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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 78 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

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LANDMARK YALE CLUB WARY OF DEMOLITION

BEINECKE

TOWN HALL

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Library faces space, access issues 50 years after its construction

SALOVEY MULLS STAFF CONCERNS, DEVELOPMENT

Top recruit reneges on his commitment to Cal, heads to Yale

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DESTEFANO DECADES COME TO AN END

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr., New Haven’s longest-serving mayor, announced on Tuesday that he does not plan on running for re-election. He has served as the Elm City’s mayor for two decades.

AFTER 20 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP, MAYOR JOHN DESTEFANO JR. WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER With just under a year left in his tenure, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will go down in history as the Elm City’s longest-serving mayor.

DeStefano announced Tuesday evening at the Russian Lady on Temple Street, where he has celebrated previous election nights, that he does not plan to run for re-election this November.

With his family on stage, DeStefano described the transforma-

Town-gown thrives under partnership

tion New Haven has undergone in the past two decades and told the audience that his decision not to run does not mean “goodbye.”

“Why now? A lot of it had to do with being, frankly, 57. I want to do something else and I want to do it vigorously and for a period of time,” DeStefano said. “Two years ago, with the violence in the city where it was, and school reform just getting off the ground, it

didn’t make sense to me. Now I feel better about both.”

THE END OF AN ERA

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro introduced DeStefano at Tuesday night’s event, describing his legacy as “progressive,” “deep” and “broad.”

“When I think about the city of New Haven, it is unimaginable that it would be such a vibrant

place but for the leadership of Mayor John DeStefano,” DeLauro said. “He takes big gambles, big risks — and those risks have paid off for people.”

In his speech, DeStefano drew a stark contrast between the New Haven of 20 years ago — when large swaths of downtown sat empty, crime rates were high and town-gown relations were strained following the murder of

Christian Prince ’93 — with the city of today. He cited infrastructure like Gateway Community College, Science Park and State Street rail station as well as progressive initiatives like the Elm City Resident Card, which provides identification to undocumented immigrants, as examples of how far New Haven has come SEE DESTEFANO PAGE 9

Following mayor, superintendent to retire

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo will retire as early as this June, a city official told the News Tuesday afternoon.

City Clerk Ron Smith, who said he talks with Mayo daily, said the superintendent called him Sunday to share news of his planned retirement. Mayo’s decision, Smith said, is linked to Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s announcement that he will not seek reelection this fall after over 19 years in office, the longest mayoral ten-

ure in the city’s history. Mayo was first appointed as superintendent in 1992, the year before DeStefano was first elected, and the pair has overseen a multi-million dollar investment in the city’s public schools over the past two decades.

“You have to look at the sacrifices both of these men have made,” Smith said following DeStefano’s official announcement. “I think it’s mainly for family reasons. Mayo’s been working for the city for over 30 years. It’s time.”

Prior to his appointment as superintendent, Mayo was a science teacher and then an adminis-

trator at Troup Middle School. His 1981 promotion to the position of K-8 Director of Schools marked the beginning of his tenure in city government. He became executive director of school operations in 1984 before being appointed as superintendent by then-mayor John C. Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor.

Mayo declined to confirm reports of his planned resignation at DeStefano’s announcement.

“I won’t say anything at this time — this is his night,” he said.

Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries and NHPS spokeswoman Abbe Smith both declined

requests for comment on the superintendent’s plans, saying only that Mayo was not taking phone calls or doing interviews.

Ron Smith, meanwhile, said he was surprised when Mayo told him he would be retiring in a matter of months.

“I was shocked and disappointed,” he said. “I know a lot of people were shocked.”

With Mayo at the helm, the school district saw the renovation of nearly all of the city’s schools, which paved the way for an ambitious school change intiaSEE MAYO PAGE 8

Mayoral race wide open without DeStefano EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Richard Levin and John DeStefano Jr. worked closely together to improve town-gown relations.

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER University President Richard Levin and Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s historic 20-year partnership, which has been praised for substantially improving the relationship between Yale and the city of New Haven, will officially come to an end this year when the two men step down from their posts.

DeStefano’s decision not to seek re-election SEE TOWN-GOWN PAGE 8

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER John DeStefano Jr.’s decision not to seek re-election after 10 terms as the city’s mayor leaves a vacuum in New Haven politics far larger than the space normally reserved for his name on the ballot.

Several candidates, transformed overnight from unlikely challengers to serious contenders, have already emerged to replace DeStefano when the next mayor will be sworn in on Jan. 1, 2014. Although only three — Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, State Rep. Gary Holder-Win-

field and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu — have officially declared their candidacies, two others have strongly suggested the possibility of running. At least three more are considered possible candidates, making this year’s race the most competitive in more than two decades.

Despite the plethora of potential candidates, individual policy priorities are unlikely to differ significantly, with contenders all emphasizing fiscal responsibility, education reform and crime reduction throughout the city. Rather, voters will choose between vastly different personalities and man-

agement styles.

“The next mayor has to listen to his constituents more, has to listen more to his Board of Aldermen, and has to be more transparent,” Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate said.

City officials interviewed said they hope the next mayor will capitalize on DeStefano’s successes, such as a revitalized downtown and improved town-gown relations, while avoiding issues that have become persistent stumbling blocks for the mayor. Several noted DeStefano’s often-tense relationship with the Board of Aldermen and a governance style Democratic Party activist and Board of Alder-

man candidate Charlie Pillsbury considered “one-party rule.” “I believe the person [who becomes mayor] has to be somebody that not only has a vision and passion for community, but also understands checks and balances,” Ward 16 Alderman Migdalia Castro said.

Both Elicker, who announced his candidacy at an event last week, and Holder-Winfield, who told the News Tuesday night he planned to file paperwork to run for mayor on Friday, have emphasized transparency and connecting with constituents as major planks of their platSEE ELECTION PAGE 9

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s the DeStefano era ends, the News looks forward to the

upcoming mayoral race. accepting donations from city employees and contractors doing business with the city, has raised concerns for many in New Haven. And the appointment-based politics seen in government — most notably, with the Board of Education — must be reconsidered to build a more democratic New Haven.

We need a mayoral race with candidates who present specific policy proposals that will build on the foundation carefully laid by DeStefano over two decades, while promoting the ideals of open government.

It should not be enough for a candidate to campaign on the platform that he or she will be different from DeStefano.

As Yale students, we want to know about the relationship between the potential mayoral candidates and President-elect Salovey — about their views on the relationship between Yale and New Haven. As residents of New Haven, we want to know how school change can continue, how our streets can be made safer and how the city can match up local residents with nearby jobs that require increasingly higher levels of education.

If there has ever been a time to become involved in New Haven, this is it. With a slew of candidates sure to fight for the city’s votes in September’s primary election, and an ongoing charter reform process set to change the very constitution of this city, the uptick in participation seen during the mayoral and aldermanic campaigns of 2011 must be sustained.

Yale and New Haven are about to undergo major leadership changes. We cannot sit idly by in our home city.

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A visitor at home

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We’re living in Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s New Haven.

After his 20-year tenure, a once-abandoned downtown department store is now home to a bustling community college. Schools that were falling apart stand rebuilt inside and out. The city that once saw a Yale student shot to death on Hillhouse Ave. now stands as the University’s greatest partner.

As Yale students, we have many reasons to thank DeStefano.

The mayor has unquestionably made our city safer and stronger. Downtown development has helped to provide a much-needed tax base, drawing resident back to the city. Amidst increasing violence, the recent return to community policing under New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman has set the Elm City on the right track.

We can especially appreciate how a stronger town-gown relationship has brought fortune to both city and University — a result of the close, constructive partnership between DeStefano and University President Richard Levin, who will also be ending a 20-year tenure this year.

But as residents of New Haven, we have much more to do.

New Haven simply cannot afford to backtrack on these twenty years of progress. Our city’s gains could be easily undone by a politician with less experience.

But the next mayor must also succeed where DeStefano has fallen short, providing a more transparent leadership style than the Elm City has seen in recent years.

The manner in which the mayor has fundraised,

'BAHSHO' ON 'COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OVER-

ver the last few weeks, I have had different iterations of the same conversation with many of my senior friends. We went home for break, some of us for the first time in a long time, some of us just as we always do. This time, going home was complicated, exhausting and left us feeling grateful (shockingly so) that we were back at school, starting class.

Let me be clear: We love our parents and our siblings.

Much of the time, we get along well with them, and look forward to spending time in their company. Going home to clean sheets, laundry service and regular nutritious meals is always a delight. At home, we get to see old friends and family members, eat at favorite restaurants, visit familiar places that remind us of what it meant to live in that place.

As one year away from home became four, the dynamics changed. Friendships from middle and high school became less important — conversation space became harder to fill as interests and experiences diverged.

Our grandparents got older and

quieter, while our siblings evolved from being annoying pests or superior know-it-alls to friends.

Our parZOE ents — eterMERCER- nal, steadfast — grew more GOLDEN grey hairs and Meditations wrinkles.

We are living in the shadow of these changing relationships in our families and communities, and also in the shadow of the changes to our hometowns and loved places.

Home no longer is or can be the place it was when we were younger: We haven’t been home enough to watch changes as they unfolded. I am left a little melancholy in the wake of change that I can neither slow nor alter.

For many of my breaks in college, the picture and experience of being at home has felt rosehued. This break, that experience and picture began to crumble in some troubling and unex-

pected ways, as it did for many of my senior colleagues. I’m trying to decide if I can go home again — for good — and discovering as I ponder that the answer may be no.

This made this past break hard.

My parents are sending eager emails about the job opportunities close to home. My grandparents make less-than-subtle remarks every time I call them.

Even my cousins — bless them — who have graduated and moved to the area are waging their own quiet war of offhand remarks. It is wonderful to be loved, but the love is part of the reason why it is hard for me to go home.

At Yale, I have found my own independence. I have worked and earned a wage, set and met my own deadlines, built a community from nothing and preserved that community despite incessant busyness and perpetual sleep deprivation. My space at Yale is fully mine in ways that my room at home or even a place near my parents’ house won’t be.

I am worried that I will lose that sense of personal autonomy if I go home to the relationships that already exist there. I am wor-

ried that I will have to work to fit myself into the spaces and places that I outgrew while at college.

Going home felt like a strange kind of goodbye to the self who had spent college pretending that home was still home. From now on, I will be a perpetual visitor in the place where I grew up, who drops in without the pretense of staying for long. Home has and will become less home: I will have to build a life somewhere else, both to protect the person I have become and to move towards the person I want to be.

Some of us will be forced to move back home for financial or family reasons. Some of us will want to — the lure of food and laundry will be too strong. I hope, however, that wherever we go next year, the movement will be towards a home that we make and remake for ourselves. We no longer need define ourselves by our connection to one town or one institution: The choice is, at last, ours.

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

Life as a resume drop T

o whom it may concern, I hope this column finds you well. My name is Harry Graver, and as an undergraduate at Yale University I am writing to apply … Oh wait.

Sorry.

Certain habits are tough to shake. Over the last few weeks, I, like many students across Yale, have begun countless emails and letters in a very similar fashion.

During the months of December and January, drafting a cover letter becomes a daily ritual akin to brushing one’s teeth, showering, eating — or, as some websites tell us, actually far more important than any of those three.

It’s impossible to escape the climate of job season. The amalgam of uncertainty, deadlines and interviews creates an elephant in the room that — rather than sitting pleasantly in the corner — plays a loud, incessant game of paddleball on the back of your head. Attempts to outwit this beast with a long jog or riveting book are futile — sooner or later, you’ll hear the “ding” of Gmail app on your phone.

Perhaps, though, the most meaningful aspect of the whole process is not the answer about your candidacy. It is the examination you are forced to do beforehand.

We are asked to put down our identity on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. On one hand, it’s quite jarring.

On the other HARRY hand, it’s GRAVER quite revealing. As we Gravely are forced to quantify ourMistaken selves, we employ a set of value judgments which can only be made from the outside, looking in. What am I proud of? What have I done? How in God’s name am I already twenty?

(Maybe not as much the last.)

A lot of good, though, comes from this longstanding ordeal. It is not some arbitrary construct, passed down from generation to generation as a sort of intellectual hazing. There is a method to the madness, even if it is tough to see anymore after a third reading of Case in Point.

Everyone has heard the advice to, “know your resume’s story,” before going into an interview. But, the genuine value of this suggestion is not as much revealed when a question is answered at an interview, as it

is in the hours worth of questions we pose to ourselves in the nights prior.

That is not to suggest that our quest is all cheer and roses, without serious dangers. As we attempt to describe ourselves, the impulse arises to redefine.

As we put ourselves before the prospect of failure, there is a defensive inclination to protect oneself by, in a way, creating a distance from oneself. In doing so, we can forget to shift gears at times, failing to return from the application to the applicant, and are thus left looking to the sum of our experiences, our passions in practice, as sterile, analytical means to an end.

And these pitfalls seem particularly audacious at Yale, where our extracurricular groups are so fundamentally a part of both our college experience and personal character. It does not take long at the Extracurricular Bazaar, or after a few conversations with friends from other schools, to realize just how unique Yale’s emphasis on developing the mind outside the classroom fosters its students’ hopes and expectations of each other.

This remarkable dynamic, though, can also lay the groundwork for a prevalent trap. We

look too often upon our resumes as a zero sum game — a tradeoff wherein we pay for each line of paper, each leadership title, with those memories’ sincerity.

In the end, these wounds are self-inflicted, and understandable, given this overwhelming process. In fact, this is where its very virtue lies. As we craft our candidacies amongst our peers, we are afforded a reorientation to our surroundings — one without the fashioned persona we flirted with before. And naturally, as we come back to ourselves, the road is as littered with humility and fear as it is with esteem and fulfillment.

What appears as a stack of resumes is really a profoundly shared endeavor. It is indeed exhausting at times to be one of the many in there — but it is also a tremendous blessing. If the process is done right, the pile can stare back at us like a mirror, as we gain glimpses of ourselves through those around us, be it dear friends or distant strangers.

How this will all shake out is out of our hands. How we make and are shaped by this journey is entirely up to us.

HARRY GRAVER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST AARON GERTLER

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What we can offer

ome say knowledge is the only thing that increases when shared. I would include in that category infectious diseases and Gangnam Style, but it certainly is an impressive and exclusive list.

Regardless of your health or your horse dance, every one of you reading this has immoderate skill in your strongest academic areas, as well as talent at applying to college you’ll never use again — unless you give it away. Each year in the United States, some three million people enroll as undergraduates for the first time. But many enter unprepared; they take remedial math and English courses, are overwhelmed by independent life or find themselves trapped for years in lecture halls without ever meeting a professor faceto-face.

We, in a small way, can change this.

Only 1350 freshmen entered Yale this year, and unless someone funds the new colleges tomorrow, that number will not change much before we graduate. Thanks to Adopt-a-Prefrosh and Bulldog Days, most of these future Yalies will know roughly what they are in for, and their own resourcefulness will take them far. However, most of

us come from high schools where juniors are preparing applications to every sort of school, and where seniors of all stripes are preparing to leave home. In my own school, there are at least one hundred students per class who head straight to college after graduating. Most of them spend very little time with a guidance counselor; many are completely unfamiliar with college academics and college life. When they arrive, many will panic, suffering unnecessary confusion as they are swallowed by a moreor-less impersonal state college system or struggle to find meaning in their coursework.

We should adopt them.

It’s likely that you know some high schoolers well, especially if you’re a freshman or sophomore. Maybe they’re siblings, old friends or teammates. When was the last time you spoke to them about college? Perhaps it was recent; if you’re at Yale, you probably had a strong role in your school’s community, and helped advise a group of kids who looked up to you for your mind or skill or personality. But what about those you didn’t know? Many might be going it alone. Maybe their parents will help with the Common App; maybe they’ll take

a pricey SAT course that will get them over that particular hurdle. But imagine the boost they’d get from an older student offering an extra set of eyes for an essay, someone to help them with a pre-college shopping list, someone to explain the virtues of small classes and office hours and whatever other lessons you’ve learned since you got here. Your contribution may be small, but thanks to the massive knowledge disparity between 17-year-olds and 20-year-olds, it could have an outsized impact.

I taught SAT classes last summer, which made it relatively easy to find students interested in learning more about college than their parents could remember. Since then, a week rarely goes by when I’m not commenting on an essay, recommending books and blogs or just giving disaffected youngsters a glimpse of the light at the end of the high school tunnel. But even if you don’t have tutoring experience, you are a resourceful reader, and there are many roads to mentorship.

One such road: Email your guidance counselor(s) or favorite teachers. Tell them you’re looking for students with college hopes who may need extra help along the way. Give them

your contact information. It will take five minutes and the upside is very high.

Less formally, ask high school friends whether they know anyone who might want advice. Set up a Facebook conversation or phone call or email exchange.

You’re two degrees of separation from dozens of people with questions you can answer.

Final idea for now: Make a status, or a post in your high school Facebook group, along these lines: “If anyone from [your school here] wants help with a college or scholarship application essay, or has any questions about college they want to ask, I’m happy to help!” Tag some friends so they’ll spread the word.

If you don’t have the time, that’s understandable. But I think of mentoring as a personal, flexible version of one of the dozen Dwight Hall programs that work with New Haven schools, but make you sign forms and set a consistent weekly time and all the rest.

We live in a world where sharing knowledge is very, very easy.

Take advantage.

AARON GERTLER is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at aaron.gertler@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER AND POET

CORRECTIONS A N N I V E R SA RY

FRIDAY, JAN. 25

The article “The Yale Law School Wine Society: they came, they drank, they conquered” included a number of factual errors. The article failed to mention that during the interview, Tyce Walters LAW ’13 mentioned Lisa Granik’s LAW ’93 ’97 status as a Master of Wine and that Walters said, in response to question three, that “The law school has been very supportive of the team — we’re all very grateful.”

In addition, the article did not clarify that Walters tasted 600 wines while writing wine books after college, instead suggesting that the team consumed that number of bottles in preparation for its recent competition in New York. The article also misquoted Walters in response to question five — the student who responded was not Walters but Joseph Pomianowski LAW ’15.

Fifty years later, Beinecke pushes access

TUESDAY, JAN. 29

The article “Gun hearing draws thousands” misidentified Nia Holston ’14 and Ashley Ison ’14 as members of Black Students at Yale, when in fact the organization is called the Black Student Alliance at Yale.

TUESDAY, JAN. 29

The article “Pledge debate reignited, postponed” mistakenly stated that the full Board of Aldermen will vote on a Pledge of Allegiance proposal at its next meeting, when in fact the Board will vote on the proposal at its Feb. 19 meeting.

Salovey holds staff town hall

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Over 500 staff members packed into the pews of Battell Chapel Tuesday morning for a town hall convened by President-elect Peter Salovey, who answered questions on staff development and acknowledged concerns he plans to address as president.

Salovey, who will assume the presidency on June 30, opened the meeting by discussing his intention to create a more unified, innovative, accessible and excellent Yale — four goals he first outlined in his Nov. 8 speech delivered after the Yale Corporation announced that he willsucceed current University President Richard Levin. During the town hall, he noted his plans to respond to concerns by ensuring the staff feels integrated with other segments of the University, continuing to improve the University’s relationship with local merchants and creating opportunities for upward mobility for current staff members.

“I know we have an excellent staff here, but I want Yale to be more than just a job for you,” Salovey said. “I want it to be a career path.”

Salovey said he already reviewed over 20,000 comments from a workplace survey issued to staff in November, adding that a theme central to the survey’s responses was a general desire for the prospect of a more substantial career trajectory at Yale. He explained several ways he hopes to create a more career-oriented environment for staff, such as rewarding staff innovation with promotions and filling vacant positions with internal candidates instead of individuals from outside the University.

Creating a more career-oriented environment for staff would require supervisors to be more flexible in encouraging staff members to change jobs within the University, he said, as well as allowing them to feel

that they can branch out beyond their initial area of expertise.

Salovey also said he understands that staff are concerned about unity, both within the staff body and between staff members and the rest of the University.

“I think we have far too many divisions — we talk much too much about main campus and the medical school. We talk much too much about Science Hill versus central campus,” Salovey told the audience. “All of that isn’t very meaningful.

We’re all serving a greater university with a shared sense of mission.”

Salovey discussed ways in which he would promote innovation throughout the entire University, including building the science and engineering programs “to the level of excellence that Yale has historically had, and will continue to have, in the humanities and in the arts.”

He also cited Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore in the creation of Yale-NUS as an example of the University’s bringing innovations in liberal arts education to the global community.

Four staff members interviewed said they enjoyed hearing Salovey’s plans for the upcoming academic year firsthand.

Davenport College Operations Manager Carolyn Haller said she hopes Salovey acts on his words about staff unity soon after he enters office.

“We used to be a family, but because of the economy and policies, I believe there’s friction,” Haller said.

Silliman College Operations Manager KC Mills called herself “a cheerleader” for Salovey, and said she believes the staff as a community has the responsibility to share their concerns with him.

Salovey announced the town hall in an email to staff on Jan. 16.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Fifty years after opening, the Beinecke’s collection continues to grow, and library curators have made acessibility to students a top priority.

BY JASMINE HORSEY STAFF REPORTER Fifty years ago, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened to mixed reviews.

“The whole thing’s built crooked,” one construction worker told the News in 1963.

Many at the time felt the building was out of touch with Yale’s famous Gothic style, but nobody could deny that the architecture was groundbreaking. At a talk honoring the Beinecke’s 50th anniversary last week, Architecture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern described the Beinecke as “Yale’s new center of gravity” and “the jewel in the University’s new crown of modernity.” Since its opening, the library has become a pioneer in the collection of rare books and manuscripts, and is accessed by scholars from all over the world.

Consuelo Dutschke, curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at Columbia University, said that the Beinecke’s collection is growing like none other.

“It is absolutely — I can guarantee to you — the absolute premier institution in the U.S. for buying medieval manuscripts,” she said. “Their collection is growing more furiously, more grandly, than any other institution in the country.”

But as the Beinecke begins its 50th year, the library is running into problems with its present facilities. Head of access services Steve Jones admitted the library has “been out of storage space for a while.” Due to the growing collection, materials are increasingly being sent to an offsite storage facility in Hamden, Conn. Access Archivist Michael Rush said there has been a “longstanding imbalance” between the library’s rate

of acquisition and the relatively slow speed with which librarians can catalogue new materials.

THE IDEAL CONDITIONS

Upon its construction, the Beinecke sparked controversy not only due to its unusual appearance but also for what students felt was a lavish display of wealth.

Funded by a generous donation from the Beinecke brothers, all three of whom were Yale graduates, the Beinecke was commissioned in the wake of concerns that Sterling Memorial Library was no longer equipped to deal with Yale’s growing collection.

Sterling lacked the air conditioning and humidity control needed to best preserve its documents, an obstacle that worked against Yale’s desire to become a leader in the collection of rare books.

It’s a building that, as you bring visitors in, they come to the door and their eyes light up.

E.C. SCHROEDER Director, Beinecke The Beinecke was designed using state-of-the-art technology able to maintain the temperature at 70 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity at 60 percent — the ideal conditions for housing fragile documents. Particular care went into choosing the best type of stone to line the walls, Stern said at his talk. The material needed to not only be sliced thin enough to allow sunlight to penetrate, but also robust enough to withstand the weather. The

translucent marble slabs chosen are often cited as the building’s most outstanding feature, Stern said.

“It’s one heck of a building,” Beinecke Director E.C. Schroeder said. “It’s a building that, as you bring visitors in, they come to the door and their eyes light up.”

The library celebrates the fact it has never undergone any major structural revisions since 1963, and it currently houses 180,000 of its rare books in a glass tower for all to see, with a further 320,000 kept below the plaza.

Although the library has become integral to Yale’s campus, librarians interviewed expressed concern that the building is not equipped to deal with its rapidly growing collection and aims of increasing accessibility to its resources. At the top of the library’s targets is to increase accessibility for students, particularly with regards to teaching, Beinecke spokeswoman Zoe Keller said. This semester, an unprecedented five classes are taking place in the Beinecke, but Schroeder said he would like to see the number increase even further.

“We could easily use at least one or two more classrooms,” Schroeder said.

INCREASING ACCESS

Despite its architectural restrictions, the Beinecke is taking a number of steps to encourage students, professors and the public to access its materials. Keller, the Beinecke spokeswoman, emphasized the library’s desire to broaden its outreach, and said students should not be intimidated by the library’s façade.

“I’d say what’s different in recent years as opposed to recent

past is that the mission of accessibility is now forefront,” she said.

“Because of the architecture, there is perhaps the illusion of exclusivity, but in fact any serious researcher can access incredibly rare materials as prime resources.”

To encourage physical interaction with the materials, the library has implemented a policy change allowing students to handle manuscripts with bare hands and people to take photographs in the reading room for personal use.

At the heart of the library’s desire to bring more students into its doors is its position as a pioneer in rare book and manuscript research. Barbara Shailor, deputy provost for the arts and a former Beinecke director, said that the research done by students working with manuscripts has the potential to spark discussion on a national scale.

“In the field of medieval manuscripts we look for things that have potentially not been published, authors that are either unknown or not well-known,” Shailor said. “We look for pieces that really have the potential to change the discipline, and actively acquire items that might make a difference to the future of the field.”

The move toward staging more exhibitions and increasing classroom teaching through a series of renovations is evidence of the Beinecke’s desire to combat its limited space, ultimately allowing the library to reach out to a broader audience.

The Beinecke was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, and opened on Oct. 14, 1963.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .

Koh shares State Department experiences

BY TIANYI PAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After spending four years serving as legal adviser to the State Department, former Law School Dean Harold Koh recounted his experiences working under Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 at a Davenport College Master’s Tea Tuesday.

Koh, who was named a Sterling Professor of International Law last week, left his post at the State Department last Tuesday to return to teaching at the Law School after serving as its dean from 2004 to 2009. At the Master’s Tea, Koh explained policy decisions made by the current administration and discussed issues facing the inter-

national community, including human rights, climate change and Syria’s ongoing civil war.

“It was a completely fascinating experience running an international law firm of 350 people, the finest in the world,” Koh said.

As Clinton’s primary legal adviser, Koh said he simultaneously acted as the State Department’s general counselor, conscience and its defender — during his tenure, Koh represented the State Department before influential bodies such as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

Koh said that accomplishing goals while working with government officials can be difficult

because of the government’s process of collective decisionmaking as well as its constant efforts to achieve perfection.

Koh said he dealt with the challenge of solving 21st century problems under 20th century laws. Because the law cannot be changed as quickly as problems arise, he had to identify which laws were relevant and translate them to current situations.

“This translation, I believe, is what Montesquieu would call ‘the spirit of the laws,’” Koh said.

Koh cited Clinton’s inclusion of LGBT rights in the broader framework of human rights — a moment that he called “incredibly powerful and pivotal” — as an example of translating laws to

present-day application.

He said the American political system has also been slow to adjust to the 21st century, mentioning specific cases in which Congress rejected several international treaties that would have benefited American foreign relations.

The current division of laws into public, private, domestic and international categories is a “construct,” he said, adding that some legal cases can straddle multiple categories, so transnational laws — ones between individuals and countries in which the individual does not reside — should emerge as the predominant legal form in years to come.

Koh also touched on sev-

eral recent events, including the publication of classified information by the online organization WikiLeaks. While he criticized the actions of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Koh added that in general he favors government transparency and believes that certain materials are overclassified.

“The release of the names of the human right activists could get them killed,” Koh said. “We had to devote huge amounts of U.S. government resources to apologies and damage mitigation.”

Students interviewed said they appreciated that despite Koh’s background in government, he spoke directly and honestly to the audience.

Jimmy Murphy ’13 said that he found Koh not only approachable and funny but also “a tremendously thoughtful speaker.”

“It was inspiring to see how much he focused on making sure that the U.S. was doing the right thing, instead of just defending what they did,” Murphy said.

Jessica Leao ’16 said she appreciated Koh’s global perspective of law, which gave her insight into the workings of the U.S. government and international organizations such as the United Nations.

Koh became a professor at the Law School in 1985 and has lived in New Haven since 1961.

Contact TIANYI PAN at tianyi.pan@yale.edu .

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And it gets better. I just had a burrito.”

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Publisher talks admissions

CHIPOTLE FINALLY ARRIVES TO THE ELM CITY

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YALE STUDENTS FLOCK TO CHIPOTLE FOR GRAND OPENING HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ron Unz castigated current admissions practices, including the use of affirmative action, for being oversimplistic.

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER Before a full Sudler Hall last night, American Conservative publisher Ron Unz called for Ivy League universities to admit 80 percent of their students randomly and eliminate undergraduate tuition — all in an effort to remedy an “outright corrupt” college admissions process.

The Yale Political Union hosted Unz, who has publicly criticized racial quotas in college admissions, to debate affirmative action processes in American colleges.

Unz decried what he described as the subjectivity in admissions to elite American universities, adding that admissions officers today work to fulfill two conflicting goals: meritocracy, which prioritizes ability with no regard to background, and diversity, which priotizes ethnicity and aims to fill racial quotas. Unz’s arguments were met primarily by hissing from members of the YPU, who said they found his statements controversial and radical.

“We have to ask ourselves, ‘how do we select students without inherent favoritism?’” Unz said. “My plan would replace the pseudo-diversity enforced by a small group of people sitting in a room behind a closed door with actual diversity based on random selection.”

Unz proposed that universities should admit 20 percent of students on purely meritocratic grounds, and randomly select the remainder of their students from the entire pool of applicants.

Unz argued that under his proposed system, students who have a chance at making the top 20 percent would work very hard, but the majority of students would be able to spend high school exploring their extracurricular interests rather than chasing after a 4.0 grade-point average or a perfect SAT score.

He added that the modern system of affirmative action creates “pseudo-diversity” by ignoring

the diversity that exists within broad racial categories. AfricanAmericans whose parents were once slaves have a different experience than Africans who have very recently immigrated to the United States, he said, but affirmative action overlooks this complexity and arbitrarily groups individuals together. A random admissions process is more likely than affirmative action to produce a “truly diverse student body representative of American society,” he said.

Unz said the second prong of his plan, which proposes that college be free of charge, would encourage students to apply to schools they would otherwise not consider because of high tuition fees. At schools like Harvard, Princeton and Yale, “endowments are so enormously large that admissions are a tiny fraction of one percent of the existing endowment,” he said, adding that endowments exist primarily to help with tuition.

Members of the YPU said they disagree with Unz’s claim that affirmative action is inappropriate for American society. While Unz said he believes affirmative action makes “negative factors a prevalent force in deciding admissions,” several audience members said they think affirmative action is a positive policy.

“I would love to tell you that all the scars of American history have been healed, but I can’t,” Ugonna Eze ’16 said. “One day affirmative action will be irrelevant, but as of now it’s not.”

Eight of 12 audience members interviewed after the debate said they think affirmative action positively contributes to Yale’s culture.

Unz published his most comprehensive argument against affirmative action, an article titled “The Myth of American Meritocracy,” in The American Conservative in November 2012.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

Chipotle’s highly anticipated opening attracted students, faculty and the New Haven community eager to try the restaurant’s fare on Tuesday. The affordable and tasty chain, famous for its burritos and burrito bowls, opened its first restaurant in New Haven after persistent campaigning from students.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 7:15 PM Bad Boys and New Waves: The Cinema of Susumu Hani. The films “Children in the Classroom” and “Children Who Draw” will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles. Screenings will be followed by a round-table discussion with director Susumu Hani. Co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and the Japan Foundation. Free and open to the general public.

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorum.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 4:30 PM “Central Plains” Movie Screening with AIDS Activist Wan Yanhal. The documentary “Central Plains” is the story of how a blood plasma donation scheme led to the infection of thousands of Chinese people with HIV and hepatitis C. Come learn how the government business corporations, public health officials and activists such as Wan Yanhal were involved in this scandal.

Wan Yarhal, who will lead a discussion after the screening, is the director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute, the largest AIDS NGO in China. He has also organized a national compensation campaign for victims of HIV infection caused by blood transfusion or blood products. The documentary will be screened in English. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 207.

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Four performers take to the streets armed with video cameras and embark on a set of comic and fantastical adventures that celebrate unexpected encounters with strangers. Once the 60 minutes are up, they return to the theatre, to a rousing hero’s welcome, and the footage is mixed live into a film. For two nights only, New Haven will become the set of Super Night Shot, as Gob Squad transforms the banality of everyday life into the glamour and glitz of a big-screen blockbuster. Moving, funny, and completely unpredictable, in Super Night Shot anything can happen — and usually does. University Theatre (222 York St).

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“But you can keep your magic flute, Amadeus. All this queen wants is a golden ticket to Yale!” GOSSIP GIRL “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER

Yale Club of New York nears demolition

Professor’s sketchbook on display

BY ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The Yale Club of New York may be the next landmark to line east Midtown’s skyline.

Last fall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a rezoning outline that would allow for the construction of taller skyscrapers in New York’s East Side, specifically the area from 39th Street to 57th Street, where activity is centered around Grand Central Terminal. The New York Times reported in December 2012 that Bloomberg’s desired “upzoning,” which involves demolishing old architecture to make room for new buildings, threatens the preservation of some of the neighborhood’s historic mainstays.

While the public process of certifying the rezoning proposal is not set to be completed until March, two conservation groups — the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Municipal Arts Society — have submitted landmark designation requests to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in the hopes of protecting buildings that could be torn down, including the Yale Club.

“We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown,” said Ronda Wist, vice president of preservation and government relations at the Municipal Arts Society. “That involves taking into consideration planning

and preservation issues.”

Among the buildings in the rezoning area, the group’s proposals cited 17, the Yale Club included, that “convey historic, architectural and cultural significance.” The list also names hotels such as The Lexington and the Marriot East Side, as well as the Center for Fiction, which was formerly the 1820s-era Mercantile Library.

We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown.

RONDA WIST Vice president, Municipal Arts Society Among the region’s 587 buildings — of which 32 are already designated landmarks — the Yale Club is one of 38 that have been demarcated as “soft sites,” structures vulnerable to replacement because of new construction. Wist said that due to the club’s large lot size and central location, it fulfills the city’s criteria for development.

“Designed by James Gamble Rogers 1889, the Yale Club is one of only eight buildings remaining from Grand Central’s original Terminal City district,” Wise noted.

“That’s significant.”

Andrea Goldwyn, director of

In an architectural landscape increasingly dominated by computer imaging, the latest exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center gives viewers a glimpse into the practice of traditional sketchbooking.

“Roman Sketches,” which opened Monday and will run until Jun. 28, is a display of pages taken from School of Architecture professor Alexander Purves’ own sketchbooks. Since 2001, Purves has led a group of 30 architecture students to Rome for an intensive drawing class. Although architects like Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn frequently employ digital modeling in their practices, Purves said he believes that an architect’s sketchbook is a vital tool for preliminary observation and design.

“Nothing is more efficient and less restricted than when the hand and the brain work together,” Purves said, adding that an architect can accomplish this only with a sketchbook.

The exhibition showcases scans of Purves’ own ink drawings and watercolors. The drawings, grouped by the structure depicted, are mounted on grey panels, while the watercolors stand alone behind glass. Some sketches feature floor plans juxtaposed with less technical renderings.

The professor’s work demonstrates the versatility of sketchbooks. His strokes depict Rome’s buildings in a variety of ways; seemingly hasty scribbles are placed beside intricate drawings.

In some cases, only portions of a building are shown — half a

public policy at the Landmarks Conservancy, said the building drew the group’s attention because it is a “fine example of neo-classical style that hearkens back to the City Beautiful Movement [in North American architecture].”

In the Landmark Conservancy’s testimony to the New York City Planning Commission, Goldwyn cited Rogers as a prominent architect. Responsible for creating Yale’s trademark gothic revival style, he also designed Sterling Memorial Library, Harkness Tower and the original eight residential colleges.

Wist said she has no estimate for how long the commission will take to process the Municipal Art Society’s proposal. While the Planning Commission’s website states that the review process typically lasts 20 to 30 working days, Director of Communications Elisabeth de Bourbon said there is no set timeline for decisions on proposals related to the rezoning study. De Bourbon declined to comment on the status of the application, adding that the commission has yet to decide whether to consider the 17 buildings individually or as a group.

Founded in 1897, the Yale Club of New York moved to its current location on 30 West 44th St. in 1915 following an increase in membership.

dome or the delicate outline of a plaza.

“Purves believes that you have to sketch a building fully in order to truly see it — to understand how all of its components work together to create the whole,” said Rob Bundy ARC ’13, who went on the 2012 Rome trip.

He recalled how, over the course of four weeks, the students each filled three or four sketchbooks with their depictions of the city.

Bundy said he learned that the sketchbook is invaluable for his work, and he sketches everything by hand before using the computer to render already concrete ideas.

critical eye.

“You go [into the class] thinking that architectural drawing is very precise, neat and measured, but you quickly learn with Purves that this is not true,” Tramonte said. “The best drawings don’t just depict what a space looks like — they represent form

and shadow. They emote.”

Purves became a faculty member at the School of Architecture in 1976.

Contact ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING at anna-sophie.harling@yale.edu .

The internationally renowned Tokyo String Quartet gave a farewell performance to the Yale community last Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, in Morse Recital Hall. After serving thirty-seven years on the School of Music faculty, the quartet-in-residence has decided that its 20122013 season will be its last.

Replacing two retiring quartet members would be a “Herculean task,” first violinist Martin Beaver explained, and so the group has chosen to come to a “graceful close.” The quartet breathes in unison with the natural ease that accompanies the rare combination of deeply understanding both the music and each other. Each member is irreplaceable.

Dean Robert Blocker awarded a Sanford Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the School of Music, to each member of the quartet: Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda (violins), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) and Clive Greensmith (cello). Peter Oundjian, current Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member at the School of Music, also received the medal for his tenure as the longest serving first violinist of the quartet. In describing the quartet, Blocked praised: “They never lost their sense of passion and wonder about the music they create.”

The program opened with the dynamic energy of the Haydn Quartet in G minor. Nicknamed the “Rider” quartet for its galloping licks, the violist captured the audience immediately with his bursting energy and excitement. As the music pressed forward, the quartet switched tempi with such effortlessness that it is hard to believe they have not known each other for their entire lives.

Sometimes you think too hard about drawings. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.

CATHERINE SHIH ’15 Catherine Shih ’15, who intends to major in Architecture and took Purves’ introductory architecture class this fall, described how the professor expected his students to sketch alongside their notes. She said she felt the sketchbook was one of the most important themes of the class.

“It brought together parts of architecture that I hadn’t thought about,” Shih said.

“Sometimes you think too hard about drawing. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.”

Kyle Tramonte ’15 said that by taking the class, he gained the ability to approach space with a

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

EACH MEMBER IS IRREPLACEABLE.

Architecture professor Alexander Purves’s “Roman Sketches” depicts Rome’s buildings in hasty sketches, quick studies, and intricate drawings.

GRACE PATUWO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Forum mulls photography

The historic Yale Club of New York is the largest private clubhouse in the world.

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER

Kersels talks performance through sculpture While most art galleries place security sensors on their sculptures, School of Art professor Martin Kersels’s exhibitions have served as stages for singers, dancers and even DJs. In a lecture he gave to roughly 15 students at the School of Art on Tuesday, Kersels discussed how the concept of “performance” has remained important to him throughout the projects he has undertaken during his decades-long career. Kersels progressed through a slideshow displaying his diverse work, includ-

ing dance performance images, photographs and multimedia sculptures equipped to play sound and video.

“One could say I have a lack of follow-through, but I change what I do and I change my interests based on different times in my life,” Kersels said.

Kersels spoke at length about his dynamic sculptures, some of which he has modified for different exhibitions. One such piece, “Tumble Room,” consists of a bedroom rotating vertically, with many objects falling as the room turns upside down.

He explained that he has bought or created new furniture, collages and clothing in the sculpture for each

exhibition, partly because many of the objects are destroyed in each iteration. Kersels said he spent time envisioning and researching the objects likely to be found in teenage girls’ bedrooms and discovered that many of these rooms contain collage-type decorations. As a result, he said he created collages using pictures of figures like Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Eminem and many others.

“I enjoyed thinking like a young lady,” Kersels said.

Aside from his mobile structures, Kersels has experimented with manipulating sound in his work.

In a piece titled “Attempt to Raise

TSQ says farewell to Yale

BY DANA SCHNEIDER GUEST COLUMNIST

CARLY LOVEJOY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

DANA SCHNEIDER

the Temperature of a Container of Water by Yelling at It,” Kersels said he placed an underwater speaker and temperature probe into a container of water. The speaker was attached to an audio device that played a 7 minute long tape of Kersels repeating the phrase “I am trying to raise the temperature of this water by yelling at it!” while the temperature probe was attached to a thermometer.

Though Kersels’ recent works have been sculptures, his early career showed a different side to the artist.

In the 1980s, he joined a group called “SHRIMPS,” which put on postmodern dance performances. Then, starting in the 1990s, Kersels worked

on creating photo series. For one, which sought to capture tripping and falling, Kersels said he tripped himself roughly 10 times to obtain the exact photographs he wanted.

There is a lot of performance in [Kersels’] lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.

MAYA MANVI ART ’14 “I was interested in the failure of a body in a simple action like walk-

ing — something we feel like we have under control,” he said.

All three audience members interviewed said they have worked with Kersels at the School of Art and have enjoyed having him as the Director of Graduate Studies in sculpture.

“His art and lecture are more or less the same,” Maya Manvi ART ’14 said. “There is a lot of performance in his lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.”

Kersels was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

On Tuesday, four photography department heads from the nation’s leading art schools debated the state of academic photography programs through a Museum of Modern Art Forum on Contemporary Photography.

Roughly 20 students gathered at the School of Art’s Green Hall to watch the livestream of the forum, which attracted an audience of artists, teachers and students from universities across the country. Gregory Crewdson, the School of Art’s director of graduate studies in photography, joined Ashley Hunt of California Institute of the Arts, Stephen Shore of Bard and James Welling of UCLA to compare their respective programs. Topics ranged from understanding the purpose of a photography degree to balancing teaching and working as an artist.

Crewdson described the School of Art’s photography program as “small, intense and rigorous.” The two-year professional photography program, which accepts only nine students each year, is known for its challenging environment, featuring weekly critiques of student work by a panel of artists, curators and critics.

There’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.

GREGORY CREWDSON Director of Graduate Studies, School of Art

“It’s very dramatic at times and very rigorous, but I think it’s a great way of applying pressure to the students’ pictures,” Crewd-

son said. “It’s also important to have a collusion of viewpoints so there’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.”

The forum went on to discuss the value of a photography degree, the rising cost of an arts education and the academic side of photography education. Crewdson said he hopes students break out of a strictly academic approach in their work, and that he encourages them to connect their work to culture at large.

Crewdson addressed audience questions about art school “branding” — when a school emphasizes a particular aesthetic — by explaining that he encourages a diversity of approaches and viewpoints, not one style based on his personal artistic work.

After an audience member questioned the absence of women or minorities on the panel, the group discussion turned to gender and race disparity in high-level art

school administration. Another audience member pointed out a trend in photography education toward predominantly male faculty members and female students. After the event, five students expressed frustration while discussing their own experiences with gender disparity in academia.

But Meghan Uno ’13, an undergraduate photography major, said she was surprised by the cynicism that came out at the forum.

“I was expecting them to discuss different methods of teaching, but I was surprised people would think to criticize what was being presented,” Uno said. “I do feel like there is a lot of emphasis on feminine photographers and have had a lot of female photography teachers [at Yale].”

The School of Art employs 26 photography faculty members.

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu.

To contrast the tonality of the first piece, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 exhibited the brilliance of each member. Each voice navigated the virtuosic passages while still maintaining perfect cohesion with the whole.

When all four instruments, each made by the famous Stradivarius family, were set down to play the pizzicatos in the fourth movement, each member smiled with anticipation. While Bartók’s complex rhythms traditionally have a disorienting tendency, the TSQ seemed to be having a wonderful conversation with each other.

The opening of the Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor following intermission was the apex of the evening. The pure emotion of the floating melody expressed the passion each quartet member felt as they sang good-bye to the hall that they have learned to call home. Underneath the beauty of the melody an urgent rhythm served as an ominous reminder of the finality of the evening.

After bringing the entire hall to its feet, the quartet gave its audience an encore: Mozart’s “Hoffmeister” quartet.

It was impossible to understand what each musician was feeling as the concert progressed. The music moved through an extensive range of emotions: the energy of Haydn, the forward tones of Bartok and the rich sonorities of Mendelssohn. What shined through every note was a moving love for the wonderful music they created.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at dana.schneider@yale.edu .

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“But you can keep your magic flute, Amadeus. All this queen wants is a golden ticket to Yale!” GOSSIP GIRL “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER

Yale Club of New York nears demolition

Professor’s sketchbook on display

BY ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The Yale Club of New York may be the next landmark to line east Midtown’s skyline.

Last fall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a rezoning outline that would allow for the construction of taller skyscrapers in New York’s East Side, specifically the area from 39th Street to 57th Street, where activity is centered around Grand Central Terminal. The New York Times reported in December 2012 that Bloomberg’s desired “upzoning,” which involves demolishing old architecture to make room for new buildings, threatens the preservation of some of the neighborhood’s historic mainstays.

While the public process of certifying the rezoning proposal is not set to be completed until March, two conservation groups — the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Municipal Arts Society — have submitted landmark designation requests to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in the hopes of protecting buildings that could be torn down, including the Yale Club.

“We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown,” said Ronda Wist, vice president of preservation and government relations at the Municipal Arts Society. “That involves taking into consideration planning

and preservation issues.”

Among the buildings in the rezoning area, the group’s proposals cited 17, the Yale Club included, that “convey historic, architectural and cultural significance.” The list also names hotels such as The Lexington and the Marriot East Side, as well as the Center for Fiction, which was formerly the 1820s-era Mercantile Library.

We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown.

RONDA WIST Vice president, Municipal Arts Society Among the region’s 587 buildings — of which 32 are already designated landmarks — the Yale Club is one of 38 that have been demarcated as “soft sites,” structures vulnerable to replacement because of new construction. Wist said that due to the club’s large lot size and central location, it fulfills the city’s criteria for development.

“Designed by James Gamble Rogers 1889, the Yale Club is one of only eight buildings remaining from Grand Central’s original Terminal City district,” Wise noted.

“That’s significant.”

Andrea Goldwyn, director of

In an architectural landscape increasingly dominated by computer imaging, the latest exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center gives viewers a glimpse into the practice of traditional sketchbooking.

“Roman Sketches,” which opened Monday and will run until Jun. 28, is a display of pages taken from School of Architecture professor Alexander Purves’ own sketchbooks. Since 2001, Purves has led a group of 30 architecture students to Rome for an intensive drawing class. Although architects like Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn frequently employ digital modeling in their practices, Purves said he believes that an architect’s sketchbook is a vital tool for preliminary observation and design.

“Nothing is more efficient and less restricted than when the hand and the brain work together,” Purves said, adding that an architect can accomplish this only with a sketchbook.

The exhibition showcases scans of Purves’ own ink drawings and watercolors. The drawings, grouped by the structure depicted, are mounted on grey panels, while the watercolors stand alone behind glass. Some sketches feature floor plans juxtaposed with less technical renderings.

The professor’s work demonstrates the versatility of sketchbooks. His strokes depict Rome’s buildings in a variety of ways; seemingly hasty scribbles are placed beside intricate drawings.

In some cases, only portions of a building are shown — half a

public policy at the Landmarks Conservancy, said the building drew the group’s attention because it is a “fine example of neo-classical style that hearkens back to the City Beautiful Movement [in North American architecture].”

In the Landmark Conservancy’s testimony to the New York City Planning Commission, Goldwyn cited Rogers as a prominent architect. Responsible for creating Yale’s trademark gothic revival style, he also designed Sterling Memorial Library, Harkness Tower and the original eight residential colleges.

Wist said she has no estimate for how long the commission will take to process the Municipal Art Society’s proposal. While the Planning Commission’s website states that the review process typically lasts 20 to 30 working days, Director of Communications Elisabeth de Bourbon said there is no set timeline for decisions on proposals related to the rezoning study. De Bourbon declined to comment on the status of the application, adding that the commission has yet to decide whether to consider the 17 buildings individually or as a group.

Founded in 1897, the Yale Club of New York moved to its current location on 30 West 44th St. in 1915 following an increase in membership.

dome or the delicate outline of a plaza.

“Purves believes that you have to sketch a building fully in order to truly see it — to understand how all of its components work together to create the whole,” said Rob Bundy ARC ’13, who went on the 2012 Rome trip.

He recalled how, over the course of four weeks, the students each filled three or four sketchbooks with their depictions of the city.

Bundy said he learned that the sketchbook is invaluable for his work, and he sketches everything by hand before using the computer to render already concrete ideas.

critical eye.

“You go [into the class] thinking that architectural drawing is very precise, neat and measured, but you quickly learn with Purves that this is not true,” Tramonte said. “The best drawings don’t just depict what a space looks like — they represent form

and shadow. They emote.”

Purves became a faculty member at the School of Architecture in 1976.

Contact ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING at anna-sophie.harling@yale.edu .

The internationally renowned Tokyo String Quartet gave a farewell performance to the Yale community last Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, in Morse Recital Hall. After serving thirty-seven years on the School of Music faculty, the quartet-in-residence has decided that its 20122013 season will be its last.

Replacing two retiring quartet members would be a “Herculean task,” first violinist Martin Beaver explained, and so the group has chosen to come to a “graceful close.” The quartet breathes in unison with the natural ease that accompanies the rare combination of deeply understanding both the music and each other. Each member is irreplaceable.

Dean Robert Blocker awarded a Sanford Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the School of Music, to each member of the quartet: Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda (violins), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) and Clive Greensmith (cello). Peter Oundjian, current Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member at the School of Music, also received the medal for his tenure as the longest serving first violinist of the quartet. In describing the quartet, Blocked praised: “They never lost their sense of passion and wonder about the music they create.”

The program opened with the dynamic energy of the Haydn Quartet in G minor. Nicknamed the “Rider” quartet for its galloping licks, the violist captured the audience immediately with his bursting energy and excitement. As the music pressed forward, the quartet switched tempi with such effortlessness that it is hard to believe they have not known each other for their entire lives.

Sometimes you think too hard about drawings. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.

CATHERINE SHIH ’15 Catherine Shih ’15, who intends to major in Architecture and took Purves’ introductory architecture class this fall, described how the professor expected his students to sketch alongside their notes. She said she felt the sketchbook was one of the most important themes of the class.

“It brought together parts of architecture that I hadn’t thought about,” Shih said.

“Sometimes you think too hard about drawing. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.”

Kyle Tramonte ’15 said that by taking the class, he gained the ability to approach space with a

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

EACH MEMBER IS IRREPLACEABLE.

Architecture professor Alexander Purves’s “Roman Sketches” depicts Rome’s buildings in hasty sketches, quick studies, and intricate drawings.

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Forum mulls photography

The historic Yale Club of New York is the largest private clubhouse in the world.

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Kersels talks performance through sculpture While most art galleries place security sensors on their sculptures, School of Art professor Martin Kersels’s exhibitions have served as stages for singers, dancers and even DJs. In a lecture he gave to roughly 15 students at the School of Art on Tuesday, Kersels discussed how the concept of “performance” has remained important to him throughout the projects he has undertaken during his decades-long career. Kersels progressed through a slideshow displaying his diverse work, includ-

ing dance performance images, photographs and multimedia sculptures equipped to play sound and video.

“One could say I have a lack of follow-through, but I change what I do and I change my interests based on different times in my life,” Kersels said.

Kersels spoke at length about his dynamic sculptures, some of which he has modified for different exhibitions. One such piece, “Tumble Room,” consists of a bedroom rotating vertically, with many objects falling as the room turns upside down.

He explained that he has bought or created new furniture, collages and clothing in the sculpture for each

exhibition, partly because many of the objects are destroyed in each iteration. Kersels said he spent time envisioning and researching the objects likely to be found in teenage girls’ bedrooms and discovered that many of these rooms contain collage-type decorations. As a result, he said he created collages using pictures of figures like Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Eminem and many others.

“I enjoyed thinking like a young lady,” Kersels said.

Aside from his mobile structures, Kersels has experimented with manipulating sound in his work.

In a piece titled “Attempt to Raise

TSQ says farewell to Yale

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the Temperature of a Container of Water by Yelling at It,” Kersels said he placed an underwater speaker and temperature probe into a container of water. The speaker was attached to an audio device that played a 7 minute long tape of Kersels repeating the phrase “I am trying to raise the temperature of this water by yelling at it!” while the temperature probe was attached to a thermometer.

Though Kersels’ recent works have been sculptures, his early career showed a different side to the artist.

In the 1980s, he joined a group called “SHRIMPS,” which put on postmodern dance performances. Then, starting in the 1990s, Kersels worked

on creating photo series. For one, which sought to capture tripping and falling, Kersels said he tripped himself roughly 10 times to obtain the exact photographs he wanted.

There is a lot of performance in [Kersels’] lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.

MAYA MANVI ART ’14 “I was interested in the failure of a body in a simple action like walk-

ing — something we feel like we have under control,” he said.

All three audience members interviewed said they have worked with Kersels at the School of Art and have enjoyed having him as the Director of Graduate Studies in sculpture.

“His art and lecture are more or less the same,” Maya Manvi ART ’14 said. “There is a lot of performance in his lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.”

Kersels was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

On Tuesday, four photography department heads from the nation’s leading art schools debated the state of academic photography programs through a Museum of Modern Art Forum on Contemporary Photography.

Roughly 20 students gathered at the School of Art’s Green Hall to watch the livestream of the forum, which attracted an audience of artists, teachers and students from universities across the country. Gregory Crewdson, the School of Art’s director of graduate studies in photography, joined Ashley Hunt of California Institute of the Arts, Stephen Shore of Bard and James Welling of UCLA to compare their respective programs. Topics ranged from understanding the purpose of a photography degree to balancing teaching and working as an artist.

Crewdson described the School of Art’s photography program as “small, intense and rigorous.” The two-year professional photography program, which accepts only nine students each year, is known for its challenging environment, featuring weekly critiques of student work by a panel of artists, curators and critics.

There’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.

GREGORY CREWDSON Director of Graduate Studies, School of Art

“It’s very dramatic at times and very rigorous, but I think it’s a great way of applying pressure to the students’ pictures,” Crewd-

son said. “It’s also important to have a collusion of viewpoints so there’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.”

The forum went on to discuss the value of a photography degree, the rising cost of an arts education and the academic side of photography education. Crewdson said he hopes students break out of a strictly academic approach in their work, and that he encourages them to connect their work to culture at large.

Crewdson addressed audience questions about art school “branding” — when a school emphasizes a particular aesthetic — by explaining that he encourages a diversity of approaches and viewpoints, not one style based on his personal artistic work.

After an audience member questioned the absence of women or minorities on the panel, the group discussion turned to gender and race disparity in high-level art

school administration. Another audience member pointed out a trend in photography education toward predominantly male faculty members and female students. After the event, five students expressed frustration while discussing their own experiences with gender disparity in academia.

But Meghan Uno ’13, an undergraduate photography major, said she was surprised by the cynicism that came out at the forum.

“I was expecting them to discuss different methods of teaching, but I was surprised people would think to criticize what was being presented,” Uno said. “I do feel like there is a lot of emphasis on feminine photographers and have had a lot of female photography teachers [at Yale].”

The School of Art employs 26 photography faculty members.

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu.

To contrast the tonality of the first piece, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 exhibited the brilliance of each member. Each voice navigated the virtuosic passages while still maintaining perfect cohesion with the whole.

When all four instruments, each made by the famous Stradivarius family, were set down to play the pizzicatos in the fourth movement, each member smiled with anticipation. While Bartók’s complex rhythms traditionally have a disorienting tendency, the TSQ seemed to be having a wonderful conversation with each other.

The opening of the Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor following intermission was the apex of the evening. The pure emotion of the floating melody expressed the passion each quartet member felt as they sang good-bye to the hall that they have learned to call home. Underneath the beauty of the melody an urgent rhythm served as an ominous reminder of the finality of the evening.

After bringing the entire hall to its feet, the quartet gave its audience an encore: Mozart’s “Hoffmeister” quartet.

It was impossible to understand what each musician was feeling as the concert progressed. The music moved through an extensive range of emotions: the energy of Haydn, the forward tones of Bartok and the rich sonorities of Mendelssohn. What shined through every note was a moving love for the wonderful music they created.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at dana.schneider@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JOHN DESTEFANO JR. DeStefano met his wife, Kathy, at the University of Connecticut when they were both undergraduates. He also earned a Masters in Public Administration there. He assumed the office of mayor of New Haven in 1994.

Levin-DeStefano leadership to end this year TOWN-GOWN FROM PAGE 1 coincides with Levin’s plan to pass on the presidency at the end of the academic year, clearing the way for a new era of town-gown relations led by President-elect Peter Salovey and New Haven’s next mayor, who will be elected in November. Those interviewed following DeStefano’s Tuesday announcement said they expect Yale and New Haven to continue to see improved relations after both men leave their current positions.

“New Haven got not only tangibly better under Mayor DeStefano, we got our pride back,” said Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, Yale’s deputy chief communications officer. “Governing a fabulously polyglot place is no easy task — John DeStefano has done it well.”

DeStefano was elected mayor of New Haven in 1993, the same year that Levin assumed Yale’s presidency. Their simultaneous assent to the two most prominent positions in New Haven marked the beginning of a long and storied relationship that eased town-gown tensions and benefited both the University and the city.

When Levin and DeStefano took office, the relationship between Yale and New Haven was tense and fraught with safety concerns for students who stepped outside the University’s ivy walls. Levin said half of the storefronts in downtown New Haven were boarded up when he took the reins of the University, adding that he committed to building a strong partnership with the city in his presidential acceptance speech.

Since that speech in April of 1993, DeStefano and Levin have worked together to promote economic development around Yale and New Haven and to strengthen the New Haven public school system. One of the most notable accomplishments to emerge from their partnership was the creation of the New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded full tuition college scholarship for students who graduate from New Haven public schools and attend an in-state institution.

Their economic development work has also yielded tangible results — today, 3,000 to 4,000 people live downtown compared to 200 to 300 when he took office, Levin said.

New Haven and Yale leaders alike praise the relationship as having been mutually beneficial for both the city and the University. Garth Harries, the assistant superintendent of New Haven Public Schools, called the city’s School Change Ini-

tiative “as powerful as I’ve seen anywhere in the country” and lauded DeStefano’s “vision” and “inspiration.”

New Haven got not only tangibly better under Mayor DeStefano, we got our pride back.

MICHAEL MORAND ’87 DIV ’93 Communications officer, Yale University From the University’s perspective, an improved New Haven makes Yale more appealing for prospective students, said Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel, calling the relationship between the University and the city, “historically unprecedented.”

“New Haven is not the place it was 20 to 25 years ago,” Bren-

zel said. “That has an effect on how Yale students feel about the place and that gets communicated to candidates and admitted students.”

University officials said that new leadership at Yale and in New Haven should not hinder town-gown relationships moving forward. Bruce Alexander ’65, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, said that it is important to remember the relationship between the University and the city is more than a partnership between two people — it is a broad commitment shared by many leaders on both the town and the gown side.

“I really have no concerns about continuing in the fashion that we have grown to be accustomed to,” Alexander said. “Over time the partnership is only going to get stronger.”

Salovey has lived in New Haven for 30 years and “loves the city,” Alexander said.

Salovey said that he is proud that Yale has promoted the arts, education, a retail climate and New Haven home ownership in the last 20 years and pledged to continue strengthening the relationship. As Levin and DeStefano step down, the path

is paved for a new set of towngown initiatives.

“I very much plan to continue these efforts in the coming years and also focus further attention on economic development and job creation,” Salovey said.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin

Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield and Sundiata Keitazulu, a plumber, have all announced that they plan to run for mayor this year.

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

YDN

The concurrent terms of Rick Levin as Yale’s president and John DeStefano as New Haven’s mayor have seen a greatly strengthened relationship between the city and University.

Superintendent led city’s school reform efforts MAYO FROM PAGE 1 tive launched in 2009 that seeks to foster a college-going culture in the city’s public schools. That effort, Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said — along with a landmark 2010 teachers’ contract negotiated with the help of the American Teachers Federation — has placed New Haven at the forefront of national education reform.

“Mayo and DeStefano have not left any tool in the tool kit when trying to address the education gap in this city. That’ll be their legacy,” Hausladen said. “Test scores and rising graduation rates show it’s working.”

Mayo and DeStefano have not left any tool in the tool kit when trying to address the education gap.

DOUG HAUSLADEN ’04 Alderman, Ward 7

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After 20 years in office, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo will retire in June.

Smith said that DeStefano’s principal legacy will “without a doubt” be education reform. A major foundation of that effort, he added, was his working partnership with the superintendent.

Hausladen also pointed to the leaders’ school construction project, in which decades-old city public schools were rebuilt into modern facilities, as a symbol of the city’s progress in education reform.

Between the school change initiative and the city’s charter reform process, which could see major structural changes to the way the Board of Education is selected, Mayo’s departure will

come as the school district is subject to increasing scrutiny. Debates over Mayo’s legacy — and over how Elm City schools will be managed following his exit — are likely to play a major role in this year’s mayoral race.

State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, who told the News he is officially running for mayor on Tuesday, said Mayo’s tenure as superintendent has not been without its difficulties.

“The city has gotten a lot of positive press for its education reform efforts.

Mayo is the captain of that ship, so he gets the credit,” Holder-Winfield said.

“But before 2008, New Haven education was not in a good place. That was also on Mayo’s watch.”

Holder-Winfield said Harries, who has overseen much of the school change effort, is a likely choice to replace Mayo.

Ward 10 Alderman and mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 has previously criticized the exclusive privilege of the mayor to appoint the Board of Education. In his speech announcing his official bid for the mayor’s office last week, Elicker said he favored a new appointment process that would allow for a “new independent-minded and reform-minded superintendent.”

Elicker told the News Tuesday evening that school reconstruction does not go far enough. He emphasized curricular reform, early childhood education and character training as key elements to improving schools “on the inside.”

Mayo has spent over 45 years working in education.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

TIMELINE REGINALD MAYO 1967 Reginald Mayo begins teaching at Troup Middle School 1981 Mayo is appointed as New Haven Public Schools K-8 Director of Schools 1984 Mayo becomes executive director of school operatons for the school district 1992 Mayo is appointed superintendent of the New Haven Public Schools 1994 John DeStefano Jr. is elected mayor of New Haven 2001 School Reconstruction Plan begins 2009 School Change Initiative is launched 2010 New teachers’ contract takes effect

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Terms DeStefano has served as mayor

John DeStefano Jr. is New Haven’s longest serving mayor. He was also the 2006 Democratic candidate in Connecticut’s governor’s race, but he lost to popular incumbent Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. He has focused on issues of education and public safety in New Haven.

Destefano ‘not going anywhere yet’ DESTEFANO FROM PAGE 1 under his tenure.

In her introduction, DeLauro noted that the partnership between DeStefano and Yale University President Richard Levin helped combat the “dividing line” between Yale and the rest of the city that existed when DeStefano took office. Levin, who was present Tuesday night and hugged DeStefano before the mayor gave his speech, praised DeStefano for partnering with Yale on a number of initiatives, such as New Haven Promise, labor union negotiations and the University’s New Haven Homebuyer Program.

Peter Salovey, who will assume the presidency after Levin, said in an email to the News that DeStefano has been a “terrific partner” for Yale.

“I look forward to as productive a partnership with the next Mayor. As a New Haven resident for more than 30 years, I have watched as our City has become a better and better place to live and work,” Salovey wrote. “The Mayor has had great vision for New Haven, and a deep understanding of the interdependence of the city and the University.”

DeStefano also discussed the state of education 20 years ago — when school buildings were an average of 50 years old — before he spearheaded a school rebuilding effort nearly a decade ago. The mayor praised the work of superintendent Reginald Mayo and the Board of Education for their success with increasing the graduation rate and implementing new programs like New Haven Promise.

[DeStefano is] very creative and … would never see things as being irresolvable.

CARL GOLDFIELD Former president, New Haven Board of Aldermen Mayo said that DeStefano’s departure is “obviously a big loss to the city” and a “big loss to education in general.”

Carl Goldfield, who served as the president of the Board of Alderman for six years until his departure in 2011, called DeStefano a “great leader.” He said DeStefano was very skilled at balancing the opposing interests of constituents, and noted DeStefano’s role in ending contract disputes between Yale and its unions as an example of his talent.

“He’s very creative, and where other people would see only obstacles, he would never see things as being irresolvable,”

Goldfield said. “He approached governing as if there was always a solution to every problem, and he was very imaginative and creative at crafting solutions.”

NAVIGATING CITY HALL

DeStefano began his service to the city long before he became mayor, working for Mayor Ben DiLieto’s administration as a chief budget aide during the 1980s. He then ran for mayor but lost in 1989 to John Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor, by a wide margin in the primary. But Daniels faced mounting budgetary issues, high crime and seemingly intractable poverty, and DeStefano capitalized on Daniels’ decision not to run after two terms, winning the election in 1993.

“It was just a really tough time in the city at that point, and I think the city was looking for more aggressive management,” said Jim Farnam, who worked for the DiLieto administration alongside DeStefano. “I think DeStefano brought that aspect with his experience, and I think there was a lot of unhappiness with how the city was working at that point in terms of basic management.”

Farnam said that DeStefano played a large role in revitalizing downtown and increasing economic investment in the city, with projects like 360 State Street and Route 34 bringing developers to New Haven.And while the initial implementation of community policing began under Daniels, Farnam said people believe DeStefano was responsible for putting in place a police team largely credited with the drop of homicide and crime in New Haven.

But for all of his work, DeStefano has also had his fair share of struggles.

A scandal engulfed DeStefano’s administration in 1998 when federal funds disappeared from the Livable City Initiative, an antiblight program that promotes home ownership. DeStefano’s administration was dealt another blow in 2009 when it was forced to pay $2 million to firefighters and $3 million in legal fees after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the city in Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the city was convicted of discriminating against firefighters on a promotional test, as the test results were disqualified after none of the black firefighters passed.

In 2011, amid a city facing the highest crime rate in nearly two decades and still reeling from the effects of the onset of the economic recession in 2008, DeStefano won re-election by his narrowest margin ever, 55-45 percent, against challenger Jeffrey Kerekes, even after choosing to opt out of public financing which allowed him to outspend

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Mayor DeStefano has been crucial in the effort to revitalize downtown New Haven and to implement community policing.

Kerekes by a 14-1 margin.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Conn. Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, who are both running for DeStefano’s position this November, have criticized him for being in office for too long. They have described the mayor as “out of touch” and called for new ideas and fresh faces in City Hall.

When Elicker announced to a crowd of over 100 people last Thursday that he was running for mayor, he said he could not imagine being mayor for 20 years, adding that the only thing he wanted to do for 20 years was to be married to his wife.

DeStefano said Tuesday, however, that he disagrees with Elicker’s sentiment.

“Someone recently said that they couldn’t imagine being mayor for 20 years, and frankly, that’s an observation born of fail-

ure on two counts: first, a failure of imagination, and second, a failure of expectations of all the good and decent people,” DeStefano said in his speech.

DeStefano added that after serving for as long as he has, every election is now just him running against himself.

MOVING FORWARD

Now that DeStefano is no longer running, the field for November’s election is wide open, with Elicker, Holder-Winfield and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu already having declared their intention to run and other political figures potentially following their lead.

But even without an incumbent in this year’s election, the issues remain largely the same.

“The way I think about it is we’re electing someone to run a $600 million business,” Farnam

said. “The biggest challenge is how to deal with the fiscal situation and the state and federal cutbacks in the face of growing needs of the city.”

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said that a major issue will be continuing school reform and ensuring that the new school buildings and construction are complemented with improving school personnel. Levin agreed, telling the News that he thinks education reform should be the “first priority” of the next mayor.

The next mayor will need to juggle these issues and more, with Salovey’s ascent to the University presidency and a new public schools superintendent providing ample opportunity for change.

“I hope we get someone who’s as skilled as he was,” Goldfield said. “We have to have someone with a vision. DeStefano had a vision.”

Though DeStefano said Tuesday night that he does not support any specific candidate, he did share his thoughts on what attributes his successor should have.

“The next guy you hire to replace me: Do not hire a town manager,” DeStefano said. “Hire a mayor who’s going to make decisions, stand for something, be willing to be held accountable and get something done for our people.”

But with almost a year still left in office, DeStefano did not reference any specific plans for his post-City Hall life. Instead, he assured the audience that he is “not going anywhere yet.”

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

Elicker, Holder-Winfield lead campaign field ELECTION FROM PAGE 1 forms.

Likely candidates beyond Elicker and Holder-Winfield include Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina and Probate Court Judge Jack Keyes, who served as city clerk nearly three decades ago. Carolina, who refused to support DeStefano in his 2011 re-election bid, has publicly come up against the mayor on a variety of issues, including

his three-day suspension over an alleged transcript-tampering scandal in 2012.

“I am strongly considering running for mayor,” Carolina said in a statement Tuesday, calling DeStefano’s retirement “exciting because it opens up opportunities for new leadership and energy in the city.”

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, a longtime law partner of Keyes, Board of Alderman President Jorge Perez and

State Rep. Patricia Dillon are also possible candidates. Although neither Looney nor Dillon has publicly considered running, Perez admitted Tuesday, albeit subtly, that he may run, responding “I’m not ready to say,” when asked if he was running for mayor.

“Over the next week or so, I will be talking to my family, my colleagues, my constituents and others, and only then will I make a decision concerning in what role I will continue to serve the city,” he

said in a statement.

Looney remained noncommittal, telling the New Haven Independent Tuesday, “I don’t even want to discuss [a mayoral candidacy] at this point. It’s far too early.”

Democratic Town Chairwoman Jackie James, who told the New Haven Independent Tuesday that she would not run for mayor, said that she has not put her support behind any candidate yet.

Exactly where the candi-

dates stand against each other is uncertain. A recent poll commissioned by a group of Connecticut labor unions put Looney and fellow State Sen. Toni Harp in the lead, although Tarp told the New Haven Independent Tuesday that she would not run.

Challengers will face off in a September Democratic primary before moving on to the general election in November. Winning the primary has traditionally meant winning the general

election, which no Republican has claimed since 1951.

Candidates who elect to run will have to decide whether to fundraise themselves or make use of public financing — an initiative once triumphed by DeStefano that would provide $50,000 in campaign funds.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR OF NEW HAVEN JUSTIN ELICKER FES ‘10 SOM ‘10

GARY HOLDERWINFIELD

A member of the Board of Aldermen representing East Rock, Elicker announced his candidacy last week.

A member of the state House of Representatives representing Hamden and New Haven, Holder-Winfield will file paperwork for his candidacy on Friday.

SUNDIATA KEITAZULU

KERMIT CAROLINA

A New Haven resident The Hillhouse High and plumber, Keitazulu School principal, an filed to run in November. outspoken critic of DeStefano, said Tuesday he was “strongly considering running.”

JACK KEYES

MARTIN LOONEY

JORGE PEREZ

PATRICIA DILLON

A Probate Court Judge and former city clerk, Keyes is reportedly seriously considering a run.

The State Senate Majority Leader, who represents New Haven, said Tuesday it was too early to discuss whether he will run.

The President of the Board of Aldermen declined to say whether he will run, but noted that he is talking to family and colleagues about how he will “continue to serve the city.”

A member of the state House of Representatives representing New Haven, Dillon is yet to say whether she will run.

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NATION LAS VEGAS — Declaring “now is the time” to fix the nation’s broken immigration system, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined broad proposals for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders. He hailed a bipartisan Senate group on a similar track but left unresolved key details that could derail the complex and emotional effort.

Potential Senate roadblocks center on how to structure the avenue to citizenship and on whether legislation would cover same-sex couples — and that’s all before a Senate measure could be debated, approved and sent to the Republican-controlled House where opposition is sure to be stronger.

Obama, who carried Nevada in the November election with heavy Hispanic support, praised the Senate push, saying Congress is showing “a genuine desire to get this done soon.” But mindful of previous immigrations efforts that have failed, he warned that the debate would be difficult and vowed to send his own legislation to Capitol Hill if lawmakers don’t act quickly.

“The question now is simple,” Obama said during a campaign-style event in Las Vegas, one week after being sworn in for a second term in the White House. “Do we have the resolve

as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do.”

Shortly after Obama finished speaking, cracks emerged between the White House and the group of eight senators, which put out their proposals one day ahead of the president. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, faulted Obama for not making a citizenship pathway contingent on tighter border security, a central tenet of the lawmakers’ proposals.

Do we have the resolve as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do.

BARACK OBAMA President, United States “The president’s speech left the impression that he believes reforming immigration quickly is more important than reforming immigration right,” Rubio said in a statement.

House Speaker John Boehner also responded coolly, with spokesman Brendan Buck saying the Ohio Republican hoped the president would be “careful not to drag the debate to the left and ultimately disrupt the difficult work that is ahead in the House and Senate.”

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Senate confirms Kerry

BY DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama’s choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four years.

No date has been set for Kerry’s swearing-in, but in a letter to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Kerry says his resignation is effective at 4 p.m. Friday. The State Departments plans a welcoming ceremony for Kerry on Monday.

Obama tapped Kerry, 69, the son of a diplomat, decorated Vietnam veteran and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, to succeed Clinton, who is stepping down after four years. The Massachusetts Democrat, who had pined for the job but was passed over in 2009, has served as Obama’s unofficial envoy, smoothing fractious ties with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Sen. Kerry will need no introduction to the world’s political and military leaders and will begin Day One fully conversant not only with the intricacies of U.S. foreign policy, but able to act on a multitude of international stages,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who will succeed Kerry as committee chairman.

Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the panel’s top Republican, called Kerry “a realist” who will deal with unrest in Egypt, civil war in Syria, the threat of alQaida-linked groups in Africa and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Kerry, a forceful proponent of climate change legislation, also will have a say in whether the United States moves ahead on the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, a divisive issue that has roiled environmentalists.

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Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, removed her name from consideration following criticism from Republicans over her initial comments about the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Voting against Kerry were three Republicans — Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas.

Absent from the vote were Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and John Hoeven, R-N.D. “Sen. Kerry has a long history of liberal positions that are not consistent with a majority of Texans,” Cornyn said in a statement. The senator is up for reelection next year and could face a tea party challenge.

Kerry’s smooth path to the nation’s top diplomatic job stands in stark contrast to the harsher treatment for Obama’s other national security nominees — Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary and John Brennan to be CIA director.

Hagel, the former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska, faces strong opposition from some of his onetime GOP colleagues who question his sup-

port for reductions in the nuclear arsenal and cuts in defense spending. Lawmakers also have questioned whether he is sufficiently supportive of Israel and strongly opposed to any outreach to Iran.

Democrats have rallied for Hagel, and he has the announced support of at least a dozen members in advance of his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi will support Hagel, a spokesman said Tuesday, making him the first Republican to signal he will vote for the nomination.

Six Republicans have said they would vote against him, with some opposing Obama’s choice even before the president’s announcement.

Brennan faces questions from the GOP about White House leaks of classified information and from Democrats about the administration’s use of drones.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened to block the nomination of both men until he gets more answers from the Obama administration about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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“If Syria spirals further into civil war, not only will more civilians die … but instability will most certainly spill into neighboring states.” HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

UN seeks aid boost for Syrian ‘catastrophe’

BY BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS KUWAIT CITY — International aid officials are framing their latest gathering on Syria’s humanitarian crises in terms not seen in the region since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers possibly swelling toward 1 million, more than double that number in need of help inside the country and political policymaking among Bashar Assad’s foes torn between the battlefield strategies and the civilian costs.

The urgency for a dramatic increase in international relief funds for Syria — seeking total pledges of $1.5 billion — will be the central message Wednesday in Kuwait from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other leaders such as Jordan’s King Abdullah II, whose nation is struggling with more than 320,000 refugees and more arriving every day.

The meeting also seeks to reorient some of the political calculations among Western nations and allies supporting the Syrian rebels. With the civil war nearing its two-year mark and no end in sight, U.N. officials and others are pressing governments to recognize the potential long-term humanitarian burdens and spread resources and support to both the Syrian opposition and the millions of people caught in the conflict.

“The crisis is not easing on any front,” said Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the U.N. office in charge of coordinating humanitarian affairs. “It’s relentless.”

The venue in Kuwait also highlights the increasingly high-profile role of Persian Gulf nations in Syria’s civil war.

The Gulf states, led by Qatar

and Saudi Arabia, have been key backers of the political opposition against Assad and have urged for stepped up arms shipments to rebel fighters — a call that has met resistance from the U.S. and Western allies fearing that heavy weapons could reach Islamist militant factions that have joined the rebellion.

Now, the wealthy Gulf nations may come under direct calls to significantly boost contributions for U.N.-led humanitarian efforts in addition to their own pledges, including $100 million promised

by Saudi Arabia in December for Syrian relief and $5 million from the United Arab Emirates this month for the refugees in Jordan.

Representatives from more than 60 nations are expected at the one-day conference, possibly including envoys from Assad’s main allies Iran and Russia. They are unlikely to be put under specific diplomatic pressures, but could face uncomfortable descriptions of civilian deaths in a nearly 2-year-old civil war that the U.N. says has claimed more than 60,000 lives.

Our aid reflects the commitment of the American people.

BARACK OBAMA President, United States Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Syria’s bombardment of citizens should be declared a war crime and aid groups must be given greater access to help displaced or suffering people inside the coun-

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A Syrian refugee woman removes her laundry from the ground at a temporary refugee camp in the Lebanese town of Marj, near the border with Syria. try. Relief groups, however, have struggled in Syria because of shifting front lines and risks of kidnapping or convoys commandeered. The U.N. also has pulled back some staff in Damascus as fighting intensified in the capital.

Also in Davos, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, called the Syrian humanitarian situation “already catastrophic.”

“What we are seeing now are the consequences of the failure of the international community to unite to resolve the crisis,” she said before heading to Damascus for a two-day visit that included talks with Syrian officials.

While the Kuwait meeting is certain to showcase the strong international coalition against

Assad’s regime, it also will underscore the shortfall in nailing down funds for humanitarian relief.

Laerke said the U.N. has in hand less than 4 percent of $519 million sought for aid inside Syria. Nearly $1 billion more in emergency money is now needed for the refugee influx into neighboring nations. U.N. officials say more than 21,000 Syrian refugees have arrived at Jordan’s sole refugee camp in just the past week.

“This is the just the six-month price tag,” he said. “This just gets us through the middle of year.”

On the eve of the Kuwait meeting, President Barack Obama authorized an additional $155 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people as his administra-

tion grapples for a way to stem the violence there without direct U.S. military involvement.

The fresh funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian aid to Syria over two years to $365 million, according to the White House. Officials said the money was being used to immunize one million Syrian children, purchase winter supplies for a half million people, and to help alleviate food shortages.

“The relief we send doesn’t say `Made in America,’ but make no mistake — our aid reflects the commitment of the American people,” Obama said in a video announcing the additional funding, which was posted on the White House website.

The European Union also promised another 100 million euros ($134 million) for Syrian relief aid, said the EU humanitarian aid commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, in Brussels.

“They seem to be taking the appeals more seriously now when the conflict appears to be taking the shape of a crisis that will last for some time,” said Ayham Kamel, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London.

“Most expected the Assad regime would be toppled by now, ending the crisis. In reality, however, the Assad regime is still there and the international community has no alternative but to face the crisis and managing refugees costs money.”

Mexico mum on drug violence

BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took office promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico’s drug cartels continue unabated.

Only the government’s talk about them has dropped.

Eighteen members of a band and its retinue were kidnapped and apparently slain over the weekend in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon by gunmen who asked them to name their cartel affiliation before they were shot and dumped in a well. Fourteen prisoners and nine guards died in an attempted prison escape in Durango state. Nine men were slain Christmas eve in Sinaloa. In the state of Mexico, which borders the capital, more than a dozen bodies were found last week, some dismembered.

The difference under this administration is that there have been no major press conferences announcing more troops or federal police for drug-plagued hotspots. Gone are the regular parades of newly arrested drug suspects before the media with their weapons, cash or contraband.

Pena Nieto has been mum, instead touting education, fiscal and energy

reforms. On Monday, he told a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Chile that he wants Mexico to focus on being a player in solving world and regional problems.

Some political observers praise him for trying to change the conversation and presenting an alternative face of Mexico.

Critics suggest the country’s new leaders believe that the best way to solve a security crisis is to create distractions.

It can be effective in the short term, until the violence becomes so obvious that you can’t change the subject.

JORGE CHABAT Security expert “What Pena Nieto is doing is ... sweeping violence under the rug in hopes that no one notices,” said security expert Jorge Chabat. “It can be effective in the short term, until the violence becomes so obvious that you can’t change the subject.”

The Pena Nieto government declined to respond publicly to the critics. But in

an interview last month with The Associated Press, he said he would not put any goals or deadlines on his campaign against organized crime and would focus on prevention.

“That way we avoid generating fertile ground where violence and insecurity can keep growing,” Pena Nieto said.

Secretary of Interior Jose Osorio Chong had a closed-door meeting with the governors of Mexico’s central states about security on Monday. In a press conference afterward, he promised to increase patrols along a highway system already bristling with military and police roadblocks and checkpoints.

The apparent weekend killing of 18 members of Kombo Kolombia, which had played at a private performance late Thursday, was the largest mass kidnapping and killing since 20 tourists disappeared and were later found dead in 2011 near the resort city of Acapulco. Searchers this week were pulling bodies from a well in northern Mexico that they said likely belonged to the band.

An area known as the Laguna, where Coahuila and Durango states meet, has been the scene of numerous battles between factions of the Sinaloa and the Zetas cartels.

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AUSTIN MORGAN ’13 AND JUSTIN SEARS ’16 ELIS PULL IN TWO IVY AWARDS Morgan was named co-Ivy League Player of the Week along with Harvard’s Christian Webster after scoring 16 points and going 4–6 from downtown in Yale’s 76–64 win over Brown.

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Elis land top recruit

Azarenka finds her nerve

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Players who are recruited by PAC-12 schools do not often come to the Ivy League, but that is exactly what outside linebacker Victor Egu has decided to do.

FOOTBALL The Concord, Calif. native reneged on his verbal commitment to attend the University of California, Berkeley last week and said that he has verbally committed to Yale.

Fans of the Elis will have to wait to see him in the Yale Bowl, however, according to Egu’s former head coach at De La Salle High School, Justin Alumbaug.

“Victor will first be attending a prep school,” Alumbaugh said in an email to the News. “Then he intends on going to Yale.”

While ESPN had reported that Egu received offers from schools such as Oregon and Notre Dame — which both finished in the top five of the Associated Press final poll this season — the four-star recruit has become the highest-ranked recruit in the Ivy League this season. Egu could not be reached for comment.

Mercurynews.com first reported that Egu would be switching his commitment to the Elis on Jan. 26.

In the report, Egu said that academics were an integral part of his decision.

“Education was also a factor,” Egu said in the article. “I know football isn’t everything and with a degree from Yale, I’ll have a wide range of opportunities.”

Reno declined to comment on the signing, citing NCAA regulations.

“It’s an NCAA rule and it’s also an Ivy [League] rule,” Reno said.

“We can’t comment until after the player has matriculated in May.” In 2012, Egu helped lead De La Salle to a perfect 15–0 season and

themselves.

“It didn’t matter if the kids couldn’t play well. It was just nice too see happy faces on the kids,” midfielder John Reese ’16 said.

After the clinic finished, the Elis huddled together with the Newtown lacrosse community and passed out Yale paraphernalia including hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts and drawstring bags. Before the team left, it took pictures with the children and coaches from the Newtown clinic.

Team captain Michael McCormack ’13 said the most rewarding part of the trip was when a Newtown coach presented the team with a jersey labeled No. 26. The team said it plans on hanging the jersey in the locker room this coming season to honor and remember the victims of the Newtown shooting.

The Bulldogs said they were proud to know they were able to bring happiness into a community that is in desperate need of positives.

“It felt amazing to be able to give these kids an experience that they will remember from this age in their life instead of just the tragedy,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. Flaherty added that coaches, parents and members of the Newtown community expressed palpable gratitute to the Bulldogs.

The Elis face off in a scrimmage against Le Moyne on Feb. 9.

Last Saturday, world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka defeated sixth seeded Li Na 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to claim her second consecutive Australian Open title. The Belarusian was the more consistent of the two players and her strokes seemed to become stronger as the match went on. Meanwhile, Li’s improved forehand broke down as the match extended and the Chinese player fell in her second trip to the Australian Open finals.

But this final was far more than a story about groundstroke consistency. The real tale of the match was each player’s extraordinary faith in herself and commitment to winning.

This final had the makings of a great match from the outset. The number one player in the world was playing against the most impressive player in the tournament up to that point. Both players were already champions, having each won a Grand Slam tournament and appeared in another final. Both players fully understood the stakes.

For Li Na the pressure was immense. When she advanced to the Australian Open final in 2011 an estimated 120 million people watched the match in her native China. At that time she was attempting to become the first Chinese tennis singles Grand Slam champion. In that match Li won the first set as she did in 2013. However, in 2011 the moment seemed too big for her as she lost her mental focus and allowed Kim Clijsters to win the next two sets to claim the title.

In 2013 Li seemed to have learned from her past experience. With crowd behind her she appeared fully composed. In her post match interview she said, “I can hear a lot of Chinese fans, yeah … I was, oh, looks like China Open.” Again, she began the match well and claimed the first set, 6–4 applying constant pressure on Azarenka’s serve, breaking the world number one three times. But although she took the set, Li dropped two service games and struggled with her own serve throughout the set. In the second and third sets, as Azarenka’s serve becamse stronger and her holds easier, Li’s serve became a liability.

The match included a number of bizarre delays. First, during the second set Li turned her ankle, an injury that looked more serious than it ended up being. Then, at the start of the third set play was interrupted by fireworks celebrating Australia Day. Finally, the point immediately after the fireworks delay ended when Li turned her ankle a second time and slammed her head onto the Plexicushion court. Throughout all of this Azarenka kept her cool. The delays, and the partisan crowd who cheered for her demise failed to affect her.

Azarenka has been no stranger to controversial delays. Two days earlier in the semifinal she defeated Sloan Stephens, a 19-year-old American who had knocked off Serena Williams. In the second set Azarenka served for the match but was unable to convert on any of her five match points.

During the change over Azarenka called for the trainer claiming a need for a medical timeout.

The timeout was given and Azarenka was allowed to leave the court for ten minutes to receive medical attention. Many commentators and fans felt the timeout was dubious given the peculiar timing. Azarenka had not seemed to have had an injury at any time during the match. Also, it was clear her nerves were getting the best of her as she tried to serve out the match. Many felt that Azarenka had stretched the rules to give herself a better chance at victory. In fact, the next day the New York Times called the incident The Timeout Jeered Around the World. Due to this backdrop the crowd at the women’s final supported Li as passionately as they booed Azarenka.

While she may not be the most liked No. 1 ever, with this victory Azarenka must be commended on her fighting spirit. Only five months ago she surrendered a 5–3 lead in the US Open final to Williams. In the press conference after the disappointing loss she said, “When there is still a point you always have a chance.” Azarenka fights to the end. Though she was not victorious in New York her fighting spirit carried her in Melbourne. That is why she is the world No. 1.

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The four-star recruit, Victor Egu, verbally committed to Yale last week. its fourth consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Open Division state title. He recorded 42 total tackles and seven sacks, intercepted a pass and recovered two fumbles while playing defensive end for the Spartans.

Egu joins a strong Yale recruiting class. Offensive lineman Mason Friedline is a 6’5” 280-pound three-star recruit from Shoreline, Wash., who committed to the Bulldogs last Aug. 7. Earlier this month, redshirt freshman quarterback Morgan Roberts announced his decision to transfer to Yale from Clemson.

Roberts was the third string

quarterback in Death Valley behind first-team all-ACC quarterback Tajh Boyd and sophomore signal caller Cole Stoudt. He appeared in just one game for the Tigers, completing two of three passes for 20 yards in a 52–27 blowout of Ball State on Sept. 8.

Although NCAA rules normally require transfer students to complete an “academic year in residence” before competing, Roberts may be able to compete for the Bulldogs next fall. The NCAA could waive the year in residence requirement because Roberts will be transferring from a scholarship program in the Football Bowl Subdivision to

a university that competes in the Football Championship Subdivision and does not award athletic scholarships.

In 2012, Egu helped lead De La Salle to a perfect 15–0 season and its fourth consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Open Division state title. Egu recorded 42 total tackles and seven sacks, intercepted a pass and recovered two fumbles while playing defensive end for the Spartans.

Yale will kick off the 2013 season on Saturday, Sept. 21 at Colgate.

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Men’s lacrosse visits Newtown

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last Friday, 20 members of the Yale men’s lacrosse team made the 45-minute trip to Newtown, Conn., to conduct a clinic with the Newtown lacrosse community.

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Head coach Andy Shay and his players spent five hours with children ranging from second to eighth grade at the Newtown Youth Lacrosse indoor facility. The Yale players said they aimed to bring a sense of normalcy back to a community still recovering from the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children.

“Driving in was pretty eerie and very somber and it made the whole thing feel very real,” sophomore defensemen David Better ’15 said.

Players ran shooting drills for the older kids and gave individual suggestions on how to hone their lacrosse skills. The younger participants played sharks and minnows at the facilityand watched while the Yale athletes demonstrated the plays

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