THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY · FOUNDED 1878 CROSS CAMPUS MORE ONLINE cc.yaledailynews.com y MORNING SUNNY 37 EVENING SUNNY 49 W. TENNIS No. 25 Elis’ win streak ends with hiccup at unranked Syracuse PAGE B4 SPORTS CARTOONING RECORD PANEL EXAMINES YALE’S ROLE IN THE ART PAGE 5 CULTURE SMALL BUSINESS Operation Fuel supports local businesses with energy-eciency grant PAGE 3 CITY INSIDE THE NEWS W. SQUASH BULLDOGS FINISH SECOND IN NATION PAGE B1 SPORTS Finally. On Sunday night, in front of an audience of millions, the immortal Meryl Streep DRA ’75 took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” This is Streep’s first Oscar win in nearly 30 years — her last win came for her role in the 1982 film “Sophie’s Choice.” She also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1979 film “Kramer vs. Kramer.” “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no! Oh, come on! Why her? Again?’” Streep said in her victory speech. “But, whatever.” How’s her poker face? At a Public Interest Auction at the Law School Friday night, one lucky bidder won a poker night for five with tiger mom Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld for the bargain price of $1,500. Remembering. The students behind Michele’s Fund, a fundraising eort dedicating to endowing a scholarship in honor of Michele Dufault ’11, have launched a website — www.michelesfund.com — organizing their eorts. A new year. After several days of auditions, 14 junior men learned Sunday night that they’d been selected to become members of the 2012- ’13 Whienpoofs. Next year’s roster includes four members of the Duke’s Men and three members of the Spizzwinks(?). Need medical advice? The School of Medicine has launched a new blog, Ask Yale Medicine, through which the school’s faculty can answer questions sent in by readers. So far, the blog has responded to inquiries on winter sports injuries and sun exposure. A New York Times article published on Saturday featured Yale prefrosh Rudi-Ann Miller, and her experiences as one of only 40 black students out of 3,295 students in total at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Streaking. After going 4–5 to start its season, Yale’s own Starcraft team competing in the Collegiate Starleague has gone 9–0 since January. The streak, which included victories over Penn and North Carolina, has earned Yale’s team a 13–5 record, a no. 42 ranking (of 250 schools) and a spot in the upcoming playos. Attention writers. Today is the last day to submit to the Wallace Prize. Submissions of creative nonfiction and fiction are due to 202 York St. by 4 p.m. Winners will receive cash prizes and may see their pieces printed in the Yale Daily News Magazine. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1980 Leaders of Yale’s unions say a strike is coming in 1981, the fifth since 1967. Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected]NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 100 · yaledailynews.com BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER Administrators approved gender-neutral housing for juniors on Sunday based on an evaluation of the experiences of seniors in mixed-gender housing over the last two years. After the University allowed seniors to live in mixed-gender suites in 2010, the option to live with the members of the oppo- site gender will be extended to the classes of 2013 and 2014 next fall, and mixed-gender suites will be incorporated into the upcoming housing draw. A Yale College Council proposal to expand the gender-neu- tral housing policy to juniors was rejected last spring, but administrators said they have now reviewed enough sur- vey data from seniors in co-ed suites to declare the initiative a success. “We wanted to have enough evidence,” University Presi- dent Richard Levin said. “We doubled the number of cases [from last year], so we were able to get a better sense of any problems that might arise.” This year, 29 seniors are liv- ing in mixed-gender suites. Joseph Yagoda ’14, chair of the YCC gender-neutral hous- ing committee, said next year’s YCC will likely attempt to extend the privilege to under- classmen, but Levin said he would need more evidence of the policy’s success before supporting such an expansion. In addition to comments from seniors living with the opposite gender, the YCC’s proposal included results from surveys of the student body. Of the 445 juniors and 443 soph- omores who responded to the YCC survey, 92.7 percent said they either supported or were indierent to the adoption of gender-neutral housing for juniors, and 67.1 percent said they would consider living SEE HOUSING PAGE 4 Giamatti makes homecoming JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER SON OF FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RETURNS TO YALE Pierson College and the Film Studies Program hosted actor Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 in a Fri- day Master’s Tea. Following Giamatti’s wishes, attendance at the talk was capped, with only five spots allotted via lottery to students outside of Pierson and the Film Studies Program. BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Police Department’s new shooting task force made its first arrest Friday. Less than two weeks after NHPD Chief Dean Esserman created the unit with the help of the State’s Attorney’s Oce, the task force arrested Gary Wil- liams for the non-fatal Decem- ber shootings of Anthony Moore and Jermell Gibson at Poplar and Chatham streets. The arrest came after the NHPD received a tip in January from a Walling- ford police detective, according to a NHPD press release. Before the creation of the shooting unit, the NHPD’s Major Crimes Unit would have investigated the tip, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said. Progress on the case would likely have been slowed, since the MCU’s workload includes homicides and other pressing criminal investigations, he said. The shootings unit allows the department to devote increased resources to unsolved, non-fatal shooting cases, he said. “I am very grateful to our part- ners in the Chief State’s Attor- ney’s office, the State’s Attor- ney’s oce, the state police, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Probation, the Hamden Police Department and the West Haven Police Depart- ment, who have come together BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER After experiencing a decline in the number of undergraduate majors in recent years, the His- tory Department is changing the program to increase its appeal to students. In response to students’ con- cerns about their ability to form a cohesive course of study in the major, the department will, beginning next semester, fea- ture “thematic pathways” on its website that list history courses in areas ranging from environ- mental history to international aairs, said Steven Pincus, direc- tor of undergraduate studies for the department. Professors are also designing a yearlong survey course to introduce freshman and sophomores to historical meth- odologies and the discipline as a whole, and they intend to con- tinue expanding seminar oppor- tunities for underclassmen. “We’re all trying to energize students to get involved in his- tory, and we’re thinking big about how to make this an approach- History Dept. revamps major BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER Two issues that have recently sparked controversy among faculty reached this weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corpora- tion, the University’s highest governing body. University President Richard Levin told the News that the Corporation discussed shared services, Yale-NUS, the Yale Entre- preneurial Institute and Yale’s develop- ment of the areas around Yale Health and Science Park. Two of these issues — shared services, a University push to centralize administrative work, and the jointly run liberal arts college Yale will open with the National University of Singapore in fall 2013 — have raised concern among some professors who feel that administrators made decisions without adequately con- sulting faculty. At the meeting, Levin said administrators were careful to explain the controversy surrounding these issues to the Corporation. “We certainly apprise the Corporation about the concerns in the faculty and talk about how we might best approach those,” Levin said, though he declined to comment on how the Corporation responded to dis- cussions of controversy regarding shared services and Yale-NUS. Shared services came under fire from about 20 professors at the Feb. 2 faculty meeting. The group of professors criticized the initiative as unilaterally implemented by the administration without considering the needs of individual departments. At the Corporation meeting, Vice President for Finance and Business Operation Shauna King gave a presentation on changes Yale has made to shared services, reviewing how the initiative has succeeded and “where there is work to be accomplished,” Levin said. He added that the Corporation dis- cussed ongoing eorts to improve the fac- ulty experience with shared services. The administration was criticized again SEE TASK FORCE PAGE 4 SEE CORPORATION PAGE 6 SEE HISTORY PAGE 6 New task force sees first arrest Juniors get gender-neutral Faculty complaints reach Corporation [The current program] can be a disadvantage if students feel that they’ve done a bit of this and a bit of that. KEITH WRIGHTSON History professor
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W. TENNISNo. 25 Elis’ win streak ends with hiccup at unranked SyracusePAGE B4 SPORTS
CARTOONINGRECORD PANEL EXAMINES YALE’S ROLE IN THE ARTPAGE 5 CULTURE
SMALL BUSINESSOperation Fuel supports local businesses with energy-e!ciency grantPAGE 3 CITY
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W. SQUASHBULLDOGS FINISH SECOND IN NATIONPAGE B1 SPORTS
Finally. On Sunday night, in front of an audience of millions, the immortal Meryl Streep DRA ’75 took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” This is Streep’s first Oscar win in nearly 30 years — her last win came for her role in the 1982 film “Sophie’s Choice.” She also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1979 film “Kramer vs. Kramer.” “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no! Oh, come on! Why her? Again?’” Streep said in her victory speech. “But, whatever.”
How’s her poker face? At a Public Interest Auction at the Law School Friday night, one lucky bidder won a poker night for five with tiger mom Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld for the bargain price of $1,500.
Remembering. The students behind Michele’s Fund, a fundraising e!ort dedicating to endowing a scholarship in honor of Michele Dufault ’11, have launched a website — www.michelesfund.com — organizing their e!orts.
A new year. After several days of auditions, 14 junior men learned Sunday night that they’d been selected to become members of the 2012-’13 Whi!enpoofs. Next year’s roster includes four members of the Duke’s Men and three members of the Spizzwinks(?).
Need medical advice? The School of Medicine has launched a new blog, Ask Yale Medicine, through which the school’s faculty can answer questions sent in by readers. So far, the blog has responded to inquiries on winter sports injuries and sun exposure.
A New York Times article published on Saturday featured Yale prefrosh Rudi-Ann Miller, and her experiences as one of only 40 black students out of 3,295 students in total at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
Streaking. After going 4–5 to start its season, Yale’s own Starcraft team competing in the Collegiate Starleague has gone 9–0 since January. The streak, which included victories over Penn and North Carolina, has earned Yale’s team a 13–5 record, a no. 42 ranking (of 250 schools) and a spot in the upcoming playo!s.
Attention writers. Today is the last day to submit to the Wallace Prize. Submissions of creative nonfiction and fiction are due to 202 York St. by 4 p.m. Winners will receive cash prizes and may see their pieces printed in the Yale Daily News Magazine.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1980 Leaders of Yale’s unions say a strike is coming in 1981, the fifth since 1967.
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 100 · yaledailynews.com
BY MADELINE MCMAHONSTAFF REPORTER
Administrators approved gender-neutral housing for juniors on Sunday based on an evaluation of the experiences of seniors in mixed-gender housing over the last two years.
After the University allowed seniors to live in mixed-gender suites in 2010, the option to live
with the members of the oppo-site gender will be extended to the classes of 2013 and 2014 next fall, and mixed-gender suites will be incorporated into the upcoming housing draw. A Yale College Council proposal to expand the gender-neu-tral housing policy to juniors was rejected last spring, but administrators said they have now reviewed enough sur-
vey data from seniors in co-ed suites to declare the initiative a success.
“We wanted to have enough evidence,” University Presi-dent Richard Levin said. “We doubled the number of cases [from last year], so we were able to get a better sense of any problems that might arise.”
This year, 29 seniors are liv-ing in mixed-gender suites.
Joseph Yagoda ’14, chair of the YCC gender-neutral hous-ing committee, said next year’s YCC will likely attempt to extend the privilege to under-classmen, but Levin said he would need more evidence of the policy’s success before supporting such an expansion.
In addition to comments from seniors living with the opposite gender, the YCC’s
proposal included results from surveys of the student body. Of the 445 juniors and 443 soph-omores who responded to the YCC survey, 92.7 percent said they either supported or were indi!erent to the adoption of gender-neutral housing for juniors, and 67.1 percent said they would consider living
SEE HOUSING PAGE 4
Giamatti makes homecoming
JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
SON OF FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RETURNS TO YALEPierson College and the Film Studies Program hosted actor Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 in a Fri-day Master’s Tea. Following Giamatti’s wishes, attendance at the talk was capped, with only five spots allotted via lottery to students outside of Pierson and the Film Studies Program.
BY JAMES LUSTAFF REPORTER
The New Haven Police Department’s new shooting task force made its first arrest Friday.
Less than two weeks after NHPD Chief Dean Esserman created the unit with the help of the State’s Attorney’s O"ce, the task force arrested Gary Wil-liams for the non-fatal Decem-ber shootings of Anthony Moore and Jermell Gibson at Poplar and Chatham streets. The arrest came after the NHPD received a tip in January from a Walling-ford police detective, according to a NHPD press release.
Before the creation of the shooting unit, the NHPD’s Major Crimes Unit would have investigated the tip, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said. Progress on the case would likely have been slowed, since the MCU’s workload includes homicides and other pressing criminal investigations, he said. The shootings unit allows the department to devote increased resources to unsolved, non-fatal shooting cases, he said.
“I am very grateful to our part-ners in the Chief State’s Attor-ney’s office, the State’s Attor-ney’s o"ce, the state police, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Probation, the Hamden Police Department and the West Haven Police Depart-ment, who have come together
BY ANTONIA WOODFORDSTAFF REPORTER
After experiencing a decline in the number of undergraduate majors in recent years, the His-tory Department is changing the program to increase its appeal to students.
In response to students’ con-cerns about their ability to form a cohesive course of study in the major, the department will, beginning next semester, fea-ture “thematic pathways” on its website that list history courses in areas ranging from environ-mental history to international a!airs, said Steven Pincus, direc-tor of undergraduate studies for the department. Professors are also designing a yearlong survey course to introduce freshman and sophomores to historical meth-odologies and the discipline as a
whole, and they intend to con-tinue expanding seminar oppor-tunities for underclassmen.
“We’re all trying to energize students to get involved in his-tory, and we’re thinking big about how to make this an approach-
History Dept. revamps major
BY TAPLEY STEPHENSONSTAFF REPORTER
Two issues that have recently sparked controversy among faculty reached this weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corpora-tion, the University’s highest governing body.
University President Richard Levin told the News that the Corporation discussed shared services, Yale-NUS, the Yale Entre-preneurial Institute and Yale’s develop-ment of the areas around Yale Health and Science Park. Two of these issues — shared services, a University push to centralize administrative work, and the jointly run liberal arts college Yale will open with the National University of Singapore in fall 2013 — have raised concern among some professors who feel that administrators made decisions without adequately con-sulting faculty. At the meeting, Levin said administrators were careful to explain the controversy surrounding these issues to the Corporation.
“We certainly apprise the Corporation about the concerns in the faculty and talk about how we might best approach those,” Levin said, though he declined to comment on how the Corporation responded to dis-cussions of controversy regarding shared services and Yale-NUS.
Shared services came under fire from about 20 professors at the Feb. 2 faculty meeting. The group of professors criticized the initiative as unilaterally implemented by the administration without considering the needs of individual departments. At the Corporation meeting, Vice President for Finance and Business Operation Shauna King gave a presentation on changes Yale has made to shared services, reviewing how the initiative has succeeded and “where there is work to be accomplished,” Levin said. He added that the Corporation dis-cussed ongoing e!orts to improve the fac-ulty experience with shared services.
The administration was criticized again
SEE TASK FORCE PAGE 4
SEE CORPORATION PAGE 6SEE HISTORY PAGE 6
New task force sees first arrest
Juniors get gender-neutral
Faculty complaints reach Corporation
[The current program] can be a disadvantage if students feel that they’ve done a bit of this and a bit of that.
KEITH WRIGHTSONHistory professor
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This past Saturday night, I had a few beers. I am 21, so the state of Connect-
icut said it was legal. Many of my underage peers also drank this weekend, technically in violation of the law. Across the nation, students and col-lege administrators know this situation makes little sense. In fact, it’s almost trite to mention it. Yet a series of complicated political pressures prevent states from changing 21-to-drink statutes.
At the risk of being trite, I’ll venture to say that this discus-sion needs to happen.
A group of university presi-dents banded together in 2008 to try and break the deadlock. Calling their effort the Ame-thyst Initiative — after the stone that represents sobri-ety in Greek mythology — they advocate for an open dialogue on the drinking age. To date, only a single Ivy League school — Dartmouth — has signed on to the group’s statement, which has all but died from public view. President Levin should commit Yale to the Amethyst
Initiative and re i nv i go ra te the push for a more sensible stance toward alcohol. He is one of few who can seri-
ously affect a broken status quo.
Two factors prevent states from imple-
menting a lower drinking age or enacting another creative solu-tion to regulate alcohol con-sumption. The first is a 1984 congressional act that removes 10 percent of a state’s high-way funding if it deviates from norm.
Second, groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driv-ing (MADD) remain convinced that stricter laws prevent alco-hol-related deaths. The current research on the topic is unclear and possibly flawed, but MADD refuses to modify its stance. In the face of financial pressures and a sympathetic lobby, politi-cians are paralyzed.
What is worse, the federally mandated drinking age pre-vents state-by-state experi-mentation. Instead of allowing the individual states to act as fifty distinct policy laboratories in which the best law emerges, we have a single, sub-optimal situation with no feasible alter-natives.
And so the unhealthy status quo persists. The recent change in Yale’s tailgating policy illus-trates what goes wrong when we treat those under 21 as minors: Faced with unlikely access to alcohol, younger students heavily pregamed The Game.
Yale actually has one of the more liberal policies toward underage drinking: We focus
on safety, not the law. Students face no disciplinary repercus-sions if they go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, and the Yale Police would rather turn a blind eye than arrest an under-age student for possession. Other schools are not so fortu-nate.
But even our current pol-icy prevents Yale from teach-ing students how to drink responsibly. We cannot pres-ent underclassmen with mature social settings involving alco-hol. Instead, binging becomes the only standard they know. We will not solve all problems related to alcohol if 18-year olds can legally consume — college kids will always party a little too hard. But it would definitely alleviate the situation, both here in New Haven and around the country.
NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College. His
In his Feb. 20 response to the New York Police Depart-ment’s monitoring of the
Yale MSA, President Rich-ard Levin paid mere lip ser-vice to the founding ideals of our beloved alma mater. As co-presidents of the Mustached Students Association (MSA), we go further and condemn the New York Police Department’s actions as baseless facial pro-filing.
President Levin is at least correct to acknowledge that, for decades, Mustached Amer-icans have “too often been the target of thoughtless stereo-typing, misplaced fear and big-otry.” The evil deeds of a few mustached individuals — Hit-ler, Stalin, Dave Navarro — do not speak for a majority, or even a plurality, of our community. Contrary to the ignorant, face-ist rhetoric that has sprouted across our nation and at our University, the vast majority of Mustached Americans strongly oppose violent hair-orism. The Yale MSA has been accused of no crime (except for looking good), and the NYPD’s surveil-lance is unwarranted.
The right-wing media have perpetuated the false notion that everybody sporting an organic soup-strainer is a Navarro-facist who advocates the implementation of hair’ia law in the United States. In the Wall Street Journal in October, reporter Ruth Graham asked, “Is America ready for its first hairy-lipped commander in chief in a century?”
The answer should be obvi-ous, and it’s just this sort of chaetophobic language that has kept Mustached Americans out of the White House since William Howard Taft 1878. Today, mustached candidates like Jimmy McMillan, Vermin Supreme and Ambassador John Bolton are cut short and swept to the fringes of the 2012 cam-paign.
We ourselves have been vic-tims of face-ism. Since embrac-ing our Mustached Ameri-can heritage, we have received insults and threats from some of our closest friends and rela-tives. Our cookie-dusters and flavor-savers have been called everything from “trash stashes” to “nose bugs.” Bigots use the stereotypes common in face-ist culture to portray us as mass murderers, pedophiles and lov-ers of NASCAR. Face-ist big-otry here at Yale even prompted our own provost, Peter Salovey GRAD ’86, to shave his famous crumb-catcher in the face of community pressure in 2009.
Face-ists ignore the facts. Contrary to popular belief,
recent American Mustache Institute (AMI) research has shown that mustaches improve attractiveness by more than 38 percent. Furthermore, by shaving less frequently, Mus-tached Americans save water and assist conservation e!orts. Yet despite such aesthetic and environmental contributions to our community, AMI studies show mustache acceptance in the United States has declined by over 60 percent since 1969. This trend is unacceptable, and we must reverse this pattern of intolerance.
That’s why the Yale MSA will be joining with MSAs from across the country in the AMI’s Million Mustache March on Washington. First and fore-most, we will show the NYPD and the American public that we have nothing to hide (except our upper lips). More impor-tantly, we will lobby Congress to pass the Stimulus to Allow for Critical Hair Expenses Act. The STACHE Act will stimulate our stagnant economy by providing a $250 tax refund for Mustached Americans, who currently bear an unfair burden for their work looking good and preserving the environment. The STACHE Act would be a critical step toward facial equality, showing facial minorities nationwide that Congress will protect our civil rights and end the war on men’s health.
For years, mustached lumi-naries like Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi have fought for peace, tolerance and respect. As Yale students and perhaps future leaders ourselves, we must not sit idly by as our pub-lic o"cials trim away at our civil liberties.
After quickly combing the News’ comment boards, we’ve found that this clean-cut issue has been clouded by ad homi-nem attacks and an almost reli-gious fervor. We know that poli-tics can get hairy, but we none-theless hold out hope for the day when true facial equality will emerge. In the meantime, we’ll just have to keep a sti! upper lip.
MICHAEL KNOWLES AND NATE TAYLOR are seniors in Dav-enport College and co-presidents of
the Mustached Students Association.
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MSA demands respect
If you are an average fourth-grader in Connecticut’s pub-lic school system and you live
below the poverty line, you are most likely behind your more a#uent peers in reading by over three and a half grade levels. If you are learning English as a sec-ond language, you are most likely five grade levels behind in reading and four in math. This is the larg-est achievement gap of its kind in the country. The graduation gap tells a similar story: The average Hispanic public school student in Connecticut is over 30 percent less likely to graduate than his or her white peers, and for African-Americans, the graduation gap exceeds 20 percent.
It is clear that Connecticut’s education system has a problem, which why is I support Governor Dannel Malloy’s recently pro-posed education reform bill S.B. 24, “An Act Concerning Edu-cational Competitiveness,” as a large and welcome step towards ensuring that every child in Con-necticut has access to a great public education. By establishing guidelines that attract, train and retain great teachers, prioritize student performance and imple-ment drastic measures to fix fail-
ing schools, the bill ensures that every school in Connecticut is an engine of academic excellence.
S.B. 24 establishes a new eval-uation system for principals and teachers with four annually assessed performance ratings, and it mandates that 45 percent of the evaluation be based on stu-dent performance. These evalua-tions are directly tied to teacher placement decisions; a teacher cannot earn tenure unless he or she has repeatedly proven him or herself to be e!ective, and multi-ple poor evaluations are grounds for removal. Three di!erent lev-els of teacher certification — ini-tial, professional and master — will be tied to student perfor-mance measures, and master teachers are eligible for hard-earned raises in pay. To ensure that we are developing the best teachers possible, the bill also individually tailors professional development opportunities for educators.
The bill is not perfect. Although it requires school dis-tricts to use a common method of accounting when reporting expenses, increases funding for magnet and charter schools and provides additional aid to high-
need districts contingent on the extent of their reforms, it does not ensure that every school is allotted money according to its students’ needs. But no bill is ever perfect, and it would be foolish to give up this opportunity to make such a large leap towards univer-sal quality education.
It is clear that this bill is one worth supporting if you care about the future of public school students not only in Connecti-cut, but across the country. S.B. 24 will catapult Connecticut to the forefront of education reform and by doing so make its system a model for the whole country. We will be proof to other states that constructive change is possible and that it can be done in a way that benefits teachers and stu-
dents alike.Our education system has been
broken for far too long, and now we are seeing the consequences play themselves out. Connecti-cut’s low income and minority students are falling behind more and more every year, average stu-dent achievement has declined in many categories and graduation rates have been stuck around 80 percent since 2003.
We need this bill to move our nation one step closer to univer-sal quality education, and this bill needs students’ support to ensure its passage. We have been students for most of our lives, and we are now lucky enough to be the beneficiaries of an incred-ible education at this University regardless of our backgrounds. We are experiencing firsthand how a great education can change lives. Let’s make it clear to our legislators in Hartford that S.B. 24 is necessary so every stu-dent can have the opportunity to achieve.
RAYMOND NOONAN is a fresh-man in Saybrook College. Contact him
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Support education reform in CT
In the past week, two startling stories about Islam have dom-inated the news. The New York
Police Department’s paranoid monitoring of Muslims through-out the Northeast, including at Yale, has sparked a much-needed discussion about the persistent Islamophobia that infects our nation. Such an abuse of power — especially so far outside the proper jurisdiction — by any government agency against any group is detestable and antitheti-cal to American values, and many people, Muslims and non-Mus-lims alike, have rightly stood up to defend the Muslim community.
The other story, even more appalling, took place on the other side of the world. After discov-ering that American soldiers at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan had burned copies of the Quran, Afghans rioted massively with deadly consequences. As of Sun-day afternoon, over 200 people have been wounded and 30 killed because, apparently, those lives are less important than a book.
Now, I don’t support book burnings of any kind, in particular of a text so important to so many people. It doesn’t matter whether the soldiers didn’t realize that they were burning the Quran, as the White House has claimed, or what they thought the books were
being used for. But the reactions to the Quran burning far out-weighed the o!ense. Books can be replaced; lives cannot.
None of that, however, excuses the overreaction that is unfortu-nately only the latest example of extremism among a dangerous minority of Muslims. The reac-tionary tendencies of many in the Muslim world demand scrutiny and criticism, but when it comes to religious issues, our discourse is often dominated by fear. In the course of becoming a more toler-ant society, we seem to have for-gotten that criticism of religious ideas is not the same as criticism of religious people.
A religion is a set of ideas, and like any ideas, religious ones are subject to reason. The problem is that unlike a scientific theory or a work of philosophy — both of which are clearly human ideas meant for criticism and discus-
sion — religious ideas are, sup-posedly, messages delivered by humans from the divine. There-fore, in the view of fundamental-ists, criticism of their religion is an a!ront to God.
This becomes a particular problem when moral and legalis-tic proclamations that are thou-sands of years old are thought to still be the rules by which we should live today. Take the Old Testament, for example. There’s much in the Old Testament that was quite advanced for its time, but to claim that it is a progressive tome is simply to ignore reality. The Ten Commandments make no mention of slavery or rape, but coveting gets two whole com-mandments. Elsewhere, homo-sexuality is declared an “abomi-nation,” adultery is a capital crime and God demands the genocide of the Amalekites. None of this is meant to imply that believers of the Old Testament are necessar-ily evil or immoral people, but the Old Testament, being thousands of years old, expounds a morality not suited to the modern world.
Similarly, no one would sug-gest that the Christianity of the Middle Ages was peaceful. Blood-thirsty depictions of hell abound, and the Inquisition engaged in systematic torture and persecu-tion of non-Catholics. Funda-
mentalist Christians today are as great a threat to American values as Islamic extremists.
Islam and the Quran, likewise, should be subject to fair criti-cism in public discourse without fear of sparking ridiculously out-sized overreactions and violence. Any system of beliefs, no mat-ter the source, in which women are systematically treated as infe-rior to men, slavery is allowed and apostasy is punishable by death, is immoral and a worthy target of criticism. But critics must also understand that most Muslims do not follow such an evil and absurd moral code.
Much good can be found in the morality of almost any reli-gion. But we cannot accept the good without at least consider-ing the bad, and everyone must be willing to accept fair criti-cism of their beliefs. The power of reason to improve the state of human life and to bring dignity to all people has been demonstrated time and time again. As long as we cling to fundamentalism and close-mindedness, we are for-ever doomed to the darkness of the past.
BRIAN MCNELLIS is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact
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THURSDAY, FEB. 23The article “Malloy seeks cuts to grants” misstated the number of students enrolled at Connecticut College who receive funding through the Connecticut Independent College Student Grant program. The college currently has 142 students who receive CICS funding.
TUESDAY, FEB. 21The article “Students protest Arizona law” implied that Arizona’s House Bill 2281 bans public school curricula of which race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes. That statement should have been attributed to protest organizer Katherine Aragon ’14.
TODAY’S EVENTSMONDAY, FEBRUARY 274:00 P.M. “Abraham and Hus.” The Yale Institute of Sacred Music fellows in Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts, Aaron Rosen and Hana Vlhová-Woerner, will present a symposium discussing images of Abraham and the contribution of Hus in spiritual song. Open to the general public. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), auditorium.
4:00 P.M. “Energy: Partial Solutions for the Biggest Problem of our Century.” Michigan State University Physics and Astronomy professor Wolfgang Bauer will speak about alternative power sources and the worth of renewable resources at this Physics Club talk. Open to the general public. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Room 57.
5:30 P.M. “Sima Qian’s Narratives of Assassins.” Chi-hsiang Lee, professor of Chinese History and dean of the College of Humanities at Fo Guang University in Taiwan, will be giving a lecture as part of the China Colloquium Series. This talk will be given in Chinese. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 312.
“Water, air and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.” NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
FRENCH MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADER
Art auction supports water charity
BY CYNTHIA HUACONTRIBUTING REPORTER
In an auction this weekend, Yalies brought together contem-porary art and globally minded philanthropy.
On Friday night, the Yale branch of the non-profit organi-zation Wishing Well, which aims to expand access to clean water in developing countries, held the opening reception for an art auc-tion featuring works donated by undergraduates and Yale School of Art faculty. Called the “Con-temporary Conceptions of Water Charity Art Auction,” the event drew about 50 people to Silliman College’s Maya’s Room art gallery. As of Sunday night, the auction, which is ongoing through Thurs-day, had received over $1,500 in bids and $500 in donations.
The gallery featured 27 works for sale spanning a variety of media including photography, col-lages, ink drawings, mixed media and sculpture. Excluding student works, the total value of the pieces is appraised at over $6,000, said Sophia Yoo ’13, event director for
Wishing Well at Yale. She added that the money raised will be used for building wells in developing nations.
In addition to staging the auc-tion, the event also marked the culmination of a student art con-test, “Contemporary Concep-tions of Water,” for which stu-dents created works using water as their primary subject. Wishing Well at Yale President Lara Four-man ’13 said that for the contest, the organization drew inspiration from photographer Ester Haven’s series “The Story of Jean Bosco”, which depicts Rwandan children around a water fountain. Shot on a well-building trip with Wishing Well, Haven’s photographs were displayed in another Wishing Well gallery exhibit last month at Yale.
“On this trip, they would ask kids to describe water and they didn’t think of it as blue, they thought of water as brown and dirty,” Yoo said. “That’s where the idea for ‘Conceptions of Water’ came from.”
Two of Haven’s pieces were up for auction on Friday evening at a starting cost of $500 each.
Winners of the contest, which ended last Monday and received 18 submissions, were awarded at the reception. Four judges from the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art and the History of Art department selected Victor Kang’s ’14 macro-photography print of dewdrops, “Droplet on a Leaf,” as the winning piece for its compositional inge-nuity and adherence to the com-petition’s theme, Yoo said. Kang is a photography editor for the News.
“I took advantage of macro-photography and of the medium of water to develop multiple layers within the image,” said Kang, who shot the photos near his home in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The contest’s other winners included Kate Bilinski’s “Débuts Modestes,” which received sec-ond place, and Ilana Strauss’s ’14 “Dragon Fish,” which was a final-ist. Strauss is a sta! illustrator for the News.
Fourman said the works solic-ited from faculty members con-sisted of 12 pieces created inde-pendently of the auction and one piece created specifically for
the event, School of Art lecturer Anahita Vossoughi’s multimedia sculpture, “Umbrella.”
The auction is open to the pub-lic and aimed at both Yale students and community members, Yoo said. A preview gallery was held for community members Thursday night, targeting the New Haven artistic community. Including previous Wishing Well at Yale events, Yoo said the auction raised enough money to fund a well cost-ing $5,000.
“Shipwreck,” a $1,000 work in conte crayon on vellum by School of Art painting and printmaking professor Marie Lorenz, attracted a particularly high level of atten-tion from four students inter-viewed.
“I appreciate that they’re using art as a way to raise aware-ness,” said Elizabeth Kim ’12, who attended the reception. “It’s unique and unexpected.”
In total, Wishing Well has com-pleted 65 projects in nine coun-tries.
A new program to help New Haven companies reduce their energy costs is on track to dole out over $100,000 in grants to city small businesses.
With its initiative “Proj-ect/BEST,” private Connecti-cut-based nonprofit Operation Fuel has partnered with two utilities companies — Domin-ion Resources, Inc. of Virginia and Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey — to dis-tribute $1,000 g rants and run training sessions that promote energy efficiency. The initia-tive, which lasts through March 2, follows one in Hartford, in which 213 businesses received a total of $213,000.
“Small businesses are the most energy-inefficient ones and are more likely to have older light bulb fixtures, freezer units and so on,” said Bob Slate, Operation Fuel’s small busi-ness advocate. “We want our businesses to be sustainable both economically and envi-ronmentally and to learn about efficiency improvements that will lead to long-term savings.”
The workshops will educate business owners about how to become more energy e"cient at a low cost, as well as how best to find low-interest loans for those improvements, Slate said.
Operation Fuel has previ-ously aided individuals and families with their energy bills, and Project/BEST now extends their e!orts to businesses.
“As much as we’re focused on helping residents, we also know that it’s important to help the businesses where those people work and the businesses where they shop,” Slate said.
Dominion Resources, Inc. and Public Service Enterprise Group contributed $1 mil-lion and $150,000 towards the funds, respectively. Represen-tatives from both companies could not be reached for com-ment.
Three owners of businesses in New Haven lauded the pro-gram, saying they would now be able to use the money for other aspects of their busi-nesses. Claire Criscuolo of Claire’s Corner Copia on Cha-pel Street said the money she would have spent on utilities will help fund healthcare ben-efits for her workers.
“This program is especially helpful for businesses like us who already try to do the right thing,” said Criscuolo, who
added that small businesses often have to make difficult choices regarding how to use their funds. “Unlike the fed-eral government, we can’t just spend money.”
Business owners described the grant’s one-page applica-tion as simple and short. Its primary purpose is to ensure that businesses meet eligibil-ity requirements, Slate said, adding that the program espe-cially encourages women and minorities who own businesses to apply. As of Friday, about 95 percent of roughly 100 applica-tions from New Haven business owners were approved, he said.
Marie Gallo, owner of Gallo Appliance on State Street, said that the hardest part of the application process was “just looking up my account num-ber.”
To express her appreciation for the initiative, Paula Lupi of West Village Opticians on Whalley Avenue said she wrote a cover letter for her applica-tion — even though it was not required. With the new fund-ing, Lupi will be able to put more money into new stock and digitizing her business opera-tions, she said.
Following the program’s run in Hartford, Operation Fuel began accepting applications in New Haven — its second city — on Jan. 1. Programs in New London and Waterbury will begin on Feb. 1 and run through March 20, followed by Proj-ect/BEST’s fifth and final city, Bridgeport, whose program will run from March 1 through April 20.
Non-profit organizations and home businesses are inel-igible for the current grants, though Slate said Operation Fuel is looking to expand the project’s scope.
Silliman’s Maya’s Room art gallery displayed 27 pieces of art for sale when a week-long art auction to benefit water access opened Friday night.
BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKASTAFF REPORTER
About 20 alumni and under-graduate members of the Black Church at Yale arrived at the Afro-American Cultural Center Satur-day morning to kick o! a two-day celebration of their church’s 40th anniversary. Current members sported T-shirts that read “Love God, Love People, and Serve the Nations,” the BCAY motto, which encapsulates the church’s dedi-cation to fostering both faith and a far-reaching community.
“For the past 40 years, BCAY has been helping generations of Yalies to leave this institution with a firm understanding of what God is,” Funmi Showole Amubieya ’08 said during the opening panel on faith and careers held Saturday.
At the event, Showole sat alongside her husband Olawale Amubieya ’08, whom she met at BCAY as an undergraduate, and both discussed how BCAY taught them to preserve their faith as they prepared for careers in law and medicine. While the weekend’s events ranged from a video presentation explaining the growth of BCAY over the past four decades to a “praise night” at which alumni and students gath-ered in worship, those in atten-dance discussed how to integrate faith into their daily — and often secular — lives.
The church’s student board and pastor planned the anniversary celebration as a bridge between BCAY’s history and future, hoping to recognize both the changes and continuities of the organization’s influence. Current head pastor Dexter Upshaw ’06 said BCAY has long helped its members to be in constant dialogue with God and provided a forum for discus-sion with one another. That goal remains central to the church’s activities today, he said, even as the organization both grows more diverse and expands the role it plays in its members’ lives.
INCREASING DIVERSITYAt the weekend’s conclud-
ing service on Sunday morning, BCAY founder Reverend Samuel Slie noted a change in the church over the past 40 years: While it has always had an element of diversity, BCAY now is more diverse than it ever was.
The Black Church at Yale held its first service on Feb. 4, 1973, after Slie and Allen Smith DRA ’73 recognized Yale’s need for an interdenominational church where people of all races and eth-nicities could have the chance to develop their individual relation-ship with God within a larger com-munity.
Today, BCAY minister Leon Powell ’08 said that the church is far from an exclusively black group, and current members include African-Americans, Cau-casians and Hispanics, as well as Christians of all denominations. On Sunday, around 100 were in attendance — a group represent-ing the growing ethnic and racial diversity within BCAY.
“One of the most notable changes in BCAY over the years is the continual increase in member-ship diversity,” Powell said.
Carmen Thunem ’13, who identifies as Canadian in nation-ality and Taiwanese, Norwegian and French Canadian in ethnicity, said this growth in diversity has occurred alongside an increase in membership over the past couple of years. While more than 40 peo-ple now attend regular weekly ser-vices, only four students and three organizers attended BCAY’s first service in 1973.
Akwei Maclean ’15, an inter-national student from Ghana and BCAY member, said that sustain-ing diversity within BCAY is “cru-cial” to the church’s religion.
“Christianity is all about unity, a sentiment which BCAY reflects perfectly,” Maclean said. “Our religion teaches us that everybody should be able to worship; that no believer should be isolated based on race, ethnicity, origin or gen-
der.”Thunem, who leads BCAY’s
student board, added that BCAY’s emphasis on transcending di!er-ences in order to foster together-ness in worship has helped BCAY form a unique niche in Yale’s cam-pus culture — one that extends beyond issues of race and religion.
BCAY member Madeleine Witt ’15, who said she is Caucasian, added that the fact that BCAY is a black church did not influence her decision to join.
“Ethnicity is really not a fac-tor, beyond the ‘B’ in BCAY,” Witt, a staff illustrator for the News, said. “I mean, it is rooted in a black tradition — which is obviously a racial thing — but BCAY is not at all about race anymore.”
SPREADING DISCUSSIONBoth students and alumni sin-
gled out BCAY Pastor Upshaw’s leadership as a crucial component of the church’s continued growth.
Upshaw, who began as BCAY’s head pastor in the fall of 2010, said that the current team of BCAY leaders is not only trying to think of the organization’s immediate needs, but also conceive a vision of how it wants BCAY to function five or 10 years from now.
“Each BCAY pastor tends to leave his own mark on this orga-nization, and I am trying to do the same,” Upshaw said.
In his term so far, Upshaw said he has tried to pioneer new tradi-tions such as leadership trainings and increased church visibility, as well as to preserve old ones such providing a place for religious dia-logue.
Thunem said Upshaw is the first pastor to actively provide BCAY members with informal leadership experience through conferences, seminars and training sessions. She added that those experiences may help explain why more aspir-ing student leaders are drawn to the organization.
Along with his role as a pastor of BCAY, Upshaw works also as an entrepreneur and motivational
speaker. BCAY minister Powell said that Upshaw’s experience in these roles has helped him to turn BCAY into a “brand” recognized both on and o! campus, which has helped foster a stronger sense of community within the church.
“Upshaw is using his experience in marketing and communications to spread the word about BCAY in a very systematic and modern way,” Powell said, adding that manufac-turing BCAY shirts and providing the alumni with BCAY gift bags were both Upshaw’s ideas.
Metty Markwei ’15 said she appreciates the pastor’s empha-sis on outreach with modern networking techniques such as broadcasting weekly services and providing online forums for dis-cussion.
But the church has not real-ized all of its ideas for develop-ment. David Carty ’14, one of the church’s financial coordinators, said BCAY — which is financially independent from Yale — still lacks the funds to realize all of the plans generated among its com-munity, such as rewarding student sta! with education stipends.
At Saturday morning’s panel, Tiffany Stewart DRA ’07 and Christopher Williams ’08, a cou-ple that also met at BCAY, both emphasized the importance of continuing the open discussion of religion at Yale.
“As an actress and dancer, my relationship with God hasn’t always been smooth,” Stewart said, adding that having a diverse church group and devoted pas-tor with whom to share her sto-ries helped her maintain her faith as a student. “There are so many stories people feel the need to tell. BCAY allows Yalies to have these stories heard by a diverse body of listeners.”
The two-day event ended with a celebratory brunch for students and alumni on Sunday afternoon.
Small businesses are the most energy-ine!cient ones and are more likely to have older light bulb fixtures, freezer units and so on.
BOB SLATESmall Business Advocate,
Operation Fuel
FROM THE FRONTPAGE 4 YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, FEBURARY 27, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
“Living together is an art.” WILLIAM PICKENS WRITER AND EDUCATOR
r e c y c l e y o u r y d n d a i l y
with the opposite gender. Yale College Dean Mary Miller wrote
in an email that she has supported extending mixed-gender housing to juniors since 2009, when the idea of gender-neutral housing at Yale was ini-tially proposed.
Juniors who live in a mixed-gender suite will be subject to the same rules as seniors, which state that each bed-room within a mixed-gender suite must be single-sex, YCC President Brandon Levin said.
Yagoda said he expects the number of students choosing to live in a mixed-gender suite will rise in coming years. He added that many students may be less willing to change their established
living arrangements during their senior year than in their junior year.
“As people get older, their housing plans get more solidified, so by o!er-ing it earlier on people will be encour-aged to stay on campus to live with their friends,” he said.
Yagoda added that the commit-tee hopes to make students aware of the policy change and ensure that it is implemented smoothly.
Sophia Chen ’14, a current soph-omore who currently lives next door to a male suite, said that immediately after hearing the news of the decision, she and eight other students entered the housing draw in a mixed-gender suite. She added that the mixed-gen-der arrangement will allow her and her friends a more comfortable living situ-ation.
“A lot of my friends are gay and feel more comfortable living with the oppo-site sex, so they should have the option,” she said.
All other Ivy League universities allow mixed-gender housing for at least juniors and seniors, according to the YCC report.
under the command of the NHPD Investigative Services Division, for their early success combat-ing violence in the city of New Haven,” Esserman said in a Friday press release.
The NHPD launched an inves-tigation after o"cers responded to a report of gunfire at 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 17 around Poplar and Cha-tham streets. There, they found Moore with gunshot wounds to his leg and arm and Gibson with several gunshot wounds in his left knee. Moore told o"cers he had been confronted by three men, one of whom pulled out a gun and fired several shots. Both Moore and Gibson were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment and sub-sequently released.
In January, Wallingford detec-tive Shawn Fairbrother passed information about the double shooting to the NHPD. The shoot-ing task force and the Walling-ford Police Department took over the investigation in February, and secured an arrest warrant for Wil-liams on Friday.
Williams was arrested in Wall-ingford the same day, and when police executed a search war-rant at his residence they found a 40-caliber Glock and a Stag Arms 5.56-mm assault rifle. He was charged with two counts of first degree assault, criminal use of a firearm and carrying a pistol with-out a permit.
“The shooting task force a!ords detectives opportunities to go back to non-fatal shooting cold cases and investigate more thor-oughly,” Hartman said. “[It] also relieves some responsibility for cold case shooting incidents from the MCU detectives that are trying to work multiple cases now.”
Led by two inspectors from the State’s Attorney’s o"ce, the new squad set up shop on the third floor of the NHPD’s Union Avenue headquarters two weeks ago.
Part of the department’s ratio-nale for creating the new unit was to ensure criminal incidents “don’t go stale” because detec-tives are “bogged down” with both current and cold cases, Hartman said. But it was also set up in response to the high num-ber of unsolved shootings last year. When announcing the new unit in his Feb. 6 State of the City address, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said it was “shocking” that only 27 of the 133 shootings last year had been solved.
Modeled after a similar unit in Hartford, the shooting task force also includes members of the Connecticut Department of Cor-rection and the state’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.” PAT OLIPHANT POLITICAL CARTOONIST
BY JOY SHANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Past and current contributors to The Yale Record came together at a panel on Saturday afternoon to examine the humor publi-cation’s historical and current role in American cartooning and design.
The panel was hosted by The Record as part of its “140 Years of Yale Cartoons” exhibit, which opened Feb. 14 in the Timo-thy Dwight Art Gallery. Dur-ing the discussion, three former sta! members spoke about how they have translated their artistic work with Yale’s humor maga-zine into careers in cartoon-ing, art and graphic design. The exhibit, which displays cartoons dating back to the publication’s 1872 founding, is part of a greater e!ort to increase the cohesive-ness of The Record’s community while highlighting Yale’s signifi-cant role in America’s archives of illustrative humor, said David Kemper ’13, the Record’s outgo-ing chairman.
The panel’s participants noted that Yale has and will continue to influence the world of graphic design and illustration. The event featured three presenta-tions by former Record sta!-ers Donald Watson ’59 ARC ’69, Karin Fong ’93 and Robert Grossman ’61.
Watson, a curator for the exhibit and a former School of Architecture professor, pre-sented first, inciting audience laughter with slides of old Record cartoons and describing the career trajectory of each featured artist. After Yale many of these artists continued onto notable careers in cartooning or illus-trating, Watson said, including Pulitzer Prize-winning Doones-bury cartoonist Garry Trudeau ’70 ART ’73, a former editor in chief of The Record. Accord-ing to Watson, Trudeau began to develop the illustration style he would employ in Doonesbury during his time working on The Record.
In a presentation titled “Six Things I Learned at The Yale Record,” Fong presented a mon-tage of film titles and commer-cials she helped create upon graduating, including the open-ing titles for “The Pink Pan-ther II” and “Boardwalk Empire”. Fong, a former graphic advisor at The Record, said the multi-
faceted nature of working at the humor magazine, for which sta!ers in her time designed, drew and wrote in order to make deadline, translated well to pro-fessional life.
Fong said that working at a humor publication taught her how to pay homage to ear-lier works, whether through parody or modification: For a Target commercial featur-ing singer Christina Aguilera she co-directed, Fong said she took artistic inspiration from the iconic pop artist Roy Lichten-
stein. She added that her expe-rience as The Record’s graphic advisor allowed her to be true to what she wanted to do.
“One of the things I remem-ber was how The Record was this playground for our ideas,” Fong said. “Everyone could come to the table with many types of humor. That’s the beauty of the whole thing.”
Artist Robert Grossman ’61 concluded with a slideshow of his political drawings for pub-lications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and The
National Lampoon. Grossman shared anecdotes about publish-ing follies and o!ended read-ers, including a story from the 2008 presidential election in which he was asked by an edi-tor to modify a caricature of John McCain that was to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone. Grossman was told to remove his overly sexualized rendering of Sarah Palin from the drawing — the editor, Grossman said, feared that readers would see the car-toon and feel inclined to vote for Palin because of her exaggerated
attractiveness.Spencer Katz ’13, who draws
cartoons for campus publica-tions including the News, the Yale Scientific Magazine and The Record, said he appreci-ated hearing from alumni who continued their creative work beyond their time at The Record.
“[Cartooning] is more of a hobby,” Katz said. “I never really considered it as a career, so it was cool to be exposed to people who chose it as a path and made a career out of it.”
The idea for “140 Years of Yale
Cartoons” began in 2011 when a group of Record sta! mem-bers including Kemper began to catalogue cartoons from the magazine’s old issues. Wat-son and Kemper said they hope this exhibit will become part of a larger 140th year anniversary celebration of The Record this fall.
The exhibition will run in the Timothy Dwight Art Gallery until March 22.
Dean of the School of Medi-cine Robert Alpern delivered his annual address to the student body Thursday on the state of the school amid a difficult eco-nomic climate and the school’s push to expand its facilities.
Sponsored by the Medi-cal Student Council as part of its Perspectives on Medi-cine series, the address aimed to inform the student popula-tion of the latest initiatives and changes to the school. During the speech, Alpern touched on the school’s financial aid pol-ciies, new building construc-tion, alliances with pharmaceu-tical companies and hiring of new faculty. According to Alp-ern, the school’s finances have thrived despite a slow economy and reduced funding for medi-cal research.
“[Although federal sources are tightening their fund-ing,] this is not influencing our financial aid package,” Alpern said. “We tend to raise it with the endowment, which gener-ally keeps going up. Although the endowment went down last year, we kept the financial aid the same. We have to supple-ment financial aid. I would have liked to have improved it further, but I haven’t been able to do it.”
Alpern began his address by stating the school’s three main missions — education, research and clinical practice — as well as stressing the importance of maintaining its influence in a “complicated world.” The fed-eral government may cut clini-cal reimbursement and research funding for the National Insti-tutes of Health, he said, adding that although the NIH budget is still increasing, it is not increas-
ing as fast as inflation.He also said the School of
Medicine is working to prevent such external changes from neg-atively influencing its operation.
“The financial aid package we offer is very generous. Students graduate with $50,000 less in debt than at other schools,” Alpern said. “[Changes in NIH funding] is not influencing our financial aid package.”
He explained that the Medical School is searching for ways to become less dependent on NIH funding. One of them, he said, is the alliance formed with Gil-ead, a pharmaceutical company that is offering the school $10 million to fund research, espe-cially cancer-related projects. He added that the school is cur-rently negotiating with another company for additional funding.
Contracts with pharmaceu-tical companies, he said, do not hinder the school’s freedom to conduct independent research. He explained that “Yale gives up nothing” as contracts are carefully developed so that the school owns any intellec-tual property that comes from research.
Alpern also remarked on the strength of biomedical science research at Yale, citing the NIH’s recognition of the Genome Cen-ter as one of three Mendelian
Disorders Sequencing Centers in the country. To continue the success of biomedical science at Yale, he added, the school has plans to erect two new buildings that will serve as research cen-ters and will open in 2016.
He noted that the School’s rapid growth motivated this project, adding that in the last five years the school has hired around 300 new faculty mem-bers.
Many of the new members, he said, joined the new depart-ment of urology, which used to be within the department of surgery.
Three students who attended Alpern’s address said that they enjoyed the speech and found it informative.
Dipankan Bhattacharya MED ’18 said he appreciated the speech because it gave Alpern a rare chance to address the whole student body.
Regina Melendez MED ’15 agreed, adding that, as a first-year student, she appreciated Alpern’s willingness to include students in discussions about the school’s future.
“It’s very easy to be aware of the specific student-related happenings, but you don’t often realize how much more there is to the Medical School,” he said.
The Perspectives on Medicine Series brings together speakers for talks on medical education, clinical medicine, public health and biomedical research. Past speakers have included Univer-sity President Richard Levin, former surgeon general Everett Koop and pediatric neurosur-geon Benjamin Carson ’73.
Students and academics interested in Mexican poli-tics came to Yale from Friday through Sunday to discuss modern political challenges facing the country.
More than 100 students and guests convened at Yale this past weekend for Con-vergencias, a three-day con-ference focused on Mexico’s development and growth. The event was coordinated by Yale’s Mexican Student Orga-nization and marked the sec-ond time that the University has held the conference, which featured four two-hour panels on issues that a!ect Mexico’s political climate: health care, government, economy and drug wars.
“We want to bring together students interested in Mexi-co’s challenges and progress to foster discussion that goes beyond the classroom level and to bring forward the rela-tionship between the U.S. and Mexico,” said Ana del Toro ’13, who co-directed the event. “This year, elections year, is crucial for forging the pathway to a better political system in the country.”
After an opening panel dis-cussed the challenges Mexico faces in having both private and public health care systems, Saturday’s second group of speakers talked about Mexican politics — particularly in light of the 2012 presidential elec-tions that will take place July 1.
Three guest speakers o!ered their viewpoints about the nation’s political environ-ment and the problems that the four presidential candi-dates will have to address in
their platforms, such as pub-lic safety and the ongoing drug war. All three agreed that Mexico has numerous political problems.
Javier Livas, a Mexican law-yer, member of the National Action Party (PAN) and a can-didate for the 1993 PAN pres-idential nomination, said he believes the country’s polit-ical issues are internal. He described the government’s executive, legislative and judi-cial branches as “dysfunc-tional institutions led by cor-rupt individuals stepping on citizens’ human rights.” Still, Livas said he is hopeful that the situation can be fixed, add-ing that he believes the PAN party is the most nation’s most trustworthy political faction.
Isabel Miranda, president of the civil association “Alto al secuestro” and PAN’s current candidate for mayor of Mex-ico City, also called attention to the problem of safety that plagues the country. Miranda said her son was kidnapped and killed, and that the first-hand experience with vio-lence motivated her to pursue justice by joining the political arena and attempting to fix the “broken political system.”
The third member of the panel, Luis Eduardo Zavala, who is a visiting fellow at Yale and professor at the Mexican university Tec de Monterrey, said he believes the country needs more division of power and should “switch from gov-ernment to governments.” He criticized the Mexican govern-ment for its insu"cient citizen representation and rule of law. He added that it is imperative for the Mexican government to inform its citizens of their rights, citing his multiple vis-
its to jails around Mexico and numerous conversations with indigenous people who did not know their rights until they were imprisoned.
“The government needs the capacity for development and implementation of human rights,” Zavala said.
In addition to discussing Mexico’s political situation, the conference also touched upon the country’s economy and the United States’ rela-tions with Mexico, especially with regard to the drug war.
Conference co-direc-tors Lissy Giacoman ’12 and del Toro both said recruiting speakers was the trickiest part of organizing the conference. While speakers approached for the conference were generally interested in attending, many said they could not leave Mex-ico because of intense poli-tics leading up to the elections, del Toro said. The conference brought in 10 speakers, nine of whom either studied in Mexico or are Mexican.
Ten participants said they enjoyed the conference and found it informative.
Guillermo Zamarripa, who graduated from the New York Institute of Technology in 2009, said attending the con-ference inspired him to take action and address problems in Mexico.
“Action is the next step, but it comes in many ways,” Zamarripa said.
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able and exciting major,” history professor Alejandra Dubcovsky said.
Beginning last fall, professors and students in the department discussed the strengths and weak-nesses of Yale’s history program in preparation for a periodic review by a visiting committee earlier this month. Faculty members inter-viewed last fall said the decline in the number of history majors — from 217 seniors in 2002 to 131 seniors in 2011 — helped focus their attention on ways to improve the major, and Pincus created an undergraduate advisory council of history majors to consult about possible changes.
The history major will keep its current requirements, which include a yearlong senior essay and courses spread across geographic areas and time periods, but new thematic pathways will help stu-dents organize their studies, Pin-cus said. Students who are inter-ested in areas such as intellectual history, the history of gender and sexuality, or social movements will be able to see the history courses o!ered on these topics and how they can apply them to the major’s various requirements, he said, adding that the total number of thematic pathways has not yet been finalized.
The department decided against instituting mandatory tracks in the major since profes-sors and students felt this would “make things harder” for students with multiple interests, Pincus added.
History professor Keith Wright-son said he has been in favor of providing guidance about how to pursue specific themes within the history major since serving as DUS for the department a few years ago.
“We don’t usually have require-ments of particular history courses, and that is a good thing in many ways, but it can also be a disadvantage if students feel that they’ve done a bit of this, and a bit of that,” Wrightson said. “It’s like
being in a candy store filling dif-ferent bags.”
Pincus said he is also work-ing with faculty members in the department to create a new year-long survey course, “The Making of the Modern World,” targeted to first- and second-year students. While other departments have “gateway” courses that serve as broad introductions to a discipline, history does not o!er an equiva-lent, he said. The course would be structured like Directed Studies: students would attend one lecture per week and then work with pri-mary materials in seminars led by professors twice per week, he said.
History professor Beverly Gage ’94 said the idea for the sur-vey course was generated by stu-dents, who felt that they did not have much contact with profes-sors in the department until taking seminars their junior years. She added that the course is a “work in progress” but will potentially be o!ered in 2013-’14 if enough fac-ulty members agree to participate. The course, which would not be required for the major, would likely accommodate between 60 and 80 students, Pincus said.
Along with the survey course, the department is making e!orts to expand seminar opportunities
for freshmen and sophomores, Pincus said. The department already renamed its junior history seminars “undergraduate semi-nars” to reflect that they are open to underclassmen, and starting this semester two spaces in each seminar were reserved for sopho-mores. Next fall, the department will increase the number of fresh-man seminars it o!ers from three to six, Pincus said.
Also in response to student sug-gestions, the department intends to create a curriculum committee to approve non-history courses for credit towards the major. Pincus said the department has tradition-
ally refrained from awarding credit for courses outside the depart-ment, but that this committee will standardize a process for receiving credit for courses with significant historical content.
Annie Yi ’13, a member of the undergraduate advisory coun-cil that has met with Pincus since the fall, said in a Sunday email that history students currently learn about specific topics but not very much about history as a discipline, adding that the yearlong survey course may help fill the need for a course that teaches students how to engage with historiographical debates and developments in the
discipline of history.Katherine Fein ’14, another stu-
dent on the council, said the cre-ation of pathways addresses stu-dent concerns both about the coherence of the major and about senior essay advising. The web-site will also list faculty members involved in certain disciplines, which will help seniors choose advisers, she said.
History is currently the third-largest major at Yale, after political science and economics.
after Yale College Dean Mary Miller sent an email to fac-ulty on Feb. 17 announcing that the March 1 faculty meet-ing would be cancelled due to “very few agenda items of Yale College business.” Faculty had planned to discuss Yale-NUS and their role in its planning at the upcoming meeting, but after they protested the cancellation, Miller reversed the decision the following day.
This past weekend, the Cor-poration heard a presentation from three faculty members involved with Yale-NUS on the college’s progress with regard to faculty recruitment, stu-dent admissions and curricu-lum development. The updates were met with “enthusiasm and interest” by the Corporation, Levin said. Though some pro-fessors have expressed concern that administrators did not con-sult the faculty properly in plan-ning Yale-NUS, Levin told the
News last week that the decision to start the college ultimately lay with the Corporation, since it is a new school and not a program within Yale College.
Yale-NUS remains on the agenda for this Thursday’s fac-ulty meeting.
In addition to addressing shared services and Yale-NUS, the Corporation reviewed entre-preneurship at Yale with a pre-
sentation from four gradu-ates of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s fellowship program. They also toured development efforts in Science Park and the area around Yale Health — where recent construction has included the new Yale police station and a parking lot — with Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander.
While the Corporation’s 17 fellows split into smaller com-mittees to review specific poli-cies in most meetings, Levin said the Corporation generally stays together to review a larger Uni-versity initiative at its February meeting. This year, the Corpora-tion addressed four larger issues.
Past February meetings have included a review of the School of Medicine in 2011 and a review of Yale’s West Campus expan-sion in 2010.
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ON CAMPUSTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 284:00 PM “Abundance.” University of Chicago sociology professor Andrew Abbott will give the Hollingshead Lecture. Reception to follow. Sterling Memorial Library (128 Wall St.), lecture hall.
4:30 PM “The Accelerating Universe.” Harvard University astrophysicist Robert Kirshner will give the Gruber Science Fellowship Lecture. A reception will follow in the McDougal Center common room. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 119.
5:30 PM “American Made.” Join the Intercultural A!airs Council and the Department of Justice for dinner and discussion about this award-winning short film, which tells the story of a Sikh family waiting for roadside help for their broken-down car. It deals with stereotyping, intergenerational dynamics, issues of exclusion and interethnic relations. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 102.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 297:00 PM “YFS Advance Screening - WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS.” Join the Yale Film Society for a special advance screening of ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,’ the new sequal to Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street’ (1987). Free Admission. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.
7:30 PM “Homegrown: Jazz by Yale Composers.” The Yale Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas C. Du!y, will present a concert of jazz by Yale composers, including Garth Neustadter MUS ’12, Lamtharn Hantrakul ’15 and Je! Fuller ’67 MUS ’69. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.
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BY VERENA DOBNIKASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Potential candi-dates for Mayor Michael Bloom-berg’s office are taking stands on the New York Police Depart-ment’s surveillance of Muslim students, ranging from cautious support to a warning about cur-tailing civil liberties.
Bloomberg, who leaves o!ce after the 2013 election, has said that he finds “worrisome” the idea that his successor might abandon NYPD policies that have kept New Yorkers safe.
The NYPD used undercover o!cers and informants to infil-trate Muslim student groups at a dozen colleges in New York City, upstate New York, Connecti-cut, New Jersey and Pennsylva-nia, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. The mon-itoring was part of the depart-ment’s anti-terrorism e"orts.
But Manhattan Borough Pres-ident Scott Stringer said in a statement to the AP over the weekend that “it is troubling when people are subject to sur-veillance and investigation sim-ply because they are members of a particular group.”
However, the Democrat, a declared candidate for mayor, praised the city’s police depart-ment for doing an “extraordinary job protecting our city,” as long as authorities make sure anti-ter-rorism e"orts “do not trample on
the civil liberties that all citizens have a right to enjoy.”
Police Commissioner Ray-mond Kelly said Friday that his department is “continuing to do what we believe necessary to pro-tect the city, pursuant to the law.” He did not elaborate.
NYC Comptroller John C. Liu, who is expected to run for mayor, praised “the dedicated men and women of the NYPD” for doing “an extraordinary job of keeping New Yorkers safe.” But in a state-ment, he also warned that “we should not as a matter of policy profile people based on religion or race — it goes against everything this city stands for.”
Liu, a Queens Democrat, faces a federal investigation into his fundraising operation after reports of inconsistencies in his campaign finances.
When asked about the NYPD surveillance, media executive Tom Allon didn’t hedge.
“I support the tactics that they’ve used,” said Allon, who plans to run as both a Liberal and a Democrat. “I think we’ve got a much larger problem here, which is making sure there’s no terrorist attack on New York.”
Three other possible can-didates, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former comp-troller Bill Thompson, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
NYPD monitoring of Muslims enters mayoral race
BY CHARLES BABINGTONASSOCIATED PRESS
MARQUETTE, Mich. — The question of whether Mitt Romney is conservative enough to deserve the Republican presidential nomi-nation regained center stage in the GOP con-test Sunday, with Rick Santorum saying the former Massachusetts governor fails the test.
Santorum urged Michigan voters to turn the race “on its ear” by rejecting Romney in Tuesday’s primary in his native state, in which Romney is spending heavily to avoid an upset. Santorum said Romney’s record is virtu-ally identical to President Barack Obama’s on some key issues, especially mandated health coverage, making him a weak potential nomi-nee.
“Why would we give away the most salient issue in this election?” an impassioned San-torum told more than 100 people in a remote, snow-covered region of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, said he is the true conservative on fiscal and social issues.
Romney rejected the claims.“The biggest misconception would be that
I’m a guy that comes from Massachusetts and therefore I can’t be conservative,” Romney told “Fox News Sunday.” In his one term as Massachusetts governor, he said, he balanced budgets, reduced taxes, enforced immigration laws, “stood up for traditional marriage” and was “a pro-life governor.”
“I’m a solid conservative,” Romney said.The exchange highlighted the choice fac-
ing Republican voters in Arizona and Michi-gan on Tuesday, and another 10 states a week after that.
Romney did pick up the endorsement of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Sunday.
Conservative activists dominate the GOP primaries. But party regulars fear too much focus on the Republican right will leave the eventual nominee poorly positioned to con-front Obama in November, when independent voters will be crucial.
Santorum, a hero to anti-abortion and home-schooling advocates, disputes that argument. The way to beat Obama, he said Sunday, is with an unvarnished conserva-tive whose views dramatically clash with the president’s on the economy, church and state, energy, foreign policy and other issues.
He said the party needs “someone who can paint a very di"erent vision of the country.”
Romney and Santorum hit Obama on many issues, including the president’s apology for the actions of U.S. troops who burned Qurans — inadvertently, they said — while destroying documents on a military base in Afghanistan.
Romney said that for many Americans, the apology “sticks in their throat.”
“We’ve made an enormous contribution to help the people there achieve freedom,” he said. “And for us to be apologizing at a time like this is something which is very di!cult for the American people to countenance.”
As for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Rom-ney said Obama “made an enormous error by announcing the withdrawal date of our surge forces during the fighting season.”
Santorum portrayed Obama’s apology for the burned Qurans as further proof that the president is trying to appease “forces of evil” bent on America’s destruction. To apologize rather than simply note a mistake was made,
he said, “not only encourages them, but I believe, incites them.”
Santorum criticized Obama in appearances on NBC’s and ABC’s Sunday talk shows, but he was more animated and emotional in his noon speech to voters in Marquette. He told them the president “has systematically taken every opportunity to try to take control of dif-ferent sectors of the economy; tried to take your freedom and opportunity away from you and give it to people who know better than you how to run your lives, or your business.”
Santorum got a rare hostile question from Wally Tuccini, 57, a heavy equipment operator from Marquette. Tuccini said his mother was a Roman Catholic who personally opposed birth control, as does Santorum. When she delivered her eighth child, Tuccini said, the family was so poor they barely obtained essential medical care in time, and he asked why Santorum wants to reduce the govern-ment’s social safety net.
“We don’t need a government health care plan to be able to solve the problem,” Santo-rum replied. “What we need is a process in this country where people will have an oppor-tunity to go out and use their resources, like we do in this country with housing,” cars and clothing.
Santorum noted that he supports a refund-able tax credit for low-income people seeking health insurance. He did not o"er details, nor does his campaign website.
Romney, who campaigned Sunday in Tra-verse City, Mich., and Daytona, Fla., defended his proposal to cut income taxes across the board.
“I want to make sure that we maintain the progressivity of the code,” he told Fox News. “And I want to help people who I think have been most hurt by the Obama economy - and that’s middle-income Americans.” Romney said he wants to “lower the marginal rate for all Americans.”
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is not competing in Michigan. He attended church services Sunday in Georgia, where he launched his political career, and warned an audience that the “secular left” was trying to undermine principles established by the Founding Fathers. He said America had faced a “50-year assault” by those trying to alienate people of faith.
Gingrich reiterated his criticism of Obama’s apology for the burned Qurans.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Santorum said Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the fourth GOP presidential candidate, seemed to be secretly working together to undermine him. Santorum o"ered no proof, and predicted a long nominating process.
Romney told Fox, “I’m convinced I’m going to become the nominee, and we’ll be willing to take however long it takes to get that job done.”
Santorum says Romney is too moderate for GOPBY HARRY WEBER AND
MICHAEL KUNZELMANASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — A judge has delayed the federal trial over the nation’s worst o"shore oil disas-ter by a week, saying Sunday that BP PLC was making some prog-ress in settlement talks with a committee overseeing scores of lawsuits, according to people close to the case.
Two people close to the case told The Associated Press that the decision was made Sunday during a conference call between parties in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill case and U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. They spoke on con-dition of anonymity because they were not authorized to dis-cuss the call.
They said the judge told those on the call that BP and the Plain-ti"s’ Steering Committee were “making some progress” in their settlement talks. The steering committee is overseeing lawsuits filed by individuals and busi-nesses following the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf. The blast killed 11 workers and led to 206 million gallons of oil spew-ing from the blown-out well, soiling miles of coastline.
However, the judge did not mention the status of settlement talks between other parties, nor did he mention any figures being discussed, according to the peo-
ple close to the case.The brief order issued by Bar-
bier on Sunday said only that the delay was granted “for reasons of judicial efficiency and to allow the parties to make further prog-ress in their settlement discus-sions.”
Among other things, the trial that is now set to begin March 5 is meant to determine the pen-alties that need to be paid by BP and other companies involved in the oil spill. Billions of dollars are at stake.
BP and the Plaintiffs Steer-ing Committee confirmed in a joint news release that the trial had been delayed. It said the oil giant and the PSC were working to reach an agreement that would “fairly compensate people and businesses a"ected by the Deep-water Horizon accident and oil spill.”
“There can be no assurance that these discussions will lead to a settlement agreement,” the joint statement said.
Separately, BP has had dis-cussions in recent days with the federal government and cement contractor Halliburton Energy Services Inc., according to sev-eral people close to the case.
If no settlement is reached, Barbier will preside over a three-phase trial that could last the better part of a year. The first phase is designed to identify the causes of the deadly blowout and to assign percentages of fault to
the companies involved in the ill-fated drilling project.
Financial analysts estimate BP could wind up paying any-where from $15 billion to $30 bil-lion over the lawsuits, and BP has estimated in regulatory fil-ings that its total liability for the disaster is $40 billion.
An AP analysis found that the company could conceivably face up to $52 billion in environmen-tal fines and compensation if the judge determines the company was grossly negligent.
The trial may not yield major revelations about the causes of the disaster, but the outcome could bring much-needed relief for tens of thousands of people and businesses whose livelihoods were disrupted by the spill.
Relatives of the 11 people killed in the Deepwater Horizon blast say they are hoping for some-thing more elusive: justice for lost loved ones.
Sheryl Revette, whose hus-band, Dewey, was among the 11 killed when BP PLC’s Macondo well blew out and triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, doesn’t have anything to gain financially from the trial. She wants an apology from the oil giant, something she said she hasn’t received yet.
“I’ve never heard a word from them,” said Revette, 48, of State Line, Miss. “But an apology isn’t going to bring my husband back.”
Gulf oil spill trial delayed
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A group of Muslim students gather outside Rutgers’ Paul Robeson Campus Center in Newark, N.J., after a news conference on Feb. 24, 2012.
The biggest misconception [is that I’m] from Massachusetts and therefore I can’t be conservative.
MITT ROMNEYGOP presidential candidate
U.S. COAST GUARD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A federal trial to determine BP’s liability for the blowout of its Macondo well has been delayed to March 5.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ELIZABETH WARREN
Warren, an expert in bankruptcy law, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World twice. She has served under President Obama as special adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
BY NICHOLAS FANDOSSTAFF WRITER
During the first five months of her campaign for U.S. Senate, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren received over $100,000 in donations from Har-vard employees—the largest sum any Senate candidate has received from individuals on the Harvard payroll in the past decade.
According to documents made available online by the Federal Election Commission last week, 110 employees—the majority of whom are professors—com-bined to donate $102,185 through the end of 2011. Warren received nearly ten times the amount that Harvard employees donated to her opponent Sen. Scott Brown.
Though Warren drew contribu-tions from across the University, the Democrat received the stron-gest support from the Law School, where she has taught for nearly 20 years.
FEC documents showed that 47 Law School professors donated
$62,950 to their col-league in the first few months of her cam-paign. The donor pool represents
roughly 16 percent of the Law School faculty.
That the Law School is sup-porting Warren so significantly is little surprise to many professors there. Professors said that Warren is a well-respected academic and colleague who many at the school are excited to support, some in spite of politics.
“There’s great enthusiasm for Elizabeth Warren’s cam-paign across the political spec-trum among professors (and stu-dents and sta!) here at the Law School,” Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 wrote in an email. “Everyone I know finds her enormously intelligent and down-to-earth and is greatly impressed by her vision for the state and the
country as well as by her amazing energy and e!ectiveness as a can-didate.”
As Warren has found back-ers among her peers at Harvard, some have wondered whether her a"liation with the University has pressured professors and students into supporting her.
But professors said that their hand was not forced when mak-ing donations to the Warren cam-paign.
“There has not been an ounce of pressure to do anything,” said Law School professor Charles J. Ogletree.
“I don’t think there is any expectation that professors should help out, but there’s an enormous desire to do so not just as a favor to a colleague but as a genuine public service,” Tribe wrote.
In addition to o!ering personal contributions, several of Warren’s colleagues have served as infor-mal fundraisers for the campaign, hosting fundraising parties at their homes or tapping potential donors from outside of the Har-
vard community.Ogletree said that he and Tribe
are among a half dozen or so Law School professors—who have long admired and worked closely with Warren—leading the charge on Warren’s behalf.
Tribe, who has worked closely with Warren for years and helped recruit Warren to the Law School,
personally donated $5000 to the campaign in 2011. In addition, Tribe hosted approximately 85 guests at a fundraising party for Warren at his home in December.
Warren’s friend and colleague Jody Freeman, a professor at the Law School, donated $1,000 to the campaign. Freeman appeared beside the Senate candidate’s hus-band, Law School professor Bruce H. Mann, at an “HLS for Elizabeth Warren” event in January.
Law School professors said they expect fundraising efforts there to increase in coming months as classes let out for summer recess and professors have more free time.
The FEC numbers only rep-resent individual itemized con-tributions made by donors who reported working at Harvard. The majority of donations were made after Warren officially declared her candidacy in September.
University policy prohib-its institutional endorsement of a candidate, but Warren has received large donations from
several notable faculty mem-bers, including former University President Derek C. Bok and pro-fessor Charles E. Rosenberg, the husband of University President Drew G. Faust. They gave $2000 and $2500, respectively.
In the 2010 special election for Senate, Harvard employees con-tributed roughly $54,000 to Mass. Attorney General Martha M. Coakley during her campaign for U.S. Senate against Scott Brown. Brown received $11,350 in item-ized contributions from Harvard employees during that election cycle.
The race between Warren and Brown is anticipated to be one of the most expensive in the coun-try. Warren outraised Brown in the final two quarters of 2011 over-all, but Brown remains ahead in the cash race due to funds leftover from the 2010 election.
The Warren campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the Harvard employ-ee’s fiduciary support for the can-didate.
T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N
Harvard profs give big to Warren
HARVARD
BY APARAAJIT SRIRAMSENIOR STAFF WRITER
The O"ce of Residential Life approved a proposal Wednesday to create a Social Action Program House in Diman House on Wriston Quadrangle. The house was approved after nearly three months of delib-eration by ResLife and the student-com-prised Residential Council.
The program house will aim to bring together students who have a passion for social justice and service, said Ben Chesler ‘15, who spearheaded the e!ort to create the house. Slated to open next semester, the cre-ators of the proposal are currently recruiting students to fill the available spaces, Chesler said.
Chesler proposed the new program house because he feels the social action commu-nity at Brown is “divided,” he said. Though there are many student groups involved in various service projects, Chesler said there is “no real common hub” for them to engage in conversation with one another. He added that there are few opportunities for students who are not involved in projects to simply join the conversation about activism.
“When you have a work space and a liv-ing space close together, stu! gets done,” Chesler said. “You could be sitting around at 2 in the morning and have a crazy idea for an organization, and you have the people there to make it happen.”
The proposal for the house was drafted and brought to ResCouncil in November by a group of about 20 students, most of whom are first-years who participated in the Uni-versity Community Academic Advising Pro-
gram, Chesler said. The social action house will fill rooms left vacant after Interfaith House closed last spring due to lack of student partici-pation.
“A successful pro-gram house fosters a sense of community by bringing people of com-
mon interests to a common living environ-ment,” wrote Travis Spangler ‘13, chair of the council’s Program and Greek House com-mittee, in an email to The Herald. “Also, (it) provides services to the whole Brown com-munity to help the community as a whole.”
Based on this criterion, ResCouncil advised ResLife to consider the house, and ResLife made the final decision to approve it.
The delay in approving the house has pre-vented active recruitment.
“We’re a little behind the ball, because we only just got approved,” Chesler said. There is currently a Google document circulating where interested students can sign up, he said. Chesler has been notifying students by emailing listservs and posting information on the Class of 2015 Facebook page.
Proponents of the house will be meeting with Jenna Sousa, housing coordinator at ResLife, next week to determine how many rooms and what types of rooms the house will receive.
Once its residents are determined, “we can start to have the conversation of what this is going to be and how it’s going to func-tion,” Chesler said.
B R O W N D A I L Y H E R A L D
Social action program house approved
BY SARAH SMITHSTAFF WRITER
College freshman Jesus Fuentes walked to the middle of the semi-circle on College Green clutching a manila folder.
He read a list of facts about himself and ended with, “and I’m a minority and that’s all that mat-ters to them.”
Fuentes took part in today’s demonstration, “NYPD Files: A Stand Against Profiling,” hosted by the Muslim Students Associa-tion. It was organized in response to reports by The Associated Press that the New York Police Depart-
ment was monitoring MSAs across the north-east, includ-ing at Penn.
For about a n h o u r beginning at noon, com-
munity members took their turn reading aloud facts about them-selves written on manila fold-ers — their “NYPD File.” Partici-pants shared their favorite foods, pets and what they’re studying and ended with statements such as “and I’m a Muslim and that’s all the NYPD cares about.”
College senior Tatum Regan ended her file with, “and I’m a feminist and that’s all that mat-ters to them.”
Another ended with, “And I’m a raging homosexual and that’s all that matters to them.”
“And I support the MSA,” many said.
The demonstration hoped to raise awareness about the issue of profiling and garner solidarity for the MSA. At its peak, the semi-circle consisted of about 20 com-munity members all holding their
manila “NYPD File.”Participants also had the option
of signing an attendance sheet that will be posted on MSA’s web-site to publicly show solidarity for MSA.
“I think that when one group is targeted, it is not only disgraceful but it’s inequality for everyone,” said Nursing sophomore Liz Har-buck, who signed the attendance list. “Everyone is a!ected by it.”
Passersby chose to watch the demonstration to show their sol-idarity.
“It’s so unfortunate that this is happening on our campus,” said Fariha Khan, Associate Director of the Asian American Studies Pro-gram. “I think it’s important that all students recognize its impor-tance.”
“I support the MSA because I’m Muslim, I’m Asian, I’m brown, and I am completely against racial profiling,” Khan added. She signed her name on the attendance sheet.
Fuentes pointed to the demon-stration as hope for future change. “Complacency is the number one feeding factor in all that’s wrong with our world,” Fuentes said. “This shows we are not compla-cent.”
T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y LVA N I A N
Community shows solidarity with MSA
BROWN
PENN
I think that when one group is targeted, it is not only disgraceful but it’s inequality for everyone. Everyone is a!ected by it.
LIZ HARBUCKUPenn student
JUSTIN COHEN/THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN
Members of the Penn community took turns reading aloud facts about themselves written on manila folders as part of a demonstration held by the Muslim Students Association.
BROWN DAILY HERALD
The Social Action Program House at Brown is now recruiting residents for the fall.
There’s great enthusiasm for Elizabeth Warren’s campaign across the political spectrum among professors (and students and sta!) here at the Law School.
LAURENCE TRIBEProfessor, Harvard Law School
THROUGH THE LENSPAGE 10 YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
At the Yale Peabody Museum, “Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating” is an experi-ence for all the senses. The exhibit’s multimedia
components illustrate everything from the biochemis-try of food storage to the history of food gathering to the psychology of eating choices. “Big Food” will run through Dec. 2. Sta! photographer JOY SHAN reports.
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THE NUMBER OF HOME GAMES THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM LOST AT HOME THIS SEASON. That loss came on January 27 when the visiting Harvard Crimson dominated the Bulldogs 65-35. The team’s home record is 11-1 this season; last year it was 9-4.
STAT OF THE DAY 1
M. LAXBrown 12Quinnipiac 7
M. HOCKEYHarvard 3Clarkson 2
M. HOCKEYPrinceton 2Brown 2
NHLWild 4Sharks 2
SOCCERArsenal 5Tottenham 2
INDOOR TRACK HEPTAGONALSBOTH YALE TEAMS FINISH LASTAt men’s Ivy League championships over the weekend, Princeton held o! Cornell, 184–176. Yale finished a distant eighth with 16 points. On the women’s side, Columbia edged Cornell to win its first ever title with 124 points, while the Elis lagged behind with 12.
PATRICK WITT ’12MEDIOCRE NUMBERS AT COMBINEPatrick Witt ’12 took to the field Sunday with the other 18 quarterback prospects of the 2012 NFL Draft. His worst drill was the broad jump, in which he placed 15th out of 16; he placed highest in the 20-yard shuttle, at 8th out of 13. Witt looked to make up ground in interviews.
“[Reggie Wilhite ’12] is Superman. I’m going to get him a cape. He does everything for us.”
JAMES JONES HEAD COACH, M. BASKETBALL
BY CHARLES CONDROSTAFF REPORTER
Yale’s seniors have played a combined 300 games in their college careers, but they found a way to make their final homes-tand stand out this weekend.
The Bulldogs (19-7, 9-3 Ivy) prevailed against Columbia (14-14, 3-9 Ivy) 75-67 on Fri-day night and followed it up by demolishing Cornell (11-15, 6-6 Ivy) 71-40 on Senior Night Sat-urday. Forward Greg Mangano ’12 said that the 31-point victory was a satisfying home finale.
“I couldn’t think of a much better way to go out,” Man-gano said. “[There was a] really good crowd and great contribu-tions from everybody … We just played really well as a team.”
The four seniors — forward Rhett Anderson ’12, guard Brian Katz ’12, forward Greg Mangano ’12 and forward Reggie Willhite ’12 — were honored in a pre-game ceremony. Then they led the team to its most lopsided victory of the year in Ancient Eight play.
Mangano led a balanced scoring e!ort with 16 points in addition to 10 rebounds. Will-
BY KEVIN KUCHARSKISTAFF REPORTER
It’s playo! time.The men’s hockey team (13–
13–3, 10–10–2 ECAC) beat Princeton and tied Quinnipiac over the weekend in its final reg-ular season games and ensured it will play Princeton at home in the first round of the ECAC play-o!s this weekend. The Bulldogs went 3–0–1 over their last four
games and finished sixth in the 12-team ECAC. Forward Jesse Root ’14 said the team is happy to end the regular season on a high note, but remains cautious for
the playo!s.“It’s great to build up momen-
tum, but when the playo!s start, you start from scratch.” Root said. “These are a couple of big games, and they’ll be tough.”
For the Bulldogs this week-end, it was a grizzled veteran who stepped up one night and a ris-ing star who stepped up the next. The Elis cruised to a 5–2 victory
Elis clinch home ice
BY EUGENE JUNGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Last season, Holy Cross (1–3) defeated Yale (1–0) 12–5, but during the Elis’ 2012 season opener, the Crusaders failed to conquer.
On Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team beat Holy Cross 17–13 at Reese Stadium to successfully kick o! its season. Despite the winter chills accompanied by extreme wind, about a hundred Bulldog families and sup-porters filled the stands. The team su!ered
through a rough season last year, but the team’s new players and veterans alike demon-strated resolve, and the Elis led for most of the match. Team captain Caroline Crow ’12 said she was especially pleased with the squad’s e!ort to play as a team.
“The whole attack stepped up and put a lot of points on the board,” Crow said. “Both the defense and o!ensive ends stepped up. I think it was a great way to start the season.”
Crow, midfielder Devon Rhodes ’13 and attacker Ashley McCormick ’14 scored four goals each. The spectators cheered on Crow whenever she had the ball in her stick, and the captain did not disappoint. Attacker Meghan Murray ’14 and midfielder Cathryn Avallone
MEN’S BASKETBALLYALE 75, COLUMBIA 67YALE 71, CORNELL 40
Before the women’s team squash national championships began on Friday, all the divi-sional winners from the previous year returned their trophies so that the hardware would be available for this year’s winners. Not Yale. The Elis, who entered the weekend as defending champions but ranked No. 2 in the country, were not about to give up their title willingly.
Yale (17–2, 6–1 Ivy) advanced easily through the first two rounds of the tournament but suc-cumbed to No. 1 Harvard (17–0, 7–0) in the finals Sunday in an encore of last year’s national title match. The Elis had pushed the Cantabs to
the limit when they lost the Ivy League champi-onship to their archrivals by a 5–4 score in New Haven two weeks ago. Harvard came out in full force on home turf in Cambridge, Mass., Sun-day and rolled to an 8–1 victory, sending the Elis home as the nation’s second-best team.
“Harvard was higher ranked than us — their roster list has slightly higher ranked play-ers,” said Shihui Mao ’15, who fell to Harvard’s
SEE W. SQUASH PAGE B2
KEVIN HENNECK/DAILY PRINCETONIAN
Jesse Root ’14, here playing Princeton on Friday, scored both Yale’s goals as the Elis tied Quinnipiac, 2–2, on Saturday.
Tournament run ends with Harvard
ALEX INTERIANO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Captain Reggie Willhite ’12 earned eight points, eight assists, nine rebounds and four steals to lead Yale to a Senior Night rout of Cornell on Saturday.
Bulldogs sweep final homestand
WOMEN’S SQUASHHARVARD 8, YALE 1
Elis crush Crusaders
SPORTSSarah Mumanachit in three games at the No. 7 spot. “They played really well, and we couldn’t match.”
The weekend had started out strong for Yale, which played in the tournament’s most com-petitive bracket. The Elis kicked o! with a sweep of No. 7 Cornell (12–8) on Friday, followed by a 7–2 rout of No. 3 Princeton (11–5) the next day. That success set up a meeting with Harvard, which had coasted into the finals with sweeps of No. 8 Dartmouth and No. 5 Trinity in the quar-terfials and semifinals, respectively.
The Crimson had finished their regular sea-son with a perfect record, including the 5–4 win over Yale in New Haven. But Yale had fin-ished with the upper hand the last time the two teams met with a national title at stake, hav-ing clinched last year’s national title with a 5-4 victory over the Cantabs in Princeton, N.J., last season.
This time, however, the Crimson were too much for head coach David Talbott’s team to handle. Led by freshmen — and former world No. 17 — Amanda Sohby at the No. 1 spot, the Crimson overpowered their opponents with wins at the top eight spots.
The Crimson took an early lead on Sunday. At No. 3, Nirasha Guruge took down Yale cap-tain Rhetta Nadas ’12 in straight sets, and at No. 6 Gwendoline Tilghman ’14 fell to Harvard’s Natasha Kingshott by the same score, despite pushing her opponent to the brink in a hard-fought second game that she lost 19–17. At No. 9, however, Issey-Norman Ross ’15 took home a 3–0 victory to cut Harvard’s overall lead to 2–1.
But Yale would not win another match. At No. 2, Kim Hay ’14 could not repeat her
impressive upset of heavily-favored Laura Gemmell of Harvard from two weeks before, and fell in three sets. At No. 8, Lillian Fast ’14 also fell in a rematch with her Harvard oppo-nent, falling to Julianne Chu — who she had beaten in five sets during the regular season — 3–1. Those two wins put Harvard up 4–1.
The Crison celebration started soon after, as captain Cecilia Cortes’ 3–1 victory over Katie Ballaine ’13 gave the team an insurmountable 5–1 lead. Cortes’ teammates waited for their captain to shake hands and walk o! the court with Ballaine before mobbing her in celebration.
Games remained at No. 1, 4 and 7, but the vanquished Elis put up little fight. At No. 1, Mil-lie Tomlinson ’14 lost in three sets. Alexandra
Van Arkel ’12 at No. 4 and Mao at No. 7 were also defeated in straight sets.
Next week, Yale will compete in the College Squash Association individual championships in Amherst, Mass.
’15 each recorded two goals. Midfielder Chris-tina Doherty ’15 rounded out the victory by
scoring the final point.The performance of the freshmen so far
shows promise for an improved season over last year, head coach Anne Phillips said in an email.
She added that with fresh talent, speed and athleticism, the Bulldogs can play a more “up-tempo” style of lacrosse this year, and opponents are not sure what to expect from Yale. Phillips said she anticipates this will work to Yale’s advantage.
“We have the ability to surprise a lot of teams, especially early in the season,” she said.
Crow added that Holy Cross had already played three games before facing Yale, so the victory against this tried team was even more encouraging heading into the regular season.
While each side had 22 shots on goal to reach their respective keepers, goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush ’12 made nine saves to Crusader Sarah Weber’s five. McCormick said without Quackenbush’s “unbelievable” saves,
clears and hustle, the team would have had a very di"cult time clinching the win.
Although the Bulldogs dominated and led the game for the most part, the Bulldogs received a wakeup jolt during the final period when they gave up four goals in row and allowed Holy Cross to narrow the score gap to 15-13. But the Elis rallied for the remainder of the period and doubled the scoring margin before the end of the match.
“We struggled late in the game with draw control,” head coach Anne Phillips said in an email. “By not winning the draw four consec-utive times, we lost momentum and gave Holy Cross an opportunity to score and challenge us toward the end of the game.”
The defenders effectively supported the goalkeeper by playing settled defense.
“We kept the fouls down and had no yel-low cards, which is always good. I think the defense unit played really well and made some big stops at crucial moments in the game,” Crow said.
One major sticking point for the team is to execute clear a transition from defense to attack, she added.
The team will be facing o! against Boston University this coming Wednesday. The Elis lost to the Terriers by the same score, 12–5, as the Holy Cross game last season.
Crow thinks that B.U. has a strong team but added that the Elis will rise to the challenge as long as they get possession o! the draw and control the pace of the game.
The Elis will take a road trip to Boston for the season’s second match against B.U. at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Quarterbacks, running backs perform at Combine Even though both declined to participate in throwing drills, prospective No. 1 and No. 2 draft picks Andrew Luck and Robert Gri"n III stole the show on Sunday. Gri"n ran the 40 in 4.41, best in class, while Luck led with a broad jump of 10’4”. Running backs Doug Martin and Robert Turbin led their group with 28 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press, while Lamar Miller won the 40 with a time of 4.40.
YALE 17, HOLY CROSS 13
YALE 8 9 17
HOLY CROSS 5 8 13
Goals: Yale: Caroline Crow (4), Ashley McCormick (4), Devon Rhodes (4), Cathryn Avallone (2), Meghan Murray (2), Christina DohertySaves: Whitney Quackenbush (9)Holy Cross: Taylor Zebrowski (4), Kayla DiBari (3), Laura Ryan (2), Seton Hartnett , Corinne Caracausa, Maggie Reichenbach, Sara HennesseySaves: Sarah Weber (3), Maddie Parisi (2)
Young talent steps up for Elis
EUGENE JUNG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Women’s lacrosse kicked o! its season with a 17–13 victory over Holy Cross.
splitting the first two sets, Li and her Syracuse counterpart, Aleah Marrow, dueled in the third and deciding set. After Marrow went up 3-0, Li showed great resolve fighting back to take the lead briefly at 4-3. The two traded breaks until they arrived at a deciding tiebreaker.
“The tiebreaker wasn’t pretty tennis on my part,” Li said. “I got a little nervous. She just went for her shots more than I did and I played more defensively than she did.”
Yale’s loss was due to a combination of Syracuse’s aggres-sive play and its own lackluster preparation, team members said.
To compound the Elis’ lack of preparation, the Orange forced the issue, playing an aggressive brand of tennis including a heavy dosage of serve-and-volley play, team members explained. Syracuse rattled the Bulldogs.
“Every singles player came out firing on the Syracuse team,” captain Steph Kent ’12 said. “They came out ener-gized and loud, and they had a lot of fans there supporting them.”
Despite this weekend’s split, Yale remains the class of the Ivy League. The team has no doubt that its loss to Syracuse will be the one and only wake-up call it requires.
“You can’t expect when you’re 25th in the country to get any easy matches,” McNamara said. “If we have to learn it this way, then so be it. We still have an awful lot of tennis left to play.”
Next weekend, the Bulldogs will host Stony Brook at home on Sunday, March 4 at 4 p.m.
The women’s squash team lost the title to Harvard but took second at the Howe Cup this weekend.
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W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1
W. tennis hits speed
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Elis remain in second placepens sometimes,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. “We could not hit the broad side of a barn. We just could not find the basket, and it was hard to overcome that Friday night.”
The Lions took a six-point lead, their largest of the game, with just under a minute remain-ing in the first half on guard Tay-lor Ball’s two free throws, but guard Allie Messimer ’13 cut the deficit to three with a three-pointer 30 seconds later, and the
teams went into halftime with Columbia up 28-25.
The two teams battled for the entire second half, but the Lions always had an answer for any challenge from the Bulldogs. The Elis came out of halftime with a 6-2 run to take a 31-30 lead with 17:28 remaining in the game, but Columbia quickly called a time-out, and after the restart Lions’ forward Agata Jankova made a quick jump-shot to put the Lions back on top.
Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 stole the ball and was fouled going for a layup with 15 minutes to play in the game. Her two free throws tied the game up at 35, and a minute and a half later, Halejian twisted into the lane and made a spectacular diving layup to tie the game again at 37. Halejian led the team with 12 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals, but was the only Bulldog to make more than two shots from the field.
The two teams traded blows for the next 10 minutes, with Yale briefly taking the lead on three straight free throws from forward Alexandra Osborn-Jones ’14, but the Lions quickly answered. Vasquez pulled the Elis to within one with two free throws with 1:40 remaining, but Columbia’s Tyler Simpson sprinted right back down the court for a layup and the Lions lead was back to three.
The Bulldogs had several opportunities to tie the game up from the three-point line and the free throw line, but could not convert them. Yale was eventu-
ally forced to foul, and the Lions made one out of two free throws to extend the lead to four and put the game away.
Determined to put Friday’s loss behind them, the Bulldogs domi-nated Cornell (11-14, 5-6 Ivy) the next night. The Bulldogs scored the first six points of the game, forcing Cornell to call a time-out only three and a half minutes into the game. But the Big Red could not stop the Elis’ momen-tum, and Yale scored the next five points to go up 11-0 and force the Cornell coach, Dayna Smith, to use another timeout. Cap-tain Michelle Cashen ’12 picked up four points, five rebounds, an assist and a steal in the first five minutes of the game to get her team going. She finished with 12 points and team highs of eight rebounds and five assists.
“We knew as a team that we needed to set the tone early,” Gobrecht said. “Michelle took that to heart and stepped up for us. She showed the kind of lead-ership that we’ve come to expect from her.”
The Bulldogs coasted to a 34-24 halftime lead and never looked back. The Big Red tried to mount a challenge and pulled within six after guard Taylor Flynn ran o! five points in a row, but that was as close as it was going to get.
The Elis close out their sea-son at home next weekend with games against Princeton and Penn.
The professional golfer lost in the WGC-Accenture Match Play finals to Hunter Mahan, also losing out on the opportunity to become golf’s new no. 1 ranked star. The 22-year-old from N. Ireland was hailed as golf’s new star after his eight-shot 2011 U.S. Open victory.
LAST WEEK THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, FEB. 25Yale 2, Quinnipiac 2
FRIDAY, MAR. 2ECAC Playo!s at
Princeton, 7:00 p.m.
LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK
SATURDAY, FEB. 25 Yale 69, Cornell 58
FRIDAY, MAR. 2Princeton at Yale, 7:00 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %
1 Harvard 10 2 .833 24 4 .857
2 Penn 9 2 .818 17 11 .607
3 Yale 9 3 .750 19 7 .731
4 Princeton 7 4 .636 16 11 .593
5 Cornell 6 6 .500 11 15 .423
6 Columbia 3 9 .250 14 14 .500
7 Brown 2 10 .167 8 21 .276
8 Dartmouth 1 11 .083 5 23 .179
LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK
SATURDAY, FEB. 25Yale 71, Cornell 40
FRIDAY, MAR. 2Yale at Princeton, 7:00 p.m.
S C O R E S & S T A N D I N G S
MEN’S HOCKEY
IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L T % W L T %
1 Cornell 7 1 2 .800 15 7 7 .638
2 Yale 6 4 0 .600 13 13 3 .500
3 Harvard 3 3 4 .500 10 8 11 .534
4 Dartmouth 3 4 3 .450 11 14 4 .448
5 Princeton 2 5 3 .350 8 14 7 .397
6 Brown 2 6 2 .300 8 16 5 .362
IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %
1 Princeton 11 0 1.000 21 4 .840
2 Yale 8 4 .667 16 10 .615
3 Harvard 7 4 .636 14 11 .560
4 Brown 7 5 .583 16 10 .615
5 Cornell 5 6 .455 11 14 .440
6 Penn 4 7 .364 11 14 .440
7 Dartmouth 2 9 .182 4 21 .160
8 Columbia 1 10 .091 3 22 .120
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S LACROSSE
LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK
SATURDAY, FEB. 25Yale 19, St. John’s 6
SATURDAY, MAR. 3Yale at Albany, 1:00 p.m.
WOMEN’S SQUASH
LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK
SUNDAY, FEB. 26Harvard 8, Yale 1
FRIDAY, MAR. 2Individual Championship
at Amherst, TBA
IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %
1 Harvard 7 0 1.000 17 0 1.000
2 Yale 6 1 .857 17 2 .895
3 Penn 5 2 .714 10 4 .714
4 Princeton 4 3 .571 11 4 .733
5 Cornell 3 4 .429 12 8 .600
6 Dartmouth 2 5 .286 6 8 .429
7 Brown 1 6 .143 12 8 .600
8 Columbia 0 7 .000 7 11 .389
YALE 5, PRINCETON 2
YALE 2 1 2 5
PTOWN 1 1 0 2
Antoine Laganiere ’13 scored two goals, and Brian O’Neill ’12 scored one goal and made three assists for Yale. Gus Young ’14 and Anthony Day ’15 also scored for the Blue and White.
YALE 71 CORNELL 40
YALE 37 34 71
CORNELL 24 16 40
Team Leaders: YalePoints: Greg Mangano - 16Rebounds: Greg Mangano - 10Assists: Reggie Willhite - 8Team Leaders: CornellPoints: Chris Wroblewski - 10Rebounds: Shonn Miller - 8Assists: Chris Wroblewski - 4
YALE 75 COLUMBIA 67
YALE 30 45 75
COLUMBIA 22 45 67
Team Leaders: YalePoints: Greg Mangano - 22 Rebounds - Reggie Willhite - 8Assists - Reggie Willhite - 6Team Leaders: ColumbiaPoints: Brian Barbour - 21Rebounds: Mark Cisco - 9Assists: Brian Barbour - 8
IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %
1 Brown 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000
2 Dartmouth 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000
3 Harvard 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000
4 Princeton 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000
5 Yale 0 0 .000 1 0 1.000
6 Cornell 0 0 .000 0 0 .000
7 Penn 0 0 .000 0 1 .000
Yale goes 11-1 at home
O’Neill, Root lead Bulldogs
hite scored eight points to go along with nine rebounds, eight assists and four steals.
“[Willhite’s] superman,” head coach James Jones said. “I’m going to get him a cape. He does everything for us.”
Willhite also contributed heavily to Friday’s victory, scoring 20 points while pulling down eight rebounds and dish-ing out six assists. Mangano scored a game-high 22 points on Friday. Guard Austin Morgan ‘13 had 14 and 11 points, respec-tively, but the weekend was a team effort.
On Friday night it was for-ward Brandon Sherrod ’15 who stepped up for the Elis. He also tied his career-high by scor-ing 10 points — eight in the sec-ond half — to hold off the Lions. He entered the weekend shoot-ing just 58.6 percent from the free-throw line, but he knocked
down six of nine from the char-ity stripe to preserve the vic-tory. He said that his success was a result of his extra work.
“It was a lot of work in prac-tice,” Sherrod said. “I try to shoot free throws after every practice.”
On, Saturday guard Jesse Pritchard ’14 answered the call for the Bulldogs. He hit all three of his attempts from beyond the arc on the way to a career-high 13 points along with two steals. He tied a career-high with four assists on Friday without turn-ing the ball over once. Willhite said that the team plays its best when the offense is balanced.
“When we move the ball we can be a very, very good team,” Willhite said. “It’s not always about scoring, it’s about mak-ing the right play. When we give the ball up to the open man we get good shots.”
The homestand sweep gave the Bulldogs an 11-1 home
record this season. Jones attrib-uted part of this success to the crowd. He added that the play-ers feed off of the energy of the fans at the Lee Amphitheater.
Jones said that he did have one regret about the weekend, though: He wished that Katz — who has been limited to two games this season after having double retina surgery — could have dressed for senior night.
“I’m saddened by the fact that one of our seniors, Brian Katz … couldn’t be a part of the game on the floor,” Jones said. “That’s something you want to think about and have a memory. Certainly Greg and Rhett and Reggie are going to have a mem-ory about that going forward.”
The Elis will travel to Princ-eton March 2 for the final week-end of the regular season.
Jesse Root ’14 scored both goals for the Bulldogs, the first at 00:29 into the second period and the second 10:41 into the frame. Nick Maricic ’13 made 40 saves.
over Princeton (8–14–7, 6–12–4) on Friday night behind a goal and three assists from captain Brian O’Neill ’12. Saturday, they bat-tled Quinnipiac (17–11–6, 9–8–5) to a 2–2 draw behind two goals from forward Jesse Root ’14.
TIGERS DECLAWEDIn Friday’s game, O’Neill
got involved in the scoring right away when he assisted on Antoine Laganiere’s power play goal just three minutes into the action. But the Elis did not hold the 1-0 lead for long. Princeton struck back just one minute and 30 seconds later when Andrew Calof put one in to tie things up.
The two teams fought back and forth for the next 12 minutes, and O’Neill again helped give the Elis a 2–1 lead. With about three minutes remaining in the open-ing frame, O’Neill fired a shot that bounced o! Princeton goal-tender Mike Condon’s pads and into the goalie crease where Gus Young ’14 scooped it up and fin-ished for a 2–1 lead.
After Calof scored his sec-ond to tie it up at two with about nine minutes remaining, O’Neill scored the goal that would put the Elis ahead for good. Exactly two minutes following Calof’s goal, O’Neill took a long pass from Nick Jaskowiak ‘12 and put it past Condon for a 3-2 lead. Root said that O’Neill has been able to make the big plays all year long.
“Consistency is the best word to describe [O’Neill],” Root said. “You know what you’re going to get from him every game. He’s going to work hard, take pucks away from guys, and he’s going to take the puck to the net. He really sets the tone for our team and is a great leader.”
O’Neill had a hand in stretch-ing the Yale lead to 4–2 with about five minutes remaining in the game. After carrying the
puck over the blueline, O’Neill held on to the rubber in tra"c and found Root, who picked out Laganiere for his second of the game.
“It was a gutsy team e!ort,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “I thought we won each period, which is big on the road. We were opportunistic in transition and solid defensively, not allowing many opportunities.”
CROSSTOWN TIESaturday night’s game against
Quinnipiac was decided in an action-packed second period that saw the two sides score all four of the game’s goals.
The o!ensive outburst came out of nowhere after a dead-locked first period. The Elis out-skated the Bobcats in the first half of the period, but Quinnip-iac picked up the pace, but Nick Maricic ’13 amassed 15 saves to stop the Bobcats’ momentum at the goal line. Maricic said fac-ing tough shots early in the game helped him later on.
“It’s nice to get the shots early, that’s what you hope for,” he said in a press release. “When you can make a good save at the begin-ning of the game, it really helps you.”
Yale kicked off the scoring action just 30 seconds into the second frame when Jesse Root ’14 notched his first of two con-secutive goals o! an assist from Charles Brockett ’12.
But the Elis squandered
their momentum by commit-ting two straight penalties that gave Quinnipiac a chance for a comeback. The Blue and White made it through the first pen-alty unscathed but did not get so lucky when Kenny Agostino ’14 went to the box just 40 sec-onds later. It took the Bobcats all of 33 seconds to slip one just past Maricic’s leg and tie the score.
With Quinnipiac building momentum, Yale caught a bad break at the wrong time. Just 35 seconds after Quinnipiac tied it at one, the referees ejected Antoine Laganiere ’13 for five minutes for making contact to the head. With a five-minute penalty kill coming up, things looked grim for Yale.
“We were facing some adver-sity, and I think we handled it really well,” Root said. “Maricic obviously did a great job hold-ing down the fort and coach did a great job keeping us focused. We stuck with our gameplan, did everything we could to kill the penalties and took the game back to them.”
Ro o t exe m p l i f i e d t h a t approach when he struck again with a shorthanded goal to deflate the Quinnipiac crowd and give Yale a 2–1 lead. Forward Clinton Bourbonais ’14 stole the puck from a Quinnipiac defen-seman at the Bobcats’ blue line and fired a backhanded shot that Quinnipiac goalie Eric Hartzell stopped. Hartzell could not con-trol the rebound, however, and Root swooped in for an easy fin-ish.
“[Bourbonais] did a great job taking it to the net and made a really smart play to just throw it o! his pads,” Root said. “I was just trying to beat my guy up the ice. Luckily I did that, Clint made a great play and I had an open net.”
With seven minutes remaining in the second period, Quinnipiac tied the score again on a beauti-fully executed power play while
Laganiere’s penalty was still in e!ect.
After the flurry of goals in the second period, the teams returned to a stalemate in the third. Quinnipiac controlled the pace of the game for most of the period and outshot Yale 15–5. With less than five minutes remaining, the Bobcats looked as though they were going to score when they went on a power play. Quinnipiac had moved the puck e!ortlessly against Yale with a man advantage all night, but the Bobcats could not capitalize on their scoring chances.
In overtime, the Bulldogs recorded two shots on goal to Quinnipiac’s zero. Allain added that he was happy with the way the Bulldogs persisted in over-time.
“I thought we were the stron-ger team in overtime, and that’s very important,” Allain said in a press release. “Our team has the skill and grit to beat anyone in the league. If our attention is there, and our focus is there, we will see [in the playo!s] if we are good enough.”
“Keep the GoDaddy car with all four fend-ers looking mildly round and square and not crushed in. Go from there.” DANICA PATRICK, NASCAR DRIVER
YALE 19 ST. JOHN’S 6
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Leading scorers: Yale- Brandon Mangan, Matt Gibson (4 each); St. John’s- Harry Kutner (3)Total shots: Yale 45; St. John’s 21Ground balls: Yale 36; St. John’s 25Saves: Yale 2; St. John’s 7Turnovers: Yale 9; St. John’s 15Face o!s won: Yale 17; St. John’s 11
BY JOHN SULLIVANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
It was a weekend of ups and downs for the women’s basketball team, which su!ered a heartbreaking loss to Columbia on Friday but responded emphatically with a 69-58 victory at Cornell the next night.
Through it all, the Elis (16-10, 8-4 Ivy) remained a half-game ahead of Harvard for second place in the Ivy League after the Crimson lost to Princeton Friday night but beat Penn the following evening. The team that finishes the season in second place in the Ivy League receives an automatic spot in the post-season Women’s National Invi-tational Tournament. Yale has two games remaining on its schedule while the Crimson has three, though the Bulldogs face the first-place Tigers, who have now clinched the Ivy League title and an NCAA Tournament bid, next weekend. Harvard, meanwhile, will face Columbia and Cornell next weekend. The Lions will be looking to play the same spoiler role that they did against Yale on Friday.
Columbia (3-22, 1-10 Ivy) had not won a game since Dec. 30 of last year but played with a surprising confidence and energy against the Bulldogs. The Lions could have rolled over after the Elis scored the first seven points of the game, but they battled back to take a 17-16 lead with six minutes remaining in the first half.
“A lot of things went wrong [Friday night],” guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said. “Our shots weren’t dropping, and coach was pretty upset with our lack of communication on both sides of the ball.”
The Lions aggressively trapped the Bull-dogs’ ball handlers as they crossed mid-court, and while the Elis retained their com-posure and committed few turnovers against the trap, they were unable to capitalize on Columbia’s aggressive defense. Yale passed the ball well and was able to generate open shots, but shot a season-low 23.9 percent from the field, including a 4-22 mark from beyond the arc.
“It was just one of those things that hap-
BY JOSEPH ROSENBERGSTAFF REPORTER
This weekend, the No. 25 wom-en’s tennis team (7-2 overall, 0-0 Ivy) underwent some growing pains. On the heels of an impressive 6-1 win over No. 59 College of William and Mary (2-7 overall, 0-1 CAA) on Sat-urday, Syracuse (8-4 overall, 3-1 Big East) took down the Bulldogs 4-3 on Sunday.
Against the College of William and Mary, the Elis began the match well. Despite No. 27 ranked duo Vicky Brook ’12 and Hanna Yu ’15 falling at No. 1, Yale took the doubles point for the eighth consecutive match to go ahead 1-0.
Going into singles play, the ship kept right on sailing, as the Elis dropped only one match. Yale head coach Danielle McNamara said that her team did a good job pulling away early.
“One of the things I thought we did well that we had made a priority was getting o! to a good start in the singles after the doubles matches,” McNamara said. “Getting the 6-1 win over them was pretty solid.”
On Sunday, though, unranked Syr-acuse nipped the Bulldogs. Again, though, the Elis achieved the early edge by winning their ninth consec-utive doubles point, 2-1. Yale’s No. 2 pair, No. 37 ranked Elizabeth Epstein ’13 and Annie Sullivan ’14, sealed the match’s opening point with an 8-5 win.
With the momentum firmly on the Elis’ side of the court, Yu put Yale up 2-0 with a 7-5, 6-2 straight-set win over Syracuse’s Maddie Kobelt at No. 2.
Blair Seideman ’14 gained her
team’s third point with a routine 6-2, 6-3 undressing of Breanna Bachini at No. 3. Seideman said that she matched up well with Bachini.
“She hit everything a million miles an hour,” Seideman said. “She made a
lot of winners but also made a ton of errors. If you’re strong enough from the back, then you can kind of grind her down.”
Just one point away from victory, the Bulldogs looked to either No. 5
Sullivan or No. 6 Amber Li ’15 to seal the deal. After Sullivan’s tight loss at No. 5 tied the match at 3-3, the out-come depended on Li’s match. After
Hanna Yu ’15 played doubles last weekend with Vicky Brook ’12. The No. 27 pair lost to William and Mary and Syracuse, but Yu won her singles matches.
BY JOHN SULLIVANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
The specter of last year’s sea-son-opener against St. John’s loomed large over Reese Stadium as the fourth quarter began yes-terday afternoon. But the Bulldogs scored three times in the first four minutes of the final period to snu! out another Red Storm attempted comeback, and to secure an easy 19-6 victory in their first game of the season.
“It was a little bit eerie, the same thing happened last year when we jumped out to a big lead,” defenseman Alex Mo"t ’14 said. “At halftime there were definitely memories of last year’s game, and we said that we had to come out on fire in the second half and put them away.”
Attackman Brandon Man-gan ’14 gave the Bulldogs a com-fortable 12-5 lead with 30 sec-onds remaining in the third, but when St. John’s midfielder Harry Kutner’s running, 15-yard shot went in with four seconds left in the quarter the momentum on the field subtly shifted. Sud-denly both teams were reminded of the five straight goals the Red Storm scored in the final period of last season’s meeting, which turned what should have been an easy victory for the Bulldogs into a tense two-point win.
The Elis were determined not to let that happen this time. Mid-fielder Cole Yeager ’13 won the opening face off of the fourth quarter and less than two min-utes later midfielder Ryan McCar-thy ’14 dodged from behind and found midfielder Matt Miller ’12,
who buried his attempt from 10 yards out. A minute later when attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 cut towards the goal and scored on a pass from Shane Thornton, the wind droped right out St. John’s sails. St. John’s frustration was evident when Red Storm defen-sive midfielder Mark DiFrangia was sent to the penalty box for a late hit after Mangan’s goal with 11:17 remaining gave the Elis a commanding 15-6 lead.
Mangan and fellow attackman Matt Gibson ’12 paced the Bull-dog o!ense with four goals and five points apiece. Gibson spent most of the afternoon spinning and tiptoeing his way around the St. John’s crease and had sev-eral attempts that missed the net by inches. He and Mangan were helped out on the attack-ing side of the ball by McCarthy, who wreaked havoc behind the St. John’s net and finished with one goal and three assists.
“We really played the Yale style of lacrosse that is always preached to us,” Miller said. “We won the ground ball battle, we got open shots, and we finished them. We got the ball back quickly when-ever we lost it.”
The Elis also dominated at the face-off x with their midfield pair of Yeager and Dylan Lev-
ings ’14 combining to win 17 of 28 face o!s. Their e!orts helped Yale control possession and keep St. John’s high-powered o!ense quiet.
The Bulldogs’ defense was also on point in its first game of the season and held the Red Storm scoreless for the first 20 minutes of the game. St. John’s starting trio of attackmen, which last week accounted for nine goals against Holy Cross, was held to only one on Saturday. The Eli defense also forced eight turnovers and was led by defenseman Michael McCor-mack ’13 with four caused turn-overs.
“One point of focus in prac-tice this week was communi-cation, and we did a really good job of doing that well and play-ing together as a unit,” Moffit said. “We were also ridiculous on ground balls, any time the ball hit the ground it was ours.”
The Bulldogs opened the scor-ing four minutes into the game on an isolation play for midfielder Greg Mahony ’12. Mahony dodged from up near the midfield line and moved the ball to McCarthy, who found Miller open from eight yards out. Miller buried his shot in the back of the net for the first goal of the Elis’ 2012 season. Yale went on to score five more goals before St. John’s finally got on the score-board with a man-up goal half-way through the second quarter.
Miller said the team has been waiting all year to clinch a victory in its first game.
The Red Storm, their coaches and their fans all took their frus-trations out on the officiating crew throughout the game. The home team was only flagged for four penalties to St. John’s eight, although the Bulldogs also spent about twice as much time on o!ense as their opponents. The visitor’s emotions reached a peak
with 12:15 left in the third quar-ter when Red Storm defense-man Kevin Cernuto was flagged for a slash and yelled at the o"-cial, provoking another one min-ute penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. Yale promptly capital-ized on the extra-man opportu-nity as Mahony rifled a shot past St. John’s goalie only a few sec-onds after the restart.
Saturday’s contest was also the first collegiate start for freshman
goalie Eric Natale ’15. Natale was rarely tested thanks to the Bull-dog’s aggressive defense and e"-cient ball-control and finished with two saves before being taken out for Jack Meyer ’14 with 2:40 remaining in the game.
The Bulldogs are home next weekend to play Albany in a 1 p.m. game on Saturday.
Brandon Mangan ’14 scored four goals as Yale rolled to a 19–6 victory over St. John’s this weekend. One point of focus in practice this week was communication, and we did a really good job of doing that well.
ALEX MOFFIT ’14Defenseman, men’s lacrosse
Men’s lax dominates opener
Yale goes 1-1 for weekend Elis split N.Y.
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You can’t expect when you’re No. 25 in the counry to get any easy matches.
