T H E O L D E ST C O L L E G E DA I LY · FO U N D E D 1 8 7 8
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 83 · yaledailynews.com
INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING
SUNNY CLOUDY
39 42
CROSS CAMPUS Springtime in February?
Temperatures in the mid50s led to a springtime feel throughout campus Wednesday, with many students taking to various courtyards and public areas to play soccer without shirts. Quite. The weather was so balmy Wednesday that some members of the Elizabethan Club, declaring themselves “most handsome and sporting,” took out the club’s croquet set and played a game in their garden. Conflicting accounts have emerged: one camp says James Campbell ’13 won, while others report that Miranda Lewis ’12 emerged victorious. Down with weenie bins.
Around 25 students, faculty and administrators celebrated the opening of a new study space for history graduate students Wednesday. The space — a suite of three former dorm rooms on the second floor of the Hall of Graduate Studies — is now available for graduate students in the History Department to study, meet with undergraduates and socialize. Celeb status. Kevin Olusola
’11, who gained renown as part of the “Pentatonix” group that won last fall’s edition of NBC’s “The Sing-Off,” was interviewed by Jenna Bush Hager on the Today Show Wednesday morning. Earlier in the week, he was named to The Grio’s list of 100 young people who will shape the next generation of black history in America.
Vacation, all he ever wanted.
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is in Seattle this week, speaking about school reform alongside a dozen other American mayors at a conference hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
W. HOCKEY TEAM REFLECTS ON STRUGGLES
THEATER
AUTISM
M. BASKETBALL
Office of Undergrad Productions’ new head seeks to improve ties
NEW DEFINITION MAY CHANGE DIAGNOSES
After difficult weekend, Elis refocus in pursuit of Ivy League title
PAGE 12 SPORTS
PAGE 3 NEWS
PAGE 3 NEWS
PAGE 12 SPORTS
Fall ExComm report released GRAPH FALL 2011 EXCOMM CASES, BY CATEGORY 17
Alcohol Violations 11
Defiance
11
Trespassing Cheating
A greener UConn. According
to the Hartford Courant, the University of Connecticut has changed its policies to issue the same punishment for possession of small amounts of marijuana as it doles out for underage drinking.
Goodbye, Petesia. After 10 months on the job, Petesia Adger, the assistant chief of the New Haven Police Department, put in for retirement Wednesday per the request of NHPD Chief Dean Esserman, the New Haven Independent reported.
ONLINE y MORE cc.yaledailynews.com
SEE EXCOMM PAGE 5
SEE LOVE WEEK PAGE 6
2
Hazing
5
Illegal Downloads 3
Improper Emails 0
5
10
15
The Yale College Executive Committee saw 52 cases in fall 2011, some of which spanned multiple categories. BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER In an effort to increase transparency in how Yale handles disciplinary matters, the Yale College Executive Committee documented a single semester’s cases in its inaugural semiannual report released this week. The committee adjudicated 52 cases — including alcohol violations, defiance of authority and trespassing — involving 59 students during the fall of 2011, according to the report.
Seven of these cases involved plagiarism or cheating, compared to over 50 in the full 2010-’11 academic year, but administrators said it is hard to tell from one semester if this represents a downward trend. ExComm Chairwoman Carol Jacobs recommended in the report that Yale provide more detailed reminders to students about the misuse of alcohol, which accounted for 17 of the cases, as well as additional education on plagiarism. In the addition to the alcohol-related cases heard by the committee, Jacobs
Yale-NUS launches special app round BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS Though students will not arrive at Yale-NUS College until fall 2013, the college opened its first batch of applications to students on Wednesday. The online applications are part of a special admissions round that ends April 1, marking the first effort to recruit students to the liberal arts college jointly operated by Yale and the National University of Singapore. The school’s first full cycle of applications, consisting of three rounds, will begin in fall 2012, and administrators have said
YA L E - N U S A P P L I CAT I O N QUICK TAKES
Students must answer a series of short answer questions called “Quick Takes,” using 30 words or fewer for each. ESSAY QUESTION
Like the Common Application, the Yale-NUS application requires students to write a longer personal essay in response to a prompt or a topic of their choosing. STANDARDIZED TESTS
Submit tips to Cross Campus
said ExComm referred another 56 cases of intoxication and alcohol possession to residential college deans. ExComm heard 31 alcohol-related cases during the 2010-’11 academic year. While many of the alcohol-related cases involved violations of rules for buying or serving alcohol, such as using false identification or serving alcohol to minors, Jacobs said the committee also sees “cases in which intoxicated students have put themselves either in
One day after Sex Week 2012 launches this Saturday, students will have the chance to attend an alternative set of activities organized by a group of students who say Sex Week inappropriately emphasizes “sheer, gratuitous and physical pleasure.” True Love Week, sponsored by Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, will hold seven events between Feb. 5-14 focused on promoting fidelity and love, said Eduardo Andino ’13, co-founder of UBYC. But Sex Week co-director Connie Cho ’13 said in a Wednesday email that she disagreed with UBYC’s characterization of Sex Week, saying that the event will not advocate any particular sex practices but instead offer students the opportunity to discuss sex openly. “It is not appropriate to characterize Sex Week as trivializing sex simply because we have not taken up arms for a very narrow set of beliefs,” she said. “Opportunities for education and reflection on sex [do] not
8
Harassment
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1942 The Yale College Council calls on “all physically able Yale men” to donate a pint of blood to the Red Cross to help with the war effort. The YCC had promised 300 pints of blood to help the city prepare for any potential raid.
BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER
7
Squishy. “Sex, Evolution and
Human Nature,” fondly known as “Sexy Psych,” showed a video of how garden slugs mate. It was slimy, and over pretty fast.
SEX WEEK ALTERNATIVE TO RUN AT SAME TIME, PROMOTE FIDELITY
5
Drugs
Students from Singapore or countries that do not offer the SAT are not required to submit standardized test scores, but all other applicants must submit SAT scores and either two SAT II subject tests or ACT scores.
they intend to enroll 150 students in the school’s initial class. Jeremiah Quinlan, Yale-NUS dean of admissions and financial aid, said officials at the school will evaluate candidates through a “holistic admissions process,” much like the one used by the Yale Admissions Office. As Yale-NUS is only beginning to recruit student applicants, Quinlan said the first round of admissions may not be a “great gauge” of how future admissions cycles will run.
‘Love Week’ planned
LIFELONG LEARNING
Professors seek continuing education
More important than how selective it is, is the type of student we’re trying to attract. JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of admissions and financial aid, Yale-NUS College
VICTOR KANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Professors meet over lunch for discussions ranging from dark matter to Renaissance music in one of Yale’s many working groups for faculty and grad students.
E
“We’re doing this for the first time, so we don’t have any idea about how selective the process will be,” Quinlan said. “But more important than how selective it is, is the type of student we’re trying to attract. We want pioneers interested in creating a Yale-NUS culture and environment and experience.” The first round of applications is mainly geared toward 18-year-old male Singaporean students who must complete the nation’s two-year military service commitment, Quinlan said. Those students typically apply to college before serving in the military and, if accepted through this round, would
ducation at Yale is not only for students. In between teaching classes and conducting research, professors are educating one another by choosing among over 40 regularly scheduled opportunities for learning over lunch. LINDSEY UNIAT reports.
SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6
SEE LUNCHES PAGE 5
On Monday at 12:30 p.m., as the bells of Harkness Tower began to ring, a group of professors and graduate students gradually filed down the length of the Saybrook dining hall with trays in hand, heading toward the fellows’ lounge. They settled into chairs around a long table for a discussion of the Latin poet Catullus.
The biweekly Greco-Roman lunch, one of over 45 lunchtime groups known as “working groups” that meet regularly, alternates every week with the Renaissance studies seminar in the Saybrook fellows’ lounge. Tuesdays bring discussions of Jew-
PAGE 2
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012· yaledailynews.com
OPINION
.COMMENT “What kind of sheltered, overprotective world are we living in?” yaledailynews.com/opinion
I
left Toad’s feeling unwanted, unattractive and creepy. I know this isn’t true — I’m a good guy, handsome, respectful and friendly. Yet when girls shove you off at Toad’s, it doesn’t help your self-confidence. After all, if I can’t find a girl in a mosh pit at Toad’s, it makes me wonder: Can I find a girl anywhere? I’m a freshman, prospective EP&E major, just a nice guy. I know in my heart of hearts that guys and girls are looking for the same thing — someone who will love them, make them happy and respect them. But actions seem to speak louder than words. The facts on the ground tell us — and multiple girls have told me — that women at Yale are simply confused. They don’t know if they want a hookup, a boyfriend or something in between. Recently, Maria Yagoda (“Just say no (to awful sex),” Jan. 20) complained that men at Yale do not know how to pleasure women, and she called desperately for “nice-looking, not-evil and socially adjusted straight single males.” Well, here we are. I know us in masses. As a matter of fact, I can introduce you to a few. We desire nothing more than to be in a loving, consensual relationship that makes us and you happy. Nonetheless, women describe this as unconfident and needy. As a result, the outcome of interactions that reflect this hope is less than ideal. Nice guys are left in the dust while the girls we crush on party at Toad’s. Where are these nice-looking, not-evil and socially adjusted straight single females who are apparently in abundance? From the perspective of a freshman, it seems that girls at Yale desire self-confidence and social standing. What better way to achieve this than to have a nice guy chase you? It makes you feel desired and increases your standing among social circles. In other words, it establishes you as someone popular who is wanted by good men at Yale. However, what are the ramifications of this game of cat and mouse? If women are genuinely frustrated with men at Yale, they should look toward their actions in these types of situations. We as men put ourselves out on the line, hoping for your interest and affection. Instead, we are often met with rejection or the friend zone. What are we doing wrong? We are not creepy or socially ignorant. To the contrary, we
are bright, well-adjusted, liked young men. We fit the criteria of what you are looking for. Enlighten us: Where is our mistake? While many women claim to want a relationship, they go around solely hooking up and seem to avoid emotional investment. Their defense is that they settle for hookups, hoping men will eventually come around to a relationship. What they do not recognize are the guys who are looking for a relationship from the get-go — those looking for nice-looking, not-evil and socially adjusted straight single females, someone they can call when they’re lonely, hold hands with while walking to class and watch a movie with on a Saturday night. Sure, we want to be physically intimate, but we also want to be emotionally intimate with a girl we know likes and cares for us. These comments and sentiments are often dismissed as unmasculine and clingy by both sexes. As a result, many guys are fearful of voicing their feelings — including me. This is wrong. Men and women should be on the same page, able to voice our wants and desires to one another. I can only hope that Yale’s new consent initiatives and maturity among fellow stu ity to do so. Nonetheless, until I start seeing results, I will be skeptical. One might argue that guys continue to have these experiences because we are looking at the wrong type of women. That statement is simply fallacious. The same games occur with the sweetest of girls — the exact ones who profess their desire for a relationship and lament the lack of nice guys at Yale. I know from experience. These actions are not limited to specific personalities but are found across the spectrum. I acknowledge that I will never fully understand women, and I’m okay with that. Yet when I see complaints about the lack of quality men at Yale, I urge women to qualify their complaints and notice the actions and sentiments of themselves and their fellow girls. I believe I speak for the nice-looking, not-evil and socially adjusted straight single males at Yale — we’re waiting for these games to end. DAVID LILIENFELD is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at david.lilienfeld@yale.edu .
YALE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC. 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 432-2400 Editorial: (203) 432-2418 editor@yaledailynews.com Business: (203) 432-2424 business@yaledailynews.com EDITOR IN CHIEF Max de La Bruyère MANAGING EDITORS Alon Harish Drew Henderson ONLINE EDITOR Daniel Serna OPINION Julia Fisher DEPUTY OPINION Jack Newsham NEWS David Burt Alison Griswold CITY Everett Rosenfeld Emily Wanger FEATURES Emily Foxhall CULTURE Eliza Brooke
SCI. TECH Eli Markham SPORTS Zoe Gorman Sarah Scott ARTS & LIVING Nikita Lalwani Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi Chase Niesner Erin Vanderhoof MULTIMEDIA Christopher Peak Baobao Zhang MAGAZINE Eliana Dockterman Molly Hensley-Clancy Nicole Levy PHOTOGRAPHY Zoe Gorman Kamaria Greenfield Victor Kang Zeenat Mansoor
PRODUCTION & DESIGN Sophie Alsheimer Mona Cao Raahil Kajani Mason Kroll Cora Ormseth Lindsay Paterson Yoonji Woo
PUBLISHER Preetha Nandi
COPY Illyana Green Nathalie Levine
BUSINESS DEV. Lily Mu
LEAD WEB DEV. Mike DiScala
DIR. FINANCE Albert Chang DIR. PRINT ADV. Matthew Hoffer-Hawlik
DIR. ONLINE BUSINESS Max Cho
ILLUSTRATIONS David Yu
PRINT ADV. MANAGER Sophia Jia NATIONAL ADV. MANAGER Julie Kim ONL. DEV. MANAGER Devon Balicki ONLINE PRODUCT MGR. Gwendoline Tilghman SPECIALTY MARKETING MGR. Gabriel Botelho
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sam Greenberg
THIS ISSUE COPY STAFF: Stephanie Heung, Flannery Sockwell COPY ASSISTANTS: Melinda Becker, Elizabeth Malchione PRODUCTION STAFF: Annie Schweikert PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Alexandra Krause, Samantha Nanayakkara EDITORIALS & ADS
The News’ View represents the opinion of the majority of the members of the Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2013. Other content on this page with bylines represents the opinions of those authors and not necessarily those of the Managing Board. Opinions set forth in ads do not necessarily reflect the views of the Managing Board. We reserve the right to refuse any ad for any reason and to delete or change any copy we consider objectionable, false or in poor taste. We do not verify the contents of any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co., Inc. and its officers, employees and agents disclaim any responsibility for all liabilities, injuries or damages arising from any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co. ISSN 0890-2240
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
T
ouch,” a new television series premiering this week on Fox, centers on the experiences of Jake, an enigmatic 11-year-old boy endowed with dazzling mathematical abilities and a profound sense of isolation. He doesn’t talk; Jake’s father must navigate his son’s world in silence. Previous descriptions of the show explicitly described Jake as autistic, but no more: Fox seems to be moving away from an explicit diagnosis. Even so, the implications surrounding Jake and his condition remain clear: Jake is autistic, and his autism has endowed him with an unique understanding of the world around him. And so “Touch” joins the ranks of what came before it: “Rain Man,” the final episode of “St. Elsewhere” and so on. Writing for Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg brilliantly dubbed the genre a “magical alternative to autism” — an alternate fantasy world that recasts autism into, quite literally, a superpower. This narrative of magical exceptionalism seems to be rooted in a blend of discomfort and optimism. As blogger Shannon Rosa writes, “people can’t handle the fact that some people are just different without having something fabulously acceptable as balance, because otherwise we’d just have to accept autistic people on their own terms.” Alongside the fantasy world of “Touch” comes the universe of Asperger’s syndrome and high-
SUBMISSIONS
All letters submitted for publication must include the author’s name, phone number and description of Yale University affiliation. Please limit letters to 250 words and guest columns to 750. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit letters and columns before publication. E-mail is the preferred method of submission. Direct all letters, columns, artwork and inquiries to: Julia Fisher, Opinion Editor, Yale Daily News http://www.yaledailynews.com/contact opinion@yaledailynews.com
COPYRIGHT 2012 — VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 83
functioning autism. Despite the daily struggles that many with Asperger’s undergo, the media treats the disMARISSA order with a MEDANSKY lighter, fluffier touch, casting Sidewinder it as a quirky punch line on “The Big Bang Theory” or feel-good moment on the silver screen. Such treatments displace the actual voices of people with Asperger’s — you can check out the growing neurodiversity blogosphere for some informed commentary — and unfairly universalize necessarily individual experiences. As the canonized catchphrase goes: If you know one autistic person, you know one person with autism. Each case is unique. But limited representations of autism on the national stage limit our national discourse. Discussion surrounding autism — and not autism with a side of superpowers — typically centers on high-functioning individuals. Yet like any spectrum disorder, autism affects each individual differently. And in many cases, autism and Asperger’s syndrome aren’t synonyms; think squares and rectangles. When I tell others my brother has autism, they automatically picture an individual with Asperg-
er’s and associate that image with a predetermined set of symptoms. But how do I respond to “Is your brother proud of you?” when my brother is severely autistic and non-verbal — currently in a high school classroom doing preschool level work? My brother, like many people with profound autism, will require special, intensive care for the rest of his life. I hope he’s proud of me, but I frankly couldn’t care less. To progress, the dialogue surrounding autism must also include the narratives of people with autism of all stripes, including low-functioning adults. Just Googling “adult autism abuse” provides horrific insight into stories of caregiver abuse, malpractice and bystander apathy, which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable, most severely affected people. Even Kim Peak, the reallife Rain Man, required the constant care of his father until his 2009 death. Though Peak didn’t have autism, but another disability, his story — without that whole mathematical genius subplot, anyway — exemplifies the fate of many autistic adults. In describing autism, words like “most” and “many” feel necessary but ultimately meaningless. Any so-called autism community derives its sense of unity not from a checklist of identical experiences, but rather from shared understandings, empathies and emotions. Each person defines their own understanding of autism from their own experi-
ences, reflecting their own biases — my own experiences, after all, privilege the narratives of lowfunctioning individuals. As the American Psychological Association begins to endure controversy for its efforts to narrow the definition of autism, pundits purport to articulate the interests of this perceived autism community, as though anyone who has ever thought about autism feels exactly the same about every issue. But how each person responds to the potential change in the DSM-V reflects her own experiences. For instance, I hope the change will focus public attention toward cases of severe autism but would stand in opposition to any retroactive denial of social services for the highest-functioning individuals. But even here, I speak only for myself. Autism has many voices — voices of Rain Man and Kim Peak, of the Jake from “Touch,” of my brother Eli. But these voices do not speak in unison, nor do they form a cohesive narrative. And though Jake from “Touch” does not speak, television viewers should remember that Jake, in a sense, speaks only for himself. After all, it’s no wonder that one of the most popular images associated with autism advocacy is a giant, multicolored puzzle. Sometimes, that’s exactly what it feels like. MARISSA MEDANSKY is a freshman in Morse College. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .
G U E S T C O L U M N I S T A M A L I A S K I LT O N
Service and advocacy, one and inseparable Y
ishai Schwartz ’13 (“Separate service and advocacy,” Jan. 27) contends that Yalies should divide community service from advocacy in Dwight Hall and within our organizations. Schwartz is correct to tell Yalies that we are morally obliged to give some time to service and to remind us that service and advocacy are not the same. Yet he is profoundly wrong to argue that our organizations should not improve people’s lives for the short term while we strive to improve our society for the long term. In fact, working for small change through service and for big change through advocacy are inseparable. Service naturally leads to advocacy, and advocacy has little power without service. For example, when I served as co-director of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project in 2011, I met dozens of people who got started in advocacy as a direct result of their service with homeless and poor people. As other YHHAP volunteers and I dedicated ourselves to service — whether by providing survival services like food and shelter, counseling job seekers or tutoring prisoners — we came to better understand the political and
YOUR LETTERS opinion@yaledailynews.com
WRITE TO US All letters submitted for publication must include the author’s name, phone number and description of Yale University affiliation. Please limit letters to 250 words. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit letters before publication. E-mail is the preferred method of submission.
INSIDER’S GUIDE Hai Pham
ON ‘FAIR HAVEN PRINCIPAL ON LEAVE AFTER “CINNAMON CHALLENGE” INCIDENT’
Limited autism discourse
GUEST COLUMNIST D AV I D L I L I E N F E L D
Stuck in the frosh pit
‘JAYMIN PATEL’
economic systems that our clients dealt with every day and the ways that those systems failed them. As I deepened my relationship with New Haven through service, I began to search for more and better ways to advance my clients’ interests. I worked with other YHHAP members to open new programs, improve our existing service projects and advocate for a better homelessness policy with city administrators. Our clients told me and other leaders their needs, and we used all of the strategies at our disposal, from service to lobbying to research to fundraising, to help them meet those needs. In short, our experience in service made my friends and me envision a New Haven without poverty and homelessness and made us do all we could to move reality closer to our vision. Our advocacy grew naturally from our service, and our service gave us power and authority when we talked to decision-makers. This progression from service to advocacy would not have been possible if Dwight Hall had been structured as Schwartz suggests it should be. If service and advocacy had been artificially separated, our capacity to make change for
A better use for federal funds In his article (“Needle Exchanges Work,” Jan. 26), Scott Stern argues that federal funding for needle exchange programs should be reinstated. The proof that clean needle exchange programs reduce the transmission of diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C among intravenous drug users is clear, but I question the wisdom of simply making drug use “safer.” The transmission of diseases from dirty needles is only one of the many risks that drug users are exposed to. Among the health risks of heroin and cocaine use listed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse are liver and kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, and respiratory failure. These health risks also don’t account for the negative social impact drug abuse can have beyond the risk of spreading diseases. Reports prepared by the UN Office on Drug and Crime and the U.S. Department of Justice have shown strong links between drug abuse, crime and domestic violence. Clean needle exchange programs do nothing to decrease these health risks and social problems. A better use of the federal funding would be to establish public clinics for drug abuse prevention and therapy. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, only 10 percent of drug users are able to receive treatment in public clinics. The
our clients would have been drastically limited. We would still have done service and raised money, but administrators would have cautioned us to avoid the political. They would have told us not to talk to other nonprofits about policy, educate students about the realities of homelessness and poverty in New Haven, put pressure on city administrators or lobby aldermen on behalf of our clients. In other words, they would have required us to be silent, to accept a political and economic status quo that was harming our clients’ well-being and self-determination. And just as service can politicize a person, political advocacy on an issue can lead people to service. I’ve had this experience firsthand, too. When I first got involved in activism on LGBTQ issues, I believed that the best way for me to help the LGBTQ community was to work to pass laws supporting same-sex marriage and banning homophobic and transphobic discrimination. Yet as I spent more time working on these issues, I came to believe that political reforms have limited impact on LGBTQ people’s lives. I decided that I should walk my talk by also providing direct service
to the LGBTQ community, and I joined other students to create educational and social programs serving New Haven’s queer and trans youth. I traveled this path from lobbying for nondiscrimination laws to throwing a prom for local LGBTQ youth with a single Dwight Hall organization, Fierce Advocates. If Dwight Hall had placed an artificial barrier between these two parts of activism, then I likely would not have made this personal journey from advocacy to advocacy plus service — just as YHHAP would never have moved from service alone to service and advocacy. I hope that Dwight Hall will not create a false dichotomy between these strategies and will instead encourage Yalies engaged in public service of any ideological orientation to blend their work for immediate good with advocacy for systemic change. To make a difference as best we can, we need to both be and demand the change we want to see in the world.
relatively small number of treatment clinics in the United States means that they fill up quickly, leaving millions unable to receive help. Directing funding towards opening more clinics will better address the many different problems associated with drug abuse.
U.S. business schools. During his three years as director, Ivan has done an outstanding job coordinating the efforts of many, despite the intense headwinds and economic turmoil. Postings for internships and full-time positions have more than tripled during his tenure. This year alone, the number of on-campus recruiters increased by more than half. Readers of the article would miss how much Ivan will be missed by our students, enterprise partners and colleagues. To his credit, Ivan has offered to remain at Yale for the duration of the school year, both to help execute a comprehensive succession plan and to bring on board our new CDO Director, Julia Zupko, thus ensuring a smooth transition. Thanks in considerable measure to Ivan, we have momentum and are able to focus on continuing it.
STEPHANIE CRUZ Jan. 28 The writer is a junior in Ezra Stiles College.
Celebrating Kerbel’s success Your Jan. 27 article “SOM career development office gains new director” misses two known facts about the transition. First, our Director of Career Development, Ivan Kerbel ’96, is leaving SOM to get married this spring and move to Seattle to join his future wife. Second, this transition takes place in the context of excellent employment outcomes for Yale SOM students and recent graduates, despite the tough economy. The most often cited statistic, the percentage of graduates employed at three months after graduation, puts Yale SOM well inside the top 10
AMALIA SKILTON is a junior in Calhoun College. She is the former director of YHHAP and Fierce Advocates. Contact her at amalia.skilton@yale.edu .
JEANETTE GORGAS Jan. 31 The writer is the Senior Associate Dean of the MBA Program at the Yale School of Management.
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE 3
PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 12:00 PM “Coping with the Winter Blues.” This class will be given by clinical psychologist Mary Newall. Open to the general public. Free but register in advance by contacting Susan Abramson at (203) 432-8069 or worklife@yale.edu. Sterling Memorial Library (128 Wall St.), lecture hall. 4:00 PM “Politics, Theater and Political Theater in Russia Today.” Public talk by John Freedman, theater critic for The Moscow Times. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.), Lounge. 6:30 PM SOM Star Search. Free pizza and beer from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.; live acts, including acrobatics and stand-up comedy, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.; live band at 10 p.m. Tickets $20 at the door. All proceeds go to the School of Management Class of 2013 Internship Fund. Toad’s Place (300 York St.). 8:00 PM New Music New Haven. Featuring Ezra Laderman’s Sonata No. 5 with Amy J. Yang, piano. Also on the program are Daniel Wohl’s “One Piece” and Paul Kerekes’ “Reach” (with Lisa Moore, piano and Ashley Bathgate, cello), Stephen Feigenbaum’s Fantasy for oboe and piano, Jordan Kuspa’s Collideoscope for piano quartet and Matthew Welch’s Orbis Tertius for bagpipes and brass septet. Sprague Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.
Japan can turn around, Agawa says
MASON KROLL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Naoyuki Agawa, vice president of Keio University in Japan, said the nation’s outlook is not as bleak as some have argued. BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite widespread anxiety about Japan’s future, Naoyuki Agawa expressed cautious optimism that through concerted globalization of Japanese universities, the nation will not “sink.” Agawa, vice president of international affairs at Keio University in Japan, spoke to around 25 students and faculty gathered in Luce Hall on Wednesday. He discussed the current state of Japanese higher education as well as potential shifts in Japanese identity following 3.11, the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011. “There is an urgency and a sense of crisis that we need to do something about Japanese universities,” Agawa said. “Japan has to go global in order to remain competitive.” According to Agawa, Japanese universities are widely perceived as “behind” other institutions, including Yale, in pursuing global initiatives. Considering the high cost of studying outside their home country, Japanese students are less likely to study abroad than they were a decade ago, Agawa said. He noted that the number of Japanese students in the United States peaked at 47,000 in 1997-’98. Now, Agawa said, that number has witnessed a “precipitous drop” to just 21,000. A few weeks ago, the president of the University of Tokyo announced that the school was shifting the start of its academic calendar from April to September, Agawa said. The move was aimed to bring the school’s academic schedule in line with those of other colleges and universities worldwide, which would make it easier for students to study abroad. Agawa said Keio University is considering a similar move. “We need to send more students abroad so our young students will be competitive in the global market,” Agawa said. “I think it’s always good to go out of your comfort zone.” Agawa said today’s Japan has valid reasons to be pessimistic, citing the country’s weak economy, mounting debt and a troubling population forecast. Over the next 50 years, he said, Japan’s population is expected to drop from 128 million to 86 million.
Japan is also reluctant on the whole to open its doors to foreigners, he added, and the country’s critics claim that Japanese youth are becoming introverted and uninspired. “There is great anxiety that Japan is sinking,” Agawa said. “I guess that people do see that there are a lot of challenges ahead of us.” When the hurricane and tsunami struck last March, Agawa said he and many others looked upon the natural disaster as a “wake-up call.” The disaster united Japan, Agawa said, and helped the nation’s people impress the world with their cohesiveness and discipline.
Japan has to go global in order to remain competitive. NAOYUKI AGAWA Vice president of international affairs, Keio University Though Agawa said it is too early to tell how 3.11 will impact Japan in the long-term, he said he feels confident that the experience marks a “turning point” for the country, and particularly for its youth. “Last night, I had dinner with my son, and the first thing he said was, ‘Dad, is Japan alright?’ ” Agawa said. “I said, ‘I think so.’ ” Nozomi Nakajima ’13, a native of Japan, said she agreed with Agawa that not many Japanese students study abroad, adding that she thought changing the academic calendar would be a “huge step” toward addressing that problem. Koichiro Kawaguchi GRD ’13, who is also from Japan, said Agawa’s lecture hit close to home. “Not many Japanese students are studying in institutions in the United States,” said Kawaguchi, who studied under Agawa as an undergraduate in Japan. “I think focusing on international education is a key to Japan’s future.” In fall 2008, Yale College had four international students from Japan, as compared to 28 from South Korea and 43 from China, according to a 2008-’09 annual University report. Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .
Education in Japan. In Japan, students are required to attend six years of elementary school and three years of junior high school. The three years of high school are not compulsory. As of 2005, nearly 3 million students were enrolled in more than 700 Japanese universities.
New head for production office BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 24, Kathryn Krier DRA ’07 was named the new head of the Office of Undergraduate Productions, a position that was left vacant for a full semester after the departure of Jim Brewczynski DRA ’86 over the summer. Krier, who was appointed by Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan, said that in her new position she aims to better the OUP’s collaboration with students in the constantly evolving undergraduate performingarts scene and improve the safety of shows. Current Yale regulations state that students seeking to stage a show at a Yale venue must first gain approval from the OUP, which assigns the production a house manager and offers technical and safety support to directors and producers. Each year, over 600 events in theater, music, dance, spoken word and comedy are organized in this manner. Krier will take over the OUP on May 1, after concluding her responsibilities as program coordinator for this spring’s Shakespeare at Yale intiative. She currently serves as the Theater Studies Department’s productions manager. “Our aim is to make undergraduate performance as safe and enjoyable as possible, while encouraging and giving students the tools to improve the quality of their work,” Krier said in an email. She added that she hopes to expand opportunities for students to learn about the craft of theater through workshops teaching skills such as stage combat and lighting and sound design. Some students said they felt the OUP could benefit from a more responsive leadership. Stuart Teal ’14, a board member of the Yale Dramatic Association last year, said that in the past, the OUP’s bureaucracy has been difficult for students to navigate. “As it stands, the office enforces rules as they are without thinking of improvement,” he said. “Hopefully, a new perspective will understand how undergraduate theater actually
YALE
Kathryn Krier DRA ’07 will take over as head of the Office of Undergraduate Productions May 1. works, not how the paperwork says it does.” Adela Jaffe ’13, who directed the play “Lady Bug” last November, said she thinks the office would benefit from a more standardized, centralized process for students to put up a show. In order to book a performance space, she said, students must currently apply to each of the University’s theaters separately. Teal said that while the office is currently working on a website to make the requirements for putting on a production clearer, this may not be enough. Understanding what forms to fill out is difficult for those not already familiar with the theater scene, he said, which may limit the number of students involved in productions. The OUP needs to work more extensively with students who are not necessarily prominent in the theater scene, Teal said. “Discourse between non-theater people and the OUP is currently almost nonexistent,” he added. Kate Pitt ’12, who has worked
with Krier through the Theater Studies Department for three years, said she believes Krier will work well with students, as she is respectful of students’ visions and attentive to their needs. “Kate has a capacity for detail, empathy for other people and a view of the whole plan,” said Toni Dorfman, the department’s director of undergraduate studies. Dorfman added that Krier has succeeded in aiding various arts projects at Yale in her positions as production adviser for the Yale Baroque Opera Project and production manager for the World Performance Project, an organization that promotes research in performance studies. Theater studies major Jamie Biondi ’12 said that while many students outside the theater studies program have not interacted with Krier extensively, her appointment will tie the department to the extracurricular theater scene on campus. Biondi added, based on his experiences working with Krier, that Krier is unafraid to point
out what it will take to improve a production, even if her comments may intially come across as “scary.” Krier said she plans to address whatever needs arise when students put up productions. “If it appears desirable to bring in outside experts to work on specific, specialized areas, we’ll do so,” she said. Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans, who is a a member of the organizing committee for Shakespeare at Yale, said Krier’s deep understanding of the arts scene at Yale will benefit students. “I do have faith in her desire to develop procedures that are as fair and helpful as possible to undergraduates and to go the last mile in helping them achieve their aims,” Laurans said in an email. The Office of Undergraduate Productions was created in fall 2010 as part of the Yale College Dean’s Office. Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .
Autism redefinition sparks concerns BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER Being diagnosed with autism could be a lot more difficult if a new diagnostic definition goes into effect. In its next manual on mental disorders, the American Psychiatric Association plans to issue a single set of diagnostic criteria that will merge the four types of disorders on the autism spectrum, which include autism and Asperger syndrome. Although no current patient will be affected by the new rules, research by Yale Child Study Center Director Fred Volkmar suggests that the revision may disqualify a large number of intellectually disabled patients from receiving a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in the future. Though the study is still embargoed, with at least a month before publication, Volkmar presented his data Jan. 19 to the Icelandic Medical Association, creating widespread alarm about the new criteria. “I think [the proposed revision] is a mistake,” Volkmar said. “It changes people’s eligibility for key services, and a lot of people expressed concern.” He said the change would not only affect autistic patients’ access to medication and medical services, but also impact their eligibility for special schools. Volkmar also questioned the scientific validity of the decision. In their study, Volkmar and his team looked at a group of individuals with moderate cognitive disabilities who had been evaluated in 1994, when the APA was formulating its previous autism definition. Over half of those patients who were diagnosed with some form of autism spectrum disorder would no longer receive that diagnosis if they were evaluated under the new definition, Volkmar said. Volkmar said the revision may have been motivated by an attempt to be “economical” at the cost of denying services to some patients with less severe symptoms.
Meanwhile, the APA said in a press release that the recommendations “reflect the work of dozens of the nation’s top scientific and research minds,” and insisted that merging the disorders will result in more sound diagnoses. The press released also disputed the fact that any type of person who was previously classified as autistic would not receive an equivalent diagnosis under the new guidelines. “Distinctions among disorders have been found to be inconsistent over time [and] variable across sites,” the APA wrote. “Previously, the criteria were equivalent to trying to ‘cleave meatloaf at the joints.’”
It’s still important to … diagnose [less severe cases] so that they can receive proper care. SALMA DALI ’14 Member, Best Buddies Members of the APA’s autism panel could not be reached for comment. The changes have also sparked concerns from students, including Jacqueline Lee ’14 and Salma Dali ’14, members of Best Buddies, a nonprofit that pairs students with intellectually disabled individuals to create friendships . “It’s still important to recognize and diagnose [less severe cases] so that they can receive proper care and attention,” Dali said. “Without a diagnosis and subsequent support, people may not be able to achieve the same levels of success.” Lee said if the change denies services to high-functioning individuals, they may still be able to survive without assistance, but will be unable to reach their full potential. She said she worries that denying them support may prevent them from overcoming soci-
CREATIVE COMMONS
Changes to the diagnostic criteria for autism have been controversial.
etal stigma against their handicap and integrating themselves into society. Autism researcher Nicholas Lange, a psychiatry and biostatistics professor at the Harvard Schools of Medicine and Public Health, said it is possible that some patients would be excluded under the new criteria, adding that while he believes that both Volkmar’s and the APA autism panel’s data on the new diagnosis criteria are sound, their selection of different sample groups of patients makes the question of significant patient exclusion “not entirely determinable.” “I would favor the overwhelming evidence of the data which, apart from its effect on insurance companies, shows that Asperger and [other spectrum disorders] are indistinguishable from autism at present,” said Lange. Lange, who supports the revi-
sions, went on to say that he believes the changes will in fact be beneficial to most high-functioning autism spectrum patients, since medical insurers would no longer be able to discriminate against them relative to more severe patients. Instead, he said, everyone on the autism spectrum will receive the same insurance coverage and sufficient care. While Volkmar continues to hope for a reversal, he said it is difficult to know if the changes will be reconsidered, adding that “the whole process has not been terribly comforting.” Volkmar’s complete study will be published in the April print edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .
PAGE 4
NEWS
YALE DAILY NEWS 路 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 路 yaledailynews.com
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE 5
FROM THE FRONT
“Water is the only drink for a wise man.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER
Working groups help build bridges LUNCHES FROM PAGE 1 ish history sponsored by the History Department, and on Wednesdays a “Yale Westerners” lecture on American Western history comes to Yale’s Howard Lamar Center. “Everything students have at Yale, teachers have too,” English professor Lawrence Manley, who often attends the Renaissance studies lunch that began two years ago, said. “We have a real seminar every week. It’s like being a student forever.” The Greco-Roman lunch — which was first organized in the mid-1980s — is one of the longest-running of these programs, but the tradition of offering varied seminar and lecture programs for professors and graduate students at Yale has only grown. Attendees have come to rely on the sessions both for a break from an otherwise hectic schedule and as a chance to meet other professors. Many interviewed said the meetings play a welcome social role for professors on campus. Peter Moore, a Sterling Professor of Chemistry and fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center, attends the more recently launched WHC lunch series that features a different subject every week and said that he has also found value in its interdisciplinary approach. In an email to the News he explained that although scientists are in the minority, they speak in proportion to their numbers. “The better the faculty knows each other, the better the University will run,” Moore said. “Not only is it interesting and amusing to find out what your colleagues do in a scholarly sense, but the social interactions that take place at lunch help build bridges.”
ESCAPING THE YALE CHAOS
In addition to his classes, history professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02 said he just turned in a manuscript to the University of Pennsylvania Press, has an upcoming conference in California and needs to start writing a paper for a presentation in March. But Gitlin, who is the associate director of the Howard Lamar Center, which runs weekly seminars and lectures on the history of the American West, attends the Yale Westerners working group each week. He described Yale as “an incredibly hectic place,” but said he enjoys the respite provided by periodic lunches with colleagues and graduate students. “The ability to sit down once a week and exchange ideas is invaluable,” Gitlin said. “I always get new ideas from speaking with faculty and grad students.” The working groups all are department-specific informal seminars and lectures run by graduate students and faculty. David Lummus, assistant professor of Ital-
ian and the Italian Department’s director of undergraduate studies, runs the Renaissance studies lunch series but said he tries to attend the Greco-Roman lunch when he has time away from teaching. At each Renaissance studies meeting, as with most working group gatherings, a professor, graduate student or postdoctoral associate gives a 20- to 30-minute presentation on his or her specialty, encompassing content from multiple faculties such as English, Italian, history and history of art. Lummus said an “even mix” of graduate students, postdoctoral students and senior and junior faculty usually attend. “It’s a great opportunity to get to know each other and share what we are working on,” he said. “We rarely talk about interesting things at faculty meetings.” Graduate student Kyle Skinner GRD ’17, who regularly attends the Renaissance lunch, said he enjoys getting to know professors outside of the classroom, where they are tied to the syllabus.
We have a real seminar every week. It’s like being a student forever. LAWRENCE MANLEY Professor, English Department “Since there are multiple departments represented, you never know where people are coming from, so the question-and-answer sessions after the lectures are really interesting,” he said. Professor Bentley Layton, who founded the Greco-Roman lunch and still regularly attends, said he enjoys presentations on unconventional topics as they inspire him to think about his field differently. He added that there is a strong social element to the biweekly meetings and that graduate students get to know professors on a first-name basis, learn what others are working on and advise each other on what to study.
LIBERAL ARTS FOR PROFESSORS
Although the working groups are independent of a formal umbrella organization, many — such as urban history, Old English and early modern philosophy — are sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center. But among the myriad of educational lunchtime options that focus on a single academic area, the WHC also offers an alternative faculty education program with a weekly lecture and discussion every Wednesday for members of the Whitney Humanities Center fellowship. In what might be deemed the liberal arts education of professors, rather than focus on one disci-
Fill this space here. JOIN@YALEDAILYNEWS.COM
pline, every meeting features a presentation by a different fellow and ends with a question-and-answer period. Last week, the topic was modes and the representation of planets in Renaissance music, as presented by Grant Herreid, artistic director of the Yale Baroque Opera Project. Herreid took a creative approach to his lecture, with lute in hand and Latin verses on the tongue. “I don’t imagine there are many places where one could hear a lutenist improvising on the Renaissance modes and singing an Orphic hymn in the manner of Marsilio Ficino,” he said. Herreid, who become a fellow in September, said the presentations have ranged from theatrical scene design to dark matter in deepest space. He said he enjoys gaining insight into the common themes between various disciplines — particularly the changing cultural and political contexts of art and science in different periods. “These conversations demonstrate that in the study of any topic, attention to detail always fosters understanding of larger issues,” he said. While the working groups are more accessible and allow graduate students to participate, the WHC is much more selective in its membership. The fellows are selected by the WHC Executive Committee and appointed by University President Richard Levin to posts of one to three years, and in some cases permanently. Still, Norma Thompson, the associate director of the WHC Fellows, added that former fellows are welcome to attend the lunches, which began 10 years ago. She added that the WHC Executive Committee tries to balance the different fields among the fellows selected. She said that the eclectic mix of lecture topics throughout the year allows for connections between faculties to be made. The WHC can accommodate 50 to 60 people. “It’s a great opportunity to form an intellectual community,” Thompson said. “Sometimes professors from different faculty create new courses together based on conversations held here.” Such “hybrid” courses, Thompson said, include the popular course on the Big Bang Theory, previously offered by the Physics and Religious Studies departments, and the currently offered class, co-taught by Thompson, “Evidence in Humanistic Inquiry.” Levin, too, praised porgrams such as that run by the WHC for bringing together faculty from across disciplines to share their work. “This is a real benefit and it helps hold the University together and make people aware of what people in other disciplines are doing,” he said. Although the majority of the WHC Fellows are in the humanities,
A SAMPLE OF WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER WO R K I N G GROUPS AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY
A monthly workshop which concentrates on discussions of religion’s role in American history and culture from the colonial period to the present CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS
A discussion of select works of contemporary poetry every other week MARXISM AND CULTURAL THEORY
A group which meets every other week to discuss reading in the field of Marxism and Marxist cultural theory PERSIAN STUDIES
A working group that meets twice a month to encourage the interdisciplinary study of literature, history and culture of the Persianate world SOUTHERN STUDIES
A periodic colloquium which brings together graduate students and faculty interested in the history, politics, and culture of the Southern United States fellows are selected from among the administration and the sciences and graduate programs such as the School of Management as well. Shyam Sunder, an accounting and economics professor at SOM, said he was the first person from SOM to become a WHC fellow when he was appointed to the fellowship last fall. “Almost all scholarship and instruction in the School of Management is rooted in social, physical and natural science — having been educated as an engineer and in management and economics, I had little formal background in humanities,” Sunder said, adding that he finds the experience to be enriching. In fact, Gitlin wishes there were more meetings like this at Yale. Though not a Whitney Humanities Center fellow, he said he felt Yale “could use more” cross-disciplinary meetings. After all, he said: “We’re so fortunate to have people here that we can have great conversations with.” Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .
ExComm highlights alcohol abuse EXCOMM FROM PAGE 1 particularly dangerous or compromising situations.” “One does not realize how heartbreaking some of the scenarios of alcohol consumption can be until one serves on the Executive Committee,” Jacobs said. In contrast to this week’s report, a majority of cases heard by ExComm in the last few years have involved cheating, often in the form of plagiarism. Jacobs and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon attributed the low number of these cases last fall in part to the fact that many cases reported at the end of the fall term have been carried over to the spring, and thus were not included in the report. Alfred Guy, director of the Writing Center, said it is difficult to determine whether the one-semester decrease in cases is significant since those cases applied to a very small fraction of papers undergraduates write each term. Jacobs said the committee felt that some students chargedwith plagiarism were “well-intentioned” but did not understand how to properly cite sources. Guy said that beyond telling students the definition of plagiarism, professors could talk to students more often about their own approach to research and how to contribute to existing scholarship on a topic. He pointed to the Mellon Forums, where seniors present research on their senior theses, as a chance for students to discuss how to effectively cite and build on the ideas of others. In the past, ExComm published annual reports on its proceedings, but Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced at a faculty meeting this fall that it would release reports twice per year. “I want that information circulated more frequently, rather than less,” Miller said in a Monday interview. “I think it’s important to report to the Yale community.” Going forward, ExComm reports will be released in October and in January or February, Miller said. This week, Yale also released its first University-wide report documenting complaints of sexual misconduct. That report will be released twice a year as well, but Miller said the decisions to release the reports this week and make them biannual were made independently of each other. ExComm has transferred the responsibility of hearing sexual misconduct cases to the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which began functioning in July of last year. Both reports will be presented to the Yale College faculty at a meeting today, Miller said. Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .
PAGE 6
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 yaledailynews.com
FROM THE FRONT Yale-NUS opens applications YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 attend Yale-NUS starting in the fall of 2014. Female students who apply through this special round would also have the option of taking a gap year, if accepted, and beginning freshman year in the fall of 2014. Quinlan said Yale-NUS has not focused on international outreach yet but plans to have a “robust international body” of students within the next several years. The Yale-NUS application is similar to Yale’s and requires students to submit an academic transcript, two teacher recommendations, responses to short answer questions and a longer personal essay. The online form also requires students to fill out basic personal information, such as extracurricular activities and work history. Quinlan said the application is much like the Common Application used by many U.S. colleges and universities, including Yale. He added that Yale-NUS has applied for membership to the Common Application in hopes of streamlining future admissions cycles. Prospective students from Singapore or countries that do not offer the SAT, such as China, are not required to submit standardized test scores but may opt to do so, Quinlan said. All other applicants must submit their ACT scores or both SAT scores and two SAT subject tests. “The SAT score requirements are an issue of access,” Quinlan said. “There are some Singaporean and international students who did not take the SAT and we want to make sure they can apply. We’re trying to attract a global student body as well as students who are interested in going abroad.” In addition, students must meet Yale-NUS’s standards for minimum proficiency in English if their high school instruction was con-
ducted primarily in another language. The proficiency standards are aligned with Yale’s expectations for international students, Quinlan said, and use an approved English language exam, such as the TOEFL, to evaluate students’ abilities to use and understand English in an academic setting.
We’re trying to attract a global student body. JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of admissions and financial aid, YaleNUS College Quinlan said competitive applicants will be placed on a shortlist for required interviews with YaleNUS admissions officers. While Yale-NUS has only just started accepting student applications, the college has been recruiting faculty since fall 2011. Charles Bailyn, the college’s inaugural dean of faculty, said the school expects to have about 50 professors — about half of its faculty — in place by fall 2013, whereas only one-sixth of the student body will have matriculated. Despite the disproportionate faculty-student ratio, Bailyn said class sizes will not be exceptionally small in the college’s first year, and will likely be kept around 18 students each, which administrators determined was the best number for facilitating discussion. When Yale-NUS reaches full capacity in fall 2012, administrators aim to have hired 100 professors. Students at Yale-NUS will be randomly placed into one of three residential colleges, where they will live for all four years. Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON AT preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
True Love Week to launch LOVE WEEK FROM PAGE 1 trivialize sex.” While Sex Week directors have established a target budget of $20,000 to fund Sex Week events — a goal they are facing difficulties meeting since the University banned corporate sponsors — Andino said True Love Week will have a budget of approximately $6,000. The group has already raised roughly $5,000, mostly from student and alumni donations as well as external sources, such as the Love and Fidelity Network, an organization that encourages pro-life activities on college campuses. Most of of True Love Week’s events — including “Chastity and Human Goods,” “The State of Marriage Today” and “The Person as a Gift” — will be led by college professors who specialize in sexual issues. True Love Week leaders are considering turning the initiative into an annual event, according to Andino. Former Sex Week director Colin Adamo ’10 said he thinks Sex Week provides valuable sexual education on campus, but added that True Love Week is an “awesome” idea because it would offer additional perspectives about sexuality at Yale. “The more voices we have on campus, the better,” Adamo said. UBYC formed last fall when it circulated a petition to ban Sex Week from campus. The petition, which was created in September, had garnered over 200 signatures as of mid-November. The Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, which University President Richard Levin convened in April to analyze Yale’s sexual environment, also criticized the biennial event in its November report, in part for featuring “titillating displays, ‘adult’ film stars, and commercial sponsors of such material.” But Levin said in his response to the report that he would allow event directors to draw up a new proposal, which administrators accepted Dec. 20.
recyclerecyclerecyclerecycle
YOUR YDN DAILY Read and be read. Daily. JOIN@YALEDAILYNEWS.COM
“It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk or running for office.” SHIRLEY MACLAINE ACTRESS
Andino said he was “surprised” that administrators approved Sex Week — scheduled to run Feb. 4-14 — because he thought it did not adequately address the concerns brought up in the Advisory Committee’s report. “There’s still this fundamental assumption [in Sex Week activities] that happy sex is the most promiscuous sex or the most sort of loose and casual sex,” he said.
The more voices we have on campus, the better. COLIN ADAMO ’10 Former director, Sex Week at Yale Eleven students interviewed said they did not plan to attend True Love Week events, though a majority said they appreciated the alternative perspective that the UBYC initiative would present. While some students interviewed said they do not have time
LOVE WEEK EVENTS “What They Didn’t Teach You in Sex Ed” “The Person as a Gift” “Sexual Bliss: Satisfaction and Marital Happiness for Today’s Couples” “Relationship Intelligence in the Age of Ambivalence”
to attend either True Love Week or Sex Week activities, others said they disagreed with the way True Love Week approached discussions about sexuality. “True Love Week seemed mostly concerned with encouraging marriage, and it seemed to have more of a political agenda than creating a safe sexual environment,” Sage Snider ’12 said, adding that she had just reviewed the True Love Week schedule. “I don’t really think Sex Week has any effect on people’s views of sex. If people want to have sex, they are already going to have sex. But if you’re going to have sex, you should be educated.” True Love Week’s first event, “What They Didn’t Teach You in Sex Ed,” will take place Sunday in Linsly-Chittenden Hall at 3 p.m. Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
SAMPLE OF SEX WEEK EVENTS “For God, for Country and for Yale: How Sex Education Fights Sexual Misconduct, in Court and on Campus” “The Genderless Orgasm: A Climactic Achievement of 100% Safe, Tantric Sex” “Immigrant Sex Lives, Practices and Erotic Imaginations” “Friendship Matters”
“The State of Marriage Today”
“Privacy, Sexuality and the Law”
“Chastity and Human Goods”
“Stripped Stories: A Night of Hilarious Sex-Themed Storytelling and Games”
Film Screening of “The Spitting Game: The College Hook-up Culture”
“Faith and Sexuality at Yale”
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE 7
BULLETIN BOARD
TODAY’S FORECAST
TOMORROW
Partly sunny, with a high near 46. Calm wind becoming north between 6 and 9 mph
THURSDAY
High of 46, low of 27.
High of 44, low of 25.
NUTTIN’ TO LOSE BY DEANDRA TAN
ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 7:00 PM “The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1615-1960.” Part 3 of 5. Screening of “The Peerless Patriot” (1932, Itami Mansaku, 21 minutes), Enoken’s “Kinta the Pickpocket” (1937, Yamamoto Kajiro, 72 minutes) and “Singing Lovebirds” (1939, Makino Masahiro, 69 minutes). Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium. 8:00 PM “Good Goods.” The Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of “Good Goods” by Christina Anderson. Amidst the cluttered shelves of a family-owned general store in a small black town that doesn’t appear on any map, four lost souls reunite. Blurring the line between body and spirit, “Good Goods” is an otherworldly love story of the (dis)possessed. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.).
WATSON BY JIM HORWITZ
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 9:00 AM TEDxYale 2012. Led by a dedicated team of avid TEDsters who strive to support a global community of innovation by showcasing students, faculty, alumni and community leaders who are pursuing revolutionary ideas. Apply for a ticket at www. tedxyale.com/#events/apply. Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall (1 Prospect St.), Room 114. 2:00 PM “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Named one of Bravo’s “100 Funniest Movies,” this 1974 British comedy film parodies the legend of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.), lecture hall.
GENERICALLY UNTITLED BY YOONJOO LEE
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1:00 PM “Cape No. 7.” This 2008 film, the highest-grossing film ever produced in Taiwan, portrays the rise of a small-town rock band and the discovery of a cache of undelivered love letters from 1940s Japanese-occupied Taiwan that become the catalyst of another intercultural love affair, 70 years later. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.
y SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS ONLINE yaledailynews.com/events/submit PANCAKES AND BOOZE BY TAKUYA SAWAOKA
To reach us: E-mail editor@yaledailynews.com Advertisements 2-2424 (before 5 p.m.) 2-2400 (after 5 p.m.) Mailing address Yale Daily News P.O. Box 209007 New Haven, CT 06520
Questions or comments about the fairness or accuracy of stories should be directed to Max de la Bruyère, Editor in Chief, at (203) 432-2418. Bulletin Board is a free service provided to groups of the Yale community for events. Listings should be submitted online at yaledailynews.com/events/ submit. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit listings.
To visit us in person 202 York St. New Haven, Conn. (OppositeFOR JE) RELEASE FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
CLASSIFIEDS
CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis ACROSS 1 Blood typing system 4 Sea once dotted with 1,500-plus islands 8 Some winds 13 Prince, to Cecil Fielder 14 Discman maker 15 Name that means “pretty” 16 Topeka-to-St. Paul direction 17 Tropical roadside area? 19 Morales of “Jericho” 21 Exude 22 Ryder Cup team 23 Roughly, San Jose’s population acting friendly? 27 Hazardous current 28 Stick on a stake 29 Bog 30 Unfair wear? 34 Literary miscellanea 35 Environmental concern ... and what’s happening in 17, 23-, 45- and 53Across? 38 Sound of pain or pleasure 39 Satisfied 40 __ above 41 Don’s code 44 Sharp-toothed fish 45 Sentiments from a hepcat? 50 Curling venue 51 Frizzy do 52 Peel 53 Polar exploration? 58 London-born miler 59 Olds models 60 Birthright seller 61 Tease 62 Works at the docks, say 63 Email folder 64 Hovel DOWN 1 Comparably fresh
CLASSICAL MUSIC 24 Hours a Day. 98.3 FM, and on the web at WMNR. org. “Pledges accepted: 1-800-345-1812”
ASIAN EGG DONOR NEEDED $40-50k in compensation, plus expenses. Asian couple seeking a happy, intelligent, attractive, and healthy woman with athletic abilities between the ages of 21-27, black hair, brown eyes, and 5’6”+. Please contact: info@aperfectmatch.com. 1-800-264-8828
CALL (203) 432-2424 OR E-MAIL BUSINESS@ YALEDAILYNEWS.COM
PERSONAL COACH / ASPERGERS, LD, ADD. Lifeskills for work/school. Encouraging & experienced. www.UpwardWayCoaching.com
Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved
SUDOKU EVIL
6 3 6 9
2 7 5 9
7 7 9 (c)2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
36 Adorned with a wreath 37 Rare blood type: Abbr. 38 Like a charm, maybe 42 Evidence in the snow 43 Skillful 45 Guitar tone changers 46 “Just the Two __”: 1981 hit
THE TAFT APARTMENTS – Studio to 2BR styles for future & immediate occupancy at The Taft on the corner of College & Chapel Street. Lease terms available until 5/31/12. It’s never too early to join our preferred waiting list for Summer/Fall 2012 occupancy. Public mini-storage available. By appointment only. Phone 203-495-TAFT. www.taftapartments. com.
2/2/12
By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel
2 Tree in a tray 3 Like macho push-ups 4 Lenten symbol 5 Short hopper 6 Scout on the floor, perhaps 7 It helps you clean up 8 Where Monet’s cathedral series was painted 9 Commercial development done in one hr.? 10 Permanent 11 Judgment Day poem 12 Colorful shawls 15 Clod 18 __ polloi 20 Evidence in a rug 24 Polite address 25 Like a pelvic artery 26 Slow, to Yo-Yo 29 Femme fatale 31 Layer 32 Player 33 Amusement park focus 35 Minute Maid parent company
Want to place a classified ad?
2/2/12
47 Immortal among hockey defensemen 48 Wins the battle of the bulge, ironically 49 Five-star opposite? 54 Rap’s Dr. __ 55 “What’s the __?” 56 Author Fleming 57 “For shame!”
8
6
2 2
3 4 5
1 3 8
1
8 9 3 4
PAGE 8
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
NATION
T Dow Jones 12,716.46,+0.66% S NASDAQ 2,848.27, +1.22% Oil $97.61, -0.01%
S S&P 500 1,324.09, +0.89% T
10-yr. Bond +0.05, +1.85%
T Euro $1.3178, -0.063%
S
Facebook updates status on IPO BY BARBARA ORTUTAY AND MICHAEL LIEDTKE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University. That means anyone with the right amount of cash will be able to own part of a Silicon Valley icon that quickly transformed from dorm-room startup to cultural touchstone. If its initial public offering of stock makes enough friends on Wall Street, Facebook will probably make its stock-market debut in three or four months as one of the world’s most valuable companies. Facebook, which is now based in Menlo Park, Calif., hopes to list its stock under the ticker symbol, “FB,” on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Stock Market. In its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook Inc. indicated it hopes to raise $5 billion in its IPO. That would be the most for an Internet IPO since Google Inc. and its early backers raised $1.9 billion in 2004. The final amount will likely change as Facebook’s bankers gauge the investor demand.
Joining corporate America’s elite would give Facebook newfound financial clout as it tries to make its service even more pervasive and expand its audience of 845 million users. It also could help Facebook fend off an intensifying challenge from Google, which is looking to solidify its status as the Internet’s most powerful company with a rival social network called Plus. The intrigue surrounding Facebook’s IPO has increased in recent months, not only because the company has become a common conduit — for everyone from doting grandmas to sassy teenagers — to share information about their lives. Zuckerberg, 27, has emerged as the latest in a lineage of Silicon Valley prodigies who are alternately hailed for pushing the world in new directions and reviled for overstepping their bounds. In Zuckerberg’s case, a lawsuit alleging that he stole the idea for Facebook from some Harvard classmates became the grist for a book and a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award last year. Following the model of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Zuckerberg set up two classes of stock that will ensure he retains control as the sometimes conflicting demands of Wall Street exert new pressures on the company. He will
have the final say on how nearly 57 percent of Facebook’s stock votes, according to the filing. Even before the IPO was filed, Zuckerberg was shaping up as his generation’s Bill Gates — a geek who parlayed his love of computers into fame and fortune. Forbes magazine estimated Zuckerberg’s wealth at $17.5 billion in its most recent survey of the richest people in the U.S. A more precise measurement of Zuckerberg’s fortune will be available once the IPO is priced and provides a concrete benchmark for determining the value of his nearly 534 million Facebook shares The IPO will also mint hundreds of Facebook employees as millionaires because they have accumulated stock at lower prices than what the shares are liked to be valued at on the open market. Facebook employed 3,200 people at the end of last year. Depending on how long regulators take to review Facebook’s IPO documents, the company could be making its stock market debut around the time that Zuckerberg celebrates his next birthday in May. When most companies go public, they let Wall Street investment banks handle everything. That means the initial stock price is reserved for big institutional investors, shutting out the average investor.
PAUL SAKUMA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Romney, GOP rivals head west
GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally on Feb. 1. BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential campaign rolled westward Wednesday, Mitt Romney riding herd after his Florida primary victory, Newt Gingrich looking for a new stake and a top party leader insisting the long trail won’t necessarily hurt the GOP in the race against President Barack Obama. Already the television ads were showing up in states that vote next, cau-
cuses in Nevada on Saturday, in Minnesota and Colorado next Tuesday and in Maine the following weekend. “I’m feeling like we’ve got a good pathway ahead,” Romney declared in a television interview on the day after his Florida triumph. He is favored in Nevada, where there are 28 Republican National Convention delegates at stake. And, alone among the contenders, appears to have the money to compete aggressively in all the other states as well.
Gingrich decamped from Florida but with prospects considerably dimmer than Romney’s. He was conceding nothing. Routed on Tuesday night, the former House speaker vowed to stay in the race until the party convention next summer. And his decision not to telephone the primary winner with congratulations drew notice. “I guess Speaker Gingrich doesn’t have our phone number,” Romney said. The Florida campaign was marked by
millions of dollars in negative ads, and Gingrich’s promise to remain in the race raised the prospect of a months-long struggle. But current House Speaker John Boehner said he was not concerned. “I would remind people that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a fight that went through June of 2008. I think everybody just needs to realize that this will resolve itself,” he said. Jubilant in victory on Tuesday night, Romney was thrown onto the defensive the day after. “I’m not concerned about the very poor” because they have a social safety net, he said on CNN. Criticized quickly, he hastened to clarify. “No, no, no, no, no, no, no,” Romney told reporters on his campaign plane when asked about the comments. He referred back to his complete remarks, in which he had said he would focus on middle-income Americans rather than the very poor, who get government help, or the very rich, who don’t need it. “My energy is going to be devoted to helping middle-income people,” he said. By then, though, he was drawing criticism from conservatives who worried he was showing a penchant for verbal gaffes as well as from Obama’s campaign manager. “So much for ‘we’re all in this together,’ ” tweeted Jim Messina. Gingrich piled on. “I am fed up with politicians in either party dividing Americans against each other,” he said. After making no significant campaign effort in Florida, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul looked for better days in the contests just ahead.
Wash. OKs same-sex marriage BY RACHEL LA CORTE ASSOCIATED PRESS OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. The measure now heads to the House, which is expected to approve it. Gov. Chris Gregoire supports the measure and has said she will sign it into law, though opponents have promised to challenge it at the ballot with a referendum. The measure was passed on a 28-21 vote. Four Republicans crossed party lines and voted with majority Democrats for the measure. Three Democrats voted against it. Any challenge to the bill can’t be filed until after it is passed by the full Legislature and signed into law by Gregoire. Opponents then must turn in 120,577 signatures by June 6.
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE 9
WORLD
“Some people believe [soccer] is a matter of life or death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” BILL SHANKLY FORMER MANAGER, LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB
Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan to end next year BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration’s most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014. Panetta’s remarks to reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels showed how the foreign military role in Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support role with Afghans fully in the lead. The timeline fits neatly into the U.S. political calendar, enabling President Barack Obama to declare on the campaign trail this year that in addition to bringing all U.S. troops home from Iraq and beginning a troop drawdown in Afghanistan, he also has a target period for ending the U.S. combat role there. It also serves to possibly bridge an apparent gap between France and the rest of the NATO partners of the U.S. on defining the end game in Afghanistan. All NATO members in November 2010 endorsed a plan to keep forces in Afghanistan until the end of 2014. But France
this week appeared to throw that plan into doubt when President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at his side and seemingly in agreement, that NATO end its mission in 2013 - one year earlier than planned. Sarkozy also said, however, that France would provide support for the training of Afghan forces beyond 2013, so his approach might not be entirely different from the one Panetta outlined in which allied troops shed their combat role in the second half of 2013 but remain through 2014 to train, advise and assist.
Hopefully by the mid to latter part of 2013 we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advise and assist role [in Afghanistan]. LEON PANETTA U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta said he hoped to hear more from the French delegation at the NATO talks Thursday and Friday. Panetta called 2013 a critical year for the Afghanistan mis-
sion that has dragged on for more than a decade with little sign that the Taliban will be decisively defeated. He noted that NATO and the Afghan government intend to begin a final phase of handing off sections of the country to Afghan security control in mid-2013. “Hopefully by the mid to latter part of 2013 we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advise and assist role,” he said. He added that this “doesn’t mean we’re not going to be combat-ready,” but rather that the U.S. and other international forces will no longer be in “the formal combat role we’re in now.” Panetta said the administration wants to make sure that the Afghan forces, after foreign troops depart, are “sufficient and sustainable,” but noted that will require continuing financial support not only from the United States but also from allies and many other countries. “One of the things we’ll be discussing (in Brussels) is what the size of that (Afghan) force should be, but a lot of that will be dependent on the funds that are going to be put on the table in order to sustain that force,” he said. “That’s one of the things, frankly, I’m going to be pushing at this (meeting).” A senior defense official traveling with Panetta said the U.S. believes Afghanistan will not need as big a force as is now
being built. NATO has set a target of 352,000 Afghan soldiers and police. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon, said the U.S. thinks a smaller force would be adequate, but he would not be more specific He likened this approach to the way Obama managed the final two years of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Obama declared an end to the U.S. combat role there on Aug. 31, 2010 but kept tens of thousands of troops there through the end of last year to continue training and advising Iraqi security forces. Panetta said no decisions have been made about how many U.S. troops would be required to remain there once the combat role has ended. He suggested, however, that large reductions, below the 68,000 troop level projected for this September, were unlikely in the months immediately after the shift. The U.S. now has about 91,000 troops there as part of the International Security Assistance Force. The fact that much military work will remain after 2013 “demands that we have a strong presence there,” he said. Although Panetta made no mention of it, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan already are making that transition out of a combat role. They are operating in Helmand province in southwestern Afghanistan, where the Tali-
74 die in Egypt soccer stampede BY SARAH EL DEEB ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in the seaside city of Port Said Wednesday following an upset victory by the home team over Egypt’s top club, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed to intervene. It was a bloody reminder of the deteriorating security in the Arab world’s most populous country as instability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising. The melee - which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean city, and Al-Ahly, based in Cairo and one of Egypt’s most popular teams - was the worst case of soccer violence in Egypt and the deadliest worldwide since 1996. One player said it was “like a war.” In Cairo, fans angered that another match between Al-Ismaili and Zamalek was halted because of the Port Said violence set fire to the bleachers at the main stadium in the Egyptian capital, authorities said. No injuries were reported, and employees said firefighters extinguished the blaze before it caused much damage. The clashes and ensuing stampede did not appear to be directly linked to the political turmoil in Egypt, but the violence raised fresh concerns about the ability of the state police to manage crowds. Most of the hundreds of blackuniformed police with helmets and shields stood in lines and did nothing as soccer fans chased either, some wielding sharp objects and others hurling sticks
JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta briefs the media on board a plane en route to a NATO conference in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. ban have been greatly weakened, and are on track to reduce their numbers significantly this year. Panetta’s remarks indicated that this switch into a support role
Bahrain boils as uprising nears one-year mark BY REEM KHALIFA AND BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Egyptian fans rush into the field following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt on Wednesday. and rocks. Security officials said the ministry has issued directives for its personnel not to “engage” with civilians after recent clashes between police and protesters in November left more than 40 people dead. The violence also underscored the role of soccer fans in Egypt’s recent protest movement. Organized fans, in groups known as ultras, have played an important role in the revolution and rallies against military rule. Their antipolice songs, peppered with curses, have quickly become viral and an expression of the hatred many Egyptians feel toward security forces that were accused
of much of the abuse that was widespread under Mubarak’s regime. Egypt is not immune to soccer violence. In April, the ineffectiveness of the police force also was on display when thousands of fans ran onto the field before the end of an African Champions League game between local club Zamalek and Tunisia’s Club Africain. The hundreds of police on duty at Cairo International Stadium could not stop the violence then, either. Activists scheduled rallies Thursday outside the headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Cairo to protest the inability of the police to stop the bloodshed.
The most creative desk at the YDN. Work for Design. JOIN@YALEDAILYNEWS.COM
will be applied across Afghanistan, assuming no major setbacks against the Taliban and continued progress in training Afghan forces.
MANAMA, Bahrain — It’s usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather. The thud of riot police stun grenades trails off, the stinging tear gas mist is carried away and the protest chants against the Gulf kingdom’s rulers go quiet until the next day. Then the cycle of unrest resumes in one of the longestrunning — and perhaps most diplomatically complex — chapters of the Middle East uprisings. “Egypt, Tunisia, Libya,” demonstrators now shout during running battles with security forces. “Bahrain’s leaders are next.” A year ago this month, Bahrain’s majority Shiites took inspiration from the Arab Spring to sharpen long-standing grievances against the Sunni monarchy, accused by Shiites of relegating them to second-class status in the Westernallied nation. Within days of the first protest march, Bahrain was sliding into a crisis that would bring more than two months of martial law, more than 40 deaths, hundreds of arrests and ongoing clashes so disruptive that the U.S. Embassy last month relocated workers into safe haven neighborhoods. But the troubles also reach far beyond the tiny flame-shaped
island off the Saudi coast. The past year has turned Bahrain into a crossroads for every major showdown in the region. Drawn into the mix is Saudi Arabia as protector of Bahrain’s Sunni dynasty. Archrival Iran is an angry bystander at the fierce crackdowns on fellow Shiites. And the U.S. is Bahrain’s conflicted partner. Washington watches the violence with growing unease but is fearful of souring relations either with the Saudis or Bahrain’s leaders who host the Navy’s strategic 5th Fleet — one of the Pentagon’s main counterweights to Tehran’s military. “The international paralysis over Bahrain has, if anything, become more pronounced with the rising tensions over Iran’s nuclear program,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Bahraini affairs at Rutgers University. “It’s every tough problem in the region funneled into one small place.” It also highlights the intense difficulties facing the West — and Washington in particular — if proreform rebellions someday spread further in the Gulf. The Gulf Arab states, anchored by Saudi Arabia, are critical frontline allies against Iran. Any threats to the Gulf’s autocrats would be perceived in the West also as an assault on important political interests.
PAGE 10
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
AROUND THE IVIES
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” WINSTON CHURCHILL FORMER PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM
T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N
T H E C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N
Harvard Library plan under review
Humanities degrees plummet
KAREN ZHOU/THE HARVARD CRIMSON
Harvard University officials announced last week plans to reduce the size of its 930-person library workforce, which resulted in protests by staff. BY HANA ROUSE AND JUSTIN WORLAND STAFF WRITERS Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and Executive Vice President Katherine N. Lapp are currently reviewing “aspects of organizational design” as part of the University’s restructuring of its library system, according to a statement from a University spokesperson. The Library Transition iSite said that the Harvard Library Board would review a plan created by the library’s leaders before making a recommendation to University President Drew G. Faust on how to conduct the reorganization of the library. The board met to review a
HARVARD
plan last week, and University officials declined to s ta te whether it approved a plan at that
time. Library officials had previously held a town hall meeting for library employees in which they said that their restructuring plan would reduce the size of the library staff. The announcement prompted anxiety amongst library employees from across the University, who called for Harvard to release more details.
BY WILL RYAN STAFF WRITER As Cornell prepares to begin construction on a $61 million building adjacent to Goldwin Smith Hall devoted entirely to the humanities, information from the University Registrar indicates that the number of degrees awarded in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences has plummeted over the last five years. College administrators, though, point out that the number of humanities majors has ro steadily rise when viewed from decade to decade. In 2011, the University conferred 49 percent fewer degrees in history, 37-percent fewer degrees in English, 40-percent fewer degrees in foreign languages and linguistics and nearly 61-percent fewer degrees in philosophy and religious studies than it did in 2006. However, the published trends affecting the undergraduate humanities do not extend to the number of master’s or doctoral degrees awarded at Cornell. On average, the numbers of master’s degrees distributed in English and literature, history and philosophy have increased since 2006. Additionally, the number of graduate degrees awarded in the humanities has remained relatively steady over the last five years. There is a widely-held conception that the decrease in humanities majors is due, at least in part, to the struggling economy, in which employers may favor graduates with more practical degrees. According to U.S. Census data obtained by The Wall Street Journal, comparative literature and U.S. history are among the ten least employable majors, each with an unemployment rate hovering above 10 percent. Meanwhile, several majors, including agricultural sciences and engineering tracts, were deemed the “most employable” by the Census data collected by The Wall Street Journal. These departments have seen their enrollment increase, albeit slightly, over the last five years at Cornell. Prof. Jon Parmenter, director of undergraduate studies for the history depart-
ment, acknowledged the “attitude of pragmatism among college students and their parents” in part derives from the “combination of substantial tuition CORNELL costs and rough economic conditions in recent years.” However, Parmenter also questioned the basis of this attitude and the potentially negative effects it has had on young college students choosing majors. Despite concerns history majors have raised about obtaining employment, “a wide range of employers today still recognize that a history major imparts a range of fundamental and highly adaptable skills,” he said. Parmenter pointed to the profiles of recent history graduates on the department’s web page, which range from paralegals to financial consultants and journalists, to “reveal the diversity of career options open to history majors” who understand “how to compose and execute an analytical argument in persuasive fashion.”Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, director of undergraduate studies for the English department, echoed Parmenter’s concerns. “I continually feel bad that there’s this misconception out there that what a person majors in somehow does or does not guarantee employment,” Raskolnikov said. “By the time you’ve been out of college a few years, nobody remembers or cares what you majored in. They care about whether or not you know how to learn.”“It matters a lot more for you to have something interesting to say for yourself — which English majors undoubtedly do — than to have majored in something you never really learned to like,” she added. Several University officials questioned whether the struggling economy is responsible for the decline in humanities majors, or if there has even been a significant decline in the number of students majoring in these fields. Parmenter said that the 49-percent decrease in history degrees between 2006 and 2011 is “a rather selective use of the data.” 2006 represented the extreme high
of humanities degrees awarded in the past decade, while 2011 was the extreme low. In reality, Parmenter said, the volume of majors has varied considerably between those extremes since 2000, and “is on its way back up for 2012.” Data from the registrar’s office indicates a 61-percent drop in religious studies and philosophy majors over the past five years — from 31 students to 12. However, in 2009 and 2010, there were 27 students graduating with religious studies and philosophy degrees — a very small drop compared to 2006.
By the time you’ve been out of college a few years, nobody cares what you majored in. They care whether you know how to learn. MASHA RASKOLNIKOV Director of undergraduate studies, Cornell English department Prof. G. Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that the percentage of college students in the humanities, per decade, has steadily increased since 1980. Lepage attributed some decline in the humanities to counting students by the number of bachelor’s degrees obtained, without taking into account students obtaining degrees that spanned more than one discipline. “People used to average 1.1 majors; they now average 1.3. The information from the registrar won’t reflect that,” Lepage said. “Someone majoring in history and economics will only register as half a humanities degree and half a social sciences degree. It’s not a very good measure of overall interest in the humanities.” “The number of students majoring in English, in particular, looks artificially low when you look at the data from the registrar,” he added, suggesting that English is a popular option for a double major and thus underrepresented.
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
PAGE 11
SPORTS
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ANGELO DUNDEE Dundee, the boxing cornerman who coached legends such as Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali to greatness, died Wednesday at age 90. Before his death in Tampa, Fl., the renown motivator attended Ali’s 70th birthday in Louisville, Ky. last month.
Elis focus on moving ball M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 lackadaisical [in practice],” Mangano said, “a little too comfortable.” Following the Dartmouth game, Willhite told the News that the team will redouble its efforts in practice. This week’s training would help determine the outcome of the season, he added. During the matchup against Dartmouth, the Bulldogs trailed the Big Green for about half the game and led by only three with less than two minutes to play. The team struggled to hold onto the ball all weekend, during which the Elis recorded a total of 41 turnovers between the two games. “At this point in the season we can go one of two ways,” Willhite said. “We could either splinter, or we could come together as a team and revamp what we’re trying to do as an organization … We have a lot of work to do.” Head coach James Jones said the team generally responds well after losses and he has faith in the Bulldogs’ ability to bounce back. At practice Wednesday, that change was already in effect. The Bulldogs’ focus was evident, and several teammates said their determination had increased significantly from previous weeks. Although the Elis call themselves “the Goon Squad” off of the court, there was no joking around between the lines. Standing in line and laughing amongst themselves, the players’ demeanors changed when the whistle blew.
If both the white and blue sets of practice jerseys had not said “Yale,” it would have been difficult for an observer to realize that the scrimmage did not count toward the Ivy title. The team has emphasized ball movement in practice recently, Jones said. He and three players added that the offense had grown stagnant, which has led to fewer open shots and greater reliance on a few players.
At this point in the season, we can go one of two ways. We could either splinter or we could come together as a team. REGGIE WILHITE ’12 Captain, men’s basketball Bartlett said the coaches have been emphasizing all season that the team cannot rely only on the talents of a few players such as Willhite and Mangano. “We’ve known for a while, but it was reminded to us this weekend that that saving grace [in Mangano’s scoring ability] is also a trap,” Bartlett said. “His talent is maximized when he gets the team going. I think that just to throw it in to [Mangano] and watch is just a death sentence.” Against Harvard, Mangano scored 17 points, just 1.7 shy of
his per-game average, but he shot just two of 11 from the field against Dartmouth. Bartlett added that he believes that there are no selfish players amongst the Elis, and that nobody on the team cares who scores. Mangano said he agreed that the team should focus on ball movement going forward. The team has not played a strong all-around game since defeating Holy Cross at home 82–67 on Jan. 3, he added, and the Bulldogs need to work on making the extra pass to find open shots. Even Mangano — who at 6’10” is averaging 18.7 points and 9.9 rebounds per game this season — has bought into the team’s mentality of unselfishness in a way that is surprising for a possible NBA prospect, Martin said. “[Mangano] has been doing a good job,” Martin said. “It’s contagious when your best player is being unselfish [with the basketball].” The work in practice has led players to look forward with confidence as the Bulldogs head into the stretch run of the Ivy League. Forward Greg Kelley ’14 said he is optimistic that the team will turn its game around. The Elis will test themselves at home against the Quakers, who are second in the Ivy League, Friday and against the Princeton Tigers on Saturday. Tipoff will be at 7:00 p.m. for both games. Contact CHALRES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
BRIANNE BOWEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Forward Greg Mangano ’12 is a crucial part of a Yale offense that is focusing on moving the ball around more.
Injuries contribute to Elis’ struggles on ice
JENNIFER CHEUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Women’s hockey captain Aleca Hughes ’12, Yale’s first ever two-time fimalist for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, has led the Elis through a rebuilding season in which wins have been hard to come by. W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 four with concussions, one with a broken ankle and one with a serious illness. This statistic is staggering for women’s hockey, which is a non-checking sport, coaches said. “I’ve never seen so many injuries in one season,” Koizumi said. “I just can’t put my thumb on what is causing the ‘concussion syndrome’ in our players. It’s hard as a coach to keep changing lines — it’s like a different team every night.” Koizumi added that protocol regarding head injuries in sports is much stricter than it used to be, which may account for the numbers of players benched in order to recover. Last semester, Ashley Dunbar ’14, normally a forward, played defense in response to the number of concussed defenders. At the moment, five players are out with concussions — Dunbar, Jenna Ciotti ’14, Aurora Kennedy ’14, and Tara Tomimoto ’13 and Patricia McGauley ’14.
Madi Murray ’15 and Jackie Raines ’14 recently recovered from concussions within a week of incurring them. Mock said the coaching staff ordered new helmets last year — ones specially designed to reduce the risk of concussions — and Koizumi added that the team also mandated mouthguards, which are designed to reduce cranial impact, for all players this season. Neurosurgical fellow Roby Ryan, from the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, said while helmets and mouthguards can lessen a player’s risk, no helmet or other piece of equipment is able to prevent concussions in all cases, as they are caused by brain movement within the skull. He added that the speed of impact of crashes in hockey and the degree of contact makes hockey players particularly susceptible to concussions. “There’s getting to be better recognition of concussions now, which is great because it is dangerous for players to return to the ice too soon,” Ryan said. “It is impor-
tant that trainers know the signs and symptoms. Getting multiple concussions has a synergistic effect whereby each one is worse than the last, and it can take a long time to recover.” Decker said that the team has had to deal with a much shorter bench this year, usually only with four or five defenders — a team normally has between six and eight — and with only three lines of forwards. She said she hopes the injured players will be healthy and back on the ice next year.
I’ve never seen so many injuries in one season. JESSICA KOIZUMI Assistant coach, women’s hockey
DEALING WITH DEFEAT
Davis said the team is trying to focus on playing its best in the next six games, but she added that losing each weekend remains frus-
trating. Although the team does not have any one major weakness, Mock added, it need to work on a few details of the game — in particular, playing quicker in the defensive zone. Trent Petrie, director of the Center of Sports Psychology and professor of psychology at the University of North Texas, told the News Wednesday that it is impotant for sports teams not to be too focused on winning, as they can lose sight of the factors under their control, such as technique improvement. “Winning is not an aspect under a team’s control. It is important to focus on things the players can control, like showing a positive attitude, giving their best effort and making sure they are fully present mentally,” he said. “Players need to recognize that losing can be frustrating, then let it go and focus on the next game or practice. Ultimately, you need to believe that you have the ability to make a difference, and hopefully
that will lead to results.” The team tries to have fun and loosen up with “pre-game dance parties” in the locker room before games, Mock said. But it is not immune to the losing-streak blues. “Once we get down, we don’t believe in ourselves,” Koizumi said. The team struggles to maintain full effort for all 60 minutes of the game, she added. Decker described this season as a “rebuilding year” for the team, but she added that the team has found success off the ice. In addition to Hughes’s nomination, the Yale women’s hockey team was named Sports Person of the Year by the New Haven Register, due to the team’s ongoing involvement in fundraising for cancer research in honor of former teammate Mandi Schwartz ’11, who died of leukemia last spring. At the White Out for Mandi fundraiser in December, the team raised over $25,000 for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation, which seeks to support young athletes battling
cancer. “It’s nice that even though things aren’t going our way on the ice, we’ve been able to make a difference and have something to take away from the season,” Decker said. Koizumi said the program will recruit six or seven players for next year, and the coaching staff plans to recruit seven or eight the following year. In two years, she said she expects the team to be “partically a whole different team.” For the current season, however, the team has been unable to pinpoint how to improve, Mock added. “Things aren’t going to change overnight, but hopefully over the next few years we’ll be able to turn things around and bring more success to the program,” she said. The team’s practices have improved its defense, Ladiges said, “but at this point, we’re just trying to have fun.” Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .
IF YOU MISSED IT SCORES
NBA Phoenix 120 New Orleans 103
NHL N.Y. Rangers 1 Buffalo 0
SPORTS QUICK HITS
NBA Boston 100 Toronto 64
y
NCAA BB Georgetown 58 UConn 44
FOR MORE SPORTS CONTENT, VISIT OUR WEB SITE yaledailynews.com/sports
ALECA HUGHES ’12 HUMANITARIAN AWARD FINALIST Hughes is one of five finalists for the 2012 Hockey Humanitarian Award for the second consecutive year. She is honored for the life-saving initiatives she has undertaken in honor of former teammate Mandi Schwartz ’12, who died last year after a long battle with cancer.
JILLIAN BYERS W. LAX COACH PLAYS FOR USA Byers, an assistant coach for the Yale team, helped Team USA to a 5–0 record at the annual Champion Challenge. She scored a team-high five goals as the American romped to an 18–1 victory over defending NCAA champion Maryland on Sunday.
NHL Florida 4 Washington 2
“We thought we were in a two-horse race with Harvard. [But] we’re kind of among the rest of the pack.” WILL BARTLETT ’14 FORWARD, M. BASKETBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
MEN’S BASKETBALL REBUILDING YEAR
Elis make difference off ice BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER
L
ast night, women’s hockey team captain Aleca Hughes ’12 was chosen as a finalist for the NCAA Hockey Humanitarian Award for the second consecutive year. Hughes is the first person in Yale history to be nominated twice for the annual award.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY Assistant coach Jessica Koizumi described Hughes as “a coach’s dream” and said she hopes Hughes will win the award. “I want her to go out on a high note,” she said. “Aleca has put so much energy and effort into our program.” But Hughes’ last season with the team has been less than a stellar send-off. The women’s hockey team is also on track to break another record this season. With only six games left this season, the women’s hockey team might post the worst record in the team’s history. “Part of why it is so frustrating is that we can’t pinpoint something that we are doing wrong,” forward Stephanie Mock ’15 said. “There is lots of tension on the team right now. Everyone feels a lot of pressure to win.”
Once we get down, we don’t believe in ourselves. JESSICA KOIZUMI Assistant Coach The Bulldogs’ current record is 1–22–0, 1–15–0 ECAC, and the last time they won a game was on Nov. 11 against Union. Even then, the victory came in overtime and earned only one point in the conference, instead of the two points earned for a win during the first 60 minutes. Last weekend, the team lost 8–0 to Harvard, the largest margin the team has lost by this season, and 6–0 to Dartmouth. Of the team’s 22 losses this season, they have been shut out in 10. The last time the team posted a winning record, 15–14–2, was 2006-’07 under the coaching of Hilary Witt. The worst season record for the team, which began playing in 1977, was during the 1995-’96 season when the Elis finished a disappointing 2–20–3. Last year’s season record was a relatively respectable 9–17–3, 8–12–2 ECAC, which left the Bulldogs tied for eighth place in the 12-team conference. The men’s hockey team, on the other hand, has finished the past four seasons with a winning record, and last year, the team won the ECAC Tournament, had a record of 28–7–1 and entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed, though the team lost to Minnesota-Duluth in the NCAA East Regional Finals. Mock said women’s hockey is a different world, as even in Division 1, there are far fewer female players to recruit. While the men’s team has developed strategies to help it succeed on the ice, the women’s team has so far been unable to under-
BULLDOGS REBOUND FROM TOUGH WEEKEND
stand why it cannot hold its own. “I just don’t know how we’re not scoring,” Mock said. Goalkeeper Genny Ladiges ’12 said the team has been focusing on raising its intensity level in practice and working on the power play and penalty kill, as many of the goals against Yale have come when the team is one woman down. Still, the Elis have been unable to capitalize on their own power play.
SOMETHING YOUNG, SOMETHING NEW
Each year, the top eight teams in the ECAC compete in the ‘conference playoffs. However, the last time the Elis made the cut was in 2008, so none of the current roster has seen postseason play. There are only four seniors on the team, compared with seven juniors, six sophomores and six freshmen. “It definitely does take time to adjust to college-level hockey, so that may factor into why we are having such a bad season,” Mock said. Mock’s freshman class is the first to be recruited by the current coaching staff. Head coach Joakim Flygh and his assistant coaches took over the reins of the team from former head coach Witt in the fall of 2010. Assistant coach Jessica Koizumi said it is difficult to change the culture of a program and get the players to “buy into” the change. “We’ve had a difficult time meeting our short-term goals, and we started to snowball,” Koizumi said. “We put ourselves in a lull at the beginning and just couldn’t get out of it.” Despite a lack of positive results from the new staff, forward Paige Decker ’14 said the coaches are completely dedicated to the success of the program, and Ladiges added that the new coaches were a “welcome change,” bringing with them “a new philosophy and a fresh perspective.” She declined to comment on what the new philsophy entailed. Another school in a similarly turbulent coaching situation does not seem to be suffering from the same growing pains. Last year, Brown placed next to last in the ECAC with a conference record of 1–17–4, with an overall record of 2-23-4. But the Bears have managed to turn around their game this year, to 7–9–7, 4–8–4 ECAC, with the help of their new head coach Amy Bourbeau, who joined the program in September. Bourbeau declined to comment on how the Brown team managed to bounce back from its disappointing season last year.
ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Though Harvard routed Yale, 65-35, when the two teams met in New Haven on Friday, Yale is still in the hunt for an Ivy League title. BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER
A RASH OF INJURIES
Injuries have also helped to mar the season for the Bulldogs. “We’ve had such bad luck with concussions this year, it keeps us guessing who will be able to play at each game,” forward Lauren Davis ’12 said. “We can’t keep our lines consistent, which creates a problem when you are trying to connect as teammates.” Because of injuries, only eight players of the 23-member roster have played in all 23 games this season. At one point in October, six players were out of commission: SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 11
A lot can change in just one weekend. Going into last weekend’s home games against No. 23 Harvard (18–2, 4–0 Ivy) and Dartmouth (4–16, 0–4 Ivy), Yale was riding a four-game winning streak in which it beat its opponents by more than 11 points per game. This week, the Bulldogs are reeling from a 65–35 thrashing at the hands of the Crimson last Friday and a game Saturday in which they barely escaped with a 62–52 win over the Big Green. The combination of these games was “a wake-up call” for the team, according to captain Reggie Willhite ’12. “We thought we were in a two-horse
STAT OF THE DAY .140
race with Harvard [for the title],” forward Will Bartlett ’14 said. “[But] we’re kind of among the rest of the pack.” The Elis (13–5, 3–1 Ivy) are in third place in the Ancient Eight. They trail Harvard by a game in the rankings and are a half-game behind the Penn Quakers (11–9, 3–0 Ivy), who will travel to New Haven on Friday to face off against the Bulldogs. Yale’s season is at a turning point. They have played 18 games, with 10 more ahead of them. At the end is their goal — an Ivy League title and an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. If the Bulldogs want to stay in the running for the Ivy crown, they need to win this weekend and best Harvard in Cambridge on Feb. 18.
But the players on the team said they cannot continue to play the way they have performed recently if they hope to break their 49-year NCAA tournament drought. “We realized that we need to play and practice a little harder,” guard Sam Martin ’13 said. “Not that we were going easy, but we need a little extra than what we were doing.” Bartlett said the team — while showing respect for the nationally ranked Cantabs — was too comfortable going into the Harvard game last weekend. Forward Greg Mangano ’12 agreed with Bartlett’s assessment. “I think we might’ve been a little too SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 11
THE LOWEST WINNING PERCENTAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE YALE WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM, SET BY THE 1995-‘96 ELIS. This year’s squad, which is currently 1–22–0 and has a .043 winning percentage with six games left in the season, is threatening to eclipse that mark.