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NHPD boosts buybacks
Even history hates Harvard.
In his packed “Constitutional Law” class, professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 noted that though Benedict Arnold was a great American hero at one point, his decision to turn traitor marked a “devastating” blow. “And the most important thing to remember from that,” Amar continued, “is … he’s a Harvard grad.”
EGYPTOLOGY WORK ON HOLD AFTER AFFAIR WITH MANASSA BY NICOLE NAREA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS
It’s not porn in the morn, but…
When professor Aleh Tsyvinski asked his “Introductory Macroeconomics” class what college students typically consume today, he received a wealth of answers: food, energy and, according to one male student, porn. Tsyvinski’s response? “Single ladies, this is the man for you.”
mits, Hartman said. No questions are asked about the identity of the participants, but a survey is distributed to collect basic information about how they came into possession of the weapon and their reason for relinquishing it. “There are millions of guns out there,“ he said. “This is an easy avenue for people to get undesired weapons out of their hands.” After holding a daylong buyback on Dec. 1, the NHPD decided to organize two additional buy-
A week after John Darnell resigned as chair of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, details on his violations of University policy and suspension from the Yale faculty have begun to emerge. The Egyptology professor, who agreed to a one-year suspension from the University after maintaining an intimate relationship with a former student and fellow professor whom multiple sources have identified as associate professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05, will not receive his salary this year and may have had other employee benefits revoked, University spokesman Tom Conroy said. NELC professor Eckart Frahm, who will serve as acting chair of NELC until a permanent replacement is appointed, said Darnell will also not serve as director of the Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt during his suspension. Darnell has not responded to multiple requests for comment. Manassa declined to comment on allegations concerning her relationship with Darnell, and declined to comment on whether she is facing disciplinary action in connection with Darnell’s suspension. Two sources with close ties to the NELC Department said Manassa and Darnell met when Manassa took a class taught by Darnell as a freshman in 1998 — the year Darnell joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor. Manassa told the News she completed the requisite 36 course credits to finish her undergraduate degree in three years. Manassa went on to enroll as a graduate student in the department in 2001, and was appointed an assistant professor in 2006. Three sources close to the department con-
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Forging relationships.
University President Richard Levin accepted an honorary doctor of law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong for his work in education and Yale’s development. The degree was presented by CUHK President Joseph Sung and CUHK Secretary Eric Ng. JULIE JACOBSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Even gnomes like snow. As a
blanket of snow coated Yale for the first time this semester, several Davenport students took the opportunity to build a gnome-shaped snowman, or “snowgnome,” complete with a hat and beard. Honorary Whiff. A New York Times reporter moonlighted as a Whiffenpoof and published his experiences in a Jan. 13 article for the Times. Henry Alford, the reporter, discussed his brief experience singing with the a cappella group and participating in a movement he dubbed “fakeappella” — loudly singing the parts of songs he knew best and prudently staying quiet during the other parts. Yale to YouTube. Two Yale
alums Peter Furia ’04 and Michael Rucker ’07 produced a YouTube video, entitled “Rewind YouTube Style,” that garnered a whopping 83 million views just one month after its release. The video is a mash-up of “Gangnam Style” and “Call Me Maybe” and highlights the “culturally defining moments of 2012.” Elevate your resolutions. The
Yale College Council is holding a New Year’s party tonight at 10 p.m. at Elevate to kick off the new semester. Attire is semiformal, and there will be an open bar for those who are at least 21 years old.
Also, academics. The YCC
is also seeking input from students on the new academic calendar and has created an online survey to gauge student opinions. The survey will close by the end of the day on Friday.
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Gun buyback programs have increased nationwide since the December shootings in Newtown, Conn. BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER As the conversation on gun control heats up across the country, the New Haven Police Department has taken scores of guns off the streets in three successive gun buyback events over the past month. Sponsored by the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a national injury prevention program for children, the buyback program allows Elm City residents to turn in guns, ammunition and weapons safely and anonymously in exchange
for gift cards. Last December, the police organized three buybacks, collecting a total of 160 firearms, both legally and illegally purchased. Spreading nationwide in the wake of mass shooting tragedies, gun buybacks have helped reduce the number of legal and illegal firearms in the streets and provided citizens with a process to turn in weapons without fear of prosecution, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said. Citizens who willingly turn in their weapons to police are guaranteed anonymity and amnesty, even in the case of firearms without per-
Law Ph.D. gets first applications BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTERS The Yale Law School Ph.D. program received 82 applications for five spots in its inaugural class. The three-year program, which was announced in July 2012 and will enroll its first class next fall, is geared toward students seeking careers in legal academia. Gordon Silverstein, assistant dean for graduate programs at the Law School, said the school’s faculty designed the requirements for the program with the aim of providing the degree with “both breadth and depth.” Though the program will last three years, Silverstein added that it will resemble a six-year program — the standard duration of doctoral study in the Graduate School — because students will arrive with the common background of a three-year J.D. “The lack of a Ph.D. in law has been the subject of conversations and head-scratching for decades,” Silverstein said. “This program is an intellectual enterprise that aims at developing [students’] intellectual skills and their capacity to be leaders, with the eye that most of them will end up as law professors.” All Ph.D. students will attend the same two-semester semi-
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nar during their first year, while simultaneously taking courses in their respective fields of research. During their second year, candidates will write a dissertation proposal and may begin teaching. Ph.D. candidates are required to teach for two semesters to complete the program, and Silverstein said administrators hope students will teach within the Law School but can choose other fields instead. Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard said his school will approve the faculty participating in the program, monitor student progress and ultimately approve the degrees.
This program is an intellectual enterprise … with the eye that most [students] will end up as law professors. GORDON SILVERSTEIN Assistant dean for graduate programs, Law School The Ph.D. program has drawn criticism since its creation, as some scholars argue SEE LAW PH.D. PAGE 6
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Students at the Architecture School weigh the new rankings by DesignIntelligence.
Although Yale’s School of Architecture ranked third on DesignIntelligence’s 2013 list of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools,” students and faculty contend that the strong showing provides a limited view of what the program has to offer. A bimonthly report on developments in the architecture, design and real estate industries, DesignIntelligence publishes annual rankings of the top 20 graduate and undergraduate architecture and design programs in the United States. Compiling input from deans, administrators, students and practitioners, this year’s lists rate schools across 22 different categories. Yale has historically maintained high standings on the report, and in 2012, the school was recognized as the second best in the nation. But students and administrators said they think such quantitative evaluations fail to provide a holistic analysis of each school’s unique philosophies and teaching methods. “We are not running the school for rankings,” School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said. “We’re running the school for the top education we can offer to the top students that apply.” SEE ARCHITECTURE PAGE 4
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he recent shenanigans in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department provides a huge opportunity for News reporting and campus gossip. We have the perfect sort of scandal, created by a nexus of power, sex and caricature-like personalities. What’s more, the abuse of an official university position gives us the cover to pretend that all the sordid details of this unfortunate affair are our collective business. But they are not, and focusing on these details is distracting and counterproductive. I hope this paper, and the Yale community in general, manages to take the high road. The cast of characters involved in this story seems to serve as the perfect basis for a Maureen Dowd column. One can only imagine the field day that the columnist who brought us Al Gore talking to his bald spot would have with the monocle-wearing department chair and the Cleopatra appearance of the Egyptology professor. But I have never really liked Ms. Dowd’s columns. They’re heavy on sarcasm and light on substance. Yet Dowd remains incredibly popular, and of course, she has a Pulitzer. So her popularity speaks to a strong tendency in today’s media and public discourse: to use the public positions of public figures as an excuse for maintaining a constant focus on their personal foibles and private lives. I certainly identify with that tendency. When a News reporter called my home this past weekend hoping to speak with my brother (who majored in NELC a few years ago), I immediately started hunting the web for backstory. It was tremendous fun. And on getting back to school, “Do you know what’s going on in the NELC Department?” was almost as frequent a greeting as “How was your break?” Most of us take pleasure in the sudden revelation of illicit behavior, especially when sex and power are involved. We want to know all the sordid details, who did precisely what, where and when. But we know on some level that we shouldn’t. So we justify our voyeurism under the pretense of the public interest and institutional reforms. We claim to be motivated by the desire to protect future victims, preserve the University’s integrity and ensure that official decisions were made properly. To some extent, these concerns are entirely appropriate. Questions of administrative transparency and apparent dysfunction in NELC Department ought to be thoroughly investigated. The possibility of willful blindness by other members of the faculty and University administration should be pursued doggedly and publicly reported.
As importantly, the potential for abuse in the power dynamic between teachers and students, YISHAI cially SCHWARTZ ebys p echarismatic teachDissentary ers who feed off students’ adulation, should be discussed widely. The fact that in 2007, a writer for the News could quite nonchalantly report that professor John Darnell “banged on the wall of his office to summon assistant professor Colleen Manassa” while humorously justifying his behavior by explaining that “some people say I take the ‘assistant’ part of ‘assistant professor’ a little literally” is disturbing. Certainly, that is the sort of thing that an open discussion about the NELC situation might change. But it is all too easy to slip from a discussion of the substantive lessons that might be taken from this affair into pure gossip mongering. The state of professors’ marriages and the particular details of their intimate relationships — even when illicit — are none of our business. What’s more, fixation on these sorts of details does nothing but damage. The soap opera-ization of our teachers diminishes from their natural authority and wreaks havoc with the overall respect that established scholars should command. It distracts us from substantive issues, pulling our attention away from legitimate questions of structural reforms. Worse, it creates a bizarre sense of normal, accustoming us to the very behavior that ought to turn our stomachs. And perhaps worst of all, it allows us the delusion that we are all so much better; by fixating on the misbehavior of the few and the prominent, we allow ourselves off the hook for the trusts we have betrayed and the positions we have abused. So even as this sorry story continues to unfold, on the pages of the News and over lunches at Commons, bear in mind the dangers of voyeurism. Insist on disclosure, transparency and reforms where they belong. At the same time, we ought remember that mockery is not journalism and gossip is not advocacy. We must realize that the public interest is served not only through thorough reporting, but also careful storytelling. And the decision to leave some details unrevealed and some angles unexplored might be nearly as important as the story itself.
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saw over 400 shootings of three or more victims each. More broadly, guns in America take almost 9,000 lives per year. But homicide statistics alone fail to get at the true cost of gun violence. They do not include 25-yearold Ashley Moser, who lost her 6-year-old daughter, suffered a miscarriage and was paralyzed from the waist down during the Aurora shooting; she will merely be counted in crime reports as a victim of “aggravated assault with a firearm” and in public health statistics as one of the 100,000 hospital patients treated for gunshot wounds annually. Nor will homicide numbers include Brooke and Sierra Cowden, two teenage girls who escaped the carnage of Aurora only to find that their father did not — they will join the faceless ranks of the grieving. Counting wounded victims and their loved ones, an easy but conservative estimate is that over a million Americans are personally affected by gun violence each and every year. We may derive some partial comfort from the idea that, relatively speaking, it’s less likely to be us — that our money or our connections or our Yale education will allow us to live and eventually raise families somewhere affluent, somewhere safe. Yet tragedies like the recent Newtown shooting, which occurred less than six miles from my home, remind us that
no one can afford to remain deaf and blind to the ongoing and real American carnage. But the dirty secret in all of this talk about guns is the fact that, for years and years, you and I and most of the people we know have just stood by and watched. We have shrugged our shoulders at a legal loophole that allows 50 percent of all gun purchases to occur without a background check. We have allowed Congress to pass laws prohibiting the NIH and CDC from studying the public health effects of guns. We have not protested as Congress has obstructed law enforcement efforts to penalize unscrupulous firearms dealers. We have uniquely exempted guns from oversight by the Consumer Product and Safety Commission. And we have failed to push for unambiguously positive regulations like universal background checks, bulk purchase limits, safe storage requirements, magazine capacity maximums, microstamping technology to facilitate murder-weapon tracking, one-week waiting periods for handgun purchases, prosecution of attempted illegal firearms purchases, or even felony charges for gun traffickers. But Newtown seems to have shaken the public awake, and this year, I hope to be part of a sea change in the balance of gun activism. In a press conference yesterday,
President Obama said: “Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same. We don’t live in isolation. … We are responsible for each other. You know, the right to worship freely and faithfully, that right was denied to Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wis. The right to assemble [peaceably], that right was denied shoppers in Clackamas, Ore., and moviegoers in Aurora, Colo. That most fundamental set of rights — to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness — fundamental rights that were denied to college students at Virginia Tech and high school students at Columbine and elementary school students in Newtown … We have to examine ourselves in our hearts and ask ourselves what is important. This will not happen unless the American people demand it.” On Feb. 14, the two-month anniversary of the Newtown shooting, I will be excusing myself from my classes to participate in Connecticut’s March for Change, a massive rally to support gun control in Hartford, Conn. I hope you will join me there. We owe it to each other to demand this change. ETHAN RODRIGUEZTORRENT is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at ethan.rodriguez-torrent@yale.edu .
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t was recently pointed out to me by an associate professor that he is not rewarded for good teaching, but for good research, and as such he rarely spends much time preparing for class. I have similarly noticed that graduate students’ main concern is often their own course work or theses. Given these priorities within the academy, it is perhaps understandable that some professors and TFs — though, by no means all — have not focused on classroom management. Certainly, in an elite institution of higher learning, it can seem petty and unnecessary to worry about how to structure a lecture or what rules to have in the classroom. This isn’t middle school, after all. But when it comes to effective education, these methods matter. After over 1,000 hours of Yale class time with a good number of professors, I have had a moment or two to observe what works well and what does not. Below is a small sampling of the techniques employed in the classrooms where I have learned the most.
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was initiated into America’s gun culture the hard way: facedown in a darkened movie theater in Aurora, Colo., covered in a friend’s blood. When all was said and done — the shooter arrested, my two wounded friends discharged from the hospital, 12 fellow moviegoers pronounced dead by the coroner — I returned home and tried to understand what had happened to me, and its greater context. It immediately became clear to me that Americans are killing each other, and we’re doing it quickly. In 2011, 13,000 Americans were murdered. The U.S. murder rate is two times that of Canada, three times that of the U.K., four times that of Australia, five times that of Spain, and 10 times that of Iceland and Japan. It also seemed obvious that guns play a starring role in the national carnage: over two-thirds of all homicides in America are committed with firearms, which is unsurprising given the speed and ease with which a gun can be used to end a life. What did surprise me was how disturbingly commonplace incidents like last summer’s Aurora shooting actually are. There were 37 mass shootings (defined as four or more dead) and over 200 school and campus shootings in the 15 years leading up to my trip to Aurora; the 2005–'12 period alone
Help your students remained focused by removing distractions. If you want students to pay attention during lecture, collect problem sets and papers at the beginning of class. As soon as someone begins speaking, take assignments that have been turned in off the table. From that point forward, everything else submitted should be marked late. This way, students cannot be distracted (read: compare answers) during class. Moreover, students will not come late to class to finish editing and printing their essays, stumbling in with an excuse about a jammed printer in Bass Library. Similarly, hand back assignments at the end of class. This way, we will not be fuming about the points we got taken off because of our subpar introductory paragraph while we should be listening to the seminar analyzing Churchill’s popular support in the last year of the war. Bar one distraction entirely — screens. Don’t allow computers or cellphones in class. While almost none of us have the self-discipline
to close our laptops of our own accord, no student would seriously contend that they’re learning well whilst checking Facebook, watching a replay of yesterday’s game on ESPN.com or answering email. Any student who believes she can multitask should check out professor Russell Poldrack’s research that even when you do learn during multitasking, the meager information retained is less flexible and less easily retrieved. Those few students who were genuinely taking notes will forgive you when they read the evidence that handwritten notes are associated with better recall. Some students genuinely require the assistance of technology to write notes at the proper pace. Make them the exception, though, and not the rule. Once students are free of external distractions, the goal is then to lead a dynamic class, keeping each student engaged and focused on the central topics. To that end, interrupt side conversations. Ask the students a question. Stare at
us. Walk over to stand right beside us. Do this regardless of whether you’re teaching a lecture or a seminar. In one lecture last term, my friend made a comment to me. As I leaned over to discuss it with him, the professor pointed at me, took a dramatic pause — during which my stomach took a nosedive as I realized I had no idea what he had just been speaking about — and asked me a question about the graph on the board. It was a question I could easily have answered had I been paying attention. And yet I could not. There are few things like the prospect of being called out in front of 120 other students to keep me paying attention the whole class long. But that’s not all it takes to lead a seminar at Yale, the type of class we take pride in as a University. In fact, seminar-leading may be the most difficult teaching of all. NATALIA EMANUEL is a senior in Branford College. Check back next Thursday for part two of her column. Contact her at natalia.emanuel@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST SHIRA TELUSHKIN
Apply now, decide later T
his is the season of decisions and applications. Making decisions is not particularly fun. Applying to things isn’t very fun, either. But while decisions are necessarily limiting, applying is about broadening your options: You definitely can’t be awarded a fellowship to which you didn’t apply. Whereas deciding on a course or summer internship thereby excludes other courses and summer opportunities, the application step is pretty risk-free, ego and time investment aside. While Yale is right in forcing us to make decisions — no student should take 18 courses a semester even if she wanted to — it should not limit students from trying to broaden their options, and luck, by applying to a variety of opportunities that interest them. That’s why I think we should do away with the CIPE policy that makes submitting more than one summer proposal difficult. Last spring, I was searching the Grants and Fellowship site when I noticed a cool fellowship. Although I already had an idea for my summer in the works, I figured I lost nothing by applying, as I wasn’t yet set on my summer plans. However, to my dismay, I was
too late. I could no longer apply. No, the deadline had not yet passed. There were still a whole three days left — infinity in the world of student deadlines. The problem, instead, was that I had already submitted a fellowship application for the summer. I had generated one profile with one proposal, and I could not make a new one. I emailed the fellowship office. I explained, a little embarrassed, that I couldn’t figure out how to create a second profile. I was sure there was some obvious button I just couldn’t find. The answer came back. Apparently, to submit an additional proposal, I would need to meet with a fellowship adviser, and appointments were booked solid for weeks. A fellowship adviser I met with on an unrelated occasion explained the policy to me like this: We want you to devise your perfect and ideal summer, and then go see if you get funding. We don’t want you to have to tweak proposals just to follow the money. This policy and its explained rationale are both irritating and symbolic of a broader issue with how we often talk about passion at Yale. I imagine there are other rea-
sons for this policy, such as limiting student applications to accommodate limited resources. We know, for example, that the Common Application has dramatically increased the number of colleges high school seniors apply to, skewing numbers and acceptance rates. I don’t think this would be an issue with fellowships, however, as each new application requires its own proposal, budget and recommendations — too much of an investment for casual applicants. The philosophy behind this policy is even more troubling. We are constantly told to find our passion. When making a difficult choice between opportunities, I am often asked, “Well, what do you want?” As if I only want one thing! As if we only have one passion! Like most of my friends, I don’t have one perfect or ideal summer. I would enjoy doing many things, but I can only chose one. This is why making decisions is so difficult. We must reject good options. We can’t study everything or go everywhere. Although common wisdom states that we, as young people, should find ourselves, I am not at all confident that I am one person, or that the
vast majority of my peers, who surprise me every day with their wide-ranging interests, can be pinned down, either. For everybody torn up because they haven’t limited themselves to one narrow slice of this dizzyingly beautiful world, the CIPE policy is unhelpful at best. Once we already have the blessing of Yale’s breathtaking scope of offerings, we should have the freedom — the gift — to decide to apply for different fellowships, provided we can get together the proposal, recommendations and whatever else is required. And don’t be so quick to dismiss the money side. For most of us, an ideal summer requires some level of funding or compensation. That is why, of course, we are applying for fellowships in the first place. We are so much more diverse and complex than we can ever explore through the 36 credits and three or four summers we can take advantage of in college. Making these decisions might be limiting, but they are a necessity of life. They should not, however, be praised as the ideal in Yale policy. SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .
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The article “Darnell suspended following faculty affair” misidentified Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 as an assistant professor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. In fact, she is an associate professor.
Sexual literacy program begins BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Over 40 students will meet weekly throughout the spring as part of a series of discussion workshops on sex-related topics run by the Sexual Literacy Forum (SeLF). SeLF, which was formed last spring to provide an outlet for discussing issues about sexual culture on campus, has organized an 11-week discussion program that covers topics such as masturbation, birth control and setting sexual boundaries in small-group sessions facilitated by students. Five pilot workshops held last fall received positive feedback, and this semester’s program will consist of four sessions per week with 10 students in each session beginning Jan. 20. Workshop organizers said the program fits into the University’s existing sexual awareness resources because it allows students to process information learned in other sex education programs. “Most existing groups are about receiving information, where people sit down and listen,” said SeLF Co-Director Paulina Haduong ’13. “But now, with SeLF, they apply the information they learn because they have the opportunity to reflect on it.” Nine trained student facilitators will guide discussion at each meeting using short activities and simple homework assignments to foster conversation, said SeLF Co-Director Hannah Slater ’13. Students could apply to participate in the workshops online in December, and all students that applied were accepted, she said. Participants in the spring semester workshops represent a diverse cross-section of the campus, Slater said, with an even spread across class years, ethnicities and religions. She said the participants also possess a wide range of interests, and several students are involved with Greek life, including two facilitators who are members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. She added that the ratio of female to male participants is 2
to 1. By helping a diverse group of students get to know each other, the program promotes a healthier sexual climate on campus because it furthers understanding among peers, she said. “The people this semester were artists, a cappella, varsity athletes, WGSS majors — not people who would necessarily sit around for two hours a week talking about their sexual experiences together,” SeLF facilitator Grace Zimmerly ’13 said. In addition to being entirely student-run, Slater said, SeLF differs from University-run programs because the group addresses a broader range of topics than sex education, such as pornography. Carole Goldberg, director of the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Center, said that SeLF organizers have met with administrators, including Assistant Dean Melanie Boyd ’90 and SHARE Center staff, to prevent overlap between their program and resources offered by the University. Students often build friendships within discussion groups, Slater said, and the conversations are intended to center on personal experiences that extend beyond intellectual discussion. Haduong said students who participated in the pilot sessions told organizers that they found the sessions more intimate than they had expected. At the meetings, all information is confidential and attendance is mandatory so participants can build trust as well as form a sense of community, Slater said. She added that a student’s status in the program comes under review after missing more than two sessions. Participant Giuliana Berry ’14, who signed up for the spring program after attending a pilot workshop in November, said she enjoys the program because it fosters an environment that feels safe, allowing students to “collaboratively teach each other.” Students can apply to be facilitators once they complete the workshops. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
Lyme disease cases reported in Pennsylvania in 2011.
Pennsylvania had the greatest number of reported cases that year. With 84.6 cases per 10,000 people, Delaware boasted the highest incidence rate.
City business booms BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven residents can now step out of the city’s ninth square and into what is billed as a “little French Quarter bistro” in the form of Yolande’s Bistro and Creperie. The new eatery is one of about 53 businesses that opened in the city in 2012, according to a working draft prepared by the Office of Economic Development and presented to the Development Commission on Jan. 8. Officials with the city and University Properties, the Yale-run company that owns and manages much of the real estate near campus, said they find the number of new businesses — a jump from 2011’s 38 new businesses — encouraging and a testament to their work. “We are seeing a positive trend here in the city due to the continuing growth and competitive strengths in our core economic base of health care, life science, education and advanced manufacturing companies,” City Hall Deputy Economic Development Administrator Michael Piscitelli said. University Properties, which seeks to mix local tenants with national companies in its properties, brought in many of the new businesses that opened in the past year, including Tomatillo, Shake Shack and Alex and Ani. Since students are only on campus for about eight months, the Shops at Yale also rely on national chains that can draw nonstudent business to New Haven. “From University Properties’ point of view, the more savvy small retailers that spring up and prosper in New Haven, the better — they give New Haven its unique flavor,” said UP Director Abigail Rider. “We are especially pleased when we can recruit national tenants like Urban Outfitters, Gant and Jack Wills who tend to avoid malls, making us that much more unique and thus more attractive to shoppers in the 40-mile circle around New Haven who support the businesses when school is not in session.” In addition to drawing retailers to nearby properties, Yale also plays a
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The Ninth Square, located in the heart of New Haven, is ground zero for downtown revival. New stores, restaurants and salons opened during the past year to cater to residents. INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS
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Shack Shack was one of a number of businesses brought to New Haven by University Properties, the Yale-run company that manages much of the real estate near campus. prominent role in drawing business to New Haven beyond the boundaries of University-owned property. Piscitelli cited pharmaceutical company Alexion’s decision to return to New Haven in 2015 as evidence of Yale’s ability to attract technology-based businesses to the city. Chairigami founder and CEO Zachary Rotholz ’11 said New Haven is an ideal location for a business, due to the sophisticated, intellectual audience and numerous travelers that the city and University draw each year. The city’s image has an “association with Yale,” which Rotholz said was “huge” for a retail store and has helped him develop a national and international consumer base. The new businesses opening in New Haven have helped Chairigami win business furnishing in their offices. The growth of the economic base has helped to foster strength in the residential market and a vibrant downtown, according to Piscitelli. Yolande Lacan, who owns Yolande’s Bistro and Creperie, said much of her business is due to that base. “I’m just getting known out there. I’ve started to do cater-out business with some of the Yale medical offices, [a] couple of holiday events, [and I’m] starting to see some of the professors,” Lacan
said. Both Lacan and Rotholz credited numerous organizations dedicated to supporting new business owners, both Yale- and city-based, with helping them and other new entrepreneurs succeed. The Yale Entrepreneurial Initiative, the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs and the New Haven Economic Development Commission were all instrumental in Rotholz’s success, he said. Lacan said her principal support came from the Grove, a nonprofit social enterprise that helps people, organizations and businesses identify and reach their goals. She said that her neighboring business owners have also been helpful, championing the success of businesses around them in addition to that of their own business. “I’m enjoying having that community looking to move forward and be successful,” she said. “We all help each other out, there’s plenty of business out there for all of us.” Twenty-nine of the 53 businesses that were reported as opening in the Office of Economic Development’s working draft were located downtown. Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at jacob.wolf-sorokin@yale.edu .
Yale researchers discover new tick disease BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER
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A newly discovered and yet unnamed disease adds to the threat of tick bites.
Before going outdoors in the summer, some people may don long-sleeve shirts and long pants to avoid being bitten by ticks carrying Lyme disease. But Yale researchers have discovered a new tickborne infection for which to watch out. A Yale study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine found that 18 people in New England and New York had contracted the disease — the first time the still unnamed disease has been diagnosed in the United States. It is caused by the bacteria Borrelia miyamotoi, a relative of the bacteria causing Lyme disease. The germ is carried by the same ticks that transmit Lyme disease and is thus likely to be found in the same geographic regions. “It’s always significant when you find an infectious disease that affects people,” said primary author Peter Krause, senior research scientist at the School of Public Health. “The question is, is this going to be a disease that infects a lot of people?” Preliminary data show thousands of cases of the illness in the United States every year. Krause found that in a sample of 584 healthy people living in areas where Lyme disease is prevalent, 1 percent had a history of infection by the new disease, while
almost 7 percent had a history of Lyme disease. There are 30,000 reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States annually, and this 7-to-1 ratio suggests there are approximately 4,000 annual cases of this other disease — though unreported and asymptomatic cases may raise the actual number of infections tenfold. Though the B. miyamotoi bacteria was first discovered in ticks nearly two decades ago, scientists did not detect it in humans until 2011. “Infections have been occurring under our nose and were being called atypical Lyme disease,” said Sam Telford, senior author of another study on the disease appearing in today’s issue of the Journal. “No one was looking very hard for B. miyamotoi, and it doesn’t come up in standard Lyme tests. Patients were treated for Lyme, and the drugs worked fine. So why probe any deeper?” Telford’s study suggests that B. miyamotoi is an “under-recognized cause of disease” in regions in which Lyme disease is prevalent. The study describes an 80-year-old woman who was infected by the bacteria and developed symptoms associated with dementia. It suggests that B. miyamotoi and other poorly characterized germs may contribute to the neurodegeneration typically attributed
to dementia or aging. Telford added that there have been some sick patients whose symptoms were attributed to Lyme disease despite testing negative for its bacteria, and researchers will need to explore whether these symptoms were instead caused by B. miyamotoi. Both diseases cause similar symptoms such as aches and rashes, but the new disease may also cause relapsing fevers. Telford called the disease “yet another reason — although Lyme alone is enough — [that] we should take every precaution to prevent tick bites and even better, to reduce the environmental contamination with ticks by managing deer herds and habitat.” Still, Krause said none of the 50 infections encountered so far was untreatable. Krause said scientists now need to better characterize the disease’s “health burden” — how frequently the infection occurs and how severe its symptoms are — as well as understand how the infection arises and how to best diagnose and treat it. Named after Lyme, Conn. where it was first identified, Lyme disease within the United States mostly occurs in the Northeastern states, Wisconsin, Minnesota and California. Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .
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“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” WINSTON CHURCHILL BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
Arch students skeptical of rankings ARCHITECTURE FROM PAGE 1 Two School of Architecture students expressed skepticism about DesignIntelligence’s methodology. Henry Chan ARC ’14 said that while he follows news about the rankings, he questions their ability to accurately express the complex structures of an architecture school, noting that each program places emphasis on different design philosophies. One of Yale’s unique strengths, he said, is the functionality of its designs. “Like any list, they have a quantitative way of putting it
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together,” undergraduate architecture major Samantha Kaser ’14 said. “But for any school that teaches art, it’s about the methodology that you feel most productive in. Art is very subjective, very dependent on opinion.” Chan cited the University of Michigan’s astronomic rise in the rankings as an example of DesignIntelligence’s seemingly arbitrary standards. After a yearslong absence from the list of top 20 architecture graduate programs, Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
[Rankings are] a little like the Academy Awards or the Golden Globes — they do not affect a thinking man’s decision about what movie to go see. ROBERT A.M. STERN Dean, School of Architecture usurped Harvard from its longheld No. 1 seat in 2011. “The sense I get from DesignIntelligence is that it’s not a very comprehensive index,” Chan noted. Altair Peterson ARC ’13, who did not know about the rankings’ release, said she was more aware of such lists when she was applying to architecture school. Now that she is enrolled in a program that consistently ranks among the top in the country, she said has the luxury of feeling secure in Yale’s high ranking. Four students interviewed said they do not pay attention to small shifts in rank because of Yale’s generally strong reputation. But two of them, who are currently in
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Both students and the dean of Yale School of Architecture do not emphasize the importance of the school’s ranking. the graduate program, said they took the DesignIntelligence list into consideration when choosing a professional school. Stern said he thinks rankings are always influenced by “political agendas” and does not agree that they should factor into students’ choices about professional school. “It’s a little like the Academy Awards or the Golden Globes — they do not affect a thinking
man’s decision about what movie to go see,” Stern said. While the School of Architecture has always featured prominently in national rankings, Yale College’s undergraduate architecture major is not eligible for DesignIntelligence’s ranking of undergraduate architecture programs. The major is not a professional program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, and students who
graduate from the University’s program receive a bachelor of arts in architecture, as opposed to the bachelor of architecture offered by institutions like Cornell University and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Kaser said that the undergraduate architecture program’s place within Yale’s broader liberal arts curriculum makes it difficult to evaluate. “The undergraduate major is
unlike [any] other major at Yale, in terms of how it’s structured and how you must commit yourself to the field of study,” Kaser said. “But it is designed so that you still have an arts education.” DesignIntelligence began ranking architecture schools in 1998. Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ARISTOTLE GREEK PHILOSOPHER AND POLYMATH
Times reporter explains origins of habits BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Students hoping to break bad habits heard from journalist Charles Duhigg ’97 on Wednesday in a Morse College Master’s Tea. Duhigg, a staff writer for The New York Times who primarily covers business and is the author of a 2012 book explaining the origins of habits, spoke about his experience to an audience of 75. Duhigg offered the audience humorous anecdotes from his time at Yale, discussed covering Apple and the Iraq War and attempted to provide students with an understanding of how habits develop. “A habit is when you stop making a decision, but the behavior continues,” he said. “In your brain, a habit feels just like an addiction.” Duhigg described the encounter that led to his interest in studying habits — a conversation with a general in Iraq in 2003 who described the military as “a giant habit machine.” Citing his own former habit of eating a cookie every afternoon, Duhigg explained that habits are based on cues and rewards, and that understanding the underlying causes is the key to gaining the ability to change. Using Alcoholics Anonymous as an example, he suggested that positive reinforcement combined with a strong belief in anything from God to the “flying spaghetti monster” is vital to breaking or developing strong habits. After discussing his view of Apple’s corporate culture, Duhigg concluded that students ought to “commit to becoming interesting” people and “fail as many times” as possible. Citing the notion that most react poorly to failure because “most people never practice how to deal with
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At a Morse College Master’s Tea on Wednesday, journalist Charles Duhigg ’97 discussed strategies to break poor habits. failing,” Duhigg told students that college is an excellent time to fail to reach specific goals. Morse Master Amy Hungerford said students are largely afraid to fail since “people get to Yale because they haven’t failed.” “What better place to fail?” Hungerford said.
Students said that although they had heard Duhigg’s advice on failing before, they thought it was reassuring to hear it again. “It’s a relief,” Takaomi Konari ’14 said after the talk. “Yale’s a competitive environment, but his comment about failing makes me feel relieved.”
Contentious zoning changes discussed BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Emotions ran high as around 30 New Haven residents showed up to City Hall on a Wednesday night public hearing regarding a potential zoning change, which they argue would negatively affect the Chapel West and Ninth Square areas in an attempt to attract development. Deputy Director of Zoning Thomas Talbot and Deputy Director of Economic Development Tony Bialecki explained the potential zoning changes to the City Plan Commission during the hearing. The changes would loosen restrictions on mixed-use development — which provides a ground floor of retail with upper stories of living space — and enable developers to offer more parking spaces for compact cars. Various residents, including members of the Friends of the Dwight Street Historic District, or FDSHD, spoke out against the proposed changes, arguing that they would destroy the district and allow developers to take over the area. The commission tabled the vote for a later date. In addition to arguments about encouraging development, Talbot and Bialecki said that there was an erroneous change in the text of the zoning laws that forced developers in the zoning type BD1 to be subject to stricter laws than originally intended. The amendment would fix this, they said. “The original intent of the BD1 was to allow mixed use to take place without lots of issues about variances and things of that nature,” Bialecki said, as mixed-use developers in areas designated BD1 currently must have their projects approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals. “It’s important to go back and clarify that original intent.” However, members of the FDSHD gave testimony opposing the amendments. Patricia Kane, one of the co-founders of FDSHD, argued that these changes would be an “elimination of protections” for residential homes in historic districts and mentioned the Kelo v. City of New London case as an example of the state unfairly extending its powers of eminent domain.
“I became concerned with hearing the news that the zoning laws might change. To my understanding, these changes would open the door to unrestricted development,” Dwight Street resident and FDSHD member Victoria Vebell said. “I am all for development and growth in the city, but there has to be guidelines that are both in agreement with the local residents and the government.” Another member of the group, Susan Bradford, said that these changes would turn the district into an “anything goes” district for commercial development. Winfield Davis, the executive director of the Town Green Special Services District, explained that currently, mixed-use developers must circumvent these zoning requirements that the proposed changes aim to amend by obtaining exemptions from the Board of Zoning Appeals. “This is a significant hurdle that adds an unnecessary ambiguity to the mixed-use projects’ viability, and can mean the difference between developing in New Haven or elsewhere,” Davis said. In his original presentation, Talbot also spoke about the potential deterrence current zoning rules pose to developers. Developers may ultimately be turned away after stages of financial and development planning if the Board of Zoning Appeals does not approve their mixed-use development, and these “risks” are not “normally associated” with development. Resident Marjorie Shansky urged the commission to table the changes and vote at a later date, suggesting that the commission should work with all the relevant parties to find a fair way to amend the zoning laws. FDSHD member Olivia Martson said that the organization has made numerous attempts to cooperate and compromise to find a plan that FDSHD members would agree to, but ultimately failed. Audrey Tyson, one of the commission’s members, left the meeting early to travel to the presidential inauguration, and the rest of the members voted to table the resolution. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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Audience members identified procrastination, lateness and Facebook as habits they hoped to break, and labeled exercise and better sleep patterns as habits they hoped to develop. Students interviewed said they found Duhigg’s explanation useful because it helped them under-
stand their own habits. “I can assess my own personal habits with a more informed perspective,” Abdullah Hanif ’16 said. The Master’s Tea was funded by a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism awarded to the Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation on behalf of Yale School
of Medicine psychiatry professor Michael Sernyak, according to the foundation’s Director Kyle Pedersen ’88 DIV ’02. Sernyak serves as the director of the CHMC. Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” MILTON FRIEDMAN AMERICAN ECONOMIST, STATISTICIAN AND AUTHOR
Details emerge about suspension NHPD collects guns after Newtown
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Sources say Egyptology professor John Darnell was head of the search committee that appointed Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 as assistant professor. DARNELL FROM PAGE 1 firmed that John Darnell was head of the search committee that appointed Manassa to an assistant professorship in the department. Darnell and his wife — Deborah Darnell, an administrator at the Yale Egyptological Institute — have collaborated on several scholarly works, including journal articles published by the Oriental Institute in 1993 and the Journal of Near Eastern Studies in 1997. According to New Haven court records, the Darnells filed for divorce in 2012. Deborah Dar-
nell told the News that they have been in contact since her husband announced his resignation and suspension in a Jan. 8 department-wide email. Deborah Darnell said she will continue to work with the Institute, focusing on a project she and her husband started in the early 1990s called the Theban Desert Road Survey. The project studies the use of desert routes in relation to periods of political and military turmoil in the Nile Valley and has recovered at least half a ton of priceless ancient artifacts, including ceramics, which currently reside in a stor-
age magazine in Luxor, Egypt. Darnell declined to comment on her future academic work with her husband. The website for the Archaeological Institute of America lists Manassa as Egyptologist and epigrapher for the Theban Desert Road Survey. As NELC chair, Darnell managed and allocated funds from the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Endowment for Egyptology at Yale, which was donated by Yale Egyptology professor emeritus William Simpson. The endowment is partly used to fund the Theban Road Survey, and
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Simpson said he does not anticipate any change in his support of the endowment in the wake of Darnell’s resignation and suspension. The Simpson funds are used exclusively to subsidize projects in Egyptology and not other subfields within the NELC Department, which include Arabic studies and Assyriology. Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu. Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .
back events in response to the elementary school shooting in Newtown that killed 20 children and 14 adults on Dec. 14. The last two gun buybacks were held on Dec. 22 and Dec. 28 and netted 128 firearms, said Pina Violano, injury prevention coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. Violano said that the Newtown shooting massacre had a “strong impact” on New Haven residents who were in possession of firearms at the time. “What happened in Newtown certainly frightened people,” she said “On the survey that we distributed, many people specifically said that they wanted to turn in their guns because of the shooting.” One of the guns collected in the Dec. 22 buyback was a semiautomatic Bushmaster .223 rifle with a suppressor that is similar to the weapon used in the Newtown shooting. A total of eight potential assault weapons were collected, Hartman said. He added that some of the weapons that were turned in have been linked to violent crime and will be saved as potential evidence. The rest of the firearms collected will soon be destroyed, Violano said, adding that the NHPD and the Injury Free Coalition for Kids are searching for an artist to melt down the guns and put them to creative use. “We talked to some students and professors at the Yale Art School, and we’d like to see those guns to be made into a statue, an artwork against gun violence,” Violano said. The city’s police department launched its buyback program in December 2011, when a total of 60 unloaded firearms were collected in only one day. Since then, the NHPD and the Injury Free Coalition for Kids have organized four more gun buybacks at the New Haven Police Academy, one of which was held in the summer of 2012 and three in last month, Hartman said. Violano said New Haven modeled its own buyback program after a program in Worcester, Mass., through which over 1,800 guns have been collected since 2002. People who willingly decide to
turn in a working weapon are rewarded with a $50 gift card for most guns and a $100 gift card for assault weapons. The gift cards, Violano said, are provided by corporate sponsors and private donors. Despite the criticism that gun buybacks are ineffective interventions in reducing crime, both Violano and Hartman said the buyback program is primarily intended to reduce unintentional gun-related injuries. “The general public might think that we want criminals to walk through the door and turn in their weapons, but we understand this is not going to happen,” Hartman said, adding that the majority of the weapons collected through the buybacks are lawfully registered firearms. “Most of these guns belong not to criminals, but to people that have inherited a weapon that they no longer want and that can be stolen.”
This is an easy avenue for people to get undesired weapons out of their hands. DAVID HARTMAN Spokesman, NHPD Violano agreed that, as an injury prevention program, the focus of the gun buybacks is to remove unwanted arms, which are the cause of thousand of fatal and nonfatal injuries among children every year. About 3,200 children are disabled annually after a gunshot injury, according to the National Pediatric Trauma Registry and the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. “Even one gun off the street is one less gun that can harm a child,” Violano said. Collectively, the five buybacks in New Haven have netted more than 220 firearms and about 20 assault weapons since 2011. Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .
Law school debuts Ph.D. program LAW PH.D. FROM PAGE 1 that considering law an autonomous discipline departs from the traditional view of law as a field best approached from multiple disciplines. Yale and many other universities already allow law students to seek doctorates in affiliated disciplines, such as economics, political science or history, while completing their law degrees. Silverstein said administrators want Ph.D. candidates to study various aspects of the law while delving deep into an area of specialty. Stewart Schwab, dean of Cornell Law School, said he is interested to see how Yale implements the program, adding that the rigor and quality of scholarship generated within the program will determine its reception. “Will other law schools watch, consider, think about it?” Schwab said. “Yes, and if [Yale Law’s Ph.D. program] proves successful … it may become more widespread.” Schwab said it is too early to tell whether Yale’s Ph.D. in law will give graduates an advantage in the competitive field of legal academia, though he added some of its goals resemble law school fellowship programs already in place at schools like Cornell and Harvard, which law schools take into account when reviewing applications for faculty positions. Richard Primus LAW ’98, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, said he and a group of young law professors organized an annual conference to teach themselves a set of academic skills when he first entered legal academia, adding
that professors in other fields would have learned such academic skills from senior scholars in graduate school. Primus said a systematic way of providing these tools could benefit the field, though formulating the curriculum could prove challenging.
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Will other law schools watch, consider, think about [Yale Law’s Ph.D. program]? Yes. STEWART SCHWAB Dean, Cornell Law School “If it is possible to have a course of study that treats law as a discipline with a set of advanced scholarly tools, I think that’s a worthwhile aspiration,” Primus said. “The question is, can we design a curriculum that gives the skills scholars in this field will need?” Primus added that the development of the Ph.D., a program specifically aimed at training scholars, might cause Yale to place lower emphasis on scholarly training in the J.D. program, though he said it is too early to speculate on the former’s impact on the latter program. Applications for the Law School’s Ph.D. program closed on Dec. 15, and accepted students will be notified this spring. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
Ph.D. candidate takes a core, two-semester seminar and additional course work. Candidate takes a written qualifying examination upon completion of the seminar and develops a reading list for an oral qualifying examination along with his or her advisory committee. YEAR 2
Candidate takes the oral qualifying examination and writes a dissertation prospectus along with his or her dissertation committee. Once the prospectus and committee are approved by the Ph.D. Policy Committee, candidate works on the dissertation. Candidate may begin teaching. YEAR 3
Candidate completes dissertation and may complete an outstanding teaching experience. Candidate begins to look for teaching positions for the following year, and his or her dissertation is submitted to the Ph.D. Committee for final approval.
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Obama unveils gun plan, eyes fight ahead BY JULIE PACE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Conceding “this will be difficult,” President Barack Obama urged a reluctant Congress on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales and ban both militarystyle assault weapons and highcapacity ammunition magazines in an emotion-laden plea to curb gun violence in America. The president’s sweeping, $500 million plan, coming one month after the school massacre in Connecticut, marks the most comprehensive effort to tighten gun laws in nearly two decades. But his proposals, most of which are opposed by the National Rifle Association, face a doubtful future in a divided Congress where Republicans control the House. Seeking to circumvent at least some opposition, Obama signed 23 executive actions on Wednesday, including orders to make more federal data available for background checks and end a freeze on government research on gun violence. But he acknowledged that the steps he took on his own would have less impact than the broad measures requiring approval from Capitol Hill. “To make a real and lasting difference, Congress, too, must act,” Obama said, speaking at a White House ceremony with schoolchildren and their parents. “And Congress must act soon.” The president’s announcements capped a swift and wideranging effort, led by Vice President Joe Biden, to respond to the deaths of 20 children and six
adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But Obama’s gun control proposals set him up for a tough political fight with Congress as he starts his second term, when he’ll need Republican support to meet three looming fiscal deadlines and pass comprehensive immigration reform. “I will put everything I’ve got into this, and so will Joe,” the president said. “But I tell you, the only way we can change is if the American people demand it.” Key congressional leaders were tepid in their response to the White House proposals. Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s office signaled no urgency to act, with spokesman Michael Steel saying only that “House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations. And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was committed to ensuring that the Senate will consider gun violence legislation “early this year.” But he did not endorse any of Obama’s specific proposals. The president vowed to use “whatever weight this office holds” to fight for his recommendations. He’s likely to travel around the country in the coming weeks to rally public support and could engage his still-active presidential campaign operation in the effort. But he’ll have to overcome a well-financed counter-effort by the NRA. “This will be difficult,” Obama acknowledged. “There will be
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Children who wrote letters to President Barack Obama about the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., watch as he signs executive actions outlining proposals to reduce gun violence. pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty — not because that’s true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves.” The president, speaking in
front of an audience that included families of some of those killed in Newtown, said 900 Americans had lost their lives to gun violence in the four weeks since the school shootings. “We can’t put this off any longer,” Obama declared. “Every day
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we wait, the number will keep growing.” Many Democrats say an assault weapons ban faces the toughest road in Congress. Obama wants lawmakers to reinstate the expired 1994 ban on the high-grade weapons, and strengthen the measure
Interior Secretary to step down BY MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS
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All Nippon Airways canceled its flight from San Jose to Tokyo this morning after authorities grounded all flights of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner following an emergency landing of one of the planes in Japan due to a battery fire. BY JOSHUA FREED ASSOCIATED PRESS The federal government grounded Boeing’s newest and most technologically advanced jetliner Wednesday, declaring that the 787 cannot fly again until the risk of battery fires is addressed. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would work with Boeing and U.S. airlines to develop a plan to allow the Dreamliner to “resume operations as quickly and safely as possible.” United Airlines is the only U.S. carrier with 787s. It has six. The FAA decision was the latest setback for a plane that was supposed to set a new standard for jet travel but has been beset by one mishap after another. For the second time in two weeks, a smoking or burning battery has been tied to an emergency aboard a 787. Almost half of the 787s that have been delivered have now been grounded for safety checks. And the latest incident raises the risk that the jet’s electrical problems are more dangerous than previously thought. So far, no one has suggested that the plane’s fundamental design can’t be fixed. But it’s unclear how much will need to be changed. The remedy could range from relatively quick-and-easy improvements to more extensive changes that could delay deliveries just as Boeing is trying to speed production up from five planes per month to 10. On Wednesday, Japan’s All Nippon Airways said pilots smelled something burning and received a cockpit message warning of battery problems while flying
from Yamaguchi Ube airport in western Japan to Tokyo. They made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan, and passengers evacuated using inflatable slides. An inspection found that a flammable liquid had leaked from the main lithiumion battery, which is below and slightly behind the cockpit. Investigators found burn marks around the damage. “Anytime you have a fire on board — whether it’s the battery that has caused it or a passenger that caused it or another electrical component — that’s a very a serious situation on an aircraft and something not to be taken lightly,” said Kevin Hiatt, president of the Flight Safety Foundation. Japan’s Kyodo News agency quoted transport ministry investigator Hideyo Kosugi as saying that the liquid leaked through the electrical room floor to the outside of the aircraft. The transport ministry said the leak could have led to an accident. ANA, which operates 17 of the jets, and Japan Airlines, which has seven, said they won’t fly their 787s until they complete safety checks. That’s almost half of the 50 planes Boeing has delivered since handing the first one over to ANA in late 2011. Just last week, a battery on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire soon after the plane landed at Boston’s Logan Airport. It took firefighters 40 minutes to put out the flames. The 787 is the first plane to make extensive use of lithium-ion batteries, which have raised concerns in the past for their potential to catch fire. The Federal Avia-
tion Administration has given the batteries extra scrutiny and issued a special rule for their use in the 787. The plane has two batteries — the main one near the front and a second one in the rear. Boeing and the airlines will need to move quickly to determine whether the problem is a flaw in the batteries themselves, in the plane’s wiring or in some other area that’s fundamental to the plane’s electrical system. Boeing has booked orders for more than 800 of the planes from airlines around the world attracted by its increased fuel efficiency. The jet’s lightweight design makes it more of a fuel-sipper, and it’s so lightweight in part because it uses electricity to do things that other airplanes do with hot air vented through internal ducts. So a 787 with electrical problems is like a minivan that won’t haul kids. It goes to the heart of what the thing was built to do. Before it carried paying passengers, the 787 was closely reviewed by inspectors from Boeing and the FAA. Mike Sinnett, chief engineer on the 787, said last week that the plane’s batteries have operated through a combined 1.3 million hours and never had an internal fault. He said they were built with multiple protections to ensure that “failures of the battery don’t put the airplane at risk.” The lithium-ion design was chosen because it’s the only type of battery that can take a large charge in a short amount of time. When he spoke last week, Sinnett said Boeing was not considering replacing the lithium-ion design with another type of battery.
to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the prohibition by making cosmetic changes to banned guns. The president is also likely to face opposition to his call for Congress to limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources throughout the nation, will step down in March. A former U.S. senator from Colorado, Salazar ran the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama’s first term and pushed renewable power such as solar and wind and the settlement of a longstanding dispute with American Indians. With Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson also leaving the administration and Energy Secretary Steven Chu expected to depart, Obama will have a clean slate of top officials overseeing energy and environment issues. In a statement Wednesday, Obama said Salazar had helped “usher in a new era of conservation for our nation’s land, water and wildlife” and had played a major role in efforts to expand responsible development of the nation’s domestic energy resources. Salazar said in a statement that the Interior Department was helping secure “a new energy frontier” and cited an aggressive agenda to reform oil and gas leases, which he said had increased offshore drilling safety. Under his watch, the Interior Department has authorized nearly three dozen solar, wind and geothermal energy projects on public lands that pro-
vide enough electricity to power more than 3 million homes, Salazar said. Obama has vowed to focus on efforts to bolster renewable energy in a second term while continuing to expand production of oil and natural gas. He also has made it clear he will focus on climate change, an issue he has acknowledged was sometimes overlooked during his first term. Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, a longtime Obama ally, is among those mentioned as a potential successor to Salazar, along with John Berry, director of the White House Office of Personnel Management. Berry is a former assistant interior secretary and the director of the National Zoo. Gregoire, whose term expired Wednesday, also is considered a candidate to head the Energy Department or the EPA. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee and a favorite of the environmental community, also is believed to be under consideration for Salazar’s position. Salazar, 57, entered the Senate with Obama in 2005. At Interior, he gained the most attention for his role in the drilling moratorium, a key part of the administration’s response to the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers. The resulting oil spill was one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history and led to the unprecedented shutdown of offshore drilling.
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French begin Mali assault
Egypt’s Morsi walks back Jewish slur BY HAMZA HENDAWI AND SARAH EL DEEB ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A convoy of French troops drives toward Niono on the road from Segou in central Mali. BY RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND BABA AHMED ASSOCIATED PRESS BAMAKO, Mali — French soldiers pressed north in Mali territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, launching a land assault that was to put them in direct combat with al-Qaidalinked fighters “in one to 72 hours,” military officials said. Their presumed destination was the town of Diabaly, where fleeing residents said Islamist extremists had taken over their homes and were preventing other people from leaving. They said the militants were melting into the population and moving only in small groups on streets in the mud-walled neighborhoods to avoid being targeted by the French. “They have beards. And they wear boubous (a flowing robe). No one approaches them. Everyone is afraid,” said Ibrahim Komnotogo, who was out of town when the militants seized Diabaly over the weekend but kept in contact by telephone with other residents. In apparent retaliation for the French offensive, the same group controlling northern Mali occupied a natural gas complex in neighboring Algeria, taking dozens of people hostage, including Americans. Two foreigners were killed. French ground operations in Mali began overnight,
France’s military chief of staff, Adm. Edouard Guillaud, said on Europe 1 television Wednesday. He stressed that French infantry units “will be fighting directly in the coming hours.” Armored vehicles loaded with French troops were seen heading toward Niono, a town 210 miles northeast of the capital, Bamako. Some 45 miles northeast of Niono lies Diabaly, with a population of 35,000. Over the weekend, dozens of rebel vehicles cut off the road to Diabaly, seizing the town and its strategic military camp. French warplanes have since carried out airstrikes on the camp. Oumar Ould Hamaha, whose fighters are believed to be among those who seized Diabaly, said that a convoy of armored French vehicles attempted to enter the town to take it back. He said the Islamists repelled the French after an intense and close combat. “I confirm that France came in by land, but they failed. … There was a combat that was [extremely close]. Between 200 and 500 meters away,” Hamaha said. His version of events could not be verified. Col. Thierry Burkhard, a spokesman for the French military in Paris, denied that French troops were in Diabaly or that they were 500 meters from rebel lines. “The French army did not
deploy units in the region of Diabaly,” Burkhard said. Troops were dozens of kilometers from Diabaly, he said, refusing to provide a location. Hamaha is a leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, one of the rebel groups controlling Mali’s northern half. He is also a close associate of Moktar Belmokar, a leader of a local al-Qaida cell who claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of foreigners in Algeria. Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location, Hamaha said the kidnapping was retribution for the French-led attack on the Islamists in Mali. “We have a struck a blow to the heart [of the international community],” he said. “It’s the United Nations that gave the green light to this intervention and all Western countries are now going to pay a price. We are now globalizing our conflict.” A former French colony, Mali once enjoyed a reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies with majority of its 15 million people practicing a moderate form of Islam. That changed in April 2012, when Islamist extremists took over the main cities in the country’s north amid disarray following a military coup, and began enforcing strict Shariah law.
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist president sought Wednesday to defuse Washington’s anger over his past remarks urging hatred of Jews and calling Zionists “pigs” and “bloodsuckers,” telling visiting U.S. senators that his comments were a denunciation of Israeli policies. Both sides appear to want to get beyond the flap: Mohammed Morsi needs America’s help in repairing a rapidly sliding economy, and Washington can’t afford to shun a figure who has emerged as a model of an Islamist leader who maintains his country’s ties with Israel. U.S. Sen. John McCain said a congressional delegation he led that met with Morsi expressed to him their “strong disapproval” about his 2010 comments. The delegation and Morsi had a “constructive discussion” about the remarks, he told reporters. Still, despite calls by some in Washington to rein in aid to Egypt’s Islamist-led government, McCain said the delegation will press in Congress for approval of some $480 million in new assistance to Cairo. Sen. Lindsey Graham, also in the delegation, warned that “the Egyptian economy is going to collapse if something is not done quickly.” He urged Morsi to finalize a repeatedly delayed deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8 billion loan. The flap was a new twist in Morsi’s attempts to reconcile his background as a veteran of the Muslim Brotherhood — a vehemently antiIsraeli and anti-U.S. group — and the requirements of his role as head of state, which include keeping the strategic relationship with Washington. Morsi’s remarks came from a mix of speeches he made in 2010 when he was a leading Brotherhood figure. The remarks were revived when an Egyptian TV show aired them to highlight and mock Morsi’s current policies. On Tuesday, the White House denounced the comments as
“deeply offensive.” In the video, Morsi refers to “Zionists” as “bloodsuckers who attack Palestinians” as well as “the descendants of apes and pigs.” He says Egyptians should nurse their children on “hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews. They must be breast-fed hatred.” He also calls President Barack Obama a liar. Morsi, who came to office in June, told the visiting U.S. delegation on Wednesday that the remarks were taken out of context, aimed at criticizing Israeli policies, and not Jews, according to presidential spokesman Yasser Ali. Morsi told them distinction must be made between criticism of what he called the “racist” policies of the Israelis against the Palestinians and insults against the Jewish faith. Morsi also told them the remarks were part of a speech against Israeli aggression in Gaza and “assured them of his respect for monotheistic religions, freedom of belief and the practice of religions,” Ali said. Despite the explanation, Morsi went beyond attacking “Zionists” to directly refer to Jews and used traditional anti-Semitic slurs like “pigs.” But the explanation was a rare instance when an Islamist was forced to address criticism of what is routine rhetoric for the Brotherhood. They and other Islamists often engage in tirades against Israel, sometimes trying to stick to references to “Zionism,” the founding ideology of Israel, but often slipping into attacks on Jews. The Brotherhood’s leader, Mohammed Badie, recently accused Jews of corrupting the world and slaughtering the Palestinians. A top leader of the group last month called on Israelis of Egyptian origin to return, saying the Jewish state will cease to exist in 10 years. The Brotherhood has long prided itself on its non-compromising stand on Israel and that its members were the first to fight Jewish groups in Palestine in the 1940s. Morsi himself rarely mentions Israel by name and refuses to meet any Israeli official.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi met with Republican Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, one day after Obama called on Morsi to repudiate his comments about Jews from three years ago.
Germany to bring home gold stored in US, France BY FRANK JORDANS ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — In what sounds like the setup for a stylish Hollywood heist movie, Germany is
transferring nearly 700 tons of gold bars worth $36 billion from Paris and New York to its vaults in Frankfurt. The move is part of an effort by Germany’s central bank to
bring much of its gold home after keeping big reserves outside the country for safekeeping during the Cold War. Shipping such a large amount of valuable cargo between
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A journalist holds a gold ingot next to a security officer of the German Central Bank in Frankfurt.
countries could be a serious security headache. A gold robbery - the subject of such movies as “Die Hard 3” and “The Italian Job” - would be embarrassing and expensive for Germany. The high-stakes, high-security plan is to move the precious metal - 374 tons kept in vaults in Paris and 300 tons stored at the New York Federal Reserve Bank - to the Bundesbank in Germany’s financial center over the next eight years. For obvious reasons, the central bank won’t say whether the estimated 50,000 bars are being moved by air, sea or land or how it intends to keep the shipments safe. “For security reasons we can’t discuss that, partly to protect the gold, partly to protect the staff that will be carrying out the transfer,” said Bundesbank spokesman Moritz August Raasch. “But, of course, since we transport large sums of money around Germany every day, we’ve got a certain amount of experience with this.” The Bundesbank, which also brought home about 850 tons of gold from London between 1998 and 2001, isn’t taking any chances. “Of course the transports are insured,” Raasch said. The cargo unit of Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, is
standing by, ready to handle the job if the central bank calls, spokesman Michael Goentgens said. “We have specific containers for such cargo, then teams accompanying the cargo until the plane’s loaded and ready to take off, then people waiting where the plane lands,” he said. “Overall it must be said that the transport over land is the riskiest part. Flying is safer than driving, and an airport is already a heavily secured area.” Zorica Obrovac, of the German company SG Security GmbH, which moves precious cargo in armored cars with armed protection, said: “If it were such a high-value cargo as tons of gold, I would obviously split it in several shipments. And the key is not to tell anyone, the fewest people possible in the company that orders the shipment.” During the Cold War, Germany kept most of its gold abroad for fear it could fall into the hands of the Soviet Union if the country were invaded. Another reason was to have the precious metal close to the foreign currency markets in London, Paris and New York, where gold is traded. Since France, like Germany, switched to the euro more than a decade ago, storing gold for foreign currency swaps in Paris
is no longer necessary, the Bundesbank said. Once the shipment is complete, Frankfurt will hold half of Germany’s 3,400 tons of reserve gold - currently worth about $183 billion - with New York retaining 37 percent and London 13 percent. The decision to bring some of the gold back home also follows criticism last year from Germany’s independent Federal Auditors’ Office, which concluded that the central bank failed to properly oversee its reserves. The auditor suggested the bank carry out regular inspections of gold stored abroad. The auditors’ report stunned Germany, where the Bundesbank routinely tops polls of the nation’s most trusted institutions, and politicians pushed for the gold to come home. The central bank defended itself by saying, “There is no doubt about the integrity of the foreign storage sites.” The New York Federal Reserve’s gold vault, for example, is about 80 feet below street level in lower Manhattan, its only entry protected by a 90-ton steel cylinder 9 feet high. The New York Fed imposes a handling fee when gold enters or leaves the vault but does not otherwise charge account holders for storing their gold.
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“A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn’t answer the phone.” CRAIG KILBORN TV HOST
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Penn faculty sees rise in gender equality BY JELANI HAYES STAFF WRITER Penn has seen an increase in the percentage of women faculty and leaders in the past four years. The Progress Report on Gender Equity — the University’s seventh evaluation on the status of women faculty — was released today. It showed an overall increase in the proportion of women in all faculty ranks since the last update, which reported statistics for 2007. The new report is based on the 2011– ’12 school year. Throughout the University overall, the proportion of women faculty members rose from 28.4 percent in 2007 to 30.7 percent in 2011. In 2007 Penn ranked fifth among 17 universities in an “IvyPlus” group with regard to the percentage of women in tenure-
stream faculty. The University is now ranked sixth in the group. Pe n n ’s l a rge s t PENN schools have contributed to the greatest growth proportionally. For example, a 1.7 percent increase in the proportion of women faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences had a substantial effect on the number of women faculty in Penn. The largest percentage increases since the last report are found in the Annenberg School for Communication (6.3 percent), the School of Veterinary Medicine (5.0 percent), the School of Dental Medicine (5.0 percent), the Perelman School of Medicine (3.3 percent) and the Law School
(3.0 percent). Dean of the Medical School J. Larry Jameson attributes part of the Medical School’s growth to its “robust search process.” He said he and his colleagues make sure that they are casting a “wide net” in order to review a diverse applicant pool. However, not all schools saw an increase in the percentage of women faculty. Since 2007, there has been a decline in the number of female faculty in the Graduate School of Education, School of Social Policy and Practice, School of Design and School of Engineering and Applied Science. The report does note that small schools are prone to appearing more variable than their numbers actually are. According to the report, numerical changes in representation translate into larger percentage changes. Richard Gelles, the dean of
SP2, explained why his school seemingly had a large decline. “We have 20 standing faculty positions. That means each person is worth 5 percent.”
When male faculty have babies and nurse, then it will be an equal playing field. RICHARD GELLES Dean, University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice Retention is just as important to the representation of women faculty as hiring is. More women were hired and fewer women left the University between 2007 and 2011 than between the last four-
year period starting in 2003. Gelles emphasized the importance of helping faculty in their new positions. When he brings on a new faculty member he asks him or her, “What is it going to take for you to succeed?” Gelles said his goal is to find and eliminate “unconscious biases” within the structure of the school. Gelles also pointed out that there are inherent differences between the professional experiences of men and women. When nontenured faculty members are hired, they have a six-year window to work toward tenure. This pressure can be especially difficult for women trying to raise families. “Male faculty don’t have babies or nurse … when male faculty have babies and nurse, then it will be an equal playing field,” he said. Beyond hiring and retention, the University has also made
strides in promoting women faculty to leadership positions. “We are very pleased that the proportion of women in leadership positions at Penn has increased steadily over the past several years,” Vice Provost for Faculty Lynn Lees said. Lees said that programs that encourage women to go onto graduate studies and enter the academic field are important, especially in the fields where they are underrepresented. Jameson agreed that such pipeline programs work, and emphasized the importance of having female role models. “As we have attracted more women into the field of medicine and life sciences, [they] are in the position to be role models and attract people into the field.” “Build an environment that is conducive to diversity, and you’ll be diverse,” Gelles said.
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Cornell punishes two fraternities BY KERRY CLOSE STAFF WRITER
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Orgo Night, an event presented by the Columbia University Marching Band, garnered heavy criticism for its potentially offensive jokes. BY ABBY ABRAMS STAFF WRITER The Columbia University Marching Band agreed to take down its posters advertising Orgo Night after Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger said that the posters hurt and belittled students in an email to the student body. The posters depicted a silhouette of a pole dancer with the caption, “Gaza Strip. Everyone wants a piece.” Shollenberger said that administrators were “extremely disappointed at the poor judgment and poor taste shown by the CU Marching Band in its Orgo Night flier.” He affirmed the University’s commitment to “freedom of expression—even expression that can be offensive,” but added that “as educators we also have a responsibility to criticize and condemn speech that would surely be felt to be alienating by members of our community.” Shollenberger did, however, acknowledge the band in his email for taking down the posters and offering to apologize. The band issued a statement Thursday evening that said it “had productive meetings with administrative personnel and representatives from concerned student groups, and we will take this incident as a thought-provoking experience moving forward.” Still, the band said that “the administrative response was unwarranted” and that it refused to apologize “for our exercising the right to free speech shared by every member of Columbia’s community.” Shortly after the email went out, some students created a meme mocking Shollenberger’s reaction. “I don’t believe Dean Shollenberger had any reason to involve himself or the administration in the situation,” Kyra Bloom, BC ’15, said in an email. “The flier was essentially making fun of the word ‘strip’—it didn’t say anything awful about one side or the other.” But other students said that Shollenberger’s response was justified. “It was entirely reasonable for the dean of student affairs to bring attention to the fact that a student organization had contributed to marginalizing students and creating an environment for Orgo Night
in which some students feel comfortable and certain students don’t,” Gavin McGown, CC ’13, said. McGown, who is COLUMBIA president of GendeRevolution and a member of the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board, said that the posters were “hugely triggering” to survivors and cosurvivors of sexual assault. “I think that the fliers deserved to be called out for being sexist, for contributing to rape culture,” McGown said. “They deserved to be called out for weirdly sexualizing suffering, violence, and death, especially when this happened so recently.” After students criticized the original poster, the band released a second poster on Wednesday in which they blacked out the word “Gaza” and pixilated the picture. McGown said that the second version of the poster was still offensive, and that the changes were insensitive. “This got me in the gut,” McGown said. “We had told them that we found their posters problematic and triggering and hurtful, and their response was to say we were just trying to censor them.” Other students said they felt that the situation had become overblown, and that the band did not deserve such harsh criticism. “I think they were definitely trying to be a little controversial for sure, but I think it wasn’t that big a deal because I feel like it wasn’t that widely distributed,” Nathan Chan, CC ’15, said. Chan added that “you also have to think about that this is the whole persona of the marching band. They try to be controversial, and this is just kind of who they are.” The band’s statement concluded by saying that its “major focus now remains presenting the best possible Orgo Night for our community.” At the event, the band satirized topics ranging from the results of the brownstone selection process, to Hurricane Sandy, to the very topic that sparked the whole debate—the violence that erupted between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip last month. Poet Laureate for the band Ziyad Abdel-
fattah, CC ’15, said during the performance that “the Gaza Strip exploded once again this year, like a Barnard girl’s hymen on the first day of NSOP.” “About 140 people died in the military confrontation,” he said. “That’s 0.003 Syrian Civil Wars, or 1.4 Hurricane Sandys, or 12 Dark Knight Rises premieres.” Evelyn Jagoda, CC ’14 and spirit manager for the band, was one of the readers for Orgo Night and satirized the concerns that students expressed over the lack of attention that the administration gave Arts Initiative earlier this year. “For one, they screwed over the Arts Initiative, which is a catastrophe,” she said. “Now we all have to pay full price to see Bring it On: The Musical!” Student protesters silently condemned what they characterized as racist and sexist jokes from the band, displaying posters that read, “What’s so sexy about sexism?” and “That’s hate speech.” McGown, who was one of the student protesters at Orgo Night, said that “until about halfway through I though ‘oh, maybe they toned it down, maybe they heard us.’ But then they started with the fat shaming, the joke about suicide. Then they started in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—it was like they didn’t hear a single word we said to them.” Alexis Martin, CC ‘14 and a student protester at Orgo Night, said that the band’s style of comedy “is not good because it’s done at the expense of people,” and that she felt “uncomfortable” during the event. “You have to be able to poke fun, but this was in ways that made me feel very unsafe, and also really undermined any claims they made to understand why we were hurt,” McGown said. Martin added that she hoped that “there were some people in the room who saw what we were doing and had an understanding of why we were hurt, or if they were also feeling that way and had been silenced, maybe they will find some agency.” Students who were not part of the protest said that they enjoyed the event. “I think it’s a beautiful tradition that Columbia has and it doesn’t happen at a lot of other schools,” Emma Lipner, BC ’15, said. “I loved it.”
A recent incident of “underage and excessive alcohol consumption” has led Cornell to expel the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity for at least one year, the University announced Monday. Cornell also announced Monday that Pi Kappa Phi will be punished for violating University policy, making it the third fraternity to face judicial consequences at the outset of spring rush. The most recent incident of underage and excessive drinking tied to Phi Sig occurred on Dec. 2, but was just one in a “history of similar infractions over the past two years,” according to a statement from Tommy Bruce, vice president for University communications. Bruce’s statement did not elaborate further on the nature of the violations, and University administrators did not respond to requests for interviews on Monday. As a result of Cornell’s decision, Phi Sigma Kappa will not be able to recruit new members, Bruce said. Representatives from the fraternity also did not return requests for comment on Monday. Additionally, the Pi Kappa Phi
fraternity has been placed on “provisional recognition status” for a period of no less than CORNELL four years, according to Bruce’s statement. The decision is the result of three specific incidents over the course of a year, including one on Nov. 4, that also involved “underage and excessive alcohol consumption,” Bruce said. Although on probation, Pi Kappa Phi can still recruit new members, the statement said. Monday’s announcement follows Cornell’s decision, made public on Wednesday, to revoke its recognition of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. The fraternity has been kicked off campus for at least four years after two of its pledges were hospitalized in a “mentally scarring” and “sexually humiliating” hazing incident, University officials said. Both Phi Sigma Kappa and Pi Kappa Phi may appeal the University’s decision within the next two days.
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SPORTS A model of presidential support COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 ars — more than any Ivy League school. Sure, there is definitely a size difference between UC’s 32,000 undergrads on its main campus and our 5,300, but the Cincinnati Bearcats are now proving themselves in the classroom and on the court. I’ve never seen a university president so happy to talk with his undergraduates, so excited to root for Cincinnati teams, and so willing to be a public representative of his university and the city of Cincinnati. And importantly, Dr. Ono understands the concerns of his “constituents.” When football head coach Butch Jones left for Tennessee, he promised to find an even better replacement in an universitywide email. And he may have done exactly that through the hire of Tommy Tuberville. When conference realignment ravaged the Big East, Ono once again sent a comforting message assuring the university that the administration would do everything it could to secure a strong position in college athletics. Unfortunately, the Bearcats’ first bid to join the ACC failed, but a football bowl win, promised renovations to facilities and top-notch basketball — all of which have happened under Ono — may change that soon. I went to three Bearcats basketball games over the break, and I’m pretty sure he was at each one, throwing T-shirts into the crowd and even risking his life on top of a pyramid of cheerleaders. Just last week, he shaved his head for charity after a game to celebrate 10 straight victories for the men’s basketball team. The campus is energized. For a school often overshadowed by its more prominent neighbors — Ohio State, Kentucky and even Louisville — UC is now the place to be. PrezOno has made it clear through his popular hashtag: UC is the #hottestcollegeinamerica, and Cincinnati may very well be the #hottestcityinamerica.
“As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I’m going to play.” MARIA SHARAPOVA, RUSSIAN TENNIS PLAYER
Cotton stands to fill Willhite’s role M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Both Cotton and Sherrod credited Cotton’s current successes to his hard work over the summer. Playing in the Nike Pro City League over the summer, a league that featured professional players from the NBA and abroad, Cotton helped lead his team, Dyckman, to the championship game, though the team fell in overtime. Joining the team was a coincidence, Cotton said, as Brooklyn Nets guard MarShon Brooks left the team and Cotton was called to take his place.
Above all else, I wanted to make sure [when I came to college] that I remained the same confident player that I was coming in. ARMANI COTTON ’15 Guard, men’s basketball Assigned to guard NBA-guard Gary Forbes in the championship game, Cotton said that he was able to come away with several steals, including one that helped to force overtime. The caliber of the competition and the atmo-
sphere of the crowd led Cotton to say that “for that one moment I felt like I was in an NBA game.” Joining Cotton on Dyckman was Yale teammate Austin Morgan ’13. In addition to Nike Pro City, Cotton also participated in workouts and pick-up games that included NBA stars J.R. Smith and Carmelo Anthony from the New York Knicks, as well as Mike Dunleavy of the Milwaukee Bucks. Cotton said that although all of the stars were generous in their advice, he learned the most from the example that the Dunleavy set with his work ethic. “The way he took care of his body,” Cotton said. “Even for a casual pickup game he’d be there an hour before the game stretching and getting his shots up. … It shaped his game and made him consistent on the court. I’ve tried to incorporate that.” Cotton did not want to give the impression that his life revolves solely around basketball, however. Stating that while most of his time is spent on the court, on schoolwork or with his “tight-knit” circle of friends, he views himself as social and willing to meet new people — especially if it involves chess. “I love chess,” Cotton said. “Anybody who wants to come over and get checkmated, can come try me anytime.” The Bulldogs are 6–11 so far this season. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
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Te’o girlfriend death apparently a hoax BY TOM COYNE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A story that Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o’s girlfriend had died of leukemia — a loss he said inspired him to help lead the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship game — was dismissed by the university Wednesday as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Te’o told coaches on Dec. 26 that he had received a call while at an awards ceremony from the phone number of his late girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. By Te’o’s own account, she was an “online” girlfriend. Swarbrick said they also talked by telephone. Swarbrick said that, based on a report from an investigative firm hired by the school, he believes Te’o was duped into an online relationship with a woman whose death was then faked by the perpetrators of the hoax. “Nothing about what I have learned has shaken my faith in Manti Te’o one iota,” Swarbrick said at a news conference Wednesday night after Deadspin. com reported in a lengthy story that it could find no record that Kekua ever existed. Te’o said in a statement: “This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. “To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone’s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating,” he said. “In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was.”
ONO AT CINCINNATI OFFERS EXAMPLE FOR SALOVEY It’s hard not to get caught up in Ono-fever. And the buzz in Cincy got me thinking — what if Yale President-elect Peter Salovey had even half of that community presence? I understand PrezOno and soon-to-be PrezSalovey are working in two very different worlds. Ono, in a way, represents an entire city and a large public university looking to improve its reputation both academically and athletically. The University of Cincinnati is a Big East school with a lot riding on its athletic success and academic rise (and possibly its ability to find a new conference with the Big East in shambles). Yale is already a world leader in research, the pinnacle of academia, a historical wonderland, and so on. I don’t expect Salovey to run around John J. Lee Amphitheater with his hair (and that lovely ’stache) shaved off. But showing up to a few games, talking with some students on Twitter, and generally making an effort to connect with the Yale community? That doesn’t sound like too much to ask. That’s my belated Christmas wish for our new president-elect. He’s already making greater strides than other administrators — apparently he met with the football team for a pep talk before The Game, and that turned out pretty well for 55 minutes, right? If Salovey publicly and actively supports Yale athletics, students will do the same. I’ve already seen it happen in Cincinnati, where the student section at Fifth Third Arena is full, Ono is a courtside celebrity, and students are buying into the whole #hottestcollegeinamerica mantra. Salovey doesn’t have to proclaim us the hottest college in America, but #hottestivyforsportsontheeastcoast sure would be nice.
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Armani Cotton ’15 played in the Nike Pro City League over the summer.
Swarbrick said investigators’ report indicated those behind the hoax were in contact with each other, discussing what they were doing. Deadspin reported that there was no record of Lennay Marie Kekua dying with the Social Security Administration, that a record search produced no obituary or funeral announcement. She supposedly attended Stanford but there is no mention of her death in the Stanford student newspaper. The website reported the Stanford registrar’s office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. There are a few Twitter and Instagram accounts registered to Lennay Kekua, but the website reported photographs identified as Kekua online and in TV news reports are pictures from the social media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. The week before Notre Dame played Michigan State on Sept. 15, coach Brian Kelly told reporters that Te’o’s grandmother and a friend had died. Te’o didn’t miss the game. He said Kekua had told him not to miss a game if she died. Te’o turned in one of his best performances of the season in the 20–3 victory in East Lansing, and his playing through heartache became a prominent theme during the Irish’s undefeated regular season. Te’o’s statement also said: “It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother’s death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. “I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.
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The Bulldogs are currently tied with Union for 11th in the conference with three points. W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 ranking just above Leonoff in the GAA leaderboard. Power plays could also have a key role in the games against the Bears. Brown has the worst powerplay unit in the league, converting just two out of 30 opportunities. “We’ve been working a lot on them in practice. As we saw [against Clarkson], they can be the makeit or break-it part of the game,” defender Kate Martini ’16 said. Those breaks have come at inopportune times for the Elis, and the team recognizes that it cannot afford these lapses. “One of our biggest goals is to play 60 minutes of hockey,” Martini said. Leonoff said if the team can figure out how to play a full 60 minutes, finish its shifts and make the right decisions, it will see a good outcome.
According to forward Jamie Haddad ’16, the team chemistry is “better than ever” leading up to this week’s matchups.
One of our biggest goals is to play 60 minutes of hockey. KATE MARTINI ’16 Defenseman, women’s hockey “We still have fairly high hopes for the rest of our season and what’s to come, and I think that attitude will be crucial to our upcoming success,” Haddad said. The puck drops at 7 p.m. tonight at Ingalls Rink. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
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MEN’S LACROSSE TWO CHOSEN IN MLL DRAFT In the seventh round of Major League Lacrosse’s 2013 Collegiate Draft, defenders Michael McCormack ’13 and Peter Johnson ’13 were chosen with back-to-back picks. Both were named to numerous preseason All-American and All-Ivy teams.
Hard work has paid dividends [for Cotton ’15]. Now he’s been able to see what his role is. JAMES JONES COACH, MEN’S BASKETBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
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Lessons from Santa This holiday season, I started believing in Santa. No, not the one so admirably portrayed by Tim Allen in a series of gripping biopics. I’m talking about Dr. Santa Ono, the new president of the University of Cincinnati. In just a little more than four months as president at UC, Ono has captured the attention of an entire city. He’s renowned for his research on eye diseases and has an incredible educational resume including work at the University of Chicago, McGill and Harvard.
HOW PRESIDENTS AND SPORTS CAN CHANGE A COLLEGE But it’s not his research on eye inflammation that has made Ono an instant Cincy-celebrity. It’s his active online presence and commitment to UC athletics — and education. He’s all over Twitter as @PrezOno, and Wikipedia tells me his Klout online influence score is higher than any other university president in the world. Sounds good to me. During his time as UC provost, the school moved up 17 places in the US News & World Report rankings from 2010 to 2012, and UC is now among the top 10 producers of Fulbright schol-
Cotton coming into the zone BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The graduation of captain Reggie Willhite ’12 left the Ivy League wondering how the Yale Bulldogs men’s basketball team could replicate Willhite’s lockdown defense and thunderous dunks. As Ancient Eight play draws near, guard Armani Cotton ’15 stands poised to fill the void.
MEN’S BASKETBALL In the team’s four games since Jan. 1, Cotton has averaged 12 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting a blistering 71.4 percent from the floor. Although he has started in 10 of the team’s 17 contests thus far, head coach James Jones said that Cotton needed time earlier in the season to find his place in the team’s offense. “Hard work has paid dividends [for Cotton],” Jones said. “Now he’s been able to see what his role is.” Cotton’s role has vastly expanded since last year, when he saw action in just 13 games and scored only 14 points. Despite getting limited minutes behind Wilhite on the depth chart, Cotton said he did not want it to affect his game.
I think [Cotton] can definitely give us 10-12 points a night and also contribute on rebounds and on defense. BRANDON SHERROD ’15 Forward, men’s basketball “Above all else, I wanted to make sure [when I came to college] that I remained the same confident player that I was coming in,” Cotton said. “I didn’t want my performance or lack thereof on the court to change [that].” When the Bulldogs visited Holy Cross Jan. 4, Cotton demonstrated his full potential — collecting his first career double-double and leading the Elis to a 61–54 road win. His 20 points and 12 rebounds were both career highs. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 said he believes that these recent successes could just be the beginning for Cotton. “I think he’s just a great all-around player,” Sherrod said. “I think he can definitely give us 10–12 points a night and also contribute on rebounds and on defense.”
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In the four games since Jan. 1, Armani Cotton ’15 has averaged 12 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting a blistering 71.4 percent from the floor.
Upbeat Bulldogs looking for points BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As conference play heats up for the Yale women’s hockey team, Thursday’s home game and Saturday’s road game against Brown offer the Bulldogs the chance to reverse a recent series of losses before playoff hopes fade away entirely.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (2–14–1, 1–8–1 ECAC) are on a six-game winless streak, and they haven’t won a conference game since Oct. 26 against Colgate. Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said before the year that the team aimed to make the playoffs, but that will only happen if the Bulldogs finish eighth or higher in the conference. Yale is currently tied with Union for 11th in the conference with three points, while Princeton holds the eighth position with six. However, Princeton takes the next two weeks off for final exams, giving both Yale and Brown, which has four points and sits in ninth place along with
Colgate, a chance to gain some ground. “I am very confident that we will sweep against Brown. We have been playing well lately, and the pieces are just about to click,” defenseman Tara Tomimoto ’14 said.
I am very confident that we will sweep against Brown. We have been playing well lately, and the pieces are just about to click. TARA TOMIMOTO ’14 Defenseman, women’s hockey Brown (3–11–1, 2–8–0 ECAC) has one of the best netminding duos in the conference. Aubree Moore was last season’s firstteam All-Ivy goaltender, and her goals against average (GAA) is fifth in ECAC. Katie Jamieson has also seen action this year, SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 11
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The Elis are on a six game winless streak and they haven’t won a conference game since October, against Colgate.
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THE NUMBER OF YALE MEN’S LACROSSE PLAYERS DRAFTED TO 2013 COLLEGIATE MAJOR LEAGUE LACROSSE. Captain Michael McCormack ’13 and Peter Johnson ’13 were selected in 51st and 52nd spot, respectively.