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Police tell community to remain calm about violent crime trend

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Retired classics professor talks humanity, liberal arts

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Newtown tapes released

PROFILE

Tod Papageorge leaves Yale School of Art

You don’t get to 500 million friends without making

a few enemies. Today is “Compassion Research Day.” Facebook is working with scientists from Yale, among other schools, to share research into human behavior on topics such as bullying and communication. Oh Mark, nobody understands other people like you.

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didn’t?” Taken aback, Desmond gave an honest response: “I completely forgot.”

The panelist was a bespectacled old man clad in a grey zippedup jacket named Tod Papageorge, and he proceeded to rattle off three stanzas of his suggested reading, “To Earthward” by Robert Frost, tracing through the words with such gusto that his final pronounced syllables left the room silent. To him, the poem was particularly applicable to Desmond’s work.

Papageorge served as the director of Yale’s graduate photogra-

The 911 calls made from Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012 were made public Wednesday, providing a unique glimpse into the panic gripping the school’s faculty and students that morning.

Despite widespread concern that making these calls accessible to the public would do more harm than good, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott mandated their release in a ruling last week. Tapes of the calls were distributed online Wednesday afternoon.

The first calls to the Newtown Police Department came in at 9:35 a.m., less than one minute after the gunman, Adam Lanza, forced himself into the locked school building by firing through its doors. By 9:39 a.m., the first Newtown Police Department officer had arrived at the scene, roughly one minute before Lanza committed suicide, ending one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

“I caught a glimpse of somebody, they are running down the hallway,” the woman who placed the first emergency phone call said, out of breath. “Oh, they’re still running, they’re still shooting! Sandy Hook, please!”

This frantic call for help was the first in a series of six tapes released, revealing the fear and anguish of those trapped inside the school, as dispatchers worked to rapidly mobilize aid while reassuring the callers. Together, the recordings run to a total of about 18 minutes long, and two of the calls contain audible gunshots in the background.

One caller, a custodian who identified himself as Rick Thorne, said he knew something was going on because a window had been shattered near the front of the school, and gunshots were audible in the background. Thorne remained on the line for several minutes, detailing what he was witnessing at the school.

“I believe they’re shooting at the front glass. Something’s going on,” Thorne said,

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Gut class? But literally so.

Students in “Introduction to Public Humanities” satisfied their hunger cravings with a project on New Haven’s food trucks. Students looked into six local food trucks to learn about cultural and social networks within the Elm City.

Documented trucks include Ay! Arepa, The Cannoli Truck, Joe Grate’s BBQ, Peking Edo Cart, Ricky D’s Rib Shack, and Sugar Cupcakes.

If you like it, put a Yale Associated Student Agencies ring on it. Sales are now

open for Yale class rings with various styles for Yale College and the individual graduate schools. Only a matter of time before a poor graduate student uses one to propose.

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. The

Calhoun College flag was stolen from the marching band after the parade of residential college flags at the HarvardYale Game. Administrators have said they will accept the flag back, no questions asked.

A request was even sent out to Davenport students asking for witnesses. “I know how I and all of us would feel if the Davenport flag had been stolen and hadn’t been returned by now,” said Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld in an email to his college.

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fter serving as director of the Yale School of Art’s photography program for over 30 years, Tod Papageorge will step down from his teaching position this December. He will leave behind not only one of the best photography programs in the nation, but also a generation of successful fine arts photographers among his protégées. SARAH ECKINGER reports.

On Nov. 19, a group of panelists were sitting at a table in “The Pool” room of the Yale School of Art. They were watching the artwork of Erin Desmond ART ’15, a first-year candidate in the Master of Fine Arts

Photography program. As each of the panelists was critiquing Desmond’s work, one of them rose from his slouched position to ask the student sitting before the table: “I told you to read the poem and you

So plastic, so fantastic.

Almost a fifth of the metals used in technology products will be irreplaceable if people exhaust their supplies, according to a Yale study.

Unfortunately, it appears making iPhones out of gold and laptops out of titanium are not viable options.

Great food is wasted on the young. The menu for the

freshman Holiday Dinner has been released and includes delicacies such as “Braised and Stuffed Flank Steak with Mushroom Duxelles” and “Shrimp and Scallop in Puff Pastry Bouchee with Seafood Bisque.” Upperclassmen can now begin devising creative ways to sneak into Commons.

Winnie the Pooh-petrator.

A thief at Harvard has been repeatedly stealing the decorative door on a tree stump on campus known as the Winnie the Pooh house.

The little “house” has a sign reading “Pooh” and a specially built roof. It has been a staple on Harvard campus since 1995.

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Professor’s cause of death still unknown

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER State medical examiners have ruled out trauma from a cut above his eye as the cause of death of Yale assistant professor Samuel See, according to a Wednesday update from New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman.

See, who was on leave this semester from the English Department, was found dead in the early morning of Nov. 23 in his cell at NHPD lockup. He was detained following a domestic dispute the day before with his estranged husband, Sunder Ganglani.

The Medical Examiner advised that trauma had been ruled out as a cause of death.

ANNA MARIOTTI Spokeswoman, New Haven City Hall “The Medical Examiner advised that trauma had been ruled out as a cause of death for Mr. See,” City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti wrote in

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Sam See, who was on leave this semester, was a professor in the English Department. the police update. “However, the Medical Examiner will not release a full, written, autopsy report until results from a toxicology report are received.”

See sustained the cut when he fell while resisting arrest

by New Haven police on Nov. 22. Though See and Ganglani each had a protective order against the other, Ganglani had returned to See’s Wooster Square home to pick up some belongings in the afternoon of Nov. 22.

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Johnson politically active

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Since the initial announcement of the largest gift in Yale’s history in October, the $250 million that will propel two new residential colleges toward construction have received far more publicity than the man who provided them, Charles Johnson ’54. Johnson has kept a low profile at the University, making no notable public appearance at the inauguration of University President Peter Salovey this fall and declining interviews about his gift.

Johnson has long maintained a similarly low profile in another realm where he exercises significant influence — politics. Johnson is one of the biggest political spenders in the country.

Over the past 15 years, Johnson has poured nearly $900,000 into the American political sphere, according to the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics. Due to laws that do not require certain groups to disclose their donors, the actual total amount given by Johnson to political organizations could be far higher. His recorded contributions have been almost exclusively to Republican candidates and

organizations.

Although seemingly paltry when compared to his recent $250 million gift, Johnson’s political contributions place him in the top echelons of American political donors. As a former chairman of Franklin Resources, best known as the $840 billion Franklin Templeton mutual fund, Johnson’s net worth stands at $5.6 billion, according to Forbes.

A lot of the Republicans here [in California] are on the quiet side.

ELLEN MERNICK Executive director, San Mateo County Republican Committee

Over the past three months, Johnson has not responded to the News’ requests for comment, and he has not made any political statements that can be found on public record.

Despite recently relocating his primary residence to Florida, Johnson has spent most of the past decade living in California, a state

dominated by Democrats.

In San Mateo County, where Johnson lived until recently, Republicans comprise 19 percent of registered voters, said Ellen Mernick, the executive director of the county’s Republican committee.

“A lot of the Republicans here [in California] are on the quiet side,” Mernick said. She further said she could not comment on Johnson’s role in the local political scene, beyond the fact that he did not interact with the local committee.

Despite the subdued presence of Republicans in California, the impact of Johnson’s political allegiance has been far from quiet. The 80-year old has played a major role in bringing in contributions from other wealthy individuals to national conservative causes in the past several election cycles.

In May 2012, Johnson and his wife Ann hosted a fundraiser for then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney at their home in Hillsborough, Calif. — a 98-room, 65,000-square-foot mansion. Tickets for the event, which included a dinner with Romney, ran as high as $50,000 each.

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Waiting for Hillary Y

ale is “Waiting for Godot.”

Much like Vladimir and Estragon — the protagonists of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play — we find ourselves waiting for a panacean figure. However, while Beckett brilliantly conceals Godot from his audience, maintaining him as a character equally mysterious and supposedly palliative, our adaptation takes on a politically vivid form: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

You don’t need to look far to find evidence of the former secretary of state’s colossal stature on campus. From a “Ready for Hillary” chapter formed three years from Election Day to an elaborate award ceremony at the Law School, Clinton has taken on a larger-than-life aura.

Similar to the interpretive ambiguity of Beckett’s Godot, the former first lady has imbued many forms. For members of the faculty, she is the one who got away — the retrospectively right choice over the flash and euphoria of a 2008 Barack Obama, since mollified by hindsight and experience. For many undergraduates, she is a rekindled hope — a second chance to participate in an historic election to shape our youth, absent the disappointments and inept blunders of our first attempt.

HILLARY HAS BECOME OUR GODOT This particular stripe of adoration has innate problems, regardless of the respective candidate. At its core is a sort of complacency; not one measured in voter turnout or donor participation, but in intellectual rigor. It is the kind that is willing to tacitly endow a persona with perfection, rather than participate in the contention of ideas and the rawness of real politics.

In doing so, we lose one of the few definitive virtues that comes with our fledgling perspective on politics: the intuition to relentlessly question and doubt the inherited status quo to which we are newly permitted participants. The “Ready for Hillary” disposition is one where this inclination is dampened. Rather that test the candidate’s resume and resolve, it seeks to allow (or create) laurels for her to rest upon. Such an approach not only cheapens our voice in the process, but it also amplifies Clinton’s legitimate weaknesses, which are only magnified when conspicuously swept under the rug.

Where was Senator Clinton’s signature piece of legislation? While Marco Rubio may have ruined his presidential prospects with an attempted immigration bill, and Paul Ryan

may do the same with an upcoming budget, the junior senator from New York never hazarded her political future HARRY to attempt GRAVER a serious l e g i s l a t i ve Gravely achievement (outside, Mistaken perhaps, an Iraq War vote that two years of mea culpas tried to absolve). Also, why do we take for granted the success of her term as secretary of state? For skeptical observers, the cupboard seems bare: there was no triumphant doctrine, no groundbreaking treaty, and stasis, if not regression, when it came to a surge in worldly opinion, a “reset” with Russia, a new regime in Syria, the curbing of Chinese aggression in the Pacific or the prevention of nuclear proliferation in Iran.

From a different lens, as people look to this incredibly early groundswell of support, it is difficult to escape the feeling that supporters prize the symbolic person over the agenda.

To a significant detriment, this creeping perception stifles an overarching virtue to the Clinton candidacy: a remarkable symbolism and progress that she embodies for women here and around the world. Along with Sandra Day O’Connor, Condoleezza Rice and Janet Yellen, Clinton is already one of the most consequential women in modern American history. It is culturally tone deaf for the Right to look over this fact, to naively ignore the staggering barriers of entry to women that someone like her has overcome. But, we should also note, today’s brand of extolling commitment creates the illusion that followers conflate historicity with political sufficiency.

Godot never arrives for Vladimir and Estragon. In his absence, Beckett’s characters develop and grow. As some seek to briskly fashion their own Godot today — especially so early before an election and so young in our political identities — we risk losing the valuable, reflective interim steps of maturation; the chances to reexamine, challenge and push back on what seems familiar and right.

None of this is to say, placing politics aside, that there aren’t admirable qualities to Hillary Clinton. Rather, they are just profoundly muted in the unceasing applause of her coronation.

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GUEST COLUMNIST ABHIMANYU CHANDRA

Rhodes to prestige

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ale College has a very specific mission, outlined in its mission statement. Why, then, would the College — and the University as a whole — publicly sing praises for those of its students who act outside the spirit of that mission?

Last week, the year’s 32 American winners of the Rhodes Scholarship, widely considered the most prestigious award for further studies, were announced.

Three of them are Yalies. Like other universities, Yale revels in its Rhodes victories — and understandably so. A university’s Rhodes count is an external measure of its students’ abilities.

And so Yale heralds its scholars on the front page of its website; in past years, Dean Mary Miller has noted our Rhodes count in emails to parents.

A divergence of principles, however, separates the mission of the College from the motivation of most Rhodes applicants; this mismatch calls into question Yale’s celebration of its Rhodes Scholars. The College’s stated purpose is “the cultivation of citizens … to lead and serve.” Therefore, when Yale accords institutional recognition to its Rhodes Scholars, the implication is that these are individuals particularly poised for leadership and service. I have no doubt that Rhodes Scholars possess these abilities in abundance. But in many cases, it seems to me that Rhodes applicants are attracted to the scholarship primarily for its prestige. To be sure, there is nothing neces-

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

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sarily wrong with pursuing prestige. We all love it. It can help advance our careers; it can help us get more and better dates. But the deliberate pursuit of prestige is outside, and arguably even against, the mission of the College.

Before going further, a disclaimer: I have never applied for and have no plans of applying for the Rhodes.

So how do I know that many among those who do apply for the Rhodes are motivated primarily by prestige? Applicants themselves will often tell you that their desire to go to Oxford stemmed chiefly from their eagerness to win the Rhodes. Now, usually, a scholarship is supposed to serve as a means for achieving an end: money given for attaining some purpose. But with applicants for the Rhodes, it seems that the end (an Oxford education) is secondary to the means (a prestigious scholarship).

Rhodes applicants willingly incur tremendous opportunity costs, even though there are less onerous alternatives that offer equivalent service and leadership-oriented gains. David Carel ’13, one of Yale’s nine Rhodes winners from last year, offered a sense of the costs involved in an interview with the News. Applying for the scholarship, he stated, is “only a couple months process but it sort of feels like a lifetime …

I probably wrote about 26 drafts of my personal statement.”

One can only wonder: Why? Why, my dear boy, would you

do that to yourself? Why would you and others expend months of your lives — often neglecting classes, improv groups, sports practices, even romances — to put together an application that requires, amongst other excesses, a minimum of five letters of recommendation, and has a four percent chance of success? If applicants to the Rhodes were primarily interested in leadership or service, particularly of an academic kind, why would they not just apply to the other, equally well-endowed and less-competitive, scholarships to Oxford? UCS has an entire list of these. Why wouldn’t they just apply to American graduate programs, often as good or better than Oxford’s? A desire for the Rhodes prestige, it seems to me, is the reason.

The responsibility for the premium placed on prestige lies with all of us. Consider that when it comes to Rhodes Scholars, people rarely say, “So-and-so person is going to do an M. Phil in suchand-such at Oxford … and, by the way, he’s a Rhodes Scholar.”

Instead they cackle: “She’s a Rhodes Scholar!” and by then the scholar is too covered under drool for much else to be said or done.

Let me be clear about what I am not saying. I am not insinuating that the active pursuit of prestige necessarily takes away from a Rhodes Scholar’s ability to lead or to serve. Nor am I suggesting that Rhodes Scholars are intrinsically prestige-hungry. But I do think that the Rhodes applicant is driven primarily by a desire for

prestige, and such a motivation does not fit the spirit of our College’s mission: leadership and service.

So what am I proposing? I am proposing that Yale celebrate Rhodes Scholars in a manner commensurate with their motivations. Should Yale really celebrate a student’s ability to massage his own ego? Should it highlight its most brazenly and successfully prestige-seeking students?

I, for one, don’t think so.

Perhaps Yale ought to distinguish between those tapped for prestigious awards, and those who actively seek them out. Nobel and MacArthur Award winners, for instance, are tapped; one just happens to win a Nobel for one’s deeds. In contrast, to win a Rhodes you must aggressively apply for it. On a broader level, it is not necessarily to Yale’s credit that so many of its students, year after year, seek out and actively accrue marks of prestige: The Rhodes, but also the Marshall, the Truman and other such names.

Yet, if Yale wants to continue trumpeting its Rhodes Scholars, perhaps an amendment in its mission statement is in order.

Currently, the College seeks “the cultivation of citizens” who will “lead and serve.” Going forward, perhaps the statement ought to also encourage the gratuitous pursuit of prestige.

ABHIMANYU CHANDRA is a senior in Branford College.

Contact him at abhimanyu.chandra@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST MALAK GABR

Life during the revolution I

was in gym class the first time I heard the gossip that would change my life. A girl in the locker room advised us to stay home the next day, after her mother said there would be “some kind of protest.” I laughed off the ridiculousness and didn’t heed the warning. Within two weeks, my braces were off, I had turned 16 — a very exciting event in the life of a teenage girl — but we were also under complete house arrest with an army-enforced curfew of 7 p.m.

See, I’m Egyptian, born and raised, and have gone to the same international school since I was three years old. Despite the fact that the nation’s problems and unhappy population had always existed, I had been residing in a more Westernized bubble with all my friends, where we remained blissfully unaware and unaffected as we grew up. Until, as clichéd as this may sound, everything changed.

You may have heard about the political strife at some point on the news, or have seen the warring factions on your television.

While all that was happening, we were bored and unable to comprehend the gravity of what was

being called a “revolution.” We were wandering around our bedrooms in a daze of unanswerable questions. When was I getting back to my sophomore year? And more importantly, when would Facebook be working again?

Worrying about our lives’ trivialities allowed us to forget the bigger, critical events happening in the streets. Denial, as they say, is more than just a river in Egypt.

More times than I can count, I’ve been asked what it was like: If my family knew Mubarak; if I had gone into Tahrir Square and protested; if I believed in the revolution. The answers to all these questions remain no, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t affected in the greatest way an event can affect you. It simply doesn’t make as good a sound bite. I didn’t feel free or liberated — in fact I don’t think it was possible to have felt more trapped. During the curfew, we were forced to immerse ourselves in long-forgotten hobbies, to deal with such a loss of normality, to see those not much older than us trying to accomplish the Herculean task of overthrowing an entire government.

My friends and I were forced to play politician, using words and

ideas that our parents had indoctrinated into us, playing our finest and least mature game of pretend.

My parents said if the instability remained by the end of my sophomore year, we had to consider “other options,” which seemed to have something to do with the brochures for alternative schools in London that were piling up on my desk. My naive self was sure that there was no way this could extend to the end of the year. I was enrolled in a school in London three months later, where I finished my high school career.

Needless to say, I was not happy about this turn of events, despite the fact that I was told by countless others how lucky I was to be moving to such an incredible city.

Logically, they were correct — but angsty teenage me was not having any of this logic. I was determined to remain unimpressed with my parents, as well as the so-called revolutionaries who had taken the life I knew away from me.

In hindsight, the Egyptian Revolution forced me to grow as a person. Had I remained in the same school for all 18 years, I would have been far more unprepared for the challenges of Yale.

One major difference between

life in foreign countries and life in Egypt are the misperceptions I didn’t realize even existed. I can’t even recall the number of times I’ve been asked if I live in a pyramid, ride a camel to school or “speak” hieroglyphics. It’s so easy to forget that not everyone has seen what I have seen. It’s equally easy to forget that I too, am misinformed and should get off my high horse before calling anyone else ignorant. This epiphany came to me when, in a group of people singing the American national anthem, I realized I didn’t know the words and mumbled along, hanging my head in shame.

It’s very easy to get comfortable and feel as though everything in your life is concrete. But that’s rarely the case, and that’s something I was forced to learn in a very unexpected way. Preparing yourself for change is impossible, but what you can do is alter unexpected experiences into an opportunity for growth or learning, even if at first glance they seem like the end of the world.

MALAK GABR is a freshman in Saybrook College. Contact her at malak.gabr@yale.edu .

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Former Chief Justice talks equality

Academic minors weighed again

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three years after Yale College faculty members struck down a proposal to introduce academic minors into the undergraduate curriculum, the Yale College Council plans to try again.

After sending out a survey last week to the student body to gauge student interest in minors, the YCC is now finalizing a proposal for the administration advocating for the introduction of minors.

Though this move builds on one of YCC President Danny Avraham’s ’15 key campaign platforms from last spring, most administrators and faculty members interviewed resisted the idea of minors, citing fears that minors would look too much like pre-professional credentials and be at odds with Yale’s liberal arts ethos.

“Do we really want to be driving students to more credential acquisition?” Dean of Yale College Mary Miller said, noting that a faculty committee had already answered the question a few years ago with a resounding no.

The last YCC report to petition for minors came before the faculty in May 2009 and resulted in a 2010 report by the Committee on Majors that shelved the implementation of minors at the time.

While the 2010 report recognized that minors might raise enrollment for small

departments and reverse a trend towards pre-professionalism, it ultimately concluded that minors would more likely have the opposite effects.

“Although the Committee recognizes the validity and seriousness of calls for a system of minors, it shares the concerns of a large number of faculty members that minors might actually exacerbate some of the trends — towards pre-professionalism, chasing of credentials and narrowness of focus — that they are intended to counteract,” the report said.

“Do we really want to be driving students to more credential acquisition?”

MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College Tina Lu, chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures department, said she believes that minors at Yale could further limit intellectual exploration and experimentation, especially in a climate that is already rife with preprofessional pressures.

Anthropology Professor William Kelly said in an email that students overestimate the importance of minors, concentrations and other certificate programs. When he assesses applications to graduate programs, post-graduate fellowships and faculty positions, Kelly said, he pays

very little attention to these smaller academic titles.

“If I were truly cynical — I’m not — I would liken [minors] to the rows of medals on those old Soviet generals in the May Day parades,” Kelly said. “The number of medals seem[s] to bear an inverse relationship to actual battlefield bravery.”

At Princeton University, undergraduates are given the option of obtaining a certificate, which is similar to minors at other universities, in certain disciplines. Although he is pursuing a certificate in neuroscience, Brendan Wu, a senior at Princeton, said he generally does not believe certificate programs are beneficial because they force students to take courses they might not truly be interested in.

One of Princeton’s most popular certificates is in finance, which attracts so many students that it sets a GPA requirement for applicants. Princeton senior Djohan Sutjiawan, who does not plan to pursue a certificate, said that many students feel pressured to graduate with a certificate in finance to boost their career or salary prospects.

But Yale Italian Professor Millicent Marcus GRD ’74 said she believes that minors at the University would provide an outlet for students to explore their academic interests in the face of mounting financial and professional anxieties.

“I think it could help address the crisis of the

humanities at Yale,” she said.

“I feel that my students face pressure to major in something that might bring them financial security.”

Marcus added that minors could be a “formal and coherent way” for non-humanities majors to pursue their humanistic interests, using art history as an example.

Of 21 Yale students surveyed, 19 said they would pursue an academic minor, but many also said they do not believe minors to be necessary.

Daniel Judt ’17 said he does not think that the addition of another academic structure would enhance the undergraduate learning experience.

Concentrating should happen naturally, he said, without the aid of minors.

Ericka Saracho ’14 said she would not want to take on a minor because it is already difficult enough to have to choose and fulfill a major.

Still, some students said they would appreciate the option of being able to minor in a discipline that they find interesting. Cindy Engman ’15 said minoring could serve as a nice intermediate between obtaining a second major and receiving no recognition for an additional academic pursuit at all.

Harvard introduced minors, known as secondary fields, in 2006.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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Former Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall LAW ’76.discussed fighting inequality in the workplace.

EZRIEL GELBFISH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This Wednesday, former Chief Justice Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 spoke at the Yale School of Management about her experiences fighting racial inequality and trailblazing a place for women in the workplace.

Marshall — who is best known for leading the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage in 2003 — was the first woman to head the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and currently serves as the first female senior fellow of the Yale Corporation. Her talk, moderated by Jim Levinsohn, director of the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, centered on inequality, women’s rights and Yale University.

“I was born in a particular time period that allowed me to work on gender rights, racial rights, disability rights [and] same-sex marriage,” Marshall said of her various experiences.

Born in South Africa, Marshall said she did not question the apartheid system until she visited America as a high school student and became motivated to fight for rights back home.

Returning to South Africa to attend college, Marshall became the head of the National Union for South African Students, which combated racial inequality.

She was the first woman to hold this position, which she attributed to the fact that “every man [previously] in the leadership position was either arrested or in prison or outlawed.”

“There was nobody else to lead, and they asked me if I would do it,” she said.

After returning to America to pursue a doctorate in Art History at Harvard University, Marshall attended the Yale Law School and eventually became a partner at two law firms in Boston. In 1992 Marshall became General Council to Harvard, again the first woman to hold the position.

Though Marshall said many of her achievements have resulted from serendipitous circumstances, she added that it is important to take advantage of these situations.

“The opportunity presents itself, a tiny crack in the door,” she said. “You have to walk

[through], you can’t pass up the opportunity.”

In 1996 Marshall was elected to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was confirmed three years later as its head, a position she held until her retirement in 2010.

Marshall’s landmark case as Chief Justice was Goodridge v.

Department of Public Health in 2003, which resulted in the first decision by a state’s highest court to legalize same-sex marriage.

Asked by Levinsohn whether she was particularly proud of any specific rulings, Marshall said a great judge should care deeply about each and every case brought before the court.

In April, Marshall became the first woman to be appointed as senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, for which she previously served a term from 2004–2010.

Marshall said she is passionate about higher education and wants Yale to be the place where leading international scholars want to come. Marshall added that students should be passionate about their careers and not stress about choosing a career path.

“My Ph.D. in Art History did not prepare me for my role as Chief Justice,” she said. “Take every opportunity … if you don’t have apartheid to fight, find something else.”

More than 40 people attended Marshall’s talk, many of them students at the Yale School of Management.

Athena Zhang SOM ’16 said Marshall provided broad insight on not only United States law and government but also on society in general. Zhang added that it was helpful for business school students to relate law and social policy to their own careers.

Sam Silverlieb SOM ’14 said talks like Marshall’s enhance students’ educational experience.

“Anytime you can get someone who is so accomplished to speak about their career — not just their career but the small things that have made them successful — it’s a really unique opportunity,” he said.

Marshall is serving a five-year term on the Corporation and will step down at the age of 72.

Contact EZRIEL GELBFISH at ezriel.gelbfish@yale.edu .

VIVIENNE ZHANG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Yale and New Haven officials will not make major changes to their snow-related emergency response contingency plans for the coming winter.

BY CELINE TIEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After Winter Storm Nemo blanketed New Haven in over three feet of snow last February and canceled two days of classes, questions have begun to swirl about whether Yale and the city are better prepared to respond to snow storms this year.

Despite the severity of last year’s storm, Yale and New Haven officials said that a blizzard of that magnitude is unlikely to hit again soon, and that they have not significantly altered emergency response contingency plans for major snow storms. Robert Smuts ’01, the city’s chief administrative officer, said that Nemo dropped the most snow on the city in one day since 1888.

“We have to be prepared for anything,” Smuts said. “But that’s not to say we’re going to invest millions of dollars for a

storm that is unlikely to come in our lifetime.”

It was an extraordinary snow event — but with climate change, who knows what’s in store for us?

ROBERT SMUTS ’01 Chief Administrator, City of New Haven The tremendous amount of snow that the blizzard left proved too deep for regular plow trucks to handle — and the City struggled to clear its streets in a timely fashion. Yale canceled classes at the behest of city officials, who thought the reduced foot and vehicular traffic would ease plowing efforts.

So treacherous were the streets in the first two days that nine out of 12 of the city’s fire trucks were stuck in the snow following the storm, Smuts said. Emergency responders resorted to attaching payloaders in front of some emergency vehicles to plow through the snow — though the city only has four at its disposal.

“We even had ambulances that got stuck with patients in them,” said Smuts.

Still, Smuts said it would not be in the city’s economic interest to invest in expensive tools to plow a snow storm that would likely not come for decades.

At Yale, the blizzard prompted the University to reexamine its capacity to house and care for Yale staff, including dining hall workers, who could not travel back home due to the snow.

“We’ve bought more cots and toiletry kits,” said Maria Bouffard, Director of Emergency

Management at Yale. “We want to be able to provide workers a comfortable place to sleep and rest.”

Still, Bouffard said the University’s response to the snowstorm went well. He said the University began preparing several days before the storm, and worked closely with New Haven management.

Yet both Smuts and Bouffard said the experience of Nemo will inform their response to future snowstorms of this magnitude.

“It was an extraordinary snow event — but with climate change, who knows what’s in store for us?” Smuts said. “We have to be prepared for anything.”

In case of a major snow storm, residential college emergency exits are among the first paths to be plowed.

Contact CELINE TIEN at celine.tien@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” EURIPIDES CLASSICAL GREEK TRAGEDIAN

Photography department heavyweight steps down

LEFT TO RIGHT: YDN; SARAH ECKINGER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Left: photography students at the School of Art have their work critiqued. Right: Tod Papageorge’s collection of essays on photography, entitled, “Core Curriculum.”

PAPAGEORGE FROM PAGE 1 phy program for over 30 years, before stepping down from his position in early 2012. This past year, he has continued to teach his “Core Curriculum” class, which focused on the history of photography, while also participating in the weekly panels dedicated to critiquing the work of graduate students in the program. But at the end of this semester, Papageorge will retire from the Yale faculty, leaving behind himself a legacy of one of the best graduate photography programs in the nation.

FROM POETRY TO PHOTOGRAPHY

In 1962, Papageorge graduated from the University of New Hampshire not with a degree in photography, but in English. It wasn’t until his senior year of college, he said, that he moved away from writing poetry and started taking pictures.

“I remember looking at the photographs of [Henri] Cartier-Bresson, thinking ‘This is poetry, but without the agony of using words,” Papageorge said, referring to the 20th century French photographer, widely recognized as the father of photojournalism. Several of Papageorge’s colleagues and former students said his passion for words has frequently inspired his work, both as a photographer and as the director of Yale’s photography program. Richard Benson, one of Papageorge’s closest colleagues at Yale, now retired, said photography and poetry are two parallel fields for Papageorge. He added that it is not rare for students to hear Papageorge launch into “metaphorical discussions of photographs in terms of poetry.” For Benjamin Donaldson ART ’00, scenes like Papageorge’s reciting of Robert Frost’s poem during Desmond’s critique are not a novelty.

“Tod’s teaching style is well known as being one that prizes the poetic underpinnings of artistic endeavors,” said Don-

aldson, who now teaches undergraduates in Yale College’s art program. He added that Papageorge’s habit of quoting poets like Keats and Frost during critiques serves “as a method of getting to the heart of a problem with the student’s work …

The true mettle of a student is whether or not they follow up on his suggestion to actually read what he has suggested.

Woe be unto the student that fails to do so, for a myriad of reasons.”

Lisa Kereszi ART ’00, who now serves as the director of undergraduate studies of the Art Department of Yale College, attributed the success of Papageorge’s teaching style to his “smart humor,” pregnant with his love of language and particularly puns. His familiarity with words allows him to eloquently articulate the meaning behind photographs, as testified by a collection of his essays entitled “Core Curriculum,” which was published in 2011 by the publishing house Aperture.

Tod’s teaching style […] prizes the poetic underpinnings of artistic endeavors.

BENJAMIN DONALDSON ART ’00 During his time at Yale, Papageorge has transmitted to generations of his photographers the notion that, while “photography is fiction” and “there are no truths in a photograph,” the best images are always created from reality. For Papageorge, one cannot dream of more perfect, more telling, or more ridiculous images than one can find in real life, Kareszi said, adding that this philosophy is particularly evident in Papageorge’s photographs.

For Papageorge, it was his eye as a photographer and his articulate prose that garnered him

the title of director of the photography program at the Yale School of Art for over three decades.

BRINGING PHOTOGRAPHY INTO THE CURRICULUM

W h e n Pa pa ge o rge wa s appointed director of the Photography Department at the Yale School of Art in 1979, the department was only in its infancy. Until Papageorge’s arrival, photography was taught under the Graphic Design Department at the Yale School of Art. It was Walker Evans who paved the way for the creation of a department solely dedicated to the study of photography. One of the most famous photographers in American history, Evans joined the Yale faculty in 1965, when the legitimacy of photography as an art medium was still much debated.

However, Evans’ reputation as a photographer and as a believer in fine art photography, was a large pull for many potential students.

“I chose to go to Yale because of the legacy of Walker Evans,” said Lois Connor ART ’81, a New York City-based photographer who previously taught at Yale for over ten years.

After Evans passed away in 1975, Yale School of Art Directors decided to formalize the photography program, thus spearheading the creation of an official department dedicated to the medium. They started a three-year search process for a director which ended with the hiring of Papageorge.

A brand new teacher thrown into a faculty of entirely Yale alums, Papageorge never seemed to show any fear, Connor recalled.

“Oh Tod? Tod is never nervous. He has either the greatest confidence or he is unwilling to show any lack there of,” she said.

Robert Lyons ART ’79, who was a member of the first class of the newly established photography department, said the new photography direc-

tor brought an intense work ethic that everyone respected.

He also added that whether or not Papageorge had completely formalized the structure of the program, he had a “certain kind of swagger” that earned him the affection of most of his colleagues and students.

“We had Tod for one year at the beginning of his tenure. It was kind of a crazy and exciting time, because there was still an ongoing process of having people come to see who would replace Walker Evans,” Lyons said.

Over the past 30 years, Papageorge’s work at the Yale School of Art has contributed to establishing one of the best-recognized photography programs in the nation, as confirmed by a 2012 U.S. News World & World Report ranking of graduate degrees in photography.

Richard Benson, who accompanied Papageorge in the beginning stages as the director of the department, said Yale’s graduate photography program is centered on three main components: practice, history and critique.

In addition to the weekly critiques of his students’ work and technical classes where students produce visual work, Papageorge also used to give lectures every Wednesday about the history of photography, often inviting some of his own favorite photographers to give guest talks. Many of his personal lectures grew from essays that were published in “Core Curriculum,” focusing on the work and the themes of photographers ranging from giants like Walker Evans to friends of his like Garry Winogrand.

A SUCCESSFUL TALENT SCOUT

In addition to establishing the prominence of photography within the Yale School of Art, Papageorge leaves behind another kind of legacy. A selfproclaimed “talent scout,” Papageorge has mentored generations of young photogra-

phers, many of whom have become successful fine artists, including such famous protégées as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Abelardo Morell, Katy Grannan, and Gregory Crewdson and 33 recipients of the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship — an award he himself has won twice.

He’s very good at seeing the potential in a person’s work, especially before they’ve fully realized it themselves.

KATE GREENE ART ’10

“He’s very good at seeing the potential in a person’s work, especially before they’ve fully realized it themselves,” said Kate Greene ART ’10, who currently teaches an introductory course on digital photography.

Several MFA alumni interviewed attributed their professional success as photographers to Papageorge’s harsh criticism of their work as students. The weekly critiques are what several former MFA students said they remember most about their time at Yale. Twice a semester and once more before graduation, photography students are required to sit in 45-minutelong critique sessions before a panel of five esteemed photographers. Meredith Miller ART ’03 said she was “often so petrified” during those critiques that she is “not sure [she] has accurate memories of them.” On a similar note, Green described that experience as one of the “most frightening” of her life.

“The MFA program has a formality to the critique structure that seems jarring to outsiders,” Donaldson said of the critique sessions, which are open to the greater New Haven community. “The structure creates a great deal of stress on the stu-

dents: it was very hard to be in the chair for 45 minutes when things weren’t going well.”

Despite the stressful environment of these critiques, all of the former MFA students recalled this experience as ultimately rewarding. In a program that accepts only 10 applicants every year, former students said they are not surprised Papageorge holds them to such high standards.

“It’s not just his opinion for kicks — he says what he says to guide his students,” Kereszi said, adding that Papageorge’s critical voice helps students grow.

Papageorge said he is aware of both the benefits and the strenous nature of the photography program. To check his high standards, he remembers playing the role of the “bad cop” to Benson’s “good cop” on the critique panels.

Still, former photography students said they have come to appreciate the harshness of Papageorge’s critiques. For some, Papageorge’s demeanor during the panels made his opinions especially precious.

“You sat there and stared in this room with such tension because you wanted to hear what Tod had to say. His opinion was what you cared most about because he was so close to photography,” Miller said.

For others, like Donaldson and Kereszi, Papageorge’s lack of constant praising made the rare moments of laud all the more genuine.

“Tod gave me a chance. The program is life-changing. For whatever reason, he saw that [I] might have something to say,” Kereszi said. “ I do know that he says he looks for ‘potential,’ which is a large part, I think, in the success of the program, and that he has a special way of identifying that mysterious thing to gamble on.”

Contact SARAH ECKINGER at sarah.eckinger@yale.edu .

Latest C.O.D. report rules out trauma SAMUSEL SEE FROM PAGE 1 At 5:15 p.m., police officers arrived on the scene, responding to a report of a domestic dispute called in by See’s sister from out of state. Both men were placed under arrest for violating a protective order. Emergency Medical Services were called to the scene to evaluate See’s cut. He was then transported to YaleNew Haven Hospital, where he was treated for his injury and released back into police custody.

See was transported to NHPD lock-up at 1 Union Ave. at 9:10 p.m. and turned over to the custody of state marshals, who administer the detention facility.

He w as charged with violating a protective order, interfering with police and threatening in the second degree, having shouted at police officers and resisted arrest.

Both the Internal and Investigative Services Unit investigations are ongoing.

DEAN ESSERMAN Chief, New Haven Police Department

Rhonda Stearley-Hebert,

spokesperson for the state Judicial Branch, said in a Monday email to the News that arshals make rounds in the jail to check up on detainees every 15 minutes.

During a routine check at 6 a.m. on the morning of Nov. 23, marshals found See unresponsive in his cell. They administered CPR and called in EMS personnel, who arrived and declared See dead at 6:15 a.m, Mariotti said in the Wednesday police statement.

After the scene was secured, See’s body was transported to the office of the chief state medical examiner for an autopsy. A week and two days later, the cut above See’s eye — and the asso-

ciated trauma — was ruled out as his cause of death. The medical examiner will not release its full report until it receives toxicology results, which will check for the presence of poisonous substances in See’s system at the time of his death.

Mark D’Antonio, the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital, declined to comment Sunday on the prevalence of tests for drugs or other potentially fatal substances in the hospital’s examination of arrested patients.

He could not be reached for immediate comment Wednesday afternoon.

Professors in the Yale English Department and at the Uni-

versity of California, Los Angeles, where See received his Ph.D., shed little light on the circumstances of See’s personal life pertaining to his leave from the University or his death a week and a half ago.

English Department Director of Undergraduate Studies John Rogers ’84 GRD ’89 told the News in an email last week that drugs were not the cause of See’s leave, saying he was “certain that Sam See’s leave was not related to drugs.”

Esserman said the police department is conducting a full investigation of the incident.

“Both the Internal and Investigative Services Unit inves-

tigations are ongoing and will include a full review of video from the State Marshal Detention Center and interviews and statements from all officers and marshals involved in the incident, as well as medical personnel and any other potential witnesses,” the release stated.

See’s cause of death is still listed as “pending further study,” according to a staffer at the office of the medical examiner, who said Wednesday afternoon that toxicology examinations take about 30 days to complete.

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

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Children who grow up in low-income households hear 30 million fewer words by the age of four than their higherincome counterparts.

Panel addresses college readiness

SAMANTHA GARDNER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

At Yale’s third monthly exChange forum, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan spoke about obstacles to expanding college access to an audience of Yale students, educators, and others involved in education,

BY SARAH BRULEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday evening, local residents concerned about New Haven education gathered in Dwight Hall for Yale’s third monthly exChange forum.

The forum featured a panel including prominent figures such as New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., district supervisor and Principal of Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School Dolores Garcia-Blocker, Executive Director of New Haven Promise Patricia Melton ’83 and Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan. Before an audience of approximately 30 members of the New Haven community —

including Yale students, educators and others involved in education — panelists first answered questions regarding educational outreach in New Haven and then facilitated discussions with audience members in small groups.

Executive Director of Dwight Hall Peter Crumlish said the goal of the forum was to bring Dwight Hall into New Haven’s education dialogue.

“Traditionally, Dwight Hall is where people come together,” Crumlish said.

The discussion primarily focused on the problems that New Haven public schools face in preparing their students — particularly those from low-income backgrounds — for college.

Police respond to knockout threat

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale students and New Haven residents are experiencing the arrival of a new crime pattern that has gained national attention in recent weeks — the “knockout game.”

The game refers to attacks on pedestrians by groups of young adults. The assaulters approach their victims on public streets, hit them and run away. After speaking to the New Haven Police Department, Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins notified the campus community about the violent new trend in an email on Nov. 21.

There were seven reported cases of street violence in New Haven this November that could be linked to the “knockout game.”

The most recent incident occurred close to Gateway Community College, on the Church Street overpass, according to Higgins’ email alert. New Haven Police are still uncertain as to whether the reported acts of violence were incidents of “knockout.”

According to Public Information Officer Anna Mariotti, the attacks have subsided since late November.

“The YPD is working collaboratively with the New Haven Police Department and Yale Security to prevent these assaults and to identify those responsible,” said Yale Public Relations Manager Amy Athey McDonald.

Higgins reiterated that students should be aware of their surroundings and avoid isolated areas, especially after dark.

New Haven residents said that exercising caution has always been a necessity in New Haven.

“We live in an urban area, and we have to be careful,” said Michael Kaplan ’86, a New Haven resident and the parent of a current Yale student. “This is one more thing to be careful about.”

Zoe Dobuler ’17 expressed con-

cern that the “knockout game” presents an additional danger. She had not heard of the “knockout game” before Higgins’ email and said it is scary that such attacks have occurred so close to campus.

Dobuler said she remains careful when walking around campus at night but has not made any changes to her habits since receiving Higgins’ email.

Kaplan and Dobuler both expressed confusion over the assaulters’ motives. While there is a clear reason for “apple-picking,” the crime trend where people steal iPhones and iPods, it is less clear what a person would gain from punching a stranger in the face, Kaplan said.

Kaplan also expressed doubt about whether the “knockout game” will become a serious issue in New Haven.

“I’m not sure whether the fear is coming from the students or the national media coverage,” Kaplan said.

Sergeant Al Vazquez of the NHPD Detective Bureau shared residents’ concerns about media sensationalism. The best way to prevent further “knockout” attacks is to educate New Haven residents as well as the media, Vazquez said. He explained that the media helps perpetuate the trend by continually covering it.

The Yale Police has not yet determined whether the “knockout game” will be as prevalent of a threat as “apple-picking” was last year, McDonald said, explaining that the email was meant to be precautionary. She added that the YPD’s goal was to encourage the community to take reasonable precautions.

The Detective Bureau of the NHPD is preparing to arrest one individual in response to the Church Street “knockout” incident that occurred on Nov. 17.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

According to Blocker, the largest challenge facing schools is the lack of knowledge about how to prepare students for college.

Many parents and teachers do not know what skills a college student should have, so they cannot provide adequate assistance, she said. Blocker proposed that university professors and high school teachers should collaborate to give students the skills they need to place out of remedial college courses and start earning credit during freshman year.

Quinlan, on the other hand, said that cost is one of the biggest obstacles to expanding college access. As the price of state schools like the University of Connecticut or the University

of California, Berkeley increase, fewer students see college as a realistic target, he said.

Melton, who was a first generation college student herself, said socioeconomic status plays a large role in students’ decisions about college and cited poverty as the primary roadblock to college access. In areas of high unemployment, it is difficult to convince parents and students that college is a viable option, she said.

“If you live in a community with 30 to 50 percent unemployment, making the case that [college is achievable] is a real stretch,” she said.

The panelists also discussed the successes of current programs in the Elm City.

Blocker lauded the mayor, superintendent and board of education for their collaborative efforts. Because those three groups are working towards the same goals in high-leverage policies, the New Haven education agenda has made progress, she said.

DeStefano added that much of the success of New Haven’s programs is a result of their comprehensive nature.

“It’s not like McDonald’s where it’s fast, it’s cheap, it’s there and you go,” he said.

Following the panelists’ comments, discussion opened to include the entire audience.

Many audience members raised concerns about not only

preparing students in academics, but also in emotional intelligence.

Carlos Torre — a former Yale dean, a professor of education at Southern Connecticut State University and the president of the New Haven board of education — said students need to be socially ready for college.

“We concentrate on two parts of a triad — making students financially and academically ready. They need to be socially ready,” he explained.

ExChange forums are sponsored by Yale’s Office of New Haven and State Affairs.

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

Kagan credits ancient Greeks

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER The study of Western civilization is central to a liberal education, according to former professor Donald Kagan.

Before a crowd of approximately 40 students Wednesday afternoon, Kagan discussed the importance of Western civilization and traced its lineage from the Hellenistic Period through the English Revolution. Kagan, who retired last spring after teaching at Yale for 44 years, is a National Humanities Medal winner and widely recognized authority on Ancient Greece. In his speech, Kagan said the idea of a liberal education did not exist outside of the West until it was introduced to the world by Western culture.

The abandonment of [liberal education] would be a terrible loss for all of humanity.

DONALD KAGAN Sterling professor classics and history emeritus, Yale University “It does not seem to be understood that the very idea of liberal education is a unique product of Western civilization,” he said. “The abandonment of such a study would be a terrible loss for all of humanity.”

Throughout history, the standard form of government has been monarchical, and republics were unknown outside of the West, he said.

According to Kagan, the concepts of individual freedom and secular government first came from the Ancient Greeks. Citizens of Greek

city-states had relatively little wealth inequality, fought without professional mercenaries and demanded a role in political decisions, he said.

Still, Kagan was quick to add that Judeo-Christian civilizations were instrumental in the continuation of these ideas. During the early Roman Empire, Christianity was a persecuted religion that was independent of the state.

Despite the fall of the Romans and the rise of Christianity, the Church was never truly dominant, Kagan said.

The Protestant Reformation posed further challenges to the Catholic church, he said.

Beyond the broad history of Western civilization, Kagan focused on the ideas of individual liberty, rational thought and objectivity. He pointed to a quotation at the temple at Delphi that reads, “know thyself, nothing in excess.”

Kagan said the Greek way of looking at things required a change from faith and intuition to a reliance on reason.

Scientific theories cannot be arrived at by meditation alone, he said.

Still, the Greeks understood that humans were simultaneously powerful and fallible. “[Man] is capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes. Knowing he will never achieve perfect knowledge and understanding, but always determined to continue to search for such things,” said Kagan, “To me, that seems an accurate description of the human condition.”

But the idea of individual freedom also reveals a dark side to Western civilization, Kagan said. Though prioritizing liberty makes civilizations susceptible to inequality and instability, Kagan said

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Professor emeritus Donald Kagan stressed the importance and uniqueness of the liberal arts at a Wednesday lecture. most people around the world today want to benefit from the achievements of Western science and technology.

The talk sparked immediate debate among students about reason, individual freedom and faith in science. Students interviewed said Kagan’s remarks provided an interesting perspective.

Ugonna Eze ’16 said he enjoyed Kagan’s thoughts on the relationship between gov-

erning power and individual ideas.

Alfred Delle ’17 said the talk raised several questions about what freedom means and how society should understand the concepts of “West” and “East” today.

Kagan taught at Yale from 1969 until 2013.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

Johnson among top Republican donors YALE EMPLOYEES’ 2012 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY PARTY $462,955

CHARLES JOHNSON’S POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY YEAR $239,300

$255,900

$250,000

$130,000

$17,942

2008

2010

2012

2014

(to date)

SOURCE: CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS

JOHNSON FROM PAGE 1 The Romney event was held in addition to major spending by Johnson himself in the 2012 election cycle. Johnson gave at least $250,000 to Republican causes that year, according to the FEC. And while he has given extensively to candidates — including U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Tea Party-backed Arizona Representative Ben Quayle, who lost his seat in November 2012 — Johnson has primarily channeled his considerable wealth toward parties and political action committees. Though political candidates are bound by donation limits of usually $2,600, the latter two categories do not face such strict limits. Under the ruling of the 2010 Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Com-

mission, PACs can accept unlimited donations from corporations, unions and individuals.

It’s probably quite common for some of the larger donors to give to both the super PAC and the 501(c).

ROBERT MAGUIRE Spokesman, Center for Responsive Politics In 2012, Johnson gave $200,000 to American Crossroads, a PAC founded by Karl Rove, a former adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush ’68.

He gave an additional $50,000 to Restore our Future, the PAC

closely associated with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

The groups were two of the largest spenders in the 2012 cycle, with American Crossroads and a sister group spending over $176 million.

Both American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS did not respond to requests for comment.

The 2012 donations from Johnson — who is described on the Yale Class of 1954’s website as the class’s “only billionaire” — are merely the continuation of a long-standing pattern.

In 2008, Johnson gave a recorded total of $239,900, making him the 34th largest political donor in the country, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2010, Johnson once again stood at 34th with a similarly large total. In both cycles, nearly all of Johnson’s giving went to Republican candidates and groups.

Johnson has already put significant funds into the upcoming 2014 election cycle. With $130,000 already spent, Johnson is currently the 51st largest donor for the cycle.

Yet Johnson’s publicly disclosed gifts may be only the tip of the iceberg. Organizations that are registered as 501(c)(4) nonprofits are allowed to redact the names of their donors in publicly filed forms, effectively allowing for unlimited, anonymous contributions. In recent years, a slew of politically affiliated groups have filed as such nonprofits, leading in part to a massive increase in non-campaign spending and marked decrease in the disclosure of donors during the past four election cycles in the country.

American Crossroads, the group to which Johnson gave $200,000 in 2012, has a sister 501(c)(4) known as Crossroads

Grassroots Policy Strategy. Robert Maguire, a spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics, said it is impossible to know exactly how many of American Crossroad’s donors give to Crossroads GPS. “My educated guess is that it’s probably quite common for some of the larger donors to give to both the super PAC and the 501(c),” Maguire said, attributing some of Crossroads GPS’ high revenues — which outpaced the super PAC’s — to the lack of disclosure requirements.

Johnson’s political involvement stands in contrast to that of other individuals affiliated with Yale. Although the University itself made no political contributions, Yale-employed individuals gave $573,000 during the 2012 election cycle — and of that, $481,000 went to individual candidates, with only 3.7 percent of those funds going to

Republicans. In the last cycle, U.S. President Barack Obama, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and Connecticut Representative Elizabeth Esty pulled in the most disclosed contributions from members of the Yale community.

Despite the magnitude of his donation figures, Johnson’s national political influence remains relatively unknown on campus. Elizabeth Henry ’14, president of Yale Republicans, said Johnson has had no interaction with the campus group, and that she was unaware of his status as a major political donor.

Of 10 other students interviewed — including some who are politically active at Yale and beyond — all said they were similarly unaware.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Amidst controvery, Newtown tapes made public NEWTOWN FROM PAGE 1 as a dispatcher ordered “everyone” down to the school and gathered information about the scene. “I keep hearing shooting, I keep hearing popping.”

Another caller said that she was in a classroom and had been shot in the foot.

Like most others working the calls in the recordings, the dispatcher reassured the woman that help was on the way, telling her to keep pressure on the wound.

The recordings also include a call from a female teacher in a classroom with her students, who was instructed to lock her doors and keep away from windows.

“Lock the door. Keep everybody calm, keep everybody down,” a dispatcher instructed the teacher.

Prescott’s decision to release the tapes was made in an effort to comply with federal rights to information and to clarify the work done by dispatchers and first responders during the chaotic episode, according to court documents filed by the Superior Court, New Britain Judicial District.

“There is no dispute in this case that the audio recordings of the 911 calls made from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 are public records within the Freedom of Information Act,” Prescott’s ruling states.

In September, the state’s Freedom of Information Commission pushed for the recordings to be released to the Associated Press. But State Attorney Stephen Sedensky III applied to prevent their release, arguing

that making the recordings public might put witnesses at risk and cause families greater anguish.

When Prescott announced the decision, Sedensky said he would not appeal the ruling.

“After consultation with the office of the chief state’s attorney and the attorney for the town of Newtown who is a party to the appeal in the Superior Court, we have decided not to pursue an appeal on the denial of the application for a stay,” Sedensky said in a statement.

Hearing those calls takes us back to a day of horror and tragedy.

PAT LLODRA First Selectwoman, Newton, Conn.

The release of the recordings was met by harsh criticism by First Selectwoman of Newtown Pat Llodra, who, in a personal blog post on Wednesday morning, expressed doubt that releasing the tapes would reap any positive results.

“Hearing those calls takes us back to a day of horror and tragedy,” she wrote. “My plea is for the media to treat us kindly … to recognize that there is great personal pain in this event and little public good to be garnered through the general release.

A report detailing Lanza’s personal life was released on Nov. 25.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA. at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

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NATION Stakes now higher for Detroit retirees

BY ED WHITE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Shirley Lightsey’s phone keeps ringing. As head of a group of Detroit retirees, she’s trying to keep up with calls from anxious pensioners who fear their monthly payments are at great risk now that a judge says the bankrupt city can cut them.

Unions and pension funds are pledging to appeal a historic decision by Judge Steven Rhodes that found Detroit is broke and public pensions in a bankruptcy aren’t protected by the Michigan Constitution. Although union leaders have appealed, bankruptcy experts say it’s now a critical time to negotiate the best deal possible for 23,000 retirees and thousands more current employees.

Most city retirees have a pension of less than $20,000 a year.

“You’re talking about thousands of people who need to know what to anticipate six months from now, a year, 18 months,” said Melanie Cyganowski, a former bankruptcy judge in New York.

“Can I live in the same house?

Do I need to sell my house? Can I afford to live in a nursing home?”

An out-of-court deal would bring certainty, she said.

“You’ve bargained something and it will be there,” said Cyganowski, a judge for 14 years.

For months, Detroit’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has said two pension funds are short by $3.5 billion, about 20 percent of the $18 billion in longterm debt that the city is trying to erase at a steep discount in bankruptcy court. Retirees are even more agitated because they still don’t know how much of a real hit they could face. Orr is expected to present a plan to settle all debts by early January, a way out that still would need the judge’s blessing.

Rhodes said he’ll be very sensitive to how retirees are treated, insisting he won’t “lightly or casually” approve any cut in benefits.

Lightsey, 79, who worked in the water department and leads the Detroit Retired City Employees Association from her home in Southfield, said she doesn’t consider Rhodes’ decision this week as the last word.

Orr and his team “are ledgerdriven, red ink, black ink people,” she said. “Retirees did everything

they were supposed to do. They were not a drain on the system.

They worked. They retired. Not one penny should be touched.”

Orr said he’s not heartless. He said he keeps a recording in his briefcase of uneasy retirees who spoke at a September court hearing.

“No one is more aware of the hardship that this is going to cause to a number of different people than me,” Orr told radio station WWJ on Wednesday.

But the reality, he added, is inescapable: “The city has no cash on hand to pay the magnitude of the debt we have.”

The narrow issue for the judge was whether Detroit met key steps to be eligible to stay in bankruptcy court and extinguish its debt. Rhodes surprised many by declaring public pensions are like any contract that can be broken in bankruptcy, even if states have protected them in their constitutions.

His opinion isn’t binding in any other case, but it at least cracks the door open for local governments or bankruptcy judges grappling with pensions elsewhere in the U.S. At least six states besides Michigan have some constitutional protections, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Retirees did everything they were supposed to do. … Not one penny should be touched.

SHIRLEY LIGHTSEY Head, Group of Detroit retirees “He took a step further than anyone has yet. But it’s just a judge who is applying federal law and giving his opinion,” said Michael Sweet, a bankruptcy attorney who has advised local governments in California.

He believes Rhodes’ message has a pragmatic purpose for Detroit and lawyers representing pensioners: Get talking.

“It was an important statement. It saved people a lot of time and gave them a better sense of how they need to frame their discussions as they go into mediation,” Sweet said.

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A dead pilot whale lies near the beach in a remote area of Florida’s Everglades National Park, Dec. 4.

BY SUZETTE LABOY AND CHRISTINE ARMARIO ASSOCIATED PRESS EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — Wildlife workers in boats struggled unsuccessfully Wednesday to coax nearly four dozen pilot whales out of dangerous shallow waters in Florida’s Everglades National Park, hoping to spare them the fate of 10 others that already had died.

The workers suspended their efforts after dark, but planned to return Thursday morning to try again, said Kim Amendola, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is taking part in the effort.

Six of the whales were found dead, and four of the whales had to be euthanized Wednesday, said Blair Mase, coordinator for NOAA’s marine mammal stranding network. At least three could be seen on the beach, out of the water.

The whales are stranded in a remote area near Highland

Beach, the western boundary of Everglades National Park and about 20 miles east of where they normally live.

It takes more than an hour to reach the spot from the nearest boat ramp and there is no cellphone service, complicating rescue efforts.

“We want to set the expectation low, because the challenges are very, very difficult,” Mase said.

Park spokeswoman Linda Friar said rescuers were trying to surround the whales, which were in roughly 3 feet of salt water about 75 feet from shore, and herd them back to sea.

“They are not cooperating,” Friar said.

Workers also tried to nudge the whales out to sea earlier in the day with no success.

The short-finned pilot whales typically live in very deep water. Even if rescuers were able to begin nudging the 41 remaining whales out to sea, Mase said they would encounter a series of sandbars and patches of shallow water along the way.

This particular whale species is also known for its closeknit social groups, meaning if one whale gets stuck or stays behind, the others are likely to stay behind or even beach themselves as well.

“It would be very difficult for the whales to navigate out on their own,” Mase said.

Federal officials were notified about the whales Tuesday around 4 p.m. Because of the remote location, workers were unable to access the site before dark. They arrived Wednesday morning and discovered 45 whales still alive.

“There were some that were very compromised and in very poor condition,” Mase said.

Four were euthanized with sedatives, and more could be put down Thursday if their condition deteriorates, Mase said. She described the remaining whales as swimming and mobile but said scientists don’t know how long they have been out of the deep, colder water they are accustomed to and could be impacted by secondary consequences, such as dehydration.

“I don’t think we have a lot of time,” Mase said.

Necropsies were being done Wednesday on the deceased whales. Scientists will look for disease or other signs to indicate how whales got stuck in the shallow Everglades waters.

As workers tried to coax the animals to deeper water, at least one could be seen a few feet from shore floating upside down with its head bobbing up and down. Three to four more could be seen on the beach bleeding.

Twenty-two pilot whales became stranded in Florida’s Avalon State Park in Fort Pierce in 2012. Residents, state and national officials attempted to rescue them, but only five could be saved.

“It’s not uncommon,” Friar said. “But it’s not something that happens a lot.”

Mase said NOAA was consulting with experts in different counties with experience in herding whales to see if there were other options, but said she was not optimistic.

“The outlook ultimately does not look good,” she said.

Obama tells feds to boost renewable energy

BY MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to nearly triple to 20 percent its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020.

Obama says the plan will help reduce pollution that causes global warming, promote American energy independence and boost domestic energy sources such as solar and wind power that provide thousands of jobs.

Obama was set to announce the plan Thursday as part of his wide-ranging, secondterm drive to combat climate change and prepare for its effects. A plan announced

in June would put first-time limits on carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, boost renewable energy production on federal lands and prepare communities to deal with higher temperatures.

The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the executive order on renewable energy, which applies to all federal agencies, civilian and military. The Defense Department has previously set a goal that 25 percent of its energy needs should be supplied by renewable energy by 2025.

Obama said federal agencies have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 15 percent since he took

office in 2009 but said the government can do even better. The government should lead by example, he said.

The federal government occupies nearly 500,000 buildings, operates 600,000 vehicles and purchases more than $500 billion per year in goods and services.

The government currently has a goal of using 7.5 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, but Obama said recent increases in renewable energy supplies make the new 20 percent goal achievable by 2020.

The White House did not provide an estimate for how much money, if any, the proposal would save over the next decade.

The order on renewable energy is one of several steps the administration is announcing this week on energy efficiency.

On Tuesday, officials announced a plan to cut energy waste at multifamily housing such as apartments and condominiums and released a 2014 fuel economy guide to help motorists choose fuel-efficient vehicles.

As part of the administration’s push to expand renewable energy, the Pentagon last year committed to deploying 3 gigawatts of renewable energy on Army, Navy and Air Force installations by 2025 — enough to power 750,000 homes.

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“I fight not for myself. I fight for the audience.” VITALI KLITSCHKO BOXING CHAMPION, POLITICIAN

Hezbollah commander killed

Cobalt-60 found abandoned

BY OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Hassan al-Laqis, a senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, who was gunned

BY HUSSEIN MALLA AND ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS BAALBEK, Lebanon — The attackers waited in an olive grove around midnight. As the Hezbollah commander pulled into the garage of his nearby apartment building, they went in after him. Five bullets were pumped into his head and neck from a silencer-equipped pistol — an assassination that reverberated across the Middle East.

The killing early Wednesday of Hassan al-Laqis, described as a member of the inner circle of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, was the latest in a series of recent attacks against the Iranian-backed group.

Hezbollah blamed Israel, which denied involvement.

However, the Shiite militant group’s open support of Syrian President Bashar Assad has

enraged Sunnis and left it with no shortage of enemies eager to strike at its strongholds and leadership. Dozens of people have been killed in deadly car bombings claimed by radical Sunni groups.

The group’s participation in the civil war in Syria is highly divisive and unpopular in Lebanon, where many feel it has deviated from its raison d’etre of fighting Israel and exposed the Shiite community to retaliation.

Most recently, two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, killing 23. An alQaida-affiliated group claimed responsibility, saying it was payback for Hezbollah’s support of Assad.

Al-Laqis’ killing came shortly after Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the embassy bombings in a sharp escalation in rheto-

ric against the Sunni regional powerhouse. In a three-hour interview with a local TV station, he indirectly suggested an alliance between Israel and Saudi Arabia was trying to destabilize his group.

The Saudi monarchy is engaged in a proxy war with Iran over influence in the region, and in that, Riyadh has increasingly found common ground with the Jewish state.

“The assassination is another notch in tensions between Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia,” said Kamel Wazne, founder of the Center for American Strategic Studies in Beirut.

“There will be repercussions. It’s going to be more like an open battle,” he said.

Two previously unknown Sunni groups claimed responsibility on Twitter for al-Laqis’ assassination, but the claims could not be verified.

Al-Laqis, 53, was killed as he returned home from work, Hezbollah said.

“The brother martyr Hassan al-Laqis spent his youth and dedicated all his life in this honorable resistance since its inception up until the last moments of his life,” a statement from the group said.

An official close to the highly secretive group said al-Laqis held some of Hezbollah’s most sensitive portfolios and was very close to Nasrallah and his inner circle, often acting as a link with officials in Tehran.

“He was one of the brains behind much of the group’s operations,” the official said.

Hezbollah distributed a photo of al-Laqis and said Israel had tried to kill him several times. The image showed a man wearing beige-and-khaki military clothes, with neatly cut black hair and a graying close-cropped beard.

MEXICO CITY — A missing shipment of radioactive cobalt-60 was found Wednesday near where the stolen truck transporting the material was abandoned in central Mexico state, the country’s nuclear safety director said.

The highly radioactive material had been removed from its shipping container, officials said, and one predicted that anyone involved in opening the box would be dead within three days.

The cobalt-60l was found in an empty lot about a half a mile from Hueypoxtla, an agricultural town of about 4,000 people, but it posed no threat or a need for an evacuation, said Juan Eibenschutz, director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards.

“Fortunately there are no people where the source of radioactivity is,” Eibenschutz said.

Commission physicist Mardonio Jimenez said it was the first time material like this had been stolen and extracted from its container. The only threat was to whoever opened the container and later discarded the pellets of high-intensity radioactive material that was being transported to a waste site. It had been used in medical equipment for radiation therapy.

“The person or people who this took out are in very great risk of dying,” Jimenez said, adding that the normal survival rate would be between one and three days.

He said there was no word so far of anyone reporting to area hospitals with radiation exposure. He said whoever exposed themselves to the pellets could not contaminate others.

Federal police and military units on the scene put up a cordon of 500 yards around the site.

The cargo truck hauling the cobalt-60 was stolen from a

gas station early Tuesday in the neighboring state of Hidalgo, about 24 miles from where the material was recovered, Jimenez said. Authorities had put out an alert in six central states and the capital looking for it.

The truck was taking the cobalt to a nuclear waste facility in the state of Mexico, which is adjacent to Mexico City.

Eibenschutz said earlier that direct exposure to cobalt-60 could result in death within a few minutes, but Jimenez said the pellets were sealed.

The material was used in obsolete radiation therapy equipment that is being replaced throughout Mexico’s public health system. It was coming from the general hospital in the northern border city of Tijuana, Eibenshutz said.

Before the container was found, he said the thieves most likely wanted the white 2007 Volkswagen cargo vehicle with a moveable platform and crane.

Eibenschutz said there was nothing to indicate the theft of the cobalt was intentional or in any way intended for an act of terrorism.

The truck marked “Transportes Ortiz” left Tijuana on Nov. 28 and was headed to the storage facility when the driver stopped to rest at a gas station in Tepojaco, in Hidalgo state north of Mexico City.

The driver, Valentin Escamilla Ortiz, told authorities he was sleeping in the truck when two men with a gun approached about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. They made him get out, tied his hands and feet and left him in a vacant lot nearby.

When he was able to free himself, he ran back to the gas station to get help.

On average, a half dozen thefts of radioactive materials are reported in Mexico each year and none have proven to be aimed at the cargo, Eibenschutz said. He said that in all the cases the thieves were after shipping containers or the vehicles.

Boxing champ turns opposition leader in Ukraine he retires. He still spends several hours a day training.

Now Klitschko must prove that he has as much stamina in the political arena.

Despite earning a doctorate in sports science, Klitschko has had to fight a stereotype of being intellectually unfit to run this economically troubled nation of 46 million.

Having been raised — like many Ukrainians — in a Russian-speaking family, Klitschko only recently learned Ukrainian and sometimes struggles to find the right word.

Still, he appeals to many Ukrainians with his air of sincerity and his image as a handsome tough guy ready to defend his compatriots.

“He is a national hero and

comes across as being decent,” said Andreas Umland, assistant professor of European studies at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy.

Klitschko was one of only a few opposition politicians who tried to stop several hundred radical protesters from storming President Viktor Yanukovych’s office during a demonstration Sunday that drew hundreds of thousands to the streets of the capital, Kiev.

As the boxer called for peace, the jubilant crowd chanted his name. Beside him stood his wife, Natalia. The couple has three children.

The angry protests were sparked by the president’s abrupt decision last month to ditch a political and economic treaty with

the 28-nation European Union in favor of closer economic ties with Russia, which had threatened Ukraine with trade consequences if the country signed the EU deal.

On Wednesday, his party joined two other opposition parties in blockading the Ukrainian parliament as part of a nationwide strike.

The demonstrations in Kiev were galvanized when Yanukovych’s government sent in riot police with truncheons to break up a small, peaceful rally in the middle of the night, injuring dozens.

“They took away people’s hope to implement reforms, to change the situation in the country,” Klitschko told the AP, speaking inside the parliament building.

“They stole our hope.”

Klitschko made his first foray into politics during the country’s 2004 Orange Revolution, the mass protests that led to the annulment of Yanukovych’s fraud-tainted presidential win and ushered in a pro-Western government. Fresh from a victory in the ring in the United States, Klitschko flew to Kiev and appeared in the heart of those protests wearing an orange scarf, the symbol of the revolution.

Next to him stood his brother, Wladimir Klitschko, now 37, another heavyweight world boxing champion who is engaged to the American actress Hayden Panettiere, star of the TV series “Nashville.”

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KIEV, Ukraine — Towering over his fellow protest leaders, Vitali Klitschko, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, has emerged as Ukraine’s most popular opposition figure and has ambitions to become its next president.

Thanks to his sports-hero status and reputation as a proWestern politician untainted

by Ukraine’s frequent corruption scandals, the 6-foot 7-inch Klitschko has surpassed jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in opinion polls.

As massive anti-government protests continue to grip Ukraine,

the 42-year-old boxer-turnedpolitician is urging his countrymen to continue their fight to turn this ex-Soviet republic into a genuine Western democracy.

“This is not a revolution. It is a peaceful protest that demands justice,” Klitschko told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.”

Dubbed Dr. Ironfist for his prowess in the boxing ring, Klitschko has scored 45 victories in 47 fights, 41 of them with knockouts. He has successfully defended his title 11 times, most recently in September 2012, and plans to have one more bout before

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SPORTS

“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”

STEVE PREFONTAINE OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE

Poor shooting sinks Elis

Snajder ready for indoor SNAJDER FROM PAGE 12 are very good at being driven and excited about what we are doing.

It’s about using each other’s energy to push that much harder and get that extra lap in. We all work together with each other and for each other. was a highlight from last QWhat season and how does the team hope to build on it?

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Toward the end of the season, you could really see people’s hard work paying off and I think that when you see people attaining the performances they want, it gets everyone excited about what they are doing.

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Captain and guard Jesse Pritchard (No. 11) ’14 hit two 3-pointers at home against Bryant yesterday.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Guards Armani Cotton ’15 and Javier Duren ’15, who entered the game shooting a combined 40 percent from three-point range, each had an uncharacteristic game. The backcourt tandem misfired on all 13 of their three-point attempts.

Duren said that Bryant did a formidable job defending Yale’s shots on the perimeter and that Yale simply did not execute to the best of its abilities.

“All the shots we were shooting were contested,” Duren said. “They’re not normal shots that we’re used to shooting, you know, not setting up our teammates, and shots that [we] are not really used to having in our offense.”

Despite the poor shooting from long range, Duren still managed to compile 17 points, six rebounds and three assists

— all team highs.

Duren’s performance was highlighted by a series of events with approximately seven minutes remaining in the game. After a missed layup by forward Matt Townsend ’15, who did score eight points off the bench, Duren flew into the paint and delivered an emphatic left-handed putback dunk that awoke the dormant Yale crowd.

Duren continued the momentum when he forced a steal on the ensuing possession and capped off the spurt with a remarkable fall-away left-handed layup that left the Payne Whitney Gymnasium rocking. The mini run by Duren capped a larger 9–0 run by the Bulldogs that drew Yale within two points with 6:48 to go.

Duren acknowledged that he does feel added responsibility for how the team performs.

“There’s definitely a sort of pressure being the point guard,

being the leader of this team,” Duren said. “When things go wrong, a lot of it falls on the point guard.”

Bryant responded with five quick points, however, and Yale was unable to draw itself any closer to victory.

Jones gave credit to Bryant and said that much of the loss could simply be chalked up to poor play on his team’s part.

“It’s hard to beat a good team when you don’t play well,” Jones said. “We had our chances, playing as poorly as we did. There wasn’t too much that we did right tonight.”

Forward Justin Sears ’16, Yale’s leading scorer and rebounder entering the matchup, got off to a quick start as he scored Yale’s first four points, keying a 6–0 Yale advantage to open the evening.

Unfortunately for Sears, foul trouble plagued his night as he picked up his second foul of the game with about 11 min-

utes remaining in the first half, which forced him to be substituted out of the game.

“I’m still learning with the new rules, with the handchecking and everything, and how the refs are calling it,” Sears said. “I felt in the second half I wasn’t as aggressive as I should have been … It’s just a learning experience for me to figure out how to play with two fouls and three fouls and to just get better at it.”

Still, Sears managed 10 points and extended his double-digit scoring streak to eight games — as many as Yale has played this season.

Moving forward, Yale will return to action Saturday afternoon when they host New Hampshire (2–5, 0–0 AEC).

Action against the Wildcats will tip off at 4:30 p.m. in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

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Where will the team succeed this year?

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I think that we have a lot of returning athletes who are looking really strong right now and new people across the board in distance events, sprinting events and throwing events.

Overall, we are looking really strong and I wouldn’t say any particular group is unbalanced.

team doing anything new QIsthistheseason?

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We are beginning a new training program that everyone is on board with and we think it will make us stronger and faster as a unit. Our throwing coach took control of our weightlifting, so it is designed more with the trajectory of our season in mind. It is something that people have seen results with already so they are confident moving forward. On the track, people are taking to the rhythm the coaches have established this year and that is also leaving runners feeling more confident.

as a whole?

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I would say we’ve been slowly building and collecting all of the resources from coaches to equipment to facilities to the athletes on the team to put us in a position to be really great. We may be small in numbers but the dedication of the team from the coaches to everyone that competes is just tremendous. Moving forward, things look really great.

We just put in a new turf field, more jumping pits and our indoor track was just resurfaced. A lot of investment of time and effort has been put into the program and the athletes are really responding well to that.

Snajder is a History of Science and Medicine major in Berkeley College.

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Yale seeks to top Friars

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game.

Yale extended its lead by taking advantage of Bryant’s sloppy play, capitalizing on its copious number of turnovers to score 26 points.

Bryant finished with 26 turnovers, while Yale limited its mistakes in the second half to finish the night with 19 turnovers.

“We definitely took a better care of the ball, that was obviously one of our bad points of the game, but I think we got more composed later in the second half,” Halejian said. “I think that’s what really helped us push ahead.”

“They’re up, they’re down.

They’ve been a pretty unpredictable team this year.”

In January 2013, the last time the two teams met, Providence came away with a 3—2 overtime victory.

The Friars finished 15–16–5 that year, while the Bulldogs were just 5–21–3. But Leonoff said this season is a different story.

“We’re a lot stronger this year, and they’re weaker compared to where they were last year,” Leonoff said. “We’ve definitely got the advantage this year.”

The Bulldogs’ offense has started to click recently, as it has scored at least two goals in four of the Elis’ last six games, with the other two games being losses to Minnesota, the number one team in the country.

Forwards Phoebe Stanz ’17 and Stephanie Mock ’15 both scored a goal in each of Yale’s past two games, against Connecticut and Quinnipiac.

Stanz also had three assists across the two games and was

I think we got more composed later in the second half.

SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard, Women’s basketball

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‘Dogs break losing streak

Bryant attempted to close the gap following a timeout at the 3:13 mark, but the closest it was able to reach was 70–61 with less than 30 seconds remaining. The Elis finished the game with a couple of made free throws by Halejian to bring the final score to 72–61.

Halejian played well down the stretch, leading Yale with 15 points, seven assists and seven steals. Two more players scored in double figures for Yale, as Graf and Latham added 14 and 11 points, respectively. Forward Meredith Boardman ’16 grabbed 10 rebounds for Yale, which in total had 36 rebounds compared to Bryant’s 37.

Yale received valuable bench minutes from forward Katie Werner ’17, center Zenab Keita ’14 and Munzer, as the reserves added 21 points.

The Elis will play the second game of their four-game home stand on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. against Army.

The women’s track and field team finished seventh at the indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships last season.

named ECAC player of the week for her efforts. She leads the team with 12 points this season despite missing two games when she played in a tournament for Team Switzerland in early November.

We’re a lot stronger this year, and they’re weaker compared to where they were last year.

JAMIE LEONOFF ’15 Goaltender, Women’s ice hockey Yale’s ability to score on the power play may be a factor in the game, as the Friars are fourth nationally in penalty minutes with 236 and have allowed their opponents 14 power-play goals this season.

The Bulldogs are six for 44 on power-play opportunities thus far.

Flygh said that this week, the team’s forwards are focusing on burying their chances and getting rebounds off their

shots.

“Especially in the Quinnipiac game this past week, we had some great opportunities but didn’t finish them,” Flygh said.

The Eli defense will need to work hard to keep the Friars out of its zone. Providence is third in the Hockey East in scoring, behind hockey powerhouses Boston College and Boston University.

P rov i d e n c e fo r wa rd Corinne Buie is tied for third in the conference in points per game with 1.33, and forward Cassidy Carels leads the team with nine goals through the team’s 17 games.

Leonoff said that defense has been a focus for the Bulldogs in practice this week.

“We’ve been working on executing our systems a lot, and little things like decisionmaking, when to do what, little thinks like that,” Leonoff said.

The Bulldogs and Friars will face off in the Schneider Arena at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

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Center Zenab Keita (No. 11) ’14 scored seven points and pulled down six rebounds versus Bryant.

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Forward Stephanie Mock (No. 6) ’15 scored a goal in each of Yale’s last two games.

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MEREDITH SPECK ’15 WOMEN’S SOCCER Speck, who hails from Rockville Centre, NY, was named to the NSCAA Women’s Soccer All-Region third team for her performance this past season. The junior midfielder started all 16 of the Elis’ games this season, scoring one goal and adding five assists.

“We gained a lot of people that are ready and excited to contribute to the team.”

AMANDA SNAJDER ’14

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Winning streak snapped MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JAMES BADAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a battle to determine top dog, the Yale men’s basketball team could not withstand a strong secondhalf surge from Bryant. When time expired at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, the Elis had fallen by a final score of 72–64, snapping Yale’s humble two-game winning streak.

Yale (4–4, 0–0 Ivy) held a modest four-point lead at the halfway point, but a 15–4 run by Bryant to open the second half saw the Bulldogs from Smithfield, R.I., jump in front 42–35. The Elis scraped their way back to within two points but could never reclaim the lead.

Guard Dyami Stark led the charge for Bryant (6–2, 0–0 NEC). Starks, who entered the game averaging 23.2 points per game, captured for 22 points in spite of a difficult first half.

Yale head coach James Jones said he was satisfied with Yale’s defense on Starks for the first twenty minutes, as the guard managed just five points on 1–6 shooting from the field.

“We did a great job on Starks in the first half and a poor job on him in the second half,” Jones said. “He got hot and we didn’t do anything to cool him down.”

Forward Alex Francis provided an inside punch for Bryant, finishing with 22 points of his own in addition to a game-high seven boards.

Rebounding, which has been Yale’s strong point in recent history, played a major role in the Elis’ loss.

After edging Bryant 17–12 on the glass in the first half, Yale got outworked during the final 20 minutes according to Jones. Bryant was even able to snatch seven offensive rebounds following the break after being shut out in that category in the first half.

The hosting Bulldogs struggled offensively, shooting 39.3 percent for the game. More concerning however was the production from behind the arc for the Elis — three for 21 from deep.

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Snajder ’14 paces the Bulldogs

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER In her junior campaign with the women’s track and field team, Amanda Snajder ’14 set the school record in the pentathlon during the 2012–’13 indoor season with 3658 points and set personal best records in high jump, long jump, shot put, javelin toss and the heptathlon. Following her stellar season, Snajder was elected captain of the 2013–’14 team. In a preseason interview, Snajder discusses the goals, changes and outlook for the upcoming season.

QHow has the team changed from last season?

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Since last season, we have gotten some new faces. We have jumpers, sprinters, throwers and a fair amount of new people coming in. We graduated a lot of seniors, but we gained a lot of people that are ready and excited to contribute to the team. There are a lot of people that are working hard and are invested in what we are doing as a group.

are some of the team’s goals for the QWhat season?

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Placing higher at Heps and being more confident as we take on each meet. We want to look at each meet as a point to jump off of. Each meet should be a way to build our confidence a little bit more so come the end of the season at the Ivy championships we can be confident as a group and we can make a presence at Ivies.

will the team need to improve on from QWhat now until the end of the season to achieve those goals?

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One thing is learning how to, as a group, inspire each other. We do it in workouts all the time and it is a full team effort to get everyone excited and ready to go. Besides that, we

Forward Matt Townsend (No. 42) ’15 recorded eight points and two blocks against Bryant yesterday.

Elis end 2013 at Providence

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In a ‘Dog fight, Yale victorious

BY ASHLEY WU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a battle between Bulldogs, Yale came out on top last night after fighting off Bryant for three quarters of the game to snap a three-game losing streak.

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Forward Krista Yip-Chuck (No. 95) ’17 leads Yale with four goals scored this season.

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team will end non-conference play at Providence this Friday in its final game of 2013.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY The Friars (7–10–0, 3–5–0 Hockey East) boast a three-

game win streak heading into the matchup, but the Bulldogs (3–8–1, 2–3–1 ECAC) ride a bit of momentum themselves, as they have won three of their last six games after starting the season with five straight losses. “[Providence has] a lot of kids with size, and that’s how they try to play,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. “They cycle

the puck a lot to use their size to their advantage.”

Flygh added that because of Providence’s size, Yale may have the advantage in speed.

He said that the Bulldogs will use quick transitions to create opportunities against the Friars, who are sixth in the Hockey East with 3.5 goals allowed per game this season.

Of the Friars’ past three

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wins, one came against Brown, which currently has just one win, and the other two against winless Maine.

Prior to the streak, Providence had lost seven consecutive games.

“I have no idea what to expect from them,” goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said.

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Bryant (2–5, 0–0 Northeast) started the game off on a 6–0 streak before Yale (4–4, 0–0 Ivy) could score, then extended its lead to 11–3 a little over three minutes into the game. Yale went on a run to go up by one point, 14–13, at the 11:52 mark. The two teams continued to trade baskets through the end of the half, even as 24 total fouls called by the referees slowed the game.

The Elis continued their shooting prowess from long range, shooting almost 43 percent from beyond the arc in the first half, but Bryant stayed in the game by knocking down 8–9 of its free throws. Heading into the locker room at the end of a very physical first half, Yale led Bryant 37–35.

“We’re a good three-point shooting team,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “It’s something that we like to do. It’s not unusual for us to shoot that well. We have very good three-point shooters in Jana Graf ’14, Hayden Latham ’15, Meghan McIntyre ’17 and Lena [Munzer ’17] a very good threepoint shooter and [so is] Sarah [Halejian ’15] … It’s kind of not a good idea to give us that shot.”

The two teams appeared to be evenly matched, as both squads grabbed 15 rebounds in the opening frame. Turnovers marred both teams, as Bryant had 15 turnovers and the Elis had 13. The teams battled back and forth, tying three times and trading the lead nine times.

The second half appeared to be a continuation of the first as neither team was able to pull away by more than a couple points. Yale finally wore out Bryant and the Elis, keyed by three point baskets and missed opportunities

by Bryant, led 64–51 with a little over five minutes remaining in the SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 11

NUMBER OF 3-POINTERS ATTEMPTED BY THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE ELI’S 72– 64 LOSS TO BRYANT. The Bulldogs made only three of their attempts from beyond the arc, whereas Bryant went 6–15 from deep. Yale has made 33.1 percent of its 3-pointers on the season.