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CROSS CAMPUS

MENTAL HEALTH CAN YALE DO BETTER?

SHARED SERVICES

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Centralization efforts continue to create controversy

DEMOCRATS BACK HOLDER-WINFIELD FOR HARP’S SEAT

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Yale expands college access

Food for the gut. Around

50 students in EVST 258, “Wilderness in the North American Imagination,” were in for a treat Wednesday afternoon when their instructor, Carolee Klimchock, led the class on a “nature walk” from its classroom in HGS to the Environmental Science Building on Hillhouse Avenue, pointing out trees along the way. Once they arrived, Klimchock stood on a chair, read the class a Robert Frost poem and showed them a taxidermied alpaca.

Hotel Edwards. Your hangover tomorrow morning is cured.

Several enterprising Jonathan Edwards students have set up “JE Room Service,” a website where students in the college can place orders for baked goods. Orders placed by Friday at 5 p.m. will be delivered on Saturday morning between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

The happiest hour of all.

FroyoWorld is hosting “fro-yo happy hours” every day in January from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., where patrons can eat unlimited frozen yogurt and toppings, all for $5. Bring your buckets and wheelbarrows.

Money and the mob. Around

30 Tea Party demonstrators gathered outside the Owl Shop on Chapel Street Thursday evening to protest a Connecticut Republican Party fundraiser taking place inside. The protesters waved Gadsden flags while chanting “Defend the Constitution!” and “Gungrabbers must go!” in 30-degree weather.

Meanwhile the Republicans indoors mingled in suits and cocktail dresses while smoking Owl Shop cigars, showing that stereotypes are basically valid.

ART Street artist Believe in People says farewell to New Haven PAGE 7 CITY

UCS surveys summer pursuits

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER

extensive effort to help more lowincome students attend and graduate from college.

“If we as a nation can expand opportunity and reach out to these young people, help them not just go to college but graduate from a college or university, it could have a transformative effect,” Obama told the group, suggesting that America’s

In a first step toward tracking the career interests of Yale undergraduates, the University has published the results of a survey on student summer activities.

Last month, Undergraduate Career Services published a comprehensive “Summer 2013 Activities Report” on the results of the survey, which asked 4,225 Yale students about their pursuits during the summer of 2013. 2,598 students responded to the survey, making for a 61.5 percent response rate.

The report, which provides both aggregated data as well as data broken down by class year, showed that more Yale students work in education over the summer than any other industry.

According to the report, “no one industry [attracted] Yale students as a critical mass.”

Students in the education industry constituted the largest slice of the respondent population with 6.1 percent, while nonprofit work was the only other industry to pass 5

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President Obama has pledged to increase access to higher education for low-income and minority students.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 80 leaders of institutions of higher learning, among them University President Peter Salovey, gathered at the White House Thursday to launch an initiative aimed at expanding low incomes students’ access to a college education.

Intended to be a major milestone

in President Obama’s effort to make the United States the worldwide leader in college graduation rates by 2020, the conference drew together a wide range of institutions, from Yale to community college associations.

Both Obama and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, who had a leading role in the organization of the conference, emphasized that the conference was intended to serve as a launch for a long-running and

Ward 1 co-chair races draw Yalies

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Students who haven’t had their fill of municipal elections can head to the polls once again in March.

Three Yale sophomores have filed to run for seats on the Democratic Town Committee (DTC), New Haven’s arm of the Democratic Party. Ariana Shapiro ’16 and Jacob Wasserman ’16 are

running as a slate for co-chair in Ward 1, which comprises Old Campus and eight of the 12 residential colleges. Eshe Sherley ’16 is teaming up with Vicky Dancy, a Dixwell resident, to run in Ward 22, which neighbors Ward 1 and includes Dixwell and four residential colleges.

As members of the DTC, all 60 co-chairs — two in each ward — vote for Democratic endorsements in municipal elections.

They also lead the neighborhood’s Democratic Ward Committee and assist their alderman with constituent services and legislative work. Co-chair races will be held across the city on March 4.

Shapiro and Wasserman, who are unopposed as of Thursday night, emphasized their diverse backgrounds yet common commitment to bridging the divide between Yale and the surround-

ing city.

Wasserman said that he sees the race as a continuation of discussions of Yale students’ place in the city that emerged in the race for the Ward 1 seat on the Board of Alders last autumn.

“I see it as a way to get students a voice in New Haven,” Wasserman said. “The aldermanic election last fall showed us that the issue of students’ involvement in the city is a contested one. There

are people who think students shouldn’t have a role in the city.”

Wasserman, a history major in Saybrook College, said he first became involved in politics outside Yale’s gates as a volunteer for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012. Both he and Shapiro canvassed for Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 during her re-election campaign SEE WARD 1 PAGE 6

Not ready for Hillary yet. Staff

columnist Tyler Blackmon ’16 is the figurehead of a new political movement on campus. The fledgling group, which popped up on Facebook Thursday evening under the name “Ready for Tyler,” proclaimed that “We need a leader who is experienced, savvy and influential. And oh, stylish as well.”

The Exodus from Dunham Laboratory. Over 110

students filed into the second meeting of Psych 321 “Psychopharmacology” on Thursday afternoon, only to be abruptly turned away. At the start of the lecture, Professor Tom Brown announced that he had decided who would remain in the class. He put up the admit list — of 29 students — on the projector and as the next five minutes passed awkwardly, around 50 other students filed out of the lecture hall.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 One hundred and six students are denied admission to the semester’s most popular seminar, “New York Architecture in the 21st Century,” showing that history does indeed repeat itself.

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Finance trial comes to New Haven

BY MAREK RAMILO AND J.R. REED STAFF REPORTERS A securities fraud trial with major implications on the national white-collar crime scene is set to take place in New Haven federal court next month.

The defendant, Jesse C. Litvak, has been accused of deceiving clients in order to maximize his profits as a bond trader for Jefferies & Company, Inc., an investment firm headquartered in New York City. Court documents filed on Jan. 25, 2013 list the charges against Litvak as securities fraud by deceiving buyers, major fraud against the United States and false statements to the government. Litvak’s actions allegedly resulted in his clients paying more than $2 million in excess, much of which he pocketed himself. The trial will take place at the United States District Court branch at 141 Church St., beginning Feb. 18 and a guilty ruling could set a new precedent for the prosecution in similar financial fraud cases.

“On numerous occasions from 2009 to 2011, Litvak lied to, or otherwise misled, customers about the price at which his firm had bought the [mortgage-backed securities] and the amount of his firm’s compensa-

tion for arranging the trades,” according to an official complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Litvak’s misconduct misled customers about the market price for the MBS, and thus about the transaction they were agreeing to.”

The complaint profiles alleged deals made between May 2009 and August 2011 that reveal how Litvak was involved in inflating prices and fabricating trade partners. Industry standards allow traders to withhold pricing inforation from their customers, but require traders to be truthful when revealing prices and markups.

Prosecutors accuse Litvak of lying in order to generate a larger commission for himself.

For example, in one exchange, Litvak allegedly knew that Jefferies had acquired $3.27 million of one mortgage-backed security at a certain price while pushing the same bond on asset management company AllianceBernstein under the guise that it was purchased at a higher price.

“Small guy just gave me an order on the HVMLT 07-7 2A1A [bond],” Litvak said, according to the filing. “He offered bonds SEE TRIAL PAGE 6

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A tale of two majors

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espite their shared focus on written text, the Literature and the English major take a different approach to literary analysis: the former leans towards breadth over depth, the latter tends towards the opposite direction. The Creative Writing Concentration remains open only to English majors, sometimes forcing undecided students to take a gamble on English. HANNAH SCHWARZ reports.

Maya Averbuch ’16 sat in a metal chair at the back of Blue State Coffee on Wall Street, her brown hair falling loosely to the sides of her face, a strand resting over her glasses. She is still unsure whether she will major in English or Literature, but she is sure of one thing: You cannot be expected to understand the implications of a character speaking in a specific meter if

you are operating sans historical or literary context.

“In a paper I wrote for Introduction to the Study of Narrative [one of the Literature major prerequirements], I tried to say that one character who sings in metered verse is like a bard character,” she said, referring to the minstrels in Celtic, Scottish and Welsh literature. “But the comment I got back was ‘That’s com-

pletely out of place.’”

The literature course had not provided its students with an understanding of some sort of literary progression or context, so it was at times confusing, she said. In emphasizing breadth, the class was missing a certain type of depth.

The English major falls on the other side of the spectrum, SEE COMP LIT PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “There's more stuff to know, read, hear, observe, etc. in the humanities yaledailynews.com/opinion

now than there ever was.”

'HRSN' ON 'IS THERE HOPE FOR THE HUMANITIES?'

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM COHEN

Salovey, confront the MLA

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VIEW A mishandled shutdown

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fter botched CourseTable case, Yale must set clear procedures.

In the past week, Yale has come under fire for blocking and forcing the shutdown of CourseTable.

The site, formerly known as Yale Bluebook+, used data scraped from Yale servers to create an online course catalog that allowed users to sort classes by their average numerical evaluations.

Several days before shopping period, administrators notified seniors Peter Xu and Harry Yu, the site owners, that CourseTable was in violation of the University’s Appropriate Use Policy. Yale College Dean Mary Miller explained that free expression “entitles no one to appropriate a Yale resource and use it as their own.”

There is no question that CourseTable violated University policy. In revoking the unauthorized use of Yale property from the site owners, administrators were not at fault.

But we do question the administrators’ approach.

In the days since the University blocked CourseTable, Xu and Yu say their requests to negotiate with administrators have been met with “radio silence.” Before the site was blocked, the two attempted to revise CourseTable in accordance with administrative concerns; their revised mockups received a cursory rejection. When Xu and Yu submitted an official request for authorization to use Yale data, it was refused.

Of course, the University is under no legal obligation to license data to CourseTable. But it would have been constructive to issue a statement explaining their decision to withhold the material. Because the site has existed since January 2011, its creators and 2,094 users are entitled to a clear explanation when Yale made the unexpected decision to incapacitate the popular student resource.

Furthermore, the Uni-

versity should not have blocked the website on the Yale network; demanding that the owners shut it down themselves was enough.

We similarly do not see the rationale behind blocking Classroulette, a different sort of scheduling website, earlier this week. Blocking should be a tool reserved for truly “malicious” sites, such as those that pose security concerns.

We think resources used for planning course schedules hardly qualify and acknowledge that blocking websites on the Yale network could set a worrying precedent about freedom of speech.

Similarly, the administrators’ response to the site’s owners was overblown. A dean told Xu and Yu that they would be referred to the Executive Committee if they did not erase Yale data from their servers by 5 p.m. this past Tuesday. We commend fair warnings of possible disciplinary action, but we expect administrators not to invoke the Executive Committee as a negotiation tactic.

As programming interest on campus grows — due in part to the University’s laudable support for technological activities — similar conflicts will only arise with increased frequency. Administrators can pre-empt future violations of the Appropriate Use Policy by creating a streamlined mechanism for students to request access to data. Xu and Yu say they were unaware that they had to request permission from the University and would not have even known how. Student programmers need to be made aware of the policy, and must be given clear pathways to request authorized use of data.

With delineated procedures and university pointpeople for student programmers, Yale can promote innovations like CourseTable while avoiding the accompanying controversies.

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new kind of White Man’s Burden is back in vogue for the intellectual elite: anti-Israel professional activism. Despite Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ explicitly stated desire not to have boycotts of Israel (just of the illegal settlements — and, yes, they are illegal), the privileged, cloistered, Western professors of American academia are taking it upon themselves to save the Palestinians and show them the guiding light that they are too blind to see. The Privileged Professor’s Burden — how noble!

In December, the American Studies Association (ASA) voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, meaning that the ASA and its membership would refuse to sponsor, work with, visit, learn from, or teach Israeli universities. This is a counterproductive and ineffective boycott. One of the board members even actively advocates the release of a terrorist convicted for blowing up an Israeli supermarket. But the ASA is as meaningless as it is foolish; that is to say, it is a dying association making a final attempt at relevance that would do well to focus on internal issues rather than geopolitics.

Any group that is dumb enough to defend its choice of singling out Israel by saying “one

has to start somewhere” — when states like North Korea, Russia, China, Egypt, Syria and Iran routinely imprison, beat and kill their professors — deserves to be ignored. To be honest, with that kind of stellar logic, I would hesitate before I took any classes offered by defenders of the ASA here at Yale. I would worry that their emotional dislike of Israel might get in the way of the truth.

More recently, the Modern Language Association’s delegate assembly (MLA — yes, the bibliography people) adopted a resolution that, if its 28,000 members approve it, would call on the U.S. State Department to “contest Israel’s denials of entry to the West Bank by U.S. academics who have been invited to teach, confer, or do research at Palestinian universities.” Of course, if the MLA cared about facts, it would see that in 2012, 142 Americans were refused entry out of 62,000 (that’s 0.023%) — hardly widespread and arbitrary.

Furthermore, Israeli, American and Palestinian universities partner frequently on research ranging from environmental issues to international relations.

The MLA is creating a problem where none exists.

When did modern language scholars become foreign policy experts? This resolution is

a grandiose pronouncement on matters that are entirely unrelated to the purpose and expertise of the MLA. If individual members want to organize, protest or donate against the Israeli government’s policies, they should do so — that is their right and, if their conscience dictates, their responsibility. But to hide behind a professional organization is not a moment of conscience, it is a moment of cowardice.

There is an even more pernicious element to this resolution. Unlike the ASA, the MLA is the only organization around for modern language scholars. Anyone who is offended or disgusted by the resolution, as many are, has no other organization to join.

And this matters because the MLA is instrumental in facilitating the hiring of modern language professors. In other words, the choice that any nontenured faculty members of the MLA face is either exile from academia or professional association with a resolution that is morally and factually abhorrent and unrelated to their professional work.

This is a severe consequence for a resolution that is meaningless in its practical effect.

The ASA and MLA leadership should be ashamed. The MLA membership has a chance to cor-

rect the mistakes of their presumptuous governing body. No blow has been struck for academic freedom, no peace in the Middle East has been hastened, and no government policies — American or Israeli — have changed or will change because of these academic societies. I would prefer that the MLA get back to its core mission — making bibliography formats so complicated I need online generators to get it right. And perhaps the American Studies Association could avoid searching for nonexistent problems around the world and focus on Americans’ declining interest in humanities subjects like, say, American Studies.

President Salovey has, more mildly than some of his counterparts, expressed disapproval of the ASA boycott, but he has not yet spoken out about the MLA resolution. Yale should be a leader in opposing academic boycotts. President Salovey should come out strongly against the MLA’s proposed resolution and be a leader in fighting for academic freedom in countries where freedom of speech, thought and expression are truly threatened.

SAM COHEN is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at samson.cohen@yale.edu .

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rank, a staff member who works the Sterling Library main entrance, once let me in on an astute observation: Yalies are very intelligent, but they can also be very dumb. “‘Dumb’ is not quite the right word,” countered Danilo, who generally works the Wall Street entrance. Instead, Danilo said, we Yalies are “not very well-oriented.” We seem flummoxed when we’re forced into a changed environment, a disruption of schedule or routine — the temporary terror of the Sterling rat tunnel, for instance. Dani recounted one time when a guy was reading something so vigorously that he rammed his head into one of the stone sculptures on the wall near the checkout desk. “It’s good to be dedicated to your studies, for your parents, for yourself,” Dani said. “But to lose your sense of surroundings to the point that you hit yourself in the head?”

Yalies are told over and over that we are the country’s academic allstars and we are forever striving to fulfill these obese expectations.

But now and then, Yalies reveal a poor sense of individual orientation, manifested in a quiet yet desperate desire to be taught how to excel in the personal realm, a realm far less systematized than the academic. I still remember showing

up with some suitemates and over 200 other students to the “happiness panel” in November 2012, hosted by Vita Bella and TAO TAO featuring three HOLMES wise (and I assume happy) Taoisms professors, Shelly Kagan, Laurie Santos and Michael Frame.

Being overall a very happy person, why did I go? I’m not entirely sure, but I think we all sensed that if Yale knew how to teach us cognitive science and fractal geometry, it would also know how to teach us the tenets of proper happiness. How to learn, how to live — we assume all the answers come as part of the package deal.

But is it fair to expect all the answers from panels that sound like the title of the next Malcolm Gladwell bestseller?

One November later, writer and MIT professor Junot Diaz spoke to an assembly of Yalies eager for prophetical answers. “From the questions being asked, all I hear is fear,” he told the audience. “It rolls off you in waves.” It feels like Yalies go to luminaries like Diaz with the same expectations as they carry to

office hours with an English TA. We want to create beauty — and we want the formula for an A. After achieving acceptance to Yale for being, among other things, excellent followers of instruction, we are primed to gravitate towards instruction in “happiness” in the same way we might be drawn to instruction in computer programming. And they are both good skills to have, no? While we expect Yale will help us build our resumes, we also inevitably wonder how it will help us build character — a sense of orientation and sense of self.

The John Templeton Foundation deems Yale worthy of being listed as one of 400 “Colleges that Encourage Character Development.” These are colleges that purportedly “inspire students to lead ethical and civic-minded lives,” build character and all that.

This week, I thought I’d shop David Brooks’ course “Humility” in order to, you know, build character. The classroom was a gross violation of fire code, Yalies packed so close together they were practically licking his shoes. Brooks brought up a religion-based concept developed by a rabbi named Joseph Soloveitchik called “Adam 1 and Adam 2.” Here’s the basic idea:

Adam 1 is guided by a quest for achievement and esteem. He is functional and pragmatic, looking to conquer the universe and impose knowledge, technology and cultural institutions on the world; he is a “majestic man.”

Adam 2, on the other hand, is a “covenantal man” who values companionship and seeks to understand the depths of his own personality, attainable through humility and control over oneself. The tragedy of the concept is that Adam can’t ever fully realize both roles at once.

I think when Frank and Danilo shared with me their passing thoughts, they might have been onto something — something I’ll call Eli 1 and Eli 2. Eli 1 is a professional achiever, instructionfollower, and conqueror-of-theuniverse who thrives off external success and reward. Eli 2 is a cultivator of character and an architect of integrity, acutely aware of himself and how he fits into his surroundings. The tragedy here is that the Eli 1 culture of Yale can leave Eli 2 somewhat underdeveloped. And that’s leaving us all a little dumb and disoriented.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a senior in Branford College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T SRINIVAS GORUR-SHANDILYA

Re-examining Swartz A

bout one year ago, Aaron Swartz, who contributed to Reddit, RSS, Creative Commons and a host of smaller projects, killed himself. Two years before his death, Aaron downloaded articles from JSTOR, an online repository using MIT’s open network. For this, he was arrested by MIT police and the Secret Service, and was hounded by federal prosecutors who wanted to imprison the 24-year-old for 35 years.

We would do well to remember Swartz. In his death, programmers, civil libertarians and human rights activists lost a brave, intelligent and compassionate person. Aaron’s death has since been painted as a tragedy, in that his death was fated, and the circumstances of his death are too complex to assign blame.

Much of the controversy over his death revolves around MIT’s peculiar assertions of “neutrality” as part of its efforts to abdicate responsibility over his death. However, neutrality in the face of the stifling persecution Aaron faced is morally bankrupt. A systematic examination of the facts does not support MIT’s claims of neutrality.

First, MIT runs an extraordinarily open network. Unlike Yale, where netIDs and passwords are required to access the journals Yale subscribes to, MIT deliberately allowed anyone to connect to their network and access JSTOR and other aca-

demic sources. Far from federal prosecutors’ sensational allegations Aaron somehow “hacked” MIT and/ or JSTOR, all he did was download articles from JSTOR using a service that MIT had deliberately left free for anyone to use. MIT failed to correct federal prosecutors’ mischaracterization of Aaron as a “hacker."

Second, the majority of the charges against Aaron under the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) cite Aaron’s alleged “unauthorized access” to MIT’s network. MIT claimed they were being neutral by neither confirming nor denying that Aaron’s use of the MIT network was unauthorized. However, MIT’s silence was used as a tacit endorsement of federal prosecutor's claims of unauthorized access. Professor Lawrence Lessig at Harvard Law School pointed out that MIT’s neutrality does not justify not telling the prosecutor that his access was authorized, if it indeed was.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz held up Aaron’s indictment and said, “Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars”. However, Aaron stole nothing — he downloaded academic articles, often publicly funded, and often free to access anyway. Moreover, JSTOR reached a civil settlement with Aaron and publicly announced that

they considered the case closed.

This left MIT as the supposed victim of Aaron’s activities — a ludicrous suggestion — that MIT failed to quash by their silence on Aaron’s persecution.

MIT’s stance was not of “neutrality” but of an active collusion with the prosecution and the Secret Service. “Nicely done Steve and kudos! … it’s just a true relief and very refreshing to see your accuracy and precision,” said a MIT employee who worked closely with the Secret Service in an email to the prosecutor.

More damningly, MIT volunteered troves of documents to the prosecution without a subpoena. When Aaron’s defense counsel asked for documents, MIT referred them to Ortiz’s Office.

Finally, MIT’s response to Aaron’s action has been adversarial rather than investigative. By involving the Secret Service, MIT presupposed Aaron’s guilt. Instead of instructing the police to arrest him, MIT could have simply removed his laptop, which they were monitoring, or locked the door to the closet where it was kept or talked to him to determine if his actions were appropriate or not. MIT chose none of these non-violent, rational and proportionate responses, instead recklessly escalating the matter till Aaron Swartz was dead.

Aaron ran into the clutches of an impetuous arm of govern-

ment intent on using blunt instruments such as the CFAA to bully and imprison anyone who uses a computer in a manner the government doesn’t like. Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who didn’t understand the difference between stealing a car and downloading an academic paper, wanted to cage Aaron for 35 years to “send a message,” i.e., to threaten and intimidate others. A petition to the White House to remove Ortiz from office for her lack of proportionality attracted nearly 60,000 signatures; however, no response was issued.

MIT’s callous indifference, the CFAA’s vague and draconian wording, and Ortiz’s overreach and extortion all played a role in Aaron’s death. However, this perfect storm of malevolence could not exist without the indifference and ignorance of university students for whose rights Aaron fought so hard.

It was heartbreaking for me to see the majority of my friends at Yale completely unaware of his death, or even of his existence. In a final, sad irony, a few days before his death, JSTOR announced it would offer access to some of its journals free of charge, making the whole prosecution a pointless, Kafkaesque tragedy.

SRINIVAS GORUR-SHANDILYA is a fourth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Contact him at srinivas.gs@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST YIFU DONG

Mao, here and there

GUEST COLUMNIST SARAH SUTPHIN

For honest recruiting “I

may be over-committing myself, but we’ll soon see,” I told my suitemates in August after submitting an application to a third studentled organization. College classes had just begun — I was still secretly using my phone’s GPS to find the buildings — but already I’d been bombarded with countless emails and face-to-face appeals to apply to X, Y and Z extracurricular opportunity. The world was my oyster — or so it seemed.

According to the Yale College website, there are more than 500 active organizations on campus. With so many possibilities, it can be difficult to choose which ones to pursue. And student organizations don’t really make the choice any easier. In fact, their recruitment process often misleads freshmen and encourages us to chase after activities that only have limited spots available.

At the illustrious freshman extracurricular bazaar, student representatives from the whole spectrum of clubs rush to your side to explain the appeal of their group, and why you would be the perfect fit. After the bazaar, clubs hold information sessions tempting students with bribes like Insomnia Cookies and Yorkside pizza.

But after we are courted with food and encouraging words, we are required to fill out those dreaded applications. Since freshmen in August are already overwhelmed with meetings and settling into a new environment, it becomes necessary to choose within a few short weeks which activities are worth the precious time required to finish the application process.

After investing time and energy into the selection process for several clubs, I received multiple form-letter rejections.

Obviously, competition is stiff when the majority of candidates are qualified: I was aware of this reality. However, I still couldn’t help but feel disappointed. Various members of the clubs that rejected me had spent weeks urging me to apply — and they hadn’t been entirely clear about their degree of exclusivity.

EXTRACURRICULARS LEAD US ON, WE NEED TRANSPARENCY

somewhat necessary lesson and sacrifice towards a better society.

Last May, I visited Mao’s hometown in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.

Official propaganda emphasized the poverty that Mao's family experienced — and so, even after seeing Mao’s many rooms and his considerable amount of land, the hundreds of pilgrims to Mao’s old home still believed in his hardships. Western scholars contend that Mao’s family belonged to the kulak, or rich peasantry, a social class he later decimated in the hopes of bringing prosperity to China. A museum nearby displayed the items Mao had used in office. The Chairman’s frugality is also widely known to Chinese people through words in textbooks and the media, but some visitors were surprised by the wide variety, high quality and decent quantity of the Chairman’s belongings decades ago.

Maybe frugality is defined differently for the great Chairman, and his virtues remain indisputable.

Having learned all this, Chinese students, especially those in Yale classrooms, have come a long way. Unlike my grandfather, we are blessed with an open atmosphere and are able to talk about the many sides of the Chairman without immediate consequences.

I felt bamboozled. How many spots were available in each group? How many students apply for the positions? This information is not available to a doeeyed freshman eager to get involved. In retrospect, I may not have applied to certain organizations had I not been so strongly persuaded by their representatives. Or I may have applied to more had I known that the system resembled the college process: best cover your bases, kid.

As the weeks passed, I took small comfort in the realization that many of my friends experienced the same frustration. I figured that this is something a Yalie learns as she or he moves through the system and then eventually joins some non-exclusive extracurricular groups instead.

A couple of months later, a new round of emails began to flood my inbox: winter and spring break trips. One in particular caught my attention, as it was right up my alley. I seemed the perfect candidate with loads of experience in the field.

So I went through the process again, but this time I felt ready. My application was dead-on, and I was confident during the interview. At the end of our discussion, the students asked if I had any final questions.

“Yes,” I responded. “How many people will get to go on the trip?” The two trip leaders paused for a moment, then replied, “Eight to 10, including ourselves.” Wait, what? Seriously?

When Yalies fill hundreds of inboxes with ebullient emails, it’s not difficult to predict the number of replies they’ll receive (hint: It’s more than eight to 10).

It’s understandable that selective clubs and trips want a range of people to choose from, but at what volume does it become a waste of time and resources — both for the applicants and the recruiters?

Extracurricular clubs, organizations and trips should be more explicit about the application process not only to save freshmen the disillusionment, but also to shrink the pool to students who are truly passionate about the cause. I’m not suggesting clubs should stop holding information sessions or that representatives shouldn’t encourage newbies to get involved. I’m advocating for transparency — and an honest approach.

YIFU DONG is a freshman in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu .

SARAH SUTPHIN is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at sarah.sutphin@yale.edu .

AUBE REY LESCURE/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

D

uring the Cultural Revolution in China, a red guard grabbed my grandfather and ferociously demanded an answer. “Can the ‘Mao Zedong Thought’ be viewed from both the positive and negative sides?” he asked.

Obviously, it was a trick question: a “Yes” would signal dissatisfaction with the beloved Chairman, while a “No” would go against Mao’s unassailable teaching that everything should be judged from two sides.

Being suspected of thinking negatively of Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution landed my grandfather in hot water, but he, an intellectual and educator, always worshipped Chairman Mao. Amid thousands of copies of Western, “reactionary” and “capitalistic” literature, the full collections of Lenin, Stalin and Mao have a distinct place on his bookshelf.

Things have changed dramatically in China since Mao’s passing, but Mao’s place in history is becoming more and more unchallengeable in official propaganda and Chinese education.

One of the most distressing incidents of cultural shock for many Chinese students in America is the wildly different interpretations of history in China and the West, particularly on the difficult topic of Mao Zedong, the first President of the People’s Republic of China. On the one hand, many Chinese students are

often surprised and indignant at the seemingly unbalanced, negative portrayals of the beloved leader. On the other hand, the firm defense of Mao from many Chinese students never fails to shock Americans.

What American professors and students don’t usually know is the propaganda that Chinese students, even those who seem intelligent and rational, are taught back home.

December 26, 2013, the day after Christmas, was Mao’s 120th birthday.

I turned on the television to watch President Xi give a speech before his comrades, lauding the achievements of the Founding Father. He then led the delegation of other top Chinese officials into the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, known in the West as the “Maosoleum,” located in Tiananmen Square. Top government and military officials bowed thrice — the gesture of utmost respect — before a marble statue of Chairman Mao. Then they proceeded to pay respect before his body, without showing any television footage.

Many people across the country commemorated Chairman Mao’s birthday by singing “red songs” and many organizations, controlled and monitored by the government’s recent anti-waste and anti-corruption campaign, staged celebrations.

Chinese Central Television began airing an “epic” TV series called “Mao Zedong” in prime time beginning December 26.

Unlike Westerners who perceive Mao as a devilish autocrat comparable to Hitler and Stalin, most Chinese people approve of him. This natural fondness of the great Chairman burgeons in early education, and is ubiquitous in children’s books and songs: “I love Beijing’s Tiananmen, over which the sun rises. Great leader Chairman Mao leads us forward.” As soon as schoolchildren begin reading, they read propaganda stories, some true but some exaggerated or fabricated, in Chinese classes. The stories teach important life lessons on values in a socialist society and the virtues of Chairman Mao and the Communist Party.

In the fifth grade, I was assigned a research project on Chairman Mao. I looked up “Mao Zedong” in the Chinese dictionary and spent the next two hours copying the thousandcharacter “definition” on a piece of A4 paper, using multicolored pens.

It was one of the hardest A’s I earned in elementary school, but I did manage to remember one thing from the “definition”: “He mistakenly started the Cultural Revolution.” But Chairman Mao never makes mistakes!

In middle school and high school, I would find out that this mistake, often exaggerated by “bitter and calculating enemies” in the West, was covered in history textbooks in one brief sentence. According to the correct answers on history and politics exams, the Cultural Revolution was a

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FROM THE FRONT

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” BARACK OBAMA U.S. PRESIDENT

Obama announces plan to increase college access OBAMA FROM PAGE 1 low-income students represent an enormous cohort of untapped talent. “What this meeting today tells me is we’ve got dedicated citizens across this country who are ready to stand up and meet this challenge.”

Despite speeches from the president and First Lady Michelle Obama, the central tenant of the conference was a document outlining over 100 universities’ individual proposals to expand access for low-income students.

“The conference today really has been about aligning universities and college leaders around the importance of providing access to a college education for groups in the lowest income strata…so that an accident of birth is not what determines the quality of their lives,” Salovey told the News.

“That is in the interest of students and families, but it’s also in the national interest.”

FROM YALE, AMBITIOUS PLANS

As part of the national effort, Yale has made a series of commitments aimed at both increasing the number of low-income students applying to Yale and improving the educational outcomes for those students once they arrive on campus.

The commitments articulated on Thursday emerged over the past several months through the teamwork of administrators like Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller, Undergraduate Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan.

The group also spent significant time speaking with faculty as well as residential college masters and deans, Salovey said. “[We] tried to look at what was out there already and tried to look at what research suggests works effectively,” Salovey said, emphasizing that he believes any measures to improve access should be firmly grounded in evidence.

In conjunction with Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia, Yale plans on expanding its outreach efforts in communities poorly represented on campus. Beginning in the fall of 2014, the four universities will visit parts of the country — such as West Virginia, South Texas and Arkansas — where most students do not typically apply to Ivy League institutions for joint outreach sessions, which Yale predicts will draw large and diverse audiences.

In addition to the sessions, the University plans to dispatch over 300 “student ambassadors” from minority and low-income back-

grounds to return to their home communities over term breaks, where they will present to over 600 schools about Yale admissions and financial aid in 2014– ’15.

Beyond outreach, though, the University also will take measures to increase the number of lowincome students who matriculate. The number of QuestBridge Finalists enrolled in the freshman class — which currently stands at 50 to 60 per year — will increase to 75 to 80 in the fall of 2014.

The University’s commitments also extend to helping students succeed once they arrive at Yale.

According to the Thursday document, the University will continue the Freshman Scholars program, which brings roughly 30 accepted students to campus for five weeks during the summer for activities, coursework, seminars and trips at no cost to them.

The continuation of Freshman Scholars will coincide with the development of online course modules in pre-calculus, which will serve as the stepping stone to build a fuller set that could be offered to a wider array of students in the summer of 2015.

However, Salovey said the new commitments will not be the last on the part of the University, citing social media and other applications that keep students on top of the college application process as potential areas for future investment.

[We] tried to look at what […] research suggests works effectively.

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University “We’re just getting started in what we might be able to do at Yale,” Salovey said.

Other schools made major investments in expanding access.

The University of Chicago announced a $10 million College Success Initiative, which is expected to reach 10,000 schools in the next five years. MIT, meanwhile, will collaborate with edX, an online course platform started in conjunction with Harvard, to introduce underserved students to science, technology engineering and math subjects while improving their college preparation.

In contrast to the specificity of Yale’s proposals, many of the University’s peers submitted much shorter plans.

Harvard, for instance, vowed

to “enhance its social media approaches to reach low-income high school students” by adding staff resources, but did not elaborate further.

The University of Pennsylvania, meanwhile, committed only to a new outreach initiative targeted at prospective low and middle-income students, but did not provide any further information about the scope or implementation of it.

At the same time, many schools highlighted previous efforts to expand access in sections of their pledges titled “Building on Existing Efforts,” which highlighted previous attempts to expand access.

Only two members of the Ivy League — Dartmouth and Cornell — did not make commitments or attend the White House conference.

QUIET BEGINNINGS

The idea for a conference of university leaders began in early 2013. Sperling said the Obama administration decided that access to higher education was one of the issues on which Obama could significantly “move the dial.”

Over the next several months, all university leaders present on Thursday received an individual call from Sperling, State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said on Thursday. Each of the leaders was told that specific commitments to expand access would be the “price of admission” to the conference, Zimpher said.

In addition to phone calls from Sperling, many of the college presidents were invited in small groups — typically when they were in Washington for fundraising or other events — to the White House, where they met with senior administration officials.

The conference was originally scheduled for mid-December, but the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela and Obama’s subsequent trip to South Africa caused a monthlong delay.

None of the college presidents was allowed to publicly disclose their commitments until Thursday morning, when the White House made the 88-page document outlining the initiatives public.

The conference is representative of Obama’s new political strategy of utilizing his “pen and phone” — words that were repeated frequently by Obama and Sterling Thursday — to issue executive orders and utilize persuasion to sidestep a gridlocked Congress.

MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

University President Salovey attended a White House conference about educational access on Thursday.

LITTLE REAL AGREEMENT

Although Sperling began the conference by suggesting that “lives will be changed by the commitments made today,” Thursday’s conference saw no major new policies announced by the Obama administration itself — rather, the commitments outlined came from universities, colleges, business and non-profits.

That approach, Salovey suggested, may not be ideal. “[Access to higher education] is a challenge that’s going to require everyone to participate: colleges and universities, communities, families, but also states and federal government,” Salovey said.

“To make this work we cannot exclusively rely on colleges and universities, nor can you exclusively rely on government funding.”

The decision to place the onus for change on institutions has led to a less-than-cohesive strategy for increasing the number of low-income students graduating from college, with each institution putting forward slightly different proposals rather than focusing on a few major ideas. Salovey said that considering differences between campuses while striving for a more cogent approach was an

“interesting tension” of the conference, adding that higher education leaders should “try to converge on what works.”

“We can’t just be 1,000 points of light. We have to get to scale,” Zimpher said. “The greatest challenge of this campaign is how we can collectively focus on a few [solutions].”

Even amongst university leaders, tensions exist over broad issues impacting higher education accessibility, notably the responsibilities of institutions and the federal government, the piecemeal approach of the conference and the rising cost of a college education. Some leaders at the conference expressed opposing ideologies on topics such as standardized testing and admissions practices.

While the issue of the rising cost of higher education was not a major or explicit cost of discussion, it nevertheless bubbled under the surface throughout the day.

The conference comes months after a call by Obama to tie federal funding for universities to ranking based on measures such as average tuition, the share of lowincome students enrolled in college and student debt. Although

the administration considers the measure a way to curb the rising cost of college, university presidents have broadly denounced it.

“We’re still going to have to make sure that rising tuition doesn’t price the middle class out of a college education,” Obama said. “The government’s not going to be able to continually subsidize a system in which higher education inflation is going up faster than healthcare inflation.”

Sperling told the News that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Munoz will continue to “try to come up with effective measures to give students more sense of are they getting the best value.”

Compared with that proposal, most of the agreed-upon commitments made on Thursday are minimal.

Furthermore, Obama said Thursday that he hopes to hold another conference with more higher education leaders in the near future. The administration, though, has yet to set a timeline for such a conference.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Survey shows diverse summer experiences UCS FROM PAGE 1 percent. At least 20 industries had employed more than 1.5 percent of the survey’s respondents.

Nearly a quarter of survey respondents reported holding a paid internship over the summer, while 17.1 percent of students did unpaid internships.

Scientific research, academic study, foreign language programs and paid jobs — such as being a camp counselor — all had double-digit percentages.

Volunteer work, field research and performance in the visual arts each claimed between 2 and 4 percent of respondents.

“The breadth of options and activities that students pursued over their summers is astounding,” UCS Director Jeanine Dames said, adding that this diversity of career interests is a testament to the strength of the University’s liberal arts education. Dames said that Yale is unlike some schools such as the University of Pennsylvania, where “it would make sense for a critical mass of students to go into one particular industry such as finance.”

All eight students interviewed by the News were surprised at how few students worked in consulting or investment banking over the summer — 2.4 percent and 2.2 percent respectively. Jacob Marcus ’14 said he thought the percentages would be much higher given how many job opportunities on the UCS website are related to these fields.

Stefano Malfitano ’14 said that he was surprised at the discrepancy between the number of students who interned in finance

or consulting over the summer and the number who worked in these fields after graduation.

According to separate UCS report on postgraduate activities for the Class of 2013, 26.4 percent of graduates in the workforce were employed in the financial services and consulting industries.

Almost 90 percent of respondents to the summer activities survey said they secured their summer employment during the spring semester or later. 52.3 percent of students secured their position in the months of March or April.

Lukas Czinger ’16 said he was comforted by that fact, adding that many students already were stressed by the lack of certainty in their summer plans.

UCS administrators said they believe that having a summer activities report will better help the office track the career interests of current undergraduates and also allow students to learn from one another’s experiences.

When the office published the report on the UCS website and Symplicity, they attached an Excel spreadsheet where students can see where respondents worked and contact them if they are interested in learning more about their summer activities.

“Having this resource available online allows a student to connect with other undergraduates who are interested in the same industries,” Dames said, adding that she believes many younger students in particular will be surprised at the diversity of industries, jobs and opportunities that Yale undergraduates embrace during their summers.

According to Dames, UCS

plans to build an evaluation database later this term to enable students who are interested in interning at an organization to contact students who have worked there previously. Dames added that students will also be able to view evaluations of specific employers and experiences.

This evaluation database will be accessible only to current undergraduates in order to maintain the privacy necessary for students to feel comfortable in giving honest feedback and reviews of their summer experience, Dames said. She added that, in many cases, Yale alumni were the undergraduates’ supervisors and bosses.

In future surveys, which UCS expects to give annually from hereon, the office will ask respondents to give qualitative answers to questions on topics such as the work atmosphere and culture of the organization and the level of supervision and guidance that interns were afforded, Dames said.

“With this evaluation database, suppose that you were interested in interning at the New York Times and you saw that an upperclassman had interned there previously. You could not only ask that student about his or her experiences but read through what that student had already posted,” she said.

All eight students interviewed said they appreciated how UCS broke down the report by class grade. Czinger and Dillon Lew ’16 said it was unsurprising that freshmen and sophomores were more likely to pursue academic or language study but upperclassmen were more likely to engage

in paid internships. Lew also said he thought the survey demonstrated the inequity between students at Yale, citing the significant percentages of University students who had the

financial capability to pursue unpaid internships or have family friends who could help them find summer opportunities.

29.5 percent of respondents said that they had found their

job or internship through a family friend or contact, the most popular source of employment.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

YALIE SUMMER 2013 PURSUITS BY ACTIVITY Performance 2.2% Field research 3% Volunteer work 3.9% Other 4.2%

Language study 10.4%

Language study 10.4%

Research in a library 0.6%

Paid internship 24.9%

Non-language academic study 10.9% Research in a laboratory 11.3%

Unpaid internship 17.1% Paid job 11.6%

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NEWS

“I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.” GREG BRENNEMAN CHAIRMAN, CCMP CAPITAL

Dems back Holder-Winfield

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER A three-man race became a two-way contest for the state senate seat representing Connecticut’s 10th district on Thursday, as Gary Holder-Winfield picked up the endorsement of an opponent, of the local arm of the Democratic Party and of Mayor Toni Harp.

A delegation of Democrats in the 10th District — which comprises the western half of New Haven and a sliver of West Haven — unanimously endorsed HolderWinfield at Thursday’s nominating convention, winning him an automatic spot on the ballot. The endorsement came an hour and a half after Holder-Winfield picked up the support of his colleague, State Rep. Juan Candelaria, who ended his own bid for the senate seat just four days after announcing his candidacy.

Holder-Winfield now faces just one opponent, former Ward 30 Alderman Darnell Goldson, in a Feb. 25 special election for the 10th District state senate seat, which Harp vacated this month upon assuming the mayor’s office. Having promised to back the Democratic nominee, Harp will support Holder-Winfield as her successor. Holder-Winfield bowed out of the mayor’s race in favor of Harp last summer.

“I don’t worry about confident — I worry about work,” HolderWinfield said after securing the unanimous endorsement of the 41 delegates present at the convention. “I’m going to go out and knock on people’s doors and talk to them. That’s my winning strategy.”

Currently a state representative for the 94th Assembly District, Holder-Winfield identified jobs, public safety and development projects as the central issues facing New Haven and West Haven residents. Students in four of Yale’s 12 residential colleges — Morse, Ezra Stiles, Pierson and Davenport — live in the 10th District, amounting to nearly 2,000 undergraduates, not including those living off-campus.

Holder-Winfield, 39, said his experience — five years in the General Assembly, spent moving major issues such as the elimination of the death penalty — best qualifies him to succeed Harp.

“Those are very big shoes to fill,” Martin Looney, who represents the other half of New Haven in the state senate, said Thursday. He, like Harp, will support Holder-Winfield as the Democratic candidate in the race.

Goldson, 52, blasted the endorsement process as “undemocratic” and said he still plans to petition his way onto the ballot.

He said Wednesday he had already acquired the 272 signatures and planned to submit them Friday with the city’s registrar of voters.

He also said he should have been allowed to address the delegation, but that the Democratic “machine” had already made up its mind. He said he tried to call members of the convention to ask for their support but was unable even to make his case.

“Most of them didn’t call me back. I was shut out, but that’s OK. I expected that,” he said.

“This is going to be fought on the streets. It’s going to be Darnell versus Goliath. It’s going to be

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER

ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

State senate candidate Gary Holder-Winfield picked up a unanimous endorsement from the 10th District nominating convention Thursday. biblical.”

Holder-Winfield responded to criticisms of the endorsement process by saying that each candidate had the same opportunity to talk to delegates. He said the procedure is the same one used for special elections across the state.

Both Holder-Winfield and Goldson pledged to participate in the state’s publicly financed Citizens’ Election Program, which awards candidates a matching grant of up to $63,750 if they successfully raise at least $11,250 in individual contributions between $5 and $100 from at least 225 people in the district. Holder-Winfield said he plans to begin fundraising Friday.

Throwing his weight behind Holder-Winfield, Candelaria called for Democratic Party unity, saying he was putting his own “aspiration for higher office on hold.”

Candelaria, who has repre-

sented the 95th Assembly District for 11 years, said his decision was informed by conversations with his campaign and with supporters. He met Thursday morning at City Hall with Harp and her chief of staff, Tomas Reyes, to discuss his decision, he said.

“2014 is going to be a tough election year for Democrats in Connecticut, and a fractured Democratic Party in New Haven is not what I want to see,” he said.

Should Holder-Winfield clinch the senate seat, his victory would leave open a spot in the House. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy would then have 10 days to issue a writ of special election. Holder-Winfield said does not have a potential successor in mind.

Harp was first elected to the state senate in 1992.

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

EMBA program branches out

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Starting next fall, students enrolled in the Executive MBA program at the Yale School of Management will be able to choose from two new areas of focus — sustainability and asset management.

The EMBA program, launched in 2005, originally offered only a concentration in healthcare and solely admitted working professionals in that field. Going forward, students in the EMBA program will spend more than a year completing a general MBA as a group, before splitting into the three specialty areas for part of their second year. According to SOM Associate Dean David Bach, the EMBA class will likely double from an average of 30 to roughly 60 students as a result of the new areas of focus.

Bach said a great deal of thought went into choosing the new concentrations.

“We asked ourselves — where does Yale have a lot of expertise, where is there a lot of demand in the market and where does it fit in with our brand position of educating leaders for business and society?” Bach said, adding that sustainability and asset management were the topics that best satisfied these three criteria.

Ian Rogan, director of the

EMBA program, said this expansion will help attract more applicants to Yale SOM and improve the school’s image.

In the past, many prospective EMBA students overlooked the general MBA component and viewed the program as a degree mainly in healthcare, he said.

“It is first and foremost an MBA degree, 75 percent of the work is in general management,” Rogan said. “External audiences maybe did not fully appreciate [this].”

SO M p ro fe sso r Wi l l Goetzmann, who will serve as faculty director for the asset management concentration, said Yale has particular expertise in this area.

He cited the work of Nobel Prizewinning economist Robert Shiller and the prominence of the “Yale model” for institutional investing as examples of this strength.

The asset management program will be taught in a style that reflects this expertise and prioritizes general MBA principles over specific finance skills, Goetzmann said Both Goetzmann and Bach said Yale’s asset management program will be unique because it will focus on the good that finance can do for society, rather than simply on techniques for personal success and monetary gain.

“It’s a challenge for us because when people hear finance, they immediately hear ‘greedy Wall

Shared Services still controversial

Street,’” Bach said. “But finance is necessary and it can do a lot of [good] — in order for it to do a lot of good, you need responsible long term investment management.”

Vani Nadarajah, who serves as admissions and marketing director for the EMBA program, said the sustainability focus, like asset management, is centered on management skills. This emphasis is particularly suited for executives who have already worked in the industry and mastered the skills and now want to improve as leaders and managers, she added.

Still, Shresta Marigowda EMBA ’15 said sustainability, though important because of its applicability to any sector, was already offered as an elective for EMBA students before it became an area of focus. The EMBA program could potentially be restructured as a general EMBA degree with several electives and no mandatory area of focus, Marigowda said.

“Yale is the first university to try something along these lines, and that is something valid,” Marigowda said. “But there are just more things they could do at this point, like keep a general EMBA, just as the top 10 [business schools] do.”

Goetzmann said SOM faculty members have considered the idea of offering a two-year general

EMBA, but he added that it is not feasible at this point. Professors are content with the two additional concentrations for now, he said, though that will not preclude them from possibly expanding the EMBA program further in the future.

Goetzmann said he is not concerned that future expansion will threaten SOM’s “intimate and close-knit community.” Even if SOM grew considerably, it could remain one of the smallest business schools in the country, he said.

Similarly, Lori Anna Dees EMBA ’15 said she does not worry about the EMBA program becoming too large. This expansion will only improve SOM’s cooperative, noncompetitive learning environment, she said.

“It will remain intimate, but the addition of these two new groups is going to make the learning environment much richer than it already is,” Dees said.

Christine Vetter EMBA’15 said she believes the two new areas of focus are increasingly relevant to healthcare, and that the intersection between the three concentrations will foster innovative and productive discussions.

EMBA classes are held every other Friday and Saturday.

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

Despite the implementation of shared services in many universities across the country, Yale’s push to centralize administrative tasks still draws criticism from the University’s faculty.

In 2010, the University launched its shared services center, a 75-employee division that consolidates many administrative tasks like payroll, accounts payable and vendor compliance. Since then, at least 12 other universities have brought shared services into their operations, and at least 350 global organizations plan to adopt the model by the end of 2014, according to a recent survey by a national consulting firm. However, faculty members interviewed still expressed hesitation about the program, which was designed to centralize many human resources functions and reduce administrative positions.

“My department became the poster child for why the original concept [of shared services] was a disaster and the implementation was poorly executed,” said Benjamin Foster, a professor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. “It was simply an unworkable proposition to imagine that an academic department could manage with 10-month, part-time and unqualified staff support.”

Foster admits that senior administrators listened and adapted in the wake of faculty complaints. He added that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with centralizing tasks, and the processing of receipts has worked very well, but the overall execution of the program has been poor.

Fallout from the implementation of the shared services program began in a February 2012 Yale College Faculty Meeting.

In the discussion, over 20 professors spoke out against the business model, criticizing the downgrade of clerical staff, the reduction of positions and the idea of treating individual academic departments in the same way. In a March 2012 email from then-President Richard Levin and then-Provost Peter Salovey, senior administrators apologized for some of the adverse effects of the shared services program.

“The re-organization of staff support in departments and programs has raised many questions, and we regret that this has been a source of stress for some faculty members, as evidenced, for example, by the concerns expressed at the Yale College Faculty meeting in February,” the email said. “In the future, we will work collaboratively with departments to ensure that additional staffing changes serve each department’s needs and are welcomed by the faculty.”

A November 2013 memo from Provost Benjamin Polak and Salovey told faculty members that more cuts to administrative staff are forthcoming.

Following Yale’s decision to implement shared ser-

vices, the University of Michigan announced in 2013 that it would begin consolidating a variety of finance and administrative tasks into shared services as well. However, the program’s chief, Rowan Miranda, was replaced following implementation delays and a wave of faculty protest. The university revised its projected shared services savings from $17 million a year to between $5 million and $6 million, according to the University of Michigan’s webpage.

Other schools, including Cornell and the University of California, Berkeley have also begun shared services initiatives.

Yet two years later, Yale faculty interviewed are still unsure of the shared services program and its alleged benefits. Foster said there have been different explanations for the rationale of implementing the model. At first, it was supposed to be more efficient and cost saving, said Foster — then, it was supposed to cut down on positions. But English professor Jill Campbell said she still has not seen evidence of any pecuniary savings.

Campbell said that Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King — who spearheaded the program’s adoption — has taken credit for savings where staff has been cut, but not for new costs incurred, including the salaries shifted to other places in the University.

In one department, Campbell said, a full-time business manager became halftime when her duties were split between offices. The position of registrar in the department was also removed and replaced by a lower-grade entry level, 10-month-a-year clerical position.

King, Polak and Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel could not be reached for comment this week. Shared Services Assistant Vice President Ronn Kolbash declined to comment.

“Despite the hiring of highlycompetent and hard-working individuals in this and another low-grade clerical position in the department, very high turnover and reduced staffing have left support for faculty and students in the department in disarray,” Campbell said in the email. “In the last two years, six different people, all excellent, have come and gone in that department office, along with two or three temporary workers.

This kind of staffing instability seriously damages the functioning of a department office.”

Foster added that the specific practices of human resources consolidation do not come from American universities — instead, he said, they come from the business world.

The shared services program handles payroll, accounts payable and vendor compliance for all University departments and schools.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER

Students weigh Literature, English COMP LIT FROM PAGE 1 according to Averbuch.

“It’s very strange that one could be an English major and not read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy,” she says.

“The English major assumes that it’s producing literary people, and it’s problematic that it excludes some of the most influential writers who are inevitably in conversation with each other.”

Her synopses illustrate a consensus amongst the Literature and English students interviewed: The Literature major, more flexible in requirements and courses, lends itself to breadth over depth; meanwhile, the English major has more rigid requirements, and often emphasizes depth to the detriment of embracing various time periods and genres.

COMPARING HISTORIES

English professor David Kastan, a renowned Shakespearean scholar, stood before an audience of freshmen and sophomores gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. With pizza boxes empty and all seats taken, the English major information session was well on its way, but Kastan had seemingly gotten off message. He was talking about deer. Or more precisely the gory details of how he and his wife had hit a deer on their way back to New Haven, and how it all happened because, in the midst of mating season, this female deer was trying her best to escape from a sexually deprived male deer.

This was the reason he was late, he informed everyone before he dove into the story. It was all very long and very compelling, and Kastan was at his best, holding captive faculty and students with high expectations for the way language is sculpted. But it seemed entirely unrelated to English. Until the punch line.

“And that’s why you should major in English,” he said. The room collectively, but individually, parsed the meaning of the sentence, rewinding. You should be an English major because it teaches you how to tell stories, he was saying.

The Yale English Department, consistently ranked one of the best in the nation, graduates, on average, around 70 English majors every year. The English discipline goes back hundreds of years, and the subject was one of the first introduced at Yale College in the 18th century. By contrast, Comparative Literature — the other major focused on analysis and interpretation of literary texts — is a relatively modern field.

According to Ayesha Ramachandran, a professor in the Yale Literature Department — the undergraduate department’s offical name is “Literature,” while the graduate department is named “Comparative Literature.” In the postwar period, the University became home to a slew of

celebrated émigré intellectuals, among them the inventors of the field. In those early years, just like in the late 19th century — when the very notion of literature as a cultural comparative tool emerged — comparative literature was, in essence, an exploration of the universality of narrative. As Ramachandran puts it, “What are the shared building blocks of our culture in narrative terms?” It was all based on a “quasi-utopian” and Unitarian belief that our desire to tell stories and the essence of those stories connect all humans beyond national borders, she said. And then, in the 1960s and ’70s, comparative literature became something much different.

Often referred to as “the de Man years” after one of Yale’s first Comparative Literature professors, the time span brought Deconstructionist theory to Yale.

Another transplant from the Old World to the New, Jacques Derrida — considered the father of Deconstructionism, a literary approach that undermines typically unquenstioned assumptions and emphasizes the unstable nature of words — also spent time at Yale.

Together, and with the addition of scholars like Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, and J. Hillis Miller, they created a set of new literary approaches collevtively referred to as the Yale School.

From the transport of the field of comparative literature from Europe to the United States to the creation of an entire school of literary thought, “there’s a way in which the discipline in the U.S. owes everything to this department,” Ramachandran said.

ENGLISH: GOING BEYOND TRADITION

Because of its long teaching tradition here at Yale, the English major stands out for its heavy emphasis on a canon of pre-1900s works, mostly poetry, according to roughly 15 English majors interviewed. The majority of students interviewed said that even if they did not enter English 125 and 126 — “Major English Poets,” from Chaucer to Donne and Milton to Eliot, respectively, the two introductory requirements for the major — dying to read Shakespearean sonnets, they ended up thoroughly enjoying the experience.

“There’s a reason that there’s a canon and that we read it. Everything builds on each other,” Kyra Morris ’15 said, adding that because a large part of writing is understanding how to use others’ writing, all of the poets that students are exposed to in English 125 and 126 are interacting with each other’s works. Still, she concedes that her interests may not dovetail with others’.

“I’m more interested in the dead white men category than some other people might be. If you want to do feminist poetry or Caribbean poetry, it’s not as rele-

vant to be taking pre-1800s credits,” Morris said.

While Ruthie Prilliman ’16 understands that students often approach the English prerequisites with hesitancy, she thinks it serves a practical purpose — when students discuss text in seminar or hear an allusion made by a professor in lecture, everyone is on the same page because they’ve read the same material. Prilliman added that approaching the material as snooze-worthy text whose relevancy has long passed completely misses the point. While most of the texts covered in the curriculum are centuries old, they are still “very much alive,” she said.

Ariel Katz ’15 echoed this view.

She took English 126 her sophomore spring, and did not expect the traditional English canon works to engage her like contemporary works do. But they did, she said, and it occurred to her that maybe the canon was richer and more compelling than she thought. “I chose to be an English major to give the tradition a shot,” she said.

Still, according to Zoe Greenberg ’14, those seminars — the ones that are able to breathe modern life into old works — are not necessarily that easy to come by.

Before finding an English 126 class she liked, she had to shop four, she said.

“I felt like there was an atmosphere in these classes where ‘you have to learn this, and it’s really important, so I’m not going to make it interesting’,” Greenberg recalled.

Finally, she came across a class in which the professor explained that the pilgrims going to Canterbury were similar to people on the subway in New York, and she was sold.

In fact, for some students, Greenberg’s anecdote about her Major English Poets experience illustrates a larger issue they have with what they see as a dearth of contemporary material in the English curriculum.

Preston, for instance, appreciates and understands the progression the canon offers, but he thinks there could be more contemporary American offerings.

And even Prilliman, who is quick to praise the English requirements, notes that novels often get lost in an insistence to study poetry. Perhaps offering different tracks within the English major — exploring novels, dramas or poetry in greater detail — would allow students to understand the canon and literary progression of the genre that most interests them, Prilliman said.

LITERATURE: GOING BEYOND THEORY

Ask most Literature students what distinguishes their major from English, and you are bound to hear the word “theory” dropped

at least once in the first few sentences. But according to Ramachandran, the characterization is off base.

“The bad distinction people draw is that in English, we [Ramachandran previously taught in the English department] do Lit, and in Comp Lit, we do theory,” she said. “That’s a relic of that time. That moment is now long passed.” Literature, she said, is about asking why, in every culture and every nation, human beings have a tendency to create and share stories.

To Nat Harrington ’14, a Literature major, the distinction lies largely in textual approach.

Whereas English asks students to delve deep into one language and canon, encouraging extremely close reading, Literature exposes students to a breadth of material, Harrington said. He noted that although a student may not have read all of the classic works on a specific topic, because of the wide reach of the program, he or she will be able to draw connections between pieces.

In addition to diversity of culture and languages, the Literature major encourages exposure to a diversity of academic disciplines, said Aziza Tichavakunda ’14.

Because of extensive cross-listing and departmental flexibility, “You have more freedom to make it your own,” she said.

Part of that freedom lies in the opportunity to design your own major. Tichavakunda, for instance, has chosen to combine film and creative writing, taking literature, film and theory classes throughout the past years. Her senior thesis examines “Upstream Color,” a movie in which the main characters are unknowingly infected with a parasite that transforms them from human to animal to plant.

In certain respects, the Literature major lends itself to greater diversity of interests, according to students interviewed. There are students like Tichavakunda, who are fascinated by the intersection of literature and another discipline; then there are students who hone in on specific cultures and languages, like Harrington — who plans to pursue Celtic Studies post-graduation — and Stephanie Wisowaty ’16, who is studying German and French Literature.

According to several students, though, the choice to focus on the literary traditon of one language can also present some drawbacks.

To be able to read and understand texts from different cultures, students are required to take three more foreign language credits than they would need to simply fulfill distributional requirements. For Wisowaty, who grew up speaking German, began French in high school, and then completed a semester abroad in France before coming to Yale, jumping right into studying the literature was an

Yalies to enter Ward 1 race WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 last November. Shapiro also supported Ella Wood ’15 in her unsuccessful bid for the Ward 7 seat on the Board of Aldermen.

An American Studies major in Branford College, Shapiro said she has typically sought political change from the outside — she was arrested in high school for environmental activism in her hometown of Ithaca, N.Y. — but that the unique and highly local nature of New Haven politics makes it an effective avenue for community engagement. She said she sees the co-chair position as a “small but tangible way to change the relationship between Yale students and the city of New Haven.”

Wasserman is a member of the Yale College Democrats; Shapiro is involved with Students Unite Now, a labor and student activism group on campus. The candidates said they decided to run in consultation with members of both groups as well as with Eidelson, who praised them as “dedicated campus leaders” capable of inspiring more students to participate in the Democratic process.

Shapiro and Wasserman said they are looking forward to helping Eidelson execute her agenda of working in particular on issues of youth services and the revitalization of the Dixwell Community “Q” House.

Nia Holson ’14, current Ward 1 co-chair along with Ben Crosby ’14, said a major part of the co-

option, so she took the intro German and French Literature classes last year. But for a student who enters Yale with no previous language experience, the Literature language requirement means condensing seven years of language study into four years of college.

For Averbuch, the language issue is frustrating, and one that might ultimately play a role in her decision between English and Literature.

“I speak one and three quarter languages. I can communicate in Spanish, and I’ve finished L5, but I’ll probably never be able to pick up on nuances [in the language] in the same way that a native speaker is,” she said.

She added that because a large body of the work being taught in the department is taught in translation, students cannot discuss the significance of each and every word the way they could in an English class.

Even in classes for students with advanced language skills, it can be challenging to dive deep, Wisowaty said. The fact that the majority of those students are not heritage speakers affects the level of discussion, she added.

A POINT OF CONTENTION: THE CREATIVE WRITING CONCENTRATION

“If you want to be an artist, guess what you shouldn’t major in?” Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, said to a group of students gathered at Saint Thomas More Chapel this past November. “Yeah, art. Why are you wasting your money and not learning something? I studied history and history gave me Oscar Wao. If I had studied creative writing, what would I have learned? How to run a f---ing workshop?”

The Creative Writing Concentration at Yale — an applicationonly, intensive track for aspiring writiers to which English majors can apply between their junior and senior year — stands in stark contrast to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s words of advice. To be a successful creative writer, you must understand the progression of the English canon and thus how your writing is in dialogue with the past, the thinking goes.

At the same English major information session in which Kastan shared his deer catastrophe tale, Cynthia Zarin, the coordinator of the creative writing concentration and a reknowned American poet, stood up to explain this thinking.

“We believe that to be good writers, you have to be good readers, which is why the program is limited to English majors,” she said.

Richard Deming, director of Creative Writing at Yale, said that the general sentiment among faculty is that the creative

writing concentration rests on “the interdependency of writing and reading” to produce “a really full and fully realized project.”

Deming — who teaches the famed Daily Themes, a writing course that asks students to submit daily 300-word nonfiction pieces — added that reading original English texts, as opposed to works in translation, is necessary to master the subtletities essential to effective writing in English.

“It’s a fair question — one that to be honest we’re thinking through,” he admitted about opening up the creative writing concentration to Literature majors.

Yet, some students feel that the canon and contemporary creative writing do not fit perfectly hand in hand.

“If I had a choice to do another major and do the writing concentration, I might seriously consider another major,” Oliver Preston ’16, who will likely declare as an English major, said. Preston wants to write after college, and the genre he hopes to pen — contemporary American short fiction — is a world removed from the one he inhabits in his Major English Poets class.

“Having an interest in writing and having an interest in reading English poetry aren’t necessarily super super related, but at the same time, if I want to do writing here, I have to declare myself as an English major without having any knowledge if I’m going to make it into the writing major junior spring,” he said. Preston’s interest in English stems from a craft perspective, so analysis conversations, in which discussion centers on characters’ psychology and motivations, can be frustrating. To him, reading is an act of perpetually asking “how?”

How does the author generate the characters’ psychology, make the character someone with whom the reader can empathize and potentially identify?

Greenberg feels similarly. “I think there’s a huge emphasis on a super close reading of the text almost in a vacuum, devoid of context,” she said. “We would have conversations in Major English poets about a word or image in Paradise Lost, which was interesting, but I would leave class wondering ‘why?’ What are the stakes of the word being here?”

Creative writing is different because it’s a craft, a process, she said. And in contrast to Diaz — who said “If I was an artist in this culture, I would look at a creative writing program and … would’ve gone into government,” — Greenberg likes that.

In the 2012–2013 academic year, Yale graduated 64 English majors and 14 Literature majors.

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

Litvak to face charges TRIAL FROM PAGE 1

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Jacob Wasserman ’16 and Ariana Shapiro ’16 are running as a slate for co-chairs of the Democratic Town Committee, which will allow them to vote on endorsing Democrats in municipal elections. chairs’ job is to coordinate the efforts of diverse political groups on campus. She said co-chairs lead voter registration drives, organize the ward committee of roughly 50 residents and devise means of enhancing student awareness of city issues. She said she supports Shapiro and Wasserman as a slate.

Co-chair races do not feature a primary but instead require candidates to petition their way onto the ballot by collecting the signatures of 5 percent of the registered Democrats in their ward. Shapiro and Wasserman have to turn in 75 signatures to the city’s Registrar of Voters by Jan. 29.

Sherley and Dancy will have to collect 99 signatures. Sherley, who lives in Timothy Dwight College, is a member of the Black Student Alliance at Yale and plays for the women’s rugby team. After being frustrated by the lack of avenues for community engagement, she said she caught a glimpse of her potential place inlocal politics when she volunteered on the campaign of Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison.

“Running for co-chair is the next step,” Sherley said.

Morrison said her co-chairs have the unique opportunity to lead a ward committee that

includes both Yale students and permanent residents. Current Ward 22 co-chair Josef Goodman ’14 said the mixed composition of the ward made it the “frontier for town-gown relations.”

Sherley and Dancy are not unopposed in Ward 22: they will compete against Cordelia Thorpe, a perennial candidate for alder in the ward.

DTC Chairwoman Jackie James said candidates have filed to run for co-chair in 25 of the 30 wards.

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

at 67. Let me know if you guys want to show a level.”

As a result of this transaction, Litvak brought in at least $30,000 in illegitimate profit for Jefferies, the report states.

Michael Chase, Litvak’s lawyer, declined to comment.

However, Litvak has fought the charges for the previous year, claiming that his sales tactics were sincere and that his valuation practices were legitimate. Litvak also maintains that his clients were too financially savvy to be fooled by the simple fraud.

Yale Law School Professor Jonathan Macey, who specializes in corporate and securities law, explained that the trial boils down to the following: There are certain sales tactics that are legal, such as using hyperbole to describe products, but salesmen cannot present a factually false idea.

“The other complicated element of the trial is that the underlying product he was trying to sell wasn’t dishwashers or cars — it

was securities,” Macey said.

Litvak’s trial is garnering national press coverage because these securities were at the heart of the financial crisis, Macey said.

He believes that the government is trying to use the case to show their commitment to punishing those who caused the financial crisis.

According to Macey, the government argues that Litvak can be singled out from other financial advisers because he committed a crime, but the defensive claims this happens every day in interactions between clients and financial advisers working on commission basis.

If the prosecutors succeed, the case could contribute to the establishment of a common law that better defines punishment for these activities, Macey said.

Jury selection for the trial will be completed by Feb. 3.

Contact MAREK RAMILO and J.R. REED at marek.ramilo@yale.edu and jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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Cabaret show explores post-apocalyptic future

YALE CABARET

“Have I None,” making its U.S. premiere at the Cabaret, dramatizes the tension between the evils of overwhelming consumerism and the psychological dangers of heavy authoritarianism in a post-apocalyptic world.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER With its first show of the semester, the Yale Cabaret is offering a glimpse into what might happen if materialism overwhelms our world.

The U.S. premiere of “Have I None” by Edward Bond opened last night at the Cabaret. Directed

by Jessica Holt DRA ’15, the play is set in a post-apocalyptic world in the year 2077, where the government outlaws almost all material possessions as a result of a global catastrophe caused by people’s obsession with material goods. In this repressive society, three individuals grapple with the temptation to explore what is beyond the forced uniformity of their surroundings.

“I think Bond is creating some kind of a contemporary parable, a warning about the excesses of our time but at the same time about the corrosive effects of too much governmental authority,” Holt said.

Holt explained that the play takes place several decades after society’s excessively consumerist culture had caused a catastrophic event that destroyed nearly all of the modern world. As a result, she noted, the government resorted to the opposite extreme of banning all possessions it deemed unnecessary. Holt described the play’s setting as a patriarchal, authoritarian society in which most family relationships are not recognized. She added that the government had also banned the possession of memory-evok-

ing objects such as photographs, films and artwork as an attempt to rid society of individualism.

Four ensemble members interviewed said they think the play focuses mainly on the question of whether one should remain in an excessively uniform, but safe, society, or risk the dangers of the unknown world in pursuit of a unique identity. In the play, there are three characters: a man named Jams, his wife Sara and a stranger named Grit who moves into their household. When Grit appears with a photograph of him and Sara and claims to be her brother, he stirs up a great deal of uncertainty in the otherwise conformist and simplistic lives of Jams and Sara. Chris Bannow DRA ’14, who plays Grit, explained that throughout the

Three exhibits at Beinecke

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER This season, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is closing the gap between the visual arts and the art of literature.

On Saturday, Beinecke will unveil a trio of new exhibits that will draw on materials from across its collections. According to Beinecke’s Research Librarian Elizabeth Frengel, who curated one of the exhibits, the three shows were conceived and planned independently but are connected by an emphasis on visual elements atypical of library exhibitions. “Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers” features the designs on the inside covers and front or back pages of books dating from the 15th century to the present day. A second exhibit entitled “Blue: Color and Concept” explores uses of the color blue in arts and letters of the 19th and 20th centuries. A third exhibit, “Stephen Tennant: Work in Progress,” highlights the archives of upper-class 20th century bon vivant Stephen Tennant, who maintained close friendships with authors such as Willa Cather.

Curator of Poetry at the Collection of American Literature Nancy Kuhl, who curated “Blue,” called the connection between the three exhibits a “happy coincidence of visual cohesion.”

“All three new shows are about classic items you find in a library, but they display a new type of research interest,” Young said.

“It’s about the visual impact of materials you find in a library.”

Perhaps the most explicitly visual exhibit in the trio is “Under the Covers,” which displays the art of endpapers, some made of marbled paper or silk and some printed with maps, photos or illustrations. Endpapers originally were used to protect illuminations at the beginnings of books from volumes’ rough, rudimentary covers, Frengel said, explaining that over time, endpapers began to serve decorative — and even narrative — functions. Good children’s books in particular, Frengel noted, use endpapers to invite readers into the tale: the map of the “100 Aker Wood” that appears in the endpapers of “Winnie the Pooh” inspired the exhibit, she explained.

Kuhl’s “Blue” includes both literary and historical artifacts pertaining to the word

“blue” in its physical and metaphorical senses. The exhibit features blueprints of Coney Island, movie posters from Warhol’s “Blue Movie,” in which “blue” refers to pornographic materials, and Langston Hughes’s blue cigarette case. The exhibit draws heavily from the Beinecke’s extensive holdings dating from the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that prominently featured blues music.

Kuhl said that the variety of media “Blue” uses allows the exhibit to explore poetic connections and visual rhymes.

“The exhibit shows a different way to approach research — different ways to ask questions and to reveal associations,” she said. “The exhibit has something in common with the way poems work.”

Young said that “Stephen Tennant” takes a similarly evocative approach to research.

Rather than displaying an end product or answering a question, Young explained, his exhibit is meant to provoke interest in Tennant’s archives — to suggest that there might be something in the materials displayed worth researching.

Tennant, an illustrator and an unsuccessful novelist, was never especially famous in his own right, Young said, explaining that Tennant’s archives are significant largely because of the letters from and portraits of famous literary figures they contain.

Celebrating books as visual objects is a concept that libraries have begun to embrace only in the last 10 or 1 years, Young explained.

“Libraries have started to pay attention to objects as objects and not just as conveyors of history or stories,” Young said. “We’re not afraid anymore to show books just for their beauty.”

Frengel said that it is unusual for the Beinecke to debut three individual exhibits simultaneously, adding that the library typically displays one main exhibit at a time, sometimes with one or two peripheral shows.

She attributed this year’s trio in part to the great deal of work involved in launching the major exhibitions that celebrated the Beinecke’s 50th anniversary last year. Dividing the library’s display space among three independent exhibitions, each with its own curator, allows for “a breather,” Young said.

The opening reception for the exhibitions will take place on Friday, Jan. 24.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

play, each character hears a mysterious knocking on the door, which he believes represents the temptation to abandon the prescribed societal norms and follow the uncertain path to selfdiscovery. Each character reacts differently to the knocking — Jams adamantly refuses to follow it, Grit is confused by it and Sara submits to it, Bannow added.

Ceci Fernandez DRA ’14, who plays Sara, said that though the play is set in extreme conditions, she believes it is less fantastical than it appears. Bannow said he thinks many of the conditions that may lead to such a future already exist. The amount of information we can access at any given moment already makes our current environment overwhelming, Fernandez added,

noting that she thinks any sudden major change in the world could lead to the kind of apocalyptic event mentioned in the play. Holt said that many of the controversial themes in the play, such as government authority and freedom of expression, are frequently discussed today, making the play realistic.

“I don’t feel like this play is where our society is headed, “ Holt said. “I feel like this is where we have already been for a while.”

Alexander Woodward DRA ’16, the production’s scenic designer, said the stage design aims to reflect the uncomfortable, stifling atmosphere of the society depicted in the play. He described the set as a blank environment, since the walls and furniture have no designs or decorations of

any sort. Woodward added that the simplicity of the set helps to draw the audience’s attention to certain objects that would otherwise remain unnoticed. He explained that instead of being controlled by a switch, the main light in the room is connected to a box that is remotely controlled by the government, which symbolizes how little personal freedom these characters have. If the photograph of Grit and Sara did not stand out against the barren background, the audience may have underestimated its significance, Woodward noted.

The Cabaret’s next production, “The Defendant,” will open on Jan. 23.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

Street artist leaves Elm City

BY GEORGE SAUSSY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER BiP, the artist formerly known as Believe in People — a mysterious figure who secretly transforms New Haven buildings at night — said farewell to the Elm City through a film screening on Jan. 4.

BiP gained fame as a street artist by painting murals all across New Haven, including a large mural of Anne Frank on the back of Partners Cafe and a Native American on Skull and Bone’s society building. The screening, which shared some of BiP’s biographical information before explaining that he is leaving New Haven to allow room for other local street artists, said Lou Cox, the local Channel 1 owner, who helped organize the event. The screening had over a hundred attendees, including former mayoral candidates Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Gary Holder-Winfield, now running for state senate and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, according to the New Haven Independent.

The film stated that BiP earned a perfect score on the SAT and a perfect GPA, and attended an Ivy League university, according to the New Haven Independent. Though he may have been in attendance at the screening, he did not make a public appearance and his identity remains unknown.

BiP came to New Haven initially only created graffiti on Yale’s campus, though he later spread his work to the rest of the city. At his screening, BiP explained that he chose to paint on Yale buildings because he knew Yale’s security would make painting a challenge and because he wanted share his art with young minds, Cox said. The work that has appeared on or near Yale’s campus includes Hull’s

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BiP’s graffiti mural of Anne Frank on the back of Partners Cafe is just one example of the artist’s many pieces around New Haven. art store and Dunham Labs, in addition to the wall of Skull and Bones.

“Graffiti — and street art by an extension of that — are very much part of an aesthetic battle,” BiP told the News in 2011 in a rare interview. “It’s a battle for what kind of environment we’ll live in as a society, it’s part of a cultural dialogue.”

During the screening, Kwadwo Adea, owner of the Adea Fine Art Academy in New Haven, was listed as an artist BiP admires.

Adea said he had never knowingly met BiP but said they talked casually over Twitter and was asked to be involved in the production of the film. Adea said he appreciates BiP’s art because he is able to circumvent “red tape.”

He said that because BiP does not always try to produce his murals through legal means, he is able to do so more efficiently.

BiP’s anonymity has allowed him to have a greater impact on the New Haven art scene then he would have otherwise, Cox said.

“Public art in New Haven has

always been known about but it’s never had the platform he’s been able to work on,“ Cox said.

Both Cox and Adea said they believed another street artist would attempt to perform a similar role in New Haven now that BiP had left, and that he has had a positive impact on New Haveners’ awareness of art.

However, Steve Kovel, owner of Hull’s art store which has a BiP mural on the side of his building, said he does not think the artist has not been able to significantly change the art scene in New Haven, though others have touted his impact.

BiP did not explain what he intends to do next. Cox believes that he plans to go into fine arts, citing the fact that some BiP artifacts on display at the screening were for sale. Adea, on the other hand, believes that would be too great a change in style for BiP. Bip and his handlers were unavailable for comment.

Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .

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BY JEFF BARNARD ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW HAVEN, Conn. —The man who carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre apparently called a radio station a year earlier to discuss the 2009 mauling of a Connecticut woman by a chimpanzee.

The caller believed to be Adam Lanza speaks softly on a show on the University of Oregon’s campus radio station and blames “civilization” for the animal’s attack.

It would be the first known public recording of Lanza’s voice. The 20-year-old man killed 20 children and six adults at the school in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012.

He also shot his mother to death inside their home before driving to the school and took his own life as police arrived.

A person with the username “Smiggles” describes making the call afterward in a Web posting.

State police documents refer to instant messages from “Smiggles” as presumably being from the Sandy Hook gunman.

A former classmate, Kyle Kromberg, told the New York Daily News that he recognized the voice as Lanza’s.

State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III said he didn’t know whether the caller was Lanza but that it was a possibility.

In 2009 in Stamford, Charla Nash was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled by a chimpanzee named Travis, who belonged to her friend. Nash had gone to the owner’s home to help lure the 200pound chimpanzee back inside.

But the chimp went berserk and

ripped off Nash’s nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer.

The caller believed to be Lanza said Travis was raised like a child and was highly domesticated, noting he used an electric tooth brush, a TV remote control and even the computer. Travis was integrated into society, the caller said, recalling the chimp’s interactions with humans and his acting in TV commercials.

“Look what civilization did to him,” said the caller, who identified himself as Greg. “It had the same exact effect on him as it has on humans. He was profoundly sick in every sense of the term and he had to resort to these surrogate activities like watching baseball and looking at pictures on the computer screen and taking Xanax.”

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Anarchist writer John Zerzan, seen here in this Dec. 10, 1999 photo, has a radio talk show, which Adam Lanza called in December 2011, foreshadowing his acts of violence to come.

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Killer’s execution takes almost 25 min

BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS ASSOCIATED PRESS UCASVILLE, Ohio—A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S. Dennis McGuire’s attorney Allen Bohnert called the convicted killer’s death “a failed, agonizing experiment” and added: “The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled at what was done here today in their names.”

An attorney for McGuire’s family said it plans to sue the state over what happened.

McGuire’s lawyers had attempted last week to block his execution, arguing that the untried method could lead to a medical phenomenon known as “air hunger” and could cause him to suffer “agony and terror” while struggling to catch his breath.

McGuire, 53, made loud snorting noises during one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999.

Nearly 25 minutes passed between the time the lethal drugs began flowing and McGuire was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m.

Executions under the old method were typically much shorter and did not cause the kind of sounds McGuire made.

Ohio prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith had no comment on how the execution went but said a review will be conducted as usual.

Prison officials gave intravenous doses of two drugs, the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone, to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of a pregnant newlywed, Joy Stewart.

The method was adopted after supplies of a previously used drug dried up because the manufacturer declared it off limits for capital punishment.

The execution is certain to launch a new round of federal lawsuits over Ohio’s injection procedure. The state has five more executions scheduled this year, with the next one to come on Feb. 19.

McGuire’s attorney called on Republican

Gov. John Kasich to impose a moratorium on future executions, as did a state death penalty opponent group.

What was particularly unusual Thursday was the five minutes or so that McGuire lay motionless on the gurney after the drugs began flowing, followed by a sudden snort and then more than 10 minutes of irregular breathing and gasping. Normally, movement comes at the beginning and is followed by inactivity.

“Oh, my God,” his daughter, Amber McGuire, said as she watched his final moments.

Dayton defense lawyer Jon Paul Rion said the family is deeply disturbed by McGuire’s execution, which it believes violated his constitutional rights.

“All citizens have a right to expect that they will not be treated or punished in a cruel and unusual way,” Rion said. “Today’s actions violated that constitutional expectation.”

In pressing for the execution to go ahead, state Assistant Attorney General Thomas Madden had argued that while the U.S. Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment, “you’re not entitled to a pain-free execution.”

U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost sided with the state. But at the request of McGuire’s lawyers, he ordered officials to photograph and preserve the drug vials, packaging and syringes.

The selection of drugs for use in executions in the U.S. involves more than just considerations of effectiveness. It is complicated by the politics of the death penalty, questions of medical ethics and the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

In Ohio’s case, the state in recent years used pentobarbital, a form of which is used to put down cats and dogs. But the state’s supply ran out after the manufacturer refused to allow its use in executions.

Some executions with pentobarbital ran into problems, but they involved difficulties inserting the needle, not trouble with the effectiveness of the drug.

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“I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

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BY GILLIAN WONG ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING —Police have taken away an outspoken scholar of China’s Turkic Uighur ethnic minority and raided his home, seizing computers, cellphones and even his students’ thesis manuscripts, his wife said Thursday.

About 30 police officers raided economics professor Ilham Tohti’s home in Beijing in a six-hour operation Wednesday afternoon after taking away the academic, his wife Guzaili Nu’er said in a phone interview.

It was the most serious of recent actions by Chinese authorities in apparent retaliation against the scholar, who is arguably the most famous mainland-based critic of the ruling Communist Party’s

restrictive policies in Xinjiang in western China.

China has tightened control over the restive region, which has been rocked by a series of riots and attacks on police and other symbols of Chinese power over the past year.

State media reported earlier this month that President Xi Jinping has ordered authorities to refocus their efforts on “maintaining social stability” in Xinjiang.

Guzaili Nu’er said that Ilham Tohti and his two sons were at home while she was at work when police arrived. She rushed home but her husband had already been taken away.

Beijing police did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing that Ilham Tohti

“is suspected of violating the law and committing a crime” and that police have placed him under criminal detention.

Calls to the scholar’s mobile phone failed to connect. The overseas-based website he runs, Uighurbiz.net, was also down.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement that the United States was deeply concerned about the reports that Ilham Tohti had been taken away, and called on the Chinese authorities to account for his whereabouts.

The statement said the detention “appears to be part of a disturbing pattern of arrests and detentions of public interest lawyers, Internet activists, journalists, religious leaders and others who peacefully challenge official Chinese policies and actions.”

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SPORTS

MLB to officially expand replay The owners of the 30 MLB teams voted to approve expanded instant replay for 2014.

Managers will now have one challenge per game, which they can use on most calls.

If they are successful in their first challenge, managers will be awarded a second challenge. Umpires will also be able to initate a replay after the seventh inning if a manager has run out of challenges.

Yale preps for Ivy opener M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14

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Yale has struggled as of late, going 1–4 in its last five games, albeit against a difficult non-conference schedule.

8.3 boards per game. As a team, the Bears are hauling down an impressive 41 rebounds a game — five more than second place Penn. The Elis are currently in sixth place after finishing second last year.

Head Coach James Jones pointed to an injury to guard Armani Cotton ’15 as a factor in the Bulldogs’ recent rebounding woes.

“We haven’t been as good [at rebounding] because he’s a big part of us,” Jones said. “He makes rebounding easier for everyone because he just draws so much attention and it creates space for other guys.”

Cotton is second on the team with 4.2 rebounds per game.

After playing a combined 17 minutes off the bench in the previous two games, he rejoined the starting lineup against Baruch and put up an efficient nine points, six boards, two assists and a steal in 20 minutes of action.

“I’m going to be playing this weekend and as long as I’m in there, I’ll take that responsibility to help with rebounding,” Cotton said. “That’s one category I’m going to make sure we’re a plus in at the end of the game.”

Although Cotton is central to the Bulldogs’ rebounding scheme, he will receive help from Yale’s other big men. Forward Justin Sears ’16 leads the team with 6.5 rebounds per game, and Townsend could see his average of 3.1 boards increase along with his playing time. Townsend has played at least 27 minutes in two of Yale’s

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last three games, averaging 4.0 rebounds over that span.

Cotton’s return to the hardwood is not the only thing that will help the Elis. Jones also noted the improvement in decision making from guard Javier Duren ’15.

“Javier has really improved and matured by leaps and bounds since last year,” Jones said. “He still has a few more steps left to take. He has to be a two-to-one assist to turnover ratio guy. When he is able to do that for us, we will be a much better basketball team.”

Duren is the Elis’ second leading scorer and leads them in assists per game for the season with 3.2, but is averaging almost as many turnovers (2.9).

Over the last two games, however, he has taken better care of the ball, recording just two turnovers compared to nine assists. In addition to battling their opponents on the boards, the Bulldogs will have to take great care of the ball against a Brown defense that also leads the league in steals per game with 5.9.

Jones stated that it will take a complete effort to tackle the Bears.

“Fundamentally we have to do a better job of finding each other offensively,” Jones said.

“Rebounding the ball, scoring at the basket — those are things we’ve relied on the last couple of years and we hope we can rely on them this year in the league.”

The Elis tip off against Brown tomorrow at 2 p.m. in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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

Elis host ECAC foes W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 “We’re expecting it to be a pretty tough weekend, but I think we’re better prepared,” forward Jamie Haddad ’15 said. “We have a lot of confidence going into this weekend, especially after our win against Harvard.”

Clarkson and St. Lawrence both defeated Yale when the Bulldogs played them earlier this season. St. Lawrence won 4–1, and Clarkson shut out the Elis 7–0 as part of the five losses that began Yale’s regular season.

Yale is 6–6–1 since dropping those two games, and players on the team said that the Golden Knights and Saints will see a more competitive team on the ice this weekend.

“That was one of our first weekends of the season,” goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said. “As a team, we’ve come a very, very long way since then. We’ve really shown a lot of improvement, recently, and it’s been a drastic improvement since the beginning of the year. I’m sure they’ll be looking at a different team, and we’ll be looking at a different team from them, too.”

The Bulldogs will suffer from the recent loss of Jackie Raines ’15 to injury.

Raines, the team’s leading scorer in 2011-2012, had just returned from hip surgery when she broke her wrist at Dartmouth last week. She scored two goals and assisted two more in the three games she was able to play.

On the ice for the Bulldogs will be forward Phoebe Staenz ’17,

who recently was named to the Swiss Olympic team playing in Sochi this February.

Those two forwards will need to lead an impressive offensive performance against Clarkson goalie Erica Howe, whose 1.01 goals allowed per game and nine shutouts are best in the country.

Spearheading the Clarkson attack on the other end of the ice will be forward Jamie Lee Rattray, who is also best in the NCAA with 17 goals so far this season.

Overall, the Golden Knights have been a force both offensively and defensively, coming into the contest averaging 3.68 goals and just 1.05 goals against. Both figures rank in top three nationally.

Haddad said the individual performers on Clarkson will not influence Yale’s overall gameplan.

“We don’t usually play against specific girls,” Haddad said. “It’s always good to know who you’re up against, and we’ll try to match lines against them, but other than that we don’t really pay attention to that. We have our own systems, and our goal is to play our systems, not theirs.”

St. Lawrence has been less deadly on paper with 2.20 goals and 2.80 goals against per game.

The Saints currently ride a sixgame losing streak after dropping pairs of game to Mercyhurt, Robert Morris and Clarkson.

Yale will square off with Clarkson tonight at 7:00 p.m., while the contest against St. Lawrence begins tomorrow at 4:00 p.m.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

’Dogs head north MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 “We had some tough games before break where we thought we played well but didn’t get a win, so it’s definitely nice to string some good games together during break,” forward Mike Doherty ’17 said.

In those four games, Yale outscored its opponents 18–8 and was reenergized by the returns from injury of star forwards Anthony Day ’15 and captain Jesse Root ’14.

Root picked up two assists while Day added a goal and two helpers in the four games to continue his scoring renaissance.

Having a guy back there that the whole team trusts is always beneficial for how well we play.

TOMMY FALLEN ’16 Forward, Men’s hockey team That period also saw the reemergence of left wing Kenny Agostino ’14 as a scoring threat.

The Calgary Flames prospect has scored six goals in his last seven games after tallying only two in the 11 contests prior to that stretch.

Center Stu Wilson ’16 has also heated up recently, scoring two goals and adding three assists over the break.

It has been the play of freshman goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, however, that has been most impressive as of late. The Baudette, Minn. native posted a .958 save percentage over break and was phenomenal in New

York and Burlington. Lyon was a nominee for the ECAC Rookie and Goaltender of the Week awards presented on Jan. 14. The netminder claimed the full-time starting job six games into the season and has averaged just over 24 saves per game in his twelve contests.

“Lyon has been great for us,” forward Tommy Fallen ’16 said.

“He’s proven to us and the coaching staff that he’s reliable and that comes from the high level of competition for that position by both [Patrick] Spano [’17] and [Connor] Wilson [’15]. He’s been solid, and having a guy back there that the whole team trusts is always beneficial for how well we play.”

The Bulldogs will need both Agostino and Lyon to have strong games this weekend as the Elis are facing what might be their toughest doubleheader of the season.

Yale faced the Knights and Saints at the Whale back in the beginning of November. In those contests, the Elis skated to a comeback 3–3 OT tie against St. Lawrence and a big 6–3 win against Clarkson.

The six conceded goals were a season high for the Knights, who have given up no more than four in any other game so far.

Clarkson has struggled as of late, losing four of its last six games after previously winning six of its last seven games. The Knights have a solid offense, boasting eight players in double digits in the points column, and are off to their best start in 13 years. The northerners have been solid at home, losing only twice and giving up just over two goals per game on their own ice.

Saint Lawrence has also been going through a tough stretch, los-

ing eight of their last 10 games.

The Saints have been defeated in five straight games against ranked opponents, including North Dakota, Vermont and Clarkson.

However, Saint Lawrence have two of the biggest scoring threats in the nation with Greg and Matt Carey.

Older brother Greg, a Hobey Baker Award Finalist last year, is second in the nation in points and assists.

Matt has scored 13 goals this season, only one fewer than his older sibling, and ranks 21st in the nation in points. The Carey brothers have helped the Saints create the most fearsome power play unit in Division-I hockey, scoring on almost 30 percent of their man advantages.

The Bulldogs will need to be wary of the Saints’ threat. Despite having taken the second fewest penalty minutes in the NCAA this season—averaging just over seven minutes per game — Yale has been poor at defending the powerplay.

The Elis ranks 48th in the nation in that category, conceding goals on over 33 percent of opponents’ changes.

The Bulldogs have been strong away from home this year (2–1– 2) and average 3.4 goals a game on the road. The weekend’s matchups are especially important for the Bulldogs’ ECAC title chances.

The Bulldogs, who were picked by ECAC coaches to win the league, are sixth in the conference behind Clarkson (third) and table-toppers Quinnipiac.

The Bulldogs take on Clarkson on Friday night and Saint Lawrence on Saturday night. Face off time for both games is 7 p.m.

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

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The Elis have been inconsistent in recent weeks, alternating wins and losses in their last four games.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 “For Brown on Friday, we will definitely need to slow down their transition offense,” Halejian said. “Other than that, we are looking to play our game, mainly by pressuring them on defense and pushing the ball hard for 40 minutes.”

This will be the 77th meeting between the two teams, with Brown holding the overall advantage 43–33. Yale and Brown split last season’s series, as the home team lost each

contest. The Bears defeated the Bulldogs 68–67 in New Haven and the Elis topped Brown 59–47 in Providence.

Last season the Bulldogs finished fourth in the Ivy League, while the Bears finished seventh.

The two teams will face off again Jan. 24, this time at the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven.

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Bears come to New Haven

Bulldogs to face test up north MEN’S HOCKEY

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER After a challenging nonconference schedule, the Elis (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) will finally start their Ivy League season against Brown tomorrow.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Yale will enter the game having recently snapped a four-game losing streak with a victory against Baruch last Saturday. The Bulldogs’ tough nonconference schedule included opponents such as No. 24 St. Louis, Connecticut and Providence. Brown, however, will pose its own challenge to the Elis.

“I think because Brown plays a lot like we do, it’ll be a really good test for us to see where we stand as a team right now,” forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “Both teams are physical and athletic at the post positions and have some guys who can really make some plays from the perimeter, so it should be a good barometer for us.”

Brown (8–6, 0–0) comes into the season opener having won its last two games, including a blowout victory against Daniel Webster.

Despite losing four players to graduation last season, including leading scorer Matt Sullivan, head coach Mike Martin has kept the team playing at a high level.

Brown’s current leading scorer, guard Sean McGonagill, is first in the Ivy League in points per game this year at 18.7. The Bears also boast the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, forward Cedric Kuakumensah, who is fifth in the conference in rebounding and center, Rafael Maia, who leads the Ivy League with SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 13

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The No. 8 men’s hockey team will travel to New York this weekend to take on St. Lawrence and No. 14 Clarkson.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER After going undefeated in four non-conference games over break, the No. 8 men’s hockey team will head

to upstate New York to take on two strong ECAC opponents. On Friday, the Bulldogs (8–3–4, 3–2–3 ECAC) face off against No. 14 Clarkson (13– 7–2, 6–2–0 ECAC) and then make a short 15-minute trip south to St. Law-

Yale seeks redemption

rence (8-10-2, 2-4-2 ECAC) on Saturday.

In the Elis’ four games before the Christmas layoff, the Bulldogs went 1–2–1 and had failed to win an ECAC game since Nov. 22 against Colgate.

The women’s basketball team begins Ivy League play with a homeand-home set against Brown this Friday in Providence.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The women’s ice hockey team will host two conference foes this weekend, No. 5 Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team will look to keep momentum going when it hosts No. 5 Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend at Ingalls Rink.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Clarkson (16–4–2, 7–2–1 ECAC) and St. Lawrence (6–13–1, 5–4–1) are currently fourth and sixth in the ECAC, respectively, giving the Elis a good chance to prove themselves against

strong competition.

The Bulldogs (6–10–1, 4–5–1) are coming off of a 2–0 win at No. 6 Harvard last week and are 4–3 in their last seven games.

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Over break, however, the Elis dominated three non-ranked opponents and tied No. 18 Vermont in Burlington.

The Bulldogs (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) are coming off a tough non-conference schedule that included games against Kansas and Miami, both of which made the NCAA tournament last season.

“The pre-season was a good growing experience for this team,” Head Coach Chris Gobrecht said. “The players try very hard to learn from every game and they got better.”

Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 concurred, saying that the team is up for the challenges ahead.

Brown (6–8, 0–0) has played a competitive schedule as well thus far, including games against some of the same teams. The Bears went 2–3 against Saint Peter’s, Bryant, Army, Maine and New Hampshire compared to Yale’s record of 3–2 against the same five teams.

The game will feature two of the Ivy League’s best three-point shooting teams, as Yale comes into the game having posted a 33.6 shoot percentage from beyond the arc. Brown is even more prolific from long range, shooting 39.3 percent on the season from the three-point arc — ninth-best in the country.

Brown also holds the edge in field

goal percentage so far this season, shooting 39.3 percent from the field compared to the Bulldogs’ 37 percent.

The Elis are scoring 66.2 points per game, whereas the Bears are averaging 65.3 points a game. The Bulldogs also have the advantage in total rebounds per game, 39.1 to 31.0. The two teams seem to be evenly matched on paper, and all signs point to a close game that will come down to the wire.

“We have rebounded the ball consistently well and will need to do so in order to give ourselves a chance to be successful in conference play,” Halejian said.

The Bulldogs will look to Halejian and captain and guard Janna Graf ’14 to lead the team. Halejian leads the team in scoring, averaging 15.6 points a game during the first half of the season. Graf paces the team in threepoint shooting among players averaging a minimum of one three-point shot attempt per game. The captain is connecting on 42.6 percent of her shots from downtown so far this season and is averaging 10.4 points per game.

The Elis will need to contain the Bears’ leading scorer, guard Lauren Clarke, who is averaging 17.3 points a game. They will also need to account for Brown’s top three-point shooter, guard Sophie Bikofsky, who is shooting 51.6 percent from behind the arc.

Halejian added that the Bulldogs will need to hound the Bears in order to keep them from running the floor for easy opportunities.

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TOTAL PENALTY MINUTES AMASSED BY THE NO. 8 MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM THIS YEAR, THE LEAST IN THE ECAC. THE BULLDOGS WILL FACE THE SECOND AND FOURTH MOST PENALIZED TEAMS IN THE CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND IN NO. 14 CLARKSON AND ST. LAWRENCE, RESPECTIVELY.