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Yale graduate student James Franco dropped by Princeton’s campus on Monday while filming scenes for his upcoming film ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ a movie based on the Faulkner novel. The celebrity visit led to a post from The Daily Princetonian headlined “JAMES FRANCO ALERT!!!!

AT PRINCETON!!!!!!!”

Meanwhile, Franco also tweeted a photo accompanied by the caption “GROUP SELFIE ALERT!!!! AT PRINCETON!!!!!!!” so clearly the love was mutual.

More movie stars. Alan

Muraoka ’80, the art director for “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006), was on campus yesterday to discuss the film following a screening. Director Tamar Hoffs ART ’57 also visited to talk about her movie The Haircut (1982).

Drawing on the walls. The Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital is looking to create a design theme to be used on a mural and throughout the hospital to beautify the environment. The new decor will be chosen through an art contest hosted by Inspire Yale.

Anything goes as long as it is “uplifting, colorful, timeless and appealing to all ages.”

Rothman takes the stage.

Another Nobel Prize winning professor will be featured in the next YaleLive, the University’s monthly live interview program. Jim Rothman — who received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — appears on the show, following Professor Robert Shiller’s appearance earlier this year. Everybody send in your bio problem set questions!

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1923 The ownership and operation of cars in New Haven is made a senior privilege. The move follows a petition from the Sheffield Scientific School.

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NELC remains in dire straits

Reports clash on J&B wage theft

The sushi master. Bun Lai of Miya’s Sushi was recently featured in a piece from April’s issue of Outside Magazine, titled “The Gourmet Invasivore’s Dilemma,” as well as an accompanying photo shoot. According to the article, “with his spotlight and his pail and his perfect snap-on hair, he looks like an action figure.” The piece continues: “Who could stop this ChineseJapanese-American hero for our times, stirring a wok in his Hawaiian-print bathing suit and popping boiling crabs into his mouth?”

Not your typical painting. A large ad for a defunct cigar store in Westville has been replaced by a work of modern art by Tony Kosloski titled “Execution Wall — paper for the controllers (head shot/life in the time of the assassins).”

The newly installed massive black, red, and white banner — spanning over 24 feet wide and 8 feet tall — is a nearly fullsized, vinyl reproduction of a Kosloski painting.

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BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER

Tuesday morning that the deli had opened in violation of the “Stop Work” order, a breach that costs owners $1,000 each day a business is open contrary to such an order. A $300 fine is assessed for every day that an employee works while not on proper payrolls.

The deli, located at 1147 Chapel St., opened again Tuesday at 5 p.m. in violation of the order, Rhee said.

In an interview Tuesday evening in the deli, Rhee said the investi-

In 2011, the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) department lost its modern Arab specialist, Hala Nassar, when she was passed up for tenure. The number of ladderfaculty Arabists in the department went from three to two.

Now, as classical Arabic professor Beatrice Greundler leaves Yale for a job in Berlin, the number of ladder-faculty Arabists in the department is down to one.

“Next year indeed we’ll have a bit of a problem,” Greundler admitted.

As other faculty members in NELC see it, the problem is not Greundler’s departure so much as the University’s unresponsiveness to its consequences. The University has declared a hiring freeze that complicates the process of replacing the vacant NELC posts. Greundler said the department must petition the administration to start a search for new faculty member to fill her vacancy in classical Arab literature. But even if approved, that search can only start next academic year, and the hired professor would only come to Yale in the 2015-’16 school year.

The same holds for the vacancy in modern Arab civilization, for which the University has not yet approved a job search.

Meanwhile, Assyriology professor Benjamin Foster GRD ’75, NELC’s director of undergraduate studies, said the administration has refused to hire a temporary professor to replace Greundler for next year.

“I don’t see evidence of concern [from administrators] for the Arabic program at the moment,” Foster said, adding that Yale’s hiring freeze is “highly elective,” meaning that the

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Workers employed by the deli dispute the charges of wage theft against their employer.

BY ISAAC STANEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Another New Haven grocery store — and Yale tenant — was shuttered this week after the Connecticut Department of Labor discovered multiple counts of labor violations.

The state DOL issued a “Stop Work” order against J & B Deli on Monday for failing to pay their workers the minimum wage and overtime compensation. Investigators found that the owners,

John and Cheong Rhee of Hamden, Conn., had also improperly paid workers in cash, failed to keep adequate payroll records and failed to provide workers’ compensation and other benefits required by law. The owners, as well as the two men they employ, dispute the wage theft charges.

“This business was flying in the face of basic tenets of the law,” Gary Pechie, director of the DOL’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division, said. He said his division received eyewitness reports

Yale to host first UCS changes housing rules Asian reunion UCS INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIPS AND COORDINATED HOUSING

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER When Julie Wong ’86 came to Yale College, only five percent of students were Asian American. Coming from a majority Asian American public high school in Los Angeles, this was a major shift.

“I didn’t consider myself a minority … until I got to Yale [and] one of my professors complimented me on how well I spoke English,” Wong said.

In the decades since Wong graduated, the presence of Asians at Yale has increased to 17 percent of the student body. This year, to commemorate the growing community as well as the 160th anniversary of the graduation of Yale’s first Asian student, the University is hosting its first-ever Yale Asian Alumni Reunion — an event that Wong is co-chairing.

I didn’t consider myself a minority … until I got to Yale.

JULIE WONG ’86 Co-chair, Yale Asian Alumni Reunion From April 11 to 13, nearly 200 Yale alumni from the University’s various schools will descend on campus to honor the Asian-American legacy at Yale and fortify the alumni network. The event features keynote speakers such as Pepsi Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi SOM ’80, Tony Award-

winning playwright David Henry Hwang DRA ’83, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke ’72 and composer-pianist Vijay Iyer ’92. Current students have also been invited to either attend, plan or perform at the reunion.

Harry Chang ’84, the other reunion co-chair, said the event will celebrate the history of Asians at Yale and promote strong connections within the Asian student and alumni community.

When contacting potential speakers, Chang said, the planning team did some preliminary research to find prominent alumni in varied fields and sent off their invitations. Every one of the four desired keynotes said yes, which Chang said he took as a personal point of pride, as well as an indication of interest in the reunion. Wong stressed the universal appeal of the speaker lineup, adding that organizers asked themselves what bound them together and what they treasured as a group, in order to put together speakers that would be relevant and interesting.

“These are not ‘Asian leaders,’” Wong said. “They’re leaders.”

Though there are many Asians active in the alumni community, Chang said, many students lost touch with Asian alumni groups because they were not placed on email panlists unless they indicated their ethnic origins on a form after graduating. As a result, many alumni including Chang, SEE REUNION PAGE 6

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England Canada

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China

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Spain Greece

Mexico

Japan

India Ghana

Columbia

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Jordan

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Singapore

Brazil South Africa Argentina

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER For the first time since Undergraduate Career Services began sponsoring international internships, participating students will have the option to arrange their own housing this summer.

In prior years, any student who accepted a UCS-sponsored internship overseas was required to live in housing that the office had procured for interns in the area. University administrators interviewed said the office decided to eliminate the housing requirement this year primarily in response to student criticism that the existing policy was too inflexible. UCS employees added that changing this policy also enabled the office to expand its international offerings for this summer to countries where it may have been too difficult for the University to guarantee housing.

“Even if some students had family in the area, according to the old policy, they still had to live in and pay for Yale housing,” UCS Director Jeanine Dames said. “This shift is intended to empower students who, for whatever reason, think they can find better housing through other avenues.”

Kenneth Koopmans, Director of Employment Programs and Deputy Director of UCS, said the new policy has helped the office add internship opportunities in nine new countries — Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Jordan, South Africa and South Korea.

In the nine new countries, Koopmans said UCS will not offer any housing for students this summer, because it was difficult for UCS to find residential spaces that fit all of the office’s criteria and were large enough to accommodate all the interns.

“I think most students would prefer having internship opportunities in these countries even if it meant having to find housing on their own as opposed to not having these opportunities at all,” he said.

But even in international locations where UCS does not provide optional housing, Dames said the office will work extensively with local alumni and employers to help students find housing in safe and central locations with easily accessible public transportation.

Brian Whalen, president and CEO of Forum on Education Abroad, a non-profit that advises students and universities on study abroad programs, said the University’s international-internship program is a leader in the field because of the number of international opportunities it offers and the housing and support UCS provides to stuSEE UCS PAGE 4

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Societies offend me

lot gets written about senior societies at Yale.

A lot. There have been articles, exposés, entire books devoted to these extracurricular activities. Every year, there are (it feels like) dozens of columns that grace the pages of the News, defending or critiquing some part of the “tap” process.

Now I’m part of that trend. Oh well. Much has been written about the process but little has been written about the societies themselves. Here goes.

Societies offend me. They are the products of an insidious and juvenile popularity contest that creates unnecessary stress during an already stressful time.

Societies are a problem.

Full disclosure: I received exactly one fancy little envelope under my door, with my name written in spiky ink on the front and the letter closed with a pretentious wax seal. I threw it away without looking inside. That was the extent of my exposure to the society tap process.

Nonetheless, watching my friends sweat or pretend to shrug off this entire process, I felt moved to write about senior societies.

A little background: The tap process begins in the second semester of some Yalies’ junior years, and it extends until a couple weeks from now. It begins with a letter under the door, and it ends with relieved students running around in costumes — because nothing is more secret than loud, conspicuous inductions.

Many who defend senior societies claim that they are a way for people to get to know a great group of kids to whom they had not been previously exposed. They are just a way to make new friends, to meet new people. Yet if this were in fact the case, surely societies could just pick kids randomly — literally, names out of a hat. If the point were just meeting new people, why the long, drawn-out, overly dramatic tap process? Why the interviews? Why the stupid little tasks? (“Meet here at 11:03, not before, not after.”) Why the constant judgment?

Perhaps the interviews and prescreening are merely meant to pick a group of people who will get along? But no — if that were the case, surely the interview questions and pre-tapping tasks would not be so personal, so invasive, so humiliating. Furthermore, should friendships really be engineered? Shouldn’t friendships be organic, formed from some silly accident or chance encounter, remembered years later in a fit of nostalgia? Perhaps that is sentimental. Perhaps friendships should instead be chosen by a panel of college seniors who secretlynot-so-secretly judge your merit.

Yes, prospective society members are evaluated on the basis of whom they know and

how worthy some seniors judge them to be. There is a distinct and wellknown hierarchy of these sociSCOTT eties, and STERN everyone is aware of A Stern which ones Perspective are on top.

Those societies — whose new members’ names are splashed breathlessly online by Yale publications — always seem to consist of presidents of organizations, famous athletes or artists and the rich and prominent. They were judged to be the “best” at Yale. The kids in the next tier of societies were judged to be pretty good as well.

The friendships people form in these societies are thus founded on the basis of “we are all good enough for each other.” Society members have been judged, found worthy, and only then can they sit around in a dark room together and tell drawn-out, self-involved memoirs. These friendships are predicated on exclusivity, on networking, on condescension.

Of course, some people form wonderful, lasting friendships through societies. But that is not justification for their degree of exclusivity and outright meanness. People form wonderful friendships on FOOT trips and with roommates — which sort kids in an essentially random manner. There are a lot of friendly people on campus.

As to the objection that, well, Yale’s selection process is exclusive too — that is absolutely true. Yet just because we necessarily accept some degree of exclusivity to get in here does not mean that we then passively accept all subsequent exclusive processes. Yale is, for the most part, unlike senior societies.

Yale wants to pick the best and the brightest in order to foster a thriving intellectual environment, not in order to foster friendships. Friendships happen, and they will happen no matter which people are chosen, but the academic ambiance thing is key.

Besides, imagine if the Yale application process rested on gossip and intimidation and furtive envelopes slipped beneath doors summoning prospective students to stilted interviews.

Societies are a massive time commitment. They cost hundreds of dollars. They are pretentious. They are not secret.

But, worst of all, they are meanspirited. They form friendships only among those who are deemed “good enough” to get in.

SCOTT STERN is a junior in Branford College. His columns run on Wednesdays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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arlier this month, Yale’s Ward 1 saw another election. No, the scary republican Paul Chandler ’14 wasn’t back: This election was for the ward’s two co-chairs.

Don’t worry if you didn’t know there was an election. Only two candidates ran for two positions, so the race was relatively unexciting. The News ran only a single article on the topic, reflecting the relative campus apathy on the topic.

Don’t worry if you don’t know who our ward co-chairs are, either. For the record, they are now Ariana Shapiro ’13 and Jacob Wasserman ’13, both of whom supported Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 in her re-election efforts last fall.

And of course, don’t worry if you don’t know what a ward co-chair is supposed to do; it’s unlikely that anybody really does.

At a basic level, ward co-chairs have a fairly simple role. Their first duty is to appoint the ward committee, a group of usually around twenty-five ward residents who meet occasionally to discuss ward matters and endorse candidates for alders. The 60 ward co-chairs — two from each of the city’s 30 wards — also comprise the Democratic Town Committee, which nominates and endorses those running in city-wide elections.

This all might seem irrelevant.

It’s not. The co-chairs are effec-

tively the key to New Haven’s Democratic Party, the only real political party in the city, and so their endorsements NICK signifiDEFIESTA carry cant weight.

But because City Limits co-chair elections traditionally see low turnout, it’s easy for these races to be captured given even marginal effort. Take, for example, the 2012 ward co-chair elections, which saw union-backed co-chair candidates winning across the city. This paved the way for the Democratic Town Committee to overwhelmingly endorse Toni Harp in the race for mayor.

Harp received 52 votes to Justin Elicker’s 4 and Henry Fernandez’s 2, despite coming nowhere near to such an overwhelming victory when voters actually went to the polls. Being the officially endorsed Democratic candidate in überblue New Haven certainly didn’t hurt Harp in the primary, and it all came about thanks to these cochairs that no one knows anything about.

Some ward co-chairs try to do a little more, and involve their constituents in activities like shoveling snow, community service and

neighborhood events. That seems to be like Shapiro and Wasserman’s goal for Ward 1, too, as they wrote last month that they want to “engag[e]” Yalies in current policy initiatives, “unite” students and “create a space” for politicallyminded groups to collaborate.

This is a familiar goal. Two years ago, former co-chairs Nia Holston ’14 and Ben Crosby ’14 wrote that they “hope[d] to connect students … more deeply to the politics of our city as a whole.” And in both of her campaigns, Eidelson stressed that she serve as a link between Yalies and the Elm City.

Yet after two years of Holston, Crosby and Eidelson in office, students seem no more connected to city life than they did under their predecessors, and voter turnout in the ward was actually down almost 20 percent from 2011 to 2013.

Just like Holston, Crosby and Eidelson, the two newest cochairs will probably struggle to have any tangible impact on how Yalies relate to the city. It’s easy to fault them for this failing. I’ve done so myself in the past.

But that’s unfair to Shapiro and Wasserman, as well as to other Yalies trying to connect their peers to the city. The difficulty that Eidelson and others have had in getting students to engage with New Haven is indicative not of any acute failure of leadership,

but are instead symptomatic of the larger issue of Yalies’ apathy towards New Haven. Try as they might, ward co-chairs and alders can’t will Yalies to care.

Usually, I’d say that the impetus is on the Yale student body to take action, to care more about the city, to treat New Haven as a home instead of a temporary annoyance. But after almost four years, I’ve come to realize that it’s unlikely that anyone, ward co-chairs included, can affect any dramatic shift in how Yalies relate to the city.

Now, it’s time to retire the dream of a campus full of politically active Yalies with something more realistic. Instead of trying to achieve any broad change in the ward, Wasserman and Shapiro should focus their efforts on voter registration and organizing the small segment of campus — Students Unite Now, the Yale College Democrats and certain Dwight Hall organizations — that is already primed to take action in New Haven.

As we’ve seen time and time again, investing effort on the wider student body that is largely apathetic towards New Haven is, and will continue to be, a fruitless endeavor.

NICK DEFIESTA is a senior in Berkeley College. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .

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inevitable revolution.”

eeing Paul Rudnick’s “Valhalla,” a senior project being staged this week at Yale, will have you trying to stifle bouts of laughter as you think about the show on your walk back from the Whitney Theater. The irreverent play explores the role of faith in our lives, perceptions of homosexuality across classes and the tension between searching for beauty and fulfilling obligations.

A pretty tragic story when you step back to think about it a bit, “Valhalla” raises unsettling questions about how people arrive at conclusions about what they want and who they are, and about how family and societal conceptions can help or hurt the process.

It’s scary to weigh the possibility that the values and ideals we tell ourselves we most want may not exist as we imagine them — like Valhalla itself, a heaven of sorts in Norse mythology.

On a more concrete level, it’s startling to think about the dramatic expansion of social rights in the Americas and Europe — and increasingly, in other parts of the world — in the past fifty years.

Though often socially turbulent, the years since the Vietnam War have broadly featured more attention to general welfare in thought and deed than at any point in history. Pictures, messages and friends in many places — our broad media exposure to people of many backgrounds — affect

the scope of public empathy, helping to shape political outcomes. It’s the non-commercial side of the “Oprah effect“ — take JOHN oft-menAROUTIOU- the tioned example of how her NIAN show and others like it have Johnny a key Come Lately played role in public acceptance of gay rights. Proximity breeds empathy.

This isn’t limited to any one issue. Anywhere and anytime people have a case for more freedom and compassion, there’s a better chance now than ever that their movement will take off. If you temporarily suspend partisan biases, this was basically the idea behind President George Bush’s Freedom Agenda, and much of that rhetoric and policy remains consistent with President Barack Obama’s administration.

In this sense, we’re living in the most authentically Christian time ever — think Sermon on the Mount, though certainly many of its themes are found in other world religions. The world being “smaller” means people have more occasions to understand and feel for each other. It’s a structural

change, and technology has a lot to do with it. The gnostic impulse has got to be resisted here — we’ll never have heaven on earth. But no one can ignore the ways in which our society today is giving people the opportunity to believe that there is meaningful life possible in the material world — to escape living the Gnostic heresy.

Even identity politics, often decried in the U.S. (and sometimes on Yale’s campus) as a force working against cultural and political unity, has its roots in this new reality. In fact, it’s an outgrowth of people’s longing for community, which is as strong as ever. But what’s more is that globalization makes the urge to put oneself on the map stronger, because it’s easier to get lost nowadays in questions of personal identity if you don’t. Religion and culture aren’t going anywhere, and big, pluralistic societies should do everything they can — from providing vouchers for parochial schools to supporting cultural groups — to help free association flourish in America. Far from being fracturing, these forces help to unite, in that they remind people of all stripes of the values that bring Americans together under one flag. National culture being less monolithic than it used to be doesn’t mean that national identity will die.

None of this is necessarily here to stay forever — freedom to communicate could once again decline

at any moment. Countries around the world remind us all the time, for example, that censorship works, and that which we have has to be defended. And what is often thought of as conservative skepticism about many of these societal changes is understandable and often very valid. The fact that there are many more voices saying very different, contradictory things means that people will have to be more careful when taking cues about what they believe from what they see and read. The 1950s are over. This means that, more than ever, family and meaningful person-to-person contact is essential for avoiding immoral decisions, establishing counterpoints to opinions from far away.

It’s somewhat ironic that we live in a time where it’s easier to be “true to yourself” than ever before, but likely harder to establish what that really means outside of our immediate desires and personal goals. But the years ahead give us the ideal opportunity to take a world more ready to see neighborly love and empathy and to develop it, through community, into reflections — however imperfect — of our own Valhallas.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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“We might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”

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University Activists call for ‘Not 1 more’ on track for budget cuts

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BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Administrators across the University are working to cut their budgets and rein in spending.

With the hope of eventually replacing Yale’s current $39 million budget deficit with a budget surplus, the Provost’s Office has distributed one-, three- and five-year budget targets to the University’s 40 units — which include Yale College, the graduate and professional schools, museums and several administrative units — that will require reductions in personnel and nonpersonnel costs.

According to senior administrators, these targets for fiscal 2015 are being met while departments are already working on future goals. “ T h e m os t i m p o rtant reason to look into the future is to avoid layoffs,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “Avoiding them entirely would be hard. We want this to be done [in a way] that’s the least disruptive possible. That requires planning.”

Polak said the University hopes to reduce administrative costs by five percent in three years and by nine percent in five years. In the vast majority of cases, he added, units are already coming in on or under budget.

Deputy provost for academic resources Lloyd Suttle echoed Polak, saying that many people across the University are working to develop long-term financial plans that will address the projected deficit in the fiscal 2015 budget and place the University on sound financial footing moving forward.

“We’re seeing units come in the vast majority of cases on or under budget,” Polak said. “I’m a little encouraged, but it’s still a very tough budget environment.

It’s going to get harder.”

Polak expressed confidence that costs would be reduced five percent over the next three years, but cautioned that the nine percent target will be much more difficult to reach.

Achieving further levels of savings requires some imaginative thinking, Polak added, pointing to the possibility of various parts of the University performing certain tasks collaboratively instead of independently.

In higher education institutions, reducing costs by nine percent over five years is hard, he said: Many of the University’s operating costs are very difficult to reduce.

“We all need to be involved in this,” Polak said.

“We have to be all committed to keeping administrative costs down. That needs to be University-wide.”

Officials from various schools and departments said they are working diligently to reduce costs while maintaining the integrity of their programs. Most officials interviewed said they felt the budget cuts were a fair response to the deficit.

Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel said his unit is on track to meet or exceed the first-year savings targets and is already working to bring budgets close to the three-year target by fiscal 2015.

Still, he emphasized that budget cuts require making difficult decisions. The human resources department at Yale has been through several rounds of cost reduction since 2009,

so finding alternative ways to save money has become more difficult, he said. Peel added that leaving vacant positions unfilled and shifting some work from internal sources to external resources will achieve most of the savings targeted for Human Resources.

“I think the budget targets set were prudent given the size of the reoccurring deficit,” Peel said in an email. “Those of us with budget responsibility now have planning parameters for the intermediate term — three to five years. The longer the planning cycle, the more University leaders are able to make these changes in a thoughtful and methodical manner, reducing the impact on our people and organizations.”

University Librarian Susan Gibbons said library services submitted a fiscal 2015 budget within the proposed targets, but the spending constraints forced the University Library to be “much more critical and evidence-based in the decisions that [it is] making about collections, services and staffing.” Gibbons added, though, that she did not think there would be discernible differences in the quality of the library in the next fiscal year.

Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steven Girvin said his units have stayed on track for fiscal 2015 cuts by consolidating vacant administrative staff positions, using department endowments to cover essential programs rather than incremental activities and reducing the scope of facilities renovation projects.

“We do have a structural deficit which we can cure only by making some further modest budget cuts,” he said. “Not doing this would eat further into the endowment and not be fair to future generations at Yale.”

The Yale University Art Gallery plans to achieve its target by continuing its tight focus on cost control, coupled with its ongoing fundraising efforts, according to Jessica Labbé, the museum’s deputy director for finance and administration.

Financial staff members in the Athletic Department have been working over the past months with the Provost and University Budget Offices to support the University’s short- and longterm budget development goals, said Forrest Temple, Senior Associate Athletics Director for Finance.

He added that the Athletic Department believes in the plan and remains committed to its success.

The School of Management and the School of Medicine set their own targets and are not subject to the provostial budget targets, said SOM Dean Edward Snyder and Medical School Dean Robert Alpern. While Snyder said SOM currently has an operating deficit and hopes to balance it soon, Alpern said the School of Medicine is on track but remains dependent on many external factors, including decisions made in Washington.

Half of the Ivy League posted budget deficits for the fiscal year that ended in June 2013. Yale had the highest deficit at $39 million, followed by Harvard at $33.7 million.

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

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At a crowded meeting at the New Haven People’s Center on Monday night, members of grassroots advocacy group Unidad Latina en Accion recounted stories and cases of brothers, spouses and friends who currently face deportation proceedings, asking activists and community members for support.

Among those in attendance was Edgar Javier Marin, who can empathize with their cases — he was just released from Immigration and Customs enforcement two weeks prior, facing deportation proceedings for a crime he did not commit.

The resulting felony conviction — which was recently reduced to a misdemeanor — attracted the attention of ICE officials when former East Haven police officer Dennis Spaulding filed a false police report alleging that Marin had assaulted him.

It was later discovered that Spaulding beat Marin, breaking his wrist and inflicting other injuries, and charged him with assaulting a police officer. Spaulding is now serving a five-year prison sentence for harassing and assaulting Latino residents of East Haven and filing false reports to cover up his behavior.

A legal East Haven resident of 13 years, Marin was detained awaiting deportation on Jan. 31 for six weeks. Marin’s criminal charge was reduced to a misdemeanor on March 17 and he was released from custody.

Still, the specter of Spaulding’s assault continues to haunt him, as he awaits his trial in immigration court on May 6, which will determine whether he will be allowed to continue residing in the United States.

Marin and ULA joined a national organization called Not 1 More, which calls for suspension of all deportations until immigration reform is achieved. Marin and other members of ULA will be participating in the campaign’s national day of action on April 5 to support Marin and countless other Connecticut residents, both authorized and unauthorized, that are facing deportation.

Marin’s case, like many other deportation cases, is “twopronged”, according to Elliot Friedman LAW ’15, a law student working with the Legal Services for Immigrants Clinic (LSIC) at the Law School. Marin was originally involved in a criminal case for his encounter with Spaulding in 2011. Marin feared that his word would not hold up against Spaulding’s in court, so he accepted a plea bargain and pled guilty to the charge of assaulting a police officer.

Marin’s sentence gave ICE the grounds to open a second case in immigration court and begin deportation proceedings against Marin — years after he completed

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Activists are calling for Connecticut courts to reconsider all of the other cases involving Dennis Spaulding as well. his probation and believed he was in good standing with the law. He was detained on Jan. 31.

The New Haven Superior Court reopened his case on March 17, granting him the writ of Coram Nobis, which is employed in cases in which new evidence comes to light after the conviction. In this case, that new information was Spaulding’s conviction and admission to falsifying police reports like the one used to convict Marin in 2011.

The judge allowed Marin to plead guilty to a lesser charge of interfering, a misdemeanor.

According to court records, Marin’s public defender David Forsythe told the judge the reduced conviction should put Marin in better standing when he returns to immigration court on May 6, where he hopes to close the deportation case.

While Forsythe represented Marin in court when his case was reopened, LSIC is representing Marin in immigration court.

Friedman said he hopes Marin’s case will be a model for resolving unfair deportation cases.

Marin was held in the Franklin County Sheriffs office in Greenfield, Mass., which has a contract with ICE to hold detainees. A congressional directive requires U.S. detention centers to fill at least 34,000 beds per night, which drives ICE agents to reach back into old records to uncover immigrants who are eligible for deportation, even years after their sentencing, said Fountain.

On March 12, the immigration court allowed Marin to post a $7,000 bond and be released from detention. The next day, activists drove to Greenfield to retrieve him.

ULA organizer John Lugo said Marin was tearful and traumatized upon his release. Having falsely tested positive for tuberculosis, Marin was kept in solitary confinement to quarantine him for the first week, which was especially traumatic.

Lugo said that rather than merely reducing his conviction, the state should have cleared him and compensated him for his pain and suffering, including medical expenses for the broken wrist Spaulding inflicted on him.

“It is the responsibility of the state to reopen all of the cases of Spaulding’s victims and give people a chance to clear their names,” Lugo said. “I don’t understand why the state hasn’t done anything like this and hesitated to reopen Edgar’s case.”

Marin has thus far escaped the fate of the 110 people who are deported every day, leaving behind families, jobs, and opportunities.

In response to the overwhelming number of harmful deportation cases arising in the New Haven community, ULA has joined with the national antideportation organization Not 1 More, which is coordinating a national day of action next Saturday, April 5.

Coordinated by the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance and

ULA, immigrant advocacy groups and demonstrators statewide will be driving in large caravans from Connecticut’s eastern and western extremities, picking up new groups as they close in on New Haven. The eastbound caravan will stop in Stamford and Bridgeport, among other towns, and the westbound caravan has stops planned in New London, Clinton, Meridan and East Haven. After uniting in New Haven, they will all caravan northward to Hartford to demonstrate at the federal courthouse downtown.

Though the court will not be in session, Lugo said, they hope to stage the demonstration as a powerful media event that authorities will see on the news. He said the event is likely to bring hundreds of people.

“The people are demanding change, and the government is not serving our needs,” said ULA activist Jose Luis Piscil, who is currently facing deportation for minor charges that were dropped.

“Obama not doing anything for immigration reform, or to stop deportations, so we have to pressure him. I am definitely going to be involved in the April 5 demonstration. That’s how we make change — we take it to the streets, or they’ll keep abusing us.”

ICE conducted a total of 368,644 deportations in fiscal year 2013.

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

Researchers commercialize new depression treatment

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER A New Haven-based biotechnology startup is on the frontlines of finding a new treatment for major depression and anxiety disorders.

In the early 2000’s, researchers at the School of Medicine discovered that small doses of ketamine – known colloquially as the party drug Special K — were effective in treating patients with severe depression and anxiety. This past year, researchers at the forefront of this discovery, including Psychiatry Professors Gerard Sanacora, John Krystal and Vladimir Coric, formed BioHaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company in order to move forward with commercializing the drug.

The company received an initial $3.5 million investment from Portage Biotech Inc., a U.K.-based venture company, to advance product development in early January. The money will enable BioHaven to run large-scale clinical efficacy trials on the drug, with the eventual goal of placing it on the market by next year.

“It’s a completely different approach,” Sanacora, director of the Yale Depression Research Program, said. “It’s an all-purpose approach that’s physiologicallybased across diagnostic categories.”

Rather than acting on the brain’s levels of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine — the neurotransmitters most often affected by antidepressant medications — ketamine regulates levels of a neurotransmitter called glutamate. Coric said this finding breaks with several decades of research on depression, which until recently was thought to be mainly affected by serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain.

The team first observed that a single dose of ketamine resulted in an anti-depressant effect within a couple of hours of administering the drug, a break from other antidepressant medications which take several weeks on average to relieve symptoms of depression.

However, ketamine, in its purest form, produced side-effects including distorted vision and hearing.

After these observations, the researchers worked to formulate a new drug that would regulate levels of glutamate, based on their work on ketamine and other glutamate-modulating agents.

“Those critical observations and studies at Yale were the genesis for the company,” Coric said.

“It was so novel at the time that we worked with OCR to patent glutamate-regulating agents.”

Working with Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research (OCR), the researchers actively participated

in the prosecution of the patent application Yale filed. They continued to build upon their initial observations, which was essential for licensing and commercialization.

OCR Senior Associate Director of Licensing David Lewin GRD ’96 said that it has taken nine years for the intellectual property and the project to reach a level of maturity where it could attract venture capital required to move into product development, a trend that is not uncommon within the biotech start-up community for therapeutic concepts.

“We set up an intellectual property strategy, which can take years to execute,” Lewin said.

“The patents for this technology were issued just two months ago, and, while it usually doesn’t take this long, five years is not atypical.”

Krystal said the research unit received critical support from Connecticut’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, as well as the National Institute of Mental Health and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

“This is an example of how investment in medical research by the State of Connecticut not only pays off by identifying potential new medical advances that could ultimately alleviate suffering associated with mental disor-

ders in Connecticut,” Krystal said.

“But [it] also pays off economically for the State by bringing in research grants and by stimulating the creation of new biotechnology companies.”

Pfizer veteran employee and Portage CEO Declan Doogan, who serves as executive chairman of BioHaven, said that the startup’s drug could soon enter Phase II and Phase III trials, with the goal being characterizing the new drugs in two to three years.

“We have access to top talent and compounds with known safety profiles to be reformulated for the clinic,” Doogan said in a statement. “This will allow us to go into Phase II and Phase III trials. Our goal is to have these new drugs characterized in two to three years.”

In the Phase 1 trial, the researchers tested the new drug in a small group of people to ensure its safety, determine the appropriate level of dosage, and identify side effects. In Phase II, the drug will be given to larger group of people to test its effectiveness, and then, in Phase 3, the drug will be given to larger groups of people to confirm it works.

BioHaven will operate out of 234 Church St., but Portage Inc. is headquartered in the U.K. Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

J.R.R. TOLKIEN ENGLISH AUTHOR

Deli faces DOL charges UCS gives new housing flexibility UCS FROM PAGE 1

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Other New Haven establishments can expect check-ins by the Connecticut Department of Labor.

J&B FROM PAGE 1 gation is the result of a misunderstanding, an explanation his two employees corroborated in a subsequent interview in the deli’s kitchen. “[The investigators] are telling me I only paid them $400 per week, but no … I’m a fair guy,” Rhee said. “I’ve never paid $400 — much more. I have proof.”

Rhee protested that he is “not a slaver” as the investigation suggests, adding “they are my friends and my family.”

Rhee said he has always paid his employees above the minimum wage, and that he currently pays his two employees $690 for a 60-hour week, not $400, as he said the DOL is alleging.

Out of earshot of their employer the two workers, Sergio and Jesus, said in Spanish that they are compensated $690 per week. Taking into account overtime, $690 per week would meet the required minimum wage of $8.70 an hour. Rhee said both employees are undocumented immigrants from Mexico.

Sergio and Jesus expressed disbelief at the idea that their employer was exploiting them.

“I wouldn’t be here if there were exploitation,” Jesus said.

“If there were abuse, I would accept the help.”

Sergio agreed, saying “for me it’s that I have work and that I’m respected. I’m very happy working for him.”

Both said they preferred cash to check payments. They also said they are allowed paid vacation and frequent breaks.

Sergio said the DOL investigators did not speak adequate Spanish, which he said made it hard to communicate during the interview. Both Sergio and Jesus insisted that they tried to tell the investigators that they were paid $690 per week.

Rhee attributed what he described as a “misunderstanding” to fear.

“He was afraid. He was afraid that somebody was going to take him … he just gave that number,” Rhee said in reference to the weekly wage of $400 he said he is being accused of paying his employees.

Pointing to hand-written records signed by the two employees, Rhee acknowledged that he was behind on recordkeeping. He said he has to pay his workers in cash and cannot provide the required insurance owing to the employees’ undocumented status.

“If they don’t receive their money, how come they would sign this?” Rhee said in reference to the hand-written papers attached to a clipboard.

Rhee said he had to open the store on Tuesday to generate enough revenue to cover his costs. “We lost thousands over the past two weeks when students were gone, and now we need to pay the $1,000 fee for this morning,” he said.

Multiple customers were frequenting the store on Tuesday evening. The DOL “Stop Work” order was clearly taped to the front door.

Pechie said the investigation is ongoing. When asked if the owners were cooperating, he said that “depends on your definition of cooperation.” In order to reopen the business, he said, owners must present the state with appropriate payroll records and prove that they are abiding by state workplace regulations.

So far, the deli’s owners have made no move to do that, Pechie added.

Reached again Tuesday evening, Pechie said DOL officials will be on the scene Wednesday to assess the situation.

J & B’s run-in with the DOL follows wage-related incidents at other area businesses. The workplace violations alleged at J & B come one month after the owner of Gourmet Heaven, the 24-hour convenience store and deli, was arrested on counts of non-payment of wages, defrauding immigrants and non-payment of overtime wages. The labor violations at Gourmet Heaven, which has locations on Broadway and Whitney Avenues, were first unveiled last summer.

Rhee said he was aware of the Gourmet Heaven incident and that his case is “not like that.”

J & B, like Gourmet Heaven, is a tenant on property owned

by Yale University and managed by its University Properties office. Rhee said he has been

in the Chapel Street location for 13 years.

The University responded to the DOL announcement Tuesday by condemning unlawful labor practices.

“We were disappointed to hear of this and if these allegations prove true, we will continue to address this issue with our tenants and look for ways to eradicate this unacceptable treatment of employees,” Lauren Zucker, Yale’s associate vice president of New Haven Affairs and University Properties, said in an email. She added that University Properties had just “recently reminded all of our tenants that they need to understand and observe all aspects of state and federal wage and labor laws.”

Zucker did not return request for further comment Tuesday evening on when J & B’s lease expires. Rhee said he has another three-and-a-half years. He said his chief concern is that the legal issues will cause Yale to pull the lease on him.

After a meeting on Monday with New Haven’s Board of Alders, Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander ’65 said Gourmet Heaven’s lease expires in two years. To renew that lease, Alexander said, owner Chung Cho would “have to show us that he has a completely different attitude about [labor practices].”

Alexander called wage theft “inconsistent with the values of our institution.”

Pechie said the practices are not only ethically bankrupt but unfair to other businesses that follow the letter of the law. He said the investigation is part of a broader effort to crack down on labor malfeasance throughout the state.

He said neighboring New Haven businesses can expect “periodic stops” by DOL investigators.

“We’re trying to send a message that you have to play by the rules,” Pechie said.

Connecticut’s minimum wage is slated to rise to $9 an hour beginning in 2015 and could climb to $10.10 by 2016.

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

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dents throughout the internship process.

All 11 students interviewed — who had either pursued international internships under UCS’s sponsorship last summer or will do so this summer — said they appreciate the policy shift.

“I’m all in favor of giving Yale students more flexibility and choice,” said Eric Stern ’15, who interned in London last summer. Still, Stern added that the change would not have impacted his choice to live in UCS-sponsored housing last summer because he did not know anything about London and wanted to live near other Yale students.

Sophia Clementi ’14, who has interned in Athens, echoed Stern. She added that she often would go out with the Yale friends she made through UCShousing and that she would have been apprehensive about negotiating a short-term lease in a country where she did not speak the language.

Still, all students interviewed said UCS housing was extremely expensive.

Tristan Sechrest ’15, who interned in London last summer, said many of his friends did not want to live in UCS housing last summer because they could find substantially cheaper apartments elsewhere in the city.

Maria Kourneli ’14 said UCS’s policy until now was illogical and bureaucratic. Although she is from Athens and is on fullfinancial aid, Kourneli said she was forced to live in and pay for UCS-housing last summer rather than live in her own home.

She added that despite frequent trips to the office last spring to request an exemption from the housing requirement, she was continually rebuffed because the office was stringent in enforcing this rule.

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Yale Undergraduate Career Services, located at 55 Whitney Ave., is allowing students to arrange their own international housing for the first time.

UCS-housing costs significantly more than independent housing, Kourneli said, adding that although it cost $3,000 a month for Yale students to live in UCS-housing in Athens, other apartments in the same building cost only 300 euros.

“Even if you factor in some of the differences such as the duration of the lease or that our housing had furnishing and a cleaning lady coming in every week, there was still a major premium being paid,” she said.

She added that this policy change will especially benefit international students who want to work back home.

Dames said one of the reasons UCS housing is expensive is because the supply of large residential plots is scarce and landlords know that it is not easy for Yale to find a vacant apartment building with enough space for many students. But she said UCS partners with local alumni and employers to drive down costs

to the lowest number possible.

Koopmans said UCS absorbs all overhead costs and acts merely as a middle agent at no cost between the students and the landlords.

All four students interviewed who will be interning abroad this summer said they will still use UCS-housing because of its convenience.

“I didn’t know anything about the real estate landscape in London so I wanted to play it safe and just trust a Yale-approved site,” Austin Johnson ’16 said.

Both Dames and Koopmans said the office will be monitoring student feedback to evaluate the effects of the new policy.

UCS offers international internships in 21 countries and offers coordinated housing in 11 countries. The deadline for opting into UCS international housing is April 1.

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

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NEWS

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AUTHOR

Yale sees rise in United Way donations UNITED WAY FUNDRAISING AMONGST YALE FACULTY 2012–2013 $1,000,000

228/2,631 209/2,642

$2k $2k School of Nursing 9/161 10/204

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BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER This year, Yale’s annual fundraising campaign for United Way saw a 12.5 percent increase in faculty and staff participation and raised 1.18 million dollars for charitable causes in Greater New Haven.

Funds raised through this year’s campaign — an annual partnership between the organization and the University — will be used for community and youth projects in Greater New Haven, such as providing meals in schools, supporting early care education initiatives and funding after-school enrichment programs for students, according to United Way Vice President of Community Engagement Joshua Mamis.

Though faculty interviewed said they were pleased with the generosity of their colleagues, some faculty and campaign organizers believed there is still room for Yale to improve its philanthropic efforts.

University Secretary and Vice President Kimberly GoffCrews, who co-chairs the campaign, said in an email that anyone who works at Yale or lives in New Haven recognizes that the wellbeing of Greater New Haven is essential to the University’s vitality.

“The people at Yale care not only about Yale’s relationship to the city … but the fac-

ulty and staff we work with are also invested on a human level,” Mamis said.

Goff-Crews said personal appeals to faculty and staff were an effective method for raising funds and garnering participation.

Dean of the Medical School Robert Alpern, who served as the other co-chair of the campaign, said in an email that donating to United Way is an efficient way to make a difference because donors do not need to individually research charitable causes. Rather, United Way distributes funds toward the broader goal of supporting education in New Haven, he said.

Though Mamis said the campaign also allows individuals who are passionate about particular causes to designate a nonprofit of choice on their pledge forms, he added that it is more common for staff and faculty to simply select an area of care to receive their donation.

Still, some faculty cautioned against celebrating this year’s campaign as an outright success.

“Yale’s participation rate is not where it needs to be,” School of Management professor Barry Nalebuff said, citing the fact that Yale trails its peer institutions in its United Way participation rate. While Nalebuff said Yale has roughly

6 percent participation, Quinnipiac has 30 percent and Harvard has 40 percent.

Nalebuff also noted the disparity in engagement among the different schools within Yale. Though faculty and staff at SOM and the Yale Law School receive comparable salaries, only 4.4 percent of YLS employees donated to the campaign, compared to 24.8 percent of SOM employees. Nalebuff said he made a personal commitment to match all funds raised by the SOM, which he said incentivized fellow faculty to donate.

The faculty and staff we work with are also invested on a human level.

KIMBERLY GOFF-CREWS Secretary and Vice President, Yale University The average donation per employee at the Yale School of Drama was $9.73 — not enough to purchase a single ticket at the Yale Repertory Theater, according to Nalebuff.

But Mamis discouraged judging Yale based on its peer institutions.

“It is not always a comparable situation to say, ‘Harvard gives this much so Yale should

give this much,’” Mamis said.

“The communities are very different, the histories are very different, [New Haven] is an individual location and [has] individual challenges.”

Goff-Crews said Yale as a community is very philanthropic and its commitment to the New Haven area can be found in more than monetary donations. The University is equally supportive of those who donate time as those who donate money, she said.

Mamis said he hopes to encourage more student participation in the campaign in future years. United Way already works with Yale students on projects like volunteer tax assistance, he said.

Goff-Crews said the University encourages all members of Yale to participate in the campaign. However, fundraising efforts are primarily directed toward faculty and staff since many students already give back to the community through Dwight Hall. Still, she said some students do donate to United Way. The theme of this year’s campaign was “Give Every Child a Chance.” This is the fourth year that the United Way campaign has focused on children of the Greater New Haven area.

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

Travel to New York delayed

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER Yalies taking the Metro-North train to New York City have a longer ride than ever before.

On Dec. 6, the FRA instituted “slow orders” that put ceilings on the maximum train speed in 35 different places on the New Haven Line, part of two emergency orders the agency issued after a a Dec. 1 derailment in the Bronx that killed four and injured 63. The agency’s directives apply to curves that require a reduction in speed greater than 20 mph, where trains have had to slow down earlier. These changes lengthen the average Metro-North ride. Whereas the ride from Union Station to Grand Central Terminal used to end in under 100 minutes, it can now take as long as 116 minutes.

These restrictions continue in spite of the successful completion of repairs for five sections of track and five moveable bridges in Cos Cob, South Norwalk, Westport, Bridgeport and Milford, Conn., all of which are on the New Haven Line.

The speed reductions are on the outer New Haven Line, where bridges and curves are prevalent, and will remain in place even after track repairs are completed, according to Connecticut DOT Spokesman Judd Everhart.

“They are permanent until and unless track conditions improve significantly, which would require capital improvements,” he said in an email.

“There are no plans [for such a project].”

John Hartwell, the Vice Chair of the Connecticut Commuter Rail Council, said that MetroNorth’s rail tracks are severly outdated, and the recent repairs represent only a fraction of the kind of overhaul the FRA is demanding.

“It has nothing to do with the fact that the trains are fundamentally sound, it has to do with the way the tracks were configured 150 years ago,” he said. “If the tracks were safe all the way down to New York the ride would be much faster.”

Hartwell added that the longer travel time to New York should be regarded as permanent, given how long it will likely take to obtain funds for train repair. Slower is the new normal, he said.

The FRA followed up on Dec. 16 by launching “Operation Deep Dive,” a full audit of Metro-North’s safety prac-

tices. The report, released on March 14, faulted the railroad for fomenting a culture where employees “rush when responding to signal failures.” The report alleged that Metro-North has not given enough time for track department employees to make repairs, or for testing officers to conduct routine speed tests.

The findings were based both on interviews with Metro-North employees and the FRA’s own observations.

New Haveners and commuters across the Metro-North Line have a longer commute enforced by the FRA’s directives in spite of recent efforts by new MetroNorth President Joseph Giuletti to remake Metro-North’s image. In addition to the track and bridge repairs, which were completed five months ahead of schedule, Giuletti has announced a listening tour consisting of six “informal customer forums” in Connecticut and New York to see what else can be done on the track.

There’s a new normal and the new normal is slower.

JOHN HARTWELL Vice Chair, Connecticut Commuter Rail Council Rep. Roland Lemar D-New Haven, who currently serves on the House Transportation Committee, said that MetroNorth is in the process of making improvements and should be given the appropriate time to complete the improvements, though this will mean slower transit in the meantime.

Two of nine Yalies interviewed said they had not heard about the delays. However, six said the half hour delay constituted a major inconvenience.

Max Holman MUS ’15 said that while he finds MetroNorth’s service “inconsistent,” he is glad the railroad is paying close attention to safety needs.

Hélène Cesbron Lavau ’16 said she will continue to use Metro-North so long as the delays do not prevent her from making same-day trips.

The current iteration of concerns over Metro-North’s effectiveness began after a May 2013 derailment between Bridgeport and Fairfield, Conn.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu

Camargo talks Brazilian culture

BY CORYNA OGUNSEITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Tuesday Master’s Tea, Brazilian journalist Zeca Camargo spoke about Brazilian culture and his role as a television personality.

As a journalist and newscaster who has worked on some of Brazil’s most popular TV networks, Camargo has interviewed celebrities such as Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, travelled to approximately 94 countries and published six books. The most popular show he has worked on is “Fantástico,” a weekly news entertainment show he hosted until 2013 that airs on Globo, the second largest international television network in the world. During his talk, Camargo talked about his country’s amplified international presence and distinct culture.

Camargo said he does not consider himself an official journalist — in school, he studied business and advertising.

“For me, the way to news was intuitive,” he said. “I liked to write and started writing from home.”

Originally, Camargo said he specialized in cultural issues, which are still his main interest. In 1980, he started to work for MTV Brazil, and joined Globo in the 1990s.

Referencing American culture, Camargo said he would describe the show “Fantástico,” which he hosted until 2013, as something between “Ellen” and “Jimmy Fallon.”

Though Camargo said it some-

times seems paradoxical to ask viewers to think while watching TV, he said getting the viewers to interact with important issues was one of his goals as host of “Fantástico.”

While hosting “Fantástico,” Camargo said he often interviewed actors, writers and directors who worked on telenovelas — serial dramas that are popular in Latin America. Camarga said these figures are the most powerful people in Brazilian television and allow for insight into Brazilian culture.

“The whole way Brazilians live and think relates to telenovela storytelling,” he said. “[I wanted to] show people how these stories dominate the imaginary collective in Brazil.”

Through cultural journalism, Camargo said he has realized how strange Brazilian culture is. He said he finds Brazilians’ ability to mix high and low culture so easily particularly fascinating.

“There are no guilty pleasures,” he said. “Just pleasures.”

To demonstrate, Camargo talked about two musicals that were popular last summer. The first is a reenactment of the life of Elis Regina, one of Brazil’s most celebrated singers, while the second is called “Valesca Popozuda” and features what Camargo described as something “twerking doesn’t even begin to cover — think Miley Cyrus combined with Nicki Minaj upside-down.”

Camargo marveled at the fact that his culture can appreciate both

ends of the spectrum.

Camargo said that before giving his talk, he feared that he would be too cliché in describing his culture. He added that he wants the audience to remember that when it comes to Brazilian culture, “you don’t question anything, and you try to appreciate everything.”

Through journalism, Camargo said he tries to portray Brazil’s creativity and diversity.

“We are known because we have a good life, even though Brazil is far from paradise,” he said.

“We are a very troubled country, [but] the idea of Brazil is very attractive … people go and they think ‘I could be any person here.’”

Students interviewed who attended the talk said that they enjoyed hearing Camargo’s perspective on Brazilian culture.

Paulo Costa ’14, who is also Brazilian, said he liked how Camargo presented a strong overview of Brazilian culture and compared it to American culture.

Melody Song ARC ’15 said she found the talk interesting because her father is involved with journalism in Korea. She added that she attended the event because she is applying to study architecture in Brazil this summer and wanted to learn more about the culture.

Camargo’s most recent book — entitled “50, Eu?” — was published in January.

Contact CORYNA OGUNSEITAN at coryna.ogunseitan@yale.edu .

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Camargo’s talk touched on the role of telenovelas in Brazilian culture and his own involvement in journalism.

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FROM THE FRONT NELC loses faculty NELC FROM PAGE 1 University overrides the hiring freeze in certain cases when it sees fit.

For now, NELC will stop accepting graduate students for its Arabic program, to which it usually accepts one or two students a year. Greundler said one of her two current doctoral advisees is currently finishing his doctorate and will not be greatly affected by her departure. Her other advisee, who is only starting her doctorate, will have to decide whether to stay at Yale or transfer to another program, Greundler said.

It’s very easy to destroy good programs and very difficult to build them up.

DIMITRI GUTAS GRD ’74 Senior Arab professor, NELC Foster said the department will “rally around” Greundler’s doctoral students.

“We’re just letting a department die without noticing there are very good things that come out of it,” said Nicholas Aubin ’14, one of five declared undergraduate NELC majors and one of two specializing in Arab civilization.

Dimitri Gutas GRD ’74, NELC’s only remaining senior Arab professor, offered Yale’s history of science program as a cautionary tale for the administration as it handles the present situation.

Since the University shut down the small history of science depart-

ment in the late 1970s, it has been nearly impossible to rebuild the same program, Gutas said. Though Yale now offers a major in History of Science, Medicine and Public Health, that major is offered through the History Department, and is no longer an independent department with its own resources as before.

“It’s very easy to destroy good programs and very difficult to build them up,” Gutas said.

NELC has had an uneasy year, and the department is still reeling from a scandal that broke in January 2013 when Egyptology professor John Darnell was discovered to have had an illicit relationship with Egyptology professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 when Manassa was his student. Darnell’s subsequent suspension trimmed the Egyptology faculty from two to one for the current academic year — a move that also forced that program to stop accepting graduate students.

Still, Greundler was quick to emphasize that her move to Berlin was not a comment on her experience in Yale’s NELC program, which she called a well-respected “boutique operation.”

Instead, Greundler explained that the move to Berlin’s Freie Universität will allow her to commit to more interdisciplinary projects. Berlin plays host to a number of scholarly institutions with which she could collaborate, she said.

The NELC department at Yale is 173 years old — the oldest in the nation.

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

KAMARIA GREENFIELD/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Yale’s hiring freeze has raised some concerns about the NELC department’s future.

“Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.” YO-YO MA AMERICAN CELLIST

Asian alumni organize first reunion

EUNJU NAMKUNG

Yale will host Asian graduates at its first-ever Asian Alumni Reunion on April 11-13.

REUNION FROM PAGE 1 Wong and Gaurav Khanna ’94, the reunion’s chair of breakout sessions, did not receive any correspondence from Asian alumni until recently, when they identified the problem.

Wong said she wonders whether the University’s official number of Asian alumni — 15,000 — may be an underestimate.

Yale College Assistant Dean and Asian-American Cultural Center Director Saveena Dhall also expressed concern that not all Asian alumni are being reached.

“Not everyone’s information is captured and there are those who may not have updated their contact information, so one challenge we’ve faced is making sure people know about this and know they are invited,” Dhall said.

Event organizers all emphasized the importance of having current students at the reunion. Sarah Tomita ’06, the reunion’s marketing chair, said the 15 undergraduates on the Student Leadership Board have been instrumental in alumni outreach — a large part of the planning process.

Luming Chen ’14, executive director of the Student Leadership Board, said being a part of the planning process has allowed her to see the transformation of ideas into reality.

“As a senior, I’m hoping this event will be illuminating both professionally and personally,” Chen said.

“Maybe it’ll help ease my anxieties of transitioning to life after Yale.”

This is what the reunion is about: not tiptoeing around the issues. Let’s meet them head on.

JULIE WONG ’86 Co-chair, Yale Asian Alumni Reunion Considering that Yale puts on a large number of reunions each year, Tomita said, it is odd that an event like this has not yet happened.

An event for Asian-American alumni was planned in 2006 but was canceled last minute — a move that some organizers of the current event speculated was due to low registration numbers. Chang said this year’s reunion planning team has emphasized a word-of-mouth approach to increase interest and registration.

This approach seemed to work well, Chang said, because the largest draw for attendees is not necessarily the program, but the opportunity to

see old friends. The event’s website includes an updated list of reunion attendees to facilitate these connections.

Tomita said organizers “keep up with the times” in their outreach approach by utilizing social media, a tactic that seems to help generate interest amongst young alumni.

Wong said she finds the reunion significant in that it allows the AsianAmerican community — which she called “the invisible minority” — a chance to have an impact on the wider Yale community. She praised speakers such as Hwang and blogger Jen Wang ’94 for being unafraid to speak about sensitive Asian-American issues directly to larger audiences of mixed backgrounds.

“This is what the reunion is about: not tiptoeing around the issues,” Wong said. “Let’s meet them head on.”

One final goal for the reunion, Chang said, is to ensure that events like these continue to take place once every few years. He added that the reunion is intended to be “the first of many.”

Yung Wing graduated from Yale College in 1854 becoming the University’s first Asian alumnus.

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Scientist warned of mudslide danger Obama to propose ending NSA phone sweep

BY EILEEN SULLIVAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — To assuage privacy concerns, the White House and some lawmakers are pushing forward with changes to a surveillance program that would leave the bulk storage of millions of Americans’ telephone records in the hands of phone companies, even though they are convinced the information now held by the government is protected and question whether the changes would actually do more to protect privacy.

President Barack Obama intends to ask Congress to end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records.

Instead, the government would ask phone companies to search their records for possible links to terrorism.

Obama said that any alternatives to the government holding onto the phone records posed difficult problems and raised privacy issues. And Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he believes the data is safer with the National Security Agency, even though he recommended it be moved from the agency’s custody.

“We’re changing the program based on a perception, not a reality,” Rogers said shortly before he introduced legislation that would end the program in its current form. Americans, Rogers said, don’t want the government holding onto their data.

“They just didn’t have a comfort level with the NSA holding, in bulk, metadata, even though we had huge levels of protection,” Rogers said. “I do believe that privacy was better protected than you’re going to see in the phone companies.”

The metadata is the number called, the number from which the call is made, and the duration and time of the call, but not the content of the call or the callers’ names.

The White House proposal, which has not been described in great detail yet, and the House Intelligence Committee’s proposal both shift the custody of the phone records to the phone companies, which already hold onto the records for 18 months, as federal regulations require.

In January, Obama tasked his administration with coming up with new options to the telephone records program by March 28. Obama said officials offered an option that he thinks is workable and addresses concerns raised by the public.

“I want to emphasize once again that some of the dangers that people hypothesize when it came to bulk data, there were clear safeguards against,” Obama said Tuesday at a news conference in the Netherlands at the end of a nuclear security summit. “But I recognize that people were concerned about what might happen in the future with that bulk data. This proposal that’s been presented to me would eliminate that concern.”

Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor who worked as a systems analyst, leaked details of the government’s secret phone records collection program last year.

“After Snowden, there was a lot of mistrust, and we have to deal with that,” Rogers said.

The president’s proposal would require congressional action, something that so far has seemed unlikely.

Multiple bills have been introduced, with proposals ranging from killing the program outright to adding more layers of oversight. The government plans to continue its bulk collection program for at least three months.

The March 28 deadline reflects the date that the current court authorization for the bulk collection expires.

The administration has asked a court to renew it for at least three months, not unlike what it’s requested in the past.

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A damaged home sits in the debris field caused by Saturday’s massive mudslide above the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River onto HighBY PHUONG LE AND MANUEL VALDES ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Wash. — A scientist working for the government had warned 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the village where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 14 people and left scores missing.

As rescue workers slogged through the muck and rain in search of victims Tuesday, word of the 1999 report raised questions about why residents were allowed to build homes on the hill and whether officials had taken proper precautions.

“I knew it would fail cata-

strophically in a large-magnitude event,” though not when it would happen, said Daniel Miller, a geomorphologist who was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the study. “I was not surprised.”

Snohomish County officials and authorities in the devastated fishing village of Oso said that they were not aware of the study.

But John Pennington, director of the county Emergency Department, said local authorities were vigilant about warning the public of landslide dangers, and homeowners “were very aware of the slide potential.”

In fact, the area has long been known as the “Hazel

Landslide” because of landslides over the past halfcentury. The last major one before Saturday’s disaster was in 2006.

“We’ve done everything we could to protect them,” Pennington said.

Pa t r i c i a G ra e sse r, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Seattle, said it appears that the report was intended not as a risk assessment, but as a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.

Asked whether the agency should have done anything with the information, she said: “We don’t have jurisdiction to do anything. We don’t do zoning. That’s a local responsibility.”

No landslide warnings for the area were issued before the disaster, which came after weeks of heavy rain.

The rushing wall of quicksand-like mud, trees and other debris flattened about two dozen homes and critically injured several people.

“One of the things this tragedy should teach us is the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public,” said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

“Where are the potentially unstable slopes? How big a risk do they pose? And what should be done to let homeowners know about that?”

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ARTS & CULTURE Student production stages challenges of adulthood

SARA MILLER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Ruby Spiegel’s play “Dry Land” attempts to approach the issues of adolescent girls’ sexuality and body image without playing to the usual tropes used to talk about them.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER For its Spring Experimental Production, the Yale Dramatic Association is staging a piece that traces the lives of two friends who grapple with the realities of growing up.

“Dry Land” by Ruby Spiegel ’15 opens this Thursday night at the Iseman Theater. Set in the present day, the play follows the friendship of two female high school swimmers named Amy and Ester, who struggle with the challenges of adulthood, sexuality and body image. Spiegel said that she wanted to highlight the complexities of female friendship and girls’ relationships to their bodies without writing an unoriginal commentary on the portrayal of the female body.

“I was particularly inter-

ested in writing something about young women and their bodies in the world of athletics because I didn’t want to write another play about girls and the media,” Spiegel said.

Cast and creative team members interviewed said that the process of staging an original student-written work creates unique challenges but also offers many advantages. Kathleen Addison ’14, the show’s producer, said that because the play has never been staged before, no one can look to any previous production for inspiration.

But Addison noted that the lack of precedent allows the current production team to be creative in their vision for the play. Lucy Fleming ’16, who plays Ester, said that being able to personally consult the playwright for clarifications and guidance on the script

is a rare opportunity for actors.

The Dramat’s production of “Dry Land” directly follows its staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in February. While Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy required 15 cast members, several dozen crew members and highly elaborate technical designs, Spiegel’s play only features four characters and is set mostly in a girl’s locker room.

Fleming, who played Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” said that it is rare for the Dramat to stage shows with such small ensembles. Henry Gottfried ’14, the play’s director, said he thinks the play’s contemporary setting adds an element of diversity to the Dramat’s current season, noting that all of the other shows were written decades or centuries ago.

Gottfried emphasized the

play’s “intimate” stage design, explaining that the play’s set is not large and that the audience will be seated extremely close to the stage, which has been tucked into one corner of the theater.

Gottfried said he thinks that the small cast size and compact performance space will put more pressure on the actors to drive the play solely through their interactions, but also hopefully allow audience members to gain a greater understanding of these characters.

Gottfried said he believes that the play draws much of its emotional power from its blunt portrayal of modern day adolescent behavior. “[The play] is very truthful in the way it depicts young people,” Gottfried said. “It doesn’t try to neaten up or beautify what is sometimes a very ugly or inap-

propriate thing to say out loud.”

Gottfried added that he thinks the characters’ interactions in the play accurately reflect the types of topics that young adults talk about on an everyday basis. These characters could switch from discussing an essay they have to write for class in one scene to talking about a recent sexual experience they have had in the next, he noted. Fleming said that the characters’ lines in the script include words that are frequently used in casual conversations, including ‘like’ and ‘um,’ which she thinks makes the conversations more similar to the way people talk in everyday encounters.

Addison said she believes that the play’s modern setting will cause audience members to relate more easily to the people as well as the events they will see on

stage, noting that the characters in the play are very close in age to college students. Fleming said the play’s two main characters are based on the well-known image of “the sexually loose, really pretty, popular, confident girl” and “the quiet, withdrawn, socially outcast girl.” Jacob Osborne ’16, who plays a college student named Victor, said he thinks that nearly all audience members can identify someone in their lives who is similar to the characters in the play. But Osborne and Fleming noted that the play attempts to defy such stereotypical personality types by presenting characters that are far more complex than they appear to be.

Performances of “Dry Land” will run through Mar. 29.

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

New Slifka exhibit centers on spring

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This week, a new exhibit at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will usher viewers into the spring season.

“Spring Awaking,” an exhibit of cyanotypes — blue-colored prints made using a complicated chemical process — opens in the Slifka Center’s Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery on Thursday. The prints, created by local artist Leah Caroline, explore ideas including nature, birth and religion. They will remain on view in the gallery

until the end of April.

While Judaism is certainly present in her art and in her life, Caroline explained that she does not consider the religion an explicit inspiration for this exhibition.

“There is an element of religious influence, but it wasn’t intentional at first,” Caroline explained. “The Judaism just came in as I was working. It was a more intuitive, natural process for me.”

Caroline explained that the cyanotypes feature both images — of aloe leaves, other plants

and of anatomical artist Jan van Rymsdyk’s womb engravings — and text, including her own writing and passages from the Song of Songs in the Hebrew bible.

She explained that she created the cyanotypes by pressing negatives onto chemically treated paper, then exposing the paper to ultraviolet light and processing it in water. The result is a Prussian blue image on an otherwise white background.

The Song of Songs, which is traditionally read during Passover, relates to the rest of the nature-centric exhibit as it

includes many descriptions of nature, particularly gardens, Caroline explained.

Lucy Partman ’14, the Slifka Arts Curator, explained that the religious elements of the exhibit are open to interpretation, adding that the idea of leaving winter to enter spring may be understood as a parallel to the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, which the holiday of Passover commemorates. But Partman noted that the themes of the exhibit are universal, extending beyond Judaism and religion.

“Different people see different

things in it,” Caroline said.

Chino Kwan, known as CHINO, Slifka’s Director of Operations, said he thinks that “Spring Awaking” underscores the Center’s increased presence as an undergraduate art resource. He explained that the new show adds to the comprehensive sampling of artistic media, ranging from painting to photography, that this year’s exhibits have displayed.

This Sunday, Slifka will host a free workshop to accompany the exhibit, and CHINO explained that this event showcases the Center’s commitment to include

an interactive element in each of its exhibits. Workshop attendees will work with Caroline to learn the basic process of making cyanotypes and have the opportunity to make their own small cyan prints, Partman explained.

“We’re really excited about the workshop,” CHINO said. “It’s taking the arts programming out of the realm of the voyeuristic into the participatory.”

“Spring Awaking” will be Slifka’s final exhibit of the semester.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

JENNIFER LU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

While the ostensible focus of the art installation is to depict the onset of spring, it also incorporates religious themes of rebirth and exodus.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: “Entranced by the Past: Homage and Fakery in Colonial Revival Furniture.” Join John Stuart Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt associate curator of American decorative arts, for a visit to the Furniture Study. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

4:00 p.m. “Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes.” Talk and book signing of Mitri Raheb’s latest work, which presents a new reading of the Bible from the perspective of the “people of Palestine.” In light of the current geopolitical turmoil, after the hopes of the Arab Spring, and in the face of the latest round of U.S. shuttle diplomacy, Raheb asks, “Can we imagine another Middle East? Can there be a different future?”

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (409 Prospect St.).

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27 4:00 p.m. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium: “The Future of Dissent.” This roundtable discussion will draw out contrasts between what being a dissident used to mean and what it will mean with new politics, new geography and new technology. Scholars will join activists of past and present movements in a conversation that will also explore the role of human rights language in the future of dissent. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28 4:30 p.m. Physics Club: “The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity.” Dr. Robert Schoelkopf, the Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, will discuss the progress made in the last decade and a half on quantum information systems. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. in the Sloane Physics Laboratory 3rd Floor Lounge. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Rm. 57.

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ARTS & CULTURE Student production stages challenges of adulthood

SARA MILLER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Ruby Spiegel’s play “Dry Land” attempts to approach the issues of adolescent girls’ sexuality and body image without playing to the usual tropes used to talk about them.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER For its Spring Experimental Production, the Yale Dramatic Association is staging a piece that traces the lives of two friends who grapple with the realities of growing up.

“Dry Land” by Ruby Spiegel ’15 opens this Thursday night at the Iseman Theater. Set in the present day, the play follows the friendship of two female high school swimmers named Amy and Ester, who struggle with the challenges of adulthood, sexuality and body image. Spiegel said that she wanted to highlight the complexities of female friendship and girls’ relationships to their bodies without writing an unoriginal commentary on the portrayal of the female body.

“I was particularly inter-

ested in writing something about young women and their bodies in the world of athletics because I didn’t want to write another play about girls and the media,” Spiegel said.

Cast and creative team members interviewed said that the process of staging an original student-written work creates unique challenges but also offers many advantages. Kathleen Addison ’14, the show’s producer, said that because the play has never been staged before, no one can look to any previous production for inspiration.

But Addison noted that the lack of precedent allows the current production team to be creative in their vision for the play. Lucy Fleming ’16, who plays Ester, said that being able to personally consult the playwright for clarifications and guidance on the script

is a rare opportunity for actors.

The Dramat’s production of “Dry Land” directly follows its staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in February. While Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy required 15 cast members, several dozen crew members and highly elaborate technical designs, Spiegel’s play only features four characters and is set mostly in a girl’s locker room.

Fleming, who played Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” said that it is rare for the Dramat to stage shows with such small ensembles. Henry Gottfried ’14, the play’s director, said he thinks the play’s contemporary setting adds an element of diversity to the Dramat’s current season, noting that all of the other shows were written decades or centuries ago.

Gottfried emphasized the

play’s “intimate” stage design, explaining that the play’s set is not large and that the audience will be seated extremely close to the stage, which has been tucked into one corner of the theater.

Gottfried said he thinks that the small cast size and compact performance space will put more pressure on the actors to drive the play solely through their interactions, but also hopefully allow audience members to gain a greater understanding of these characters.

Gottfried said he believes that the play draws much of its emotional power from its blunt portrayal of modern day adolescent behavior. “[The play] is very truthful in the way it depicts young people,” Gottfried said. “It doesn’t try to neaten up or beautify what is sometimes a very ugly or inap-

propriate thing to say out loud.”

Gottfried added that he thinks the characters’ interactions in the play accurately reflect the types of topics that young adults talk about on an everyday basis. These characters could switch from discussing an essay they have to write for class in one scene to talking about a recent sexual experience they have had in the next, he noted. Fleming said that the characters’ lines in the script include words that are frequently used in casual conversations, including ‘like’ and ‘um,’ which she thinks makes the conversations more similar to the way people talk in everyday encounters.

Addison said she believes that the play’s modern setting will cause audience members to relate more easily to the people as well as the events they will see on

stage, noting that the characters in the play are very close in age to college students. Fleming said the play’s two main characters are based on the well-known image of “the sexually loose, really pretty, popular, confident girl” and “the quiet, withdrawn, socially outcast girl.” Jacob Osborne ’16, who plays a college student named Victor, said he thinks that nearly all audience members can identify someone in their lives who is similar to the characters in the play. But Osborne and Fleming noted that the play attempts to defy such stereotypical personality types by presenting characters that are far more complex than they appear to be.

Performances of “Dry Land” will run through Mar. 29.

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

New Slifka exhibit centers on spring

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This week, a new exhibit at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will usher viewers into the spring season.

“Spring Awaking,” an exhibit of cyanotypes — blue-colored prints made using a complicated chemical process — opens in the Slifka Center’s Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery on Thursday. The prints, created by local artist Leah Caroline, explore ideas including nature, birth and religion. They will remain on view in the gallery

until the end of April.

While Judaism is certainly present in her art and in her life, Caroline explained that she does not consider the religion an explicit inspiration for this exhibition.

“There is an element of religious influence, but it wasn’t intentional at first,” Caroline explained. “The Judaism just came in as I was working. It was a more intuitive, natural process for me.”

Caroline explained that the cyanotypes feature both images — of aloe leaves, other plants

and of anatomical artist Jan van Rymsdyk’s womb engravings — and text, including her own writing and passages from the Song of Songs in the Hebrew bible.

She explained that she created the cyanotypes by pressing negatives onto chemically treated paper, then exposing the paper to ultraviolet light and processing it in water. The result is a Prussian blue image on an otherwise white background.

The Song of Songs, which is traditionally read during Passover, relates to the rest of the nature-centric exhibit as it

includes many descriptions of nature, particularly gardens, Caroline explained.

Lucy Partman ’14, the Slifka Arts Curator, explained that the religious elements of the exhibit are open to interpretation, adding that the idea of leaving winter to enter spring may be understood as a parallel to the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt, which the holiday of Passover commemorates. But Partman noted that the themes of the exhibit are universal, extending beyond Judaism and religion.

“Different people see different

things in it,” Caroline said.

Chino Kwan, known as CHINO, Slifka’s Director of Operations, said he thinks that “Spring Awaking” underscores the Center’s increased presence as an undergraduate art resource. He explained that the new show adds to the comprehensive sampling of artistic media, ranging from painting to photography, that this year’s exhibits have displayed.

This Sunday, Slifka will host a free workshop to accompany the exhibit, and CHINO explained that this event showcases the Center’s commitment to include

an interactive element in each of its exhibits. Workshop attendees will work with Caroline to learn the basic process of making cyanotypes and have the opportunity to make their own small cyan prints, Partman explained.

“We’re really excited about the workshop,” CHINO said. “It’s taking the arts programming out of the realm of the voyeuristic into the participatory.”

“Spring Awaking” will be Slifka’s final exhibit of the semester.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

JENNIFER LU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

While the ostensible focus of the art installation is to depict the onset of spring, it also incorporates religious themes of rebirth and exodus.

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“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”

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Professor praises ancient Greek architecture

BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER According to 20th-century Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis, failing to revive the human element in architectural planning may bring about the end of civilization.

Professor of the history and theory of architecture at the University of Athens in Greece Panayotis Tournikiotis explored Doxiadis’ influence and legacy in a talk on Monday night. The lecture, titled “Global Greece: C.A. Doxiadis and Planning in the Network Era,” aimed to explore how the planning of cities in ancient Greece relates to modern construction and design. Tournikiotis explained that Doxiadis strove to recreate a “human dimension” in architecture, which was central to ancient Greek cities but has become lost in modernity.

“The ancient Greeks designed not isolated objects but parts of a dynamic urban environment,” Tournikiotis quoted Doxiadis as saying, adding that the Greek polis was often built around a marketplace — a center of human gathering.

Tournikiotis explained that the human aspect of urban design must now be synthesized with the mechanical demands of an industrial world, and eventually evolve into what Doxiadis calls the “ecumenopolis,” a global city. The ancient Greeks’ commitment to a human dimension in their designs has faded with time, the professor explained, but must be regained in both architectural theory and practice.

To illustrate this, Tournikiotis displayed maps depicting the Greek city of Priene in the year 350 B.C., comparing them to Doxiadis’ work in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

He noted that both showed a

communal focal point of social interaction, which demonstrates Doxiadis’ desire to “create cities which consist of elements based on the human scale” as well as his emphasis on the human perspective. Many of Doxiadis’ sketches and drawings were structured around the 360-degree rotation of the human eye, a technique that underscores the “early humanistic existentialism” of Doxiadis’ projects, the professor added.

“To build a global network, you have to go back to the villages,” Tournikiotis noted, echoing Doxiadis.

Dean of the School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern, who attended the lecture, said that American architects did not hold a positive opinion of Doxiadis before the mid-1960s, when many of them showed a renewed interest in the architecture of the Greek islands and Doxiadis’ theories reemerged in U.S. architectural circles. The Greek architect saw his country as the beginning of the world, as the origin of democracy, Tournikiotis added, suggesting that the influence of ancient Greece should spread as much into modern architecture as it has into politics.

Swarnabh Ghosh ARC ’14 praised Tournikiotis’ talk, adding that the discussion of the origins of Doxiadis’ theories clarified a lot of questions architecture students have about Ekistics, a concept in urban planning pioneered by Doxiadis.

The lecture was sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis foundation and co-organized by the School of Architecture and Yale’s Hellenic Studies department.

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

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The talk tried to connect architectural and city planning techniques among the ancient Greeks to modern concerns in the field.

The two worlds of “Valhalla”

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER Opening this Thursday night at the Whitney Theater, “Valhalla” by Paul Rudnick ’77 follows the lives of two characters from vastly different backgrounds, living nearly a century apart from one another and connected only by their common love of beauty and their desire to pursue it at any cost.

The play juxtaposes the life of James Avery, a young man from Texas during the World War II era, with that of Ludwig, a prince of Bavaria during the 19th century. The production is a Theater Studies senior project for Spencer Klavan ’14, Maggie Ditre ’14 and Irene Casey ’14, who spoke with the News about their experience creating and working on this project, as they head into the show’s last week of rehearsal.

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How and why did you three decide on this particular play to stage for your senior projects? Did you consider other plays?

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Casey: At one point it felt like we considered every play that has ever been written, since we searched for a really long time — about three months — for the right play. We needed a play that was challenging for directors, had an acting role that Spencer would be excited about and a lot of opportunity for set design, so we had a long list of criteria. We just pulled “Valhalla” along with many other plays from the shelves in the Haas Arts Library. Spencer and I read it at about the same time and I remember getting a text from him right after he finished reading it and as I was about to start reading it. I asked him what he thought of it and he said “I can’t tell you yet, text me when you’re done reading.”

play switches between QThe two drastically different settings — pre-WWII Texas and 19th century Bavaria — how can one switch back and forth between settings on one stage?

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Casey: The set is very much a mixture of both worlds.

The only way of distinguish-

ing between the two is through the actors themselves — where they are standing and what they are doing. But the distinction between the two worlds is surprisingly clear sometimes. For example, Spencer is in every scene that takes place in Texas so wherever he is on stage would be the part that is supposed to be set in Texas. And some objects remind you of one of these places.

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Ditre: The objects you see on stage are not rigidly divided into ‘Texas’ objects and ‘Bavaria’ objects — many of them are things you would see in many different types of environment. Only some things specifically remind you of one of the two worlds. For example, the swan and castle statuettes would be reminiscent of Ludwig and Bavaria.

would you compare the QHow two main characters, James Avery and Ludwig of Bavaria?

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Klavan: James is utterly out of place in his own milieu.

He is gay, he is yearningly aesthetic. He loves flowery, abstract, gorgeous things and none of that exists around him.

So we see him really struggling against his environment. Ludwig has this desire to build all these beautiful things, like his castles, while James likes to go and throw himself in different situations just to try and experience the beauty around him.

But the kind of extravagance that Ludwig creates is also the type of beauty that James wants in his ideal world, but that type of beauty does not exist in Dainsville, Texas. That is why he needs to get out of that place.

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Casey: Ludwig is also gay at a time when that was not acceptable. The playwright thought of them as puzzle pieces that lock together, so they are not the same person but they complement each other’s personalities. What they share is this love for beauty. That is what drives their lives.

are the major themes QWhat explored in the play? What

is the significance of exploring these themes today, here at Yale?

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Casey: One of the biggest questions presented in the play is the tension between giving into your wildest dreams and doing your duty or doing what society wants you to do.

Ludwig has a struggle between his obsession of love and beauty … and his duty to his country as well as his religion. Eventually he gives into his love of beauty and on one hand you can say he was a terrible king because he lost a large war for his country, but on the other hand, Bavaria’s largest source of income is tourism surrounding these castles that he built.

would you characterQHow ize the play’s historical element? Would you say the two settings presented are historically accurate?

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Klavan: A large part of the factual details in the play are historically accurate, even in this fictional town in Texas. For example, James goes to ‘reform school,’ which was a popular thing in Texas at the time. And the socioeconomic status of people like James and his parents is very close to what your average person in Texas at the time would look like. It’s a wellresearched play.

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Casey: But at the same time, both of the main characters’ personalities are supposed to be different from what one would expect from people of their respective eras.

is the significance of QWhat staging a play like this at Yale, at this time?

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Klavan: We, as seniors, are speaking to many people in our class that are currently being asked questions that oftentimes pit realism against idealism as they are graduating, especially people in the theater community. We are told to follow our dreams all through high school, but now we face the question of ‘are you actually willing to do that?’ The play asks that question and explores what the cost of such decisions may be.

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

YCBA talk explores post-war British art

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Assistant professor of art history at Southern Methodist University Eric Stryker GRD ’10 discussed the connection between sociopolitical conditions and visual art in postwar-Britain at the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday.

The event, part of the YCBA’s weekly “Art in Context” series, focused on pieces from the museum’s modern collection, particularly works from the “reconstruction” period in the aftermath of the Second World War. Before offering his interpretations of individual works, Stryker explained that the period was one of profound change to Britain’s urban, social, political and economic geography, characterized by a housing crisis, labor shortages — which would come to be filled by an influx of immigrants from Commonwealth nations — and talk of the potential decline of the British state.

Stryker also explored the art historical trends of the time, explaining the differences between postwar visual arts in the United States and Britain. While the move toward abstraction came to dominate American artistic milieus, such as the New York School and the Abstract Expressionists, representations of the human figure remained particularly prominent across the Atlantic, he explained.

“There’s a very strong tendency towards figuration in British art … [it] often resembles a human body, to one degree or another,” Stryker said.

Stryker focused on a 1973 bronze sculpture by British artist Lynn Chadwick’s named “Winged Figures II,” explaining that the piece took the artist’s “winged figures” series in a new direction. The novelty is evident in the piece’s “flat, polished bronze face,” set on top of the highly textured body typical of Chadwick’s prior sculptures, he said.

Although made nearly two decades after Chadwick shifted disciplines, “Winged Figures II” still provides glimpses of his “architect’s way of thinking,” Stryker explained.

He noted the piece’s nod to poured concrete — a building technique that had emerged at the beginning of the 20th century — as well the sculpture’s echoes of the “raised platform” trend in Modernist architecture, in which concrete platforms raised above street-level were used to connect buildings and serve as pedestrian areas removed from the road.

Stryker noted that the sculpture’s metamorphic qualities are not limited to its

bird-like characteristics, adding that Chadwick’s works exemplify the idea of “body as a building” — a concept common in postwar British sculpture. He added that the prominence of this notion of figures in a state of change was likely tied to the social conditions of the period.

The professor also analyzed two of artist Kenneth Armitage’s sculptures — his 1957 “Triarchy” and 1952 “Friends Walking” — both composed of a large, “walllike” bronze slab. He focused in particular on the process Armitage used to add supporting legs to “Triarchy,” which involved the sculptor placing the slab in a vertical position and using a frame of wooden supports to hold it up while the permanent legs were added. This process, he said, was akin to that used to prop up the walls of buildings near bomb sites, deployed all over Britain during the period of reconstruction.

There’s a very strong tendency towards figuration in British art.

ERIC STRYKER Assistant professor of art history, Southern Methodist University The final piece discussed was Frank Auerbach’s 1967 oil-on-board “Seated Figure II,” a painting rendered in a palette of grays, browns and ochres. Though many scholars associate this lack of vibrant color with the austerity of postwar Britain, Stryker said he wonders if the “lusciousness” of the vast quantity of paint — applied over a long period of time — does not contradict such a notion. He pointed out several other contradictions present within the painting. In particular, he questioned allegations that Auerbach’s work is necessarily about decline — in fact, the artist’s work quite literally depicts the “building up” of something.

Sue Cohen, a New Haven resident, said she is thankful for the range of programming offered by the Yale galleries.

“I enjoyed hearing about the socialpolitical connections between the [visual] arts and the reconstruction of Great Britain,” said David Thompson, Coordinator of Cataloguing at the YCBA. The Yale Center for British Art is located at 1080 Chapel St. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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“It’s also comforting knowing that I have another three years ahead of me to hopefully build upon my performance.”

REED SRERE ’17 Saberist, Men’s fencing team

TORI BALTA ’#14 SOFTBALL TEAM The second baseman and captain of the Elis made the Ivy League honor roll after recording eight hits in just four games last week. Balta had three hits go for extra bases and stole three bags to round out her stellar week.

HARRISON WHITE ’17 BASEBALL TEAM The infielder and designated hitter was named to the Ivy League honor roll for his performance last week. The rookie hit 0.462 (six-for-13) while scoring in three runs and driving in another for the Bulldogs.

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Perfect start snapped by Ivy foes

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however, the Bulldogs kept fighting. Attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 opened the scoring just 24 seconds in with an unassisted goal. After a Penn goal at the 26:52 mark, three straight Yale goals by Fleishhacker and midfielder Erin Magnuson ’15 cut the Quaker lead to one.

But Penn held the Elis scoreless for nearly 12 minutes while scoring a goal of its own. After that stretch, Yale

America has a vast array of traditions, ranging from fireworks on the Fourth to parades on Thanksgiving, from groundhogs in February to mall mania on Black Friday. Among both the conventional and bizarre American traditions, few are as anticipated by sports fans as baseball’s Opening Day. And now Budweiser, Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith and over 100,000 Americans are pushing to officially make Opening Day a national holiday.

The petition put forth on WhiteHouse.gov

by Budweiser, in conjunction with Smith, has recently garnered the 100,000 signatures necessary for the White House to consider the proposal, which reportedly could take several months.

Baseball has always been considered “America’s pastime,” the sport that defines us, that we have owned on an international stage, and which millions of Americans have grown up loving, playing and following. Made and perfected right here at home, the sport and the experience that baseball offers is uniquely American.

But lately, things seem to be shifting. Football has steadily grown to become perhaps the true fan favorite, and Little Leagues seem to be increasingly replaced by youth lacrosse and soccer. Moreover, baseball growth in the United States seems to have slowed, sending Major League Baseball to Australia for regular season games in what seems to be an attempt to grow its fan base. And baseball’s

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The women’s lacrosse team lost its two games over spring break, falling to Penn and Harvard.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER After a dominant 5–0 start to the season, the Yale women’s lacrosse team came crashing back down to Earth with a pair of close conference losses over break against Penn and Harvard.

The Bulldogs (5–2, 1–2 Ivy) lost 11–9 to the No. 12 Quakers (5–2, 2–0) after falling behind early and failing to even the score from then on. Last

Saturday against the Crimson (4–3, 2–1), three goals in a 2:54 span in the first half gave Harvard a lead the team would not relinquish.

“Obviously the result was a little upsetting,” said defenseman Courtney Reilly ’16, who was sidelined with an injury for the two games. “Sometimes our shots weren’t falling or things just weren’t happening, but everyone was trying their best, which is all we can ask for.”

Despite a fantastic run to start the

season, during which the Elis held all opponents to eight goals or fewer and scored in double digits each time, the Blue and White entered its game against Penn as the decided underdogs. The Quakers’ only two losses have come against the top two teams in the nation, and Penn has shared or won outright each of the last seven conference championships. The squad lived up to its billing against Yale, taking a 7–3 lead into halftime.

Following the intermission,

Fencing fares well at nationals

All work, no play

MacRae, Fabian finish season at NCAAs

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a long and successful season, swimmer Eva Fabian ’16 and diver Lilybet MacRae ’17 were the lone Yale athletes to compete in the women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships this year.

Fabian competed in the 500- and 1,650yard freestyle swims while MacRae took on the three- and one-meter dives.

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“They both had strong performances representative of their hard work this season,” swimmer Catherine Wang ’16 said.

“We were all so excited for them.”

Though young, both MacRae and Fabian performed well for Yale in the 2013–2014 season. MacRae blew away the competition with several first place finishes throughout the year. Fabian also consistently finished in the top spots, earning top-three finishes in almost every meet.

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Five Yale fencers represented the University at the NCAA Championships.

BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The NCAA Championships in Columbus, Ohio, was the men’s and women’s fencing teams’ final event of the 2013-’14 season, and the Bulldogs showed that the future of Yale fencing is in good hands.

FENCING The women sent three athletes to the competition, while two of their male counterparts also represented

the Blue.

On the women’s side, Joanna Lew ’17 finished 12th in the saber competition, while Katherine Miller ’16 and captain Lauren Miller ’15 finished in 17th place in the épée and foil competitions, respectively. All three qualified for the national competition out of the Northeast Regional Championship in Wellesley, Mass. “[The competition] was an amazing chance to fence the best in the field, and to push yourself to meet or exceed your capacity,” said Lew, who earned all-American honors for her

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performance at the national competition.

Lauren Miller competed at the Championship for the third year in a row after placing sixth in the foil event at Regionals.

She won eight of her 23 bouts at the competition, while Katherine Miller triumphed in 10 of her 23 bouts. Lew won 11 of her 23 bouts en route to her 12th place finish. Lauren Miller said that she gained perspective after looking back on her bouts.

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Swimmer Eva Fabian ’16 and diver Lilybet MacRae ’17 represented Yale at NCAAs last weekend.

POSTSEASON WINS FOR THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM ENTERING THIS SEASON. Yale has two victories in this year’s Collegeinsider.com Invitational Tournament heading into tonights matchup with Ivy rival Columbia. Yale’s only other postseason win came in 2002.