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Capital projects on track

‘White Out for Mandi’ returns.

The fourth annual fundraiser for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation is being held today.

The Yale women’s ice hockey team is dedicating its game against Brown to the cause.

Admission to Ingalls Rink will be free, and donations will be accepted at the door.

Everybody is encouraged to wear their best all white everything.

Something smells like onions. Satirical news site

“The Yale Bubble” remains unpopped. Recent timely headlines include “Seminar Professor Determines Class Roster By Russian Roulette,” “Honeymoon Period of Relationship With Seminar Abruptly Ends With First Assignment” and “Froco Email Treads Thin, Awkward Line Between Formal and Casual.”

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sessions for freshman counselors — the first line of defense for the campus — are now taking place across campus.

Pasta and puzzles. Wooster Square Italian restaurant Consiglio’s is hosting a theater dinner party tonight titled the “Midwinter Beach Party.” The affair is advertised as involving an interactive comedy show, a mystery murder, games, prizes, as well as a costume contest for best tropical outfit, begging the question of how much can you stuff in between one three-course Italian meal?

Valentines Day every day.

The fifth Annual Valentine Chocolate Festival is not being held on Valentine’s Day but this Saturday in St. Thomas More Chapel. The full-day event will allow attendees to sample nearly two dozen types of treats and vote for their favorites. Last year’s Grand Prize winners included JCakes for its chocolate dipped strawberry cake and Romina Fiorotto for a chocolate and blackberry flan.

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER As several of Yale’s major capital projects are set to be finished within the next decade, senior administrators remain confident in the proposed timelines for their construc-

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER In past years, the distribution of money to student groups from the Undergraduate Organizations Committee has taken place behind closed doors. But now — in an effort to establish a more transparent process and address a potential budget deficit — the UOC will make funding requests and grants publicly available for the first time.

In a Jan. 19 email, the UOC announced to all student organization officers that all future grant requests and funding decisions will be made avail-

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able online for student reference. After student leaders apply for funding, their request will appear in a spreadsheet that displays the organization name, application cycle, the amount requested and the amount awarded. UOC Chair Ben Ackerman ’16 said the overwhelming increase in funding applications over the past several years has forced the UOC to make difficult choices.

“In making summaries of grant requests and decision public, we have the opportunity to not only increase the transparency and accountability of the allocations pro-

cess, but also provoke a much needed conversation on campus about the declining state of student organization finance,” Ackerman said in an email.

John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, said though he was not consulted about this change in policy, it is within the UOC’s prerogative to alter the procedures. He said he is in favor of the increased transparency and believes that the publication of the requests is “worth a try.” However, he added that he was concerned some student organizations may not want their information to be publi-

cized when applying for funding, and it may be difficult for those who view the online document to understand the information with the limited details provided.

We have the opportunity to […] provoke a much needed conversation on campus.

BEN ACKERMAN ’16 Chair, Undergraduate Organizations Committee

In addition to publishing all requests and awards, the UOC and the Yale College Council — the UOC’s umbrella organization — have decided to share the burden of making funding decisions.

Though the UOC will continue to be the primary funding decision-making body, the YCC will have increased oversight in approving these grants, Ackerman said. In every YCC meeting, council members will be provided access to all grant requests and awards, and they will have the opportunity to investigate funding transacSEE UOC PAGE 6

Hard times ahead CompSci surge strains department for Metro-North

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND JENNIFER GERSTEN STAFF REPORTERS

BY MATTHEW NUSSBAUM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The bad news just keeps on coming for Metro-North Railroad.

JOHN HARTWELL Member, Connecticut Commuter Rail Council

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With the renovations to the nave of Sterling Memorial Library and the Hall of Graduate Studies, as well as the construction of the two new residential colleges and the Yale Biology Building all set to be completed between 2014 and 2019, Yale is fac-

Group funding gains transparency

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Early programs not created equal

ing a period of both transition and excitement, according to senior administrators. Despite a $39 million budget deficit and the potential for future administrative cuts, capital project developments remain on

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The New Haven Line is grossly underfunded, and that’s been the case for many years.

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For top universities, early admissions programs have changed the game.

Since the reintroduction of early programs at Harvard and Princeton in 2011, Yale and its highly ranked peers all boast either binding or non-binding early programs that attract thousands of qualified applicants.

But college admissions experts interviewed said that each school wields its early programs differently often in pursuit of different goals.

David Petersam, president of Virginiabased higher education consulting group AdmissionsConsultants, said early action programs are inherently contentious because they tend to benefit applicants who are better prepared and more knowledgeable about the college process.

“But some schools practice more equitable early action programs than others,” he

Despite growing budget deficits, Yale’s capital improvement programs continue apace.

The Secret Garden. The Yale Marsh Botanical Gardens are holding an open house this Saturday, allowing visitors to see how their collections of carnivorous, desert and tropical plants are holding up in the middle of winter.

1980 Students fear the possibility of a real draft, into the army (not the ranks of the freshmen counselors).

Women’s Hockey gears up for annual “White Out” game

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New Haven museum held a “Downton Abbey”-inspired event on Thursday about immigrant domestic servants from Ireland in the 1800s.

“Thousands landed, lived and worked in Connecticut, resulting in drama occasionally reminiscent of scenes from ‘Downton Abbey,’” according to the event description. The comparison between the elite halls of Yale and the sitting rooms of Downton is almost too easily made.

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A recent report by the Regional Plan Association revealed the precarious state of New Haven’s rail line, the busiest commuter rail line in the nation. At current funding levels of $200 million per year, the report projects it will take 20 years until the line is operating at its full potential. The “emergency action plan” calls

for an investment of $3.6 billion through 2020 to renovate and restore the line and avoid the sort of derailments and major outages that occurred over the past year.

“From an infrastructure standpoint, the New Haven Line is grossly underfunded, and that’s been the case for many years,” said John Hartwell, a member of the Connecticut Commuter Rail Council since 2009.

The deterioration of the line, which runs commuter trains from New Haven into New York City and carries all Amtrak trains that travel between New York and Boston, has become glaringly apparent in recent months. A train derailment in May 2013 halted service for days. Then, in September 2013, a major power outage left thousands of commuters without a way to get to work for almost two weeks.

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David Liu ’17 always wanted to be a filmmaker. After enrolling in Computer Science 201 last term, he had a change of heart. Now a computer science major taking Computer Science 223, “Data Structures and Programming Technigques,” Liu has found that others are also starting to flock to the subject.

For now, at least, that means some in Computer Science 223 may have to sit on the floor.

Enrollment in the course has nearly tripled in the last three years, said Stanley Eisenstat, director of undergraduate studies in the Computer Science Department. The 169 students listed on OCS as taking the course are an indicator of heightened student interest in the subject. The department’s other introductory courses,

Computer Science 112 and Computer Science 201, have also seen an enrollment surge.

According to Eisenstat, the number of computer science majors has risen sharply in past years — from 15 graduating seniors three years ago, to 25, then 38; there are 49 predicted graduates this year. He said the rise might be due, in part, to recent efforts by the Yale SEE COMPSCI PAGE 6

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Computer science classes have seen increases in student enrollment, with some having nearly tripled in size.

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A government unchecked E

arlier this month, the Yale College Council made an important announcement. No, it wasn’t a new kind of salad dressing in the dining halls. Nor was it the name of this year’s Spring Fling headliner. Rather, it was a draft of the newly revised YCC Constitution, the production of which has occupied the Council of Representatives for the past several months. Their effort shows. Now, the YCC Constitution exceeds 20 pages — a vast improvement over last year’s dozen.

Despite the length of the document, its arrival was met with little fanfare. Most Yalies I’ve talked to aren’t aware that the YCC Constitution is being revised, or aren’t sure what’s changing. Either way, they don’t care.

At first glance, that disinterest makes sense. The YCC is hardly known for its ability to ignite campus passions.

And of the organization’s various projects, it’s easier to get excited about Robyn (please, let it be Robyn) and raspberry vinaigrette than the internal minutiae of student government politics. But Yale students should take the time to learn more about the new YCC Constitution. We’d be remiss to allow our student government to undergo drastic change without our input.

For one thing, the revisions are significant. At the top of the food chain, the number of elected positions on the executive board is slated to drop from six to four. Then, the YCC President and Vice President will nominate six additional members, including a Chief of Staff, to join them. Elections for the Council of Representatives will be moved from September to April, to coincide with executive board campaigns. The referendum process, through which students voted to support fossil fuel divestment last semester, will be formalized.

Even the Undergraduate Organizations Committee is about to get a facelift; renamed the Funding Committee, it will operate under greater YCC oversight.

In other words, this isn’t just some amendment — it’s a complete constitutional overhaul.

Some of the proposed changes are great ideas — the referendum process, for example, seems poised to make a real impact on campus. Yet other revisions seem counterproductive or unnecessary. More importantly, they’re often left unexplained. The YCC created a special landing page dedicated to summarizing the constitutional changes, but it’s not well publicized and difficult to find; even last week’s “Elevate

Your Resolutions” event was far better advertised.

The webpage offers a summary the reviMARISSA of sions. But MEDANSKY its explanations are Little Fables lacking and some of its claims are counterintuitive. For example, if the YCC hopes to “increase efficiency,” as is claimed on the webpage, than doubling the size of the executive board hardly seems the answer. The same goes for fostering “greater representation” while cutting the number of elected representatives.

Other changes seem trivial — at least minor enough not to warrant a seven-hour meeting, when other topics of greater importance to the student body could have been discussed.

In other words, while the YCC invested real effort into preparing the revisions, they spent comparatively little time promoting the changes, explaining them or soliciting student feedback. Perhaps they assumed students would be uninterested. But for a body that purports to aggregate and represent student opinion, to presuppose apathy seems anti-procedural. After all, no one loves a good survey like the YCC. If the YCC does consider itself a “voice [for] student opinions and concerns,” “a forum for discussion and advancement of student ideas” and the “primary liaison” between students and administrators (all language borrowed from the revisions, including a sharp new preamble), then they should test their new constitution under the scrutiny of the student body. But the YCC has instead used student apathy as a tool to deflect attention away from the constitution, shielding them from questions critical of the claims that justified its revision.

But the blame alone lies not with the YCC. All Yalies should hold our student government to a higher standard. Though brushing off the YCC and its constitutional revisions may seem tempting, our indifference will only enable them to brush us off in the future.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News.

Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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Against athlete suites

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he first day I arrived at Yale for my FOOT trip, I briefly met another Trumbull freshman who plays varsity tennis. We held a brief conversation filled with the usual introductions and small talk. The conversation ended with him saying, “Yeah, I live in the athlete suite. You should visit once school starts.” Despite all the small talk I endured that day, I remembered the open invitation to the “athlete suite.” I remembered it because one semester later, the sad fact is I never did visit.

I know what that story seems to say: I’m lazy and just never got around to visiting the athlete suite. But while I have my fair share of laziness, the truth is that this isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a larger trend that happens in Trumbull College.

In Trumbull, administrators sometimes create so-called “themed” suites. It’s not part of any official policy, but most students know they exist. In fact, it’s gotten to the point that if you ask certain students what suites they’re in — what their “theme” is — they would be able to name it instantly. There are the engineering suites, the musical suites, the diversity suites and most notably the athlete suites.

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first seem like a good idea.

C o m m o n interests often make it easier for people to get along.

Shared traits LEO KIM give suitemates something to bond over. But On Us problems arise when particular suites become isolated from the larger residential college community as a result of their themes. This is exactly what has happened with the athlete suites of Trumbull’s freshman class.

I understand why it seems especially beneficial for athletes to live together. Their practice schedules will not disrupt non-athlete roommates and their FroCos can be trained with an emphasis on athlete-specific issues.

But regardless of the benefits, it is particularly important for athletes to live in non-themed suites because otherwise, they may have little opportunity to integrate into the larger college community. The athlete suite phenomenon has created social divides.

Even without the themed suites, athletes naturally have fewer opportunities to interact with people outside of their

Setting MLK Day right A primary mission of University Properties is to stimulate a vibrant economic environment in our city. One of the ways we do this is to support local retail businesses through active marketing and promotion.

But there is an appropriate time and place for such promotion, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not one of them ("The dream co-opted," Jan. 21). In their enthusiasm for championing local business, one of our associates unfortunately conflated one objective with an objective of a much higher order, and that was inappropriate. It will not be repeated.

LAUREN ZUCKER Jan. 21 The author is Associate Vice President and Director of New Haven Affairs for Yale.

A progressive SOM I join the leaders of SOM’s Women in Management Club and 58 of our female classmates from the classes of 2014 and 2015 in responding to last Wednesday’s article (“At SOM, women face murky landscape,” Jan. 15). As female students, we believe the piece, which defines the School of Management as an “antagonistic climate for female faculty and students,” significantly misrepresents SOM’s atmosphere.

First, we must clarify that we agree with and strongly support the members of our community who are advocating for better female representation among tenured faculty and we applaud our Dean for his plans to rectify the gender imbalance in the years to come.

Rather, we take issue with the portrait of the SOM student experience painted by the article.

The SOM we have experienced is a progressive environment in which the vast majority of men and women work and study together productively and build lasting relationships based on respect and admiration.

In fact, though the student body mirrors our peer institutions in being only 37 percent female, 50 percent of SOM’s student leaders are female. For the sum of our time at the

teams. First, they practice a fair amount. As such, they are often quite busy and may not be able to spend as much time hanging around the college. This is true especially at the beginning of the year, when freshmen are most busy meeting people.

While the majority of freshmen are still testing the waters to find their extracurricular activities and are not yet busy with clubs, the athletes already have dove in headfirst.

In addition to that, people on teams have an immediate group they can rely on and become close with. Some, such as swimmers and track runners, can go spend time at their team’s house. Coming into college with a ready-made social group, they may have less of an incentive to make new friends. This isn’t because they are unfriendly — they’re simply under different social circumstances.

So, how are these athletes supposed to meet people? Well, how do people first meet at the beginning of the year?

How about proximity? That works. I became friends with the suites on my floor fairly quickly.

Except the athlete suites are often on the same floor.

How about friends of friends?

Also valid — but the first friends that a freshman makes are often his suitemates, and if his suite-

mates are all athletes, it creates a vicious cycle.

Facilitating interactions between athletes and non-athletes in Trumbull would help to build a stronger sense of community. The non-athletes would feel a greater personal connection to Yale athletics — they may have a greater incentive to attend games and cheer on their friends. In turn, athletes could learn about other aspects of campus life that can be missed in the blur of practices and games.

The relationship would be reciprocal, with everyone benefitting from the interactions.

In creating freshman suites, residential college administrators are tasked with shaping students’ social experiences.

Perhaps Trumbull administrators think it is helpful to pair students with roommates who share their interests. But they do have the opportunity to expose us to the community’s diversity, and we will all benefit from that. Sometimes rooming arrangements can lead to the most peculiar friendships. Athletes and non-athletes alike are eager for that experience — and administrators have the capacity to make that possible.

school, a woman has led our student government. Women are among the leaders of a vast majority of our professional clubs, including, the Consulting, Energy, Operations and General Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital and Technology Clubs. Indeed, the women of SOM are preparing to be leaders in a wide variety of industries, many of which have long been dominated by men.

We are keenly aware that some of the historical gender imbalances in the business world are actually the result of the kinds of assumptions the article perpetuates regarding gender roles and interests. As female business students, we play sports because we are genuinely interested in those activities. We speak up in class and participate in recruiting events as interested and engaged business students, not simply as women.

the academic freedom of the institutions of the ruling ethnicity in Palestine and Israel: the Israeli Jews. But what about the academic freedom and simple right to education of Palestinians? In Israel, all Palestinian teachers are vetted by the Israeli police and forbidden to talk about the most significant areas of their history or culture. In the late 1980s, the Israelis shut down every educational institution in the West Bank and Gaza for several years and put people in jail for informally gathering in homes and teaching children to read. The Islamic University in Gaza was bombed in 2008.

The American International School in Gaza was destroyed in 2009 and never rebuilt. Currently, Israeli soldiers at West Bank checkpoints arbitrarily refuse academics and students passage on their way to classes.

Mazin Qumsiyeh, a former associate professor at Yale who is now on the faculty of Bethlehem University in the West Bank sent this to me: “Dozens of military rules try to make education impossible including preventing import of basic educational material. Gaza is even worse as its universities are under siege. A Bethlehem University student was snatched at a checkpoint and sent to Gaza few months before her graduation.

In contrast to President Salovey, I commend the resolution of the American Studies Association and those in the Association at Yale who voted for it.

FRANCES SYMES Jan. 22 The author is a second-year student at the School of Management.

What about Palestinians?

On Dec. 20, University President Peter Salovey issued a statement criticizing a resolution adopted by the American Studies Association that supported a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. He wrote, “Any attempt to close off discussion or dialogue among scholars is antithetical to the fundamental values of scholarship and academic freedom.”

Of course, he is talking about

LEO KIM is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

STANLEY HELLER Jan. 13 The author is a 1969 graduate of Branford College.

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All tourists welcome E

ach time I pass a tour group on Old Campus, I get a little rush of adrenaline. I’m on stage: In the event that even a single visitor looks my way, I become a part of the Old Campus presence, the University branding image, the backdrop to an entire experience.

I do a little pro bono work for the recruitment officers, making sure to look extra intellectual and radiant with my love of all things Eli. I understand that being part of the Yale brand can be unnerving at times: y roommate recently divulged that she was alarmed to catch one visiting family snapping pictures of her in the library. For the most part though, Yalies are proud of our reputation, proud to live on a campus that draws visitors from around the world.

But why is it that we receive some visitors with a sort of veiled hostility? We smile with empathetic nostalgia at the high school students who tour with dreams of early acceptance, but the campus attitude towards other groups — namely, large tour buses of visitors from Asia — seems altogether different.

Granted, there already exists a disturbing prejudice against the stereotyped “Asian tourist” in America. A quick Google search reveals blog posts like “How can I

dress as an Asian tourist for Halloween?” and a set of Urban Dictionary definitions that caricature the stereotype in ugly CAROLINE terms. Discrimination against POSNER Asian travelers appears to be a Out of Line worldwide phenomenon, with one Economist article noting that Chinese tourists are the primary target for theft and xenophobic violence in Paris.

But I would expect a different mindset to prevail at Yale, a diverse community in which I’d like to imagine that xenophobia and prejudice are at a minimum, at least relative to much of this country.

The cold attitude towards Asian tour groups seems uncharacteristic of Yale students, and we ought to be embarrassed by it.

It’s first necessary to examine what sort of prejudice exists against these tour groups. Students are quick to label foreign visitors loud, obvious or intrusive — but these labels are shaped by a set of cognitive biases more than any real behavior. It’s not that these tour-

ists are really too noisy or intrusive, but rather the language barrier and large size of the tours lend a sense of otherness and conspicuousness to the groups as compared to the small, English-speaking parties of prospective students that pass by every few hours. In our treatment of tourists, we ought to remember the privilege we have as residents here at Yale. Sure, it can be uncomfortable to feature in a stranger’s vacation photo album. But these visitors don’t have the opportunity to admire Beineke or Branford courtyard daily as we do, and a few photos won’t hurt anyone.

WHY DO WE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TOURISTS FROM ASIA? It’s not at all surprising, when you think about it, that Yale is an attraction for large groups of foreign visitors. It is convenient and inexpensive for international travelers to visit the cities of the Northeast on bus tours, and the

fact that Yale is a popular feature on their itineraries should be a point of pride. In fact. bus tours that cater to Asian travelers in the United States, like the Chineselanguage service Marisan Travel, offer itineraries specializing in “elite school” visits. We make this list because Yale is regarded globally as a historical center of intellect and research, and its stunning gothic architecture provides an additional draw.

Walking across campus, I often ogle at the beautiful sight of Sterling Library or Harkness Tower.

The fact that international citizens come to tour campus should remind us of how lucky we are to be here. We ought to respect anyone and everyone who takes a few hours to share the sights and experiences we are privileged to have each day.

Identifying our community’s shortcomings — like xenophobic or prejudiced attitudes — can be difficult. But it is certainly necessary.

By dispelling any remnants of an exclusive or entitled attitude in our cultural legacy, we can ensure that every culture and ethnicity feels welcome inside the Ivy Gates.

CAROLINE POSNER is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

Why the rush?

No more emotional one-night stands I

had coffee with an old camp counselor the week before I began Yale. He warned me to watch out for emotional one-night stands. To be wary of opening up too quickly, because this was college and it was new and SHIRA still be talking at four TELUSHKIN to in the morning gestured towards something deep.

Behind Stories, he reminded me, are sacred. They should Blue Eyes be treated with respect.

To invite somebody to bare his or her soul is to accept a certain amount of responsibility.

We walk through a world where to be guarded with words is cause for suspicion — who is the holier-than-thou friend who won’t gossip? The prude who doesn’t share sex stories? The student silent in section? We are suspicious of the reticent. To casually share personal information is to be friendly, fun, carefree. Look how comfortable I am with myself! And with you! We are like the professor who curses in class to let you know he or she is still cool.

But sharing an intimate truth is no shortcut to true intimacy. Baring all does not equal vulnerability. The notion that we should all be comfortable sharing and hearing all sorts of intimate details about one another cheapens the power of words. It creates an environment where to make anybody else uncomfortable, to probe their stories or call their opinions to account, is to be rude. To be shocked — to not take everything with a shrug — is to be unsophisticated.

I want to have more vulnerable and uncomfortable conversations. Talking salacious stories is fine, but that’s not the glue of long-term friendships. Such talk no more builds true closeness than a physical onenight stand. Yet it is too often mistaken for the real deal.

There are stories I have told and regretted the telling. There are beliefs and opinions I have never thought to share because they were still half-formed, vague and wide, and who knows what it is we really believe anyway? There were times I hurt family and friends by sharing stories that were not mine to tell, used them as social currency. But how do we find ourselves if not by throwing a bucket of words against the wall and seeing what image they leave? We develop friends who can interpret the inkblot of our lives over and over again until they and we can speak with some truth. Like the student in section who actually did the reading and can share more than their first impression of the text.

DON'T JUST GO FOR SHALLOW EMOTIONS — WE MUST OPEN UP AND CHALLENGE ONE ANOTHER IN OUR DAILY LIVES

events. If discussing these important issues don’t form the bonds of sisterhood, I don’t know what will.

At the end of the day, it’s Yale’s housing system that has placed the opportunity for individual, sisterly relationships literally at my doorstep. My suitemates stand beside me when I brush my teeth, they crawl into bed with me when I’m in tears in the middle of the night, they lend me stuffed animals to accessorize Halloween costumes and ensure that our coffee table is always stocked with something sweet and lovingly stress-baked. Perhaps as with reallife siblings, I don’t spend enough time with them. I assume that by default I have enough time in the day for these five girls because I’m living with them, but that’s not enough. We’re working on more dinners together, “Girls” marathons and suite Woads. We have Screw this weekend, so that’s like a formal, right? I’m trying not to make an event of finding sisterhood at Yale, and in Silliman I11, I think it’s working. If I try really hard, I can convince myself that this is what it feels like to be a middle child.

This week, the Yale Chaplain’s Office is hosting a series of events known as SOUL week, a dressed up title for an annual event that celebrates religious life on campus and promotes discussion. Talking about God is a lot more awkward than talking about sex, and religion is perhaps the topic least open to probing on campus. My vegetarian friends, for example, are asked all the time to justify their dietary choices. But if I say I keep kosher, the table clams up; nobody tries to push a burger on me or ask if I’ve ever thought about how that might inconvenience others. To ask questions about religious practice is considered intolerant. I don’t know why. Maybe my secular friends are embarrassed, assuming I would have no answer that can satisfy them. Maybe they’re afraid I’ll invite them to synagogue or to Bible study. Maybe they think they will offend me by asking, as if one question would topple the shaky ground on which I build my religious practice.

Ask. Hold me, and hold others, to a standard of satisfaction when you hear the answer. Let us probe one another’s beliefs; stick around not just for the night, but for the long haul. Amazing things happen when people are uncomfortable, when people are asked to take their ideas to the limit and to stand by them. If you’re not interested, that’s fine. But if you are going to ask somebody a question — about religion, a political belief, an opinion — then consider really asking and taking on the responsibility of another soul. It can be better than a onenight stand.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays.

Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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s a child, I excelled at wanting what I couldn’t have. Painted nails and pierced ears had to wait until 12. Ponies were out of the question for a number of reasons, among them my anaphylactic response to their presence. A bay window (I had an obsession with reading nooks) never came to pass.

Most of all, however, I wanted an older sister, despite the chronological impossibility of this desire. At the end of the day, younger brothers don’t make you cool. I felt cheated by the sibling hand I’d been dealt.

One could imagine that pledging Kappa/Pi Phi/Theta would be the easy way to fill this void. I would get the big I’d always yearned for — she, and therefore we, and therefore I, would be the epitome of cool. Nonetheless, when rush came around last year, I decided to opt out, and this year I haven’t changed my mind. Still, sometimes I’m struck by the irrational desire that first-born status has deprived me of critical lifelong bonds. I’ve developed a number of strategies for remedying this dilemma. Going for froyo alone and waiting to see who shows up is not one of them.

Sororities exist under the premise that friends come in groups, but that’s not what experience has

taught me. A sister without a sisterhood is still a sister. I’ve tried to commit to cultivating standalone relationships through CAROLINE regular meals (yes, meals) or SYDNEY workout sessions as an alternative Self to chapter meetings.

Friends Absorbed don’t have to be like an outfit for formal — people don’t have to match. By focusing on individuals, sisters have emerged.

In these friendships, I base sisterhood around shared interests rather than integration into an existing group. For me, cooking is a happy medium: It’s an independent activity that smoothly converts into a group one. If you hope for success in friendship to correlate with success in business, perhaps consider opening a room service franchise.

Coming off of its inaugural weekend, the ladies of JE Room Service have their sights set on a multi-college brand.

I don’t know the details on these partnerships, but I imagine that it

would entail hours amidst the sweet smells of warming cinnamon buns and savory scones. In other words: my high school social life. Let me tell you, it was great and wonderfully sisterly. This setup is like a sorority in that one would presumably pay dues to room service headquarters, but is not like a sorority in that one is then paid in money rather than in neon crop-tops.

YOU CAN FIND YOUR SISTERS OUTSIDE OF A SORORITY If “The Baby-Sitters Club” tells the truth, big sisters are supposed to teach you about makeup and dating.

Enter “The Vagina Monologues” as an apt substitution for this relationship. Eve Ensler’s Valentine’s Day tradition, which explores issues of female identity and sexuality, is tragically absent from this year’s Dramat calendar. I am certain that there is an enterprising sorority-girl-to-be who would rather spend her time rectifying this omission than girl-flirting through rush

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80.7

Percentage of rejected Stanford early apps.

One of the largest differences in early admission data among the Stanford, Harvard, Yale and Princeton lies in the percentages of deferrals versus rejected early applicants.

Harvard, by comparison, rejects just 1.3 percent.

Early admission process still unequal EARLY ACTION FROM PAGE 1 added.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said that although students accepted to Yale through the early action program remained less diverse on average than students accepted from the regular pool, the University was making progress in reversing this gap by encouraging high-achieving lowincome students to apply early action.

TO BIND OR NOT TO BIND?

All nine independent college counselors interviewed by the News said that the most obvious distinction between the early programs of America’s elite universities is between early decision and early action programs. While Yale, Princeton and Harvard practice single-choice early action programs, in which applicants may apply to only one school by the Nov. 1 deadline but are not obligated to attend if they are accepted in December, the other five members of the Ivy League —Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania — exercise early decision programs, which require accepted students to attend upon acceptance.

Chuck Hughes, president of college admissions consulting service Road to College and a former admissions officer at Harvard, said this distinction exists partly because of the differing reputations of the schools.

“The nature of college admissions is such that students who are accepted to both Dartmouth and a school like Harvard or Yale will overwhelmingly turn down Dartmouth,” Hughes said. He added that having an early decision program not only attracts students who see the school as their first choice, but also keeps the school’s yield rate high — both of which contribute to school spirit and morale.

Bev Taylor, the founder of The Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said there are only a handful of schools — MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Yale — that do not have to worry about their yield rates. These schools know that students who apply early will likely matriculate even though they are not obligated to, she said. Taylor added that she rarely sees students who are accepted early by any of the aforementioned schools submit applications to other schools outside that list.

“How many students get into Yale and then apply to Cornell?

Not many, I’m guessing,” she said.

Jon Reider, a college counselor at San Francisco University High School, said he thinks early decision programs are unfair because they are risky for students who

need substantive financial aid.

Reider said he advises students who need significant financial aid to not apply to schools early decision because they will lose the ability to compare and negotiate financial aid packages with a number of schools before choosing where to matriculate.

In order to boost their yield rates, schools with early decision programs actively encourage students to apply early rather than regular, said William Morse ’64 GRD ’74, a former Yale admissions officer and a private education consultant.

Although colleges do not publicly admit to this fact, Taylor said it is obvious to both students and outside experts that it is easier to get into a school early decision than during the regular round. By filling nearly half the spots in their freshman class with early decision applicants, schools such as UPenn and Dartmouth send a signal that applicants get a boost for applying early, Morse said. But he added that it is counterproductive to these institutions’ overall mission of attracting students from all economic backgrounds to accept so many students in a round that is inaccessible to low-income students.

“How can you say you’re committed to fair admissions when half your class is automatically filled with students who don’t need major help in paying these hefty tuitions?” Morse said.

But other counselors, such as Hughes and Michael Goran, the director of California-based private education consulting firm IvySelect, said that early decision was still an option for low-income students when applying to Ivy League schools because of their robust financial aid programs.

How many students get into Yale and then apply to Cornell? Not many, I’m guessing.

BEV TAYLOR Founder, The Ivy Coach

WITHIN EARLY ACTION, DIFFERENCES PERSIST

Though Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Yale all offer singlechoice early action programs, great discrepancies exist below the surface.

All four schools received thousands of early applications this November — ranging from Princeton’s 3,831 to Stanford’s 6,948 — and all four schools reported higher acceptance rates for early action than their regular acceptance rates announced last year.

Stanford was the most selective

EARLY ADMISSION RATES ACROSS COLLEGES

10.8% 8.5% 21.1%

68.1%

school this early action round, accepting 748 students for an acceptance rate of 10.8 percent.

Yale and Princeton followed with a 15.5 percent and 18.5 percent acceptance rate respectively, while Harvard accepted 21.1 percent of its early applicants — the school’s highest early acceptance rate since it reinstated early action in 2011.

Quinlan said Yale’s higher acceptance rate for early action in comparison to the regular acceptance rate was a testament to the strength of the University’s early action pool.

Though Morse echoed that early action pools tend to be stronger than the regular pool, he said he doubts whether that is the sole explanation for the vast discrepancy between early and regular acceptance rates at Harvard and Princeton in particular.

“I find it unlikely that Harvard’s early action pool is seven times stronger than its regular pool,” he said. “But that’s what they’re suggesting when they have a 21 percent early rate compared to the 3 or 4 percent regular acceptance rate they’ll have in the spring.”

Although it remains unclear what percentage of the Class of 2018 at Princeton and Harvard will be early admits because students can choose to matriculate elsewhere, Richard Avitabile, a former admissions officer at New York

Rejected

Deferred

Other

(Withdrawn or incomplete applications)

15.5% 18.5%

80.7%

Stanford

Accepted

57.6% 78.9%

7.8% 25.8% 1.1% Harvard 3% Yale University and a college counselor at Steinbrecher and Partners, said it is likely both schools have already filled nearly half their class before beginning to read regular applications.

Quinlan said although universities can artificially increase their yield rate by admitting students who are slightly less strong but show definite interest by applying early, he does not believe this would be a good admissions practice for Yale. He added that his predecessor, Jeff Brenzel, was “very adamant in not allowing concerns about the yield rate to affect our admissions decisions.”

While numbers year to year may fluctuate, Quinlan said Yale has made a gradual move toward reducing the number of students the University accepts early in order to make room for equally deserving candidates in the larger, more diverse, regular pool.

NOT ALL DEFERRALS ARE CREATED EQUAL

The largest disparity between Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Yale existed with regards to the percentage of students deferred and rejected. Early applicants to Harvard, Princeton and Yale were significantly more likely to be deferred than rejected, with deferral rates of 68.1 percent, 78.9 percent, and 57.6 percent respec-

tively. Stanford, however, only deferred 8.5 percent of early applicants. While Princeton and Harvard rejected 1.3 and 7.8 percent of early applicants, respectively, and Yale rejected 25.8 percent of applicants, Stanford rejected 80.7 percent of their applicants.

Taylor said these differences are likely reflective of the volume of applications received by each of these schools.

“In the early rounds, Stanford just likes to get kids off the hook,” she said. “They know in the regular round, they’re going to have so many applications that they just won’t want to go back to see anyone who doesn’t have an absolutely stellar application.”

Hughes said he tells students deferred by Stanford that a deferral is a very good sign, because the school is signifying its willingness to closely reexamine the applicant in the spring. He added that at a school such as Princeton, deferred applicants could not infer anything from their decision. But a rejection from Princeton as an early applicant, on the other hand, is a strong indicator that the student is likely aiming too high with his or her college choices, Hughes said.

“The [Yale admissions] committee faces a similarly challenging balancing act when deciding whether to deny or defer an appli-

1.3% Princeton 1.3% cation,” Quinlan said, adding that the University strives to use the early action process as an opportunity to provide candidates and schools with realistic feedback about who should apply early and the students’ chances in the regular round.

Quinlan said that many college counselors encourage the admissions office to deny admissions to more students so that the applicant can recalibrate his college list before the Jan. 1 regular decision deadline. But he said he worries that a rejection from Yale could signal to high-achieving students that they should not be applying to selective universities even when they are “the type of applicant whom we are trying to encourage.”

Although it was a difficult line to draw, Quinlan said that the University’s admissions office believes an early rejection rate of about 25 percent is appropriate for now.

The admissions offices of all other schools declined to comment, citing a policy of not speaking to student publications from other institutions.

Students who were accepted to early action programs have until May 1 to decide where they matriculate.

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

Metro-North struggles likely to continue METRO-NORTH FROM PAGE 1 North and Amtrak trains — when it is unencumbered by disruptions that have haunted it in recent months. According to the report, the implications of further disruptions could prove disastrous for Connecticut’s economy.

“The economy of the New York metropolitan region is only as strong as the transportation network that supports it,” said Daniel Schned, Senior Transportation Planner for the RPA and the principal author of the report.

The line is of enormous value to New York City and its northern suburbs, as it provides New York access to a large labor pool, and southwestern Connecticut with access to jobs, he said.

Connecticut’s economy relies on the ability of the state to attract young families with careers in New York, Hartwell said.

“The thing that makes that possible is the trains,” he added. “If the train service deteriorates, we will become a less attractive place for these people to go ... the economy of Connecticut is tied directly to how well this railroad runs.”

And it is southwestern Connecticut, particularly Fairfield County, that is the engine driving Connecticut’s economy. Fairfield County alone provides 40 percent of the state’s tax revenue, according to Jim Cameron, former chair of the Connecticut Commuter Rail

Council.

“If [the trains] are downright dangerous, people are going to move to Westchester and New Jersey, and they are going to take their tax dollars with them,” Cameron said.

The lengthy report, released this month and titled “Getting Back on Track: Unlocking the Full Potential of the New Haven Line,” paints a grim picture of the years ahead if further funding is not found. The report called for major track work and the replacement of aging signaling and communications systems. At current funding levels, all of this work would take 20 years to complete.

For the time that it takes to complete the project, passengers will continue to suffer from delays and inconsistent service on the nation’s busiest rail line.

Opinions vary on the likelihood of whether adequate funding will be provided. The funding is needed to install new signal systems, repair bridges, and replace rails and overhead catenary wires, among other things. A consensus emerged from interviews with experts: the federal government must step in to help fund the necessary projects.

With his own re-election campaign heating up, Connecticut Gov. Daniel Malloy is considering using surplus funds for a tax refund as opposed to railroad repairs.

This is “absolutely the worst

WILLIAM FREEDBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Metro-North New Haven Line faces severe underfunding, according to officials. possible thing you could do,” said Cameron. Without enough money to keep the trains running on time, he does not see a tax refund as fiscally prudent, no matter how politically expedient it might be. Cameron said there are few viable options for obtaining the necessary funds without

extensive federal support.

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal has been an active voice in mass transit issues, especially concerning Metro-North.

Since last May’s collision, he has called for new safety procedures.

With Metro-North in such dire straits, however, simple rhetoric

is no longer satisfying commuter advocates.

“It is now time for him to bring home the bacon,” Cameron said.

Senator Blumenthal said in an email that he will continue to work with state and federal officials to try to secure these funds.

Metro-North is a private cor-

poration contracted by the states of Connecticut and New York to operate the railroads. Connecticut and Metro-North are joint owners of the New Haven Line.

Contact MATTHEW NUSSBAUM at matthew.nussbaum@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

MARILYN MONROE, AMERICAN ACTRESS

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23

Med School welcomes therapy dog

The article “New undergrad fellowship offers policy research” misidentified Rahul Singh ’15 as Rahul Kini ’15.

The article “After election, parties pushing legislative agenda” incorrectly referred to the Yale College Democrats as the Democratic Party.

iPad use growing in classrooms

VICTOR KANG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Finn, a three-year-old certified therapy dog, is the newest staff member at the Yale School of Medicine.

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Many of Yale’s classes are experimenting with the two hundred iPadthrough Yale’s Instructional Technology Group.

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER When ecology and evolutionary biology professor Linda Puth took her field ecology class to Horse Island, she used to face a problem: Many of the island’s species were invasive, which meant they did not figure in the field guides students used to identify the marine organisms.

This fall, though, Puth’s students simply whipped out their iPads, turned on their 4G network and compared their own photos of organisms to those online.

The iPads came through Yale’s Instructional Technology Group, or ITG, which for the past three years has been experimenting with classroom use for electronic readers, including Amazon Kindles and multiple generations of iPads. Once a more informal venture funded by the Yale College Dean’s Office, the initiative has since matured into a wellknown and accessible program supported by the budget of the ITG. According to Matt Regan, a senior Academic Technologist at the ITG, 200 iPads have been made available to professors, by application, for either semester-long or temporary use by students in their classes. This semester, students in seven courses have been supplied with iPads.

Professors and students interviewed said the iPads have not necessarily change the nature of their classes, but have allowed for standardization and simplicity, whether in the gathering of research or the reading of assigned materials.

“It’s not the technology that’s driving the class,” Regan said. “It’s still pedagogy.”

Though Yale’s use of iPads is relatively recent, Regan said the program has already reached a turning point because it must reckon with the fact that more and more students have their own iPads. Currently, when a class uses iPads, students must use the Yale-provided iPad even if they have their own because the University’s tablets come preloaded with the necessary apps.

But as Apple has recently decided to allow institutions to rent out app licenses, students who have their own iPads may soon be able to check out apps for semesters at a time, just like they check out books, he said.

The classes awarded with iPads this semester run the gamut from writing courses to classes in the arts and sciences.

They include history professor John Gaddis’ “Art of Biography” and art professor Jessica Helfand’s “Blue” alongside

research classes like linguistic professor Claire Bowern’s seminar on field methods.

Of Yale’s 200 iPads, Regan said 120 iPads were purchased this past summer for the exclusive use of science courses.

While professors must submit a proposal that details how they might use the iPads in their classes, selected applicants meet with Regan and Lauren King, who works in Bass Library, to flesh out their ideas and explore iPad features they may have not considered.

By using different apps, every course takes advantage of the iPads in its own way.

Last semester, for example, Arabic professor Sarab Al Ani’s introductory course used the iPads to make and distribute notecards, while economics professor Donald Brown’s “Welfare Economics and Equity” used an app that allowed students to use a virtual whiteboard in class.

Bowern said students in her linguistics field methods class are using audio and transcription apps on their iPads to record a Quechua speaker and share the material.

The intuitive layout of the iPads, in addition to the fact that most students are already familiar with the tablets, allows students to agonize over the linguistics rather than the recording technology, Bowern said. While different recording equipment has proven cumbersome and distracting to students in the past, the iPads remove technical hurdles, she said.

But Bowern said she can only imagine the iPads being useful for a very specific type of research seminar, noting that they might be redundant in large courses where lectures and discussion are the order of the day.

Benedict Scheur ’14, who was given an iPad for a class on the “Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods,” said he ended up using the iPad for his other classes, often substituting it for his laptop.

“It’s your whole backpack stuffed into one little thing,” said Mary Shi ’14, who was given an iPad last semester for “Genocide and Ethnic Conflict.” She said her classmates ended up saving a lot of paper by doing their readings on the iPad instead of printing them out.

Shi said the experience convinced her she should get her own iPad. In fall 2013, eight classes used iPads.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

Starting today, a furry new face is joining the staff of the Medical School campus.

At 10 a.m. today, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library will host a “coffee hour” in which it will welcome its newest resource — a three-year-old certified therapy dog. The dog, a rescue mutt named Finn, will be accompanied by his owner Krista Knudson GRD ’19, a doctoral candidate in nursing. The library plans to keep Finn on call from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. every Friday morning for the rest of the semester, stationed in a small conference room and ready for visitors.

“People will be able to come chitchat with me, or play with Finn, or just come sit quietly with him and pet him,” Knudson said.

Finn has already spent most of his young life as a certified animal-assisted therapy dog, a practice that has been growing in popularity in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes and other universities

around the country. Tufts and Harvard both have on-call therapy dogs, and the Yale Law Library’s therapy dog Monty has gained national media attention and attracted hoards of visitors since his arrival at Yale Law School in 2011.

Who doesn’t like unconditional love?

MELANIE NORTON Director of access and delivery services, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library In the Law Library where Monty holds hours along with his owner, Access Services Librarian Julian Aiken, patrons who are interested in spending time with the dog are able to sign up for individual time slots. In the Medical Library, however, people — whether they are students or members of the general public — will be free to come and go as they please.

Animal-assisted therapy is an ever-expanding practice

that traditionally involves allowing a patient to spend time with an animal, and research has shown that benefits of the practice include reduced levels of stress hormones, lower blood pressure, improved fine motor skills and a greater ability to communicate with others.

“Anyone who knows and loves a dog can speak to that, right?” Knudson said.

Library staff members and students alike said that they are hopeful that Finn’s presence will provide a stressrelieving outlet for the community. Melanie Norton, the head of access and delivery services at the Medical Library, said she hopes Finn will “bring a little joy” into the building.

Giulio Rottaro MED ’16 said that although many medical students would like to own dogs, their busy schedules — which can stretch to workdays lasting for 15 hours or more during clinical rotations — make it impractical.

“Finn’s presence should be a great way to have some benefits of a dog without the responsibility,” he said.

Before coming to Yale, Finn worked as a therapy dog with Knudson for PetPals, which is an offshoot of FriendshipWorks, a volunteer companionship group for the elderly in Boston. There, Finn developed a close relationship with a nursing home community that would regularly await his arrival and enjoy his presence. Knudson said Finn “has this gift of being in a crowded room and still having the ability to make you feel like you’re getting all of his attention.”

As Finn transitions to Yale, community members are hopeful that he will serve as a useful mental health resource on an otherwise stress-filled campus.

“Who doesn’t like unconditional love?” Norton asked.

“You can literally feel the tension in the room during the [medical students’] board exam period.”

The plan to have a therapy dog on campus first began taking shape at the end of the fall semester.

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

Plates still empty for SNAP recipients

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Charities providing emergency food assistance across New Haven are beginning to feel the weight of recent cuts to the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program, formerly known as food stamps.

On Nov. 1, the boost in funding to SNAP instated by the 2009 stimulus package expired, leaving individuals and families facing food insecurity across the country with a significantly lower monthly food budget. Many families’ financial situations have been further burdened by Congress’s decision not to extend monthly unemployment benefits to those out of work longer than 26 weeks. These factors, combined with the rising price of food, have forced many to rely on emergency food services, churches and other charitable organizations to provide daily meals.

“It’s putting a serious strain on the charity system,” said Charlene Edwards, a New Haven resident who is currently between homes and has been unable to feed herself since her unemployment benefits were cut off on Jan. 1. “I’ve worked for almost 50 years and paid taxes and contributed — I wouldn’t have believed in a million years I’d end up here in a soup kitchen. It’s insane that this is happening in the USA.” The reductions have not just affected the unemployed. Rick Durance, the assistant director of the Community Soup

Kitchen at Christ Church on Broadway, said that about a third of the 315 people they feed each day work full-time but still struggle to make enough money to buy food.

Robert Jackson, the organization’s supervisor, said he has noticed an increase in demand for meals, especially at the beginning of the month, which said is unusual because people often don’t run out of food stamps until the end of the month.

“We’re feeding more people, and more people are coming to us in dire straits,” he said. “The turnout used to be more predictable. Now we have to see how many people are coming on a day-by-day basis.”

He added the rising number of children at the soup kitchen is particularly troubling, showing that families are becoming more desperate.

Rick Durance, the assistant director at the Community Soup Kitchen, said the SNAP cuts are a blow to their resources during a period in which demand has already been on a gradual uptick. He said they served 5,000 more meals in 2013 than the year before, and the previous year’s jump was over 10,000.

In the wake of additional food stamp and unemployment benefit cuts, he added, the kitchen is expecting an even larger jump in demand, undermining their efforts to reverse the trend.

“We just have to make the food go further,” he said. “We have to make things stretch in the same way individual fam-

ilies across the country are making things stretch.”

Smaller emergency food providers have not been able to provide for everyone coming to their doors. Kimberly Hart, another New Haven resident impacted by the SNAP reduction, said that food pantries quickly run out of foods she needs to keep herself and her son healthy. She said she has to get in line outside the Mt. Hope food pantry at least three hours in advance if she hopes to come away with a chicken or fresh produce.

“They don’t let you in before they open and it’s really, really cold,” she said. “I just layer up, make sure no skin is exposed to the elements and try to keep moving while I’m waiting. I have to make a day of it.”

When she doesn’t have time to wait at the food pantry, she said her food budget only allows her to buy cheaper processed foods at the store. She worries that her son is gaining weight because of the inconsistent diet.

New Haven’s robust network of support services for the hungry makes it a magnet for homeless people from surrounding towns, Durance said.

Jackson said he has noticed that only about half of the people eating in the dining hall are from New Haven.

“It is spurious logic to think that by not helping people hunger will go away,” Durance said. “It is clear that folks need help. These cuts aren’t reducing the problem of hunger, just moving [it] onto us.”

A congressional committee

is currently debating a much larger cut to SNAP benefits.

House Republicans passed a $40 billion cut to the program over ten years, in what House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) called a “common sense” effort to reduce fraud and dependency on the program.

By contrast, the Democratcontrolled Senate passed a $4.1 billion cut to the program in a bipartisan vote. Advocates worry that a compromise would still cut $8-10 billion from the program, restricting eligibility and reducing benefits again.

“A lot of people would lose eligibility for the program completely,” said William Bromage, chair of the Food Assistance Working Group of the Food Policy Council. “The nuance is that SNAP is supplemental. The cuts dehumanize people who have low incomes or are disabled.”

The Food Policy Council is working to rally support for the state’s anti-hunger legislators including Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

One in five New Haven residents said they did not have enough money to buy food at some point in 2012, according to DataHaven’s 2013 Community Index report. Forty percent of residents in low-income neighborhoods said they were unable to afford healthy foods in that year.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.

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“Our lives are dependent on technology. It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. Everything is based on computers.” WILL.I.AM AMERICAN RECORDING ARTIST

University building projects continue

COMPSCI FROM PAGE 1 admissions office to recruit high school seniors with an aptitude for STEM, and to student anxiety about the job market. Eisenstat said he expects the current junior class to produce even more computer science majors than the 49 anticipated this year, and for there to be even more majors in the current sophomore class.

But computer science professor Joan Feigenbaum said the enrollment surge might also be attributable to periods of growth in the technology industry, which typically correspond with heightened student interest in related fields.

All of my friends are telling me this is where the future is.

STEVEN KANG ’16 Eisenstat said the last peak in computer science majors was in 2004, when the 40-some majors had entered the department at the end of the dot-com boom. Soon after, when that economic bubble burst, the number of majors dropped to 15.

“All my friends are telling me this is where the future is,” said Steven Kang ’16, a prospective economics and history major currently enrolled in Computer Science 112, “Introduction to Programming.” “I wouldn’t say it’s peer pressure. It feels right [and] I might as well try it.”

Some students expressed concern about how the department is going to handle the surge.

Although class enrollment is not a problem for Eric Ho ’16 this term, he said the final project had been cut from one of his computer science courses last semester when enrollment was higher than anticipated.

Last year, HackYale Co-Director Zack Reneau-Wedeen ’14 had to share his “Artificial Intelligence” teaching assistant with some 60 other students, he said.

When asked, Eisenstat explained that the TF in question was working 20 hours a week — the equivalent of two teaching fellows’ loads.

With the increased time commitment, Reneau-Wedeen said the TF needed to give fewer cre-

ative assignments in order to make grading more manageable.

Eisenstat explained that the number of graduate student TFs in computer science is limited by the fixed number of students enrolled in the graduate school. One more graduate student in computer science means one fewer in another department, he added.

Especially concerning for Feigenbaum was the computer science faculty’s ability to cope with heightened demand. She said Yale needs to respond to students’ demonstrated interest by increasing hiring efforts in the department.

“We’re getting more and better undergrads,” Feigenbaum said. “It simply has to follow logically — if you recruit more students, you will eventually need more faculty.”

But computer science major Jason Brooks ’16 said the faculty has handled the surge well given available resources. Just like last year, the department has opened an annex to the “Zoo,” one of the main computing hubs on campus, to accommodate the rise in student demand. If the enrollment surge lasts, Brooks said, the Computer Science Department might need to expand their physical resources.

Students have demonstrated interest in Yale’s computer science department in more ways than just course enrollment.

Brooks cited Y-Hack, Yale’s first 24-hour hackathon that took place in November, as a sign of increased interest from both students and industries in Yale’s computer science department. Over 1,000 students from across the country and Canada stayed overnight on West Campus for the programming competition, which received funding from Amazon, Google and other prominent tech industry sponsors.

“We are trying to do our part to show the administration that [computer science] is happening, and that a lot of people want this,” said Charles Jin ’16, a cofounder of Y-Hack. “Yale’s great, but it’s also lagging a bit behind.”

The computer science department is located at 51 Prospect St. Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .

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“I am certain that ‘YBB Grand Opening’ already appears on [senior administrators’] calendars for August 2019, and many people in the administration and elsewhere are already working to make this happen,” he said.

Breaker added that science faculty members have recently gathered to discuss methods of maximizing the benefits of the new building. Breaker said discussions have emphasized the need for greater interdisciplinary research and larger classroom space, adding that the best ideas will be incorporated into architects’ building plans.

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financial calamity, I am confident that we will solve the structural deficit problem and be able to start the YBB project as scheduled,” said Steven Girvin, Deputy Provost for Science and Technology.

The Sterling Memorial Library nave restoration will be completed before the start of the next academic year, said Associate University Librarian Ken Crilly.

The stone inside the nave and the ceilings have been cleaned and restored, while many of the large windows have also been repaired.

In a few weeks, restoration on the mural of Alma Mater will commence, he said. Crilly estimated the project was halfway completed.

While Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Tom Pollard said the renovation committee has not met recently, he added that the HGS renovations are on track and unlikely to be affected by the current financial position of the University.

According to a Sept. 3 email to the Yale community, Polak said the renovation of the exterior of Payne Whitney Gymnasium will cost $30 million and will be completed in August 2014.

The expansion and renovation of Sterling Chemistry Laboratory will begin in July 2014, finish in the fall of 2016, and cost $130 million.

The renovation of the President’s House, the soon-to-be residence of University President Peter Salovey located at 43 Hillhouse Ave., will finish in the fall of 2014. Its estimated cost is $17 million, all of which has been gift-funded.

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time. Even fundraising for the new colleges — which are to be entirely donor-sponsored — is set to be completed by the end of the year, though the colleges still needed an additional $80 million in funds in October 2013.

“Things have been going well,” University Provost Benjamin Polak said. “A lot of alumni want to be a part of this project. The idea of having more Yale College students is just a very appealing idea to everybody. Everyone is excited about the idea — it’s clearly infectious.”

A committee overseeing the development of the new colleges, co-chaired by Polak and Yale College Dean Mary Miller, has been divided into four subcommittees, Polak said. Topics investigated by the subcommittees include the size and number of classrooms and laboratory spaces, demands for sections, advising resources and extracurricular student life. The committee members will have to determine whether drama groups will have enough space to rehearse, for example, Polak said.

According to Polak, the University will stagger the first stages of occupancy in the new colleges, so that 200 new freshmen will be admitted to the colleges in 2016, one year before the construction is finished in 2017. The freshmen will live in Swing Space, then move to the new colleges in their sophomore year, along with a new wave of admitted freshmen.

“If everything works exactly on time, by the time the sophomores arrive, there will be enough built to put both freshmen and sophomores into the new colleges,” Polak said. “That’s the plan.”

Along with the new colleges, the construction of the Yale Biology Building and the renovations to both HGS and Sterling Memorial Library also appear to be on schedule.

Ronald Breaker, chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, said the biology building’s anticipated completion date of August 2019 is unlikely to be moved up because certain planning and financial issues must be clarified before groundbreaking begins.

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Ackerman said he hopes the increased YCC involvement and the publication of requests will inspire student leaders to submit better-prepared applications, leading to a more impactful allocation of funds. The two new changes are meant to complement one another, he said, as they will hopefully lead to more efficiency and transparency.

The policy alterations come after the UOC faced an unprecedented amount of funding requests last semester. Before November 2013, Ackerman and the UOC received more than 500 grant applications for the fall 2013 semester that collectively requested more than $350,000. The UOC’s annual budget, however — money drawn from the student activities fee, Yale College Dean’s Office and the President’s Office — amounts to $205,000.

According to the Jan. 19 email, the UOC currently has less than half that amount remaining to support student groups during the spring 2014 semester.

Even as these modifications begin to take effect, the number of undergraduate student organizations continues to grow.

The number plummeted from over 500 to just 279 in November, after many groups failed to meet the Oct. 31 deadline to reregister their groups and send representatives to attend mandatory leadership training sessions. Nevertheless the number has returned to approximately 430, as many groups regained their registered status through reapplication or by sorting out glitches in the system with the Yale College Dean’s Office.

However, many of these groups will not be able to receive funding, Meeske said, until they have enough members attend leadership workshops, which will resume at the

end of the month. Still, some groups will only be eligible for half of the maximum amount of funding they once were allowed — up to $300 a semester instead of $600 — because they lost their registered status and were forced to reregister as new groups.

I never knew what would be funded and what wouldn’t.

CHARLOTTE WANG ’16 Even so, Ackerman said he is worried, based on figures from the fall 2013 semester, that he will receive far more grant requests than he and the UOC and YCC can award. The UOC’s budget is limited, he said, by the comparatively low $75-per-person student activities fee.

Charlotte Wang ’16, who was denied funding in the fall of 2013 for the Vietnamese Students Association, commended the UOC for implementing changes in their process to better support student groups.

“One of my main frustrations before was the lack of consistency I felt that existed through their funding procedures — it seemed like I never knew what would be funded and what wouldn’t,” she said.

“But now, I feel like making the funding decisions public [will] help that problem enormously.”

Still, Wang said that the financial situation could be further improved by making more funding available for student organizations.

The YCC will vote to approve the first round of UOC funding for the spring semester this weekend.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”

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Evans Hall elicits both praise and distaste

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER After two weeks of settling into their brand-new home, the School of Management faculty members and students are opening the glass doors of their 162 Whitney Ave. building today to the entire Yale community for an open house.

The new SOM campus, Evans Hall, was inaugurated in an opening conference in early January. The inauguration festivities will continue with the open house, in which students from Yale College and the University’s other graduate and professional schools will be able to take guided tours and explore the building. But life at Evans Hall has already been in full swing — classes have begun, all faculty members have moved into their new offices, and the cafeteria and ground-flour atrium swarms with people each day.

The SOM Dean Edward Snyder said life at the new building, which was in construction from April 2011 to last month, will be much more enjoyable.

“I think that the adjustment time is going to be short,” Synder said. “I think that the students will spend more time at school, I think they will appreciate the incredible lines of sight. They will see more of each other and more of the faculty and staff.”

Students and faculty interviewed gave positive reviews of their first couple of weeks at Evans Hall — with few small reservations.

Jessica Gage SOM ’14 said

there was a period of transition in which students were relieved to no longer be crammed into their old building, but also slightly disoriented in their new one.

“We used to have to fight for breakout rooms ... and now we have even more space than we know how to fill,” Gage said.

“There was an obvious period of adjustment.”

The building’s spacious layout can also be puzzling to navigate, according to the SOM Professor Jason Abaluck. But Abaluck said the extra space also makes him particularly enthusiastic about the building, as it allows for greater equality in office allocation. As a junior professor, Abaluck held a small office situated away from many others — but now, he said, all the offices are “more standardized” and on the same floor.

There are also a few “mysteries” about the building, he said, joking that the elevator might be intentionally slow in order to encourage people to take the stairs.

The SOM Professor Ravi Dhar said most faculty members were pleasantly surprised by their new facilities. Some professors worried that they would miss the mansions on Hillhouse Avenue, he said, but they did not realize how much they would appreciate having better and bigger offices.

Anthony Lynn SOM ’14 said the building has exceeded expectations, and deserves the attention of the Yale community.

Harp gets NHPD security detail

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Among the changes coming to City Hall following Mayor Toni Harp’s inauguration will be increased security for the Elm City’s new leader.

Following the advice of New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman, two police officers have been commissioned to work as Harp’s security detail.

For now, their job entails basic protection and transportation between home and her office and to relevant appointments. Harp was the victim of two minor vandalism incidents while campaigning for office last fall, but according to NHPD spokesman David Hartman the increased security is unrelated to these incidents. It does, however, mark a shift from the previous administration: former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. did not have a day-to-day police detail.

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JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Former Mayor, New Haven, Conn.

“The mayor’s security detail is a direct result of the specific recommendation about it made

by New Haven Police Chief Esserman,” City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said. “The mayor deferred to his experience and expertise in this regard. This is not a new policy in New Haven — other mayors in past administrations have had NHPD security details assigned to them as well.”

Hartman said the department simply complies with requests put in by the mayor’s office.

For the sake of security, Hartman could not comment on the specific operations of Harp’s detail.“This is an issue of the mayor’s comfort and security,” Hartman said. “We’re told to provide a service, and we provide the service.”

Kevin Maloney, the public relations director for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, agreed that the issue of security is an issue of personal preference. Historically, mayors of other cities like Bridgeport and Waterbury have had

similar programs in place, and given New Haven’s urban environment the additional security seems appropriate, he added.

Maloney said that typically mayors are not in danger of extreme violence: the security is a preventative measure.

“It’s better to be safe than sorry,” Maloney said. “Certainly in the urban centers, you’re dealing with a bigger, more robust array of city services. The opportunity for people to disagree in any inappropriate way is obviously there.”

DeStefano said that he generally operated without security, occasionally accepting a police driver transportation to New York City airports. When he did face some kind of safety threat, however, DeStefano said that he was sure to alert police immediately.

During his 20 years in office he only received such threats three or four times, he said. DeStefano said he avoided dangerous situations throughout his tenure as mayor.

“I would not get into an argument with a person who was emotionally upset. I would not walk into a place where I did not think I should be,” DeStefano said. “I think, for me, it was just prudent behavior on my part and awareness of where I was.”

The issue that raised the strongest backlash was the introduction of the Elm City Resident Card in 2007, DeStefano said. Though no physical violence transpired, DeStefano said that he faced verbal confrontations and menacing phone calls as a result, calls that subsequent investigations revealed to have been made from outside of New Haven.

DeStefano did not comment on how Harp’s situation may differ from his and also said that public authority figures are not the only ones that need to be concerned about violence in urban environments.

“My sense of it is, as public officials, you do get threatened from time to time,” DeStefano said. “That said, like a lot of my residents, I’ve been out on when a shot has been fired, but that’s not unique to being mayor.”

DeStefano is currently teaching “New Haven & the American City,” a political science course for the spring 2014 term.

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

“I believe that the rest of the Yale community is intrigued by the building — and I hope that it has increased curiosity in the SOM,” Lynn said.

All Yale College students and faculty interviewed said that they were curious about the building, but few had plans to attend the open house.

History Professor Jay Gitlin said that though Evans Hall is an “impressive building” that makes an effort to integrate with the Yale community with its “brilliant blue tones,” its great size and posture make its future role ambiguous.

“It’s a building that makes a statement, but I’m not sure what it’s saying. I think it might be: ‘This is a great place for parties,’” he said.

Nine out of 10 students said that they are impressed by the appearance of Evans Hall.

Marion Hirshberg ’16 said she passed by the building and thought it looked “really cool,” but would not visit it intentionally.

Clare Brody ’14 said she might visit the building with friends in the near future because the SOM has several classes and event opportunities that involve undergraduates.

Still, Brody said she does not like the way the building looks.

“I think it’s ugly,” she said.

“It’s like McCormick Place meets the White House.”

Today’s open house will be held from 3-5 p.m.

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

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The SOM faculty hopes that the newly constructed Evans Hall will get the attention of the Yale community.

Students try health professions

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER Each Saturday, a select group of high school students descend upon the Yale School of Medicine to plan for the future — learning about research in cutting-edge medical professions and prepping for successful college applications.

Known as the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP), the 10-week session targets minority students with an interest in science and the health professions who are currently sophomores and juniors at New Haven high schools. Medical students plan and coordinate HPREP, which began on Jan. 4 this year and meets every Saturday. The program is entirely volunteer based, relying on faculty and students at the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and other healthrelated centers in the area.

“The idea is to try to recruit students’ interested in science and in health careers … but the heart and soul of the program is students getting together with our students,” said Dr. Forrester Lee MED ’79, a professor of medicine and assistant dean for multicultural affairs.

HPREP is a national program established by the Student National Medical Association. The co-coordinator of

its Yale chapter, Danilo RojasVelasquez MED ’16, said the local chapters of the Student National Medical Association and the Latino Medical Student Association work closely on a number of programs, such as HPREP that aim to “[build] a pipeline” into the medical professions. According to Lee, the New Haven chapter is over 20 years old.

The idea is to try to recruit students’ interest in science and health careers.

FOSTER LEE MED ’79 Professor, Yale School of Medicine Despite the longevity of the program, Lee said that it has been “pretty true to its roots.”

Between 30 to 50 students may attend the program in a given year.

“This year we have about 29 students coming in because we wanted to focus on a smaller group,” said Gerneiva Parkinson MED ’16, the other co-coordinator of the program. “It gives us more access and one-on-one time with the students.”

Typically, each three-hour session is composed of a lecture conducted by a Yale faculty member, an activity

inspired by the lecture and a skills-building workshop.

According to Rojas-Velasquez, lecture topics vary greatly, from a particular profession to ethics and health disparities.

The workshops usually focus on improving writing techniques and often relate to college application essays or research papers. At the end of the program, students present research projects on a topic in health.

Parkinson added that Yale undergraduates will participate in a college admissions panel with the HPREP students later this winter.

“I hope we make that application process a little less mysterious and let them know that it’s very possible because students like them are in medical school now,” Rojas-Velasquez said.

Lee said approximately 90 percent of HPREP attendees go to college.

At the end of the program, college scholarships are awarded to the students for a variety of reasons, from best essay to most participation.

The number of scholarships depends on how much money has been raised in a given year and can range from $500 to $1000, Lee said.

Lee said the HPREP coordinators typically ask Yale faculty and departments to attend events or make donations. He added that a multicultural talent show held

in early March, “Grannum,” also provides extensive funds.

Rojas-Velasquez said that a boost to the fundraising effort has come in the form of a Latin Dance Night at GPSCY that raised over $1,000 in October.

Both coordinators agreed that fundraising was a challenge.

“We want to give more scholarships out because there are some students who are really outstanding,” Parkinson said.

Lee said, even more than fundraising, the main difficulty the program faces is finding two student leaders to coordinate the program each year, as medical school students already balance busy schedules.

In trying to obtain volunteers from a variety of Yale schools, the coordinators do not require students to attend every session. Thus, the number of volunteers varies every week, from around five to eight, according to Parkinson.

“Some of the high school students think our medical students and public health students are like gods,” Lee said. “They just totally latch onto them as mentoring figures and role models.”

HPREP was the recipient of the Graduate Ivy Award in 2011.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

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Reputed mobster pleads not guilty

BY TOM HAYS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6 million airport heist dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie “Goodfellas,” an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York City home on Thursday and charged in the robbery and a 1969 murder.

Vincent Asaro, 78, was named along with his son, Jerome, and three other defendants in wide-ranging indictment alleging murder, robbery, extortion, arson and other crimes from the late 1960s through last year. The Asaros, both identified as captains in the Bonanno organized crime family, pleaded not guilty through their attorneys and were ordered held without bail at a brief appearance in federal court in Brooklyn.

The elder Asaro’s attorney, Gerald McMahon, told reporters outside court that his client was framed by shady turncoat gangsters, including former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino - the highest-ranking member of the city’s five organized crime families to break the mob’s vow of silence.

Massino “is one of the worst witnesses I’ve ever seen,” McMahon said. He added that

Asaro had given him “marching orders” that “there will be no plea and he will walk out the door a free man.”

A lawyer for Jerome Asaro declined comment.

The indictment accused Vincent Asaro of helping to direct the Dec. 11, 1978, Lufthansa Airlines heist at Kennedy airport one of the largest cash thefts in American history.

The gunmen looted a vault in the airline’s cargo terminal and stole about $5 million in untraceable U.S. currency that was being returned to the United States from Germany, along with about $1 million in jewelry. The cash was never found.

According to court papers, an unidentified mob associate who pleaded guilty and became a cooperating witness told investigators that he participated in the robbery at the direction of Asaro.

The theft was hatched by James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, a late Lucchese crime family associate who was close to Asaro, who told the bandits that he had a “score” that would make them rich, the papers say.

Each robber was supposed to be paid $750,000, but the cooperating witness said “most did not receive their share, either because they were killed first or it was never given to them,”

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FBI agents flank Vincent Asaro as they escort the reputed mobster from FBI offices in lower Manhattan, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in New York. according to the court papers.

The papers say the cooperator wore a wire and recorded a conversation he had with Asaro in 2011 in which the pair discussed being slighted.

“We never got our right

money, what we were supposed to get,” Asaro said, according to the court papers. “Jimmy Burke kept everything.”

In addition to the heist, the elder Asaro was charged in the 1969 murder of Paul Katz, whose

Justin Bieber arrested

BY CURT ANDERSON AND JENNIFER KAY ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — When he debuted five years ago, Justin Bieber was a mophaired heartthrob, clean cut and charming. But a series of troubling incidents have put his innocent image at risk, and none more so than his arrest on DUI charges Thursday.

Police say they arrested a bleary-eyed Bieber - smelling of alcohol - after officers saw him drag-racing before dawn on a palm-lined residential street, his yellow Lamborghini traveling at nearly twice the speed limit.

The 19-year-old singer later admitted smoking marijuana, drinking and taking a prescription medication, police say. Unlike previous episodes, this arrest has him facing potential jail time.

Bieber was charged with DUI, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest without violence. His MiamiDade County jail mug shot showed the singer smiling in a bright red inmate jumpsuit, his hair still stylishly coiffed.

He was arrested with R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff,

after police say they raced two luxury vehicles down the street at 4:09 a.m., with two other vehicles apparently being used to block off the area.

Police Chief Ray Martinez said the singer was initially not cooperative when the officer pulled him over. Martinez said the singer also had an expired Georgia driver’s license.

Police said Bieber was driving the Lamborghini and Sharieff was driving a Ferrari.

Both cars were towed. Police say Bieber was clocked at 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone near a high school, youth center, golf course, city firehouse and small apartment buildings.

According to the arrest report, Bieber “had slow d e l i b e ra te m ove m e n ts ” and appeared to be in a stupor when the officer ordered him to exit his vehicle. Bieber was arrested after repeatedly refusing to put his hands on his vehicle so the officer could pat him down to look for weapons, the report said. It says he cursed several times at the officer and demanded to know why he was being arrested. At one point, Bieber said to an officer: “What the f--- did I do, why did you stop me?”

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described by a fellow Lucchese associate of Burke, the late Henry Hill, as Burke’s private cemetery.

“Jimmy buried over a dozen bodies ... under the bocce courts,” Hill wrote in his book, “A Goodfella’s Guide to New York.”

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remains were found last year during an FBI dig at a house once occupied by Burke. According to the cooperating witness, Asaro and Burke were business partners in Robert’s Lounge, the papers say. The saloon was

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal authorities will limit the use of shackles on immigrants who appear before immigration judges under a settlement of a class-action lawsuit approved Thursday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will avoid shackling immigrants at the San Francisco immigration court in many hearings. Immigrants will still be shackled at a type of brief, procedural hearing in which several detainees are addressed at the same time.

The settlement, approved by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg, applies only to the San Francisco court, which serves more than 2,000 immigrants a year who are in ICE custody at three county jails in northern California.

The federal agency has not said if it will apply the same standards in other immigration courts.

The lawsuit, filed in 2011 by the American Civil Liberties Union of northern California and others, says detainees at the

San Francisco court wore metal restraints on their wrists, ankles and waists and that most were bused from jails several hours away, spending hours in shackles before, during and after their hearings.

Un d e r t h e se t t l e m e n t , detainees will not be restrained at bond or merit hearings unless they pose a safety threat or risk of escape. Except in limited circumstances, they will remain shackled at master calendar hearings, which are held for larger numbers of immigrants for brief, procedural issues like scheduling.

ICE said in a statement that it was “committed to preserving the dignity and welfare of all those in our custody.

The agency is also obligated to ensure the safety of the public and employees visiting or working in federal buildings that house court proceedings. ICE has worked with the plaintiffs to arrive at an agreement which affords the agency the flexibility to do both.”

Plaintiffs called the settlement a major victory.

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 3:00 p.m. Edward P. Evans Hall Open House for the Yale Community. The Yale School of Management invites members of the Yale community to an open house for its new campus, Edward P. Evans Hall. The building was designed by Foster + Partners, which is chaired by Lord Norman Foster ’62 M.Arch. Edward P. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.).

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Start! In the name of Love!

Kevin Love was one of five players voted to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star game. The forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves got the starting nod for the first time in his career, although he is a two-time All-Star. Love is averaging an amorous 25 points and 13 rebounds per game. He is also spreading the love, averaging a career-high 4.1 assists.

Elis ready for White Out W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 people will have more reason to go to the game,” goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said.

The team is trying to raise more than $22,537, which the White Out raised in 2011. Last season, the event raised just under $8,000, according to Decker.

The St. Louis Blues of the NHL will attend the game to support Jaden Schwartz, Mandi Schwartz’s younger brother, who is a forward for the Blues. The Blues will also hold an open practice at Ingalls at 3:00 p.m. today.

The game will feature several silent auctions, which will be a major fundraiser for the foundation, and a puck drop by Jaden Schwartz and Giana Cardonita, a 12-year old brain tumor survivor whom the team has adopted as an honorary member.

Bulldog players said that the memory of Schwartz has lived on among the team since she left it three years ago.

“By this point, the only people who had a chance to know and meet Mandi are the seniors,” Decker said. “Not a lot of the girls knew her personally, but her legacy has definitely lived on in the way that people honor her, remember her and speak about her as a person who was incredibly courageous, hardworking, positive and overall an amazing person.”

The event bears special sig-

nificance for Tomimoto, who was Schwartz’s lifting partner during her freshman year.

Tomimoto said that Schwartz continues to inspire the Elis.

“She was such a hard worker, and I think we always try to carry her work ethic in whatever we do,” Tomimoto said.

In addition to helping raise money for the Mandi Schwartz foundation, fans will also get to enjoy a game that could significantly affect the ECAC standings.

Yale (6–10–3, 4–5–3 ECAC) will play Brown (2–13–4, 1–9–2) twice, once tonight and again tomorrow in Providence. Four points would be a huge help to the Elis, who are just three points away from fifth place in the ECAC standings with 10 games left in the season.

The Bears are at the very bottom of the ECAC standings, but they just recently broke a 15-game winless streak by defeating St. Lawrence last weekend.

“A lot of the games they’ve played have been one-goal or twogoal games,” Leonoff said. That’s something we need to be ready for.

I don’t expect them to come and let us walk all over them, but I definitely think we’re the better team, and hopefully we can show that in front of our fans.”

The puck will drop at Ingalls Rink at 7:00 p.m. tonight.

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

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The women’s ice hockey team will host Brown in the White Out for Mandi game this Friday.

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Yale goes to Providence M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

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The Bulldogs have lost just once in their last seven contests, dating back to December 7.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 job of keeping the energy positive in the locker room.

If Yale wishes to remain among the elite ECAC teams, they need a good showing against Brown (7–7–3, 4–5–1), which lurks just two points behind the Bulldogs in the standings.

In the teams’ first matchup, which was a non-conference season opener for both squads, Yale fell 4–1 after yielding three third period goals. However, both teams are markedly different from what they were that first game: Brown has switched goalies, with freshman Tyler Steel taking the reins, and Yale has changed around the personnel on its lines.

“Our structure offensively

and defensively is different, and Brown’s will be as well,” Allain said. “I would expect our compete level to be a little different than it was that Friday afternoon.”

The Bears are led by forward Matt Lorito, who finished second in the conference in goals last year with 22, but two sophomores have also made major contributions on the ice. Forwards Nick Lappin and Mark Naclerio each rank among the top 15 in the conference in points, shoring up a Brown attack that has still been fairly toothless, ranking just eighth in the ECAC at 2.60 goals per game.

Yale may be without two of its top skaters against the Bears. Forwards Carson Cooper ’16 and Doherty both recently suffered injuries, with Cooper missing both

games last weekend and Doherty missing Saturday’s contest against St. Lawrence. Allain said neither player practiced Wednesday.

No matter who is healthy, Hayden said that the Elis will need to channel their play from the game against St. Lawrence in order to win.

“Our mentality is … to give every game a lot of intensity and come into every period with that same amount of intensity,” Hayden said. “If we bring that same energy here, we’ll have a lot of success.”

Yale plays in Providence on Friday night at 7:05 and returns home to Ingalls on Saturday evening, where the puck will drop at 7:00.

rebounding, was efficient with 16 points on 7–13 shooting to go along with a game-high 10 boards, but his frontcourt mate, forward Cedric Kuakamensah, was held to just five points and two rebounds.

The Elis went 7–18 from the arc despite averaging just 32.9 percent on threes during their nonconference schedule. Guard Armani Cotton ’15 recorded 19 points on 5–7 shooting to go along with nine rebounds. Forward Justin Sears ’16 contributed a game-high 20 points, along with six boards and three assists. Sears made up for 4–11 shooting by getting to the line 15 times. Guard Javier Duren ’15 rounded out the starters’ effort with 16 points, four rebounds and five steals. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 contributed an efficient 10 points off the bench.

“Scoring is going to be a team

effort this year,” Cotton said.

“When we have just one guy going they can easily take away that option. Whenever we see balanced scoring, it’s just great.

It feels good in the locker room, too.”

The Elis are now looking for a repeat performance, but they will have to do it on Brown’s home court, where the Bears are 4–2 this year, compared to just 4–5 on the road. Last season, Brown (8–7, 0–1) won eight of its 13 games in the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, including an impressive late-season victory against Princeton.

“We have to increase our intensity and our effort,” Duren said. “We know going into their house that we have to play that much harder to get a win.”

One thing the Bulldogs might have to look out for is the resurgence of Brown’s leading scorer McGonagill. McGonagill scores 19.8 points per game on 50.6

percent shooting at home compared to 17.8 points on 41.1 percent shooting on the road. After holding him below his scoring and efficiency averages last Saturday, the Bulldogs will figure to face a reinvigorated McGonagill as they look to start the season with a winning streak.

With the Elis’ next two games back home, a win in Providence would mean a possible 4–0 start to the season, which has not been achieved in Jones’ tenure as coach.

“A 2–0 start would really make us confident,” Duren said.

“We just have to remain humble because it’s a long schedule.

We have to keep doing the same things over and over, being consistent in our effort and our game plan.”

The Elis will tip off against Brown tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

W. Basketball to host Brown W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 needs to limit its turnovers and play a more consistent game for 40 minutes.

[Brown] can be a very dangerous team offensively.

EMMY ALLEN ’16 Center, women’s basketball Yale had a habit of starting slowly as well, marked by its early deficit against Brown. The Bulldogs trailed by five points, 15–10, about eight and a half minutes into the game before going on a run to capture the lead.

“For Friday against Brown and the rest of the Ivy season, we need to work on eliminating our number of unforced turnovers, executing our offense more efficiently, coming out strong from

the very beginning of the game and guarding their shooters — they can be a very dangerous team offensively,” Allen said.

Brown received a strong performance from guards Lauren Clarke and Jordin Alexander, who scored 16 and 10 points, respectively. The Bears’ top three-point shooter, guard Sophie Bikofsky,, and the second-leading scorer, managed only five points and made the team’s only three pointer against Yale.

Following Yale’s 17-point win, the team expects Brown to come back stronger, according to head coach Chris Gobrecht. It is unlikely that Brown will have another poor performance from behind the three-point arc, she added.

“The second time around in a back-to-back series like we have with Brown is always toughest on the winning team,” Gobrecht said. “We have to keep our edge because Brown will come out more determined than ever.”

The Bulldogs will again look to

Halejian and captain and guard Janna Graf ’14 to carry the team.

Graf was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week in recognition of her efforts in the game. The Elis also have a strong bench that can be a difference maker against the Bears again.

Allen had a career game against Brown last Friday, and, according to Gobrecht, any player has the capability of stepping up just as Allen did. Gobrecht sent a new starting lineup out for the opening tip against Brown last week, but it remains to be seen if she will keep the new starting five when the two teams face off tonight or if she will revert back to an earlier lineup.

Yale has struggled at home against Brown, losing the last three games between the two teams in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

The back end of the homeand-home series will be tonight at 7:00 p.m.

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The men’s basketball team topped Brown 74–67 this past Saturday at home in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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White Out for Mandi seeks mass support

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER When the Yale women’s hockey team takes on Brown at Ingalls Rink tonight, the game will mean much more than just the score at the end of the contest.

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has started 14 of Yale’s 17 games and posted a .919 save percentage.

“As a group, they’ve done a great job,” Allain said. “These guys came in ready to work and they’ve been a big addition to our team … We feel very strongly that they’re just scratching the surface.”

Hayden credited the older players on the team with doing a great

Tonight’s game marks the fourth annual “White Out for Mandi,” a charity event in honor of forward Mandi Schwartz ’10, a former Eli women’s hockey player who died in 2011 after a 28-month-longbattle with acute myeloid leukemia.

The event will raise money for the Mandi Schwartz foundation, an initiative founded by former team captain Aleca Hughes ’12 that supports youth hockey players with life-threatening conditions, according to forward Paige Decker ’14.

Decker co-organized this year’s event with Jenna Ciotti ’14, and Hughes has also helped with organizing, Decker said. “[The event] has been a pretty big success [in past years],” captain Tara Tomimoto ’14 said.

“We’ve gotten a lot of support from friends and family, but this year we’re hoping to get a lot more support from the broader Yale community.”

The Bulldogs are encouraging as many fans as possible to come wearing white in order to break the attendance record for a women’s hockey game at Ingalls Rink. The current record is 1,539, set in 2005 during a game between Team USA and the ECAC All-Star team.

Fans do not have to pay admission for the event, but can donate money at the door. In addition, just showing up will help the foundation, because many donors have pledged money per spectator, according to Decker.

“That’s why we make admission free, so that

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The men’s hockey team will travel to Providence to take on Brown on Friday before hosting the Bears on Saturday.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER After a rocky road trip against No. 13 Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the No. 10 Yale men’s ice hockey team aims to right the ship with a pair of games against Brown this weekend.

The Bulldogs (9–4–4, 4–3–3 ECAC) fell 3–2 to Clarkson last Friday after scrounging up just 19 shots, the fewest the Elis have registered all

season. But they rebounded to topple the Saints 4–2 last Saturday due mainly to three first period goals.

“It was an inconsistent weekend,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “I didn’t think we were very good on Friday night and I thought we were very good on Saturday night. We’ve got to find a way to compete for six periods the way we competed for three [last weekend].”

Forward John Hayden ’17 was a

bright spot in the game against the Golden Knights and the Saints, tallying a pair of goals against St. Lawrence and an assist in each match.

Hayden, however, is far from the only freshman contributing for the Elis. Forward Mike Doherty ’17 is third on the team in points with 11, and forwards Chris Izmirlian ’17 and Frankie DiChiara ’17 have played significant minutes on the ice. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, meanwhile,

Bulldogs vs. Bears: Round 2

Yale looks to sweep Brown

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team will face Brown in New Haven on Friday one week after beating the Bears in Providence.

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In its first away Ivy contest of the season, the men’s basketball team will travel to Providence to take on

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA STAFF REPORTER After securing its first win of the Ivy League season against Brown, the men’s basketball team is off to Providence this weekend to see if it can make it 2–0 against the Bears for the season.

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Last Saturday, the Bulldogs (7–8, 1–0 Ivy) were able to come away with the victory behind a balanced offense and a feisty defense. The Elis saw four players score in the double digits and forced 19 turnovers, which they converted to 21 points.

“It’s the best we’ve played in quite some time,” head coach James Jones said. “We got contributions from a lot

of guys. We made free throws when we needed to make them and we got stops.”

The Bulldogs were able to hold the Ivy League’s leading scorer, guard Sean McGonagill, to 17 points on just 5–13 shooting and forced him to commit six turnovers.

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The women’s basketball team will host Brown tonight after trouncing the Bears 70–53 in Providence last week.

The Bulldogs (7–8, 1–0 Ivy) are returning home for the first time in four games, posting a 2–2 record on their road trip. The 70–53 win over Brown (6–9, 0–1) featured a well-balanced attack from the Elis, with baskets from nine different players.

“It was a great team win,” center Emmy Allen ’16 said. “Everyone contributed.”

Yale outrebounded the Bears 46–28 and dominated the key, scoring 42 points in the paint compared to Brown’s 30 points.

The Bulldogs shot better from the field as well, 41.9 percent compared to 38.5 percent. The Eli defense also limited Brown’s best weapon: the three-point shot.

Yale held the Bears to just 8.3 percent shooting from downtown.

The Bulldogs, however, committed more turnovers than Brown, 19–17. Turnovers have been a main point of concern for Yale all season. The Elis average 16.7 turnovers per game and have hit the 20 turnover mark three times this season. Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 noted that the team SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 11

THE CURRENT ATTENDANCE RECORD FOR A WOMEN’S HOCKEY GAME AT INGALL’S RINK. The record was set in 2005 when the Whale hosted a contest between Team USA and the ECAC All-Star team.