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Williams resigns

Welcome back, Yale. Second semester begins today, though you would not know it from this weekend’s temperatures in the high 50s and the flowers blooming in Branford College.

For the winter lovers among us, there’s a chance of snow showers tonight.

BY MADELINE MCMAHON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS

¡Goodbye! Salsa. ¡Ay! Salsa, the High Street restaurant beloved for its Latin cuisine, is leaving its High Street location, which had been emptied Sunday afternoon.

Its owner could not be reached for comment Sunday, but a construction worker said a new store will take ¡Ay! Salsa’s place.

When Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 assumes the newly-created role of University secretary and vice president for student life next fall, she said she plans to lead by consensus.

We had tried to bring her back some years ago, and we’ve always had a high regard for her.

Hello, munchies. Insomnia Cookies, a bakery started at the Unversity of Pennsylvania, opened its Chapel Street doors last Wednesday. Insomnia stays open until 3 a.m. and will deliver cookies to your dorm (or your apartment, or Bass) until 2 a.m.

Following questions about his resume, Tom Williams left his post as football coach. PAGE B1

Time for some half-yards.

Historic Chapel Street pub Richter’s is slated to re-open under new management in early 2012. Its new owner, John Ginetti, said the bar will be open “before the snow melts,” according to the New Haven Independent.

Tiger cub roams free. Law School professor Amy Chua returned to the Wall Street Journal last month to tell the world she does not apply her Tiger Mother parenting strategies to her daughter, Sophia, now that she is a freshman at Harvard, because the Tiger strategy works best on younger children.

Rebel with a cause. Russian

political activist, influential blogger and Yale World Fellow Alexei Navalny was released from prison in December after spending 15 days in jail for interfering with traffic.

Though he was floated as a possible candidate in March’s president elections, he did not register in time.

Presidential powers. Ernesto

Zedillo GRD ’81, the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the former president of Mexico, claimed that his status as a former head of state makes him immune from a lawsuit alleging he covered up the massacre of 45 Mexican citizens in 1997.

Hot new study spot. The

Center for Science and Social Science Information opened its doors last Tuesday, providing a new home for the science library, social science library and StatLab in the basement of Kline Biology Tower. It includes a 24 hour study-space.

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1963 The federal government announces a grant of $2 million for Yale’s new $4.2 million Laboratory for Epidemiology and Public Health at College Street and South Frontage Road.

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RICHARD LEVIN University president Last spring, Goff-Crews took time off from her role as vice president for campus life and dean of students at the University of Chicago to serve on the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, and Yale administrators said her work on the committee led them to consider how they could make a place for her at Yale. In her new job, Goff-Crews will oversee a new council of student life administrators from Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools.

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Former head football coach Tom Williams stepped down with a 16–14 career record and a 0–3 mark in The Game.

Aldermen to shift in new year

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER When Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was inaugurated for a record 10th term on Jan. 1, a radically different Board of Aldermen also took office on the same day.

The 19 aldermen beginning their first term this month were sworn in on New Year’s Day during the city’s inauguration ceremony, held at Hill Regional Career High School on Legion Avenue. Many members of the new Board, which features a supermajority of labor-backed aldermen, have said it will work to push Mayor John DeStefano Jr. for big changes.

My colleagues and I share many similar concerns about the state of affairs in New Haven right now.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Ward 1 alderwoman “My colleagues and I share many similar concerns about the state of affairs in New Haven right now regarding the issues of crime, violence, joblessness and youth,” said Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 in a Sunday email to the News. “I look forward to tackling those issues and in particular I hope to play a key role in the ongoing shaping of real community policing in New Haven.”

While many of the new aldermen railed against the mayor during last year’s election season, his critics on the board said they were eager to collaborate to tackle city issues.

City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said DeStefano’s priorities for the next two years include improving education, working with youth, implementing community policing and continuing to SEE ALDERMEN PAGE 4

City homicides hit 34

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s murder count reached a 20-year high after a grisly 2011 that saw 34 homicides.

Although city and police officials admitted the homicide rate — 10 higher than the 2010 figure — was concerning, they pointed to improvements in the city’s overall rate of violent crime in recent years as an indication of continued policing efforts. Officials and community leaders agreed that there is no simple explanation for the Elm City’s uptick in murders, but several new strategies have been implemented to bring the rate down in the future, coinciding with the arrival of new New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman, who was sworn in Nov. 18.

“The homicide rate in 2011 was clearly unacceptable and it’s something that the city and the police department are going to focus efforts on in 2012,” said City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04. “The new chief has been tasked with reducing the homicide rate and the rate of violent crime in the city and we’re optimistic that his efforts will be successful.”

The Elm City reached its final murder count for the year after two fatal shootings in as many days. NHPD officers responded to a report of a shooting at 50 Houston St. around 12:50 a.m. on Dec. 23.

There, they found 27-year old Joseph Zargo of West Haven with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward.

The next day, the city’s Shotspot-

ter detection system reported several gunshots at 332 Norton St. around 9:45 p.m. Officers at the scene found Antonio Holloway, 19, with a gunshot wound to the chest outside 335 Norton St. Holloway was taken to St. Raphael’s Hospital and pronounced dead at 3:51 a.m. Christmas Day. While NHPD spokesman David Hartman agreed that the number of murders in the city last year was unacceptably high, he said the homicide count was simply “the most visible figure” and not necessarily reflective of the city’s overall crime situation.

According to data released Dec. 20 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Elm City saw an 11 percent drop in violent crime in the first six months of 2011 compared with the SEE HOMICIDES PAGE 8

Yale to aid same-sex couples

BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER Beginning this month, Yale will join the small number of United States colleges and universities that help offset a federal tax gay and lesbian employees pay on health coverage received by their partners.

Though same-sex marriage is legal in Connecticut, it is not recognized under federal law, so domestic partner health benefits are considered taxable income — levying an additional cost on same-sex couples that those in heterosexual marriages do not face. In a reversal from past years, Yale will now pay both employees with same-sex spouses or in civil unions $1,500 a year to help cover the cost of a federal tax on employerprovided health coverage for domestic partners, Compensa-

tion and Benefits Director Hugh Penney said in a Dec. 22 email.

“Because of the increasing discrepancies between the state and federal tax treatment of the health care benefits provided to same-sex marital partners, a number of employers have begun to partially or fully offset the federal tax,” Penney said.

“Yale has long been progressive in providing equality of benefits for same-sex couples.”

The new policy brings Yale in line with Columbia University, Syracuse University and Bowdoin College — other schools that help offset the federal tax on domestic partner health coverage. Columbia also decided to implement the tax relief for 2012, and will provide annual reimbursements of $1,000, said Leif Mitchell, co-chair of Yale’s SEE TAX PAGE 8

BREAKDOWN TAX RELIEF $1500-$3000 Health insurance tax for same sex couples in 2010, on average

$1500 Amount to be reimbursed by Yale in 2012

40-50 Number of employees who will be eligible for the 2012 reimbursements

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Rethinking the good of Yale athletes A friend of mine runs track. For the past year, she was on the disabled list with injured knees. Every morning at 6:00 a.m., she worked out in a pool to rehabilitate, though her doctors and coaches predicted her efforts would be futile. She beat their diagnoses and recently returned to racing. When we saw each other the other day, her eyes lit up when she told me that she was “again wearing the Y of a Yale uniform.”

Something struck me: My friend strived to stay on the track team, desperately so, knowing she faced a painful and uncertain road to recovery. Even now with a doctor’s OK, she is pretty uncompetitive. But she is happy, despite her lack of racing success and a year of brutal rehab. She cares about serving her team and Yale, both entities greater than her personal accomplishment.

My friend is not alone. Countless athletes practice daily, only to sit on benches for their college careers. Others play, but not quite well enough to see their names in the News. Heck, some whole teams continue to don uniforms when they barely win a game.

These athletes have a lesson to teach the rest of us, their selfabsorbed peers. Unfortunately, our community has spent the past few decades in a cyclical debate over whether recruited athletes deserve space at Yale. As long as we focus on athletes’ academic merit (an irresolvable and pointless discussion), we fail to realize the message of service being displayed out on our fields and in our pools.

Many Yale students constantly shape our images by collecting impressive sounding titles.

None of us likes to be a subordinate, so we start new clubs just to be the president of something.

In our sprint to compile the best resume before graduation, we try our hand at Model UN. Even some of the “selfless” public servants in Dwight Hall are consciously building credentials so they can earn spots at prime NGOs postcollege. (Consider this paragraph a partial self-portrait.)

Athletes are the polar opposite.

Of course, they strive for individual achievement and recognition, too. But where most Yalies fear being cogs in a machine, varsity sports players embrace the ethic of belonging to a larger entity.

Their vocabularies are peppered with words like sacrifice, team and community — and they usually mean it. When did a non-athlete ever use those terms on a daily basis? Yale’s mission statement declares that we educate leaders to “serve in every sphere of human activity.” Right now, though, it seems athletes are the best exemplars on campus of service for a cause greater than oneself.

These same athletes are often the subject of disdain in a Yale community that sees them as intellectually inferior, a stereotype that prevents us from appreciating their selfless service to a larger cause.

There is much mea culpa here. I once thought athletes had nothing

to offer Yale, that they were admitted for skills that are worthless in an academic environment.

I thought they were boors NATE who popuZELINSKY lated the worst f ra te r n i t i e s On Point and coarsened an otherwise ideal community.

My former attitude represents the glib thinking of many students and administrators here. Over time, such attitude has created a glaring divide between varsity sports players and everyone else.

Athletes bear some responsibility for the social chasm: Like many minorities under attack, they over emphasize their insular community, calling those who do not play sports “muggles.” Some transfer colleges to live with teammates and only socialize within a defined clique.

Moreover, the athletic community at Yale is not beyond serious criticisms. Too many athletes flaunt a form of anti-intellectualism as a badge of pride. Some particular teams and their extracurricular outlets (read: frats) need serious reform. These problems deserve acknowledgement and redress by the athletic community.

Attempts to bridge the athlete-muggle divide in our public discourse always fail. We play out the old arguments in dining halls or student publications, year after year: Some athletes are smart! Look, this one almost got a Rhodes. They really do belong in academia. They did not take spots from the more deserving. We confine the discussion to one simple question: Can the people in Payne Whitney hack classes?

Unfortunately, we cannot change the bottom line. Some recruited athletes aren’t as smart as their muggle peers. Yes, some did take spots away from applicants with better grades. But when we frame the discussion this way, we set ourselves up for an irreconcilable debate.

Lost in our conversation is the fact I learned from my friend on the track team: Athletes embody something integral to Yale’s mission that is not taught in the classroom — true service. They have a lesson to teach us all. We cannot learn from them if we think they have nothing to bring to the table.

The learning process is gradual. It is born when students accept lacrosse players as legitimate peers, despite eye-roll-worthy comments in section. It grows when athletes give up the word “muggle” and when groups like DKE change their public personas. It will flourish when we go to sports games to cheer, to watch, to learn.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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George O’Leary.” ‘OPINIONATED’ ON ‘WILLIAMS RESIGNS AMID RHODES CONTROVERSY’

GUEST COLUMNIST ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN

Opinions run amok assured me that some of the most aggressive commenters are not Yalies, I’m not so sure. I dislike the thought that I live amongst a number of people, however small, who are capable of making such vicious comments online.

Anonymity cuts two ways: it liberates people to say what they feel, but this liberation often sours rapidly. False names allow responders to write hateful things online, attacking writers of articles, the city of New Haven, even the News itself. Writers and editors make mistakes sometimes in their articles, and even when they are not in fact mistaken, they may write things that we disagree with.

Just as we hope to be given the benefit of the doubt on that paper we finished 15 minutes before it was due, so too do these writers and editors deserve respect and compassion.

It is also far harder to express an initial opinion that it is to tear it down, and harder to follow a sustained argument to its logical end than to unpick a small part of it or digress to an unrelated

I prefer to read the News in print, always. Not just because the News goes well with breakfast — though it does — but also because I can read the articles without reading the comments that inevitably accumulate on the online versions. Whenever I do turn to the online version of the News, I am by turns entertained and terrified to read what anonymous responders have written and what they have written about each other.

I write this article as an English-History of Art major who spends most of her time arguing about writing and ideas. My political views are far to the left, and I stand firmly behind President Jed Bartlett of The West Wing in my belief that no price is too high to pay for free speech.

But I’m also old-fashioned in my feelings about politeness and personal accountability, and I believe that we can speak freely and politely at the same time, expressing disagreement in constructive and impersonal ways. We live in a relatively insular community, and while many people have

thought. I have often read both tendencies on the News’ website. I understand that the News’ website should be a place where people can speak anonymously, if they choose to, but the condition of anonymity should be grounded in the assumption that people will respond thoughtfully even if it involves a digression.

We must find ways to attack arguments, not individuals. We need to cultivate the talents of provoking discussion without rudeness, and criticizing without meanness. Then the discourse on the News’ website will be the kind of conversation that we have in our classrooms, in our dining halls and in our suites. We owe that much to our institution, and more importantly, to each other.

At the risk of becoming exactly the kind of meta English-History of Art major we all love to hate, I will say that I expect to see some comments on the online version of this article along the lines of “Hey fat face, stop bandying around your highbrow morality. We’ll say what we want.” If I believe any-

thing about the people who write comments on the News’ website, it’s that there is no chance that they will stop talking. I celebrate that they are talking to each other, discussing the essential issues of the day, and sharing their personal opinions. Technology has allowed us to imagine free speech in new and exciting ways. But our task as a community is to continue to uphold the value of free speech without tarnishing it with pettiness, incivility and cruelty.

Perhaps the greatest fear I have about the News’ website is that the anonymous commentary will pass over into real life, leading to less sharing of diverse opinions and personal experiences in public forums because of the potential fallout. I haven’t yet lived the implications of putting myself forward in this public way, but I am nervous about the consequences.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .

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Yale’s role among young global leaders On Dec. 30th, 2011, I was celebrating my 20th birthday. On the other side of the world, Kim Jong-un was receiving the official title of ‘Supreme Commander’ from North Korea’s parliament.

At 28 (certain sources differ on his age), Kim is only eight years older than I and only a few years older than most Yale graduates, therefore firmly part of our generation. He controls his nation’s nuclear arsenal and could singlehandedly trigger a global conflict.

But Kim Jong-un was not the only example of a young person assuming unprecedented levels of leadership this past year.

2011 has been a pivotal year of change globally. Of course, the Arab Spring offers the most striking example: young people seizing leadership to stand up to oppressive regimes. Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor known for self-immolation that kicked off the Tunisian protests, was 26. Not long after, 21 year-old Tunisian rapper Hamada Ben Amor wrote the song ‘Head of State’ that inspired his Tunisian countrymen and became the anthem of Egyptian protesters in Tahrir Square.

The movement has had a radi-

cal political impact in over 13 countries. In Chile, 23 year-old Camilla Vallejo led a nationwide movement for education that has reshaped the Chilean political climate.

At Yale this year, students have engaged in a range of civil society initiatives with global impact.

Some Yalies were active in the Occupy movement, on the New Haven Green and at the Morgan Stanley info session protest that made national headlines. Other students participated in Jackson Institute dialogue with top global leaders. The Venezuelan Students Association hosted a summit of Venezuelan students and renowned Latin American academics here on campus. Many Yalies have continued to plan numerous Reach Out trips.

In addition, Yale students are deeply involved in local politics and the U.S. primaries, the selection of our president having huge international impact. These individual efforts play enormously positive and valuable roles on domestic and foreign levels. Young people abroad, however, have literally been changing the world themselves, now and directly.

The question for the Yale student body is how we as a group can play a major positive role in the global arena now. Social media and increased connectivity have created a global generation. Our citizenship responsibilities lie beyond exclusively local or national issues. While many Yalies set an example through their individual efforts, our campus still lacks a unified consciousness of global leadership.

Our university has long stood for shaping the world leaders of tomorrow, but many young people our age across the world are making an international impact as the leaders of today.

There are myriad options for us as a unified Yale student community to demonstrate global leadership in real time. We do not have to start protests to make a difference. As a university, we should aspire to remain at the forefront of international discourse.

We missed some opportunities in 2011. Perhaps we could each have tried to connect with other youth leaders from different countries, hosting a dialogue that brought each of them together.

We maybe could have reached out

to mainstream media to show our campus’s support for peace and human rights initiatives. Perhaps we, as a student body, could have taken a unified stance towards the legal and civil society efforts to eradicate trafficking of women and children.

With all of the resources at our disposal here at Yale, students truly have the opportunity, even the duty, to be the hosts for this conversation on new, young global leadership. Yale can be that the place for interaction and connection for young people globally: a ‘headquarters’ for those looking to learn from and support each other as they seek to make a better world.

In 2012, let’s challenge ourselves to take greater initiative to connect on a global scale. We can engage and lead now. Global leadership should not just be an objective and responsibility for our future. Let’s add our Yale education to the courage and efforts of young people around the world, and let’s hold ourselves accountable this time next year.

CRISTO LIAUTAUD is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at cristo.liautaud@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL MAGDZIK

Advent of the machines As we move into the primaries stage of the 2012 campaign season, every politically conscious American is being bombarded with a constant stream of flashy declarations about job creation.

Unfortunately, many of these seem only dubiously rooted in actual economics, and the prospect of electing technocratic leaders like Italy’s Mario Monti or Greece’s Lucas Papademos seem like a fantasy compared to the candidates we have before us.

This is bad news, considering the crisis we face. Until recently, the rate of new job creation was not even keeping up with population growth, much less reemploying the unfortunate people who lost their jobs during and after the recession. But even among think tanks and the punditry, short shrift has been given to one of the most important underlying reasons for unemployment after the Great Recession: technology.

In their excellent October 2011 e-book Race Against the Machine, a pair of MIT professors compellingly make the case that technological unemployment is a serious contributor to recessionary woes, and that the problem will only be exacerbated going forward.

Economic indicators like GDP growth and corporate profits are

up following the recession, but unemployment remains high. The argument for the advent of the machines is an intuitive explanation for this phenomenon. Think about all the professions that have been automated in recent memory: airport receptionists are being replaced by kiosks, bank tellers by ATMs, supermarket cashiers by electronic pay stations, customer support by phone software, salesmen by online shopping and so on. The future might start looking more like the one we see in movies when Google finishes and markets its self-driving car, which received a patent in December. We might be looking at a whole lot of unemployed taxicab and truck drivers in a few years.

This kind of progress is great for society — these tasks become more efficient and make our lives easier. But not everyone benefits.

This phenomenon has disproportionately impacted low-skilled workers, while capital owners have reaped the rewards. The median worker’s income continues to decrease, as it has over the past few years. Between 1983 and 2009, the top 20% of American households received over 100 percent of the total wealth increase in the US, and the remaining 80 percent saw a net decrease. This will continue as technology advances.

What does this mean for America? The Occupy movements may have largely packed up for the winter, but we can be sure they’ll be back in force in the spring if more Americans lose their jobs and lack safety net benefits, leading to increased social tension and strife. A poorer middle class likely means less use of preventative medicine, less nutritious food for families and kids, more homelessness, more crime, and more debt and use of credit to pay for necessities — potentially setting up the next crisis.

Yalies might be insulated from this for now, but even lawyers are starting to be replaced by cheaper and faster “e-discovery” document review programs. Either way, the point remains that things are not going to improve naturally, as part of a regular and predictable business cycle that just happens to be in a slump. Our country as a whole needs to have a serious, intellectual discussion about the evolving American social contract, and demand the same of its candidates.

We need to begin by recognizing that not everyone who relies on benefits is a drug-abusing, lazy welfare queen who came to this country illegally, a fact that I know has not completely permeated the Yale community. By and large, the people left behind now

are those who lacked a sufficiently rigorous education to excel in skills such as management, analysis, or programming — in other words, they are those whose jobs can be automated.

To compensate for that, we need retraining programs that help workers gain relevant skills, as well as seriously revamped primary and secondary education systems to ensure the next generation has adequate knowledge to succeed in the globalized economy. So far, we’ve gotten a lot of talk about abolishing the Department of Education and a little bit of hazy talk about the nitty-gritty of the policies of tenure, merit pay, standardized tests, vouchers, student debt, and pretty much everything else we actually need to be discussing. Some of the candidates don’t even have a dedicated statement about their education positions on their websites.

Everyone knows we’re headed for a crisis, but its severity doesn’t seem to really have hit us. Maybe after a few million more lose their jobs and need to be peppersprayed as they riot across the country, it will be a tad bit clearer.

MICHAEL MAGDZIK is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at michael.magdzik@yale.edu .

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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS MONDAY, JANUARY 09 4:00 PM “Maps of the RNA World: New Approaches to Understanding the Role of RNA in Mediating Human Disease.” Dr. Robert Darnell will speak. Osborn Memorial Laboratories (165 Prospect St.), Room 202.

4:00 PM “Quantum Networks of Trapped Atomic Ions.”

Christopher Monroe of the Joint Quantum Institute and the University of Maryland will give this talk, sponsored by the Physics Club. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Room 57.

8:00 PM Mindfulness Meditation Group. Sitting meditation followed by a discussion/informal lecture on the practice of mindfulness meditation (vipassana). Attendees should bring their own meditation cushion or bench. Open to the Yale and New Haven communities. Dwight Chapel (67 High St.).

Workshops to foster change, admins say

BY CAROLINE TAN AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS As part of efforts to improve Yale’s sexual climate, two new instructional programs on leadership strategies and sexual misconduct prevention will take place at the end of January.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT Freshmen will attend a new set of workshops that will “examine the signals people use to distinguish among agreement, refusal and ambiguity,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said in an email last month to the class of 2015. At the same time, representatives from registered student groups and varsity sports teams will be required to attend leadership training sessions, which will include sections on combating sexual misconduct and hazing, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 said in a December email to the News. But a majority of students interviewed questioned whether these initiatives will have a significant impact on student behavior.

“We sometimes take leadership for granted, downplaying its importance,” Boyd said.

“Our hope is that this training, small though it is, will prompt self-reflection and conversations that help make our community one in which everyone can thrive.”

Each registered group and varsity team must send three representatives to a leadership session, Miller said in a campus-wide email, adding that leaders of unregistered groups are encouraged to attend as well. Organizations that do not send officers to the training will lose their registered status with the Dean’s Office, Boyd said.

Faculty and administrators will speak to attendees about effective leadership as well as ways to deal with sexual misconduct and hazing, said Hannah Peck, a student affairs fellow who helps direct the Communication and Consent Educators, the group of 40 undergraduates formed last fall to improve Yale’s sexual climate.

Two members of unregistered fraternities interviewed said they were open to attending the leadership sessions.

Brian Ruwe ’13, president-elect of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said in an email last month that his fraternity is “excited” about the workshop and the “opportunity to interact more closely” with other campus leaders and administrators. Three members of SAE have already signed up for the Jan. 24 session, he added. Although a former leader and current member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, who asked to remain anonymous because he did not want to speak on behalf of the fraternity, said in a December interview that the fraternity had not yet had a chance to talk about its participation in the training, he said he thinks DKE members will “probably end up” discussing their involvement at a later date.

But five of seven leaders of registered student groups interviewed said they do not think the leadership sessions are necessary or relevant to their organizations’ activities, though all seven added that they will still attend the training.

One president of a registered

campus group, who wished to remain anonymous to maintain a positive relationship with the Dean’s Office, said the program seemed like “a waste of time.”

“I think there’s always going to be a problem of people not respecting each other, but I don’t think that it can be solved from a top-down approach,” he said. “It needs to be more of a grassroots solution that comes from the students themselves.”

Another president of a registered student group who also asked to stay anonymous said she did not think the sessions would be effective because Yale’s diverse organizations face different concerns and challenges that cannot all be addressed in a single training session.

But Frankie Costa ’14, president of the Yale International Relations Association, said he thought training was necessary for all groups because of the overlap between academic and social life at Yale. In addition, Yale College Democrats President Zak Newman ’13 said he thought the training sessions would keep everyone “on the same page” regarding sexual harassment. He added that all students play a role in creating Yale’s sexual climate and that it would be “an injustice” if groups did not participate.

While administrators will run the leadership training sessions, Communication and Consent Educators will host the freshman workshops within freshman counselor groups. Boyd said the workshop will give freshmen an opportunity for “more exploratory” discussions beyond the topics covered in their September orientation, which focused on Yale’s rules and regulations.

We sometimes take leadership for granted, downplaying its importance.

MELANIE BOYD ’90 Assistant dean of student affairs Brendan Shi ’15 said he thinks it is important for the University to promote discussions about consent, adding that these conversations will be more useful to freshmen in January than they were in September, when students had not spent much time with each other. He said that the workshops would be most useful if they discuss specific situations students might encounter, rather than just “hitting us over the head with ‘consent, consent, consent.’”

But six other freshmen interviewed said they did not think additional workshops would be beneficial.

“I feel like everyone pretty much has their morals down at this point, and I don’t think any amount of workshops are really going to change how people act in certain situations,” Santino Butler ’15 said.

Freshmen will learn the time and place of their workshops, also planned for late January, from their freshman counselors or residential college deans. The leadership training sessions will take place on Jan. 23, 24 and 25.

Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

“Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

DWIGHT EISENHOWER 34TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Yale-NUS to grant prof. degrees

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS Three years after Yale-NUS opens in fall 2013, students at the Singaporean liberal arts college will have the opportunity to earn a Yale degree through the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Administrators at the Yale and National University of Singapore jointly operated college announced Friday two professional degree programs that Yale-NUS students will be able to pursue in addition to their undergraduate studies: a bachelor’s degree in law and a master’s degree in environmental studies. The environmental studies program will require students to spend one semester at the environment school in New Haven during their junior year, and then a full year at the school after graduating from Yale-NUS. The bachelor of law degree will be completed in five years at Yale-NUS alongside the liberal arts curriculum and be awarded by the NUS law school.

When Yale-NUS College was announced in September 2010, administrators said one of its goals was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a country where colleges traditionally focus on professional training. Rather than diverging from that approach, University President Richard Levin said last week that the newly announced programs will help further that mission.

“There’s a lot of interest in Singapore, in particular, that students get vocationally useful degrees, so we’re trying to prove this can lead to professional degrees,” Levin said. “We thought

having a few automatic linkages to professional programs would be a good way to demonstrate this.”

The new professional school tracks will not affect the liberal arts focus of Yale-NUS as the college’s core curriculum will remain intact, said Charles Bailyn, a Yale astronomy professor and inaugural dean of the faculty for YaleNUS. Students will have to complete the same class requirements regardless of whether they are pursuing an additional degree, Bailyn said. The environmental studies program is expected to accept roughly two to five YaleNUS students each year, Levin said.

[Awarding dual degrees from NUS is] completely consistent with our original plans.

RICHARD LEVIN University President Though a major selling point of Yale-NUS for University administrators was that the overseas college would not grant Yale degrees, Levin said the decision to have Yale award the degree for the joint environmental studies program in New Haven was not a deviation from initial plans.

“It’s completely consistent with our original plans,” Levin told the News on Thursday. “In fact, this was foreshadowed in the original letter that [Yale Provost] Peter Salovey and I wrote to the community in September 2010 where we mentioned the possibility of dual degrees and students at

Singapore coming to our professional and graduate programs.”

John Wargo, chair of Yale College’s environmental studies major, said in a Sunday email that the program at Yale-NUS followed from the choice to make environmental studies one of the college’s first 15 majors and was modeled off the five-year joint degree program available to Yale College students. The environmental studies master’s track in Singapore will initially be open only to students who are environmental studies majors at the college.

Wargo, who has helped shape the environmental studies program at Yale-NUS, said the program will benefit both the college in Singapore and the environment school.

“Yale-NUS College hopefully will provide a gateway for Yale faculty and students at all levels of training to develop research, field and teaching opportunities,” Wargo said. “The cultural and ecological diversity of the region is enormous. In many ways it is the ideal location to study a suite of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.”

Levin said administrators did not consider creating a similar joint master’s program with Yale Law School largely because of the school’s selectivity and recent tendency to admit students with experience beyond an undergraduate education. FES was a more viable candidate, he said, since many of the school’s professors have expressed interest in the Yale-NUS project and southeast Asian ecology.

The bachelor’s degree in law will be awarded by the NUS law school to prepare students for practicing law in Singapore after passing the nation’s bar exam,

Bailyn said, noting that law programs in Singapore typically grant bachelor’s degrees. Program participants will be required to complete a project that incorporates work from both their liberal arts and law studies during their senior year, he said.

Both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New York University Law School also have dual degree programs with NUS, according to Levin’s and Salovey’s letter, which grant masters degrees in engineering and law, respectively.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

PROFE SSIONAL DEGREE PROGRAMS BACHELOR OF LAW PROGRAM

The degree, awarded by the NUS law school, will be completed over five years at Yale-NUS with the eventual goal of practicing law in Singapore after passing the nation’s bar exam.

MASTER’S IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

The degree, awarded by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will require enrolled students to spend one semester of their junior year at FES and then a full year at FES after graduating from Yale-NUS.

Yale posts lowest early rate GRAPH EARLY ADMIT RATES FOR YALE’S PEERS

15.7% 4,304 EARLY APPS YALE HARVARD 18% 4,231 PRINCETON 21% 3,443 19.6% 3,088 COLUMBIA BROWN 19% 2,919 CORNELL 25.8% 1,801 DARTMOUTH 25.4% 4,526 UPENN STANFORD 12.8% 5,880 11.3% 6,102 M.I.T.

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER Yale posted the toughest early admissions rate in the Ivy League in December, even as Harvard and Princeton reinstated early admission policies for the first time in four years.

The University admitted 15.7 percent of early action applicants for the class of 2016, which Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said marked a slight increase from the previous year’s early acceptance rate of 14.5 percent. While the total number of 2011 early applicants to Yale declined about 18 percent from 2010, admissions experts said that results from the early application cycle are unlikely to impact the regular decision pool this spring or determine applicant patterns next fall.

“It is always hard to predict anything about the admissions pool,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email Wednesday. “I doubt that relatively small differences in admit rates or application numbers have much effect on who attends which of the top colleges.”

Yale admitted 675 of 4,304 early applicants and denied admission to 1,180 students. The University deferred another 2,394, or 55.6 percent of applicants, to the regular admissions pool in the spring — roughly the same percentage that was deferred in 2010. Yale will admit another 1,300 to 1,500 applicants in the spring from the regular pool and is aiming to have about 1,350 students enroll in the Class of 2016, Brenzel said.

I doubt that relatively small differences in admit rates… have much effect on who attends which of the top colleges .

JEFFREY BRENZEL Dean of Undergraduate Admissions While Yale’s 2011 early applicant pool was smaller than last year’s, Brenzel said the University received more applicants this fall than the last time that Yale,

Harvard and Princeton all offered early admissions programs in fall 2006. Harvard and Princeton accepted 18 percent and 21 percent of early applicants, respectively.

Jon Reider, a college guidance counselor at San Francisco University High School and former admissions officer at Stanford University, said the early admission rate differences between Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford are “trivial” because they are widely regarded as their own elite grouping within the college admissions field.

Early admission statistics have far less influence on regular decision applications than the final acceptance rates posted by institutions in previous years, Reider said, adding that Yale, as a “highly desirable brand,” will always be competitive in the regular decision round.

In the rest of the Ivy League, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania accepted 19 percent, 20.4 percent, 35.2 percent, 25.8 percent and 25.4 percent of their early decision applicants respectively. Stanford admitted 12.8 per-

35.2% 3,456

cent of its early action applicants.

Andrew McNeill, senior associate director of college counseling at the Taft School, a private school in Watertown, Conn., said results from the early admissions round do not forecast regular decisions. It will take several years to determine what effect Harvard’s and Princeton’s reinstatements of early admissions policies will have on future application cycles and yield rates, he added.

But Chuck Hughes, president and founder of Road to College, a college admissions consulting service, said the latest early admissions results could potentially increase applications to Princeton in fall 2012, since that school posted a higher rate of admission for early action candidates than peer schools Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

Yale will notify students who were deferred early acceptance and those who apply in the regular cycle of their admissions decisions on April 1.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

The 2012-’13 New Haven Board of Aldermen The Board of Aldermen meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of each month from September through May and on the first Monday of the month from June through August. Meetings are held in the Bartholomew Guida Aldermanic Chamber on the second floor of City Hall.

Labor support shapes new BOA ALDERMEN FROM PAGE 1 develop downtown New Haven. These overlap with those of the new board, she said, creating opportunities for the two parties to work together.

In his inaugural address, DeStefano also brought up the idea of a “jobs pipeline,” which Benton said involves connecting emerging career opportunities in New Haven with the education and job training to prepare residents for those jobs. She cited medical and biotech research as an example of growing industries in New Haven, explaining that the mayor will pursue “targeted training” to ensure city residents can fill those jobs.

DeStefano said the jobs pipeline will help New Haven become an environment of “inclusive prosperity,” a term that originated in a December report by the Connecticut Center for a New Economy, a nonprofit progressive advocacy organization, and has since been used by many of the labor-backed candidates.

During its first meeting Jan. 3, the new board elected longtime Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez as its president and Ward 3 Alderwoman Jacqueline James-Evans as its president pro tempore, the next in command. Perez, a 24-year board veteran who served as president from 2000 to 2005 before

losing to a DeStefano-backed challenge from former Ward 29 Alderman Carl Goldfield, pledged to act as a “facilitator” between DeStefano and the new Board and said the new board will be much more proactive than it has been in former years because its supermajority will allow it to cut down on debate.

“For too long our city has appeared factionalized … This perception has often been used to our disadvantage,” Perez said in his acceptance speech. “I am committed during this next twoyear journey to do my part where and when I can towards preventing that perception on or of this board by facilitating conversation, compromise and collective achievements.”

Perez said that although no specific legislation has been proposed, the board will focus on youth, education, development and community policing — many of the same themes DeStefano mentioned. Benton said that DeStefano and the board leadership will sit down in the near future to discuss how they can best collaborate.

The second Board of Aldermen meeting in 2012 will take place on Jan. 17.

The Board of Aldermen in 2012

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .

For too long our city has appeared factionalized ... This perception has often been used to our disadvantage. I am committed during this next two-year journey to do my part where and when I can towards preventing that perception on or of this board.

New aldermen with labor support New aldermen without labor support Incumbent aldermen

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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” VICTOR HUGO FRENCH AUTHOR

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Jewish feminist and historian passes away

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER Paula Hyman, former chair of the program in Judaic Studies and a renowned feminist and historian, died Dec. 15 after a battle with breast cancer.

She was 65.

Hyman rose to national prominence in 1971, when she helped to found Ezrat Nashim, a group of Conservative Jewish women that advocates for changes in the religion’s treatment of women.

Colleagues said Hyman was an innovator within the field of Jewish women’s studies and a symbol of Jewish feminism.

“Her extremely sophisticated anal-

PAULA HYMAN 1946 Hyman is born in Boston.

1971 Hyman helps found Ezrat Nashim, a feminist activist group that advocates changes to Conservative Judaism.

1975 Hyman begins her first assistant professorship at Columbia.

1981-’86 Hyman serves as the first female dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies.

1989 Three years after coming to Yale, Hyman is named the chair of the Judaic Studies program.

1997 Along with friend and colleague Deborah Dash Moore, Hyman publishes “Jewish Women in America,” an encyclopedia describing the achievements of over 800 Jewish women.

ysis was some of the first to bring what was happening in the general fields of gender history and Jewish history together,” said Deborah Dash Moore, Hyman’s longtime friend and colleague.

Born in Boston in September 1946, Hyman was the oldest of three sisters.

After simultaneously attending Radcliffe College and the Hebrew Teachers College of Boston, she went on to receive a doctorate in Jewish history from Columbia University in 1975.

While working toward her doctorate, she founded Ezrat Nahim, which successfully pressured the Conservative Jewish movement to include women in the count of people required for some rituals, allow women to participate equally in prayer leadership and begin ordaining women as rabbis.

Hyman broke glass ceilings in the field of Judaic studies with her own scholarship. As one of the first women to speak in the prestigious Stroum lecture series at the University of Washington, Hyman asked a predominantly male academe to pay closer attention to the history and achievements of Jewish women, Moore said.

“She endured a lot of flack,” Moore said. “Her male colleagues didn’t take the subject seriously.”

Moore said she and Hyman later collaborated on the two-volume encyclopedia “Jewish Women in America” in 1997, which she said “reclaimed” the history of Jewish women and their successes in fields including the arts, sciences and politics. Moore said this achievement, along with Hyman’s other work, laid the foundation for other scholars to publish books and develop courses about Jewish women’s history.

After arriving at Yale in 1986, Hyman served as the chair of the Judaic Studies program for 13 years and remained active even after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the fall semester of 2011, she advised six of the 15 graduate students in the Judaic Studies program.

At Yale and in New Haven, she was a mentor and friend to many, Rabbi James Ponet ’68 wrote in a Dec. 15 email to affiliates of the Joseph B. Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. “[Her] capacity for loyal friendship, her love of the Jewish people writ large and her passionate engagement in numerous Jewish communities provide us all with an enduring model of what makes a life worth living, and what it means to live a committed Jewish life,” Ponet said.

I learned so much from her, not only about Jewish history, but also about how to move in the world as a woman scholar.

LAUREN GOTTLIEB GRD ’16 Judaic Studies professor Eliyahu Stern said Hyman was “an inspiration” both as a scholar and as an embodiment of the ideas she studied. During her illness, she stayed involved with the Westville Jewish community and often spoke at community events, said Lauren Gottlieb GRD ’16, who studied with Hyman.

“I learned so much from her, not only about Jewish history, but also about how to move in the world as a woman scholar,” Gottlieb said. “She taught by example and allowed us to see her not only a professor, but as a proud mother and grandmother, community activist and Jewish leader.”

Prior to her time at Yale, Hyman served as the first female dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies.

She is survived by her husband, Stanley Rosenbaum, two daughters, Judith and Adina, and two grandchildren.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

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Respected feminist, historian and lecturer Paula Hyman died on Dec. 15.

SPH group to reward smokers who quit

BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS STAFF REPORTER New Haven citizens who pledge not to smoke for a month may receive $500 from a new citywide campaign.

The Yale School of Public Health’s Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) is organizing this year’s Quit and Win campaign — an anti-smoking program in which selected participants are awarded a prize for successfully quitting smoking. In its second year, the contest began Dec. 19 and will end the first week in February.

“Although Quit and Win runs only for a month, the ultimate goal of the program is to make people stop smoking completely,” Naa Sackey, a CARE neighborhood program assistant, said.

“We hope that the financial incentive and health information provides them with self-empowerment and awareness, to motivate them to extend the time frame [of quitting] themselves.”

The ultimate goal of the program is to make people stop smoking completely.

NAA SACKEY CARE Neighborhood program assistant In order to qualify for the money, residents who smoke and are older than 18 pledged to quit smoking for the month of January by placing their personal information in one of the 40 boxes scattered in public locations throughout the city, including Fair Haven Health Center, Stop & Shop and Elm City Liquor. The entry period for the contest was from Dec. 19 to Jan. 1.

At the end of this period, program representatives collected the boxes and entered the participants in a raffle. In the first week of February, three winners will be chosen to receive $500 cash prizes. They are given breath tests to verify their commitment to the program.

Based on the success of the 2010 Quit and Win, organizers decided to run the program again, Sackey said.

This time it will run in January instead of May, to take advantage of people’s New Year’s resolutions, she added.

Organizers expect more than 125 participants this year.

Alongside their pledge, participants receive a brochure with information on methods to stop smoking, such as the CT Quit Line number and information on how much money smokers could be saving by quitting their habit, Sackey said.

Thirty-one percent of New Haven residents, CARE Public Alley Ileana Garcia SPH ’12 said, are currently daily smokers — much higher than the national rates. She added that 12 percent of these smokers are “ready to quit.”

This is not the first antismoking program to use monetary incentives.

Stephanie O’Maller, professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Substance Abuse Research at the School of Medicine, also developed a campaign similar to Quit and Win through the Tobacco Research Center at Yale.

CARE, however, has been more “in the community,” CARE Director Jeannette Ickovics said, citing the group’s boxes in businesses and neighborhoods.”

Last September, the state received a $10 million grant over five years to pay Medicaid-eligible smokers small amounts when they attend antismoking sessions and agree to receive other counseling. The program will be launched this February.

“When people think about quitting smoking, some of the negative consequences are on the way,” O’Malley said. “But if you want to quit and have some reward that overrides the negatives, you will quit.”

Sackey added that, although eligible, the Yale community is not specifically targeted in this program. The Quit and Win pledge box closest to campus is at the Stop & Shop on Whalley Avenue.

Quit and Win is one of many programs organized by CARE, an organization led by School of Public Health students committed to translating their research into active change in the city, according to their website. Other CARE initiatives include conducting a survey of New Haven residents’ health practices.

Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu .

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8:00 PM Tokyo String Quartet. The renowned quartet will perform. Tickets $25-$35, students $15. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 12:00 PM Yale-New Haven Yiddish Reading Circle. Yiddish readers at any level of proficiency are welcome. Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.).

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

4:00 PM Opening Celebration for Center for Science & Social Science Information. This event celebrates the opening of CSSSI, the new collaborative home for the Kline Science Library, ITS StatLab and Social Science Library. Kline Biology Tower (219 Prospect St.), concourse level.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 12:00 PM “Improving Communication with Your Teen.”

Clinical psychologist Mary Newall will talk about how you can improve your communication with your teen. Open to the general public. Free, but register in advance. Contact worklife@yale.edu.

Sterling Memorial Library (128 Wall St.), lecture hall.

7:00 PM “Richard III” and “Henry V.” Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptations of Shakespeare’s histories will be screened. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.).

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FROM THE FRONT Policy rare among schools TAX FROM PAGE 1 LGBTQ Affinity Group.

Mitchell said Saturday that the policy change came after months of discussion between administrators and members of the organization, which represents staff and faculty from across Yale.

Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel and Penney presented the policy change to Yale’s officers in November, Mitchell said, along with a letter from the affinity group backing the proposal. He added that the group heard soon afterward that the administration had approved the reimbursement policy.

Under the new policy, employees will be reimbursed $125 each month if their partners are not offered coverage by their own employers and receive health benefits through the University instead, Mitchell said. In addition, only faculty or managerial and professional staff will be compensated because other University employees’ benefits must be negotiated through Yale’s unions, Mitchell said, making roughly 40 to 50 employees eligible.

Mitchell said he thinks $1,500 annually is an appropriate amount of compensation, as it will likely cover the entire amount of the federal tax for employees who have the University’s health plan. With more extensive insurance, Mitchell said it is possible the full amount of the tax would not be covered.

Administrators have also decided Yale will join the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Coalition for Benefits Tax Equity — a group of U.S. employers working to end the tax on health coverage for domestic partners, Mitchell said. The Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest organization in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights.

“Our LGBTQ employees made us aware of an inconsistency affecting their compensation,” Provost Peter Salovey said in a Saturday email. “We are pleased to join other progressive employers in addressing it.”

The University’s previous tax policy came under fire after Yale failed to withhold income that covered the federal tax on domestic partner health benefits in 2010 because of an accounting error.

To correct the mistake, the University notified about 60 affected employees in December 2010 that it would deduct the funds from their 2011 salaries.

Yale has long been progressive in providing equality of benefits for same-sex couples.

HUGH PENNEY Compensation and benefits director The University’s action prompted the Human Rights Campaign to ask that Yale pay for the 2010 mistake and offset the federal tax in the future.

The decision to make the 2012 change was not in response to the 2010 payroll problem, Penney said, but instead followed from discussions with LGBTQ employees that illustrated the “symbolic and financial importance” of the change. Mitchell said the Yale affinity group expressed its desire for the tax coverage at a January 2011 meeting with administrators and continued to discuss the issue throughout that year.

Same-sex marriage became legal in Connecticut in November 2008.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS KIMBERLY GOFF-CREWS Goff-Crews received her B.A. from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School before becoming a practicing attorney. She later held positions at Lesley University and Wellesley College.

Goff-Crews to return dination across the schools.”

Goff-Crews will chair a committee of 14 student life officials from across the University, Levin said. Though current University Secretary and Vice President Linda Lorimer meets with a similar group “once in a while,” Levin said he expects Goff-Crews will establish a formal structure and meet more regularly. He added that her responsibilities will be more specifically defined this summer.

In addition to her role as vice p re s i d e n t , G o f f- C rews wa s appointed to University secretary to relieve some of Lorimer’s duties and to provide an incentive for her to come to Yale, Levin said.

“In order to attract her, we needed to give her some broader and different responsibilities to make this job a growth experience for her,” he said.

As part of Goff-Crews’ secretarial duties, she will act as a liaison between the University President and the Yale Corporation, organize commencement and run campus events, Lorimer said. Lorimer will retain oversight of the Association of Yale Alumni, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, and the Yale Press, she added.

Goff-Crews said she hopes to maintain a positive student atmosphere across the entire University, and her first goal next fall will be to become reacquainted with the Yale community, she said.

From 1992 to 1998, Goff-Crews served as assistant dean in Yale College and director of the AfroAmerican Cultural Center, a job she said helped her realize her passion for “helping students get the best value out of their education.” Levin said that her experiences as a Yale undergraduate, graduate student and administrator were significant factors in her appointment.

Since leaving Yale in 1998, GoffCrews has continued to work with students at Lesley University, Wellesley College and the University of Chicago, serving as a dean or student life administrator at all three.

“The fundamental thing we’re focused on is creating the best com-

GOFF-CREWS FROM PAGE 1 University President Richard Levin said Goff-Crews’ impressive skill set, rather than the specific need for a new student life administrator, prompted the appointment.

The fundamental thing we’re focused on is creating the best community and best environment to do their work.

KIMBERLY GOFF-CREWS ’83 LAW ’86 Newly appointed vice president for student life “When we appointed her to the Marshall Committee in the spring, we looked at each other and thought, ‘Maybe we should make another run at her,’” Levin said.

“We had tried to bring her back some years ago, and we’ve always had a high regard for her.”

Still, Levin said in his campuswide email that it would be useful to have a Yale officer specifically devoted to student life. He later told the News that the ongoing Title IX investigation into Yale’s sexual climate alerted administrators that there was “a need for tighter coor-

KIMBERLY GOFFCREWS’ HISTORY AT YALE Goff-Crews will assume her new position at Yale this summer, but she has a long history at the University.

EDUCATION Goff-Crews received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, in 1983 and 1986, respectively.

ADMINISTRATION Goff-Crews served as assistant dean in Yale College from 1992 to 1998.

MARSHALL COMMITTEE Goff-Crews was one of four members who wrote the report on Yale’s sexual climate last fall.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Next fall, Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 will fill the newly created role of University secretary and vice president for student life. munity and best environment to do their work,” Goff-Crews said, “no matter who they are and no matter what they are doing.”

Eleanor Daugherty, University of Chicago’s assistant vice president for campus life and associate dean of the college, said Goff-Crews listened to student opinion and fostered a “culture of consultation.”

Goff-Crews said frequent conversations with members of the community has helped her to “tease out the issues” and develop solutions.

“I think the process of having a conversation is what I want to do, consult with people and find out what their concerns are,” GoffCrews said.

Goff-Crews will become the ninth officer of the University.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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involve putting cops back on walking beats in local neighborhoods and interacting with the community to obtain information to prevent crimes.

Despite the city’s renewed efforts to fight violent crime, Yale administrators have sought to reassure those in the University community of the city’s safety.

University President Richard Levin noted that many of last year’s murders were drug related or had to do with the city’s youth gangs, and did not necessarily threaten the general population.

Still, that is only “small comfort,” he admitted, given the homicides took place in local neighborhoods.

“There are many aspects of life in New Haven that are far improved from 20 years ago,” said Levin, who took office in 1993. “Downtown is notably safe; there’s far more people living in the downtown area overnight.”

Both Levin and Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins stressed Yale’s partnership with the city in fighting crime. The YPD “will

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same period in 2010. That data, from the FBI’s preliminary analysis of nationwide crime statistics from Jan. 1 to June 30, counted homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults as violent crimes. In New Haven, the number of robberies rose from 338 to 350, the number of rapes dropped from 30 to 25 and aggravated assault cases fell from 585 to 460.

Property crime in the city also fell 11 percent.

Hartman explained that the data, which follows a 9 percent drop in total violent crime between 2009 and 2010, suggested that homicides do not accurately represent the city’s overall picture of crime. He added that past homicide records have not reflected the number of people killed, but rather the number of homicide investigations launched. In December, the NHPD went through its records for the past 30 years and recalculated homicide statistics to repre-

sent the actual number of murder victims. While the NHPD website shows 34 homicides in 1991 — the previous peak in homicides — Hartman explained that this figure reflects 34 investigations into incidents that year in which a total of 36 people were murdered.

The causes of violent crime in present-day New Haven — which include economic hardship, lack of education and a revolving prison population — are different from the gang-related violence that took place in the early 1990s, said Richard Epstein, the chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners.

Gerald Antunes, who until this year served as Ward 12 alderman and vice-chair of the city’s public safety committee, and Donald Morris, head of the Brotherhood Leadership Summit, local antiviolence group, agreed that these violent crimes can only be combated with a holistic, communityfocused approach.

Antunes said Esserman is spearheading these efforts, which

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Arizona remembers deadly day with bells, tears

BY AMANDA LEE MYERS ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON, Ariz. — This time, in the supermarket parking lot, there were softly ringing bells breaking the morning silence instead of the terrible sounds of gunfire and sirens.

More bells tolled later Sunday at Tucson’s packed St. Augustine Cathedral as the names of the six people killed in the shooting rampage were read.

With hugs and tears, southern Arizonans remembered the dead, the shattered lives and those who acted heroically after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor meet-and-greet that severely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and stunned the nation and this close-knit community.

The day of remembrance began with the ringing of church bells and hand-held bells throughout the city at 10:11 a.m., the exact time the gunman shot Giffords in the head and methodically moved down a line of people waiting to talk to her during a public event outside a Safeway supermarket on Jan. 8, 2011.

“Even in the midst of this troubling year, the healing, the courage that we have experienced in our community - each one of us can notice how our cups overflow with the blessings of our lives,” said Stephanie Aaron, Giffords’ rabbi, who recited the 23rd Psalm at an interfaith service at the cathedral Sunday afternoon.

Relatives of the six dead walked solemnly down the aisle with a single red rose, placing the flowers in a vase in front of a picture of a heart.

Hundreds of people at the cathedral - including Gov. Jan Brewer - stood and chanted, “We remember, we remember, we

remember with grateful hearts.”

Some closed their eyes while others held each other.

Girls in white dresses and red sashes danced down the aisle as a song called “Hero in the Dark” played, and a pastor called on everyone to celebrate those who were lost and those who acted to save lives during the shooting.

This time last year, there was a lot of anger. And now it’s, ‘How can we heal and move forward?’

DANIEL HERNANDEZ Former intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Ron Barber, a Giffords staffer who survived two gunshot wounds, said he woke up Sunday dreaming about Giffords, who was severely wounded, and Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman, who died.

“You have to think about the six people whose loved ones don’t have them today,” Barber said before the church service began.

At the Safeway memorial, Bruce Ellis and his wife Kelly Hardesty, both 50, held each other tight and wept as the bells rang.

“It’s shocking to have a massacre like this occur in your backyard,” Ellis said. “It’s something that happens on the news, not in your neighborhood.”

About 30 others rang bells, hugged each other and cried as the time of the shooting passed.

Many bowed in prayer.

Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, went

to the scene of the shooting Saturday. They also visited University Medical Center, where Giffords was treated after the attack, and a trailhead outside Tucson named in honor of Zimmerman.

The couple was to join thousands at an evening candlelight vigil at the University of Arizona, with Kelly expected to speak. At an afternoon event at the University of Arizona, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, who was born and raised in Tucson, spoke about Giffords.

He praised Giffords for working for the good of the country, and said other politicians can learn from her and move away from incendiary comments.

“Although Gabby now struggles with her words at times, we know what she’s trying to say,” Udall said. “It’s a simply concept. Words matter, and these days you don’t hear our elected officials using words to bring us together. Too often words are used as weapons.”

The Rev. Andrew Ross, spoke for shooting victim and his congregant Phyllis Schneck.

“I remember just shaking and as I shared with my congregation, my immediate response was anger, in fact rage, that someone would once again do this to a member of our flock,” Ross said. “And so it’s good for us to be honest and admit it’s not easy remembering this day. We have to be honest about that.”

President Barack Obama called Giffords on Sunday to offer his support and tell her he and the first lady are keeping her, the families of those killed and the whole Tucson community in their thoughts and prayers, according to the White House.

He said Giffords was an inspiration to all Americans.

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Tucson shooting victim Ron Barber hugs a friend at a remembrance service at St. Augustine Cathedral Sunday.

Barber said he spent time with Giffords on Friday and Saturday.

“Even though it’s a hard weekend for her and all of us, she wanted to be here with her community to remember,” he said.

“She’s sad, we’re all sad, and she’s glad to be home.”

Daniel Hernandez, Giffords’ former intern who came to her aid after the shooting and has been hailed as a hero, called Sunday a solemn day of remembrance and an opportunity to allow Tucson and those affected by the shooting heal further.

“It’s definitely been a really

difficult time for all of us,” he said. “But this time last year, there was a lot of anger. And now it’s, `How can we heal and move forward?’”

Giffords, 41, has spent the last year in Houston undergoing intensive physical and speech therapy in a recovery that doctors and family have called miraculous. She is able to walk and talk, vote in Congress and gave a televised interview to ABC’s Diane Sawyer in May. But doctors have said it would take many months to determine the lasting effects of her brain

injury. The three-term congresswoman has four months to decide whether to seek re-election.

“She’s making a lot of progress. She’s doing great,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, a close friend. “She still has a long way to go.”

Jared Lee Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in the shooting. The 23-year-old, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is being forcibly medicated at a Missouri prison facility in an effort to make him mentally ready for trial.

GOP rivals target Romney

BY STEVE PEOPLES ASSOCIATED PRESS CONCORD, N.H. — With the hours slipping away before New Hampshire’s presidential primary, Republican rivals fought on multiple fronts Sunday to slow Mitt Romney’s march toward his party’s nomination.

Their efforts were on display in a combative morning debate and in campaign stops across the state amid the growing belief that the window to stop Romney’s momentum was closing.

Having narrowly won last week’s Iowa caucuses, the former Massachusetts governor is the overwhelming front-runner in New Hampshire’s election Tuesday - the first presidential primary election in the nation - and is poised to do well in the subsequent contests.

“The case for the alternative is rapidly disappearing,” Romney adviser Tom Rath said.

With that fear in mind, the Republican contenders fanned out across the state Sunday to deliver their closing arguments

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Gingrich, the former House speaker, blasted Romney as a “Massachusetts moderate” and warned that a video being released by his allies would attack Romney’s business career.

“To quote the governor, you have to have broad shoulders and you have to be able to take the heat to be in the kitchen,” Gingrich said.

If Gingrich was Romney’s chief critic, he was hardly alone.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum pointedly asked Romney during the debate why he hadn’t sought re-election after one term as governor in the neighboring state.

“Why did you bail out?” Santorum asked.

Romney fired back with a reference to Santorum’s lucrative career in the six years since he lost his Senate seat. Describing politicians who lose office but stay in Washington “and make money as lobbyists or conducting their businesses,” Romney said, “I think it stinks.”

Romney won the Iowa cau-

cuses last Tuesday by a scant eight votes over Santorum, but he is so far ahead in New Hampshire polls that his rivals have virtually conceded he will win.

But they’ve also joined with an unlikely ally in fueling an evolving expectations game.

“If Mitt Romney doesn’t get over 50 percent on Tuesday here, being a former governor of the state right next door and having a family home here, then there’s something seriously wrong,” said Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who spoke to reporters outside the debate hall.

An increasingly confident Romney campaign countered by highlighting the possibility of back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“If Mitt wins, I think the history-making nature of that win will overwhelm all the other coverage of the race to this point,” senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said. “No non-incumbent Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire.”

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ver winter break, the News’ photographers fanned out across the nation and the globe. When they came back to campus, they brought with them images of their holidays at home. Staff photographer VIVIENNE JIAO ZHANG and contributing photographer JACQUELINE SAHLBERG report.

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VINNY LALLY ’11 PITCHER GOES PRO A four-year letter winner who finished his career with a 16-7 record, former Eli pitcher Vinny Lally ’11 agreed to terms with the Schaumburg Boomers of the independent Frontier League on Sunday. In his senior season, Lally pitched an Ivy-League best two shutouts.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM RANKED NO. 30 IN NATION In rankings published January 3rd, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association moved the Yale women’s tennis team one spot up from its ranking at the end of last season, to No. 30 in the nation.

The Bulldogs closest Ivy League rival, Princeton, is ranked No. 50.

“At this point I believe it is in the best interest of my student-athletes and Yale University that I step down.

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Football coach steps down

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND JIMIN HE STAFF REPORTERS After only three seasons as Yale’s head football coach, Tom Williams resigned on Dec. 21 amidst a flurry of controversy regarding his status as a candidate for the Rhodes scholarship 20 years ago.

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Greg Mangano ’12, left, and the Elis returned from a road trip south and dominated in games against Holy Cross and St. Joseph’s.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The men’s basketball team proved there is no place like home for the holidays. After falling to Wake Forest University and the No. 14 University of Florida on the road in the last days of 2011, the Elis righted the ship upon returning to Lee Amphitheater last week. They easily handled the College of the Holy Cross 82-67 on Tuesday and powered past St. Joseph’s of Long Island 101-86 yesterday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Fresh off of a 10-day break for exams and with the prospect of another 10-day

holiday break awaiting them, the Bulldogs struggled against the Rhode Island Rams (3-13, 0-1 Atlantic-10) on Dec. 18.

Trailing by as many as eight early in the second half, guard Austin Morgan ’13 knocked down a trio of three-pointers to fuel an 18-3 run that gave Yale a 50-43 advantage. A late 12-0 push by the Rams gave Rhode Island a 63-61 lead, but Morgan drained his fifth shot of the night from beyond the arc with just 0:18 left on the clock to take the lead. Although the Elis salvaged the 68-65 victory, guard Michael Grace ’13 said that the team was not focused.

“It’s always a difficult game going into break,” Grace said. “Guys’ minds are elsewhere … [concentrating on the game]

takes great mental fortitude.”

The Elis returned to the court 10 days later at Wake Forest (10-5, 1-0 ACC).

The Demon Deacons led all night, but with Yale down 56-37, guard Isaiah Salafia’s ’14 long-range jumper cut the lead to 16 and started a Bulldog comeback.

The rally came too late for the Bulldogs though, as they lost 72–71.

The trip to Winston-Salem was special for Grace, as he grew up there and played at the local Mount Tabor High School with Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris and forward Brooks Godwin. Grace scored a season-high 12 points in front of a crowd that included more than 85 of his friends SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE B2

While no front-runner has surfaced for the position, one alumnus familiar with the search said the University is expected to announce Williams’ successor by Wednesday. The coaching turnover, which comes at a crucial point in the college football recruiting season, may have ramifications for prospective players in the Class of 2016.

Out of a field of better-known candidates with more experience in the Ivy League, Williams was selected as Yale’s first African-American head football coach in January 2009 to replace Jack Siedlecki. Students supported the unanticipated selection of the former Stanford linebacker, who had previously served as an assistant coach at the University of Hawaii, the University of Washington, Stanford and San Jose State.

Leaving his position in the National Football League as a defensive assistant for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Williams said at his first press conference as head coach he would lead the Bulldogs to victory against Harvard and an Ivy League championship.

Williams will leave Yale without having accomplished either goal following revelations that he may have been dishonest to Yale about his Rhodes Scholarship candidacy as a Stanford student.

The confusion surrounding Williams’ Rhodes candidacy began following news in October that quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 had been named a finalist for the scholarship. With his Rhodes interview scheduled the same day as the Yale-Harvard game, Witt looked to his coach for advice — Williams had reportedly forgone his chance at the scholarship as a Stanford student in 1992 to pursue a career

in the NFL. Witt ultimately withdrew his scholarship application.

Leading up to the Yale-Harvard game, a number of media outlets reported that Williams had been a Rhodes candidate, and his resume and official biography on the Yale Athletics website supported that claim. But on Nov. 16, three days before The Game, the New York Times reported the Rhodes Scholarship Trust had no record of Williams’ applying for the scholarship while at Stanford. The University began an official review of his alleged candidacy the next day.

In a Dec. 21 press release, questions surrounding Williams’ future at Yale were officially answered.

Williams confirmed he was never a Rhodes candidate and stated that he was encouraged to apply for the scholarship by his coach, faculty members and the fellowship office at Stanford but never did.

It’s much more important to get the right coach in the long run, even if it takes a little longer.

RICHARD LEVIN President, Yale University “The timing of this inquiry has been difficult for everyone,” Williams said in the press release. “At this point I believe it is in the best interest of my student-athletes and Yale University that I step down.”

Williams also made clear that his NFL involvement went no further than a three-day tryout camp for the San Francisco 49ers his senior spring, also contrary to previous statements he made that he had been signed to the team as a free agent.

University President Richard Levin said the review of Williams’ claim was completed in early-tomid December. Levin also said he worked with Director of Athletics Tom Beckett through the resignaSEE COACH WILLIAMS PAGE B2

Bulldogs split against Bobcats, Tigers

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER Yale’s No. 20 men’s hockey team (7–6–1, 4–3 ECAC) kicked off the second half of its season with a 1–1 showing at Ingalls Rink this weekend that featured the Bulldogs at their best and worst.

MEN’S HOCKEY After falling to Quinnipiac in a 2–1 loss on Friday, the Elis bounced back Saturday night by thrashing Princeton 6–2.

Although this weekend was the first time the Bulldogs have played conference games since before the start of the holiday break, the Elis have been in action four times since Christmas day. Prior to this weekend, the Bulldogs recorded a 6–4 exhibition win over a Russian touring team and a 9–3 decision

over Bentley College.

The loss to Quinnipiac on Friday could drop the Elis, whose record has hovered around .500 all season, out of the national rankings for the first time this season. The Yale offense had an uncharacteristically slow night and recorded only 25 shots against Quinnipiac netminder Eric Hartzell.

“We allowed them to block 23 shots, and [we] missed the net on 19 other shots,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said in a Yale Athletics press release. “It’s hard to score goals with shot execution like that. We have to execute better and get shots through.”

Quinnipiac’s strong defensive effort kept the Elis off the board until captain and forward Brian O’Neill ’12 put away a power play goal about eight minutes into the SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

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Defenseman Kevin Peel ’13, pictured playing St. Lawrence last season, notched his fourth assist of the season as Yale beat Princeton Saturday night.

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THE NUMBER OF REBOUNDS THAT GREG MANGANO ’12 OF THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM PULLED DOWN AGAINST ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE. The 6-foot-10-inch center, who is averaging a double-double, grabbed 13 offensive boards and scored 35 points in the game.

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Harvard hotshots losing steam The No. 21 Harvard men’s basketball team lost its second game of the season on January 3 at Fordham University. The Crimson shot only 36.4 percent from the field and committed 15 turnovers. The cold streak continued into Ivy League play, as Harvard led Dartmouth by only one point going into the second half of its Ivy opener, before going on to win 63-47.

Yale seeks new head coach COACH WILLIAMS FROM PAGE B1 tion process but that ultimately Williams’ decision to step down was a “personal matter.”

Among the players he coached while at Yale, Williams stands out as having helped reinvigorate the Bulldog football program during his three years at the helm of the team. Center John Oppenheimer ’14 said Williams will be remembered for setting the team on a path of improvement with his enthusiasm and the care he showed his players.

Oppenheimer was the only player of nine who were contacted to comment. Captain Will McHale ’13, who is on the search committee, declined to comment.

Williams’ resignation became effective Dec. 31, leaving the team without a head coach during a crucial period of recruiting for next season.

According to NCAA regulations, college coaches may contact high school players from Nov. 28 until Jan. 29. Recruits may first sign a National Letter of Intent for their school of choice beginning on Feb. 2. Without a head coach in place, Yale runs the risk of losing valuable players to competing programs in the Ivy League, as recruits are reluctant to commit to programs without a head coach.

While the effects how Williams’ resignation will affect recruitment is unclear, at least one player has already spurned Yale due to the coaching turnover. The Meriden Record-Journal reported that linebacker Sebastian Little of Cheshire High School, who had initially chosen to attend Yale next year, instead committed to Harvard due to Williams’ resignation.

Beckett said that since Yale will host visiting recruits on Jan. 13 and 20, he would like to have someone in place by that time. However, both Beckett and Levin said they are more concerned with finding the best coaching candidate possible.

“We’d like to conclude [the search process] as soon as possible, and that would help with recruiting next year’s team, next year’s students for admission,” Levin said. “But it’s much more important to get the right coach for the long

run, even if it takes a little longer, rather than worrying about losing one or two recruits in a year.”

Both a direct internal search committee and an advisory committee of alumni are helping Beckett — who has final say over the hiring decision — to identify and interview candidates.

Over the last few weeks, Georgetown head coach Kevin Kelly, UConn defensive coordinator Don Brown, Lehigh offensive coordinator Dave Cecchini and former Yale assistant coach Tony Reno have all been mentioned as possible candidates for the job.

“We are looking for an extraordinary leader with great communication skills who is an excellent teacher, who understands the Yale community, understands the academic rigor of Yale and the passion of student athletes,” Beckett said.

Williams compiled a 16–14 career record at Yale, with his best season coming in 2010, when the Bulldogs finished 7–3 and tied for second place in the Ivy League. However, Williams might be better remembered for a botched trick play during 2009’s Harvard-Yale game. With less than three minutes to go in the fourth quarter and holding onto a three-point lead, Williams’ call for a fake punt from Yale’s 25-yard line was stopped by Harvard, leading to a comeback victory for the Cantabs.

The Bulldogs, who have not won an Ivy League title since 2006, will return nine starters on offense and three on defense next season.

“The team is excited to get back at it in the weight room and is highly anticipating spring practice,” Oppenheimer said. “We have the players in place to be very successful in the 2012 season.”

The next Yale head coach will be the 34th in the history of the program, which has had just three head coaches since 1965.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale. edu and JIMIN HE at jimin.he@yale.edu .

Maria Guardado and Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting.

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At least four candidates rumored to be in consideration to replace former head coach Tom Williams.

Elis hold their own

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Captain Reggie Wilhite ’12 scored 19 points on 8-for-13 shooting as Yale took down St. Joseph’s Sunday.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 and family.

The Bulldogs traveled further south to Gainesville to face the then tenth-ranked Florida Gators (12-4, 0-1 SEC) on New Year’s Eve. Playing in its first nationallytelevised game of the year on ESPNU, Yale started the game clicking on cylinders. The Bulldogs connected from beyond the arc on the first three shots of the game to take a 9-0 lead. But the Gators responded with a 29-6 run to take the lead for good.

The Florida run was triggered by a Kenny Boynton triple — the first of 12 Florida threes. The Gators lead the nation with 169 three-pointers made.

Florida prevailed 90-70, but the result showed that when Yale plays well it can compete with the nation’s top squads, Grace said.

“It was great to come in and play a team of [Florida’s] caliber,” Grace said. “The score wasn’t as close as the game was.”

One reason the Bulldogs kept pace was forward Greg Mangano ’12, who scored a game-high 26 points.

“Mangano is a terrific and unique player,” Florida head

coach Billy Donovan said. “I don’t think we’ll face another guy like that … I say this in a very complimentary way: he’s very awkward.”

Mangano was awarded Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the final week of 2011 as he averaged 23 points and 13.5 rebounds in two games. He also broke former NBA center Chris Dudley’s ’87 school record for career blocks in the game at Wake Forest.

After three games and 27 days, the Elis returned to the court at Lee Amphitheater and won 82-67 against the Holy Cross Crusaders (7-8, 1-0 Patriot League).

Yale led by as many as 22 points in the first half and although the Crusaders cut the lead to 61-57, the Elis responded with a 16-6 run to put the game away.

The Bulldogs pushed their perfect home record to five wins this season with a victory against St. Joseph’s College of Long Island.

The path to Yale’s first 10-win season in the non-conference portion of the schedule since 2001-02 did not come easy against the Golden Eagles.

The Bulldogs jumped out to a 28-4 lead, but St. Joseph’s stormed back and cut the deficit

to 46-43 going into intermission.

Jones and Mangano agreed that the Elis played poorly on defense.

“The general consensus in the locker room right now is that we played pretty poorly [on defense],” Mangano said. “It’s always nice to get a win but I think it is more disappointing the fact that we gave up 80-something points in our own gym to a team like that.”

Not wanting to lose to a Division III basketball program, the Bulldogs stormed out of the half on a 28-13 run. Mangano led the charge with 20 second-half points. He finished the game with a career-high 35 points and 22 rebounds. It was the first 20-plus rebound performance for an Eli since Dudley hauled in 20 boards against Harvard in 1987.

Yale opens Ivy League play at home against Brown on Jan. 14.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

YALE 101, ST. JOSEPH’S 86 YALE

46

55

101

ST. JOSEPH’S

43

43

86

Squash teams steamroll competition SQUASH FROM PAGE B4 “Eric Caine ’14 had to play out of his skin to get the 3-0 win over Alex Southayd of Amherst. Caine is easily the most improved player on the team and one of the hardest working and an inspiration to the younger players.” Caine played against an old high school rival, Robinson added.

On the women’s side, Kim Hay ’14 competed for Yale at the top spot, and swept a 3-0 victory over Amherst’s Arielle Lehman.

Captain Rhetta Nadas ’12 also won a 3-0 win over Kate Savage ’12. Katie Ballaine ’13, Gwen Tilghman ’14 and Lillian Fast ’14 secured 3-0 victories for Yale at the third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively.

Returning to the court after an injury in the first semester, Shihui Mao ’15 won the sixth spot, allowing her opponent only 1 point in each of the three games.

Anna Harrison ’15, Issey Norman-Ross ’15, and Aly Kerr ’12 completed the Yale women’s team roster. Millie Tomlinson ’14, who normally plays No. 1 for the Yale women’s team, did not compete this week because she competed in a tournament a week ago and did not return to school with the rest of the team for preseason practice.

Next weekend, both Yale squash teams will host Stanford, Columbia, Cornell and Williams at the Brady Squash Center.

Contact JAMES HUANG at jianan.huang@yale.edu .

VIVIENNE JIAO ZHANG (LEFT) AND FLORIAN KOENIGSBERGER (RIGHT)/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

The No. 2 men’s squash team and No. 2 women’s squad both pushed Amherst aside in 9–0 sweeps Sunday.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS TIM TEBOW Tebow threw for over 300 yards to lead the Denver Broncos to a 29-23 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, a performance culminating in a 45 yard pass that receiver Demaryius Thomas ran for a touchdown, and the win, on the first play of the extra period.

‘Cats drop Elis

S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S

MEN’S HOCKEY IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

T

%

W L

T

%

Cornell

4

1

0

.800

9

4

2

.667

Yale

2

2

0

.500

8

6

1

.567

Brown

2

2

0

.500

6

7

2

.467

Princeton

2

4

0

.333

5

10

4

.368

Dartmouth

1

1

1

.500

7

6

2

.533

Harvard

1

2

1

.375

4

4

6

.500

LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK

SATURDAY, JAN. 7 Yale 6, Princeton 2

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Yale at Clarkson, 7:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

%

W L

%

Princeton

1

0

1.000

11

4

.733

Brown

0

0

.000

9

4

.692

Yale

0

0

.000

8

6

.571

Harvard

0

0

.000

7

6

.538

Cornell

0

0

.000

5

7

.417

Columbia

0

0

.000

2

11

.154

Dartmouth

0

0

.000

2

11

.154

Penn

0

1

.000

7

4

.636

LAST WEEK

NEXT WEEK

SUNDAY, JAN. 8 Yale 80, Baruch 47

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Brown at Yale, 7:00 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Harvard

1

0

1.000

13

2

.867

Yale

0

0

.000

10

4

.714

Columbia

0

0

.000

11

5

.688

Princeton

0

0

.000

9

7

.562

Penn

0

0

.000

7

8

.467

Cornell

0

0

.000

5

9

.357

Brown

0

0

.000

5

10

.333

Dartmouth

0

1

.000

3

13

.188

LAST WEEK

NEXT WEEK

SUNDAY, JAN. 8 Yale 101, St. Joseph’s 86

SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Brown at Yale, 2:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY BLAIR SEIDEMAN (TOP) AND JOY SHAN (BOTTOM)/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

IVY

Stymied by a stifling Quinnipiac defensive effort, Yale dropped a Friday contest with its crosstown rival, 2–1 MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 third period, pulling the Elis within one. After a pass from the stick of center Andrew Miller ’13, O’Neill tucked the puck under a sliding Hartzell for his team-high tenth goal this year.

But O’Neill’s tally would prove too little, too late for the Bulldogs. The Bobcats took the lead at the end of a first period that saw Quinnipiac challenge Yale goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 on several occasions. The Bobcats came close to scoring on two power plays, but were thwarted with five saves from Malcolm in total.

However, the third time would be the charm for the Bobcats. After Colin Dueck ’13 was put away for roughing, Quinnipiac blueliner Loren Barron hit the back of the net from the high slot for a 2–0 advantage.

“The three penalties in the early part of the game took some momentum away from us,” Allain said in a press release. “We played ok, but not well enough to get a victory.”

But the Bulldogs picked up the pace on Saturday night, recording 49 shots en route to a 6-2 victory against Princeton.

“I was really pleased with the way we played [Saturday],” Allain said. “I thought we played ok [Friday], maybe hoping to win. Tonight we played like we were going to ensure that we were victorious. We were winning races, getting the puck to nice areas, and we went hard to the net.”

Although the Bulldogs controlled the run of play early in the first period, the Tigers struck first about nine minutes into the action. Malcolm knocked Princeton defenseman Michael Sdao’s attempt to a waiting Marc Hagel of Princeton, who fired a quick shot that beat Malcolm through the five-hole.

“It was an unfortunate start,” O’Neill said. “But I think that really sparked us even more, and we had the best part of our game after that goal, so I think it was a wakeup call for us which helped.”

Behind O’Neill, Yale kept pressing and responded a mere two minutes later. With a two-minute penalty expiring, Nicolas Weberg ’15 headed to the bench and Kenny Agostino ’14 quickly jumped on the ice. Within seconds of entering the offensive zone, Agostino emphatically finished a Miller offering to knot things up at one.

We got 50 shots on net tonight...and that was the big key. We got a lot of pucks on net, a lot of traffic, and we got goals because of that.

BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 Captain, men’s hockey “We got 50 shots on net tonight, or close to it, and that was the big key,” O’Neill said. “We got a lot of pucks on net, a lot of traffic, and we got goals because of that.”

With the crowd roaring, the Elis continued to pepper the Princeton net with shots. Almost five minutes later, forward Trent Ruffolo ’15 picked up a loose puck in the Princeton zone and immediately fired a wrist shot that beat Princeton goalie Mike Condon for the Yale lead.

After the Bulldogs gained the 2–1 advantage, they did not look back.

Kevin Limbert ’12 finished a rebound from a Chad Ziegler ’12 shot, and O’Neill scored on a power play for the eighth time this season on the way to a 4–1 Yale advantage.

But Princeton did not concede easily. With about 14 minutes left in the game, Princeton pulled its goalie after a Yale penalty to create a two-man advantage. About two minutes later, defenseman Derrick Pallis put a weak wrist shot past Malcolm from the point.

However, Yale still put the game away with a goal from Miller and an empty-net finish from Ziegler.

After giving up 25 goals in the six games preceding break, the Bulldogs allowed only four goals in this weekend’s contests.

“Everyone is chipping in [on defense],” Allain said. “We’re playing good, solid, structured team defense.”

The Elis will take to the ice again next Friday and Saturday nights with a long road trip to Clarkson and St. Lawrence in northern New York.

1

1

0

2

YALE

0

0

1

1

W L

T

%

W L

T

%

Princeton

5

1

1

.786

7

9

4

.450

Cornell

4

1

0

.800

12

2

0

.857

Dartmouth

2

1

1

.625

8

5

2

.600

Harvard

1

3

0

.250

9

5

1

.633

Brown

1

3

0

.250

5

5

6

.500

Yale

0

4

0

.000

1

15

0

.062

NEXT WEEK

SATURDAY, JAN. 7 McGill 4, Yale 0

IVY 1

YALE

2

1

3

6

PRINCETON

1

0

1

2

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

%

W L

%

Harvard

1

0

1.000

7

0

1.000

Penn

1

0

1.000

2

0

1.000

Cornell

1

0

1.000

5

1

.833

Yale

0

0

.000

3

0

1.000

Brown

0

0

.000

3

1

.750

Princeton

0

1

.000

4

1

.800

Columbia

0

1

.000

2

2

.500

Dartmouth

0

1

.071

1

1

.500

LAST WEEK

YALE 6, PRINCETON 2

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Clarkson at Yale, 7:00 p.m.

WOMEN’S SQUASH

4

QUINNIPIAC

SCHOOL

LAST WEEK

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

QUINNIPIAC 2, YALE 1

OVERALL

SUNDAY, JAN. 8 Yale 9, Amherst 0

NEXT WEEK

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Stanford at Yale, 6:00 p.m.

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SPORTS

“Whether it be Duke lacrosse, whether it be Richard Jewell in Atlanta, I think there has to be some time for facts to come out.”

JAY PATERNO QUARTERBACKS COACH, PENN ST., SON OF JOE PATERNO

Bulldogs pick up win before Ivy play

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Baruch was just the final stepping stone — now the Bulldogs must take the plunge into Ivy League play. The Elis (8-6, 0-0 Ivy) walked all over the Bearcats (6-7, 2-1 CUNYAC) right from the opening tip, on their way to an 80-47 victory at John J. Lee amphitheater yesterday.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The game was the team’s final test before it opens its conference schedule at Brown (9-4, 0-0 Ivy) on Friday night. Yale will face the Bears riding the crest of a three-game winning streak and after having completed its best non-conference schedule since the 1993’94 season, when it finished non-conference play 8-4. This year’s non-conference slate featured trips to No. 1 Baylor, No. 20 Delaware, and Florida State, a team that Yale beat last year for its first-ever victory against a ranked opponent. This tough schedule has given the Bulldogs the unenviable distinction of being the only team in the country to have faced the top two players in the nation this year, Baylor’s Brittney Griner and Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne.

And while Yale lost all three of these games, head coach Chris Gobrecht has repeated many times that playing such a high level of competition will leave the team better prepared once the second part of the season comes along. Guard Aarica West ’13 agreed with her coach on the value of these games.

“Playing teams of that caliber definitely helps us in the Ivy League,” West said. “[The conference] is very competitive, and every night is anyone’s game so you have to go all out every game.”

The team still had to get past Baruch yesterday, and the Bulldogs did it with ease. Four players scored in double figures for the Elis, and the team’s 80 points matched a season high it recorded earlier in wins at Houston and Fairleigh Dickinson. The Bulldogs assisted 18 of their 27 field goals and shot 90 percent from the free throw line. Forwards Michelle Cashen ’12 and Janna Graf ’14 led the scoring with 15 points each and Graf finished with nine rebounds, narrowly missing her second double-double of the season.

The team’s defense was even more impressive. It held the Bearcats to 47 points on just 31.1 percent shooting. The point total was the second lowest allowed by the Elis this season and the shooting percentage was the worst mark by a Yale opponent this year. Guards Allie Messimer ’13 and Sarah Halejian ’15 had three steals apiece and the Bulldogs forced 19 turnovers in total, which they converted into 24 points on the offensive end.

Now the Elis can move on to Brown. The 9-4 Brown Bears have won their last six and have the second best record in the conference going into Ivy League play, albeit after a much lighter non-conference schedule than Yale. Brown was picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League Preseason Poll, two spots behind Yale.

After Friday, the Bulldogs return home to play the Brown Bears again on Jan. 20.

Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

YALE 80, BARUCH 47 YALE

37

43

80

BARUCH

21

26

47

YDN

The women’s basketball team will begin conference play against Brown following a decisive non-conference win.

New year, same problems

Squash sweeps Amherst

BY JAMES HUANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a respite for the winter holidays, the men’s and women’s squash teams picked up right where they left off yesterday — winning a 9-0 sweep of Amherst.

SQUASH

JENNIFER CHEUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Forward Danielle Moncion ‘13 and the women’s hockey team, seen here playing Princeton, lost to McGill in an exhibition game and to Brown in ECAC play over break.

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER Before the women’s hockey team’s penultimate game of 2011 against Princeton on Dec. 2, head coach Joakim Flygh walked into the dressing room carrying a princess Barbie doll.

He told the team it was time for a Cinderella story — time for the Bulldogs (1-15-0, 1-8-0 ECAC) to turn their season around from a disappointing overall record, plagued with injuries and wrought with unlucky breaks.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY However, the New Year brought no such Disney magic to the team, which lost 4-1 to Brown (2-4-3 ECAC, 5-5-6) in a home conference game on Wednesday, Jan. 4, and then again 4-0 to McGill (20-0 Quebec Student Sport Federation) in an exhibition game at Ingalls Rink on Saturday, Jan. 7.

“Everyone came back [from break] with a lot of energy and played hard,” Flygh said of the team. “But it is hard to stay positive with our losing record.”

After a 12-day winter break, the team members returned to the ice on Dec. 28th, in preparation to take on their Ivy

rival, the Bears.

Goaltender Genny Ladiges ’12 described the first 12 minutes of that game as “the best hockey [the team] has played all year,” as the Bulldogs outshot the Bears 9-2 in that stretch. Forward Stephanie Mock ’15 got the puck into the net early on, but a video review determined that the puck had been kicked in and ruled no goal.

At 11:36, Brown scored its first goal of the game, and from then on it was downhill for Yale. Brown scored once more in the first period, and one each in the second and third. Forward Ashley Dunbar ’14 managed to get one point for the Bulldogs in the second period, but Brown still finished the game three goals ahead.

“As soon as we got scored on though, we completely fell apart,” Ladiges said, adding that the game was played mostly in Yale’s zone from the first Brown goal.

“We could never regain our composure.”

Forward Paige Decker ’14 thought that the game was evenly matched, however, and that if the Bulldog’s first attempt at scoring had counted, the team could have won.

The Bulldogs did not manage to break their injury-prone bad luck of

last semester, in addition to their losing streak. With at one point six players off the ice in October, the team suffered another blow this year when forward Jackie Raines ’14 suffered a concussion after a hit during the Brown game. She will be off the ice for an undetermined period of time.

Emily des Meules ’13 and Jen Matichuk ’13 have recovered from their fall injuries and are playing again, but with Raines’s injury, Flygh said the team suffers “one bad thing after another.”

Against McGill, goalie Erin Callahan ’13 played her first period of the season, stopping nine of 11 shots before giving way to Ladiges, who saved 21 of the 23 shots on goal.

“We knew McGill was good going into the game, but I liked our effort,” Flygh said.

Raines said that the Bulldogs may have been a bit hesitant and intimidated to take on the Redmen, who are ranked No. 1 in Canada, according to Mock. McGill goalie Charline Labonte has won two Olympic gold medals playing for team Canada.

Mock said that the team has made improvement, even though it is not evident in its record. She said it is losing by smaller and smaller margins.

Flygh noted that the team is still not technically out of the playoff run, although they would have to win most of their games over the next two months.

“If we could pull together a few wins and gain some confidence, it would make a huge difference,” Flygh said.

Yale has 13 games left this season, all of which are in-conference. The Bulldogs host Clarkson and St. Lawrence next weekend.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

BROWN 4, YALE 1 BROWN

2

1

1

4

YALE

0

1

0

1

MCGILL 4, YALE 0 MCGILL

2

1

1

4

YALE

0

0

0

0

Hywel Robinson ’12 played at the top spot for the men’s, with an 11-3, 11-2, 11-2 win over Amherst’s Scott DeSantis. At the number two spot, Kenneth Chan ’13 won a 11-2, 11-6, 11-4 over David Kerr. Richard Dodd ’13 beat Steve Severson with an 11-5, 11-6, 11-9 at the third spot.

In the fourth and fifth spots, captain Ryan Dowd ’12 and John Roberts ’12 swept their opponents. Neil Martin ’14, Robert Berner ’12, Charlie Wyatt ’14 and Joseph Roberts ’15 competed at spots six through nine. The win against the No. 22 Amherst put the Bulldogs at a 4-1 record for the season.

Eric Caine ’14 had to play out of his skin to get the 3-0 win over Alex Southayd of Amherst.

HYWEL ROBINSON ’12 Men’s squash Team captain Dowd added that since the individual championships this year are to be held at Amherst, it was advantageous for the players to get used to the feel of the courts.

Despite the win, Robinson said that Amherst was a good team and played tough at every position.

“The match of the day was at the No. 10 spot,” Robinson said.

SEE SQUASH PAGE B2