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YCC approaches administration with referendum report

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Data policy debated

W I N T E R ST O R M JA N U S

You don’t get to around 2,000 users without making a few

enemies. “Did Yale just squash the next Facebook?” a piece by TV news channel HLN asked about YBB+. The piece then compared Harry and Peter to the Winklevoss twins. Does this make Sean Haufler ’14 Sean Parker?

YBB+ CLOSURE PROMPTS QUESTIONS ABOUT YALE RULES

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER

Are you there, Bob? It’s me,

Margaret. Yale is hosting a live interview with Professor Robert “Nobel Prize” Shiller on Jan. 30 and is accepting questions from the public via Twitter (@Yale) and Facebook (Yale). Get creative folks.

Meanwhile, Saybrook struggles on. Saybrook has

proved incapable of choosing a college mascot once again.

After a round of elections, the Saybrook College Council minutes state: “As no mascot choice achieved atwo-thirds vote, so there is no official change! Yaaay.”

Grading your professors.

US News & World Report, everybody’s favorite source of college rankings, released its list of best universities for focus on undergraduate teaching. Dartmouth came in first, Princeton in second and Yale in fifth, admirable but with room for improvement.

Please use this instance to remind your professors to step it up — this University has a reputation to maintain!

To screw or not to screw. All

Sillimanders can now undergo the stress of the Yale screw along with everyone else.

The college has announced plans to partake in the most questionable of Yale traditions.

Remember, if it’s not a good screw, it’s at least a good story.

Also taking up painting ...

Silliman is also making plans for its own mural. Is there something in the water over there?

Students run gym no pun

intended. Yale SOM has inexplicably chosen to spotlight exercise over food.

A student-run gym called Fit for Thought was opened this week, a successor to the student-run cafe Food for Thought. At least the effort donates its proceeds to a good cause — the Internship Fund, which helps students connect with summer internships in nonprofits (so basically UCS, but not for finance and consulting.)

Frost burned. In another show of questionable reporting from Fox News, Yale did not make the 10 snowiest colleges in the U.S. They clearly have never made the trudge up Science Hill on a winter day.

Dartmouth and Cornell, however, did make the list.

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FROZEN As Yale battens down the hatches in anticipation of six to 12 inches of snow on Tuesday evening, the city and campus remain vibrant. With schedules due Thursday, shoppers will need to endure the slicked roads and blanketed roofs while trekking around campus.

When Sean Haufler ’14 made Banned Bluebook, a Chrome extension that replicates the function of the blocked Yale Bluebook Plus website, he wrote on his blog, “I hope I don’t get kicked out of Yale for this.”

But instead of expulsion, Haufler received praise from Yale College Dean Mary Miller, who called Haufler’s innovation “a good quick fix” in a Tuesday interview with the News, and said in an open letter to the Yale community on Monday that the Chrome extension does not violate Yale’s acceptable use policy.

Haufler created Banned Bluebook several days after the administration blocked YBB+ on the grounds that its developers, Harry Yu ’14 and Peter Xu ’14, had violated Yale’s acceptable use policy by scraping data from Yale’s online course catalog and hosting it on their own servers. In both her Monday letter and a previous Friday letter to the Yale community, Miller said the adminisSEE DATA PAGE 4

UCS increases international opportunities

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER

INTERNATIONAL BULLDOGS NEW INTERNSHIP LOCATIONS

While many students will work in the United States this summer, others will take advantage of opportunities abroad, as the Undergraduate Career Services expands the number of UCS-sponsored overseas internships.

This year, UCS has added internship opportunities in nine countries — Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Jordan, South Africa and South Korea — and has changed its policy to allow students to apply to more than three UCSsponsored international internships. Still, while alumni in the 10 countries where UCS already sponsors internships generally arrange housing for interns, that option is not yet available to students who wish to work in the nine new countries.

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Columbia Brazil

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Ward 7 seat up for grabs

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Doug Hausladen ’04 is getting an appointment. Ella Wood ’15 is getting a second chance.

Half a year after an unsuccessful bid for Hausladen’s spot on the New Haven Board of Alders, Wood has entered conversations about running a second time for the Ward 7 seat that Hausladen will resign this month in favor of a City Hall appointment. Ward 7 Co-Chair Alberta Witherspoon told the News Tuesday afternoon that Wood called her that morning to say she wanted to run — and to request a meeting to discuss the race.

Abby Roth ’90 LAW ’94, special assistant to Yale School of Management Dean Edward Snyder, said she also plans to run. Roth said Hausladen, who will take over as the city’s new traffic director on Feb. 1, approached her about succeeding him.

Reached Tuesday evening, Wood said she plans to meet with Witherspoon and fellow co-chair Nadine Wall — but that she has not made up her mind about running.

“It’s a process of figuring out what will be best for the ward,” Wood said. “I think with a special election coming up in the ward, the issues that were facing us last SepSEE WARD 7 PAGE 6

Sandy Hook shooter treated at Yale

BY MAREK RAMILO AND HANNAH SCHWARZ ASSOCIATED PRESS A team of Yale researchers was among the first to diagnose the mental illnesses that plagued Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, according to police documents. Their proposed treatment plan was ultimately resisted by the shooter and his mother.

On Dec. 27, the Connecticut State Police released its final report on the investigation into the Dec. 14, 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 students and school staff dead. The report contained the names of Kathleen Koenig YSN ’88 and Robert King, both staff at the Child Study Center, who began to treat Lanza in 2006. Together, King and Koenig sought to devise a course of treatment that combined

behavioral-based therapy and a prescription for Celexa, a common anti-depressant.

However, Lanza’s mother, Nancy Lanza, objected to the program — particularly the use of medication to treat her son — and discontinued her son’s treatment after only four visits to the center.

The medication was not causing any […] symptoms which [Lanza was experiencing].

CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE REPORT “Koenig received a phone call from Nancy Lanza which reported her son was ‘unable to raise his arm,’” a document in the State Police report reads.

“Nancy Lanza was reporting her son was attributing this symptom to the medication … due to her son’s symptoms, he would be discontinuing use of the medication. Koenig attempted to convince Nancy Lanza that the medication was not causing any purported symptoms which Adam Lanza might be experiencing. However, Nancy Lanza was not receptive to Koenig’s reasoning.”

Koenig, King and other Child Study Center representatives declined requests for comment.

Documents show that Lanza was first seen at the Child Study Center on Oct. 24, 2006 for a three-hour psychiatric evaluation conducted with King.

The family was subsequently referred to Koenig, a psychiatric nurse, for regular therapy appointments.

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Take a walk, Salovey

s the spring semester begins with terrifying swiftness, we should pause to consider President Peter Salovey’s first term on the job. All in all, I think most would agree that it’s been a successful couple of months. The transition went off without a hitch, we’re $250 million richer, and we all got to enjoy the inaugural festivities. Yet President Salovey is lacking in one vital and easily fixed way: He could be more approachable.

Let me start with a story. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, Yale’s president was Kingman Brewster. Brewster saw the University through the student protests and complex racial politics of that era, publicly sympathizing with and legitimizing antiwar and civil rights activists. He made Yale accessible to women, minorities and the working class, and he made himself more accessible to them. Though he was not perfect, Brewster was unceasingly approachable.

Brewster walked around. By scheduling meetings all across campus, rather than solely in his office, he made himself visible.

Intentionally taking different routes each time and walking — never driving — he would often stop to talk to students as he crossed various courtyards and streets. Brewster and his wife, Mary Louise, were regularly seen walking their Labradors around campus in the evenings. When students inevitably invited the first couple up into their rooms, they would gladly oblige.

At every sports event, concert and holiday function, the Brewsters made themselves accessible.

When the freshmen moved in on Old Campus, Brewster and other high-level administrators were there to greet them, helping to lug bags up stairs and into dorm rooms. Students knew this man who walked around, who paused briefly to talk with them and who even stopped by their rooms.

Brewster’s focus on approachability did not just extend to himself and other administrators. He also mandated that members of the Yale Corporation eat lunch with undergraduates and graduate students every time they were in town — which they were, frequently.

Fast forward to the years of President Richard Levin. President Levin, for all of his work engaging with the city of New Haven and with the wider world, was not approachable to students. President Levin, who so skillfully grew Yale’s endowment and built its brand, was not known as one to eat with students, to chat with them, to meander. He did not walk across campus to meetings very often.

President Salovey is trying to make himself more approach-

able than his predecessor.

His “Notes from Woodbridge Hall” are warmer, funnier and more informative than SCOTT were Levin’s STERN communiqués. He has A Stern attempted to Perspective make himself visible, conducting the band at a hockey game and performing with his bluegrass band at the Inaugural Ball.

These actions are a wonderful start, a good sign of what the future could hold. But they are not all he is capable of doing.

What I want from Salovey is simple. It’s easy. Please, sir, take a walk. Walk across campus to meetings; go for a stroll in the evenings. Chat with students, stop by rooms, converse with spectators at sports games or official ceremonies.

I understand that the presidency is a time-consuming job, and I applaud President Salovey for the work he’s doing and for the efforts he’s made thus far to be visible. But visibility is not enough. Approachability is key.

By taking valuable time to walk around, to talk with students, President Salovey can ensure that he keeps himself apprised of student opinion. President Brewster knew this. He was able to weather the storms of the 1960s and 1970s because he knew what students were feeling and he knew he had to respond.

Many have greeted with skepticism or scorn the idea that simple approachability can change an administration. But approachability doesn’t just mean friendly faces — it means administrators who better understand the student attitude toward changing circumstances, what they are feeling and why.

Would the administration have attempted to ram through last year’s grading changes if they better understood Yale’s culture? Would Dean Mary Miller have trampled on free speech had she anticipated the firestorm that would follow the CourseTable decision? Maybe, but maybe not.

Students also bear some of the responsibility in ensuring that our leaders understand our concerns. If we see President Salovey on the street, we should go up to him and tell him what we think. But first, he has to go outside and take a walk.

GUE ST COLUMNIST BRENNAN TURNER

Mandi’s struggle and emergence I

n western Canada, above the sometimes forgotten states of Montana and North Dakota, there is a province called Saskatchewan. The winters are cold and the summers are hot. Towns are linked by the railway, two-lane highways, gravel road and the local hockey rink, the community’s focal point.

In Wilcox, a town of just over 300 people, you’ll find a school known worldwide for its student-athletes, specifically in ice hockey. Alumni include Hockey Hall of Famers like Curtis Joseph, Jason Kenny and the Boston Bruins’ Gord Kluzak. It’s also the home of my late friend and Yale Bulldog, Mandi Schwartz.

My high school, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame (ND), has sent over a dozen hockey players to Yale in the last 30 years or so. I came in fall 2005 and Mandi a year later in 2006. I humbly admit that Mandi was a much better hockey player than I was — mainly because she could score goals while I just hit people and made decent breakout passes.

Just like Yale has its “Lux et Veritas” motto, ND’s “Luctor et

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others, sent words of encouragement to Mandi as she went through rounds of chemotherapy back in wintery Saskatchewan.

Mandi, ever the warrior, struggled, emerged and beat her cancer.

But cancer is like a game-winning overtime goal that gets waived off months after the last whistle is blown. Mandi’s second battle with AML began in April 2010 and became a war. We sent the rallying cry out to the global ice hockey community and thousands responded to her struggle by registering as bone marrow donors.

Mandi’s story was featured on ESPN, Good Morning America and countless of publications around the globe. Mandi was struggling and we were trying our hardest to help her emerge. Unfortunately, on Jan. 5, 2011 we were told that no more could be done to help her and Mandi passed away three short months later on April 3, 2011. The struggle seemed to be over.

Yet, in the almost three years since that time, I still see Mandi emerging. I see Mandi emerge in the form of the bursary that was

started at Notre Dame in her memory, supporting young ambitious student-athletes. I see Mandi emerge as her name continues to be the chorus for our rallying cry at events like “White Out For Mandi” this Friday at the Whale. I see her emerge through the Mandi Schwartz Foundation, which celebrates sports and encourages students to sign up for the bone marrow donor registry. And that’s where I see Mandi emerging most: in the lives of the 21 people who are still living today as a result of bone marrow transplants from donors who signed up because they wanted to share in Mandi’s struggle.

“Luctor et Emergo,” my school’s motto, emphasizes that adversity builds character. Mandi believed this, too: For every struggle, there is an emergence. While Mandi’s passing was a tragedy, the struggle against cancer still exists, and I hope that you are a part of the emergence.

BRENNAN TURNER is a 2009 graduate of Pierson College.

Wanted, fewer dumb students T

he latest issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine featured an article with the headline “Wanted: smart students from poor families.” The article, written by David Zax ’06, focuses primarily on the unfortunately small percentage of Yale undergraduates that comes from the country’s lower economic quintiles. He also questions what sort of advantages admissions officers should give to students of these disadvantaged backgrounds.

While I applaud the Yale Alumni Magazine for recognizing the significance of socioeconomic diversity, the manner by which it recognizes and suggests solutions is blatantly offensive and classist.

For a moment, I suggest we consider what an alternative, similarly distasteful form of the headline would be: “Wanted: fewer dumb students from rich families.”

As a QuestBridge Scholar from a multiethnic, single-parent household, I suppose I am the quintessential type of student that Yale should be looking for, and that is precisely why I am so incredibly bothered by this. If Yale really wants to attract more “poor” students, we should not be treated as though we are an elusive rarity. Regardless of their socioeconomic histories, people have diverse and deeply complex life experiences. In fact, placing students into socioeconomic brackets

is rather difficult in the first place, and attempting to do so can be polarizing and inadequate.

For instance, in my early childhood, I attended mostly private schools, but after my parents’ divorce, my Peruvian mother, who began earning her undergraduate degree when I was 10 years old, primarily supported my two younger brothers and me. Throughout my middle school and high school years, my mother finished her B.A. and worked part-time. Now, she works full-time and is earning an MBA. In high school, however, I had friends with immigrant parents who couldn’t speak English and struggled to understand the significance of higher education. These experiences are completely different, but the magazine article suggests that they are similar. Though I encourage Yale to admit students from diverse backgrounds, I do not feel that splitting people into buckets such as “poor” and “rich” is politically correct or even accurate.

My public charter high school in South Florida, Doral Academy, is composed overwhelmingly of students from Latin American immigrant families. The vast majority of the student body had either free or reduced lunch meal plans due to their families’ incomes. To this date, I am the only person from my high school to attend an Ivy League institution. Regardless of

where I come from, like most other Yalies I know, I am grateful to have been admitted to this institution, and due to financial aid, I am able to afford this education.

But no matter how glad I am to be here or how statistically rare it is for a person of my background to be here, I hope I am at Yale because I worked hard. I do not want to owe my education to Yale’s admissions officers and alumni who were pandering to admit me instead of the “lower hanging fruit” that attended more impressive high schools and have wealthier parents.

I know that I possess an ethnically ambiguous face and a limited amount of J.Crew, but I hope that I was admitted to Yale because of my merits and talents. I hope that I was admitted because I gave the impression that I am a promising individual — not because I participated in the QuestBridge program, which I did because it reduced the cost of application fees and allowed me to apply to a broader scope of colleges. While I recognize the significance of programs such as QuestBridge and the considerations of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, suggesting that students who are neither white nor wealthy somehow need more “assistance” in attaining admission is unfair. I do not want to be seen as an esteemed example of Yale’s quest for textbook diver-

sity.

Instead of solely targeting “smart, poor students,” like Dick Cheney might look for a duck in his viewfinder, Yale should focus more on fostering educational studies programs. Instead of functioning as a safety net for “poor” kids who’d otherwise fall through the cracks, Yale should strive to improve impoverished and disadvantaged communities.

More than this, Yale, through research and academic programs, should focus on the vast socioeconomic disparity throughout the world.

I am indeed demanding and asking a lot from our university, but that is only because Yale has asked a lot from me. Now that I am here, as a woman of color from a family with a limited amount of financial resources, I believe that it is my responsibility to point out that the issue of socioeconomic diversity is not, in fact, one-dimensional; it is a vastly complex problem embedded in our country and world.

Sending out more pamphlets and setting up tables is, in fact, only a start.

A magazine article should at least attempt to represent this whole truth.

ADRIANA MIELE is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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Emergo” (Struggle and Emerge) is something that students sweat, bleed and cry. You carry it with you the rest of your life. And it became Mandi’s go-to mantra as she left Saskatchewan during mid-harvest for the fall colors of New England.

Coming from a town of 300 to a campus with 300 students in one dorm alone can be intimidating, but Mandi struggled and emerged.

Mandi quickly gained a reputation on Yale’s ice hockey team for being a tireless worker, both on and off the ice. Often the first in the gym and at the rink, Mandi used every day as an opportunity to better herself. Working at the Yale Athletics Department’s Office, I’d often ask Mandi’s coaches how she was doing. They often responded, “I’m worried that she’s going to burn out.” But Mandi struggled and emerged and kept going.

I was immersed in minor professional hockey ranks in Fresno, Calif. when I got the news in early December 2008 that Mandi had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a form of bone marrow cancer. I, amongst many

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'JOEY' ON 'J. PRESS TO BE DEMOLISHED'

here’s very little anyone can contribute to the marijuana legalization debate at this point. We know the numbers: The American Civil Liberties Union reports that over half of the drug arrests in 2010 were for pot, and of the 8.2 million arrests over the last decade, 88 percent were for possession only — many for very small amounts. We also know that enforcement, like that of many other crimes, is often racist: African Americans are three times as likely as whites to be arrested for pot use.

But we also know that this debate is, at its core, a rather unpredictable means-ends calculation: Is alleviating these clearly unjust incarceration rates justified when we consider the effect of further destigmatization and normalization of pot use on society? Do we really want another legal alcohol-like substance floating around (yes, yes, I know, it’s an imperfect analogy for both sides) for people waiting to try?

Stop reading and take to Google if you want an answer to those questions. It’s worth taking up instead, I think, the advice that President Obama gave to his daughters over the past weekend: “[Pot is] not something I encourage, and I’ve told my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” the father of two said.

But the question is: Who cares about his advice?

Just a little over 50 years ago, as the country stood on the JOHN brink of sevAROUTI eral defining social moveOUNIAN ments, pot use was a rarity in Johnny GalCome Lately America. lup reports that only 4 percent of adults said they had tried marijuana in 1969 — there’s bound to be some underreporting in that number, though the reality of a very dramatic increase in use in the intervening years remains the same.

Back then, everyday life was a little less mapped out than it is today: There were fewer suburbs, fewer cars and stoplights, fewer stores, fewer schools, fewer school activities, more space between neighbors, more open space in general. The list could go on, but the point is that life lacked much of the structure we know today — it was far more common in many places for kids to play, unattended and cellphone-less, in unnamed parcels of land than in public parks or on the concrete of sprawling

suburban neighborhoods. You had to be more nimble and to proceed more with open eyes, because everything didn’t have a sign on it. And while life was less structured, it was more compact — your neighbors knew you, and it was possible that the entire town, for better or for worse, knew you.

One of the big changes of the past 50 years has occurred in the manner in which people form communities, which has gone from being a matter of necessity in everyday life to a completely voluntary association. People now move to the communities they want to join, and even then they can withdraw at any time — an option not open to most in history.

What this also means is that parents are less aware of what their children are doing than ever before. Think about the infinite number of things you could do, in high school and now in college, without your parents being aware.

Think of the effect your mother’s worried face or her stifled tears could have on you when she found out about your transgressions. It matters less and less what President Obama — or any other parent in the country — thinks, as he’s less likely to find out if his daughters are smoking pot than 50 years ago. And he’s also less likely to influence their decision if he does find out.

Increasingly, the only person

left to shape your want and desires is yourself, with family and community replaced by media and the microcultures of cliques and friend groups, who do not often have an individual’s best interests at heart. There’s less wisdom for young people today to draw from, because the structure is such that they often didn’t receive any.

In short, it means that the forces shaping our wants and desires, many of which we don’t control despite our myopic belief in our own autonomy, have grown more impersonal — and consequently, less responsible for our outcomes. All the while, life today is both more structured and the list of freedoms, drugs included, more dangerous. And the politicization of many of these freedoms makes autonomous decision making, as opposed to just accepting the narrative thrown at you, even more difficult.

Whether pot legalization is worth the cost today will inevitably be answered by state legalization projects over the next couple of years. But one thing remains clear: If legalization were happening 50 years ago, pot users would be better off.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Wednesdays.

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NEWS

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’”

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Hausladen named transit chief

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Doug Housladen ’04 was appointed the Director of the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking on Tuesday.

Doug Hausladen ’04, who has championed street safety and public transit as an alderman in Ward 7, was named the city’s new director of the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking on Tuesday.

Mayor Toni Harp announced the appointment at a press conference on the second floor of City Hall — just a stone’s throw from Hausladen’s post in the chambers of the Board of Aldermen, to which he first won election in 2011. Hausladen, 31, will assume the $90,775-a-year job on Feb. 1. He will replace outgoing traffic chief Jim Travers, who stepped down this month in favor of a position at the social services nonprofit United Way. “For the past … six years, I have dedicated my life to helping move New Haven forward with a transportation system that is built and designed for all users and for our 21st-century needs,” Hausladen said. He cited two 2008 pedestrian deaths — of Mila Rainoff MED ’08 and 11-year-old Gabrielle Lee — as inspiration for his work.

Divestment proposed to administration PROPOSAL TIMELINE Nov. 12 Campaigning begins in the YCC referendum

Nov. 20 Students vote in favor of divestment in YCC referendum

Nov. 13 Town-hall debate between Students for a Strong Endowment and Fossil Free Yale

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Two months after the Yale student body voted overwhelmingly in favor of divestment from fossil fuel companies, the issue is slated to reach Yale’s administration for ultimate decision Five groups, which include two opposing student organizations and several senior Yale administrators, have shaped the debate surrounding divestment over the past year. While some have argued that divestment from fossil fuels is an ethical necessity, others objected to using the University’s endowment as a political instrument. Over half of the Yale undergraduate student body voted in the Yale College Council referendum, and 83 percent of the voting group favored divestment.

This week, the YCC presented its official position paper to the administration. The paper is a direct result of the student body’s vote in support of divestment from fossil fuel companies two months ago.

“Yale students are, in a word, smart,” Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, said in an email. “They know the existential threat that hangs over their future, and they know the university’s trustees can take a significant step toward lifting that threat. People around the world will read of this vote and take heart.”

In the coming month, the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR) — an entity composed of faculty and students that considers and makes recommendations on ethical issues surrounding the University’s investments — will present its official recommendations to the Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR), which addresses the University’s investment practices. The three members of the CCIR will then have final authority on the issue of divestment.

“We certainly will take [the undergraduate] vote into account as we continue our work on the important subject of Yale’s investment in companies whose activities contribute to climate change,” members of the ACIR wrote in a Dec. 9 open letter to the Yale community. But, they added, “Under basic principles of corporate and university governance, the ACIR, in order to advise the Yale Corporation effectively, must act independently when formulating its recommendations to the CCIR.” The ACIR said it takes the interests of all

Jan. 20 YCC submits official position statement to the administration

Dec. 9 ACIR submits open letter to Yale

Feb. 22 ACIR presents to the CCIR, who will have final say on divestment

Jan. 30 ACIR will have open meeting to the Yale community

members of the Yale community — past, present and future — into account when making decisions, adding that it also considers the global community in which Yale exists.

Members of Fossil Free Yale, the student activist group that brought forth the divestment referendum to the student body, expressed optimism about the results of the YCC vote in November. While the referendum was a positive contribution to the divestment effort, Fossil Free Yale would have continued working with the ACIR anyway, said Gabe Rissman ’16, a representative of the organization.

Fossil Free Yale is now collaborating with the ACIR to establish a metric to measure the emissions of companies, Rissman said, adding that an existing metric created by the Carbon Disclosure Project — which measures the emissions generated by a company relative to its energy production — could give an empirical estimate of a company’s impact on the climate.

“I’m very optimistic that positive results will come,” he said. “It seems like we’re building more and more evidence.”

On Jan. 30, the ACIR will host an open meeting for the Yale community in which students and faculty are encouraged to share their ideas with the ACIR. The ACIR will present its findings to the CCIR one month later.

“I think we can expect the ACIR to request disclosure of the environmental performance metrics we specified before then,” Gabe Levine ’14, policy coordinator for Fossil Free Yale, said in an email. “What remains to be determined is how Yale will treat those companies that don’t want their investors to know how much damage they’re doing to the climate — we hope the ACIR and the CCIR will agree that Yale will divest in those cases.”

YCC president Danny Avraham ’15 said the YCC has already spoken with University President Peter Salovey, Provost Benjamin Polak and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews to discuss students’ position on the matter.

Goff-Crews said the administration is looking into presenting the YCC statement to the CCIR this spring.

In total, 43 percent of the undergraduate population actively supported divestment in the referendum.

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

On the Board, Hausladen was a vocal proponent of the city’s Complete Streets program, a policy that seeks to improve the safety and accessibility of public thoroughfares. Hausladen led efforts to calm traffic in the busy downtown neighborhood and to make streets accessible to cyclists and pedestrians, including taking a leading role in the redesign of the intersection of Whitney Avenue and Audubon Street.

Following formal remarks, Hausladen previewed the administration’s immediate transit angenda, describing specific improvements he will seek to affect in his new position. He said he will ask the state of Connecticut to implement Global Positioning System services for CT Transit buses operating in New Haven. He described a system akin to the GPS device used for the Yale Shuttle, which operates on routes through campus, downtown and the East Rock neighborhood. Hausladen said he will also advocate for additional lines and for later hours on CT Transit.

“How about a bus system that doesn’t end at 11 p.m.?” he said.

Harp described her appointee as the “perfect candidate,” saying Hausladen combines talent with passion and will “challenge the accepted way of doing things.” The appointment marks a willingness to transcend allegiances from last fall’s election. Hausladen was an outspoken supporter of Harp’s opponent, former Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10.

Harp described transportation as a “civil rights issue” last week, throwing her weight behind a feasibility study concerning bringing streetcars to New Haven. Harp’s economic development administrator, Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, unveiled the proposal for federal funds that would underwrite the study last week. Harp said too many residents go without adequate transportation, which harms both their employment prospects and the city’s commercial activities. The administration will seek broad input from residents and alders on potential plans for trolleys and other public transit options, she added.

Nemerson said Hausladen will be tasked with executing the administration’s vision for a more robust

and equitable public transportation system. He said the most important attribute Hausladen brings to the job is his attentiveness to the interests of consumers and residents, having served them for more than two years as an alderman.

“He refuses to take ‘no’ for an answer, and now that he’s on our team, that’s going to be very important,” Nemerson said.

Travers, the city’s transit, traffic and parking chief since 2008, leaves the department on firm footing, according to deputy director Mike Mohler.

He said Hausladen has “big shoes to fill” but added that the new appointee shares Travers’s commitment to ensuring the safety of New Haven streets and the accessibility of multiple means of transportation.

Hausladen currently works for the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, an organization under the umbrella of the Yale School of Public Health.

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

Calculus expands “flipped” model

BY JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTER If students in Yale math professor Jim Rolf’s section of “Calculus of Functions of One Variable II” last semester were watching online videos as they did their homework, they were doing their job.

The 10 to 15 minute videos, which feature Rolf lecturing on introductory calculus concepts aided by animated graphics, form part of an approach to teaching called the flipped classroom: Students watch brief video lectures covering new concepts as part of their homework and spend class time applying and extending those concepts with guidance from their instructor. Rolf taught a flipped section for the first time this fall and hopes to make flipped classrooms the new model for Yale’s introductory calculus curriculum. He will be joined in teaching flipped sections this spring by math lecturer Yu-Wen Hsu GRD ’13 and math professor Sam Payne.

According to end-of-semester evaluations, 72 percent of students in the flipped classroom agreed that the videos were helpful to their learning.

The flipped classroom is not new, nor is it unique to Yale. Over the last decade, it has grown in popularity with teachers of all grade levels across the country.

In fall 2011, University President Peter Salovey co-taught a flipped classroom seminar, “Great Big Ideas,” where students watched lectures at home in preparation for classroom discussion.

While some instructors supplement their lectures with videos already available online, like those at Khan Academy, Rolf developed original videos for his Math 115 classes last summer in collaboration with Hsu, graphic designer Matt Croasmun ’01 DIV ’06 GRD ’14, and staff from the Center for Scientific Teaching and Broadcast and Media Center. The project drew funding from multiple sources, including the Information Technology Group and the Provost’s Office.

Hsu said Rolf’s version of the flipped classroom would follow what Rolf dubs the “ICE” framework: inform, confirm and extend.

The informational videos in the inform portion are accompanied by quiz questions in the confirm portion, which are factored into students’ final grades. In the extend portion, which takes place during class, instructors introduce harder problems and higherlevel mathematical applications.

“The videos definitely help, because [Rolf] can do so much more when he doesn’t have to do the basics of everything,” said Jihad Womack ’17, who took Math 115 with Rolf last term. “I liked that we didn’t go into class blindly.”

Although the questions accompanying the videos could be much more difficult than the concepts the videos introduced, Rolf reinforced his students’ understanding by reviewing the more complex material in class, Womack added.

People think the flipped classroom is all about the whizz-bangs you can do screen.

MATTHEW CROASMUN ’01 DIV ’06 GRD ’14 Staff, Center for Scientific Teaching and Broadcast and Media Center Yet Womack expressed concern about the assignments piling up as the semester drew closer to midterm exams. Students in Rolf’s flipped section were expected to watch the videos and complete their accompanying quizzes in addition to handing in regular problem sets, making for an occasionally “overwhelming” workload.

Flipped classrooms also require a greater time commitment from their instructors. Payne, Hsu and Rolf said they are up early each morning to review student feedback and the results from the previous night’s quizzes. From those results, they tailor each lecture to target difficult concepts and minimize time spent on well understood concepts. “[The videos] take a lot of the guesswork out,” Payne said.

“When you’re in lecture, sometimes you’re trying to read faces to figure out what they don’t under-

stand. Now I show up at 9 a.m., and I have feedback.”

Students who feel less comfortable asking questions in lecture, Payne said, might especially benefit from the videos. Should they need a review, they can rewatch the video for clarification; Hsu mentioned that because students watch the videos outside of class, they can learn and digest material at their own pace. And, because responses to and questions about the video are received anonymously, shyer students might be more inclined to inform their instructors when they are having trouble.

Rolf acknowledged that not everyone feels comfortable with the flipped classrooms. With time, he hopes other instructors will come to feel that the videos help teach more effectively and save valuable class time —time, Rolf said, that can now be spent on other things.

Rolf plans to make increasedclassroom use of Learning Catalytics software, which allows him to quiz students online and receive immediate feedback on what they do and don’t understand. In the future, Rolf said he hopes to invite professors from other schools, like the School of Music or School of Medicine, to discuss how math applies to a variety of disciplines.

Croasmun, who worked with Rolf on the design and narrative of the videos, said that the videos would enhance interactions between students and their instructors, not replace them.

“People think the flipped classroom is all about the whizz-bangs you can do on screen,” Croasmun said. “But, at the end of the day, the reason to flip a classroom is to increase student-teacher contact, to offload the information dump that usually has to happen to make the best use of class time.

When [Rolf] walks in, students are already way ahead of where they would have been if he then had to lecture for half an hour. It’s clearing the way for [class] to be more interactive, so that the instructor can be most useful to students.”

Prior to coming to Yale, Rolf taught math at the United States Air Force Academy.

Contact JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensible than the fighting of elections.” WINSTON CHURCHILL BRITISH STATESMAN

Lanza links to Child Study Center revealed LANZA FROM PAGE 1 The initial visit was arranged

by Lanza’s father, Peter, who told police that Adam “loved being a kid.” But by age 11, Peter reportedly noticed a shift in his son’s disposition, prompting him to approach King.

During the initial examination, King found Lanza to have a “profound” case of autism and concerning isolationist and antisocial tendencies. Still, King insisted to police that he saw nothing to indicate extreme potential for violence.

“During my brief meeting with [Adam Lanza], while I was concerned clinically with his rigidity and social constriction, I noted nothing … which would have made this unfortunate outcome foreseeable,” King told state police.

Koenig’s meetings with Lanza resulted in similar conclusions, resulting in her advice that he take medication. In particular, Koenig was hoping to treat Lanza’s case of OCD, which she believed “severely limited his ability to lead a normal, welladjusted life,” according to the reports.

The disorder resulted in a number of odd behaviors, including washing his hands repeatedly, changing outfits numerous times throughout the day and wiping down surfaces with his sleeves before handling them. He also grew exceptionally sensitive to light, doctors noted.

Additionally, Koenig revealed to investigators that Lanza asked several questions about mental disorders during therapy without any apparent relevance to himself — he often framed his curiosity as general interest in schizophrenia, psychotic depression and OCD.

Koenig’s attempts and Nancy Lanza’s subsequent refusals bring to the forefront the difficulty mental health officials often face when working with uncooperative patients. Unless patients demonstrate that they pose a clear danger to themselves or others, professionals cannot compel treatment.

However, parents often resist prescribed courses of treatment, according to Howard Zonana, the director of the Psychiatry and Law Division at the Yale Medical School. Zonana said several factors could influence such a reaction, including denial or a belief that one’s case is simply not extreme enough to be treated by medicine.

Bandy Lee MED ’94 DIV ’95, a researcher at the School of Medicine who specializes in psychiatric violence studies, said that treatment is a critical step in keeping patients stable.

“When mental illness is welltreated in society, patients are not necessarily more violent,” Lee said. “But when they go untreated and they are allowed to become severely ill, then we’re seeing a larger share of violence being committed by mentally-ill individuals. That violence is different in nature, because it’s often unpredictable — it’s often based on delusions.”

In the case of Adam Lanza, who was living with his family and for whom there was no obvious cause to be brought to the hospital emergency room for psychiatric illness, no mechanism in place in Connecticut would have forced him to undergo treatment, according to Harold Schwartz, psychiatristin-chief at Hartford Hospital and a member of Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Sandy Hook Commission.

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The Connecticut State Report revealed that, in 2006, Adam Lanza was found to have a “profound” case of autism at the Yale Child Study Center. of only eight states in the nation that does not allow involuntary outpatient treatment commitments, patients must first be involuntarily admitted to inpatient treatment, Schwartz said.

A patient like Lanza would not have met that threshold for admittance, he added.

While Lanza was undoubtedly mentally ill, individuals with severe mental illness are more frequently victims of violence than its perpetrators, Schwartz said.

“The research is pretty clear that mentally ill individuals as a class are not significantly more

violent than individuals without mental illness,” he said.

“Regarding extremely serious acts of violence, only a small proportion is committed by people with severe mental illnesses.”

Between 1974 and 2000, 34 percent of all school shooters

were at some point evaluated for mental illness, according to a report by the U.S. Secret Service.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu and HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

YBB+ controversy sparks campus discussion DATA FROM PAGE 1 tration objected to the way YBB+ decoupled numerical course ratings from students’ written evaluations. Miller said YBB+ went against the spirit of the administration’s agreement with the faculty, forged in 2003, to make course evaluation data available to students on the condition that it be presented holistically.

But Haufler set out to demonstrate that, if Yale makes data visible to students, the University “does not have the right to specify exactly how students must view the data.” Though the University can prevent students from scraping the data via its acceptable use policy, Haufler said Yale cannot stop students from using mechanisms like Chrome extensions that leave the data on Yale’s servers while they use it.

Though Dean of Strategic Communications Paul McKinley said the University does not support the way Banned Bluebook presents course evaluations, Miller acknowledged in her

Monday letter that the University cannot act against Haufler’s extension under Yale’s current acceptable use policies.

“The difference is the means by which they do it,” Dean of Strategic Communications Paul McKinley said of YBB+ and Banned Bluebook. “[YBB+] was using information it had scraped, while the Chrome extension leaves all the information at its source; it only manipulates the information.”

The point is not to slam the door, and say, ‘Conversation over.’ There is no endgame.

MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College According to the administration, YBB+ violated section 1607.1 C.5.e of Yale’s accept-

able use policy, which prohibits “unauthorized modification or removal of data or equipment.”

Pointing to the same clause, the administration asked Geoffrey Litt ’14, the creator of Class Roulette — another website which uses course data — to shut down his site by Jan. 16.

“I think they just generally disapprove of people using Yale data,” Litt said.

Unlike YBB+, Class Roulette did not present course evaluations, but did use class titles and times that are publicly available on Yale’s Online Course Information website. Litt said the administration also made a legal objection to the website’s use of Yale’s name.

Still, Litt said Class Roulette was not in violation of the acceptable use policy because it neither modified nor removed data from Yale’s servers, but only “copied” it.

A campus-wide debate over Yale’s attitudes toward data sharing has snowballed out of the original YBB+ controversy.

Last Friday, Litt organized an informal meeting of the computer science community to discuss the larger issues at stake in the University’s recent shutdown of YBB+ and Class Roulette. At the meeting, some dozen students wrote a petition asking the University to draft a clearer data use policy.

To Litt, the current controversy has damaged Yale’s reputation in computer science.

“Just to reverse the Reddit attention this has gotten is going to take some proactive PR on Yale’s part,” Litt said, referring to the popular website where a story about the YBB+ controversy received almost 4,200 “upvotes.”

According to Miller’s Monday letter, the Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee has been tasked with examining instructor evaluations in light of the fact that technology has enabled students to take evaluation data into their own hands.

Walter Jetz, who chairs the committee, said the YBB+ debate

has highlighted the demand for more sophisticated tools for sifting through course data.

“The challenge now will be to balance students’ interests with those of the faculty and identify a solution that supports Yale’s larger educational mission,” he said.

Xu said on Tuesday that he and Yu plan to approach the committee and ask them to submit a proposal to the faculty for an open access policy such as those present at Stanford, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley. According to Xu, such a policy would allow stu-

dent developers to use Yale’s data without experiencing the administrative hiccups he and Yu had.

When asked how she envisioned the controversy resolving, Miller said the University has to reckon with the fact that technology is constantly evolving.

“The point is not to slam the door, and say, ‘Conversation over,’” Miller said. “There is no endgame … I think we want to say there’s an open game.”

YBB+ was blocked on Jan. 13.

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

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The Chrome browser extension allows one to see aggregate course ratings in Yale Bluebook, and to sort courses according to the ratings.

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City plows through storm

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER As snow blanketed the Elm City Tuesday night, both Yale and New Haven prepared themselves — elected officials, bureaucratic administrators and non-profit aid agency managers took precautions to prevent the snowfall from causing damage to either city property or poverty-stricken residents.

In a Tuesday press release, Mayor Toni Harp announced a series of measures designed to alleviate the effects of the snowstorm, nicknamed “Winter Storm Janus.” The most notable of these was that the City of New Haven would be enforcing a parking ban from midnight to 7 a.m. The ban will be enforced in the heart of Yale’s campus, an

area bordered by Howe Street, Tower Parkway, Grove Street, State Street and North Frontage Road, and will allow parking only on the even side of the streets in residential neighborhoods. The mayor also announced that New Haven’s three senior centers and all its public schools would be closed, and both Union Station and New Haven’s various libraries will be open throughout the day to New Haven residents as “warming centers.”

Shelters serving as more permanent housing options are expected to be heavily in use.

Yasmine Zayas, a resident associate at the Life Haven Shelter, said that the shelter was expected to be full to capacity due to the weather. The shelter’s directive was one known as a ‘freezeout’ policy: no one with children

could be turned away.

“We usually have an intake process, but due to the weather there should be no one locked out,” she said. “We have to accept anybody that comes through the door.”

Patrick McGowan, Manager of Reference Services for the New Haven Public Library, said the library had to cancel an afternoon tutoring program and close well before its normal Tuesday 8 p.m. closing time due to the snow. The Columbus House and Yale-New Haven Hospital did not return requests for comment.

This snowstorm is the second the Harp Administration has experienced after less than a month in City Hall. Ward 7 Alderman and incoming director of traffic and parking Doug Hausladen ’04 said that the adminis-

tration was well prepared, and that Tuesday night’s blizzard would be less “intense” than previous January storms.

We usually have an intake process, but due to the weather there should be no one locked out.

YASMINE ZAYAS Resident Associate, Life Haven Shelter According to Accuweather as of Tuesday night, Janus was expected to drop six to 12 inches of snow on New Haven. Also, temperatures were expected to dip below zero Tuesday night

Froyo heats up in the winter

through Wednesday. Yale officials will also deploy a series of their own measures pertaining to its campuses in New Haven and West Haven.

Maria Bouffard, Director of Yale Emergency Management, said in an email Tuesday night that departments such as Facilities and Dining will “have plans in place to ensure that the University does not experience any interruptions in services.” She said that the University will bring additional people, as needed, to help clear the snow and ensure that walkways and sidewalks are open.

Yale and New Haven will collaborate closely not only during the snow but also during the inclement weather in the coming days, said Laurence Grotheer, the Mayor’s Communications

Director. According to Grotheer, the Yale and New Haven Police Departments will be “actively canvassing the city to get [the homeless] out of the cold.”

“I think as circumstances and conditions warrant, I see this as an ongoing collaboration,” he said. “This is the second time now in three weeks that this protocol has been activated and it has to do with the extreme weather.”

The heaviest two-day snowstorm in the history of the City of New Haven occurred on November 26,1898, and lasted for 30 hours.

Isaac Stanley-Becker and Matthew Lloyd-Thomas contributed to reporting.

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

Social scientist discusses happiness

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The secret to happiness may lie in four things — faith, family, community and work — according to Arthur Brooks, social scientist and president of the American Enterprise Institute.

At a lecture hosted by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale and the American Enterprise Institute On Campus and attended by roughly 50 members of the Yale community, Brooks offered his own insights regarding the true secrets to happiness. Speaking from research done by his think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, as well as research from other social studies, Brooks gave a specific breakdown of what leads Americans to reach a certain level of happiness and what they can do to raise the bar.

“Genetics accounts for 48 percent of how happy you are,” Brooks said, citing voting patterns and religious ideologies as examples of actions that stem from parental influence. “Another 40 percent comes from life events. The remaining 12 percent comes from life decisions and is under your control.”

When it comes to genetics, Brooks said, a person’s DNA is largely responsible for the way he or she acts. More noticeable, he said, is the extent to which a child’s overall happiness is reflected in that of his or her parents.

At the same time, however, Brooks asserted that major life events — both positive and negative — can have the same amount of influence. Bringing up the case of a friend who was given 15 years to live in his early 30s, Brooks explained how people are capable of making the best of life regardless of the circumstances.

Throughout the lecture, Brooks relied heavily on statistics to make points about when and why people are likely to be the most happy. Women are generally happier than men, he said, and men are likely to be the least happy

around age 45. Brooks added that 89 percent of Americans report that they like or love their jobs, regardless of average income.

Brooks also used examples from his own life to illustrate a larger narrative about forging the right path in life. As a former professional French hornist and economics professor, Brooks said he made sure that whatever he was doing in the moment was fulfilling to him.

Towards the end of the lecture, Brooks stressed the importance of a person’s life decisions on their overall happiness, claiming that a focus on the key values of family, faith, community and work — “the four” — will lead to the greatest possible joy.

“Earned success brings happiness and the opposite brings misery,” Brooks said, referring to the significance of having a fulfilling career. “The job itself is a source of enduring happiness. Find a balance between the four and remember the four.”

Rich Lizardo ’15, president of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, said he thinks the talk was presented in a bipartisan manner that challenged the way people at Yale think.

“It gave me perspective not just about what I’m doing with my academics and during my four years at Yale,” Lizardo said.

Another member of the program, Zach Young ’17, said he was surprised by some of the facts Brooks presented — specifically those regarding the differences in happiness for females and males. Young added that Brooks delved into some of the large issues that people face in today’s world, which was particularly thought provoking.

The American Enterprise Institute On Campus, a student group that promotes free enterprise and liberty and is an offshoot of the larger AEI, was founded at Yale last semester.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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Local frozen yogurt stores expect strong sales despite frigid temperatures.

BY SAISNEHA KOPPAKA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Frozen yogurt businesses around New Haven do not simply freeze up when the weather turns cold.

There has been no significant decrease in the number of customers at frozen yogurt stores, according to local store owners. Frozen yogurt stores have adapted to the weather, attracting customers during with deals and discounts. In addition, store owners said, the sweet tooth that drives many college students makes them devoted customers, regardless of the weather.

“More than the cold weather, when the students are gone, such as during winter break, it creates the most significant difference,” said New Haven Go-Greenly store owner, Elliott Detchon ’67. “When you have the holidays coming around, [workers] are on vacation as well, and it reduces the number of customers overall.”

In general, during the winter months, there is a slight dip in frozen yogurt sales, and during the summer the stores see their largest crowds, said Thienson Nguyen, the manager of Froyoworld. He added that from March to October stores see a steady stream of customers,

with the peak sales occurring during August. But even as the weather becomes chilly, Nguyen explained, loyal customers come in during non-meal hours, such as after lunch or after dinner.

We are always looking to do something for the students.

College kids are a regular.

THIENSON NGUYEN Manager, Froyoworld Frozen yogurt stores also incentivize customers during the cold winter months. Froyoworld offers a frozen yogurt “happy hour” daily from 3 to 6 p.m. until Jan. 31. Customers pay $5 to fit all they can into a 16-ounce cup. Similarly, GoGreenly on 48 Whitney Ave has discounts on hot beverages, selling hot chocolate, coffee and tea for just $1.

In addition, several deals are offered at Go-Greenly throughout the year: “Free-Topping Tuesday,” rewards cards that give customers store credit for frozen yogurt purchases and $4 cup days, where customers can enjoy all the frozen yogurt they

can fit into a cup for $4.

“We are always looking to do something for the students,” said Thienson Nguyen, the manager of Froyoworld. “College kids are a regular.”

Julia Granitz, the store manager of Go-Greenly agreed that college students are a target audience. GoGreenly provided a study break for students in Swing Space last year.

The restaurant catered for approximately 80 people, introducing them to Go-Greenley’s top five flavors.

Of 10 Yalies interviewed, six said they would prefer a frozen yogurt study break to a coffee study break.

However, all 10 Yale students agreed that even during the winter months they would find time for frozen yogurt, especially with incentives such as discounts or deals.

“Frozen yogurt, for sure,” answered Sarah Kim ’17 when presented with a choice between coffee and frozen yogurt during the winter months. “It’s easier to justify a splurge on frozen yogurt than it is to justify one on…caffeine and sugar.”

Pinkberry is a frozen yogurt store that will soon open at 1064 Chapel Street.

Contact SAISNEHA KOPPAKA at saisneha.koppaka@yale.edu .

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Social scientist Arthur Brooks pointed to faith and family as origins of happiness.

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FROM THE FRONT UCS expands offerings abroad UCS FROM PAGE 1 “Although there is no coordinated housing available in our new locations, we are confident that students will still receive a quality work experience,” said Director of Employment Programs and Deputy Director of UCS, Ken Koopmans. He added that he expects the local alumni in each country to play a leading role in guiding students’ transition to their summer internships.

Koopmans said that UCS had already asked employers in the newly added countries to pledge their commitment to helping students find housing. Employers will advise students on which neighborhoods are safe and how they can navigate the city, he said. Koopmans added that such support is necessary to ensuring students’ safety and quality work experience.

Karen Yvon ’13, an alumna who helped spearhead the creation of the UCS internships in Brazil this year, said she hopes these opportunities will inspire Yale students to learn more about Brazil, as well as South America in general.

“I contacted the UCS office upon graduation because I could think of no better way to give back to Yale than to show my country to undergraduates,” she said, adding that many Brazilian alumni were thrilled at the opportunity to recruit talented Yale students. “Yale forces you to think in a critical and creative way that not a lot of university graduates at Brazil can do.”

Jeanine Dames, director of UCS and associate dean of Yale College, said UCS also added a considerable number of domestic internships last summer in several geographic areas that tend to be less popular among Yale students, such as Louisville, KY and San Antonio, TX. Dames explained that UCS intentionally added these internships in order to raise student awareness of opportunities in smaller cities across America.

Rowan Claypool ’80, the founder of Bulldogs in the Bluegrass — the first such program in the summer of 1998 — said UCS-sponsored domestic internships encourage Yale students to consider working in cities that they would have overlooked otherwise.

“Louisville, Kentucky is more exotic than anything else Yale students will ever do in their summers,” he said. “You know thousands who have been to London, dozens who have been to Beijing but no one from Louisville, Kentucky.”

Alumni established the domestic internship programs to demonstrate to the students that the best summer opportunities can exist outside of large and prestigious cities, Claypool said. He cited paid internships, free housing and extensive alumni connections as advantages that the UCSsponsored domestic programs can give to students.

Although UCS always solicits internship opportunities from alumni and employers across the globe, Koopmans said the office is not seeking to

“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, AUTHOR, “THE GREAT GATSBY”

Hausladen departure opens seat WARD 7 FROM PAGE 1 tember are as important as ever … I want to talk with the leaders and constituents around the ward to figure out where we stand with respect to all of that.”

Wood, a native of Albuquerque, N.M., and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union, moved to Humphrey Street in Ward 7 in August 2013 and then challenged Hausladen’s re-election bid. With the backing of Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, Locals 34 and 35, she ran on a platform of greater community engagement and more equitable economic development. She ultimately drew 232 votes to Hausladen’s 331.

It’s a fantastic thing for the ward to have a chance to make use of all the opportunities [of another election].

ELLA WOOD ’15 Presumptive cnadidate, Ward 7 Alder race

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Undergraduate Career Services has introduced summer internships in nine new countries. expand for the sake of expansion. Rather, he said, the office aims to offer opportunities in the locations and industries in which student interest is highest.

Based on conversations with students and survey feedback, Koopmans said that students who participate in UCS-sponsored internships had more positive feedback about their summer activities in general. Koopmans said this may be because UCS carefully reviews all the internships it sponsors to ensure they constitute “valuable work experience” and maintains close contact with the intern supervisors.

As of now, UCS has posted 194 domestic internships for summer 2014, though Koopmans said the number grows every day as more applications arrive and are reviewed by the office. Although employers are asked to submit their job descriptions by Dec. 13, Koopmans said the office generally receives applications until the end of March.

Although he was not able to give specific numbers, Koopmans said he expects the office to surpass the 350 domestic internships they offered last year.

This year, for the first time, students will also be able to apply to an unlimited number of the 150 UCS-sponsored international internships posted on Symplicity. In past years, students were limited to applying to three international internships.

Koopman said he initially

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feared removing the limit because employers could end up being turned down by students who had applied for a large number of internships.

“I had reservations about lifting the cap but we’ve figured out a system that should maximize student placement,” Koopmans said.

According to the new application system, employers will be able to list the students they wish to hire in order of preference on Symplicity, he said.

If a firm could only hire one intern but listed six applicants they liked in order of preference, the employer would be less frustrated if several students declined the offer, Koopmans said.

Both Koopmans and Dames said it would not have been possible for UCS to have implemented this feature on eRecruiting, the online resource system which Symplicity replaced at the beginning of this academic year.

But despite this feature, Koopmans said he anticipates that UCS will need to do a lot of “hand-holding” with employers to make sure they are understanding about the process.

Koopmans said students will be given only two business days to respond to a job offer from a UCS-sponsored internship, whether domestic or international. Though he acknowledged that this was significantly less time than what students often receive from private firms, Koopmans said it was the only way to ensure that all the internship

spots would be filled either before the housing deadlines for domestic internships or in time for students to obtain the necessary work authorization permits for international employment.

All six students interviewed said the support of UCS makes them more likely to pursue an international internship.

“Without the guidance of UCS, I’d be worried that I was traveling across the globe for a poorly-organized internship,” Lukas Czinger ’16 said.

David Lilienfeld ’15, who spent last summer doing a UCS-sponsored internship in Brussels, said he benefitted from the University’s connections while in a foreign country. Lilienfeld added that the Yale network in Brussels was strong and that alumni would often take students out for cultural trips or to restaurants.

Still, both David Chi ’16 and Andrew Tran ’16 said they thought the two-day response period for UCS-sponsored internships was too short.

“I’d feel pressured to take the internship even if it wasn’t my top choice,” Chi said, while Tran added that this firm deadline would pressure him into only applying for his top choice internships.

The deadline for UCS-sponsored internships is Feb 3. After that date, if internship vacancies remain, the job is reposted and applications are received on a rolling basis.

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

Witherspoon said she and Wall will meet with each of the interested candidates before making an endorsement.

Hausladen said he has not yet resigned his seat but hopes to do so in time for the special election to take place on the same day as the race for Mayor Toni Harp’s old state senate seat, which is scheduled for Feb. 25. The election must take place within 45 days of Hausladen’s resignation.

A third special election — for

the Ward 3 seat on the Board of Alders — will be held on Feb. 17.

Roth, a resident of Audubon Court, has lived in New Haven for the past seven years following a 13-year stint in Washington, D.C. as an attorney for the federal Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

She is the public safety chair of the Wooster Square Management Team. Prior to her post at the School of Management, Roth was the Director of Alumni Affairs at Yale Law School.

Roth said a major component of her agenda would be helping Hausladen execute his vision for the city’s transit services and to continue his work of improving street safety and accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists within the ward. In 2012, she helped organize a traffic-calming initiative at an intersection by Yale-New Haven Hospital where a medical student was struck and killed in 2008.

Wood congratulated Hausladen on his appointment and said the position will put his skills to good use. She said the speed with which the special election will take place will not affect the race.

“There’s enough time,” she said. “It’s a fantastic thing for the ward to have a chance to make use of all the opportunities that another election presents us.”

Ward 7 comprises the downtown area and portions of Wooster Square, the Medical District and the Hill and Dwight neighborhoods.

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

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Ella Wood ’15 indicated that she may run for the Ward 7 seat on the Board of Alderman vacated by Doug Housladen ’04.

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Chicago archdiocese hid decades of sex abuse

BY TAMMY WEBBER AND RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Top leaders at the Archdiocese of Chicago helped hide the sexual abuse of children as they struggled to contain a growing crisis, according to thousands of pages of internal documents that raise new questions about how Cardinal Francis George handled the allegations even after the church adopted reforms.

The documents, released through settlements between attorneys for the archdiocese and victims, describe how priests for decades were moved from parish to parish while the archdiocese hid the clerics’ histories from the public, often with the approval of the late Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin.

Although the abuse documented in the files occurred before George became archbishop in 1997, many victims did not come forward until after he was appointed and after U.S. bishops pledged in 2002 to keep all accused priests out of ministry.

George delayed removing the Rev. Joseph R. Bennett, despite learning that the priest had been accused of sexually abusing girls and boys decades earlier. Even the board the cardinal appointed to help him evaluate abuse claims advised George that Bennett should be removed.

“I realize this creates a rather awkward situation, but I believe I need to reflect on this matter further,” George wrote in a Nov. 7, 2005, letter to an archdiocese child protection official. Also against the advice of his board, George had Bennett monitored by another priest who was a friend and who vacationed with Bennett.

Allegations against Bennett continued well after 2002. He has denied any wrongdoing in his communications with the archdiocese, but was forced out of ministry on Feb. 3, 2006, according to the newly public documents.

George tried to get another

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Attorney Jeff Anderson, center, stands with Kathy and Jim Laarveld, parents of a son who was sexually abused by a priest, after files documenting the abuse were released. priest, Norbert Maday, released early from a Wisconsin prison, where he was serving time after a 1994 conviction for molesting two boys, documents show.

He also has apologized for how he handled allegations against former priest Daniel McCormack, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to abusing five children and whose case prompted an internal investigation of how the archdiocese responds to abuse claims.

“The issue is not when the

abuse happened; the issue is what they did once it was reported,” said Chicago attorney Marc Pearlman, who has represented about 200 victims of clergy abuse in the Chicago area.

While disturbing stories of clergy sexual abuse have wrenched the Roman Catholic Church across the globe, the newly released documents offer the broadest look yet into how one of its largest and most prominent American dioceses responded to

the scandal, even years after the abuse occurred.

The documents, posted online Tuesday by victims’ attorneys, cover only 30 of the at least 65 clergy for whom the archdiocese says it has substantiated claims of child abuse. Vatican documents related to the 30 cases were not included, under the negotiated terms of the disclosure. Victims’ attorneys say they’re working to get files on the other 35 priests.

The files are being released

as George, a 77-year-old cancer survivor, awaits permission from Pope Francis to retire. Naming a successor for George will be the pope’s first major appointment in the U.S. church.

In a letter distributed to parishes last week, George apologized for the abuse, and said the disclosures are an attempt to help victims heal.

The more than 6,000 pages include internal communications between church officials, dis-

turbing testimony about specific abuses, meeting schedules where allegations were discussed and letters from anguished parishioners. The names of victims and details considered private under mental health laws were redacted.

When a young woman reported in 1970 that she’d been abused as a teen, for example, Cody assured the priest that the “whole matter has been forgotten” because “no good can come of trying to prove or disprove the allegations.”

Christie takes oath amid scandal

BY ANGELA DELLI SANTI AND GEOFF MULVIHILL ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie sought to turn back the clock as he was sworn into a second term Tuesday, saying voters gave him a mandate in November to “stay the course” and put aside partisan differences, even as Democrats ramped up an investigation into whether his administration abused its power.

Christie, considered a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2016, was inaugurated amid a snowstorm that forced him to cancel an evening celebration on Ellis Island, and then gave an 18-minute address that dwelled on his 22-point election victory in the fall. He did not mention the investigations that have already led to the firing or departure of four top aides or associates.

The people making up a broad coalition that returned him to office, he said, “have demanded that we stay the course they have helped set.”

“It was the largest and loudest voice of affirmation that the people of our state have given to any direction in three decades,” Christie said, noting priorities including the economy, education and improving access to jobs for recovering drug addicts. “We have no moral option but to heed

the voice of the voters, and that is exactly what I intend to do.”

His speech came less than an hour after Democratic lawmakers announced they were consolidating twin probes into allegations that aides engineered traffic jams in September in the community of Fort Lee as political retribution, apparently against the town’s mayor for not endorsing his re-election bid.

Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, who was on the podium during the inaugural address, said the merger of Assembly and Senate committees was the “optimal approach to ensuring the people of New Jersey get the answers they need to these questions about the abuse of government power.”

Lawmakers have not decided whether the probe will also be extended to allegations raised over the weekend by Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer. The Democratic mayor said Christie’s underlings tied the delivery of Superstorm Sandy aid to the low-lying city of 50,000 across from Manhattan to support for a prime real estate project.

Zimmer said she was told by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno that the ultimatum came directly from Christie. Guadagno, who was also sworn in Tuesday to a second term, has strongly denied those claims and described them as “false” and “illogical.”

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is sworn in for his second term by New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice.

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SPORTS

Current ranking of Yale men’s squash team

3

Despite lowered expectations this season due to the loss of graduated seniors, the men’s squash team is ranked number 3 in the country with an undefeated record.

Yale tops Sacred Heart

For games with morals COLUMN FROM PAGE 12

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Both the men’s and women’s fencing teams will travel to compete at the NYU Invitational this coming weekend.

FENCING FROM PAGE 12 tributed seven wins for the Bulldogs this weekend. The team also received strong performances from several more experienced athletes, including Sam Broughton ’15, who recorded a 3–0 mark to lead the team.

The team also fed off the energy from the crowd, O’Cinneide said.

“We had a great showing from the Yale spectators — Sacred Heart, being from nearby Fairfield, always draws a large away crowd, but this year [Yale fans] who showed up really drowned out their noise,” O’Cinneide said.

The women’s team entered the competition looking to reverse the results from last year, when the Elis were defeated 14–13. This time, with the match tied at 13–13, the Bulldogs were able to triumph with captain Lauren Miller ’15 clinching the win in a tense overtime bout.

“What made the competition so intense was that every touch and every bout could have made the difference between beating Sacred Heart or losing to them,” Miller said. “There was a spotlight on each fencer’s every move, and everyone handled this immense pressure with poise and ultimately with success.”

The Bulldogs carried their momentum from the Brandeis Invitational in December, where the men’s team beat the Air Force Academy, Boston College,

Brandeis and MIT, while the women’s team topped Boston College and MIT. According to Miller, the teams prepared well for the matches against Sacred Heart and will look to stay mentally focused as they prepare for this week’s tournament at NYU. “Both the Yale men’s and women’s teams showed incredible focus and determination this weekend,” she said.

“The fact that we could tune out the noise and chaos at this meet means that we can do the same at any of our future meets this season and beyond.”

The Elis will need to focus on the tough tasks at hand, preparing mentally and physically for the high-level teams they expect to face this weekend, Miller added.

Mappin-Kasirer also emphasized the team’s need to remain focused.

“We have back to back tournaments before Ivies and the important thing is to stay on top of things and continue training,” he said.

O’Cinneide said that the teams will also look to retain the lessons learned from the Sacred Heart match.

Both teams have returned to the fencing room at Payne Whitney to prepare for the invitational at NYU before returning home for two matches preceding the Ivy League Championship.

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

JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs attributed part of their win to the energy from the crowd.

Ivies look corporate SPONSORSHIP FROM PAGE 12 It is not the first time the Ivy League has associated itself with branding; however, it is the first time the Ancient Eight has approached sponsorship as a blanket encapsulating the entire league. In April 2010, the Ivy League worked with Waterbucket Media to work out a corporate sponsorship agreement with Champion athletic wear, but the partnership was only for the 2010 Ivy League men’s and women’s lacrosse tournaments.

In March 2012, the Ivy League announced its partnership with Leverage Agency to “procure sponsorship opportunities for the conference as well as provide other marketing functions, including social media, public relations and domestic licensing,” according to the Ivy League Website.

Harris said that the League worked with Leverage Agency to accomplish time-consuming yet rewarding and essential tasks such as public relations and marketing that serve the Ivy League well to outsource.

The “Power Five” conferences — the Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC and ACC — have worked to acquire corporate partners such as Allstate,

Gatorade and Nike, while the Ivy League has built its reputation and paid for championship events largely on its member schools’ budgets.

To be an Ivy League student takes a great deal of work [...] That can be the right fit for the right brand.

BEN STURNER CEO, LEVERAGE AGENCY H o we ve r, L e ve ra g e Agency has been working to acquire additional corporate partners with the Ivy League in addition to JP Crickets, according to Ben Sturner, CEO and founder of Leverage Agency.

Sturner said he sees the partnership with the Ivy League as an opportunity to heighten awareness and interest in Ivy League athletics and the Ivy League brand.

“I think it creates more excitement around the league itself,” Sturner said.

“It helps provide resources for the Ivy League office. It costs money to do that, and we’re helping raise funds to help the league grow.”

Sturner cited the ideals behind the Ivy League as motivations in attempting to partner with corporations.

Similar to the Ivy League’s position of aiming to uphold the traditional collegiate student-athlete experience amidst rule changes in the NCAA, he said that Leverage Agency believes the connections that come with the Ivy League can help build a brand.

“To be an Ivy League student takes a great deal of work, preservation and perseverance, and these are categories that can be the right fit for the right brand,” Sturner said.

The relationship Leverage Agency is building with Yale and the Ivy League as a whole will continue to develop through the years, according to Sturner.

Since Leverage Agency was founded in 2005 in Sturner’s apartment, it has already assisted the signing the Ivy League’s first corporate partner, put together the Rivalry On Ice contest — in which both former NHL star Mark Messier and Secretary of State John Kerry made appearances — and is currently working on procuring more corporate partners for the Ivy League.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

to do hit all of those home runs without a little extra juice and even Michael Phelps has a few photos that he isn’t so proud of.

These are the fans who will follow the Oscar Pistorius trial in its entirety come March, just to remind themselves that even those at the top can fall. They are likely to view professional athletes not as moral beings with responsibilities, but as actors in a dangerously entertaining drama.

It is hard to blame the media for giving special attention to these cases, which have some inherently interesting qualities to them. Where the blame must fall, if anywhere, is on the individuals responsible for these headlines. They are the ones whose names appear on the back of young fans’ jerseys, who represent the pinnacle of athletic prowess and dedication in our society and who have the status and respect of the masses necessary to be true role models.

One might ask what these athletes are role models of. In the most obvious sense, professional athletes are role models to millions of young children who dream of one day hitting the winning home run in the bottom of the ninth in the World Series, or standing beneath the confetti after a Super Bowl. To these kids, professional athletes can be examples of hope, the power of hard work and discipline, the value of truly investing in something, what it means to be a good teammate and the value of sport in its purest form. And yet, when kids turn on SportsCenter in the morning, they are increasingly likely to hear about alleged sexual assault charges or court hearings than any act of true sportsmanship.

This doesn’t just matter for kids, though, but for all of us. Sports have value as a cultural entity not just as entertainment, but as something much more important.

It is hard to describe exactly the feeling one gets watching the Hoyts run a marathon together, or two entire college football teams let a little boy with leukemia score his very first touchdown, or hearing “Sweet Caroline” play in between innings at Yankee Stadium in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings. These are the extraordinary moments and individuals that remind us why we invest our hearts into sport.

I’m not saying that every professional athlete has the responsibility to achieve this standard, on or off the field. But they do have a responsibility to at least realize that, to many people, they represent more than just themselves. All it takes is a lastminute comeback, an impressive display of teamwork or a single play to reminds us how truly awesome sports can be. All we can ask of our athletes is to respect their role in something that is culturally and historically much larger than they will ever be, and hope that they can be good sports about it.

SARAH ONORATO is a junior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

Elis remain unbeaten SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 Charlie Wyatt ’14, captain Eric Caine ’14 and Joseph Roberts ’15 all won in three games at the seventh, eighth and ninth spots, respectively.

Yale’s three freshmen, Thomas Dembinski ’17, Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Liam McClintock ’17, each took five games to finish off their opponents at four through six. With the wins, the freshmen moved to 15–1 combined this year.

Talbott attributed Yale’s depth this season to the freshmen “surpassing expectations” and also to the experience of Wyatt, Caine and Roberts at the bottom of the ladder. Those three players are in their third years of playing in the team’s top 10.

“We’ve always been known for our depth at Yale,” Talbott said.

The women’s team was expecting two comfortable victories at home on Sunday and received exactly that.

Despite not using a few players at the top of their ladder, the Bulldogs won every individual match with three-game sweeps. Of the 54 games played, 20 of them were 11–0 victories. Through eight matches, the women have still managed to win every individual match that they have played.

For both the men and women, tonight’s home matches against Trinity will be Yale’s first matchup in which the Bulldogs are ranked lower than their opponents. Both teams fell to the Bantams last season. The women narrowly lost

5–4 during the regular season and 7–2 at the CSA championships, while the men lost both matches 7–2.

The men, however, remain one of just two teams to have beaten Trinity in the past 14 years. The Elis broke the Bantams’ 252match streak in 2011, and only Princeton has beaten them since that match.

Talbott said that every matchup looks fairly even for the women’s team, but Trinity has an advantage at the top of the men’s ladder.

“I don’t think they overmatch us [at the top] as much as Rochester, but they’re still very good up top,” Talbott said. “We sort of catch up from four on down.

We have to take advantage of our depth.”

Talbott added that expecta-

tions are higher for the women, because the team is more experienced and will graduate seniors Millie Tomlinson ’14, Kim Hay ’14, captain Lilly Fast ’14 and Gwen Tilghman ’14 next year.

He said that this year for the men is a “free swing,” because the team, especially its freshman class, was not expected to be as dominant as it has been.

“This is one of those matches where everyone has a chance to win,” Caine said. “Trinity doesn’t have a lot of superstars; we don’t have a lot of superstars. We’re both just hardworking teams.”

The first match against Trinity will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the Brady Squash Center.

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

JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s and women’s squash teams will face off against Trinity tonight at home.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 4:00 p.m. “The 3D Reconstruction Pipeline: from Acquisition to Printing.” Professor Ruggero Pintus will give an overview of the standard 3D reconstruction pipeline, from data capture to data processing, visualization and printing, and show more state-ofthe-art works in the field. Kline Biology Tower (219 Prospect St.), CSSSI 24/7 Study Room.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 4:00 p.m. “From Lab to Market: How to Translate Your Research Into Commercial Success.” Erika Smith of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute will lead a talk on how to evaluate innovations for market potential, the first steps to take when considering forming a startup, and ways to access the funding and resources available at YEI. Free, but register in advance. Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (55 Whitney Ave.), 2nd Floor.

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

6:30 p.m. Performance: Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band. A bluegrass concert with music by artist Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band. Preceded by a talk by Flack. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition: “Still Life: 1970s Photorealism.”

Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 3:00 p.m. Edward P. Evans Hall Open House for the Yale Community. The Yale School of Management invites members of the Yale community to an open house for its new campus, Edward P. Evans Hall. The building was designed by Foster + Partners, which is chaired by Lord Norman Foster ’62 M.Arch. Edward P. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.).

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3:00 p.m. NHL’s St. Louis Blues Practice at Yale as Part of “White Out for Mandi” Day. The NHL’s St. Louis Blues will hold a practice open to the general public as part of their visit for the annual “White Out for Mandi” game that night in honor of Mandi Schwartz ’10 (1988–2011). Mandi’s brother Jaden plays for the Blues. Ingalls rink (73 Sachem St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE My Fair Lady returns to New Haven

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Anya Markowitz ’17 (left) and Paul Holmes ’12 (right), members of the ensemble, work backstage as part of the Foley crew — creating various sound effects for the show.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER After spending decades on Broadway stages, one of the most well-known musicals in theater history is returning to New Haven: the city where it first premiered.

An all-Yale ensemble, composed of students, faculty, staff and alumni is putting on a concert production of “My Fair Lady,”

by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Opening this Saturday, the show will be performed at the Shubert Theater, where it first premiered in 1956. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” “My Fair Lady” centers on the character Eliza Doolittle, played by Felicia Ricci ’08, who takes lessons in speaking with an “upper class” accent.

“There are roughly a dozen musicals out there that are just perfect,” said Amber Edwards ’82,

the show’s producer. “‘My Fair Lady’ is one of the top three on that list.”

The hardest thing is creating a sense of lavishness without the visual fanciness.

MARC VIETOR ’83 Director, “My Fair Lady” Marc Vietor ’83, the show’s director, said the musical focuses on social reform, as the plot traces a social experiment in which a character named Henry Higgins believes he can change Eliza’s reputation in society simply by changing the way she talks. In the play’s environment, Vietor

explained, the upper and lower classes spoke with entirely different accents. Vietor added that several workshops with cast members have been fully devoted to teaching actors to pronounce the characters’ lines in the correct accent.

“As with anything that comes out of England, this story is all about class,” said David Loud ’83, the production’s musical director.

“After all, one of the main characters claims he can identify people’s economic classes purely by the way they speak.”

Vietor, Edwards and Loud said they believe that one large contributing factor to the musical’s success has been its deviance from the traditional “love story” plotline of most musicals that came before “My Fair Lady.” Loud explained that the legendary musical theatre writers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein had employed the “love story” plot so much in their

works that musicals were becoming somewhat predictable. He added that in this case, the audience is left to imagine its own ending to the show, which does not have a traditional resolution. At one point, Loud noted, Lerner gave up on writing “My Fair Lady” because he thought the unconventional storyline was impossible to adapt into a musical.

Ricci said she thinks that although romance is not the show’s most prominent theme, love does play a substantial role in it. She described the character of Henry Higgins as a “love letter to the English language” because his passion for the intricacies of speech is reflected in his lines.

Ricci added that she believes that “My Fair Lady” had such a successful debut because the romance in the show is subtle. The original Shaw play, Vietor noted, was named after the mythical sculptor

Pygmalion, who fell in love with one of his creations. As a result, he said, the love theme is unavoidable.

Loud said he thinks that because the show is so recognizable, it produces feelings of nostalgia in performers and audience members alike, but can also pose challenges.

“When we were children,” he explained, “Everyone had the ‘My Fair Lady’ record in their house and parents played it repeatedly.”

Vietor added that during his adolescence, “My Fair Lady” was one of the most frequently staged productions in high schools across the country, noting that the show is not nearly as well-known to the current generation of young thespians.

Since many ensemble members know how the original production of the show sounds, Loud noted, they may be tempted to simply

imitate that sound, which he said he wants to avoid. The younger performers who are not as familiar with the musical are valuable because they bring a fresh perspective to the old piece, he added.

Vietor said he believes one of the original production’s most appealing aspects was the extravagance of its set, props and costumes, which do not appear to the same extent in this production. As a result, he explained, this ensemble needs to make the storyline believable without these resources.

“The hardest thing is creating a sense of that lavishness without the visual fanciness,” Vietor said. “What we have to do is create a setting in which the imagination can fill in the blanks.”

There will be two performances of “My Fair Lady,” both on Jan. 25.

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

Local dance company funds its own show

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Almost Porcelain, a new performance by the New Havenbased dance company Elm City Dance Collective, will premier this spring in large part owing to a fundraising campaign the group launched on Kickstarter.

Company members succeeded in raising $5,035 in 30 days — exceeding their fundraising goal by nearly $900. The company is gearing up for its first eveninglength performance of the piece.

Choreographed and directed

by Kellie Ann Lynch, one of the four dancers responsible for ECDC’s founding in 2008, Almost Porcelain will premier in Providence, R.I., in March and in New Haven in May. The performance is a multimedia exploration of notions such as self-perception, perfection and beauty, Lynch explained. The production will feature work by composer and vocalist Noah Ratzan, visual artist Jennifer Brubacher and filmmaker Melissa Kane.

“We are committed as an organization to creating and presenting dance in new and different ways, and this project certainly does just that, by blending design, sound, film and dance together to create an innovative and entertaining experience for the audience,” said Emilia VandenBroek, one of the dancers in the production and another of ECDC’s founding members.

Company members decided to use Kickstarter, an online donation platform, to raise the requisite funds for the performance.

The company began the project without any funds, Lynch explained, adding that members thought of Kickstarter as the most expedient way to raise

Kickstarter Campaign Results $4200 Goal

91 Backers money. Kate Seethaler, another member of Almost Porcelain’s cast, noted that she thinks Kickstarter was a good choice because the platform harnesses the power of social media and offers donors a limited window to act, ensuring that funds are received in a timely manner. Potential contributors, she added, can see “exactly what their money is going towards” — the project’s Kickstarter page includes a video in which dancers

and choreographers speak about the project and rehearse for the show. Seethaler said she thinks the video effectively captured the cast’s excitement for the project.

Despite the success of the Kickstarter campaign, Lynch explained, funding is still the biggest obstacle Almost Porcelain will have to overcome. Finding the money to pay dancers can be particularly challenging, she said.

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“We all do it because not dancing is not an option for us. If the experience is positive and we’re all growing as artists and human beings, getting paid doesn’t really matter. But it’d be nice to be able to say, ‘Hey dancers, here’s a check for all of your hard work,’” she said.

As the piece enters its final preparatory stages before its Rhode Island premiere on Mar. 27, several of the dancers mentioned the

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long hours they have been putting into the show, highlighting the collaboration between the choreographer and the cast that is intrinsic to the project.

VandenBroek said she appreciates the project’s origins in a personal, yet relatable topic, adding that she thinks that Almost Porcelain’s emphasis on exploring ideals of beauty makes it particularly interesting. Lynch explained that the piece grew out of her

attempts to grapple with such ideals in recent years.

“We all have to make our own peace with impossible beauty ideals in this culture, and it is satisfying to explore this through dance,” VandenBroek said.

Almost Porcelain will premiere on May 9 at Off Broadway Theatre.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ALAN JAY LERNER American lyricist and writer of “My Fair Lady,” Lerner won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards among others for such classic works as “An American in Paris,” “Camelot” and “The Little Prince.”

New Haven school emphasizes the visual arts

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER A few blocks from Timothy Dwight College, high school students from New Haven and the surrounding area are enjoying an atypical high school experience.

Last week, visual arts students from the Educational Center for the Arts guided their families and other guests through a showcase of their artwork installed in ECA’s classrooms. The half-day interdistrict magnet high school hosts an art open house at the end of each quarter, once students have produced a body of work in the area of visual arts they have studied in depth during that term.

Students at ECA, who come to the school from 26 Connecticut towns in addition to New Haven, spend their mornings at local public schools and then travel to the magnet school four afternoons a week to study dance, creative writing, theater, music or the visual arts. Subjects offered include sculpture, black-andwhite photography, digital photography, painting, printmaking, drawing or video.

ECA is such a supportive environment; all the peer critique is loving. Cross is much more hostile.

OLIVIA JOY Senior, Educational Center for the Arts ECA Visual Arts Department Chair Johanna Bresnick attributed much of the quality of students’ instruction to the high caliber of New Haven’s arts community, explaining that every member of the school’s visual arts faculty is a practicing artist in the area. Karen Dow GRD ’98, who teaches printmaking at ECA, said that she enjoys teaching at ECA more than she enjoyed working at a number of universities, including Yale, partly because of the freedom ECA gives

her to develop her own curriculum.

“Students here are more invested in what they’re doing,” Dow said. “And I get 12-hours a week with them in the studio, which is incredible.”

Olivia Joy, a senior studying visual arts at ECA, said that like most of her peers, she wants to pursue art professionally. Joy estimated that over half of her classmates are applying to art schools, either exclusively or in addition to liberal arts colleges.Joy said she plans to attend a fine arts school only after receiving her bachelor’s degree.

Like most ECA students, Joy takes 5 morning classes at the local Wilbur Cross High School, a public high school in New Haven.

She fits all of her academic classes in between 7:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. before walking over to ECA in the afternoon. She explained that her divided high school experience is well worth it both professionally and socially.

“ECA is such a supportive environment; all the peer critique is loving,” Joy said. “Cross is much more hostile.”

Visual arts student Rebecca Fraleigh noted that unlike at her comprehensive high school, students at ECA call their instructors by their first names. She explained that the close relationship between student and teacher is only one manifestation of ECA’s unusually strong sense of community.

Bresnick explained that ECA helps students develop their portfolios — seniors are offered a seminar dedicated to portfolio reviews that helps them with their art school applications.

She added that many art schools come to recruit visual arts students from ECA. ECA is ACES’s only arts-specific school and one of two artsspecific schools in New Haven, the second being the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. Co-op similarly offers concentrations in dance, creative writing, theater, music and the visual arts, but, unlike ECA, it is a full-day high school, pro-

viding instruction in traditional academic areas of study as well in the arts.

Ellen Maust, supervisor of the performing and visual arts for the New Haven public school system, explained that Co-op used to require prospective students to apply and audition for spots, as ECA does, but that now, after a civil rights controversy over inequality in preparedness between districts, students enter a lottery for admission. Last year, 700 students entered the lottery for the 133 seats available for

New Haven students, and 480 students for the 89 seats open to applicants from New Haven’s suburbs.

ACES Public Relations and Marketing Manager Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan said that of the over 500 students who applied to ECA last year, 302 were accepted. In addition to students from New Haven schools, ECA enrolls a significant contingent from 26 other towns as well, with each district allotted only a certain number of spots for students in each department at ECA, depend-

ing on the funding that the district is willing to provide, Dow explained.

Bresnick noted that ECA’s application process takes into account the discrepancies in the access to arts resources that prospective students have had.

“We take students based on creative potential, on the degree to which they are interested in making art outside of class and take an interest in working in art as a way of being who they are,” Bresnick said.

ECA is run by Area Cooper-

ative Educational Services, an agency that provides resources to 25 school districts in south central Connecticut, including adult career training. The organization, which also operates 3 magnet schools and 5 schools for special education, is funded by tuition and fees from local education agencies, state and federal funds and private donors.

The Educational Center for the Arts is located at 55 Audubon St. Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

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High school students from the Educational Center for the Arts, a half-day, inter-district magnet school, presented their works during an open house.

Artist talks fusion of sculpture, drawing and cinema

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER “Is it possible to reduce cinema to something fundamental?”

— this is the question BritishAmerican artist Anthony McCall used to summarize the direction of his work during a Tuesday lecture at the Yale School of Art. In front of a crowd of roughly 30 members of the Yale community, McCall discussed the progression of his career. After making films in the early 1970s, he proceeded to experiment with sculpture, drawings and cinema in the light installations he is now recognizable for in the art world.

McCall said his artwork has been inspired by the way “a work of art could be generated in film from a single idea.” He told the audience that his pieces, which belong to the movement pioneered by 1970s London filmmakers, aim to simplify a cinematic element and present it in the form of an installation.

McCall’s first artistic endeavors were films that focused on simple scenes capturing the motif of fire.

McCall explained that although the cinematic element of his works shows the geometric transformations of light, his installations can also be viewed as simplified narratives.

Observers, he said, can view the installations from multiple points of view, and can establish complex relationships with the depicted object. They are also able to physically engage with the installation as it changes. “[Observers] have to move their body around to understand what’s going on.”

McCall noted that his later artwork uses light to create a three-dimensional representation of a drawing and then displays the way the representation changes over time. For example, his 2006 piece “Between You and I” was based on the cinematic motif in old films of a slow transition between scenes — a part of the old scene remains on the screen while the new scene appears. His light installation mirrors this process through slow transformations of geometric shapes, he said.

Most recently, McCall has begun to combine shifting visual images with other sensory information in his art. He uses sounds to complement his installations, adding that as part of one of his installations, he had the sound of traffic quietly play throughout the gallery in order to produce “the effect of opening up the space,” as visitors could not distinguish between traffic outside the venue and the noise within.

[Observers] have to move their body around to understand what’s going on.

ANTHONY MCCALL British-American Artist McCall also discussed his temporary withdrawal from the art world in the 1980s and 1990s, which is when he started a company that designed art books. He explained that technological gaps have at times made it difficult for him to display his light installations, as the trends in the art world that were dominant during the beginning of his career did not always welcome the complex nature of his installations. When artistic trends as well as the technological world caught up with his ideas, he reemerged on the art scene. The haze machine, for example, has enabled him to feature smoke in his installations, he said.

A Yale School of Art student who attended the lecture said he thinks the innovation of McCall’s work lies in his ability to create three-dimensional objects without making physical scultpures.

An exhibition by McCall’s titled “Traveling Wave” is open until Saturday, Feb. 8. at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Ave. building gallery.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu.

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Anthony McCall, a British-American artist working across different media, gave a lecture to the Yale School of Art on Tuesday.

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“Outside of winning the Ivy League, this is the match that we play for all year in the dual season.”

DAVID TALBOTT SQUASH, COACH YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

Squash wins weekend SQUASH

Ivy League seeks sponsors

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER

Saturday at Rochester (6–2, 3–1 UAA), the Yale men continued their trend of dominating in the middle and bottom of the ladder. While Rochester won at the top three spots, Eli wins at four through nine secured the overall victory.

For this first time since its inception, the Ivy League has begun pursuing corporate partnership.

The Ancient Eight has partnered with Leverage Agency — the same agency that arranged the Rivalry On Ice game at Madison Square Garden — to promote branding and accomplish that goal.

On Jan. 9, JP Crickets, a collegiate casual footwear brand, and the Ivy League signed a multi-year partnership, assisted by Leverage Agency, to issue the “Official Dress Casual Footwear of the Ivy League,” as stated in an official press release by the Ivy League office.

Through partnerships such as the one with JP Crickets, the Ivy League hopes to promote the quality of competition associated with the Ivy League, according to Executive Director of the Ivy League Robin Harris. She added the Ivy League hopes to use the revenue from this and other future partnerships to fund Ivy League Championships for various sports. In return, corporate partners will have the ability to market to the Ivy League student and alumni market.

“It’s really a win-win situation for both entities because the corporate partner has the opportunity to tap into the Ivy League student and alumni base and to have a presence at our championships,” Harris said. “It provides an avenue to deliver the championships and events. Our schools pay for championships otherwise and corporate partnerships help subsidize the cost.”

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The No. 3 men’s squash team topped No. 5 Rochester and the No. 5 women’s team beat both Haverford and Tufts.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The No. 3 men’s and No. 5 women’s squash teams defended their respective rankings this weekend with decisive wins for both teams.

The Eli men (7–0, 2–0 Ivy) defeated No. 5 Rochester 6–3 on Sat-

urday, while the women (8–0, 2–0 Ivy) easily swept both Haverford (2–7, 0–2 Centennial) and Tufts (5–7, 0–3 NESCAC) at home on Sunday.

Both Yale teams will bring undefeated records into their rivalry matches against Trinity tonight. The Bantams, also undefeated, are ranked first for men and second for women,

Fencing defeats Sacred Heart

SARAH ONORATO

Being a good sport Sunday’s wild NFC championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers was a few elephants short of a circus. The game ended on an acrobatic, Barnum-and-Bailey-worthy pass deflection by Seattle’s Richard Sherman that led to an interception, but the real main attraction was still to come. In his postgame interview, Sherman made a complete clown of himself, leaving many fans wishing they had an unsportsmanlike conduct flag to throw his way.

The uproar over Sherman’s antics resulted in a flurry of coverage, making headlines on most major sports networks.

This poor display of sportsmanship, though still appalling to most, reflects a growing trend in professional sports of bad role models finding themselves in the spotlight. Sherman’s case seems mild when compared to the example set by others such as Aaron Hernandez, Lance Armstrong, Kobe Bryant and, most recently, Darren Sharper. The list of athletes who have cheated, doped and committed criminal acts continues to grow, and athletes seem to be getting

giving Yale chances to come away with upset victories.

“For both teams, if they could win this match, it means that they’ve got a clear shot at the national championship,” said head coach David Talbott. “Outside of winning the Ivy League, this is the match that we play for all year in the dual season.”

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The men’s and women’s fencing teams both had strong performances at home this past weekend, defeating Sacred Heart in their first matchups of the spring season.

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more media attention for the bad examples they set than the good ones. This trend begs the question of whether, in this era of professional sports, athletes have any responsibility to be good role models, to set positive examples and to do the right thing.

There is a good argument to be made that sports are just another form of entertainment in our society. As such, the scandals, soap-opera-esque extramarital affairs, outlandish displays of unsportsmanlike conduct and general antics, both on and off the field, have some value as forms of entertainment. In the same way that we fixate on the Kardashians’ latest breakup, or Miley’s newest, entirely disturbing music video, we are drawn to watching the downfall of these athletes who seem to have it all.

Perhaps people enjoy athletes’ demises so much in the tradition of the pratfall effect, wherein seemingly überhumans expose a mortal flaw.

It turns out that Tiger Woods cheats on his wife, Alex Rodriguez might not have been able

The men’s team defeated the Pioneers 17–10, with the saber squad pulling out an impressive 7–2 performance. The foil team also did well against Sacred Heart, cruising to a 6–3 finish. The epee team managed a 4–5 record against the Pioneers, engaging in tightly contested matches along the way.

The balanced attack from all three squads helped propel the Bulldogs to a strong win against Sacred Heart.

“The three squads are there to help each other out. In the past couple of tournaments, when one squad is having a harder time, the others are helping out,” Ben Mappin-Kasirer ’14 said.

The freshmen, specifically Jake Stein ’17, Reed Srere ’17 and Ian Richards ’17, have been key to the team’s success, according to multiple athletes on the squad.

Peter Cohen ’14 said that the underclassmen played a large role in the teams’ performance against Sacred Heart.

“They showed great composure and skill in the face of a loud crowd and strong opponent,” he said.

O’Cinneide agreed, noting that the freshmen are an especially strong class this year, and con-

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Both the men’s and women’s teams started their seasons strong with a win against Sacred Heart.

GAMES WON BY THE WOMEN’S SQUASH TEAM WITHOUT DROPPING A SINGLE POINT IN TWO MATCHES THIS WEEKEND. The Bulldogs squared off against Haverford and Tufts this past Sunday, sweeping both without dropping a single individual match.