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CROSS CAMPUS Bulldogs on the red carpet.

Among the Yalies up for Oscars are Meryl Streep DRA ’75 and Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 for acting. Thomas Newman ’77 and Robert Lopez ’97 are also up for awards in music.

Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale alumni are co-hosting an Oscar viewing party at the St. Felix Hotel in Hollywood.

PREGNANCY RISKS ONE DOCTOR’S FIGHT TO DELIVER

MONEY

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Financial literacy workshops expand in size, popularity

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FAS Dean position created

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS In the first major change to its administrative structure in half a century, Yale will add a new dean to the highest echelon of the administration.

In an email to faculty and students in Yale College and the Graduate School Thursday afternoon, University President Peter Salovey announced the creation

of a new administrative position — dean of the faculty of arts and sciences (FAS) — which will shift some responsibilities away from the other two deans. The new dean will work alongside the Yale College and Graduate School deans and report directly to the University provost beginning in July 2014.

The new dean will oversee appointments, promotions and the budget for the faculty of arts and sciences, which makes up 43

percent of the University’s tenured faculty.

“This will continue the tradition of having organizational structures at Yale that reinforce the centrality of Yale College and the Graduate School,” Salovey said. Adding the third dean position allows the two existing dean positions to center more on academic affairs, he said, especially on curriculums and the quality of student experiences.

Salovey said the new dean

should come with strong academic credentials, but also exemplify the characteristics of a successful administrator — thinking strategically, working well in a team and approaching issues with a long-term vision.

The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, discussed and approved the position at this weekend’s meeting.

According to Salovey, the addition of the FAS dean does not

technically require a change in the Corporation’s bylaws. Still, he said, he expects to present a bylaw change to the Corporation before July 1 for “present reference and historical reference of how we were thinking about this position.”

The decision to add a third dean comes in the wake of a Jan. 27 report from a faculty committee that reported the current SEE NEW DEAN PAGE 6

Mixing pot. Some funky

cultural crossovers are taking place down in the Kosher Kitchen. Yesterday, the Slifka Center had a “belated celebration of the Chinese New Year” by making kosher chicken and veggie dumplings along with the Chinese Undergraduate Student Organization.

Peabody to modernize displays

Dean search advisory committee formed

She found her Charlie!

Marnie Michaels might have no current prospects, but Allison Williams ’10 recently got engaged, according to People Magazine. She and her fiancé Ricky Van Veen have been dating for three years.

Van Veen is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of College Humor.

Better late than never. Every well-meaning student has probably accidentally shown up for SAE on a Thursday night when there was no Late Night.

Now these awkward moments can be avoided, with a new website, “Is it Late Night?” that clearly tells you yes or no in what seems to be a variation on the famous “Is it Chicken Tenders Day?” website. Just a matter of time until somebody hacks the site though and declares every night SAE Late Night — cheers!

A plate far from home. During lunch in Jonathan Edwards College on Thursday, a dining hall worker got up in front of the room and kindly reminded students to bring their stolen cutlery, plates, bowls and cups back to the dining hall even if that required going back to their rooms that very minute and searching for the goods.

Freezing cold on both coasts.

Out west, Hollywood types are enjoying a weekend with a special “Frozen”-themed event. This weekend there will be a pre-Oscars Music Behind the Scenes panel. The panel includes Yale alum Robert Lopez ’97 who co-wrote the six songs from “Frozen” with his wife. At Yale, Lopez was a member of the Spizzwinks (?).

High Street Hoops. Fraternity

Row is trekking over to Payne Whitney Gymnasium this weekend for the SAE 3-on-3 March Madness Basketball Tournament, which is cosponsored by Sig Nu, Sip Ep and Theta.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1962 Two seniors are brought back to town after being charged with theft of over $2000 worth of goods — film projectors, typewriters and cash — in Watertown, N.Y. They arrived with police escort.

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Known together as the Fossil Halls, the Dinosaur and Mammal Halls are the Peabody Museum’s main priority for fundraising and renovation.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER At the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, dinosaurs may soon strike a new pose.

The Dinosaur and Mammal Halls were last updated in the early 1980’s, and they currently retain inaccurate information based on mid-twentieth century perspectives on dinosaurs and

fossils. While many museums across the country recently renovated for similar reasons, the Peabody is taking the opportunity to frame its history of life exhibits from a climate perspective. The Peabody is more than half way to its 30 million dollar goal and posed to begin construction as soon as the remaining funds are raised, said

Hausladen: the road to Transit Chief

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On Thursday, University President Salovey announced the membership of a committee that will advise him on the selection of individuals to fill the three top dean positions.

Salovey will look to the 15-member committee, chaired by Berkeley Master Marvin Chun and composed of 13 faculty members and two students, as he chooses the next Yale College and Graduate School deans as well as the newly-created dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Salovey emphasized the committee’s purely advisory role, noting that he will have ultimate say in the appointments. He said he expects the committee to provide him with multiple candidates for each position, rather than a single choice.

The committee includes faculty members from across the University’s departments who have had dramatically different lengths of service at Yale.

“I asked the provost, deans [for suggestions for committee members] and also reviewed suggestions made by faculty to me, primarily by email,” Salovey said. “We attempted to craft a committee that was broadly representative of the FAS faculty, but also of the College and the Graduate School.”

Graduate Student Assembly Chair Brian Dunican GRD ’15, a member of the committee, said the membership of the group was “certainly not a predictable selection.” Dunican added that the GSA will hold a town hall for graduate students to voice their own recommendations to him.

We attempted to craft a committee that was broadly representative [of both the College and Graduate School.]

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University Yale College Council President Danny Avraham ’15, who will also sit on the committee, said he will reach out to student groups and hold open office hours to ensure he has a comprehensive and diverse perspective of students’ opinions to present to the committee.

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Yalies raise awareness in Sochi

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER Last week, when snow was once again blanketing the city, Doug Hausladen ’04 was running around New Haven helping to enforce a parking-ban on the odd-numbered side of the streets, allows him to meet with city officials and plowing crews by the hour — he would not get to sleep for the next 46 hours.

For Hausladen, this day is emblematic of the way he does his job as the newly appointed Elm City transit chief. Hausladen said coffee is the crutch which maintain a seemingly endless schedule.

“I could take a more hands-off approach, but that’s not my style,” he said.

Though he has thrown himself fully into his job, a life of transportation schedules and city governance was not the future he imagined for himself as a Yale undergraduate. When he arrived on campus in the fall of 2000, Hausladen was a molecular biophysics and biochemistry major, and took mostly science and pre-med classes for all four years as a student in Davenport College.

Looking back, he said he now regrets not taking more classes akin to one of his favorite classes freshman year: “Study of the City.”

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Yale’s “Team Climate” traveled to the Olympic games in Sochi to raise awareness about climate change.

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER While delegations from around the world gathered in Sochi to compete in the Olympics, Yale’s “Team Climate” traveled to the games to raise awareness about climate change.

Five students from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies spent nine days

in Sochi to help spread the stories of how climate change is affecting winter sports. Team Climate partnered with 16 Olympians, and encouraged media outlets to write about issues related to climate change and publish athletes’ stories about climate and the games.

“The winter sports industry is full of people that really care about what climate change is doing to our world,” Kaylee Weil ’12 FES

’14 said. “More than that, these athletes have first hand experiences with climate change which is something that most of us can’t say. These athletes go back to the same glacier and they actually see that it recedes.”

Weil said Team Climate carried out a successful awareness campaign because of their engageSEE SOCHI PAGE 6

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body in charge of drafting Yale’s new alcohol policy, determining methods of education and planning programming; it will include six undergraduates (two of which will be decided by application) and two graduate students, all serving an active role. Unlike most of the committees I served on during my time as YCC President, this group has the power to decide Yale policy — determining what Yale’s alcohol rules will look like and what tangible steps will be taken to protect students from high-risk drinking.

We are in a stage of action.

The topics the Committee considers are likely to be diverse — they may range from debating an amnesty policy and rethinking FroCo training, to providing beer at campus events, as has been done at Spring Fling. Students who feel strongly about policy, programming or education can engage by applying to be on the Committee or the Undergraduate Student Advisory Board on Alcohol. Students can also reach out to the undergraduates on the Committee, like myself.

Only by having an engaged student body can we begin to create the change we talk about so much in op-eds and conversations with friends.

While I fully understand the apathy and frustration my friends at Yale have developed toward student representatives and Yale administrators, I believe we are entering a more engaging time.

Our collective voice has helped convince President Salovey to allow a student on the Deans Search Advisory Committee and to create an Open Data Policy Task Force with student representation, following the controversy over Yale Bluebook Plus. The University has now extended an opportunity with regards to alcohol policy, and it is imperative that we seize it. These are important steps in ensuring a more productive and fair relationship between students and Yale administrators.

For this new relationship to work though, administrators must listen to and not just hear what we have to say. If their measures are just lip service, it will be the responsibility of student leaders to hold the University accountable. From my perspective though, we should worry about that concern if and when it arises.

For now, let’s take full advantage of the opportunity we have this year. We’re at a critical juncture in shaping alcohol policies at Yale, an issue with massive impact on student life. There’s a time to bring problems to light, and there’s a time to start generating solutions. Let’s take advantage of the opportunities we’ve been offered to shape Yale’s future.

JOHN GONZALEZ is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at john.gonzalez@yale.edu .

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h, juniors — it’s that time of year. Letters sealed with wax have been slipped under doors, and several of your senior friends’ new cover photos feature people you have never seen them with before in your life. Perhaps you are beginning to wish that the term “senior society” simply served as a euphemism for “nursing home,” rather than as a trigger for social anxiety.

The society tap process is svelte and mysterious, and juniors tumble into it like lemmings off a cliff. I certainly did.

A year ago, I had no clue what was going on, but I was titillated by the wedding-quality invites and amused by the requests to show up at 7:03pm (no earlier, no later). But I still had no idea where the letters were coming from, why some people received more than others and why the whole thing had the extraordinary power to dig deep into everyone’s social insecurities and sense of selfworth.

Like many of my fellow lemmings, I jumped into the invisible arms of a senior society I knew virtually nothing about.

Somehow, when it comes to this bizarre engagement that consumes six to 10 hours per week of senior year, students hand themselves over, blind and content. As for me, I didn’t know whether to find the passing claims that seniors had found their “best friends” through society a touching exaggeration or a depressing reflection of their previous three years at Yale.

If you’re close with certain seniors, clear information and honest insights on all aspects of society are easily available, but oftentimes seniors are so concerned with cache that they’ll

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'GUEST' ON 'RECONCILE ALCOHOL POLICY'

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GUEST COLUMNIST JOHN GONZALEZ

s we can see from this week’s school-wide email from Dean Mary Miller, students are now in an important position to shape policy and create change in regard to decisions about alcohol at Yale.

As the Yale College Council president last year, I spent many hours every week working with Yale administrators, serving through the transition from former President Richard Levin to current President Peter Salovey.

At first the job could be frustrating; I frequently found myself serving in an advisory capacity, without the decision-making power that would make student government truly effective.

But as the shape of University leadership began changing, I felt the relationship we had with administrators begin to transform for the better. Working with recently appointed Vice President of Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews ’83 LAW ’86 and Presidentelect Salovey, I found them willing to engage with, talk about and rethink the relationship between students and administrators.

While recent student frustration surrounding everything from alcohol policy to mental health services is clear and well documented, we are now in a position to do something about it. While student protests, op-eds and YCC reports have captured administrators’ attention, it is crucial as students that we get involved in implementing our ideas, especially with regards to the University’s stance on alcohol.

This week, students received a series of emails from Dean Mary Miller and Vice President GoffCrews regarding the tenets of Yale’s approach to alcohol policy.

These tenets were formed through talks with students and administrators, and they serve as an outline for the University’s upcoming decisions on alcohol policy, education and programming.

Whether the elimination of large-scale University events, new tailgate policies or mandatory party registrations, I have noticed a drastic increase in campus tensions surrounding alcohol.

The University’s new tenets are an important first step in quelling fears at a time when rumors of Yale’s disciplinary actions and crackdowns too often drive student behavior.

I am happy the University has finally stated that alcohol is a public health concern, not a disciplinary issue. Administrators have acknowledged that the current policies and procedures around alcohol have been far from clear, and that student involvement at every level of decision-making is crucial. They have admitted that the status quo is flawed, and are asking students to get involved in fixing it.

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provide you with nothing more than abstruse abstractions. Since few things about society are actually TAO TAO secret, I’d HOLMES like to help out.

Taoisms I ended up in your average nonlanded, co-ed society. Most societies have between 14 and 18 people, some are singlesex and most meet in improvised spaces on and off campus.

Some are more homogenous (racially, socially, socioeconomically and intellectually) than others, while some place greater emphasis on diversity.

Societies meet on Thursday and Sunday evenings, and over the course of the year, members of most (though not all) societies give a “bio,” which is a narrative explaining how they became the person they are now. Bios generally last between three and four hours, though on occasion stray into the realms of six or seven (preferably not). This tradition is what most people believe makes society worthwhile; it is an opportunity to reflect on your own background, and also to understand how others have been shaped by circumstances entirely unlike your own — to compare our face-value assumptions with nuanced realities.

Yale is full of phenomenal people (interviewing juniors this past week has been a reminder of that), and ideally through society you’ll get to know a few you weren’t even aware existed. As for those tantalizing tombs, most landed

A new corner store It’s good to hear that the existing apparel stores on Broadway are making sales, paying taxes and creating jobs for sales clerks and store managers (“In defense of Broadway,” Feb. 14). That is not an indication, however, that an additional apparel store, such as Brooks Brothers, would enhance the retail mix on Broadway. If anything, it suggests the opposite: Let the existing stores continue to thrive and bring in a complementary enterprise to enliven the overall shopping experience.

It may be convenient to believe that “consumers vote with their dollars,” but this is a statement of ideology and not a fact. Can we imagine a tenant that would enrich the district in a way than cannot be strictly calculated by revenue projections? University Properties should be given more latitude in how it is asked to assess potential tenants.

My suggestion: What if the corner storefront was occupied by a corner store? I’m thinking deli, basic groceries, hardware, cosmetics and health-related items, maybe a vintage soda fountain with a lunch counter. It would make sense, especially given Gourmet Heav-

societies allow visitors second semester, so if you know a member you can generally get a tour. At the end of the simultaneously ego-boosting and soul-deflating process of Tap, however, the people you’re with matter far more than the place where you hang.

SOCIETY TAP PROCESS IS MYSTERIOUS — AND GOOD OR BAD FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE— BUT WE CAN DEBUNK THE MYTHS But society isn’t without its drawbacks. It’s a massive time commitment, which for a while I saw as taking time away from my suite and my club soccer teammates. It also costs money; dues (even for many landed societies) range between $150 and $400 dollars per semester. And realistically, you might not like everyone you’re with, even after you bare your souls.

Unsurprisingly, probably the majority of my senior friends felt ambivalent about their societies for the first half of the year. Plenty of seniors dropped out during the fall, and even a few at the beginning of winter.

And for lots of good reasons, there are rising seniors who decide not to bother with society altogether.

As for the tap process, most societies allow each member

en’s recent woes. Students and other Broadway users should speak up if they want to have an impact on the future of the area.

ELIHU RUBIN Feb. 25 The author is an assistant professor of architecture, urbanism and American Studies.

Singapore and Yale Far from objecting to speakers’ claims at a Feb. 20 Yale Law School panel on “Human Rights in Singapore,” as the article reports (“Yale involvement in Singapore criticized at panel,” Feb. 21), I argued in support of them.

I said that when Singapore’s government let opposition leaders Chee Soon Juan and Kenneth Jeyaretnam speak at Yale in New Haven after banning them elsewhere, it made a tactical concession to Yale shortly before Yale-NUS’ opening. I said that, in light of the government’s con-

between one and six “taps,” which may go to a best friend, a boyfriend, or a practical stranger — the longest interaction I had with the girl who tapped me was a conversation on a bus ride. It’s luck, it’s chance, it’s random — it’s whatever you want to call it, but it’s not an assessment of who you are as an individual. Because as exclusive as this process may seem, seniors are trying to make society as inclusive as possible; we want juniors to have the chance to be part of this, and every year or two a new society pops up to extend the experience to more people. What I find unfortunate is that this positive intent comes at the expense of a discomforting process.

Of course, certain fantastical rumors will continue to keep everyone’s curiosity piqued.

I’ve heard that landed societies receive elaborate catered dinners; Wolf’s Head could probably house half of the New Haven homeless; Skull and Bones has the highest water bill in the city; last year, Scroll and Key flew in two people during Tap. But those are sensational details within a larger, less hyberbolic picture.

I turned out to be a lucky lemming; through my particular society, I gained close friends and valuable perspective. In your last year of Yale, society provides a unique opportunity to step beyond your comfort zone, temper your judgment of others and understand the internal clockwork that makes humans tick at different rhythms.

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

tinuing deeply repressive policies toward dissenters, letting Chee and Jeyaretnam speak in New Haven reflected not an advance for the rule of law but a handling of Yale with kid gloves that left Singapore’s government deciding which unalienable rights it will honor and when.

In a few days The Politic will publish a short essay by me indicating why I think some Yale students misunderstand the insidious repression that our University has legitimized and accommodated. Yale dreams that a reinvented liberal education will spur reform of that regime even as it’s failing to reform our own ailing governance and civic life. Yale shouldn’t have ventured into Singapore, even if its intention was to reinvent liberal education abroad first and then here.

JIM SLEEPER Feb. 21 The author is a lecturer of political science.

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

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hat’s in a name? If your name is Audrey — and you happen to be a University initiative instead of a person — then the answer is quite a lot. That’s because this Audrey is neither Hepburn nor Horne, but rather the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative at Yale.

The program, properly abbreviated as “AODHRI” in print, is a branch of the Yale College Dean’s Office “dedicated to reducing the various harms — physical, psychological, academic and social — of drug and alcohol use among Yale undergraduates.” Although AODHRI was established in 2011, it has drawn recent attention thanks to Dean Mary Miller’s Monday email, which announced the creation of five new initiatives aimed at reducing high-risk drinking in the College.

Clicking around AODHRI’s website, you’ll find a lot of information about alcohol: imbibing it, avoiding it and regulating its consumption. Special sections are devoted to party-worthy nonalcoholic beverages (think Shirley Temples) and tips for planning healthy gatherings. (“Choose the music strategically,” reads one suggestion.)

In contrast, those titular “other drugs” are mentioned only briefly.

A page about Yale culture features several short paragraphs on “Academics & adderall [sic],” emphasizing that the drug can produce “mixed” (and thereby counterproductive) effects. Adderall is mentioned again on a nearby page of frequently asked questions, along with one FAQ about marijuana.

But these blurbs are hardly substantial. Alcohol is the star of AODHRI’s show, and “other” drugs are just that.

This imbalMARISSA ance is largely MEDANKSY justified. More than any other Little Fables substance, alcohol is a major presence at universities. The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 60.3 percent of college students nationwide consumed alcohol — and according to University findings, Yale’s drinking rate is higher than the national average.

Our campus, like most, is awash in booze, and it makes sense to address its problems in a manner commensurate to their existence.

But amidst this alcoholic deluge, other drugs do exist. A 2011 Yale Herald article reported that 34.6 percent of undergraduate survey respondents had tried marijuana “more than once or twice.” Over 10 percent of respondents said they’d taken prescription medications without a prescription, and almost 8 percent admitted to having tried drugs like cocaine, ecstasy and LSD. In other words, if the University planned a dinner solely for its undergraduate drug users, Yale Dining would need to reopen Commons.

If students are using drugs, it’s only logical that they would want

to talk — along with their friends and classmates — about using these substances safely. In fact, we can already see the demand for this kind of conversation. Even at the end of shopping period, students crammed the aisles of “Drugs, Brain and Behavior,” a capped psychology course with an impressive 154 students.

IT'S TIME FOR YALE TO TALK ABOUT RESPONSIBLE DRUG POLICY AND EDUCATION Still, true harm reduction requires more pervasive and widespread education. Therefore, in order to fulfill the entirety of its mandate, AODHRI must promote a greater drug-related dialogue on campus. The University cannot absolve itself of its obligation in furthering its stated goal of student safety.

What might these conversations look like? For one thing, they’d be rational and fact-based. The last thing we need is another “just say no” campaign. The administration should acknowledge the inevitability of student drug use, just as underage drinking is addressed without being condoned. In addition to consolidating information on the AODHRI website, events like

Spring Fling would be appropriate times to disseminate harm reduction-related facts. A few helpful hyperlinks would go a long way to ensure student safety. (This year especially, let’s remember that Chance’s “Acid Rap” isn’t about the pH scale.)

What’s more, in its efforts to clarify and unify University alcohol policy, Yale should also address the differences between drug and alcohol policy on campus. How do sanctions differ for drug and alcohol-related offenses? Yale can answer this question in any number of ways, including by establishing harsher sanctions for drugrelated offenses. But in this case, the University has a great opportunity to establish itself as a leader in smart, science-minded drug policy. In 2002, Yale set a national example by instituting a policy that would reimburse students who had lost their federal financial aid under the drug-free provision of the Higher Education Act. Now, as our campus reflects on best practices and strategies for alcohol regulation, a reconsideration of drug policy seems also in order.

AODHRI doesn’t need to be Hempfest to be effective. There’s a happy medium between the status quo of virtual silence and the inappropriate overkill of all-out endorsement. With time, honesty and conversation, we as a campus can find that balance.

RAFI BILDNER is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at rafi.bildner@yale.edu .

TOM HARRISON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at thomas.harrison@yale.edu .

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THE PEOPLE'S CAUCUS BELIEVES DISCOURSE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PARTISANSHIP While working on Justin Elicker’s mayoral campaign, I had the opportunity to meet folks from all over the city, and I got the chance to talk to community activists and leaders in many different neighborhoods. One thing became immensely clear to me: the innerworkings of city government had become deeply flawed, reliant on a dictatorial style of government both at the legislative and executive level. Decisions were being

made behind closed doors; Alders were expected to follow the leadership, no questions asked. In a oneparty town, this meant that there was little debate over issues that came before the Board.

I had a chance to sit in on one of the first internal meetings of the People’s Caucus, as a newly formed group at the beginning of this most recent legislative session in January. Listening to the six Alders go around the room and speak, I saw elected officials making a bold move to demand that their constituents, the people of this city, come first. As one alder put it, “our policy agenda will come directly from the people we represent.” The meeting wasn’t all pleasantry — there were tense moments, unsurprising given that the alders hailed from distinct corners of the city — but every single one of them agreed that a new style of government needs to be advanced. The days of a lawmaking body that pushes through legislation without substantive input from constituents are over.

I am a progressive. New Haven, for the most part, is made up of progressive Democrats. But in my view, truly forward-thinking city politics necessitate input

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from constituents — politicians who simply push through legislation without engaging citizens are not progressive. Since its founding, the People’s Caucus has held large public forums all over the city (in addition to smaller get-togethers in the individual Alders’ own wards), focused on a variety of topics, including youth issues, crime, joblessness, city revenue, city contracts and job training. At these forums, constituents come and offer their own policy suggestions and ideas to the Alders; the essence of what city government should be about.

The People’s Caucus has already added an important voice to political discourse in this city. While it’s wonderful that our elected officials agree on many policy issues as steadfast Democrats, it is vital that we have legislators that will work for their constituents, and not political bosses. Let’s hope the caucus only continues to grow, as more and more Alders realize the power of healthy discourse and people-centric governance.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

An alternative to the machine

formed in opposition to any one group, as some have claimed. This coalition of alders that represent city residents from every corner of New Haven came together to offer an alternative style of government.

Blame us, not things merica has witnessed a startling surge in mass shootings over the past few years. In the wake of unthinkable tragedies like Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbia, Md. mall shootings, it is tempting to assuage our consciences by calling these episodes anomalies. We assure ourselves that these are isolated incidents, freakish occurrences — ones that do not reflect any weaknesses in our own social paradigm. As a society, we don’t even entertain the prospect that we could be collectively responsible for this violence.

But we need to.

Neglectful parenting is wreaking havoc on our children’s ability to communicate, form friendships and function in society.

But instead of having an honest dialogue about our children’s development, we tend to reach for more convenient explanations, ones that come packaged with immediate or short-term solutions.

We need to stop blaming inanimate objects like guns and electronics for our own inability to foster emotional and spiritual development in our children. Video games do not impart violence to our children; they simply fill an emotional void that is created when parents, friends and mentors shirk their responsibilities and leave kids to raise themselves. Nor are guns to blame for these mass shootings; it should be obvious that these madmen have already resolved to inflict damage on others by the time they procure the means to do so. We shouldn’t stultify ourselves with the notion that deranged men and women can be “disarmed,” when in lieu of guns, they can realize their goals with an array of alternative weapons. That James Holmes, the Aurora shooter, was found to have stockpiles of rudimentary explosives in his apartment on the day of his shooting spree affirms this fact. Should we require background checks on ammonium nitrate buyers, too?

According to the Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Journal, more than one in 10 Americans are currently prescribed antidepressant medication. From 1994 to 2008, prescriptions for these potent SSRI’s (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have witnessed a 400 percent increase. This trend differs only marginally among age groups; SSRI use among adolescents — 12-17 year– olds — is rising at nearly the same rate found in their parents’ generation. The benefits of these drugs, when properly applied, have been well documented, so I won’t question their positive influence on society. But I am questioning the rationality of parents who put their children on powerful psychotropic drugs and leave them to moderate their own use.

This criminal negligence is well documented in a survey published by the Center for Disease Control in 2008. According to the CDC, only 29 percent of SSRI-taking adolescents said they had seen a psychiatrist or medical professional within the last year. These are powerful drugs with potentially dangerous side effects including suicidal thoughts, violent behavior and extreme emotional volatility. In a country where suicide is the third most common cause of death among teenagers, parental oversight for our suffering children cannot be an option; it must be an absolute imperative. More to the point, we must confront the question of why so many Americans feel the need to medicate their children. These statistics on antidepressant usage should prompt a national conversation about the role of family and friends in our children’s development. This dialogue can’t be restricted to medication. It also has to address television and video games, both of which are employed by parents who find it acceptable to distract their children instead of raising them properly.

We have to acknowledge that our own hands are not entirely clean in this massshooting epidemic. We have to stop scapegoating guns, the NRA and faulty background checks — and finally admit that our experiment of raising children in front of a television set has gone horribly awry.

Don’t let your favorite politicians lure you back into willful ignorance of this fact; they, alongside the media pundits who obsequiously carry water for them, will always try to divert your attention away from issues that lack an immediate, concrete solution.

The right to bear arms, as enshrined in the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution, was not designed with the likes of hunters, rightwing “fanatics” or gun-loving conservatives in mind. It was designed to protect us and to ensure that our government would never own a monopoly on violence. The NRA is not our enemy; denial is.

We have to confront the hard truth that our social paradigm needs fixing, because inaction will only prolong the senseless violence. This we owe to our children, to our children’s children and to America’s future.

GUEST COLUMNIST RAFI BILDNER

’ll be the first one to admit: the name is a bit corny. I remember when I originally heard about this new group called “The People’s Caucus,” my mind jumped to all the other corny political slogans I’ve heard; my favorite is Ross Perot’s 1992 campaign motto, “Ross for Boss.” Coming up with catchy political expressions is never an easy task.

But the People’s Caucus, a coalition within New Haven’s Board of Alders formed at the beginning of this year, is a shining example of everything that is right in politics. It is a reminder that despite many months of heated campaigning for the mayoral election, which left many New Haven residents anxious about the city’s political future, we are making progress to restore a sense of citizen-centric government to New Haven.

The Caucus was founded for one simple reason: People throughout our community are getting furious with the political machinery that has done away with dialogue, discourse and transparency over the last few legislative sessions. Let me be very clear in saying this is not an anti-anything group. It is not an anti-union caucus, nor a group

GUEST COLUMNIST TOM HARRISON

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“I know people don’t like America very much, but the one thing it’s very good on is local government.” HEATHER BROOKE AMERICAN JOURNALIST

Peabody to update exhbits PEABODY FROM PAGE 1 Richard Kissel, the director of public programs at the Peabody.

“Regarding the fundraising, we are currently pursuing it as a priority within the Museum,” Kissel said. “There is no date, per se, but it is a priority. Our primary goal is to ensure that the project is completed well, given the size and scope of the project, as well as the gallery’s importance to the Museum and its history.”

The museum had previously hoped to complete fundraising

by January so the construction would be complete for museum’s 150th anniversary in 2016, said David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody.

The exhibit, when complete, will shift from a geologic to climate time scale and allow visi-

tors to track the evolution of life through cold and warm eras.

The exhibit will also feature a brief section about the rate of climate change today.

“We don’t use geological time periods in the new exhibit,” said Christopher Norris, senior collections manager for the division of vertebrate paleontology at the Peabody.

“There is a whole nomenclature of geological time periods that we are very familiar with as scientists, but these names only act as a barrier to telling the story and reaching a wider audience.”

While the fossil halls currently feature only a few hundred specimens, the renovated space will hold 1,230 specimens, including 520 invertebrates, 630 vertebrates and 80 paleobotany fossils. Still, THE exhibit represents only a frac-

tion of the museum collection.

Susan Butts, senior collections manager for the division of invertebrate paleontology at the Peabody, said one of the most difficult parts of organizing the renovation was choosing which specimens to show: The museum has roughly 4.5 million invertebrate paleontology specimens in its collections.

Though the number of specimens may be increasing, Kissel said the halls will feel less cluttered. A small strip of glass will replace brown bars around large displays. The display platforms will also be sunk into the ground to bring the exhibits to human scale, Butts said.

Kissel said the museum plans to make the exhibit as accessible as possible while renovations are underway and coordinators do not expect any

decrease in attendance.

The renovation provides the curators the opportunity to correct any inaccuracies presented in the dinosaur constructions. Paleontologists previously believed that the Apatosaurus, the largest specimen in the Great Hall, trailed its tail out behind it; recent evidence suggests the dinosaur whipped its tail to ward of predators. The renovation will reconfigure the current model to lengthen the neck and tail to the correct lengths as well as raise the tail off the ground, Norris said.

Many dinosaurs are now displayed in isolation, while the new design will feature the dinosaurs interacting, he added.

Other dinosaurs will not survive the planned renovation.

The colorful plaster model of the small carnivorous dinosaur

Deinonychus will no longer be displayed because it misrepresents the dinosaur, showing it without feathers and completely covered in scales. But after the recent discovery that birds are descendents of dinosaurs, paleontologists now believe some dinosaurs had feathers. Even a young T-Rex may have been covered entirely in feathers like a baby chick, Kissel said.

“To the chagrin of many young children, we will be presenting the softer side of T-Rex,” Kissel said, adding that the museum may create a graphic representation of a feathered T-Rex. The Dinosaur Hall at the Peabody opened in 1926.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

From Davenport to city politics HAUSLADEN FROM PAGE 1 “I never really put two and two together that I would go into that career,” he said. “I wasn’t intellectually mature enough to realize what the freedom of a Yale education gave you.”

While he did not take many Urban Studies classes, Hausladen called his efforts to expand the community service program at his fraternity — Beta Theta Pi, which is no longer on campus — his proudest achievement at Yale. He was also a student coach and cocaptain of the Yale men’s water polo team and still volunteers to coach both the men’s and women’s water polo teams.

After graduation, Hausladen took a roundabout path to public service. Hausladen and his friend Mark Holden ’03 decided to start their own franchise of a hotel furniture liquidation business in Florida. After getting multiple tickets for improper signage on his business’s land, Hausladen’s interest in local government was piqued.

“I remember … being very confused,” he said. “Then I started learning about zoning, learning about public space management. I remember going to the Building Department in Pinellas Park, Fla. every day for a few weeks and learning more and being very fascinated.”

Hausladen’s interest in local government and his desire to move back to New Haven led him to return to the Elm City in 2005, where he assumed leadership roles on the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team. He then met Ward 7 Alder Bitsie Clark, who suggested he run for her seat on the Board of Alders, which he won in 2010. Clark said that she eventually realized Hausladen’s skill set fit the ward’s unique demographics, which was mainly populated by merchants, developers and young professionals.

This demographic was interested in economic development and biking safety — progressive

issues that distinguished the district from others in the city whose patrons were more interested in “saving a tree or picking up garbage,” Clark said.

But when Hausladen arrived at the Board, he quickly realized he was inexperienced.

“I had very little idea of how to be a legislator,” he said.

Though he was still trying to learn the ropes, Hausladen said he focused on increasing transparency in government. He said his priorities included putting the city’s budget online and remaining extremely responsive to constituents.

Though he is proud of his record on the Board, Hausladen said he did regret the outcome of the formation of the political group Take Back New Haven, an effort to counteract the power of union-packed representatives on the Board of Alders.

He said it proved more short-lived and ineffective than he anticipated, adding that the resignation of two members from Take Back New Haven, Michael Stratton and Anna Festa, soon after its founding, was a “shot in the foot.”

In July 2013, according to the New Haven Independent, the Take Back New Haven launch featured some blunt criticism of the city’s largest union, Locals 34 and 35, that made it seem like the group was formed to blame Yale’s unions instead of presenting solutions for the city.

Then candidate for Ward 19 Alder Michael Stratton said in an interview with the Independent that the unions were “abusing their membership” and “improperly using members’ dues” in order to use the Board of Alders for their own political purposes, which has been speculated but not substantiated.

Alders had mixed reactions to Hausladen’s Take Back New Haven experiment, ranging from disgust, to apathy to praise.

Ward 2 Alder Frank Doug-

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Doug Hausladen ’04 will soon become the director of the New Haven Land Trust. lass said he did not work with Hausladen much during Hausladen’s short tenure on the Board of Alders, but after the formation of Take Back New Haven, he found the prospect of doing so much less appealing. Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said the movement did not play a major role in her relationship with Hausladen as a colleague. Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson did not return multiple requests for comment.

But Clark said she found the formation of Take Back New Haven, even with its faults, to be a “courageous” act and an effort by Hausladen to get more New Haven residents involved in the civic process.

However, Hausladen was adamant that no one could dispute his constituent work, which was, according to him,

his proudest set of accomplishments as a member of the Board of Alders.

Yzvonne Gore, who lives in Ward 7, said Hausladen once personally accompanied her to inspect Section 8 Housing near her Ninth Square residence. He also lobbied for better treatment for her granddaughter when she felt she was being unduly harassed, resulting in the officer reported being suspended without pay.

“I can’t think of anyone I could possibly imagine who would be as concerned as Doug,” she said.

Former Ward 10 Alder and current New Haven Land Trust Director Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM’10 — whom Hausladen supported in the mayoral race — said Hausladen’s temperament will continue to serve

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him well in his current job as the City’s Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking.

“Just in general Doug is someone that asks a lot of questons who’s naturally curious and has strong integrity,” he said. “He loves people, and he’s this combination of a very social guy and a tech-nerd.”

Hausladen said he is satisfied with his present job and feels that he is doing what he is “supposed to be doing right now.” Hausladen added that he would like to go to graduate school at some point, but he has been unable to narrow his interests to one field.

Until then, Hausladen has his work cut out for him.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Committee takes shape COMMITTEE FROM PAGE 1 dent, in addition to traditional ladder faculty in the arts and sciences.

Senior public health researcher Gisella Caccone GRD ’86 said that to her knowledge, her appointment to the committee marks the first time a member of the research faculty, rather than ladder faculty, has been included in such a committee.

The addition of two students — who were chosen by the Yale College Council and Graduate Student Assembly, respectively — is also a significant change from previous searches, when students did not have a seat at the table.

Five of the 12 faculty members come from the natural sciences, with four from the humanities and four from the social sciences.

The committee includes Thomas Appelquist, a former Graduate School dean who has been at Yale since 1976. But it also includes sociology professor Nicholas Christakis ’84, who arrived at Yale from Harvard only last year.

Several of the members have substantial previous experience on University committees.

Classics professor Emily Greenwood, for instance, sat on the faculty committee that recommended the creation of a dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

East Asian Languages and Literatures Department Chair Tina Lu served on the grading committee and molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Enrique De La Cruz served on the University steering committee.

Chun said that for the time being, his main priority is to gather input from faculty, staff, student and alumni.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller stressed that the committee will have to search for not just three quality administrators, but three administrators who can work together as a team to pioneer the University’s transition to a new governance model.

“Most of the candidates for either position will have a degree of interchangeability,” said Chemical Engineering professor Gary Haller, who chaired the advisory committee when Miller was selected in 2008.

“But considering them together will make it possible to seek two complementary persons that might have particular strengths for one or the other of the deanships and to recommend them so that together they will also be knowledgeable across most disciplines.”

In addition to the membership of the advisory committee, Salovey’s email included a link to a website where members of the University community can submit suggestions for what they hope to see in the three deans.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!” MARGARET MITCHELL AUTHOR OF “GONE WITH THE WIND”

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Financial literacy workshops expand

BY RISHABH BHANDARI AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS Yale students past and present are learning to balance their budgets.

Last year, the Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale College Council began hosting separate workshops designed to help students learn to manage their finances.

According to John Caserta ’01 – who is the founder of the New Haven financial planning firm Caserta & Co and volunteers to help lead the AYA workshops — the events feature presentations on critically important issues such as budgeting, taxes, employee benefits and retirement plans. Administrators and alumni interviewed said the number of scheduled workshops has increased this year as a result of their surprising popularity. For the first time, the AYA will also travel beyond campus to spread the message of financial literacy to alumni living in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.

“Financial literacy is a huge knowledge gap at Yale, and it’s one we need to fill,” said Stephen Blum ’74, director of strategic initiatives for AYA. “The response has been overwhelming, I’ve been surprised by how many students have attended these events.”

Blum, who leads the presentations with Caserta, said the AYA has hosted over 40 workshops during the last year. The financial literacy program, which started as a couple of workshops held in Branford and other colleges, grew organically but quickly.

Blum said each residential college will have hosted at least two workshops by the end of the 2013-’14 year because of the support of the Council of Masters. According to data collected by the AYA, the workshops have attracted over 800 unique attendees. Blum said approximately 70 percent of the audience was made up of undergraduates while 20 percent were students from Yale’s graduate or professional schools. Ten percent of the audience were young alumni, he said.

Mary Kiare ’14 said the AYA financial literacy workshop that she attended was dense, but also helpful and “enlightening” because it made her recognize that she took many financial responsibilities for granted. At Yale, she said she never thinks about how much the University pays for electricity or internet connection, but she now realizes she will have to start thinking about finances after graduating.

“We learn a lot of things [at Yale], but no one tells you how to manage your finances,” Kiare said. “I think it’s something that [students] need to hear about more.”

Caserta said the number of young alumni who participate in these workshops encouraged AYA to travel across the country and bring these workshops to areas with high numbers of recent graduates.

Financial Aid Director Caesar Storlazzi said the financial illiteracy of college students has become a national issue that he and his counterparts at other schools continually discuss at conferences.

Storlazzi said that although the Yale College Dean’s Office has wanted to increase financial literacy on campus for a num-

ber of years, no tangible initiatives were introduced until last year, when the Financial Aid Office, in collaboration with the YCC, hosted two financial literacy forums for undergraduate students. Unlike the PowerPoint presentations that characterize the AYA financial literacy forums, Storlazzi said the Financial Aid Office-sponsored forums followed a question and answer format.

Although the Financial Aid Office has not increased the number of financial literacy forums that it will host this spring compared to last year, Storlazzi said he hopes to expand the program in future years. Still, he emphasized that students can always walk into the Student Financial Services center and ask for financial planning advice.

“There seems a misconception that we’re an office only to give you financial aid and advice for your time at Yale,” he said, adding that he wants to change that perception by also helping advise students on their personal finances as young adults.

Storlazzi said the YCC has been a partner in spreading this message. He added that he hopes the YCC will help enhance the Financial Aid Office’s web presence and let his office know which issues are of particular importance to students.

Though Caserta said he was unaware of the financial literacy forums organized by the YCC and the Financial Aid Office, he said he would be interested in collaborating with the office in the future. Blum said the AYA often collaborates with organizations on an ad-hoc basis, citing the group’s past partnerships with the Junior Class Council, the Senior Class Council and Undergraduate Career Services as examples of the AYA’s flexibility.

Director of UCS Jeanine Dames said her office produces an annual publication entitled “Life After Yale” with several chapters dedicated to personal finance. One such chapter of the publication is entitled “MillionDollar Retirement Advice for the Future Millionaire,” while another is called “Living Within Your Means: Money and Taxes.”

Dames said UCS posts these resources online so that alumni who cannot attend a live workshop because of scheduling conflicts can access them on their own time. She added that UCS advisors are also accessible to all alumni, regardless of when they graduated. Many alumni ask the office for advice in these matters, she said.

All 10 students interviewed said they support both the joint-YCC-Financial Aid Office forums and the expanded AYA workshops.

“This is not something we learn in class but it’s just as important as our classes,” Harry Shamansky ’16 said.

Kendra Dawsey ’14, a senior who was not aware of these workshops, said she would have attended had she known about them in advance. She added that she appreciated the breadth of the AYA presentations because they would allow her to identify areas where she needs to do more research on her own.

The two YCC-Financial Aid Office financial literacy forums are scheduled for Feb. 28 and April 8.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

Looney eyes top Senate spot

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Martin Looney, an unassuming but powerful lawmaker and influential New Haven politico, is in line for the top leadership role in the Connecticut State Senate.

Looney, currently the body’s majority leader, is expected to succeed Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams Jr. Williams announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection this fall, leaving his leadership position vacant and paving the way for Looney’s promotion.

With widespread party backing, Looney need only ensure Democrats maintain their majority in the Senate to take the chamber’s helm later this year. Expressing cautious

optimism his party will remain dominant — it was 1994 when Republicans last took the majority — Looney said he is looking forward to leading the legislative body in which he has served since 1993.

“I’ve had an interest in this position for a while,” said Looney, who represents the eastern half of New Haven and part of Hamden. “It’s the most significant leadership position in the Senate.”

He added that he is gratified by the “many commitments of support” he has received from Democratic caucus members.

Williams, who has served alongside Looney in the State Senate for more than two decades, said he considers Looney a friend and supports his run for party leadership.

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State Sen. Martin Looney has widespread party backing, and is expected to become the senate president pro tem next session.

Even more than his legislative accomplishments, Williams said, Looney’s “thoughtfulness” and deep pride in representing his constituents qualify him for the role of president pro tem.

The president pro tem is tasked with selecting committee chairmanships, making all committee assignments and ultimately shaping the caucus’ top priorities for each legislative session. By deciding when key bills are taken up, Williams said, the president pro tem exerts significant influence over the Senate’s agenda.

Williams said his deep affection for the legislative process made the decision to step down difficult. He is the longest-serving president pro tem in the state’s history, having led the caucus for 10 years.

“This is a good time to challenge myself and move in a different direction,” Williams said.

“I’m still enthusiastic and passionate about my work. I certainly wouldn’t want to stay to the point that I did not feel that way.”

As for what he will try his hand at next, Williams said he has not yet decided: in addition to being an attorney, he worked as a reporter before winning election to the State Senate.

Looney’s colleagues, friends and longtime political allies praised the state senator as an effective legislator and a compassionate voice for his constituents — with an unmatched knowledge of the state capitol and an unmistakably wry sense of humor.

Connecticut State Rep. Roland Lemar, a former New Haven alder, said Looney’s ascent is a coup for New Haven.

“Selfishly as a New Haven resident, I think it’s outstanding that Senator Looney will be moving into this spot,” Lemar said. “He’s been focused on urban issues for a long time.

He understands fiscal policy, education, unemployment, job training — things that really impact urban communities.”

Lemar pointed to Looney’s leadership on the passage of the state’s first Earned Income Tax

Credit in 2011 as evidence of the senator’s ability to muster votes despite partisan divisions.

With power in Hartford has come increasing sway in New Haven politics. Looney was part of a group of people who urged Mayor Toni Harp to run for the city’s highest office last year, a move he was rumored to be considering, especially after his law partner, probate judge Jack Keyes, declined to enter the race. “[Looney] is very unassuming and very gentle, but he’s also very passionate in his beliefs,” said Keyes, a former city clerk who has been in practice with Looney since 1985.

Keyes said Looney’s progressive values are long-lasting: He has favored public financing and gay marriage and opposed capital punishment for three decades.

Looney’s close ties to Harp stand in stark contrast to his relationship with former New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., whom he ran unsuccessfully to unseat in 2001.

Keyes attributed Looney’s growing influence in New Haven to his role as majority leader, which he took on in 2004.

“The breakthrough was getting elected majority leader,” Keyes said. “That kind of changed the equation. A mayor needs a majority leader.”

Jason Bartlett, Looney’s campaign manager in 2001, said the state senator’s humble nature belies a “steely determination.” Twelve years after managing Looney’s unsuccessful mayoral bid, Bartlett returned to New Haven to run Harp’s successful 2013 campaign. He now serves as the city’s director of youth services.

“I’m excited for the city of New Haven to have him in the number one spot,” Bartlett said. “It’s going to pay dividends.”

Looney was born in New Haven in 1948.

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

SOM students solve real world cases

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Management launched its first online courses last semester, but the school’s online innovation is far from over.

SOM’s small network online courses (SNOCs) are taught by SOM faculty members and are open to students throughout the Global Network, an international network of business schools founded by SOM Dean Edward Snyder in 2012.

Following last semester’s success with courses on mobile banking and antitrust laws, SOM is now offering a class on natural capital — “the Economy of Natural Resources” — taught

by SOM professor Brad Gentry.

According to SOM administrators, the course is breaking new ground by asking students to examine and solve real problems that international companies are facing. The heads of some of these companies — including the CEO of Alcoa, a company that produces aluminum — have made guest appearances, and more are planning to participate.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said the pedagogically innovative course will help SOM assess the potential of the online course model and strengthen the Global Network.

“I do think that a couple of years from now we will look at the course and say, ‘That was a really important moment for the Global Network,’” Bach said.

Jain added that the environmental and business themes of the course reflect SOM’s mission to educate leaders for business and society.

Though SNOCs are non-traditional by nature, Bach said the natural capital class stands out among the courses offered so far. The class is much larger than previous SNOCs, and it allows students from around the world to tackle internation-

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Students at the School of Management will be able to participate in small network online courses. ally relevant problems about natural capital, he said.

Gentry, who designed the course in collaboration with nine students from SOM and from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, said the use of real-world case studies will give students a sense of what it will be like to work in the world of business.

In most business school courses, the case studies refer to problems that have already been solved, but resource systems are constantly changing Gentry said. By using cases that are dynamic, Gentry said he hopes to help students realize that the world will often change under their feet as they try to walk.

In designing the course, Gentry said he wanted to work with students in order to have a variety of perspectives on the complex issues at hand.

“MBA students are [being] exposed to some of the science underlying what is going on, as

well as topics like market organization and branding,” he said of his course.

Laura Franceschini FES ’14, one of the students who helped develop the curriculum and is now a teaching assistant for the course, said that the online format gives the course great potential.

Teaching assistants can upload different kinds of material, from case documents to video lectures. The students, on their part, have the freedom to sift through the material and understand how they learn best, she said.

The online format also allows the course to sustain more students, spanning across different time zones, than a traditional course would, she said.

Associate Director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment Jennifer Oldham Rogan, who helped plan the course, said that although there are currently 65 active students in the course, she esti-

mates roughly 150 people will be involved by the end of the semester, including staff members, faculty from the different schools and experts in the field of natural capital.

The course lends itself to collaboration, she said.

Conal Campbell, a student taking the course from University College Dublin Smurfit, said he has found the class both challenging and valuable for his future.

“I had previous experience of working in international settings, but collaborating with people you have never met in real life was a new challenge, and one that I’m sure I’ll use time and again throughout my career,” Campbell said.

Global Network Week, during which students in the Global Network travel to each other’s schools, will take place March 3–7.

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

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“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” OG MANDINO AMERICAN AUTHOR

Yalies promote climate change awareness SOCHI FROM PAGE 1 ments with a diverse set of media outlets and partnerships.

Of the 16 athlete partners, eight published opinion articles about the effects of climate change at the Sochi games in newspapers including The Guardian, Boston Globe, and USA Today.

The article in USA Today from Feb. 12 about climate change and the Olympics featured three of the partner athletes, and quoted Team Climate team member Diana Madson FES ’14.

While in Sochi, Team Climate used social media platforms, including Twitter and others, to raise awareness about their mis-

sion. Team Climate also partnered with the communications firm Climate Nexus to increase visibility of their efforts. It was this relationship that lead to the retweet from Organizing for Action, Barack Obama’s grassroots organization. The team sent press releases and personal tweets to over 200 journalists, Madson said.

The group made a particular effort to reach out to sports writers, as their audience had less exposure to climate change issues, Weil said.

Tom Owens FES ’14 said a highlight of the trip was Team Climate’s feature on the Australia Today talk show.

“Our big goal was to get the

climate change discussion integrated and coming up as part of the winter Olympics story,” Madson said. “For the human interest stories, we wanted to infuse the climate change discussions.”

Media passes for the Games were issued before Team Climate formed, so the group attended the events as spectators and approached reporters afterwards, Madson said. Meeting reporters in person added legitimacy and credibility to the awareness campaign, she said, adding that Team Climate was interviewed by several media organizations, passed out fliers, and spoke with hundreds of climate and sports reporters.

Although not having media accreditation seemed like a challenge, Weil said the fact they were a student group rather than a traditional media outlet made Team Climate more approachable.

A 2014 study from University of Waterloo predicts that the climate in Sochi will not be suitable to future winter Olympics.

“With the unusually warm weather in Sochi receiving national attention across much of the U.S., the table was set for them to increase awareness of the implications of a warmer planet for winter Olympics in coming years,” said Bud Ward, the editor of Yale Forum on Cli-

mate Change and the Media who advised Team Climate on media relations.

Climate change is a global topic that needs all our attention.

GORDON GEBALLE Associate dean of alumni and external affairs, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies The project had been underway for about a year according to Madson. The trip started as a project for FES Professor

Gordon Geballe’s International Organization and Conference course.

“Climate change is a global topic that needs all our attention,” Geballe said.“I compliment the students for working hard to promote communication without polarization.”

In April, Team Climate will host an event and reception in mid-April featuring a panel of Olympians including former hockey player Mike Richter ’09 and skeleton racer Kyle Tress.

The other members of Team Climate are Taylor Rees FES ’14 and Bo Uuganbayar FES ’14.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

FAS Dean to change Yale decanal structure NEW DEAN FROM PAGE 1 responsibilities of the University Provost and Yale College Dean as untenable. The committee proposed four different faculty governance models that reworked senior administrators’ existing responsibilities. According to committee chair John Dovidio, the committee preferred the first model, which bears close similarity to the structure announced Thursday.

While University Provost Benjamin Polak admitted that adding a new FAS dean would alter his responsibilities, he said he is excited about the change. A FAS dean position that handles the FAS budget will free the provost’s office to consider larger University-wide issues, he said.

“It will change the role of the Provost’s office considerably,” Polak said, adding that he sees the changes as “healthy.”

University Vice President for Strategic and Global Affairs Linda Lorimer, who worked in the provost’s office in the early 1980s, said the responsibilities of the provost have remained the same in recent decades while the size and complexity of the University have quadrupled.

Faculty appointments and promotions, until now, fell under the joint purview of the Yale College and Graduate School deans. In recent years, the position of Yale College Dean became particularly unmanageable, the committee noted.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller — who will step down from her role on June 30 — said she spends 40 to 50 percent of her time entirely devoted to dealing with faculty appointments and promotions.

Polak said this change in the structure of the senior administration will allow the new Yale College Dean to focus more on making undergraduate education the best it can be.

In its report, the faculty com-

mittee suggested placing the offices of the three deans in close proximity to encourage collaboration. Salovey said Thursday that the physical location and administrative staffing for the new FAS dean are yet to be determined.

“We are mindful of the desire not to create new bureaucracies and to try to accomplish the staffing of the new office through a reorganization and redeployment of, for the most part, existing individuals working in the provost’s or other dean’s offices,” Salovey said.

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We are mindful of the desire not to create new bureaucracies and to try to accomplish the staffing of the new office through a reorganization and redeployment of, for the most part, existing individuals working in the provost’s or other dean’s office.

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PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University Polak said the full details of the new administrative structure have not been finalized.

In his Thursday email, Salovey named a committee of 15 individuals who will provide him with recommendations on candidates for the new post.

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“The covers of this book are too far apart.” AMBROSE BIERCE AUTHOR OF “THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY”

Former Senate candidate pushes drug reform

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Sylvester Salcedo, a local Navy veteran-turned-lawyer, is starting a statewide push for the decriminalization of heroin.

With this initiative, Salcedo is building off one of the major platforms he championed during a 2012 push to be elected to the United States Senate. On Feb. 7, the New Haven Register published an article describing the nine heroin-related deaths that took place in Connecticut in 2014

by Jan. 12. That article, combined with the media stir caused by actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s overdose in February, helped spur Salcedo back into action.

He admits that his goal — enacting legislation that creates safe-injection clinics, where heroin addicts can access the drug in a safe and controlled environment — is ambitious. Still, he said the state’s liberal track record gives him reason to believe that his voice will be heard.

“What I’d like to do in Connecticut, in direct response to what has been happening with the reported overdoses across

the state, is try to bring heroin addicts and their relatives a platform,” Salcedo said. “A safe haven, where they can deal with the issue safely, without fear of law enforcement.”

I’d like to [...] try to bring heroin addicts [...] a safe haven.

SYLVESTER SALCEDO Lawyer To Salcedo, the issue of drug addiction is one for medical professionals, not police officers or court systems. He said, he plans to enlist city and state public health officials who would be willing to support the cause by demanding increased funding and resources for the treatment, rather than the arrest, of the drug-addicted population.

A stint as a Naval intelligence officer put Salcedo on the front lines of the American war on drugs, an effort that he now claims is misguided.

As a result, he has taken the past month to develop a strategy to best pursue his goals: decriminalizing the drug, creating a “Connecticut Heroin Users Union” to catalogue addicts in need and piloting clinics, which would be staffed by medical professionals trained to inject patients with an appropriate dosage of heroin.

Though experts interviewed said that the project will face political hurdles, Salcedo said he is modeling his proposal after existing programs in Europe and Canada.

A safe-injection clinic in Vancouver, was the first such clinic to open in North America. Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health said though the project has been subject to much scrutiny since its launch in 2003, initial data are encouraging for those in the pro-legalization camp.

“The benefits of such a program were pretty much demonstrated,” said Robert Heimer GRD ’88, a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health.

“According to the scientific evaluation by an external group of scientists, you’d have to say yes,

[the program was successful in its mission].”

Heimer described the findings, which included no reported overdose deaths, disease transmission or illicit drug sales in the clinic, as well as decreased emergency room use in response to needlerelated hygiene issues.

Similar clinics have since been approved in Toronto and Montreal, and pro-legalization activists in Calgary, one of Canada’s more conservative cities, are gaining momentum.

Lauretta Grau, an associate research scientist in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, agreed that the clinics would be a positive move from the public health perspective, adding that allowing access to the drug does not discourage addicts from seeking formal treatment.

“I don’t think that providing people with clean and safe equipment is promoting substance abuse,” she said. “What you are doing is affording addicts the privilege that you afford any person in this country that wants access to good health care and good facilities.”

She added that addicts, who

tend to lead “chaotic” lives, might actually be more willing to have their addiction be treated after stabilizing in a consistent, accepting environment. Still, Grau acknowledged Salcedo will likely face political opposition in lobbying for his plan.

Salcedo said he has tried to gauge the community’s reaction to the recent wave of heroin-related news before moving to contact local and state politicians and leaders in police, medicine and education.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that, though Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 has not announced plans for aggressive drug reform, she continues to explore ways for addicts to receive treatment on the road to recovery.

He added that drug policy will inherently affect the economy in New Haven, in addition to crime and health care in the city.

Mike Lawlor, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s criminal justice advisor, added that, though this particular plan has not crossed the governor’s desk, the state has already committed to drug reform.

Lawlor cited the state’s recent legislative packages that loosen

restrictions on medical marijuana and naloxone, a medication that serves as an antidote to overdose, as examples of Gov. Dannel Malloy’s recent involvement in drug reform.

“Our criminal justice policy is focused on crimes involving violence and firearms and actual victims,” he said. “The Governor has tried to de-emphasize the focus on non-violent, low-level offenders and deal with more serious matters.”

He added that political figures like State Senators Martin Looney and Gary Holder-Winfield could be important to Salcedo’s campaign as he attempts to secure the support of a visible leader.

Looney, Holder-Winfield and a spokesman for the state Republican party were unavailable for comment.

In October 2013, a report issued by Trust for America’s Health showed that drug overdoses are responsible for more deaths than motor vehicle accidents in 29 states and in the District of Columbia.

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

Library exhibit uses novel technology

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER A new exhibit this month at the Yale Law School Library showcases the bindings of books, rather than their pages.

“Reflections on Bindings: Using New Imaging Technology to Study Historical Bindings” uses a technique called Reflectance Transformation Imaging to illuminate certain designs and inscriptions on bookbindings that are difficult to discern due to age and wear. The exhibit is the product of several years of planning and research by Yale Library Chief Conservator Christine McCarthy and a team of conservation assistants.

“It’s hard to see through the wear and tear of centuries,” said Mike Widener, the rare book librarian at the Law School who helped facilitate the exhibit.

“With this imaging technology that they’ve used, it literally just jumps out at you.”

The exhibit is divided into four main sections, each featuring four books dated from the 16th to the 18th centuries from the Law Library’s rare book collection. High-resolution images accompany the books to illustrate different facets of RTI technology.

McCarthy said RTI technology first came to Yale a few years ago after several conservators and photographers received the training necessary to use it.

Using software to synthesize the images, she said, the team was able to see the books in enhanced detail and view them from multiple angles on a computer.

Widener said the RTI tech-

nology employed in the exhibit illustrates that book conservationists do not merely conduct repairs, but are important assets to research and scholarship.

Fionnuala Gerrity, a Yale conservation assistant who worked on the exhibit, said her team was able to find exact matches on two of the bindings’ decorative motifs by searching through Einbanddatenbank, a German database of bookbindings from the 15th and 16th centuries.

One section of the exhibit focuses on blind-stamped binding, featured on all the books on display.

“Blind-stamped means that no color, gold or gilt was added — it’s simply an impression made with a heated tool,” McCarthy said. “You can trace the use of different symbols, different tools and things that came out of different bookbindery operations in order to set things in their historical context.”

The last section of the exhibit highlights opportunities for applying RTI images to the field of comparative literature, as detailed parallels may be found between holdings at different libraries.

Before RTI, rubbings were used to procure details from the bookbindings. McCarthy said that while rubbings are conducted with care, they are difficult to master and do not provide nearly as much detail as RTI. Several people involved in the exhibit concurred that bookbindings can provide a wealth of information about books’ historical contexts.

“It actually allows us to read these book covers, because they

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The Yale Law School Library is exhibiting rare books with bindings which have been deciphered for the first time thanks to new imaging technologies. are, in a sense, texts,” Widener said.

Books were typically bound relatively close to of their original owners’ locations prior to the proliferation of publishers’ bindings, Aaron Pratt GRD ’16, a graduate student knowledgeable about book bindings, said in

an email. He said that based on their decorations and underlying structures, bindings can be potentially be traced to where they were purchased. Pratt added that bindings can also shed light on how the book trade worked at the time, or how different binders developed a range

of bookmaking techniques.

But a binding does not necessarily reveal how a book was perceived, Pratt said, as wealthy owners often had all of their books finely bound regardless of their content.

“For all that bindings can tell us, then, we should always heed

the old adage and be careful not to judge a book by its cover,” he said.

The exhibit will close on May 24, 2014.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature.” WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AMERICAN AUTHOR

Ukrainian president said to be in Moscow

BY LYNN BERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Ukraine’s fugitive president may be enjoying VIP treatment under Moscow’s protection, said to have been spotted at an opulent five-star hotel and a Kremlin country retreat. But beneath the surface, the embrace has been chilly: State-run TV has portrayed him as a coward who betrayed those who stood by him.

The conflicting messages indicate that while Russia still considers him the legitimate president of Ukraine, it is far from happy with his handling of Ukraine’s crisis.

Yanukovych made his appeal for protection in a written statement released simultaneously by two Russian state news agencies: “I have to ask Russia to ensure my personal safety from extremists,” he wrote. Shortly afterward, the same agencies quoted an unidentified government official as saying that the request had been “satisfied on the territory of Russia.” The ITAR-Tass and RIA Novosti news agencies often are used by the government to issue official statements.

With President Vladimir Putin largely silent, the Kremlin’s tone on Ukraine has been set by Russian state television, which has denigrated the Ukrainian leader for failing to stand up to the protesters and taking flight, betraying those who stood by him.

Dmitry Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Center said the descriptions of Yanukovych in state media leave little doubt how he’s

seen by Moscow.

“I think he simply failed in expectations that had been placed on him at the time that Putin was giving him large amounts of financial support, of which $3 billion are in danger of being never returned to Russia,” Trenin said in a conference call with journalists.

“The relationship between Putin and Yanukovych is wellknown to have been a very bad one, with the Russian leader not having much respect for his Ukrainian counterpart,” the political scholar said. “So I think that they will give him protection, but he is not going to be an active element in any Russian strategy visa-vis Ukraine in the near future.”

Since he was driven out of Ukraine’s capital nearly a week ago after three months of protests, Yanukovych has been on the run.

His last public appearance was Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where he declared in a video address that he was still president and would not leave the country.

The opposition leaders who suddenly found themselves in charge of the country, however, said Yanukovych then promptly tried to fly out from Donetsk, also in eastern Ukraine, but was stopped by the border service. He then showed up on the Crimean Peninsula, where Russia has a naval base, according to the acting interior minister, who said Yanukovych and his remaining loyal guards were last seen driving away in three cars early Monday.

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Pro-Russian activists hold up Orthodox icons at a checkpoint outside the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol in the Crimea, Ukraine.

Yanukovych arrived in Moscow early Tuesday and checked into the Hotel Ukraina, according to the reliable RBK business daily, which said the information initially came from one of Russia’s wealthy businessmen and was confirmed by a government

official.

By Wednesday, Yanukovych had moved to the Barvikha Sanitorium, a well-guarded compound just outside the city with a hotel, cottages and medical center run by the presidential administration’s property department,

Egyptian Oscar nominee not shown at home

BY MAGGIE HYDE AND EDITH M. LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Directors of Egypt’s first Oscar-nominated film will be walking the red carpet at the Oscars ceremony next week in Los Angeles, but most Egyptians have yet to see the hard-hitting movie that chronicles the country’s unrest over the past three years.

Far from being widely celebrated in Egypt, the film has not been shown at Egyptian film festivals or theaters after running into problems with censorship authorities. The filmmakers say they have been blocked because of their portrayal of the country’s military-backed governments.

They still hope to get approval for wider distribution.

“It’s a kind of politics disguised in bureaucracy,” said Karim Amer, the film’s producer, taking a line that one of the film’s central characters uses to describe the government’s counter-revolutionary actions.

“The Square,” named for Tahrir, or Liberty Square, is built around the geographic focal point of the uprising, where millions of Egyptians gathered to protest Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the rule of the generals who succeeded him and now-deposed Islamist

President Mohammed Morsi. It recounts the country’s recent turmoil, beginning when Mubarak stepped down in 2011 through August 2013, right before security forces stormed two protest camps of Morsi supporters, killing hundreds.

The good and free people are being called […] traitors, and the agent and traitors are being called heroes.

AHMED HASSAN Revolutionary, “The Square” The filmmakers tell the story through the eyes of three protesters hailing from different backgrounds. The selfdescribed revolutionaries are Ahmed Hassan, a streetwise idealist; Khalid Abdalla, a British-Egyptian Hollywood actor raised abroad by his exiled activist father; and Magdy Ashour, a member of Morsi’s Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been outlawed and labeled a terrorist organization by the government installed by the military.

The movie follows their ideological trajectories, from hope

and exuberance to disappointment and disillusion.

Ashour grows apart from the Brotherhood. He goes to protest in the square even after the group has prohibited members from demonstrating because, he says, the demands of the revolution have still not been met by the country’s interim leaders. Abdalla struggles to convince his exiled father that his activism will bear fruit, and Hassan suffers a head injury while throwing rocks at security forces and falls into a depression.

“The good and free people are being called agents and traitors, and the agents and traitors are being called heroes,” Hassan narrates over scenes of ambulances carrying away wounded protesters.

The film’s director, Jehane Noujaim, who grew up in Egypt, said she wanted to tell the story in a way that would let viewers in 50 or 100 years feel “that energy and that spirit of being in the square.”

The footage includes graphic images of bloodied bodies getting smashed by military vehicles, police dragging a protester’s limp body across the street and other scenes of brutality.

At one point, a protester kneels on the sidewalk, weeping, with the blood of comrades on his hands.

“Our army is killing us.

They are killing us,” the protester says. “They’ve forgotten Egypt.”

That depiction of the Egyptian military, which removed Morsi in July, is the reason the filmmakers believe the film has not been licensed for showing in Egypt.

But the project has gained acclaim in the West, winning audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival and at Toronto and Montreal festivals. It was acquired last year by subscription service Netflix.

In Egypt, it’s only available through YouTube and illegal downloads. After the academy announced the Oscar nominations, the film was hacked and released on the Internet. Amer estimates that more than 1.5 million people have watched it online.

“What’s been fantastic is to see the overwhelming ability of the Internet to show truth from fiction,” he said.

Ahmed Awad, undersecretary to the Minister of Culture and head of censorship, told The Associated Press that the film has not been banned in Egypt for any political reasons. He said it was not shown because the film’s producers did not file the proper paperwork. He called the filmmakers’ accusations of repression “propaganda” designed to attract more attention.

the report said. The spokesman for this department, Viktor Khrekov, told The Associated Press that he had no information about this.

RBK, however, cited an unidentified official in the presidential administration as saying that

he had seen Yanukovych at Barvikha and he looked haggard and had lost weight. The report, written under the bylines of respected journalists with high-level contacts in business and government circles, could not immediately be confirmed.

Syrian Christians told to pay tax

BY JAMAL HALABY ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMAN, Jordan — Militant fighters should not impose an Islamic tax on Christians in Syria, a radical Jordanian preacher facing terrorism charges said Thursday, days after an al-Qaida breakaway group in Syria claimed Christian leaders under its control agreed to pay the tax in return for protection.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant said in a document that its first “Aqed al-Thima,” Arabic for protection pact, was reached in a meeting last Thursday with 20 Christian leaders in the northern province of Raqqa, a bastion for the Islamic State.

They can’t promise full protection to Christians because they are in a state of war.

ABU QATADA Radical Jordinian preacher The authenticity of the twopage document circulating online since Wednesday could not be

independently verified, but such issues have stoked fears in Syria’s Christian minority community that they are being targeted by extremists among the fighters seeking to oust President Bashar Assad.

The document bore a stamp the group uses in other statements posted on militant websites and the signature of 20 people it said were the Christian leaders. The signatures were blotted out on the request of the signers, according to the document, and were signed by a representative of its leader, called the emir.

It said the Christian leaders opted for paying the tax when they were asked to choose one of three options: convert to Islam, remain Christian and pay the tax or “refuse and be considered warriors who will be confronted with the sword of the Islamic State.”

Abu Qatada, the radical Jordanian preacher deported from Britain who is on trial for terrorism charges at home, said Syria’s militants should not collect the tax.

“They can’t promise full protection to Christians because they are in a state of war and not in full control of the areas they are in,” he said. “Therefore, the conditions for them to pay for a Muslim state is not fulfilled and any agreement based on that is null and void.”

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SPORTS

“Hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.” FRED SHERO FORMER NHL COACH

Ivy hopes on the line for Bulldogs Yale hosts conference frontrunners

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forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 to work down low.

In Yale’s loss against Columbia, Duren’s absence was noticeable, and Sears, among others, struggled to find easy baskets in the paint.

At this point, Duren said he is attempting to balance his health and the Elis’ playoff prospects.

“It’s really difficult. These are key games down the stretch,” Duren said. “Knowing personally how I can impact the team with my play, as soon as I feel I can play or dribble the ball, I’ve got to get out there, but it’s really about putting the team’s goals first and assessing whether me playing is an asset or a liability right now.”

Beyond whether or not Duren can take the court, Jones pointed out two main keys for victory against the Tigers: attacking Princeton’s 1–3–1 zone more aggressively and committing fewer turnovers.

In the heart-stopping win against Princeton on Feb. 15, Yale committed 16 turnovers, three more than its season average.

Yale will also have to work to contain guard T.J. Bray. The Ivy League’s leading scorer at 17.6 points per game scored 20 in the last meeting between these two teams, though he did commit seven costly turnovers.

Yale’s final weekend of travel will conclude on Saturday, when Yale crosses the Delaware to take on Penn.

The Quakers, who were predicted to finish second in the Ancient Eight and ahead of Yale, have been unable to put together a consistent stretch of play. Currently, Penn is in the midst of a three-game losing streak that began with a 69–54 defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs on Valentine’s Day.

Penn has found itself devoid of consistent perimeter scoring all year long. The Quakers have the two most efficient scorers in the Ivy League in forward Fran Dougherty and center Darien Nelson-Henry, but they have also shot the three-ball at the secondworst clip in the conference.

Those shooting woes were on full display during Penn’s trip to New Haven, as the Quakers were just 2-for-13 from behind the arc.

In that game, Yale benefitted heavily from the play of Sears and guard Armani Cotton ’15. The duo combined for 42 points and 18 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs to their second-largest margin of victory in conference play.

For Yale to return to its winning ways, Sears said the team must be aware that teams like Princeton and Penn will not roll over and allow themselves to be swept in the season series.

“When we played Columbia [last Sunday], we just walked in thinking we’d be able to do the same thing and dominate inside.

A lot of the players on Columbia that we were able to push on last time, they were pushing back,” Sears said. “We need to understand that teams are going to give us their best shots knowing we already beat them.”

If the Bulldogs want next Friday’s home matchup against Harvard to count for anything

The men’s basketball team is 8–2 in the Ivy League this season, one game behind first-place Harvard.

pionship campaign. Perennial point producer Tommy Fallen ’15 leads the unit with seven goals.

Last year’s ECAC all-rookie team selection Obuchowski and Gus Young ’14, whose previous career high was 9 points, headline the blue line with 16 points apiece.

Yale’s forwards have exhibited balanced scoring all year, with 11 players posting more than eight points. Eli’s senior duo of center Jesse Root ’14 and left wing Kenny Agostino ’14 have scored 25 goals between themselves, accounting for nearly 28 percent of Yale’s goal production.

The Bulldogs’ captain is having the best offensive season of his career, posting 30 points in 24 games. Root has been on fire in the last third of the season, posting 20 points in his last 11 games.

Agostino, who is on a three-game point streak, has been a consistent producer all season, posting a team-high 13 goals while failing to register a point in just six games.

“This weekend we need to play strong defense and have good defensive zone coverage against two really solid offensive teams,” Obuchowski said.

“Doing our jobs in the defensive third will lead to offense.”

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Against Union (22–6–4, 16–3–1) the Bulldog offense will have to contend with the second-highest scoring team in the nation. The Dutchmen have already clinched the conference title, a first-round bye and home ice throughout the ECAC tournament, but will be looking for the series sweep against Yale on Friday night. The Elis were trounced 5–3 in Schenectady, N.Y., on Feb. 8 after Union scored three unanswered goals in the third period to break open a game that was tied 2–2 after two frames.

The Dutchmen have a similar scoring attack to Yale, with

The Bulldogs currently sit at fifth in the ECAC standings.

12 players registering doubledigit points and two blue-liners among their top four point producers. The forward tandem of Daniel Carr and Daniel Caimpini lead the team with 15 and 16 goals, respectively. Goaltender Colin Stevens, who boasts the best win percentage in the ECAC, has not lost since Jan. 31. He has the 11th best goals against average in the nation.

“Both teams this weekend are great teams so we are expecting competitive and tough games,” forward Nicholas Weberg ’15 said. “We go into every weekend with the mindset of getting four points and in this case we are raring to give Union a good game considering our performance up there two weeks ago.”

On Saturday night, the Elis face off against RPI (13–13–6, 7–8–5) in the Bulldogs’ last regular season game. RPI forward Ryan Haggerty has the most goals

in the ECAC with 24 and leads the Engineers with 38 points.

Goaltender Scott Diebold leads the conference with 786 saves, which is 134 more than the next highest total by any ECAC netminder. Yale beat the Engineers three weeks ago thanks to forward Mike Doherty’s ’17 powerplay goal with just a minute left in overtime.

Saturday night Yale will honor its three seniors: Root, Agostino and Young. Despite its small size, the class of 2014 has been instrumental to Yale success over the last few years. The trio has played in more than 300 games and amassed 249 points combined up to this point. Agostino is 13th on Yale’s all time scoring and points lists.

The puck will drop for both games at 7:00 p.m.

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

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 bia last weekend. The Tigers also went 2–0 last weekend, defeating Dartmouth and Harvard.

The Quakers are looking to start a new winning streak after losing to Dartmouth last weekend.

The Elis have a tough task ahead of them as they attempt to defeat Princeton, which has not lost since a Jan. 31 slipup against Harvard. The Bulldogs are averaging 66.8 points per game, which is nearly nine points lower than the Tigers’ average of 75.4 points per game. Yale is shooting 38.4 percent from the field and 34.0 percent from behind the arc compared to Princeton, which is averaging 48.1 percent from the field and 34.8 percent from threepoint range. Both teams will try to control the paint, where the Elis are grabbing 39.1 rebounds per game and the Tigers are pulling down 42.0 rebounds a game.

Yale will need to look out for guard Blake Dietrick, who leads all Princeton scorers with 15.2 points per game. Forward Kristen Helmstetter, guard Michelle Miller and forward Alex Wheatley are also scoring in double figures for the Tigers.

The contest against Penn will also be competitive, as the Quakers are averaging 65.1 points per game; just below Yale’s season average. Penn, however, is allowing only 56.7 points per game on 34.2 percent shooting by its opponents, a figure that is fourth best in the nation. The Quakers are shooting 40.3 percent from the field, 30.8 percent from downtown and grabbing 40.4 rebounds per game.

The Bulldogs will need to contain guard Alyssa Baron, who is

currently averaging 15.2 points per game. They will also need to account for center Sydney Stipanovich and forward Kara Bonenberger, who are scoring 11.5 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.

Our defense will be critical to beating Princeton and limiting their multiple scoring threats.

SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard “Both Penn and Princeton have talented post players and it will be important for our posts to step up to the challenge, which they are definitely capable of doing,” Halejian said. “Our defense will be critical to beating Princeton and limiting their multiple scoring threats. Against Penn, we will need to break down their zone defense better this time around if we want to have a chance to win.”

The Bulldogs tip off against Princeton and Penn at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday and Saturday night, respectively, with both games beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Yale will honor its seniors — captain and guard Janna Graf ’14, center Zenab Keita ’14, forward Alexandra Osborn-Jones ’14 and guard Amanda Tyson ’14 — on Saturday night before the team’s last home game of the season.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

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NICHOLAS WEBERG ’15 Forward, men’s hockey team

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First-round bye at stake

Both teams this weekend are great teams so we are expecting competitive and tough games.

more than school pride, they will have to sweep this weekend.

That reality is at the forefront of the Bulldogs’ minds, according to Duren.

“We’ll play with a bit more sense of urgency given our limited margin of error,” Duren said. “It will be good for us, facing adversity and really having a situation that forces us to come together and play as a team in order to achieve what we want to achieve.”

Friday night’s tipoff against the Tigers is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

had underestimated them. At that point, the Bulldogs were just beginning their best conference regular season in six years.

But Harvard knew what to expect when it came to Yale’s home ice last Saturday. In that game, the Bulldogs held the lead for a full two periods of play before Harvard scored in the final two minutes to tie the game at three.

“As much as we want to come out strong every game of the season, we have a special hatred for Harvard that really motivates us to work our hardest every time we match up against them,” Haddad said.

This weekend, Yale will be playing with all four of its top scorers for the first time since the win at Harvard on Jan. 11. Forward Jackie Raines ’15 missed two weeks due to injury after that game, and forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 left to represent Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics as soon as Raines returned.

After missing eight games of Yale hockey, Staenz is back, now carrying the honor of two Olympic goals and a bronze medal.

Staenz will join linemates Haddad and forward Hanna Astrom ’16 in place of forward Stephanie Mock ’15, who was playing on that line while Staenz was gone.

“We still don’t have everyone

back necessarily, but for those who are healthy it’s great to have more people in our lineup,” said head coach Joakim Flygh.

Raines has scored nine times in the 12 games that she has played this season, including four in Yale’s win over Princeton two weeks ago. Staenz has also scored nine goals in 17 games and was an All-Ivy Honorable Mention selection this year.

Also on Yale’s scoring leaderboard this season are forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 with 10 goals and Haddad with nine.

Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer, who was just honored as Ivy League Co-Player of the Year yesterday, will continue to be a threat to the Eli

offense. Maschmeyer is fourth in the nation with a .948 save percentage, but Yale has been able to bring that figure down to .912 in the two rivalry games this year.

“Any time you play a very good goaltender like Maschmeyer, you just need to make sure that you take her eyes away as much as you can,” Flygh said. “We’ve been able to do that, and that’s something we need to continue to do.”

The two rivals will face off tonight at 7:00 p.m., tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. if necessary. The entire best-of-three series will take place in Cambridge.

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

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The Bulldogs finished seventh in the ECAC during the regular season.

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PHOEBE STAENZ ’14 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY The freshman forward earned a spot as an All-Ivy Honorable Mention on Thursday after a breakout rookie campaign.

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“We’re excited we get to play the conference leaders down the stretch.”

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Men’s hockey hosts ECAC leader

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BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER With home ice already clinched for the first round of the ECAC tournament, the No. 15 men’s hockey team plays its final two games this weekend at Ingalls hoping to finish off the year with its first weekend sweep.

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“He’s progressing and we’ll see if he’s ready to go this weekend,” Jones said. “I suspect he will be ready and that he will be able to give it a shot.”

Duren, who leads the team in assists and steals while being the second leading scorer for Yale, also helps the Bulldogs to spread the court. His 30 three-pointers lead the team and help provide adequate spacing for big men like Sears and

Yale (14–8–5, 9–7–4 ECAC) has not picked up two wins in a weekend all season and would have to pick up all four points if the Bulldogs hope to vault into fourth place in the ECAC, guaranteeing the team a first-round bye in the conference tournament. To earn those four points, the Bulldogs will have to beat conference rivals No. 3 Union and Rensselaer.

“We need these two wins and we can still get a bye in the first round,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “We really need to close out these games in the third period and build up some momentum going into the playoffs.”

Last weekend the Bulldogs came close to four points after trouncing Harvard 5–2 in Cambridge, but were denied when Dartmouth tied the game with a minute and a half left to play in the third. The Elis had found themselves in an early 2–0 hole, but stormed back with three unanswered goals to take a 3–2 lead. However, the Big Green forced overtime and hung on to share a point with the Bulldogs.

Against Dartmouth, the Eli blue line was held without a point for just the second time since November.

The blue-liners have been a significant part of Yale’s offense — ranked 12th in the nation — all season long. Yale defensemen have scored 29 goals this season, which is already more than double the production — 14 goals — from the defense during last year’s national cham-

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The men’s basketball team will face Penn and Princeton on the road this weekend.

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER The Ivy League is the only conference in Division I basketball that does not use a conference tournament to determine its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in March.

For the Yale men’s basketball team, these next two weekends may as well be the Ivy tournament.

Trailing conference foe Harvard by one game, Yale (14–10, 8–2 Ivy)

has virtually no margin for error after falling to Columbia this past Sunday.

Yale can right its ship on Friday when the Bulldogs travel to Princeton (15– 8, 3–6) before facing Penn (6–16, 3–5) the following night.

The Bulldogs have come out on top in each of their past three matchups against the Tigers, including a thrilling victory two weekends ago in New Haven where a layup by forward Justin Sears ’16 with 4.4 seconds to go in overtime propelled the Elis to a

66–65 victory. The victory was even more surprising because point guard Javier Duren ’15 had to exit the game in regulation due to an ankle injury.

The fact that the Bulldogs were able to gut out the victory in overtime without the services of their top playmaker bodes well for this weekend, as Duren has not yet returned from the high ankle sprain.

But head coach James Jones said the odds that Duren will play are greater than 50 percent.

Under ‘Dog victory within reach

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Of the eight teams that qualified for the ECAC women’s hockey playoff tournament, Yale could not have picked a better team to play in the first round than the No. 5 Harvard Crimson.

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Last homestand for W. basketball

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team will be facing the top dogs in the Ivy League this weekend, suiting up against Princeton on Friday night and Penn on Saturday night.

point this season. Yale hopes to continue that streak in the best-of-three first round series, beginning tonight at Harvard.

“Winning this weekend would mean everything to us,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said in an email. “Unlike Harvard, we have nothing to lose this weekend, but it would be a first for everyone on our team and that would certainly mean a lot.”

When the Elis bested Harvard 2–0 in Cambridge earlier this season, in January, players on the team said Harvard

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The women’s hockey team will begin its first-round playoff series against Harvard tonight.

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The women’s basketball team will host Ivy contenders Penn and Princeton this weekend.

“We’re excited we get to play the conference leaders down the stretch,” said head coach Chris Gobrecht. “We want to beat those guys and have an effect on the race, and know that we’re there, know that we’re right where we need to be.”

Yale (12–12, 6–4 Ivy) currently sits in fourth place in the Ancient Eight behind defending champion and current leader Princeton (17–6, 8–1), Penn (17–6, 7–2) and Harvard (17–7, 7–3).

This will be the second time that the Elis are facing each team. Last time around, the Tigers defeated the Bulldogs 96–75 on Feb. 15, and the Quakers defeated Yale 60–52 on Feb. 14.

“We definitely know the second time around exactly what to expect,” said guard Sarah Halejian ’15. “I think the fact that we did not play particularly well in either of those games is good to keep in mind because it gives us confidence that we can get a sweep next weekend if we play the way we are capable of playing.”

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POINTS SCORED BY WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY FORWARD PHOEBE STAENZ ’14 DURING HER FIRST REGULAR SEASON ON THE SQUAD. Staenz led the Elis with that total despite missing 12 of the Bulldogs’ 29 regular season contests.