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MODERN MUSIC
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Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem frontmen pack YUAG auditorium
HINTS OF MAGIC IN YALE REP’S ‘WINTER’S TALE’
Yale losing streak extends to three after 8–0 shutout at UConn
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SOM seeking further gifts
Death penalty moves closer to repeal
Bulldog days. Temperatures
soared into the low 70s on Wednesday, bringing Frisbees, bleach-white legs and even a bulldog strongly resembling Handsome Dan to Cross Campus.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL; PROPONENTS OF ABOLITION HOPEFUL
He’s back! Just days after
news broke that James Franco GRD ’16 would not enroll at the University of Houston in the fall, the actor was spotted at various campus locations on Wednesday. Franco was spotted in Berkeley’s north court around noon, with a group of people who had film equipment.
BY JACQUELINE SAHLBERG STAFF REPORTER A Wednesday vote by the Connecticut Legislature’s Judiciary Committee may have signaled the beginning of the end for Connecticut’s death penalty. If the bill becomes law, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole will replace the death penalty in all future capital felony convictions. Following a 13-hour public hearing on March 13, the committee approved the bill Wednesday by a vote of 24-19, with 22 Democrats and two Republicans voting in favor of repeal. Proponents said they believe the bill can pass both chambers of the General Assembly, and Gov. Dannel Malloy has said he will sign it if given the opportunity. “We are working very consciously to secure the votes,” said state Senate majority leader Martin Looney, a Democrat who represents New Haven and a co-sponsor of the bill. He added that a few key senators remain on the fence. “We are hopeful that the votes will be there to pass the bill.”
Marijuana has support. A Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday showed that 68 percent of the poll’s respondents said they support allowing patients with a chronic illness to obtain small amounts of marijuana with a prescription. Only 27 percent said they oppose the legalization of medical marijuana in Connecticut. Celebration. The Persian New
Year has come to Yale’s dining halls. The holiday, known as “norouz” in Farsi, takes place each year on the spring equinox. Iranian Students at Yale teamed up with Yale Dining to set up a traditional haftsin (pronounced “haftseen”) in Commons and each residential college dining hall.
Might want to skip dessert.
It’s March, which means it’s time for Girl Scout cookies. New Haven Girl Scout troop 60630 will be in the Branford dining hall during dinner on Thursday and Pierson dining hall during dinner on Friday selling the famous cookies. One box costs $4.
Kitty and the Bee. Elevenyear-old Kitty Shortt of Clinton, Conn., spelled “dyslexia” correctly to win the New Haven Register’s Spelling Bee. Her win earns her $2,500 and the honor of representing the area in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Speaking of tweens. In case
you hadn’t heard, the film version of Suzanne Collins’ novel “The Hunger Games” opens at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning. Yalies are getting in on the action, too, posting to Facebook groups in search of tickets to a midnight showing.
As if Zooey wasn’t enough.
Just two weeks after the Whiffenpoofs performed with indie songstress Zooey Deschanel in Southern California, a video popped up on YouTube earlier this week of the Whiffs performing Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, a star of ABC’s “Modern Family.”
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We are hopeful that the votes will be there to pass the bill.
The Yale School of Management is pushing ahead on the construction of its new Whitney Avenue campus, but it has not finished raising the funds for the $230 million complex. BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER Even as workers assemble millions of pounds of steel, concrete and glass to build the School of Management’s new campus, SOM has not yet covered the hefty price tag of the construction. SOM Dean Edward Snyder told the News that the school has raised all but $20 to $40 million of the roughly $230 million needed to finance the construction. Though the school has begun to shift its fundraising priorities to areas such as scholarships, efforts to acquire the outstanding balance for the construction are still underway. The construction has not incurred any debt so far, and Snyder said SOM will be able to borrow from
the University to pay off remaining costs if necessary. “Obviously, we would prefer not to have any debt, but this is within a reasonable range,” Snyder said. “What we need to do is try to continue to work on getting support for the building.”
We have a lot of priorities and we have to balance all the priorities. JOEL GETZ Senior associate dean for development and alumni relations Snyder said he would like SOM to raise roughly $40 million in
order to establish an endowment to keep the building up to date after it opens in late 2013, though only roughly $20 million is needed to complete the construction. Any debt the school could incur would be relatively minor, he added, given that its endowment is valued at more than $500 million. While SOM is refocusing its fundraising goals, Joel Getz, senior associate dean for development and alumni relations, said these new efforts are not detracting from construction-related development. Several “significant gifts” have come in for the construction in recent weeks, Getz said, in addition to gifts toward the school’s other fundraising priorities.
In order to pass the Senate and move to the House, the bill will require the support of at least half of the Senate’s 36 members. If the Senate vote is tied, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman has said she would cast a tiebreaking vote in support of repeal. The bill has not yet been placed on the Senate’s legislative calendar, but Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, vice-chair of the Judiciary Committee and a Democrat representing New Haven, said he expects the bill to move quickly due to the historic nature of the bill. This is the third time since 2009 that Connecticut lawmakers have considered a bill to abolish the death penalty.
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Effectiveness of rush ban questioned BY MADELINE MCMAHON AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS Yale’s ban on fall rush for Greek organizations replicates the policy of several Ivy League universities, but whether such a policy reduces instances of hazing remains contested. Following the announcement of the ban earlier this month, an implementation committee composed of administrators and Greek leaders will meet Thursday to begin discussing the details of the new regulation. Higher education law experts interviewed said they recognize that administrators hope the policy will allow freshmen to become better adjusted to college life before joining a Greek organization, but they questioned whether the policy effectively combats hazing. “We didn’t do this to be popular,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said, “but we’ve done this to be in congruence with national practice and do what we believe is the best for our students.” John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, said the committee will address issues such as freshman attendance at fraternity parties during the fall, adding that the ban applies to only Greek organizations since they exist primarily for social reasons, unlike other campus groups.
Meeske said Yale is not “inventing a draconian policy that nobody else does,” as administrators evaluated rush processes at peer institutions when considering the ban.
We didn’t do this to be popular, but we’ve done this to … do what we believe is best for our students.
MARTIN LOONEY State Senate Majority Leader
GOP Senate race builds steam BY CASEY SUMNER STAFF REPORTER As the August primary election draws closer, the race for Connecticut’s Republican Senate nomination is heating up. Last Wednesday, in her first press conference since declaring her candidacy, Republican senatorial hopeful Linda McMahon,
the former wrestling executive who lost to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in 2010 despite vastly outspending him, unveiled an economic policy plan in Newington, Conn. In an effort to portray herself as a job creator, McMahon outlined a plan featuring tax cuts for the SEE MCMAHON PAGE 4
MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College As Greek leaders at Princeton University have collaborated with administrators to finalize details of a similar policy announced last August, two Princeton fraternity leaders interviewed said they feel administrators have not adequately considered their concerns. In response to the new policy at Princeton, which goes beyond Yale’s new regulations by banning freshman rush in both the fall and spring, Greek organizations formed a Greek council with members of each fraternity and sorority to present a united front to the administration, said Jake Nebel, the former president of Princeton’s Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter. But Josh Miller, SEE RUSH PAGE 4
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Linda McMahon, who won the Republican nomination for Senate in 2010 before losing in the general election, is vying for a second shot.
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long with a good number of American males, ages 18-34, I went to see “Project X” over spring break. Although it was an experience I will forever regret, I did get to see the trailer for the next Batman movie. A certain scene caught my attention. About halfway through the trailer, Bruce Wayne (Batman) is seen dancing with Selina Kyle (Catwoman) at some fancy ball. As the camera pans in towards Kyle, she coyly remarks: “You think this can last? There is a storm coming, Mr. Wayne.” An ominous cut later, the voice continues: “You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits, you’re all going to wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.” Then chaos ensues, from a prison riot to the engulfment of the Pittsburgh Steelers. From what it looks like, Catwoman is slated to become the next leader of Occupy Gotham. And this would make sense. The choice of Catwoman as the villain holds a particularly important element to the film. Distinguished by her tough upbringing and impoverished struggles, Kyle’s character has a strong, dark, populist streak. She’s a modern day Huey Long – just with more pipe bombs, leather body-suites and the like. General speculation around the film strongly suggests that inequality, class struggle and social order will be the dominant motifs of the final Batman film. To this point, reports last October stated that director Chris Nolan had strongly considered using Occupy Wall Street as a background for his depiction of Gotham City. Ultimately, he did not, citing concerns about trivializing the larger movement. So, is this what we have come to? Has our national mindset really arrived at the point where we are ambivalent about the hero in the Batman movies? Recall, for a moment, what separates Batman from other superheroes. He does not come from another planet. He was not bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to radiation. He cannot talk to fish. He actually has no powers at all, just the resolve to avenge the wrong done to his parents by criminals. And, thanks to the fact that he was orphaned in a country without a massive death tax, he has pursued this goal with his life. His resolve and discipline are his powers. As a superhero, he is a selfmade man; he developed his education, combat training and crime fighting skills all on his own. And he uses these powers not for exploitation but for good. He, a normal man, is a
hero everyone could aspire to be like. Is it possible now that Gotham needs a hero HARRY fighting for GRAVER social justice over real jusGravely tice? To many mistaken – from those who sleep in ivy towers to those who currently sleep on towers of ivy (or whatever is under sleeping bags) – this rings true. Batman, a man of the one percent, is out of touch. He can’t meet the new challenges of our society. He can’t possibly understand, let alone combat, our true social problems. The real criminals are on Wall Street – or in the offices of Wayne Enterprises. Batman might actually be part of the problem. Granted, we do not know the details of the movie. Odds are Batman remains the hero. But the undercurrent of the trailer touches on a growing trend in our political and popular culture. This is a more dangerous, nuanced worldview that extends beyond the more visible critiques of capitalism. Wealth is no longer considered a feature of a demographic but a disposition. Affluence, seen almost as a mindset, is portrayed as an inextricable element of one’s character – one that must be contained, contextualized and, for the enlightened, overcome. Until then, prosperity clouds perspective. This line of thinking creates a profound divisiveness extending far beyond matters of politics. When a certain intellectual class, guided by a constructed, modernist notion of the ideal progressive society, attempts to monopolize the proper expressions of empathy, we have a moral problem, not an economic one. At its core, this system of ethics is one of base suppositions: assuming innate compassion for some while unconditionally dismissing it for others. Ideas, not identities, have consequences. Be it Batman or Mitt Romney, we should look to the heart, not the wallet, to see who they are. Occupy’s fluid boundary between disagreement and demonization is the genuine villain in this story. So let us tip our hat to Batman, our hero from the one percent, who still stands for all of us. And in the spirit of helping Gotham, maybe we should cut his taxes, too. HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu.
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attending paramedics brought Farrington to Yale-New Haven Hospital and took down information about the getaway vehicle. Although he requested an officer upon admission, Farrington did not see one until he was ready for release a few hours later. It appears the New Haven Police Department has not sought any evidence, including the car’s license plate number. Farrington said he has made many attempts to reach police and provide an official account of the incident and evidence. They have treated his case like a hot potato, promising day after day that someone else will call him back. Farrington’s story left me dumbfounded. How could police ignore 911 calls reporting a random beating in downtown New Haven? Why would police ignore important evidence and cooperative witnesses? Why would a random attack in front of Phelps Gate go unmentioned in Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins’ campus-wide emails? I contacted the Yale Police Department on Monday for answers. In an email Wednesday, Higgins explained that the incident was not deemed “a serious or ongoing threat to the University community,” and therefore no notice would be sent. Higgins’ campus-wide emails are the most important way I maintain a sense of the crime risk I face in New Haven. Crimes of much lesser gravity are routinely
communicated, and it cannot be argued that the attack is not relevant to Yale. I left the same nightclub less than an hour before Farrington and walked home in the same direction. Dorm rooms near Phelps Gate were within earshot of the attack. I would not be surprised if no campus-wide email was sent because the crime was mishandled. On Tuesday I visited the site of the attack and was able to find the Occupy participants who helped Farrington. I found myself with evidence and witnesses that the police apparently never bothered to seek.
A BRUTAL BEATING ON THE GREEN DIDN’T RECEIVE ENOUGH ATTENTION This incident highlights obvious problems with policing in New Haven. A dismally low proportion of violent crimes in New Haven are solved. I sympathize with the challenges the department faces, but mishandling is clearly the problem in Farrington’s case. When I share the story of Farrington’s assault, people respond with similar anecdotes. A friend
of mine who teaches at a New Haven public high school routinely hears accounts from students of shootings and violence that police ignore. He also tells me that while some students are willing to provide tips on crimes, they consider it futile. I was the victim of a broad daylight assault in 2009. I called the NHPD for help and waited with bystanders. Three cruisers passed near us and didn’t seem to notice our attempts to flag them down. Before an officer arrived approximately twenty minutes later, the attackers targeted another graduate student, threw her to the ground, stole her bike and got away. A quicker response was clearly possible and would have prevented a second assault and caught the perpetrators. After dealing with two car thefts, I learned to expect little from the NHPD. I presumed that the police have bigger problems than car thefts. What shocked me about Farrington’s case was that the police treat even more serious crimes lightly. Those of us who live, work and play in New Haven accept a certain risk of mugging or assault. What I never considered, however, was that the worst could happen and law enforcement would ignore calls for help. PATRICK COURNOYER is sixthyear student in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Contact him at patrick.cournoyer@yale.edu .
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ndie singer and actress Zooey Deschanel once tweeted, “I wish everyone looked like a kitten,” and she writes a DIY art-and-crafts blog for women. In an interview with Allure magazine earlier this year, she defended her seemingly frivolous and decidedly girly style. Regardless of whether Deschanel is a disgrace to womankind, she says — rightly — that society views femininity negatively and associates it with being weak. We shouldn’t shun femininity entirely. The textbook for the psych survey class “Attraction and Relationships” claims that both men and women look for partners with qualities associated with both masculinity and femininity. A desirable partner is both sensitive (a typically female quality) and assertive (typically masculine). Meekness (hallmark of the damsel-in-distress) and aggression (hallmark of the macho man) are destructive in either partner in a relationship. These findings suggest that masculinity and femininity each contain valuable and repulsive characteristics and that, in reality, any person has a mixture of masculine and feminine qualities. Gender as a social construct is a well-known modern idea, and it’s frequently discussed in WGSS classes. The argument
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t approximately 2:10 a.m. Sunday, March 18, Michael Farrington, 24, of Cheshire, C.T. was brutally beaten by five assailants across the street from Phelps Gate. The assailants were intoxicated and did not know the victim. I learned of the attack from a friend of the victim later that day. According to the victim and to witnesses, police never arrived at the scene despite multiple 911 calls. The story seemed unreal to me, even after I saw the gruesome pictures of Farrington’s injuries and the blood stains on the fence and sidewalk a few steps from Phelps Gate. Farrington was walking to his car after leaving a nightclub when he was thrown to the ground. One assailant restrained his arms while two others repeatedly kicked his face, head, back and other parts of his body. Farrington’s entire head was badly bruised and was bleeding profusely. The attack also chipped his teeth and ruptured blood vessels in his right eye. The beating would have continued if Occupy New Haven participants hadn’t heard the commotion and rushed to the scene. One Occupier chased away the attackers and recorded the license plate number of the escape vehicle. Another Occupier helped Farrington call 911. These good Samaritans were prepared to provide details to police had they ever arrived. An ambulance reported to the scene soon thereafter. The
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for the nonexistence of biological gender is compelling. Evolutionary theory can explain why we expect certain behavior from males and females and why those expectations are grouped by sex and not some other distinction like class or nationality. For example, women are slated as committed to relationships and picky about partners because they have to carry a child for nine months and thus must invest in a good, stable partner. The evolution story says that the man is all about dispersing his genes as widely as possible; he still has to choose a healthy partner, but reproducing with as many women as possible is apparently a better investment than raising a child with just one.
GENDER STEREOTYPES MAY BE SHIFTING The advent of contraceptives and equal education has led to a mixture, a spectrum of types of human beings: If we created a list of all people who can be described as promiscuous, meek, flamboyant, strong, intel-
The right to read freely It is troubling that a Sterling professor of French, R. Howard Bloch (“Why I like YaleNUS,” March 19) would endorse Yale’s expansion into a country where students could not read, among other authors, the Marquis de Sade, whose works are banned in Singapore. Yes, a liberal arts education may help liberalize illiberal politics. It may offer students wider opportunities for the benign dilettantism Bloch finds lacking in discipline-driven higher education. But what is a liberal arts education without the chance for what Milton so righteously called promiscuous reading? Alas, a country in which students cannot read what they want to is a country absolutely incapable of supporting a Yale-like institution. RYAN POLLOCK March 20 The writer is a junior in Calhoun College.
The global fight for women’s rights Elaina Plott (“The real war on women,” March 19) provides a series of cherry-picked examples which seem to imply that only Arabs
ligent or sardonic, we would find unpredictable numbers of male and female names on each list. Yet my recent observations lead me to think there wouldn’t be equal numbers of men and women on each list. Equal numbers would support the idea that gender is societally constructed. But no, I think that we’d find a gender reversal in a lot of cases. I don’t think women and men are equal or arbitrarily divided by gender characteristics. Lately, I’ve been finding evidence that women increasingly exhibit the admirable qualities traditionally associated with men and still retain admirable feminine qualities; in other words, I’m suggesting that women are no longer catching up to men, but that maybe men will have to catch up to women. In relationships at Yale, I’ve noticed that the women tend to be psychologically stronger and more stable. Women are also bolder. I’ve known more women who’ve asked men out on dates than the other way around. Other observations: Women tend to partake more in campus events and clubs, are less awkward, are more likely to own up to mistakes, are more openminded, have more comprehensive and accurate viewpoints in discussions and are more likely to be friendly and introduce
themselves at social gatherings. In my family, my mother’s job brings in more income than my father’s. In my extended family, the wives tend to be more active in financial decisions than their husbands and are more vocal and social at family parties. My argument has many flaws — Yale and my personal experiences may not reflect society at large. Or perhaps there’s a tortoise and the hare effect: Women are getting ahead while men aren’t looking. We are seeing the residue of old gender constructions: Women are reacting against the criticism of femininity by taking on masculine qualities. But it’s important to ask what it would mean if we’re entering an age where females have found the perfect blend of femininity and masculinity. It would mean that femaleness is no longer self-contained, and so corrosion of the definition of maleness may follow. Males may then be spurred to emulate positive feminine qualities, while females can feel free to be both empowered and girly. Ultimately, the function of gender in our identities may be only to signal biological compatibility.
are capable of discrimination against women. The great irony, of course, is in her third example; she fears (rightly so) the hypothetical abuses of an Islamic-majority parliament in Egypt, when actual abuses are happening right here in the U.S., home to a majorityChristian legislature. All the actual abuses Plott cites occur in nations with monarchies funded, stabilized and supported by the United States. The United States supplies both Jordan and Saudi Arabia’s regimes with weapons used to oppress the citizenry. Additionally, in 2009, there were 22 murders classified as honor killings in Jordan, a nation of 5.91 million. Proportionally, this would be equivalent to 1,117 honor killings in the U.S., with a population of 300 million. In 2005, 1,181 American women (roughly three per day) were killed by an intimate partner. But what about rapes? The FBI reported 90,000 people — or 0.03 percent of the population
— were raped in the U.S. in 2007. That year, there were 628 rapes — 0.01 percent of the population — in Jordan. Statistically, then, an American person is three times as likely to be raped as a Jordanian person is. Realistically, both these numbers are probably actually higher, since the vast majority of rapes go unreported. Finally, a survey published in Haaretz a year ago found that 61 percent of Israeli men and 41 percent of Israeli women did not consider forced sex with an acquaintance to be rape. My point is this: Rapists and murderers are a diverse group of people — racially, religiously and politically. And if we wish to fight them, we must unite across these boundaries as well. Plott is right on one count — feminism does not belong to any one party, nor does the burden of the struggle fall strictly on the left.
CATHERINE DINH is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at catherine.dinh@yale.edu.
BASSEL HABBAB March 20 The writer is a sophomore in Morse College.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JOHN SCHAEFER Schaefer has been hosting “Soundcheck” since 2002 and “New Sounds” since 1982. He has written liner notes for over 100 albums, and in 2003 received a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center. He has also written books about new music and world music.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 23 2:30 PM Talk by Peter Minshall, Caribbean Carnival Artist: Blue Devils, Bats and Fancy Sailors. Minshall will discuss the form of creative expression practised within the Trinidad CArnival called “mas,” based on the practice of masquerade. “Mas” is a performance art, a form of street theater, the enactment of adornment, a dance of the cloth. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.), Lounge.
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The article “Relay teams take second“ stated that Yale’s track teams competed only in the 4-by-400 meter races at the Northridge Invitational. In fact, Yale’s teams competed only in the 4-by-100 meter relay. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
A caption for the photo of the scientist James Watson misidentified him as British. In fact, Watson is an American.
City sees second murder of year BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Just three days after New Haven had its first homicide of 2012, a second man was shot and killed Tuesday evening. New Haven Police Department officers on patrol around Valley Street in the West Rock neighborhood heard shots at 11:06 p.m. Shortly after, they located a “black male victim with several gunshot wounds” lying on the ground in front of 58 Hilltop Place, according to department spokesman David Hartman. The man, who Hartman said was “in his late teens or early 20s,” was pronounced dead at the scene. NHPD detectives from the Major Crimes Unit immediately launched an investiga-
tion, talking with neighbors and collecting forensic evidence, Hartman said. The victim of the homicide has yet to be identified. Tuesday evening’s murder is the second in four days. The first homicide of the year, which broke a streak of more than two months without a homicide, took place Saturday morning. In the first homicide, Thomas “TJ” Mozell was found dead in a silver Range Rover near the intersection of County and Munson Streets in Dixwell. At this time last year, the city had recorded seven murders — en route to a 20-year high murder rate of 34. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
The second murder in New Haven in 2012 occurred in the West Rock neighborhood at 58 Hilltop Place, marked by the pin at the top left corner of the map above.
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Last spring, Vice President Joseph Biden announced new guidelines for the handling of sexual assault cases at universities in a “Dear Colleague Letter” from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER The Department of Education’s recently clarified Title IX regulations have prompted universities to review their sexual misconduct policies even beyond those outlined in the new guidelines. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights — the federal agency that issued the recommendations in a “Dear Colleague” letter last April — intended for the recommendations to target “student-on-student” sexual harassment issues, according to an OCR spokesman. But four higher education law experts said they thought the letter encouraged a broader review of sexual grievance procedures that did not necessarily address only student-specific interactions. Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler, who began overseeing the University’s Title IX compliance in November, said in a Wednesday email that administrators at Yale recognized that the letter focused on “student-on-student” sexual violence but reviewed its recommendations as part of a larger survey of Yale’s sexual grievance procedures. “The University had initiated a review of its means for addressing complaints of sexual misconduct a number of months before the issuance of the Dear Colleague Letter,” she said. “One of the goals of that review was to evaluate and revise complaint procedures to assure fairness, effectiveness, and consistency of the procedures as they are applied to various constituencies.” Spangler added that the creation of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) last July indicates the University’s common procedures for cases involving students and those involving faculty members. The UWC hears all complaints except those
against staff members filed by faculty or staff members. Still, Peter Lake, director for the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University, said some schools may have “misinterpreted and overinterpreted” the letter, while others made the “very deliberate choice” to address sexual misconduct issues among staff members in conjunction with student affairs.
Universities have a greater level of responsibility… for controlling the actions of their employees. DAN SIEGEL California-based Title IX lawyer The OCR spokesman said in a Wednesday email that though the letter did not speak “expressly” to institutions regarding sexual harassment among employees, it recommended a “number of best practices” that OCR thought would help institutions better prevent and respond to sexual violence overall. “Every institution handles its employment policies and procedures differently, and institutions are free to incorporate these best practices in the employment context, if they so choose,” he said. He added that because the letter represents the first time the Department of Education has issued guidance specific to sexual violence, it was “not unexpected that the letter prompted schools to revisit their policies.” Still, he said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission generally handles employment-related complaints, although Title IX does protect both employees and students from discrimination.
David Armstrong, vice president of development and general counsel at Notre Dame College of Ohio, said last month that he thought the letter not only applied to “student-on-student” issues, but also covered other cases of sexual misconduct on campuses. He added that he thinks OCR could make its expectations regarding Title IX issues more clear in general. California-based Title IX lawyer Dan Siegel said it “follows logically” that university administrators would enhance sexual grievance procedures for staff members after receiving recommendations for improving student resources, especially since a university has a greater obligation to regulate the behavior of its staff than that of its students. “Universities have a greater level of responsibility, at least traditionally, for controlling the actions of their employees,” Siegel said. “So if the Office for Civil Rights is saying, ‘In our opinion, universities need to raise the bar in terms of dealing with student-on-student sexual harassment’ … then I think [universities] would be smart to say [they] need to do at least as much as [they’re] doing about student behavior to control staff or faculty behavior.” Erin Buzuvis, a professor at Western New England University Law School and founder of a Title IX blog, said the letter is not a “mandatory source of law in a technically binding sense” but instead offers advice on interpreting existing Title IX regulations. As a result, she said, the letter serves as a “little warning,” allowing universities some freedom in deciding how to implement the recommendations. The OCR’s Title IX investigation into Yale’s sexual climate, which began last March, is still ongoing. Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
Popular musicians draw crowds to YUAG BY KAT HUANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Before a packed lecture hall on Wednesday evening, musicians David Byrne and James Murphy expounded upon creative impulse, new music technologies, turnstile arpeggios and Japanese flash mobs. Byrne and Murphy — former frontmen of the widely popular bands Talking Heads and LCD soundsystem, respectively — drew a crowd of New Haven residents, students and professors that filled every seat in the Yale University Art Gallery auditorium. Moderated by WNYC radio producer John Schaefer, “Art & Music: A Conversation between David Byrne and James Murphy” mixed performance art videos straight from Byrne’s hard drive with anecdotes from the musicians’ rich musical pasts. Though Murphy and Byrne said they had met for the first time only days before the event, Murphy noted that he has always credited Byrne as a major influence on his work. He cited Byrne’s unabashed fusion of visual art and music as particu-
larly significant to his own artistic development. Noting the similarities between the two artists’ aesthetics, Schaefer quoted a London-based digital PR and marketing agency that wrote on its blog, “James Murphy is our generation’s David Byrne.” The two men paused before Byrne responded to laughter from the crowd, “Now we both feel weird.” Rather than speaking about Talking Heads and the New Wave music genre he helped pioneer, Byrne focused on streaming multimedia performance art videos for the audience, created both by him and by other artists. He showed photos of the New York City bike racks he designed based off a series of doodles. When Schaefer pointed out the increasing trend among musicians to move away from specialization, citing Murphy’s side gig as a DJ, Murphy was quick to note that live music and DJing are not comparable in terms of their difficulty. “Music is a struggle,” he said. “DJing is like hugging.” Though similar in their fusion of music and the visual arts,
the two artists differed in their descriptions of their songwriting processes. Murphy named four ways in which he writes songs: in his head, through games and patterns, from theoretical ideas, and improvised serenades for his girlfriend — all ways of “tricking” himself into creating music before he realizes what he has accomplished, he said. While Murphy said that lyrics come to him first or simultaneously with the music, Byrne said that in his compositions, instruments set the tone and dictate the music. Words, which are malleable, come last, Byrne said, adding that melodic shape is even more important than producing distinguishable words. “Words can make no sense, but they can’t be wrong … they can’t throw off the track,” he said. Byrne relayed an anecdote of collaborating on a “singing building” in which hammers were rigged to strike the piping to produce cacophonous music. Murphy later mused on the possibility of creating subway turnstiles with timed key pitches
that would create a musical “background” to the flow of New York City rush hour. When asked what has remained unchanged over the course of their careers, both
Byrne and Murphy answered that despite new media and the wider knowledge that comes with age, their love of music has stayed the same. W h i l e Ta l k i n g Hea d s f
remained active until 1991, LCD Soundsystem gave its final performance on April 2, 2011. Contact KAT HUANG at kat.huang@yale.edu .
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Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, center, drew crowds to the Yale University Art Gallery Wednesday.
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FROM THE FRONT
“Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” RAY ROMANO ACTOR AND COMEDIAN
Policy change mirrors other schools RUSH FROM PAGE 1 former social chair of Princeton’s Zeta Psi fraternity, said Princeton’s Greek council had no effect on administrators’ decision-making process. Yale fraternities considered establishing a similar council last fall but ultimately decided against it to avoid excessive administrative oversight, fraternities leaders told the News at the time. Josh Miller added that he thinks the only way students can effectively combat the new rule is with the support of alumni, who he said have more influence with admin-
TIMELINE BANNING FALL RUSH OCTOBER 2010 Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges taped on video chanting offensive slurs on Old Campus. DECEMBER 2010 Committee on Hazing and Initiations forms. APRIL 2011 Committee on Hazing and Initiations releases a report with nine recommendations, one of which is to ban Greek organizations’ fall rush period for freshmen. MARCH 2012 Administrators ban Greek organizations’ fall rush period for freshmen. THURSDAY Implementation Committee meets to begin discussing the details of the new policy.
istrators than current undergraduates. In addition to negotiating with administrators, some Greek organizations at Yale and Princeton may try to continue their rush processes despite the bans. Avi Arfin ’14, president of Yale’s Alpha Epsilon Pi chapter, said his fraternity has considered calling themselves the “Jewish Men’s Club at Yale” and becoming a Jewish cultural group rather than a fraternity.
Simply delaying when something happens is not a penalty, so I don’t see it as a deterrent from future hazing. ALISON KISS Executive director, Security on Campus, Inc. “The fact that this is a viable option underscores that the line the administration is drawing is somewhat arbitrary,” he said. Arfin added that his group would still like to keep their ties to the national fraternity, and will wait to see the final details of the regulations before making any decisions. Nebel said he does not think Greek organizations will conduct “underground rush” periods for freshmen because the risk of getting caught and facing penalties is too high, but Josh Miller said he thinks some fraternities may sidestep the policies by assuming new identities. Four higher education experts questioned whether the policy effectively combats hazing. Alison Kiss, executive director for the nonprofit organization Security on Campus, Inc., which addresses campus security issues, said she thinks banning fall rush for freshmen signals a “step in the right
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Under a new University regulation, Greek organizations cannot hold freshman rush during the fall semester. direction” but will not completely eliminate hazing issues. Campuses generally need a “dramatic” cultural change to eliminate hazing incidents, she said, adding that these changes can be difficult because of “institutional backlash” from fraternity members and alumni, many of whom she said often donate to the university.
“[The ban] recognizes the evidence that freshmen in particular are vulnerable to a number of things during their first few weeks of college,” she said. “[But] simply delaying when something happens is not a penalty, so I don’t see it as a deterrent from future hazing.” The announcement of the ban at Yale came in response to a rec-
ommendation by the Committee on Hazing and Initiations, which formed after Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges made offensive chants on Old Campus in October 2010. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
McMahon battles for second chance in Senate race MCMAHON FROM PAGE 1 middle class and corporations, among other proposals, but former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, her principal rival for the nomination, said McMahon’s plan does not do enough to address the federal government’s ballooning deficit. McMahon’s proposal would cut the middle-class income tax rate from 25 percent to 15 percent and also exempt members of the middle class from the capital gains tax. Her plan also preserves the Bush-era tax cuts for the highest earners. And in addition to lowering the corporate income tax rate, the proposal also calls for closing corporate loopholes in the tax code. The plan suggests reducing federal spending by 1 percent per year through “targeted” cuts, though it does not specify where the cuts would come from. McMahon specified that the defense budget would not be a targeted area. While the Shays campaign said he already supports in
Congress many of McMahon’s proposals, Amanda Bergen, a Shays spokeswoman, criticized McMahon’s plan for provisions that she called “irresponsible and politics as usual.” “McMahon’s proposal makes our annual trillion-dollar deficits even worse by proposing huge tax cuts with no spending offsets,” she said.
[McMahon’s plan] is irresponsible and politics as usual. AMANDA BERGEN Spokeswoman, Chris Shays campaign Shays, who served in Congress from 1987 to 2009, wrote an op-ed last month for the News Times, a Connecticutbased news source, supporting the goal of eliminating the deficit in six years. But like McMahon, Shays has yet to identify specific areas of the federal
budget from which to cut funding. Shays also touted his past advocacy for a balanced budget amendment, which McMahon also supports. In response to Shays’s candidacy, the McMahon campaign highlighted their candidate’s business record as the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. “Linda is a job creator, the congressman is not,” said Erin Isaac, a McMahon spokeswoman. “Linda knows what it’s like to take a risk and start a business, the congressman does not. We cannot continue to send professional politicians to Washington.” The 2012 Senate race began to take shape after incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, announced that he would not seek reelection. As of December 31, McMahon has raised over $1 million more than Shays, with roughly three-quarters of the funds coming from McMahon’s own money, according to the website
OpenSecrets.org, which tracks campaign finance information. Two polls — one from Public Policy Polling and another by Quinnipiac University — conducted last September found that McMahon enjoys a doubledigit lead over Shays, but new polling data has not been collected for at least five months. Connecticut’s Democratheavy electorate suggests that either Republican would likely face an uphill battle in the general election. But with both parties’ nominations contested, the final landscape of the race is still in flux. The race for the Democratic nomination is in full swing, front-runner U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy battling former secretary of the state Susan Bysiewicz ’83 and State Rep. William Tong of Stamford. The date of the primary election for both parties is Aug. 14, and the general election will be held Nov. 6.
BY THE NUMBERS CAMPAIGN CASH IN THE U.S. SENATE RACE $3,392,162
Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy
$1,524,896
Democratic former secretary of the state Susan Bysiewicz ’83
$873,348
Democratic State Rep. William Tong
$1,856,652
Republican former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Linda McMahon
$521,740
Republican former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays
Contact CASEY SUMNER at casey.sumner@yale.edu .
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“Hazing in children is caused by adults, through modeling hazing behavior and responding inadequately when it occurs.” STUART GREEN DIRECTOR OF THE COALITION FOR BULLYING AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
‘Winter’s Tale’ warms Rep stage BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Bears, babies, clowns and pickpockets engage in a tale of love, death, friendship and betrayal in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s latest Shakespeare production. “The Winter’s Tale” began its three-week run at the Rep last Friday. Director Liz Diamond, the chair of the School of Drama’s directing program, said she worked to emphasize the play’s magical and redemptive qualities, which resonate with the feeling of “faithless times” in today’s world.
“The play is so self-consciously theatrical, filled with rough magic and patterned with fakery,” Diamond said. “Shakespeare is enjoining us to awake our faith by requiring us to suspend our disbelief.” With aspects of both tragedy and comedy, “The Winter’s Tale” tells the story of a jealous king who tears his family apart only to be reconciled years later by his children. Like many of Shakespeare’s works, the play occurs in two kingdoms, Sicilia and Bohemia. In order to emphasize the differences between the harsh realm
of the king and the more festive Bohemia, the sets and costumes alternate between a cold, vertical, grayscale aesthetic and a warm, horizontal and colorful look, Diamond said. In Sicilia, the stage features high panels with doors and austere chandeliers, while the characters wear stiff 1910s suits and evening gowns. The ground and walls of Bohemia are adorned with flowers and glowing lanterns hover low over the stage. Jennifer Moeller, the costume designer, said the citizens of Bohemia needed “colorful lose clothing that allows them to move” in order to accommo-
date dancing and singing.
The play is so selfconsciously theatrical, filled with rough magic and patterned with fakery. LIZ DIAMOND Director, “Winter’s Tale” The male-female dynamic is a central feature of the play, Diamond said, noting that of Shake-
speare’s plays, “The Winter’s Tale” has a particularly strong set of female characters. After the king Laertes imprisons his wife Hermione for alleged adultery, her maid leads him to believe that Hermione is dead, only allowing their reunion after 16 years when Laertes shows full repentance. “Women are called every name in the book,” Diamond said, referring to the patriarchal nature of the play’s society. Francis Jue, who plays four different characters in the play, said that the play is “not just about theater” — the story teaches audiences that every action has
an impact. “We need to be conscious of our relationships if we want the story of our lives to be better than these people’s,” he said. The production is part of this year’s Yale Rep WILL POWER! arts education program, which will bring more than 1,500 middle and high school students from New Haven and across the state to see early matinee performances of the show. “The Winter’s Tale” runs through April 7. Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu .
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The latest Shakespeare production to be held at the Yale Repertory Theatre this spring is “The Winter’s Tale.” The play will be directed by Liz Diamond, the chair of the School of Drama’s directing program.
Student blog examines Yale tech services BY ANISHA SUTERWALA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An analysis by the Yale Instructional Technology Group (ITG) of how students use mobile technology has led to the creation of a student-run blog called “Wires Crossed” that offers commentary on technological resources. Five student interns at the ITG decided to create the blog, which officially launched early this semester, after they were asked to report to ITG about how they use Yale services on their mobile technology, such as smart phones and tablets. Ken Panko, manager of the ITG, which works primarily to help professors use technology in the classroom, said this evaluation marked an effort to engage directly with students to track trends in educational technology and to find out what types of technology are useful to students. “We know students have a lot expectations about what to do with mobile technology, but until a professor comes to us with a project we don’t have a point to engage with them,” Panko said. “We wanted [the blog] to be as authentic to student life as possible.” The blog includes technological news, reviews of applications and reviews of Yale’s tech services. Student bloggers said the blog began by focusing on technology use on campus but has since expanded to include issues that might appeal to a broader audience. Wires Crossed blogger Austin Bernhardt ’12, a former Arts & Living editor for the News, said the initiative has become an analysis of how college students can and do use technology and social media. Emmanuel Quartey ’12, another blogger, said the blog’s founders initially thought the site would appeal primarily to students, but the site has attracted mostly information technology staff within and
outside of Yale. “They are professionals who are working in a vacuum, with tech companies screaming at them to use their apps, who are legitimately curious to have a student perspective on technology,” Quartey said.
We wanted this project to be as authentic to student life as possible. KEN PANKO Manager of Intrsuctional Technology Group This year’s ITG internship cycle is set to conclude at the end of this academic year, so the future of the blog is uncertain, Panko said. Still, Quartey said he hopes the blog will continue after he graduates, and Panko said he is open to the possibility of making Wires Crossed an ongoing initiative. Quartey said the site could have benefitted from a more public launch to raise awareness about the blog, though he said he thinks students at Yale who are interested in technological education have discovered the site. “There’s a lot of interesting things happening on campus at the intersection of education and technology, but also a lot is happening in how technology changes how Yalies go about their daily academic and social lives,” he said. The last several posts in Wires Crossed have included a video interview with Richard Collins, Yale Summer Session online learning program manager, a list of top political twitter feeds to follow and a review of GoodReader, an app that allows PDFs to be annotated on an iPad. Contact ANISHA SUTERWALA at anisha.suterwala@yale.edu .
Panel examines military discrimination BY CHRISTINA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three panelists spoke about hazing and discrimination in the military at a Wednesday evening panel. About 20 students gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to hear the panelists discuss Private Danny Chen, a New York native and Chinese-American who committed suicide in October 2011 after allegedly suffering extreme racial bullying and physical and psychological hazing at the hands of other U.S. soldiers serving in his unit in Afghanistan. The incident stirred anti-bullying advocacy efforts by Chen’s friends, family and activists around the country, the panelists said, and also drew attention to the broader issue of discrimination in the military. Eugene Fidell, a lecturer at Yale Law School and an expert on military law
who spoke on the panel, said Chen’s case highlighted the flaws in how the U.S. military administers justice. “The thing you had to understand about the military justice system is that it is decentralized, and that scores of commanders have unlawful command influence,” Fidell said. “Autonomous decision-makers guide the administration of justice … There is no political accountability in the military justice system, and it is a very, very imperfect system.” Eight of the soldiers in Chen’s unit were initially charged with multiple counts of dereliction of duty, negligent homicide, assault and involuntary manslaughter, but those charges have since been reduced to dereliction of duty and assault and endangerment, said Elizabeth OuYang, president of the Organization of Chinese Americans-New York, an advocacy organization involved with
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Above, a sign pays tribute to Private Danny Chen, who committed suicide last October after suffering from racially motivated bullying in his Afghanistan unit. Below, a panel of experts discuss issues of race and sex discrimination in the military.
Chen’s case. OuYang said initial hearings were held for the eight in Afghanistan after “unrelenting advocacy,” but added that her organization hopes to see them charged in the United States. OuYang said the Organization of Chinese Americans first began working on Chen’s case after attending his funeral in New York’s Chinatown, and have since begun a “journey to find out what happened to Danny.” Over that time period, various news outlets have reported that Chen was the only Chinese-American soldier in his unit and a subject of racial slurs and various forms of abuse, though OuYang said none of the incidents were reported when they happened. In his introductory remarks at the event, Christopher Marnell ’14 said Chen’s case highlighted the issue of discrimination as one “that is not solely an Asian-American issue but one that crosses race and gender borders.” Katie Miller ’12, who identifies as gay and transferred to Yale after attending the United States Military Academy at West Point for two years, compared the discrimination Chen faced to her own encounters with discrimination in the military based on her sexual orientation. “The military has a long way to go with regards to race and gender,” Miller said. “Danny Chen’s case made me realize that mine was not necessarily an isolated experience and really got me thinking about the intersectionality of these experiences. People who advocate for service members want each [case of discrimination] to be isolated, but that’s not the case.” Miller expressed her hope that the military, which she said used to be at the forefront of social progress, would once again “be used as a tool for social change.” She cited President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the military in 1948 as an example of the military anticipating nationwide progress on race relations. Miller said she believes the military has the “structural capacity” to support a culture of diversity and respect, and that those values have just “fallen by the wayside” at the moment. “We should not be easily fooled into thinking that the military is incapable of handling [its problems],” she said. The panel was hosted by Yale’s Political Action and Education Committee, an affiliate of the Yale Asian American Student Alliance. Contact CHRISTINA WANG at christina.wang@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“I don’t think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don’t think that’s right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people’s lives.” GEORGE W. BUSH FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT
Vote may spell beginning of the end for death penalty DEATH PENALTY FROM PAGE 1
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State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, a Democrat who represents New Haven, is co-sponsoring a bill repealing the death penalty in the state.
A repeal bill passed both houses of the General Assembly in 2009, but was vetoed by former Republican Gov. Jodi Rell. A similar version of the bill passed the Judiciary Committee in 2011, but did not go to the floor for a vote because two Democratic legislators pulled their support for the bill, citing the then-ongoing trial of the infamous home invasion and triple homicide in Cheshire, Conn., that left William Petit without his wife and two daughters. While much of the citizen testimony presented at the March 13 public hearing was in favor of death penalty repeal, a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday revealed that Connecticut voters largely support capital punishment. According to the poll, 62 percent of voters surveyed said abolishing the death penalty is a “bad idea.” “The [public] response to the death penalty often depends on how the question is posed in the poll,” Looney said, adding that previous polls have shown greater support for repeal when respondents are given the option to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment, instead of the question of whether the death penalty should be legal. A Quinnipiac poll released last October found that when given the option between the death penalty and life without parole, only 46 percent continued to support capital punishment.
Opponents of the bill have expressed concern that the change would convert the sentences of the 11 prisoners currently on death row in Connecticut to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Connecticut’s chief public defender, Susan Storey, who submitted testimony to the public hearing in support of the bill, has said she will file appeals on behalf of death row inmates to convert their sentences to life imprisonment if the bill passes.
Repeal [of the death penalty] is one of our top legislative priorities this semester. ZAK NEWMAN ‘13 President, Yale College Democrats But the bill is “prospective,” Looney said, explaining that the wording of the bill does not directly affect the sentences of the 11 inmates. “However, it is to be expected that defense attorneys would seek to challenge the existing sentences,” he added. There is national precedent for upholding death sentences issued prior to the repeal of a state’s death penalty. After New Mexico legislators abolished the death penalty for all future crimes in 2009, a death row inmate unsuccessfully appealed his sentence. If the death penalty bill is signed into law, 58 percent of
Connecticut voters believe the 11 men currently on death row should be executed, according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll. More than 65 people submitted testimony to the March 13 public hearing, including a number of Yale students who have been lobbying to garner support for repeal. “Repeal [of the death penalty] is one of our top legislative priorities this semester and we have had members working on new advocacy projects on the issue each week,” said Zak Newman ’13, president of the Yale College Democrats. Newman added that this semester the Dems canvassed for the bill in Dixwell, sent approximately 400 letters to Malloy’s office and attended a rally organized by the advocacy group Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty. In addition to the Dems, members of the Yale chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Yale University Amnesty International Chapter and the Black Student Alliance at Yale also submitted testimony to the March 13 public hearing in support of the bill. No student groups submitted testimony opposing the bill. Connecticut has executed one person since the Supreme Court overturned the federal suspension of the death penalty in 1976. Contact JACQUELINE SAHLBERG at jacqueline.sahlberg@yale.edu .
TIMELINE THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE 2005 Michael Bruce Ross is executed after being convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of four women. His is the only execution in Connecticut since 1960. 2009 A bill to abolish the death penalty passes the state Senate and House only to be vetoed by then-Gov. Jodi Rell. 2010 Steven Hayes is convicted for the 2007 Cheshire home invasion murders and sentenced to death. 2011 His co-conspirator, Joshua Komisarjevsky, is convicted in the murders and sentenced to death. 2011 A bill to repeal the death penalty passes the state Judiciary Committee but does not go to the Senate floor for a vote because two Democrats pull support in light of the ongoing Komisarjevsky murder trial. MARCH 21, 2012 Repeal of the death penalty passes the Judiciary Committee. A Senate floor vote on it has not yet been scheduled.
Admins expect continued donations toward construction SOM FROM PAGE 1 “It’s going to be gift by gift, and you never know what people are going to prioritize,” he said. “We have a lot of priorities and we have to balance all the priorities. We’re hopeful that people will keep staying interested.” Getz said SOM would “ideally” raise the remaining balance prior to the scheduled completion of the construction, expressing concern that the school may have a more difficult time acquiring gifts after the project finishes. Still, Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said her office has not previously had trouble fundraising for remaining costs in the wake of other large projects. Construction of the new SOM campus was one of few major projects that moved forward during the recession, Getz said. He added that several significant gifts, including $50 million donated by Edward Evans ’64 in December 2010, were “transformative in our confidence” that borrowing for lingering costs would be manageable. University President Rich-
ard Levin said in an email Tuesday that since donors pledge money throughout construction campaigns, the amount of debt incurred by a project changes over the course of the construction. He cited the Yale University Art Gallery renovation as an example, which he said will have enough donor pledges to cover the full costs of construction, but will be completed before all of those contributions have been received.
Debt is added as a construction proceeds, and paid down as gift funding is received. RICHARD LEVIN President, Yale University “Debt is added as a construction proceeds, and paid down as gift funding is received,” Levin said. Levin said it is common for large construction and renova-
tion projects at the University to be financed through a combination of donations and borrowed funds. He noted that several of Yale’s recent construction projects — including the construction of Kroon Hall and Rosenkranz Hall, and the Yale University Art Gallery renovation — were financed in this manner. Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King said in an email Wednesday that the University occasionally borrows money through the Connecticut Higher Education Funding Authority, but that doing so is “highly prescriptive regarding what it can be used for and how financing is handled.” SOM could potentially receive debt financing to supplement its construction fundraising, King said, though that has not yet been determined. Construction of the new SOM campus began in April 2011. Gavan Gideon and Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, MARCH 23 2:30 PM Talk by Peter Minshall, Caribbean Carnival Artist: Blue Devils, Bats and Fancy Sailors. Minshall will discuss the form of creative expression practised within the Trinidad CArnival called “mas,” based on the practice of masquerade. “Mas” is a performance art, a form of street theater, the enactment of adornment, a dance of the cloth. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.), Lounge. 8:00 PM “The Rehearsal.” In a quirky and intruiging work, Spanish choreographer and performer Cuqui Jerez challenges the audience’s perception of reality by presenting a rehearsal, or perhaps the rehearsal of a rehearsal. The Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel St.).
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SATURDAY, MARCH 24 4:30 PM LiNK Screening: The People’s Crisis. Yale THinK and Amnesty International join together to present this documentary screening about the crisis the people of North Korea face. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.). Room 211. 8:00 PM Redhot & Blue’s 35th Anniversary Jam. Come listen to the classic Redhot & Blue tunes that this a cappella group has been killin’ for 35 years. Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcoma Hall 114.
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Obama battles GOP on energy BY KEN THOMAS ASSOCIATED PRESS BOULDER CITY, Nev. — Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign. The president is defending his energy agenda this week, traveling Wednesday to a solar panel plant in Nevada and later to oil and gas fields in New Mexico and the site of a future oil pipeline in Oklahoma that the White House is promising to accelerate. At the same time, GOP opponents from front-runner Mitt Romney on down are vigorously accusing him of stifling domestic production and betting on foolhardy alternative energy methods over traditional oil drilling. With gasoline reaching $3.86 a gallon in the U.S. and apparently heading higher, the public is impatient for Obama - or someone in his place - to do something about it. In truth, a president has little direct control over gas prices, which have risen more than 50 cents a gallon since January in response to a standoff over Iran’s nuclear program that has threatened to disrupt Middle East oil supplies. Well aware of Republicans’ criticism, Obama’s advisers argue that voters take a sophisticated view toward energy and think about it as a problem demanding long-term answers. They know that talk about future solutions may not satisfy people as they endure high prices, but they’re betting that voters will side with the candidate they trust the most to deal with the issue - and they’re determined that that will be Obama. Polls show less certainty about it all. One survey this month by CBS News and The New York Times found that 54 percent of Americans felt the price of gasoline was something a president could do a lot about while 36 percent said it was beyond his control. And a recent Washington Post/ABC poll found 50 percent thought the Obama administration could reasonably do something to bring down gas prices, while 45 percent felt the recent rapid rise has been beyond White House
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control. Obama has repeatedly argued that drilling for new oil alone will not solve the nation’s energy woes or reduce gas prices. He accuses Republicans of claiming they can “wave a magic wand” to return to the days of cheap gas, and on Wednesday, he mocked them for having a “lack of imagination” about alternative energy.
If some politicians had their way, there won’t be any more public investment in solar energy. BARACK OBAMA President of the United States “You’d think that everybody would be supportive of solar power,” Obama said from the Copper Mountain Solar 1 facility, the largest plant of its kind in the country, with nearly 1 million solar panels. “And
yet if some politicians had their way, there won’t be any more public investment in solar energy. There won’t be as many new jobs.” Obama carried three of the four states on this week’s itinerary - Oklahoma is one of the safest Republican states in the nation - but all four elected Republican governors in 2010. Two of the governors, Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico, have been floated as potential vice presidential choices this year. Obama was making his first visit to Oklahoma as president He has been hurt by his administration’s decision to pump millions into California solar company Solyndra before it collapsed. And he’s been repeatedly criticized by Republican presidential candidates for blocking the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. The mere mention of Solyndra and Keystone generate instant reactions at Republican rallies.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Miami. Bush endorsed Mitt Romney to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. BY KASIE HUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS WAS H I NGTO N — T h e Republican establishment started to coalesce around Mitt Romney in earnest on Wednesday, with Jeb Bush and other leading Republicans pressuring Rick Santorum to leave the race after a thumping in the Illinois primary. But, on what should have been a triumphant day, Romney found himself having to defend his conservative credentials anew after one of his own top advisers, Eric Fehrnstrom, remarked that “everything changes” for the fall campaign. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch,” he said. “You can kind of shake it up and we start
all over again.” The remark fueled criticism that Romney molds his principles to fit with political goals. Democrats pounced, and by day’s end his GOP opponents were waving the draw, shake and erase toys at campaign events in Louisiana. “The issues I’m running on will be exactly the same,” the former Massachusetts governor said in Arbutus, Md., as Republicans and Democrats alike mocked him. “I’m running as a conservative Republican. I was a conservative governor. I will be running as a conservative Republican nominee - hopefully, nominee at that point. The policies and the positions are the same.”
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French riot police pressure gunman to surrender BY SARAH DILORENZO AND JOHANNA DECORSE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOULOUSE, France — Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France “to its knees” with an al-Qaida-linked terror spree that killed seven people. As the standoff dragged into a second day, hundreds of heavily armed police, some in body armor, cordoned off the fivestory building in Toulouse where the 24-year-old suspect, Mohamed Merah, had been holed up.
[The gunman] has no regrets, except not having more time to kill more people. FRANÇOIS MOLINS Prosecutor, Paris Three explosions were heard and orange flashes lit up the night sky near the building. An Interior Ministry official said the suspect had gone back on a previous decision to turn himself in - and that police blew up the shutters outside the apartment window to pressure him to surrender. The Toulouse prosecutor, Michel Valet, told The Associated Press: “I cannot confirm that the assault has started. It’s not as simple as that. We are waiting.” Authorities said the shooter, a French citizen of Algerian descent, had been to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he claimed to have received training from alQaida. They said he told negotiators he killed a rabbi and three young children at a Jewish school on Monday and three French paratroopers last week to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and to protest the French army’s involvement in Afghanistan, as well as a government ban last year on face-covering Islamic veils. “He has no regrets, except not
having more time to kill more people and he boasts that he has brought France to its knees,” Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference. The standoff began when a police attempt at around 3 a.m. to detain Merah erupted into a firefight. Two police were wounded, triggering on-and-off negotiations with the suspect that lasted into the night. As darkness fell, police cut electricity and gas to the building, then quietly closed in to wait out the suspect. Authorities were “counting on his great fatigue and weakening,” said Didier Martinez of the SGP police union, adding the siege could go on for hours. Street lights were also cut, making Merah more visible to officers with night vision goggles in case of an assault. French authorities - like others in Europe - have long been concerned about “lone-wolf” attacks by young, Internet-savvy militants who self-radicalize online since they are harder to find and track. Still, it was the first time a radical Islamic motive has been ascribed to killings in France in years. Merah espoused a radical brand of Islam and had been to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region twice and to the Pakistani militant stronghold of Waziristan for training, Molins said. He said the suspect had plans to kill another soldier, prompting the police raid. The gunman’s brother and mother were detained early in the day. Molins said the 29-year-old brother, Abdelkader, had been implicated in a 2007 network that sent militant fighters to Iraq, but was never charged. Wednesday’s siege was part of France’s biggest manhunt since a wave of terrorist attacks in the 1990s by Algerian extremists. The chase began after France’s worst-ever school shooting Monday and two previous attacks on paratroopers beginning March 11, killings that have horrified the country and frozen campaigning for the French presidential election next month. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has played up nationalist themes in his bid for a second
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French riot officers stand by as workers from an Arcelor Mittal plant in Florange, northeast France demonstrate under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. term, vowed to defend France. “Terrorism will not be able to fracture our national community,” Sarkozy declared Wednesday on national television before heading to funeral services for the two paratroopers killed and another injured Thursday in Montauban, near Toulouse. The suspect repeatedly promised to turn himself in, then halted negotiations. Cedric Delage, regional secretary for a police union, said police were prepared to storm the building if he did not surrender. After bouts of deadly terrorist attacks in France in the 1980s and 1990s, France beefed up its legal arsenal - now seen as one of the most effective in Western Europe and a reference for coun-
tries including the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. Sarkozy’s office said President Barack Obama called him Wednesday to express condolences to the families of the victims and praise French police for tracking down the suspect. The statement said France and the United States are “more determined than ever to fight terrorist barbarity together.” In recent years, French counterterrorism officials have focused mainly on al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s network that has its roots in an insurgent group in Algeria, a former French colony. Molins said Merah’s first trip
Islamists seek influence in Syria BY ZEINA KARAM AND LEE KEATH ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The gunmen in eastern Syria, wielding grenade launchers and assault rifles, announced on the Internet they were forming the “God is Great” Brigade and joining the country’s rebellion. They swore allegiance to the Free Syrian Army and vowed to topple President Bashar Assad. But unlike many other rebel bands, they wrapped their proclamation in hard-line Islamic language, declaring their fight to be a “jihad,” or holy war, and urging others to do the same. “To our fellow revolutionaries, don’t be afraid to declare jihad in the path of God. Seek victory from the One God. God is the greatest champion,” the brigade’s spokesman said in the January video. “Instead of fighting for a faction, fight for your nation, and instead of fighting for your nation, fight for God.” As Syria’s uprising evolves into an armed insurgency, parts of the movement are taking on overt religious overtones. Islamic movements in and out of the country are vying to gain influence over the revolt in hopes of gathering power if Assad falls. The Islamists’ role complicates choices for the United States and other nations who say they want to help the opposition without empowering radicals; a string of anti-regime suicide bombings have raised fears of al-Qaida involvement. The groups diverge from violent jihadi movements to political moderates like the Muslim Brotherhood, which has already used the Arab Spring revolutions to vault to power in Tunisia and Egypt elections. Their growing influence is seeding divisions within an already fractured opposition. A week ago, several prominent figures quit the Syrian National Council, the body of exiles that has tried to emerge as the opposition’s political leadership. They complained the fundamentalist Brotherhood dominates the group. The council is “a liberal front for the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Kamal Labwani, a veteran secular dissident, who broke away. He said the Brotherhood was trying to build allegiances on the ground in Syria. “One day we will wake up to find an
to Afghanistan ended with him being picked up by Afghan police “who turned him over to the American army who put him on the first plane to France.” “He had foreseen other killings, notably he foresaw another attack this morning, targeting a soldier,” Molins said, adding also planned to attack two police officers. “He claims to have always acted alone.” Merah has a long record as a juvenile delinquent with 15 convictions, Molins added. An Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Merah had been under surveillance for years for having “fundamentalist” Islamic views. During the standoff, police
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A Salafi protester holds a poster in Arabic that reads, “Bashar Assad is a war criminal,” at a demonstration. armed militia ... controlling the country through their weapons,” Labwani said. The U.S. has rejected sending arms to rebels, fearing a sectarian civil war. U.S. officials also warn that al-Qaida’s militants in Iraq are infiltrating Syria - worries heightened by attacks in Damascus and Aleppo using al-Qaida’s signature tactic, suicide bombings. An Islamic militant group, the Al-Nusra Front, on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing that killed 27 people in Damascus over the weekend. The group appears to be a front for al-Qai-
da’s Iraq branch, said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence. Judging the extent of Islamist influence in Syria’s uprising is difficult, in part because Syria has largely prevented journalists from reporting on the conflict. Opposition activists are reluctant to talk about any Islamist role because Assad’s regime depicts their movement as solely a campaign by terrorists and Islamic radicals. Such rhetoric is highly effective in scaring religious minorities and moderate Sunnis away from supporting the uprising.
evacuated the five-story building, escorting residents out using the roof and fire truck ladders. The suspect’s apartment was on the ground floor of the postwar building, locals said. French authorities said Merah threw a Colt .45 handgun used in each of the three attacks out a window in exchange for a device to talk to authorities, but had more weapons like an AK-47 assault rifle. Gueant said other weapons had been found in his car. “The main concern is to arrest him, and to arrest him in conditions by which we can present him to judicial officials,” Gueant added, explaining authorities want to “take him alive ... It is imperative for us.”
ROSEAU, Dominica — Two California men on a gay cruise of the Caribbean were arrested Wednesday in Dominica, where sex between two men is illegal. Police Constable John George said police boarded the cruise ship and arrested the two men on suspicion of indecent exposure and “buggery,” a term equivalent to sodomy on the island. He identified the men as John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, but did not provide their hometowns. George said the men were seen having sex on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship by someone on the dock. The two were later charged with indecent exposure and are scheduled to appear before a magistrate Thursday morning. If found guilty, they could be fined $370 each and face up to six months in jail. The ship carrying about 2,000 passengers departed Puerto Rico on Saturday and arrived in Dominica on Wednesday. It departed for St. Barts without the men, who are being held in a cell at police headquarters in the capital of Roseau. The cruise was organized by Atlantis Events, a Southern California company that specializes in gay travel. President Rich Campbell, who is aboard the cruise, said in a phone interview earlier that he thought the two men would be released. He later said in an email that the company has organized many trips to Dominica and would “happily return.” “Many countries and municipalities that gay men visit and live in have antiquated laws on their books,” he said. “These statutes don’t pose a concern to us in
planning a tourist visit.” Campbell said he expects the two men to be released on Thursday and that they only face misdemeanor charges.
Many countries and municipalities that gay men visit and live in have antiquated laws on their books. RICH CAMPBELL President, Atlantis Events “The guests actions were unfortunate but minor in this case and have no bearing on our overall guest experience,” he said via email. The presence of gay cruises in the Caribbean has riled several conservative islands including Jamaica and Grenada, where anti-sodomy laws are enforced with strong backing from religious groups. According to Cruisemates. com, no gay cruise lines sail to Jamaica or Barbados for fear of homophobia and possible violence. It said other places like the U.S. Virgin Islands welcome gay cruises. In 2010, the Cayman Islands rejected the arrival of an Atlantis gay cruise amid protests from religious groups even though homosexuality is legal on the archipelago. Don Weiner, a spokesman for Atlantic Events, referred all questions to Campbell, including why the company organized a trip to Dominica and whether it knew about the island’s anti-sodomy laws.
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BY SHANE DUNAU STAFF WRITER In an effort to address high-risk drinking on campus, on Feb. 6 Gannett Health Services implemented a policy of screening every student patient for signs of alcohol dependency or abuse –– a decision that some students say they consider an invasion of privacy. According to Deborah Lewis, Gannett’s alcohol projects coordinator, both the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend screening for high-risk drinking and alcohol problems as a routine part of health care. “When students come in for their appointment they are asked — if they are female — have they had four or more drinks in a sitting in the past two weeks and — if they’re male — if they’ve had five or more,” Lewis said. According to Lewis, no student, no matter his or her reason for scheduling an appointment at Gannett, is exempt from being asked this preliminary question about alcohol behavior. “I think that in so many cases, alcohol use can be connected to issues that bring students to the health center,” she said. If a student answers yes to the first question, he or she is then asked to fill out a 10-part questionnaire called the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, according to Lewis. The AUDIT contains questions such as “How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?” and “Has a relative or friend or doctor or another health worker been concerned about your drinking and suggested you cut down?” Participants’ responses are scored on a 40-point scale to determine the level of risk their alcohol use poses to their health, according to Lewis. If a student scores above 16 — indicating a significant risk level — the health care provider sits down with the student during their appointment and discusses
options for further treatment, Lewis said. She added, however, that every student who takes the AUDIT — regardless of their score — receives a follow-up message from Gannett. CORNELL Patients who score less than a 7 receive information on alcohol abuse, while those who fall between 7 and 15 are referred to Gannet programs such as Counseling and Psychological Services. Though Lewis stressed that the AUDIT is not mandatory, Wendy Schubert ’12 said the nurse who administered her AUDIT did not make her aware that she had a choice. “My nurse handed it to me and made me think it was something that was required for me to fill out,” Schubert said. Schubert also said that she was not told of the purpose of the AUDIT. She said she did not know that her score had become a part of her medical record until she received a message through Gannett’s online messaging system. “I didn’t even think they could correlate my answers with my name,” Schubert said. “I was under the impression that it would be anonymous, like I was submitting my scores to a general research project.” Another student who was administered the questionnaire, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he felt that the questions were a violation of his privacy. “I came into Gannett because I had a sinus infection, so I can’t see how they assume they have the right to ask me about my drinking,” he said. According to Lewis, the death of George Desdunes ’13 last year influenced Gannett’s decision to begin issuing AUDITs to students who come in for appointments. “In part [Desdunes’ death] was the force [that] led us toward a push for screening for high-risk alcohol use in primary care,” she said.
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Penn to help recruit STEM teachers BY ALLISON BART STAFF WRITER Within the next decade, Penn plans to help recruit and retain 100,000 new science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers across the country. This past summer, Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy joined a coalition of more than 115 other institutions that plan to train and retain a group of 100,000 STEM teachers as part of the 100Kin10 Challenge. According to 100kin10.org, the essential goal of the challenge is “to prepare all students with the high-quality STEM skills needed to address the most pressing national and global challenges of tomorrow.” Last month, Kate Hovde, a senior analyst at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, attended the first 100kin10 Partner Summit, which was held in Washington D.C. At the summit, she participated in discussions about STEM recruitment and networked with other organizations involved in the challenge. Hovde described the task of hiring more STEM faculty as “an
area of perpetual need … because people generally don’t stay.” S h e added that PENN the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is looking to close this gap. “One of the areas our center has always looked at since we were launched in 2006 is ways in which a donor who cares about improving educational outcomes for students can use the funds more wisely,” said Katherina Rosqueta, executive director of the center. Hovde agreed, adding that the center’s focus is on four main elements that are related to the initiative. These include creating excellence in teaching, fostering diversity, retaining more faculty and encouraging shared learning. “Our commitment essentially is to try to diversify the funding base for some of these efforts by bringing in individual high networth donors, letting them know about interesting, promising and
proven practices among different organizations involved with the movement in terms of recruiting, training and retaining excellent STEM teachers,” she said. The center’s involvement in the challenge was a “natural extension” of the work already being done, Rosqueta added. The aim is to take this past work and combine it with new information that comes as a result of the challenge in order to improve and retain teachers, thus improving student outcomes. “This is a chance to look at a particular type of teacher,” she said. “Particularly for highneeds students and poor students, they are just disproportionately receiving less high-quality STEM teaching than more advantaged or affluent students.” The center aims to get more STEM students motivated to go into and stay in these fields, Rosqueta said. “One of the reasons that we are involved in the coalition is … to make sure that all students across the country have highquality STEM teaching,” she said.
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BY ALEXANDRA MACFARLANE SENIOR STAFF WRITER Despite increases in faculty salaries across the University in recent years, there is still a salary gap between faculty in divisions such as humanities and those in other disciplines like engineering and economics, according to data from the Dean of the Faculty website. A full professor in a humanities discipline was paid more than $30,000 less than a faculty member in the computer science, economics and engineering departments, according to data on the median salaries for the 2010-11 year published on the Dean of the Faculty website. It has always been the case that not all faculty members make the same salaries, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15, adding that the distinction is based on economic forces such as the academic market in which the University competes. Some faculty members — such as those who work in higher-paid disciplines — can also find work in the private sector, meaning that the University must make competitive offers to recruit them to Brown, he said. The University exists in a national market, both academically and privately, said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12. When academics develop skills that are transferable and applicable to a higher-paying market, they receive a salary that is competitive with those markets, he said, adding that he “suspect(s) it’s always been the case.” Competitors for these scholars could include technology companies, research firms and banks. The discrepancy does not
mean that the humanities are less of a priority, Schlissel said. The University would BROWN like to pay everyone a salary “in reflection of their service to the University,” he added. Humanities professors in the 2010-11 school year made a median of around $129,000, and professors in the engineering, economics and computer science departments made more than $160,000, the Dean of the Faculty website reported. Faculty members in the physical science and social science departments made around $139,000, according to the same data, and professors in the life sciences departments made around $5,000 more.
I can’t complain. My sense is that salaries range all over the place and Brown has to be competitive with the top schools. LAWRENCE STANLEY English professor, Brown University Economics department faculty members are paid higher salaries on average than other social sciences because their pay is not just measured against the salaries paid at other universities, but also against pay at business schools, Schlissel said.
Though the University does not view this discrepancy as a problem, Schlissel said “the goal overall is to increase faculty salaries across the board.” Under President Ruth Simmons, the University has made a lot of progress in raising salaries, McLaughlin said, adding that this was an objective Simmons emphasized. This goal was driven by external forces, since the University must always keep pace with peers, McLaughlin said, adding that before Simmons implemented the Plan for Academic Enrichment, the University was behind its peers in average faculty salaries in most departments. Now, the University is on the very high end compared to its peers, he said. In general, faculty members make a decent salary, though working in academia limits how much money they can earn, McLaughlin said. Choosing to work at a university is a “trade-off” in which professors exchange a higher salary for job security and the chance to work with students, he said. “I can’t complain,” said Lawrence Stanley, senior lecturer in English, of his salary. “My sense is that salaries range all over the place and that Brown has to be competitive with the top schools,” he said. Salaries at the University will be higher in places where they “interplay with industry,” and the Plan for Academic Enrichment made salaries much more competitive with the market, said Andrew Foster, professor of economics and community health. “Brown works hard to keep the best faculty,” he added.
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New Orleans Saints penalized for bounty controversy National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell made a strong statement about player safety yesterday when he issued strong fines and penalties yesterday for the 2009-2011 bounty scandal. Former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was given an indefinite suspension and head coach Sean Payton was suspended for the 2012 season. Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis received an eight-game ban.
Bulldogs split doubleheader
Bats quiet v. Huskies BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 The Huskies struck again in the bottom of the fifth against lefty Eric Hsieh ’15. After a scoreless first inning of work, Hsieh gave up an earned run on a walk to centerfielder Billy Ferriter sandwiched between two singles from right fielder Ryan Moore and shortstop Ryan Verdi. Another run crossed the plate on an error by Eli backstop Robert Baldwin ’15 as he attempted to catch Verdi stealing second. Hsieh escaped further damage by getting first baseman Ryan Fuller to line into an unassisted double play by shortstop Cale Hanson ’14. The Huskies would tack on insurance by scoring twice in both the sixth and eighth innings.
“They were decent offensively,” designated hitter Josh Scharff ’13 said in a message to the News. “We just gave them too many free bases.” Ultimately that was all the run support Butler needed. He did not allow a hit until second baseman Chris Piwinski ’13 led off the top of the sixth with a single. Yale (4-111, 0-0 Ivy) would get the leadoff man on again in the seventh on a single by Hanson, but after a single by Scharff, Butler was able to escape the two-on, nobody-out jam without surrendering a run. Relievers Dan Feehan and Scott Oberg pitched the final two frames to complete the shutout for Connecticut. Despite the disappointing box score, several Bulldogs saw posi-
tive signs in the loss. “This pitching staff, despite the slump we’ve been going through, has been pitching great,” first baseman Kevin Fortunato ’14 said. Righty Michael Coleman ’14 pitched two shutout innings in relief of O’Hare. He faced only one batter over the minimum. The Elis host a double header with the University of Hartford (2-14) on Friday, March 23 before facing the Hawks in Hartford on Saturday. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu . UCONN 8, YALE 0 UCONN
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Meg Johnson ’12 scored the winning run in the ninth inning of Yale’s first game against Marist off a double from Hannah Brannan ’15. SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 win, it was just a matter of time.” Chelsey Dunham ’14 (4-2) pitched a complete game. Dunham nabbed her fourth win of the season when she threw a season-high six strikeouts. In the second game, Marist scored two runs by the top of the fifth. But the Bulldogs, who had no runs and only one hit for the first four innings, rallied with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to knot the score. It was Ong who plated the runs for Yale, with a two-RBI single to right field with the bases loaded. The 2–2 deadlock at the end of the fifth held through two scoreless innings, until the Red Foxes broke the game open with three runs in the eighth. A two-run homer by Nicole DiViriglio in the extra frame provided the fireworks for Marist, and Yale could not respond. Balta managed a double in the bottom of the eighth, but she was left stranded as Yale lost by a final score of of 5-2. Williamson (0-2), in her first collegiate experience pitching extra innings, took the loss. “We have a lot of opportunities that we didn’t take advantage of. We left a lot of runners on base,” Warkentine said. The Elis will play two doubleheaders
this weekend. On Saturday, they will travel to Bryant (4-13), and then they will return home to take on Providence (5-16) on Sunday. The Marist matchup early in the season allowed the Bulldogs to continue trying out different combinations of positions prior to Ivy play, Johnson said. “We now know that we can hang tough with other schools, especially in the Ivies,” Williamson said. “We have the skills and ability to compete with other teams.” Yale’s game against Marist last year was cancelled due to rain. Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .
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The baseball team did not have a hit in the first five innings of yesterday’s game against the Huskies.
Pettitte a smart move for Yanks
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Despite making ten total saves to BU’s four, the Bulldogs could not come back against the Terriers. W. LAX FROM PAGE 12 “I think we had a lot of momentum today, and we played hard the whole game,” said Avallone. Although the defense did not show many blind spots and demonstrated a strong transition, the Terriers responded with a forceful offense, which hindered the Elis from rallying and dominating the game. The Bulldogs struggled with ground balls and draws. Their opponent sattempted 20 more shots than they did, finishing with 38 to Yale’s 18. BU also controlled 14 of the 22 draws and collected 21 ground balls, whereas Yale ended up with only eight. “The draws hurt us a lot because possession is the most important part of the game, and when they win the draw it makes it that much more difficult for us to score,” said Avallone.
She added that the ground balls can be game changers in a turnover situation. The Terriers took control of the game in the second half with a great ball possession. Avallone said the team, trying to score in a rush, did not play with enough composure and make the smart decisions necessary to get back in the game. Despite goalkeeper Erin McMullan’s ’14 10 outstanding saves,the Bulldogs eventually allowed 13 goals. “Our defense allowed me to get comfortable and made sure that each shot I saw was contested,” McMullan said. “BU has a great offense, but our game plan was to shutdown their best player [Danielle Etrasco],” said McMullan. She added that defender Adrienne Tarver ’14 contributed significantly to the team’s defense by limiting the Terrier’s key player, Etrasco, to only one goal. Out of Yale’s eight goals, the freshmen and sophomore players scored more
than half, proving that the team has great potential. Avallone said the most difficult part of yesterday’s match was working through the frustration of having the fundamentals such as throwing, catching, and ground balls affect the game so much. Murray added that the team can play better, and it is looking forward to demonstrating that in future competitions. Following three straight losses, the Elis will seek a win against archrival Harvard this Saturday at 3 p.m. in Reese Stadium. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
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only 125 games started, leaving teams with an additional 37 starts to “fill.” Thus, it actually takes about six and a half league average starters to complete a starting rotation for a full season. When you consider that even a healthy sixth (and perhaps seventh) starter isn’t able to start games when the other five are in rotation, this number bumps up closer to seven. Obviously, this number varies tremendously team-to-team and pitcher-to-pitcher, so the calculation is oversimplified. That said, the data suggests that seven starters might not just be an acceptable number, it might actually be the optimal number. Even a roster with six full starting pitchers might not be able to fill the rotation for a full season, given starters’ remarkable tendency to miss games. In order to maintain quality, Major League talent in the starting rotation, seven guys might be a team’s best bet. But this analysis skirts the bigger problem and the quandary the Yankees currently face: what do you do with the sixth and seventh starters when the other five are healthy? You can send them to the bullpen, although this carries the considerable risk that they’ll have a difficult transition back to starting. You can trade them, although this defeats the purpose of carrying seven starters to begin with. You can send them to the Minor Leagues, although this is impossible for Major League pitchers without Minor League options (meaning their contracts prohibit such demotions) and is generally upsetting to veterans. You certainly can’t just have them ride the bench, as their fragile arms get too cold. For the time being, the Yankees won’t have too much trouble managing this game of musical chairs. Pettitte, who showed up to camp a month after the rest, won’t be
ready to start in the Majors until May. My guess is that Garcia will be thrust begrudgingly into a long relief role, while Hughes (who has been dominating hitters this spring) will take the fifth rotation spot. But this calculus gets much more complicated when Pettitte returns, particularly if the five starters remain effective and if Garcia dominates out of the pen. But as Brian Cashman would tell you, this is the wrong question to be asking because this is a good problem to have. Is it difficult to find a role for a sixth and seventh starter? Yes, considerably. But this situation (in which a team’s top five starters are healthy and pitching) is actually the best-case scenario. Sixth and seventh starting pitchers are not signed in order to improve the best-case scenario. Rather, their value comes in improving the worst-case scenario and a number of scenarios in between. Of course, this does imply that teams would be silly to value a sixth and seventh starter the same as a fourth and fifth starter (even if those starters are all of similar ability), given that their value is only realized if another starter goes down. But it also implies that they are worth carrying on the roster. Pettitte ($2.5 million), Garcia ($4 million) and Hughes ($3 million) combined are costing the Yankees less than Kuroda’s entire salary ($11 million) or half of Sabathia’s salary ($24 million). $9.5 million is not pocket change, and it’s more than most teams can afford for a fifth, sixth and seventh starter. That said, it’s an incredible value for the Yankees that will protect specifically against a downside risk. The “what do we do with our extra starters” question is the one the Yankees should be hoping to ask, not the one they should be hoping to avoid. Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .
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“These games are the best because they are really close...it’s always awesome to come out on top.” KYLIE WILLIAMSON ’15 PITHCER, SOFTBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
Elis fight to extra innings
JOHN ETTINGER
Can you have too much starting pitching? Andy Pettitte has played a lot of roles for the New York Yankees. In 1995, he was a blue-chip prospect called up to replace an injured Jimmy Key. In 1996, he was a postseason hero out-dueling the unflappable John Smoltz. In 2011, he was a retiree riding into the sunset with gas left in the tank. Now, after coming out of retirement for just one year and $2.5 million, he is the seventh Major League starter in the Yankees’ fiveman rotation. Make no mistake, Yankees’ General Manager Brian Cashman would have been a fool to turn down Pettitte at that price. As Cashman reported to ESPN, he had offered the left-hander upwards of $10 million to come back earlier in the offseason. Pettitte wavered, however, and Cashman was forced to bite on deals for starters Michael Pineda and Hiroki Kuroda. By the time Pettitte finally decided to make his comeback, Cashman had only $2.5 million left to offer. Pettitte agreed, and the Yankees acquired the crafty veteran for pennies on the dollar. But the cheap contract leaves the Yankees answering an age old question: can you have too much starting pitching? Conventional wisdom says no. Starters get injured. They become ineffective. They disable their fragile bodies punching walls (Kevin Brown) or playing Guitar Hero (Joel Zumaya). As the theory goes, it’s foolish to enter the season expecting all five hurlers to rack up 32 starts. It’s not just sensible but also necessary to have viable fillins waiting in the wings. Teams that begin a season with six starting pitchers almost always find use for all of them.
But seven? Between C.C. Sabathia, Kuroda, Pineda, Ivan Nova, Phil Hughes, Freddy Garcia and now Pettitte, the Yankees have seven Major League starters on the 2012 roster. None of these are fringe candidates, either. Sabathia, Kuroda, Pineda and Nova appear locks for the Opening Day rotation. That leaves just one spot for Hughes, Garcia and Pettitte, all of whom deserve to be Major League starters. No other team in the Major Leagues has comparable depth at the position. What can the Yankees reasonably expect to happen? For that, we dive into the data. To accurately reflect the Yankees’ predicament, we need to look at a subset of pitchers who enter with the expectation of starting for a full season (as was the expectation at some point this offseason for each of the Yankees’ seven). While it’s difficult to accurately capture this expectation in the data, we’ll use the following group as a close approximation: pitchers who signed Major League contracts between 2004 and 2011, who started at least 20 games in the season before signing, and who made fewer than five relief appearances in the season after signing. What did teams get out of these pitchers? Given that the season lasts 162 games and that teams use five-man rotations, we can estimate that a full season amounts to 32.5 starts per pitcher. By this definition, only about 30% of starters in our pool actually pitched a full season in the year after signing a contract. In fact, the average starter threw just 25 starts. Five pitchers throwing 25 starts equals SEE COLUMN PAGE 11
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Meg Johnson ’12, above, scored the winning run in the ninth inning of Yale’s first game against Marist off a double from Hannah Brannan ’15. BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The softball team (5-7, 0-0 Ivy) showed a flair for the dramatic on Wednesday afternoon, going to extra innings in both legs of a doubleheader that it split with Marist (8-15).
SOFTBALL In their third straight split against the Red Foxes, the Bulldogs brought the two schools’ all-time series to a 13-13 tie. Yale won the first game 3-2 in nine innings and lost the second 5-2 in eighth. “These games are the best because they are really close,” pitcher Kylie Williamson ’15 said. “You know they are a tough battle, but it’s always awesome to
Huskies silence Bulldogs
come out on top.” Marist had already proven its mettle against a team similar to Yale this season, having shut out Ivy powerhouse Cornell (6-8, 0–0) 6-0 earlier this month. After the split with the Red Foxes, shortstop Meg Johnson ’12 said the result, combined with the particularly strong play of the freshman class, left the team where it wants to be going into Ivy matchups against Columbia and Penn in two weeks. The Elis began the first game against Marist with a run in the first inning. Tori Balta ’14 knocked out a single to left field, advanced to third on an overthrow and was brought home on a sacrifice fly from third baseman Christy Nelson ’13. But Marist took the lead with two runs in the top of the third. After a triple by
Johnson tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the fourth, the Elis were held scoreless for four innings. Johnson had been injured with a dislocated shoulder in October and said she is trying to hit consistently rather than go for power. The Bulldogs left two on base in an unfulfilled sixth-inning rally, and had to wait until the ninth inning to bring their runners home. Johnson singled, stole second and advanced to third after Kelsey Warkentine ’13 grounded out. Hannah Brennan’s ’15 double down the right field line drove Johnson home to score the winning run. The bleachers erupted in cheering. “We were really pumped and ecstatic,” Jennifer Ong ’13 said. “We knew we could SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 11
BU surges past Elis
BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER A strong starting performance from University of Connecticut right-hander Pat Butler was too much for the baseball team to overcome as Yale lost to the Huskies 8-0 Wednesday in Storrs, Conn.
BASEBALL Butler recorded six strikeouts as he tossed seven shutout innings to notch his first win of the season for the Huskies (7-11, 0-0 Big East). He recorded the same number of strikeouts across 27 innings of work in 2011. “[Butler] did a good job of keeping the ball low in the zone,” outfielder Charlie Neil ’12 said. “He kept us off-balance.” UConn started the scoring early in its 2012 home opener when second baseman LJ Mazzilli sent pitcher Chris O’Hare’s ’13 offering over the fence for 2-0 lead with one out in the bottom of the first. Mazzilli leads the Huskies with six home runs. SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11
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Yale and BU were tied at halftime Wednesday, but the Terriers pulled ahead in a strong second half. BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Elis failed to secure a win in a rescheduled away match yesterday, falling to Boston University 13-8.
W. LACROSSE YDN
The baseball team had three hits in yesterday’s game against UConn.
STAT OF THE DAY 5
The Bulldogs’ attempt to avenge a 12-5 loss they suffered at the hands of the Terriers (4–4) last year seemed possible in the first half of the game. Captain and attacker Caro-
line Crow ’12, midfielder Ashley McCormick ’14, midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15, attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 and attacker Jenn DeVito ’14 each recorded a goal, and the Elis were tied 5-5 tie heading into the second half. However, the Terriers turned the game in their favor by pouring in eight goals in the second half, whereas the Bulldogs added only three. Midfielder Erin Magnuson ’15, attacker Meghan Murray ’14 and Avallone each contributed a goal in the second half. SEE W. LAX PAGE 11
THE NUMBER OF GOALS THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM SCORED IN A LITTLE OVER NINE MINUTES IN THE SECOND HALF OF YESTERDAY’S GAME. The Bulldogs were tied with the Huskies 7-7 prior to their offensive onslaught.