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CROSS CAMPUS Tacogate gets complicated.

More on East Haven. An online petition calling on Maturo to dismiss East Haven Police Department Chief Leonard Gallo has gathered 14,500 signatures as of Sunday, WSFB-3 reported. Meanwhile, the New York Times wrote an editorial last week calling on Maturo himself to resign after he said he “might have tacos” to support the Latino community.

Beat Harvard. In case you

want us to beat Harvard in something, the American Red Cross at Yale’s Beat Harvard Blood Drive starts today and runs through Thursday from 1 to 6:30 p.m. at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center.

Dwight Hall in action. Today

the Yale Homelessness and Hunger Action Project will start hosting 12 homeless men to stay for a week at the Parish House of the Center Church on the Green.

Sisterhood starts now! Ladies,

listen up: sorority bids will be handed out today in the Woolsey rotunda from 12 to 2 p.m.

Whose cuisine will reign supreme? Yale Dining hosted

prelims of The Final Cut in the residential colleges Sunday.

Winners advanced to next month’s Student Culinary Championship.

Bad news Bysie. Former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz ’83 announced on Friday that her campaign raised over $273,000 in the fourth quarter of 2011, giving her nearly $900,000 cash on hand. By comparison, her principal opponent, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy raised over $700,000 from October to December, and has $2.5 million cash on hand.

A new combination. This

week, AIDS Walk New Haven will sell condoms and cocoa packs to be delivered in support of those affected by HIV/AIDS in New Haven.

Froyo meltdown. A tipster reported that the York Street favorite Flavors ran out of nearly all flavors of Froyo on Sunday evening.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1969 The Yale College faculty vote to deny credit to ROTC programs of study.

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Continuing department’s turmoil, new chief shakes up top leadership

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Men beat Navy and women defeat Brown to extend perfect records

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East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo is coming under more fire for his response to questions on Friday about why he chose to appoint a Puerto Rican man and not an Ecuadorean to serve on a citizens commission looking into alleged racism in the police department. “I brought in a Latino,” Maturo says in a video posted by the New Haven Register. “Is he not dark enough for you, light enough for you?” Most East Haven Latinos are of Ecuadorean descent.

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the University’s endowment recovers from the recession and Yale struggles to raise funds for the colleges — originally set to open in 2013 — plans to meet the demands of a larger student body have stalled. “[The new colleges] seemed very real and tangible at a given moment, [but] once the brakes were put on, it became less clear,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller SEE NEW COLLEGES PAGE 6

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HIGHER ENROLLMENT TO DEMAND NEW CLASSROOMS, CONTINUED FACULTY GROWTH, MORE COURSE OFFERINGS

BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER Though two new residential colleges are tentatively scheduled to open in 2015, it is not yet clear how the University will adjust its academic resources to accom-

modate the influx of students.

The new colleges, which will house more than 800 additional undergraduates in total, will require Yale to find more classroom space, offer more courses, and hire more faculty members and teaching fellows, administrators said. But as

Sciences broaden for Yale-NUS

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS The New York Times and Patrick Witt’s ’12 spokesman have outlined conflicting narratives of how the former quarterback’s Rhodes Scholarship candidacy ended last fall.

The Times reported Thursday that Witt’s Rhodes candidacy had been “suspended” because of an informal sexual assault complaint filed against him in September by a female student. Unless Yale reendorsed Witt’s candidacy, the complaint would have eliminated his choice between playing in the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 19 and attending his Rhodes interview in Georgia scheduled for that same day, according to the Times. But Mark Magazu, the agent representing Witt, rejected the Times’ account Friday when he insisted that the quarterback made his decision before learning that the Rhodes committee had asked for a re-endorsement.

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BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER While Yale students pursuing degrees in science or math can choose among 23 majors, such students at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore will have only three majors to consider: “natural sciences,” “physical sciences” or “mathematical and computational sciences.”

YALE-NUS Yale-NUS students will be able to select tracks within one of the three majors, which administrators said will encourage a liberal approach to science when the school opens in the fall of 2013. Because of the majors’ broad nature, Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said it is a “legitimate worry” that students will be at a disadvantage when applying to graduate schools, but he added that he expects strong advising at the school to ensure students take courses that appeal to graduate programs.

Anything that works well at YaleNUS would be worth thinking about trying in New Haven.

RICHARD LEVIN University President Haun Saussy GRD ’90, co-chair of the Yale-NUS academics committee and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago, said the three majors will further Yale’s goal to spread the liberal arts in Asia.

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Sean Haufler ’13 decided to take this semester off to pursue his online startup, BooksAtYale, full time.

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ast Friday, the senior male a cappella group the Yale Whiffenpoofs left campus and headed for a cruise to Antarctica, which will be followed by performances in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

But no members will have to worry about missing class: This academic year marks the first that all of the Whiffenpoofs have elected to take a leave of absence from the college to attend to their singing duties.

Students who take a semester off are separating themselves from the University, Whiffenpoof Alexander Oki ’13 said. Once on leave, a student cannot live in dorms, apply for student jobs, have a dining plan or use swipe cards, Oki added.

“The administration is very black and white: you’re either a Yale student or not,” fellow Whiffenpoof Raphael Shaprio ’13 said, adding that he felt frustrated with the loss of student privileges including not getting emails about senior class events. “[The Whiffenpoofs] are such a recognizable Yale trademark … to me, it seems that there are shades of gray here to be worked out.”

As the Whiffenpoofs travel thousands of miles from home, Darren Zhu ’13 is in the heart of Silicon Valley using his second semester off from Yale to test the prototype of his new synthetic biology project. And back on the East Coast, in Cambridge, Mass., Leon Noel and Harley Trung have withdrawn their status as Yale students to operate a startup that facilitates online science sur-

veys.

While some students — such as directors of large organizations like the Yale College Council and Dwight Hall — consider their extracurricular responsibilities to be a valuable part of their undergraduate experiences, others feel they can only pursue their passions with the extra time and flexibility that come with taking a leave of absence. The Yale experience, for them, is put on hold as they build startups or devote themselves to extracurriculars that demand more attention than they could give as students.

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n part, Patrick Witt ’12 holds the power to clear his own name. So too, the woman who filed an informal complaint of sexual assault against him can help clarify some controversial issues while maintaining her privacy. She and Witt should illuminate some of these issues as only they can.

Currently, the Rhodes Trust refuses to comment on the status of Witt’s scholarship application as it stood before The Game. The Trust cites confidentiality concerns as the reason for its stance.

Without the Rhodes Trust’s account of events, the public is left with a journalistic version of the classic “he said, she said” scenario. The New York Times claims Witt lied about his interview; Witt denies the accusation, contending that his Rhodes application was never in serious jeopardy.

The discrepancy is easily resolved: Either Witt or the Times got the story wrong. The Rhodes Trust can resolve the dispute.

And Witt can empower the organization to do so, by waiving his rights to confidentiality.

Witt should ask the Rhodes Trust to settle the matter about his application status, to benefit both himself and Yale. The longer he holds onto his privacy, the more his inaction raises suspicions. After all, if he is telling the truth, he loses nothing and gains much by turning to the Trust for confirmation of his version of events. Witt injected the organization into the debate by providing an alternative story about the scholarship; it’s time he let the Rhodes Trust participate fully in the discussion. (Unless he is lying, that is, in which case his current position neatly obfuscates reality).

In perpetuating this scandal, Witt also generates controversy for a football program that hardly needs more bad press. The team already lost its coach to a separate national humiliation involving lies and a past Rhodes interview.

(Though how much Tom Williams had to do with Witt’s scandal remains to be seen.) And last year, Witt’s DKE fraternity brothers cast a pall on the gridiron and men in general when they forever attached the words “boorish” and “chanting” in Yale’s lexicon. The allegations against Witt reinforce a narrative of deceit and depravity that will further damage football’s weakened reputation on our campus.

The team took Witt in as a transfer student and made him the starting quarterback — his fellow teammates deserve much from him in return. Witt should authorize the Rhodes Trust to tell us who is correct, Witt or the Times, for his sake and for his team’s.

Now for the second actor in this story: The woman who filed the informal sexual assault com-

plaint at the heart of this controversy and who Witt calls his onagain offagain girlfriend.

She NATHANIEL should waive of her ZELINSKY some own privacy rights so Yale On Point or another third party can release a names-redacted version of her charges against Witt. Such a document could preserve her anonymity while also clarifying the nature and severity of her claims.

Sexual assault has become a catch-all term that ranges from two drunken students making a mistake to violent rape. When the Times prints this nebulous term, many people assume the worst — they naturally think of extreme violence. And much of the public also assumes the man’s guilt, forcing the accused to exonerate himself. As much as strict confidentiality is intended to protect the anonymity of accusers and potential victims, it is also designed to protect those accused from undergoing character assassination in the popular press.

When the complainant in this case filed an informal complaint against Witt, she initiated a process that intentionally avoided determining his guilt or innocence. Witt contends that he wanted a formal hearing to clear his name, but Yale refused him that option because the female student never pressed formal charges. Now that the story is out, the public has judged him guilty of a crime that could fall anywhere from the nonexistent to the minor to the atrocious.

Witt’s accuser should cooperate with Yale or another third party to provide the context for her informal claim. This could be done in a manner that preserves her anonymity but also gives Witt a fair shot at explaining himself. I must admit this would be an emotionally difficult decision for the woman, one that I cannot even fathom. Even choosing to file the informal claim clearly required an immense fortitude. And Witt may be guilty of violent rape — in that case, perhaps he is getting his due. But if he is not, Witt’s accuser dooms him in the media battle, after having already stripped him of his formal due process at Yale.

Witt may be guilty of a variety of offenses — I have no information on the veracity of the Times’ accusation or those of the woman who filed the complaint. But I do know both Witt and the complainant can make this process less painful for our community.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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ers me is that in my thirst for blood, I was blind to the story’s most important character: Witt’s alleged victim.

In a statement, Witt denied The Times’ allegations. His decision, he maintains, had nothing to do with the charges brought against him. The truth about the matter may well remain elusive: Already the involved parties have begun to entrench themselves behind “confidentiality” and “anonymity” and euphemistic officialisms such as “sexual misconduct.”

Uncertainty may forever riddle the record, but something about the story offends common sense. For weeks last November, we watched Witt grapple publicly with his dilemma while the national media doted on his character. He never shied away from the spotlight, nor did the University pass up on the publicity.

Throughout the ordeal, the fact that a woman had accused Witt of sexual assault went unmentioned. Who knew what and when remains unclear, but the fact that nobody said anything now seems absurd.

True, Yale has an obligation to protect its students’ privacy, but its behavior blurred the line between confidentiality and callous complacency. No better was

the response of the Rhodes Trust.

Its request for a re-endorsement was little more than a punt, a strategy to avoid accountability by deferring to Yale’s authority.

Most unnerving is the fact that this particular drama will never play out on an official stage — there will be no trial, no inquiry, no blood.

But maybe that’s the point.

Maybe Witt’s victim never wanted her story plastered on the pages of The New York Times. Maybe, just maybe, she never thirsted for blood.

Sexual assault is a crime of usurped control. The assailant robs the victim whole — her choice disregarded, her will trespassed, her body taken. Whatever its flaws, Yale’s SHARE Center allows victims to regain a modicum of control. Complaints may be criminal or disciplinary, formal or informal, and the victim alone chooses how to tell her story. It is a system whose purpose is neither to mete out punishment nor to redress social wrongs but to enable the victim to assert ownership over her story in whatever way she sees fit.

In this case, the question of ownership seems more complex.

Because Witt is a national figure, his actions reverberate on

a grander scale. Witt’s conduct offends not only the victim, but us, too. We, too, own the story, if only partially. Yet to take our indignation as leave for appropriation forgets an important fact: Allegedly, Witt’s crime was committed in his victim’s college dorm room, and she alone was assaulted.

In reporting her story informally, Witt’s victim chose a degree of anonymity. Informal complaints happen swiftly — procedures can last as little as one or two days — and involve little or no investigation. No discipline ensues — Witt was supposedly told only to keep away from his victim — and the complaint’s documentation disappears into the University’s confidential records. The process spills no blood, but it allows the victim to gain ownership over her story— to salvage a sliver of usurped control.

My bloodthirstiness trampled upon that process thoroughly. I felt wronged, and blindly I set out the settle the score.

As it turns out, the score isn’t mine to settle.

TEO SOARES is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JOSEPH DANIELS

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alker Vincoli’s argument (“No student freedom at NUS,” Jan. 26) that Singapore is a totalitarian state unreceptive to the values necessary for a liberal arts education is founded in a flawed ideology of American exceptionalism. It is founded in the idea that Americans have a right to demand changes of others when it suits us and that we should be the models for such change.

Vincoli’s portrayal of Singapore and NUS relies on merely a surface reading of Singaporean state and society.

Vincoli neglects to note that Singapore is a dynamic society.

As a result of global economic changes, Singapore has recently seen a marked evolution in the very laws and regulations Vincoli noted. While Singaporean law prohibits male homosexual acts, this law is not enforced, and Singapore has a relatively large gay scene. “Let’s not go around like this moral police … barging into people’s rooms. That’s not our business,” former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said in 2007.

Though none of this belittles the flaws of the current restrictive laws, Vincoli denies Singapore’s societal evolution.

The general election in May 2011 was perhaps the most dramatic election in Singapore’s history. One of the top ministers lost his seat, and the opposition won 39.86 percent of the vote — the most it had won since Singapore’s separation from Malaysia in 1965.

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he prologue is by now familiar: A star athlete and stellar student, Patrick Witt spent half of last November debating whether he would attend his Rhodes scholarship interview in Atlanta or lead Yale against Harvard in his final college football game. Choosing team over self-interest, Witt captured the nation’s heart. But here the plot twists: According to The New York Times, by the time Witt announced his decision, it was no longer his to make. Allegedly, upon learning that another student had accused Witt of sexual assault, the Rhodes Trust banished the heroic quarterback from its prestigious scholarship competition.

Released last Thursday, the story read as if printed in war paint. Injustice was afoot, it cried. The University had harbored a purported criminal and allowed the national media to extol his moral fiber. Battle beckoned, and I shared the story on Facebook. Though Witt and Yale had escaped official rebuke, in the court of public opinion they would fall.

But in my bloodlust, I missed the point entirely. True, I convicted Witt rashly, but that doesn’t bother me. What both-

Considering the longtime dominance of the People’s Action Party, this indicates an emerging freedom of choice.

Singaporean students I talked to when I studied at NUS never said they felt unduly restricted or pressured in their speech or votes. The May elections revealed some Singaporeans’ deep-seated dissatisfaction with growing inequality, the high cost of housing and general disconnect between the state and the people.

Singapore’s ban on spontaneous or non-permitted protest is a legitimate problem, but just because there is an apparent limitation on freedom does not mean that it is a debilitating limit or that Singaporeans do not have other avenues to express their concerns.

December train breakdowns that left thousands stranded combined with a general economic slowdown triggered an uproar of dissatisfaction that led to a major review of ministerial salaries at the insistence of the general public.

Singapore, while by no means perfect, is not a country wholly without freedom. Freedom isn’t defined in a world of black and white but in a world of gray that lacks universal logics of societal comparison.

For Yale and UNC, both liberal arts institutions, academic freedom is an important issue, particularly as more American universities seek partnerships in Asia.

Vincoli suggests that faculty and students at NUS lack the free-

Sorry we’re not the gentry I’d like to offer deep gratitude to Alex Fisher for his “Defense of Gentrification” (Jan. 27), the snobbery and callousness of which gives us in the anticapitalist movement useful fuel for our fires in these cold winter months. The camp at Occupy New Haven has felt somewhat dejected lately and has difficulty precisely locating the enemy, as it can be awfully tough in a time of neoliberal “human rights” capitalism and “compassionate conservatism” to get ourselves excited for the class struggle. Thank God for caricatured aristocrats like Fisher, here to remind non-Yale residents of New Haven that they are part of a parasitic criminal “lingering fungus” that must be excised and replaced with fine boutiques. It’s healthy to remember that the 1% are not, in fact, just like us but with more money, but that instead they represent the “upmarket and civilized” while we wallow in “crime and squalor.” If only more Yale bluebloods could be as open in their seething contempt for the poor.

With glittering sincerity, NATHAN J. ROBINSON JAN. 29 The writer is a student at the Yale Law School.

dom at the core of American academia. However, he relies on an idealized vision of what happens in an American classroom. And his claim that Singaporean students are self-policing subjects only incapable of hard-hitting analysis critical of their government absorbs typical tropes of students in Singapore as docile non-thinkers capable only of toeing the party line.

In my experience, this was not the case. Lack of engagement with coursework or opinions during lecture might instead be a result of an educational environment where grades reign supreme, rather than a fear of reprisal for stating one’s views. One sees this disengagement in American classrooms regularly as well.

Vincoli makes the mistake of conflating Singapore’s limitations on free speech with academic tyranny. NUS has to ensure academic freedom to remain competitive and able to attract top academics from around the world. The NUS campus magazine surprised me with a critical assessment of Singapore’s censorship laws. Professors screened films on homosexuality and other topics banned to the general public. In seminars, professors and students’ political views varied; some took actively Marxist perspectives — which were once met with government brutality — in their critiques of government policies. Though the state sometimes pushes back against unorthodox ideas, that

does not mean that professors and students lack freedom or that this freedom is not evolving on a daily basis.

SINGAPORE HAS ITS OWN KIND OF FREEDOM Finally, Vincoli implies that American universities should abandon partnerships with NUS or similar institutions. Yet with Asia’s rising geopolitical importance, it is vital that American academic institutions spend their efforts on building those connections. We do not change the world by walling ourselves off from it.

Building partnerships makes it possible to build an environment in which students from around the world can develop the necessary skills and shared understandings in a diverse and ever changing world.

I wish in no way for this column to be construed as a support or a criticism of the Singaporean government, for it is not the role of Yale (or UNC) to change Singaporean politics. That is for Singaporeans to do. The United States does not have a monopoly on defining freedom.

JOSEPH DANIELS is a junior in the UNC-NUS Joint Degree Program. He studied at NUS in 2011.

FOR OUR READERS Soon after Patrick Witt ’12 announced his decision to play in The Game, the News received a tip that a Yale student had filed an informal complaint alleging sexual assault against the quarterback.

The student who had filed the complaint against Witt chose to make it informal. This meant that no disciplinary measures would be taken against Witt and that the complaint would be kept confidential. All parties involved observed that route of discretion. The complainant, the alleged perpetrator and all those who heard the case honored the discreet process. In order to be fair to all those involved and the process they had adhered to, and because the nature of the complaint meant that all its details remain allegations, the News chose not to print a story.

The News was not aware of a connection between the informal complaint and Witt’s Rhodes Scholarship application until Thursday.

Contact Editor in Chief Max de La Bruyère at editor@yaledailynews.com.

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Percentage the overall crime rate fell when Dean Esserman was police chief in Stamford, Conn.

Esserman served as chief of police in Stamford from 1998 to 2001, and later in Providence, R.I., from 2003 to 2011.

Esserman is New Haven’s current police chief.

NHPD turmoil persists

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Two months after taking over as New Haven Police Department Chief, Dean Esserman announced Friday evening he would shake up the department’s leadership.

Esserman said he had informed the three current assistant chiefs — Petesia Adger, Tobin Hensgen and Patrick Redding — over the past few weeks that he planned to appoint four new assistant chiefs.

Because the city budgets for four NHPD assistant chiefs, the implication was clear: Adger, Hensgen and Redding, who together have served over 46 years at the NHPD, will have to resign or retire, joining John Velleca, a former assistant chief who retired last month after serving 20 years with the department.

The latest restructuring echoes the NHPD leadership’s flux in recent years, and has brought to the surface internal frustrations against the chief, former NHPD union president Louis Cavaliere said.

Although Esserman did not set a timeline for when the new assistant chiefs will be named, the Elm City will have seen 11 assistant chiefs in just three years when the replacements are made.

Adger, Redding and Velleca were appointed to assistant chief positions last April by then-NHPD Chief Frank Limon, and Esserman is the department’s fourth chief in four years.

“I am moving the Department in a new direction and have taken these past two months to assess the organization,” Esserman said in a Friday press release. “Over the last several weeks, I have met with the assistant chiefs to let them know that I’d like to put my own team together and that I will honor and respect their service to the city of New Haven in developing a time frame for the transition.”

Redding said Thursday he would retire, while Adger said Friday she has not yet submitted her retirement paperwork, the New Haven Register reported Friday. Hensgen could not be reached for comment over the weekend.

While Esserman previously served as chief of the Providence,

R.I. police department, he said he would not bring “anyone from New York or Providence” into the NHPD’s leadership. Limon, who spent 30 years with the Chicago Police Department, brought two assistant chiefs with him from Illinois: Hengsen and Thomas Wheeler, who each served over 20 years in Chicago’s police department.

Still, Cavaliere said the NHPD union “isn’t happy” with Esserman’s personnel plans. “[Esserman’s] making many false promises,” he said. “He said he would keep [the assistant chiefs] on staff when he came on, but now he’s going to appoint his own cronies.”

At his Nov. 18 swearing-in ceremony at City Hall, Esserman said he would “lean” on the assistant chiefs for help.

When asked whether he thought the union might consider calling a no-confidence vote against Esserman, Cavaliere said the move “would be considered by the membership.” Eventually, he said, rank-and-file officers would be “caught up by [Esserman’s] arrogance,” adding that “a lot of complaints” have been filed against the new chief.

NHPD union president Arpad Tolnay did not return requests for comment Sunday.

The NHPD union held a noconfidence vote against Limon Feb. 3, which resulted in a landslide 246–21 referendum against the former chief. Cavaliere said officers at the Providence Police Department told him that the complaints leveled against Esserman there were “part of the reason they got rid of him.”

The Providence police union passed a no-confidence vote against Esserman in 2009 and released a statement last February reaffirming the vote, adding that he had “lost his ability to lead this Police Department effectively.”

E s s e r m a n ’s l ea d e rs h i p style has also ruffled feathers in the NHPD’s upper leadership, according to a source with knowledge of the department’s internal operations.

According to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by the NHPD to speak

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In a move that has angered some within the NHPD, Chief Dean Esserman announced that he will replace the department’s three assistant chiefs. to the press, the assistant chiefs took several vacation days following Esserman’s assumption of his post. There are rumors in the department, the source said, that Velleca’s December retirement was requested by Esserman after Velleca sent an email to the department’s top leadership that the chief deemed insubordinate.

On Friday, NHPD spokesman David Hartman deferred comment on the leadership restructuring to the chief’s office. Esser-

man’s office did not return calls for comment made Friday. On Thursday, when asked about Esserman’s leadership, Hartman said the chief was “very clearly at the helm of the ship,” spearheading the department’s renewed efforts at community policing.

Esserman was sworn in as NHPD chief Nov. 18, and his contract runs until Feb. 1, 2014.

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

BY THE NUMBERS NHPD LEADERSHIP TURMOIL 4 4 11

Number of NHPD chiefs in as many years.

Number of NHPD assistant chiefs funded by the city budget.

Number of assistant chiefs that will have cycled through the NHPD in three years.

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University President Richard Levin spoke during the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER In a trip to several European countries this past week, University President Richard Levin said he worked primarily to meet with Yale parents and alumni abroad but also spent time giving public talks on how to improve the global economy.

As part of an annual trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Levin gave one interview to Bloomberg and participated in two panels in which he discussed the role of China and the United States in the global economy. Levin, who received a doctorate in economics from Yale in 1973, urged China to spend some of its $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves on its own economy. Three faculty members who went on the trip commended Levin’s ability to remain relevant in his field of academia while serving as University president.

“His presence on the stage at Davos is a testament to his ongoing influence as an economist as well as a global leader in higher education,” environmental law and policy professor Daniel Esty LAW ’86 said in an email from Davos. “Yale gets enormous value by having a president with a big worldwide reputation.

Levin’s first panel featured a discussion titled “How Should China Spend Its Trillions?” that was broadcast on China Central Television, China’s stateowned television agency.

In the discussion — which also featured John Zhao, head of China’s largest private equity fund, and Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization — Levin said China’s refusal to spend its foreign reserves on its own people could exacerbate existing social problems in China.

“China is going to have a third of its population in retirement in 2050 given the years of one-child policy,” he said, according to Agence France-

Presse. “That means pay-asyou-go retirement is fundamentally unsound. Either it’s going to be funded by its own savings or funded or partially funded through social security.”

Refusing to spend foreign reserves has also led to the Chinese yuan being undervalued, which Levin said damages China’s reputation with global trading partners.

University presidents are in a position of leadership that extends beyond the university — they have a responsibility to all of humankind.

ROBERT SHILLER Professor, Department of Economics Levin also spoke at a panel about the current state of the American economy, and he addressed the decrease in social mobility in the U.S. economy in a Monday interview with Bloomberg.

Several Yale faculty members joined Levin in Davos, including Esty, economics professor Robert Shiller, and School of Management senior fellow Stephen Roach.

“My personal opinion is that university presidents are in a position of leadership that extends beyond the university — they have a responsibility to all of humankind,” Schiller said.

“To use this leadership effectively, they have to fall back on the expertise that they have.”

The World Economic Forum first met in 1971, when it was called the European Management Forum.

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

Cheshire killer sentenced to death

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER Joshua Komisarjevsky was sentenced to death on Friday for an infamous 2007 home invasion that left three people dead.

New Haven Superior Court Judge Jon Blue imposed on Komisarjevsky six consecutive death sentences for capital felonies plus 140 years in prison on other counts for his role in the July 2007 murders of the wife and two daughters of William Petit in their Cheshire, Conn. home. The sentence was handed down in the same courtroom where a Dec. 9 jury of 12 determined that Komisarjevsky deserved the death penalty instead of life in prison without parole.

“The task of sentencing another human being to death is the most sober and somber experience a judge can have,” Blue said on Friday, according to CNN. “But [the sentence] is one you wrote for yourself with deeds of unimaginable horror and savagery.”

Kominsarjevsky will join his accomplice — 48-year-old Ste-

ven Hayes — and nine other men on Connecticut’s death row. The state carried out its first execution since 1960 in 2005, and Komisarjevsy will likely spend years, even decades, in prison before receiving his sentence..

Kominsarjevsy and Hayes tormented a family of four — William Petit, his wife Jennifer HawkePetit, and their two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-yearold Michaela — in their Cheshire home on July 23, 2007. After bludgeoning William Petit with a baseball bat and binding his two daughters, the two assailants forced Hawke-Petit to withdraw $15,000 from a bank account by escorting her to a local teller.

Upon driving Hawke-Petit back home from the bank, Hayes raped Hawke-Petit and Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted Michaela. Hayes then strangled Hawke-Petit to death, doused the daughters and parts of the house with gasoline, and set the home ablaze. Hayley and Michaela, tied to their beds as the house burned down, died of smoke inhalation.

William Petit, the lone sur-

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William Petit arrives at Superior Court in New Haven for the formal sentencing of Joshua Komisarjevsky in New Haven Superior Court.

vivor, escaped to a neighbor’s house, where he called police. The ordeal lasted seven hours.

On Friday, Petit read a statement in court, referring to the tragedy as his own “personal holocaust,” according to USA Today.

Sentencing another human being to death is the most sober and somber experience a judge can have.

JON BLUE Judge, New Haven Superior Court “They offered to give you everything you asked for — you didn’t have to take their lives,” Richard Hawke, Hawke-Petite’s father, said in a victim’s statement prior to sentencing. “You will from now on be known as a prison number in the book of death.”

Komisarjevsky said he came into Friday’s trial “angry and defiant.” He also claimed that he was not guilty of rape and did not pour the gasoline or light the fire that destroyed the Petits’ Cheshire residence, according to CNN. Walter Bansley, Komisarjevsky’s attorney, could not be reached for comment.

News of the attack sent political shockwaves throughout the state, reigniting the debate over capital punishment. In 2009, the General Assembly, the Connecticut’s main legislative body, sent a bill to then-governor M. Jodi Rell abolishing the death penalty in the state. But Rell vetoed the bill, citing the 2007 Cheshire murders.

“The crimes that were committed on that brutal July night were so far out of the range of normal understanding that now,

more than three years later, we still find it difficult to accept that they happened in one of our communities,” Rell wrote in a statement following Hayes’ sentencing in 2010. “I have long believed that there are certain crimes so heinous, so depraved, that society is best served by imposing the ultimate sanction on the criminal.”

Since the 2007 murders, the General Assembly has enacted tougher laws for repeat offenders and home invasions. In June 2008, new legislation took effect that made home invasion a class A felony with a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence.

Connecticut has carried out a total of 126 executions between 1639 and 2005.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

TIMELINE JOSHUA KOMISARJEVSKY JUL. 23, 2007 Steven Hayes and Komisarjevsky kill a mother and two daughters in a home invasion attack.

OCT. 31, 2007 Komisarjevsky, then 27 years old, pleads not guilty in the case.

SEP. 24, 2010 Komisarjevsky’s attorney tells the media that his client is innocent of the sexual assault charges against him.

DEC. 9, 2011 12 jurors recommend a death sentence for Komisarjevsky.

JAN. 27, 2012 Superior Court Judge Jon Blue sentences him to death.

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Science and math majors to be offered at Yale-NUS College in Singapore

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Students at Yale-NUS interested in studying these fields will choose between the majors “natural sciences,” “physical sciences” or “mathematical and computational sciences.”

Timeline of Witt’s candidacy unclear WITT FROM PAGE 1 it remains unclear when Witt became aware that the Rhodes committee had questioned his candidacy in light of the informal complaint. The Times reported that the Rhodes Trust alerted both Yale and Witt that his candidacy could not proceed unless he was re-endorsed by Yale, but the date of this communication also remains unknown.

Magazu told the News that Witt only learned of the need for re-endorsement after informing Yale Athletics that he would play in The Game. Magazu said he did not know the details of how or when Rhodes officials made their

TIMELINE WITT’S RHODES CANDIDACY SEPTEMBER A female student approaches the Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources & Education alleging Patrick Witt ’12 sexually assaulted her in her dorm room, according to the New York Times. She later files an informal sexual assault complaint with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct against Witt, the Times reported.

OCT. 5 Rhodes applications are due nationwide.

OCT. 31 Witt finds out he is a Rhodes finalist. That same day, he is first notified of the sexual assault complaint in an email from UWC Chair Michael Della Rocca requesting a meeting between Witt, Della Rocca and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry.

request.

“I don’t know when Rhodes alerted Yale; I don’t know how Rhodes alerted Yale; I don’t know when Yale alerted Patrick and how,” Magazu said.

Witt could not be reached for comment Sunday night.

The Rhodes Trust notified Witt that he would have to choose between attending his interview and playing in The Game in a series of emails on Nov. 8 that Magazu provided the News.

That afternoon, Witt had written Daniel Promislow, secretary for the district that includes Georgia, expressing his “intention to exhaust every possible

NOV. 8 The Rhodes Trust tells Witt by email that he needs to choose between the Yale-Harvard Game and his Rhodes interview, despite a request by the quarterback to make both work.

NOV. 9 Witt goes to the Yale Athletics Department and informs officials that he will compete on Nov. 19 at the Game, Magazu said.

NOV. 10 In the morning, Yale Director for National Fellowships Katherine Dailinger sends Witt an email expressing her support of Witt’s decision to play in the Game.

NOV. 13 Through an Athletics Department press release, Witt officially announces he will play in the Game.

JAN. 26 The Times reports that several days before Witt’s Nov. 13 announcement, the Rhodes Trust had learned of the sexual assault complaint and then informed Yale and Witt that his candidacy has been “suspended” unless reendorsed by the University.

NOV. 1 Witt meets with Della Rocca to discuss the informal complaint and is told the nature of the accusation.

means of fulfilling both commitments.” As the interview process can extend to a second round, Witt had requested permission to attend a morning interview in the “first slot” and acknowledged that he would not be able to attend a “potential callback in the afternoon.”

But Promislow responded that night saying Witt must make a decision, as the interviews are only fair if “everyone participates fully and equally in the entire process.”

Promislow deferred comment Sunday to Elliot Gerson, the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust. Gerson did not respond to a request for comment.

Though Witt did not publicly announce that he would play in The Game until Nov. 13 via a Yale Athletics press release, Magazu said the quarterback told members of the Athletics Department of his decision in person on Nov. 9.

At 8:58 a.m. the next morning, Yale Director for National Fellowships Katherine Dailinger told Witt she supported his decision in an email that Magazu provided the News. Dailinger advised Witt to explain that he felt the need to uphold a commitment to his team, and to thank Promislow for the opportunity to interview for the Rhodes. There is no mention of a Rhodes request for re-endorsement in either Dailinger’s or Promislow’s emails to Witt.

“This has of course all been very difficult, but if I might be able to help in any way I would be more than glad to do so,” Dailinger wrote. “I do still think that your decision to decline this interview is a good one, and the best way to preserve your options going forward.”

While Witt had informed administrators of his decision before Nov. 13, it remains unclear whether he was aware at the time that Yale would need to re-endorse his candidacy, and thus whether that could have impacted his decision to play in

The Game.

Witt was first told of the informal complaint in an Oct. 31 email from Michael Della Rocca, chair of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. In the email, which Magazu provided the News, Della Rocca requested that Witt meet with him and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry to discuss the complaint.

Della Rocca added that the meeting did not represent a “disciplinary proceeding” but instead indicated that a “non-disciplinary resolution [was] being sought.”

Witt and Della Rocca met the next day, Magazu said, adding that he was unsure if other administrators were present. At the meeting, Magazu said Witt learned the nature of the accusation and was asked by administrators to maintain an amicable relationship with the complainant. Witt was not asked to meet with administrators again, Magazu added.

Della Rocca said in a Sunday night email that parties other than the complainant are notified of an informal complaint when required by “the resolution sought by the complainant.” UWC members meet with the respondent if necessary, and in some cases an administrator who is not part of the committee attends a meeting, Della Rocca said.

“There is an expectation of confidentiality that applies to all members of the Yale community who participate in UWC matters,” Della Rocca said.

University President Richard Levin declined to comment Sunday.

Magazu said Witt is currently in California training for the National Football League Scouting Combine — a professional recruitment event that will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., at the end of February.

Though the quarterback walked with the class of 2011 at Commencement last spring, Yale Spokesman Tom Conroy said Thursday that Witt has not yet

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Patrick Witt’s ’12 representative presented a different timeline for his Rhodes candidacy than that reported in the New York Times on Thursday. graduated. Witt completed all of his course requirements last fall and will receive his diploma this spring after finishing his senior thesis for the history major, according to Magazu.

The Rhodes Scholarship’s official application and endorsement

deadline was Oct. 5, 2011.

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

Broader majors to counter ‘proliferation’ YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 “Our strategy was to design a smaller number of science majors, each having a more general focus … but [with] many possibilities of interchange with labs,” Saussy said in a Tuesday email. “This was in keeping with the desire to have the YaleNUS college be a place where interdisciplinary work would be done from an early stage.”

Because the new college will have a relatively small faculty, with about 100 members in total, the school must also have a small number of departments, Bailyn said. While Yale currently offers 79 majors, the curriculum for Yale-NUS is expected to include just 14.

“This would help us avoid one of the things that has happened at Yale, which is the proliferation of majors,” Bailyn said. “It’s a way of trying to keep flexibility within broad categories.”

He added that it is unlikely that more specialized majors, such as chemistry or biology, would be added to the NUS curriculum in the future.

But for the interdisciplinary sci-

ence programs to be considered successful, Bailyn said students in the majors must prove viable candidates for graduate school. Megan Urry, chair of the Yale Physics Department, said she thinks science programs may hesitate to accept students with such broad backgrounds.

We’re looking for the outstanding students who are highly motivated and very intelligent, and that isn’t dictated by a major.

MEGAN URRY Chair, Department of Physics “In the Physics Department, we care about the preparation, since [students] do have to be ready for the graduate courses,” she said. “For example, I think it’s harder for a chemistry major to get into the physics graduate program, due to foundations required. But that being said,

we’re looking for the outstanding students who are highly motivated and very intelligent, and that isn’t dictated by a major.”

Urry added that the interdisciplinary majors would likely prepare students well for postgraduate education outside the sciences, such as in law, business or economics.

Since the majors are unconventional and broad in scope, Bailyn said it is especially crucial to offer extensive academic advising.

“One of the things that we’re looking at closely is to make sure we understand exactly what set of courses a student would have to follow in order to be a good candidate for graduate school in a variety of different fields,” Bailyn said.

Besides concerns about graduate school admissions, Urry said she worried that the broad nature of the majors would require a high proportion of introductory courses, which might overlook “exciting” advanced science by focusing on the “grammar” of several fields.

In developing plans for the new college, administrators have said they envision a “feedback loop” where they can experiment with new

COMPARISON SCIENCE DEGREES Yale College (fall 2011)

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Yale-NUS (projected) Enrollment Faculty Total majors Math and science majors

policies in Singapore and potentially bring them to New Haven. University President Richard Levin said in a Wednesday email that administrators would consider bringing interdisciplinary science programs to Yale if it proves successful in Singapore and gains support from Yale faculty.

“Anything that works well at YaleNUS would be worth thinking about

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trying in New Haven,” Levin said.

“But, of course, it would be up to the Yale faculty to decide what to adopt or adapt for use here at home.”

Yale-NUS is expected to have a total of about 1,000 students when it reaches full capacity.

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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AMERICAN EDUCATOR

Black women honored

BY AARON GERTLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Black Men’s Union held its fifth annual Tribute to Black Women Friday night, honoring five notable black women from the Yale and New Haven communities.

At the ceremony, which drew roughly 120 people to the Omni Hotel on Temple Street, the Black Men’s Union presented awards to LaTisha Campbell ’12, Diandra Fermin ’12, Liane Membis ’12, Janifer Lighten ’83 of New Rochelle, N.Y. and Shirley Love Joyner of New Haven. William Desmond ’12, the union’s vice president, said the tribute is mainly designed to celebrate female leaders, but also in part to dispel the stereotype that black men are disrespectful to women in their communities.

To help offset event and dinner costs, male students paid $15 and non-students $60 to attend the tribute. Women were admitted free of charge, and each received a rose from members of the Black Men’s Union.

The “Emerging Trailblazer” recipients were nominated by Yale students and others who visited the Black Men’s Union website, Desmond said, adding that the Union selected three winners from among 12 nominees. The three undergraduates named emerging trailblazers were all given plaques to honor their accomplishments.

Campbell, the first honoree, won the Mellon Mays Under-

graduate Research Fellowship in 2010 and now volunteers in prisons, New Haven public schools and education centers for juvenile detainees. Her senior research project focuses on improving the education of incarcerated youths.

The Black Men’s Union next recognized Fermin for her leadership on Yale’s campus, including as former president of the Dominican Student Association and as former head recruitment coordinator of the Yale Admissions Office.

They made me think I can go from a point of ‘Oh, my goodness’ to being good at everything.

TIYHANNAH SHUNTICH ’15 The third to receive an award, Membis, was praised for founding Liberette, an online magazine for women of color. Membis’ work with Liberette won her the 2010 Matrix award from New York Women in Communications, Inc., alongside Tina Fey and Oprah Winfrey. Membis is also the reigning Miss Black America Connecticut and president of Yale’s chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, whose members shouted a sorority cheer when she went onstage.

Membis said she was honored

to be among the winners of the “Emerging Trailblazer” award, who she had admired when she attended past tributes.

Joyner received the “Woman of the Year” award for 43 years of public service, particularly as a teacher and administrator in New Haven public schools. A mother of two, Joyner said her work in public schools has made her appreciate the importance of responsible parenting, which she said is often overlooked in discussions of school reform.

Lighten did not attend the ceremony. Her daughter, Alexis Lighten ’12, accepted the “Distinguished Alumna” award on her behalf.

The tribute also honored several members of the Yale Dining staff this year for decades of service to the University.

Tribute attendee Tiyhannah Shuntich ’15 said she was initially intimidated by the honorees’ accomplishments, but by the end of the ceremony was inspired to follow their leads.

“At first I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness,’ but now I know that they felt that way, too,” Shuntich said. “They made me think I can go from a point of ‘Oh, my goodness’ to being good at everything.”

The Black Men’s Union was founded in fall 2007 and held its first tribute the following spring in the Pierson College dining hall.

Contact AARON GERTLER at aaron.gertler@yale.edu .

Med School website wins national grant

BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS STAFF REPORTER With a new grant in their hands, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine are hoping to develop a social networking site for teens with Type 1 diabetes.

The team was awarded $750,000 from the American Diabetes Association to continue trials on their online program to help teenagers with Type 1 diabetes cope with the disease, according to a Jan. 26 press release.

The grant will fund improvements in TeenCope, an online program that simulates situations teenagers with diabetes might encounter by using graphic novel animations. The researchers will use the grant money to conduct research about the possibility of turning TeenCope into a social networking site, in addition to completing other improvements. “[TeenCope] helps teens not to feel so alone and to know that there are other teens out there that are feeling the same way and are dealing with the same things,” said Robin Whittemore, professor of nursing and coprincipal investigator of the project.

Initially launched in 2007, TeenCope involves five tutorials teaching a specific skill, including stress management and conflict resolution. In each one, animated graphic novel characters face situations that the teens could encounter in real life. Teens can also create their own profiles and join discussion groups with each other moderated by a healthcare professional, Whittemore said.

With the ADA grant money, researchers will be able to perform the necessary clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of transforming TeenCope into a social networking site connecting teenagers across the nation. The program’s developers will also

use the money to integrate an online educational program aimed at problem solving into TeenCope, expediting the process needed to launch this new feature..

Margaret Grey, dean of the Yale School of Nursing and one of the researchers developing TeenCope, said that most programs for teenagers with diabetes focus on physical education or providing educational information on how diabetic teens can take better care of themselves. TeenCope is different, she said, because it focuses on enhancing coping skills, through behaviors like social problem solving and stress management.

“We know that … education [alone] doesn’t help behavior,” Grey said. “Increased knowledge doesn’t increase behavior. You have to increase the skill.”

Grey added that during the developing of TeenCope the team researched the effectiveness of similar programs and asked teenagers for feedback on what they found most helpful.

Kevan Herold, professor of immunology and endocrinology at the School of Medicine, commended the program, adding that diabetes is especially dangerous to teens because common teenage behavioral habits lead to “terrible blood sugar control” within this demographic. Poor blood sugar control causes complications in the disease, said Herold, who researches mechanisms to create more efficient diabetes drugs and published a study suggesting that suppressing the immune system may prevent Type 1 diabetes in the journal Science Translational Medicine, according to a Jan. 25 press release.

According to the ADA, about one in every 400 children and adolescents has diabetes.

Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu .

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For colleges, effects of recession linger NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 said.

Administrators and faculty first officially considered the likely effects of the new colleges in 2007, when University President Richard Levin appointed two committees to study the new colleges’ potential impact on Yale’s academic and student life. The result of their investigation, an 100page report published in 2008, called attention to academic space “absolutely necessary” before the expansion and pointed to challenges in providing teaching fellows and advisers. It also identified five academic areas as already “under stress” — chemistry, English, economics, political science and the arts — and concluded that interdisciplinary programs would face particular difficulties as well.

While student enrollments have remained fairly steady for the past decade, Yale’s faculty has grown by 15 percent since 1999 — roughly the same percentage by which the student population will increase once the new colleges are full. Frances Rosenbluth, deputy provost for social sciences and faculty development, said strong endowment returns allowed for faculty growth and for the University to add faculty in new fields.

Still, some departments will likely need to expand further to meet the new students’ needs, administrators said. For example, the University will need to add more resources to handle intro-

ductory English seminars, Provost Peter Salovey said.

“Our goal is to not compromise the Yale College experience,” Salovey said. “That means to continue to emphasize small classes and more or less the faculty-student ratio Yalies have come to accept.”

Our goal is to not compromise the Yale College experience. That means to continue to emphasize small classes and more or less the faculty-student ratio Yalies have come to accept PETER SALOVEY Provost Lloyd Suttle, deputy provost for academic resources, said in a Tuesday email that the University will “revisit” plans for faculty expansion after the schedule for the new colleges opening is more certain.

Yale’s ability to begin construction depends on the performance of the endowment and fundraising, administrators have said.

As of Dec. 2, $180 million of the required $500 million has been

raised for the colleges, according to Inge Reichenbach, vice president for development.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon, who chaired the academic resources committee for the report, said finding enough space — for classes, labs and extracurricular activities — presents the greatest challenge in preparing for the additional students.

Miller said Yale needs to add “flexible” classroom space in particular, both to accommodate extra students and to facilitate new pedagogical methods. Rather than building more lecture halls with fixed seating, the University should create rooms that serve multiple uses, she said.

But it remains unclear how much Yale has the capacity to build: Initial plans for the new colleges called for a library and classroom building and undergraduate theater to be constructed simultaneously, but administrators “no longer believe it will be possible” to build them all at once, Suttle said.

Four out of five department chairs interviewed said they have not made specific plans to deal with a larger student population.

Michael Warner, chair of the English Department, said his department is already responding to higher student demand for expository and creative writing courses, but he added that the department does not have plans “to expand specifically for the new colleges.”

Jane Levin, director of undergraduate studies for Directed Studies, a “special program” listed in the 2008 report as likely to face stress, said there are not currently plans to expand Directed Studies.

Administrators will also need to consider how to handle sections and find teaching assistants for a larger undergraduate population. While some graduate students will be able to secure teaching spots more easily, certain departments are already hard pressed to find enough teaching fellows for their courses, Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard said in an email. The Chemistry, Economics and Physics Departments currently face the most trouble in this respect and have to draw from other graduate departments to fill teaching fellow positions, Pollard added.

The 2008 report suggested that Yale explore new models for how to provide teaching assistance, such as hiring postdoctoral fellows, but Pollard said decisions have yet to be reached about changes to the teaching fellow program.

The new colleges were designed by the firm of School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern ARC ’65.

Gavan Gideon contributed reporting.

Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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The original plans for the new colleges included the construction of an additional library and classroom building and a new theater.

Elis use time off to pursue interests, found companies TIME OFF FROM PAGE 1 of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker said in an email to the News that residential college deans are aware of which students are on leave but that this information cannot be shared.

Students do not have to explain why they want to take time off, Schenker added — they simply need to be in good academic standing and turn in their forms on time.

“You just go to your dean and write a very short letter,” Shapiro said.

Yale’s leave of absence policy allows a student to take up to two semesters off to pursue any activity of their choosing while maintaining the option of returning as Yale students.

A leave is necessary for the “full Whiffenpoof experience,” Oki said; an experience that comes with extensive travel requirements. Oki added that his decision to take time off was necessary because his job as the Whiffenpoofs business manager required more than eight hours a day.

The a cappella group is not the only student organization that requires intense time commitment of its members. Former Yale College Council President Jeff Gordon ’12 estimated that he spent six hours every weekday on YCC duties, in addition to devot-

ing time to his YCC tasks on the weekend. Although Gordon said he handled his academics well, he admitted to only sleeping an average of five or six hours a night.

“That definitely has longterm health effects,” he said with a laugh.

Marlena Vasquez ’13, a current co-coordinator of Dwight Hall, said she sacrificed participation in other extracurricular activities and has taken a lighter course load in order to focus on her role in the service institution.

Last year, Whiffenpoof Nataniel Calixto ’11 did not take a leave of absence from Yale and said he struggled to balance academics with extracurriculars. Although Calixto only had courses Tuesdays through Thursdays, he said he often missed portions of the Whiffenpoofs’ tours.

“On the Whiffenpoof experience, I got out of it the most that I could have,” Calixto said. “The experience that I feel like I missed out on more was the academic — a full senior year.”

Oki noted that this year’s group has been able to extend the length of their winter tour by an extra week because all members are currently on leave. Eliot Shimer ’13 said he has also benefitted from taking a leave because he can spend both more time with his friends in the Whiffenpoofs and in the graduating class.

Because they have taken a leave

of absence, as opposed to withdrawn, they will be guaranteed readmittance to Yale College.

“As long as you can afford to pay your rent and feed yourself while you’re here, why not?”

Shimer said.

EXPLORING, WITH A SAFETY NET

While the Whiffenpoofs take time off for extracurriculars, other students use a leave of absence to take a gamble with their entrepreneurial ventures.

On a Saturday afternoon, Sean Haufler ’13 types away at his laptop in his room on the third floor of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Most of the building resembles a stereotypical frat house — littered with red cups and Miller Lite cans — but Haufler sits in front of a white board filled with business ideas for his startup BooksAtYale.

“I was underwhelmed with the concept of working hard in class to get good grades,” Haufler, who began his leave of absence this semester, said. “I wanted to see what I could do with a laptop, time and my ideas.”

Students such as Haufler are not concerned with missing out on academics because, as Haufler said, “I can always go back.”

Despite the inconvenience of not being able to use his swipe card, he still does his work at the Jonathan Edwards College buttery

and is otherwise attuned to the Yale campus.

Although he now wakes up at 11 a.m. most days, Haufler said that he accomplishes more than when he had to balance his startup work with classes. Some days he works for 14 hours straight, he said, adding that his business model

I was underwhelmed with the concept of working hard in class to get good grades. I wanted to see what I could do with a laptop, time and my ideas.

SEAN HAUFLER ’13 has now launched in 130 schools.

Dozens of start-up companies have been started by enrolled Yalies over the past several years who have been supported during the academic year by programs such as the Yale Entrepreneurship Institute and the recently launched HackYale. But YEI also sponsors a summer fellowship in which Alena Gribskov ’09, YEI communications and program manager, said about 80 students have participated over the past five years. About five or six

students, she said, chose to take time off from Yale after the summer fellowship program to pursue their startups.

Gribskov said the YEI does not explicity encourage students to take leaves of absence. She believes it makes sense for many students to continue in their studies but some feel it is impossible to do so.

“For the students we’ve seen, it gets to a point where it’s taking too much time, or investors want students to take a leave of absence,” Gribskov said.

Some even decide to continue work with their startups beyond the two-semester maxiumum allotted for a leave of absence and withdraw from the University.

Noel, co-founder of the research website, left Yale at the start of his final spring semester at Yale in 2010 after being selected for funding by startup incubator TechStars. He said that he had already been missing classes and working through the weekends when the program required he take three months off.

“We were already pretty much out the door, and getting into TechStars just pushed it over the edge,” Noel said.

Two years later, Noel will have to reapply for admission to Yale should he choose to return. He said he does not have definite plans but that the administration was very supportive of his

taking time off to pursue entrepreneurship, and that the process for readmission seems “very straightforward.”

Noel added that, although he is no longer enrolled, the “underpinnings of a Yale education” and the intellectual culture at Yale served as his initial resources.

Unlike TechStars, the Thiel Fellowship — which sparked controversy in 2010 when it began offering students $100,000 to leave school and pursue startups — requires a two-year commitment. Yalies participating are forced to withdraw from the University.

Paul Gu ’14, one of Yale’s four Thiel Fellows, said that taking time off allows someone to truly explore his or her interests, adding that fellowships such as the Thiel allow students to pursue ventures with legitimacy and support. Gu said that his main goal in this venture is to grow as a person by learning entrepreneurial skills and by testing how much he can succeed without the pressures of an academic environment.

“College is right for some people and some fields,” said Jonathan Cain ’03, president of the Thiel Foundation, which funds the Thiel Fellowship. “For others, the best way to learn skills is by practicing.”

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 5:00 PM “The Revolution That Wasn’t.” Sally McBrearty of the University of Connecticut will speak as part of the Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities focusing on music and human evolution. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall st.), Room 208.

8:00 PM “Chamber Music of Brahms.” Faculty artists Boris Berman (piano), Julie Eskar (violin), Ettore Causa (viola) and Clive Greensmith (cello) will perform. Free. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 6:30 PM “When China Met Africa.” This documentary uses the personal stories of Chinese businessmen working in Zambia to discuss the implications of Chinese investments for African development. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Auditorium.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 4:00 PM “Politics, Theater and Political Theater in Russia Today.” Public talk by John Freedman, theater critic for The Moscow Times. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.), lounge.

8:00 PM New Music New Haven. Featuring Ezra Laderman’s Sonata No. 5 with Amy J. Yang, piano. Also on the program are Daniel Wohl’s “One Piece” and Paul Kerekes’ “Reach” (with Lisa Moore, piano and Ashley Bathgate, cello), Stephen Feigenbaum’s Fantasy for oboe and piano, Jordan Kuspa’s Collideoscope for piano quartet and Matthew Welch’s Orbis Tertius for bagpipes and brass septet. Sprague Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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Time short for Gingrich to close gap in Florida

BY THOMAS BEAUMONT ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife Callista, campaign at The Villages, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012.

Facebook IPO highly anticipated

BY RYAN NAKASHIMA ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — When Facebook makes its longexpected debut as a public company this spring, the social networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald’s, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as Wednesday, with an initial public offering of stock in three or four months.

The targeted amount would slot it among the world’s 25 largest IPOs, although as recently as November 2010, General Motors raised $15.8 billion when it shed majority control by the U.S. government.

The IPOs of 14 companies would rank higher than Facebook’s, according to investment adviser Renaissance Capital. Among them were Visa Inc.’s $17.9 billion IPO in March 2008, the largest for a U.S. company, and world-topper Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., which raised $19.3 billion in July 2010, not including extra shares issued to meet demand.

Facebook spokesman Larry Wu said the company will not comment on IPO-related speculation. The Journal had cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The Journal also said that Facebook was close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter, which would be a setback for rival Goldman Sachs. Both declined comment to The Associated Press.

The buzz surrounding an outsized haul for Facebook’s founders, employees and early investors remains a hopeful sign for capital markets following a deep recession. At the reported price, Facebook’s IPO would be the biggest for a U.S. Internet company ever — topping the debut of one of its main

MIAMI — Newt Gingrich slammed GOP rival Mitt Romney on Sunday for the steady stream of attacks he likened to “carpetbombing,” trying to cut into the resurgent front-runner’s lead in Florida in the dwindling hours before Tuesday’s pivotal presidential primary.

Surging ahead in polls, Romney kept the pressure on Gingrich, casting him at an appearance in south Florida as an influence peddler and continuing his heavy advertising blitz questions the former House speaker’s ethics.

In what has become a wildly unpredictable race, the momentum has swung back to Romney, staggered last weekend by Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina.

Romney has begun advertising in Nevada ahead of that state’s caucuses next Saturday, illustrating the challenges ahead for Gingrich, who has pledged to push ahead no matter what happens in Florida.

An NBC News/Marist poll published Sunday showed Romney with support from 42 percent of likely Florida primary voters, compared with 27 percent for Gingrich.

Romney’s campaign has dogged Gingrich at his own campaign stops, sending surrogates to remind reporters of Gingrich’s House ethics probe in the 1990s and other episodes in his career.

Gingrich reacted defensively, accusing the former Massachusetts governor and a political committee that supports him of lying, and the GOP’s establishment of allowing it.

“I don’t know how you debate a person with civility if they’re prepared to say things that are just plain factually false,” Gingrich said during appearances

on Sunday talk shows. “I think the Republican establishment believes it’s OK to say and do virtually anything to stop a genuine insurgency from winning because they are very afraid of losing control of the old order.”

Gingrich objected specifically to a Romney campaign ad that includes a 1997 NBC News report on the House’s decision to discipline Gingrich, then speaker, for ethics charges.

Romney continued to paint Gingrich as part of the very Washington establishment he condemns and someone who had a role in the nation’s economic problems.

“Your problem in Florida is that you worked for Freddie Mac at a time when Freddie Mac was not doing the right thing for the American people, and that you’re selling influence in Washington at a time when we need people who will stand up for the truth in Washington,” Romney told an audience in Naples.

Gingrich’s consulting firm was paid more than $1.5 million by the federally-backed mortgage company over a period after he left Congress in 1999.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing in Florida by a wide margin, stayed in his home state, where his 3-yearold daughter, Bella, was hospitalized. She has a genetic condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome.

Aides said he would resume campaigning as soon as possible.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has invested little in Florida, looked ahead to Nevada. The libertarian-leaning Paul is focusing more on gathering delegates in caucus states, where it’s less expensive to campaign. But securing the nomination only through caucus states is a hard task.

Greek debt deal fails to quell fears

rivals, Google Inc. “We are expecting 2012 to be a year of recovery for the IPO market led by the Facebook IPO,” said Kathy Smith, Renaissance Capital’s principal.

The event will follow a string of tepid debuts by technology startups including social game maker Zynga and discount advertiser Groupon. The stocks of both companies are just pennies above their offering prices in December and November respectively. Zynga’s stock fell 5 percent below the IPO price on its first day of trading.

We are expecting 2012 to be a year of recovery for the IPO market led by the Facebook IPO. KATHY SMITH Principal, Renaissance Capital Facebook’s will be the most anticipated tech IPO since Google went public in August 2004. Not including shares sold by early investors, the Internet search giant raised $1.2 billion and grabbed a market value of $23 billion, the biggest so far for a U.S. Internet company. The IPO raised $1.9 billion, including shares sold by early investors and extra stock issued to meet the heavy demand. It’s not known whether Facebook’s $10 billion target includes shares owned by early investors.

Facebook’s reported valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion compares with about $100 billion for McDonald’s Corp., $90 billion for Citigroup Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. and $75 billion for Bank of America Corp.

It would exceed the market cap of $55 billion for Hewlett-Packard Co., one of the world’s largest technology companies by revenue.

Both Facebook and Google earn most of their money from advertising and are now competing to gain as much information as possible about their users to help advertisers target niche audiences.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Represenatives from the Institute of International Finance after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos in Athens Jan. 28.

BY MATTHEW CRAFT AND JOSHUA FREED ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Greece and the investors who bought its bonds have the beginnings of a deal that could avert a disastrous, long-feared Greek default on its debt. But don’t expect a celebration on Wall Street this week.

If the deal holds and works, it will help prevent a potential shock to the world banking system. It will also remove one of the biggest threats to the impressive rally in U.S. stocks this year.

The problem for investors is that good news — like real improvement in Greece’s long-term finances — is likely to develop in slow motion. Bad news, like a breakdown in the debt talks or a spasm of market fear, would be faster. Punch-in-thenose fast.

“I think they’ll probably be happy, but I don’t really see this accomplishing very much in the long term,” says Michael E. Lewitt, editor of The Credit Strategist, an investor newsletter.

“They’re not solving any of these problems,” he says, so if things go wrong, “it’s likely to be a much worse sell-off.”

Under the tentative agreement, announced Saturday, investors holding ¤206 billion in Greek bonds, or about $272 billion, would exchange them for bonds with half the face value. The replacement

bonds would have a longer maturity and pay a lower interest rate.

The deal would reduce Greece’s annual interest expense from about ¤10 billion to about ¤4 billion. When the bonds mature, Greece would have to pay its bondholders only ¤103 billion.

It is unclear how investors who buy and sell the bonds of other debt-burdened countries, such as Italy, Spain and Portugal, will react. If they drive up borrowing costs for those countries, the debt crisis could get worse.

Private investors hold two-thirds of Greece’s debt, which is equal to an unsustainable 160 percent of its annual economic output. By restructuring the debt, Greece hopes to make it a more manageable 120 percent by decade’s end.

Greece’s public creditors — the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank — want the government to cut public salaries further to bring the national budget in line.

That proposal has been met with resistance by Greek politicians afraid of losing elections this spring. But they also worry Greece will be denied ¤130 billion in bailout money if it can’t cut its deficit.

The restructuring of Greece’s private debt could still fall apart. If it does, that could mean trouble in the U.S. markets, which have enjoyed a placid January of steady gains.

The Dow Jones industrial average is up 3.6 percent in the young year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has gained 4.7 percent, roughly half its average gainfor a full year.

If the Greek talks break down, “the stock market could probably lose half its gains for the year,” Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, said last week, before Greece and the private investors reached their tentative deal.

On paper, it’s hard to see how Greece could take down financial markets in the U.S., the world’s biggest economy, with $15.2 trillion in goods and services churned out every year.

Greece’s annual economic output is ¤220 billion. That translates to $285 billion, on par with the economy of Maryland. The U.S. sells $1.6 billion in weapons, medicine and other products to Greece each year, a minuscule 0.07 percent of exports.

U.S. banks say Greece on its own poses no danger to them. Unlike European banks, they’re not major lenders to Greek businesses and aren’t saddled with Greek government debt.

In its most recent report, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., said it had just $4.5 billion at risk in Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined. That’s about what the bank makes in revenue in two and a half weeks.

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n celebration of the lunar new year last week, Yalies made and ate copious amounts of dumplings and dazzled audiences with extravagant decorations, costumes and dances that embraced Asian cultural traditions. Staff photographer JOYCE XI reports.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS DEFEATS NO. 21 NOTRE DAME The No. 35 women’s tennis team overcame Notre Dame 4-3 on Saturday but fell to No. 10 Michigan on Sunday, 4-3. Team captain Stephanie Kent ’12 was undefeated in singles and doubles throughout the weekend. For the complete story, see tomorrow’s paper.

RUGBY Lyon 19 Agen 11

SOCCER Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 2

M. HOCKEY Colgate 5 Cornell 3

MONDAY

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD COMPETES AT INVITATIONAL The men’s track and field team participated in the Terrier Invitational, hosted

by Boston University, this weekend. The Bulldogs performed exceptionally well in the distance events, with Timothy Hillas ’13 taking 14th in the 3000 meter. See tomorrow’s paper for more results.

“It’s embarrassing...

That’s the word for it.

We got embarrassed on our home court.”

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Guard Austin Morgan ’13 and the Yale offense stalled Friday night in front of a sellout crowd at Lee Amphitheater Friday night, scoring only 35 points, 40 below their Ivy League season average, on 31.7 percent shooting.

Bulldogs snap losing streak

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER It did not look like a night that was going to mark the end of Yale’s losing streak. After falling to Harvard 4–3 on Friday night, the Elis had lost four games in a row and were 0–4–1 in their last five. But the Bulldogs (9–10–2, 6–7–1 ECAC) overcame a 4–1 deficit on Saturday in a 5–4 win over Dartmouth (9–9–2, 6–6– 1) to end their slide and surpass Brown and Princeton in the ECAC standings.

MEN’S HOCKEY HARVARD 4, YALE 3 YALE 5, DARTMOUTH 4 “It was a tremendous win,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said in a Yale Athletics press release.

“Our guys did a great job of overcoming adversity. This was a real testament to their mental toughness.”

Heading into the game, Allain decided to alter the lineup by putting Nick Maricic ’13 in net after Jeff Malcolm ’13 allowed four goals to Harvard on Friday night.

But after a disastrous first period, Allain’s change appeared to have backfired. Maricic allowed four goals in the first frame, and the

Elis reap mixed results

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER

Elis looked to be in deep trouble.

Luckily for the Elis, however, Maricic managed to keep the Big Green out of the net the rest of the way as Yale initiated a comeback.

The men’s and women’s fencing teams encountered the same results against Sacred Heart University this year as last — a win for the women and a loss for the men — but this time the Pioneers gained ground on the Bulldogs.

It was a tremendous win [against Dartmouth]. Our guys did a great job of overcoming adversity.

FENCING W: YALE 15, SACRED HEART 12 M: SACRED HEART 17. YALE 10

KEITH ALLAIN ’80 Head coach, men’s hockey “[Maricic] was huge,” forward Kenny Agostino ’14 said. “In the second and third period he really shut it down, and that was huge for our team’s comeback.”

After Yale scored three straight goals to tie things up at four in the third period, the game appeared to be destined for overtime. That was when Agostino took the game into his own hands.

With just 34 seconds left in regulation, defenseman Colin Dueck ’13 took the puck in the Yale end and flipped a clearance down the ice. As Dartmouth was changing lines, Agostino scooped up the puck, moved past a defenSEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3

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The No. 10 men’s fencing team lost in all three weapon categories against Sacred Heart.

At Yale’s first home meet of the season, the No. 10 men’s team fell 17–10 to the No. 9 Pioneers on Saturday, with losing scores in all three weapons, whereas the losing margin last year as a narrower 14–13.

On the women’s side, with the score at 13–12 with two points remaining, foilist Jillian Liu ’12 pulled through a tense bout that earned the Bulldogs their 14th point and secured a victory. Women’s fencing eventually took the competition 15–12, but last year, the Bulldogs won by a more comfortable 19–8 margin.

“It was definitely a tough match, [but] all the squads came together,” women’s captain Robyn Shaffer ’13 said. “This was definitely a team victory.”

The saber squad gained a deciSEE FENCING PAGE B2

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM WON CONSECUTIVELY AT HOME IN LEE AMPHITHEATER UNTIL IT FELL TO HARVARD, 65-35 ON FRIDAY. THE STREAK SPANNED 342 DAYS. The Bulldogs redeemed themselves with a 62-52 win against Dartmouth on Saturday.

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Miami Heat tops Chicago Bulls, 97-93 LeBron James scored 35 points for the Heat. Derrick Rose of the Bulls, the current NBA MVP, missed two free throws with just 22.7 seconds left and the Bulls trailing by one point.

Elis split disappointing home stand

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing weekend stand at home, the Bulldogs have more questions than answers as they prepare for the remaining 10 games in Ivy League play.

MEN’S BASKETBALL YALE 65, HARVARD 35 YALE 62, DARTMOUTH 52 Yale (13–5, 3–1 Ivy) was demolished by No. 23 Harvard (16–2, 4–0 Ivy) 65–35 Friday and barely overcame Dartmouth (4–16, 0–4 Ivy) 62–52 Saturday.

In the team’s most highly-anticipated game of the year — tickets had been sold out for three weeks and student tickets ran out in the first hour of distribution — the Bulldogs fell flat against archrival Crimson.

“It’s embarrassing,” forward Greg Mangano ’12 said. “That’s the word for it … We got embarrassed on our home court.”

Yale stayed within striking distance early and went into the half trailing the Cantabs 30–19. But the Crimson ran away with the contest in the second half, justifying their national ranking.

With the Crimson defense — who allow the fourth fewest points per game in Division I — pressuring the ball all night long, Yale shot just 31.7 percent from the floor. The Elis had more turnovers (22) than field goals made (13).

“There were several turnovers that I still don’t know how we lost the ball,” head coach James Jones said. “We just fumbled it out of our hands with no pressure at all.”

The Bulldogs had some success in the second half getting the ball inside to Mangano, but his 17 points were not enough to keep the game close. No other Eli had more than four points, whereas nine Cantabs contributed four or more points for Harvard.

When Yale took the court against Big Green Saturday, it still appeared shell-shocked from the previous night. With 8:43 left before intermission, Jones called a timeout with the Bulldogs trailing 23–15.

Whatever Jones said in the huddle must have worked, because the Elis stormed out of the timeout and took the lead.

Mangano hit a three and then guard Mike Grace ’13 followed suit from beyond the arc before Mangano’s layup evened the score at 23. The Bulldogs went on a 12–0 run and led 33–26 at intermission.

Yale came off the block slowly again in the second, but Austin Morgan ’13 had the hustle play of the game when he raced down the court and prevented a breakaway layup from Big Green guard Tyler Melville.

“Austin is a hustle-hustle player,” captain Reggie Willhite ’12 said. “For him to chase that down and block it when everybody else thought that it was going to be a layup and two

going the other way … that got people going …

It brings a little bit of positive to the negatives that we’re having.”

The Elis went down 44–41 after a triple from Jabari Trotter, but then Willhite went off. Over the course of the next 4:34, Willhite scored nine straight points as the Bulldogs went on a 9–2 run. He had a game-high 16 points.

We could either splinter, or we could come together as a team and revamp what we’re trying to do.

REGGIE WILLHITE ’12 Captain, men’s basketball Willhite said that his scoring was done within the flow of the game — meaning that he executed his shots within the framework of the offense.

“I don’t really think that it’s a matter of me realizing that I had to take the game over,“ Willhite said. “It’s just when somebody’s scoring on our team, our team tends to look to find that person in the offense. My teammates were looking for me, and I was able to capitalize.”

Willhite’s performance helped the Bulldogs to overcome 19 turnovers and beat a Dartmouth team that has dropped nine of its last 10 contests.

Although Jones said that Dartmouth has played most of its opponents close all year long, the Bulldogs were disappointed with its performances over the weekend.

“At this point in the season we can go one of two ways,” Willhite said. “We could either splinter, or we could come together as a team and revamp what we’re trying to do as an organization … We have a lot of work to do.”

The loss to Harvard snapped a home winning streak that spanned eight games and 342 days. Yale won those games by an average margin of 17 points per game.

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The Elis took on Sacred Heart at home this weekend after opening competition with invitationals at New York University, Penn State and Brandeis.

sive 7–2 victory, though women’s épeé lost 3–6, whereas last year the épée squad gained a 7–2 victory over the Pioneers. But Shaffer said teams are constantly shifting players from year to year, and the fencers are developing their skills differently each month.

Over the next two weeks, Shaffer said the team will work on improving individual performance in rounds when the bout score is 4–4, since women fencers lost 4–5 in least three bouts and won one bout by 5–4.

“There’s a lot of pressure, and people can [make mistakes],” Shaffer said. “We need to work on those situations, since turning those 4–5 losses into victories makes a huge difference.”

Shaffer hopes that redoubling the team’s efforts and training will help them perform strongly in the Ivy League championships in two weeks. Last year, the women’s team was unable to win any of its five matches in the Ivies.

The men’s team came much closer to taking the Ivy title last year when the Elis lost to the champion Cantabs by only one point. Épéeist Peter Cohen ’14 said the team is looking past this loss to this year’s Ivy Championships.

“We had an off day, and the energy level wasn’t where we wanted it to be,” Cohen said. “It wasn’t our best, but now we need to shake off this loss and focus on training [for the Ivies].”

Foilist Dario Martinez ’12 said the team is using the mediocre showing as a learning experience to increase commitment to practice for the rest of the season.

Despite the larger scoring divide this year, the match had an individual highlight. Sabreur Nathaniel Benzimra ’13 won all three of his bouts, including one against All-

American saber fencer Marty Williams.

Captain Shiv Kachru ’12 said in a press release losing close matches was also an issue for the men’s team.

We need to work on [tense] situations, since turning those 4–5 losses into victories makes a huge difference.

ROBYN SHAFFER ’13 Captain, women’s fencing “It was a disappointing loss for us because we were fencing at home, and lost a lot of really close matches,” Kachru ’12 said in the release, adding that one of our the team’s best fencers was absent due to illness.

Kachru could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Cohen said the key for the men’s team is to stay in good shape and focus on winning the Ivies.

The Bulldogs have only one match left until the Ivy Championships, which Yale will host Feb. 11 to 12 at Coxe Cage.

“Our entire season is designed to peak at Ivies,” Martinez said in an email Sunday. “We are going to try and get everyone to Ivies healthy and fencing at the peak of our abilities. The guys are going to push it to the max these next two weeks. We aren’t going to leave anything on the table.”

Next week, the men’s and women’s teams will face Vassar at home Saturday at 1 p.m.

Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS NOVAK DJOKOVIC Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 in the finals of the Australian Open early this morning. The match lasted five hours, 53 minutes and ended at 1:37 a.m. in Melbourne.

Yale makes comeback

S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S

MEN’S HOCKEY IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

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5

1

2

.750

11

6

4

.619

Harvard

3

2

2

.571

6

6

8

.500

Yale

3

3

0

.500

9

10

2

.476

Dartmouth

2

3

1

.417

9

9

2

.500

Princeton

2

4

1

.357

6

10

5

.405

Brown

2

4

0

.333

8

10

3

.452

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FRIDAY, FEB. 3 St. Lawrence at Yale, 7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Yale 5, Dartmouth 4

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IVY

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kenny Agostino ’14 scored the game-winning goal against Dartmouth with 34.8 seconds left in the third period on Saturday.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 seman and fired the game-winner.

“I was able to get a fortunate bounce,” Agostino said in the press release. “The defense cheated toward O’Neill, and I was able to beat [Goggin] on the short side.”

The Elis were outshot 20–13 in the opening frame and went down just four minutes into the game when the Big Green’s Tyler Sikura put the puck past Maricic.

But the Elis struck back quickly as forward Kevin Limbert ’12 put away a rebound from Jesse Root ’14 just one minute later.

Although the Bulldogs had tied the score at one, the Big Green then took the reins and went on a goal-scoring frenzy.

Dartmouth regained the lead when, halfway through the opening period, Dartmouth blueliner Connor Goggin’s shot bounced off the end boards and onto the stick of teammate Troy Mattila, who scored his first goal of the year with an easy put-back. Only 25 seconds later, Eric Robinson’s wrist shot from the slot extended Dartmouth’s lead to 3–1.

Although Dartmouth’s offense dominated for the first 20 minutes of the game, it failed to find the back of the net again as the Bulldogs proceeded to outshoot the Big Green 25–13 over the last two periods. Allain attributed the turn-around to the team’s seniors.

“Our senior class showed tremendous leadership after the first period to get their teammates going,” Allain said in the press release.

The Elis began their comeback by killing off two penalties at the beginning of the second period, allowing just three shots on goal while playing a man down. The Bulldogs’ sustained offensive pressure gradually wore down the Dartmouth defense until Agostino scored his first goal of the night halfway through the frame.

With Yale down 4–2 after Agostino’s goal, the third period started off in a one-sided fashion as the Bulldogs’ relentless fore-checking and barrage of shots overwhelmed Dartmouth.

Defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 pulled the Blue and White within a goal after knocking in a low shot inside the near post five minutes into the third period.

With 11:18 left and the Bulldogs pushing to tie things up, Root scored the equalizer on Yale’s second power play of the night. The center took a shot from the right circle that seemed to vanish and then reappear in the net, silencing a sellout crowd at Darthmouth’s Thompson Arena in Hanover, N.H. “I shot it and didn’t see what happened after,” Root said in the press release. “It must have hit a Dartmouth player.”

Friday night’s game, however, was a much different story for the Bulldogs. The Elis outshot the

Cantabs by a 39–35 margin but fell short, losing 3–4 in Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center.

The Crimson played disciplined hockey, allowing the Elis only one power play on the night.

That was in the first period, but Yale was unable to capitalize. Harvard, however, saw four power plays over the course of the night and converted on one of them.

After defenseman Nick Jaskowiak ’12 went to the box for tripping, Harvard had an offensive advantage, and Marshall Everson scored his eighth goal of the year to put the Cantabs up 3–2 with about 10 minutes to play.

Although they went down 1–0 only four minutes into the game, the Bulldogs scored two goals just 13 seconds apart to take back the lead in the blink of an eye.

After Jaskowiak put in a shot from the blueline, forward Andrew Miller ’13 chased down a puck in the Harvard end after the face-off. After picking up the puck, he passed to captain Brian O’Neill ’12 in the high slot. Moving past a defender, O’Neill beat Harvard goalie Steve Michalek stick-side for his 13th tally of the season.

The Crimson came back and took a 3–2 lead, however, the Elis managed to play catch-up one more time. With only four minutes remaining, defenseman Gus Young ’14 corralled a failed Harvard clearance and fired a quick

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Tiger Woods talked all week about his improved ball control — then it let him down when he needed it most.

Woods resembled the Tiger of old over the first three rounds at the Abu Dhabi Championship, stringing together a trio of rounds below par before shooting an even 72 in Sunday’s finale to finish in a tie for third place behind winner Robert Rock and U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy.

The 117th-ranked Rock shot 70 for an overall 275 to beat McIlroy (69) by a shot. Woods was a further shot back with Thomas Bjorn (68) and Graeme McDowell (68). The 18-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero (69) and George Coetzee (70) of South Africa were another shot back.

“Today I just didn’t give myself enough looks at it,” Woods said.

“Most of my putts were lag putts.

I didn’t drive the ball in as many fairways as I should have … It was a day I was just a touch off the tee

and consequently I couldn’t get the ball close enough.”

It marked the second straight time Woods hasn’t won with at least a share of the lead after 54 holes. He failed to win the Chevron World Challenge in 2010 after going into the final round with a four-shot lead over McDowell.

The 14-time major winner appears to have recovered from a two-year victory drought in which he was sidelined by injuries and personal turmoil. But Woods must now face the fact that, at age 36, there are plenty of players — known and unknown — who can potentially beat him.

Woods, though, was looking for the silver lining out of his third-place finish. He insisted he has been steadily improving — hitting a high percentage of fairways and greens until Sunday and putting much better.

“There’s plenty of big events to go, but I’m pleased at the progress I’ve made so far,” said Woods, who won the Chevron World Challenge last month to end his drought. “I just need to keep building, keep getting more consistent, and today was a day

where I putted beautifully. Just didn’t give myself enough looks.”

Coming into Sunday, Woods was tied for the lead with the unheralded Rock and was the clear favorite to win. Rock had only one victory under his belt compared to 83 for Woods worldwide, but it was Rock — battling his nerves over playing alongside one of his golfing idols — who held it together down the stretch.

“It’s pretty hard to believe that I managed to win today. Very surprised,” the Englishman said. “I played good. So I guess I had a chance from early on, a couple of birdies made the day feel a little bit easier.”

“But it’s difficult playing with Tiger. You expect almost every shot to threaten to go in. It felt a lot of pressure and couldn’t afford any lapses in concentration at all.”

Woods started strong and it looked as though he might pull away from Rock, sinking a 40-footer on No. 2 for birdie and chipping to within a foot of the cup for a second birdie on the 3rd. But Rock didn’t blink, mak-

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4

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1

.750

11

7

.611

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2

1

.667

9

8

.529

Cornell

2

1

.667

8

9

.471

Brown

2

2

.500

11

7

.611

Penn

1

2

.333

8

9

.471

Columbia

0

3

.000

2

15

.118

Dartmouth

0

3

.000

2

15

.118

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snap shot to tie things up at three.

But Harvard won the battle down the stretch. With about one minute left to play, Harvard’s Alex Killorn scored his second goal of the night after an odd-man rush gave him an open shot from the right side of the ice. After Yale goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 saved Killorn’s first attempt, the Harvard center tried again and managed to put a backhand between Malcolm’s legs for a 4–3 victory for the Crimson.

With a 1–1 record on the weekend, the Elis have 13 points in the ECAC standings and remain only three points out of a tie for fourth place. The Bulldogs are currently in seventh place in the ECAC. The Elis will be back in action against St. Lawrence and Clarkson next weekend at Ingalls Rink.

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

NEXT WEEK

SUNDAY, JAN. 29 Yale 89, Dartmouth 65

FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Yale at Penn, 7:00 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL IVY SCHOOL

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0

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2

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2

0

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10

9

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3

1

.750

13

5

.722

Princeton

1

1

.500

10

8

.556

Cornell

2

2

.500

7

11

.389

Columbia

1

3

.250

12

8

.600

Brown

1

3

.250

7

14

.333

Dartmouth

0

4

.000

4

16

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SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Yale 62, Dartmouth 52

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HARVARD 4, YALE 3

FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Penn at Yale, 7:00 p.m.

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19

3

0

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2

1

.688

8

10

4

.455

Tiger falters as Rock wins

BY MICHAEL CASEY ASSOCIATED PRESS

OVERALL

ing birdie on two of the first three holes to keep pace.

Then Woods began to unravel.

He started spraying his drives into the thick rough and fairway bunkers, resulting in bogeys on Nos. 4 and 5. When Woods wasn’t missing the fairways, he was scrambling to save par as he did on 11 after overshooting the green. As he approached his shot in deep rough just off the 11th green, he sighed heavily and let out a stream of obscenities under his breath.

Woods managed to save par by sinking a 12-footer and Rock just missed a birdie putt. Woods pumped his fist and appeared to be regaining momentum as he pulled within one shot of Rock on No. 13 when the Englishman had one of his three bogeys. But the 34-year-old Rock birdied two of the next three holes to regain control.

Rock wobbled on the 18th when his drive landed in a pile of rocks near the water — forcing him to take a drop — but he recovered beautifully, reaching the green in four and two-putting for the win.

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Dartmouth

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2

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OVERALL 6 2 .682

Harvard

3

4

0

.429

14

6

1

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Brown

2

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0

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7

9

7

.457

Yale

0

7

0

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1

22

0

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NEXT WEEK

FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Yale at St. Lawrence, 7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Dartmouth 6, Yale 0

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3

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1

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4

2

.667

5

Brown

1

2

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8

3

.727

Princeton

1

2

.333

5

2

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Dartmouth

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3

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3

4

.429

Columbia

0

3

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3

6

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1

3

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TUESDAY, JAN. 24 Yale 9, Brown 0

NEXT WEEK

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 Yale at Princeton, 1:00 p.m.

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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS SHAUN WHITE For the first time in X Games history, American snowboarder Shaun White earned a perfect 100 during his last run on the Superpipe.

Despite an ankle injury, White took his fifth gold medal, and pulled off a new trick— a frontside double cork 1260.

Elis sweep Ivy competition

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s basketball team fared much better than the men’s team against its Harvard opponents this weekend.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL YALE 68, HARVARD 63 YALE 89, DARTMOUTH 65 The Bulldogs (11–7, 3–1 Ivy) beat the Crimson 68–63 on Friday and then dominated Dartmouth Sunday afternoon by a score of 89–65. “[Beating Harvard] was an amazing feeling,” guard Megan Vasquez ’13 said.

“We swept them last year, and Harvard and Dartmouth are the winningest programs in the Ivy League, so we’re very proud of our wins this weekend.”

The Elis fell behind early on Friday, but mounted a tremendous secondhalf comeback to pull out the victory.

Harvard (9–8, 2–1) got out of the gate quickly, scoring the first eight points of the game before Janna Graf ’14 put Yale on the board with a three-pointer five minutes into the first half. The Bulldogs battled back to take a 16–15 lead with 5:17 remaining in the first period, but the Crimson answered with a 13–2 run and eventually went into halftime with a five-point lead.

Yale opened the second half the way Harvard had the first, scoring five times in a row to erase the deficit and take a seven-point lead before Harvard’s Christine Clark made a layup to stop the run four minutes into the half.

Clark led the Crimson in scoring with 16 points and tied Graf, who also finished with 16, to lead all scorers. The teams battled back and forth for the remainder of the game; Harvard was able to take the lead for brief moments several times, but Yale always had an answer. The Crimson cut the lead to one with 1:24 remaining in the game, but a minute later guard Sarah Halejian ’15 made a layup and was fouled. Halejian completed the three-point play to put the Bulldogs up by three. Harvard was forced to foul and Vasquez made three of four free throws to close out the game. Vasquez said that the Bulldogs’ up-tempo play and tight defense gave them the advantage against the Crimson.

“We pushed the ball really well in transition,” Vasquez said. “I don’t think that they were really ready for it. We also locked down on their shooters and didn’t give them any open looks.”

On Sunday, the Elis were again outscored in the first half, but overwhelmed the Big Green in the second half en route to a 24-point win. This time the Bulldogs went on an even bigger run to open the second period, scoring 26 points to Dartmouth’s one point over the first nine minutes. They

held the Big Green without a field goal until Tia Dawson ended the drought with a layup with 9:36 remaining in the game. Dartmouth was never able to recover, and the Elis coasted to an easy victory.

“Our coaches told us at halftime that we needed to step it up,” captain Michelle Cashen ’12 said. “We needed to get engaged in the game and just be more proactive, which we weren’t doing before.”

Vasquez, who led the Bulldogs in scoring with 23 points, added that the team knew that Dartmouth had scored too many points in the first half and that its defense had to be better.

People seemed more composed, and we had much better shot selection [Saturday].

MEGAN VASQUEZ ’13 Guard, women’s basketball team The Elis outshot Dartmouth (2–15, 0–3) 44.1 percent to 30.0 percent in the second half and finished shooting 45.6 percent, a much better mark than they have averaged the last few games.

“We were definitely getting better looks today than we have the past few games,” Vasquez said. “People seemed more composed and we had much better shot selection today.”

Next weekend the Bulldogs have their first back-to-back games of the conference season against Penn and Princeton. Graf said that the team must work hard to prepare for these upcoming challenges.

“Both games are going to be very tough competitions,” Graf said. “Princeton is the two-time defending champion and Penn’s program is getting better every year. We’re really going to have to come with our A-game and make sure that everyone is ready to play.”

The Bulldogs return to the court Friday at Penn.

Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.

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

YALE 89, DARTMOUTH 65 YALE

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Captain Michelle Cashen ’12 led her team in rebounds on Sunday against Dartmouth with eight as the Elis cruised to an easy win,

Squash sinks Midshipmen to stay perfect

BY JAMES HUANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BLAIR SEIDEMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kenneth Chan ’13, here playing against Trinity in Yale’s historic win, swept his No. 1 match 3–0 as the Elis beat the U.S. Naval Academy this weekend.

This season, the men’s and women’s squash teams have both won 23 games without a single loss. Pulling ahead of squash titan Trinity on the 18th, the men’s team was named No. 1 in the national rankings Jan. 22.

The No. 1 Elis dispatched the No. 13 Naval Academy this Saturday to take their flawless season record to 11–0. The women’s team also won against a No. 11 Brown this weekend with a perfect sweep.

The men’s team defeated Annapolis 7–2. The Elis lost only at the No. 2 and No. 6 spots. At No. 2 Hywel Robinson ’14 decided to forfeit after a foot injury. Robinson said the injury is not serious and added that he would be back for practice this week.

Kenneth Chan ’13 played his usual No. 1 spot and swept 3–0.

Joseph Roberts ’15, who does not usually play in the top nine but was brought up during Yale’s match against Amherst three weeks ago, added that the 14 men on the team have all been training hard, and in the event of an incapacitating injury in the lineup, he is always ready to play. Roberts won his match at the Amherst 3–0.

At Annapolis, No. 6 Neil Martin ’14 lost in the first round, No. 3 Richard Dodd ’13, captain and No. 5 Ryan Dowd ’12, No. 8 Samuel Clayman ’12 and No. 9 Eric Caine ’14 swept their matches 3–0. In the third round, No. 4 John Roberts ’12 and No. 7 Robert Berner ’12 won their sets 3–1 and brought the total score to 7–2, although the Elis had sealed the match with a 5–2 after

Chan bested his opponent.

The women also had a very decisive victory, with a clean 9–0 sweep over Brown. No. 1 Millie Tomlinson ’14, No. 2 Kim Hay ’14 and No. 3 captain Rhetta Nadas ’12 swept their individual opponents 3–0.

“Next weekend we have a couple of important games against Princeton and Penn,” Tomlinson said. “The weekend after will probably be our biggest match of the season, which is against Harvard.”

The team will travel to New Jersey and Pennsylvania next Saturday and Sunday to take on these Ivy foes.

Tomlinson added that during the beginning of the season, many players suffered minor injuries, but now that most players have recovered, she said the team is strong and confident.

The men’s team also has its sight out for fellow Ivies Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard, which Robinson said are must-win games because of their importance for the Ivy League Conference. This Saturday, the team will take on the Tigers in New Jersey.

“We are not looking past Princeton this next weekend,” Robinson said. “They have incredible team depth and their No. 1 is tenacious.”

Going into this weekend’s matches and the rest of their regular season, both teams aim to continue their undisrupted season winning streaks.

Contact JAMES HUANG at jianan.huang@yale.edu .