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DeStefano plans budget

Is it chicken tenders day? Yes.

Go crazy.

Ouch. The Yale School of

Management will not be listed in this year’s U.S. News and World Report rankings of the top 10 business schools in the country. Though the full list will not be published until March 12, a teaser released Tuesday indicated that Yale — which took the No. 10 spot last year — has been pushed out in favor of New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Harvard, UPenn, Stanford and Dartmouth business schools all made the top 10 cut.

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS

sional aides said the state may not hash out a final budget deal until the end of the legislative session on June 5.

In the meantime, Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez said the board will comb through DeStefano’s proposals. All three expand

Yale faculty interested in teaching abroad — or even just getting away from New Haven — will have an ongoing opportunity to apply for visiting faculty positions at the Yale-NUS campus in Singapore.

Last month, Yale-NUS announced that 34 Yale professors will hold temporary faculty positions at the new college over the next four years, and Provost Benjamin Polak and President-elect Peter Salovey announced in a Wednesday statement that Yale-NUS will continue to accept applications for temporary teaching positions in Singapore. The visiting faculty will be able to teach two-week or fullterm courses at the Singaporean college on a regular basis. University President Richard Levin said Yale-NUS does not aim to increase dramatically the number of professors who apply to teach in Singapore but rather to provide a means for faculty to apply in the future, adding that the University released the statement in response to questions from professors about the visiting positions at Yale-NUS. Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said administrators have not set a cap on the number of Yale professors who will travel to Sin-

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Part of a healthy breakfast?

Looks like Columbia students have expensive taste. Ever since Columbia dining began offering Nutella in the cafeteria, officials say the chocolate-hazelnut topping has cost them $5,000 per week, in part due to dining hall thievery, according to the Columbia Spectator. Thievery or not, that’s up to 100 pounds of Nutella per day.

Get rich quick. Yale Law

alumnus and New Haven lawyer Dan Alterbaum LAW ’12 SOM ’12 took home $1,000 in winnings after appearing on Wednesday’s episode of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.”

Alterbaum correctly answered questions about Alfred Hitchcock, television shows and Tumblr speak before missing a question on the punk music genre.

On gun control. A new poll released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday found broad support for many gun proposals currently being debated in the state Legislature. The poll, which sampled 1,009 Connecticut residents in early March, found that the majority of the state supports tightening general gun-control laws.

In particular, a proposal to institute universal background checks proved especially popular with 93 percent support.

Remembering Newtown.

The Connecticut General Assembly unanimously passed legislation during their meeting on Wednesday to create a special fund for first responders, teachers and others who suffered psychological trauma from the Sandy Hook shootings.

The fund will be backed by private donations and will, in part, supplement workers’ compensations for those who have missed work due to mental trauma.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1960 The Trumbull College Council votes to resurrect its snack bar, which had been suffering from neglect and periodic shutdowns. As part of renovation efforts that are all “oriented toward the creation of a cool atmosphere,” a horde of Trumbull students decide to freshen up the basement and repaint the walls.

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Faced with funding cuts, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and the Board of Aldermen are debating a budget for fiscal year 2014.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER In response to city revenue losses that could total nearly $28 million, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has adopted a strategy of “hope for the best, plan for the worst.”

DeStefano conveyed that message Wednesday in the three dis-

tinct budget proposals for fiscal year 2014 he presented before the Board of Aldermen. Which plan the board passes at the end of May will largely be dictated by forces outside of the city’s control, as each budget plan accounts for the possibility of different degrees of state-mandated funding reductions to municipalities like New Haven. State congres-

UCS to open satellite office

Smilow climbs in rankings

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Located at 55 Whitney Ave., the Undergraduate Career Services office sits as somewhat of an outlier from the rest of Yale’s fairly centralized campus, prompting a long trek for students who wish to use its services.

But beginning this Friday, UCS will begin hosting weekly open hours in a “satellite” office in Dwight Hall. Each Friday afternoon from 1–4 p.m., a UCS adviser will be present in the Dwight Hall library to answer students’ questions during 15-minute walkin sessions similar to the open hours held at the Whitney Avenue UCS office for two hours every weekday.

“Based on past student input, we wanted to offer a UCS adviser from our office for an extended period of time in a more central location,” said Jeanine Dames, UCS director and associate dean of Yale College.

Dames said she is excited to partner with Dwight Hall because its library offers a private setting that allows students’ meetings to be comfortable and confidential. Dwight Hall is an “ideal” partner for UCS because of its convenient location on Old Campus and its organizational focus on public service, she added.

In addition to the Friday hours, UCS began to hold Tuesday office hours in the Dwight Hall library last week for students specifically interested in nonprofit or public interest career fields. Robyn Acampora, associate director of employment programs at UCS and nonprofit and public interest counselor, plans to hold her office hours in Dwight Hall on Tuesdays from 2–4 p.m. regularly during the academic year.

Although UCS has partnered with Dwight Hall to co-sponsor events in the past, the two organizations have never collaborated to set up a satellite UCS office before. UCS SEE UCS OFFICE PAGE 4

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Yale’s Smilow Cancer Center was ranked the 35th best cancer hospital nationwide by the U.S. News and World Report.

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER Though only 3 years old, the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale is moving up the rankings as one of the best in the nation.

In its 2012–’13 publication of the 900 best cancer hospitals in the United States, U.S. News and World Report ranked Smilow 35th. Oncologists at Smilow said there are core aspects of the facility — such as its spacious interior layout, comprehensive care services and leading research through the University — that distinguish it from other cancer hospitals and merit it a much higher ranking than 35th.

Physician in Chief Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 said he is “not at all satisfied with 35,” and that his goal is for Smilow to be recognized as one of the top five hospitals in the United States. Still, given the hospital’s recent opening, he said he considers this national recognition a “terrific accomplishment.”

Lynch said he thinks the main factor behind Smilow’s success is the relationship between the hospital’s clinical care and the University’s research. Pharmacology professor Roy Herbst ’84 GRD ’84 instituted the BATTLE program at Smilow, which biopsies patients with advanced lung cancer and sequences the genes of the tumor so that oncologists can offer a more personalized treatment plan to the patient. The best way to treat lung cancer is to introduce “the right drug into the right patient at the right time,” which requires analyzing fresh tumor tissue and understanding what is driving the cancer, Herbst said.

He added that while other hospitals also use BATTLE or similar programs, Yale has most effectively applied current research to the development of creative technologies and treatment plans.

“All the components have always been present — a great medical school, great basic science, great

clinical care — but Smilow brings together these programs and now has a true focus on comprehensive, translational critical care in real time,” Herbst said. “Cancer is a tough disease, and in this day and age we have to be creative and take the personalized medicine approach.”

Smilow has been able to marry clinical care with scientific research because Yale attracts the best doctors and nurses to its facilities, Lynch said. Herbst also said he credits the University atmosphere for some of Smilow’s success, since the academic environment encourages scientific inquiry.

While Smilow’s young age has made it hard for the hospital to establish a national reputation, its more recent construction can also be an advantage.

The building’s design — which features 14 floors of mostly single rooms — follows a recent trend SEE SMILOW PAGE 6

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Admissions coffee test Y

ale’s obsessed with coffee — the brown-sleeved paper cup, the warmth of Aztec mocha-spiced air, the chemical effect of a shot of caffeine. We’re even more obsessed with what coffee represents: the experience of running into a friend in line, the classic image of two friends catching up with a latte.

Our college experience boils down to these kinds of interactions: conversations at a party, in a heated seminar, over a meal, over a cup of coffee. Yale even institutionalizes community and intimate conversation; the purpose of entryways and residential colleges is to create smaller, more familiar spaces in which we can interact.

It is time that our admissions process reflects this reality.

The first Thursday after spring break, the Admissions Office will post decisions for applicants for the class of 2017. These candidates were mostly judged through four avenues: recommendations, standardized tests, grades and personal essays. Interviews, however, are optional, and “vary widely in importance,” according to Admissions Dean Jeff Brenzel. If last year’s trends hold, a little over 80 percent of admits will have had either an alumni or oncampus interview.

This is a good start — but we can do much better. We must ensure that 100 percent of our admits are interviewed, either on campus, through alumni or by phone. At this interview, they must pass what I call the Coffee Test.

The Coffee Test is simple. At the end of the interview — which is designed to be a free-flowing chat — the interviewer is asked to judge the applicant on one criterion: Is the applicant able to hold a conversation over coffee?

Our process, as it stands, primarily evaluates whether the applicant excels in the classroom. Recommendations, standardized testing, grades — these tools all measure academic prowess. The only way we attempt to learn about applicants as people is through essays, which require students to regurgitate their lives’ inflection points, intellectual revelations and moments of clarity.

But if we are honest with ourselves, we know that ink and paper cannot convey what it must be like to be an applicant’s classmate or suitemate. We have no idea how they speak, how they carry themselves — whether they are cocky or quiet, reflective or expressive. When it comes to personality, we are blindsided.

How can we claim to judge a person’s “fit” to Yale if we’ve never interacted with them in person at all?

Truth is, we cannot. Instituting the Coffee Test would require a huge increase in interviewers, but it would give the Admissions Committee an invaluable and more thorough look at a candidate’s personality.

C o n t ra r y to what some may believe, this test would not penalize introverts. The vast majority of the quieter, more reflecGENG people at NGARMBOON- tive Yale would still pass. The ANANT question isn’t “how talkative Imaginary you?” — Crosswalk are it’s “can you hold a conversation?” Yes, the most extreme introverts would likely be disadvantaged, but so would the extreme extroverts; after all, no one wants to get coffee with a person who can’t stop talking.

In fact, imposing an interview requirement would equalize the playing field. The current admissions process heavily evaluates self-expression through words on paper — hence, the personal essay. But the same process disadvantages students whose forte is expression through speech.

Mandating a Coffee Test would allow applicants to demonstrate their ability in both speaking and writing, making sure that both types of expressions are valued.

I am very mindful that interviews are subjective. There is always the danger that candidates may not connect well with their particular interviewer. Some may simply not interview well. Logistically, those who cannot get an alumni or on-campus interview will have to call in by phone — which may be a little more difficult to master.

But I remain firm that understanding a candidate’s personality is worth risking a slight increase in subjectivity. The current system — where some applicants are judged on interviews while others are not — is inherently less fair than one that mandates the interview for everyone.

I don’t claim to know what qualities make a Yalie. I don’t know what high school grades, what books, what life-changing experiences make one person more qualified to attend Yale than another.

The only thing I know is what we do. Every day, on this campus, we meet each other, converse with one another and build bonds over common ground. We learn from each other as much as from the readings our professors assign.

The whole idea of the Coffee Test is to give applicants a slice of our daily life — something as mundane as talking over a cup of coffee — and see how they do.

Nothing is more important than the person behind the application, and unveiling it requires much more than just pen and paper.

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'THEANTIYALE' ON 'BEST FRIENDS FOREVER?'

What makes a Yalie?

or some months into my freshman year, I defined Yalie-ness according to my suitemates, and I fell short of the standard they set. I had attended an average public school and so had my roommate, but unlike me, he had taken 19 AP exams, and he also had a favorite viola concerto.

Another suitemate, a graduate of a private all-boys school in D.C., decorated our common room with a mishmash of surrealist art and deep-space photography, and when he mentioned the “Pillars of Creation,” I didn’t know whether he was referencing the universe or Dali. (That title in fact belongs to a picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.) My first instinct was to compensate for their cultural capital by carving a certain allAmerican, Olive-Garden-frequenting, salt-of-the-earthrepresenting niche for myself, but this proved problematic, not only because I was in fact Brazilian, but also because my fourth suitemate was a Midwestern soccer player who, for most of his Yale career, thumbed away T9 texts on a flip phone.

All of which is to say: I didn’t feel I belonged at first. But then again, I think few Yalies do.

My parents both hold col-

lege degrees, and they live well enough in a suburb of Dallas, so I can’t honestly stake a claim in the conversation regardTEO ing first-generation and SOARES l ow- i n c o m e Traduções s t u d e n t s .

But it occurs to me that a consequence of this debate is that it forces us to consider Yale culture writ large.

We understand, tacitly, what is meant when we say students from certain backgrounds struggle to transition to Yale.

But what exactly does Yale require that some of us lack? I don’t mean academically — in the classroom, the disadvantages of a subpar high school are clear. What interests me are the subtle markers of Yalie-ness.

For example: Yalies own MacBooks, smartphones, blazers; they wear boat shoes in October and North Face jackets in November; they eat in restaurants that serve neither endless pasta bowls nor specials with names like “Lobsterfest” and “Admiral’s Feast”; they know

how to handle chopsticks; they shell out $1.75 for coffee at Starbucks while Atticus, less than 30 yards away, charges a flat buck.

And also: Yalies vacation abroad; they call New York “the city”; they have access to their parents’ credit card; they hold true a geography that includes places like Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard; in short, they show signs of what might be broadly labeled “privilege.”

I mention these stereotypes because I share them. In my head, I conceive a group of students to whom they apply. These are the real Yalies, the people who truly belong — and this is of course a fallacy.

That I weigh my own Yalieness against that standard is a defense mechanism, a way of coping with the fact that, even as a second-semester senior, I sometimes feel I don’t belong.

Framing my alienation in those terms makes it tangible, and also mendable. It didn’t take long into my freshman year before I bought a pair of Sperrys. The MacBook on which I’m writing this came my sophomore year.

That I owned neither Sperrys nor a MacBook when I first came to campus wasn’t the cause of my alienation, but the fact that I could afford them made me feel

a little more at home.

I’m cognizant, too, that I was able to buy these things because my parents could foot the bill, and that some students don’t have the same chance. For them, the alienation I describe is not mendable, and is therefore more real. This, in fact, is why we’re having this conversation. Transitioning to Yale — that is, fitting in at Yale — can be challenging if you can’t afford the things that brand you as a Yalie.

I can offer no concrete suggestions — I know too little about the mechanics and politics of financial aid — but I wonder: How did we come to accept iPhones and MacBooks and $1.75 cups of coffee as synonymous with Yalie-ness? Is it possible to conceive of a Yale experience divorced from these things? Can we untangle Yale culture from its cultural markers?

Maybe. And maybe we can hash this out over dinner. Olive Garden is offering a special: three-course meals for two for $25. The breadsticks are freshly baked and unlimited.

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

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In defense of 'midterms'

n college, one word can excuse any action. You can use it to justify missing deadlines, forgetting to talk to friends or even excusing those mornings when you wander into lecture in sweatpants, not skinny jeans.

Most recently, I used this word as the one-word note on a series of Snapchats that explained why, at 3 a.m., I was dipping pretzel sticks into a week-old can of frosting. No, Mom, the magic word isn’t “sorry” or “please” — it’s “midterms.”

Blaming midterms may seem like a slick excuse for a problem that could easily be solved by getting sleep and canceling your Netflix subscription. But — of all the complaints we make in college — nothing beats the pithiness of “midterms.” That one lonely word that captures all our feelings of dissatisfaction, even the ones we can’t exactly name.

Besides the first and last three weeks of class, it is always “midterm season,” so you can always complain about midterms. During midterm season, even if you do not have any tests or dead-

lines, it still is reasonable for you to, at any point: claim that you have too much work, distract people by talking about all the work that you are not doing, and then ignore these same people when they actually want to talk to you because, as you said before, you have too much work.

A cry of “midterms” also excuses some pretty hilarious habits in the name of the nearoccult influence of deadlines.

One of my friends listens to “All I Do Is Win” before all her tests. I once “accidentally” left my coat on a chair in the Silliman library for a week just so I could guarantee a chair close enough to the heater. I’ve even heard people blame the binge drinking associated with the now-deceased Safety Dance on pre-midterm anxiety.

I used to think that this obsession with stress was ridiculous.

When I first came to Yale from California, I was perplexed by what I saw as the pessimistic, East Coast attitude of actually complaining to other people.

In Los Angeles, stress is mostly

just an excuse for some “medical” treatment. When someone asks you how you’re doing, you respond with a smile. “Good, and you?”

I kept up this pattern throughout my freshman year, not realizing that my feigned optimism came across as oddly arrogant in my new serious home. At one point, a friend called me out when I told him that I was doing “pretty well!” — despite the fact that I had a paper due in three hours. “Really, on a Tuesday?” he accused me.

I feel awfully stupid looking back at that exchange. I mean, in going to Yale, I had signed up to be surrounded by exciting, driven people. But it took me some time to realize how exhausting that experience can be, even when things seem to be going well.

The typical Yale student, in my opinion, complains because he or she, despite whatever comes with being “a typical Yale student,” is not always happy. Do they have supportive friends?

Hopefully. Are their profes-

sors interesting? They should be. But college doesn’t always add up. There are also moments that seem undefined and leave you unprepared, when “I dunno, life’s just a lot right now.”

It may seem that we have very little to complain about; we are privileged, well-fed and wellsupported. And sometimes our complaints are ridiculous — no one actually wants to hear about your “bad” test grade. But that doesn’t mean that dissatisfaction doesn’t exist. You shouldn’t have to be happy even if you can’t name exactly what’s wrong.

“Midterms,” you say. And whether you are talking to your good friends or just a couple of acquaintances in section, they know the feeling, too. Maybe it’s just a bad week or a paper that doesn’t want to be written.

Maybe it’s something more.

“Ugh, midterms” — after all, we are only human.

JACKSON MCHENRY is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu .

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

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Tapley Stephenson

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venture.”

Don’t cry for me Venezuela C

hileans are known as a buttoned-up bunch in Latin America. We only legalized divorce in 2004, and envy the salsa dancing skills of our northern neighbors. We are a colder country, literally and figuratively. Other Latin Americans are surprised by Santiago’s tidy streets. They are shocked to meet Pinochet apologists (I am not one of them, but I have friends who are). Even Salvador Allende, our socialist president from the 1970s, preferred the politician’s suit and tie to the berets and uniforms of Chávez or Fidel.

Though I am left of center, I certainly have that Chilean conservative streak: Latin America should not cry over Hugo Chávez’s political demise. I mourn the death of a man, but I will not mourn the death of his project. Chávez kindled noble hopes of equality and justice for the poor, but this only makes failure even more tragic.

I sympathize with Chávez’s goals of redistribution in a region with bleak inequality. Even in relatively prosperous Chile, my high school years were marked by this invisible divide. You simply never met people who lived outside a certain part of the city. They dressed differently, spoke dif-

ferently. Many of the kids in my uptown school had never ridden the Santiago subway. I imagine that in pre-Chávez Venezuela, with a stronger racial barrier and after two decades of stagnation and corruption, inequality must have been even more painful. I understand the rise of Chavismo.

Two wrongs, however, do not make a right. Armed with idealism and petrodollars, Chávez could have done more for his country’s economy. With so much money, growth was inevitable. Yet after 14 years of 21st century socialism, the country’s infrastructure is in shambles, corruption remains pervasive and Venezuela has returned to the perennial Latin American curse of high inflation.

This I can forgive. As supporters point out, Chávez drastically reduced inequality and poverty. But what really bothers me is Chávez’s steady erosion of democratic rights. Democracy is more than free elections. I am sure he would have won anyways, but the 2012 election was hardly fair. Chávez’s candidacy violated the term limits of his own 1999 constitution. And can you imagine a U.S. presidential candidate refusing to debate with his opponent, denigrating him on

national television instead? He did this with his unlimited access to airtime. Chávez had also previously shut down several opposition media outlets. It is true that the opposition supported a coup attempt in 2002, but many apologists fail to mention Chávez’s own failed coup 10 years earlier.

These are hardly the actions of a committed democrat.

Some Chavistas argue that their leader’s social goals, coupled with the violations of earlier regimes, justified these democratic shortcomings. This comes awfully close to what I hear from my pro-Pinochet friends back home: that the ends justify the means, that some oppression is needed for an economic objective and that the predecessor violated rights more seriously anyway.

Latin America does not need to sacrifice democracy to achieve justice. Witness Chile. Under a stable democracy after 1990, with truly fair elections, no state control of the media and no acid insults of the opposition, we reduced poverty from 45 percent to 15 percent and have begun to decrease inequality. Brazil is now tracing a similar path.

Political polarization is Chávez’s most dangerous legacy. The Venezuelan body pol-

itic is sick, just as Chile’s was in the 1970s and '80s. I recall older relatives telling me of the hatreds of our past. Families in the early '70s were divided. People stocked arms and began seeing their opposition, left or right, as less than human. When my father voted against Pinochet in 1988, my conservative grandfather would not talk to him during the election. My great-grandmother cried when the leftists won, afraid that the “communists” would take her furniture away. Venezuela’s social bonds were similarly eroded whenever Chávez called his opposition swine or devils, refused to debate with them, refused even to acknowledge their right to dissent. Political hatred is a dangerous tool.

As Yalies, we should try to understand a complex situation.

We should take a nuanced view on politics, one that is not black and white. This is why I support some of Chávez’s goals. But Chávez himself did not take this view. He leaves behind a house divided.

I mourn for Venezuela and the hatreds Hugo Chávez has sown.

DIEGO SALVATIERRA is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at diego.salvatierra@yale.edu.

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“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.”

BILL COSBY AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

CORRECTION

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27

The article “Architecture professors discuss Latrobe” misquoted Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02 as saying, “You could conceptualize [my and Joyce Hsiang’s ’99 ARC ’03 project ‘Urban Sphere: The City of 7 Billion’] as three pods,” when in fact he said “three parts.”

Yale partners with University of Delhi

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER As part of efforts to expand its influence and communication with South Asia, Yale is partnering with other schools to create a global justice program in India.

Thomas Pogge, founder of the Global Justice Program at Yale, first teamed up with professors from the University of Delhi and the University of Birmingham in October 2011 to create a program in the Indian capital to raise awareness about global justice and to find concrete solutions to poverty in India. The professors received roughly 50,000 pounds ($75,000) in funding from the British Council, an organization that promotes cultural relationships between the United Kingdom and other nations, to create the Nyaya Global Justice Programme at the University of Delhi.

“We aim to build on our understanding of poverty and bridge the divide between what we understand and what we must do,” said Ashok Acharya, a political science professor at University of Delhi, on Wednesday.

Acharya, a visiting professor at Yale this year, said the program will create an idea platform through which academics will advise activists and government officials on methods of responding to poverty in India. One of the plans for the project, he said, is a class on global human rights that will be streamed online for students at Yale and New Delhi.

The grant from the British Council will also serve to support a student exchange program between the three universities, Acharya said. The program will encourage a “trilateral mobility” and hopefully build a new generation of students devoted to the cause of global rights, he said.

Yale will welcome the first visiting student in the Nyaya program, a research scholar from New Delhi who studies voting rights in India, in April.

“This is not just a resource center,” Acharya said. “It has to help develop a second generation of leadership, create an ongoing dialogue that will not stop when I leave.”

Pogge, who collaborates closely with Acharya, said the program is innovative because it includes scholars in discussions of world issues, adding that scholars can contribute knowledge that could improve the efficiency of nongovernmental organizations.

Acharya and Pogge said they intend to use the 50,000 pound budget carefully.

“We don’t want to be one of those organizations pretending to save the world but really spending all of their money on airfares and destroying the planet ecologically,” said Pogge.

George Joseph, director for Asia and the Leadership Programs at Yale’s Office of International Affairs, said the Nyaya Global Justice Programme will help support the University’s goals of creating initiatives in India and South Asia.

We don’t want to be one of those organizations pretending to save the world but really spending all their money on airfares.

THOMAS POGGE Founder, Global Justice Program at Yale Though he said he was not directly involved in creating the program, University President Richard Levin said Yale encourages professors to participate in initiatives like this one.

“This is an example of a faculty member … getting engaged in an international partnership,” Levin said. “[This is] exactly the type of thing we want to promote — for faculty to be entrepreneurial about international engagements.”

“Nyaya” is the Hindi word for “justice.”

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

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WHIFFENPOOFS AND WHIM ‘N RHYTHM TAP NEW CLASS The 28 juniors who will spend next year harmonizing and touring the world were welcomed into their new a cappella groups Wednesday night.

Hunger programs face cuts

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER As a result of the nationwide sequester that began on March 1, Connecticut will face substantial cuts to both elderly nutrition programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC. According to data from Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that works to alleviate hunger through a nationwide network of food banks, the sequester will decrease Connecticut’s elderly nutrition program funding by approximately $201,000, and around 3,900 Connecticut women and children will be dropped from WIC. The decline in funding comes on the heels of a Food Research and Action Center report in February, which found that statewide, 14.6 percent of Connecticut residents are affected by hunger.

The nationwide survey, conducted by Gallup over the course of a year, asked 1,000 individuals per day, “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?”

At 18.2 percent, the national average was higher than that of Connecticut, which ranks 45th among states in “food hardship,” according to the report.

David Dearborn, a communications officer at the Connecticut Department of Social Services, said the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the department’s “principal antihunger program,” is not affected by the sequester, but the department will see a reduction in its elderly nutrition funding budget. Kathleen Kabara, another communications officer at the Connecticut Department of Social Services, said total elderly nutrition funding in Connecticut in the 2012 fiscal year amounted to $9.2 million.

The New Haven-Milford area, with a food hardship rate that is ranked 68th out of “100 Large Metropolitan Statistical Areas” at 15.7 percent, will be the hardest hit by the nutrition funding cuts, according to the report. The Hartford area comes in at 82nd, with a food hardship rate of 13.7 percent.

According to William Gerrish, director of the office of communications at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the state’s WIC budget for food vouchers is approximately $35 million, and the WIC administration budget, which funds vendors, is approximately $12.7 million. WIC currently serves around 57,000 Connecticut women and children, he added.

While both Temporary Assistance

for Needy Families and SNAP, a federal food stamp program, are exempt from sequestration, WIC is listed as a discretionary expense, and thus is not exempt from the federal budget cuts.

“Any time you have cuts to funding for nutrition assistance, there’s a domino effect on food banks and the support network for the most vulnerable,” said Mary Ingarra, communications director of the Connecticut Food Bank, noting that the cuts’ increased burden on food banks will prevent food banks from “keeping up with demand.”

The Connecticut Food Bank, which works through 600 food assistance programs in six counties, currently provides food and grocery products for 300,000 people and “continues to see unprecedented need because of the recession,” Ingarra said. From 2008 to the present, some programs within the Connecticut Food Bank have reported anywhere from 30 to 100 percent increases in demand, she added.

The Gallup survey on food hardship rates was conducted as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and began in January 2008.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

Eidelson pushes youth agenda at committee meeting

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 continued her advocacy for policies to improve the health and welfare of Elm City children last night at a New Haven Youth Services Committee meeting.

The committee, which Eidelson chairs, is currently working on converting the Dixwell Community “Q” House into a community center for youth and families, researching potential locations for future community centers through the Citywide Youth Spaces Feasibility Studies, and shrinking city crime using the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Youth Violence Prevention Grant. The committee discussed the progress of each of these initiatives and brainstormed how to include New Haven youth in an ongoing conversation to improve their quality of life.

“I was really inspired to work on this youth agenda by the movement that was being led by people in the city already,” Eidelson said.

“I’ve been really struck by how much young people are mobilizing and fighting for themselves.”

The Q House, which is located at 197 Dixwell Ave., closed six years ago. Currently, the city has allocated $40,000 in funding to the Q House project to determine whether the building is structurally sound or needs to be knocked down. The youth committee

expects to hear a report from Q House contractors in approximately a month, Eidelson said.

However, the committee does not have an estimated date for when the Q House will begin to be refurbished, and Eidelson said there will be a chance for community input before the project is finalized.

“We’ve been trying to make it a community process. That makes it slower, and that makes it substantially better,” Eidelson said.

I’ve been really struck by how much young people are mobilizing and fighting for themselves.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Alderman, Ward 1 However, Ward 23 Alderman Tyisha Walker, vice president of the youth committee, said that securing the $40,000 funding and hiring contractors is a strong step in the right direction.

“We should all be excited and encouraged,” she said. “We just need to stay focused and keep our eye on the prize, and we’ll get there.”

Committee members discussed creating a network of youth cen-

ters spread across the city. The committee envisioned that each facility will provide a different service, ranging from recreational services to legal support or academic help.

Ward 14 Alderman Santiago Berrios-Bones marked his first meeting attendance as an official youth committee member. He said that he wanted to be involved in the youth committee because he is concerned that young men are not set up to succeed in school and life.

“Females are going to college and getting degrees, but men aren’t,” Berrios-Bones explained.

Committee members also discussed ways to involve youth in their decision-making process. Some of the concepts discussed included visiting schools and identifying youth leaders in neighborhoods. While different ideas were discussed, members of the committee were unanimously convinced that reaching out to youth in New Haven would be useful so that they do not feel like “everybody is talking about them but nobody is trying to include them in the conversation,” Walker said.

At the meeting, Eidelson also distributed a letter from Sen. Chris Murphy expressing his gratitude for his meeting with New Haven youth on Feb. 20.

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

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As youth committee chair, Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 is propelling the Elm City youth agenda forward.

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“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” GOLDA MEIR FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL

Yale-NUS to limit number of visiting professors

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Thirty-four Yale professors will travel to Singapore to hold temporary faculty positions at Yale-NUS College over the next four years, teaching two-week or full-term courses on a regular basis.

YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 gapore. The number, which currently stands at 34, “might get bigger but also smaller,” he said. Lewis added that the college always planned to make teaching at Yale-NUS a regular opportunity for Yale professors.

“As faculty go over [to Singapore] and experience it, my guess is there’ll be others who hear about it and will want to try it out,” Levin said.

Though Levin said professors will be able to accommodate trips to Singapore to instruct two-week courses in August and March when Yale is not in session, Lewis said Yale-NUS will limit the number of faculty hired to teach semester-long courses to three or four per semester beginning in 2015, before which fewer than three or four professors will visit YaleNUS per semester. This cap will lessen the burden of absent faculty on Yale

departments, according to the statement. Lewis said roughly 200 of Yale’s approximately 700 professors are on leave at any given time, adding that three or four others leaving to teach at Yale-NUS will have a comparatively small impact on the University.

The Yale-NUS appointments committee, which is made up of five senior members of the Yale-NUS faculty including the president and dean of the faculty, will evaluate all applications for visiting faculty positions at the Singaporean college. Salovey told the News on Monday that on Yale’s end, the provost must approve all applications before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee reviews them in the same process as it would review an application for a leave.

Yale-NUS will fund salaries for the FAS professors who teach semesterlong courses, and the University will

credit a portion of the salary savings in New Haven to the home department of the faculty members in question. The amount that Yale will compensate the professors’ departments will be an approximation of their salaries based on their rank, Lewis said, adding that the amount will reflect the cost to departments of replacing faculty members who leave to teach in Singapore. Lewis also said the use of the credited funds will be up to each department’s discretion, and he added that he expects many departments will use the money to invite speakers or to conduct research. Polak could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

The University’s announcement said the Yale-NUS Faculty Advisory Committee, composed of Yale faculty, will evaluate the impact of the YaleNUS visiting appointments on academic life in New Haven. But French

and African-American studies professor Christopher Miller, a noted opponent of Yale-NUS, questioned the objectivity of such an evaluation.

“The body doing the evaluating will be the advisory committee, made up of those already involved in and committed to the project,” Miller said. “So there will be no independent assessment of the impact of Yale-NUS on Yale-New Haven.”

Lewis said roughly half the members of the advisory committee do not serve as visiting or consulting professors at the new college, adding that the committee’s makeup will guarantee a fair evaluation.

Yale-NUS will open in August 2013.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu.

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

EXCERP TS FROM THE YA L E - N U S FA C T S H E E T Yale faculty members will receive regular notifications of the opportunity to apply for visiting appointments to teach one or more courses at Yale-NUS College.

Selection of faculty (visiting and otherwise) is conducted by the Yale-NUS appointments committee, comprising five senior members of the Yale-NUS faculty including the president and dean of the faculty.

Visiting appointments at Yale-NUS College are not counted as leave from Yale University, nor do they count as teaching at Yale toward a faculty member’s future leave eligibility.

UCS sets up regular staff hours in Dwight Hall UCS OFFICE FROM PAGE 1 piloted a student peer adviser program in the residential colleges in 2003, but the Dwight Hall partnership marks the first time it has set up regular staff hours outside of its office.

For the opening day of the new satellite office on Friday, Dames herself will be the adviser present in the Dwight Hall library.

“Although it ends up being right before spring break, I hope people come,” she said. “This is certainly the beginning of what we hope will be a larger partnership [with Dwight Hall].”

Currently situated nearly a mile away from Old Campus, UCS’s faroff location has drawn complaints in the past from students unhappy about making the trek. All five stu-

dents interviewed were pleased to hear they could receive counseling in a closer location.

This is certainly the beginning of what we hope will be a larger partnership [with Dwight Hall].

JEANINE DAMES Director, Undergraduate Career Services “I’ve never been to UCS, but I feel like if it were closer, I’d probably be more willing to go,” David ShatanPardo ’15 said.

Shatan-Pardo added that he thinks having the hours in Dwight Hall is

a smart idea because it may attract freshmen who live close by and would not otherwise be inclined to make the walk for career advice so early in their college experience.

Acampora said students visit UCS advisers for many reasons, ranging from interview tips to job search inquiries. Katie Aburizik ’13, who has visited UCS multiple times, said UCS generally offers “empowering” advice about broad career interests, though it does not do as well at answering specific questions.

UCS will hold its satellite office hours regularly for the rest of the academic year. The new satellite office hours will not replace UCS regular adviser hours, which will still be held at 55 Whitney.

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

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On Friday, Michael Salazar MUS ’13 will perform his degree recital on one of the world’s finest organs — the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall.

Salazar will perform “choral fantasies” — rhapsodic compositions that include variations on a theme — by two early 20th-century German composers, as well as a prelude and fugue by Maurice Duruflé and a sonata by Felix Mendelssohn. The choral fantasies will be the “centerpiece” of Friday’s program, which Salazar said he discovered while researching at Yale’s libraries. Salazar said the libraries are just one part of the “vast wealth of resources” that attracted him to Yale — also including a two-person organ faculty, seven historic organs, the School of Music, the Divinity School and local professional opportunities.

The choral fantasies, which both draw upon the same German Lutheran chorale, were written by Heinrich Reimann and Max Reger in the same decade. He added that Reimann likely influenced Reger’s choral fantasy and later works.

Salazar said these connections motivated him to juxtapose the two works in Friday’s program. Salazar will also perform an organ sonata by Mendelssohn and “Prelude and Fugue on the Name of A.L.A.I.N.” by Duruflé, who dedicated the work to organist and composer Jehan Alain and translated his name into notes to compose the main theme.

The organ program is part of the Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study of sacred music, worship and related arts. A gift in 1973 established the institute, under which the organ program has secured its longevity, organ professor Martin Jean said. Yale’s dual strengths in the School of Music and Divinity School motivated the donors to establish the institute at Yale, he explained.

Salazar studies with Jean, one of two professors at the institute. In addition to having a faculty size as large as only three other schools in the country, Yale has seven organs, which are among the

“best in the world,” Jean said. The organs in Dwight Memorial Chapel, Battell Chapel and Marquand Chapel, the ISM’s two organs and the Woolsey organ — one of the largest in the country — are all open to student performance, he said. “[The Woolsey organ] is enormous and one of the most beautiful organs in terms of voicing,” Salazar said.

Jean and Salazar said Yale provides opportunities for practical experience playing the organ. The chapels on campus and in New Haven hire students to play in worship services, and the New England area provides more opportunities for organists than the Midwest or Southwest, Salazar said. As a secular university, Yale is unusual in having been built near so many Christian churches, Jean added.

[The Woolsey organ] is enormous and one of the most beautiful organs in terms of voicing.

MICHAEL SALAZAR MUS ’13 Organ improvisation classes have given students practical tools to use for their careers, lecturer Jeffrey Brillhart said. Churches often need transitional music between different parts of their services, and the ability to create music on the spot ensures that an organist will play for an appropriate length of time, he explained. Communion, for instance, is not always five minutes long, so a fiveminute written work may not always be appropriate, he said.

“For me personally, I have trouble without the music in front of me, so this has been an expansive and creative outlet,” Salazar said.

The organ recital will take place at 8 p.m. Friday in Woolsey Hall.

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

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“I watched ‘Titanic’ when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.” STEPHEN KING AMERICAN AUTHOR KNOWN FOR HIS WORK IN THE HORROR AND FANTASY GENRES

Facing state cuts, DeStefano presents budget options BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 the city’s general fund budget from $486 million to $503 million, a 3 percent increase from the current fiscal year budget, DeStefano said. All of the proposed budgets include a $3 million increase for the Board of Education, a $2 million increase in public safety funding and a $1 million rise in general government expenditures, highlighting the city’s commitment to school change, public safety and economic development. Funding for all other city services will be kept flat, and no city employees will be laid off.

The variations among the proposals account for the uncertainty surrounding six possible state cuts to city revenue and the consequent increases in property taxes — represented by rising mill rates — to accommodate these reductions. Taken together, DeStefano said the funding reductions represent the “biggest change in state-local tax structure” he has ever seen.

They include a $3.5 million cut in public school transportation funding and multimillion-dollar cuts to payment-in-lieu-oftaxes (PILOT) programs for manufacturing and property, some of which may be offset by increased funding from the Education Cost Sharing Grant.

The city might also lose $3.85 million in state-municipal revenue-sharing funds allocated from state sales and real estate taxes to municipalities and $6.9 million in the form of the Pequot-Mohegan Grant, which distributes taxes from casino revenue in the state.

A final reduction, which would cost the city $14.2 million in tax revenue by eliminating the motor vehicle tax for the first $20,000 of the assessed value of a vehicle, is also on the table.

DeStefano said after Wednesday’s presentation that the first option, which assumes there will be no change in state aid to the city, is “likely.” Such an outcome, he added, depends on Board of

Aldermen lobbying efforts.

“The city can’t go quietly in what is a fundamental change in how we finance local government,” DeStefano said. “We need to think about how the board gets engaged in lobbying.”

Even with no additional cuts, however, the first budget option would involve an increase of 2.09 in the mill rate from the current rate of 38.88, amounting to a $12.33 million increase in city property taxes.

DeStefano’s second option, which he formally submitted to the board, assumes that all of the funding reductions go through, save the elimination of the motor vehicle tax. Under these cuts, state aid to New Haven would diminish a total of $10 million from $208.9 million to $198.9 million, causing the mill rate to go up by 4.43 and a property tax increase of $26.14 million.

The third option DeStefano presented assumes that all state funding reductions go through, including the motor vehicle tax.

This final scenario would result in a reduction in city revenue of nearly $28 million and necessitates a 7.35 rise in the mill rate and $43.37 million increase in city property taxes.

City officials were split on the likelihood of the state nixing the motor tax. New Haven Chief of Staff Sean Matteson said the elimination of the tax was “palatable” among congressmen who “want to say they’re lowering taxes.” Perez agreed, saying his constituents in Ward 5 favor getting rid of the tax. DeStefano countered that “the general assembly is not in love with the idea.”

Losses under the second and third options are partially offset by an extra $3.8 million increase in funding for the Board of Education under the Education Cost Sharing Grant.

But DeStefano challenged the real impact of this increase, saying more funding in the form of Education Cost Sharing masks larger cuts.

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has put forward three different budget proposals to account for the uncertainty surrounding state cuts to city revenue.

“The governor would say the ECS is increasing and that he’s putting more money into education. But it’s just like him taking money out of our right pocket and putting it into our left and calling it something else,” he said.

“The money coming from the PILOT programs has underwritten our economic growth.”

He added that New Haven depends on state grants to make up for financial pressures unique to the Elm City, such as a large homeless population and widespread property tax exemptions.

Ward 13 Alderman Brenda

Jones-Barnes said she was worried about increasing mill rates, citing existing dissatisfaction regarding burdensome taxes among her constituents.

“My reaction to the budget details is really just ‘wow,’” she said after DeStefano’s presentation. “We need to think about whether people are going to want to stay in New Haven or whether they’re just going to get up and leave.”

Perez echoed concerns about rising property taxes, saying the board would be “reluctant” to pass a budget that included tax

increases. He said that most of his colleagues have not yet had the chance to review details or to consider alternate revenue-saving measures.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said the board has already met with the New Haven’s state congressional delegation to try to forestall the cuts.

“The aldermen are in lockstep with our state delegation, and we are all unified in speaking out against this,” he said. “The governor can’t balance the state budget on the backs of our cities and towns.”

Adam Joseph, spokesman for the state Senate Democrats, said it’s still too early to determine whether the various funding reductions will go through. He added that state legislators have been meeting with mayors from across the state to discuss concerns about the budget’s effect on their cities.

Malloy’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 totals $21.5 billion.

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

Three years later, Smilow nationally ranked SMILOW FROM PAGE 1 in hospital construction that emphasizes increased personal space for patients, Lynch said.

The building itself is a “breakthrough as a cancer hospital” because its design helps reduce hospital-borne infections and

improves the patient’s and family’s experiences, he added.

“We have a remarkable physical facility, and the benefit is that we’re the most recently built,” Lynch said. “Smilow follows the trend towards single rooms and amenities for patients and families, which was never appre-

ciated in hospital construction before.”

While both Lynch and Herbst said they are proud of Smilow for garnering national recognition in only a few years, they added that they are determined to continue improving the cancer center.

Every patient is sent a survey to comment on his or her experience at Smilow, and every month, hospital administration pools the data from these responses to look for opportunities for improvement, Lynch said, adding that the hospital has become more “patient-

focused” as a result. Herbst said he foresees that Smilow will “climb up in the numbers every year,” especially as the hospital attracts more patients from Boston, New York, other states and even other countries.

“New Haven is not Boston or New York, so people come to

Smilow because we have a product they want — better hope and better care,” he said.

Smilow opened on Oct. 22, 2009.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, MARCH 7 2:00 PM “Of Human Bondage: The History of Slavery in California” Jean Pfaelzer, current Beinecke visiting fellow, will give a talk focusing on three eras of slavery in California: the capture of Aleutian otter hunters by Russian fur traders, AfricanAmericans transported to the gold fields, and girls kidnapped from the southern coast of China and sold in dens in San Francisco.

Open to the general public. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.), Room 39.

5:00 PM “Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine” Wendy Cadge, professor of sociology at Brandeis University, will give the Dobihal Lecture in Medical Humanities. Cadge will talk about religion and spirituality in large academic hospitals and how religious diversity is addressed by staff. Sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine. Free and open to the general public.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8 11:30 AM “Broadcasting Your Work: Publication Trajectories in the Google Scholar Age” Political science professor Nikolay Marinov will cover some simple things scholars can do to augment the impact of their work. Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m., and the talk begins at noon. Free and open to the general public. Kline Biology Tower (219 Prospect St.), CSSSI Stat Lab.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 2:00 PM “Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon” Directed by Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon. Part of the film series “Edwardian Opulence on Film,” which accompanies the exhibition “Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the 20th Century.” Free and open to the general public. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.), Lecture Hall.

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nomination to an end, if not on Thursday, then Friday or next week. Reid had pushed for a confirmation vote Wednesday.

Paul began speaking shortly before noon on what he said was the Obama administration’s refusal to rule out the use of drone strikes inside U.S. borders against American citizens. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Jerry Moran, R-Kan., Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined Paul briefly three hours into the debate but turned it back to him. Wyden has long pressed for greater oversight of the use of drones.

Holder came close to making the statement Paul wanted earlier in the day during an exchange with Cruz at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, according to Paul.

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WASHINGTON — A Republican critic of the Obama administration’s drone policy mounted a self-described filibuster Wednesday to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan to take over as director of the CIA. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took the floor shortly before noon. With intermittent support from other conservatives holding similar views, plus Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Paul spoke almost continuously for five hours before Majority Leader Harry Reid tried but failed to move to a vote on Brennan.

Paul resumed his oration, snacking on some candy at the dinner hour while continuing to speak. At one point, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill, who walks haltingly

with a cane because of a stroke, delivered a canister of hot tea and an apple to Paul’s desk, but a doorkeeper removed them.

The Kentucky senator, who is the son of former Texas Rep. and libertarian leader Ron Paul, offered to cease if President Barack Obama or Attoney General Eric Holder issued a statement assuring that drones would not be used in the United States to kill terrorism suspects who are U.S. citizens.

Later in the evening Paul offered to allow a vote on Brennan if the Senate would vote on his resolution stating that the use of the unmanned, armed aircraft on U.S. soil against American citizens violates the Constitution. Democrats rejected the offer.

Reid, D-Nev., said he planned to file a motion to bring debate over Brennan’s

WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Wednesday to prevent a government shutdown this month while easing the shortterm impact of $85 billion in spending cuts — at the same time previewing a longer-term plan to erase federal deficits without raising taxes.

President Barack Obama pursued a different path as the GOP asserted its budget priorities.

He arranged to have dinner with several Republican senators at a hotel near the White House in search of bipartisan support for a deficit-cutting approach that includes the higher taxes he seeks as well as savings from Medicare and other benefit programs that they stress.

Any such compromise talks are unlikely to yield fruit for months, if then, although Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget plan, expressed hope that some progress across party lines might be possible later in the year.

“I think this whole thing will come to a crescendo this summer, and we’re going to have to talk to each other to get an agreement about how to delay a debt crisis, how to save this country from a fiscal train wreck that’s coming,” said Ryan, who was the Republicans’ vice presidential candidate last year. He added that he had spoken with Obama in recent days, but he declined to provide details.

For now, the divided government’s immediate objectives are to prevent a shutdown of federal

agencies on March 27, at the same time lawmakers and the White House look for ways to ease the impact of across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in less than a week ago.

The legislation that cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 267–151 would do both, ensuring funding through the Sept. 30 end of the budget year while granting the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs greater flexibility in implementing their share of short-term spending cuts.

“This is all about whether or not we shut down the government. This is a bill to keep the government operating,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Committee.

Minority Democrats appeared torn between a desire to support legislation to keep the government open and their goal of replacing at least half of the spending cuts with provisions to increase revenue.

“Instead of closing tax loopholes for corporate jets, they want to cut 4 million meals on wheels,” the party’s House leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, said of Republicans.

The bill passed with the support of 53 Democrats, more than a quarter of those voting.

It now goes to the Senate, where Democrats and the White House are deep in negotiations with Republicans on changes that would give the Department of Homeland Security and other domestic agencies the same type of flexibility in administering the spending cuts that the Pentagon would receive.

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“I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.”

HUGO CHAVEZ LATE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT

A day of tears after Chavez’s death in Venezuela

BY PAUL HAVEN ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez’s tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, an epic farewell to a larger-than-life leader remembered simply as “our commander.”

In a display of raw, and at times, unruly emotion, generations of Venezuelans, many dressed in the red of Chavez’s socialist party, filled Caracas’ streets Wednesday to remember the man who dominated their country for 14 years before succumbing to cancer.

Chavez’s flag-draped coffin floated over hundreds of thousands of supporters as it made its way atop an open hearse on a seven-hour journey to a military academy in the capital, where it will lie in state. Mourners, many of them weeping, lined the streets or walked with the casket, which followed the lead of a grim drum major dressed in Chavez’s trademark red.

Mourners shouted out “nuestro comandante” — “our commander,” in English — as the coffin passed.

But even amid the mass outpouring of grief, questions about the country’s future could not be put off for long, with worries amplified by the government’s lack of regard for the letter of the constitution, and the military’s eagerness to choose political sides.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro, the late president’s handpicked successor, and Bolivian President Evo Morales, one of his staunchest allies, mingled with the crowd, at one point falling to the ground in the jostle of bodies pushing in every direction. Military officers and Cabinet members ringed the president’s coffin, stone-faced with grief.

Other mourners pumped their fists and held aloft images of the late president, amid countless waving yellow, blue and red Venezuelan flags.

“The fight goes on! Chavez lives!” the mourners shouted in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night.

Chavez’s bereaved mother, Elena Frias de Chavez, leaned against her son’s casket, while

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Covered by objects placed by supporters, the coffin carrying the body of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez travels through the streets of Caracas. a priest read a prayer before the procession left the military hospital where Chavez died Tuesday at age 58. His funeral is scheduled for Friday.

“I feel so much pain. So much pain,” said Yamile Gil, a 38-yearold housewife. “We never wanted to see our president like this. We will always love him.”

Others who bitterly opposed Chavez’s take-no-prisoners brand of socialism said they were sorry about his death, but hopeful it would usher in a less confrontational, more business-friendly era in this major oil-producing country. Under his leadership, the state expropriated key industries, raised taxes on the rich and forced many opponents into exile.

“I am not happy that he has

died, but I can’t be sad either,” said Delia Ramirez, a 32-yearold accountant who stayed away from the procession. “This man sowed hatred and division among Venezuelans.”

Even as Chavistas said their goodbyes, a sense of foreboding gripped the country as it awaited word on what might come next.

Many Venezuelans, fearful of possible violence, stocked up on food and fuel as the country pondered whether the former paratrooper’s socialist agenda would survive him, and for how long.

The 1999 constitution that Chavez himself pushed through mandates that elections be called within 30 days, but Chavez’s top lieutenants have not always stuck to the letter of the law.

Peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights

BY EDITH M. LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Armed fighters linked to the Syrian opposition detained 21 U.N. peacekeepers Wednesday in the increasingly volatile zone separating Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights, a new escalation in the spillover of Syria’s civil war.

The U.N. Security Council demanded their immediate and unconditional release.

The capture comes a week after the announcement that a member of the peacekeeping force is missing. The force, known as UNDOF, was established in 1974 following the 1973 Yom Kippur War to monitor the disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces and maintain a cease-fire.

Israeli officials have grown increasingly jittery as the Syrian war moves closer to Israel. There have been several instances in which stray fire has landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, and Israel is concerned that Syrian weapons could fall into the hands of hostile groups and be used against Israel. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, and Syria wants the land returned in exchange for peace.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current Security Council president, said talks are under way between U.N. officials from the peacekeeping force and the captors.

U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous, who briefed the council behind closed doors, identified the captors as being from a group associated with the Syrian armed opposition, Churkin said.

“There was no fighting, according to his briefing to us,” Churkin said. “My understanding is that they took over the trucks in which the UNDOF personnel was moving around.”

Churkin said the capture of the

peacekeepers “is particularly unacceptable and bizarre” because the UNDOF peacekeepers are unarmed and their mission has nothing to do with Syria’s internal conflict.

“They are there on a completely different mission, so there is no reason at all under any circumstances, any kind of sick imagination to try to harm those people,” he said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon also condemned the capture of the 21 peacekeepers, U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said.

There is no reason at all under any circumstances, any kind of sick imagination to try to harm those people.

VITALY CHURKIN President, U.N. Security Council Del Buey said the U.N. observers were on a regular supply mission when they were stopped by approximately 30 armed fighters near an observation post that was damaged in heavy combat last weekend and had been evacuated.

A video posted online by activists showed a group of armed rebels standing around at least three white U.N. vehicles with the words UNDOF on them, allegedly in the village of Jamlah in Daraa province.

The video, circulated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the peacekeepers being held by the rebels are 20 Filipinos.

It accuses the peacekeepers of assisting the Syrian regime to redeploy in an area near the Golan that the fighters had seized a few days ago in battles that left 11 fighters and 19 regime forces dead.

The charter clearly states that the speaker of the National Assembly, in this case Diosdado Cabello, should become interim president if a head of state is forced to leave office within three years of his election. Chavez was re-elected only in October.

But Chavez anointed Maduro for that role, and the vice president has assumed the mantle even as the government announced he would represent the ruling socialist party in the presidential vote.

Some took to Twitter to denounce the move, citing Article 233 of the constitution, which establishes Cabello as the rightful president.

The military also appears to be showing firm support for Mad-

uro, despite a constitutional mandate that it play no role in politics. In a late-night tweet, Venezuelan state television said Defense Minister Adm. Diego Molero had pledged military support for Maduro’s candidacy against likely opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, raising concern among critics about the fairness of the vote.

Capriles, the 40-year-old governor of Miranda state who lost to Chavez in October, was conciliatory in a televised address Tuesday.

“This is not the moment to highlight what separates us,” Capriles said. “This is not the hour for differences; it is the hour for union, it is the hour for peace.”

Other opposition leaders were

more critical of the military stance.

“When all Venezuela wants unity and peace, and a climate of respect between Venezuelans predominates, they’re contrasted by what’s unacceptable, the declarations of the minister of defense, that are, besides false, unconstitutional,” said Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, executive secretary of the opposition coalition.

If elected, Maduro would still face a stiff challenge replacing the ultra-charismatic Chavez, who parlayed a folksy nationalism and stiff resolve into a virtual oneman government, maintaining support among the poor despite food shortages, rampant crime and inflation topping 20 percent.

Cardinals impose blackout

BY NICOLE WINFIELD AND RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — In the end, American-style transparency was no match for the Vatican’s obsession with secrecy.

Cardinals attending closed-door discussions ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope imposed a media blackout Wednesday, forcing the cancellation of the popular daily press briefings by U.S. cardinals that had provided crucial insights into the deliberations.

The official reason for the blackout was that some details of the secret discussions about the problems in the church appeared in the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

But speculation mounted that the underlying aim of the blackout was to silence the Americans, who have been vocal in their calls for disclosure about allegations of corruption and dysfunction in the Holy See’s governance before they enter the conclave to elect a successor to Benedict XVI. As a result, the conflict appears to be a microcosm of the likely battle lines heading into the election: American and German cardinals have indicated they want a pope who will impose some order on the Vatican’s inner workings, while the Vaticanbased cardinals are defending their record and seeking to end the discussion.

One Italian cardinal said the Curia, or the Vatican bureaucracy, had been sorely maligned and that he could “only say good things about it.”

“In the Curia, the pope has a docile tool that does exactly what he wants and tries to help him in the best of ways,” Italian media quoted Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the retired administrator of the Vatican City State as saying during a book launch Tuesday. “Of course it can always be improved.”

That picture is at odds with evidence of turf battles, Machiavellian machinations and allegations of

corruption and cronyism that were exposed last year when private papal documents were leaked to an Italian journalist. The documents paint a portrait of an utterly dysfunctional, ungovernable Italian bureaucracy.

The Vatican denied it had exerted any pressure on the American cardinals to keep quiet and cancel their briefings. But the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, made clear that the Holy See considered this week’s pre-conclave meetings to be secret and part of a solemn process to choose a pope, suggesting that he didn’t necessarily appreciate the Americans’ candor.

In the Curia, the pope has a docile tool that does exactly what he wants.

GIOVANNI LAJOLO Cardinal, Catholic Church “The College [of Cardinals] as a whole has decided to maintain a line of an increasing degree of reserve,” he said.

The debate played out as the Vatican awaited the arrival of the last voting-age cardinal: Vietnamese Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, who was expected in Rome on Thursday. With his arrival, the College of Cardinals was expected to be able to set a date for the start of the conclave, where 115 men will select the next pontiff.

The spokeswoman for the U.S. cardinals, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, said Wednesday’s briefing and all cardinal interviews were canceled after other cardinals expressed concern about the content of articles in Italian daily La Stampa, which over the past several days reported details of comments individual cardinals made in the closed-door meetings.

La Stampa reported Wednesday, for example, that the head of the Vatican’s legal office had told the cardinals of the need for improved coordination among the various Vatican offices and better communication between the Holy See and local dioceses. None of those details came from the American briefing, where the U.S. cardinals took pains to stress the secrecy of the actual proceedings.

“I don’t think anyone was angry at the Americans. They were angry at La Stampa,” Walsh told The Associated Press.

“In true old-style Catholic school teacher fashion, someone talks and everybody stays after school,” Walsh said. She added that the Americans had been assured that the Vatican was pleased with their briefings.

Perhaps. But Lombardi’s palpable irritation suggested otherwise.

Italian media reported that Vaticanbased cardinals wanted the election to take place quickly and speculated that Italian cardinals in particular were displeased with the Americans for making clear they were requesting more information about the Vatican’s internal governance problems. The implication was the Rome-based cardinals didn’t want the Vatican’s dirty laundry aired out.

Cardinals Daniel DiNardo of Texas and Sean O’Malley of Boston said in Tuesday’s briefing that they favored taking a longer time for pre-conclave discussions to gather more information.

“We need to give it the time that’s necessary,” O’Malley told the packed press conference at the North American College, the U.S. seminary up the hill from the Vatican. “I believe the feeling of the cardinals is that we want to have enough time in the general congregations, so that when we go to the conclave itself, it’s a time of decision.”

Drawing laughs, O’Malley added: “And it is hard to get a bad meal in Rome.”

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AROUND THE IVIES

“One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.”

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Wharton cancels keynote speaker

SEAS anticipates faculty growth

BY BRIAN C. ZHANG STAFF WRITER

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The Wharton India Economic Forum revoked its invitation to the controversial Narendra Modi to give the keynote lecture.

BY HUIZHONG WU STAFF WRITER The Wharton School is currently making headlines in the pages of India’s leading newspapers.

The keynote speaker for the annual Wharton India Economic Forum, Narendra Modi, the current chief minister of the state of Gujarat in India, had his invitation revoked by the organizers of the forum following a petition led by three Penn professors.

Peter Winicov, a spokesman for Wharton, said in an email, “We appreciate the efforts our students have put forth in organizing this event and regret any confusion that may have been caused by the change in program.”

Modi is a controversial figure, in particular for his inaction during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. He

has been denied a visa by the United States since these riots and was due to speak at the forum via teleconference.

PENN The petition stated that the signers were “outraged” with the selection of Modi as keynote speaker.

“Recently there have been efforts to whitewash Modi’s grim record and to grant him international respectability. Wharton’s invitation lends itself to doing just that,” the petition said.

Modi is, however, a popular figure and has been re-elected twice in the state of Gujarat. He’s widely seen as a contender for the position of India’s prime minister in 2014. Modi is also known for contributing to Gujarat’s

rapid economic growth.

“I think for the economic standpoint, it would’ve been an interesting viewpoint to have [at the conference],” College sophomore and South Asia Society political chair Savar Sareen said.

This cancellation has resulted in widespread media coverage and debate in India.

“I was talking to my parents [who told me] it was on the nightly news for the past few days,” Sareen said.

Following the cancellation of Modi’s invitation, two other guests for the forum, Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu and Adani Group Chair Gautam Adani have since declined their invitations.

The Adani Group, which was one of the corporate sponsors of the forum, has also pulled their support for the forum.

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray said that she anticipates a 30 percent growth in the size of the SEAS faculty over the next 10 to 15 years.

“We’re going to be doing a huge amount of hiring,” Murray said, adding that she expects SEAS to add 20 fulltime equivalent positions to the tenured and tenure-track faculty.

SEAS currently has 67 tenured faculty members and 16 tenure-track faculty members, who collectively work for as much time as would an equivalent of 66.45 full-time faculty members.

Murray emphasized that when adding the 20 faculty positions, SEAS would also need to make up for retirements.

“To grow 20, I expect we’re going to hire 50,” Murray said. “This is just looking at the age of the faculty and the number who leave for one reason or another.”

SEAS has three confirmed hires — Shmuel Rubinstein, Jelani Nelson and Yaron Singer — who will be joining the faculty in July. SEAS will also recognize the retirements of two faculty members — Michael O. Rabin and Peter P. Rogers — in May. The number of full-time equivalents among SEAS faculty has grown by almost 50 percent since July 1998, when there were 44 full-time equivalents. Yet Murray said the faculty size needs to continue to grow to keep up with the number of undergraduate concentrators. Since 2009, the SEAS faculty has not grown, while the number of undergraduate concentrators has expanded by 70 percent.

Area Dean for Applied Physics Eric Mazur recognized the possibil-

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ity of hiring additional faculty to help develop an applied physics c o n c e n t ra t i o n , but said that such plans are contingent on SEAS resolving its space

needs.

“Right now, there’s very little extra space for hires, especially since most applied physicists are experimentalists and need a lab,” Mazur said. “So I think a lot of the hiring will depend on what happens to space, which is connected to the possibility of moving to Allston.”

The number of students taking SEAS courses has grown rapidly, [which] has placed huge demands on SEAS faculty.

ALAN M. GARBER Provost, Harvard University Last month, University President Drew G. Faust told The Crimson that SEAS will relocate to Allston in as few as five years.

In an interview with The Crimson on Friday, University Provost Alan M. Garber said that the move to Allston would provide room for SEAS to expand and hire new faculty members.

“The number of students taking SEAS courses has grown rapidly, [which] has placed huge demands on SEAS faculty,” Garber said. “Allston offers us the opportunity to give the SEAS faculty space to grow, to have state-of-the-art facilities and to some extent to bring SEAS faculty together.”

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SPORTS

“We talkin’ about practice.”

ALLEN IVERSON PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER, FORMER NBA MVP

Women’s lacrosse evens its record

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Though Bryant University came out firing in the second half, the Yale women’s lacrosse team ended up defeating its fellow bulldogs, 14-13.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 Fleishhacker led the scoring for the Elis with five goals, taking her tally to 11 on the season. Rhodes also contributed three goals and an assist, while attacker Jen DeVito ’14 provided four assists in the game.

“I think we showed a lot of composure today, keeping the lead even as Bryant

gradually began close the gap,” DeVito said. “My teammates did a great job of working with each other to get open, and that’s what attributed to my assists.”

Freshmen also played an important role in the offense, with midfielders Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 (3–0–3), Wackerle (1–0–1) and Nicole Daniggelis ’16 (1–0– 1) each registering points.

Yale was able to win despite running

into foul trouble with 22 fouls and two yellow cards, to Bryant’s 11 fouls and no yellow cards. The Bulldogs dominated in most other statistical categories including shots, clears, draw controls and turnovers. Attacker Haley Bloom and midfielder Lisa Vendel led the scoring for Bryant, while goaltender Brianna Watt registered six saves in the contest.

“I think Bryant came out with a fire in

Yale jumps into season

the second half, but we were able to stay calm and keep playing our game,” DeVito said. “I’m proud of the win today, and I hope that we can continue on this path when we play Hofstra on Saturday.”

Yale will look to continue winning this Saturday against Hofstra at 1 p.m.

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

Elis look to ECAC playoffs

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The Bulldogs will bypass the first round of the ECAC playoffs.

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The baseball team starts its season on Saturday with a doubleheader against Army in Tampa, Fla. BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 chance for the Bulldogs to put a disappointing 2012 campaign behind them. The Elis went 13–31–1 last year. Captain Chris Piwinski ’13 attributed that record in part to bad luck in close games, as Yale went just 8–17–1 in ballgames decided by two runs or fewer.

“We lost a lot of close ballgames last year,” Piwinski said.

“The ball just didn’t bounce our way. … We were in a lot of games.”

The Elis will have to attempt to turn last year’s record around without the assistance of several key starting pitchers from last year. Starting pitcher Pat Ludwig ’12 graduated and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 10th round, and left-handed starting pitcher Nolan Becker ’13 opted to forgo

his senior season after being selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the 11th round. A third starting pitcher from last year, Chris O’Hare ’13, has dropped off the team for unspecified reasons.

It’s going to be a really exciting year, and everyone’s really antsy to get going.

KEVIN FORTUNATO ’14 First baseman and reliever, baseball But Fortunato said the Elis have more than enough talent to make up for these losses on the mound.

“It’s something every college team deals with,” Fortunato

said. “Guys are filling in roles and are throwing extremely well.”

Fortunato mentioned southpaw Rob Cerfolio ’14 and righthander Ben Joseph ’15 as two out of several pitchers who could step up on the season.

Cerfolio posted a 0–4 record and a 4.98 earned run average in 47 innings last year, while Joseph struck out 12 batters in nine innings over seven appearances.

He also added that offensively, “There’s a lot more balance in our lineup one through nine.”

Yale will play its first 12 games on the road before it returns home on March 24 to host a doubleheader against Holy Cross.

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

our team,” forward Kenny Agostino ’14 said. “There is never a feeling of doubt during overtime amongst any of the guys. We have confidence in our goalie and confidence in each other that we can always find a way to get the job done.”

This season, Yale tied Dartmouth and Boston and beat Colorado College and Denver in overtime in nonconference games. The team has also had success within the ECAC conference, tying Union and beating Cornell and Colgate in games which extended beyond the usual 60 minutes.

Team captain Andrew Miller ’13 said that the team has worked hard for a year with trainer Joe Maher, which has helped it push hard through to the end of games.

Miller added that the team focuses on maintaining its best effort in the third period of games.

“When we play in overtime, I think the key is to stick to the game plan as much as possible,” forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 said. “We need to stay consistent in our

individual and team play so everyone knows what to expect of their teammates.”

This will be crucial for the Bulldogs as they start postseason play in the ECAC quarterfinals. After securing a first-round bye last weekend, Yale will face off next on March 15 at Ingalls Rink.

Agostino said that the team’s competitive mindset and experience in overtime will help it through the playoffs, as “you could expect every game to be a battle.”

“Many times, playoff games will be close and we must not allow the nervousness to set in,” Laganiere said.

“The way to accomplish is by adhering to the plan, set from the beginning. It is the best way, in my opinion, to ensure victory.”

The first round of ECAC playoffs will start this Friday, pitting Cornell against Princeton, Clarkson against Brown, Colgate against St. Lawrence, and Harvard against Dartmouth. Quinnipiac, RPI, Yale and Union are ranked top in the league and will bypass the first round.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

line of reasoning as it applies to other sports. However, it doesn’t transfer to the measly maximum of two games that would be added under the coaches’ proposal. If the tournament were to be played this year, it would almost assuredly take place March 15 and 16, the Friday and Saturday after the regular season ends. Every Ivy League school (except those nonconformists at Brown) is on spring break that weekend.

So what’s the issue? Excepting the Bears, no one is missing any additional educational days.

And if you polled the members of the Ancient Eight basketball teams, I’m sure they’d be willing to give up part of their spring vacation to play for a shot at the NCAA tournament.

2. The “The Ivy League regular season is so meaningful.

Every game matters!” argument: This is the classic fallback of traditionalists. Everyone likes to delude themselves into thinking that the regular season is the best in college basketball, giving it inappropriately epic names like the “14-Game Tournament” and arguing that the regular season matters more because any game could determine your tournament fate.

THE IVY LEAGUE NEEDS A BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Tell that to any men’s team this year not named Princeton or Harvard. Most teams were eliminated weeks ago — Yale was the last straggler to be officially eliminated last weekend. Can we really say that the second half of the season really matters to any of these teams? I’ve been told that Yale has the chance to play spoiler this weekend by upsetting first-place Princeton, and isn’t that so exciting? No, it’s really not. It would be a whole lot more exciting if Yale were trying to hold on to a tournament spot by finishing in the top half of the league.

In fact, adding a tournament for the top four teams will make the regular season even more meaningful because more teams will be more involved for the entire season. When teams have the chance to play for one of four tournament spots, more lateseason games will be important.

Going into this weekend, only last-place Dartmouth would not have a shot of making the tournament. Literally every weekend game would be meaningful.

3. The “The lack of a tournament ensures that the best Ivy team plays in the NCAAs!” argument: This idea is the most reasonable. 2010’s Cornell team made it to the Sweet 16, and 2011’s Princeton squad came within two points of knocking off No. 4 seed Kentucky in the first round. If a weaker team had played their way in through an Ivy League tournament, those teams would have diminished chances of pulling off the same upsets.

But it can also be argued that the current procedure doesn’t always admit the best team at the moment. Teams with momentum entering the NCAA tournament often perform well, and right now, a top Ivy team like Harvard doesn’t look so good as it stumbles to the end of the season. And yes, there will occasionally be unexpected winners, but isn’t that part of the fun?

There’s a lot more to be said on this issue. For one, an Ivy League tournament would also guarantee more national media exposure for teams — every current conference tournament final is aired on a national network. But for now, rejecting the dated and persistent arguments against a tournament is enough to show that it has promise.

Let’s make it happen.

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

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Golen has shot over 40 percent from behind the arc for two seasons straight.

“When you’re little, all you can think about is getting to play on a major league field.”

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Bulldogs send Bryant to the pound

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ner.

“Bryant did put pressure on us in the second half, but it wasn’t anything that we hadn’t seen before,” team captain Devon Rhodes ’13 said. “We were caught off guard by the changes they made, but were ultimately able to adjust and handle it.”

As routine as the dawn of spring and the end of college basketball’s regular season, the first week of March inevitably brings with it the arguments as to why the Ivy League should institute a season-ending tournament for men’s and women’s basketball. It is my goal — nay, my civic duty — to make sure the controversy is revived this year. We cannot let the dream die.

For the uninitiated: 31 Division I teams earn automatic bids to the NCAA tournament, one for each eligible conference. Thirty of these conferences bestow their auto-bid upon the winner of a conference tournament conducted at the end of the regular season. The Ivy League is the lone exception — it awards the bid to its regular season champion.

Last year, as reported by The New York Times and The Harvard Crimson, the eight Ivy League coaches proposed a tournament including the top four teams to award the conference’s automatic NCAA berth. On May 10, 2012, the athletic directors of the Ivy League inexplicably turned down the proposal during its annual meetings.

Why would the ADs so quickly reject this new format? Let’s the take the possible reasons one by one (in order to, of course, justify a tournament): 1. The classic “We must protect the sanctity of Ivy League education!” argument: The gist of this argument is that adding more games to a team’s schedule will take away from their education back on campus. It’s the reason why hockey and football play shorter seasons than other Division I teams, and it already forces the basketball teams to play most games back-toback on Fridays and Saturdays.

At face value, I have no problem with this

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The Bulldogs had series of both four and five unanswered goals in the first half, leading to their 14-13 victory over Bryant University.

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s lacrosse team evened its record yesterday with a hardfought 14–13 win over the Bryant University Bulldogs.

Despite giving up the first goal, the Elis (2–2, 0–1 Ivy) responded with a four-goal run that allowed them to

capture the lead, which they retained for the remainder of the game.

“I think we came out strong and created a large lead in the beginning, and while we allowed them to creep back into the game, we really hustled and were able to hold out and win,” midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 said.

While Yale had series of both four and five unanswered goals in the first

Men’s hockey undefeated in OT

half, Bryant (1–3, 0–0 NEC) came out firing in the second half, scoring six of the first seven goals to tie the game at 11–11 with 15 minutes left to play. After a seesaw battle, the game remained tied at 13–13 with nine minutes left in the second half. However, three minutes later, attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 found the back of the net from a free-position shot for the game win-

Another Ivy tournament plea

Elis set to take the field

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER While piles of snow are still littered across campus from the winter’s most recent snowstorm, the baseball team will head south for spring break.

BASEBALL

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Yale maintained its strong OT record with its defeat of Colgate last weekend.

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER Last Friday night, the Yale men’s hockey team (16–10–3, 12–9–1 ECAC) was tied 3–3 with Colgate at the end of the regular 60 minutes of play and faced a five-minute overtime period for the seventh time this season. With two and a half seconds left in the extra frame, forward Josh Balch ’13 tipped the puck

past the Raiders’ goalie, maintaining the Bulldogs’ undefeated record in overtime play for the 2012–’13 season.

MEN’S HOCKEY “I think our success in overtime this season is certainly a testament to the character and will of SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

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The Bulldogs will begin their 39-game regular season on Saturday with a doubleheader against Army in Tampa, Fla. First baseman and reliever Kevin Fortunato ’14 said that the team is anxious to take the field and begin the season.

“It’s going to be a really exciting year, and everyone’s really antsy to get going,” Fortunato said.

The Elis will have no shortage of games soon enough, as they will play seven games over seven days, including another matchup with Army at the Yankees Spring Training Complex in Tampa.

The field of the 27-time world champions of baseball will not be the only exciting venue for Yale. The Elis will play three games against No. 19 University of Virginia (12–0, 0–0 ACC) on Davenport Field in Charlottesville, Va. Yale will

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The Elis will travel to Tampa, Fla., over spring break to play seven games over seven days. also get a chance to play on baseball’s biggest stage when they go to bat against Michigan (5–6, 0–0 Big Ten) at Citi Field — home of the New York Mets. Infielder Cale Hanson ’14

said that the chance to play on the fields that are the home to major leaguers is a dream come true.

“I know this sounds cliché,” Hanson said. “But when you’re

little, all you can think about is getting to play on a major league field.”

The 2013 season is also a SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11

THE NUMBER OF GOALS MEN’S LACROSSE SCORED AGAINST LOCAL RIVAL SACRED HEART ON TUESDAY NIGHT. Eight different players scored goals, and faceoff specialist midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 took 11 of 24 faceoffs.