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A Tri(via)wizard Tournament.
Most Yale students spent their childhoods living in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy world, so expect an intellectual bloodbath at the Annual Harry Potter Trivia Competition, which just opened for team sign-ups last night. Do you know the number of staircases in Hogwarts Castle? How about the password to the prefect’s bathroom on the fifth floor? If not, it’s time to study up again on your Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Trivia.
BY RISHABH BHANDARI AND MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS STAFF REPORTERS
something that alumni have generally gotten behind.” Since the Johnson gift, Salovey has kept an intensive fundraising schedule in pursuit of funding Yale’s most ambitious capital project in a generation. The fundraising for the colleges has come in addition to an already significant task: maintaining the relationships former University President Richard Levin, considered a master fundraiser, built with major donors. Salovey’s fundraising efforts
Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 will be the speaker at this year’s Class Day on Sunday, May 18. Class Day Co-chairs Josh Rubin ’14 and Nia Holston ’14 announced that Kerry will be the graduation weekend’s keynote speaker in an email to the senior class Monday evening. In addition to his current role at the helm of the State Department, Kerry previously served for 28 years as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for president against George W. Bush ’68 in 2004. Of 15 members of the senior class interviewed, all were positive Kerry’s selection. “Secretary Kerry was our top choice both because of his long and distinguished career in public serve and also because right now he’s working on some of the toughest issues of the day,” Rubin said. Since April, Rubin and Holston have solicited feedback from members of the senior class and worked with Special Assistant to the Yale President Penelope Laurans to find a speaker. Forty-eight years ago, Kerry delivered the “class oration” — now a defunct tradition — to his own Yale College graduating class. His speech, which criticized U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, made a “lasting and unforgettable impression” on the Yale community, Laurans said. “No one who knows of that speech, or has read excerpts from it, will be able to listen to him this year without the echo of those words ringing in the background,” Laurans said. “Secretary Kerry exemplifies the Yale tradition of service to society. We are hon-
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The worst holiday. Ordinary
on Chapel St. is hosting AntiValentine’s Day on Friday. Ads for the affair feature angelic cherubs... who have had devil horns drawn on them in Sharpie. Charming. “Protection provided by Planned Parenthood” the flyers read.
Taste of Sochi. Claire’s Corner Copia recently announced that in honor of Team USA at the Winter Olympics, their Russian Fruit Tea will now be named Sochi Pride Tea. The organic, mulled fruit tea, which can be made hot or cold, is made with apple juice, fruit, cinnamon and herbal fruit tea. Just how Putin likes it! Love shack. Project Storefronts is throwing a Valentine’s Day Pop-up Event at 45 Church Street today. Chocolate, candles, and other handmade goods are sure to be in abundance, as well as “nonalcoholic refreshments.”
Kerry ’66 to speak at Class Day
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President Salovey is working to raise the remaining $80 million necessary to complete the two new residential colleges. BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER The University is closing in on its fundraising target for Yale’s two new residential colleges. Yale is about halfway to closing its remaining $80 million funding gap for the new residential colleges after receiving a $250 million gift from Charles Johnson ’54 in October, said University President Peter Salovey. All in all, the University has put the price tag for the donorfunded colleges at $500 million. Work on the colleges, slated to
begin in early 2015, will not start until the goal is met. The University still hopes to complete its fundraising goal by the end of the University’s fiscal year on June 30 — a mark that was first set in October after Johnson’s donation. Salovey said he remains optimistic that the University can meet the self-imposed deadline. “Alumni are incredibly enthusiastic about more Yale students, and so it is great fun to speak with them about the new colleges,” said Yale College Dean Mary Miller. “This long-planned expansion is
Cheap date idea. All this week,
Froyoworld is offering a ‘buy one get one 50% off deal.’ Now you can cheaply pay for your own and exactly half of your date’s!
Spreading it around. Over this past weekend, Broadway shops and restaurants joined together to give $5,000 to a non-profit in a campaign titled “Share the Love.” A master class in drinking.
Though not in possession of a sorting hat, Harvard still has to split its freshmen into houses with a lottery system. Lowell House recently released a trailer advertising their abodes. The video features house masters in a parody of Beyonce’s Drunk in Love.
The talk. At Cornell, the
library’s Human Sexuality Collection will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with an exhibition titled “Speaking of Sex,” which will run Valentine’s Day through National Coming Out Day in October.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1970 Undergraduates propose locating a day care center at the DKE fraternity and the New Haven Zoning Board is expected to approve the proposal this week. The center will provide for three to five year old children. Hilarity is expected to ensue. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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New college integration considered BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS In 1958, then-University President A. Whitney Griswold wrote a proposal for two new residential colleges. At the time, Yale’s residential college system was only 25 years old but, as Griswold noted, it was already cramped. When Ezra Stiles and Morse College opened three years later, however, alumni interviewed said the new colleges were not immediately accepted by the Yale community. It took a while for Morse and Stiles
— with their modern, Tuscan-inspired architecture — to become fully integrated into the University. Now, 51 years later, the University is again planning for the addition of two new residential colleges — and an eventual 800 student increase in the size of the Yale College. “The idea of having more Yale College students is just a very appealing idea to everybody,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “Everyone is excited about the idea — it’s clearly infectious.” In preparation for the opening of the new colleges in 2017,
Polak said a faculty committee will make recommendations on how to integrate students in new colleges into Yale College, both academically and socially. In considering these issues, administrators have the trials and tribulations of the first years of Morse and Stiles to look back on. “The committee that made the 2008 report [on the proposed new colleges] did spend a lot of time looking at how Morse and Stiles had been populated and interviewed people who had been part of that move to Morse and Stiles,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said.
Miller said the current committee is prioritizing instituting fellowships for the new colleges so that their students will have the same opportunities as students in colleges that have been around since the 1930’s. She added that the committee also wants to find two residential colleges masters who can build strong cultures within the new residential colleges and help create new traditions. In the 1960’s, Morse and Stiles also struggled with developing traditions and culture, but alumni interviewed said the colleges’ architecture presented an additional chal-
lenge. Unlike Morse and Stiles, the two new residential colleges will reflect the gothic style of most of the University. Alumni said the “Stonehenge”-like architecture of Morse and Stiles did not fit with the image of Yale at the time — predominantly white, northeastern and preppy. “We were headed to what we thought was a god-awful looking creation out on the fringes of campus,” said Malcolm Douglas ’65. “But we got over it pretty quickly.” Morse and Stiles were also SEE COLLEGES PAGE 6
A Yale-relevant Ward? BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER When the polls open on March 17 in the special election for Ward 7’s next alder, a whole portion of the ward’s population will be out of town: Yale students. The election for the seat vacated in January by newly appointed Transit Chief Doug Hausladen ’04 will take place during Yale’s spring recess. But the difference in turnout may be negligible. When students return to campus, they will have a new representative on the Board of Alders: either Abigail Roth ’90 LAW ’94, special assistant to Yale School of Management Dean Edward Snyder, or Paul
Phillipino, membership development coordinator for the Catholic fraternal service organization Knights of Columbus. Roth said it was Hausladen, a fellow democrat, who first asked her to run. She was endorsed by the ward’s Democratic committee last week. Phillipino is a Republican, running in a ward where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 14 to one. The ward comprises downtown as well as portions of Wooster Square, the Medical District, the Hill and Dwight neighborhoods. It is less closely tied with the University than Ward 1, which includes Old Campus and eight of the 12 residential colleges, or even Ward 22, which includes the other
four. Still, the sprawling Ward 7 is home to its fair share of students, primarily in the graduate and professional schools, as well as the College. The roughly 60 students living in Rosenfeld Hall, annex space for Timothy Dwight College, are Ward 7 residents, as are undergraduates living off-campus on the northwest side of High Street or in apartments downtown. Though few of these students are registered to vote in Connecticut, those interviewed said last fall’s election — which saw Yale junior Ella Wood ’15 unsuccessfully challenge Hausladen — put the ward on students’ radars. Wood did not seek the endorsement of the ward committee for this spring’s spe-
cial election. Ward 7 Co-Chair Alberta Witherspoon said Wood did not get back in touch with her after initially expressing an interest in mid-January in running a second time. Wood did not return multiple requests for comment.
This race is a wild card, being a special election for an open seat. PAUL PHILLIPINO Special election candidate Billy Crotty ’16 said interest in the election last fall increased because a student was involved.
Still, he said, very few people actually voted. Even those who voted last fall, including Ben Ackerman ’16 and Maddie Klugman ’15, said they were not aware of the details of the upcoming special election. “[Some students] feel uncomfortable about influencing the results of an election the consequences of which will affect others far more than it will affect them,” Ward 7 resident Nina Russell ’15 said in an email. Klugman said she would feel more involved in municipal politics if she lived in Ward 1, which has traditionally been represented by a current student or recent alumnus. As one of only a handful of undergraduates in SEE WARD 7 PAGE 4