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Mayor Joe Maturo landed in hot water on Wednesday after he responded to questions about how he might support his town’s Latino community by saying he “might have tacos” when he went home.

He went on to clarify that he might also have spaghetti given his Italian heritage. The comments came one day after the Tuesday arrest of four East Haven police officers accused of systematic mistreatment of the city’s Latino residents.

A Facebook group has sprung up calling for Maturo’s resignation — in one day, it grew to over 400 members.

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Text tips. Yale Police

Department Chief Ronnell Higgins tweeted Wednesday to introduce YaleTip, a new anonymous mobile text tipoff system. The new service — available by texting yaletip and a message to the YPD to 67283 — processes messages through a third-party, thereby protecting the identity of tipsters.

Here to stay. The School of

Management faculty voted Monday to re-approve the accelerated J.D./M.B.A. jointdegree, offered in conjunction with the Law School. Andrea McClure, SOM faculty recruiting coordinator, said the faculty voted unanimously to continue offering the joint degree as a permanent program.

New additions. The Yale University Art Gallery has added nine porcelain pieces

by New Fairfield, Conn. artist Jean Mann to its permanent collection, the Danbury News Times reported.

Beginnings. Former U.S. Rep.

Christopher Shays officially entered the race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67. He will face off against millionaire Linda McMahon for the Republican nod. McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive, lost to Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in the 2010 election for the U.S. Senate.

Baby shower. The Yale College Council hosted a party at Box 63 on Wednesday to complement worldwide exuberance surrounding the birth of Beyonce’s and Jay-Z’s new baby, Blue Ivy Carter.

Someone’s in trouble. Ward

22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison showed up three minutes late to her first meeting as a member of the new Board’s Finance Committee, the New Haven Independent reported.

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Robert Cook’s Ezra Stiles college seminar vote to award everyone in the seminar grades of “100” for the semester. Ten students vote in favor of the grade, while two abstain.

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YCBA PERFORMANCE ACTS OUT HISTORY OF COLONIAL INDIA Blending classical and contemporary Indian dance, “The History of Unforgetting” is part of the Yale British Art Center’s exploration of how Indian culture developed under British rule.

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The new sexual misconduct prevention workshops for freshmen launched this week are drawing on recent research about sexual relationships to encourage students to listen to their instincts in social situations.

Rather than reiterating the definition of consent — the traditional approach to sexual misconduct prevention — the 75-minute workshops examine common communication patterns in social situations, according to Melanie Boyd ’90, assistant dean of student affairs. A majority of freshmen interviewed said the workshops, which centered around role-play exercises, were more engaging than sessions on sexual consent held in the fall, though some said they felt the workshops failed to deepen their understanding of the issue.

The program was announced in December as part of an administrative push to improve the campus climate amid national scrutiny of how the University addresses sexual misconduct. Pairs of communication and consent educators (CCEs), 40 undergraduates SEE WORKSHOPS PAGE 6

Senate candidates court New Haven vote

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER City politicos this week threw their weight behind candidates who hope to replace U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67, who is vacating his seat when his term ends this year.

Nearly 100 city Democrats, including members of the Board of Aldermen and Yale College Democrats, attended a fundraiser at the East Rock home of

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Sunday to support U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy’s candidacy for the seat. Two days later, Murphy’s opponent for the Democratic nomination, former secretary of the state Susan Bysiewicz ’83, met with the Dems’ elections committee to introduce herself to students and discuss the upcoming 2012 elections.

The two entered the race after Lieberman announced that he would not seek re-election last January, and Murphy has posted

better fundraising numbers and has consistently polled higher than Bysiewicz.

Murphy or Bysiewicz will compete against a Republican challenger — widely assumed to be Linda McMahon, who is running against U.S. Rep. Chris Shays for the Republican nomination — for Lieberman’s position. McMahon lost to Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 for the state’s other Senate seat in 2010.

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Gateway aims for summer opening

BY THOMAS VEITCH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yalies will soon find themselves sharing downtown New Haven with 11,000 new students when Gateway Community College’s new main campus on Church Street officially opens, an event which is now tentatively scheduled for August.

Gateway, founded in 1992 by the union of two community colleges, currently holds classes at two separate locations, one at Long Wharf and the other in North Haven. The new campus, set to cost a total of $198 million upon completion, according to Gateway’s website, will be located on Church Street between Frontage Road and Crown Street. Gateway spokeswoman Evelyn Gard said the project should be completed sometime in May and will officially house the majority of the college beginning in fall 2012.

some of the state’s largest Democratic voting blocs, candidates running for statewide office place high priority on city leaders’ endorsement decisions.

In that regard, Murphy seemed to outperform his challengers, as State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, who represents New Haven, and State Reps. Toni Walker, Roland Lemar and Gary Holden-Winfield, who all represent the city im Hartford, spoke in Murphy’s favor at the fundraiser

hosted by DeLauro. Sixteen of the board’s 30 aldermen were in attendance. Some, like Ward 9 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Ward 3 Alderwoman Jacqueline James-Evans and Ward 20 Alderwoman Delphine Clyburn, turned out in support of Murphy, while others, like Ward 2’s Frank Douglass, just came to hear what Murphy had to say.

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“It feels like a dream has come true for thousands of students who may not even envision the potentiality of working and learning in a state-of-the-art facility,” said Gateway President Dorsey Kendrick, who assumed her position in 2000.

Gard said construction is “coming along beautifully,” although as of this January, scaffolding is still up and interior work and finishing touches remain to be done. Those final projects include plumbing, drywall and electrical work. The hope, she said, is that by May the building can be officially certified and a grand opening will occur sometime in August.

Additionally, Gard said the new facility remains on track to become the state’s first public building that is gold-certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Earle Gister, an influential Yale theater professor who pioneered a new method for training actors, passed away in his sleep Sunday at his New Haven home. He was 77.

A charismatic educator, Gister was among the most prominent leaders of conservatory acting training in the late 20th century. He helped coordinate previously disparate drama programs nation-

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CREATIVE COMMONS

Gister devoted himself to training actors in the art of live theater.

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OPINION

.COMMENT “The event’s title makes it seem like it’s ‘Leadership for Dumyaledailynews.com/opinion

Learning to lead O

n Tuesday, President Barack Obama and the administration of Student Leadership Training shared a very special thing: a flat audience. The president quipped about “spilled milk” (and a lowly speechwriter returned forever to the mailroom) to a groaning Congress. The facilitators of the SLT lecture stumbled through the night with a combination of sporadic seriousness and self-deprecating humor.

First and foremost, the fundamental convolutedness of the training project is embodied in the ridiculous decision to host a raffle at the end of each evening.

At the end of a lecture on arguably the most serious issue a collegiate culture could face — and one which was prompted by a federal lawsuit against our sexual climate — why on earth are we tossing prizes out to the crowd?

A cynical observer may see this just as a casual bribe — a tacit acknowledgement that no one wants to be there. Even with the highest benefit of the doubt, the raffle is a confusing injection of levity for an issue whose most vocal proponents have overburdened it with sternness.

(Remember that spat of columns last year?) Following this rationale, I would expect to see T-shirt guns at the next round of freshman Camp Yale seminars.

Beyond the simple dictates of common sense and basic human compassion, the 75-minute presentation was largely without content. One could speculate about the true reasons why these sessions were mandated, but it is nearly impossible to think that the administrators were attempting to actually train leaders.

However, the most interesting and revealing portion of the evening came in the opening remarks by professor Kathryn Lofton in Tuesday’s session regarding the general notion of leadership. Lofton, consciously or not, spoke directly to the Obama generation — and, judging by the swath of approving nods and grins across the room, her definition of leadership resonated.

Lofton first stated that a leader must be listened to. There is no such thing as the quiet leader.

He needs the stage. He needs an audience. He is the rhetorician. The Calvin Coolidge model of quiet, temperate, principled competence is long dead — we hunger for the leader who hungers for our spotlight.

A leader must not only detail the world as he sees it but make us want to see it that way too. It is difficult historically and impossible in the range of our lifetimes to find a better example of this than President Obama. His simply giving his State of the Union address caused Yale students’ Facebook newsfeeds to be overrun with unfaltering adoration for a job well done — that is clear proof of his ability.

Lastly, and most importantly, Lofton said a leader must tell you

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what you are missing rather than what you have. A leader is a giver — even in the literal sense.

HARRY But here GRAVER the troublesome realGravely ity lies. At no point in Mistaken the evening was a leader called to stand for truth (a thorny topic at this school), for principle or profundity, for anything besides prominence and popularity.

On Tuesday, though, Obama certainly heeded Lofton’s advice.

Just like a 21st-century Roman patrician tossing bread out to the coliseum or a demigod who would rain manna upon the masses if only Congress let him, Obama outlined a world whose only true deficit was additional legislation.

He spoke and the nation listened. And, most likely, they will listen in 2012. Following the Lofton model — one morally unconcerned with onerous realities — his crafted picture of the world will stick. It’s the product of a careful, calculated charisma.

By the end of the night, both at Yale and in Washington, no one sufficiently answered the question, “Why lead?” Here, it was simply assumed that we, as Yale students, should. As students, our respective rises to power are frequently represented as inevitable. Notions to the contrary are not as much disproven as simply ignored.

In a lecture that began with Provost Peter Salovey’s assurances that we were already the “future leaders of the world” and that concluded with the repeated reminder that we should always, without exception, be comfortable with our already perfect personalities, there is little reason why a criterion for leadership would be necessary.

This congratulatory kowtow at the Student Leadership Training — whose necessity was so pressing that students were mandated to participate — is the very antithesis of leadership. It is a failure in its obilgation to provide the vital guidance and instruction needed by a collegiate student body.

When we are consistently and consciously being prepared to lead, we become either unaware when we are being shepherded or oblivious of when it is right to merge into the crowd. As a generation told that we are perfect as-is and the ills of the world are ours to freely construct away, perhaps leadership training is not what we need. Maybe Yale needs, sometimes, to teach us when to follow.

HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. His column runs

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y first impression of the country was a threat. No, not the customs form that reads, “Warning: death for drug traffickers under Singapore law.”

Within two hours of landing, a security guard threatened me with arrest. My crime? Standing outside the airport subway terminal at 3 a.m., reading the schedule.

Welcome to Singapore.

When responding to concerns about academic freedom at the soon to be launched Yale-NUS College in March 2011, Yale University President Richard Levin made a measured endorsement, citing the “due diligence” Yale conducted and the “widespread sense that faculty in Singapore” enjoy academic freedom.

I could ask how academic freedom exists for professors when, in two semesters as a political science student at the National University of Singapore, I have been taught by only one tenured professor. I could ask how professors have the freedom to judge their students’ work when they must instead follow departmental curves.

However, having completed my second semester in Singapore through a joint program between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NUS, I will raise a different question. What freedom do students enjoy?

It would be easy to challenge the residence halls’ blue laws, the continued prohibition on male homosexual acts under Singapor-

ean penal code section 377A, the illegality of public protest and the casual jokes about fines and caning. It would be easy to ask whether the Yale Daily News will be forced to make the required $200,000 foreign publication security deposit and designate a local representative to be sued. It would be easy, but none of this was as troubling as my classroom experience.

Yale’s apparent focus on the faculty and not the student overlooks the academic culture at NUS. Students change arguments, button their lips and absorb opinions from on high. Singapore is not a free country and NUS is not a free university.

The litmus test for academic freedom, to me, is the ability of students and faculty to engage their own country’s politics. In Singapore’s case, this happens in PS2249 at NUS: “Government and Politics of Singapore.” I sat in stunned silence week after week as the professor recounted anecdotes of People’s Action Party interference in previous iterations of the class. Lower your criticism of the PAP, he had been told. Reduce your coverage of opposition parties.

These little comments peppered the lectures as he covered the basic function of Singapore’s political apparatus.

When writing my midterm paper on press freedom in Singapore, I toned down criticism of the courts’ decisions in successful lawsuits against The New

York Times and Wall Street Journal, partly due to a fear of retaliatory grading and partly because I worried my paper broke the law against scandalizing the court.

In a senior seminar on international law, only one student in 25 admitted that he had seen the infamous pictures of Abu Ghraib before being shown them in class.

When my disbelief spilled over onto Facebook, a classmate told me that a majority had recognized the pictures but would not speak in class. When I heard that, a memory from “Government and Politics of Singapore” became all the more significant.

The professor polled the class: “How many of you believe that your general election vote is secret?” I was shocked to see that half of the students raised a hand.

Hearing my seminar classmate’s thoughts on keeping quiet only made that experience more troubling.

The final exam for the course asked us whether Singapore is a democracy. If half the students believe the PAP will read their votes, would they not also believe that it will read their essays? The course itself explained that the PAP selects the highest performers from the nation’s universities for party building.

On campus, students treat knowledge as a commodity. Questions exist to be answered, not raised. An upcoming talk on campus will cover the Singapore Inter-

nal Security Act (think Patriot Act). The event fliers make a modest pitch. There is no mention of a vigorous discussion on the law’s merits, necessity or risks, but rest assured, the talk will “clear your doubts.” You will “have your questions answered.”

President Levin’s due diligence may have revealed no infringement on academic freedom. However, enforcement need not exist, because the society has turned individuals into self-policing subjects. Singapore has succeeded in making self-censorship routine and integrating it into the stateowned media, the state-controlled university and the minds of its citizens.

Depending on what Yale’s leadership hopes to accomplish through this collaboration, the task that lies ahead may be insurmountable. I applaud Yale for raising concerns about academic freedom — something I believe my university ignored — but focusing solely on faculty experience is dangerously myopic.

If Yale’s leaders want a student’s perspective, I would be happy to provide one. I would say things that I did not want NUS’s administrators reading in the News while I was still in Singapore.

WALTER VINCOLI is a senior in the UNC-NUS Joint Degree Program. He studied in Singapore in the fall semesters of 2010 and 2011 as a Phillips Ambassador.

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South Carolina’s got problems S

outh Carolina is cruising, as they say, for a bruising.

This state has been asking for it for a long time, and its most recent offense came on Jan. 21 in the Republican primary.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state’s gaffe. South Carolina has made a mess of almost every chance it has gotten, and this time South Carolinians’ logic proved nonexistent as it has so many times before.

Before I get into the absurdity of a blowout win for Newt, let me give some historical context to my view that South Carolina is nothing but trouble.

We begin in the heat of America’s finest hour: the American Revolution. At the outbreak of war, an estimated one-third of South Carolinians remained loyal to England. These loyalists caused considerable trouble for American forces. They aligned with the Cherokee tribe to fight with the British. In 1781, the governor, one John Rutledge, issued a pardon to a loyalist. These offenses, while in the distant past, still put my knickers in a twist.

It is now 1860, and Abraham Lincoln has just been elected. He’s a bro from Illinois. He doesn’t want war! He says he won’t abolish slavery anywhere that it exists.

Seems pretty chill to me (if I didn’t mind slavery), but not to South Carolina. They promptly secede, becoming the first state in history to do so. Leading the charge is Yale’s beloved John C. Calhoun.

The ’Houn, as some like to say, was on fire.

The first battle of the Civil War, at Fort Sumter in 1861, saw South Carolinians attempting to take over a federal military site by firing shots at Union troops stationed there.

Okay, so South Carolinians were little brats during the first two major wars in U.S. history.

Who cares?

To this I would say that South Carolina has always been, and remains to be, the hotbed of racism in America.

South Carolina was the single largest slave trader of Native Americans in U.S. history. So much for that alliance with the Cherokee.

By 1860, South Carolina had more slaves than any state in the nation. Blacks, the overwhelming majority of whom were enslaved, outnumbered whites two to one.

Let’s move to some more con-

temporary offenses.

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves. The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves. The flag flies in front of the Statehouse, and fewer than half of the candidates who have ever run for governor there have said that they would even consider removing it.

South Carolina’s bigotry does not stop at racism. In fact, the state was the second-to-last to ratify the 19th Amendment and give women the right to vote.

How about South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who infamously shouted, “You lie!” at Obama during a joint address to Congress? Wilson showed perhaps the most disrespectful and egregious display in the House chamber since Preston Brooks, another South Carolinian representative, beat Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane in the name of slavery.

Finally, the most recent display of stupidity, the one I began with, came just last weekend during the Republican primary in South Carolina.

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He’s as handsome as they come. And he’s a talented orator.

Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, is possibly the worst candidate for president in the Republican field.

From a purely political standpoint, Gingrich is laughable as a potential candidate. He had two divorces, both of which apparently resulted from his infidelity — this coming from the man who led the impeachment effort against Bill Clinton for adultery. This hypocrisy surely indicates flaws in Gingrich’s character.

In addition, Newt has a horrific record. He has been fined $300,000 for ethics violations while in office. And, if all that weren’t enough, he worked as a historian for the widely hated insurance company Freddie Mac. The company paid Gingrich $1.6 million. This is the same company that holds considerable responsibility for the subprime mortgages that lead to the financial crisis in 2008.

South Carolina, what’s going on down there? Are you guys okay?

JACK SCHLOSSBERG is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at john.schlossberg@yale.edu .

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The Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753 Henry Pelham brought the so-called “Jew Bill,” which would have allowed Jews to become naturalized citizens on application to Parliament, to the British Parliament in 1753. While the bill passed in the House of Lords without much opposition, it was fiercely opposed by the House of Commons.

YPSA hosts historically-minded speaker

12:00 P.M. “Jamaican Audio-Visual Cultures.” Terri Francis, associate professor of film studies and African American studies, will speak. Part of the Endeavors series. Department of African American Studies (81 Wall St.), Gordon Parks Room 201.

3:30 P.M. “Animal Ethics.” Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies and professor of philosophy at New York University, will lead this event. Jamieson is a contemporary pioneer of animal ethics. He will be giving a short talk followed by an open discussion. The event will be hosted by the Yale Animal Welfare Alliance and the Yale Philosophy Review. Branford College (74 High St.), Trumbull Room.

Courses provide local application

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER While most Yalies complete class projects in libraries poring over books and journal articles, a growing number of courses are allowing for a more hands-on approach.

These students will be completing projects through “Community Based Learning,” an offering now available in eight Yale classes, up from three last semester. Offered through Dwight Hall, CBL is designed to help Yalies and community organizations jointly meet their academic requirements and research needs, respectively.

The community organizations — including nonprofits and city agencies — identify research or analysis projects they need, and CBL matches the assignments to relevant courses at Yale. Student participants in the program complete the projects in consultation with their professors and partner organizations, often in lieu of a traditional final paper or project. “[Yale students] are writing all sorts of research every semester that mostly never gets read,” said Gabriel Zucker, a co-coordinator of CBL. “The idea here is to take all this research effort and channel it in the local community where it will have an actual impact.”

CBL was first piloted in the fall of 2003 through a section of the course “New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City.” According to the CBL website, positive responses from participating students and community groups prompted organizers to continue the program for the spring of 2004 in two classes: the college seminar “Welfare: Policy and Practice” and the lecture “Urban Poverty and Policy.” This spring, the eight courses that offer CBL projects include seminars and lectures in departments such as political science, architecture, African American studies and anthropology.

Zucker said the CBL projects can vary based on the individual needs of the partner organization. He added that this could include a part-time internship, a research project or an investigative task. Previous partners have included the New Haven Land Trust, NH POWer and the Tweed-New Haven Airport.

Gordon Geballe, a professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, taught a freshman seminar last year in which students conducted “hands-on” research, though Geballe said his seminar was only loosely tied with the CBL program. The seminar, titled “Urban Ecology with a Focus on New Haven,” used a multidisciplinary approach in discussing how cities work, Geballe said. At the time, the New Haven city government was in the process of drafting a sustainability plan, and Geballe’s students researched possible components of the plan in small groups, he said. Throughout the course, students met with businesses owners, city officials and Yale administrators to research potential sustainability initiatives such as greater waste recycling from small businesses.

Geballe said the CBL concept “worked naturally” in his course because students were “studying cities while living in New Haven.”

“In many science courses, students have lab work, or in many statistics courses, students will have real databases they use,” Geballe said. “I’m very supportive of courses constantly looking at how to relate what is being taught in the theoretical sense …

to current events, real activities and real people.”

Only three Yalies participated in CBL projects last semester, but the two co-coordinators of the program said this was because most CBL courses were seminars.

Zucker said this semester’s CBL course selection features several lectures including “Crime and Punishment” and “Introduction to Environmental History,” which will increase the number of students who can participate.

S t u d e n ts i n te rv i ewe d expressed mixed reception of their experiences in CBL course offerings.

Sinye Tang ’13 enrolled in the architecture seminar “Infrastructure: Politics and Design” last semester and participated in the CBL project option, conducting a study for the New Haven Land Trust titled “The Impact of Urban Farms on New Haven Community Safety and Property Values.” She had also completed a CBL project for a class last year.

The idea here is to take all this research effort and channel it … where it will have an actual impact.

GABRIEL ZUCKER ’12 Co-coordinator, Community Based Learning “I had an awesome time — I definitely love the program,” Tang said. “It’s really cool to be able to apply the things that you are learning in class to a practical end and have a real impact on the local community.”

Jimmy Murphy ’13, who was enrolled in the same architecture seminar as Tang, said that while the CBL projects seemed very rewarding, the tasks appeared significantly more time-consuming than a traditional final project and thus failed to attract large numbers of participants.

The CBL program is currently compiling a journal called “Enact: The Yale Journal of Applied Community Research” to publicize the work students do for CBL projects.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

CBL SPRING COURSES AFAM 285/AMST 257, Racial Violence in America ANTH 451/WGSS 431, Intersectionality and Women’s Health

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David Feldman’s lecture “Equality, Difference and the Jews, 1750-1900,” was well-received by the Yale students present at the YPSA event.

BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Program for the Study of Anitisemitism brought in its most historically oriented speaker of the academic year on Wednesday, Slifka Center Rabbi James Ponet ’68 said.

In its first event of the semester, YPSA hosted David Feldman, a professor at Birkbeck, University of London and director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. Feldman delivered a lecture on “Equality, Difference and the Jews, 17501900” in Luce Hall on Wednesday to an audience of more than 30 Yale professors, students and New Haven residents. Since its creation last June, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism has sought to distance itself from the disbanded Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism by attracting a more academic following and veering away from politically charged issues. “[Anti-Semitism] is something that has confounded

scholars for a long time, and people have noted it is on the rise again today,” said Maurice Samuels, the director of YPSA. “While anti-Semitism is, in part, a unique phenomenon, it is key to understanding all forms of hatred and prejudice.”

Ponet, who serves as an affiliate of YPSA, said Feldman’s talk focused on the history of antiSemitism more than any of the six other events the organization has held so far. Co-sponsored by the Modern Eurporean Colloquium and the Modern British Group, the talk focused on British anti-Semitism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Feldman suggested that antiSemitism is “discontinuous,” a problem resulting from specific situations, but not continuously present on a global level. He cited the British government’s decision to repeal the “Jew Bill” of 1753, which allowed foreign Jews to become British citizens, as an example of anti-Semitic events.

“The history of anti-Semitism is closely linked to other forms of exclusion,” he said.

Holocaust imagery in the modern Arab world.

Ponet said YPSA will host what could be a controversial event in February when Meir Litvak, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University, discusses antiSemitism in the Muslim Middle East. But Samuels said he does not expect Litvak’s talk to be overtly political.

“Litvak is a very, very serious scholar,” Samuels said. “If you bring in very serious scholars who do very serious work, there shouldn’t be a political backlash.”

Samuels said he hopes to partner with other departments and organizations to continue expanding the young program and to encourage those who may not initially be interested in studying anti-Semitism to get involved with YPSA. YPSA will hold its next panel discussion, a conversation on “Theorizing the Study of antiSemitism,” on Feb. 16.

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

Policing changes announced

BY TOM STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Two months into his tenure as New Haven Police Department chief, Dean Esserman released his plan for returning New Haven to a community policing model in a meeting Wednesday evening at the Wexler-Grant Community School in Dixwell.

Esserman explained to a crowd of Dixwell and Newhallville residents that his community policing plan will include officers walking beats in the city’s neighborhoods by next week, two new officer training programs — one conducted in Meriden, Conn. and the other in New Haven — later this spring, and the addition of 40 to 50 officers to the police

force by the spring. Along with Esserman, the NHPD’s Newhallville and Dixwell district managers and other officers were present. Aldermen from Wards 19, 20, 21 and 22 also spoke to the crowd.

“There is real excitement around the idea of community policing coming back to New Haven,” moderator Scott Marks, co-founder of the New Havenbased nonprofit organization Connecticut Center for a New Economy, said. “In the 1990s, when community policing was in effect, there was a 40 percent drop in crime. A relationship needs to be built between the police and the community.”

In a press conference after announcing his new role as chief in November, Esserman hinted

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Administrators announced the creation of YPSA last summer to replace YIISA, which had drawn widespread criticism for its political focus. Ponet said the administration was concerned that YIISA overemphasized the political aspects of anti-Semitism and did not sufficiently address the historical ones.

YIISA’s first and only conference in August 2010 on global anti-Semitism generated a particular backlash, bringing the organization under fire for allegations of Islamophobia and prompting the U.S. representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to write a letter of protest to University President Richard Levin.

Samuels and Ponet both said they do not believe that YPSA has received similar complaints. Samuels said YPSA has aimed to promote “first-class research” by organizing lectures with scholars from both within and outside the Yale community. So far, these lectures have included a roundtable on diversity in France and a discussion of

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Police Chief Dean Esserman released a plan for walking beats Wednesday.

at his aim to return to Elm City to a community policing model of law enforcement. Esserman’s plan draws on the strategy he helped craft in New Haven in the 1990s, which fell out of favor by the 2000s. Since then, many residents and city officials have publicly lamented the demise of a community policing model.

Ward 20 Alderwoman Delphine Clyburn said voters with whom she spoke during the last aldermanic election said their key concerns were crime, the lack of youth centers and jobs. She said dignity and respect must be shared between the NHPD and residents to ameliorate these problems. Ward 21 Alderwoman Brenda Foskey-Cyrus said community policing will allow residents to get to know their policemen better.

“I want to bring the old 1990s policing style back — it worked,” Esserman said. “Now, the relationship between the community and the police department is not working well. We lost our way.”

With the reintroduction of walking beats, Esserman promised to walk through Newhallville himself. He said once officers finish their training they will go right to walking beats.

He added that cops’ beepers will be replaced with Blackberries to foster better communication with residents.

During the public portion of the meeting, residents raised concerns about poor lighting on streets, violence and drug prevention, the presence of police officers in neighborhoods, the

need for more youth centers and services, and the NHPD’s use of Tasers. Newhallville resident Edwina Hall said she belives the city and the NHPD have no plan to address the violence and crime in the city, which she claimed is centered in Newhallville. Unsatisfied with the walking beats plan, she said Newhallville has poor lighting, adding that she is afraid to walk in the area after 6 p.m.

In response to the many questions about the use of Tasers, Esserman said that every deployment will be examined more extensively by an NHPD “use of force” committee of supervisors. Esserman stressed that New Haven will be handling Taser incidents according to a book of national standards that he helped write.

While residents said they often find their local substations — NHPD-owned buildings located in different neighborhoods — empty, Esserman said he encourages neighborhoods to staff them so that police officers can walk the streets. He added that district managers will come in and out of the substations. According to NHPD district managers in Newhallville and Dixwell, officers will be walking beats from 3 to 11 p.m. in Newhallville and at flexible times in Dixwell.

Prior to taking the position of NHPD chief in November, Esserman ran the Providence, R.I. police department.

Contact TOM STANLEY-BECKER at thomas.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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Millions of dollars that will be spent on Gateway’s campus

According to the website of Gateway Community College, the new downtown campus will cost $198 million.

Gateway eyes August completion date computer labs. Among many other special features are a library, a multipurpose community center, a health center, a culinary arts center and an art gallery.

It feels like a dream has come true for thousands of students who may not even envision … learning in a state-of-the-art facility.

DORSEY KENDRICK President, Gateway Community College

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Gateway Community College tentatively scheduled the opening of its new downtown campus on Church Street for August.

GATEWAY FROM PAGE 1 Funding for the building itself has come from the state, but Gateway is undergoing a campaign called “Your College, Your Future” to raise money for equipment and other furnishings that are not covered by state funding.

Gard said the college is “about a third of the way” toward raising its end goal of $6 million. The News reported last October that Yale-New Haven Hospital served

as a silent donor in this campaign, contributing $500,000.

Although Kendrick said that she is happy about seeing the new campus come together and her original vision fulfilled, Gard said that the fate of the two older campuses remains undetermined. A summer session will be offered in June on the old campuses before the official transition to the Church Street location is completed, Gard said. The North Haven location will be

kept for its automotive program.

The Long Wharf location will not house any classes in the foreseeable future, Gard said, but may allow the college to expand in the future. She added that enrollment is expected to increase because of the new campus.

When she assumed her role in 2000, Kendrick set as her primary goal the creation of a consolidated campus to replace the school’s aging facilities, she told the News. The project at Church

Senate race stops in N.H. CAMPAIGN FROM PAGE 1 Eidelson ’12, who attended the fundraiser, said while she has had “good conversations” with both Murphy and Bysiewicz, she has not yet decided which of the two she will support.

While the Dems typically do not endorse during primary elections, Dems President Zak Newman ’13 said this year may be different. Newman said though there are members of the Dems who support each of the candidates, the Dems have not yet made their decision.

“We traditionally do not endorse in primaries; however, it’s not totally off the table this primary season,” Newman said.

“The student voice is an important voice in this election.”

According to Dems communications director Eric Stern ’15, who was one of 10 Dems members who attended the fundraiser, Murphy and DeLauro addressed the crowd about “the need for a strong middle class, good jobs, an equitable tax code and fair [and] regulated practices by the banks and on Wall Street.”

We traditionally do not endorse in primaries; however … the student voice is an important voice in this election.

ZAK NEWMAN ’13 President, Yale College Democrats After the fundraiser, Bysiewicz released a list of 36 New Haven Democrats, including current and former aldermen, who she said were supporters of her campaign. But the list was not entirely accurate — Douglass and Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez were on the list even though they had said they were unde-

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cided. Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who said he was firmly behind Murphy, was also on Bysiewicz’s list.

Two days later, the Dems hosted Bysiewicz in the Branford Common Room as the third visitor of their “Meet the Candidates” series, where Dems election coordinator Josh Rubin ’14 said she was well-received by the students in attendance. Bysiewicz took questions from students about issues like reproductive rights, job creation and her prior work as secretary of the state, Rubin said.

Rubin added that the Dems’ campaign work has already begun, explaining that they are in contact with the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Massachusetts senatorial candi-

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Bysiewicz declared a run for governor in 2010 before switching to the race for attorney general, from which she was disqualified by the Connecticut Supreme Court because of a lack of “active practice” of law in the state.

date Elizabeth Warren, as well as with local Democratic efforts.

According to campaign disclosures from the end of December, Murphy had raised nearly $2.7 million, Bywiewicz brought in almost $1.3 million and State Rep. William Tong, who is also running for the Democratic nomination, counted less than $720,000 in his campaign coffers. In 2010, McMahon spent nearly $50 million to Blumenthal’s $10 million during the course of the campaign.

Murphy currently has the backing of all four congressmen in Connecticut’s delegation. The state primaries will take place in August.

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

Street has been in the works since 2003, when Mayor John DeStefano Jr. first announced the plan, and construction began in 2009.

The new campus replaces a vacant lot that once housed a Macy’s and a retail mall.

According to Gateway’s website, the final building will have four levels, 358,000 square feet of space, a 600-space parking garage in addition to 700 leased spaces, 90 general-purpose classrooms, 10 meeting spaces and 22

These features are expected to draw at least 11,000 students to the Gateway campus, where they will share downtown New Haven with the Yale community. Kendrick said she is very optimistic about the future of the relationship between Yale and Gateway in light of their impending proximity. “[University President Richard] Levin is, I believe, as enthusiastic as I am about having students be able to be in the same general vicinity,” she said, adding that she envisions students interacting on the street, sharing the [New Haven] Green and having coffee together. She also hopes that the two schools can negotiate some benefits such as reduced prices for Gateway students at Yale museums and theaters. Already, she added, Gateway students have the opportunity to attend some classes at Yale, and it may be possible to expand these academic relations.

The average age of a Gateway student is 28, and 60 percent of students attend part-time.

Contact THOMAS VEITCH at thomas.veitch@yale.edu .

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The Parul Shah Dance Company Based in New York City and led by choreographer Parul Shah, this group of dancers creates original dances through the medium of Kathak. The company builds on the use of Indian mythological storytelling to explore bold, contemporary narratives in their dances.

At YCBA, Indian dance “bold, expressive”

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Indian history was the star of a performance

by New York City-based Parul Shah Dance Company at the Yale Center for British Art Wednesday night.

Their performance, titled “The History of Unforgetting,” attracted a crowd of around 200 New Haven residents, Yale students and employees of the University. Conceived as a blend of contemporary and classical Indian dance, the choreography drew elements from the traditional Indian dance form called Kathak, said Jane Nowosadko, manager of programs at the British Art Center. “The History of Unforgetting” is a part of a larger project of the British Art Center dedicated to the exploration of how Indian society and culture developed under British rule, Nowosadko said.

Nowosadko said that Indian history and culture have a way of aesthetically engaging a contemporary audience and that she found the Parul Shah Dance Company’s style particularly bold and expressive. She added that while the spatial limitations of the British Art Center often make it challenging to stage dance performances at the museum, the piece performed

by Parul Shah’s company works well with the architecture of their performance space.

Kathak dance derives its name from the Sanskrit word “katha,” or story: Wednesday’s performance narrated the life of a girl growing up in colonial India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The girl “felt larger than the world around her,” dancer Mohip Joarder said during the performance. Oscillating between intensity and gracefulness, members of the company said that the Shah’s choreography aimed to use the expressive power of Indian dance to not only convey the story of this girl, but to also make it meaningful to a contemporary audience.

“The main goal of Kathak is not the creation of beautiful movements, but rather the achievement of a higher state of being,” Shah said in her address before the performance, adding that the dance’s progression, in terms of both movement and music, is supposed to follow her dancers’ journeys toward this higher state.

The influence of the contemporary was most noticeable in the music Shah chose for the performance, as the performers began dancing to traditional Indian music but ended the performance moving to Clint Mansell’s soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 film “Requiem for a Dream.”

This dance performance is one of a number of events the British Art Center has organized recently to explore the era of British colonization in India. An exhibition focusing on works by Indian artist Gangaram Tambat, titled “Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770-1830,” closed Dec. 31.

Nowosadko said she wanted to bring in a

performance that would enhance the museum’s current display of works of artist Johan Zoffany, who worked in India during the British colonial period, “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed.”

“Zoffany, having lived and worked in India, captured his observations of Indian court life in many of his portraits, paintings and landscapes,” Nowosadko said. She added that “The History of Unforgetting” is supposed to bring to life the history Zoffany painted.

The main goal of Kathak is not the creation of beautiful movements, but rather the achievement of a higher state of being.

PARUL SHAH Director, Parul Shah Dance Company Three members of the audience, which sent the dancers off to resounding applause, said they found the performance captivating.

Johanna Epperson, a New Haven resident, called the performance “lovely, hypnotic and resonating,” adding that she had never before seen a dance being performed with such emotion and intensity.

Jessica Tordoff ’15, one of the few Yale students who attended the performance, said she was fascinated by the theatricality of the performance and admired the dancers’ acting skills.

The Parul Shah Dance Company’s next performance is scheduled to take place on March 31 in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

K AT H A K DA N C E A conventional Kathak dance performance follows a specific structure: its tempo moves from slow to fast, concluding in a dramatic climax.

A short Kathak composition is called “atukra,” while a longer dance is a “toda.” Although Kathak experienced a period of decline under the rule of the British, it is now one of the eight officially sanctioned classical dance forms of India. Rooted in mythological storytelling, Kathak has been described as a bold and extremely expressive dance.

New proposal may change landlord fees

BY MICHAEL CRUCIGER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In February, New Haven’s Board of Aldermen will have to make a decision about whether to revise the city’s system for collecting landlords’ fees.

The Livable City Initiative — the city agency that is responsible for enforcing the city’s housing code and public space requirements — introduced a proposal to the board in December that would change the licensing and inspection payments that landlords are required to pay the city. LCI Executive Director Erik Johnson said the amendment will benefit landlords by making their payments less frequent while improving the payment process by ensuring that all landlords pay.

“The amendment that LCI is proposing will benefit landlords and individuals living in the apartments because it will reduce the issues of the current system,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the new system would ensure that landlords pay their licensing and inspection fees, because it improves the notification process and calls for stricter enforcement of these fees. This change would take pressure off of landlords, especially the smaller landlords, who would only have to pay less frequently, Johnson said.

LCI’s amendment would change the current system, in which landlords pay inspection fees every other year, to one in which they would pay every three years. Currently, landlords pay $75 for buildings with two or three rental apartments, $150 for buildings containing four to 10 apartments and $250 for buildings with 11 to 20. The amendment would require them to pay $100 for buildings with up to three apartments and $40 per apartment for larger buildings, with a maximum price per building capped at $1,000.

Johnson says that this amendment proposed by LCI will most likely pass because the current system just isn’t working as well as it could. But Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said he did not know whether the amendment would pass, because not enough aldermen have carefully considered it yet.

Johnson said some landlords claim that others do not pay their fees, though he could not confirm whether this is the case. LCI’s

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A performance at the Yale Center for British Art examined the history of Indian culture under British colonial rule.

amendment, he said, would eliminate these landlords’ cause for concern by requiring stricter enforcement on all landlords paying licensing and inspection fees.

But one member of the board has been very vocal about her desire to change the system more radically than LCI’s amendment.

Most people are good landlords. If my property passes inspections, I shouldn’t have to pay.

CLAUDETTE ROBINSON-THORPE Alderwoman, Ward 28 Ward 28 Alderwoman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe proposed to stop making landlords pay any money to cover the cost of inspections, according to the New Haven Independent.

“Most people are good landlords,” she told the Independent. “If my property passes inspections, I shouldn’t have to pay,” she said.

Johnson said Robinson-Thorpe’s proposal is impractical because the money for inspections and LCI’s administrative costs has to come from somewhere. As 77 percent of the city’s residences are rented, he added, it is unlikely that the city could afford to exempt landlords entirely.

Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 said she supports LCI’s amendment.

“The ability of all New Haven residents to live in safe and healthy homes is obviously of paramount importance,” she said. “I’ve spoken to innumerable residents who have serious concerns about the functioning of the Livable City Initiative, so I support a review of the overall program.” she says.

The amendment has already been recommended by the board’s legislation committee, and the full board will vote on it in early February.

Contact MICHAEL CRUCIGER at michael.cruciger@yale.edu .

Yale issues green rankings

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Researchers at Yale and Columbia University, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, released their biennial Environmental Performance Index Thursday, ranking the overall environmental performance of 132 countries in terms of pollution and natural resource management.

The study ranks the countries on 22 performance indicators across 10 policy categories reflecting a country’s environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. This year’s rankings place Switzerland as the leader in overall environmental performance, according to a press release from the researchers at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network.

Bill Dornbos, associate director at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, said that the EPI not only serves as a motivational tool for countries to improve their policies, but also helps increase overall environmental awareness internationally.

“If you can increase transparency and put metrics on environmental behavior, a lot of great things can come out of that without heavy government intervention,” he said.

Unlike past EPI rankings, the 2012 study includes a trend EPI value, a ranking of countries in terms of how well they have improved their environmental policies since 2002. The inclusion of a trend index will allow leaders to have a better sense of which areas their countries are doing well or poorly in, and allow them to evaluate the effectiveness of their current environmental policies, said project manager Angel Hsu FES ’14.

One surprising result of the study, Hsu said, was Russia’s

last-place ranking in the trend EPI, indicating deteriorating environmental conditions in the past decade.

Hsu added that another unexpected result is the economic diversity of the countries in the top-10 rankings. In addition to wealthy European countries like France and Sweden, middleincome countries such as Latvia and Costa Rica also place in the top 10. Hsu said these results show that successful environmental performance is due to effective policies and not merely income.

Nordic countries such as Switzerland — which ranked higher than any other nation — tend to receive high marks because they have few “dirty industries” that contribute to pollution and have enacted policies to protect their environment, said Alex De Sherbinin, senior staff associate for research at CIESN. The United States, on the other hand, is one of the worst performers in carbon dioxide emissions and ranks 49th on the list, he added.

De Sherbinin added that countries receiving middle rankings tend to show more variability in their rankings over time.

After receiving a ranking of 136 in 2002’s environmental index, South Korea, now 43rd, called a

national-level meeting to discuss ways to improve their environmental policies, De Sherbinin said. The country’s 2002 ranking, he added, served as a “wakeup call to essentially prod them to action”.

The data for the study is obtained from international organizations such as the International Energy Agency, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, Hsu said.

She added that the vast majority of countries excluded from the rankings tend to be developing countries that may not have the capacity to provide data for emissions and other environmental issues tracked by the study.

The only exception, she said, was North Korea, which was left off the list because researchers doubted the data’s accuracy.

Since verifying the collected data always proves difficult, she added, the researchers met with a team of 50 experts from around the world to review all data sets and ensure their accuracy.

The 2012 EPI results will be presented at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland from Jan. 25-29.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

E N V I R O M E N TA L PERFORMANCE INDEX THE TOP FIVE COUNTRIES

In terms of environmental performance were Switzerland, Latvia, Norway, Luxembourg and Costa Rica.

THE BOTTOM FIVE COUNTRIES

In overall EPI rank were South Africa, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iraq.

LATVIA

Ranked first in trend EPI rank, indicating superior improvement in environmental policies over the past decade.

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Conservatory acting A conservatory is a two- to four-year institution offering instruction in music and the dramatic arts. The American Conservatory Theater nurtures the art of live theater by encouraging intense actor training in its conservatory.

Gister had lasting impact on theater training GISTER FROM PAGE 1 wide under the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, which he co-founded in 1972, and pushed for acting students to be held to more rigorous standards.

“Earle had a very large educational impact on the country,” said J. Michael Miller, director of The Actors’ Center in New York and co-founder of the League, which disbanded in 1987. “If there was one man who made a significant difference in professional theater training, it was him.”

Over a more than 40-year career in the world of theater, Gister mentored some of today’s most celebrated actors, directed the entire canon of Anton Chekhov at the Yale Repertory Theatre and earned a reputation as one of the nation’s most respected theater professors.

His reforms to theater education changed the prevalent attitude that “training actors was like training mechanics,” Miller said, and encouraged the development of hundreds of Master of Fine Arts programs in acting

across the country.

Gister came to the Yale School of Drama in 1979 as associate dean of the school and chair of the Acting Department — positions he held until his retirement in 1999. Gister had previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he served as chairman of the drama department.

At Yale, Gister established a reputation as one of the preeminent faculty members at the School of Drama. He was also instrumental in managing the school during the 1980s as then-Dean Lloyd Richards focused on program expansion at the Yale Rep, Miller said.

Ron Van Lieu, current chair of the Acting Department, said the values Gister upheld remain at the heart of the program today. Lieu said when he began his teaching career at New York University, he looked to Gister as a role model.

“I knew then that if I ever wanted to be considered a really good acting teacher, I had to be capable of playing in the same league as Earle Gister at Yale,” Lieu said in a Wednesday email.

“I actually met Earle only a few times, but I was always aware of what he stood for in the classroom: rigorous technique, generosity of spirit, deep respect for the writer, desire to serve, grace and humor.”

Growing up in my father’s house was like a worldclass education in the humanities.

CAREY GISTER Evan Yionoulis ’82 DRA ’85, former chair of the acting program, said in a Tuesday email that students would remember Gister for his “wry sense of humor, his depth of love for the craft of acting and his unwavering commitment.”

Gister attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., where he met Robert Corrigan, the drama professor who would serve as his mentor, his son Carey Gister said. After gradu-

ating with a bachelor’s degree in history, Earle Gister traveled with Corrigan to Tulane University in New Orleans, La., and earned an MFA in drama.

Miller said Gister viewed his time at Yale as the “pinnacle” of his career, during which he worked with some of the nation’s most talented young actors and shared his passion for Chekhov’s works. Gister inspired students to pursue their dreams in a tough industry with low job prospects, his son said.

Stephanie Nash DRA ’88, Gister’s former student, said he was a professor who genuinely cared about his students and wanted to make sure they were both honing their skills and having a good time.

“He’s more than a teacher, he’s a mentor,” Nash said. “I remember one time I knew I had given a wonderful performance and he said to me after, ‘Are you having fun?… I can’t help you more technically, but I want you to be having more fun.’”

More than 350 of Gister’s former students had reminisced about him, expressed their grief

and planned memorial services around the country on a Facebook group, as of Wednesday night.

Gister balanced his dedication to teaching with a commitment to his family, his son said.

Carey Gister recalled how his father would constantly teach his three children about literature and the arts, and once spent hours coaching him for a high school acting audition.

“Growing up in my father’s house was like a world-class education in the humanities,” Carey Gister said.

Though laryngeal cancer forced Gister to have his vocal cords removed in late 1988, he continued to teach at Yale and spoke at the School of Drama’s commencement ceremony six months after undergoing surgery, his son said.

He is survived by a sister, a brother, three children and two grandchildren.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu and NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

TIMELINE EARLE GISTER 1934 Gister is born in Racine, Wis. 1956 Gister graduates from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., with a B.A. in history.

1972 Gister helps found the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs.

1979-’99 After arriving at Yale, Gister serves as the associate dean of the School of Drama and chair of the Acting Department for 19 years.

1991 Gister accepts a Tony Award on behalf of the School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Workshops may expand to fall WORKSHOPS FROM PAGE 1 who promote sexual misconduct prevention strategies, will have led the workshop within each freshman counselor group by next Wednesday. CCEs may offer a version of the workshops to all undergraduates through their residential colleges in the future, Boyd said, adding that the workshops will likely become a part of freshman orientation next fall.

Boyd said by paying attention to social cues, students can recognize when they are making someone else uncomfortable and adjust their behavior before the situation escalates. She added that research shows that people rarely directly respond “yes” or “no” to a proposition but still communicate through other less direct phrases, as well as through body signals and tone of voice.

“We’re focusing on pressure because it is an early trouble sign,” Boyd said. “By calling attention to the dynamics of pressure, we’re hoping to help students respond at the first signs that someone is not respectful of their wishes.

That pressure isn’t the same as assault, but it can be the first step in an assault.”

She added that she hopes students can “uphold a standard of mutual interest and enthusiasm” before confirming their plans.

During the role-play activi-

ties, the CCEs ask students to simulate different scenarios involving social pressure. Conor Crawford ’12, one of the CCEs, called the workshops “groundbreaking” in how they shift emphasis from the definition of consent to nonverbal signals during interactions.

People are naturally skilled at picking up behavioral cues about how their partner is feeling in a given situation, Crawford said, but they may not always trust their instincts.

[The workshops are] really about helping freshmen realize that they have communication skills.

YEMURAI MANGWENDEZA ’13 Communication and Consent Educator “[The workshops are] really about helping freshmen realize that they have communication skills to decide whether someone is enthusiastically agreeing to what someone is asking for,” said Yemurai Mangwendeza ’13, another of the CCEs. All nine freshmen interviewed said they understood the importance of talking about sexual misconduct, but they disagreed about whether the workshops would help them in future situations.

Monica Chen ’15 said she felt the workshop was “more pertinent” to students’ daily lives than previous discussions held for freshmen about sexual misconduct, which she said tended to focus on “worst case scenarios that don’t happen that often.” She added that she found the workshop’s emphasis on communication applicable to both sexual and non-sexual encounters.

Jadon Montero ’15, who volunteered to role-play one student pressuring another, said participating in the mock scenario demonstrated how people display their feelings through visible signals.

“The same discomfort we all felt when we simulated the situation is exactly the same discomfort you feel in the real world when people ignore social cues,” he said.

Still, four students interviewed said the workshops reviewed material they already knew. Amanda Chan ’15 said she did not think the workshops would change the behavior of students who “weren’t already concerned about consent.”

The final series of workshops will take place next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 6:00 PM New Haven Word Factory: 2012 Regional Collegiate Poetry Slam @ Yale. Yale’s own Teeth Slam Poets compete against college slam teams from New England, New York, and New Jersey in four rounds of competition. Round 1 at 6 p.m., round 2 at 8 p.m., and round 3 at 10 p.m. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 101.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 7:00 PM “The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960.” Rare Samuria films from the collection of the National Film Center in Tokyo. Second screening in a series of five sessions: “The Kuroda Affair” (1955, Uchida Tomu, 108 minutes) and “The Blind Menace” (1960, Mori Kazuo, 91 minutes). Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

8:00 PM New Haven Word Factory, final round. The final round of the 2012 Regional Collegiate Poetry Slam @ Yale. See description above. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 101.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 4:00 PM “Autumn Execution.” This 1971 film tells the story of Pei, a hotheaded young man jailed for murder following a brawl in Han-dynasty China. As autumn, the season for executions, is almost a year away, Pei’s grandmother tries to ensure the continuation fo the family line by sneaking a girl into his cell for conjugal visits. Part of the Taiwan Film Festival. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

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Obama speech builds momentum

BY JIM KUHNHENN ASSOCIATED PRESS

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President Barack Obama speaks about manufacturing and jobs in Arizona.

CHANDLER, Ariz. — If President Barack Obama is showing some swagger, it shouldn’t be a surprise.

His job approval ratings point to an uptick. The Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden just pulled off a daring rescue that Obama authorized in Somalia.

He’s fresh off a big speech before Congress, and the Republicans who want his job are criticizing each other probably more than they are Obama.

As he hits the road for three days of travel to important political states, Obama is on a roll.

Feeling good, he even tried his hand at a bit of public crooning a few days ago, channeling the Rev. Al Green to a fundraising crowd at the Apollo Theater in New York and securing the highest of pop culture distinction: a ring tone.

It could be a fleeting moment for Obama. While the economy is improving with indicators trending positively, unemployment remains high at 8.5 percent and international debt crises and tensions could unravel the gains.

For now, Obama is not hiding his upbeat demeanor.

Arriving in Iowa on Wednesday, he jogged, grinning, to a rope line of a couple of dozen supporters. He later expressed nostalgia for the days in 2007 when he was campaigning in Iowa and struck a defiant tone against congres-

sional Republicans that was even sharper than the repudiation he offered Tuesday night in his State of the Union address.

“Our economy is getting stronger, and we’ve come too far to turn back now,” he told workers and guests at a conveyor manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids. Speaking of Republicans, he said, “Their philosophy is simple: We’re better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.”

“Well, I am here to say they are wrong,” he said.

In a stop later in the day in Arizona, Obama stripped off his jacket and joked about the warm weather to a crowd at an Intel chip plant, seeming to revel in being out on the stump.

He even mixed it up with the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, confronting her over how she depicted him in her book. Reporters witnessed the two in intense conversation after Brewer greeted Obama on the tarmac at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, and Brewer later said it was over a passage in her book in which she describes Obama as lecturing her over immigration.

A White House official said Obama, who opposes Arizona’s controversial immigration law, responded to an invitation from Brewer to meet with her by telling the governor he’d be glad to, but adding that Brewer had inaccurately described their last

meeting in her book.

The spring in his step comes as polls show slight improvement in his job approval ratings.

A Washington Post/ABC poll last week had him evenly split 48–48 on that question. A Gallup tracking poll has him even in recent surveys, compared with a few months ago where more disapproved than approved.

On the road through Friday, Obama will bask in the afterglow of his prime-time address and use the power of the presidency to compete for headlines with leading GOP White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as they knock heads ahead of the Jan. 31 Florida primary.

He will try to promote a populist message of income equality that Obama’s team believes can resonate with voters.

If 2011 began with overtures to Republicans and big business, 2012 is about operating on his own terms. He will challenge Congress to pass his initiatives, some of which he has tried before without success. For now, Obama is liberated. The thrust and parrying of governing has not picked up in Washington yet.

The road gives him an opportunity to goad congressional Republicans, believing he has been able to sway public opinion with his presidential megaphone before. He cites Washington’s decision to extend, for two months, a payroll tax cut for workers. He’s now seeking to extend it for the full year, and

while there’s little doubt that Congress eventually will agree, Obama prodded anyway.

“Your voices convinced Congress to extend this middle-class tax cut before,” he said. “You remember there was little resistance there last year. I need your help to get them to do it again.

Tell Congress to pass this tax cut without drama, without delay.

No soap operas. Just get it done.”

Political events are going his way as well.

Just as he stepped up his call for a minimum 30 percent tax rate for millionaires, Romney released his tax returns under pressure, revealing that he paid an effective tax rate of 14 percent. That not only underscored Romney’s wealth, it also provided an argument for altering the nation’s tax laws, a central element of Obama’s re-election campaign.

Gingrich on Wednesday helped keep the focus on Romney’s wealth, saying that the wealthy businessman lived in “a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatically $20 million income for no work.”

Romney and Gingrich have been forced to target each other in the GOP presidential contest, freeing Obama from the fray.

For instance, Romney has ads in Florida and Nevada blaming the housing crisis on Gingrich and concludes that nothing would make Obama happier than Gingrich winning the nomination.

Labor board chief to press for new union rules

BY SAM HANANEL ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board hopes to have another round of regulations in place by the end of the year that would make it easier for unions to establish and win representation elections in workplaces.

Undeterred by Republican protests, Mark Pearce said he will urge the board to approve the new rules now that it has a full component of five members after President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate to fill three vacancies.

“We keep our eye on the prize,” Pearce said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Our goal is to create a set of rules that eliminate a lot of waste of time, energy and money for the taxpayers.”

One change Pearce wants is requiring businesses to hand

over lists of employee phone numbers and emails to union leaders before an election.

He also wants the board to consider other rule changes it didn’t have time to approve before it lost a quorum last year.

They include the use of electronic filings and quicker timetables for certain procedures.

“My personal hope is that we take on all of these things and consider each one of these rules,” Pearce said. “We presume the constitutionality of the president’s appointments and we go forward based on that understanding.”

GOP leaders have challenged the recess appointments as unconstitutional, saying the Senate was not technically in recess when Obama acted.

Republicans had threatened to block confirmation votes on any nominees to fill the three NLRB vacancies, saying the board was making too many union-friendly

decisions.

If the board decides to propose the new rules, they would expand on sweeping regulations approved in December that speed up the process for holding union elections at work sites after unions collect enough signatures from employees. Those rules are slated to take effect on April 30.

While the first round of rules won praise from union leaders, business groups claim they allow “ambush elections” that won’t give employers enough time to talk to employees about whether to choose a union.

Business groups and their Republican allies say the latest push confirms their fears that the new board — now led by three Democrats and two Republicans — will approve even more rules that make it easier for unions to organize new members.

“I knew this was going to happen,” said Rep. Trey Gowdy,

R-S.C., a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “The NLRB has lost all pretense of objectivity in my judgment.”

We keep our eye on the prize. Our goal is to … eliminate a lot of waste of time, energy and money for the taxpayers.

MARK PEARCE Chairman, National Labor Relations Board White House officials say Obama was justified in going around the Senate since some Republicans had vowed to block any nominations in order to paralyze the NLRB. The five-member board is not allowed to con-

sider cases or rules unless it has a quorum of at least three members.

Randel Johnson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s vice president on labor issues, said he is surprised the board would try to adopt even more new rules that businesses fiercely oppose.

“If they’re going to go forward on that basis, I think that removes any pretense at all that they are not in the back pocket of the union movement,” Johnson said.

AFL-CIO spokeswoman Alison Omens called Pearce’s comments “a reasonable, balanced approach to ensure that every person has a voice on the job.”

“The board is obviously taking modest steps to create a level playing field and bring stability to a process that’s been outdated,” Omens said.

Republicans in Congress are vowing to put more pressure on the agency, with at least two

hearings on the NLRB recess appointments planned next month before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Judiciary Committee.

“If the board is determined to continue advancing it’s prounion agenda, House Republicans will continue to maintain aggressive oversight,” said Brian Newell, spokesman for education committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn.

Pearce said he wants the NLRB to become “a household word” for all workers, not just those affiliated with organized labor.

“We want the agency to be known as the resource for people with workplace concerns that may have nothing to do with union activities,” he said.

He said many workers don’t understand that they can seek recourse with the NLRB to protect rights that exist outside of union protections.

Senate Dems vow to push Obama tax plan

BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the Senate promised Wednesday to press ahead this year with legislation drawn from his plans to require millionaires to pay at least 30 percent in taxes and curb tax preferences for companies that ship jobs overseas.

Senate Democratic leaders promise votes soon on such tax “fairness” initiatives, which were a key theme of Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. They include the so-called Buffett rule, named after a recommendation by billionaire financier Warren Buffett — who benefits from a low 15 percent tax rate on investments — that he be required to pay a higher rate than his secretary.

The Democratic drive would follow the ongoing push to renew the payroll tax cut, a debate that has broken in Democrats’ favor as House-Senate talks began this week. The initiative is laced with politics, coming immediately after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealed that he pays an effective tax rate of less than 15 percent despite income

exceeding $20 million a year.

“The president’s blueprint for restoring economic fairness for the middle class will be the basis of our agenda for this year,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Schumer said the decision by Republicans to embrace the payroll tax cut last year despite widespread reservations within the party bodes well for the upcoming debate.

“Don’t underestimate our chances of success,” Schumer said.

Both Democrats and Republicans embrace the idea of reforming the tax code but they differ over whether it should be done in a way that generates greater overall tax receipts as Democrats demand or whether it should be “revenue neutral” as most Republicans would like.

Among the ideas endorsed by the Democratic leaders Wednesday was Obama’s proposal to require millionaires to pay a higher minimum tax rate, deny corporations the ability to completely avoid taxes and reward companies that create jobs in America instead of shipping them overseas.

“Nothing is more important to Congress than reducing income inequality,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid talks about the political strategy laid out by President Obama in his State of the Union speech.

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“The people of Egypt are the greatest people on earth, and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace.” HEINZ FISCHER AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT

Hostages to return home

Liberals, radicals face off in Egypt

BY SARAH EL DEEB AND MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, left, and American Jessica Buchanan. U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime raid Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 and freed the two hostages while killing nine pirates, officials and a pirate source said.

BY ABDI GULED, ROBERT BURNS AND KATHARINE HOURELD ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, Somalia — Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man will soon be safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs. The commandos slipped into a Somali encampment, shot and killed nine captors and whisked the hostages to freedom.

The raid’s success was welcome news for the hostages and their families, for the military and for President Barack Obama, who was delivering his State of the Union speech and beginning a five-state tour as the mission wrapped up. He did not mention it in his address but dropped a hint upon arriving in the House chamber by telling Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, “Good job tonight.”

It was the second splashy SEAL Team 6 success in less than a year, fol-

lowing last May’s killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

The SEALs encountered some degree of resistance from the kidnappers at the encampment, two U.S. officials said, and there was a firefight during an approximately 1- to 1 1/2-hour operation.

One defense official said it was likely that the SEALs killed the kidnappers rather than capture them because they encountered armed resistance or the threat of resistance.

The Pentagon was mostly tightlipped about details on Wednesday, citing a need to preserve the secrecy that can give SEALs and other special operations forces an edge against the terrorists, criminals and others they are ordered to kill or capture around the world under hazardous and often hostile conditions.

Special operations forces, trained for clandestine, small-team missions, have become a more prominent tool in the military’s kit since the Sept. 11,

2001, attacks. The Obama administration is expected to announce on Thursday that it will invest even more heavily in that capability in coming years.

After planning and rehearsal, the Somalia rescue was carried out by SEAL Team 6, officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a secret mission. The same outfit did the bin Laden mission, the biggest counter-terror success of Obama’s presidency. It was not clear whether any team members participated in both operations.

One official said the SEALs parachuted from U.S. Air Force aircraft before moving on foot, apparently undetected, to the outdoor encampment where they found American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, a 60-year-old Dane, who had been kidnapped in Somalia last fall.

The raid happened near the town of Adado.

CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands thronged major squares across Egypt on Wednesday, marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak with rallies that laid bare the divisions that have replaced the unity of last year’s revolt.

Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 18 days of protests against Mubarak, was transformed into the focal point of the rivalry between revolutionary activists intent on showing they can still mobilize the street, and the Muslim Brotherhood, who emerged as Egypt’s dominant political force after a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.

The secular activists want continued protests to force the immediate ouster of the generals who took power after Mubarak’s fall, saying they are just as dictatorial as the former president. The activists touted their powerful turnout as a sign they can pressure the Brotherhood, who they fear will accommodate the military in order to ensure their own political dominance.

“I have hope that these marches will be a message to the Brotherhood as much as the military council,” said Sahar Abdel-Mohsen, who walked three and a half miles in a giant march across Cairo to Tahrir.

“We all know even if the Brotherhood

are strong, the military council is still stronger … What we all want is an end to military rule,” she said.

Both sides were intent on bringing out as many supporters as possible to show their weight in a nation still reeling from the aftershocks of Mubarak’s ouster.

The Islamists got off to a strong start, taking up positions in the morning and claiming the right to police the square, with Brotherhood volunteers checking the bags of those entering.

From a large stage with 10 loudspeakers, they blared religious songs and chants of “Allahu akbar,” setting a tone of celebration for what they called the successes of the revolution, particularly the newly elected parliament.

But a dozen large marches organized by secular groups converged on Tahrir from various parts of the city, chanting “Down, down with military rule!” and filling boulevards as passers-by joined in along the way. The “non-Islamists” swarmed into the downtown plaza before sunset, jam-packing it to outnumber the Islamists.

Some marched to the sober beat of drums to pay tribute to the hundreds of protesters killed over the past year — by Mubarak’s regime and the military — and to emphasize that this was not a joyous anniversary, with so many demands for democratic reform left unachieved.

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Thousands of Egyptians rallied for the first anniversary of the nation’s uprising.

Iraq al-Qaida says U.S. withdrew to save money

BY BARBARA SURK ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — The U.S. pulled its troops out of Iraq because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money, an al-Qaida front group said in a message posted on its website Wednesday, its first online comment since the U.S. completed its pullout last month after nine years of war.

Al-Qaida was one of the main U.S. enemies in Iraq. It was behind some of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soldiers, Iraqi security forces and American-backed government institutions. Since the U.S. pullout, al-Qaida and other Sunni mil-

itants have stepped up attacks on Shiites, killing more than 170 people since the beginning of the year and raising concern that the surge in violence and an escalating political crisis might deteriorate into a civil war.

In an audio message, a spokesman for al-Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq who identified himself as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said “America has been defeated in Iraq.”

“They pulled out because its economic and human losses were unbearable,” al-Adnani said. “America’s bankruptcy and collapse is imminent. This is the real reason behind the withdrawal.” .

Al-Adnani also called on former al-Qaida fighters who switched sides and fought the group with Americans not to “abandon jihad” now that the U.S. withdrawal has been completed. He threatened more attacks on the Shiite-led government, saying that “our explosives are at the door” of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

He told his followers not to be deceived by the number of the Iraqi government troops and its Shiite supporters, saying “they are merely beetles and flies.”

Sunni extremists consider Shiites as not real Muslims.

Al-Adnani called on former Sunni fighters who switched sides and fought al-Qaida to

return, promising to forgive “whatever their crime was.”

[America] pulled out [of Iraq] because its economic and human losses were unbearable.

ABU MOHAMMED AL-ANDANI Al-Qaida spokesman Despite the bombast, the appeal was a sign of the group’s problems. In July, al-Qaida in Iraq made an online appeal for new fundraising ideas, saying

they were in dire need of money to help thousands of widows and children of slain fighters.

At the height of Iraq’s insurgency, tens of thousands of Sunni fighters, most of them members or sympathizers of al-Qaida, switched sides and joined U.S. and government forces. Their support created a crucial turning point in the war against al-Qaida in 2007.

Since then, many members of the pro-government Sunni militias known as the Awakening Councils say they haven’t been given jobs fitting to their contribution in the war and still feel they’re viewed with suspicion by the Shiite-led government.

After the government disarmed thousands of Awakening Council fighters and sent some to jail, al-Qaida launched a series of attacks, killing dozens of them and leading others to return to the insurgent group.

On Tuesday, one of the Council’s leaders was killed in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad, according to police and hospital officials. Mullah Nadhum al-Jubouri fought the Americans with al-Qaida, but then switched sides.

In 2009, al-Jubouri was detained in a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid on suspicion of carrying out attacks three years earlier, including downing a U.S. helicopter. He was later released.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS DREW FAUST Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and the first female president of Harvard University. Faust is lauded for her contributions to the history of the American South and the changing roles of women during the Civil War.

THE HARVARD CRIMSON

In India, Faust talks education

BY ALYZA SEBENIUS STAFF WRITER This week, University President Drew G. Faust discussed single-sex education, public health, and the importance of a liberal arts model at institutions in Mumbai and Delhi.

“Knowledge has become the primary driver of social mobility, and of the prosperity and wellbeing of individuals and nations,” she said to a nonprofit educational institution called the Asia Society at a speech in Mumbai on Jan. 19.

Faust’s visit to the J.B. Petit High School for Girls focused on female empowerment. Faust met with a group of students, predominantly tenth graders, and learned

the popular saying “Educate a man, educate a man.

Educate a woman, educate HARVARD a family,” according to The Harvard Gazette.

“Empowerment of the women has been our mission...women’s education has always been at the forefront of this school,” said J.B. Petit Principal Benaifer P. Kutar, in a video made by the Gazette.

“I think in an Indian context it is especially important because it has been a traditionally conservative society.”

The students learned about

Faust before her visit, studying her life and speeches, so they could ask questions and share ideas.

“India does need to change a lot of old mindsets because it’s not the old world anymore,” said a student in the video.

I wouldn’t be here if it was still the old world. I would be sitting at home probably chopping vegetables.”

Faust has consistently visited all-girls’ schools during her travels abroad. She reminded the students that she had attended an allwomen’s high school and college and encouraged them to “dream big dreams.”

At the University of Mumbai, Faust also discussed the increased rapidity of communication and the

benefits of a liberal arts education in a globalized world.

Faust’s visit … has established something quite new and significant for Harvard’s iconic image in India.

HOMI K. BHABHA Director, Mahindra Humanities Center “As I see it, Faust’s visit to Bombay has established something quite new and significant for Har-

vard’s iconic image in India,” Professor Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, wrote on the website of the Gazette.

“Here, Harvard has frequently been portrayed as a celebrated business school with a few small annexes across the river. Faust’s persistent emphasis in Mumbai on the humanities as an indispensable partner to scientific and professional learning will enhance Harvard’s global presence and enrich its conversations on campus and at home.”

During the second phase of her trip, Faust traveled to Delhi where she met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the South Asia Initiative Education Symposium,

the Harvard Club of India, and the Public Health Foundation of India.

On Monday, she met with leaders of PHFI, which is a public-private initiative to strengthen public health in India.

Faust discussed Indian health care issues with K. Srinath Reddy—President of PHFI and a visiting professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health—and Harvard Kennedy School professor A. K. Shiva Kumar.

The meeting focused on a 2006 agreement between Harvard and PHFI to promote the development of research collaborations and programs in research and education, including student exchanges and faculty visits.

THE DARTMOUTH

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Frat accused of hazing violations

City, Brown spar over payments

BY LAURA SISSON STAFF WRITER Administrators failed to adequately respond to November 2010 allegations of “dehumanizing” hazing at a campus fraternity, Andrew Lohse ’12, the student who made the allegations, said in a statement to The Dartmouth. College administrators, however, said Lohse’s failure to provide adequate evidence and speak on the record about the hazing at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity limited their actions to contacting the national organization and alerting the Hanover Police Department of possible “Hell Night” activities during the 2010 Fall term.

Associate Dean of the College for Campus Life April Thompson said the administration took every possible action when Lohse presented the allegations a year and a half ago, but could not do more given Lohse’s insistence that his complaint remain anonymous.

Lohse first spoke to Thompson directly about hazing in November 2010, a year after his own pledge term, Thompson said, though they spoke “informally” before that time. Lohse requested anonymity and did not provide physical evidence, Thompson said.

“I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool full of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beers poured down fellow pledges’ ass cracks; and vomit on other pledges, among other abuses,” Lohse told The Dartmouth.

The allegations originally presented to administrators were similar to those detailed in Lohse’s statement to The Dartmouth,

Chief of Staff David Spalding said. Spalding said he did not recall seeing phoDARTMOUTH t o g r a p h i c evidence of hazing in a November 2010 meeting with Lohse and that Lohse did not present him with videos of alleged hazing incidents.

“It is most beneficial for us in these situations for a student to be willing to speak on the record, speak as a witness, identify individuals and provide evidence on that basis,” Spalding said. “[Lohse] was not willing to do that.”

I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges … to swim in a kiddie pool full of [bodily fluids and excrement].

ANDREW LOHSE Student, Dartmouth College Administrators also discussed plans for “Hell Night,” the culminating event of pledge term, with the then-president of SAE to ensure that the event would not violate the College’s hazing policy, Spalding said.

Hanover Police received information from the Dean of the College’s Office that hazing might take place near Bartlett Tower and the Bema on Dec. 1, 2010, and “staked out the area” on the night in question, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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BY KATE NUSSENBAUM SENIOR STAFF WRITER Providence Mayor Angel Taveras’ request that Brown pay Providence an additional $5 million per year to help relieve the city’s financial woes has sparked a public battle between the city and the University, with the mayor now threatening legal action.

In a Jan. 13 letter to the community, President Ruth Simmons wrote that the University offered to provide an additional $2 million per year for five years to support the city’s school system in response to Taveras’ request. But the mayor rejected the offer in a move Simmons called “surprising and disappointing” in her letter.

“There’s nothing that’s off the table,” Taveras told The Herald. “We need to make sure everyone pays their fair share.”

Taveras first approached Simmons last spring to ask that Brown consider contributing more to Providence, said Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations. Simmons told the mayor Brown was committed to Providence’s success and wanted to explore ways to support the city that aligned with Brown’s mission, Quinn said. Over the spring and summer, representatives from Brown and the mayor’s office worked to identify opportunities for Brown to support Providence schools and to advance the city’s economic development. They worked together to develop a proposal for the University’s contribution, which has not yet reached the Corporation.

The Providence Journal reported Jan. 10 that a document showed Simmons and Taveras agreeing on a deal under which the University would pay the city an additional $4 million per year.

But Quinn said such a deal was never reached, let alone presented to the Corporation. “Anything of that magnitude of dollars had to have the approval of the Corporation” because of the way Brown is governed, Quinn said. Because the mayor wanted a response in January, the University offered the additional $2 million per year while it continued to work on other aspects of the proposal, she said.

Former Providence Mayor and current state Rep. David Cicilline ‘83,

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Brown University and the city of Providence, R.I., are at odds over the school’s financial support of the city.

D-R.I., previously requested additional re s o u rc e s f ro m Providence private colleges and universities, Quinn said.

Under a 2003 agreement, Brown conBROWN tributed $1.2 million to the city in 2011. The University makes additional voluntary payments of $1.27 million and pays another $1.6 million in taxes on property that is not used for educational purposes, like certain parking lots and many of its Jewelry District properties, Quinn said.

According to the Jan. 9 draft of the report by the city Commission on Revenue, Sustainability and Efficiency, nonprofit institutions like universities and

hospitals benefit from city services and own 23 percent of the city’s land. The commission estimates that nonprofits cost the city between $36.3 million and $41 million annually.

Payment in Lieu of Taxes agreements with the state help relieve the city of the financial burden. Dan Egan, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island, said the PILOT program was created to recognize the economic benefits that Providence’s nonprofits provide the state. Most of the benefits are generated by the income tax on employee salaries, which goes to the state rather than the city, he said. The PILOT program’s goal is to “recognize that discrepancy and funnel back some of that income tax” to the city, which has no income tax, Egan said.

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Chuck Pagano named head coach of Colts Pagano was announced as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts yesterday. It is Pagano’s first head coaching stint. He was formerly the Ravens defensive coordinator. Jim Caldwell, the former head coach for the Colts, was fired after the team went 2-14 this past season.

Men’s squash looking to Nationals SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 matches often occurring simultaneously at the end. But as the other contests wore on, Roberts increasingly came to suspect, and even dread, that his would be the deciding match.

“I had a good feeling that it was going to come down to either me or Robby [Berner],” he said. “The No. 1 match had already finished, and I was confident that Robby was going to win his match, so I thought it would be up to me.”

The top three contests only took 10 games to complete and Malhotra, Trinity’s No. 1 player, dispatched Chan in straight sets to give the Bantams a 4–3 lead.

That left Roberts and Berner on the court with Yale needing both wins to secure the victory.

After Roberts’ third game, an 11–7 victory that put him up 2–1 in his match against Detter, he saw Berner come off the court celebrating and knew that all his team’s hopes lay with him. This was the Elis’ moment, a chance to end the longest winning streak in college sports, to forget about last year’s heartbreaking defeat and, for the seniors, to overcome two long years of being second-best.

“I was really amped up when I saw all my teammates there watching and realized we had a chance,” Roberts said. “But I did get a little nervous. I played a really loose game in the fourth [game].”

Detter remained composed even though he was down 2–1 and needed two wins in a row to keep his team’s historic 252-game winning streak alive. He coasted to an 8–1 lead before eventually winning 11–5, sending the match to a fifth game.

This was it: No. 1 against No. 2, four victories apiece and tied 2–2 in the final match, with collegiate sports history on the line.

The tension heightened after Roberts opened up an early 6–3 lead. Detter was defending the streak and facing greater pressure, something Roberts said he kept reminding himself of as the match wore on.

“He’s a nice guy, and he played a very fair match,” Roberts said.

“But I think he did freeze up a little bit there at the end.”

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The men’s squash team celebrated its long-awaited victory against Trinity last Wednesday night.

With his early lead, Roberts was able to play more conservatively, forcing his opponent to take the risks. He ran off the next four points in a row to get to match point at 10–3.

When asked what was going through his head at that moment, just one point away from history, Roberts gave a little laugh.

“Don’t blow it,” he responded.

“I tried to stay composed, and I took plenty of time between points. I just stayed relaxed and

tried to block out everything around me. Luckily I was able to win.”

After a point by Detter and a few lets, Roberts finally broke through with the decisive point.

The crowd went wild and his teammates stormed the court.

Head coach David Talbott said he was ecstatic and incredibly proud of his team.

“They really wanted this so badly,” Talbott said of his players after the match. “It’s been a four-

year journey for the seniors. They put in the work and everybody really wanted to break this streak.”

The view was a little bit different from the other side of the court. Trinity head coach Paul Assaiante said many times during the 13-year streak that he would be relieved when it ends, but now that it actually has, he feels differently.

“Losing really stinks,” Assaiante said in an interview Tuesday night. “Now we are looking in the

Scot desperate for a win MURRAY FROM PAGE 12 lian Open for the second consecutive year in 2011, but he was once again obliterated in straight sets, this time by Novak Djokovic.

Beyond his mental woes, Murray is held back by the talent that sits above him. In order to win a title, he will have to play past at least one of Federer, Djokovic or Rafael Nadal. Federer and Nadal, with 16 (first all-time) and 10 (fourth all-time) Grand Slam titles, respectively, probably represent two of the five best players ever to take the court. Meanwhile, Djokovic is a 24-year-old wunderkind with four Grand Slam titles and is coming off of one of the most successful years in Open history. It’s possible that Murray simply doesn’t have the firepower to compete with these historic talents.

Weighed down by a nation’s expectations, a reputation for a troubled mental game and a trio of daunting contemporaries, no one is more desperate for victory at the Australian Open than Britain’s Andy Murray.

Despite the mountain of negativity surrounding his game, Murray has reason to be hopeful heading into Friday’s semifinal. The Scot had a spectacular end to 2011, with a match record of 25–1 since mid-August. After falling to Nadal in four sets in the US Open semis, Murray completed the “Asian hat-trick” — he won the PTT Thailand Open, the Rakuten Japan Open and the Shanghai Rolex Masters all in a row. These wins included victories over Nadal and the evertough David Ferrer. At one point, he moved past an ailing Roger Federer into the world No. 3 ranking. In 2011, Murray also reached all four Grand Slam semifinals, a feat of consistency equaled only

by Djokovic.

In addition, Murray made a major change to his game at the start of the 2012 season. Over the New Year, he announced

former world No. 1 and eighttime Grand Slam champion Ivan Lendl as his new full-time coach.

Llendl had turned down at least 10 coaching offers from other players but agreed to help Murray because he was convinced he could help the Brit “get over the hump.” Lendl, like Murray, struggled in big matches early in his career and dropped his first four Grand Slam finals. Those close to Murray report that he trusts Lendl and heeds his advice in a way he hasn’t with previous coaches. Lendl is not afraid to be critical. Murray fully bought into Lendl’s criticisms and has allowed Lendl to take charge in the partnership.Together, the duo has focused on pushing Murray to be more aggressive. They have also developed specific strategies for playing against individual players such as Federer, Nadal and Djokovic.

ANDY MURRAY HAS TO OVERCOME THE BURDEN OF HIS ENTIRE COUNTRY’S EXPECTATIONS The early returns are promising. In the first rounds of the Australian Open, Murray has exhibited more aggressive play while maintaining surprising composure. He has dropped only one set in his five opening victories.

Despite a disappointing 44 percent first-serve rate in his quarterfinal match, his big serve has played well thus far. Critics will point out, however, the Murray has had the softest schedule to the quarterfinals. He has faced no opponents ranked higher than 24.

That will all change when he faces the world No. 1 Friday.

Murray and Djokovic have

some history together. They have played 10 times, with Djokovic leading the series 6–4. However, of the seven matches they’ve played on hard surfaces, Murray holds a 4–3 career edge. The rivals played two of those matches last year. While Djokovic smoked Murray in the Australian Open finals, Murray dealt Djokovic one of only six losses last season in the finals of the Cincinnati Masters. While an injured Djokovic retired in the second set of that match, the recent win should provide Murray with some confidence heading into their latest meeting.

Should he find a way to upset the Serb, Murray would draw either Nadal or Federer in the finals. Nadal holds a 12–5 career advantage over Murray, although the two have split their eight hard-court matches 4–4. Two of those eight came last year, when Nadal defeated Murray in four sets at the US Open and Murray defeated Nadal in three sets at the Tokyo Open. Murray’s record against Federer is much stronger.

The Scotsman has taken eight of 14 matches against the Swiss Legend, including five of seven on hard surfaces. The two haven’t faced off since 2010.

It will take a small miracle for Murray to end his country’s 75-year Grand Slam drought. He must rise up to Britain’s grand expectations and shake a reputation for wilting under pressure.

He must learn to control his anger and maintain his composure at critical moments. He must also stay aggressive and play the best tennis of his career in order to get past the powerhouses waiting in the semis and the finals. No one, however, appears more desperate for victory at the Australian Open than Britain’s Andy Murray.

Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .

rear-view mirror, but at the time it was really tough. I didn’t realize before, but the streak really was a burden to the boys. You could see it on their faces when they came into the gym the next day.”

Assaiante told his team that this was only one loss in a long season. He told them that in March, 64 basketball teams will come together to compete for the national championship, and none of them will be undefeated, but one of them still has to win the

national title.

Roberts said Yale and Trinity may very well meet in the national finals again this year — for the third time in a row — so while Trinity’s streak may be over, the teams’ rivalry lives on.

Contact JAMES HUANG at jianan.huang@yale.edu and JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

Defenseman excited for season opener LAX FROM PAGE 12 our defense is that we care about the whole team.

Why did you choose to play defense?

Q:Forward players tend to make more headlines.

A

: Personally, it just worked out. I started lacrosse in high school, and there was a spot for me in the defense position. It is always nice to score goals but even nicer to stop people from scoring.

Q

: What is the position of defense mean to you? Do you feel more responsible about your position?

A

: What defense means to me is being able to stop someone from doing what they want to do. There is a ton of responsibility that comes with it because it is pretty easy to see which person is at fault when the other team scores. That responsibility to shut down the other team is a major part of the game.

Q

: What was the most memorable, unforgettable match for you, either at Yale or back in high school, and why?

A

: It was maybe at Yale. We had such a great senior class last year, and it was when we beat Princeton. I was not yet really into this Yale tradition … so it was really awesome for the seniors to beat Princeton. But hopefully, the most memorable moment has not happened yet.

team will face Siena on Feb. Q:12Your at Reese Stadium in an unoffical scrimmage. It has been a while since the Elis had an official game. How do you feel about this upcoming match?

A

: Although it is a scrimmage, it is nice to finally play someone besides our own team. We have been working hard, so I would love to play.

The outcome does not matter much for scrimmages but this is an opportunity

for the team to grow, so I am really excited.

The season will officially kick off in Q:about a month. What are the team’s goals?

A

: Everyone just really wants to do well. We do not have any specific goals but we had a great season last year with great players, so we want to do well like last year. We want seniors to walk away with something to look back and remember.

The Elis were placed 13th in the preQ:season Division I lacrosse poll. Do

you think the team can do better than this? What do you think you need to focus on improving?

A

: I never really want to talk about ranking, honestly. Doing well every match is important. We need to keep team chemistry going and stay healthy.

or which team do you consider Q:asWho your biggest rival?

A

: Whoever we play next, no certain team really.

your number, number 2, hold Q:anyDoessignificance for you?

A

: The coaches asked my first choice and I was able to get it. This player who left two summers ago was great.

He was one of the best captains and I wanted his number.

Lacrosse runs in your family. Your Q:uncle, Joseph Crisco, was a goalkeeper for Yale from 1988-’92. If you ever have children, would you want them to play lacrosse?

A

: Of course! I want my kids to experience lacrosse.

Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .

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LINDSAY ANDSAGER ’13 AND MIA YABUT ’12 HONORED BY ECAC The ECAC gave weekly honors to Andsager and Yabut of the gymnastics team after their outstanding performances in their first meet of the season last weekend. Andsager was Specialist of the Week, while Yabut, the team captain, was Coaches’ Choice.

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“I was confident that Robby [Berner] ’12 was going to win his match so I thought it would be up to me.

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Roberts reflects on historic win

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Andy Murray in must-win situation No one is more desperate for victory at the Australian Open than Britain’s Andy Murray.

After defeating Kei Nishikori in straight sets last night, the world No. 4 is set for a semifinal clash with top-seeded Novak Djokovic, the Serb on a seemingly unstoppable yearlong tear. The match will take place under the bright lights of Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Friday.

At stake for Murray, however, is much more than personal triumph. The 24-year-old Scotsman is burdened with the expectations of an entire nation desperate for a hero. Despite having invented the sport and dominated its early years, Britain has not boasted a men’s champion at a single Grand Slam tournament since 1936, when Fred Perry won the U.S. Championship. A full 75 years later, British tennis fervor is a heavy combination of embarrassment, impatience and ruthless expectation. These expectations can be heard from the wildly emotional crowds that fill the seats at Wimbledon each year. These expectations can be read in the mercilessly critical British sporting press. These expectations can be seen in the face of the Queen herself, who dutifully attends all major British matches. It is squarely on Murray, a youth tennis star who has emerged as Britain’s clear top player, that these expectations have fallen.

Needless to say, Murray has not handled the expectations well. Despite reaching nine career Grand Slam semifinals (including the last five in a row), the young star has yet to break through.

It’s widely held that Murray has become consumed by his burden and has wilted under the pressure. During late rounds at Grand Slam tournaments, he has continually exhibited uncharacteristically defensive play and allowed his opponents to control the match. He has had problems with concentration: he exhibits short bouts of atrocious play at the most critical moments. He has shown an unsettling temperament during these matches by throwing tantrums directed at himself, coaches and even family members. Weighed down by the hopes of a nation, Murray is woefully uncomfortable on the big stage.

His track record in such matches is not promising. Murray has managed to reach the finals of a Grand Slam tournament three times in his career. In 2008, he advanced to the US Open finals but played a remarkably passive game and was smoked in straight sets by Roger Federer. Two years later, he faced Federer in the finals of the Australian Open. He managed a set point in the third but allowed Federer to take command en route to another straight sets loss. Murray reached the finals of the Austra-

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John Roberts ’12 kept his calm in the final match against Trinity last Wednesday night to clinch the victory and end a historic streak.

BY JAMES HUANG AND JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Thirteen years and 252 straight wins made Trinity squash a dynasty.

But Yale, the No. 2 squash powerhouse for three years, was determined to claim some of the glory last Wednesday night.

MEN’S SQUASH College squash saw the end of an era when John Roberts ’12 scored his 11th point against Trinity’s Johan Detter that evening, climching hismatch and the contest between the two schools —and ending the longest winning streak in college sports history.

Trinity and Yale had entered the final round of thier match tied 3–3.

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Despite several clutch dive-saves and a controversial play in which Trinity’s Vikram Malhotra fired a hard shot that hit his opponent’s body, Yale’s No. 1 Kenneth Chan ’13 lost 0–3. Trailing 3–4, the Elis put all of their hope on their last two players, No. 7 Robert Berner ’12 and No. 4 John Roberts ’12.

Berner won his match relatively quickly, tying the teams at 4–4 and putting all of the pressure on teammate Roberts to seal the deal. The hard work of his teammates and coaches, as well as all of the frustrating moments against Trinity in the past all rested on the native of Ireland.

Despite the magnitude of the situation, Roberts had plenty of squash experience to alleviate the pressure: He began playing the sport at age 11.

“My older brother, who also played, was a big influence, and the sport just became addicting,” Roberts said.

Roberts played at his local squash club in Belfast, which was conveniently within walking distance. His years of hard work were recognized when he won the Irish Nationals in his junior year of high school.

“There were only about 30 other juniors,” Roberts said. “Not that many people played, but it was a great experience, especially since I never trained with a coach.”

Despite this milestone, Roberts said he had a few setbacks when he initially started playing squash. At first, he said he lagged behind his competition, and he also had trouble with his knees until he was 17 or 18.

Even with these bumps in the

road early in his career, Roberts has gone on to accumulate a 32–19 record at Yale. But no victory was more important than the one last Wednesday.

“It was a great team effort,” Roberts said of the win against Trinity.

“We have been trying to beat these guys … since I’ve been here. They beat us in last year’s final round of nationals in a heartbreaking match.

It was great to get some revenge.”

Squash matches are played using a three-court system, with the No. 7, 8 and 9 matches played on the first court, the 4, 5 and 6 matches on a second court, and the 1, 2 and 3 matches on a third court. The matches are played in decreasing order, with the No. 1, 4 and 7 SEE SQUASH PAGE 11

Ambrose ’14 talks lacrosse as season approaches

BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s lacrosse team is looking to another successful season, which officially begins Feb. 26. Last season, the team lost only four of 14 matches and took third place in the Ivy League. The News sat down with Jack Ambrose ’14, a defender from Westport, Conn., to discuss his lacrosse background, the responsibilities of the Bulldogs’ defense and the team’s progress so far.

Q

: When did you start playing lacrosse?

What motivated you to play?

A

: I started playing when I was 10 because all of my best friends started playing lacrosse.

What makes lacrosse so special to It is true that there are some bad Q:you?

How did it affect your life?

A:sides of this, but it is almost nice to be

A

: The best thing about lacrosse is that it is a small community. The people you meet while playing lacrosse you always end up relating back to you. It is such a small world, so the connections that lacrosse provides are awesome.

Q

: How is the offseason training going so far?

A

: Our captain has set up all the practices for the team, so we have definitely been almost as busy as we are in the fall.

How do you juggle lacrosse with your Q:academic commitments?

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on that schedule every single day, to know what time you have to be at the practice, when you have to get your work done and so on. It is tough going out to practices on a daily basis, but it is a lot nicer to have a set schedule and not mess around.

have any personal strategies Q:inDoyouryouapproach to the game?

A

: Our team’s offense is really good, so it is nice to be able to practice against such a high level of offense every day.

Besides that, defense is all about team. It is not an individual player that matters, but more or less all six players and the goalie should be communicating around the same page. What is really cool about SEE LAX PAGE 11

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The men’s lacross team, ranked No. 13 in the country in a preseason poll, will open its season on Feb. 25 with a game against St. John’s..

THE NUMBER OF YALE FOOTBALL ALUMNI WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE SUPER BOWL. Six were players, while Patriots assistant Pat Graham ’01 will be the first to coach. Rich Diana ’82 was the last Eli to participate in the Super Bowl when he played for the Miami Dolphins in 1983.