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Med School to see reform

Bananagrams. The Facebook group “Princeton Bananas” popped up last week, featuring regular posts of rather unflattering photos of Princeton students eating bananas. “This insurgency was built to instigate drastic change in our gustatory habits,” the page says. “We will not stop until every Princeton student decides to eat their bananas with fork and knife lest they be captured on camera.” One submission for example is captioned, “A tender lip-lock with this golden glory.”

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS

the 2014–’15 academic year and roll out the full curriculum the year after.

“This is a pretty dramatic change,” said Mike Schwartz, associate dean for curriculum at the Yale School of Medicine. “It’s a more integrated approach, and it brings the students to patients earlier in the curriculum.

In a Tuesday night email to several hundred active members of the Yale International Relations Association (YIRA), the organization’s executive board alleged its former president misallocated YIRA funds. But several YIRA members interviewed have questioned the claims made in the email and an attached document.

According to the letter, the former president of the organization during the 2012’13 year Larissa Liburd ’14 requested $3,500 from YIRA for her group, Citoyen Haiti. The YIRA board voted to allocate the funds with the understanding that the preceding board had approved the decision, the letter said. The YIRA letter said that Citoyen Haiti was not a constituent organization of YIRA. As of press time, Citoyen Haiti’s website continued to state constituent status, and that donations to Citoyen Haiti are tax deductible because of its relationship to YIRA, a 501(c)(3) organization.

The letter added that Liburd’s case has been referred to the University administration, though it did not provide details about the extent of the University’s involvement.

“To rectify the misappropriation of funds and the unapproved use of the YIRA name and 501(c)(3) status by a Yale student, the Executive Board members involved have referred this case to the Yale University administra-

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SEE YIRA PAGE 4

There’s always money in the banana stand. Meanwhile at

Brown, a new Twitter account titled Brown Bananas @ brown_bananas_ is posting pictures of students enjoying the fruit.

They’re elite and they don’t eat meat. In other news on the

dietary habits of Ivy League students, the Ivy League Vegan Conference 2014 was held this past weekend at Princeton, presumably so that Ivy League vegans could support fellow Ivy League vegans in attending Ivy League schools while being vegan?

Posterchild? Stefan Palios ’14, former co-president of Athletes and Allies, went on Fox CT this week to talk about his experiences as an openly gay athlete. The piece related to the recent coming out of defensive end Michael Sam, who is a top NFL draft prospect from the University of Missouri. Palios talked about his experiences revealing his sexuality to his teammates on the track and field team.

Cheap date idea. The Film

Study Center is hosting a preview screening of “Winter’s Tale,” a romantic film starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe and Jessica Brown Findlay.

The film opens on Valentine’s Day and the plot is based on a 1983 book about a thief that falls in love with a girl dying of tuberculosis. “This is not a true story. It’s a love story,” the film’s advertisements read.

Not a cheap date. As part of a

citywide promotion, the “Elm City Elf” is giving out goodies.

Most recently, local resident Steve Mark won the raffle where entrants were asked which New Haven restaurant they found most romantic.

Burn Book(er). After the

announcement of the Class Day speaker, Nick Defiesta ’14 “Immediate reactions to @JohnKerry as Class Day speaker have ranged from “meh” to “Awesome!” to “at least he’s better than @ CoryBooker” He was surprised to find a minute later, Cory Booker tweeted back, “Ouch.”

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Starting in the fall, the School of Medicine will reform its curriculum to emphasize clinical knowledge

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER When Yale School of Medicine first-years arrive in New Haven in fall 2015, they will encounter a curriculum drastically different than that taught today.

The School of Medicine is currently in the process of reforming its curric-

ulum to integrate clinical knowledge with basic science teaching and provide students with earlier exposure to clinical experience. The change comes in the midst of medical school curricula reform across the country aimed at better preparing students for a rapidly evolving health care system. The School of Medicine plans to pilot one aspect of the reform during

City departments overreach by $14 million

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER City department heads are requesting too much money from the city — $14 million too much.

Mayor Toni Harp told the News Tuesday that there is a $14-million gap between the aggregate funds requested by city departments and the revenue the city has at its disposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014. Based on preliminary departmental requests,

spending would outpace revenue by millions of dollars, Harp said on Tuesday afternoon — less than three weeks before her budget is due to city alders on March 1.

Harp said she is elbow-deep with budget director Joe Clerkin trying to avert a hike in taxes. But the city will likely need roughly $14 million in additional funds to balance its budget should department heads get what they have asked for, she added. If she honors the agencies’ requests, a bud-

get hole of up to $14 million looms.

“I don’t want to raise taxes,” Harp said. “We’re going to have to make cuts.”

The $14-million hole in preliminary calculations of the general fund does not even take into account the additional $5.3 million that the school district is requesting from the city, Harp added, saying the gap is really closer to $19 million.

At Monday’s school board meeting, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth

Harries ’95 revealed a total year-long spending scheme of roughly $396.5 million. A majority of funds will come from state Education Cost Sharing, but Harries said he would also be asking the city to up its contribution to help foot the school district’s operating budget.

“We want to do more for our students, not less, and that would require $5.3 million,” Harries said at Monday’s meeting. “That said, we know the city is in a difficult fiscal situ-

ation. We are talking with city officials to see what the potential is for this kind of budget increase.”

Harp stated bluntly that the city could not afford a $5.3 million increase in education costs. The necessary hike in property taxes would be untenable for city residents, she told School Board members Monday night.

The potential budget gap comes amid turbulent fiscal SEE DEFICIT PAGE 6

Sorority rush Republicans clamor to unseat Malloy continues to grow

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTERS

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER More female students rushed sororities this year than any other in Yale’s history.

On Jan. 22, 236 potential new members, or PNMs, registered for the rush process for Yale’s three on-campus sororities: Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi. After three rush rounds over the course of a week, 141 girls received bids. As last year saw 200 PNM’s begin rush, sorority leaders said they were pleased with the rise in awareness and interest in Greek life on campus.

“We were very surprised, actually,” said Jéssica Leão ‘16, an officer on Yale’s Panhellenic Council, the representative government body that coordinates sorority recruitment. “We expected the number to rise above 200, but we were shocked to rise all the way to 236.”

Leão attributed the boost in numbers to the Panhellenic

Council’s expanded outreach programs before recruitment this year, which included social media publicity and informational sessions for PNM’s.

Panhellenic Council president Morgan White ’15 oversaw the implementation of this outreach as well as the general organization and streamlining of the rush process, Leão said.

According to Mackenzie Lee ’16, a member of the Theta executive board who rushed last year, the clarity of this year’s rush process represented a significant improvement.

“Panhellenic was much more present in this year’s rush,” she said. “They were a lot more transparent about the process.”

For the first time this year, the process included a group of nine recruitment counselors, members of sororities who temporary disaffiliated from their organizations for the duration of rush. Each PNM was assigned to one of these

Six declared Republican candidates for governor of Connecticut are gearing up to turn the governor’s office red by overcoming a Democratic opponent they assume will be incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy.

Malloy has remained mum on the prospect of a second term, but his silence has not deterred a crowded field of Republican hopefuls from making their ambitions known — foremost among them Malloy’s 2010 opponent, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley.

“I hope and expect [Gov. Malloy] will run,” State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said. “There will be no other Democratic candidates if he decides to run.”

Looney identified Foley as one of three principal Republican challengers, also naming Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney ’86 as “serious” contenders with the “basis to seek the [Republican] nomination.” Connecticut State Sen. Toni Boucher, Shelton

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Gov. Dannel Malloy has not yet announced whether he will run for a second term, giving hope to Connecticut Republicans.

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Booze, drugs and racism

FOR OUR READERS On Tuesday night, the Yale International Relations Association released a statement to its members regarding allegations against an individual. The News published a news brief giving a short summary of the statement soon thereafter on the homepage of its website.

Though that blurb was accurate in describing the contents of YIRA’s email, as a standalone post the article stub did not meet our standards of clear, thorough reporting.

The News regrets publishing information about the statement before completing the article, and apologizes for any ensuing confusion.

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Box 63 blues I

n heaven’s name, Carl, how long will you abuse our patience? How long will that madness of yours mock us? To what limit will your unbridled audacity vaunt itself? Who of us do you think is ignorant of what you did last night, what you called together, what plan you took? What an age! What morals!

The above — with some slight modification — is borrowed from Cicero’s “First Oration Against Catiline.” The original text is timeless. Despite its age, we are still struck by its indignation, vitriol and rhetorical appeal. At least two of these features were on display this weekend at Box 63, courtesy of a Cicero of sorts a few places ahead of me in line: “Are you f--cking kidding me? I paid for a drink 20 minutes ago.

Why do I need another one to come upstairs? This is absolutely the worst run bar in New Haven.”

While a bit harsh in delivery, this unnamed undergraduate orator was speaking some truth to Fireball-wielding power.

Box 63 is a bar that continually shoots itself in the foot. And if trends continue, its cardinal virtue — location — won’t be enough.

In almost every case, Box 63’s problems are unforced errors.

The quintessential example falls somewhere between “Loose Lemur Night” and “Ricin Roulette” on the spectrum of terrible promotional ideas for a bar: the smoke machine. With every second that toxic, thick, wretched smog creeps across the hardwood floor, a drinking angel loses her wings. What’s more, the addition of the smoke machine just violates a basic principle of a good bar: have an identity and own it. Box 63’s choice to play some anti-Top 40 playlist and cloak it in a gray, machine-induced fog is about as fitting and wise as Toad’s replacing DJ Action with Pat Robertson.

The bar seems just to fly by its coattails at times: What is the best thing to build next to our three immovable brick pillars?

Of course, the large bar that I expect everyone to congregate around!

Consider the fact that Box 63’s only regular promotional night is on Sunday, with a “Bottomless Cup” for $15. This is all well and good, except for the fact that you cannot enter the

upstairs area unless you participate.

What is the thought process that places the highest fixed cash barHARRY rier of entry GRAVER on an inherently less Gravely social night (Sunday) Mistaken that caters primarily to a customer-base (washed up seniors) that has shorter (society-filled) nights anyway? Even if this is a brilliant and desirable promotion, why not allow customers to opt in or out?

This ad hoc style of bar planning also manifests itself in continually arbitrary covers.

Besides the inconvenience and expense, the random cover policy, coupled with an even more capricious coat-check mandate, creates immensely large lines (often extending to the corner of the street, despite a largely empty bar) that just leaves drunk hoards to shiver in the cold (even though there is a perfectly good waiting area through the side entrance). Additionally, Box 63 creates an unnecessary, dangerous safety hazard with its decision to require a drink to enter upstairs (cf. Drunk Cicero above). While it may seem like a clever way to extract a cover charge from patrons, it has, in practice, translated to bartenders repeatedly denying overly intoxicated students cups of water, in fear of fraud or trickery. Smart.

This is not to say that Box 63 is not largely a great bar. I am pretty sure I’ve put braces on Carl’s kids and grandkids by this point. And two years ago, it filled a tremendously important, previously vacant niche in Yale’s social culture: the sort of down-to-earth, large, typical college bar that Toby Keith could be proud of. So out of love and affection, it’s important to let these concerns be known.

And, Carl, if you’re looking for a night to kick off the good ol’ restored Box 63, please leave the smoke machine at home.

HARRY GRAVER is a senior in Davenport College. His columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

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'ANON' ON 'SPACE FOR PRIDE'

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esterday was my 21st birthday. It felt like a good time to write about alcohol. And drugs. And racism.

At college, if you don’t drink underage, you’re unusual. Just by walking around, we all smell pot on a near-daily basis. We all know someone who takes Adderall to do well on tests. We all know someone who does cocaine.

In fact, according to data compiled by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, college campuses are sites of some of the most rampant alcohol and drug use in America. Fulltime college students have rates of alcohol or drug addiction at nearly three times the national average. Binge drinking, prescription drug abuse and marijuana use have risen across the country in the last twenty years, but nowhere as dramatically as at college. Yale is certainly no exception.

If you believe the Department of Justice, the vast majority of drug dealers are white, middleto-upper-middle-class studentaged males. Practically all drugs are dealt more by whites than by people of color, more by the bourgeoisie than by the working class.

And, according to most studies, all drugs — from pot to heroine to crack — are used more by whites than by any other population. Elite colleges in particular are hubs of drug dealing.

Yet so few college students get arrested for alcohol or d r u g - re l a te d crimes. Especially at Yale. In a recent rankSCOTT ing of arrests STERN on college campuses, Yale had A Stern just 1.09 drug Perspective arrests and 2.27 alcohol arrests per 1,000 students, considerably below even the college average.

Contrast these numbers with those from another locale: poor, mostly black urban communities. Being black and from the inner-city means you are more than three times as likely to be arrested for drug possession as being white and living elsewhere.

This has led to a cultural narrative predicated on a false and fundamentally racist perception of criminality among non-white populations. Anti-drug rhetoric has justified a grotesque expansion of American prisons over the last 20 years. About one-third of all young black men are behind bars or on parole or probation.

Again, it’s worth stressing that far more young white men are using and dealing drugs.

So, what can we do about this?

Well, a lot. Historically speaking, college students were a constituency whose activism

wielded immense power. The demonstrators in Tiananmen Square were college students.

The activists who sat-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter and went down south for Freedom Summer were college students. Perhaps most memorably, the protesters that changed the debate surrounding the Vietnam War were college students.

Yet you are unlikely to see protests or community organizing or activism of any kind among college students when it comes to the racism of drug laws or mass incarceration in general. We are the beneficiaries of this bigoted system. We aren’t being arrested, and we get to have all the fun and make all the money. Who would rock that party boat?

Again, history bears this out.

College protesters are powerful, but they are self-interested.

Contrary to popular myth, antiwar activism began out of fear that sheltered college kids might be subject to the draft. The infamous protests at Columbia largely began after the university’s president submitted the names of students with lower GPAs to the Selective Service.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) used a fear of conscription to target graduating seniors for participation in protests.

And anti-war activism on college campuses was not especially widespread until after the 1969

decision to eliminate the deferment for students and replace it with a lottery — thus exposing college kids across the country to the draft. Within days, the rallies really started. At Bowling Green, for instance, where antiwar protesters had been mocked before 1969, nearly the entire campus took to the streets following the institution of the lottery.

On the first day of my life during which I can drink legally, I find myself wishing that my younger self and my younger friends had known a bit more fear. We are all guilty of complacency.

Perhaps the only way to get college students to truly care about the racism of drug laws and their enforcement is to make them subject to the same laws as everybody else. Perhaps then we will wield our political power and renew the activism of yore.

Of course, I don’t want to see more arrests or more imprisonment at Yale, any more than I would have wanted to see more soldiers sent to Vietnam. But if a personal stake is the only way to awaken all of us to racism inherent in our privileged lives, then perhaps that is the price we should have to pay.

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

GUE ST COLUMNIST KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG

Not forgetting the term

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y first week studying abroad at the University of St. Andrews last fall, I attended a dinner party at a new friend’s apartment. There was a very long table, bowls of pasta and conversation uninterrupted by the constant ping of Gmail on iPhones and dashes to nighttime extracurriculars. I was doing my best not to call attention to my status as the newbie, and I almost succeeded. But towards the end of dinner, a guest sitting at the other end of the table called over to me: “So why would you ever leave Yale?”

His question wasn’t the first of its kind I’d faced. He, and others back home who asked me similar questions, had a legitimate point. Why would I leave one of the world's finest academic institutions? Studying abroad certainly doesn’t come with any guarantees. Getting on that plane required me to believe that studying elsewhere was worth the inevitable trade-offs of leaving Yale. It is a hard fact to swallow that only 2.3 percent of Yalies are similarly getting on planes to go abroad during the term. According to the Center for International and Professional Experience’s preliminary data, only 127 students are studying abroad during the 2013-2014 school year.

It’s not necessarily a negative that only 2.3 percent of students are studying abroad during the school year. The 97.7 per-

cent that remains on campus is investing its time in making Yale the vibrant place it is. But studying abroad during the term is the most reliable — yet most underused — way to get full Yale funding for a substantial academic experience in a different country.

And the fact that so few students do so demonstrates that a major resource Yale offers remains significantly untapped.

Yale funding for summer study abroad is limited from every direction. Students on financial aid are eligible to receive the International Summer Award (ISA), which provides a stipend of up to $10,000 for a summer experience abroad. The ISA is based on an equivalent percentage system. If Yale covers 50 percent of a student’s tuition, it will also cover 50 percent of the student’s summer experience.

But there are two important caveats. First, the grant is a onetime award. Second, some summer study abroad programs are more than $10,000, and even if a student’s financial need is greater, the ISA will not cover it.

If a student on 100 percent financial aid signs up for a $12,000 course, the student still receives only $10,000.

For students not on financial aid, funding comes from a myriad of fellowships and department-specific funding. This funding application process is decentralized — requiring different applications for each fellow-

ship — and comes with no guarantees that a student will end up with funding. Efforts to get Yale to commit to more funding for summer study abroad — whether through additional fellowships, or an expanded ISA — should be celebrated.

But students should also recognize realistic constraints on Yale summer funding. Some limits are to be expected. Yale promised us four academic years with 100 percent demonstrated financial need covered. The ISA already sets Yale apart from Harvard and Princeton, which offer no comparable awards. It is impractical to expect Yale to be able to cover 100 percent demonstrated financial need for every student’s potential academic plans over three summers.

As it stands, there is not enough dialogue about how financially feasible and attractive term study abroad is. During the school year, Yale grants students the same percentage of financial aid that they receive at Yale to programs they attend abroad. The vast majority of foreign institutions Yalies attend are less expensive than Yale, and so students and families often end up saving money.

Furthermore, Yale permits study abroad for up to two semesters — about eight months — and will cover 100 percent of a student’s demonstrated financial need during that time. With all the discussion about the dif-

ficulty of funding summer study abroad, it is often forgotten that up to eight months of fully funded study abroad is available to every Yale student.

It is not easy to use Yale’s term-time study abroad resources. Doing so requires the courage to accept the trade-offs of leaving Yale. Thinking one can leave for months and not miss anything is naïve. Willingness to accept the tradeoffs, and confidence that these trade-offs are worth it, are vital for a successful time abroad.

Dialogue that marginalizes students who have the courage to study elsewhere during the term is insensitive at best. Referring to such students as outliers, or as foolish, marginalizes a segment of the student body we should embrace for what they bring back to campus upon their return.

Such dialogue is most harmful, however, because it dismisses the fact that term time study abroad may be the most financially realistic way for many Yalies to immerse themselves in a different country during college. Studying abroad during the school year is a risk, but one worth seriously considering for its many benefits, financial benefits high among them.

KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG is a junior in Davenport College. She is a former staff reporter for the News.

Contact her at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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“The Internet could be a very positive step towards education, organization and participation in a meaningful society.”

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SOM revamps online marketing

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Management has embarked on a new online marketing venture for its recently revamped MBA for Executives program.

Over the past two weeks, SOM launched an online recruitment campaign for its EMBA program, designed for individuals who have already spent several years working in various industries and now want to rise to positions of leadership.

The program will be expanded in fall 2014 fall to include concentrations in sustainability and asset management, in addition to the current healthcare concentration. In anticipation of this expansion, SOM is investing in an e-banner marketing campaign on a variety of websites to potential candidates for the EMBA program.

SOM’s advertisements now appear to targeted users on pages aspiring executives might frequent such as those of news outlets or businesses. The banners target people who have conducted Internet searches on related fields, such as other business programs or topics in health care, asset management or sustainability, said Nathan Williams, SOM director of marketing and public relations. These people are most likely to click on the SOM advertisements and possibly get in contact with a recruitment officer or attend an information session, he added.

“We’re not just blasting people with banners — we are targeting people who have expressed interest in one way or another,” Williams said. “[The people who see the ads] are in the mindset of someone who would take the next

step.”

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said the newly expanded EMBA program is a perfect opportunity to experiment with this new kind of advertisement model. After seeing the results of this new campaign, SOM may consider extending it to the main MBA program, he said.

Although the strategy launched less than two weeks ago, Bach said his team is already beginning to see positive feedback. Bach said they recently received an email from a potential candidate who was attracted by the banners.

Williams said the campaign targets potential students based on both first party and third party data. When a user visits the SOM website, SOM collects first party data on the individual and places banners on subsequent websites they visit, he said. Third party data, however, refers to user information given to SOM by related websites, Williams said.

SOM’s new marketing method is more cost efficient than the previous form of online campaigning used for both the EMBA and main MBA programs, Williams said. Though SOM used to put advertisements on the radio and on websites such as Bloomberg and The New York Times, Williams said such efforts are not wise investments because, out of a million people who saw the ads, only about 1 or 2 percent would actually be a candidate for the EMBA program.

“The untargeted network model — that’s just not the way we are going to be doing business in the future,” he said.

Vani Nadarajah, director of admissions for Executive MBA and Global programs, said the targeted digital campaign will

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The Yale School of Management has expanded recruitment online for its MBA for Executives program. also help attract a broader and more diverse EMBA class.

Both Bach and Williams said they do not want these e-banners to be associated with commercial advertisements.

“We have to be very tasteful and very true to our brand and our position,” Bach said. “This is not selling a commercial product.”

Bach said the education industry is unique because schools are selling a product but are also selective about admissions. Thus, it is important to distinguish between making an effort to raise

Former Spanish PM talks economy

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER As Spain continues its slow economic recovery, former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar spoke on Tuesday about the future political, economic and social challenges faced by his country and the rest of Southern Europe.

In a Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, Aznar — who served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 2004 — defended the importance of preserving the central position of the European Union, despite the recent economic crisis. Aznar pointed out five crucial areas for European leaders to address: consolidation of the EU, the welfare state, relations with the U.S., political structure, and foreign and defense policies.

“I do not think Europe is condemned to decline and failure — it’s proven the capacity to surmount the deepest crises and has the potential of making extraordinary achievements,” Aznar said. “All it needs is a clear and good plan of [action], and leaders who are in power with courage and determination to see it through.”

If Europe can recover a sense of purpose and not succumb to crisis, confusion and uncertainty, the 21st century need not be the Pacific Century, as many

regard it, he said.

The former Prime Minister acknowledged that compared with India and China, the EU has stalled in its rate of economic development. Ensuring the future of the EU — and prosperity for its millions — depends on the EU’s commitment to fiscal discipline, financial union between member countries and structural reform to ensure that all European economies are open and competitive, he added.

Attributing part of Europe’s present economic crisis to the “excess commitment of the welfare state,” Aznar advocated reevaluating social assistance in Europe — an issue he said all modern societies will need to rethink.

“We have to find a more reasonable balance between rights and responsibilities, between the state and the individual,” Aznar said. “Europe needs less government intervention and more economic freedom.”

Aznar also spoke of the need for more representative, efficient and accountable political institutions in Europe, as well as cooperation between EU states in the face of increasing competition.

A renewed commitment to foreign and defense policies is necessary in order to “defend and express [the EU’s] posi-

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Former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar spoke on the political, social and social challenges of Spain and the rest of Europe.

tion in the world,” Aznar said.

Though European armies have been shrinking in budget, personnel and professional capabilities, Aznar said the prolonged inaction can be reversed, as it is a product of a lack of attention to defense and a lack of courage.

Though precise, Aznar’s plan for Spain and Europe at large seemed abstract to many audience members.

“I believe the five problems are relevant to [Spain’s situation],” said Martin Urdapilleta ’17, “But he did not mention how Europe would gain that role and leadership he rightly sees as paramount for the continent.”

Following his presentation, Aznar answered questions about his stance on Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain. Aznar said he did not support Catalonia’s protests for independence, citing nationalism as both an important threat and value in Southern Europe.

Still, he defended constitutional respect for plurality.

With regard to concerns about inequality in Spain, Aznar said it is not the most important problem in Spain. But he added that the source of inequality lies in the destruction of the middle class.

Nazanin Sullivan GRD ’15 said she felt a disconnect between Aznar and the youth she encountered when living in Spain for two years.

“The rhetoric [Aznar] proposed contrasted with what young people are saying — they’re almost opposites,” she said, recalling sentiments among the youth that the EU took away flexibility and that inequality is a significant problem.

Likewise, Dee Hamilton, a Spanish teacher at James Hillhouse High School in New Haven who taught in Spain for 13 years during Aznar’s term, said she was struck by Aznar’s proposal to limit welfare. After teaching “privileged” children, Hamilton said, she saw Spain is still “classist” and requires government support and protection.

Aznar said Spain’s high level of unemployment should compel it to create jobs and establish control over the public sector, particularly in administration.

His two terms as Prime Minster lasted from 1996-2000 and 2000-2004.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

awareness about a program and its mission and making a sales pitch, he said.

Adam Wollowick SOM ’14, an EMBA student, said though the banners may seem commercial, the future benefits of this strategy will likely outweigh any costs.

“Everyone is selling, there are so many programs out there, so taking a little bit of risk and approaching it in this fashion [with the e-banners] is definitely worth it,” Wollowick said.

Wollowick added that if he had seen banners when he was

thinking about applying to business school, he may have been attracted to Yale sooner. Another student, Shresta Marigowda SOM ’15, also said he would have appreciated the marketing efforts.

Marigowda said when he was applying to schools two years ago, he noticed that other universities were already using e-banners. SOM needed to start targeting users more on the web to keep up with the competition, he said.

“Every time I went to businessweek.com, or usnews.com, right on the top, a NYU banner

came up,” Marigowda said. “They were definitely targeting me.”

Chris Cashman, director of public relations at Columbia Business School, said Columbia utilizes both online and social media outreach to market their programs. As online advertising is continuously evolving, it is important to stay up to date on current trends, he added.

SOM’s EMBA program was launched in 2005.

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

Yale to expand alert access

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Yale Alerts has been expanded to contractors, visitors, neighbors and citizens of New Haven.

BY BLAKE DIXON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The reported gunman sightings of Nov. 25 may lead to increased town-gown collaboration on safety.

On Jan. 31, the University expanded Yale Alerts access to all Yale contractors, visitors, neighbors and members of the New Haven community, according to an online press release from Yale’s public safety department.

Those who wish to sign up for Yale Alerts can now go to the department’s website and follow the online instructions in order to receive safety updates.

In spreading the safety information the administration hopes “to be able to communicate more directly with our neighbors, visitors and contractors so they can make decisions about their safety,” said Maria Bouffard, Director of Emergency Management.

The decision to expand access to the Yale Alerts system was sparked by members of the community who expressed interest in being notified when there are emergencies on Yale’s campus, following the events in November.

Janet Lindner, associate vice president of administration, said in an email that the goal of the Yale Alerts system is to “increase awareness and reduce crime on and around campus.” Bouffard said the Yale administration is still unsure how many people and businesses in the Elm City will sign up for the newly expanded service, but hopes there will be a lot of interest. She said she expects the majority of new members will be merchants on Chapel St. and Broadway as well as visitors, contractors and consultants who frequently come to campus.

Of the five employees and residents interviewed, all said they supported the idea of

making the Yale Alerts system available to the community. However, none of those interviewed had previously heard about the YPD alert expansion.

The manager at The Green Teahouse, located at 1008 Chapel St., said she believes receiving Yale Alerts could be beneficial.

“We have a lot of employees and it’s important that we help them come and go safely,” said manager Angela Schutz.

Andrew Basilici, a 20-year-old New Haven resident, agreed that the initiative to expand access to the Yale Alerts system is a good idea. Both he and another Elm City local, 25-year-old Cory Matthews, said that they plan to sign up for the service.

The two New Haven residents said the service may be particularly useful for people enjoying nightlife around Yale’s campus.

“I could see it being very useful,” said Basilici, “Especially for kids going to Toad’s who aren’t always aware of the surrounding crime.”

Community members who wish to receive more information about crime surrounding Yale can utilize other resources. According to Lindner, Yale posts a daily crime log on its public safety website. The public safety website also includes an Annual Safety Report on Campus Crime and Fire Incidents, which is updated each October.

Lindner said community members interested in more detailed crime information should reach out to the New Haven police.

According to data released in October by the New Haven Police Department, homicides in the Elm City dropped 46.2 percent during the January-October period from 2011 to 2013.

Contact BLAKE DIXON at blake.dixon@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“We don’t go into journalism to be popular.

It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.” HELEN THOMAS AMERICAN AUTHOR AND REPORTER

YIRA members divided over statement YIRA FROM PAGE 1 this case to the Yale University administration,” the letter said.

Liburd declined to comment Thursday night. Jade Ford ’16 and other members of the current YIRA board could not be reached for comment.

Still, several active YIRA members interviewed said the allegations against Liburd have not been substantiated.

“I think that the letter suggested that this issue has been much more thoroughly investigated and proven than is actually the case,” said Lizzie Hylton ’15, who served as head delegate of the YIRA Model UN team on the 2012-’13 board.

Members of the 2012-’13 board interviewed offered conflicting accounts of the events surrounding Citoyen Haiti.

The real problem in my mind lies with how this issue was handled by the current YIRA presidency.

LIZZIE HYLTON ’15 Former delegate, YIRA Model United Nations team Suyash Bhagwat ’15 — who was

treasurer for the 2012-’13 board, and said he was responsible for detailing YIRA’s financial commitments to the current board during the leadership turnover last May — said an institutional connection between YIRA and Citoyen Haiti was proposed during his board year.

Bhagwat said that at the time, he told the YIRA board and Liburd that YIRA could not make a decision on the proposed partnership without “more substantial facts” about the commitment it would entail.

Bhagwat said the board did not vote on the issue, an account questioned by other board members including Hylton, who acknowl-

edged she had not present at the meeting in question.

“There’s an open investigation pending. People from my board remember the events surrounding Citoyen Haiti differently,” Hylton said. “I personally believe in Larissa’s innocence, but the real problem in my mind lies with how this issue was handled by the current YIRA presidency.”

Sophia Clementi ’14, who served as executive director on the 2012-’13 board, said that she received one phone call in fall 2013 from Ford, the current YIRA President, asking about what she remembered about the 2012-’13 board’s discussions of Citoyen Haiti from the year before. Since

then, she said, there has been no formal communication to her from the current board.

Hylton said she was not consulted by the current YIRA board about the allegations.

Several YIRA members said that they felt the current board had acted irresponsibly in sending Tuesday’s email to the entire YIRA email list.

“I think it’s regrettable that an email disclosing the details of an [ongoing] case was sent out to the entire membership of YIRA,” said Aaron Berman ’16, who has been involved with YIRA’s constituent programs, conferences and publications.

Hylton expressed a similar sen-

timent, saying that she felt the current board did not consider what the most appropriate action would be in dealing with the ongoing case before sending out the email.

Frankie Costa ’14, who served as YIRA president on the 2011-’12 board, said although the accusations would be troubling if found to be true, he has faith that YIRA and the Yale administration will handle the matter appropriately.

YIRA’s current board is composed of 10 members.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

Six Republicans declare candidacy Tom Foley

Businessman and former ambassador to Ireland under former U.S. President George W. Bush ’68.

Ran against Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy in 2010 and lost by less than one percentage point.

Mark Lauretti

John McKinney

Shelton Mayor. Weighed runs for governor in 2010 and then for U.S. Congress in 2012.

Minority leader of the Connecticut State Senate, representing the 28th district since 1999.

Participating in public financing? Maybe.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Mark Boughton

Toni Boucher

Joseph Visconti

Danbury Mayor since 2002 and Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2010.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Connecticut State Senator representing the 26th district since 2009. Before that she served in the Connecticut House for 12 years.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Former West Hartford Town Councilor and nominee in 2008 for Connecticut's 1st congressional district.

Participating in public financing? No. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: ASSOCIATED PRESS, VALLEY INDEPENDENT SENTINEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

GOVERNOR’S RACE FROM PAGE 1 Mayor Mark Lauretti and former West Hartford Town Councilor Joseph Visconti have also declared their intention to seek the nomination.

Foley, a businessman and former ambassador is the only candidate to have outpolled the incumbent governor in a June 2013 Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters. Foley fell to Malloy in the 2010 race by less than 1 percentage point. Chris Cooper, director of communications for the Foley campaign, said Malloy is highly vulnerable — namely on the economic front.

“We call it ‘Malloy math,’” Cooper said, referring to the governor’s budget, announced last week. Malloy’s calculation of a $500 million surplus is based on borrowed money and delayed bond repayments, Republicans allege.

“Republicans all agree on one thing, and that’s that the governor has done a poor job … that’ll be the overriding point of discussion,” Cooper added.

Boughton said his record offers an attractive alternative to the governor’s. He said he considers himself a “blue-collar Republican” — someone who understands the plight of working people. Politicians who “haven’t struggled to pay a mortgage” do not have the necessary experiences to develop policies to address those issues, Boughton said.

Boughton said he plans to make the race about one issue: jobs.

“There are no other issues,” he said. “The rest of the stuff is meaningless if you can’t pay your mortgage.”

Boughton added that he is participating in the state’s public financing system — the Citizens’ Election Program, which awards participating candidates $1.25

million for the primary and then $6 million for the general election once they raise $250,000 in small donations from at least 2,500 donors.

Malloy used the program in 2010. Foley did not. He spent $13 million in the race, $11 million out of his own pocket.

Cooper said Foley is still weighing the prospect of using public financing this time around. He plans to raise the requisite money first and then decide whether to participate.

Republicans all agree on one thing, and that’s that the governor has done a poor job.

CHRIS COOPER Spokesman, Foley campaign

McKinney said he plans to use public money. As of Tuesday evening, he had raised $150,000, he said — and had raked in 1,600 individual contributions toward the required 2,500.

Echoing his opponents in saying the economy is the single most important issue in the race, McKinney said he is the candidate best equipped to build the consensus necessary to make compromise. He said his tenure as minority leader proves he has the ability to lead, even in a body where Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans.

Both McKinney and Boughton said they are confident Malloy will ultimately run for reelection. McKinney said delaying the announcement gives the governor political cover — allowing him to claim election-year proposals are “not … political …

because he’s not an announced candidate.”

“Everyone is waiting to hear what Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman will do,” said James Hallihan, a spokesman for the Connecticut Democratic Party. “I can say that the governor has said that they will make their decision together.”

Hallihan dismissed criticisms of Malloy by saying the governor has turned around the $3.6 billion deficit he inherited when he took office in 2011. He said the Republican contenders have attacked Malloy’s fiscal record without providing specific plans for spending adjustments they would make. Hallihan added that the party is preparing for the Republican candidates to pour in considerable national money, including from political action committees and special interest groups.

Visconti, who calls himself a Tea Party and gun rights activist, said he will not be using public campaign funding because he plans to conduct significant fundraising outside of the state.

“We’re looking to nationalize the race,” Visconti said. “What that means is I’m not taking the state welfare grant money. I’m going just on my own with what I can raise.”

Lauretti, who worked as a high school teacher and basketball coach in Bridgeport, said education will also be a dominant issue in the race, given the alleged unpopularity of Common Core standards among teachers.

Boucher called for tax reform: a reduction in payroll taxes and income tax. She distinguished herself from the field of Republican candidates by saying she is “socially liberal” — in favor of a woman’s right to choose and same-sex marriage, both of which are already protected in Connecticut.

Ron Schurin, associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, said he gave Malloy “51 to 49 odds” against any of the Republican challengers. Crowding in the Republican field could ultimately weaken the party’s nominee, benefitting Malloy, Schurin added.

“Everybody knows — the [Democratic] delegates know — that Dan Malloy is going to run for governor again,” said Gary Rose, chair of the department of government and politics at Sacred Heart University. “I don’t think he needs to put himself in the fire yet because he will be the Democratic nominee. It’s kind of

a stealth campaign he’s running anyway.”

Both Party conventions will be held on May 16.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu and ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.” BERTRAND RUSSELL BRITISH NOBLEMAN AND PHILOSOPHER

New colleges spur naming guessing game

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS In the coming years, two new names will be added to the ranks of chemists, preachers and Southern secessionists whose names grace Yale’s residential colleges.

The responsibility for naming Yale’s two new residential colleges lies with the Yale Corporation. Although administrators, faculty and students have no formal role in the decision-making process, many have developed strong opinions about what the Corporation should emphasize when making its decision.

In particular, students and faculty members across the University suggested the new colleges’ names ought to diversify the roster of exclusively white men who stand behind the names of Yale’s current residential colleges.

“I think that between the two residential college namesakes, we should at least hit two of the following: person of color, woman, queer person, not rich, disabled — literally anything to symbolically represent dedication to others besides straight white men,” Alex Borsa ’16 said.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she has heard students and faculty float the names of Yale alumni such as Edward Bouchet 1876, Henry Roe Cloud 1910 GRD 1912 and Yung Wing 1854 — respectively, Yale’s first AfricanAmerican, Native American and Chinese graduates.

Bouchet, the first AfricanAmerican to receive a Ph.D, graduated with a doctorate in physics. Cloud went on after Yale to become an educator, Presbyterian minister and official in the federal Office of Indian Affairs.

Wing was the first Chinese citizen to graduate from any American university, and he brought Chinese students to study in the

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With two new residential colleges comes two new names. The naming responsibility belongs solely to the Yale Corporation with no formal role to administrators, faculty or students.

United States under the Chinese Educational Mission.

Only two out of 16 students interviewed had specific namesakes in mind for the new colleges beyond Charles Johnson ’54, the donor whose $250 million gift last October propelled the colleges’ construction forward. However, administrators have explicitly said the colleges will not be named for a living donor.

Drew Morrison ’14 suggested the possibility of naming one of the colleges after Josiah Gibbs 1809 and Josiah Gibbs Jr. 1858 GRD ’1863. The elder Gibbs played an important role in defending the prisoners who mutinied aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad while being transported as slaves, and his son went on to earn the first Amer-

ican doctorate in engineering from Yale and make major contributions to the sciences.

While Miller recognized the difficulty of finding a prestigious female alumnus — as women were only admitted to Yale in 1969 — she suggested alternative community figures such as Mary Wright, a historian of China who became the first woman to gain tenure in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1959.

Miller added that many community members have floated the name of Prudence Crandall, a white Quaker teacher with no Yale ties, but whose Connecticut schoolhouse was effectively the nation’s first integrated classroom.

“It would be lovely to have a college named after a woman or a person of color,” American Stud-

ies professor Joanne Meyerowitz said.

Still, the University may choose to name a college after a white man — former University President Kingman Brewster ’41, who opened the University’s gates to women and minorities, significantly diversifying the student body for the first time.

“Under Brewster, admissions policies changed at Yale,” Miller said. “And although many will critique the SAT now, the insistence [on using] the SAT was thought to be pretty revolutionary in the 1960s, allowing more outstanding public high school students to get the fat envelope,” she said.

Naming a college after Brewster would represent “fairness, equity and openness,” Miller added.

Rodgers talks “Age of Fracture”

But none of the faculty, students or administrators interviewed said an individual’s status as a member of an underrepresented group should compensate for lack of achievement. Several said diversity should play no role in the Corporation’s deliberations.

“I don’t think I really care about them being named after a minority,” said Abhishek Chandra ’16. “It’s more about achievement.”

Students disagreed on the types of achievements that would qualify an individual to be a namesake for one of the colleges, alternately emphasizing public service, contributions to scholarship and monetary donations to Yale. All interviewed said the University should consider the decision with the utmost seri-

Former Princeton University professor Daniel Rodgers spoke on modern American culture to 30 members of the Yale community.

BY AUDREY LUO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Choice, agency and individuality came to the forefront of modern American culture during the late twentieth century, according to former Princeton University professor Daniel Rodgers.

On Tuesday afternoon, Rodgers spoke to approximately 30 members of the Yale community in Sterling Memorial Library as part of the International Security Studies’ Distinguished Speaker Series. An influential historian and author of the book “Age of Fracture,” Rodgers explained the emergence of a powerful free market in which rationality was championed and also commented on how the new intellectual “age of fracture” has influenced the language of politicians and even interpersonal relationships.

Technology has played a key role in creating this fragmented social reality, Rodgers said.

“We’re wired into our smartphones … We can shop at home, get ourselves educated at home,” he said. “Public schools will be unnecessary. If we need a peer group for our children, we can create one over the web … We don’t need society. We can each go on our choosing way — with technology.”

Since the late twentieth century, America’s sense of solidarity has been pushed aside, Rodgers said. While the feminist movement initially entered the spotlight with its constituents united by a “we shall not be moved, we

shall overcome” mindset, for example, Rodgers said the movement fell short of its goals because of internal differences between women. Politically and morally conservative women, liberal women and women of different races and religions were all jostling for the microphone, he said.

Rodgers said recently, there have been two “big bangs”: the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — after which America experienced a wave of patriotism — and the economic crisis of 2008. For a moment, Rodgers said it seemed as though American solidarity had been restored. In the realm of language, presidential speechwriters began using the word “we” once more, Rodgers added, citing Michael Gerson, chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, as an example.

“Language wrote itself into politics, with a new emphasis on the small, personal and fragmentary,” he said.

According to Rodgers, one of the greatest inventions of mankind is the market, which he called a “magical realm” where desires collide with external circumstances.

Rationality became the denominator of economic decisions and transactions, which theoretically should add up to a world with minimal inefficiency, he said.

“But rationality isn’t so rational in the context of life,” said Rodgers, adding that this is one of the ironies of the “Age of Fracture.”

Rodgers concluded his talk by commenting on the role teachers play

in working against the fragmentary nature of society. Teachers can construct the way education is received, he said. Though Rodgers said a college education is currently a race to answer questions correctly and build a resume for the job market, he said relationships should be forged in the classroom in the same way that they are in Glee Club or lacrosse practice.

Most of the audience members had read Rodger’s book, and many were professors or graduate students in the International Security Studies program.

The Director of the International Security Studies program, Adam Tooze, said he thought the talk gave a compelling summary of Rodgers’ book.

“Professor Rodgers has been absolutely central to cultural and intellectual history for the past several decades,” said history professor Jenifer Van Vleck. “This book in particular really shows how the tools of historical analysis can illuminate not only the past but also our present.”

Tommy Sheppard GRD ’14 and Kate Geoghegan GRD ’14, students in the International Security Studies program, said they agreed with Rodgers that the language of individualism has become more prominent in recent years.

“Age of Fracture” was published in 2011.

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

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

State moves to legislate fracking

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER

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ousness, as the colleges’ names will become a part of the University for the foreseeable future.

Arabic professor Dimitri Gutas GRD ’74 said the names should be historically significant rather than “politically fad-ish.” “[The names] will have some sort of historical illusion, direct or indirect,” said Nancy Berry ’84, who volunteers frequently for the University. “Whatever names are chosen, they’ve got to carry their weight against some pretty incredible names.”

The University is expected to break ground on the colleges in February 2015.

A number of Connecticut Environmental groups and legislators have begun to craft fracking waste legislation that may come before the legislature in the next couple weeks.

Although Connecticut may never be the site of hydraulic fracturing — an environmentally controversial method of obtaining natural gas from shale deposits more popularly known as fracking — because of its geological makeup, the production of natural gas through fracking still poses a problem for the state. Legislators are concerned Connecticut will become home to the fracking waste treatment and storage from other states.

The reason it is such an issue is because the waste from fracking is filled with chemicals and radioactivity.

NANCY ALDERMAN ’94 FES ’97 President, Environment and Human Health, Inc. “Anything you do related to the production of energy has an environmental impact, so the key is to make certain that you’re minimizing that impact and that there are sound regulations to do that,” said Denis Schain, director of communications at the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

According to Schain, a loophole in Connecticut’s current law could allow waste associated with fracking to come into Connecticut for disposal.

The state law is based off a federal law, which does not classify materials associated with oil and gas extraction as hazardous waste.

The new legislation is attempting to regulate these materials by requiring, for example, more record keeping and documentation of how the materials are handled from “cradle to grave,” Schain said. “The reason it is such an issue is because the waste from fracking is filled with chemicals and radioactivity,” said Nancy Alderman ’94 FES ’97, the president of Environment and Human Health Inc. According to Alderman, companies who drill

in nearby states such as Pennsylvania have not yet found a sustainable method of waste disposal and are currently resorting to techniques such as sending the polluted water to other states for reinjection into the ground.

While the DEEP has proposed legislation to regulate fracking waste, other Connecticut legislators, like state Rep. Jonathan Steinberg of Westport and Rep. Matthew Lesser of Middletown, have also been working on bills of their own to propose to the legislature.

“We’re going to be watching those bills closely, discussing the issues they raise to determine our views on other bills that are submitted,” Schain said.

A bill may come up for vote within the next week, according to Alderman. There has also been an effort on the part of numerous Connecticut environmental groups to rally against fracking waste. A newly created website, http://wastefreect.org, which was put up by a coalition of environmental groups provides a repository of information on fracking in Connecticut as well as a list of Connecticut environmental organizations who have taken a stance against it.

However, some environmental groups feel as though a ban on fracking waste does not go far enough to control the potentially detrimental effects of fracking on the environment.

“It’s great to ban fracking waste in Connecticut, but it’s kind of hypocritical to then expand our natural gas infrastructure,” said Ben Martin, a member of the coordinating committee at 350 Connecticut, a state branch of national environmental organization 350.org. “Instead, we should be transitioning to renewable energy and not trying to expand natural gas,” Martin said.

According to Martin, both the Gov. Dannel Malloy and the DEEP have been working to expand Connecticut’s use of natural gas over the past few years.

As the state relies more heavily on natural gas, the challenge will be to determine how it can be sourced and used responsibly and in a responsible and environmentally sound manner, Schain said.

There are currently over 6000 active natural gas wells in the state of Pennsylvania.

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

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“True friends, like ivy and the wall, both stand together, and together fall.”

THOMAS CARLYLE SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHER

Sororities see spike Med curriculum to change MED CURRICULUM FROM PAGE 1

recruitment counselors, whose job was to provide support for PNM’s and answer any questions about logistics.

While Leão said the recruitment counselors were a success and will be a permanent addition to the sorority recruitment process, she added that this aspect of rush will likely improve with each passing year and that more training for the counselors will aid the process.

“We would like to make it as unbiased as possible so that the girls are acting as actual counselors and not representatives of their sororities,” she said.

The increase in the number of PNM’s this year sparked a renewed conversation about the creation of a fourth sorority.

Although in 2011, the National Panhellenic Conference blocked the effort because one sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, did not fully fill its pledge class —

a prerequisite for introducing a new group — sorority members interviewed said they hope heightened interest and the increased size of Kappa’s pledge class will result in this notion being reconsidered.

It is difficult for the existing sororities to expand their quota for the pledge class size much beyond the current number of 45 students, Leão said.

“Yale Greek culture traditionally has been inclusive: If you want to be in a sorority, you can be,” Lee said. “I now realize that there are so many people who weren’t fortunate enough to get bids and I wish there was another sorority to accommodate everyone.”

Leão said Panhellenic will be having its first post-recruitment meeting in the coming weeks. The proposed new sorority will be addressed, along with the positives and negatives of this year’s process, she added.

A student who entered the

rush process but asked to remain anonymous because she did not ultimately receive a bid said she found the rush process disappointing.

“It was really disheartening, frankly,” she said. “I don’t think that this should be an issue at a place like Yale, and while I understand that it is a difficult situation and they can’t take everyone, the computer-generated email I received telling me I wouldn’t be receiving a bid felt a little cold.”

Out of four sorority members interviewed, all said they thought an additional sorority should be brought to campus in order to give out more bids. Leão added that hopes to see a new sorority arrive soon — potentially by 2016.

Pi Beta Phi, the youngest sorority on campus, came to Yale in 1989.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

GEORGE LISTER MD ’73 Chair of Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine The new curriculum will present administrative challenges, said Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine. With a greater focus on interdepartmental teaching, Alpern said the school will have to coordinate among classes that were previously siloed from each other.

Though the interdepartmental nature of the new curriculum may require more coordination, Schwartz said it may also provide

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

City budget up in the air DEFICIT FROM PAGE 1 times for the city. All three major bond rating agencies downgraded New Haven at the end of last summer — with Fitch doing so twice, first from A+ to A and finally to A-. In January 2014, the Board of Alders replenished the city’s depleted “rainy day fund” — akin to New Haven’s savings account — by refinancing old city debt and shifting funds from bond payments down the road.

In her first month in office, Harp has taken a firm stance on fiscal accountability. At the end of January, she threatened to hold up Harries’ reappointment if he could not lower costs and present her with a balanced budget.

“We can’t afford to have another downgrade. It’s not acceptable,” Harp warned all department heads at the time.

“They need to make corrections.”

Harp said Tuesday she could

not yet speak to precise details regarding potential cuts — and what will be first on the chopping block. She said she would be meeting Tuesday with Clerkin to begin assessing those questions.

Clerkin could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

It’s still preliminary [the city budget]. There’s time to shrink that number.

LAURENCE GROTHEER Spokesman, City Hall The potential budget shortfall also heightens the need for state aid, Harp said. Though she said she is grateful for the small boost in Payment in Lieu of Taxes proposed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, she will go “hat in hand” for additional contributions.

“If the [state] economy improves and the surplus deepens, that creates an opportunity to get more resources,” Harp said. Upgrades to information technology and more trucks for the Public Works Department are one-time payments that could be covered by isolated, single-year state contributions.

City Hall Spokesman Laurence Grotheer said each department head will be asked to defend the agency’s projected budget.

He said Harp still has time to bring requested spending into line with the reality of the city’s operating budget.

“It’s still preliminary,” Grotheer said. “There’s time to shrink that number.”

New Haven’s budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 is roughly $497 million.

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

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Some things are not going to work. That’s inherent when you’re trying something new.

new ideas for teaching. Because classes will no longer be isolated within departments, instructors can feature more integrated content in class.

“We’re including all the faculty [in this process], and there are now possibilities that exist for them that didn’t when they were teaching in silos,” he said.

According to the five School of Medicine faculty members interviewed, the curriculum will likely require a degree of tweaking as it is rolled out.

Chair of the Department of Pediatrics George Lister MED ’73 said the success of the program will be determined by how the faculty and administration are able to adjust to what is and is not successful.

“Some things are not going to work,” he said. “That’s inherent when you’re trying something new, and it’s something everyone has to be prepared for from new educational processes.”

The Yale School of Medicine was founded in 1810 and currently has a 400-person student body.

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Sororities had record-high recruitment numbers this winter with 236 girls registering and 141 receiving bids.

The notion is ‘How can we make things stick a bit better?’”

Currently, medical students spend the first two years immersed in basic and clinical science classes, not gaining significant hands-on clinical experience until the third and fourth years, Schwartz said. In contrast, the new curriculum will feature one-and-a-half years of traditional classroom instruction paired with introductory clinical experience featuring weekly patient visits. Students will then spend a year devoted solely to clinical experience, with the final year and a half for research and electives.

The condensed classroom time will eliminate redundancy and integrate different specialties and disciplines, said Michael Alpert MED ’14, one of the two medical students on the committee overseeing curriculum reform.

“The basic idea is to try to integrate more clinical experience so people understand why they’re learning what they’re learning,” said Amy Justice MED ’88, professor of medicine and public

health and a member of the committee. “The Krebs cycle doesn’t exactly get you out of bed in the morning — this is a way of helping you understand why the Krebs cycle is relevant.”

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NATION

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Dow Jones 15,994.77, +1.22%

S NASDAQ 4,191.05, +1.03% S Oil $100.30, +0.36%

Nuke reform drive features tried ideas

S S&P 500 1,819.75, +1.11% T 10-yr. Bond 2.73, -0.11% T Euro $1.36, +0.02%

Republicans back away from debt fight

BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.

BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Five years ago the Air Force considered a series of proposals to boost morale and fix performance and security lapses in its nuclear missile corps, according to internal emails and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

But many fell short or died on the vine, and now, with the force again in crisis, it’s retracing those earlier steps.

The new effort is more far-reaching, on a tighter timetable and backed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. So it appears to hold more promise for an Air Force under scrutiny after a variety of embarrassing setbacks and missteps raised questions about whether some of the world’s most fearsome weapons are being properly managed.

The earlier approach, shown in

internal Air Force documents and emails from 2008-09, included some of the ideas being floated again today by a new set of Air Force leaders, including bonus pay and other incentives to make more attractive the work of the men and women who operate, maintain and secure an Air Force fleet of 450 Minuteman III nuclear-tipped missiles. Then, as now, the Air Force also looked for ways to eliminate the most damaging “disincentives” — parts of the job that can make missile duty onerous.

“Keep the faith,” one commander wrote to his ICBM troops in an email in early 2009.

Faith, however, seemed to falter.

A series of AP reports last year documented training failures, low morale, deliberate violations of security rules, leadership lapses and other missteps. The AP also disclosed an unpublished study that found evidence of “burnout” and

frustration among missile launch officers and ICBM security forces.

In response, Hagel said something must be done promptly to restore public confidence in the nuclear force and ensure the weapons are under competent control.

Hagel came forward shortly after the disclosure of an Air Force drug investigation and an exam-cheating scandal within the ICBM force whose full dimensions are still being investigated. Hagel has given the Air Force wide latitude to find solutions to what he called “personnel failures,” but he wants action by late March.

In January, the new Air Force secretary, Deborah Lee James, visited all three ICBM missile bases. She picked up on people’s worries about career advancement opportunities in the force and wondered whether incentive pay, ribbons, medals and other recognition should be provided.

WASHINGTON — Unwilling to spook the markets and divided among themselves, House Republicans backed away from a battle over the government’s debt limit Tuesday and permitted President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies to drive quick passage of a measure extending Treasury’s borrowing authority without any concessions from the White House.

The 221-201 vote came hours after Speaker John Boehner announced that his fractured party would relent.

Just 28 Republicans voted for the measure, including Boehner and his top lieutenants. But 193 Democrats more than compensated for the low support among Republicans.

Senate Democrats hoped to vote on the legislation as early as Wednesday and send it to Obama for his signature.

The move was denounced by many conservative groups but came after most Republicans in the House made clear they had no taste for another high-stakes fight with Obama over the nation’s debt ceiling, which must be raised so the government can borrow money to pay all of its bills.

The bill would permit the Treasury Department to borrow normally for another 13 months, putting off the chance of a debt crisis well past the November elections and providing time for a newly elected Congress to decide how to handle the issue.

Just Monday, Republicans suggested pairing the debt measure with legislation to roll back a recent cut in the inflation adjustment of pension benefits for working age military retirees. Democrats insisted on a debt measure completely clean of unrelated legislation.

“The full faith and credit (of the United States) should be unquestioned and it is not negotiable,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,

D-Calif.

The vote comes four months after Washington defused a government shutdown and debt crisis that burned Republicans politically — an experience they did not want to repeat.

The White House applauded Tuesday’s vote.

“Tonight’s vote is a positive step in moving away from the political brinkmanship that’s a needless drag on our economy,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. He said Congress should now take additional steps to strengthen the economy and pressed efforts by Obama and Democrats to restore jobless benefits to the longterm unemployed and to increase the minimum wage.

Tuesday’s developments, which many Capitol Hill insiders saw coming, mark a reversal of the GOP’s strategy of trying to use the debt limit to force spending cuts or other concessions on Obama. The president yielded to such demands in 2011 — before his re-election — but has since boxed in Republicans by refusing to negotiate.

“I am disappointed that Democrats have walked away from the table,” said Dave Camp, R-Mich., the glum chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. “But for as disappointed as I am, I cannot in good conscience let the Democrats’ refusal to engage, lead to a default.”

Boehner, R-Ohio, made the announcement after conservatives failed to rally around his latest plan, floated Monday, to tie lifting the debt ceiling to a measure to reverse cuts to military pensions that were enacted less than two months ago. Earlier plans to tie a debt cap increase to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline or repeal of part of the new health care law failed as well, stymied by a group of hard line conservatives who vowed never to vote for increasing the government’s debt, which stands at more than $17 trillion.

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SPORTS

“The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.”

HERB ELLIOTT FORMER AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIAN

Track and field thrives at home

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The track and field teams will host the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at Coxe Cage this weekend.

TRACK AND FIELD FROM PAGE 12 distance medley relay and the mile run, and was impressed with the Bulldogs’ performance.

“This weekend, we won seven events in an invitational meet; we had six more individuals and relays qualify for ECAC championships. We also had many personal and season’s best performances, and most importantly we had fun doing it,” Stark said in a message.

Anna Demaree ’16 covered the 5,000-meter run in 17:42.17, her first time competing in the event this season. On the field, Karleh

Wilson ’16 took first place in the weight throw and also qualified for the ECACs with 16.17 meters covered. The final first-place finish for the Bulldogs on Friday came in a tie among Megan Toon ’16, Lillian Foote ’17 and captain Amanda Snajder ’14 in the high jump, each clearing a height of 1.55 meters.

Another stellar performance on Friday came from the team of Grace Brittan ’16, Meredith Rizzo ’17, Delaney FitzPatrick ’17 and Stark in the distance medley relay, recording the fifth best time for that event in Yale’s history with a second-place finish in 11:35.06.

The Elis carried strength and momentum into Saturday, securing four more first-place performances. Mackenzie Mathews ’16 took first in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.94 seconds, tying her personal best as well as maintaining her third best time in Yale’s history for that event.

Shannon McDonnell ’16 took first in the 500-meter dash with 1:16.91, and Stark covered the mile in 4:58.56, recording a personal best as well as qualifying for the ECACs. Emily Urciuoli ’14 secured Yale’s last first-place finish for the day in the pole vault, covering

a height of 3.60 meters and also qualifying for the ECACs. Other notable performances came from Kira Garry ’15, who qualified for the ECACs with a second-place finish in the 1,000-meter race in 2:55.82, and Emily Cable ’15, who took second with an ECAC qualifying time of 56.97 in the 400-meter dash, despite having already qualified for the event in a previous meet.

Stark said the squad has been training hard since December, and that momentum is building.

“Having teammates with whom you work out everyday at practice in the same race as you

Freshman finds success W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 help the team.”

Coach Gobrecht is not the only one to notice the qualities that Munzer brings to the floor.

Halejian agreed that Munzer brings a ton of energy every time she steps onto the court and that it rubs off on the rest of the team.

Captain and guard Janna Graf ’14 added that Munzer is one of the hardest and most relentless basketball players she has ever played with, noting that Munzer comes to every practice and game with energy and focus.

“Every day she gets up extra shots, works on learning the plays, and competes in practice which has made her a very consistent player on this team,” Graf said. “Lena is an extremely talented basketball player and contributes to the team on both ends of the floor.”

According to Halejian, Munzer also brings talent and athleticism, along with her knowledge of the game.

Munzer, a native of Illinois, brought a strong resume from her time at Highland Park High School, where she started for four years and averaged 24.6 points per game as a senior. Gobrecht said Munzer has adjusted well to the college game. At the high school level, she said, players can often get away with mistakes due to the level of competition, and at the college level freshmen are more prone to making mistakes. The coach added that Munzer has taken this thought to heart and continued to improve throughout the season.

“My teammates and coaches have made transitioning from high school to college as easy as it probably could get,” Munzer said in an email. “Obviously, it’s a completely different game at the college level, and that’s something I had to learn very quickly. I do my best to bring a lot of energy day in and day out.”

Halejian added that Munzer has also gained a lot of confidence in her game, which will only help her continue to get better and make critical contributions to the success of the team.

Munzer, who is leading Yale freshmen with 19.4 minutes a

see how much our improvement as a squad measures up against some of the top competition in the league before we head into the Heptagonal Championships.”

For the Elis who qualify for the ECAC and IC4As Championship meets in March, the athletes will travel up to Boston to compete against some of the best runners on the East Coast before the outdoor season begins.

This Saturday, Feb. 15, the Elis will face Ivy rivals Princeton and Harvard in Coxe Cage.

Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu .

Senior discusses fencing COHEN FROM PAGE 12 win it for us.

Q

The team finished with a 0–5 record at the Ivy League Championship this season. What went wrong for the Bulldogs and what can the team learn from its experience at the Championship?

A

Our team is very young.

Although our épée squad is entirely seniors, the other two are almost entirely sophomores and freshman. I think perhaps this youth could have caused nerves to come out, but honestly I don’t know. We have had a strong season but just weren’t able to put it together this weekend.

Q

Do you have any pre-match routine to get ready for a competition?

A

I usually do the same thing before every competition, put on my headphones and jog around the venue to relax. Then I start to stretch and warmup with my teammates.

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can have tactical as well as psychological advantages,” she said.

“You can tag-team a race, making a plan that will play to both of your strengths and weaknesses.

Having another Yalie with whom you train gives you confidence on the line and helps to assuage race day jitters.”

Both Bulldog squads have much to look forward to and prepare for.

Next weekend, Yale will be back in Coxe Cage competing in a trimeet against Harvard and Princeton.

“We get to compete hard against our Ivy League rivals,” Stark said. “It’ll be exciting to

why did you choose to compete in épée?

A

I had actually signed up for my first lesson in foil, but before I could even start the coach placed me in épée because of my body type: tall and skinny — good reach.

Q

How did you get involved in fencing?

A

I got involved because my sister’s friend, Mike Pearce ’09, came over for a holiday dinner and mentioned that he was on the team at Yale. He suggested I try it, and within a few months I began competing on the national level. Three years after I started, I faced Mike in the Maccabiah Games in Israel and lost 15–13, but I thought it was pretty crazy that I hadn’t even heard of fencing when we first met, and then I came so close to beating him.

I did, however, beat him at our alumni tournament my freshman year.

does your QWhere career go from here?

fencing

back to the beginI don’t really plan on comQLooking ning of your fencing career, Apeting competitively after

college. I have had a long and successful career here at Yale and am satisfied with that. I will probably fence recreationally when I am in New York after graduation; there are a number of clubs, and it is easy to walk in for an afternoon. do you think is the QWhat future of Yale fencing?

A

The future is definitely in our underclassmen. They make a huge part of our team and are a strong force in competition and in team spirit. I am confident that they will have great Yale careers.

is your fondest memory QWhat of fencing at Yale?

A

My fondest moment while at Yale was qualifying for NCAAs my freshman year. I never thought that competing in college would bring me to the NCAAs and hoped not to get last place going into the competition.

I ended up getting third place, which made me first team AllAmerican, but qualifying was really the accomplishment, and everything else icing on the cake.

It showed me that my hard work could lead me wherever I wanted.

Guard Lena Munzer ’17 (No. 24) has started in all six of the Bulldogs’ conference matchups. game, is scoring 5.8 points per game, third most on the team.

Furthermore, Munzer is shooting 41.9 percent from beyond the arc, second only to Graf for players with more than one attempt per game. Munzer also contributes 2.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.

Munzer’s success belays the depth of Yale’s squad “Every member on the team is extremely talented and brings something exceptional to practice and games,” Graf said.

“Practices are more productive than ever because everyone is competing and no one goes easy on each other. Every person is willing to put the team first and do what is asked with them.”

Although the team made mistakes early in the season, Yale has started to hit its stride throughout conference play.

The Bulldogs are averaging two and a half points per game more

against Ivy League opponents while turning the ball over two fewer times each contest.

As the team has continued to improve throughout the season, Gobrecht expressed excitement about the team’s potential.

“I think we’ve crossed over into joining the heavyweight ranks in the conference, and you play at a different level when you are finally as good as anybody in the conference,” Gobrecht said. “Even though we have two losses and even though we have a very tough road trip ahead of us, we’re still playing at a high level.”

The Bulldogs are on the road this weekend with games at Penn and Princeton before coming home for matchups against Cornell and Columbia.

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

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Senior fencer Peter Cohen ’14 finished twelfth in épée at the Ivy League Championships.

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Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection, “Life on Mars,” won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. The collection draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie, and is in part an elegiac tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 317.

5:40 p.m. “50 Shades of Green” with Brian Keane. Join the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Yale Climate & Energy Institute for a conversation with SmartPower President Brian Keane. Keane will be discussing his new book, which offers a no-nonsense guide for making clean energy and energy efficiency a part of daily life. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Aud.

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In his talk, Winfried Menninghaus will address basic implications and assumptions concerning the notion of an empirical aesthetics as it underlies his current work at the Max Plank Institute. Part of the German Speaker Series. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 12:00 p.m. Iran Colloquium: “Out of the Shadows: A Case Study of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Region in a Wider Historical Perspective.” The Yale Program in Iranian Studies and the Council on Middle East Studies from The MacMillan Council are sponsoring a panel with Joanna de Groot, history lecturer at the University of York, and James M. Gustafson, an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University focusing on social and economic history. Free to the general public. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

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ARTS & CULTURE School of Art students showcase their theses

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Paintings and prints play off of each other in “Condensed Matters,” the thesis exhibition of second-year students at the Yale School of Art.

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER The opening of a painting and printmaking exhibition this month marked the beginning of thesis show season at the Yale School of Art. “Condensed Matter,” the thesis exhibition of the 20 secondyear painting and printmaking students at the School of Art, will be on display this month at the school’s Green Hall Gallery.

The show takes place in two parts: The first was on display from Feb. 1 through yesterday, and the second will open on Saturday and run through the 25th.

The exhibition is divided because of space limitations in the gallery, explained Associate Dean of the School of Art Samuel Messer, adding that thesis exhibitions are unlike the other gallery shows because the students organize the exhibitions themselves. He said the social cohe-

sion of this particular class is evident in the subtle connections between their theses, even though students’ work may be different fundamentally.

Jordan Casteel ART ’14 described the first part of the show as unusually “painterly” for a thesis exhibition, though the exhibit features a number of video screens as well. While still heavily focused on painting, the second part will feature more three-dimensional pieces than the first, she said.

“It’s a show about painting, even though it’s in different media,” said Heidi Hahn ART ’14, whose work appeared in the show’s first group. She added that though she does not consider the show cohesive, she thinks one can use the same vocabulary to describe many of the works. “The first group is traditional; what [the second group] is doing is very painterly just in a non-traditional sense.”

Stephen Benenson ART ’14 said the second-year painting and printmaking students determined how to divide the show and how to arrange both groups’ work in the gallery. He added that during this process, students were concerned primarily with where their work would hang as well as with whose work they would share the space. Benenson described the process as “remarkably amicable.” Messer added that when classes do not get along, their thesis exhibitions are “dysfunctional.”

“This second-year class fed off each other in a productive way,” Messer said. “So much of this is social, like anything else.”

For her thesis, Casteel worked in oil on canvas — her traditional medium, she said — painting nude black men in domestic spaces in what she called “an exploration of black masculinity.” The figures almost reach the edges of her large canvases,

which she explained highlights the pressure that stereotypes impose upon black men. Even though some of the figures are green or multicolored, Casteel said viewers usually assume that the figures are black. Her work forces the viewers to address their assumptions about color and race.

“All the black men in my life — my twin brother, my older brother and my father — are very different from one another, and they’re still projected with one particular image,” Casteel said.

“But I’m a black woman painting black men, and that’s also a relationship I’m trying to figure out.”

Benenson said his thesis, which shares a room with Casteel’s, also addresses color and space. He said his paintings explore the process of “labored cognition rather than passive connectivity” — a process similar to the one through which he and other people with dyslexia

read. One of his works reflects the way his four-year-old daughter is learning to perceive the world, he said, and two others reinterpret early Renaissance paintings. Benenson explained that the early Renaissance appeals to him because it was a period during which perspective in art was not yet formally established.

Hahn noted that much of her class’s work deals with identity politics, either in terms of the self or in the scheme of a group, such as gender or race.

Cathleen Mooses ART ’14, whose work will be on display in the second part of “Condensed Matter,” said that though her background is in printmaking, exposure to her classmates’ painting has had a significant impact on her work.

For her thesis, Mooses created an installation consisting of both “altered and disjointed” landscape photography and a fence woven from strips of mirrored

plexi and other plastics that will cross the gallery space. Inspired by the dislocation of migrant communities, Mooses’ installation responds to the architectural space of the gallery, she said, and through its use of reflective materials, interacts with the work of the two other artists who share that space.

Hahn said that the school strongly encouraged students to create their theses during the weeks between final reviews in December and the show’s opening in February. Messer said almost all of the work on display was created at least during the students’ second year, even though some students have been planning their theses “since elementary school.”

The next thesis exhibition, which will feature the work of second-year sculpture students, opens Feb. 27.

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

YUAG symposium explores an artist’s identity

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER This weekend, members of Yale’s art community spanning different generations and fields of study gathered at the Yale University Art Gallery to discuss the process of identifying oneself as an artist.

Last Saturday’s symposium, “Becoming Artists: Critique, Originality and Identity,” consisted of three student-moderated panels featuring Yale School of Art students and faculty as well as YUAG staff and other art experts. The panels, titled “Critiquing the Critique,” “Reproducing Artists: The Role of Originality in Contemporary Art” and “Managing Biography: Negotiating Audience,” served

as the culmination of a semester-long course in art critique mandatory for first-year students in all disciplines at the School of Art. “Becoming Artists” was the second annual symposium for the class to be co-sponsored by the Gallery and the School of Art. “Artists should think and speak on their own behalf,” said Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr in his opening remarks at the symposium. “You have to be your art’s first advocate and its last.”

Martha Tuttle ART ’15, a participant in the “Reproducing Artists” panel, said studying art at the graduate level is not only about honing one’s individual studio practice, but also about learning how to situate

one’s work “in dialogue with the surrounding world.” The symposium provided a forum for that dialogue, she said, adding that the ambiguity of the panel topics resulted in an engaging conversation both within each panel and between the three.

Anthony Hope ART ’15, also a panelist on “Reproducing Artists,” said the critique and biography panels were directly applicable to his peers’ practices. Both critique and biography — an artist’s personal history — grapple with the way an artist perceives his work and the way an audience does, Hope said, adding that trying to discuss the elusive concept of originality was more daunting.

“A lot of artists struggle with trying to create something that

hasn’t been done before, but everything that’s new is in itself original,” Hope said. “It’s a confusing topic to begin with.”

Each of the three panels was devised by one of the School of Art course’s three discussion groups, led this year by School of Art critic and the symposium’s primary organizer Jonathan Weinberg, Museum Educator at the YUAG Elizabeth Manekin and Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art Paulina Pobocha. Discussion groups met every other week last semester, first to discuss readings and then to plan the symposium. Students in each group elected both their symposium topic and the students who were to speak on the panel, in addition to deciding which

artists to invite.

Manekin, also a panelist for “Critiquing the Critique,” said the class provides an unusual opportunity for students from all concentrations within the school to participate in dialogue about one another’s work.

The symposium format, she explained, allows students to engage both with their peers and with established artists and academics, which she said is part of the Gallery’s mission.

Storr said that he hopes the symposium will have “reverberations” throughout the School of Art, noting that the event helps address differences in perspective across generations.

“It’s interesting to hear similar points of view but from different lines of sight,” said Dan-

iel Beckwith ART ’15, who also presented on “Reproducing Artists.” “You see the different reasons people have similar opinions.”

Ryan Gerald Nelson ART ’15 explained that a team of seven School of Art students studying graphic design created the event’s programs, all 300 of which could fold open to serve as unique posters. Team members took turns applying marks to each poster as a way to highlight the collaborative process, he said.

Last year’s symposium, entitled “Critical Practice Panel Day: Art in Conversation,” featured four panels.

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

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“Life is a lot like jazz … it’s best when you improvise.”

GEORGE GERSHWIN AMERICAN COMPOSER AND PIANIST

Festival draws jazz enthusiasts to campus

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER Last weekend, Yale’s second Jazz festival brought together Yale and New Haven’s jazz communities on the stage.

The festival was organized by Yale’s Undergraduate Jazz Collective, a cluster of jazz enthusiasts which provides a forum for musicians to meet, share ideas and make music together. This year’s event included performances by the Yale Jazz Ensemble, accomplished multi-instrumentalist Paul Lieberman ’78 and a master class from steel pan player and composer Andy Akiho MUS ’11. Organizers said their aim is to expose students to jazz music by bringing young, innovative musicians to perform on campus.

Jake Backer ’14, treasurer of the Yale Jazz Collective, called the event “a resounding success.” Backer added that he was pleased with the turnout and praised the diversity and enthusiasm of the audience, which numbered approximately 600 people and included members of both the Yale and New Haven communities.

Hans Bilger ’16, who attended the concerts, said that the festival included some of the best performances he has seen at Yale.

Bilger applauded the diversity of the artists, noting that the group was able to bring many talented musicians to campus.

Backer agreed, emphasizing that the group primarily attempts to attract “cool, unknown” artists.

As the culmination of a year’s worth of effort from the entire Jazz Collective, the festival aims to stage free, high-quality performances while exposing students to jazz, said Alexander Dobovoy ’16, the organization’s vice president. The group aspires to heighten awareness of the genre, Dobovoy said, adding that many people aren’t sure what to expect from a jazz concert.

“People think it’s not something they’re interested in, and then I will drag them to a concert and [they] see what it’s actually about,” Dobovoy said.

In addition to attracting more interest on campus, Dobovoy and Backer mentioned that they hope to initiate a change in the way jazz is taught at Yale. Both lamented

the absence of a formalized jazz curriculum on campus and said they hope that jazz musicians can receive the same amount of recognition as performers of other genres.

Backer noted that only one class on the art of jazz is currently being taught at Yale, adding that the group has long aspired to bring about a shift in campus culture.

For the moment, he added, its goal is simply to solidify the presence of the Jazz Collective as well as the annual festival.

“We want to make it happen again, so that it becomes a permanent fixture, a calendar event,” Backer said.

There’s something magical about jazz. … I’ve seen faces light up when people see what it’s actually about.

ALEXANDER DOBOVOY ’16 Vice president, Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective The group hopes that making the concert a campus staple would allow themto secure more funding, gain corporate sponsors and attract more renowned musicians. The goal, Backer said, is to make the event “bigger and better every year.”

Dobovoy added that the collective also hopes to continue providing a unified community for musicians on campus, which can serve as a foundation for greater projects. Ultimately, he said, what’s most important is that musicians have people to play and can organize gigs with when they arrive on campus.

“There’s something magical about jazz, about seeing the improvisations before you,” Dobovoy said. “I’ve seen faces light up when people see what it’s actually about.”

The festival, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective’s flagship event, took place from Feb. 7 to Feb. 9.

Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .

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The Undergraduate Jazz Collective’s weekend festival drew over 600 people from Yale and New Haven.

Poet reconciles art and religion

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER Poet, critic and businessman Dana Gioia opened his Tuesday evening lecture in the Woolsey Hall President’s Room with a dramatic reading of a scene from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Gioia, who has also served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, read several poems — which were mostly his own — before beginning his discussion of the difficulties of reconciling one’s religion with creating art. The poems he read reflected on young romance, mourning for his infant son, the surrealist movement of the 20th century and the art of writing poetry itself. The discussion, which drew approximately 100 members of the Yale and New Haven communities, was moderated by Christian Wiman, a lecturer at the Yale Divinity School.

Gioia said the poems he read — including “The Lunatic, the Lover, and The Poet,” a love poem dedicated to his wife — touch upon the idea that humans see the world as a narrative they have the freedom to construct. He used this example to reflect on why children must study literature.

“Existence is a kind of active literary creation,” Gioia said, adding that the study of literature helps humans understand their own lives as stories.

After the poetry reading, Gioia and Wiman discussed the way the poet has maintained his identity as a practicing Catholic while engaging with and writing poetry. Gioia referred to an instance when an audience at a poetry reading was surprised when he announced that he was not only raised Catholic, but has also continued to practice the religion.

“The answer is — I’m a Catholic,” Gioia said. “It’s who I am. It’s how I respond to the world.”

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During his lecture on Tuesday, poet Dana Gioia explored how his Catholicism influences and emerges in his poetry.

Gioia explained that his identity as a Catholic helps him relate his art to his community. There is merit in returning to one’s own group with poetry, he said.

“There’s a kind of conversation you can have with your own tribe that helps you clarify your ideas,” Gioia said.

Gioia said he is concerned by the dwindling number of Catholic voices in the arts, adding that he thinks the increase of Catholic voices must come from indi-

vidual writers and not from the Church itself. While institutions may commission artistic endeavors, he said, they cannot create them independently.

Asked if he thinks there is a tension between believing in the truths of God and constructing his poetry, Gioia told the audience that his writing aims not to fabricate truths but to express his understanding of them — an understanding he has gained through his experiences. Gioia

noted that he thinks it is possible to follow creative impulse and write poetry without interfering with the idea of God as manufacturer. He described his view of poetry as experiential and his view of faith as conceptual and abstract. He warned that bad religious poets attempt to make their poetry approximate abstract theology instead of focusing on their own experiences.

Gioia said that he doesn’t know if his poetry contains only

truth but added that he does his best to use his experiences to communicate truth as he understands it to his readers. He encouraged all artists to “pursue truth as [they] see truth.”

Several students who attended the lecture said they enjoyed Gioia’s creative approach to expressing ideas.

“I thought it was fantastic,” said Sofia Lapides-Wilson ’17.

“I thought he had the perfect way to describe universal human

truths we all know and put them into words that are succinct and beautiful and capture their essence.”

Hayley Kolding ’17 said she enjoyed Gioia’s readings because they were performative but did not feel staged.

Gioia received a master’s degree in comparative literature from Harvard University.

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

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Bulldogs build momentum on home turf

BY RHYDIAN GLASS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After impressive individual showings two weeks ago in Boston followed by a week of recovery, the Bulldogs were back on the track on Friday and Saturday as the host of the 10th annual Giegengack Invitational, held in Coxe Cage. The meet is named in honor of USA Track and Field Hall of Famer Bob Giegengack, who in 29 years of coaching helped the Bulldogs achieve 183 victories and four IC4As victories, as well as four indoor and 13 outdoor Heptagonal championships Although the meet was unscored, both the men and women’s squads had remarkable performances. For Friday and Saturday combined, the men and women each collected first place finishes in seven different events and multiple atheletes qualified for the IC4As Championships and ECAC Championships.

“I think we had a pretty solid weekend,” Kevin Dooney ’16 said in a message. “The team seems to be rounding into shape nicely … [and it is] … looking forward to competing at the highest [level] with [its] biggest rivals at the next two meets.”

Dooney qualified for the IC4As in both the mile and 3,000-meter races.

Long-jumper Dana Lindberg ’14 started the weekend off strong for Yale, taking first place with a remarkable 7.05-meter jump and earning a spot in the IC4As. Another exceptional performance on the field came from Brendan Sullivan ’16, who continued his winning streak in the pole vault with a height of 4.8 meters, achieved in just two jump

attempts.

Freshman phenomenon MarcAndre Alexandre ’17 captured another first-place finish for Yale on Friday, coving 200 meters in 22.16 seconds. Alexandre’s legs were still fresh the next day, as he also placed first in the 400-meter dash in 48.09 seconds and along with Lindberg, Dylan Hurley ’15 and William Rowe ’15, won the 4 x 400-meter relay in a team effort of 3:18.57.

Although the Bulldogs had only competed in the 5,000-meter once before this season, the squad was led by Duncan Tomlin ’16, who took first place in 14:57.40.

The 3,000-meter race — the second longest event of the meet — was an exceptional showing for the Bulldogs. James Randon ’17 and Kevin Dooney ’16 finished less than a second apart, Randon in first with 8:21.26 and Dooney in second with 8:21.33. Both runners qualified for the IC4As. This weekend was not the first time Dooney and Randon have run close together, as both are also top performers on the cross country team.

“For me training hasn’t changed a huge amount from cross country to track,” explained Dooney, who ran in the 20th SPAR European Cross-Country Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia this past December. “I’m aiming to run the 10K on the track outdoors, which is the same distance as our longer cross-country races.”

The women also had some exceptional performances at Giegengack, beginning the meet on Friday with solid results.

Emily Stark ’15 ran well in the SEE TRACK AND FIELD PAGE 8

TRACK AND FIELD

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The men’s and women’s track and field teams each collected seven first place finishes at the Giegengack Invitational.

Munzer contributes immediately

Cohen talks season, career

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The men’s fencing team finished sixth at Ivy League Championships this weekend, held at Brown in Providence, RI.

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Guard Lena Munzer ’17 (No. 24) leads all Eli freshman in minutes per game and is third on the team in points per game.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team features four talented freshmen, all of whom have contributed to the team’s successful campaign so far this season.

W. BASKETBALL The Bulldogs, currently sitting at 10–10 overall and 4–2

in Ivy League play, have competed at a high level throughout the season, making Yale a tough matchup for any team in the conference. The Elis have found success in the team’s depth: Ten players average double figure minutes per night. The talent throughout the team has translated to a strong squad on the court in games and in practices.

According to guard Sarah Halejian ’15, the team’s suc-

cess has stemmed from the contributions and efforts of all members, including both upperclassmen and underclassmen. She noted that the combination of experienced players and younger players has positively impacted the game.

Guard Lena Munzer ’17 has led the way for the team’s newest additions. She has played in all 20 games this season and has worked her way

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from a bench role to a position in the starting lineup, starting all six conference games.

“What Lena brings to the table is she is really aggressive, and she has an extremely strong work ethic,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “She’s constantly on the go, she’s constantly trying to make things happen … she’s constantly doing something to SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

This past weekend, the men’s and women’s fencing teams competed in the Ivy League Championships, held at Brown in Providence, R.I. Both squads struggled, as the men’s and women’s teams finished sixth and seventh, respectively. The News caught up with senior fencer Peter Cohen ’14 over email to discuss the meet, his career and the future of Yale fencing. was your final Ivy League QThis Championship. How was this

Championship different than the previous ones for you?

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I came into this year’s Ivy’s just like the last three, with the team championship in mind

and hopeful that my team would put our hard training to work.

Only afterwards did I really think about [the meet being] the conclusion (essentially besides NCAAs, if I qualify this year) of my career at Yale. finished tied for 12th in QYou the épée competition. How do you feel about your individual performance?

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I think that I overall was fencing well, but my record was not as good as I hoped it would be. Even if I had won all of my bouts, however, our result would have been the same, so the team element here is really important. No one person can SEE COHEN PAGE 8

COMBINED INDIVIDUAL MATCHES BY WHICH THE MEN’S TENNIS TEAM DEFEATED GEORGETOWN AND FAIRFIELD THIS PAST SATURDAY. The squad took down Georgetown 5–2 on Saturday before defeating Fairfield 6–1. The Bulldogs are now 3–2 on the season.