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A Mighty Duck. In keeping with the Yale men’s hockey team tradition of winning, hockey forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 has signed a two-year deal with the Anaheim Ducks. Laganiere, who contributed an assist in Saturday’s championship win over Quinnipiac, collected 15 goals and 14 assists in 37 games this season. Since his deal was signed after the NHL’s trade deadline, though, he will not be eligible to play during this year’s playoffs.
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tory, amid a mix of delighted cheers from male students and vehement protests from older alumni. Wells, a transfer student from Howard, was part of the first small group of women to ever graduate from the college. “In classes, sometimes my classmates would ask me for a ‘female
University administrators are planning a major renovation of the heating, air conditioning, and humidity systems of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — a project that will require the library to close for a full year. The equipment in the Beinecke basement is almost 50 years old and must be replaced to prevent the books and manuscripts in the library from deteriorating, Provost Benjamin Polak told the News. Though it has yet to review the project for final approval, the Yale Corporation allotted $2.4 million in planning funding to the project in early April. Beinecke Director and Associate University Librarian E.C. Schroeder declined to comment on when the renovation may begin, but he said Beinecke staff members intend to work with the Office of Facilities to present a final budget and project plan to the Corporation during the 2013’14 academic year. During the year-long renovation, which is projected to cost between $50 million and $70 million, the building itself will be closed, but librarians said students, faculty and researchers will still have access to the Beinecke’s materials. “Everyone knows it has to happen,” Schroeder said. “We see our major mission as preserving materials for future generations of students and scholars, and if we want to make that possible, we’ve got to do this project.” Preserving fragile books and manuscripts requires maintaining a specified temperature and humidity level at all times, Schroeder said, so when the machinery controlling those levels grows old and less efficient, it can no longer pro-
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Yale’s Voice. Student band “A Streetcar Named Funk” took home first place at last night’s “Battle of the Bands,” an annual event co-hosted by the Yale College Council and WYBC that features student bands competing to open at Spring Fling. “The Teaspoons” took second place and the band “Sister Helen” came in third at yesterday’s event, which filled The Crypt to capacity. And the results are in. The end has finally come for a fairly uneventful Yale College Council elections season, in which three board positions went uncontested. Rachel Tobin ’15 won the Junior Class Council presidential runoff with 50.88 percent of the vote, edging out her opponent Nancy Xia ’15 by just 1.76 percent. The run-off election took place on Monday and Tuesday, after the original JCC presidential race of four candidates reached no decisive conclusion.
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Yale first admitted women in 1969, but the University is still searching for a truly representative admissions process. BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER In almost every classroom, Vera Wells ’71 was the only girl.
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former lacrosse player for the Bulldogs Luke Aronson ’12 has launched a new business, StringKing, that aims to revolutionize the lacrosse playing field through its primary product: special mesh pockets designed to improve the consistency and aim of lacrosse sticks. According to a Tuesday article in The Boston Globe, StringKing has drawn attention for using mesh that is “unaffected by rain and will never ‘bag out.’” No word yet on whether these high-quality products will be available at Campus Customs. A program in addiction medicine at the School
of Medicine has received accreditation by the American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation, bringing the national total of similar programs up to 18. Yale will offer four fellowships with the new program.
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1980 University administrators announce plans to cut $290,000 from the athletic budget for the following year, just days after University President A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60 GRD ’64 delivers a speech calling for restrictions in athletic recruitment and scheduling across the Ivy League. In addition, the University Budget Committee informs Athletic Director Frank Ryan that up to six varsity sports may be cut due to financial constraints. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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A psychology major, Wells took normal undergraduate courses, met
with regular Yale professors and received the exact same education as her peers. She was just as much a member of the campus as any of the other thousands of bright young students. But still, everywhere she went, she inevitably stood out. The year was 1969. Yale College had just opened its doors to female students for the first time in his-
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BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER The Elm City is facing a once-in-adecade chance to change the structure of city education. Members of the New Haven charter revision commission, a group that is convened once every 10 years to examine and propose changes to the city’s charter, debated education reform at a Tuesday evening meeting. The commission ultimately recommended that two of the seven members of the New Haven Board of Education should be elected — currently all seven are appointed by the mayor — and that an additional two students should be included on the board as nonvoting members. The five nonelected members of the Board of Education, in the recommendation, would be appointed by the mayor but require approval from the Board of Aldermen, which is currently not the case. According to commission member Melissa Mason, those who testified at public hearings showed a strong demand for a more responsive Board of Education. She said that the final recommendation, which will ultimately go before the Board of Aldermen and voters for final approval, meets this demand without completely overhauling the existing structure. “Our proposal offers two seats and an SEE CHARTER PAGE 5
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In a talk hosted by the Yale College Democrats, Howard Dean ’71 spoke about his undergraduate experience at Yale. BY COLLEEN FLYNN STAFF REPORTER Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean ’71 told admitted prefrosh on Tuesday evening that their generation holds the solutions to dysfunction in Washington, the media and Wall Street. In a Bulldog Days speech hosted by the Yale College Democrats, Dean spoke before an audience of over 100 prospective Yale students and undergraduates about his experiences at Yale, the “First Globals” generation and grassroots political change. He said today’s globally connected youth
are characterized by respectful political discourse, a propensity for action and a sense of shared fate as a global community. “You’ll never find another network that wants to change the world as much as this one [at Yale],” Dean said. “Unlike my generation, you do a lot more work and a lot less talking.” Dean said the current generation has more respect for different opinions than the Baby Boomers. Though youth today are more “polite,” they do not challenge each other enough, he added. Citing the Internet as a powerful tool to enact political change on the
national and global stage, Dean said students should “erase the idea of ‘the other’ as a source of global conflict.” He added that while the Internet provides an easy opportunity to garner support for a cause, its drawback is the difficulty of establishing organized groups around a particular issue. The younger generation is characterized politically by a “tighter ideological bandwidth” and is more centrist in its views than the Baby Boomers, Dean said, adding that today’s youth are more conservaSEE HOWARD DEAN PAGE 5
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an the people who went confirm they are safe??” “Palmer is fine, and finished 26.2!!!!” “Please please be safe.” “Was Calvin there?” These were the first four of 23 emails sent to one of my panlists mid-Monday afternoon. For the next two hours, the panlist became an informal roll call: Each person who was MIA at the Boston Marathon checked in, said they were okay, and asked about the others who we still could not reach. This is not the usual content you’d find on this panlist. The conversation amongst this group typically revolves around potential purchases of gin fountains, number of forties needed for the coming Friday, why volunteering at the Governor’s Ball Music Festival is a must-do. There is sarcasm and jokes and plenty of the lets-go-out-Friday-nightand-get-a-little-crazy kind of camaraderie. None of the emotional stuff of this Monday — not much, anyway.
THIS CAN BE A MOMENT TO OPEN UP The Boston bombing ended three lives and is still threatening at least thirty more. It rocked a city known for its pride, brownstone buildings and traditional New England values. It ripped off legs from those who had pushed them to their limit in the Marathon, scarred children, splattered too much red on a street that was once known simply as Common Street. For us at Yale, it brought us down to reality after the hockey win, reminding us that we could not let the unity we felt on Saturday end that night. So we texted loved ones, even those who didn’t live in Boston, just to reaffirm an often-implied message: “I love you and I miss you.” Stories of people helping other people abounded — policemen rushing toward smoke, marathon runners continuing past the finish line to give blood at Mass Gen, thousands signing a Google Doc to volunteer their houses to runners stranded in the city. Two Iraqi veterans donning their uniforms in the heat of the moment to carry the injured out into the cool air. If there is a silver lining to the Boston bombing, it is that this Monday, we stopped pretending that we didn’t need other people. We live in a college and a country that values inde-
pendence a b o v e a l m os t e ve r y thing else. Our conception of a perfect perGENG seems NGARMBOON- son like someone who is ANANT detached from emoImaginary tion and Crosswalk deals with i s s u e s behind the privacy of their own door. Here, unless we are five shots deep, revealing our feelings toward one another is a big no-no. To be cool is to be unaffected. Maturity, we are taught, is the ability to live on your own without needing anyone’s help. On Monday night, I called my best friend from high school, Nick, who goes to Emerson in Boston. He was skateboarding down Boylston St. and was a block away from the first bomb when it exploded. “So you saw people just … bleeding … on the streets?” I asked. “Yeah.” “How did you deal?” “I was lucky, man. I got on the phone with my dad before the phones didn’t work. Just his voice, you know? He told me to go back home, and I did.” ‘Just his voice.’ In the middle of chaos and sirens and ruins, Nick stopped. Before he ran for cover, he stood there, in the midst of it all, just to call his dad — a person a thousand miles away with no knowledge of the incident. Death, it seems, make us do quite irrational things. But it also strips our lives down to its bare essentials. In the face of rawness, we know our priorities: to help others or to get help, to reach for a human connection, no matter how far. If there is one thing we can learn from this tragedy, it is that we can stop pretending we can do it all on our own. Panlists, texts, calls, the heroism of a human reaching into the rubble to pull another out — these should not be just crisis-time responses reserved for events of national scale. We often miss moments to say how we feel, to connect with one another, to shed our mask in our daily lives. These are the little tragedies that happen all the time; and like the Boston bombings, they can slowly be healed if we recognize how fallible we are, and through that recognition, lift each other up.
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atching footage of twin blasts ripping across a city block and sending plumes of dense grey smoke to scale the skyscrapers felt a bit too familiar. Seeing a mass of people frantically search for some semblance of safety was almost dizzying. Twelve years had done little to dampen the worst feelings of déjà vu on Monday. We did not need anyone to tell us that the scene on Boylston Street was one of terror. And yet President Obama’s decision to do exactly that on Tuesday morning is significant in the way that we, as a country, will process, reflect and respond to the Boston bombings. The President waited 21 hours before labeling the horrific events that transpired at the finish line of the Boston Marathon as “an act of terror,” after deliberately choosing to omit any reference to “terror” in his speech immediately following the attack. Obama’s hesitation to apply the term to a scene of carnage and fear that clearly merited being described as such is a reminder of the sharp political implications and social connotations that accompany the
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speech about the kindness, generosity and selflessness that mark the American refusal to be terrorized. The wounds from Monday are still fresh. The shock remains. The bombings were truly an act of terror. And though we cannot (nor should we) overcome the shortcircuit that pushes our thoughts from Boston to New York, from April 15 to Sept. 11, from one “act of terror” to another, we can draw from our experience dealing with past “terror” as we begin to put the pieces back together. We don’t know enough about what happened in Boston to make full sense of the event. It is easy to fall back upon our old beliefs and prejudices about what constitutes an “act of terror” to fill in the gaps in our understanding. In doing so, we risk to repeat the same mistakes and display the same biases from a decade ago. We are better served remembering that “terror” is best faced together. ASEEM MEHTA is a junior in Branford College. This semester, he is working in Brussels, Belgium. Contact him at aseem.mehta@yale.edu .
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ou are sitting with three other kids in an experiment room. A psychologist walks in and hands each of you a marshmallow. You are free to eat the marshmallow in front of you whenever you want. But, the scientist says, wait for 15 minutes, and he will give you an even better reward (hold your breath) — two more marshmallows. Do you wait? Is the future worth it? These are the terms of the Stanford marshmallow experiment, a series of studies that psychologist Walter Mischel conducted in the 1960s and 1970s on children in preschool. Very few children, it turns out, ate the marshmallow immediately, but of the children who attempted to wait, only about a third lasted long enough to get the extra marshmallows. Almost everyone tried to distract themselves from the spun sugar in front of them: pulling on their own pigtails, or pushing the marshmallow away. One girl reportedly stroked the candy like it was a small, defenseless mammal. Torturing small children with food is reason enough for most
psychological experiments (you can find YouTube videos of people performing the marshmallow experiment on their own kids), but people care about Mischel’s work because of its results. As his subjects grew up, Mischel kept tabs on the children he studied (I imagine this wasn’t creepy at all), and found an overwhelming correlation between those who waited for the reward and success later in life, as measured by SAT scores, BMI and several other factors. The way to get ahead in the world, it seems, is to delay gratification. I bring all this up because I have a box of leftover Easter peeps hiding somewhere in my dorm room, and because I told myself that, as soon as I finish writing this column, I will find and eat them. I like to reward myself with food, or depending on how much I hate other people, a TV episode or night out. When I was in preschool, I wouldn’t have eaten the marshmallow. If I had to guess, most Yale students wouldn’t have, either. We know how to delay gratification, whether that means taking a ter-
rible class for a wonderful major or career, or just studying inside on a beautiful day. Most of us, except those who got some visceral thrill from taking AP tests, mastered this skill as early as high school. Back then, wasn’t the logic that it would be worth it later, when you got into Yale? In Mischel’s experiment, the subjects were shown the other marshmallows before the test began. He had found that children conceptualize a reward most clearly when they can see it in front of them, and when it was something they knew that they would definitely get in the end. This kind of delayed gratification, when you know the reward is sure to come, is easy to put into practice in everyday life. Your grades, for instance, improve the more you study. Exercise makes you more fit, but only if you sweat. It’s a fair trade-off: Wait 15 minutes with one marshmallow, and then the psychologist gives you two more. Understand the terms, play the game well and win. But, at some point, the game changes, and the prizes become vague and less guaranteed: love,
happiness or a rewarding career; and people — parents or psychologists — stop giving you candy for good behavior (this is probably a good thing). Nobody said that life is a rigorous experiment, and if you want it to be one, you have to figure out the terms for yourself. Maybe delaying gratification is the best plan; maybe you should just eat the marshmallow. Maybe the universe will someday reward you for studying through spring days and sunshine, for going to every lecture and section, and never getting too drunk; maybe it won’t. There are probably many times when you can get away with eating the marshmallow, and enjoying life, without anyone noticing, but that’s something you have to decide for yourself. I want to believe in the psychologist’s promise. But I have no idea where the other marshmallows are, how sweet they taste and whether, in the end, they’re worth the wait. JACKSON MCHENRY is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu .
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they were. The trauma of 9/11 has attached itself so firmly to our public understanding of “terror” that ascribing the term to other events automatically conjures up our reactions, thoughts and beliefs from 12 years ago and projects them upon the present. President Obama fully understood the gravity and ramifications of describing Monday’s explosions as an “act of terror.” He knew that the word “terror” could drive us to act irresponsibly: in response to “terror” our nation had previously transformed an entire ethnicity of people into a suspicious class; our government had resorted to torture tactics in the name of security (a disclosure the New York Times ran directly below headlines on Obama’s speech about Boston). But Obama also knew that the word “terror” could propel us towards unity: Facing “terror,” heroic men and women had previously sacrificed their lives to protect one another and came together to support fragile communities. Hoping to invoke the solidarity in the aftermath of 9/11, the President reminded us in his
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word. While our hearts quickly jumped back and forth between the present and 9/11 upon viewing the images of a broken Boston, Obama’s declaration has granted our imaginations license to do the same. 9/11 brought the concept of “terror” to the forefront of the public consciousness, where it has remained lodged for more than a decade. Descriptions of a violent, fundamentalist, Middle Eastern, Islamic jihad against all things America have dominated the narrative about “terror,” and a global war on terror has found itself concentrated in a region and on groups whose demographics fit the same bill. The concept of “terror” in contemporary America exists in a narrowly defined space. Its edges are marked as much by the actor and the motivating ideology as they are the act itself. Our de facto consensus definition of the term explains why tragedies that involve a mentally ill gunman in Newtown, a lonewolf graduate student in Aurora or a white supremacist in Oak Creek do not qualify as acts of “terror” despite how “terrifying”
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alk into Durfee’s, and you will see containers of Diet Coke, Diet Snapple and VitaminWater Zero next to their sugary counterparts. Words like “diet” or “sugar-free” indicate the presence of artificial sweeteners — a catalog of unpronounceable chemicals such as aspartame, acesulfame potassium or neotame. These artificial sweeteners give foods a hypersweet taste with none of the calories. And these sweeteners are not just in sugary beverages, like sodas and juices, anymore; they are also in many dairy products, like chocolate milk and ice cream. Fewer calories might make Sundae-Sunday seem better for your waistline, but like they say: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Currently, mandatory labels provide crucial information, allowing shoppers to make educated purchases. However, this past February, the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation petitioned the Food and Drug Administration for permission to remove labels declaring the presence of artificial sweeteners from
milk, yogurt, whipped cream and other dairy products. These products could end up in our dining halls and campus convenience stores, but one place they will definitely appear is in schools, where children often opt for chocolateor strawberry-flavored milks. Without labels, consumers will be unable to make an informed choice to consume or abstain from these harmful sweeteners. The milk industry counters that low-calorie sweeteners could help promote healthy eating practices and reduce childhood obesity. But the fact that these substances are calorie-free makes them dangerous and risky, not to mention entirely unnatural. Here in New Haven, Dana Small, a researcher at John B. Pierce Laboratory, has spent time researching the neural mechanisms underlying taste, flavor and feeding in the human brain. According to Small, our body responds positively to the taste of sweet, because humans have evolved to recognize sweet as sugar, and sugar as calories. To prepare for these calories, the body produces insulin when we taste something sweet.
Artificial sweeteners give the illusion of this metabolic reward, duping the body out of expected calories. Small explains that, over time, the predictive utility of the stimulus becomes degraded. In other words, our bodies eventually stop producing insulin. When we consume artificial sweeteners, our homeostatic, physiological processes are disrupted and rearranged. The effects may be severe and long lasting. A 2008 study by Terry Davidson and Susan Swithers also demonstrates the dangers of artificial sweeteners. The researchers observed the effects of caloriefree sweeteners on rats, introducing rats to two kinds of sweetener: glucose (caloric) and saccharin (non-caloric). Over time, the correlation between sweet taste and calories was eliminated. For the rats, this change meant an increase in caloric intake, an increase in body weight and even increased adiposity. That’s pretty much the opposite of what the dairy industry claims is true. Whether or not these chemicals should be allowed at all is another discussion. But what should be clear by this point is
that we have the right to choose whether or not to consume these substances. Labels are an easy way to make known the contents of a cup, carton or container. If the FDA accepts the milk industry’s plea, it will be a major infringement of consumers’ rights, not to mention a threat to health. It would be challenging to regulate the sale of artificial sweeteners, but I don’t think that’s out of the question. As individuals, we are expected to take our weightmanagement and health into our own hands. Removing the labels on aspartame-containing milk products strips us of the ability to make decisions about what we consume, ironically, in the name of health. The FDA will vote on this policy on May 21, but we need to speak up now. We should demand more labeling from the food industry, not less. Demand pure dairy products — or at the very least, labeled ones. Demand transparency from the industries that feed you. VICTORIA BENTLEY is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at victoria.bentley@yale.edu .
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New Haven Shubert Theater The Shubert Brothers built the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Conn. The playhouse was named the Sam S. Shubert Theater by Lee and J.J. Shubert for their brother, the founder of the Shubert organization. The theater opened on Friday evening, December 11, 1914 with The Belle of Bond Street. Seats for the opening engagement were priced from 25 cents to $1.50.
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The article “New Egyptology exhibit opens” misstated the name of Alicia Cunningham-Bryant, assistant curator of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Echoes of Egypt exhibit.
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Discrimination suit dismissed BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER On March 4, a district court dismissed allegations of racial and gender discrimination at the School of Medicine from former employee Anthony Craig, who was terminated in 2009, less than a year into his residency. Craig, who is AfricanAmerican, was hired on a oneyear contract with Yale New Haven Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program in July 2008 and permanently dismissed in April 2009 for poor performance and lack of improvement. In his suit, Craig claimed that an unidentified physician called him “boy” three times in a 30-minute shift, that he felt uncomfortable socializing in the work environment and that supervisors inflicted intentional emotional distress on him. The claims were rejected by a Connecticut district court, but Martyn Philpot, Craig’s attorney, said Craig’s complaint has since been filed in state court. “The [district] judge said the ‘record is replete’ with evidence of Craig’s poor performance,” said University spokesman Tom Conroy. “The judge also found the claim of discrimination to be unsupported.” Court documents from the district case state that Yale showed a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason” for Craig’s termination. Four months into Craig’s residency, 12 attending physicians submitted negative performance evaluations, with nine stating they would not be comfortable allowing Craig to manage patients with less supervision. Craig did not know basic facts about obstetrics, did not improve over time and appeared disinterested, according to one evaluation. Despite being made aware of serious concerns over his performance, Craig continued to show a lack of progress, according to court documents. On one occasion, when a patient began hemorrhaging, Craig opted to give a nurse instructions over the phone rather than seeing the patient himself, later admitting that failing to treat the patient himself did impact the patient’s safety. Another time, Craig did not properly con-
TIMELINE YALE LAWSUIT JULY 1, 2008 Anthony Craig begins at YaleNew Haven Hospital’s OBGYN residency program. DECEMBER 15, 2008 Craig files a grievance complaint with YNNH of dismissal without probation or prior warning. FEBRUARY 12, 2009 Craig is reinstated on probation in a decision by the grievance panel.
trol the head of a baby during a delivery and caused a laceration. Further, employment records show that Craig had not worked on the particular day he claims he was called “boy” by a physician. Craig was dismissed from the residency program for the first time in December 2008 for “egregious” performance and being a danger to patient safety. After he filed a grievance for dismissal without warning or probation, Craig was reinstated on a performance-improvement plan in February 2009. Craig was dismissed permanently after eight out of nine supervising physicians reported he had not passed his rotation. His vacancy was filled by an African-American female resident, according to court documents. “Craig is below the level of third-year medical students that have been rotating in the clinic for a week,” one evaluation said. “He made up answers to questions he had not asked the patient and when probed further he would then say he had not asked [the] question.”
The [district] judge said the ‘record is replete’ with evidence of Craig’s poor performance. TOM CONROY University spokesman The School of Medicine, Craig claims, was a hostile work environment in which others made him feel isolated and did not engage him in conversation. In the case files, he said he was berated in front of patients and had his competence challenged on false pretenses. Craig began seeing a therapist after experiencing difficulty sleeping due to the emotional stress caused by the environment and stated that on at least two occasions he was “glad that [he] didn’t have a gun in the house.” “While subjectively Dr. Craig may well have felt pressure, inhospitability and humiliation, there is insufficient objective evidence to support a reasonable conclusion that these occurrences were the product of discriminatory intent, or, taken together, were severe enough to permeate his workplace with discriminatory intimidation,” District Judge Janet Arterton stated in her Mach 4 ruling. “His hostile work environment claim fails.” Court documents state the seven resident positions filled in 2008 included three African-Americans, selected from 363 candidates. Craig is the only African-American male terminated from the program in the last 10 years, except for a third-year resident whose resignation is disputed as possibly involuntary. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
APRIL 23, 2009 Craig is permanently dismissed from the program.
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The historic Shubert Theater may see a change from city ownership to a not-for-profit management body, pending a decision by the Board of Aldermen. BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER The Board of Aldermen received a proposal Monday to transfer the historic Shubert Theater from city ownership to a new, not-for-profit management body. The proposed new owner — the Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts — has been running the theater since 2001, and Shubert Theater administrators hope that an ownership switch will help the theater fund a much-needed renovation. In order for the proposal to be finalized, the Board of Aldermen must reach a majority vote in favor of the change. “We’ve had a great partnership with the city and we look forward to continuing that in a new way,” said John Fisher, the executive director for CAPA and the Shubert Theater. “We think this is a great opportunity for both the city and the Shubert in the future.” The Shubert opened in 1914,and has produced over 600 pre-Broadway tryouts and world premieres. Currently, the city
government owns the theater but daily operations are handled by CAPA on a year-to-year lease. Because CAPA currently runs the theater, the Shubert’s purpose and style would remain the same under the proposed change, said Anthony Lupinacci, the director of marketing and community
We’ve had a great partnership with the city and we look forward to continuing that in a new way. JOHN FISHER Executive director, CAPA and the Shubert Theater relations for the Shubert Theater. With the theater’s main functions to remain in place, CAPA officials said the new management’s top priority will be renovating the space. The Shubert, which has not had a significant renovation in 30 years, needs
repairs to its fire escape, exterior brick work and heating and cooling systems, Kelly Murphy, the economic development administrator for the City of New Haven, wrote in a letter to Jorge Perez, the president of the Board of Aldermen. She added that without many of these repairs, the theater will be forced to close. In addition to repairing the theater, administrators said they want to build a second performance area, which would accommodate a 100-200 person audience, Lupinacci said. He added that a smaller stage would allow the theater more flexibility to host different community groups. Lupinacci said it will be much easier to raise the requisite funds for the renovation if theater ownership is transferred to CAPA since a city municipality is not eligible to apply for some of the grants the Shubert hopes to win. The proposal will be assigned to an aldermanic committee for review, City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti said. Afterward, the chair of the aldermanic committee will place the item on the agenda for a public hearing, which will be followed by a board
vote. Shubert Theater administrators said they are optimistic that the Board of Aldermen will approve the transition. Fisher said that the time is right for both a management switch and a celebration, as the theater approaches its 100th anniversary. Lupinacci said he predicts the Board of Aldermen will seriously consider relinquishing ownership given the financial liability that the inevitable renovation poses. He added that CAPA is pleased to be considered for ownership. “When you think of all the artists and shows that premiered here at our Shubert it’s an honor to be able to operate the building,” Lupinacci said. Since closing in 1976 and then reopening in 1984, the Shubert has had a $300 million positive economic impact on New Haven through tertiary purchases such as hotel rooms, dining and transportation that accompany viewing a theater production, according to the letter sent by Murphy. Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .
Torrington rape case attracts media attention BY PATRICK CASEY STAFF REPORTER Torrington, Conn., a town only 40 miles north of New Haven, has attracted major media attention during the last month for a statutory rape case. In late February, two 18-yearold members of Torrington High School’s football team were arrested under sexual assault charges for allegedly committing statutory rape against two 13-year-old girls. Coming on the heels of a similar situation in Steubenville, Ohio, the case has generated controversy across the nation after it was revealed that the alleged victims experienced cyberbullying from dozens of their classmates in the wake of the arrests. The Register Citizen, the first media outlet to report the rape charges and the first to report that the alleged victims were being cyberbullied, published screenshots of disparaging tweets from public Twitter accounts, many of which are controlled by students younger than 18. Some of the tweets called the 13 year olds
“whore[s]” or blamed them for the older boys’ arrests. According to Matt DeRienzo, the Register Citizen’s editor, adults in the town were outraged about the alleged rapes, but even more upset by the cyberbullying. “The reaction that we got was surprisingly unified in outrage that this happened in Torrington,” he said. DeRienzo added that many young people were upset at the paper for publishing tweets from underage students without concealing their identities. But he said the paper decided not to conceal the tweeters’ identities because their messages were already in the public sphere, and it hoped to provoke a conversation in the community about “what kind of environment existed” online. Emily Bazelon, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of a recent book on bullying in the Internet era, said that cyberbullying often poses a problem for schools, which face legal and practical difficulties in punishing students for what they say online or outside of school. Criminal prosecution for cyberbullying is
even more rare, she said. “It’s important to remember that most of time, when teenagers write things like this, no one does notice,” Bazelon said.
The reaction that we got was surprisingly unified in outrage that this happened in Torrington. MATT DERIENZO Editor, Register Citizen Bazelon added that many teenagers do not understand the legal definition of statutory rape, which in Connecticut states that a person between the ages of 13 and 15 cannot give valid consent to have sexual contact with anyone who is more than three years older. With heightened concern about cyberbullying and sexual assault has come an increased emphasis on prevention. Barbara Speigal, the executive director of the Torrington’s Susan B.
Anthony Project, which educates students about healthy relationships, said that her organization has stepped up its activities in Torrington High School since the rape allegations came to light. In Torrington, she said, programming focuses on concepts such as cyberbullying and consent, and the Project tries to teach students that victims are “never to be blamed” for sexual assault. In a March 27 letter to the Torrington High School Community on the school’s website, principal Joanne Creedon urged students to exercise caution and respect when posting online, and she even encouraged them to consider closing their social media accounts. Following the charges, it should be “crystal clear” that social media is a “public forum” instead of private communication, she added. In 2012, one of the two boys arrested in the Torrington case was charged with robbery and assault in a unrelated incident. Contact PATRICK CASEY at patrick.casey@yale.edu .
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“If only Mozart had lived on the Upper East Side. But you can keep your magic flute, Amadeus. All this queen wants is a golden ticket to Yale.” GOSSIP GIRL “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER
Playing fair in a ‘zero-sum game’
THE ULTIMATE ZERO-SUM GAME
Dea n o f Un d e rg ra d u ate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel rejected 27,000 students last month. From an enormous and evergrowing applicant pool each year, Brenzel and his team of admissions officers are tasked with the difficult job of picking out the students that are the most talented, the most passionate, and — in a measure that has been debated among experts for decades — the most valuable to the experience of their peers. In making these decisions, the Admissions Office faces a clash of priorities. By nature, the office has multiple obligations: to admit the most academically qualified students, to evaluate candidates holistically and to assemble a diverse class. The collision of these admissions priorities may result in the rejection of many students whose backgrounds, identities or interests are overrepresented in the applicant pool. Brenzel, University President Richard Levin and Yale College Dean Mary Miller each used the same term to describe the college admissions process: a “zero-sum game.” Choosing to admit one student results in the rejection of many more — and with stakes so high, the prioritization of one set of qualifications over another must be carefully weighed. “If you admit students by some set of criteria, whatever criteria you’d like, you must of necessity admit fewer students with some other set of criteria,” Brenzel said. “You start with a baseline set of conditions, and if you’re going to look harder at one area, that is going to have a ripple effect on other areas.” As a result, Brenzel said, changes in admissions tend to be “cautious and conservative.” Since 1969, Yale’s undergrad-
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A recent Wall Street Journal article written by a high school student rejected from her topchoice colleges asked a controversial question that admissions officers have skirted around for years: If college admissions focus so much on diversity, are nondiverse students unfairly shunted to the side? Although the article’s author, Suzy Lee Weiss, came under fire for belittling the experiences of others, experts and academics within higher education have raised the same point since the movement for racial diversity took off in the 1960s, and especially since the adoption of holistic admissions procedures in recent years. Even in the last several months, with the Supreme Court case looming in the future, the age-old debate about raceconscious admissions has been taken up once again with renewed vigor. Modern admissions practices typically stack candidates against similar peers rather than against the general applicant pool. Tom Walsh, director of college guidance at Roxbury Latin School in Massachusetts, recalled a friend’s metaphor: “There isn’t necessarily an applicant pool, but applicant puddles that make up an applicant pool,” he said. “You compete within the puddle. Can you rise to the top of your puddle?” Zach Bills, director of college admissions at consulting group Top Test Prep, said he has seen certain racial groups — particularly Asian students — apply to college with high qualifications but often leave the admis-
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sions process with fewer acceptance letters because they are evaluated within the context of their background, which is overrepresented within the school’s applicant pool. Terry Kung, codirector of college counseling at Immaculate Heart High School, said that between two hypothetically equal students, one of Chinese descent and the other from a more underrepresented background, the first student is “up against a lot more” than his or her counterpart. Though some counselors see the admissions statistics for Asian students as a flaw in the system, others point to the benefits of weighing applicants against their own contexts. Bari Norman, president of professional college consulting group Expert Admissions and a former admissions officer at Barnard, said she thinks the idea of “hooks” — or special biographical or extracurricular attributes, such as being from a particular underrepresented background, that supposedly help some candidates gain admission at selective universities — is a media phenomenon rather than a tangible reality. No admissions officers think of applicants in those terms, she added, though the concept of hooks gives hopeful students “something to latch onto.”
In classes, sometimes my classmates would ask me for a ‘female point of view’ on something that had nothing to do with gender. VERA WELLS ’71 “Being an admissions officer myself and watching countless kids go through the process, in many ways it’s actually the opposite,” Norman said. “When students try too hard to create a hook or a package, what they end up doing is seeming generic.” Brenzel also denied that acceptance to Yale requires a hook — instead, he said, the Admissions Office focuses simply on “looking for the absolutely exceptional human being from every background and context in which their family circumstances have placed them.” Whether or not applicant hooks are a media myth, experts agreed that the holistic evaluation of candidates is, by nature, a complicated process. “It is not a meritocracy,” said Walsh. “It’s naïve to talk with students as if it were a fair meritocracy. If we wanted that, we could develop the British system and have kids take A-levels. But I don’t think that’s ever felt comfortable for America.” Experts suggested that America’s emphasis on individualism and focus on social heterogeneity are causes of the country’s distaste for strictly numbers-based admissions. Harvard School of Education
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Slow, gradual process has characterized the changing admissions landscape since the 1960s. While some experts fear that an increased drive toward diversity leads to too much unfairness in the admissions system, others argue that top schools are still not as diverse as they should be. Despite Yale’s aims of assembling a diverse student body, the makeup of each incoming freshman class remains less diverse than the American population. The same can be said of all of Yale’s peer institutions, including Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. Harvard Kennedy School of Government public policy professor Christopher Avery, who recently co-authored a study on the lack of high-achieving lowincome students at top schools, said that even at selective institutions, “diverse” still does not imply total representation. Avery’s study found that only 34 percent of high-achieving students in the bottom fourth of income distribution attended one of the country’s 238 most selective colleges, compared to 78 percent of students in the highest income quartile. Though Yale may be trying its best to make its incoming class “much more representative” of students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, he said, many of the students in the target populations are not applying, due to a shortage of information or outreach. Financial struggles may not be a truly accurate indicator of socioeconomic diversity, either. Many schools within the Ivy League report that roughly half their students receive financial aid — but according to Warikoo, when considering that Ivy League tuition fees exceed the country’s median income, much more than that percentage would receive financial aid if Ivy League schools were truly representative of the U.S. population. In a similar quest for greater diversity, Penn State College of Education professor Sue Rankin advocated for sexual orientation to be added to applications, so that admissions officers may have a fuller view of a student’s personal identity. Outside of the Ivy League and other selective institutions, genuinely representative diversity in universities is even more difficult to achieve. Avery said the idea of holistic admissions — evaluating an applicant by considering all parts of his or her life — is not universal and is still applied only at selective institutions. “The large majority of schools are not in the enviable position of a Yale or a Harvard,” said Zolner, explaining that only selec-
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tive universities can afford to be the most diverse because their applicant pools are large and varied enough. “Each category of schools within this very diverse system of higher education would define the nature of its strive for diversity in somewhat different ways.” Lawrence Bacow, a former president of Tufts University and a member of the Harvard Corporation, said the trend of focusing on socioeconomic diversity is relatively recent among schools, as many such schools previously emphasized only racial diversity. He added that schools have taken measures to ensure that the middle class is fairly represented, as well. Over the years, the upward climb toward diversity has not been an easy one. Facing a combination of complicated factors such as national pressures, institutional priorities and obligations to be fair toward applicants themselves, no single university administrator — not the dean of admissions, and not even the institution’s president — can pave the road alone.
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Wells, the graduate of Yale’s first female class, called the University a “very different place” in 1969 and mused that it must be unimaginable for current students to consider it as a school once dominated by white, private-school educated men. Forty years from today, Yale students may just as well think of the student body in 2013 as unimaginable, too. Next fall, the University will fall under the leadership of President-elect Peter Salovey, and the position of admissions dean will slide from Brenzel to current deputy dean Jeremiah Quinlan. As with each administration in the past, new ideas for the Admissions Office are bound to emerge — even if they probably will not be as radical as the ones brought up during Brewster’s tumultuous reign in the 60s and 70s. Admissions priorities at any school are also often the result of national attention or action, Bacow said. Although university presidents have an important voice “shaping the conversation” toward new admissions priorities, they cannot make decisions without consulting the interests of others within the institution. “One doesn’t just say, ‘Okay, this is where we’re going, follow me,’” Bacow said. Beyond the turnover in leadership, other key issues weigh into the changing admissions landscape — most prominently, Fisher v. Texas, the pending Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions. While most law professors and experts are divided on the issue of affirmative action itself, the simple fact remains that because federal funding is tied to admissions priorities through federal statutes and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, both private and public universities — including Yale, which has practiced affirmative action for vir-
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point of view’ on something that had nothing to do with gender,” Wells recalled in amusement, more than 40 years after her time as an undergraduate. “Also, you have no idea how difficult it was to find a public ladies’ restroom on campus.” Under then-University President Kingman Brewster’s leadership, Yale underwent a dramatic transformation from an elite, male-only institution into a school that welcomed not only women but also minorities — controversial changes that initially sparked a great deal of backlash from alumni, some of whom saw the move as an attack on their alma mater’s all-important prestige and exclusivity. Brewster’s decisions did more than alter the gender make-up of the campus. With the admission of women to Yale, the University set off on a determined trajectory of increasing diversity in its student population. Admissions practices since the Brewster years have included affirmative action, emphasis on specific underrepresented minority groups and outreach to students from lowincome backgrounds, alongside initiatives that targeted specific academic or geographic priorities, like the recent push toward attracting more science-oriented and international students. As a result, the current student body is the most vibrantly diverse in Yale’s history. Last year, roughly 40 percent of incoming freshmen enrolled with an intent to major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics fields — satisfying the target percentage of a multi-year Admissions Office initiative for the first time — and a record-breaking 40 percent of American freshmen identified as minorities. But, inevitably, diversity has come with a steep cost. Experts and students alike acknowledge that applicants with certain qualities are given inherent advantages over others, and with application counts skyrocketing to a record-breaking 30,000 per year, fairness becomes an increasingly important concern. As the University approaches several major leadership transitions and also awaits the outcome of a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action case that could change the role of race in college admissions nationally, Yale may potentially face a whole new chain of changes in its admissions priorities in the future. As with all tough choices, sacrifices must be made.
uate student body has slowly sloughed off its image as an elitist group of prep school alumni, and the national landscape of college admissions has undergone a dramatic transformation as well. Almost 20 experts, college counselors and former admissions officers interviewed said the shift toward diversity in admissions has been one of the most fundamental changes in higher education in recent years. Many institutions used to select students by plugging applicants’ grades and test scores into a formula, said Joseph Zolner, senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education. But Zolner said schools have now backed away from these formulaic measures, so that “you can’t mechanically or mathematically eliminate someone anymore.” “What’s happened is, in a certain way, our conception of diversity has broadened,” Levin explained, adding that the University tries “very systematically to reach populations that are underrepresented.” But the zero-sum nature of admissions does not allow for total equality. Brenzel stressed that no formal decision-making process is involved in determining which groups are favored in Yale admissions, adding that admissions priorities are a result of careful consideration of serious tradeoffs. During Levin’s 20-year presidency, for example, the University has gradually increased the number of international students it admits to 10 percent. Though internationalization results in a decreased number of accepted American students, Brenzel justified the decision by pointing to the unique experience and environment that international students bring to campus. “Having a diverse student body is huge — every kind of possible nature of diversity makes not only Yale an interesting place to be, but makes the potential for developing new knowledge greater at every step,” Miller said. But the positive effects of diversity itself are difficult to measure, prompting many people to take issue with prioritizing something that does not have a quantifiable benefit. James Onwuachi, college counselor at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Ga. and a former admissions officer at Vanderbilt, said America is “obsessed with statistics” — and despite people’s desire to “see something linked, dated, numbered, and calculated,” the ways in which diversity enhances a person’s education cannot be pared down to a mere set of numbers. To trust in something that lacks quantifiable evidence, Onwuachi said, is a very hard task for this country.
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tually half a century — could be impacted by the ruling. Addressing newly accepted students present on campus for Bulldog Days, Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 opened his Constitutional Law lecture on Monday by discussing the moral and legal implications of of race-conscious admissions. “Could you take into account someone who can play the tuba, or someone who comes from Wyoming, the same way you take race into account?” Amar asked. In a lecture hall of hundreds, none of the students could offer a complete answer. Experts voiced a wide range of opinions on how admissions priorities at selective universities should evolve — from expanding diversity, to downplaying its importance, to reforming the entire admissions landscape altogether. Ultimately, though, the pace of change in admissions is inevitably slow. “We need to improve our outreach to parts of the country where high school students don’t believe they can aspire to a place like Yale, where they don’t know anyone who ever went Yale,” said Salovey in a Monday email to the News. “We need to be more aggressive in this kind of outreach.” Whatever the case, Levin said admissions at Yale will likely not look the same for long. When the University opens its two new residential colleges, creating roughly 200 new spots for students. Levin said the new colleges will pose an interesting conversation for the Admissions Office on how to best fill these extra 200 spots in the class. In total, all higher education administrators and experts interviewed agreed on the vital importance of diversity within the context of a university’s student body. But still, none claimed to have developed a foolproof method for achieving this diversity without being unfair to some applicants. San Francisco University High School college counselor Jon Reider noted that his students recognize and accept that admissions priorities for race exist, just as priorities for athletes, legacies and faculty family members exist. Though the admissions process at Yale and other selective institutions may not be “some kind of ideal merit system,” Reider said, students recognize the inherent unfairnesses, and know that “this is the reality.” “Everybody talks about [college admissions] as not a science, and sometimes even less of an art,” said Walsh, the Massachusetts college counselor. “But it’s what we have, as a system. No one is saying it’s a flawless, perfect deal.” In the end, Walsh, Bills, and several others all said the same thing: “They’re doing the best they possibly can.” Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Beinecke to close for a year BEINECKE FROM PAGE 1 vide a safe environment for the materials. If the Beinecke keeps using its existing equipment, which was installed in the 1960s, visitors will be able to see deterioration in the condition of books and manuscripts over the next 25 to 30 years, he said. Since the Beinecke will be closed for a year for its primary renovations, it makes sense to squeeze in as many repairs as possible, such as upgrading its electrical and fire suppression systems, Schroeder said. Though the renovation primarily involves “all the guts of the building down in our basement,” Schroeder said the roof under the marble courtyard also needs to be replaced because it is deteriorating. University Librarian Susan Gibbons said library staff are discussing how to minimize the inconvenience the Beinecke’s closure will pose for patrons. “We are exploring how the Sterling Library could be used as a temporary, secure reading room for the Beinecke Library during the renovations,” Gibbons said in an email to the News. Schroeder said patrons will have to
request Beinecke materials in advance because some books and manuscripts will have to be temporarily relocated to the Library Shelving Facility — a series of large warehouses in Hamden, Conn., that houses overflow from Yale’s libraries. Librarians will aim to make the requesting process “as seamless and straightforward as possible,” he said.
We’re not going to be able to have exhibits, we can’t host as many classes … and that’s unfortunate. E.C. SCHROEDER Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
But Schroeder said most of the Beinecke’s programming will be put on hold during the renovation. Though the library hosted over 200 class sessions this semester, the Beinecke will be able to hold “only a handful” during the renovation, and these sessions will have to be held in a different building, he said.
“We’re not going to be able to have exhibits, we can’t host as many classes, we’re not going to be able to have a number of events, and that’s unfortunate,” Schroeder said. The renovation of the Beinecke has been in the works for years, Schroeder said, and some early projects such as the replacement of the roof under the Beinecke Plaza and the upgrade of the exhibit cases took place during the 2000s. But the recession caused the University to stall the renovation of the temperature and humidity systems. Schroeder said the planned renovation will be entirely funded within the Beinecke’s budget. “That’s part of the reason we were able to move ahead,” Schroeder said. “We’ve been saving out of the budget for each year.” The planning funding for the Beinecke renovation was approved as part of a $375 million capital budget for the 2013-’14 academic year. Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .
Board of Ed may see student spots CHARTER FROM PAGE 1 opportunity to voice consent or dissent without guaranteeing in any way or form a major transformation of policy,” Mason said. Commission member and Community Foundation for Greater New Haven President Will Ginbserg, however, argued that Board of Aldermen approval for mayoral appointees to the Board of Education would be sufficient to enable public input, while the presence of two elected members would diminish the accountability of the mayor. “I fear that diluting the mayor’s authority over the Board of Education dilutes mayoral accountability and therefore works against achieving a Board structure that is focused on outcomes and execution,” Ginsberg said. “With all due respect to the engagement point, I think that’s not the point of the Board: The point is accountability for outcomes.” Ginsberg added that citizens already have many opportunities to engage in the education process by voting for the city’s mayor. Commission member Nilda Aponte said there was an “outcry” for public engagement and that public hearings made it clear that constituents feel their interests are not currently represented by the Board of Education. Aponte added that she had personal experience trying and failing to get parents’ opinions heard by the Board. But commission member Arlene Depino supported Ginsberg and said that she thinks that opening two positions up for election would invite “special interests” to influence the election. Having the Board of Aldermen vet mayoral appointees would give voters more influence over the process while avoiding her concerns, she said. The commission also recommended that the mayor, who currently sits on the Board as a voting member, should no longer be a member. “Part of the problem we’ve had in the past 20 years is that even though people say the mayor has no influence over the Board, I don’t think the people actually feel that,” said commission member Car-
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Dean praises young generation HOWARD DEAN FROM PAGE 1 tive on spending policies than the Democrats currently in office and more liberal than Republicans on social issues. “It is so interesting to see common ground in your generation between groups who, in my generation, couldn’t even sit in the same room together,” he said. As a Yale graduate and a father of two former Yale students, Dean also spoke to perspective students about his experiences with Yale and its surrounding community. He said New Haven is small enough for students to make impactful change but big enough “that there’s problems to work on.” Dean added that the size and diversity of Yale and the New Haven area creates the optimal environment to “get your hands dirty” with social and political work on a local level.
Nicole Hobbs ’14, president of the Yale College Democrats, said Dean’s positive experience with the University was one of the primary reasons they asked him to speak during Bulldog Days. “As much as different organizations are trying to showcase what they do, we also want to show [the prospective students] how great Yale is,” she said. Larry Milstein, a prospective student who attended the speech, said he found Dean’s optimistic view of the younger generation to be inspiring and helped him recognize the political responsibility of his generation. Dean majored in political science and is currently teaching the residential college seminar “Understanding Politics and Politicians.” Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at colleen.flynn@yale.edu .
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Citizens used public forums before the charter commission as a platform for claiming that their interests were being ignored by the Board of Education. men Reyes, who explained that the mayor’s presence on the Board can “pressure” other Board members into voting a certain way. “He does have control over the Board, and that’s been part of the problem we’ve had so far.” The present commissioners also unanimously voted to add two spots on the Board for non-voting student members. These members could express their views and participate in discussion but would be barred from voting due to the minimum age requirement. Aponte said that
since education policy affects students directly, she thinks it would be appropriate for them to “express their voice” on the Board. The commission must send its final recommendations to the Board of Aldermen for approval by May. Once approved by the Board, the charter revision recommendations will go before voters in November. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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‘STREETCAR’ NAMED WINNER Hans Bilger ’16, bassist for both “A Streetcar Named Funk” and “The Teaspoons,” rocks out at Battle of the Bands. His bands took first and second place, respectively, in the Tuesday night competition, organized by WYBC radio and the Yale College Council, to clinch a spot in the Spring Fling lineup.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 18 4:30 PM “Building Computers that Understand our Emotions” Javier Hernandez, doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab and co-inventor of the MIT Mood Meter, will give a presentation on affective computing and human emotional analysis, including a live trial of the Mood Meter. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab, the International Students Organization and the Yale European Undergraduates. Free and open to the public. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 205. 11:00 PM The Ugly One Lette is a man so phenomenally ugly that his wife can’t look at him and his boss desperately wants to fire him — until an operation gives Lette a new face that makes him an object of desire and obsession for the entire world. A wild and witty social satire, The Ugly One asks who we really are if our identity can be changed by something as simple as a little surgery. Yale Cabaret (217 Park St.).
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ARTS & CULTURE
“Yale is for overachieving bookworms and preppies.” SERENA VAN DER WOODSEN “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER
‘Orlando’ highlights role of Greek chorus
Bulldog Days emphasize arts strength
BY SARAH SWONG STAFF REPORTER A senior project this week will explore questions of professional, gender and romantic identity through the story of a man who turns into a woman during a life that spans five centuries. “Orlando,” a play by Sarah Ruhl, a lecturer at the School of Drama and Theatre Studies Department, is a dramatic adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.” Orlando is a young man born in Elizabethan England who lives in several centuries and geographic regions, all while struggling with questions of artistry, romance, and gender and sexuality. The production focuses on the significance of the time changes in the play, and experiments with narration through the Greek chorus. Bonnie Antosh ’13 said she knew “Orlando” would be a perfect senior project after seeing a performance of the play at the Yale Repertory Theatre as a freshman. She added that Ruhl has always been one of her favorite playwrights, and that seeing “Orlando” performed both reflected and transformed her conception of an ideal senior project for the theatre studies major. The Rep’s production, she said, prompted her to consider deeply the poetic dialogue between Woolf and Ruhl, as well as how certain theater productions can engage with the audience. Antosh said Ruhl’s Greek chorus — an element of the play not present in the novel — transgresses an audience’s expectation of a chorus by combining dialogue, monologues, soliloquies and speeches made directly to the audience. This cast interpreted the chorus members as the narrators of Orlando’s biography, observers who know Orlando so well that they also serve as participants in the story, Antosh said. Eric Sirakian ’15 said these roles require the four chorus actors to switch rapidly between being a narrator and a character. Antosh said Ruhl encouraged her to keep the chorus small, though the text suggests between three and eight members, to allow actors to develop the ability to transform themselves quickly and adapt as characters to different worlds. Sirakian, for example, plays Queen Elizabeth, Othello, an old maid and several minor roles such as a street drunkard and a Russian seaman. He said the challenge of playing female roles forced him to enter characters’ minds and seek to understand their thoughts before worrying about their physical movements and vocalizations — he needed to understand them as humans before thinking of them as men or women. Sirakian said director Willa Fitzgerald ’13 chose not to divide the chorus lines among the four chorus members when the team first began work. She wanted the chorus to learn all the lines, allowing her to decide how to divide them after seeing each actor’s individ-
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR, PHILIPP ARDNT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER, BLAIR SEIDEMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Yale arts were a focus of this year’s Bulldog Days Extracurricular Bazaar. A capella, theater, improv and dance filled a quarter of Payne Whitney as groups tried to entice prospective students.
ADRIAN RODRIGUES/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
“Orlando,” a play by Sarah Ruhl, is a dramatic adaptation of Virgina Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.” The show will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. ual approach, he explained. While each chorus member now knows roughly which lines to say, the line assignments are not official and are open to improvisation, Antosh said. Antosh explained that this weekend’s production emphasizes the play’s theme of time. The stage is set up as a long narrow strip similar to a runway, with the audience flanking both sides, which is meant to evoke the image of a timeline, she said, adding that Ruhl provides a “more manageable, streamlined” version of Woolf’s story, without sacrificing the whimsicality, playfulness and satire of the original text. The fleeting nature of live theater — as performed in a discrete chunk — also reinforces the importance of time within the play, she said.
“Orlando” quotes Woolf’s text while making slight modifications at points, said Lucy Fleming ’16, who plays Sasha and a chorus member and is reading both the novel and play now. In the novel, Orlando asks Sasha, a Russian princess with whom he is in a relationship, to elope with him, but Sasha abandons him. In the play, it is she who proposes their elopement, making her subsequent flight more mysterious, Fleming said. “What’s so magical about Ruhl is that being a poet herself, she’s taken the lines from [Woolf’s] ‘Orlando’ that are the most poetic — not the most dramatic, but the most poetic,” Fleming said. “It’s kind of like reading a rainbow.” Recent attention to Ruhl, whose work “In
the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” was performed April 3-6 by the Dramat, is not surprising given her presence at Yale and widespread popularity across the nation, Sirakian said. Antosh, Sirakian and Fleming all emphasized the lush imagery of Ruhl’s language. “[Ruhl’s] stories are told outside of the style of naturalism, but ring true about the way people ache and love and grow,” Antosh said. Antosh added that the vivid imagery of the text also provides the production’s design team the opportunity to create a saturated, stylized set. Producer Irene Casey ’14 said the show uses lights, sound and projection in visually striking ways. For example, a tree
— meant to reflect the subject of Orlando’s poem, which he struggles to write for 500 years — is not simply a naturalistic tree, but rather one enhanced by projection and lights, Casey said. Still, the production aims to balance its imagistic whimsicality with room for imagination on the audience’s part, Casey said. “We’re not creating hyper realistic representations of these things,” Casey said. “It’s letting imagination take them away.” “Orlando” will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center theater. Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .
OBT to host two dance groups this weekend BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Had enough of Claire’s cake and prefrosh? Worry not, there’s dance to be watched. This week, Yale’s campus will host the spring-semester performances of two of Yale’s dance companies. Hip-hop group Rhythmic Blue’s spring show, “A Black Tie Affair,” will open tonight at 6 p.m. A Different Drum dance company, which has a diverse repertoire including ballet, jazz and modern dance, will open its “A Different Circus” tomorrow at 8 p.m. Both performances will be in the Off-Broadway Theater, and the two groups will alternate performance days. Rhythmic Blue dancer Madison Alworth ’15 said securing a performance space is often difficult for dance groups. “Dance teams are often shunted in the process of picking theater shows,” Alworth said. Alworth noted that the undergraduate Groove Dance Company had significant difficulty in finding space for one of its shows this year, and RB’s fall semester show did not have enough seating due to the size of the MorseStiles Crescent Theater, the venue the group was allotted. She added that the challenge dance groups face relative to theater shows in securing suitable performance spaces might stem from the absence of a dance major and small repertoire of dance-related course offerings. Dancers in the two groups said their performances will showcase their dedication to precision and choreography. “[ADD’s focus on choreography] makes people think more,’” said Rachel Ouellette ’13, the group’s president. “It makes it more of a performance and engages [the audience] on a different level.” Ouellette said all of ADD’s members are given the opportunity to choreograph a piece for any of their shows. “A Different Circus” is comprised of 15 pieces by 11 choreographers, resulting in a variety of styles based on the choreographers’ backgrounds, including
modern, ballet and postmodern. While Oulette noted that the dancers’ influence on each other may have resulted in similarities between dances, she explained that the group still creates an overarching theme for each show to link the different dances together. The circus theme is most notable in four interludes that break up the set and allow the dancers to change constumes, as well as in the final dance featuring the entire troupe, Ouellette said. “The interludes [show that] we don’t take ourselves so seriously,” said Jacob Albert ’16, a dancer in the show. “They’re cute, funny stories that have to do with the circus.” One of the interludes tells a short tale about the trials of tightrope walkers, Albert said. The dancers involved wear point shoes and pretend they are afraid to walk the tightrope. ADD is the only extracurricular dance group to bring in professional dancers and dance teachers for biweekly classes, and Albert pointed to the group’s extensive technical training as necessary for properly conveying emotions like fear and pain through movement. With such technical knowledge, when dancers are instructed to convey pain, they can do so through emotional expression and timing rather than by merely bending a knee in a painful-looking way. “The technical training gives people more control over what they can do,” Albert said. Rhythmic Blue, on the other hand, is distinguished from other dance companies at Yale by its focus on transitions and formations, RB dancer Mackenzie Lee ’16 said. The choreography in “A Black Tie Affair” includes sharp, clean, hard-hitting moves and lines. Lee said the group uses various formations on stage to create strong visual effects, creating snapshots of each dance. Lee added that the group prides itself on clean transitions that create distinct pictures in the dances. “[Transitions] add a level of excitement and entertainment,” Lee said. “We want the audience to look and be like, ‘Wow, how did they do that?’”
BY STEPHANIE TOMASSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Arts were at the center of both last and this year’s Bulldog Days. Every year, prospective freshmen find themselves wandering through classrooms, performance halls, gymnasiums and butteries learning about the 300 plus organizations Yale has to offer. The University’s focus on the arts is clear in the number of a capella open rehearsals, comedy performances and dance events it offers during Bulldog Days. Eleven current freshmen and prospective students said they were in awe of the Bulldog Days Welcome Showcase that takes place yearly, which features a variety of singing and dance groups, adding that the event was the highlight of their visiting experience.
“The arts were way more prominent during Bulldog Days than any other extracurricular activity because it’s easy to get people to come out and sing or perform,” current Shades member Hannah Sears ’16 said. “Seeing [a Shades member] sing during the Showcase was inspiring, and it definitely pushed me to join the group in the fall.” All 11 current and prospective students interviewed said they found Yale’s singing, theater and comedy groups very inviting over Bulldog Days, with many arts groups hosting open rehearsals and interactive performances in addition to events like the Showcase. Ben Paltiel ’16, who is now a member of the Spizzwinks(?), recalled visiting several a capella open rehearsals. He said members of the group allowed him not only to observe but also to
=MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The black and white theme of the show speaks to RB’s professionalism and dedication to their dances, said Alworth. Members of the group come from diverse backgrounds in hip-hop dance, allowing RB to focus on many styles within one show. “A Black Tie
Affair” will feature lyrical, street, “groovy” and jazz-inspired pieces, among many other variations, Lee said. RB also hopes to further engage the audience through its music choices — such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and West Coast tunes — and by giving view-
ers the opportunity to dance onstage during intermission, Alworth said. Lee added that RB expects energy from the audience. “Look out for the swag because you’re going to be jumping out of your seat with it,” Alworth said.
RB will perform a second show tonight at 9 p.m. and on Friday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. ADD will perform again on April 20 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .
love and believe in. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t love being in an a cappella group, and they just want to share that love.” Both Sears and Portyansky said they felt performances were better displays of the arts on campus than the Extracurricular Bazaar, which was too crowded to display the talents of each group fully. Portyansky said she explored most a cappella options during rush rather than Bulldog Days as a result. Six prospective students interviewed at Bulldog Days this year felt similarly overwhelmed by the Extracurricular Bazaar, but nevertheless remain excited about the arts after seeing performances, namely the Bulldog Days Welcome Showcase. “I think the Showcase definitely encouraged me to pursue the arts,”
prospective student Aaron Troncoso said. “I thought [a cappella] was pretty cool. It seems almost like a frat. You have to rush at the beginning of the year, and it seems that they have their own social scene and parties, like their own a cappella bubble that still branches out, and I like that.” Prospective student Austin Pruitt said the performances opened his eyes to the creativity and talent of Yale students, while prospective student Jesse Goodman said the performers were “more talented than on other campuses [he’s] visited.” Bulldog Days began on Monday and ends today. Contact STEPHANIE TOMASSON at stephanie.tomasson@yale.edu .
Students forge interest in fashion BY JIWON LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Dancers in A Different Drum dance company rehearse for “A Different Circus,” which will open Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Off-Broadway Theater.
request specific songs and, in one case, sing along with the group. “They really made me feel at home,” Paltiel said. Paltiel added that he hopes to give prospective students a similarly positive experience by being enthusiastic about his involvement in the arts at Yale and helping prospective students feel at home. Still, Esther Portyansky ’16, who performs in the Yale Glee Club and Magevet, remembers prospective students feeling as though Yale students were trying to “sell” them on their extracurriculars. “Everyone was trying to sell a product and [prospective students] are really skeptical and cynical of that [product],” Portyansky said. “It’s really important to communicate to them that we are not selling anything that we do not 100 percent
Though they may not always be in the spotlight of the Yale extracurricular scene, a number of students are committed to bringing fashion onto campus. This Friday, student organization Runway Inc. will present the latest iteration of its annual fashion show, “Light from Ash: Fashion’s Resurrection,” which will feature designs that contrast light and dark colors and benefit All Our Kin, a local childcare support charity. The show’s models will wear clothing from local stores like GANT, Jack Wills and Idiom, as well as from Elliy Peng’s ’12 original collection. While many fashion-related student organizations, most of which have relatively few members, seek to raise awareness of the value of fashion on campus by hosting fashion shows, students in these groups explore the field in a variety of ways, from designing clothing out of recyclables to walking the runway in designers’ spring collections. “Fashion at Yale is a small component [of student life],” said Anna Wang ’14, the director of design for YCouture, a student organization that designs handmade clothing. “But there is definitely a place for it. Fashion is so applicable.” Several organizations use fashion to promote or fundraise for humanitarian causes. Runway Inc. brings to campus apparel from professional designers and local clothing stores, while donating its proceeds to a different charity or nongovernmental organization each year. The show highlights in particular the efforts of designers and stylists with backgrounds normally underrepresented in the fashion industry, including women, African-Americans and Asian-Americans, said Djenab Conde ’15 and Ajua Duker ’15, the co-fashion directors for the show. Wang said YCouture, which includes roughly 10 active members, brings together students from a variety of backgrounds and majors who share a
common interest in fashion. The organization collaborates with other clubs, such as Colleges Against Cancer last October, to host fashion shows, she explained. Each student works on his or her own to create a design using whatever material or method his or her “heart calls for.” Wang said she likes using alternative materials like trash bags, mesh or plastic to make clothing.
There is definitely a place for [fashion at Yale]. Fashion is so applicable. ANNA WANG ‘14 Director of design for YCouture
“Fashion can be the power to change the world,” said Sewon Jun ’16, who works with the World Micro Market to sell jewelry made by female artisans from Mexico, Vietnam and Kenya. Jun said she is hoping to found a student organization for the academic analysis of fashion design next school year, adding that she wants students to realize how closely fashion relates to everyday life. Jun also helped organize a fashion show by the Arab Students Association last Saturday. The event, attended by roughly 50 students and professors in the Ezra Stiles dining hall, featured traditional Arab clothing worn by models from both Arab and non-Arab backgrounds. “It was a different way of showcasing our culture,” said Kenza Bouhaj ’16, the Arab Student Association’s freshman peer liaison who first raised the idea of the show. “The colorful, handmade clothes represented the long history and rich diversity of the Arab culture.” Runway Inc.’s Friday show will take place in the Davenport dining hall. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu .
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Runway Inc.’s show will benefit New Haven-based childcare support charity All Our Kin.
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ARTS & CULTURE
“Yale is for overachieving bookworms and preppies.” SERENA VAN DER WOODSEN “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER
‘Orlando’ highlights role of Greek chorus
Bulldog Days emphasize arts strength
BY SARAH SWONG STAFF REPORTER A senior project this week will explore questions of professional, gender and romantic identity through the story of a man who turns into a woman during a life that spans five centuries. “Orlando,” a play by Sarah Ruhl, a lecturer at the School of Drama and Theatre Studies Department, is a dramatic adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.” Orlando is a young man born in Elizabethan England who lives in several centuries and geographic regions, all while struggling with questions of artistry, romance, and gender and sexuality. The production focuses on the significance of the time changes in the play, and experiments with narration through the Greek chorus. Bonnie Antosh ’13 said she knew “Orlando” would be a perfect senior project after seeing a performance of the play at the Yale Repertory Theatre as a freshman. She added that Ruhl has always been one of her favorite playwrights, and that seeing “Orlando” performed both reflected and transformed her conception of an ideal senior project for the theatre studies major. The Rep’s production, she said, prompted her to consider deeply the poetic dialogue between Woolf and Ruhl, as well as how certain theater productions can engage with the audience. Antosh said Ruhl’s Greek chorus — an element of the play not present in the novel — transgresses an audience’s expectation of a chorus by combining dialogue, monologues, soliloquies and speeches made directly to the audience. This cast interpreted the chorus members as the narrators of Orlando’s biography, observers who know Orlando so well that they also serve as participants in the story, Antosh said. Eric Sirakian ’15 said these roles require the four chorus actors to switch rapidly between being a narrator and a character. Antosh said Ruhl encouraged her to keep the chorus small, though the text suggests between three and eight members, to allow actors to develop the ability to transform themselves quickly and adapt as characters to different worlds. Sirakian, for example, plays Queen Elizabeth, Othello, an old maid and several minor roles such as a street drunkard and a Russian seaman. He said the challenge of playing female roles forced him to enter characters’ minds and seek to understand their thoughts before worrying about their physical movements and vocalizations — he needed to understand them as humans before thinking of them as men or women. Sirakian said director Willa Fitzgerald ’13 chose not to divide the chorus lines among the four chorus members when the team first began work. She wanted the chorus to learn all the lines, allowing her to decide how to divide them after seeing each actor’s individ-
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR, PHILIPP ARDNT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER, BLAIR SEIDEMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Yale arts were a focus of this year’s Bulldog Days Extracurricular Bazaar. A capella, theater, improv and dance filled a quarter of Payne Whitney as groups tried to entice prospective students.
ADRIAN RODRIGUES/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
“Orlando,” a play by Sarah Ruhl, is a dramatic adaptation of Virgina Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography.” The show will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. ual approach, he explained. While each chorus member now knows roughly which lines to say, the line assignments are not official and are open to improvisation, Antosh said. Antosh explained that this weekend’s production emphasizes the play’s theme of time. The stage is set up as a long narrow strip similar to a runway, with the audience flanking both sides, which is meant to evoke the image of a timeline, she said, adding that Ruhl provides a “more manageable, streamlined” version of Woolf’s story, without sacrificing the whimsicality, playfulness and satire of the original text. The fleeting nature of live theater — as performed in a discrete chunk — also reinforces the importance of time within the play, she said.
“Orlando” quotes Woolf’s text while making slight modifications at points, said Lucy Fleming ’16, who plays Sasha and a chorus member and is reading both the novel and play now. In the novel, Orlando asks Sasha, a Russian princess with whom he is in a relationship, to elope with him, but Sasha abandons him. In the play, it is she who proposes their elopement, making her subsequent flight more mysterious, Fleming said. “What’s so magical about Ruhl is that being a poet herself, she’s taken the lines from [Woolf’s] ‘Orlando’ that are the most poetic — not the most dramatic, but the most poetic,” Fleming said. “It’s kind of like reading a rainbow.” Recent attention to Ruhl, whose work “In
the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” was performed April 3-6 by the Dramat, is not surprising given her presence at Yale and widespread popularity across the nation, Sirakian said. Antosh, Sirakian and Fleming all emphasized the lush imagery of Ruhl’s language. “[Ruhl’s] stories are told outside of the style of naturalism, but ring true about the way people ache and love and grow,” Antosh said. Antosh added that the vivid imagery of the text also provides the production’s design team the opportunity to create a saturated, stylized set. Producer Irene Casey ’14 said the show uses lights, sound and projection in visually striking ways. For example, a tree
— meant to reflect the subject of Orlando’s poem, which he struggles to write for 500 years — is not simply a naturalistic tree, but rather one enhanced by projection and lights, Casey said. Still, the production aims to balance its imagistic whimsicality with room for imagination on the audience’s part, Casey said. “We’re not creating hyper realistic representations of these things,” Casey said. “It’s letting imagination take them away.” “Orlando” will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center theater. Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .
OBT to host two dance groups this weekend BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER Had enough of Claire’s cake and prefrosh? Worry not, there’s dance to be watched. This week, Yale’s campus will host the spring-semester performances of two of Yale’s dance companies. Hip-hop group Rhythmic Blue’s spring show, “A Black Tie Affair,” will open tonight at 6 p.m. A Different Drum dance company, which has a diverse repertoire including ballet, jazz and modern dance, will open its “A Different Circus” tomorrow at 8 p.m. Both performances will be in the Off-Broadway Theater, and the two groups will alternate performance days. Rhythmic Blue dancer Madison Alworth ’15 said securing a performance space is often difficult for dance groups. “Dance teams are often shunted in the process of picking theater shows,” Alworth said. Alworth noted that the undergraduate Groove Dance Company had significant difficulty in finding space for one of its shows this year, and RB’s fall semester show did not have enough seating due to the size of the MorseStiles Crescent Theater, the venue the group was allotted. She added that the challenge dance groups face relative to theater shows in securing suitable performance spaces might stem from the absence of a dance major and small repertoire of dance-related course offerings. Dancers in the two groups said their performances will showcase their dedication to precision and choreography. “[ADD’s focus on choreography] makes people think more,’” said Rachel Ouellette ’13, the group’s president. “It makes it more of a performance and engages [the audience] on a different level.” Ouellette said all of ADD’s members are given the opportunity to choreograph a piece for any of their shows. “A Different Circus” is comprised of 15 pieces by 11 choreographers, resulting in a variety of styles based on the choreographers’ backgrounds, including
modern, ballet and postmodern. While Oulette noted that the dancers’ influence on each other may have resulted in similarities between dances, she explained that the group still creates an overarching theme for each show to link the different dances together. The circus theme is most notable in four interludes that break up the set and allow the dancers to change constumes, as well as in the final dance featuring the entire troupe, Ouellette said. “The interludes [show that] we don’t take ourselves so seriously,” said Jacob Albert ’16, a dancer in the show. “They’re cute, funny stories that have to do with the circus.” One of the interludes tells a short tale about the trials of tightrope walkers, Albert said. The dancers involved wear point shoes and pretend they are afraid to walk the tightrope. ADD is the only extracurricular dance group to bring in professional dancers and dance teachers for biweekly classes, and Albert pointed to the group’s extensive technical training as necessary for properly conveying emotions like fear and pain through movement. With such technical knowledge, when dancers are instructed to convey pain, they can do so through emotional expression and timing rather than by merely bending a knee in a painful-looking way. “The technical training gives people more control over what they can do,” Albert said. Rhythmic Blue, on the other hand, is distinguished from other dance companies at Yale by its focus on transitions and formations, RB dancer Mackenzie Lee ’16 said. The choreography in “A Black Tie Affair” includes sharp, clean, hard-hitting moves and lines. Lee said the group uses various formations on stage to create strong visual effects, creating snapshots of each dance. Lee added that the group prides itself on clean transitions that create distinct pictures in the dances. “[Transitions] add a level of excitement and entertainment,” Lee said. “We want the audience to look and be like, ‘Wow, how did they do that?’”
BY STEPHANIE TOMASSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Arts were at the center of both last and this year’s Bulldog Days. Every year, prospective freshmen find themselves wandering through classrooms, performance halls, gymnasiums and butteries learning about the 300 plus organizations Yale has to offer. The University’s focus on the arts is clear in the number of a capella open rehearsals, comedy performances and dance events it offers during Bulldog Days. Eleven current freshmen and prospective students said they were in awe of the Bulldog Days Welcome Showcase that takes place yearly, which features a variety of singing and dance groups, adding that the event was the highlight of their visiting experience.
“The arts were way more prominent during Bulldog Days than any other extracurricular activity because it’s easy to get people to come out and sing or perform,” current Shades member Hannah Sears ’16 said. “Seeing [a Shades member] sing during the Showcase was inspiring, and it definitely pushed me to join the group in the fall.” All 11 current and prospective students interviewed said they found Yale’s singing, theater and comedy groups very inviting over Bulldog Days, with many arts groups hosting open rehearsals and interactive performances in addition to events like the Showcase. Ben Paltiel ’16, who is now a member of the Spizzwinks(?), recalled visiting several a capella open rehearsals. He said members of the group allowed him not only to observe but also to
=MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The black and white theme of the show speaks to RB’s professionalism and dedication to their dances, said Alworth. Members of the group come from diverse backgrounds in hip-hop dance, allowing RB to focus on many styles within one show. “A Black Tie
Affair” will feature lyrical, street, “groovy” and jazz-inspired pieces, among many other variations, Lee said. RB also hopes to further engage the audience through its music choices — such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and West Coast tunes — and by giving view-
ers the opportunity to dance onstage during intermission, Alworth said. Lee added that RB expects energy from the audience. “Look out for the swag because you’re going to be jumping out of your seat with it,” Alworth said.
RB will perform a second show tonight at 9 p.m. and on Friday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. ADD will perform again on April 20 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .
love and believe in. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t love being in an a cappella group, and they just want to share that love.” Both Sears and Portyansky said they felt performances were better displays of the arts on campus than the Extracurricular Bazaar, which was too crowded to display the talents of each group fully. Portyansky said she explored most a cappella options during rush rather than Bulldog Days as a result. Six prospective students interviewed at Bulldog Days this year felt similarly overwhelmed by the Extracurricular Bazaar, but nevertheless remain excited about the arts after seeing performances, namely the Bulldog Days Welcome Showcase. “I think the Showcase definitely encouraged me to pursue the arts,”
prospective student Aaron Troncoso said. “I thought [a cappella] was pretty cool. It seems almost like a frat. You have to rush at the beginning of the year, and it seems that they have their own social scene and parties, like their own a cappella bubble that still branches out, and I like that.” Prospective student Austin Pruitt said the performances opened his eyes to the creativity and talent of Yale students, while prospective student Jesse Goodman said the performers were “more talented than on other campuses [he’s] visited.” Bulldog Days began on Monday and ends today. Contact STEPHANIE TOMASSON at stephanie.tomasson@yale.edu .
Students forge interest in fashion BY JIWON LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Dancers in A Different Drum dance company rehearse for “A Different Circus,” which will open Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Off-Broadway Theater.
request specific songs and, in one case, sing along with the group. “They really made me feel at home,” Paltiel said. Paltiel added that he hopes to give prospective students a similarly positive experience by being enthusiastic about his involvement in the arts at Yale and helping prospective students feel at home. Still, Esther Portyansky ’16, who performs in the Yale Glee Club and Magevet, remembers prospective students feeling as though Yale students were trying to “sell” them on their extracurriculars. “Everyone was trying to sell a product and [prospective students] are really skeptical and cynical of that [product],” Portyansky said. “It’s really important to communicate to them that we are not selling anything that we do not 100 percent
Though they may not always be in the spotlight of the Yale extracurricular scene, a number of students are committed to bringing fashion onto campus. This Friday, student organization Runway Inc. will present the latest iteration of its annual fashion show, “Light from Ash: Fashion’s Resurrection,” which will feature designs that contrast light and dark colors and benefit All Our Kin, a local childcare support charity. The show’s models will wear clothing from local stores like GANT, Jack Wills and Idiom, as well as from Elliy Peng’s ’12 original collection. While many fashion-related student organizations, most of which have relatively few members, seek to raise awareness of the value of fashion on campus by hosting fashion shows, students in these groups explore the field in a variety of ways, from designing clothing out of recyclables to walking the runway in designers’ spring collections. “Fashion at Yale is a small component [of student life],” said Anna Wang ’14, the director of design for YCouture, a student organization that designs handmade clothing. “But there is definitely a place for it. Fashion is so applicable.” Several organizations use fashion to promote or fundraise for humanitarian causes. Runway Inc. brings to campus apparel from professional designers and local clothing stores, while donating its proceeds to a different charity or nongovernmental organization each year. The show highlights in particular the efforts of designers and stylists with backgrounds normally underrepresented in the fashion industry, including women, African-Americans and Asian-Americans, said Djenab Conde ’15 and Ajua Duker ’15, the co-fashion directors for the show. Wang said YCouture, which includes roughly 10 active members, brings together students from a variety of backgrounds and majors who share a
common interest in fashion. The organization collaborates with other clubs, such as Colleges Against Cancer last October, to host fashion shows, she explained. Each student works on his or her own to create a design using whatever material or method his or her “heart calls for.” Wang said she likes using alternative materials like trash bags, mesh or plastic to make clothing.
There is definitely a place for [fashion at Yale]. Fashion is so applicable. ANNA WANG ‘14 Director of design for YCouture
“Fashion can be the power to change the world,” said Sewon Jun ’16, who works with the World Micro Market to sell jewelry made by female artisans from Mexico, Vietnam and Kenya. Jun said she is hoping to found a student organization for the academic analysis of fashion design next school year, adding that she wants students to realize how closely fashion relates to everyday life. Jun also helped organize a fashion show by the Arab Students Association last Saturday. The event, attended by roughly 50 students and professors in the Ezra Stiles dining hall, featured traditional Arab clothing worn by models from both Arab and non-Arab backgrounds. “It was a different way of showcasing our culture,” said Kenza Bouhaj ’16, the Arab Student Association’s freshman peer liaison who first raised the idea of the show. “The colorful, handmade clothes represented the long history and rich diversity of the Arab culture.” Runway Inc.’s Friday show will take place in the Davenport dining hall. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu .
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Runway Inc.’s show will benefit New Haven-based childcare support charity All Our Kin.
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NATION Gun reform backers search for votes BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Senate gun control supporters struggled Tuesday to salvage their drive to expand background checks to more buyers, buoyed by a visit from wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but facing enough potential opponents to derail their endeavor unless they can figure out how to win more votes. No. 2 Democratic leader Richard Durbin of Illinois, his party’s chief vote counter, left a lunch of Democratic senators saying they would need support from nine or 10 Republicans — a tall order. Subjecting more firearms transactions to the background checks now is the main thrust of the gun control effort launched after December’s killings of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Conn. Attending Tuesday’s Senate lunch was Giffords, the Arizona Democrat severely hurt in a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly. The two, gun owners both, have started a political committee that backs candidates who favor gun restrictions. “His message was, ‘We’ve been through this,’” Durbin said, describing Kelly’s remarks to the lawmakers. “‘We’re ready to fight back to stand up for those who have the courage to vote for gun safety.’” Giffords did not address the lawmakers. In a blow to gun control advocates, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., became the latest Republican to say he will oppose a bipartisan compromise broadening background checks. “I believe that this legislation could lead to the creation of a national gun registry and puts additional burdens on law-abiding citizens,” he said. Before the lunch, Giffords and Kelly met privately with Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. The two senators have written compromise legislation that would expand background checks to cover gun shows and the Internet, a plan gun control supporters think gives them the best chance of pushing a broader system of checks than the current one through the Senate. “They’re helping immensely just by being here and talking to our colleagues. We’re close, but we sure need their help,” Manchin said after that meeting. The two senators’ effort is aimed at weeding out criminals and the seriously mentally ill from getting firearms. The current background check system applies only to transactions with licensed gun dealers. Though the Senate has been debating a broader gun bill for days, it remained unclear when votes on the Manchin-Toomey plan or other amendments would begin. Democrats were hoping roll calls could start as early as Wednesday, with the two senators’ proposal generally seen as the first vote. President Barack Obama, in an interview with NBC’s “Today” show, urged lawmakers to pay attention to public support for expanding background checks and remember the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think is unimaginable,” Obama said in the interview, aired Tuesday. National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the organization was
spending $500,000 on an online video ad on conservative and Washington-area websites that cites a survey from a police-oriented website showing opposition to gun control proposals. “Tell your senator to listen to America’s police, instead of listening to Obama and Bloomberg,” said the ad, referring to gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg, New York City mayor. Besides the Manchin-Toomey proposal, Democrats were ready to offer other amendments — likely to lose — banning military-style assault weapons and ammunition magazines capable of carrying more than 10 rounds. Authorities have said both were used in the Newtown rampage. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, said he was working on an amendment requiring states to recognize each other’s permits for carrying concealed weapons. While all states but Illinois, plus the District of Columbia, issue permits or have other arrangements for permitting concealed weapons, nine states don’t recognize permits from other states. Gun rights defenders say making it easier to move firearms between states is protected by the Constitution, while opponents complain it would hurt states that have stricter standards for permits than others. “Hopefully we’ll start voting on this. I don’t know of any reason why we wouldn’t,” Cornyn told reporters.
Hopefully we’ll start voting on this. I don’t know of any real reason why we wouldn’t. JOHN CORNYN U.S. senator, Texas Using procedural moves, opponents would need just 41 of the Senate’s 100 votes to derail the Manchin-Toomey background check plan. Thirty-one senators voted last week to completely block debate on overall gun legislation. Just two were Democrats — Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska. If all 31 vote against the Manchin-Toomey measure — which is not certain — opponents would need just 10 more votes to prevail. So far, 11 of 16 Republicans who voted last week to let debate on the gun bill begin have said they will oppose Manchin-Toomey. That would give foes of expanded background checks 42 potential votes - one more than they need to win. Still uncertain is support from some Democrats from GOPheavy states, including Max Baucus of Montana, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. Baucus and Landrieu face re-election next year. As of Tuesday afternoon, Manchin, Toomey and their allies were still hunting supporters. “We’re working to get 60, and it’s fluid,” Vice President Joe Biden told reporters, citing the number of votes his side would need to prevail. Aides and lobbyists have said the two lawmakers are considering allowing changes in their bill to exempt people who live far from gun dealers, making it difficult to go to the dealers’ shops to have background checks performed. The hope was to attract votes from Alaska and North Dakota.
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Investigators in hazmat suits examine the scene of the second bombing on Boylston Street in Boston on Tuesday. BY JAY LINDSAY AND EILEEN SULLIVAN ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Federal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said they still didn’t know who did it and why. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly appealed to the public to come forward with photos, videos or anything suspicious they might have seen or heard. “The range of suspects and motives remains wide open,” Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, said at a news conference. He vowed to “go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime.” President Barack Obama branded the attack an act of terrorism but said officials don’t know “whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual.” Scores of victims of the Boston bombing remained in hospitals, many with grievous injuries, a day after the twin explosions near the marathon’s finish line killed three people, wounded more than 170 and reawakened fears of terrorism. A 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy were among 17 victims listed in critical condition. Heightening jitters in Washington, where security already had been tightened after the bombing, a letter addressed
to a senator and poisoned with ricin or a similarly toxic substance was intercepted at a mail facility outside the capital, lawmakers said. There was no immediate indication the episode was related to the Boston attack. Senate Majority Leader Reid said the letter was sent to Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi.
[I will] go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime. RICHARD DESLAURIERS FBI agent in charge of Boston bombing investigation Officials found that the bombs in Boston consisted of explosives put in ordinary, 1.6-gallon pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails, according to a person close to the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still going on. Both bombs were stuffed into black duffel bags and left on the ground, the person said. DesLauriers confirmed that investigators had found pieces of black nylon from a bag or backpack and fragments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker. He said the items were sent
to the FBI laboratory at Quantico, Va., for analysis. Investigators said they have not yet determined what was used to set off the Boston explosives. Pressure-cooker explosives have been used in international terrorism, and have been recommended for lone-wolf operatives by Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen. But information on how to make the bombs is readily found online, and U.S. officials said Americans should not rush to judgment in linking the attack to overseas terrorists. DesLauriers said that there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack. He urged people to come forward with anything suspicious, such as hearing someone express an interest in explosives or a desire to attack the marathon, seeing someone carrying a dark heavy bag at the race, or hearing mysterious explosions recently. “Someone knows who did this,” the FBI agent said. The bombs exploded 10 or more seconds apart, tearing off victims’ limbs and spattering streets with blood, instantly turning the festive race into a hellish scene of confusion, horror and heroics. The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard of Boston, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., and a third victim, identified only as a graduate student at Boston University. Doctors who treated the wounded corroborated reports that the bombs were packed with shrapnel intended to cause mayhem.
Letter with ricin sent to Miss. senator BY DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing killed three and left more than 170 injured at the Boston Marathon. One senator, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, said authorities have a suspect in the fast-moving case, but she did not say if an arrest had been made. She added the letter was from an individual who frequently writes lawmakers. The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police are both investigating. Terrance W. Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, said in an emailed message to Senate offices that the envelope to Wicker had no obviously suspicious outside markings, bore a postmark of
Memphis, Tenn., and lacked a return address. He added there was “no indication that there are other suspect mailings,” but urged caution. The letter was discovered at a mail processing plant in Prince George’s County in suburban Maryland, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Wicker’s office issued a statement saying “any inquiries regarding member security must be directed to the United States Capitol Police.” Capitol Police had no immediate comment. But Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters of the letter, and other lawmakers said they had been provided information by the office of the Senate sergeant-at-arms. Milt Leitenberg, a University of Maryland bioterrorism expert, said ricin is a poison derived from the same bean that makes castor oil. He said it must be
ingested to be fatal. “Luckily, this was discovered at the processing center off premises,” Durbin said. He said all mail to senators is “roasted, toasted, sliced and opened” before it ever gets to them. One law enforcement official said evidence of ricin appeared on preliminary field tests of the letter, although such results are not deemed conclusive without further testing. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation remains active. The discovery evoked memories of the days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when mail laced with anthrax began appearing in post offices, newsrooms and congressional offices. That included letters sent to Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who was Senate majority leader, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Two Senate office buildings were closed during that investigation.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS KIM JONG-UN The International Business Times has the “Top Ten Fun Facts” about Kim Jong-un. These include his Nike sneakers fetish, obsession with the NBA, mysterious birthdate, his use of a pseudonym (Pak Un) in college and his fear of barbers (he cuts his own hair).
N. Korea riled by Seoul protest
IMF leaves Egypt BY AYA BATRAWY ASSOCIATED PRESS
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South Korean protesters burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and late leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at an anti-North Korea protest. BY ERIC TALMADGE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea lashed out anew Tuesday at South Korea over a small public protest in Seoul in which demonstrators burned effigies of the North’s leaders, saying it would not hold talks with its southern neighbor unless it apologized for anti-North Korean actions “big and small” and warning that it could take retaliatory measures at any time. The statement, which was issued by the Supreme Command of the Korean People’s Army, came amid international fears that the North is preparing to conduct a mediumrange missile test and also as North
Korea marked the second day of festivities in honor of the April 15 birthday of its first leader, Kim Il Sung. Later in the day, its state media quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman saying North Korea has no intention of holding talks with the U.S. unless it also abandons its hostility against the North. The spokesman said the North will “intensify unspecified military countermeasures” unless the U.S. stops conducting military drills on the peninsula and pulls out all the military assets needed to threaten the North with a nuclear attack. The renewed vitriol, which included the threat for unspecified retaliatory action, followed a Monday protest by about 250 people in down-
town Seoul, where effigies of Kim Il Sung and his late son and successor, Kim Jong Il, were burned. Such protests are fairly common in South Korea, and though Monday’s was held on the holiday that North Korea calls “The Day of the Sun,” some analysts suggested North Korea was using it as a pretext to reject calls for a dialogue with the South, at least for the time being. North Korea often denounces protests like the one held Monday, but rarely in the name of the Supreme Command, which is headed by Kim Il Sung’s grandson and North Korea’s overall leader, Kim Jong Un. The North’s statement said it would refuse any offers of talks with the South until it apologized for the
“monstrous criminal act.” “If the puppet authorities truly want dialogue and negotiations, they should apologize for all anti-DPRK hostile acts, big and small, and show the compatriots their will to stop all these acts in practice,” the statement said. North Korea’s official name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK. This year’s festivities were mostly low key, with Pyongyang residents gathering in performance halls and plazas and taking advantage of subsidized treats, like shaved ice and peanuts. Last year’s anniversary — the centennial of Kim Il Sung’s birth — was marked with days of immense festivities and a massive military parade.
Morocco cancels war games with US BY PAUL SCHEMM AND MATTHEW LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS RABAT, Morocco — Morocco on Tuesday canceled its annual military exercises with the United States after the Obama administration backed having the U.N. monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, U.S. officials said. The 13th annual “African Lion” exercise — involving 1,400 U.S. servicemen and 900 Moroccan troops, as well as foreign observers from places like France and Germany — had been set to start Wednesday with many personnel already in place. The troops and equipment were now in the process of being redeployed, according to Eric Elliott, a spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command, or Africom. Other U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because
there had not yet been a formal announcement of Morocco’s reasons for the cancellation. Morocco’s government spokesman declined to comment about the exercises. Morocco annexed the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara in 1976, sparking a decades-long battle for independence by the Polisario Front group, which ended with a U.N.-brokered 1991 ceasefire. Mustapha Khalfi, the spokesman who doubles as the minister of communication, summoned journalists Tuesday to express his government’s anger over initiatives to broaden the U.N. mission’s mandate in Western Sahara to include human rights monitoring. “It is an attack on the national sovereignty of Morocco and will have negative consequences on the stability of the whole region,” he warned. “We count on the wis-
dom of the members of the Security Council to avoid such initiatives.”
We count on the wisdom of the members of the Security Council to avoid such initiatives. MUSTAPHA KHALFI Minister of communications, Morocco Ownership of the mineral-rich region is an incredibly sensitive matter for the Moroccans. Morocco has proposed a wide autonomy for Western Sahara, but the Polisario insist on the right to self-determination through a referendum. Neither side has budged and sporadic talks have ended in a stalemate.
The U.N. observer mission in the Western Sahara, known as MINURSO, currently has 183 military observers, 26 troops and six civilian police and its mandate for the next year is being examined next week. “We are actively reviewing MINURSO’s mandate and are working closely with our U.N. Security Council partners on this issue,” said Payton Knopf, spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. “The United States continues to support the U.N.-led process designed to bring about a peaceful, sustainable, and mutually agreed solution to the conflict whereby the human rights of all individuals are respected.” Khalfi described the initiative to expand MINURSO’s mandate as “unjustified” in light of Morocco’s efforts to improve human rights throughout country, including the annexed territory.
CAIRO — A team from the International Monetary Fund left Egypt without getting broad backing from the opposition for a government economic plan aimed at getting a key $4.8 billion loan, political blocs said Tuesday. Egypt’s main factions say they agree in principle on the need for the loan, seen as a lifeline for the country’s battered economy, but there are concerns over unrest if painful austerity measures linked to it are not backed by political consensus. The IMF said in a statement that its delegation met with a range of political figures and Cabinet officials during the nearly two weeklong visit that ended late Monday. In previous, shorter trips, the IMF has only focused on meeting with government officials. The country’s political polarization has further delayed reaching agreement around the deal. Finance Minister El-Morsi Hegazi, who will meet with officials in Washington D.C. this weekend for annual IMF and World Bank meetings, said the government’s meetings with the international lender were “fruitful.” But opposition groups including liberals, socialists and ultraconservative Islamists said the government was not being transparent about economic measures that it said could hurt Egypt’s poor. They also accused the IMF of trying to curry support for President Mohammed Morsi’s reform program. Egypt’s economy has been hard hit by the two years of turmoil that followed the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. The government is confident that the $4.8 billion IMF loan would not only cover part of its huge deficit, but also signal to investors that Egypt is again a safe bet after two years of turmoil that started with the 2011 uprising that unseated longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Most in Egypt appear to agree that the country needs the IMF loan to unlock around $15 billion of aid and investment. It would help prop-up foreign reserves that were at $13.4 billion last month, down more than two-thirds of what they were prior to the uprising. But in Egypt, where half of the country’s 85 million people live at or below the poverty line of $2 a day and rely on government subsidies of wheat and fuel for survival, many are balking at the measures that might be necessary to secure the loan. The opposition as well as bankers say measures by Egypt’s central bank to regulate the devaluation of the local currency are linked to IMF conditions. The pound has lost 11 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since early December, sparking concerns of wider inflation. Opposition spokesmen from several groups said that they could not approve the plan because neither the government nor the IMF would fully disclose its details. The Nour Party, an ultraconservative Islamist group that is the second-largest force in parliament behind Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, said that the government has not made clear how it plans to spend the money, and criticized the IMF for “interfering” in Egypt’s internal affairs. “It is our right to know what the international requirements are that will be imposed on the country, which is requesting a loan, and if all countries requesting loans also face such meddling in so many details,” the party said in a statement after the meeting. The Congress Party of former presidential candidate and Arab League chief Amr Moussa also had reservations.
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BY MADELINE R. CONWAY AND NIKITA KANSRA STAFF WRITERS In the wake of two bomb explosions that killed three people and injured more than 130 others, Harvard students criticized what they described as the university’s slow communication with undergraduates. The bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon exploded around 2:50 p.m. on Monday afternoon. By 3:51 p.m., the Cambridge Police Department had tweeted about a potential bomb threat in Central Square that was later cleared. For the next two hours, Harvard undergraduates were inundated with tweets, news articles and alerts about potential bomb threats in the Cambridge, including several near Harvard’s campus. The university sent out its first email communication regarding the incident to the entire Harvard community at 5:17 p.m. Following the more than two-hour gap between the first reports of the incident and the university-wide response, messages from the administration came in quick succession. Over the next one and a half hours, undergraduates received emails
about the incident from Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith. At around 6:20 p.m., HARVARD undergraduates subscribed to the university-wide alert system MessageMe received a communication notifying them of the cancellation of Monday evening classes. MessageMe, an opt-in notification service, sends news alerts to members of the Harvard community via text, email and voicemail. Christopher C. Walleck was among the many students who told The Crimson that he thought the message from Harvard should have come sooner. Walleck first heard about the Boston Marathon bombing through a text message from a blockmate at 3:30 p.m. By the time he first heard from Harvard, he already had received “dozens of emails” from friends, student organizations, and peers in Cabot House. “I hadn’t received so much as a single message from Harvard saying, ‘Stay in your dorms,’ or ‘Be safe,’ or simply what to
be mindful of, and I found that extremely perturbing,” said Walleck, who subscribes to the MessageMe. In an email to The Crimson, FAS spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote that MessageMe “is reserved for situations in which we have an imminent threat or when we are asking members of the Harvard community to take a specific action in a short timeframe.” Because the cancellation of classes required Harvard affiliates to immediately alter their plans, Neal said, administrators chose to communicate that decision through the service. Students at the Harvard Kennedy School also received MessageMe notification at 4:57 p.m. informing them that their campus was being evacuated. Sabrina N. Bukenya said she was disappointed that administrators took “a while” to respond to the incident, leaving students confused about the status of their classes and exams. Benjamin K. Moss wrote in an email that he thinks the university’s “lack of communication” left students “helpless and confused” and facilitated the spread of misinformation about such things as locked gates in the Yard.
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Grad schools work on diversity BY JELANI HAYES STAFF WRITER Administrators agree that while there is still much progress to be made, their efforts to increase the number of underrepresented minority graduate students across the university have been successful. “We work on this a lot,” Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns said in regard to recruitment efforts in Penn’s 12 graduate schools. “We’d like to be better … we always want to be better,” he added. The recruitment initiatives for minorities and which groups are considered a minority differ depending on the specific graduate program and the school. The doctoral programs at Penn, for example, have a more centralized
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recruitment process than other programs because the University awards these degrees, Binns said. One of the university’s newest diversity recruitment iniPENN tiatives is the Ivy Plus STEM Symposium, which brought together the eight Ivy League schools and some of the nation’s other leading universities with undergraduates for an overview of doctoral studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics related fields. Binns said that the symposium had two primary goals: to communicate with undergraduate students and to inform the administrators at their respective colleges of the graduate opportunities at
Ivy Plus universities. He said that many qualified minority students may not consider applying to a top school such as Penn, so it is important to inform them and their administrators of the potential here. There are some challenges, however, to encouraging students to apply for a Ph.D. Associate Dean for graduate studies in the School of Arts and Sciences Ralph Rosen explained that dedicating several years to earning a doctoral degree and then presumably entering academia is not always attractive to college students. “There are more obvious career choices … It’s easier to see your way to a career in some of the professional schools” instead. Binns agreed with this sentiment, noting that many diversity candidates may feel obligated to choose career paths that pay more or pay sooner.
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BY EMILY PASSARELLI STAFF WRITER Forty-two percent of students did not practice a religion before coming to the university and still do not practice a religion, according to a Herald poll conducted in March. Twenty-nine percent of students said they practice the same religion with the same commitment level as they did before coming to Brown. A minority of students said their religious practices have changed since matriculating, with 9.5 percent practicing the same religion with more commitment, 12 percent practicing the same religion with less commitment and 1.4 percent practicing a different religion since starting at the university. One percent of students have begun practicing a religion since matriculating, while 5 percent do not practice a religion but did so before coming to Brown. The Herald received 1,183 student responses to the question of religious commitment on its poll last month. Though nearly half of poll respondents indicated they do not practice a religion, some students and faculty members said religion has a large presence on campus. Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of the university, said students’ religious preferences have not drastically changed in her 23 years on campus. The percentage of students who say they do not practice religion does not accurately reflect religious practices at Brown, she said. Students can define the act of practicing a religion differently, Nelson said, adding that for some, religious commitment may be public service or yoga, while others may attend services. Muslim Chaplain Robert Coolidge said the percentage of students who do not practice a religion may not include those who are spiritual and do not explore their religions through specific faith
communities. Students and religious leaders on campus said religion has a cultural dimenBROWN sion — many undergraduates may not have had any religious background before attending the University and do not view college as a time to begin to explore faith. “Religion is a place of tradition,” Nelson said.
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The diversity of student definitions of religion makes the Brown community as a whole more “religiously literate,” Nelson said. Most students who have changed their religion since starting the university are seniors. “Brown hasn’t affected me to the extent of making me convert to another religion or turn me into an atheist, but it did give me the ability to question and challenge Catholicism’s current approach to the modern world,” Giancarlo Hidalgo, who identifies as Catholic, wrote in an email to The Herald. Students said their peers use their college years to construct their own identities and may not initially see religion as a way to define themselves. “College is a time for the exploration and examination of the self. Students for the first time are out on their own, and religion is one of their personal decisions,” said Executive Director of Hillel Marshall Einhorn. Berit Goetz, a contributing writer for The Herald, said that given the university’s reputation as a liberal school, the vibrance of religious communities on campus is striking. Brown’s openness allows those of the Muslim faith to be welcomed, Coolidge said, adding that though Muslims are a small community, they are “a respected minority.”
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ANTOINE LAGANIERE ’13 Three days after winning an NCAA championship, the senior center was signed to a two-year entry-level contract by the Anaheim Ducks. Laganiere finished third on the team in scoring this season with 15 goals and 14 assists in 37 games.
Lightweights remain undefeated in spring
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The Bulldogs opened their Ivy League campaign with victories over Penn and Columbia on Saturday and Cornell on Sunday. Overall, the Elis won six of nine races across the weekend’s two regattas. LIGHTWEIGHT CREW FROM PAGE 14 be a good test,” said Ilana Usiskin ’14, varsity eight coxswain. On Saturday morning the Bulldogs were greeted by a strong tailwind and fast racing conditions at the Dodge Cup against Columbia and Penn. In the first race of the day, the third varsity four beat Columbia by 6.6 seconds to set the tone for the Bulldogs. After the third varsity eight race between Columbia and Penn, the Yale freshmen eight faced off against the Quakers. Although the top-ranked Bulldog freshmen had larger margins of victory against their common opponents at previous contests this year and were favorites going
into the race, the No. 2 Quaker freshmen were able to pull ahead in the last kilometer and win in an upset.
I was proud of the way [the freshmen] were able to bounce back. They had a great race. ILANA USISKIN ’14 Coxswain, lightweight crew Yale head coach Andy Card said that their freshmen’s performance boded well for the
Quakers’ future. “I would expect Penn to be a quality squad in the years ahead,” he said. The second varsity eight followed with a victory over Columbia and Penn. The Elis edged the Lions with a 4.4-second victory, while the Quakers finished 16.7 seconds off the leaders. In the next and final race the varsity eight took to the water looking to wrap up the morning with a win. The three boats began with a staggered start, but the Bulldogs quickly made up the distance. Soon after passing the 500 meter mark, Yale began to pull away from the other two boats. With the strong wind, Yale was able to post a blazing time
of 5:30.5, 5.9 seconds ahead of Columbia and 9.4 ahead of Penn. After successfully defending the Dodge Cup for the 10th straight year, the Bulldogs headed up to Ithaca for their Sunday morning race against Cornell. The Big Red was coming off of a sweep of Princeton the day before and its varsity eight had come close to beating No. 1 Harvard’s on April 13. A highlight of the day was the freshman eight’s win, just a day after its tough loss to Penn. The Yale freshmen finished the race in 5:59.2, while Cornell pulled in at 6:02.8. “I was proud of the way they were able to bounce back. They had a great race,” Usiskin said.
Fifth straight win for the Elis MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 until he tied the game at 10-10 with under two minutes to play in regulation. Then, with a 1:24 left in overtime, Kucharczyk found himself wide open and stepped up to rip a long shot into the cage and clinch a huge come-from-behind win for the Elis. The game featured nine different scorers and a 10-save performance from Eric Natale ’15. “We have relied on communication and trusting each other to execute late in games when we are tired,” defenseman Michael Quinn ’16 said. “We know what our offense is capable of and how talented they are.” Monday’s game marked Stony Brook’s third overtime competition this season, of which the Seawolves have only won one — a three-overtime win over Rutgers on March 2. Stony Brook capitalized on Yale’s first-half penalties, scoring on two of their three man-up opportunities, and took a 5-3 lead into halftime. Attack-
man Mike Rooney led the pack and tallied five of his six points with three assists and two goals in the first half.
We have relied on communication and trusting each other to execute late in games when we are tired. MICHAEL QUINN ’16 Defenseman, men’s lacrosse But the Bulldogs returned to the field and improved defensively in the second half by committing zero penalties, going 7-7 on clears, and dominating the ground ball battle. The offense eventually came through as well, once more powered by Mangan who tallied his second straight hat-trick and ended up with five points, three goals and two assists, including two goals in the fourth quarter.
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This time it was the second varsity eight that lost its first race of the year, falling to Cornell by just two seconds. Captain Will Ferarro ’13, who races with the second varsity boat, said that he and the other rowers would learn from the loss, just like they would from any race. “There were both good parts of our race and areas to improve. Now it’s up to us to fix our mistakes,” he said. In a matchup between the second and third-ranked varsity eights in the country, the Elis held off the Big Red for a 3.7-second victory. The third varsity four and the third varsity eight also prevailed in their races, giving Yale four out
of five for the day and completing the Bulldogs’ 650-mile road trip. Yale will now gear up for its last home regatta of the season on Saturday, the Durand Cup against Dartmouth. The Big Green won the Durand Cup, which is named after a former Yale lightweight rower and coach, in 2011 and 2012 after the two crews finished in a dead heat in 2010. “It will be quite a challenge to get it back into our trophy case,” Card said. The Dartmouth lightweight crew was swept by Harvard in a home regatta on April 13. Contact JOSH MANDELL at joshua.mandell@yale.edu .
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“We definitely need to do some work on the defensive end,” captain Michael McCormack ’13 said. “It’s reassuring that our offense has been able to score some big goals late in games and I think that this overtime comeback will help from a game experience standpoint as the season continues.” The Elis will look to continue their win streak versus No. 4 Maryland at Capital One Field in Maryland this Saturday at noon. Contact FREDRICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
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Captain Bradley Kushner ’13 finished the Princeton Invitational in third place with a two-under 211, as the Bulldogs took first place as a team. MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 14
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The No. 65 men’s tennis team split the weekend against two nationally ranked Ivy rivals, Cornell and Columbia. MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 the moment, playing one point at a time and focusing on executing my game plan. It felt really good to be able to pull that one out for the team.” The next day the Lions proved a tough opponent for the tired Elis, just as they had the year before in a five-hour competition full of loud fans and line disputes. This year, the Bulldogs gained the upper hand in doubles play with an early win at No. 2 by Patrick Chase ’14 and Huang, 8–6. The momentum turned when Columbia retaliated with a win at the No. 1 and No. 3 posi-
tions, and the doubles point came down to a tiebreaker 9–8 in favor of the Lions. Yale went into singles play down 1–0, and the team was not able to come back from the deficit. Columbia solidified its lead with wins at No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 to bring the score up to 4–0 over the Bulldogs. Svenning’s loss at No. 4 marked his first loss in conference play in his rookie season. Huang put up a fight at No. 1 against Columbia’s nationally ranked No. 60 Winston Lin, coming out on top with a three-set victory over the second highest ranked Ivy League player in the country. “The loss should only motivate us to
finish the year on a positive note,” Huang said. “It was a really heartbreaking match but we still have three matches left and one of them is against our rival, Harvard. We’ve put in a lot of hard work to be the best team we could be this year and we have to finish strong.” For their next series of conference play, the Bulldogs will face No. 70 Dartmouth up in Hanover and the Harvard Crimson at home. Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .
The Elis’ torrid second round set up their eventual victory. After shooting 294 in the first round on Saturday, the team geared up for another round of golf later the same day. The Bulldogs did not disappoint, putting together the low round of the tournament with a total score of 279. Kushner posted a fourunder 67 — tied for the best individual round of the tournament — while Bernstein finished two-under and Joe Willis ’16 shot an even-par 71. That round catapulted the Elis into second place entering the final round of the tournament on Sunday. “I just think we all kind of knew we were capable of good scores in the afternoon and it came together for us nicely,” Bernstein said. The Elis actually shot their worst round of the weekend in the third round on Sunday, combining for a team score of
295. No Yale golfer finished at or below par. Still, the squad did enough to win, finishing two strokes in front of second-place Temple. For the first time this spring, the Elis faced all seven of their Ivy League opponents, and while Princeton finished three strokes back in third place, the Bulldogs convincingly vanquished all of their league rivals. With the Ivy League Championships only two weeks away, Kushner said that this weekend’s invitational served as a preview of what is to come. “It reaffirms our position in the league,” Kushner said. “We are the favorites.” The men’s golf team will continue its season next weekend at the Century Intercollegiate, hosted by Century Country Club in Purchase, N.Y. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .
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“[Bradley Kushner ’13] doubled down on his practice leading up to the event and it paid off.” COLIN SHEEHAN ’97 HEAD COACH, MEN’S GOLF YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
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Men’s golf defends fourth straight title BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER As he stood in the tee box on the par four 18th hole on Sunday, Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 knew that he had a chance to improve on his two Saturday rounds and give his team a shot at the tournament win. He swung, launching his drive onto the green to set up the finalhole birdie that brought his third and final round score to 76.
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Midfielder Harry Kucharczyk’s ’15 overtime goal led the Bulldogs to a win over Stony Brook on Monday night. BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Another late offensive push propelled the No. 15 men’s hockey team to an overtime win against Stony Brook — the Bulldogs’ fifth straight victory. Midfielder Shane Thorton ’15 scored the opening goal of the Monday contest, his fourth of the
season, but Yale (8-3, 3-2 Ivy) was never in the lead again until midfielder Harry Kucharczyk’s ’15 overtime winner. “No personal gains for myself,” Kucharczyk said. “We pride ourselves on being grinders and always playing tough. Hustle plays kept us in that game. It’s most likely the last time the seniors play at Reese Stadium so that game was for them.
They’ve been great role models and leaders and I am just happy we could give them the win.” The game required quite a fight from the Elis, who managed to win in an even more dramatic fashion than in the team’s previous comeback against Brown last Friday, when Yale trailed late into the fourth quarter. This time, the Bulldogs found themselves in a 7-3 hole
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against the Seawolves (6-7, 1-2 AE) almost halfway through the third quarter. But Yale scored six fourthquarter goals, including two from leading goal-scorer Brandon Mangan ’14. Despite having 11 shots in the contest, attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 was held without a goal
Even with the strong finish to his tournament, Greenhalgh finished with the highest total score of his teammates — indicating the strength of the Bulldogs team that won the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club this weekend. Captain Bradley Kushner ’13 led the Elis with a total score of 211, good for third place in the tournament, while fellow Bulldog Sam Bernstein ’14 shot 214 to finish fourth. At two under, Kushner was one of three golfers to finish the tournament under par, behind only tournament co-champions Brandon Matthews and Matthew Teesdale of Temple, who finished at -4. “[Kushner] doubled down on his practice leading up to the event and it paid off,” head coach Colin Sheehan ’97 said in an email to the News. “That type of lead-by-example attitude is what makes him a model captain.” Sheehan also emphasized Kushner’s role in the Bulldogs’ last three trips to the Princeton Invitational — trips that have all resulted in Yale victories.
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Men’s tennis splits weekend BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER In a key weekend of Ivy play for the No. 65 men’s tennis team, the Bulldogs split their matches against two nationally ranked opponents.
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The No. 2 lightweight varsity eight won both of its races this weekend in Philadelphia and Ithaca. BY JOSH MANDELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 2 Yale lightweight crew outraced all three Ivy League opponents it faced in a double-header this weekend to maintain its undefeated spring record.
LIGHTWEIGHT CREW The Bulldogs competed against No. 7 Penn and No. 5 Columbia in Philadelphia on Saturday before driving to Ithaca, N.Y. to face No.
3 Cornell on Sunday in their first Ivy League races of the spring season. The Elis won six of the nine races they competed in and the varsity eight came away with back-to-back victories on the weekend. The level of competition against their Ancient Eight counterparts was greater than that of any of their previous regattas — the second varsity boat and the freshman eight each lost a race for the first time this season. “We knew that this weekend was going to SEE LIGHTWEIGHT CREW PAGE 13
The road-trip for the Elis (16– 5, 2–2 Ivy) began with an upset over the No. 51 Cornell Big Red (12–7, 1–3 Ivy) on Saturday, 4–3. With only a night to recover, Yale fell to the No. 49 Columbia Lions (12–8, 3–2 Ivy) Sunday 6–1 to record their second loss to an Ancient Eight rival. “The loss obviously hurts our chances of winning the Ivy League,” Jason Brown ’16 said. “If we can play well for the rest of the year we know that the results will take care of themselves.” Cornell posed many threats to the Bulldogs going into the match. The Big Red had won the ECAC Division I Indoor Team Championships in February, defeating Brown, Harvard and Columbia on their way to the title. Last year Yale fell 4–3 to Cornell at home. The Elis were able to flip the result this year by recovering quickly from an early loss in the doubles point. At No. 1, the veteran duo of Marc Powers ’13 and team captain Daniel Hoffman ’13 led the charge for Yale by gaining the first victory of the day, 8–4. But Yale lost at No. 2 and No. 3,and Cornell took the doubles point. In singles,
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The Elis began the weekend with an upset of No. 51 Cornell, 4-3, but fell to the No. 49 Columbia Lions on Sunday. the score eventually evened out to 3–3 when John Huang ’13, Hoffman and Martin Svenning ’16 tallied wins for the Bulldogs. The final decision came down to the No. 6 singles match-up between Zach Dean ’13 and Cornell’s Kyle Berman. The win was decided by a third-set tie-breaker in which
Dean was able to clinch the victory for his team by fending off two match points. “Against Cornell, we had an up and down day,” Dean said. “I was hitting the ball OK, but thought I did a really good job of embracing SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 13
The sophomore midfielder’s overtime goal against the Stony Brook Seawolves gave the men’s lacrosse team a close 11-10 win on Monday night.