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CROSS CAMPUS So popular. A Law School class on administrative law taught by a professor visiting from Stanford ended up with over 100 students on its waitlist, meaning many third-year students were turned away, the website Above the Law reported. After students complained, the school added a new section of the course, with no size restriction.

MEDIA STUDIES TEACHING THE UNDEFINABLE

ARCHITECTURE

EAST HAVEN SCANDAL

M. SWIMMING

Applications to Arch.

School rise despite tough job prospects

MAYOR DRAWS FIRE, APOLOGIZES FOR ‘TACO’ GAFFE

50 years before Trinity squash, Kiphuth’s Elis set mark for dominance

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PAGE 3 CULTURE

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Witt accused of sexual assault

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS Former quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 may not have had the option of pursuing a Rhodes scholarship when he announced on Nov. 13 that he would play in the 2011 YaleHarvard football game, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Citing interviews with six

anonymous sources “with knowledge of all or part of the story,” the article stated that a female Yale student approached the University’s Sexual Harassment Assault and Response Education Center in September before filing an informal complaint — alleging that Witt had sexually assaulted her in her dorm room — with the University-Wide

Committee on Sexual Misconduct. The Times reported that the Rhodes Trust had learned of the accusation several days before Witt announced he would play in the Game.

According to the article, the Rhodes Trust notified Yale that Witt would be ineligible for the scholarship unless University administrators re-endorsed his candidacy.

Witt could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Witt walked with the class of 2011 at Commencement in May and returned this fall to complete his studies as a secondsemester senior. Though Witt told the News Jan. 8 that he had “already graduated,” University Spokesman Tom Conroy said Thursday night that Witt has not graduated.

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Less popular. Harvard College

saw a 1.9 percent drop in applications this year, the Harvard Crimson reported Thursday. All told, 34,285 students applied for admission to the college, down 665 applications from last year.

This is the first time in five years that Harvard has seen a drop in total application numbers. By contrast, Yale received 5.8 percent more applications than last year, a total of 28,870 applications.

New colleges filled with singles

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER This week’s aldermanic committee assignments have sketched out the spheres of influence that the 19 newly elected aldermen will assume.

The committee assignments, which were determined by Board of Aldermen President and Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez and other board leadership, were released earlier this week. Five of the 10 aldermanic committees will be chaired by aldermen who are serving their first term, including Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12. In addition to serving on the human services and legislation committees, Eidelson will chair the board’s youth services committee.

From surplus to deficit.

South College Small Courtyard Elevation

Stricter reviews. At

a Wednesday night neighborhood meeting in Dixwell, New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman pledged stricter review of all Taser use. He defended the Tasers, saying they can actually save lives, but added that supervisors will now teach use of a Taser “as if with guns,” the New Haven Independent reported.

The last word? Joshua

Komisarjevsky, the 31-yearold who last fall was convicted in the infamous Cheshire murders, is expected to speak today before a judge formally sentences him to death, the Hartford Courant reported.

Mmmmm 16 yummy. Timothy

Dwight College had a catered Miya’s dinner in its dining hall.

One source says there were “so many tasty options,” including the famously crunchy Tokyo Fro. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

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Eidelson to chair committee

Connecticut is currently looking at a budget deficit of $144.5 million; two months ago, the state was predicting it would have a $100 million surplus, the Hartford Courant reported Thursday. The state’s ties to Wall Street are part of the problem — as a result of a downturn in holiday bonuses, wealthy bankers living in Fairfield County did not produce as much tax revenue.

Young and famous. A new video posted to YouTube Wednesday features Allison Williams ’10 behind the scenes of “Girls,” an upcoming HBO series in which Williams has a lead role. Directed by upcoming star Lena Dunham and produced by Judd Apatow, “Girls” will debut at the South

By Southwest Film Festival in March and on HBO in April.

On Oct. 31, Witt was notified that he had been selected as a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship and would need to attend a mandatory interview in his home state of Georgia on Nov. 19, the same day as the YaleHarvard football game.

The University and Witt announced that he would play

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My interest in leading the youth committee has grown out of the fact that I feel… that young people in New Haven should have access to the types of resources that I have had access to.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Ward 1 alderwoman

setup would enhance students’ living situations.

“The feeling was that this is what students most wanted,” said John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources.

“As we renovated the 12 colleges, this is what we heard over and over.”

Yale spokesman Michael

“My interest in leading the youth committee has grown out of the fact that I feel very strongly that young people growing up in New Haven should have access to the types of resources that I have had access to,” said Eidelson, who hails from Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. “It’s clear that’s not the case right now — on the committee I want to work to change that.”

As chair of the committee, Eidelson will call and preside over all its meetings, hearings and workshops, as well as lead the committee in taking “proactive action” on relevant city issues. While Eidelson said she does not yet have any concrete policy proposals for the committee to consider, she said her committee will look at issues like reopening the Dixwell Community Q House, which served as a youth center before shutting its doors nearly a decade

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YALE UNIVERSITY

The two new residential colleges will house students for all four years in singles-only suites.

BY SOPHIE GOULD AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS Future students in the two new residential colleges will never experience the pains or pleasures of living with a roommate — all bedrooms in the colleges will be singles.

The new colleges, which are scheduled to be completed in 2015, will house students for all four years in

suites consisting of singles and a common room. Administrators said they feel students prefer this arrangement since it combines the privacy of single rooms with the social experience of suite-style living, and they added that it will provide flexibility for summer programs. While a few students interviewed worried that students would miss the valuable experience of having a roommate, a majority said the

New NHPD strategy unveiled NHPD CHIEF ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR WALKING BEATS, ADDITION OF 40 TO 45 OFFICERS

BY NICK DEFIESTA AND JAMES LU STAFF REPORTERS The New Haven Police Department will move 21 officers from its investigative division to patrol as it rolls out its community policing strategy throughout the Elm City’s 10 districts.

NHPD Chief Dean Esserman and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced their plans for the department at a Thurs-

day morning press conference at the Newhallville police substation, paving the way for walking beats for officers to return in full force. To help bolster the department’s numbers, DeStefano also announced that he would present the Board of Aldermen with a budget amendment that would enable the NHPD to add an estimated 40 to 45 new officers to its ranks by taking on two new police academy classes concur-

rently.

“Everybody will walk a beat, including the chief of police,” Esserman said, adding that the Newhallville beat was the first beat he walked upon returning to New Haven as police chief — Esserman had served as an NHPD assistant chief 18 years earlier. “I expect trust to begin to develop again.”

DeStefano said last year’s homicide rate — the city saw 34 murders, the highest figure since 1994 — made it “clear” the police SEE NHPD PAGE 6

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NHPD Chief Dean Esserman detailed a new policing strategy Thursday.

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OPINION

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GUEST COLUMNIST ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN

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For more open courses Accounting for ourselves T T

o continue the theme of being the world’s worst meta English and history of art major, this column will be highly self-referential and will refer to my two previous columns for the News, one of which was, unsurprisingly, about comments on other articles.

I’ve joked that in the first column I wrote, I created a situation fraught with anxiety leading to exactly zero comments on the story, and that with the second, I incited a revolt of secret Yale Shakespeare nerds and Harold Bloom haters (sorry, Professor Bloom). But as I’ve thought about the responses I received, I can no longer brush them aside jokingly: the two incidents are symbolic of larger problems and patterns at Yale and in the world.

The morning that my second op-ed was published, I woke up to two emails from prominent voices in the Shakespearean authorship debate, both of whom took me to task for calling them snobs (though I merely stated that snobbery seemed the root of the movement to ascribe Shakespeare’s plays to anyone but Shakespeare). I haven’t responded to either of them, mostly because I have nothing to say except I’m sorry that we don’t agree. They won’t change my mind; I won’t change theirs.

What was more concerning than these emails was how rapidly the comments on the online version of the article denigrated into attacks on Yale and even, to some extent, me. (Apparently I missed a modifier. Sorry.) David Scott Kastan, the Yale professor who taught me much of what I know about Shakespeare, generously told me to not take it personally. But I did.

I took these comments personally because they were everything that I was afraid the comments on my first article would be: unproductive, mean-spirited, digressive. The emails I received from our two self-proclaimed Shakespearean authorities were similar in tone. No one wanted to talk to me: they wanted to talk over me.

The email responses I received to my first piece were, in contrast, highly supportive. Friends told me they had been following the News’ website with trepidation for months. I was flattered and surprised by these responses.

Students at Yale seemed excited at the though of more accountability, more transparency, more productive conversations. And yet we all seemed afraid to begin these conversations, or to establish expectations about how we should communicate.

We need to create a culture of transparency among our friends and in our society so we can really talk — and also so we can really

disagree. In watching the recent developments in the American politics, I am struck by how hard it is for anyone — the politicians especially — to have meaningful conversations. Instead of focusing on the number of affairs a politician has had (though I admit these affairs signal a shocking lack of personal integrity), why can’t we discuss the capacity of the politician in question to have a nuanced, thoughtful conversation, which seems a far more important characteristic for a president than who he or she is sleeping with? As a country, we seem to have become terrified of ambiguity, horrified that we’ll have to acknowledge the things we don’t know and the things we can’t agree on.

I watch myself participate in these same kinds of behavior — watch myself avoid hard conversations and particular people, ignore text messages. I’ve considered why I am so anxious in these moments. Is it only that I am the chronically sleep-deprived Yale student who avoids conflict out of exhaustion? Or I am something else — a person who is afraid to own up to complicated, messy feelings and even more afraid to talk about them for fear of losing friends, losing face, admitting to vulnerabilities I don’t like to share?

Perhaps I am afraid of being disappointed if I do have difficult conversations and terrified of being hurt in the aftermath.

I have to hold myself to the same standards of personal accountability that I demanded of commenters on the News’ website. A desire to avoid accountability and productive discourse is at the root of so many of our problems, including our problems with hookups and drinking at Yale. This was certainly the case with the recent WEEKEND article (“Just say no (to awful sex),” Jan. 20) about sexual interactions at Yale, and the comments on the News website have further demonstrated the extent to which it’s hard to have meaningful and constructive conversations. I don’t want to continue to be a part of these problems.

I’ve come to one conclusion: We won’t change political, personal or published discourse unless we become braver and take accountability for our own feelings, asking for what we really want instead of trying to avoid disappointment or complications. Maybe it’s time for me to email the Shakespeare people back. They deserve better from me than what I’ve given thus far.

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

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his is my last semester at Yale, and I wanted to try something new, so I applied to English 120. I have never taken an English class here. They are scary. But this class, while supposedly challenging and timeconsuming, came highly recommended. In my last semester here, I didn’t want to cower into the same old classes that had previously served my GPA and social life well.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get in.

And while I found another excellent class (albeit on more familiar terrain), I thought it seemed odd to prioritize the admission of students who still have multiple opportunities to take a class over the admission of students for whom this was the last hurrah.

To help improve the process for future students, I wrote a series of emails to Professor John Rogers, the director of undergraduate studies of the English department. In his responses, however, I detected an administrative approach that was more disturbing.

In a 2009 interview on the Charlie Rose Show, University President Richard Levin claimed that in his freshman welcome address, each year he uses some new device to insist that to make the most of our experience at Yale, we must “sample — try things, take risks, try subjects you’re not comfortable with, and somewhere in that process you

will find something you love.”

To some extent, the reality reflected Levin’s rhetoric. Even after Yale’s endowment plunged to a mere $19 billion, our resources are still immense. There are loads of courses to choose from, and the credit/D/fail option encourages us to try uncomfortable things.

That said, the breadth of opportunity at Yale is driven more by the initiative of enterprising students than the initiative of the enterprising bureaucracy. Actively encouraging course sampling doesn’t seem to be a central administrative principle but a peripheral one. This was never clearer to me than during my exchanges with Rogers.

His arguments betrayed a thinking that seemed to undervalue the exploratory mission Levin articulated.

After our third round of emails, Rogers courteously invited me to discuss my issues in his office.

There, he told me that lowernumbered courses were intended for underclassmen. While he accepted that the department had failed to sufficiently transmit this intention to interested upperclassmen, my frustrations crept towards a more serious question: What did it mean to intend these introductory English courses for underclassmen? Some part of the answer was surely that if one were an English major, then one ought to track a path from introductory classes to more advanced classes.

Deferring to a strict conception of class year made administrative sense.

But it is predominantly nonmajors who take introductory English courses. Rogers — as a representative of the College and its mission — ought to be more thoughtful about relating the intent of these courses to Levin’s spirit of exploration. Our administrators should think beyond myopic notions that exploratory courses are intended for underclassmen. Courses that allow exploration ought to be available to all.

I remember hearing a stream of seniors complain about being cut from “Great Big Ideas.” In the first session, the instructors announced that they wanted to give preference to underclassmen. This way, if the class turned its students on to something, they would still have two years left to explore — because the academic clock is ticking and intellectual exploration dies at graduation.

My problem with such instructors and administrators is not that they stopped my friends and me from getting what we wanted.

Rather, I am disappointed because of what their arguments say about the way they think about intellectual exploration. It says that we must complete our education in some structured and orderly way. But the kind of exploration that yields real value forces us through messiness and

misery. It’s a high-risk and seldom painless game. Exploration implies chaos, not order.

If the goal is to encourage exploration, why ought class year figure in at all? Especially if the expectation is that our time here is only the beginning, and not the end of our education, what is the point of these distinctions? If the administrative goal is to evaluate the progress of major or graduation requirements, allocate housing or schedule reunions and organize giving campaigns, then deferring to the order of class years is an essential feature of a well-run bureaucracy.

But if within this leviathan there still exists an earnest mission to promote authentic discovery, then these distinctions could betray what ought to be the central aspiration of Yale College’s undergraduate mission: to let its students bumper-car their way to a diploma.

If we are to accept Levin’s insistence that we explore the resources of the University — and take risks toward this end — this insistence also necessitates that University departments think about their responsibilities to empower, rather than impede, that exploration.

JASJIT SINGH is a senior in Berkeley College and an Eli Whitney Student. Contact him at jasjit.singh@yale.edu .

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or six and a half years, Margaret Lippitt, a student in the Yale Graduate School of Public Health, worked for an organization with a slightly jarring name: Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive. HIPS provides services including disease testing and support groups to prostitutes, intravenous drug users and other at-risk individuals.

One of HIPS’s many services is to drive a van around many of D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods late at night. Workers in this van distribute condoms, lubricant, dental dams and other supplies. They also pass out sterilized syringes and other paraphernalia needed to inject intravenous drugs. This is part of HIPS’s syringe exchange program.

In syringe exchange programs, drug users receive hypodermic needles and other injecting equipment, usually for free.

These programs are often known as exchange programs because users exchange their old, dirty needles for new, sterilized ones.

When people initially hear what syringe exchange is, many seem a little unsettled. It does, after all, enable drug use. Many see it as helping addicts continue to behave in a harmful, not to mention illegal, manner.

Wouldn’t it be better, critics ask, to not give them new needles? Without the instrument to inject their drugs, wouldn’t they SCOTT be forced to STERN quit?

Sadly, it’s A Stern not that simDrug Perspective ple. users don’t stop injecting drugs when they run out of needles; they just use dirty needles and share needles with other users. The consequences of this behavior are dire. Sharing needles contributes to a considerable number of new HIV infections, sexually transmitted infections and the spread of hepatitis C. Syringe exchange programs drastically reduce this risk.

A study performed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute found that new infection rates plummeted by more than 75 percent when cities instituted syringe exchange programs. In 2002, 45.4 percent of all new HIV infections were caused by injection drug use; in 2009, after the fed-

eral government started funding syringe exchange programs across the country, that percentage fell to 12.5. The evidence is incontrovertible. Syringe exchange is an exceptionally cost-effective way to prevent the spread of disease. Syringe exchange also helps people who don’t do intravenous drugs but instead need needles to inject medication or hormones.

Yet syringe exchange programs have been stripped of all of their federal funding. Despite having reinstated federal spending on the programs in 2009, a single line in the 2012 budget banned funding for the programs.

Let’s disregard for a moment that the federal government gave hardly any money at all to syringe exchange, and that lifting the previous ban (and presumably keeping it lifted) was among Obama’s campaign promises. Let’s even disregard how effective the program is. The simple truth is that to lift the ban — and to start funding syringe exchange programs again — would cost nothing at all. Not a penny.

The federal government is already giving money to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS. Eliminating the ban on syringe exchange would just be diverting a small fraction of the money already

meant for public health purposes into syringe exchange programs — one of the most cost-effective ways to fight the spread of disease. It would not allocate any new money.

There is little cogent criticism of syringe exchange. Its opponents simply hate it because it seems so unsavory. Sort of like putting condoms in schools, syringe exchange may sound offputting when one first hears about it. But — like putting condoms in schools — it is very effective at reducing the transmission of diseases.

We now have a few months to get the ban lifted in the new federal budget. This is such a minor part of the budget, an inexpensive, effective little program that is happening anyway but would be so much better and broader with federal support. No one can argue with the effectiveness of syringe exchange; its opponents can only obfuscate with misplaced moralizing.

SCOTT STERN is a freshman in Branford College and a member of the Student Global Health and AIDS Coalition. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Bedroom wisdom

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

YALE AND NEW HAVEN Separating service and politics ‘S

ocial justice” is an increasingly popular yet disturbingly slippery term. The phrase serves as a rallying cry for a diverse collection of groups; soup kitchens, tax reform advocates and everyone in between seem to jump at the label. The diversity of those on the social justice train certainly does not help define the term, but it does present fundamental challenges that should make thoughtful people nervous.

One of the best exemplars of social justice’s complex diversity is Yale’s Dwight Hall.

Dwight Hall’s mission is “to foster civic-minded student leaders and to promote service and activism in New Haven and around the world.” It is a selfdescribed non-partisan “Center for Public Service and Social Justice” that includes a fraternity, the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project and the Yale Student Environmental Coalition. Dwight Hall’s Social Justice Network has member groups that include the unionbacking Undergraduate Organizing Committee. (The actual

relationship between Dwight Hall and the member groups of its Social Justice Network is somewhat fuzzy and YISHAI likely in tranSCHWARTZ sition.)

Dwight The Gadfly Hall’s missions of “service” and “activism” certainly don’t help to clear up the “social justice” ambiguity. “Service” usually refers to concrete, uncontroversial, charitable action by private actors. “Activism” describes persuasive activities aimed at affecting public action — usually for controversial goals. These two seem to be conceptually different activities, and the ambiguity created by lumping the two together is worrisome.

On a surface level, there may be something appealing and intuitive about the social justice model of joining progressive advocacy and charitable service.

Those involved in both sorts of initiatives try to help the poor, establish equity and solve fundamental problems in society.

Furthermore, it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between consensus supported service and partisan advocacy. Is legal representation for the indigent advocacy? Is protecting an individual’s civil rights all that different from helping her stave off foreclosure? Is reproductive education advocacy? What about abstinence education? Is advocacy for action on genocide or LGTBQ rights not a consensus issues on this campus?

This perspective is certainly valid. Of course there are borderline cases where service and advocacy seem to blend together, and of course there are some causes with broad local support despite their political nature.

Nevertheless, the intermingling of service and advocacy is a fundamentally counterproductive development. It alienates some worthy public servants and misconstrues our public obligations, and we would be better served severing the one from the other.

Americans in general, and Yalies in particular, are crazy busy and have limited resources.

But most of us do have a sense of ethical obligation. As we set our schedules and examine our bank statements, we consider our obligations and interests and try to ensure that we allot proper resources to each. Terms like “social justice” cloud our judgment. Working to elect Jeanette Morrison or donating to a political party may be worthy causes, but we should never confuse hours and money spent on advocacy with genuine charitable giving. It will always be easier to call your congressman than to feed the hungry, and the phrase “social justice” allows us to justify our way out of responsibility.

But there are also more tangible problems with the broad language of social justice. Dwight Hall’s broad language of service and activism seems to be quite inclusive. But when one actually searches the list of member and affiliated organizations, there are jarring absences: Conservative groups are not currently

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part of Dwight Hall and its affiliated networks. Public Service?

The Social Justice Network has the Liberal Party — but no Conservatives. Advocacy? There is a pro-choice group — but no prolife.

The liberal dominance in social justice organizations highlights a central problem created by the conceptual collapsing of charitable giving with partisan political advocacy. Social justice organizations may try to distinguish between issue advocacy and politics. But these distinctions fail to pass the smell test. Is abortion advocacy apolitical? Environmental advocacy? Higher taxes? Advocacy is political, and politics is divisive.

An organization devoted to charity fits into broad social consensus. Nearly everyone at Yale supports the work done

by YHHAP and feels perfectly comfortable contributing to its programs and initiatives. But YHHAP can only suffer from its entanglement with advocacy groups that are often indistinguishable from political partisans.

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a New Haven shopping street. Such a position is patently absurd and is the product of anticapitalists who are quick to examine the prices of the items being sold in a store and slow to see the value the store is bringing to a given area. It would be a cause for celebration if a boutique selling $10,000 watches wanted to establish itself on campus, since such a business would help set an upmarket and civilized tone for the area even if it did not become a routine student destination.

In many ways, the shops that choose to situate themselves in an area define that neighborhood. When decrepit stores, dirty cafés and shady bars become the norm, a street loses its self-confidence and goes into decline. Shoppers no longer want to spend time there, and the lingering fungus of crime is ready and waiting to take their place. Given the close proximity of the Broadway and Chapel Street shopping districts to the central Yale campus, it is profoundly in the University’s interests to ensure that they survive and thrive, which in turn creates a safe and secure environment for students.

Urban renewal does not, as some claim, mean that smaller independent stores have no part to play in a shopping district. The responsible development of the Broadway area has included space for two barbers’ salons, a dry cleaning store, a record shop, several independent cafés and restaurants, and a convenience store, all of which provide important amenities for students and residents alike.

These businesses are helped by the presence of flagship national brands,

YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a junior in Branford College. His column runs on Fridays. Contact him at yishai. schwartz@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNISTS

A defense of gentrification

he early 1990s marked a difficult period for Yale. As the University bore the scars of the disastrous policy of deferred maintenance that had left much of its physical plant in outright disrepair, crime in New Haven surged. This state of affairs was symbolized most tragically by the murder of Christian Prince ’93 on the steps of St. Mary’s Church.

Today’s campus is unrecognizable from that of 20 years ago. Sustained and significant investment in facilities means that Yale is now among the best-equipped universities in the country. But such developments would have been in vain if downtown New Haven had failed to emerge from the midst of urban squalor. The city had to be transformed, and University Properties’ strategies arguably played the most important part in bringing about that transformation.

Many are swift to criticize the influx of upmarket chain stores like Gant, J. Crew and Apple onto Broadway. Their concerns are misplaced and regrettable. In a city that lacks a clearly defined central shopping area, these businesses attract many customers who appreciate convenient, high-quality local provision. Despite the frequently repeated suggestions that the stores are always empty, national firms do not routinely keep loss-making establishments open.

What the critics actually mean is that they themselves never shop there — others, clearly, do.

Opposition to gentrification is most often rooted in inverse snobbery; since not everyone from New Haven can afford to shop at Gant, the argument goes, Gant has no place on

Separation of advocacy and service is about much more than protecting a 501(c)3 status. Even an indirect or perceived connection between Dwight Hall and the Undergraduate Organizing Committee — instrumental in the success of union-backed candidates in recent New Haven elections — damages an otherwise unifying institution.

Institutional promoters of social justice who mix advocacy and service should think carefully about the effects of their actions. But more important than any organization’s decisions are the distinctions that we draw in our own minds. Regardless of what institutions do, I hope students understand the fundamental difference between acts of charity and acts of advocacy. And let us never allow the complications of the latter to interfere with the performance of the former.

which draw customers from further afield to an area that they would not otherwise visit.

At the same time, some recent developments threaten to reverse New Haven’s progress. The seemingly perpetual example of organized vagrancy called Occupy New Haven that clutters up the Green will undoubtedly deter investment in that area, while last year’s shooting at Toad’s Place underlines the need for the University to continue with the policy of gentrification that it has so far implemented expertly.

Those who oppose the sort of renewal that New Haven has seen are not progressives. If they had their way, neither the city nor the University would ever see any development at all. We must continue to ignore their envy-fueled complaints or else risk a lamentable recourse to the scenes of crime and squalor that once marred our campus.

A few short years ago, the idea of an Apple store setting up shop on Broadway was unthinkable; today, the store is established and successful, and we have UP to thank for it. In short, its policies have created a climate that allows prestigious brands to do business in New Haven. The consequences of this environment benefit students, consumers and local residents alike. We owe them our trust and support as they continue their excellent work.

ALEX FISHER is a sophomore in Morse College. Contact him at alexander.fisher@yale.edu .

his first month of 2012 marks a particularly exciting time in both Ward 1 and New Haven politics. On campus, we just completed an aldermanic election with unprecedented voter turnout — a nearly semester-long process of thinking and talking about what it means to live out our dual identities as students at Yale University and residents of New Haven.

Beyond Ward 1, our city experienced its most exciting aldermanic election cycle in decades, culminating in the Inauguration Day swearing-in of 19 freshman aldermen determined to bring accountability and responsiveness to a Board of Aldermen all too often described as gridlocked and out of touch.

We are at a point — with a new Ward 1 alderwoman, fresh faces on the board and a commitment, affirmed by both the board and the Mayor’s Office, to inclusive prosperity — truly redolent with possibility for progressive politics.

Yet now is a time of challenge as well.

No matter how exhausting the last few months may have been, our work as activists, as students and as New Havenites is far from over. For it is no hyperbole to say New Haven is in a state of crisis, afflicted with persistently high unemployment and poverty, grim rates of violent crime and a struggling educational system. No matter how hard they work, our new alderwoman and her board simply cannot make the hopes they articulated in the past few months a reality by themselves.

WHY WE’RE RUNNING FOR WARD 1 DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE COCHAIRMEN This is where we come in: not as know-it-all Yalies theorizing from our ivory tower, but rather simply as citizens. Engaging with our fellow citizens all across town, we must act to build the city we all want to see, a safe city with good jobs and opportunities for all.

Because we hope to be part of fostering sustained student engagement with the city, we are excited to declare our candidacy as co-chairs for the Ward 1 Democratic Committee.

We intend to build a transparent, inclusive ward committee that serves as a vehicle for increased student involvement in Ward 1 and New Haven’s civic and political life. The ward committee must recognize the diversity of Yale progressivism. Given the plethora of student organizations involved

in New Haven politics, we want to create an institution in which students can discuss their efforts in the city, forestall inefficient duplication of efforts, explore opportunities for collaboration and learn about each other’s work.

We applaud the previous ward committee co-chairs’ efforts to make the operations of the committee more transparent, particularly with regards to the aldermanic election. We approve strongly of our predecessors’ decision not to hold an endorsement vote in the 2011 aldermanic election. This precedent, which promotes competitive, campus-wide races like last semester’s aldermanic race, is one we intend to honor. It is important that registered Republicans and independents and first-semester freshmen, not just Democratic-registered upperclassmen, have a say in the 2013 aldermanic contest.

But the Ward 1 Democratic Committee can and should be concerned with far more than the decision to endorse — or not — in Ward 1 aldermanic races, or even providing a forum for Yale progressives. As co-chairs, we hope to connect students, whether on our ward committee or not, more deeply to the politics of our city as a whole. We plan to encourage voter registration through frequent registration drives and ensure that Ward 1 voters are informed voters through regular newsletters and events dealing with local issues. We further intend to closely support newly elected alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, working with her and other campus political organizations to mobilize students around progressive values on pertinent city issues.

We both possess a strong working knowledge of New Haven and its politics, thanks to extensive involvement in local schools, religious and community organizations and each of the recent Ward 1 aldermanic campaigns. We also have experience engaging diverse communities around issues of justice; Nia is the Black Student Alliance’s political action chair, and Ben is a member of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee and served as social action coordinator for the Party of the Left and Luther House.

We are enthusiastic about what the next two years will bring in this ward and New Haven, and hope that you will join us in creating a ward committee that represents progressives across Yale and equips students to take action in city politics. We look forward to the conversations we will have about the organization and representation of our ward and our involvement in the city we are so privileged to call home.

BEN CROSBY is a junior in Pierson College. NIA HOLSTON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. They are candidates for Ward 1 Democratic Committee cochairs.

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FROM THE FRONT

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

CHARLES F. KETTERING AMERICAN INVENTOR

Times reports sexual assault claim against Witt ’12 WITT FROM PAGE 1 in the Yale-Harvard game in a Nov. 13 press release from Yale Athletics.

Though the release did not explicitly link Witt’s choice to play in the game with his decision to withdraw his Rhodes Scholarship application, the News and other media outlets reported that Witt gave up his interview to stay in New Haven for the Game.

“Senior quarterback Patrick Witt, who has completed more passes for more yards than anyone ever at Yale, has withdrawn his application for the Rhodes Scholarship and will be in New Haven all day on Nov. 19 to make his third start against Harvard,” the release stated.

That same day, the Sunday before the Game, Witt told the News that he was declining all interview requests that week.

University administrators reached Thursday night — including University President Richard Levin, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Provost Peter Salovey — declined to comment on the allegations against Witt.

Conroy said student disciplinary matters are confidential and that it would be illegal for the University to discuss an allegation against a student.

“My understanding is that all the facts in [the Times] story are based on anonymous sources,” Conroy said. “All the alleged facts are from anonymous sources.”

Students at Yale can file two kinds of complaints with the UWC — formal and informal — and the University maintains confidentiality in both cases. Miller said in a Thursday email that she is only notified of formal complaints.

An informal complaint, which the Times reported was filed against Witt, leads to either limited or no investiga-

tion and can be resolved within a few days. The status of the alleged complaint against Witt is unknown.

The University also maintains confidentiality for scholarship and fellowship applications such as the Rhodes, Conroy said. He added that “no one at Yale discussed with the New York Times any aspects of the Rhodes scholarship other than process.”

Though the Times reported that the dean of Yale College is required to submit a report for all Rhodes nominations, Miller said residential college deans are responsible for signing Rhodes applications, not the Yale College dean.

In order for Witt to complete his Rhodes application, he would have needed the signature of then-Jonathan Edwards College Dean Kyle Farley, who announced Nov. 3 that he would leave at the end of the semester. Farley, who took an administrative position in Australia, could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

It remains unclear whether University administrators re-endorsed his candidacy following the player’s suspension, as the Times reported.

American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust Elliot Gerson declined to comment for this story in a Thursday night email, citing the “confidential matters” involved.

Director of Athletics Tom Beckett could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Witt transferred to Yale from the University of Nebraska in 2009.

Maria Guardado, Jimin He, Tapley Stephenson and Antonia Woodford contributed reporting.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.

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The New York Times reported Thursday that the Rhodes Trust suspended the Rhodes Scholarship candidacy of Patrick Witt ’12 last November after learning that an informal sexual assault claim had been brought against him at Yale.

Committee assignments shape BOA dynamic COMMITTEES FROM PAGE 1 ago.

Two freshman labor-backed aldermen will serve as chair and vice chair of the powerful legislation committee: East Rock’s Ward 9 Alderwoman Jessica Holmes and Dixwell’s Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison, whose ward includes part of Yale’s campus, respectively. As a member of the legislation committee, Eidelson will hear zoning and ordinances matters, which she said typically corresponds to matters of city development. The committee assignment was a natural fit for Eidelson, she said, given her recent

election to the city’s development commission, which handles similar matters.

For the human services committee, Eidelson will be working to obtain Community Development Block Grants, awarded by the federal government for the purpose of funding development activities such as infrastructure growth and affordable housing. New Haven annually receives a large amount of money from these grants — in 2011, they amounted to more than $3.3 million — and the human services committee determines how much money community organizations receive based on applications.

Eidelson also said she is com-

mitted to ensuring that the aldermanic resolution resisting the federal Secure Communities program passes. Set to become mandatory in 2013, Secure Communities would institute a system in which all local police records would be run through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement database to check the immigration status of all residents in local law enforcement systems, obligating local police to detain individuals for up to three days until a deportation official arrives if they are found to be undocumented.

Last month, city officials rallied against the program, claiming that it would damage the police depart-

ment’s community policing efforts in immigrant neighborhoods. The Board of Aldermen currently has a resolution pending that would call on Gov. Dannel Malloy to fight the program’s implementation.

Eidelson said she thought it was “unusual” for so many first-term aldermen to serve as committee chairs — between chairs and vice chairs, eight of the board’s freshmen are serving in a committee leadership capacity. But she added that there was another element to the leadership selection: since 19 of the board’s 30 aldermen are newcomers, it was very likely for several of them to have to serve as chairs.

Morrison also called the situa-

tion “unusual,” but echoed Eidelson in adding that it made sense given the sheer number of new aldermen.

“I was a little taken aback, for leadership to say ‘You know Jeanette, I think you’ll be a good vice chair,’” Morrison said.

In addition to leading the legislation committee, Morrison will also sit on the city services and environmental policy committee and the finance committee, which oversees the city’s annual budgeting process.

Committee meetings started this week with a finance committee Wednesday night.

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

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“Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.” ROBERT STERN DEAN, YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

TODAY’S EVENTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

Apps to Arch. School rise

4:00 PM-6:00PM Pure Health Lounge smoothie samples and raffle event. Free samples of smoothie and fruit blends available.

Raffle drawing prizes include Kindle Fire, meal and smoothies. Also feel free to drop by anytime today with your Yale ID to get 15% off drinks. Pure Health Lounge (99 Audobon St.).

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.

7:00 PM Taiwan Film Festial: “A Touch of Zen.” Experience the amazing filmography of Taiwan, with director King Hu’s piece, :A Touch of Zen: It has won multiple awards and has been nominated for the Golden Palm prize at the Cannes Festival. Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium (53 Wall St.).

8:00 PM Out of the Blue presents: “Jams Bond.” Come see your favorite MI6 agents save the day in typical Bond fashion.

Featuring new arrangements by artists including Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson and Sara Bareilles. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Hall.

CREATIVE COMMONS

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, JAN. 26

The obituary for School of Drama professor Earle Gister incorrectly said Gister directed the entire canon of Anton Chekhov plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In fact, Gister directed the plays at the School of Drama. Also, Gister accepted his Tony award along with Lloyd Richards and Benjamin Mordecai.

Food deserts persist in N.H.

BY JACQUELINE SAHLBERG STAFF REPORTER Yale students may no longer be hungry for a grocery store with the recent openings of Stop & Shop and Elm City Market, but concerns about the availability of healthy food options in New Haven persist.

Following the closure of the Shaw’s supermarket on Whalley Avenue in March 2010, city officials and community leaders deemed New Haven a “food desert” — a term used by the United States Department of Agriculture to describe lowincome neighborhoods with limited access to affordable and healthy food. By the fall of 2011, two supermarkets had established themselves in the Elm City, but concerns remain about some New Haven neighborhoods that still lack adequate access to groceries with healthy foods.

While the opening of Stop & Shop at the former Shaw’s location and Elm City Market in the 360 State Street building has boosted the ability of Yale students and downtown residents to shop for groceries, four census-defined areas in the city are still classified as “food deserts” according to the USDA: Quinnipiac , West Rock, Annex and East Shore.

People who live in “food deserts” often end up eating more fast food and junk food than those who have access to grocery stores, city health director Mario Garcia SPH ’02 said. He said that the two new stores “are only part of the solution” for the city.

In addition to having access to transportation, residents must also have sufficient funds and shopping and cooking skills in order to benefit from a grocery store, Garcia said.

Stop & Shop, Garcia said, is providing community education programs to promote the discussion of nutrition.

On Tuesday, the store held a “Child Obesity Forum” with serval panelists, including deputy director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy Marlene Schwartz.

Yale’s School of Public Health has also been working to promote the accessibility and quality of food choices in the city. In collaboration with the New Haven Health Department, the School of Public Health launched the Corner Grocery Store Initiative in May 2011. The program aims to provide better food options in low-income neighborhoods through partnerships with small grocery stores. Four

stores currently participate in the initiative.

“The opening of the two grocery stores is a huge improvement, but it doesn’t eliminate entirely the problems community members are facing,” said Naa Sackey, coordinator for the Corner Grocery Store Initiative. “Accessibility is still a strong barrier for residents.”

For over a year, Yalies had little access to fresh groceries after Shaw’s closed and before the opening of Stop & Shop in April and the Elm City Market in November of last year.

“It was a big inconvenience,” Ben Albright ’11 MED ’15 said of the Shaw’s closure.

As an undergraduate, Albright lived off campus without a meal plan for his junior and senior year. “If I hadn’t had a car [the closure] would have been a major problem,” he added.

Albright said he would often drive to the Walmart off Interstate 91 in New Haven, over three miles away, for his groceries. For his friends who did not have access to a vehicle, the closure of Shaw’s was a “major problem.” He said they would either “make do” at small stores nearby like Gourmet Heaven or take the Yale College Council-sponsored shuttle bus to the Stop & Shop in Hamden.

Albright echoed 10 other students interviewed when he said he was happy that Stop & Shop opened in the old Shaw’s location in April 2011.

Like nine of the 10 students, Albright has yet to purchase groceries from Elm City Market.

Stop & Shop spokeswoman Amy Murphy said the supermarket is doing well financially and that she does not believe the Nov. 3 opening of Elm City Market downtown has had an impact on the store’s business.

Amy Christensen-Regni, marketing director for Elm City Market, said the co-op store is supported by a membership of over 1,200 members and is “doing great.” She added that as a store intended for all city residents, the co-op is working to break the misconception that shopping at the market is a “members-only experience.”

Over 23 million Americans live in food deserts, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Contact JACQUELINE SAHLBERG at jacqueline.sahlberg@yale.edu .

Despite a depressed job market for young architects, applications to the School of Architecture rose this year.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER Although the job market for young architects has suffered in recent years due to the tight budgets of developers, applications to Yale’s School of Architecture rose by nearly 6 percent this year, the school’s admissions administrator Marilyn Weiss said in an email Thursday.

While the school would not release official admissions statistics, Dean Robert Stern said the total number of applications for the school’s professional programs increased by about 50.

Stern and three students agreed that Yale’s position as an elite architecture school had mitigated the effect that a slow job market had on the number of applications to the school, which administrators processed late last week. But Stern said the difficult economy might strain the school’s already tight budget for financial aid.

“I was terrified that we might not have a significant [number of] applications, but they were all there,” Stern said. “Applications are going down in many disciplines [at other professional

schools], and there has been a certain amount of publicity about architects not being able to get jobs.”

Stern added that despite negative perceptions about the job market, a recent survey of all 2011 graduates from the school revealed that nearly all had obtained jobs in what Stern called “incredibly good offices.”

Yet the school did not release job placement data to prospective applicants, Stern said, adding that he felt that Yale’s architecture students are very desired in the marketplace. Weiss added that she believes architecture will always be an attractive professional discipline.

“People will always be passionate about architecture and will continue to pursue advanced studies in the field, regardless of the economic times,” Weiss said.

Three first-year architecture students interviewed said they applied because of longtime desires to study architecture at a high-ranking school like Yale and that these feelings were largely unaffected by the current economy and their salary expectations.

But two of the students said

the dearth of architecture jobs available to professionals when they applied meant they would have been more likely to pursue a different path had they not gotten into a top architecture program like Yale’s.

“With money being tighter, grad school may not be worth it unless you can get into a top program,” Scott Parks ARC ’14 said.

“Things like prestige end up playing a significant role [in your job prospects].”

While the recession has not affected the School of Architecture’s application rate this year, it may impede the school’s ability to meet students’ increasing financial need.

The School of Architecture follows a need-blind admissions policy so that students are not discriminated against in the application process if they require financial aid, Sharon DeLuca, assistant director of financial services at the school, said in a Monday email. But the school has a limited source of funding from which it provides aid, Stern said, and is unable to completely match need if the collective aid required by the admits exceeds this amount.

Compared to Yale College, the school does not have significant resources devoted to the purpose of financial aid, Stern said.

Stern added that the financial aid packages offered by Yale usually match or exceed those of competitive architecture schools. Unlike many others, Yale also provides need-based aid to international students using the same formula as it does for American students, DeLuca said. She added that Yale acts as a lender for international students taking out loans, since foreign students often face difficulty obtaining loans on their own.

Stern said one of his goals as dean is to increase the amount of financial resources devoted to aid.

Weiss said that applicants will receive admissions decisions by no later than April 1, and that the school expects its acceptance rate to remain unchanged.

This year’s applications were due Jan. 2.

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

Zupko to lead SOM career services

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER The School of Management’s career development office will gain a new director in March, and SOM students and administrators are hoping the new leadership will increase collaboration between the office and students.

SOM Dean Edward Snyder announced Monday that Julia Zupko, the former director of operations at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, will replace Ivan Kerbel as head of the career development office after he steps down for personal reasons at the end of the academic year. Considering that some SOM students feel the office does not provide the services it should, Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program Jeanette Gorgas said Zupko was selected for her experience in career services across many sectors at Booth and will lead her office in partnering with student groups.

“People come to places like SOM … to get career opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have,” Snyder said. “We have a challenge — it’s a fun challenge, an exciting challenge — to be able to develop high-quality opportunities in all sectors.”

Zupko has worked in the career services department at Booth since 2001, where she witnessed the school expand its career services in several sectors, such as non-profit and government work, Synder wrote in a Monday email to SOM students. Zupko also directed career management operations for Booth’s international campuses in London and Singapore, Snyder wrote, which he told the News will be important as SOM pursues its goal of building partnerships with international business schools.

Zupko could not be reached for this article, and Kerbel declined to comment.

As SOM is a relatively small school that can sometimes have difficulty bringing recruiters to cam-

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Ivan Kerbel, above, will step down as head of SOM’s career development office at the end of the academic year. pus, Gorgas said she hopes Zupko will work more closely with student groups in her new role at SOM to cater to their interests.

Jeanette Gorgas, SOM’s senior associate dean for MBA programs, said SOM students have diverse post-graduation plans — ranging from careers in finance and consulting to non-profit work and the public sector — and have equally varied expectations for what services the career development office should offer.

“The expectation of what the CDO should deliver varies widely,” Gorgas said. “Pretty much, the expectation is that we be great in all of these areas.”

SOM professor Ravi Dhar, who was on the search committee that appointed Zupko, said many schools struggle with the “development” aspect of career services offices because providing students with individualized counseling is difficult.

Search committee member Sura Tilakawardane SOM ’13 said Zupko had “really thought about” the challenge SOM faces in coordinat-

ing career recruitment for a small student body, Tilakawardane said.

He added that Zupko proposed a number of solutions to the school’s recruitment issues, though he declined to discuss them in detail.

Gorgas said some of the school’s professional clubs — organizations that cater to students interested in specific careers — provide members with career counseling services. She added that the career development office is working to foster dialogue with students to set clearer expectations about the office’s work.

Two SOM students who lead professional clubs said their organizations tend to provide the skills needed for obtaining a job, while the career development office maintains relationships with employers.

“There is a perception gap between expectations and delivery of the CDO, which is rooted in the name of the department,” consulting club co-chair Sanjin Bicanic SOM ’12 said in a Thursday email.

“Development suggests professional development, when it really stands for the development of relationships.”

SOM finance club president Michael Nichols SOM ’12 said in a Thursday email that his club offers one-on-one counseling, mock interviews and other training services to its members, sometimes charging a fee to help fund the opportunities. The career development office should include the members of professional clubs in planning, Nichols said, adding that while the office is involved with some of his club’s efforts, no formal partnership is in place.

Greg Jacobs SOM ’12, co-president of the general management and operations club, said in a Thursday email that students in his club often look for jobs that employ few MBA students. He added that these students often find the career development office’s services less helpful than their peers pursuing traditional business careers, in which on-campus recruiting efforts are more prominent.

Zupko will formally assume her new position March 5.

Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .

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“Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”

J.D. SALINGER AMERICAN AUTHOR

All rooms in new colleges to be singles NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said the University drew on decades of experience with the residential college system to ensure that the new layout “incorporates the best aspects of history.”

School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern ARC ’65, whose firm is designing the new colleges, said when Yale first built residential colleges, all student rooms were singles. Only after World War II, when the University saw an influx of students returning from the war and faced a shortage of rooms, did living with a roommate become common.

“These [new] colleges are being conceived of in the way the original colleges were being conceived of, which is that each person has his own private bedroom for study and sleep, and then a social space shared with others,” Stern said.

When Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges were built in 1961, undergraduates were in favor of single rooms because they were “sick and tired” of crowded doubles, Stern said. But the layout of those colleges turned out to be a “disaster” because the singles stood alone rather than being connected to common rooms, he said. In response to students’ concerns, Stiles and Morse added more suites during their recent renovations.

The addition of singles, as well the fact they will be air-conditioned, will also help the University house participants in summer programs, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said. Stern added that the buildings will be air-conditioned only during the summer and not during the school year.

Pamela Schirmeister, an associate dean of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said having air-conditioned singles would allow the University to more easily expand its alumni programs, such as the new Yale for Life continuing education program launched last summer.

Three out of six freshman counselors interviewed said they thought having singles will make the transition to college life less stressful for freshmen. Issues like cleanliness, room visitors and conflicting sleep schedules create less tension among suitemates than they do among roommates, they said.

Chelsea Cole ’12, a freshman

counselor in Ezra Stiles College, said placing students in singles within suites “balances the needs” of personal and social space.

Still, three of the 17 students interviewed said they were concerned that living in a single for four years might deprive students of the learning experience of sharing a room.

TIMELINE RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES THROUGH HISTORY

These [new] colleges are being conceived of in the way the original colleges were being conceived of.

1932 Jonathan Edwards College is the first residential college to be constructed at Yale. The residential college system was made possible by a donation by Edward H. Harkness 1897 and is modeled after the college system at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

ROBERT STERN Dean, Architecture School

1933 Branford, Calhoun, Davenport, Pierson, Saybrook and Trumbull Colleges are established.

“Learning to live with someone else regardless of your differences, like political or religious beliefs, is a life skill that everyone should have,” said Jose Martinez ’12, a freshman counselor in Trumbull College.

Two students interviewed expressed concerns over the fact that students in the new colleges, like those in Silliman and Timothy Dwight, will not be able to live with the rest of the freshman class on Old Campus.

Martinez said Old Campus is the “center of gravity” for freshmen, and the separation might “dilute the Yale experience.”

Meeske said the issue of whether to have freshmen in the new colleges live on Old Campus was one of the “biggest questions” administrators grappled with when planning the new colleges. But because Yale does not have space to house additional freshmen on Old Campus without scattering students from the same colleges among different buildings, administrators decided to house freshmen in the new colleges, he said.

The two new residential colleges will be built near Yale Health, on the north side of the Grove Street Cemetery, between Prospect, Canal and Sachem streets.

1934 Berkeley College opens its doors, named after the Bishop George Berkeley, who donated land and books to Yale in the early 18th century.

1935 Timothy Dwight College is established, named after two presidents of Yale.

1940 Silliman College, the largest college at Yale, is constructed.

1961 Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges are created, designed by modern architect Eero Saarinen. Former Yale president Whitney Griswold had announced plans to add new residential colleges a few years earlier, saying that the existing colleges were “so full that community life, discipline, education, even sanitation are suffering.”

1998 Yale begins renovations on old residential colleges, starting with Berkeley. The renovations end with Ezra Stiles in 2011.

Natasha Thondavadi and Madeline McMahon contributed reporting.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD and ANTONIA WOODFORD at sophie.gould@yale.edu and antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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2008 Yale announces plans for two new residential colleges, now slated to open in 2015.

As floor plans of the new colleges show, the bedrooms of both will exclusively singles.

Esserman, DeStefano unveil new policing plan NHPD FROM PAGE 1 department needed a change in tactics. He said the money for his proposed budget amendment to expand the NHPD, which he will send to the board within 30 days, would come transfers of funds from other city departments.

NHPD spokesman David Hartman admitted that the proportional workload of the investigative services division — which currently numbers 41 but would drop to 20 after the transfers announced Thursday — would likely increase.

But because police calls are inves-

tigated by both patrol officers and detectives, the increase in the patrol division would balance out the reduced numbers of plainclothes officers in following up on leads, he explained.

The patrol division will see its numbers swell further with the addition of a double class of officers from police academy. The New Haven police academy will have an intake of 40 to 50 officers in April or May, Hartman said, and the NHPD has secured around a dozen spots at the Connecticut Police Academy in Meriden, Conn., for extra officer training.

Each of the NHPD’s 425 officers will also walk a beat in some fashion, regardless of rank, Esserman said.

Three of the four officers who started walking the Newhallville beat Thursday afternoon were present at the press conference.

“If the vision that the chief has comes to fruition, I’m excited,” said four-year officer Scott Shumway, who walked the Newhallville beat Thursday.

While Shumway said he was familiar with “bad guys” in Newhallville after patrolling the area in his car, but added he was looking forward to building relationships with

the “good people” that make up the majority of the neighborhood.

Esserman has spearheaded these efforts to bolster the NHPD’s patrol operations, Hartman said. Since he was sworn in on Nov. 18, Esserman has made the reintroduction of community policing tactics — most visibly, in the reimplementation of walking beats and community meetings — his top priority.

“There’s no question that [Esserman’s] taking charge,” Hartman said.

“He’s out there, he’s walked the beat with numerous officers, spent time in the neighborhoods with district managers, identifying problems and

coming up with solutions.”

On Wednesday, Esserman heard about several safety and policing problems at a community meeting at the K-8 Wexler-Grant Community School in the Dixwell neighborhood.

There, residents raised several concerns to the chief: poor street lighting, the lack of visibility of officers in neighborhoods, the intersection of narcotics and violence, and NHPD officers’ use of Tasers.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu and JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .

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5.7%

Proportion of East Haven residents who are Latino.

The East Haven police department has been engulfed in a scandal this week as four officers have beeen indicted with charges relating to the systematic mistreatment of Latinos.

E. Haven mayor under fire for comment

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. is facing an onslaught of criticism for a comment he made to a reporter in the wake of four East Haven police officers’ arrests Tuesday morning.

After giving more than a dozen interviews to the media Tuesday, the day that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested four of his officers for systematic mistreatment of Latino residents, Maturo was asked by a WPIX TV reporter about what he would be doing for the local Latino community that night. His response — “I might have tacos when I go home, I’m not quite sure yet” — amplified the outrage of local residents over the police department scandal and sparked calls for Maturo’s resignation.

“My sincerest apologies go out to the East Haven community and, in particular, the Latino community for the insensitive and off-color comment that I made to WPIX … regarding the recent events affecting our community and our police department,” he said in a Wednesday press release. “Unfortunately, I let the stress of the situation get the best of me and inflamed what is already a serious and unfortunate situation.”

Maturo did not return several calls for comment Thursday, and the media frenzy ignited by his comments had not subsided by Thursday.

The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America, a national immigration policy advocacy organization, delivered 400 beef tacos to Maturo’s office Thursday afternoon, calling the move “a visual of all those

across the country who are outraged by his careless remarks.”

Shortly afterwards, the mayor’s office released an announcement saying that the tacos would be donated to soup kitchens around the city, as well as the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen in New Haven.

As the leader of our community, to say something so utterly insensitive is a complete disgrace.

GENE RUOCCO Chairman, East Haven Democratic Town Committee A Facebook group called “East Haven Taxpayers Calling For Mayor Maturo to Resign” was created Wednesday afternoon, and by Thursday evening had attracted over 880 “likes.” Connecticut’s largest newspaper, the Hartford Courant, published a Wednesday afternoon editorial titled “The Mayor Is An Idiot,” in which the paper’s editorial board called for Maturo’s resignation.

East Haven Democratic Town Committee Chairman Gene Ruocco joined the ranks of those calling for Maturo to resign.

“Maturo’s comment goes to the root of the racial profiling allegations here in East Haven,” Ruocco said in a Wednesday press release. “Everyone knows the seriousness of this matter and for him, as the leader of our community, to say something so utterly insensitive is a complete

disgrace. He should be ashamed of himself.”

While Gov. Dannel Malloy stopped short of calling for Maturo to step down, the governor called the mayor’s comments “repugnant” in a Wednesday morning press release. Malloy said Maturo’s comment represented either a “horrible lack of judgment” or an “underlying insensitivity to our Latino community that is unacceptable.”

The flap over the comment, the video of which has since gone viral on the Internet, took place in the shadow of Tuesday morning’s arrests, in which the four EHPD officers — including one sergeant — were indicted on three counts of excessive force, three counts of false arrest, three counts of obstruction of justice and four counts of conspiracy against rights.

In his apology, Maturo said his administration has “already taken steps begin [the] healing process” in the aftermath of his comment and the EHPD’s Latino mistreatment scandal.

He said he had commissioned a new advisory committee, the Law Enforcement Advisory Resource Network, to recommend policy and procedural updates to the East Haven Board of Police Commissioners. To ensure that the Latino community has a voice on this board, he said he appointed Jose Velasquez, a community leader from Puerto Rico, as a board member.

Maturo served as East Haven’s mayor from 1997 to 2007, and was re-elected in 2011. He was sworn in for his current term on Nov. 21.

Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .

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Tensions rise in the New Haven community after Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.’s insensitive comments about “eating tacos” to help the Latino community.

Inside trader tells story

Study suggests hypertension cause

BY MOHAMMAD SALHUT STAFF REPORTER

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Garrett Bauer, who will be sentenced in March for insider trading, exhorted Yalies on Thursday to avoid criminal behavior.

BY THOMAS VEITCH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Garrett Bauer, a former independent day trader on Wall Street who pleaded guilty to insider trading in December, warned aspiring financiers Thursday to resist the temptation to cheat the system.

Bauer, who will be sentenced in March, spoke to a crowd of about 25 students Thursday night about his crimes and their repercussions in a talk sponsored by the Yale College Investment Group. He said he regrets acting on illegally obtained information, which has led the prosecution in his case to recommend a prison sentence between nine and 11 years.

“I’m really here hoping to prevent you from committing the same crime I did — insider trading — or really any crime in general,” he said. “There are catastrophic consequences, and practically everybody thinks it’s not going to happen to them. Hopefully, after hearing what I have to say, you’ll put that extra moment of thought into whatever you do before you do it.”

Bauer said before his arrest, he typically traded between $50 million and $100 million per day, reaching a total of $8 billion in 2010. Insider trading, he said, accounted for “well under” 1 percent of his total trading.

In describing the process that led to his crime, Bauer said he received tips about business deals from longtime friend Kenneth Robinson, a mortgage broker, and lawyer Mat-

thew Kluger. All three are being charged for $37 million of illegally netted money.

The scheme was discovered after Bauer became more selective about which tips he used. Robinson — who had previously not generated large profits in his own personal trading account — then began acting on Kluger’s tips, Bauer said, and the Securities and Exchange Commission became suspicious of the spike in profits and investigated Robinson, who subsequently turned in himself, Bauer and Kluger.

He said his whole body “turned numb” when he realized that Robinson, his friend, must have turned him. While Bauer acknowledged that he was initially angry at Robinsion, he now accepts that “[Robinson] thought he was doing what was best for himself and his family at the time.”

In addition to insider trading, Bauer pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.

He compared his experience after getting caught to a hurricane: it was devastating being arrested and brought to prison, and he expects the coming years “to be a lot more difficult,” but right now he is in the eye of the storm and has not completely processed the turn of events.

During the past few months, Bauer said, he has given many talks condemning insider trading. He said he also volunteers at a soup kitchen in New York, teaches English and math

at an organization that serves homeless people and makes balloon animals for children with disabilities every Saturday afternoon.

According to Bauer, judges deliver large sentences for white-collar crimes in order to deter potential criminals, so he hopes that the judge will consider his efforts to discourage insider trading during his sentencing.

Despite the somber nature of his presentation, Bauer interspersed humor throughout the talk. He joked about being told that he is “lucky” because federal prisons — where he will serve his sentence — provide inmates with better food than state prisons.

Three attendees interviewed all said Bauer dispensed valuable advice for students considering a career in finance. Judy Zhang SOM ’12 praised Bauer for his candor, adding that although there are ethics classes at the School of Management, she feels that business students do not learn enough about these issues.

“This was the most powerful speech I’ve heard at Yale,” she said.

Sudharshan Mohanram ’13, investment manager for YSIG, said he thought Bauer showed great courage in telling his story, though he added that Bauer still comitted a “horrendous crime.”

Bauer grew up on Long Island and attended Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

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

Yale scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which the body regulates blood pressure.

A team of Yale scientists led by Lynn Boyden GRD ’01, an associate research scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, and Sterling Professor of Genetics Richard Lifton, conducted a study, published in January in the journal Nature, which found mutations in either of two genes can result in a rare form of inherited hypertension. Lifton, a senior author of the study, said the study’s finding is significant because these two genes had never previously been associated with hypertension, and researchers said the discovery may lead to a cure for the disease in the future.

“When either of these two genes are mutated, it causes a form of early severe hypertension,” he said. “It tells us that these proteins and their normal function are required for daily regulation of blood pressure.”

For the study, which started in 1994, the team tracked a total of 41 families.

Twenty-four of the families had an inherited mutation in one of the genes, KLHL3, and 17 of them have an mutation in the other gene, CUL3.

The genes had previously been difficult to locate due to the difficulty of mapping genes’ locations using traditional methods. The research team used a DNA sequencing technique known as whole exome sequencing, which analyzes the entire makeup of every gene, to overcome this problem.

Lifton said that while the study doesn’t illuminate the exact function of the genes, it does give the team basic background information.

“Think about this problem as a machine that regulates blood pressure, we don’t know what the pieces are, but we figure out the pieces by identifying which genes when mutated will affect overall function of the machine,” he said. “We are trying to understand precise function of these genes is in the

machine.”

Boyden, the first author of the paper, said that while this finding is a major breakthrough in the study of high blood pressure, there are still many steps left to take.

“The next step will be to show how these two genes work together to ultimately regulate sodium and salt reabsorption,” she said. “We also need to understand how they work together with other known genes and components to regulate salt and potassium levels in blood and thereby blood pressure.”

Tobias Carling, director of the Yale endocrine neoplasia laboratory and assistant professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, said he believes the study’s findings were significant because it helps establish groundwork to work towards a treatment, but added that more research was necesary.

Now people know how to think about this and approach it therapeutically.

TOBIAS CARLING Director, Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory “This is the first step of many steps, but almost always understanding the molecular pathogenesis is the most important step to develop treatment,” Carling said. “This study by itself is not a magic bullet on how to treat hypertension but it sort of sets the ground rules and now people know how to think about this and approach it therapeutically.”

Hypertension, which affects approximately 1 billion people, about a quarter of the world’s adult population, is a contributor to strokes, heart attacks and congestive heart failure.

Contact MOHAMMAD SALHUT at mohammad.salhut@yale.edu .

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Romney, Gingrich face off in Florida

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An aggressive Mitt Romney repeatedly challenged Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich in a fast-paced campaign debate Thursday night, ridiculing the former House speaker’s call to build costly projects in key primary states and to colonize the moon.

Romney vehemently denied Gingrich’s own accusation that he is anti-immigrant — more so than any other candidate. And, as charges flew back and forth, Gingrich rebutted any suggestion that he couldn’t rein in surging federal spending.

“You don’t just have to be cheap everywhere. You can actually have priorities to get things done,” Gingrich declared, saying that as speaker of the House he had helped balance the budget while doubling spending on the National Institutes of health.

The debate was the second in four days in the run-up to next Tuesday’s Florida primary. Opinion polls make the race a close one — slight advantage Romney — with two other contenders, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Texas Rep. Ron Paul far behind.

Gingrich’s upset victory in the South Carolina primary last week upended the race for the nomination to oppose Democratic President Barack Obama in the fall, and Romney in particular can ill-afford a defeat on Tuesday.

While the clashes between Gingrich and Romney dominated the debate, Santorum drew applause from the audience when he called on the two front-runners to stop attacking one another and “focus on the issues.”

“Can we set aside that Newt was a member of Congress … and that Mitt Romney is a wealthy guy?” he said in a tone of exasperation.

There were some moments of levity, including when Paul, 76, was asked whether he would be willing to release his medical records. He said he was, then challenged the other three men on the debate stage to a 25-mile bike race.

He got no takers.

The first clash occurred moments after the debate o p e n e d , wh e n G i n g r i c h responded to a question by saying Romney was the most antiimmigrant of all four contenders on stage. “That’s simply inexcusable,” the former Massachusetts governor responded.

“Mr. Speaker, I’m not antiimmigrant, my father was born in Mexico,” Romney declared.

“I’m not anti-immigrant.”

At the same time, Romney noted that Gingrich’s campaign had been pressured to stop running a radio ad that called Romney anti-immigrant after Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called on Gingrich to do so.

He called on Gingrich to apologize for the commercial, but got no commitment.

About an hour later, Romney pounced when the topic

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney participate in the Republican presidential candidates debate, Jan. 26, 2012. turned to Gingrich’s proposal for an permanent American colony on the moon — an issue of particular interest to engineers and others who live on Florida’s famed Space Coast.

A career businessman before he became a politician, Romney said: “If I had a business executive come to me and say I want to spend a few hundred billion dol-

lars to put a colony on the moon, I’d say, `You’re fired.’”

The audience erupted in cheers, but Romney wasn’t finished.

He said the former speaker had called for construction of a new Interstate highway in South Carolina, a new VA hospital in northern New Hampshire and widening the port of Jackson-

Pentagon outlines cuts

BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and Marine Corps, retiring older planes and trimming war costs. It drew quick criticism from Republicans, signaling the difficulty of scaling back defense budgets in an election year.

The changes Defense Secretary Leon Panetta described at a news conference are numerous but hardly dramatic. They aim to save money by delaying some big-ticket weapons like a next-generation nucleararmed submarine, but the basic shape and structure of the military remains the same.

The Army would shrink from a peak of 570,000 to 490,000 within five years, and the Marines would drop by 20,000, to 182,000. Those are considerable declines, but both services will still be slightly larger than on 9/11, before they began a decade of war. Both will keep their footholds abroad, although the Army will decrease its presence in Europe and the Marines plan to increase theirs in Asia.

Panetta said the administration will ask Congress for $525 billion to run the Pentagon in 2013 — $6 billion less than the current budget. War costs, which are not considered part of the base budget, would decline from $115 billion to $88 billion, reflecting the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

The base budget would then increase in each year of the Pentagon’s five-year plan, reaching $567 billion in 2017. A year ago the Pentagon had projected 2017 spending to reach $622 billion. The Pentagon counts those reductions in projected future spending as “defense savings.”

When Obama took office in January 2009 the Pentagon’s base budget was $513 billion. In 2001 it was $297 billion.

Under a budget deficit-cutting deal Congress made last summer, the Pentagon is committed to reducing projected spending by $487 billion over the next 10 years.

The plan Panetta presented Thursday covers the first five years of that span and would cut a cumulative total of $259 billion in planned spending.

“We believe this is a balanced and complete package,” Panetta said.

In a bid to pre-empt election-year Republican criticism, Panetta said the plan begins to shift the Pentagon’s focus from the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to future challenges in Asia, the Mideast and in cyberspace. More special opera-

ville to accommodate the larger ships that will soon be able to transit the Panama Canal.

“This idea of going state to state and promising people what they want to hear, promising hundreds of billions of dollars to make people happy, that’s what got us into trouble in the first place,” Romney said.

Gingrich responded that part

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey outline the main areas of proposed spending cuts during a news conference at the Pentagon. tions forces like the Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden will be available around the world, he said, and the Pentagon will stress improvements in cyberdefenses.

Republicans were quick to pounce on the proposed Army and Marine Corps reductions.

“These cuts reflect President Obama’s vision of an America that is weakened, not strengthened, by our men and women in uniform,” said Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

McKeon voted for the bill last August that established the requirement for $487 billion in defense savings over five years.

“Taking us back to a pre-9/11 military force structure places our country in grave danger,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee that will hold hearings on the Pentagon budget plan.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the Panetta plan “ignores the lessons of history.” He said it provides for a military that is “too small to respond effectively to events that may unfold over the next few years.”

The military’s top general, however, defended the administration’s approach.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is convinced that the risks raised by cutting the size of the military are manageable. He said failing to make these changes would have meant even bigger risks.

“This budget is a first step — it’s a

down payment — as we transition from an emphasis on today’s wars to preparing for future challenges,” he said, adding, “This budget does not lead to a military in decline.”

Among other details Panetta disclosed: --The Air Force would retire some older planes including about two dozen C-5A cargo aircraft and 65 of its oldest C-130 cargo planes.

--The Navy would keep a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers but retire seven cruisers earlier than planned. It also would delay purchase of some other ships, including a new Virginia-class submarine.

--Purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets, to be fielded by the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, would be slowed.

--Current plans for building a new generation of submarines that carry longrange nuclear missiles would be delayed by two years. The current fleet of nuclearcapable bombers and land-based nuclear missiles would be left unchanged.

--Military pay raises will remain on track until 2015, when the pace of increase will be slowed by an undetermined amount.

--Obama will ask Congress to approve a new round of domestic base closures, although the timing of this was left vague and there is little chance that lawmakers would agree to this in a presidential election year.

The defense spending plan is scheduled to be submitted to Congress as part of the administration’s full 2013 budget on Feb. 13.

of campaigning is becoming familiar with local issues, adding, “The port of Jacksonville is going to have to be expanded. I think that’s an important thing for a president to know.” He went on to refer to completion of an Everglades project that he did not describe, then noted he had worked to expand NIH while he was speaker.

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

The additional flexibility announced Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter’s commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money.

But Twitter sees the censorship tool as a way to ensure individual messages, or “tweets,” remain available to as many people as possible while it navigates a gauntlet of different laws around the world.

Before, when Twitter erased a tweet it disappeared throughout the world. Now, a tweet containing content breaking a law in one country can be taken down there and still be seen elsewhere.

Twitter will post a censorship notice whenever a tweet is removed. That’s similar to what Internet search leader Google Inc. has been doing for years when a law in a country where its service operates requires a search result to be removed.

Like Google, Twitter also plans to the share the removal requests it receives from governments, companies and individuals at the chillingeffects.org website.

The similarity to Google’s policy isn’t coincidental. Twitter’s general counsel is Alexander Macgillivray, who helped Google draw up its censorship policies while he was working at that company.

“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user’s voice,” Twitter wrote in a blog post. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t. The tweets must continue

to flow.”

Twitter, which is based in San Francisco, is tweaking its approach now that its nearly 6-year-old service has established itself as one of the world’s most powerful megaphones.

Daisy chains of tweets already have played instrumental roles in political protests throughout the world, most notably in the uprising that overthrew Egypt’s government a year ago.

It’s a role that Twitter has embraced, but the company came up with the new filtering technology in recognition that it will likely be forced to censor more tweets as it pursues an ambitious agenda. Among other things, Twitter wants to expand its audience from about 100 million active uses now, to more than 1 billion.

Reaching that goal will require expanding into more countries, which will mean Twitter will be more likely to have to submit to laws that run counter to the free-expression protections guaranteed under the First Amendment in the U.S. If Twitter defies a law in a country where it has employees, those people could be arrested.

That’s one reason Twitter is unlikely to try to enter China, where its service is currently blocked. Google for several years agreed to censor its search results in China to gain better access to the country’s vast population, but stopped that practice two years after engaging in a high-profile showdown with Chain’s government.

Google now routes its Chinese search results through Hong Kong, where the censorship rules are less restrictive.

In its Thursday blog post, Twitter said it hadn’t yet used its ability to wipe out tweets in an individual country. All the tweets it has previously censored were wiped out throughout the world. Most of those included links to child pornography.

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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.

PANCAKES AND BOOZE BY TAKUYA SAWAOKA

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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Harvard sees first drop in apps in five years

BY ELIZABETH AURITT STAFF WRITER For the first time in five years, Harvard College has seen a dip in applications. This year 34,285 students applied for spots in the Harvard College Class of 2016, down 665 applicants from last year.

The 1.9 percent decline in applications comes after an alltime high of 34,950 applications for this year’s freshman class.

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R.

Fitzsimmons ’67 said he a t t r i b u te s the decline in applications to Princeton’s HARVARD and the University of Virginia’s reinstatements of their early action programs, a move which Harvard also made this year. The three colleges’ decisions to offer early action programs after a four-year hiatus may have led

students to apply to fewer colleges, Fitzsimmons said.

Fitzsimmons also noted that the number of high school seniors from the Northeast, home to many of Harvard’s applicants each year, has decreased.

While Fitzsimmons said the make-up of this year’s applicant pool resembled last year’s, he noted that international applications to the College increased by only 5 percent this year, as opposed to last year’s 20 percent jump.

Fitzsimmons credited the rise in applicant numbers over the past five years to Harvard’s generous financial aid. Under the current financial aid program, students whose families earn less than $65,000 per year attend the College for free. Most families with incomes of less than $150,000 are asked to contribute no more than 10 percent of their annual income.

Other Ivy League institutions also witnessed a decline in their application numbers this year.

Applications to Columbia Uni-

versity decreased by 8.9 percent, according to The Columbia Spectator, and applications to the University of Pennsylvania decreased by 1.7 percent this admissions cycle, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

However, Yale saw applications rise by 8.5 percent and Stanford by 7 percent.

Last year, 2,188 students were admitted, leading to a recordlow acceptance rate of 6.2 percent.

Harvard has already admitted 772 students to the Class of

2016 through its reinstated early action program.

Admissions officers are currently reviewing applications for the regular decision cycle as well as those of students who were deferred during the early action process.

Regular decision applicants will be notified of their admissions decisions by email on March 29. All admitted students, whether they are admitted in December or March, must accept or decline Harvard’s offer

by May 1.

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Minutemen controversial

Cornell admits nearly a third early

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Nashoba Krisnamurthy Santhanam speaks at Wednesday night’s College Republicans meeting.

BY YASMIN GAGNE SENIOR STAFF WRITER Last time Jim Gilchrist set foot on campus, mayhem ensued. Six years later, the Columbia University College Republicans want to bring him back.

CUCR hopes to bring the controversial founder of the Minuteman Project—which calls itself “a citizens’ vigilance operation monitoring immigration, business, and government” on its website—back to campus as a speaker.

According to CUCR president William Prasifka, CC ’12, “Gilchrist is willing to do it, it’s a question of expense and whether people will allow free speech on campus.”

Gilchrist, whose last visit to the University in fall 2006 ended in a violent and controversial brawl, had said in 2007 that he wanted to return to campus.

Prasifka said that the event is intended to promote free speech, not to push a political agenda. “The sole reason for the purpose of the event would not be to discuss immigration policy but to discuss academic freedom and the freedom of the University.”

The Minuteman Project claims to pro-

vide legitimate aid to U.S. law enforcement by patrolling the Mexican border for illegal immigrants. Critics have accused the group of COLUMBIA being a thinly veiled racist organization that practices vigilante law.

On the evening of Oct. 4, 2006, Gilchrist visited campus, also at the request of CUCR. Several minutes into his speech, protesters mounted the stage with a banner reading “No one is illegal” in three languages.

The clash that ensued between protesters and supporters of Gilchrist led to several people being kicked, hit, and tackled.

Gilchrist’s appearance received national media attention and sparked debate over the limits of free speech and protests on college campuses.

Prasifka acknowledged that Gilchrist’s last visit to campus caused protests, but insisted that CUCR does “not want to be seen as trying to do something stupid to get attention or relive past glories of the orga-

nization.”

Emily Tamkin, CC ’12, general manager of Columbia Political Union and a former Spectator editorial page editor, said, “We absolutely support CUCR and any other organization’s right to bring any speaker to campus that they feel would further political and civic engagement.”

The Minutemen are obviously a group of very hateful vigilantes and we object strongly to any of their actions.

SARAH GITLIN Media director, Columbia University College Democrats Columbia University College Democrats media director Sarah Gitlin, CC ’13, said that the Democrats were not opposed to the visit, despite opposing Gilchrist’s ideology.

Seeing its number of early decision applicants rise 3.3 percent from last year, Cornell accepted almost 33 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2016 — a 2.35 percent decrease from last year.

While the number of accepted early decision applicants dropped, statistics show that applying early decision to Cornell did not become dramatically more difficult for the Class of 2016.

Jason Locke, director of undergraduate admissions, said that 1,171 students were admitted under the early decision program this year — 44 students fewer than were accepted for the Class of 2015. 36.4 percent of the incoming freshman class was enrolled under the early admissions program, a decrease of 2.2 percent from the previous class.

Regular decision applications also increased, closely miroring the early decision application rate.

The preliminary application count for the complete admissions cycle for the Class of 2016 is 37,673, up by about 3.5 percent from the Class of 2015. The University plans to enroll 3,182 freshmen in the coming academic year.

Although potential competitors Harvard University and Princeton University reinstated early decision programs for the Class of 2016, Cornell expanded its early decision pool, Locke said.

While Cornell’s applicant pool grew this year, Yale University’s and Columbia University’s early admissions applicant pools decreased dramatically after Harvard and Princeton’s decisions. Yale’s applicant pool decreased from 5,257 to 4,310 for the Class of 2016, while Columbia’s applications dropped from 3,274 to 3,088.

Other Ivy League schools were largely unaffected by this change in Harvard and Prince-

ton’s policies. Dartm o u t h College a p p l i cations increased to 2,904 from 2 ,75 3 fo r CORNELL the Class of 2015, the University of Pennsylvania’s applications decreased to 4,526 from 4,571 for the Class of 2015 and Brown University’s applications increased to 2,904 from 2,753.

It was a big relief when I decided to apply [early decision] to Cornell and got in.

SAM BROMER High school senior 49.4 percent of the applicants admitted through early decision were women, an increase of 2.7 percent from the past admissions cycle. 20.7 percent of admitted students have parents or grandparents who are Cornell alumni, an increase from 20.3 percent for the Class of 2015.

Similar to previous years, New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were the top five states represented in the Class of 2016’s accepted early decision pool.

Sam Bromer ’16, a high school student admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences from Scarsdale, N.Y., expressed much relief over his acceptance to the school.

“I was ecstatic, I put a lot of work in and Cornell was by far my first choice. It was a big relief when I decided to apply [early decision] to Cornell and got in,” Bromer said.

Locke said the full profile for the Class of 2016 will be released after April 1 when the admissions cycle is completed.

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Univ. opens Brown email to Google+

BY ELIZABETH KOH STAFF WRITER Google+ became available to Brown Gmail users Jan. 23, adding it to the lineup of Google Apps first made available last July by Computing and Information Services. Google+, a social networking site, test-launched in June but did not become widely available for domain-based users until October.

More than 15 million students from other colleges and universities have joined the network since the June launch, a Google spokesperson said.

But the University waited until January to enable the service due to concerns about implementation.

“We try not to make a lot of changes in very close succession if it results in a lot of help desk calls,”

said Stephanie Obodda, assistant manager for communication and computer education. “We try to space things BROWN out a little bit.”

University staff deliberated before deciding to make Google+ available, she said.

“We internally investigated what it would mean to turn Google+ on,” Obodda said. “We looked at things like the age requirement and privacy, and for us it was an easier decision because of the opt-in system.”

The opt-in system allows Gmail users the option to create a public

Google+ profile but does not require them to do so.

“By turning it on, everyone on campus has a choice to create a Google+ account,” she added. “It gives people the ability if they are interested.”

Though no formal requests to add Google+ were filed with CIS, Obodda pointed to “a lot of in-person requests, people asking around campus” for access to the service.

She noted benefits of registering with Google+, including the ability to collaboratively edit Google documents and organize meetings, especially in “inclement weather or across campus.”

Despite the new features, student reactions were lukewarm.

“I use Google+, but not like every day,” Alpha Diallo ‘15 said, adding

that he mostly uses it to socialize with friends. Diallo said he would not consider using Google+ with his Brown email account.

I like Google — because each person chooses how much information to receive.

STEPHANIE OBODDA Assistant manager for communication and computer education, Brown University “I use Facebook. I do have a Twitter, but I’m more on Facebook,” Paige Allen ‘15 said. “I don’t really know what (Google+) is, but no one’s really explained it to me.

I mean, if I knew more about it, I would, but I’m pretty good where I am with my social networks.”

For Obodda, the new Google+ profile is another opportunity to edit and share information, from “computing tips” to “feedback from coworkers.”

“I like Google+ because each person chooses how much information to receive,” she said. “If I put all these tips on Google+, and if people get bored of hearing them, they can put me in a different circle, or if they’re interested they can put me in a circle too.”

Obodda remains hopeful that the social networking service will be useful to students.

“We’re excited to see how it’s going to be used on campus,” she said.

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W. bball prepares for Crimson

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Bulldogs travel to Cambridge tonight for what might be the most important game of their season thus far.

W. BASKETBALL A week after earning a decisive 10-point victory at Brown in their first Ivy League game of the season, the Elis (9–7, 1–1 Ivy) fell to the Bears in their second conference game, a tightly contested match that ended in a heartbreaking 60–55 loss. Even this one loss, especially so early in the season, puts Yale’s title hopes in jeopardy and raises the stakes in tonight’s game against Harvard (8–7, 1–0 Ivy).

“We need to win to stay in the running for the Ivy League title,” captain Michelle Cashen ’12 said. “One loss doesn’t put us out of the running, but every game counts now.”

The Crimson, who finished tied for second with the Bulldogs in the Ivy League last season, also aspire to take the league title.

The preseason Ivy League poll picked Harvard to finish second and Yale third, but both teams will be chasing twotime defending champion Princeton.

The Tigers (13–4, 3–0 Ivy) have only one conference loss in the past two seasons and are the clear frontrunners once again this year. Because the Ivy League is the only remaining Division I conference that does not have a playoff system, the league championship and the conference’s automatic NCAA tournament bid go to the team with the most league wins.

The Bulldogs need every win they can get if they hope to catch Princeton.

Last season the Elis completed the season sweep of Harvard for the first time since 1994, with convincing wins of 11 and 12 points against the Cantabs. These wins gave Yale the tiebreaker over Harvard that sent the Bulldogs to their first ever National Invitational Tournament.

If the two teams finished tied for second again, the outcome of tonight’s contest could determine which team is awarded the postseason bid.

To ensure that this game does go their way, the Elis will look to guard Sarah Halejian ’15 to continue the high level of play she has exhibited over the past few weeks. Halejian has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for three straight weeks and is averaging 14.5 points and 2.5 assists per game over that stretch. The freshman stepped into a starting role when the team faced the University of Houston in November. She has continued to excel over the past few weeks, as evidenced by the Rookie of the Week honors. Most recently she had 13 points, three rebounds and two steals in last week’s loss to Brown.

One loss doesn’t put us out of the running [for the Ivy League title], but every game counts now.

MICHELLE CASHEN ’12 Captain, women’s basketball That loss was particularly disappointing, not only because of the blow it dealt to Yale’s title hopes, but also because the Elis had defeated the Bears so handily the week before. The team was done in by a poor shooting night and a failure to control the possession game, but Halejian said they are determined to look past it.

“We’re looking forward and are going to try to just put Friday behind us,” Halejian said earlier this week. “We need to have a good week of practice and make sure that we are ready for Harvard on Friday.”

The Crimson are led by its backcourt duo of Brogan Berry and Christine Clark.

The alliterative pair is averaging 28 points and seven assists per game together.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Lavietes Pavilion.

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

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Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 has made an early impression on the team, earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week four times this season.

Alumni remember historic streak SWIMMING FROM PAGE 12 won another gold in the 1952 Olympics. In 1956 Rex Aubrey ’58 set the world record for the 100 yard freestyle in Payne Whitney’s Kiphuth Exhibition Pool. Aubrey also represented his home country of Australia in the 1952 Olympics. John Marshall ’53, another Australian, broke 28 world records in his career and swam in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics. When Marshall came to Yale he was the fastest middle distance swimmer in the world, said Foster de Jesus, ’60, the 1956-’57 freshman captain, in an email to the News.

Giegengack said the team’s success was made possible by Kiphuth, who also coached five Olympic teams and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963.

Jeffery Farrell GRD ’63, a member of the 1960 Olympic team whom Kiphuth coached in preparation for the Olympic Trials, said Kiphuth’s success was in part due to his innovative training style. He was one of the first coaches to use dry-land training, a practice that has since been adopted by most swim programs across the country. He also introduced a physical fitness requirement to the Yale curriculum. Throughout the 1960s, one could not graduate from Yale without doing 20 pushups, 20 situps, five pull-ups and swimming 100 yards. Kiphuth and his assistants watched freshmen trying to meet those requirements and recruited potential swimmers, Giegengack said.

Elis hoping to snap cold streak HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 game in our last four is unacceptable, so we’re going to be just as hungry as they are.”

After the matchup with Harvard, the Elis will travel north to take on Dartmouth (8–8–2, 5–5– 1) for the second time this season. The Bulldogs went head-tohead with the Big Green on Oct. 29 and prevailed 2–1 behind second-period goals from Antoine Laganiere ’13 and Chad Ziegler ’12.

In that game the Elis took advantage of some good goaltending by Jeff Malcolm ’13, who saved 29 out of the 30 shots he faced. Heading into this weekend, the situation in net is unclear after Malcolm and Nick Maricic ’13 started a game apiece last weekend. Brockett said that the team will be confident in whomever is between the pipes.

The Big Green is coming off two strong showings in overtime contests last weekend. After falling narrowly to Cornell 4–3 on Friday night, Dartmouth finished the

weekend by storming back from a 4–1 deficit and beating Colgate 5–4 on Saturday.

Yale and Harvard have faced off 230 times with the first game occurring on Feb. 26, 1900. The Cantabs lead the series 135–77–18, but Yale has taken four out of the last five.

Two wins this weekend would be huge as the Bulldogs attempt to crawl out of the ECAC basement.

After sitting near the top of the conference early in the season, the Elis have slipped to a tie for sixth with Dartmouth. Despite Yale’s slide, the Bulldogs are only three points out of third place and have plenty of time to make up some ground before the end of the regular season.

The puck drops against Harvard at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night and at 7 p.m. against Dartmouth on Saturday.

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

[Bob Kiphuth] was unlike any coach I’ve ever met because he was an intellectual .

JEFFREY FARRELL GRD ’63 Member of the 1960 Olympic team Kiphuth also distinguished himself with his personality.

“He was unlike any coach I’ve ever met because he was an intellectual,” Farrell said.

After getting to know Kiphuth outside of the pool, Farrell described him as, “a very sauvé, interesting professor type.”

This intellectual curiosity may have helped Farrell swim in the Olympic Trials. Farrell, the fastest 100-yard freestyler in the world at the time of 1960 Olympic trials, had an emergency appendectomy six days before the trials. Kiphuth, who, according to Farrell, knew human anatomy so well he would sometimes quiz medical students, visited the hospital before the surgery. He told the surgeon how to make the incision to maximize Farrell’s chances

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Former swimming captain Howie Johnson ’42 helped set a world record in the 400-yard freestyle relay and equaled the world 100-meterfreestyle mark in one meet his senior season. of a quick recovery. Farrell is unsure if Kiphuth actually swayed the surgeon’s decision. The only thing he knows with certainty is six days later he competed in the Olympic Trials, and, in 1960, he represented the United States at the Olympic games.

Yale’s win streak came to an end in 1961, two years after Kiphuth retired, during a dual meet against Navy.

“The guys on the 1961 team were very upset by that very close defeat,” Giegengack said. “It took us a long time to persuade those on that team whom we knew that they didn’t owe the rest of us anything, beyond doing their best, which they

certainly did.”

As for Kiphuth, he “took it like a man,” according to a letter sent to Farrell from John Benet, who had dinner with Kiphuth the night of the defeat. Benet was more bothered by the loss than Kiphuth. Kiphuth on the other hand, “didn’t dwell on it too much,” Farrell said.

This year, the men’s swimming and diving team, although not quite at 201 consecutive wins, has already restarted the tradition. The Bulldogs are currently undefeated with a record of 5-0.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

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Elis to take on ranked Crimson

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER All of the attention around campus may be focused on tonight’s game against the Crimson, but members of the men’s basketball team said that Saturday’s game against the Big Green is also important.

M. BASKETBALL Yale (12–4, 2–0 Ivy) plays host to No. 23 Harvard (16–2, 2–0 Ivy) and then Dartmouth (4–14, 0–2) this weekend in the team’s first back-to-back games of the season. Head coach James Jones said that there is the possibility of a letdown in the second game. “As a coach I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried,â€? Jones said. “You try to think about just one game at a time, but since the games are in such close proximity to each other ‌ [I am] worried about guys not having the same energy.â€?

Forward Greg Mangano ’12 — who leads the Elis with 19.4 points and 10.3 rebounds per game — added that beating Harvard but then losing to Dartmouth the next night would nullify the victory because of the significance of each game in the Ancient Eight.

Jones emphasized that the Bulldogs’ size would be an advantage this weekend. He added that the Elis are most effective offensively when they work the ball inside the paint. “Our game plan is always to go inside,� Jones said. “We try to do

that every single game, and we are better when we do that.�

The Twin Towers of Mangano and center Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14, who both check in at 6’10�, create matchups that neither the Crimson or Big Green can match.

While Jones said that he thought Yale matched up well defensively with archrival Harvard, he expressed concern about a stingy Crimson defense that allows the fourth-fewest points per game in Division I. Guard Jesse Pritchard ’14, however, said that the issue is to make sure Yale dictates the pace of the game. “The key to most games for us is playing our style of basketball,�

Pritchard said. “If we take care of business we can win most games.�

However, it would be hard for them to deny the excitement surrounding tonight’s game. Tickets have been sold out for three weeks, but free student tickets will be made available today starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Ray Tompkins House ticket office. Jones said that he has told his players to stay Yalethrough University focused the hype,Library but that Digital Collections : Article View does not mean that the players are not enthused. “My grandma and grandpa are coming,� Pritchard said. “It’s the #$- ,) &' ( " ,#%% () $#& " !+ (',& ) &* ) $$ &

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Tipoff for both Friday and Saturday will be at 7 p.m.

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

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Forward Greg Mangano ’12, Yale’s leader in both points per game (19.4) and rebounds per game (10.3), will lead Yale against Harvard and Dartmouth.

Yale’s own winning streak

Bulldogs to visit Crimson, Big Green

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER The history of Yale sports is one of record breaking.

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER

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The men’s hockey team will hit the road this weekend for two Ivy showdowns, marking the first time since the season-opening Ivy shootout that the team will play Ancient Eight opponents in consecutive games.

The longest winning streak in NCAA history belongs to the Trinity men’s squash team with 252 straight wins. Yale recently ended that streak, but the Bulldogs also have their own historic streak. In fact, Yale men’s swimming and diving claims the second longest winning streak in NCAA history. For 16 years, from 1945 to 1961, through 201 consecutive dual meets, the Bulldogs were untouchable. “It was an improbable string of victories, made possible by the charisma and inspiration of a larger-than-life individual, [Robert Kiphuth],� said Robert Giegengack ’60 in an email to the News. Kiphuth was the head coach of men’s swimming and diving for 42 years from 1917 to 1959, and Giegengack was a member of the team from 1956-1960. Under Kiphuth, Yale won 528 out of 540 meets and four NCAA championships in 1942, 1944, 1951 and 1953.

During the team’s undefeated streak, Giegengack said swimming and diving popularity boomed at Yale. Signs on campus read: “Heel Yale Swimming, Yale’s most successful sport!� 125 swimmers showed up to join the team in 1956. Students packed into the natatorium to watch meets. During a tense Harvard-Yale dual meet in 1960, the standing room only crowd erupted in a spontaneous rendition of “Bulldog� when the Elis scored the winning points. “The Harvard guys, I’m sure, will never forget that day,� Giegengack added.

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Former swimming and diving coach Robert Kiphuth led the Elis for 42 years between 1917 and 1959, building the team into one of the nation’s top programs. books, most of the members of the team regarded it as routine. “I remember a lot of press coverage at the time,� said Giegengack, “which struck us all as something of a mystery...�

During these glory years, the swim-

ming and diving team was a hotbed for Olympic and world class athletes.

Jimmy McLane ’53 won two gold medals in the 1948 Olympics at age 17 and

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The Elis (8–9–2, 5–6–1 ECAC) will travel first to Harvard on Friday night and then to Dartmouth on Saturday. Captain Brian O’Neill ’12 said that despite the hype of playing Harvard, the team will keep things business as usual. “Obviously Harvard is a rival of ours,�

O’Neill said. “But every ECAC game is tough, so we are going to treat it just like any other weekend.�

Over the past two weeks, the Elis are just 0–3–1 and most recently fell to ECAC bottom-feeder RPI by a 2–1 score Saturday night. Unlike last year’s team, which was a sho0-in for the national tournament, this year’s team will likely need to capture the ECAC postseason tournament to get a bid to the NCAAs. Forward Charles Brockett ’12 said that the team needs to start gaining momentum now in order to make such a run. “It’s important for us to not only play better, but to play the style that we know how to play,� he said. “Building momentum and being able to take that into the postseason would be really important for us.�

The improvements will have to begin on the power play. Although the Elis’ power play has been one of the best in the nation for much of the season, it has not been clicking over the past two weekends. Over that span, the Elis have scored just twice in 22 opportunities, a meager

9 percent conversion rate. This caused the Bulldogs’ overall conversion rate to fall from just over 28 percent to about 24 percent. “We’re not getting enough pucks to the net, and we’re not being careful enough with the puck around the blue lines,� O’Neill said. “When you’re struggling on the power play, the best thing to do is to simplify and keep getting pucks to the net.�

When you’re struggling on the power play, the best thing to do is to simplify and keep getting pucks to the net.�

BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 Captain, men’s hockey Against Harvard, however, the penalty kill will likely be more important than the power play. The Crimson (3–4–6, 4–6–8) is first in the nation on the power play, converting just about one in three opportunities. The Cantabs are playing solid hockey and received eight votes in the most recent polling for the national rankings. Despite its solid play, Harvard will be looking for its first win since Dec. 10, when it beat Princeton 4–3. Since then, the Crimson has skated to five ties and three losses. Among the ties are contests with Union, Colgate and Cornell, three of the top four teams in the conference. “I’m sure they’re hungry for a win,�

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THE SECOND LONGEST WIN STREAK IN NCAA INTERCOLLEGIATE VARSITY HISTORY, SET

BY THE YALE MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM FROM 1945 TO 1961. Their 16 year streak outlasted the Trinity men’s squash team’s 252 win marathon by two years. That mark was ended