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CROSS CAMPUS

WOMEN’S TENNIS BULLDOGS SPLIT CONTESTS

WEST CAMPUS

SLIFKA

Elementary schoolers make temporary home at Yale

ART EXHIBIT EXPLORES SPACE, TIME

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Jackson urges action

East Rock is the Williamsburg of New Haven, according to

a list Gawker compiled of the hippest — “or formerly hip and now just rich” — neighborhoods across cities.

“What’s [the city’s] hippest — or formerly hippest — or sometimes just youngest — neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch?” the piece read.

Meanwhile, Westville was named as New Haven’s Bushwick, in other words its up-and-coming “New Williamsburg.”

Perfectly timed to coincide with Flight of Fancy is the official grand opening of Chocolat Maya, a store catered to literal “chocoholics” with its sale of desserts and alcoholic drinks. The shop occupies the same location as former Chocopologie but has drastically differentiated its brand by its decision to acquire a liquor license. Chocolat Maya will be serving up champagne starting at 5 p.m. (happy hour).

Mark in your calendars.

Forget the State of the Union, everyone should be tuned in to Professor Robert “Nobel Prize” Shiller’s live interview broadcasting today at noon on Yale’s Youtube channel.

Bleeding blue. Last year,

Yale won the Yale-Harvard Blood Drive Challenge, which is basically a version of The Game with blood physically shed on both sides. The 2014 challenge runs this week from noon to 5:45 p.m. in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Every donation could save up to three lives.

In frat heaven … The

Dartmouth’s daily blog has published a flowchart of “Where are you going to end up on a weekend night?” that cements the university’s reputation as basically a frat.

The flowchart opens with the question “Are you planning to drink tonight?” and includes items such as “Is the basement starting to look dangerously empty?” and “Do you have a sober friend?”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1967 A one-ton safe is abandoned in the Morse master’s driveway, having been blown open with nitroglycerin by members of Book and Snake the night before. One member of of Book and Snake has an alleged “hobby” of safepicking.

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Yale spearheads security overhaul

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER

Where to drink tonight: The shops in downtown New Haven are hosting Flight of Fancy today starting 4 p.m.

Participants will enjoy free wine tasting, as well as a free special occasion wine glass and an evening of food and shopping. Plus, if you happen to have your old wine glass from a past Flight of Fancy event, you will get $5 off your admission! The advertisements for the event have featured a large glass of red wine.

Where else to drink tonight:

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a “violation” against which students should rally.

“The reality is that the few have so much, the many have so little and the middle class is dwindling,” Jackson said, referring to income inequality in America. “We are free but unequal.”

The completion of Evans Hall marked not only a significant leap for the School of Management’s educational experience, but also launched a campus security overhaul poised to fortify safety across University grounds.

Among the many amenities at Evans Hall, which opened its doors on Jan. 13, is the cutting-edge Symmetry security system, developed by California-based AMAG Technology. At its core, Symmetry is a software application that centralizes the many functions of building security, including access control, identity management and alarm management.

Additionally, 120 proximity card readers and 100 cameras were installed in the building to complete the University’s most intricate, building-wide surveillance package. Similar upgrades are set to take place in every other campus building within the next few years, University officials said, with the new SOM building serving as the initial testing ground.

“We purchased the old access system many years ago, and it is reaching the end of its life,” said Janet Lindner, associate vice president for administration.

“Our old system is held together with glue and paper clips, so we are delighted to be implementing the new, more advanced system. We’ve had recent examples that

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Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to the Yale community Wednesday afternoon about persisting inequalities.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER Reverend Jesse Jackson has a message for Yale undergraduates: “There is too much silence in the face of too much pain.”

On Wednesday afternoon, Jackson — a civil rights activist, former television host and founder of the

Rainbow PUSH Coalition — spoke to over a hundred members of the Yale community about the inequality that persists today in both the United States and Africa. While Jackson addressed racial, gender-based and economic inequality, he particularly emphasized the mountain of student debt that many American college students face, which he cited as

Goff-Crews a voice for students

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER Yale Secretary and Vice President Kimberly Goff-Crews has spent 16 months on the job.

Though not a prominent face of the administration to students, Goff-Crews’s behindthe-scenes work on undergraduate and graduate student policy

has affected student life all across campus.

Years ago, Goff-Crews roamed Yale’s campus as an undergraduate, participating in Berkeley College events, spending time at the Afro-American Cultural Center and directing the Yale Film Society, all while balancing classes as an English major. She attended Yale Law School and

later served as the Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale for six years.

After working at the Af-Am Center, Goff-Crews took a position at Lesley University where she gained a broader understanding of K-12 student life. As Vice President for Campus Life and Dean of Students for the University of Chicago, she noted

the similarities and differences between Yale and one of its peer institutions.

In fall 2012, Goff-Crews returned to her home institution with a plethora of knowledge, a personal invite from then-University President Richard Levin and the promise of the Secretary position and a new title — Vice President for Student Life.

Goff-Crews is quick to admit that the job has not changed much despite the added title.

The University Secretary position, she said, has historically always been a fluid role that, to some capacity, encompassed student life.

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Yale to offer online math modules

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTERS Students whose high school education did not fully cover the necessary background for Yale’s quantitative classes will now be able to brush up their mathematics over the summer.

Two weeks ago, when University President Peter Salovey attended a White House conference on higher education, Salovey committed to continue Yale’s existing efforts to make the University more accessible to high-achieving low-income students. But he also unveiled one new initiative — the introduction of online pre-calculus modules, to be made available to incoming freshmen.

According to mathematics professor Jim Rolf, who is spearheading the program, the University will run a pilot of six to eight short lecture videos this summer to help interested students improve their quantitative skills for success in Yale’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes.

“Mathematics is a gateway to other STEM success, so the question we’re trying to address is what can we do to help bridge the gap so they can be successful at Yale,” said Rolf, who was tapped by Salovey to develop the precalculus initiative.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the online modules will be available to students enrolled in the Freshman Scholars Program — a year-old, invitationonly summer bridge program intended to help select students prepare academically and socially for Yale — as well as to students who need the pre-calculus review but cannot make it to campus for the Freshman Scholars Program.

Rolf is a seasoned developer of online education, having recently “flipped” the classroom in his Math 115 classes by prerecording 10 to 15 minute-long instructional videos for students to watch online, thus freeing up class time for more interacting learning.

Miller said she was impressed by both the structure and delivery of Rolf’s online lectures.

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President Peter Salovey unveiled a new initiative to introduce online precalculus modules.

“You have to take a quiz before you go to class, and that’s very effective in terms of staying up on coursework,” she said. “What I also like very much is his engag-

ing but terse manner of explaining how you solve problems, and then having to go work it out.”

Rolf said last year’s Freshman Scholars Program taught math

through a combination of tutors, diagnostic tests and Khan AcadSEE PRECALCULUS PAGE 6

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We don’t need to be OK T

his past Saturday afternoon, instead of heading to study at Blue State, my usual haunt, my a cappella group and I performed at professor Sam See’s memorial service in Battell. I didn’t know Professor See. None of us did.

But (lest you worry that this is about to turn preachy) we weren’t exactly there out of the goodness of our hearts — we were hired to perform by the event’s organizer.

Some members of the group spent the few minutes before we went on stage doing homework, but for some reason that I can’t quite explain, I ended up sitting through the entire service. Maybe I was affected by all the talk about mental health and not “being OK” that surfaced this past weekend, or maybe I just couldn’t stomach starting a problem set. Either way, the service was incredibly beautiful — professors and students, family and friends all took turns sharing personal reflections on the life of Professor See, as well as reading from books and poems that held a special importance in his life.

And as I sat there, listening to people I had never met read from books I had never read and share stories about a man I had absolutely no connection to, I found myself weeping. Even later that evening, talking to my friends about it, I couldn’t finish a sentence without crying. I really couldn’t explain what about it had moved me so much, since at the end of the day I kept on coming back to the same reality: I never met Professor See. Why, then, did his passing so shatter me?

But then I remembered — I shouldn’t need a specific reason. A member of this community died. Not only that: A young, talented member of this community, one who clearly touched a lot of lives and had a great deal left to give, died.

I shouldn’t have to have met him to feel that loss. That feeling of grief shouldn’t need to be explained. I’m not saying that everyone needs to walk around weeping for every single loss — no one would be able to function that way — but it’s understandable, and maybe even desirable, to feel that sadness, to let it stop you in your tracks every now and then.

I’m not the first to observe that Yalies are very bad at not being OK. Sadness is a distraction, something to be juggled with your five-credit course load and extracurricular commitments. It takes a big chunk out of your day to let grief about a family crisis, an untimely death, or even no known reason at all, weigh on you. And so, by and large, we don’t.

When, in November, it was reported that Professor See had died in a prison cell, students’ reactions were more of surprise and discomfort, rather

than grief. It was another thing that we didn’t have time to really feel.

The story was co n f u s i n g , VICTORIA even salaHALLcious, so we paid enough PALERM attention to gossip. But The there was Notorious no collective mourning, VHP no allowance of time made for people to do nothing but be sad.

When, weeks after professor See’s death, the state medical examiner reported that he died due to the use of methamphetamines, it felt like, in a very subtle and private way, the Yale community took a deep sigh of relief. This death, so sudden and unexpected, was now explicable. It had a tangible medical cause. But even better, it was a cause that allowed us to ascribe blame. Professor See died because he did drugs, people thought. It was, in a way, a death of his own making.

That absolves us of the need to feel heartbroken at his passing, doesn’t it?

Actually, it doesn’t. I have family members who have grappled (and are grappling) with substance abuse. It is not a recreational pastime that we can or should sit around moralizing about. And it does not make heartbreaking accidents any less heartbreaking. If you take the time to ask anyone who had the good fortune of knowing professor See, you’ll hear he was a brilliant man. As I learned at his memorial service, he was the kind of man who held a funeral for his cat. He sent page-long emails when catching up with friends. He loved passionately; he inspired his students; he cared deeply about each and every single thing he did and person he encountered. He also, like everyone, struggled.

That doesn’t make his loss any less devastating.

In our quest to continue to be “fine” and function smoothly and without hitches like pesky emotions, I worry that people on this campus didn’t take the time to feel sufficiently sad about Sam See’s death. We moralized and pushed it away. We suppressed it. But it’s only fitting that we take a moment to remember that we lost someone. Acknowledge it: Death isn’t fine. Right now, we don’t need to be OK. VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her column runs on Thursdays.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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A tale of two deans

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he dean of one of the best colleges in the world just stepped down. She had been appointed in 2008, the first woman to hold the prestigious post. She was indisputably among the foremost scholars in her field and repeatedly won recognition from her peers. Though she led the college through a transformative period, she recently came under fire for controversial decisions that many felt displayed a fundamental lack of respect for the rights and opinions of those on campus.

This dean’s name was Evelynn Hammonds. From 2008 to 2013, Hammonds presided over Harvard College. She is a widely respected historian of race, gender and medicine. In mid-2013, she admitted to violating Harvard’s privacy policy by covertly searching the emails of administrators and faculty. Hammonds quickly resigned, though she claimed the resignation was unrelated to the controversy.

Hopefully you can predict where I’m going with this. The dean of the best college in the world just stepped down too. Her name is Mary Miller. In many respects, her story is bizarrely similar to Hammonds’. She too was appointed in 2008; she too was the college’s first female dean; she too is well known for competence and dedication; she too has made some controversial decisions; and she too just announced her departure to return to teaching.

The similarities are striking.

Yet there is a limit to these parallels. Hammonds, public protestations aside, almost cer-

tainly resigned because of the firestorm surrounding her violation of Harvard’s privacy policy.

Miller’s decision had been SCOTT in the works STERN for a while, and her term was A Stern soon to expire Perspective anyway. Her announcement was almost certainly unaffected by the controversies surrounding her tenure: the attempt to quickly and quietly overhaul Yale’s grading system and the decision to shut down CourseTable.

More importantly, Hammonds made no attempt to move past her controversial decisions, whereas Miller tried to grow from hers.

When Yalies protested the hasty vote on grading, Miller responded by appointing two students to the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading. When students reacted with outrage to the sudden shutdown of CourseTable, Miller sent two open letters attempting to explain the administration’s decision. It’s doubtful that the two open letters and the two student appointments are sufficient to resolve the controversies. Nevertheless, Miller’s attempts to respond to student grievances should be praised.

With regard to the startling parallels between Miller and Hammonds, one more question remains, and it is perhaps the most troubling of all: Who will replace them?

One week ago today, Harvard announced that Hammonds would be replaced by Rakesh Khurana, a distinguished professor of sociology and management and the co-master of Harvard’s Cabot House. Khurana is an eminent and creative scholar and, by all accounts, a good master. Yet there is one line missing from his résumé — a Harvard College diploma.

Hammonds went to Georgia Tech. Miller went to Princeton.

Khurana went to Cornell. Again, I hope you can predict where I’m going with this.

For Yale’s next dean, I want a Yale College graduate.

THE YALE COLLEGE DEAN SHOULD BE A YALE COLLEGE GRADUATE Every college has a unique undergraduate culture. Surely no one will deny a distinctive difference between Harvard’s and Yale’s campus cultures, for instance. And being in tune with a campus’s culture is critical in enabling administrators to handle controversies.

In light of the Harvard cheating scandal, Hammonds searched faculty emails trying to discover who leaked information to the media, and then lied about it in a press release. Would time spent as a Harvard College student have better attuned her to the hyper-

competitive culture that led to the cheating incident? Would four formative years as an undergraduate have better equipped her to respond to the scandal?

Perhaps.

Would a graduate of Yale College have better understood the undergraduate culture that is so informed by Yale’s grading system? Would a graduate of Yale College have better understood how students feel about their right to use whatever criteria they like to choose their classes? Perhaps.

Perhaps a Yale College diploma is not too high a bar for Yale College’s next dean. Far more for a dean than a university president, time spent as an undergraduate should be a make-or-break qualification. This is in no way an indictment of Miller; it is merely an expression of my hope for her successor.

We have all spoken with professors who just don’t understand the residential college system or shopping period or so many other fundamental aspects of the Yale College experience. For Yale’s next dean, I want someone who knows where all roads lead, which dining hall is best and the weight of the words “one in four, maybe more.” I want someone who understands — from experience — Yale’s unique undergraduate culture, because I’m not sure that knowledge can be attained any other way. We should all want someone with that experience.

SCOTT STERN is a junior in Branford College. His column runs on Wednesdays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

I will not lean in T

his past Tuesday, I made my way to the inaugural meeting of Yale’s “Lean In” circles — small, weekly chat groups focused on supporting women’s leadership. The circles use the principles of “Lean In,” the best-selling book by Facebook‘s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, to discuss and encourage women’s achievement in the professional world.

The introduction of these circles into the Yale extracurricular realm marks another effort to bring feminism to the attention of the student population, joining the ranks of the Women’s Center, feminist magazine Broad Recognition and even the Facebook group Yale Feminists.

But these Lean In circles, though well intentioned, are inherently problematic for the feminist community.

It’s not that the circle’s founders are doing anything wrong.

The meeting itself was a low-key, intimate conversation prompted by a set of Lean In question cards — open-ended topics that weren’t explicitly about feminism, but dealt with feminist and professional issues like power structures and jealousy. We discussed psychological studies on the objectification of women in media and about students’ relationships with their parents. The members openly approached questions of daily life with an emphasis on gender identity, sexuality and equality.

Yet while this past discus-

sion touched broadly on challenges in student life, the campaign itself conveys an accusaCAROLINE tory message.

S a n d b e r g ’s POSNER controversial Lean In phiOut of Line losophy suggests that women are at fault for the dearth of female high-level professional leaders in the United States, guilty of “leaning out” under pressure to fulfill typically feminine and maternal roles. Sandberg’s trickle-down ideology says that once women rev up their ambition and climb the professional ladder, the atmosphere for women in the elite ranks of corporate life can finally improve.

Sandberg’s perspective, though, ignores a reality that modern feminism is trying to address: the intersection of race, class, gender identity and sexuality with the issue of women’s equality. As the feminist scholar Bell Hooks writes in one critique of the campaign, “It almost seems as if Sandberg sees women’s lack of perseverance as more the problem than systemic inequality.” The fact that women are less present at the top of the corporate hierarchy speaks not to a lack of ambition, but to a society that continues to discriminate against women in the

workplace, particularly women of color and of lower socioeconomic class. Women “leaning in” to the business world alone won’t remedy the racism and classism that pervade corporate America. What’s more, the Lean In campaign absolves those who are actually guilty of creating systemic inequality by telling women they are responsible for eliminating discrimination against themselves.

GENDER INEQUALITY IS NOT JUST THE RESULT OF INERTIA There isn’t a place for Sandberg’s narrow brand of feminism in the modern women’s rights movement, and there’s no place for it at Yale. Though the diversity that Yale men and women bring to the circles will clearly define the perspectives and paths of discussion, the circles intend to follow the curriculum that Sandberg’s campaign sets up and thus perpetuate her movement.

The face of the Yale feminist, or the modern feminist anywhere, isn’t the privileged woman Sandberg imagines, whose success in the professional world depends only on her inertia to lean in. We are a community of men, women

and genderqueer students whose personal experience climbing the professional ladder will depend on varying sets of social norms, biases and other challenges.

Still, the main structure of these Lean In circles, sans Sheryl Sandberg’s presumptuous message, is promising. The concept of the circle — ideally, eight to ten people and a moderator or two — provides for comfortable, personal discourse on issues we don’t frequently bring up, and which are implicated somehow in gender identity and equality. The mild variety of discussion, equally engaging of men and women, could be an important gateway for students to think about gender issues and might help dispel the negative reputation that has followed feminism even into this century. These circles’ conversations view issues in student life through the lens of gender identity and equality, and can make feminism a more natural element of campus conversation. In this way, the discussion moderators actually have a critical position in determining the future of women’s rights advocacy at Yale.

I hope that this future can surpass the limited vision of feminism that Sandberg’s campaign promotes.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays.

Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL AMERICAN WRITER

Exhibit explores time, space

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER For artist Max Budovitch ’13, whose exhibit “Time is a Place” is opening at the Slifka Center on Thursday, the intersection between the concepts of time and space takes on a significance beyond the field of art.

Starting today, the Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery at the Slifka Center will display four acrylic paintings

by Budovitch: “Challenging Verses,” “Snow in Jerusalem,” “Winter Storm on the Mediterranean” and “Jaffa Clock Tower.” The artist said he painted all four over the past few months in Tel Aviv, where he currently lives. He explained that his art is shaped by the place where he creates it — and the significance of different spaces varies over time.

Budovitch said that the relationship between place and time, one of the themes the exhibit aims to explore, is also relevant in his personal life.

“When you’re in Chicago, it just feels like the place that you’re from,” Budovitch said. “Moving [to Tel Aviv] with no end in sight has given me a whole different perspective.”

This new perspective is both literal and figurative. In addition to having the freedom of being in a place where he feels like an outsider, Budovitch has found new ideas for his art in Israel.

“Snow in Jerusalem,” for instance, was inspired by a snowstorm this December; “Jaffa Clock Tower” features a wellknown Tel Aviv landmark, he explained.

Budovitch said some of his ideas stem from his intellectual interests, such as philosophy — his major at Yale — and literature. Writers Mahmoud Darwish, Carl Sandburg and Saul Bellow are some of his main inspirations. Budovitch noted that certain religious texts, such as some verses in the Book of Ezra, as well as Marc Chagall’s paintings, have

played a role in his work. His inspirations, he said, are not confined to the visual realm.

“It’s easier for me to be idea-driven than visually driven,” he explained.

Quotations by Chagall and Bellow will be featured on the gallery walls, next to an interactive board on which viewers will be invited to write their responses to the prompt “My time and place…”

Lucy Partman ’14, who curated the exhibit, described this interactive element as an opportunity for attendees to reflect on the relevance of the exhibit’s themes in their own lives.

Partman explained that the board and the exhibit as a whole are part of the Slifka Center’s larger effort to expand its art community. She said she was familiar with Budovitch and his work, so she and the rest of the informal Slifka Arts Committee invited him to present his art.

“There was always a vibrant arts community at Slifka,” said Chino Kwan, Slifka’s Director of Operations. “But it was mainly staff driven.”

In an effort to change this, Partman said, Slifka has recently hosted two fully undergraduate-run exhibits, and there are at least three more lined up for the rest of the semester. Partman said she hopes “Time is a Place” and the following exhibits will make Slifka’s studentfocused artistic endeavors more widely known on campus.

To accommodate the upcoming exhibits, the four paintings comprising “Time is a Place” will be moved elsewhere at the end of February — likely to Slifka’s chapel, Partman said — but they will remain on display in the building until the end of the semester.

“Time is a Place” opens on Thursday at 4 p.m.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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The Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery at the Slifka Center is displaying four acrylic paintings by artist Max Budovitch ’13.

Yale steps up for Peck Place elementary school

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday morning, Peck Place School students rode the school bus to their temporary home at Yale West Campus.

The public elementary school located in Orange, Conn. was severely damaged in early January when a pipe burst and the resulting water damage exposed asbestos in the adhesive holding down the floor tiles. The building needed an emergency abatement, and school officials began searching for a site where students could attend class while the building was under repair.

Yale University agreed to house the students in the Office Complex South at 400 West Campus Drive, an unoccupied building in Yale’s West Campus. For the past three weeks, Yale facilities and security have been working closely with the school district to transform office cubicles into classrooms.

Yale facilities cleared out the first, second and third floors of the building to allow Peck Place administrators to bring in their furniture, school supplies and records. But Superintendent of Orange Public Schools Lynn McMullin explained that the relocation was more complicated then simply packing up furniture and moving into a new building. Because the space was meant to be an office, not a school, the security system had to be adjusted and new spaces, including a gym, a cafeteria and a library needed to be created to serve the K-6 children.

“Essentially, it was like building a school from scratch,” Peck Place School Principal Eric Carbone wrote in a Tuesday email to the News. “Every process and protocol that we take for granted in our school had to be designed. From bus arrival to walking in the stairwell to teaching in open space, every detail had to be examined and then articulated.”

Every process and protocol that we take for granted in our school had to be designed.

ERIC CARBONE Principal, Peck Place School When Peck School first closed down, the students were divided by bus route to attend classes at either Turkey Hill School or Race Brook School — two nearby schools in Orange.

Since Jan. 7, Peck Place teachers have been co-teaching classes with teachers from those schools, and each classroom has accommodated about ten Peck students. Carbone said despite the difficulties of this arrangement, there are also positive side effects, such as exposing students to different teaching styles and reuniting children who play on town sports teams together.

However, in looking for a more permanent location, school officials hoped to reunite

the 374 students in one building. In a letter to Peck Place families, McMullin detailed the criteria for the new building, including safe bus dropoff, phone service, fire alarms and playground space. McMullin explained that other organizations in Orange besides Yale, including the Greek Orthodox Church on Racebrook Road, were willing to take in the students but simply were not large enough to hold the entire student body. The district ultimately settled on Yale because it met most of the school’s criteria.

“I think it’s just a tremendous relief to have the kids all back in one space with their teachers and principals,” McMullin said after the move.

The University is not charging Peck Place School for using its space, but Yale will be reimbursed for utility and maintenance costs, West Campus Communication and Administrative Service Manager Danica Kelly said in a Wednesday email to the News. She added that the University is happy to house the students for the rest of the school year while their building is repaired.

West Campus can easily accommodate the 374 students and 50 teachers and staff of the Peck Place Elementary School, Kelly wrote, adding that the University is happy to help the school during its “time of need.”

Peck Place School was founded in 1969.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

MICHAEL MARSLAND/YALE

Peck Place School students temporarily moved to Yale’s West Campus after asbestos was found in their facilities.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

Jackson talks inequality, politics JESSE JACKSON FROM PAGE 1 Throughout the conversation, Jackson emphasized the racial and economic inequalities that are still present in America today.

Jackson cited the fact that black Americans face higher rates of child mortality, lower life expectancies, higher rates of foreclosure and staggeringly large rates of incarceration, among other statistics, as evidence that Americans are not yet living in a post-racial society.

Although Americans may have lifted the “daily burden” of racism, the institutional framework is still there, Jackson said.

At one point, Jackson asked members of the crowd who had student loan debt to stand up and share how much debt they were in.

Though not many students stood up — Jackson conceded that, at Yale, students are buttressed from the pain of debt because of the school’s financial aid system — Jackson said debt incurred from college loans should be the “spark” for student activism in this generation.

Jordan Coley ’17, a student who attended the talk, said although Jackson seemed to have faith the activist spirit was alive in today’s youth, healso suggested that young people today are not doing as much to speak up for their rights as students had in the past.

Still, Jackson commented positively on the level of diversity in the audience.

“I cannot but think that Doctor King would have marveled at this assortment of so many different students here today,” said Jackson, who was a close friend and supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s.

Jackson also touched on the current political situation in America, including his views on President Barack Obama’s time in the Oval Office thus far and the speculation around Hillary Clinton’s potential bid for office in 2016.

“I have to give him a B,” Jackson said of Obama’s presidency thus far. While he said he was not wildly impressed with Obama’s leadership overall, Jackson commended Obama for improving the job market, taking troops out of the Middle East and maintaining the ability to negotiate in the face of strong Republi-

can opposition.

Jackson invoked the theme of inequality in his discussion of Africa as well, adding the caveat that it is difficult to discuss Africa as a whole because of the continent’s large size and diverse population. He spoke of problems with food security and resource management, as well as the challenge of not only democratizing politics, but also democratizing economic opportunity.

I cannot but think that Doctor King would have marveled at this assortment of so many different students here today.

REV. JESSE JACKSON Social activist After Jackson’s introductory speech, he answered questions from Eric Stern ’15 and Justin Schuster ’15, co-editors in chief of The Politic, and Akinyi Ochieng ’15, president of the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development. Afterwards, audience members were invited to come up and ask questions of Jackson.

Students interviewed said they enjoyed hearing from Jackson.

“You read about the civil rights movement in history books, but it was amazing to see him talking about issues today,” said Dara Huggins ’17. “Within the black community, there needs to be a renewal of passion to tie up these loose ends.”

Huggins added that Jackson appeared to be strongly hinting that students in the audience should be more politically active.

Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 by former President Bill Clinton.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.childress@yale.edu .

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Reverend Jesse Jackson, though not fully impressed with the Obama administration, commended Obama’s overall leadership.

University to roll out new access system SECURITY SYSTEM FROM PAGE 1

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OPINION.

The completion of Evans Hall comes with a new security system that will help provide for a safer environment.

the old system is obsolete, with a few breakdowns — and this reinforces the need to replace the access control system, particularly in the residential college areas, in which students need 24/7 access.”

Lindner added that the level of security on campus varies from building to building, and the relevant department decides how accessible each building will be. Laboratories and other workspaces, for example, are among the areas that most often require key-card access, while other buildings are consistently open to the public, she said.

AMAG’s website, which contains a case study profile on the firm’s partnership with the University, reveals that the former security system was implemented in the 1990s, and that after it became clear that it was outdated, a lengthy planning and design process preceded the installation.

“It took over eight months of research to find a cost effective and forward thinking approach to change the current system,” the profile reads. “Symmetry fit that plan and 10 more buildings have been converted with little to no disruption to the Yale community. Over the course of five years, the whole campus is to be converted to the new system.”

Associate Director of Security Project Management Dave Nevins said Symmetry’s compatibility with existing infrastructure was a large reason that the University chose to work with AMAG for

this project.

Lindner agreed it was important that the process go smoothly without disrupting students, noting that installation mainly involves replacing card-readers around campus, as opposed to massive equipment changes that would have been more “cumbersome, expensive and frustrating.”

A product description on AMAG’s website promotes the streamlined interface of the program, claiming that Symmetry is compatible with buildings of any type or size. Add-ons like video and hardware are also available to help the University tailor the system to the building in question.

This flexibility, according to Nevins, was another major factor in Yale’s decision to hire AMAG, which has also worked with the United States Department of Defense to outfit the Pentagon.

Nevins added that the greatest value of a cutting-edge security system lies in its ability to digitize information, eliminating the risk that keys fall into the wrong hands, for example.

“Building security is extremely important in that it protects against crime, loss of assets and more importantly helps provide for a safe and secure environment for the building’s occupants,” said Yale Police Department Assistant Chief Steven Woznyk.

Evans Hall takes up 242,000 square feet of space on Whitney Avenue.

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

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NEWS

“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were” LENA DUNHAM WRITER AND COMEDIAN

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29

The article “University cabinet weighs visions for Yale” mistakenly misidentified University Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson.

Feminists speak at journalism panel

“On Campus” incorrectly stated the dates for the Law School’s Human Right’s Workshop. The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 30.

J. Press demolition planned

BY PATRICK CASEY STAFF REPORTER City officials held a planning meeting on Wednesday afternoon with representatives of J. Press to discuss the planned demolition of the store’s York Street location this March.

The building, located at 262 York St., housed the upscale clothing store from 1902 until last February, when winter storm Nemo caused such severe damage that the city declared the structure unsafe.

After three engineers separately inspected the building [and declared it unsafe], the store moved into two interim locations in anticipation of demolition in March. City officials convened the meeting to discuss details of the demolition.

City officials met with representatives from J. Press and its demolition and construction contractors at City Hall. Representatives from Yale University Properties, which owns buildings adjacent to 262 York St., also attended.

Matthew Brandimarte of Connecticut Dismantling, which has been hired by J. Press, presented his company’s tentative plans for the demolition.

Most of the meeting was spent discussing the details of his proposal, which calls for knocking down the structure over the course of three days. Brandimarte said that he has been working on the project since August.

“The reason this is taking so long is that these buildings were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s,” Brandimarte said.

To minimize the impact of

the demolition on neighboring businesses and on Yale, J Press’ contractors hope to complete the entire project in one weekend. Their tentative target is the weekend of March 7 through March 9, which falls during Yale’s spring break and before the St. Patrick’s Day parade scheduled for March 16.

On the final day of work, when the contractors plan to tear down the largest, threestory section of the property, city officials will likely shut down York Street to all traffic except buses and emergency vehicles.

262 York St. shares a 30-foot section of its wall with a building owned by Yale University Properties. Lauren Zucker, associate vice president for New Haven Affairs and University Properties, said that preparing for the demolition and renovation is a collaborative process.

Gant, a tenant of Yale University Properties, will likely have to close on the day that the largest portion of the building comes down.

“We’re all working together to ensure that it’s a safe project,” said Zucker. “It’s a busy area.”

Though members of the New Haven community, including the New Haven Preservation Trust, opposed the store’s whole-scale demolition, there was no serious discussion of alternative plans at Wednesday’s planning meeting.

The building that stands at 262 York St. was constructed in 1860, more than 40 years before J. Press was founded.

Contact PATRICK CASEY at patrick.casey@yale.edu .

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Akiba Solomon, Sarah Mirk and Lori Adelman, three female editors of feminist publications, spoke about their challenges with sexism.

BY AUDREY LUO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three prominent female editors from various feminist publications spoke on campus Wednesday evening about the challenges they have faced in establishing themselves in the online world.

The women — Akiba Solomon from the news website Colorlines, Sarah Mirk from Bitch Media and Lori Adelman from the online journals Feministing — spoke in William L. Harkness Hall to an audience of roughly 40. Speaking from their personal experiences, they said that women are constantly subjected to sexism from mainstream media and also the financial pressures of working in an unpaid blog position. Having the feminist conversation over the Internet also means that readers can comment anonymously and often harshly, they said, adding that reporting is difficult, but getting people engaged is even more difficult.

“Reporting is hard labor and it’s more profitable to write about pop culture.

That’s why you see a lot of pop culture in feminist writing,” said Solomon.

Adelman, the Executive Director of Partnerships and Outreach of Feministing, runs tests for words in headlines to figure out what people want to read. Blogs and online journals are constantly trying to identify the news hook, she said, and pop culture is a touchstone where readers and writers can meet and connect — which is what makes it so appealing to writers to reference icons

like Lady Gaga to promote their feminist writing.

Adelman said the subject of an article is less important than the medium. If a page has images or is controversial, she said, it is more likely to get hits. But she added that the convenience of the Internet empowers writers to say what they really want, and journals like Feministing care about elevating the voices of the young and the marginalized more than they care about page views.

“Sometimes more nuanced headlines get the biggest hits because they’re saying something that nobody else is saying,” said Mirk. “We aim for the best quality work we can do. It would be easier just to say what everybody else is saying.”

In a culture where online commenters are anonymous, sexism and bigotry are not unusual, the women said, and can alienate those who want to build a feminist community.

Every Feministing post receives hundreds of comments, many of which contain sexist and racist slurs.

“I have always tried to encourage female and young writers, but the comments can be so nasty that they drive them away,” Mirk said. “You do get nastier comments online if you’re a woman.

Sometimes I feel like everyone on the Internet hates me … But my friends tell me I’m still an ok person.”

As a result of this, Feministing decided that comments would be moderated, creating an accountable space that both slows the conversation down and elim-

inates abject bigotry. Colorlines accepts comments only from readers who are registered on Facebook to help foster a community. Writers sometimes even get ideas for stories by reading comments, Solomon said.

Mirk argues that there is no difference between journalists and activists, because the job of journalists is to write about things that are humane and relevant. There is a lack of respect in mainstream journalism for feminism, and perhaps that’s the reason women, even editors of leading feminist blogs, don’t initially identify with that label, she said.

“I consider myself a journalist. I didn’t know I was a feminist until people told me I was a feminist,” Solomon said.

Students in the audience included writers and editors of Yale’s feminist magazine, Broad Recognition.

A range of majors — from biomedical engineering to women’s, gender and sexuality studies — were represented as well.

“I follow these publications, and this panel made concrete a field I’m already interested in. It is isolating to be involved in online writing and not speaking in person about feminism,” said Grace Steig ’15. “This panel was a huge turnout and it’s incredibly exciting.”

The panel was organized by Craig Canfield and Inderpal Grewal and sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

Contact AUDREY LUO at audrey.luo@yale.edu .

Jobs pipeline offers small pay-off

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER

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J. Press, at 262 York St., will be demolished this upcoming March. The building was deemed unsafe after winter storm Nemo struck last year.

Seven months after the opening of New Haven Works, the “jobs pipeline” program has helped 117 Elm City residents find jobs.

Conceived in January 2012 by the Board of Alders, the pipeline is meant to help address New Haven’s stubbornly high unemployment rate, which stood most recently at 10 percent in November. Since June, the pipeline has offered free orientation meetings, background checks and mock interviews for New Haven job seekers.

Its 15 partner employers, including Yale University, IKEA, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Elm City Market, have agreed to strongly consider hiring applicants referred by New Haven Works.

The organization is still far from its goal of placing 250 city residents in jobs by the end of its first year, having placed 117 residents so far. Still, employer manager LaQuita Harris, who recruits and works with partner employers, is optimistic about the future.

“New Haven residents have skills, they do,” Harris said. “They want to work. We just need to be able to empower them and give people hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”

On Tuesday night, 15 job seekers attended an orientation session at the New Haven Works building on Whitney Avenue. Manuel Ford, who has been unemployed for a year and has run out of unemployment benefits, said he felt

hopeful that the program would enable him to overcome what he considers the biggest challenges in his job search: his criminal record and racial discrimination by employers.

“I’m probably looked at as an angry black man,” Ford said. “They look at me first before they even give me a chance to sell myself, or look at my list of qualifications.”

Harris said New Haven Works helps to overcome potential discrimination by pre-screening candidates so that employers can be sure of hiring skilled, productive workers. For employers, New Haven Works Executive Director Mary Reynolds said, this means a more efficient hiring process.

Vin Petrini, senior vice president of public affairs at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said the hospital had always tried to hire New Haven residents, so becoming a partner employer seemed a logical next step.

“Hiring New Haven residents helps build a sense of connection to the community, it helps build a sense of support and expertise, and that’s where I think the value is,” Petrini said.

Harris said New Haven Works is distinguished from other employment agencies and career centers by the specificity of its service: matching skilled, qualified Elm City job applicants with partner employers. After attending an orientation meeting to learn about the program, clients make an individual appointment with one of four counselors, who assess their background and help them determine which positions best fit their qualifications.

When a New Haven Works applicant is turned down for a job, Harris can ask the employer what the applicant lacked, she said.

Osikhena Awudu, who found his position as a senior administrative assistant at Yale Law School through New Haven Works, said receiving feedback from employers was the most helpful aspect of the program. He applied for four or five jobs before he was hired, and after each rejection he was able to find out why he had not been chosen, allowing him to better target his applications.

New Haven Works currently has strong partnerships with relatively few employers, but Harris said she meets regularly with human resources personnel in order to bring more companies on board. In addition to its 15 existing partnerships, New Haven Works has draft contracts with 10 employers, ready to be signed if the employer chooses.

Anthony Rescigno, president of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and a board member of New Haven Works, said he believes smaller companies in particular have been reluctant to become partners because they’re waiting to see how larger companies fare with hires from New Haven Works.

“It’s an education process, to get the community to understand exactly what New Haven Works is doing,” Rescigno said. “but I think we’re making lots of headway.”

Over 5,000 New Haven residents were unemployed in November.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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“If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.”

SNOOP DOGG AMERICAN RAPPER

University creates summer precalculus courses PRECALCULUS FROM PAGE 1 emy instructional videos.

During the school year, Yale students who need to catch up in precalculus make use of informal tutoring, Rolf said, noting that professors often volunteer to coach students who need help.

Mika Yamashita, a researcher at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, said online courses are effective learning tools because quizzes or other feedback can ensure that content is tailored to individual users’ strengths and weaknesses.

All students interviewed said they appreciate programs such as this that help freshmen from diverse backgrounds make the transition to Yale.

Kerry Burke-McCleod ’17, a first-generation college student from Jacksonville, Fl., said he would have wanted to take this module if it had been offered the summer before he arrived at Yale. Although he said that he is not interested in pursuing a major in math or the sciences, Burke-

McCleod said that having access to this kind of program would have opened more opportunities for him and his friends.

We played the best hand with the cards we were dealt, but I feel like we were missing a few cards.

KERRY BURKE-MCCLEOD ’17

A member of the inaugural Freshman Scholars Program, Burke-McCleod added that it is important for Yale to provide programs and resources for students who come from low-income communities and high schools that do not traditionally send students to selective colleges.

“We played the best hand with the cards we were dealt, but I feel like we were missing a few cards that some other kids got,” he said.

“It’d be good if Yale could provide a few of the cards so you can make a Royal flush or something.”

Jon Reider, a college counselor at San Francisco University High School, said he this program will likely not affect most students because the majority of Yale undergraduates took calculus in high school. But he added that the resource will be helpful in reassuring incoming freshmen that they belong at Yale and letting them know that it is acceptable to ask for help.

Georgette EdmundsonWright, a regional vice-president of the North American Association of Summer Sessions, said university summer session programs often help students get into an academic mindset before the term begins.

A summer crash course in precalculus would not only teach students math, but would also prepare them for the rigorous pacing of college courses, said Steven Mendoza ’14. Mendoza, a firstgeneration college student, added that he would have wanted to do

the precalculus module if it had been offered his freshman year.

Still, Mendoza said he thinks students’ starting points are not necessarily impediments to success once they get to Yale.

“It’s definitely doable for someone to take Math 112 as a freshman and major in engineering,” he said. “It’s all about applying yourself.”

Summer bridge programs significantly benefit students’ academic work in their first year of college, according to a 2012 study by the National Center for Postsecondary Research. Still, by the end of the students’ sophomore year, there was no longer a significant discrepancy between the students and their peers who did not participate in a summer program, according to the research.

Thirty-three students participated in the Freshman Scholars Program last summer.

rbhandari@yale.edu .

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu.

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Coming off the new Freshman Scholars Program last summer, the modules seek to erase significant discrepancies between students.

Goff-Crews champions student causes through teaching fellowships, genuinely care about the issue as well.

Although she is not sure about the timeline for the mental health initiative, student leaders commended her dedication. YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 said Goff-Crews attended many meetings in order to get a better understanding of the status quo, and that she has done a good job promoting the issue both to decision-makers in society at large and students on campus.

But in spite of the many stu-

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obvious,” she said.

But Goff-Crews has made students her focus. She has met monthly with leaders of student governments, including the undergraduate Yale College Council, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) and Graduate Student Assembly (GSA). She said she has tried to pinpoint not just the problems of individual student bodies, but also where all students’ concerns overlap.

One project that Goff-Crews and student leaders have collectively taken on is off-campus housing. What appears to be only a graduate and professional student issue, GoffCrews said, also affects undergraduates who choose not to remain in the residential colleges.

Because students and offcampus housing landlords have traditionally not been communicative with one another, Goff-Crews said she and the student leaders hope to facilitate constructive discussions between landlords and their student tenants. According to GSA Chair Brian Dunican GRD ’15, Goff-Crews put together a graduate student housing committee comprised of graduate and professional students alongside members of the Yale administration. This group has already met with the leaders of Pike International to discuss student needs, Goff-Crews said.

“We’ve been asking for a solid review of this for some time now, and [she] was able to put it together,” Dunican said, calling the committee formation a “concrete win.”

Another initiative on which Goff-Crews spent much of her time working is mental health reform. In contrast with offcampus housing, she said this issue began with undergraduate concerns, though she eventually found that graduate students who interact with undergraduates, primarily

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Kevin Chen ’14 said GoffCrews should not be blamed for not being recognized by students. He said students generally pay little attention to the administration and their respective titles past those in the highest positions, such as University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Mary Miller.

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Goff-Crews hopes the first in this series will happen sometime in February.

In the meantime, though students remain unfamiliar with Goff-Crews’ position and role in the University, those with whom she works — administrators and student government leaders — are happy with her contributions. In an email to the News, Salovey noted that GoffCrews is excellent at approaching challenges involving students across all the University’s schools and departments, such as housing.

“I was instantly impressed with [Goff-Crews’] ability to operate at both extremely sympathetic and high order of thinking and her interest in the granular, the kinds of details that are necessary to really make change,” said Miller who first worked with Goff-Crews on the 2011 Marshall Report on Sexual Misconduct.

Avraham also spoke highly of Goff-Crews, singling out her responsiveness and interest in engaging administrators with student government.

“Not everyone in the University administration is like that,” he said.

Including Goff-Crews as Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, the University currently has eight separate vice presidential positions.

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Snow sends Atlanta reeling

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A truck blocks all east-bound lanes of Interstate 285 in Sandy Spring, Ga. after htting an icet patch of road. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Atlanta. Some interstates remained clogged by jackknifed 18-wheelers Wednesday afternoon, more than 24 hours after snow began falling on the city.

BY DAVID CRARY AND RAY HENRY ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Thousands of Atlanta students stranded all night long in their schools were reunited with their parents Wednesday, while rescuers rushed to deliver blankets, food, gas and rides home to countless shivering motorists stopped cold by a storm that paralyzed the business capital of the South with less than 3 inches of snow.

As National Guardsmen and state troopers fanned out, Mayor Kasim Reed and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal found themselves on the defensive, acknowledging the storm preparations could have been better. But Deal also blamed forecasters, saying he was led to believe it wouldn’t be so bad.

The icy weather wreaked similar havoc across much of the South, closing schools and highways, grounding flights and contributing to at least a dozen deaths from traffic accidents and a mobile home fire.

Yet it was Atlanta, home to

major corporations and the world’s busiest airport, that was Exhibit A for how a Southern city could be sent reeling by winter weather that, in the North, might be no more than an inconvenience.

The mayor admitted the city could have directed schools, businesses and government offices to stagger their closings on Tuesday afternoon, as the storm began, rather than dismissing everyone at the same time.

The result was gridlock on freeways that are jammed even on normal days. Countless vehicles were stranded and many of them abandoned. Officials said 239 children spent Tuesday night aboard school buses; thousands of others stayed overnight in their schools.

One woman’s 12-mile commute home took 16 hours.

Another woman gave birth while stuck in traffic; police arrived just in time to help. Drivers who gave up trying to get home took shelter at fire stations, churches and grocery stores.

One traffic death was reported in Atlanta — that of a man killed in a crash.

“I’m not thinking about a grade right now,” the mayor said when asked about the city’s response. “I’m thinking about getting people out of their cars.”

National Guardsmen in Humvees, state troopers and transportation crews delivered food and other relief, and by Wednesday night, Deal said all Atlanta-area schoolchildren were back home with their parents.

Atlanta was crippled by an ice storm in 2011, and officials had vowed not to be caught unprepared again. But in this case, few closings or other measures were ordered ahead of time.

Deal, who is up for re-election in November, said warnings could have been posted along highways earlier and farther out Tuesday.

But he also fended off criticism.

“I would have acted sooner, and I think we learn from that and then we will act sooner the next time,” Deal told reporters.

“But we don’t want to be

accused of crying wolf. Because if we had been wrong, y’all would have all been in here saying, `Do you know how many millions of dollars you cost the economies of the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia by shutting down businesses all over this city and this state?’”

Deal faulted government forecasters, saying they warned that the storm would strike south of Atlanta and the city would get no more than a dusting of snow.

However, the National Weather Service explicitly cautioned on Monday that snowcovered roads “will make travel difficult or impossible.” And around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, the agency issued a winter storm warning for metro Atlanta and cautioned people not to travel except in an emergency.

Around the time the traffic jam started, Deal and Reed were at an award ceremony recognizing the mayor as the “2014 Georgian of the Year.” Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said the governor left before 1:30 p.m. and was in con-

stant contact with emergency officials.

Among the commuters trapped in the gridlock was Jessica Troy, who described her commute home to the suburb of Smyrna as a slow-motion obstacle course on sheets of ice.

“We literally would go 5 feet and sit for two hours,” Troy said after she and a co-worker who rode with her finally made it home about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. They spent more than 16 hours in the car, covering 12 miles.

The standstill gave Troy time to call her parents and send text messages to friends, letting them know she was OK. By 3 a.m. her car was stuck on a freeway entrance ramp. She put it in park, left the heat running and tried to get some sleep.

“I slept for an hour and it was not comfortable,” Troy said.

“Most people sat the entire night with no food, no water, no bathroom. We saw people who had children. It was a dire situation.”

After daybreak, a few good

Samaritans appeared, going carto-car with bottles of water and cookies. Traffic started moving again about 8:30.

At Atlanta’s Deerwood Elementary School, librarian Brian Ashley spent Tuesday night with a dozen of his colleagues and 35 children on cots in the gym.

The teachers and other staff members opened up the pantry in the cafeteria, making pizza and chicken nuggets with carrots and apples for dinner. Later, some police officers dropped off sandwiches, and parents living nearby brought food.

“The kids slept peacefully through the night,” Ashley said.

“They knew that there were people around them that cared about them.”

However, Ashley said he was surprised officials allowed the schools to open Tuesday.

“They were forewarned about the weather, and they were illprepared,” he said. “If schools were canceled yesterday, we would not have had the catastrophe we did last night and today.”

MD. mall gunman wrote of killing

BY ERIC TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The gunman in a deadly attack at a Maryland shopping mall wrote in general terms about killing people in his journal and said that he was ready to die, police said Wednesday in releasing new details about writings the shooter left behind.

Darion Aguilar did not mention targeting specific people, groups or locations but expressed in his journal “a general hatred of others,” the Howard County police department said on its Twitter account. He apologized to his family for what he was planning to do and wrote that his plan was set, but did not specify what that meant, police said. He also revealed that he thought he needed to see a mental health professional but had not told his family.

Police say the 19-year-old Aguilar killed two employees of a skateboard gear shop on Saturday at the Mall in Columbia and then took his own life.

Detectives have been analyzing Aguilar’s mobile phone, computer, financial records and journal in hopes of coming up with a motive, though answers so far have been elusive and police say they’ve found no connection between Aguilar and his victims. Aguilar

had no prior criminal record.

The police description of the journal entries, written sporadically over a one-year period, provides some clues though not a complete explanation for what set off the shooting. It does not, for instance, resolve questions of why Aguilar fatally shot the two employees — 21-year-old Brianna Benlolo and 25-year-old Tyler Johnson — or how he came to select Zumiez, a shop that sells skateboard gear, for the rampage.

“Aguilar mentions killing people, but in general terms. He does not mention the victims, or any other specific person,” police wrote on Twitter.

Ellis Cropper, a family friend who has been serving as a spokesman for the family, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Police have said Aguilar frequented the mall and was known to hang out outside and smoke in small groups. He had never worked at the store or sought a job there, a spokeswoman for the company said Wednesday.

Aguilar, described by friends as an avid skateboarder, graduated from high school last spring and was working at a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts, where he had been expected on the day of the shooting.

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Three people died Saturday in a shooting at a mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman.

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Bitterness evident at Syrian talks

People have died in Syria since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011.

Egypt to put 20 journalists on trial

BY SARAH EL DEEB ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 picture, a UN security person tries to control journalists who jumped out of their chairs to get their questions answered by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Montreux, Switzerland.

BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA —The bitterness and rancor stirred by Syria’s civil war were on full display this week at peace talks in Switzerland — and not just in the closed room where rival delegations are seeking a way to end the threeyear conflict.

For the first time since the country devolved into its bloody civil war, supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad — many of them journalists — are meeting face to face.

The mix is producing more than just awkward moments between people with vastly different views.

In the hallways of the U.N.’s European headquarters and on the manicured lawns outside, tempers have flared. Scuffles have broken out as journalists interrupt rival reports,

government officials have received extraordinary public grillings, and a distraught mother confronted the Syrian government delegation at their hotel.

More than 130,000 people have died since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, and millions of people have been uprooted from their homes. The conflict has pitted neighbor against neighbor. People who were once friends have stopped talking to each other. Journalists who once worked together have been separated. Sectarian tensions, once tamped down under Assad’s grip, have exploded into the open.

Many journalists have been forced to leave the country, either thrown out by the regime or going into selfimposed exiled in order to continue their work freely. Many have switched jobs to work with opposition or gov-

ernment outlets.

“It has been a rare opportunity to meet and get to know each other again,” said Ibrahim Hamidi, a Syrian journalist working for the Londonbased Arabic regional newspaper, AlHayat. “It’s unnerving for both sides.”

In Geneva, anti-government activists accuse journalists supporting the regime of coming with a specific mandate to ask disruptive questions.

And for government officials used to controlling the narrative back home, the experience has been frazzling.

“The regime’s delegation feel besieged here, they are on the defensive — clearly the weaker party,” claimed Rima Fleihan, a member of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group.

During an impromptu briefing at last week’s opening session in Montreux, Syrian Information Min-

CAIRO — Egypt said 20 journalists, including four foreigners, working for Al-Jazeera will face trial on charges of joining or aiding a terrorist group and endangering national security — an escalation that raised fears of a crackdown on freedom of the press.

It was the first time authorities have put journalists on trial on terrorism-related charges, suggesting authorities are expanding the reach of a heavy-handed crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since the military’s ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July 3.

A trial date was not set, and the full list of charges and names of defendants not yet issued. But they are known to include three men working for Al-Jazeera English — acting bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, award-winning correspondent Peter Greste of Australia and producer Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian. The three were arrested on Dec. 29 in a raid on the hotel suites in which they were working.

The charges are based on the government’s designation last month of the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Authorities have long depicted the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network as biased toward Morsi and the Brotherhood.

But police largely targeted its Arabic service and its Egyptian affiliate, which remained one of the few TV stations to provide a platform for the Brotherhood after the government crackdown. While journalists have been detained, the decision to refer cases to trial is unprecedented, experts said.

Al-Jazeera denies bias and has

demanded the release of its reporters, whose arrest sparked an outcry from rights groups and journalist advocacy organizations. Authorities have also denied the network’s reporters accreditation.

In the United States, which has already suspended some of its more than $1 billion annual aid to Egypt, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington remained “deeply concerned about the ongoing lack of freedom of expression and press freedom.”

“The government’s targeting of journalists and others on spurious claims is wrong and demonstrates an egregious disregard for the protection of basic rights and freedoms,” she told reporters at a regular briefing.

“We strongly urge the government to reconsider detaining and trying these journalists.”

The prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that 16 Egyptians in the case are accused of joining a terrorist group, while an Australian, a Dutch citizen and two Britons were accused of helping to promote false news benefiting the terrorist group. If found guilty, the defendants could face sentences ranging from three years for spreading false news to 15 for belonging to a terrorist group.

Prosecutors allege that the 20 journalists set up a media center for the Brotherhood in two suites in a luxury hotel.

The statement said the defendants “manipulated pictures” to create “unreal scenes to give the impression to the outside world that there is a civil war that threatens to bring down the state” and broadcast scenes to aid “the terrorist group in achieving its goals and influencing the public opinion.”

Assad adviser rejects call for transitional govt

BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — Syrian President Bashar Assad’s adviser on Wednesday rejected the opposition’s call for a transitional governing body and suggested for the first time that a presidential election scheduled to be held later this year may not take place amid the raging violence.

The comments by Bouthaina Shaaban in an interview with The Associated Press came as U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi announced that the first phase of the Syria peace talks in Geneva will end on Friday, as scheduled, and that the gap between the government and the opposition remains “quite large.”

“To be blunt, I do not expect that we’re going achieve anything substantial” by Friday, he told reporters Wednesday. “I’m very happy that we are still talking and that the ice is breaking slowly.”

Brahimi said both sides will decide when the second phase of the talks will take place — most likely after a one-week break.

Earlier Wednesday, both sides managed to discuss the thorniest issue: the opposition’s demand for a transitional government in

Syria.

But Shaaban said it would be difficult to hold a presidential election in Syria, given the fighting, and she rejected a transitional governing body.

“There’s nothing in the world called transitional government.

We don’t mind a large government, a national unity government, but I think they invent the wrong term for our people and then they circulate it in the media,” she told AP. The idea of a national unity government has been rejected by the opposition, which insists Assad must step down in favor of a transitional government with full executive powers.

Louay Safi, a spokesman for the opposition’s negotiating team, said the issue of a transitional government was put on the table at the talks for the first time.

But he added the government delegation stuck to its demand that putting an end to terrorists was still its No. 1 priority.

“Today we had a positive step forward because for the first time now we are talking about the transitional governing body, the body whose responsibility is to end dictatorship and move toward democracy and end the

fighting and misery in Syria,” he said.

The government seems “more ready to discuss that issue, but still they’re trying to push it to the back of the discussion,” Safi said. “We told them that this has to come first because nothing else can be achieved before we form a transitional governing body.”

Shaaban said the opposition seemed more willing Wednesday to talk about terrorism, and she described the day’s talks as constructive.

“The problem is that they’re only interested in transitional government. They’re only interested in government, not interested in putting an end to this war,” she said.

Despite the apparent small step in the peace talks, both sides continued to blame each other for the impasse.

The peace conference, intended to forge a path out of the civil war that has killed 130,000 people, has been on the verge of collapse since it was first conceived 18 months ago.

The coalition agreed to the Geneva talks only if the focus was on an end to the Assad dynasty, while the Damascus contingent zeroed in on fighting terrorism.

MARTIAL TREZZINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bouthaina Shaaban, advisor to Syrian President Bashar Assad, briefs the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014.

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“Never wound a snake; kill it.”

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Hundreds of living, dead pythons found in home

BY GILLIAN FLACCUS ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked floor to ceiling inside his stenchfilled home in suburban Orange County.

As investigators wearing respirator masks carried the reptiles out of the house and stacked them in the driveway, reporters and passers-by gagged at the smell. Some held their noses or walked away from the five-bedroom home to get a breath of air.

“The smell alone — I feel like I need to take a shower for a week,” said police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. “They’re pretty much in all the bedrooms — everywhere.”

Officers said they found more than 400 snakes — at least 220 of them dead — as well as numerous mice and rats, in the Santa Ana home of William Buchman after neighbors complained about the smell. He was arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, Bertagna said.

Buchman, 53, was still in custody Wednesday afternoon, Bertagna said. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District, where he works, declined comment, saying it was a police matter.

Buchman has not yet had a court appearance or been formally charged and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney.

Authorities said he lived alone, and neighbors said his mother, who had lived with him, had passed away within the past few years.

Sondra Berg, the supervisor for the Santa Ana Police Department’s Animal Services Division, said four bedrooms in the home were stacked from floor to ceiling and wall to wall with plastic bins on wooden and metal racks. The bins were packed so tightly, Berg

said, that they didn’t require lids because there was no room for the snakes to slither out.

Each snake was catalogued by name and type, and Berg said Buchman told authorities he was involved in a snake-breeding enterprise.

“House of Horrors: That’s the best way to describe it,” Berg said of the house. “I mean there’s so many dead snakes … ranging from dead for months to just dead. There’s an infestation of rats and mice all over the house.

There are rats and mice in plastic storage tubs that are actually cannibalizing each other.”

Some of the snakes were little more than skeletons. Others, only recently dead, were covered with flies and maggots.

Next-door neighbor Forest Long Sr. said he has known Buchman for years, adding the men had once been friendly, getting together to watch sports on television.

But he noticed a change in his neighbor about a year ago, he said, adding Buchman stopped coming around and, when he did, he appeared to have gained a good deal of weight.

“Something changed in Bill, yes it did,” he said. “Something triggered it because I couldn’t even think that that was going on.”

The odor from the house, meanwhile, became unbearable about five months ago.

“It got so bad as to where my wife would throw up,” Long said.

“She’d get out of the car and run into the house.”

He said neighbors speculated that there must be a dead body inside.

Bertagna said animal control authorities had tried to work with Buchman for several months after neighbors reported the smell. He said they sought a warrant after they were not allowed inside the home.

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

While interviewing Sondra Berg, Santa Ana Police Animal Services supervisor, television reporters Bobby DeCastro, from FOX11, and Wendy Burch, of KTLA 5 plug their noses to avoid the stench emanating from the house.

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3:30 p.m. “Swimming & Diving at Yale — Highlights from Manuscripts & Archives.” There will be an open house featuring highlights from the collection of swimming and diving material at Yale. Open to the general public. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Manuscripts & Archives.

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SPORTS

“My teeth weren’t that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.”

DUNCAN KEITH DEFENSEMAN, CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Lyon cub grows his claws LYON FROM PAGE 14 upbringing, Lyon’s ambitions could not be caged. He was noticed his junior year in high school and committed the following winter to Yale. Alex said that Yale, from which his father Tim graduated in 1981, offered a tantalizing combination of academics and topnotch hockey.

After winning the 2011 Frank Brimsek Award, given to the top senior goaltender in the state, Lyon relocated to Omaha, Neb. to play junior hockey. Despite the new level of play, Alex commented that he felt comfortable moving away from home.

“Playing hockey was something that I had expected I was going to do after high school,” Lyon said.

“I got traded to Omaha after my senior year and I loved Omaha.

There was a huge transition because [the United States Hockey League] is a really good league. I got fortunate to get put in such a good place and it really helped out.

The players are faster and better and the game gets refined a little more every level you step up.”

The USHL was not always smooth sailing for Lyon. He was traded from the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders to Omaha. Once there, he had to cope with a highly publicized firing of then-head coach Bliss Littler.

Once he joined the Lancers, however, it did not take long for the goaltender to impress his coaching staffs and beat out his competition for the starting job, which included a two-year USHL veteran and a Boston College bound player.

Current Omaha Lancers Head

‘Dogs go on the road SQUASH FROM PAGE 14

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 has stopped 92.3 percent of the shots taken against him this season.

Coach and General Manager Brian Kaufman, an assistant coach during Lyon’s second year in Omaha, noticed Lyon’s roar the minute he saw him on the ice.

“He was a guy you watched in practice and saw that he didn’t want to give up a single goal,” Kaufman said. “He would face a couple hundred shots a day in practice but every shot he let in during practice was the end of the world. He had that obvious competitive nature. Anytime the puck was near his net before a drill he would dig it out because he didn’t like that image.”

That competitive nature helped Lyon adapt to the USHL, which he said represented a big step up

in quality of play. He posted more than 26 wins and better than a .910 save percentage in both his seasons in the USHL. During his two seasons on the Omaha Lancers, the New Haven-bound netminder was a two-time team MVP and was named to a second team all-USHL member his second year.

It was not only the Minnesota native’s skill on ice that impressed, though. Kaufman added that Lyon continually stood out with his off the ice character and humility despite his success.

“We didn’t feel having a goalie as our captain was the right thing for our team but for sure he was one of the leaders of our team,” Kaufman said. “The guys

respected and liked him. He competes really hard and continually works on his game. There was nothing that he struggled at. In my opinion he was the best goaltender in our league last year. He was by far our biggest impact player and we felt confident every time he was in net we could win the game.”

Due to his character and determination, Kaufman added the coaching staff always knew Alex would succeed at the next level.

Part Two of “Heart of a Lion” will run in tomorrow’s sports page.

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

Caine ’14 said. “And winning both is essential as we continue to pursue the Ivy League championship.”

According to Shiyuan Mao ’17, the men and women have been anticipating these away games all week.

After hosting seven schools in a busy weekend at the Paine Whitney Gymnasium’s Brady Squash Center, the two teams are ready for a road trip.

“I’m really excited about it.

It’s my first time going down there,” Mao said.

Mao added that the rest of her team had been talking about the matches this week and practicing specifically with Penn and Princeton in mind.

One particular challenge will be the difference in the type of courts that the Elis’ Ivy oppenents use.

“At Penn and Princeton, they play with wall courts instead of glass courts, so we’ve been trying to get used to those conditions,” her sister, Shihui Mao ’15.

Caine stated that the men’s team was doing the same.

They have been preparing this week and will be ready to face Penn on Saturday.

Kah Wah Cheong ’17 said that the Bulldogs hope that the weekend will prove a success.

“I have confidence that

we’re going to kill it,” Shiyuan Mao said.

The Bulldogs will also be hoping to preserve their winning streaks from the successful weekend at home. The men have won their last three games, and the women have won their last four.

We will not take Penn and Princeton lightly because both teams have immense potential.

KAH WAH CHEONG ’17 Women’s squash team Both Penn and Princeton are in the running for the Ivy title.

“We will not take Penn and Princeton lightly because both teams have immense potential,” Cheong said. “Beating these two teams will boost our position in the contest for the Ivy League Championship title.”

After the games against Penn, Princeton and Brown, the men’s and women’s teams will play Harvard and Dartmouth next weekend to finish their regular seasons before CSA Team Championships.

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

Yalie strong off the bench M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 things up,” Jones said. “We wanted to give Brandon more of an opportunity playing without [forward] Justin [Sears ’16] where he can command more of the ball on offense.”

Sears commands the most touches when he is on the floor because of his ability to convert them at a high rate. By moving the offensive-minded Sherrod to the bench for defensive forward Matt Townsend ’15, Jones believed he could reinvigorate the team.

Whereas most players might see the change in role as a demotion, Sherrod has made the most

of it. He has reshaped himself into a coordinator on defense and a playmaker on offense.

Over the last five games, Sherrod is averaging a strong 2.3 to 1 assist to turnover ratio, up from his average as a starter.

“I really like getting assists,” Sherrod said. “Getting your teammates open and making them better is something that I cherish. It’s been somewhat of a conscious effort, but the opportunities have presented themselves and guys have been able to knock shots down.”

One of the biggest weaknesses of the Elis this season has been their perimeter defense.

Opponents have shot a scintil-

lating 42.9 percent from the arc so far this season while the Bulldogs have shot just 32.4 percent themselves.

Sherrod said he is hopeful he can make an impact on the defensive end of the court.

“More recently, with the struggles we’ve had defensively, I try to come in and be a communicator on the defensive end,” Sherrod said.

Perhaps this effort has already paid dividends: He has averaged 1.6 blocks in his last five games, up from his average as a starter.

But despite his success in his new role, Sherrod is reluctant to say the better numbers are due to the fact that he now faces his

Soccer should clean up act COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 coming South American players, but in this case, that third party was a company owned

by Neymar’s father. Even of the original $78 million to which Barcelona admitted, less than $24 million went to Santos, Neymar’s former Brazilian team, while $55 million went to his father.

As if this story weren’t strange enough, the details only came out because a Barcelona fan sued Rosell in Spanish court. FC Barcelona is owned and operated by its supporters, and so Spanish pharmacist Jordi Cases was able to able to compel Rosell to reveal information that would never become public at any other club.

Yet the most remarkable part of this whole saga is how little any of it even matters. A scandal like this would bring down the sky on any American sports team, but in Spain no one is really surprised. The legal case against Rosell and the club is unlikely to lead anywhere, and the team won’t face any sanctions from its league. Rosell probably would not have even stepped down over the affair if he hadn’t already made so many enemies at Barcelona.

International football is the Wild Wild West of sports.

Match-fixing is endemic across Europe and the rest of the world, including the top

Spanish division, La Liga, where Barcelona plays. The head of the Spanish professional football league openly acknowledged last year that at least eight matches in Spain’s first and second divisions are fixed every year. Dozens of high profile Italian players, including several on the country’s national team, became embroiled in a match-fixing scandal of their own over the past two seasons, and only eight years ago Italy’s most popular team was demoted (the equivalent of the Miami Heat being sent to play in the D-League) after another massive match-fixing ring was broken up by the police. FIFA, the sport’s international governing body, has become synonymous with corruption, and most recently was accused of selling the rights to the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

These people make Pete Rose and Tim Donaghy look like choir boys, and nobody should be surprised by the tactics of Barcelona and other teams in a sport that allows shady management companies to control where an athlete plays for his entire career.

The biggest surprise is that Rosell and Barcelona bothered to keep all of that information a secret. Remarkably, nothing in the club’s agreement with Santos and Neymar’s father was against any rules of the sport. Even the $117 million transfer fee,

although one of the highest ever, was outshone by the $125 million that Real Madrid shelled out for Gareth Bale last year. Most regard the case as nothing more than political theater with little legal merit, designed only to embarrass Rosell.

There are times when the beautiful game more closely resembles a circus, but I’m not going to pretend that this is the reason why soccer isn’t popular in the United States.

The country that brought you the 1919 Black Sox, Lance Armstrong, steroids in baseball and, most recently, Aaron Hernandez, has no right to be sanctimonious about its athletes. There are also countries that handle soccer’s cultural problems better than others: the English Premier League, for example, bans third party ownership altogether. But soccer touches more lives across the globe than any other sport, and the international soccer community as a whole has a responsibility to eradicate the culture of corruption, cheating and backroom deals that pervades some of its elements. Barcelona is one of the richest and most successful teams in the world today. It should be the one leading the charge, not sinking knee-deep into this current morass.

Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

oppenents’ second units.

He pointed out that the Ivy League is full of deep teams with considerable talent.

“I think every team that we play has a lot of talent coming off the bench,” Sherrod said. “I never really take anything for granted. Even if it is the second team, I don’t think it’s any easier.”

The jury is still out on whether this move will pay off in the long run, but there is reason to believe the team is headed in the right direction after this change. While the Elis were not competitive in their first game with Sherrod playing in his new capacity, the lost only nar-

rowly to a tough Vermont team later that week. In the impressive home win against Brown two weeks ago, Sherrod contributed an efficient 10 points, a rebound, an assist and a block off the bench while taking seven trips to the line.

“Brandon’s one of the nicest kids on the planet,” Jones said. “That’s almost a detriment sometimes. He needs to be a little nastier in some ways on the court, but he’s going to do whatever the coaches think is the right thing to help us win games.

He’s not going to question; he’s just going to do.”

For Sherrod, the success is a result of staying humble and

committed to his sport.

Underneath the 6 foot, 6 inch, 240 pound exterior, Sherrod has shown himself to be a true team player.

“Playing any sport at a Division I school is a very humbling experience,” Sherrod said. “At the end of the day I really don’t care if I’m starting or not as long as my team is winning games. If I’m averaging five points a game and my team is winning, I don’t care.”

The Bulldogs tip off this Friday at 7 p.m. against Columbia in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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

Elis fall in final W. TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 “This is the beginning of the season and there’s so much to look forward to,” Li said.

The second match of the Bulldog’s campaign was against an even more heavily favored opponent, the No. 11 Michigan Wolverines, who had defeated Virginia Tech on the first day of the competition. In stark contrast to their comeback over Tulsa, this contest resulted in a shutout loss for the Elis.

The Wolverines defeated the Bulldogs 4–0 in the completed singles matches, as another squad featuring two Top-100 players proved too much for Yale to overcome. Momentum was a deciding factor, resulting in straight set sweeps in each of the Wolverines’ singles matches against the Elis.

“The loss was pretty disappointing. Obviously they’re a very good school, but we thought we’d come up on top,” said Yu. The Bulldogs did manage to garner a single win in doubles against the Michigan side, as the duo of Li and Hamilton upset Michigan’s tandem of Brooke Bolender and Emina Bektas, the ninth-ranked doubles squad in the nation.

Sullivan also said the loss to the Wolverines was a tough defeat for the team as a whole.

“We fought hard but needed to raise our level [of play] and they proved to be too strong on Sunday. This loss showed us we have areas that need improvement, but we are motivated to work harder

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The women’s tennis team fell to No. 11 Michigan 4–0 on Sunday, Jan. 26. and play better the next time we face a tough opponent,” said Sullivan.

The Elis next competition is the ITA National Indoors in

Charlottesville, Va., which will be held Feb. 6–9.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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Traina won the all-around competition with a score of 36.900.

“This is the beginning of the season and there’s so much to look forward to.”

REE REE LI ’16 WOMEN’S TENNIS YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

Elis split contests

JOHN SULLIVAN

WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s tennis team mixed things up, going north for the winter to start its season in icy Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Bulldogs competed in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend — a tournament with four teams ranked in the top 60 held from Jan. 25–26. The tournament featured No. 54 Virginia Tech, No. 36 Yale, No. 28 Tulsa and host No. 11 Michigan in a head-to-head format where the winners of the first round faced each other for the title.

Going into the their first-round match with Tulsa, the Bulldogs were certainly the underdogs on paper.

However, the Elis managed to put together a surprising come-frombehind victory against the Golden Hurricanes that was led by Annie Sullivan ’14, Hanna Yu ’15 and Ree Ree Li ’16. Madeleine Hamilton ’16 capped off the 4–3 victory by besting Tulsa’s first-ranked player. Having lost to Tulsa in doubles competition, the Elis had their backs to the wall in singles competition against the Golden Hurricanes that resulted in victories from Li, Yu and Sullivan, which forced the contest into a tie-breaker. Hamilton pulled off an upset win in this final match against Tulsa, defeating Samantha Vickers, the 47th-ranked player in the nation, 2–6, 6–3, 10–7 to push Yale through to the second round.

“It was amazing to see Madeleine come back in her match and clinch the match for the team,” Sullivan said. “She has become one of our feistiest competitors and has proven

The Wild Wild West of sports

will be but one of many to come for the Yale women’s tennis team this season.

Last week, the president of one of the most popular sports teams in the world was forced to resign for bringing one of the most soughtafter players in world to his team, and you probably didn’t hear about it.

Sandro Rosell, the now-former president of FC Barcelona, stepped down last Thursday after a Spanish judge agreed to investigate irregularities in this summer’s signing of Brazilian sensation Neymar. Rosell was forced to disclose that the $78 million transfer fee that the club reported (money that Barcelona paid in exchange for Neymar’s rights) was actually closer to $120 million. That included millions of dollars to Neymar’s charitable foundation, and millions more to his father for “marketing and scouting,” according to the Guardian.

Adding another wrinkle to the deal, it turns out that Neymar’s economic rights were owned by a third party, rather than his team or even the player himself. In international football, a management company often supports a player at the beginning of his career by paying for his training and marketing in exchange for a large portion of future transfer fees. This situation isn’t uncommon, especially among up-and-

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The women’s tennis team defeated No. 28 Tulsa at the ITA Kick-off Weekend Jan. 25. she has the ability to compete with the nation’s best.”

Sullivan’s victory also came over a ranked opponent, as she defeated Yelena Nemchen, who is the 46th-

ranked player in the country according to the ITA. Li also said the team’s upset win was an exciting moment for everyone, but added that she believes it

Heart of a Lyon: A star is born

Sherrod excels in new role

YDN

Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 (No. 35) is averaging 7.8 points on 66.7 percent shooting this season.

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 owns a 7–5–4 record in 16 appearances between the pipes for Yale.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER To stand alone at the end of 200 feet of ice as a rookie takes the heart of a lion. That is exactly what the No. 13 men’s hockey team has in goaltender Alex Lyon ’17.

MEN’S HOCKEY The freshman from Baudette, Minn. has established himself as the starter in Yale’s crease in the second half of the season. His impressive play thus far culminated in a shutout performance last Saturday night, earning the netminder honorable mentions for the ECAC Player, Goaltender and Rookie of the Week awards.

Lyon has featured in 16 games

this season and has posted the 17th best goals against average, 2.17, and 19th best save percentage, .923, in the nation.

“Alex is a very good goaltender,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “He does a very good job handling the puck, which helps us negate other teams’ forecheck. He can push the puck to a good guy, a defensive partner, so he’s kind of like a sixth skater back there, the way he handles the puck and relieves pressure from that standpoint. He’s very calm under pressure and for any hockey team, it’s nice when your goaltender is calm under pressure.”

Perhaps Lyon was destined for a career as a goaltender, one of the more isolated positions in sports. Rex, as he was known in high school, is used to being on an island, as he grew up off of main-

land Minnesota until the age of six. His father and mother managed a fishing lodge on an island on the lake and Alex and his sister used a rowboat to get to their schoolhouse a few islands over.

The Lyons moved back to the mainland, where Alex began to play hockey, in 2000. Located right on the U.S.-Canada border, his hometown of Baudette, Minnesota nudges up against the Lake of the Woods, which contains more than 14,552 islands.

“Everyone played hockey up in Minnesota,” Lyon said. “My dad played but he was never serious about it and my parents never pushed me to play it. I just took it up and rolled with hockey from there.”

Despite his small town

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BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER

MEN’S BASKETBALL

After the first 11 games of the season, forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 was having a career-best year for the men’s basketball team. But as a team, the Elis were not having the same level of success.

At the time, the Bulldogs were mired in a difficult stretch of their nonconference schedule.

The team had lost three of its last four games, including a heartbreaking two-point loss at Prov-

idence, when head coach James Jones decided to take a page from legendary NBA coach Gregg Popovich’s book. Jones decided to move Sherrod from the starting lineup into a role off the bench.

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Yale to face Penn, Princeton

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

SQUASH

The men’s and women’s squash teams will head south this weekend to battle Penn and Princeton before traveling to Brown to wrap up this series of three Ivy conference matches on the road early next week.

The Eli men (10–1, 2–0 Ivy) and women (12–1, 2–0) are ranked above Penn, Princeton and Brown in the CSA national rankings. Both Yale teams are ranked No. 1 in the Ivy League, tied with Harvard. Brown and

Dartmouth hold the seventh position in the conference for both men and women. Penn is ranked third for men, and Princeton is ranked fifth. Both schools are tied at fourth for women. “[Penn and Princeton] are two very strong teams,” captain Eric SEE SQUASH PAGE 13

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THAT REE REE LI ’16 DROPPED IN HER SINGLES MATCH ON SATURDAY. THE SOPHOMORE DEFEATED TULSA’S SAANA SAARTEINEN 6–1, 6–0 AS YALE’S FIFTH-SEEDED PLAYER TO HELP YALE TO A 4–3 WIN OVER THE GOLDEN HURRICANES.