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Salovey condemns ASA Israel boycott

Examining gender at SOM

(?) A cappella groups are like

cockroaches in that they will probably outlast us all. The Spizzwinks (?) celebrate their 100th birthday this year. The group was founded a century ago following a night of drinking and revelry at Mory’s (an act which has led to the formation of multiple all-male singing groups on campus).

Here’s to you Spizzwinks — long live a cappella (?)

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS

At SOM, women are a minority.

Bagley’s lawsuit cites the fact that only 10 percent of the school’s tenured faculty are women, and it suggests that the dearth of women at the

Citing concerns over academic freedom, University President Peter Salovey issued a statement over winter break condemning the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel.

The ASA — a national group of 5,000 scholars that promotes the study of American culture and history — passed a resolution at its Dec. 4 annual conference that bars the organization from entering into partnerships with Israeli institutions. The ASA, which counts Yale’s American Studies department as an institutional member, justified the decision by pointing to what it referred to as an illegal occupation of Palestine

by Israel, infringement on Palestinian students’ rights to education and the lack of academic freedom for Palestinians. The ASA’s boycott joins the international Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions movement against Israel, which began in Palestine in 2005 but has only recently gained attention in the United States.

“As a university president, I believe that the pursuit of knowledge should not be impeded, and therefore a boycott is a strategy I cannot endorse, interfering as it does with academic freedom,” Salovey told the News in an email last week. “In this matter I am expressing my own opinion, but one informed by my position as Yale’s president.”

In a Dec. 20 statement, the Association of American Universities — an organization of

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A beautiful mess. Writers at

the campus’ most respected tabloid — Rumpus Magazine — seem to have begun the process of drafting profiles for their annual 50 Most Beautiful People issue, a ranking which is like the Phi Beta Kappa list except completely watered down by subjectivity and alcoholism.

The road to pan-hell is paved with good intentions. Why

shop classes when you can shop friendship? The Yale Panhellenic Council held a meet-and-greet Tuesday evening as official sorority recruitment begins for the spring semester. Remember, a good seminar lasts a semester, but sisterhood lasts a lifetime.

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. BAR

and Caseus Fromagerie are once again collaborating for Tuesday pizza nights.

Yesterday’s dinner menu featured a Swiss Raclette pizza.

In the vein of campus favorite mash-ups, when can students expect a Ashley’s Ice Cream / Froyoworld crossover?

A shot by any other name is still a shot. Feb Club Emeritus,

which carries on the February hard-partying tradition for alumni, has released schedules for next month that span the globe with parties in Paris, Rwanda, Nashville, Mississippi and more.

A race of the races. Author

of the 2011 bestseller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua, has copublished a nonfiction book with her husband Jeb Rubenfeld explaining why certain cultural groups make superior parents.

“The Triple Package” names these eight demographics as exceptional: Jewish, Indian, Chinese, Iranian, LebaneseAmericans, Nigerians, Cuban exiles, and Mormons. WASPs were snubbed.

Another dropout success story In 2011, Dan Friedman

left Yale to take advantage of a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship.

Friedman was most recently named in Forbes 30 under 30 for 2014 in the social entrepreneurs category.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1949 Yale Station attempts to install innovative automatic stamp dispensers. Although a well-intentioned scheme, the stamp machines, in classic Yale Station style, have been swallowing the pocket change of Elis while producing no stamps.

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Yale’s School of Management has recently come under fire for creating an allegedly misogynist environment.

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Nearly a month after a School of Management professor filed a lawsuit against the University alleging gender discrimination, a contradictory picture of the status of women at SOM has emerged.

SOM Professor Constance Bagley’s suit — which names SOM Dean Edward Snyder, Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick and Professor Douglas Rae as defendants — claims that Bagley was not reappointed to her position because of gender animus. Additionally, a report that was commissioned

by University President Peter Salovey to investigate Bagley’s initial complaint over her reappointment proceedings described the school as a “chilly environment for women.” “[The report] found that Professor Bagley had been subjected to a hostile environment at Yale SOM and that there had been ‘inappropriate comments and behaviors based on gender,’” Bagley’s suit reads. “Comments made to the committee during interviews [characterized] her ‘in a manner that may be deemed offensive to women.’”

But still, the full context under which the report criticized the school’s attitude toward women

remains unclear, with the University declining to comment and Bagley declining to speak further on an ongoing legal matter. Several SOM students and faculty members interviewed described the school as an environment that is not exactly hostile, but nevertheless presents unique challenges to women.

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People’s caucus targets city clerk

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER A fledgling coalition of city lawmakers took aim on Tuesday at New Haven’s second-highest elected official, staging a press conference at the office of the city/town clerk to call for the elimination of the clerk’s position.

Termed the “People’s Caucus,” the coalition stands in

opposition to the union-backed majority on the 30-member New Haven Board of Alders.

Little more than a week after the caucus’ emergence, five of its members announced at Tuesday’s press conference at 200 Orange St. that they had submitted two ordinances for the Board’s consideration. Both target City Clerk Michael Smart, who was elected with the support of Yale’s UNITE HERE

unions, Locals 34 and 35, and on a ticket with Mayor Toni Harp.

The first asks that the Board convene a charter revision commission to eliminate the position of city clerk. The caucus members said the civil servant staffers working under Smart are equipped to handle city records without him. The office has five employees, including Smart and Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown.

Ward 21 Alder Brenda FoskeyCyrus called the city clerk position a “completely unnecessary burden on taxpayers.” She estimated that the city would save half a million dollars within 10 years of eliminating the parttime job, which pays $46,597 per year. New Haven’s chief record keeper, the city clerk is responsible for handling all public documents, including claims and suits against the city,

business licenses, land records and liquor permits; compiling and overseeing Board legislation; and distributing absentee ballots for city elections.

The issue of absentee ballots embroiled Smart in a scandal when he was still a candidate for the job last fall. Smart is under investigation by the State Elections Enforcement Commission SEE CAUCUS PAGE 6

CEID classes take root

BY JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTER Students in this semester’s “Green Engineering and Sustainable Design” seminar will find everything they need to succeed in their new classroom. Whiteboard? Check.

Markers? Check. 3D printer, laser cutter and power tools?

Check.

“Design,” in which students work in groups to design products, processes and systems that are environmentally friendly, relocated this term from a lecture auditorium in Kroon Hall to the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID) in the Becton Center. It joins six other design-based courses that have made the CEID their permanent home since the center opened August 2012, in a move that “Design” teacher and environmental engineering professor Julie Zimmerman said aligns with a shift in Yale engineering courses from lecture-based to hands-on SEE CEID PAGE 8

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Engineering students can use the CEID to take a hands-on approach to solving problems in their field.

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Together and unequal

GUEST COLUMNIST PETER XU

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love Yale. I particularly love the institution of shopping week, when I realize that my measly two credits cannot fit the number of great courses out there. I hope that every student will be able to experience the moments of magic and inspiration that I had taking Immigration Law, Global Health and Computer Networks.

Yale doesn’t seem to agree.

Yesterday, Yale blocked CourseTable, formerly known as Yale Bluebook+. The reasons cited were that we were using copyrighted Yale data, that the website was viewable by nonstudents with NetIDs and that we had averaged evaluations. Yale Bluebook had the exact same issues — except that it didn’t make it easier for students to find the best courses with evaluations — and Yale bought it.

Throughout the weekend, we worked with Yale to fix these issues, but on Monday, without warning, the domain was blocked with a message claiming “malicious activity.”

THE ADMINISTRATION HAS NO LEGITIMATE REASON TO SHUT DOWN OUR SITE We are disappointed that an institution we so love has let us down. It has let down its students, who pay $58,600 a year to attend, by preventing them from making the most of their credits. It has let down the technologists and innovators of Yale, by letting them know that making things better and easier-to-use is not appreciated. It has let down our academics, who thrive on freedom of expression and the wealth of resources on the Internet.

Blocking sites that Yale disapproves of reminds us more of China’s Great Firewall than one of the world’s leading research institutions.

At every point during the process, Harry Yu and I have tried to accommodate Yale.

On Tuesday of last week, we received an email from Gabriel Olszewski, the University Registrar. On Wednesday, in between packing and enjoying the last bits of break, we took a call and explained the situation fully. On Friday, we rushed back from the DMV with our business unfinished to meet

the Yale administration. We advised them that if we shut down, there would be a huge disruption. We told them that we were willing to make almost all of the changes they suggested — such as removing the Yale name and preventing students from sorting courses by rating — and made almost all of them by Sunday night.

In return for our transparency, Yale was silent and opaque. They said little, while trying to censor and disappear the application from Yale’s networks without revealing it to the public — because this act of censorship would hurt Yale’s image more than Bluebook+ could. This started on Friday, when Yale began blocking the IP address of the particular server to make it look like it was merely our servers that were down.

We understand Yale’s concern. CourseTable shows average evaluation ratings very prominently, but we encourage students to read evaluations and consider their own interests when they first sign in to the website. To cooperate, we were even willing to remove the numbers from the page, and leave simply colorcoded ratings. But on balance, students who choose a class rated “Excellent” over “Good” tend to learn more, attend classes more often, and enjoy the experience more.

Students will also realize that these courses are popular and hard to get into (as they should be), and that they should also pursue classes that align with their specific interests, or take a risk with a new professor.

Moreover, it helps us recognize the excellent teaching that Yale commends. Yale assumes that students are not smart enough to make the right choices for themselves. I believe that they are.

Yale’s administration hopes that, like after closing Commons for dinner, this will blow over soon. But there is only one solution: Yale must embrace the values it abandoned: transparency, innovation, creativity, freedom of expression, and most of all, respect for its students. Deans Marichal Gentry and Mary Miller, traditionally seen as champions of the students, have both been involved in shutting down the site.

Please petition them at petition.yaleplus.com and politely let them know your views. We hope that Yale will reverse its decision — and support innovation by students, for students.

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f college is the great equalizer, then winter break is the great reminder. A reminder that our backgrounds are not the same.

A perusal of my daily Facebook newsfeed revealed several friends traipsing across tropical islands and to exotic ski resorts, while others’ displayed none of this luxury.

This is neither an indictment of the privileged nor of their decision to post exciting photos or excited statuses. It’s just a reality: some have and some have not.

But, of course, college isn’t the great equalizer. Inequality is endemic in colleges across the country, even ones with the resources of Yale. Yet this doesn’t stop many from referring to college as “the great equalizer.” The pioneering reformer Horace Mann first coined the phrase in 1848; in 2011, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Americans that higher education remained the “great equalizer.” In a letter responding to Title IX complaints at Yale and other schools, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights used the same phrase. Even in his deservedly lauded freshman address exhorting students to discuss socioeconomic class, President Salovey said, “Yale is such a great equalizer most of the time.”

But most of the time, the college experience isn’t equal. Travel pic-

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tures aside, life on campus is unfair in ways that many Yalies can’t imagine. And, while a great school, Yale does less than SCOTT many think to STERN bridge the gap.

Arriving A Stern as freshmen, Perspective many students assume that their suitemates will chip in for the futon or fridge; for some, this is a huge burden, yet they don’t want to raise the issue because of awkwardness or embarrassment.

Walking around campus, some people have nicer clothes than others. Some people have flashy cell phones and tricked-out laptops; some do not. Some people go to the nice restaurants or the absurdly pretentious clothing stores around campus, and some cannot. Leadership in prominent extracurriculars is impossible without the requisite time and energy; for those who have to work countless hours each week to pay for college or help out family back home, this is impossible. Toad’s charges money.

Generally, it costs hundreds of dollars to join fraternities and sororities; asking for help can be degrad-

ing. When summer rolls around, some can afford to take prestigious unpaid internships; many cannot.

Many from underprivileged backgrounds are not even aware of the resources at their disposal, and, again, asking can be humiliating.

Even upon graduation, some can exploit family connections or take time off to “find themselves.”

For many, those opportunities are unthinkable. Some can take low-paying jobs in fields that they love; others are forced into better-paying jobs they hate because money is needed back home. Even with a diploma from Yale, getting a job can be hard if you don’t have the time or resources to travel for an interview or the clothes to wear once you get there. It can be embarrassing to have to bring this up, and it can certainly hurt an application.

Fifty-six percent of Yale students receive some financial aid, suggesting that their families earn less than $200,000 a year. That suggests that over 40 percent of the student body come from households making over $200,000 a year. Nationally, that number is 4 percent.

It took me years to understand the phrase “life isn’t fair.” It seemed to me that adults used that expression when they wanted me to do something for which there

was no justification. Yet, over the years, I grew to understand the reality of the phrase. We can’t control the families into which we’re born, the abilities with which we’re endowed and many of the circumstances that surround our lives. To many Yalies, life seems fair. They worked hard; they got into Yale. They continue to work hard; they get good grades. Their parents may even have come from less privileged circumstances — but, through grit and determination, they made it. The system worked. Sadly, this disregards the roles played by prejudice, inertia and an incomprehensible tonnage of luck. It ignores the inequalities that undergird even a place like Yale. It places the blame for failure or difficulty on the individual, when so often it belongs on society.

This is not a column about empathy. It’s not about compassion. It’s about the ability to simply acknowledge the realities that surround us. There are forces beyond our control, and they shape our daily lives. It is demeaning to pretend that life at Yale is equal — especially when reality is written on our Facebook newsfeeds.

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

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ounding out the end of what National Public Radio dubbed “the gayest year ever,” the fight for marriage equality saw a late victory in a court ruling that extended the right to marry to same-sex couples in the deeply conservative state of Utah.

A similar ruling occurred in Oklahoma just yesterday.

Immediately after each ruling came down, progressive pundits went into high gear — triumphant Facebook statuses, snarky tweets and quaint Human Rights Campaign graphics abound.

But in the midst of the fanfare, I couldn’t help but cringe at the troubling precedent Utah had set for gay rights. As the courts continue to grapple with how best to proceed, we should use this time to re-evaluate our definition of success for the movement in the long term. Clearly, same-sex couples won the right to marry much sooner than they would have through a referendum. So if we consider the marriage license itself as the end goal of the modern gay rights movement, we should hail the Utah decision as a resounding victory.

But today’s LGBT movement has never been about marriage.

Rather, it has always been about allowing queer Americans to move about freely and without fear of physical, emotional and financial abuse. By opting to use the courts to circumvent the political pro-

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cess, gay rights groups missed a key opportunity to tackle the larger problem facing queer Americans: the court of public opinTYLER BLACKMON ion.To understand this cruBack to cial distinction, we must Blackmon first remember that the rainbow-tinted Yale bubble insulates Yale students from the often-vicious anti-gay rhetoric that still pervades American culture. Taking a legal shortcut in Utah did nothing to address the deeper prejudices within our culture.

Hidden acts of abuse and discrimination affect the queer community far more than lack of legal recognition. I confess I know this all too well.

Until I came out to my family freshman year, I experienced such acute pain from living a lie that I sought out therapy, my grades suffered and more than once I considered ending my own life. The hostility I encountered from friends, relatives and outright strangers literally threatened to kill me. My life had become a living hell far worse than the one so many had told me would one day be my final destination.

My story is far from unique.

LGBT Americans are three times more likely to commit teen suicide, five times more likely to miss school for fear of safety and twice as likely to be homeless in their youth. But the modern LGBT movement has left the safety of gay youth behind in its zeal to hand out marriage licenses. In fact, opting for a quick ruling without a solid foundation of public support often prompts a backlash that leaves vulnerable gay Americans worse off than before.

Ultimately, for me, it got better. But it was not the physical marriage licenses themselves that changed the way Americans react to my sexuality; rather, it was the grass-roots organizing and advocacy for measures such as marriage equality that shifted public opinion.

In 2012, pro-gay groups in Washington state spent $10.8 million on a marriage equality campaign, blitzing the airwaves with commercials, sending out volunteers to knock on doors and making thousands of phone calls to residents in order to move public opinion away from intolerance and toward acceptance. Thanks to organizing on the ground, approval for same-sex marriage shot up from 46 percent to 54 percent in just over a year. In Washington, activists realized they needed to change people’s hearts, not just their laws.

But when a court hands down a ruling from above, it denies LGBT activists the opportunity to organize politically around queer issues and prevents many phone calls and face-to-face conversations about gay rights from occurring.

If we want to protect LGBT Americans, we should instead focus on ballot initiatives that force conservative Americans to think critically about gay rights. I come from Georgia, a ruby red state with a constitutional amendment banning any form of recognition for same-sex couples. I worked extensively for gay rights in my state — even spending last summer working for Georgia Equality. But I couldn’t imagine anything worse for my own security than a court ruling that would overturn our discriminatory ban and deny us the opportunity to launch a full-blown persuasion campaign.

I desperately want to hold a marriage license in my hands one day. But what I want much more is to walk hand in hand with my boyfriend down a street in Georgia without fear. No piece of paper is going to change that. And if shielding vulnerable LGBT youth from the scorn of an anti-gay society means waiting a few more years to put a ring on it, so be it.

TYLER BLACKMON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

GUE ST COLUMNIST ISA QASIM

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ver winter break, The New York Times published an in-depth investigation on the attacks that took place last year on the American embassy in Benghazi. If we are to believe The Times, the attack was neither the spontaneous demonstration which the Obama administration initially claimed nor the carefully planned work of al-Qaeda, as Republicans have insisted. Instead it was a much more complicated event, born of long simmering hostility toward the American presence and inflamed by a hateful video denigrating Islam making the rounds on social media at that moment.

It is not surprising that this attack turned out to be something that defies easy explanation. But we should not simply conclude from the Times article that politicians lie. The picture that the Times paints, with its combination of several different forces coinciding in a single moment with disastrous results, is a genuinely complicated one. It takes time to piece together. If, as a nation, we learn one political lesson from the aftermath of this tragedy, it should be that not only do politicians and governments sometimes lie, they also sometimes just do not know.

The dawn of Internet journal-

Benghazi taken slowly ism, with articles and information updated at a breakneck pace, has narrowed the space between an event and its coverage. Every piece of news is an instant piece of news.

Previously, a tragedy might have taken days to fully enter the public consciousness, but now people may be discussing it within the hour. As a result, the entire public reaction is compressed.

If it takes three days for you to hear about the sinking of the Titanic, you might expect to read a statement by the president within a week, and you might hope that a list of survivors will be available within the month. You might hope that within a half year or so you could read a report explaining the specifics of what really happened.

Now, though, you would hear of the sinking within minutes of it occurring. Suddenly, the president addressing the tragedy in a week’s time seems almost insultingly slow. You expect to know within a few days what has become of all the passengers, otherwise the investigators seems neglectful and incompetent. Perversely, you probably forget entirely about the report to come in a half year.

By then you are already fixated on the fourth or fifth disaster to have occurred in the intervening

months.

Of course, while the newsreader’s timeline has shortened drastically, this is not true of the politician addressing the public. Gathering accurate information, especially in remote or hostile parts of the world, is still an incredibly difficult, time-consuming task. Unweaving the many threads of the Benghazi attack took The New York Times over a year.

Even given their superior access to information, it seems unrealistic to expect the Obama administration to do the same within five days.

And yet, five days after the attack, Susan Rice was touring the talk shows giving the administration’s position on the attack. And it was her statements, made in a time of confusion, which came to lay the groundwork for Republican charges of a conspiracy. The frantic pace of the modern media forced the administration to comment before it had the facts to do so and the resulting confusion shaped the public discourse on the attack. As a result, we have been led down the rabbit hole of al-Qaeda in Libya, ignoring the more relevant question of relations between America and the local Libyan militias.

The sped-up news cycle puts

pressure on public figures to appease the demanding public.

Politicians are constantly criticized for not addressing events quickly enough, or for not immediately hitting the right note, for not providing all the relevant information as soon as possible. But really, this obsession with speed is a disservice to the public.

The focus on continuous updates precludes a meaningful response to the event. It takes too long to gather that information, so instead the focus shifts to political grandstanding as rival parties seek to frame the events they themselves do not yet understand in a favorable light.

If we want to hold our politicians to a high standard of discourse we must find a way to delay our reactions, to stay our political judgment until what has happened is actually understood. Meaningful discussion can only take place when the facts are available. If the framework for conversation is established before anyone knows what really happened, as was the case with Benghazi, then nothing of value can result.

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

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NEWS CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, JAN. 14

The article, “86 Sig Ep members sued over 2011 tailgate,” incorrectly stated Kathy Johnston’s title. She is the national Sigma Phi Epsilon Director of Risk Management.

Webb connects health and environment

BY ZUNAIRA ARSHAD STAFF REPORTER A better future for developing countries involves asking locals what they want changed, according to Kinari Webb MED ’02.

Webb, who is the founder and president of Health and Harmony, an organization that connects environmental conservation efforts with healthcare initiatives, spoke to approximately 30 members of the Yale community on Tuesday in the Branford common room. In her talk, Webb explained how she came to start an organization that integrates the two fields she is passionate about, and described her current projects in Southeast Asia.

When Webb first traveled to Indonesia 20 years ago to study orangutans, she said she “just fell in love with the incredible biodiversity” and decided she wanted to become a doctor and work in the region.

When I first got there, I had no hope.

KINARI WEBB MED ’02 President and Founder, Health and Harmony “I came to realize how incredibly privileged I was,” Webb said. “I saw what it means to have no healthcare whatsoever.”

Using slides and data, Webb also explained the strain that growing populations put on natural resources. After finishing medical school, she said she returned to Indonesia with the goal of helping the local villagers pursue strategies to save the environment while improving their own lives.

Still, Webb said she was overwhelmed at first by the situation in West Kalimantan, where many inhabitants make a living by cutting down trees.

“When I first got there, I had no hope,” she said, adding that she nevertheless wanted to give her full effort to the project.

Webb said she formed her approach to bringing about a positive change in West Kalimantan villages by directly asking the people of the village what they thought was needed. In return, she said, the villagers asked for proper healthcare access and organic farming training. They also proposed the idea of “forest

guardians” who could get to know the loggers in the area individually and help them find alternative occupations, she added.

Webb said Health in Harmony believes in finding winwin solutions to help people be healthy now and help the environment stay healthy for the future. Because the quality of training for many Indonesian doctors is so poor, Webb said her organization sends American doctors to Indonesia to train local physicians for a year so they can improve their methods of practicing medicine in the villages.

Health in Harmony also creates incentives for villages to “go green” by eliminating logging practices. When a village becomes green, nongovernmental organizations interested in environmental preservation have agreed to cover 70 percent of healthcare costs provided by the Health in Harmony clinics for the inhabitants.

“It’s working, and I’ve been really amazed,” Webb said.

Webb said the presence of Health in Harmony has also helped inhabitants of the villages find higher-paying occupations. The average income tripled within five years of the introduction of the program, she said.

Increased wealth and better healthcare has enabled more kids to go to school, she added.

In the future, Webb said that she hopes to build a hospital, eradicate logging from the area completely and expand the geographical reach of Health in Harmony.

After the tea had concluded, a handful of students stayed to talk to Webb and exchange ideas on how to replicate the work she and her team have done in West Kalimantan in other regions.

Students interviewed were enthusiastic about Webb’s talk.

“It was interesting to hear the experience of someone that has a very extensive background and education,” said Nora Moraga-Lewy ’16, who is interested in environmental studies and hopes to pursue a master’s in public health. “To do something like this — that is not very typical.”

Prior to starting Health in Harmony, Webb completed her residency in Family Medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California.

Contact ZUNAIRA ARSHAD at zunaira.arshad@yale.edu .

“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” ALBERT EINSTEIN GERMAN-BORN PHYSICIST

CT health roll out a success

BY JR REED STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 1, Connecticut became the only state to surpass the federal government’s enrollment projections under the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office predicted that seven million Americans — and 33 thousand in Connecticut — would enroll in private healthcare plans through the nation’s new healthcare exchanges set up by the ACA. By Dec. 23, the last day to sign up to ensure coverage on Jan. 1, 34,295 Conn. residents had enrolled in private plans, with an additional 27,858 residents opting into the state’s expanded Medicaid program. The more than 62 thousand residents newly covered under the ACA represent 20 percent of the previously 344,000 uninsured Conn. residents.

Access Health CT CEO Kevin Counihan said he believes there are three reasons why the exchange has been effective thus far: a stable website in comparison with HealthCare.gov, customer ease on the website and in pop-up healthcare stores, and extensive outreach efforts.

“Buying health insurance is very complex and very confusing, and people are afraid because it’s a very expensive purchase,” Counihan said. “Our goal has been to help them better navigate the process, and we focused on doing a few things very well.”

Starting in October, the exchange began offering Medicaid programs and selling private insurance plans with premiums subsidized by the government.

Access Health CT developed an easily accessible website in 70 languages that allows users to compare plans offered from the three participating insurance companies — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut, ConnectiCare, and HealthyCT, a nonprofit organization.

In addition to the website’s offerings, Access Health CT opened up two retail stores in New Haven and New Britain, offering state residents the opportunity to explore their options and sign up for coverage with the help of personal assistance, a model that Counihan has likened to an apple store genius bar. Connecticut is one of 14 states operating a state health exchange rather than deferring to HealthCare.gov, and it is the only state to offer retail stores.

Following the Jan. 1 deadline, Access Health CT is working to enroll more uninsured residents by March 31, the last day that residents can register for health insurance and avoid the penalty for remaining uninsured in 2014. Counihan said advertising, community outreach workers and Access Health CT’s network of 300 in-person assisters throughout the state will play key roles in the exchange’s outreach.

Since October, Access Health has held over 100 town hall meetings, called health chats, and conducted over 70 enrollment fairs “We’ve been organizing events in the New Haven region largely because it’s easier to schedule large events that residents can come to at one time as opposed to making individual appointments,” said Quiana Lewis ’12, the Access Health Navigator Coordinator for the New Haven region. “These events are usually located in consumer The New Haven Health Department, an Access Health CT partner, holds two or three events per week focused in the region to encourage health care sign ups, while Access Health CT, as a whole, holds events almost every day at locations throughout the state.

Lewis underscored that these enrollment events are key to helping assisters, members of community organizations who work part time to help enroll Conn. res-

automated systems for processes such as health plan certifications.

The exchange will launch a separate Spanish website by the end of the month to reach members of minority communities as well.

“The fundamental thing to realize is that this is a 3-4 year implementation situation,” Counihan said. “It’s hard to make value judgments about success or failure right now.”

Connecticut residents can continue to enroll in healthcare coverage through the state exchange through March 31, but the starting date for those policies will be pushed to a later date. Those looking to buy health insurance now have until today to sign up for coverage that will not go into effect until Feb. 1.

idents.

“Enrollment events give these assisters a chance to sit with a captive audience,” Lewis said.

Lewis added that assisters provide the face to face, personalized assistance that is critical to encourage Conn. residents — especially younger residents and minorities — to enroll.

“Some people don’t have internet, and many never had insurance, so this is a whole new experience,” Lewis said.

Counihan stressed that there are several improvements that the exchange hopes to make going forward, including adding more support tools to make it easier to buy insurance, such as an avatar that would provide website visitors with answers to a compilation of the most frequently asked questions. In 2014, Access Health CT also plans to focus on developing

Contact JR REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

HEALTH CARE COVERAGE CONNECTICUT 344,000

Connecticut residents were uninsured as of Oct. 1, 2013.

34,295

have since enrolled in private plans.

27,858

have since signed up for Medicaid plans.

MetroNorth ticket price rises

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER Rail commuters in Connecticut have again seen commuting costs rise this year due to fare increases and decreased tax subsidies that went into effect on Jan. 1.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation implemented a 5 percent price hike on all ticket prices for the Metro-North and the Shoreline East lines on Jan. 1, an increase that the state legislature authorized to offset the cost of purchasing new rail cars. Concurrently, a national monthly tax break on commuting costs expired on Dec. 31, reducing the subsidy that commuters nationwide receive by nearly half, from $245 to $130. The price changes, announced in a Dec. 30 DOT press release, are the latest in a series of annual increases meant to neutralize rising general costs, as well as the purchase of new rail cars on the Metro-North line.

Upon learning of the changes to ticket pricing, Yale students — who rely upon the Metro-North

New Haven line for various purposes — expressed indifference at the increased cost of a train ride.

Of the 40 Yalies interviewed, all but three said they were unaware of the changes, and all 40 said the modifications would not impact their propensity for using MetroNorth.

New York City resident Anna Baron ’16 said in a Tuesday email that the fare hikes did not represent a significant enough stumbling block to prevent her from using the railroad, citing the recent derailment accidents and maintenance issues that Metro-North has withstood in the previous year as a far more significant source of concern.

“I think the fare hikes have become such a frequent occurrence, especially after the new year, that it doesn’t make me upset anymore and is not enough of a reason to choose another mode of transportation to get home,” she said.

The state legislature first passed a series of three 4 percent fare hikes in 2011, the last of which was

implemented earlier this month.

In addition, an annual 1 percent surcharge tacked onto ticket prices from 2012–2017 to pay for new rail cars.

DOT spokesman Judd Everhart said that the careful approach in implementing the fare hikes and tax loophole closings — the brainchild of DOT commissioner James P. Redeker — was the reason that there had not been “any kind of decrease in ridership” on the Metro-North New Haven line. According to Everhart, the fare increases were designed to be implemented when the cars entered service in 2011.

New Haven commuters interviewed at Union Station on Monday offered more varying assessments of the fare changes.

Helen Jones, a New Haven resident, said that Metro-North’s prices are “fair,” especially compared to those offered by Amtrak.

She added that she benefits from discounts the railroad offers to seniors.

However, Mary Larew, a fellow New Haven resident from East

Rock, said that Metro-North’s current service levels do not merit a fare increase.

“If I get on in Harlem, then I have to stand often for 45 minutes to an hour,” she said. “Sometimes there are delays.”

But Everhart remained adamant about the need for a fare increase, saying that fares cover only 70 percent of Connecticut railways’ functions. According to Everhart, the state government — which provides the remaining 30 percent of the costs jointly with New York State — already doing all it can to spare Connecticut residents from paying excessive transport fees.

“Fares would be a lot more expensive if we tried to make them cover everything,” he said. “They don’t.”

The Metro-North Commuter Railroad was formed in 1983 as a joint project of the MTA and the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

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“In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”

TAYLOR SWIFT AMERICAN COUNTRY POP STAR

Support still pouring into Newtown

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER In order to support those suffering from the 2012 Newtown tragedy, on Jan. 6, the Newtown Public School District received a second grant from the Department of Education’s Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV).

The $1.9 million grant funds grief support for students, faculty, staff and family within the school district. This grant comes on the heels of a $1.3 million grant awarded in May of 2013 from the same organization, which also funded school-based mental health services immediately after the shootings. Newtown will also apply for a third Project SERV grant after the funds from this grant are depleted, said David Jacob, the Recovery Project Director in Newtown.

“The Newtown community has demonstrated incredible fortitude and profound resiliency in the face of unimaginable tragedy,” said State Department of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor in a statement. “This grant will provide critical assistance to the Newtown Public Schools to help the district continue to heal and advance.”

The grant funds will be used for all schools in the district, not just Sandy Hook Elementary, Jacob said. Seven public schools in Newtown and two private schools are recipients of the money, he added.

Specifically, the money will hire additional social workers, counselors and psychologists.

Some grant money will also fund mental health agencies that provide services to stu-

Senator talks foreign policy

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The Newtown Public School District received a $1.9 million grant to fund grief support programs. dents, parents and staff.

Many of the agencies receiving funds are not from within Newtown. The city has subcontracted with Wellmore from Waterbury and the Clifford Beers Clinic, an agency from New Haven, Jacob said.

Newtown is also utilizing UCLA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network for advice and consultation to ensure that any programs that the district adopt use the latest trauma techniques for staff and students.

It is uncommon to give Project SERV awards for two consecutive years, Jo Ann Webb, U.S. Department of Education spokesperson said in an email to the News. She noted that school districts in New Jersey affected by Hurricane Sandy were awarded grants two years in a row.

There has not been much debate within the district over how the grant should be spent,

according to Jacob. Everyone in the community is working towards improving the learning environment for the students and staff, Jacob added.

LeReine Frampton, Newtown’s democratic registrar of voters agreed with Jacob that the community remains satisfied with how the district is spending its grant money, though she added that she would like to see the government provide more help for those who suffer from mental illness.

“If we can do something that will help [solve] the problem that caused this loss, I think that’s a bigger step to recovery than money,” Frampton said.

Newtown has also started using evidence-based programming in its schools and is implementing a school curriculum to facilitate communication and help its students recover.

Newtown’s Project Recovery, which oversees the services and programs that will be implemented throughout the district, has already started planning ahead for next year.

Jacob anticipates that Newtown will apply for more funding to continue the services that the district is currently providing after the second grant ends this August. However, the amount of money the district will request is not clear.

“We’re in the process of need assessment right now.

We’re trying to get an idea of what services might look like next year,” Jacob said.

Since 2001, Project SERV has given over $34 million through 113 grants to local educational agencies and institutions of higher education.

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

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Former US Senator from Indiana Richard Lugar discussed foreign policy in a Tuesday lecture.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Food and fuel are the basics of foreign policy, according to Richard Lugar, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana.

Lugar delivered a talk Tuesday as part of the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture Series in International Studies entitled “Modern American Foreign Policy in an Uncertain World,” in which he considered a range of diplomatic and militaristic strategies across the globe. Before a crowd of approximately 150 people, Lugar — former chairman for the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations — spoke about his political experiences and advocated for promoting democracy abroad as a way of fostering long-term peace and stability.

People are prepared to fight and die before they starve.

RICHARD LUGAR Former United States Senator “We are not in a world war, we no longer have mutually assured destruction,” said Lugar, who held a seat on the Senate from 1977 to 2013. “We are in a position to [act] if we choose to do so.”

Lugar argued in favor of a strong American presence abroad. Without the U.S. naval fleet, free trade on the seas would be impossible, Lugar said.

Likewise, he said the international presence of the U.S. army not only strengthens American power, but also improves the stability of international alliances and agreements such as NATO. Still, Lugar said promoting democratic institutions abroad comes with difficulties, citing the Iraq War as an example.

“It was a great dream, but it didn’t come to that,” he said.

Lugar also spoke about his role in promoting nuclear disarmament, which builds upon the 1991 bill he cosponsored with Senator Samuel Nunn to dismantle weapons of mass destruction after the fall of the Soviet Union.

As current president of the Lugar Center, a nonprofit organization that supports nuclear nonproliferation, Lugar reaffirmed the importance of reducing nuclear weapons as a matter of safety. He cited a comprehensive missile defense system — in which missiles are shot down as they are detected — as an alternative to the arms race that occurred during the Cold War. Lugar recalled how, while serving as mayor of Indianapolis in the late 1960s and 70s, it never dawned on him that there had been missiles aimed at his city, along with other major U.S.

centers. The idea of mutually assured destruction was not just political rhetoric, he said, but a reality in which each country was prepared to annihilate each other.

In addition to nuclear safety, Lugar has also been on the forefront of food politics and security. He stated that the U.S. not only has the ability to produce food for its own population, but also to produce food for a great number of people throughout the world. Lugar said food security must be a priority for foreign policy and global peace.

“People are prepared to fight and die before they starve,” he said.

Touching on policy issues inside North Korea, Iran and Syria, Lugar said it is clear that any possible solutions will require widespread international cooperation and strong U.S. support. Still, he said the intense partisanship in the U.S. makes a unified front on these issues difficult to achieve. Lugar cited the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case and the practice of gerrymandering as two factors that have helped lead to political polarization in America.

Lugar also expressed his optimism about the prospect of American energy independence, noting increased production in natural gas and oil.

“We are on the threshold of becoming the highest energy producer in the world,” he said.

Lugar ended with a discussion on how academia influences his policy agenda. He stressed the importance of national universities in creating dialogue and facilitating discussions that can then reach the policy makers and the American people.

Students and New Haven residents who attended the talk had differing opinions on Lugar’s view of American foreign policy.

John McGowan ’15 said he appreciated how candid Lugar was with the audience in explaining his personal and political background. McGowan said he enjoyed listening to the “insider” perspective that the former senator offered.

“He focuses on what people agree upon, and then moves forward,” Rachel Brodwin ’17 said.

Ray Noonan ’15, a former staff reporter for the News, said that he hopes Lugar’s commitment to bipartisanship will become a model in Washington.

Still, New Haven resident Mito Mardin said he was “flabbergasted” by some of Lugar’s comments and felt they expressed a “naiveté” about foreign affairs.

“Knowing that he was a former chairman of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations is mind boggling,” Mardin said.

Lugar is the longest-serving Senator in Indiana history.

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FROM THE FRONT Yale disputes academic boycott BOYCOTT FROM PAGE 1 leading research universities to which Yale belongs as a founding member — declared that efforts to address political issues should not infringe upon academic freedom, and that restrictions on scholars to work with fellow academics violate the principles of higher education. Salovey said his condemnation of the boycott was meant to echo the position of the AAU. But Yale American Studies professor Zareena Grewal, who is in favor of the boycott, said she does not believe the boycott hampers academic freedom. Rather, she said it aims to increase academic freedom for scholars in Israel who are silenced by the government.

Despite protests, the boycott itself is unlikely to hold any major practical implications for either the ASA, its member departments or Israeli institutions. Yale American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson, a former president of the ASA and a leader of the current boycott, said the ASA plans to invite both Israeli and Palestinian scholars to the next ASA convention, in order to demonstrate that the ASA’s boycott is of Israeli institutions, not Israeli individuals.

The ASA’s decision to use the word “boycott” was not entirely accurate, and was only made in an attempt to align with words used in the larger BDS movement, Jacobson said.

Jacobson added that the ASA’s move was “99 percent symbolic,” and that he did not expect the backlash revolving around the implications of the boycott for academic freedom at American and Israeli institutions.

“We truly did envision this as a conversation starter,” he said. “It

has started [a] conversation, but it wasn’t the one we expected.”

The boycott has led to outcry at other universities — including Brown, the University of Chicago, Northwestern and New York University — affiliated with the ASA. In denouncing the boycott, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust said that “academic boycotts subvert academic freedoms,” and Princeton President Charles Eisgruber called it “indefensible” to single out Israel.

Brandeis, Penn State Harrisburg, Kenyon College and Indiana University have cancelled their ASA memberships in protest. At Middlebury College, members of the American Studies faculty sent an open letter to the ASA in which they argued that the boycott did not align with the organization’s mission statement.

Michael Newbury GRD ’92, an American Studies professor at Middlebury, said the department is concerned with the ASA’s apparent power to vote on any topic.

“We’re concerned about what it means when an organization like the ASA decides to weigh in on geopolitics, when their mission statement says nothing about geopolitics. What is that going to mean for institutions that want to have American Studies programs and then have to account for the ASA’s seemingly unlimited capacity to vote on anything they want to?” Newbury asked.

Aside from the ASA, the only other American academic organization to boycott Israel has been the Association for Asian American Studies, which began its boycott in April 2013.

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

“Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.”

AUNG SAN SUU KYI BURMESE POLITICIAN AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Alder coalition criticizes clerk

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Members of the caucus say that funds utilized for paying the city clerk would be better used on the police force or other public services.

CAUCUS FROM PAGE 1 for yet-unconfirmed reports that his campaign fraudulently handled voters’ absentee ballots.

The second proposed ordinance would ban the city clerk from dictating how staffers respond to public requests for documents and related information. It comes in response to a memo Smart issued last week disallowing his staff to give documents or interviews to the public or to the media without consulting him first.

Smart later revised his directive, clarifying that all public documents were readily accessible, while maintaining that only he would give interviews to the press.

Reached Tuesday, Smart said controversy over the

memo has been resolved.

“Certainly the public is welcome, and has always been welcome, to obtain any information we have. And we’re here to serve them,” Smart said. “We clarified that.”

He called the prospect of the Board eliminating his job “unrealistic.” If members of the people’s caucus had wanted to modify the composition of the city clerk’s office, he said, they should have done so during the once-a-decade process of charter revision that just took place last fall.

Brown was within earshot of the press conference. Smart did not appear to be present.

Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton said the elimination of the clerk position is one of a number of “best practices” solutions the caucus will be submitting for

the Board’s consideration. He said its legislative agenda will be driven by public meetings — the first of which is scheduled for Jan. 25. The caucus will enlist the help of a number of progressive Yale students in drafting statute based on the expressed needs of residents, Stratton said. “We all believe that we were elected to serve one interest group, and that’s the people of New Haven,” Stratton said. He said an elected city clerk job allows the “political establishment” to solidify its influence, including in paid positions.

Anna Festa, alder in Ward 10’s East Rock neighborhood, said the city needs to start “penny-pinching,” beginning with the salary for the city clerk. Stratton said the money could also be better spent else-

where, including by putting more police officers on the streets.

Smart defended his position by saying he has been “handson” in working with the public, with city businesses and with the Board.

“For me it’s an extremely important function, otherwise I wouldn’t have pursued the position,” he said.

Joining Stratton and Foskey-Cyrus at Tuesday’s press conference were Ward 28 Alder Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa and Ward 12 Alder Richard Spears.

Doug Hausladen ’04 in Ward 7 and Carlton Staggers in Ward 30 are also members.

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Percentage of women in the SOM class of 2014 The percentage accounts for the number of women studying full-time for their Master’s degrees in business administration. The number is still higher than that of women found in the faculty.

Gender impacts SOM experience CEID integrated SOM FROM PAGE 1 school contributes to an antagonistic climate for female faculty and students.

“An internal promotion took place this year, so that will make four [tenured female faculty members],” said Judy Chevalier, one of the tenured professors.

“That’s certainly not enough.”

A somewhat higher 20 percent of the tenured, tenure-track and full-time lecturer faculty at the school are women. However, not all tenure-track professors or senior lecturers eventually receive tenure.

Chevalier said the school has had significant difficulty in recruiting women to tenured positions.

“I can’t count how many full professor offers we made to women from the outside over the last few years — a lot,” Chevalier said. “But those recruiting efforts weren’t successful.”

The percentage of female students at SOM is higher than that of faculty, with women making up 35 percent of the full-time class of 2014 pursuing master’s degrees in business administration. Compared to other business schools, according to SOM Spokeswoman Tabitha Wilde, this statistic places the school “solidly in the middle.”

SOM Dean Edward Snyder acknowledged the imbalance of men and women at the school to the News, but added that he plans to rectify it in the years to come.

“SOM has a low percentage of women among its tenured faculty,” Snyder said. “It is a high priority of mine to increase that percentage and to have a more diverse faculty, and it is important for the SOM community to make progress on this issue.”

Alison Damaskos SOM ’12 said that during her time at the school, women were not wellrepresented as teachers, as guest speakers or even as the protagonists in case materials — which are the primary method of teaching at the school.

A MIXED BAG

Female faculty and students presented varying descriptions of their treatment at the school. One SOM faculty member expressed enthusiasm about the role of women — but only in the context of her specific department.

“The climate in [the Leadership Development Program] is one in which we recognize the value of many types of diversity, which includes but is not limited to gender diversity,” said Sarah Biggerstaff, citing that two of the three full-time faculty in the department are women. “As educators of leadership and leaders ourselves, the necessity of diversity, both gender and otherwise, is consistently on the forefront of our mind in LDP.” Still, Biggerstaff noted that she could not say the same about the culture at SOM as a whole.

Socheata Poeuv SOM ’12 said she feels that women at SOM are pressured to conform to standards driven by the male-dominated business world. Poeuv said she was encouraged to learn about sports and how to play golf in order to better interact with male colleagues and superiors.

“I think that there was a sense that we as women, in a way, were there to learn how to be in business,” Poeuv said, “which sometimes means that you may have to adopt behaviors that may be characterized as stereotypically male.”

Poeuv also said that female

students are often not given the same consideration as men. She recalled an instance during a class in which a female student made a point that went unacknowledged by the professor or other students. Minutes later, a male student made the same point, albeit with different terms, to which the professor responded, “Yeah, that’s exactly right.”

Such occurrences, Poeuv said, were not isolated.

Damaskos, who served as the co-head of Women in Management, the largest SOM organization for female students, said she was “reminded on a daily basis of the lack of female visibility” during her time as a student.

According to a current SOM student who asked to remain anonymous, the 35 percent statistic is far more shocking when experienced in person than when read on paper.

The experience for female students — who are well represented in student clubs and government — differs from that of female academics at SOM, Damaskos said, adding that she has seen unsupportiveness and undercurrents of disrespect toward some of SOM’s female professors.

THE UNEVEN LANDSCAPE

In her suit, Bagley claimed that Rae, a professor who cotaught her class, frequently exhibited gender animus by slamming his office door in Bagley’s face and mocking a woman’s voice.

Bagley said there are further, more specific examples of Rae’s misogyny, but declined to comment further because of the ongoing nature of her lawsuit.

She also did not elaborate on the contents of the University-commissioned report that found her to have been subject to a discrim-

inatory environment.

University Spokesman Tom Conroy also declined to elaborate upon the contents of the report or speak further on the case beyond the University’s initial statement in early January, which said that Bagley’s suit is without merit.

But across SOM, female faculty and students interviewed agreed that they have seen instances of gender discrimination. They also all said that the attitudes towards women at SOM are a symptom of the broader culture amongst business schools and in the corporate world.

“It absolutely applies to other business schools,” Damaskos said. “It’s not unique to SOM in the least.”

However, women at other business schools suggested that cultures across business schools may not be identical.

Elea McDonnell Feit, an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said that unlike Poeuv, she had never been pressured to conform to any stereotypically male behaviors, such as learning to play golf.

At the University of Wisconsin Business School, 50 percent of students and approximately 20 percent of tenured faculty are women, according to Joan Schmit, who served as the first female interim dean of the school.

“Do people recommend that MBAs learn how to play golf? Yes, they do,” Schmit said. “I personally chose never to learn precisely to be a renegade, and it clearly hasn’t hurt me.”

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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CEID FROM PAGE 1 instruction.

“We’ve always wanted to do prototyping, and it went from toilet paper rolls and scotch tape to being able to use the 3D printer and laser cutter,” Zimmerman said. “The projects have always been really creative, but [the CEID] makes them a lot more real.”

Although Zimmerman gave her students the option of using the CEID for project development last year, they are now required to become members of the CEID before registering for class. As part of class enrollment, they will receive extra training on the laser cutter, 3D printer and other CEID resources required to complete labs, homework assignments and final projects.

[CEID classes are] the interface between theoretical teaching and practical implementation.

TAREK FAHMY Professor, Biomedical Engineering At the end of the semester, students will present their designs to a judging panel of industry and faculty members for their final grades.

Deputy dean of engineering and applied sciences Vincent Wilczynski said he and other collaborators on the CEID’s construction left the second floor of the center as classroom space in anticipation of CEID-based courses. He added that has seen high interest from both students and instructors in continuing to explore the potential of the space for student-driven innovation. “[CEID classes are] the interface between theoretical teaching and practical implementation,” said Tarek Fahmy, a biomedical engineering professor who teaches “Engineering, Innovation and Design” along with mechanical engineering professor Eric Dufresne ’96.

“It’s easy to say, well, here’s how you would design a specific mechanical gadget to do something,” he added. “But it’s different when people actually go out there and design it themselves and can print out the different parts. It’s much more pleasurable teaching because of the greater understanding [students] have of the problem.”

Other courses in the CEID this spring include “Appropriate Technology for the Developing World,” in which students will work on a portable refrigeration system for vaccine delivery, and “Engineering, Innovation and Design,” an introductory survey course geared towards freshmen in which students design technological solutions to real-life problems presented by clients at Yale and in New Haven.

Last semester saw the start of another class in the CEID, where students in the first-time course “Medical Design and Innovation” developed prototypes for

novel medical devices in response to pitches from students at the Yale School of Medicine. Pablo Napolitano ’15, who worked on a device for pediatric hemophilia patients, said the class and others like it are strengthening the Yale engineering program by giving students the opportunity to work in groups and create their own devices.

“I know a lot of seniors who have never worked on a prototype, and I think that’s a problem,” Napolitano said. “But I think that these classes are aiming to solve that problem.”

Cindy Zheng ’16, who took “Engineering, Innovation and Design” last spring, praised the CEID for being accessible to engineering and nonengineering majors alike. Zheng, an economics major who had not been a member of the CEID before enrolling in the course, credited the class for revealing to her the resources and accessibility of the center. Zimmerman said her “Green Engineering and Sustainable Design” course, which is required for environmental engineering majors, regularly admits students from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, School of Management, School of Architecture, the humanities and other areas of STEM, as do other CEIDbased classes.

While Zheng has since used the CEID primarily as a study space, she said she hopes to use the skills she acquired in class to future CEID-based projects. Environmental engineering major Ellie Killiam ’15, who hopes to take “Design” this semester, also said she hopes the course will be a gateway for her to delve more deeply into the CEID’s technological resources.

We’ve always wanted to do prototyping, and it went from toilet paper rolls and scotch tape to being able to use the 3D printer and laser cutter.

JULIE ZIMMERMAN Professor, Environmental Engineering “Having a class in the CEID will be exciting because [the resources are] something I wouldn’t fully use if I didn’t have the class to motivate me to become a member, [and] it’s a much more interesting environment in which to learn,” said Madeline Landon ’16, an environmental engineering major who is also shopping “Design.”

“Being able to see everything you have at your disposal is a catalyst for new ideas. You’re already thinking about what you can do because you can see it in front of you.”

The CEID, which is open 24 hours a day, has approximately 1,250 current members.

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SPORTS

“I love this team. I love the guys that we have, and I love the fighting spirit of this team.”

TOM THIBODEAU HEAD COACH, CHICAGO BULLS

Basketball ready for Ivy play M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 Bulldogs have only won just over one game more against conference foes in seasons where they had a winning record against nonconference opponents.

This does not mean the Bulldogs are destined for success. What it does mean is that the nonconference schedule can truly be viewed as a practice period in which the Bulldogs can test themselves and face some adversity without the penalties being too steep.

What these statistics also underline is that the Ivy League is as competitive as any conference across the country. The players understand that paying too much attention to a team’s record, such as some surprisingly poor starts from Penn (3–10, 1–0) and Cornell (1–13, 0–0), can prove costly.

“We know that with the Ivy League season, you can’t really take any team for granted,” Duren said. “No matter how they’re doing, you’ve still got to come bring it every weekend or you’re going to suffer some losses that you really shouldn’t have.”

According to Jones, Yale, which has led the Ivy League in rebounding margin for the past two seasons and prides itself on its presence in the paint, will have to exploit its strength down low in order to be successful.

The play of the forwards and centers across the roster will be even more crucial now since Jones

admitted that Yale has had to change what they do offensively because teams have begun to focus defensively on forward Justin Sears ’16. Sears, who broke out in the opener against Central Connecticut State Nov. 9 with 26 points and 13 rebounds, has seen his production slip as of late.

Although he still sits sixth in the Ivy League in points scored at 14.7 points a game, Sears has been mired in a slump the past four games. Sears has failed to reach double digit points in his past four outings (averaging 5.8 points per game) after scoring at least 10 points in each of the first 10 games.

Nevertheless, Jones remains confident in his team’s chances at the title.

“My expectation is always to be the best in our conference,” Jones said. “This year I felt like we have as good a chance as we ever had to win the championship. Do I feel that same way? Right now I do.”

Jones also made sure to note that Yale must not overlook some of the conference’s less-hyped opponents, beginning with Brown this weekend, in order to not fall in a hole early.

The anticipation will finally cease when Yale hosts the Bears at John J. Lee Amphitheater on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Yale has won eight of the past 10 matchups against the Bears.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

Learned earns MVP FROM LEARNED PAGE 14 out the game. Getting an individual award was nice but the important thing is we won.

tion with injuries and personnel changes a regular occurrence this season. Has this been a nuisance for the team or a sign of the talent and depth of the roster?

you think the success the It definitely hasn’t been a QDo team has had over the winter Anuisance. It’s a long season so break will propel the team into the rest of the season?

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Definitely. I think we’ve improved a lot since the beginning of this year. We talk about getting better everyday.

We know we need to keep working and improving as the year goes on. Hopefully by the end of season our work will pay off.

there are always injuries and different factors that cause changes in the lineup. I think for the most part when injuries happen it’s an opportunity for someone else to come in. You want to do what you can and no matter where you are or what line you are playing on you want to make the most of it and do what you can to help the team.

have you learned about What are you expecting from a QWhat the team that you might not Qtough road game slate coming have expected coming in? Is there something that has surprised you about the team character or dynamic?

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I don’t know if it really surprised me but we have an awesome group of guys this year.

We are a really close team. We have a good chemistry, which is really important if we want to be sucessful. Everyone gets along really well and we all have the same mindset.

We all want to get better.

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There hasn’t been a truly settled lineup at the forward posi-

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It is a big weekend for us. We are going to two very tough places to play. Clarkson is having a great year and Saint Lawrence has a great offense so this weekend will be a good challenge for us. We want to go up there and play our game. It doesn’t matter who we play, if we do well we can beat anyone. It’s an important weekend for us. We will take it one game at a time.

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

Let it go, A-Rod COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 Rather than waging a long, embarrassing fight in the courts and in the media, Ramirez waived his right to an appeal and accepted his punishment.

When he returned, he apologized privately to his teammates and then publicly to his fans. A couple years later, he got caught again, but hey, that was just Manny being Manny.

Ramirez appealed his second suspension, but quickly dropped his case and, after flirting with retirement, quietly served a 100-game ban. Of course he still cheated, and that casts a shadow over his entire career, as well as the two World Series he won with the Red Sox, but I gained a lot of respect for Manny for doing the right thing even after doing the wrong thing.

I don’t think I’m the only one that feels this rage and disgust that met Lance Armstrong after he spent years speaking out against doping and suing people that accused him of cheating. Ryan Braun also spent years lashing out at people who accused him of using steroids and even got a positive test result dismissed. All this only made the reaction worse when Braun was caught and actually suspended a second time. At least Braun offered an apology once his back was to the wall; its unclear if Rodriguez ever will.

The most lasting images of the last twenty years of baseball should have been of Barry Bonds hitting 73 home runs and Boston winning its first World Series in 86 years. Instead, they will be pictures of Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens and others in courtrooms or before congressional committees. If Rodriguez keeps this up, he could find himself as the poster boy for a tarnished era in Major League Baseball.

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Yale commences Ivy League play on Saturday when it hosts Brown at 2:00 p.m.

JOHN SULLIVAN is a senior in Branford College.

Contact him at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

Townsend finds success FROM TOWNSEND PAGE 14 It was hardly set in stone, however, that Townsend would ever suit up for the Bulldogs: His grandfather and two uncles played football and baseball for Harvard.

Townsend started playing basketball in the third grade and when the time came, he found himself with the opportunity to take his talents to the Ivy League. Yet Townsend decided to forge his own path, choosing the Elis over the Crimson.

“I fell in love with Yale,” Townsend said. “I loved the coaching staff and I got along with all the guys. Part of me just wanted to find myself in my own direction.”

For the season, he averages a modest 4.9 points and 3.1 rebounds on a 52 percent shooting average, but since being inserted in the starting five, his stats are up across the board to 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds on a stellar 71.4 percent clip. In his last two games, Townsend has hit double figures, including a very efficient 10 points on 4–5 shooting in just 15 minutes against Baruch last Saturday.

Townsend plays an important, if underpublicized, role on the team. A self-described “blue-collar worker” on the court, it is Townsend’s job to do the little things that

may go under the radar of the casual fan, but are nonetheless appreciated by his teammates and coaches.

“Matt is our enforcer,” center Will Childs-Klein ’15 said.

“He brings an immutable toughness to the court. Whoever we’re playing against, we know we can depend on Matt to rebound and defend.”

Childs-Klein has known Townsend since they both attended Yale’s basketball camp in 2010, and he asserts that his friend has not changed much, other than maybe in stature.

But Townsend said he has learned a lot about what it means to be part of the team.

“I’ve really gained an appreciation for the hard work everyone puts in,” Townsend said. “The team needs everyone, from the guy leading them in scoring to the last guy on the bench. The whole team camaraderie and the game means so much to all the guys.”

With the Ivy League season starting this coming Saturday against Brown, Townsend will be on the court.

The Elis (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) have struggled through a daunting out-of-conference schedule.

After losing to Providence late in a one-possession game on Dec. 17, the Bulldogs dropped their next three games, including a 20-point blowout

at No. 24 St. Louis. Despite the team’s record, Townsend said the schedule will only improve the Elis in the long run.

“I think [the schedule] will make us battle tested and ready against tough Ivy League teams that maybe won’t be as athletic,” he said. “If it were up

to me, I’d rather lose to a great team than beat a very average team.”

The Elis take on Brown Saturday at 2 p.m. in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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

WA LIU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Townsend (No. 42) was one of eight juniors most recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

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SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 4:30 p.m. Artist Lecture with Joe Scanlan. The Yale School of Art is hosting Joe Scanlan, a visiting artist in photography.

Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale. (204 York St.).

8:00 p.m. Ransom Wilson, Flute and Melvin Chen, Piano. As part of the Faculty Artists Series, the concert will feature pieces such as Schumann’s “Three Romances,” Rivier’s “Oiseaux tendres” and Debussy’s “L’apres-midi d’un faune.” Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 5:00 p.m. “At the Crossroads of Hope and Despair: America since the Crash” Opening of an exhibit of photographs by Matthew Freye Jacobson, taken across the country from 2009 to 2013, which convey the harsh realities of American life during the Great Recession, but also capture diverse passions and expressions of civic engagement that are emblems of aspiration, futurity and promise. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), The Gallery.

OVER AND OVER BY ALLEN CAMP

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 12:00 p.m. “Eco-Epidemiological Determinants of TickBorne Diseases.” This Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies/ Environmental Sciences Center Friday Noon Seminar Series features Maria Diuk-Wasser, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Light lunch will be served.

Free to the open public. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), Rm. 110.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

1:30 p.m. Artist Talk, Njideka Akunyili. Njideka Akunyili will be discussing her work, “The Rest of Her Remains” (2010), which is on view in the contemporary art galleries at the Art Gallery. The work, featuring a reclined woman, is reminiscent of the foreshortening found in Andrew Mantegna’s masterpiece, “Lamentation of Christ.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER The current Yale Cabaret season is on track to end its run with the highest revenues the theater has earned in the past five years.

After eight productions that have collectively put on dozens of performances, the 2013’14 season has shown a noticeable increase in attendance, ticket sales, restaurant sales and donor contributions from its previous four seasons, according to the theater’s financial records.

The Cabaret’s Managing Director Shane Hudson DRA ’14 said that every Cabaret performance this season has been sold out thus far, with only a few exceptions.

“We judge everything based on the art that is created and the community that is created,” Hudson said. “We are doing better financially than the past four or

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five seasons because we have been selling out nearly every show, and that happens when the art we create really resonates with the audience.”

Yale School of Drama Associate Dean Joan Channick DRA ’89 noted that while every Cabaret show is unique, this season’s productions are all marked by their sense of urgency. Whitney Dibo DRA ’14, one of the Cabaret’s artistic directors, explained that she and the other directors have placed a strong emphasis on the questions of “Why here?” and “Why now?,” requiring all of this season’s shows to embody ideas that are relevant and thoughtprovoking to a present-day audience, even if they are not set in the current era. The themes in these shows are applicable both to the general state of society and the specific communities drawn to the Cabaret’s performances,

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Thanks to a variety of changes, the Cabaret has been highly successful over the past semester. which adds to the shows’ appeal, Channick said.

Hudson also listed the growth in private donations as a key factor in the Cabaret’s high income levels this season. These contributions are important to its operations because not-forprofit theaters such as the Cabaret receive roughly half of their income from such donations, he explained, adding that most of the contributions come from the local community.

“We have put a lot more emphasis on fundraising than in past years,” Hudson said. “We want to make the community more involved with the Cabaret.”

Hudson said that last semester, the theater’s management team hosted two social events for individuals who have consistently attended Cabaret performances for considerable periods of time. The guests had the

opportunity to meet each other as well as the Cabaret’s leaders.

George Fallon, a local resident who has been attending Cabaret shows since 1978, said he does not recall the Cabaret ever hosting any such events prior to this season. Additionally, the team decided to continue the “show sponsoring” program that began during the 2012-’13 season — an initiative that allowed patrons to sponsor individual Cabaret productions. As of Nov. 19, 2013, 14 of the 18 productions in the theater’s current season were already sponsored.

“These efforts really make the audience feel like they are close with the Cabaret’s leadership, not simply people who come to see plays once in a while,” Channick said. “Now, it is almost as if patrons are competing to sponsor as many shows as possible.”

Hudson and Channick noted

that this season’s economic success could also be attributed to improvements in the Cabaret’s restaurant, which is also maintained by the Cabaret’s managing team. In the past, patrons have expressed concerns about issues such as the waiting time for food orders, Channick explained, adding that this year, the Cabaret’s leadership has paid particularly close attention to its restaurant service. Hudson said that he and the other directors have hired an additional chef to assist Head Chef Anna Belcher in the kitchen, introduced a formalized training program for all waiters and waitresses and became much more selective in the hiring process for waitstaff.

Walsh and Hudson said the current season’s success is part of a gradual rise in attendance and sales that the Cabaret has been experiencing for the past

five years. Walsh recalled that three years ago, he rarely needed to reserve tickets in advance.

Now, it is practically impossible to attend any performance at the Cabaret without making such reservations, he noted.

Debby Applegate GRD ’98, a local resident who has been attending Cabaret performances for over 15 years, said she thinks that the success of each show leads to greater interest in attending the next show, which creates a cyclical pattern that has resulted in long-term increases in audience size and commitment.

“There is nothing like success to breed success, and nothing like enthusiasm to breed enthusiasm,” she said.

The Yale Cabaret was founded in 1967.

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

Researcher talks access to digital information

BY LEAH MOTZKIN STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday morning in Sterling Memorial Library, a German researcher talked about a way in which technology can be used to access old materials created through now-obsolete digital mediums.

Dirk von Suchodoletz, a principal researcher at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Freiburg in Germany, gave a presentation titled “Making the Old New Again: Practical Emulation for Long Term Digital Preservation & Access.” In his lecture, von Suchodoletz presented a solution to the problem of accessing relevant information and artworks that were created on old digital mediums or in digital environments that are no longer in use. He and his colleagues at the University of Freiburg have been working on a project that aims to provide access to digital information to everyone, including people with no technical education. The software they are designing would allow users to access emulated digital environments remotely through a web browser. In this way, old content can be accessed, manipulated and preserved, von Suchodoletz explained.

“How does screen capturing not provide the full effect of digital art?” von Suchodoletz asked the audience, urging them to think about what is lost when files are read on different interfaces than those they were created on. He showed three dis-

parately formatted images of the same word document opened on a Mac computer, Microsoft computer, and older software.

The three barely resembled each other.

According to von Suchodoletz, the three main fields this interface would appeal to are digital art, research data management, and computer games and software. The new software would preserve access to old digital content including documents, images, 3D models, digital art, scientific workflows, research data, custom code and entire networked environments.

Another service the interface could provide, he added, is access to what he called “laptop snapshots.” These would allow the public to access the laptops of famous celebrities, politicians and professors for years after their personal device becomes obsolete.

The researcher also mentioned the challenges the research team is facing, the most serious being legal issues.

The team is having difficulties convincing individuals to support the project because they are afraid of intellectual property rights violations. The team is handling such issues, he said, by making risk assessment and management mandatory for those using the new interface.

Aracadia Falcone, a librarian at Sterling Memorial Library, said she thinks that the project is exciting, adding that the transmission and preservation of digital data has long been an issue, particularly for individuals

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Dirk von Suchodoletz claimed that his project will provide solutions for the fields of digital art, research data management and computer games. with little technical experience.

According to Assistant Librarian at the Yale Center for British Art Beth Morris, who attended the presentation, working with obsolete digital media such as

floppy disks is a large problem for library staff. As a result, she said, digital preservation is a “big topic” for libraries right now.

“There is software that only runs on old machines with data

you need,” said Kristen Bogdan, a librarian at the Yale Center for Science and Social Science Information. “This would allow us to access it.”

Von Suchodoletz studied eco-

nomics, mathematics and politics at the Georg August University of Goettingen.

Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .

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“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.” LOUIS KAHN ARCHITECT, YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

Discussions for performance signboards underway

BY ERIC XIAO AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS After residing on the corner of Elm Street and High Street for over 22 years, the painted wooden signboards that have traditionally served as advertisements for performing arts shows are no longer there.

Ever since the signboards were taken down, student groups and University administrators have discussed potential replacement advertising systems, though no formal decisions have been made yet. In the meantime, the space the signboards used to occupy remains vacant.

I hope that the next iteration of signage can preserve what was loved about the signboards.

KATE KRIER Head of Undergraduate Production In the middle of November, two of the five boards fell out of their metal frame and onto the sidewalk after the frame broke due to rust damage. Yale Drama Coalition President Nicole Teran ’15 contacted the Undergraduate Production (UP) office, which is responsible for ensuring student safety when using equipment such as the signboards. The Yale Office of Facilities then removed the boards and their frame in late November, after discovering that the frame was damaged beyond repair.

“I hope that the next iteration of signage can preserve what was loved about the signboards, while being easier and safer for students to use,” said Kate Krier, the head of UP. In conversations with UP, students have suggested a number of potential replacements for the boards, ranging from wooden boards identical to the original signboards to large electronic dis-

play screens, said Senior Technical Director of UP Rorie Fitzsimons. He noted that though the search process is still in its early stages, he believes the performing arts community is somewhat divided between low-tech and high-tech advertising solutions. Fitzsimons said that the signboards’ primary users were improvisational comedy groups, adding that these groups tended to favor a more technologically advanced alternative to heavy wooden boards, based on past conversations with group leaders.

After contacting all performing arts groups that have used the signboards in the past two years to ask for suggestions, the YDC and UP jointly hosted an open forum on Dec. 6 attended mostly by students in various theatre organizations. Students at the forum were largely against a high-tech solution, arguing that the signboards’ handmade quality distinguishes them from most other forms of advertising on campus.

Ethan Karetsky ’14, the former Vice President of the YDC, said at the forum that painting the signboards is seen as a “rite of passage,” as freshmen are often given the task and alumni frequently speak with nostalgia about decorating the boards.

Fitzsimons said that while students have listed a range of requirements they think the replacement system should satisfy, nearly all students he has spoken with want the replacements to occupy the original location of the signboards. YDC Vice President Skyler Ross ’16 stressed that the corner of Elm Street and High Street is a highly visible area that serves as a central location of the Yale campus. Teran added that the signboards were particularly effective in advertising shows to those not in contact with performing arts groups through social media sites.

While students and administrators search for a solution, Teran said, performing arts groups are increasingly relying on alternative forms of advertising, including fliers and invitations through

email and social media. Jake Dawe ’15, who directs Red Hot Poker and is a member of The Viola Question, said he is saddened by the absence of the boards, but believes that his groups get most of their turnout through online invitations and events. Both of his groups have held shows since the removal of the boards, Dawe added, and have not seen lower attendances. But William Adams ’15 said that The Yale Exit Players, which he directs, had a smaller audience at its most recent show, though he added that this may have been the result of many events happening that same night rather than of signboards’

removal.

Of 19 students surveyed, nine said they paid attention to the information the signboards displayed. However, only four said they noticed the boards’ absence, two of which were involved in groups that used the signboards.

Rae Taylor-Burns ’15 said she did not notice that they boards had been removed, adding that she thinks they were as noticeable as any flier or Facebook event.

Caroline Smith ’14 said she thinks most students do not rely much on the boards, adding that they may have functioned more as a bonding experience for performing arts groups than as a source of

information.

Still, Smith added that the boards appealed to her aesthetically. Julia Schlesinger ’15 also said she appreciated the boards’ uniqueness and the work that went into them, despite not having noticed their removal.

Students expressed confidence that the administration will take student suggestions seriously in the search process.

Teran said she does not anticipate any financial obstacles in the process, but noted she does not know the exact source of the funds that will be required for the replacement. Former YDC board member Stuart Teal ’14 said he is

pleased with the administration’s willingness to listen to students’ opinions. Yale College Dean of the Arts Susan Cahan said that while other University offices, such as the Office of Facilities and Office of the Secretary, may eventually become involved in the search process, she expects the student body to play a significant role as well.

Yale College has five improv groups and three sketch comedy groups.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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The corner of High Street and Elm Street, where the iconic signboards once stood, will be empty for an uncertain length of time.

YCBA reopens study room

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER This fall, visitors to the Yale Center for British Art encountered many roped-off sections. Yesterday, with the reopening of its study room, the Center began to make some of these spaces accessible to the public once again.

The Center’s study room, home to its prints and drawings and its rare books and manuscripts collections, had been closed for renovation since June 2013 as part of the first phase of a plan to conserve the Center’s Louis Kahn building. The plan includes the history of the building’s construction as well as a detailed set of guidelines for how the building is to be maintained and updated in the future, said Associate Director of Exhibitions and Publications and Associate Curator Eleanor Hughes. The Center’s second- and third-floor galleries, which have been closed since June to house the study room’s holdings, will reopen in February and March, respectively.

The reopened study room features restored wood finishes and carpets as well as new paneling on walls that were formerly covered in linen, said Gillian Forrester, the Center’s curator of Prints and Drawings. The British Art Center has also made “21st-century updates” to the room, including installing more readily accessible electrical outlets and Internet access, she added.

“We have been able to institute some of the aspects of Kahn’s original design that had been abandoned in the original building process,” said Scott Wilcox, chief curator of art collections and senior curator of prints and drawings at the Center.

After Amy Meyers became the Center’s director in 2002, the Center formed a Building Conservation Committee to ensure proper maintenance of Louis Kahn’s architecture, according to “Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan,” a book the British Art Center published in 2011. Hughes added that the document constitutes the first building conser-

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In the first of many reopenings, the Yale Center for British Art has made its fully renovated study room available for student use. vation plan of its kind to be published in the United States.

“The building is our most complicated object,” she said.

During this first phase of restoration, the Center maintained a temporary study room in its library court that was available to visitors by appointment, Forrester explained. She added that the Center’s permanent study room is the only print study room in the United States open to the public without appointment.

The building conservation project’s second phase will take place in 2015, Wilcox said,

explaining that during the majority of that calendar year, the Center’s second-, third- and fourthfloor galleries will all be closed for restoration. He added that the study room and reference library will likely remain open by appointment during some of that time.

While the Center will effectively be closed in 2015, some of the masterpieces in the British Art Center’s holdings will be incorporated into the Yale University Art Gallery’s European collections, Wilcox said, adding that the Center and the Gallery will put on a

joint exhibition on Romanticism that will hang in the Gallery in 2015.

“The things [in the Center’s collections] that it would be a real shame for someone to come to New Haven and not be able to see will be at the Gallery,” Wilcox said.

In July, the Center’s secondfloor gallery was converted into a temporary shelving area to store the prints and drawings and rare books and manuscripts collections from the study room, Wilcox said. He added that the conversion allowed the room’s

collections — which include more than 20,000 drawings and watercolors, 30,000 prints and approximately35,000 volumes — to remain available to visitors in the temporary study room facility.

The third-floor gallery had been used to provide temporary office space for the rare books department, as well as to house paintings from the closed study room and converted library court, Wilcox said.

Since the second- and thirdfloor galleries’ closure in June, the Center has presented only one exhibition: “Sculpture by Nicola

Hicks,” which has been on display within the permanent collection in the fourth-floor galleries, Hughes said. She explained that the second- and third-floor galleries will reopen in February and March to house an exhibit on Alexander Pope and the portrait bust as well as one on Richard Wilson and European landscape painting.

The Yale Center for British Art will host a study room open house on Saturday, Feb. 8.

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

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PHOEBE STAENZ ’17 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Yale ice hockey fans will have a special reason to tune into the Winter Olympics when the sports’ games begin on February 8: Staenz, a freshman forward for the Elis, will take the ice for Team Switzerland. The Zurich native leads the Bulldogs in points thus far with 17.

SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The junior guard was named to the Ivy League honor roll this week for her efforts in Yale’s game at New Hampshire this past Tuesday. In the Elis’ 58-53 loss, the Wyckoff, N.J. native amassed 17 points and six rebounds in 33 minutes of action.

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“The real season starts now with conference play…the non-conference games were practices for this real season.”

BRANDON SHERROD ’15 YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

Non-conference record no indicator of success MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER This season has been anything but easy for the Yale men’s basketball team thus far. Several games have been decided in the final seconds, games have been played from St. Louis to Georgia and six non-freshmen have matched or set career highs in points scored, However, what an observer might fail to realize is that for this Yale squad, these past 14 highly challenging nonconference contests have been little more than preparation for a greater monster: the Ivy League portion of the schedule.

The Bulldogs have emerged from the nonconference portion with a 6–8 mark. A team’s nonconference record, however, does not affect its standing in the Ivy League.

“Obviously we’re a little bit disappointed at our record right now,” said forward Brandon Sherrod ’15. “The real season starts now with conference play… the nonconference games were practices for this real season.”

Point guard Javier Duren ’15, whose improved maturity and leadership skills have been a major bright spot for Yale, echoed the sentiments of Sherrod.

Yale will play in its first Ivy League game on Saturday when it hosts Brown (8–6, 0–0 Ivy). That game will be the first step towards the Elis’ ultimate goal: to capture Yale’s first Ivy title since the 2001–2002 season, when the Bulldogs split the regularseason crown with Penn and Princeton.

All the talk about the nonconference schedule being practice should not be viewed as an attempt to rationalize the team’s less than stellar record. Yale faced a notably difficult

two seasons, the Bulldogs fared similarly against their Ivy foes. The Elis went 10–4 in the Ivy League in 2006– ’07 and 9–5 in 2011–’12. In fact, Yale has finished at or below 0.500 in nonconference play in nine of the past 12 seasons. On average, however, the SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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from recent Yale history. Entering the Ivy portion of the schedule, in the last 12 seasons since Yale’s share of the Ivy crown, Yale has done as poorly in nonconference games as 4–9 in 2006–’07 and as well as 10–4 in 2011–’12.

Despite the vast difference between the nonconference records in those

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BioRevelations Alex Rodriguez needs to cut it out.

Enough with the appeals, the lawsuits, the media leaks, and no more 60 Minutes features about drug dealers. Rodriguez and his suspension for steroid use have become a stain on Major League Baseball and a cancer to his team, but there is no one who is being hurt more by this charade than A-Rod himself.

If the notion of “innocent until proven guilty” ever existed with regards to steroids in baseball, it went out the window a long time ago. In an age when some sportswriters have refused to vote any player of the steroids generation into the Hall of Fame, it took far less evidence to convict Rodriguez in the court of public opinion than we have now.

Only a handful of baseball players linked to steroids have ever been publicly exonerated — and I don’t just mean found not guilty of perjury — and A-Rod had already admitted to using steroids when he was with the Texas Rangers. No one seriously believes he could still be telling the truth. He has no honor or reputation left to fight for. But still, like Pickett at Gettysburg, he runs right into bullet after bullet because he thinks there is nothing else left to do.

The solution, however, is really very simple: just stop. Don’t do anything. Well first he needs to apologize to his family and friends, teammates and fans, for running them through this circus for the past three years. But after that, Rodriguez should just disappear and never play baseball again. His legacy is already tarnished forever, and the brazen way he has gone about fighting this suspension has only poured gasoline on the fire.

One of my favorite examples of a player dealing with accusations of steroids — and this is coming from a diehard Yankees fan — is Manny Ramirez.

In 2009, while with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was suspended for 50 games after a positive test for a banned substance associated with steroids.

Yale finished the non-conference portion of its schedule with a 6–8 record. slate of games that featured Albany and No. 24 Saint Louis, two NCAA tournament teams a year ago, as well as the University of Connecticut, which was No. 19 in the country when the Huskies squared off against the Bulldogs.

Further support for Sherrod and Duren’s statements can be drawn

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Learned makes most of opportunity

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 8 men’s hockey team faces an important ECAC doubleheader this weekend, travelling to Saint Lawrence and No. 14 Clarkson. The Bulldogs are coming into the weekend after an impressive stretch of games over winter break, going undefeated (4–0–1) in five games. The News sat down with forward Cody Learned ’16 to discuss the season and

his recent success, which includes winning the MVP of Yale’s Rivalry on Ice game against Harvard at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11. The Amherst, N.H. native scored a career-high two goals, helping the Bulldogs to a 5–1 trouncing of the Crimson. has the season been QHow going for you so far? What has it been like for you seeing your ice time jump?

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We have had a pretty good start. We have 14 games in the next seven weeks so the rest of the season will be very important. We need to have a strong second half. As far as my playing time goes, I’ve have some more oportunities this year. It’s awesome to be getting time and I am just trying to make the most of it. I just want to keep doing what I can to help the team.

did winning the MVP QWhat at MSG mean to you?

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It was really cool. It was definitely an honor to win it. I think the more important thing is that the team won the game. Overall it was a really good team effort. There were a lot of guys on our team that really contributed, especially goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 who played unbelievably throughSEE LEARNED PAGE 10

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Forward Matt Townsend (No. 42) has averaged 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds over the Elis’ last three games.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER Forward Matt Townsend ’15 has found a measure of success recently as a member of the men’s basketball team, vaulting into the starting lineup for the past three games.

But the 6-foot-7-inch forward has shined not only on the hardwood, but also in the lab.

When the most recent Phi Beta Kappa inductees were announced, Townsend was one of eight members of the class of 2015 on the list. So it might not be a surprise to catch the starting forward taking MCDB courses on Science Hill or run into him doing his weekly volunteer shift for YHAAP’s BRED service project.

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Forward Cody Learned ’16 (No. 12) was named the game MVP for his performance in the Rivalry on Ice.

STAT OF THE DAY 11.9

THE NUMBER OF OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS THAT THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS AVERAGED THROUGH 14 GAMES THIS SEASON. That is good for first in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs led the Ancient Eight in rebounding margin the last two seasons.