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Diplo to headline spring fling CHANCE THE RAPPER AND BETTY WHO TO OPEN

Your move, Linda Lorimer.

Princeton cancelled all classes Wednesday due to snow.

A smoggy day in Cambridge.

Harvard senior Joshua Lipson recently took to the Opinion section of the Crimson to encourage his peers to try their hands at marijuana. “We might do well to experience the graces of a plant thought widely to combat stress, increase empathy, and spur creativity,” he writes. Lipson even calls out current Yale lecturer David Brooks on his “pig-headed claims,” arguing instead that “marijuana alone will neither make you crazy, nor lazy, nor dumb.”

Race to the bottom. A site called Rehabs compiled data on per capita arrests related to drugs and alcohol between 2009 and 2011 and broke down the numbers for all eight Ivy League schools. Dartmouth “sits comfortably in first position” the piece revealed, leading 12.53 alcohol-related arrests per 1000 students. Four schools — Brown, Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania — showed 0 arrests per 1000 students. Yale came in second with 2.27 drug arrests per 1000 students.

DIY (Drink It Yourself)! Zinc

recently released a video on Youtube featuring bartender Steve as he details instructions for their new winter cocktail.

“Don’t feel like going out in the snow? Learn how to make one of our winter cocktails right from home!” the ad read.

HBBCD. West Wing Weekly

held a Big Block of Cheesecake day last night in honor of the Obama White House’s recent Big Block of Cheese Day. The event refers to a West Wing tradition where the White House opened up to eccentric special interest groups, such as the “Cartographers for Social Equality.”

What’s so special about a naked party? Columbia has

recently received attention for a strange incident in which a group of women stripped in its Butler Library to shoot a feminist video for the magazine Purple. The video showed the five young women take off their clothes and cover each other in egg yolk, chocolate syrup and milk, then make out with each other.

The theme of the video, titled “Initiation”, was Ivy League Secret Societies.

Conflict of interest? In

another bizarre twist of local politics, the recently underfire New Haven schools chief Garth Harries conducted a self-evaluation. Not surprisingly, he scored himself very highly. Over the course of the evaluation, Harries characterized himself as “strong” and “exemplary.”

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Yale’s top earners evaluated

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during a deliberation process that lasted from September to December. After the committee’s booking agent confirmed the asking prices of the potential artists, students received a survey of roughly

The University’s highest paid employees deserve their salaries and more, according to financial experts and Yale faculty.

A recent, controversial article in Bloomberg argued the opposite, claiming that many selective universities overpay their endowment managers. During the most recent reported year, 2011-’12, Chief Investment Officer David Swensen GRD ’80 and his second-in-command, Dean Takahashi ’80 SOM ’83 were the two highest paid employees at Yale, making a total sum of $2.9 million and $2.1 million respectively. Former University President Richard Levin came in third, with over $1.6 million in salary and benefits.

Still, faculty members and financial experts interviewed said the benefits these investment officers bring to the University far outweigh their levels of compensation.

“I would give them my money to manage,” said Andrew Lo ’80, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I actually think Yale should thank its lucky stars that it has David Swensen and Takahashi.”

Though Yale’s investment managers are paid more than University President Peter Salovey, the ratio of compensation is justified, said School of Management professor Andrew

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Announced at Toad’s Place at midnight, Chance the Rapper and Betty Who will open for Diplo at this year’s Spring Fling.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Diplo will headline this year’s Spring Fling, with Chance the Rapper and Betty Who completing the lineup for the April 26 event.

The names of the performers were released at Toad’s Place last night at midnight via a student-produced video to a crowd of roughly 100 students. The Yale College Council Spring Fling Committee — comprising of 30 members — selected the performers

Yale criticizes college rating system

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Along with thousands of other colleges and universities, Yale continues to express major concerns over President Obama’s proposed college rating system.

In a letter last week, over 20 associations of higher education

institutions strongly criticized the rating system, which is a central plank of Obama’s higher education agenda. The letter comes only three weeks after over 100 college and university presidents pledged, at a White House summit, to work with the Obama Administration to expand access to higher education for low-

SOM breaks into top 10

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER For the first time in seven years, the Yale School of Management has entered the top 10 in the Financial Times’ MBA rankings.

SOM was ranked 10th in the FT’s 2014 list of the best business schools in the world, released last week. This year, SOM overcame well-known American business schools such as Berkeley, Kellog and Tuck, and international institutions like the HEC School of Management in France and IE Business School in Spain. Over the past five years, SOM has ranged from 14th to 20th in the rankings.

Though SOM students interviewed all said they thought the school’s brand-new campus was a large factor in SOM’s rise in the rankings, SOM administrators said Evans Hall did not play a direct role in this year’s rankings. Still, alumni, faculty and students interviewed said they were glad their school’s unique character and mission is gaining recognition, both in business school rankings and in the general business world.

The FT’s list is one of several rankings published each year. Though each system uses a different set of criteria, the FT

income students. Although Yale did not help draft the letter, the University is a member of eight of the associations that wrote the letter and shares many of the authors’ concerns about the ratings system, according to Yale’s Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Richard Jacob.

Obama first introduced the

idea of rating colleges on value and performance last August.

Under the plan, which seeks to develop the ratings by the 2015 academic year, federal aid to colleges and universities would eventually be tied to these ratings. The rating system, if implemented, would help determine the allocation of about $150 bil-

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

SOM Dean Edward Snyder attributed SOM’s rapid rise in the rankings to the school’s global strategy.

“It’s simple,” he said. “We are becoming the most global business school in the U.S.” Snyder said SOM’s partnership with business schools around the world has made the school a pioneer in the global business field. This partnership has enabled SOM to institute initiatives such as week-long exchange programs between the SEE SOM PAGE 4

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We are becoming the most global business school in the U.S. EDWARD SNYDER Dean, Yale School of Management

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Harp outlines agenda In his State of the State address Thursday, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will unveil an agenda that squares with New Haven’s legislative priorities, Mayor Toni Harp said Wednesday.

Specifically, Harp said, the city will be the beneficiary of a proposed uptick in Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) funding, which reimburses Connecticut municipalities for tax-exempt properties. Malloy will propose an $8 million statewide increase in reimbursements for lost property taxes from colleges and hospitals, according to State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney.

“The governor is opening the discussion on PILOT by proposing an $8 million increase for the college and hospital fund,” Looney said.

“There’s also payments in lieu of state property taxes. I expect we’ll have a discussion about both programs during the session to come.”

David Bednarz, a spokesman for the governor’s office, declined to comment in advance of Thursday’s remarks on the governor’s position on PILOT. If such a proposal wins approval in the General Assem-

measures two broad categories: current data about the school and data about how well graduates who left the school three years ago are doing in their jobs.

Assessments in the second category are based on graduates’ pre-MBA and post-MBA salaries, seniority and company size.

lion in federal student financial aid each year, according to a December release from the Department of Education. “[Yale does] favor disclosure of information about access, affordability and outcomes of education that would help pro-

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New Haven Mayor Toni Harp is requesting a $5 million increase in Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) funding from the state.

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n Monday afternoon, a cell phone appeared to go off several minutes into the Introductory Macroeconomics lecture. Then another identical ring emerged from the din.

And another. Soon, a cacophony of rings from around the lecture hall succeeded in bringing professor Robert Shiller’s discussion of monetary policy to a halt.

“I think someone’s phone is going off,” he said.

What began as a jovial prank soon degenerated into a malicious, personal and uncalled for attack on a faculty member.

“Rise!”

One student’s scream prompted a handful of students holding bells to stand.

Two of them — a boy and a girl — marched towards the stage.

They shook Shiller’s hand, and handed him a few objects including a paper scroll and a bell. He fumbled trying to place them on his podium. Students glanced around in uneasy silence, confused by what was unfolding before their eyes.

“For talking about your Nobel Prize more than anyone else, we present you with the Yes-bell Prize,” announced one of the bell-carriers.

The handful of students proceeded to pick up their backpacks and walk out of the lecture hall. Their hijinks may have been intended to generate laughter, but the room was left quiet.

Some sensed that a prank had gone too far — that a tacit code had been broken.

Professor Shiller struggled to comprehend what had just occurred. Visibly flustered, he took a couple of minutes to resume his lecture.

“I hadn’t even planned on mentioning the Nobel Prize today,” he said.

The episode that interrupted his lecture was no prank. It was rude, disrespectful and meanspirited. It was glorified bullying of a Yale professor.

More than simply disrupt a class, the bell-ringing perpetrators attempted to publicly humiliate a faculty member. Without warning, they criticized him for referring to his Nobel Prize during lectures and did so in front of a room full of students.

Despite how well Shiller handled the situation, he did not deserve the treatment he received.

As a faculty member, Shiller deserves a baseline of respect.

The success of any class depends on an environment of trust and respect. Trust allows students and faculty to openly share their ideas and questions without fear of being judged. A sense of mutual respect makes academic debate, which aims to arrive at a better understanding of the material, possible. By mocking

him, the bell-ringers violated the trust and respect that underlies constructive learning, and dismissed Shiller’s experience as an educator. They broke an unwritten rule at the core of the student-teacher relationship.

The students who objected to the content of his lectures could have opted to take another course. If they had opinions about his teaching, they were free to privately share them with him or his teaching fellows. A malicious stunt to embarrass him, to put it mildly, was not the best way to encourage changes in his teaching style.

In fact, in my time in the class, I have not found Shiller’s occasional references to his Nobel Prize to be out of line or instances of bragging. As a marking of his excellent research career and an honor that has dramatically impacted his day-to-day life, the prize serves as context for certain social encounters he describes and places he has been. It explains why he participated in a conference with the other 2013 Nobel Laureates, why Yale uploaded a personal interview with him and why journalists at the World Economic Forum converged on him with questions about the Argentine peso. It would be notable if he tried not to talk about the prize given how much it has affected his life. Some students may consider it immodest to talk about one’s own accomplishments, but it would be dishonest not to do so. The expectation that he act as if the Nobel Prize never happened is neither fair nor realistic.

A large number of his students are grateful for the privilege of taking a course taught by such a luminary in the field.

When he was awarded the prize, President Salovey encouraged the Yale community to share in each other’s achievements. “As we bask in the reflected glory of the excellence that we experienced at Yale,” he wrote, “We all become better people, unified in celebrating this grand institution.” Instead of stigmatizing any mention of our successes, we should welcome them.

Shiller’s decision to teach an introductory economics course is a boon for Yale and a boon for his students. Nobody ever claimed introducing the field of macroeconomics to a 400-person class would be easy, and Shiller has done a remarkable job on his first try.

Professor Shiller and other faculty members make Yale an extraordinary place. They deserve better from us. And so do we.

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n some ways, Sonia Sotomayor and Nina Davuluri could not be more different.

Sotomayor, the third female justice of the Supreme Court, weighed her words carefully when she spoke before a full Woolsey Hall audience Monday afternoon. She spoke in measured, thoughtful language — with just a hint of an accent reflecting her Bronx upbringing and Puerto Rican heritage — about her experiences in the Ivy League. Davuluri, Miss America 2014, is eloquent in a very different way: She marked her address with effusive, gushing deliveries of anecdotes about her experiences in middle school or her involvement with “Brown Town,” an affectionate label for her University of Michigan Indian-American peers.

Sotomayor seems the hypereducated embodiment of professionalism. Davuluri is the witty, almost-too-involved girl-nextdoor.

And yet, in their visits to Yale this week, the two demonstrated a remarkable degree of similarity.

Sotomayor and Davuluri are both first-generation Americans who hold iconic national positions, both born in New York to immigrant parents. They share professional ambition, Sotomayor’s

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ficult to maintain their cultural identities under the pressure of American culture. The two made the same comment: that they don’t know any other way.

After being fortunate to hear both these women speak, I can’t help but wonder whether Yale is perhaps the wrong audience for Sotomayor and Davuluri’s message. Though they and similar icons of American diversity will always be received warmly here, the two seemed to be — pardon the cliché — preaching to the choir.

What are Yale and its peer institutions if not proof of the changing face of the ambitious and successful American? If the two hope to target and end the kind of bigotry and hate that Davuluri faced after being crowned Miss America, or to inspire a diverse population of students to pursue their goals as Sotomayor did, they might do better to address schools where homogeneity, cultural conflict and oppression pervade.

Take my public high school.

My school was 70 percent white, and the neighborhood surrounding it an overwhelming 95 percent white. I had more than a few peers who opposed affirmative action, claiming it disadvantaged white, privileged students in their pursuit of elite education. When

Sotomayor remarked on the poverty in which she grew up, joked about not knowing the Ivy League schools and commented on the importance of affirmative action, I could only wish that the audience was not the Yale community but rather my high school peers.

In a different setting, her message might have actually shifted perspectives, instead of falling on the ears of a community already versed in cultural competency.

At Yale we’re fortunate to be so frequently in the company of scholars and role models like Sotomayor and Davuluri. But we don’t need them the way so many students in this country do. Next time, I’d rather they forgo the Ivy League talk for a trip to a homogeneous high school in Boca Raton, Fla. or a predominantly minority school lacking in secondary education preparation resources.

Whether they are undoing prejudice among close-minded Americans or inspiring the success of a new generation of diverse American leaders, the unlikely pair of leaders have plenty of work to do — but they won’t find it at Yale.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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And both POSNER came espousing the imporOut of Line tance of cultural competency and American diversity, implicit in their own histories and explicit in the words they shared with the Yale community.

Davuluri and Sotomayor openly discussed the social challenges tied to their distinct heritages. Davuluri reflected regretfully on feeling validated when a friend labeled her an “Oreo” after a school talent show: “Why should I need to be white, or anything other than me, on the inside?” she now asks. Sotomayor reflected on educational inequities she encountered as a young adult: When a friend accepted to Princeton encouraged her to apply to the Ivy Leagues, Sotomayor asked, “What’s that?”

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few days ago, an article popped up on my Facebook newsfeed with the lengthy title “His First 4 Sentences are Interesting. The 5th Blew My Mind. And Made Me A Little Sick.”

The article had been posted by the website Upworthy, which shares progressive videos and promotes them in the hopes that they will go viral via social media.

As the website puts it, Upworthy seeks to make “important issues as shareable as a video of someone jumping on his bed and falling out the window.” In a sense, Upworthy’s mission is a noble one. If, like me, you are sympathetic to most of the causes discussed in the videos, then you can get behind efforts to promote them in an engaging way. However, Upworthy, and a growing number of sites imitating its methods, represent a very serious, troubling trend in the future of our media landscape.

There are many objections that could be raised against Upworthy and other similar sites. They are often patronizing and manipulative. They overuse effusive words like “awesome” in an attempt

to draw readers in, dealing with even serious subjects in a lighthearted manner. But Upworthy’s problems extend beyond editorial childishness.

Upworthy frames its narratives using emotions, not information. The goal of an Upworthy article is to create the expectation of some emotional sensation that the video will then fulfill.

Videos may be educational, but that’s not their primary purpose. Consider the headline that I quoted at length in the first paragraph. Someone who sees this link on Facebook does not click on it because she wants to learn about healthcare — in fact she has no way of knowing healthcare is the topic of the article. She clicks on it because she wants to have her mind blown in an unsettling way.

The article might be informative as well, but information comes second to emotion.

Upworthy’s approach is effective because it motivates readers to share their posts, as people are likely to pass on materials that move them. But this emotional approach to informing people is troublesome because it makes

facts subservient to the emotional narrative constructed. Facts are included because they strengthen the power of the emotional climax, but those facts that might muddy the issue and add unwelcome complexity are discarded for the benefit of the narrative. If someone’s views on a topic have been defined by an emotional framework, then new facts are only accepted if they bolster that framework. It is more appealing for online progressives to rest in dignified outrage or profound empathy than deal with the muddied world of actual politics and policy.

Of course, Upworthy was not the first to use this emotional approach to policy. Cable news and talk radio have tread this path many times before. But these venues typically maintain the veneer of valuing facts. Fox News famously claims to be “Fair and Balanced.” With Upworthy, it seems we are shedding that veneer and simply embracing the idea that narrative legitimizes fact, instead of the other way around.

Why does all this matter?

Upworthy may well be the future of journalism on the web. Business Insider labelled it the fastest growing media company of all time. Its model is extremely successful, with nearly 90 million unique visitors last December.

Even if Upworthy itself does not survive, its imitators will. These websites see themselves as taking up the role of traditional journalism, explicitly aligning themselves on their website with the “noble mission to inform the public and draw attention to the things that really matter in our society.” Upworthy has the potential to truly revolutionize how we consume news, and we would be much poorer for it.

So please, the next time you see an inspiring video on Upworthy, look up the topic in The New York Times, or some other fact-driven news source, and share that article instead. Traditional news sites may not be as flashy, but at least they’re grounded in real information.

ISA QASIM is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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Scandal still Police: Union Station crimes not a trend strains Egyptology

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BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER In January 2013, allegations emerged of an affair between Egyptology professor John Darnell and Associate Professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 while Manassa was a student under Darnell’s supervision. One year after the scandal, students and faculty in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) department — the umbrella department of Yale’s Egyptology program — are still hurting from the consequences, which include Darnell’s continued suspension from the University and a consequent lack of advising for graduate students in the program.

Darnell and Manassa are the only two faculty members in Egyptology at Yale, and Darnell was the only senior professor and advisor in the Egyptology program. One graduate student in the program, who requested to remain anonymous, said graduate research has been “severely halted” by Darnell’s suspension.

Assyriology Professor Benjamin Foster GRD ’75 said the University tapped history Professor Joseph Manning to mobilize graduate advising committees to replace Darnell — often looking to outside scholars for membership in the committees. But the University has not offered financial compensation to these outside advisors and some have declined to assist the Yale students, according to the graduate student.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said Manassa is unable to advise the Egyptology graduate students because she does not have tenure. But Foster said the reason Manassa is not currently advising graduate students has more to do with the “situation of last year.”

Foster said the current uncertainty of Egypt’s political climate has further impeded the research of Yale’s Egyptology graduate students, with the department hesitant to send students into a dangerous situation.

“It’s not a place we’re eager to see our students go,” Foster said. “You don’t want people out in rural Egypt if there’s going to be a revolution.”

Since Darnell’s suspension, at least one of the seven graduate students listed on the Egyptology program’s website has dropped out of the program.

When news broke of the scandal last

year, the University imposed a one-year suspension without pay on Darnell, which meant that the professor would be back on campus this semester. But last semester, University Provost Benjamin Polak extended the sanctions until fall 2014 as a result of an investigation by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

Darnell’s absence has strained Yale’s already-small program in Egyptology, halting the admission of new Egyptology graduate students until fall 2016 and lowering NELC’s annual admission cap from four to three graduate students.

“At the present time, we’re not taking graduate students in Egyptology, so obviously not doing that well at the moment,” Foster said.

James Allen, an Egyptologist at Brown University, said the nine other North American universities that offer Egyptology graduate programs have not benefitted from Yale’s hiatus.

Brown’s Egyptology program regularly receives 15 times more applications than it can admit, Allen said, noting that the same figures apply elsewhere. As no graduate program can increase its number of accepted students, Yale’s suspension is not benefitting other graduating programs, but rather limiting the number of slots for aspiring Egyptologists in the United States and Canada.

While Allen said Yale’s program has suffered a “setback,” Foy Scalf, an Egyptology graduate student at the University of Chicago, said top-notch research has come out of Yale’s Egyptology program in the past year. Scalf cited a museum exhibit and catalogue produced by Manassa, a book by Darnell and “compelling” papers at conferences by graduate students Niv Allon and Julia Hsieh as examples of this research.

“The research being produced by the Yale Egyptology department remains among the top of the field,” Scalf said.

Still, if he were applying to graduate programs today, Scalf said he would be concerned that the fallout of last year’s scandal could have negative consequences for his future career.

Darnell and Manassa could not be reached for comment.

There are 10 academic Egyptology programs in North America.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

Although a recent spate of robberies near Union Station has raised concern among Yale students who frequently walk to the train station, police officials have said these incidents do not indicate a larger trend.

On Jan. 5 and Jan. 27, University faculty, staff and students received public safety updates from Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins announcing that a student had been robbed while walking to the station at 50 Union Ave. The first victim was threatened with a knife, while the other was physically assaulted — both by a group of teenaged males, who eventually made off with the victims’ cell phones and wallets. Right around the same time, a third robbery occurred near Union Station, though the victim was not specifically headed toward the station.

Higgins said the YPD has arrested individuals suspected of involvement in the Yale students’ robberies but that students should remain vigilant about keeping themselves safe.

“At this time of year in particular, many students and faculty are returning to campus from the train station,” Higgins’ Jan. 5 report read. “Please let this message serve as a reminder to take a cab, a city bus or the Yale shuttle back to campus or walk with a group.”

Similarities between the crimes — both took place on Church St. South near Amistad St., for example — have led Higgins to believe that a group of males recently apprehended by New Haven Police Department and the YPD forces is responsible: Authorities arrested two males involved in the third robbery, which took place near Amistad St. on Jan. 27.

If, in fact, those arrested also committed the two Yale student robberies, Higgins is confident that police are not dealing with a major crime trend and that the incidents are likely isolated to one group of suspects.

“I don’t know that [crime around Union Station] is a historical problem,” Higgins said. “What we’re talking about is a group of juveniles, who we arrested, who were very active in the area, and they’re in jail right now.”

Though Union Station is located less than one mile from the NHPD’s 1 Union Ave. headquarters, the students targeted — one from the medical school and the other from an unnamed professional school — were walking down

Network institute launches

BY BEN FAIT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday afternoon, roughly 75 members of the Yale community braved the icy weather to celebrate the launch of an academic experiment designed to pull together network science researchers from across the University.

The Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS), located on the third floor of 17 Hillhouse Ave., is an interdisciplinary research center which aims to provide a space for collaboration among Yale faculty members with interests in network science, a field that studies the connections and interactions between individual parts of a system. YINS promises to foster intellectual cross-pollination among disciplines as diverse as the social sciences, computer science, mathematics, biology, and engineering, according to Daniel Spielman ’92, professor of computer science and mathematics and co-director of YINS. “We contain people who use networks to do things like improve public health outcomes and advance technology, but we also have people like myself who spend their time analyzing networks, developing statistics and algorithms for networks,” he said. “The goal is to get these two groups together – the people who provide the means can help the people who provide the ends, and vice-versa.”

The traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony was renamed to the more network-appropriate “ribbon-tying” ceremony, and began with a series of speakers involved with YINS. University Provost Ben Polak was among the speakers at the opening. He expressed his enthusiasm for the program, and his belief that the interdisciplinary-spirit embodied by YINS will spread to other academic disciplines at Yale and universities.

“This is very exciting,” Polak

said. “This is something which is, right now, uniquely Yale. It’s really pulling things from across the whole of Yale, and it’s kind of risky. This is a big investment that we believe will be intellectually important. It’s going to stretch from the sciences to the social sciences. I think we will see it in the humanities too — not yet, but we will. We kind of think this is the future.”

The workspace of YINS occupies the entire third floor of 17 Hillhouse. A large conference area offers a space for collaboration in the middle of the lab, while flanking floor-toceiling white boards and large flat screen TV’s line the outer walls. On display at the launch Wednesday were publications from researchers involved with YINS, including work in decision-making, genomics, gun violence, social cooperation, and industrial evolution. Currently, the institute has almost 50 members and is growing.

According to Nicholas Christakis ’84, a Yale professor of social and natural science and co-director of the institute, YINS’ goals fall in line with an emerging trend in academia.

He said research has focused overwhelmingly on breaking down objects and phenomena into smaller parts, opening up a niche for network science, the field which attempts to uncover how the organization of these individual parts in a system leads to complex outcomes.

Christakis cited the emergence of more macroscopic specializations like systems biology as evidence of this shift.

“We’ve disassembled life into organisms, then organs, then cells, then macromolecules, and then genes, and we have disassembled matter into atoms, then nuclei, then subatomic particles, and so forth,” Christakis said. “I think across many disciplines, scientists are now struggling with how to put the parts back together again, whether it’s macromolecules

into cells, neurons into brains, nutrients into foodstuffs, species into ecosystems, or people into [social] networks. Network science is part of what I would call the much broader assembly project of modern science.”

The unique approach of YINS also comes with challenges, said Akihiro Nishi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute and a recent graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health.

“If I like medicine, I just need to know medicine,” Nishi said.

“But here I need to study genetics, sociology, evolution, and networks science. It’s very difficult to decide what I should learn and do, but it’s exciting.”

YINS will begin hosting seminars on network-related topics every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. starting next week. In addition to hiring postdoctoral fellows and researchers, the institute also expects undergraduate positions to open as its projects become more defined.

For Sekhar Tatikonda, a Yale professor of electrical engineering and statistics and YINS faculty member, the promise of the Institute goes beyond supporting innovative research.

“I’m hoping that eventually, in addition to fostering collaborative research projects, that we’ll have a curriculum, and maybe even a program or a degree — maybe a department,” he said. “But I think there is a core set of courses that we could easily teach that would be beneficial to lots of people on campus.”

Araba Koomson ’17 said she attended the event because she is enjoying Christakis’ class, “Health of the Public,” adding that the subject of networks is a relevant and interesting break from her pre-med requirements.

Christakis joined the Yale faculty last summer after 12 years at Harvard.

Contact BEN FAIT at benjamin.fait@yale.edu .

YDN

Though there has been a series of robberies around Union Station, they do not point towards a larger trend. a route that does not pass the department when the robberies occurred.

Rather, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said that these two cases took place between the city’s Hill neighborhood and a public housing complex on Church St. Hartman agreed with Higgins that the incidents do not appear to be part of a larger trend, be it recent or historical, adding that Yale students do not necessarily appear to be the specific targets.

“It certainly has not been a pattern crime,” Hartman said. “The area of Church Street South has posed problems for us with all types of crime. It’s not the highest of high-crime areas, but it has its fair share.”

Students interviewed on Wednesday said they had received the YPD’s alerts about the incidents and that the

news has affected their willingness to walk to Union Station from campus.

Audrey Fernandez-Fraser DIV ’16 said she is now much more likely to find other means of transportation in light of the robberies, despite having walked on previous occasions.

William Ratoff GRD ’18 said that, in the wake of Higgins’ recent notifications, he is even less likely to want to walk to the train station.

“I would always take the Yale shuttle anyway,” Ratoff said. “But I’d be more likely to take a taxi [rather than walk.]”

YPD reported 24 incidents of Yale students being robbed in 2012, the last year for which data are available.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

Broadway actress talks show business

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER This Monday, students hoping to pursue professional acting careers received advice from an experienced Yale alumna.

The Yale Drama Coalition and Yale Undergraduate Career Services co-hosted a workshop led by Maria-Christina Oliveras ’01, an actress who has starred in films, television series and Broadway shows. Roughly 22 students attended the workshop, which was titled “Beginning Your Career as an Actor: The First Six Months.”

The event marked Oliveras’s return to Yale after she held a similar workshop here two years ago.

Oliveras said that her aim in holdings these workshops is to provide students with the kind of guidance that she never received when she was beginning to establish herself in the world of professional acting.

“I conduct workshops like these because I want to demystify the process of ‘getting your foot in the door’ and offer up resources to facilitate the transition to places like New York City and Los Angeles,” Oliveras said.

The workshop focused on life immediately after graduation, addressing a variety of issues aspiring actors might face, including housing, budgeting, hiring an agent, writing resumes and taking classes. Oliveras said she wanted to emphasize the importance of staying committed to artistic work without completely losing track of practical necessities — including money. She noted that while she wants actors to focus primarily on developing themselves as artists, they must also face the “unfortunate reality” that individuals looking to get involved in show business also have to understand the field’s financial side. While aspiring artists today cannot be successful in such a competitive talent pool without having a strong passion for what they do, Oliveras added, they also have to think about about more than just creating art.

Michael Protacio ’14, who attended the workshop, said that balancing one’s artistic goals with the need to earn a living can be challenging. He explained that oftentimes artists will delay or even stop pursuing their artistic dreams after spending too much time and energy earning a side income. At the same time, Protacio added, artists may abandon all commitments for the sake of practicing their art form only to realize that they cannot sustain themselves financially.

Former YDC alumna and career chair Kate Heaney ’14, who worked closely with UCS to

organize the event, said that the idea to bring Oliveras back to conduct this workshop was inspired by the results of a survey the YDC sent to the performing arts community last semester. When asked about what types of workshops they most wanted to see at Yale, Heaney added, more students expressed interest in professional acting-related workshops than in any other category.

“There are many students here who wish to pursue careers in the arts,” Heaney said. “But there are not many formal opportunities here for them to see what life is like after graduation.”

UCS Associate Director Katie Volz, who specializes in arts-related careers and resources, said that workshops like this one are part of UCS’s broader initiative to expand its resources for students interested in pursuing the arts beyond the recreational level. She added that recent surveys of the arts community have indicated that a great number of students are concerned with the practical aspects of living as a professional artist, such as writing resumes and preparing for auditions. Volz explained that many students who attend the workshops are in a position where they need to start thinking about life after Yale. Over half of the students who attended the workshop were seniors and nearly all of the rest were juniors, Volz noted, adding that a large portion of the attendees are planning to pursue professional arts-related careers in New York City.

Heaney said that she does not recall any workshops focusing on professional acting during her time as an underclassman. She explained that many of the workshops the YDC organized in the past have been focused on specific art forms such as Middle Eastern Theater and Commedia Dell’Arte, instead of career-oriented topics.

Heaney said the YDC and UCS have greatly improved in their offering of career-oriented events over recent years, while Protacio said that while UCS has increased the number of workshops that specialize in career-related topics, he does not think they are held very frequently. Current YDC alumna and career chair Leah Salovey ’17 said Yale already offers aspiring artists many opportunities to practice their craft, but not as many opportunities to learn about the other aspects of life that these students will need to worry about after graduation.

Oliveras currently stars in the Broadway show, “Machinal.”

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

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“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’”

ROBIN WILLIAMS AMERICAN ACTOR

SOM climbs in business school rankings SOM FROM PAGE 1 schools and shared online course modules, he said.

These global efforts gave SOM an advantage in the FT’s “Diversity and International Reach” component, which accounts for 25 percent of the total assessment, Snyder said.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach agreed that Snyder’s global efforts are to be credited for this year’s success in the portion of the rankings focused on the school’s current status. Snyder executed his goals in a remarkably short period of time, Bach said.

Anjani Jain, SOM associate dean, said global projects are giving the school great momentum. The data from the FT rankings gives external recognition to Snyder’s statement that SOM is on the way to being the most global business school in the U.S., she said, adding that the recognition reinforces the school’s momentum.

Still, Bach said it is also important to look at the portion of the data focused on the performance of students who graduated three years ago. This year’s success is a testament to the projects of past deans, he said.

“The institution has been graced by very strong deans,” Bach said. “Most rankings are retrospective. The first half is the work of Dean [Jeffrey] Garnten, and Dean [Joel] Podolny and Dean [Sharon] Oster — the work they did hiring faculty, integrating the core curriculum [and] galvanizing the commitment of the alumni community.”

Snyder was able to come to the school with a great vision and to enact it quickly because Oster had dealt so skillfully with the financial crisis and left the school with no deficit, SOM professor Andrew Metrick said.

Bach said the school’s success is not the result of a sudden change. Rather, he said it comes from the buildup of long years of hard work.

SOM professor Rick Antle said it is important to take a long-run view to see just how far SOM has come in roughly three decades.

Though SOM is a small school by choice, Antle said there was a time when it was indeed too small.

Bach said the brand-new SOM campus did not play a direct role in this year’s ranking — but added that Evans Hall reflects a long-term commitment of alumni and of the University to the school.

Four students interviewed said they thought the construction of Evans Hall was one of the main positive changes to SOM in recent years.

“It’s the new building definitely, plus the expansion of our global presence,” said Tiffany Morris SOM ’15.

One hundred fifty-three schools took part in the 2014 FTA ranking of the world’s best full-time MBA program.

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

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Evans Hall, the School of Management’s new home, and a focus on making SOM a global business school have helped SOM make the top 10 of the FT’s MBA rankings.

Yale opposes proposed evaluation system AAU FROM PAGE 1

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President Obama’s proposed college rating system has faced criticism from many higher education institutions.

spective students make informed decisions,” Jacob said. “But a simple ratings system might not accomplish that, and could be confusing or misleading.”

Jacob said Yale is specifically concerned about the cost of compiling and submitting all of the data required for such a system.

He added that many of the data elements currently available and likely to comprise part of any rating, such as graduation rates, are also not always reliable ways of measuring a school’s value and performance.

The letter, written by the American Council on Education, was penned in response to a December call from the Department of Education, and was addressed to Richard Reeves, a department official who is responsible for developing the ratings system. Reeves could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

The department’s research arm had made the case to higher education institutions for a ratings system and requested technical expertise and advice on how to proceed with the system. Specifically, the department asked postsecondary institutions 30 broad questions about what data to use in the rating system and how to weight it, how to define groups of colleges and how to make the rating accessible to the public. As of December, the department had yet to decide whether the ratings system would produce a single rating for each institution or assign multiple ratings across a series of categories.

In response, the ACE outlined a series of wide-ranging issues the associations take with the rating system.

According to the letter, the Department of Education has yet to sufficiently define the terms

“value” and “affordability,” two words that can have a wide range of meanings. As evidence, the letter cited the discrepancies between various magazines’ “best value” ratings. While Kiplinger rated Yale as the best value in private postsecondary education, US News picked Harvard. The Princeton Review, on the other hand, chose Williams College.

The letter also noted that the type of data requested by the federal government may not provide an accurate picture of the school. Citing a California community college at which students with loans have an extremely high default rate, the letter said three students at that college had loans, and only one of them had defaulted.

If a college educates many teachers and social workers, a rating based on salary would be low.

SUSAN ALBERTINE Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Student Success, American Association of Colleges and Universities The letter placed the most emphasis, though, on how the rating system will produce “peer groups” of similar institutions.

“To cite one example, Berklee College of Music, the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Hampshire College are, at one level, comparable institutions: they are four-year private, not-for-profit colleges located in Massachusetts,” the letter reads.

“But they have fundamentally different missions.”

The problems outlined in the letter are only a sampling of the

qualms institutions of higher education have raised with the proposed system.

Taking graduate incomes into account in a rating system would penalize colleges that focus on less lucrative disciplines, said Susan Albertine, the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Student Success at the American Association of College and Universities.

“One of the great concerns voiced by our membership is that some professions [do] not pay well.

If a college educates many teachers and social workers, a rating based on salary would be low,” Albertine said. “High salaries of course are not the chief goal of higher education. What about purpose and meaning of life, civic and democratic commitment?”

According to American Association of Colleges and Universities spokeswoman Debra Humphrey, the consensus expressed in the letter emerged over the past few months, well before the college presidents made their way to the White House for the January summit. The ratings system was not a major topic of conversation at the summit.

Humphrey said leadership from the various associations that signed the letter met several times to discuss the proposals. At least one of those meetings, she said, included officials from the Department of Education.

Albertine said much of the coordination across the various groups occurred through an organization called the Washington Secretariat, which addresses policy issues across the higher education sector. The group — effectively an association of associations — meets monthly during the academic year.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“When tillage begins, other arts will follow.

The farmers, therefore are the founders of civilization.” DANIEL WEBSTER U.S. SENATOR, MASSACHUSETTS

C L A R I F I CAT I O N

CitySeed braves winter

MONDAY, FEB. 3

The article “Chabad grows on campus” referred to Jim Ponet as the former executive director of Slifka. He is in fact also the Howard Holtzman Jewish Chaplain.

City schools expand AP program

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Despite increasing enrollment in Advanced Placement classes, almost 70 percent of students in the New Haven School District still fail their AP exams.

While students in Connecticut’s public schools passed nearly 71 percent of their AP exams in 2012, New Haven students passed only about 32.9 percent of their exams. Despite the gap in test performance, administrators at NHPS said it is more important that students are exposed to APlevel material than whether they pass the exam.

“We want to get as many kids exposed to the Advanced Placement rigor as possible,” said Frank Costanzo, principal of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. “Kids who might be on the cusp of getting into the AP, we believe giving them a shot is well worth it.”

The demographic makeup of AP courses in Costanzo’s school has begun in recent years to resemble that of the entire student body, Costanzo said. He added that a larger proportion of minority students are interested in college as a result of increased exposure to college-level material.

The percentage of Caucasian students sitting for AP exams in Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School dropped from 35.4 percent in 2010 to 15.9 percent in 2013. In addition, the number of Hispanic students sitting for exams rose from about 25 percent to 42.3 percent, Costanzo said.

The AP program will continue to expand within the school district, said Dr. Dolores GarciaBlocker, New Haven Public School Director of College and Career Pathways.

Expansion of the AP program entails offering more classes, allowing students to take classes in other high schools and providing College Board training to a broader array of teachers, GarciaBlocker said.

“The research shows that kids who take Advanced Placement courses and at least have a glimpse of what it is like to take a collegelevel course and college-level work tend to persist in college and

earn their college degrees,” she added.

The low scores on the AP exams are not the district’s primary concern, said Garcia-Blocker, adding that while the district would like to see scores increase over time they are not going to determine the success or failure of the district’s AP program.

While members of the school district see promise in the increasing number of students sitting for AP exams, the low rates of success on the exams have prompted discussion outside of the district.

“The city-wide scores are nearly 40 points below the state average, so clearly there’s some work to be done to make sure that kids who are participating in the Advanced Placement courses are mastering that content,” said Jennifer Alexander, CEO of ConnCan, an education non-profit.

Mark Abraham ’04, Executive Director of DataHaven, agreed that New Haven students’ test performance reflects larger trends that signify low levels of college readiness.

The city-wide scores are nearly 40 points below the state average, so clearly there’s some work to be done to make sure that kids who are participating in [AP] courses are mastering that content.

JENNIFER ALEXANDER CEO, ConnCAN Poor AP test performance might be the end of a trajectory starting from poor classroom performance and fewer educational opportunities in elementary school, Abraham said.

New Haven Public Schools currently offer 21 different AP courses.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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The New Haven CitySeed Farmers’ Markets have moved into the cafeteria of the Metropolitan Business Academy for the colder months.

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As snow piles on city sidewalks, New Haven’s CitySeed Farmers’ Markets will continue to offer fresh food to residents at an indoor venue.

CitySeed represents several local farms and is known for its outdoor markets in Wooster Square, the New Haven Green and Edgewood Park during the late spring and through the summer and fall.

But as the weather gets colder, Yale students and New Haven residents can now enjoy farmers’ market products from Jan. 11 to Apr. 26 in the cafeteria of the Metropolitan Business Academy. “Our core vendors from the summer market will be there,” said CitySeed Market Manager Patille Nargozian. “We’ll have some heartier winter greens, some more wool products and some dried goods that wouldn’t be available in the summer.”

The Yale Sustainable Food Project is among the farms participating in the winter market. YSFP has been selling at CitySeed since the summer of 2003; this is Yale’s sixth year at the indoor market.

In the cold months, the Yale farm and other local farms grow greens in seasonal tunnels. These structures, protected from the weather with clear plastic, trap the sun’s heat and allow for crops to grow naturally — without heaters or furnaces.

“During the winter months, we grow

cold salad greens like spinach and baby mustards,” said Yale Farm Manager Jeremy Oldfield. “The cold brings out nutty, spicy, and even sweet flavors in the leaves.”

Among Yale products exclusively available at the winter market are herbal teas and tropical roots such as ginger, turmeric and galangal that have been grown through the summer and harvested in the Greeley Greenhouse on Prospect Street.

Our core vendors from the summer market will be there [at the indoor location].

PATILLE NARGOZIAN Manager, CitySeed Market The Northfordy Farm, in Northford, Conn., has been working with CitySeed for seven years and has been involved with the winter market since it began in 2008. Farm Manager Peter Rothenberg said the farm will be selling goods specific to the winter season at the market, rather than growing fresh produce indoors.

“My lamb and chevon seems to be doing the best,” Rothenberg said. “I’m

also selling yarn from my sheep.”

Rothenberg said he would not have any fresh produce to sell until at least early April.

Northfordy will participate in the indoor market every other week until the farm accumulates more fresh fruits and vegetables in mid-spring.

“We just don’t have enough product for the winter,” said Rothenberg, adding that he plans to sell some of his blueberry and raspberry fruit preserves in place of fresh fruit at the winter market. According to Nargozian, the best-selling items from the fresh produce will be the storage crops: potatoes, yams, carrots and garlic.

A farm named Two Guys from Woodbridge grows salad greens year-round that are produced hydroponically — in water, without soil, using mineral nutrients.

Nargozian added that, in addition to these salad greens, the indoor market would feature canned fruits and vegetables.

“Canned goods are a way to enjoy the summer bounty that you won’t get in the winter,” she said.

This year’s winter market will feature coffee, from Bean and Leaf of New London, for the first time.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Nursing school offers hybrid degree program

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER As the University makes strides in online education, the School of Nursing is already two steps — or two years — ahead.

The school’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program offers a hybrid of online and classroom education, providing an innovative way for healthcare professionals to further their education while setting foot on campus just once a month. The three-year program, which welcomed its first cohort of students in 2012, is designed for mid-career nurses who want to continue practicing in the field but also want to learn about policy and decision-making in the healthcare sector. It combines weekly readings, written responses and discussion — all online — with monthly visits to the YSN campus.

The DNP’s roots trace back to six years ago, when a former dean of the YSN, Donna Diers, convened a faculty task force to consider the creation of such a program, said Jessica Coviello NUR ’82, the DNP program director.

At the time, DNP programs were beginning to spread throughout the country, and Yale decided to build one of its own, she said.

This was not the first time that YSN had taught in a hybrid fashion, online and in-person. The

YSN’s Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership specialty within its Masters of Science and Nursing program had utilized the same format since 2006. It then served as a model for the DNP program, Coviello said.

“We looked at the NMPL’s stories to see how they operated their classes,” Coviello said.

“It was an opportunity to mentor with another group, and there were real lessons learned.”

One of these lessons was how to make the technological transition to a hybrid program, she said.

At the DNP’s inception, Yale did not have the proper technology set up to meet all the program’s needs, said Frank Grosso, YSN assistant dean for student affairs.

But technology has evolved quickly since 2012, and the program has too. For example, the DNP now regularly utilizes Adobe Connect classrooms as a virtual meeting space for its students, a resource Coviello said is not widely used within online education and has great potential.

The DNP’s unique format grants it flexibility for both students and administrators.

Because the program is part time and does not require daily presence in a classroom, nurses can continue with their practices and do not need to move to New Haven to get a Yale education.

“The hybrid program offers a

practical solution to the dilemma posed by geography,” Nancy Blumenthal YSN ’15, a student in the DNP program, said in an email.

“My family and I live in Philadelphia. I have full-time professional responsibilities. The hybrid program allows me to engage in academic pursuits on a schedule that works for me.”

On the administrative side, the virtual structure allows for both adaptability and innovation.

The program follows a “flipped classroom” model, in which the majority of the reading and lecturing is done over the internet; When the students do physically meet in the same room in New Haven, they engage in more interactive and hands-on group work.

For Coviello, this reversal has been refreshing for both the students and for herself as a professor.

“I was afraid that there would be challenges, because I was used to a classroom taught with Powerpoint slides and lectures and the students sitting as little passive creatures,” she said. “But it’s been fabulous. The students come into the classroom ready to do work, we get down to business right away, and it’s been incredibly energizing.”

Moving forward, the program will continue to explore possible ways to innovate, such as incorporating more graphics

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The Yale School of Nursing opened its three-year hybrid Doctor of Nursing Practice program in 2012. and media into the curriculum, Coviello said. She added that she also wants to see how to utilize resources like Adobe Connect more fully.

But while the virtual classroom offers many possibilities, neither Coviello nor Blumenthal said they expect the phys-

ical classroom component to disappear any time soon. The on-campus part of the curriculum is essential for engagement, Blumenthal said, adding that the program has done a good job striking a balance.

“An important part of Yale has always been personal experi-

ence,” Coviello said. “I doubt that there will be very many programs that are exclusively online.”

There are currently 29 students enrolled in the DNP program.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.”

GREG BRENNEMAN CHAIRMAN OF CCMP CAPITAL

PILOT funding increase likely HARP AGENDA FROM PAGE 1 bly, it will increase college and hospital PILOT reimbursements from $115.4 million to $123.4 million. An $8 million statewide increase would mean between $2 and $2.5 million more for New Haven.

Currently, the state is slated to reimburse New Haven alone roughly $43.6 million in 2014.

The payment is less than half the roughly $105.3 million that would constitute full funding under the statutory levels: 77 percent of taxes from exempt colleges and hospitals and 45 percent from exempt state properties.

Overall, the governor’s proposals are kinder to New Haven than has been the case in the past, Harp said.

“From what I know of it, it’s a pretty good budget,” she said. A $2 million increase in PILOT payments to New Haven goes nearly halfway toward meeting Harp’s stated request of $5 million more.

In advance of Malloy’s address, Harp circulated to members of New Haven’s delegation to the Connecticut General Assembly a legislative agenda of her own — a 28-page document detailing the city’s requests from the state, the $5 million increase in PILOT funding among them.

Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton slammed that request as meager, saying Harp should have asked for New Haven’s due — more along the lines of $50 million. “[Asking for $50 million] reaffirms that we’re entitled to that money and, two, it creates a much better negotiating position,” Stratton said. Either way, he added, a one-year increase in reimbursements does little to shift the culture surrounding PILOT obligations.

New Haven’s Board of Alders made its position clear on Monday when it unanimously endorsed a resolution, co-authored by Stratton, calling for full PILOT funding.

Stratton said the city’s stance is important in galvanizing a lobbying effort to convince both Malloy and the General Assembly to clarify the statute and create a more predictable funding stream for New Haven, where roughly 45 percent of properties are nontaxable. This year, Yale University will pay $8 million in voluntary contributions to the city in

PILOT FUNDING CURRENT LEVELS

Statewide Total Payment

Reimbursement for state-owned properties Fully-Funded: $10,304,568

$5M $5M

Reimbursement for colleges & hospitals

Actual funding

$194M

Funding gap

$231M Fully-Funded $95,010,982

$38M

$56M

Fully-Funded: $425,098,065 recognition of tax exemptions for academic property, according to Lauren Zucker, Yale’s assistant director for New Haven and state affairs.

State Rep. Roland Lemar, who represents portions of New Haven and East Haven, said state spending is capped at roughly $21 billion per year. To fully fund PILOT, he added, the state would have to “blow through that cap.”

Looney said Harp’s overall agenda makes reasonable demands on the state.

The city is confident in many of the items’ chances of passage, Harp said. Her legislative director, Rebecca Bombero, said the administration has located at least one state legislator to introduce each fiscal bill it is seeking. For the bills that a committee must raise, Bombero said, the city expects it will convince the relevant committees to move on the items.

The state is currently in the middle of a two-year budget

cycle. During even-numbered calendar years — including election years, such as this one — the legislative session is shortened and deals mainly with modifications to the current budget.

Bombero said the city senses “a good level of support coming from the governor’s office.”

An entire section of Harp’s legislative agenda is devoted to public safety improvements surrounding the city’s entertainment district, the site of a spate of nightclub violence dating back to last year.

“Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night as bars close thousands of intoxicated individuals pour into a three block section of our city leading to frequent displays of violence that have often escalated to shootings, and in some instances fatalities,” Harp wrote in the agenda packet.

Harp is proposing the creation of a state licensing program to regulate nightclub promoters. She is also seeking background checks

Swensen receives largest paycheck at Yale COMPENSATION FROM PAGE 1 Metrick ’89 GRD ’89. He added that their University salaries are much lower than what similar positions in the private sector would provide.

Since 2008, Swensen’s bonuses — payments that are tied to the long-term performance of the University endowment — have fluctuated between $2.9 million and $1.5 million, while his base compensation has stayed fairly constant at $770,000, according to Internal Revenue Service forms.

Lo applauded the endowment’s long-term returns. Over the past 20 years, Yale’s endowment generated returns of 13.5 percent per annum and added $18.4 billion in incremental value, according a Sept. 2013 press release from the Yale Investments Office.

“I think David Swensen is the most underpaid person at Yale,” Metrick said. “He could leave Yale tomorrow and multiply his salary by 10 without trying. I strongly believe that the level of contribution to the University that has been made by Swensen and Takahashi so far exceeds what they actually get paid.”

School of Management Professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90 said university investments offices often compete with the investment management industry for the best talent, so endowment managers’ salaries should ideally rival those in the private sector. In the long-run, Yale will have to increase Swensen’s and Takahashi’s salaries, he said.

Still, financial journalist Matthew Klein ’09 — the author of last week’s Bloomberg article — feels that many institutions are wasting their money on endowment managers. Over the past five years, both Harvard and Yale have underperformed stock market index funds, he said in an email. While Yale has historically found success with top-performing hedge funds and private equity firms, recent performance from those asset classes has been slow.

“The aggregate data from NACUBO-Commonfund show that many schools aren’t getting good value from their ‘alternative investments’ after considering the fees and the illiquidity,” he said. “That means they are wasting money

when they pay people to find those investments.”

Klein added that large endowments were heavily hurt by the most recent financial crisis and that the typical endowment lost as much or more than the S&P 500 — a stock market index based on 500 large companies — during the crisis.

[David Swensen] could leave Yale tomorrow and multiply his salary by 10 without trying.

ANDREW METRICK ’89 GRD ’89 Professor, School of Management During the 2008-’09 academic year, Swensen’s salary and benefits totaled $5.3 million and Takahashi took home $3.4 million, according to a 2009 IRS tax filing.

But professors and independent analysts interviewed defended the Yale Investments team. Lo said he takes his hat off for the work Swensen did in managing recovery after the Yale endowment lost nearly a quarter of its value. As of June 30, 2013, the endowment was valued at $20.8 billion.

“There are certain current money managers who are overpaid,” Metrick said. “There are people like that out there. But God, not Swensen. I think that’s really the key point.”

At Yale, large salaries are not just limited to investment officers. In the 2011-’12 academic year, Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern received nearly $810,000 in total compensation. He said many of Yale’s clinical professors take home a smaller salary than they would if they were in private practice.

When Swensen took office in 1985, the Yale endowment was valued at $1.3 billion — 6 percent of its current value.

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

and required training for security at city clubs. Greater police oversight of renewals of liquor licenses would reduce the risk of violence and illegal behavior at high-risk establishments, she said.

New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said the proposed items would lead to changes that the department has long been seeking. The police have advised various crackdowns, Hartman said, but the state legislature ultimately has final say.

If Harp has her way, the state will foot the bill for the rehabilitation of the Dixwell Q House, a community center that has been closed since 2003. City lawmakers have focused in recent years on the shuttered community center as an example of the lack of spaces for youth to gather in the city.

A feasibility study conducted in 2013 found that rehabilitating the existing Q house would cost between $5 and $6 million. Leveling the building and combining it with the Stetson Branch Library

facility would cost roughly $13.4 million. Looney said funding for the Q House would come from state bonds rather than direct appropriations. Harp’s plans for redevelopment work along the Route 34 Exit by the site of the former Coliseum, slated to undergo a major mixed-use development venture, would also be funded by state bonds, Looney said.

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, whose ward includes the Q House, said she is thrilled by the request for state funding. She said extensive work in the community and support from residents ensured that the issue was on the mayor’s radar.

Harp is also asking the state for $5 million after-school and summer programming and sustained funding for youth violence prevention and youth employment programs.

In addition to state funding for redevelopment on the site of the former Coliseum, Harp is seeking the creation of a development

authority to oversee plans for a refurbished Union Station. The financing of a second garage at the train station — one of Harp’s specific campaign promises — will be a principal focus of the authority.

Harp is also requesting annual state support of $2 million for Tweed Airport, which she said she hopes to turn into a more nationally oriented airport by adding flights to Florida, Chicago and Washington.

Harp further wants to tax vacant land, improve the chances of minority contractors and solidify the influence of New Haven Works by requiring certain employers that locate within the city to hire city residents.

Connecticut’s legislative session begins Thursday following the governor’s remarks. The events are delayed from Wednesday due to the snowstorm.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@ yale.edu .

Spring Fling lineup released SPRING FLING FROM PAGE 1 40 potential artists on Oct. 2 to gauge interest. YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 said getting the lineup was a challenge due to budget constraints, but everyone involved in the project is extremely excited.

Diplo, who is a co-creator of the music project Major Lazer, is an electronic-dance DJ with top singles including “Boy Oh Boy” and “Revolution.”

“This is the year of the DJ,” said Spring Fling Committee Chair Erica Leh ’15. “[Electronic dance music] was very big when we were going through the survey.”

The committee is excited to have Diplo perform because he is known to be a great live performer and is a recognizable name on campus, said YCC Events Director Eli Rivkin ’15. He added that, unlike in past years, the headline act will perform last in the lineup.

This year, the committee is also working with a production designer, Asher Young ’16.

Young, who has assisted in production design for other events throughout the year including the Harvard-Yale Game, will be set-designing the Spring Fling event.

Chance the Rapper was the first act to be secured, as student interest in the performer was “nearly unanimous,” Leh said. The committee settled on the three acts in December.

Chance the Rapper gained fame following the release of his two mixtapes, “10 Days” and “Acid Rap.” His most popular songs include “Cocoa Butter Kisses” and “Pusha Man.” “One of the goals that [the committee] values is to find an artist that will blow up and

bringing him here first,” Rivkin said.

Yale has the second lowest budget in the Ivy league for Spring Fling, which can limit the University’s choice in artists, Leh said. Cornell and Brown have larger funds, she said, but Harvard still trails Yale.

I’m excited that there is going to be an up-andrising person in the music industry that we can have at Spring Fling.

DENZIL BERNARD ’15

Betty Who — perhaps the least known artist chosen for the event — recently signed with RCA Records following a viral video, suggesting that she is upand-coming in the pop industry, Leh said. She first rose to popularity through her 2013 debut EP “The Movement” and has recorded hits “Somebody Loves You” and “You’re in Love.”

Yale’s Spring Fling Committee, chosen from an applicant pool of roughly 80 undergraduates, represents a diverse range of musical preferences, said committee member Samuel Pritzker ’16. The committee made an effort to select artists with different aesthetics and styles so that all students will find a performer to love at the event, he added.

Although the announcement was made through email last year, Leh said the committee hoped to increase excitement this time around by debut-

ing the names and event video to a live audience. While students may not trek to Battell Chapel at night for the announcement, she said, those already at Wednesday Night Toad’s would be particularly interested in the news.

The video filmed Yale students around campus on Friday describing their predictions and hopes for Spring Fling, according to film coordinator Adam Willems ’17. Willems also incorporated splices of the artists’ music videos into the two-minute presentation.

Following the video presentation last night, students inside Toad’s Place clapped and cheered at the screen.

“It’s amazing that we’re having this top DJ playing — it’s so cool,” said Joey Yagoda ’14, a former YCC treasurer.

Kendall Polan ’14 said that “everyone at Yale is excited” and “it’s going to be awesome.”

Denzil Bernard ’15, who wrote an op-ed for the News in October advocating for Chance the Rapper to play at Spring Fling, said he has felt Chance the Rapper would be a perfect fit for Spring Fling ever since he first heard the artist’s music last year.

“I am literally so excited right now,” Bernard said. “Not necessarily about the prediction — I’m excited that there is going to be an up-and-rising person in the music industry that we can have at Spring Fling. Chance the Rapper is blowing up right now.”

Previous Spring Fling performers include Macklemore and T-Pain.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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BY JIM SALTER ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — Chuck Herron heard the loud thud, then another and another. It sounded like someone was dropping big snowballs on the roof of his home.

The house is more than 100 years old and creaks, Herron said, but he had “never heard anything like that before.”

As his neighbors in tiny Paris, Mo., huddled around televisions Sunday for the Super Bowl, many were startled by similar strange noises.

Some even saw flashes of light and called 911.

Scientists say the community experienced a rare natural phenomenon known as a “frost quake,” which happens when moisture in the ground suddenly freezes and expands.

If conditions are just right, the soil or bedrock breaks like a brittle frozen pipe, generating mysterious noises that range from an earthquake-like rumble to sharp cracking sounds sometimes mistaken for falling trees.

This winter has been ripe for frost quakes, known technically as cryoseism. Temperatures have been frigid, but occasional warm-ups have allowed for thawing. And the temperature swings have sometimes been abrupt.

That was the case last weekend in Missouri, where temperatures in the 40s on Saturday gave way to single-digit readings by Sunday night.

In Mark Twain’s hometown of Hannibal, Mo., 100 miles north of St. Louis, police and emergency dispatches received several calls within about two hours. Facebook feeds were filled with worries.

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In this June 16, 2013 file photo, cars drive past the scene of a fatal wreck.

A North Texas juvenile court judge has sentenced 16-year-old boy Ethan Couch to probation for the crash that killed four people.

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In this Jan. 11, 2014 photo Dennis Olsen measures a fissure which he said was about an inch wide and at least eight to ten inches deep, in his rural driveway following a frost quake in Waupun, Wis. described it as sounding like “somebody banging on their house.”

Missouri isn’t alone. Frost quakes were reported last month in Canada and in several other states — Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.

In DeKalb, Ill., Lisa Kammes and her family were getting ready for bed earlier this winter when the loud popping noises began.

“The louder ones sounded like somebody was throwing snowballs at the house,” Kammes said.

Neighbors heard noises too, and several contacted police.

“It wasn’t the regular noise you hear when your house is creaking, blowing in the wind or ice is breaking,” Kammes said.

The light flashes reported by some people are believed to come from electrical changes

that occur when the freezing compresses rocks.

Robert Herrmann of the Saint Louis University Earthquake Center said frost quakes are far different from real earthquakes. Tremors typically occur a mile or two underground. Frost quakes are near the surface and do not show up on seismographs.

“People nearby will probably notice them a lot because they are shallow, but because they do not penetrate deep within the earth, the magnitude will not be large,” Herrmann said. “But the process is the same. There is something that is causing rock to move, and as the rock moves, it generates sound waves and the ground motion.”

AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said frost quakes are most common in the northern Plains.

“It has to get suddenly

colder,” Sosnowski said. “If you have a mild winter, you’re probably not going to have a lot of this going on.”

Experts say damage is rare but homeowners who experience a frost quake should check for foundation cracks and watch for damage to water and natural gas lines.

Damage is not common, but it happens. In Waupun, Wis., a frost quake last month created a 100-foot crack in a driveway. Homeowner Dennis Olssen told authorities the boom was so loud he thought it was an explosive until he learned that neighbors experienced the same thing.

Kammes said the noise on that otherwise quiet night was so alarming that her husband went outside to make sure no one had damaged the home.

“When we found out what it was,” she said, “it was actually a relief.”

BY NOMAAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH, Texas — A judge on Wednesday ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.

Judge Jean Boyd again decided to give no jail time for Ethan Couch, defense attorney Reagan Wynn and prosecutors told reporters after the hearing, which was closed to the public. Prosecutors had asked Boyd to sentence him to 20 years in state custody on charges related to two people who were severely injured.

The sentence stirred fierce debate, as has the testimony of a defense expert who says Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility.

The expert termed the condition “affluenza.”

Wynn and prosecutor Richard Alpert would not identify the facility where Couch will go or where it is located. The teen’s family previously had offered to pay for Couch to go to a $450,000-a-year rehabilitation center near Newport Beach, Calif.

Couch, who is currently in state custody, is expected to receive alcohol and drug rehab, and could face prison time if he runs away from the facility or violates any other terms of his probation, Alpert said.

There is no minimum amount of time Couch must spend in the facility before his release, prosecutor Riley Shaw said.

Wynn ripped the media and the public’s focus on “affluenza” and said that his client was misunderstood.

He said reporting of the

Couch case had “so twisted the facts that were actually presented in court that I don’t think the truth will ever be able to come out now.”

“It was ridiculous to think that we walked into court and said, `Oh, this is a rich white kid,’ and she decided to probate him,” he said.

But Alpert accused Wynn of hypocrisy, pointing out that a defense witness made the comment in the first place.

“His witnesses don’t say things by accident,” Alpert said.

“So they thought maybe that would help — that’s my interpretation — and it blew up on them.

It was a stupid thing to say.”

Couch’s parents did not speak to reporters as they entered the courtroom. Several relatives of Couch’s victims also attended Wednesday’s hearing.

“The families feel like the same way they felt the last time they were here,” Alpert said.

Asking Boyd to give Couch jail time for intoxication assault was a last-ditch effort by prosecutors, who have said they have almost no way to appeal the judge’s sentence in the case.

Alpert said he hoped the Couch case would lead the Texas Legislature to allow juries to sentence some juvenile defendants. The case has already spurred calls for potential changes. Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who serves as president of the Senate, has asked for a study of sentencing guidelines in intoxication manslaughter cases.

But Wynn lauded Boyd for giving Couch probation and recognizing the possibility that he could be reformed better in a rehab facility that in prison.

“We recognize that 16-yearold kids are different from 25-year-old adults,” he said.

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were killed in explosions in Baghdad on Wednesday.

C. African Republic soldiers

BY JEROME DELAY AND ANDREW DRAKE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic — The interim president of Central African Republic told the hundreds of soldiers standing in formation Wednesday that she was proud of them and called on their support to bring order to their anarchic country. Then she left, and the soldiers broke ranks to stab and stomp a man in their midst to death. They dragged his corpse through the streets.

The horrific attack, witnessed

by Associated Press journalists, shows the degree of hatred and savagery to which this impoverished country has fallen and the difficulty faced by the international community, which has already deployed thousands of peacekeepers, to try to stabilize it.

We d n e sd ay ’s ga t h e r i n g was intended to highlight the rebuilding of the national army, left in tatters when President Francois Bozize was ousted from power in a March 2013 coup. The general in charge of the French military mission in Central African Republic highlighted how the national soldiers “have above all a detailed knowledge of the terrain which will allow us to have them take over the action.”

Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza, who took over last month after the rebel leader who seized power stepped aside amid mounting international pressure, announced that the government soldiers would soon be paid after five months without wages. And she emphasized that the international community would help rearm them.

“I would like to renew my pride in those elements of Armed Forces of Central African Republic, or FACA, who are here and to ask them to support my actions wherever they are,” she said. The uniformed soldiers stood at attention in orderly fashion for the speech, some sporting smiles.

But after she left, the sol-

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Newly enlisted Central African Armed Forces soldiers leave after listening to Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza address the troops in Bangui, Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014. diers spotted a suspected former member of the Seleka rebellion that had overthrown the government. His name was Idriss, and he was standing among them. They accused him of being an infiltrator, there to spy for Seleka. Out came the first knife.

“I will kill him with my own hands,” shouted one man who had come to enlist in the

national army.

The very men expected to protect civilians used knives, bricks and their own feet to attack the man. Troops from the tiny African nation of Burundi surrounded the wounded man to protect him from the growing crowd. He lay wounded on his back and still alive for about five minutes.

But as the crowd moved

closer, the peacekeepers withdrew, not even firing warning shots. The attack resumed.

Some stabbed him while others kicked him in the face. Still others pelted him with concrete blocks as a crowd cheered.

A police officer jumped out of his truck to try to halt the gruesome attack and was accosted by the crowd and accused of being a traitor. Senior officers managed

Explosions rock Iraqi capital

BY SAMEER N. YACOUB ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Multiple explosions rocked Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people and sending plumes of smoke into the sky across the street from a major government building in a brazen reminder of the ability of insurgents to penetrate the heart of the capital.

The attacks come as al-Qaida-led militants are battling for control of mainly Sunni areas to the west in the first test of the Shiite-led government to maintain security in the country more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

The deadliest of Wednesday’s attacks took place across the street from the high-rise building housing the Foreign Ministry, shattering the windows of nearby apartment buildings. Two parked car bombs went off simultaneously in different parking lots, killing at least 12 people, including three policemen, and wounding 22, a police officer said.

Shortly afterward, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a nearby falafel restaurant frequented by officials or visi-

tors waiting for security escorts to take them inside the Green Zone, a walledoff area that houses the prime minister’s office and the U.S. and other foreign embassies.

Five people were killed and 12 wounded in that attack, the officer said.

All the roads leading to the blast sites place were sealed off by police as workers cleared debris and washed away bloodstains from the sidewalks.

Another parked car bomb exploded in Khilani Square, a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 11, another police officer said. Security forces sealed off the area as firefighters struggled to put out the blaze ignited by the bombing.

Smoke billowed from several stores and stalls as vendors hurriedly stuffed their goods into big bags and carried them away on their backs.

Shortly before sunset, a triple car bombing struck an outdoor market in the mainly Shiite suburb of Jisr Diyala in southeastern Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 24. Minutes later, a rocket landed near the western gate of the green zone, killing one passer-by and wounding seven others, police said.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks, but car bombings and suicide attacks targeting government buildings, security forces and Shiites are typically carried out by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq. In August 2009, the group claimed responsibility for massive suicide attacks on the Foreign Ministry as well as the Finance Ministry that killed more than 100 people.

The network now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has been emboldened by the successes of its fellow militants in the civil war next door in Syria and by widespread Sunni anger at the government in Baghdad.

A bomb went off later inside a cafe in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Dora, killing two people and wounding six, officials said. It was unclear who was responsible for that attack. Sunni insurgents frequently target rivals within the community who have allied with the government. Shiite extremists also sometimes plant bombs in Sunni areas, raising fears of a new wave of retaliatory violence that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in the years following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, mourners pray over coffins draped with Iraqi flags for four Shiite fighters during the funeral procession inside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq.

to extract him from the mob and sped away with him in their pickup.

The crowd dragged Idriss’ corpse through the street, dismembered it and set it ablaze.

Even for a city that sees civilians killed by mobs almost daily, it was a shocking display of violence, underscoring the depth of chaos now gripping Central African Republic.

The 2013 coup ushered in months of turmoil and bitter hatred toward the mostly Muslim rebels and has left anyone accused of collaborating with them vulnerable to attack.

The rebels’ 10-month rule was marked by human rights abuses, and sparked a Christian armed movement known as the antiBalaka, which also has been accused of atrocities.

Google reaches agreement with EU

BY JUERGEN BAETZ ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — The European Union’s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday accepted “far-reaching” concessions offered by Google to settle allegations it is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches, bringing the threeyear-old case close to an end.

Google would significantly change the ways it displays some search results in Europe in favor of its competitors.

But reaching a settlement will spare the company a longer antitrust procedure that could have resulted in fines of up to 10 percent of the company’s annual revenue, or about $5 billion.

EU Antitrust Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he’s “strongly convinced” the U.S. company’s proposals — its third attempt to address the competition concerns — are sufficient.

“This is an important step forward,” he told reporters in Brussels.

Google’s proposals will now be sent to the 18 original plaintiffs for evaluation before the Commission makes a final decision in the coming months.

Initial reactions from plaintiffs and consumer groups were unanimously negative, but Almunia said he was confident the deal with Google will be upheld.

Under its latest proposal, Google will commit to display results from three competitors in a similar way to its own whenever it promotes its specialized search services like Google shopping, restaurant or hotel searches. It will also label more clearly search results stemming from its own services to allow users to distinguish between natural search results and those promoted by Google.

A shopping search for a gas grill, for example, would yield two boxes of the same size and position at the top of the search results page, one showing three “Google shopping results” and immediately to the left of it three results labeled “Alternatives”, according to an example provided by the Commission.

At present, only Google’s own results are displayed prominently above all other search results. The changes will also be valid for search results displayed on mobile devices.

“Without preventing Google from improving its own services, it provides

users with real choice between competing services presented in a comparable way,” Almunia said.

The results from three competing search providers would be chosen using Google’s web search algorithm and, in most cases, other search services would have to pay for their placement through an auction mechanism — a solution that competitors and consumer groups alike criticized for strengthening Google’s already dominant position.

The EU Commission last year threw out two sets of proposed concessions

by Google because they were deemed insufficient.

“We will be making significant changes to the way Google operates in Europe,” said Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel. Google declined to discuss financial repercussions of the decision.

Once a settlement is reached, the concessions will be legally binding for five years across the 28-country European Union, the world’s largest economy. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., has a market share of about 90 percent of Internet searches in Europe, compared with around 70 percent in the U.S. “The concessions are far-reaching and have the clear potential of restoring a level playing field with competitors, said Almunia. “No antitrust authority in the world has obtained such concessions.”

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigated Google in a similar case last year and decided not to take action.

Google’s competitors, however, were not impressed. Internet commerce lobby group Icomp said the Commission should have given Google’s competitors more time to examine and test the concessions.

“Without a third party review, Almunia risks having the wool pulled over his eyes by Google,” the group said.

FairSearch, a Microsoft-led group of Google’s tech competitors that includes firms like Oracle, Expedia and Tripadvisor, condemned the Commission’s move as being “worse than doing nothing.”

Its lawyer Thomas Vinje said the proposed commitments will “lock in discrimination and raise rivals’ costs instead of solving the problem of Google’s anti-competitive practices.”

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 12:00 p.m. “War and Remembrance in Ba’thist Iraq.” The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center is sponsoring Dina Khoury, associate professor of history and international affairs at the Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Professor Khoury’s background spans the early modern and modern history of the Middle East.

Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 202.

4:00 p.m. Edward H. Hume Lecture: “What Drives Chinese Foreign Policy: Vulnerability or Ambition?” China’s ambition to achieve great power status faces daunting challenges.

Although miscalculation could lead China and the U.S. toward confrontation, wise management of the relationship could nurture a new equilibrium in Asian-Pacific security relations. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 4:00 p.m. “How to Get Your Film on TV: An Afternoon with Producer Lois Vossen.” Sponsored by the Yale Film Studies, senior series producer at Independent Lens Lois Vossen will be explaining how aspiring filmmakers make it onto television. Free to the general public. (212 York St.).

7:00 p.m. Movie Night at the Planetarium: “Deep Impact.” The monthly “Movie Night at the Planetarium” series begins Friday with “Deep Impact.” There will be an introduction and commentary by an astronomer on the science of the movie and the threat of asteroid impacts. Leitner Observatory (355 Prospect St.), Planetarium.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 7:00 p.m. 2014 Spring Festival Gala. As the Chinese New Year approaches, ACSSY presents the 2014 Spring Festival Gala, with a variety of selected performances, including singing, traditional and modern dancing, opusculum, comedians and instrumental performances. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

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SPORTS

Tide roll on national signing day In case anyone was wondering, Nick Saban and his coaching staff reminded everyone that the University of Alabama is still the team to beat in college football.

The Crimson Tide received 19 national letters of intent from recruits yesterday, joining eight recruits that enrolled in January. The 27-man recruiting class is ranked first in the FBS — the third consecutive year that Bama has topped the rankings.

Sophomore standout makes a splash SWIMMING FROM PAGE 12 level as any team in the country.”

Though the team fell in the HYP meet, the broken records from Hogan and others gave the squad a motivational boost.

The overall team performance was one of the best of the season, with a number of swimmers achieving new personal bests.

“While winning was obviously our primary goal, a big part of what we wanted to do was prove ourselves against the two Ivy League powerhouses.

When we put up times like those it speaks volumes about the quality of our program,” Hogan said.

Hogan’s athletic ability has blown away some of his teammates and his accomplishments have made him a standout member on the team, but his relationships with his teammates

are just as notable. Lazris said that Hogan is a true team player and that he has remained humble despite his newfound success.

We train at as high a level as any team in the country.

BRIAN HOGAN ’16 Men’s swimming and diving team

Though fellow sophomore Josh Ginsborg ’16 has been injured and unable to practice with the team very much as of late, he still noted Hogan’s extraordinary commitment level.

“I will say Brian is one of the hardest working guys I know.

As a teammate, he is trustworthy and is always willing to help

others. He will go the extra mile for the team literally and figuratively,” Ginsborg said.

While Hogan has clearly been an asset to the team at such a young age, he says the seniors are responsible for the team’s strength.

Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will head to Brown this weekend for their final meet before the Ivy League Championships begin.

While the teams will be treating the event like a regular meet, they know that Ivies are close behind.

“We always want to focus on the task at hand and give ourselves the best possible chance to win, but this late in the season we will definitely have Ivies on our minds,” Hogan said.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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The Yale swimming and diving teams will compete at Brown this weekend.

NCAA hockey, game of chance?

COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 expectation while the opposite is true for an unlucky team. Luck is especially important in close games since a lucky team wins more close games than it should, thus boosting its overall record.

For hockey, the Pythagorean expectation is determined by a formula that divides goal scored, raised to an exponent, by the sum of goal scored and goal allowed, both raised to the same exponent. The trick here is to find what the exponent is. Too high and the Pythagorean expectation would skew upward, too low and the expectation would skew down-

ward.

For baseball, Bill James showed that an exponent of two has significant predictive power. But since hockey can end in ties, a lower exponent is needed. Hockeyanalytics.com suggests that an exponent of 1.86 works best for hockey.

Based on my analysis, out of the top 20 teams in the country, five teams have a Pythagorean expectation higher than their actual win percentage — suggesting that they are better than their records suggest. Of those five teams, only three teams have a win percentage differential greater than five percentage points: Notre Dame, New Hampshire and Yale. Though

Notre Dame and New Hampshire lag behind Yale in national rankings, they are actually more likely to make the cut for the NCAA Tournament, which partially confirms Pythagorean expectation’s analytical power. Teams that have outperformed their Pythagorean expectations include traditional powerhouses such as Minnesota and North Dakota, as well as some of Yale’s ECAC rivals like Cornell and Clarkson.

However, the Pythagorean formula above is static, meaning that it doesn’t take into account how win expectation evolves as a team’s characteristics change. For example, a team that averages six goals

scored and three goals allowed should win more than a team that averages two and one, but the static Pythagorean model predicts the same record for both of these teams.

To account for this, I use an exponent that’s based on each team’s total goals per game and some empirically derived parameters. This dynamic analysis confirms the results of the basic Pythagorean model: Yale’s win percentage is about six points too low. Over of the course of an entire season, this translates into about a two-win deficit for the Elis, a difference big enough to decide whether they can make it to the

NCAA Tournament.

Statistical analysis suggests that the Bulldogs have been somewhat unlucky, especially in closely contested matches. Four of Yale’s games already resulted in ties this season. The Bulldogs had a grand total of seven ties combined over the last three seasons. As the season goes on, however, Yale should perform closer to its Pythagorean expectation.

Of course, my analysis is limited by a number of factors. The formulas I used are based on results from the NHL, past results do not necessarily extrapolate to the future and the sample size in my analysis is small (about 25 games), espe-

cially compared to baseball (162 games in a season). Moreover, the team has had to deal with a slew of injuries to key players since winter break, and a healthier lineup would help tremendously as the Bulldogs head toward ECAC playoffs.

However, the Pythagorean expectation does reveal some interesting insights into Yale’s season, and college hockey, so far.

With a little luck, the Bulldogs maybe the Bulldogs can replicate the magical run from last season?

JIMIN HE is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at jimin.he@yale.edu .

Second-year Sears excels Q&A FROM PAGE 12 ter. We’re just chasing the ball.

We’ve been doing a lot more rebounding drills and everyone’s bought into it. pulling your hamQDespite string last week, you had a

huge game against Columbia off the bench (22 points, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks on 5–8 from the field).

How were you able to be effective despite the injury?

A

I was just being aggressive.

We knew coming into it that the bigs didn’t match up well with me. I played with [Columbia center] Cory [Osetkowski] in the summer, so I knew a little bit about him. I just knew they couldn’t guard me if I caught it with space and attacked. I got a lot of free throws and we got the bigs in foul trouble, which caused them to struggle throughout the game.

Q

Against Cornell, you were able to be effective despite a poor shooting performance (3–12) by hitting the glass.

A

Yeah, definitely. Attacking the boards has been the new mindset. At the beginning of the year I had a lot of doubledigit rebound performances and I kind of fell off in the middle of the season. Coach said for the team to be successful I needed to attack the glass offensively and defensively. So I’ve just been more focused on attacking the boards and helping the team out in other ways besides scoring.

Q

After a tough nonconference schedule, the team has won three of its last four games and seems to be rolling. What are the expectations going forward?

A

We’re just trying to win first and play the best basketball we can every night out. We’re in a great position now, tied for second. So, we go into this weekend with a little momentum and we’re hoping to sweep again.

name has been thrown QYour around for Ivy League Player of the Year. Is that something you’re actively working toward?

A

Yeah, I mean, every player wants to win Player of the

Year. Last week, in my meeting with coach, he mentioned how he feels like I can be the best player in the league. He doesn’t want to wait for my senior year for that to happen; he wants it to happen now. So I’m just going go out every night and play as hard as I can and try to help lead my team to victory. weekend you’ll be playQThis ing Harvard for the first time this year. What’s your mentality going into it now that you’ve grown as a player?

A

I’m definitely excited to play Harvard. This will actually be my first time playing them in Boston; I was hurt last year.

When I was in high school, looking at the Ivy League, I followed them a little bit. [Harvard forward] Kyle Casey was the man.

This is going be big for me to play against him since I kind of looked up to him when I was a recruit. I’m definitely excited with that matchup and just having the chance to take first place [in the Ivy League] this weekend.

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

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In four Ivy League contests this season, forward Justin Sears ’16 paces Yale with 7.2 rebounds per game.

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IVY LEAGUE SHOWDOWN MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SQUASH When the Yale squash teams host Harvard this Friday, observers predict that both the men’s and women’s matches will be for the Ivy League title. The Yale and Harvard squads have matches remaining afterwards, but the rivals have dominated the league thus far.

“This late in the season we will definitely have Ivies on our minds.”

BRIAN HOGAN ’16 MEN’S SWIMMING YALE DAILY NEWS · FEBRUARY 6, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

Hogan posting breakout season SWIMMING

of 3:48.81 was the fastest time ever recorded by a Yale swimmer in the event.

Most significantly, Hogan’s 1650yard freestyle time was the fourth fastest in the entire NCAA this year, a true accomplishment for a Yale athlete, especially because the Ivy League is not allowed to offer athletic scholarships.

“Not being able to offer scholarships is a hurdle in the recruiting process, but once we’re here the playing field is completely level,” Hogan said. “We train at as high a SEE SWIMMING PAGE 11

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A number of Eli swimmers set Yale and pool records this weekend at the HYP meet.

Since the 2013-2014 swim season began, sophomore Brian Hogan ’16 has taken the NCAA by storm. In the past few meets, Hogan has broken multiple records, placed in the top five times in the entire NCAA for the 1650-yard freestyle and motivated his team members by continuing to work hard at practices.

Brian was recruited to Yale’s swim team in the spring of 2012, securing the last spot for a swim recruit in the class of 2016. His recruitment was late compared to that of the swim-

mers who were recruited in the fall of 2011.

“Last year I got really worked up and anxious at meets and didn’t swim that well until the end of the season,” Hogan said.

Hogan performed well during his freshman year, but his accomplishments did not stand out like fellow swimmer Rob Harder’s ’15, who earned all Ivy League Honors and had multiple wins during the 2013 Ivy League Championships.

Between the championships and the start of this school year’s season, Hogan put in remarkable amounts of work, according to a number of his

teammates.

“Hogan is an incredible worker.

Even at practice he consistently throws down ridiculous times,” teammate Michael Lazris ’15 said.

Experience was key for Hogan as the season began. He noted that he has swum with more composure this season, contributing to his improved performance.

Hogan’s newfound speed broke records across the board during the past few meets. During last weekend’s meet against Harvard and Princeton, Hogan broke records in the 400-yard IM and the 500-yard freestyle. His 400-yard IM time

Puck luck Now that the Super Bowl is over, let’s turn our attention to the one sport that every Yalie cares about: men’s hockey.

Following its incredible run to the national championship last year, the team has just over a quarter of the season left before the playoffs begin. Currently, the Bulldogs are ranked 13th in the country. But here’s some bad news: berths in the NCAA Tournament are determined by the Selection Committee, which uses a mathematical formula (based on records against common opponents, head-to-head competition, and strength of schedule) to determine which 16 teams get to play in the Tournament. Right now, there are 19 teams that have a higher ranking than the Elis using that formula.

Of course, with at least eight games left in the season and ECAC playoffs coming up, the Bulldogs can significantly improve their rankings. Two areas that the Elis could improve on are the power play and the penalty kill. Right now, the Yale special teams play is ranked an abysmal 56th in the country.

But other statistics suggest that Yale is better than its record. The Bulldogs field top-10 level scoring offense and defense. More impressively, Yale’s goal differential is ranked sixth in the country. Four of the teams ahead of the Elis could very well be the number one regional seeds in this year’s NCAA Tournament.

One reason that the win percentage of the Bulldogs obscures their true strength is something that almost impossible to measure: luck.

More specifically, luck in close games. Four of the Elis’ six losses this season were determined by two goals or less, with three determined by only one goal. Hockey can be a fickle sport. An irregular bounce of the puck could be the difference between a win and a loss.

Thanks to better statistical tools, we can derive some imperfect measures of just how lucky a team is. Baseball sabermetrician Bill James pioneered an empirical tool called Pythagorean expectation, which estimates how many games a baseball team should have won based on runs scored and runs allowed. The logic behind this estimate is simple: A team that consistently outscores its opponents should win more games. Thus, a lucky team’s win percentage would be higher than its Pythagorean

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BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

GUEST COLUMNIST JIMIN HE

Sears ’16 talks new role, expectations

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER Forward Justin Sears ’16 leads the Bulldogs in points, rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage. Last week, Sears helped the Elis to wins over Columbia and Cornell with an average of 16.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks over the two games.

Yale is currently in second place in the conference. In the midst of a career year, Sears sat down with the News to talk about his growing role on the team and the expectations for the season.

work and where to score. often adopt the idenQTeams tity of their best player. Have

you seen the team change in response to your growing role?

A

Maybe a little. We’ve been attacking the glass, getting a lot of free throws. We get the boards and just put it back up.

The team has adopted that mentality.

team has struggled on QThe the glass and with guarding

having a career year QYou’re thus far. How have your responsibilities and your role changed from last year?

the arc all season. But in these last two games against Columbia and Cornell, you were able to hold them both to well under their season averages from the arc and on the glass. Are you finally turning the corner?

A

A

I had a meeting with coach [James Jones] at the end of my freshman year. He said he wanted me to work hard on all the facets of my game so I can be a huge contributor this year, since we lost [guard Austin Morgan ’13]. So, I just worked on my conditioning, my countermoves and I just have a better understanding of how college defenses

I think it’s starting to come together. We’ve been practicing great these last two weeks. [Guard Armani Cotton ’15] is picking it up and I think he and I playing well has inspired the other guys. We’ve had great focus in our walkthroughs and I think we’re communicating betKATHRYN CRANDALL/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 is averaging 17.5 points through four Ivy League games this season.

STAT OF THE DAY 6

CONSECUTIVE VICTORIES FOR THE MEN’S SQUASH TEAM AFTER LAST NIGHT’S 7-2 VICTORY OVER BROWN. THE ELIS ARE 5-0 IN CONFERENCE AND 14-2 OVERALL THIS SEASON.