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CROSS CAMPUS The Vegan Hunger Games.
Yale is in the running to be named the “favorite veganfriendly college” of PETA’s youth division, peta2. According to a press release, Yale is notable for “offering students delicious, healthy, cruelty-free food — including General Tso’s tofu and sweet potato quinoa burgers — that would be the envy of many upscale restaurants.” The release also noted that “fellow Ivy League school Cornell” is also still in the race.
WEEKEND THE YALE-TOADS RELATIONSHIP
MALLOY
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Governor delivers “State of the City” address, talks goals
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SECURITY
YPD messages scrutinized
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beyond Pierson’s Park Street gate. Though 69 Clery-reportable crimes, which include sex offenses, robbery and aggravated assault, took place on campus in 2012, only 28 warning messages were sent from Higgins to the Yale community that year. By now, most have become accustomed to the alerts, part of
At Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting, professors debated what Yale College Dean Mary Miller has deemed “the most important change at Yale in a generation.” The meeting focused on the potential reorganization of the University’s administrative structure. Professors debated a recent report that recommended the creation of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean — a figure that would oversee the faculty in Yale College and the Graduate School, who comprise 43 percent of the University’s 1,023 tenured faculty members. Miller said the turnout of around 75 professors at Thursday’s meeting convinced her that faculty members are paying close attention to the issue, which is ultimately in the hands of the Yale Corporation. “It is a substantial reorganization of the University in a way we have not thought about since the dawn of coeducation, or since Yale College absorbed the Sheffield School,” Miller said, emphasizing that the changes currently being proposed, though less dramatic, will have comparable consequences on the ground. The faculty-led report at the center of Thursday’s meeting proposed four models for change in faculty governance. Three of the four models would introduce new dean positions and require changes to the University’s bylaws, a move contingent on the Yale Corporation’s vote of approval. Of those three, the committee endorsed a model that would create a new Dean of the FAS, reporting directly to the University Provost, as well as three to five deans of academic divisions who would serve under the Dean of the FAS. The Dean of Yale College and Dean of the Graduate School would still report to the University Provost.
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Dancin’ Pants. On Wednesday, Chance the Rapper tweeted “do u think i should put out my own pants. like called chancepants.” Soon after, he began advertising the sale of “Chance Pants,” customized sweatpants available from his website. There is no dress code for Spring Fling, but maybe now there should be. Going out or to outer space?
Today marks the start of Movie Night at the Planetarium at the Leitner Observatory Planetarium at 355 Prospect St. The movie for tonight is “Deep Impact,” which is about the science and threat of asteroid impacts.
Beinecke wins again. The Beinecke has acquired two “Tyndale Bibles,” the first printed English translations of biblical texts consisting of the New Testament and the first five books of the Old Testament. The acquisitions will now join a collection containing fellow pieces of awe-inspiring yet drastically outdated volumes, all ironically sitting within the campus’s most shining example of modern architecture. Radio rants. Conservative radio show host Laura Ingraham made comments during her program criticizing remarks made by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her talk to Yale Law School students Monday. Ingraham pointed out Sotomayor’s use of the term “undocumented immigrant” rather than “illegal alien,” commenting, “Why do we have a Supreme Court justice whose allegiance obviously goes to her immigrant family background and not to the U.S. Constitution?” Not Carrie Mathison. Former
CIA Clandestine Officer Robert Steele visited campus Thursday for a talk hosted by the Global Perspectives Society and The Politic where he discussed “ethics, intelligence and reality,” and tried to prove those three subjects are not mutually exclusive.
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Ronnell Higgins has become well known to the Yale community through the safety emails he sends out to all students. BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER This year, when Doug Streat ’16 was the victim of an assault that took place at the corner of York Street and Elm Street, no safety message was sent from Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins’s office to the University community. After two Yale Law School students were assaulted in
East Rock Park, it took until three days after the second assault — and weeks after the first — for the YPD to notify students. Yet just six weeks into the 2014 calendar year, University students, faculty and staff have already received five messages from the YPD, alerting them to a series of crimes, one of which involved a non-Yale-affiliated female who was tased and robbed of her purse, several blocks
1915-2014 ROBERT DAHL
Dahl, father of modern political science, dies BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS Robert Dahl GRD ’40, the man considered by many to be the father of modern political science, died yesterday of natural causes in his home in Connecticut. He was 98. A Sterling professor emeritus of political science at Yale, Dahl was a towering figure in his field and was described by many as the greatest political scien-
tist of the second half of the 20th century. His work, which touched on topics such as pluralism in democracies, citizenship and political power structures, spanned over six decades. Political science professor Seyla Benhabib GRD ’77 said Dahl will be remembered for the depth and reach of his work. “He really created modern Yale political science, as well as the modern discipline of political science,” said political science professor Ian Shapiro. “If
there were a Nobel Prize for political science he would have gotten the first one.” Dahl was born in 1915 in Inwood, Iowa. At age 11, he moved to Skagway, Alaska with his family, where his experiences eventually led to his book “After the Goldrush.” In 1936, Dahl graduated from the University of Washington and came to Yale as a graduate student. At the time, Yale was a fundamentally different place — all male and largely homogenous. After
finishing his doctorate, Dahl fought in World War II for seven years and worked in Washington, D.C. before returning to New Haven to find a political department that was nascent and lacking in prominence. “[It was] not very large or prestigious,” Dahl told The Politic in an interview last year. “It was still an Ivy League university, but its scholarship was falling somewhat behind. The concept of political science was fairly new.”
Over the next two decades, the Yale political science department was transformed into the nation’s foremost — an accomplishment that many professors attribute to Dahl. Dahl and his colleagues pioneered the use of empirical techniques in examining real political systems, focusing on the motivations and behaviors of voters and politicians. This paradigm shift in political sciSEE DAHL PAGE 6
Alumni calls for pool unanswered BY ASHTON WACKYM AND RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTERS The Kiphuth Exhibition Pool has seen better times. While swimming pool technology and technical requirements have developed over the years, the University’s swimming and diving teams have been using the same pool since 1932. Alumni and current swimmers interviewed said the pool’s deficiencies have prevented the University from hosting a championship meet and hampered the school’s recruiting efforts. Although the pool’s current infrastructure has rendered renovating the pool a very costly enterprise, alumni of the men’s swimming and diving team
began a fundraising effort last spring in order to raise the funds necessary to build a brand-new natatorium on unused land near the Yale Bowl. But members of this fundraising initiative said that, to their surprise and dismay, the University not only rejected their offer — one in which the University would not pay any money in construction costs — but allegedly treated them with disrespect.
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The Kiphuth Pool has served the University since 1932, but is now well past its prime.
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In memory of Dahl
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A call for respect T
he new semi-annual report on sexual misconduct is out, with more reported cases — and more details — than ever. The language is dry, but the emotional weight of the incidents described is undeniable. After the uproar following the last report, we all know we’re supposed to respond. But how? What should students do with this new information? After the last report our community came together in crisis — now, how do we come together in growth? The University can and must provide us with a solid infrastructure for response: forums for discussion, resources for support and tools for shaping positive culture. But in that last area it is students who ultimately have the largest influence; we mold and shape this culture based on our own experiences and ideals. Each of us must take responsibility in ensuring that everyone on this campus feels welcome, safe and respected. In prompting our peers to act against sexual misconduct, we too often say, “imagine if it was your sister, your brother or your friend.” But we cannot act only due to imagined bonds of friendship or kin. Rather, we should act because we are a community that aims to support its members. If we all adopt this philosophy, the aggregate potential for change is astounding.
HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THE REPORT ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT? Though the number of reported cases of sexual misconduct has risen to an alltime high, there are still likely many incidents that go unreported; as a community, we can address this ongoing problem. The first step is to make sure we are all knowledgeable about campus resources such as the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the Title IX Coordinators and SHARE. Education regarding this array of campus resources likely contributed to the diversity of situations included in the latest report. As the University confronts cases that range from stalking to sexual harassment to assault, community members appear to have realized that any violation of their right to a safe environment warrants attention and appropriate action. It is particularly critical that students in
Yale leadership positions learn about accessible resources, as they play a role in setting the tone for interactions on campus. But simply educating our campus about available resources is not enough. Study after study has found that survivors of sexual assault do not reach out for support or take action because they fear they will not be believed — they fear they will be abandoned by their friends and communities. Administrators have to send a strong message of support, but so do students. We need to make clear to our friends that we hold ourselves to the high standards that we so often discuss, that we are truly committed to treating each other with dignity and respect. We can accomplish this goal and encourage more reporting by showing that sexual misconduct is not acceptable on this campus, that we as students will not tolerate this behavior. This can mean merely speaking more openly about the topic or actively taking efforts to create safe spaces. In the context of a student organization, that might mean more communication to establish everyone’s comfort level regarding group activities. At a party, it might mean providing an alternative to alcohol or striving to create an environment in which people can stand by their personal wishes for the night without pressure. To really convey the depth of our support, we need to be active immediately when problems occur, not just afterwards. One of our most powerful tools of prevention is bystander intervention. One might imagine someone intervening as a knight in shining armor, but that’s not what typically occurs — instead, it’s usually a checkin with a friend, a well-placed joke or raised eyebrow, a willingness to step in and change the dynamic when we see pressure or disrespect. In some rare situations, that might involve calling in someone with more authority (another student, a master or dean, even the police), but we shouldn’t underestimate our own personal power to intervene. By paying attention to the people and situations around us, we can address problems the moment they arise — and at the same time, make our high standards visible to all. The recent report, like the last, is a reminder that every member of our community can be a part of our effort to end sexual misconduct.
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esterday, we lost a great American, an outstanding scholar and an unparalleled
Yalie. We mourn Robert Dahl, who passed away at 98. Over the coming days, many will note Dahl’s distinguished service in the Second World War, for which he received the Bronze Star. Others will review his impressive scholarship, including the groundbreaking study and defense of democracy that is “Who Governs?” Fewer, however, will praise him for his service to Yale. Robert Dahl played an unassuming but incredibly important part in shaping this University at crucial moments in the 1960s and 1970s. On numerous occasions, President Kingman Brewster turned to him in moments of crisis, which Dahl handled with superb aplomb. On May 1 1969, Yale students and faculty packed the Whale to debate the status of ROTC on campus. It was the height of the Vietnam War, and opposition to the military was fierce. The thousands-strong crowd threatened to turn raucous when the moderator, Provost Charles Taylor, announced he would only accept preselected speeches. It was Dahl who replaced Taylor, calmed the crowd, and transformed a potential disaster into a civilized con-
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versation. Dahl was a consensus builder, someone who could balance the competing passions in the stadium that evening — and the entire campus respected him, from radical students to conserva-
tive professors. His greatest service to the University came in a form that every academic dreads most: committees. Despite striking a personal agreement with Brewster that he not undertake this particular burden, Dahl repeatedly answered the president’s call to serve his small community. In 1965, a committee he led established the criteria by which Yale faculty achieve tenure. The resulting document has remained a landmark to which every subsequent tenure policy has, at least in part, returned. We have Dahl to thank for Yale adopting applicants without regard to their sex. From 1971 to 1972, he chaired the five-person Study Group on Yale College, which Brewster tasked with rein-
venting undergraduate education. To make a long story short, the University faced a sizable deficit at a time when the country was also rethinking the scope and purpose of higher education. Dahl’s committee was supposed to remake Yale into a financially sustainable, innovative institution. For six months, Dahl and his four colleagues placed their professional lives on hold. They traveled the nation to investigate best practices at peer schools, interviewed every stakeholder at the University and devoured enormous reams of research. In April of 1972, the Study Group published its report, which among other suggestions called for a three-year bachelor’s degree and a tutorial system based on the Oxbridge model. But as current undergraduates well know, Yale is still a fouryear college. The faculty rejected Dahl’s more interesting recommendations, a defeat which greatly disappointed him at the time. One part of the report, however, did gain approval: a proposal to remove sex as a consideration in admissions. While women had first come to Yale in 1969, their numbers were limited. It was Dahl who fully opened the door, so that today there are as many female as male undergraduates.
Dahl’s most vital service, however, does not bear his name. He was a key member of the famous Woodward Committee, which codified the University’s policy on free speech in 1975. To this day, it remains our community’s expression of its principles: that we abhor censorship and tolerate all ideas in a quest for knowledge. Dahl wrote the report’s first section, entitled “Of Values and Priorities.” His words and their elegance speak for themselves four decades later: “The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable and challenge the unchallengeable … We take a chance, as the First Amendment takes a chance, when we commit ourselves to the idea that the results of free expression are to the general benefit in the long run, however unpleasant they may appear at the time.” Two paragraphs later, he went on to write that universities are “a special kind of small society.” This one is that much better off for the life and service of Robert Dahl. NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a 2013 graduate of Davenport College. His senior thesis examined the Dahl and Woodward Committees.
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An alternative to Screw
KIKI OCHIENG is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at akinyi.ochieng@yale.edu.
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was already a nervous freshman. But when my Harvest leader told me what Freshman Screw was, the butterflies in my stomach turned into bats and I briefly considered staying on the farm forever instead of going to college. The reason I felt so uneasy was that my expectations had already begun to build — in my mind, Screw was a Major Rite of Passage and perhaps even the Biggest Night of Freshman Year! (I had yet to learn about Safety Dance. RIP.) My blind date could be a future significant other, a potentially awesome one-night stand or even a lifelong friend. My thinking was, because Screw can produce all of these great outcomes, if it ends up being a disappointment, I will have missed out on a classic Yale tradition. Of course, not every freshman gets as anxious as I did about Freshman Screw, or anything for that matter. But we all know that the expectations that build up around this kind of event can lead to many types of pressure —
whether it’s the internal kind of pressure that I put on myself, the direct pressure applied by peers or a more general, ambient pressure. That’s why the healthiest and most fun nights are the ones with options at every step of the way. If you don’t want to go to Freshman Screw, you shouldn’t have to. If you don’t want to drink, you should be able to grab a Sprite. But if you’re not the Global Grounds type and don’t feel like going to the dance with friends, you still shouldn’t have to feel that the night inevitably ends with you and your date in the same bed. With this in mind, the Freshman Counselors and Communication and Consent Educators teamed up to make the end of the night as option-rich as possible. For example, the Trumbull and Calhoun FroCos and CCEs built a cozy place to hang out in the Bingham Hall rotunda. We set up chairs, sofas and cushions, ordered more pizza and doughnuts than I have ever seen at one time and in one place, put on a
great Spotify playlist and laid out a board of Settlers of Catan. We wanted freshmen returning from the dance to be greeted by an inviting scene full of familiar faces. It was critical to the organizers of these events to avoid salting anyone’s game. It is just as important to promote fun and enthusiastic sexual encounters as it is to prevent pressured ones. Both projects are necessary to achieve the kind of positive and healthy sexual climate that campus leaders such as Frocos and CCEs are striving to build. And so, efforts to improve Screw needed to be subtle. Nobody was going to tell freshmen to make room for the Holy Ghost, and the environment had to be relaxed and informal. If two people were both psyched to head upstairs together, more power to them. Go ahead, virile freshpeople! But for those who were unsure whether they wanted to hook up, these spaces provided a moment for them to think about their options while chewing on a
Krispy Kreme. The hard work and care of the FroCos at these and other events cannot be overstated — but the goal was not to make them play chaperone. The logic behind our post-Screw checkpoints was that we could help dissipate all kinds of pressure by giving people the space and time to make the choices they wanted to make. And that’s what we should always strive for — not only at future Freshman Screws, but also hopefully after college dances, Spring Fling or Safety Dance, if it ever comes back from the dead. The CCEs don’t want to be the sex police, as hilarious as the uniform would probably be. We want to help cultivate an environment in which people look out for each other, in which enthusiastic encounters abound and sexual misconduct withers organically before it can even start. ELIZA DRYER is a senior in Trumbull College. She is a Community and Consent Educator. Contact her at eliza.dryer@yale.edu .
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ROBERT SHILLER “Every human activity that matters has to be financed; you cannot do good things for the world all by yourself."
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Speaking the same language “Y
ou girls speak Italian, right? Because Annamaria doesn’t speak any
English.” My roommate and I looked at each other in shock. Not five minutes earlier, we had been bonding over our mutual lack of Italian language experience. Proficiency in the language was not a requirement for the studyabroad program that we are enrolled in — though I am living in Florence, my studies are centered on art history and not on Italian. I had already planned to take an intensive beginner’s Italian course throughout the semester, but somehow, with what I was now beginning to realize was an all-too-naive and America-centric mentality, I had simply assumed that my host family would speak at least some level of English. As I followed my host mother to my new home, my head still fuzzy from jet lag and arms aching from the weight of my suitcases, my thoughts already had begun to spin into disappointment and worry. How on earth would we be able to communicate? I had so hoped that living in a home stay would allow me an inside peek into true Italian daily life, an invaluable, once-in-a-lifetime chance to be immersed in a wholly new culture. Yet now it seemed that such hopes would be impossible. How could my homestay become anything more than just a place to sleep at night, if we couldn’t even understand each
other? We Yalies often have issues with communication. Though disappointingly few choose to study abroad, the struggle for mutual understanding also underlies many of our on-campus concerns. Time and time again, I have heard my classmates lament their struggles to truly connect with others, to have meaningful conversations with their peers. This lack of mutual understanding is also present on a larger scale on campus, as the recent clashes between the undergraduate body and the Yale administration show.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IS NEVER EASY Perhaps no example is clearer than the swirl of controversy surrounding the selection of Yale’s newest president, Peter Salovey, which took place last fall. The lack of effective communication between the selection committee and the undergraduate body lead to widespread frustration, protests and a string of failed attempts at student input forums. The reception to the committee’s decision, and to the beginning of
President Salovey’s tenure, has thus far been largely positive — though in many respects it is still too early to tell. The underlying campus unrest about the handling of the selection is only just beginning to dissipate. And now, as Mary Miller’s resignation will soon bring about the search for a new dean of Yale College, the Yale administration and the student body are poised to clash once more. Already, student activists and organizations have begun to speak out about their hopes for the next candidate, and to raise concerns about the lack of a student voice in the selection process. Many have clearly explained just why student input is so important. But it is equally important to realize that unless we are able to effectively communicate our concerns to the administration this time, we will make no more progress than we did when pushing for representation in the appointment of President Salovey. It has now been two weeks since my roommate and I moved in with Annamaria — and it’s been an amazing experience. We don’t have fluent conversations, by any means, but the house is almost never quiet. Speaking in a mixture of English, Italian and mispronounced Spanish, often with the help of a pocket translation dictionary (and a lot of sign language), we’re able to cobble together a sort of working language. Getting across a specific idea is never easy,
and there are often moments of frustration when the worlds of an Italian grandmother and two American college students could not seem more distant. But we are all committed to making ourselves understood, and in the end, we always find some way to make it work. And the results — spending dinner listening to Annamaria reminisce about her childhood in a small seaside town, learning the art of sailing from her father — are more than worth the extra effort. Effective communication isn’t always easy. It takes patience and persistence. Both sides have to participate fully, to agree to put their full effort not only into sending their message, but also equally into receiving and comprehending the response. Whether we’re trying to form friendships with our peers, or make our voices heard to the administration, we need to remember that successful communication is never a given. As we approach campus challenges both large and small in the upcoming months, we must focus not only on the message itself, but also on how it is being said — and what the other party is saying in return. Only through successful communication will we be able to see real change. EMMA FALLONE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at emma.fallone@yale.edu .
A time for quizzing
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orget Nyan Cat, “Gangnam Style” and Honey Boo Boo Child; the latest sensation to enrapture the Internet is now the BuzzFeed quiz. At Yale the phenomenon seemed to start a few weeks back, when students began sharing one post — “Which College Should You Actually Go To?” — on Facebook. The absurdist personality quiz left some gleefully updating their statuses and others reflecting on anxieties that probably should have died senior year of high school. Either way, it was fun. And the folks doing BuzzFeed’s analytics must have thought so too, because soon they started publishing a lot more quizzes. Now, the ubiquity of these things is comical. They range from the cute (“Which Roald Dahl Character Are You?”) to the absurdist (“What Underdog Nation Should You Root for in the Winter Olympics?”) to the current (“Which Pop Diva Are You?”). New ones get posted every day, and dedicated procrastinators will tackle all of them regardless of any general applicability to their lives. I’ll probably never live in London, but still spent two minutes learning where in the city I “should actually live.” I found myself taking “How Much Would Ron Swanson Hate You?” despite having only seen three or four episodes of “Parks and Recreation.” The nice thing about BuzzFeed quizzes, though, is that this doesn’t really matter at all: The tests are
knowingly whimsical. Sure, Slate parodied the media company’s viral posts with “Which BuzzFeed Quiz Are You?” on Jan. 28, but MARISSA even the quizcomMEDANSKY industrial plex itself is not above self-parLittle Fables ody, as evidenced by this week’s “Which Arbitrary Thing Are You?” The ridiculousness is most certainly is self-aware. In the making and taking of these quizzes, no one on either end of the transaction really thinks that preferences as petty as your favorite color could ever divine matters as serious as the character in “Mean Girls” most similar to you. Stronger forces are needed for that (and that’s Nate Silver’s territory, anyhow). Nevertheless, these quizzes have drawn a considerable amount of media attention, and multiple writers have attempted to ascertain what their popularity might say about our culture as of late. Again at Slate, Emma Roller theorizes that the BuzzFeed quizzes delight us because they allow us to instantly affirm the traits we value about ourselves in a communal way. “By sharing your quiz results on Facebook,” she writes, “you are saying: Look! Like a Ravenclaw, I am intelligent yet kind. Like Daenerys Targaryen, I am not to be
trifled with.” Roller links to Jordan Shapiro of Forbes, who’s got another theory about why personality tests go viral that will, his headline warns, “blow my mind.” “Essentially, entertainment quizzes are diluted novelty versions of the psychological personality tests that gained popularity in the 1920s,” explains Shapiro. Mind blown. Shapiro thinks that the popularity of the personality test indicates a Freudian process known as displacement. In this case, what we’re displacing is our anxiety about government surveillance and how we’re shoving it aside is quizzes. “Rather than focusing on the algorithmic targeting and surveillance that has become so ordinary in our everyday lives,” he writes, “we distract ourselves by focusing on meaningless algorithmic categorization.”
WHICH MEAN GIRLS CHARACTER ARE YOU? AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? I disagree with this — both this particular Freudian interpretation and this broad phenomenon of searching for a more sophisticated synonym for “fun.” Sometimes a
cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a meaningless algorithmic categorization is just a meaningless algorithmic categorization. Sometimes that algorithmic categorization doesn’t foretell anything about the nature of journalism or the nature of society at large. If only that were the case here. Fortunately, there’s a happy medium between the totally unexamined life and a life so examined that suddenly these silly BuzzFeed quizzes become the harbinger of eschatological terror. I think that medium reveals this: That sometimes it is nice that things are strange or of no particular significance at all, and BuzzFeed quizzes are both, remarkably so. But moreover and more importantly these quizzes are healthy, in a weird sort of way. Spring semester is, in a sense, an endless slog of judgment. It can feel like one constant evaluation: an endless calendar of midterms and interviews, bookended by seminar applications and then acceptance results from internships or jobs. Perhaps, then, there is something nice, or even something subversive, about this strange reclamation of quizzing. And it’s natural that quizzes without right answers are the most fun — especially ones about Beyoncé. MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .
Preserving the fantasy I
n January, Lena Dunham, the star and creator of HBO’s hit series “Girls,” defended Vogue’s decision to publish altered images of her on their cover. In an interview, she said what I think many of SHIRA believe, despite pubTELUSHKIN us lic criticisms of magazines that photoshop the Behind images on their covers: “A fashion magazine is like a Blue Eyes beautiful fantasy. Vogue isn’t the place we go to look at realistic women … If [the people complaining] want to see what I really look like go watch the show I make every single week.” Dunham, also known for being proud of her “not tiny” thighs, gets naked frequently on episodes of “Girls.” Dunham’s argument struck me, precisely because I could imagine many of my Yale friends disagreeing with her argument. We are all accustomed to criticizing the fashion industry for promoting a dangerously impossible standard of beauty, and one which inspires women and girls across the country to negative body images. We’ve all seen before-and-after pictures of celebrities made to look thinner and more gaunt, to look as though they have perfect skin and bright eyes. How could Dunham justify something so wrong as misrepresentations of beauty?
VOGUE CAN PHOTOSHOP ITS COVER GIRLS, BUT WE NEED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN MODELS AND CELEBRITIES But sometimes I think we misunderstand beauty. We misunderstand the fashion photography industry and the fantasies it works to create. Art is not meant to be realistic. Beauty is not supposed to merely portray truth. So ultimately I agree with Dunham’s defense of fashion photography. In fact, I thought it was pretty rude of Jezebel to offer $10,000 in exchange for the pre-processed photos, as if Dunham had no right to be presented, with her consent, any way other than the way she is. What did bother me about Dunham’s cover image, upon consideration, is the way that the fashion world has begun to muddle the categories of celebrity and model, leading us into a world where all women must be able to double as models. The practice of featuring photos of celebrities on magazine covers is fairly recent. Up until the 1990s, fashion magazines almost exclusively used models on their covers. Everyone else was featured inside. Fashion photography was about creating some whimsical scene, evoking a dramatic mood — basically, standard artistic practice. The switch to celebrities is often attributed to a 1989 decision by Anna Wintour, Vogue’s famed editor in chief, to use Madonna as a cover photo. Despite hesitations, sales of the Madonna-clad magazines spiked by 40%, and the industry — or so legend goes — was changed for good. This shift from using models as cover girls to using celebrities is nearly complete. When was the last time you saw a magazine cover that featured a model, like the carefree and naturally styled Israeli girl Anna Wintour chose for her first cover at Vogue? Featuring celebrities, while perhaps raising sales, has merely widened the pool of those who need to look cover-ready. To be a model is to enter a profession that is centered on beauty and physicality. Models are meant to be ogled. But celebrities are not. Female writers and actors — like Dunham — did not choose to enter the modeling profession. They are profiled and interviewed and photographed, but they’re not models, though they are treated as if they were when editors choose to put them on magazine covers. Today, fashion magazines are taking women of all lifestyles and professions, and turning them into models for their covers. This is unreasonable, both for the artistic integrity of fashion photography, and for the women who consume it. There is a lot of talk on campus about being realistic about our own limitations. Invariably, this talk is also related to looks. We talk a lot about what it means to be visually presentable, to be physically acceptable. What it means to be beautiful. We should not expect our fashion and beauty magazines to provide us with realistic portrayals of the average woman. That is not their role. Dunham was right when she said people turn to Vogue for fantasy, and I don’t want to live in a world stripped of fantasy. Nonetheless, the wall between fantasy and reality needs to be made clearer. The crossover that currently exists is unfair for celebrities like Dunham and readers like ourselves. SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .
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“How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought.” SYLVIA PLATH AMERICAN WRITER
Fundraising efforts for pool dismissed
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An architect’s rendering of the proposed new swimming center, which will for now remain unbuilt. SWIMMING FROM PAGE 1 group of about 150 graduates, all former Yale swimmers, began discussing how the alumni could lobby the University to build or revamp the school’s swimming facilities and “restore the program’s glory.” “People no longer want to swim at Yale because the [Kiphuth] Pool is so far past its prime [that] it is no longer competitive,” said former swimmer Timothy Garton ’64, adding that the men’s team had not defeated archrival Harvard in 20 years. Garton said that he and a group of alumni formed a Steering Committee, led by five individuals, which would lead fundraising initiatives and coordinate alumni initiatives with the University.
People no longer want to swim at Yale because the pool is so far past its prime. TIMOTHY GARTON ’64 Former competitive swimmer The Steering Committee began official discussions with Yale Facilities in January 2013 after two years of soliciting pledges for donations from alumni and researching the costs and requirements of a new natatorium. Acting as a liaison on behalf of the Steering Committee, the Facilities Office presented University administrators in September with two options: expand the current Kiphuth Exhibition Pool or build a new facility in the vicinity of the Yale Bowl. The alumni were willing to contribute $20 million to fund the construction of a new facility in the vicinity of the Yale Bowl. But according to a letter obtained by the News from Steering Committee member Steve Clark ’65 to the rest of the Alumni Group, Yale rejected Steering Committee suggestions to consider alternative downtown locations other than at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, even though the University would not have to contribute any funds towards building the new center. In the same letter, Clark, a three-time Olympic gold medalist who spearheaded the alumni fundraising campaign, reported that University Vice-President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus
Development Bruce Alexander and other Yale officers had decided a new aquatic center would not be University priority for at least 10 to 20 years. “While we are disturbed that the offer from a group of alums to raise and donate $15-20 million remains ignored, our goal remains simply a new, first class aquatic facility which will allow the Yale teams to train and compete on an equal footing with Harvard and Princeton,” wrote Clark in the letter, adding that neither the members of the Alumni Group nor the University’s Development Office believed the alumni could not fully raise the $45 million necessary for expanding the Kiphuth Pool. In an email to the News, University Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said all athletic facility projects at the moment must be funded through gifts rather than University contributions. Greg Lawler ’69, another member of the Steering Committee, said that the University administrators repeatedly evaded and ignored phone calls and emails by the alumni, many of whom were hoping to persuade the University to reverse its position and allow them to build a new facility. He added that the Steering Committee wrote a letter to University President Peter Salovey on Nov. 6, requesting the opportunity to meet with him about the status of the project. As of now, the group has yet to receive a response from the President’s Office. In their letter to the President, the Committee wrote that the pool has been “an embarrassment for an institution like Yale for at least thirty years.” According to Lawler and Garton, Yale’s unresponsiveness and lack of communication has alienated many alumni, thereby hurting both the natatorium project and alumni’s willingness to give to the University more broadly. Both members of the Steering Committee said that numerous alumni who had originally committed sevenfigure donations to the project have since written letters to the committee stating their disinterest in donating to Yale. Garton said he found the University’s unresponsiveness confounding. O’Neill said Yale traditionally assigns a gift officer to each unit of the University, such as the professional schools or athletics, according to O’Neill. The gift officers do not raise all of the money, but instead coordinate with key donors to raise as much as they can for proj-
ects deemed to be of the highest priority by the University Provost and President. O’Neill added that these staff members’ goal is to help the donors give in a way that will make them want to pledge a future gift. When Yale took on Harvard at Madison Square Garden for the first annual Rivalry On Ice, Athletic Director Tom Beckett met with the Yale Sports Federation, a relatively new group of alumni that lobbies on behalf of Yale Athletics. At the meeting, one member of the Sports Federation, who wished to remain anonymous out of concern about retribution from his employer, told the News that Beckett said he supported the plan for the natatorium located by the Yale Bowl. Beckett added, however, that discussions regarding the plans were in a difficult place. According to the same anonymous member, Beckett did not list any specific reasons why the University was steadfast in refusing to consider new locations for the aquatic center. Nevertheless, Salovey told
the News on Thursday that he plans on responding to the Steering Committee’s concerns. “Mr. Beckett and I do plan on responding to the concerns of the swimming alumni,” Salovey said. “I think there’s a lot of room for a constructive conversation and planning process with a group who is passionate about their support and love Yale.” All sixteen students interviewed said they were confused by the treatment the alumni have received. “I’m shocked not just that the University turned down the money, but [at] how the alumni were treated,” said Andrew Sobotka ’15, a supporter of Yale athletics who has consistently called for Yale to develop more athletics-friendly policies. He added that the University should always treat its alumni with the utmost respect and gratitude. Although he does not know why the University rejected the alumni’s initial offer, Sobotka said that it was possible to interpret this decision as the latest in a string of
policies that the University has pursued to the detriment of athletic excellence, citing the University’s relatively stringent recruiting policies as one such example. Beau Palin ’14, former captain of the football team, said that administrators who decline donations to advance Yale's facilities in any department or activity are doing the University a great disservice.
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Current swimmers appreciate the Kiphuth Pool and find something special about swimming in a venue as historic as Yale’s pool, which was built in 1932. “While a new facility would be great, I think Yale has the best pool in the Ivy League,” said swimmer Danny Clarke ’14. “The Kiphuth Pool is arguably the most historic swimming venue in the world. It has been a privilege to swim in the same pool that so many Yale swimming legends swam in.” The feeling of being a part of
history that swimmers describe does not come without a cost, however. According to Garton, before Princeton comes to compete at Yale, Princeton swimmers run a special pool exercise. While those that are swimming remain in the pool, the other members of the team sit around the sides of the pool and dip their feet in the water, kicking as hard as they can in an effort to mimic the turbulence they will experience while swimming in Yale’s Kiphuth Pool. Swimmer Milan Sandhu ’16 said that the superior facilities of rivals such as Princeton give Yale a disadvantage when the University tries to attract top recruits. He added that recruits can easily be impressed by the flashy facilities at other schools. The men’s swim team has not won an Ivy League championship since 1993. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu and RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
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The new complex would provide for much better pool facilities than the highly outdated Kiphuth Pool.
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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” VICTOR HUGO FRENCH AUTHOR
New group to promote socioeconomic discussion BY ELEANOR RUNDE STAFF REPORTER The discussion around socioeconomic class at Yale appears to be picking up steam. Last night, Yale’s Peer Liaisons — upperclassmen who help connect first-year students to cultural houses and other communities within Yale — hosted a dinner-discussion at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center centered on socioeconomic class. The event came over a month after the PLs launched a Tumblr website called “Class at Yale,” which has published nearly 100 anonymous submissions describing students’ experiences with socioeconomic class at the University. This semester, David Truong ’14 is also spearheading the creation of a new student organization, called the Undergraduate First-Generation Low-Income Partnership, or U-FLIP. The group will center on discussions of socioeconomic class and the unique challenges present for students from low-income backgrounds, though students of all backgrounds are welcome. Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, a
PL at the Native American Cultural Center, said the idea for the event originally came from PLs in the Afro-American and AsianAmerican centers. Organizers also contacted the LGBTQ community and the Chaplain’s office in order to attract a broad spectrum of students, she added. At Thursday’s dinner, every table in the Afro-American Cultural Center was full, and organizers said they were pleased with the turnout. Students listened to a speech by history professor Jay Gitlin and then broke up into smaller groups to share their own experiences with class at Yale. Gitlin gave examples of the subtle and overt ways that class affects student life at Yale. Drawing from his own experiences, Gitlin recalled playing music on the back of a pickup truck and then performing in a jazz trio at the British Art Gallery immediately afterwards. Over the past several decades, Gitlin said, Yale has changed from a place where students of modest backgrounds were referred to as “the poor boys” to a school at which students of varying socioeconomic sta-
tus are treated equally. Much of Gitlin’s talk centered on the idea that students belong to two different worlds, one outside of Yale and one inside the University. Gitlin spoke of the challenges of negotiating these two different identities, but said policies such as need-blind admissions have made socioeconomic status a less visible issue, despite its continuing significance in student life. Students interviewed said conversations about class are rare at Yale. “There has been relative silence about this issue,” Kiki Ochieng ’15 said. “We’re so much more comfortable talking about religion or race.” Although Yale provides financial aid to students for books and tuition, students said during discussions at the event that they still find unstructured social situations challenging to navigate. In the discussions, students talked about the discomfort that many Yale students feel when furnishing their common rooms or being invited out to expensive restaurants with friends. They also debated issues such as whether or not class is a fundamental part of individual and
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Students listen to a speech by history professor Jay Gitlin on socioeconomic status at the Afro-American Cultural Center. community identity. Anna Lu ’17 said class is talked about much less at Yale than it was at her high school. She added, however, that she saw last night’s event as important progress. “Because we’re keeping it hidden, it’s such a big deal,” Ochieng
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said. “By bringing into the open, I hope we can just shrug our shoulders and say, well, we all come from different places … We’ll find a middle ground of some sort.” At the end of the event, Gitlin said he is hopeful that students will use conversations about
The ban on fall rush for fraternities for freshmen has not had significant detrimental effects on the number of participating students. BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER Despite the ban on fall rush for freshmen, fraternities at Yale have seen an increase in the number of students participating in rush. Leaders of the five fraternities interviewed said they have mostly adjusted to the ban, now in its second year of enforcement, though many faced financial, logistical and recruitment challenges last year. Three of the five fraternities reported more rush participants this semester than in previous years. In response to the increase in numbers, some fraternities have decided to alter their rush policies this year, with Sigma Nu holding two rush periods this semester. Sigma Chi President Kadeem Yearwood ’15 said the ban has actually created more demand for fraternities. Because freshmen are prevented from joining fraternities in the fall, they may view fraternities as a significant social scene from which they are excluded and may be more motivated to rush in the spring. “If it seems like it’s harder to attain, they’re more likely to desire it,” he said. President of Sigma Phi Epsilon, or Sig Ep, Andrew Goble ’15 said the ban on fall rush gave freshmen time to see how Yale fraternities differ from the stereotypes portrayed on TV and in movies. Goble said around 105 students signed up to rush Sig Ep, a large
increase from previous years. Because more students rushed this spring than before the ban, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon rush process was more chaotic than it used to be, said SAE President Samir Sama ’15. “It becomes hard to reach out to everyone we’re interested in with enough personal attention, whereas before we could just split that into two semesters,” he said. Though more students rushed SAE this semester and the spring semester pledge class is larger than it was in previous years, Sama said the total number of new recruits in SAE this year has actually decreased slightly because of the lack of fall rush. When he rushed SAE, Sama said the fraternity offered bids to 31 students — 17 during the fall rush period and 14 during the spring. This year, there was no fall rush for freshmen, and SAE offered bids to 25 rushees in the spring, he said. Though 90 students rushed SAE and 40 formally asked for bids, Sama said SAE wanted to keep the pledge class relatively small. “What differentiates having smaller class sizes [is that] everyone can get to know each other and actually be brothers,” he said. Sigma Nu will hold two rush periods this spring in order to include all students interested in rushing, said Sig Nu President Conner Lachenbruch ’15. The first rush period, currently in progress, is comprised primarily of soccer, golf and tennis
players, while the second period will likely include other students who have enjoyed spending time at the fraternity and would like to become brothers. Chi Psi, revived last year after almost five decades of dormancy, completed its first official rush process last Friday. Of the 60 to 80 students that rushed Chi Psi, 22 were offered bids, Chi Psi President Michael Herbert ’16 said. The lack of a fall rush period for freshmen gave Chi Psi brothers the opportunity to get to know potential pledges, Herbert said, and may have helped the fraternity with recruitment by giving it time to establish its legitimacy. “We do our rush differently — by the time it starts, there are few surprises, and we kind of know who we want to take,” Herbert said. “We really tried to build our frat on interpersonal relationships and already knew most of the freshmen.” The new policy in 2012 that banned fall rush for Greek organizations also stipulated that all organizations holding rush events must submit a “rush plan” to the Yale College Dean’s Office. Two of the five interviewed fraternities were not aware of this rule, and two said it was not enforced. The Committee on Hazing and Initiations recommended the freshman fall rush ban in spring 2011. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .
Contact ELEANOR RUNDE at eleanor.runde@yale.edu .
Malloy zeroes in on economy BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER
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class to help shape a better future for Yale. The kickoff event for the new club, U-FLIP, will be Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Native American Cultural Center.
Facing a competitive reelection battle in November, Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed tax refunds, increased spending on higher education, a higher minimum wage and a host of other new initiatives in his annual State of the State address Thursday morning. The 42-minute speech presented a rosy picture of Connecticut’s economic recovery, laid out the governor’s agenda and presented his budget proposal for the coming year. Malloy focused on economic issues, promising $280 million in tax cuts over the next two years and tax refunds of $110 for families and $55 for individuals. He claimed these measures will create 1,200 jobs this year. He also proposed raising the minimum wage to $10.10, investing $10 million in the STEP UP program — an initiative that incentivizes the hiring of veterans and longterm unemployed people — and eliminating homelessness among veterans by 2015. Malloy praised the Nutmeg State’s progress, but emphasized that Connecticut still has work to do, especially in addressing economic inequality. “In order to keep this recovery going, we need to continue making thoughtful, even bold investments in our future, and in the future of our children,” Malloy said. The governor devoted a large portion of his speech to discussing education, focusing on early childhood and higher education. He suggested committing Connecticut to the goal of universal pre-K and proposed plans to add 4,000 pre-K seats by 2019. He also announced a new program that would give each child born in the state a $100 college savings account and match parental contributions of up to $150. Pat O’Neil, spokesman for the House of Representatives Republicans, said the lack of discussion of the state’s kindergarten through 12th grade reflected the governor’s desire to shift focus away from public schools, where teachers have criticized the hasty implementation of the Common Core curriculum. “We heard a lot about pre-K, we heard a lot about post high school education,” O’Neil said. “We didn’t hear an iota of evidence about how he wants to address kindergarten through 12th because teachers are in open revolt over the Common Core curriculum.” The address won praise from Democratic legislators who support Malloy’s
plans to increase spending on education and unemployment reduction programs, and criticism from Republicans who claimed the governor is pandering to Democratic voters to improve his reelection odds. Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said he found the governor’s proposals largely unsurprising, representing the renewal of Democratic goals that had been put on hold during the recession and economic recovery. “We’re finally coming into a period of greater, positive economic activity,” Looney said. “I think that the things that the governor proposed, especially adding additional funding for job development, are building up the momentum that’s beginning towards acting.” Laurence Grotheer, spokesperson for New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, said the mayor was largely pleased with the governor’s agenda and budget. However, he said Harp was hoping that the state government would increase funding for the Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) Program, which partially compensates municipal governments for revenue lost from tax-exempt organizations, such as Yale. State Senator Leonard Fasano, who represents North Haven, Wallingford, East Haven and Durham, said he believed Malloy used the speech as a tool to garner votes rather than deliver a frank appraisal of Connecticut’s challenges. “When you paint a picture of Connecticut that’s rosy for the sole purpose of garnering votes, I have serious issues with that type of speech,” Fasano said. Several times in his speech, Malloy proposed policies that are also supported by President Obama. Gary Rose, chairman of the political science department at Scared Heart University, said Malloy may be hoping to capitalize on Obama’s popularity in the state. “Even though he’s not on the ticket this year, I think in some respects Malloy is trying to connect to Obama’s coattails,” Rose said. Rose, on the other hand, dismissed Republican allegations of pandering, and said governors facing reelection deliver the State of the State address with an eye towards November regardless of political affiliation. Connecticut’s unemployment rate has gone from a high of 9.4 percent in 2010, down to 7.4 percent today. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
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Gov. Dannel Malloy laid out his proposed agenda during his State of the State address — tax refunds, higher minimum wage and many other initiatives.
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FROM THE FRONT Dahl’s legacy remembered DAHL FROM PAGE 1 ence was later termed the behavioral revolution. “When Bob Dahl became a leading figure in political science, the Yale political science department was, in large part because of his presence, by far and away the best political science department in the country,” said political science professor Jacob Hacker GRD ’00. In 1961, Dahl published his book “Who Governs?” which used the city of New Haven as a case study to analyze patterns of power structures in governance. Over the next four decades, Dahl examined democracy, foreign policy, the United States Congress, the Constitution, welfare and other topics. In 1985, the magazine Foreign Affairs called him the “dean of American political scientists.” “Bob Dahl was arguably the greatest political scientist of his generation,” said political science professor Douglas Rae. “There was an incandescent intellect there which was quite remarkable. I gave up going to law school in order to do political science because I was so impressed with Bob Dahl’s work.” Dahl’s influence is evident in the rate at which fellow colleagues cited him in their work. Even amongst top scholars, Shapiro said, it is rare to have more than one work with over 1,000 citations on Google Scholar: Several of Dahl’s publications have over 5,000. Beyond academia, Dahl acted as an informal adviser to numerous University presidents. In the late 1960s, at the height of conflict over the Vietnam War and
the place of the Reserve Officer Training Corp at Yale, Dahl presided over a vote on the matter attended by some 3,000 people. He tactfully navigated the tensions of the moment, Yale professor Douglas Rae recalled.
I gave up going to law school in order to do political science because I was so impressed with Bob Dahl’s work. DOUGLAS RAE Professor, Political science Shortly after, in 1972, Dahl chaired the committee that endorsed admitting an equal number of men and women to the University. “Over the years, he was a steady and sound adviser to many Yale deans, provosts and presidents,” said former University President Richard Levin. “A man of the highest integrity, he put the University, and its commitment to excellence in scholarship and teaching, above all else.” But in spite of his University leadership, Dahl never took on an administrative role. Former Yale Corporation Secretary Henry Chauncey said Kingman Brewster, who served as University president from 1963 through 1977, offered Dahl administrative posts multiple times. But according to Chauncey, Dahl only wanted to be a scholar and a teacher. “He was a scholar to the core,”
Shapiro said. “That’s what made him tick.” Dahl was also a beloved mentor to graduate students, many of whom became leaders in the political science field. Jeffrey Isaac GRD ’83, a political science professor at Indiana University, said Dahl served as his teacher, mentor and dissertation supervisor. “He was a warm, openminded and wonderfully supportive teacher,” Isaac said. “He was a great man, and it was an honor to know him, to study with him, and to consider him a friend.” Due to a mandatory age of retirement at the University at the time, Dahl stopped teaching in 1987. Still, he continued to maintain a powerful presence in the political science department. Hacker said Dahl remained engaged in the department until the last few years of his life, and was always willing to offer assistance and mentorship to colleagues. His long-lasting engagement, Hacker said, is a “remarkable testament to what a truly great man he was as well as a great scholar.” Dahl continued to publish well into the later years of his life, turning his focus from American politics to comparative politics research and democratic theory. His last book, “On Political Equality,” was published in 2006. Dahl is survived by his wife, Ann. Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” JOSEPH CAMPBELL AMERICAN MYTHOLOGIST
Faculty discuss proposed FAS dean FACULTY MEETING FROM PAGE 1 Both Miller and University Provost Benjamin Polak said they personally support for the committee’s preferred model. Miller stressed the need for a change in governance, noting that two jobs — hers and the provost’s — have gotten “out of control.” The University Provost is currently responsible for both the University-wide budget and the FAS budget — two different roles that may sometimes cause conflicts of interest. A Dean of the FAS would have responsibility over the budgets of departments in the FAS — effectively serving as a standalone provost for Yale College and the Graduate School, Miller said. Miller also explained that she currently devotes between 40 and 50 percent of her time to faculty affairs, working with departments to conduct faculty searches and facilitate promotions. With the imminent expansion of Yale College due to the construction of two new residential colleges, the Yale College Dean will be so preoccupied with student life that the position will not allow time for faculty engagement, Miller said, further justifying the need for a more faculty-specific dean. While other proposed models from the report were borrowed from Harvard and the University of Chicago, Miller said the preferred model would be “idiosyncratic and designed for Yale,” as it is a more undergraduate-focused institution than the other two. Miller said one professor at the meeting noted that the preferred model provides the least difficult hurdles to implementation, retaining most of the current concept of Yale governance while still offering a more robust new model. But philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca said that while he is “very much in favor” of the creation of a Dean of the FAS,
he is more ambivalent about the need to create other new divisional deans. Miller — who stressed the need to keep Yale’s administration “lean” — said Polak explained to faculty members at Thursday’s meeting that the governance changes could be made without necessarily growing the administration. But not everything about the new structures needs to be figured out by this summer, when the new model is implemented, she said. Though the administration has a preference for one specific model, Polak said the changes to the University’s decanal structure are not yet settled. “This isn’t a fait accompli by any means. I think it needs to be aired a little bit,” he said. English professor Leslie Brisman said in a Tuesday email that he has not been following the issue, adding that he sees no real need for a change to the University’s governance structure. But faculty members who do support the changes said they lean towards the preferred model with a FAS dean reporting to the Provost. English professor David Kastan said the provost’s current job description as chief operating officer for the entire University as well as essentially an FAS Dean is both unreasonably demanding and inefficient for the University. “It is not just that each of these jobs is probably unmanageable by a single person, but the interests of Arts and Sciences are underrepresented in the existing structure,” Kastan said. The report was authored by a committee comprising professors Dirk Bergemann, Emily Greenwood, Scott Miller, Linda Peterson and Ramamurti Shankar. It was chaired by professor John Dovidio. Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .
Students question “timely warnings” YPD FROM PAGE 1 the University’s extensive infrastructure to keep its students informed and, more importantly, safe. But as December passed without news from the department, which had not released a timely warning message — email alerts detailing crimes that happen on or near University grounds — from Higgins since the Nov. 25 lockdown, some began to wonder about the implications of this recent wave of reports and the administrative criteria behind it. “The chief and I evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, the information the Yale Police Department has received, what type of crime occurred, and what type of threat it might present,” Associate Vice President of Administration Janet Lindner said in an email. The department is required to report timely information about “crimes considered to be a threat to other students and employees” according to the Clery Act, a federal law passed by George H.W. Bush ’48 in 1990 that pertains to security on college campuses. In cases of immediate importance, the YPD sends out emails as part of the Yale emergency alert system, which was last used in response to the campus shooting threats during November recess last fall. Timely warnings, however,
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serve as the department’s most frequent means of communication with students — and typically take the form of an email from Higgins. The Clery Act requires information to be released 24 hours after the relevant crime, and the announcements are strictly dictated by the guidelines laid out by the act and in University policy, Higgins said. “The communication is based on the Clery Act,” Higgins said. He added that the act lists the specific crimes that must be reported by campus police to students: murder, forcible and nonforcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft and manslaughter, in addition to liquor, drug and weapons-possession crimes. Of 16 students interviewed, the majority expressed either indifference towards or approval of the YPD’s communication system. Audrey Fernandez-Fraser DIV ’16 said she has noticed an uptick in Chief Higgins’s messages lately and that she sees them as helpful, if slightly opaque. “I’m definitely glad that they let us know when stuff happens,” Fernandez-Fraser said. “I have no way of knowing if they’re letting us know about everything that happens or how they decide — I usually just assume that they’re keeping us informed about anything significant.”
Some, however, pointed to areas they wanted the department to address. “I think they’re doing a pretty good job,” Serena Lau ’17 said, before adding that she would like to see timely warnings sent sooner after the crimes take place. Though the timely warnings are required to be released within 24 hours, most of them, such as the latest message sent on Feb. 1 at 1:25 a.m., are delivered as quickly as 90 minutes later. In these messages, Higgins provides the victim’s University affiliation and health condition, suspect description, incident location and investigation status. Timely warnings also include general safety tips and various phone numbers for the department’s many security resources, such as nighttime shuttle services. Higgins also sends out public safety messages, often at the beginning of the University’s fall, spring and summer academic terms. These present a broader survey of crime around New Haven, pointing out recent trends and police activity.The YPD’s annual security report lists statistics for each reportable crime, also noting which incidents were considered hate crimes. Furthermore, the report acknowledges an inherent discrepency between the figures
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it reports for sexual crime and those provided in the Yale University Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct due to the University’s “more expansive definition of sexual assault and misconduct” in that document, according to the YPD’s annual security report.
The chief and I evaluate on a case-by-case basis, the information the [YPD} has received. JANET LINDNER Associate vice president of administration, Yale University Though the act holds specific standards, university officials nationwide decide, to a degree, what ends up being reported. David Carlisle, a Deputy Chief at the University of Southern California’s Department of Public Safety, said that, though the Clery Act does not require university police to report crime in off-campus areas, he often feels compelled to do so in spots frequented by students. USC is located in Los Angeles’ SouthCentral neighborhood, which, like New Haven, is a highly urban, historically crime-ridden area. “If a robbery happens on
the sidewalk in front of a USC building, the Clery Act mandates that we report it,” Carlisle said. “But it could happen a block away, in front of a private residence, and then it’s not required.” Carlisle added that, because the Clery Act is such a complex piece of legislation, his department recently hired Mardi Walters, an expert on the act, in a consulting role to help with such projects as a streamlined timely warning system that will allow messages to be sent within an hour of the crime. Other factors weigh into the decision to send a report as well. Over-reporting crime runs the risk of desensitizing people or creating “an atmosphere of fear,” as Carolyn Lee ’15 believes the YPD systems currently do. Higgins added that, should alerts — like the five in 2014 — come in quick succession of one other, it is because doing so is necessary both to keep the community aware and to comply with the Clery Act. “We do hear from some people who feel we send too many messages, while others think we should let the campus know about every crime in New Haven,” Lindner said. “The goal is not to frighten anyone or to overload them with crime reports.” Conversely, reporting too few incidents can result in backlash. Following the two separate
robbery-assaults at East Rock Park on Law School students, when no YPD announcement was made after the first attack, some students approached department officials for action. Higgins released a general public safety update on Oct. 4 — without discussing the initial incident — 15 days before the second attack took place in the same location. A timely warning was issued on Oct. 22, indicating that the New Haven Police Department had launched an investigation into the matter. Though neither Carlisle nor Higgins said they could be sure about how seriously students at their respective school treat these messages, it is the police’s responsibility to keep their community as up-to-date as possible. “Timely warnings are issued to provide members of our community with an opportunity to change their behavior or be mindful,” Higgins said. “We encourage people to read them — we’re sending them for a reason. I hope people adhere to our suggestions.” The Clery Act was passed as a result of the 1986 on-campus rape and murder of Jeanne Clery, then a student at LeHigh University. Sarah Bruley contributed reporting. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” HORACE MANN AMERICAN REFORMIST
Pedestrians concerned about traffic safety
Babysitter’s repeated abuse kills baby BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER
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As Mayor Toni Harp calls for greater pedestrian safety, the Yale community is trying to make popular intersections on campus safer. BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER In light of Mayor Toni Harp’s call for heightened pedestrian safety in her State of the City address, concerns persist for the safety of certain intersections on Yale’s campus. At the intersection of Grove Street and Hillhouse Avenue by the back gate of Silliman College, students and residents report that cars speed by and rarely stop for pedestrians, despite the crosswalk and yield signal. “It takes a while to cross there,” said Merita Beriashi ’16, a student living in Silliman. “You usually have to wait until the stoplight [at College Street] turns red. The cars should stop regardless, though.” On SeeClickFix, New Haven’s civic feedback forum, the issue of high speeds at the intersection garnered input from five residents, including the newly appointed Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04, who commented on the intersection while serving as Ward 7 Alder. He said intersections like these pose greatest risk to children, the elderly and disabled people.
A city official attempted to close the file on the Grove-Hillhouse intersection on Jan. 7, but SeeClickFix moderators reopened it due to demand by residents. “People have to stick with the issue,” said one resident who frequently crosses the intersection and has been alarmed by the high speeds. “You can’t close an issue until the core problems are resolved.” Over a hundred intersections throughout the city have been reported on the site, alongside proposals by residents to make the intersections safer. Mark Abraham ’04, coordinator for the Safe Streets Coalition, said SeeClickFix offers planners a helpful look at pedestrian safety issues over time, as residents document and post concerns, collisions and issues. Wide, one-way streets like Grove are conducive to speeding and put pedestrians at risk, Abraham said, but the city could take several measures — such as widening sidewalks, creating bike lanes and allowing for street parking — to narrow the street and thus reduce vehicle speeds.
“Huge flower pots can serve the same purpose as curb bumpouts, for instance, and other speed deterrents will create a slower pace to improve public safety,” Harp proposed in the State of the City address, which focused heavily on issues of transportation and traffic. Another technique would be to slightly raise the grade of the asphalt to form a low road bump called a speed table, Abraham said. Construction of a speed table is underway at the intersection of Whitney Avenue and Audubon Street as of August. New Haven and Yale are splitting the $320,000 bill “These improvements should increase pedestrian traffic in the area, and so will add to Yale’s economic development initiatives by lending support to local merchants,” Yale Spokesperson Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93 told the News in August. Hausladen said that the process citizens would take to improve the intersection would include working with Alders and community groups and submitting an official request through the Complete Streets program that is responsible for street improvement. From there, the city
would begin gathering metrics on the safety of the intersection and modifyZ it accordingly. But data does not always lead to immediate resolutions for pedestrian safety issues. In a 2009 report on campus intersections, the Elm-York intersection by Broadway was rated the most dangerous based on manual scoring, SeeClickFix reports and motor vehicle collision statistics. Almost five years later, the city has made no significant improvements to the intersection. But in the fall, the Yale Traffic Safety Committee launched a Pedestrian Safety Campaign, with signs encouraging students to “look both ways” and pay attention as they were crossing, in response to a survey released last spring that showed Yale pedestrians are concerned about aggressive drivers. Every year, approximately 100 New Haven adults are injured after being struck by a car, according to data released by the University’s Traffic Safety Committee. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
New Haven Port Authority makes progress BY IKE SWETLITZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The New Haven Port Authority held its monthly meeting on Thursday evening, reviewing its progress on numerous projects over the past year. Judi Scheiffele, executive director of the New Haven Port Authority, briefed the board on projects such as the reconstruction of Waterfront Street, restoration of breakwaters damaged by Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy, and the dredging of the harbor channel. “It’s amazing how much we have accomplished,” said Katharine Goodbody, one of the commissioners of the Port Authority, who chaired the meeting. Meeting attendees were particularly excited about the progress of the dredging project, a process of removing material from the bottom of a waterway in order to increase the depth of the water. The dredg-
ing of the New Haven Harbor channel is a maintenance project conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers whose purpose is to increase the depth of the channel to its authorized depth of 35 feet.
It’s amazing how much we have accomplished. KATHARINE GOODBODY Commissioner, New Haven Port Authority The process of dredging the Harbor Channel has been going on for at least five years. In 2009, the Army Corps conducted a preliminary study of the material at the bottom of the channel to determine where it could be placed after dredging, and what the cost would be, according to the New Haven Register. Ralph Gogliettino, an advisor to the port authority and the pres-
ident of Port Security Services, which operates out of New Haven, spoke about challenges in the dredging process. He said marine pilots have expressed concern the dredging ships might block access to the channel. Currently, the channel is being dredged, and the material is being deposited at the Central Long Island Sound Disposal Site. This is an area in the Long Island Sound about 11 square kilometers that sits about six and a half miles south of East Haven, according to a Jan. 2013 public notice from the New England District of the Army Corps. Dredging of the main channel should be completed by midFebruary, according to the annual report Scheiffele distributed at the meeting. After that time, dredging will commence on areas closer to shore. Scheiffele, along with two members of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, also
discussed progress of the reconstruction of Waterfront Street, which runs parallel to the channel and provides road access for the terminal operators. The construction is part of the port authority’s Strategic Land Use Plan, prepared in May 2007, which involves extending railroad tracks to the port. Sheiffele said Waterfront Street should be reconstructed by the spring, which will make possible the construction of additional railroad tracks. T h e b o a rd u n a n i m o u s ly approved the minutes from last year’s meeting, as well as an updated budget that extends through June 2014. The meeting ended with a motion to go into an executive session for the purpose of discussing property acquisition and property assessment appeal. Contact IKE SWETLITZ at isaac.swetlitz@yale.edu .
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On Jan. 19, Athiyan Sivakumar died from a fractured skull at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department. His babysitter, who was watching him at the time, initially claimed the child had sustained the head wound from slipping on the floor. But following further investigation babysitter Kinjal Patel, 26, was arrested on manslaughter charges, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. “Any homicide is a tragedy,” New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman said in a statement. “None however is more tragic than that of an innocent young child. His death was senseless and has affected us deeply.” After days of questioning, Patel admitted that after Athiyan made a mess while eating and spat water in her face, she picked up the boy and slammed him unto the floor three times before repeatedly shaking his head, the affidavit said. Though Yale-New Haven Hospital doctors tried saving Athiyan in surgery, he died three days later. His death was attributed to blunt force trauma with multiple impact sites, according to the state chief medical examiner. Patel had been under investigation from the Department of Children and Families for an incident in December when Athiyan was brought to the Yale-New Haven hospital with cuts on his lip and a bruise on his chin. A neighbor interviewed at the time of the first incident told police Athiyan was dropped off at Patel’s house four or five times each week. Athiyan’s parents, Thenmozhi Rejendran, 24, and Mani Sivakumar, 33, had agreed after the December incident to stop hiring Patel. After Athiyan’s death, both parents first told police the mother had been watching him on the day he fractured his head. On Jan. 30, the child’s parents were arrested for interfering with the police and “risk of injury” to the child.
It’s important to recognize that most kids who end up with serious or fatal abuse have superficial signs of that abuse early on. ANDREA ASNES Associate professor, Pediatrics “It’s a very, very sad situation,” said Charles Tiernan, the parents’ attorney. “I think the parents are suffering and it’s unfortunate that they have to go through this process in addition to having lost their child.” Tiernan, who said he expects the child’s parents to plead not guilty, described the situation as a “tragic set of facts.” Mani Sivakumar, Athiyan’s father, was working as a mechanical engineer. Both parents were Indian nationals; the father moved to the United States four years ago, followed by the mother two years later, Tiernan estimates. Athiyan’s funeral took place Monday at Iovanne Funeral Home, and the child’s organs were donated to four different children in need of transplants, said Tiernan. Dr. Andrea Asnes, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine who is contracted by the Department of Children and Families to consult cases of child abuse, said around 45 percent of the 50 to 60 inpatients she and her partners directly evaluate are diagnosed with physical abuse. Many other children bear symptoms of maltreatment through neglect or sexual abuse, she added. In 2010, 10,846 children were victims of abuse or neglect in Connecticut, an 11.2 percent increase from the year before. Of these victims, 6.1 percent were physically abused, according to a study published in that year by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “It’s important to recognize that most kids who end up with serious or fatal abuse have superficial signs of that abuse earlier on,” she said. “My work centers on helping front-line providers recognize those injuries and intervene.” Asnes, who said she had “some degree of involvement” in Athiyan Sivakumar’s case, said that in her nine years of experience working with abused kids, she has found that parents and other family caregivers are far more likely to be perpetrators of physical abuse than people outside of the child’s family. She added that babysitter perpetrators are “relatively rare.” In 2010, four children in Connecticut died due to abuse or neglect, according to the same Administration on Children, Youth and Families study. “We’d much rather prevent it than diagnose it, but this is part of our job,” Asnes said. The parents will appear in court Feb. 18. Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .
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WORLD Former warlord launches campaign BY CASSANDRA VINOGRAD ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — He has been called a mentor to accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the man who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in the 1990s. He was accused of war crimes and atrocities, and even has a terror group named after him in the Philippines. But these days, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf has refashioned himself as an influential lawmaker, elder statesman and religious scholar — and possibly the next president of Afghanistan. While Sayyaf is not the only former warlord among the 11 candidates in the April 5 election to succeed President Hamid Karzai, he appears to have sparked the greatest worry among Westerners because he is seen as having a viable chance at winning. Other front-runners include Abdullah Abdullah, who was the runner-up to Karzai in the disputed 2009 elections; Qayyum Karzai, a businessman and the president’s older brother; and Ashraf Ghani, a former finance minister and academic. “Afghanistan still depends on the goodwill of foreign donors for nearly all of its government’s budget,” said Graeme Smith, senior Afghanistan analyst with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. “A Sayyaf win would probably really test those relationships because foreign donors might not be thrilled by some of his positions.” Still, when Sayyaf appeared before thousands of supporters in Kabul on Thursday, he laid out a vision for Afghanistan’s future that bore striking similarities to the policy platforms of many of the more moderate presidential hopefuls. Staunchly anti-Taliban, Sayyaf spoke of the importance of fighting corruption and boosting security and the rule of law. He expressed an openness to signing a security deal with the U.S. as well as support for women to work in professions prohibited under the Taliban. “We are surrounded by threats, therefore we need to have close relations and deep relations with the whole world,” Sayyaf said. Pointing to the small number of women in the audience, he said, “Women, we will be sure to defend your rights and your dignity.” To loud applause, Sayyaf said women should be permitted to become doctors and teachers, and that he wants to provide a good atmosphere for their education — but one which should be “safe” for women. Allowing
images of women on items such as soap boxes is an affront to their dignity and not a way to protect them, he added. His message resonated with 19-year-old Qudsia Sharifi, who noted the struggles women like her face in Afghanistan. “I like Sayyaf because he is a professor and he said from his mouth that he’s supporting women’s rights,” she said. “I’m very happy.” An Islamic hardliner who is in his 60s and sports a white beard, Sayyaf enjoys a measure of support in Afghanistan, thanks to his party’s deep political roots and popularity in the east of the country. “Sayyaf is probably in the eyes of many ordinary Afghans the candidate with the strongest religious credentials, with the greatest authority to speak on matters of religion,” Smith said. “We shouldn’t count out Sayyaf and his power in the rural areas.” The candidate’s message on Thursday seemed geared at broadening his appeal. Telling the packed audience that he had no shoes, pens or notebooks as a child, Sayyaf, a charismatic orator, said he had seen poverty firsthand and knows “the difficulty of the people.” Sayyaf first became known in the 1980s for his role as a jihadi leader in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. After the Soviet withdrawal, Sayyaf gained notoriety as a warlord during Afghanistan’s civil war from 1992 until the Taliban takeover in 1996, leading an ethnic Pashtun militia allied with the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, who are also predominantly Pashtun. Human Rights Watch has said Sayyaf was directly implicated in abductions and brutal targeting of civilians — namely minority ethnic Hazaras — during the 1990s. In recent years Sayyaf has pressed for legislation to bar war crimes trials for militia leaders. The Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist organization in the Philippines, takes its name from him. Equally alarming for the West, according to the 9/11 commission report, he was a mentor to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is charged with aiding and planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mohammed, a Pakistani citizen who grew up in Kuwait and attended college in Greensboro, North Carolina, has claimed to military authorities that he was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks “from A to Z,” as well as about 30 other plots, and that he personally killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Mohammed was captured in 2003 in Pakistan.
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“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syrians call for more robust aid
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People walk on a street covered with the rubble of damaged buildings after activists said a barrel bomb was dropped in Aleppo, Syria. BY HENRY C. JACKSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Tears welling in her eyes, Syrian refugee Amineh Sawan said Thursday that Americans are too focused on the use of chemical weapons by the regime of President Bashar Assad. “My brother’s family survived the chemical weapon attack the day of the attack,” the 23-yearold said, her voice trembling. “Seven days later they were killed with a mortar shell. If you take away the weapons, Assad still has so many weapons to kill us.” Amineh Sawan and her cousin Heba Sawan, 23, survived a chemical weapon attack in the Syrian town of Moadamiyeh. At the Capitol on Thursday the cousins said their warring country was being ravaged by the use of weapons and that distinguishing between a chemical weapon and a conventional one missed
the point. “We are human! We are dying,” the younger cousin said. They spoke as Syrian rebels raided the town of Aleppo amid a relentless government air campaign. At least 246 people, including 73 children, have died in the past five days alone, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The cousins spoke after meeting with Sen. Tim Kaine, the chairman of a Senate subcommittee that works on Syrian issues. Kaine, D-Va., left the meeting calling for a more aggressive response from the international community. He said he is pushing for immediate guarantees from the Assad regime that humanitarian aid can enter the country and supports a U.N. Security Council resolution to monitor and report anyone blocking access to humanitarian aid.
Russia has said it would not support such a vote, which Kaine said was unacceptable. “I want to see what every nation around that table — especially Russia, with the world’s eyes on Russia now — have to say,” Kaine said. The senator’s words came after what he described as a wrenching meeting with 24-year-old Heba Sawan, 23-year-old Amineh Sawan and Anas al-Dabas, 34, who survived a conventional weapons attack on his home city of Daraya, Syria. The Sawans were living in Moadamiyeh, a small town west of the Syrian capital Damascus, when civilians were attacked with chemical weapons last August. The town was then surrounded by Assad’s troops with food and other aid blocked, an attempt to starve the town’s residents. The cousins were able to escape with the help of the Red Cross during a short humanitar-
ian pause. Amineh Sawan said she feels responsible for those still suffering under Assad’s rule. “I feel I have to reach the whole world to let them know what our situation really is, what it is really about,” she said. Kaine said the Sawans and al-Dabas told him they didn’t understand U.S. inaction or the distinction between a chemical attack and other brutal forms of war. “It is hard to explain to them why more members of Congress won’t vote to act,” Kaine, who voted in committee in favor of military action in Syria last year in response to the chemical weapons attack. “They have a hard time understanding that. They had a hard time understanding why is death by a chemical weapon worse than death by starvation? Or death by being shot and having your corpse set on fire.”
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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 4:00 PM How to Get Your Film on TV: An Afternoon with Producer Louis Vossen. Sponsored by the Yale Film Studies Department, senior series producer at Independent Lens Lois Vossen will be explaining how aspiring filmmakers make it onto television. Free to the general public. (212 York St.). 7:00 PM Movie Night at the Planetarium: “Deep Impact.” The monthly “Movie Night at the Planetarium” series begins Friday with “Deep Impact.” There will be an introduction and commentary by an astronomer on the science of the movie and the threat of asteroid impacts. Leitner Observatory (355 Prospect St.), Planetarium.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 7:00 PM 2014 Spring Festival Gala. As the Chinese New Year approaches, ACSSY presents the 2014 Spring Festival Gala, with a variety of selected performances, including singing, traditional and modern dancing, opusculum, comedians and instrumental performances. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 3:00 PM Choral Music from the Renaissance. Conductor Kevin Sherwin will lead an ensemble of 14 singers in an array of choral masterworks from the Renaissance, including music by Tallis, di Lasso, Palestrina, and Josquin. Preceding the performance will be a Highlights Tour, at 1:30 p.m., of the early European art galleries. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.). 6:00 PM German Kaffeeklatsch (Coffee Hour). If you want to polish your German a little or just want to get some practice, meet German speakers in the lounge at WLH for an hour of entertaining conversation. All levels of German welcome. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 301.
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“Swimming is a confusing sport because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die.” DEMETRI MARTIN COMEDIAN
W. Hockey in playoff hunt
Elis face major road test M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12
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The women’s hockey team is currently seventh in the ECAC standings. W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 “This week, we talked about how the week before, our practices weren’t at the intensity that they needed to be at,” Tomimoto said. “We’ve really remedied that and had a really good week in practice.” Though the team still lacks its leading scorer, forward Phoebe Staenz ’17, forward Jamie Haddad ’16 has picked up the slack with five goals in the past eight games. Leonoff said Haddad has been a strong performer on both sides of the ice this year. “She blocks every shot … she’s a great two-way player and does a lot for the team,” Leonoff said. “It’s great to have people like her who work so hard and get the results for it.”
Union will also be looking to recover tonight, as it brings into the matchup a seven-game losing streak in which it has scored just four goals. Forward Kathryn Tomaselli leads Union in scoring with 11 goals, almost a quarter of the team’s 46 on the season. Despite the Dutchwomen’s overall inefficiency on offense, their power play unit is fifth in the NCAA with a 19 percent success rate. Twenty-one of the team’s goals have come on the power play. “Union always shows up,” Leonoff said. “They always brings the effort, and they can be sneaky.” RPI’s defense has continued to be effective since the matchup in November, with
2.33 goals allowed per game this season to Yale’s 3.00. The Bulldogs have the offensive advantage going in, however, scoring 2.35 goals per game while the Engineers have averaged 2.15. The Engineers will also be fighting for a playoff spot in the matchup. They are currently in playoff contention only because of a tiebreaker with Dartmouth. “They’re both good teams, so we have to be ready, but we’ve had a really good week of practice,” Tomimoto said. “I’m very excited for the weekend.” Yale will square off against Union tonight at 7:00, and against Rensselaer tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. at Ingalls Rink. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
In the absence of Maldunas, Dartmouth forward John Golden propelled the Big Green last weekend, averaging 17 points per game in the sweep. Golden’s play mirrored Sears’s contributions to Yale, as the leading scorer for the Bulldogs averaged 16.5 points per game to go along with 9.5 rebounds per game last weekend. Fittingly, the two forwards shared Ivy League Player of the Week honors. Though the pair of awards highlights the matchup between the two forwards, Sears said he is more focused on the task at hand than individual accolades. “There’s a little more pressure to perform well this weekend, but all it really comes down to is if we win or not,” Sears said. A name to watch for the Elis will be forward Matt Townsend ’15. Although he is averaging just 4.9 points per game this season, he has scored some big-time buckets recently for Yale. He also averaged 11.5 points per game in the two outings against Dartmouth last season. The weekend’s slate of action will not get any easier after Dartmouth for the Bulldogs. On Saturday, Yale will travel to Cambridge to take on rival Harvard (17–3, 4–0). The unanimous preseason favorite to win the Ivy League, Harvard has not disappointed. The Crimson, who picked up four votes in the most recent AP Top 25 national poll, are carried by the stellar backcourt of guards Wesley Saunders (15.2 points per game) and Siyani Chambers (11.0 points per game). The perimeter defense of the Bulldogs has been worrisome at times, allowing opponents to make 41.2 percent of their threepoint attempts. However, that figure has fallen to 35.3 percent in conference play. Point guard Javier Duren ’15 said Yale’s improved defense on the perimeter has come down to execution. “Taking the information given
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M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 Despite the absence of some of the Elis’ top offensive performers, the Bulldog attack, ranked 12th in the nation, has been flying thanks in part to scoring from the blueline. Yale defensemen have tallied seven goals and five assists for 12 points in the last two weeks, bringing their season total to 51 points. The last time a blueliner failed to register a point was in the Elis’ 4–1 loss to Dartmouth on Dec. 6. The usually defensive minded Gus Young ’14 has been having a breakout offensive season with 6 goals and eight assists. The senior has scored in three straight games and five in the last seven. Move-the-puck-defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 has also been heating up recently, with 5 points in his last three games. Fast-skating Tommy Fallen ’15 and Rob O’Gara ’16 have also chipped in this season with 11 and nine points, respectively. “I think the experience of the corps helps in getting points,” Obuchowski said. “We have confidence to jump up in the play and make ourselves open and get shots through to the net.” The Elis have outscored their opponents 31–17 since return-
ing from break thanks in part to goaltender Alex Lyon’s ’17 fine defensive play in net. The rookie netminder ranks 17th in the nation in goals against average and 19th in save percentage. He has played more minutes in net than any other freshman in the ECAC, featuring in 18 games so far. The Bulldogs have the 13th best defense in the nation, surrendering just 2.24 goals per game. The Bulldogs have continued to display a balanced scoring attack this season. Seventeen players have tallied more than four points so far for the nation’s 12th best offense. Yale’s premier left-winger, Kenny Agostino ’14, has showcased his NHL talents since the start of the new year with 10 points in the last eight games. The Calgary Flames prospect leads the team with 10 goals. His linemate, captain Jesse Root ’14, has tallied 11 assists in the same stretch. On Friday against the Engineers, the Bulldogs will face off against the goaltender with the most saves in the conference, as well as top goal scorer in the league. In net, Scott Diebold has helped RPI win three of its last four, including a 2–1 upset of Union on Jan. 25. Forward Ryan Haggerty leads the ECAC
with 21 goals and scored two goals last weekend against St. Lawrence. The Elis lost both games against RPI last season by a combined 2–10 goals and have found the Engineers very difficult to beat under head coach Keith Allain’s ’80 stewardship, posting a record of 6-6-1 since the 2005–2006 season. Saturday night, Yale takes on ECAC leaders Union. The Dutchmen have found success this season behind the sixth ranked offense in the nation, averaging just under 3.5 goals per game, and goaltender Scott Stephens, who has three shutouts this year. The Bulldogs have failed to pick up a win against Union since a 4–0 victory in 2011. “We need to play with great structure and discipline,” defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 said. “That sort of team concept should frustrate [our opponents] into making mistakes that we can then capitalize on.” Yale faces off against RPI on Friday night and Union on Saturday. Faceoff for both games is at 7:00 p.m. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
pull off two wins,” said forward Armani Cotton ’15. “It’s just a difficult thing to do in the Ivy League because it’s back-to-back days and no time for rest.” If Yale can put together a solid weekend of play, a coaching milestone may very well be reached. Jones is currently sitting at 199 career victories, all at Yale, and is seeking to become just the fourth coach in history to win 200 games at an Ivy League school. Tipoff at Dartmouth is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Friday. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
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The men’s basketball team will face Harvard on the road this Saturday after facing Dartmouth tonight.
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The men’s ice hockey team is 11–6–4 so far on the season and is ranked 13th in the USCHO.com poll.
to us and executing it as best we can, that’s one of the things that Coach has praised us for over the past couple of games,” Duren said. Harvard will look to test Yale’s three-point defense, as the Crimson are second in the Ivy League, knocking down 39.2 percent of their tries from beyond the arc. Members of the team said that they understand what it would mean to knock off top dog Harvard, but the team also realizes that each game counts the same and that Dartmouth comes first. “It’s huge any time you can
will face a Big Green squad that has yet to record a win in the conference following contests against Harvard, Penn and Princeton. The Big Green is currently averaging 57.2 points per game compared to Yale’s average of 66.8. The Elis, one of the strongest teams from downtown in the Ivy League, feature a prolific threepoint shooting team, converting 34.0 percent of their three-point attempts, whereas Dartmouth makes just 28.7 percent of its shots from beyond the arc. From the field, both teams are shooting at a 38.5 percent clip, although Yale has improved during conference play to 44.3 percent. The Bulldogs will look to take advantage of Dartmouth’s mistakes this weekend, as the Big Green average 17.3 turnovers a game compared to the Elis’ 16.2. Dartmouth features freshman standout, guard Fanni Szabo, who is leading the Big Green with 15.5 points per game, as well as 33.3 minutes played per game. Yale will also look to keep Dartmouth, led by forward Lakin Roland’s 5.8 rebounds per game, off the
boards. The Elis currently average 39.3 rebounds per game, compared to Dartmouth’s 33.6. The two teams split last season’s series, with each team winning on the road. Following the game against Dartmouth, the Bulldogs will have a quick turnaround and face Harvard on Saturday. The Elis are looking to defeat the Crimson for the first time since 2012. Harvard has won the last three meetings between the two teams. Both Yale and Harvard are currently in a three-way tie with Cornell for first place in the Ivy League. The Crimson has faced Dartmouth, Princeton, and Penn (12–5, 2–1) so far this season, suffering its only loss at the hands of the Quakers. The Elis have a tough defensive task ahead of them against Harvard, who is averaging 70.9 points per game, although that number has dipped to 66.5 points per game in conference play. The Crimson are shooting 42.0 percent from the field and 33.8 percent from beyond the arc so far this season, although both have declined within the past four games.
Although the Elis are prolific rebounders, the Crimson have been equally dominant on the boards, averaging 43.2 rebounds per game. Harvard is led by three players currently scoring in double figures. Guard Christine Clark, forward Temi Fagbenle, and forward Erin McDonnell are scoring 16.5, 12.9 and 10.2 points per game, respectively. Fagbenle is also the team’s leading rebounder, collecting 9.6 boards per game. Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 leads the Elis with 14.9 points per game, and the Bulldogs’ bench will try to continue its strong contributions, averaging 26.3 points per game during Ivy League play. “We will be playing even better teams next weekend, so we need to have a really focused week of practice,” Halejian said. “We all need to compete and push each other in order to be ready for the quality teams we are going to face.” Yale faces Dartmouth and Harvard at home at 7:00 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .
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vs. Giegengack Invitational
W. Squash
vs. Harvard
6 p.m.
M. Squash
vs. Harvard
6 p.m.
Fencing
@ Ivy League Championship
11 a.m.
M. Basketball
@ Harvard
7 p.m.
W. Basketball
vs. Harvard
7 p.m.
Fencing
@ Ivy League Championship
10 a.m.
W. Tennis
@ ECAC Tournament
TBA
W. Squash
@ Dartmouth
12 p.m.
M. Squash
@ Dartmouth
12 p.m.
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Elis face crucial weekend MEN’S HOCKEY
Yale hopes to keep playoff spot BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER After two disappointing losses last weekend, the women’s hockey team will be looking to rebound this weekend against Union and Rensselaer as it heads into the final six games of the regular season.
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early in the first with an unspecified injury. The injuries added to four other sidelined Bulldogs, including forwards Carson Cooper ’16, Mike Doherty ’17 and Tim Bonner ’17, as well as defenseman Alex Ward ’15. The return dates on the six injured skaters are unknown.
The two home games will be crucial for the Bulldogs’ hopes of making the ECAC playoffs. Yale (7–12–4, 5–7–4 ECAC) currently sits in seventh place, but Rensselaer and Dartmouth are just one point away from knocking the Elis out of playoff contention. “These two games are probably make-orbreak for us,” said goalie Jaimie Leonoff ’15. “It’s the homestretch, this is the most winnable weekend we have all year and we really, really need the points to finish in a good position.” Yale grabbed its first wins of the season against Rensselaer (10–15–2, 6–9–1) and Union (8–19– 1, 3–13–0) in November. Those two games began a 7–7–3 run for the Elis after they had dropped their first five games. Both games were narrow victories, however, as Yale topped the Engineers 2–1 despite being outshot 40–12, and the score was 5–4 at Union until the Bulldogs tacked on an empty net goal late in the game. Last weekend’s loss to Colgate — a team that was at the bottom of the ECAC standings two weeks ago — shows that previous results are not always indicative of how any given game will play out. Captain and forward Tara Tomimoto ’14 said the team has taken measures to avoid unexpected losses in the future.
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The men’s hockey team is sixth in the ECAC with a 6–5–3 record. BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Having to battle through injuries, the No. 13 men’s hockey team will travel to upstate New York to face RPI and No. 4 Union in another crucial conference doubleheader. The weekend gives the Bulldogs (11–6–4, 6–5–3 ECAC), sixth in the ECAC, a chance pick up points against confer-
ence leaders Union (17–6–3, 11–3–0) after squaring off against RPI (11–11– 4, 5–6–3 ECAC) on Friday night. “I think a strength of our team is in its depth,” forward Charles Orzetti ’16 said. “On game night we tune out the distraction and stuff we can’t control, like the injuries. It takes discipline to focus on the task at hand and I think we’re getting better at that as a team.” Last weekend’s thrilling games
came at a heavy cost for the already banged-up Eli forwards. Winger Anthony Day ’15, who has been a potent attacking threat during his 15 games, left the ice on Friday night barely able to skate off under his own power. The junior had already missed six games with a knee injury and is not expected to return for this weekend’s action. Additionally, center Stu Wilson ’16 left Saturday night’s game
Tough slate ahead for W. Basketball BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team will host both Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend for a chance to claim sole possession of first place in the Ivy League.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (9–9, 3–1 Ivy) has two tough games ahead of itself this weekend, as Dartmouth (3–15, 0–4) and Harvard (13–5, 3–1) travel to New Haven. The
Big weekend on tap for Bulldogs
Elis are coming off a weekend in which the Bulldogs defeated Columbia 76–51 (4–14, 1–3) and lost to Cornell (11–7, 3–1) 65–56. “The Cornell game was a tough loss for us,” said guard Lena Munzer ’17. “There’s definitely a lot to take away from it as we head into the week. I think we learned a lot about what it takes to play back-to-back games successfully.” The team hopes to regain momentum against Dartmouth on Friday night, as it SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 11
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The men’s basketball team will take a 3–1 record in the Ivy League into its roadtrip to Dartmouth and Harvard. BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER If the Yale men’s basketball team can pull off a momentous sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard on the road, the entire landscape of the Ivy League will be altered.
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The women’s basketball team is 3–1 in the Ivy League heading into this weekend.
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Yale (9–9, 3–1 Ivy) enters the weekend series fresh off its best weekend of the season, when it topped Columbia and Cornell. The Bulldogs can gain serious momentum with another pair of victories.
Friday night will pit Yale against a resilient Dartmouth (9–9, 2–2) squad. Despite losing center Gabas Maldunas, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, to a torn ACL in practice three weeks ago, the Big Green swept their two games last weekend to elevate their Ivy record back up to 0.500. “They were able to beat Princeton and Penn at home and you wouldn’t think on paper that they would be able to do that,” said head coach James Jones. “They’ve actually stepped up and played really well … I think they’re going to be a formidable opponent.” But the loss of Maldunas—a crippling blow—bodes well for the Yale
team’s style of play. The Bulldogs have established themselves as an interior-based team, intent on pounding the ball inside and getting to the freethrow line. With Maldunas unavailable to protect the paint, Yale is likely to feed its big men, primarily forward Justin Sears ’15, unrelentingly. “With Maldunas out, there is even more of a reason why we need to make sure we get the ball inside,” Jones said. “We just need to move the ball more, make sure we’re patient, and get the ball where we want to get the ball to.” SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 11
GOALS SCORED BY FORWARD JAMIE HADDAD ’16 OF THE WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST EIGHT GAMES. The sophomore is second on the team with eight goals scored and is tied for third with eight assists on the season.