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Tailgate rules tighten Admins ban kegs, U-Hauls

Get serious. Today is the last day of shopping period.

Seniors, you have to turn in your schedules. Everyone, you have to start buying your books, or at least sign up for Amazon Prime.

Judas! Stefani “Lady Gaga” Germanotta and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, announced on Thursday that their “Born This Way Foundation” will hold a launch event at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater on Feb. 29.

Named after Gaga’s 2011 smash hit about being yourself, the Born This Way Foundation promotes nurturing, supportive environments for little monsters across the globe.

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the University’s decision to tighten tailgate regulations, but the other two thought the new rules were a misguided response to the November incident, which killed one person and injured two others.

Jamey Silveira ’13, president of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, said he thought administrators were “justified” in their response, though he added that the new policy will be “tough” on fraternities and students. Silveira said the stricter rules will likely decrease the amount of

The University announced a stricter set of tailgating regulations on Thursday in the wake of a fatal crash that occurred at the Harvard-Yale tailgate in November.

The new guidelines ban kegs and “box trucks,” establish a vehicle-free tailgating zone and require that all attendees leave the student tailgating area by kickoff. The rules were recommended by a committee formed to review tailgating practices after the death of one person and injury of two others at the Nov. 19 Harvard-Yale game, and released in a campus-wide email from University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer.

All were approved by University President Richard Levin and Yale’s other officers, and will take effect immediately.

“We thought that the whole idea is that this is a community event, a football game, and not merely an outdoor party,” Levin said. “It seemed like a way to put a proper balance between those.”

The changes follow the Nov. 19 death of Nancy Barry, which occurred when a U-Haul carrying kegs bound for the Sigma Phi Epsilon tailgate at the Yale Bowl lost control and accelerated into a crowd of people in the Bowl’s D-Lot. A New Haven Police Department forensics investigation, begun immediately after the crash, is still ongoing, and NHPD spokesman David Hartman said Jan. 12 that it would be “quite some time” before the investigation is concluded.

Lorimer said the tighter regulations are

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Nickel and diming.

Connecticut’s Board of Regents for Higher Education on Thursday voted to hike tuition and fees at public universities and community colleges by 3 percent next year. For in-state residents studying at public universities, that translates into a $676 increase in tuition and fees, the Hartford Courant reported.

No go. Joshua Komisarjevsky,

who was found guilty last October of the infamous 2007 Cheshire murders, had his request for retrial denied, the AP reported. He is up for sentencing next week.

Saving the Internet. U.S. Rep.

Rosa DeLauro on Thursday expressed her opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act in an interview with the New Haven Independent posted to YouTube. “We need to scrap the current legislation,” DeLauro, a Democrat, said in the video. “We need to start from the beginning.”

What is beauty? In a Thursday

night email, Rumpus Magazine solicited submissions from students for its annual ranking of Yale’s 50 Most Beautiful People. Photos submitted will be posted to the tabloid’s Facebook page, and whoever racks up the most votes (“likes”) will be featured in this year’s edition.

Superstar. A North Haven

teenager advanced to the Hollywood round of “American Idol” on Wednesday night. Sixteenyear-old Gabi Carruba earned her own three minute segment on the show before charming Stephen Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson with her rendition of Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning.” “I love the choices that you make,” Lopez said to Carruba. Tyler, meanwhile, said it may be her “magic moment.”

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1980 Professors in the Math Department decide not to file “effort reports” with the federal government explaining the government-sponsored research they have been conducting. The professors call the reports “meaningless.”

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New tailgating rules, including a ban on kegs and most oversized vehicles, drew mostly negative reactions from students.

Students criticize new rules

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS An administrative decision to tighten tailgate regulations in response to a fatal U-Haul crash at last November’s Yale-Harvard tailgate has generated mixed responses from fraternity leaders and students alike.

While the changes to tailgating policies announced in a Thursday email from University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer drew strong criticism from some students, others said they under-

stood the reasons behind implementing stricter rules. The new tailgating policies have banned kegs and most oversized vehicles from future athletic events, established a “vehicle-free” area for student tailgating and instructed students to leave tailgating areas by the start of the game.

Though fraternity leaders and students interviewed were divided over the necessity of the new policies, most said the regulations will reduce campus enthusiasm for future tailgates.

Two of four fraternity presidents interviewed said they understood

Yale-NUS plans courses

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS While students at Yale College focus on fulfilling flexible distributional requirements before graduation, their peers at Yale-NUS will be required to complete an intensive core curriculum during their freshman and sophomore years.

The faculty search committees for the liberal arts college jointly operated by Yale and the National University of Singapore have narrowed their list of candidates to roughly 100 finalists from a field of about 1,500 applicants, Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said, and will begin offering candidates positions in a few weeks. The roughly three dozen professors who are selected will start a yearlong process of finalizing the curriculum in July, Bailyn said, tasked

with refining a course structure that was first presented in September 2011, following months of Yale and NUS faculty review.

“In order to identify what kinds of faculty you need and what your priorities are, you have to have a handle on the curriculum,” Bailyn said Wednesday. “Prospective faculty members will have an idea of how to further develop the curriculum.”

Faculty members will have an idea of how to further develop the curriculum.

CHARLES BAILYN Yale-NUS dean of faculty Finalists for faculty positions at Yale-NUS will attend evaluative workshops in either New

Haven or Singapore over the next few months where they will discuss the college’s proposed curriculum with other candidates, Bailyn said, adding that two such workshops have already met — one at Yale in December and one at NUS earlier this month.

Pericles Lewis, a Yale English professor who is chairing the University’s humanities faculty search committee, said in November that most applicants had come from the United States, though a “substantial number” had either lived or worked in Asia. Bailyn said the hiring process has placed an unusually strong emphasis on how prospective faculty members engage with the proposed course structure.

“We’re specifically looking for faculty members who are SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6

Increase in apps seen

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER Yale received 5.8 percent more applications for admission this year and will likely see a drop in the percentage of students it accepts in the spring, Dean of Undergraduate Admis-

sions Jeffrey Brenzel said in a Thursday email to the News.

The number of applications to the Class of 2016 increased to 28,870, up from 27,283 for the Class of 2015. The Office of Admissions expects the number of admitted students to remain about the same as last year’s

total of 2,109, Brenzel said, which would result in Yale’s lowest admit rate ever — below 7 percent.

While the other Ivy League schools that have reported application numbers thus far SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 6

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After three seasons at Harvard, Tony Reno is returning to Yale.

Reno hopes to reboot Yale football

BY CHARLES CONDRO AND JIMIN HE STAFF REPORTERS When Tony Reno graduated from Oxford High School in Oxford, Mass. in 1993, he enrolled at Hobart College in upstate New York. After one year away from the Bay State, however, Reno returned home.

Nearly a decade later, Reno returned to a different home.

This time, he came back to Yale as its 34th head football coach after spending three seasons at the Bulldogs’ archnemesis, Harvard. Reno will take over a storied program that has not won

an Ivy League title since 2006 and has garnered just one win over the Crimson since 2001.

“When the opportunity came up, it was something that was unbelievable to me,” Reno said after his Jan. 12 introductory press conference. “We are going to build a tough, physical and hard-nosed football team that can deal with adversity, and that’s challenge number one.”

After leaving Hobart, Reno transferred to Worcester State College and joined a highly talented team. He SEE RENO PAGE 11

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he administration’s latest tailgate regulations are well-intentioned,

but some are off the mark. ted for tailgating.

If the University simply wanted to demand tamer tailgates, it could have banned alcohol altogether.

But kegs were specifically implicated in November’s scandal, so kegs will no longer be allowed. On their surface, Yale’s tailgates will look less debauched. Kegs are conspicuous symbols of consumption. Flasks are not. But one is more dangerous than the other.

There will not be another Yale tailgate for nine months. It made little sense to rush to announce these policy changes now, before the police have even completed a forensic investigation of the crash. The administration could have taken more time to talk to more of the people these changes will directly affect.

Instead, it chose to follow in the footsteps of Harvard, Princeton and other peer institutions that have adopted similar policies. Banning kegs and shortening tailgates might be a trend, but it isn’t a wise one.

Barry’s death was a freak accident, but it presented a good opportunity to reevaluate existing policies. Dedication to safety is always worthwhile. But adopting two extra rules that will all but eliminate tailgates is a misdirected effort.

In the narrative of improving safety after last year’s crash, it might be easy to lose sight of the real purpose of tailgate regulations.

The administration’s top priority should be to guarantee its students’ safety while promoting the spirit of celebration. It is instead trying to refocus the fallout from a horrifying tragedy to improve its own image.

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In the wake of a tragic Harvard-Yale tailgate, Yale’s administration pledged to review its policies on tailgating. The results of that review, released yesterday, include regulations for future tailgates that will ensure nothing like that day’s accident happens again: U-Hauls will be banned and student tailgates will be held in a vehicle-free area. Those are necessary changes.

But the administration also announced two other rules that actively undermine student safety instead of protecting it: No kegs allowed at all and no tailgating after kick off.

These latter regulations seem tailored to protect Yale’s public image above all. The U-Haul that killed Nancy Barry in November was carrying kegs. Media coverage of the event focused on that fact and the debauchery it implied.

Kegs had nothing to do with the accident, which occurred long before kick off and with a sober driver at the wheel of the truck. But banning kegs and shortening tailgates sends a message: Yale is responding to the accident and all the negative attention that came with it.

These two measures do not demonstrate the sensitivity we would hope to see in responding to the complex task of balancing safety, the tradition of Yale tailgating and our public image.

At best, these two new changes will merely curtail some festivities. More likely, they will create an unsafe environment in which students binge drink even more.

Without kegs, students will likely turn to hard alcohol.

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politics that comes with it.”

few days ago, I joined a group of Yale students and professors for a visit to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Times Square. The exhibit — which I certainly recommend to anyone interested in ancient Judaism and Christianity — is a remarkable mixture of scholarship and entertainment. Somewhat incongruously, the exhibit’s neighbor at the New York Discovery Center is none other than “CSI: The Experience,” inspired by the hit TV show. Glossy advertisements plaster much of downtown Manhattan, and the visitor is introduced to the Scrolls by a high-tech, 360º video show and live actors dressed as Israeli field archeologists.

Although the exhibit is certainly the product of a monumental effort on the part of scholars, it is also clear that the Discovery Center views these ancient manuscripts’ visit to New York as a lucrative financial opportunity.

That marriage of the scholarly and the commercial seems worrisome.

After all, attempts at appealing to broader popular audiences inevitably result in the loss of scholarly authenticity and the introduction of some degree of anachronism.

But more than that, the rank commercialization of these ancient texts — one of the most important scholarly discoveries of the century and a source of wonder for millions of the faithful — seems to chip away at the integrity of academia itself. When the

ivory tower opens its doors to private enterprise, it cannot help but appear less pristine.

The academy engages YISHAI but its SCHWARTZ more, authority and the quality of The Gadfly its output are diminished.

Shopping period at Yale presents us with a similar quandary. Professors go into salesman mode as they try to interest students in their subjects. Members of the faculty perform song-and-dance routines and play funny videos during their first class meetings, and they develop niche, hip-sounding titles for classes in an effort to appeal to wider groups of students. The enrollment in William Honeychurch’s “Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology,” for example, is exponentially larger than similar archaeology courses with comparable material but less sexy names.

Even the term “shopping period” reflects a commoditization of scholarship, one we barely even notice anymore. I certainly don’t think that we should all be stuck in classes with boring material and uninspiring teachers, but what does the experience of shopping do to our understanding of education and our place in

academia? I can’t help but think that Yale students think of themselves less as responsible protectors and developers of knowledge and more as self-interested consumers pursuing our pet interests and causes. This shift in perspective is not good for us, academia or society.

This consumerist ethos isn’t simply a question of pride, accolades or undergraduates’ selfunderstanding. The emphasis on form and display rather than content has ramifications for scholarship as well. Conceptual frameworks and lenses of understanding are all the rage while the difficult philological and manuscript work that goes into translation and critical editions goes unpraised and underemphasized.

MUST WE SACRIFICE QUALITY FOR ACCESS? Indeed, perhaps this was precisely the concern at the heart of the recent controversy over Dean Thomas Pollard’s insistence on interviews for graduate students, a move strongly resisted by some faculty members in the humanities. I — along with pretty much every other undergraduate who has ever had section with a teaching fellow — think that interviews

are a no-brainer. Teaching and committees are part of American academia and we certainly don’t want to be subjected to instruction from incoherent and unpleasant teachers. Nevertheless, we should appreciate the fears of those scholars who are watching as the American academy is overrun with performers and dynamic innovators whose personalities outstrip their scholarship. I certainly don’t know enough about Cornel West’s scholarship to pass judgment, but there is something about the era in which we live that makes his success and celebrity unsurprising.

None of the above is meant to diminish the importance of engaged and accessible scholarship. An idea which cannot be communicated is usually not coherent, and one that is not communicated will never be influential. Nevertheless, we must be wary of those trends which strip the academy of its aura of prestige and threaten to push scholarship into supposedly relevant and interesting — but less than substantive — directions. We are hopefully here because we love to learn, but that love must not lead us to gut the academy as we shape it in our own image.

YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a junior in Branford College. His column runs on Fridays. Contact him at yishai. schwartz@yale.edu .

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End madness, teach method There is much I agree with in Michael Magdzik’s “A specious case for science” (Jan. 17).

As an undergraduate, I frequently cursed the uncontrollable hemorrhage of minutiae that marked my coursework in molecular biology. A liberal arts education should do its best to focus instead on the methods professionals use: a sound understanding of statistics, the careful use of language and good experimental designs. As useful as a course like “Public Science” might be in raising scientific literacy, it misses the full ambitions of a science education: to enable us to think scientifically when called for.

Science is not about topics, but methods, but it’s method that science courses most often fail to teach. Fortunately, Yale has more than a few professors addressing this little puzzle.

Professor Jo Handelsman in MCDB offers “Genes and Environment,” a course intended for non-majors that uses microbiology as a backdrop to the greater goals of scientific thinking and evaluation. This course is explicitly concerned with two principles fundamental to all work hoping to provide predictive accounts of the world: the inference of causality from experimentation and the limits of experimental method in providing such accounts. Handelsman’s students may not know it, but they would be grappling with concerns that goad (and galvanize) even the most seasoned scientists.

Another such course is Movie Physics,

taught by Stephen Irons, a lecturer in the Department of Physics. While the name might suggest another gut course, Irons designed a challenging curriculum that gets students to do something that is central to scientific work but rarely spoken about by scientists: guesstimation.

The idea is not to make everyone professional scientists but to encourage scientific thinking. A course like “Public Science” will fall short of this goal, but, as it stands, so do many other courses that claim to teach science when the only thing being taught is “science in topics.”

PETER GAYED JAN. 17 The writer is a medical student and graduate affiliate of Saybrook College.

Against required courses In “Lucretius at Yale” (Jan. 12), Harry Graver suggests that Yale ought to require students to take courses in the Western tradition and religious thought. Graver’s authoritarian vision of a Yale education cheapens the idea of a liberal arts university and margin-

alizes the role of the student in actively pursuing his or her own education.

To be clear, I take no issue with Mr. Graver’s adoration of the Western tradition. As a Directed Studies student, I have staked my freshman year on the idea that study of the classics is a path to truth and I would encourage any of my classmates to take a classics-based course at some point during their next four years.

Yet Mr. Graver argues that his specific conception of “enlightenment” ought to be imposed on the entire Yale student body, thus proving himself to be little more than an authoritarian. It is proper for a university to prohibit and refuse to support certain activities that are unquestionably immoral and damaging. But for a university to say, “We have found the path to a virtuous life and we will require you to explore it through specific courses,” suggests that authority always knows better, that choices are fundamentally worthless and that students ought to passively be “instilled” with values rather than undertaking their own intellectual journeys.

SCOTT GREENBERG JAN. 16 The writer is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College.

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HILLARY CLINTON “Both the American people and nations that censor the Internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote Internet freedom.”

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SOPA is no apocalypse Good intentions, bad bill T

he past few months have seen a flurry of political activity on campus. No, I’m not talking about the aldermanic election or the YPU’s debates. Rather, I’m talking about how Yale has been atwitter (get it? … Twitter!) about the impending DOOM and OPPRESSION of the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA (really, they couldn’t have done better than SOPA? I’m pretty sure that means soup in Spanish) is a bill in the House of Representatives that would provide authority for the Justice Department to crack down on websites that illegally distribute copyrighted materials such as music, TV shows and movies through standard judicial procedure.

Make no mistake: online piracy is serious. According to a study commissioned by the AFL–CIO, online piracy costs the U.S. economy $12.5 billion in lost revenue, $2 billion in lost wages and around 70,000 jobs — annually. For any economy, but especially for one struggling through a shaky recovery, those are substantial losses. To give those numbers some gravity, this means layoffs for parents and working people. And for all those future Ricky Martins, it means making a living as a musician is harder than ever.

While SOPA, like every other piece of legislation, was not perfect in its original form, it has since been substantially amended and narrowed to address legitimate concerns over its oncebroad language. But still, misinformation about the bill persists, meaning many people stand in opposition based on irrelevant concerns. The following are some common misconceptions about SOPA’s implications, should it pass.

A common complaint: “My Google searches won’t be open

anymore — Google will have to censor what it shows!” Guess what? Your Google search isn’t truly open now. Major websites can manipulate Google’s algorithm to skew results. If you don’t believe me, try googling “Rick Santorum” and look at what happens — surely this is a skewed search result. Plus, the idea that Google is some free-speech deity is ridiculous: in China, Google censors its content to appease the Chinese government.

Another worry: “Wikipedia and Facebook can be shut down if someone posts copyrighted material!” Another whopper.

SOPA specifically targets websites that are known to be “principally” or “substantially” dedicated to theft. Even if 1,000 editors on Wikipedia wrote articles using copyrighted material, Wikipedia would still not be considered a website principally devoted to copyright theft. SOPA would thus have absolutely nothing to do with Wikipedia.

What’s more, SOPA only applies to foreign websites, not websites that end in, for example, .com, .net, .org, or .gov.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I checked, but Wikipedia is in that group. So, while you are still not advised to cite Wikipedia for your final paper, you can still use it to find out who the heck David Ben Gurion was.

The last concern: “The Domain Name System blocking technique featured in SOPA threatens the very fabric of the Internet!” Are you kidding? That was removed from the bill last week. And anyway, DNS blocking is widespread and already in use.

You know what it’s used for in the U.S.? To block child porn websites. In Germany, DNS blocks neo-Nazi websites. France uses it to block online gambling sites.

If that’s the fabric of the Internet you use, my bad. But for the rest of us, I don’t think the Internet

will implode.

Finally, what’s truly disappointing about the debacle that will likely end in SOPA’s death is that the bill’s critics have, in the name of promoting a free Internet, exploited the power that comes with that free Internet in the very worst way possible.

The Web should be an open forum safe from censorship and used to share ideas, products and experiences. But the misinformation spread by major websites like Wikipedia and Google undermines that very forum. They have used the name of an open Internet to spread false information.

The Internet has connected the world. It was crucial to the Arab Spring. The freedom it harbors promotes the very ideals of democracy that, as Americans, we treasure. Google, one of the biggest and most profitable corporations on Earth, has thrived because of that cyberfreedom.

But is the Internet a free and open frontier if the most powerful websites abuse it to spread lies?

There are no enforceable laws yet that protect the work of musicians, writers and other artists online. You can’t smash a Tiffany’s window and steal a ring for your fiancée without repercussions. But, without the added enforcement enabled by SOPA, you can steal “My Heart Will Go On” to play at your wedding without being punished. Stealing is stealing, whether it’s on the street or online, and people deserve to be paid for their hard work.

If SOPA were passed, Google would still make money, musicians would finally be paid, the Internet would not collapse and the world would not come to an end.

SAM COHEN is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at samson.cohen@yale.edu .

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he events of the last week have been an example of the democratic process in action. Congress proposed a bill, and people didn’t like it. Instead of the usual outcome — that is to say, moneyed special interests successfully obfuscating the issue and Congress bending to their influence — people did something. With the help of websites like Wikipedia, Google and Reddit, people became aware of what was happening. Some even called their congressmen, successfully persuading many publicly to disavow their support for these bills.

I’m talking, of course, about the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA was written in an attempt to curtail copyright infringement and help safeguard intellectual property rights. However, despite these legitimate concerns, SOPA epitomizes the reckless infringement of the intellectual freedom Americans have enjoyed since the Declaration of Independence.

SOPA is well-intentioned legislation and we should support its goals. But its draconian methods are cause for concern. While protection of intellectual property should be one of our foremost concerns, SOPA violates fundamental rights in order to achieve those goals.

Though many people have expressed their belief that this bill is bad, few have offered an easily understandable explanation of how it effectively renders websites inaccessible.

First, under SOPA, the Attorney General can petition a court for an order to require United Statesbased Internet service providers, payment processing companies (like PayPal) and advertisement networks to stop doing business with websites named in the order. The order could also prevent search engines such as Google from displaying links to these websites. These orders would apply even if the website isn’t based in

the United States. Essentially, unless you’re an exceptionally tech-savvy consumer, you won’t be able to access a website after these measures are implemented.

Second — and more worrisome in practice, if not in principle — SOPA allows private corporations to accuse websites of infringing on their intellectual property. If they do so, the same process occurs, and access for the average user again becomes impossible.

In principle, this is not a bad idea. Few people dispute that downloading a movie from a lessthan-legitimate source, without payment, is copyright infringement. But few understand that copyright infringement is not stealing, as the Supreme Court ruled in 1985 in Dowling v. United States. Any response to copyright infringement ought to be congruent and proportional to the offense.

In practice, SOPA simply makes it too easy for websites to be shut down, even if they aren’t actually infringing on intellectual property rights and could win a court battle on the facts. Fighting a large firm in court is cost-prohibitive.

Firms with large budgets for litigation can easily win wars of attrition against smaller websites simply by dragging on court cases long enough to bankrupt or frustrate websites with legitimate ends.

Third, SOPA attempts to enforce United States law worldwide. Penalizing a foreign website for failure to follow United States law presents severe problems with respect to national sovereignty.

The cross-border nature of the Internet makes for an interesting problem in a world politically organized in a system of nationstates.

The answer to this problem is not simple. In fact, I’m not sure if there is really a good answer. But there are a few things that are certainly true. First, the United States cannot and should not attempt

to apply its laws worldwide. The only sustainable way to attempt to regulate copyright infringement is through international cooperation and agreement. Second, making it easy for large companies to win protracted legal battles against smaller firms stifles innovation. Revolutionary products don’t often come from large established firms but from small startups like Microsoft, HP, Google and Apple — all of which were founded in garages.

Governmental overreach has already reached a head. Yesterday, the U.S. government seized over $50 million in property and arrested the owners of Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, accusing them of copyright infringement. They face prison terms of up to 55 years each.

It’s important to note that Megaupload’s owners committed no acts of copyright infringement; the site had many legitimate purposes, though users often used it in order to illegally download copyrighted content. In essence, the owners are being asked to take responsibility for the content that their users post, even though the current law regulating intellectual property on the Internet, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, explicitly disowns that practice. If this isn’t an example of governmental overreach and disproportionate response, I’m not sure what is.

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” SOPA is an example of just that. Censoring websites for the sake of protecting ourselves from perceived harms is a dangerous path that can only lead us down the road to totalitarianism.

PATRICK TOTH is a sophomore in Morse College. Contact him at pat.toth@yale.edu .

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The people’s savior

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t couldn’t be more urgent — not only to those of us in the online generation but to everyone with a stake in liberal democracy — that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) fail to become law.

Rupert Murdoch, CEO and director of the global News Corporation, has been lobbying Congress in support of these acts — and no wonder. Amelia Arsenault and Manuel Castells, social theorists at the University of Southern California, contend that Murdoch has achieved the status of what they call a switcher in our current network society. A switcher is a person who is able to exert immense power by moving between, connecting or disconnecting the nodes where business, media, economic, political and other networks meet.

Murdoch, however, happens to have control of all the major communication networks but one: the Internet. And thus Murdoch’s very personal interest is in SOPA. Murdoch’s attempts to control this remaining network, starting with Internet provider Delphi and ending with Myspace, have led to one failure after another. It is no wonder, then, that Murdoch has taken it upon himself to deliver a substantial blow to our last free medium by supporting SOPA. Murdoch has taken NewsCorp to a level of prominence surpassing that of other major global media groups. Among the CEOs of these corporations, Murdoch alone has deliberately instituted policies that override corporate governance limitations and give him absolute control over the affairs of his company. Murdoch’s control is so pervasive that his influence overrides the individual editorial policies of his subsidiaries.

A 2003 Guardian survey found that all 175 NewsCorp-controlled newspapers mimicked Murdoch’s support for the invasion of Iraq, George Bush and Tony Blair and were equally derisive of anti-war protesters. Numerous former NewsCorp employees have sued the company, claiming they were dismissed from their editorial duties because they resisted pressure to withhold politically damaging information.

Two investigative reporters for a Florida Fox affiliate were fired in 1996 because they refused to withhold information about the health risks of a hormone injected in dairy producing cows. Arseault and Castells claim

the particular information would hurt Monsango, a drug company that was also a major advertiser in Murdoch-owned media.

Murdoch’s global reach is closely matched by his continuous interventions in politics that go far beyond political influence wielded by the other media groups. Recall the recent News of the World phone hacking scandal, in which reporters from the British tabloid were discovered to have been hacking into politicians’ and murder victims’ cell phones.

Through political brokering, Murdoch has removed regulatory hurdles in the way of NewsCorp’s expansion. But his immense power in the network society depends crucially on his ability to control the last remaining network – namely, the Internet.

SOPA MAY ALLOW RUPORT MURDOCH TO WIN CONTROL OF THE INTERNET His master plan for controlling this last remaining network of is evident in the fact that Saudi Prince AlWaleed bin Talal, Murdoch’s friend and a major shareholder of NewsCorp, recently purchased a good chunk of Twitter for $300 million.

Some may wonder why the Saudi prince would invest in his enemy, the networking site reputed to have had much to do with the recent uprisings that threaten the Saudi royal family. A possible answer to this may be found in Murdoch’s desire to control the Internet.

A number of websites — most notably, Google and Wikipedia — shut down briefly to protest against what Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales calls a “badly written” act that would not only stop piracy but enable the powers that be to control the free flow of information on the Internet.

If Murdoch is successful, we might as well say our requiem for any hopes of running this world on apart from Murdoch’s influence.

MITRAH AVINI is a senior in Trumbull College.

Contact her at mitrah.avini@yale.edu .

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Tailgates at Yale’s home football games will now have to end at kickoff, due to the University’s newly restricted policies.

Tailgate restrictions follow fatal crash at Game TAILGATE RULES FROM PAGE 1 designed to preserve the tailgating tradition for students and alumni while ensuring a safer environment for attendees.

“First and foremost, we believe there are ways to continue the tradition of tailgating,” Lorimer told the News Thursday. “But we did recognize that there were changes in our practices that would contribute to having a safer and more enjoyable event associated with athletic matches.”

Associate Vice President for Administration Janet Lindner, who oversaw the committee, said in a Thursday email that the new rules resulted from consulting with peer institutions and visiting tailgates at Harvard, the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. The tighter regulations bring Yale’s policies in line with those of other Ivy League schools and institutions with large football programs, she added.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the committee based its recommendation to ban kegs on tailgating policies at Harvard and

Princeton, noting that the decision will create consistency at tailgates hosted by Yale and its two greatest rivals.

While NHPD spokesman David Hartman said he thought the new rules were “well thought-out” and would improve the safety of events at the Yale Bowl, he added that banning kegs is different than prohibiting all alcohol.

“One should be a bit cautious when relying on the elimination of kegs as opposed to the elimination of alcohol in general,” he said. “One can get more impaired off a shot of whiskey than from kegs, but, that said, I understand the atmosphere is a lot different when you tap a keg — there’s a more free-to-drink atmosphere.”

Box trucks, which include U-Hauls, have also been banned from tailgates under the new guidelines. Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said professional catering companies will set up refreshment tables before students arrive, eliminating the need to transport cooking supplies, food and beverages to tailgates.

The student tailgate area will be “vehicle-free” except for trucks operated by the catering

companies, and all attendees will have to leave by kickoff. Previous regulations required students to leave the tailgate by halftime.

With the new regulations announced, Lindner said the committee reviewing tailgating policies will next collaborate with the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, a center at the University of Southern Mississippi that specializes in sports and stadium management, to outline tailgate logistics in more detail. She added that administrators will also consult student groups, alumni and those closely involved with Yale football for further input.

Administrators previously imposed a series of stricter tailgating rules in September, which required students to register tailgates with the Athletics Department and wear wristbands denoting whether they were of legal drinking age, and banned glass bottles and charcoal grills.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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Necessity, fairness of new tailgate rules questioned REACTIONS FROM PAGE 1

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The University released new tailgate rules Thursday afternoon in response to a fatal U-Haul crash at the Harvard-Yale tailgate.

alcohol present at tailgates because kegs are much cheaper than their natural alternative, beer cases.

“The administration has every right to do everything they think will go towards preventing [another accident],” he said. “They are literally trying to protect us and whoever is trying to attend the tailgate, and unfortunately I can’t put my fun — or the fun of my fraternity and group of friends — ahead of the personal safety of people who want to have a good time at tailgates.”

But Ben Singleton ’13, last semester’s president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said in a Thursday email that the new rules do not specifically target the problems that caused November’s accident.

Rather than banning U-Hauls and kegs, Singleton said administrators could have limited the times the vehicles were allowed to arrive and depart sites. He added that he thinks the new policies — particularly the bans — will discourage SAE from hosting tailgating activities in the future.

“Beer, like hotdogs and hamburgers, is often a fun part of the tailgating experience,” he said.

“If consumed responsibly, there shouldn’t be any problems. The University seems to suggest through its rules that Yale students have such little control over their desire to drink that the University needs to ban it.”

Singleton said he expects the tightened regulations will lower student participation at tailgates and harm alumni perceptions of

the events. But 16 of 20 students interviewed said the new regulations will not significantly affect whether they attend tailgates.

Pat Dolan ’13, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, declined to comment for this article. The U-Haul that crashed in November was carrying kegs and bound for Sig Ep’s tailgate at the Yale Bowl’s Lot D. Three students responsible for organizing residential college tailgates said they will be especially inconvenienced by the oversized vehicle ban. Jimmy Murphy ’13, co-president of Davenport College Council, said he thinks the difficulty of transporting materials without a U-Haul and finding nearby parking spaces will discourage colleges from hosting tailgates.

Nine students interviewed who are not involved with planning tailgate activities said they think the new rules are unfair.

“I think the administration threw the baby out with the bathwater this time,” Uriel Epshtein ’14 said. “Some changes are probably necessary, such as banning U-Hauls, but ending the tailgate at kick off? That’s dumb. People are just as dangerous before kick off as they are after.”

Administrators will continue to evaluate the University’s tailgating logistics, which include parking and crowd control strategies, according to Lorimer’s email.

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

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The AYA Database Part of the Yale Career Network, the AYA Database connects students with more than 10,000 Yale alumni who have agreed to share information about their majors and their career choices.

TODAY’S EVENTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

Crime rankings disputed

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.

12:00 PM “Inferring Species Extinction Risk from Spatial, Environmental and Phylogenetic Information.” Professor Walter Jetz will speak. Sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), Room 110.

7:30 PM Yale Anime Society presents: “Zipang.” In this film, a modern-day Japanese destroyer is transported to the Battle of Midway and must decide whether or not to interfere with history.

Saybrook College (242 Elm St.), TV room.

11:00 PM “Brainsongs, or the Play About the Dinosaur Farm.”

Part clown show, part vaudeville, this is a piece of theater that celebrates the power of the imagination and the implicit risk in shamelessly pursuing your fun. Created and performed by Gabe Levey DRA ’13. Yale Cabaret (217 Park st.).

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, JAN. 19

The article “Law professors stir national debate” mistakenly referred to the University of Houston Law Center as the Houston Law Center.

A caption for a photo with the article “Ivy coaches stick to league” included the wrong graduation year for Yale Men’s Golf Coach Colin Sheehan ’97.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18

The column “No BCS playoff system” misstated the runnerup in the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It was Butler, not Baylor.

Friday seminars cause difficulties

BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER Next year, the spring semester will not be the only term when Friday seminars officially meet for the first time during the second week of shopping period.

Under the revised academic calendar that takes effect next year, the Labor Day holiday each fall will require that Monday classes meet on the first Friday of shopping period, mirroring the policy for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the spring. Students and instructors of Friday seminars interviewed said the policy complicates the process of determining course schedules and rosters since most students must finalize their schedules before Friday seminars meet.

While a d m i n i s t ra to rs acknowledged the inconvenience created by the policy, they said only a small number of seminars meet on Fridays.

I will definitely avoid scheduling a seminar on Fridays druing spring term unless there is a change in the policy.

HANNAH BRUECKNER Sociology professor “We don’t like to do the switching of Monday classes on Friday … but since it is already established in one term, we thought we could extend it to the other term as well,” said John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources and chair of the committee that drew up the new calendar.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said once the policy is adopted every semester, she expects students and faculty members to grow accustomed to it.

Miller said the Dean’s Office considered how many seminars would be affected by the “Friday is Monday” policy before the policy was enacted in 2001, when Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first became a University holiday, and found that there were “very few.” This spring, 15 undergraduate seminars meet on Fridays, according to the Online Course Information system.

Five of seven professors interviewed who teach Friday seminars said they held an information session for students during the first week of shopping period, and some said they make additional efforts to be accessible to interested students. Still, professors of those classes said the policy hinders their ability to introduce their syllabi and finalize course enrollments.

“Managing enrollment with fairness and efficiency was very difficult, if not impossible, and required a very large number of emails, as well as some polls on the classes server,” said Hannah Brueckner, a sociology professor who taught a Friday seminar last spring. “Needless to say, I was not happy. I will definitely avoid scheduling a seminar on Fridays during spring term unless there is a change in the policy.”

But Maxim Thorne, who held an information session last week for his Friday residential college seminar, said he “did not feel particularly affected” by the scheduling switch, though he said he would not know the enrollment in his seminar until after today’s deadline for seniors to hand in schedules.

Seven students interviewed who were considering Friday seminars said they found information sessions during shopping period useful when they occur, but that not being able to attend an official class makes shopping period more stressful.

Two said they decided against taking Friday seminars because they could not shop them.

“It’s counterproductive to the whole idea of shopping period,” said Andrew Calder ’13, adding that he enrolled in a graduate-level Friday seminar after only reading the syllabus. “[The policy] encourages students to either game the system by trying to sign up for too many classes just to make it to the Friday, or to sacrifice something when they don’t know what they’re getting.”

Mia Hassoun ’13 said that after growing accustomed to shopping for courses, having to decide whether to take a class that has not met is “really nerve-wracking.”

Friday classes will meet an extra day at the end of the semester, on April 23, to make up for the missed class at the start of shopping week.

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

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New Haven ranked 12th most dangerous on CQ Press’ city crime rankings, provoking debate about the merits of different ranking methodologies.

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Even though the number of violent crimes in the Elm City fell 11 percent last year, New Haven came in 12th in CQ Press’s much-disputed annual city crime rankings, up from its 18th spot last year.

NEWS ANALYSIS CQ Press, a division of SAGE Publications, which puts out publications on American government and politics, publicizes this ranking every year. But Yale and city officials said the rankings, which are based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and were published last month, inflate the crime rate because they fail to account for the daily influx of people who work and enjoy nightlife in the city but live elsewhere. Instead, they point to CQ Press’s ranking of metropolitan areas as a fairer representation of New Haven’s crime status, which puts the New Haven and Milford area 170th in the nation, down from 168th in last year’s ranking.

Though CQ’s rankings are widely considered more comprehensive than the more simplistic rankings published by the website 24/7 Wall Street, which ranked New Haven the fourth most dangerous city in the United States, critics of CQ Press’s list claim that it also does not take enough variables into account to be completely accurate. 24/7 Wall Street’s city rankings were based exclusively on the metric of violent crimes per 100,000 residents.

New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said there are several typical problems

with crime rankings, though he add that he did not wish to make excuses for the crimes themselves.

“Everyone with the slightest knowledge of this issue knows the rankings are not credible, but the publication persists with them, presumably because rankings are popular and sell books,” the United States Conference of Mayors said in a November statement that preempted the release of CQ Press’s ranking. “Unfortunately, they also do real harm to the cities that come out on the losing end.”

The perception of any city is more than just the issue of safety.

TOM CONROY University spokesman Rankings do not allow for any explanation or comment, which can create a false picture of crime because “there are circumstances to all crimes,” Hartman said. For instance, last year three people were killed in a single arson, which is not the same as three innocent people gunned down on the street, even though it is “no less a murder,” he explained.

Though the Elm City saw a jump in homicides last year — to 34, up from 24 in 2010 — the number of aggravated assaults dropped 21 percent and the incidence of rape fell 17 percent.

But more than that, Hartman and University spokesman Tom Conroy pointed to what they say is a misleading geographical sample that is often used for New Haven.

The city rankings take into account only New Haven’s 17-square-mile city area, and not the 132-squaremile greater New Haven area used in the calculation of the metropolitan area rankings.

In addition, the rankings do not take into account the Elm City’s net population gain of 28,000 daily due to people entering the city for work or commerce, according to data from Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications. Hartman added that New Haven has at least 14 nightclubs — more than the number in Waterbury, Bridgeport and Hartford — that attract many people from nearby cities, thereby further inflating the population susceptible to crime and resulting in a “black eye” in the rankings.

On its website, the FBI cautions against using its UCR data to produce rankings. These methodologies “lead to simplistic and/ or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting communities and their residents,” according to the website.

But John Jenkins, CQ Press’s publisher, defended the rankings, even though there are “many variables” to crime.

“As journalists, we take very seriously our responsibility to keep Americans informed — even if the news is not good,” he wrote in a statement on CQ Press’s website.

“So we publish such data, even if it causes cities and officials to feel aggrieved.”

Some New Haven residens argue that statistics do not represent public opinion about safety in New Haven. Donald Morris, head of a local antiviolence group called the Brotherhood Leadership Summit, said rankings like those released

by the CQ Press do not necessarily reflect how people on the “street level” feel.

Conroy said there has been a “renaissance” in New Haven over the last 15 years, pointing to the growth in restaurants and stores, as well as the low apartment vacancy rate.

“Perception can lag [behind] reality, but perception does improve as reality improves and the perception of New Haven has improved, and rightly so,” he said.

“The perception of any city is more than just the issue of safety. It’s also what a city has to offer. New Haven is safer and has more to offer.”

At the top of CQ Press’s ranking of the most dangerous cities in the nation are Flint, Mich., Camden, N.J., Detroit, Mich., St. Louis, Mo., and Oakland, Calif.

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

CRIME RANKINGS 24/7 WALL STREET RANKINGS

Based on violent crimes per 100,000 residents, as listed on FBI’s Uniform Crime Report.

CQ PRESS CRIME RANKINGS

Based on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, weighting crime figures against population to determine a crime rate.

Student-alumni partnership forms

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER A new campus organization that began recruiting students Monday hopes to connect alumni with students through networking, community service and social events.

Composed of alumni, students and administrators, the Students and Alumni of Yale has already planned a series of student leadership forums, career panels and networking events in the coming months. Alison Brody ’95, chair of the Association of Yale Alumni student initiative committee, said the group will eventually assign students to alumni mentors in their intended career fields. The group hopes to accept around 70 applications from undergraduate, graduate and professional school students who would become official members of STAY and help execute initiatives, she added.

“Everybody recognized by putting students and alums together shoulder-to-shoulder, you create a powerful force that didn’t exist before,” Stephen Blum ’74, senior director of strategic initiatives and founding STAY board member, said.

STAY’s nine-member board has been filled with members from the Yale College Council, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, AYA, Undergraduate Career Services and the McDougal Graduate Student Center. Brody said this diversity of backgrounds will help the board develop programs that span the entire University.

The group will receive funding from partner institutions such as AYA and UCS and hopes to attract private donors, Blum said, though maintaining financial sustainability remains a concern.

Blum said STAY’s student-

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Brandon Levin ’13 and Omar Njie ’13, YCC president and vice president, form part of STAY’s nine-member board. alumni events will be offered for the whole Yale community, including all the professional schools, whether or not students are official members of the group.

Emily Stoops GRD ’13, Graduate and Professional Student Senate president and vice president of STAY, said she became involved with STAY because it allowed graduate and professional students to become better integrated into campus culture.

“It was one of the goals of the Senate to not be outsiders,” she said, “but actually participate actively in the culture and have more interactions with undergraduates and the alumni community.”

Blum said the idea for STAY was conceived a year ago, when

the AYA Board of Governors created a new student initiative committee, initially chaired by Blum, to develop a stronger connection between students and alumni. The committee hosted a few preliminary events last fall that included a networking session for Timothy Dwight College undergraduates and alumni, as well as a “meetand-greet” event for alumni and graduate and professional school students. After conducting focus groups to gauge interest in expanding efforts to create a student-alumni organization, Blum said, administrators determined there was enough enthusiasm to launch STAY. In developing the new organization, Blum said the student initiatives committee analyzed

similar organizations at other universities, such as Lehigh and Emory.

“As you look at these schools, you find that their programs rest on common pillars such as service, networking, pride and tradition,” he said.

YCC President Brandon Levin ’13, president of STAY, said he has been impressed by the student involvement in developing plans for the group, and expects the organization to appeal to many undergraduates.

Applications to become members of STAY are being accepted until Jan. 29.

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

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“Some have argued that the 21st century is the Asian century … What better time to be here?” LILY KONG ACTING EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF YALE-NUS

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Brenzel said because universities use different recruitment strategies, disparities in the number of total applications do not provide much insight by themselves.

“Year-to-year fluctuations in total application counts have little meaning in themselves,” Brenzel said in the email.

This admissions cycle represents the first time in four years that Yale, Harvard and Princeton have all offered early admissions policies. Last month, Yale posted the lowest early admissions acceptance rate in the Ivy League, 15.7 percent, even though the number of early applicants decreased 18 percent from last year.

With the high overlap of applicants to Yale, Harvard and Princeton, Brenzel has said he anticipated the drop in the number of early applicants, but he said administrators did not know what to expect for Yale’s total application count.

“There are simply too many possible causes for application count changes to say what effect

the change in the early admissions landscape had on total applications,” he said.

Three college admissions experts and guidance counselors interviewed said they expected the number of Yale’s applications to rise in line with a national rise in college applicants, despite Harvard and Princeton’s early admissions policies this year, and said the trend will likely continue in the future.

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Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

Potential faculty comment on curriculum YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 excited by the possibility of starting fresh,” Bailyn said.

While Yale-NUS administrators said faculty will be responsible for establishing specifics of the curriculum, the core framework proposed last September will remain in place. All Yale-NUS students will be required to take three or four classes in three different areas of study — the “great works,” the “individual and society,” and the “natural sciences” — during their first two years before focusing on their selected major.

Students will have space to take a total of six electives during their freshman and sophomore years.

Bailyn said a defined curriculum will help students form a coherent, well-rounded course of study — something that is not as significant a concern at Yale College, where students already recognize the value of a liberal arts program.

“One of the challenges of the distributional requirement system at Yale, which works well for a large and diverse university, is to some extent people take the distribution requirements, sometimes, just to fulfill a requirement,” said Pericles Lewis, a Yale English professor who is chairing the University’s humanities faculty search committee.

While administrators have previously said Yale-NUS could serve as a testing ground for new aca-

demic programs at Yale, University President Richard Levin said Tuesday that it was “very unlikely” that a core curriculum like the one at YaleNUS would be implemented in New Haven. If anything, he said, some of the core classes taught in Singapore may be brought back to New Haven.

Faculty committees at Yale and NUS had already agreed on broad principles of the Yale-NUS curriculum when Levin and NUS President Tan Chorh Chuan formally announced the college in April 2011.

Over last summer, faculty search committees developed those principles into the framework they released in September.

University Secretary Linda Lorimer said Yale and NUS invited professors from universities such as Princeton and Duke, along with liberal arts colleges in the Northeast and on the West Coast, to critique the curriculum. Based on feedback from these educators, Bailyn said administrators decided to reduce the number of courses Yale-NUS students will take each semester from five to four to allow students to study material in more depth.

Many of the core classes in the humanities and social sciences at Yale-NUS will incorporate both Asian and Western traditions, according to the proposed syllabus.

“Literature and Humanities I,” a class listed under the “great works” discipline in a sample syllabus,

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NUS President Tan Chorh Chuan discusses the new college with NUS faculty. would study many of the same works as Yale’s Directed Studies, including Homer’s “Odyssey” and Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” But the class will also examine Eastern literature such as Lao Tzu’s “Dao De Jin” and the “Fire Sermon” of the Buddha.

Administrators plan to hire 50 fac-

ulty members by the time Yale-NUS opens in fall 2013.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

A $9.3 million donation to Yale-NUS will fund two professorships, a fellowship and financial aid at the new college, the University announced in a Tuesday press release. The Singaporean government has pledged to match the gift with additional funding for the National University of Singapore and YaleNUS, and will contribute almost $30 million to those programs.

The donation was made by multiple Singaporean companies in honor of the nation’s prominent businessman J.Y. Pillay, and Yale announced Tuesday that Sir Peter Crane, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will be the first J.Y. Pillay Distinguished Visiting Professor at YaleNUS. “I see this as an ideal opportunity to contribute to the further development of Yale-NUS College, while also building on the already strong connections that exist between the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale and the expanding environmental programs at NUS,” Crane said in Yale press release.

Yale-NUS administrators announced plans for two new joint-degree programs in December, including a fifth-year master’s in environmental studies program through the environment school.

The gift will also fund the J.Y. Pillay Comparative Asia Research Center at the NUS Global Asia Institute, which will study “cross-disciplinary research on issues relevant to China, India and Indonesia,” according to a Tuesday press release from NUS. —Tapley Stephenson

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The increase, in millions, in the number of veterans recieveing medical care from 2009 to 2010.

A recent initative by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden seeks to mobilize the nation’s medical schools in support of military servicemen and women.

EPA official returns to teach at Yale

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Yale’s “father of green chemistry” announced that he will leave his position as science adviser and assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development in midFebruary to return to Yale.

Paul Anastas has been on public service leave from the Yale Center of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, where he served as director before his appointment to the EPA position

by President Barack Obama in 2009.

In his absence, his wife Julie Zimmerman, associate professor of green engineering at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has taken on the role of acting director for the Center.

“I think that [Anastas’s] impact will be lasting on our organization,” said Liz Blackburn, the EPA’s science communication director for the Office of Research and Development. “I’m going to miss him immensely. You don’t often get to work with such a visionary leader

and so I feel really privileged that I had this opportunity.”

Evan Beach, program manager at the Center, said Anastas’s EPA appointment initially caused some uncertainty about the future of the Center because it was unclear how much time Anastas would serve in the agency.

“It made us worry about the program here at Yale, but at the same time I personally think he was a great choice for the position because he can bring the green chemistry focus to the EPA better than anybody else could,” Beach said.

Anastas announced his departure from the EPA on Jan. 5, Blackburn said.

His departure, although never discussed, was always a possibility, she said, because he has two young daughters. She added that his main reason for leaving was to spend more time with his family, as he has been at the EPA since his youngest daughter was born.

Blackburn credited Anastas with fostering a greater sense of partnership within the EPA, citing increased collaboration among the agency’s scientists. Another of his accomplishments, she added, is his “Path Forward,” a plan stating that sustainability should be

one of the EPA’s major goals, and that the organization should produce “rapid, relevant and responsive” research.

I’m going to miss him immensely. You don’t often get to work with such a visionary leader and so I feel really privileged that I had this opportunity.

LIZ BLACKBURN EPA Science Communication Director for the Office of Research and Development Both Beach and Blackburn cited the “Green Book” — a set of recommendations for how the EPA can adopt sustainability into its work — as one of Anastas’ major contributions during his time at the agency. Beach added that Anastas has also been “instrumental” in ensuring that the agency fund pro-

grams in green chemistry and sustainability, adding that he’s noticed a trend in the EPA requiring that research projects have a sustainability element.

Several undergraduates working for the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering said they are eagerly anticipating Anastas’ return to the University.

“I am definitely excited about Dr. Anastas’ return,” said Genoa Warner ’12. “I love my research at the Center, and although I’ve never met Dr. Anastas, I’m excited to learn from him.”

Emily Hong ’14, a researcher in Zimmerman’s lab, said the University as a whole will benefit from Anastas’ return.

“No doubt he will bring back invaluable experience and expertise from his time at the EPA that can be immediately applied to the Center’s current research projects,” she added.

Anastas holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachussetts at Boston and master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Brandeis University.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

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Paul Anastas, who has been on leave while serving at the EPA, is returning to Yale to teach.

Med school Artist-activist honored at MLK event ‘joins forces’

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER

THE WHITE HOUSE

The Yale School of Medicine is participating in Joining Forces, a program spearheaded by First Lady Michelle Obama, which seeks to aid veterans.

BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Medicine is joining over 100 medical schools nationwide in training their students in veteran health care.

The initiative that spurred this commitment, called Joining Forces, is a program started

by First Lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, to mobilize the nation’s medical schools in support of military service members and their families. On Jan. 11, Joining Forces released a list of the 130 medical schools, including Yale’s, that have pledged to create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities geared towards improving the health of veterans.

School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said that as a leading institution in veteran’s healthcare, the School of Medicine has already modified their curriculum to include diseases that affect veterans, such as classes and research in post-traumatic stress disorder. He added that more programs will be implemented, if necessary, to continue providing quality training in veterans’ health care to future doctors.

“Because of our integrated missions in education, clinical care and research, America’s medical schools are uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in this important effort,” said Darrell Kirch, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges in a Jan. 11 White House press release. “Our work with the White House on Joining Forces is a natural extension of our efforts in this area and renews our commitment to the wellness of our nation’s military.”

Karen Antman, dean of the Boston University School of Medicine, which is participating in Joining Forces, said her school has already begun planning specialized curricula for medical students that provide considerable experience with veterans’ health matters. Some of the classes that are currently offered, she said, include lectures on traumatic brain injury, military evaluation of concussion in the war zone, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Stephen Klasko, dean of the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine — another participating institution — said his school is honored to participate in the initiative to address the health care needs of military service members, veterans and their families.

“Our goal is to show these heroes that their country is there for them, no matter what they’re going through,” said Klasko.

The school’s initiatives, he said, include a veterans’ reintegration program working with two Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Tampa Bay. K. Robert Lewis, department service officer of the Connecticut’s American Legion chapter, said two of the most common health concerns that veterans face after returning home are post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. In the past, Lewis said, veterans with mental health needs were placed in medical institutions that housed and medicated up to 1,000 veterans with mental health conditions, so the attention they received was not as personalized as it should have been.

Lewis said he is optimistic that the program will be successful in providing health care focused more specifically on addressing the needs of the veteran community.

“We’re all this together, so we need to solve it together,” Lewis said.

In the Jan. 11 press release, Michelle Obama said she was inspired to see medical schools nationwide step up to address health care issues among veterans and their families. Directing “our brightest minds, our most cutting-edge research and our finest teaching institutions” toward this cause will ensure that veterans receive the best care possible, she said.

Joining Forces has 20 sponsors nationwide, with the American Hospital Association as its main sponsor. There were 237,696 veterans in the state of Connecticut in 2010, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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

After coming across the stories of children affected by war in Somalia and the Congo online, Alisa May FES ’12 said she hoped to bring a conversation about the conflict in Africa to Yale — art became her medium for doing so. On Tuesday, May’s ink and chalk painting, titled “On the Shoulders of Giants,” won first prize at an event called “Visualize the Dream: An evening of art and conversation in honor of MLK,” sponsored by the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. May, who said she found inspiration in Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for “peace, justice and civil rights,” spoke about her artistic work and the importance of fostering an activist culture at Yale.

did this painting and its QHow aesthetic develop out of your activist concerns?

A

During the civil rights era, peaceful protests included a lot of young people, some as young as 8. That led the president to come on national television and say, “We can’t do this anymore. We can’t use violence against children.” It’s the same thing in Africa [today]. Children are becoming a cause [for]

stopping international conflict.

Kids are symbol of innocence — [they’re] not involved and not choosing a side, but still suffering. That’s why I included children [in the painting], reaching to birds in the sky. They’re reaching to the distant promise of freedom.

I work a lot on a toned background, so the painting is actually on cardboard. That means I don’t have to paint the middle range of the colors: all the brown is the cardboard, the black is Japanese ink and the white is chalk. I’m trained in Chinese brush-painting but now use Western materials and change the technique by incorporating watercolors.

[I was] given a book as the prize. It’s titled “A Testament of Hope” — I think that’s a very fitting title. What I was hoping to do was use the MLK holiday to speak about broader international issues of peace to Yale audiences.

was that perspective QHow received at the competition?

A

Curtis Patton is this Yale professor who’s old enough to have met MLK in person when they were both very young, in their late 20s, early 30s. What was amazing for me as an artist was to have him say that my portrait evokes the sense of having

met MLK, [which] he doesn’t get from lots of portrayals.

All I can [say] is that I used two portraits, one with King young and peaceful, and the other showing him older, with furrowed creases in his forehead. I don’t know if the mix of the two was what created the likeness, but Patton’s comments were really valuable.

did you first begin conQWhen ceptualizing this painting, and how did the process work?

A

It was a confluence of things. When the contest was announced, I knew that I wanted to submit a painting, because Dr. King was such a meaningful leader and such an inspiring person. But I wasn’t really sure what to make my submission about. At around the same time, I was looking at sites like “Invisible Children” [an organization that takes action against the use of child soldiers in central Africa through the use of film and creative media]. Even though I had seen them before and knew about [the] conflicts, they touched me in a personal way at this time.

Separately from that, I was reading some of King’s quotes.

They reach beyond his era, particularly when he discusses wars as “poor chisels for peaceful tomorrows.” When I thought about that, I immediately realized King’s mission could be related to children in Africa.

message do you want QWhat people to take away from your painting “On the Shoulders of Giants”?

A

I didn’t really expect to win the award. For me, it was a matter of just getting really passionate, having a fearless few minutes when you start a project. It’s that first fearlessness and inspiration to do something that you care about. It’s much easier to [take a stance] that from where we stand after all the work so many leaders have done — in any cause, great leaders and pioneers [allow] for us to take [their work] on and continue it.

We do stand on the shoulders of giants.

the plight of war-torn QIsAfrica an issue you have explored before in your work?

A

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Alisa May’s FES ’12 “On the Shoulders of Giants” won first prize at “Visualize the Dream,” an event that honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

I’m an artist and architect, but I bring in a humanitarian aspect. I’ve designed schools in Haiti and Cambodia, though the latter wasn’t built. I also recently submitted an entry to a Nike Gamechangers challenge [which promotes development by establishing youth sport initiatives around the world], proposing that Nike fund a sports facility in Rwanda. I hope the facility can be an opportunity for children to have a place … that inspires self-esteem, and provides a way that adults can also speak to children. They’re currently down to 19 projects out of hundreds, and I’m still in, so …

fingers crossed.

many people would QNot assume [that School of For-

estry & Environmental Studies] students have art backgrounds.

What has your personal trajectory been like?

A

I went to an arts high school, which meant four years of producing a body of work. I didn’t feel ready to be a freelance artist right out of school, so I pursued architecture to combine my artistic passion and my other interests. Now I’m in school studying sustainability. I continued drawing and sketching, though. I see art as a way to reach out about issues that really inspire me. For example, I was recently approached about doing a cover for a book about … natural resources while valuing them appropriately.

Another project I’m now potentially involved [in] is with a student at the School of Public Health. She’s doing research on melanoma, which affects a lot of young people, especially young girls — it’s been linked to tanning beds. She wants to create an art campaign that would use images to speak to that audience. So that’s basically an artistic public health campaign.

Projects like that have tended to come my way since I have started using art as a way to address bigger issues outside my particular school, like humanitarian and health issues that relate to everyone. Students and faculty at the school tend to seek me out and come to me with projects.

people at Yale interested QAre in this kind of artistic activism?

A

Actually, I think it’s a very small group that is. More people are in academic circles, focusing more on research.

Sure, that informs activism and other things like policy, eventually addressing the issue. If there is activism at Yale, I feel like it tends to be a lot more political, such as the 99% movement. In terms of culture, society and health, initiatives do exist, but they’re smaller. The School of Public Health does some work with the School of Art. Also, you see the Environmental Film Festival getting bigger.

you think Yale has been a QDo good environment for you as an artist-activist?

A

It is a very good environment. It’s very open. It’s just that it’s a very academic environment, and not very many of us are pursuing activism or speaking to a broader audience, or even writing to nonacademic audiences. I think that’s an important way to address issues that are cutting-edge. Still, there’s a really promising [activist] side of Yale that I’m still discovering.

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

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GOP campaign turns bizarre in SC

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The race for the Republican presidential nomination is veering toward South Carolina surreal.

Mitt Romney was stripped of his Iowa caucus victory Thursday, then was stung by Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s withdrawal and endorsement of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who was stunningly accused in turn by an ex-wife of seeking an open marriage so he could keep his mistress.

“Newt’s not perfect, but who among us is,” said Perry, abruptly quitting the race shortly before an evening debate and less than 48 hours before the polls open in Saturday’s first-in-the-South primary.

His decision to end a oncepromising candidacy left Romney, Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul the remaining contenders in the race to pick a Republican to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama this fall.

Recent polls, coupled with Perry’s endorsement, suggested Gingrich was the candidate with the momentum and Romney the one struggling to validate his standing as front-runner. Whatever else the impact, the day’s events reduced the number of contenders vying to emerge as Romney’s principal conservative alternative.

The former Massachusetts governor had other challenges in a state where unemployment approaches 10 percent. He adamantly refused to explain why some of his millions were invested in the Cayman Islands,

how much was there or whether any other funds were held offshore.

Under pressure from his rivals to release his income tax returns before the weekend - a demand first made by Perry in a debate on Monday - he told reporters it wouldn’t happen. “You’ll hear more about that. April,” he said.

Gingrich grappled with problems of a different, possibly even more crippling sort in a state where more than half the Republican electorate is evangelical.

In an interview scheduled to air on ABC News, Marianne Gingrich said her ex-husband had wanted an “open marriage” so he could have both a wife and a mistress. She said Gingrich conducted an affair with Callista Bistek - his current wife - “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington” while she was elsewhere.

“He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

That is not a marriage,” she said in excerpts released by the network in advance of the program.

Gingrich declined to respond to his ex-wife’s comments, telling reporters his two daughters from the first of his three marriages had sent a letter to ABC “complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate.”

In fact, the letter made no such accusations. Instead, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman wrote ABC that anyone who has endured a failed marriage “understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.”

A short while later, R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for the former speaker, said of Gingrich’s ex-wife’s account: “It couldn’t be any more opposite of the

truth.”

The interview with the second of Gingrich’s two ex-wives and the evening debate weren’t the only political events in the run-up to the Saturday primary.

Television commercials for the remaining candidates and their allies ran virtually without letup, generally designed to diminish each other’s support.

According to information made available to The Associated Press, targeted viewers in most regions of the state were watching an average of about six commercials a day paid for by Romney’s campaign and Restore Our Future, a group supporting him.

Gingrich, Paul, Santorum and their backers raised the total higher.

Santorum ran commercials likening Romney to Obama; Gingrich’s cast the former speaker as the only candidate who could defeat the president this fall. In a sign of the shifting campaign, Restore Our Future stopped attacking Santorum so it could concentrate its fire on Gingrich.

Santorum, whose fortunes have ebbed since what appeared to be a narrow loss in Iowa, pronounced himself the winner there after all when state party officials in Des Moines announced he had finished 34 votes ahead of Romney instead of eight behind.

“There have been two contests. We won one,” he said, and he proceeded to ridicule Romney and Gingrich as weak challengers to Obama. “How can you differentiate ourselves on the major issues of the day if we nominate tweedledum and tweedledee instead of someone who stood up and said, `No’?” he said to one audience, referring to his opposition to a requirement to pur-

MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich smiles as he as he speaks to members of the media. chase health care coverage.

Iowa Republican chairman Matt Strawn said the party would not name an official winner because the results were so close and some votes couldn’t be counted. Results from eight of the state’s 1,774 precincts were not certified to the state party by Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline.

It was Strawn who had stepped before a microphone shortly before 2 a.m. in Des Moines on Jan. 4 to declare Romney the victor.

That announcement propelled the former Massachusetts governor into New Hampshire, where he breezed to victory in the

U.S. general in Israel to discuss Iran

BY JOSEF FEDERMAN AND DAN PERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — The top U.S. general, visiting Israel at a delicate and dangerous moment in the global standoff with Tehran, is expected to press for restraint amid fears that the Jewish state is nearing a decision to attack Iran’s nuclear program.

Thursday’s arrival of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, just four months after he took office as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, underscores Washington’s concern about a possible Israeli military strike.

It also spotlights key questions at the center of the global maneuvering to prevent an Iranian bomb: - How effective are the current economic sanctions in pressuring Iran’s leadership? Israel wants a far tougher regime, while the Americans seem confident the current path will suffice.

- Could aerial bombardment or missile strikes, the expected Israeli military toolkit, damage nuclear installations deep underground enough to be worth a counterstrike from Iran? Some think Israel is mainly saber-rattling to scare governments into tougher sanctions.

- Might covert activity suffice? Iranian scientists and military officials have been killed, computer viruses unleashed, a missile base blown up. Finger-pointing and denials abound; evidence about who’s behind it all does not.

- Could Israel really surprise Wash-

ington, its main ally and protector, with a military move that could affect America itself, in an election year to boot? Israeli officials have not pledged to give advance warning.

In the background, rarely openly discussed, is the somewhat prickly relationship between the Obama administration and the rightist government in Israel. The antipathy, born largely of disagreements on the Palestinian front, may not be helping navigate a situation as delicate as Iran.

But the main thing for Israel is the acute sense that a Rubicon is about to be crossed - that a nuclear-armed Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel’s destruction, is a direct existential threat.

Most of the West does agree with Israel that Iran, despite denials, is developing nuclear weapons technology. But the United States is clearly concerned that a military attack could backfire, fragmenting international opposition to Iran and sending oil prices skyrocketing.

Beginning Friday, Dempsey is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and much of Israel’s political and military leadership. Israeli officials involved in the preparations for the meetings said they expected Dempsey to urge restraint as the U.S. tries to rally additional global pressure on Iran. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the visit.

In a joint statement, the U.S. and Israel said the visit would focus on “coopera-

tion between the two militaries, as well as mutual security challenges.”

Israeli Cabinet Minister Dan Meridor, whose responsibilities include monitoring the Iranian nuclear program, said there was broad agreement with the Americans and the West on the need to stop the Iranians. “If the sanctions work, then all the other options will remain strictly theoretical,” he said.

An air raid on Iran would require flying over potentially hostile Arab airspace and could well trigger a response from Iran, which possesses an arsenal of missiles capable of striking Israel. The Iranians could also encourage their proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to heat up Israel’s northern and southern borders. American soldiers based in the Persian Gulf might come under fire. Islamist backers of Iran could target civilians all over the world.

It also remains unclear how much damage an attack could inflict. Iran’s nuclear facilities are scattered throughout the country and buried deep underground. Israeli officials concede that any attack could set back, but not destroy, Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Speaking with The Associated Press, a senior military official said Thursday that the threat is real. “If you are talking about the use of power against Iran, any kind of power, and create any damage over there, yes, it can be done,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines.

JIM R. BOUNDS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey delivers remarks at the Ambassador S. Davis Phillips Family International Lecture.

opening primary of the campaign a week later.

He arrived in South Carolina the following day, front-runner then for sure, now more shakily so.

Perry’s withdrawal mimicked one earlier in the week by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in that they both quit a few hours before a debate.

The similarities ended there, though. Huntsman endorsed Romney.

Perry had other thoughts, calling Gingrich a “conservative visionary who can transform our country.”

Echoing words Huntsman said

of Romney, Perry said he and Gingrich had their differences.

And in saying the former speaker was not perfect, he sought to provide political cover of a type that might reassure South Carolina voters for whom religious values are important.

“The fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek God and I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my own Christian faith,” Perry said.

His decision to withdraw set off a scramble among the remaining contenders for the allegiance of his supporters and donors, both in the state and nationally.

Bucking trend, world cools slightly in 2011

BY SETH BORENSTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The world last year wasn’t quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures.

The average global temperature was 57.9 degrees Fahrenheit, making 2011 the 11th hottest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. That’s 0.9 degrees warmer than the 20th century average, officials said. In fact, it was hotter than every year last century except 1998.

One reason 2011 was milder than recent years was the La Nina cooling of the central Pacific Ocean.

La Ninas occur every few years and generally cause global temperatures to drop, but this was the warmest La Nina year on record.

And 2011 also was the warmest year on record for Spain and Norway, and the second warmest for the United Kingdom. In the United States, the average temperature of 53.8 was just 1 degree above normal, making last year only the 23rd warmest on record. But 17 cities including Houston, Miami, Trenton and Austin - had their warmest years.

This marks the 35th straight year that global temperatures were warmer than normal. NOAA’s records for world average temperatures date back to 1880.

“It would be premature to make any conclusion that we would see any hiatus of the longer-term warming trend,” said Tom Karl, director of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. “Global temperatures are continuing to increase.”

NASA, which calculates global temperatures in a slightly different way, announced essentially the same temperature for the year. But NASA’s record-keeping calls it the ninth warmest ever.

Both NASA climate scientist James Hansen and University of Victoria’s Andrew Weaver said they expect that in the next few years the world will set yet a new record high temperature. 2010 tied for the hottest on record.

NOAA also released new figures for extreme weather. The agency recalculated the number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the U.S., bumping the total from 12 to

14. Officials added Tropical Storm Lee, which dumped rain from Maryland to New England in September, and a July hail and wind storm in Colorado to the list.

The 14 extreme events smash the old record of nine billion-dollar disasters in 2008.

“America has endured an unusually large number of extreme events, totaling damages of more than $55 billion,” NOAA deputy administrator Kathryn Sullivan said. She blamed a variety of factors, including population changes.

It would be premature to make any conclusion that we would see any hiatus of the longer-term warming trend.

TOM KARL Director, National Climactic Data Center For the year, a record 58 percent of the United States had either extreme rainfall or severe drought, about triple what is normal for the country. Seven states - New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Indiana and Kentucky - had their wettest years since those types of records were kept beginning in 1895. Texas had its driest year ever.

The record wet up north and dry down south fits with what climate change science predicts, but it is too early to say if 2011’s precipitation extremes were due to global warming, Karl said. And the unusual number of deadly tornadoes can’t be linked to global warming, he said.

But Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., which is a consortium of universities, said it’s hard not to see the hand of manmade global warming behind the extremes.

“Where these events occur is largely driven by natural variability, but the fact that they are breaking records and causing tremendous damage when they do occur is undoubtedly because of the human stimulus,” Trenberth said in an email.

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12:55 PM The Metropolitan Opera at Yale presents: “The Enchanted Island.” 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).

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8:00 PM Yale Schola Cantorum. David Hill will lead the Yale Schola Cantorum in a program of a cappella music of Victoria and Howells. Free admission. Christ Church Episcopal (84 Broadway at Elm Street).

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MONDAY, JANUARY 23 4:00 PM “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Strontium and Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture.”

Florian Schreck of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Science will give this talk, sponsored by the Physics Club. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Room 57.

5:30 PM “African American Poetry as the Sacred Word.”

Professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander will give the Parks-King Lecture. Reception to follow in the common room. The event will be webcast live at http://divinity.yale.edu/core/digital-resources.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS SARAH BURKE The Canadian freestyle skier died Thursday in Salt Lake City, nine days after sustaining a head injury while training on a 22-foot half pipe. Burke was a four-time gold medalist at the Winter X Games, and helped to add halfpipe skiing to the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Elis seek second win

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER Yale women’s hockey is challenging the two teams directly above it in the ECAC standings this weekend.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (1–10–0 ECAC, 1–17– 0) are back on the road this weekend after a series of six home games. Yale will face off against RPI (2–8–2 ECAC, 5–15–4) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Union (1–10–1 ECAC, 3–18–3) on Saturday at 4 p.m.

“All the games we have left are really important,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. “Both games this weekend are four-point games in the sense that we can gain ground in the standings.”

RPI, Union and Yale are ranked Nos. 10, 11 and 12 respectively in the 12-team conference, so each team is fighting to make its way up the standings and secure a playoff spot. Flygh said both of the Bulldogs’ weekend opponents — the Engineers and the Dutchwomen — are hardworking and disciplined teams despite their low rankings.

He added that Yale will have to give two “60-minute efforts” to make a

strong showing.

But team members are determined to stay in the running for an ECAC playoff spot. Goaltender Genny Ladiges said this weekend’s games could help determine whether Yale has a shot at qualifying.

Both games this weekend are four point games in the sense that we can gain ground in the standings..

JOAKIN FLYGH Head Coach “In terms of the playoffs, we can’t count ourselves out,” Ladiges said. “We’re currently five points out of the eighth and final playoff spot. It’s critical that we pick up wins in our next few games, against opponents near the bottom of the standings, if we want to stay in the race.”

The Bulldogs last played these two New York teams back-toback on the second weekend of November and secured their first

and only win of the season against Union 3–2 in overtime. Yale had four players out with injuries at the time. Two of these players — defender Emily DesMeules ’13 and forward Jen Matichuk ’13 — have since returned to the ice.

But the Bulldogs will still play this weekend’s games with a depleted roster. Forward Jackie Raines ’14 suffered a concussion two weeks ago, and Madi Murray ’15 also got a concussion last weekend. Murray and Raines told the News they do not know when they will return to the ice, but both added they hope it is soon.

The opposing teams’ prospects, however, are not much more auspicious. Union won its only game of the season Nov. 4 against Clarkson. RPI, which last won against Colgate on Jan. 6, is on a threegame losing streak.

The Bulldogs will play at Brown on Tuesday evening, and will return to Ingalls next weekend to take on their Ivy rivals Harvard and Dartmouth.

Cornell and Quinnipiac are currently tied for first place in the ECAC. Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

Elis and Bears rematch

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Women’s hockey, which is in 12th place in the ECAC, will take on 10th-place RPI and 11th-place Union this weekend.

Former colleagues praise Reno RENO FROM PAGE 1

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Women’s basketball captain Michelle Cashen ’12 scored seven points in last weekend’s win against Brown.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 times. We need to focus better and talk more next game.”

In the previous contest the Bulldogs outrebounded the Bears and forced more turnovers, but Brown was able to stay in the game by outshooting Yale 44.7 percent to 34.2 percent even though it attempted far fewer shots. The team needs to execute better on defense, West said, adding that if the Yale continues to dominate possession, the team has a strong

chance of replicating last Friday’s victory.

There is some evidence that this year’s series will mirror last year’s games against Brown. The first meeting between the teams last season also featured a careerhigh performance, that time by forward Janna Graf ’14, as well as a comeback victory. Graf scored 14 of her 26 points in the second half as the Bulldogs erased a halftime deficit to pick up a double-digit win. Yale even scored 44 points — the same number as last year — in

the second half of both games.

Such back-to-back series are rare in the Ivy League. One other pair of teams, Cornell and Columbia had a similar tradition. The Big Red and the Lions met in consecutive games from the 2005-’06 season until last year, although they did not to do so this season.

Tipoff tonight is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

Struggling Elis look for rebound MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 going 7–2–3 and climbing up the national rankings to its current position at No. 12. This run has included impressive 6–3 and 3–1 wins over No. 10 Michigan and No. 6 Merrimack. Yale is not currently ranked nationally. But despite the fact that Union has the ninth-best scoring offense and the top scoring defense in the nation, its biggest asset is in the net. Sophomore goalie Troy Grosenick has been sensational this season, ranking first in the nation in both goals against average and save percentage at 1.66 and .939, respectively.

“It doesn’t change much for us,” Root said. “We’re still going to do what we do every game, and that’s get the puck to the net, create traffic around him and get shots from everywhere.”

On offense, the Dutchmen are led by a player who is statistically similar to Yale forward Brian

O’Neill ’12. Junior forward Jeremy Welsh has only .02 more goals per game than O’Neill, good for seventh in the nation. Like O’Neill, Welsh does most of his damage on the power play; he is averaging .41 power-play goals per game, just behind O’Neill’s mark of .47.

Following the Friday night matchup with Union, the Bulldogs will take on RPI (4–17–1, 1–8–1) Saturday night. As good as Union has been for most of the season, RPI has been just as bad. The Engineers are only 1–1–7 over their last nine games and have won a single league game this season, a 1–0 victory over Brown over two months ago on Nov. 12.

However, the men made it obvious that you cannot underestimate any opponent earlier this season.

Two days before Thanksgiving, the Bulldogs lost a 7–6 shocker to then 0–11 Sacred Heart. The Pioneers have not proven anything since then either. Sacred Heart

currently stands at 1–20–1.

“I dont think we will treat RPI any differently than how we treated Boston College or Sacred Heart,” Root said. “Our mindset going into every game has been the same. I don’t think we need to have a special game plan to make sure we don’t take them lightly.”

Standing out for the Bulldogs last weekend was forward Clinton Bourbonais ’14 who scored in both games including the goal that sent Saturday night’s game to overtime.

Andrew Miller ’13 also had a strong weekend for the Elis, recording a goal and three assists for a teamhigh four points.

The action begins Friday night at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink for the matchup with No. 12 Union. The Elis will finish up the weekend on Saturday night at 7 p.m. against RPI. Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

started as the free safety for his final three seasons, during which the Lancers won two straight New England Football Conference titles.

Over his career at WSC, Reno compiled 140 total tackles, six sacks, five fumble recoveries and three interceptions, according to WSC Sports Information Director Steven Miller.

Brien Cullen, WSC’s head coach, said that Reno’s experience as a high school quarterback helped him to control the team’s defensive formations.

That ability served him well when he returned to WSC as an assistant coach following a one-year stint as an assistant defensive coach with King’s College, Penn. in 1997.

Reno served as the secondary coach and defensive coordinator at his alma mater from 1998 until 2002. He simultaneously earned a master’s degree in health education from WSC in 2000. In 2002, Reno was named an AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year for his work with the Lancers.

“Going into my 30th year, he is one of the best coaches I have had,” Cullen said. “All the years that Tony coached for me we had some pretty good teams. Some of the kids that he has coached have gone on and been coaches … He was a mentor to them.”

Reno, currently on a recruiting trip, could not be reached for comment.

In 2003, former Yale head coach Jack Siedlecki needed a new assistant coach. He tried to convince his friend Rich Mannello, then the head coach at King’s College, to join him at Yale.

While Mannello declined the opportunity, he recommended Reno to Siedlecki. After an interview with the young assistant, Siedlecki knew he had found the right person for the job.

“He was a young and really enthusiastic guy,” Siedlecki said. “He was going to be a great recruiter in the Ivy League.”

After spending his first season at Yale working with wide receivers, Reno went back to coaching what he knows best: the secondary. Over the next four seasons, he helped to recruit and mentor several key defensive stalwarts for the Bulldogs.

Two of Reno’s former players, Bobby Abare ’09 and Paul Rice ’10, captained the Elis their senior years and were named to First Team All-Ivy. Other standouts that Reno coached include Casey Gerald ’09, who made 30 consecutive starts for the Bulldogs and became a Rhodes Finalist, and Adam Money ’11, a twotime First Team All-Ivy defensive back.

Siedlecki praised Reno’s ability to connect with his players and bring out their best efforts.

“Tony is more straightforward with players than any assistant coach I had,” Siedlecki said.

“Sometimes, he can be brutally honest, but I think the players appreciate … the coach who demands the best of them.”

While Reno has never been a head coach or a defensive coordinator at the Division I level, he will receive plenty of help from his staff.

Both Cullen and Siedlecki said that they believe Rick Flanders — who has spent the last 15 seasons on the sidelines for the Bulldogs and is currently the defensive backs and associate head coach — will stay with the team.

Siedlecki added that Flanders may return to the position he held under his tenure. “[Reno] is not going to be the play caller as the head coach,” Siedlecki said. “Rick Flanders [will be] calling the defense.”

Flanders was previously Yale’s defensive coordinator during the 2007 and 2008 sea-

sons. The Bulldogs led the FCS in scoring defense both years that Flanders was at the defensive helm.

Flanders is also on a recruiting trip and could not be reached for comment.

In addition to Flanders, another former colleague of Reno’s, defensive line coach Duane Brooks, will likely return next season to help out the newly hired head coach.

Brooks also denied rumors that he was going to become the next head coach for Colby College in Maine in an email to the News.

[Tony Reno] was the best hire that Yale could have gotten.

ALEX GEDEON Harvard linebacker and former captain When Siedlecki resigned and Tom Williams took the reins in 2009, Reno jumped to Ancient Eight rival Harvard. For the past three years, Reno has faced and frustrated the Bulldogs from the opposing sideline as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator.

In the 2010 edition of The Game, Reno’s special team unit scored an 84-yard kickoff return touchdown on the opening play of the second half, allowing the Crimson to tie the game at 14–14 and eventually overtake the Elis.

Former Harvard linebacker and captain Alex Gedeon said that Reno was a mentor to him and will bring a lot to the table as Yale’s next head coach.

“His attention to detail and the energy he brings to try and make you better on the practice field,” Gedeon said. “That’s what stands out about Coach Reno. He was the best hire that Yale could have gotten.”

Gedeon added that playing against Reno would add even more emotion to The Game for the Crimson, especially for those that he had helped to recruit, in the years to come.

After Williams resigned from his post as head coach on Dec. 21, Reno was soon named as a potential candidate and impressed the two advisory committees guiding the replacement search during his interviews. Jonathan Edwards Master Penelope Laurans, who chaired one of the committees, said she thought Reno was a good fit for Yale because of his vision for the future and ability as a coach and mentor.

“He was detailed and even inspirational in his interviews,” Laurans said. “We felt his teams would be prepared and hard-nosed and win. We also felt that he and his staff would be great mentors and wonderful institutional players and that they would could lead young men with excellence on the field and off. Great people bring great people around them.”

With two weeks left until National Signing Day — the first day a high school student can officially sign with a collegiate team — Reno faces the difficult task of securing the incoming freshman class and fending off rival Ivy programs from undecided recruits, who are typically reluctant to commit to a program in transition.

Both Gedeon and Siedlecki said they are confident that Reno’s recruiting prowess will be one of his biggest assets in the years ahead.

The Bulldogs begin their 2012 season on Sept. 15 at home against Georgetown.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu and JIMIN HE at jimin.he@yale.edu .

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“We’re still going to do what we do every game, and that’s get the puck to the net.

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Bulldogs hope to sweep Bears

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The men’s basketball team had a come-from-behind victory against Brown last weekend in its Ivy League opener. The Bulldogs are pursuing a second win against Brown on Saturday in Providence.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER A week after squeaking past Brown 68–64 at home, Yale will have a rematch with the Bears on the road Saturday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Last week the Elis (11–4, 1–0 Ivy) trailed most of the game before captain Reggie Willhite ’12 got two successive steals and knocked down two shots to regain the lead for his team with less than a minute remaining in

the second half. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 said that the close call against Brown (5–12, 0–1 Ivy) sent the team a message.

“It definitely gave us a wakeup call,” Sherrod said. “Anybody can beat anyone in this league.

We just have to come out and put everyone away, especially the ones we know aren’t as talented as we are.”

One place where the Bulldogs’ talent is evident is in the post.

The 6’10” Greg Mangano ’12 and 6’10” Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14 possess a height advantage over their Bear counterparts. Guard Austin

Morgan ’13 said that the Bulldogs look to exploit that mismatch on Saturday.

Although Mangano was unable to top 20 points scored for only the second time in the last nine games, head coach James Jones said that he was not concerned. Instead, he is expecting more prodution from Kreisberg. After playing for the U-20 Israeli national team at the European Championships this summer, Kreisberg started off the season hot, averaging 9.5 points in the team’s first 10 games. “The Hebrew Hammer,” as he is called

by his teammates, has cooled off recently, scoring only five points per game over the past five games.

“We think the world of him,” Jones said about Kreisberg. “We need to get him more involved.”

The Bears trotted out multiple defenses against the Bulldogs, but Jones said that they were able to deal with the different looks.

The Elis are focusing on stopping Brown’s shooters after the Bears knocked down 12 threepointers Saturday. Sherrod said that the team has been working on defending the three-point arc and closing out against shooters.

Elis to engineer victory

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The boys are back in town. For the first time since spring semester began, the men’s hockey team will skate in Ingalls Rink against New York foes Union and RPI.

The Bulldogs will be hoping that history repeats itself tonight when they face off against Brown for the second time in eight days.

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Forward Antoine Laganiere ’13, right, has garnered 16 points so far this season. struggling to a 4–6–1 record, including a loss to a Sacred Heart team that has not won a single other game this season.

“We were able to have success by keeping our game simple on the road,” Malcolm said. “Heading into these games our mindset isn’t changing.

We are comfortable when we’re playing Yale hockey, and as long as we play within ourselves we know we can have success.”

In the decisive 4–0 win over Union,

forward Dan Otto ’12 led the charge and scored two goals. But, Otto will not be on the ice this weekend due to a season-ending injury. Forward Jesse Root ’14 said that the team misses his work ethic and positive attitude, but he is confident that some of the younger players can step in and fill the void.

Since the teams’ first meeting, Union (12–5–6, 6–2–3) has rolled,

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in the final minute Saturday to ice Brown. Morgan said that he often practices at the line after practice to simulate the fatigue of lategame situations.

“Fortunately I have been able to knock down some free throws,” the 5’11” guard said. “That is one time in the game when you take a shot unguarded, so I try to take advantage of that.”

The Elis tip off against Brown at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

Elis head to second Brown game

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (8–7–2, 5–4–1 ECAC) will take to the ice after a long and trying trip to the North Country last weekend. But following a power outage, a postponed game and two overtime contests against ECAC bottom-dwellers, netminder Jeff Malcolm ’13 insists that the team is feeling as fresh as ever.

“Last weekend was an irregular one in that the schedule was changed around a bit,” Malcolm said. “But overall it wasn’t more taxing compared to other weekends on our schedule.”

The Bulldogs went head-to-head with Union and RPI in November in arguably their most impressive weekend thus far this season. The Elis beat RPI 2–0 and followed that win up with a 4–0 shutout over Union the following day. Those two victories were part of a three-game streak of shutouts for Malcolm, who saved all 45 shots he faced in the Union game.

But the Elis have been a different team since that dominant weekend,

He added that the Bulldogs want to make Brown’s players think twice about taking a shot against them.

Sherrod added that it will be a difficult environment to win at Brown, but that the Elis will be able to pull off the win if they execute.

When it comes to execution at the free-throw line, Yale possesses the best player in the nation in Morgan. As of Thursday, Morgan led Division I basketball with a .930 shooting percentage from the charity stripe.

He hit all four of his free throws

The Elis (9–6, 1–0 Ivy) kicked off their conference schedule with consecutive games against Brown (9–5, 0–1 Ivy) last season as well and notched two 12-point victories in a week. This strong beginning helped set the tone for the team’s second-place Ivy League finish and first-ever bid to the National Invitational Tournament. The tradition of backto-back league games against Brown to open the conference schedule dates back to the 2002-’03 season, and Yale is 8–11 overall in these contests. The Bulldogs lost the first eight of these contests, all of their games against Brown from 2003’06, but the team has fared much better in recent years. They are 7–2 over the last five years and will be trying to keep this trend going tonight.

“Coach said that we can beat this team with transition and by pushing the ball,” guard Aarica West ’13 said.

The Elis beat the Bears 75–65 at Brown

last Friday with the help of guard Megan Vasquez ’13, who scored 23 points, and guard Amanda Tyson ’14, who made a career-high 12 points and eight rebounds. They will try to match this result tonight, West said, but they know that a repeat performance will not be easy, as Brown led for long stretches in the last matchup. The Bulldogs blew an 11-point first-half lead and trailed Brown for much of the second half before finally pulling away in the closing minutes.

We looked at the film, and it was apparent that despite our effort, our defense was lax at times.

We need to focus better and talk more next game.

AARICA WEST ’13 Guard, women’s basketball “We looked at film [after the game],” West said, “and it was apparent that despite our effort, our defense was lax at SEE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 11

THE FREE THROW PERCENTAGE OF GUARD AUSTIN MORGAN ’13, THE BEST FREE THROW SHOOTER IN DIVISION I BASKETBALL. Morgan has shot 40 for 43 at the line for the season, and was four for four in the final minute against Brown to put the Bulldogs on top for the win.