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Yale censorship controversy resurfaces

City looks to preserve Anchor building

BY JED FINLEY AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS

tion is a good example of the relationship that Yale has with the city.

Zucker told the New Haven Independent Tuesday evening that the University will refrain from removing the iconic Anchor sign for the time being.

“Yale was running its businesses the way it always does — effi-

After last week’s terror attack against the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Yale students, faculty and experts have revisited Yale University Press’ controversial 2009 decision to censor images of the Prophet Muhammad.

In 2009, Yale University Press faced criticism for its decision to redact images of the Prophet Muhammad — including a controversial 2005 Danish cartoon and other historical depictions of the figure — from Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen’s book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World.” The University defended the decision at the time, arguing that it had consulted with two dozen authorities that unanimously advised against the publication of the images. However, in light of last week’s attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Yale faculty, students and experts have raised new criticism of Yale University Press’s 2009 decision and urged the University to modify its stance for the future.

“If the major educational institutions of the Western world cannot summon the courage to defend freedom of speech, who is going to do that?” said Executive Director

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Prepare for battle. Tonight,

Bridgewater — perhaps the most gladiatorial company to grace campus during this wonderful time of year — comes to town. See you at the Miya’s social at 8:30. Be there or be no one at all.

The nature of Genius. Genius,

formerly RapGenius, recently stole former New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones to be its new executive editor.

The move shows continued commitment to the musical roots of the site, which was founded by a trio of Yalies.

Props for not selling out.

Getting ready. Hillary Clinton

LAW ’73 is turning up the heat on her plans to run for president in 2016. The Democratic hopeful hired a chief campaign strategist and a media adviser yesterday in a move that some hope will lead to Clinton’s reclamation of the White House for Yale.

Call to the show. Meanwhile,

the guy currently in the White House named professor of law Tracey Meares to his new Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Nice to know that New Haven’s voice will contribute in a major way to the national conversation on law enforcement.

Go. As the global oil market

continues to freefall, several gas stations across the state have begun marking pergallon prices below $2. Good news for the five people on campus with a car.

Pass the torch. A Wednesday editorial in The Hartford Courant detailed some potential in-state benefits of having the 2024 Olympics in Boston like sailing, equestrian and cycling competition sites in Connecticut. Still, we’d be long-gone from campus by then, so don’t get too excited.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1987 After failing to make tuition payments on time, more than 600 students are placed on hold by Bursar’s Office. The penalty prevents them from accessing grades from the previous term and eating in dining halls beyond Sunday dinners and Monday breakfasts.

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Not again. CourseTable shut down yesterday, except, this time, the administration kept its hands clean — shortly after the site’s domain expired, co-founder Peter Xu ’14 temporarily directed students to a version dubbed “CTYalePlus.” CourseTable was quickly restored, however, which is a good thing because we’re starting to lose track of all the name changes. Shop on.

Walrus hunt. Morse held a Master Search Forum in its college common room last night to move forward with the search for Master Amy Hungerford’s replacement.

Bonus if her successor can also teach “American Novel.”

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The Anchor bar and restaurant recently closed after failing to pay its rent, according to University Properties.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER The building that housed the recently closed Anchor Bar and Restaurant may have a chance for survival.

Mayor Toni Harp’s administration approached Yale University Properties on Tuesday afternoon asking for a 90-day stay on a demo-

lition permit on the property’s original facade. City Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said he also appealed to Associate Vice President of University Properties and Director for New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker for the opportunity to search for an owner for the business to keep the Anchor bar open. He said the positive nature of the conversa-

Alders raise Esserman concerns at closed door meeting

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Around a dozen members of the public lingered outside closed doors of the Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday evening, while inside alders raised concerns about New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman’s conduct at the Yale-Army football game last September.

Alders attended the meeting to follow up on Ward 7 Alder Abigail Roth’s Dec. 22 letter to Mayor Toni Harp and Police Commissioners’ Chair Tony Dawson. The letter, which was signed by seven alders including Roth, took issue with what they called Esserman’s “disrespectful behavior” at the Yale Bowl and attributed it to

a “broader pattern of arrogant behavior.” Dan Weinberger, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, reported in a Dec. 11 letter to the Board of Alders that Esserman “harshly and loudly yell[ed]” at an usher when the chief was asked to present his ticket, threatening to “‘shut the whole game down.’”

“We want to make sure this issue is looked at by the people that have more power than we do,” Roth said. “This is behavior that should not be tolerated in the future.”

Roth said that, though the alders did not have jurisdiction over the chief, the concerned alders sought to pass SEE ESSERMAN PAGE 6

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NHPD Chief Esserman met with the Board of Alders on Tuesday to address concerns about his behavior, .

Group therapy grows at Yale Health

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER More Yalies are using group therapy as a mental health resource.

Group therapies are typically organized around a central focus, such as addiction or bereavement and are led by a therapist who facilitates conversation on a weekly basis. Over the past five years, the number of therapy groups have increased from three to 10.

“Group therapies have been available for as long as I can remember — decades,” said Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin. “But utilization has increased greatly in the last couple of years.”

Individual therapy sessions are capped at 12 sessions per year for students covered

by Yale’s basic health plan, but a full semester of group therapy is free for students with insurance. However, Catherine Roberts, a

psychiatrist at Yale Health who leads the group therapy treatment program, does not believe that the limit on individual therapy is driving people to the groups. Instead, she thinks the social component of group therapy is attractive to potential participants.

“It’s not uncommon for students to feel ‘alone’ with their struggles,” Roberts said in an email, noting that the ability to listen and respond to the concerns of other students in a group helps them to gain insights about their own difficulties. “This type of interaction is not possible in individual therapy.”

Both Genecin and Roberts acknowledged students often initially view group therapies with skepticism, but after trying the sessions out, they realize they like them.

An undergraduate student who has been receiving therapy and drug-based treatSEE GROUP THERAPY PAGE 6

Alleged murderer requests Yale’s files

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER The man accused of a 2010 homicide filed a legal motion last month that would require Yale to release the records of the victim, who previously worked for the University. Yale is opposing the motion.

Lishan Wang, the accused murderer of former Yale-New Haven postgraduate fellow Vajinder Toor, subpoenaed the University for the “personnel, disciplinary and human resources records,” of the deceased. On Jan. 2, Patrick Noonan, an attorney for Yale, went to the New Haven Superior Court to reject the motion.

Wang was charged in 2010 for

murder, attempt to commit murder, carrying a pistol without a permit and illegal possession of a weapon in a vehicle.

“Yale believes the deceased’s records are both irrelevant to the case and that their confidentiality is protected by law,” University Press Secretary Tom Conroy said in a Tuesday statement to the News.

Wang allegedly shot and killed Toor and shot at Toor’s pregnant wife at the couple’s home in Branford, Conn. on April 26, 2010. Five years later, the case has still not gone to trial, and Wang is being held on $900,000 bail.

Wang and Toor knew each SEE HOMICIDE PAGE 6

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Resolving not to plan I

’ve always loved New Year’s resolutions — like many Yale students, I’m nothing if not goal-oriented. The feeling of a fresh start, an opportunity to explicitly state your hopes, your goals and a natural juncture to reset has always excited me. And invariably my resolutions are the same.

Sometimes, I’ll throw in an utterly random one (in 2009, I decided to stop using a bookmark), more for entertainment or as a test of will power than for any profound selfimprovement reasons. But for the most part, each January sees me and many others making the same promises. We’ll go the gym, we say (I went to Payne Whitney on Monday and have quite literally never seen more people there). We’ll be kinder to ourselves and choose to sleep at a sane hour, we say. We’ll call our mothers more often.

Moreover, many people at Yale make resolutions governing their academic hopes.

We buy the new glossy planner; we budget in time to work ahead on assignments; we meet frenetically with professors and make spreadsheets for summer jobs.

But one resolution that I don’t think I’ve ever made is to be more spontaneous. In essence, to resolve to do less, because that kind of resolution is almost inherently contradictory. You can’t structure spontaneity. But in practice, it just means we need to leave time in our lives that’s unplanned and unscheduled.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: In many ways, I think we find it easier, and certainly more comforting, to micromanage every moment of our time. We fill our days in ways that are productive, educational, exhausting, frustrating — any range of emotions, truly. But without a doubt we consciously fill our time. And I’ve found myself on many an occasion having to actively schedule time in my calendar for meals or coffee with friends. Without such planning, I could go weeks without seeing them.

ONE RESOLUTION THAT I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER MADE IS TO BE SPONTANEOUS As I start my last semester at Yale (cue nostalgia), I’m resolving to turn my back on this reliance on organization.

With all of my distributional and major requirements other

than my thesis c o m p l e te d , t h i s se m e s ter is a golden opport u n i t y.

A n d VICTORIA hile HALL-PALERM w 2 0 1 4 a n d Notorious VHP 2 0 1 3 Victoria would have seen it as a golden opportunity to cram my schedule with the five most “important” Yale classes, or to embark on a new slew of extracurriculars or throw myself into a job hunt, I’m trying to resist all of those temptations.

2015 Victoria will have a weekly schedule that is full of immense, terrifying voids.

And those voids could either be filled by hours of Netflix, or they could be filled by adventures that not even the most meticulous planner could foresee. Maybe I’ll finally make it to East Rock, or to the Pantry. Or maybe I’ll take to day drinking at Rudy’s with similarly unencumbered friends. But most likely, if I let myself warm to the possibility of embracing spontaneous outcomes, they’ll be filled with unknown excursions.

Maybe it’s that I’m getting old and wistful, but something tells me I won't graduate from Yale seriously regretting not taking yet another seminar on income inequality.

But I’ll definitely regret closing myself off to basking in the last fleeting moments I have with the people around me.

We only get to be here for so much longer, and sometimes I feel that my life has been so choreographed that I haven’t left any room for unexpected additions.

On nights when I could realistically have curled up on a couch and watched a movie with my suitemates, we all kept our noses to the ground in Bass. And some of that (probably a lot of that, to be real) will always be necessary. But with four months on the clock, I think my priorities have to be a little different — a healthy sleep cycle can, and should, occasionally be subordinated to a night of whimsy.

And so this year, I resolve (in print, so that everyone needs to hold me to it) to leave room for anything that comes my way. Structure, anxiety and duties will be here forever. But for now, I’m seeing every open space in my Gcal as an opportunity for the taking.

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No freedom without courage

verything looked almost perfectly normal that Wednesday in Paris. People were chatting here and there, busy with their usual activities.

Yet, as I walked home, a strange atmosphere overwhelmed what seemed to be a divided city, as though some were aware of something terrible and others were completely oblivious.

When I saw my mother in front of my building, almost too distracted to recognize me, I soon realized that something monumental had occurred. I looked at her and finally asked what was wrong. Two masked men had attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo and, in less than five minutes, killed the newspaper’s bedrock, including cartoonists and writers Wolinski, Charb and Cabu. This bloodshed was followed by the screams of the two assailants: “Allahu Akbar,” then, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad.”

After providing this brief explanation, my mother left the building, leaving me as unsettled as she was when I first saw her.

This was how I first heard about the terrorist attack at the newspaper’s office.

Charlie Hebdo, the Prophet Muhammad — those things were obviously related but I couldn’t figure out exactly how. It then all came back to me. Charlie Hebdo was a satirical left-wing newspaper which had published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and other religious figures

(including Catholics, Jews and Muslims).

Cherif and Said Kouachi, the men responsible for this terrible massacre, were French orphans, recently enrolled in Yemen’s jihadist camps. Last Wednesday, they attempted to destroy freedom of expression by killing 10 and injuring eight members of Charlie Hebdo, before killing two policemen. Those crimes were unfortunately only the first in a series of attacks.

I WAS AMAZED

BY THE UNPRECEDENTED MOBILIZATION IN THE STREETS On Thursday, another shooting took place in Montrouge, a Parisian suburb. Clarissa Jean Philippe, a young police intern, was killed by Amedy Coulibaly, a member of the extremist Islamic rebel group ISIS. He called BFM TV at 7:20 p.m. that same night to declare he was working along with the terrorists targeting Charlie Hebdo: “Eux Charlie Hebdo, moi les policiers,” (“Them, Charlie Hebdo, me, the policemen”). On Friday, Coulibaly held 17 people hostage at

a Parisian kosher grocery store after killing four men (Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham and Francois Michel Saada).

Paris became a city of mourning and fear for those three days.

The slogan “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) spread quickly as a symbol of support for the victims. The events were extremely important as they represented a threefold attack: one against freedom of expression, one against the Jewish population and a third against the police.

The scale of these killings makes it the most serious attack in France since 1961.

Following the attacks, President Francois Hollande, along with Prime Minister Manuel Valls, called for a march to defend freedom and fight against terrorism. Marches were held in Paris and the provinces. I left the same day the incredible marches took place and therefore watched them from my computer in New Haven on Sunday night.

Two things were particularly striking about this protest. First, in Paris’s march, 44 foreign leaders held hands in solidarity with the victims. This demonstrated the extent of international support, and included both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority. Second, I was amazed by the unprecedented mobilization of the French people in the streets.

More than 1.5 million marched

in Paris, and 2.7 million marched in the provinces. In some cities, such as Lyon, 25 percent of the population took to the streets.

This was, without a doubt, the largest coordinated protest France has ever known.

The smiles and calm force of the protestors were an inspiration. People of all backgrounds and ages gathered together for the march. It was a victory of unity, in which protestors overcame hatred and anger. The march was indeed not a targeted protest against the people who committed the massacres in cold blood, but rather an expression of universal democratic values: liberty of expression, equality and fraternity. It will now remain important to keep those values alive when facing terrorism.

A slogan my father saw flying on the Republic Square perfectly captured the spirit of those three horrible days followed by the beautiful march: “Pas de liberté sans courage,” (“No freedom without courage”).

The French mobilization was courageous, but we must not forget the necessity of international mobilization moving forward.

Indeed, last week Boko Haram militants destroyed several villages in Nigeria, killing more than 2000. The faith and democratic values demonstrated in France need to be embraced universally.

CORDELIA DE BROSSES is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact her at cordelia.debrosses@yale.edu .

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ings.”

Salovey's prescient message

ree speech had a bad winter recess. Its setbacks ranged from the troubling harassment of Brandeis University student Daniel Mael to the murderous attack on the Charlie Hebdo humor magazine in Paris by Islamist extremists.

A hallmark of virtually every evil society is the suppression of speech because, as thinkers as diverse as former Justice Hugo Black and ex-Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky have remarked, tyranny is premised on lies. Where speech is free, truths can abide.

President Salovey welcomed my class to Yale with a speech that in a better time would have been banal. He explained even while “unfettered free expression is so essential on a university campus” that “we should not offend merely to offend.” He decried explicit speech codes on campuses, and suggested “free speech must be protected even when social norms are compromised by the speaker.” Salovey’s suggested salvo to students offended by others’ speech was their own speech.

Administrators and students at Brandeis, perhaps insufficiently embarrassed by their school’s decision to disinvite Ayaan Hirsi Ali last year, violated Salovey’s ideal by going after Mael, a student journalist for the conservative website Truthre-

volt.com. On Dec. 20, 2014, Mael wrote an article about a student leader at Brandeis who wrote on Twitter that she had “no sympathy for the NYPD officers who were murdered today” and that “amerikkka needs an intifada.”

In response to his journalism, Mael was called a “racist piece of shit” and many of his classmates at Brandeis called for his suspension.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, a student named Michael Piccione circulated a “request from many members of the Brandeis community that the student responsible for the incident be held accountable for his actions.” Mael’s reproduction in one online forum of someone’s posts in a different online forum amounted to, in Piccione’s words, an unacceptable “impact … on other people’s safety.” According to the Free Beacon, Brandeis restricted Mael from contacting or occupying the same place as Piccione. The order was lifted hours after the Free Beacon initially reported it.

Mael’s experiences were bad, but they should not surprise those familiar with the state of free speech on college campuses.

Last year, a slew of commencement speakers, from Condoleeza Rice to Christine Lagarde, were disinvited after students and professors protested. As the Foundation for Individual Rights

in Education has documented, many colleges designate spots on campus where speech is free.

Everywhere else, then, harassment and speech codes can prevail.

IF PRESIDENT SALOVEY HAD GIVEN HIS SPEECH THIS WEEK, HE MIGHT HAVE HIGHLIGHTED PARIS Though President Salovey was mostly concerned with free expression at universities, he hinted at the consequences for “our nations and the world.” If he had given his speech this week, he might have highlighted Paris.

The men who massacred the journalists at a French newspaper — that, for Americans, might recall The Onion — thought they were doing so in the name of Islam. They believed that the creation of graven images of Muhammad, the Muslim prophet, is punishable by death.

Indeed, they could be heard shouting their glee at aveng-

ing their prophet while they shot their victims. But the exact way they displayed their radicalism had to do specifically with a hatred for dissent.

After I heard President Salovey’s address, I was grateful that he would be president during my time in New Haven. But his influence extends beyond the University.

He could circulate a letter among American college presidents, expressing solidarity with the French government and French universities in their pursuit of liberal societies. He could publicly condemn other schools’ violations of his ideals of free speech. He could circulate the offending Charlie Hebdo cartoons to Yale students in a mass email, reiterating his support for free speech here, there and everywhere.

This would be some recompense for Yale’s decision to censor Kurt Westergaard’s cartoons in 2009 from a book called “Cartoons That Shook the World.”

Universities that censor hurt the cause of liberal society. Salovey’s vision is one in which they are terrorists’ most vicious enemies, not their least witting instruments, in this necessary and proper fight.

COLE ARONSON is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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“The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.”

JIM LEACH FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

CORRECTION TUESDAY, JAN. 13

Yale receives $3 million for digital humanities

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the reason why Rafi Bildner ’16 was frustrated by the cancellation of the course.

Student athletes oppose spring fling date

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Last year, many student athletes were unable to hear Diplo, Betty Who and Ja Rule perform at Spring Fling due to athletic commitments. This year, 13 varsity teams will once again be disappointed.

On Dec. 7, Yale’s Spring Fling committee announced on Facebook that this year’s all-day concert event is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, when nine varsity athletic teams will be on the road and four will be playing at home.

“There is no date which presents zero conflicts. As much as we want all students to attend the event, it is not possible,” the committee wrote on their Facebook page. “Instead, we sought to determine which date presented the fewest conflicts and allowed for the maximum attendance.”

YCC president Michael Herbert ’16 said the committee is left in a “perpetual catch-22.” The committee, he said, necessarily has to either defy the preference of the vast majority of students to have Spring Fling on a Saturday, or make it impossible for athletes to attend. Jaime Halberstam ’16, YCC events director, echoed Herbert and pointed to results from a September survey, which found that 63 percent of respondents expressed explicit support for holding the event on Saturday.

A statement from the Spring Fling committee, posted on its Facebook page on Dec. 7, was apologetic for the conflicts with Spring Fling date.

“We are truly sorry that so many athletes are unable to attend Spring Fling, and wish that they could have a great time at the event, just as we hope everyone has a great time at Spring Fling,” the statement read. “Ultimately, we made the decision strongly supported by the vast majority of the student body.”

Two members of the Spring Fling Committee declined to comment and the rest could not be reached Tuesday evening.

Andrew Sobotka ’15, cofounder and former president of the Whaling Crew — a student group that seeks to gather student support for Yale’s athletic teams and departments — said that shortly after the Spring Fling date was announced, members of the Yale Student Athlete College Council sat down with the Spring Fling committee and members of YCC to discuss the chosen date.

Sobotka said that while he was happy to hear what YCC and the committee had to say and felt that improvements could be made in the future, he was disappointed by their reasoning behind picking this year’s Spring Fling date.

“We still considered their main arguments for hosting Spring Fling on a Saturday as opposed to Monday or even Sunday [as] anywhere from hypocritical, to inconsistent, to odd,” Sobotka said.

In response to the meeting, members of the Whaling Crew and others in the athletic community drafted an open letter to the Spring Fling committee. Sobotka said the intentions of the letter are twofold: to explain the flaws in the committee’s arguments and to allow members of the University community to show their support by signing.

According to Sobotka, hundreds of students — including non-athletes — have already signed the letter.

Whaling Crew president Ralph Molina ’16 said the decision excludes not only members of the athletic community, but also their friends who wished to enjoy the event with them.

Caroline Lynch ’17, a varsity tennis player who was unable to attend Spring Fling last year, said she is disappointed by the decision because the varsity teams playing at home miss out on a supportive crowd — in addition to missing Spring Fling.

“It is a hard decision to take as a student athlete because I feel as if the Spring Fling committee [...] disregarded the opinions and feelings of the athlete community,” she said.

The open letter to the Spring Fling committee also addresses Lynch’s concerns that student athletes are treated differently on campus. “This letter is more than just about Spring Fling; it’s about treating all of our peers with respect,” the final line of the letter reads.

In response to the claims, Herbert said the YCC is trying to engage with the athletic community, and that its members have an obligation to do their best to pay special attention to athletes because of their role as Yale representatives and the particular struggles that they can face.

While the date for this year’s Spring Fling will likely remain unchanged, Herbert said that moving the event to a Sunday in future years may present a “winwin situation” for students. Herbert added that he will have to do more long-term research into the option because of potential concerns with noise and religious services, but he believes it to be an effective solution.

Last year, Spring Fling was held on Saturday, April 26. The year before, Spring Fling was on Monday, April 29.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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Sterling Memorial Library will host a new Digital Humanities Laboratory, funded by a $3 million award from the Goizueta Foundation.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS Yale University Library has received a $3 million award from the Goizueta Foundation to launch a Digital Humanities Laboratory in Sterling Memorial Library.

The award, which the Library received in late November and announced mid-December, will fund the lab’s facilities and new equipment, such as a small lab of computers, specialized software such as a technology that identifies the language of scanned text, Geospatial Information Systems and digitization equipment to turn out-ofcopyright books into digital texts for research purposes. But the new equipment is “secondary” to the increased collaboration among expert faculty from various fields which the new space will foster, said Peter Leonard, librarian for digital humanities research.

Of the $3 million, 20 percent will go toward equipment and facilities while another 25 percent will go toward hiring three new librarians. Other substantial parts of the award will go toward funding scholarly projects.

“We will have an assortment of people who can answer questions and can help you find out where to go on campus to get the right answers,” Leonard said.

“But what we really hope to build is a nexus, an essential meeting place for a continually shifting mix of projects that go anywhere from an idea that a graduate student wants to try out all the way up to full-fledged big projects.”

American Studies and Wom-

en’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor Laura Wexler, who is also the primary investigator on Photogrammar — which maps and visualizes 170,000 photos from the Great Depression and World War II on a public website — said the atmosphere in the digital humanities at Yale has been “gaining electricity” for a number of years, given the presence of a digital humanities working group and numerous faculty and student projects.

But prior to the establishment of the lab in Sterling, she added, there had not been a central hub where everyone could “share in the excitement.”

Beginning this spring, the laboratory will be housed in several rooms on the third floor of Sterling Memorial Library, Leonard said. In spring of 2016, the lab will move to its permanent home on the first floor of Sterling Memorial Library in the Franke Family Reading Room, according to Amanda Patrick, director of communications for Yale Library Administrative Services. Starting in May, when the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library undergoes renovation, that room will be the temporary reading room for the Beinecke, she added. While they are still in the planning phases and trying to attract the best people, Leonard added that as soon as the center is ready for use, it will be accessible to all Yale students and scholars.

Computer science professor Holly Rushmeier said the lab’s location in Sterling Memorial Library is particularly exciting.

Because the library enjoys a central position on campus, it will foster interdisciplinary collab-

oration within areas such as the physical and social sciences at the lab.

Leonard said the center will help to support and expand current projects at Yale. Last year, results were released from a project, led by Leonard and Public Services Librarian Lindsay King, that used data mining tools to analyze the extensive digital archives of Vogue magazine. Leonard said this project is a great example of how computer science techniques can be used to reveal patterns in cultural data. Rushmeier said the research projects on the Vogue archive are “just small initial steps” in the exploration of the humanities with computer science.

Jacob Lassin GRD ’19, a graduate student organizer for the Digital Humanities Working Group, said that in the past, the lack of programming skills has deterred students from becoming more involved with the digital humanities. To assist students who are unfamiliar with some of the technological tools used in the digital humanities, a programmer will work at the lab, he added.

The large-scale project Photogrammar is another example of the types of projects the digital humanities laboratory can support, co-director of the Photogrammar project Lauren Tilton said.

“These Yale scholars from various fields of expertise can work with our amazing collections and make a project like Photogrammar which reaches audiences beyond Yale,” Leonard said.

Tilton said the laboratory will

be put to immediate use this spring in her “Introduction to Digital Humanities” seminar, in which she teaches students to apply computational methods to answer questions in the humanities.

Assistant professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures Marijeta Bozovic, who taught a course this past fall on the digital humanities and Joseph Brodsky — a Russian and American poet and essayist — said she plans to expand the “experimental” seminar to a larger research project.

The project, which will make use of the technology in the lab, will be called “Avant-Gardes and Émigrés: Digital Humanities Lab.” STEAM education — Science, Technology, Engineering Arts and Mathematics — is a new comprehensive initiative launched by the founding of the lab. Tilton said the STEAM initiative is an interdisciplinary project that encompasses all of the fields using different modes of inquiry and analysis. She added that the digital humanities are highly apt at expanding and developing STEAM education at Yale.

“It’s amazing that over five years ago when I first started here. barely anyone knew what the term digital humanities meant,” Tilton said. “Now we actually have full funding for an entire center dedicated to the digital humanities. It’s quite incredible and wild to watch.”

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Yale announces plans for grad dorms downtown

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER

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Because Spring Fling is scheduled on a Saturday when many varsity teams are playing, many students will be unable to attend.

While it plans to build graduate student dorms in a six-story building in the current parking lot at 272 Elm St., the University has announced that it has no plans to build more housing on Dixwell Avenue or Goffe Streets, despite owning tax-exempt land on the streets.

The building will have room to house 80 students in 41 apartments on four floors, and each apartment will have two bedrooms and a kitchen. In addition to the housing, between one and three businesses will set up shop in the two stories and 13,000 square feet of desginated space.

The type of the businesses has

not yet been determined by University Properties.

“As students are only here about eight months of the year, it is critical to find tenants who not only serve our immediate local population, but also draw shoppers from a wide radius around New Haven,” said Lauren Zucker, Yale’s associate vice president and director of New Haven Affairs in her column “Regards to Broadway.” “The mix on Broadway cannot only cater to students or the merchants do not survive, as past history demonstrates.”

The building’s retail space will be taxable, according to Zucker.

New Haven Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81 said that

Yale has been doing a “fabulous job of renting out the Broadway area,” and that the area could benefit from a casual dining establishment, such as a breakfast or burger restaurant in the space.

The Elm Street building will replace the current graduate housing in the Hall of Graduate studies, which is currently home to 170 graduate students. The Hall of Graduate Studies will be repurposed as office space.

At the meeting, Zucker did not comment on where the remaining graduate students would be housed.

While the plan was in its infancy, city administrators, including Nemerson and City Plan Director Karyn Gilvarg,

raised concerns about what will be done to compensate for the lost parking space. But Nemerson said that he is not concerned with the amount of parking in the area after the development is built.

Graduate students interviewed said that most students they know do not own a car, so the demand for parking space is not high.

“I don’t think a lot of people have a car. I use a Zipcar, which Yale provides discounts for,” said Sung Jin, LAW ’15 . He added that he thinks international students seek Yale-provided housing.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

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Yale MLK Celebration Keynote Speaker Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole “The Case for Diversity & Inclusion in American Higher Education” Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole has had a long and prominent career as an educator and humanitarian. Her work as a college professor and president, her published works, her speeches, and her community service consistently address issues of race, gender, and all other forms of discrimination. Cole is President Emeritus of Spelman College and Professor Emeritus of Emory University from which she retired as Presidential Distinguished Professor of anthropology, women’s studies, and African American studies.

She consults on diversity matters with Citigroup, and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, The Links, Inc., and the National Council of Negro Women. She is the author of numerous publications for scholarly and general audiences.

Her most recent publication is a book co-authored with Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities.

Currently, Dr. Cole serves as director of The National Museum of African Art, the only museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, conservation, study, and exhibition of traditional and contemporary African art. A distinguished and respected intellectual, she speaks at conferences and universities. Her powerful messages prove that barriers are meant to be broken, and the most unlikely of people can achieve the ultimate rise to success.

Lecture and Q&A on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM in Battell Chapel, followed by a Meet & Greet in Dwight Hall Common Room at 7:30 PM. Please see mlk.yale.edu for more information.

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“Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my GPA? Yes.” JULIE ANNE PETERS AMERICAN AUTHOR

NHFT opposes new charter school

BY SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER In the wake of an announcement earlier this month outlining New Haven-based charter school group Achievement First’s collaboration with New Haven Public Schools on a proposed experimental charter school, old tensions between the city’s teachers’ union and its charter schools have risen to the surface.

The proposed school, which has the working name “Elm City Imagine,” brings together more than a year of input from cognitive scientists, focus groups of local parents and staff, and other nontraditional schools across the country. But one vocal opponent to the plan has emerged in the New Haven Federation of Teachers, whose leaders argue that Achievement First has not been an ally of traditional public schools. Last night, the federation’s president spoke out at Monday night’s school board meeting to outline his concerns.

“We are absolutely opposed to this charter school,” said NHFT president David Cicarella, who cited discontent with the way Achievement First talks about public schools. “But is the answer that we’re never ever going to partner with Achievement First? No. It might be good for our kids.”

NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 defended Achievement First and the new charter school, emphasizing the district’s commitment to a focus on positive change through this initiative rather than conflict or rhetoric.

The model for the proposed school focuses on increasing classroom variety, including breaking away from the traditional largegroup instruction in favor of small group, selfdirected and experiential learning.

In addition to enhancing the range of instructional modes, Elm City Imagine would seek to increase support for students both on and off-campus with plans for peer-to-peer support networks as well as a personal “Dream Team” for each student, made up of family and community members who meet regularly with the student for check-ups.

Szefer aims to spice up EENG 201

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER

“We opened Amistad academy 16 years ago, and while we are very proud of the success of so many of our students and the good work of teachers, we think that more is possible and even required,” said Achievement First CEO Dacia Toll. “It felt like the right time to take a fresh look at our school design.”

Cicarella said that one of NHFT’s primary concerns is that traditional public schools and Achievement First’s other charter schools do not operate under the same set of rules. He specifically referenced the NHPS policy that enables parents to transfer their children midyear from charter schools into the traditional public schools, which Cicarella believes allows charter schools to push out students with behavioral issues.

However, Toll said a mid-year transfer is a parent’s decision, not one made by school administrators.

“They may become upset with a grade or a discipline decision and may decide to withdraw their student, but it is never because we have asked a student to leave,” Toll said.

Furthermore, Toll stressed that the number of transfers each year in New Haven is usually very small. According to Toll, charter schools traditionally only lose about 2 percent of students mid-year, a number she does not believe is much higher than the district average.

Harries emphasized that many districts across the country face a similar problem with mid-year transfers.

He also underscored that the Elm City Imagine proposal is just one facet of NHPS’s commitment to its School Change Initiative, which began in 2009. The initiative aims to build a wider portfolio of schools and increase graduation rates across the city, among other goals.

“We think that this has the potential to be a good thing for us to invest in, but this is far from the only thing,” said Harries.

Pending approval and finalization, Elm City Imagine is slated to open this fall.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

Late last fall, professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jakub Szefer bought a Coke machine off Craigslist. After driving into the middle of Hartford with a truck and handing over a couple hundred dollars, he returned to New Haven equipped with the new device to use in his “Introduction to Computer Engineering” class.

The course, which he will be teaching for the second time, introduces students to the theoretical principles underlying the design and programming of simple processors that can perform algorithmic computational tasks. But this time, the vending machine will add a twist to one of the course’s required labs.

In a hands-on activity, students will be required to program the soda machine with logic design and basic computer architecture principles in order to dispense an actual soda. He added that he hopes the change will allow students to better understand how electrical engineering is necessary for so many seemingly simple devices.

Besides the vending machine, Szefer also purchased two ATMs and a snowboarding arcade game for use in the class. Only the vending machine will be used this semester because they are still working with the other software to customize it for the course, he said.

Szefer said that he hopes the machine will keep students engaged and interested, and remind them of the applicability of engineering programming in everyday life.

“Sometimes we become so enamored with elements that

SOM startup receives $1 million grant

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Alacrity Semiconductors, a startup aiming to make devices like cell phones more energy-efficient, was awarded a federal grant in late December that will ultimately total over $1 million.

Founded in May by James Lin SOM ’15 and engineering professor Tsao-Ping Ma, Alacrity Semiconductors will base its product on Ma’s research, Ma said.

Xiao Sun, an engineering postdoc who has worked on research for the company, said he does not know of any other research group in the United States tackling energy efficiency with this same technology.

The grant comes from the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research program, which awards startups money to help bring their products to market. For Alacrity Semiconductors, this money will come in two installments. The company is now receiving $150,000 that will be used to help develop the product in the pre-market stage over the next six months. Sun said that in this stage, the team will work on creating a market-friendly version of their lab model, meaning that it will abide by industry standards and be appealing to the public. After that point, the company will receive $1 million for developing a market for their product.

“The grant bridges the gap where you can take stuff from the lab to the commercial market place, and that costs a few million dollars,” Lin said.

Ma said his involvement with Alacrity Semiconductors has shown him how the University has changed its approach to faculty involvement in entrepreneurship. When Ma first came to Yale several decades ago, he said, the University community did not recognize the value of entrepreneurship in relation to the pursuit of knowledge. Now they are beginning to realize that entrepreneurial ventures can be a vehicle to use that knowledge to benefit society, he said.

Similarly, Jeff Hong SOM ’15, who owns a technology startup, said he feels the entrepreneurial culture at SOM is relatively new and that SOM has adjusted its curriculum to meet this new student demand. In particular, Hong added, he has found SOM’s entrepreneurship program, launched in April, helpful in establishing a support system for student entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneurship Program is designed to manage Yale’s new curriculum in entrepreneurship, support students with entrepreneurial ambitions and work with other organizations around campus — such as the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute — to encourage a culture of entrepreneurship on Yale’s campus, Director of Entrepreneurial Programs Kyle Jensen said. Jensen said all of the new entrepreneurship classes

define our quality of life that we become disconnected with the fact that it is the theory and fundamentals of science and engineering that make everything work,” Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Vincent Wilczynski said in an email. “The EE Vending Machine advertises that connection in a very visible and memorable way. People who may have never thought about the innards of a vending machine before may now realize that there is a whole School of Engineering at work inside [a vending machine] in a quest to apply thermodynamics, materials science, automation, control theory, digital logic, power distribution and more.”

[I]t is exciting to see professors create a tangible, real world …task for the students.

CONNOR DURKIN ’16 On Monday, over 60 students packed themselves into Room 111 of 17 Hillhouse on the first day of class and watched Szefer present a video announcing the use of the soda machine. Szefer said the number of students was a sharp increase from last year when fewer than 40 students shopped his class. However, he said he does not attribute this increase to the use of the soda machine, but to an overall increase in the number of undergraduate EE majors.

Colleen McCormack ’17, who recently decided to pursue a degree in the joint electrical engineering and computer science major and is taking the course to

Director of Entrepreneurial Programs Kyle Jensen hopes that increased interest in startups and entrepreneurship will lead to a stronger presence on campus for SOM. at the SOM have been oversubscribed, demonstrating the magnitude of student demand.

Bridgette Farrer SOM ’15 said she thinks it is necessary for the SOM to offer entrepreneurial courses in order to demonstrate its support for student entrepreneurs.

“Historically working on a venture and being a student were at odds, and it’s not that way anymore,” she said. “[the SOM] wants to support student entrepreneurs and let their ventures be part of their schoolwork.”

Though Hong said he has found the entrepreneurial resources at Yale extremely helpful, he said he does not know if the SOM will ever compete with Stanford or MIT because the types of startups students are founding at those schools are very different than those at Yale. Though Hong founded a technology startup, he said most startups founded by the SOM students are not tech-focused and are usually more closely concentrated on social responsibility.

Lin said the entrepreneurial community across the University can feel disjointed, and he would appreciate networking events between SOM entrepreneurs and those in other schools at Yale, such as Yale College.

Jensen agreed that entrepreneurs outside of the SOM should also be included in the SOM’s activities, and he said the

program plans to further integrate undergraduates. He added the existing lack of networking is due mostly to physical separation between students in different schools within Yale.

“I think not enough [networking] happens for very natural reasons and that is we’re over in [Evans Hall], and if you’re an MBA student you spend your whole day in this building,” he said. “We do as many things as we can to change that.”

In addition, Jensen said there are plans to expand the faculty in entrepreneurship at the SOM so that more courses can be taught. He noted that peer business schools, such as Stanford and MIT, offer anywhere from 50 to 100 courses in entrepreneurship, whereas SOM offers about 12. To increase the courses offered, Jensen said the SOM plans to expand its faculty for entrepreneurial courses, though exact numbers for the years ahead have not yet been decided.

SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said that though the SOM’s entrepreneurial programming might not look exactly like that of schools that are much larger than the SOM, he hopes that Yale will reach a proportional level of entrepreneurial activity as its peer institutions.

The SOM student-run Entrepreneurship Club has 330 members.

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

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

YCC aims to improve access to transcripts

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER

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fulfill major requirements, said she was somewhat confused by the presentation of the vending machine and what the class’s future lab work would entail. Still, she said she was excited to find out its purpose in the course.

Dante Archangeli ’17, who attended the first class session, said he is unsure whether he will take the class, but thinks that the combination of programming with electronics is intriguing.

“I’d like to learn more about computers and robots and microcontrollers,” he said. “Maybe this will help.”

Connor Durkin ’16 said he will definitely be taking the class and is excited by the prospect of using the vending machine.

“At a school like Yale where, even in the engineering department, realizable applications can be few and far between, it is exciting to see professors create a tangible real world … task for the students,” Durkin said in an email.

“It is easy to write a few ‘applications’ of what we are learning on the whiteboard, but much more exciting to do something that we can see and touch.”

Durkin added that the discipline of electrical engineering is ideal for creating applications that serve real world purposes. In past classes, Durkin has made heart monitors, audio amplifiers and robots.

“When an EE course is this creative before the course even begins, stand by for a great class,” Wilczynski said. “All in all, we soon expect some vending companies to borrow some of the best SEAS ideas — it would only be fair.”

EENG 201 has no prerequisites.

In the future, students may not have to wait to receive their transcripts in the mail. Instead, they may be able to simply download them.

Last Saturday, Yale College Council Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 and Morse representative Azan Virji ’17 contacted the Registrar’s Office, requesting that unofficial online transcripts be made available to students in a PDF format. The project’s goal is to create an option on the Student Information Systems website that allows undergraduates to directly download copies of their transcripts. Lawrence said that with the proposal still at an early stage, the Registrar’s Office is currently determining whether or not the change can be implemented.

“There is a meeting scheduled for later this week to discuss the issue,” University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said. “The decision [to not offer online transcripts] predates me, but I know it is not a technical limitation of our systems.”

Although the initial outcome of the project remains unknown, Lawrence sai he is confident it will be implemented if the school’s system is capable of supporting the feature.

He added that the online transcripts would be provided through the Yale SIS system, but alternative platforms are open for consideration.

“We raised this topic with the Registrar’s Office recently and will continue to work with them towards a resolution,” Lawrence said. “They seemed open to this change, and they are looking into the technical feasibility.”

Many fellowships and summer internships for Yale undergraduates require an online submission of students’ transcripts.

In the past, this has complicated the application process as students are only allowed to mail their transcripts from the National Student Clearing House, the company which provides transcript services to Yale.

“In the past, I suspect that nobody raised any concerns with the issue directly to the regis-

trar’s office,” Virji said.

While some universities like Yale only offer physical copies of a student’s official transcript, many also provide access to a free, unofficial transcript online.

Presently, the only way for Yale undergraduates to obtain a PDF version of their transcript is to mail order an official transcript before then scanning it themselves.

Harvard University, which also works with the National Student Clearing House to provide mail order transcripts, allows its students to download a PDF copy of their transcripts through the registrar’s online system. Likewise, the University of California, Berkeley allows students to submit a request for an electronic version of their transcript and receive the document as a PDF the same day.

Of 20 students interviewed, all of them said it is an unnecessary inconvenience that there is no method to access an online file of their transcripts. All 20 also agreed that online transcripts seemed to pose no potential problems and would greatly help when applying to summer programs and internships.

“I definitely think it would help to have access to an online copy of our transcripts,” Ariadne Lih ’17 said. “You need the mail option because some people ask for the transcript to be sealed, but it seems crazy to not have an online version, and [instead], make you order, pay and then scan the transcript yourself.”

Austin Long ’15 said that in the past, he would save his unofficial transcript grades directly from the SIS system webpage as a PDF file when submitting online applications. He admitted that while the method worked, the file did not look professional and also could not be used when official transcripts were asked to be uploaded. He noted that since many programs ask for both a sealed transcript and an online copy, the only option is to purchase two transcripts.

It costs $7 to mail an official Yale College transcript from the National Student Clearing House.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Attacks recall Press controversy CENSORSHIP FROM PAGE 1 of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Jonathan Brent, who was the YUP’s commissioning editor of the book at the time. “[Yale] was not behaving as a beacon of democratic culture or in a self-aware capacity as a protector of liberal values it teaches — it was acting rather as a corporation protecting its interests abroad and protecting its interests in the Arab world.”

Brent said he argued in favor of keeping the controversial images in the book, but the Press faced pressure from the administration, which feared that publishing the offensive images would incite anger and put the campus at risk. Although he conceded that universities have a commitment to protect their faculty and staff, Brent said the decision set a bad precedent and undermined the very values taught in Yale classrooms.

Klausen said the University was overly risk-averse in its decision, since there was no credible threat in printing the photographs. She published an article earlier this week in Time magazine condemning Yale’s 2009 decision and arguing that this type of censorship impedes the dissemination of knowledge.

“I am not in favor of provocation; I am an academic and not a free speech martyr,” Klausen told the News. “In the process of discussing the nature of image, it is of course important in religious law to republish the offending image.”

However, it appears unlikely that recent events will lead to substantive change from the administration.

University spokesman Tom Conroy wrote in an email that there is no formal University policy on publishing controversial images or cartoons, nor has there been any cause to revisit the issue regarding Klausen’s book.

Still, questions regarding Yale’s censorship of sensitive content continue to surface. Not only have the attacks in Paris recast the debate, but some of the authorities consulted in 2009 have since publicly disavowed their decisions.

Most notably, former Yale Corporation member Fareed Zakaria ’86 wrote in a Washington Post column last month that he “deeply regretted” writing a statement in favor of the University’s decision to redact the images. He said he was

swayed by concerns for the institution at the time, but said the correct decision — then and now — would be to affirm freedom of expression.

Although Klausen’s book was first published in 2009, she said Zakaria’s statements may influence whether the University will print the cartoons in a paperback edition of the book. Six years later, whether the YUP will reprint her book — let alone include the offending images — is not clear. Yale University Press director John Donatich did not reply to multiple requests for comment.

To not produce those images was intellectual cowardice, frankly.

REZA ASLAN Religious scholar Students and professors on campus have come forward condemning the University’s decision and have argued that in light of the recent attacks, the stakes are even higher for Yale to act in a way that affirms freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

“Yale University Press should have published the Danish cartoons because they weren’t created at Yale and were already widely available,” political science lecturer Jim Sleeper wrote in an email. “YUP isn’t a provocative newspaper like Charlie Hebdo; nor is it a propaganda organ. It had a scholarly obligation to pursue truth with relevant evidence.”

Sleeper joins a multitude of other voices within academia arguing that Yale ought to change its stance on censoring sensitive content, especially in academic texts.

Religious scholar Reza Aslan, who withdrew a supportive blurb for the book in 2009 after Yale’s decision to censor the images, said universities have a role in distinguishing between free speech and hate speech.

However, Aslan said Yale’s decision was outside the boundaries of appropriate action for a university.

“I think the idea that we cannot print images … that are actually part of Islamic history, images that are drawn by Muslims themselves in an academic book about

depictions of the prophet, because we are afraid of the Islamic response is gross Islamophobia,” he said. “This was an academic book primarily for an academic audience … and to not produce those images is intellectual cowardice, frankly.”

Still, some students came to the defense of the YUP’s decision to retract the sensitive images and argued that its decision was within its right as a press to choose which content to publish.

President of the Muslim Students Association Ahmad Aljobeh ’16, who said he was not speaking on behalf of the organization, said the application of the term “self-censorship” to the actions of the YUP is not entirely correct.

“If [YUP] decided that publishing them would be gratuitous then they have the right to make that decision,” Aljobeh said.

“Some might refer to this as ‘self-censorship,’ but they’re forgetting that we have the moral prerogative to choose to not offend people, just as we have the right to free speech.”

French citizen Aube Rey Lescure ’15 drew the distinction between the 2009 incident and the cartoons at the center of the events unfolding in Paris. She said that as an academic institution, Yale cannot afford the amount of backlash the publication of sensitive material would create.

“Yale is not Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo prides itself for offending and pushing boundaries — it is both a bastion of insolence and an invaluable French institution,” Rey Lescure said.

Despite the recent backlash, it remains unclear how Yale will decide in future instances regarding the publication of sensitive material. However, some fear Yale’s decision fit into a larger trend of an unwillingness to offend on campus.

The University’s decision lowered the quality of scholarship and undermined the principle and practice of academic freedom, sociology professor Julia Adams said.

“At the time, I disagreed with the decision,” Adams said. “I still do, if anything more strongly.”

“Nous sommes tous Charlie,” she added. “We are all Charlie.”

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.”

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Group therapy rises in popularity GROUP THERAPY FROM PAGE 1 ment for Attention Deficit Disorder for the past 10 years, and who chose to remain anonymous due to fear of being stigmatized, agreed with Roberts and Genecin.

After receiving treatment from an off-campus therapist, she returned to Yale Health so that she could receive group therapy with other Yalies.

“Some people like to solve their problems by getting it out there and having someone listen,” she said. “I am one of those people.”

According to Genecin, certain conditions, such as compulsive behaviors and addictions, are well treated by group therapy because students who are struggling with the same issues can support one another. He noted that a pervasive misconception exists that everyone at Yale is happy. That conception, he said, makes many students feel that they are being selfish or succumbing to weakness by seeking treatment. Group therapy is a sound way to debunk that myth and get treated at the same time, he said.

The student who is receiving treatment for ADD said that seeing other people in the same position made coping with her mental illness easier.

“It’s kind of like walking through the mental health part of the Yale Health center,” she said.

“Sure, it’s embarrassing if you see someone you know at first, but they are there too, so the shame is shared.”

Although Roberts said that students are more likely to opt for group therapy if they have heard positive reviews from friends, this student said she pursued group therapy despite not knowing anyone who had tried it. She noted that different treatments work well for different people, so recommendations from friends — who may be coping with different issues — are not always the best advice to go by.

Genecin said that it is hard to know whether increased demand for mental health treatment is driving the growth of group therapy sessions. While a decrease in the stigma surrounding mental illness may be behind the increase in students signing up for group therapy, the increase could also be attributed to more groups being available. Roberts

said there has been a concerted effort to expand the group therapy program.

According to Roberts, the new interest in group therapy has nothing to do with difficulty in getting individual therapy appointments. She said that many students actually use both individual and group therapy. In a survey conducted at the Yale Law School, 76 percent of respondents who received treatment for mental health issues did so through individual therapy at Yale Health. Less than 10 percent said they had used group therapy.

Genecin said that the wait time for individual treatment can be up to six weeks — an April 2014 survey by the News survey found that the average wait time between scheduling and an intake appointment is two and a half weeks — but when students must wait for more than two weeks, they can utilize the Running Start Program, which places students in group therapy while they are waiting for individual therapy.

Some people like to solve their problems by getting it out there and having someone listen.

ANONYMOUS STUDENT But even group therapy can be difficult to access, according to the student who suffers from ADD. “I can’t be in a group this semester, because there was only one space in one group available for me, and the meeting time clashed with one of my classes,” said the student who requested anonymity.

Both clinicians interviewed acknowledged that privacy concerns may dissuade students from utilizing group therapy, though students are allowed to change groups if they find themselves in a group with someone they already know.

The Mental Health and Counseling services at Yale Health can be found on the third floor of 55 Lock St. Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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Some residents have indicated their desire to take over the business and largely maintain its facade and interior design.

ANCHOR FROM PAGE 1 ciently. We have been talking about finding new ways to use the existing facade and the exterior of the old building,” he said in an interview with the News.

The Anchor, a historic bar formerly located at 272 College St., closed on Jan. 4 after a slew of unpaid rent payments caused UP to decline a request for a renewed lease. The closure of the bar generated debate amongst New Haven residents, with an online petition reaching over 1,000 supporters.

Nemerson said a number of residents have approached him about taking over the business and keeping it largely the same as it was before it closed.

Karen Peart, a spokesperson from the University’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications, said in an email that a number of people have already expressed interest in leasing the space from UP. She added that the University only controls the real estate and not the Anchor name, signage or business operations, and that UP is accepting propos-

als from all interested parties.

“People have many different ideas as to what should go into the space and we are listening to the various proposals,” she said. “Contrary to rumors, we have no current plans to change the façade of the building.”

Zucker did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday night.

Conversations between Zucker, UP and Nemerson come alongside action from the New Haven Preservation Trust, a non-profit organization petitioning to preserve the bar’s historic features. The Anchor building is protected by the Connecticut Environmental Protection Act, which may allow for legal action when protected buildings are destructed. The building has also been listed as a part of the Chapel Street Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places since April 1984.

Today, the New Haven Preservation Trust will meet with the Historic District Commission of the City of New Haven to discuss passing a resolution which will preserve the Anchor bar in its

current state, preventing UP from making any changes.

John Herzan, NHPT’s preservation services officer, said in a public statement that the Anchor’s blue glass facade is a rare example of Art Moderne design in New Haven. The bar has played a historic role in the city’s cultural and business life, and therefore, it is essential that the Anchor remain in its original condition, the statement said.

New Haven residents who petitioned the bar’s closure on Jan. 4 said they were excited about the city’s efforts to preserve the facade. Jesse Richards, who began the Change.org petition to protect the Anchor bar, said he is talking with other campaigners to see if there is anything that can be done to further protect the bar.

UP has over 85 retail tenants in its portfolio.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

Caroline Hart contributed reporting.

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“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

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T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y L VA N I A N

Campus center plans feature student offices, network of common spaces

Family of missing student hires PI

BY THEODORE DELWICHE AND NOAH DELWICHE The renovation of the Smith Campus Center will span three floors and feature a network of meeting rooms, common spaces, lockers, and express elevators when it opens in 2018, according to preliminary plans for the upcoming renovation.

While officials have detailed plans to host student government offices and fireplaces in the space and move several University offices to other locations to make room for the construction, the fate of several restaurants currently housed in the campus center building, formerly known as the Holyoke Center, still remains unclear.

The first, second and 10th floors of the campus center building at 1350 Massachusetts Ave. will undergo construction as part of the project, according to Tanya Iatridis, the senior director of University planning who oversees the renovation. All proposed renovations must be approved by the city and the Cambridge Historical Commission, she said, meaning that plans are subject to change.

Officials hope the new campus center will be open at all hours, Iatridis said.

The campus center building’s renovation, announced in 2013, is slated to begin in the spring of 2016 and conclude in 2018, according to Iatridis. As part of the initial work into the building’s designs, the University prepared a survey and convened multiple working groups to discuss the renovation last year. Some of those groups were composed of mostly administrators and faculty while others were made up predominantly of undergraduate or graduate students.

Since that time, more than a dozen students who participated in initial working groups were invited to presentations, at least as early as November, that featured the floor plans and renditions of the renovated campus center, according to several attendees.

OUT WITH THE OLD According to the preliminary plans, which Iatridis detailed in an interview, the campus center’s first floor will feature several restaurants and a large presentation area. Both the front plaza and back entrance will be redesigned and feature new

landscaping.

T h e building will include lockers, which Iatridis said was HARVARD a specific request of undergraduates who live in the Quad and students at Harvard’s campuses in Longwood. Details about the location and availability of the lockers have not yet been decided, according to Brigid O’Rourke, a spokesperson for University planning and community programs.

The second floor, meanwhile, will house lounge spaces, smaller meeting areas, and fireplaces, according to Iatridis. The space will also include separate offices for the Undergraduate Council and the Graduate Student Government, Iatridis said, and there are plans to transform an old bank vault on the second floor into a smaller meeting space for the organizations. A separate, larger space with a capacity of about 200 people could be used for meetings by the entire graduate and undergraduate student governments, she said.

Unused elevators near the campus center’s arcade area on the first floor will be converted to express elevators to lead Harvard affiliates directly to the building’s 10th floor, facing the river, according to Iatridis.

There, there will be lounge areas, conference rooms, and fireplaces, according to former UC President Gus A. Mayopoulos, who saw preliminary plans for the project twice in November and sat on the common spaces working group that discussed the project.

Some areas of the renovated campus center will be off-limits to tourists, according to Mayopoulos and former UC representative Charles A. Scherr, who viewed preliminary plans in November. The first floor and portions of the second floor will be open to the public, but only Harvard affiliates will have access to the 10th floor, O’Rourke wrote in an email.

Another feature of the space will include vitrines, or glass cases, to encase trees that Iatridis said will react to the changes in the seasons just as plants outside the building do.

“The challenge was to create spaces that are very, very flexible so the spaces can take a life of their own during the daytime,

during the weekend, during the seasons,” Iatridis said, adding that another large focus of the proposed designs was to increase natural sunlight.

Officials have already made plans to relocate current University tenants of the campus center’s first, second, and 10th floors, according to O’Rourke.

Specifically, Harvard University Health Services’ pharmacy, currently housed on the campus center’s first floor, will relocate to UHS’s first floor area in the spring of 2016, O’Rourke wrote in an email. Several other campus center offices will relocate to 114 Mt. Auburn St., including Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, which is currently housed on the campus center’s 10th floor; Human Resources, which now sits on its sixth floor; and the Harvard Dental Service, which is currently located on the campus center’s first floor. The Center for Wellness, also now on the first floor, will move to 114 Mt. Auburn St. during construction.

The Harvard Box Office, meanwhile, will relocate from the campus center’s first floor to its eighth, according to O’Rourke, while the Office for Sponsored Programs will move from the sixth floor to 1033 Massachusetts Ave. Officials have yet to finalize a space for Harvard Real Estate offices, which are currently situated on the eighth floor, O’Rourke wrote.

RESTAURANTS STILL NEGOTIATING The fate of restaurants that currently reside in the campus center building, such as Al’s Harvard Square Cafe and Oggi Gourmet Foods, is unclear. Iatridis said she expects the renovated Smith Center to include the same number of food options as it does now, if not more, but said she does not know which restaurants will ultimately stay there because she has not been involved in real estate negotiations with the shops, which each have their own leases.

Campus Services has been in contact with individual businesses regarding their leases, but “no final decisions have been made,” according to an emailed statement from Carolee Hill, the managing director of Harvard Real Estate. Hill declined to comment on the status of individual retail leases, citing the confidentiality of the agreements.

BY DAVID CAHN As temperatures dip below freezing in New York City, the family of Penn junior Timothy Hamlett has hired a private investigator to help find the missing former track and field athlete. Hamlett’s mother expressed concern that her son could be disoriented and in danger due to the weather. Medical testing immediately before his disappearance indicated the possibility of a brain cyst, though this had not been confirmed.

On January 6, with no new information on the whereabouts of their son except for a couple unverified sightings, the Hamlett family hired Private Investigator Angel Martinez to assist in the search for the 20-year-old. However, they say the Teaneck Police Department has not cooperated with their private investigator.

“I have not been able to get any assistance from them on the matter,” Martinez said. “I asked them a million questions to help them with the investigation.”

As a former NYPD detective, however, Martinez was hesitant to criticize the police, saying he doesn’t “know what’s going on in their case.” Still, he believes, “If there’s no criminal investigation, they should be working with outside sources.”

The Teaneck Police Department declined to comment on this story.

Hamlett’s mother, Katherine, was initially concerned that the police were not working in the best interest of his son. But after meeting with the detectives, she said she realized that the PENN police’s concerns “do appear to be legitimate.”

“They are working with a similar agenda.

They just have to go through more hoops,” she said.

Hamlett’s family is conducting its own investigation in addition to the police and private investigator’s efforts. “Ms. Hamlett has a mini-command center in her living room and dining room. She has been doing such an incredible job,” Martinez said.

The private investigator said his investigations usually involve checking credit cards records, looking in the home for diaries, suicide notes, loves notes, and using that information to find other people to talk to. His next step is “beating the bush” — looking at hospitals to see if Hamlett is listed as John Doe, checking the morgue for unidentified bodies, and checking criminal arrests in other states.

Anyone who has seen or has any information regarding Hamlett’s whereabouts should contact authorities at (917) 686-0087 or (201) 406-6990.

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Univ. community gathers to remember Dantzlerward ‘16

BY JACOB DONNELLY Students, faculty, staff and community members circled around a table supporting a single lit candle in the lobby of Murray-Dodge Hall on Monday night as they remembered the life of Audrey Dantzlerward ’16, who was found dead in her room in Edwards Hall today. The gathering, led by Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel Alison Boden, was moved to the lobby after a room reserved for the meeting overflowed.

Participants spoke commonly of Dantzlerward’s contributions to campus life, sharp intellect, supportive gestures and friendly demeanor, and the Wildcats, an a cappella group of which Dantzlerward was a member, sung the song “Angel Eyes,” which is traditionally the first and last song Wildcats members sing upon joining the group and graduating.

One student spoke of Dantzlerward coming to her room at 4 a.m. to offer emotional support after discussing with her a difficult personal situation, while another spoke of how she had made him feel welcome during his first week at the University.

Several students discussed how Dantzlerward was the only girl — or student — they had met at the University who had played a particular video game or could debate comic book topics for hours on end.

French lecturer Rachel Hart, who had Dantzlerward in one of her classes this semester, described how Dantzlerward’s frequent attire of combat boots contrasted with her bubbly personality and how she brought a wide of variety of outside knowledge to class.

“We were having a discussion on French graffiti art, and lo behold she was an expert on graffiti art,” Hart said to the crowd. “I asked what tagging was, and she wouldn’t say, and with a small smile on her face, she turned around and wrote ‘Audrey’ on the chalkboard. And I’d like to think of her that way, saying ‘I was here.’ … I think I’ll always remember that memory of her writing her name on the chalkboard.”

Mathey College Director of Student Life Matt Frawley said he knew Dantzlerward very well.

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remember Audrey for her great smile, great sense of humor. We had a lot of fun last year when she was Preview service captain. We hung out a lot,” FrawPRINCETON ley said. “She was really great.”

Some students expressed regret about not approaching Dantzlerward more often in the dining hall or having fallen out of touch.

Another student recounted how she and Dantzlerward bonded over their multiracial identities and had discussed the particular aspects and challenges of being from a multiracial family, while a different student said she had a passionate and engaging but “mature and kind” debate with Dantzlerward about LGBT issues, which she felt was one of the most significant intellectual conversations she had had at the University.

Chaplain Tara Woodard-Lehman, also the leader of Princeton Presbyterians, of which Dantzlerward was a member, said Dantzlerward lived by the motto, “In life and in death, we belong to God,” which was a refrain she told Woodard-Lehman she relied upon when she felt upset or afraid. Woodard-Lehman said Dantzlerward sometimes felt that she “struggled to belong, struggled to find her identity” and that she and Dantzlerward talked often about “finding [one’s] tribe.” Woodard-Lehman added that students had brought to the gathering all of the qualities Dantzlerward brought to the campus.

The gathering closed with a prayer led by Woodard-Lehman, who encouraged students not to lose hope.

After the approximately one-hour gathering, some students elected to stay and talk with religious leaders and counselors.

Senior Associate Dean of the College Claire Fowler sent an email to students before the meeting asking them to meet with a residential college administrator if they felt coping with Dantzlerward’s death was interfering with their academic work. Her death occurred one day before the University’s fall semester Dean’s Date, which is the deadline for all written work to be submitted for the semester.

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER

Alders call Esserman’s conduct into question ESSERMAN FROM PAGE 1 their message to the mayor and the Board of Police commissioner who, she said, may be able to take action.

At the Tuesday meeting, Dawson gave Esserman, who was at the meeting, the option to request an executive session and exclude the public in the discussion because the matter involved police department personnel, which Esserman accepted. After the closed session, Dawson briefly summarized the alders’ presentation.

“The alders had concerns, and we felt obligated to allow them to come and make a presentation, and they did,” Dawson told the News. “That was the extent of the conversation.”

Roth added that she heard from another alder that the Board of Police Commissioners said they did not have the authority to take action against the chief in this situation. No one who attended the meeting specifically commented on the Board of Police Commissioners’ ability to address the allegations.

In addition to determining that the presentation could be qualified as an executive session, Dawson also moved the item from the end of the agenda to the beginning, causing several alders, including Roth, to be late or to miss the meeting. Roth said that the move, which he claimed was orchestrated to allow the alders to finish their presentation and leave early, was not helpful.

Esserman did not comment on the alders’ concerns after the session but presented a report on the department’s most recent work.

He specifically cited a 64.7 percent drop in the homicide rate and a 52.6 percent drop in the rate of

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After the private executive session, Esserman did not comment on the alders’ concerns about his behavior and instead highlighted NHPD’s efforts to foster trust with the local community. shootings since he took office in 2011.

In the report, Esserman attributed the department’s success to a strong relationship between officers and civilians established through NHPD’s policy of assign-

ing each rookie officer a “walking beat” or an area of the city to patrol. Officers have conversations and build connections with the members of the communities in which they patrol, Esserman said.

“We are not mistake-free,” he wrote in the report. “And I am the obvious example of that, but we are a department that is working towards that.”

Esserman added that the police department’s success in refraining

from making arrests during the New Haven protests in response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases was an example of the trust between NHPD and the city.

“This department, like every other department in the country,

has to absolutely work on achieving legitimacy in the eyes of the community,” he said. “We have a long way to go.”

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

Files “irrelevant” to murder case, Yale says HOMICIDE CASES FROM PAGE 1 other before the murder. In 2008, Wang was fired from his job at the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he was working as a resident under Toor.

Over the course of the five-year pre-trial, Wang has filed many motions that have been deemed irrelevant by the courts. Wang has chosen to represent himself instead of using the public defender’s office attorney, Jeffrey LaPierre.

According to Yale Law School professor Kate Stith, who has been following the case, Wang has made a “farce of the legal process” by filing so many irrelevant motions.

“At some point the judge has to say enough is enough,” she said.

After Wang submitted the motion last December, Superior Court Judge Thomas O’Keefe Jr. gave Wang until Feb. 4 to prepare his reason for filing the motion in question. By that date, Wang also must decide whether or not to pursue affirmative partial-defense of extreme emotional disturbance, a defense that could reduce his charge from murder to manslaughter and therefore reduce his potential jail time. The defendant would have to prove this defense on his own, however, since he has refused counsel. Originally, Wang was supposed to have decided his psychiatric defense by Jan. 9, but O’Keefe pushed this back.

At some point the judge has to say enough is enough.

KATE STITH Professor, Yale Law School According to Stanford criminal law professor Mark Kelman, the extreme emotional disturbance defense usually implies that the defendant acted in response to momentary stress and killed without serious thought.

At the time of his arrest, police found guns, ammunition and pictures of Toor and two other people that Wang had previously worked with at Kingsbrook.

Kelman said that given the premeditated nature of the attack, unless the records showed some sort of pattern of behavior that might set someone off in the way that Wang acted, the extreme emotional disturbance defense would be difficult to pursue.

Early on in the pre-trial, Wang was deemed incompetent to stand trial, and was ordered by New Haven Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano to spend 60 days at a mental facility, but was then later deemed fit to stand trial after being evaluated by a psychiatrist Mark Cotterell.

Jury selection for the case is scheduled for April and the trial is tentatively set for May of this year.

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Yale is refusing to release the records of postgraduate fellow Vajinder Toor, who was murdered in 2010.

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TOMORROW High of 32, low of 22.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 12:30 PM Gallery Talk, A New Acquisition: Jasper Johns’s Untitled (1984) . Pamela Franks, deputy director for exhibitions, programming and education, and Richard S. Field, noted Jasper Johns scholar and former curator of prints, drawings and photographs, discuss Johns’s Untitled (1984), a new acquisition to the collection. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 12:30 PM Gender, Identity and the Artist’s Career. A conversation with Lisa Kereszi, Sulki Choi, Michelle Lopez, Ka-Man Tse and Natalie Westbrook. Moderated by Lizzy De Vita. 36 Edgewood Avenue.

2:00 PM Guided Tour of the Cushing Center. Named for Yale College graduate Dr. Harvey Cushing, regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, the Center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations, personal diaries, black and white patient photographs, memorabilia and historical anatomical and medical materials. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 12:00 PM Bookmaking Workshop: Crafting the Codex.

Inspired by sculptural works found in the book art collection of Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Hunter Ford, founder of the Yale Guild of Bookmakers, Cayla Lockwood, current Artspace Artist in Residence, and Daniel Staskawicz, DC ’17, invite visitors to explore the basics of bookmaking. Create your own unique hand-bound journal in a one-hour, hands-on workshop. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

5:00 PM Dialogues in Heritage Science: Museum Environment — Ongoing and Future Research. Lukasz Bratasz will present his research into non-destructive analysis of buildings and artifacts, with special emphasis on the good “museum climate” and linked factors of sustainability. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Memorabilia Lecture Hall.

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SPORTS In Meyer, a new coach

“I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.” TIM TEBOW SEC NETWORK ANALYST

Yale aims for postseason success

ONORATO FROM PAGE 14 ing Meyer’s tenure as Florida’s head coach.

The charges ranged from underage drinking to more serious accusations such as aggravated assault and domestic violence. By and large, Meyer turned a blind eye to his players’ wrongdoings, choosing instead to pursue success at all costs.

And it seemed to work. During the same period, the Gators enjoyed tremendous success on the field, including Meyer’s first two national titles, two SEC championships and a Heisman win for quarterback Tim Tebow.

Despite the Gators’ accomplishments, however, Meyer’s reputation took a hit from the many arrests and questionable characters he coached and mentored at Florida, with the largest impact coming from Hernandez’s arrest and the media firestorm that ensued.

As a consequence, in his tenure at Ohio State, Meyer’s regimen for his players has focused not only on ensuring excellence on the field, but also on building character and preparing young men for lives beyond football.

Perhaps thrust into the spotlight in response to the controversies of Florida, Meyer has proved himself to be a master motivator, implementing programs and opportunities for his players to improve themselves as players and as people. His players undergo Navy SEAL training in preseason, work with life coaches and participate in business training opportunities to prepare for life after football. There are slogans and mottos, and the now infamous “Eliminate the 16” idea that served as a singular mission for the Buckeyes in their preparations for Oregon’s offense in the National Championship Game.

Meyer’s story is a complicated one that raises the question of how we should define success in collegiate athletics.

Success has never been an issue for Meyer on the field, and he has a sparkling 142–26 record and three national titles to prove it.

But it’s his sense of commitment to investing in individuals that seems to be tied up in his most recent success.

There are two important takeaways from Meyer’s and his Buckeyes’ win on Monday.

First, Meyer’s situation on the whole has raised the question of how, or to what extent, coaches should be responsible not just to coach, but also to mentor their players. Following his time at Florida, it seemed that, whether it was right or wrong, it wasn’t necessary for Meyer to worry himself with his players’ lives outside of football. And he had the numbers — and two national titles — to prove it.

What Monday’s win has proven is that strong coaching and mentorship can go handin-hand, and that success on the field and off the field aren’t mutually exclusive.

What should be taken from Meyer’s story is that the obligation to try to make that impact is there, and it need not come at the price of success.

By no means is Meyer perfect, and no one can reasonably expect a coach to have a positive impact on all of his players. But this is a start.

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

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Yale finished last season second at the Ivy Classic and fifth at the ECAC Championship.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 14 gdao ’16 said. “We didn’t get to put up as many people on every event.”

The current team will attempt to improve on last season’s finish at ECACs — the meet that postseason qualification hinges on — despite facing a similarly rigorous schedule. All 10 meets fall on consecutive weekends. However, the Bulldogs are prepared, thanks to a combination of a new fitness regime and a more rigorous winter training schedule.

The changes actually started last season, when program alumna and former Ivy League champion Anna Mitescu ’96 began volunteering with the team. Sooksengdao said Mitescu’s advice on beam routines has improved the team’s performance in the event, and Morgan Traina credited the team’s sustained strength to Mitescu’s nutrition tips.

In one of the more drastic changes, coach Jason Vonk introduced a new

fitness system in the offseason to improve the athletes’ conditioning. “[Vonk] took [his program] from a different program that trains a lot of club gymnasts, and so it’s been a lot harder, but I think it’s a lot better for us,” Morgan Traina said. “I think we’re a lot stronger, especially cardio-wise.”

This strength allowed the Bulldogs to obtain skills and hit their routines earlier, according to Camilla Opperman ’16.

In addition to summer conditioning tests, the team challenged itself by adding four extra days of training over winter break. The gymnasts have been on campus since Dec. 29.

Getting in two full weeks of practice before school reconvenes, Morgan Traina said, made a difference in the team’s level of preparedness as they went into a mock meet on Jan. 7.

The season did not get off to an ideal start when, a week after practice began in mid-October, a piece of

scaffolding blew off of Payne Whitney’s facade, broke through the ceiling above the fifth-floor gym and ruined the mats the athletes used for tumbling practice.

“Long story short, we have brandnew landing mats on the fifth floor,” Morgan Traina said. “That’s also going to help keep us healthy, just because they’re nice and not lumpy.

We have great equipment that’s new this year.”

The team’s current level of health is vital because it allows them to front more athletes per event. There are at least eight women on each event, as opposed to last year, when the team could only front five or six. In meets, six athletes compete on each apparatus, and the top five scores are added to the team’s cumulative score. Several members of the team, including Sooksengdao, Morgan Traina and Opperman, cited depth as the Bulldogs’ greatest strength.

Part of this depth is due to the new

recruits. This year’s squad features four gymnasts from the class of 2018.

“They’re probably the most committed class of freshmen we’ve had in a long time, in and out of the gym,” Morgan Traina said. “They’re hardworking, they’re really dedicated, and … they just gelled right away.”

With the gym intact, the team has taken steps to strengthen areas that were weak in last year. Struggles and inconsistencies on beam led to a renewed focus on the event from the coaches, including Mitescu and head coach Barbara Tonry.

But the team is not neglecting one event in favor of another.

“Our bars are looking really strong this year,” Sooksengdao said. “Our vault lineup should be stronger too.”

Sooksengdao and her teammates launch into the season on Sunday in New Hampshire at 1 p.m.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Elis win thanks to defense W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 Despite a seven-point deficit, the Bulldogs regained momentum following a jump shot from center Emmy Allen ’16, and scored 15 consecutive points in the next five minutes, all the while completely stalling the Peacocks’ offense. But a buzzer-beater at the end of the first half by forward Bridget Whitfield cut Yale’s lead to 26–23.

In the first 6:10 of the second half, however, the Peacocks collected nine points between Smith and freshman guard Alyssa Velles, bringing the game back to a tie at 32–32. The teams traded buckets for the next 10 minutes, and Smith hit two free throws at the 2:48 mark to bring Saint Peter’s within two.

Down the stretch, Yale capitalized on its free throws and on the glass, with Werner, Allen and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 hitting shots from the charity stripe and Allen pulling down several important rebounds. Combined with poor shooting from the Peacocks, the Elis were able to salt the game away and clinch a victory.

Despite the hard-fought win, many players believe that the team’s performance took a great hit from Halejian’s absence.

Without its leading scorer, the team lacked a sense of urgency on offense and did not exploit enough opportunities on the court,

according to Sarju.

“The team did not perform very well tonight,” Sarju said. “Without Sarah, we all need to have a much bigger sense about scoring the ball and making an impact every second we are on the court. We have a lot of offensive weapons and need to capitalize on the ability of every player on this team to bring something positive.”

Simpson agreed with Sarju that Halejian’s presence was crucial to the team’s performance. Prior to her injury, Halejian had urged all players to step up their intensity and performance in order to produce a competitive and successful team, according to Simpson.

As this game is only the Bulldogs’ second win following Halejian’s injury, the team is still adjusting to Halejian’s absence on the court. The Bulldogs, however, remain confident about recovering in time for Ivy play.

“It wasn’t our best night, but we know what we have to do as a team from here on out,” guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 said. “We are preparing to bounce back and get ready for Ivies starting this Friday.”

The Elis will play its first conference game against Brown on Friday at home. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE Yo-Yo Ma performs benefit concert

BY STEVEN LEWIS STAFF REPORTER Last night, internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma shared the stage with Yale faculty and students for his first performance at the University since 1987.

Ma’s performance, which took place in Woolsey Hall, was a benefit concert for the Yale School of Music cello program. Ma performed six pieces that featured Yale professor of cello Ole Akahoshi and members of the Yale Philharmonia. Yale professor of conducting Toshiyuki Shimada highlighted Ma’s role as an ambassador of classical music in addition to his legacy as a musician, adding that he thinks Ma’s return for a second performance speaks to the importance of Yale in the cello world.

“Now [Ma] is more special in a way and not only in the classical music area, but also contributing to [the] ethnomusical area because he is concerned about the world of music and its acces-

sibility,” Shimada said.

For the concert, Ma performed J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C major for solo cello, Jean-Baptiste Barrière’s Sonata in G major for two cellos with Akahoshi, and Franz Josef Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major with the Yale Philharmonia conducted by professor of music Aldo Parisot.

Shimada said Akahoshi and Ma are a “great match both musically and personally,” and their camaraderie certainly came out in their performance of the Barriére Sonata.

Akahoshi emphasized Ma’s ability to inspire his colleagues to improve musically through his compassionate and humble personality, noting that he thinks this ability is what every musician hopes to master. Akahoshi explained that while he has performed with Ma, as well as with many internationally acclaimed orchestras, he described each performance as an opportunity for discovery.

“The exciting thing for me is to play with different people,”

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Six pieces of Ma’s performance featured members of the Yale Philharmonia and Yale professor of cello Ole Akahoshi.

Akahoshi said. “Each time it is a completely new event and I feel like starting from scratch, creating something completely new.”

The concert was attended by over 2,000 audience members.

Max Vinetz ’18 said he thought Ma “did an amazing job of filling the hall with one instrument, and creating a body of sound

during the Bach Cello Suite.”

During the intermission, Ma was presented with the Sanford Medal by the Yale School of Music in recognition of his contributions to making music more accessible around the world. The presentation was followed by a discussion between Ma and Parisot in which Parisot discussed

the path he has taken in his music career, which has spanned over 70 years. Ma praised Parisot for his dedication to performance and teaching at Yale. At 93, Parisot is currently the longest-serving professor in the University, where he began teaching in 1946.

“When you ask any cellist on the street and mention Aldo

Parisot’s name, everybody knows about him,” Shimada said.

Ma has recorded over 90 albums and won 17 Grammy Awards performing as a soloist with orchestras and chamber music ensembles.

Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

Music Haven campaign to fund new pieces

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER A local musician and teacher is looking to revolutionize early music education by commissioning new beginner-level music for young students.

Miki Sawada MUS ’14, a resident musician at the New Haven nonprofit Music Haven, completed a Kickstarter funding campaign last Wednesday to commission four composers — Gabriel Bolanos, William Gardiner MUS ’15, Anna Pidgorna and Ben Wallace MUS ’14 — to come to Music Haven to work on their pieces with students. The funding will also go toward students’ music lessons from instructors at Music Haven. The campaign brought in a total of $4,962, well above the original goal of $3,000.

Tina Lee Hadari MUS ’04, the founder and executive director of Music Haven, said the project combined Music Haven’s belief in social change with its desire for creative projects that serve to connect people.

“The project reengaged many people’s support of the organization,” Hadari said.

Two months ago, Sawada approached Hadari about her idea of a fundraiser to commission new music. Dissatisfied with the available repertoire for beginner musicians, Sawada approached the four composers to see if they could create newer, more compelling music.

Upon receiving positive responses, she began the Kickstarter campaign with a goal of raising $3,000. Sawada said she was initially surprised that the project was not being funded as quickly as she had expected.

But she noted that once the campaign reached the $3,000 goal, additional funding began to flow in at a rapid pace.

According to Sawada, a possible reason for the lack of “interesting” beginning level music is the divide between educators and composers.

Hadari added that writing music for young students is a particular niche that many composers don’t venture into, preferring instead to work on larger compositions

for professional musicians or companies.

As a result of the successful fundraiser, Yale School of Music professor of composition Martin Bresnick, who knows Sawada through Yale’s summer music programs, will also be donating a new piece for the Music Haven students.

In writing for beginners, Bresnick will focus on making his piece challenging yet comprehensible enough for young students to a point where they can imagine what they are trying to play before they can play it.

“It’s a very worthwhile and admirable project, not just for social reasons, but also [because it] expands the artistic work,” Bresnick said.

The extra money raised will help cover a Yamaha digital piano, a new music bootcamp in the summer and the ability to record pieces in a New Haven recording studio.

Established in 2006, Music Haven provides music education to some of New Haven’s most underprivileged elementary and middle school students, those living in the four high-poverty Empowerment Zone neighborhoods as designated by the city of New Haven.

Music Haven gives tuition-free lessons to students, provides instruments and hosts after school programs. Since its founding, the organization has more than tripled its enrollment, going from a little over 20 students at the start to roughly 80 students now. According to Mira Korber ’16, a Music Haven volunteer, the organization distinguishes itself by its teachers, who work both as performers and educators, and its focus on incorporating parents into its curriculum.

“Your music education doesn’t just end with your lesson, but it becomes a part of your household,” Korber said. “It gives kids a community.”

Music Haven was inspired by Inspired by Community Music Works in Providence, Rhode Island and Bill Strickland’s Manchester Guild in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.” VICTOR HUGO FRENCH POET

“Side Show” celebrates carnival history, culture

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Sword-swallowers, fire-eaters, art critics, magicians and graduate students met under the same tent at the Yale School of Art last night.

The School of Art opened its 2015 season with the exhibition “Side Show,” a mixture of authentic sideshow artifacts and the work of contemporary artists interested in carnival culture. The installation, which opened last night, featured over 70 artists, with items on loan from various private collections and from the Yale Medical School Library and Yale University Art Gallery. The show focused on those marginalized by society because of a physical disability, a deformity or a bizarre talent.

Magician Todd Robbins, who lent several of his pieces to the exhibition, noted the outlandish talent present in many traditional side show performances.

“It’s like stepping into a netherworld when you go into a side show,” Robbins said. “You see strange and unusual people doing remarkable things — there’s so much character there.”

One piece that Robbins contributed to the exhibit is called the “Feejee Mermaid,” one of 10 replicas that

were made by sewing together the head and torso of a taxidermied monkey with the tail of a fish. Works by American photographer Diane Argus, painter and printmaker Otto Dix and cult-film director John Waters were also featured in the exhibition.

The show was curated by Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art Lisa Kereszi ART ’00. Kereszi said that while she does not have any previous experience working with sideshows, much of her photographic work deals with escapism, fantasy and recreational spaces.

Kereszi said the popularity of sideshows comes from the notion that when disabled individuals are put on a stage the public has unspoken permission to stare at them. She noted that such behavior is not socially acceptable while walking down the street.

Kereszi said she thinks that “Side Show” is in many ways itself a sideshow. The exhibit’s location in the School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Ave. Gallery makes it out of the way for most Yale students.

“In a way [students] are leaving the circus of New Haven and Yale and coming into the side show,” said Kereszi. She added that she thinks the arcane, provocative and often explicit subject of the show will

attract a crowd of visitors very different from the kind the gallery normally receives. Associate Dean of the Yale School of Art Sam Messer said he hoped both the show and renowned artist-magician Ricky Jay’s lecture on Tuesday would foster curiosity and provoke questions about normality and social progress. Messer himself lent two items to the show, including a taxidermied two-headed calf.

Visitors expressed appreciation for the uniqueness of the show. Sam Davis ART ’16 said he felt the show effectively brought together contemporary art with historical objects around the theme of sideshows.

Robbins explained that although the sideshow — once a minor accompaniment to many travelling circuses and carnivals — has since been replaced by television and the internet, all of these mediums serve to break the boredom of everyday life.

He added that he thinks sideshows have a universal appeal because of how mysterious and dangerous they often appear to audiences.

“It’s a wild place filled with strange people,” Robbins said.

“Side Show” runs through March 20.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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The School of Art presented a mixture of sideshow artifacts and the work of contemporary artists interested in carnival culture.

Artist and magician discusses art collecting, magic history

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER A packed audience at the Yale School of Art was treated to a glimpse into the life and artwork of an armless 17th-century artist on Tuesday night.

Renowned magician and art collector Ricky Jay came to the Yale School of Art’s 36 Edgewood Ave. building to speak as part of its weekly lecture series. His hour-long talk, which coincided with the opening of a new School of Art exhibition titled “Side Show,” focused on the accomplishments of sideshow performer Matthew Buchinger, an armless conjurer and calligrapher.

Jay noted that Buchinger is his favorite figure in the history of magic.

“This is a man with no arms who was writing words so small we literally cannot see with our naked eye,” Jay said. “If you believe this, you’ll believe anything.”

Although he is best known for his oneman magic shows and expertise in performing card tricks — which include the ability to throw a card at 90 miles per hour — Jay shared his knowledge of art collecting and magic history during the lecture. He said he first became interested in Buchinger roughly 30 years ago when he bought a piece by the artist from a friend. Since then, Jay added, he has continued to collect pieces by Buchinger and has conducted extensive research on the artist and his artistic journey as both a calligrapher and a carnival performer.

Buchinger was born in 1674 in Ansbach, Germany without hands or fully developed

legs. Despite his handicap, he became a skilled magician as well as an engraver. Although he had small, finlike appendages for hands, his engravings were also known for being highly detailed.

Buchinger also played over half-a-dozen instruments.

During his talk, Jay presented a slideshow of Buchinger’s art, which included self-caricatures depicting his unusual physical condition.

Referencing and citing Buchinger’s work, Jay pointed out the nuances of the artist’s micrography. To highlight his point, he showed one of Buchinger’s engraved self-portraits in which the curls of the portrait’s hair consisted of the text to seven biblical psalms and the Lord’s Prayer, all inscribed in miniature letters.

School of Art Associate Dean Samuel Messer, who delivered the introduction to Jay’s lecture, highlighted the breadth of Jay’s work. Messer noted that beyond magic shows and art collections, he has also been a consultant on feature films, including “Forrest Gump.”

Attendees interviewed said they felt that the talk was interesting and unusual. Danielle Friedman ART ’15 said that Jay was a genuine example of someone with a deep passion who has the capability, charm and intelligence to dedicate his life to the pursuit of his dreams.

“He has a love and he has followed it,” Friedman said. “He is also generous enough to share it with all of us.”

Jay will be featured on the PBS network’s “American Masters” series on Jan. 23.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Yale to host Russian music residency

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER This Friday, the Yale Philharmonia will collaborate with one of Russia’s most renowned conductors as it prepares to play iconic works from more than a century ago.

The Yale School of Music will welcome Valery Gergiev, artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre, and the theater’s chorus for a daylong residency at the end of this week.

Gergiev will participate in an open conversation with School of Music Dean Robert Blocker before leading the Philharmonia in performances of “Romeo and Juliet” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and “The Firebird”

by Igor Stravinsky. The chorus, conducted by Pavel Petrenko, will then give a concert of its own to close out the residency. Dana Astmann, manager of communications at the Yale School of Music, emphasized the importance of musicians exchanging ideas with one another, which the School of Music hopes to promote through such residencies.

“This is a place for ideas to be heard, and for there to be open debate — this is why it was important for us to have a question-and-answer period in the open conversation with Ger-

giev,” said Astmann. “We want to make sure that it is a twoway conversation.”

Rebekah Ahrendt, assistant professor at the Department of Music, echoed Astmann’s sentiment. Ahrendt said she believes that collaborative programs such as the upcoming residency should aim to create peaceful relations between citizens of different countries through the collective experience of making music.

This is a place for ideas to be heard, and for there to be open debate — this is why it was important for us to have a queston-andanswer period.

DANA ASTMANN Manager of communicatons, Yale School of Music Ahrendt added that a large ensemble is like a unification of different people, in which everyone is working together as one body.

“It unifies different voices into one powerful sound,” added Arhendt.

Yale Russian Chorus director Mark Bailey noted that the Mariinsky Chorus’s performance is meant to surprise audience members, as the ensemble has not yet released its concert program. He added that the residency’s inclusion of Russian-Slavic choral music represents a rare opportunity to hear a variety of famous Russian works that are largely unknown to Yale audiences.

Ahrendt noted that she thinks that since the residency arrives at an “awkward” time in U.S.-Russian relations, and Gergiev is known to be close to the Russian government. As a result, she noted, there are two ways to view his residency.

“One is to look at it as potentially politically problematic.

Another way to look at this is to understand that music or art is inherently apolitical,” Arhendt said. “So this is just a representation of an aesthetic experience.”

Bailey said he thinks music can transcend the sorts of political controversies that could potentially arise from a residency like Gergiev’s.

The Mariinsky record label has released more than 25 albums worldwide since its founding in 2009.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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An Urban shift in Columbus

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

4:56 into the period brought the game to a 6–6 tie, but Saint Peter’s (1–14, 1–5 Metro Atlantic) went on a 12–5 run, largely thanks to senior guard Antonia Smith, to take an 18–11 lead halfway through the first half.

On Monday night, Urban Meyer and his Ohio State Buckeyes became the first team to win a college football national championship in the playoff era. The win has people talking about the masterful coaching of Meyer, whose win on Monday night makes him only the eighth coach in history to win three championship titles and one of two coaches to win championships with two different programs.

It seemed improbable at best. The Buckeyes snuck into the playoff as the fourth and final seed. They faced this season’s Heismanwinning quarterback in Marcus Mariota. And yet Ohio State, with its third-string quarterback at the helm, won. And it was a win not only for Ohio State and the Big Ten, but most of all for Meyer. The team has gone 38–3 the past three seasons under Meyer’s leadership, and Monday night’s win could mark the start of what’s to come for Ohio State football.

Also on Monday, about 1,800 miles away from the packed AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, day two of jury selection for the murder trial of Aaron Hernandez, a former player at Florida under Meyer, was underway.

Hernandez is currently on trial for the firstdegree murder of Odin Lloyd at his North Attleboro home in June 2013. His arrest, especially in its immediate aftermath, proved damaging to Meyer’s reputation and the reputation of Florida football at large. Many called into question Meyer’s role as a mentor and coach to Hernandez and perhaps his shortcomings in shaping Hernandez not just into a superstar tight end for the New England Patriots, but also into a responsible citizen.

Hernandez’s arrest for Lloyd’s murder is part of a larger pattern of violence and crime.

Since the news of his arrest for Lloyd’s murder, claims have arisen about Hernandez’s alleged connections to other shootings in both Florida and Massachusetts. And Hernandez isn’t alone.

From 2005 to 2010, 30 different Gators were arrested on 31 separate occasions dur-

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Guard Tamara Simpson ’18 led the charge for the Bulldogs in the wake of captain Sarah Halejian’s ’15 injury, scoring 15 points against Saint Peter’s.

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER Last night, the Yale women’s basketball team defeated Saint Peter’s 53–45 on the road in a back-andforth match despite the absence of captain and leading scorer Sarah Halejian ’15, who is out for the year

with a torn ACL. Without Halejian, guard Tamara Simpson ’18 stepped up, registering three steals and scoring 15 points on 7–14 shooting on a night when the team shot just 33.9 percent from the field.

“We had a great performance from Tamara,” guard Nyasha Sarju

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’16 said. “She was in the passing lanes, getting her hands all over the ball defensively and driving very effectively to the basket.”

In the opening minutes of the game, the Bulldogs (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) fell behind 4–0 but got on the board with a layup from Katie Werner ’17 three minutes in. Sarju’s jump shot

Elis hope to vault into contention

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With their eyes on the Ivy League title, the members of the Yale gymnastics team will begin their 2015 season on Sunday at the New Hampshire Invitational.

Following a second-place finish at the Ivy Classic and a fifthplace finish at ECAC Championships. And with top gymnast and team captain Morgan Traina ’15 returning, the Bulldogs hope to soar to greater heights this year.

GYMNASTICS Last year’s squad was hobbled by several injuries, including season-ending ones to Kacie Traina ’17 and Mitzi Unda-Sosa ’17.

While Yale finished second at the Ivy Classic, the team as a whole did not compete in the postseason, as its performance at ECACs was not sufficient to qualify for the USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championships.

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Captain Morgan Traina ’15 gave former Yale star Anna Mitescu ’96 credit for helping the team’s strength through her nutrition advice.

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NUMBER OF THREE-POINTERS MADE BY THE YALE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM IN ITS GAME AGAINST SAINT PETER’S. Despite the lack of long-range shooting, the Bulldogs eked out a 53–45 victory largely on the strength of 27 turnovers by the Peacocks and 30 points in the paint.