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Achieving near-godlike status.

Professor Robert “Nobel Prize” J. Shiller has scrawled his name into the pages of history the way an eager seminar hopeful might march to the front of the class and explicitly chalk his name onto the class roster. If the Year of Shiller has given you an appetite for more Shiller, the economics all-star will be reprising his Nobel Prize lecture from the Stockholm ceremonies last month at an SOM event Thursday afternoon.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER As students frantically studied for finals last term, Yale’s admissions officers were also shut indoors, deciding the fate of students who applied early action for the class of 2018.

Reflecting on the 4,750 early applications that the Undergraduate Admissions Office reviewed before the Dec. 16 decision date, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the early applicant pool will likely prove less diverse than the overall body of applicants this year, as in previous years. Quinlan and four outside college counselors interviewed said that in general, students who apply early action to Yale tend to be wealthier and more knowledgeable about the college process than regular decision applicants.

Still, they added that this discrepancy between the early and regular application rounds is gradually decreasing.

Wherefore art thou professor Kastan? Professor David

Kastan has completed the English academic’s pilgrimage to Mecca as he is currently at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Kastan is speaking at the English-nerd heaven for a one-time presentation on the “‘completeness’ of Shakespeare’s complete works.” All the world’s your stage!

Yale for kids. According to

a few creative headlines, a couple hundred elementary school kids are now honorary Elis. “300 young local students received letters of acceptance this week to Yale,” Fox Connecticut reported, referring to a short-term relocation of Peck Place School classes to Yale West Campus due to flooding and asbestos in the original classrooms.

The move has temporarily made Yale West Campus an elementary school version of Andover.

Parks & Recreation pretty much has it right about local politics. Recently, only two people met at Jojo’s Coffee Roasters to determine the Democratic candidate for the aldermanic representative for the Hill neighborhood, according to the New Haven Register. Kenneth Reveiz and JeQueena Foreman decided on Foreman for the job. The endorsement was due by 4 p.m. Wednesday and it was submitted at 3:52 p.m. making this event the gut class of political processes.

Spy days are over. In a recent paper in the Yale Law Journal, security researcher Ashkan Soltani discussed how technology has reduced barriers to surveillance. For example, tracking a person using cell phone data is over 50 times cheaper than an in-person pursuit and following a suspect using a GPS device is 28 times cheaper than assigning officers to follow him. In other words, CSI is about to get much more technical and boring.

Deadline or die. 47.6% of

juniors and seniors, and 38% percent of all students have missed a preregistration deadline that they were interested in according to a January YCC report. No one is sure whether to blame the administration or general undergraduate stupidity.

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Four workers were fired this past Christmas from Gourmet Heaven after their cooperation with the Department of Labor.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Gourmet Heaven has come under heightened scrutiny for firing four workers, allegedly in retaliation for their cooperation with the Department of Labor investigation of wage theft.

On Wednesday, the four workers demonstrated alongside student and community activists in front of the store, in a rally organized by La Unidad Latina en Accion, the New Haven Workers’ Association and MEChA de Yale. This was the first time the

workers, who asked to remain anonymous, participated in the protests, which started in August, against labor violations at the restaurant.

“I and three other coworkers were fired this Christmas for cooperating with the Department of Labor investigation. After being a good worker for so many years my only mistake was to do the right thing,” one former worker said. “Legally I can claim only for the last two years of unpaid wages, but I have worked here for 7 years. Can you imagine how much [owner] Chung Cho has stolen from me? Mr. Cho has gotten rich from our

Bill increases funds for research grants

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS For researchers at Yale, the sequester may soon be over.

In a move that bears major consequences for Yale and colleges across the country, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill Wednesday afternoon. For universities, the largest implications of the measure lie in increased funding for research grants and federal assistance to college students.

Passed with broad bipartisan support, the bill — widely expected to be passed by the Senate and signed by President Obama in the coming days — effectively puts an end to the federal sequester, which since January 2013 had slashed research funding, upon which Yale and other universities heavily rely.

I am pleased and thankful that Congress has recognized the need to turn around the sequester cuts in research funding.

PETER SALOVEY University president Still, the proposed spending levels for many organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, that provide federal research grants to Yale remain below pre-sequester levels.

“I am pleased and thankful that Congress has recognized the need to turn around the sequester cuts in research funding, which has the potential to be good news for Yale,” University President Peter Salovey said. “But although the spending bill suggests that research funding is SEE FED FUNDING PAGE 6

My parents had gone [to Yale] and my sister was attending Yale at the time, so I always knew I was going to apply early.

stolen money.”

After the speeches, he and another worker, followed by the press, entered the building to demand their jobs back. Neither the manager nor the owner appeared. “Shame on Gourmet Heaven,” the protestors chanted as the workers left the restaurant.

According to Connecticut labor law, employers may not base any dismissal or suspension on the fact that an employee reported a violation, said Gary Pechie, head of the DOL’s

Yale has gradually reduced the number of students admitted early action in recent years.

Quinlan attributed this policy to his predecessor Dean Jeffrey Brenzel’s desire to free up spots for applicants from the regular pool.

William Morse ’64 GRD ’74, a former Yale admissions officer and a private education con-

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Coursera expands Yale’s online education

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER This morning, Art History Professor Diana Kleiner will deliver her perennial lecture on Roman architecture to a crowd of Yale undergraduates. Meanwhile, 40,000 students from around the globe will tune in to a similar lecture from Kleiner via the online education platform, Coursera.

Kleiner’s lecture marks Yale’s first venture into Coursera — an online education platform that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs) — in a move that online education leaders like Kleiner call the natural next step in Yale’s 14-year experience with online education. Three other Yale courses will begin on Coursera in the next few weeks: Paul Bloom’s “Moralities of Everyday Life,” Robert Shiller’s “Financial Markets,” and “Constitutional Law” with Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84.

“My doing a MOOC is really part of my own evolutionary process — it’s the natural thing for me to do at this point in time,” Kleiner said.

Craig Wright, a Yale music professor and chair of the University committee on online education, ventured that Yale would offer roughly four more Coursera lectures in the next academic year, emphasizing that the University will not rush headlong into the Coursera venture.

The four professors teaching Coursera courses have all been involved with Yale’s online education initiatives. Kleiner spearheaded Yale’s offerings at AllLearn, another online education platform, and she also founded, directed and taught on Open Yale Courses, in which Shiller and Bloom have also participated. Bloom regularly teaches courses on Yale’s online summer session, for which Amar will also teach this summer.

Kleiner and Bloom are both members of the University’s committee on online education.

Yale’s online education team approached these specific professors about Coursera because the four exemplify Yale’s excellence in scholarship, Wright said.

“I think we wanted to find the professors that would put the very best of Yale forward, so that people from all around the world could say, ‘Wow, this is really exciting, this is really high quality,’” Wright said.

Lucas Swineford, the director of the office of digital dissemination and online education, said Yale looked to Duke, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania as models for the Coursera offerings, though Yale also had the advantage of drawing on its own experiences with Open Yale Courses and online summer courses.

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One of the three Yale courses starting on Coursera in the upcoming weeks is “Constitutional Law” with Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84.

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uesday morning I woke up to a heavy brief from the News in my Facebook feed: “86 Sig Ep members sued over 2011 tailgate.”

Two new lawsuits address the collision that cost a woman her life at the Harvard-Yale Game in 2011 — when a U-Haul driven by Sigma Phi Epsilon’s Brendan Ross ’13 killed Nancy Barry, a visitor from Massachusetts, and injured two other women. The accident has faded from memory in the last two years. As a freshman, I hadn’t even heard of it before the News covered the story this week. But the two new lawsuits draw campus attention back to the changes in tailgate policy implemented since the 2011 tragedy.

DON'T MIND THE TAILGATES. THE INCONVENIENCES WILL BE WORTH IT IF THEY SAVE LIVES. Though a spokesperson for Ross affirmed that the 2011 accident was the fault of a vehicle malfunction, the tailgate environment was immediately called into question: Yale’s tailgate policies had previously been notoriously looser than Harvard’s, according to reporting from the News. An atmosphere of kegs, hard alcohol and student-driven trucks, though not necessarily dangerous, certainly increases the risk of harm. It’s unsurprising to me that school administrators decided to ramp up tailgate restrictions in the following years, following Harvard’s lead in banning kegs, trucks and hard alcohol. The decision to contain the tailgate within a demarcated “village” seems a logical precaution as well.

It seems strange to me, then, that there was ever opposition to the increased restrictions.

Yet there was plenty of backlash, documented in interviews and op-eds in the News. Student reactions ran the gamut from mildly disappointed to legitimately concerned for tailgate attendance. The latter reaction begs a few questions in my mind: Were kegs ever really the main draw for Yale students to attend the Game? Has a major school spirit tradition been diluted to just a habitual occasion for drinking? And do students really value the pres-

ence of hard liquor over the prevention of future tragedy?

This year was my first CAROLINE time attending the HarPOSNER v a r d -Ya l e Game, and Out of Line I, like plenty of students, made it to the tailgate. It never occurred to me that the celebration faced a decline in attendance, or a lack of enthusiasm or a dearth of alcoholic beverages — the crowd was massive, attendees looked thrilled and the ground seemed a mosaic of aluminum cans. Attendees spilled across two tennis courts, moved among tables of more-thanenough food, gathered with friends and danced. And still, students who experienced pre2011 tailgates express dismay that the restrictions and the kick-off deadline dampen the party experience.

That attitude, though, has no place in the realm of the tailgate, a social gathering that promotes school spirit and community. This doesn’t mean the party cannot or should not feature legal drinking, loud music and free-spirited fun. It simply means that an attitude of fellowship, including concern for one another’s safety, should prevail.

Who are we to demand excessive drinks, space or vehicles when these minor inconveniences might prevent future harm? Though a vehicle malfunction might be the direct cause of a woman’s death, the tailgate environment — particularly the inclusion of the U-Haul truck that killed Barry and the kegs the truck was transporting — cannot be ignored. The memory of a tragedy in the legacy of The Game is a painful one, and we should be willing, if not eager, to make a few sacrifices in the name of public safety.

As the Sig Ep lawsuit plays out in court, it serves as a brutal reminder that the families of Barry and Sarah Short, one of the injured women, are still suffering from the consequences of the tailgate accident. That’s enough to make me certain that a few restrictions on our tailgate festivities are worth the inconvenience.

They just might save a life.

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Is there hope for the humanities?

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ime passes so quickly; when I first came to work at Yale in the eighties, I was the youngest of the professors in the East Asia Languages and Literatures Department.

Now I am the oldest professor in the department. I have already been teaching at Yale for nearly 32 years.

But it’s not just I who have changed in these 32 years — my students have changed as well, and so too has college-level education in America.

In recent decades, American educational institutions have seen a gradual decline of the humanities. The number of college students majoring in humanities has halved: During the 1960s, humanities majors comprised 14 percent of all students, but by 2010, the number had decreased to 7 percent.

Philosopher Gary Gutting tackled the humanities crisis in a November 2013 New York Times op-ed entitled “The Real Humanities Crisis.” Gutting believes that the crux of the problem does not lie with the younger generation nor with the humanists themselves. Rather, he argues, today’s society emphasizes sky-high salaries for certain professions such as athletes, but completely neglects the salaries and benefits for those who enter fields within the humanities. Teachers’ salaries are low and schools naturally

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Ironically, the architecture of Yale’s campus is a constant reminder of the precious heritage of cultural tradition. This university was established in 1701 when ten Congregationalist ministers donated 40 volumes in hopes of establishing a new learning institution with an emphasis on scholarship and the pursuit of knowledge. In the past 300 years, the origin story of the “book donation” has been repeatedly retold, reminding Yalies of our rich scholastic history. Take Sterling Memorial Library as an example; when the library was first constructed in 1930, the university celebrated the humanities tradition in an unprecedentedly grand and festive ceremony. Faculty, students and alumni attended the proceedings that day; leading the procession were the library staff members, bearing ancient texts and walking step by step to the great doors of Sterling Memorial Library, personally offering up the volumes they carried. They wanted to convey that books are treasured within this great hall of learning.

It’s troubling that students may no longer understand the true value of this cultural spirit.

To them, profit is more important than books, and monthly income is far more real than abstract cultural resources. But whose fault is it that the younger generation

has become so absorbed with practical gains, and so much less concerned with the value of the humanities?

I think that professors who teach the humanities ought to take on much of the responsibility. If we don’t teach the traditional literary canon to students and if we don’t nurture habits of passionate scholarship, then it is no wonder that they don’t decide to specialize in the humanities.

To them, what is now called “the humanities” seems weak and empty; depth must be added and the quality enriched. My Yale colleague Harold Bloom once complained to me that this generation students is the victim of the decline in the literary canon, only reading such popular literature as Harry Potter and not studying traditional classical works.

As educators, we cannot blindly blame students for their deficiencies, absolving our responsibilities as instructors and teachers. If we hope the young can inherit the humanities spirit, then we must make changes in education, teaching more classes that attract students and revitalize passion for the humanities.

KANG-I CHANG is a professor in East Asian Languages and Literatures. Contact her at kang-i.chang@yale.edu .

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

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lose the cultural influence they otherwise might have enjoyed. In a culture that increasingly values money above all else, students drawn to the humanities increasingly choose to enter financial fields or lucrative professions in the technology sector.

I have witnessed this phenomenon in my own classes over the past 30 years. Once, Yale students came to my classes already familiar with canonical works such as Plato, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Yeats, because they had already read such works in high school.

But few of my students have now studied this kind of literature. Of course, my classes mostly introduce classical Chinese literature such as the Book of Songs (Shijing) and the works of such people as Tao Yuanming, Li Bai and Du Fu. But I still want students to attain a certain proficiency in the Western canon, allowing them to establish a comparative perspective in literary and cultural studies. Fortunately, Yale has the Directed Studies Program, which manages to make up for some deficiencies in this area.

But nonetheless, student interest in the canon is declining.

This shift in student values troubles me; I worry that under the influence of a profit-driven society, the younger generation will gradually forget our deeprooted cultural tradition.

here are certain things about Yale that some love and others will forever love to hate. Of course, we have the usual suspects, the lowhanging, elusive and elitist fruits of Yale life: Grand Strategy, Skull and Bones, the Whiffenpoofs.

And there is much to criticize about each of those institutions (as evidenced by the wealth of things already written critiquing them). But beyond those, there are even more anxiety-inducing subjects. That dreaded word: consulting.

Don’t worry, Bain hopefuls, I’m not here to criticize your life choices. The fact of the matter is that I wish that I, like you, wanted to put on my best pencil skirt and crowd into The Study to be offered tantalizing perks and a wealth of opportunities. A stable job; a respectable salary; an exciting workload. But even more than that, the thing that I envy about my classmates excitedly stumbling into positions at prestigious consulting firms is their confidence in embarking on their path. This is the beginning of the rest of their lives. And I, too, want to find that security so badly that I cannot hold its allure against anyone.

But what I find unsettling and, to be blunt, downright unfair is the way in which Yale seems to treat all other jobs, as compared with the buzzwords of

“finance” and “consulting.”

Over winter break, I finally decided to act like a grown up and figure out what VICTORIA exactly was going on with HALLthis Symplicity webPALERM site that UCS so desperately The wants me to Notorious embrace. And V.H.P. for all my efforts setting up an account and taking tutorials, what did I find? Page after page of positions as a finance analyst. I could be a finance analyst in Manhattan! Or a finance analyst in San Francisco! If I wanted to go wild, I could even be a finance analyst in Chicago!

Five pages of analyst opportunities later, I learned that I could also be an associate consultant.

Beyond that, though, I was relatively on my own.

Yale’s extensive liberal arts curriculum permits, if not encourages, a wealth of varied interests. It is okay not to know what you want to do. But encouraging us not to know what we want to do needs to go hand in hand with offering us different avenues to explore. Otherwise, those who don’t know what

they want will simply stumble into one or two traditional career paths.

Yes, there is an easy explanation for the ubiquity of financial and consulting firms. It’s easy to believe that they are more cooperative in working with Yale to set up on-campus recruiting, leading to greater ease in facilitating internships. But this dearth of options does no one any good.

I’m not asking Yale to list job postings for tiny nonprofits in off-the-beaten-path towns in South Dakota. There are some easy places to start, even within the realm of big business. Beyond finance and consulting, what about some of the advertising giants or marketing firms? What about law firms looking to hire paralegals? It cannot only be Bain and McKinsey looking for fresh young talent on Yale’s campus — and it certainly cannot be that the portion of the student body nebulously majoring in the humanities is only looking for those traditional kinds of employment.

Moreover, Yale clearly has the capability and, at certain local points, the desire to incentivize finding Yalies employment at non-traditional places of work.

Take the Bulldogs Across America program for example — Yale offers (often) paid, well-organized internships with partner organizations that are dying to have Yale students. They offer

jobs at nonprofits; they offer jobs in chambers of commerce; they offer jobs at children’s theaters. Yale can clearly find a way to partner with other employers in cities beyond the specific ones in the Bulldogs program.

And it can be even easier than what they do for the Bulldogs program — I’m not saying that Yale has to guarantee anyone a job. As an anxiety-ridden junior myself, I don’t expect anyone to hand me a job. But Yale could at the very least make its students more aware of jobs from different industries, and maybe even facilitate an interview or two so that we don’t have to strike out completely on our own.

At the end of the day, the thing that’s scary for non-financeand-consulting types is not that we don’t have a job locked down.

At least, it certainly isn’t for me.

It’s that there are infinite jobs out there. But I have no idea which ones would make me happy, and I have no idea how to find the ones that might make me happy without any guidance. If Yale doesn’t help whittle these opportunities down to a manageable size, I don’t know how I’ll ever come closer to clarity.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays.

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

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The ranking of Yale Law School in the 2013 U.S. News’ & World Report

Harvard and Stanford tied for second place, while Columbia and the University of Chicago followed in fourth.

SOM building sparks controversy

The article “Salovey condemns academic boycott of Israel” mistakenly referred to professor Matthew Jacobson as a “leader” of the boycott. He is a defender of the ASA resolution a member of the ASA national council. It also incorrectly referred to the President of Princeton University as Charles Eisgruber. In fact, his name is Christopher Eisgruber.

Law school revamps academic calendar

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER For years, Yale Law School students have spent their winter breaks in the company of books and papers as they studied for their January final exams.

But this week marks one of the last times that the Law School will ever hold exams for the fall semester in January. Last fall, a committee composed of law students and faculty members put together a proposal to align the Law School calendar with the rest of the University’s.

The committee’s proposal — to move final exams to the end of December, in order to grant students a stress-free break and allow them to take classes in other schools and departments at Yale — was approved by a Law School faculty vote on Dec. 4, and the change will be enacted starting in the 2015-’16 academic year.

According to a letter from Law School student representatives, the reforms include moving the start of the fall term to before Labor Day, shortening the term to 13 weeks, holding exams after a one-week reading period in December and starting the spring semester a week earlier.

The decision was approved by a faculty majority and sustained by a poll that found two-thirds of the student body in favor of the decision. In the wake of the change’s approval, students and faculty members interviewed expressed differing opinions on the new calendar.

Rebecca Wexler LAW ’16 said the decision to change the calendar proves that at the Law School, democratic principles are not only taught in books.

“This decision shows that the administration does not want a community that just [observes] ideals of democracy, but one that acts and lives according to those ideals,” Wexler said.

“It’s almost like democracy in action.”

Aurelia Chaudhury LAW ’16, a committee representative, said the faculty responded directly to a request students had been expressing for several years.

She said that this year could have been decisive because faculty members had more conversations with students and obtained their perspective.

Chaudhury said that the calendar was reformed mostly to “improve the lives of students,” and to better coordinate the Law School’s schedule with the rest of the University.

But not all students feel the new final exam dates will improve their experience.

Wexler said she preferred using winter break to study, so as not to miss out on the events happening on campus during the fall semester.

Whitney Leonard LAW ’15 said the biggest benefit is that the Law School will now be on the same calendar as the rest of the University, making it easier for law students to take classes at other graduate and professional schools, and vice versa.

Law School Professor Akhil Amar said that the syncing of the Law School’s calendar with the rest of Yale will be important for the entire community.

“This move is a wonderful symbol of the increased interconnectivity between the College and the Law School — two of the jewels in Yale’s crown,” Amar said.

But Law School Associate Dean Megan Barnett said there are strengths and weaknesses to both the previous and new calendar. Law School Professor Peter Schuck noted that although coordination between the Law School and University calendars is “desirable,” the Law School still has to deal with other restraints to its calendar that the wider University does not have, such as specific timelines for job recruitment that law students must follow.

Because of these differences, Schuck said, there may still be advantages to having a Law School-specific calendar.

This year’s exam period for the Law School students lasted from Jan. 6 to 16.

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

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Changes to the Law School’s calendar will include starting the terms earlier, shortening them to 13 weeks, and holding fall exams before the break.

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Yale’s new School of Management building has faced both celebration and criticism from the New Haven community.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Edward P. Evans Hall, Yale’s new School of Management headquarters, while bringing together the entire SOM under one roof, has divided the New Haven community.

Although the building debuted during a three-day conference last week to much applause, some local residents and city activists remain hesitant to join in the celebration due to a combination of aesthetic, ethical and fiscal concerns. The 242,000 squarefoot structure, primarily constructed of glass, steel and concrete, designed by Lord Norman Foster ARC ’62, is located on Whitney Avenue.

“I think it is a dreadful mistake for the University to move ahead and for the city to permit it,” said former Alder Nancy Ahern, who previously testified against the building in fall of 2009. “It is out of perspective, it is gross, and it belongs somewhere else.”

Neighbors have gone so far

as to label the 243 million dollar building, “an aquarium,” “a prison,” and even reminiscent of “a Carnival cruise ship,” said New Haven resident Wendy Hamilton. Hamilton picketed in front of the building with a bullhorn and sign that read, “Bernie Madoff $chool of Money.”

Some residents have expressed concern over the modern design of the building in light of the more traditional architecture in the area previously. Although Foster had stated publicly that the extensive use of glass was intended to facilitate connection and encourage transparency, some locals remain unconvinced. “[Evans Hall] got the ‘Eye Sore architecture Award’ from Trump Enterprises, and the ‘Classy Glass Building Award from Pyrex,’” Hamilton said.

“Window Washers of the World salute you.”

In order to construct the new SOM building, Yale demolished two buildings, most notably the Henry Killiam Murphy Building and its rotunda. When

the project was proposed, residents protested and testified in front of The City Plan Commission, but failed to halt the plans.

Since the construction was not in a historic district, Yale was not subject to local preservation laws in the building’s construction, New Haven Preservation Services Officer of the New Haven Preservation Trust John Herzan said. Yale was determined to proceed and shared a different vision than the New Haven Preservation Trust, he continued.

Some residents wanted to see Yale incorporate the old building into the final design to protect what some residents argued were parts of New Haven’s history.

“The lesson Yale could have taught is to think of preservation as a part of what management should be about,” Ahern said. “The greatest building is the one that is already built.”

Still, many city officials have strongly supported the new construction and see the building as part of New Hav-

en’s urban development. New Haven Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 attended the opening ceremony for the building and received a tour of the premises with Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy.

Harp was very impressed by its design and by its features, said Laurence Grotheer, director of communications for City Hall. She recognizes that there is an adjustment period with any new feature of the New Haven’s landscape, he continued.

Ahern and Hamilton agreed that, although they are disappointed, it is too late to bring about any real change.

“There’s nothing to do,” Ahern said. “We have to live with it.”

The building was named in honor of Edward P. Evans ’64, who died in 2011 less than two weeks after the announcement of his gift to the new SOM campus.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

New Haven Promise Scholars to intern at Yale

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER At an internship fair held at the Yale University Art Gallery last week, 69 New Haven Promise Scholars circulated a room full of Yale Hiring Managers to hear presentations about summer jobs at Yale.

Founded in 2011 as a university scholarship for qualified New Haven Public School students, New Haven Promise is now collaborating with the New Haven Hiring Initiative to give scholars a chance to obtain paid internships at Yale over the summer. Last week’s fair introduced scholars to nine hiring managers from different departments at Yale and encouraged students to consider working in New Haven after graduation. This collaboration aligns with the Yale Hiring Initiative’s goal of fostering economic development in New Haven, since it will draw intellectual talent back to the city, said New Haven Hiring Initiatives Director Diane Turner.

“These are students who are doing an exceptional job in terms of their academics and who are contributing to community service,” Turner said of the Promise scholars. “These are students who we want to entice to come back after completing their college education, and we have an opportune time over the summer to provide them with career experience.”

Last summer, the Hiring Initiative offered summer internships to New Haven high school students. Turner said because that program was successful, she wants to expand it to college students, particu-

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New Haven Promise Scholars attended an internship fair last week at the Yale University Art Gallery. larly Promise Scholars, starting this summer.

Since last fall, Turner has been working with New Haven Promise Director Patricia Melton as well as Yale Hiring Managers to develop the program.

Students who attended the internship fair last week have already submitted their resumes to Yale, and Yale Hiring Managers are currently sorting through them to determine which department students may best fit. The exact number of internships that will be offered this summer has not yet been finalized, but Turner said she is optimistic that hiring managers will each offer several internships.

Among the Yale departments attending the fair were the Yale Police, the Peabody Museum, the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale School of Music.

During the fair, the scholars — who represented 14 in-state colleges and 11 different New Haven public schools — rotated around the room to talk to each hiring manager about potential career options. Melton said that conversing with hiring managers and securing summer internships could lead to permanent jobs for the scholars after graduation.

“Part of our mission is to make sure our scholars come back to New Haven, so the partnership will help us fulfill that mission,” Melton said.

Among the attendees were two Yale students — Lily Engbith ’17 and Wen Jiang ’16, who are both New Haven Promise scholars.

Engbith, who graduated from Wilbur Cross High School last year, said that while the event was a good opportunity for students to discuss career

options with professionals, she thought the fair would be advertising specific summer internships, rather than potential ones.

“It was good to gather the Promise scholars back together, but a lot of the managers weren’t sure of concrete positions that they would be offering just because the program is so new,” Engbith said.

“Still, it’s really daunting to start looking for internships as a high school student so it’s nice to have someone guiding you along.”

To be eligible for a New Haven Promise scholarship, students must graduate with at least a 3.0 GPA and have completed [40] hours of community service.

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

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Early action class remains less diverse EARLY ACTION FROM PAGE 1 sultant, said the University’s numerous initiatives to recruit high-achieving low-income students are helping to close the gap between early action and regular applicants. He cited Yale’s aggressive advertising of its generous financial aid policies and the tours that admissions officers do across the country as two examples.

“As more students learn about Yale’s affordability and the general college process through democratizing tools such as the Internet and social media, we’re seeing more underrepresented students are getting on the same page as a legacy or boarding school student,” he said.

Quinlan said in December students who apply early action tend to be those who are most prepared to apply by the Nov. 1 deadline.

He added that although Yale’s early action pool has traditionally been a less diverse group than the overall applicant class, he is seeing long-term trends of more students from diverse communities applying early action to the University.

A survey sent by the News to a random group of Yale undergraduates demonstrated that students who were legacies, attended private schools or did not require financial aid were more likely to have applied to the University as

an early action applicant than the average student.

Of the 458 undergraduates who filled out the survey, 56 percent had applied to Yale early action.

The widest discrepancy for applying early action was found between legacy, non-legacy and first generation college students: 75 percent of legacy students had applied early action, compared to 51 percent of non-legacy students and only 33 percent of first generation college students.

“My parents had gone [to Yale] and my sister was attending Yale at the time so I always knew I was going to apply early,” Sam Faucher ’16 said. Faucher added that Yale was his first choice in part because he knew so much more about the University growing up than he did about any other school, even similar ones such as Stanford or Princeton.

The gap was also visible when respondents were grouped by family income. Of the students not eligible for financial aid, 66 percent had applied to Yale early action, while 47 percent of the students who receive financial aid said they had applied early.

Frederic Nicholas ’17, a firstgeneration student on financial aid at Yale, said when he first began the college process as a high school junior, he did not think that he could pay for Yale. Nicholas said that it was only because

Yale’s early program was nonbinding that he felt comfortable applying early.

“Even if you love a school, you need to see what type of financial aid they can offer before you can commit to it,” he said.

Jon Reider, a college counselor at San Francisco University High School, said that he advises his students who need significant financial aid not to apply early to any school with a binding early admissions program because the school may not offer them sufficient financial aid.

Reider said if a student applies early decision, rather than early action, the student has no leverage in financial aid negotiations.

“If a student likes college X more but is unhappy with his financial aid, he could pressure college X into giving him more money by showing the money he got from college Y,” he said.

As a result, Reider said, Ivy League schools that fill significant percentages of their classes with early decision students are making it more difficult for lowincome students to attend.

According to the survey, a slightly smaller discrepancy exists between Yale students who attended independent high schools versus public high schools. Sixty-four percent of the survey respondents who attended a private, charter or magnet high

school had applied early action, but 48.5 percent of the survey respondents who had attended a public high school had applied early.

All four private college counselors interviewed said they were not surprised to hear the discrepancies in representation that the survey revealed.

Even if you love a school, you need to see what type of financial aid they can offer before you can commit to it.

FREDERIC NICHOLAS ’17 “Wealthier kids go to [high] schools where they’re informed about the college process as sophomores or juniors,” said Chuck Hughes, president of college admissions consulting service Road to College and a former admissions officer at Harvard.

With this greater awareness of the college process, these students are more likely to have their applications prepared by Nov. 1, he said.

Hughes added that some highachieving low-income students

may also refrain from applying to elite schools such as Yale or Princeton early action because they are intimidated by these schools’ well-publicized selectivity. He added that many of these students are the first in their community or school to apply to selective colleges.

Reider said a racial discrepancy also exists between the early action and regular rounds, adding that low-income students — a category that disproportionately includes African-American and Hispanic students — often do not apply to schools like Yale early action because they are unaware of the University’s robust financial aid programs or because they conflate early action with other schools’ binding early decision policies.

The idea that early action programs disproportionately benefit the privileged is not new.

In 2006, then-Harvard President Derek Bok told the Harvard Crimson that early action programs “advantage the advantaged” when Harvard abolished its early action program. Princeton shortly followed suit. According to Quinlan, Yale seriously considered following Harvard and Princeton’s lead, but ultimately decided not to scrap early admissions because the program allows students who feel confident about their application to begin the col-

lege process early.

Both Harvard and Princeton reversed their policies in 2011 and began offering early action once more after realizing that they were missing out on top students who were applying to Stanford and Yale early, Hughes said.

Quinlan said although he does not mind whether students apply to University as early or regular applicants, he is excited to see the percentage of nontraditional students in the early applicant pool rise every year.

Although Yale’s acceptance rate for early action applicants is considerably higher than its regular acceptance rate, Quinlan said this discrepancy exists only because applicants in the early action pool tend to be stronger on average than candidates in the regular pool.

“The advice I always give to students is that they should only apply when their application is the strongest,” he said, adding that for some students who might need stronger test scores or one more term of good grades, applying in the regular round may be advantageous.

The 4,750 early applications received this year was a 5.5 percent bump from last year, when 4,514 students applied early.

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

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YOKO ONO JAPANESE ARTIST AND PEACE ACTIVIST

Fire dept vacancies concern union

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER Several year-end retirements in the New Haven Fire Department have raised the department’s vacancy rate to nearly a third of existing positions, worrying union leaders who say the situation has become a safety concern.

Most of the department’s 116 vacancies exist within the department’s Fire Suppression Unit, but a significant number are also managerial positions, with last week’s nine retirements including Capt. William Gambardella and Director of Training Matthew Marcarelli. In response to the high number of unfilled positions, the fire department is planning to start training a class of 45 new firefighters by the end of March.

The Fire Union has voiced skepticism about the plan, saying it does not go far enough to address systemic staffing shortages.

“Those vacancies didn’t occur overnight,” said firefighter union president Lt. Jimmy Kottage, who estimates that the fire department has not had a normal recruitment class in five years.

“One year ago, we were down 99.

The year before, we were down 80. It’s going to take at least two to three years to get back to where we need to be.”

According to a 2013 report, there were 434 applicants to fire department positions last year, almost double the number of applicants seven years ago. The department narrows down applicants, though, with a physical agility test and a background check by the New Haven police.

New firefighters are also put on a probationary period for a year, where they are closely monitored by a commanding officer.

“Just putting in a recruit class doesn’t solve the problem, because even if we put a new class

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The New Haven Fire Department is working towards filling the 116 vacancies that currently exist within the Fire Suppression Unit and other administrative positions. in, they won’t see a firehouse for five months because of training,” Kottage said. “In that time, more people could retire.”

Kottage has called on the police department to expedite background checks and says the city needs to make filling fire department vacancies a priority.

The fire department has a history of disagreements with the city, from a 2009 discrimination suit that went to the Supreme Court to a union fight with Mayor

DeStefano’s chief administrative officer over funding for positions. Last October, the firefighters union sued the city for failing to find a permanent fire marshal since July 2011, a move that the suit alleges violates Connecticut law.

Patrick Egan, assistant chief of the fire department, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Kottage, who attributed part of the hiring delay to “mistake

after mistake” by the city, said he believes Mayor Toni Harp will help the fire department fill positions.

“The process to fill a new class for the fire academy is already well underway,” Harp said in a statement to the News. “Applications are in, tests have been taken, and background checks of candidates, conducted by the New Haven Police Department to save money, are underway.”

Harp said she intends to fill

vacancies “as we’re able,” since doing so would save the city money in reduced overtime costs.

Kottage agrees that filling positions would cut long-run costs to taxpayers, estimating that some firefighters are working an average of 70 to 90 hours a week.

The fire department is not the only city department experiencing high vacancies. Around a fifth of officer positions at the New Haven Police Department

are unfilled, according to officer David Hartman. Hartman estimates that there are currently 100 open spots.

The New Haven Fire Department has an average response time of 4 minutes, 36 seconds and responded to 18,244 urgent medical issues in 2012.

The New Haven Fire Department was established in 1862.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

Thousands lose unemployment benefits in Conn.

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER An emergency five-year program extending unemployment benefits from 26 to 63 weeks in Connecticut ended on Jan. 1, imperiling more than 26,000 Conn. Residents who relied on the federal program to cover basic living expenses.

Congress extended unemployment benefits beyond 26 weeks in 2008 to support millions of Americans newly jobless from the recession. However, political infighting in Washington has left the fate of the extension in limbo, cutting off benefits for Conn. residents who have surpassed the 26-week limit and threatening thousands more who are fast approaching the new cap. The loss of federal benefits has already sucked $8.5 million from the state’s economy each week, according to Connecticut Department of Labor spokeswoman Nancy Steffens,

who added that the effects of the lapse will resonate throughout the state’s economy as former beneficiaries sharply reduce spending.

Since she stopped receiving unemployment insurance, Cheryl Mobley of Windsor, Conn. has supported her 16 yearold son, her 20 year-old daughter and herself on child support payments amounting to about $100 a week. When she was laid off from her job as an account associate at National Default Services in March 2013, the family lost their home on a cul-de-sac in East Hartford.

Now, Mobley said she doesn’t know how long they’ll be able to stay in their new apartment in Windsor.

“The worst thing is having to come home and tell your children that you’re no longer working, because the first thing you see is disappointment in their eyes,” Mobley said. “You can see the disappointment and you can

see the fear.”

Mobley said she treats her search for work like a full-time job, but she is frequently told there are as many as 100 other applicants for a single position. Though it has consistently declined over the past three months, Connecticut’s unemployment rate consistently hovers over half a point above the national average, at 7.6 percent in November as compared to 7 percent across the nation.

With just one job opening for every three job seekers, traffic to the state’s career services offices has increased since Dec. 28 as job searches become more urgent and people seek any possible edge in the job market, said Robert Fort, marketing director of the Workforce Alliance, which runs three CT Works Career Centers across the state. At these centers, unemployed and underemployed people can access free career counseling, practice job interviews, take online classes

and work with resume advisers. Last year, visits to the centers increased 12.5 percent even as unemployment dipped, Fort said.

Thomas Knowlton of Wallingford, Conn. has used CT Works’ services throughout his search for a new career. He left his job as a fast food manager in 2012 when his supervisors sharply reduced his pay, and he has been unemployed since. Like Mobley, he said he feels employers discriminate against him because of his age and the length of his unemployment.

“The job market is beyond abysmal for anyone that’s older,” Knowlton said.

At 61, rather than planning for his retirement, Knowlton said he is instead studying for a master’s degree to begin a new career in telecommunications. In seeking additional training to become more employable, Knowlton is not alone, Steffens said.

“Before the recession, our

major task was helping people improve their skills to get a better job,” Steffens said. “Now we’re working with people to help them improve their skills just so they can get a job.”

Republicans in Congress argue that extending unemployment benefits would encourage people to remain unemployed for longer amounts of time. However, Steffens said she is more concerned that cutting the benefits short might have the same effect as job seekers give up and drop out of the workforce. She is also concerned that those who remain in the workforce may become less productive as they are less able to secure basic needs such as food and heating.

Connecticut Food Bank spokeswoman Mary Ingarra said that the unemployment benefits lapse could put additional strain on non-profit organizations across the state, particularly after cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

(SNAP) that took effect Nov. 1.

In Connecticut, the SNAP cuts were equal to 17 million meals a year. “[The Connecticut Food Bank] is already seeing the demand every year go up, and then you have this SNAP cut, and then you look at the unemployment benefits,” Ingarra said. “It’s amazing how it adds up and what’s missing now from people’s dinner tables.”

On Tuesday night, several Democratic proposals to extend unemployment benefits once more failed in the Senate. Congress will take a recess from Jan. 17-27, pushing any legislative action on a federal benefits extension to the end of January, at the earliest.

The average Connecticut beneficiary received $327 from the federal government each week.

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

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“No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.”

BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS 17TH PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE NAACP

Calls for Gheav boycott continue

Bill benefits Yale researchers FED FUNDING FROM PAGE 1 a priority, it only begins to make up that lost ground. In particular, the NIH remains behind its [2012 fiscal year] appropriation, which remains a cause for concern.”

While funding for the NIH as a whole will increase by $1 billion in the coming year as a result of the bill, the sequester had decreased the organization’s funding by $1.55 billion.

Even a partial sequester makes it impossible for Congress to take any serious steps to close the nation’s innovation deficit.

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The four workers said they were harassed and are considering filing a complaint with the CT Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.

UNIVERSITIES

“The owner is playing with the law,” said one worker.

Workers said that when the owner found out about the meeting, the manager started telling them that “chismosos” — a term meaning “snitches” — would be punished. When the four workers reported to their shifts on Jan. 3, the manager told them they had been replaced.

The workers who were fired suspect they were chosen out of the eleven who spoke to the DOL because of their relation to the former worker who filed the original complaint against the restaurant in July.

Two of the workers are his uncles and the other two are his brothers.

“They are trying to scare the other workers,” said one. “[The workers] are afraid of being fired like us. It’s so hard to find a job, and no matter where they go they know they will still get exploited.”

“90 percent of these restaurants do this,” he added, Two of the workers said that after their firing, they have had to take jobs that pay under minimum wage — one at an unspecified restaurant onUniversity-owned property. They said it is very hard to go through with a DOL complaint without community support, and are undecided about what to do at their new jobs.

Joe Foran, a member of the Amistad Catholic Workers’ House and La Unidad Latina en Accion, said that it was important to hold theUniversity accountable for their stated position on not leasing property to businesses that do not pay fair wages.

In a statement to student leaders in MEChA, Yale Vice President Bruce Alex-

Like other research universities, Yale suffered from the sequester’s impact on federal grants. While the University received $562 million in federal grants — much of which came through NIH — in the 2012 fiscal year, that figure declined to $535 million in the 2013 fiscal year, largely because of the sequester.

The Association of American Universities, an organization of 62 leading research universities, echoed Salovey’s sentiment, saying in a statement that “even a partial sequester makes it impossible for Congress to take any serious steps to close the nation’s innovation deficit.”

Ann Speicher, the AAU associate vice president of public affairs, said increasing investment in higher education should be a priority for the federal government if the United States wishes to remain competitive on the international stage. She added that the actions of other nations to copy the U.S. model of higher education indicate the value of the system. Still, while Speicher acknowledged the

PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 division of Wage and Workplace Standards.

If the firings are found to be retaliatory, he said, the issue will go up further to the state Labor Commissioner.

After DOL investigators concluded that Gourmet Heaven had been paying workers under minimum wage over the course of several years, Cho agreed to pay 25 workers a total of $140,000 in back wages, as well as $10,200 in fines to the DOL. These back wages only cover a fraction of each worker’s period of employment.

Cho paid the first installment of $50,000 last month but has not yet paid the second installment that was due on Jan. 6.

“Refusing to pay wages is a criminal violation,” Pechie said. “We’re notifying the employer’s attorney … We thought we had a settlement.”

Workers said they did not originally tell the DOL investigators the full extent of the wage theft when the investigation first began because the manager had intimidated them into silence.

But after organizing amongst themselves and working with La Unidad Latina en Accion, eleven workers met with DOL investigators on Nov. 26 and testified that they had been paid between $4.16 and $6.25 per hour for three to eight years.

They also informed the DOL at this meeting that they were being underpaid for their overtime hours. The owner was paying them at a reduced wage off the books in cash for working longer than 40 hours, they testified, prompting DOL attorneys to investigate the fresh allegations.

ander said, “We strongly condemn unfair labor practices and will not renew the lease of any tenant not in complete compliance with the labor laws regarding fair treatment of employees.”

The four fired workers also said they were the target of harassment and disparaging comments from the manager because of their indigenous heritage. La Unidad Latina en Accion organizer John Jairo Lugo said they are considering filing a complaint with the CT Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, which handles instances of racial discrimination.

Reed Bobroff ’16, manager of the Blue Feather Drum Group and former president of the Association of Native Americans at Yale, spoke over a bullhorn about the necessity for solidarity among indigenous peoples of the Americas. He and other members of the drum group sang and led protestors in a round dance, a common Native demonstration of unity.

MEChA moderator Evelyn Nuñez ’15 encouraged protestors and students to continue to picket and boycott the popular campus deli.

“We are not going to back down,” she said. “We can all contribute by not shopping at this establishment anymore. We have a responsibility to this community and I ask you to think about that.”

Protestors will continue their weekly picket of Gourmet Heaven every Friday at 5:30 p.m.

Gourmet Heaven has four locations in New Haven and Providence, R.I.

importance of the bill’s steps to halt the impact of the sequester on universities, she said she was not thrilled with the federal research spending outlined by the document.

In addition to setting funding levels for research, the bill also increases the funding for federal Pell Grants, which are available to low-income college students and do not need to be repaid. For the 2014-’15 award year, students will be able to receive up to $5,730, compared to $5,645 for the current award year.

In the 2012-’13 academic year, a total of 687 Yale College students, 14 percent of Yale’s non-international undergraduate population, made use of the grants.

Although the bill passed Wednesday provides $22.8 billion for the grants — or a maximum of $4,860 for each grant — Speicher said it is widely anticipated that mandatory federal spending will result in a increase of $85 for the maximum grant.

The grants, for which the total federal funding has more than doubled under Obama, will also become available to 186,000 more students, bringing the total number of possible Pell Grant recipients to 9,311,000 nationwide for the 2014-’15 award year. The new legislation also requires the Education Department to measure the enrollment and graduation rate of Pell Grant recipients.

In addition to describing the higher potential total for each grant — which will help the grants keep pace with the rising cost of higher education — as good news, Salovey described the increased reach of the grants as a positive signal for the higher education landscape.

The bill, introduced in the House on Monday evening, is 1,582 pages long.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloydthomas@yale.edu and adrian. rodrigues@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@ yale.edu .

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

MOOC courses go live

DIANA KLEINER

Professor Diana Kleiner, a member on the University’s committee on online education, will be featuring “Roman Architecture” on Coursera.

COURSERA FROM PAGE 1 Coursera lectures at the Yale Broadcast Studio, according to Swineford, while Kleiner and Shiller will pull from their Open Yale Courses lectures while also recording some new material.

Kleiner said the decision to keep material from her Open Yale Courses in her Coursera offering was largely driven by issues of copyright — she had already received intellectual property clearances on all the material.

Intellectual property issues presented a challenge to John Covach, a music history professor at the University of Rochester who teaches a popular Coursera lecture on the history of rock music. For legal reasons, Covach said, he couldn’t play music on his Coursera offering as he would in his course at Rochester. On the other hand,

Covach said, Coursera offerings are not meant to replicate college courses.

“At least in my case, I don’t believe the Coursera course is actually a college course,” Covach said. “It’s an extensive series of public lectures organized like a college course.”

Covach said students in his Coursera course — strangers from around the world — took more ownership of the class than even graduate students in his in-person class had, in the past. Students in Russia formed a Facebook group for the class, Covach said.

But while Covach makes a strong distinction between his classroom teaching and his Coursera lectures, Princeton University Professor Jeremy Adelman mixes the two. Adelman said he joined Coursera to put his Princeton undergraduates “in conversation with students from else-

where in the world.” Princeton students who enroll in his global history class are required to enroll in the Coursera course and watch recorded lectures at home, Adelman said. The students in the class are required to interact with non-Princeton enrollees on blogs that they manage.

Adelman said his method has freed up class time for more interactive classroom learning — ultimately echoing Covach’s point that classroom and Coursera learning are two very different things.

“Putting my lectures online has made me even more engaged with Princeton students,” he said.

Coursera currently offers 568 online courses.

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ON CAMPUS 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.

8:00 p.m. David Hazeltine Trio. Jazz pianist David Hazeltine will perform with George Mraz (bass/saxophone) and Bill Drummond (drums). Presented by the Ellington Jazz Series. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL A. KANDALAFT

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.

1:30 p.m. Artist Talk: Njideka Akunyili. Njideka Akunyili will discuss 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.).

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 1:00 p.m. Yale Drama Coalition Spring Season Preview.

Directors and producers of this semester’s undergraduate productions will be sharing the exciting projects they are working on this spring. Anyone is welcome to learn about what theatrical opportunities are available for undergraduates this semester.

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Senate panel: Benghazi attack preventable

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Both highly critical and bipartisan, a Senate report declared Wednesday that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, could have been prevented.

The account spreads blame among the State Department, the military and U.S. intelligence for missing what now seem like obvious warning signs.

For the first time in the muchpoliticized aftermath, the report also points at Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. It says that the State Department ended a deal with the military to have a special operations team provide extra security in Libya, and that Stevens twice refused an offer to reinstate the team in the weeks before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack.

The military also takes criticism in the report for failing to respond more quickly on the night of the assault.

On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the U.S., armed militants stormed the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, setting the building on fire. Stevens, information technology specialist Sean Smith, and CIA security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, both former Navy SEALs, were killed over the course of two battles that night.

Stevens died of smoke inhalation after he was taken to a “safe room” in the besieged compound. The Obama

CHARLESTON, W.Va. —The company responsible for the chemical spill in West Virginia moved its chemicals to a nearby plant that has already been cited for safety violations, including a backup containment wall with holes in it.

As a result, state officials may force the company to move the chemicals to a third site.

Inspectors on Monday found five safety violations at Freedom Industries’ storage facility in Nitro, about 10 miles from the spill site in Charleston. The spill contaminated the drinking water for 300,000 people, and about half of them were still waiting for officials to lift the ban on tap water.

The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health issued a statement Wednesday evening advising pregnant women not to drink the water “until there are no longer detectable levels” of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a chemical used in coal processing. The statement said it was making the recommendation “out of an abundance of caution” after consulting with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Department of Environmental Protection on Friday ordered Freedom Industries to move all of its chemicals to the Nitro site.

According to a report from the department, inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility, the Nitro site’s last-resort containment wall had holes in it. The report described the site’s wall as “deteriorated or nonexistent.”

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This Sept. 13, 2012 photo shows a Libyan man investigating the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an administration, reluctant to deal publicly with a terror attack weeks before the presidential election, first described the assault as a spontaneous mob protest of an anti-Islamic, American-made video. Such a protest did occur at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo earlier that day.

Officials corrected their description days after the attack, but by then it had become a hot political issue that has continued to dog the administration.

On that issue, the report dives into the contentious initial talking points issued by the intelligence community, which helped fuel Republican allegations of an Obama administration cover-up of militant links to the violence.

“Intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the U.S. mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or

eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion,” the report said, adding that U.S. intelligence then took too long to correct the error.

The senators also take the administration to task for failing to bring the attackers to justice more than a year later. They say the U.S. has identified several individuals responsible but can’t capture them because of limited intelligence capabilities in the region and limited cooperation by local governments.

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Freedom Industries said the building’s walls acted as a secondary containment dike, but state inspectors disagreed. The walls had holes in them near the ground level, and they led out to a stormwater trench surrounding the structure’s exterior, the report said.

Department spokesman Tom Aluise said the ditch eventually drains into the Kanawha River. The Nitro

facility isn’t on a riverbank, like the other facility.

The facility had no documentation of inspections of the Nitro site. Nor did it have proof of employee training in the past 10 years, the report said.

Aluise said the state could force Freedom to move the chemicals to a third site, or build secondary containment structures at the Nitro facility. He said the department

would issue an administrative order Thursday morning detailing what corrective action will be required.

Asked what possible penalties would be brought against the company, Aluise responded in an email: “Yet to be determined.”

The report only specified that Freedom Industries has 20 days to provide a written response detailing corrective action.

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Jonathan Steele, owner of Bluegrass Kitchen, fills a jug with cleaning water in the back of his restaurant in Charleston.

WASHINGTON — In a stunning setback for a nuclear missile force already beset by missteps and leadership lapses, the Air Force disclosed on Wednesday that 34 officers entrusted with the world’s deadliest weapons have been removed from launch duty for allegedly cheating — or tolerating cheating by others — on routine proficiency tests.

The cheating scandal is the latest in a series of Air Force nuclear stumbles documented in recent months by The Associated Press, including deliberate violations of safety rules, failures of inspections, breakdowns in training, and evidence that the men and women who operate the missiles from underground command posts are suffering burnout. In October the commander of the nuclear missile force was fired for engaging in embarrassing behavior, including drunkenness, while leading a U.S. delegation to a nuclear exercise in Russia.

A “profoundly disappointed” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, the service’s top civilian official, told a hurriedly arranged Pentagon news conference that the alleged cheating at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., was discovered during a previously announced probe of drug possession by 11 officers at several Air Force bases, including two who also are in the nuclear force and suspected of participating in the cheating ring.

“This is absolutely unacceptable behavior,” James said of the cheating, which Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, said could be the biggest such scandal in the history of the missile force.

A spokesman for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon chief, who just last week visited a nuclear missile base and praised the force for its professionalism, was “deeply troubled” to learn of the cheating allegations. The spokesman, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, said Hagel insisted he be kept apprised of the investigation’s progress.

Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., urged Air Force leaders to take swift and decisive action to ensure the integrity of the nuclear mission.

“There simply is no room in our Air Force, and certainly in our nuclear enterprise, for this type of misconduct,” said Udall, the chairman of the Senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee.

James said she will travel to each of the Air Force’s three nuclear missile bases next week on a fact-finding mission to learn more about conditions within the missile launch force and the more senior officers who manage them. She suggested that the cheating was confined to this single case involving 34 officers, although numerous missile officers have told the AP confidentially that some feel compelled to cut corners on their monthly proficiency tests because of intense pressure to score at the highest levels to advance in the force.

“I want all of you to know that, based on everything I know today, I have great confidence in the security and the effectiveness of our ICBM force,” she said. “And, very importantly, I want you to know that this was a failure of some of our airmen. It was not a failure of the nuclear mission.”

James, who has been in the job only four weeks, said the entire ICBM launch officer force of about 600 is being retested this week.

Welsh said he knew of no bigger ICBM cheating scandal or launch officer decertification in the history of the missile force, which began operating in 1959. Last spring the Air Force decertified 17 launch officers at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., for a combination of poor performance and bad attitudes; at the time the Air Force said it was the largest-ever one-time sidelining of launch officers.

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Over 1 million people were displaced in the Central African Republic in December.

Nowhere to go for South Sudanese

BY REBECCA BLACKWELL AND KRISTA LARSON ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic — Ibrahim Abakar sleeps with a machete at his side, terrified the darkness will bring death or disappearance as it did for his wife and young sons when armed Christian fighters showed up at their door in the capital of Central African Republic.

Returning to the land of his birth isn’t an option though — South Sudan is now on the brink of civil war, mired in conflict just as the area was when he fled from there more than two decades ago.

“I can’t return and I can’t stay here,” the 38-year-old Muslim said desperately. “I just want to go somewhere there is peace. I have seen too many people here killed in front of me.”

Death is possible if he stays, or if he goes to the only other country that will take him. Abakar has spent most of his life in Central African Republic, where he also married his wife, but has no passport to travel with.

Abakar’s dilemma underscores the volatility of this corner of the world, where the deepening crisis in Central African Republic has forced some to flee across borders to desperately poor and unstable countries like Chad and Congo. Others are now escaping to home countries where they don’t even speak the local language fluently, and have few remaining relatives or job prospects.

Central African Republic has long teetered on the brink of anarchy, but the new unrest unleashed by a March 2013 coup has ignited previously unseen sectarian hatred between Christians and Muslims. More than 1,000 people were killed in December alone and nearly 1 million displaced.

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In this Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 file photo, French soldiers protect a truck of fleeing Muslims after it broke down and was surrounded by hundreds of hostile Christian residents, including several The United States closed its embassy in Bangui last year and urged its citizens to leave. Many Africans with businesses and family ties to Central African Republic, though, chose to stay

after the March coup. France sent 1,600 troops to bolster an African Union force expected to reach 3,000 troops. But the imperative to leave now has spiked as the country’s minor-

Egypt’s Christian minority rallies

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Father Antonious, a priest at the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam Monastery that was looted and burned in August,

BY SARAH EL DEEB AND MAMDOUH THABET ASSOCIATED PRESS AZIYAH, Egypt —Hymns echoing from the new church in this village in Egypt’s southern heartland could be heard well after sundown Wednesday, a reminder of the jubilant mood as Aziyah’s Christian residents vote on a new constitution.

Outside in the dusty streets, volunteers hurriedly arranged for buses to transport voters to polling stations before they closed.

In past elections, Islamists used fear or intimidation to stop Christians from voting against them.

This time around, Aziyah’s Christians faced no obstacles on their way to the ballot box “I cast my ballot as I pleased.

I am not afraid of anybody,” said Heba Girgis, a Christian resident of the nearby village of Sanabu, who said she was harassed and prevented from casting a vote against the 2012 Islamist-backed constitution. “Last time I wanted to say no. I waited in line for two hours before the judge closed the station.”

“This time we said yes and our opinion matters,” Girgis added as she walked home with a friend after casting her vote. “This is for our children, for all those who died and suffered. Our word now carries weight.”

The busy winding alleys of Aziyah and other villages with

large Christian populations in the southern province of Assiut were in sharp contrast to the dimmed streets and deserted polling stations of neighboring hamlets, mostly populated by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi — a testimony to a boycott organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups against the military-supported constitution.

In Assiut, the birthplace of most of Egypt’s Islamist groups, and neighboring Minya, the campaign was particularly strong against the charter, a heavily amended version of a constitution written by Morsi’s Islamist allies and ratified in 2012.

The new document would ban political parties based on religion, give women equal rights and protect the status of minority Christians. It also gives the military special powers to name its own candidate as defense minister for the next eight years and bring civilians before military tribunals.

Christians number nearly 2 million of the 5 million voters in the southern provinces of Assiut and Minya, almost four times the national average. In Aziyah, which prides itself as the “capital” of Coptic Christians in the south, getting out the vote in support of the constitution was a serious enterprise.

“For the Copts, the responsibility these days doesn’t permit

for any apathy,” said Muntassir Malek, one of Aziyah’s most ardent get-out-the-vote mobilizers and founder of its new three-story church, a rarity in Egypt, where easier access to permits for building churches is at the heart of the Christian minority’s demands.

During the two-day referendum, security and army troops deployed heavily in the south, where daily protests by Morsi supporters were particular violent.

More than 15,000 troops fanned out across the two provinces, and sandbags were erected outside a number of polling stations. There were frequent helicopter runs and flyovers by F-16 jets. As helicopters hovered over the heads of voters Wednesday in the Christian village of Kunbuah, a loud cheer went up.

“Thank you el-Sissi!” the crowd shouted, referring to the country’s increasingly popular military chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah elSissi.

The majority of the voting in Assiut and Minya has been driven

by Christians, election monitors said.

“Christians are the No. 1 voters,” said monitor Ezzat Ibrahim, adding that turnout overall has been far lower in the south, where support for Morsi was strongest during his presidential bid — a reflection of the Islamist boycott.

ity Muslim population has come under growing recriminatory attacks from Christians.

France’s U.N. ambassador told a U.N. meeting Wednesday on the prevention of genocide that

his country underestimated the hatred and resentment between Christian and Muslim communities.

“We knew there was some inter-sectarian violence but

we did not forecast such a deep ingrained hatred,” he said.

Araud said African and French soldiers in the impoverished country are facing “nearly an impossible situation.”

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CLAYTON KERSHAW The 25-year old southpaw became a very rich man on Wednesday, signing a seven-year, $215 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2013 Cy Young award winner went 16–9 with a microscopic 1.83 earned run average last season.

Elis to host Sacred Heart

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Both the men’s and women’s fencing teams will take on Sacred Heart this Saturday.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The men’s and women’s fencing teams open their winter season with a home tournament against Sacred Heart this weekend.

FENCING The teams look to avenge their narrow losses to Sacred Heart last year, when both Eli squads fell 13–14, and have prepared extensively for this weekend’s action.

“The team came back early from winter vacation to get some practice in and get back to where we need to be for this weekend’s match,” Peter Cohen ’14 said.

The women’s team hopes to recapture the results from 2012, when the Elis last defeated Sacred Heart, 15–12.

The men’s team has not overcome Sacred Heart since 2010, when Yale beat the Pioneers 16–11.

This weekend’s matchup against Sacred Heart will be a good test for the Bulldogs. Both the men’s and women’s fencing teams from Sacred Heart have defeated Vassar, whom the Elis will face the first weekend in February, and have faced a level of competition similar to the teams that Yale faced in the Brandeis Tournament.

“We hope to win,” Cohen said.

“Plain and simple.”

The men’s team is looking to build on the momentum from a strong fall

season, when the Bulldogs had an impressive showing at the Brandeis Tournament, finishing 4–1. The Elis nearly swept the field, defeating the Air Force Academy, Boston College, Brandeis and MIT. The Bulldogs fell short only to St. John’s, losing the match 14–13.

The women’s team, on the other hand, hopes to bounce back from its performance at the same tournament, where it finished with a 2–3 record against stiff competition. The Bulldogs dropped matches to the Air Force Academy, St. John’s and Brandeis. Still, the Elis improved on their showing at the tournament in 2012, when they went 1–5, with two wins against Boston College and MIT.

We hope to win. Plain and simple.

PETER COHEN ’14 Epee, Men’s fencing team “Sacred Heart — although not a particularly important opponent — represents the beginning of four weeks of consecutive tournaments,” captain Cornelius Saunders ’14 said in an email. “We are hoping to demonstrate not only our talent but also our readiness for the upcoming season. The match also provides an opportunity to correct any weak-

Paying athletes COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 to pay college athletes, believing such a plan would ruin collegiate sports by removing the amateur status of the athletes. But these people fail to realize that college athletics ceased to be amateur competitions when schools and conferences began to sign billion-dollar television deals.

The NCAA generates handsome licensing fees every season. Bigshot coaches like Nick Saban of Alabama are often paid more than their professional counterparts. Unscrupulous agents make millions by luring prominent players with promises of cash, cars and fame. Ironically, the people most responsible for the operation of this moneymaking machine, the student athletes, are completely cut off from the fruits of their labor.

Moreover, the term “studentathlete” is a misnomer. Athletes, coaches, boosters and schools pay little attention to the “student” part, placing the most importance on athletic rather than academic success. Take a look at the recently crowned national football champion, Florida State. Only 58 percent of the players on the team graduate every year.

Few college athletes will ever make it to the professional stage, yet schools and coaches rarely inform recruits of the difficult path they face. And once players leave a program without a degree and fail to become pro-

fessionals, they have few ways to adequately support themselves and their families.

College athletes, especially at powerhouse schools, have long abandoned the part of their identity that makes them amateurs. Trying to reconcile the moneymaking and amateur part of college athletics is akin to Lincoln’s analogy of “a house divided against itself” — it simply cannot happen.

Besides, does amateurism really matter anymore? The modern Olympics initially mandated that all athletes must be amateurs. For example, Jim Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals after it was discovered that he was compensated for playing baseball. Before the 1992 Olympics, people were concerned that the “Dream Team,” comprised of the best NBA players, would forever ruin Olympic basketball.

But now the involvement of professional athletes in the Olympics has proven to be nothing but a boon for the event.

People don’t really care whether athletes are amateurs or not as long as they can turn in spectacular performances. Maybe it is time to abandon our preoccupation with amateurism in college athletics and let players be compensated for their work.

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coming when Cheong played at No. 1 against Amherst in the first match of the season.

“They’ve been outstanding, all three of them,” Caine said. “They’re showing a lot of maturity. The sky’s the limit for what each of them can do, and hopefully they can continue this consistency through Rochester, Trinity and the whole season.”

The women’s team, meanwhile, will attempt to continue its streak of not losing an individual match, which it has been able to do for the first six matches of the season.

In November, Haverford was swept

by Franklin & Marshall, a team that the Bulldogs beat without dropping a single game. Tufts has had slightly more success against its competition, but still ranks 28th in the Collegiate Squash Association, 23 spots below Yale.

“We’re hoping to go in and work some on our games,” Saunders said.

“It’s tougher on the women’s side,

nesses.”

The matchup against Sacred Heart will be a tune-up for both teams as they gear up for the NYU Invitational the following week, where last year the men’s team posted a 3–2 record while the women’s team finished 1–4.

All the contests throughout the season will prepare the Bulldogs for the Ivy League Championships, which will be held at Brown on Feb. 8 and 9.

The women’s team is led by captain Lauren Miller ’15, who has finished in 13th and seventh place in foil at the past two NCAA National Championships. The young 16-person squad, the majority of whom are underclassmen, will look to improve upon the team’s 10th place finish at the NCAA National Championships.

Saunders, who also captained the team as a junior, leads the men’s team. The squad is made up of a core of fencers who have experience at NCAA regionals and national championships. Saunders and Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer ’14 both qualified for NCAA regionals alongside Cohen and Hugh O’Cinneide ’15, who also qualified for the NCAA National Championships and led the team to an 11th place finish.

The competition against Sacred Heart will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

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because there’s not as much competition, the team’s aren’t as deep. We’re expecting to win those pretty comfortably, but you never know what the day will bring.”

It’s very rare to have such a solid freshman class.

PAM SAUNDERS Associate head coach, Squash team For both teams, the ultimate test will come next Wednesday when they face Trinity. The Trinity men’s team is ranked first in the country and its women’s team is ranked second.

The Eli men will square off at Rochester on Saturday at 12:00 p.m., and matches for the women will begin at the Brady Squash Center on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

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

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The men’s squash team will compete at Rochester this weekend, while the women’s team will host both Haverford and Tufts.

Track takes on Ivy rivals TRACK FROM PAGE 12 the 2014 season.

The Bulldogs will own a slight advantage in the short sprints. Yale’s MarcAndre Alexander ’17 ran a 6.94 60-meter dash in last week’s meet, while Dartmouth’s top performer and fellow Canadian, sophomore John Abraham, ran a 7.04 in the Big Green’s fist scored meet of the season.

“I’m really excited about the meet,” sprinter Andrew Goble ’15 said. “Running against teams like Dartmouth and Columbia in a historic meet is an exciting chance for us to prove who we are this season.

We’ve been running well in the invitational meets, and now it’s time to see how that translates in these big-time scoring meets.”

In the middle distance — Yale’s evident strength this season — the Elis have a more decided advantage. The Bulldogs had three runners run sub 51-second 400-meter dashes at the Yale Invitational, while the Big Green managed to place just one runner, Phil Gomez, in the sub-51-second range. This even performance by the Elis lends an advantage to the Bulldogs in the 4x400 with the team of Alexander, Daniel Jones ’14, Dylan Hurley ’15 and William Rowe ’15 taking 3:19.88 to complete the event. Dartmouth’s ‘A’ team, on the other hand, finished the 4x400 in 3:22.85 last week.

In the men’s 3000-meter, Dartmouth holds the edge on paper, filling the podium last week with times of 8:15.15, 8:23.21 and 8:34.58. By contrast, Yale’s Isa Qasim ’15 ran the 3000-meter in 8:37.00. In the women’s 800-meter, Snajder leads the pack for the Elis with a time of 2:31.87, however, the Big Green’s top 800-meter performer finished the two laps in just 2:10.06 in December.

“Columbia is very strong in the mid distance and distance events, as their team is almost entirely made up of those

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Last weekend, the Bulldogs amassed 11 top-10 finishes in the unscored Yale Invitational event. event groups,” captain James Shirvell ’14 said. “Dartmouth has good individuals throughout the event groups.”

In field events, the Big Green will have a slight edge over the Bulldogs. In the Women’s triple jump, long jump and high jump, Dartmouth has outperformed Yale. In the women’s shot put, Dartmouth had four women throw beyond 11.62 meters in the 2013 Jay Carisella Track & Field Invita-

tional, while Yale’s Kate Simon ’17 was the only Yale shot putter to throw at least that distance.

Saturday’s meet will be Dartmouth’s fourth contest of the season, Yale’s third and Columbia’s first, and will take place in Hanover, N.H., at 12:00 p.m.

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The defenseman, who hails from Calgary, notched two assists and added a shorthanded goal in last Friday’s game against Dartmouth.

ST. LOUIS BLUES NHL HOCKEY On Jan. 24, the women’s hockey team will host the White Out for Mandy for the fourth consecutive year. This year’s game, however, will feature a new twist: For the first time, an entire NHL team — the St. Louis Blues — will be in attendance.

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The end of amateurism Talk about a stressful finals period. Students at Temple University got blindsided by more than exams this past December when the University announced that it will cut seven varsity teams: baseball, softball, men’s gymnastics, men’s outdoor track, men’s indoor track and both men’s and women’s crew.

According to Temple, the increasing costs of collegiate athletics have made these cuts necessary. The University said it lacks the resources to build new facilities, and that cutting the five men’s sports teams would help Temple to meet Title IX requirements without adding new teams.

University administrators claimed that cutting down the size of the athletics program would improve the experience of remaining student athletes. After all, those who survived the purge will now enjoy access to more resources and attention from the athletics department.

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Both the men’s and women’s squash teams have recorded perfect 6–0 records thus far this season.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER For the No. 3 Yale men’s squash team, the toughest part of its schedule is quickly approaching.

The Bulldogs (6–0, 2–0 Ivy) will head to No. 5 Rochester (6–1) on Saturday in hopes of defending their current ranking. Rochester will be the highest-ranked opponent that Yale will have faced so far this season.

“It’s going to be a really close,

tight, match,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said. “It’s not going to be easy. It’ll probably be 5–4, one way or the other, but I think our men are ready for it.”

The No. 5 women’s team (6–0, 2–0 Ivy) will stay at home this weekend to face Haverford (1–3) and Tufts (3–5) on Sunday.

The Rochester men will be playing for the first time since defeating No. 7 Princeton in early December.

The Yellowjackets beat the Tigers 6–3 in that match, while Yale over-

came Princeton 5–4 at the Ivy Scrimmages in November.

Yale came out on top when the Bulldogs and Yellowjackets met last season, but both teams have lost star players and recruited new talent since then, so this year’s contest appears to be anyone’s match.

The Eli men will rely on the depth in the middle of their ladder, which has helped them in tight matches this season.

“Rochester’s one of those teams where we have a shot to win in every

spot, but so do they,” men’s captain Eric Caine ’14 said. “They’re uniformly strong across the board and so are we, so I don’t think any one spot is more or less important than another.”

The team’s three freshmen have been especially strong at the fourth through sixth seeds. Thomas Dembinski ’17, Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Liam McClintock ’17 are 12–1 combined this season, with the only loss

compete this season, Dartmouth has run two unscored races and took first place in their first scored contest of

Juliet Macur of The New York Times pointed out that the seven teams cut all belong to the category of “true amateur sport.” Athletes on these teams have little hope of monetary gain or eternal glory. For fans, amateur athletes tend to hold a special place in their hearts, since they participate in their respective sports for sheer pleasure rather than tangible rewards. This helps to explain the popularity of collegiate sports in the United States. As professional leagues grow in popularity, the NCAA seems to offer the last bastion for amateur athletics.

However, Temple’s decision to downsize shows something that has become increasingly clear in the last few years: Money rules collegiate sports. If Temple truly wanted to trim its annual athletics budget, it would have cut football and men’s basketball, the two most expensive programs to maintain.

But unlike the seven now-defunct teams, football and basketball together generate nearly $20 million in total revenue for Temple, more than double of what all other teams bring in.

“True amateur sports” like crew and gymnastics lead to little or no returns on the investment made by an athletics department. And just like in any other profitdriven business, these “unprofitable” sports are usually the first to go when athletic budgets are trimmed.

Now, I can’t say for sure whether Temple University made the right choice by reducing the number of athletic teams. The officials who made this decision are better informed about the needs of their student athletes than I am. Temple simply joined a growing list of universities (see: Rutgers, Maryland, Robert Morris) that are downsizing the number of athletic teams they field in order to save money. The decisions of these schools reveal the oxymoronic state of college athletics: Schools and the NCAA still obsess over the amateur status of athletes even while they rake in billions of dollars in ticket, television, merchandise and advertisement revenues.

Critics of the NCAA in the last few years have become increasingly vocal. Many now publicly declare that college athletes should be paid in addition to the scholarships they receive. In the class action lawsuit O’Bannon v. NCAA, a group of former college players argued that they should be entitled to financial compensation from the NCAA upon graduation.

Some fans are horrified by the proposal

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Track preps to hurdle ivy foes

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER The Bulldogs warmed up their 2014 season with 11 top-10 finishes in the unscored 32nd annual Yale Invitational meet. This weekend, they will begin scored competition.

TRACK At noon on Saturday, Jan. 18, the Bulldogs will take on the Dartmouth Big Green and the Columbia Lions in a small, three-team, Ivy meet in Hanover, N.H. This will mark the first scored meet for the Elis in the lengthy track and field season.

Although early season competition against local teams has provided the Elis with preparation, the level of competition from rival Ancient Eight competitors will raise the stakes.

Our team responds well to that kind of competitive pressure.

AMANDA SNAJDER ’14 Captain, Women’s track and field team “It’s one thing to compete against schools from the area, whose athletes’ faces and names we don’t rec-

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Both the men’s and women’s track teams will travel to Hanover to take on Dartmouth and Columbia this weekend. ognize, but the competition becomes something else entirely when you know who your opponents are and recognize the tradition in the rivalries,” Amanda Snajder ’14 said. “Our

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team responds well to that kind of competitive pressure so we’re sure to see some great performances from our group.”

Although Columbia has yet to

College athletics ceased to be amateur competitions when schools and conferences began to sign billion-dollar television deals.

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THAT BOTH THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SQUASH TEAMS HAVE WON TO START THEIR SEASONS. The men’s squash team is ranked third in the country, while the women are ranked fifth.