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A week after Yale’s own gun scare, a potential threat shuts down UNH

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Middle eastern scholars discuss Islam and democracy

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Jovin ’99 remembered

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER BRUTAL MURDER, ‘COLD CASE’ REMAINS ACTIVE

Oh, the places Yalies go!

Parker Liautaud ’16 is trying to set a record for the fastest trek to the South Pole. He is already in Antarctica and preparing to begin the nearly 400-mile journey on Sunday. Liautaud has hiked to the North Pole three times in the past.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS

entists living in Goettingen, Germany, where Suzanne grew up.

Reached Sunday, the Jovins said their daughter’s death was heartwrenching then — and remains so today.

“It’s not something I can put into words that would even make sense,” Mr. Jovin said. “When you’re a parent and you lose a child, nothing can make it okay.”

The last time they saw their daughter was over the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of November 1998, the Jovins said, when the family gathered in California to visit Jovin’s younger sister, Rebecca, who was studying at Stanford University. Suzanne

As the University looks to close its budget deficit, student jobs and financial aid will remain safe, at least for now.

Although officials and faculty members said current levels of student employment and financial assistance have not changed significantly in recent years, they are not certain how new budgets for fiscal 2015 will affect these resources.

In a Nov. 18 memo sent to all Yale faculty and staff, University President Peter Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak said a $39 million budget deficit will require cuts across the University’s 40 units, which include Yale College, each of the graduate and professional schools, each of Yale’s galleries and museums as well as several large administrative units like Facilities and Human Resources.

“There are no plans to change financial aid at this point for any of our current students,” Director of Student Financial Services Caesar Storlazzi said. “Two or three years from now, might there be some changes to financial aid services? Sure, but that depends on how the economy is performing and how Yale’s economy is performing.”

Storlazzi said that if Yale’s endowment performs poorly in future years, cuts made to the University’s financial aid services would be administered gradually and would be spread across the board. Options available to the Financial Aid Office include tuition hikes, raising the amount Yale expects students on financial aid to contribute from their summer earnings and re-evaluating the ways the office calculates the need of each accepted student for financial aid, Storlazzi added.

Still, Salovey has insisted that financial aid will not be touched.

“We’ll always protect [financial aid],” he told the News in November.

Yale College’s financial aid costs have almost quadrupled

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Hello darkness, my old friend. Astronomy professor

Priyamvada Natarajan has received a $1.5 million grant to study black holes. Hopefully the researchers understand the irony of literally throwing over a million dollars into a black hole.

May the odds be ever in their favor. Grand Strategy

acceptance emails went out on Monday. Accepted students are advised to scope out their competition like Katniss preparing to enter the Hunger Games. In this scenario, John Gaddis is President Snow.

Charles Hill is Plutarch.

As one application closes, another opens. The Adopt-

A-Prefrosh program is now accepting applicants, offering the perfect opportunity for messing with high school students during Bulldog Days later this year. One point for getting prefrosh to do your laundry, two points for losing your prefrosh at a frat, a hundred points for showing them the time of their lives and inducting them into the cult of Yale.

Top Chef: New Haven. The

fifth annual Chili Throwdown was hosted by Yale Dining over the break. Over 300 attended the event, which raised $3,060 for United Way. Stephen Ackley-Ortiz, director of alumni affairs at the Law School, took first place. William Ojeda, a cook at Davenport College, won the People’s Choice Award.

Meanwhile at the Vatican.

Erica James, professor in the History of Art and Af-Am Studies Departments, was granted an audience with the Pope, more or less. Actually, Pope Francis was recently given a copy of James’s book “Love & Responsibility: The Collection of Dawn Davies.”

The book documents over 1,700 Bahamian artworks collected over four decades.

Ask not what your student council can do for you, but

what you can do for your student council. Harvard junior Gus Mayopoulos, the vice-presidential candidate on a joke ticket that ended up winning the Harvard Undergraduate Council elections, has announced plans to take the position of the UC presidency. His original running mate Sam Clark is set on resigning. Here’s hoping Clark goes out Nixon-style.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1941 Pierson College Master Arnold Wolfers speaks on what he sees as a stalemate in WWII between Hitler’s forces and British naval power.

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JOVIN FAMILY

Wednesday marks the fifteenth anniversary of the shocking murder of Suzanne Jovin ’99.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER This morning, a small crowd will gather in the lower courtyard of Davenport College to honor the life of Suzanne Jovin ’99, the Yale College senior who was murdered — stabbed 17 times in the back of the head and neck — 15 years ago today.

On each anniversary of her death, a collection of University administrators, faculty members and staff hold vigil in front of a small plaque bearing Jovin’s name. Trading memories and leaving behind flowers, they pay their respects to a student whose life was cut short in a brutal attack that left Jovin bleeding

to death on an off-campus street corner. To this day, her murderer remains unknown.

For 15 years, investigators in various precincts have probed the murder, now a cold case in the hands of the chief state’s attorney’s office, where roughly seven investigators work parttime to collect evidence and process tips, according to Deputy Chief State’s Attorney John Russotto. During a decade and a half’s time, the investigation has waxed and waned; tips have dried up and critical witnesses have yet to come forward.

But the passage of 15 years has not eased the loss for Jovin’s parents, Thomas Jovin and Donna Arndt-Jovin GRD ’69, both sci-

Alcohol recommendations With book history, Yale tries delayed to make up for lost time SCHOLARSHIP

BY WESLEY YIIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite months of delay, the University Council Committee on Alcohol has still not yet finalized its advisory report on alcohol policy that was scheduled for release last spring.

The committee — which consists of five members of University President Peter Salovey’s University Council and five outside experts, while also being assisted by Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews ’83 LAW ’86 — was announced to the Yale College student body in December 2012 by Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Goff-Crews to address growing concerns from students and other members of the Yale community about the college’s alcohol and drug policies. The committee was supposed to send its recommendations on how to improve the University’s alcohol policies to the President’s Office at the end of 2013, according to the December 2012 announcement from Miller and Goff-Crews. But the report’s submission was delayed, and its current status remains unclear.

Yale College Dean’s Office fellows Hannah Peck DIV ’11 and Garrett Fiddler ’11 said that the delay in the report’s submission is not problematic. Most other committees of the University Council work for 18 months before making their recommendations, Peck said.

“It was a very ambitious schedule,” Fiddler said about the committee’s self-imposed spring 2013 deadline, adding that he is not surprised that it has taken longer than projected to formulate the recommendations.

Peck and Fiddler were both previously members of the Yale College Dean’s Office Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drugs, a group composed entirely of Yale College community members that submitted policy recommendations to the University Council Committee on Alcohol in April.

Former Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’13, also a member of the YCDO task force, said the delay is not an issue since the committee’s spring 2013 deadline was self-determined and unofficial.

Peck said that the committee may actually benefit from taking more time to form its recommendations, since the influence of alcohol policy on the student population is so nuanced. Fiddler agreed with Peck, adding that he would have been worried, had the committee rushed to produce SEE ALCOHOL POLICY PAGE 4

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espite the Beinecke’s extensive collections of manuscripts and rare books, Yale has not been a leader in the field of book history. A new program sponsored by the English Department and the Beinecke seeks to promote the study of books as material objects.

HELEN ROUNER reports.

On a Wednesday afternoon in November, the audience at a lecture in the Beinecke received instructions they likely did not expect from an English profes-

sor: The guest speaker told them not to read the Dante excerpt before them. He asked them to look at it instead.

The scholar, Randall McLeod, a professor in the Department

of English at the University of Toronto, had come to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to give a lecture on the relationship between text and type. McLeod — the inventor of the McLeod Portable Collator, a device that allows scholars to compare copies of printed books by merging two texts into a single perceived image — was the second of six guest lecturers this year in the “Yale Program in the History of the Book” at the Beinecke.

The three founders — English professor David Kastan, CuraSEE FEATURE PAGE 4

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For better crisis alerts L

et’s set the scene: it’s Monday, Nov. 25, and my Thanksgiving break has already begun. I am walking out the door of my grandmother’s house, about an hour from New Haven, when my phone buzzes with the first of that day’s many Yale Alerts. Unconfirmed report of a gunman on campus. Shelter in place advised. Basically, the texts say, “We don’t know much, but we’ll keep you posted.” At this point, I’m not particularly worried. I’ve lived through middle-school lockdowns (armed bank robbery next door) and neighborhood quarantines (quasi-hostage crisis in a home down the block). An unconfirmed report of a gunman on campus? Not too concerning. I’m from the mean streets of Boca Raton.

But a bit more than an hour later, I get another text— and an email, and a voicemail— informing me that there is confirmation of a gunman. Cue the flood of worried Facebook statuses; it’s time for anxious texts to students starving in their Old Campus dorms.

I start getting messages from friends out of state, ranging from the concerned “Are you on campus?” to the cynical “I warned you about New Haven.” Throughout the day, I’ll receive from the Yale Alert system a total of five emails, eight text messages and five phone calls. I’ll see pictures of Yale Police, of New Haven Police, of FBI and Homeland Security and SWAT officers scouring L-Dub entryways for a suspect. And through it all, I’m comforted: Yale, it seems, is really on top of things.

And yet, when I review the events of the day with a friend who spent the lockdown in Durfee Hall, he tells me his situation was a bit different: no text messages, no phone calls— mostly the muddled reports of rumors as told by friends offcampus, and the emails which he didn’t see until late in the day. He was about to head out the door as the shelter was in place, and only stopped when a friend’s urgent text informed him of the situation.

That’s likely his own fault— to get the text messages and calls, students must have entered their phone numbers on the Student Information Systems site— but it’s startling nonetheless. Because if students aren’t absolutely required to sign up for this kind of alert system, that leaves large gaps in the safety net that helps us manage crises like these. It’s tough to ensure communication with all students during a crisis, because outreach is so dependent on

technology and the individual on the receiving end: there’s really no reliable way to confirm each student is updated on the situation. But the University can convey to students the critical importance of registering their cell phone numbers online at the beginning of the year.

Beyond ensuring that students are receiving emergency messages, the Yale Alerts themselves can be improved.

The lockdown email was a bit unclear, especially for those of us who had never heard the term shelter in place: My own high school did not use that phrasing, even though we had dozens of “Code Red” drills.

And Yale administrators had not facilitated any training on how to behave during a lockdown.

WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY MEAN BY "SHELTER IN PLACE"?

'YALE12' ON 'REPLACING "THE

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Quiz the achievement gap T

here’s been a lot of discussion about the issue of class on college campuses recently. The conversation seems to have shifted from simply increasing the number of lowincome students who apply and are admitted to elite colleges, to ensuring that these students have access to the same quality of education as everyone else once they are enrolled.

A study released two weeks ago may have come across a partial solution: Giving quizzes in every class session to college students improves performance, particularly for those from low-income backgrounds.

Three psychology professors from the University of Texas at Austin gave their Introductory Psychology students a brief online quiz in every class session and compared their performance to students who took the course when they previously taught it.

They measured socioeconomic status by having the students rank their parents’ highest level of education on a seven-point scale, ranging from no high school to professional degree.

The study found that, once the two classes’ scores were benchmarked, students in the quizzed class performed over half an

entire letter grade higher in a 4.0 scale.

Even more strikingly, the gap between upper and lower class students DIANA was reduced ROSEN from 0.71 to 0.34 letter Looking Left grades, almost a 50 percent reduction of the achievement gap.

The findings led the professors to conclude, “frequent consequential quizzing should be used routinely in large lecture courses to improve performance in class and in other concurrent and subsequent courses.”

Concerns regarding lowincome students at elite universities extend far beyond Austin, Texas.

According to a Nov. 27 Forbes article, low-income students face tremendous difficulties on elite college campuses, even in cases where students are receiving generous financial aid packages.

Worries ranging from not being able to afford transportation costs for interviews to being unable to spare the cash for campus performances are discussed by students

from Harvard, Duke and Brown.

In the article, Beth Breger, executive director for the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), argues that college campuses are set up for upper/middle class students. Tasks that lowincome students may not have experience with, such as asking for a recommendation letter or getting academic support from a TA, are frequently expected of students upon arrival on campus.

Discussion of class has taken place on Yale’s campus as well.

Following a series of columns in the News about financial aid and class last spring, the Freshman Scholars at Yale (FSY) program was launched. Although the program is still in a pilot stage, FSY allowed 30 incoming freshmen from disadvantaged backgrounds to spend five weeks on Yale’s campus over the summer taking a writing course for no cost.

The program has received mainly positive feedback thus far. President Salovey also encouraged the Class of 2017 to talk about socioeconomic status, calling the topic “one of the last taboos among Yale students.”

Talking, while an important first step, is far from enough. In the Yale Daily News Magazine article “We Don’t Talk About It,” a

low-income student from Detroit asked, “What is talk, if you’re not going to act upon it?” That sentiment ought to be spread far and wide.

Studies like the one out of UTAustin show that there are concrete steps that can be taken to level the playing field at a relatively low cost. Some Yale courses already do administer quizzes in every class session, particularly introductory language courses.

Naturally, the policy forces all students to keep up with the material instead of falling behind.

Large introductory courses at Yale in psychology, economics and other subjects should begin implementing similar brief online quizzes.

Sure, the UT-Austin study is a preliminary study and obviously could not control for all outside factors. But it showed a remarkable closure in the achievement gap for low-income students.

If Yale wants to provide quality education for all its students, it must focus on tangible social science research that has been proven effective elsewhere.

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her columns run on Wednesdays. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .

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A Thanksgiving tradition

Even the language used made the Yale Alert instructions seem more like recommendations than strict requirements, kind of like the laughably polite fire alarms that ask if they can “have your attention please.” Sure, we might read that “Yale Police advises those on campus to remain in their current location,” but to a bunch of college students, still not over our adolescent sense of invincibility, that sounds pretty mild.

Though these concerns exist, and the response to the crisis (which we now know to have possibly been a hoax) wasn’t perfect, Yale’s security measures still impressed me considerably. University authorities stressed repeatedly their better-safe-thansorry attitude: YPD chief and famous email-master Ronnell Higgins said the room search was conducted out of “an abundance of caution,” and University Vice President Linda Lorimer wrote that the police “took nothing for granted.” We’re lucky to have witnessed the school’s comprehensive emergency response system in action without seeing any actual injury, and we’ve been given an opportunity to make the necessary improvements on Yale’s already strong safety network.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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fter consuming a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at my Aunt’s house, the men sauntered into the living room and the women retreated to the kitchen. Bellies full and waistlines expanding, the men slumped across sofas and watched football, their third game of the day. Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women scrubbed food off plates, packed leftovers into Tupperware and set the table again for dessert.

I’ve always understood this implicit arrangement, but this year was the first time I truly recognized it. Thanks, Sheryl Sandberg. The men succumbed to the sleep-inducing powers of tryptophan while the women took to work in the kitchen. And this was after cooking for days to prepare the entire meal.

Always the slowest eater in my family, I remained alone at the table scooping away the last bits of sweet potato casserole — my favorite, with the melted

marshmallow glaze on top. Once finally finished, I lumbered into the kitchen, calling it quits after multiple rounds of consumption. In the kitchen, I offered to help clean up. I was promptly rejected. My dirty plate and silverware were snatched from my hands before I could wash them myself.

“Go watch football,” my aunt said.

I persisted, heading back to the table to gather the remaining dirty plates. But I was too late. My cousin — a girl, 14 — beat me to it.

Following the example set by her mother, grandmother and aunts, she obeyed the gender norm and helped the women clean.

“Where’s your brother?” I asked.

She motioned toward the living room. “Watching football,” she said. Of course he was.

With his father, grandfather and uncles.

I meandered around the kitchen, doing the odd job here

and there. I shifted leftovers in the refrigerator to fit more containers and placed serving dishes in the high cabinets my mother couldn’t reach. But I kept bumping into people; the women, an apparent professional cleaning team, had this drill down pat.

“You really want to help?” my aunt asked me. “Here.” She handed over two bursting bags of trash.

“Garbage cans are in the garage. Put shoes on.”

I assumed my role and took out the trash. In the art of cleanup, it was apparently the only task that a man could accomplish without messing up. When I returned from the garage, the serving area had already been set for dessert.

Pumpkin pies, banana breads and birthday cake were all ready to be eaten. The men awoke from their between-meal naps and entered the kitchen to eat again.

We sang “Happy Birthday” to the latest age-turner — me, 21 — and dessert was served. I was handed

the first slice of birthday cake.

Somehow it fit in my stomach with the multiple plates of turkey and Thanksgiving starches I had consumed before.

Soon the men returned to watching TV. But for me, something didn’t sit quite right — and it wasn’t anything I’d eaten. It was something about my family’s passive acceptance of traditional gender roles. No one seemed to even notice the split.

And I’m sure it wasn’t just my household.

But thankfully, I noticed — and I could help make a subtle shift.

A short while later, I returned to the kitchen to clear my plate.

The women were at it again, cleaning the dishes and wiping the countertop. But this time, by the garage door, a bulging bag of trash was waiting for me.

JOSH BARRETT is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at joshua.barrett@yale.edu .

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“Their only goal is to see if they can land a knockout blow on an unsuspecting victim. Is this the world we are living in now?”

KENNY FLORIAN RETIRED ULTIMATE FIGHTER CHAMPION

SOM online courses thrive

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The School of Management offered two online courses to students of 23 business schools worldwide this fall and plans to expand its online program in the coming semester.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER After successfully piloting two online courses this semester, the Yale School of Management plans to expand its online program.

In September, SOM launched two interactive online courses — one on mobile banking and one on antitrust laws — and offered the courses to students who attend member schools of the Global Network, a group of 23 business schools around the world. While this semester’s courses were both taught by SOM professors, the Technion institute of Technology in Israel will join Yale in offering online courses through the network this spring.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said he thought the pilot program this semester was a

success, adding that the students who participated in the two courses exceeded his expectations.

“What I think has been most surprising in a positive way is how quickly the students worked together, how quickly they formed teams,” Bach said. “It just shows how an online experience can lead to a real community that extends into the real world.”

Bach added that he was impressed by how the students networked outside the course, making plans to meet with each other in person.

SOM Dean Edward Snyder said that these small network online courses, dubbed SNOCs, differ greatly from MOOCs — massive online open courses — which are open to anyone rather than limited to a network. SNOCs repre-

sent a completely new approach that is unique to SOM, he said.

While the dropout rate for larger courses offered by websites like Coursera is almost 50 percent, Bach said that students enrolled in SNOCs remained committed to the courses this fall.

SOM professor Fiona Scott Morton, who co-taught the antitrust law class with Snyder, said that although she was worried about potential issues like technology troubles or lack of student dedication, the outcome of the course was positive.

Still, Scott Morton said that SNOC’s are a more valuable opportunity for students from other schools than they are for SOM students, as SOM students already have access to many resources.

There are also some disad-

Student with rifle shuts down UNH

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER Just over a week after Yale’s gun scare, the University of New Haven went on lockdown yesterday afternoon after police reported that a man armed with a rifle was spotted across the street from campus.

At 12:50 p.m. UNH administration sent a tweet and a text message to all students, faculty and staff issuing a “shelter in place,” requiring all students to remain where they were. Though police arrested the suspect within half an hour, the “shelter in place” remained until 5:30 p.m. as police searched each room of every building to ensure the safety of students, staff, faculty and visitors.

All afternoon classes were canceled and the Shop Rite and the neighboring McDonald’s also closed down during the lockdown.

Though many students were confined to classrooms and dorms through the afternoon, those interviewed were pleased with the police and the administration’s cautious approach. Students said the administration followed up with more information throughout the afternoon with automated phone calls and emails.

“We were pretty anxious about the whole situation but the university did a good job of constantly updating us,” said Kerri Zbodula, a UNH junior. “I felt a lot better that they were taking such big precautions and checking everywhere.”

An emergency email sent to students, faculty and staff shortly after the gunman was spotted on campus read, “WHPD has reported an Asian male near the South Campus area with what appears to be a rifle.”

Later in the day, NBC Connecticut reported that police had identified the suspect, now in custody, as UNH student William Dong, who commuted to campus from Fairfield, Conn. Police found two loaded handguns and

ammunition for the rifle he was carrying in his car, which was parked at a Shop Rite across the street from campus.

Police told the Connecticut Courant that Dong has two legally registered firearms.

They are currently searching his background for clues that would explain why he had a firearm on campus.

How Dong intended to use the gun is yet to be revealed, UNH spokeswoman Karen Grava said. However, Grava confirmed that there were no injuries.

None of the four students interviewed knew Dong before the incident.

Students reported that local police, along with SWAT teams, state troopers and the FBI, swarmed campus during the incident. Zbodula said police surrounded campus buildings to maintain the lockdown.

“I felt completely safe the whole time,” said Nathalie Hall, a UNH junior. “The way they handled it was amazing, I really liked how they kept us up-to-date the whole time.”

When the first reports came out, however, students took cover, hiding under desks and in closets, laying in between bookshelves and turning off their lights, according to Zbodula and Sagemarie George, a freshman at UNH. Many students became restless and hungry during their five hours of confinement, Hall said.

Zbodula said students were especially shaken by the incident because it came in the wake of Yale’s gun scare and last Monday’s incident in which a UNH student stabbed his roommate several times. “[The police] received quite a lot of compliments,” Grava said. “A lot of people, students and others, were tweeting about the police, thanking them for their swift actions.”

UNH currently has 6,400 student enrolled.

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

vantages to learning through an online platform as opposed to in a physical classroom, Scott Morton said.

“Here [in a classroom] you can ask a question, you can raise your hand, if you don’t understand you can look puzzled,” Scott Morton said. “There are lots of ways in which this is less of a good experience than being in a classroom.”

But Ignacio Alvarez MBA ’13, who took the online course on mobile banking, said in a Tuesday email that he found the course to be a good opportunity because guest speakers from around the world contributed to the class.

Had the course been taught in New Haven rather than online, these speakers may not have been able to participate, he said.

Brad Gentry, the SOM professor who will teach the Yale SNOC

next semester on natural capital, said these online courses are valuable to Yale students because they allow them to engage with people from around the Global Network. Students can establish connections that will be useful to them later if they work in international enterprises, he said.

Gentry added that the course he is teaching next semester may be particularly appealing to students because it addresses issues that, though relevant in the business world today, are not normally taught in MBA schools.

“The course offers students the opportunity to get a leg up on their competitors by addressing some of the issues facing the companies they might want to work for,” Gentry said.

Bach said the course topics chosen for SNOCs are ones

for which working with students across the world will add value to the educational experience. Faculty expertise is also an important factor in determining topics, he added.

Gentry said he decided to teach his course because of the opportunity to interact with international students and explore issues surrounding natural capital.

“Given that the Global Network is new, and given that online courses are still new, and given the need for new solutions, it seemed like a good point to jump in and try something out,” Gentry said.

The Global Network was founded by Snyder in 2012, his first year in office.

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

EIGHT THANKFUL NIGHTS

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WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE THE ONLY KID IN TOWN WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE

On Thursday, the eighth and final Hanukkah candle will be lit on the New Haven Green menorah. This year’s festival of lights was dubbed “Thanksgivukkah,” as it coincided with Thanksgiving for the first time in history. Make sure to take it in while it lasts; the next won’t occur for another 70,000 years, when the lunar calendar overlaps the solar calendar.

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FROM THE FRONT Program launches Yale into book history FEATURE FROM PAGE 1 tor of the Early Modern and Osborn Collections at the Beinecke Kathryn James and Aaron Pratt GRD ’16 — established the program last year in an effort to make Yale a leading player in the developing field of book history, a discipline focused on the study of the book as a material object.

“Book history is not only the history of books: It’s the expansive rubric that covers various platforms in which writing gets recorded, distributed and otherwise engaged,” Kastan said, adding that the field of book history has only really emerged within the last 15 years.

The program, which is co-sponsored by the Beinecke and Yale’s Department of English, features three events a semester in which a guest speaker both gives a public lecture and conducts a seminar of 20 to 30 graduate students, professors and other academics. As of this year, the program also features a symposium in which book history scholars discuss topics in the field and present their own work.

The rarity and breadth of its collection render the Beinecke one of the best libraries in North America at which to do book history research; however, Yale, has historically not been considered a top research university in the field. The “Yale Program in the History of the Book” has begun to rectify that shortcoming — but the success of the program will hinge on its ability to generate participation across traditional academic disciplines.

ESTABLISHING BOOK HISTORY AT YALE

Before the creation of the “Yale Program in the History of the Book,” the field of book history had a relatively small presence here at Yale. In 2006, James started a book history lecture series at the Beinecke that featured two lectures on work in book history each semester. Years later, in the fall of 2011, Pratt inherited a graduate student working group in the field that two students had begun earlier that year.

The following January, Pratt approached James and Kastan — who had started a small book history program during his tenure at Columbia University — with the idea of consolidating the working group and the lecture series into one official book history program for the University.

In the program’s first year, its founders sought first to brand the lecture series specifically as a Yale undertaking and decided to present English Department Chair Michael Warner as its first speaker, Pratt said. Later, Pratt added, he and the other founders sought to establish the program’s credentials by “bringing out the big guns:” guests included professor Robert Darnton of Harvard, professor Roger Chartier of the University of Pennsylvania and Elizabeth Eisenstein, who, Kastan said, wrote the foundational text on why print matters.

“We were trying to rescue the field from the charge of antiquarianism for its own sake and provide a lens through which it becomes extraordinary,” Kastan said.

He added that the distinguished speakers, many of whom had done research at the Beinecke at some point during their academic careers, were enthusiastic about being a part of this extension of the library’s traditional workings.

“The paycheck from the Beinecke is often enough,” Pratt added.

Each speaker’s visit includes both a lecture open to the public and a seminar for a smaller group of scholars. The lecture and seminar do not necessarily focus on the same topic, Pratt explained. The lectures are meant to be the most accessible component of the program. The seminars, by contrast, involve discussion of one of the visiting scholar’s works-in-progress, which is distributed to the seminar participants in advance, Kastan said. He added that the artifacts that the text addresses are often on display on the seminar table.

“We wanted a forum where we can have a real conversation of peers talking to peers,” Pratt said, explaining that a teacher-student relationship is often implicit in graduate student seminars with visiting scholars. He said that having faculty in the room who are also experts on the visitor’s area of study makes for a different kind of event.

This year was the first in which the program also included a symposium, which Kastan said allows for “a hands-on approach” to the field. This year’s symposium, called “Structures of Meaning in the History of the Book,” took place over a weekend in September. The symposium, Kastan said, focused on exploring both what book history is and what it can do through lectures, seminars and activities, such as examining hardware used in studying digital book history and inspecting old book bindings. Books used to be bound with discarded pages of other books, and in bindings, one can find pages of texts that have otherwise been lost, Kastan explained.

This year the program worked to explore beyond the Western literary tradition to make visible the broad scope of book history, Kastan said. For instance, the program’s next speaker, Peter Kornicki, is a scholar from Cambridge University who specializes in Japanese print culture. In the future, Pratt said the program will likely feature specialists on texts in science or medicine.

AN EMERGING FIELD

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The “Yale Program in the History of the Book,” a collaboration between the English Department and Beinecke, explores the relationship between text and type. ing collection of rare manuscripts and other significant artifacts in book history, including one of the world’s most extensive Shakespeare collections and a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, James said.

“There’s nothing better at any other North American university,” Kastan said, adding that the Beinecke was one of the primary reasons why he left Columbia University for Yale in fall 2008.

James said that archival researchers always have come to the library to work through its vast archives and always will.

However, she said, the Beinecke’s purpose has undergone a radical shift in the last 15 years with the boom of the Internet. As texts have become more readily available online and in a variety of digital forms, James said an increasing number of scholars have become interested in what she called “copy-specific material:” annotations, misprints, and other peculiarities that “make printed books unique in their individual forms.”

However, despite the wealth of the Beinecke’s resources and the increase in use of the library for study of the material book, Yale has not stood out as a leading research university in the book history field, Pratt said.

Pratt explained that the University of Pennsylvania is often considered the best university in the field as the home of the program on the History of Material Texts, established by professor Peter Stallybrass.

Stallybrass has been conducting workshops on the History of Material Texts at UPenn for the last 21 years, and he introduced a “History of the Book” seminar to the program in 1993. In addition to organizing a number of projects related to the field, Stallybrass also co-edits a Material Texts series for the UPenn Press with a number of other academics from institutions including Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia.

“Yale was famous for [literary] theory — I’m not sure they were aware of the texts they were using,” Stallybrass said, adding that, “Yale wasn’t a place I would think of [for book history] until David [Kastan] got there.”

Stallybrass attributed some of his program’s success to its being called a program in material text rather than in book history.

“We recognize the book as one among many textual forms,” Stallybrass said.

“By calling it a program in material text, you’re not excluding modern technologies — or even materials like scrolls or Babylonian tablets.”

Before “The Yale Program in the History of the Book,” Yale did not provide an adequate venue for scholars interested in the field to come together and discuss their findings, Pratt explained, adding that its founders hope the program will encourage academic collaboration.

James, Kastan and Pratt all said they consider the program to have been successful thus far. However, all noted a difficulty in inspiring interest in other scholars beyond those in a narrow field of study.

BOOKS ACROSS BOUNDARIES

When Margaret Coons ’14 visited Beinecke’s Shakespeare collection this semester as part of Kastan’s “Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies” class, she described her visit as a “sort of a religious experience.” In the last few years, the Beinecke has tried to make its collections more readily accessible to undergraduates like Coons, James said. This fall, for example, all professors teaching “English 125: Major English Poets” took their sections to visit relevant collections in the Beinecke, including early Chaucer manuscripts and copies of Shakespeare’s sonnets dating back many centuries.

English professor Catherine Nicholson, who is leading one of this semester’s

English 125 sections, explained that many of Shakespeare’s sonnets claim that the poet’s work will memorialize him forever.

“Only when you see the form of these old books do you see how preposterous it was for him to make that claim — how much chance was involved that these poems survived,” Nicholson said, referring to a copy of Shakespeare’s second sonnet scribbled into a palm-sized notebook.

Though the English Department is the official sponsor of Yale’s book history program, the field of book history by no means lies exclusively within the domain of English language and literature: rather, it applies to every field with a written intellectual record, Kastan said.

“We think about how the medium matters, not to the exclusion of content, but in terms of how it affects the content,” he said.

Kastan explained that though many academic fields encompass work that also falls within the realm of book history, the program has struggled to attract interest across traditional disciplines. Even within the humanities most scholars identify their work with a specific time period or cultural tradition, and few consider themselves book historians, he said. However, he added that those who are interested only in the historical or narrative content of a text miss the point both of book history and of their own scholarship.

“Ideas don’t exist apart from the material platforms on which they’re presented to us,” he said.

Kastan said scholars have an obligation to the work that is being done in subjects that do not share the language, genre, cultural tradition or time period of their own area of expertise. He explained that departmental structures within a university do not reflect natural divisions of academic study but are only an inheritance from early modern German research universities, adding that the program aims to undo this disciplinary heritage by highlighting the universal significance of material text.

At UPenn, for instance, the program on the History of Material Texts has drawn participants from a wide range of disciplines, including students and faculty from the college and professional schools, as well as librarians, rare book dealers, and museum curators in Europe and Asia, according to Stallybrass.

According to Pratt, the notion that all academics want to support interdisciplinary work is often just a fantasy. He and Kastan said they may look for another department to co-sponsor the program with the English Department to increase the sense of interdisciplinary — or as Kastan prefers to call it, “counter-disciplinary” — collaboration.

Kastan said that even those working within the Western intellectual tradition fail to recognize the paramount significance of book history. Our concept of the Western canon, he explained, is that authors within the tradition are in conversation with each other, but he added that scholars need to stop to consider how that conversation took place — and the field of book history serves exactly this purpose.

“The assumption is that Dante is reading Virgil, but without the material form of Dante’s work, it’s impossible to know how,” Kastan said. “Book history is about materializing the trajectories of intellectual histories you think you know. When you look, you start to see more clearly what that engagement is, and that it’s more complicated than you think.”

The next lecture in the program will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

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

over the past decade, from about $30 million in 2002 to $119 million in 2013. In early 2008, the University eliminated the parental contributions of students whose families earn below $60,000 annually and significantly reduced the contributions for other income brackets.

Even if financial aid had to be changed, Storlazzi said current students and applicants for the class of 2018 would not be affected.

“Yale would be doing a great disservice to students if we changed the rules on them once they arrive on campus,” he said.

Senior administrators told the News in November that threeand five-year budget targets will soon be distributed to units across the University. Though new levels of resource allocation will require reductions in personnel and nonpersonnel expenditures, individual units will be given substantial autonomy to determine how their own targets will be reached, they said.

Administrators and faculty interviewed said there are better ways to trim expenditures than hiring fewer students.

Although the Yale Peabody Museum has faced budget cuts in recent years, the museum has not lowered the number of student employees, said Richard Prum, the head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody. Prum said student employees are cheaper for departments to hire because student salaries are subsidized by the Provost’s Office outside of the regular budget. Storlazzi added that student employees also do not require the same benefits that full-time employees would expect.

Hiring students who are interested in biology makes for more diligent workers and also dovetails with the museum’s broader mission of educating students about the natural sciences, Prum added.

Prum, who is a former chair of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, said he expects this rationale applies to academic departments’ hiring preferences as well.

Storlazzi said that although department budgets have not been finalized, he does not think that levels of undergraduate employment on campus will diminish in the future. Even if departments decide to hire fewer students, he said that the Financial Aid Office would push for students on financial aid to receive those jobs over students not eligible for financial aid. Already, while students who are on financial aid can begin applying for campus jobs in midAugust, students who are not on financial aid cannot apply for these openings until October, Storlazzi said.

This semester, the Yale University Library hired 417 students, Director of Communications Amanda Patrick said. Over the past two fiscal years, no substantial changes in student employment have occurred at the library, she added. Still, until the library receives its fiscal 2015 budget, it will not know the effect of the budget deficit on student employment, Patrick said.

Fifty-four percent of Yale College students currently receive financial aid.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Alcohol report put on hold ALCOHOL POLICY FROM PAGE 1 results.

“I think it is in some ways encouraging that things have taken more time,” he said. “It shows thorough examination of the problem.”

Individuals involved with the committee gave conflicting accounts of the report’s current status.

According to committee member Kate Carey, a professor of behavioral and social sciences at Brown University, the report has been compiled but has not yet been submitted to anyone outside of the group itself. The report must first be presented to the larger University Council at its December 2013 meeting before it can be sent to a wider audience, she said.

But Marjorie Berman, a Woodbridge Fellow at the University Office of the Secretary and Vice President, said that the recommendations have already been communicated to Salovey.

“As an advisory body to the President, the University Council does not normally publish its findings,” Berman said in an email to the News. “They have made recommendations to the President, and he will release information about them as new initiatives begin.”

Still, others reported different timelines for the report’s publication. Peck said that even if the

recommendations are already written and just need to be finalized in the December University Council meeting, the recommendations may have already been shown to Salovey in an informal setting.

I think it is in some ways encouraging that things have taken more time. It shows thorough examination of the problem.

GARRETT FIDDLER ’11 Fellow, Yale College Dean’s Office “My understanding about what is happening at the moment is that the President’s response is being written,” Peck said.

Other than the University Council Committee on Alcohol, only one other University Council Committee is currently active — the Committee on West Campus. Past committees have included the Committee on a Sustainable Yale and the Committee on New Haven Economic Development.

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

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NEWS

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” H.L. MENCKEN AMERICAN JOURNALIST

City moves to revamp street signs

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

YDN

On Tuesday night, community leaders discussed plans to replace the city’s dilapidated and outdated pedestrian and street signs.

Community leaders and urban planners gathered at the New Haven Free Public Library Tuesday evening to discuss a plan to replace the city’s pedestrian and street signs, many of which have grown dilapidated and out of date.

The city won a $670,000 grant to renew its signage system in 2011, which will fund the design, construction an placement of new signs around the city. Merje, a leading Pennsylvania-based design firm in street signs, has been brought in to plan the overhaul of the city’s current signage system. Officials from Merje and the New Haven Department of Economic Development held the Tuesday evening meeting to explain their plan to residents and solicit feedback from the public.

The signs, many of which are over 20 years old, are being replaced because many of them contain out-of-date information or appear decrepit, with many signs leaning, worn and peeling, said John Bosio, a Merje official spearheading the New Haven effort. When signs look old and dilapidated, people are less likely to trust the information they see on them, Bosio said.

“Where are the destinations?

Where are people trying to get to?” said Steve Gibson, president of Urban Place Consulting Group. These are the key questions, he said, that designers should be asking when creating a wayfinding system for cities like New Haven.

In a presentation highlighting the key goals of the new signage system, Bosio said that his objectives included reducing visual clutter, making parking signs more prominent, integrating technology into the signs and encouraging using multiple forms of transportation, such as

providing information for busto-train transfers.

Beyond these basic functions, officials said they hope to use the signage system to market New Haven destinations.

Mike Piscatelli, director of economic development for the city, additionally spoke of the economic benefits of wayfinding, like directing visitors and residents more efficiently to shops, restaurants and hotels. Already, Merge has started meeting with local stakeholders to discuss how better signage can lead consumers more effectively to their businesses.

“People are more likely to stay longer and more likely to come back,” Bosio said of the promotional effects signage can bring to local businesses and the city in general.

The project will not only replace current street signs, but also add a much-needed crop of pedestrian signs for shoppers, students and tourists alike.

This pedestrian signage will be focused in the downtown area, but other areas with high pedestrian traffic may be included, according to Bosio.

People are more likely to stay longer and more likely to come back.

JOHN BOSIO Official, Merje Merje and city officials plan to work on design and fieldwork in 2014, before seeking approval for the final project proposal. The signage system will most likely be implemented in 2015, Piscatelli said.

A color for the new signs has not yet been decided.

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

Islamic scholars advocate for Tunisian democracy

BY LILY RIVKIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon, two Islamic scholars arrived on campus to discuss recent historical developments in Tunisia and the Arab world, focusing on the possibility of democracy in coexistence with Islam.

Abdelfattah Mourou, the vice president and co-founder of the Ennahda party in Tunisia, began the talk by drawing parallels from Tunisia’s history to its present circumstances. Alongside Radwan Masmoudi, president of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center of Islam and Democracy, Mourou spoke to roughly 20 audience members about whether or not political democracy and the Islamic religion can co-exist within the government of a nation.

“The preponderate majority of answers implied towards the position assert that democracy and Islam are incompatible,” Mourou said. “However, the judicial and legal texts of Islam confirm that they can co-exist effectively.”

Mourou said that Tunisia, as one of the first nations to free slaves, has always been a country at the forefront of change. In the 1970s, for example, Tunisian youth participated in civil activism and eventually established a new discourse in the country that was progressive yet rooted in ancient Islamic principles. He added that Tunisia currently stands by its progressive stance and strives to create a stable democratic Islamic nation — but he cautioned that the road will be a hard one to travel.

Mourou asserted that the Islamic ideals of personal belief and society correspond with the principles of democracy. However, he reminded his audience that the Arab world is currently going through an intense amount of hardship, and stabilizing a democratic government in Tunisia will take time.

“There is no birth without pain, and the birth of a new nation and community as a whole will take a lot of sacrifice,” he said. “Nations that are triumphant are those that are most enduring and steadfast.”

Masmoudi, the second scholar, agreed with Mourou’s assessment that time is a necessity for progress in the Arab world.

Building a democratic sys-

tem will not be fast, Masmoudi warned, adding that it will take maybe 10 to 20 years and people must be patient. New governments often make mistakes because they are starting from scratch, he said, since oftentimes the only people with government experience are the very dictators that new governments fought against to overthrow.

There is no birth without pain, and the birth of a new nation and community as a whole will take a lot of sacrifice.

ABDELFATTAH MOUROU Vice president and co-founder, Tunisian Ennahda party

Masmoudi explained that it is easier to get rid of a dictator than to create a democracy. But he emphasized that he believes Tunisia’s small and homogenous population, strong infrastructure, protected women’s rights, educated middle class and strong constitution will enable the country to establish a stable Islamic government and thrive in the future.

“Democracy is not an option, it is a necessity,” Masmoudi reminded the audience. “What happens now defines what will happen in the next 50 years.”

After Mourou and Masmoudi’s final words, audience members at the talk described the discussion as lively and uplifting.

Abrar Omeish ’17 said she felt truly inspired.

“As an American born and raised here, the idea of Islam and politics was always questioned [to me], and I began to doubt whether the integration would work,” Omeish said. “But after hearing their speeches, I believe it can and will be possible.”

The talk, which took place at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, was sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and the Yale Council on African Studies.

Contact LILY RIVKIN at lily.rivkin@yale.edu .

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Abdelfattah Mourou gave hope to audience members during a talk Tuesday, asserting that democracy and Islam could coexist.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

15 years later: Jovin ’99 remembered, killer still unknown

JOVIN FAMILY

Although Jovin’s case has remained unsolved for 15 years, her parents and friends said they have not lost hope.

JOVIN FROM PAGE 1 was excited about her course work, they said, and full of plans for her life after graduation. Her parents postulated that a career in international affairs would have followed graduate school,. A bright future awaited the 21-year-old, they said.

The Jovins said they are hopeful that someone will one day be caught and put behind bars for killing their daughter. If need be, Russotto said, the search for answers could last years, adding that the state’s attorney’s office will not give up.

As another anniversary of their daughter’s death passes, Jovin’s parents urged anyone with new information to come forward.

“Nothing can provide closure, but from the standpoint of the justice system, you want a case like this to be solved,” Mr. Jovin said.

“It is important to know what happened.”

A BAFFLING MURDER

It was warm on Dec. 4, 1998, exceptionally so: It was in the mid-50s and students were in short sleeves. Yale was playing Princeton University in hockey, and Prospect Street around Ingalls Rink was crawling with fans, some from outside the city.

Suzanne Jovin was nearing the end of her penultimate semester at Yale, where she double-majored in political science and international studies. Less than six hours before she was killed, Jovin turned in a draft of her senior thesis in political science, a single-spaced 21-page examination of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader who, three years later, would help orchestrate a set of attacks on U.S. soil.

After turning in her draft, Jovin spent the evening at New Haven’s Trinity Lutheran Church, attending a holiday pizza party for Best Buddies, a service organization that pairs students with mentally disabled adults. At about 8:45 p.m., Jovin returned the station wagon she had borrowed for the event to a Yale parking lot at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Howe Street.

At 9:02 p.m., Jovin logged onto her Yale email account from her Park Street apartment and told a friend that she was going to leave Graduate Record Examinations study material for her in the lobby. Jovin said the books would not be ready to be picked up until the morning because she first had to retrieve them from an unidentified “someone” who had borrowed them from her. Investigators under the leadership of retired state police detective John Mannion launched a probe in 2008 into the identity of this nondescript “someone” to no avail. Jovin logged off her email at 9:10 p.m.

She crossed paths with a classmate, Peter Stein ’99, on Old Campus at around 9:25 p.m., Stein told the media at the time. The two briefly conversed, with Jovin telling Stein that she was headed to Phelps Hall to return the car keys and then was planning to return to her apartment on Park Street.

“She did not mention plans to go anywhere or do anything else afterward,” Stein told the News in April 1999. Stein declined to

comment for this article, saying in an email to the News last week that there was nothing further he wished to share.

A few minutes later, a student returning from the hockey game saw Jovin walking on College Street toward Elm Street.

At 9:58 p.m., Jovin was found bleeding from 17 stab wounds on the corner of Edgehill Avenue and East Rock Road, just less than two miles from Phelps Gate in the city’s East Rock neighborhood. She was rushed to Yale-New Haven Hospital and declared dead on arrival.

Jovin’s classmates and friends said the death was a blow to the student body, robbing them of a passionate and sharp young woman and shattering their sense of security on campus.

“It is hard to believe it has been 15 years,” Eric Peterson ’99, Jovin’s classmate in Davenport, said in an email to the News. “Suzanne’s murder was shocking, horrifying and traumatic for all of us. It did not make sense in 1998, and still does not … this was especially tough, bursting the bubble that we are usually able to enjoy on campus.”

Yale School of Management Senior Associate Dean David Bach ’99, Jovin’s best friend on campus, said Jovin was an idealist with a “strong moral compass,” someone who, among legions of talented students at Yale, stood out as “truly extraordinary.”

Bach, who came to Yale from Germany in the same freshman class as Jovin but then accelerated and graduated a year early, said he still routinely thinks of her.

“Whenever there’s a milestone in my life — I finish my Ph.D., I get married, I have kids — it’s at those moments that I think, ‘God I wish I could tell Suzanne about it.’”

Bach said he is still optimistic justice will be served, for the sake of Jovin’s family and friends. Still, he said the crime remains baffling.

“I don’t even want to tell you how many scenarios I’ve played through my head,” Bach said.

AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION

The cold case investigation into Jovin’s murder is currently focused on three leads. Two of them are new to the case, Russotto, who is leading the probe, told the News on Monday.

Investigators are seeking to identify a potential witness who drove by the crime scene shortly after Jovin was stabbed. The female driver was overheard on a 911 call from the scene, where a couple found Jovin bleeding to death and called in the incident to the police. The driver asked if the people on the scene needed assistance. They said no and she drove off.

“That driver may have noticed something down the street from the scene,” Russotto said. “While she may not think it’s important, it may be helpful based on other things we know.”

Second, investigators want to determine the identity of a female passenger who took a Metro Taxi cab ride from the area of 333/337 Blatchley Avenue to the Newhallville neighborhood at around 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, 1998. Russotto provided no further details concerning the relevance of this infor-

mation.

The last lead is one that investigators have been pursuing since 2008: the identity of the person to whom Jovin had lent GRE study material and from whom she was reportedly planning on retrieving those books. Yale political science professor David Cameron — a member of the state’s Eyewitness Identification Task Force, a group that helps identify witnesses for criminal investigations — said the company that administers the test, Educational Testing Service, refused to turn over to investigators a list of people who took the examination that fall. Cameron has been actively involved in the investigation since 2000, when he staunchly defended the innocence of Yale political science lecturer James Van de Velde ’82, Jovin’s senior thesis advisor and the only suspect ever formally named in the case.

Cameron said he is confident investigators will find a culprit.

“There are a lot of little pieces in this, and with the help of the public and provided the state can actually put some resources into the investigation, I think they will put it together,” Cameron said.

Yale is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case, in addition to $50,000 offered by the state of Connecticut. Of the 48 cold cases currently under investigation statewide, Russotto said, the Jovin case is one of the more active ones.

Over the years, the investigation has drawn extensive criticism, most forcefully from Cameron, who said fixating on Van de Velde early on skewed the search.

Charles Hill, a diplomat-in-residence and lecturer in the Political Science Department who advised Jovin’s international studies thesis, called the investigative and forensic work done in the case “astonishingly incompetent.”

Jovin’s parents said the investigation was botched from the beginning. They said police failed to secure the crime scene right away: investigators did not run tests on all the available forensic evidence and a lab technician contaminated crucial DNA evidence from the scene. They said overlapping jurisdictions prevented any single team of people from taking control of the search for their daughter’s killer. The University did not help, they added, saying high-level Yale administrators were more concerned about protecting Yale’s reputation than coming to grips with the murder.

“On a personal level they tried to be as considerate as they could — putting us up at the president’s house for example,” Mr. Jovin said.

“But their feelings of responsibility raised fears about the status of the University and everything else that arises when you’re dealing with institutions of this sort.”

Cameron agreed, saying the University — in an effort to “cover its backside” — was complicit in the tarnishing of Van de Velde’s reputation.

Martha Highsmith, senior advisor to the president and thendeputy secretary for the University, said she and other administrators responded as best they could given the difficulty of the situation: They tried to equip the

Jovins with the information they needed while also providing support to the community at large.

Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said that as long as the case remains unsolved, there will always be understandable frustration.

Jovin’s parents said it is their understanding that Van de Velde remains under consideration as a potential suspect, though Michael Dearington, the state’s attorney for the New Haven district, told the News this summer that the former political science lecturer and dean of Saybrook College was no longer a suspect in the case. Russotto declined to clarify whether Van de Velde is currently considered a suspect.

Grudberg criticized Yale for having “abandoned [Van de Velde,]” who was relieved of his teaching duties for the spring 1999 semester by then-Dean of Yale College Richard Brodhead, currently the president of Duke University. Broadhead declined to comment on his decision to remove Van de Velde from the classroom.

Van de Velde, who now works as an analyst for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, did not return multiple requests for comment. His attorney, David Grudberg, said the settlement this summer of a lawsuit Van de Velde had filed against the University and the New Haven Police Department for allegedly leaking news of his being a suspect to the media — a settlement that involved both the University and the city compensating Van de Velde financially — gave his client the vindication he deserved.

“The police wrongly fixated on an innocent person from the beginning of their investigation, and 15 years later all they have to show for it is a settlement payment and an unsolved murder,” Grudberg said.

AN ALTERNATE THEORY

Gilles Carter, a documentary filmmaker living in East Rock, has a theory about a different man who lived in the area at the time.

In a Monday interview, Carter said he and two others — attorney Alan Rosner and Yale Law School professor J.L. Pottenger LAW ’75 — have rigorously linked a now-deceased student at the Yale School of Architecture to Jovin’s murder. Carter asked that the name of the student , who he said suffered from severe psychological problems as well as multiple drug addictions, be kept confidential.

Carter said he did not know the student at the time of Jovin’s mur-

der but became suspicious of his involvement years later when the former architecture student said to him without provocation: “You should know that I’m obsessed with the Suzanne Jovin murder.”

The student’s studio at the Yale School of Architecture was just a stone’s throw away from Jovin’s apartment, Carter said, and both spoke German.

An eyewitness driving down Whitney Avenue on the night of Dec. 4, 1998 saw a man running down Huntington Street and then alongside her car, Carter added, and provided information that led to a sketch that closely resembled the former architecture student.

She said he was wearing a lightgreen windbreaker jacket, Carter said — a description that matches a jacket in which the former architecture student appeared in photos attached to his obituary following his spring 2012 death, reported as the result of a traffic accident.

Carter said investigators discounted the woman’s testimony by saying she was in her 80s. She was in fact in her 40s at the time, he said.

“I know the woman — she was not old,” Cameron said. “She insisted the running man wasn’t Van de Velde, so they assumed she was unreliable.”

In the wake of the former architecture student’s death, Rosner received a bizarre phone call from the dead man’s own telephone.

On the other end of the line, Rosner said, he could hear the man’s parents going through their son’s emails and deleting a number of messages. When Carter called the man’s parents to tell them that their actions were potentially obstructing an investigation into a murder, he said, the mother replied, “Oh, Jovin?”

In the wake of that phone call, Carter and Rosner said, they shared their theory with the police, a suspicion heightened by information leading them to believe Jovin had been stabbed with an x-acto blade, an instrument they said the student would have used in his architecture work.

“The investigators have no intention of solving this crime — believe me,” Rosner said. “They completely blew us off.”

Russotto declined to comment on how the investigation would go about considering a deceased person as a potential suspect.

Carter said their theory does not depend on proving Jovin and the architecture student knew each other extensively. He said the student, whom he and Rosner knew as a fellow alumnus of Princeton, was prone to violent

outbreaks when he was off his medication, particularly toward women.

Both Jovin’s parents and Russotto said the critical question is why Jovin was in East Rock — a question that the Jovins said has led them to believe their daughter’s killer was someone she knew.

Cameron said the short amount of time that elapsed between Jovin’s sighting by Phelps Gate and her subsequent murder leads him to believe that she had been driven there by someone. He said a tip about a brown van stopped in the street near where Jovin was found stabbed has led some to believe that the student was abducted.

“WE REMEMBER HER”

Joanne Ursini, a Davenport dining hall desk attendant, said she does not like to think about the investigation. She prefers to simply remember Jovin as she was 15 years ago, when the student worked part-time in the dining hall and “kissed me on the cheek whenever she saw me,” Ursini said.

“There are people who still remember her here,” Ursini said, tearing up. “We remember her.”

Ursini said Tuesday that she and her co-workers plan to attend the vigil for Jovin in the Davenport courtyard. Highsmith said she would also be there, to“pray and give remembrance.”

Jovin’s parents said the 15th anniversary of their daughter’s death should be an opportunity for the University to revisit its past, as unfortunate as it may be in this instance. Mr. Jovin said the murder is not only a lesson in human evil, but lasting proof of the need for Yale to further invest in New Haven. Improving public safety in the city is the only way the University can ensure the safety of students both on and off campus, he said.

In the wake of the tragedy, the University devised means of honoring Jovin’s legacy on campus.

In 1999, Yale awarded her a posthumous degree — Jovin graduated cum laude with distinction in both her majors. The University also named a fellowship after her, Mr. Jovin said. For her family and friends, however, these have been but small comforts.

“The loss is of course ours, but the primary loss is for Suzanne herself,” Jovin’s father said. “She lost her whole life. That’s just not fair.”

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Investigators are still pursuing several leads in hopes of finally closing the case of Jovin’s murder.

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Engineer possibly responsible for wreck Healthcare site gets

mixed reviews

BY KELLI KENNEDY ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROBERT STOLARIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Metro North Railroad engineer William Rockefeller is wheeled on a stretcher away from the area where the train he was operating derailed in the Bronx.

BY JIM FITZGERALD AND TOM HAYS ASSOCIATED PRESS YONKERS, N.Y. — The engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, caught himself nodding at the controls just before the wreck, but it was too late, a union official said Tuesday.

William Rockefeller “basically nodded,” said Anthony Bottalico, leader of the rail employees union, relating what he said the engineer told him.

“He had the equivalent of what we all have when we drive a car. That is, you sometimes have a momentary nod or whatever that might be. How long that lasts, I can’t answer that.”

Rockefeller’s lawyer did not return calls. During a late-afternoon news conference, federal investigators said they were still talking to Rockefeller, and they would not comment on his level of alertness around the time of the Sunday morning wreck in the Bronx.

Separately, however, two law enforcement officials said the engineer told police at the scene that his mind was wandering before he realized the train was in trouble, and by then it was too late to do anything about it. One of the officials said Rockefeller described himself as being “in a daze” before the wreck.

The officials, who were briefed on the engineer’s comments, weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Questions about Rockefeller’s role mounted rapidly after investigators disclosed on Monday that the Metro-North Railroad train jumped the tracks after going into a curve at 82 mph, or nearly three times the 30-mph speed limit. In addition to the four people killed, dozens were injured.

“He caught himself, but he caught himself too late. … He powered down, he put the train in emergency, but that was six seconds prior to derailment,” Bottalico said.

National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener repeated Tuesday that it was too soon to say whether the accident was caused by human error or a mechanical problem.

But he said investigators have found no evidence so far of any problems with the brakes or signals.

Alcohol tests on the train’s crew members were negative, and investigators were still awaiting the results of drug tests, the NTSB official said.

On the day of the crash, Rockefeller was on the second day of five-day work week, reporting for duty at 5:04 a.m. after a typical, nine-hour shift the day before, according to Weener.

“There’s every indication that he would have had time to get full restorative sleep,” Weener said.

Bottalico said Rockefeller “never said anything about not getting enough sleep.” But he said the engineer had switched just weeks earlier from the night shift to the day shift, “so he did have a change in his hours and his

circadian rhythms with regard to sleep.”

The New York Police Department is conducting its own investigation, with help from the Bronx district attorney’s office, in the event the derailment becomes a criminal case.

Rockefeller himself, meanwhile, stayed out of sight. But his union and former co-workers spoke up in his defense.

“This is a man who is totally distraught by the loss of life, and he’s having a tough time dealing with that,” Bottalico said.

He added: “Once the NTSB is done with their investigation and Billy is finished with his interview, it will be quite evident that there was no criminal intent with the operation of his train.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the engineer could be faulted for the train’s speed alone.

“Certainly, we want to make sure that that operator is disciplined in an appropriate way.

There’s such a gross deviation from the norm,” he said.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Counselors helping people use the federal government’s online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site, with some zipping through the application process while others are facing the same old sputters and even crashes.

The Obama administration had promised a vastly improved shopping experience on healthcare.gov by the end of November, and this is the first week for users to test the updated site.

Brokers and online assisters in Utah said Monday that three of every four people successfully signed up for health coverage on the online within an hour of logging in. A state official overseeing North Dakota’s navigators said he had noticed improvements in the site, as did organizations helping people sign up in parts of Alabama and Wisconsin.

But staffers at an organization in South Florida and a hospital group with locations in Iowa and Illinois said they saw no major improvements from the federal website, which 36 states are relying on.

Amanda Crowell, director of revenue cycle for UnityPoint Health-Trinity, which has four hospitals in Iowa and Illinois, said Monday that the organization’s 15 enrollment counselors did not see a marked improvement on the site.

“We had very high hopes for today, but those hopes were very much quashed,” said Crowell.

More than 1 million people visited the site Monday and 380,000 browsed the site by noon Tuesday. Thanks to the technology fixes, response times had dropped to 1 second and error rates were under 1 percent, according to figures from the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

“The system has been stable all day,” CMS communications director Julie Bataille said Tuesday, stressing they were still continually updating the site.

But Compuware Corp., which has been monitoring the site on thousands of personal computers around the country, said several states still had response times of more than 8 seconds Tuesday morning. Wisconsin’s average response time is over 18 seconds, according to the company.

Still, Michael Smith, a vice president for Compuware Corp., says the site’s operations have improved significantly. Their data shows 26 states had unacceptable response times in late October. He said the government is likely measuring response times from a data center with ultra-fast Internet speeds that are not reflective of real-world conditions on user’s regular computers.

Roberta Vann, a certified application counselor at the Hamilton Health Center, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said the site worked well for her Monday morning but she became frustrated later when the site went down.

“You can get to a point, but it does not allow you to select any plans, you can’t get eligibility (information). It stops there,” she said. “The thought of it working as well as it was didn’t last long.”

In South Florida, John Foley and his team of navigators were only able to successfully enroll one of a handful of return applicants who came to their office before glitches started, including wonky estimates for subsidy eligibility. He worried about how they would fare with the roughly 50 other appointments scheduled later in the week.

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“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”

MARK ZUCKERBERG CO-FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK

Harvard to offer theater major

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

WIKIMEDIA

Harvard launched a fundraising campaign for the creation of a “Theater, Dance, and Performance” major this fall.

Professor discusses significance of ruins

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday evening at the Whitney Humanities Center, Princeton professor Susan Stewart emphasized the interdisciplinary significance of ruins.

The broad span of Stewart’s talk, entitled “The Ruins Lesson,” reflected her multifaceted academic background. Stewart, a professor of English who also teaches in Princeton’s Art and Archaeology Department, is the director of Princeton’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

In front of a crowd of roughly 40, Stewart drew from literature, such as Shakespearian sonnets and excerpts from old English prose, as well as from Italian prints and paintings to discuss the importance of ruins in the field of history. Stewart also linked humankind’s fascination with ruins to topics such as sexuality and nature and highlighted the role ruins have played in Western art and literature beyond their architectural value.

“The thematic of ruins has been explored far more than their aesthetic consequences,” Stewart said. “As we respond to ruins, we translate material into ideas.”

To support the connection between ruins and nature, Stewart showed various images from European history featuring nature emerging in conjunction with ruins. Stewart explained that the presence of ruins in art has enabled artists and observers to view the interplay between nature and human products.

Stewart remarked on the philosophical value of ruins — examining ruins enables people to change the way they think about the world, she said.

Stewart’s talk relates to her current research, which focuses on the way ruins were regarded during transitional points in history. Investigation into the historical significance of ruins is a worthwhile task for any academic in the humanities because it has broad consequences for a variety of fields, she noted, as it raises questions of form and meaning.

The thematic of ruins has been explored far more than their aesthetic consequences.

SUSAN STEWART Professor, Princeton University Gary Tomlinson, director of the Whitney Humanities Center, said that he considers Stewart “a philosopher of poetic and artistic creativity.”

Eve Houghton ’17, who attended the lecture, said she enjoyed Stewart’s ability to connect ruins to art. English professor Ben Glaser, who delivered the introductory remarks, said that reading Stewart’s perspectives reminds him of the way poets envision the world.

“I thought it was a fascinating tracing of the idea of ruins in poetry,” Houghton said.

Stewart’s most recent book, “The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making,” was published

by University of Chicago Press in 2011.

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

A few years from now, students interested in studying theater within the Ivy League may not immediately turn to Yale.

Two years ago, the Harvard Committee on the Arts and the Committee on Dramatic Arts generated a formal proposal that called for the establishment of a “Theater, Dance and Performance” major. This fall, the university has officially launched a fundraising campaign for the new program — a step that marks the administration’s approval of the proposal, which was drafted after consultations with professors at institutions such as Yale, Brown, Cornell and Stanford.

Harvard Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen said that the introduction of a major specializing in theater arts is part of a university-wide effort to strengthen the arts at Harvard, which she thinks will make the school, which does not currently offer a theater major, more appealing to current as well as prospective students and faculty. Students and professors in the Yale theater community interviewed said they ancicipate a level of competition between Harvard and Yale’s programs in the admissions process, though most added that they hope the two will have a positive relationship.

“We would certainly like to have good dialogue with them, but in times of admissions, there will certainly be a competitive element,” said Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan.

Yale Sterling Professor of Theater and English Joseph Roach, who served as one of the Committee’s external consultants, said that the existence of a formal theater major at Harvard will make the school more appealing to incoming freshmen as well as to professors in the academic theater community who are looking for teaching positions.

Cahan said she thinks Harvard’s and Yale’s programs may compete for applicants,

but added that she hopes to foster a generally strong rapport and positive dialogue between the two.

Theater Studies Professor Deborah Margolin said she would welcome such a relationship, noting that she currently has very few close colleagues at Harvard, partly due to its lack of a theater major.

Three out of four Theater Studies majors interviewed said that during the admissions process, they did not feel inclined to apply to or enroll at Harvard because it did not offer a major in theater. Nathaniel Dolquist ’15 said he did not apply to any colleges that did not offer a degree in theater, adding that he would have given Harvard much more consideration had it offered such an option.

Laurel Durning-Hammond ’14 said she thinks that the presence of a theater major at an academic institution shows its belief in the arts as a discipline that is worthy of study and recognition, noting that she would hesitate to attend any university that did not have a theater major.

“We plan to make it clear to applicants that Harvard is a place where the arts and the humanities are a large focus of our academic attention,” Sorensen said. “Our arts have been mostly extracurricular, so now what we are trying to signal is the centrality of the arts in the curriculum itself.”

The proposal’s tentative outline for the standard major requires that students take a roughly equal number of scholarly and practice-based courses in theater, in addition to survey level courses such as “Introduction to Theater Arts.” The outline also mandates student participation in at least four theater productions as well as some form of training in technical theater.

Martin Puchner, chair of the Harvard Committee on Dramatics, which decides the courses for the school’s concentration in Dramatic Arts, said that while Harvard is relatively late in establishing a major that many of its peer institutions already offer, the task of having to build such a program now pres-

Performance explores transparency

ents a unique opportunity to invent a modernized curriculum that moves beyond traditional theater topics. Puchner said he hopes this curriculum will explore contemporary topics, such as the blending of theater and multimedia technology, a field of study that traditional theater studies curricula have generally excluded.

“We need to move away from this fear of film and the new media in theater,” Puchner added. “Some of the most exciting theater happens at the intersection of these two realms.”

Scanlan said that though Harvard’s curriculum currently offers plenty of theater courses, the school has been resistant to accept the field as an academic concentration in past decades. He noted that Harvard theater pioneer George Pierce Baker, who was later instrumental in establishing the Yale School of Drama, taught playwriting classes at Harvard but ultimately left after failing to convince the administration to offer a playwriting major.

Sorensen noted that many of the academic components necessary for the proposed major already exist within the university, which offers a ‘secondary concentration’ — roughly equivalent to a minor degree — in Dramatic Arts.

While Harvard has a broad range of theater courses, Puchner explained, they are all scattered between different departments, including English, French and Music.

Formalizing the major would largely comprise of gathering all of these elements into a single program, he added. The remaining tasks, Sorensen said, include hiring administrators to oversee the program, ensuring that its students have faculty advisors and organizing the necessary resources for students to stage their own productions.

Six out of eight Ivy League universities currently offer concentrations in the Theater Arts.

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

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER On Monday evening, a woman calling herself “Dynasty Handbag” walked on stage at the Whitney Humanities Center wearing nothing but a clear rain poncho and clear plastic heels. Her performance, she said, was going to be all about transparency.

“Dynasty Handbag,” a stage persona of Brooklyn-based performance artist Jibz Cameron, performed “The Transparent Trap: A Power Pointless Presentation,” a show structured as a PowerPoint presentation. The performance constituted the final event in this semester’s Postwar Queer Avant-Garde film series. The series, sponsored by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at Yale, Films at the Whitney and the Film Studies Program, has been presented in conjunction with Film Studies Professor Ronald Gregg’s course titled “Postwar Queer Avant-Garde Film.”

“Through Dynasty, I’m exploring whether the queer avant-garde had a lasting impact on future queer film, performance and art practice,” Gregg said. “This performance is out there, even for film studies.”

Gregg explained that Dynasty Handbag’s performance illustrated themes from postwar avant-garde film, including elements of shock value and absurdity, as well as a focus on failure that appears prominently in the queer films of the 1960s.

Much of queer film tries to escape from the cruelty of the real world by constructing an alternative, fantastical world, Gregg said, often through the use of color, costume and camp. The Dynasty Handbag character uses that strategy, he said.

“Most systems that we live in are impossible to live in a successful way,” Cameron said during Monday’s question and answer session.

“That frustration and anger is what’s behind most of my work.”

Dynasty Handbag’s performance centered on the story of how she sold her video short, “Eternal Quadrangle,” to MOCAtv — an art video channel sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The show also included a short film parody of Beyoncé’s “Life is but a Dream,” entitled “Dynasty Handbag: A Dream is not a Life,” as well as another of Dynasty Handbag’s short films, called “Remote Penetration.” Stand-up comedy, improvisation and comic musical numbers were also interspersed throughout the performance.

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

“Dynasty Handbag,” the stage persona of performance artist Jibz Cameron performed at the Whitney on Monday.

Gregg explained that PowerPoint is a medium through which people present material as polished and indisputable fact. Handbag’s show, which explores transparency as it pertains to artistic integrity, acknowledges the artificiality of that kind of neatly packaged narrative, Gregg noted.

“Why can’t something as quotidian as PowerPoint explore real problems of the art world, like artmaking, censorship, and funding issues?” asked Bradford Nor-

deen, the director of Dirty Looks, a monthly queer and experimental film series whose board Gregg directs. Nordeen introduced Dynasty Handbag and spoke with Cameron in a question and answer session following the performance.

Nordeen suggested to Gregg that “The Transparent Trap” be the final event in the Postwar Queer AvantGarde film series, he said, because a film screening might be too literal and proper a way to end a series on the avant-garde.

The film series has featured weekly screenings of films by queer artists throughout the fall semester and has mostly focused on New York City queer avant-garde film from roughly 1945 to 1968. Dynasty Handbag’s performance was the only multimedia event in the series.

Jibz Cameron’s next performance will take place at The Duplex in New York City on Dec. 17.

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

Student band Nero, My Panda releases EP

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Yale band that has been playing for almost three years is releasing its first EP this week.

Comprised of four juniors, Nero, My Panda will release an EP entitled “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes” on Thursday. The EP, which features four songs, will be available for a free download on Soundcloud and on the band’s website.

The “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes” EP features Elliah Heifetz ’15 as the lead vocalist, Andrew Goble ’15 on drums, Max Gordon ’15 on keyboards and backing vocals and Paul Hinkes ’15 on guitar and backing vocals. Band members interviewed said they are not yet sure whether they will try to reach out to non-Yale audiences, and Goble added that the band is currently focusing on spreading awareness about their work.

“Max and I write the songs together — we sometimes play this game where we pick an object, read off a random phrase on it and on the spot have to write a hook,” Heifetz said. “We take a lot from bands like the Chiffons where not one second is wasted … every piece fits perfectly and there’s nothing excessive about it and everything is just perfectly packaged.”

The band formed in the spring of 2011 as a product of Gordon and Heifetz’s songwriting efforts, networks formed through a cappella, and affiliations within residential colleges. According to Heifetz, the band’s name is derived from a painting in the Yale University Art Gallery known as “Hero and Leander.” The band is more a group of friends playing together than a formal project, he added.

Gordon and Heifetz began work on new music this past summer. A performance that summer at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, N.Y. crystallized the band’s desire to

release an EP, Gordon said, adding that the band began work with Jeff Jones, a New Haven producer, after members returned to campus in the fall.

Goble said that the songs were mostly recorded in the Baker’s Dozen house with significant reliance on Yale’s Digital Media Center for the Arts. According to Heifetz, the EP maintains the band’s “punky, messy pop song” style.

Highlights of the EP include tracks titled “(I Just Wanna) Sleep in My Own Bed” and “Boring in the Night.”

Band members said their music naturally gravitates towards the Yale community, as all four of them are students. They played at Spring Fling in 2013 and advertise their music partly through word of mouth.

“As long as people keep wanting to listen to us we’ll probably still want to keep playing,” Hinkes said.

Will Childs-Klein ’15 said he heard about the band through Facebook, adding that he enjoys the band’s live sound and stage presence. The band has used email and social media to advance their campus presence.

Goble said that he thinks the band is currently not focusing on pursuing shows in New Haven or outside Connecticut — all band members said they do not have concrete plans for the future of Nero, My Panda.

“That’s always been our path — have fun, make good music and let the rest solve itself,” Goble said.

“I’ve been in projects before where I’ve thought about the future and it always ends up detracting from the present.”

Following its release on Thursday, the EP will also be available on iTunes and Spotify.

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

NERO, MY PANDA

Four current juniors formed the band Nero, My Panda in spring 2011. The group will release its first EP, titled “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes,” on Thursday.

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“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”

MARK ZUCKERBERG CO-FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK

Harvard to offer theater major

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

WIKIMEDIA

Harvard launched a fundraising campaign for the creation of a “Theater, Dance, and Performance” major this fall.

Professor discusses significance of ruins

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday evening at the Whitney Humanities Center, Princeton professor Susan Stewart emphasized the interdisciplinary significance of ruins.

The broad span of Stewart’s talk, entitled “The Ruins Lesson,” reflected her multifaceted academic background. Stewart, a professor of English who also teaches in Princeton’s Art and Archaeology Department, is the director of Princeton’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

In front of a crowd of roughly 40, Stewart drew from literature, such as Shakespearian sonnets and excerpts from old English prose, as well as from Italian prints and paintings to discuss the importance of ruins in the field of history. Stewart also linked humankind’s fascination with ruins to topics such as sexuality and nature and highlighted the role ruins have played in Western art and literature beyond their architectural value.

“The thematic of ruins has been explored far more than their aesthetic consequences,” Stewart said. “As we respond to ruins, we translate material into ideas.”

To support the connection between ruins and nature, Stewart showed various images from European history featuring nature emerging in conjunction with ruins. Stewart explained that the presence of ruins in art has enabled artists and observers to view the interplay between nature and human products.

Stewart remarked on the philosophical value of ruins — examining ruins enables people to change the way they think about the world, she said.

Stewart’s talk relates to her current research, which focuses on the way ruins were regarded during transitional points in history. Investigation into the historical significance of ruins is a worthwhile task for any academic in the humanities because it has broad consequences for a variety of fields, she noted, as it raises questions of form and meaning.

The thematic of ruins has been explored far more than their aesthetic consequences.

SUSAN STEWART Professor, Princeton University Gary Tomlinson, director of the Whitney Humanities Center, said that he considers Stewart “a philosopher of poetic and artistic creativity.”

Eve Houghton ’17, who attended the lecture, said she enjoyed Stewart’s ability to connect ruins to art. English professor Ben Glaser, who delivered the introductory remarks, said that reading Stewart’s perspectives reminds him of the way poets envision the world.

“I thought it was a fascinating tracing of the idea of ruins in poetry,” Houghton said.

Stewart’s most recent book, “The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making,” was published

by University of Chicago Press in 2011.

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

A few years from now, students interested in studying theater within the Ivy League may not immediately turn to Yale.

Two years ago, the Harvard Committee on the Arts and the Committee on Dramatic Arts generated a formal proposal that called for the establishment of a “Theater, Dance and Performance” major. This fall, the university has officially launched a fundraising campaign for the new program — a step that marks the administration’s approval of the proposal, which was drafted after consultations with professors at institutions such as Yale, Brown, Cornell and Stanford.

Harvard Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen said that the introduction of a major specializing in theater arts is part of a university-wide effort to strengthen the arts at Harvard, which she thinks will make the school, which does not currently offer a theater major, more appealing to current as well as prospective students and faculty. Students and professors in the Yale theater community interviewed said they ancicipate a level of competition between Harvard and Yale’s programs in the admissions process, though most added that they hope the two will have a positive relationship.

“We would certainly like to have good dialogue with them, but in times of admissions, there will certainly be a competitive element,” said Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan.

Yale Sterling Professor of Theater and English Joseph Roach, who served as one of the Committee’s external consultants, said that the existence of a formal theater major at Harvard will make the school more appealing to incoming freshmen as well as to professors in the academic theater community who are looking for teaching positions.

Cahan said she thinks Harvard’s and Yale’s programs may compete for applicants,

but added that she hopes to foster a generally strong rapport and positive dialogue between the two.

Theater Studies Professor Deborah Margolin said she would welcome such a relationship, noting that she currently has very few close colleagues at Harvard, partly due to its lack of a theater major.

Three out of four Theater Studies majors interviewed said that during the admissions process, they did not feel inclined to apply to or enroll at Harvard because it did not offer a major in theater. Nathaniel Dolquist ’15 said he did not apply to any colleges that did not offer a degree in theater, adding that he would have given Harvard much more consideration had it offered such an option.

Laurel Durning-Hammond ’14 said she thinks that the presence of a theater major at an academic institution shows its belief in the arts as a discipline that is worthy of study and recognition, noting that she would hesitate to attend any university that did not have a theater major.

“We plan to make it clear to applicants that Harvard is a place where the arts and the humanities are a large focus of our academic attention,” Sorensen said. “Our arts have been mostly extracurricular, so now what we are trying to signal is the centrality of the arts in the curriculum itself.”

The proposal’s tentative outline for the standard major requires that students take a roughly equal number of scholarly and practice-based courses in theater, in addition to survey level courses such as “Introduction to Theater Arts.” The outline also mandates student participation in at least four theater productions as well as some form of training in technical theater.

Martin Puchner, chair of the Harvard Committee on Dramatics, which decides the courses for the school’s concentration in Dramatic Arts, said that while Harvard is relatively late in establishing a major that many of its peer institutions already offer, the task of having to build such a program now pres-

Performance explores transparency

ents a unique opportunity to invent a modernized curriculum that moves beyond traditional theater topics. Puchner said he hopes this curriculum will explore contemporary topics, such as the blending of theater and multimedia technology, a field of study that traditional theater studies curricula have generally excluded.

“We need to move away from this fear of film and the new media in theater,” Puchner added. “Some of the most exciting theater happens at the intersection of these two realms.”

Scanlan said that though Harvard’s curriculum currently offers plenty of theater courses, the school has been resistant to accept the field as an academic concentration in past decades. He noted that Harvard theater pioneer George Pierce Baker, who was later instrumental in establishing the Yale School of Drama, taught playwriting classes at Harvard but ultimately left after failing to convince the administration to offer a playwriting major.

Sorensen noted that many of the academic components necessary for the proposed major already exist within the university, which offers a ‘secondary concentration’ — roughly equivalent to a minor degree — in Dramatic Arts.

While Harvard has a broad range of theater courses, Puchner explained, they are all scattered between different departments, including English, French and Music.

Formalizing the major would largely comprise of gathering all of these elements into a single program, he added. The remaining tasks, Sorensen said, include hiring administrators to oversee the program, ensuring that its students have faculty advisors and organizing the necessary resources for students to stage their own productions.

Six out of eight Ivy League universities currently offer concentrations in the Theater Arts.

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

BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER On Monday evening, a woman calling herself “Dynasty Handbag” walked on stage at the Whitney Humanities Center wearing nothing but a clear rain poncho and clear plastic heels. Her performance, she said, was going to be all about transparency.

“Dynasty Handbag,” a stage persona of Brooklyn-based performance artist Jibz Cameron, performed “The Transparent Trap: A Power Pointless Presentation,” a show structured as a PowerPoint presentation. The performance constituted the final event in this semester’s Postwar Queer Avant-Garde film series. The series, sponsored by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at Yale, Films at the Whitney and the Film Studies Program, has been presented in conjunction with Film Studies Professor Ronald Gregg’s course titled “Postwar Queer Avant-Garde Film.”

“Through Dynasty, I’m exploring whether the queer avant-garde had a lasting impact on future queer film, performance and art practice,” Gregg said. “This performance is out there, even for film studies.”

Gregg explained that Dynasty Handbag’s performance illustrated themes from postwar avant-garde film, including elements of shock value and absurdity, as well as a focus on failure that appears prominently in the queer films of the 1960s.

Much of queer film tries to escape from the cruelty of the real world by constructing an alternative, fantastical world, Gregg said, often through the use of color, costume and camp. The Dynasty Handbag character uses that strategy, he said.

“Most systems that we live in are impossible to live in a successful way,” Cameron said during Monday’s question and answer session.

“That frustration and anger is what’s behind most of my work.”

Dynasty Handbag’s performance centered on the story of how she sold her video short, “Eternal Quadrangle,” to MOCAtv — an art video channel sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The show also included a short film parody of Beyoncé’s “Life is but a Dream,” entitled “Dynasty Handbag: A Dream is not a Life,” as well as another of Dynasty Handbag’s short films, called “Remote Penetration.” Stand-up comedy, improvisation and comic musical numbers were also interspersed throughout the performance.

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“Dynasty Handbag,” the stage persona of performance artist Jibz Cameron performed at the Whitney on Monday.

Gregg explained that PowerPoint is a medium through which people present material as polished and indisputable fact. Handbag’s show, which explores transparency as it pertains to artistic integrity, acknowledges the artificiality of that kind of neatly packaged narrative, Gregg noted.

“Why can’t something as quotidian as PowerPoint explore real problems of the art world, like artmaking, censorship, and funding issues?” asked Bradford Nor-

deen, the director of Dirty Looks, a monthly queer and experimental film series whose board Gregg directs. Nordeen introduced Dynasty Handbag and spoke with Cameron in a question and answer session following the performance.

Nordeen suggested to Gregg that “The Transparent Trap” be the final event in the Postwar Queer AvantGarde film series, he said, because a film screening might be too literal and proper a way to end a series on the avant-garde.

The film series has featured weekly screenings of films by queer artists throughout the fall semester and has mostly focused on New York City queer avant-garde film from roughly 1945 to 1968. Dynasty Handbag’s performance was the only multimedia event in the series.

Jibz Cameron’s next performance will take place at The Duplex in New York City on Dec. 17.

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

Student band Nero, My Panda releases EP

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Yale band that has been playing for almost three years is releasing its first EP this week.

Comprised of four juniors, Nero, My Panda will release an EP entitled “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes” on Thursday. The EP, which features four songs, will be available for a free download on Soundcloud and on the band’s website.

The “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes” EP features Elliah Heifetz ’15 as the lead vocalist, Andrew Goble ’15 on drums, Max Gordon ’15 on keyboards and backing vocals and Paul Hinkes ’15 on guitar and backing vocals. Band members interviewed said they are not yet sure whether they will try to reach out to non-Yale audiences, and Goble added that the band is currently focusing on spreading awareness about their work.

“Max and I write the songs together — we sometimes play this game where we pick an object, read off a random phrase on it and on the spot have to write a hook,” Heifetz said. “We take a lot from bands like the Chiffons where not one second is wasted … every piece fits perfectly and there’s nothing excessive about it and everything is just perfectly packaged.”

The band formed in the spring of 2011 as a product of Gordon and Heifetz’s songwriting efforts, networks formed through a cappella, and affiliations within residential colleges. According to Heifetz, the band’s name is derived from a painting in the Yale University Art Gallery known as “Hero and Leander.” The band is more a group of friends playing together than a formal project, he added.

Gordon and Heifetz began work on new music this past summer. A performance that summer at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, N.Y. crystallized the band’s desire to

release an EP, Gordon said, adding that the band began work with Jeff Jones, a New Haven producer, after members returned to campus in the fall.

Goble said that the songs were mostly recorded in the Baker’s Dozen house with significant reliance on Yale’s Digital Media Center for the Arts. According to Heifetz, the EP maintains the band’s “punky, messy pop song” style.

Highlights of the EP include tracks titled “(I Just Wanna) Sleep in My Own Bed” and “Boring in the Night.”

Band members said their music naturally gravitates towards the Yale community, as all four of them are students. They played at Spring Fling in 2013 and advertise their music partly through word of mouth.

“As long as people keep wanting to listen to us we’ll probably still want to keep playing,” Hinkes said.

Will Childs-Klein ’15 said he heard about the band through Facebook, adding that he enjoys the band’s live sound and stage presence. The band has used email and social media to advance their campus presence.

Goble said that he thinks the band is currently not focusing on pursuing shows in New Haven or outside Connecticut — all band members said they do not have concrete plans for the future of Nero, My Panda.

“That’s always been our path — have fun, make good music and let the rest solve itself,” Goble said.

“I’ve been in projects before where I’ve thought about the future and it always ends up detracting from the present.”

Following its release on Thursday, the EP will also be available on iTunes and Spotify.

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

NERO, MY PANDA

Four current juniors formed the band Nero, My Panda in spring 2011. The group will release its first EP, titled “Jokes That Aren’t Jokes,” on Thursday.

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Biden meets with Chinese leaders

BY JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR TOKYO — In what was supposed to be a warm reunion, Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet instead Wednesday in a climate fraught with tension over an airspace dispute that has put Asia on edge. A day before seeing Xi, Biden stood in Japan and publicly rebuked China for trying to enforce its will on its neighbors, escalating the risk of a potentially dangerous accident.

Although Biden had hoped to focus on areas of cooperation as the U.S. seeks an expanded Asia footprint, China’s declaration of a new air defense zone above disputed islands in the East China Sea has pitted the U.S. and China against each other, creating a wide gulf that Biden will seek to bridge during his two-day trip to Beijing.

Despite Washington’s preference not to get involved in a territorial spat, concerns that China’s action could portend a broader effort to assert its dominance in the region has drawn in the U.S., putting Biden in the middle as he jets from Japan to China to South Korea on a weeklong tour of Asia.

“We, the United States, are deeply concerned by the attempt

to unilaterally change the status quo in the East China Sea,” Biden said after meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “This action has raised regional tensions and increased the risk of accidents and miscalculation.”

To that end, Biden said he would raise those concerns with China’s leaders “with great specificity” during his Beijing visit.

Although the U.S. has repeatedly said it rejects the zone, Biden has avoided calling publicly for Beijing to retract it, wary of making demands that China is likely to snub. Rather, the U.S. hopes that with enough pressure, China will refrain from strictly enforcing the zone, essentially nullifying it for practical purposes.

What’s more, the U.S. wants to show that the diplomatic consequences for such actions are severe enough that China will think twice in the future about asserting its authority in such heavy-handed ways. Already, China has claimed it has a sovereign right to establish a similar zone over the South China Sea, where China and the Philippines are locked in another long-running territorial dispute.

The East China Sea zone covers more than 600 miles from

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Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met instead Wednesday in a climate fraught with tension.. north to south above international waters separating China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

China says all aircraft entering the zone must notify Chinese

authorities beforehand or face unspecified defensive measures.

The new round of tensions with China comes as the U.S. is striving to increase its own

engagement, influence and military presence in Asia, in part as a hedge against China’s growing power. But the Obama administration has said it’s pursuing a

new model for engagement with China, where the two countries can cooperate economically while maintaining a healthy competition.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 10:30 a.m. Brett Carlsen and Juan Madrid: “Sacrificial City.”

Photojournalist Brett Carlsen and photographer Juan Madrid will speak at this Poynter Fellowship in Journalism talk. Green Hall (1156 Chapel St.), Rm. G32.

4:00 p.m. “JFK’s Last Hundred Days.” The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions will host Thurston Clarke, American historian, author and journalist. Clarke’s most recent book is titled “JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President.” Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 12:00 p.m. “Investigative Reporting, Espionage and NSA Leaks.” Leading national security journalists will explore a range of issues relating to current reporting on the NSA and proper public oversight of our national security apparatus. Tackling these issues will be author James Bamford (widely regarded as the chief chronicler of the NSA), Guardian reporter Spencer Ackerman, Jeff Larson from ProPublica, and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute Gabriel Schoenfeld. Yale Law School (127 Wall St.), Aud. 2:00 p.m. “Roses and Lilies: Digital Adventures in Intertextuality.” Neill Coffee is an associate professor of classics and the chair of the Classics Department at the University of Buffalo. He will discuss the Tesserae Project, which aims to provide a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), International Room.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 12:00 p.m. “Re-sublimating the Dancing Body in 20th-Century Iran.” This lecture will examine the emergence of the popular entertainment cabaret scene and its (female) dancing body in light of 20th-century domestic urban transformations and bio-politics; the socio-economics of the popular stage; the formation of cultural categories; and the ideological discourses on public performance. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 202.

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SPORTS Volleyball to face Utes

Ellsbury to don pinstripes Free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury has reportedly agreed to a seven-year deal with the New York Yankees worth $153 million. Ellsbury batted 0.297 in seven seasons with the Boston Red Sox and led the American League in stolen bases three times.

He joins a notable list of ballplayers who have left Beantown for the Bronx, including Hall of Famers Babe Ruth and Wade Boggs.

Analysis: Football falters FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 14 debuted it on Saturday, with Randall taking snaps under center. It was used sparingly against Harvard, however, perhaps due to the deficit Yale found itself facing nearly from the opening kickoff.

Running back Tyler Varga ’15 was absent for most of the game, hurting the Elis’ potent ground game, which had been averaging 202.8 yards per game before the matchup against Harvard.

After missing the Elis’ previous four contests following a foot injury sustained against Fordham, Varga managed to start against Harvard. But he only played on the Bulldogs’ first two drives, notching five carries for 20 yards.

LETTING THE HARVARD OFFENSE STAY ON THE FIELD

All defensive coordinators preach the importance of forcing third downs. Not only do they give the defense a chance to get the team’s offense back on the field, but they also prevent the other team from gaining any momentum.

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The Elis finished the regular season with a 20–4 record, including a 13–1 mark in the Ancient Eight.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 just after the Bulldogs’ match.

“I’m happy not to be a fourth [seed],” Coach Erin Appleman said. “I think a third seed at the first and second rounds gives us an opportunity.”

If the Bulldogs win, they will face the winner of the Penn State–LIU Brooklyn match the next day.

In September, Penn State served Yale one of its four losses in a 3–0 sweep. The Bulldogs kept pace in the first two sets but scored only six points in the final set.

“We’re not looking past Utah at all,” Appleman said. “[Utah is] our next opponent. It’s what we’ve done all year. If we get fortunate enough to make some magic happen and beat Utah, then we’ll go out and try to serve as tough as we can.”

The Bulldogs will need to control their spikes against the Utes, who are ninth in the NCAA with 2.89 blocks per set this year.

Almost half of those have come from middle blocker Erin ReddBrandon, who was just named an All-Pac-12 honorable mention for the second straight season.

Yale may be up for the challenge, as much of the Bulldogs’ success this season has resulted from their ability to beat the block. They are 30th in the country with 14.05 kills per set, while Utah has managed 13.57.

Right setter Shelby Dalton and outside hitter Chelsey Schofield will lead the Utes on the attacking side. They are best on the team in kills with 2.68 and 2.42 kills per set, respectively.

Appleman has experience coaching in University Park, both for the Bulldogs in the Penn State Tournament early this season, and for the Nittany Lions themselves as an assistant coach for eight years until 2001.

She said that for her, the beginning of the tournament will be like a homecoming.

“We’ve been there before; we know what the gym is like, we know what the crowd is like,” Appleman said. “We’re going to be more like a home team there than anywhere else.”

The match will begin at 5:00 p.m. in University Park on Dec. 6.

We didn’t consistently operate our no-huddle offense as fast as we had wanted.

DEON RANDALL ’15 Wide receiver, Football team Unfortunately for Yale, the Crimson was barely ever forced into those situations, instead excelling at moving the chains in the decisive first half. Harvard faced just two third downs on its first three scoring drives, all touchdowns.

“We dug ourselves into a hole early on,” captain and defensive end Beau Palin ’14 said in an email. “You can’t do that when playing a talented team.”

Though the defense was vastly improved in the second half, forcing Harvard to go 0–8 on third downs and limiting the Crimson to just six points, the four touchdowns yielded in the first half were too much to overcome.

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The Elis struggled to force third downs against the Crimson.

ALLOWING THE HARVARD RUNNING GAME TO DOMINATE

Coming into the contest, Yale’s defense planned to shut down Harvard’s running game, according to Palin. Crimson running back Paul Stanton, Jr., who finished third in the Ivy League with 936 rushing yards, was a clear focal point of Harvard’s offense. It was imperative for the Bulldogs’ chances to shut him down.

But not only did Stanton run wild on the Bulldogs to the tune of 118 yards, he lit up the scoreboard as well. Stanton found the end zone four times, twice on runs and twice through the air, to tie a Harvard record against Yale set in 1915.

All four scores came on consecutive drives in the first half.

Quarterback Conner Hempel also took advantage of the Yale run defense’s woes. Hempel ran for 57 yards on 10

carries, and Harvard finished with 216 rushing yards on the day. Of the Crimson’s 22 first downs, 14 came via running plays.

“Harvard was effectively able to run the ball and they established that they could run power on us,” Palin said. “[That] put them in the driver’s seat.”

The effective Cantab running game resulted in Hempel’s aerial assault working to perfection. He was a precise 19–26 for 209 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and his ability to find both Stanton and tight end Cameron Brate was crucial to keeping drives moving.

Despite the loss, Yale remains the overall series leader, 65–57–8.

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

Leonoff shines in net

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

Freshman leads Elis in points DOHERTY FROM PAGE 14 has adjusting to college QHow hockey and Yale’s style of play gone so far? Did you find it difficult at first?

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The transition hasn’t been easy. The first few weeks were frustrating at times because it’s harder to make plays and have success than in juniors or high school. Every practice is tough and everyone is so skilled that you realize what it takes to get in the lineup. As far as Yale’s style of play goes, that’s been one of the nice parts because I’ve always tried to play a quick, hard game and that’s exactly what we do here. Each day I get more comfortable.

has it been like playQWhat ing on a line with captain Jesse Root ’14 and Kenny Agostino ’14?

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It’s awesome. I mean as everyone knows, they’re both such hardworking, skilled players that it makes it really fun to play with them. Beyond their obvious skills, they’ve been great teammates to me as a younger guy, always encouraging me and giving me confidence, which is huge when you see the success they’ve had in the past.

it mean anything to QDoes you to be leading the team in points?

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No, as long as we keep getting wins, it doesn’t matter who has the most points. It’s been nice to contribute a bit offensively, but every line has been scoring goals.

We play a team game, so individual statistics don’t matter much.

is it like playing on a QWhat team with so many offen-

sive weapons? Is it nice knowing everyone can contribute on the offensive end of the ice?

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Absolutely, as I said before, all of our lines are capable of scoring goals, so if one line is having a tough night, it’s nice knowing that we have three other lines that can pick us up. It’s also tough for other teams when every line is a threat.

has the camaradeQWhat rie been like in the freshman class with so many rookies already heavily contributing for the team?

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We have a great group of guys. We’re all really close and we are with each other for most of every day. We are a bunch of jokesters so we like to keep things loose but at the same time every guy works really hard and has bought into the team 100 percent.

separates Yale’s team QWhat from other teams you have played on and what makes this team click?

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Every player on this team buys into our system, when usually you have a few guys who tend to be about themselves.

The unity in our game and in the locker room makes us all click.

The work ethic on the team is second to none as well. More than anything, I think we have great leadership from our coaches down to the upperclassmen.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

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Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 recorded a season-high 48 saves against No. 1 Minnesota on Nov. 24.

LEONOFF FROM PAGE 14 mate Madison Murray ’15. “She’s a big part of the team and helps others be motivated.”

Murray noted that Leonoff often shares inspiring words with her teammates between periods, in which she stresses the importance of simplifying their game, staying united as a single unit and putting defense first. Still, Murray noted that Leonoff can also be one of the goofier girls on the team and is a good sport when it comes to getting playfully teased.

Despite her success, Leonoff said that there are areas in which she hopes to improve her game. Flygh noted that Leonoff struggled a little as a freshman, but returned the following year with greater mental resiliency, improved conditioning and bolstered confidence.

“There are always ways to get better,” Leonoff said. “The two areas that I like to continuously work on are speed and positioning, and those are things you chip away at.”

Away from the rink, Leonoff said it was difficult to find time for hobbies and other activities due to her demanding athletic and academic schedule. Mondays, which Leonoff said are her busiest days this semester, often include waking up at 7:30 a.m., running from classes to practices and ultimately ending with a class section at 8:00 p.m. Still, Leonoff said she enjoys being around friends and seeing movies when time permits.

As for life after Yale, Leonoff is still undecided whether she will pursue hockey as a career. She explained that there are a lot of teams she would be interested in playing for, but her biggest goal

would be to play for the Canadian national team in the 2018 Olympics.

“She has the ability to go wherever she wants with hockey as far as she wants with hockey,” Murray said. “I think [The Olympics are] completely attainable for her.”

Flygh added that although the road to the Olympics is difficult for any athlete, he believes that Leonoff has the ability to take her career in hockey beyond her time at Yale.

For now, Leonoff said her biggest hardship is recognizing that there are many things that are out of her control and being prepared to deal with any outcome.

Leonoff and the Yale women’s hockey team will next compete at Providence on Friday, Dec. 6.

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

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PHOEBE STAENZ ’17 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Staenz, who hails from Zurich, earned ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week honors yesterday for her performances in Yale’s 5-4 victory over Connecticut and 3-2 loss to Quinnipiac. Over the course of the two games, the forward totaled two goals and three assists.

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JAVIER DUREN ’15 AND JUSTIN SEARS ’16 MEN’S BASKETBALL For their performances in last week’s wins over Lafayette and Hartford, both Duren and Sears were named to the Ivy League honor roll. Duren recorded 24 points over the course of the two games, while Sears tallied 32 points and 14 rebounds.

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NCAA tournament to begin Friday VOLLEYBALL

BY GREG CAMERON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s volleyball team is riding a 14–1 record over its last 15 games into its match against Utah on Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The Bulldogs (20–4, 13–1 Ivy) earned an automatic bid to the tournament as the champions of the Ivy League and will play the Utes (20–12, 9–11 Pac-12) at the home court of No. 2 Penn State.

In the beginning of the 2011 season, Yale fell to Utah in four sets on Yale’s home court. Outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14 said that the upperclassmen’s past experience against Utah will benefit the team.

“They’re a team that we have held up in our minds,” Reetz said.

“We know what we’re going up against. We know that we can win.”

Although Yale succumbed to Utah two years ago, the Bulldogs have made the tournament for three consecutive years, while the Utes have not done so since 2008. In that year, they made the Sweet 16.

The Utes’ tough schedule has factored into their inability to make the postseason. They managed a 20–12 record this season despite playing in a conference with three ranked teams and nine teams in the tournament.

Among Yale’s four-team cluster for the first two rounds, Utah is ranked second and Yale is ranked third. Penn State will play LIU Brooklyn, seeded fourth, SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 13

The Game: What went wrong

BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the 130th playing of The Game, not a whole lot went right for the Yale football team. With a 28–0 deficit at halftime and a 34–7 final score, the Bulldogs were unable to stop the Crimson attack while failing to put points on the board themselves. But how did the Elis get so off track? Here are three major areas in which the Elis struggled against the Co-Ivy League champions.

INABILITY TO OPERATE THE NO-HUDDLE TO PERFECTION

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During the offseason, head coach Tony Reno installed a high-flying no-huddle offense. This attack is predicated upon a quick tempo, designed to wear defenses down by running plays very quickly. Reno even proclaimed before the season that he wanted the team to run over 90 plays every game.

But against Harvard, the Bulldogs were unable to maintain possession and get the no-huddle in rhythm, running a season low of 63 plays. A week after rushing for a season-low 96 yards in a blowout loss to Princeton, Yale managed just 100 yards on the ground against the stout Harvard rushing defense.

“We didn’t consistently operate our nohuddle offense as fast as we had wanted,” said wide receiver Deon Randall ’15.

In an attempt to spark the offense, the Bulldogs practiced the Wildcat formation in the week leading up to The Game and

Yale volleyball will face Utah in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 13

Leonoff ’15 is Yale’s leading lady in goal

BY LARRY MILSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After shutting out Quinnipiac in a 0–0 tie Nov. 9, goaltender Jaimie Leonoff’s ’15 coaches told her that she was playing like the “best goalie in the country.” With a stellar 33.5 saves per game average and 402 total saves this season, it is clear that Leonoff has established herself a rising star in net for the women’s ice hockey team.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY “Her strength is that she is a competitive kid and has done a tremendous job over her three years here at Yale,” said head coach Joakim Flygh. “She [finds]

ways to get better every day, every year, and every season.”

Before tearing up the ice at Ingalls Rink, Leonoff was honing her skills internationally. Born in Montreal, Canada, Leonoff said she has been playing hockey since she was four. She lived in Canada until seventh grade, then played one year of European hockey for a team in Switzerland before returning to North America as a sophomore at the Pomfret School, a prep school in Connecticut.

Leonoff said that although she played men’s hockey up until high school, switching to women’s hockey not only helped improve her game, but also helped her prepare for college hockey.

“I thought that going to prep

school and playing women’s hockey would get me better exposure to where I wanted to go, to those types of schools,” Leonoff said.

In addition to playing high school hockey with her Pomfret team, Leonoff also won the 2010 Connecticut state tournament with the Connecticut Polar Bears, an all-female hockey program.

Leonoff said that no matter what success she may have in the net, she owes her performance to the teammates that stand before her on the ice, saying that she would be powerless to stop opposing teams without their defense.

Yale was her first choice in schools due to its combination of strong facilities, talented coaches

and academic rigor, Leonoff said.

She made up her mind early in the college process because Yale was one of the first schools she had been seriously in touch with during the recruiting process.

The program and its values have certainly lived up to her expectations, Leonoff said. She explained that her fellow players have a strong respect for one another and that there is a great team dynamic. She added that the team does everything together, from eating meals to watching movies, when they are not on the ice.

“She dedicates a lot of time to hockey and getting better,” said defenseman and Leonoff’s roomSEE LEONOFF PAGE 13

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Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 is first in the ECAC with 402 saves so far this season.

Doherty ’17 talks rookie season, success

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER

KEN YANAGISAWA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman forward Mike Doherty ’17 leads the Elis in points with nine so far in the season.

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With one-third of the season complete, the No. 8 men’s hockey team has continued to find success on the ice. Despite losing key players from last year’s national title winning squad, head coach Keith Allain ’80 has drawn on a deep and talented pool of players that looks primed for another competitive season. The Bulldogs rank 12th in the nation in scoring offense, but do not feature a single player inside the top 48 point-getters in America. The Elis (6—2—2, 3—1—2 ECAC) have

seven players who have complied more than seven points through 10 games. Yale’s freshman class has helped to propel the Bulldogs to the top half of the ECAC standings, as the four rookie skaters have compiled a total of 20 points this season. Additionally, a freshman has played every minute in net this year. The News sat down with forward Mike Doherty ’17, who currently leads the team in points with nine, to discuss his hockey career and Yale experience so far. drew you to hockey and QWhat what made you want to play

college hockey?

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Growing up around Boston, pretty much everyone plays hockey, and my father had me on the skates at 3 years old so it pretty much took off from there.

As far as college goes, I grew up watching all the great schools in the area — BU, BC, etc.— and always wanted to play on that stage, and I worked hard in the classroom and on the ice to make it happen.

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NUMBER OF TIMES THAT THE YALE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM HAS FACED HARVARD ON THE ICE. The Crimson lead the all-time series 138–81–18, but Yale has been gaining ground recently and swept the two meetings between the rivals last season.