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Fund fights ‘pay to play’ politics

Speak out. More than 1,200

people have signed an online petition launched Monday night urging faculty members to oppose a proposal that would transition Yale from a letter-grade to a 100-point grading system. The petition argued that the proposal would make Yale’s academic environment more stressful and competitive. Faculty members will vote on the initiative this Thursday at the Yale College faculty meeting.

A new crop of leaders. Yale released its roster of this year’s World Fellows on Tuesday, selecting 16 international midcareer professionals to come to campus for four months for scholarship and leadership training. The selected fellows cover a spectrum of industries and include diplomats, social entrepreneurs, politicians and nonprofit leaders. The 16 fellows were selected out of more than 2,500 candidates and will arrive on campus in the fall.

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can even the playing field.”

HENRY FERNANDEZ Former city economic development director

people with money.”

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ith the Elm City facing its most competitive mayoral election in years, the city’s public finance system will face its biggest test yet.

DIANA LI reports in the first of a three part series.

the most competitive mayoral race in two decades. Ten-term Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who was first elected in 1994, will step down after his term ends this year, and at least four candidates —with likely more to come — have jumped into the race SEE DEMOCRACY FUND PAGE 4

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Now a decade after Goldfield’s efforts in the state legislature, the city is facing what may prove to be

DEMOCRACY FUND PART 1 OF 3

Uh oh. After widespread

student outcry and an online petition with nearly 2,000 signatures urging Harvard to rescind its invitation to Tyga — the rapper best known for “Rack City” — to perform at Yardfest, the school’s spring concert, the Harvard Office of Student Life has requested that concert organizers reconsider their choice of headliner in light of concerns that Tyga’s lyrics “promote sexism and rape culture.” But the office said it will not force organizers to withdraw their invitation.

Get cultured. The

International Festival of Arts and Ideas announced this year’s lineup for the summer festival at a Monday reception.

The annual event, which will be held from June 15-29 this year, will include a new adaption of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company. The festival will also highlight locally-based groups, including the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, A Broken Umbrella Theatre and the Yale Choral Artists.

Lights, camera, action. Yale has been named the fourth best film school in the country, behind New York University, the University of Southern California and UC Los Angeles.

The data, which was compiled by the website Ranker, is based on semantic data that links film credits from Ranker’s “Best Movies of All Time” list to the alumni of various educational institutions.

Hail to the chief. President

Barack Obama is expected to travel to Hartford next week to advocate gun control, marking the second time he has visited the state since Newtown.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1929 The debate team prepares to send three men to Puerto Rico, marking the first time the team sends competitors out of the country. The delegates will leave by ship the next day.

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Carl Goldfield had a problem.

In his attempts to obtain state permission to establish a public financing program in the Elm City in 2003, Goldfield — then-president of the New Haven Board of Aldermen — was struggling to find broad support in Hartford and drive the issue to the top of legislators’ agendas. He resorted to including Hanukkah gelt

in letters to legislators in an attempt to stand out from the pack.

Finally, after two years of lobbying the legislature, Goldfield heard the good news. With the state’s permission, the city established in 2006 a program advocates hoped would support clean elections in New Haven: the Democracy Fund, the only such program in the state.

Fifth man may join mayor race

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Whether accepted or rejected, applicants to Yale next year will see a new signature on their admissions letters.

Jeremiah Quinlan, deputy dean of undergraduate admissions, is set to become dean of undergraduate admissions beginning this summer, following the departure of Dean Jeffrey Brenzel, who served seven years in the position and will step down at the end of the 2012-’13 academic year. Quinlan has spearheaded efforts to increase socioeconomic diversity, such as establishing the Student Ambassadors Program and leading Yale’s collaboration with Questbridge, a college access program, and he will serve as the admissions dean for the next five years. He has also served as the inaugural Yale-NUS dean of admissions and financial aid.

“I’ve had a terrific experience working with Jeremiah over a 10-year period, and he’s either been the leader or a key participant in most of our initiatives,” Brenzel said in an email to the News.

Quinlan, 32, graduated with honors from Yale in 2003 and was immediately hired as an assistant director in the Admissions Office.

He was named the office’s director of outreach and recruitment in 2005, and — after pursuing a degree at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management — became

JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 New Haven Ward 10 alderman

GARY HOLDER-WINFIELD State representative

Quinlan appointed admissions dean

Immigrant advocates blast DeLauro

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER An additional candidate may soon turn the four-way contest to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr. into a five-man race — that is, as long as Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina can find sufficient community support for his campaign.

After signaling he might be interested in the job in January, Carolina officially revealed he was considering a run for mayor in a Tuesday press release. The statement announced the formation of an exploratory committee designed to gauge the viability of Carolina’s candidacy. Committee member Bob Pellegrino said that in the coming three weeks, he will reach out to city residents to share details about Carolina’s commitment to the city and to determine initial support.

“If I had to guess, I would say he’s going to make the run,” Pellegrino said. “He’s well situated to do so at this point.”

Jack Paulishen, a civics teacher at Hillhouse High School who co-chairs the 18-member exploratory committee, said that if initial response is any indication, he thinks his candidate will “seriously consider running.”

Should he choose to run, Carolina will enter a field that currently includes Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, Fernandez Advisors CEO and former New Haven Economic Development Administrator Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 and Sundiata Keitazulu, a plumber in New Haven. A final candidate, Probate Judge Jack Keyes, has all but indicated he will join the fray.

What sets Carolina ahead of the pack, Pellegrino and Paulishen said, are his deep ties to New Haven.

“Kermit was born and raised in this city,” Pellegrino said. “He’s lived here his whole life and he’s educating his sons in this city. You can’t say the same thing for the other candiSEE CAROLINA PAGE 5

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Advocacy groups demonstrated in support of Josemaria Islas, an undocumented worker who faces deportation.

BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER As Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. rallied for comprehensive federal immigration reform at New Haven’s Columbus Family Academy Tuesday morning, immigrant rights groups demonstrated at the Elm Street office of U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro on behalf of Josemaria Islas, a local undocumented worker facing deportation proceedings.

Islas was taken into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Secure Communities federal deportation program after his arrest last July on charges of armed robbery that were later dropped.

Secure Communities, which local policymakers and advocacy groups denounce for deporting nonviolent offenders, asks local law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants who have been arrested until ICE officials can bring them to

an immigration detention center.

Members of DeLauro’s staff met with the immigrant rights groups for the third time in the past four months after the protesters sang and chanted for three hours. Staff provided them with a written statement regarding the congresswoman’s support of comprehensive immigration reform that did not specifically mention Islas, who has previously been deported four times. But the protesters, who have requested for months that DeLauro write a letter supporting Islas’ removal from ICE custody, left dissatisfied. Kevin Dean, a member of advocacy group Seminarians for a Democratic Society, said DeLauro did not seem to want to “stick her neck out” based on the lack of response of her staffers.

“Why isn’t she taking action on this when New Haven is such a leader in terms of a city that has been innovative and welcoming to immigrants?” said Megan Fountain, an organizer for local immigrant rights

group Unidad Latina en Accion.

“The devil is in the details. If she is not going to stand up for a family in her district, what kind of immigration reform does she support?”

DeLauro’s spokesperson Sara Lonardo responded to advocacy groups by delineating the congresswoman’s reform agenda, which would include strengthening borders, keeping families together and ensuring employers are following hiring laws. DeLauro is scheduled to meet with members of the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance, or CIRA, in May, but Fountain urged the congresswoman to take more immediate action. Fountain cited Blumenthal’s promise to look into Islas’ case and Sen. Chris Murphy’s scheduled meeting with advocates Wednesday as examples of more active involvement among DeLauro’s colleagues.

Fountain added that 33,000 undocumented workers will be deported SEE IMMIGRATION PAGE 5

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or the Jews: Is worship of Jesus a violation of the Second Commandment “Thou shalt have no gods in addition to me”? For the Christians: Is the ancient covenant between God and Israel irrelevant, replaced by a universal need for faith in Christ? For both: who gets to Heaven?

Most people of faith don’t confront these sorts of questions regularly. Certainly, most religious Christians and Jews don’t explore them intensely together. But over the course of a remarkable interfaith spring break trip through Israel, that is precisely what I did.

Attempts at interfaith engagement can be profoundly frustrating. In too many settings, interfaith dialogue is driven by those with limited knowledge and commitment and devolves into mushy rounds of “I don’t believe anything, you don’t believe anything. Wow, we’re so similar!”

Even among those with more serious commitment to traditions and dogma, dialogue is merely a reduction to lowest common denominator values: “I believe in the Golden Rule, you believe in the Golden Rule, let’s go do social justice!”

These sorts of interactions (and certainly the latter) no doubt have their place.

But many of us came to Yale to engage substantively with those who possess radically different world-views. Indeed, a central goal of the admissions process is (or at least should be) the production of a class whose members have a variety of substantive experiences and deeply held values. Nevertheless, all too often it seems that Yale is more melting pot than tossed salad; values soften, orthodoxies crumble and a gray sameness takes hold.

As you move through your four years here, Yale becomes a decreasingly diverse place. We have races and accents galore, but a laissez-faire live-andlet-live attitude steadily overwhelms robust value systems.

In the place of a meaningful diversity of beliefs, we are left with an empty pluralism of desires and interests. The latter is a poor substitute for the former. It is from the sharp clash and sustained engagement between deeply held orthodoxies that meaningful education occurs.

It was this realization that led a group of Orthodox Jewish students and Christians from Yale Students for Christ to begin meeting weekly two years ago, to study the Bible together at the Slifka Center. Together, we delve deeper into texts that we both view as divine Word. In the contrast and dialogue between two firm traditions, we have grown in our understanding of God, ourselves and one another.

This year, with the assistance of generous donors, we were able to take our study to

an entirely different level: a joint spring break in Israel. So we walked t o g e t h e r, B i b l e s in hand, YISHAI through SCHWARTZ the hills of Judea, the Dissentary towns of the Galilee and along the excavated streets of ancient Jerusalem. We hiked the paths of the patriarchs, visited the tombs of Jewish sages and followed in the footsteps of Jesus.

In the process, our conversations took on new dimensions. As we circled the sites of the Jesus’ miracle-working, the Jews in the group had to directly confront the question: how do we view the historical figure of Jesus? Was he a liar, lunatic, prophet or sage? As our friends prayed in Jesus’ name and took communion, we admired the spontaneity of their prayer. But we also wrestled with whether their veneration of a human being constituted idolatry.

Similarly, my Christian friends wrestled with the theological implications of a thriving, faithful Judaism that complicates the narrative of a people whose time is past and whose salvation depends on conversion to Christian faith.

Especially in the modern state of Israel, it is impossible to escape the vivid reality of a Jewish nation reborn. In the streets of Jerusalem, the prophecies of redemption take on new meaning. So what is the place of the Jewish people in God’s plan?

At the same time, the modern state of Israel is secular, governed by a democracy that views the Bible as cultural heritage rather than a theological blueprint. And though Israel is once again a free people in its ancestral home, the Waqf’s ban on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount remains in full force.

How must both of our theologies adapt to that incongruity?

Are our theologies in any way reconcilable? If not, might it ever be possible to view one another as full partners in a covenantal mission to bring about messianic redemption?

Our marathon conversations settled none of these questions, but the experience was mindblowing.

We ended the trip emotionally and intellectually exhausted, but invigorated by the land, the Bible and by one another. As I prepare to leave Yale, I can only beg readers to embrace their own orthodoxies, and seek out those who hold robust alternatives. It is from these interactions that the brightest sparks will fly.

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ticket again, and the lottery machine gives you the first pick for the third time in a row.

Is this fair?

Sure, you GENG would probNGARMBOON- ably say yes.

After all, you ANAZNT didn’t game the system.

Imaginary There was Crosswalk a perfectly equal chance that I could have ended up in your position. Randomness guarantees equal opportunity; it’s not your problem that the outcome didn’t end up favoring me, too.

Americans love equality of opportunity and are wary of equality of outcome — and for good reason. But there are some instances when equality of outcome is desirable. If you and I both spend $75,000 on a car at the same dealership, we expect to receive the exact same quality of automobile. We don’t want a lottery to randomly pick which one of us gets the good or bad car.

The same applies to rooming.

All Yalies spend $13,000 on room and board — and we deserve the

same result.

Since it’s impossible to remodel the college with identical rooms — and because no sane person would want exactly identical rooms — we should replace the rooming lottery with a Rooming Auction. My former Great Big Ideas professor, Adam Glick '82, occasionally comes up with outrageous ideas that make complete sense, and this plan is one of them. Here’s how it would work: When a freshman enters Yale, he or she would receive a total of 100 rooming points to spend over four years. There would be an annual auction on rooms, with rising seniors going first and rising sophomores last. People would enter as a group. Students can spend however many points they would like in each year’s auction. A Yalie could spend 80 points for a good room, or 20 for a lousy one. Your points would be added to your suitemates’ for a total.

Within each room configuration, the group with the highest number of points will pick first, followed by the second highest and so on.

As far as I know, this system has not been tried out in any school. Whether or not it works as smoothly in practice as in theory is unclear. Rules, such as a limit to the amount of points one

can spend in a year, may have to be added to avoid having people who intend to live off-campus in the future unfairly splurge their points — or to avoid students from including or excluding others from housing plans solely because of the number of points they have.

But this auction will fundamentally shift power into students’ hands. Students will have the agency to pick roughly what kind of room they want next year.

Think you’ll be spending more time at Box 63 than your room?

Spend fewer points this year. Want the best room in your college? Save your points, suffer through this year and splurge on your senior year auction.

Want an average room every year? Spend exactly 33 points each auction.

No longer will students be as unsure about which room they will receive. There will be less uncertainty, fewer surprises and fewer tears. And no luck involved.

The best part? Everyone can finally be treated fairly in one of the biggest decisions at Yale: where to call home next year.

GENG NGARMBOONANANT is a sophomore in Silliman College.

Contact him at wishcha.ngarmboonanant@yale.edu .

Protecting the sanctity of marriage N

ew York Times columnist David Brooks wrote an interesting piece this Monday, suggesting that the current push for gay marriage represents a group of Americans committing themselves to a freedom-restricting institution: marriage. Brooks sees this phenomenon in a positive light, arguing that “same-sex marriage will be a victory for the good life, which is about living in a society that induces you to narrow your choices and embrace your obligations.”

Marriage is frequently a wonderful institution. But if gay marriages end with the outcomes that many heterosexual marriages do, they will not have nearly as strong a stabilizing effect on society as we might hope. Divorce rates are high and infidelity has come to elicit ever-dwindling moral opprobrium. We should take bold action to inject marriage with renewed meaning — and we can start by criminalizing adultery.

The state gives couples certain benefits after they marry, including tax and insurance perks and rights such as hospital visitation. There is a reason these couples receive special treatment from the state: Marriages often create stable, productive and supportive relationships that benefit both partners and society at large. Pooled income

acts as insurance against risks such as job loss and illness, and emotional support is important for mental MICHAEL health. Couincluding MAGDZIK ples, same-sex couples, are betMaking ter-equipped to devote more Magic total time and energy to raising children, the lifeblood of future society, than single parents.

Gay people have had great success in advancing their cause when they point out how unfair it is that they are denied some of these state-granted benefits. If gay marriage creates stable, productive and supportive relationships like heterosexual marriages do, then logically, a married same-sex couple should also receive that kind of special treatment from the state. In both cases, the couples are providing a good to the state, and the state is providing them with some benefit in return. In effect, a contractual obligation between the couple and the state has been forged.

When parties to a marriage violate their contractual obligations to the state, on the other hand, the

state has the obligation to punish them to deter others. Divorce is permitted because the state recognizes that sometimes couples are actually incompatible; though they entered the marriage in good faith, they just couldn’t make it work. But when someone enters a sham marriage to gain immigration rights or military survivor’s benefits, the state rightfully prosecutes him for knowingly accepting the perks of marriage without keeping his end of the bargain. A similar principle holds true for businesses that misrepresent themselves as non-profits — why should an organization reap a reward without providing society a service?

So it is with adultery, which constitutes deliberate deception of (and results in non-trivial harms to) both the spouse and society. The emotional costs for the spouse who was cheated on are substantial, and he or she will never be able to regain their lost years. Contentious, bitter divorces are terrible drains on the emotional health of children. These things are not as obviously harmful as violent crimes, but they are still quietly devastating. The state should not forgo tax revenues and grant special privileges only to see its investment squandered: It must defend it robustly, for its own sake

and for the sake of the people who are hurt by infidelity.

This policy would change incentives around marriage. People will think more carefully about entering it in the first place, and reflect on their ability to commit to their partner — Vegas marriages might disappear outright, and there will be fewer marriages solely for money. Drunk businessmen will be more careful not to let a night in a faraway city turn into a criminal nightmare. If the penalty is severe enough, even people who think they have no chance of getting caught will err on the side of caution. Marriages will be more meaningful when they become state-guaranteed sanctuaries of fidelity and loyalty.

The battle over gay marriage provides us with more than the opportunity to analyze concepts like equality and rights. It’s the perfect chance to reignite a societal discussion about obligations — why they are good for the collective, and how that collective can enforce them. In a world obsessed with maximizing personal freedom — emphasis on personal — we would do well to think about what exactly it means to be married.

MICHAEL MAGDZIK is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact him at michael.magdzik@yale.edu .

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YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at yishai.schwartz@yale.edu .

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rustrated with the uncertainty of our rooming situation next year, I declared to my suitemates: “We should just get rid of the rooming lottery.” Their responses to my comment were overwhelming. “The lottery’s unavoidable.” “What else are you going to do?” “It’s the fairest way.” “Stop triflin’.”

I, of course, was very grateful for my friends’ unconditional support. But their reactions reflected a larger sentiment about using a random lottery to allocate rooms.

People believe that it’s a necessary evil — they like it because they think it’s fair, but dislike it because of the annual nervousness and dashed plans.

In listing its problems, however, many people forget the most severe one: the rooming lottery is not ethical, and in fact, not fair at all.

Say I go into the rooming draw with my group. I feel that God is on my side this time around, because for the past two years, I’ve been at the bottom of my class’s picks.

The lottery machine is spun, and for the third year in a row, I end up with the last pick of my class.

You, however, have had the most desirable room during your sophomore and junior years. It turns out that you’ve gotten the golden

Creating optimal food defaults T

he tale of Hansel and Gretel is not a very pleasant one. I never warmed up to it, and couldn´t bring myself to sympathize with the siblings, taken aback by their greed and lack of self-restraint. It couldn´t be more ironic, then, that my relationship with the United States has resembled that of the gluttonous pair to their coveted house of sweets.

When I was a child, growing up abroad, I viewed American goods as the highest luxuries.

The kids who managed to bring so much as a packet of Gushers to school achieved cult status within the bounds of a boisterous cafeteria. The entrancing stroll down the snack aisle in Walgreens was one of the more pleasant childhood memories I recall from visiting the United States. Within that highly caloric space, it seemed as though the world, colorfully adorned with incarnations of sugar, was at my feet.

Only after coming to Yale did my cherished supermarket aisle suffer an extreme makeover. Here, I began to observe a prominent snacking culture. Even within the walls of Yale, study breaks of Insomnia Cookies or pancakes are aggressively advertised, with students as their most faithful ambassadors.

The ease, availability and variety of these troublesome appetizers are the foundation of a snacking culture that threatens the ability of most Americans to maintain healthy diets. A handful of multibillion dollar companies have determined exactly what our bodies crave, exploiting their knowledge for profit.

Centuries ago, food was scarce, creating an evolutionary impetus for us to seek calorie-dense foods to survive. A study published by the Royal Society in 2007 demonstrated that humans remember the locations of high calorie foods more easily — and appreciate their taste more. The evolutionary adaptations that once served us so well have come back to haunt us.

Yale University is a global icon of intellect and knowledge. Yet even here, we are not immune to the seductive dangers of processed foods. The food culture at Yale nudges people to gain unhealthy amounts of weight. But Yale, the government and other institutions prefer to view eating as a matter of personal responsibility — in the light I viewed Hansel and Gretel. We blame individuals for being obese, rather than looking at the institutions that are causing obesity.

The environment in which we

live, however, plays a pivotal role in determining how much food we eat. A 1994 study published in the journal Diabetes Care examined the case of the Pima Indians native to Mexico. Over time, their group split into two communities: one remained in agricultural Mexico, the other left to industrialized Arizona. The Pima in Arizona, where food was more accessible, began to experience worse health outcomes — and now currently exhibit the highest rates of diabetes in the world and elevated rates of obesity.

In their book, Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein describe the idea of “libertarian paternalism,” which encourages the creation of optimal defaults to promote healthier lifestyles. Their argument prompts an important question: should policies at Yale encourage individuals to regulate their own eating choices, or should policies encourage students to make the most optimal choices?

Thaler and Sunstein use the example of sin taxes on cigarettes.

Here at Yale, the administration should apply similar defaults to our food choices. The boldest of these defaults would be to limit the offering of unhealthy foods like pizza and chicken tenders to once a week. We must realize that providing both healthy and unhealthy

options is not equivalent to total freedom of choice. Upon offering high calorie foods, dining halls subconsciously nudge people to eat them, and demand them to exert more self-control if they choose to resist.

Simple changes — like rearranging food in the dining hall — could go a long way. When a student first steps into the dining hall, the first thing he or she sees should not be cakes, pastries or cookies, but rather healthier options. And study breaks offering free pizza and cookies make Yale no better than the witch that seduced Hansel and Gretel. When we understand the influential effect of environmental cues on our decisions, our responsibility lies in developing policy that place less weight on the individual through optimal defaults.

By placing a greater emphasis on environmental conditions, and less on personal responsibility, we can hold institutions more accountable and drive greater change in the effort to contain the epidemic that is overwhelming the United States.

HANA FARAHAT is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact her at hana.farahat@yale.edu .

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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”

SALMAN RUSHDIE BRITISH INDIAN AUTHOR

Rushdie recounts life in hiding

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER On the morning of Valentine’s Day in 1989, Salman Rushdie woke to the news that an entire region of the world wanted him dead.

Rushdie, a celebrated and controversial British Indian author, was forced to live in hiding under police protection for nearly a decade after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989, issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for his death. The order came because of allegations that Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses was a blasphemous insult against Islam.

In a Tuesday afternoon talk at the Yale University Art Gallery, Rushdie addressed an audience of more than 300 to speak about his works, political interests and experiences of isolation following the publication of his controversial novel.

“I’ve never been the kind of writer who kept a detailed journal,” Rushdie began. “I was never a writer of that kind, until I acquired the curse of an interesting life. When the whole [controversy] began, things moved at very great speed and I remember thinking, ‘Write this, or you’ll never remember it.’”

Rushdie was born in India in 1947 and worked as a copywriter before becoming a fulltime writer and publishing “Midnight’s Children,” his first novel. He received first notice of the death warrant against him in 1989 via a phone call from a BBC journalist and remembers it as a “clearly bewildering moment,” because he did not know whether to take the threat seriously.

But soon, the threat became all too real. In the months following the death warrant, Rushdie and his wife were forced to move over 50 times, staying in homes that various friends graciously offered to vacate.

“There was this extraordinary attack, and hatred, coming in my direction, but the thing

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Author Salman Rushdie addressed an audience of more than 300 in a Tuesday afternoon talk at the Yale University Art Gallery. that defended me was friendship,” Rushdie said, adding that it was an “extraordinary act of collective solidarity” to see his friends in the literary community come to his aid and provide for his safety.

In response to an audience question from Zola Chihombori Quao ’13 about having to live in constant motion and secrecy,

Rushdie said his life was irreversibly changed in the aftermath of the death warrant.

Unable to “go home ever again” and forced to live in strict conditions with police officers at all times, Rushdie said he had to spend much of the money that he made from his novel on his own housing and physical security.

Responding to another ques-

tion about the offense that certain literary works like The Satanic Verses have caused among some communities, Rushdie said he believes that the amount of offense a work causes irrelevant to its inherent value.

“If we could prevent things from happening because we were offended by them, it would empty all the bookstores and

Panel explores Medicare reform

close the cinemas,” Rushdie said.

“Nobody could say anything.

Many people in many parts of the world think that the things that offend you are the things that define you — I think it’s a very dangerous thing to define yourself by what angers you.”

Jokingly, Rushdie said he is not a fan of fiction writer Dan Brown, but added that “he

Four panelists, including New York Times columnist David Brooks, right, debated the merits of public versus private healthcare on Tuesday.

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER Four panelists who met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the future of Medicare agreed that the system is currently unsustainable and offered suggestions on how to improve the program.

New York Times columnist David Brooks, assistant professor of public health and economics Zack Cooper, Director of the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies Jacob Hacker GRD ’00 and former Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Thomas Scully explained to a packed audience in the Woolsey Hall President’s Room and to viewers who watched the live YouTube broadcast that Medicare as it is will not last in the long-run because of increased enrollment. The panelists debated the merits of public versus private healthcare as well as what the role of government should be in regulating the healthcare market.

“Medicare is taking up too much federal revenue, and government has become a machine taking money from struggling families and giving it to affluent elderly couples,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the fundamental problem with Medicare is the incentive programs that allow people on average to pay less during their careers than they take out after they reach retirement age. He added that he thinks the size of the program should be reduced.

Scully said he sees the real problem as

an issue of private versus public health insurance. During his time as director of CMS, he designed Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit of Medicare that is an entirely private system with no government involvement, which he said has proven to be a successful model.

He added that since price-fixing by the government has never worked, the goal in Medicare reform should be to “get to the point where people are buying well-regulated, private healthcare.”

Disagreeing with Scully, Hacker said private health insurance plans are more costly than public ones, adding that there is no evidence that private plans are more effective. The prognosis on the sustainability of Medicare is “a little too pessimistic,” he added, since the growth of its costs has been slowing.

“If we value Medicare, as I think we should, we’re going to spend more money on it and figure out a way to finance it,” Hacker said.

Rather than privatizing Medicare, Hacker said, lawmakers should consider other ways to reform the system to make it sustainable. He said he “sees real merit in an enforceable budget and consumption taxes” and that the Medicare program could save money by using certain medical devices and generic drugs.

Still, Cooper said trust in the government is currently low, which is why any regulations coming from the government meet public resistance. While he said he supports government intervention “to make a competitive market function,”

people are now rallying against government interference.

All four panelists agreed that polarization in Washington poses an obstacle to healthcare reform. But Hacker said Americans should recognize that some forward progress has been made. Accelerating reform will require changing the battle between the right and the left into a discussion focused on longer-term challenges, he added.

Members of the audience said they saw little consensus in the room about the path to Medicare reform and that the tension mirrored the difficulties Congress faces in passing meaningful healthcare legislation.

Bill Sage, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, said he was frustrated that in all the debate on healthcare, the panelists “didn’t say a word about health” or the goal to actually improve health under various insurance policies.

Romana James, a member of the New Haven community, said despite presenting starkly different viewpoints, she thinks that the panelists showed they have the same goal in mind.

“I appreciated that they showed some optimism and didn’t make healthcare reform into a dark cloud — what we really need are more moderates,” she said.

The panel was moderated by Sarah Kliff, a health policy reporter for The Washington Post.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

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Snow storm buries over 5,000 jobs

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER

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should be allowed to live.”

Rushdie is the author of nine novels and numerous other children’s and non-fiction works, including an autobiography of his time spent in hiding entitled “Joseph Anton: A Memoir.”

Despite a two-week stretch of sub-50 temperatures and clear skies, last month’s blizzard continues to affect New Haven and Connecticut residents.

According to a Connecticut Labor Department report released Thursday, last month’s massive snowstorm significantly impeded businesses in Connecticut and resulted in the loss of 5,700 jobs. The storm, which buried New Haven, Conn. municipalities and much of New England in about three feet of snow, shut down countless office buildings, businesses and restaurants between Feb. 8 and 9. As part of the Labor Department’s research, employers across the state were asked to report job figures, and the survey results indicated a drop-off in employment directly attributable to the storm.

Don Klepper-Smith, chief economist and director of research at New Haven-based research firm DataCore Partners, said that the storm-related job losses make Connecticut an anomaly when compared to the current uptick in employment at a national level. Throughout the country, 236,000 jobs were added during the month of February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“I expected to see a solid job gain in February given the rise of 236,000 new jobs on the domestic front, and so I’d say that the figures were very disappointing and well below expectations,” Klepper-Smith told the New Haven Register.

Although the data cannot pinpoint the specific regions or industry sectors in which the winter storm hampered job growth most, Andy Condon, director of the Labor Department’s office of research, said the net effect of state job loss remains apparent. Despite the

snowstorm’s negative impacts, Condon and other state officials said they expect to see improved job numbers in the coming months.

State officials said one of the key reasons the blizzard was so devastating is that many businesses had not fully recovered from Hurricane Sandy at the time the storm struck.

“We are going to feel the impact of this storm for some time,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement to CNN in February.

The [job] figures were very disappointing and well below expectations.

DON KLEPPER-SMITH Chief economist and director of research, DataCore Partners City Hall Spokeswoman Anna Mariotti said that New Haven fared better during the snowstorm in terms of employment than regions in Connecticut that suffered job losses. She added that overall the snowstorm does not seem to have greatly affected city jobs.

“I haven’t been able to find [data] that indicates this was a problem here in New Haven,” Mariotti said.

But even with the job losses resulting from the blizzard, Connecticut on the whole experienced a rise in employment: The state unemployment rate fell from 8.1 percent to 8 percent between January and February, according to the Connecticut Labor Department.

The national unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in February, the lowest figure in four years.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’m an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.”

PAMELA ANDERSON ACTRESS

Democracy Fund to face biggest test yet DEMOCRACY FUND FROM PAGE 1 to replace him. The Elm City’s public campaign finance system, which most of these candidates have agreed to use, has become an election issue in and of itself as the campaign progresses.

As the first election in the post-DeStefano era, this fall’s mayoral race will be a pivotal point in determining the success and future of the Democracy Fund.

“In my opinion, the jury is still out. We need to allow [the Fund] to take its course for the first time in a competitive race,” Board of Aldermen president Jorge Perez said. “We’ll have to see: Did it keep elections clean? Did everybody get a chance to put out their story and platform? Did it keep lobbying dollars out?”

ESTABLISHING THE FUND

The “pay to play” idea behind politics – the concept that interested candidates have to raise a significant amount of money to stand a chance of reaching office, increasing the likelihood that successful candidates would be beholden to contributors — led Goldfield to begin his clean elections push in 2003. He partnered with aldermen Joe Jolly and Elizabeth Addonizio, along with city officials such as DeStefano, to change a system he felt rewarded those with money and connections.

“There was a climate of mistrust in terms of the public and state government,” said Kim Hynes, senior organizer of Common Cause in Connecticut, a group that advocates for good governance. “It really just felt like Connecticut had corruption left and right and so I think that created an atmosphere where the climate was right to pass the reform.”

Hynes cited a 2004 scandal involving Gov. John Rowland — who pled guilty to using public money for personal uses, such as trips to Vermont and Las Vegas — as one example of the state’s culture of corruption. Closer to home, Jolly also pointed to the 2001 mayoral election between Sen. Martin Looney and DeStefano, in which over a million dollars were spent by the two candidates in total.

With New Haven as the pilot city in Connecticut attempting to finance mayoral elections with public funds, drafters of the ordinance looked to existing systems in places like Los Angeles and Arizona when creating New Haven’s program. They ultimately chose a “hybrid” system that takes advantage of both a flat grant and matching funds.

Candidates who intend to take part in the Democracy Fund are limited to donations of no more than $370. To qualify, they must first receive 200 contributions of over $10. Once they do, they are eligible for a flat $19,000 grant as well as matching funds — of up to $125,000 — which double the first $25 of each contribution. Under the program, a $10 donation turns into a $30 donation, $25 becomes $75 and $50 becomes $100.

While city officials believed in the value of such a program, convincing the state legislature

took more time — establishing the Democracy Fund lasted over three years, with state permission received in 2005 and the Board of Aldermen finally approving the Democracy Fund ordinance in June 2006.

“I was disturbed by the notion that we were a pay to play town,” said Goldfield, explaining that while he felt public campaign finance was essential, the legislature did not always see it as a top priority. “The state legislature’s got a million things on their plate up there and this was just one. … They were taking up what they absolutely had to take up, and there was a feeling of opposition by people who just have a philosophical problem with public money being spent on campaigns.”

The guiding theme through the process was the idea that money should not be the deciding factor in a candidate’s campaign — anyone who had significant support should be able to run a respectable campaign, removing the need to be a part of established politics or bankrolled by special interests.

“The main way the system works is this idea that the quantity of donations is the driving factor rather than the quality of your donations,” Jolly said.

PROMOTING ‘MERITORIOUS’ CANDIDATES

Both current Fund administrator Ken Krayeske and previous administrator Robert Wechsler explained that in deciding who is a suitable, or “meritorious,” candidate, the threshold for qualifying for public finance should be high enough that the state is not frivolously handing out money, but low enough to make a difference in opening up the playing field.

After helping to create the system, DeStefano used the Democracy Fund in the 2007 and 2009 mayoral elections, riding to easy successes in relatively uncompetitive elections. But DeStefano opted out in 2011 when he faced Jeffrey Kerekes, who received $25,202 from the Democracy Fund. Former alderman Tony Dawson, who also ran in 2011, received $23,420 from the Fund and placed fourth in the primary.

Though DeStefano outspent Kerekes by a margin of 14-1, DeStefano won by a margin of less than 10 percent, eking out a victory in his closest election yet.

To Kerekes, the Democracy Fund accomplished its goal of helping new candidates join the fray.

“I ran a campaign with the Democracy Fund that almost unseated a 20-year incumbent with little name recognition, and I lost by 1,600 votes,” Kerekes said. “If I had some more time and put in additional effort, I might have been able to convince just 800 of those people to change their mind.”

While many criticized DeStefano’s choice not to use the Democracy Fund as hypocritical and antithetical to the spirit of democracy, DeStefano has countered that he felt the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision “neutered” the Democracy Fund, as after the decision, out-

TIMELINE DEMOCRACY FUND 2003 Carl Goldfield, Joe Jolly, Elizabeth Addonizio and other city officials begin to lobby the state legislature for permission to establish a public campaign finance program in New Haven.

2005 By the third legislative session, a bill allowing three municipal pilot public finance programs passes the state legislature. New Haven is the only city in Connecticut that has taken advantage of this.

side groups like SuperPACs could contribute unlimited amounts of money, according to City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti. Mariotti added that DeStefano “felt the rules were complicated and inconsistent,” but she declined to elaborate on what the mayor’s specific concerns were.

When recontacted to ask for more details, Mariotti said that the mayor felt he had said enough about his decision and did not want to comment further. “[DeStefano opting out] was an unfortunate decision, and I do feel that he as someone who had been committed to removing big donors out of politics should have stuck with the program during a tough election season,” said State Rep. Roland Lemar, a former alderman who helped establish the program. “The rules are somewhat onerous and he had a difficult time with the Democracy Fund, but he had the institutional capacity to work with them and make the rules more relevant. Instead, [DeStefano] disengaged from the process and I think he hurt himself by not having that commitment to the program that he himself had lobbied so hard for.”

In my opinion, the jury is still out. We need to allow [the Fund] to take its course for the first time in a competitive race.

JORGE PEREZ President, Board of Aldermen Kerekes said DeStefano’s 2011 campaign exhibited exactly what the Democracy Fund was trying to prevent: mayoral candidates receiving political contributions and then turning around to give them political favors. Some of DeStefano’s biggest contributors in 2011 included business leaders, government contractors and city employees.

“A problem in New Haven is that the current mayor has been largely dependent on developers who he’s been very generous with, and it’s become such a selfreinforcing process that a lot of people didn’t even bother challenging him,” Kerekes said.

Jolly said that Democracy Fund

MAY 2006 The Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee approves $200,000 to set aside for the Democracy Fund.

JUNE 2006 The Board of Aldermen approves the Democracy Fund ordinance, which is later signed by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., establishing the municipal public finance program in New Haven — the only one in Connecticut and one of about 15 municipal programs nationwide.

advocates wanted to create a system that incumbents, such as DeStefano in 2011, would still choose to opt into. During the drafting process, the creators consisdered three scenarios in which candidates might choose to participate in the Fund: In the first scenario, Jolly said, a “wellfinanced incumbent” would opt into the Democracy Fund, which occurred in both 2007 and 2009 with DeStefano. The second scenario envisioned a candidate who was a “grassroots activist” who was not necessarily well-established with large donors in the city but could take advantage of the Fund to finance a run for office. Jolly said Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 might fit that mold in this November’s race.

The final scenario was that of an established challenger, which Jolly said was modeled after someone like Looney, who ran in the 2001 election. This person, in founders’ minds, would also choose to opt into the system despite the individual’s existing connections. Today, that candidate might be someone like State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield with his connections through the state legislature.

Hoping to support different types of candidacies, the Democracy Fund was challenged with devising fair requirements that would be identical for all participating candidates. When the Democracy Fund was originally established, the minimum contribution amount was $25. But as the Democracy Fund board evaluated the Fund’s performance, amendments were made to lower that amount to $10.

“In a city like New Haven, $25 is a reasonably large amount of money, and dropping it to $10 makes it much easier to get more people involved with the contribution phase of the process,” Wechsler said. “The main thing was really to get the program started, and the goal was to improve it after getting experience and seeing how things worked.”

Lemar said that his experiences running for alderman have shown him that getting 200 contributions can be difficult. For Lemar, the current threshold is high enough to establish a candidate as legitimate and deserving of public financing. The threshold guarantees that every candidate must have a “minimum

2007 AND 2009 DeStefano uses the Democracy Fund to run his campaign and is the only qualifying candidate in both years.

2011 DeStefano opts out of the Democracy Fund, but opponents Jeffrey Kerekes and Tony Dawson qualify and receive funds from it.

strong grassroots support” in order to qualify for the Fund, he said.

This year, Elicker made the job look easy, qualifying in just five days after announcing his candidacy and becoming the first candidate in this year’s mayoral race to qualify for public financing. In a press release at the end of January, Elicker’s campaign announced that it had received 235 contributions totaling $15,285 — together with the $19,000 grant and matching funds, he netted a total of $43,685. As of the end of March, the Elicker campaign published on its Facebook page that it had passed the $50,000 mark.

While the amount of funds may seem high, Holder-Winfield said that he thinks it is more likely that people will choose to opt into the system if the overall level of money given by the Fund is even higher.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, however, cautioned against the role of money in politics.

“This is a value statement about what we want our government to be doing,” he said. “Do we want them to be cajoling people to give them $1,000 for a mayoral race, or do we want people to focus on meeting more folks and engaging the public?”

‘THE FUND IS READY’

Probate Judge Jack Keyes, who has told the News that he is seriously considering a run for mayor, said that he was unsure whether he would use the Democracy Fund if he were to run. Similar to DeStefano’s concerns in 2011, Keyes said the Citizens United case makes him skeptical that the Democracy Fund will be effective.

“You have to see if everyone else [running for mayor] is using [the Democracy Fund], and you have to see if the rules are still effective,” Keyes said. “It’s a great idea, but the question is, is it real?”

In March, former city economic development director and mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez announced that he will not use the Democracy Fund, arguing that he entered the race too late to consider the program a viable way to finance his campaign.

“I’m a big supporter of the Democracy Fund: I think it allows for more candidates to participate and for candidates who otherwise

JANUARY 2013 Mayoral candidate Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 becomes the first candidate to get enough campaign contributions to qualify to receive money from the Democracy Fund.

TODAY Elicker, State Rep. Gary HolderWinfield and Sundiata Keitazulu have pledged to use the Fund; former economic city development director Henry Fernandez has chosen to opt out.

couldn’t raise funds,” Fernandez said. “Public financing generally is structured in a way, however, that doesn’t allow for a candidate to get into an election late, and I’m getting in late. There are basically five months until Election Day, and so the ability to raise funds in a short period of time is significantly hampered by the restrictions that exist.”

Fernandez said that had he declared his candidacy a year before the election, the Democracy Fund would have been a viable option. He added that he still thinks the program is a good idea, as he is “not sure whether the [current candidates in the race] would have been able to run without the Democracy Fund.”

Holder-Winfield, however, argued that Fernandez had the choice of declaring earlier and participating in the Fund.

“We’ve known about this race for a while. You don’t just wake up one day and decide you want to run for mayor,” he said. “It’s not easy for any of us to get to 200 contributions. I don’t have a ton of time on my hands either. It was his decision to wait.”

While Elicker declined to comment on Fernandez’s campaign in particular, he noted the short amount of time it took him to reach the 200 qualifying donations.

Plumber Sundiata Keitazulu, who has also declared his mayoral candidacy, has pledged to use the Democracy Fund.

Patricia Kane, who currently serves on the Democracy Fund, said Fund administrators aim to create enough “peer pressure” to push all candidates to participate in the program. Goldfield said he hopes there is eventually a strong stigma against not participating.

With a current majority of the mayoral candidates pledging to use the Democracy Fund — but at least one candidate declining to do so — the upcoming mayoral election will prove a potent test of the Fund’s efficacy.

“Last election turned out to be more competitive, but the [2007 and 2009 races] weren’t that competitive. It was a good time to test the program without running into trouble,” said Wechsler, the previous Fund administrator.

“But now, it’s the most competitive election yet and the Fund is ready.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT Officials fight for federal reform IMMIGRATION FROM PAGE 1 before CIRA meets with DeLauro.

“The Congresswoman has always supported policies that provide a path to legalization for the millions of undocumented individuals in good standing,” Lonardo said in an email to the News, citing DeLauro’s casework and advocacy.

In the Tuesday morning press conference attended by about 30 members of immigrant rights groups, DeStefano similarly emphasized accelerated pathways to citizenship, an end to Secure Communities and the important role immigrants — both high- and low-skilled — play in New Haven and throughout the country.

After describing the experience of watching immigrants become citizens at a federal courthouse on Friday, Blumenthal pushed to crack down on employers using illegal labor practices, including hiring and exploiting undocumented workers. He also advocated streamlining the process for legal immigration and enhancing border security. Blumenthal told the News that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to bring a bill to the floor this spring, capitalizing on President Barack Obama’s push for immigration reform. He added that an agreement between labor unions and the Chamber of Commerce should be written into a comprehensive reform package.

“Our delegation will be committed to this cause,” he said of Connecticut legislators.

Kica Matos, who heads Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice at the Center for Community Change and was also present at the press conference, said her group is planning a rally next Wednesday in the Capitol. Meanwhile, Unidad Latina en Accion continues to emphasize immigration reform as a

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Principal weighs mayoral run CAROLINA FROM PAGE 1

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Tuesday morning, immigrant rights groups demonstrated on behalf of Josemaria Islas, a local undocumented worker facing deportation. universal human rights issue, rejecting any proposed legislation that would distinguish between “good” and “bad” immigrants or target specific groups such as youth or families.

Steven Andrews of Seminarians for a Democratic Society said such immigrants should not “be consigned to the dustbin.”

“We have a generation opportunity in the Congress of the United States at this moment … a unique opportunity to provide leadership, as Connecticut always has, in civil rights,” DeStefano

said at the press conference.

A March Pew Research Center poll found that 43 percent of Americans nationwide say immigrants in the U.S. without authorization should be allowed to become citizens and 24 percent say they should become legal permanent residents.

Matthew Lloyd-Thomas contributed reporting.

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

dates.”

Pellegrino added that Carolina has access to a “bird’s eye view of education” as a high school principal. He said this would help him cut costs in areas that other candidates might not know about.

Before becoming principal in 2011, Carolina was the high school’s basketball coach, a position he held for nearly a decade after working for a number of years in the school district. Carolina grew up in the Ashmun Street Housing Projects before attending Southern Connecticut State University.

“As a lifelong resident of the city of New Haven, my strong connection and love for this city have served as the basis for many years of my public service here,” Carolina said in his press release.

His work in the city has not been without conflict, though, as Carolina sparred publicly with DeStefano and Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo last fall over reports of grade tampering for student athletes at Hillhouse. The Board of Education ended up issuing Carolina a three-day suspension-without-pay order, a move that the principal is still fighting in arbitration, Pellegrino said.

Paulishen said the conflict is evidence that his candidate is not afraid of standing up to “the powers that be.”

That’s also the message Pellegrino conveyed in describing Carolina’s commitment to public campaign financing under the New Haven Democracy Fund, a system that limits private donations in return for a public grant and matching funds. So far, all candidates have said they will use the Fund except for Fernandez. In his statement, Carolina went as far as to commit, under

“the spirit of the Democracy Fund,” not to begin fundraising while still in the exploratory phase.

Pellegrino said this move would help separate Carolina from the “machine” that he said often dictates elections in New Haven.

“There are other forces getting people elected here, whether it’s unions or the sort of political cronyism we saw under DeStefano for the past 20 years,” Pellegrino said.

“I don’t know what Fernandez’s motives are for not using public money but my suspicion is that he wants the ability to get highheeled donors. Fernandez worked under DeStefano as the economic development administrator, so he would be the most natural candidate to represent the machine.

That’s how it works when you get big campaign donations and favors from people and then give them contracts in return.”

Fernandez has declined to comment on what he called “procedural” questions of campaign finance, saying only that he has a “very strong track record on the issues — on reducing crime, improving our schools, creating youth centers and creating jobs.”

He also declined to comment specifically on Carolina’s formation of a committee to explore running for mayor.

In response to the announcement, Elicker said only that he thinks highly of Carolina and looks forward to hearing more about his ideas. Holder-Winfield could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon.

The Democratic Primary will be held on Sept. 10.

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

With Quinlan’s departure, Yale-NUS to search for new dean ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 deputy dean of undergraduate admissions in 2010.

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Affairs Kimberly Goff-Crews chaired the nine-person search committee for the new admissions dean, following Brenzel’s October announcement that he planned to step down. Brenzel will remain on campus as master of Timothy Dwight College and will also return to a teaching role in Yale College.

Quinlan said his close work with Bren-

zel over the years has taught him the “value of thoughtful, detail-oriented admissions work” and prepared him well for his new position.

“Always putting the applicant at the forefront of decision-making is a real culture of admissions work that Dean Brenzel has brought, and that I hope to continue,” Quinlan said.

As the new admissions dean, Quinlan said he is interested in taking part in national conversations on the affordability of college as well as the use of technology in higher education. Quinlan added

that he looks forward to working closely with Yale College Dean Mary Miller and President-elect Peter Salovey to continue to make Yale “accessible and innovative.”

As Yale-NUS’s first dean of admissions and financial aid this year, Quinlan built an admission staff of 10 professionals and designed strategies for the school for recruitment, outreach, financial aid and application review process. Quinlan will leave his post at Yale-NUS in May at the end of this year’s Yale-NUS admissions cycle.

Pericles Lewis, president of the Singa-

porean liberal arts college, said in a Tuesday email that the Yale-NUS admissions office will “evolve as the college grows,” but the basic structure that Quinlan set up will likely remain the same.

“We will have a search committee at Yale-NUS to search for the new dean, and ultimately I will make the appointment based on the advice of our executive vice president for administration Doris Sohmen-Pao, and with input from the Yale-NUS Governing Board,” Lewis said.

Salovey said Quinlan has had excellent judgment and obvious passion in

his admissions work, adding that Quinlan “will be an important voice for diversity and accessibility at Yale and for higher education more broadly.”

University President Richard Levin, Miller and Salovey announced Quinlan’s appointment in a Tuesday email to select staff and faculty members in the Yale community. He will assume his new post on July 1, 2013.

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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG fosters STEM connections

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER As part of its recent push toward exploring the intersection of science and art, the Yale University Art Gallery hosted a tour of artwork connected to issues surrounding public health.

Led by Gallery Teacher Vanessa Lamers GRD ’13 on Tuesday, the tour examined art highlighting aspects of the human form, as well as paintings created by artists who were themselves interested in medicine and influenced by developments in science at the time.

The event is just one example of increased collaboration between the YUAG and science-related organizations such as the Public Health Coalition, which planned the tour as a part of its National Public Health Week. Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs David Odo said that while partnerships have existed between the gallery and University science departments for a number of years, it is only recently that the museum has begun focusing on increasing its STEM-related programming.

[The YUAG] really wants to find a way for our art collections to be intellectually important in the study of science, and vice versa.

DAVID ODO Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs “We’re ramping up our collaborations in terms of really thinking together with scientists about how our work can be mutually beneficial,” Odo said, adding that he hired an undergraduate chemical engineering

major to work with him as an intern in the coming academic year.

This past summer, Odo cotaught the inaugural semester of a class titled “Empathy and the Practice of Medicine,” which he said was an experiment in how art can play a role in discussions of bioethics. He observed that he found students conversed more honestly when they had art as a reference point, as it gave them an opportunity to situate their ideas in the context of human relations.

Lamers, who is the only gallery teacher in the field of public health, said art can serve as a tool for facilitating conversations about the more “taboo” subjects in science, noting that people often feel more comfortable talking about issues of nationalism, race and ethnicity through the lens of art.

The open spaces of the YUAG, which was specifically designed by architects to foster discussion, also offers a refreshing change of environment for those accustomed to talking about science and medicine only in classrooms or laboratories, Associate Curator of Public Education Jessica Sack said.

“The environment of the museum is a different kind of feeling space,” Sack said. “This space allows for a more impartial conversation to take place.”

Sack said that in addition to being a mediator of discussions, art can serve as a form of therapy for those suffering from health ailments. She cited the YUAG’s partnership with West Haven’s Veterans Administration, an organization that brings blind veterans to the museum to participate in workshop discussions about the artwork. These sessions begin with the gallery teachers describing what they see in front of them, which then incites the veterans to engage in conversations about not only art, but the facets of their lives that are evoked by the collections.

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This year, the Yale University Art Gallery is promoting collaboration with public health and other science-related organizations.

Public Health Week features glass sculptures created by students from the School of Medicine. Using skills learned from glass-blowing workshops, the students created sculptures in the shape of organs to be exhibited in the Silliman Art Gallery. The project aims to shed new light on the public’s understanding of organs, Public Health Coalition co-coordinator Rima Abhyankar ’14 said.

“Our goal is not just to provide art as an illustration of sci-

entific principles, which would be fine but unsatisfying,” Odo said. “[The YUAG] really wants to find a way for our art collections to be intellectually important in the study of science, and vice versa.”

The glass sculpture exhibit will be shown in the Silliman Art Gallery this Thursday through Sunday.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

‘Arthur’ mixes ballet and myth

This Wednesday night, the Yale Dramatic Association will premiere its spring semester mainstage production, “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play).”

Directed by Jonathan Lian ’15 and Steve Kaliski and written by the well-known playwright Sarah Ruhl, a lecturer at the School of Drama and Theater Studies Department who has debuted other plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre, “The Vibrator Play” tells the story of the Givings and Dowdry couples, who are burdened by boring sex lives. Kaliski said the Pulitzer-finalist play explores the “search for the language of intimacy” within the restrictive social norms of 1880s New England, while others involved in the show noted the relevancy of the play’s sexual themes to Yale students.

Lian said that while “The Vibrator Play” has been on the Dramat’s shortlist for the past three years, the Dramat decided to stage the play this year due to Ruhl’s increasing popularity and relatively new teaching position.

As the semester’s mainstage production, “The Vibrator Play” is the work of both professionals — including the lighting, set, costume and sound designers, as well as Kaliski — and students. The New York-based director noted that, for the professionals, the mainstage show is an opportunity for teaching and “less about things working exactly as they are supposed to.”

Lian said that it has been “a creative exercise” for the team to make their vision work with the resources they have. Because the Yale Rep, where the play will be staged, does not have the same extensive rigging system as the University Theatre, the team has had to find other ways to introduce movement into the show using other production elements like the sets. He added that this

SAMANTHA GARDNER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

“Vibrator” explores two couple’s problems with intimacy in the late 19th century. approach is reflective of the entire play: “creativity comes from constraint.”

At the beginning of the show, both couples find that they are unable to communicate fully their passions and desires. Dr. Givings, played by Tim Creavin ’15, is a doctor who treats female “hysteria” by using vibrators — at this point in the storyline, none of the characters realize that the instrument can be used for sexual

purposes. Kaliski said the play’s essence is very much about the “or” in the title.

“It’s about going from the euphemism of ‘In the Next Room’ to a place that’s blunt and clear — ‘The Vibrator Play,’” Kaliski said.

Sabrina Dowdry, played by Marina Horiates ’15, is married to a husband many years older who is unwilling to join her search for the vocabulary of intimacy. Horiates said the characters struggle

with communicating the sexual concepts and emotions they do not understand.

Mrs. Givings, played by Calista Small ’14, said the play’s female characters are trying to use the vocabulary available to them in the late 1800s to its fullest.

“They didn’t have words to express female sexual pleasure and orgasm,” Small said.

Creavin added that playing characters with such a differ-

ent mindset poses a challenge for the actors. In trying to reflect the socially constrained nature of the time period, he said he has found it difficult to learn how to portray someone afraid of self-expression. Kaliski said that while it is easy for 21st-century actors to discuss feelings, it is “dangerous” for them to do so in rehearsal. To combat this, he said he encourages actors to act “without thinking about it.”

Clemente paintings showcase Brazil

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Breaking: Yale’s sorcerers take on ballet.

The April 5 debut of “Arthur,” an original ballet by undergraduate Amymarie Bartholomew ’13, will mark the first time the story of King Arthur and his court at Camelot are performed as a ballet. The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company will hold two performances of Bartholomew’s piece at the Co-Op Theater. By translating the text of King Arthur into dance, Bartholomew and YUBC will provide the audience with not only a unique ballet-viewing experience but also new perspective on the legend.

“Familiar myths translated from literature to dance add another layer and bring something entirely new you wouldn’t have gotten out of a myth that you thought you knew before,” said Karlanna Lewis LAW ’15, a dancer in the show.

Lewis said that by communicating the story through movements and immediate feelings, ballet adds a transcendental aspect to the legend. Exploring themes of free will, determination, choice and destruction without words forces the audience to consider the tale in a new light.

[‘Arthur’ shows] how powerful and raw and real ballet can be, too.

CHRIS CHO ’12 Postgraduate associate, Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company “There are no mothers-inlaw in ballet — there’s no way to directly say, ‘This is so-and-so’s mother-in-law,’” Bartholomew said. “Everything is visual in a ballet, so a lot relies on the audience being able to see things clearly.”

To make obvious the storyline, each performer must take

“[Talking about feelings] imposes a 21st-century sensibility on characters who didn’t know how to talk,” Kaliski said.

While the majority of the play’s characters struggle with expressing themselves, Leo Irving, a male artist who receives the vibrator treatment and is played by Paul Hinkes ’15, represents the opposite side of the spectrum — he has sex with multiple people and seems not to understand

the meaning of the word ‘secret.’

Hinkes said his character may be more immediately relatable to the play’s 21st century audience, especially one comprised of mostly college students who are used to open communication about sex. Still, he said he is “excited” how the play’s spectrum of characters, from those unable to communicate to those who can’t keep anything to themselves, sparks a discussion about

“Arthur” translates the emotions surrounding the King Arthur legend into movement. on the dual roles of dancer and actor. The plot unfolds through exaggerated expressions and dramatic movements, in addition to stage tricks like hiding a dancer behind a tree so that only the audience is aware of his or her presence.

As the founder and president of YUBC, Bartholomew knows her dancers’ strengths and weaknesses and cast them based on their skills. She said she cast postgraduate associate Chris Cho as Arthur because she knew he is committed to his acting emotions. Bartholomew’s familiarity with her dancers also allowed them some artistic license with the choreography; small subsections of the hourlong ballet were choreographed by the dancers themselves.

“You are part of the pro-

cess — it’s more collaborative,” Lewis said. “You’re not molding yourself to something preexisting. Everything is fusing at that moment, and everyone brings something to the vision.”

Lewis said that by catering to the preferences of the dancers, Bartholomew made the ballet a more personal experience for members of the company.

Cho said that in order to travel back through the centuries and become a character of antiquity, he had to explore foreign feelings — from learning how to rule a kingdom to receiving the mythical sword Excalibur — along with the timeless emotions of betrayal and unreciprocated love. He explained that the acting process required him to reflect on personal experiences and channel thoughts and emo-

tions relevant to King Arthur’s character into movement.

“I think people have a misconceived notion of what ballet is like — girls in tutus walking on tippy-toes across the stage,” Cho said. “[‘Arthur’ shows] how powerful and raw and real ballet can be, too.”

Cho said he thinks communicating the emotions of King Arthur through movement makes the scenes more dynamic.

Two characters in love dancing a duet are able to express their feelings to the audience through the intimacy of their touch rather than a kiss onstage.

YUBC was founded in the spring of 2011.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

“Clemente > Brazil > Yale” showcases 30 paintings that Italian artist Francesco Clemente made while traveling in Brazil.

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER On Monday, the School of Art’s Edgewood Gallery opened its doors to the public to showcase the work of Italian artist Francesco Clemente.

Curated by School of Art Dean Robert Storr, “Clemente > Brazil > Yale” features about 30 paintings that Clemente made on a series of trips to Brazil between 2006 and 2008, which have never been displayed as a complete body of work. The art, which includes large oil paintings and smaller watercolors, involves a rich mixture of cultural reference that reflect the fusion of Brazilian culture, Storr said. The exhibit also contributes to ongoing discussions in the school about Yale students’ responses to multicultural artwork, Storr said.

“Francesco’s work has always been about how cultures meld rather than clash, and Brazilian culture itself is like that,” Storr said. “It would be nice if people could begin to think in ways that are not always dichotomous.”

Partly due to the abundance of religious references in Clemente’s work, Storr organized the exhibit in a way that would produce a chapel effect, by placing large oil paintings in the middle of smaller watercolors vertically aligned on either side.

Although many of the watercolors could be seen as studies for the larger oil paintings, Storr did not want to place them side by side.

“I wanted to separate the two kinds of paintings from one another so that you re-experience the images as you move through but also see each one of them for

their own sake,” Storr said.

At the show’s opening reception on Tuesday night, seven of eight spectators interviewed pointed to the curatorial arrangement of the works as one of the show’s defining features. Vincent Katz, a poet and son of Alex Katz, whose work was featured in the Edgewood Gallery’s previous show “Katx x Katz,” said the mixture of watercolor and oil paintings is a harmonious combination, though he prefers to look at each work individually. Aimee Mullins, a friend of Clemente from New York, said she thinks the different groupings of art created in the show’s layout reflected different moods.

But Enga Purevjav, another friend of Clemente from New York, said she wishes the works were more spread out so that the larger pieces could have more space

to breathe. She added that she appreciates how the exhibit is being held in New Haven rather than New York, explaining that “in New York, people are too fastpaced to appreciate this work.”

Lucia Hierro ART ’13, a painting student, said that although she would not have noticed the Brazilian influence unless told, the Catholic references and symbols were more obvious.

“The paintings capture the mood behind the religious stories you’re told and the stories you remember and how they affect you personally even when you move on from the religion,” Herro said.

“Clemente > Brazil > Yale” will run until June 2.

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

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

Belly dancers combat hunger

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER

KATHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

the role sex should play in romantic relationships.

Lian, the student director, added that the play is especially pertinent to a college population because college students are still exploring the meaning of love.

“In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” will run from April 3 to 6 at the Yale Rep.

Shakira is not the only woman whose hips don’t lie.

On April 5, the Yale Belly Dance Society will perform its annual “Hips Against Hunger” belly dance show, which raises funds for New Haven’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, or DESK. The two-day show will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Yale Belly Dance with performances by the society and its alumnae; the Yale Jashan Bhangra dance team; the Connecticut College Belly Dance Society; the Shakti Tribal Belly Dance group from Green Mountain College and Rangeela, Yale’s Bollywood dance troupe.

Margaret Gorlin GRD ’15, a dancer in Yale Belly Dance, said the group hopes not only to expose New Haven to an international art form, but also to increase awareness of the social issues facing the New Haven community.

“The idea of combining a show with a fundraiser is extremely elegant, in the sense that you aren’t simply going out and talking about a cause you are trying to raise money for,” said Jing Wang GRD ’14, the group’s president and one of its choreographers.

Wang said Yale Belly Dance was formed 10 years ago as both a dance troupe and community service organization. She said that while Yale has many service initiatives, Yale Belly Dance brings a new level of awareness to the community because it combines fundraising with an entertaining art form that attracts large audiences. Last year, the three performances of “Hips Against Hunger” drew an audience of 600 in total, raising close to $4,000. This year, the group hopes to garner even greater support for DESK. “Our goal is to raise $10,000. 10 for 10,” said Vela Park ’13, a Yale Belly Dance member.

Park explained that she initially feared that the price of an undergraduate ticket — higher than most undergrad events at $10 — would impair the group’s ability to meet its fundraising goal. She said she thinks that if students understand that the show supports a good cause, people will not be deterred by the ticket price.

The show will feature professional lighting and sound, as well as colorful displays of fabric decorating the stage — all of which expose the audience to a high-caliber performance relative to the event’s price, Wang said. The audience will also be treated to performances by revered belly dancer and Mid-

dle Eastern scholar Najla, formerly known as Kristin Windmuller ’08, and international belly dance star Ranya Renee ’92. Yale Belly Dance has been preparing for “Hips Against Hunger” since the group’s October tryouts, when prospective belly dancers learned a few of the pieces that will be showcased this weekend.

“I stand by this 100 percent: The audience is getting … more out of [the show] for the amount they’re paying,” Wang said.

Gorlin said she thinks DESK is the kind of organization that the impoverished population of New Haven most needs. Wang said the group’s involvement in DESK last year made a great impact on the soup kitchen — last year’s event drew attention from the New Haven Register and even from outside New Haven. The troupe, comprised of New Haven residents and undergraduate and graduate students, attracts friends and family members who live in the neighboring towns of Milford, West Haven and Hamden.

Yale Belly Dance’s prominence among college belly dance troupes, as well as the attention the group attracted through last year’s “Hips Against Hunger” event, inspired the groups from other colleges to join the cause.

The Shakti Tribal Belly Dance group from Green Mountain College was so interested in Yale Belly Dance’s work that it reached out through email to ask if the troupe would host them for a performance, said Nicole McNeer MED ’14, Yale Belly Dance’s education and outreach director. McNeer explained that the group saw Shakti’s improvisational, tribal, fusion-style belly dance as an opportunity to expand the show’s scope.

Park said she feels art is an especially effective way to inspire people, adding that the group “literally dances with their hearts out.”

Gorlin said she hopes that this year, the show will inspire New Haven locals to get more involved in the city, for example by volunteering at DESK or tutoring underprivileged children.

“We all feel that New Haven is home to us and we want to engage residents in New Haven and make sure that we get the word out,” Gorlin said. “We’d like to give back whatever we can.”

The first show of Hips Against Hunger opens in Harkness Auditorium at 9 p.m. on Friday. All proceeds from the event will be donated to DESK. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG fosters STEM connections

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER As part of its recent push toward exploring the intersection of science and art, the Yale University Art Gallery hosted a tour of artwork connected to issues surrounding public health.

Led by Gallery Teacher Vanessa Lamers GRD ’13 on Tuesday, the tour examined art highlighting aspects of the human form, as well as paintings created by artists who were themselves interested in medicine and influenced by developments in science at the time.

The event is just one example of increased collaboration between the YUAG and science-related organizations such as the Public Health Coalition, which planned the tour as a part of its National Public Health Week. Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs David Odo said that while partnerships have existed between the gallery and University science departments for a number of years, it is only recently that the museum has begun focusing on increasing its STEM-related programming.

[The YUAG] really wants to find a way for our art collections to be intellectually important in the study of science, and vice versa.

DAVID ODO Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs “We’re ramping up our collaborations in terms of really thinking together with scientists about how our work can be mutually beneficial,” Odo said, adding that he hired an undergraduate chemical engineering

major to work with him as an intern in the coming academic year.

This past summer, Odo cotaught the inaugural semester of a class titled “Empathy and the Practice of Medicine,” which he said was an experiment in how art can play a role in discussions of bioethics. He observed that he found students conversed more honestly when they had art as a reference point, as it gave them an opportunity to situate their ideas in the context of human relations.

Lamers, who is the only gallery teacher in the field of public health, said art can serve as a tool for facilitating conversations about the more “taboo” subjects in science, noting that people often feel more comfortable talking about issues of nationalism, race and ethnicity through the lens of art.

The open spaces of the YUAG, which was specifically designed by architects to foster discussion, also offers a refreshing change of environment for those accustomed to talking about science and medicine only in classrooms or laboratories, Associate Curator of Public Education Jessica Sack said.

“The environment of the museum is a different kind of feeling space,” Sack said. “This space allows for a more impartial conversation to take place.”

Sack said that in addition to being a mediator of discussions, art can serve as a form of therapy for those suffering from health ailments. She cited the YUAG’s partnership with West Haven’s Veterans Administration, an organization that brings blind veterans to the museum to participate in workshop discussions about the artwork. These sessions begin with the gallery teachers describing what they see in front of them, which then incites the veterans to engage in conversations about not only art, but the facets of their lives that are evoked by the collections.

Another segment of National

“The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.” DYLAN MCDERMOTT AMERICAN ACTOR

With ‘Vibrator,’ an exploration of intimacy

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER

CARLY LOVEJOY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

This year, the Yale University Art Gallery is promoting collaboration with public health and other science-related organizations.

Public Health Week features glass sculptures created by students from the School of Medicine. Using skills learned from glass-blowing workshops, the students created sculptures in the shape of organs to be exhibited in the Silliman Art Gallery. The project aims to shed new light on the public’s understanding of organs, Public Health Coalition co-coordinator Rima Abhyankar ’14 said.

“Our goal is not just to provide art as an illustration of sci-

entific principles, which would be fine but unsatisfying,” Odo said. “[The YUAG] really wants to find a way for our art collections to be intellectually important in the study of science, and vice versa.”

The glass sculpture exhibit will be shown in the Silliman Art Gallery this Thursday through Sunday.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

‘Arthur’ mixes ballet and myth

This Wednesday night, the Yale Dramatic Association will premiere its spring semester mainstage production, “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play).”

Directed by Jonathan Lian ’15 and Steve Kaliski and written by the well-known playwright Sarah Ruhl, a lecturer at the School of Drama and Theater Studies Department who has debuted other plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre, “The Vibrator Play” tells the story of the Givings and Dowdry couples, who are burdened by boring sex lives. Kaliski said the Pulitzer-finalist play explores the “search for the language of intimacy” within the restrictive social norms of 1880s New England, while others involved in the show noted the relevancy of the play’s sexual themes to Yale students.

Lian said that while “The Vibrator Play” has been on the Dramat’s shortlist for the past three years, the Dramat decided to stage the play this year due to Ruhl’s increasing popularity and relatively new teaching position.

As the semester’s mainstage production, “The Vibrator Play” is the work of both professionals — including the lighting, set, costume and sound designers, as well as Kaliski — and students. The New York-based director noted that, for the professionals, the mainstage show is an opportunity for teaching and “less about things working exactly as they are supposed to.”

Lian said that it has been “a creative exercise” for the team to make their vision work with the resources they have. Because the Yale Rep, where the play will be staged, does not have the same extensive rigging system as the University Theatre, the team has had to find other ways to introduce movement into the show using other production elements like the sets. He added that this

SAMANTHA GARDNER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

“Vibrator” explores two couple’s problems with intimacy in the late 19th century. approach is reflective of the entire play: “creativity comes from constraint.”

At the beginning of the show, both couples find that they are unable to communicate fully their passions and desires. Dr. Givings, played by Tim Creavin ’15, is a doctor who treats female “hysteria” by using vibrators — at this point in the storyline, none of the characters realize that the instrument can be used for sexual

purposes. Kaliski said the play’s essence is very much about the “or” in the title.

“It’s about going from the euphemism of ‘In the Next Room’ to a place that’s blunt and clear — ‘The Vibrator Play,’” Kaliski said.

Sabrina Dowdry, played by Marina Horiates ’15, is married to a husband many years older who is unwilling to join her search for the vocabulary of intimacy. Horiates said the characters struggle

with communicating the sexual concepts and emotions they do not understand.

Mrs. Givings, played by Calista Small ’14, said the play’s female characters are trying to use the vocabulary available to them in the late 1800s to its fullest.

“They didn’t have words to express female sexual pleasure and orgasm,” Small said.

Creavin added that playing characters with such a differ-

ent mindset poses a challenge for the actors. In trying to reflect the socially constrained nature of the time period, he said he has found it difficult to learn how to portray someone afraid of self-expression. Kaliski said that while it is easy for 21st-century actors to discuss feelings, it is “dangerous” for them to do so in rehearsal. To combat this, he said he encourages actors to act “without thinking about it.”

Clemente paintings showcase Brazil

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Breaking: Yale’s sorcerers take on ballet.

The April 5 debut of “Arthur,” an original ballet by undergraduate Amymarie Bartholomew ’13, will mark the first time the story of King Arthur and his court at Camelot are performed as a ballet. The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company will hold two performances of Bartholomew’s piece at the Co-Op Theater. By translating the text of King Arthur into dance, Bartholomew and YUBC will provide the audience with not only a unique ballet-viewing experience but also new perspective on the legend.

“Familiar myths translated from literature to dance add another layer and bring something entirely new you wouldn’t have gotten out of a myth that you thought you knew before,” said Karlanna Lewis LAW ’15, a dancer in the show.

Lewis said that by communicating the story through movements and immediate feelings, ballet adds a transcendental aspect to the legend. Exploring themes of free will, determination, choice and destruction without words forces the audience to consider the tale in a new light.

[‘Arthur’ shows] how powerful and raw and real ballet can be, too.

CHRIS CHO ’12 Postgraduate associate, Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company “There are no mothers-inlaw in ballet — there’s no way to directly say, ‘This is so-and-so’s mother-in-law,’” Bartholomew said. “Everything is visual in a ballet, so a lot relies on the audience being able to see things clearly.”

To make obvious the storyline, each performer must take

“[Talking about feelings] imposes a 21st-century sensibility on characters who didn’t know how to talk,” Kaliski said.

While the majority of the play’s characters struggle with expressing themselves, Leo Irving, a male artist who receives the vibrator treatment and is played by Paul Hinkes ’15, represents the opposite side of the spectrum — he has sex with multiple people and seems not to understand

the meaning of the word ‘secret.’

Hinkes said his character may be more immediately relatable to the play’s 21st century audience, especially one comprised of mostly college students who are used to open communication about sex. Still, he said he is “excited” how the play’s spectrum of characters, from those unable to communicate to those who can’t keep anything to themselves, sparks a discussion about

“Arthur” translates the emotions surrounding the King Arthur legend into movement. on the dual roles of dancer and actor. The plot unfolds through exaggerated expressions and dramatic movements, in addition to stage tricks like hiding a dancer behind a tree so that only the audience is aware of his or her presence.

As the founder and president of YUBC, Bartholomew knows her dancers’ strengths and weaknesses and cast them based on their skills. She said she cast postgraduate associate Chris Cho as Arthur because she knew he is committed to his acting emotions. Bartholomew’s familiarity with her dancers also allowed them some artistic license with the choreography; small subsections of the hourlong ballet were choreographed by the dancers themselves.

“You are part of the pro-

cess — it’s more collaborative,” Lewis said. “You’re not molding yourself to something preexisting. Everything is fusing at that moment, and everyone brings something to the vision.”

Lewis said that by catering to the preferences of the dancers, Bartholomew made the ballet a more personal experience for members of the company.

Cho said that in order to travel back through the centuries and become a character of antiquity, he had to explore foreign feelings — from learning how to rule a kingdom to receiving the mythical sword Excalibur — along with the timeless emotions of betrayal and unreciprocated love. He explained that the acting process required him to reflect on personal experiences and channel thoughts and emo-

tions relevant to King Arthur’s character into movement.

“I think people have a misconceived notion of what ballet is like — girls in tutus walking on tippy-toes across the stage,” Cho said. “[‘Arthur’ shows] how powerful and raw and real ballet can be, too.”

Cho said he thinks communicating the emotions of King Arthur through movement makes the scenes more dynamic.

Two characters in love dancing a duet are able to express their feelings to the audience through the intimacy of their touch rather than a kiss onstage.

YUBC was founded in the spring of 2011.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

“Clemente > Brazil > Yale” showcases 30 paintings that Italian artist Francesco Clemente made while traveling in Brazil.

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER On Monday, the School of Art’s Edgewood Gallery opened its doors to the public to showcase the work of Italian artist Francesco Clemente.

Curated by School of Art Dean Robert Storr, “Clemente > Brazil > Yale” features about 30 paintings that Clemente made on a series of trips to Brazil between 2006 and 2008, which have never been displayed as a complete body of work. The art, which includes large oil paintings and smaller watercolors, involves a rich mixture of cultural reference that reflect the fusion of Brazilian culture, Storr said. The exhibit also contributes to ongoing discussions in the school about Yale students’ responses to multicultural artwork, Storr said.

“Francesco’s work has always been about how cultures meld rather than clash, and Brazilian culture itself is like that,” Storr said. “It would be nice if people could begin to think in ways that are not always dichotomous.”

Partly due to the abundance of religious references in Clemente’s work, Storr organized the exhibit in a way that would produce a chapel effect, by placing large oil paintings in the middle of smaller watercolors vertically aligned on either side.

Although many of the watercolors could be seen as studies for the larger oil paintings, Storr did not want to place them side by side.

“I wanted to separate the two kinds of paintings from one another so that you re-experience the images as you move through but also see each one of them for

their own sake,” Storr said.

At the show’s opening reception on Tuesday night, seven of eight spectators interviewed pointed to the curatorial arrangement of the works as one of the show’s defining features. Vincent Katz, a poet and son of Alex Katz, whose work was featured in the Edgewood Gallery’s previous show “Katx x Katz,” said the mixture of watercolor and oil paintings is a harmonious combination, though he prefers to look at each work individually. Aimee Mullins, a friend of Clemente from New York, said she thinks the different groupings of art created in the show’s layout reflected different moods.

But Enga Purevjav, another friend of Clemente from New York, said she wishes the works were more spread out so that the larger pieces could have more space

to breathe. She added that she appreciates how the exhibit is being held in New Haven rather than New York, explaining that “in New York, people are too fastpaced to appreciate this work.”

Lucia Hierro ART ’13, a painting student, said that although she would not have noticed the Brazilian influence unless told, the Catholic references and symbols were more obvious.

“The paintings capture the mood behind the religious stories you’re told and the stories you remember and how they affect you personally even when you move on from the religion,” Herro said.

“Clemente > Brazil > Yale” will run until June 2.

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

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

Belly dancers combat hunger

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER

KATHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

the role sex should play in romantic relationships.

Lian, the student director, added that the play is especially pertinent to a college population because college students are still exploring the meaning of love.

“In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” will run from April 3 to 6 at the Yale Rep.

Shakira is not the only woman whose hips don’t lie.

On April 5, the Yale Belly Dance Society will perform its annual “Hips Against Hunger” belly dance show, which raises funds for New Haven’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, or DESK. The two-day show will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Yale Belly Dance with performances by the society and its alumnae; the Yale Jashan Bhangra dance team; the Connecticut College Belly Dance Society; the Shakti Tribal Belly Dance group from Green Mountain College and Rangeela, Yale’s Bollywood dance troupe.

Margaret Gorlin GRD ’15, a dancer in Yale Belly Dance, said the group hopes not only to expose New Haven to an international art form, but also to increase awareness of the social issues facing the New Haven community.

“The idea of combining a show with a fundraiser is extremely elegant, in the sense that you aren’t simply going out and talking about a cause you are trying to raise money for,” said Jing Wang GRD ’14, the group’s president and one of its choreographers.

Wang said Yale Belly Dance was formed 10 years ago as both a dance troupe and community service organization. She said that while Yale has many service initiatives, Yale Belly Dance brings a new level of awareness to the community because it combines fundraising with an entertaining art form that attracts large audiences. Last year, the three performances of “Hips Against Hunger” drew an audience of 600 in total, raising close to $4,000. This year, the group hopes to garner even greater support for DESK. “Our goal is to raise $10,000. 10 for 10,” said Vela Park ’13, a Yale Belly Dance member.

Park explained that she initially feared that the price of an undergraduate ticket — higher than most undergrad events at $10 — would impair the group’s ability to meet its fundraising goal. She said she thinks that if students understand that the show supports a good cause, people will not be deterred by the ticket price.

The show will feature professional lighting and sound, as well as colorful displays of fabric decorating the stage — all of which expose the audience to a high-caliber performance relative to the event’s price, Wang said. The audience will also be treated to performances by revered belly dancer and Mid-

dle Eastern scholar Najla, formerly known as Kristin Windmuller ’08, and international belly dance star Ranya Renee ’92. Yale Belly Dance has been preparing for “Hips Against Hunger” since the group’s October tryouts, when prospective belly dancers learned a few of the pieces that will be showcased this weekend.

“I stand by this 100 percent: The audience is getting … more out of [the show] for the amount they’re paying,” Wang said.

Gorlin said she thinks DESK is the kind of organization that the impoverished population of New Haven most needs. Wang said the group’s involvement in DESK last year made a great impact on the soup kitchen — last year’s event drew attention from the New Haven Register and even from outside New Haven. The troupe, comprised of New Haven residents and undergraduate and graduate students, attracts friends and family members who live in the neighboring towns of Milford, West Haven and Hamden.

Yale Belly Dance’s prominence among college belly dance troupes, as well as the attention the group attracted through last year’s “Hips Against Hunger” event, inspired the groups from other colleges to join the cause.

The Shakti Tribal Belly Dance group from Green Mountain College was so interested in Yale Belly Dance’s work that it reached out through email to ask if the troupe would host them for a performance, said Nicole McNeer MED ’14, Yale Belly Dance’s education and outreach director. McNeer explained that the group saw Shakti’s improvisational, tribal, fusion-style belly dance as an opportunity to expand the show’s scope.

Park said she feels art is an especially effective way to inspire people, adding that the group “literally dances with their hearts out.”

Gorlin said she hopes that this year, the show will inspire New Haven locals to get more involved in the city, for example by volunteering at DESK or tutoring underprivileged children.

“We all feel that New Haven is home to us and we want to engage residents in New Haven and make sure that we get the word out,” Gorlin said. “We’d like to give back whatever we can.”

The first show of Hips Against Hunger opens in Harkness Auditorium at 9 p.m. on Friday. All proceeds from the event will be donated to DESK. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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NEWINGTON, Conn. — Customers packed gun stores around Connecticut on Tuesday ahead of a vote expected to bring sweeping changes to the state’s gun control laws, including a ban on the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown shooting and a new classification for more than 100 types of guns as banned assault weapons.

Lawmakers have touted the legislation expected to pass the General Assembly on Wednesday as the toughest in the country.

Some measures would take effect right away, including the expansion of the state’s assault weapons ban, universal background checks for all firearms sales, and a ban on the sale or purchase of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The bill also addresses mental health and school security measures in response to the massacre.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, supports the bill and could sign it into law as soon as Wednesday night.

In a state with a rich history of gun manufacturing, some companies said they feel the legislation made them into scapegoats for the deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators in the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

At least one ammunition magazine maker is more seriously considering offers to leave.

“My home is in Connecticut, but at this point, I don’t know if I can operate here legally come Wednesday afternoon,” said Jonathan Scalise, owner of Ammunition Storage Components in New Britain. He said it’s unclear to him whether employees in possession of banned firearms or ammunition would be breaking the law.

Gun shops across the state reported brisk sales Tuesday and said customers also checked on the status of orders that they worried could be canceled once the new laws take effect.

The parking lot at Hoffman’s Gun Center and Indoor Range in Newington was full Tuesday morning, with some drivers parking on the front lawn. Inside, customers waited in long

lines to purchase what was left.

“I walked through. I walked out because they didn’t have anything. The girl told me what’s on the shelf is what they have. And I totally believe that,” said Nick Viccione, a gun owner from Wallingford. He said people are trying to load up on ammunition and buy “anything semiautomatic.”

At other shops, including the Delta Arsenal gun store in Wallingford, employees reported difficulty getting through to the state police to run background checks needed to complete gun sales.

My home is in Connecticut, but at this point, I don’t know if I can operate here legally come Wednesday afternoon.

JONATHAN SCALISE Owner, Ammunition Storage Components Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said he hadn’t received any complaints of people not getting through to the office that handles such checks but acknowledged they might get a busy signal once in a while.

“The special licensing and firearms unit is going full bore,” he said.

The gun industry in Connecticut dates back to the Revolutionary War and says it supports more than 7,000 jobs in the state. Some companies say the new restrictions have them considering a move.

O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc. in North Haven does not support a ban on firearms or equipment, said Joe Bartozzi, senior vice president and general counsel, adding that “they’ve never reduced crime or violence.”

Mossberg has been in business since 1919 and employs 270 workers in Connecticut. It also has a manufacturing plant in Eagle Pass, Texas, and has been courted for years by other states.

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BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train selected staffers as armed security officers. The former Republican congressman who headed the study suggested at least one protector with firearms for every school, saying it would speed responses to attacks.

The report’s release served as the gun-rights group’s answer to improving school safety after the gruesome December slayings of 20 first-graders and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. And it showed the organization giving little ground in its fight with President Barack Obama over curbing firearms.

Obama’s chief proposals include broader background checks for gun buyers and bans on assault weapons and highcapacity ammunition magazines — both of which the NRA opposes.

The study — unveiled at a news conference watched over by several burly, NRA-provided guards — made eight rec-

ommendations, including easing state laws that might bar a trained school staff member from carrying firearms and improving school coordination with law enforcement agencies.

But drawing the most attention was its suggested 40- to 60-hour training for school employees who pass background checks to also provide armed protection while at work.

The presence of an armed security personnel in a school adds a layer of security.

ASA HUTCHINSON Former U.S. congressman, Arkansas “The presence of an armed security personnel in a school adds a layer of security and diminishes the response time that is beneficial to the overall security,” said Asa Hutchinson, a GOP former congressman from Arkansas who directed the study.

Asked whether every school would be better off with an armed security officer, Hutchin-

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It is unusual for guards to provide security at events that lack a major public figure at the National Press Club, which houses offices for many news organizations. NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said he did not know whether the guards were armed, and several guards declined to say if they were.

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, said at a news conference in Andorra on Tuesday that international negotiations are needed.

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM AND FOSTER KLUG ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday it will restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material, in what outsiders see as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.

A spokesman for the North’s General Department of Atomic Energy said scientists will quickly begin “readjusting and restarting� the facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex, including the plutonium reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. Both could produce fuel for nuclear weapons.

The reactor began operations in 1986 but was shut down as part of international nuclear disarmament talks in 2007 that have since stalled. North Korea said work to restart the facilities would begin “without delay.� Experts estimate it could take anywhere from three months to a year to reactivate the reactor.

The nuclear vows and a rising tide of threats in recent weeks are seen as efforts by the North to force disarmament-foraid talks with Washington and to increase domestic loyalty to young North Korean

leader Kim Jong Un by portraying him as a powerful military commander.

Tuesday’s announcement underscores concerns about North Korea’s timetable for building a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the United States, although it is still believed to be years away from developing that technology.

The U.S. called for North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions, saying it would be “extremely alarming� if Pyongyang follows through on a vow to restart its plutonium reactor.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is taking steps to ensure it has the capacity to defend itself and its allies, and that President Barack Obama is being updated regularly. “The entire national security team is focused on it,�

Carney said.

But Carney noted that a string of threats from North Korea toward the U.S. and South Korea so far have not been backed up by action, calling the threats part of a counterproductive pattern. He called on Russia and China, two countries he said have influence on North Korea, to use that influence to persuade the North to change course.

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“Nothing comes sailing by itself.”

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The softball team beat Cornell for the first time since 2004 and swept the Big Red for the first time since 1996.

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 also featured their fair share of suspense. The Tigers dominated Game 1 of the doubleheader, scoring three runs in the first inning and cruising to a 6-1 win.

The series finale was a hard-fought pitcher’s duel. The Elis kicked off the scoring with a first-and-third double

steal that scored Onorato, but Princeton answered with a two-out RBI single in the fourth. Each squad tacked on another run in the fifth, and it took until the eighth for the Bulldogs to pounce, when Riley Hughes ’15 hit an RBI groundout to score Tori Balta ’14.

“Completing the game and getting the win felt unreal,” said Glass, who threw a complete game to collect

her second win of the season. “On the mound it is so reassuring knowing that my team is there behind me, ready to attack and defend anything that comes their way.”

After the team’s 3–1 start, Yale sits in the lead of the North Division, on top of Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown.

“Beating [Cornell and Princeton]

proved that Yale softball is an aggressive team with a lot of resilience, and I have total confidence that we will carry this [forward],” Glass said.

The Bulldogs take on Bryant today at 3:00 p.m. at Dewitt Family Field.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

First-place finishes for sailing SAILING FROM PAGE 12 sented by skippers Cameron Cullman ’13, captain Chris Segerblom ’14 and Graham Landy ’15, and crews Heather May ’13, Eugenia Custo Greig ’15 and Charlotte Belling ’16 at New London.

The coed team also sent sailors to the Mystic Lake Team Race at Tufts, placing sixth overall with a 7–14 overall record.

The No. 2 women’s team sat in fifth place overall after racing concluded Saturday in Providence. But the Bulldogs turned in a commanding performance on Sunday, winning the last three races of both the A and B divisions to catapult from fifth to first by the end of the competition. The Elis’ A division boat was skippered by Claire Dennis ’13 and crewed by Katherine Gaumond ’15, while Morgan Kiss ’15 skippered the B division boat crewed

by Urska Kosir ’15 for the first eight races and Custo Greig for the remaining two.

“As a team we were very happy with our overall result, especially after struggling to find consistency on Saturday,” Dennis said. “Ending the regatta with six race wins gave us a lot of confidence going forward.”

Only six races were completed in each division Saturday at Brown due to shifty northwesterly winds, and the capricious weather affected most teams’ results — only one school placed in the top-10 in every single race.

Kosir said starting the races well was crucial to scoring well for the Bulldogs.

“The important thing was to get a good start and then keep a clear position among the top of the fleet,” she said. “Once you were there you could protect enough to get a good average score.”

Similar weather conditions threatened racing for the coed team at Connecticut College, as unstable northwesterly winds caused difficulty for the Bulldogs, particularly on Saturday morning. As the wind shifted to the southwest and built to a more steady 13 knots, Yale’s performance improved and the team finished racing Saturday with a 5–3 round robin record.

“The conditions this weekend varied tremendously,” Belling said. “It was just important to not get bogged down by the results and instead come into Sunday ready to sail cleanly and win races.”

On Sunday Yale turned in a phenomenal performance to win the regatta. After winning out the remaining round robin races to finish with an 8–3 record, the Bulldogs lost only once in the final round of the top-six teams, going 4–1 to finish first with a 12–4 overall record.

Landy added that the difficult conditions served as a learning opportunity for the team.

“Adaptability to conditions is a huge aspect of college sailing,” he said. “We struggled a little in the unstable and shifty winds on Saturday, but that

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Though the coed and women’s sailing teams faced capricious weather, both teams won their respective regattas. helped us find some areas to improve going forward.”

Next weekend both teams continue racing, with the coed team competing at the Marchiando-Friis Trophy, co-hosted by MIT and Tufts, and the

women’s team traveling North to Boston University to sail in the President’s Trophy.

Contact NIKOLAS LASKARIS at nikolas.laskaris@yale.edu .

Bulldogs rule extra minutes MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 Helped in large part by their overtime heroics, the Bulldogs now find themselves back in the Frozen Four for the first time since 1952. There, they will face a stiff test in their semifinal game against UMass-Lowell, the No. 3 team in the country and the No. 1 seed out of the Northeast Regional.

But if the contest goes to overtime, the Elis would appear to have the advantage. While the River Hawks are also undefeated when going to extra time, they have much less experience than the Elis, posting a 1–0–2 record in only three games.

The Elis will square off against UMass-Lowell on April 11 in Pittsburgh in the NCAA Frozen Four semifinals.

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The Elis have amassed a 5–0–3 record in overtime this season, including a 3–2 win over Minnesota.

ing statistical measures of baseball players and creating new ones, low-budget teams can save money by finding players who are undervalued on the market.

Over the past decade or so, the Oakland Athletics have been the trailblazers in this regard, just look at last season as a case-in-point. The A’s won the American League West Division with a $55 million payroll, beating out the Los Angeles Angels, who spent nearly three times as much.

It is difficult for the A’s to sustain success, though, because after an excellent season, the players that the A’s determined were undervalued are accuaretly revalued. That is, Oakland is no longer able to afford these players, but the Yankees are. A salary cap would address this issue of retaining players.

A similar problem exists in international soccer, where there is no salary cap and teams fluctuate between periods of despair and success depending on the wealth of their owner.

Manchester City is a perfect example. Sheik Mansour, the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and holder of a a family fortune worth more than $100 billion, bought Manchester City in 2009. By offering exorbitant salaries, the team has risen to the top of European soccer and won the English Premier League last season.

THE TREND TOWARD SPENDING INEQUALITY HARMS THE IMAGE OF BASEBALL, WHICH ITSELF IS IN A DANGEROUS DECLINE Still, though, just as the Oakland A’s are able to succeed by redefining their strategy, small market teams in European leagues can outdo expectations by playing a daring style, or by recruiting players from a relatively untapped region such as Asia or America.

It is clear that financial inequality fuels innovation in sport, and that money doesn’t always translate to success.

Then why have a salary cap at all? The major reason is not to ensure parity, but rather as a value judgment about the relative importance of sports in society. I understand that many people are free-market ultra-enthusiasts and cannot stomach the idea of a salary cap. But there is plenty good reason to cap exorbitant spending in athletics.

Last year, the Yankees had trouble filling Yankee Stadium, even for major games during the American League Championship Series.

The large swaths of empty seats were so noticeable on television that ushers were instructed to fill them with fans from higher-up sections.

The lack of attendance that entire season was not due to disinterest; rather, the average ticket price at Yankee Stadium was $64.

The Steinbrenner family that owns the Yankees is more than happy with the current situation. According to Forbes’ 2013 MLB Team Valuations, the Yankees’ revenue is about twice their payroll. There will always be enough wealthy New Yorkers to go to Yankees games to make the Steinbrenners model profitable, even without other sources of revenue like brand ownership and television deals.

Many question whether sports teams are pure businesses. Even if making money is a substantial or primary goal of some owners, others know full well that they will lose money in efforts to improve their team. Even for those baseball owners who seek to turn a profit from their franchises, imposing a salary cap would not preclude them from doing so. They could still make tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.

But the trend toward spending inequality harms the image of baseball, which itself is in a dangerous decline. Whereas baseball used to be the nation’s favorite pastime, now its popularity is waning in the face of challenges from football and basketball. People feel that the overpaid players are pampered and spoiled prima donnas. The recent steroid scandal tainted the sport for an entire generation of fans.

Monday was opening day, and the Yankees welcomed their archrivals, the Boston Red Sox, to town. While several other smaller-market teams sold out their less-prestigious opening day games (the Washington Nationals reported a crowd that was 8.1 percent overcapacity when hosting the lowly Miami Marlins) the New House That Ruth Built was more than 5 percent empty. Unless a salary cap is imposed, don’t expect a change anytime soon.

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Damn Yankees New York Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez will earn $29 million during the 2013 Major League Baseball season. The entire Houston Astros roster will make $25 million.

In fact, the Yankees currently employ four of the six highest-paid players in the league. Their team salary for this season is $228 million.

But the Bronx Bombers are well within their rights to pay Rodriguez and company such enormous sums: The MLB does not have a salary cap.

By contrast, the other four major American sports leagues do. The purpose of a cap is twofold: first, to ensure relative parity among the league’s teams. A cap on spending is protection against a rich owner simply offering the best players the most money. Second, a cap can help to keep down costs, wages, and ticket prices for teams.

BASEBALL SHOULD INSTITUTE A SALARY CAP LIKE OTHER MAJOR SPORTS There should be a salary cap in baseball, although not necessarily to level the playing field.

In the past 12 MLB seasons, even as disparity among the richest and poorest teams has grown, nine different teams have won the World Series. In the same time frame, the use of sabermetrics — “the search for objective knowledge about baseball” according to pioneer Bill James — has taken hold.

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Third baseman Christy Nelson ’13 went a perfect three-for-three in Yale’s 3–2 win over Princeton on Sunday. The senior also leads the Elis with 12 walks this season.

BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In its opening weekend of Ivy League play, the Yale softball team showed a flair for the dramatic, sweeping Cornell for the first time since 1996 and splitting a doubleheader with Princeton on the strength of three extra-inning wins.

The Bulldogs (7-15, 3-1 Ivy) started off the weekend with a twofor-one of sorts, beating Cornell 7–2 in 13 innings, nearly twice the normal game length. Starting pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 went the distance, throwing the complete game — a 178-pitch masterpiece.

“Chelsey really did a fantastic job of keeping us in the game,” catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 said. “[She] made adjustments when [she] needed to and our defense made plays.”

Onorato herself came up strong in the victory. After Cornell scored two in the first inning, she singled in the top of the fifth, setting up first baseman Kelsey Warkentine’s ’13 tworun shot to tie it up. Later in the top of the 13th inning, Onorato blasted a three-run home run to break the tie and deliver the Elis’ first win over the Big Red since 2004.

In the nightcap, the Bulldogs again needed extra innings to put away the Big Red, escaping with a

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7–5 victory in nine innings. Righthander Rhydian Glass ’16 started, throwing five solid innings before being relieved by Kristen Leung ’14, who cruised through the final four innings to record the victory.

“Kristen was key in relief against Cornell,” Onorato said.

However, without some lategame heroics by the offense, Leung would never have had the chance to prove herself. Heading into the seventh inning, the Bulldogs trailed by two. Kylie Williamson ’15 led off the inning with a single, followed by an infield hit from Allie Souza ’16. After an RBI single from Jennifer Ong ’13 cut the deficit to one, Souza raced

Entering overtime of Friday’s regional semifinal against Minnesota, the men’s hockey team looked to be facing an uphill battle. The Golden Gophers, the second-ranked team in the country, had captured the momentum by rallying from a two-goal deficit in the third period to send the game to extra time. But before the spectators had a chance to settle in for some bonus hockey, Kenny Agostino ’14 threaded a pass to Jesse Root ’14, who sent the puck past goalie Adam Wilcox to win the game for the Elis.

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ing to come from behind and win their regattas.

At the end of races on Saturday and Sunday, the coed team won the Southern Connecticut Team Race at Connecticut College, while the women sailed to victory at the Dellenbaugh Trophy, hosted by Brown.

At New London, Conn., the No. 1-ranked coed team finished the pre-

liminary round robin with an 8–3 record and went 4–1 in the final topsix round robin Sunday for a cumulative record of 12–4, clinching the victory over the field of 18. The win was the Elis’ third consecutive victory and solidified their hold on the top spot in the poll. The Bulldogs were repreSEE SAILING PAGE 11

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The No. 1-ranked coed sailing team pulled off its third consecutive victory with a win at the Southern Connecticut Team Race.

home on a wild pitch to tie the game at five.

Onorato was once again the heroine, smacking a one-out opposite field home run in the ninth to make the game 7-5. It was Onorato’s ninth dinger of the year, one short of the Yale single-season record and her fourth consecutive game with a long ball.

“I’ve certainly never done something like what I did in extras at Cornell,” Onorato said. “I was just happy to be able to break through for my teammates.”

Sunday’s games against Princeton

While the dramatic overtime win sent Yale students on campus, miles away from the action, into a frenzy, the way in which the Bulldogs (20–12–3, 12–9–1 ECAC) won was nothing new for the team. Root’s goal nine seconds into the extra period — the fastest overtime goal in NCAA tournament history — clinched Yale’s fifth overtime win in eight tries this season. The other three overtime games ended in ties, bringing the team’s overtime record to an unbeaten 5–0–3.

“We have been so successful because all of the work we put in consistently in the off season and during the season which gives us the endurance for overtime,” said defenseman Ryan Obu-

chowski ’13, a member of the ECAC allrookie squad.

The Elis set the tone for their overtime success during their early season road trip to Colorado over Thanksgiving break. Yale squared off against Denver and Colorado College, respectively ranked No. 2 and No. 14 in the country at the time, on consecutive nights. But the team dispatched both with clutch overtime play: Agostino scored less than two minutes into overtime to beat the Pioneers 2–1 on Friday, and forward Josh Balch ’13 tallied another early one on Saturday night to send the Elis to a 6–5 win over the Tigers.

Not only did the team establish an early precedent for overtime success, but it made a statement against highly ranked opponents. In addition to OT wins against Minnesota, Denver and Colorado College, the Elis also collected an extra time winner against then-No. 18 Cornell on Jan. 15 and tied Boston College and Union earlier in the season, ranked No. 2 and No. 12 respectively at the time of the games.

“I would say the main thing in overtime is to remember that the best way to ensure victory is adhering to the game plan as best you can,” forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 said. “You can’t be scared to lose. You must just be calm and stay focused on the task and the game plan. I guess we have worked on mental toughness enough to do this.”

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THE CATCHER WAS NAMED IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK AFTER LEADING THE ELIS TO A SWEEP OF CORNELL WITH TWO EXTRA-INNING HOME RUNS.