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Reno recruits for 2018

Back, this time for forever.

Apparently, it is possible for things to come back from extinction. The Yale Compliments Facebook page is back! This time under the moniker “Yale Compliments II.” “Unfortunately, the original page was deactivated, so here’s a new page that people can message with kind words about their friends or acquaintances or total strangers!” read an advertisement on the class of 2015 Facebook page.

Round 3: Get a job.The Junior Class Council has set up a series of GCals and iCals so that students can easily add events related to the categories of: JCC, finance/banking, health, consulting, law, startups and tech. Students are advised to use these calendars as a constant reminder of their impending unemployment.

Alumni Award Watch.

According to a recent post by the Yale School of Music, alumni who were recognized at the Grammy Awards earlier this week include Thomas Newman ’77 MUS ’78 for “Skyfall” and Brad Wells ’05 and his ensemble Roomful of Teeth for their self-titled album.

Out of the blue. Toad’s is hosting the bluegrass bands Greensky Bluegrass and the Tumbleweed Wanderers on Wednesday. The age limit is 14+. Undetermined whether University President Peter Salovey will make a guest appearance.

Back to normal. Less than 24 hours after Toad’s venture into folk music, the venue is hosting Barstool Blackout 2014. The age limit is 18+.

Good to know the club is well aware of where its true strengths lie.

Cameras ready. Midnight on

Wednesday is the deadline to send in submissions to the 2014 Rumpus “50 Most” Facebook Contest. However, entrants should be aware that most of the selections are actually being made through backroom deals, bribery and the wanton discretion of Rumpus Magazine editors.

Too hot to handle. Meanwhile,

nominations are open for the Harvard Crimson’s “15 Hottest Freshmen.” “We want the students who put the hot in hot breakfast in Annenberg,” read an online call for nominations. (Bonus points to any prank-savvy Yalies who can get themselves nominated in this category.)

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1970 A record number of students enroll in the course “Human Sexuality.” The non-credit course “Topics in Human Sexuality” is the “largest human sexuality course in the East.” One thousand students end up filling up Battell Chapel for the first lecture of the course.

Eighty percent of these students are male.

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Yale’s fiscal 2013 endowment return in line

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Yale. Dawson picked Yale over Ivy rivals Harvard and Dartmouth, as well as Division I foes Tulane, Navy and soon-to-be Division I team Old Dominion.

“We’ve started a group message [among the current commits] with all 28 of us,” Dawson II said. “We stay in contact every day.”

For university and college endowments nationwide, the fiscal year that ended June 30 was a good year.

American college and university endowments saw an average return of 11.7 percent in fiscal 2013, up from negative 0.3 percent in fiscal 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. Based on the 2013 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, which collected data from 835 institutions, the report found that investment returns were more consistent across different endowment sizes during fiscal 2013 than they had been in previous years. Yale’s endowment — which earned a return of 12.5 percent for fiscal year 2013, up from 4.7 percent during fiscal year 2012 — outperformed the national average but was bested by the endowments of several institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University.

“It’s generally good news,” said John Griswold, executive director of the Commonfund Institute. He added, however, that the authors of the reports are not “prognosticators.”

“We don’t have a crystal ball. There are a lot

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Football head coach Tony Reno and his staff have been hard at work bringing new talent to the Bulldogs.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER It may be over three weeks since the BCS national championship game ended the college football season, but for Yale football, the months of December through July are far from inactive. Head coach Tony Reno and the rest of the Bulldogs staff are hard at work putting

the finishing touches on recruiting the class of 2018.

T h o u g h re c r u i t i n g we b s i te s w w w. r iva l s.co m a n d www.247Sports.com list 10 players that have committed to Yale — ESPN reports just eight commits — defensive end recruit Tim Dawson II said that those names are just the tip of the iceberg, with 28 players reportedly committed to play at

University Cabinet weighs visions for Yale

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For Chinese Yalies, smooth transition

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In the past eight months, a Yale conference center and a Farmington, Conn. library have played host to a quiet but significant transformation in communication at the highest levels of the University.

Three times since last May, the University’s president, provost, 15 school deans and 8 vice presidents have gathered as part of the newlyformed University Cabinet to discuss broad issues facing Yale. The day-long retreats are in addition to monthly meetings for the little-publicized cabinet — a creation of University President Peter Salovey’s that is among his most important efforts on University governance.

It is a means of improving communications, staying connected and for the president [Salovey] to be well-advised.

DOROTHY ROBINSON Vice president for development, Yale University Established by Salovey when he took office in July of last year, the group — whose agenda, discussions and decisions are not public — is designed to provide a forum for confidential and candid discussion among senior officials.

The group does not produce reports, but instead seeks to engender a bird’s-eye examination of the University from its most influential players.

Since its formation, several members said Yale’s leaders have collectively examined some of the largest issues facing the University: governance, internationalization, budget, the new residential colleges and student well-being.

“It brings academic leadership and the broader leadership of the University together for sustained conversations on important issues.

The result is a level of transparency that is important,” Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling said. “I am more aware of University issues than I would SEE CABINET PAGE 6

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n China, a recent media firestorm led to public questioning of the increasing exodus of Chinese students to American universities.WESLEY YIIN AND YUVAL BEN-DAVID investigate the social and academic transitions of Chinese students to Yale.

When Beijing native Amy Sheng ’16 first came to Yale, she considered farming with the pre-orientation program Harvest — foregoing Orientation for International Students, the traditional route for Yalies from abroad. But that was not why Sheng’s Chinese friends and family gave her quizzical looks.

They could not understand why she would want to leave a city setting, even for a few days.

“Everyone I talked to was very befuddled by the idea of Harvest. I come from an urban city, so they were wondering why I wanted to work on a

farm, what Yale was thinking,” Sheng said.

Sheng’s story speaks to a certain culture shock experienced by students from China — but it is also the only example of culture shock she could cite. Her relatively easy adjustment to life in New Haven reflects the increasingly gentle transitions many Chinese students experience when they study in American universities.

China is the largest contributor of international students to Yale University. Over the past nine years, the number of international students from China enrolled in Yale College

has more than doubled, rising from 30 to 61 since 2004. At the same time, the overall international population in the College has risen a smaller 34 percent.

According to Chinese students interviewed, the increasing Chinese population at Yale runs the risk of self-segregation.

“The Chinese are a rather large community,” said Pek Shibao ’15, an international student from Singapore. “They can go around and have a separate identity.”

But while finding comfort in each other, many Chinese students also feel comfortable in the American educational culture.

Of the Chinese undergraduates at Yale interviewed, almost all had previous contact with American education, often during high school while preparing to enroll in American universities. That experience, they SEE CHINESE STUDENTS PAGE 6

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a preferred manner while choosing courses, no one would dream of objecting; nor would anyone object if the student shared with his fellow students the values he calculated or bar charts he drew.

Why should using a computer program to display course-evaluation data in one’s preferred manner, and sharing that program with fellow students, be controversial if analogous pencil-and-paper actions are not?

In Computer Science, this principle is called “separating policy from mechanism.” The policy, appropriately regulated by the data owner, specifies who may use the data and for what purpose — for example, that Yale students may use Yale’s course-evaluation data for course selection. The mechanism determines how data are used under that policy, such as using pencil-and-paper notes or a computer program. Intellectual freedom demands that the mechanism for data use be left up to authorized users.

The second question raised last week is how we can encourage Yale students to develop great software and share it with each other while respecting intellectual-property rights as well as privacy and other social values that are often trampled in rapidly changing technological environments. More generally, how can we encourage today’s students to think computationally, just as Yale students have always thought verbally, numerically and artistically? How can we encourage them to use computers and networks every bit as creatively as Yale students have always used pens, cameras, paint brushes, musical instruments and other communication media? Designing appropriate-use policies to permit computational thinking is a start, but to maintain global leadership Yale must also proactively encourage and foster computational thinking.

Some of our Computer Science colleagues are worried that “bad PR” from this incident portrays Yale as technologically backward.

In contrast, we think the media coverage made clear that Yale students are great programmers, creative thinkers and bold actors. Of course, the incident also exposed the fact that the administration occasionally has trouble coping with bold action by students, particularly when that action involves computers. Yale is hardly the only venerable university of which that can be said, however. University administrations can and do adapt, and we are confident that Yale’s will become comfortable with computers — especially if alumni like Haufler, Xu and Yu rock the tech world, reap great intellectual and financial rewards in the process and share some of their wisdom and riches with their alma mater.

ale’s administration ignited controversy two weeks ago by blocking the Yale BlueBook+ website, developed by seniors Peter Xu and Harry Yu, for displaying Yale-owned courseevaluation data in an unauthorized fashion. The University later conceded that Banned Bluebook, a Google Chrome plug-in subsequently developed by senior Sean Haufler, provides the same functionality without violating applicable rules.

On January 20, Yale College Dean Mary Miller referred to Haufler’s Banned Bluebook as “a tool that replicates YBB+’s efforts without violating Yale’s appropriate-use policy and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us.” Haufler’s tool indeed exemplifies the multifaceted creativity of students — in this case, the ability to write great code while tiptoeing around intellectual-property restrictions.

More importantly, however, this incident highlights critical questions that Yale must answer if it is to maintain its global-leadership position in an era in which computers and networks play fundamental and indispensible roles in intellectual life. We must answer: What restrictions belong in appropriate-use policies, and how can Yale incorporate computational thinking into its commitment to creativity and intellectual freedom?

Like any organization, Yale must protect the many valuable data sets it owns from misuse, such as unauthorized commercial distribution or exploitation. Appropriate-use policies should specify who may access the data and for what purposes. For example, policies specifying which parties may use data commercially or redistribute them publicly, under what conditions, are standard and noncontroversial.

However, Xu and Yu’s YBB+ violated a more fine-grained and intellectually invasive policy, one governing not how university-owned data may be used but how those data may be displayed.

Computers are tools that humans invented to help us think, and restricting how data may be displayed to authorized users effectively restricts the way students may use tools to think about data to which they have legitimate access.

Fine-grained policies that constrain computational thinking by authorized users are antithetical to creativity and freedom of thought, and they have no place in an institution like Yale.

It might make sense to impose such restrictions on public displays. If an authorized user wished to publish a book or pamphlet displaying university data sets, Yale might reasonably insist that those displays take a particular form.

However, the University should not to try to control the way data are displayed for private use by authorized users. If a student were to use pencil and paper to arrange course-evaluation data in

JOAN FEIGENBAUM is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science. BRYAN FORD is an assistant professor of computer science.

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e have to be very clear on this point: That the response is to the image, not the man… It’s not what’s there that counts, it’s what’s projected — and carrying it one step further, it’s not what he projects but rather what the voter receives.”

Despite its jarring applicability to last night’s State of the Union address, this quote does not come from Jim Messina or David Axelrod. It comes from Raymond Price, a Nixon campaign aide who gave the above political advice to his candidate during the 1968 presidential campaign. For better or worse, this remains axiomatic in today’s political culture, particularly during a presidency enveloped in a perpetual campaign. Last night was a prime example.

This State of the Union, like many that preceded it, was an attempt at delayed beer goggles; that is, with the morning-after intended as the best part. In a carefully concocted blend of vagaries, grand vows and contemptible culprits, the president asked us again to breathe easier and trust him.

We have to, lest our “children’s children look us in the eye and ask” why we didn’t.

There are a number of factors up in the air following a fifth stab at a renewed “year of action”: its efficacy, wisdom, practicality. However, amidst all these uncertainties, one point holds across the board.

Odds are, the brunt of these policies will fall on us.

We are this president’s Palinurus. Whether or not you think his agenda worth it, we are the necessary sacrifice, more often than not, necessitated for it to start.

The cardinal example is Obamacare. The logic of the Yale Dining plan is the bedrock of our health care system: Much like General Tso’s Tofu and Vegan Ravioli, the product exists because it is mandated.

Even for the most adamant supporters of the health care overhaul, it is undeniable that young voters pick up the tab.

And that premiums bill goes upwards of 75 percent higher for people like us.

At the opening of President Obama’s speech, he mentioned an entrepreneur who “flipped on the lights in her tech startup” as a signal of an emerging economy.

But in practice, this administration has done more to the tech industry than a trillion Mary Millers could have done to YBB+. According to Census Bureau data, startup jobs per 1,000 Americans have fallen to 7.8 from 11.1 under Bill Clinton, 11.3 under George H.W. and 10.8 under George W. Bush. Why? Consider a Hudson Institute

study from Tim Kane: “The U.S policy environment [a combination of taxes and 'regulations on labor'] HARRY has become GRAVER inadvertently hosGravely tile to entrepreneurial Mistaken employment.”

For those not privileged enough to be on the cusp of this new, highskilled economy, prospects look far worse. While calls for a higher minimum wage may win plenty of support from the labor electorate come midterms, once more we are the ones who suffer. Take University of California at Irvine’s David Neumark, who surveyed 100 studies of the minimum wage to find that roughly 85 percent found “a negative employment effect on lowskilled workers.” (Re: young, often poor, people). These negative externalities only compound the already dampened trajectory of countless youth suffering under a 16.2 percent unemployment rate.

And while education reform was touted as the quasi-panacea for our future’s inherited problems, this too seems to have fallen secondary to higher priorities. It is clear from last night’s speech that the president hopes to place wider college enrollment on his list of accomplishments. But what is the cost (and who bears it) of this legacy project? In the last 30 years, tuitions for fouryear public colleges have gone up by 257 percent, while family incomes have risen only 16 percent. This is not due to the avarice of deans and professors. In 2010, the nonprofit College Board concluded that rises in tuition directly correlate with increases in federal Pell Grants.

In a sense, we are this administration’s 2 a.m. text: far from the priority, but expected to be there. When it comes to these defining projects — from health care, to a “fairer” or more “equal” economy to a revolutionized sense of education, and the like — we are the ones who, over decades if not lifetimes, pay the cost of these political experiments.

“The America we want for our kids … none of it is easy,” President Obama said last night. As a generation, we are fiscally conscripted to many of his goals. I hope we’re up for the heavy lifting.

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

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The state of our citizens

uesday night, President Obama declared to the nation, “It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.”

The President’s word choice — not “residents,” not “people,” but “citizens” — was no rhetorical flourish. In fact, the President returned to this theme later in the speech, extolling “the spirit of citizenship — the recognition that through hard work and responsibility, we can pursue our individual dreams, but still come together as one American family to make sure the next generation can pursue its dreams as well.”

While fulfilling his constitutional duty to “from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union,” Obama also reminded the nation of the obligations of citizenship. He reminded us that citizenship is not a commitment that arises only from time to time; rather, it is a commitment that should extend to every interaction with our neighbors, to every sector of our nation.

Since ancient Greece, the concept of citizenship has been tied to procedural equality, the idea that each citizen should have an equal opportunity to contribute to the betterment of society. While the Greeks excluded many of their people from the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship, we open citizenship to all. But we must do a better job providing equal opportunities to all citizens.

One cannot wholly realize the promise of citizenship without an education, a job, the right to vote, access to health care and a healthy planet.

The President proposed specific ways to increase economic opportunities for all Americans.

By raising the wage of employees with federal contracts to $10.10, he has set a tangible example for how American businesses, small and large, can support our workforce.

In his address last night, Obama also emphasized measures needed to promote gender equity, emphasizing that economic opportunity must extend to both men and women.

In stating that men and women alike must be empowered to balance work and family, the President tied the success of our economy to the wellbeing of every worker. Our conception of citizenship today entails equal treatment in the workplace.

The President’s address also emphasized that the rights and responsibilities of citizenship extend even to the country’s youngest. The rights of citizenship start with early education and universal preK, and they extend to higher

education — for the American Dream to persist, higher education must be accessible to all Americans, not just the ones who were born into prosperous households. The White House’s College Opportunity Summit continues the important task of strengthening our universities and supporting our students. And it includes job training, an area in which Vice President Biden’s leadership will be essential. With improvements at all of these stages, we can help fulfill our responsibilities of citizenship.

And the President’s commitment to opportunity for all includes providing healthcare for all. As the President reminded us, the Affordable Care Act is working. Three million young Americans are now able to stay on their parents’ insurance until they turn 26, and more than nine million Americans have signed up for private insurance or expanded Medicaid. And unlike the only existing Republican alternative, no one can be penalized because of a preexisting condition.

A unique characteristic of American citizenship is that it is open to people from all corners of the globe. The President reminded us of the millions of undocumented workers in this country who want to earn such citizenship, urging Congress to take action. Immigration reform will provide new opportunities for growth and extend the promise of the American Dream to a population our legal system has ignored for far too long.

The responsibilities of citizenship extend beyond direct obligations to our fellow citizens. While we must continue to grow the economy and develop new industries, this growth must not come at the expense of the environment.

The President made clear that while the United States should continue seeking energy independence, we should do so in a way that balances national security concerns with environmental well-being, economic development with the development of sustainable energy sources.

The responsibilities of citizenship are not always easy to fulfill, equal opportunity not always easy to supply. But the President’s unfailing optimism should continue to drive us forward to make our union stronger.

REBECCA ELLISON is a junior in Branford College and the president of the Yale College Democrats.

Contact her at rebecca.ellison@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS MONDAY, JAN. 27

The article “GHeav workers split over boycott” incorrectly stated that some workers are paid “wholly” in cash. In fact, workers are only paid partly in cash.

Students work for health justice

The article “YCC recommends open data” incorrectly stated that David Lawrence ’15 said the report authors could project how many students would minor in each field based on current class enrollment numbers. In fact, Lawrence said that their predictions are based on survey data. The article also mistakenly listed the class year of Peter Xu and Harry Yu as ’15.

Yale grad appointed DEEP commissioner

BY IKE SWETLITZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Robert Klee LAW ’04 FES ’05, chief of staff at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), was appointed as the department’s new commissioner on Thursday.

Klee will replace Dan Esty LAW ’86, a professor at the Law School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, who has served as commissioner for the past three years.

Klee has served as Esty’s chief of staff since Esty took office in 2011.

“My current job has been my dream job,” Klee said. “But I think this new one kind of tops it.”

Klee said he is excited about many aspects of his upcoming position: increasing the availability of cheap, clean energy, protecting shoreline communities, cleaning up natural parks and reducing the amount of paperwork required to get things done.

Esty commended Klee’s work as chief of staff, saying that Klee has been involved in every program across the agency during his time on the job.

“In the chief of staff role, he covered the full spectrum of activities of this department, and he did so with the breadth of knowledge of a scientist and the attention to detail of a lawyer,” Esty said.

Klee has an undergraduate degree in geology and environmental science from Princeton, and he studied both science and law at Yale. In 1997, he enrolled as a graduate student at the School of Forestry, and, after receiving a master’s degree in environmental studies, went on to pursue a graduate degree, concentrating in industrial ecology. Though his primary dissertation adviser was Professor Thomas Graedel, another member of his dissertation committee was his boss-

I was thrilled and honored that he picked me. My mom’s really proud of me too — and my wife as well.

ROBERT KLEE Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to-be, Dan Esty.

“I’ve known him for 15 years,” Esty said. “And have seen him building the extraordinary background he now brings to the leadership of DEEP.” While enrolled as a doctoral student at F&ES, Klee decided to pursue a law degree. He took

a few years off of his Ph.D. program to enroll in the Yale Law School. While in the Law School, he served as a TF for one of Esty’s classes.

In his thesis, Klee analyzed “material flow” in Antarctica — how substances brought into Antarctica changed forms as humans used them. Among the subjects he studied was how food imported for scientists in Antarctica turns into liquid and solid waste, and where the waste goes. Esty said that Klee’s dissertation “demonstrates a capacity to think in innovative ways about areas of policy that need to be transformed.”

Graedel, Klee’s primary advisor, praised his student’s drive in his dissertation research. He said Klee traveled across the world, from Germany to England to New Zealand, in search of data about what different countries were bringing into and taking out of Antarctica.

“It was a demonstration for me of his initiative and willingness to chart his own course, so to speak,” Graedel said.

Klee will have to make use of this skill in his new position.

Esty said he will remain available for informal advice, but he is returning to his professorship at Yale. He is already teaching a course this spring, F&ES 840: “Climate Change and the Quest for Green Energy.”

“Rob [will be] in the seat of responsibility and leading the charge,” Esty said.

Klee already has a head start — over the past few years, he has been overseeing an effort to improve the efficiency of the agency, a program that he looks forward to continuing as commissioner. He said his staff’s time would be better spent not “pushing paper,” but instead helping individuals and businesses act in compliance with regulations.

Two weeks ago, Governor Malloy’s office announced that Esty would be leaving his position at DEEP and returning to Yale. Malloy spoke with Esty, and several high-ranking people within DEEP, to find a new commissioner, said Dennis Schain, DEEP’s communications director.

Klee said that he got word of his appointment the night before the information went public at a press conference.

“I was thrilled and honored that he picked me,” Klee said.

“My mom’s really proud of me too — and my wife as well.”

Klee will take over as the commissioner designee on Monday, although his appointment is still subject to the confirmation of the General Assembly, which begins its session on Feb. 5.

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The Global Health Justice Partnership helps graduate students gain on-the-ground exposure to current public health issues.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER With a groundbreaking report released last week, the Global Health Justice Partnership is becoming a powerful tool to help graduate students go beyond the ivory tower.

The Global Health Justice Partnership — a joint initiative by the Yale Law School and School of Public Health — started out in 2012 as a small clinic, offered as a class for graduate students. But the program proved so popular that students wanted to stay involved, and the partnership has since expanded to allow a greater number of students to participate.

Last year, the students in the clinic traveled to South Africa to compile a report on mine workers suffering from lung disease.

Released Jan. 13, the report — which calls for South Africa to reform its compensation system for these miners — has already received considerable press attention in the target country, according to YLS professor Gregg Gonsalves, one of the co-directors and founders of the partnership.

Gonsalves said the partnership was born out of a desire to investigate and act upon issues that are related to both law and public health.

“A lot of the health problems, both in the US and abroad, are deeply entrenched with law and government,” he said. “In the real world, the divides between law and public health don’t exist.”

In order to engage with public health issues, Gonsalves said, students need to start working in an interdisciplinary manner.

They need to straddle not only academic disciplines, but also “academic worlds” such as as communities of intellectuals, policy groups and state actors, he said.

The partnership operates through both the clinic — a small seminar that is split into groups that tackle different issues — and a larger fellowship program, Gonsalves said. He added that while the clinic students are engaged in more intensive, hands-on work, the fellows form a wider “academic community” and organize periodic lectures, panels and research projects.

Ryan Boyko GRD ’18, one of the clinic students who went to South Africa last year to compile the recently published report, said he joined the partnership because he wanted to collaborate with people working on the ground, such as nongovernmental organizations and government officials. He added that

he has not had such an opportunity as a PhD student before.

Rose Goldberg LAW ’15 said she chose to become involved with the partnership because of its hands-on approach.

“Participants are not handed case files or standard operating procedures,” she said. “They are presented with live, unwieldy problems that implicate multiple legal systems, sectors and clients.”

Alice Miller, a YLS professor and a co-director of the partnership, said students’ interactions with people affected by these issues, as well as the interdisciplinary analytical framework students use, make their work innovative. Students have the potential to make a real impact on the issues they are investigating, she added.

One of the great challenges of direct involvement, however, is maintaining the neutral stance of a researcher, Boyko said.

“What is most difficult is writing a report from a detached academic perspective when you are clearly, to some extent, advocating for one of the sides,” he said.

Ikenna Achilihu MPH ’15, a Yale School of Public Health student who is enrolled in the clinic this semester, echoed Boyko, adding that he has had trouble balancing the roles of

volunteer and observer in the past.

Still, Achilihu said the clinic will provide him and the other students with substantive training and expertise in global health issues before they venture out to do field work. This field work will allow them to produce useful research, he said.

Currently, the partnership is working on a project about the United Nations’ involvement in bringing strains of cholera to Haiti.

Miller said that this semester, students will also start new investigations on HIV criminalization and prostitution laws in the United States, as well as on pharmaceutical companies and the legitimacy of advertising off-label products.

But Gonsalves said the future plans of the partnership go beyond what is going to be done in class and extend through the lives of students who leave the clinic.

“My greatest dream is that students will feel inspired by the class and want to take it on as their life’s work,” he said.

Mine workers in South Africa have one of the highest rates of occupational lung disease worldwide.

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

City may see new transportation app

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Yvonne White had been waiting for 20 minutes at the corner of Elm and Temple Streets, bundled up in a hat and scarf. Her bus was nowhere in sight.

White, on her way to work at Wal-Mart, wondered how far away her Connecticut Transit bus was. She feared she had already missed it. As early as next year, there might be an application on her smart phone that gives her peace of mind.

Global Positioning System technology is scheduled for installation on CT Transit buses — roughly 80 percent of the state’s public buses — beginning in January 2015. The infrastructure will first be installed as a part of CTfastrak, a new 9.4mile line between Hartford and New Britain. The technology will then be phased in for existing CT Transit lines throughout the state, including those in New Haven, according to Michael Sanders, a transit administrator for the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

“Once we have vehicle location data, we can make that available for services like smart phone apps,” Sanders said.

New Haven’s new transit chief, Doug Hausladen ’04, backed the idea of real-time tracking devices at a press conference last week — when he was tapped by Mayor Toni Harp to head the city’s Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking. He will start in that role Feb. 1.

Hausladen said he would support the development of GPS tracking equipment on Connecticut buses operating in New Haven. That pledge may mean

pushing for expedited roll-out or clarifying technical aspects of implementation, as the state DOT already has a contract in place to implement GPS technology first on the CTfastrak line at the beginning of next year and then gradually to the rest of the CT Transit system.

The number of hits [TransLoc] gets is constantly increasing.

ED BEBYN Transit and parking manager, Yale University But the installation of the equipment does not ensure that real-time location information reaches city riders. It remains to be seen, Sanders said, what precise software will transmit the GPS data for public consumption. He said one option is sending users text messages that alert them of approaching buses.

Screens at bus stops might be another means of displaying route information.

In order to provide a smart phone application, the state would have to enter into a contract with a private company or individual capable of building the software, Sanders added.

“Once we have vehicle locator capacity set up, we could do smart phones in two months,” he said.

Philip Fry, the assistant general manager for planning and marketing at CT Transit, said tracking applications on smart phones are the “holy grail of passenger information.” He said many interferences can

delay buses — traffic, accidents, weather — and allowing users to tailor their schedules to the precise location of their buses drastically improves the experience of taking public transportation.

Fry said the state DOT has committed to expanding GPS technology to all CT Transit buses following the opening of the Hartford-New Britain line in January 2015. He said McPhee Electric is operating as the general contractor, and Torontobased Trapeze Software is the GPS provider under the state’s contract.

On Tuesday, Harp endorsed the idea of mobilizing GPS technology to improve the reliability of the city’s public transportation.

“GPS technology has become increasingly accepted as a tracking tool in the private sector and prospects for its application to gauge mass transit reliability will likely flow from that,” Harp said.

In describing the idea last week, Hausladen drew a comparison to the TransLoc smart phone application available for the Yale Shuttle, which operates principally on campus, in the downtown area and in East Rock.

Ed Bebyn, Yale’s transit and parking manager, said ridership on the Yale Shuttle has increased annually in recent years, citing TransLoc as a major factor.

“The number of hits [TransLoc] gets is constantly increasing,” Bebyn said in a Tuesday email. “In polling we also continue to get positive feedback about the system.”

Bebyn said customer satisfaction has soared since the advent of real-time tracking capacities.

Evelyn Davis ’17 said her ability to determine the exact location of the shuttle on her iPhone

is decisive in the utility of the transit system. When she leaves her job on the far end of Prospect Street in the evening, Davis said, the timing of her ride back to central campus is a “safety issue.”

John Mickey, the director of marketing and external communications for TransLoc, said the application was launched in 2004, first put to use at North Carolina State University. It spread quickly to other college campuses, including Auburn and Harvard Universities, he said.

The application was novel in providing location information every second, he added.

“No one had ever done that — the best tracking systems were doing every 30 seconds at best, or every couple of minutes,” Mickey said. “Not even transit administators had this information. If they wanted to know where their buses were, they had to be in a car following the buses.”

Mickey said the company has tracked an average 13 to 15 percent increase in ridership after the implementation of TransLoc in transit systems. He said mainly universities and corporate locations — including Gap and Netflix headquarters — have used the software, but said it has also expanded to municipal transit systems in places such as Chapel Hill, N.C. and Silicon Valley.

One-hundred and twenty CT Transit buses operate in New Haven. They are used by roughly 9 million passengers annually, according to Fry. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” HENRY FORD AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST

New class of recruits takes shape RECRUITMENT FROM PAGE 1 Another recruit, kicker Blake Horn, said that the group messaging serves as a great way to bond and build a strong foundation.

The geographic diversity of Yale’s incoming class is very apparent. Of the ten players listed on www.247Sports.com, no two come from the same state, with players hailing from Arizona, Connecticut and everywhere in between.

While the members of the class of 2018 may come from across the country, both Dawson and Horn gave similar reasons for their commitments.

“When I went on my official visit, the environment was phenomenal,” Horn said. “Based on reputation and experience, it was way too good of an opportunity to pass up.”

Dawson II agreed, emphasizing the impact that his official visit had as well as how the coaches treated him.

This year, many commits have received attention from Division I programs from across the country. Offensive lineman Jon Bezney is perhaps the most notable: According to ESPN, Bezney holds offers from over a dozen FBS schools including Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Louisville and Boston College. Steve Osgood, Bezney’s head coach in junior high and family friend, said that Bezney was “pretty heavily recruited” by Wisconsin.

Bezney’s varsity head coach at Mariemont High School, Kurry

Commins, said that Bezney had more than 30 offers and received interest from the University of Texas.

“I’ve been a head coach for 13 years. I have two [players] at Yale right now,” Commins said. “I’ve coached Super Bowl winners.

But hands down, Jon Bezney is the best player I’ve ever coached.

[Bezney] is a special blend of size, strength, speed, agility and attitude.”

A number of Reno’s recruits had connections to Harvard, but chose to commit to the Elis instead. Quarterback recruit Rafe Chapple’s older brother Colton, graduated in 2013 after starting as quarterback for Harvard in 2012.

But the younger Chapple, who has three brothers that played football at the college level, elected to spurn the Crimson, as well as four other Ivies and Wake Forest.

“I just felt something special as soon as I walked on Yale’s campus,” Chapple said. “Anybody can go to Harvard and be good, but I think there’s something special going on at Yale that I want to be a part of.”

Chapple also said that offensive line coach Joe Conlin told him that since he helped protect Colton when Conlin was the offensive line coach at Harvard, he would do the same for Rafe.

Yale has apparently snatched another high school quarterback from Harvard’s clutches.

Ross Drwal verbally pledged to the Crimson in October after the coaches told him they might not

have a spot in a few weeks. But when he visited New Haven later in the fall, he was smitten.

“I absolutely loved it. Loved the coaches, loved the players, loved everything about it,” Drwal said. “Then I went to Harvard the next week and I didn’t feel the same at all … I thought I’d be more happy if I went to Yale.”

Despite playing under center in high school, Drwal said that he plans to play wide receiver at the college level. This position change fits in with Reno’s philosophy: At a Master’s Tea in Davenport featuring former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum Jan. 27, coach Reno said that he likes to recruit high school quarterbacks, citing the understanding of the game that is required of those players.

Reno has always had a reputation as a strong recruiter. An article published by the Harvard Crimson in 2012 spoke of Reno’s recruiting contributions to the team while he was still an assistant at Harvard, and one player’s mother called him “the best recruiter in the Ivy League.”

Reno’s first recruiting class as Yale’s head coach supported his reputation as a recruiter. He convinced offensive lineman Mason Friedline ’17 to commit to Yale over offers from half of the Pac12, including Washington, California, and Arizona State. Three members of the class of 2017 made major contributions in the defensive backfield, including second team All-Ivy and FCS All-Freshman player Foyesade Oluokun ’17.

But the coup de grace of last

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Tony Reno has been consistently known as a good recruiter for the Bulldogs. year’s recruits was linebacker Victor Egu ’17, who spurned national powerhouses like Nebraska, Notre Dame and Oregon in order to play at the Yale Bowl.

As far as the potential of Yale’s newest Bulldogs? Both Horn and Dawson II were unequivocal.

“I think the Class of 2018 can

make a big statement and help our school win multiple championships in the next couple years,” Dawson II said.

Per NCAA regulations, Reno is prohibited from commenting on specific recruits. As of press time, Reno had not responded to requests for comment.

Although National Signing

Day is next Wednesday for scholarship programs, Yale does not offer athletic scholarships, so the University does not release its official recruiting class until after the college decision deadline on May 1.

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

A “good year” for endowment of things that are still positive about investments. But there’s a lot of uncertainty,” Griswold said.

Griswold said fiscal year 2013 was an impressive year for most endowments because of the stock market’s strong performance. Though many endowments still have not returned to their pre-recession size, it is good news to see healthy growth, he said.

The report grouped schools into six categories based on endowment size. Schools with endowments between $500 million and $1 billion saw the highest average return — 12 percent — while schools with endowments smaller than $50 million saw the lowest average return, 11.4 percent. Though schools with over $1 billion in assets, such as Yale and Harvard, earned an average return of 11.7 percent, they still had the highest average return across the past 10 years.

The study also found that the spending rate of universities from their endowments grew slightly from 4.2 percent in fiscal year 2012 to 4.4 percent in fiscal year 2013. Institutions must spend from their endowment to support their educational mission and infrastruc-

tures, Griswold said, especially since government support to universities has declined.

“Despite the improvements in investment returns over the past year, colleges and universities are in a period of rethinking their budget-setting strategies and priorities,” NACUBO President and Chief Executive Officer John Walda said in the report. “We have gone through a great period of volatility in the financial markets over the past 10 years, along with deep cutbacks in government funding for higher education and declines in enrollment and tuition revenue at some schools. Thus, the strong performance of endowments this year, while gratifying, must be put in context of continuing stress on tuition, state government appropriations, and other revenue sources.”

Yale and other top universities tend to invest heavily in alternative investment strategies such as private equity, hedge funds and natural resources. Over the past two decades, most institutions began to emulate the diversified style of investing pioneered by Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen.

But the report found that the long-term trend of increasing asset allocations toward alternative investment strategies seems to have slowed.

However, the data on this issue was not as dramatic as NACUBO-Commonfund representatives expected. While preliminary data released in November, representing nearly 500 institutions, from the 2013 study pointed to the average endowment allotting 47 percent of their funds to alternative assets, down from 54 percent in fiscal 2012, the final report, which included data from 835 institutions, revealed that universities only decreased alternative asset allocations by one percentage point, to 53 percent in fiscal year 2013.

“This relative pause in the decade-long growth of alternative strategy allocations will bear watching in future years,” Griswold said in the report.

Experts interviewed were not surprised by the study’s results.

Terrance Odean, a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said because the stock market was up nearly 20 percent over the past year, he would have been surprised if endowments had declined on average.

“My first reaction, is yup, that sounds about right,” he said.

The Yale endowment was $20.8 billion as of June 30.

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

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NEWS

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” KURT VONNEGUT AMERICAN AUTHOR

City tackles academic truancy

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Mayor Toni Harp hopes to tackle truancy in New Haven elementary schools through a new program that focuses on the role parental involvement in helping children get to school.

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER At a Tuesday morning press conference held at Strong School, Mayor Toni Harp unveiled a program that will address truancy among elementary school students in New Haven.

The initiative is the result of collaboration among New Haven public schools, the New Haven Regional Children’s Probate Court and the Department of Children and Families (DCF). The program aims to curb chronic absenteeism by engaging parents and providing them with the support and resources they need to improve their child’s attendance. Harp

said that by addressing chronic absenteeism — which she said is the root cause of underperformance in school — the program will help students reach their full potential.

“I am very excited about this new outreach,” Harp said. “Each day a child misses school is a wasted opportunity to learn, to discover more about his or her talents and potential.”

Chronic absenteeism is a significant problem in the Elm City.

According to the DataHaven Community Index, 15.5 percent of New Haven students in grades K-3 missed at least 10 percent of school days in 2012, which was nearly double the statewide absenteeism rate of 8.3 percent and about four times

higher than the rate for some of the city’s suburbs.

Research has repeatedly linked chronic absenteeism with high dropout rates and a wide achievement gap, said Chief of Wraparound Services for New Haven Public Schools Susan Weisselberg, who has helped launch the new program.

Addressing absenteeism during a child’s early school years can have positive results down the line, Weisselberg explained.

Harp also emphasized the importance of getting students on the right track during elementary school.

“Once a child becomes accustomed to the idea that he or she will not be held accountable, that child loses account-

ability,” she said.

The new program, called the Attendance and Engagement Clinic, will be piloted at both the Sound School and Quinnipiac School, focusing on children in grades K-4. The program first requires rigorous tracking of student attendance at the two schools and then sending letters home to parents of children who miss a significant amount of school. These letters will include an invitation to the clinic — through which parents regularly meet with Probate Judge Jack Keyes, school administrators and DCF social workers. These experts will offer support and direct parents to resources that will help them get their child to school.

Through a state grant administered through the probate court, the program will also offer students scholarships for afterschool programs.

School officials said they have already begun tracking absenteeism and have identified 46 families at Strong School and 10 families from Qunnipiac School as potential program participants because they have missed at least ten days of school.

The New Haven program replicates one that Judge Thomas Brunnock established in Waterbury. The original program, Brunnock said, developed methods of supporting families to increase attendance in school.

“We have to address our

efforts to the families,” he said.

“We have to reach out to these families and make them aware that we are here to help get our children back to school.”

Both Harp and Keyes emphasized that the aim of the program is to help, not hurt, families. While the DCF does have the power to bring families to court on account of neglect, Keyes said that would not happen through the clinic. Instead, he said, the program is meant to engage with parents and provide support.

The original program in Waterbury has operated since 2008.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

Hegghammer examines Jihadists and the internet

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER At a Tuesday afternoon talk sponsored by the MacMillan Center’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Thomas Hegghammer — a specialist in violent Islamism — spoke about the effectiveness of Jihadi efforts to recruit new members through online forums.

Hegghammer, who has followed Jihadi websites since before the 9/11 attacks, said that low-budget Jihadist groups frequently use online forums to disseminate information to sponsors and potential recruits.

Currently, dozens of forums exist, and activists use pseudonyms to post messages, manuals and statements about the Jihadist movement. Still, in recent years, organizations — such as the National Security Agency — seeking to undermine these groups’ efforts have had some success in inhibiting Jihadi recruitment efforts.

These counter-terrorism agencies have infiltrated and sowed distrust within the online forums, thus impeding Jihadi groups’ operation coordination efforts, Hegghammer said.

“In the late 2000’s, distrust increased to the point of paranoia,” he said. “I’ve seen an increase in the proportion of accusations. Today, the sites place a greater emphasis on remaining anonymous and secure.”

Hegghammer added that the limitations of online communications make it difficult for Jihadists to set up in-person meetings with potential

recruits, as Jihadists fear that they are inadvertently communicating with imposters from intelligence and military organizations.

When unable to observe body language and communicate face-to-face, Jihadist recruiters must find ways to accurately distinguish supporters from spies, Hegghammer said, adding that Jihadists have turned to posting videos and audio clips to aid identification efforts.

There’s no need to panic over online Jihadi recruitment.

THOMAS HEGGHAMMER Specialist in violence Islamism “There’s no need to panic over online Jihadi recruitment,” he said. “Sowing distrust is a cost-effective counterterrorism strategy. It’s much cheaper than individually tracking everyone.”

Hegghammer referenced specific incidents in which active infiltration by government agents posing as Jihadists have lured radicals into plots that led to their arrests. These successes in locating several well-known individuals in the online forum community have alarmed forum recruiters, he added.

Still, Efstathios Kalyvas, Director of the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, said the Internet could serve as an important first level of contact between Jihadists and

recruits. “[Forums] could be very significant, because without the Internet some people could never come into contact with Jihadi messages,” Kalyvas said.

Hegghammer agreed that online forums do benefit Jihadi recruiters, primarily by facilitating the distribution of propaganda, allowing Jihadists to expose many more people to their messages.

Even if only a small fraction of the people who are exposed to the Jihadists’ message make contact with the groups, the message has still reached people and had an impact, Hegghammer said.

Christopher Sullivan, a postgraduate associate at the MacMillan Center, said Hegghammer should compare distrust in Jihadi online forums to distrust in other types of online forums.

He said this type of comparison would help determine if distrust is innate to online communication or if it has resulted specifically from surveillance and repression efforts.

“I thought the distinction among the different types of repression was really helpful,” Sullivan said. “I thought, however, that [Hegghammer] could have theoretically gone farther to tease out specifically how different types of repression lead to different types of counter strategies.”

The Program on Order, Conflict and Violence hosts talks about human conflict every Tuesday.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

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Hegghammer’s talk focused on how counter-terrorism efforts are targeting online Jihadist forums.

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FROM THE FRONT

“I know a lot about academic politics — and that is the worst kind.”

ROBERT M. HUTCHINS, DEAN OF YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1927-1929

Adjustment eased for Chinese Yalies CHINESE STUDENT FROM PAGE 1 said, was critical in mitigating their eventual academic and cultural transitions in college.

Moreover, students said Yale draws a unique set of Chinese students who, through a combination of Yale’s admissions criteria and their own self-selection, stand out from other successful Chinese students for their spunk and independence — something that serves them well in a liberal arts atmosphere far from home.

THE GREAT WALL OF DREAMS

Chinese student experience in the U.S. recently made headlines in China, when a man using the pseudonym Lu Jun — who had studied film editing in the U.S — went public with criticisms of his time in America. Chief among his complaints was his disdain for American nightlife, as he told stories of individuals on the streets conspicuously handling drugs and smoking marijuana.

To Lu, this marked the death of his American Dream, leading him to turn back to his homeland with renewed loyalty.

“My idea of the Chinese Dream is to build a country in which each of us is willing to work hard … without firearms, drugs, cold and superficial relationships, strife or discrimination or lazy and ignorant people,” Lu said.

Despite Lu’s sentiments, Chinese students continue to flock to the U.S. According to the Institute of International Education, Chinese students comprised nearly 30 percent of foreign students in the U.S. last year. A study by the Chinese Ministry of Education found that the U.S. is the top destination for self-financed Chinese students.

At the core of the Chinese student experience on campus is a student club, Chinese Undergraduate Students at Yale (CUSY), that some say both cushions and complicates the transition for Chinese students.

“I think CUSY is kind of like a secret society,” joked Scarlett Zuo ’16, who does not participate in all group events but has many friends involved. Students in the organization, she said, often take the same classes, study together, share similar extracurriculars and, of course, speak the same language. According to Zuo, if

you are a Chinese student at Yale, you are automatically considered a member of CUSY. Chang Liu ’14 said that at the beginning of each semester, CUSY students commonly send out emails to a panlist asking each other what courses to take.

Andrew Wang ’16, a ChineseAmerican involved in the Chinese-American Student Association, called CUSY “exclusive,” noting that the group tends to not participate in pan-Asian events.

But some said that though CUSY can be occasionally “cliquish,” in most cases it simply functions as a support group. Andi Wang ’17 said CUSY is special to him in that it provides access and connections to upperclassmen and alumni. “[CUSY] is the best you can get for a Chinese student organization,” he said.

At other schools, Wang said, things are very different. In a high school tour of American universities, he found that many of Yale’s peer institutions had Chinese groups with stricter attitudes. A friend at Brown told him that an action as simple as choosing to have lunch with non-Chinese students could be seen as impolite by the Chinese community.

Wang said Yale students are different — they are naturally better at determining how to juggle spending time with fellow Chinese students and branching out to different cultural and student groups.

“Chinese people at Yale just have that balance,” Wang said.

Though most students interviewed are willing and capable of embracing American social traditions, they still find it challenging to step outside of their comfort zones. Making friends with Americans, for instance, may be a surprisingly difficult task.

Yupei Guo ’17 said she believes American and Chinese people have different models of friendship: While both cultures value close relationships, Americans are comfortable in more superficial relationships, attending parties or getting together casually.

It took Chang Liu ’14 a semester to realize she had to take initiative to mingle with others.

“Personality is not a big thing in China,” she said. “But in America, you have to build a sort of

social capital. You have to make a good first impression.”

TALKING OUT OF TURN

In a 2011 article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, China-raised Jiang Xueqin ’99 argued that a Chinese education does not prepare its students to study abroad. From his experience as the principal of a top Chinese high school, he found that most Chinese students are cultivated not to possess three traits necessary for success in America: empathy, imagination and resilience.

“That’s why the toughest question you can ask a Chinese student is also the easiest you can ask an American: “What do you think?” he said.

Students interviewed said academically, the challenge for most Chinese students is speaking up, voicing opinions and having confidence in themselves.

While Liu has become comfortable speaking and writing in English, she still has difficulty with assignments that require creativity and personal reflection. A creative writing course like “Daily Themes,” she said, would pose a challenge because her emotions are still locked in the Chinese language. However, even if given the chance to write a personal essay in Chinese, she said that she still might have difficulty because she was not taught to think reflectively in China.

Sections and seminars are also intimidating for most students interviewed, as their Chinese backgrounds did not give them many opportunities to candidly express their opinions with such authority.

“In China you really weren’t encouraged to speak up in class,” Liu said. “You were always worried that you were going to say something wrong or embarrass yourself, and the teacher wasn’t going to be happy.”

This mindset is not just limited to students from China.

Yuki Hayashi ’17, an international student from Japan, said Americans are extremely willing to proclaim their opinions while the Japanese are not. Even Zuo, who considered herself an opinionated and talkative person before arriving at Yale, had

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During her first semester, Zuo took “Great Big Ideas,” a college seminar led by then-University Provost Peter Salovey and Adam Glick ’82. It was in this course, she said, that she grew to understand that participating in class means saying what you feel in addition to what you think.

“We have to express ourselves instead of complying to some invisible or invented authorities,” she said.

But Sheng said her admissions interviewer for Yale, a veteran of the admissions process, told her that Yale seeks a very specific type of Chinese student — one who, like Zuo, is drawn to inspiration and innovation.

Qiuyan Jin ’16 said the type of Chinese students currently at Yale are very different from Chinese students at other schools, as well as from the ones drawn to Yale ten years ago.

About a third of the Chinese students in the class of 2016 participated in the humanitiescentric Directed Studies program, marking a radical departure from the perception of Chinese students as scienceand math-oriented. To Jin, this

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“They look for students who survived the Chinese education system — people who survive with an independent mind, but also people who did well without losing their sense of self,” Sheng said.

Experiences in the U.S. prior to college helped many prepare for life at Yale.

When Jin participated in a high school exchange program with a private all-boys school in Washington, D.C, he knew he would try to study at an American university — something that he says is incredibly desirable, and increasingly affordable, for China’s rising middle class. In Jin’s eyes, the experience at the private school prepared him for the social diversity he would later find at Yale.

Similarly, Guo said her earlier years in the United Kingdom prompted her think about attending college outside of China. She initially hoped to return to the UK for her university education, but after visiting some colleges in the United States tour during a Model United Nations (MUN) conference, she fell in love with Yale.

MUN played a strong role in exposing both Guo and Zuo to

Western education. Zuo said MUN introduced her to the concepts of public speaking and expressing personal ideas in an academic setting.

Zuo also said she was socially well prepared for her time at Yale. She always knew that she would study abroad for her undergraduate degree, she said, as her father attended college outside of China and her mother was dissatisfied with her unresponsive students as a college professor. But in 2010, she attended Yale College Summer Session, during which she went through what she called a “rehearsal of American college life.”

Having witnessed the general social openness of America through the summer classes, Zuo arrived at Yale in 2012 ready to recognize and embrace American life without judgment or surprise.

“I realized that being different is an asset. It’s valuable, not just for myself, but for others,” Zuo mused. “I’ve never been happier that I’m Chinese or [that I have] spent my first 18 years in China than I am right now.”

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

Admins advise Salovey in new format CABINET FROM PAGE 1 otherwise have been.”

But members of the cabinet would not disclose any conclusions at which they have arrived.

Multiple members of the cabinet outlined hopes to continue taking on significant issues in the future, such as setting an academic vision for Yale and considering ways in which the University can better interact with New Haven. Looking forward, the members suggested, the group may well be a forum for Yale to evaluate fundamental questions of its identity as an institution.

Previously, the two groups of

senior administrators at Yale — school deans and University vice presidents — met in the separate bodies of the Deans Cabinet and the Vice Presidents Cabinet. The two groups come to the new cabinet with fundamentally different backgrounds, the former being academic and the latter being administrative.

In between his announcement as University president in the fall of 2012 and inauguration in October of last year, Salovey said he planned to prioritize internal communication across the University. To date, the cabinet is Salovey’s most significant step to expand communication

across the upper tiers of University administrators.

Deans and University vice presidents described the cabinet as successful in providing a forum for such communication.

“It provides a venue for thoughtful discussion among the University leadership on a range of matters, whether those be emerging priorities, concerns or possible initiatives,” University Vice President for Development Dorothy Robinson said. “Clearly, it is a means of improving communication, staying connected and for the President to be well-advised.”

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Crews echoed Robinson’s sentiment. Calling the group a “great innovation” on Salovey’s part, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said that, contrary to expectations, the large size of the group did not impede discussion. Sterling added that he has found the cabinet useful, particularly in having University Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander present for discussions on graduate student housing.

“It helps to develop friendships among key individuals who need to interact,” Sterling said. “It is much easier to do so in the context of an established friendship,

especially when there are difficulties.”

Friendships aside, the cabinet does not always reach consensus.

In addition to differences between the body’s academic and administrative sides, divisions also appear to have arisen between Yale’s bodies focused on liberal arts — the College and Graduate School — and its professional schools.

Looking forward, Sterling said, the body will need to address Yale’s fundamental identity, either as a college surrounded by professional schools or as a university that gives more equal weighting to its distinctive parts.

“There is a sense in which Yale is a college with a graduate school and professional schools that have grown up around it,” Sterling said. “How can you keep the later developments from feeling that they are step-children?”

Sterling also said the cabinet will need to consider how the University can expand its work in the sciences while also maintaining its traditional strength in the humanities.

The cabinet last met at the end of the fall academic term.

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

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In this June 18, 2010, file photo, the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, is shown.

BY JIM SALTER ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — With lethalinjection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.

Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid to make capital punishment more palatable to the public and to a judicial system worried about inflicting cruel and unusual punishments that violate the Constitution.

But to some elected officials,

the drug shortages and recent legal challenges are beginning to make lethal injection seem too vulnerable to complications.

“This isn’t an attempt to time-warp back into the 1850s or the wild, Wild West or anything like that,” said Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin, who this month proposed making firing squads an option for executions. “It’s just that I foresee a problem, and I’m trying to come up with a solution that will be the most humane yet most economical for our state.”

Brattin, a Republican, said questions about the injection drugs are sure to end up in court, delaying executions and forcing states to examine alter-

natives. It’s not fair, he said, for relatives of murder victims to wait years, even decades, to see justice served while lawmakers and judges debate execution methods.

Like Brattin, a Wyoming lawmaker this month offered a bill allowing the firing squad.

Missouri’s attorney general and a state lawmaker have raised the notion of rebuilding the state’s gas chamber. And a Virginia lawmaker wants to make electrocution an option if lethal-injection drugs are not available.

If adopted, those measures could return states to the more harrowing imagery of previous decades, when inmates were hanged, electrocuted or shot

to death by marksmen.

States began moving to lethal injection in the 1980s in the belief that powerful sedatives and heart-stopping drugs would replace the violent spectacles with a more clinical affair while limiting, if not eliminating, an inmate’s pain.

The total number of U.S. executions has declined — from a peak of 98 in 1999 to 39 last year. Some states have turned away from the death penalty entirely. Many have cases tied up in court. And those that carry on with executions find them increasingly difficult to conduct because of the scarcity of drugs and doubts about how well they work.

ATLANTA — The mad rush began at the first sight of snow: Across the Atlanta area, schools let out early and commuters left for home after lunch, instantly creating gridlock so severe that security guards and doormen took to the streets to direct cars amid a cacophony of blaring horns.

Georgia State University student Alex Tracy looked on with amusement.

“My family is from up north, and we’re used to driving in the snow and stuff, and seeing everyone freak out, sliding and stuff, it’s pretty funny,” Tracy said.

Mary McEneaney was not as amused with her commute from a fundraising job at Georgia Tech in midtown Atlanta to

her home about five miles away — normally a 20 to 40-minute drive, depending on traffic. On Tuesday, it took her 40 minutes to move just three blocks. She made it home three hours later.

“I had to stop and go to the bathroom at the hotel,” she said.

“At that rate, I knew I wasn’t going to make it until I got home.”

A winter storm that would probably be no big deal in the North all but paralyzed the Deep South on Tuesday, bringing snow, ice and teeth-chattering cold, with temperatures in the teens in some places.

Many folks across the region don’t know how to drive in snow, and many cities don’t have big fleets of salt trucks or snowplows, and it showed. Hundreds of wrecks happened from Georgia to Texas. Two people died in an accident in Alabama.

BEN GRAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Traffic inches along the connector of Interstate’s 75 and 85 as snow blankets Metro Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon.

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SPORTS

“If you don’t try to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s backyard.”

JESSE OWENS AMERICAN OLYMPIC ATHLETE

Elis fence to success

Staenz prepares for Olympics Q&A FROM PAGE 12 are you dealing with the QHow time off academically?

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I wouldn’t call it time off at all, more time away. I still have to hand in assignments and work on-time. I’ll be catching up later on the exams I have to take.

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JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s fencing team finished 2–3 at this weekend’s NYU Invitational, defeating NYU and Wayne State.

FENCING FROM PAGE 12 tational, but this year, the Bulldogs were able to get over the hump against tough competition.

The Elis started their day against two of their most difficult opponents, Notre Dame and Northwestern, falling 19–8 and 20–7, respectively. The Bulldogs received a 5–4 victory from the sabre squad against Notre Dame, but none of the squads were able to defeat Northwestern.

Yale pulled out a resounding victory against Wayne State, 20–7. All three squads posted victories, with sabre winning 8–1 and both foil and épée win-

ning 6–3. Alison Barton ’14 of the épée squad and Megan Murphy ’16 of the foil squad both went undefeated in their three bouts.

The women also had a very tight match against NYU, winning 14–13. The sabre squad carried the Bulldogs with a 6–3 win, while the epee squad finished 5–4 and the foil squad fell 6–3.

The Elis were unable to replicate their success against Ohio State in the final round of the day, falling 18–9. Again, all three squads fell to their respective counterparts from Ohio State.

“While last year we were only able to beat Wayne State,

this year we overturned our close loss to NYU last year by beating them 14-13,” Miller said. “The excitement of finally beating NYU carried us through the rest of the day, giving us the chance to fence some of our best bouts against powerhouse Ohio State.”

Cohen said this weekend’s tournament was an opportunity for the fencers to figure out what they needed to work on in order to prepare for the Ivy championships.

This weekend will feature the team’s last tune-up before the Ivy League Championship Feb. 8–9. The teams will face Vassar and Drew, two schools Yale has historically done well

against. The teams have not lost to either school since at least 2010.

“Looking towards Vassar and Drew this weekend, the team is physically and mentally prepared to win,” Miller said. “As long as we can bring together the focus and determination we have seen these past couple of weekends, I’m confident that we’ll do great on Saturday.”

Both teams will face Vassar and Drew at 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectively, in their final home matches of the season.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

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got you interested in QWhat hockey when you were young?

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among the team. Hanna Åström [’15], who’s Swedish, and I like to stay away from those rituals because you get too dependent.

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

Shirvell ’14 sets record TRACK AND FIELD FROM PAGE 12 She said the team entered the meet prepared for BU’s fast track and ready to face professional runners in a number of races, noting that the high intensity environment would motivate the Elis to perform at their best.

Megan Toon ’16 and Lillian Foote ’17 both tied their high jump season bests, Toon clearing 10.6 meters and Foote leaping 1.55 meters. In the 800meter race, Shannon McDonnell ’16 led the Bulldogs and captured a season record in 2 minutes, 11.62 seconds, to achieve sixth place, and was followed by captain Amanda Snajder ’14, who set her fastest time for this year in 2:29.89.

Other season bests set on Friday included Emily Cable ’15 in the 400-meter dash in 56.42, just narrowly missing her personal record set last season. Kristen Proe ’14 also recorded an impressive finish in the 400-meter with a time of 1:00.37, while in the 500-meter race Grace Brittan ’16 and Frances Schmiede ’17 posted their best times for the season with 1:19.84 and 1:20.30, respectively. In the 3,000-meter race, Elizabeth McDonald ’16 secured a season best in 9:54.91 and Anna Demaree ’15 followed in 10:13.20.

The women’s squad also racked up some impressive personal best times. Delaney Fitzpatrick ’17 ran the 800-meter in 2:14.08, along with Elle Brunsdale ’15 in 2:15.78, Rachel Jones ’17 in 2:23.74 and Alyssa LaGuardia ’15 in 2:24.53. In the mile race, Emily Waligurski ’17 led the Bulldogs with a personal best time of 5:00.21, and was closely followed

by Chandler Olsen ’17 who also topped her best time in 5:06.67.

An especially remarkable performance came in the 3,000meter race from Kira Garry, who not only outperformed her previous time by 15 seconds, placing 11th out of 89 runners, but also set the sixth-best time for that event in Yale’s history.

Recently coming off of the cross-country season, Garry explained how the focus of the middle- and long-distance runners’ track workouts has been primarily on speed rather than building up mileage, which is emphasized during the crosscountry season. She did note, however, that this year the training mileage has been a little higher, and believes that factor has contributed to the runners’ performance. “Mentally, one of the adjustments is that this is a team sport, [even though] you still have your individual per-

formance to focus on,” Garry explained.

The men’s squad, which ran on Saturday, also had a number of significant record-setting performances.

In his 400-meter dash debut, Marc-Andre Alexandre ’17 secured third place in 47.45, just two-hundredths of a second over Yale’s 400-meter record. Alexandre, along with Dylan Hurley ’15, Dana Lindberg ’14 and William Rowe ’15, worked together in the 4x400-meter relay to fin-

ish fifth overall in 3:15.30, the 12th-fastest time for that event in Yale’s history.

In the pole vault, Brendan Sullivan ’16 continued his outstanding performance streak of the season, taking first place out of 35 competitors with a personal record height of 16 feet, 4.75 inches, the fifth-best jump in Yale’s pole vaulting history.

Another personal best set on Saturday came from Duncan Tomlin ’16 in the 5,000-meter race with a time of 14:48.96.

Tomlin, along with teammates and fellow 5,000-meter runners Alex Connor ’16 and Isa Qasim ’15, were consistent top seven runners throughout this past fall’s cross-country season.

In the 1,000-meter race, Michael Grace ’15 continued to lead the Bulldog pack, besting his previous personal record by two seconds in 2:28.87.

Captain James Shirvell’s ’14 performance in the mile race was perhaps the most impressive for Yale at the Terrier Invitational on

Saturday. Shirvell, who qualified for and competed in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships last year, placed third out of 176 runners this Saturday in a time of 4:00.54, breaking not only his previous personal-best time by nine seconds, but also Yale’s mile record by four seconds.

“We don’t really take too much time off,” Shirvell said of his training for the mile race. “Building strength and speed … [makes] it all come together.”

Shirvell did not hesitate to mention his contentment with Yale’s performance at the meet.

He added that he believes the team will continue to improve throughout the season, building upon each performance.

The Bulldogs are scheduled to compete again Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8, in the Giegengack Invitational Meet held in Yale’s Coxe Cage.

Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu .

MARIA ZEPEDA/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The track and field teams will next compete Feb. 7 in the Giegengack Invitational at Yale.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 12:00 p.m. Yiddish Reading Circle. Yiddish speakers/readers at all levels are invited to the leyen krayz (reading circle). Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.), 3rd floor.

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

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

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 12:15 p.m. Human Rights Workshop: “Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe.” Terri E. Givens, associate professor at the University of Texas-Austin, will speak at this event sponsored by the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Givens’ academic interests include radical right parties, immigration politics and the politics of race in Europe. She has conducted extensive research in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Austria, and Denmark. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

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ARTS & CULTURE ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ humanizes history

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Iason Togias and Ali Viterbi as the titular characters in the Yale Drama Coalition’s production of “Antony and Cleopatra.”

This week, a group of students will stage one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies — a story of love and war in the ancient world.

“Antony and Cleopatra” opens tomorrow night at the MorseStiles Crescent Theater. Directed

by Gabrielle Hoyt-Disick ’15, the play centers on the ill-fated romance between the title characters as they struggle to fulfill their duties to their nations while keeping their commitment to each other. Hoyt-Disick said this production highlights the relationship between individuals’ behavior in private versus public life.

“The entire play is about having an audience,” Hoyt-Disick said. “There is a sense that this show is happening only because an audience is there to watch it.”

Producer Katharine Pincus ’15 said the production emphasizes the performative aspect of everyday life, especially in politics, where some people go to great lengths to hide their true feelings behind a seemingly composed exterior. She recalled a scene that sees the characters Antony, Enobarbus, Octavian and Lepidus engage in a tense standoff, where no one wants to lose control of his or her emotions because each is trying to play the “political game.”

Hoyt-Disick added that this performative element reveals irreconcilable differences

between many of the characters.

Cleopatra, she explained, does not rigidly distinguish between public and private realms because she uses sexuality as a political tool and political actions as a means of furthering her romantic relationship with Antony. But in Rome, Hoyt-Disick noted, an individual’s intimate and public lives are meant to be kept separate.

It all makes more sense when you see them [Marc Antony and Cleopatra] as real people who are in love.

OTIS BLUM ’15 Enobarbus, “Antony and Cleopatra” Hoyt-Disick said she believes that the play’s two main conflicts arise from the characters’ inability to balance their public and private lives. She explained that Antony’s devotion to Cleopatra causes him to make poor decisions in handling the civil turmoil that Rome was experiencing at the time, which ultimately leads to his clashes with Octavian.

At the same time, Hoyt-Disick added, Cleopatra is essentially a deity to the Egyptians and must choose between protecting the welfare of her people and assisting Antony in his endeavors.

“The saddest parts of the play are when we see Cleopatra put

aside her love for Antony in order to help her country,” she noted.

Pincus said that because the story behind the play is very well-known, audience members should try to empathize with the characters’ decisions throughout the show rather than simply wait to see the tragic ending.

There is some inevitable force of history that the characters cannot escape, Hoyt-Disick added, noting that she thinks the play is more about how they try to escape nonetheless.

Otis Blum ’15, who plays Antony’s close friend Enobarbus, said several aspects of the play lead the audience to believe that the plotline may end well for the main characters, which makes the ending more powerful. He explained that Antony’s charismatic speeches are able to convince audience members to believe that his forces will ultimately triumph, even when it is clear that he has no chance of victory.

“Even when you know the ending, you still find yourself surprised by it because you feel hopeful leading up to it,” he noted. “That’s the mark of any great tragedy.”

Blum said he thinks that while the play’s tragic element largely consists of Antony and Cleopatra’s downfall, the end of Antony’s friendship with Enobarbus is equally unfortunate. Blum explains that Enobarbus greatly respects Antony but is forced to watch in silence as Antony’s judgment becomes increasingly

clouded as a result of his relationship with Cleopatra.

Blum recalled a scene that occurs after the historical Battle of Actium, where Antony is defeated and has no hope of winning the war. After talking to Cleopatra, Antony becomes delusional and gives an impassioned speech about how his forces can still win. Enobarbus then leaves Antony’s army, certain that his former best friend has lost his wits. Enobarbus sees the tragic ending before any of the other characters do, Blum noted.

Pincus and Hoyt-Disick said they believe the play draws a great deal of emotional power from its dramatization of wellknown historical figures as opposed to completely fictional characters. Blum added that this blending of history and drama humanizes historical figures in a way that allows audience members to better empathize with these people’s actions than if one were to read about them in a textbook.

“When you study Marc Antony and ancient Rome in class, you would wonder at how he could have let his romantic relationship lead to his demise,” Blum said. “It all makes more sense when you see them as real people who are in love.”

Performances of “Antony and Cleopatra” will run through Feb. 1.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

Biologist merges science and humanities

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER

ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

David Haskell discussed the transcendental beauty of nature and the importance of natural history on Tuesday.

Professor, biologist and author David Haskell discussed the significance of taking a multidisciplinary approach to studying the sciences in a Tuesday evening lecture in Kroon Hall.

The talk, given as part of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, also included a discussion of the merit and rareness of nature writing. Haskell told an audience of approximately 50 about his experience observing one square meter of wood in Tennessee from the viewpoint of a static, meditative onlooker. Haskell, a professor at Sewanee: the University of the South, also read passages from his award-winning book “The Forest Unseen,” which explores this experience in depth.

Haskell said he decided to write “The Forest Unseen” in order to describe nature in an intimate way, adding that by writing the book, he wanted to “step into a different mode.”

“I wanted to go [into] the forest without an agenda for a change,” Haskell said, explaining that he used to explore forests armed with a hypothesis or a lesson plan. “I wanted to leave those agendas behind, and see where observations might take me.”

Haskell compared his contemplative experience to the Mandala, a Tibetan symbol which he said both recreates the entire cosmos and recalls the impermanence of nature. Even though he did not anticipate that his experience would assume a religious context, Haskell said, he felt that his meditation ultimately proved as spiritual as it was educational.

He described his meditation as a period of silent awareness during which he paid close attention to the events in the woods as they were unfolding around him without making much movement of his own. The experience inspired him to take a humanistic approach when describing scientific processes in his writing.

During the lecture, Haskell defended his decision to study a small, local area. He explained that general biological processes — such as the biological network of chipmunks as they respond to the alarming sound of a startled deer — may be better understood from such close observation.

“Focusing on one square meter can help you get to the universal,” Haskell said, adding that stories of ecology and evolution can help people understand the beauty of the natural world.

In one of the passages Haskell read aloud, he described being in the woods on an unusually chilly

day in the winter. Seeing how trees and other denizens of the forest were surviving the cold without any cover prompted him to impulsively take off his clothes in an attempt to understand their experience. Haskell reflected on the apparent irony of small animals coping with the cold better than humans and used this example to grapple with the complexities of evolution.

“We are condemned by our skill with fire and cloth to being out of place in the winter,” Haskell said.

Haskell highlighted the importance of merging first-person narrative and scientific knowledge in nature writing. He suggested that through nature-writing, humans may begin to care and understand more of their natural world.

An interdisciplinary approach to science, he explained, may help people foster such an understanding. He pointed to the example of Confucianism as an important philosophy which encourages individuals to think of themselves in relationship to others, much like in an ecological network. He even postulated that the Holy Trinity of Christianity — “three in one and one in three” — was itself a form of a biological network.

Haskell explained that the

benefits of studying natural history — a field often left out from many scientific curricula — include not only the practical knowledge of preserving the environment but also can help in non-scientific fields such as politics. For example, he said, the study of natural history may foster an improved understanding of human sexuality.

He referred to certain laws and court justifications that defend heterosexual marriage as marriage founded in nature, adding that an observation of the natural world would easily disprove such a claim.

“I’m glad that FES is bringing this sort of dialogue together,” said Devin Routh FES ’15, adding that he is pleased the school invited a professor committed to interdisciplinary learning. “I feel like there’s not enough interdisciplinarity supported in our experiences here, with a few notable exceptions. So I think these sorts of dialogues are ones we should have more often, and that we should probably take them beyond the forum we have here.”

The next event in the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities will take place on Feb. 5.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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Yale Indian Papers Project relocates

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER In the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle scholars are using images of documents dating from the 17th century to piece together the history of Native Americans in New England.

Earlier this month, the Yale Indian Papers Project, which compiles documents related to New England’s Native American history and has been underway for over two decades, moved its headquarters from the University’s Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Conn., to the Divinity School. The documents include letters, missionary reports, census and land records, legislation, court cases and maps, all available to the general public through an online database.

The project’s Assistant Executive Editor Tobias Glaza explained that the project relocated to central campus largely so that Yale undergraduates and graduate students might interact with the program more regularly, using it for research as well as for internships and other opportunities. He said that the Divinity School is “a

natural home” for the project, as it contains many religious and missionary documents.

“Students and faculty [at the Divinity School] are interested in the project because it’s about giving voice to people who have been silenced — an idea close to us here,” said Director of Communications and Media at the Divinity School Jared Gilbert.

Executive Editor of the project Paul Grant-Costa explained that the project consists of collecting and digitizing documents, generating their literal transcriptions and then regularizing the texts — a process that includes modernizing spellings, standardizing names and annotating the texts with biographies and footnotes.

In addition to offering visual access to the documents, he said, the database provides intellectual access through the inclusion of annotations.

Materials are drawn from institutions including the Yale University Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the New London County Historical Society, the Massachusetts Archives and the National Archives of the

United Kingdom, as well as from smaller partnerships with other institutions such as local historical societies.

Grant-Costa explained that the project began at Yale during a time when non-native people were denying the authenticity of native groups’ roots in New England because the groups’ histories lacked documentation.

“The project is derived from a need in the scholarly and the native communities to access primary source materials in New England’s native history, politics and lore,” Grant-Costa said.

“It’s a documentary record that’s been scattered and fragmented, but now we’ve got thousands and thousands [of documents].

There’s no way you can say these communities don’t have a grounding in this landscape.”

The project works closely with tribal peoples and often contacts tribes to ask for their perspective on certain documents, Grant-Costa said, adding that the Mohegan tribe is a collaborative partner in the project. Glaza said that he, Grant-Costa and their part-time colleagues on the project are active members

of the Yale Group for the Study of Native America, a working group dedicated to the study of Native American and Indigenous peoples.

Though the Yale Indian Papers Project has been underway for decades, it has become a fulltime project for its editors only within the last few years. Glaza explained that the project accelerated after receiving one threeyear scholarly editing grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and another grant this past year.

Rev. Ezra Stiles, Yale’s president from 1778–1795, also gathered information about native tribes, drawing maps with tribes’ locations and talking to peoples about their customs and mythologies, Grant-Costa explained.

Yale has compiled these documents into the Stiles Papers, which feature prominently into the current project.

The Yale Indian Papers Project is planning to launch a new digital platform for its online database in the next few months.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

KATHRYN CRANDALL/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Native American tribes are working with the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle Scholars to reconstitute the history of Native Americans in New England.

School of Music to host Pascal Rogé

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER To n i g h t , t h e wo rl d renowned pianist and conductor Pascal Rogé will perform creations by Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc in the Morse Recital Hall, providing the Yale community with a snapshot into French musical history.

Rogé has been invited to Yale as part of the Horowitz Piano Series, a program of musical exploration organized by the Yale School of Music that aims to bring to New Haven the world’s greatest keyboard maestri. In the past, musical legends such as Leon Fleischer, Emmanuel Ax and Radu Lupu have played at Yale as part of this project.

Professor Melvin Chen, deputy dean of the Yale School of Music, said that Rogé, an expert in 20th-century French classical music, will bring a “new perspective” to the listeners, as the repertoire he will play may not be entirely familiar to some audience members.

The recital will begin with Debussy’s “Suite Bergamasque,” an oeuvre consisting of four individual pieces, one of which is the “Claire de Lune” — the composer’s bestknown piece. This will be followed by Book One of Debussy’s “Préludes.” Rogé will finish his recital with a piece entitled “Les Soirées de Nazelles” by Francis Poulenc — one of the artists with whom he is most familiar — a solo piano work created as the product of an improvisation in the early 1930s. These pieces are all so-called character pieces intended to evoke a specific idea or concept with the audience, Chen said, adding that Rogé’s niche familiarity with the French composer Poulenc was one of the major reasons he was asked to perform at

the Music School.

“There is a lightness and transparency in [Rogé’s] sound which is extremely appropriate for this kind of music,” said Yevgeny Yontov MUS ’14 of Rogé’s style, adding that he thinks the musician’s technique allows for an interweaving of elegance and emotion, creating a gentle yet powerful appeal to the physical senses.

You don’t have to go to Carnegie Hall to listen to this kind of pianist.

MELVIN CHEN Deputy dean, Yale School of Music Rogé will also be holding a master class — a small seminar for graduate students in the School of Music — on Thursday morning. This will allow the students to work closely with Rogé, Chen said, adding that he thinks the experience will inspire them and teach them things which they would not otherwise have had the opportunity to learn. Gaining such in-depth insight into the genre and the instrument itself in a one-on-one session is invaluable, he explained.

“He’s in his 60s, he’s played all over the world with the greatest orchestras in Europe and the United States — it’s a really fantastic opportunity to hear a major artist,” Chen said.

“You know, you don’t have to go to Carnegie Hall to listen to this kind of pianist. Just walk down the street.”

The Horowitz Piano Series was founded in 1989 in honor of the late pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .

YUAG hosts Family Day

BY SARA JONES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the Yale University Art Gallery opened its doors to families eager to partake in a host of art-centric activities.

The gallery’s annual Family Day, which was free and open to the public, included several artmaking stations, tours catering to children ages 3-10 and stories inspired by the art of various regions, as well as options for adult visitors.

This year, organizers adopted a new special layout for the event, arranging individual activities in a way different from previous years in order to avoid congestion in any one area of the Gallery. In addition, drawing and design offerings were available for the first time in the YUAG’s American Art wing.

Organizers interviewed said the recent changes in the program have allowed Family Day guests to engage with the Gallery as a unified whole instead of merely limiting their experiences to one or two isolated areas.

“One of the greatest successes this year was that we were able to produce materials for families to be able to engage throughout the entire museum,” Jessica Sack, the Jan & Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the YUAG, said. “An activity might have been presented in one space but could be used in multiple spaces.”

Sack explained that the new layout allowed Family Day’s 1,112 visitors to move freely about the museum and thus avoid overcrowding that might hamper their ability to participate in the activities.

Interactive stories linking fables from around the world with objects in the YUAG’s collections were offered in the Asian, African and Indo-Pacific wings. Surrounded by Meiji-era woodblock prints and scores of African masks, YUAG educators and guides spun tales that highlighted Gallery pieces including a South Asian relief

sculpture titled “Footprints of the Buddha” and a small grouping of okimono, palm-size Japanese figures carved from ivory, bones, or animal tusks. Clare Brody ’14, a research assistant at the Gallery, emphasized the storytellers’ ability to engage the children and compel them to respond to the artworks.

“I’ve seen the educators at work, and they’re really good at drawing kids out, getting distracted kids to come out with some bigger theme … it’s really fun to watch,” she said.

In the Modern & Contemporary Art wing, among works

by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, families used felt and yarn kits to visualize concepts such as abstraction. Sack explained that by using the kits, younger children can understand visually material they may not comprehend verbally.

The Gallery has arrived at the kit’s current version through a process of audience feedback and gradual refinement, Sack said, adding that last year was the first time the kits had been professionally designed and packaged in a bag that contained all the fabric components as well as an instruction sheet.

This year, the addition of a booklet allowed participants to use the kit anywhere in the museum, she said. The inclusion of the booklet, Sack explained, was intended to allow families to transform a guided experience into a selfguided experience.

The process that resulted in Family Day’s current model began in 2006, Sack said, noting that since then, the event has evolved due to constant tweaking, often in response to community feedback.

“Starting in 2006 … we began to explore ways of making Family Day something for the New Haven community, a way to bring families into the museum on a day dedicated to them to explore, to make, to talk about art and to meet one another in an environment with and inspired by art,” Sack said.

“As the museum has expanded, so too has the idea of what it means to have families in the museum.”

Najwa Mayer, a Wurtele Gallery Teacher at the YUAG, highlighted the efficient way gallery space was harnessed during Sunday’s event. Following its most recent renovation in 2012, she said, the Gallery has been able to accommodate a greater variety of activities on Family Day. The spatial expansion, she said, has allowed organizers to tier activities by age group as well as place them in strategic locations.

Attendees hailed from all over the Eastern seaboard and the world, ranging from Yale faculty members to Elm City residents to a 5-year-old Brooklynite who Sack said told a guide that the YUAG event was “[his] favorite family day of [his] whole life.”

“My daughter called me and said, ‘You should know about this,” said Susan Hill, another participant. Hill attended the event with her granddaughter, 8-year-old Samantha, who said she was excited about “the activities for older kids,” such as one involving close observation of artwork.

Two sisters, 3-year-old Abby and 2-year-old Lily, commented on their favorite part of Family Day — the drawing activity in the museum’s American wing. Abby said she drew “a rectangle and some leaves,” while Lily explained that she drew “a circle and birdies.”

Mayer said she thinks Family Day encourages young people to start thinking about art early on in their lives.

“Encountering art and galleries very young helps break down barriers or misconceptions we might have about what this kind of space is like,” Mayer said. “This is all about encouraging students to look at and encounter art at a young age.”

The Yale University Art Gallery is located at 1111 Chapel St. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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The Yale University Art Gallery hosted its annual Family Day this past weekend, free and open to the public. Events included art-making stations, tours catering to young children and stories based on the art of various regions.

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“The excitement of beating NYU carried us through the rest of the day.”

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Fencing strong in New York FENCING

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The men’s fencing team finished 3–2 at this weekend’s NYU Invitational.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The men’s and women’s fencing teams have been consistent all year long and finished with 3–2 and 2–3 records, respectively, at this past weekend’s NYU Invitational.

The Bulldogs faced an impressive array of competitors, representing Notre Dame, Ohio State,

NYU, Wayne State and UNC on the men’s side and Northwestern, among others, in the women’s competition.

“I’m really impressed with how our team performed at NYU,” said women’s fencing team captain Lauren Miller ’15. “Although it was a physically difficult tournament because we were up against top tier schools and had several

rounds without breaks, the team pulled through.”

The men’s team finished the day with a 3–2 record, defeating NYU, UNC and Wayne State. The Bulldogs were able to squeeze out a win against NYU, defeating the hosts 14–13 behind strong performances from the foil and epee squads, which both scored 6–3.

The Elis again leaned on the

Staenz to take talents to Sochi

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Yale women’s ice hockey forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 is about to play on the biggest stage there is.

Tomorrow, the Bulldogs’ leading scorer will begin a three-week hiatus from Ivy League hockey to represent Switzerland at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. The News caught up with Staenz to discuss the Olympics, her freshman year and the Yale squad. experience do you have QWhat playing for Switzerland?

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So far I’ve played in three World Championships. I was exactly 17 when I started.

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What has it been like to represent your country on the biggest stage there is?

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It’s been good. There’s a lot of excitement to it, but I don’t really feel a difference. It’s like any other tournament to me.

it a surprise to be named QWas to the team?

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It’s never sure. There’s a lot of things that can happen along the way. I was really glad when it was announced.

an adjustment going QIsfromit Yale hockey to international hockey, and vice versa?

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It’s very different. International hockey is a little bit quicker, and the rinks are mostly wider and longer. It’s an entirely different game altogether. Team Canada and Team USA are about the same [style as Yale], but all the European teams are different. It’s more technical hockey.

strength of the épée and foil squads to defeat UNC, 15–12.

Foilist Jin Ishizuka ’16 and épéeist Peter Cohen ’14 both went undefeated in their three bouts against UNC. All components of the men’s team defeated their Wayne State counterparts on the way to a 17–10 victory. The sabre squad posted a 7–2 victory while both the foilists

On Friday and Saturday, the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled up to Boston to compete in the 2014 John Thomas Terrier Classic Meet.

Held annually by Boston University, the unscored Terrier Invitational attracts a large field of competitive athletes, many of whom the Bulldogs will expect to face in the Northeast Regional and Ivy League Heptagonal meets.

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We’re probably the youngest team that’s going to be attending the tournament, but more than half of [the Swiss players] are older than me.

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“Overall it was a pretty good day for us,” Cohen said. “We had some tough losses to Notre Dame and OSU, but they are very strong teams so it is not something that should effect our confidence.”

The women’s team had been unable to finish better than 1–4 the past three years at the NYU Invi-

Elis set records at invitational

With a renowned fast track and top-tier competition in front of them, the Elis were looking to make improvements from last week’s tri-meet — and that is exactly what they did.

The women, who competed on Friday, garnered an impressive number of season and personal bests. “[This was a] terrific performance for the team. A lot of individuals ran personal records, [and] a lot of people were competitive,” said Kira Garry ’15, who had a stellar performance in the 3,000-meter race.

a lot of the players on the QAre Swiss team older than you?

and epeeists squeaked out 5–4 wins.

But Yale narrowly fell to OSU, 14–13, and was unable to overcome the strength of Notre Dame’s epeeists and foilists, dropping the bout 18–9. Against OSU, the Bulldogs dropped their bouts 5–4 in the epee and sabre competitions.

The foil squad defeated OSU by the same score, 5–4.

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The men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Terrier Invitational in Boston last weekend.

VICTORIES FOR THE YALE WOMEN’S FENCING TEAM AT THE NYU INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND. The team had won just one match at the Invitational in each of the past three years.