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Frat eyes Yale campus Elevate saga ends

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Blackout. Today, Englishlanguage Wikipedia will black out in protest of an anti-piracy act stirring up Congress. This means you have to do the reading for all of your classes, or just not make comments.

Crunch time. Members of

the class of 2015 must submit schedules to their college dean or face the consequences.

Members of the classes of 2014 and 2013 have until Thursday, and seniors can chill until Friday.

We’re getting Lady Gaga.

CHARGES AGAINST JEFFERSON ’14 DROPPED, ENDING RAID’S FALLOUT

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start a chapter have failed only once during that period. He added that the fraternity currently has 94 chapters total.

Though McDonald said he is optimistic that he can recruit students to start a new chapter on campus, he added that he recognizes the possibility of additional “roadblocks” at Yale because of the University’s recent efforts to increase oversight of undergraduate organizations. For

The legal saga that began with the October 2010 police raid on the Morse-Stiles Screw at Elevate Lounge is at an end, following the dismissal of three charges against Jordan Jefferson ’14 two months ago.

Jefferson was one of five students arrested after New Haven Police Department officers, some dressed in SWAT gear, raided the nightclub on Oct. 2, 2010, in a crackdown on underage drinking.

The bust drew criticism from students at the scene, who claimed that police used excessive force and profanity. The charges against all five arrested students have since been dropped, and the NHPD has updated its policies for similar situations in the future. “[This incident] really resulted from police overreacting to a misunderstanding of the situation, and unfortunately my client and others were caught in the middle of it,” said William Dow ’63, Jefferson’s New Havenbased lawyer. “The whole incident never should have happened — it was a question of extremely poor judgement exercised by law enforcement.” He added that he and his client were pleased with the result.

Jefferson declined to comment for this article.

While the other four students were charged with disorderly conduct, interfering with a police officer or criminal trespass, Jefferson faced three felony counts of assaulting an officer, stemming from a struggle that ensued

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The Yale College Council sent out its annual Spring Fling Openers survey on Monday.

Likely Spring Fling performers, based on the survey, include Robyn, Waka Flocka, Metric, Lykke Li, Arctic Monkeys and Santigold.

Meet the Ying Yang Twins! The

Yale College Council is offering a backstage pass to Spring Fling 2012 for the student who designs the best official logo for this year’s concert.

The logo will be featured on all Spring Fling publicity and merchandise, and the winning student will get to meet the performers. Submissions are due Feb. 3.

Save the Ducks! Fliers for

Ducks Unlimited, the leading waterfowl conservation organization, began papering campus with fliers a few weeks ago in hopes of encouraging more students to sign up. The organization already counts between 20 and 25 members in its Yale chapter, which meets monthly.

Wall Street crash. An

unmanned dark-gray Dodge Intrepid coasted into a parked Volvo XC90 on College Street outside Silliman College around 11:20 p.m. The incident drew eight police cars to the scene. No one was hurt in the crash. As of press time, the driver’s identity, and why he abandoned the vehicle, remained unclear.

A facelift. Last week, the state of Connecticut launched a two-year, $22 million marketing campaign in order to “aggressively” promote the state as a go-to destination for tourism, enterprise and family fun. “For the last two years, Connecticut has been the only state in the region to have allocated no marketing money for stimulating business development and tourism,” Malloy said in a press release.

A little too hot. In an email to students shopping “Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology,” professor William Honeychurch celebrated because the number of shoppers had dropped to 500, and encouraged students who do not plan to enroll to get off the shopping list “fast.”

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Student leaders and recruiters from fraternity Alpha Sigma Phi’s national headquarters are exploring starting a Yale chapter.

BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER Students hoping to join a fraternity may have an additional group to consider rushing in coming years.

Geoff McDonald, coordinator of chapter and colony development for Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, said he has been reaching out to students with fliers and Facebook messages since Jan. 9 in an effort to establish an Alpha Sig chapter at Yale. McDon-

ald said he hopes a new chapter would attract students who want to be part of a social organization on campus but have not yet “found their match.” Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said the Dean’s Office is “receptive” to new groups if students show interest on campus, adding that he is “in the business of helping guide and advise student organizations.”

McDonald, who will remain on campus until Feb. 8, said Alpha Sig has expanded to over 30 campuses since 2008, and efforts to

Eidelson seeks impact on development

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BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER Newly elected aldermen, including Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, continued to settle into their roles at the Board of Aldermen’s second meeting of the year Tuesday night.

The Board unanimously elected 19 of its members to city commissions Tuesday night. Eidelson, whose ward consists of eight of Yale’s residential colleges and Old Campus, was elected to the city’s Development Commission, which is responsible for New Haven economic development initiatives.

During last November’s election season, Eidelson made the redevelopment of Route 34 — part of the federally funded project known as Downtown Crossing — one of the centerpieces of her campaign. She said she wanted to use the development of the nearby corridor to stimulate local job creation and provide students with better downtown amenities.

Eidelson said she wanted to be on the Development Commission because the issue is important to student life in New Haven, but added that at the same time many students remain unaware of its impact.

“I decided the Development Commission was the one where I could have the greatest impact on the [issues] that are most important to my constituents and me,” Eidelson said. According to Kelly Murphy, the city’s economic development administrator, Route 34 development will bring nearly 3,000 jobs and $100 million in additional economic activity to New Haven, and city officials have said the project will stitch together the main university and medical school campus.

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Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 was elected to the Development Commission Tuesday night.

Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez, who was elected Board president earlier this month, said aldermen express interest in each of the commission positions, adding that when more than one alderman seeks a position they are asked to resolve the SEE EIDELSON PAGE 6

Even though Yale-NUS College is still over a year from opening, more than 600 students and family members attended the Singaporean liberal arts college’s first official open house on Sunday.

The open house was part of outreach activities for Yale and the National University of Singapore’s jointly operated college, Yale-NUS Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan told the News in a Tuesday interview from Singapore. Students at the open house asked questions about the Yale-NUS educational model and walked around University Town — the part of the NUS campus where the liberal arts college will be temporarily located for its opening year, before relocating to a dedicated Yale-NUS campus, Quinlan said.

“There is [intense] interest in what we have to offer,” Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn

said in a Tuesday email.

“There are a lot of questions about what we are doing, since it’s very different from anything that has been done there before.”

A special first round of applications will be made available on Feb. 1 and due by April 1. The first full cycle of applications begins in fall 2012 and will consist of three rounds, with due dates spanning from fall 2012 to spring 2013.

Though global outreach will begin in May, recruitment for the upcoming round of admissions is geared toward Singaporean students who have to complete the nation’s two-year military service commitment — required of all 18-year-old males — Quinlan said. As those students generally apply to college before beginning their military obligations, Yale-NUS officials are “already late” in recruiting students for the inaugural class, BaiSEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6

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Put terror on trial W

e interrupt this usual weekly bulletin of local crime and security issues to address a pressing security matter on the national and international stage: the fight against terrorism.

It is a common refrain that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have shaped the first decade of the 21st century. They undoubtedly have, but only because we have let them.

President George W. Bush saw the attacks as an act of war and responded in kind. In doing so, he fulfilled Osama bin Laden’s wish for a global war. Throughout the 1990s, al-Qaida was a relatively contained group of jihadists. More importantly, it was seen not as America’s opponent in a global clash of ideas, but as a network of criminals. When they were caught, they were hauled to American courtrooms, usually in New York, prosecuted as any drug trafficker or bank robber was and tossed into federal maximum security prisons, where dozens languish to this day, rightfully forgotten.

But once America was waging war against al-Qaida, its twisted musings were elevated to the level of a rival ideology on par with fascism or communism. The war on terror turned criminals into warriors.

Criminals attract condemnation in any culture — they are the enemies of law and order, of civilization itself. But warriors are honorable. Far from containing al-Qaida, the U.S. war against it expanded it — local militants in hotbed regions around the globe wanted in on the global war and sought the propaganda boost received from taking on America and the West rather than the local police force. The ranks of al-Qaida swelled. As any counterterror expert knows, terrorists expect the response to a terrorist attack, not the attack itself, to cause the most grievous harm. By waging war, we walked into the trap. A decade of war has been the result.

Waging war against terrorists doesn’t even work when it works.

Under President Barack Obama, most of the counterterror policies of Bush have been consolidated — and deepened to unprecedented levels. The U.S. has assassinated thousands of people, civilians among them, in countries where we are not at war.

Two American citizens are among the dead — citizens summarily executed in secret and without trial, or even official acknowledgement. All assassinations are secret and thus immune from public scrutiny.

Guantanamo Bay is still open, as is the failed system of military commissions. To ring in the new year, Obama signed a bill mandating military custody of all terrorism suspects, whether they are captured in Kansas or Kandahar. Backed by a bipartisan confederation of dunces, indefinite,

global war goes on.

Te r r o r war supporters, former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh COLIN a m o n g ROSS t h e m , defend s u c h Gangbuster actions are typical of any armed conflict. But never before has the government had such authority to declare when this war ends — it is not clear it ever will.

Secrecy, assassinations, indefinite detention, the abandonment of the rule of law, none of it can be simply put back into the box when the government thinks enough terrorists have died. America now has zero credibility in telling other nations not to similarly push back the rule of law and act extrajudicially, a lack of moral authority that threatens fragile democracies worldwide. U.S. government officials are reportedly discussing whether they can use the same targeted killing strategy against Mexico’s drug cartels, seeing it as a vastly quicker and easier route than helping reinforce Mexico’s justice system. How long until a gang problem in an American inner city becomes the next tempting target for a quick fix? If left unchecked, the war on terror threatens to become the war on all threats at all times in all places.

Today, it is a mantra of politicians of both parties that the socalled law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism should be abandoned. But what is a fight against terrorism if not the enforcement of the law against the forces of chaos? Law enforcement must retake its rightful place at the center of the nation’s counterterrorism and reverse America’s slide away from the rule of law. A law enforcement approach does not mean we must restrict ourselves to law enforcement tools — the Central Intelligence Agency and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command have crucial roles to play in tracking down terrorists. But the difference lies in what we have in store for terrorists: an open trial and a prison sentence rather than a secret prison without charge or a bullet to the forehead.

Criminals are those who break the law — terrorists are simply a variety of criminals. To treat them otherwise is to lend them too much legitimacy. A nation’s character is formed by its response to the direst of problems. So far, violence, not law, has guided our response to terrorism. For the sake of our American republic, that must change.

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arkozy should have gone to FreeCreditReport.com. Last Friday, Standard & Poor’s nixed France’s AAA rating and banished the country to the lowly echelon of AA+ states, which includes Guernsey, the Isle of Man and — ah, right — the United States.

I’ve been told — implicitly, by the human resources departments of several financial services firms — that I’m wholly unqualified to talk about finance. But I did sit through Ray Fair’s “Intro Macro” course, and this is how the S&P ratings work: To fund their functioning, governments borrow money. To borrow money, they issue bonds to private investors, with a promise to pay them back at a later time. S&P then rates each country’s ability to pay back its loans, assigning it a credit rating that runs from AAA (good) to CC (Greek).

France wasn’t the only country whose ratings fell in last Friday’s S&P letter soup. Spain dropped two notches, from AA- to A, while Italy, formerly an A-rated state, slipped to a lowly BBB+. In a statement, S&P attributed the downgrades to an overall lackluster response to the larger European crisis. In particular, it cited the “open and prolonged dispute among European policymakers over the proper

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approach to address challenges.”

In other words, the Europeans are being naughty, and their petty bickering is threatening their ability to pay back their loans.

But what does that mean? What if S&P rated not only governments and public companies, but people, too?

According to Google, the term credit comes from the Latin credere — “to trust, entrust, or believe.” In effect, then, S&P rates the worthiness of a country’s word. It makes sense. When a sovereign government takes a person’s money, it makes a promise — a bond — to give it back. S&P evaluates a country’s ability to fulfill that promise.

What if the same idea applied to people? I’m not talking about credit scores, the personal equivalent of S&P sovereign ratings, but ratings on our word, on our ability to meet our commitments — financial or otherwise.

I am, I think, a plain A, or maybe an A-. That is, I have a “strong capacity to meet financial commitments,” but I’m still “somewhat susceptible to adverse economic conditions.” That makes me a pretty reliable guy. I show up. I arrive on time. I respond to emails, I deliver on deadlines and I don’t ask for extensions. But I’m

still subject to unfavorable circumstances — e.g., Saturday morning hangovers. This puts me below AA-ers (who spend Friday nights at Bass), but above BBB-ers (whose hangovers don’t limit themselves to the weekend).

Things get murkier below BBB. At BB+, considered the “highest speculative grade by market participants,” you’re a flake. You bail.

You’re prone to the “sorry, forgot I had a meeting” text. And your friends know not to count on your presence.

But you’re still above CCC: “vulnerable and dependent on favorable business, financial, and economic conditions to meet financial commitments.” At that point, your permanence at Yale is wholly dependent on your dean’s good will and their excuses pad.

Of course, most Yalies are not CCC-ers. But we’re still a flaky bunch. We miss things — dinners, study sessions, coffee dates.

In a way, it’s not our fault. We’re busy. We have class, rehearsal, meetings for assorted organizations. We push Google Calendar to the limits of its capabilities — and that’s precisely the problem.

Our days become stacks of colorful little appointment boxes. A 6:30 p.m. “Dinner with Mary” gets sandwiched between a 6:00 p.m.

“Reach Out meeting” and a 7:00 p.m. “MoFoPo section,” so that, at 6:45 p.m., Mary gets a text that reads, “sooo sorry, meeting ran late :( rain check?”

And flakiness begets flakiness.

At some point between Camp Yale and Freshman Screw, unreliability becomes normal. We learn that no plan is ever set in stone, that things are always tentative, ad interim and subject to change. Flakiness no longer bothers us, and we become flakes ourselves. Maybe that’s just how things work. Maybe we’re not supposed to show up.

Or maybe we’ll grow out of it. Maybe it’s a four-year thing, like Wednesday night Toad’s and an infatuation with a cappella. Maybe, like a pair of bulldog-printed sweatpants, flakiness becomes an idiosyncrasy displayed only at the gym and around loved ones. After all, your boss at Morgan Stanley won’t take rain checks, and a Dean’s Excuse won’t buy you an extension on those DCFs. Or maybe it will. Maybe we live in a BB+ world. I’m not sure. But barring a hangover on Saturday morning, I’m holding on to my A-.

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

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Imagining Shakespearean authorship A

t the beginning of Shakespeare at Yale (SaY), a semester-long program designed to showcase the Shakespearean riches we have at Yale (and oh, what riches!), I thought I’d write something about the question I enjoy being asked least as an English major: Did Shakespeare write his own plays?

On the surface, this is a simple question: We accept the validity of the claims made on Shakespeare’s behalf, or we start looking for another authorial candidate.

The problem, unfortunately, is that we imagine authorship differently today than it was imagined 400 years ago. Authorship now is clear cut: You write something, and you own it. Your publisher has a stake in what’s published; you split the profits. But it is your name that appears in big letters at the beginning of the book, play or poem.

Shakespeare’s plays were originally published without his name and continued to be, on and off, for the better part of his career. Later, though before his death, his name was attached to plays we know he didn’t write. As Shakespeare became a more prominent playwright, his work increased in commercial appeal, and so his name became a marketing device. Unless we discover a mythical “Shake-

COLIN ROSS is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact him at colin.ross@yale.edu .

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speare” diary, we will have to construct our own narratives of the reasons behind the plays’ publication in various forms.

The story of the plays’ publications is tied not only to the contentious history of whether the plays were ascribed to Shakespeare in their own time, but also to the form in which the plays were presented to the general public. An act of last resort for an acting company going out of business would be selling their scripts to a stationer or printer; otherwise, the texts were closely guarded. Often, play texts were retranscribed from memory by audience members, or an acting company would reconstruct, using their knowledge of their own parts, as much of the play as they could remember. These processes present innumerable opportunities for mistakes and alternative texts to become published gospel.

This pattern explains why the folio and quarto versions of Shakespeare’s plays are sometimes at odds. It also explains why actors and scholars continue to struggle with which version is closest to what would have been performed or what Shakespeare himself intended. We are left with works of genius that came to us through imperfect processes.

For Shakespeare and his con-

temporaries, collaboration was the norm. We know that Pericles, for instance, was written by Shakespeare and someone else, and we can identify parts that one or the other writer worked on. The stitching between the different parts of the text can be difficult to unravel.

Publishing practices, combined with these collaborative writing efforts, led to an even more nebulous sense of authorship.

The good news is that through sophisticated methods of textual evaluation, we can confirm that one writer — the man we call Shakespeare — wrote the majority of the 37 plays ascribed to him. We can identify, in large part, his collaborators. The question becomes, then, not who wrote Shakespeare’s plays, but how and why.

The tradition of ascribing the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays to a man other than Shakespeare is grounded in what I can only call snobbery. During Shakespeare’s lifetime, no one raised alternative authorial claims. A whole slew of plays not written by Shakespeare were added, briefly, to the Shakespeare canon, but it wasn’t until the mid to late eighteenth century that scholars latched onto the notion that someone other than Shakespeare — usually a playwright of better birth or a noble-

man — crafted the most famous plays in the world.

But none of the major contenders hold up under scrutiny. Both Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Oxford died before all the plays were completed and performed; other writers had radically dissimilar writing styles to Shakespeare.

What we are left with is the magic of the story of the man who became Shakespeare: a country boy, moderately well-educated, who grew into a wealthy man and the greatest playwright of all time due to his ingenuity and imagination. Shakespeare was impossible to predict, a one-off. His story is one we should celebrate because it represents a triumph of meritocracy — and the fact that history is full of surprises.

I hope as we move into this semester of SaY that we start asking the right kinds of questions about Shakespeare and challenge the traditional ways we read him, no longer reading his plays through the lenses of snobbery or modern publishing practices but, instead, as works that teach us — in the words of Harold Bloom — not only about our humanity, but also about our history.

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

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Morality can’t be prescribed W

hat defines a liberal arts education? What must we require of those who aspire to one? These are questions that even top liberal arts colleges can’t agree on; the University of Chicago demands that its students study a prescribed core, while Brown offers students total freedom.

Yale, with its distribution requirements, charts a middle course. Harry Graver (“Lucretius at Yale,” Jan. 12) argues that Yale teaches students only to deconstruct societal precepts, rather than to learn respect and reverence for “intellectual institutional authority.” The cure? We all study “ancient and modern political philosophy along with a theological, nonsecular history of Western religious tradition” and thereby come to a fuller set of values.

My foremost interests have always been in the humanities, and I would appreciate it if everyone revered the Western canon. However, Graver’s specific injunctions as to what we should be required to learn — political philosophy and religion — struck me as bizarre.

Where were Homer and Vergil and Shakespeare? Why was literature — the part of the canon I think most important — excluded?

If Graver’s goal was for Yale to play a more active role in shaping our values, why did he choose political philosophy as a must while excluding ethical philosophy? Most important, what are the values Graver intends us to gain from reading his favored parts of the Western canon?

These questions illustrate the immense challenge of designing a core humanities curriculum in the modern world. When the only texts taught at college were in Latin or Greek, it was possible to separate must-reads from less important texts. Now, however, the canon includes the works of 3,000 years of history written in as many (well, not quite) languages. Which are the core disciplines now — let alone the core texts?

Graver objects to how Yale “presents itself as a mutable entity to be designed uniquely in each iteration,” but the very canon he wishes Yale to steady itself upon is precisely that. It is always being changed by new works and old works newly thought relevant.

Who we consider to have been great is based on when we live — Catullus and Lucretius were for centuries considered blasphemous, Romantic poets were disdained by T.S. Eliot and other mod-

ernists, while metaphysical poets such as Donne had to be rediscovered by Eliot to gain significance.

Poets (and philosophers or theologians) become important or unimportant because of the needs of any particular moment. No tradition, and certainly no institution, can claim to be impervious to time.

A cursory glance at the ethnic and gender makeup of Yale’s student body 60 years ago shows that this is not a bad thing.

At the end of the day, there are too many things each of us should know for any of us to actually know all of them. A programmer could argue that everyone should know the basics of a computer language.

A math major probably thinks it’s ridiculous we’re not required to learn linear algebra. Science students may say their subjects teach us more than anything else about the world around us.

And any student of a non-Western religious, literary or historical tradition, of which there are many, can complain that his field has been systematically neglected and degraded for centuries. None of these areas offer the “transcendent metric” Graver thinks we should have, but neither, for that matter, does the Western cannon, which is full of great thinkers arguing about

what our values should be.

I sympathize with Graver’s sense that Yale doesn’t instill students with a sense of moral obligation to causes beyond their own pleasure or advancement. But requiring that all students read Plato won’t give them better values. Teaching religion, as Graver suggests in passing, might add a moral element to our education, but at a price far greater than most of us would ever choose to pay. It would raise denominational conflicts, relegate nonbelievers to an inferior status and imply that the only legitimate path to morality is through a God that half of us don’t believe in.

And if Yale students lack a transcendent moral framework, most of us do agree on what good behavior is: being a good friend, remembering those less fortunate than ourselves, working hard and not cheating. We think these things even while we might differ in our religions, which books we read or even how we understand the same book. Yale should focus on making these values a fuller part of our daily life by focusing on what we do rather than who we read.

HARRY LARSON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .

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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 2:30 PM “Galileo, Mathematics, and the Arts.” Mark A. Peterson, physics chair at Mt. Holyoke College, will give this talk.

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Room 208.

4:00 PM “Who Speaks African? Language Diversity in Africa and its Implications.” Ann Biersteker, associate professor of African studies and instructor of Swahili, Sandra Sanneh, director of African languages and instructor of Zulu, and geography teacher Laura Krenicki will speak on a panel at this CAS-PIER workshop for educators. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 102.

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, JAN. 17

The article “Study ties diabetes to non-medical effects” misstated the name of Health Affairs, the journal in which the study was published. Also, only one of the study’s authors was present at the publication release conference.

The article “Stress causes brain shrinkage” incorrectly referred to Emily Ansell, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, as a co-author of the study in the article. In fact, she was the study’s author, not its co-author.

The article “Synder engages students over tea” mistakenly suggested that most Yale School of Management students enter careers in the public sector. In fact, most graduates work in the private sector.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13

The article “Leaving society behind in reWilding” misstated the dates that “reWilding” ran. It closed on Jan. 14, not Jan. 29.

THURSDAY, JAN. 12

The article “New York invests in Yalie” mistakenly identified Peter Ammon GRD ‘05 SOM ‘05 as a member of the Yale Investment Committee. Ammon is in fact a director at the Yale Investments Office.

Yale gets new DNA sequencer

BY ROBERT PECK STAFF REPORTER Last week, the University purchased new DNA sequencing technology that researchers hope will allow rapid advances in the field of genetics.

The Ion Proton Sequencer, developed by Jonathan Rothberg’s GRD ’91 company Life Technologies, can sequence a human genome 10 times faster than any previous technology of its kind, Rothberg said. He added that he hopes to work with researchers at Yale’s School of Medicine to create a system that will allow doctors’ offices and hospitals around the country to have immediate access to the genetic sequences of any individual — and to information about potential genetic disorders for which that individual is at risk.

The sequencer works by recording patterns of hydrogen ions in an organic sample — similar to the way a camera senses and records light — and deriving a “map” of the subject’s genetic sequence from the data it collects, Rothberg said. “[The sequencer] is cuttingedge technology that has the potential to sequence [complete] human genomes in a day,” said Department of Genetics chair Richard Lifton. “This will have broad application to both discovery science and clinical diagnosis.”

Lifton said Yale received the sequencer earlier than other institutions — as of now, only two other universities have received the technology — due to the University’s work in genetic mutations and its strong working relationship with Rothberg himself.

Lifton added that since Yale is a leader in research on genetic mutations, working with the newest, most-available technology was natural. Rothberg, whose company works in biotechnology, is based in Guilford, Conn., which made establishing a relationship easier as well.

The sequencer costs costs $150,000, compared to the price tag of $500,000 to $750,000 for other ways of sequencing DNA, according the Life Technologies website. Rothberg said he hopes the low cost of the sequencer will facilitate research.

Lifton, along with Neurogenetics Program co-directors Murat Gunel and Matthew State, is helping to catalyze the “democraticiztion” of the human genome, Rothberg said. The low per-

genome cost of the sequencer, just $1,000 compared to $10,000 with conventional methods, theoretically makes it available to doctors outside of major research institutions, Rothberg said. But, at present, widespread usage is pointless because small-scale users lack the ability to interpret the results of the test, which requires a deep understanding of specific genetic mutations.

Rothberg said he hopes Yale will be a key player in overcoming this problem, by combining expertise in both research and the medical applications of genetics. Rothberg’s collaboration with Yale could allow the University to “bridge the gap” between discovery of complex genetic mutations and diagnosis of diseases associated with those mutations, he said.

As complex mutations continue to be discovered and diagnosed, at Yale and other collaborating institutions, Rothberg said his company will work with scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Rothberg’s alma mater, to compile complex data about the human genome into a simple piece of software that local hospitals can use to easily predict individuals’ risk of genetic diseases.

“The existence of this machine makes feasible personal genome sequence collection much earlier than people were thinking it would be,” said Robert Murphy, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology.

Murphy is currently gathering together a team of researchers to begin the process of creating software to help hospitals analyze the genes of their patients using the sequencer. He added that, though the creation of such software will be a many-stage process due to the human genome’s complexity, the first stage of development, which would allow for easy diagnosis of genetic diseases resulting from the mutation of a single gene, should be complete within one year.

Other than Yale, the Baylor College of Medicine and the Broad Institute, a medical research collaboration between Harvard and MIT, were the first to receive access to the Ion Proton Sequencer, which was announced Jan. 10.

Contact ROBERT PECK at robert.peck@yale.edu .

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Dining administrator departs

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER Regenia Phillips, Yale Dining’s director of residential dining, stepped down Friday after three years in the post in part to spend more time with her family in Texas.

Phillips has already taken a new job with Aramark, a food services company, as general manager of nutrition services at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

She will maintain an advisory role at Yale until a search committee finds her replacement, which will likely take about four months, according to Jeanette Norton, Yale Dining’s deputy director of finance and administration. Rafi Taherian, executive director of Yale Dining, said Phillips will be remembered for her ability to engage with students and develop initiatives that match their needs.

There is a list of things I’ve done, but I don’t think those are as important as just having worked at Yale.

REGENIA PHILLIPS Residential college dining director, Yale Dining During her tenure, Phillips extended dining hours in residential colleges, established Yale Farm tours and opened Uncommon, the health-minded convenience store outside of Commons Dining Hall. She also served as Yale Dining saw criticism from some members of the student body, especially as Commons was closed for weekday dinner hours beginning last fall.

“There is a list of things I’ve done, but I don’t think those are as important as just having worked at Yale,” she said. “I loved my job and I loved the people that I worked with, and I will sorely miss that.”

When Phillips came to Connecticut three years ago, Phillips said, her family was not able to move with her. Forced to choose between living with her family and working at Yale, Phillips said she made the decision to depart in November. She said her position at Baylor is similar to her job at Yale but carries “a little bit greater” responsibility.

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After serving three years as director of residential dining at Yale, Regenia Phillips is stepping down from her post to join food services company Aramark.

A search committee, which has not yet been formed, will consider both internal and external candidates, Norton said.

Taherian said he expects the role of director of residential dining will remain largely unchanged, although Yale Dining is reviewing the position as part of a regular procedure following the departure of an administrator.

“We will be looking for the key qualifications [in a successor] that would work for future of Yale Dining,” Taherian said.

Phillips said she particularly enjoyed working with the Yale College Council.

YCC Secretary Matt Williams ’13, chair of YCC’s dining committee, said Phillips was “the person [he would] initially reach out to” with ideas and always considered

suggestions from the YCC. Most recently, YCC worked with Phillips to extend residential dining hours during Thanksgiving break.

Silliman College chef Dave Santana said he does not anticipate that her absence will affect daily activities in the residential college dining halls.

“She didn’t handle the day to day operations of the units,” he said. “She handled more the human resources side, and had nothing to do with menus.”

Baylor University Medical Center is the largest hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

TFA founder calls for education leaders

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At a talk Tuesday, Teach for America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp discussed the mission and values of TFA. She compared problems in the U.S. education system to “an epidemic” and described how TFA tries to improve the system.

BY SARAH SWONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Teach for America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp spoke Tuesday about how college graduates interested in teaching can help address nationwide education inequality.

Kopp, who developed the idea for TFA as an undergraduate at Princeton University, argued that the education system needs a growing body of talented leaders to effect reform. The education sector needs improvement at the national, state and local levels, Kopp explained at a panel discussion in front of about 70 students and New Haven community members. By working in low-income communities facing educational challenges, aspiring teachers will be “better grounded” in problems of the field and prepared to address them — whether through teaching or by pursing careers in related careers, she said.

“If we were in the field of health, we’d think this was an epidemic,” Kopp said.

“If hundreds of kids were dying of an epidemic, what would we do? We’d drop everything. We’d marshal all our forces to save them.”

Non-profit educational organization TFA places recent college graduates in two-year teaching jobs in high-need areas of the country. Kopp said TFA aims

to cultivate leaders who will help improve the education system in general, whether in the classroom or in a greater community.

She said the most successful schools always have a leader who “obsesses over building teams, manages aggressively and does whatever it takes” to ensure that students gain the skills and character strength that will carry them through college and professional life. This “educational theory of change,” she said, drives TFA to recruit the nation’s most talented postgraduates to teaching.

“There’s no substitute for getting to know a class of kids and deeply understanding them, their families and their diverse contexts,” Kopp said.

Though Kopp acknowledged that critics of TFA claim a five-week training program does not adequately ready people to enter the teaching force, she argued that TFA selects different people than those in training programs, specifically those that demonstrate “leadership characteristics.”

In addition to spending two weeks in a local orientation, finishing the fiveweek intensive program and completing “independent work,” TFA teachers also receive ongoing support during the two years, Kopp said. She added that studies from Louisiana and Tennessee have suggested that TFA is the “highest-perform-

ing teacher prep program” in their states.

In addition to getting talented people involved early on, Kopp said diversifying the education sector’s workforce is another of TFA’s “core values.” While Kopp said a candidate’s teaching abilities come first, she said TFA also considers how relatable the socioeconomic backgrounds of potential teachers are. When teachers come from the same socioeconomic backgrounds as the predominantly black and Latino students in low-income communities, those instructors can relate to students on a “different level” and serve as “important role model[s]” of how education can transform lives, Kopp said.

Zak Newman ’13, who has studied and worked with education reform, said he agrees that the education sector needs talented people in the profession.

Though he commended TFA’s focus on developing talent, Newman added that he thinks Kopp “doesn’t always address policy and politics” in an issue many consider inherently political.

Manik Chhabra, a resident at the Yale School of Medicine, said he found it “remarkable” how Kopp stands by her mission and core values.

TFA was founded in 1990.

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

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Yalies arrested at the Elevate raid

On Saturday Oct. 2, 2010 five Yale students were arrested at the Elevate Lounge on Crown Street following a police raid. While one had to be first treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital, all students were eventually released that evening.

Last case from Elevate raid settled ELEVATE FROM PAGE 1 after at least one NHPD officer used a Taser on him. The charges against Jefferson were the last to be dismissed of those leveled against the five students.

NHPD spokesman David Hartman declined to comment on how his department feels the Jefferson case has played out.

[This incident] really resulted from police overreacting to a misunderstanding.

WILLIAM DOW ’63 Lawyer for Jordan Jefferson ’14 Witnesses at the scene told the News following the raid that Jefferson was Tasered at least five times, and repeatedly punched and kicked by several police officers surrounding him. One officer turned to the student crowd and yelled “Who’s next?” while another shouted “Anybody else?” according to student accounts.

In the NHPD’s internal affairs report, Sgt. John Wolcheski concluded that officers did not use excessive force while arresting Jefferson. Instead, Jefferson was “actively resisting and fighting the officers,” thereby making the officers’ conduct “lawful, justified and proper,” he wrote.

Students who gave testimony to the report said that officers began focusing their attention on Jefferson after he “stepped forward slightly” away from an officer trying to arrest him. But NHPD Lt. Thaddeus Red-

dish alleged that Jefferson slapped officers’ hands when they attempted to handcuff him, and proceeded to strike two other officers with his forearm as they tried to Taser him.

The raid, which took place as part of “Operation Nightlife,” a NHPD initiative to reduce violence by cracking down on alcoholrelated violations in downtown clubs and bars, has already spurred change in the department.

One major concern the incident brought to light was officers’ lack of training in dealing with citizen cellphone usage. Officers at the scene told students they could not use cellphones, according to the internal affairs report, contradicting state law.

The issue was addressed in the “Video Recording of Police Activity” policy, announced by then-NHPD Chief Frank Limon shortly after the raid, which permits citizens to use cellphones to record officers’ conduct.

Limon also pledged at the time to boost the department’s planning and organization in preparation for future raids to avoid the problems raised by the Elevate raid.

Following the Oct. 2 raid, witnesses met with Limon and subsequently filled out official statements for the Internal Affairs detectives assigned to the incident.

The internal affairs report wh i c h co m p i l e d t h e se accounts, released Mar. 3, concluded that there had been failures in the police planning, but that there were no punishable offenses.

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

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The raid at Elevate in October 2010 escalated the tension between the Yale community and New Haven police.

Alpha Sig plans return to Yale FRATERNITY FROM PAGE 1 example, Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced in an email last month that administrators will institute mandatory training sessions at the end of January to teach effective leadership strategies and proper responses to incidents of sexual misconduct and hazing.

McDonald said he hopes that the fraternity registers with the Dean’s Office. He added that the new chapter would place a special focus on academics and community service and that most Alpha Sig chapters across the country are recognized by their university administrators.

Four fraternity presidents interviewed noted that garnering student interest for a new fraternity can be challenging, though they said they did not think a new fraternity would significantly affect their groups’ daily activities. Some added that they

would welcome the presence of more Greek life at Yale.

I don’t think that most people understand all the red tape that goes into creating a fraternity and maintaining it and keeping it running.

BRIAN RUWE ’13 President, Sigma Alpha Epsilon “I’m excited to have more Greek organizations on campus because the experience has been very positive… but [starting a new fraternity] is a really long process,” said Brian Ruwe

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’13, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. “I don’t think that most people understand all the red tape that goes into creating a fraternity and maintaining it and keeping it running.”

McDonald said founding members of Alpha Sig chapters must satisfy a series of requirements to form an official chapter, such as establishing a budget, organizing an initial philanthropy event and creating a schedule of activities. The entire process usually takes about nine to 12 months, he added.

Lucy Chen ’14, vice president of outgoing exchange for AIESEC Yale, an organization on campus that provides students with international internship opportunities, said she met with McDonald this month at his request to discuss the potential for a new chapter. Though she said she thinks that McDonald’s vision for an Alpha Sig chapter would cater to a “niche of guys who aren’t in frats and

who are looking for something different,” she added that she thinks it may be difficult to garner administrators’ approval given recent controversy surrounding Yale’s sexual climate and the ongoing Title IX investigation.

Alpha Sig’s efforts to establish a chapter on campus marks an attempt by the fraternity to “go back to its roots,” McDonald said, since it was founded at Yale 166 years ago as a sophomore literary society. McDonald said the group disbanded after membership declined in the years following World War II. “This is why coming back to Yale is so important,” McDonald said of the fraternity’s historical origins.

After recruiting at Yale, McDonald said he will visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in an effort to establish a chapter at that university.

Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .

TIMELINE ALPHA SIG DEC. 6, 1845 Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity is founded as a sophomore literary society at Yale.

1927-’28 Members raise $130,000 to purchase a house, located at 217 Park Street, for the fraternity.

1943 Alpha Sig goes inactive following a decline in membership after World War II. JAN. 9, 2012 The fraternity begins efforts at Yale to encourage students to create a new Alpha Sig chapter.

FEB. 8, 2012 Alpha Sig representative Geoff McDonald is scheduled to leave Yale and begin recruitment efforts at MIT.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JOE MILLER Joe Miller, Republican Party nominee in the 2010 Alaska Senate race, lost to incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski following her campaign as a write-in candidate for the general election.

Miller rails against U.S. education system

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER Disapproving hisses and supportive slaps of chairs alternated as former senatorial candidate Joe Miller LAW ’95 delivered a speech opposing federal involvement in the American education system Tuesday evening.

The Tea Party politician, who was invited to campus by the Yale Political Union, told a group of about 130 undergraduates in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall that federal involvement in education is unconstitutional and has not yielded good results for the country. Still, the majority of the crowd expressed disapproval of Miller’s position in the debate, and YPU members ultimately voted against his stance by a vote of 31 to 23.

“The government wants to control the masses,” he said in his speech, evoking strong hisses from the audience.

A former U.S. magistrate judge, Miller said constitutional law provides the stron-

gest support for his argument, arguing that education is legally a state responsibility and pointing out that the Constitution has no mention of the words “education” or “school.”

Miller warned that ignoring the country’s constitutional foundation would damage the rule of law, setting a precedent that may result in a “tyranny of the majority.”

Miller’s speech included a survey of the U.S. government’s involvement in education throughout history, pointing out that the federal government has not intervened in education for the majority of U.S. history.

Calling the current state of government regulation “socialistic,” Miller said federal regulation and subsidies have hardly improved the system since then.

“There is an incredible amount of money going into the system, and test scores are still a flat line,” Miller said. “Over the past 50 years, money has gone up while performance has gone down.”

Miller criticized the “No

JOE MILLER LAW ’95, FORMER SENATORIAL CANDIDATE

The words “education” and “school” do not appear in the Constitution.

The history of public education under the federal government has been failure.

Education trains us to think logically and rationally, but you have to be able to think morally, and that is something lacking in the current education system.

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Former Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller LAW ’95 spoke at a YPU event Tuesday evening.

Child Left Behind” act passed by the administration of George W. Bush ’68, calling the legislation a “one-size-fits-all solution” to a problem that states have the ability to manage more effectively.

While his comments garnered disapproval from most students in attendance, Conservative Party members often displayed support.

“Miller was able to articulate key conservative principles in an engaging manner,” Conservative Party member Harry Graver ’14 said. “[Speakers like these are] a very needed force at Yale.”

Miller’s speech was followed by several undergraduate speakers, speaking alternately in favor and against his proposals. Speakers who opposed Miller’s view argued that the U.S. government has promoted equality and opportunity in education, as well as provided a crucial source of funding.

When challenged with questions from audience members, Miller frequently referred to the Constitution, an argument that Liberal Party member Adrian Lo ’15 said was not sufficiently examined by students.

“I don’t agree with [Miller], but I think he made a clear case,” Lo added.

Chris Pagliarella ’12, who spoke on behalf of the Party of the Left in opposition to Miller, said Miller “had a clear command of the facts and history of federal education policy, [but] I believe the impact of federal intervention is more complicated than he presented it.”

Miller was the Republican Party nominee in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Alaska.

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

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“We need to bring in talent and people … in order for the economy to grow.” LEE HSIEN LOONG PRIME MINISTER, SINGAPORE

Yale-NUS open house draws heavy interest

YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 lyn said.

But the event was open to anyone who wanted to attend, and some families made the trip from Cambodia, Malaysia and India, Quinlan said.

Students at the open house asked about many aspects of Yale-NUS, including possible majors at the college and details of the admissions process, said Quinlan, who spent three hours answering questions on Sunday.

Bailyn said that because Singaporean students are often unfamiliar with the concept of a liberal arts education, it is important to help those interested in Yale-NUS understand what the college has to offer so they can decide whether to apply.

Quinlan said he and other admissions officials emphasize the unique aspects of the liberal arts and drawbacks of careerfocused education when speaking with prospective students.

“We talk about the need for a broad but rigorous education for the 21st century,” Quinlan said. “We talk about the idea that students are changing careers seven times during their lifetime and specialization is not the ideal type of education for the future.”

There is [intense] interest in what we have to offer.

There are a lot of questions about what we are doing, since it’s very different from anything that has been done there before.

CHARLES BAILYN Dean of faculty, Yale-NUS

of astronomy at Yale, said he delivered a sample science lecture at the open house while Quinlan provided an overview of Yale-NUS. Students also watched a virtual “flythrough” of the future campus before touring University Town.

Students and parents were able to ask questions at a reception later in the day.

Quinlan, who has spent 11 weeks in Singapore setting up the Yale-NUS Admissions and Financial Aid Office, said he visited 19 schools in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in October to promote Yale-NUS. He is still balancing his YaleNUS commitments with his other duties as the deputy dean of admissions for Yale College.

Yale-NUS will accept roughly 150 students to its inaugural class in 2013.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .

YALE-NUS COLLEGE

Bailyn, who is a professor

Though the planned campus for Yale-NUS College in Singapore has not yet been constructed, over 600 interested students attended the first open house for the liberal arts college, held on Sunday.

Eidelson settles into new role EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 is one of 19 freshman aldermen.

difference between themselves.

Eidelson said she only sought a position on the Development Commission.

Perez is also responsible for assigning aldermen to Board committees, where the details of legislative proposals are typically discussed before they are brought to the full Board for a vote. Aldermen rank their preferences for committee assignments, and usually end up serving on two or more committees.

While New Haven’s city charter technically gives the Board president alone the power to decide committee assignments, Eidelson said Perez has instead committed to share the respon-

sibility for the remainder of the Board leadership to ensure a more transparent process. Although committee assignments are due to be released sometime this week, Eidelson declined to say to which committees she hopes to be assigned.

At Tuesday’s meeting, several significant ordinances were communicated, including one from Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart to provide a process for the Board’s selection of legal counsel — an issue that emerged as the Board debated its approach to Yale’s restrictive use of High and Wall streets. Prisoner Reentry Initiative coordinator Amy Meek LAW ’09 introduced an ordinance amendment that would make it easier for people with

criminal convictions to apply for jobs or permits in the city. These proposals, Eidelson said, will be taken up in committees once they are formed.

I decided the Development Comission was the [commission] where I could have the greatest impact.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Ward 1 alderwoman After the meeting, which only

lasted 10 minutes, the aldermen reconvened in a meeting room for two hours to receive training with city-issued Kindles, which Eidelson said were introduced in an effort to reduce paper waste given the lengthy bills and budgets the Board handles.

The current Board was elected last fall, with elections characterized by an overwhelming union presence. Fourteen of the 19 freshmen on the Board were elected with financial support from labor unions, bringing the number of labor-backed aldermen to 20, enough to overturn a mayoral veto.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 4:00 PM “Dominicanos Unidos: The Island — Diaspora Continuum in Dominican Literature and Culture.” Dixa Ramirez of the University of California, San Diego will speak. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 401.

7:00 PM “Othello.” This 1952 film, directed by Orson Welles, is being screened as part of Shakespeare at Yale. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.).

8:00 PM Mindfulness Meditation Group. Sitting meditation followed by a discussion and informal lecture on the practice of mindfulness meditation (vipassana). Meditation instruction will be provided for beginners. Bring your own meditation cushion or bench. Dwight Chapel (67 High St.).

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 11:30 AM “Systematic Reviews and Public Policy.” Researcher Angeli Landeros-Weisenberger will speak as part of the series “Current Work in Child Development and Social Policy,” sponsored by the Edward Zigler Center. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 116.

4:00 PM “Are You Grieving?” A Conversation for Yale Students. Open to any student who is grieving the death of a loved one. Conversation led by Associate University Chaplain Callista Isabelle and Dr. Karen Hoffman of the Department of Mental Health & Counseling. Battell Chapel (400 College St.), Lovett Room.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 12:55 PM The Metropolitan Opera at Yale Presents “The Enchanted Island.” In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters and a story drawn from Shakespeare. This dazzling production of “The Enchanted Island” is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (“Satyagraha” and the Met’s 125th anniversary gala). Sprague Hall (470 College St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE

125K

Number of volumes held in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library

The collection deals with art, architecture and drama, and also includes a number of “rare and unique materials.” The library, which opened in 2008, connects Paul Rudolph Hall and the Jeffrey Loria Center.

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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 12 P.M. WED. JAN. 18 “ODALISQUE: BEAUTY, SEX, AND SLAVERY” A presentation by historian and artist Nell Painter on “Odalisque,” an artist’s book of 100 drawings and 100 pages of writing grappling with ideas of beauty, sex and slavery.

230 Prospect St., Room 101

WED. JAN. 18 - SAT. JAN. 21 “CORIOLANUS” A reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Coriolanus, directed by Daniel Larlham and Timmia Hearn Feldman ’12. A senior project for William Smith and Jesse Kirkland both ’12 .

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

7 P.M. THURS. JAN. 19 “OTHELLO” Screening of Orson Welles’ “Othello,” with an introduction

by Murray Briggs, associate professor of Theater Studies and English.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

7 P.M. THURS. JAN. 19 “DIRTY LOOKS: LONG DISTANCE LOVE AFFAIRS” A bi-coastal coupling of queer experimental film and video produced in New York.

212 York St., Room 106

NOV. 14 - JAN. 27 “GWATHMEY SIEGEL: INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION” A Yale School of Architecture exhibition highlighting the work of architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel.

Paul Rudolph Hall, 2nd Floor gallery, 180 York St.

NOV. 12 - JAN. 28 “LIBRARY SCIENCE” An exhibit at local gallery Artspace focusing on the materials and art of the library.

Artspace, 50 Orange St.

DEC. 20 - APR. 1 “MONARCHS IN MESOPOTAMIA” An exhibition of objects dating from the times of a dozen monarchs, including the tablet inscribed with the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.

JAN. 13 - APR. 13 “THREADS OF INFLUENCE: THE VISUAL HISTORY OF A LIFE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN” A show focusing on the graphic design of Tom Morin that spans his life thus far, from early drawings to his most recent professional work.

Robert B. Haas Arts Library, William H. Wright Special Collections Area, 180 York St.

JAN. 3 - JUN. 3 “WHILE THESE VISIONS DID APPEAR”: SHAKESPEARE ON CANVAS An exhibition of paintings at the Yale Center for British Art inspired by the Bard’s comedies.

UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Architect Michael Marshall’s ARC ’84 firm received several awards in October.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER

FRAMES

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

MAKE A COMEBACK

BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Yale Center for British Art is leading the fight to put frames back in the foreground of artistic discussion.

In late December, the British Art Center added nearly 100 historic frames to its online collections database. According to Matthew Hargraves, associate curator and head of Collections Information and Access, the move online is part of an effort to generate more interest in frames within the museum itself and foster greater research in the decorative arts around the world.

“Hopefully when people visit the museum, they will spend some time looking at the frame and thinking of the frame as its own sort of object,” Hargraves said.

Though the British Art Center was aware it possessed a large collection of historic frames — close to 2,000 — Hargraves said Director

Amy Meyers GRD ’85 chose to reevaluate the collection three years ago. She approached frame dealer and scholar Paul Mitchell in 2009 to survey the British Art Center’s frame collection. While Mitchell had surveyed collections for internal use at other museums, Hargraves said the British Art Center intended to make its “hidden decorative arts collection” available in an online format from the start.

Mitchell has visited the British Art Center several times a year since then to document the frames, returning to his London offices to provide the British Art Center data on its collection, including analysis of style, approximate date of creation and nationality of the maker.

This information, along with often several photographs of the frames themselves, is available in the online catalogue.

“We treat [the frames] as independent objects worthy of study in their own right,” Hargraves said.

While the British Art Center currently displays 94 frames on the database that Mitchell has deemed to be exceptional examples of their types, Hargraves said the museum aims to increase that number by 200 to 300 by March. At that time, users will be able to easily link from information on the frame to a descrition of the painting and vice versa. Hargraves said he also hopes to write a glossary to make the language of framing — full of obscure words like “cartouche” and “fronton” — more accessible.

Hargraves believes the British Art Center is one of the first galleries with an online frame database.

There are similar, albeit smaller, online collections of frames at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. The Louvre aims to join them, Hargraves said, publishing its collection online this March.

According to history of art professor Edward Cooke Jr. ’77, there

has been a revival in scholarly frame interest within the last 15 years. Earlier in the 20th century, frames and their craftsmen were not considered important, and often art photographers cropped their photographs to exclude frames.

“Art historians haven’t paid much attention to frames,” Hargraves said.

“In the last decade, there has been a greater understanding that artists were aware that the way their art was framed would affect the way it would be received and perceived.”

Hargraves said that large numbers of frames available for study worldwide would allow researchers to establish patterns between frames and examine the historical network between artists and frame makers.

Users will be able download images for scholarly purposes without paying a fee or asking permission of the British Art Center, Cassandra Albinson, associate curator of Paintings and Sculptures said.

“If people from around the world

are able to study [the frames], it will draw attention to this database of knowledge,” said history of art professor Tim Barringer. “It is a useful resource for collectors, dealers and curators the world over.”

Barringer said the British Art Center’s collection has a particularly high number of original frames, which are helpful in examining the artist’s original intention.

Frames also reveal something about paintings’ subsequent owners: Throughout the years, frames may be “repurposed, reshaped and recycled,” Hargraves said.

“Frames are a very underestimated part of a work of art,” history of art professor Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92 said. “They represent nothing less than the symbolic and real border between the painting and the rest of the world.”

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

‘17O1’ aims to up bands’ campus visibility

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER For some Yalies, a cappella jams, the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s Halloween show and folk trio Plume Giant may seem to comprise the undergraduate music scene on campus.

Nascent campus record label 17O1 Records is striving to highlight less well-known talent.

After releasing its first compilation of songs by independent Yale musicians last April, the label will conclude accepting submissions for its second album in late January. With the record’s upcoming release and a slew of new initiatives, members of 17O1 Records said the organization aims to provide a more consistent support system for campus artists having difficulty gaining an audience for their own work and performances.

“17O1 was founded [in 2010] because a

whole lot of talent on campus was not getting promoted, and we wanted to fix that,” said 17O1 Records President Martin Weaver ’12. He added that he wants Yale musicians to think of 17O1 Records first when brainstorming ways to reach larger audiences.

Carson Weinand ’13, 17O1’s director of marketing and promotion, said the label’s recently redesigned website will act as a hub for Yale music with the addition of schedules of tour dates and regular updates from acts.

“We hope to be more than a release platform,” Weaver said.

The number of submissions 17O1 received last year and so far this year has been surprising, said Jacob Reske ’14, the label’s sound engineer.

“I was floored at the amount of people you just don’t know about, because there’s been a lack of connection between arists, engineers

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

HARRY SIMPERINGHAM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Members of Yale’s on-campus label, 17O1 Records, will release its second album this April.

and promoters,” he added.

Weinand, who is a member of the group High Definition, said Yale artists are currently not very vocal about their work. Weinand added that some artists may not be inclined to promote their own music or are unaware of channels beyond Facebook and MySpace.

“We have plenty of musicians, but they maybe aren’t that good at promoting themselves,” said singer-songwriter Rich Gilliland ’13 of the band No, We’re Not. He added that people often do not know when or where certain bands are performing, and that centralized advertising by 17O1 Records may help musical acts.

Promoting their music is not at the top of student musicians’ lists, Weaver said, because they often choose to focus on other priorities, like the demands of academic coursework.

Some artists said, however, that unknown musicians also need better community outlets to make a name for themselves.

Musician Jake Backer ’14 of the band The Rain Brigade said that other organizations including Yale’s WYBC radio station have often been unable to give students the platform they need.

“The WYBC needs to be more regular with shows at [its off-campus venue] The Cavity and more avid about publicity,” he said. Backer added he has, however, noticed an increase in WYBC’s activity since the beginning of the year.

Gilliland said bands lack a regular forum to perform before substantial crowds outside the annual Yale College Council-sponsored Battle of the Bands. The three finalists in the competition perform as the opening acts at Spring Fling later in the year.

“17O1 Records is the kind of resource that hasn’t been around for private musicians at Yale,” Gilliland said.

A lifetime of design at arts library

In addition to making connections between musicians and audiences, Weaver said, the label will establish a fluid relationship with artists, helping them find new members if one leaves, for instance, and promoting their work beyond the initial album release. This help extends to artists whose tracks do not make it onto 17O1’s annual album.

A consistent relationship with the record label may address musicians’ concerns about a regular way to air their music. Backer said that while 17O1’s annual album is a good idea, a oneoff record is not enough to create a community to create a community and sustain the level of independent musical activity on campus.

“To make a culture of independent rock and pop artists happen, there need to be shows and a cultural change,” said Backer.

Once all submissions are received, the label will narrow them down to a selection of 12 tracks, Reske said. The tracks will then be polished in Yale studios, he added, before being sent for professional mastering. The label’s funding derives from the Office of the Dean of Arts and the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee, Weaver said.

“Most musicians submitting to this call wish they could afford better equipment and mastering services,” Gilliland said. “It’s basically a blessing.”

Weinand said the second 17O1 Records album is scheduled to be released around the time of Spring Fling, near the end of the semester. He described last year’s album, “Blue Noise,” as a blend of soft rock and strong vocals, with a “hipster edge.”

Eight hundred copies of last “Blue Noise” were downloaded free from the label’s website.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

In October, the National Organization of Minority Architects recognized architecture firm Marshall Moya Design with two of their five annual awards, the Professional Design Excellence Award and the Visionary Honor Award. Principal architect Michael Marshall ARC ’84 spoke with the News about their two award-winning projects, one a sustainable housing project for internally displaced people in Cartagena, Colombia and the other a student center for the University of the District of Columbia.

Marshall will preside over the groundbreaking of the student center today. seems like a lot of your designs QItemphasize sustainability. Why is

sustainability so important for contemporary architects?

A

I think architects have been interested in making buildings more sustainable for a long time, but the general public is just now catching up. It’s significant that for the [UDC] student center, the client, university President Allen Sessoms GRD ’72, reached out to us and supported our goal of designing the building so that it meets platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards … Usually, even though architects care about sustainability, clients don’t want it because a sustainable building costs 10 to 20 percent more than a similar, unsustainable building. Developers are now interested because they realize their clients want this. Homeowners want the cost savings that occur over time because of sustainable architecture. It’s true that the cost of the technology is high, but it’s coming down from what it was 15 years go.

Eventually the technology will catch up and the industry will begin to understand how to make this all happen in a costeffective way.

SHARON YIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

A new exhibit at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library features work by designer Tom Morin ART ’68.

BY SHARON YIN STAFF REPORTER In a new exhibition, the life’s work of graphic designer Tom Morin ART ’68 is on view at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.

“Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design,” which opened Jan. 13, displays snippets from Morin’s career, including projects from his time as a graphic design student at the Yale School of Art in addition to his more recent work as a principal at the firm Context Design. After the exhibition closes on April 13, the materials on display will move to Yale’s Library Shelving Facility in Hamden as part of the Arts Library Special Collections.

The exhibit’s structure is “loosely” based on sections of Morin’s recently published book “Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design,” Jae Rossman, the library’s assistant director for special collections, said in an email.

“The book is special because Tom chose to show all of his work, not just the best or most important pieces,” said Rossman, who is responsible for selecting exhibits. “He is showing the journey of becoming a good designer, not just the destination.”

Morin said in an email that no other recognized, living designer has traced his or her major influences through his entire life; objects in the exhibit reveal the influence Morin’s grandparents and parents had on him from a young age. He added that the materials he donated to Yale will be a useful research tool for teachers and students of design and design historians.

The exhibit places an emphasis on the Yale section of Morin’s book, Rossman said. His training at Yale and the foundation in graphic design that it gave him are important ele-

ments of both the exhibition and Morin’s book, she said.

But the exhibit is only a small part of the materials Morin donated to the library.

“I donated literally hundreds of photos, original sketches and artwork, student projects and printed professional projects from my 44-year career as a graphic design consultant to corporate America,” Morin said, adding that the body of work includes projects for the Whitney Museum of Art, General Electric, Xerox and J.P. Morgan.

For Morin, the most important part of the exhibit are six central cabinets displaying his student work under the instruction of six key Yale faculty members from the 1960s.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons praised the layout of the exhibit for highlighting the influences that the Yale faculty had on Tom Morin’s work as a graphic designer.

Gibbons added that donations like Tom Morin’s papers are important to the library because they help document the history and development of graphic design in America as well as the history of Yale itself.

“This has been one of the best experiences of my life,” Morin said, referring to the exhibit.

“I am very happy with my decision to donate this collection the Haas Family Library, and I look forward to the ‘Tom Morin Papers’ being used by students and researchers for years to come.”

The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library serves as the working library for the History of Art Department, the schools of Art, Architecture and Drama and the Yale University Art Gallery. It presents three exhibits each year in the spring, summer and fall, Rossman said.

Contact SHARON YIN at sharon.yin@yale.edu .

does sustainability mean in the QWhat context of architecture?

A

Well, a lot of it has to do with incorporating sustainable features into the design … [For the student center], we’re adding features like a green roof [with plants growing on top] and geothermal heating, which draws energy from the earth for conventional heating uses. We’re also going to incorporate a rain garden, which will collect all the water that comes off the roof and will naturally channel it back into the earth …

This will apply even to the public sector’s sidewalks, since even in the public space [adjacent to the student center] we will collect water that would normally enter the sewage system and end up in Rock Creek Park or the Potomac River.

said that clients are now realizing QYou that sustainable design can save them money. Could you give me an example?

A

We are installing shading windows in the student center. These will cut down on the heating and cooling bills, particularly cooling, since the windows will control the amount of direct sunlight that comes into the building. Shading the sun before it comes into the building keeps it at a cooler temperature while filtering the light. The windows can reflect light inside so you can use daylight [to] cut down on the amount of electrified light [used] by having more ambient light reflected or bounced into the building. We also have an atrium space that will allow daylight to get deeper into the building. It’s really quite an interesting dance to use the sun in effective ways and cut down on the amount of sun when you don’t want it. These are things we do

with architecture that might cost more due to their configuration and technology, but in the long run the tradeoff is the overall performance over time. You’re not going to have the utility bill you could have so it’s really an investment, so if you or your client has a long-term view in mind it’s the best thing to do. was challenging about designQWhat ing a university building? How will the design facilitate student life?

A

This is the major public university of the city so it was important to come up with a new space and a new gateway and a new iconic symbol of the university and the city … [The building site] is facing one of the commercial nodes of Connecticut Avenue, which is one of the major transit hubs of the area — there is a metro stop right there. Right now there is a group of buildings with brutalist architecture there. It’s very off-putting. This [student center] gives the university the ability to rebrand its environment.

you talk about the Cartagena QCould Project in Colombia? What makes this project so unique? How will it facilitate social reintegration?

A

We don’t have all the funding or a specific site for this — it’s more of an idea based on my partner’s master’s program thesis. It deals with people who are internally displaced because of civil war or development, and occasionally the government deals with it. For example in Colombia, the government will build settlements outside of the major cities, but they aren’t that economically sustainable and there isn’t the best education available. So the idea behind the project is to have a partnership between the public and private sectors. The government should buy property nearer to the city and issue proposals to have private developers develop it to the extent that there is both mixed-income housing and [facilities for] ecotourism. There would be hotels, cultural events and urban gardens in a horizontal and vertical landscape. This way, the displaced people are part of a community that is supported by education and employment — there is a relationship between the displaced people and opportunities.

This type of structure would eventually become part of the city’s normal economic structure.

We have another project in Washington, D.C. where government land was developed by the private sector, but 20 percent of it had to be affordable and workplace housing for firemen, teachers and police officers. But this should happen in Africa, Asia or South America where ecotourism is now developing and there is a demand from the market economy for places like this. [NOMA] recognized that this idea could be a prototype to help people all over the world.

will this allow for farming and QHow food production?

A

Imagine a tall building in which there are six apartments per floor.

Imagine taking out the two apartments that face south on every floor and using them to have hydroponic farming. This would bring density to a site vertically so you’re not using as much land for the development and allows people who normally live in rural areas to live in urban areas. They could grow things to sell in the markets or to use themselves.

There will also be rooftop gardens and aquafarming with fisheries and things so there would be a variety of the type of farming that could occur in the site.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE

125K

Number of volumes held in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library

The collection deals with art, architecture and drama, and also includes a number of “rare and unique materials.” The library, which opened in 2008, connects Paul Rudolph Hall and the Jeffrey Loria Center.

Arch alum on green building

THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 12 P.M. WED. JAN. 18 “ODALISQUE: BEAUTY, SEX, AND SLAVERY” A presentation by historian and artist Nell Painter on “Odalisque,” an artist’s book of 100 drawings and 100 pages of writing grappling with ideas of beauty, sex and slavery.

230 Prospect St., Room 101

WED. JAN. 18 - SAT. JAN. 21 “CORIOLANUS” A reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Coriolanus, directed by Daniel Larlham and Timmia Hearn Feldman ’12. A senior project for William Smith and Jesse Kirkland both ’12 .

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

7 P.M. THURS. JAN. 19 “OTHELLO” Screening of Orson Welles’ “Othello,” with an introduction

by Murray Briggs, associate professor of Theater Studies and English.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

7 P.M. THURS. JAN. 19 “DIRTY LOOKS: LONG DISTANCE LOVE AFFAIRS” A bi-coastal coupling of queer experimental film and video produced in New York.

212 York St., Room 106

NOV. 14 - JAN. 27 “GWATHMEY SIEGEL: INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION” A Yale School of Architecture exhibition highlighting the work of architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel.

Paul Rudolph Hall, 2nd Floor gallery, 180 York St.

NOV. 12 - JAN. 28 “LIBRARY SCIENCE” An exhibit at local gallery Artspace focusing on the materials and art of the library.

Artspace, 50 Orange St.

DEC. 20 - APR. 1 “MONARCHS IN MESOPOTAMIA” An exhibition of objects dating from the times of a dozen monarchs, including the tablet inscribed with the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.

JAN. 13 - APR. 13 “THREADS OF INFLUENCE: THE VISUAL HISTORY OF A LIFE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN” A show focusing on the graphic design of Tom Morin that spans his life thus far, from early drawings to his most recent professional work.

Robert B. Haas Arts Library, William H. Wright Special Collections Area, 180 York St.

JAN. 3 - JUN. 3 “WHILE THESE VISIONS DID APPEAR”: SHAKESPEARE ON CANVAS An exhibition of paintings at the Yale Center for British Art inspired by the Bard’s comedies.

UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Architect Michael Marshall’s ARC ’84 firm received several awards in October.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER

FRAMES

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART

MAKE A COMEBACK

BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Yale Center for British Art is leading the fight to put frames back in the foreground of artistic discussion.

In late December, the British Art Center added nearly 100 historic frames to its online collections database. According to Matthew Hargraves, associate curator and head of Collections Information and Access, the move online is part of an effort to generate more interest in frames within the museum itself and foster greater research in the decorative arts around the world.

“Hopefully when people visit the museum, they will spend some time looking at the frame and thinking of the frame as its own sort of object,” Hargraves said.

Though the British Art Center was aware it possessed a large collection of historic frames — close to 2,000 — Hargraves said Director

Amy Meyers GRD ’85 chose to reevaluate the collection three years ago. She approached frame dealer and scholar Paul Mitchell in 2009 to survey the British Art Center’s frame collection. While Mitchell had surveyed collections for internal use at other museums, Hargraves said the British Art Center intended to make its “hidden decorative arts collection” available in an online format from the start.

Mitchell has visited the British Art Center several times a year since then to document the frames, returning to his London offices to provide the British Art Center data on its collection, including analysis of style, approximate date of creation and nationality of the maker.

This information, along with often several photographs of the frames themselves, is available in the online catalogue.

“We treat [the frames] as independent objects worthy of study in their own right,” Hargraves said.

While the British Art Center currently displays 94 frames on the database that Mitchell has deemed to be exceptional examples of their types, Hargraves said the museum aims to increase that number by 200 to 300 by March. At that time, users will be able to easily link from information on the frame to a descrition of the painting and vice versa. Hargraves said he also hopes to write a glossary to make the language of framing — full of obscure words like “cartouche” and “fronton” — more accessible.

Hargraves believes the British Art Center is one of the first galleries with an online frame database.

There are similar, albeit smaller, online collections of frames at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. The Louvre aims to join them, Hargraves said, publishing its collection online this March.

According to history of art professor Edward Cooke Jr. ’77, there

has been a revival in scholarly frame interest within the last 15 years. Earlier in the 20th century, frames and their craftsmen were not considered important, and often art photographers cropped their photographs to exclude frames.

“Art historians haven’t paid much attention to frames,” Hargraves said.

“In the last decade, there has been a greater understanding that artists were aware that the way their art was framed would affect the way it would be received and perceived.”

Hargraves said that large numbers of frames available for study worldwide would allow researchers to establish patterns between frames and examine the historical network between artists and frame makers.

Users will be able download images for scholarly purposes without paying a fee or asking permission of the British Art Center, Cassandra Albinson, associate curator of Paintings and Sculptures said.

“If people from around the world

are able to study [the frames], it will draw attention to this database of knowledge,” said history of art professor Tim Barringer. “It is a useful resource for collectors, dealers and curators the world over.”

Barringer said the British Art Center’s collection has a particularly high number of original frames, which are helpful in examining the artist’s original intention.

Frames also reveal something about paintings’ subsequent owners: Throughout the years, frames may be “repurposed, reshaped and recycled,” Hargraves said.

“Frames are a very underestimated part of a work of art,” history of art professor Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92 said. “They represent nothing less than the symbolic and real border between the painting and the rest of the world.”

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

‘17O1’ aims to up bands’ campus visibility

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER For some Yalies, a cappella jams, the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s Halloween show and folk trio Plume Giant may seem to comprise the undergraduate music scene on campus.

Nascent campus record label 17O1 Records is striving to highlight less well-known talent.

After releasing its first compilation of songs by independent Yale musicians last April, the label will conclude accepting submissions for its second album in late January. With the record’s upcoming release and a slew of new initiatives, members of 17O1 Records said the organization aims to provide a more consistent support system for campus artists having difficulty gaining an audience for their own work and performances.

“17O1 was founded [in 2010] because a

whole lot of talent on campus was not getting promoted, and we wanted to fix that,” said 17O1 Records President Martin Weaver ’12. He added that he wants Yale musicians to think of 17O1 Records first when brainstorming ways to reach larger audiences.

Carson Weinand ’13, 17O1’s director of marketing and promotion, said the label’s recently redesigned website will act as a hub for Yale music with the addition of schedules of tour dates and regular updates from acts.

“We hope to be more than a release platform,” Weaver said.

The number of submissions 17O1 received last year and so far this year has been surprising, said Jacob Reske ’14, the label’s sound engineer.

“I was floored at the amount of people you just don’t know about, because there’s been a lack of connection between arists, engineers

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

HARRY SIMPERINGHAM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Members of Yale’s on-campus label, 17O1 Records, will release its second album this April.

and promoters,” he added.

Weinand, who is a member of the group High Definition, said Yale artists are currently not very vocal about their work. Weinand added that some artists may not be inclined to promote their own music or are unaware of channels beyond Facebook and MySpace.

“We have plenty of musicians, but they maybe aren’t that good at promoting themselves,” said singer-songwriter Rich Gilliland ’13 of the band No, We’re Not. He added that people often do not know when or where certain bands are performing, and that centralized advertising by 17O1 Records may help musical acts.

Promoting their music is not at the top of student musicians’ lists, Weaver said, because they often choose to focus on other priorities, like the demands of academic coursework.

Some artists said, however, that unknown musicians also need better community outlets to make a name for themselves.

Musician Jake Backer ’14 of the band The Rain Brigade said that other organizations including Yale’s WYBC radio station have often been unable to give students the platform they need.

“The WYBC needs to be more regular with shows at [its off-campus venue] The Cavity and more avid about publicity,” he said. Backer added he has, however, noticed an increase in WYBC’s activity since the beginning of the year.

Gilliland said bands lack a regular forum to perform before substantial crowds outside the annual Yale College Council-sponsored Battle of the Bands. The three finalists in the competition perform as the opening acts at Spring Fling later in the year.

“17O1 Records is the kind of resource that hasn’t been around for private musicians at Yale,” Gilliland said.

A lifetime of design at arts library

In addition to making connections between musicians and audiences, Weaver said, the label will establish a fluid relationship with artists, helping them find new members if one leaves, for instance, and promoting their work beyond the initial album release. This help extends to artists whose tracks do not make it onto 17O1’s annual album.

A consistent relationship with the record label may address musicians’ concerns about a regular way to air their music. Backer said that while 17O1’s annual album is a good idea, a oneoff record is not enough to create a community to create a community and sustain the level of independent musical activity on campus.

“To make a culture of independent rock and pop artists happen, there need to be shows and a cultural change,” said Backer.

Once all submissions are received, the label will narrow them down to a selection of 12 tracks, Reske said. The tracks will then be polished in Yale studios, he added, before being sent for professional mastering. The label’s funding derives from the Office of the Dean of Arts and the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee, Weaver said.

“Most musicians submitting to this call wish they could afford better equipment and mastering services,” Gilliland said. “It’s basically a blessing.”

Weinand said the second 17O1 Records album is scheduled to be released around the time of Spring Fling, near the end of the semester. He described last year’s album, “Blue Noise,” as a blend of soft rock and strong vocals, with a “hipster edge.”

Eight hundred copies of last “Blue Noise” were downloaded free from the label’s website.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

In October, the National Organization of Minority Architects recognized architecture firm Marshall Moya Design with two of their five annual awards, the Professional Design Excellence Award and the Visionary Honor Award. Principal architect Michael Marshall ARC ’84 spoke with the News about their two award-winning projects, one a sustainable housing project for internally displaced people in Cartagena, Colombia and the other a student center for the University of the District of Columbia.

Marshall will preside over the groundbreaking of the student center today. seems like a lot of your designs QItemphasize sustainability. Why is

sustainability so important for contemporary architects?

A

I think architects have been interested in making buildings more sustainable for a long time, but the general public is just now catching up. It’s significant that for the [UDC] student center, the client, university President Allen Sessoms GRD ’72, reached out to us and supported our goal of designing the building so that it meets platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards … Usually, even though architects care about sustainability, clients don’t want it because a sustainable building costs 10 to 20 percent more than a similar, unsustainable building. Developers are now interested because they realize their clients want this. Homeowners want the cost savings that occur over time because of sustainable architecture. It’s true that the cost of the technology is high, but it’s coming down from what it was 15 years go.

Eventually the technology will catch up and the industry will begin to understand how to make this all happen in a costeffective way.

SHARON YIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

A new exhibit at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library features work by designer Tom Morin ART ’68.

BY SHARON YIN STAFF REPORTER In a new exhibition, the life’s work of graphic designer Tom Morin ART ’68 is on view at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.

“Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design,” which opened Jan. 13, displays snippets from Morin’s career, including projects from his time as a graphic design student at the Yale School of Art in addition to his more recent work as a principal at the firm Context Design. After the exhibition closes on April 13, the materials on display will move to Yale’s Library Shelving Facility in Hamden as part of the Arts Library Special Collections.

The exhibit’s structure is “loosely” based on sections of Morin’s recently published book “Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design,” Jae Rossman, the library’s assistant director for special collections, said in an email.

“The book is special because Tom chose to show all of his work, not just the best or most important pieces,” said Rossman, who is responsible for selecting exhibits. “He is showing the journey of becoming a good designer, not just the destination.”

Morin said in an email that no other recognized, living designer has traced his or her major influences through his entire life; objects in the exhibit reveal the influence Morin’s grandparents and parents had on him from a young age. He added that the materials he donated to Yale will be a useful research tool for teachers and students of design and design historians.

The exhibit places an emphasis on the Yale section of Morin’s book, Rossman said. His training at Yale and the foundation in graphic design that it gave him are important ele-

ments of both the exhibition and Morin’s book, she said.

But the exhibit is only a small part of the materials Morin donated to the library.

“I donated literally hundreds of photos, original sketches and artwork, student projects and printed professional projects from my 44-year career as a graphic design consultant to corporate America,” Morin said, adding that the body of work includes projects for the Whitney Museum of Art, General Electric, Xerox and J.P. Morgan.

For Morin, the most important part of the exhibit are six central cabinets displaying his student work under the instruction of six key Yale faculty members from the 1960s.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons praised the layout of the exhibit for highlighting the influences that the Yale faculty had on Tom Morin’s work as a graphic designer.

Gibbons added that donations like Tom Morin’s papers are important to the library because they help document the history and development of graphic design in America as well as the history of Yale itself.

“This has been one of the best experiences of my life,” Morin said, referring to the exhibit.

“I am very happy with my decision to donate this collection the Haas Family Library, and I look forward to the ‘Tom Morin Papers’ being used by students and researchers for years to come.”

The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library serves as the working library for the History of Art Department, the schools of Art, Architecture and Drama and the Yale University Art Gallery. It presents three exhibits each year in the spring, summer and fall, Rossman said.

Contact SHARON YIN at sharon.yin@yale.edu .

does sustainability mean in the QWhat context of architecture?

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Well, a lot of it has to do with incorporating sustainable features into the design … [For the student center], we’re adding features like a green roof [with plants growing on top] and geothermal heating, which draws energy from the earth for conventional heating uses. We’re also going to incorporate a rain garden, which will collect all the water that comes off the roof and will naturally channel it back into the earth …

This will apply even to the public sector’s sidewalks, since even in the public space [adjacent to the student center] we will collect water that would normally enter the sewage system and end up in Rock Creek Park or the Potomac River.

said that clients are now realizing QYou that sustainable design can save them money. Could you give me an example?

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We are installing shading windows in the student center. These will cut down on the heating and cooling bills, particularly cooling, since the windows will control the amount of direct sunlight that comes into the building. Shading the sun before it comes into the building keeps it at a cooler temperature while filtering the light. The windows can reflect light inside so you can use daylight [to] cut down on the amount of electrified light [used] by having more ambient light reflected or bounced into the building. We also have an atrium space that will allow daylight to get deeper into the building. It’s really quite an interesting dance to use the sun in effective ways and cut down on the amount of sun when you don’t want it. These are things we do

with architecture that might cost more due to their configuration and technology, but in the long run the tradeoff is the overall performance over time. You’re not going to have the utility bill you could have so it’s really an investment, so if you or your client has a long-term view in mind it’s the best thing to do. was challenging about designQWhat ing a university building? How will the design facilitate student life?

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This is the major public university of the city so it was important to come up with a new space and a new gateway and a new iconic symbol of the university and the city … [The building site] is facing one of the commercial nodes of Connecticut Avenue, which is one of the major transit hubs of the area — there is a metro stop right there. Right now there is a group of buildings with brutalist architecture there. It’s very off-putting. This [student center] gives the university the ability to rebrand its environment.

you talk about the Cartagena QCould Project in Colombia? What makes this project so unique? How will it facilitate social reintegration?

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We don’t have all the funding or a specific site for this — it’s more of an idea based on my partner’s master’s program thesis. It deals with people who are internally displaced because of civil war or development, and occasionally the government deals with it. For example in Colombia, the government will build settlements outside of the major cities, but they aren’t that economically sustainable and there isn’t the best education available. So the idea behind the project is to have a partnership between the public and private sectors. The government should buy property nearer to the city and issue proposals to have private developers develop it to the extent that there is both mixed-income housing and [facilities for] ecotourism. There would be hotels, cultural events and urban gardens in a horizontal and vertical landscape. This way, the displaced people are part of a community that is supported by education and employment — there is a relationship between the displaced people and opportunities.

This type of structure would eventually become part of the city’s normal economic structure.

We have another project in Washington, D.C. where government land was developed by the private sector, but 20 percent of it had to be affordable and workplace housing for firemen, teachers and police officers. But this should happen in Africa, Asia or South America where ecotourism is now developing and there is a demand from the market economy for places like this. [NOMA] recognized that this idea could be a prototype to help people all over the world.

will this allow for farming and QHow food production?

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Imagine a tall building in which there are six apartments per floor.

Imagine taking out the two apartments that face south on every floor and using them to have hydroponic farming. This would bring density to a site vertically so you’re not using as much land for the development and allows people who normally live in rural areas to live in urban areas. They could grow things to sell in the markets or to use themselves.

There will also be rooftop gardens and aquafarming with fisheries and things so there would be a variety of the type of farming that could occur in the site.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. The online encyclopedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday.

BY PETER SVENSSON ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The planned shutdown of one of the Internet’s mostvisited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work.

“My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that’s a slippery slope,” said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of knowledge. “Before we know it, we’re blacked out because we want to save the whales.”

Wikipedia will shut down access to its English-language site for 24 hours beginning at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday. Instead of encyclopedia articles, visitors will see information about the two congressional bills and details about how to reach lawmakers.

It is the first time the English site has been blacked out. Wikipedia’s Italian site came down once briefly in protest to an Internet censorship bill put forward by the Berlusconi government. The bill did not advance.

The shutdown adds to a growing body of critics who are speaking out against the legislation. But some editors are so uneasy with the move that they have blacked out their own user profile pages or resigned their administrative rights on the site to protest. Some likened the site’s decision to fighting censorship with censorship.

One of the site’s own “five pillars” of conduct says that Wikipedia “is written from a neutral point of view.” The site

strives to “avoid advocacy, and we characterize information and issues rather than debate them.”

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues that the site can maintain neutrality in content even as it takes public positions on issues.

“The encyclopedia will always be neutral. The community need not be, not when the encyclopedia is threatened,” he tweeted.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which administers the site, announced the blackout late Monday, after polling its community of volunteer contributors and editors and getting responses from 1,800 of them. The protest is aimed at the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate.

“If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States,” the foundation said.

Both bills are designed to crack down on sales of pirated American products overseas, and they have the support of the film and music industry. Among the opponents are many Internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and AOL. They say the bills would hurt the industry and infringe on free-speech rights.

Social news website Reddit.com is shutting down for 12 hours on Wednesday, but most companies are staying up.

Google Inc. said it will display its opposition to the bill on its home page in some fashion.

Dick Costollo, CEO of Twitter, said he opposes the legislation as well, but shutting down the service was out of the ques-

tion.

“Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish,” Costollo tweeted.

The encyclopedia will always be neutral. The community need not be, not when the encyclopedia is threatened.

JIMMY WALES Wikipedia founder Since Wikimedia depends on a small army of volunteers who create and update articles, it’s particularly concerned about a lack of exemptions in the bills for sites where users might contribute copyrighted content. Today, it has no obligation under U.S. law except removing that content if a copyright holder complains.

But under the House version of the bill, it could be shut down unless it polices its own pages.

The plans for the protest were moving forward even though the bill’s prospects appeared to be dimming. On Saturday, Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Democrat, said the bill would not move to the House floor for a vote unless consensus is reached. However, Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, said work on the bill would resume next month.

The White House raised concerns over the weekend, pledging to work with Congress to battle piracy and counterfeiting while defending free expression, privacy and innovation in the Internet.

FLORENCE, S.C. — His wealth and taxes suddenly a campaign focus, Mitt Romney said Tuesday he pays an effective federal tax rate of about 15 percent. That’s far less than if his earnings were wages rather than gains from investments and dividends, and the disclosure under pressure triggered a sharp response from the Democratic White House as well as one of his GOP presidential rivals.

Romney told reporters he also received money from speechmaking before he announced his presidential candidacy early last year “but not very much.” He provided no details, but in his financial disclosure statement, released last August, he reported being paid $374,327.62 for such appearances for the 12 months ending last February.

That amount alone would place his income among the top 1 percent of all Americans, and Romney’s description of it as a relatively small amount suggested his overall income was far higher.

It’s well known that Romney’s father was the chairman and president of American Motors, and he himself was a successful businessman and founder of Bain Capital, a private equity firm, where he earned millions. At the same time, his refusal to release his tax returns has been a persistent issue, and one that flared anew in a debate Monday night in which he grudgingly said he might release them in April.

On Tuesday, he said he would release at least one year’s returns in April.

Republicans trying to defeat him in Saturday’s South Carolina primary are hoping he’ll make them public far sooner.

The White House, which expects Romney to win the Republican nomination and take on President Barack Obama this year, reacted, too.

Spokesman Jay Carney said: “This only illuminates what [Obama] believes is an issue, which is that everybody who’s working hard ought to pay their fair share.

That includes millionaires who might be paying an effective tax rate of 15 percent when folks making $50,000 or $75,000 or $100,000 a year are paying much more.”

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who runs second in some polls in South Carolina, taunted the former Massachusetts governor: “I think we ought to rename our flat tax. We have a 15 percent flat tax, so this would be a Mitt Romney flat tax and all Americans would pay the rate” that he

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paid. Gingrich is expected to release his own returns on Thursday.

At 15 percent, Romney’s federal income tax rate would still be higher than the rate paid by many Americans.

On average, households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay a federal income tax rate of 5.7 percent this year, according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.

However, when Social Security and other taxes are included, that same household would pay an average federal tax rate of 16.6 percent.

Overall, the average American household will pay 9.3 percent in federal income taxes and 19.7 percent in all federal taxes.

Romney’s wealth — he is worth between $190 million and $250 million — puts him among the richest Americans. But if most of his income is from investments, it could help him to significantly lower his federal tax bill compared to people who make money in other ways.

While the top federal tax rate for investment income — qualified dividends and long-term capital gains — is 15 percent, the top tax rate for wages is 35 percent on taxable income above $388,350. Wages are also subject to Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, while investment earnings are not.

With unemployment high and the country still struggling to recover from the worst recession in decades, Obama’s re-election campaign has signaled it intends to make income disparity a central part of this year’s campaign.

Romney’s remaining nomination foes emphasized in the debate in Myrtle Beach on Monday night that whatever vulnerabilities he might bring to a campaign against Obama, the party should know about them now.

Romney was asked about his taxes shortly before he left South Carolina for a high-dollar fundraiser in New York.

“What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Romney said. “Because my last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past, rather than ordinary income or rather than earned annual income.”

By his own account, Romney hasn’t received a regular paycheck since 1999. That’s when he left the private equity firm he founded, Bain Capital, where he became a multimillionaire. Most of Romney’s taxable income comes from investing the fortune he made there.

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“[Occupy Wall Street protesters] blame the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess. On some level I can’t blame them.” BEN BERNANKE CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE

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Class on Occupy fails to get approval

Tax exemption protested

BY JEREMY BUDD STAFF WRITER There will not be a course about the Occupy Wall Street movement offered for Columbia students during the spring semester, officials say.

Earlier this month, a listing for a course entitled “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” appeared on the anthropology department’s directory of Spring 2012 classes, setting off a media frenzy. According to the syllabus, the course would have provided students the opportunity to conduct fieldwork about the Occupy movement in New York, but the online listing appeared before the Committee on Instruction approved the course officially.

“The course came in very late,” School of General Studies Dean Peter Awn, who serves on the COI, said. “The last COI meeting just came and went, and it never hit the directory of classes.”

Awn added that the course would have contributed to the “marketplace of ideas” at Columbia, but the syllabus needed to explicate the class’s purpose and outline what fieldwork students would be doing at protest sites.

“There were structural issues, and the goals of the course just needed to be clarified,” he said. “The department clearly wants to get involved in the issue, and given the time and that we’re in the middle of a political campaign, it’s even more interesting.”

Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom, who also serves on the COI, said in an email that “very briefly, nothing has changed” since the last COI meeting on Dec. 7.

The next meeting is Feb. 3, well after classes start, “and I have no idea whether we will discuss the course,” she said.

Discussion about the course within the COI has been minimal so far. Van Gorkom said she thought that if the course were approved for a

future semester, it would be more of a research seminar.

“It sounds like a very good idea—it’s something very interesting that is happening now, COLUMBIA and it’s kind of crazy not to analyze that,” she said last week. “Aren’t we supposed to do that?”

Awn stressed that the role of the COI is more “procedural.” He said that the content of courses is mostly up to their respective departments and that the COI is not “the thought police.”

There were structural issues, and the goals of the course just needed to be clarified… and given that we’re in the middle of a political campaign, it’s even more interesting.

PETER AWN School of General Studies Dean “You can’t have a professor of sociology telling a professor of chemistry what to teach,” he said. “The departments will send a course to the COI—however, the first line of police is the department itself.”

Last week, Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Brian Connolly said in an email: “A course does not appear in the official directory of classes and cannot be offered in advance of required approvals,” he said.

“The study of contemporary political, economic and social issues is entirely appropriate and has a long history here,” Connolly added.

BY DAN ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER Nearly 100 Providence firefighters, police officers and community members protested the University’s exemption from paying taxes on many of its properties Wednesday evening, blasting fog horns, chanting and holding signs that read “pay your share.” The protest was the latest sign of escalating tensions in an ongoing debate over how much the University should contribute to the city.

While President Ruth Simmons spoke at a Providence Foundation meeting inside 121 S. Main St., which houses several University offices, protesters on the street said the University should have to shoulder a greater tax burden so Providence residents could be spared.

“I just spent 151 days in the hospital with cancer treatment over this last year with 19 procedures in 15 months, and you think I’m not ticked when I get hit with a bill and somebody else is coming up wanting us to pay more taxes?” said Bobby Lowder, who lives just north of Brown’s campus. “If all universities paid on their income-producing properties and their income — what they make, from the bookstore they’ve got, all the rest of that — like any other business, you wouldn’t have a problem.”

The University is exempt from paying taxes on property used for educational purposes. But Brown, along with Providence’s other private colleges and universities, made an agreement in 2003 to voluntarily pay $50 million to the city over 20 years — a total that is significantly less than what the University would pay

under regular property tax rates.

Brown also pays taxes on recently p u rc h a s e d p r o p e r t y, BROWN including the site of the protest, according to a University statement released Wednesday.

The protesters said these contributions are not enough, especially at a time when Providence is in dire financial straits.

Lowder expressed concern that firefighters could lose their pensions due to the city’s fiscal problems. “That’s wrong,” he said.

Firefighter Wayne Oliveira said the University could pay more taxes without even feeling the hit.

“They bought up a third of the city, and they need to help,” he said. “They need to help because of the simple fact that the citizens of Providence are drowning in taxes, and they’re footing the bill.”

The University released a statement Wednesday outlining its support for the city. In addition to its financial contributions to Providence, the University also provides jobs to 1,400 city residents and attracts people to the city who often start job-creating businesses, according to the statement.

But Providence City Councilman Nicholas Narducci Jr., Ward 4, voiced his doubts.

“How many of their employees, if you’re looking at it that way, live in Providence?” Narducci, who spoke at the protest, asked in an interview with The Herald.

While he said Brown does play

a role as an employer, Narducci questioned the trade-off for the city. “Would we be better off for them to employ all outsiders and us to get their tax dollars?” he said. “Probably.”

Rep. Leo Medina, D-Providence, said the issue is not specific to Brown.

“Between Johnson and Wales, Brown University and RISD, you have the highest-value property and paying zero,” Medina, who also spoke at the rally, told The Herald.

He said the city should not tax classroom buildings but should consider taxing buildings that colleges and universities profit from, such as dormitories.

In its statement, the University reiterated its offer to increase its payments toward the city’s school system.

“We seek to be part of the solution and offered Mayor (Angel) Taveras a plan to enhance the $4 million in direct payments we already make annually to the city by providing an additional $10 million over five years to support the schools,” the statement said.

Simmons and Taveras last year made a tentative deal for the University to provide the city with an additional $4 million per year, but this proposal was never presented to the Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — according to an article published in the Providence Journal Tuesday. Taveras sent a letter to Simmons Jan. 4 expressing his disappointment and warning that the city may “pursue that revenue from Brown using alternate legal pathways.”

Less than half an hour after the protest ended, Taveras stepped out of a black SUV and walked inside the building.

THE DARTMOUTH

Campus honors MLK

BY ERIN LANDAU STAFF WRITER Dartmouth began a celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend with a series of events, including the 20th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Candlelight Vigil Processional, that will continue throughout the entire month of January. This year’s celebration, titled “The Content of Our Character,” focuses on celebrating the civil rights movement and the continuing relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The candlelight vigil, hosted

by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, was a march across campus to pay homage to King and his contributions to the civil rights movement. The event featured an address by Robert Wallace, president and CEO of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc. On May 23, 1962, nearly 50 years ago, King delivered a speech to seniors in Dart-

mouth Hall regarding the state of the United S t a t e s civil rights m o v e DARTMOUTH m e n t i n the United States. A multimedia presentation of King’s speech played every hour today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m in Dartmouth 105.

“One day we will win our freedom,” King said in the speech. “We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory.”

Yesterday’s events included the MLK Day of Service, the Student Forum on Global Learning, the Diversity Peer Leadership Program’s Social Identities Workshop, Sharing Dreams for the Future and a keynote address by Herman Boone. The

Tucker Foundation sponsored this year’s service project, held in Collis Common Ground, where participants made quilts for global refugees with Our Savior Lutheran Church and Student Center.

“It’s our fourth year here at Dartmouth,” Jill Williams, a member of the church, said. “[U.S. President Barack] Obama asked that MLK Day be a day of volunteerism and public service, and we’re just doing our part.”

At the Student Forum on Global Learning, students reflected on their experiences working and doing research in a global context and the benefits of cross-cultural links. Presentation topics included “Boosting Maternal Health and Reducing Child Mortality,” “American Dream or American Illusion: New Threads in the National Tapestry” and “Reality Show: Documenting Cultural Life through Art and Film.”

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Ladiges ’12 ‘quiet leader’ of team LADIGES FROM PAGE 14 is what you would expect of a goalie: reserved and humble, but competitive, quick and agile, Flygh said. He added that she is very well liked by everyone on the team, and that her character makes her coaches want to see her succeed.

Teammates interviewed echoed Flygh’s sentiments.

“Genny’s happy-go-lucky personality is a calming force on our team,” team captain Aleca Hughes ’12 said. “I admire her quiet focus and passion.”

Grant added that Ladiges is a good role model for the younger goalies, Jaimie Leonoff ’15 and Erin Callahan ’13. The entire team, she said, looks to Ladiges for leadership.

Ladiges and Grant first met at Bulldog Days as prefrosh.

“She has been my best friend since day one and I would do pretty much anything for her,” Grant said of Ladiges.

Now a psychology major in Davenport, Ladiges came to Yale from her hometown of Almonte, Ont., just outside of Ottawa. She said she was inspired to start playing hockey around age 7, when her home NHL

team, the Ottawa Senators, made it to the playoffs.

Ladiges joined an organized league one year later.

“When they asked me what position I wanted to play, I just blurted out ‘goalie,’” Ladiges recalled. “I’d never really thought about it, but I just thought the equipment was really neat and it would be a lot of fun. I’ve been a goalie ever since — this will be 14 years now.”

Genny’s happy-go-lucky personality is a calming force on our team.

ALECA HUGHES ’12 Captain, women’s hockey Ladiges played in net for five years in a boys’ hockey league in Almonte, before she transferred to a high-level girls’ team based in Ottawa that traveled to cities like Toronto and Montreal for games. Before her senior year of high school, Ladiges completed the recruitment process for Yale.

Ladiges said Yale had always been her first choice because of its academic caliber.

She added that some of her best friends are on the team with her, and that she has enjoyed meeting people who are passionate about hockey and who strive to balance athletics and schoolwork.

Next year, she said she plans to go to graduate school for a master’s in psychology, but added she might also return to Canada and work towards an engineering degree. She has done research is in music cognition and currently works in a medical decision-making lab.

But before she leaves, she still has 11 more games until the playoffs to play for the Blue and White. No matter where she ends up, Ladiges said hockey will always be a part of her life and added that she hopes her children will also play.

“She is very capable of stealing a game and I think we will see some of her best hockey down this final stretch,” Flygh said.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

Number of students participating in Squash Haven The after-school program Squash Haven currently serves 70 Elm City students in elementary and high school. Julie Greenwood, director of the program, hopes to expand the program to 100 students in the next few years.

Kids learn squash SQUASH FROM PAGE 14 had never seen or played squash before coming to Yale, but that she decided to begin volunteering with Squash Haven at the beginning of her freshman year because she wanted to become involved in a tutoring program for New Haven youth.

The staff and volunteers who form the core of Squash Haven have helped students find success. This past weekend, all 10 urban squash programs gathered in New York City to compete at the NUSEA Team Nationals. In the boys’ U15 division, Squash Haven finished in first place.

The tournament also featured an essay contest in conjunction with the squash competitions. Two of Squash Haven’s students, sixth-grader Johanile Hurtado and ninth-grader Aaron Brevard, won the contest in their respective

Women’s hockey goaltender Genny Ladiges ’12 spent her early career in a boys’ league in her home country of Canada.

Contact MARIA GUARDADO at maria.guardado@yale.edu .

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age groups for essays on perseverance.

Both students earned the opportunity to read their essays at the tournament.

“I was surprised because I’m never satisfied with my work,” Brevard said.

“My voice was kind of shaky, but everybody said they liked it.”

“My face turned red,” Hurtado said.

Greenwood said she plans on expanding Squash Haven from its current 70 New Haven students to 100 over the next two years. Though running the program is a lot of work, Greenwood said the small daily rewards make directing Squash Haven and providing families with a “transformative experience” well worth the effort.

Squash Haven was founded in 2006.

November.

Some would argue that an extended lifeline to the big-time bowls is a good thing, as it extends the drama we all crave. These critics do not appreciate that in college football’s current system, there is always something to fight for, most often non-BCS bowl placement. Keeping this late-season glimmer of a championship open to all is not filling a void; it is instead dismissing the importance of the early part of the season.

Let’s look at other sports for perspective. The NBA and the NHL are similar to college basketball in that a game lost here or there does not usually have huge implications at the end of the day. Fans only get excited about occasional games for most of the season, such as crosstown rivalries or the Cavs’ shot at LeBron, and then only for their sentimental value.

The NFL would be a naturally instructive place to look. In fact, it may well be the professional regular season fans care about the most. Nonetheless, regular season wins are nowhere near as important as in college. The attention-grabbing team of the season, Tim Tebow’s Denver Broncos, made the playoffs after literally losing half of their games. In 2011, the Seattle Seahawks earned a losing record (7–9) and a playoff bid.

Also, we really can lose this crusading tone Garn uses about needing to find a “true national champion.” There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind the day after the University of Alabama

delivers a crushing 21–0 defeat to Louisiana State University in the national championship game who the national champion is. This system values what teams have done all year long and gives the best two teams, almost always by consensus, the chance to duke it out.

Alabama was the best team in college football this year, hands down.

Was UConn the best basketball team last year? If Baylor had not shot 6 of 37 from the field (seriously, that happened in a championship game), would we be comfortable calling them the best of the best?

As much as I sympathize with the plight of smaller, non-BCS conference schools whose impressive records have a hard time landing them in elite bowls, we have to come to terms with the fact that the Sun Belt Conference and, say, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) just are not at the same competitive level. And let’s not pretend like non-BCS conference teams have no shot in this system. We saw Boise State University’s playground-style upset of Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. We saw the same Boise State team ranked No. 2 in both major polls late in the 2010 season. Then they lost.

Those of us who grew up watching college football know the drama and excitement that accompany game day each and every week for three months.

I am not willing to trade that for a couple good games over winter break — games that culminate in UConn-Baylor.

Contact ADAM BERMAN at adam.berman@yale.edu .

Colts’ Caldwell fired after losing season

BY MICHAEL MAROT ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Caldwell endured everything thrown at him during his first two seasons as the Colts’ coach — replacing a friend, rebounding from losses and fighting through injuries.

Not having Peyton Manning around in 2011 was just too much.

Caldwell was fired Tuesday, a little more than two weeks after the Colts’ worst season in two decades.

“This is obviously a big transitional time for us, but I know we’re excited moving forward and it’s hard when you say goodbyes to some people,” team owner Jim Irsay said. “But it’s part of the business.”

In Indianapolis, the last two weeks have hardly been business as usual.

The day after a season-ending loss at Jacksonville assured Indy of the No. 1 draft pick in April with a 2–14 mark, Irsay fired team vice chairman Bill Polian, the architect of the Colts’ success, and his son, Chris, the handpicked general manager.

Irsay’s nine-day search for a replacement ended last Wednesday when he chose 39-year-old Ryan Grigson as Indy’s new GM. Since then, Irsay and Grigson have met almost non-stop, debating what direction the team needed to go, whether staff changes would fix the problems or whether the team needed to bring in a new coach and possibly a whole new staff.

Things were so clouded Monday that Caldwell even met with former Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo about possibly becoming the Colts’ new defensive coordinator, and as late as Tuesday morning, the conventional wisdom was that Caldwell would stay.

Then things changed almost as suddenly as the Colts’ fortunes in 2011.

Irsay said he informed Caldwell of the decision about 2 p.m., shortly before the team confirmed the move.

“We just came to the conclusion that this is best moving forward for the franchise,” Grigson said, referring to his first major decision in charge of an NFL team. “Mr. Irsay is the steward of this franchise and I’m here to help him wrap his head around these types of decisions. We’ve been in football our whole lives and a lot of it is about instincts.”

Caldwell ends his Colts’ tenure 26–22 overall with one AFC title, two division crowns and one bleak season that has left him unemployed just three years after replacing close friend Tony Dungy, the first black coach to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

“This was a difficult decision,” Irsay said. “I wanted to make sure we took all the time we needed to make sure it was the right decision. … And just like 14 years, ago, it’s a big change for the franchise and at the same time, there’s players, coaches, many people on the staff that will go into the new day and get on with the work of 2012.”

Back in 1998, the Colts brought in Manning, Bill Polian and coach Jim Mora. The team got better fast and, though Mora was gone after the 2001 season, the franchise became one of the league’s model franchises.

And it is now headed in a different direction, even if Manning comes back as expected from Sept. 8 neck surgery.

Caldwell — who won his first 14 games, an NFL record for a rookie head coach, and became only the fifth first-year coach to take his team to the Super Bowl — won’t be there

when the Colts resume practice. With fans complaining about game management and clamoring for a change since midseason, Irsay didn’t have much choice.

With Manning, the Colts won a league-record 115 regular-season games over the previous decade, tying the league mark for most consecutive playoff appearances (nine), winning two AFC titles and one Super Bowl trophy, the Colts lost their first 13 games in 2011, then won twice in five days and nearly lost the No. 1 draft pick, too.

Without Manning, Indy started 0–8 and was the heavy favorite to win the Andrew Luck sweepstakes at midseason. Caldwell’s team lost the next five games, too, before finally winning two straight to avoid becoming the second 0–16 team in league history.

A season-ending loss at Jacksonville, officially gave the Colts the top pick, which is expected to be used on Luck.

Players never gave up on Caldwell and many cited their preference to keep playing for him next season.

Manning was one of Caldwell’s supporters, calling the coach that helped him win a record-setting four MVP Awards a “friend.”

But the disastrous 2011 season was too much for Caldwell to overcome after winning AFC South titles in each of his first two seasons in Indy.

After overhauling the front office, Irsay last week hired 39-year-old Ryan Grigson as his new general manager, then wanted to wait until Grigson had time to evaluate Caldwell’s performance.

The decision came Tuesday, setting off the second major search of the month.

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Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell walks off the field after a Nov. 13, 2011 NFL loss.

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“It’s nice to introduce new people to the sport.

It’s nice to get more people playing squash and help younger kids learn how to play.”

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Squash Haven supports youth

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Elementary and high school students in New Haven can learn how to play squash — as well as receive tutoring and mentoring — through the Squash Haven program. Around 70 students currently participate.

BY MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon in Brady Squash Center on the fourth floor of Payne Whitney Gymnasium, all 15 courts were filled with young squash players.

Within the walls of each court, athletes could be seen alternating hitting a small rubber ball with their rackets against the front wall, which created resounding thuds that echoed throughout the facility.

But the majority of the young players weren’t college students — they were elementary and high school students from the New Haven community.

The children are all part of Squash Haven, an academic and athletic enrichment program that serves students from the Elm

City. The program currently provides 70 students, ranging from fourth to 10th grade, with free after-school tutoring, mentoring and squash training at Payne Whitney throughout the week.

Founded in 2007, Squash Haven is one of 10 programs around the country that make up the National Urban Squash and Education Association (NUSEA), a network of urban squash programs, many of which are affiliated with universities. The programs partner with local schools where at least 70 percent of students’ families meet federal lowincome thresholds, said Julie Greenwood, executive director of Squash Haven. She added that all of the students who graduate from these urban squash programs go on to four-year colleges.

“We’re developing athletes,

developing educational skills, and because it’s so small and intimate, what we’re really doing is supporting kids and families for a long period of time,” Greenwood said.

The combination of academic and athletic support Squash Haven offers makes the program popular among New Haven families. But admission to the program is competitive. Students interested in joining Squash Haven must go through a rigorous application process that includes a written application, parent interviews and teacher recommendations.

Greenwood said the program looks for candidates who will apply themselves both on the court and in the classroom.

“I think the most important variables from our perspec-

tive are motivation and commitment,” Greenwood said. “What we’re looking for are kids who are going to be motivated to do their best across settings.”

I never heard of squash. I thought it was something to eat.

MOUBARAK OURO-AGUY Squash Haven participant Students in the program typically head to Payne Whitney after school at least three days a week. They usually begin with one-hour sessions on the squash court, followed by 15 minutes of fitness, 30 minutes of snack and

announcements. The program typically ends with one hour of academic study and homework help.

Many of the students who participate in Squash Haven knew nothing about the sport prior to joining the program.

“I never heard of squash,” eighth-grader Moubarak OuroAguy said. “I thought it was something to eat.”

Thirteen-year-old Elaine Negron said she wanted to join Squash Haven in order to be able to travel.

“My friends told me about it and all the cool trips they went to,” she said. “I didn’t travel that much, so I wanted to travel and play.”

Greenwood and a small staff work full-time to run Squash Haven, but they also receive a lot

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Ladiges ’12 makes the save

ADAM BERMAN

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER

No BCS playoff system If college football replaces the current Bowl Championship Series system with a playoff, particularly one as robust as that proposed by Michael Garn in his column “For a BCS playoff” last week, the result would be inevitable and familiar: college basketball.

To be more specific, adding a playoff system to college football would trade the relevance and drama of the regular season for a potentially exciting — and potentially not — postseason. There is a reason so few people follow college basketball from November through February. Any mention of college basketball to the casual sports fan elicits the response, “Oh, is it almost March Madness?” No one cares how your college basketball team does during the regular season as long as it wakes up come tourney time. And at the end of it all, we end up with cringeinducing championship games like the 2011 snoozer in which the University of Connecticut

of support from volunteer tutors, mentors and coaches, many of whom are Yale students. Yale Athletics donates both office space and court time to the program, while all members of the men’s and women’s squash team work one hour per week as coaches for the students.

Millie Tomlinson ’14, a member of the women’s squash team, said she enjoys the opportunity to teach her sport to new players.

“It’s nice to introduce new people to the sport,” Tomlinson said. “It’s nice to get more people playing squash and help younger kids learn how to play.”

Not all Yale students involved with Squash Haven come from squash backgrounds.

Emily Graham ’13 said she

beat Baylor University 53–41.

Thank goodness, college football is different. The entire season is a playoff. Lose to a bad team in September?

You are going to have a hard time climbing back into the national championship race.

Lose again? You may be out of a marquee bowl. Harsh as it is, every game the entire season truly does matter.

A playoff system is a safety net that would instantly water down the intensity of the season. This is not an untested theory; it is already happening with the addition of postseason conference championship games. As much as it pains me to say, my beloved Ohio State Buckeyes had a terrible season by all accounts. Nonetheless, the addition of the first-ever Big Ten championship game in 2011 left the Buckeyes in control of their own destiny as far as getting to the Rose Bowl as late as the second week of SEE BCS PAGE 13

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Yale hockey goalkeeper Genny Ladiges ’12 earned the starting role in net for Yale this year after spending three years as a backup.

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During women’s hockey goalkeeper, Genny Ladiges’s ’12 first game as a Bulldog, upperclassman goaltender Jackee Snikeris ’11 lost her helmet and took a skate to the face. Snikeris broke her nose and the freshman Ladiges unexpectedly took to the net.

Ladiges went on to play in goal for 15 games that season.

Now in her senior year, just as three years ago, Ladiges plays a crucial role on the team. She has played 14 out of 18 games this season, and she has a 0.888 save percentage and a 4.62 goalsagainst average.

“Genny has definitely grown as a person and an athlete over the past three-and-a-half years,” teammate Heather Grant ’12 said in an email to the News. “She has gone from a quiet, scrawny and somewhat intimidated young freshman to a more outspoken teammate, an awesome goalie and an integral member of our team.”

While Ladiges has held her own in the net, suiting up for a team that has struggled through the years to keep the puck out of her defensive zone might appear a daunting task.

Yale has one only a single game this season.

“I try not to think about finishing at Yale,” she said. “Even though the season’s gone pretty horribly, I take nothing for granted — I don’t want to leave

with any regrets and just try to play my best. Every practice we’re lucky to be out there.”

That upbeat attitude has helped to keep the team competitive, despite its scoreboard struggles, head coach Joakim Flygh said.

Genny has definitely grown as a person and an athlete over the past three-and-ahalf years.

HEATHER GRANT ’12 Defense, women’s hockey The team certainly counts on Ladiges, who has made over 40 saves in a game four times this year, to keep afloat when Yale is often outshot by large margins.

Most recently, the Elis were outshot 52 to 17 against St. Lawrence on Saturday.

“She played behind Snickeris for three years and never complained about where she fit in, so it is great to see her take charge as a senior and push hard to give us an opportunity to be competitive each night she plays,” Flygh said.

Grant added that whenever Ladiges makes a big play, she boosts the entire team’s morale.

Known to coaches and teammates as a “quiet leader,” Ladiges SEE LADIGES PAGE 13

NUMBER OF SAVES WOMEN’S HOCKEY GOALTENDER GENNY LADIGES ’12 HAS MADE THIS SEASON. Ladiges, who stopped 45 of 52 shots in a 7–1 loss to St. Lawrence Saturday night and has a .888 goals against average, is tied for 19th nationally in saves.