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CROSS CAMPUS The Vegan Hunger Games.
Yale is in the running to be named the “favorite veganfriendly college” of PETA’s youth division, peta2. According to a press release, Yale is notable for “offering students delicious, healthy, cruelty-free food — including General Tso’s tofu and sweet potato quinoa burgers — that would be the envy of many upscale restaurants.” The release also noted that “fellow Ivy League school Cornell” is also still in the race.
WEEKEND THE YALE-TOADS RELATIONSHIP
MALLOY
GREEK LIFE
Governor delivers “State of the City” address, talks goals
NUMBERS REMAIN HIGH DESPITE FALL RUSH BAN
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Faculty discuss governance proposals
SECURITY
YPD messages scrutinized
BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER
beyond Pierson’s Park Street gate. Though 69 Clery-reportable crimes, which include sex offenses, robbery and aggravated assault, took place on campus in 2012, only 28 warning messages were sent from Higgins to the Yale community that year. By now, most have become accustomed to the alerts, part of
At Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting, professors debated what Yale College Dean Mary Miller has deemed “the most important change at Yale in a generation.” The meeting focused on the potential reorganization of the University’s administrative structure. Professors debated a recent report that recommended the creation of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean — a figure that would oversee the faculty in Yale College and the Graduate School, who comprise 43 percent of the University’s 1,023 tenured faculty members. Miller said the turnout of around 75 professors at Thursday’s meeting convinced her that faculty members are paying close attention to the issue, which is ultimately in the hands of the Yale Corporation. “It is a substantial reorganization of the University in a way we have not thought about since the dawn of coeducation, or since Yale College absorbed the Sheffield School,” Miller said, emphasizing that the changes currently being proposed, though less dramatic, will have comparable consequences on the ground. The faculty-led report at the center of Thursday’s meeting proposed four models for change in faculty governance. Three of the four models would introduce new dean positions and require changes to the University’s bylaws, a move contingent on the Yale Corporation’s vote of approval. Of those three, the committee endorsed a model that would create a new Dean of the FAS, reporting directly to the University Provost, as well as three to five deans of academic divisions who would serve under the Dean of the FAS. The Dean of Yale College and Dean of the Graduate School would still report to the University Provost.
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Dancin’ Pants. On Wednesday, Chance the Rapper tweeted “do u think i should put out my own pants. like called chancepants.” Soon after, he began advertising the sale of “Chance Pants,” customized sweatpants available from his website. There is no dress code for Spring Fling, but maybe now there should be. Going out or to outer space?
Today marks the start of Movie Night at the Planetarium at the Leitner Observatory Planetarium at 355 Prospect St. The movie for tonight is “Deep Impact,” which is about the science and threat of asteroid impacts.
Beinecke wins again. The Beinecke has acquired two “Tyndale Bibles,” the first printed English translations of biblical texts consisting of the New Testament and the first five books of the Old Testament. The acquisitions will now join a collection containing fellow pieces of awe-inspiring yet drastically outdated volumes, all ironically sitting within the campus’s most shining example of modern architecture. Radio rants. Conservative radio show host Laura Ingraham made comments during her program criticizing remarks made by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her talk to Yale Law School students Monday. Ingraham pointed out Sotomayor’s use of the term “undocumented immigrant” rather than “illegal alien,” commenting, “Why do we have a Supreme Court justice whose allegiance obviously goes to her immigrant family background and not to the U.S. Constitution?” Not Carrie Mathison. Former
CIA Clandestine Officer Robert Steele visited campus Thursday for a talk hosted by the Global Perspectives Society and The Politic where he discussed “ethics, intelligence and reality,” and tried to prove those three subjects are not mutually exclusive.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Ronnell Higgins has become well known to the Yale community through the safety emails he sends out to all students. BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER This year, when Doug Streat ’16 was the victim of an assault that took place at the corner of York Street and Elm Street, no safety message was sent from Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins’s office to the University community. After two Yale Law School students were assaulted in
East Rock Park, it took until three days after the second assault — and weeks after the first — for the YPD to notify students. Yet just six weeks into the 2014 calendar year, University students, faculty and staff have already received five messages from the YPD, alerting them to a series of crimes, one of which involved a non-Yale-affiliated female who was tased and robbed of her purse, several blocks
1915-2014 ROBERT DAHL
Dahl, father of modern political science, dies BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS Robert Dahl GRD ’40, the man considered by many to be the father of modern political science, died yesterday of natural causes in his home in Connecticut. He was 98. A Sterling professor emeritus of political science at Yale, Dahl was a towering figure in his field and was described by many as the greatest political scien-
tist of the second half of the 20th century. His work, which touched on topics such as pluralism in democracies, citizenship and political power structures, spanned over six decades. Political science professor Seyla Benhabib GRD ’77 said Dahl will be remembered for the depth and reach of his work. “He really created modern Yale political science, as well as the modern discipline of political science,” said political science professor Ian Shapiro. “If
there were a Nobel Prize for political science he would have gotten the first one.” Dahl was born in 1915 in Inwood, Iowa. At age 11, he moved to Skagway, Alaska with his family, where his experiences eventually led to his book “After the Goldrush.” In 1936, Dahl graduated from the University of Washington and came to Yale as a graduate student. At the time, Yale was a fundamentally different place — all male and largely homogenous. After
finishing his doctorate, Dahl fought in World War II for seven years and worked in Washington, D.C. before returning to New Haven to find a political department that was nascent and lacking in prominence. “[It was] not very large or prestigious,” Dahl told The Politic in an interview last year. “It was still an Ivy League university, but its scholarship was falling somewhat behind. The concept of political science was fairly new.”
Over the next two decades, the Yale political science department was transformed into the nation’s foremost — an accomplishment that many professors attribute to Dahl. Dahl and his colleagues pioneered the use of empirical techniques in examining real political systems, focusing on the motivations and behaviors of voters and politicians. This paradigm shift in political sciSEE DAHL PAGE 6
Alumni calls for pool unanswered BY ASHTON WACKYM AND RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTERS The Kiphuth Exhibition Pool has seen better times. While swimming pool technology and technical requirements have developed over the years, the University’s swimming and diving teams have been using the same pool since 1932. Alumni and current swimmers interviewed said the pool’s deficiencies have prevented the University from hosting a championship meet and hampered the school’s recruiting efforts. Although the pool’s current infrastructure has rendered renovating the pool a very costly enterprise, alumni of the men’s swimming and diving team
began a fundraising effort last spring in order to raise the funds necessary to build a brand-new natatorium on unused land near the Yale Bowl. But members of this fundraising initiative said that, to their surprise and dismay, the University not only rejected their offer — one in which the University would not pay any money in construction costs — but allegedly treated them with disrespect.
ALUMNI APPROACH YALE WITH FUNDRAISING PLAN
Three and a half years ago, recognizing that the University’s swimming facilities placed the team at a competitive disadvantage compared to Ivy League rivals Harvard and Princeton, a SEE SWIMMING PAGE 4
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The Kiphuth Pool has served the University since 1932, but is now well past its prime.