THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY · FOUNDED 1878 CROSS CAMPUS INSIDE THE NEWS MORE ONLINE cc.yaledailynews.com y MORNING SUNNY 28 EVENING SUNNY 32 MEN’S HOCKEY Elis defeat Princeton before falling 6-2 to Quinnipiac on Saturday PAGE 12 SPORTS O’NEILL PROGRAM YALIES SUPPORT PLAYWRITING OF CO-OP STUDENTS PAGE 3 CULTURE SHARE Center doubles sta, relocates to larger oce to expand outreach PAGE 3 SPORTS SNOWY CAMPUS GROUNDHOG EYES SHORTER WINTER PAGE 10 THROUGH THE LENS Super Bowl Solidarity. Twenty-six students from Sandy Hook Elementary School sang “America the Beautiful” during yesterday’s Super Bowl XLVII, marking a touching tribute to the 26 students and faculty members who were killed during the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The students were joined midway through their performance by Grammy Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson. Speaking of the Super Bowl, New Haven’s very own Union Station made a guest appearance last night when it was featured in a local Super Bowl commercial for the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. In the commercial, young singers from the Fairfield County Children’s Choir sang BoDeans’ “Closer to Free” as they participated in a flash mob held in the train station. Over the weekend, the Yale College Council appointed Andrea Villena ’15 as the new YCC secretary. Villena, who will replace former YCC Secretary Leandro Leviste ’15, said she hopes to carve out a “more comprehensive image of YCC publicity” and keep better track of the YCC’s communication with the student body. They are the 1 percent. More than half of the 125 students implicated in Harvard’s cheating scandal were asked to withdraw temporarily from the university, Harvard administrators announced on Friday. The decision marked an end to the monthslong investigation that began after nearly half of the 279 students in Government 1310 “Introduction to Congress” were accused of collaboration on their take-home final exam last year. Play it safe. Three New Haven restaurants — Great Wall, Dee Asian Kitchen and Sahara Middle Eastern Cuisine — failed the city’s most recent round of health inspections, according to the New Haven Independent. Restaurants are ranked on a scale from 1 to 100 and need to receive at least an 80 to pass their inspection. Budget issues. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is expected to unveil his budget plan on Wednesday, which will detail how he hopes to deal with a projected budget deficit of nearly $2 billion over the next two years. Malloy has said that his plan will not involve any new taxes. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1994 Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 creates the Committee on Math Instruction to examine teaching and curricular issues with the University’s introductory math courses and how well they prepare students for quantitative or scientific majors. Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected]NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 81 · yaledailynews.com Ross ’13 enters probation program BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER Nearly 14 months after the fatal U-Haul crash at the 2011 Yale-Harvard tailgate, Brendan Ross ’13 has agreed to enter a probationary program that will allow him to maintain a clean record. At a Feb. 1 hearing in New Haven Superior Court, Ross was granted accelerated rehabilita- tion, a program that oers first- time oenders a path to a clean record upon completion of pro- bation without violation. Under the plea deal, his charges have been revised to reckless driv- ing and reckless endangerment. Ross had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving — charges that would have precluded him from participating in the proba- tionary program. Ross was driving a U-Haul into the tailgate area before the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 19, 2011, when the vehicle accelerated and swerved into the Yale Bowl’s D-Lot around 9:39 a.m., killing 30-year-old Nancy Barry and injuring Sarah Short SOM ’13 and Harvard employee Elizabeth Dernbach. As part of the resolution, the 22-year-old will have to complete a total of 400 hours of community ser- vice at a location “that seems acceptable to the state’s attor- ney office,” Ross’ lawyer Wil- liam F. Dow III ’63 said. Dow told the News that he and Ross are “happy about the resolution,” which he said was reached in agreement with Bar- ry’s family and the two other women involved in the crash. “Brendan Ross is an out- standing young man who was involved in a tragic accident,” Dow said in a statement last Friday. “He will emerge from this without a criminal record, but the memory of that trag- edy remains. Brendan and his family have extended their con- dolences to Ms. Barry’s fam- ily when the accident occurred. Ms. Barry remains in their prayers.” Barry was transported to Holder-Winfield joins mayoral race BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Two months after setting up an exploratory committee to consider a potential mayoral run, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield filed campaign papers with the city clerk Friday morning to formalize his bid for the mayor’s oce. His candidacy now official, Holder-Winfield joins Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Sundiata Keita- zulu, a plumber and New Haven resident, in the race to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who announced last week that he will not seek an 11th term in oce. That field of candidates is expected to widen in the wake of DeStefano’s announcement, as a number of prominent Elm City residents and city officials are considering a run. Holder-Winfield said he is running for mayor to help New Haven realize its full potential. “I see a city that has a lot of good things in it, but also a city where, for a long time, not every- one has been able to partici- pate because of failing schools, poverty and violence,” he said. “I want to fix the issues in New Haven so that everyone can have a chance. New Haven has the potential to be the greatest city in Connecticut.” Education, economic revital- ization and a lower crime rate will form the centerpiece of his plat- form, Holder-Winfield added. In advance of his ocial cam- paign kickoff party this Satur- day, Holder-Winfield said he is working to build his sta, includ- ing hiring a campaign treasurer and spokesperson. Like Elicker, Holder-Winfield said his cam- paign will rely on public cam- paign financing, limiting the total amount of money that Holder- Winfield can fundraise to run for mayor. Holder-Winfield represents Connecticut’s 94th Assembly District, which comprises por- tions of New Haven and Ham- den. He said his experience as a legislator and community activ- ist has prepared him to be mayor. “People have asked the ques- tion about me, ‘Have you ever run anything?’” he said. “The answer is yes — I was chief electrical adviser for an engineering com- pany called Alstom from 2000 to 2003 and controlled that whole sector of the project.” Before working for Alstom, Holder-Winfield served in the military, working as a nuclear electrician based in Virginia. In 2003, he went back to school, studying political science at Southern Connecticut State University. After starting a com- pany called Quest Educational Initiative in 2004 and becoming involved in community activ- ism, he ran for the state House in 2008, where he led the eort BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Full of nervous anticipation, nearly 30,000 high school stu- dents sat down in front of their computers this year to submit applications to Yale’s class of 2017. A decade ago, students wrote out college applications by hand and mailed them around the country — but in today’s world, the admissions process has become almost fully dig- itized, and student engage- ment with technology is at an all-time high. Aware that some high school students may inter- act exclusively online with uni- versities during their college searches, Yale’s Oce of Under- graduate Admissions expanded onto various social media plat- forms last year and has main- tained a strong online presence ever since. “It’s really uncharted terri- tory,” said Mark Dunn ’07, direc- tor of outreach and recruit- ment for the Admissions Oce. “Social media is new for all who have been involved. There’s continual overhaul and change.” The Admissions Oce cur- rently runs its own Facebook page, Twitter account and Tumblr blog in addition to its official Yale website, offering formal admissions advice but also posting quirky insights into life at Yale. Compared to admis- sions oces at peer institutions such as Harvard and Princeton who do not have other outlets outside of their ocial univer- sity websites, the level of con- tact between the Yale Admis- sions Office and prospective students is unusually high. “I think the online presence of a school definitely reflects what kind of school it is,” said M.J. Engel, a high school senior at Phillips Academy Andover who applied to Yale this year. “And really, just the fact that Yale was willing to venture into the social media outlets said a lot about it — that it was adapt- able to change and adaptable to new technology.” With the Admissions Oce’s recent push toward social media, Yale has overtaken its peers in reaching out to pro- spective students via the Inter- net. But as front-runners in a still-new field, admissions o- cers are still looking into the best way to increase potential student interest and connect with their intended audience. UNIQUE AMONG PEERS For an office already look- ADMISSIONS Exploring social media ACIR considers divestment BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER With students at 234 colleges now urging their universities to stop investing endowment funds in the fossil fuel industry, members of the Advisory Com- mittee on Investor Responsi- bility said Thursday they would “investigate” divestment as a possible path for the Yale Investments Oce. At ACIR’s annual open meet- ing last Thursday at the Law School, four Yale students delivered a 45-minute presen- tation on the harms of carbon emissions and reasons that the University should not profit from the use of fossil fuels. The students — members of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, the Yale chapter of the Roosevelt Institute and the Yale Environmental Law Asso- ciation — began to draft the fos- sil fuel divestment report last semester and hope to work with administrators to determine the best way forward. Following the presenta- tion, members of the the ACIR — a committee responsible for making recommendations to the Yale Corporation to ensure the University’s endowment assets are invested ethically — said they would be willing to work with the students this semester to explore the issues raised in the report. “I think the verdict was that there’s not a verdict yet,” said Abigail Carney ’15, one of the presenters from the Roosevelt SEE RESOLUTION PAGE 4 SEE CANDIDATE PAGE 4 SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 5 SEE ACIR PAGE 5 RAVENS DEFEAT 49ERS, 34-31 ASSOCIATED PRESS RAY LEWIS ENDS CAREER ON A HIGH NOTE The Baltimore Ravens overcame a second-half surge by the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Beyoncé’s stunning halftime performance seemed to overpower the Super- dome; a blackout of roughly 30 minutes followed the show. CHION WOLF/CONNECTICUT HOUSE DEMOCRATS Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield ocially declared on Fri- day that he will be running to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr.
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MORNING SUNNY 28 EVENING SUNNY 32
MEN’S HOCKEYElis defeat Princeton before falling 6-2 to Quinnipiac on SaturdayPAGE 12 SPORTS
O’NEILL PROGRAMYALIES SUPPORT PLAYWRITING OFCO-OP STUDENTSPAGE 3 CULTURE
SHARECenter doubles sta!, relocates to larger o"ce to expand outreachPAGE 3 SPORTS
SNOWY CAMPUSGROUNDHOG EYES SHORTER WINTERPAGE 10 THROUGH THE LENS
Super Bowl Solidarity. Twenty-six students from Sandy Hook Elementary School sang “America the Beautiful” during yesterday’s Super Bowl XLVII, marking a touching tribute to the 26 students and faculty members who were killed during the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. The students were joined midway through their performance by Grammy Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, New Haven’s very own Union Station made a guest appearance last night when it was featured in a local Super Bowl commercial for the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. In the commercial, young singers from the Fairfield County Children’s Choir sang BoDeans’ “Closer to Free” as they participated in a flash mob held in the train station.
Over the weekend, the Yale College Council appointed Andrea Villena ’15 as the new YCC secretary. Villena, who will replace former YCC Secretary Leandro Leviste ’15, said she hopes to carve out a “more comprehensive image of YCC publicity” and keep better track of the YCC’s communication with the student body.
They are the 1 percent. More than half of the 125 students implicated in Harvard’s cheating scandal were asked to withdraw temporarily from the university, Harvard administrators announced on Friday. The decision marked an end to the monthslong investigation that began after nearly half of the 279 students in Government 1310 “Introduction to Congress” were accused of collaboration on their take-home final exam last year.
Play it safe. Three New Haven restaurants — Great Wall, Dee Asian Kitchen and Sahara Middle Eastern Cuisine — failed the city’s most recent round of health inspections, according to the New Haven Independent. Restaurants are ranked on a scale from 1 to 100 and need to receive at least an 80 to pass their inspection.
Budget issues. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is expected to unveil his budget plan on Wednesday, which will detail how he hopes to deal with a projected budget deficit of nearly $2 billion over the next two years. Malloy has said that his plan will not involve any new taxes.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1994 Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 creates the Committee on Math Instruction to examine teaching and curricular issues with the University’s introductory math courses and how well they prepare students for quantitative or scientific majors.
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 81 · yaledailynews.com
Ross ’13 enters probation program
BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER
Nearly 14 months after the fatal U-Haul crash at the 2011 Yale-Harvard tailgate, Brendan Ross ’13 has agreed to enter a probationary program that will allow him to maintain a clean record.
At a Feb. 1 hearing in New Haven Superior Court, Ross was granted accelerated rehabilita-tion, a program that o!ers first-time o!enders a path to a clean record upon completion of pro-bation without violation. Under the plea deal, his charges have been revised to reckless driv-ing and reckless endangerment. Ross had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of negligent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving — charges that would have precluded him from participating in the proba-tionary program.
Ross was driving a U-Haul into the tailgate area before the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 19, 2011, when the vehicle accelerated and swerved into the Yale Bowl’s D-Lot around 9:39
a.m., killing 30-year-old Nancy Barry and injuring Sarah Short SOM ’13 and Harvard employee Elizabeth Dernbach. As part of the resolution, the 22-year-old will have to complete a total of 400 hours of community ser-vice at a location “that seems acceptable to the state’s attor-ney office,” Ross’ lawyer Wil-liam F. Dow III ’63 said.
Dow told the News that he and Ross are “happy about the resolution,” which he said was reached in agreement with Bar-ry’s family and the two other women involved in the crash.
“Brendan Ross is an out-standing young man who was involved in a tragic accident,” Dow said in a statement last Friday. “He will emerge from this without a criminal record, but the memory of that trag-edy remains. Brendan and his family have extended their con-dolences to Ms. Barry’s fam-ily when the accident occurred. Ms. Barry remains in their prayers.”
Barry was transported to
Holder-Winfield joins mayoral raceBY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER
STAFF REPORTER
Two months after setting up an exploratory committee to consider a potential mayoral run, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield filed campaign papers with the city clerk Friday morning to formalize his bid for the mayor’s o"ce.
His candidacy now official, Holder-Winfield joins Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Sundiata Keita-zulu, a plumber and New Haven resident, in the race to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who announced last week that he will not seek an 11th term in o"ce. That field of candidates is expected to widen in the wake of DeStefano’s announcement, as a number of prominent Elm City residents and city officials are considering a run.
Holder-Winfield said he is running for mayor to help New Haven realize its full potential.
“I see a city that has a lot of good things in it, but also a city where, for a long time, not every-one has been able to partici-pate because of failing schools, poverty and violence,” he said. “I want to fix the issues in New Haven so that everyone can have a chance. New Haven has the potential to be the greatest city in Connecticut.”
Education, economic revital-ization and a lower crime rate will form the centerpiece of his plat-form, Holder-Winfield added.
In advance of his o"cial cam-paign kickoff party this Satur-day, Holder-Winfield said he is working to build his sta!, includ-ing hiring a campaign treasurer and spokesperson. Like Elicker, Holder-Winfield said his cam-paign will rely on public cam-
paign financing, limiting the total amount of money that Holder-Winfield can fundraise to run for mayor.
Holder-Winfield represents Connecticut’s 94th Assembly District, which comprises por-tions of New Haven and Ham-den. He said his experience as a legislator and community activ-ist has prepared him to be mayor.
“People have asked the ques-tion about me, ‘Have you ever run anything?’” he said. “The answer is yes — I was chief electrical adviser for an engineering com-pany called Alstom from 2000 to 2003 and controlled that whole sector of the project.”
Before working for Alstom, Holder-Winfield served in the military, working as a nuclear electrician based in Virginia. In 2003, he went back to school, studying political science at Southern Connecticut State
University. After starting a com-pany called Quest Educational Initiative in 2004 and becoming involved in community activ-
ism, he ran for the state House in 2008, where he led the e!ort
BY AMY WANGSTAFF REPORTER
Full of nervous anticipation, nearly 30,000 high school stu-dents sat down in front of their computers this year to submit applications to Yale’s class of 2017.
A decade ago, students wrote out college applications by hand and mailed them around the country — but in today’s world, the admissions process has become almost fully dig-itized, and student engage-ment with technology is at an all-time high. Aware that some high school students may inter-act exclusively online with uni-versities during their college searches, Yale’s O"ce of Under-graduate Admissions expanded onto various social media plat-forms last year and has main-tained a strong online presence
ever since.“It’s really uncharted terri-
tory,” said Mark Dunn ’07, direc-tor of outreach and recruit-ment for the Admissions O"ce. “Social media is new for all who have been involved. There’s continual overhaul and change.”
The Admissions O"ce cur-rently runs its own Facebook page, Twitter account and Tumblr blog in addition to its official Yale website, offering formal admissions advice but also posting quirky insights into life at Yale. Compared to admis-sions o"ces at peer institutions such as Harvard and Princeton who do not have other outlets outside of their o"cial univer-sity websites, the level of con-tact between the Yale Admis-sions Office and prospective students is unusually high.
“I think the online presence of a school definitely reflects
what kind of school it is,” said M.J. Engel, a high school senior at Phillips Academy Andover who applied to Yale this year. “And really, just the fact that Yale was willing to venture into the social media outlets said a lot about it — that it was adapt-able to change and adaptable to new technology.”
With the Admissions O"ce’s recent push toward social media, Yale has overtaken its peers in reaching out to pro-spective students via the Inter-net. But as front-runners in a still-new field, admissions o"-cers are still looking into the best way to increase potential student interest and connect with their intended audience.
UNIQUE AMONG PEERSFor an office already look-
A D M I S S I O N S
Exploring social media ACIR considers divestment
BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTER
With students at 234 colleges now urging their universities to stop investing endowment funds in the fossil fuel industry, members of the Advisory Com-mittee on Investor Responsi-bility said Thursday they would “investigate” divestment as a possible path for the Yale Investments O"ce.
At ACIR’s annual open meet-ing last Thursday at the Law School, four Yale students delivered a 45-minute presen-tation on the harms of carbon emissions and reasons that the University should not profit from the use of fossil fuels. The students — members of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, the Yale chapter of
the Roosevelt Institute and the Yale Environmental Law Asso-ciation — began to draft the fos-sil fuel divestment report last semester and hope to work with administrators to determine the best way forward.
Following the presenta-tion, members of the the ACIR — a committee responsible for making recommendations to the Yale Corporation to ensure the University’s endowment assets are invested ethically — said they would be willing to work with the students this semester to explore the issues raised in the report.
“I think the verdict was that there’s not a verdict yet,” said Abigail Carney ’15, one of the presenters from the Roosevelt
SEE RESOLUTION PAGE 4
SEE CANDIDATE PAGE 4
SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 5 SEE ACIR PAGE 5
RAVENS DEFEAT 49ERS, 34-31
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RAY LEWIS ENDS CAREER ON A HIGH NOTE The Baltimore Ravens overcame a second-half surge by the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Beyoncé’s stunning halftime performance seemed to overpower the Super-dome; a blackout of roughly 30 minutes followed the show.
CHION WOLF/CONNECTICUT HOUSE DEMOCRATS
Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield o!cially declared on Fri-day that he will be running to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr.
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The relationship be-tween Yale and New Haven requires a special respon-sibility for the University president. Not only must he be a leader on our own cam-pus, but he must be a leader in our city. Few universities have such an inextricable relationship with the city they call home.
When Mayor John DeSte-fano Jr. steps down from o!ce next January, it will be incumbent on President Sa-lovey to establish a healthy relationship with the new mayor. But no matter how many mayors come and go during Salovey’s tenure, we hope to see him focus on the city itself and, given his limited time and resources, concentrate his e"orts in areas where Yale can make a tangible di"erence.
The current relationship between Yale and New Ha-ven is far from guaranteed. Just over two decades ago, the University president did not even live full time in New Haven. The inter-ests of the University were frequently considered at odds with those of the city. The mentality many at Yale have developed since — that what is good for New Haven is often good for Yale — is something that a Salovey administration must a!rm in its decision-making.
Similarly, Yale may not always experience the favorable political arrange-ment it has seen. In coming elections, Yale may find a mayor or Board of Aldermen less receptive to the Uni-versity’s agenda. We hope Salovey will be ready to negotiate and navigate these challenges.
We can thank President Levin for his e"orts to build our current relationship, and we hope Salovey can continue this progress. Yet merely continuing Levin’s policies would not be enough to ensure a success-ful relationship, either.
Levin’s commitment to New Haven Promise is laudable, but in the com-
ing years, the program will need to be strenuously re-evaluated to ensure it consistently achieves results that fulfill Yale’s in-vestment. In turn, ensuring the program’s success can help promote New Haven’s emerging high-tech, post-manufacturing economy.
Yale’s physical presence in New Haven must also be evaluated. The Levin administration engaged in an aggressive plan to purchase property around campus and renovate busi-ness space. The revival of Broadway and the ongoing growth of Chapel Street are testaments to this program’s success. We hope to see Salovey develop a cohe-sive plan with University Properties that can revive economically depressed areas while simultaneously combating the challenges of gentrification.
Some reforms must occur closer to campus. A strengthened and sup-ported Dwight Hall should serve as a conduit between service-minded under-graduates and meaningful work in the city. President Salovey will need to define and exemplify a culture of service that translates into plentiful and institutional-ized service opportunities in New Haven.
Beyond addressing specific policy platforms, we hope that Salovey will, when appropriate, serve as an active voice in New Haven. The Elm City has in-creasingly found itself at the center of heated national debates — the role of a!r-mative action and diversity, the future of immigration reform — on topics that find parallels in campus life. As debate ensues on a national stage, we hope Salovey can take a stand for the Univer-sity’s values in New Haven.
With active and prin-cipled leadership, Salovey can build upon Levin’s successes to ensure greater prosperity for both Yale and New Haven.
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Leading on campus and in New Haven
Ed Koch died last week. He will be buried today.
A former New York mayor who revitalized America’s greatest city, Koch was a larger-than-life personality. He had a signature catch phrase, “How am I doing?” and he was often blunt and undiplomatic. Two years ago, at a master’s tea in Jonathan Edwards, Koch called a student “stupid” without batting an eye.
An outpouring of emotion and media attention surrounds Koch’s death. In a way, when the nation mourns Koch, we mourn a type of politics that revolved not around parties but around charismatic leaders who captivated our imag-ination and loyalty.
The historian Warren Sus-man famously argued that Amer-ica’s fascination with personali-ties emerged in the 20th century. We evolved from a 19th century culture defined by honor, integ-rity and reputation into a mod-ern society intent on fame and uniqueness. Starting in the 1900s, we elected some distinc-tive personalities: Gun-toting, lion-killing Teddy Roosevelt; FDR, JFK and LBJ — each with his own three-letter acronym; Ron-ald Reagan, the epitome of polit-ical stardom. Ed Koch was such a
20th century personality, if there ever was one.
In the past few years it seems our nation has moved away from the poli-tics of person-ality. Our lead-ers blend into a mirage of dark
suits, solid ties and flag pins — all seemingly identical in fashion and habits. Only failed politicians stand out for their quirks: Sarah Palin, hunting wolves by helicop-ter in Alaska; Herman Cain, the godfather of pizza; Howard Dean and his infamous yell. The suc-cessful candidate shuns personal-ity. President Obama is academic, clinical and straight-laced. Joe Biden, with all his F-bombs, might be the one exception to this rule — and the administration has tried to keep his expletives out of public view.
In the place of personality, 21st century leaders rely on ideol-ogy to define themselves. Their political a!liation becomes their identity. Without signatures of their own, politicians compete
to become more dogmatic, more of an ideologue to di"erentiate their names from the herd. As a result, a Congress that needs to seek pragmatism and compro-mise on so many issues — gun control, debt and entitlements to name just three — instead divides itself into two political extremes. And the American people follow that divide, splinting into equally extreme camps in order to define their own identities.
In contrast, the 20th century Ed Koch famously knew com-promise. Because he possessed his own personality distinct from politics, Koch never needed his party’s stamp of approval. He broke ranks with fellow Demo-crats to endorse Republicans, like President George W. Bush in 2004. Today, many commenta-tors remember Koch for his intel-lectual humility — he was not afraid to admit when his poli-
cies failed and co-opt ideas from across the aisle. Koch was his own man who thought freely, precisely because he was more than a col-lection of political dogmas. He embodied a world without ideo-logical litmus tests.
Koch’s death generates nostal-gia for the old age of personality. While Americans know the 20th century had its elements of politi-cal extremism too (e.g. the ’60s), we can’t help but feel today’s gridlock is worse. There has to be some truth in the almost universal sense that the modern moment is uniquely and shrilly partisan.
So, in our leaders, we want to see those quirks and whimsical mannerisms that make someone a real person, not just a party hack. America wants those little a"ec-tations like Harry Truman’s hat or John F. Kennedy’s thick Bos-ton accent. We desire politicians who have their own identity, not merely those who regurgitate a fixed ideology. The folks in Wash-ington should take note.
Rest in peace, Mayor Koch. And may future statesmen chan-nel your personality.
NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at
Last Wednesday marked the start of the 2013 Senior Class Gift campaign, an
annual three-week opportunity for members of the senior class to give back to Yale. As one of four co-chairs for the campaign, I want to explain why I hope you join me in donating to the Uni-versity. I also want to address some of the concerns I’ve heard about the class gift.
When you talk with recent alums, they often remind you to appreciate your time at Yale — how your environment will never be the same again after. In these conversations, I always respond, out of habit: “Oh, of course, how could I not be appreciating it?” In truth, I usually get so caught up in the day to day that I take Yale for granted. Despite what I tell those alums, I don’t appre-ciate the experience. I think it’s normal.
But in my eighth and final semester at Yale, I’ve realized how much I should have actively treasured my time here. Many things at Yale seem common-place, but simply do not exist in
the outside world. I realize next year I won’t live somewhere where the guaranteed mini-mum wage is $12. Nor will I be able to walk less than a block — surrounded by beautiful Gothic architecture, no less — to see a Van Gogh. Next year, no one will be planning a study break for me during the most stressful time of the year. Nor will anyone fund my personal librarian and sum-mer internships.
This does not mean my Yale experience was perfect — far from it. There were times of stress, and moments when I felt frustrated. I’m sure that each of us could come up with a list of things we might want to change about this place. For me, the Senior Class Gift is not an endorsement of every choice
that Yale has made. But a dona-tion can serve as part of the financial aid package that gives a student who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend Yale the oppor-tunity to do so.
The Senior Class Gift is a donation to the University’s unrestricted funding — money that goes toward immediate spending needs. We by no means expect huge monetary dona-tions, and we hope to focus on the reflection behind the gift more than the amount given. This year, students will no lon-ger have the ease of using bursar for their donation, and they also must make a minimum dona-tion of $5 rather than $1. Dona-tions can be given to a general giving fund or one of five specific subcategories, including finan-cial aid, facilities and library resources.
We do not want this to be a campaign that thoughtlessly nags seniors to donate for the sake of reaching a quota. We do not want this to be a campaign in which students feel undue pressure to give. Fundamentally,
both of these tones go against the meaning and mission of the Senior Class Gift. As a result, we have structured our campaign so as to avoid emphasizing compe-tition or berating of those who have personal reasons for not giving. We hope the Senior Class Gift will be one way we reflect the sincere gratitude of our class toward the details that made our Yale experience just that: the Yale experience.
Each of our individual Yale experiences has been radically changed by the generosity of past generations of students. They are the reason we have state-of-the-art labs and libraries, and why someone’s means do not determine whether they could attend Yale. In just one month, the class of 2017 will be on cam-pus for Bulldog Days. I hope you choose to join me in recognizing the importance of giving back for their benefit and saying “thanks” for all that we’ve received.
KATIE DONLEY is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at
There are times when it is very easy not to trust your decision-making ability.
The top of my list: mornings like last Saturday, when I woke up to the painful realization that, the night before, I’d had one too many Gourmet Heaven sand-wiches.
I began that morning in the throes of a fairly familiar exis-tential crisis — the kind where I can’t look at my texts (some-times not even my phone), and where the decision between brunch in a dining hall or break-fast at Blue State seems unbear-ably immense. Instead of choos-ing, I decided to lie on my com-mon room futon, scavenge from an old supply of trail mix and try out this whole Tivli business — that’s where I found the ground-hog.
Punxsutawney Phil, at least according to the primarily Ger-man residents of southern Pennsylvania, can predict the future. Every Feb. 2, he emerges from his space-heated den, sur-veys the people around him and, depending on whether or not the sky is overcast, sees his shadow. If he does, winter con-tinues for six more weeks. If not, spring comes early.
Having no meteorologi-cal skill of my own, I cared very much about the advice of a small
woodland creature. (I blame Disney.) Phil did not see his shadow and I trusted him — I spent the next couple of minutes browsing for new pairs of Chub-bies and boat shoes.
The sort of experience I had Saturday morning is symptom-atic of the sophomore slump, a decision-making paralysis where I question the worth of my work (check), spend hours mulling over my numerous flaws (check), and revert to nostalgia as a coping mechanism (check plus).
I’m told that these flaws, given enough time, will develop into a “Lost in Translation”-level of ennui: the Quarter Life Crisis. Around 25, I’ll drop out of a highly lucrative consulting career to find myself. This, sup-posedly, leads to me touring the world searching for meaning. By 27, I’m supposed to either be teaching English in a remote Thai village or running a failing, George Eliot-themed s’mores shop (“Middlemarsh”).
The key word in all of this is “failing.” According to our own mythology, 20-somethings aren’t supposed to be good at things, and we’re supposed to hate the few skills we do have. The careers we start won’t be our last. And, unless we find “the one” early, the next 10 years
of dating will probably record more one-o"s and false-starts than successes.
And so, we slump. We spend the morning watching rodents on TV, avoiding confrontation, other people and, more accu-rately, reality. In college, this feat becomes even easier — what more does a good downward spiral need than central heating and a meal plan?
But I have problems with the idea that we should be calling this experience a “crisis.” “Cri-sis” implies that something has gone wrong. Struggling to eat, being denied the protection of the law, serious medical issues — those are crises. Wonder-ing whether or not your life will have meaning? That’s just being a person.
Pretending that this kind of doubt will only come in the future minimizes the reality of the doubts we have now. Peo-ple seem willing to say that they are taking a class with a pro-fessor they despise or doing an extracurricular they can’t stand because, in five years or so, they will hit the eject button and leave it all behind. That’s what happens in sit-coms.
And what is minor college comfort compared to the big event? What is a dull Satur-day morning compared to the
inevitable (according to this way of thinking) grand collapse of being 25, living my life like a character in “Girls,” and mess-ing it all up?
In my opinion, telling me that I’m going to have a “quar-ter life crisis” is just another way of predicting the future. And, like most ways of predict-ing the future, I don’t care. Of course growing up will be hard. Of course I will have doubts — I have them now.
I don’t know how to avoid these melancholic weekend mornings, but do I want to rec-ommend watching the Ground-hog Day celebration. Thousands of people are on the television screen. The o!ciators wear funny hats. And, amidst the chaos, there is the sullen indig-nity of Phil himself.
There’s something to the way the groundhog wriggles his nose at the crowd surrounding him and paws against the han-dler’s gloves as if to say: “Do you seriously trust me to tell the future?” This is followed by a frown at the camera.
“Well, I guess I’m as good at it as anyone else.”
JACKSON MCHENRY is a sopho-more in Silliman College. Contact
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This past Friday and Saturday, students from the School of Drama came together at the Yale Caba-ret to read nine previously unper-formed plays, written by students from Yale College and the Co-Op Arts and Humanities High School in downtown New Haven.
This “Annual Festival of New Work” was the culminating event of the O’Neill Playwriting Pro-gram, the flagship program of the Yale-Co-Op partnership. The pro-gram brings together playwrit-ing master’s candidates from the Yale School of Drama with stu-dents from Yale College, who then work together to teach playwriting at the Co-Op, explained Kjerstin Pugh, the after-school and sum-mer program manager at Co-Op. The undergraduate students also have the opportunity to meet with their Drama School counterparts to workshop their own pieces, creat-ing a “chain of mentorship,” Pugh added.
“[The reading] is very fun but also very professional,” Pugh said. “Everyone treats it as a big deal — because it is.”
The program kicks off in the spring when the Yale mentors develop a weeklong intensive course on playwriting for the high school’s freshman theater students and sophomore creative writing students — the two departments whose students are eligible to take part in the O’Neill program.
After this, interested students can apply to attend a weekend-long playwriting retreat at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn. Pugh said that, of roughly 60 students who apply, 18 are selected, adding that keeping the group relatively small ensures a high level of individual attention and fosters a sense of community.
“[The retreat] is a transfor-mational experience for students
because of the creative, artistic freedom and trust we give them,” Pugh said.
Anyone from this group of 18 is then eligible to participate in the playwriting after-school program during the fall semester, with six choosing to enroll this past fall. These students then spend two hours a week working with the mentors on developing their own work, each producing a 10-minute play by the end of the semester.
Jason Dunn, a Co-Op student in the Creative Writing Department, said he had always had an inter-est in playwriting and had even attempted it before, but that he “needed a little push” to make his work more successful.
“It’s a heightened experience you don’t get from a normal class-room,” Dunn said.
Eric Sirakian ’15, who worked as an undergraduate mentor this past year, said he wanted to get involved in the program as a way to engage with New Haven, as well as develop his interest in playwriting.
Hansol Jung DRA ’14 said she enjoyed the chance to get in touch with the larger Yale and New Haven communities, adding that the experience opened up her con-sciousness to the other realms of theater at Yale outside of the Drama School.
Sirakian said he has learned from working with younger students who are tackling the same chal-lenges in writing as him, and from their more “unfiltered” style of writing.
“They write really openly and
without fear, without awareness of what their work is doing in relation to every other play that’s existed,” Sirakian said. “That freedom is enviable.”
The mentors adopted a differ-ent, more “playful” approach to playwriting exercises for the pro-gram relative to their own work at the Drama School, Jung said, citing writing scenes based on pictures as an example.
Mentoring in the O’Neill pro-gram is a paid student job, Sira-kian said. Former O’Neill program mentor Caroline McGraw DRA ’12 said the experiences she had teach-ing while in the Drama School helped her understand how she could use her craft in other ways. It
is nearly impossible to make a liv-ing in America only writing plays, and she realized she could supple-ment writing with teaching play-writing. Other past mentors are already drawing upon their experi-ences through the program in their postcollege life — Kenneth Reveiz ’12, for example, currently teaches playwriting at the Co-Op.
“[Teaching] gives us the oppor-tunity to be playwrights, and also earn a living by doing something we care about and bringing that to other people,” McGraw said.
The Yale-Co-Op partnership is funded by the Beinecke Library.
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All but two sophomores registered for mandatory bystander interven-tion training, which took place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.
The 75-minute workshops — part of an ongoing e!ort by administra-tors to improve the campus sexual climate — taught students strate-gies for intervening in situations in which they notice that another per-son is at risk of sexual harassment or assault. The Communication and Consent Educators ran each of the 99 workshops for Yale’s 1,351 soph-omores, which featured an instruc-tional video and group discussions. Six students interviewed said they felt the training was largely e!ective but added that the workshops did not succeed in engaging all attend-ees.
“I had several students say they thought it would be a total joke but the conversation was actually really
good,” CCE Matthew Breuer ’14 said. “Everyone has been jumping into the discussion — they’ve been really easy to facilitate.”
Six of seven CCEs interviewed said responses to the workshops were positive, and three said they received strong feedback about the training afterwards. CCE Olivia Schwob ’14 said students were highly engaged and took the discus-sions in creative directions.
The seven CCEs interviewed said attendance at the workshops was high and reported an average of two absences of registered students per meeting.
CCE Kolu Buck ’14 said he saw mixed responses from students and noticed students were more engaged when they attended with friends or suitemates.
“They’re the people you’re proba-bly going to go out with on the week-ends, so we want them to experience the workshop together,” Bucks said.
Melanie Boyd ’90, assistant dean
of student affairs, said her office allowed students to choose their own timeslots in part to encourage sophomores to attend with friends.
The trainings had a more serious tone than the freshman year CCE workshops because the bystander intervention workshops used group discussions instead of skits, said attendee David Shatan-Pardo ’15.
“I feel like being in a bystander situation is a lot more common, that more people can relate to,” Shatan-Pardo said. “With [the freshman
workshops] I had trouble relating to it and having skits made people not really take it seriously.”
The workshop presented students with common scenarios, which made the training more relevant, he added.
Attendee Pablo Napolitano ’15 said he did not feel the trainings were effective because they were mandatory and thus students were not enthusiastic. Napolitano said he also thinks student leaders could have been more sensitive when dis-cussing sexual misconduct.
“They act like talking about sex-ual misconduct is easy, but a lot of people would prefer not to talk about it,” Napolitano said.
Make-up sessions for students who had scheduling conflicts last weekend will be held this coming weekend.
The Sexual Harrassement and Assault Response and Education Center has doubled its sta! and relocated to larger o"ces over the past year as part of continuing e!orts to expand its visibility on campus.
SHARE hired two new full-time staff members in recent months: Assistant Direc-tor Jennifer Czinz, who o"cially joined the SHARE sta! in July, and SHARE Associate Alison Doernberg ’99, who began last week. The center moved into a larger location on the lower level of Yale Health in September, a three-o"ce space designed and constructed specifically for the organization, which now has four sta! members. The primary focus of the center will continue to be “responding to students,” but SHARE hopes to o!er more programs and events in the future that involve a larger portion of the campus, said SHARE Director Carole Goldberg.
“We’d like to be well-known — the first thought that comes to someone’s mind with issues of sexual misconduct,” Goldberg said. “We want to offer a strong mix [of first-response services and other programming] and a larger sta! will allow us to do that.”
Yale has become a “pioneer” in providing sexual misconduct resources for students, Goldberg said, and other universities have approached the SHARE Center on multiple occasions to gather information on setting up sexual assault support and training programs.
SHARE is continuing to expand its consent and sensitivity training programs and o!ered 14 sessions at Yale’s graduate and profes-sional schools for the first time last fall, Gold-berg said.
Calls and visits to SHARE grew from 65 in the 2010–’11 academic year to 82 in the 2011–’12 academic year, according to SHARE Cen-ter reports. Goldberg and Czinz said they have spent the majority of their time taking calls from the SHARE hotline, but Doernberg’s arrival last week will allow them to be present at more events on campus.
“Having been both a student and worked in the admissions o"ce, there are aspects of the culture and community that feel familiar and will allow me to [better] engage with the com-munity,” Doernberg said.
SHARE aims to expand its campus pres-ence in part by promoting its new location, staff members said. The area, designed by architect Rich Charney ARC ’76, is meant have a “home-like” feel and is designed to encourage walk-in visits, said Judith Madeux, deputy director of University Health Services. The center’s new o"ces are not shared with other departments and are more discreetly located than their previous o"ces on the first floor of Yale HEALTH, which Goldberg said makes the space more accessible and provides visitors with greater confidentiality.
The center will use its new o"ces to host events, such as its new support group for undergraduate victims of sexual assault which begins the second week of February. SHARE is also planning several other new programs in an e!ort to be more active on campus and has met with various student groups as well as members of the Department of Athletics, Goldberg said.
“SHARE’s always been very accessible over the phone but it removes one more barrier to have the physical space,” said Melanie Boyd ’90, assistant dean of student a!airs, whose o"ce addresses campus sexual climate issues.
SHARE’s always been very accessible over the phone but it removes one more barrier to have the physical space.
MELANIE BOYD ’90Assistant dean, Student A!airs
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to repeal the death penalty in the state and has since worked on transgender equality and juvenile justice issues.
DEFINING A PLATORMEducation reform — and spe-
cifically school board reform — has emerged as a significant issue in the early days of the mayoral campaign. New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo, who has worked exten-sively in the past two decades alongside DeStefano throughout the school reconstruction and change initiatives, is expected to retire when his contract expires on June 30, according to City Clerk Ron Smith.
Mayo’s announcement comes as the city begins considering reforms to its charter, which could lead to sweeping changes in the way members of the New Haven Board of Education are selected. Currently, the mayor has absolute discretion to appoint all board members, which some have said prevents an independent-minded board. Both Holder-Winfield and Elicker said they support a hybrid board that would be comprised of some elected and some appointed members.
“There’s a tendency just to swing to the opposite — if you think education’s going in the wrong direction and you aren’t being heard, you want the board to be elected,” Holder-Winfield said. “I’m for a hybrid version of the school board because it allows the people to have some say but still preserves the mayor’s power to make certain appointments based on expertise.”
Holder-Winfield said the superintendent’s position is likely to remain appointed, add-ing that Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries ’95, who has over-seen much of the district’s school change process, is expected to replace Mayo.
But Holder-Winfield stressed the need for a thorough search process to identify the best superintendent, saying Har-ries’ appointment should not be a
“done deal.”“I’m looking to meet with
Garth prior to winning the race to make sure we’re on the same page about schools,” Holder-Win-field said. “Whoever comes in as mayor, Garth is already going to be there. My intention is not to get rid of him but to make sure we get the best superintendent possible. Garth may be that person, but he may not be.”
Beyond his plans for education reform — which he said would include a renewed push on early childhood education — Holder-Winfield said he will work to strengthen community policing in the Elm City. Holder-Winfield also said he supports transparent budgeting as one way to manage the city’s ballooning deficit. He noted that safety and education tie into economic revitalization, as the perception of a safer city would help bring businesses and commerce to New Haven.
SURVEYING THE FIELDAccording to Elicker, his and
Holder-Winfield’s policy plat-forms are alike, resulting from a “similar vision for the city’s future.”
The difference, Elicker said, comes down to experience.
“I have a lot of firsthand expe-rience dealing with the city’s budget and operations on a day-to-day level,” he said. “I’ve been doing that for my constituents as alderman in Cedar Hill and East Rock.”
Elicker has previously touted his attendance record at a range of city meetings and community gatherings as one of his assets as a candidate, a record that he said di!erentiates him from Holder-Winfield.
Ward 7 Alderman Doug Haus-laden ’04, who has endorsed Elicker, said while the two candi-dates’ policy platforms overlap, Elicker’s approach sets him apart.
“Justin’s vision includes bot-tom-up participation. He wants to get input from the entire com-munity,” Hausladen said.
State Rep. Roland Lemar — whose district also includes part of the New Haven — declined to
make an official endorsement, saying he would wait until the field “crystallized.”
Still, Lemar described Holder-Winfield as a passionate commu-nity organizer and an effective legislator.
“Gary knows how to build coalitions to move an agenda,” Lemar said. “He has a strong policy mind and an incredibly work ethic. He is willing to say or do anything to get progressive change accomplished.”
Lemar said Holder-Winfield’s signature achievement in the Connecticut House was his lead-ership on the repeal of the death penalty. He also said the can-didate has been an advocate for school reform, principally work-ing on literacy rates among young children.
Other possible mayoral can-didates — all of whom have sug-gested they might be interested in a run — include Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina, Probate Court Judge Jack Keyes, State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, Board of Alder-men President Jorge Perez and State Rep. Patricia Dillon.
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Holder-Winfield won an open seat to the Connecticut House in 2008, where he was a principal leader of the 2012 repeal of the death penalty in the Connecticut House. Also in 2012, he championed a bill combating racial profiling. During his time in o"ce, he has worked on juvenile justice and transgender equality issues. He is vice chair of the Judiciary Committee and serves on the Appropriations and Human Services committees.
TIMELINE GARY HOLDER-WINFIELD1994-2000Serves in the military, based in Virginia working as a nuclear elec-trician.
2000-2003Works as chief electrical adviser for Alstom, an engineering com-pany located in Milford, Conn.
2003-2008Returns to school, studying politi-cal science at Southern Connecti-cut State University. Simultane-ously, Holder-Winfield becomes involved in community activism, working for local groups such as People Against Injustice.
2004Starts a company called Quest Educational Initiative, which has since been taken over by Holder-Winfield’s wife. The company runs diversity programs and job training.
2008-PRESENTRepresents Connecticut’s 94th District, which comprises parts of New Haven and Hamden.
Ross ’13 finishes trial Field of canidates growsthe Yale-New Haven Hospital shortly after the crash and pro-nounced dead at 10:16 a.m. Short and Dernbach were treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital and St. Raphael’s Hospital respec-tively and released in the follow-ing days.
Ross passed a field sobri-ety test at the scene of the acci-dent and was taken to the New Haven Police Department head-quarters for questioning. Imme-diately following the accident, the NHPD launched a forensics investigation, which concluded in early April.
A day after the Yale-Harvard accident, Dow attributed the crash to an “apparent … mal-function” of the U-Haul, which had been rented by members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. But an NHPD mechanic deter-mined the truck’s brake system to have been in proper working order.
After the NHPD forwarded the results of its investigation to the state’s attorney’s office for review, Ross turned himself in for arrest on May 4, 2012, as part of a deal reached between Dow and the state’s attorney. Shortly afterward, he was released with a written agreement to return to court. According to the arrest warrant application prepared by the NHPD, Ross “applied no brakes [on the U-Haul] as he traveled through the crowd” and “failed to maintain control of his vehicle, and, instead, accelerated into a crowd of people.”
Last September, Ross pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, a criminal act that carries a maximum pen-alty of $2,500 fine and six months of imprisonment under Con-necticut law. The court ordered Ross to report back in January, as his attorney worked to strike a deal with the state that would revise the charges and make Ross eligible for accelerated rehabili-
tation.Dow said in Friday’s statement
that Ross is grateful for “the compassion shown by the Barry family and the other two vic-tims” and for the “understand-ing approach taken by the State” in the resolution of the case.
“It was a long and difficult road,” Dow told the News Sunday night. “We did exceedingly well and part of our ability to do so was because of the compassion of the very family of the victims.
While Ross will have no crim-inal record, he still faces at least two civil lawsuits.
In April 2012, Short filed a memorandum with the New Haven Superior Court claiming that she had su!ered “severe and painful injuries” from the crash and seeking at least $15,000 in damages from either Ross or the
U-Haul Company of Connecti-cut. Short declined to comment on the legal proceedings against Ross.
Barry’s mother, Paula St. Pierre, also plans to file a suit after criminal proceedings conclude, according to Ralph Sbrogna, her Worcester, Mass.-based personal injury law-yer. Barry’s family could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
Yale tightened its tailgating regulations in response to last year’s crash, banning beer kegs and U-Hauls and containing tail-gates to a “student tailgate vil-lage” zone that would be set up before 8:30 a.m. and closed by kicko!.
The tragic U-Haul accident that occurred before the 2011 Yale-Harvard football game prompted Yale to tighten tailgating rules.
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ing to broaden its outreach in every possible way, an initial expansion into social media was a logical next step. In 2010, the Admissions Office completely overhauled its website, reconfig-uring its design and content for the first time in roughly a decade. Last year, with the launch of the Twitter and Tumblr — in addi-tion to increased engagement with the Undergraduate Admis-sions Facebook page — the o!ce moved to the forefront of all other Ivy League admissions o!ces in terms of online engagement.
“We definitely have a more aggressive stance toward social media,” said Bowen Pos-ner, senior assistant director of admissions.
The Admissions Office’s Tumblr, which debuted over the summer, greets prospec-tive students with bright snip-pets of campus life using images such as a dressed-up bulldog and Y-shaped pumpkin carving. Updated several times a week, the Tumblr has 140 posts so far that include images of campus, videos of student activities, memes and quotes from students.
The idea for a Tumblr blog came out of a University-wide push toward social media inte-gration that began last year, led by Yale’s O!ce of Public A"airs and Communications. Dunn said admissions sta" members gen-erated outlets to reach a poten-tial audience of thousands of high school students on a variety of social platforms. Since then, he added, the office has been “thrilled with the results.”
“Yale has a vibe that is wel-coming and open-ended — we hope the vibe online is consistent with the sort of place Yale is,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admis-sions Je"rey Brenzel, adding that he views the o!ce’s social media presence as “tapping into the cre-ativity” of the student body and the University.
The generation of content within the social media sites is a task that falls to sta" and stu-dents who work at the Admis-sions O!ce, Posner said. Though
it is uncommon for universities to allow students so much control in admissions-related material, Posner and Dunn said the student sta" members contribute a great amount of “creative energy and willingness to experiment.”
The majority of admis-sions o!ces at other Ivy League schools do not have a social media presence beyond a Facebook page. Princeton and Harvard, in particular, have no Facebook pages specifically designated for their admissions o!ces.
Katherine Santos-Coy, senior assistant director for communi-cations and media at the Dart-mouth Admissions Office, said in an email to the News that her o!ce is interested in branching out its social media as a way to remain accessible to high school students. The Dartmouth Admis-sions O!ce does not have a Tum-blr, but it has a Twitter account that is updated every few days as well as a Facebook page.
“We know that many of the students who are interested in Dartmouth can’t afford a visit, and if we give them a taste of the Dartmouth experience over the Internet, it’s a win-win,” Santos-Coy said. She added that Dart-mouth does not benchmark its social media presence against other admissions o!ces at peer institutions.
Admissions o!ces at the six other Ivy League universities could not be reached for com-ment.
Chuck Hughes, president of college admissions consult-ing service Road to College and a former admissions officer at Harvard, called the Yale Admis-
sions O!ce’s move toward social media a “smart business play.”
Eric Hoover, senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion, said he has seen conflict-ing opinions from various admis-sions o!cers at di"erent schools nationwide on the topic of social media outreach.
“A lot of schools are hesitant, and others are kind of wading into it and trying to figure out ‘what’s the best use of our time,’” Hoover said. “I think the challenge is [using social media] in a way that feels genuine and not forced, just like any other form of marketing.”
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Past the colorful pictures and catchy videos, admissions o!-cers say that having a presence on social media sites is ultimately about dispersing information.
Andover applicant Greg Wang said he enjoyed browsing the Admissions Office’s Facebook updates during the application process, especially for comments from other excited applicants and alumni.
“I found it interesting how much information was out there,” he said. But ultimately, he said, his first and foremost sources for college information were the o!-cial university websites.
Though the Admissions Office’s website remains the “primary source of information and point of contact” for its audi-ence, Dunn said, social media has become a way to connect users in a quicker and oftentimes sim-pler way. Because students are “sophisticated communicators,” Brenzel said, the office aims to provide as much first-person access on as many platforms as possible.
“We see the social media piece as a bridge piece,” Dunn said. “It directs people toward some of the important [website] content, and also adds a dynamic, up-to-the-minute news piece. When some-
thing exciting happens, we can roll it out on social media really quickly.”
In a world where online col-lege forums such as College Con-fidential “have a lot of power” in student communities, Hoover said, colleges feel like they “may as well join the conversation” and “have two feet in that world.”
Still, there are potential draw-backs. Since the takeo" of social media platforms is still relatively new, few institutions have for-mally discussed its place in the admissions world.
Because of the rapid turn-over of content, Posner said, the Admissions Office sometimes finds it di!cult to “[create] the content and [keep] the energy behind the creative process going.” Santos-Coy said a poten-tial drawback is that the admis-sions o!ces “don’t always have control of the conversation.”
Garrett Brinker, direc-tor of undergraduate outreach and senior assistant director of admissions at the University of Chicago — a school whose admis-sions office has experimented with various platforms such as Pinterest and live webcasts on Google Plus — said that since high school applicants spend a lot of their time on social media sites, reaching out on those plat-forms can really be beneficial.
“What we’re trying to do with social media is take down that wall between us and prospec-tive students, and give them an opportunity to interact with us on a genuine basis,” Brinker said.
The Admissions O!ce plans to continually grow its online pres-ence by adapting to changing trends in social media, Dunn said.
“What Yale is doing now might be different from what we’re doing in six months,” he said. “The same may be true of our peers as well.”
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Institute.Carney said that the single-
spaced, roughly 50-page report covered topics such as the social harms caused by climate change, specifics about the fossil indus-try and information on Yale’s history of socially responsi-ble investing. The version of the report presented Thursday rec-ommended that Yale divest from the 200 companies with the largest carbon reserves, 100 of which are oil and gas companies and 100 of which are coal com-panies, Carney said.
Patrick Reed ’15, president of YSEC, said the meeting went much better than he expected, adding that the presenters had been unsure whether the report would be “rejected outright.”
Organizers said they con-sulted the Ethical Investor, a 1972 book that the Yale Corporation consulted to determine guide-lines for divestment, while com-piling the report in order to apply the ethical frameworks discussed in it to the issue of fossil fuels. Alice Buckley ’15 said they not only had to prove that fossil fuels constitute a “grave social injury” but also that Yale has the capac-ity to “do something about it.”
The students who presented Thursday are affiliated with Fossil Free Yale, the Yale chap-ter of the national movement to divest from fossil fuels o!cially launched last week. Fossil Free Yale follows a pre-determined national agenda and emphasizes student activism — their cur-rent activities include circulat-ing a petition to the Yale Corpo-ration’s Committee on Investor Responsibility, or CCIR, the committee of the Yale Corpora-tion to which the ACIR reports, and educating the campus com-munity about the harms of fos-sil fuels.
Buckley said the report is important for Fossil Free Yale because it demonstrates that the presenters had committed time and energy to researching the issues.
“The report was really funda-mental for the campaign because it gives [Fossil Free Yale] legiti-macy,” she said. “We’re not just stomping our feet on the ground, we’re not a tree-hugging direct action group.”
Members of the ACIR told the presenters they were impressed by the presentation.
“At this point, it’s obviously a big movement,” Daniel Shen ’14, the undergraduate representa-tive on ACIR, said to the News. “It’s in our interests to hear the concerns of the Yale community and see what we can do.”
Shen said while the ACIR has not met privately since the open meeting Thursday, it has three possible ways to proceed — the committee could mention the fossil fuel group in its annual report to CCIR in late February, bring up the issue to CCIR on a separate occasion or do neither.
Shen said that the ACIR must not only decide whether to bring the fossil fuel case to the CCIR but also whether to modify the presenters’ proposal. ACIR could choose to recommend that Yale divest from the top 12 fossil fuel companies instead of the top 200, for example, or could o"er an alternative strategy other than divesting, he said.
The final decision lies with the CCIR, which recommends investment policy to the Corpo-ration as a whole, he said.
Unity College, located in Maine, and Hampshire College, located in Massachusetts, have both agreed to divest entirely from fossil fuels.
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Lights out: Ravens beat 49ers
BY BARRY WILNER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — From blowout to blackout to shoot-out, Joe Flacco and the Balti-more Ravens had just enough power to survive one of the most electric Super Bowls ever.
The outage flipped a switch for the San Francisco 49ers, but the Ravens used a last-gasp defensive stand to hold on Sun-day night, 34–31.
America’s biggest sport-ing event came to a half-hour standstill in the third quarter when most of the Superdome lights and the scoreboards went dark. By then, the Ravens had a 22-point lead.
Everything changed after that, though, and the 49ers staged a sensational rally before Ray Lewis and Co. shut it down. But there were plenty of white-knuckle moments and the Ravens (14-6) had to make four stops inside their 7 at the end.
For a Super Bowl with so many subplots, it almost had to end this way.
Flacco’s arrival as a champi-onship quarterback coincides with Lewis’ retirement — with a second Super Bowl ring no less.
The win capped a sensational month since the star linebacker announced he was leaving the game after 17 Hall of Fame-cal-iber years.
The sibling rivalry between the coaching Harbaughs went to John, older than Jim by 15 months.
“How could it be any other way? It’s never pretty. It’s never perfect. But it’s us,” John Har-baugh said. “It was us today.”
At 4 hours, 14 minutes, it was the longest Super Bowl ever. Among the most thrilling, too.
The loss of power delayed the game 34 minutes and left play-ers from both sides stretching and chatting with each other. It also cost Baltimore whatever momentum it built, and that was considerable after Jacoby Jones’ 108-yard kicko! return and game MVP Flacco’s three touchdown passes made it 28–6.
Back came San Francisco (13–5–1) in search of its sixth Lom-bardi Trophy in as many tries.
Michael Crabtree’s 31-yard touchdown reception on which he broke two tackles made it 28–13. A couple minutes later, Frank Gore’s 6-yard run fol-lowed a 32-yard punt return by Ted Ginn Jr., and the 49ers were
within eight.Ray Rice’s fumble at his 24
led to David Akers’ 34-yard field goal, but Baltimore woke up for a long drive leading to rookie Jus-tin Tucker’s 19-yard field goal.
San Francisco wasn’t done challenging, though, and Colin Kaepernick’s 15-yard TD run, the longest for a quarterback in a Super Bowl, made it 31–29. A 2-point conversion pass failed when the Ravens blitzed.
Tucker added a 38-yarder with 4:19 remaining, setting up the frantic finish.
Kaepernick couldn’t get the Ravens into the end zone on the final three plays — there was contact on Crabtree on the final pass that appeared incidental, and Jim Harbaugh insisted it was pass interference.
Ravens punter Sam Koch took
a safety for the final score with 4 seconds left. His free kick was returned by Ginn to midfield as time ran out.
In the first half, Flacco was as brilliant as Tom Brady, Joe Mon-tana or Terry Bradshaw ever were in the NFL’s biggest game. The only quarterback to win a playo! game in each of his first five seasons — his coach holds the same distinction — was nearly perfect.
It was typical of Flacco and Baltimore’s postseason run. The Ravens stumbled into the playo!s with four defeats in its last five regular-season games as Lewis recovered from a torn right triceps and Flacco strug-gled. Harbaugh even fired his o!ensive coordinator in Decem-ber, a stunning move with the postseason so close.
But that — and every other move Harbaugh, Flacco and the Ravens made since — were right on target. Just like Flacco’s TD passes of 13 yards to Anquan Boldin, 1 to Dennis Pitta and 56 to Jones in the first half, tying a Super Bowl record.
New Orleans native Jones, one of the heroes in a double-overtime playo! win at Denver, seemed to put the game away
with his record 108-yard sprint with the second-half kicko!.
Soon after, the lights went out — and when they came back on, the Ravens were almost power-less to slow the 49ers.
Until the final moments.“The final series of Ray Lewis’
career was a goal-line stand,” Harbaugh said.
“It’s no greater way, as a champ, to go out on your last ride with the men that I went out with, with my teammates,”
Lewis said. “And you looked around this stadium and Bal-timore! Baltimore! We coming home, baby! We did it!”
It was a bitter loss for Jim Harbaugh, the coach who turned around the Niners in the last two years and brought them to their first Super Bowl in 18 years. His team made a similarly stunning comeback in the NFC champi-onship at Atlanta, but couldn’t finish it o! against Baltimore.
Iraq vet charged in ex-SEAL shooting
BY CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN AND JAMIE STENGLEASSOCIATED PRESS
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — An Iraq War veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and a friend turned a gun on the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday.
Eddie Ray Routh, of Lancaster, was arraigned early Sunday in the deaths of Kyle, who wrote the best-selling book “American Sniper,” and Chad Little-field, 35. They were killed at a shoot-ing range at Rough Creek Lodge, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Travis Cox, the director of a non-profit Kyle helped found, told The Associated Press on Sunday that Kyle, 38, and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range to try to help him. Little-field was Kyle’s neighbor and “work-out buddy,” Cox said.
“What I know is Chris and a gen-tleman — great guy, I knew him well, Chad Littlefield — took a veteran out shooting who was struggling with PTSD to try to assist him, try to help him, try to, you know, give him a help-ing hand, and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them,” Cox said.
Capt. Jason Upshaw with the Erath County Sheri!’s O"ce said Routh had not made any comments that might indicate a motive. “I don’t know that we’ll ever know. He’s the only one that knows that,” Upshaw said.
Sheri! Tommy Bryant said Routh was unemployed and “may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military him-self.”
Bryant didn’t know whether Routh was on any medication or had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Routh was being held on one charge of capital murder and two charges of murder.
Upshaw said Routh used a semi-automatic handgun, which authori-ties later found at his home. Upshaw
said ballistics tests weren’t complete Sunday, but authorities believe it was the gun used in the shootings. Upshaw declined to give any more details about the gun.
The U.S. military confirmed Sun-day that Routh was a corporal in the Marines, serving in active duty from 2006 to 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010. His current duty status is listed as reserve.
Routh is being held on $3 million bond. Bryant said he believed Routh was in the process of seeking a public defender.
A knock on the door at Routh’s last known address went unanswered Sun-day. A for-sale sign was in front of the small, wood-framed home.
Kyle’s best-selling book, “Ameri-can Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” detailed his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009. Kyle said in his book that Iraqi insurgents had put a bounty on his head. Accord-ing to promotional information from book publisher William Morrow, Kyle deployed to Iraq four times.
Bryant said Kyle, Littlefield and Routh went to the shooting range around 3:15 p.m. Saturday. A hunt-ing guide at Rough Creek Lodge came across the bodies of Kyle and Little-field around 5 p.m. and called 911.
Upshaw said autopsies were still pending and he could not say how many times the men were shot or where on their bodies they were hit.
NRA criticizes universal checks
BY KEVIN FREKING ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association’s executive vice president continued to oppose back-ground checks for all gun purchases despite polls indicating that most NRA members don’t share his posi-tion.
The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre said on “Fox News Sunday” that background checks for all gun purchases would lead to a national registry of gun own-ers. Critics say such a registry could lead to taxes on guns or to confisca-tion.
Mark Kelly, a gun owner and hus-band of Gabrielle Giffords, the for-mer Arizona congresswoman who survived a 2011 shooting, asked LaPi-erre to listen to his members. He said the current system prevented 1.7 mil-lion gun purchases since 1999. How-ever, those potential buyers had other options because many gun sales don’t require a background check.
“Members of the NRA tend to be very reasonable on this issue,” Kelly said, who also appeared on the Fox
show.As Congress responds to the spate
of mass shootings in recent years, most notably the December massa-cre of 20 children and six adults in a school in Newtown, Conn., some are calling for a ban on certain semi-auto-matic weapons and on high-capac-ity ammunition magazines. How-ever, calls for expanding background checks appear to have gained the most bipartisan support.
LaPierre said that requiring checks for all gun purchases would be a bureaucratic nightmare.
“It’s going to a!ect only the law-abiding people,” he said. “Criminals could care less.
LaPierre was pressed about his contention that gun checks would lead to a national registry, when no one from the Obama administration is calling for that.
“And Obamacare wasn’t a tax until they needed it to be a tax,” LaPierre said.
Kelly and LaPierre agreed on one point: More people seeking to buy guns illegally should be prosecuted.
“They should be prosecuted and there should be sti! penalties,” Kelly said.
A key player in the coming gun debate in Congress, Senate Major-ity Leader Harry Reid, said on ABC’s “This Week” that he’s willing to take a look at legislation that would ban cer-tain semi-automatic weapons, but he also noted that he voted against a ban on such weapons in 1994 because it “didn’t make sense.”
He was more definitive on the issue of background checks, saying “every-one acknowledges we should do something with background checks.”
[Background checks for gun purchases are] going to a!ect only the law-abiding people. Criminals could care less.
WAYNE LAPIERREExecutive vice president, National Rifle
Association
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Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, sits at the witness table during the Senate’s gun violence hearing.
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Baltimore Ravens players celebrate after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game in New Orleans.
I don’t know that we’ll ever know [Routh’s motive]. He’s the only one that knows that.
JASON UPSHAWCaptain, Erath County Sheri!’s O"ce
It’s never pretty. It’s never perfect. But it’s us. It was us today.
JOHN HARBAUGHHead coach, Baltimore Ravens
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ON CAMPUSMONDAY, FEBRUARY 43:00 PM Alexander Purves: Roman Sketches Unfortunately, no, this “Roman” does not pertain to either Nicki Minaj or her song “Roman’s Revenge.” Instead, we are forced to contemplate and eventually come to terms with our peculiar positionality within the Greco-Roman tradition vis-a-vis architectural legacy. Join Professor Alexander Purves in a tell-all exhibition of his sketchbooks, which contain impressions of buildings from Rome. There will not be refreshments. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), The Gallery.
4:00 PM Todai-Yale Lecture: “Digital Natives in Japan: Why Do They Tweet and Not Send Mail?” And with that provocative subtitle, this lecture promises to interrogate the issues surrounding the Japanese techno-socio-cultural complex. Tadamasa Kimura will be delivering the lecture, and he has engaged in digital native research since 2007. Come find out why Japanese digital natives tweet and text and blog instead of sending mail! Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 203.
5:00 PM Maxim D. Shrayer on “Jewish-Russian Poets and the Price of Bearing Witness to the Shoah” This fascinating intersection between those human beings that are Jewish and Russian and — additionally — who write poetry has proven to be fertile ground for Professor Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College. As the title of the lecture indicates, he will also be talking about the Holocaust. Yes, that is what “Shoah” means in Hebrew. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Room 208.
7:00 PM Presentation: “Zen Buddhism’s 10 Ethical Precepts” Presented by Steve Kanji Ruhl, who is the interim Buddhist advisor for the Chaplain’s O!ce, this discussion will center around those Zen precepts that serve as practical guidelines in life. How do we atone for our failures? How do we live in accordance with Zen principles when we have things like agency and freedom and discernment? The flyer advises partipants to expect to be “stimulated and surprised,” which is certainly promising. Branford College (74 High St.), Buddhist Chapel.
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BAGHDAD — An Iraqi tele-com company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share o!ers in years — a sign of investor con-fidence in the fledgling private sector despite violence that still plagues the country.
In a reminder of Iraq’s vola-tility, several suicide attackers on foot and in two explosives-laden cars assaulted a provincial police headquarters in north-ern Iraq, killing at least 15 people and wounding 90. Rescue work-ers led away dazed survivors, including veiled women climb-ing over debris, and pulled sev-eral mangled and scorched bod-ies from the rubble.
The level of violence has dropped sharply since the worst sectarian fighting in 2006–2007, yet bombings and shootings still kill dozens of people every month. Investors say the con-tinued security risks, along with concerns about o"cial red tape and corruption, have restricted the growth of Iraq’s private sec-tor.
Iraq sits on vast oil reserves, and foreign investment has focused heavily on the govern-ment-controlled energy sector.
So it was good news for the Iraq economy when nearly two-thirds of the money raised by the telecom company came from for-eign buyers.
“Iraq is a very di"cult place to do business in,” said Shwan Taha, head of Rabee Securities, the brokerage firm that organized Sunday’s share float of Asiacell, one of Iraq’s three main mobile phone service providers. “Iraq came out of a long dictatorship. We had 30 years of war and sanc-tions. We missed a lot of trains, not only one.”
Iraq is now catching up, he said. “No foreign investors come to Iraq thinking they are invest-ing in Switzerland, and for Iraqis themselves, these bombings are becoming daily occurrences.”
Sunday’s share sale by Asiacell
more than doubled the market capitalization of the low-volume Iraq Stock Exchange in a single day, from $4.7 billion to $9.65 billion, said Rabee Securities.
Asiacell had offered a quar-ter of its shares, or 67.5 billion. The initial share price was set at 22 Iraqi dinars, or just under 2 cents. Foreigners bought about 70 percent of the float and Iraqis bought 30 percent, for a total of $1.24 billion, the brokerage firm said.
Regular trading of the shares is to begin Monday.
It was the first stock float on the ISX, which was set up in 2004, a year after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Iraqi dic-tator Saddam Hussein. Taha al-Rubaye, the head of the exchange, said he believes it’s also the largest initial public o!ering, or IPO, of shares in the Middle East in nearly five years.
Al-Rubaye said he hoped the Asiacell deal will send a signal to the government that investor interest is high and that it must do more, such as carrying out regulatory reforms, to encour-age private business — in not just energy.
Iraq has a Gross Domestic Product of some $130 billion, largely due to its oil wealth, and 95 percent of the state budget comes from the proceeds of oil exports.
“It’s not easy to change … the mentality,” al-Rubaye said of Iraq’s decision-makers. “There are delays. They are not in a hurry. But I believe it’s also time because the relationship between Iraqis and the world is growing up.”
BY DAVID RISING AND JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
MUNICH — Israel’s defense minister strongly signaled Sun-day that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week, telling a high profile security conference that Israeli threats to take pre-emptive action against its enemies are not empty. “We mean it,” Ehud Barak declared.
Israel has not officially con-firmed its planes attacked a site near Damascus, targeting ground-to-air missiles appar-ently heading for Lebanon, but its intentions have been beyond dispute. During the 22 months of civil war in Syria, Israeli lead-ers have repeatedly expressed concern that high-end weapons could fall into the hands of enemy Hezbollah, the powerful Leba-nese militants.
For years, Israel has been charging that Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran have been arming Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against Israel in 2006.
U.S. o"cials say the target was a convoy of sophisticated Rus-sian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. Deployed in Lebanon, they could have limited Israel’s ability to gather intelligence on its enemies from the air.
Over the weekend, Syrian TV broadcast video of the Wednes-day attack site for the first time, showing destroyed vehicles and a damaged building identified as a scientific research center. The U.S. o"cials said the airstrike hit both the building and the convoy.
Turkey, which seeks the ouster of Assad and supports the oppo-sition that is fighting against his regime, harshly criticized Israel regarding the airstrike in Syria. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Israel engaged in “state terror” and he suggested that its allies have nur-tured wrongdoing on the part of the Jewish state.
“Those who have from the very beginning looked in the wrong direction and who have nourished and raised Israel like a spoiled child should always expect such things from Israel,” Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan, who also criticized Iran for supporting Syria, is a frequent critic of Israel, a for-mer ally of Turkey. Relations hit a low in 2010 when Israeli troops raided a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, and nine activists on board were killed. Both sides accused each other of initiating the vio-lence.
In his comments Sunday in Munich, Barak came close to confirming that his country was behind the airstrike.
“I cannot add anything to what you have read in the news-papers about what happened in Syria several days ago,” Barak told the gathering of top diplo-mats and defense o"cials from around the world.
Then he went on to say, “I keep telling frankly that we said — and that’s proof when we said some-thing we mean it — we say that we don’t think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons sys-tems into Lebanon.” He spoke in heavily accented English.
In Syria, Assad said during a meeting with a top Iranian o"cial that his country would confront any aggression, his first comment on the airstrike.
“Syria, with the awareness of
its people, the might of its army and its adherence to the path of resistance, is able to face the cur-rent challenges and confront any aggression that might target the Syrian people,” Assad was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA.
He made the remarks dur-ing a meeting with Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Secu-rity Council. Iran is Syria’s clos-est regional ally. Jalili, on a three-day visit to Syria, has pledged Tehran’s continued support for Assad’s regime.
Jalili, who also serves as his
country’s top nuclear negotia-tor, condemned the Israeli raid, stressing that it has proven the “aggressive nature of Israel and its threat of the region’s security and stability.”
The chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards said Sun-day that Tehran also hopes Syria will strike back against Israel.
Syrian opposition leaders and rebels have criticized Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acquiescence to the Jewish state.
The Syrian defense minister,
Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij, said Israel attacked the center because rebels were unable to capture it. Al-Freij called the rebels Isra-el’s “tools.” He told the state TV, “The heroic Syrian Arab Army, that proved to the world that it is a strong army and a trained army, will not be defeated.”
Ahmad Ramadan, an oppo-sition leader, said Syria’s claim that the rebels are cooperating with Israel “is an attempt by the regime to cover its weakness in defending the country against foreign aggression.” He spoke by telephone from Turkey.
While Israel has remained o"-cially silent on the airstrike, there seemed little doubt that Israel carried it out, especially given the confirmation from the U.S., its close ally.
Israel has a powerful air force equipped with U.S.-made war-planes and has a history of car-rying out air raids on hostile ter-ritory. In recent years, Israel has been blamed for an air raid in Syria in 2007 that apparently struck an unfinished nuclear reactor and an arms convoy in Sudan believed to be delivering weapons to Hamas.
22Months of Syrian Civil WarIn March 2011 protestors across Syria began demanding the resignation of President al-Assad as part of a wider movement known as the Arab Spring. The Syrian Army was dispatched in April 2011 to quell demonstrations — a move that was widely condemned by international organizations.
Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike
BY KATHY GANNONASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan peace e!ort is floundering, fraught with mistrust and confusion among key play-ers even though the hard-line Taliban militants show signs of softening and their reclusive, one-eyed leader made a surprise o!er to share power in a post-war Afghanistan.
The U.S. and its allies hope the peace process, which began nearly two years ago, will gain traction before most inter-national forces withdraw from the coun-try in fewer than 23 months. But although the Taliban appear more ready to talk than ever before, peace talks remain elu-sive because of infighting among a rising number of interlocutors — all trying to get some kind of negotiations started.
Members of the Taliban are in contact with representatives from 30 to 40 di!er-ent countries, according to senior U.S., Afghan and other o"cials The Associ-ated Press interviewed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Moreover, the relation-ship among the key players — the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan — is marked by distrust that keeps tugging momentum
away from the peace process.Many of the o"cials spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive contacts with the Taliban.
Finding a path to the negotiating table will be a topic when Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari hold a series of meetings beginning Monday with British Prime Minister David Cameron. The meet-ings in London come amid fresh tensions between Kabul and its western allies.
Karzai recently warned the West not to use peace talks as a lever against his gov-ernment. As well, both Kabul and Wash-ington are frustrated that Pakistan is not monitoring the whereabouts and activ-
ities of Taliban prisoners it released in recent months. Mi!ed by the criticism, Pakistan says it freed the prisoners at the request of the Afghan government and doesn’t have the resources to keep tabs on them.
No one in either Pakistan or Afghani-stan seems to know where the dozens of released prisoners have gone. Last week, the Taliban issued a statement by freed former Taliban Justice Minister Mul-lah Nooruddin Turabi on behalf of all the prisoners — an indication that at least some might have rejoined the ranks of the insurgency.
“There were no preconditions to their release and we are getting criticism from our own people inside Afghanistan about that and it is valid criticism,” said Ismail Qasemyar, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council.
The peace council, which Karzai set up to carry out peace negotiations, handed Pakistan the list of prisoners, includ-ing Turabi, which it wanted freed. They have also asked for the release of the Tal-iban’s former second in command, Mul-lah Abdul Ghani Baradar, but Washington has urged Pakistan not to release him, U.S. and Afghan o"cials said.
Taliban peace talks flounder
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A Syrian man carried his sister who was wounded in a government airstrike that hit the neighborhood of Ansari in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai turns around after reviewing the guard of honor during the first day of Eid Al Adha celebrations.
We don’t think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon.
EHUD BARAKDefense minister, Israel
There were no preconditions to their release and we are getting criticism from our own people.
ISMAIL QASEMYARMember, Afghan High Peace Council
Iraq stock sale good sign for economy
It’s not easy to change … the mentality. There are delays. They are not in a hurry.
TAHA AL-RUBAYEExecutive Director, Iraq Stock Exchange
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Student committed against willBY ABBY ABRAMS
STAFF WRITER
After cursing at a professor dur-ing a Spanish final, former Colum-bia-Juilliard student Oren Unger-leider was involuntarily committed to St. Luke’s Hospital and kept there against his will for 30 days, accord-ing to a lawsuit he filed against the University this month.
On Jan. 17, Ungerleider filed suit in the southern district of New York federal court, claiming that Colum-bia and Continuum Health Partners — the organization that owns St. Luke’s — falsely arrested and impris-oned him. The complaint also says that Continuum Health and four doctors involuntarily medicated him over the course of his hospitaliza-tion, which occurred in December 2010.
The claim names Columbia and current and former administrators as defendants, as well as Continuum and the St. Luke’s doctors.
According to the complaint, Ungerleider became angry after Spanish professor Ruth Borgman gave him an unfairly low grade on a final project and called her a bitch in front of his class during the final exam. He emailed Senior Associ-ate Dean of Academic A!airs Hazel May to say he was sorry and explain that he was being unfairly graded, but she told him to see a psycholo-gist, it says.
The complaint says that May directed Stephanie Nixon, then the director of residential programs, to visit Ungerleider’s Wien dorm room. She did so at 12:30 in the morn-ing, accompanied by campus secu-rity o"cers, who unlocked the door. When Ungerleider resisted, Nixon called the New York Police Depart-ment, and three o"cers handcu!ed Ungerleider and escorted him to the hospital.
When he arrived at St. Luke’s, Ungerleider was interviewed by a
series of psy-chiatrists, and he refused to answer their questions, the complaint says. When he tried to leave, three doctors tackled
him and forcibly injected him with the drug Haldol.
The lawsuit says that Dr. Tara Malekshahi met with Ungerleider and described him as having “gran-diose and paranoid delusions” and an illogical and incoherent thought process. Malekshahi and other doc-tors medicated him against his will and kept him in containment, it says.
Although he asked to leave repeat-edly over the course of his month-long hospitalization, he claims, Underleider was not allowed to. His twin brother, also a Columbia stu-
dent, tried to check Oren out of the hospital, but doctors would not release him.
Ungerleider eventually requested a court date to challenge his hospi-talization, but the appearance did not result in his release. Instead, he remained at St. Luke’s until doc-tors released him on Jan. 21, 2011, the complaint says.
He took a year and a half away from school when Columbia refused to let him return, it states.
Ungerleider, now a student at The Ohio State University, declined to comment, as did Columbia and Con-tinuum Health, and May. Nixon did not respond to request for comment.
“We want to get justice for Oren, we want to stop this happening to other people, and to get him com-pensated for the harm caused to him,” Ungerleider’s lawyer, Daniel Rubenstein, said.
Profs voice discontent with lack of diversity
BY SETH ZWEIFLERSTAFF WRITER
Penn President Amy Gutmann is still under fire over claims that she has not done enough to promote diversity across the University administration.
Africana Studies Department Chair Camille Charles — one of the six Afri-cana Studies professors who signed a guest column to the president in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Wednesday — called a response by Gutmann in Thurs-day’s DP “disappointing.”
“I would say that historically we have tried to be patient with administra-tive diversity because we have thought that President Gutmann’s heart is in the right place,” said Charles, a former chair of the Faculty Senate. “But over time, as the inconsistency and incongruence between what she does and what she says persists, it just hasn’t been enough. It’s very frustrating.”
The column on Wednesday was spurred by the recent appointment of Senior Vice Provost for Research Steven Fluharty as the next School of Arts and Sciences dean.
Last year, Charles said that she and a few colleagues had recommended a number of minority candidates for the position. Although she declined to spec-ify who she recommended, she is “fairly certain” that one of the candidates made his or her way to the final round of deci-sions by Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
The column — which has prompted heated reactions from many at Penn — also centered around a series of com-ments Gutmann reportedly made at an annual diversity dinner last spring.
The professors were troubled by a response that Gutmann gave at the din-ner to a question about why she has never appointed a “person of color” to a deanship of one of Penn’s 12 schools.
“Her response was that she would not
just bring in some-one who is not qualified, a com-ment implying that none of the people in the room were qualified to serve in these positions, even
though many of them serve in admin-istrative capacities in departments and centers,” the professors wrote. “In her closing remarks [at the dinner], Presi-dent Gutmann reiterated her dedication to diversity within Penn’s administra-tion, admitting that ‘a show beats a tell.’”
The faculty members said they would not be attending this year’s dinner.
Although Gutmann’s response to the column on Thursday reaffirmed her commitment to diversity, she did acknowledge that Penn has lagged behind in employing diverse candidates in the top ranks of University leadership.
“There are areas, such as academic administration, where progress has been slow and where we need to work even harder,” Gutmann wrote. “We are unequivocally committed to doing just that.”
According to data provided by Vice President for University Communica-tions Stephen MacCarthy, 87 of the top 100 administrators on campus today are white. Seven of those administrators are black, while three are Asian and one is Latino.
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After cursing at his professor, former Columbia student Oren Ungerleider was involuntarily committed to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was medicated against his will, according to a lawsuit he filed against the University this month.
There are areas, such as academic administration, where progress has been slow.
Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this weekend. If we believe his prediction, we will soon bid adieu to the winter wonderland that has enveloped the Elm City. PHILIPP ARNDT, JENNIFER LU and ANNELISA
LEINBACH document Yale’s campus before the snow gives way to spring.
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BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER
While Yale’s campus buzzed with excitement over the men’s hockey games at Ingall’s Rink this weekend, the men’s basketball team went on the road with a chance to boost its conference record early in the Ivy League season. But the Bulldog faithful found little relief from the hockey team’s 6–2 loss to No. 2 Quin-nipiac, as the basketball team dropped games to nemesis Harvard and bottom-feeder Dartmouth.
On Friday, a spirited second-half
comeback by the Bulldogs fell short as they lost 67–64 to the Crimson in Bos-ton. The next night against Dartmouth, though forward Matt Townsend ’15 scored a career-high 16 points against the Big Green in Hanover, the Bulldogs dropped the contest 71–62.
“We need to have the same sense of urgency when we’re trying to come back at the end of the game in the first five or 10 minutes of the game,” captain Sam Martin ’13 said. “Sometimes I don’t think we do that.”
The Bulldogs certainly dug them-selves into a hole early on Friday. Behind a 10-point first half e!ort from Crimson
NUMBER OF BULLDOGS WITH TWO POINTS IN THE MEN’S HOCKEY 4–2 WIN AGAINST PRINCETON. Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 each had a goal and an assist, while Tommy Fallen ’15 helped out with two assists.
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NFL AND HARVARD PLAN $100 MILLION STUDYLast week, the NFL Players Association announced a deal that will give Harvard $100 million over the next 10 years to study football player injury and illness. Dr. Lee Nadler, a dean at Harvard Medi-cal School, told CNN the study is unique because it will examine the “player across his whole life, not just his brain.”
“We had a quick start, but we knew [Quinni-piac was] a top-ranked team.”
ANDREW MILLER ’13CAPTAIN, MEN’S HOCKEY
YALE-QUINNIPIAC COMMANDS HIGH PRICERESALE TICKETS LISTED FOR $200 The Battle for Whitney Avenue did not end in Yale’s favor, but the game was one of New Haven’s biggest draws in years. Connecticut Post writer Chris Eisberry reported Sunday that tick-ets were available before the game on StubHub for $200.
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YALE DAILY NEWS ·MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
BY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER
Less than three minutes into Friday night’s home game versus Princeton, men’s hockey starting goalie Je! Malcolm ’13 was charged in the net and struggled to get up. As teammates helped him o! the ice, Nick Maricic ’13, who had not played since Dec. 28, took to the crease, knowing he’d need a strong performance to bring the Bulldogs up from a 1–0 deficit.
And he did just that. Yale (13-6-3, 9-5-1 ECAC) came back from behind to beat Prince-ton 4–2, with Maricic stopping 20 of 21 shots. The No. 8 Bulldogs started out strong again on Saturday in a highly anticipated match-up against crosstown rival No. 2 Quinnipiac (19-3-4, 12-0-2 ECAC), but they could not main-tain their two-point lead and ultimately fell to the Bobcats 6–2.
“As a back up goalie, you know it can hap-pen at any point,” Maricic said. “This late in the year, you don’t want to go in because the only time you’re going in is if something bad hap-pens. You try to focus on one shot at a time and don’t let things snowball.”
Friday’s game started with a bang: the Tigers (7-10-4, 5-6-3 ECAC) got a wrister from the right circle past Malcolm just 20 seconds in. But the Bulldogs responded at 2:59 when Jesse Root ’14 took advantage of the Tigers’ “charging the goalie” penalty, scoring his seventh goal of the season and tying the game early — but not for long. Princeton forward Michael Sdao got one past Maricic at 3:16 and regained the lead for the visiting team.
BY FRANCESCA COXECONTRIBUTING REPORTER
The No. 5 women’s squash team emerged from its most important weekend to date with its hopes for an Ivy League title evaporated but the chances of a national championship still alive.
Saturday and Sunday featured two must-win Ivy matches for the Bull-dogs (9–3, Ivy 2–2) against No. 1 Princeton (8–0, Ivy 4–0) and No. 3 Penn (10–2, Ivy 3–2). The Elis, now out of the running for the Ivy League title, fell to Princeton 5–4 and Penn 7–2.
Going into this do-or-die week-end, the Bulldogs su!ered a devastat-ing blow this week in practice when Kim Hay ’14 su!ered a season-end-ing injury. Hay, ranked No. 6 in the nation, has been crucial to the suc-cess of the team so far this season.
Hay’s teammates and coaches agree that Kim’s injury was one of the worst things that could happen dur-ing the season.
“The loss of Kim was really a sig-nificant setback [for us]. She is not a player that we can replace with any-body near her level. Losing to Prince-ton without Kim shows that with her in the lineup the chances of [us] win-ning would be very high,” head coach Dave Talbott said. “With everyone moving down a spot, we are confident we would have won that match.”
In front of cheering fans in a capacity-filled Brady Squash Center on Saturday, Yale was upended by the top-ranked Tigers in what proved to be a thrilling matchup.
While the Bulldogs lost 5–4, the close score reflects a hotly contested match. Yale steadfastly won the first two matches, including a victory by Shihui Mao ’15 at the third position in five furious games. Losing the first game 11–4, Mao took the court in
the second with a renewed focus and precision in her play, leading to an 11–5 win. In a seesaw battle, Princ-eton’s Nicole Bunyan took the third game and Mao responded to take the fourth. The match came down to the wire in the fifth and final game, where the impressive Mao dominated with composure and guile. After a few per-
sonal errors, her opponent crept back into the game with a score of 9–9. Mao produced the crucial match win-ner (12–10) o! of a shot with di"cult placement in the backcourt and gave Yale its first victory of the day.
“Mentally, I usually just remind
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No. 5 Yale was upended by the top-ranked Princeton Tigers in what proved to be a thrilling matchup.
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Forward Matt Townsend ’15 scored a career-high 16 points against Dartmouth on Satur-day, but the sophomore’s o!ensive e!orts could not save the Elis from a 71–62 defeat.
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Yale came back from behind to beat Princeton 4–2, with Nick Maricic ’13 stopping 20 of 21 shots.
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Despite not playing in the Super Bowl, Tim Tebow still found his way into the news Sunday. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the New York Jets plan to hold onto Tebow with hopes of trading him, instead of releasing the QB at the beginning of the league year in March.
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ber in the Ivy scrimmages. Credit to [Princeton] — they played extremely well and despite our best e!orts came out on top.”
The next day the Bulldogs turned it around with a 6–3 win over the Quakers (4-8, Ivy 1-4). Yale swept the first six spots, and Chan, Martin, Zachary Leman ’16 and Charlie Wyatt ’14 all won in three sets.
Spots seven through nine were taken by the Quakers in long, drawn-out matches. Joey Rob-erts ’15 fell in five to Tyler Odell at No. 7. At the No. 8 position, Sam Haig ’13 fell in four to Daniel Judd and Sam Shleifer ’15 lost to Justin Ang in four.
Robinson said he was proud of the way his team came back focused on Sunday and prepared to compete again.
The Elis’ next match series will be at home. On Wednesday they will host the No. 18 Brown Bears and on Saturday the No. 8 Dart-mouth Big Green.
including one from forward Kelly Babstock, the seventh-leading scorer in the nation. Bab-stock’s score, with just 30 seconds remaining in regulation, tied the game at two apiece, and after a scoreless overtime period, the game ended in a draw.
“Losing the lead in the last 30 seconds of a game is really hard,” Leono! said. “I’d rather us tie a game coming back from a deficit than giving up a lead.”
Haddad agreed, saying that it was heart-wrenching to let the win slip through the team’s fingers in the final minute.
The third period collapse undercut a strong performance from Yale’s penalty-killing unit, which stopped three Quinnipiac power plays and has stopped 19 power plays in a row over the past five games.
“We need to be tougher in the third period,” Leono! said. “The opportunities that [Quin-nipiac and Princeton] scored on in the third period — those are opportunities we pre-vented the whole game.”
In order to get back into the playo! hunt, the Elis will need to earn some points in this week’s games at No. 3 Harvard and Dart-mouth.
“Hopefully we can take the fire that we
came out with during the first period on Sat-urday and carry that through the whole 60 minutes this weekend,” Haddad said.
myself that I have already trained so hard and I owe it to the team and myself to play my best in the match — that meant going after every ball and playing smart,” Mao said.
The lead extended to 2–0 with the strong play of Issey Norman-Ross ’15 at No. 6 with a four-game win. After a slow start, Norman-Ross gained momentum with her agility and technique.
Quick crosscourt switches, combined with her ability to always return to central court, led to wins in both the first and second games. Norman-Ross dropped the third game, 11–5, but swiftly recovered in the fourth to eventually win 11–8 and take the match.
Despite 2–0 lead, the light at the end of the tunnel darkened as the Tigers would not back down. Princeton fought back with three wins at the No. 9 spot against Georgia Blatchford ’16, No. 2 spot against captain Katie Ballaine ’13 and No. 5 spot against Gwen Til-ghman ’14.
With Princeton now up 3–2 in the second round of play, Annie Ballaine ’16 came through for the Elis at the eighth position with a hard-fought four-game win to bring it even. Relentless play by the Tigers led to Yale’s losses in the fourth and seventh spots. Anna Harrison ’15 at No. 7 and Lilly Fast ’14 at No. 4 valiantly
pushed back, but were taken down in straight matches, secur-ing Princeton’s win with a score of 5–3.
Breathing life into the Bull-dogs, No. 2 Millie Tomlinson ’14 played for pride and emerged with a decisive three-game win in the first position. The crowd roared as their home team con-tinued to dig deep, but to no avail. With a 5–4 win, Princeton emerged victorious and took con-trol of the Ivy League race. The sting of Yale’s loss will be fresh as Princeton returns in two weeks to the Brady Squash Center for the 2013 Howe Cup national team championships.
Pressing on the very next day, the Bulldogs faced the Quakers in a match focused on national ranking.
Penn dominated the day. The only wins for Yale were at spots five and one with Tilghman and Tomlinson, respectively. With Penn up 4–0, Tilghman picked up the pace, scrambled the full length of the court and convinc-ingly pulled o! a three-game win to keep the Bulldogs in the match and make the score 4–1.
The Quakers capitalized in subsequent matches at spots seven and four, capturing the win by hitting the five-point mark. It was only Tomlinson, who won the last contest of the day in a relent-less four-game battle, improv-ing her individual season record to 6–1.
At No. 2, Ballaine fiercely ral-lied for five tough games and created a presence on the court through her attacking preci-sion, instinct and power. It came down to the fifth and final match, where the determination in both players was tangible. Ultimately, even though Ballaine lost 14–12, her play served as a model for her teammates of Bulldog passion and pride.
“She pressed her opponents in both matches, losing in a tight three to Princeton and in a very tight five to Penn against play-ers much higher ranked than her. [She has] shown the other players that we can step up and still con-tend against the top teams with-out Kim,” Talbott said. “[Katie] Ballaine has been an outstanding captain all year and has not let the team get down about or discour-aged by her [Hay’s] injury.”
Despite the losses this week-end and the Ivy League title out of reach, the Elis still have an opportunity to win the national championship. With two weeks and three more Ivy opponents, including Harvard, to use as preparation, the women are more focused and determined than ever.
Ivy League play continues for the Bulldogs this Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. against Brown at the Brady Squash Center.
guard Wesley Saunders, Harvard opened up a 13-point lead on Yale going into halftime. The Crimson also drained six 3-pointers in the opening half, including three from captain Laurent Rivard.
“In the first half we weren’t guarding the perimeter very well,” Townsend said.
The Bulldogs increased their intensity in the second half, out-scoring the Crimson by 10 points in the period, but their e!ort fell just short. With 19 seconds remaining in the game, guard Armani Cotton ’15 converted a lay-up to cut Har-vard’s lead to three at 63–60. But as the Crimson players made their free throws down the stretch, the Elis were unable to get any closer.
“It’s always a tough place to play, especially when it’s us play-ing there,” Martin said. “It was a tough game, but it was a fun place to play.”
Although the close loss to rival Harvard certainly stung the Bull-dogs, perhaps the more trou-bling result came the next night in Hanover. The Elis faced a Dart-mouth squad that features only one upperclassman on its roster and that had won only one confer-ence game in the last three years prior to Saturday’s matchup.
Yet the Elis were dominated from start to finish by the Big Green in the nine-point loss. The Bulldogs ended the first half down seven points, 27–20, and the Dart-mouth lead ballooned to as many as 15 points in the second half. For-
ward Gabas Maldunas led the Big Green in scoring, tallying 16 points o! the bench.
While the Bulldogs generated open shot attempts, Martin said the team was unable to convert its chances. The team missed 19 of its 24 3-point attempts, including eight misses by sharp-shooting guard Austin Morgan ’13.
“As a team we relied a little too much on our 3-point shots,” Mor-gan said.
Morgan added that the Elis must look to pass more to its scorers in the paint on the second game of back-to-back contests, as shoot-ers’ legs tire by the second contest.
The Bulldogs will try to rebound next week with another set of games on the road. The team will take on Penn on Friday before chal-lenging Princeton on Saturday.
Elis stay No. 2 in ECACThe excitement of the first three
minutes of play settled down and Yale found a rhythm. At 13:39 for-ward Kenny Agostino ’14 evened the scoreboard with a backhand goal o! a rebound shot by defender Tommy Fallen’15.
“They scored on their first two shots and I liked that our guys didn’t get rattled,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “Also, our goalie got hurt early and was out of the game. We just stuck with the plan and were able to break through at the end.”
Allain added that Agostino played one of the best games of his career on Friday and that after the Bulldogs tied the game at 2–2, they took over the momentum and did not relinquish it for the rest of the game.
Clinton Bourbonnais ’14 gave Yale the lead for the first time all night with a goal three minutes into the second period. Princeton pushed hard in the third period, trying to bring the game into over-time at least, but team captain
Andrew Miller ’13 secured the Elis’ win with a goal o! a rebound at 16:42. The Bulldogs outshot the Tigers 42–22.
On Saturday night, with Mal-colm off the roster and Maricic starting in net for the first time since Dec. 1, the Bulldogs took an early 2–0 lead against hockey powerhouse Quinnipiac. The Bob-cats took three penalties in the first 10 minutes of play, and Trent Ruf-falo ’15 and Stu Wilson ’16 capital-ized on two of them.
But the gameplay shifted in favor of Quinnipiac halfway through the first period. Yale took three penalties in the last half of the first period and two in the sec-ond, while the Bobcats cleaned up their play. The Bobcats scored a series of six unanswered goals, two in each period. Yale outshot Quin-nipiac 13–8 in the first frame, but was ultimately outshot 39–32.
“We had a quick start, but we knew they were a top-ranked team,” Miller said. “They weren’t going to shy away and just lie down.”
Sophomore goalie Connor Wil-
son ’15 stepped in to relieve Mar-icic for the third period, but the Elis could not bring down their local rival, which has an 18-game undefeated streak.
Team sta! have not disclosed the nature of Malcolm’s injury and it is unclear whether he will play next Saturday, as the Bull-dogs travel to Brown (8-9-5, ECAC 4-6-5).
“It’s really hard, I was a goalie myself and I give Maricic a ton of credit,” Allain said. “He hasn’t played a lot but he works extremely hard. I always told him you will get an opportunity, and when you do make sure you’re ready.”
The Bulldogs will play their last
home regular season games on March 1 and 2 against Colgate and Cornell, respectively.
The shooting was spread between the Elis, with four dif-ferent Bulldogs netting at least two 3-pointers. Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 led the scoring with 13 points, followed by guard Halejian and forward Janna Graf ’14, who each added 10. Graf led the team in rebounding with nine boards, leaving her just short of a double-double.
The Bulldogs came out firing on all cylinders, and a 3-point shot and jumper from Halejian gave them the 5–4 lead early. The Crimson regained their footing and were able to shut down the Elis, charging ahead to a 14-point lead behind the offensive efforts of 6-foot-2-inch sophomore forward Temi Fagbenle. Fagbenle had a career-high 20 points in the
game, 10 of which came in the first half.
Trailing 21–7 at the 10:15 mark in the first, the Bulldogs called a time out to regroup and came back prepared to close the gap. Six consecutive points from Vasquez jumpstarted the Elis’ 13–7 run to pull within eight. Two free throws and a layup gave the Crimson a 32-20 advantage heading into half-time.
“As to our slow starts, the only thing I can figure is that my halftime talks must be bet-ter than my pregame talks,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said.
The Bulldogs carried their momentum into the second half. Graf drained two 3s in the first two minutes of play, and the Elis continued to chal-lenge the Crimson from outside. A 3-pointer from Messimer
brought the score the 47–44 in favor of Harvard, but the Bull-dogs were unable pull any closer. Fagbenle scored eight points in the final eight minutes to secure a 67–54 win for the Crimson.
Despite the Elis’ strong per-formance from beyond the arc, particularly in the second half, they shot only 27.8 percent (20 for 72) from the field. The Bull-dogs were only able to score 12 points in the paint compared to 40 for Harvard.
“Looking forward, we need to just make sure we do all the little things right like rebound the ball, hit open shots and play great defense,” Messimer said. “We are a good team. We just need to play our game and work hard all 40 minutes.”
The Bulldogs are back in action next weekend when they host Ivy League rivals Penn and
We need to have the same sense of urgency when we’re trying to come back at the end of the game in the first five or 10 minutes of the game.
SAM MARTIN ’13Team captain, men’s basketball
YALE 4, PRINCETON 2
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PRINC. 2 0 0 # 2
G: Bourbonais 1 (Yale), Miller 1 (Yale), two others 1 (Yale), Maugeri 1 (Princ.), Sdao 1 (Princ.)A: Fallen 2 (Yale)S: Condon 38 (Princ.), Maricic 20 (Yale)Goalie J. Malcolm (Yale) left game at 2:41 in first period (injury, return uncertain). Princeton scored twice in first 3:16.
QUINNIPIAC 6, YALE 2
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G: Dalhuisen 1 (QU), K. Jones 1 (QU), four others 1(QU), Wilson 1 (Yale), Ru!olo 1 (Yale)A: Federico 2 (QU), Langlois 2 (QU)S: Hartzell 30 (QU), Maricic 25 (Yale)
Power outage delays Super Bowl for 34 minutesIn one of the strangest live television events in recent history, more than half of the lights in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome suddenly turned o! early in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, leaving the dome in partial darkness for 34 minutes. Players milled about trying to stay loose, and the press box was without power for a majority of the time. Despite a furious 49ers comeback, the Ravens won 34–31.
Tough split at homeBY ADLON ADAMSSTAFF REPORTER
The No. 4 Yale men’s squash team (9-2, 3-1 Ivy) hosted two nationally ranked Ivy League rivals this weekend at the Brady Squash Center.
The No. 1 Princeton Tigers (8-0, 4-0 Ivy) overpowered the Elis on Saturday morning with a 6–3 win, but Yale came back against No. 12 Penn with a 6–3 victory the next day.
Despite the strong comeback, the Elis no lon-ger have a chance to win the Ivy title this season.
“Princeton came out strong with two wins o! the bat that swung the game in their favor,” Ken-neth Chan ’13 said. “We played well as a team. All our players left everything on the court and can be proud of their e!ort.”
Saturday’s loss against Princeton, the defend-ing national champion, was Yale’s first loss at home and in the Ivy League. The first round of matches went in Princeton’s favor with wins at the No. 9 and No. 3 spots. Ricky Dodd ’13 put up a hard-fought battle at the third spot but fell in three close games in a tense competition against Princeton’s Tyler Osborne.
The second round of matches evened the score for the Elis to 3–3 with wins at the No. 2 and No. 5 spots. Team captain Hywel Robinson ’13 won at No. 2 in four sets and Neil Martin ’14 won at No. 5 in three. Eric Caine ’14 fell at No. 8 to Vivek Dino-dia amidst encouragement from the Eli’s room-mates and aggressive cheering from the Prince-ton parents.
“We wanted to win the Ivy League for our seniors,” Caine said. “We really liked our chances given that we had beaten the Tigers in Novem-
Bulldogs live and die by the 3
BY SARAH ONORATOCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
The Yale women’s basketball team thrilled the home crowd with second-half surges against Harvard and Dart-mouth this weekend, but was unable to complete the comebacks and came up short in both games.
On Saturday night, the Elis (6–12, 1–3 Ivy) fell to Dartmouth 63–48 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs got off to a slow start, end-ing the half at a 30–15 disadvantage. The Big Green (5–13, 3–1 Ivy) con-trolled the pace in the half, challeng-ing the Bulldogs’ defense making 48.3 percent of their field goals compared to only 23.1 percent for the Elis.
After coming out to a slow start, the Bulldogs turned things around in the second half. In the first seven minutes, guards Sarah Halejian ’15 and captain Allie Messimer ’13 combined for 16 points to close the gap.
“It is in our nature to come out relaxed and not exactly ready to play,” Halejian said. “We have to find a way to play the full 40 minutes with a high level of intensity.”
The Bulldog defense came out energized to start the second half and applied much more on-ball pressure on the Big Green. They were able to hold Dartmouth to only two points in the first six minutes, cutting the defi-cit to 32–29 at the 14:51 mark.
The Elis were never able to inch any closer, and Dartmouth pulled away behind a 19-point performance from senior guard Faziah Steen.
Halejian led the scoring for the Elis with 15 points, with all of her points coming in the second half. Messimer added 14 of her own and pulled down four rebounds for the Bulldogs.
In Friday night’s game against Har-vard (12–6, 3–1 Ivy), the Bulldogs’ second-half rally fell short despite an impressive team 3-point shooting performance. The Bulldogs were 6–12 from 3 in the second half and shot 34.6 percent from behind the arc over the course of the game.
“I think we rely way too heavily on the 3,” Halejian said. “When it’s not dropping, we need to attack the bas-ket more on the drive and find peo-ple inside as opposed to continuing to force outside shots. We can’t live and die by the 3.”
Elis drop late leadsBY GRANT BRONSDON
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Twice this weekend, the Yale women’s hockey team took a lead into the third period. And twice, the Bull-dogs failed to hold on, losing 3–1 at Princeton on Friday and tying Quin-nipiac 2–2 on Saturday.
The Elis (4–17–2, 3–11–2 ECAC) could not capitalize on their leads, and the team now sits in 10th place in the conference, two points shy of Princeton and the eighth and final ECAC playo! spot.
“If we’re going to make the play-o!s, we have to be better in the third period,” defenseman Tara Tomimoto ’14 said.
In Friday’s contest against Prince-
ton (4–10–2, 9–12–2 ECAC), Steph-anie Mock ’15 broke a long scoreless streak for both teams just over a min-ute before the second period ended. But the Tigers were able to strike back with three goals on 14 shots in the final period, including an empty-net goal after the Bulldogs pulled goaltender Jaimie Leono! ’15 in an attempt to generate more o!ense.
The outcome against Quinnip-iac on Saturday was in many ways a tougher pill for the Elis to swallow. Yale struck first again, scoring twice in the first period on goals from for-wards Hanna Åström ’16 and Patricia McGauley ’14.
After the period ended, Quinnipiac switched goalies, bringing in regular starter Victoria Vigilanti, who did not allow a goal the rest of the game.
“It’s always great when the oppos-ing team realizes they’ve underesti-
mated you and regrets putting their backup goalie in,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said.
The Bobcats finally broke through with two goals in the third period,
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No. 1 Princeton came out strong on Saturday with a 6–3 win, but No. 4 Yale came back against No. 12 Penn with a 6–3 victory the next day. SEE MEN’S SQUASH PAGE B2
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It’s always great when the opposition team realizes they’ve underestimated you and regrets putting their backup goalie in.
JAMIE HADDAD ’16Forward, women’s hockey
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Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 scored a team-high 13 points and was one three Bulldogs in double figures against Harvard, but the Elis shot only 27.8 percent from the floor.
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Defender Aurora Kennedy ’15 and the Eli defense held Quinnipiac scoreless for two periods but could not seal the shutout.
