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GHeav workers split

Round 2: On Campus Interview. Though “Case in

Point” by Marc P. Cosentino is not required reading, the intensive interview process for campus tour guides is now underway. Get your Yale gear, extroverted personality and touching stories about campus locales together if you want a spot within these elite, one might even say elitist, ranks.

Chandra ’14 wrote a column for the New Haven Register titled “Restoring the Fun at Yale.” The piece suggested ways to reduce student commitments, in classes or extracurriculars, so students can make the most of their time here. The column also called out “the bizarre existing scenario in which even professors consider students’ failure to finish their readings understandable and acceptable.”

Life after a cappella. YouTube

sensation Sam Tsui ’11 received a recent shout-out in Entertainment Weekly: “Sam Tsui’s Coca-Cola ad featured better singing than any audition during American Idol’s two-night premiere.”

Nobody who watched said American Idol premiere could dispute this claim.

The world’s oldest babies. The Peabody exhibit “Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies” explores the adorable lives of baby dinosaurs. The displays include a “dinosaur nursery” from China, embryonic fossils and over 150 dinosaur eggs.

The birds and the bees.

According to a recent Yale News piece, the “science of baby-making still a mystery for many women.” A new School of Medicine study finds that 50 percent of American women of reproductive age had never discussed their reproductive health with a medical provider.

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1960 Yale College bans “female visitors” from dorm rooms on weekdays. Saturdays and Sundays are unaffected.

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CCEs launch videos

for cooperating with the DOL. But on Friday, about 20 Gourmet Heaven employees, friends and family members called for an end to the boycott, saying they were afraid diminished business would leave them jobless and that ULA’s and workers’ allegations were false.

“I support the boycott — the owner has abused us too much,” the anonymous employee told the News

The Yale Communication and Consent Educators — with the help of freshman counselors, peer liaisons and Peer Health Educators — released a series of 21 web videos yesterday that outline the steps of filing a formal complaint with the University Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) and also profile seven administrators involved in the process.

The project, which was planned and filmed over the course of the fall semester, addresses common questions about the UWC, including the meaning of confidentiality, the difference between formal versus informal complaints and the role of Title IX Coordinators. The videos are directed towards students who may be helping a friend through the process of filing a complaint, which CCEs believe will create a more supportive campus network, CCE project organizer Matthew Breuer ’14 said.

“We are trying to talk about [UWC] from every possible angle,” Breuer said. “These videos provide a quick snapshot of how all the different moving pieces work.”

Although the information covered in the three- to four-minute clips was previously available on the UWC website, putting the information in video format makes it accessible, said Corey Malone-Smolla ’16, a CCE who helped organize and participated in a video about UWC hearings. Rather than using technical language or legal jargon, the videos adopt a conversational, yet informational tone in approaching a highly complex topic, she added.

CCEs will use social media to publicize their new resource for students, rather than sending emails. In addition, CCEs set up tables and screens yesterday in Commons to share clips, hand out pamphlets and answer questions as students walked through the rotunda. The videos emulate advice being passed from one friend to another, Breuer

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Snyder has pulled Yale SOM up another rung on the social ladder of business schools.

Yesterday, the Financial Times released its annual list of the top business schools in the world. For the first time in seven years, the Yale School of Management cracked the top ten, confirming Snyder’s reputation for knowing how to work some sort of dark magic with business school rankings.

The secret life of overachievers. Abhimanyu

Former president and wife discuss next steps after California

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER

Miracle worker Edward A.

Boston Pride! Members of the Red Sox, including pitcher Craig Breslow ’02, catcher Ryan Lavarnway ’09 and mascot Wally the Green Monster, stopped by Yale Law School Monday afternoon for a visit, bringing their World Series trophies with them.

The event was set up by team president and CEO Larry Lucchino LAW ’71.

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Gourmet Heaven workers may have been pressured into participating in Friday’s call to end the boycott on the store.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER The story behind Gourmet Heaven employees’ rally to restore the reputation of the store is proving more complicated. Recent allegations from a current employee who said he felt pressured to participate reveal a split in workers’ opinions on the boycott and weekly picket initiated by activists in August.

The employee, who asked to

remain anonymous, said that several of the workers in the rally supported the boycott of Gourmet Heaven started by Unidad Latina en Accion, a labor activist organization, but were pressured into participating in the store’s reimaging campaign. The boycott began in August in response to charges of wage theft from the Department of Labor as well as allegations of the management mistreating workers and firing four former employees in retaliation

Raid uncovers guns, drugs

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Months of undercover work culminated in a full-scale police raid of four New Haven homes on Thursday, removing piles of contraband and arresting 11, according to a New Haven Police Department release.

Early Thursday morning, officers from the NHPD’s patrol division and SWAT team swept through a series of houses in the city’s Hill neighborhood to corral a group suspected of dealing drugs and committing robberies across town. Police teams recovered several types of drugs and firearms from the scene. Nine males and two females, believed to be associated with the “Slut Wave” gang, were subsequently arrested.

“Investigators recovered [a high-power assault weapon] as well as 21 ‘Exhibits’ for court,” an NHPD press release on the raid read. “Evidence found at the home included marijuana, cocaine, ‘crystal methamphetamine,’ a large amount of bottled ‘Codeine’, paraphernalia used for drug weighing, packaging and distribution, cash, at least 13 cell-phones and ammunition for a wide variety of guns including a loaded high-capacity magazine.”

NHPD spokesman David Hartman said that the arrests, which were announced in the department’s most recent CompStat meeting, resulted in over 30 pages of police SEE GANGS PAGE 4

UCS caters to alumni

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER As the season for job and internship searches continues, the Undergraduate Career Services is not open only to undergraduates — alumni are increasingly using the office’s resources, both in person and online.

During her first year on the job, UCS Director Jeanine Dames has prioritized expanding alumni relations. Since the fall, UCS has provided online workshops and other resources to help alumni in all stages of career development. Administrators interviewed said that improving alumni services will remain a focus for UCS in coming years.

“I believe a lot in alumni career relations,” Dames said, adding that she thinks it is important for the University to guide its students even after they graduate.

Dames, who specialized in working with alumni as the director of the Yale Law School Career Development Office prior to leading UCS, said alumni are often more reliant on career services because they lack the resources and nurturing environment that undergraduates enjoy.

She cited deans, faculty and masters as examples of the types of resources students lose upon graduation.

This fall, Elayne Mazzarella, deputy director of UCS and the director of career counseling, became the first UCS specialist for alumni relations. Dames said in November that Mazzarella’s appointment was a testament to UCS’s commitment to its alumni.

Dames said Mazzarella is a valuable asset to alumni because she

has 10 years of experience at UCS and can help Yale College graduates chart a long-term vision for their careers. Mazzarella can serve as a confidential mentor to graduates when they have questions that they would not want to ask employers or their colleagues, Dames added.

“Sometimes you don’t want to tip your hat to your employer or boss, and we can be that safe space where you could reveal a desire to change industries or jobs,” she said.

She added that the entire office was a completely independent resource for graduates, unlike some executive recruiters or employees of search firms, who may have may have motives that do not align with those of the graduate — especially if their compensations are tied to the graduate changing jobs or industries.

You can easily make the mistake [in thinking] that you don’t need UCS after you get a job.

NICK LETIZIO ’13 UCS has dedicated an entire page of its website to Yale College graduates where it lists resources accessible to alumni. This December, UCS posted two online workshops — entitled “Know Yourself When Job Hunting” and “Success During Your First Year on the Job” respectively — that cater specifically to the needs of recent graduates.

Nick Letizio ’13 said the online UCS resources helped him not only to devise a long-term career plan, but also to become a more valuable asset to his employer.

“You can easily make the mistake [in thinking] that you don’t need UCS after you get a job,” he said.

Chris Clarke ’13 said that he hoped the number of online workshops, known as “webinars,” would increase because they were a convenient and flexible way for alumni with demanding schedules to obtain career advice.

Beyond making all of its career advisors and various web resources available to all Yale College graduates, UCS also has a page that lists executive recruiters and search firms that alumni can use during a job search, along with tips on how to engage with recruiting firms.

Starting this year, UCS has also negotiated with external career coaches in six major markets to provide one complementary 20-minute session to each Yale graduate.

Although Dames said UCS advisors are always accessible and are often a graduate’s best first stop in the process, she added that the external career coach often knows more about the graduate’s specific industry or the state of the job market in a specific region.

“The external career coaches are best suited for someone who, for whatever reason, is geographically limited to a specific region and needs to find a job in that area,” Dames said, adding that to the best of her knowledge, this service is unique to SEE UCS ALUMNI PAGE 6

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y heart sank the first time a friend told me, “We’ve all been wondering when you would come out.”

After feeling like I had overcome one of the largest obstacles I have yet faced, it seemed like my decision was being reduced to something trivial — something that was only a matter of time. The only thing I could do was smile and say, “Everyone has his process.”

That line — “We’ve all been wondering when you would come out” — seems benign, but damn did it sting. It was a tacit communication that everyone knew I was struggling. It was a reinforcement of the internal isolation I had felt and hoped was self-induced.

I don’t think I’m alone in encountering this sort of response from fellow students. That attitude, which combines genuine acceptance with flippancy, seems fairly common on our campus. And although it does indicate tolerance and support, it also signals a problem at Yale.

I am a practicing Catholic from Galveston, Texas, and I have every intention of returning to my home state after graduation. This means that I will be denied the same benefits of married couples if I choose to live my life with someone, as no union or marriage between same-sex couples is recognized in Texas. I cannot utilize the resources of my own church to potentially adopt a child and start a family. I can be fired from my job simply for being gay, both in the public and private sectors.

And while this was all weighing on my mind, at Yale my future was apparently reduced to a matter of time, a triviality.

Whereas many college campuses and workplaces, cities and states are trying to make sense of how to accept and integrate individuals that identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual or queer, Yalies have mostly met the challenge with full embrace and acceptance. Even better, this tolerance isn’t a new phenomenon at Yale, known for decades as the “gay Ivy.” But today, while we’ve embraced non-heteronormative lifestyles, we have fallen into a culture that leaves sexual speculation unchecked and not for the better. Too many students are subjected to questions about their sexual orientation from inquisitive peers. Even worse, these questions often fall outside

their range of hearing, in their absence.

I get it. It is fun to guess “who is and who isn’t.” I do it with some regularity myself.

Uncertainty breeds mystery, and who among the Yale population isn’t up for trying to answer a challenging question?

But when the conversation reaches the point at which we are identifying our friends as “gay” or “straight” based on our own perceptions, we force their hands. We deny them the respect they deserve and the autonomy of self-identification. I hate to think of the number of people that remain closeted to avoid the fate of being labeled as a “sophomore surprise.”

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advisory committee to provide recommendations” about her successor. Simply put, there is no reason at least one TYLER BLACKMON undergraduate shouldn’t sit on that comBack to mittee.

Making Blackmon such crucial administrative decisions without any student perspective is dangerous for the future of student life at Yale. In fact, we need look no further than the recent Bluebook controversy to see what happens when Yale makes business decisions without regard to how they will affect students.

The dean of the College acts as the chief spokesperson of the student body in all administrative affairs, and as a result, the decisions she makes will affect students even more directly than those of the president.

And despite her recent bumps, Miller has historically been a staunch advocate of students, pressing Yale to look seriously at its unsafe sexual culture, bringing back an ROTC program only after the fall of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and acting as the last line of

defense on rising college costs.

We simply cannot afford to take the selection of her successor lightly, especially looking ahead to the challenges the next dean will face. Yale currently has a $39 million deficit — a sum higher than any of our peer institutions — putting many programs like the Undergraduate Organizations Committee funding, ISA stipends and financial aid at dire risk. We have been lucky to have Miller in place to safeguard such programs, but there is no guarantee Yale’s governing body, which shamelessly calls itself a Corporation, will have the same priorities as the students it purports to serve.

And, of course, we must remember that the lack of student input is not standard — it’s an anomaly. In choosing its last president, Princeton included two undergraduate students on its selection committee, Brown’s Advisory Committee included three undergraduates and students at Stanford, Duke and Columbia similarly had a voice in their selection processes. Surely in deciding between candidates, the Corporation should first consult the very students the new dean will represent.

Admittedly, our time here as students is ephemeral, and the next dean will almost certainly outlast all of the students cur-

rently enrolled. However, as students, we offer a crucial snapshot of the campus culture that the Corporation should at the very least consider when selecting the administrator who most directly shapes our Yale experience.

Last year, we got beat. If we want to make the Corporation listen this time, every student must push for change.

YCC, start every meeting with the question, “How can we put students on the selection committee?” College councils, talk to your master about why this is important to you. Campus publications, be proactive — don’t accept vague answers from the Yale Corporation about the selection process and demand they give an explanation if they shut us out again.

Last year, the student body fought valiantly to have a voice in choosing the new president, but we eventually gave in to the realization that the Corporation would not recognize the importance of student input. This time, we won’t back down until we have a spot at the table.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on us all.

TYLER BLACKMON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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Farewell, chiefs

KYLE TRAMONTE is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

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ey administrator steps down, students demand input in successor. Yale Corporation refuses.

Sound familiar? That’s because it happened just last academic year, when former Yale President Richard Levin announced his retirement after 20 years in Woodbridge Hall’s most powerful office. Over the fierce protests of students at the time, the Yale Corporation put together a selection committee without a single student as a full voting member, able to speak to the concerns of the nearly 5,400 undergraduates on campus. Their message was clear: We value our students only enough to splash their smiling faces on admissions fliers.

So the Corporation huddled behind closed doors to choose President Salovey, and the next fall, the University expected us all to watch his inauguration parade in awe, sing along with his band and sport celebratory “23” t-shirts — all to rejoice in the coronation of a President we had no part in selecting.

And without a concerted push by students this year, the same scenario threatens to repeat itself.

Following Mary Miller’s announcement she will step down from her post as Dean of Yale College this July, President Salovey announced in an email to all students he will “appoint a single

When we say someone “should just come out already,” we lose sight of our friends and our peers, their hopes, fears and uncertainties in navigating the sexual spectrum. We forget that discrimination and violence, particularly toward transgender citizens, exists domestically and abroad. We forget that our friends’ home communities may not be as accepting as we would like to believe they are.

Lost amid speculation is the individual; that the people in front of us are the products of family and personal hopes and expectations that existed long before we met them; that they will live much of their lives outside of the accepting Yale bubble; that the labels they take on now may entail discomfort and discrimination.

We often toss around the words “gay rights” and “progress.” But while Yale remains an example for society as a whole, we don’t always approach sexuality in a productive way.

What we need in order to further support and embrace our LGBTQ friends is not speculation. What we need is patience — support for friends not only upon exit from the closet but when they are inside and in the dark.

I have faith we can provide it.

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n New Haven, it’s all about the jobs.

Jobs are one of the few things anybody talks about these days: more jobs for minority workers, more jobs for New Haven residents, more jobs for the youth. That’s why the jobs pipeline, “New Haven Works,” was one of the first accomplishments of the 2012-'13 Board of Alders, and why one of the hottest topics of last year’s mayoral race was how to bring more jobs to the Elm City.

Yet for all the talk about jobs, the city’s unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high.

In November, the federal government recorded a 10 percent jobless rate for the city, more than three percentage points higher than the national rate. Those numbers are doubtlessly much worse for the poor, since more and more jobs are being created in New Haven’s new economy of education and biotechnology.

What to do? One answer might be found in local data nonprofit DataHaven’s Community Index, a report documenting the wellbeing of the Greater New Haven metropolitan region. (Full disclosure: I interned at DataHaven this summer and assisted on other sections of the report.)

According to DataHaven, the biggest obstacle to obtain-

ing employment cited by job applicants in Connecticut isn’t a language barrier, lack of education or compliNICK cations arisDEFIESTA ing from child care. Instead, City Limits 84 percent of people who registered for the state jobs program, CTWorks, said they had trouble finding employment because of transportation barriers.

The report offers a few more statistics to explain this phenomenon. In the region, families with children that earn less than $50,000 a year are about 10 times less likely to have access to a vehicle than families making more than that amount annually. Public transportation isn’t helping, either, as the Brookings Institution estimates that only 27 percent of jobs in Greater New Haven are accessible with a 90-minute transit commute; Even within the relatively small city of New Haven, that number only rises to 42 percent.

That’s a lot of numbers, but you might be wondering what it

all means. It’s simple: Any policymaker who is working to fix the city’s job situation cannot ignore the role that poor transportation access plays in exacerbating the dire unemployment plight, particularly for low-income families.

So I applaud Mayor Toni Harp for her statement this month saying as much. Transportation, she said, is a “civil rights issue, it’s an economic development issue, it’s a jobs issue … With better public transportation we can work to ensure a better quality of life for residents, particularly economically vulnerable families and seniors.”

So far, Harp has made good on those intentions. She appointed former Ward 7 Alder Doug Hausladen — who began his political career as a safe streets and cycling activist and heavily supported Harp foe Justin Elicker in last year’s election — to head the city’s Transportation, Traffic and Parking department, a brilliant choice to fill the shoes of former traffic czar Jim Travers. And her statement was in support of federal grant for a streetcar feasibility study brought up at an Economic Development Commission meeting earlier this month by director Matthew Nemerson.

New Haven has been down this path before. In 2011 and

2012, then-alder Elicker led the charge to receive federal funds, bolstered by city money, for the same streetcar study; the idea was shot down by most of the other alders as a waste of money and too focused on the downtown area.

This time, however, things might proceed a little differently. With the mayor’s office and Board largely aligned, perhaps the city will see a more serious consideration of revamping our mass transit, streetcars or no. As Nemerson explained, the feasibility study might not ultimately support the addition of a streetcar, but may instead direct our attention to redrawing bus routes within city limits. Still, the acknowledgement that transportation is integrally tied to jobs, economic development and, yes, civil rights, is a good place to start.

At Yale, we fight for fair wages, fair immigration policies, fair treatment for people of all different identities. It might not be as sexy an issue, but it’s just as important that we fight for fair transportation for all.

NICK DEFIESTA is a senior in Berkeley College and a former city editor for the News. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .

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“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.” SUSAN B. ANTHONY WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE LEADER

“Lean In” arrives at Yale

YCC recommends open data policy

BY NICOLE NG AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS

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Lean In at Yale, a project launched by six undergraduates, will organize weekly discussions on leadership and feminism.

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Inspired by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” and the associated campaign, a group of six Yale students are launching a project called “Lean In at Yale” to empower each other and fellow students.

Starting this week, the project — led

by Caroline Smith ’14, Nancy Xia ’15, Hannia Zia ’16, Anna Sophia Young ’17, Nicole Ng ’17 and Hailey Winston ’17 — will take the form of weekly “circles” in which organizers lead small group discussions in pairs about leadership and feminism. Often, circle discussions will incorporate activities from Sandberg’s Lean In Foundation’s curriculum.

Smith’s motivation to spearhead Lean In at Yale, she said, was her decision to pursue a career in the military — a choice that pushed her to consider questions about her gender.

“Being female has never stopped me from climbing higher than the boys in gym class or running for class councils,” she said. “My goal for Lean In is to dive into new material that will bring me closer to becoming the platoon leader that I dream of becoming.”

Zia, another organizer, said her Pakistani upbringing made her interested in women’s rights. Zia’s internship at Face-

book this past summer gave her a chance to meet Sheryl Sandberg and connect with women at Sandberg’s foundation.

The main goal of the Lean In Foundation — and of Lean In at Yale — is to foster a community of discussion, Zia said, as Yale students are ambitious and should do their best to support each other in achieving goals.

Young said the organizers hope men will attend meetings to educate themselves on how they can help their female peers search for their own voices.

Lean In at Yale’s circle groups will include other members of the Yale community. The organizers have reached out to a small group of faculty members and invited them to attend some circles, and they are looking for speakers to join as well, Young said.

“Circle groups will focus on developing certain skills,” Zia added. “We want more women in leadership positions in the future, and one of the steps is acknowledging what is holding us back and tackling those issues together.”

As the new project takes off, student interest and awareness on campus is growing rapidly.

Amey Mahajan ’17 said he has heard about the project from friends, though he would not personally be interested in attending the weekly meetings. Women at Yale are especially underrepresented

in his science and mathematics classes, he said, and Lean In at Yale seems like an effective approach towards encouraging equal leadership for the future.

Danielle Stamer ’17 has not heard about the circle groups, but said she would possibly be interested in attending.

“It’s great to share ideas and experiences with other women about issues,” she said.

According Brea Baker ’16, women at Yale have already provided plenty of support for other women at Yale. Her suitemate Karleh Wilson ’16 created a Yale Facebook group “Yale Feminists” as a forum for women to share ideas and publicize events.

“I personally have never felt as if I was lacking support,” said Baker, pointing to women in leadership positions at Yale and communities within sororities as examples of encouraging female groups on campus. “There can never be too much support though, and I’m sure many women would appreciate another outlet.”

The Lean In at Yale circle groups will meet weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. Participants choose one of the three sessions to attend each week.

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

“Farm to Fork” eatery coming to Chapel

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Harvest Wine Bar, coming to Chapel Street in July, will source its ingredients from local and organic farms as much as possible.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER In July, a new restaurant will move into the subterranean space on Chapel Street previously occupied by the Italian restaurant Scoozzi.

Harvest Wine Bar, named after a sister restaurant in Greenwich, Conn., will join a group of five restaurants in the state owned by restaurateur Vincente Siguenza and his family. The restaurant will employ a “farm to table” concept according to Siguenza, attempting to source as much of its ingredients from local and organic farms as possible.

For Siguenza, who has been in the restaurant business in Connecticut for over 10 years, using local ingredients makes all the difference in serving fresh food.

“The taste is just day and night,” he said. “You pick a tomato from any store and you pick it from a farm, and the taste is 100 percent different.”

The idea to open the new restaurant was hatched around three months ago, Siguenza said, adding that the process of obtaining the proper permits and rights

since then has been “very simple.”

The Siguenza family opened its first restaurant, called Caza, 10 years ago in New Canaan, Conn. Since then it has opened restaurants in Fairfield, Darien and most recently, a Harvest Wine Bar in Greenwich. The family, which owns a small farm in Easton, Conn., is dedicated to sourcing local produce for their restaurants, according to Siguenza.

The restaurant plans to cater to the fine dining crowd, though Siguenza said he hopes it will especially appeal to the health-conscious segment of the New Haven population.

“The chicken needs to be free range, and the meat needs to be grass-fed,” Siguenza said. “What you put in your body is our main concept.”

He added that the wines they serve will be, whenever possible, organic, biodynamic and sustainably farmed.

Natalya Perlman ’17 said that she doesn’t eat out much, but when she does, she would pay higher prices for food that has been locally sourced.

“Local food is connected to so many things — better treatment of farm work-

ers, engagement of the community, reduction of transportation and energy costs. It’s healthier,” Perlman said.

She added that she feels better eating somewhere when she can support where the money is going.

However, serving local food during winter becomes significantly more difficult, as not as many ingredients are grown in an immediate radius during the cold months.

“Most local cuisine is about the poster ingredient being local rather than the less prominent ingredients like the herbs or the milk,” said Zak Schelssinger ’17, who works on the Yale farm. Schlesinger added that it’s very expensive to source everything locally.

Yet the restaurant will try to carry “99 percent” organic, pesticide-free, and local food — qualities that may not be mutually exclusive — Siguenza said.

Sco oz z i c l ose d i n Oc to b e r 2011 after 24 years of operation.

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

In response to the administration’s recent blocking of course browsing sites like Yale Bluebook Plus and Class Roulette, the Yale College Council recommended Monday that the administration loosen restrictions governing University data and increase transparency concerning Yale’s data policies.

The recommendation for open data regulations was featured in one of three separate reports the YCC released Monday. In addition to arguing for clarified open data regulations, the YCC recommended that Yale College implement academic minors based on the results of a fall 2013 YCC academics survey and also suggested extending the deadline for term papers. Students interviewed were largely enthusiastic about the open data recommendations, which they said had a higher chance of making headway with the administration than either academic minors or postponed paper deadlines.

While the report commended developers Peter Xu ’15 and Harry Yu ’15 for aspiring to innovate and improve the shopping experience, it added that both the developers and administrators made mistakes — the former in violating data protection regulations established by the University, and the latter in unnecessarily shutting down the site.

“While the concerns raised by the administration were justified, we fault administrators for neglecting to communicate with YCC or other students to better understand the impact of their actions before the sudden shutdown,” the report said.

The report suggests that the administration revise its Information Technology Appropriate Use Policy to encourage open data while protecting the University’s copyrights and preventing students from negatively affecting the University. In the event that students violate these regulations, the report advised that planned procedures be followed.

In addition, the report recommends the administration refrain from blocking any nonmalware sites.

YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 said much of the tension between administrators and students stemmed from a lack of transparency and from divergent perspectives on the issue.

Thus, he said, the YCC report also recommends that the University better communicate with developers by appointing an administrative liaison to students, creating a website listing relevant guidelines and outlining which data sets are and are not restricted or prohibited.

“While protecting important University interests, these [revised regulations and new resources] will allow students, to a certain extent, to use the data in a productive way,” Avraham said.

Many students interviewed felt positively about the YCC taking action on open data policy transparency, citing the role of the YCC as a primary liaison between students and the administration.

Minsun Cha ’17 said when Yale Bluebook Plus stopped working on her browser earlier this semester, she did not know why the application had stopped functioning and did not hear until much later that the University had blocked the application because it had violated data regulations.

“It’s necessary for [the YCC] to get involved because we need that communication,” she said.

Though all students interviewed agreed with the YCC’s decision to propose recommendations, students remained divided on whether the University would take any action. Of the 20 students who were interviewed, eight said they thought the YCC’s open data proposal would have an impact, while 10 students disagreed and two were unsure.

Because the Yale Bluebook Plus incident garnered national media attention, some students said they expect the administration will be more receptive to student opinions regarding data. Yet the perceived ineffectiveness of some prior YCC rec-

ommendations led others to be more skeptical, and many said that unless students make a real push for an administrative response, the recommendations are unlikely to have a tangible impact.

Another report released by the YCC in the same email recommended that Yale College establish either academic minors or secondary concentrations. In a fall 2013 academics survey conducted by the YCC, 89 percent of the 1,459 respondents said that they “definitely” or “probably” would have pursued a minor if Yale had offered them.

The report also compared Yale to peer institutions, finding that all except Brown University offer minors or secondary concentrations of some sort. Avraham said many of these universities only recently implemented minor programs, meaning that Yale could most certainly do so in the near future.

“We really see minors as a way to help students structure whatever academic pursuits they have,” Avraham said, adding that Yale is behind its peers in offering its students this opportunity.

Though academic minors have been proposed before — most recently, in an unsuccessful 2010 attempt by the YCC — Avraham said this year’s proposal is more likely to be successful, primarily because the YCC has taken extra steps to understand students’ attitudes toward minors. This year’s report, he said, focuses almost exclusively on student opinions, leaving out arguments that were used in the past, such as the potential for minors to increase enrollment in small departments.

YCC Academics Chair David Lawrence ’15, who supervised the project, said this year’s report is different because of the extensive research that went into it. If minors were to be considered or implemented, he said, the authors could project to Directors of Undergraduate Studies how many students would minor in their respective fields based on current class enrollment numbers.

Still, in December, Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News that she was skeptical of the proposed YCC initiative and believed that minors would become just another credential for ambitious students to acquire.

These [revised regulations and new resources] will allow students … to use data in a productive way.

DANNY AVRAHAM ’15 YCC president The last YCC report released Monday proposed the administration mandate that all term papers be due on the final day of exam period as opposed to during reading period. Avraham said the current rule, which states that all final paper are due on the last day of reading period, harms students who have more papers than exams, especially in light of the shortened reading period.

Because many professors do not follow this rule and allow students to turn in papers during or after exam period, Avraham said students in classes with stricter professors are disadvantaged.

Although 58 percent of students surveyed by the YCC this fall responded that they preferred a later paper deadline, fewer than 13 percent wanted to have papers due during exam period. Lawrence said this is why the YCC is specifically looking to move the deadline to the end of exam period — so that final papers can be treated as equal to exams. No recommendation was made to move it into the middle of exam period.

The open data, minors and term paper deadlines projects were managed by Andrew Grass ’16, Grant Bronsdon ’16 and Vicky Chou ’16, respectively.

Miller did not respond to requests for comment Monday.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@ yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT

CCEs clarify process through video

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The new video made by the current CCEs is intended to make the complex set of regulations that govern the UWC and sexual harassment reporting more accessible to students.

CCE PROJECT FROM PAGE 1 said — so the CCEs wanted their publicity methods to reflect this notion of “sharing” as well, either on Facebook or other social media platforms.

“My hope for these videos is to see them disambiguate what can be an intimidating process,” said Amy Napleton ’14, a freshman counselor who explained the role of “fact finders” in one of the videos. “The more the cam-

pus understands about how sexual assault charges are handled, the more we can … improve campus culture.”

In addition to videos on the UWC process, CCEs released a set of videos that introduce several faculty members involved in the UWC, Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (SHARE) Center, Title IX and Yale police. The videos offer students a sense of who the faculty members are and what roles

they play in the process, Breuer said. Faculty profiled include UWC Chair Michael Della Rocca, SHARE Center Director Carole Goldberg and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler.

Students in the videos were given the script a day prior to filming to rehearse their statements before going in front of the camera, Napleton said. The scripts were written by a group of CCEs to reflect information pertaining to the UWC and were

later adjusted to ensure that the language felt natural, she added.

“Using a style and approach that feels like you are talking to a friend may make it emotionally easier to take in,” Malone-Smolla said.

This project fits into the broader CCE mission of promoting a positive sexual culture on campus through workshops and discussions. Although MaloneSmolla said the videos do not offer an opinion on the current

GHeav boycott divisive GOURMET HEAVEN FROM PAGE 1 Monday morning. “But if we didn’t go to the demonstration, they would suspect our involvement with ULA.” He said that the management has explicitly stated that any worker who was discovered to be in cooperation with the organization would be fired, or given work so tedious that they would wish to quit.

He entered the ULA office at the New Haven People’s Center, where the interview took place, through the back door to avoid detection.

“You never know if they have people watching because they know where this office is.

It could be anyone out there on the street,” he said. “The workers are scared and they don’t tell about what is happening to them.”

He said that his work conditions have not significantly improved since the DOL investigation. While workers are making at least minimum wage, $8.70 an hour, he said some are still being paid either wholly or partially in cash.

Tasks that were once performed by two employees are now performed by one in order to cut down on personnel costs, making the work per hour much heavier than before.

He also said it is hard to know who to trust, as he fears the workers have been “divided and conquered” by the owner.

“Instead of doing what’s right and delivering justice as mandated by the DOL, the owner is dividing workers and causing fear,” said Megan Fountain ’07, a ULA activist.

These statements are in direct contrast to the narrative of Friday’s rally, in which workers wholeheartedly supported

state of Yale’s sexual climate, they offer objective information that can be of use to anyone.

She added that she hopes other schools will see what Yale has done through these videos and apply them to their own campuses.

Napleton said that while the videos may not be the solution to all issues related to sexual misconduct, she believes they are comprehensive and have the potential to start a campus dia-

reports. These reports detail the charges facing those arrested, which include illegal possession of an assault weapon, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to sell and risk of injury to a minor.

Thursday’s raid centered on the operation at 33 Button St., where police made five of the arrests. Officers arrived to find several men hiding in a bedroom, close to an Intratec Tec-9 machine gun.

Workers’ rights activists have picketted outside of the deli’s Broadway location every Friday since August. their employer Chung Cho. “Leave us alone, let us work, we’re not harming anyone,” said Tania Vidales, cashier of two years at the Broadway Street Gourmet Heaven, on Friday. “[These employees] need the jobs. We’re all happy and we don’t complain. We don’t want this boycott.”

In an interview on Friday before the rally, current employees also said that the protestors were being overly aggressive toward customers during the weekly pickets and unfairly accusing the manager of being a criminal for his treatment of the workers. They held signs inviting students into the deli and distributed pamphlets alleging that activists were lying about the wage theft and mistreatment of workers.

The store’s management declined to comment further

on Monday. But activists said they are not planning to give up the cause. A former worker who asked to be identified only by his first name, Julio, said he had joined La Unidad Latina en Accion in their weekly protests after being fired on grounds now under investigation by the Labor Commissioner.

“Our intention is not to close the store,” said Julio, “We want people to know what is going on and to judge for themselves. All we want is for them to treat the workers better.”

Evelyn Nunez ’15, moderator of MEChA de Yale, said students will continue to find ways to publicly demonstrate their support for workers seeking justice, despite the complication.

Julio said he believes only a handful of workers at the rally were actually from the Broad-

way location, and that he would continue to support his former co-workers on the inside.

“I’ll keep demonstrating until the owner starts treating the workers better and until they are paid fair wages,” he said. “Not just at Gourmet Heaven but for the workers of New Haven — this happens everywhere.”

Yale University Properties, which manages the lease of the building in which the store is located, has made a public statement against wage theft on Yale property but has not taken action so far.

Gourmet Heaven has locations in New Haven and in Providence, RI. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale. edu .

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

NHPD arrests eleven GANGS FROM PAGE 1

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logue on the topic.

“It is an evolving process,” Breuer said. “What we say over and over again is that students totally control the culture of their campus.”

The CCEs are an applicationonly group of 40 undergraduates, directed by Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90.

Violence can affect … the health of their families, children and communities.

ANDREW PAPACHRISTOS Professor, Sociology “This high-power assault weapon is banned by name under CT general statute 53-202,” the NHPD release reads. “It may only be possessed by a special license. The transfer of such a weapon also requires a special registration. None of the three within the weapon’s reach possessed such a special license or permit.”

The gun in question was later found to be registered to a 61 year-old New Haven resident who had not reported it to be stolen.

Statute 53-202a bans assaultstyle weapons under the Conn. state law. It names more than 20 specific types of guns, and also sets forth other criteria such as bayonet mounts, telescop-

ing stocks and threaded barrels in its definition of the term “assault weapon.”

Sam Hoover, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said that Connecticut recently pushed for stricter regulation of access to assault weapons like the Tec-9.

Sociology professor Andrew Papachristos added that, though most street crimes are committed with handguns, larger weapons can be found and are capable of significant damage.

The release also shows that two children lived in the Button St. home at the time of the raid.

Because of this, Tramaine Williams, 21, Raymond Melvin, 20, and Martese Allen, 18, received the “risk of injury to a minor” charge.

“The presence of a child does highlight how violence can affect the health not just of those involved in gangs or drug activities, but also the health of their families, children and communities,” Papachristos said.

Papachristos, who researches the prevalence of social networks in street gangs and interpersonal violence, added that the amount of contraband recovered demonstrates that the NHPD was diligent in identifying this group of traffickers.

Williams, who goes by the nickname “Mighty Midget,” was scheduled to fight in a Jan. 25 boxing match at Madison Square Garden in New York, but did not participate after being arrested.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”

ALAN PERLIS AMERICAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST

A100 enters second year

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER Starting this past Saturday, a new cohort of college students in the New Haven area will have additional support planting their foot in Connecticut’s burgeoning startup scene.

Starting with the first cohort in spring 2013, the A100 program provides college students with free training and prepares them for paid internships with local startup companies in the New Haven area. Developed by Independent Software, a company that helps build the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the New Haven area, the A100 program helps teach students skills including front-end web development, prototyping and mobile application development. The program attracts current and recent undergraduates and graduate students majoring in STEM fields. Independent Software hosts most of the training sessions at a co-working space called The Grove located downtown on Chapel Street.

This winter’s cohort officially began training sessions last weekend and will participate in the training series during January and February. Over the course of the next year, through four different cohorts, 100 individuals will participate in the program.

A100 Program Director Krishna Sampath declined to comment on how many people applied and were selected for the program this round. If these students perform

well in the trainings, they will be eligible for a paid internship with a local startup, with the potential to be taken on as full-time software developers after the program finishes.

“We aren’t focused on taking people from 0-60,” Sampath said. “We are focused on getting people from 45-75, and the way we do that is apprenticing these students to a team of working software professionals in the community who are building real projects. Getting to work on those real projects is a much better way to learn the craft of software development than only learning the theory.”

Sampath added that, while universities are interested in educational outcomes, the A100 program focuses on finding a highly qualified staff and ensuring that participants in the program learn the skills necessary to excel as developers at participating companies. As a result, the software development businesses hiring are also involved in the training process. The A100 program has attracted many experienced trainers, including Senior Vice President of Technology at Continuity Control Joel Nimety.

Through the A100 program, participants use the same set of four open-source software programs, known as the LAMP stack, so that each person is using the same baseline language. Sampath said PHP, one of the languages included in the LAMP stack, is one of the most important development languages and is there-

fore the focus of the trainings.

“The program is set up to bring students in all over Connecticut and in the beginning, because we have people from different programs, we try to bring people together and do basic setup work so they have what they need to learn and code with cohort,” Independent Software Founder & CEO Derek Koch said.

Koch added that each week begins with training on Monday, followed by group work from Tuesday through Thursday, and each week ends with demonstrations of the websites or applications that members of the cohort have developed.

Sampath said only one Yale graduate participated in the spring 2013 cohort, and another is participating in this year’s program. He added that his goal is to attract more Yale Computer Science and STEM majors to the program.

Co-director of HackYale Rafi Khan ’15 said he had not heard of A100, but he thinks that this program would not only teach students valuable skills, but also help bridge the gap between the Yale tech community and the New Haven tech community..

A100 will open up applications for the next cohort after this session, Sampath said, adding that the goal is to create four cohorts over the course of the year.

The deadline for the next 2014 cohort is Feb. 15.

Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu

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Levin mulls return

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Richard Levin is relaxed.

The former University President, now more than six months removed from his 20-year stint in Woodbridge Hall and spending time in California, is not sure what he will do next. But it will likely involve a return, in some capacity, to the University he guided for two decades.

“This semester I’m [...] working on a few projects and just trying to decide what the balance of our lives will be,” Levin said in an interview with the News last week. “So I’m not really completely sure what I’ll be doing come July 1.”

During the fall term, Levin and his wife Jane, a senior lecturer in the English department, lived in Palo Alto, Calif. in a rented house down the street from their children. Levin is currently a visiting professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he has delved back into academia, studying U.S.-China relations and online education.

While Levin worked closely with then-provost, now University President Peter Salovey during his term in Woodbridge Hall, both said Levin has fully stepped back from the reins of the University.

Levin said that he receives occasional emails from Salovey about University affairs and has seen the new president at some athletic events — including the recent Yale-Harvard hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “[Levin’s] style is rather low-key with respect to being involved in University-wide affairs, but whenever I have called on him, he has offered wise and constructive counsel,” Salovey said. “I am always happy to receive his help.”

After six months in California, though, the Levins are beginning to ease back into Yale.

Since the beginning of the year, Jane Levin has been back in her natural habitat: a Directed Studies classroom.

Jane Levin, who is teaching a literature course this term for the Directed Studies program, was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the program between 1999 and 2013. In an April interview with the News, she said she plans to resume her position as DUS in fall 2014.

Although she said stepping away from Yale for a term was

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Former University President Richard Levin is serving as a visiting professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and good for the couple, she added that she is glad to be back teaching and interacting with colleagues.

A student in Jane Levin’s class, Altonji Altman ’17, described her as seeming “well-rested” this term.

Meanwhile, the former University president is splitting his time between the two coasts. Levin still maintains his appointment at Stanford and plans to continue conducting research there through the spring semester. Furthermore, with four children and seven grandchildren on the west coast, both Levins said spending ample time in California was their top priority.

In the fall, Levin will likely return to living in New Haven full-time, the first University president to do so since Charles Seymour, who served as University President from 1937 to 1951. But Levin’s future role at the University, for the moment, is likely to be more limited.

Levin said he will probably take on a part-time appointment at Yale. Although he said he is excited by the prospect of teaching and researching, the former chairman of the Economics department said he has not yet decided which University department to spend the majority of his time in.

“My wonderful colleagues in the economics department, the School of Management and the Jackson Institute are all eager for me to come teach there, so I have to decide,” Levin said.

Chair of the economics department Dirk Bergemann said Levin successfully taught both introductory and intermediate courses in microeconomics before becoming president and likely became “an even more polished lecturer during his pres-

idency.” Still, Bergemann said Levin may choose to teach material that is closer to his current interests, such as the economics of higher education, research and innovation as well as globalization. He added that the economics department would be excited to integrate any of Levin’s new courses into its program.

Likewise, economics professor Naomi Lamoreaux said it would be “fun having him interacting with us in seminars and on papers just like he did once upon a time.”

“I don’t know President Levin’s plans with any specificity but the Jackson Institute would be thrilled if he was interested in becoming involved,” Jackson Institute Director Jim Levinsohn said. “His expertise on China, the world economy and economic policy would be most welcomed.”

But any return to the University, Levin said, would not see him take a position in the administration or exert significant influence, even through an informal advisory role.

Special Assistant to the President Penelope Laurans said that it is important for a former University president to give a new president space in order to allow the institution to move forward.

Still, Laurans added, having Levin on campus in any capacity — particularly as a teacher and researcher — would be good for Yale.

“I’m not looking for a role or to have any particular impact,” Levin said. “I had my turn, and it was a long time. I’m just sitting in the cheering section and looking at the next team and hoping for the best.”

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACITIVIST

Alumni turn to UCS resources UCS ALUMNI FROM PAGE 1 Yale’s graduates. The office plans to create more relationships with career coaches in the Midwest, South and Pacific Northwest in the near future, she said.

All seven alumni interviewed said that they were appreciative of the resources UCS provides.

Ari Meyers ’91 said that UCS was invaluable in helping him navigate a career change into the field of Nursing.

Sasha Gordon ’09 said she used UCS to help her make the next step after spending her first two years after college at a thinktank in DC. Although she said that while she was at Yale UCS was often branded as “useless” for students who were not interested in Teach for America, consulting, investment banking, business school, law school or medical school, Gordon said she thinks UCS can be a very positive resource if alumni ask the right questions. She added that her advisor at UCS was very kind and helpful during her job search.

Because many schools’ alumni services are only disclosed on password-protected alumni websites, it is difficult to ascertain how Yale’s services compare to those of its peers. But both Dames and Mazzarella said that the office conducted a peer review this past summer when considering ways it could improve alumni services.

According to Mazzarella, Yale offers a comprehensive and full spectrum of services that matches well with those of its peers.

“Some schools offer individual counseling, others post resources on their website. Some make certain undergraduate resources available to their graduates, but we combine and offer all these services,” she said.

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available to all alumni, some of Yale’s peer schools set specific time limits on alumni career support. Harvard’s alumni only have access to the university’s Office of Career Services for the first five years after their graduation.

According to Harvard’s career services website, “after five years, alumni are entitled to one career consultation per year, either in person, by Skype or phone.” Both Cornell and Dartmouth post online resources for their graduates but do not provide appoint-

ments or consultations with their undergraduate career advisors.

In contrast, Dames said that UCS advisors interact with alumni of all ages, including those nearing retirement who are seeking advice on how to stay active.

Through Symplicity, the new online resource system which replaced eRecruiting in September, Dames said that alumni can now have the same access to job opportunities as current students. Still, alumni will not have access to the proposed page where

students qualitatively answer questions about their prior work experience. Dames said this is because in many cases, alumni are the supervisors of current students during their internships, and the office wants to encourage students to be candid and thorough in their answers.

Stephen Blum ’74, the senior director of strategic initiatives at the Association of Yale Alumni, said UCS is one of AYA’s staunchest allies. Blum said the two groups meet frequently to discuss

further opportunities for collaboration, including new ways in which AYA and UCS can improve alumni services. He cited the AYA’s exploration of ways to build a specific forum for “peer alum to alum” mentorship on Symplicity as one such future goal.

Alison Grubbs ’12 said her experiences with UCS as an alumna made her more likely to give back to the University.

Grubbs, who works in the education and nonprofit industries, said that she is often asked by UCS to

come back and give talks to current undergraduates or guide students who are looking for internships in these fields.

“It’s a nice reciprocal relationship,” Grubbs said, adding that she spoke to UCS in spurts whenever she was thinking of making the next step in her career.

Since it was inaugurated in September, 5,802 alumni have used Symplicity.

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

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” JOHN F. KENNEDY AMERICAN PRESIDENT

Ukraine president ready to scrap anti-protest law

BY JIM HEINTZ AND MARIA DANILOVA ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that set off a wave of clashes between protesters and police over the past week, a potentially substantial concession to the opposition that stopped short of meeting all of its demands.

In a possibly major sticking point, a proposed amnesty for arrested protesters would not be offered unless demonstrators stopped occupying buildings and ended their round-the-clock protests and tent camp on Kiev’s central Independence Square, according to a statement by Justice Minister Elena Lukash on the presidential website.

President Viktor Yanukovych has been under increasing pressure since he pushed the tough laws through parliament, setting of clashes and protests in other parts of the country in a sharp escalation of tensions after weeks of mostly peaceful protests over his rejection of a deal to deepen ties with the 28-nation European Union.

At a meeting between top opposition figures and Yanukovych late Monday “a political decision was made on scrapping the laws of Jan. 16, which aroused much discussion,” Lukash said.

She made no mention of a key opposition demand — that Yanu-

kovych resign.

One of the opposition figures, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, turned down the prime minister’s job, which Yanukovych had offered him on Saturday, the statement said.

Eliminating the laws, which is likely to be done in a special parliament session Tuesday, appears to be a serious step back for the government. The session is also expected to include a discussion of government responsibility in the crisis, suggesting a cabinet reshuffle could be imminent.

It was not immediately clear how the announcement would be received. On Independence Square, there was no immediate reaction from the relatively small crowd gathered in bitter cold near midnight.

A key issue will be the amnesty offer, which could allow for the release of dozens of protesters currently being held in jail in exchange for an end to the demonstrations.

The statement did not say the opposition would agree to those terms. Doing so could infuriate radical factions within the broadbased protest movement, such as the group called Right Sector that has driven much of the recent violence.

Several hours before the statement, Right Sector issued its own demands, which include punishing officials responsible for the deaths and abuse of protesters, disbanding Ukraine’s feared riot

police and locating all missing opposition figures.

Protest leaders say scores of people have gone missing, presumably arrested.

Three protesters died in the clashes last week, two of whom were shot by hunting rifles, which police insist they do not use.

Protesters have been afraid that authorities were preparing to end the spreading demonstrations by force, but the foreign ministry said earlier the government has no immediate plans to declare a state of emergency.

With protesters now willing to risk injury, a state of emergency would be likely to set off substantial fighting on the streets of the capital.

“Today, such a measure is not on the table,” Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara told journalists.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement that she was alarmed by reports about the government considering a state of emergency and warned that such a move “would trigger a further downward spiral for Ukraine which would benefit no one.”

The protesters still occupy three sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including City Hall.

One of the buildings was seized in a spectacular assault early Sunday, when hundreds of protesters threw rocks and firebombs into the building where about 200 police were sheltering. The

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A protester guards the barricades in front of riot police in Kiev, Ukraine on Jan. 27, 2014. crowd eventually formed a corridor through which the police left.

Lukash, in a televised statement, noted that protesters seized the building as justice employees were working on the measures to grant amnesty to protesters.

The fears of a state of emergency come after other official statements suggesting the government is considering forceful moves against the protesters.

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Mexico nabs cartel leader

BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLO AND MARK STEVENSON ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mexico essentially legalized the country’s growing “selfdefense” groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.

The government said it had reached an agreement with vigilante leaders to incorporate the armed civilian groups into old and largely forgotten quasi-military units called the Rural Defense Corps. Vigilante groups estimate their numbers at 20,000 men under arms.

The twin announcements may help the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto find a way out of an embarrassing situation in the western state of Michoacan, where vigilantes began rising up last February against the Knights Templar reign of terror and extortion after police and troops failed to stop the abuses.

“The self-defense forces will become institutionalized, when they are integrated into the Rural Defense Corps,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Police and soldiers already largely tolerate, and in some cases even work with, the vigilantes, many of whom are armed with assault rifles that civilians are not allowed to carry.

Vigilante leaders will have to submit a list of their members to the Defense Department, and the army will apparently oversee the groups, which the government said “will be temporary.” They will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they register them with the army.

The military will give the groups “all

the means necessary for communications, operations and movement,” according to the agreement.

The vigilante leaders, who include farmers, ranchers and some professionals, gathered Monday to discuss the agreement, but it was not yet clear for them what it would imply. It wasn’t known if the army would offer anyone salaries.

Misael Gonzalez, a leader of the selfdefense force in the town of Coalcoman, said leaders had accepted the government proposal. But the nuts-and-bolts “are still not well defined,” he added. “We won’t start working on the mechanisms until tomorrow.”

Vigilante leader Hipolito Mora said the agreement also allows those who qualify to join local police forces. “The majority of us want to get into the police … I never imagined myself dressed as a policeman, but the situation is driving me to put on a uniform.”

Latin America has been bruised by experiences with quasi-military forces, with such tolerated or legally recognized groups being blamed for rights abuses in Guatemala and Colombia in the past.

While the cartel may be on its way out, “there shouldn’t be abuses by those who come after, there shouldn’t be what we would call a witch hunt; there should be reconciliation,” said the Rev. Javier Cortes, part of a team of priests in the Roman Catholic diocese of Apatzingan who have publicly denounced abuses by the Knights Templar.

Before dawn on Monday, soldiers and police arrested one of the cartel’s top leaders, Dionicio Loya Plancarte, alias “El Tio,” or The Uncle.

National Public Safety System secretary Monte Rubido said the feared drug lord

was arrested without a shot being fired. He said federal forces found Loya Plancarte in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, “hiding in a closet” and accompanied only by 16-year-old boy.

The 58-year-old Loya Plancarte had a 30-million peso ($2.25 million) reward on his head from the Mexican government for drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges. He was considered one of the country’s three dozen most-wanted drug lords in the late 2000s.

The Knights Templar ruled many parts of Michoacan with an iron fist, demanding extortion payments from businesses, farmers and workers, but the self-defense groups have gained ground against the cartel in recent months. Federal police and army troops were dispatched to bring peace to the troubled region, but the vigilantes have demanded the arrest of the cartel’s major leaders before they lay down their guns.

Ramon Contreras, an activist in the vigilante movement from the town of La Ruana, which was the first to rise up against the Knights Templar, said the arrest “means a lot” to the vigilantes, but added that they won’t rest until they see all the top bosses arrested.

Contreras voiced a common belief that the man who founded the cartel under the name La Familia Michoacana, Nazario Moreno, alias “El Chayo,” is still alive, despite the government’s statement in 2010 that he had been killed in a shootout with federal forces.

“He’s still alive; there’s proof he’s still alive,” Contreras said.

Loya Plancarte got his nickname, “The Uncle,” because he is believed to be the uncle of another top Knights Templar leader, Enrique Plancarte Solis.

Zakharchenko, an official deeply despised by the protesters, on Saturday warned that demonstrators occupying buildings would be considered extremists and that force would be used against them if necessary. He also claimed demonstrators had seized two policemen and tortured them before letting them go, which the opposition denied.

The protests began in late November when Yanukovych

shelved the EU deal and sought a bailout loan from Russia. The demonstrations grew in size and intensity after police violently dispersed two gatherings. Demonstrators then set up the large tent camp.

After Yanukovych approved the anti-protest laws, demonstrations spread, including to some cities in the Russian-speaking east, the base of Yanukovych’s support.

Report: Spies use smartphone apps

BY RAPHAEL SATTER ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe.

The documents, published Monday by The New York Times, the Guardian, and ProPublica, suggest that the mapping, gaming, and social networking apps which are a common feature of the world’s estimated 1 billion smartphones can feed America’s National Security Agency and Britain’s GCHQ with huge amounts of personal data, including location information and details such as political affiliation or sexual orientation.

The size and scope of the program aren’t publicly known, but the reports suggest that U.S. and British intelligence easily get routine access to data generated by apps such as the Angry Birds game franchise or the Google Maps navigation service.

The joint spying program “effectively means that anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system,” one 2008 document from the British eavesdropping agency is quoted as saying. Another document — a hand-drawn picture of a smirking fairy conjuring up a tottering pile of papers over a table marked “LEAVE TRAFFIC HERE” — suggests that gathering the data doesn’t take much effort.

The NSA did not directly comment on the reports but said in a statement Monday that the communications of those who were not “valid foreign intelligence targets” were not of interest to the spy agency.

“Any implication that NSA’s foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smartphone or social media communications of everyday Americans is not true,” the statement said. “We collect only those communications that we are authorized by law to collect for valid foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes — regardless of the technical means used by the targets.”

GCHQ said it did not comment on intelligence matters, but insisted that all of its activity was “authorized, necessary and proportionate.”

Intelligence agencies’ interest in mobile phones and the networks they run on has been documented in several of Snowden’s previous disclosures, but the focus on apps shows how everyday, innocuous-looking pieces

of software can be turned into instruments of espionage.

Angry Birds, an addictive birds-versus-pigs game which has been downloaded more than 1.7 billion times worldwide, was one of the most eye-catching examples. The Times and ProPublica said a 2012 British intelligence report laid out how to extract Angry Bird users’ information from phones running the Android operating system.

Another document, a 14-pagelong NSA slideshow published to the Web, listed a host of other mobile apps, including those made by social networking giant Facebook, photo sharing site Flickr, and the film-oriented Flixster.

It wasn’t clear precisely what information can be extracted from which apps, but one of the slides gave the example of a user who uploaded a photo using a social media app. Under the words, “Golden Nugget!” it said that the data generated by the app could be examined to determine a phone’s settings, where it connected to, which websites it had visited, which documents it had downloaded, and who its users’ friends were. One of the documents said that apps could even be mined for information about users’ political alignment or sexual orientation.

Google Inc. and Rovio Entertainment Ltd., the maker of Angry Birds, did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the reports.

The Times’ web posting Monday of a censored U.S. document on the smartphone surveillance briefly contained material that appeared to publish the name of an NSA employee. Computer experts said they were able to extract the name of the employee, along with the name of a Middle Eastern terror group the program was targeting and details about the types of computer files the NSA found useful.

Since Snowden began leaking documents in June, his supporters have maintained they have been careful not to disclose any intelligence official’s name or operational details that could compromise ongoing surveillance.

The employee did not return phone or email messages from the AP. Michael Birmingham, a spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence, said the agency requested the Times redact the information. Danielle Rhodes Ha, a Times spokeswoman, attributed the posting to a production error and said the material had been removed.

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SPORTS Panel talks recruits MASTER’S TEA FROM PAGE 12 being a plumber,” Tannenbaum said. “I also don’t know who the best teacher in the country is, but I know they love being a teacher.”

Dawidoff’s insider’s look at the NFL came when he shadowed the Jets while Tennanbaum was the manager. The experience gave rise to questions from Schottenfeld about how to best recruit and motivate players.

All three panelists said that coaches and scouts look to balance character and talent when recruiting.

Tannenbaum also mentioned creating innovative interview questions for prospects in order to get them off the checklist they had prepared for the combine. “What was the most embarssing thing you did?” and “With your house burning down and just enough time to grab one material possession, what would you save?” were just a few such questions the former GM suggested.

In addition to recruiting players, Tannenbaum had to recruit coaches as part of his role as the GM. He walked through his decision-making in hiring Rex Ryan as the head coach for the Jets and compared analyzing the character of coaches to that of players.

Tennanbaum said the team’s management looked at three finalists and had all department heads in the Jets organization call the department members from the finalists’ previous teams to hear what the janitorial staff, equipment staff and video staff had to say about Ryan and his competitors before making the final decision.

Dawidoff and Tannenbaum in particular made a point of addressing the correlation between great coaches and their emotional intelligence.

“You walk into a professional football facility on a Monday morning [after a loss] and it’s like a scene from the Depression,” Dawidoff said. “But what I noticed was the coaches had a new game plan by Wednesday morning and by Sunday they felt optimistic themselves as well as had figured out how to make their players — who had heard a million speeches before — feel optimistic about the upcoming game.”

When the floor was opened up to questions from the crowd, audience members brought up the NFL’s latest safety issue of concussions, the place of analytics in pro football and the panel’s opinion of Richard Sherman’s latest post-game interview.

“As a sports fan it was very interesting to get an insider’s take,” tea attendee Jared Cohen ’16 said. “I thought Tannenbaum had some very interesting anecdotes and some apt strategies about how to motivate and manage people that we can apply to our daily lives.”

Dawidoff’s book was published

by Little, Brown and Company and released on Nov. 19.

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

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS GARY KUBIAK The Baltimore Ravens hired Kubiak to be their new offensive coordinator on Monday. Kubiak had been fired as the head coach of the Houston Texans in December during the middle of a 2–14 season.

He had coached the Texans since 2006, compiling a 61–64 record.

Club basketball goes national

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER As the varsity men’s and women’s basketball teams begin to hit their stride in the midst of a young Ivy League season, another basketball team on campus has made its mark and earned an opportunity to play for a national championship.

Though it may not be quite the caliber of March Madness, the Yale men’s club basketball team will be traveling to North Carolina State University for the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association National Basketball Championship in April.

The club team, which often practices three times a week, earned the berth to Nationals thanks to Yale’s first-ever Regional Championship.

According to forward Chadd Cosse ’17, the Bulldogs are not quite sure what to expect, but plan to make an impact at the National Championship.

“This is all [of] our first times,” Cosse said. “There are going to be a bunch of regional winners there … but I think we can make some noise.”

Competing at Boston University in regional play, Yale secured the title thanks to a 4–1 record and some thrilling championship game theatrics.

Yale avenged its sole loss to Penn State the very next day, when a rematch saw the Bulldogs beat the Nittany Lions. After a six-point victory over the hosting Terriers in the semifinals, Yale concluded its run with a heart-stopping championship victory.

Facing off against Boston College, regulation was not enough time to determine a victor. Neither was a first overtime. Only after a second overtime did the Bulldogs squeak out the historic win, coming out on top by a final tally of 59–56.

The win was not without some

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The Yale men’s club basketball team won its regional championship at Boston University this weekend. additional adversity. Captain Zack Miles ’14, whose stellar play earned him All-Tournament honors, fouled out prior to the end of regulation.

Fortunately, the Bulldogs tout a deep and experienced roster.

“Luckily our depth and well-roundedness on and off the court came through when we needed it most,” center Will Bartlett ’14 said.

Bartlett, who was also recognized as an All-Tournament player, was a member of the varsity squad before chronic headaches due to various head injuries caused him to forge a new path

in his basketball career.

This unexpected path has provided Bartlett and Yale a puncher’s chance at a national title — a chance that point guard Hakeem “The Dream” Harrison ’15 does not plan on wasting.

“We’re going into it with the same mentality that we went into the regional,” Harrison said. “No point going to North Carolina without intentions of winning a championship.”

The club team, which Bartlett described in an email as “A Band of Brothers and a Club of Champions,” does not see itself as just any group of

guys playing pick-up at Payne Whitney.

Nevertheless, when Harrison was asked what would happen if the club squad took on the varsity Bulldogs, he kept his expectations in check.

“They would win by a lot,” Harrison said.

Yale will have a couple of months to prepare for the three-day national tournament, which is scheduled to begin April 11.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

Red Sox show off hardware RED SOX FROM PAGE 12 He called the 2013 season “unique” because the teamwork exemplified by Boston allowed it to rise above many people’s expectations.

“The one thing that stood out to me was how well we came together as a single group,” Breslow said. “I’ve never played on a team that prioritized winning above any individual accomplishment.”

Dick Flavin, former Boston broadcaster and Red Sox poet laureate, emceed the event by performing a poem about Boston’s championship season, namely the beards that the Red Sox sported throughout the postseason.

“They hustled, they bustled, they played hard, they gave,” Flavin said in meter. “In fact, they did everything except shave.”

Former dean of Yale Law School and current law professor Harold Koh then gave a PowerPoint presentation providing “empirical evidence” that Yale had an influence on Boston’s recent

success.

He mentioned Red Sox front office members, radio announcers and players from the past 10 years that have connections to either Yale or the New Haven area.

Koh jokingly took credit for initiating the team’s success with his term as dean and explained the results of the 2013 World Series by saying: “the starting pitcher doesn’t usually go all the way into the game.”

Law professor Michael Wishnie introduced Breslow and Lavarnway by listing their accomplishments in the Major Leagues, including Breslow’s achievement of being called “the smartest man in baseball.”

Red Sox manager John Farrell has even said: “Breslow uses words in a normal conversation that I’m not used to.”

Law professor Dennis Curtis then explained his history of being a Red Sox fan through much of the team’s 86-year championship drought.

“It is not the winning alone that

Bulldogs dive past foes

makes a fan,” Curtis said.

After the ceremony, both Breslow and Lavarnway said that they try to visit Yale as much as possible.

Lavarnway, who joined the “Big Brothers Big Sisters” mentoring program in his sophomore year, visited his little brothers from the program the night before the event.

“We have our favorite sandwich shops that we stop at on the road,” Lavarnway said. “I really love Alpha Delta, and you can’t miss Louie’s Lunch or Pepe’s, obviously. It’s nostalgia food for me, because I remember all of my great memories with my friends when I was in my formative years of college.”

Lavarnway also said that he has been talking with Yale administrators about finishing his degree in philosophy — he left Yale in 2008 before completing it.

Though the baseball season overlaps with both semesters, he said, he may take online classes to finish up his requirement.

“I’m willing to do the work and I want to get that degree, so we’re going

to find a way to make it happen,” he said.

The event was initially open only to members of the Yale Law School community, but other students were allowed to enter after everyone from the law school had filed in.

Current members of the Yale baseball team David McCullough ’17 and Andrew Herrera ’17 said it was inspiring to meet baseball alumni who have had so much success on the big stage.

Herrera said that it was particularly meaningful for him to see Yale baseball alumni return and show their support.

“It’s a pretty amazing event,” Herrera said. “They’re role models to me, so it’s an awesome experience.”

The event was organized by Larry Lucchino LAW ’71, president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, although he was unable to attend.

Breslow and Lavarnway both report to spring training workouts Feb. 17 in Fort Myers, Fla.

Elis strong at PWG SQUASH FROM PAGE 12

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The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both won their meets this past weekend.

SWIMMING FROM PAGE 12 Wildcat swimmer for third. Zhou earned crucial victories in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events, while Chintanaphol won the 200-yard backstroke. Fabian and Hutchinson-Maddox took first and second in the 500-yard freestyle and Sydney Hirschi ’17 won the 100-yard butterfly.

The diving team showed its skills with first, second and third place finishes in the 1-meter dive by Lilybet MacRae ’17, Kelly

Sherman ’16 and Christina Brasco ’14, respectively. MacRae and Sherman also took first and second in the 3-meter dive.

The meet came down to the wire as the final event, the 200-yard freestyle relay, began. The Elis finished in second and third, giving them the points to finish with a final score of 156.5, 13 points ahead of the Wildcats.

Both Bulldog teams will face off against rivals Harvard and Princeton this weekend for Yale’s last home meet of the season.

“We all really come together at competition, and having HYP at home will be an amazing atmosphere to start this period leading to the championship meet,” Hutchinson-Maddox said.

Men’s events start at 6:00 p.m. on Friday at the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool, while the women begin on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 6:00 p.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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

University of Western Ontario 8-1 and the United States Naval Academy 9-0.

After an intense match against Trinity in the middle of last week, the women played four schools ranked lower than their rank of No. 5. A younger, less experienced ladder came forward to play at higher spots during the matches.

“It was great to [see] some different people playing this weekend,” Georgia Blatchford ’16 said.

Blatchford, who usually plays at the ninth spot, played sixth against George Washington on Saturday.

According to Annie Ballaine ’16, the women’s team anticipated the skill level of its opponents and was able to adjust its ladder.

“We switched up the ladder to give younger players more playing time,” Ballaine said.

Anna Harrison ’15 played especially well in her match against St. Lawrence at the seventh position, only giving up one point in three games against her opponent.

Men’s captain Eric Caine ’14 said the highlight of the weekend for his team was the stellar perfor-

mance of the freshmen and sophomores. The men, who hold the No. 3 rank nationally, also played schools ranked below them this weekend.

The closest match was against No. 4 St. Lawrence, whose team was vying for the third spot, but the Yale men were able to validate their rank.

“They excelled in every match,” Caine said. “The freshmen, [Kah Wah Cheong ’17, TJ Dembinski ’17 and Liam McClintock ’17], have been rock solid all season, and the sophomores, [Zach Leman ’16, Sam Fenwick ’16 and Pehlaaj Bajwa ’16], have been as well.”

Freshman and sophomores played at five of the top six spots for the men this weekend.

A number of the Elis said that these recent matches represented the season’s busiest home weekend.

“It was a big weekend,” Amanda Roberts ’16 said. “Yale is generous to host lots of schools in lots of matches.”

Both teams will travel for matches against Ivy League schools this weekend.

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

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 4:00 p.m. “Plates and Earthquakes: Why We Expect a Million Deaths This Century.” This Silliman Memorial Lecture will feature Dan McKenzie, professor of geophysics at the University of Cambridge and a pioneer in the development of the principles of plate tectonics. McKenzie developed a geometrical model for motions of plates and physical models of geological activities in Earth’s interior. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 7:00 p.m. Dwight Hall’s Spring Bazaar for Service and Advocacy. Dwight Hall will be hosting its spring bazaar to promote volunteerism, social consciousness and community development. Dwight Hall is comprised of four networks — Education, Social Justice, International, and Public Health — which together contain over 90 student-led programs. Dwight Hall (67 High St.).

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 12:30 p.m. Artist Talk: Nick Benson. Nick Benson, a stone carver, calligrapher, designer and the 2013 Doran Artist in Residence, will discuss the typographic archetypes in stone, text as texture, and the inspiration he found in the collections.

Benson is a master of hand letter carving, and his inscriptions and decorative reliefs can be seen on family memorials and buildings throughout the United States. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 12:15 p.m. Human Rights Workshop: “Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe.” Terri E. Givens, associate professor at the University of Texas-Austin, will speak at this event sponsored by the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Givens’ academic interests include radical right parties, immigration politics and the politics of race in Europe. She has conducted extensive research in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Austria, and Denmark. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New study may help smokers quit KEN YANAGISAWA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Yale researchers have found that smokers are more likely to quit when given a gain-framed message that focuses on the benefits of stopping than when given a loss-framed message that stresses the risks of continuing.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Yale researchers — including University President Peter Salovey — may have just made quitting cigarettes a little bit easier.

While clinicians have long known to advise patients against smoking, the most effective way to do so has remained unclear.

Researchers of the Yale School of Medicine discovered that most smokers quit after hearing the benefits of smoking cessation, instead of the risks of continuing.

This new knowledge could equip doctors with better tools for helping smokers quit, as well as inform anti-smoking pub-

lic health campaigns, said Benjamin Toll, lead author and program director of the smoking cessation service at Smilow Cancer Hospital.

“The gain-framed message is better to promote smoking cessation,” Toll said. “A gain-framed message is something like, ‘If you quit smoking, you’ll live longer; if you quit smoking, you’ll save money; if you quit smoking you’ll, smell better, breathe easier.’ They are statements that stress the benefits.”

The intellectual inspiration for the study came from prospect theory — a central pillar of behavioral economic theory that describes the way people make choices based on risk and proba-

bilistic outcomes, said Lisa Fucito, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and study coauthor. The theory states that individuals are risk averse when circumstances involve sure gains but risk seeking when circumstances involve sure losses.

The researchers conducted two studies in which they exposed treatment-seeking smokers to different smoking messages. In the first, treatment-seeking subjects took an anti-smoking drug along with video and print messages encouraging smoking cessation that emphasized either the benefits of quitting in the gain condition or the costs of continued smoking in the loss frame.

Those who received gain-

framed messages had higher quit rates than those who received loss-framed messages, Fucito said.

In the second study, conducted through the New York State Smoker’s Quitline, the research team trained 28 counselors to provide callers with either gainframed or loss-framed or counseling based on the previously used standard of care. Gainframed counseling was associated with higher quit rates in this study as well, Toll said.

Fucito said there are many potential reasons why the lossframed messages were less effective at encouraging quitting.

“Loss-framed messages, which emphasize the costs of

continued smoking, can be threatening,” she said. “If smokers do not feel confident in their ability to deal with the threat … then social psychology research evidence suggests that they may avoid the message and therefore, not benefit from the information.

In contrast, gain-framed messages are less threatening.”

Fucito warned the findings might not translate to all smokers. While the subjects in the two studies were heavy smokers dedicated to quitting, Fucito said other studies suggest that individuals who smoke less and may be less dedicated to quitting may not respond to gain-framed messages.

In addition to informing phy-

sician treatment of patients, the studies have public health implications, said Stephanie O’Malley, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and coauthor of the paper. While antismoking campaigns on billboards and television may be effective in discouraging young people from starting, the study suggests that such negatively framed messages may not be ideal for helping longtime smokers quit.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is the cause of about 20 percent of deaths in the United States each year.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Autism and infant attention explored

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Yale researchers may have found a new way to detect autism in infants as young as six months old.

After tracking eye movements of sixmonth-old infants presented with three different types of faces, the investigators discovered that the young children with autistic siblings — who are roughly ten times more likely to develop autism themselves — paid less attention to key facial features than low-risk infants did, but only when the face shown was speaking. While further research is needed to determine the causes of the particular looking patterns, the finding may help doctors diagnose autism before symptoms appear at around two years of age, said Katarzyna Chawarska GRD ’00, a professor in the Child Study Center and study coauthor.

These six-month-olds … aren’t looking at these critically important areas of the face.

FREDERICK SHIC Professor, Child Study Center In the study, which was published in the February issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, infants were shown a static picture of a woman, a video of a woman smiling and a video of a woman smiling while speaking a nursery rhyme. The study’s first discovery — that high-risk infants paid less attention to faces in general than low-risk infants — was not a surprise, as previous research has demonstrated that autistic individuals spend less time looking at faces and social cues, said Frederick Shic, a professor in the Child Study Center and study lead author. What was surprising, he said, was the second discovery that infants who later developed ASD turned away from the inner-face features of speak-

ing faces only. These infants focused instead on outer features, which may be indicative of their risk for developing ASD, Shic said.

“The inner areas of the face contain important facts about a person’s identity, emotions and cognitive state,” he said.

“These six-month-old infants, if not looking at these inner areas, aren’t looking at these critically important areas of the face.”

The challenge now is for researchers to determine why speech was the only condition that increased high-risk infants’ attention to outer features. There are two possible explanations, Shic said: first, that the woman’s speech was causing the infants to not want to look at the inner features, or secondly, that the speech was causing infants to become confused about where to place their attention.

Of the two, Shic said that the second is more likely. High-risk infants might suffer from a sort of “attentional confusion,” he said, as children with autism do not always seem to be able to process simultaneous speech and visual tasks as efficiently as normally developing children.

While these findings look promising for helping to diagnose autism, Shic said, the study must be replicated with a larger sample size before the clinical advances become apparent. At 122 infants, the sample size for this experiment was small, and the technology utilized to track infants’ attention may not be feasible for widespread use, said Suzanne Macari, a research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center and study coauthor.

“We’ve been finding these atypicalities using very sensitive eye-tracking instruments,” Macari said. “Even really great clinicians are not able to pick up these differences when interacting with infants. So in terms of reaching application, I’m not sure if we’re there yet.”

About one in 88 children are affected by ASD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: ERIC LAWSON The rugged Marlboro Man cowboy, one of the most iconic figures in advertising and popular culture of the 1970s, died on Jan. 10 from a smoking-related disease. Lawson smoked up to three packs of Marlboros a day until he joined the anti-cigarette campaign in the 90s.

Researchers probe overeating, dopamine receptors

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER A new Yale study suggests that a certain type of neuron in the front of the brain might be to blame for the popularity of National Chocolate Cake Day, which was celebrated across the country on Monday.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine demonstrated that stimulating a class of dopaminereceptor neurons in mice causes them to eat more, while the mice ate less after the neurons were inhibited.

While the finding holds potential for development of obesity treatments in the future, it should more immediately inform basic neuroscientific research, said Benjamin Land, study lead author and postdoctoral associate in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. The study was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on Jan. 19.

When you identify these new pathways, it gives you new ways to potentially intervene.

MARINA PICCIOTTO Professor of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine “We were interested in how the prefrontal cortex controls food intake,” Land said. “Nobody has ever really shown that before and there are no published studies on it.”

Though previous studies have suggested that the prefrontal cortex and other executive function regions of the brain play a role in regulating feeding, this study is the first to elucidate the precise circuitry. The study also showed that dopamine receptor neurons — a class that expresses the D1 family of receptors — are involved in a dopamine-signaling circuit that includes the amygdala, one of the brain’s most primitive regions.

According to Ronald Duman, professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine who was

not involved in the study, past research has suggested that the amygdala is involved in eating, but it was not clear from those studies that this region was so closely linked to neurons in the prefrontal cortex. While eating behavior is typically associated with lower-level brain regions, the finding connected this behavior to the dopamine receptor neurons in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for higher-order functions like decision-making, Duman said.

For Duman, though there is still more information needed to understand the neurobiology of eating, this study lays groundwork for researching overeating disorders. By further understanding specific circuits and brain regions, Duman said scientists are getting closer to developing strategies to control such diseases.

“Eating disorders are clearly having a major impact on society and culture and this kind of work helps us to understand what controls normal and abnormal eating behavior,” he said.

Ivan de Araujo, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine not involved with the study, said he agreed that the study may lead to treatments for eating disorders such as obesity, adding that the study adds the prefrontal cortex as a new target for researchers investigating the neurobiology of obesity.

For Marina Picciotto, a professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine not involved in the study, the study enriches both the academic and clinical understanding of overeating.

“Understanding the neurobiology is important because it tells you how the brain is organized to take care of complex behaviors, in this case food seeking and working for food,” she said. “But in terms of therapeutics, when you identify these new pathways, it gives you new ways to potentially intervene.”

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one third of U.S. adults are obese.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu.

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Of Mice & McDonald’s

BY BEN FAIT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale professor of neurobiology Tamas Horvath recently coauthored a paper examining the neurological link between the diet of mice during pregnancy and the tendency of their offspring to become obese. The study, which was published on Jan. 23 in the journal Cell, may help researchers develop novel ways to fight the obesity epidemic. The News sat down with Horvath to discuss maternal health, obesity, and how culture can change our brains.

I think this research suggests that it is very important to make sure you have proper nutrition.

TAMAS HORVATH Professor of neurobiology exactly did you discover QWhat in your research?

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We were interested in understanding how nutrition during pregnancy affects the development of the offspring’s brain and behavior in the long run. We exposed female mice to high-fat diets, and we found that those pups coming from the obese mothers were heavier. So our question was, what part of the development is affected by this change in feeding patterns?

We started to expose these mothers at different parts of pregnancy or post pregnancy to a high-fat diet, and found that the most important part of the interaction between the mother and the pup was during lactation. So if you gave a high fat diet to these mothers only during lactation, these pups became equally obese and diabetic [compared to] if the mother consumed a high-fat diet

all the way through the pregnancy and lactation — that is the critical period. You don’t need to be necessarily obese — just eating this same type of food during this time could program the pup’s brain in a way that develops these maladaptations in metabolism.

The period that we identified in mice — lactation — is occurring during the third trimester in humans, so if we want to apply the knowledge we learned from the mice to humans, then you would focus on [the third trimester], not necessarily the postpartum. is our high-fat culture QSoactually changing the way babies’ brains develop?

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Correct. And this is a transgenerational impact that does not require genetics, or epigenetics, which is another popular way of describing these processes. It was kind of known and was well-established that obesity has a major genetic component — in fact a very high genetic component. Of course, not to the level of something like height, but we get some sort of connection. Nevertheless, genetics could not explain the obesity epidemic that supposedly had been emerging since the 60s. Because genetic material is the same, there must be some other pressures from the environment, or ways that propagate these obesity epidemics. This mechanism that we describe is potentially one that could explain how this is, because if you are obese you have a high fat or inappropriate diet during pregnancy, and you will deliver a child that will have a chance of developing metabolic disorders. And so these children eventually become mothers, and they create a child, and they are exposing this child again to an environment that will deliver the same outcome that they were exposed to by their mothers. If you can interfere in these future generations — or not interfere

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Neurobiology professor Tamas Horvath’s research has explored the link between the diet of mice during pregnancy and the size of their offspring.

— somehow alter how mothers in general will be consuming food, you could perhaps reverse that epidemic, because the next generation will be healthier, and the generation after that. For us, in a way, the message from this kind of research is that you can develop methods to interfere with or reverse the epidemic.

tions — how strong the connections, what type of connections are emerging. That we believe will be the key to these changes we found. you think research has QDo revealed maternal behavior to

be more important to the health of the child than previously thought?

circuitry also takes a pivotal role during the same period of development in shaping other parts of the brain, not related to metabolism, but related to complex behaviors. You should anticipate the impacts of maternal diet that alters hypothalamic function could have impact on complex behaviors as well.

ficult to tell. But clearly it suggests that if you have metabolic problems, and you are pregnant, then you should be paying even more attention to what you eat in order for you to maximize the health of your child. are your future direcQWhat tions for research?

exactly are the mice’s — no question. I What would you say prospecI think it’s very important QHow think that maternal behav- Qtive mothers should be eating Athat these observations are brains changing?

ADefinitely

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We connected how the brain communicates to tissues in the pancreas. The components of the brain that eventually lead to the alteration of the function of the beta cells of the pancreas, that are responsible for the insulin response to glucose, are changing under these condi-

ior and in general maternal exposure to environment plays a very important role in determining how predisposed one is to later challenges in health and life. We did a paper last year which shows the same circuitry that is being affected by maternal [behavior] and seemingly causing this metabolic impairment — that same

during pregnancy?

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Well, I think it is difficult to project long-term suggestions to people, but definitely I think that this research and other research suggests that it is very important to make sure that you have proper nutrition. Whatever [proper nutrition] means, it’s dif-

confirmed for a human condition, [expanding] to other types of behaviors, [and] other types of tissue functions — how these early exposures to as diets could impact the general health, aging, and longevity.

Contact BEN FAIT at benjamin.fait@yale.edu .

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much relief he might need.

That was the night that Buchholz threw a no-hitter in his second Major League start ever. He did not need any relief, let alone help from Breslow.

“After the game I was sent back to the minor leagues, earning the distinction as the only Major League player to ever receive a September call-down,” Breslow said.

Breslow also talked about his experience playing for a Red Sox team that won the World Series after finishing last in the AL East the year before.

Last night at 7:30 p.m., Master of Davenport College Richard Schottenfeld introduced a Master’s Tea featuring Yale Head Football Coach Tony Reno, former NY Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum and Nicholas Dawidoff, author of “Collision Low Crossers,” an inside look at the world of NFL football. Reno, Tannenbaum and Dawidoff discussed the intersections of success in life and success on the gridiron, citing emotional intelligence and passion as keys to achievement. The panelists also touched on their backgrounds and some of the intricacies behind the scenes of both college and professional football.

Right from the start and throughout the panel, Tannenbaum made it clear that his passion is what led him to his position with the Jets.

Dawidoff immediately echoed Tannenbaum’s sentiments, citing his decision to forgo graduate school to pursue his dream of being a writer. Reno mentioned that after playing sports all his life, he chose to coach college football when he was nearing the end of college and unsure of what to pursue.

“I don’t know who the best plumber in the country is, but I know they love

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Pitcher Craig Breslow ’02 and catcher Ryan Lavarnway ’09 of the Boston Red Sox visited Yale on Monday.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Just a few months after helping the Red Sox win the 2013 World Series, pitcher Craig Breslow ’02 and catcher Ryan Lavarnway ’09 made a special trip to New Haven to let the Yale community know they have not forgotten their roots.

The two former Bulldogs and current professional ballplayers visited the Yale Law School yesterday, bringing along with them the World Series trophies from 2004, 2007 and 2013, as part of a small “World Series rally” ceremony.

“I have nothing but great memories

here,” Lavarnway said during the ceremony. “Walking around school, I’ve been eating at all my favorite places and have nostalgia going in my mind like crazy. It’s been great to see familiar faces.”

A few members of the Yale Law School community spoke in support of “Red Sox Nation” before turning the microphone over to Lavarnway and Breslow, the first Yale alumni to be teammates in the MLB since 1949 and the first all-Yale battery in the league since 1883.

Both players thanked Yale for the opportunity to come back to the school.

Breslow had attended a similar event in

2008, after the Sox’s previous championship, because he had been playing in the Red Sox farm system during their victory that year.

He said he felt “more comfortable” being a part of the event this year because he was able to contribute more to the team — a 5–2 record as a relief pitcher with 33 strikeouts and a 1.81 ERA. Breslow told the story of his first appearance on the Red Sox’s roster in 2007. He was called up to the team’s 40-man roster Sept. 1 because thenrookie Clay Buchholz was scheduled to start, and the team did not know how

Squash dominates

Swimming extends streak

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER 2014 has been a good year for Yale swimming. Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams added to their undefeated 2014 portion of the season with victories this past weekend, earning wins in New Jersey and New Hampshire, respectively.

SWIMMING The men defeated the Fordham Rams 205–93 and the Rider Broncs 209–90, while the women had a close victory over the University of New Hampshire Wildcats, winning 156.5–143.5.

“It felt great, especially since our team seems to be getting faster and faster towards the end of the season,” Nick Sehlinger ’17 said.

That speed certainly helped the men in their blowout victories. They had a winning streak to uphold as they headed into this meet, so they got things off to a quick start. The male divers racked up the points with victories from Tyler Pramer ’14 in the 1- and 3-meter dives. James McNelis ’16 also placed in both events, along with Anthony Mercadante ’17, who took third in the 3-meter dive.

The individual events started with Brian Hogan ’16 winning the 1000-yard freestyle, but the juniors were the ones to focus on during this meet. Andrew Heymann ’15 started things off with a win in the 200-yard freestyle. Mike Lazris ’15

won the 100-yard backstroke, while Rob Harder ’15 took first place in the 200yard backstroke. Ronald Tsui ’15 pulled out two wins in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events, and Alwin Firmansyah ’15 won the 200-yard butterfly. Both the 200-yard medley relay team and the 400-yard freestyle relay team won their events.

The women’s team had a back-andforth meet against the Wildcats, with the contest coming down to the last few points. The University of New Hampshire was undefeated going into the meet, adding pressure to the Bulldogs’ lineup.

“We were all super broken down and we faced this meet as a challenge to overcome and to make our team stronger,” Isla Hutchinson-Maddox ’17 said. “We know we have endurance and we can fight through any meet,” said HutchinsonMaddox ’17.

New Hampshire won the first event, the 400-yard medley relay, while the Bulldogs came in second. Eva Fabian ’16 pulled out a victory in the 100-yard freestyle, and Kina Zhou ’17 won the 200yard freestyle to start the individual events.

The Wildcats took the next two events, the 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard breaststroke, finishing just ahead of Yale swimmers Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 and Ali Stephens-Pickeral ’16, respectively.

Hutchinson-Maddox took second in the 200-yard butterfly, while Fabian tied a SEE SWIMMING PAGE 8

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The women’s squash team swept No. 12 George Washington and No. 17 Middlebury this weekend.

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the men’s and women’s squash teams collectively hosted six schools in Payne Whitney Gymnasium’s Brady Squash Center for a series of three matches for the

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men and four for the women.

SQUASH The Yale women swept Stanford and St. Lawrence in two 9-0 victories on Friday afternoon. On Saturday, the women’s team went on to

win 9-0 against George Washington and Middlebury.

The men were also successful, winning all three of their matches.

Though the win against St. Lawrence was a close 5-4, the team defeated the SEE SQUASH PAGE 8

MILE TIME RUN BY JAMES SHIRVELL ’14 AT THE TERRIER INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND. The time is good for the fastest mile in Yale history, and Shirvell finished in third at the meet.