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CROSS CAMPUS

WALTER BROWN TWO ELIS UP FOR HOCKEY AWARD

GENDER-NEUTRAL

MENTAL HEALTH

MEN’S BASKETBALL

YCC plans proposal to extend housing option to sophomores

NEW HAVEN CENTER MAY FACE BUDGET REDUCTIONS

Ivy League title up for grabs as Bulldogs sweep conference weekend

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Yale’s new first couple

Love in this club. If you didn’t

find your soulmate at Toad’s last night, don’t worry. Today is Valentine’s Day — otherwise known as “Singles Awareness Day” — and Cupid is reportedly out and about shooting his arrows of love all across campus. And in any case, there’s always Saturday night Toad’s. Or lab. Or section. Or SigEp tonight. Anyway, there are plenty of fish in the sea, so don’t worry.

Brainiacs on campus. Two Yalies have been named Gates Scholars, recipients of a prestigious scholarship that funds postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Matt Shafer ’13, who is involved with the nuclear weapons abolition advocacy group Global Zero at Yale, will pursue a M.Phil. degree in political thought and intellectual history, and physics major Rachel Kurchin ’13 will pursue an M.Phil. degree in materials science.

Kurchin has a background in environmental issues, including climate change and renewable energy.

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Maybe in Morse dining hall.

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Morse College will open its dining hall balcony for performances tonight, a oncea-year event that is expected to draw Shakespeare enthusiasts and wannabe actors to the venue. Members of the Morse College Council will act as judges and award “fabulous” prizes to top participants.

On a break. J. Press, the

clothing store on York Street that has dressed the University’s gentlemen for more than a century, is temporarily closed after a portion of its front gambrel roof wall dislodged from the roof framing and interior walls, according to the Yale Alumni Magazine. The store will reopen temporarily at 976 Chapel St., conveniently between Ann Taylor and Shake Shack.

Questionable statistics.

The National Jurist has released its rankings of top law schools, and the results are, well, surprising. After compiling data taken in part from RateMyProfessors.com, the National Jurist ranked Yale 13th in the country, after Harvard, Columbia, the University of Alabama, Texas Tech University and Louisiana State University. Yale Law School received an A in the “employment” category, but a D in “professor availability” as measured by The Princeton Review.

Good news or bad news?

Though New Haven Public Schools will remain closed this week, Elm City students will meet next week during their scheduled February break to make up for lost time.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1966 Pro-segregation Sen. Allen J. Ellender is scheduled to discuss Africa at a Yale Political Union meeting.

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Charter revision moves forward

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the pair went to a lunch in Coxe Cage for the Association of Yale Alumni tailgate at the Yale-Princeton football game that year, and then the relationship started gaining momentum. For the third date, Moret flew out to Chicago to accompany Salovey to his friend’s wedding over Thanksgiving break.

Two years and countless dates later, Salovey decided to take his relationship with Moret to the next level. The night before the two-year anniversary of their first date, Salovey hid an engagement ring in the pocket of a pair of pants he hoped Moret would wear the next day — and Moret’s fashion sense did not fail her.

Last Thursday marked the fourth and final public hearing addressing New Haven charter revision.

At each of the meetings held by the Board of Aldermenappointed charter revision commission, city residents testified about potential changes to New Haven’s charter, which dictates the regulations that govern the structure of the city. According to commission members and aldermen, about 100 people attended each meeting, discussing issues including reforming the Board of Education, adopting potential term lengths and limits for public officials, strengthening the Civilian Review Board — a group that reviews complaints against police — and changing the size of the Board of Aldermen. But as the commission’s final proposal is not due before the Board of Aldermen until May, the next task for commission members will be to incorporate public opinions when they draft recommendations for charter revision.

“I think it was pretty healthy turnout at all four of the meetings, and everyone who wanted to testify had a chance to. The public was given a really excellent opportunity,” said Caleb Kleppner ’89, a member of the commission. “I thought the public hearing process was excellent,

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President-elect Peter Salovey and Marta Moret SPH ’84 have been married for 27 years.

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Few Yale students expect to find lasting love in Toad’s or GPSCY, but fairy tales can take root within the walls of Yale’s finest social establishments — and the 27-year marriage of Presidentelect Peter Salovey and Marta Moret SPH ’84 is proof.

The tale of Peter and Marta traces its beginning to fall 1983. Salovey had just been elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and he would soon experience the first of many presidential perks: meeting Moret, his vice president for communications. Salovey had just entered GPSCY Bar on York Street for a GPSS meeting

when he first laid eyes on Moret, and Moret remembers the moment vividly because, she alleged, Salovey put his glasses on to get a better look when she introduced herself to the group. But if it was love at first sight, it wasn’t quite reciprocated.

“She at first tried to fix me up with a classmate at the public health school,” Salovey said. “But I persevered.”

Hard work and perseverance may be the root of success, but it did not take much of either before Salovey and Moret decided to go out on their first date: After the second GPSS meeting, the pair agreed to meet up over burgers at the Brass Button, a now-defunct New Haven burger joint. The second date followed its fancy precedent when

Levin leads fundraising boost

Yale-NUS hires Yale profs

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER University President Richard Levin may only have four and a half months left in office, but when it comes to fundraising, Yale’s leader of 20 years has no intentions of easing up now.

Levin said the University is currently negotiating a number of large donations which he said could raise this year’s fundraising total well above last year’s, though he declined to comment on the precise number or size of the potential gifts. Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said in an email that the fundraising total for new gifts and pledges is higher now than this time last year, a positive result of what Levin called an informal push for donations at the end of his presidency. Levin and O’Neill said the donations will primarily fund core budget expenses in order to create a comfortable fiscal starting point for President-elect Peter Salovey when he takes office this summer.

“It’s my last year, and I am trying to raise some significant gifts,” Levin said. “The number of significant conversations going on is pretty large, so hopefully we’ll end up with a year that is considerably better than last year.”

The promising number of gifts and possible donations may be a direct result of more assertive fundraising on the parts of Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and other members of the faculty and develSEE FUNDRAISER PAGE 4

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Yale-NUS administrators will bring Yale faculty to Singapore for visiting and consulting professorships.

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER As Yale-NUS prepares to welcome its inaugural class of students, it is constructing a visiting faculty that will include some prominent Yale names.

Though the two institutions will

remain separate, 34 Yale faculty members will travel to Singapore over the next four years to teach semester-long courses and intensive one- and two-week seminars.

Thirteen of these professors, called consulting faculty, will advise Yale-NUS faculty and administrators on the new college’s curricu-

lum, while also teaching or holding guest lectures at Yale-NUS. Visiting faculty will only receive compensation from Yale-NUS for their teaching at the liberal arts college, while consulting professors, who may continue working from New SEE YNUS PAGE 4

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GUE ST COLUMNIST EAMON RONAN

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Single on Valentine's Day

Please foodie appropriately

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ast Valentine’s Day, as many people walked around in a love-drunk state, I stumbled around campus in, well, a drunken daze. I wasn’t drowning my singlerelated sorrows in red wine so much as I was honoring the spirit of the holiday: Valentine’s Day provides a time for those in relationships to celebrate their love for each other.

Some people had other human beings; I had alcohol.

Of course, ours was not a recently developed dalliance like the connection between so many of my peers, but a long and volatile relationship that could only be described as a bad romance. I began drinking in eighth grade in the basements of suburbia, because sipping our parents’ stolen liquor greatly surpassed drinking Mountain Dew as my childhood friends and I watched movies.

Suburban middle school gave way to high school in the city, and with it, easier access to alcohol and more opportunities to experiment. I remember my first blackout — or, rather, completely forgot an entire drinking experience for the first time. It was jarring in the beginning but gradually became common, tolerated by peers and labeled as a necessary escape from a high-stress, high-pressure academic environment. Weekends brought alcohol, but life’s struggles — we all have them, whatever they may be — added emotional undertones to drinking. What started as a distraction from suburban boredom morphed into a form of emotional coping. Exhausted from a sleepless week? Drink. Bitter about your parents’ divorce?

Drink. Confused about your sexuality? Drink. And, most constant and bewildering of them all: Can’t escape that nagging sense of hopelessness? Drink.

This behavior continued in a thrillingly predictable pattern. The settings changed, and for fun, I might cheat on alcohol, my first true love, with other substances — marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine. But the cycle remained the same.

Encounter problem. Selfmedicate. Experience temporary relief while exacerbating the problem in the long term and compounding it with whatever additional problems created while state of mind was altered. Repeat, increasing frequency and intensity over time.

I wish I could say that I simply woke up one day and admitted that my drinking problem was just that — a

big, life-influencing problem.

But while I had occasional moments of clarity, my epiphany did not take place until I followed my abusive behavior into dark, dark places — both in the physical and the mental realm. It took stopping what doctors called obsessive suicidal ideation; it took a stay in the psych ward; it took looks of pity from fellow addicts in support groups; and it took confronting a lot of painful thoughts to realize and, more importantly, to accept that alcohol could never cure emotional instability and personal discomfort, especially in a person with addictive tendencies.

Inducing generalities from individual experiences is problematic, which is why I am not proposing universal sobriety. It’s much simpler than that, really. What little advice I have boils down to this: Be wary of using a seemingly innocuous, short-term coping behavior for whatever long-term demons you may battle. Substance abuse, binge eating, overexercising or (in a twisted spirit of the holiday) an unhealthy relationship with a partner — the poisons are plenty; it’s unimportant which you choose. Imagining your future divorced from your crutch may prove frightening, but the reality of your lives together might be even worse.

And yet, no matter how much I repeat this conclusion to myself, I can’t help but feel a twinge of sadness, nostalgia and fear. For me, moderation is not a realistic option: I must break up with alcohol for good.

But not drinking means being unable to escape from myself.

It means being unable to manufacture euphoria. It means having to come face to face with all parts of my mind, no matter how dark they may be.

This notion can be scary and overwhelming. Still, I know that it can’t be any worse than what I have already put myself through. Because not drinking means other things for me, too: It means no more stealing blocks of cheese from GHeav, no more breaking into random houses, no more blacking out at a bar and driving home.

It means being sober and clear-minded for the longest time since the age of 13. It means, finally, being happy to be alone on the year’s biggest celebration of relationships. It means being single on Valentine’s Day. EAMON RONAN is a sophomore in Davenport College and taking this semester off. Contact him at

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’m that girl — the one seated behind the corner table; the one you’re glaring at because I’ve been holding up the waitress, or the sommelier or, if I’m lucky, the chef herself, gesticulating and slowly interrogating her about entrée preparation.

Foodie-ism is old (and often annoying) news by now. Some argue that what started out encouragingly as retrenchment of our pastoral values has, with the assistance of Instagram and the food cart cult, regressed to fad status — convenient, twee or illogically neurotic (see “Portlandia”’s “Is it Local?” sketch). I get teased for my quirky habits sometimes, often. If I sit down for a nice dinner and don’t take a picture of it, did I actually eat anything?

And then there’s the insistence on hardfought authenticity: converted-trailer diners with mismatched silverware, a proud layer of grime on kitchen surfaces and home-slaughtered, homemade chicken stock (you don’t want to know, trust me). New York Times food reporter Kim Severson wrote a piece decrying the recipes that I love, but that call for fresh pig’s blood and fleur de sel sifted from buckets of raw seawater.

But I’d like to defend this essence of foodieism that transcends the camera lens. It’s the foodie’s obsession with process that I buy into — an obsession with some conglomerate of groceries-gathering, countertop prep and cooking. But being obsessed with the food process is foodie-ing at its most sincere and economical.

I remember an afternoon in high school when a developing crush came over to review for a mitosis exam. I decided to debut a sweet bread rolls recipe for the occasion. He showed up as the milk-yeast solution reproduced on the stove. Sweaty palms turned the dial too high; the yeast bacteria didn’t stand a chance.

“I KILLED IT!” I wailed, fanning the sad, ivory mixture that would froth no more.

He looked alarmed, but upon learning it was “just yeast” that I had killed, he offered me the box of Wheat Thins within arm’s reach and, between laughter, said, “These are better, anyway.”

The yeast never rose and neither did our love.

My current boyfriend is the biggest proponent of my process obsession. He entertains my longer-than-anticipated treks to find “that place with the hand-pulled noodles” or a pourover coffee shop, and visited me in San Francisco where I spent my fall semester conducting

historical research full time.

An obsessive interest in how one’s food is prepared shouldn’t remain a solitary endeavor.

His fluent Spanish transformed the Mission District into a fresh landscape of recommendations from Mexican chefs sans language barrier.

We learned that queso con loroco pupusas are fattier than their meat-filled counterparts, but that pupusas aren’t unlike gorditas, which are practically arepas, but that each nation’s process differs slightly and each claims they hold the title for best corn-pancake-thing.

Foodies who foodie about process can, in some ways, travel on a whim. On Sunday night, my Vietnamese friend brought over the contents of her uncle’s care package: a hefty cylinder of glutinous rice, pork and mashed egg yolks wrapped in banana leaf. Mailed from New Jersey and devoured with pleased sighs. Banh tet.

After she left, I took an imagined trip to Kuala Lumpur as I read about ikan bakar, another delicacy involving banana leaves. And then on to Guanajuato, Mexico, where tamales wear similar coats.

Aforementioned boyfriend is studying in New Delhi now. I helped him string together small decks of family recipes as gifts for host families. Hopefully they’ll reciprocate with strategies for skillet chapati without sacrificing texture. The batch I made the other night, as I thought of him, left a lot to be desired.

And, like everything else in life, even the most genuine foodie-ism has its cheats. A box of Easy Mac can, in the right circumstances, truly hit the spot and leave me worshipping that strange yellow powder packet. Foodie-ism shouldn’t be expensive, ornate or life-consuming, but it should be genuinely enlightening.

I know the college lifestyle tends towards Wenzels, ramen and the dining hall classics.

And while I too love chicken tenders day, I wonder if what Yalies miss when we claim to miss home are the comforting processes around mealtimes: the ways our moms’ nervous energy syncs up with the tick of an oven timer or the marriage of ethnic spices on a slow-cooker afternoon. If that’s what’s missing, then may we all foodie appropriately and with abandon.

Ditch the HD cameras. Reserve a college kitchen with friends instead. Come over for dinner? I’ll cook if you’ll care.

CATHY HUANG is a junior in Morse College. Contact her at cathy.huang@yale.edu .

For an ombudsman In November of 2011, President Levin published his response to the recommendations made by the Marshall Committee on campus sexual climate. In it, he accepted nearly all of the committee’s recommendations. One recommendation, perhaps the committee’s most structurally significant, was rejected. The administration should never have ignored the Marshall Committee’s recommendation for the creation of a University-wide ombudsman, and Yale should reconsider its decision immediately.

The office of ombudsman originated in politics and government. There, individuals are appointed to fulfill independent oversight roles, representing the interests of the public and guarding against corruption or faulty administration. But in the last few decades, increasing numbers of private institutions have followed these responsible governments’ lead and have also elected to hire some form of ombudsman. The New York Times’ public editor interacts directly with the Times’ readership, pursuing readers’ concerns and criticizing the paper publicly. Other private corporations have developed similar ombudsman roles that allow employees safe, confidential addresses where they can seek advice or pursue conflict resolution.

The common denominator among these various ombudsman positions is that all are able to operate with far greater freedom than members of the standard institutional hierarchy. All are able to offer advice without compromising the interests or the identities of those who come to them for help. According to one prominent scholar, Charles Howard, ombudsmen receive significantly more complaints than even anonymous hotlines.

The role has received increasing support from theorists and legal scholars seeking to clarify the precise legal obligations of ombudsmen. Unsurprisingly, many universities have chosen to follow other institutions’ lead, creating their own offices of “university ombudsman” tasked with serving as a single address for students and employees to express concerns, manage conflicts and get help navigating the university’s resources. Princeton and Harvard have had such offices up and running for a number of years, and according to the Marshall report, the MIT Ombudsman’s Office has often been cited as an exemplary model.

I often hear students complaining about all sorts of Yale-related issues: the professor who is particularly unkind, an incompetent dean, the inappropriate staff-member or the mental health professional who seems incompetent or callous. And of course, in the last few years, we have heard a great deal about the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment.

Although the University has done a great deal

to get the word out about resources on this last issue, students and employees likely remain completely in the dark about how and where they should pursue help and advice with other sorts of problems.

No doubt, the University YISHAI envisioned deans, masSCHWARTZ ters and academic advisers playing a significant role Dissentary in helping students navigate the University’s institutional bureaucracy. And for many of us, no doubt, these figures do a fine job. But the simple reality is that these individuals are academics, and are part of the formal administrative hierarchy. They have full-time academic jobs, reporting responsibilities that interfere with confidentiality and only limited training and time.

Furthermore, for members of the Yale community who are not undergraduates, there are no clear avenues for reporting and pursuing concerns. Reports have indicated that the recent shenanigans in the Egyptology program were fairly widely known in the graduate student community. One cannot help but wonder whether the University might have intervened earlier had there been a clear address to which concerned graduate students might have turned.

According to his public response to the Marshall report, President Levin tabled the creation of the position of ombudsman out of fear that it would inhibit the streamlining and simplification of resources. This concern is unfounded and completely counterintuitive.

The creation of a formal University ombudsman would allow a central, easily identifiable campus address staffed by individuals who have the time, training and institutional room to really serve as an independent resource.

Through a meaningful guarantee of anonymity and trained staff, it would inspire confidence.

And by serving as a central clearinghouse for multiple sorts of issues, a University-wide ombudsman would lower the mental and emotional stakes for coming forward, drawing in the hesitant and uncertain. The creation of a University ombudsman would increase clarity, transparency and accessibility. Simply put, there does not appear to be a downside.

In tabling the Marshall committee’s recommendation, President Levin suggested that he might one day reconsider. With a new president on his way in, and a member of the Marshall Committee now serving as University secretary, that day should be now.

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

GUEST COLUMNIST M AT T H EW DERNBACH

Catholic healthcare W

hy does the Roman Catholic Church care about condoms?

On Feb. 7, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) objected to President Obama’s “compromise” regarding the Health and Human Services Mandate on the grounds that it did not provide adequate exemptions for organizations which self-identify as Catholic but are not legally deemed “religious employers.” The compromise defined an “eligible organization to include nonprofit religious organizations, but not to include for-profit secular organizations.”

This definition would make organizations such as EWTN (a Catholic television network) and businesses run by Catholic individuals ineligible for a religious exemption. They would still be legally obligated, in the words of the USCCB, to “fund and facilitate services such as contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilizations that violate Catholic teaching.”

Under the current system, if an organization claims a religious exemption and it is granted, then the organization can provide its employees with a group insurance policy that does not cover contraception. However, that organization must give its employees a notice that it is not providing contraception to them, and an employee may then take that notice to his or her insurance agency and that agency must legally provide him or her with contraception free of charge. Under this policy, it is very likely that insurance agencies will simply increase the cost of group policies for religiously exempt organizations in order to offset the forced provision of contraception. More importantly, this policy is a token gesture towards religious exemption — it relieves the consciences of religious employers without enacting the actual intention behind their religious exemption.

Many liberals believe that the church is being unduly obstinate, and that Catholic opinions are outdated, fallacious or ridiculous. Opponents of the church seek to trivialize the church’s objection or make erroneous comparisons. What’s the big deal with providing people with condoms? If a religious employer can object to providing someone with condoms, can they also object to providing someone with a blood transfusion? The constitutionally correct Catholic objection is this: Religious employers should not have to provide — whether directly or indirectly — their employees with a service that they find abhorrent to their faith and morals, as long as their faith and morals do not actively harm others. There is no case to be made that not helping someone to pay for contraception constitutes active harm.

Catholic dogma teaches that contraception is a grave sin, and the church wants to prevent people from occasions of sin. If religious liberty means anything, it must mean freedom to believe, follow and practice the central tenets of one’s faith, even if that faith seems ridiculous or false to others. Most Americans and even most Catholics may not share the church hierarchy’s view that the use of contraception is a grave sin. But that does not mean that those people can force others who do share that view to provide them with free contraception. Americans cannot force people to contradict a core doctrine of their religion, and simultaneously uphold the constitutional right of religious liberty.

There is no meaningful respect in which the Catholic Church is imposing its dogma on those to whom it denies contraception. No one is forced to work for a Catholic institution, a Catholic-affiliated institution or a Catholic employer. Choosing to work for someone means accepting the conditions of employment and contract that the employer offers. If a Catholic employer decides that his or her institution does not want to pay for their employees’ contraception, that employee is not then denied access to contraception; they remain free to purchase contraception out of pocket, seek alternative insurance plans that would cover contraception or find a different employer who would offer an insurance plan that does cover contraception.

Those who demand that their employers finance their contraception or provide them with a health plan that covers it are imposing their view of contraception on others. No one has a right to force their employer to provide them with a service that the employer finds abhorrent to their faith and morals.

Religious liberty is essential to the idea of America. Violating Catholic rights on the issue of contraception will begin a precedent of constitutionally illicit violations in the future. Catholics may very well ask, how long will it be before Catholic hospitals are required to perform abortions?

MATTHEW DERNBACH is a senior in Trumbull College. Contact him at matthew.dernbach@yale.edu .

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“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo, and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ADAM ANT ENGLISH MUSICIAN

YCC advocates sophomore mixed-gender housing

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Council is working on expanding mixed-gender housing to sophomores after the Yale Corporation approved a proposal to extend the option to juniors last spring.

The YCC’s four-person Gender-Neutral Housing Committee will survey freshmen as well as juniors currently in mixed-gender suites for the proposal for sophomore gender-neutral housing it plans to submit to administrators soon after spring break. YCC members said they think that as gender-neutral housing for juniors and seniors has proved successful, it is time to extend the policy to sophomores. Students and administrators involved in last year’s junior mixed-gender proposal said the YCC must include a large amount of data and survey information in its proposal for it to pass.

“More and more, we have seen that this policy has enhanced student life at Yale, and concerns that the option might be detrimental have gone down,” YCC Treasurer Joey Yagoda ’14 said. “The prelim-

inary data the new committee has collected gives us reason to think this policy is benefiting the juniors and seniors using it.”

Administrators first approved gender-neutral housing for seniors in 2010, and after the YCC submitted a report requesting to extend the option to juniors in December 2011, University President Richard Levin and the Yale Corporation approved the YCC’s proposal the following February.

In spring 2011, an earlier YCC proposal to expand gender-neutral housing to juniors was rejected because administrators said they needed to review more data to determine the success of the seniors’ program.

“The greatest impediment to the policy’s expansion to juniors was simply time,” former YCC President Brandon Levin ’14 said.

“The Corporation wanted to see that there had been successful implementation of the policy in senior suites.”

Levin added that providing enough data about the effectiveness of the policy in senior and junior suites will be critical to whether the new proposal

Master’s programs reviewed

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard released a report on master’s programs Wednesday, following a comprehensive review of Yale’s doctoral programs conducted in 2011.

The report, which was compiled by Pollard’s office, examined the 20 terminal master’s programs — one- or two-year programs that do not transition into a Yale doctoral program — administered by the Graduate School of Art and Sciences. Based on interviews with faculty and a comprehensive survey of the 200 students enrolled in the programs, the report recommends that departments review their master’s programs, create a system to track graduates from each program after graduation, conduct regular surveys and find ways to recognize the role master’s students play in relation to other parts of the University.

According to the report, 84 percent of master’s students said they would recommend their programs to others, but many felt master’s students were prioritized below the more numerous undergraduate and doctoral candidates and suggested improvements to advising, course offerings and workspace options.

“Terminal master’s programs constitute a small fraction of the education that we provide at Yale, but they are important to students in certain areas,” Pollard said.

“Finding out whether they meet the needs of these students was the goal of the study.”

Carl Hashimoto, Graduate School assistant dean, said the Dean’s Office wanted to take a separate look at the one- and two-year master’s programs to assess where these students fit into the framework of the Graduate School, which is largely composed of doctoral candidates. He said the Dean’s Office interviewed the directors of graduate studies for each program that has terminal master’s students and conducted a thorough survey of enrolled students through the Office of Institutional Research.

Hashimoto said the report indicated the master’s experience varied across disciplines and departments. Students in the humanities expressed the highest degree of satisfaction with their programs, and students in the hard sciences expressed the lowest level of satisfaction. One-hundred percent of humanities students, compared to 51 percent of science and 55 percent of social science students, said they are “very satisfied” with the quality of instruction and faculty interaction.

Hashimoto added that these results suggest the Graduate School and its individual departments should re-examine the programs with lower satisfaction ratings and consider ways to improve student experience with faculty.

“I think the hope is that this report provides a base for assess-

is accepted. Yagoda said he thinks that the committee can currently make a strong case for sophomore gender-neutral housing because four cohorts of data exist — three years of gender-neutral housing for seniors and one for juniors.

Still, YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 said the policy most likely will not be implemented by the fall.

Martha Glodz ’15, a member of the YCC’s Gender-Neutral Housing Committee, said the committee will take several steps to gather data for its final report. On Sunday, the YCC sent out a survey that asked freshmen and sophomores if they would support expanding gender-neutral housing to sophomores and asked sophomores if they would consider living in a gender-neutral suite during their junior year. The survey was not sent to juniors or seniors. The committee will also meet with all juniors currently living in genderneutral suites to gather feedback, Glodz added.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90, who supported extending gender-neutral housing to juniors, said she thinks now is an “appropriate” time for

the YCC to consider the option for sophomores. John Meeske, dean of undergraduate organizations and physical resources, said he would “recommend the policy” and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said he “would not be opposed” to the policy. Both Gentry and Meeske said they have not heard of any specific issues that have arisen out of mixed-gender suites.

“This policy gives students more options, and it makes sense to make it available to people who feel strongly about it, especially because there are such small numbers involved,” Meeske said.

Council of Masters Chair Jonathan Holloway said that when members of the Council first considered allowing seniors to live in mixed-gender suites in 2010, they discussed whether the policy would work for juniors and sophomores as well and concluded that it would not be effective for sophomores. He added that he does not currently support mixed-gender suites for sophomores.

“There was a feeling that developmentally, sophomores are not ready for mixed-gender suites,” he said. “There are a whole host

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The Yale College Council’s Gender-Neutral Housing Committee is considering extending mixed-gender housing to sophomores. of cognitive and social abilities sophomores are still forming, and I think many are not quite ready for the interesting complications that may arise from gender-neutral housing.”

All eight freshmen interviewed said they would support giving sophomores the option to live in gender-neutral housing.

Helena Mauer ’16 said she “would definitely consider living

with some of her guy friends,” adding that “the policy would be more fair to people of various sexual persuasions.”

The only other Ivies that restrict sophomores from participating in gender-neutral housing are Cornell and Princeton.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

Mental health budget overhauled

ment and reflection that make change possible,” Hashimoto said.

“We wanted to gain information that would be useful for the programs themselves, and ultimately for the Dean’s Office.”

The number of applications to master’s programs has doubled in the past 10 years, according to the report, and there has been a roughly 50 percent increase in the number of admissions offers extended.

Holly Rushmeier, chair of the Computer Science Department, said the increase in applications reflects a national trend, as employers look for people with experience beyond their undergraduate program but do not require the intense research training students receive in doctoral programs.

The hope is that this report provides a base for assessment and reflection that make change possible.

CARL HASHIMOTO Assistant dean, Graduate School But despite the increase, master’s students remain a small percentage of the overall campus student body. In the 2011–’12 academic year, roughly 200 students were enrolled in terminal master’s programs, compared to roughly 2,500 doctoral students and over 5,000 undergraduates. Only four of the 20 programs have more than 15 students per year, and nine of the 20 programs have five or fewer.

Hashimoto said the report revealed that most students applied to pursue terminal master’s degrees either as a precursor to further graduate work or in anticipation of directly entering the workforce, which he said makes it difficult to address some of the issues that emerge from different departments because program participants have different goals.

Aaron Gerow, director of graduate studies for East Asian Studies, said he hopes the report will remind faculty that the master’s programs, while small, are still an important part of the Graduate School.

“My general take on this report is that in general Yale is doing a very good job with its master’s programs, but that in itself should be better known,” Gerow said.

“I think Yale should be a little bit more aware of the importance of both the master’s students and these master’s programs.”

Eleven of Yale’s 12 professional schools administer separate master’s programs that were not examined in the Graduate School report.

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

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Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposal would cut $1.3 million of research funding for the Yale-affiliated Connecticut Mental Health Center.

BY JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN STAFF REPORTER In the wake of a renewed national focus on mental health services after a gunman left 27 people dead in Newtown, Conn., last December, Gov. Dannel Malloy has released a budget for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services that increases funding for young adult services, but may leave some of the state’s most vulnerable patients without public assistance.

The proposed budget calls for an increase in support for home and community-based services, in addition to brain injury placements and help for adolescent and early adult patients. But the plan also reduces funding for legal services and testing, including eliminating $1.3 million for research at the Yale-affiliated Connecticut Mental Health Center.

Jan VanTassel, attorney and executive director of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, said the cuts will have a “serious” effect on her organization’s ability to provide mentally disabled individuals and their families with the legal representation they need to stay in their homes and get much-needed care. The agency works with clients who face eviction, whose housing subsidies are threatened, and individuals who need disability assistance to be able to enter and exit their homes. CLRP did not anticipate the elimination of a significant portion of its state funding.

“I was stunned,” VanTassel said. “We have always had a very strong working relationship with [the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services], and we often get direct referrals from DMHAS staff.”

CLRP employees have been operating under a salary freeze for the past two years, and VanTassel acknowledged that the cuts, if enacted, will result in “immediate layoffs” of legal personnel.

“We will need an additional $493,000 to be operational in the next fiscal year.

What this means in terms of impact on clients is that we’re not going to be able to conduct housing and disability advocacy,” VanTassel added. “Some will likely lose their housing.”

Malloy’s press secretary Juliet Manalan declined to comment on the cuts and referred the News to the budget speech the governor delivered last week in Hartford, in which he proposed reducing services spending by $1.8 billion.

“The governor has made it very clear that budget cuts were necessary,” she said.

Connecticut is projected to end the current fiscal year on June 30 alone with a budget deficit of $140 million.

The cuts will also have an immediate impact on services in New Haven, where the Connecticut Mental Health Center is located. State Rep. Juan Candelaria, D-New Haven, told the New Haven Independent in a Feb. 8 article that the elimination of funding will directly affect the care that patients in the city receive through the research funding used by the center for treatment. He said he opposes the proposed cuts in Malloy’s budget for DMHAS. But DMHAS spokeswoman Mary Kate Mason emphasized that the budget for the department will increase as a result of “caseload growth” among young adults requiring mental health services. Mason also said that the budget figures — including the cut in CMHC funding — reflects an anticipated increase in assistance from the federal government, with continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

“The governor’s proposed budget for DMHAS increases funding for available community services and accounts for the reduction in need for state subsidies for under- and uninsured individuals as a result of the Affordable Care Act,” Mason said. “Mental health services are one of the core services provided for under the Affordable Health Care Act, so it is anticipated that mental health services will be

more widely available.”

It remains unclear, however, whether those who are not covered by the Affordable Care Act and who do not receive public health benefits will be able to receive mental health treatment following the implementation of the budget for fiscal year 2014.

The overhaul also has other groups, including the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, concerned. Sara Frankel, part of the public policy team at the organization, expressed mixed feelings with the projected budget.

“We’re pleased to see an increase in the line item for young adult services, and we’re thankful that Gov. Malloy recognizes the need to expand the state’s work with more young adults,” Frankel said.

But she also called the proposed cuts “concerning,” noting that legal advocacy often represents the key factor in guaranteeing a patient’s unhindered access to needed care. While state laws differ, many have regulations that do not accept new patients in the public system until they prove themselves “dangerous” by hurting themselves or someone in the community.

In explaining her surprise at the decision, VanTassel said that the governor has previously been receptive to the need for effective legal services for patients with mental illness.

“At a reception last year for people in the profession, Gov. Malloy called legal services the ‘safety net of safety nets,’” VanTassel said.

Another problem with cutting legal advocacy funding is the “ridiculously low” salaries that are generally offered to attorneys who are recruited to work on behalf of mentally disordered patients, VanTassel said.

Malloy’s proposed budget increases spending overall by 5.1 percent in fiscal year 2014.

Contact JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

MARGARET THATCHER FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Yale-NUS adds visiting and consulting professors C O N S U LT I N G PROFESSORS DIRK BERGEMANN

Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics MARVIN CHUN

Professor of Psychology John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College

VISITING PROFESSORS STEPHEN ANDERSON

Dorothy R Diebold Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science CAROL BASCOM-SLACK

Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Lecturer HOWARD BLOCH

Sterling Professor of French, Chair of the Humanities Program GEORGE CHAUNCEY

Samuel Knight Professor of History

STEPHEN DARWALL

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy

ALESSANDRO GOMEZ

DEBORAH DAVIS

PHILIP GORSKI

JULIE DORSEY

RON GREGG

JAY EMERSON

VALERIE HANSEN

Professor of Sociology Professor of Computer Science Associate Professor of Statistics, Director of Graduate Studies (Department of Statistics)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, American Studies and LGBT Studies Professor of History AMY HUNGERFORD

Professor of English and American Studies, Master of Morse College

BRYAN GARSTEN

Professor of Political Science, Acting Chair (Humanities Program)

KENNETH DAVID JACKSON

JO HANDELSMAN

MICHAEL KOELLE

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Frederick Phineas Rose Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology AVA KOFMAN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

YNUS FROM PAGE 1 Haven, will maintain their Yale salaries and receive an honorarium if they choose to teach.

Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said that the presence of Yale professors at the Singaporean liberal arts college will strengthen the links between the two schools, though he added that the two institutions will remain operating independently.

“Even though it’s important that [Yale and Yale-NUS] are two separate institutions, a close relationship between the two is desirable,” Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said.

“This is an opportunity for Yale to put its mark on Yale-NUS and for Yale faculty to advise us on how to proceed. One of their big responsibilities will be quality control, to give advice on what’s working and what isn’t working.”

Lewis said the arrangement will benefit Yale faculty interested in learning more about the new college and researching the region while also giving Yale-NUS students a chance to “experience what a Yale classroom is like.” Yale-NUS students will not receive Yale credit upon

completing courses taught by Yale faculty.

Lewis and Bailyn said they expected Yale faculty to be a part of the Yale-NUS community since the new liberal arts college was first conceived.

Bailyn added that the 34 professors will not all work at YaleNUS at the same time, and Lewis said four visiting professors are scheduled to teach at the new college next year.

Lewis said all consulting faculty members have already contributed to the development of the Yale-NUS curriculum, adding that they will continue to give their input in matters such as constructing a tenure system for the college and developing specific majors. Though the visiting professors’ relationship with the college is not as developed, Lewis said they could become the next cohort of consulting professors. He added that Yale-NUS administrators emailed Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to solicit applications for positions at Yale-NUS. Twelve visiting professors interviewed said they see the opportunity to teach at YaleNUS as an adventure and added that they are excited to bring some of the Singaporean col-

NAOMI LAMOREAUX

Professor of Economics and History

Thirty-four Yale faculty members will teach at Yale-NUS over the next four years. lege’s curricular innovations back to Yale. Though most of the professors said they are mindful of the political controversies surrounding human rights and civil liberties in Singapore, they added that they expect to pursue their intellectual endeavors unhindered while in Singapore.

“I have spoken with many current faculty at NUS, who have persuaded me that most students and faculty at NUS feel

This is an opportunity for Yale to put its mark on Yale-NUS and for Yale faculty to advise us on how to proceed.

PERICLES LEWIS President, Yale-NUS free to speak openly and critically, and I know the leaders of Yale-NUS have worked hard to ensure freedom of inquiry at the new college,” said history professor George Chauncey, who will teach a course on “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History” and

Professor of Portuguese, Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry JEFFREY PARK

Professor of Geology and Geophysics CARYL PHILLIPS

Professor of English ERIC SARGIS

Professor of Anthropology STUART SEMMEL

TINA LU

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (East Asian Languages and Literatures)

Senior Lecturer in History FRANK SLACK

Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology STEVEN SMITH

ROBERT NELSON

Lehman Professor of History of Art

Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science JING TSU

Professor of English

DAVID SKELLY

Professor of Ecology

SARAH WEISS

Associate Professor of Music

JOHN WARGO

Tweed-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health, and Politics Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program, fellow of Branford College

a seminar on the global history of gay and anti-gay politics in the 20th century. “I am deeply impressed by the courage, creativity, sophistication and achievements of the many lesbian and gay activists I have met there.”

French professor and Chair of the Humanities Department Howard Bloch said he is particularly interested to see how Yale-

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Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs CHRISTOPHER WOOD

Professor of History of Art

NUS integrates great works of both the Eastern and Western traditions in its curriculum, an endeavor he said does not currently exist at Yale. Bloch added that “Yale has much to learn” from the Singaporean college’s curriculum development efforts.

Biology professor Frank Slack said he is excited to experiment with novel pedagogical techniques — such as courses based

on active and experiential learning — while teaching at YaleNUS. Approximately 40 professors attended an information session about the visiting and consulting professorships at Yale-NUS. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Levin steps up fundraising efforts before departure FUNDRAISER FROM PAGE 1 opment staff, whom Levin and O’Neill said are also meeting with donors. O’Neill told the News in September that she expected this push in light of Levin’s departure.

The collective push has been informal, Levin added, but it is “doing pretty well.”

The fact that President Levin is retiring and is dedicating significant time to fundraising is one important factor helping this year’s totals.

JOAN O’NEILL Vice president for development, Yale University “The fact that President Levin is retiring and is dedicating significant time to fundraising is one important factor helping this year’s totals,” O’Neill said, also mentioning efforts from other members of the Yale community

contributing to fundraising.

Salovey, who will step into the presidency on June 30, is also busy meeting with donors. He said in an email Wednesday that he has been traveling to meet with donors as president-elect over the past two months, and will continue to travel within the United States, Europe and Asia to meet with individuals who have donated to Yale in the past.

The donations the University raises will support existing budget expenses, such as financial aid, existing professorships and unrestricted current use, O’Neill said.

Until the gifts for the core expenses are secured, Levin and others will continue their regular conversations with donors.

Levin told the News he had five fundraising meetings scheduled in New York on Wednesday.

“I suspect it will be a very good year,” he added.

According to the most recent Council for Aid to Education report, Yale raised $580 million in donations in 2011, the third-largest college and university total in the country.

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

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University President Richard Levin plans to continue fundraising aggressively throughout his final four and a half months in office.

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FROM THE FRONT Couple finds love at GPSCY FIRST COUPLE FROM PAGE 1 While Moret called the ring “perfect,” the rock alone could not propose on Salovey’s behalf.

“I was sort of hanging around in case it happened,” Salovey said.

“And then I was able to explain myself and formally propose.”

Moret said yes, and the couple was married in June 1986. For the reception, the couple picked the only band in Connecticut that would accommodate Moret’s Puerto Rican family members and Salovey’s Jewish relatives, so the ceremony became a whirlwind of salsa music and “Jewish wedding standards,” Salovey said.

The wedding was almost three decades ago, and the couple still remembers the day fondly.

The lesson from Marta and my story is not necessarily that love can be found at GPSCY (or Toad’s for that matter).

PETER SALOVEY President-elect, Yale University “My brother took a video of that wedding which we take out and watch sometimes on our anniversary,” Salovey said.

“We’ve been married 27 years, so let’s just say we were younger then — it’s pretty obvious when you see the video.”

But with age comes maturity, and Salovey said the past few decades have softened some of the stark contrasts between him and Moret.

Salovey is deeply committed to performing and listening to bluegrass music — a love that Moret, who prefers jazz and opera, happened not to share at first. But the initial dislike of bluegrass gradually faded, and Salovey said the

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” LAOZI ANCIENT CHINESE PHILOSOPHER CONSIDERED THE FOUNDER OF DAOISM

Board of Ed reform discussed at hearing CHARTER FROM PAGE 1

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President-elect Peter Salovey met his wife Marta Moret SPH ’84 after they were both elected to the Graduate and Professional School Senate. couple’s best vacation was a drive down the “Crooked Road” in southwest Virginia, a music heritage trail for hillbilly, old-time and country bluegrass music.

Moret said she now croons “along with Ralph Stanley.” For his part, Salovey has grown to share his wife’s interest in historic gardening, which involves restoring a garden to the way it existed when the area was first developed. While he does not participate, Salovey said he has learned to appreciate his wife’s dedication.

The couple’s dates, too, have evolved with time. They typically attend shows at the Yale Repertory Theatre, hike and drive through rural Connecticut.

Most recently, Salovey said he looked forward to making a date of watching President Barack Obama’s State of the Union

address two nights ago, and tonight, the couple will attend a show at the School of Music.

Levin said he expects Salovey and Moret to enjoy their role as Yale’s first couple because they are both enthusiastic about Yale and have attended numerous student events throughout Salovey’s administrative career.

Always the psychology professor, Salovey insists there is something to be learned from his relationship with Moret.

“I think the lesson from Marta and my story is not necessarily that love can be found at the GPSCY (or Toad’s for that matter),” he said in a Wednesday email, “but perhaps it can be by participating in student government activities.”

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

and it really does help give the commissioners a sense of where the public is coming from.”

Will Ginsberg, a commission member and the president of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, said the public hearings were very helpful in educating commission members about what issues the public found important.

Ginsberg said he was particularly interested in the structure of the Board of Education, as the Community Foundation invests in school change and supports New Haven Promise, the Yale-sponsored program that awards scholarships to New Haven public school students.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who attended some of the public hearings, said that reforming the Board of Education to a hybrid model is one of his top priorities in the charter revision process. Currently, all members of the Board of Education are appointed by the mayor, but Elicker supports including elected officials in the makeup of the board. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has previously warned against electing Board of Education officials, claiming that public elections may lead to politicization of the board.

“Generally, it seems more people want an elected or hybrid Board of Education, and they want some form of direct public representation on the board,” said Elicker, who said that there were some at the hearing who testified in favor of an all-appointed board. “But the issue is the details of any proposal. Do we just want to elect some representatives? Or a majority of the board? How long is the term of elected officials?”

New Haven residents also discussed strengthening the Civilian Review Board, which allows citizens to file complaints against police officers for charges of misconduct.

Kleppner and Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said there seemed to be strong support for the charter to incorporate a stronger Civilian Review Board, as it is currently instituted only through an executive order.

Ward 9 Alderman Jessica Holmes was among those who testified in favor of strengthening the Review Board.

“The [Civilian Review] Board currently doesn’t have a very functional role,” Holmes said. “The board only has the power to review

documents and write up reports, but doesn’t actually have any teeth.”

New Haven residents also discussed restructuring the city’s political system.

Ginsberg said that DeStefano’s choice not to run for re-election this November opens up the opportunity to have a substantive discussion about term limits. Meeting attendees seemed less interested in decreasing the size of the Board of Aldermen, Elicker said.

Hausladen called the public hearing process “the most public process of charter revision” to his knowledge, and he added that both he and Holmes testified in favor of changing the name of the Board of Aldermen to something more gender-neutral, such as the Board of Alders.

Elicker agreed that there was healthy turnout at the meetings, but said that he thought the city could have still done a better job of including the public by webcasting the meeting, using Facebook to inform residents about the meetings and utilizing other sources of outreach.

Holmes said she thought that there was a sizeable portion of the public that was unaware that the meetings were occurring. But the process, she added, is far from over: The commission still has to draft its recommendations, and both the Board of Aldermen and the public at large must approve the changes before they are implemented.

Kleppner said that the commission has not talked much about what the process will look like now that the public hearings are complete. Ginsberg said that while the commissioners have learned a lot from the public hearings, the commission members have had little time to convene and discuss their own personal thoughts.

“I think the biggest obstacle is time. There are lots of topics that people commented on, and there are a lot of topics that you could imagine making a recommendation on, and some of them, such as the Board of Ed or the budget process are really complex issues,” Kleppner said. “There’s no simple solution.”

According to Kleppner, the DeStefano administration will deliver a presentation on topics of its choice at the next commission meeting on Feb. 21.

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

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 6:00 PM “Love in Israeli Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Communities” Screening of “Elyokim” (2002), directed by Miri Boker, and “Alone” (2011), directed by Shmuel Minkov. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Auditorium.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 12:30 PM Lunch Series with Naomi Rogers: “When America Was Global: The History of Polio, 1900–1965” Join the Public Health Coalition for lunch with professor Naomi Rogers to discuss “When America Was Global: The History of Polio, 1900–1960.”

Rogers has written extensively on the history of 20th century America on disease, public health, gender and medicine, nursing, alternative medicine, health policy and medical education.

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7:30 PM Yale Concert Band: Winter Concert World premiere of “Breaking Out: Concerto for Wind Ensemble,” featuring The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet. The concert will also include the “Firebird Suite,” “Pineapple Poll” and “Lost Vegas.” Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 9:00 AM Second Annual Ivy League Vegan Conference This is the Yale Animal Welfare Alliance’s biggest event of the year. Animal advocates from all eight Ivy League schools will descend on Yale to explore the academic basis for plant-based diets and hear talks and panels by Wayne Pacelle ’87, president of The Humane Society of the United States; Dr. Milton Mills, director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan and many more. Yale Campus.

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7:00 PM Saybrook College Orchestra Winter Concert Featuring Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6 in F Major,” Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” (starring soloist Jennifer Gersten ’16) and Sibelius’ “Valse Triste.” Battell Chapel (400 College St.).

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American Airlines, US Airways to merge

BY DAVID KOENIG ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — American Airlines and US Airways agreed Wednesday to a merger that will create the world’s biggest airline. The deal caps a turbulent period of bankruptcies and consolidation that leaves the U.S. airline industry dominated by four big carriers.

The boards of American parent AMR Corp. and US Airways approved the deal late Wednes-

day, according to four people close to the situation.

The carrier will keep the American Airlines name but will be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. American’s CEO, Tom Horton, will serve as chairman of the new company until mid2014, these people said. They requested anonymity because the merger negotiations were private.

The deal has been in the works since August, when creditors pushed for merger talks so

they could decide which earned them a better return: a merger or Horton’s plan for an independent airline. American has been restructuring under bankruptcy protection since late 2011. AMR creditors and possibly its shareholders will own 72 percent of the stock, and US Airways Group Inc. shareholders will get the rest, three of the people said.

A formal announcement is expected Thursday morning.

If the deal is approved by AMR’s bankruptcy judge and

Sheriff: Ex-cop perished in fire

BY GREG RISLING AND TAMI ABDOLLAH ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — There was no question. The man standing before Rick Heltebrake on a rural mountain road was Christopher Dorner.

Clad in camouflage from head to toe and wearing a bulletproof vest packed with ammunition, the most wanted man in America was just a few feet away, having emerged from a grove of trees holding a large, assault-style rifle.

As teams of officers who had sought the fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer for a week were closing in, Dorner pointed the gun at Heltebrake and ordered him to get out of his truck.

“I don’t want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog,” Heltebrake recalled Dorner saying during the carjacking Tuesday.

The man, who wasn’t lugging any gear, got into the truck and drove away. Heltebrake, with his 3-year-old Dalmatian Suni in tow, called police when he heard a volley of gunfire erupt soon after, and

then hid behind a tree.

A short time later, police caught up with the man they believe was Dorner, surrounding a cabin where he’d taken refuge after crashing Heltebrake’s truck in the San Bernardino Mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

A gunfight ensued in which one sheriff’s deputy was killed and another wounded. After the firefight ended, a SWAT team using an armored vehicle broke out the cabin’s windows and began knocking down walls. A fire broke out and later charred remains believed to be Dorner’s were found.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday the fire was not set on purpose.

“We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out,” he said.

His deputies lobbed pyrotechnic tear gas into the cabin, and it erupted in flames, he said. McMahon did not say directly that the tear gas started the blaze, and the cause of the fire was under investigation.

The sheriff said authorities have not positively identified the remains. However, all evidence points to it being Dorner, he said, and the manhunt is considered over.

A wallet and personal items, including a California driver’s license with the name Christopher Dorner were found in the cabin debris, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing probe.

The tourist community of Big Bear Lake that was the focus of the intensive manhunt was returning to normalcy Wednesday and residents were sharing stories of the last week’s events. None was more dramatic than Heltebrake’s.

He said he wasn’t panicked in his meeting with Dorner because he didn’t feel the fugitive wanted to hurt him. “He wasn’t wildeyed, just almost professional,” he said. “He was on a mission.”

“It was clear I wasn’t part of his agenda and there were other people down the road that were part of his agenda,” he said.

antitrust regulators, the new American will have more than 900 planes, 3,200 daily flights and about 95,000 employees, not counting regional affiliates.

It will be slightly bigger than United Airlines by passenger traffic.

Since 2008, Delta gobbled up Northwest, United absorbed Continental and Southwest bought AirTran Airways. If this latest merger goes through, American, United, Delta and Southwest will control about

three-quarters of U.S. airline traffic.

The rapid consolidation has allowed the surviving airlines to offer bigger route networks that appeal to high-paying business travelers. And it has allowed them to limit the supply of seats, which helps prop up fares and airline profits.

Word of an American-US Airways merger raised new concern among passenger advocates.

Charles Leocha of the Consumer Travel Alliance said that with just

four big airlines instead of five, it will be easier to raise fares. “The benefits of this deal will go only to the corporations, not to consumers,” he said.

But industry officials say there will still be plenty of competition. A recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that adjusting for inflation, domestic U.S. airfares fell 1 percent between 2004 and 2011, a period that included several airline mergers.

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“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.”

WILLA CATHER AMERICAN AUTHOR OF WORKS SUCH AS “MY ÁNTONIA,” “THE SONG OF THE LARK” AND “O PIONEERS!”

Syrian rebels near airport

BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian rebels knocked down army defenses and moved in on the country’s second-largest airport Wednesday, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and bringing them closer to what could be their biggest conquest since the beginning of the civil war.

Control of Aleppo international airport and a military air base next to it would be a huge strategic shift for Syria’s northeastern region, giving the opposition a potential air hub enabling aid and other flights.

Still, activists said it could be days before the rebels would be able to push their way into the airport, 4 miles from the contested city center, and even then, it was unclear whether they would be able to retain control of the sprawling facility for long.

The country’s air space is firmly controlled by the government, which uses its warplanes indiscriminately to bomb rebel strongholds.

The advance on the airport, which stopped handling any flights weeks ago because of the fighting, comes on the heels of other strategic gains. Rebels this week captured the nation’s largest dam and a military base near Aleppo. They have also brought the fight closer to Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s regime, moving to within a few miles from the heart of the city.

“There has been some extremely significant advances by the rebels in the past few days. There is real fear and flagging morale among regime forces in the region,” said Muhieddine Lathkani, a London-based member of the Syrian National Council opposition group.

The government tried to reverse the gains with a series of airstrikes in several locations across the country Wednesday.

In Jobar, a rebel stronghold in northeastern Damascus, 13 people were killed in government shelling, according to the Observatory. Fighter jets also carried out airstrikes on rebel positions in the central province of Homs, it said.

The rebels have been pushing their way into the capital since last week. The foray marks the opposition’s second significant attempt to storm Damascus since July, when the rebels captured several neighborhoods before being swept out by a swift government counteroffensive.

Tears for pope at final public mass

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Syrian rebels gather in the historic city center of Aleppo, Syria, a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site that was gutted in October and which is now controlled by the Free Syrian Army.

Since then, the regime has buckled down in Damascus, setting up checkpoints and controlling movement in and out of the city. The heavily defended city so far has been spared the kind of violence that has devastated whole neighborhoods in other major cities such as Aleppo and the central city of Homs.

The rebels have had the most success in northern Syria, and have captured large parts of Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa provinces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.

Rebels have been attacking the civilian airport in the city of Aleppo for weeks, and on Tuesday overran large parts of the “Brigade 80” base that protects the facility.

By Wednesday, the Observatory said the rebels were “almost fully in control” of the base. Rami Abdul-Rahman, the group’s director, said more than 40 government troops were killed in the fighting, including two brigadier generals, a colonel and two lieutenant colonels. He also said an unknown number of rebels died. The report could not be independently confirmed.

The base is about a mile from the civilian airport and the adjacent air base known as Nairab. Both have their own defenses in addition to the protection provided by Brigade 80.

Lathkani said it would be one of the opposition’s most significant gains of the civil war if the rebels capture Aleppo airport, which according to its website is capable of handling 2.5 million passengers a year.

He said rebels were aiming to declare northern Syria a “liberated area” from which they would one day announce a transitional government.

“Aleppo airport would then be used for flying in aid, delegations and diplomats. It would serve as a hub for a self-administered area,” he said, though he acknowledged concerns that the regime would just bomb the runway to disable it.

Also Wednesday, Syria’s former Foreign Ministry spokesman made his first comments since disappearing in December, saying he left the country because “of the polarization and violence that left no place for moderation and diplomacy.”

VATICAN CITY — With a humble “Grazie” as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter’s Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presiding over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.

“We wouldn’t be sincere, Your Holiness, if we didn’t tell you that there’s a veil of sadness on our hearts this evening,” said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict’s longtime deputy, his voice breaking.

“Thank you for having given us the luminous example of the simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord,” Bertone said, quoting Benedict’s own words when he first appeared before the faithful above St. Peter’s Square after he was elected pope.

Smiling and clearly moved, Benedict responded, “Grazie.

Now let us return to prayer” — his words bringing to an end the resounding applause that had grown in intensity over several minutes.

[Pope Benedict XVI] gave us eight wonderful years of his words. He was a wonderful theologian and pastor.

ILEANA SVIBEN Then, in a rare gesture and sign of respect, the rows of bishops, some with tears in their eyes, removed their mitres. One prelate dabbed at his eyes with a handkerchief.

“Viva il papa!” someone in the crowd shouted as the pope slowly made his way down the steps of the altar, assisted by two clergymen. He then departed St. Peter’s for the last time aboard a wheeled platform, sparing him the long walk down the aisle.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church’s liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate

the death of Christ and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. By this Easter, on March 31, the church will likely have a new pope.

In his final homily as pontiff, Benedict sent a clear message to his successor and those who will elect him of his hope for the future: a united church that isn’t “defiled” by internal rivalries.

Each Christian, he said, is called to bear witness to the faith. “I think in particular of the attacks against the unity of the church, to the divisions in the ecclesial body,” he said.

“Experiencing Lent in a more intense and evident ecclesial union, moving beyond individualisms and rivalries, is a humble and precious sign for those who have drifted from the faith or are indifferent to it.”

Earlier in the day, the scene was festive as Benedict took the extraordinary step of speaking directly to the faithful about why he had broken with 600 years of tradition and decided to retire on Feb. 28.

“As you know, I have decided to renounce the ministry that the Lord gave to me on April 19, 2005,” Benedict told thousands gathered for the traditional Wednesday general audience. “I did this in full liberty for the good of the church.”

He expressed gratitude for the prayers and love of his flock, which he said he “physically felt in these days that haven’t been easy for me.” And he asked them to “continue to pray for me, the church and the future pope.”

Benedict was greeted with a standing ovation when he entered the packed hall, and his speech was interrupted repeatedly by applause.

A huge banner reading “Grazie Santita” — “Thank you, Your Holiness” — was strung up and a chorus of Italian schoolchildren serenaded him with one of his favorite hymns in German — a gesture that moved the pope to thank them for singing a piece “particularly dear to me.”

He appeared wan and spoke softly, but his eyes twinkled at the welcome.

“He gave us eight wonderful years of his words,” said Ileana Sviben, an Italian from the northern city of Trieste. “He was a wonderful theologian and pastor.”

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Diversity doesn’t mean black and white only.” HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. AMERICAN LITERARY CRITIC AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL

T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y L VA N I A N

Penn administrative diversity lags among Ivies

BY SETH ZWEIFLER STAFF WRITER When Ruth Simmons and Jim Yong Kim announced last year that they would be stepping down from their posts as presidents of Brown University and Dartmouth College, the Ivy League lost its only racial or ethnic minority leaders at the time.

Months later, the void left by Simmons and Kim is representative of a broader trend in the Ivies: a lack of diversity among the upper ranks of senior administrators.

In virtually all cases, senior administrations at Ivy institutions are less diverse than individual schools’ faculties — which are, in turn, less diverse than student bodies.

Penn is no exception.

In response to an ongoing dialogue on campus about the lack of diversity in the University’s senior administration — which was prompted by a Jan. 30 Daily Pennsylvanian guest column written by six Africana Studies senior faculty members — the DP found that Penn has the third least diverse administration in the Ivy League, in front of only Brown and Yale universities.

Currently, just two out of Penn’s 31 senior administrators — which, according to an online listing, includes the president, provost, vice presidents and individual school deans, among others — are minorities.

“To hear that we’re near the bottom relative to other Ivies isn’t surprising at all,” said Africana Studies Department Chair Camille Charles, who was one of the authors of the column. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

In the column, titled “Guess who’s (not) coming to dinner,” Charles and her colleagues criticized President Amy Gutmann for never appointing a person of color

to a deanship at Penn.

The column, which has spurred a campuswide dialogue on PENN d i v e r s i t y, prompted responses in the DP from both Gutmann and Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, among others.

“We live in an environment where ideas and conversation related to diversity are important,” Charles said. “Whether people agree or disagree, it seems that they’re talking about these things, which is good to see.”

‘NUMBERS DON’T LIE’

In its analysis, the DP considered senior administrators and individual school deans as each Ivy defines them on their respective websites. Although the DP reached out to schools for information on minority representation, all of the Ivies — with the exception of Cornell University — either declined to provide numbers or did not respond to multiple requests for data.

The DP counted the number of African-American/black, Asian/ Pacific Islander and Hispanic/ Latino senior administrators at each school relative to the number of white administrators. Although there is no consensus in the higher education community about how racial and ethnic diversity is defined, these four categories are broadly used by institutions across the country.

The analysis revealed that, compared to Penn’s 6.5 percent minority representation, 12.2 percent of overall Ivy League senior administrators are black, Asian or Latino.

Cornell came in with the highest senior administrator minority rep-

resentation at 20.6 percent, while Yale featured the lowest at 3.8 percent.

Overall, black, Asian and Latino administrators made up 6.8, 3.2 and 2.2 percent of total Ivy leadership, respectively.

Although Penn is near the bottom of the Ivy League when it comes to senior administrator and dean diversity, the gap separating the University and its peers is relatively small. The largest number of minority administrators can be found at Cornell, which has seven, according to data provided by the school.

At Penn, diversity numbers are consistently stronger as the scope of data is broadened.

According to Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy, for example, 11 percent of Penn’s top 100 administrators are black, Asian or Latino.

At the professor level, Penn’s most recent Progress Report on Minority Equity showed that 17.5 percent of the University’s faculty were minorities in 2009. In addition, 20 percent of the incoming class in 2011 consisted of underrepresented minorities, MacCarthy said.

“I think it would be anybody’s gut that, as you look higher up at a place like Penn, it becomes less diverse,” sociology professor Grace Kao said.

Kao described the issue as part of a larger “pipeline” problem. As minority candidates are left out of positions like department chairs or associate deans, she said, it becomes increasingly less likely that they will be considered for senior administrator positions.

In response to the column, Gutmann has made clear that, despite the University’s $100 million investment in the Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, there is still work to be done

in increasing minority representation among Penn’s administration.

“We need to be more aggressive in making sure that the pools of candidates we’re being presented with [for deanships] are more diverse,” Gutmann said in an interview with the DP last month, adding that she wants “the same thing” as the Africana Studies faculty when it comes to diversity.

Although the issue of administrative diversity is hardly a new one on campus, multiple faculty members interviewed said it was not until taking a close look at the University’s online listing of school deans that they realized the extent to which Penn’s senior ranks consist almost exclusively of white administrators.

“I think that the lack of diversity in our upper-level administration is deeply troubling,” said Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman, who researches higher education diversity. “President Gutmann has done much to diversify the student body and has encouraged increased faculty diversity by putting funding behind the issue and holding deans accountable. That said, this is a time to reflect and act — making systemic change in terms of the administration.”

Religious studies professor Anthea Butler agreed.

“The proof is in the pudding, and in this case the proof is Penn’s numbers,” she said. “Especially when you look at our peers, the numbers don’t lie. If you don’t have the numbers, you don’t have it.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY

While many undergraduates acknowledge the benefits of having a diverse student body, some have turned their attention over the past two weeks to the question of why,

if at all, it is equally important to have a diverse senior administration.

College sophomore and United Minorities Council chair Joyce Kim believes the issue comes down to one of “role models.”

“I think it’s very powerful when I see an administrator who’s a minority,” she said. “It reinforces the idea that this is somebody like me who I can be as well.”

Similarly, Butler emphasized the importance of having a broad representation of administrators at the table when making decisions that will impact the student body.

“These are the people who make decisions about your everyday lives — what kinds of classes and curriculum you get, what kinds of services you get,” she said. “Even if you don’t see it, they’re a significant part of your academic life.”

Butler added that, before even beginning a conversation about diversity, it is important to have accurate data from which to draw.

Currently, the University conducts its Progress Report on Minority Equity once every three years, which contains numbers on minority faculty. Penn does not regularly publicize data on administrative diversity.

Looking to the future, Butler hopes that the current debate surrounding the Africana Studies column will prompt the University to consider compiling and releasing data on an annual basis.

“A huge part of it is about reporting,” she said. “If you don’t report these numbers every year, it’s easy to hide the fact that you’re not doing well.”

Some Ivy peers, however, said they are hesitant to provide data on administrative diversity because not all institutions stand on equal footing for the basis of comparison.

“Our position is that each insti-

tution will make its own policy decisions based on what suits specific needs or concerns, and the types of general comparisons yielded from contacting multiple institutions are not constructive,” Princeton University spokesman Mike Caddell said in an email.

Other schools expressed a similar sentiment.

Moving forward, Charles said she has been encouraged by a number of conversations she has had with Gutmann since the column ran — including an in-person meeting on Tuesday.

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SOURCE: DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS HEDO TURKOGLU The Orlando Magic forward was suspended for 20 games by the NBA on Wednesday after testing positive for anabolic steroids. Turkoglu, who is the eighth player to be suspended under the NBA’s drug testing policy, is averaging 2.9 points and 2.1 assists this season.

Offense sputters as Elis fall MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 did that well tonight,” Maricic said. “We had trouble creating high-quality scoring chances and getting to productive areas of the ice.”

Yale goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13, who has played most of the team’s games this season, is still out of commission with a leg injury from the Feb. 1 game versus Princeton. Maricic and Connor Wilson ’15 have filled his spot in the crease in the past three games. Yale beat Princeton on Feb. 1 but fell to No. 1 Quinnipiac on Feb. 2.

Forward Jesse Root ’14 said Maricic played a strong game on Tuesday, but that the team’s offensive efforts did not do enough to support him. Captain Andrew Miller ’13 added that the Bulldogs struggled to capitalize on rebounds.

“That is a major issue that must be addressed immediately,” Laganiere added. “It is not enough to generate scoring chances. We must be hungry to score, every game, every period.”

The Bulldogs hope to break their two-game losing streak as they travel to Union and RPI on Friday and Saturday nights respectively.

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

For love of the game COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 I stuck with it, right? Cue the uplifting chorus: “10,000 hours felt like 10,000 hands/ 10,000 hands, they carry me.”

Nope. It was too cold and my knees hurt and it wasn’t fun and I quit. How much time did I put into this failed endeavor? Couldn’t have been more than 100 hours over two months.

That’s why I have a lot of respect for the time that athletes (and everyone else at Yale) have put into the activity they love. At some point starting out, I’m sure there was the urge to quit, to stop, to give up. Expertise looked unattainable, and the disutility of the moment seemed to outweigh the possible future rewards. For many people, the path will quickly come to an end. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing — it may take a lot of searching to find it, but eventually we find something we love. There are 10,000 failures to launch for every success, and those successes are the people on the court or on the field every day here at Yale. “Put those hours in and look at what you get/ Nothing that you can hold, but everything that it is.

Ten thousand hours.”

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The Elis produced 44 total shots on Tuesday, but Bears goaltender Anthony Borelli stopped all of them and Yale fell, 1–0.

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

Two Bulldog semifinalists WALTER BROWN FROM PAGE 12 always know what the other person is going to do and where he is going to be,” Miller said.

The sort of chemistry that allows for the Bulldogs’ first and third point-getters to know where the other is going to be contributes to the impressive team offense Miller and Agostino’s line has generated this season. In 23 games played, Miller has put away 10 goals and 13 assists for an average of one point per game. Agostino has knocked home 12 goals and 15 assists for a total of 27 points on the year.

Agostino’s 27 points make him the 33rd-highest scorer in Division I hockey, although he has played fewer games than his competitors.

Agostino attributes his success this season to his development over the years at Yale.

“I think [the nomination of both Andrew and myself] says a

lot about the player Andrew is. He sees the ice so well and makes the game a lot easier for me,” Agostino said. “He’s the best passer I’ve ever played with and one of the best playmakers in the country.”

It’s certainly an honor to be under consideration for this award.

KENNY AGOSTINO ’14 Forward, men’s hockey Miller, who has been voted as best passer by his teammates in all four of his seasons at Yale, has accumulated 138 points over his 126 games played at Yale. He currently has the second-most assists ever recorded at Yale with 104, only eight behind recordholder Bob Brooke ’83.

Quinnipiac and New Hamp-

shire also have two semifinalists for the award. In both cases, instead of being linemates, players of different positions were selected. The rival Harvard Crimson is represented as well, with freshman forward Jimmy Vesey a nominee.

Both Miller and Agostino are grateful to be semifinalists for an award that represents a tradition in college hockey.

“It’s certainly an honor to be under consideration for this award,” Agostino said.

The finalists for the award will be announced in March, and the presentation of the honor will take place during New England College Hockey Writers’ Dinner in April.

The winner of the award in 2012, Bentley junior forward Brett Gensler, is also nominated again this year.

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

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The Yale men’s basketball team beat Penn on Friday before emerging victorious against Princeton on Saturday.

Ivy League faces basketball parity MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

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Two of the top three scorers for the Elis, captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14, are semifinalists for the Walter Brown Award this season.

the Ivy League’s unpredictable season. Entering the weekend, the league still had two unbeaten teams — Harvard and Princeton — while Yale, Columbia (10–10, 2–4 Ivy) and Dartmouth sat at the bottom of the standings at 1–3. Yet on Saturday, Yale beat Princeton 69–65 and on Sunday, Columbia topped Harvard, 78–63. Yale went unbeaten on the weekend, while Brown (8–12, 2–4 Ivy) lost both of its games and all other squads went 1–1.

Nearing the midpoint of the Ivy League schedule, the three teams sharing last place — Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth — all sit only three games behind league-leading Harvard.

“If you look at Harvard’s team from last year that won the championship, they had better players at most every position,” Bulldog head coach James Jones said. “This year, it’s just not the case where their kids are that much more talented than anybody else.”

Jones added that “some of the things that happened at some of the schools” left certain squads without much depth, creating problems for the common back-to-back weekend matchups.

The parity of the Ivy League this season may have interesting implications for how the league determines its bid to the NCAA tournament. Currently, the bid goes to the winner of the conference’s regular season; the Ivy League is the only Division I conference with-

out a tournament that determines its automatic bid. The Ivy League’s athletic directors denied a proposal to establish a four-team conference tournament last year.

ESPN.com writer Eamonn Brennan wrote in an April 17, 2012, Men’s College Basketball Nation blog post, “By the end of the season, the Ivy League ensures that its most deserving team enters the NCAA tournament.”

Brennan’s argument — and one of the arguments of detractors against the conference tournament — is that each team plays every other team once at home and once on the road, and the best team will therefore rise to the top.

Yet men’s basketball players and coaches are reconsidering whether this argument holds in a conference defined by parity.

“I’m not certain about the connection, but what I will tell you is that the [athletic directors] believe that our 14-game tournament [the Ivy League regular season] is the best way to find the champion,” Jones said before adding that inequities exist in the current system. “Having a tournament could be a way of not only finding the best champion, but also doing the best thing for our conference.”

The Bulldogs will face Cornell (10–12, 3–3 Ivy) at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday night before continuing their home stand against Columbia on Saturday.

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

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MEN’S HOCKEY ELIS DROP IN PAIRWISE RANKINGS After falling 1–0 to Brown on Tuesday, the Bulldogs slipped from sixth to ninth in the USCHO.com “PairWise Rankings,” the system that most resembles the methods used by the NCAA Selection Committee to determine entrants and seedings in the NCAA tournament.

MEN’S GOLF BULLDOGS VS. BULLDOGS The men’s golf team is slated to face off against the University of Georgia Bulldogs over spring break at the Mountain Lake course in Lake Wales, Fla. The Georgia mascot was allegedly chosen by the university’s first president, Abraham Baldwin 1772.

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“Any sport is unpredictable, and that’s why they play the games.”

SAM MARTIN ’13 CAPTAIN, MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Putting in the hours Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis are coming to Spring Fling this year. Maybe you haven’t heard because you’ve been living in the Branford Bigloo for the past week. While everyone else is excited about popping tags and wearing their grandpa’s coat, one of my favorite songs off the duo’s debut album is “Ten Thousand Hours.” The title comes from the “10,000-Hour Rule” described by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book “Outliers.” I’ll admit I haven’t had a chance to read Gladwell’s book, but the 10,000-Hour Rule is popular knowledge by now: The key to becoming an expert at a particular task is practicing it for 10,000 hours. Or put it Macklemore’s way: “The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint/ The greats were great cause they’d paint a lot.”

How does this all relate to sports? Because 10,000 hours is a really long time, and every athlete playing today at the college level has surely put 10,000 hours into their sport of choice. That’s commitment. Yale students have plenty of 10,000-hour skills — the campus is stuffed with musicians, painters, dancers — but I want to focus on the time committed by athletes. We’ve all heard the overwrought clichés about athletes persevering in the face of adversity and overcoming great obstacles in their path to success. But what about simply discussing the amount of time they put in?

The point is especially valid when you consider that Yale athletes are also full-time Yale students. On top of classes and work, they’re practicing three or four hours a day and often spend the weekend on the road as well. That’s not to say that other Yalies aren’t putting three or four hours a day into their craft, but shouldn’t that show that athletes aren’t that different from everyone else? They’re here because they’re talented, and they’re talented because they’ve put the time in. That doesn’t ring as well as what Macklemore told us above, but it applies to every talent here at Yale.

THERE ARE TEN THOUSAND FAILURES FOR EVERY SUCCESS Spending 10,000 hours working at the same thing must also mean that athletes love what they do. And it takes a special kind of commitment and patience to stick with it. What did I spend 10,000 hours doing as a child? Playing video games? Committing the entire Tokyo subway map to memory?

Watching every episode of “Full House”?

(Those weren’t jokes.) I did do better than a 980 on my SATs, but I didn’t spend 10,000 hours working at that, either.

I “attempted” to join the cross-country team in high school as a freshman. My friends were on the team, and it seemed like a worthwhile activity. I was hopeless at “ball” sports, but maybe I could run fast for a few miles. I started going to practice during January conditioning before the long-distance track season revved up, and winter in Cincinnati was not unlike what we’re seeing outside in New Haven today. The sidewalks were clogged with snow, freezing rain seared my skin and vehicles were a constant annoyance. One unfortunate day ended with me covered in two coats of bus splashback, ice in my shoes and numbness in my hands. But SEE COLUMN PAGE 11

TOP ’DOGS

Brown blanks Elis after blizzard MEN’S HOCKEY

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Goaltender Nick Maricic ’13 stopped 31 Brown shots on Tuesday in the absence of injured starter Jeff Malcolm ’13, but the Elis could not muster offense in support.

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER After two game postponements due to the blizzard, the men’s hockey team finally made it to Providence, R.I., on Tuesday night, but the No. 10 Bulldogs fell behind in the first period and ultimately lost 1–0 to Ivy rival Brown.

The Bears (9–9–5, 5–6–5 ECAC) dominated the first five minutes of play, taking nine of their eventual 32 shots on goal during that span. At 10:31, with a 20–12 shots advantage, the home team knocked the eventual game-winner past Bulldog goalie Nick Maricic ’13.

“I would say that our start was mediocre at best,” forward Antoine

Laganiere ’13 said. “We got better as the game went on, but had we come out stronger, the outcome may have been different.”

Toward the end of the first period, the Bulldogs (13–7–3, 9–5–1 ECAC) finally started to pull out of their offensive rut. The Elis outshot the Bears 17–8 in the second period and 15–4 in the third but could not man-

Miller, Agostino up for Walter Brown

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Two of the top three scorers for the Bulldogs are American-born players — captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 — and both are semifinalists for the Walter Brown Award this season.

The Walter Brown Award is the nation’s oldest college hockey award, established in 1953 and given annually to the best Ameri-

can-born Division I hockey player in New England. Miller was a semifinalist for the award last year, as was Brian O’Neill ’12 in 2011 and 2012. Though Yale is one of four teams represented twice on the list of semifinalists, Miller and Agostino are only one of two pairs of nominees that are linemates.

“Ken and I have learned a lot about each other through the last two years. We almost SEE WALTER BROWN PAGE 11

age to convert any of those opportunities into goals. Maricic finished the night with 31 saves, and Brown goalie Anthony Borelli stopped an impressive 44 shots for his team’s third shutout of the season.

“Brown’s game plan was to play a shutdown defensive style and they SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

Ivy basketball up for grabs

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER The men’s basketball team took a big step forward in the hunt for the Ivy League title last weekend. The squad beat Penn (5–17, 2–3 Ivy) on Friday before emerging victorious against Princeton (11–8, 4–1 Ivy) on Saturday.

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In the 23 games played this season, captain Andrew Miller ’13 has put away 10 goals and 13 assists for an average of one point per game.

Yet the weekend before was as discouraging as last weekend was optimistic. The Elis dropped a close contest to Harvard (13–7, 5–1 Ivy) on Friday and then were blown out by Dartmouth (6–14, 2–4) the next day.

Are the Bulldogs (9–14, 3–3 Ivy) simply an inconsistent squad? Possibly — the team shot 54.8 percent from the field against Princeton, but only 35.3 percent against Dartmouth a week earlier. The Bulldogs lost to Dartmouth, then 0–3 in the Ivy League, and beat Princeton, then 4–0 in the conference. But the up– and-down nature of the Elis’ season has not proven exclusive to Yale this year. Men’s Ivy League basketball thus far has been marked by wild parity.

“The talent is much closer top-to-bottom than it’s been since I’ve been here,” team captain Sam Martin ’13 said. “Any sport is unpredictable, and that’s why they play the games. … Some games, you just play better than other games.”

Last weekend served as a microcosm for SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 11

CAPTAIN ANDREW MILLER ’13 AND KENNY AGOSTINO ’14 ARE SEMIFINALISTS FOR THE WALTER BROWN AWARD THIS SEASON. Miller has recorded 10 goals and 13 assists for a total of 23 points and Agostino has knocked home 12 goals and 15 assists for a total of 27 points this year.