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CROSS CAMPUS Pucker up. For the second

week in a row, Woad’s is for a good cause. This week, Relay for Life is putting on its annual Kiss Away Cancer event, proceeds for which will go toward cancer research. Just in case Valentine’s Day wasn’t soon enough for you.

Alternatively … For the more

contemplative souls on campus, there’s also “A More Meaningful Valentine’s Day,” for “Partners in Life & Love” at Elm City Wellness on State Street this evening. Maybe on your way back, you can yell at those kids at Toad’s to turn their doggone rap-hop music down, too.

Strengths: Strength.

Runningback Tyler Varga’s ’15 profile for the 2015 NFL Combine went online yesterday. Grading out at a 5.19 out of 10 (i.e., for a “5050 chance to make [an] NFL roster”), Varga earned points for his “muscular, welldefined physique” and “strong legs.” So, yeah, the guy can push a lot of weight, even by non-Yale standards.

The next Varga? Numerous

high school football players took to social media yesterday to report that they had received a letter of interest from the Yale football team. Coach Tony Reno’s main recruiting pitch is a pretty good one: “We offer one of the finest college educations in the country.”

Vikings and Structures of Networks aside, he’s darn right we do.

Yes, please. In an effort to

make Connecticut the nation’s first gigabit state, State Comptroller Kevin Lembo joined Mayor Toni Harp to push for high-speed, low-cost internet statewide. We’re in favor of anything that might make YaleSecure pick up the pace a bit.

Preach. New York Times columnist David Brooks, known around these parts for teaching “Humility,” wrote in his latest op-ed that we should be more willing to forgive those who trespass against us, particularly higherprofile figures like NBC anchor Brian Williams who tends to face higher scrutiny, postscandal. It’s for their own good, he notes, as long as they *humbly* seek to improve.

Not humble enough? In an interview with Politico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal argued that members of the “elite” class might resent the idea of a major Republican politician with an Ivy League degree. Maybe he can ask George W. Bush ’68 for a little help on the subject.

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YCDO plans internal review

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS As the University prepares for the opening of two new residential colleges — and does so with a host of new administrators just settling into their jobs — an internal examination of the Yale College Dean’s Office aims to more clearly define administrators’ roles in a period of institutional change.

On Friday morning, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced to the roughly 240 members of the YCDO that in the coming months, the office will undergo an internal review. Holloway explained that given the loss of institutional memory accompanying the departure of many seasoned University administrators, now is an important time to gain greater clarity on the role of the YCDO as it moves forward with several new initiatives.

“It is a crucial time to undertake a review, given the fact that there are new institutional structures in place and the prospect of the new colleges,” said Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon, who himself will depart in January 2016.

“Given all this, it is not a moment for business as usual.”

The review will be run internally, and staff members will have the opportunity to contribute suggestions via an anonymous web portal. Holloway said that following the announcement on Friday, staff members present seemed receptive to the idea.

Director of Strategic Communications for Yale College Paul McKinley said the timing makes this review a “once-in-a-genera-

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College access is focus of White House budget

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of the review will be largely issuedependent. Some concerns iden-

The Obama administration’s recently released budget proposal for the 2016 fiscal year may soon make college more affordable and accessible for students nationwide.

On Feb. 2, President Barack Obama called for increased government spending on a range of higher education initiatives, including a proposal for two free years of community college and a bonus grant program that would reward colleges graduating large numbers of low-income students.

But administrators and higher education experts interviewed said Yale students would be most affected by the proposed simplification of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the adjustment of the maximum Pell Grant award in accordance with inflation.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said access to higher education is the first priority for college and university administrators nationwide. In that light, he said, all potential barriers are being examined and removed.

“This is part of a broader, national conversation about access and opportunity,” Storlazzi said. “There is no question that the application process for financial aid is time-consuming and exacting, requiring folks to become quickly conversant with IRS terminology regarding the components on income, et cetera.”

The FAFSA is a form that students fill out

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The University is slated to undergo a transition in many leadership positions before the new residential colleges open. tion opportunity” for the YCDO to reaffirm and strengthen the services it provides for Yale College students.

Holloway added that the outcome

Students upset by pass-fail labs

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Every week, Hemali Shah ’16 spends 10 to 15 hours working in a chemistry lab. She receives credit but no grade, thanks to recent changes in Yale grading policy.

In April of last spring, the Yale faculty voted to pass a proposal drafted by the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading that all future independent study courses would be graded on a Pass/Fail basis without letter grades. If students wish to

receive letter grades instead, they may ask the department’s director of undergraduate studies to petition on their behalf, but the only other exceptions to the new policy are courses that fulfill senior requirements or are important requirements for the major, according to the Yale College Programs of Study.

After a full semester with the new policy, many students involved in independent research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields said they dislike the change and find it confusing.

MBA rankings push schools to falsify data

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Business schools, it seems, will go to great ends just to climb the rankings.

The University of Missouri at Kansas City reported false information to the Princeton Review to improve the ranking of its business school, according to an outside audit on published Jan. 28.

The audit — published by the auditing, assurance and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP — claimed that the falsified data was related to pressure put on school administrators by a donor. Though School of Management Associate Dean David Bach said the SOM experiences its own pressure to continue the rankings climb, he stressed that this pressure is self-generated and comes from a desire to

optimize student opportunities at the SOM, which will then be reflected in a rankings increase.

Similarly, SOM Dean Edward Snyder said the SOM’s commitment to its mission and rankings are linked.

“If you don’t have a mission and you don’t have a strategy and aspirations, then there’s no pressure,” Snyder said. “I’ve always said I think higher rankings are good for the school, but it’s all dependent on executing our mission and sticking to that.”

The information the audit found to be false, released by UMKC, included, for instance, student clubs that the school wished to create as part of its total count for existing clubs.

The school also counted any student enrolled in an entrepreneurship course as enrolled SEE SOM RANKINGS PAGE 4

Meanwhile, professors interviewed gave mixed support for the new grading policy.

Economics professor Ray Fair, who chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading, said the committee made its decision because 90 percent of the grades given in recent years in those classes have been A’s or A minuses, and have thus conveyed little information about how the student was actually performing.

But STEM students interviewed said they feel this new protocol devalues the amount

of effort and time they put into research.

Last year, biomedical engineering major Catherine Stark ’16 took “Special Projects” — an independent study course that can be taken more than once — for a letter grade, but this semester the course is only being offered to her as P/F. “Students doing independent research for credit should get recognized for their hard work,” Stark said. “No one does research thinking that it will be a gut credit. You go into research because it’s work you feel pas-

sionate about.”

Biomedical Engineering DUS James Duncan said he has only heard from a few students in independent research courses who said they wanted letter grades. Although the protocol allows the DUS to petition for students to receive letter grades, Duncan said his department feels bound to comply with the new policy because it was voted on by the entire Yale College faculty.

But he realizes there are benSEE LAB GRADING PAGE 6

Brandeis pres leaves for YLS

BY REBECCA KARABUS AND FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence LAW ’80 is returning next year to his alma mater, Yale

Law School, as a senior research scholar specializing in civil rights law.

In a letter to the Brandeis community on Jan. 30, Lawrence announced that he step down from his position as president at the end of the 2014–15 academic year. Fac-

ulty and students at the university expressed mixed views of Lawrence’s time as president, as well as uncertainty about the repercussions of his decision to resign.

Despite Lawrence’s controSEE BRANDEIS PAGE 6

COURTESY OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Brandeis University President Fred Lawrence LAW ’80 will be returning to Yale Law School next year.

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VIEW For a town hall on mental health The first in a three-part editorial series on how Yale treats students who need mental health care

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In a letter emailed to students on Feb. 4, English professor John Rogers '84 GRD '89, chair of Yale College’s withdrawal and readmission committee, offered recently readmitted students the chance to give feedback on what it’s like to leave Yale, sometimes involuntarily, and then return.

Recipients had until Feb. 8 to answer 10 questions, on topics ranging from financial burdens to reintegration. Four days is a small window for big, complicated questions about this fraught process. A student emailed Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Pamela George asking why she had been given so little time to complete the questionnaire.

No response.

Rogers’ letter — which may or may not have been spurred by the tragedy the week before — sets into relief the otherwise deafening silence of the University in the two weeks since Wang’s death.

People need to feel like they’re being listened to, and that their experiences and pain matter.

This means recognition from those at the top, those who are in positions of sufficient power to lead changes to the ways the University handles mental health care.

By virtue of the existence of the committee on withdrawal and readmission, these policies are under scrutiny. Self-reflection on the University's part must involve public acknowledgement of students’ dissatisfaction as the first step toward reform.

Last week, University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak hosted faculty members at the Yale School of Medicine for a town hall on diversity and gender. Salovey and Holloway should do the same, but for mental health.

At its best, our University’s administration should amplify the voices of students speaking eloquently and passionately from personal experience with suggestions they truly believe will make this school better.

Right now, their voices remain tiny, shouting at a Goliath whose utter silence is drowning them out.

We’re publishing as many student columns on this topic as possible, as well as offering our own take in the coming days, in hopes that someone, somewhere in Woodbridge Hall or SSS, is listening.

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e’ll be upfront: There needs to be a public, community-wide forum that will force Yale to come to grips with grievances against its mental health resources and policies.

It’s been just over two weeks since we learned the heartwrenching news that Luchang Wang ’17 had taken her own life. The 15 days since have been loud with calls for change. There hasn't been an utterance from the University in response.

Students have been mobilizing, publicly and quite aggressively, in search of reforms to the way mental health services operate at this school. Their dissatisfaction is not without precedent: For decades students have been campaigning in fits and starts for similar changes. But rarely have these efforts been tied so explicitly to a single event, to the death of a classmate. Many of Wang’s closest friends have refused to dissociate her death from the institutional resources and regulations that they claim marred her life.

Students have emailed Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway personally asking him to help change Yale’s policies so that students struggling with mental illness do not compromise their own care for fear of being forced to leave the University.

“I write to beg for your help,” Chris Cappiello ’15 wrote to Holloway on Feb. 1. “[I]f there is even the most minute possibility that a simple administrative change — for which there is precedent at plenty of other universities — will allow future students relief from the horrors of severe depression, then allowing things to continue as they are would be unconscionable.”

Ten days later, no response.

At least 70 seniors have vowed to boycott the Senior Class Gift as a way of signaling their dissatisfaction with the University’s handling of mental health issues.

Students have created a Tumblr page, Nox et Veritas, where they are posting firsthand accounts of their experiences with mental illness and the perilous process of seeking institutional help.

“But who wants to listen to a story that starts with ‘In the hospital,’ right?” one post asks. Yet these are the stories dominating campus conversation right now. They’re the stories people in charge of policy minutiae need to hear.

culturally change.”

or the past month or so, a group of friends and I had been planning a weekend getaway to Vermont. A friend of ours is from Stowe and suggested, almost on a whim, that we all come up to her house for a weekend in dreary February; we could ski if we wanted, or sled or just curl up under blankets and relax. Everything sounded blissful, and we quickly agreed.

Over the next few weeks, we absentmindedly planned, but I almost forgot that the weekend was coming up. However, when I opened my calendar a week before our scheduled weekend and saw the dates blocked off in all caps (I had perhaps been a little too excited when I scheduled it), I felt a moment of panic.

It’s not that I didn’t want to spend hours with my friends; I did. And it’s not that I didn’t need a break from Yale; I certainly needed that. But there’s something so bizarre, so magnetic about Yale that the thought of putting it in my rearview mirror for three full days filled me with a sense of dread. When I say magnetic, I don’t even necessarily mean it as a good thing: Sometimes I think that I would like nothing more than to leave for a few days, and yet Yale’s force, the sense of urgency and all-consuming place that exists here, keeps me from doing it.

Even to leave Yale’s campus for a few hours, which I do from

time to time for a cappella performances, can seem scary and onerous. There’s something about the VICTORIA inertia of Yale HALL-PALERM life and the way in which Notorious we allow this place to conVHP sume the vast majority of our time and energy that makes it feel like leaving it behind for a few moments is the most dangerous thing in the world.

I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way, and I don’t think that this attitude is particularly healthy. Even as I was overcome with anxiety at the prospect of leaving campus, I also had to take a step back and wonder why I wasn’t itching to get away. The past two or three weeks at Yale haven’t exactly been great. Seemingly nothing was going right. I spent the first two weeks of the semester paralyzed with academic stress as I tried to pick my final classes and pin down a thesis advisor, lest I not be able to graduate. The snow seems never-ending, and my days are invariably, monotonously gray and slush-filled.

But more seriously, the past month or so has posed a funda-

mental challenge to Yale as an institution. The loss of a student, and one who I knew tangentially, seriously shook me; I attended the funeral in Battell and cried, and since hearing the news of her death I’ve found it much harder to motivate myself to do the things I know I need to do, like go to lecture or do my reading. In the wake of this news, I’ve been torn between pure sadness and also anger at the Yale administration for its outdated mental health policies.

It goes without saying that a great number of students here go through the motions of everyday life, all while grappling with seemingly insurmountable and inexpressible challenges and levels of grief.

But even for those who are not struggling with profound, medical mental health needs, the fact of the matter is that most students here live their lives sad and stressed and anxious a lot of the time. I know I do, and I’d be hard pressed to think of a friend who doesn’t. Why, then, was I so reluctant to leave it behind, even for two days?

My friends and I went on our weekend getaway, my neuroses notwithstanding. We loaded up our cars and blasted music and played dorky car games for four hours. We sledded down an enormous hill and made hot chocolate; we talked about our lives and took naps when we

said we were going to “do homework.” And it was one of the best weekends of my entire year. I think it’s not until you’re physically removed from campus that you realize just how heavily Yale weighs on you, and it was a nice reminder that life does very much go on, even when you’re not at Yale. And moreover, it was reassuring to feel that the things that happen away from Yale’s campus are just as important, if not more so, than the minutiae that we ascribe so much significance to here.

After a few weeks of feeling sad and overwhelmed, and of thinking long and hard about why so many of us feel sad and overwhelmed, this weekend seemed to present a solution: Take a break. Get away. Just the feeling of getting in a car and watching Harkness Tower get smaller behind you is liberating.

The degree to which we cherish Yale has itself become almost oppressive. It feels as if everything here is the pinnacle of importance, but if we give ourselves the space to look at Yale a bit more critically, I think we’d all remember that it’s not. Or, at least, it doesn’t always have to be.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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any students have voiced the urgent need for change in how Yale handles mental health issues, but we have forgotten to address what we as individuals can do to directly effect change on campus. In what ways have we contributed to a high-pressure culture that is difficult to navigate for those struggling with mental illness? How many of us actually know what depression, eating disorders and anxiety look like?

Tackling this issue not only requires policy change on the part of the administration, but also a shift in campus attitude to promote mental wellbeing. We must be more aware of what mental illness really looks like and more supportive of our friends and peers who suffer from it. We as students play a critical role in shaping a culture of support.

Yale’s campus culture manifests itself in the fervor for freshmen at the extracurricular bazaar, the snaps of affirmation at an a cappella jam or the unparalleled tradition of running naked and free through Bass during reading period. At the same time, our

culture encourages setting high academic and personal standards for ourselves. Sometimes we are too busy to pay attention to our mental health, let alone the mental health of others. If we are not finishing a problem set, we are applying for summer internships or shuttling between meetings.

What if we slowed down and tuned in to those around us?

How often do we devote our nights to comforting a struggling friend? Or go out of our way to leave a note of encouragement, buy a friend a cup of coffee for the soul, ask someone what was wrong when we noticed he or she seemed out of it?

Instead of placing such an emphasis on success, campus culture needs to shift to value honesty and openness. Yalies wield the greatest power to create a culture where students feel they can share and take on each other’s struggles. We must notice those around us, ask more questions and care for one another.

But even if we focus more on our own and others’ wellbeing, there are still other aspects of our culture that hinder change, specifically stigma and igno-

rance. Last year, when a friend of mine withdrew from Yale for mental health reasons, her suitemates whispered about her going “cuckoo.” Her suitemates were not malicious — they just did not understand the nature of depression. But ignorance begets stigma, and stigma further burdens someone who is already suffering from an illness. If we educate ourselves on the nature, causes and prevalence of mental illnesses, we can become betterinformed advocates for change and learn to identify when we should intervene.

No one should feel ashamed to ask for help from friends or a medical professional. In fact, according to the 2013 Yale College Council Report on Mental Health, nearly 40 percent of students seek the services of Yale Mental Health & Counseling before they graduate.

But we should also be aware of the many campus resources beyond MH&C. For someone in the midst of slipping into depression, the very act of Googling where to go for help is an obstacle to receiving treatment.

Walden Peer Counseling, peer

liaisons and the SHARE Center offer counseling services. Learning more about available mental health resources helps prepare us to support ourselves and friends who need help.

As students, we cannot cure mental illnesses. We are not experts in clinical disorders, and we do not have the power to diagnose or treat. But we can provide support for those who suffer the brunt of administrative shortcomings.

We can mitigate the pain of mental illness by offering our emotional support, educating ourselves, spreading awareness and eliminating stigma. Promoting a culture conducive to openness could lead to an environment where people are not afraid to ask for help. At most, such a culture could even prevent some forms of mental illness. Let us not forget how much power we as individuals have to change the mental health landscape on campus.

AUDREY LUO is a sophomore in Silliman College and a member of Mind Matters. Contact her at audrey.luo@yale.edu .

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“I haven’t always been gluten-free.”

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A previous version of the article “Community debates proposed charter school” incorrectly attributed a 1 percent rate of transience to traditional NHPS public schools. That figure belongs to the general charter school community, outside of those run by Achievement First.

Gluten-free meals on the rise

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Specialized meal requests for students who are gluten-free are on the rise in residential college dining halls.

Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said Yale Dining has offered specialized meals at increasing rates over the past few years. Currently, 8 to 10 percent of student meals are specialized, a fraction that Van Dyke said she expects to further increase. Specialized meals are needed for a variety of reasons — from religions constraints and medical issues to special diets and lifestyle choices — and students simply have to speak with dining hall staff to acquire them. Dining hall managers interviewed indicated that the most pronounced change in dietary demands is an increase in gluten-free requests.

“I’ve been in this business for 24 years, and there have never been as many gluten-free students as there are right now,” Davenport College Dining Hall Manager Shaffrona PhillipChristie said.

Silliman chef Stu Comen also said he has noticed a surge in gluten-free students, which could be due to enhanced allergy awareness or dietary concerns.

He added that he personally makes gluten-free pizza for a single student every Friday.

Issey Norman-Ross ’15, who is hypoglycemic and glutenfree, said being a celiac at Yale would be very difficult without special accommodations.

“I would say if you don’t seek help and you’re a celiac you will really struggle with getting a balanced diet and also with issues of cross contamination,” she said. “Before I spoke with [Yale Dining], I struggled a lot to stay healthy, especially as an athlete.”

Norman-Ross said Berkeley College has done its best to mix things up for her — whether it be making fries in the back with clean oil or making personalized stir-fries.

Tufts University freshman Grant Steinhauer said rather than individually specialize meals for gluten free students, dining halls at Tufts have a “vegetarian and gluten free” station.

Gluten-free pasta and pancakes are always offered, he said.

Phillip-Christie said glutenfree requests are just the tip of the iceberg — some students have oil allergies, for example, while others cannot eat butter, garlic or certain herbs. She said she often meets with students and their parents to flesh out dietary plans that work.

Comen said that, in addition to gluten-free meals, he also has substituted in rice flour and peanut-free products to fit student needs. He added that in one instance, a student was so allergic to various foods that his staff had to personally deliver meals to the student’s room.

Despite the openness of Yale Dining staff, Phillip-Christie said some students choose to keep their allergies to themselves.

Matt Czarnecki ’18 is lactose intolerant, but he said he prefers to work with the food that is offered rather than request specialized items, though that may change in the future.

“I am a fan of grilled chicken, and my residential college always has grilled chicken ready if I ask at the grill,” he said. “But eating grilled chicken for dinner nearly every night has become quite mundane, and I do sometimes wish that other alternatives were available for me.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Workshops emphasize parent engagement

BY VICTORIO CABRERA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Kids are not the only ones going to school.

On Feb. 10, Barnard Environmental Magnet School held a series of workshops in cooperation with Parent University New Haven, a free parent-support initiative launched in 2012 to help parents bolster their children’s education. Roughly 15 parents of Barnard school students attended workshops, followed by a speech and a question-and-answer session from Superintendent of New Haven Public Schools Garth Harries ’95.

The workshops focused on helping parents learn to better engage with their children’s educations.

“We want to help parents help their children to succeed academically and socially,” said Daniel Diaz, the coordinator of parent engagement for NHPS. The workshops touched on many aspects of education, inside and outside the classroom.

At one workshop, led by Latrice Hampton, assistant to the director of communications for NHPS, parents learned

about NHPS’s new mobile app, which combines a grading portal, school-specific calendars, a suggestion box and other services into one app. Hampton said the app is meant to accommodate parents who might not always have access to a computer during the day. She added that the app, released last year, has been downloaded by over 1,500 of NHPS’s 21,500-plus parents.

At another workshop, Karen Lombardi, a literacy coach at Barnard, helped parents learn how to develop their children’s reading skills. She walked the attendees through the foundational skills of language and how they might apply them to helping their kids read.

Lombardi, who was leading the workshop for the first time, said parents seemed to embrace the material.

“It would be great if we could get more parents to come,” Lombardi said, speculating that the weather was to blame for the relatively low turnout.

After dinner was served by PUNH, Harries had every parent and teacher in the room introduce themselves, and then

spoke to them about the goals and achievements of NHPS. He noted that NHPS’s high school graduation rates have increased by 17 percent over the past five years, in line with district’s fiveyear graduation goals.

Harries then outlined the district’s priorities, the first of which, he said, is to “make sure kids start and stay on the right path.” In support of this goal, Harries cited NHPS’s unusually stringent reading requirements — whereas most districts require students to read by third grade, NHPS requires students to read by first grade.

“We want to be the best urban district in the nation,” Harries said, adding that in order to reach that goal, the district should also look to hire the best staff. “We want the best administrators, the best teachers, the best bus drivers … and I think we have all that in New Haven.”

During the question-andanswer session, Harries clarified parental concerns. In response to a parent who raised concerns about new charter schools in New Haven taking money away from other public schools,

Harries responded that charter school funds come from the state, not the city.

Another parent asked what Harries is doing to improve school security. Although Harries recognized a shortage of security guards at NHPS, he emphasized that there are a number of steps that schools can take on their own to improve security, such as keeping track of keys and locking doors.

Keysha Kelly, a parent of a third grader at Barnard, said this was her first year attending the workshops, which she found to be informative and helpful. Barnard as a whole, she said, is very active with outreach to parents. The reading workshop gave her a basic knowledge of how to improve her daughter’s reading, she said, adding that Harries’ remarks were well informed.

“He did all he could while being politically correct,” she said. “It’s tricky with all those parents and teachers there.”

Contact VICTORIO CABRERA at victorio.cabrera@yale.edu .

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The Barnard Environmental Magnet School conducted a series of workshops to help parents provide support for their children’s academic pursuits.

Proposed bills would penalize texting while driving

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At a public hearing before the State Transportation Committee on Monday, state officials proposed two bills that would crack down on drivers who are caught texting while driving in Connecticut.

The bills honed in on the issue of texting while driving, differing only in their suggested measures. The first, introduced by Republican State Rep. Melissa Ziobron, proposes that penalties for texting while driving be altered to match the harsher penalties for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The second bill, suggested by Democratic State Rep. Frank Nicastro Sr., proposes increasing the existing fines for texting while driving. Under current law, drivers caught texting while driving face fines varying from $100 to $250. Teenagers are the only exception, also facing driver’s license suspension and a fee in order to restore their license.

“I have become increasingly alarmed at the pervasive use of texting I have witnessed on the roads in Connecticut,” Ziobron said in her testimony. “[We] must do more to reduce accidents and deaths attributable to this dangerous habit.”

Zobrion added that even though texting has provided a great convenience to so many people, its harmful implications are alarming.

According to a 2006 study done at the University of Utah, texting while driving is just as dangerous — and causes just as many accidents — as driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. However, their legal consequences differ dramatically.

A person in the state of Connecticut who is caught driving under the influence can face fines and prison terms in addition to license suspension and ignition interlock restriction — which installs a Breathalyzer on the vehicle’s dashboard preventing the car from starting if their blood alcohol concentration is

above the legal limit. In contrast, those caught texting while driving must only pay a fine of $100 for the first offense, $150 for the second offense and $250 for a third or subsequent offense, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.

Ziobron, with her proposed bill, seeks to change that fine to a penalty schedule that matches that of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

“I was surprised to learn that there is no penalty beyond a fine for multiple offenses of texting while driving, unless you are a teenager,” Ziobron said in her testimony.

Teenagers caught texting while driving face a 30-day license suspension for their first offense and a six-month suspension for their second and subsequent offenses. Added to this suspension is a $125 license restoration fee and court fines.

Michelle Goodson, owner of and instructor at Liberty Driver’s Education Center in Meriden, Conn., argued that these additional punishments for youth drivers are unfair. Adult drivers are also guilty of texting while driving, and the punishment should not fall on kids, she said.

“I don’t care who you are or how many years you’ve been driving,” Goodson said. “Texting is a distraction.”

Director of Transportation for the City of New Haven Doug Hausladen ’04 said he supports the proposal of increased penalties for driving and texting.

“Texting while driving is one of the most preventable causes of death in our transportation system, [which] can be remedied through good policy and, most importantly, enforcing that policy,” Hausladen said.

Currently, 44 states have instituted $20 to $10,000 fines for sending text messages while driving.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

STATE BY STATE TEXTING WHILE DRIVING PENALTIES First offense: $85.

Second offense: $100.

Third offense: $125.

ME First offense: $250.

Next offense(s): increase fine up to $500.

RI

First offense: $156, 2 points on license Second offense (within two years of first offense): $329, 5 points on license

VT

First offense: $100.

Second offense: $150.

Third or subsequent offense: $250.

NY Fine up to $150 plus mandatory $85 surcharge fee. Violation also carries 5 driver violation points (for all).

CT

NH $100 fine for all offenses

First offense: $100.

Second offense: $250.

Third offense: $500.

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Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway has announced a review of the various positions and roles within the Yale College Dean’s Office.

tified by the evaluation may be easily resolvable within a semester, he said, while others may be part of larger YCDO processes that are less likely to change.

One goal of the review is to clearly differentiate different administrators’ roles. Holloway acknowledged that while some newly formed administrative structures — such as Tamar Gendler’s position as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, introduced last summer — are easily differentiated, other roles are more easily confused. For example, Holloway said, he hopes the review will bring greater clarity on the responsibilities of the administrators working on issues of student life.

“The student life piece is something that we have to sort out,” Holloway said. “Where does one job begin and the other one [end]?”

In particular, there has been some confusion surrounding the potentially overlapping roles of Yale College’s Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, who oversees University-wide affairs. The geographic locations of their workspaces may also speak to this

distinction: Gentry’s office is located in Sheffield-SterlingStrathcona Hall, in the YCDO, whereas Goff-Crews works in Woodbridge Hall, just up the stairs from University President Peter Salovey’s office.

Former Director of the Teaching Fellow Program Judith Hackman, who retired at the end of January, said that while many aspects of student affairs are seemingly being put under the purview of Goff-Crews, Gentry and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Director of Graduate Student Life Lisa Brandes GRD ’94 also seem to hold similar responsibilities in Yale College and the Graduate School, respectively.

Gentry did not speak to the division of responsibilities between himself and GoffCrews, but said he supports Holloway’s decision to host an internal review, given the upcoming introduction of two new residential colleges under the leadership of a new administration.

Goff-Crews declined to comment, citing the college-specific nature of the review.

Still, Gordon said shared responsibility is not necessarily a bad thing, as collaboration can pose new questions and offer innovative responses.

“Giving students multiple paths to access information and find support should work to their advantage,” Gordon said. “One just wants to be sure that everyone understands that the system is deliberately built that way.”

Giving students multiple paths to access information [ … ] should work to their advantage.

JOSEPH GORDON Deputy Dean of Yale College McKinley also said the review provides an opportunity for the YCDO to consider its relationships with other University centers, such as the the Office of Career Strategy and the cultural centers.

Additionally, some of the YCDO’s responsibilities will need to be reconsidered in response to the new Center for Teaching and Learning, Holloway said. The center, which opened last August, was created to consolidate all of the tutoring and instructional resources available to undergraduates, graduate students and faculty.

Jenny Frederick, the center’s executive director, explained that with the launch of the CTL, some responsibilities — such as tutoring services for science and quantitative reasoning — have shifted away from the YCDO. But others, like research fellowships, will continue to be administered

by Yale College.

The Writing Center and the Center for Language Studies have also become part of the center but are still in the process of transitioning out of their former organizational structure within the YCDO, Frederick added.

Hackman told the News in January that she did not feel adequately informed as to why the Writing Center and Center for Language Studies, formerly part of the graduate school, had been shifted away. There may have “really wonderful reasons” behind the changes, she added, but they were unclear to her.

Holloway said he has been considering the idea of an internal review since December, and he announced the plan to his assistant and associate deans about a week before making it public to the entire YCDO. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

White House puts focus on college access WHITE HOUSE FROM PAGE 1 to determine their eligibility for financial assistance, such as Pell Grants, federal student loans and federal work-study.

Though the Obama administration has already taken steps toward making the form more accessible, the Department of Education estimates that roughly 2 million students who would have qualified for federal aid were unable to complete the application.

According to the budget proposal, 30 questions on the FAFSA would be cut, reducing the total number of questions to 78. The questions considered for deletion would be, as described by the Department of Education, the most “burdensome” and “difficult-to-verify,” and the simplified FAFSA would mainly rely on information available in federal tax returns.

Storlazzi said the University is similarly trying to simplify and add transparency to its own aid process by reviewing Yale’s pre-

sentation of its financial aid packages. Student Financial Services will be examining its website and print publications for consistency in terminology, he added.

Although this is a local discussion, Storlazzi said, it is also part of a national conversation about financial aid and the terms that have been used in the profession for last 30 to 40 years.

“For example, in the term ‘Family Contribution,’ the word ‘contribution’ does not adequately and completely convey the notion that this a family ‘requirement,’” Storlazzi said. “And the word ‘requirement’ is probably not the right word either. While financial aid offices across the nation have been using the same terminology for many years, it may be time for a complete overhaul.”

Furthermore, the Obama administration’s proposed budget calls for certain adjustments to the Pell Grant, which may have profound effects on Yale students if approved by Congress.

Pell Grants are financial aid awards given to low-income

undergraduate students by the federal government, which do not need to be repaid. The maximum Pell Grant award is currently $5,775 for the 2015–16 award year, and is scheduled to increase to $5,915 for 2016–17, according to the budget proposal. The award students receive is contingent upon their financial need, their university’s cost of attendance and status as a full-time or parttime student, according to the Department of Education website.

Based on the FAFSA, the Department of Education calculates an Expected Family Contribution amount for each student — the amount of money that a student’s family will be able to pay towards the student’s education.

Currently, if a student’s EFC is greater than $5,081 for the 2013– 14 academic year, a student is not eligible for a Pell Grant. Eliminating certain questions from the FAFSA about savings, untaxed income and other factors may reduce some students’ Pell Grant eligibility, so the proposed budget

calls for the expected family contribution threshold for Pell to be reduced by $600.

According to Storlazzi, 688 Yale undergraduates — 13 percent of Yale College — received Pell grants in 2012–13, for a total of $2,828,233.

The Obama administration’s proposal calls for a $29.7 billion investment in Pell Grants to ensure that the grants can keep pace with inflation.

Michael Mitchell, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities think tank, said pegging the Pell Grant to inflation would be especially beneficial to low and middle income students, as the cost of higher education continues to increase.

Barry Toiv, vice president of public affairs at the Association of American Universities, praised the budget’s continued support for federal research funding for departments like the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. However, in a statement published Feb. 2 responding to

Obama’s 2016 budget, the AAU expressed concern over cuts in research funded by the Defense Department, much of which is conducted at universities.

The Obama Administration has been very supportive of research funding and higher education.

BARRY TOIV Vice president of public affairs, AAU “Defense basic research is critical to our national security,” the statement said. “For this nation’s fighting men and women to remain the world’s best equipped, most technically advanced force, we need to sustain the investment in Defense basic research.”

But Toiv added that the biggest issue facing Obama’s proposed budget lies in “sequestration” — cuts to the total amount of money

allocated for the federal budget. Toiv said reducing the total amount of federal funding inevitably impacts funds allocated for higher education and research.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, said that through his volunteer work helping New Haven residents fill out their tax forms, the budget’s proposed simplification of the American Opportunity Tax Credit stood out to him. The AOTC is a credit for learning expenses for students in their first four years of higher education, and would be further extended through Obama’s budget proposal.

“The Obama administration has been very supportive of research funding and higher education, and so this budget is consistent with that support,” he said.

Over 50 percent of Yale undergraduates received financial aid in the 2014–15 school year.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu

Kansas malpractice sparks examination of rankings SOM RANKINGS FROM PAGE 1

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Recent scandals about business school rankings have led to conversations about pressure around rankings.

in the entrepreneurship program, which worked to boost its ranking.

While the University of Missouri at Kansas City’s false data reporting to the Princeton Review calls into question data collection techniques for rankings, SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said the method of data collection varies from ranking to ranking.

Though some business school rankings require self-reported information from schools, he said others audit information, and if the information is not audited there are ranking standards to ensure transparency.

The SOM started off the academic year with a substantial rankings leap in the biannual Bloomberg Businessweek MBA ranking, in which the school jumped from 21st place in 2012 to sixth place in 2014. However, after breaking into the top 10 MBA programs in the 2014 Financial Times rating, the SOM dropped to 17th place in this year’s ranking, released at the end of last month.

Jain said one of the primary causes of this decline is that the Financial Times ranking relies on an alumni survey on pre-MBA and three year post-MBA salaries. This year, the response rate of SOM alumni to this survey was small, only about 35 percent, which affected the SOM’s overall ranking, he said.

“Anytime you have a survey [in

a ranking], you have the possibility of non-response bias,” Jain said.

SOM Deputy Director of Admissions Melissa Fogerty stressed that though the admissions office is aware prospective students pay attention to business school rankings, admissions officers still encourage prospective students to come to the SOM and visit with students and faculty. She said this is particularly important at the SOM because many of the school’s strengths and distinguishing factors are not reflected by rankings, such as its global curriculum.

For prospective students, Bach noted that rankings are particularly important because the SOM has not had the same public attention as other business schools historically.

“Yale University until recently was much better known than SOM [was] as a top management school,” he said. “I think the rankings help establish the

global reputation for SOM that clearly benefits from the overall brand awareness that Yale has but reinforces this sense that this is a great place to come to study management.”

But Bach also said prospective MBA students are not the only audience for business school rankings. In particular, he said, corporate recruiters also look at rankings to determine their strategies and lists of core versus noncore schools. Though Bach said many recruiters also establish long term relationships with business schools, recruiters outside of the United States sometimes put more stock in rankings if they do not have a relationship with the individual school.

The 2015 Princeton Review Business School rankings collected data from 296 business schools.

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

BY THE NUMBERS SOM RANKINGS 6 13 17 Bloomberg Businessweek (2014)

US News and World Report (2015) Financial Times (2015)

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Report proposes employment training

BY MARTHA LONGLEY STAFF REPORTER In a national report released last week, the Urban Institute encouraged policymakers to target employment training as a means to combat the income disparities between men of color and others in the workforce.

The Urban Institute, a think tank that uses research to inform the public of social problems and possible political solutions, targeted urban areas similar to New Haven with high concentrations of poverty and racial gaps in employment. The report authors suggested that men of color tend to have lower employment rates and lower incomes because of several factors, including geographic and social isolation, and lack of community resources, especially in education. The report also proposed solutions, namely expanding career counseling, technical training and opportunities in STEM fields at the high school level.

“The report is right on the money,” said Kathleen Quinn, regional director of Connecticut Works — a government-run, free program that connects Connecticut residents to job opportunities and training. “[While] job discrimination still certainly exists in 2015, the kinds of issues that really contribute to poor or no attachment to the workplace among young poor men, particularly those of color, start in the education system, the housing situation … [and] the lack of resources in their community.”

The report’s emphasis on “opportunity youth,” or people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school, was particularly important, according to Mark Abraham, the executive director of DataHaven, a non-profit that collects, shares and interprets community data.

According to Abraham, 11 percent of youth in low-income areas such as Dixwell, Dwight, Fair Haven, Hill, Newhallville, West River and West Rock are neither employed nor in school. That figure is only two percent in higher-income neighborhoods like Westville and East Rock. The average city rate is 7 percent.

Abraham said he would like to see a mentoring system developed to stress to children the importance of education and strong

work ethics.

“I’ve worked with many young poor people who don’t even think college, or even graduating from high school, is realistic” said Quinn, who added that, if the youth were to be exposed to positive role models and encouraged by their families, there may be greater success. Though she cautioned that the most successful interventions take place at early ages, she added that it is never too late.

In addition to mentorship programs aimed at youth, the report highlighted strategies to help men of color at later stages in their lives. For example, incarceration can often be an obstacle to employment, and there is a disproportionate number of minorities in the criminal justice system.

Mark Wilson, deputy director of operations at Emerge, a local organization that helps former inmates with reentry, said approximately 95 percent of the organization’s clients is minorities.

To solve the problem, Wilson said, education, in conjunction with a mentorship program, is necessary.

“The data show that the three things that prevent these problems are: 1) a belief in a higher power, 2) a mentoring program and 3) attachment to work,” he said.

He added that there are many employers who will hire former inmates, but many of them lack the necessary skills to work beyond entry-level jobs.

In addressing the mentoring process, Quinn called upon college and high school students.

“College kids as mentors can start working one kid at a time, building relationships, showing them their work and the options that they have before them,” she said.

Despite the range of factors cited in the report, Abraham said it did not address a key factor attributing to the disparities in New Haven: transportation. He pointed out that many jobs in the greater New Haven area are located in suburbs that are inaccessible to people without cars. Nonetheless, Harp has placed improving transportation at the top of City Hall’s agenda, as evidenced by her state of the city address last year.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

Alders revisit sustainability plans

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The Environmental Policy Committee discussed goals for Elm City’s initiatives, such as the Clean Energy Communities Municipal Pledge.

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the Elm City has made progress in promoting sustainability in recent years, city leaders and residents are urging households and small businesses to be more invested in curbing the city’s carbon footprint.

At an Environmental Policy Committee meeting last night, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 highlighted progress the city has made in recent years, noting the Clean Energy Communities Municipal Pledge signed

by Mayor Toni Harp last March.

This initiative aims to reduce energy use in the city’s municipal buildings by 20 percent and to increase energy the city obtains from renewable sources to 20 percent before 2018. Zinn also cited the replacement of sulfur-based street lamps with more energy-efficient LED

counterparts throughout New Haven as an example of progress in combating climate change.

Despite these programs, Zinn and the alders underscored the need for increased community involvement in this city-wide effort to reduce carbon emissions.

“Community involvement is low, and the mayor has recognized that this should be turned on its head,” Zinn said. “We are trying to be more systematic about how we plan climate change.”

Zinn went on to outline several city initiatives to prepare for climate change, emphasizing plans for green infrastructure. He mentioned, for example, plans to install roughly 200 more of the city’s specially designed flower beds, which absorb excess rainwater to prevent flooding during storms.

The city, which has already constructed less than 10 of these

facilities, has secured funds for the expansion.

Zinn added that he expects the initiative to present “an opportunity for the community to be involved with their cityscape.”

At the meeting, Annie Harper GRD ’10 of the Yale Community Carbon Fund echoed these sentiments, expressing the importance of involving the broader New Haven community in the city’s conservation goals. She cited Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a city that has successfully engaged residents in combating environmental problems.

Committee Chair and Ward 18 Alder Salvatore DeCola voiced his optimism about the feasibility of the Municipal Pledge’s goals.

“I feel confident that we can make this happen for the city and for our children,” he said.

Still, Ward 25 Alder Adam J. Marchand GRD ’99 took a

more cautious tone with regard to public participation. Some households may not have the means to opt for more environmentally friendly equipment — such as LED lights and solar panels — in the homes, he argued.

He also said prompting larger institutions like Yale to participate in the city’s sustainability efforts, rather than focusing on change within individual households, would be a more realistic way of promoting large-scale sustainability within the city.

“Where do [New Haven residents] get the money for it?”

Marchand asked the committee.

“I haven’t seen the room filled for any environmental issue since I’ve been in office.”

He did, however, concede that Yale has taken visible steps in the right direction.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

Students continue PremieBreathe project

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER An unassuming cooler sits on the floor inside the room of Katy Chan ’15. But when she opens the lid, the inside reveals a pump equipped with circuitry and glassware — her senior project.

The cooler is a prototype for PremieBreathe — a low cost respiratory aid for neonatal infants — that Chan hopes may one day save the lives of infants in developing countries.

Over winter break, Chan and Jordan Sabin ’16, whose senior project will also be PremieBreathe, visited Ethiopia to find out whether their respiratory device prototype, which warms and humidifies air for infants in respiratory distress, would be helpful to local health officials.

Designing the device has presented some challenges, but all members of the team said they are hopeful for the future of the project, which officially began last spring as the senior project of Charles Stone ’14.

“I came into Yale thinking about cars and planes and never thought about working in medicine before,” said Sabin, who is an economics and mechanical engineering double major. “It was not something I was expecting, not something I actively sought out, but it has been really great and I love the interaction of medicine and engineering.”

From their trip to Ethiopia, Chan and Sabin learned that the doctors would benefit from having such a device. Currently, doctors routinely create respiratory devices from found objects like

soda bottles. While respiratory systems in the U.S. cost $5,000 — a price too high for developing nations — PremieBreathe costs less than $500 to make. Although there are other marketed products similar to PremieBreathe, none possess the humidifying capabilities that are necessary to give the infant a good chance at survival.

The trip also made them realize that their design needs to be about half the size it is now in order to fit within the space constraints of the hospital, Sabin said.

Health officials in Ethiopia have made maternal and infant care a priority in recent years.

The Yale Global Health Leadership Institute — with which PremieBreathe is partnering — has forged a good relationship with workers in the country, making it a perfect target site for the final product, said Shirin Ahmed ’12, program manager for YGHLI. But the ultimate goal is to develop something that can be used in all countries in the developing world, she added.

“Yale appreciates that these kind of projects require expertise from many departments,” said biomedical engineering professor Angelica Gonzalez, Chan’s advisor for the project. “Yale is one of the only universities that really fosters that collaborative environment across the University.”

The project is completely student-run, so one of the most important next steps will be to secure funds in order to train a number of students who will continue the project, Gonzalez said.

Chan, who knew she wanted to be involved in biomedical engi-

PREMIE BREATHE

Katy Chan ’15 and Jordan Sabin ’16 are continuing a senior project that has evolved into PremieBreathe: A low-cost respiratory aid intended for infants. neering from a young age, applied for a grant to continue the project after she graduates this May. Despite working at a consulting firm, Stone still returns to New Haven to work with the team and said he feels committed to the future of the project.

“There are a lot of stake holders in the project,” Sabin said. “A lot of people’s time and money

has been invested, and we don’t want to let it trail off and come to nothing.”

Larry Wilen, a senior research scientist at the School of Engineering and Applied Science who helped advise Stone on specific engineering techniques in the CEID, said the progression of the project from just a single student working on his senior project to

a full-fledged and funded team makes him excited for the future.

Before he came on board, the project had fallen short on funding, Stone said.

Ahmed said she finds it personally challenging, but engaging, to work alongside physicians and engineers with whom she does not share the same engineering language. The variety of

interests means that there are a lot of “moving parts” to handle but also great potential for the project’s impact, she added.

Neonatal deaths and deaths of children under five account for 30 percent of annual deaths in Ethiopia.

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

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Students, professors prefer letter grades for labwork LAB GRADING FROM PAGE 1 efits and pitfalls to the change.

“On the one hand, I think that for non-seniors, removing the need to worry about a letter grade might be helpful, and might make the initial research experience more enjoyable,” Duncan said.

“On the other hand, some students put in a lot of time on these courses and having a letter grade that counts towards their GPA might be a good thing.”

Benjamin Bartolome ’16, who has done two semesters of research for credit, said he disagrees with the protocol change.

While he acknowledged that some students may elect to do independent research for the “easy A,” he said it is the responsibility of principal investigators and lab mentors to give A’s only when warranted.

Psychology DUS Laurie Santos said in an email that she worries the changed policy will dissuade students from pursuing independent research before their senior year.

“I think [it] would be a shame, as independent research early in one’s academic career is really critical in the psychology major.

It’s useful for applying to graduate school, and even to just get senior projects underway in time to finish data collection,” she said.

But Computer Science DUS James Aspnes said he thinks the change will not affect his students that much, noting that the main point of independent research is to get research experience and not simply improve one’s GPA. Pratyusa Mukherjee ’16, who worked more than 40 hours per week in a lab the summer after her freshman year and received two letter grade credits, said she questions whether the faculty who made these decisions really understand how much work and effort students put into lab work and research. She added that the principal investigators and advisors are qualified to give what they think to be the correct letter grade.

Some STEM students interviewed expressed concerns that the new protocol does not differentiate between independent studies of varying intensity.

Last semester, Shah took an advanced language tutorial as an independent study course. She said she felt the P/F grading system was appropriate for the class because it only required an average of two hours of work a week. But her independent research, which takes up 10–15 hours a week, warrants more appreciation than a P/F grading system, she said.

She added that many science majors have lower GPAs, and the “easy A” effect provides them with a boost.

Fair emphasized that any department can petition the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing to give letter grades for independent study courses. He added that petitions are considered on a case-by-case basis, adding flexibility to the system.

The molecular biophysics and biochemistry major, which requires students to take up to two credits of independent research for letter grades, does not fit well with the new Yale College rules, said MB&B DUS Michael Koelle.

The department petitioned to allow students to begin independent research for letter grades prior to their senior year.

“While in many majors students might do independent research during their senior year as part of a senior project, the nature of our discipline is that independent research takes a long time, more than is available in the senior year, so it is best for our students to at least start their independent research prior to their senior year,” Koelle said in an email.

The Ad Hoc Committee on Grading was created by then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller and existed in the 2012–13 and 2013– 14 academic years but has since been dismantled.

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

Students and faculty have mixed feelings about the Pass/Fail grading system for independent research courses.

After controversial tenure, Brandeis president to join YLS BRANDEIS FROM PAGE 1 versial tenure as president — marked by free speech disputes in particular — Yale Law School administrators and faculty were enthusiastic about the decision.

“We are delighted that Fred Lawrence will be joining us next year,” Yale Law School Dean Robert Post said in an email to the News. “We expect that he will contribute greatly to the intellectual life of our school, and we hope to draw on his varied and rich experiences as a college president at Brandeis.”

In particular, Post hailed Lawrence as “one of the country’s foremost civil rights experts.” Before he took the helm of Brandeis in 2011, he was dean of the George Washington Law School. He was a faculty member at the Boston University School of Law for nearly two decades before that.

Un d e r h i s p re s i d e n cy, Brandeis saw an all-time high in applications, and grew its endowment to a new high-water mark. In his email to Brandeis students, Lawrence said the University had moved closer to balancing its budget during his time as president. Beyond his academic and administrative credentials, Lawrence is “also an extremely decent person,” said Yale Law School professor Stephen Wizner.

In spite of his achievements, Lawrence’s presidency was marked by controversy involving freedom of speech that gained national media attention, inspiring debates about religious criticism and the role of speech and debate in academic contexts.

In November 2013, Lawrence was involved in the Brandeis administration’s decision to suspend its formal academic

partnership with Al-Quds University after students at the East Jerusalem school used Nazistyle salutes in a demonstration.

Despite being mired in controversy, President Lawrence did a better job than most people give him credit for.

DON COHEN In 2014, Brandeis rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born activist known for her anti-Islamic views and commitment to women’s rights, to speak on campus and receive an honorary degree. The university said it had not been aware

of Hirsi Ali’s harsh denunciations of Islam and said it could not “overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.”

That same year, Lawrence became embroiled in controversy over the speech of his own faculty. In a statement in July 2014, he condemned “abhorrent” statements written by faculty on an online email forum that criticized U.S. foreign and domestic policy, including statements about supporters of Israel. A professor of Latin American politics, Donald Hindley, claimed to have resigned in protest of Lawrence’s response, which was met with widespread concerns about free speech.

Brandeis student David Altman said he felt conflicted about Lawrence’s announcement.

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agree with Lawrence’s stances, or the outcomes of his policies, he said that he ultimately has admiration and respect for the outgoing president. Dor Cohen, a junior and president of the Pre-Law Society and cohead of Brandeis Conservatives, said the criticism of Lawrence is unwarranted and exaggerated.

“Despite being mired in controversy, President Lawrence did a better job than most people give him credit for,” Cohen said.

Cohen said he thought Lawrence’s departure would have negative effects on the university, and that he hoped the next president would be hired “regardless of pressure or the desire to be politically correct.”

Seyla Benhabib GRD ’77, a political science and philosophy professor at Yale who received her B.A. from Brandeis, said she was saddened by the continu-

ing instability of leadership at Brandeis.

Until a new president is selected, the Brandeis Board of Trustees has appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Lisa Lynch as the university’s interim president.

Although Lawrence will be not be teaching any classes next year, as a senior research scholar he will be investigating biasmotivated violence.

Lawrence said in his letter to the Brandeis community that he and his wife see this move as a “homecoming,” adding that he met his wife while he was a student at Yale Law School and she was an undergraduate at Yale College.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“Forget about style; worry about results.” BOBBY ORR HALL OF FAME HOCKEY PLAYER

The hard-working Haddad HADDAD FROM PAGE 12

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Jamie Haddad ’16 holds multiple conditioning records for the women’s hockey program.

An analytical Allain ALLAIN FROM PAGE 12 national championship.

The Massachusetts native arrived on campus in 1976 and immediately assumed a dominant role in net for the Bulldogs. Under the direction of former head coach Tim Taylor, who also arrived in 1976, Allain and the rest of the team went from a squad that had finished 4–21 the previous year to a winning season in Allain’s junior year. As netminder, Allain recorded the fifth most career victories in Yale history with 31 and the fourth most career saves with 2,337.

As Allain noted, playing at Yale allowed him to learn from the coaching strategies employed during his four starting seasons with the Bulldogs.

“Playing at Yale was a tremendous learning experience for me,” Allain said. “For the first time in my hockey career I had a coaching staff that was analytical in their approach to the game.

Following his graduation, Allain headed to Sweden, where he briefly played professionally for two seasons. After a careerending shoulder injury, he spent a year in business before returning to the Bulldogs as an assistant coach to Taylor for three years.

Eventually, Allain headed back to Sweden to become the sole coach of the Jarfalla Hockey Club, a third-division team in Stockholm, where he led the squad for three years.

Around this time, Allain began working within the NHL, both as a scout and an assistant coach for the Washington Capitals. He also served briefly as a scout for the Nashville Predators before assuming the role of assistant coach for the St. Louis Blues in 1998. There, Allain was instrumental in leading the team’s netminders to one of their best seasons on record. In 1999–2000, the Blues goalie at the time, Roman Turek, let in just 165 goals throughout the season and was awarded the William M. Jennings trophy awarded to the NHL’s top goaltender.

Meanwhile, Allain also

lasted roughly a year, Haddad has been playing for 17 years. Her first team was in the local town league. At six, she transferred to a boy’s travel team. Once in middle school, she began playing for Assabet Valley, arguably the best women’s team for the age group, where she went on to win the US National championships in 2009 and 2012, also serving as captain in 2009. In high school, she played concurrently for Assabet Valley and her prep school, Deerfield Academy.

During her college search, she only visited Yale at her father’s request.

“I originally didn’t want to look here at all,” Haddad said.

“I wanted to go to Harvard, after playing so long in Concord [Mass., the home of Assabet].”

She changed her mind after spending the night with a former teammate and has been in love with the campus ever since.

Here at Yale, Haddad has been part of a major change in the women’s hockey program.

Two seasons ago, the team had just five wins. This year, they are likely to earn a spot in the ECAC playoffs. She attributes the turnaround to the hiring of

a new strength and conditioning coach, Emil Johnson, who got the team in better shape than ever before.

Despite being smaller than many of her teammates and having never lifted before coming to Yale, Haddad holds many of the team’s strength records.

In addition, a less complacent attitude from the upperclassmen has played a significant role in improving the program.

Now Haddad is one of those upperclassmen and she hopes to be a positive role model for younger players, although she remains humble about her accomplishments.

“Jamie contributes a lot in the locker room, making sure we stay focused and we know what we need to work on in the upcoming periods,” forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 said. “She is motivational and always works hard on and off the ice.”

Haddad said she makes a point of supporting her teammates, describing it as a way of showing her dedication.

“I’m willing to stick up for any of my teammates,” Haddad said.

“I’ve gotten a couple penalties from smashing people who have smashed my teammates.”

Her loyalty is recognized by

Allain holds a record of 172–106–29 in his nine seasons with the Elis. focused on an international career, working with Team USA in various capacities since 1990.

Allain served as head coach of the U.S. National Team in the World Junior Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2011, and as an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic teams in 1992 and 2006.

Allain explained that working with so many players across different teams has helped to bolster his sense of authority as a coach.

“Having the best players in the world trust that I could help them was a huge confidence builder,” Allain said. “There are very few college coaches that have had the opportunity to be behind the bench in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships and now the NCAA Championships.”

Forward Trent Ruffalo ’15 explained this experience has translated into a coach who pushes his players to achieve their best.

Through a mentality for growth and a long-term perspective, Allain pushes his players to success.

“He has a growth minded coaching style by continuously trying to make our team better each and every day,” Ruffalo said.

“He holds everyone accountable and … brings out the best in his players and makes all of us better as a result.”

In 2006, when Taylor declared he was retiring, Allain was not initially looking to get back into college hockey. Yet he had been following Yale hockey throughout his time in the professional world and was disappointed to see that the team was unable to achieve any real success. According to Allain, he was motivated to take the job primarily because he wanted to prove that Yale could compete with the best teams in the nation.

Athletics Director Tom Beckett said that Allain was the ideal choice for the position.

“His experience as a player and a coach of the game, at the highest level, [and] his understanding of Yale [made him the right leader],” Beckett said. “He did a spectacular job of letting the committee know exactly what he was working to build. His theme for that approach was to build a championship program, seek excellence and sustain it.”

As soon as Allain took over, he set to work transforming a team that in a few short years would be in the national spotlight.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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her teammates, who noted not just her statistical success, but also her work ethic.

“She is such a hard worker and always gives 100 percent in practice and games. Whether it is her relentless forecheck or her willingness to block shots, she never fails to contribute with a lot of energy which can swing the momentum of the game in our favor,” forward Hanna Åström ’16 said.

Haddad is grateful for the community that the team provides. Although she regrets that she misses out on so much of Yale because of her commitment to hockey, she said the friends and experiences are worth it.

Haddad still has one more season with the Bulldogs, but that is likely to be her last time playing competitive hockey. She is conscious of the injury risks and is excited to see where her potential career in law or finance takes her.

“I don’t want to play hockey [after graduation],” Haddad said.

“But I know that all of the things that it has taught me, like discipline and work ethic, I’ll have forever. I’ve been playing hockey so long it’s instinctive.”

as quickly as possible.”

Shklover concurred, adding that getting the job done quickly improved the team’s confidence by guaranteeing a point.

Winning the match in straight sets, Li said, was an especially good feeling because she and Shklover did not finish their match against Cornell. Li and Shklover came out of Ithaca determined to improve on their mistakes, according to Li, making the victory that much sweeter.

However, even with the early doubles victory, Yale’s other pairs were unable to close out their matches, giving FIU the match’s point for doubles play.

Yale’s singles players fared better than the doubles pairs. Finke won her singles match against FIU’s Nerma Caluk 6–2, 6–1, followed by Shklover’s 6–1, 6–3 victory.

But the Golden Panthers came back to tie the match, with FIU’s Carlotta Orlando notching her seventh consecutive singles victory with a 6–2, 6–2 win over Li. Despite the setback, the Elis responded, with Caroline Lynch ’17 and Sherry Li ’17 winning their respective singles matches.

Li’s victory secured Yale the match, as the No. 4 singles player notched the Bulldogs their fourth and final point, ending the match before captain Hanna Yu ’15 could finish her

game.

The team now gets 10 days off as it travels to Alabama to compete in the Blue-Gray Invitational in Montgomery on Feb. 19.

The Blue-Gray Invitational is a team favorite, according to Ree Ree Li, because the team gets to stay with host families and mingle with other teams. Often, the players see old friends from junior tennis there, she said.

But the team is looking beyond Alabama.

“I think [the Blue-Gray Invitational will] be another tournament with great competition,” Finke said. “Our main goal is the Ivies this season. We’re really embracing the competition because all the Ivies are really tough this year. We’ll just take it one match at a time.”

Li agreed, adding that she thinks the quality of Ivy League tennis has improved over the last few years, citing the efforts of the coaches and the recruitment process. Seven of the eight Ivy League schools are ranked by the ITA. “Ivy League tennis is not that different from [junior tennis],” Shklover said. “The [Ivy] programs have definitely gotten stronger.”

The team’s Ivy League season begins on April 3, when the Bulldogs travel to take on Penn.

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

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Yale’s victory against FIU came two days after playing Cornell and Brown over the weekend.

Sports fans, hibernate ONORATO FROM PAGE 12 watching our hometown teams dig their spikes into the thawed infield for the first time.

Instead, we have midseason NBA and NHL action to look forward to, along with the Cricket World Cup and Track Cycling World Championships thrown in for good measure.

There are endless NCAA basketball games, of which about 15 percent seem at all relevant or consequential.

Some headline-worthy sports news from just this week: Stephen Curry gets Little League star Mo’ne Davis’s autograph, a brawl breaks out at a high school basketball game, Mets pitcher Matt Harvey feels healthy and Brett Favre is “looking forward to” returning to Green Bay in 2015 for his induction into the Packers Hall of Fame.

It’s going to be a long month.

It’s hard to say how we might best use this time. Perhaps we should be brushing up on our

THE SUPER BOWL TO MARCH MADNESS IS THE LONGEST WAIT FOR SPORTS FANS.

college basketball in preparation for our bracket picks come March, or maybe it’s finally time to get around to reading Derek Jeter’s autobiography. Maybe it’s time to get back to those New Year’s resolutions we left behind somewhere between Jan. 1 and the NFC Championship Game.

I am certainly not the first to notice the darkness that February brings for sports fans, nor will I be the last. Others before me have suggested delaying the Super Bowl a few weeks. If I had

my choice, I would have college football extend its playoff to a full 64 teams and continue playing into early spring.

These suggestions are both extremely optimistic but utterly unrealistic. And of course, neither of them would give us what we all really want: for all sports to be in high gear at all times. For it always to be playoff time, for every strike to matter, for every field goal to have us on the edge of our seats, for every night to be filled with penalty shots and

overtimes and comebacks and upsets.

There might never be a way to reasonably fill the sports void that February brings, but perhaps we shouldn’t want to.

Maybe February is the absence we need to make our hearts grow fonder.

Personally, I can’t wait for March.

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

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 8:30 PM Yale Ballroom presents “Winter Ball.” Come fall in love with all four styles of ballroom dance. Free admission.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 3:30 PM Angles on Art, Thinking Outside the Frame. Come take a tour that promises to reevaluate the way we think about art “by abandoning our typical understanding of a work of art as confined to the boundaries of its frame.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG exposes Dutch art, one painting at a time

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER A recently established lecture series at the Yale University Art Gallery seeks to offer viewers an inside look at 17th century Dutch Art. The six-part series, entitled “A History of Dutch Paintings in Six Pictures,” began on Jan. 23 and consists of weekly lectures at the YUAG. Given by YUAG associate and former Director of Los Angeles’ Getty Museum John Walsh ’61, the series offers insight into the golden age of Dutch artistry by focusing on a single painting each week. For each painting, Walsh delves into the artistic, sociopolitical and intellectual history that surrounds the work. Walsh said the

YUAG currently houses roughly 30 famous Dutch and Flemish paintings that are on loan from the private Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo collection, which has spurred public enthusiasm in attending these lectures.

“Interest was stoked up quite a lot by the presence of these paintings in the gallery,” Walsh said.

The current lecture series is not Walsh’s first at the YUAG. In fall 2013, the gallery presented “Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines, and Narrative in Paintings at Yale,” a semesterlong series of 12 lectures given by Walsh.

The series focused on 11 paintings from the University’s collections, which represented a variety of historical, mythical and

religious scenes. The lectures also traced the evolution of historical scenic painting from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

According to Molleen Theodore, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman fellow in the Education Department at the YUAG, recalled a high level of audience interest in Walsh’s 2013 lectures.

Walsh added that the success of the series led him to consider the idea of returning to Yale to deliver a second set of lectures.

Walsh noted that for the current series, he is employing a strategy of highlighting a single important work of art and then branching out to discuss works from the same era with similar themes.

“This approach of going in depth into a single work of art is

very productive,” Walsh said.

The six works the lectures focus on include paintings of historical scenes, landscapes and portraits. Walsh said that in each painting, he examines the artists’ intentions and the stylistic evolution of the featured genres.

Interest was stoked up quite a lot by the presence of these paintings in the gallery.

JOHN WALSH ’61 Art historian He added that he aimed to dis-

cuss several famous paintings, as well as lesser-known works that viewers can see firsthand in the gallery.

Three of the six paintings are currently on display in the YUAG, and Walsh works with various YUAG guides to host “close-looking sessions” every Friday to offer viewers a tour of the paintings. According to Jessica Sacks, the Jan and Frederick Mayer senior associate curator of public education at the YUAG, the sessions help to clarify the way in which viewers understand and relate to the works. She noted that no matter how good a reproduced image is, there is a “striking difference” between a replica and an original work.

The first three lectures in the series saw audience members fill

the YUAG’s 381-person lecture hall.

Walsh noted he that he was surprised at the attention the lectures have received, adding that he had underestimated the public interest in Dutch art.

Judith Miller, an audience member at last Friday’s lecture, said that the lectures have taught her how to better understand a variety of paintings. She added that though she missed the first lecture, she plans to attend all of the others.

Walsh is Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and a former paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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

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YUAG associate and former Director of Los Angeles’ Getty Museum John Walsh ’61 is presenting a lecture series on golden age Dutch art.

Yale Cabaret celebrates gender diversity, drag culture

BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the Yale Cabaret’s upcoming production — its most unconventional show of the year — performers are preparing to step into new identities, and even new genders.

The “Yale School of Drag” opens Friday night at the Cab. The show has been staged for the past two years, with tickets already sold out for this year’s show. The production consists of a series of music, theater and dance performances, each of which will focus on broad themes taken from iconic works

in musical theater and Broadway classics. During the show, all performers and even the Cab’s wait staff will be dressed in drag clothing. Emily Catherine Zemba DRA ’15, one of the show’s four co-directors, said the show aims to promote tolerance of gender diversity in lively, light-hearted manner.

“I think it’s the celebration of identity in a lot of ways: identity as artists, as human, as people and sort of the explosion of gender identity. It’s really inspiring,” Zemba said.

James Cusati-Moyer DRA ’15, another co-director of the show, said he thinks that the

audience experience for this show is unlike that of other shows because it is more similar to a social event than a theater performance. Zemba said the extravagant costumes featured in the show tend to attract large audiences. Cusati-Moyer explained that some performers design and make their own costumes for the show. Zemba noted that in several cases, male performers seeking to wear high heels must purchase them because the shoe collection at the Yale School of Drama does not have shoes that fit them.

Ato Blankson-Wood DRA ’15, another co-director, said his

favorite aspect of the show is seeing artists try drag performance for the first time.

Kelly Kerwin DRA ’15 said the show is designed to feature 30 performers — more than any other Cab show this season — as well as complex set designs involving machinery, but noted that several elements are subject to change because the ensemble’s first and only dress rehearsal will not take place until Thursday night.

Cusati-Moyer said this year’s performance will take a “bigger, more glitter” approach than in previous years. Kerwin said that because the ensemble does

not rehearse as a group until the night before the show opens, she does not know exactly what the performances will look like on stage. She noted that she and the other co-directors do not personally direct each performance.

Cusati-Moyer said he thinks that the artistic freedom the show gives to its artists allows performers to take on roles that they would not play in a typical School of Drama production. For example, Kerwin said, a School of Drama student who is training to become a stage manager may be a performer in the “School of Drag.”

“One of my favorite things

about the show is witnessing already talented artists stepping out of their comfort zone and stepping into that place of freedom,” Cusati-Moyer said.

Zemba said the original idea for the show was conceived by Ethan Heard ’07 DRA ’13, a former artistic director of the Cab. Since Heard introduced the show Yale community to his creation three years ago, the drag show has become an tradition at the Cab, Zemba explained.

Performances of “Yale School of Drag” run through Feb. 13.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

Yale Opera to Perform Mozart Classic

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY AND GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTERS The Yale community seems never to grow tired of Mozart’s most famous love story.

Opening this Friday, the Yale Opera will perform “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Shubert Theater. Directed by Ted Huffman, with Dominique Trottein directing the accompanying music by Yale Philharmonia, the show is the first Yale Opera production of 2015. The upcoming production is the third time the Mozart opera has been performed at Yale within the past year.

Max Norman ’17, who participated in the Opera Theatre of Yale College’s production of the piece last April, said he is not surprised that “The Marriage of Figaro” is being produced again at Yale, given that it is a popular classic among contemporary audiences.

“First and foremost, it’s fantastic music, endlessly rich and dramatic,” Norman said. “The libretto itself also explores some interesting social and political themes, ranging from class dynamics to gender politics.”

Directed by Beau Gabriel ’14, the OTYC production of “The Marriage of Figaro” received critical acclaim, winning the

second national prize for opera productions in the university division for The American Prize in 2014, which recognizes and rewards groups that excel in the performing arts in the United

It’s fantastic music … the libretto itself also explores some interesting social and political themes.

MAX NORMAN ’17 States at both the community and professional levels.

Norman explained that the piece was nontraditional for a student company production because of its period-style performance, both in the instruments used and in the singing technique. Emma Clarkson ’17, who also played in the OTYC production’s orchestra, noted that the string players in the show played on gut strings and used baroque bows for the performance. “[Winning The American Prize] was a big honor for the cast and the company,” Norman said.

“We set a pretty high bar for ourselves, and we’re working hard to reach and even exceed it with this season’s production of ‘Hänsel

und Gretel.’”

Norman added that “The Marriage of Figaro” is a standard installation of a student opera company’s repertoire, noting that he thinks the work is a piece that every opera singer needs to be able to sing.

The Yale Opera also started its 2014-15 season last November with a performance of various selections from “The Marriage of Figaro.” The Fall Show featured all of the senior members of Yale Opera, according to Yale Opera Manager Erika Neimi.

Evanna Chiew MUS ’15, a vocalist in the fall performance of “The Marriage of Figaro,” noted that every member of the production

had more than one role to play in the show.

According to Norman, New Haven is surprisingly rich in opera productions for its size. In addition to the Yale Opera, the Yale Baroque Opera Project puts on a few annual productions, while the Iseman Met Opera Broadcast program offers an opportunity for Yale students to view livestreams of operas on Saturdays.

Performances of “The Marriage of Figaro” will run through Sunday.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu and GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above the common bound.”

MERCUTIO CHARACTER FROM SHAKESPEARE’S “ROMEO AND JULIET”

YSO gets romantic for Valentine’s Day

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER The Yale Symphony Orchestra will serenade audiences with pieces from one of history’s most iconic love stories this Saturday.

In its first-ever Valentine’s Day-themed concert, the YSO will perform four versions of the Shakespearean tale of “Romeo and Juliet,” each one written by a different composer. The concert’s program selections span over a hundred years — from 19th century France to 20th century New York — with works by Hector Berlioz, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Leonard Bernstein. YSO conductor Toshiyuki Shimada said the date of the concert had fallen on Valentine’s Day by chance, noting that he decided to give the concert a love-related theme after realizing that the two dates coincided.

“What I thought would be wonderful to represent is the feeling of love with music,” Shimada said.

The concert will open with Berlioz’s “Love Scene” from “Roméo et Juliette.” Although Berlioz’s complete work runs over an hour, Shimada said, the orchestra will perform only the famous balcony scene in which Romeo and Juliet first meet.

YSO members interviewed noted that while the original Shakespearean tale ends tragically, they are not performing any of the scenes involving death.

The group is instead focusing on the parts of the works that serve as the “most romantic parts of the play,” said principal cellist Sarah Swong ‘15.

Following the Berlioz work, the YSO will perform Tchaikovsky’s musical rendition of the play, which was the first piece to come to mind when Shimada envisioned the concert’s romantic theme. YSO flutist Eve Roth ‘16 said the piece stands out in capturing the “angst” element of the storyline by depicting the developing feud between the lovers’ families. The YSO will then finish the first half of the show with a performance of Act I, Scene II of Prokofiev’s ballet version of the play, which centers on Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting at the ball.

The second half of the concert will feature the “Symphonic

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In its first Valentine’s Day concert, the Yale Symphony Orchestra will explore the romance of Romeo and Juliet over the course of more than a century.

Dances” from “West Side Story,” a suite of orchestral music prepared from the musical. Shimada noted that he found the piece not only appropriate for the occasion, but also expected both audience and orchestra members to find it enjoyable. Swong echoed this sentiment, adding that although the audience may

find the piece’s melodies recognizable and catchy, there will be several “little surprises” in the performance that an orchestragoing audience may not normally expect. YSO president Field Rogers ’15 said many orchestra members had voiced interest in performing music from “West Side Story” last year as well.

Roth said the “Symphonic Dances” also challenges the orchestra with a style that is both jazzier and more rhythmic than what most of the string players are familiar with.

Orchestra members noted that the common theme of “love at first sight” was evident across all four of the featured pieces.

Swong added that she thinks the concert provides an opportunity to observe the connection between literature and music, as well as their influences on each other.

Shimada said the concert may be an ideal setting for a date with a loved one.

“It’s definitely possible that in

the middle of the balcony scene, you will look down from the second balcony and see someone looking up at you and realize that you have actually found love, just like the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene,” Roth said.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

‘Theatre of Death’ creator remembered at Yale

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER While most groups on campus prepare to bask in the romantic spirit of Valentine’s Day, enthusiasts of 20th-century European theater are celebrating the Theatre of Death.

From Feb. 6 to Feb. 13, several of Yale’s institutions are coming together to honor the life and work of Tadeusz Kantor, a Polish theater director. For

the centennial of Kantor’s birth in 1915, the Yale Theater Studies Program and the Yale School of Drama have partnered with the European Studies Council at Yale to present a series of events that explore Kantor’s legacy. As part of the celebration, the Theater Studies program is offering a production seminar this semester titled “Objects in Performance.” The centennial’s featured events include several screenings of Kantor’s plays,

which are accompanied by discussions with artists who collaborated with Kantor.

“The centennial of Tadeusz Kantor’s birth is both an auspicious moment and impetus to revisit and deepen our knowledge the artist’s work,” said Dominika Laster, who coteaches the course. “We hope that The Kantor Centennial at Yale will bring new audiences to this work, which remains as fresh and urgent as ever.”

The seminar, also taught by Nathan Roberts, focuses on Kantor’s work within the broader histories and theories of performing objects. Laster added that she thinks the centennial will offer a unique opportunity for participants to engage in Kantor’s art by directly working alongside experts of his plays.

Kantor rose to prominence during the Nazi occupation of Poland. While he is best known for his concept of the “Theatre of

Death,” Kantor is also famous for his synthesis of various media, having worked in set design, painting, directing, manifestos and assemblages. Tom Sellar, a professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama, described Kantor’s art as a combination of “time and memory, history, life and death in overlapping circles.”

The centennial celebration formally began last Friday with a screening of a Kantor play titled

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In honor of the centennial of the birth of Thomas Kantor, a Polish theater director, several events are taking place from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13.

“Wielopole, Wielopole,” which draws its name from his hometown. The screening was followed by a conversation with one of Kantor’s closest collaborators, Andrzej Wełminski, an artist of the Cricot 2 Theatre, which Kantor established. The events will continue this Friday with the screening of Kantor’s final production, titled “Today’s My Birthday.”

Sellar said he thinks that the discussions with experts on Kantor’s plays would allow attendees to understand the artist’s work in a fresh and unique way.

“This is an amazing opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the work of a genius,” he said. “It is also a chance to encounter his work not just by watching the video, but by talking to actors who were involved in the original plays and scholars who are able to explain the historical fabric and context of his plays.”

Laster highlighted the influence that the featured events will have on students in her seminar. The students are investigating Kantor’s work and using it as inspiration for the work they will create throughout the class, which will be performed at the end of the semester, she explained. The piece that the students devise, which opens at the Whitney Theater in April, will also be staged in New York City and in Kraków in May. Laster added that students have also held practical workshops on their work with Wełminski and Bogdan Renczyski. The interactions with the actors gave insight into Cricot 2 Theatre’s creative process and Kantor’s methodology, she noted.

The Cricot 2 Theatre was established in 1955.

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

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Haddad hustles, brings hope to Yale WOMEN’S HOCKEY

ing and ice skating all before the age of three, forming her into a natural athlete. As a young child, she tried several sports, including ballet and gymnastics, before deciding she wanted to skate — but it was not the kind of skating her mother had hoped for. Haddad, taking after her brother, wanted to play hockey.

While her brother’s hockey career SEE HADDAD PAGE 8

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Jamie Haddad ’16 leads the Bulldogs in points this season with nine goals and 13 assists for 22 points in 25 games.

Yale women’s hockey star forward Jamie Haddad ’16 leads the Bulldogs with her bullish work ethic.

Since starting her career as a Bulldog three years ago, she has accumulated numerous team honors, including leading the team in points her freshman year. Currently, she tops the roster in both goals and points, with nine

and 22, respectively. She also is one of only two players to complete a hat trick this season.

Haddad’s success on the ice, she said, comes from a competitive spirit developed by constantly challenging her older brother from a young age.

Before she turned three, her parents took her rollerskating, skiing and ice skating.

From early on, it was clear Haddad was a natural athlete. Before settling

on skating, she tried several sports, including ballet and gymnastics.

But when Haddad did settle on skating, it was not the kind her mother hoped for — taking after her brother, Haddad wanted to play hockey.

Haddad’s major hockey success at Yale comes from a competitive spirit she has had since she was young when she was constantly challenging her older brother. She remembers her parents taking her roller-skating, ski-

Success in spring home opener

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While flurries swirled outside the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, the Yale women’s tennis team ignored the snow and came away with an impressive victory in its first home meet of the spring season. The Bulldogs defeated visiting Florida International University in a 4–2 decision on Monday.

W. TENNIS The matchup came just two days after the team played for the

ECAC Division I title in Ithaca, N.Y. These back-to-back competitions mark the first of consecutive games this season, but according to the athletes, the team was ready.

“It was definitely tough, but we’ve been training hard,” Carol Finke ’18 said. “We put lots of emphasis on our fitness.

We were able to transition and come out strong [on Monday].

It’s important that we could rely on the training we’ve done the entire year.”

Yale is ranked No. 61 in NCAA Division I women’s tennis by the Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-

tion, as of Feb. 10. The team sits 18 spots behind Ivy League foe Columbia, the highest-ranked Ancient Eight team, and nine places ahead of Brown.

The day started out well for the Bulldogs when Ree Ree Li ’16 and Valerie Shklover ’18 pulled out the team’s first victory in dominant fashion, winning 6–0.

“With the doubles point, since we were all playing at the same time, we saw that the two other teams were having close matches,” Li said. “Our biggest goal was to finish out and finish SEE W. TENNIS PAGE 8

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Yale defeated FIU based largely on its 4–1 record in singles play.

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February, 27 days too long We have officially entered the worst month of the year.

February isn’t just the worst because it seems to snow every single day — although that’s not helping its case any. Despite being the shortest month of the calendar year, February is by far the longest and darkest for any sports fan.

The Super Bowl has come and passed, and with it has gone our lazy Sundays and fantasy rivalries. Baseball still feels like a tiny light at the end of a long, frozen tunnel. We are approaching March Madness, but it still feels like it cannot come fast enough.

Indeed, if sports fans could hibernate, it would almost certainly be for the month of February.

Gone are the days of listening to clips of Marshawn Lynch repeat himself over and over on SportsCenter, contemplating expert scientific testimony on football deflation patterns and actually having a reason to look forward to Monday night.

And we are still a bit too far from the days of endlessly mocking friends’ March Madness bracket miscues or

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Allain leads analytically, by experience

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Keith Allain ’80 brought the men’s hockey team from the bottom of the ECAC to the top of the nation in just a few years.

M. HOCKEY At the start of the 2006–07 season, the team was coming off of a year in which they finished 12th in the ECAC and sixth in the Ivy League. Yet that year marked a turning point in the Bulldogs’ long and storied history, as a newly hired head coach led the team to first place in the Ivy League that season. Three years later, the team was first atop both the Ivy League and the ECAC. And just four years after that, the Elis were national champions.

The revitalization of the oldest collegiate hockey team in the United States can be traced to one man — Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach Keith Allain. Since his arrival, Allain holds a record of 172–106–29 and has coached the team to four NCAA tournament appearances. From his days as a starting goalie for Yale’s squad himself to his time coaching both NHL and international players, Allain has developed an immense wealth of experience to draw upon as he tries to lead the Bulldogs back to another SEE ALLAIN PAGE 8

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Keith Allain ’80 has coached in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships and the NCAA Championships.

THE NUMBER OF TIMES KEITH ALLAIN ’80 HAS LED THE BULLDOGS TO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT SINCE HIS START AS HEAD COACH IN 2006. Allain and the Elis have won one national championship in that time — in Pittsburgh in 2013.