rebounds in her final home SEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE B3

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The Bulldogs topped Albany on Saturday with a 15-goal offensive barrage and a 39–24 edge in ground balls.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The men’s lacrosse team opened its season with a disappointing 10–9 defeat against St. John’s on Feb. 23, but the Bulldogs rebounded on the road to shut down one of the most untraditional and powerful offenses in the country and take home a 15–8

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win at the University of Albany on Saturday.

The Bulldogs (1–1, 0–0 Ivy) made their second road trip of the season to Albany, N.Y. on Saturday to face a unique offense that beat interstate rival, the No. 18 Syracuse Orange in double overtime on Feb. 17. After mimicking in practice the unusual offensive formation that helped the Great Danes light up the Syracuse defense and fixing some errors with communication and finish-

ing shots, the Elis were able to defeat No. 20 Albany (1–2, 0–0 American East) in another nonconference contest.

“We had a great week of practice leading up to Albany and one thing that Coach [Andy Shay] focused on was just getting better as a team,” captain and defender Mike McCormack ’13 said. “It was a great team effort against Albany from both an emotional SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

TOP ’DOG JOSH BALCH ’13

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Guard Allie Messimer ’13 made two of three 3-pointers in Friday’s win over Columbia.

THE MEN’S HOCKEY FORWARD SCORED THE GAME-WINNING GOAL WITH 2.5 SECONDS REMAINING IN OVERTIME TO LIFT THE BULLDOGS OVER COLGATE 4–3. It was Balch’s second game-winner of the season.

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W. lax falls to Big Green

Elis split third weekend in row MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B4 lier. The Lions held the Bulldogs to 20 points in the second half while pouring in 38 of their own. Guard Maodo Lo, who scored a gamehigh 20 points, tallied 16 of those in the second half.

“I think that we ran a terrible offense, especially in the second half,” captain Sam Martin ’13 said. “We didn’t play together and when you don’t do that, you get bad shots … On the other end, they got good shots.”

Forward Matt Townsend ’15 added that the Bulldogs allowed the Lions to penetrate into the paint too often and struggled in the motion offense that they have been effective with recently.

Spurred by their lackluster offensive perfromance in the second half against Columbia, the Elis came out firing on all cylinders on Saturday night against Cornell. The Bulldogs dominated the Big Red from the outset, outscoring Cornell 38–25 in the first half.

“Starting the Cornell game, that [loss to Columbia] really motivated us,” Townsend said.

The team was again led by Townsend, who scored 13 of his game-high 19 points in the first half. Guard Nolan Cressler and forward Errick Peck also scored 19 points each for the Lions. The Elis shot 47.1 percent overall, ten points better than Cornell’s 37.1 shooting percentage.

“Winning on the road, especially way up at Cornell, is tough,” Townsend added. “I think there were a lot of good things we can take

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The Bulldogs hosted the defending Ivy Champion, No. 12 Dartmouth, who finished strong in a 10-6 victory over the Elis.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 captain Devon Rhodes ’13 led Yale scorers with two goals and two assists. Yellow cards plagued the Elis throughout the game, as the team suffered six cards in addition to 27 fouls. Although goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 registered 11 saves, Yale’s offensive momentum was disrupted, as it played shorthanded for 18 minutes of the game. Freshman midfielder Nicole Daniggelis ’16 counted her first goal of the year to bring the score to 7-3 five minutes into the second half. However, two yellow cards in the span of 16 seconds killed any Yale momentum. Dartmouth went on to score three unanswered goals and took a 10-3 lead. Although Yale did manage a pushback — scoring three goals in the last 10 minutes to set the score 10-6 — it was too late to turn the scoreboard in Yale’s favor.

“I think we definitely fought hard the whole game, but we also

didn’t show all of our potential,” attacker Jen DeVito ’14 said. “I thought overall it was our turnovers that killed us the most, and that is something that is completely in our control. I’m definitely proud of the way we fought and never let them feel comfortable even when they had a lead, although of course I wish the outcome had turned out differently.”

“Overall we played well, we just need to eliminate turnovers.”

LAUREN WACKERLE ’16 Dartmouth won the ground ball, draw control and turnover battles in addition to outshooting the Bulldogs 31-16. The Big Green’s goalkeeper, Kristen Giovanniello, registered six saves in the game and held Yale with-

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

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out any free position goals on the day. Dartmouth, which remains undefeated on the year after two narrow wins against Oregon and New Hampshire, will take on No. 20 Boston College this Wednesday.

Yale has a chance to even the season record this Wednesday at Bryant at 4 p.m.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

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Guard Javier Duren ’15 was a perfect 5–5 from the free throw line as the Elis beat Cornell, 79–70.

Bulldogs outshoot Albany

W. swimming finishes season

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 and physical standpoint.”

Although the majority of the Elis returning from last year are part of the core defensive unit, the freshman-heavy Yale offense mounted an impressive attack on the Albany defense on Saturday.

“Our offense really clicked on Saturday and it was nice to see that we were able to put up a good amount of goals,” McCormack said. “Brandon Mangan ’14 and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 both had great individual days and some younger guys were able to step up and contribute.”

On the defensive side of the game, the Bulldogs shut down an offense that netted a colossal 20 goals in its previous game, limiting the Great Danes to less than half of what theyscored against Syracuse.

Attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 led the team in scoring with six goals followed by Brandon Mangan ’14 with four, and Ryan McCarthy ’14 led the Elis with two assists. The Bulldogs moved the ball effectively and six different players scored against Albany. Shay also said his team was opportunistic and finished its shots when it had open opportunities. The Elis were able to score on half of their man-up opportunities, going two-for-four while the Great Danes went one-for-four.

The Bulldogs picked up 39 of 63 ground balls while the Great Danes only managed 24. The Bulldogs also dominated at the face off X, with Dylan Levings ’14 winning 15 of his 24 draws. Levings also won a team-leading 10 ground balls.

The strong defensive play stemmed from face-offs and ground balls won, but it did not stop there. Defensive play was powerful from midfield all the way to the crease. Goaltender Eric Natale ’15 made 12 saves against Albany, many from within five yards of the goal.

The Great Danes opened the scoring two minutes into the first quarter when Lyle Thompson beat Natale for an unassisted goal. The Thompson trio of Lyle along with his brother Miles Thomp-

moving forwards as a team.”

The men’s basketball team’s season will end this weekend with two games at home in the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs will try to play the spoiler against Princeton (16– 9, 9–2) on Friday before finishing their season by taking on Penn (8–20, 5–6) on Saturday.

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Attacker Brandon Mangan ’14 totaled four goals and an assist in the Yale win over Albany. son and cousin Ty Thompson totaled 18 points between them in Albany’s double overtime win over the Orange two weeks ago. Lyle tallied a second goal in the first period, but Yale emerged from the frame with a 3–2 lead after scoring twice in the final 1:09. Though Lyle picked up four assists over the remaining three quarters, he and Ty Thompson were held to only four goals between them by Yale’s veteran long poles.

Mangan and Oberbeck each found the net to start the second quarter and the Bulldogs stretched their lead to 8–4 before halftime with a 3–0 run over the last four minutes of the half.

Although Lyle found Ty Thompson for a man-up goal to pull the Great Danes within three less than two minutes into the third quarter, Yale scored three more times in the period to take an 11–5 advantage into the final frame.

“All we did and all we are doing is just constantly trying to get better, every practice and every game,” attackman

Kirby Zdrill ’13 said.

The Bulldogs will next face-off against Sacred Heart on Tuesday, March 5 in Fairfield, Conn., at 7 p.m. for their third straight away appearance before finally heading back to Reese Stadium to take on Fairfield on Saturday March 9.

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

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dogs lost some ground to Columbia, dropping to fourth place.

Strong performances from Emma Smith ’16, Eva Fabian ‘16 and Forrester kept the team afloat.

Smith finished third in the 400yard IM and Fabian placed first in the 1000-yard freestyle. Forrester secured first place in the 100-yard butterfly and made the NCAA A-cut in the process. She would go on to make another automatically qualifying NCAA A-cut in the 200-yard butterfly.

The final day of the Ivy League Championships saw several more NCAA cuts, as the meet came to an end with Princeton on top.

Weaver, Smith, Fabian, Tsay and Casey Lincoln ’16 all qualified for B-cuts. Randolph said Fabian seems primed to join Forrester at the NCAA championships in late March.

Competing in her first Ivies, Fabian produced several strong swims, giving the team much needed points.

“I’ve never experienced a meet like that before. It was definitely one of the best experiences of my life,” Fabian said. “It was a good, competitive atmosphere and I really enjoyed racing.”

Fabian took first place in the 1650-yard freestyle, the event in which she made the B-cut. Initially expected to miss the event, Molly Albrecht ’13 overcame early health concerns to finish sixth.

Smith went from being seeded 20th in the 200-yard breaststroke to competing in the A-final for that event, where she placed fifth.

Paige Meneses ’13 finished sec-

ond in the 3-meter dive A-final event with a score of 292.45, way up from her preliminary score of 277.30. Meneses also finished third in the 1-meter A-final with a score of 275.00. For her performances, she was named Ron Keenhold Career High Point Diver, which is awarded to the most accomplished divers of the season from the Ivy League.

When the event was over, the team was left to reflect on the season and look forward to the next.

We performed as a unit, and definitely saw the payoff of our hard work this season.

COURTNEY RANDOLPH ’14 “The seniors all had amazing meets, and those of us who’ll be here next year can look forward to a bright future for the team,” Randolph said.

Weaver echoed these sentiments, saying the junior class has big shoes to fill, but that she feels they are up to it.

“When all is said and done, we just want to get faster every year,” Weaver said.

The Bulldogs’ 2012-’13 season is over, but they will cheer on Forrester and Fabian at the NCAA Championships on March 21-23.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“Please, LeBron, get in the dunk contest. I’m going to put up a million dollars ... A million to the winner.” MAGIC JOHNSON, OFFERING $1 MILLION TO THE WINNER OF NEXT YEAR’S NBA DUNK CONTEST IF LEBRON JAMES PARTICIPATES

Hockey clinches third seed

MEN’S HOCKEY ECAC

HOCKEY BRACKET ECAC TOURNAMENT PROCEDURE Quarterfinals (best of 3) March 15-17

Twelve teams

Semifinals March 22

Finals March 23

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Second lowest of first round winners No. 3 Yale Second highest of first round winners

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The No. 15 Yale men’s hockey team has always bounced back when it needed it most this season, and the Elis did it again over the weekend by winning two decisive league games.

MEN’S HOCKEY After several difficult weeks of league games, the Bulldogs (16– 10–3, 12–9–1 ECAC) sprang back in dramatic fashion with a 4–3 overtime win over the Colgate Raiders and a 2–1 defeat of the Cornell Big Red in their final regular season games to finish with the third seed in ECAC standings.

They are just one point above the unranked Union Dutchmen and have secured a bye in the first round of ECAC playoffs.

“We were able to get out to great starts in the first period,

outplaying both teams significantly,” captain and the team’s second leading-scorer Andrew Miller ‘13 said.

With only 2.5 seconds left in overtime against the Raiders, top penalty-killer Josh Balch ’13 slammed home his second gamewinner of the year and his second goal of his senior campaign.

“Letting up three unanswered against Colgate, we never seemed to waiver and were confident we could get the win,” leading scorer Kenny Agostino ‘14 said.

In addition to earning a bye in the playoffs, the seniors on the Elis’ squad lined up on the blue line for the last time during senior weekend.

“It felt surreal playing my last regular season game yesterday.

Standing on the blue line before the game with the other seniors was an experience I will never forget,” forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 said. “The fact that we

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The seniors on the Elis’ squad lined up on the blue line for the last time during senior night, in addition to securing a bye in the playoffs.

won made it even better.”

In both contests this weekend, the Bulldogs jumped out in front right from the start.

Against the Raiders (14–16–4, 6–13–3), Miller scored an early power play goal to put the Elis up 1–0 just under five minutes into the game. When facing the Big Red (12–14–3, 8–11–3 ECAC), leading-scorer Kenny Agostino ’14 popped in a goal just over six minutes into the match up to give the Bulldogs an early lead.

In both the Colgate and Cornell games, the opposition was able to tie the game, with the Raiders able to claim the lead, but only for a short while. The Elis maintained their composure and fought their way back for the win both nights.

The power play also played a key role in the Elis’ wins. Miller’s early power play goal gave the Bulldogs the advantage right away against the Raiders, while a third period man-up goal from Stu Wilson ’16 lifted the Elis over Cornell. In both games, the Bulldogs went one-for-two on the power play while staying mentally strong and allowing no power play opportunities to Cornell on Saturday.

Going into the playoffs with a three-game winning streak is certainly a boost for the Bulldogs, and the mental toughness that they displayed over the weekend bodes well for the post-season.

“I think everyone is feeling fairly confident with the way we are playing as a group,” Laganiere said. “To win the last three games in dramatic fashion shows once again that our mental toughness is where it needs to be going into the playoffs.”

The Elis will have some time

to rest and hone their game even more before carrying the momentum from the wins the past two weekends into playoffs due to earning a first-round bye.

The Bulldogs will next lace up the skates for a best of three series between Friday Mar. 15 and Sunday Mar. 17 against the secondhighest remaining seeded team coming out of the first round of playoffs. The Elis will either play Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Clarkson, St. Lawrence or Colgate.

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

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game in the Bulldog uniform.

Yale shot 43.3 percent from the field and was 6–18 from beyond the arc.

Cornell put the Bulldog defense to a test as three of their players scored in double-digits, with both Allyson DiMagno and Spencer Lane posting double-doubles. The Big Red outrebounded the Bulldogs 44–42 and accumulated 46 total points inside the paint.

Both teams started slowly in the first half, but the Elis sprung the game open with a 10–2 run to end the first half and went into the break up 28–17.

Coming out of halftime, the Big Red stormed back to take the lead at 36–35 after Lane was fouled on a layup and converted the and-one free throw with 12:25 remaining in the game. Vasquez responded with four points over the next two minutes to pull the Bulldogs back ahead, but Lane made another layup with 8:32 remaining to knot the game at 43.

From that point on, it was all Yale as guard Sarah Halejian ’15 hit a 3-pointer to key a 16-6 run that put the game out of reach.

“All around [Cornell] played a solid game, but we played as a team and had a lot of balanced scoring which was key to the

win,” Halejian. “They got a lot of buckets down the stretch, but we just kept pushing and scoring.”

Halejian had 17 points against Cornell and currently leads the team in scoring overall, averaging 14 points per game. Both Janna Graf ’14 and Meredith Boardman ’16 had notable contributions this weekend with 16 and nine points, respectively, against the Big Red. On Friday, the Elis took advantage of a weak Columbia defense and an effective transition game to complete the sweep of the Lions this season. In the first half, Yale broke a 17–17 tie at the eight minute mark with a crucial 9-1

run and went into the locker room with a 33-26 lead.

Yale dominated the boards against Columbia, out-rebounding the Lions 37–33 and getting 28 points in the paint. After an early second-half battle, the Bulldogs outscored Columbia 22–14 in the final ten minutes of the game, led by Graf who had 19 points total.

The Bulldogs have won five of their past six games and are hoping for a strong finish among the top three teams in the Ivy League.

Captain Allie Messimer attributed the recent wins to the Elis’ offensive consistency and good team dynamic.

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J. BALCH (Yale) scored unassisted game-winner in overtime with 2.5 seconds remaining.

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0.000

2

0

1.000

Penn

0

0

0.000

2

1

0.667

Brown

0

0

0.000

1

1

0.500

Yale

0

0

0.000

1

1

0.500

YALE

1

0

1

2

Dartmouth

0

0

0.000

1

2

0.333

CORNELL

1

0

0

1

Harvard

0

0

0.000

1

2

0.333

G: K. AGOSTINO, S. WILSON (Yale) – 1 each; J. LOWRY (Cornell) – 1 A: A. MILLER (Yale) – 2 Sh: Yale – 29; Cornell – 23 Sv: J. MALCOLM (Yale) – 22/23; A. ILES (Cornell) – 27/29

WOMEN’S LACROSSE IVY

Yale clinched No. 3 seed in ECAC tournament with win.

1

4

The seniors will play their final two games on the road next weekend to close out the 2012-’13 season.

“The final home game was bittersweet,” captain Allie Messimer ’13 said. “It was sad to think I’ll never play in that gym again, but the team made it special and the fact that we won was awesome.”

Yale will face Princeton on Friday, March 8 and Penn next Saturday, March 9.

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

YALE

33

33

66

COLUM.

26

23

49

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Brown

1

0

1.000

3

0

1.000

Dartmouth

1

0

1.000

3

0

1.000

Cornell

1

0

1.000

2

0

1.000

Princeton

0

0

0.000

2

1

0.667

Penn

0

0

0.000

0

2

0.000

Columbia

0

1

0.000

1

2

0.333

Yale

0

1

0.000

1

2

0.333

Harvard

0

1

0.000

0

2

0.000

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7

YALE 66, COLUMBIA 49

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Harvard

6

1

0.857

17

3

0.850

Princeton

6

1

0.857

12

3

0.800

Cornell

5

2

0.714

16

6

0.727

Yale

5

2

0.714

12

5

0.706

Dartmouth

2

5

0.286

9

9

0.500

Columbia

2

5

0.286

8

10

0.444

Brown

1

6

0.143

8

12

0.400

Penn

1

6

0.143

5

12

0.294

WOMEN’S SQUASH IVY

YALE 71, CORNELL 64

BRIANNA LOO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

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IVY

J. GRAF (Yale) – 19 pts, 6 rebs, 3 asts M. VASQUEZ (Yale) – 15 pts, 6 rebs, 4 asts, 2 stls T. SIMPSON (Columbia) – 12 pts, 4 rebs A. MBIONWU (Columbia) – 2 pts, 10 rebs

Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 led the Elis with 18 points in her final home game in a Yale uniform as the Bulldogs beat Cornell 71–64 on Saturday.

OVERALL

SCHOOL

G: A. MILLER (Yale) – 2 A: TYSON SPINK (Colgate) – 2 Sh: Yale – 41; Colgate – 29 Sv: J. MALCOLM (Yale) – 26/29; E. MIHALIK (Colgate) – 37/41

Elis winners of six of last eight W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1

OVERALL

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Princeton

7

0

1.000

12

2

0.857

2

Harvard

6

1

0.857

15

1

0.938

3

Penn

5

2

0.714

14

3

0.824

YALE

28

43

71

4

Yale

4

3

0.571

13

5

0.722

CORNELL

17

47

64

5

Cornell

3

4

0.429

13

7

0.650

6

Brown

2

5

0.286

12

9

0.571

7

Dartmouth

1

6

0.143

9

8

0.529

8

Columbia

0

7

0.000

5

11

0.312

M. VASQUEZ (Yale) – 18 pts, 6 rebs S. HALEJIAN (Yale) – 17 pts, 5 rebs J. GRAF (Yale) – 16 pts, 9 rebs, 2 stls, 2 blks S. LANE (Cornell) – 20 pts, 12 rebs, 3 asts, 6 stls A. DIMAGNO (Cornell) – 18 pts, 13 rebs, 3 asts

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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

SPORTS

NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks extend points streak to 28 With a 2–1 shootout win over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday, the Blackhawks earned yet another two points, bringing their total to an NHL-best 41. The team has not lost a game this season, and their streak of earning points in 28 straight games (dating back to last season) is now tied for the second-longest points streak in NHL history. The record is 35 games, set by Philadelphia during the 1979-80 season.

Bulldogs place fourth at Ivies

YDN

The Yale women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Ivy League Championships this weekend and posted a fourth place finish.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a strong season, the Yale women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Ivy League Championships this weekend and placed fourth, behind Princeton, Harvard and Columbia. Despite falling short of its lofty goals,

which was to finish in the top two, the team found reason to be excited and encouraged for next season.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING “We were very proud of our results as a team,” Courtney Randolph ‘14 said. “We performed as

a unit and definitely saw the payoff of our hard work this season.”

The three-day meet produced many exciting events and performances from the Bulldogs. The first day saw five Yale records broken as Yale took third place behind Princeton and Harvard. The last event of the day, the 400-yard medley relay, saw

Yale’s team of Cynthia Tsay ’13, Ali Stephens-Pickeral ’16, Alex Forrester ’13, and Captain Joan Weaver ’13 finish fourth. The Bulldogs broke the previous Yale record of 3:40.76 with a time of 3:38.32. Less than one second separated Yale (3:38.32) in fourth place and Harvard (3:38.21) in third. Columbia (3:36.87), which

Elis inconsistent in New York

notched first place, was less than two seconds faster than Yale.

Forrester also broke the school record of 22.61, which she owned, in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.29 and finished in second. Yale also saw records broken in the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 500-yard freestyle.

Both Randolph and Jacqui

Levere ’15 noticed a stronger competitive field compared to previous Ivies.

“Almost universally, all of the events were pretty significantly faster [this year],” Levere said.

The second day of the meet saw more records fall, as the BullSEE W. SWIMMING PAGE B2

Ivy defending champion overpowers Yale

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s lacrosse team kicked off its Ivy League campaign this Saturday at Reese Stadium as the Bulldogs hosted the defending Ivy Tournament Champion, No. 12 Dartmouth.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE From the beginning, the Big Green (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) dominated the game.

Dartmouth raced out to a 5-1 lead in the first half and finished strong in a 10-6

victory, delivering the Bulldogs (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) with their second loss of the season.

“While we played with aggression and really hustled, we just needed to keep possession and capitalize on every offensive opportunity, which we started doing more the second half,” midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 said. “Overall we played well — we just need to eliminate turnovers.”

Attacker Hana Bowers led Dartmouth with four goals and two assists, while SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

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Forward Matt Townsend ’15 scored a career-high 19 points a night after the Elis fell in disappointing fashion to Columbia.

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER Entering this past weekend’s slate of games, the men’s basketball team knew that it had only the slightest chance at capturing the Ivy League crown. The Elis would have had to win the rest of their games this season, while Harvard would have to lose their remaining contests and Princeton would have to lose all but two of its last five games.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Despite these long odds, the Bulldogs received all the help they could have hoped for: Princeton beat Har-

vard on Friday, and while the Tigers won their second game of the weekend, the Crimson were upset by Penn on Saturday night.

But in a season riddled with inconsistency, the Elis could not help themselves. Yale (12–17, 6–6 Ivy) dropped its game on Friday night to Columbia (12–14, 4–8) in demoralizing fashion, 59–46, before rebounding to beat Cornell 79–70 with its best offensive performance of the conference season.

“I think we came out a little complacent against Columbia after beating them by 20 at home,” forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “But I thought the guys responded really well on Saturday against Cornell.

From the tip we started the game hungrier, executed our offense and jumped out to a big lead we held the entire way.”

The game between the Elis and the Lions at Levien Gym on Friday was truly a tale of two halves. Yale jumped out to a 26–21 lead in the first period, led by forward Matt Townsend’s ’15 eight points. No Columbia player scored more than five in the game’s opening stanza.

Columbia, however, emerged from the locker room like a different squad in the second half — perhaps out to avenge its season-worst defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs two weeks earSEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE B2

YDN

After racing out to an early 5-1 lead, Dartmouth took down Yale 10-6 on Saturday at Reese Stadium