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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 81 · yaledailynews.com
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CROSS CAMPUS
MOMENTUM SCIENCE BACKS WINNING STREAKS
POLICE TURMOIL
POP MUSIC
W. TENNIS
NHPD restructuring protested; East Haven chief resigns in scandal
BEATLES HITS ANALYZED FOR MUSICAL SECRETS
No. 35 Elis upset No. 21 Notre Dame before close loss to No. 10 Michigan
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YUAG renovations near end
Yale model back on track
Say goodbye? Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92, an esteemed art historian and chair of Yale’s History of Art Department, may leave for Stanford after this school year, he said in a Monday interview. Nemerov, whose “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present” was the most popular class on campus this semester, has not yet accepted or rejected a recent offer from Stanford. Brace yourselves. After a game of assassins brought panlist hijacking and breaches of privacy to class of 2013, this year’s Sophomore Class Council announced in a Monday email that the class of 2014 would begin its own round of the game on Feb. 4. The winning team will receive a $200 gift certificate to Miya’s. Sisterhood has started. After
an intense weekend rush period, 126 women received bids to Yale’s three sororities Monday afternoon. All three sororities had enough women accept their bids to make quota. One hundred percent of women who received a bid from Kappa Alpha Theta accepted.
Building a distillery. A group of Yale architecture students arrived in Louisville this week to design an urban distillery as part of an advanced design studios program. The project will only be designed, and will not be constructed. A spoonful of cinnamon?
The principal of Clinton Avenue School, an elementary school in Fair Haven, has been placed on paid administrative leave after she reportedly watched a student take the “cinnamon challenge,” in which competitors attempt to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon at lunch and did nothing to stop it, the New Haven Register reported.
Close one. A fire erupted at a residence on Winchester Avenue in Newhallville on Sunday, but firefighters were able to get all those inside out safely and contain the damage to the second floor. The Red Cross found shelter for 11 families displaced by the fire, the Register reported. Recompense. Today is the last day for Connecticut Light & Power customers statewide to apply for rebates for power lost during the snowstorm that struck Connecticut just before Halloween last fall and left many in the state without power for days, even weeks. Honored. Smilow’s Breast Center earned three-year accreditation as a breast center from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers last week. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER T h e Un ive rs i ty ’s l a t est investment returns indicate that the Yale endowment model has regained momentum among its peers. Yale’s investment performance exceeded the average endowment return at colleges and universities nationwide in fiscal year 2011 by almost 3 percent, according to the 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments released today. Though the University’s endowment plunged by 24.6 percent when the recession hit in fiscal year 2009 — far worse than an average 18.7 percent lost by higher education endowments that year — Yale’s nontraditional investment strategy has helped the endowment recover and maintain strong long-term growth. Yale returned 21.9 percent on its investments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, while the national average among 823 colleges and universities included in the study was a 19.2 percent return. Those institutions also maintained an average annual return on investments of 5.6 percent over the past decade, while Yale’s endowment returned an annual average of 10.1 percent during the same period. Provost Peter Salovey praised Yale’s performance in light of the financial difficulties the University has weathered in
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The Yale University Art Gallery will reopen its doors in December 2012, ending 14 years of restoration and rehabilitation. BY URVI NOPANY AND NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTERS A 14-year-long renovation project will draw to a close as the Yale University Art Gallery gears up to
open its doors to visitors in December 2012. The $135 million construction project involves a sweeping restoration and rehabilitation of the Art Gallery’s existing space and an extension resulting in
69,975 square feet of exhibition space in total, Art Gallery director Jock Reynolds said at a press conference in New York City Thursday. Although construction on the Art Gallery will end in early March, it will take the
museum’s staff the rest of the calendar year to reinstall the collections in their new spaces, said Duncan Hazard ’71 and Richard Olcott, the project’s head architects. SEE YUAG PAGE 8
TIMELINE YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY RENOVATION 1832 The Yale University Art Gallery opens in the Trumbull Gallery. 1866 The Art Gallery expands into Peter Bonnett Wright’s Street Hall. 1928 The Old Art Gallery, designed by Egerton Swartwout, unites the galleries along Chapel Street. The iconic bridge over High Street connecting the Old Art Gallery and Street Hall is constructed.
2008 The History of Art Department moves from Street Hall to the Loria Center, making room for the Art Gallery’s expansion back into its old home.
1953 The Art Gallery moves into Louis Kahn’s first modernist masterpiece at the intersection of Chapel and York Streets. 1972 The History of Art Department locates in Street Hall.
2012 Construction on the Art Gallery will finish in early March. Curators will finish installing the museum’s collections before reopening in December.
1998 Director of the Art Gallery Jock Reynolds first speaks with University President Richard Levin about renovating the museum.
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Trayless trial finds critics BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER Silliman College dining hall’s move to eliminate trays this semester — following the lead of the Trumbull and Morse/ Stiles dining halls — is receiving criticism from both students and dining hall staff. Over the past three years, the Sustainability Education Peers (STEP) has been coordinating with Yale Dining to present evidence that trayless dining reduces food, water and energy waste to residential college masters, who ultimately make the decision to remove trays. Silliman Master Judith Krauss said she has heard both positive and negative responses to the initiative during the first two weeks of school, and she said Silliman will remain without trays through at least the end of the semester. “The view is we need to give it a full term’s test run and that most people appear to be adjusting,” she said. Three years ago, STEP conducted a survey to measure the amount of
food wasted at the end of every meal and found that students who used trays wasted 40 percent more food than those without trays, according to Erica Rothman, director of STEP. Since that time, STEP studies have found that around 70 percent of students go trayless by choice. Rothman said she hopes more residential colleges will also move towards eliminating trays. “We’ve noticed a changing culture,” Rothman said. “With the last class that graduated, we have more freshman coming in now who are immediately subjected to the trayless campaign, and from the get go don’t pick up a tray.” Krauss said she has been trying to slowly transition away from trays in the dining hall for two years, first by suggesting optional trayless dining and then requiring students to dine without trays on Sundays. She added that trayless dining in Silliman alone saves 100 gallons of hot water per meal period. SEE TRAYLESS PAGE 4
Yale tops peer app growth GRAPH CHANGE IN APPLICATIONS Yale
+5.8%
-1.9% Harvard -1.7% Princeton -1.7% UPenn -7%
Brown +3.5%
Cornell
Columbia
-8.9%
+3%
Dartmouth
+7%
Stanford MIT +1% -10
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Percent change in applications for Class of 2016
BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER Yale has reported the highest percentage increase in applications in the Ivy League this year. The University received 28,622 applications for the class of 2016, a 5.8 percent jump from last year’s 27,283 applications. In contrast, Harvard and Princeton drew 1.9 and 1.7 percent fewer
applications, respectively, than they did for the class of 2015. Three college guidance counselors and admissions experts interviewed said the decrease in applications at Harvard and Princeton, as well as at other Ivy League universities, surprised them more than Yale’s increase. Though Cornell and Dartmouth saw application increases of 3.5 and 3 percent, respectively,
Brown, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania experienced drops of 7, 8.9 and 1.7 percent, respectively. Chuck Hughes, president and founder of Road to College, a college admissions consulting service, attributed the lower applications numbers at several Ivy League universities in SEE APPLICATIONS PAGE 4