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On hold. After the potential Department of Defense training center at the School of Medicine generated a storm of controversy, School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern released a statement Thursday night saying the University will not move forward with the center until administrators can fully address concerns raised by the Yale and New Haven community. In recent days, the center has been accused of ignoring Yale’s mission as a university and potentially exploiting minorities. Alpern’s statement followed one that was released earlier this week, in which administrators a!rmed that the program, if implemented, would meet Yale’s academic standards.

It’s Oscar weekend. Although admissions booklet and film stars Jodie Foster ’85 and Meryl Streep DRA ’75 won’t be receiving any golden statues at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, Yale isn’t quite out of the hunt. “Silver Linings Playbook,” produced by Bruce Cohen ’83, is up for best picture. And if you thought the 2011 awards were dull, don’t worry: James Franco, formerly GRD ’16, won’t be hosting.

Fire and ice. A vivid dragon was spotted in the snow outside Book Trader Café on Chapel Street Thursday, seemingly oblivious to the cold air outside. Breathing flames this realistic, it’s a surprise the mythological masterpiece hasn’t already melted everything in sight. Make sure you catch this colorful critter before the sun chases it back into storybooks.

Due in court. East Haven resident Amanda Bowden, who threatened a mass shooting and bombing at Gateway Community College earlier this month, will appear in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport for a bail hearing today. Bowden, who faces six counts including false information, hoaxes and criminal trespassing, allegedly praised Newtown shooter Adam Lanza in conversations with an undercover agent.

Caveat emptor. The Yale Senior Class Council is taking orders for black Ultrasuede “trapper hats” rimmed with faux fur for their 2013 class gift fundraiser. If you’re worried they’ll run out before you can get your hands on these chic chapeaux, perhaps you shouldn’t be. According to the promotional email, “There is a limited quality, so get yours today!” Typo? We hope they mean “quantity,” but let the buyer beware.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1993 After a pipe bursts beneath the Pierson gate, more than 500 students in Davenport and Pierson are left without water or heat. Administrators immediately take drastic action, sprucing up the college courtyards with 20 portable toilets, giving students blankets and encouraging them to stay with other friends for the night.

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Senior Class Gift falls slightly

BY APSARA IYERSTAFF REPORTER

After three weeks of high-energy participation challenges and events, the Senior Class Gift campaign concluded Wednes-day with contributions from 96.1 percent of the class of 2013.

The campaign participation rate fell nearly 1.5 percentage points from last year’s record-breaking 97.5 percent, and the total raised over the period — $29,693.81 — declined by around $2,000. The 2013 bud-get for the activities and events sponsored by the Senior Class Gift committee declined by 30 percent, while the campaign saw several changes to guide-lines and programming that included one fewer participa-tion event than last year. This year’s campaign shifted its goals to reducing the pressure on “just breaking participation records,” said Olivia Leitner ’13, one of the four campaign co-coordinators.

“I think these campaign reg-ulations were designed to have students take more leadership over their [giving],” campaign co-coordinator Omar Nije ’13,

said. “The Senior Class Gift is all about education, so I think we wanted our class to reflect about why they were making a dona-tion, and structuring the guide-lines di"erently helps to achieve that goal.”

Jocelyn Polce, assistant director of the Yale Alumni Fund, and Jocelyn Kane, direc-tor of Yale College Annual Giv-ing, declined to comment on the size of the Senior Class Gift’s budget, which is provided by the Association of Yale Alumni and funds classwide participation events, training for the 170 vol-unteers and free apparel. During the annual campaigns, events have driven increases in partici-pation levels over the fundrais-ing period, Polce said.

Besides the opening and closing party, the Class of 2013 Senior Class Gift hosted a happy hour event at Rudy’s in the pen-ultimate week of the campaign. The class of 2012 had two events other than the opening and closing parties — one during the first week and another during the third.

BY MONICA DISARE AND AMY WANGSTAFF REPORTERS

Most students applying to college hope only for a letter of acceptance. But for some, admission to a university alone is not enough to allow them to attend.

Terrence Park, a 20-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, was accepted to a two-year graduate biostatistics program at the Yale School of Public Health but cannot a"ord to matriculate — at least, not under current federal legislation. Park appeared in a video last week for an immigra-tion reform advocacy campaign called The Dream Is Now, explaining that as an undocu-mented student, he is ineligible to receive fed-eral or University financial support.

Park, who immigrated from South Korea to California 10 years ago with his mother after his parents divorced, discovered his undoc-umented status in his junior year of high school. After checking with the lawyer who had completed the family’s visa paperwork, Park and his mother were informed that the papers had been improperly filed and that

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CT senators eye gun control

BY NICOLE NAREASTAFF REPORTER

DANBURY, Conn. — Two months after shooter Adam Lanza killed 26 children and sta" at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, Vice President Joe Biden heralded a nationwide campaign for urgent,

comprehensive overhaul of gun laws and rallied support for President Barack Obama’s administration’s reform proposals during a Thursday address in Danbury.

Roughly 200 policymakers and family members of Newtown victims wearing green ribbons in remem-brance of the December shooting

gathered at the Connecticut Con-ference on Gun Violence at Western Connecticut State University, which Lanza briefly attended, for panel dis-cussions on gun violence and men-tal health. In his speech, Biden cited the public’s unshakable demand

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 (left) and Sen. Chris Murphy called for legislative reform at a gun-control conference.

Protestors for Islas arrested in Hartford

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASSTAFF REPORTER

Four Connecticut residents, including two Yalies, were arrested in Hartford Thursday in an act of civil disobedience, protesting the immigration system that is poised to deport a New Haven undocumented immigrant.

Blocking the entrance to the Federal Build-ing in Hartford, the four protestors — Yale Divinity School students Gregory Williams DIV ’15 and Jordan Scruggs DIV ’15, Unidad Latina en Accion organizer Megan Fountain ’07 and Amistad Catholic Worker Coordina-tor Mark Colville — were taken into custody during a 70-person “Rally of Butterflies” outside the Hartford Immigration Court. The rally, named for an international symbol of migration, demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stop the depor-tation of Josemaria Islas, an undocumented immigrant who has previously been deported four times and is in the midst of deportation proceedings.

Protestors, who heard speeches from rep-resentatives of several immigrants rights groups, also called on President Barack Obama to place a moratorium on all deporta-tions of undocumented workers.

In the past seven months, Islas’ case has generated a groundswell of opposition to fed-eral immigration statutes in New Haven and throughout the state.

“He was arrested in a clear case of racial profiling and didn’t do anything wrong,” Wil-

liams said after leaving jail Thursday after-noon. “And yet he’s still being handed over to immigration because that’s just the bro-ken immigration system that we have in this country.”

The rally coincided with a hearing before a Hartford immigration judge regarding Islas’ deportation proceedings, where Islas and his supporters hoped his case would be dropped.

Police, schools seek stronger relationshipsBY LORENZO LIGATO

STAFF REPORTER

Every Friday, officer Robert Clark roams the hallways of Hill Central School, stopping every once in a while to talk to stu-dents during recess or stick his head into one of the classrooms of the pre-K through eighth-grade institution at 140 Dewitt St.

Clark is one of 10 New Haven Police Department officers who make weekly one or two-

hour visits to 30 grade schools throughout the Elm City. As an active participant in the NHPD’s recent outreach program — launched early last Decem-ber to strengthen ties between the department and local ele-mentary schools — Clark said the initiative is a “generational investment” that will forge new relationships between the department and Elm City resi-dents.

“There’s so much negative perception [of police o!cers].

That’s where the fear comes from,” Clark said. “My job here is to mold these kids not to be afraid of police o!cers, but to develop positive bonds with them.”

But this renewed effort to reach out to elementary school students has not been con-tained within New Haven: In light of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, neighboring cities, including North Branford, Milford and Orange, have started to imple-

ment similar programs in their own districts.

In North Branford, a town with roughly 2,000 students, the Board of Education has recently hired six armed secu-rity guards to patrol the four local schools — a unanimously approved plan that will cost the city around $137,000, according to Superintendent of Schools Scott Schoonmaker. Milford has followed suit: At a Feb. 4 Board of Alderman meeting, Milford Police Department Chief Keith

Mello called for five school resource officers — full-time cops trained to work with stu-dents — to be placed in some of the city’s 14 public schools. Unlike the six guards that will be deployed in North Branford and trained by the North Branford Police Department, the school resource o!cers in Milford will be fully sworn police o!cers and will fall under the jurisdiction of Milford’s police department.

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The potential deportation of undocumented immigrant Josemaria Islas has sparked state-wide opposition to federal immigration laws.

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We started our sopho-more September by writing “suite rules”

on poster paper in multicol-ored Sharpies. We agreed on a select and varied few: Call your mothers, floss, it’s always okay to cry, wear a crown on your birthday and floors hap-pen.

A floor happens when something — a triggered memory, an unmade deci-sion, a feeling of being over-whelmed — washes over you. Your hands might find their way to your hair, then maybe your fingers fall to your face, and then your spine might hit the ground and uncurl onto the floor. In moments of uncer-tainty, the security of the floor could provide a refuge.

In our suite, these rules advocated for self-care. It didn’t take long for me to break the rules.

I was on the Women’s Cen-ter’s board that year. It was the year of the DKE incident, the Pundit party, Title IX. For us, it was the year of column writ-ing via Google Documents, late nights next to Durfee’s, multihour Sunday meetings that spilled into family dinner. Conversations about gender at Yale were abuzz, making head-lines on campus and nation-wide. I aligned my opinions with our press releases and saved my feelings for later.

The flow of adrenaline, as happens with all news sto-ries, soon ebbed. Most people moved on and returned to our campus script about Wednes-day night Toad’s and term-paper word counts. I couldn’t stop thinking about things like the DKE incident, though — not because it was the most egregious event that this cam-pus had ever seen, but because it became a public symbol of the many other private abuses on our campus.

Because of that, I didn’t want to move on. I reasoned that things were bad, and that was a reason to feel bad. I thought that the more an activist cares, the more she suffers. I broke up with my boyfriend, went home many weekends, had my first panic attack. I was breaking many of our suite rules about self-care, but the floors started happen-ing, anyway. Much of the time, I didn’t want to peel myself off of the floor.

In February, my suitemate’s sister visited and built us a fort. She took a bed frame, empty from a roommate studying abroad, flipped it upside down and hung sheets from the top. She pinned the sheets against upturned desks and draped corners to the floor. She put pillows and lights inside. The fort became a land of dancing and napping and crying. It was magical. It was also a fire haz-ard.

F r i e n d s and I spent a f te r n o o n s under blan-kets, on top of pillows, in the gloam-ing light that would sink through the hanging sheets. We s c r a t c h e d each oth-

er’s hair and read poetry and watched “30 Rock” on Hulu. Floors happened in the fort — we were often a mess of curly brown hair and flushed faces and teary pillows — but laughter happened, too. I have since referred to the fort as “The Land of I Know What Joy Looks Like.” In that place of joy and sisterhood and hanging sheets, I took care of myself again. I let floors hap-pen. I allowed myself to move on.

We folded up the fort in May. We took out the safety pins and tacks and cut out squares from one of the floral fabrics. We promised each other, as we said goodbye to the rest of the physical fort, to carry inter-nal forts around within us, holding onto spaces where we could protect ourselves.

I still have that square of fabric pinned to my wall. After that year, I stopped working at the Women’s Center. Moving on and taking care of myself meant discovering my right to live a nonpolitical life. I started reading the news more selec-tively, skimming over what might upset me. I indulged in all kinds of refuge — climb-ing up trees, jumping in rivers, standing on my head.

And I am happy, exuber-ant often. But sometimes I miss that engagement with the world around me — that reck-less desire and commitment to make things better — even though it meant putting self-care second, and even though it brought on many messy emotions that made it diffi-cult to stand when floors hap-pened.

The fort showed me that you can’t take care of other people until you take care of yourself. It’s unsustainable. But since the sheets of the fort were first draped two years ago, I have made much of the world around me a fort, never stray-ing from my rules. But now I often wonder how to emerge from this pervasive fort, throw myself into a cause and trust that, even if I lose balance and even if I break a few rules of self-care and even if I have to let floors happen, I will find an internal fort where I can stand again.

DIANA SAVERIN is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at

diana.saverin@yale.edu .

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New university, ancient story

I refer to the News’ View, “Pre-empt-ing the Singapore dilemma” (Feb. 18). In Greek history, a most learned man, Theon of Alexandria, took great e!ort to raise his daughter Hypatia to be a perfect human, according to some sources. The young girl’s knowledge quite quickly surpassed that of her father, and Hypatia went on to surpass her peers in literature and science so that students from all over the lands sought her tutelage.

Renowned Yale does sound like the Old Hypatia, where many knocked on its fabled doors. I would suggest, however, that Yale in conception was not quite so a beneficiary as Hypatia was but more so, by any measure and despite any noises, that of the “father” of Yale-NUS College not quite unlike what Theon was to Hypatia. To say that Yale can, at any time, walk away from the venture (an oft-repeated parlance) from the Singapor-ean college may sound politically assuring (and may be legally calculated) but it is also naive. If that is indeed to happen, I would think Yale ought to be frowned upon like a father who abandons his daughter.

Like your View says, “Yale has commit-ted itself to Yale-NUS — it is too late to turn back now.” As I see it, there is only one direction, i.e., to raise Yale-NUS College as Theon had raised Hypatia, aiming to surpass itself. History indicates that Hypatia died

Eating vegan at Yale is an easy and rewarding expe-rience. However, main-

taining a vegan diet can seem di"cult to those new to the idea. This perception might be in part due to Yale Dining — though it’s made significant progress in its o!erings, there is still lack of diversity in vegan protein options. Further improvement in our dining halls would go a long way in helping students make the transition to a more compas-sionate, healthy and environ-mentally friendly way of eating.

It turns out that eating vegan is more popular than ever on college campuses. According to a study by food-service pro-vider Bon Appétit, the number of college students who iden-tify themselves as vegetarian has risen by 50 percent since 2005, and the number of vegan stu-dents has more than doubled during the same period.

This growth was seen this past weekend, when the Yale Ani-mal Welfare Alliance hosted the second meeting of iV: the Ivy League Vegan Conference. The annual iV conference is dedi-cated to exploring the academic basis for plant-based diets and building a cohesive community of activists and advocates.

Over 150 students from all eight Ivy League institutions attended the event — more than triple the number at last year’s

conference. Students at the con-ference engaged in discussions about activism and planned opportunities for future col-laboration. In addition, over a dozen academics from the fields of medicine, climatology, philosophy and law attended, examining one another’s peer-reviewed research on the topics of plant-based diet bioscience and animal ethics. This collab-oration creates a community of scholar-activists around a gen-eral societal shift that promotes plant-based diets as an elegant solution to many pressing global concerns.

At the conference, I learned a lot about vegan eating at our peer institutions. For example, I found out that the Brown cafete-ria serves vegan chicken tenders, and Cornell dining halls regu-larly incorporate seitan and tem-peh, vegan protein sources that are both healthy and delicious. With the wealth of options out there, there is no reason for Yale Dining to lag behind its peers in o!ering a comparably wide

range of plant-based foods.In fact, we can only expect the

demand for such options to rise. Today, students are increas-ingly aware of the inherent cru-elty and ine"ciency involved in factory farming. This is likely in part due to activism. Many of the iV attendees have engaged their campuses by exposing students to the cruelty that animals face when raised and killed on factory farms. When we leaflet or show videos of undercover investiga-tions at Yale, students are horri-fied to learn that pig sows spend their entire lives in cages where they cannot even turn around, or that chickens are conscious when they are scalded to death in boiling-hot water. Almost no one we encounter knows that anti-cruelty laws have specific exemptions for the agricultural industry. Due to their cruel prac-tices and harmful environmental impacts, factory farms are sim-ply not the kind of industry that students want to support. And thanks to the many delicious alternative options available — including the vegan pizza we had at the conference — they no lon-ger have to.

Furthermore, a United Nations report recently concluded that factory farming is one of the big-gest contributors to the most serious environmental prob-lems at every level — from local to global — including pollution

and global warming. A global shift toward a plant-based diet, according to the U.N., is neces-sary to combat the worst e!ects of climate change. Yale and its students, as well as peer institu-tions, put a high priority on sus-tainability. When they discover that feeding up to 16 pounds of grain to an animal will produce just 1 pound of meat, they real-ize that plant-based options are both a healthier and more eco-friendly choice.

As Yale alumnus Wayne Pacelle ’87, president of The Humane Society of the United States, explained this weekend, many people simply don’t realize that there are plentiful, healthy and delicious alternatives to ani-mal products. The more Yale Dining adds such options to our menus, the better it will meet this growing demand — enabling students to make these choices more easily.

And to all students who want to take part in the global move-ments to stop cruelty to animals, combat global warming and improve public health: Try eat-ing vegan more — it may be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make.

EITAN FISCHER is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College and was co-director of the 2013 Ivy League Vegan Conference. Contact him at

ilan.fischer@yale.edu .

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Veganism: more popular than ever

OUR DINING HALLS NEED MORE VEGAN PROTEIN OPTIONS

a tragic death at the hands of a murderous mob during a time of divisive cultural and religious conflicts. The world surround-ing Yale-New Haven and Yale-NUS Singapore is too big to be dictated by anybody or the col-lective at either or both institu-tions. I am convinced, however, that if Yale plays its part well, Yale-NUS will grow up to be like Hypatia and the world (and Yale) will be its beneficiary.

KAH TANFeb. 21The author is a 1999 gradu-ate of the Yale Divinity School and a 2004 law graduate of the National University of Singapore.

Reject a false realityI greatly admired the point

of view expressed by Alejan-dro Gutierrez in his op-ed, and it’s equally interesting to read the reactions of those, like myself, who came from quite the opposite background (“Eas-ing the transition to Yale,” Feb. 19). There’s a current of anger beneath many: If you weren’t prepared, they say, you shouldn’t have been admitted in the first place.

I grew up in Westchester, N.Y. I went to private Catholic schools. I had teachers with high standards, parents who drove me hours around the Northeast to science competitions, with all the other benefits one would expect of a wealthy, competitive region of the country.

And I don’t think there’s any shame in acknowledging this.

We all got in. Admitting we took di!erent paths, with dif-ferent opportunities, does not diminish this fact. I worked hard where I was, and I was lucky. Nothing more.

We’re no more or less deserv-ing because of where we came from, privileged or otherwise. Creating this false reality — in which circumstance doesn’t matter, in which we were clearly selected for our pure merits alone — serves only to boost our own egos.

Moreover, it hides the fact that any accomplishment, from here on out, is our own.

Well done, Alejandro. I hope your recommendation is acted upon.

MADELINE YOZWIAKFeb. 20The author is a junior in Timothy Dwight College.

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Deflated

Floors happen

FRIDAY FORUM RAY DALIO“Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to him directly. If you do, you are a slimy weasel.”

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As undergraduates, I don’t think we get enough exposure to kids and their

subtle brilliance. I know, I know, this is college. These years are for making lovey eyes across the bar at someone our height. We’re growing into our adult selves now so that when the spittle and applesauce do eventually enter our every day, we might be pre-pared. We laugh o! our Freud readings — the ones that insist on getting toilet training right the first time lest we curse a child’s behavioral capacities for life — because development and child psychology can remain purely academic concepts.

To invite kids into our lives at this stage would make about as much sense as a frat house get-ting a puppy.

We don’t need to be reminded to “embrace the inner child” either; campuswide ecstasy over a snow day announcement, the Branford Bigloo and Fresh-man Olympics attest to our very human desires to play and regress for a day or two. But the newer and more complex my college stressors become, the more elementary the solutions I seek — ice cream, bright colors, crafts — and the more I wish my 9-year-old brother, Jayden, were here to make a bad joke.

I’m pretty convinced I peaked some 10 years ago, before I knew what generalized anxiety disor-

der, calories, taxes or consulting was. Now that I’ve made it here and am told I can do anything, I find myself searching for levity and kid logic.

It worries me that Yale is cut-ting, or at least muddling, its well-reviewed Education Stud-ies program. I suspect the super-stars among us, the ones who will graduate and immediately start managing projects, advis-ing CEOs and moving mil-lions of dollars, would panic if two or three dozen small citi-zens showed up in their o"ces, each with his or her own needs. Negotiating with kids demands a unique type of intelligence. Especially on the rare snow day.

Last week, I spent an hour with a local resident’s 5-year-old daughter, navigating snowdrifts three times her size in our quest for pizza. Though New Haven public schools had closed for the week, work schedules persisted. I granted the favor greedily. I wel-come diversions from midterms, especially the pint-sized ones.

What did Lydia and I do?

I hesitate to say that I gave her a tour of campus. At one point, it became quite evident who was doing the explaining.

“That’s our library.” I pointed a gloved finger at Sterling’s fro-zen façade.

“Yeah, I know,” she shot back. Sass!

I tried explaining residential colleges to her without the tour guide jargon of “community” or “microcosm,” but she immedi-ately understood.

“It’s like homeroom.” Yeah. Yeah! It is like home-

room. Lydia probably keeps her cubby cleaner than we keep com-mon areas, though.

At lunch, we rejoiced in the miracle of central heating as our toes thawed. A harried woman stormed in for her take-out pizza. This woman had forgot-ten how to dress herself. Her very large chest spilled and swirled about. I interjected loudly, some-thing about pepperoni, but Lydia had seen and was giggling like a cartoon.

“I can’t believe it!” she gasped between grins. I thought it best to just not say anything. She had to have her arsenal of female role models, right? But as I scrambled for an out, she pulled her torso across the table and, eyes wide to capacity, whispered:

“Why is that lady … letting everyone see … her second butt?”

Kids know indecency when

they see it. A third-grade class in Wuhan, China, organized an election for classroom monitor that quickly dissolved into famil-iar bicameral vices: politicking, mudslinging, blackmail. One girl dissolved into tears and shortly afterwards, everyone was crying and apologizing. They glimpsed their egotistical future, and it was terrifying.

That anecdote is from my favorite “This American Life” podcast. Go have a listen, or watch Bianca Giaever’s now-viral video interpretation of 6-year-old Asa Baker-Rouse’s imagination and his profound advice about conquering our fears.

If you need a bigger dose of reality, make a list of your huge problems — that cover letter you modified for the 14th time, what his terse text message actually means, whether you’re pretty or smart or likable enough — and try to recite it back to a kid with a straight face.

The things that we’re told are important here are always told to us by grown-ups. I know age grants wisdom, but what about clarity? For that, I think we should consult our smaller selves.

CATHY HUANG is a junior in Morse College. Contact her at

cathy.huang@yale.edu .

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Keep it elementary

SURE, ADULTS HAVE WISDOM, BUT WHAT

ABOUT CLARITY?

There comes a time in every young person’s life when she (or he) is

asked: “Are you sure you want that on the Internet?”

And: “Don’t you know your employers can see that?”

And: “Of course it’s obvi-ous. You’re holding a Solo cup.”

And: “Remember, it’ll be up there forever. Your children will probably find it.”

And: “You should at least crop out that kid grabbing your —”

And, finally: “I wouldn’t write about that if I were you.”

When did we all become a bunch of wusses?

Look: I’m afraid, OK? I’m afraid, and not just of unem-ployment; I’m afraid of employment, too. I’m afraid of becoming a preprofessional twit.

Because it’s like a virus: One day you’re a normal, well-adjusted human being, and the next day you’re cleansing your Google results like lice from the head of a feral child. Sure, increase your privacy set-tings. Untag that photo of you breaking into a graduate stu-dent’s apartment. And you’re probably right: I should defi-nitely remove the lyrics to Jus-tin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” from my Gchat status. Those are all reasonable precau-tions to take. After all, every-one pretends to be a little more respectable than they actu-ally are. But untagging every single photo of yourself hold-ing a plastic cup? Refusing to leave even a trace of yourself unbleached, save a meager, pictureless LinkedIn profile?

Does being an adult mean anesthetizing your digital trail — the manifestation of your wonderful, fascinating person in cyberspace — into oblivion? And would you do the same to your very self, if it came to it?

And, more importantly, since when were we all terri-fied of posterity?

From what I’ve learned, posterity is tops. For the very low cost of basically noth-ing, you too can achieve vir-tual immortality. I don’t know about you, but when I die, I’ll be happy to know that I’ll live on forever in the cobwebs of the Yale Daily News’ archives.

And yet, despite my conso-lations, you are still afraid. You are still afraid because BCG might see that you once pub-lished an op-ed blog about sleeping naked, and they’ll be mortified. You’re afraid because you’re not sure Mer-rill-Lynch is going to want an i-banker who enjoys tailgating more than Ivy League foot-ball. You’re afraid because you think that who you are, deep down inside, is not the One for Morgan Stanley.

Let me tell you, honey, you don’t want a relationship like that.

If your employer is not going to be cool with how awesome you were in college, they’re

p r o b a b l y not going to be cool with any contin-ued awe-s o m e n e s s in the work-place. I’m not saying you should expect to show up to the o"ce 15 minutes late wearing

leggings-as-pants every day — alas, those times are soon to be over — but do you really want 40 hours a week domi-nated by someone who can’t take a joke? Or worse, a stand? If you’re ready to trade in your leggings for a uniform, more power to you — but I don’t think you should have to.

I know diminishingly lit-tle, but I still know this: that nobody ever got anywhere by being timid, or by not trying. We all make mistakes, and we all change our minds; it’s hav-ing a mind to change that’s crucial.

And, contrary to what you might think, the thinking mind is not born: It is made. Now is the time to acquire that mind; now is the time to explore — to explore our thoughts, our world, our tastes, our hearts. Nor should we be afraid of doc-umenting that journey. Mem-ories are made only partially in the living; to last, they require recollection also. Likewise, the mind is only made when used and applied to the act of cre-ation. We come to know our-selves, and be known, both in the act of doing, and in the hazarding of something left behind.

The things most worthwhile — the things that make us laugh, or cry or see ourselves and the world di!erently for-ever — were not constructed according to some time-worn blueprint. They were risked into the world. They were stakes, planted by individu-als who wanted to make some-thing resonant, productive, true or beautiful. They are expressions, not diminished by the consumptive opinions of a multitude, but strength-ened by the conviction of a few.

And I would rather hold my convictions in my hand — that I like to sleep naked, even, and eat candy in bed — than to toss them away for a paltry fear.

MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Her column

runs on Fridays. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .

Posterity and prejudice

YES, THAT IS A SOLO CUP IN MY HAND

For those of you who don’t know, either because you don’t like basketball or

the NBA or fun — yet you’re still reading this, I’m impressed — Jerry Buss, the longtime owner of the Lakers, passed away this past Monday. The man who had created the modern basket-ball team lost his fight to can-cer after watching the team he built flounder for the past four months. And “flounder” is put-ting it nicely. In layman’s terms, they’re the worst. Yes, you heard it from me, a lifetime Lakers fan, the kindergartner who said she dreamt of being a Lakers girl, the girl who has been sitting in the same seat at the Staples Center since it first opened. The Lakers suck. And it’s heartbreaking.

But I’ve had people on cam-pus with whom to lament this

season. They’re people who will text me after a big win or com-ment on my #sadgirl status after a big loss — though at this point it’s not so “big” as tedious. These friends have turned into my go-to supportive shoulders for all things Lakers. They don’t mock my indignation at passing on coach Phil Jackson for Mike D’Antoni or dismiss my animos-ity towards the Clippers. They get it. Our friendship has solid-ified into a mutual understand-ing that we all love this dismal team. And that’s it. It brings us together.

We all come from di!erent places — Yalies, that is. That’s part of our charm and appeal. We’re this diverse student body with di!erent backgrounds and points of view and opinions — you can quote me here, Admis-

sions O"ce. It’s definitely enlightening and broadens your horizons. I mean, I hate nature, but my new favorite class is about wilderness because of the perspectives in the class that are so di!erent from my own. And though a decent-enough size of the Yale student body is from Los Angeles, I’m only really close to a handful. Instead, I have friends from places where the Lakers never even travel to play, and that’s exciting.

I never expected to get home-sick in college. I don’t think that is even the right term to use because I’m not “homesick” — I’m commonality-sick. I some-times miss being able to share the familiarity of home with my peers. Yes, by being here, we are all developing a new common interest. We can make Yale jokes

for the rest of our lives, and every one of us will laugh at the punch line. But our old commonali-ties with family, home friends, friends that we cultivated for literally a lifetime (a short one, but hey, we’re young!), some-times seem irrelevant on cam-pus.

Whenever I see someone with whom I can share my little bit of home with, I jump at the

chance. It’s not that I don’t want to know more about their lives or problems or anything. It’s just at this point, I don’t know if I see my Lakers buddies as peo-ple anymore. I see them as a part of home, the part that traveled to this cold and frigid and very not-LA locale to entertain my need to have some attachment to a place 3,000 miles away. Everyone should find their thing — the one that connects them to home.

With these Yale friends made in Laker-love, I don’t have to rely on talking on the phone to my basketball-fanatic family or Laker-crazed-sometimes-Clippers-crazed-but-we’ll-ignore-that home friends to discuss Jerry Buss’ unfortunate passing or Kobe’s new dedi-cation to the art of the assist. I

don’t have to rely on the guys at Au Bon Pain for talk about Metta World Peace’s deep-seated anger issues or how awe-inspir-ing Dwight Howard’s shoulders are despite his disappointing stats. Regardless of the Lakers’ truly painful season and Kobe’s optimism that we will make the playo!s, I will always have something to gripe about — or maybe soon cheer about — with my Yale-grown Lakers friends.

Though we might not person-ally be the closest, they a!ord me something no one else on campus can: a sense of home here and friends I never had to try to make, who always share my purple-and-gold tears.

SARA HENDEL is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at

sara.hendel@yale.edu .

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BEING FANS BRINGS US TOGETHER,

EVEN FAR AWAY FROM HOME

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for gun control since the New-town shooting and emphasized that reforms would not infringe on Second Amendment rights in an attempt to silence critics. Connecticut Democrats, includ-ing Sen. Chris Murphy and Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, also addressed the crowd, bol-stering federal and state reforms.

“America has changed on this issue,” Biden said at the confer-ence. “There is a moral price to be paid for inaction.”

Obama’s gun-control propos-als include implementing uni-versal background checks, reviv-ing a federal assault weapons ban, prohibiting high-capac-ity ammunition magazines and armor-piercing bullets, enforc-ing gun-trafficking restric-tions and boosting mental health resources. After reintroducing an assault weapons ban to Con-gress last month in collaboration

with Murphy, Blumenthal told the News that negotiations with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a comprehensive, bipartisan reform package are “close to suc-cess” and members will recon-vene next month.

“Our culture isn’t killing peo-ple,” Biden said, instead citing the lack of strict gun-control enforcement.

The National Rifle Associa-tion issued a statement in January responding to Obama’s reform proposal, claiming that “attack-ing firearms … is not a solution to the crisis we face as a nation. Only honest, law-abiding gun own-ers will be a!ected, and our chil-dren will remain vulnerable to the inevitability of more tragedy.”

But Murphy told the News that the reform package is not meant to “demonize” gun owners, reit-erating Biden’s assertion that it will not impinge upon Second Amendment rights. Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Himes added that

such “fearmongering” by oppo-nents of the bill is unhealthy. Gun advocates did not attend the con-ference, which was invitation-only.

“Preventing gun violence was thought to be untouchable polit-ically two months ago,” Blumen-thal said. “That unspeakable horror has given us unstoppable momentum.”

Democratic Gov. Dannel Mal-loy, who critiqued the delayed action of the state Legislature, endorsed Obama’s plan at the conference in hopes of imple-menting such reforms at the state level. He also called for an expan-sion of the definition of assault weapons to include those with at least one military characteristic. Though Malloy launched both the Sandy Hook Advisory Com-mission and the Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Preven-tion and Children’s Safety earlier this year to discuss reforms, New York state passed an early gun-

control bill in January that is now the model for the nation. U.S. Department of Education Secre-tary Arne Duncan and Newtown First Selectman Patricia Llodra — who earned a standing ovation from the crowd for her leadership throughout the aftermath of the tragedy — agreed that Connecti-cut urgently needs to act.

“Connecticut needs to pass a similarly strong bill very soon,” Murphy told the News. “Our abil-ity to pass something in Washing-ton is dependent on the state in which this tragedy happened.”

Though Connecticut House Republican Minority Leader Larry Cafero said his colleagues have yet to come to an agreement on gun policies with legislators across the aisle, he echoed Biden’s call for “common-sense reform” that would satisfy thousands of Connecticut constituents who have contacted the Legislature.

But local policymakers are skeptical of state-led reform,

claiming increased enforcement efforts will be unsustainable as cities are forced to tighten their belts for the coming fiscal year. At the conference, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra expressed his frus-tration with inefficient federal legislation and the extraordinary resources his city must expend to crack down on street vio-lence. New Haven and Hartford are the only two municipalities in Connecticut with shooting task forces, which in the capital led to a 40 percent decrease in urban homicides last year, according to Hartford police data estimates.

“The cost of making up for the lack of federal legislation is being paid for by the very poor residents of my city,” Segarra said.

Blumenthal also pushed for federal gun-trafficking legisla-tion, as no law currently penalizes individuals for selling weapons to buyers with false identification.

Members of the Connecticut-based advocacy group March for

Change turned out at the con-ference in support of Demo-crats’ reforms on both the state and federal level. The group pro-tested last week in the Capitol, which drew over 5,500 marchers in an attempt to make state legis-lation a template for national pol-icy. Co-founder Nancy Lefkowitz said she hopes to represent fami-lies like Chris and Lynn McDon-nell, who spoke at the confer-ence on behalf of their 7-year-old daughter Grace, a victim of the Newtown tragedy. Biden com-mended them for demonstrating “a hell of a lot more courage than I have.”

“We lost the love and life of our family,” Lynn McDonnell said. “I made a promise to her that I would be her voice.”

Since the Newtown shooting, 1,900 have died from gun vio-lence in the U.S.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 4 YALE DAILY NEWS · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

“Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.” SOPHOCLES FROM HIS TRAGEDY “ANTIGONE”

The class of 2013 launched the cam-paign with a participation rate of 28.5 percent — higher than last year’s first-day participation level — but two weeks later, the class of 2012 had a 69.1 percent participation rate after two events while the class of 2013 remained at 60 percent after its first event.

“I generally think [the events] did have an impact on participation,” said Courtney Fukuda ’12, a co-chair of the class of 2012 campaign. “If you’re going to a college event with 100 other people, and you’re drinking the wine and cheese

that the college supported, then I think you would be more motivated to con-tribute.”

Other changes to this year’s Senior Class Gift campaign included increasing the minimum contribution from $1 to $5 and prohibiting contributions made from students’ bursar accounts.

Despite the decrease from previous years, the Senior Class Gift campaign secured around $250,000 from par-ticipation incentives, which are com-mitments from alumni and parents to donate funds if certain participation levels are achieved.

Patrick Ouziel ’13 said his primary

incentive for contributing was to help attain the 95 percent participation challenge, which provides $100,000 in scholarship funding for the incoming freshman class.

“I didn’t really feel like Yale deserved any more of my money, but contribut-ing to reach 95 percent in a way made me feel it wasn’t just for Yale, but was for some student in the class of 2017,” he said.

A total of 1,226 seniors contributed to this year’s Senior Class Gift fund.

Contact APSARA IYER at apsara.iyer@yale.edu .

Senior participation drops CT schools look to armed guards

Biden demands ‘moral price’ for gun violence

“We want to make sure schools are productive and comfortable work environments,” Mello said at the meeting.

The Milford Police Department has also partnered up with school officials and fire marshals to assess infrastructure and security measures in local schools, accord-ing to a Jan. 31 letter sent by Mayor Benjamin Blake and Superinten-dent of Schools Elizabeth Feser to parents of Milford students. The group has been meeting weekly to update the District Crisis Manual, a security plan that was created 13 years ago after the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colo., and last reviewed in 2009.

In addition, the Board of Finance in Orange, Conn., has recently approved a $150,000 measure to increase the num-ber of security o"cers at its four schools, according to Orange Superintendent of Schools Lynn McMullin. The city will also install a variety of safety tools, such as a new lockset on class-room doors, updated camera sys-tems to monitor hallways and other common areas and iden-tification card readers to access locked entryway doors.

While cities across the state have just started placing armed guards in their schools, New Haven has been “well ahead of the curve when it comes to secu-rity resources,” said New Haven Public Schools spokeswoman Abbe Smith. Aside from the newly launched outreach program that brings NHPD o"cers to Hill Cen-tral and other Elm City schools every week, the NHPD has assigned seven full-time school resource officers to local high schools for years to “build posi-tive relationships,” Smith said.

“It makes sense for other smaller cities to add school resource o"cers, but that’s noth-ing new for us,” NHPD spokes-man David Hartman said. “Those resources already exist.”

Both NHPD initiatives — the school resource officers pro-gram and the weekly police vis-its — were established before the Sandy Hook shootings, Hartman said, pointing to a Dec. 5 press conference at Hill Central School in which the latter program was announced. In addition, the city had a number of security mea-sures already in place, including video monitor systems, emer-gency protocol training programs for students and sta! and security o"cers who are trained in lock-down procedures.

Glen Worthy, Hill School’s principal, said the weekly police visits helped smooth the post-Newtown transition, as “kids and parents [felt] more comfortable, more secure because they [saw] Officer [Robert] Clark” in the building.

Still, the Newtown shooting prompted the New Haven Board of Education to review the secu-rity needs at each school and ensure that entry system pro-tocols are in place, according to Will Clark, chief operating o"cer for New Haven Public Schools. Future plans, he said, include enhancing camera technology in schools, increasing training pro-grams to teach students how to handle emergencies and updat-ing the lock systems in 20 schools.

“Over the last 10 years we have invested millions of dol-lars in security measures from [local grants] as well as the Board of Education regular budget,” he said. “We will continue to uti-lize local resources towards these plans and leverage them whenever possible with applicable grants and matching funds from other sources.”

NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said in early December that he plans to boost the number of full-time school resource o"cers to 15 in September 2013.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .

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NEWS “I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.” SHIA LABEOUF AMERICAN ACTOR

BY HELEN ROUNERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

This weekend, the Yale Dra-matic Association will stage its annual Freshman Show — or “FroShow” — featuring an all-freshman cast and crew.

This year’s show, “The Lara-mie Project,” is about Laramie, Wyo., townspeople’s reaction to the murder of a gay student at the University of Wyoming in 1998. Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project in New York wrote the script based o! of interviews conducted with people in the town of Laramie following the murder. Nailah Harper-Malveaux ’16, the show’s director, said “The Laramie Proj-ect” appealed to her because it offered the opportunity to remind students who live in an environment as supportive as Yale’s of the intolerance to which they are not often exposed.

Harper-Malveaux added that recent legislation on marriage equality has made the show even more relevant.

“When ‘The Laramie Proj-ect’ came out, it was an investi-gation of something contempo-rary, pressing and current,” actor Jacob Osborne ’16 said. “Now we can use it for comparison, to gauge progress.”

Past FroShows have been more upbeat: Last year’s show was “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” an eccentric story about a lit-tle boy’s spirituality. The year before, freshmen staged “Har-vey,” which centers around a giant rabbit as a man’s imaginary friend.

“Unfortunately, it’s easy to think ‘Freshman Show’ and think of a funny, silly, thrown-together production,” said Sim-one Policano ’16, another actor in “The Laramie Project.” “That we can execute something of this magnitude sends a very powerful message.”

Harper-Malveaux said she thought a show as serious as “The Laramie Project” fit in well with the rest of the Dramat’s sea-son. This season’s mainstage production is “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play),” a com-edy about the early history of the vibrator.

Each member of the FroShow’s production sta! is assigned an upperclassman mentor in the Dramat who shows his fresh-man the ropes in a particular field, producer Eli Block ’16 said. While all Dramat productions involve a mentoring system, the advising involved in the FroShow is particularly time-intensive since many freshmen have never worked in these kinds of roles before, Block said.

Harper-Malveaux said the mentoring experience has been her favorite aspect of directing the FroShow.

“The mentors are only as hands-on as you want them to be,” Harper-Malveaux said. “They’re great go-to resources.”

Osborne, who acted in the Dramat’s production of “A Lie of the Mind” this fall, said working with an all-freshman cast makes for sillier rehearsals. He added that without the “arbitrary” hierarchy of class years, there exists a greater sense of equality

within the production. “The FroShow’s not about

looking at older, wiser people — it’s looking at people who are my age and know so much,” Policano said. “I’m endlessly impressed.”

In November, the Dramat selected “The Laramie Project” from out of four to 10 proposals for the Freshman Show, Dramat President Yuvika Tolani ’14 said. She added that “The Laramie Project” worked particularly well as a Freshman Show due to its large ensemble cast: “The Lara-mie Project” features over 60 characters traditionally played by eight actors, though the FroShow makes use of 10 actors instead.

Freshmen began assembling production teams in mid-Octo-ber to pitch show ideas to the Dramat, a process that Tolani said encourages freshmen to connect with people involved in different facets of theater. Block said Harper-Malveaux approached him with the idea to do “The Laramie Project” since the two had collaborated on a previous show.

Tolani said the Freshman Show is important because it forms a solid theater community within the freshman class.

“Those people go on to work on projects together for the rest of their Yale experience,” Tolani added. “They build professional relationships so early on.”

“The Laramie Project” will run on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Iseman Theater.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .

With ‘Laramie,’ a heavier freshman show

Studio channels Nike brand

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

When it comes to corporate partnerships, a class of graduate architecture students is saying “just do it.”

This semester, an advanced design studio taught by visit-ing architecture professor Greg Lynn and School of Architecture critic Brennan Buck is partnering with Nike Inc. to explore build-ings in movement. As technology evolves, Buck said, architects are delving further into the possibil-ity of not only creating the illu-sion of motion in a building, but also using robotics and sensory mechanics to build structures that actually move.

Earlier this month, the stu-dents traveled to Nike’s head-quarters in Portland, Ore., where members of the company’s design team talked to them about brand identity, product development and the motion of the human body. While it is rare for studios at the School of Architecture to interact directly with corporate sponsors, Lynn said Nike’s focus on movement in design makes it an ideal resource.

The students’ principal task is to design a retail, production and manufacturing design center for Nike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Nike is basically serving as the client for the studio,” Lynn said.

Lynn added that since Nike is currently preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup competition that will take place in the city, the stu-dio class culminates in presenting hypothetical designs for a facility where the company can manufac-ture shoes on-site, as opposed to shipping them to Brazil. Repre-sentatives from Nike will be pres-ent at the students’ final review this May, Lynn said.

Three students in the stu-dio said that despite the unique nature of their relationship with Nike, their experience so far has been largely positive. Michael Moirano ARC ’13 said he expected their visit to be mostly company “propaganda,” but was pleasantly surprised to find the designers very open to discussion.

“Nike wants to move forward in the way they manufacture proj-ects in the public eye,” Moirano said, adding that he is not con-cerned about corporate influence, because “we’re at Yale — it’s all about selling out.”

At the beginning of the semes-ter, the students were required to sign a waiver giving Nike par-tial rights to any designs that

emerge from the class. Moirano said he thinks association with a brand name like Nike would sig-nificantly improve an architecture student’s job prospects.

While Moirano and fellow classmate Tal Liu ARC ’13 said they welcome opportunities to collaborate with businesses, Jaeho Chong ARC ’13 noted that issues of authorship could surface down the road.

“There is a sensitive bound-ary between an academic project and professional collaboration,” Chong said.

Wearing a Nike hoodie that she had been given during the Port-land trip, Liu joked about becom-ing a “corporate hack.” Moirano said a portion of Nike’s presenta-tion during their visit was devoted to showing commercials and sell-ing their corporate culture.

The School of Architecture relies on corporate sponsor-ship for many aspects of its pro-gramming, School of Architec-ture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said. He cited the Vlock Building Proj-ect — an annual community con-struction project undertaken by first-year students — as a school tradition that functions on dona-tions from local businesses, such as Claire’s Corner Copia and Elm City Market. Last year, a class worked with Facebook to study the construction of data centers.

Stern said these partnerships are beneficial to both parties, as “students are able to connect with the world, while companies see it as a public service and a sell-ing point for their product.”

“There is not much danger of students being taken advantage of,” Lynn said. “We have to keep in mind that this is about the stu-dents’ education — Nike is not interested in getting anything concrete from us.”

Students in the class will travel to Rio de Janeiro over spring break to gain a better understanding of the city’s physical and architec-tural environments.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

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The Dramat’s Freshman Show, “The Laramie Project,” uses the murder of a gay college student in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998 as a lens to examine themes of intolerance and loss.

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s administration joined discussion of the city’s charter review at a Thursday night meeting.

BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

New Haven’s charter revision commis-sion is moving forward after holding four meetings soliciting public testimony.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s adminis-tration made a presentation to the char-ter revision committee on Thursday night detailing its recommendations for the charter revision process. Representing DeStefano, the City Corporation Coun-sel Victor Bolden and New Haven Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 argued for maintaining a Board of Education appointed entirely by the mayor, continuing education reform and keeping the charter simple.

“Less is more because of the char-ter dilemma: The charter both fosters and limits democracy,” Bolden said to the commission. “The less you put in the charter, the more power New Haven residents have to shape their future and the more power legislative and execu-tive branches of government have to help people shape the future they want.”

Bolden explained that commis-sion members should not add anything “more than what is necessary to govern” and argued that the commission should not incorporate the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which hears complaints against law enforcement, and the board of the public campaign finance Democ-racy Fund into the charter.

Another issue both Bolden and Har-ries addressed was Board of Education reform, with the two agreeing that the board should continue to be appointed by the mayor instead of partially or fully elected as some have suggested. Bolden

said a single vote for mayor of New Haven would be better than adding an extra election process for the Board of Edu-cation that he said “guarantees neither accountability nor a quality public edu-cation.”

Bolden added that elections would raise questions of implementation, and that no supporter of a di!erent Board of Education model — neither a fully or par-tially elected board — has described a detailed election process. Additionally, he said that the Board of Education could fail to represent minorities if the city were to elect its members.

Harries spoke after Bolden and addressed the city’s recommendations with regard to education, asking both the public and commission members to take 90 seconds to think about what New Haven Public Schools need.

In response to Harries’ request, Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart, who is also the chair of the charter revision commission, advocated for more parental involve-ment. Commission member and Ward 20 Alderman Delphine Clyburn, meanwhile, said that the city should focus on improv-ing not charter schools but neighborhood schools and the quality of their teachers.

Harries agreed with Bolden in rec-ommending the continuation of an all-appointed board, with both he and Bolden citing higher graduation rates and higher standardized testing scores as evidence that the current system is working well.

David Cicarella, the president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, also said that there should be no consideration of changing from an appointed board when the board has done a “pretty good” job thus far.

Harries said that keeping an all-appointed board would avoid its polit-icization and prevent confusion about accountability and responsibility. Join-ing Harries, Cicarella and Bolden in their support for an all-appointed Board of Education was Mary Rosario, a member of the Citywide Parent Leadership Team, a group that meets monthly to discuss how to improve New Haven schools.

“Don’t fix something that’s not bro-ken,” Rosario said. “I see kids coming back telling me, ‘Ms. Mary, I’m going to college,’ and that’s … a change that we can’t stop, especially now.”

Harries also discussed the efforts New Haven Public Schools have made in recent years to communicate with par-ents, students and other stakeholders, pointing to initiatives like Parent Univer-sity and Citywide Parent Leadership. He also urged the commission to support the city in its School Change Initiative.

Bolden also addressed the term lengths of aldermen and the mayor in Thursday’s meeting, explaining that the city suggests four-year terms for elected public o"-cials as opposed to the current two-year terms, as that would enable city o"cials to focus more on governing rather than campaigning every other year.

He suggested that the city keep current appointment powers, in which the mayor appoints more than 200 of city board and commission members, contingent upon approval from the Board of Aldermen.

The public will vote on recommenda-tions made by the charter commission in the November election.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

City o!cials join charter review

There is a sensitive boundary between an academic project and professional collaboration.

JAEHO CHONG ARC ’13

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 6 YALE DAILY NEWS · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

“Remember always that all of us are descended from immigrants and revolution-ists.” FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 32ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

the family was undocumented — a lack of legal standing that makes attending post-high school educational institu-tions much more di!cult.

A decade ago, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act was proposed in Con-gress to allow undocumented immi-grants enrolled in school to apply for citizenship and receive federal ben-efits such as financial aid. Although some states approved their own ver-sions of the DREAM Act — including California, which after two immigra-tion reform bills in 2011 allows undoc-umented students to apply for financial aid, and Connecticut, which o"ers in-state tuition to undocumented students attending public schools — the federal proposal remains hotly debated and has not yet been passed.

“Hopefully the government does something soon, and my best hope is for the federal DREAM Act to pass as soon as possible,” Park told the News this week, adding that he will have to spend several years working to save up for Yale’s tuition if DREAM or a similar act does not pass this year.

In a statement earlier this month, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birge-neau urged for federal legislation to help young undocumented immigrants, explaining that the United States “can-not a"ord to waste” talented students like Park.

Phil Wolgin, a senior immigra-tion policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, said passing a fed-eral DREAM Act would be a “recogni-tion” that undocumented immigrants exist and would like to contribute to the country. Since visas are di!cult to obtain for undocumented residents, the legislation would o"er a new pathway to legal status.

“You look at someone like Terrence who by all measures is brilliant but unable to meet his full potential,” Wol-gin said. “A lot of [young undocumented immigrants] — many of them growing up like others in the country — cannot achieve the American dream.”

Connecticut Students for a DREAM, a student immigration advocacy group, helped draft a bill this year that would allow undocumented students in Con-

necticut to receive state and insti-tutional financial aid. The legisla-tion includes a FAFSA-like financial aid application that does not require a Social Security number. The bill was recently tabled in the state’s Education Committee, to the dismay of those who worked to create it.

“It’s important because we really see that, even in Connecticut where we have in-state tuition, it’s not enough,” said Camila Bortolleto, the policy coor-dinator for Connecticut Students for a DREAM. “Most students end up not going to college because they can’t a"ord it.”

Supporters of the DREAM Act remain optimistic that this year will be favorable for immigration reform. Bor-tolleto said she hopes that the Con-necticut student immigrant legisla-tion will be attached as an amendment to another bill and can be passed before next semester.

Expectations are high this year for comprehensive federal immigration reform, said Ana Maria Rivera Forast-ieri, the legal policy analyst for New Haven-based Junta for Progressive Action, a Latino advocacy group.

“I think people in the community are getting extremely excited about [immi-gration reform], and more than ever they’re seeing that [reform] is a possi-bility,” Rivera Forastieri said, warning that the battle for immigration reform is far from over. “[We will] keep push-ing and calling our senators and telling them that we support their decisions, because if people just sit down and wait for it to happen, it’s not going to hap-pen.”

Yale Law School professor Muneer Ahmad said a major question surround-ing national immigration legislation is whether it will come as a compre-hensive act or as “piecemeal” reform. Either way, the issue is at the forefront of the national political conversation, with some Republican politicians eager to pass an immigration reform bill in the wake of heavy losses among Hispanics in last November’s election.

“I think there’s a chance that it hap-pens this year — there’s been a lot of talk in Washington about wanting to get a bill introduced before Congress goes for its summer recess,” Ahmad said. “I think there’s a lot of momentum right

now. If something doesn’t happen in that time frame, it’s possible nothing will happen at all.”

Many students interviewed said they know undocumented students who are currently attending Yale, with Bortol-leto adding that she knows an undoc-umented student who is receiving full financial aid. MEChA, a Yale Hispanic advocacy organization, is working to create a scholarship for undocumented students, MEChA moderator Katherine Aragón ’14 said.

Graduate school may be even more difficult to fund than undergradu-ate programs, said former Connecticut Students for a DREAM Policy Coordi-nator Armando Ghinaglia ’14. He added that very few undocumented students earn degrees at graduate schools in the Northeast.

Others interviewed also noted the economic impact of reforming educa-tion for undocumented students. Those who would benefit from DREAM sup-port will soon be in the workforce and pay into Social Security and Medic-aid, said Aragón, adding that without access to education for undocumented students, the nation will soon feel the “stark economic e"ects of an undered-ucated population.”

According to a report by the Cen-ter for American Progress, the cost of deporting one person is $23,000. Mul-tiplied by the millions of undocumented youth, the report estimates, deportation results in a $200 billion loss to the econ-omy.

Costs aside, immigration reform is crucial for students like Park and Park’s younger sisters.

“It’s very frustrating — sometimes I just get really mad knowing that these one or two people didn’t take care of our [visa] process, and we became undoc-umented,” Park said. “But I think I’m okay. Because one thing I realize is that if you come from a di!cult background, then you get a chance to understand people from that background.”

Park must respond to the Yale School of Public Health’s o"er of admission by early April.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu . Contact AMY WANG at

amy.wang@yale.edu .

Yale admit hopes for DREAMDREAM STUDENT FROM PAGE 1

Immigrant faces deportation

Despite what activists deemed a suc-cess outside the courtroom during the rally, Islas’ case faced disappointment inside. The judge opted against ending the case, meaning Islas is now more likely to be deported.

ICE defended its continued push for Islas’ deportation in a statement to the News, noting the criminal charges Islas formerly faced.

“[Islas] was originally charged with a serious criminal o"ense of conspiracy to commit robbery. He was subsequently charged with two lesser o"enses aris-ing from the same incident and entered Connecticut’s accelerated rehabilitation program,” ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein told the News in a email. “[Islas] was also previously removed from the United States on four separate occasions in both August and September 2005. He subse-quently entered the United States with-out permission.”

Organizers, nevertheless, remained hopeful that the demonstration would generate change for Islas and immigrants nationwide.

“It won’t affect the decision in the courtroom,” Katherine Aragón ’14, who leads Hispanic advocacy organization MEChA and helped organize the rally, said of the event Thursday. “But it can a"ect public perception and maybe sway an o!cial with higher capacity.”

Hamden police arrested Islas on July 2, after someone claimed that a man resembling Islas had attempted to steal a bicycle. Despite a lack of evidence, Islas was held in custody in Massachu-setts for four months. His charge of attempted armed robbery was eventu-ally changed to breaching the peace, a misdemeanor, of which he was acquit-ted. Islas was released from ICE custody in late November on $4,000 bail but still faces deportation.

“They just picked the first small, dark, brown person and the street, and they charged him for something that he did not do,” John Lugo, an organizer for Uni-dad Latina en Accion, said Thursday.

Islas and his advocates have reached out extensively to elected o!cials and

community leaders, 12 of whom, includ-ing Mayor John DeStefano Jr., have writ-ten letters to ICE asking that the case be closed. Islas has also met with Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Sen. Chris Murphy requesting they send let-ters to ICE on his behalf. According to Lugo, Blumenthal opted against the let-ter, while Murphy says he is still consid-ering it.

The case has generated an attempt, led in part by State Rep. Gary Holder-Win-field, to promote further reform of the state’s immigration laws. Holder-Win-field said Thursday he is in the process of drafting a bill to prevent all state agencies from cooperating with Secure Commu-nities, a program that allows ICE o!cials to check police fingerprints of criminal suspects thought to be in the country illegally. If they deem the individual to be undocumented, ICE o!cials can request state or local agencies detain them until they are transferred into the custody of ICE.

Last year, Gov. Dannel Malloy ordered that the state Department of Correc-tion not comply with the program. But because judicial marshals, who report to the court system rather than the state’s executive branch, held Islas last year, he was turned over to ICE.

“What we’re saying here is not that people should be able to come into the country illegally,” Holder-Winfield said, but added, “We’re not in the business of simply turning people over to ICE.”

ICE released a statement noting that of the 409,849 individuals reported in 2012, 225,390, or 55 percent, had been convicted of felonies or misdemean-ors. According to the same statement, this included 1,215 aliens convicted of homicide and 5,557 convicted of sexual o"enses.

Islas, who since his release in Novem-ber has traveled the state to build sup-port for immigration reform, will speak at Yale on Monday as part of a panel on immigration reform hosted by the Yale College Democrats.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

JOSEMARIA ISLAS FROM PAGE 1

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BY RAYMOND NOONANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Calling for a debate on the United States’ use of drones to a crowd of about 40 students Thursday afternoon, Law School professor Oona Hathaway LAW ’97 homed in on several legal issues surrounding drones that she described as important for Americans in the coming years.

During the talk, entitled “The Legality of Drone Strikes,” Hathaway said drones — unmanned aerial vehicles whose purposes range from surveillance to targeted killings — have become more central to the United States’ mis-sions abroad in recent years. She said drone use has presented three key challenges to the United States: the erosion of checks on the president’s power to wage war, the proliferation of drones at home and abroad and the threat to civil liber-ties posed by their use. Hathaway, who serves on the Advisory Committee on International Law for the legal adviser at the State Department, warned that the precedents currently being set regarding drone usage could be dangerous and lead to a society in which Americans’ rights are not protected.

“Drones are increasingly what the U.S. is rely-ing upon in order to protect us,” Hathaway said. “Trained boots on the ground are becoming less and less a part of the U.S. military.”

Drones have killed over 1,900 Pakistanis in tribal areas since 2006, Hathaway said, add-ing that the Unites States has used drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Libya.

Hathaway, who directs the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School, said drone strikes are di!cult to defend legally, though she added that some uses of drones by the Ameri-can military could be justified under interna-tional law. She said the drone strikes in Pakistan could be one such example because Pakistan has probably consented to the strikes, although the country has denied such allegations.

Hathaway also warned that the United States’ drone strike policy compromises the govern-ment’s separation of powers.

“[Drone strikes] make it easier for the presi-dent to exercise war-making power without any

checks,” she said. “[Drone strikes] threaten to very much upset traditional powers over use of military force.”

Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the president may use force without Congress’s permission for 60 days, after which he or she needs congressional approval. President Barack Obama, Hathaway said, used force in Libya for more than 60 days without deferring to Con-gress and argued that such actions were legal in part because the United States military used drones rather than troops, and American lives were not at stake as a result. Hathaway said this argument created a dangerous precedent, and she emphasized that no other branch of the American government signed o" on the military action in Libya.

Hathaway also noted the rising use of drones by other countries, particularly China, Turkey and Israel, and warned that terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah have expressed interest in obtaining drones. She said the United States would have to consider establishing rules for drone use in a world where other countries could use unmanned aerial vehicles to attack the U.S.

“If we’re making arguments now about drones, others are going to be making those back at us in a very short amount of time,” she said.

Four students interviewed at the talk said they think Hathaway adequately covered the legal issues surrounding drone strikes. Still, two students said they wished Hathaway addressed some of the more controversial aspects of drone use, including the moral implications.

Dure Aziz Amna ’15, a student from Pakistan, said she hoped Hathaway would address the ethical concerns surrounding drone use.

“As someone coming from Pakistan, the moral issues are just as important as the legal ones,” Amna said.

Carl Sandberg ’14, president of the Interna-tional Student Association, which co-sponsored the talk, said he thinks the United States must begin to think critically about drone use policy.

Hathaway has taught continuously at Yale Law School since 2009.

Contact RAYMOND NOONAN at raymond.noonan@yale.edu .

Law School prof talks drone legality

BY PAYAL MARATHESTAFF REPORTER

Thirty-six Yale students faced a daunting challenge Thursday evening in Commons — in one hour, they were asked to turn fish and beans into a culinary delicacy that could impress a New York Times food critic.

The event was the fifth annual Final Cut competition, a cooking showdown organized by the Yale College Council and Yale Din-ing that mimics the popular “Iron Chef” television program. A team of three students from each resi-dential college planned and pre-pared an appetizer and entrée for four judges — New York Times food writer Stephanie Lyness, Yale College Dean Mary Miller, Executive Director of Yale Din-ing Rafi Taherian and Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSan-tis.

Pierson College students Zachary Bell ’14, Natalie Drucker

’14 and Kuang He ’14, who took home the first-place prize of $1,000, said they focused on hav-ing fun during the competition and did not anticipate their win.

“It really wasn’t expected, because we kept things simple and knew our limitations,” Bell said. “It probably helped that we stuck to one style, South Ameri-can, and fried a lot of stu".”

DeSantis said first, second and third place were awarded to the dishes that showed innova-

tive elements, such as creative textures and flavors. Each group was assigned one of four types of beans — black, pinto, kidney or garbanzo — as well as one of four types of fish — cod, haddock, pol-lack or salmon — to incorporate into their dishes. After tasting 24 items, the judges considered which appetizers and entrées were memorable and which ones had “a special pop,” such as a sur-prise herb or a splash of vinegar, he said.

The Pierson team prepared an appetizer of fried cheese taquitos with bean salsa and a fish bowl for the main course, and Miller said the group’s side dish of crisp, marinated onions stood out.

“It blew all the other flavors o" the plate,” she said.

The second- and third-place awards went to Davenport Col-lege and Saybrook College, respectively.

Saybrook team member Shivani Bhatt ’13 said the group

encountered an obstacle when plating their dishes in the last five minutes, a task that “got pretty hectic.” She added that she thinks the group succeeded because they enjoyed cooking together and “didn’t take the competition aspect too seriously.”

Berkeley College team mem-bers, who were all seniors, said they decided to participate “on a whim” and were determined to keep their station casual — even naming their group “Team Twerkitchen.”

Three prizes were also awarded to the best cheering sections, with Morse College winning first place, Silliman College in second and Saybrook College in third.

Eve Roth ’16 said she attended the event because she wanted to see a victory for Morse in the competition.

“I’m here because Morse always wins — it’s just about Morse always winning,” Roth said.

Those who did not win still walked away with free food from over 15 vendors that set up tables in Commons, including Bush’s Baked Beans and Alaska Seafood — the two main sponsors of Final Cut — as well as Michele’s Fam-ily Bakery, which gave away free cake, scones, cookies and whole loaves of bread. Bettina Cheung ’16 called the free loaves “the best part” of the evening.

Maneesh Vij ’15 said he thinks the event gets “bigger and better”

each year and that he enjoyed the variety of food options.

In addition to their first-place prize of $1,000 and a Final Cut trophy to display in their din-ing hall for one year, the Pierson College team also won the honor of having their dishes included in the Yale Dining menu for next year.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

Pierson victorious at Final Cut

KARTHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Pierson College team, consisting of Zachary Bell ’14, Natalie Drucker ’14 and Kuang He ’14, won the Final Cut culinary competition on Thursday.

BY DAN WEINERSTAFF REPORTER

The second annual National Engineers Week at Yale comes to a close today, having promoted a University-wide engineering culture and fostered discussion about entrepreneurship.

While last year’s celebration focused on promoting an engi-neering culture at Yale, this past week’s featured talks by engi-neers-turned-entrepreneurs and a career fair in order to pro-mote a professional and entre-preneurial focus, said event organizer Candice Pelligra GRD ’16. Attendees praised the week for helping bolster a grow-ing engineering presence at the University. The events conclude today in the CEID with a design challenge from 2–5 p.m. and a student activities and research fair at 7 p.m.

“It’s a win-win,” Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science T. Kyle Vanderlick said. “It gives [the organizers] a chance to do something very important and constructive out-side of their research domain, and at the same time helps build up a culture of engineering.”

Enping Hong GRD ’15, who co-organized National Engi-neers Week at Yale last spring but only consulted with Pelligra this year, said he planned the 2012 event to create a “space” for the University’s engineering community to come together. He said he was pleased at this year’s broadened agenda.

“With the entrepreneurship talk, what’s really happened is you are targeting everyone from

freshmen to graduate students who are interested in making ideas into companies,” he said. “These are really concrete things to get you thinking about what is next after the classroom. That is still being done in the context of creating this space for the engi-neering community to come together.”

Engineers Week moved to the Omni Hotel Wednesday eve-ning, as students networked with representatives from firms including IBM, Sikorsky, Texas Instruments and the chemi-cal company Enthone. James Doss-Gollin ’15, an engineer-ing major who attended the fair, said he was happy to see local companies like Sikorsky and Enthone building a relation-ship with Yale. Though he said he was surprised more students did not attend, the small event was “definitely a step in the right direction” for Yale engineer-ing. Christopher Datsikas ’16 said he had expected high-cal-iber companies such as those in attendance to be present at the networking session, but added that he wished the event had included more firms.

Enthone Human Resources Manager Dana Gennarelli said the company looks to bolster its relationship with Yale because of the caliber of its engineering students, adding that Enthone is located 3 miles away in West Haven and looks to Yale for “local talent.”

“It’s actually a really great event, and we are happy to part-ner with Yale in doing this, espe-cially if it is promoting National Engineers Week,” she said.

For the past two years, engi-neering graduate students organized National Engineers Week at Yale through SEAS’s Advanced Graduate Leadership Program, which supports grad-uate students pursuing pro-fessional experiences outside the lab. Pelligra said she hopes to takes steps by the end of the year to ensure that National Engineers Week at Yale remains an annual event that does not depend entirely on AGLP resources. She added that she is confident other SEAS funding will support the week in future years because it meshes so well with the mission of promoting engineering culture at Yale.

Hong said he too thinks National Engineers Week will continue at Yale because it fits well with SEAS’s expand-ing infrastructure — students now take what they learn in the classroom, develop prototypes in the new Center for Engineer-ing Innovation and Design and may even consult with the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute on business models.

“It’s hard to measure it by one event or one center or by one ini-tiative, but I think when you look at all these things and you put them together, there is a definite push towards [a growing cul-ture], which is no small accom-plishment for an institution which is known for the humani-ties,” he added.

Engineers Week has been cel-ebrated on a national level since 1951.

Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

Engineers Week promotes entrepreneurship

It probably helped that we stuck to one style, South American, and fried a lot of stu!.

ZACHARY BELL ’14Co-winner, Final Cut

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WASHINGTON — Barring any new, damaging informa-tion, Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the nation’s next defense secretary. A vote ending the bitter fight over Pres-ident Barack Obama’s choice for his revamped second-term national security team is expected next week.

Hagel cleared the threshold when five-term Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama said he would vote for the former GOP

senator from Nebraska after join-ing other Republicans last week in an unprecedented filibuster of the Pentagon nominee.

“He’s probably as good as we’re going to get,” Shelby told the Decatur (Ala.) Daily.

Although a Republican, Hagel has faced strong GOP opposi-tion, with many of his former colleagues voting last week to stall the nomination. Republicans have questioned Hagel’s sup-port for Israel, tolerance of Iran and willingness to cut the nuclear arsenal. His opposition to the Iraq War after his initial vote for the conflict angered his onetime

friend, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.GOP lawmakers demanded

more time to review the nomi-nation that a divided Armed Ser-vices Committee had approved on a party-line vote.

Shelby’s support was a clear sign of weakening Republican opposition, and it prompted two letters within hours from Hagel’s fiercest GOP foes. One letter went to the president calling on him to withdraw the nomination, the other to GOP senators plead-ing with them to stand together against Hagel.

Fifteen Republicans senators wrote that Hagel lacks the bipar-

tisan support and confidence to serve in the vital job of defense secretary.

“The occupant of this critical o!ce should be someone whose candidacy is neither controversial nor divisive,” wrote the senators — all opponents of Hagel. Lead-ing the e"ort was Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the party’s No. 2, who is up for re-election next year.

One name missing from the letter was McCain, who has called Hagel unqualified but indicated last Sunday that he wouldn’t stand in the way of a Senate vote.

Separately, the top Republican on the Armed Services Commit-

tee, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, sent a letter to his GOP colleagues urging them to vote again to block the nomination when the Sen-ate returns from its recess next week. He acknowledged the real-ity that if the GOP fails to block a vote, Hagel proponents have the votes to approve him on an up-or-down vote.

“Make no mistake: A vote for cloture is a vote to confirm Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense,” wrote Inhofe. He said that while the Senate traditionally defers to presidents on their Cabinet choices, “our nation is at war. The Senate must insist on confirming

only the most e"ective leaders.”The Senate Republicans’

closed-door weekly meeting on Tuesday will be crucial to Inhofe’s hopes of keeping the GOP in line on Hagel.

At the White House, spokes-man Jay Carney rejected GOP calls for Hagel to withdraw. He complained that Republi-cans were putting politics ahead of national security, point-ing out that the administration wants Hagel to be part of deci-sions on the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan as American and coalition forces wind down com-bat operations.

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BY FREDERICK FRANKCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Despite returning its defensive starting core, the men’s lacrosse team will have to account for a few crucial losses on the o!en-sive end. Three of the five top point scorers for the Bulldogs — Matt Gibson ’12 (28-33-61), Deron Dempster ’12 (37-2-39) and Gregory Mahoney ’12 (20-8-28) — graduated the team last year.

Brandon Mangan ’14 will return as the team’s top goal scorer from last season with 20 goals and 8 assists and will need to take the responsibility of lead-ing the attack for the Elis. Addi-tionally, sophomore attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 will look to add to his tally of 20 goals and 6 assists from last year, and mid-fielders Ryan McCarthy ’14 (4-10-14) and Shane Thornton ’15 (5-9-14) and senior attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 will be expected to be major contributors this sea-son as well. This year’s fresh-man class will attempt to fill the shoes of last year’s senior class. Long-stick midfielders Michael Quinn ’16 and Reilly Naton ’16 should see significant minutes this year, and Michael Bonacci ’16 will be expected to play a big role at both attack and midfield for Yale. While the Bulldogs will have to replace major players at the o!ensive end, they also must incorporate new NCAA rules that are going into e!ect this season. For the 2013 season, the NCAA established new rules for face-o!s, substitutions and restarts, and added new stringent restric-tions on the stringing of sticks, hoping to speed up the game. However, the biggest change to

the game is the introduction of a 30-second shot clock after a stall warning. If an official believes a team is not looking to create a shooting opportunity, he will call a stall warning and the team must keep the ball inside the offen-sive box and register a valid shot on goal within 30 seconds. If the team fails to do either of these things, the ball will be awarded to the opposing team. This greatly impacts team offensive strate-gies, as players can no longer hold the ball for long periods of time in order to keep the ball away from opponents.

DO THE LITTLE THINGS RIGHT:At its heart, lacrosse is a sim-

ple game that can be won by the team that makes the fewest mis-takes and stays mentally sharp. Winning the groundball bat-tle often can determine the out-come of games and will be crucial to the Elis’ success this Saturday against the St. John’s Red Storm, a high-power o!ense that aver-aged just over nine goals a game during the team’s 8-7 season last year. Minimizing penalties and turnovers is key for the Bulldogs, as they were ranked second to last in the Ivy League in penalty min-utes per game and last in the Ivy League in turnovers per game. Especially considering their high profile offensive losses, vastly improving in these categories is imperative if the team hopes to make it back to the NCAA tour-nament. After winning its first two games in 2012, the Elis had a four game losing streak, includ-ing two one-goal losses and a four-overtime loss, which play-ers attributed to small men-tal mistakes. However, Yale was able to bounce back and rattle

o! a nine-game win streak that included an Ivy League Tourna-ment Championship. Consid-ering all three starting defense-men, starting goalie Jack Meyer ’14 and 15 other players return for Yale from the 2012 season, expe-rience should help the team avoid falling into a similar trap as it did last year.

DO NOT BE COMPLACENT:The 2012 men’s lacrosse season

was a huge success that firmly put Yale into contention for a reappearance in the NCAA tour-nament in 2013. However, the Bulldogs cannot look back on last season and harp on their success. The 2013 Bulldogs are a new team that must stick to its game plan and adjust to its key losses and new NCAA rules. While the Elis come into the 2013 season ranked as No. 17 in the USILA preseason poll, they must remember they play in one of the toughest con-ferences in the country with perennial powerhouses Prince-ton and Cornell, who are always a threat to winning the Ivy title and tournament. Further in the year, Yale will have a tough test against ACC opponent Maryland. More short term, the Bulldogs must not look past the Red Strom as an opponent despite thrashing them in last year’s season opener 19-6. St John’s is known for using a lof of picks in its o!ensive sets, and senior captain Michael McCor-mack ’13 noted Yale’s special emphasis in defending this sys-tem during its week of practices. Moving the ball well and bring-ing a lot of energy to its season opener will be key for a good start on Saturday against a challenging opponent.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu

NFL challenge rule to be dismissedRay Anderson, the NFL’s vice president of football operations, promised Thursday that a rule will be eliminated that causes an automatically reviewable play to become unreviewable if a coach accidentally challenges the play. Controversy erupted last Thanksgiving when a controversial touchdown play (subject to automatic review) was not reviewed after Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz threw a challenge flag.

Elis face NCAA powerhouse

Yale seeks revenge

Bulldogs face QPac

Taking on the Crimson

night, the Elis will make the trek to Princeton, N.J., to take on the Tigers, against whom Yale muscled out its most recent win on Feb. 1. The Bulldogs also lost goalkeeper Je! Malcolm ’13 on Feb. 1 during the Princeton game. In order to take down the top-ranked Bobcats and the Tigers, the Elis will need to pull themselves out of a scoring slump and keep things simple over the weekend.

“We haven’t scored a five-on-five goal since the Princeton game,” head coach Keith Allain said. “We need to find a way to generate o!ense five-on-five.”

Earlier in the season, the Bulldogs cranked out six straight unbeaten games and five straight wins, but now the Elis have lost four straight matchups. The Elis know how to get out of the slump, and this weekend will pro-vide them the opportunity to win a few more ECAC points before playo!s.

“I think we have to stick to our system,” captain Andrew Miller ’13 said. “When you’re in a slump, you have to simplify. The more shots, the better.”

While Allain said they try to treat each con-test the same, the extra push from playing a No. 1 team in front of a packed house across town as well on national television can help the Bulldogs focus on getting back to basics.

“Everyone will come to play, and it’s going to be a great atmosphere,” defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 said.

When the Elis line up against the Bobcats, they will be taking on a solid defensive team.

Allain said the Bulldogs are traditionally a transition team, but strong defense and goal-tending will prevent the Elis from creating as

many scoring opportu-nities on the rush as they would like. While none of Quinnipiac’s attack-ers are listed in the top 50 point-getters in Division I, its senior goaltender Eric Hartzell is ranked second among Division I goalies.

While the Bobcats hold the No. 1 spot, they have lost some of their momen-tum as St. Lawrence ended Quinnipiac’s 21-game undefeated streak last weekend, giving the Elis an opportunity to face the

crosstown opponent while neither team is on a hot streak.

The top four teams in the ECAC will receive a bye in the first round of playo!s, so wins over both the Bobcats and the Tigers are essential in hoisting Yale over Union and St. Lawrence, who are now tied for the fourth spot in ECAC standings.

“At the end of the day, we’re going to play a playo! game regardless,” Allain said.

Allain said that as long as the Elis show up ready to play when playo!s come around, they can work their way through the bracket one game at a time.

Tonight’s matchup will be broadcast live on NBC Sports, and the puck will drop in Ham-den, Conn., at 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s matchup will be in Hobey Baker Memorial Rink, and the faceo! will be at 7 p.m.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

inch Crimson forward Temi Fag-benle. Dartmouth also beat the Elis in the paint, scoring 30 points compared to the Bulldogs’ 14.

“Our post play is going to be critical this weekend,” Halejian said. “Both Harvard and Dart-mouth rely heavily on their post game to score a lot of points, so our bigs are going to need to step up, play some great defense and have a presence on o!ense.”

After the sweep last weekend, the Bulldogs find themselves in a tight race for a top position in the league. At 4–4, the Bulldogs are only a half game behind both Har-vard and Dartmouth, who are tied for third place.

The Big Green and the Crim-son have played only seven of their conference games so far due to postponements from the recent blizzard, and wins this weekend would put the Elis in contention for a top-three spot in the Ivy League. Princeton, at 7–0, is a heavy favor-ite to earn its third straight confer-ence title and NCAA tournament bid, but the second-place finisher in the league gets an automatic berth in the post-season Wom-en’s National Invitational Tourna-ment.

“Many teams in the league have improved tremendously this year and we need to play our best bas-ketball each night,” Halejian said. “Having been swept the first time around, we are definitely moti-

vated to have a successful week-end.”

After a 1–3 start to their Ivy schedule, the Bulldogs have improved tremendously. Having won three of their last four games, the Elis hold the momentum head-ing into the weekend against Dart-mouth and Harvard, who were both swept last weekend.

“We need to take care of the

boards, have strong defense and work together on o!ense,” Mes-simer said. “We have what it takes to beat both of these teams.”

Friday’s game at Dartmouth is set to tip o! at 7 p.m. The Bulldogs will then take on the Crimson in a 6 p.m. game at Harvard Saturday.

Contact SARAH ONORATO at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

recently], we have a better idea of how they play and we know what to expect,” goaltender Jaimie Leono! ’15 said.

Since Princeton (10–15–2, 5–13–2 ECAC) currently holds the eighth and final play-o! spot with 12 points, three points and three spots ahead of Yale, the Tigers can eliminate the Bulldogs with a victory at Ingalls this week-end.

When the Tigers visit Ingalls Rink on Sat-urday, the game will have special meaning as the Bulldogs’ Senior Night. Seven seniors will be playing their final home match on Saturday night.

“Getting to know the seniors this year has been one of the most enjoyable parts of being a member of this team,” Martini said. “They are all such amazing people and players … and they will be greatly missed by our team next season.”

Leonoff agreed, saying that while Alyssa Zupon ’13 has done a great job as captain, all the seniors have been instrumental in guiding

the team in the right direction.One of the Elis’ biggest problems this season

has been their struggles in close games. The Bulldogs have held a lead or been tied during the third period in five of their 13 conference losses this season.

“Mental toughness [is what] it’ll take for us to finish o! games and to make sure that we win,” Leono! said. “If you have the mentality that you can do your job perfectly, you’ll do it that way.”

In Yale’s last game against Princeton on Feb. 1, the Tigers scored three goals in the third period for a come-from-behind, 3–1 victory. That kind of comeback is exactly what the Elis want to avoid.

Although the Bulldogs wrap up their home season this weekend, they will play one addi-tional game when they travel to Cambridge on Tuesday to take on No. 5 Harvard in a match rescheduled due to the recent snowstorm.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

mouth],” Martin said. “Being at home, it’s a little bit easier to shoot the ball. We shot the ball great against Columbia [on Sat-urday].”

Every member of the Bull-dog squad except for two scored against Columbia last Saturday in a 75–56 blowout. The Bull-dogs will look to their two senior sharpshooters, Martin and Aus-tin Morgan ’13, to provide a spark from long range. Martin has been especially impressive from deep lately, making nine of 13 three-point attempts over the past four contests.

The Bull-d o g s w i l l also look to their youth for support this week-end. The Elis’ two double-digit scor-ers against C o l u m b i a we re b o t h u n d e rc l a ss -men. Sears a n d B ra n -don Sherrod ’15 both con-

tributed 10 points o! the bench against the Lions.

The Elis have little margin for error for the next three weeks as they close their conference slate if they hope to have any shot at the Ivy League title. But the squad remains optimistic enter-ing the weekend.

“I think we’re feeling good about these two games,” Martin said.

The Elis tip o! at 7 p.m. on Friday before taking on Harvard at 8 p.m. on Saturday on CBS Sports Network.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu.

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The No. 13 Yale men’s hockey team is taking on the No. 1 Quinnipiac and the unranked Princeton squads this weekend.

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Sarah Halejian ’15 scored 10 points in the Elis’ first game against Harvard.

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THE MIDDLE-DISTANCE RUNNER QUALIFIED FOR THE IC4AS WITH A 4:04.70 MILE, THE SECOND-FASTEST IN YALE HISTORY. Captain Tim Hillas ’13 is not far behind with a IC4A-eligible mile time of 4:05.43.

TOP ’DOG JOHN MCGOWAN ’15

NCAAM (F/OT)UConn 73Cincinnati 66

NCAAMQuinnipiac 81Sacred Heart 74

NHLNew Jersey 3Washington 2

NHLToronto 3Bu!alo 1

NHLWinnipeg 4Carolina 3

QUICK HITS

“When you’re in a slump, you have to sim-plify. The more shots, the better.”

ANDREW MILLER ’13CAPTAIN, MEN’S HOCKEY

PRINCETON W. BBAL NEARS TOP 25 RANKINGThe Princeton women’s basketball team, which is currently 7–0 in Ivy play and the winner of its last nine games, received seven votes in this week’s USA Today Coaches Poll. The votes put them just four spots away from a top 25 ranking. The Tigers were also ranked in March of last year.

CORNELL PLAYER EARNS TRIP TO NFL COMBINEO!ensive tackle J.C. Tretter was one of only 24 FCS players to receive an invite to the NFL Scouting Combine this week-end in Indianapolis, as reported by The Bu!alo News. The senior has been pro-jected as a fourth- or fifth-round draft pick by CBS analyst Rob Rang. He was named to the All-Ivy first team this year.

BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

With six games remaining on its slate, the men’s basketball team can see the end of the Ivy League season quickly approaching. While the Elis sit three games back in the league standings, they have an opportunity to make up ground in this weekend with two home games against con-ference foes.

Yet when Harvard and Dartmouth come to town, the Bulldogs (10–15, 4–4 Ivy) will face two squads to whom they lost on the road earlier this year. The team will take on the Big Green (6–16, 2–6 Ivy) on Friday at the John J. Lee Amphitheater before squaring o! against the Crimson (15–7, 7–1 Ivy) the following night.

“We are definitely looking for-ward to the weekend to avenge those losses,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “The teams in this league are pretty evenly matched so many of these games come down to the team that brings more energy and effort out on the floor. If we compete hard this weekend, I feel we can come away with a sweep.”

The weekend of Feb. 1 proved heartbreaking for the Elis in two dif-ferent ways. On Friday, the team took on then-undefeated Harvard in Bos-ton. While the Bulldogs trailed for most of the contest, the team made a run at the end of the second half, only to fall 67–64 to its archrival.

“We made a lot of stupid mistakes against Harvard,” captain Sam Martin ’13 said. “Just little mental errors that can easily be corrected.”

Martin noted that Yale often lacked focus on defense against the Crim-son, allowing sharpshooting Harvard guard Laurent Rivard to connect on five 3s in seven attempts.

Yale was also hurt by a slow start on the road against Harvard, and the Elis must look to attack the Crimson from the outset. While the Bulldogs outscored the Crimson 37–27 in the second half, the team entered final period down 13. The Bulldogs have struggled to get going early in games this season, including last weekend, when they fell behind 11–2 to Cornell in a 68–61 loss to the Big Red.

After falling to Harvard on Fri-

day, Feb. 1, the team then traveled to Hanover to take on the Big Green the next day. While the loss to Harvard hurt the Elis because of the schools’ age-old rivalry, the loss to Dartmouth proved painful for another reason — before its win against Yale, the Big Green had won a single Ivy League contest over the past three years.

“We shot the ball terribly [at Dart-

Women’s hockey clings to playo! hopes

BY GRANT BRONSDONCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

This weekend, the Yale women’s hockey team embarks on its final home weekend with its postseason hopes on the line.

After a tough weekend in which the Bulldogs (4–19–3, 3–13–3 ECAC) picked up one out of a possible four points, the team needs to win at least two out of its final three games to make the conference playo!s.

“Honestly, it doesn’t really change our preparation,” defenseman Kate Mar-tini ’16 said. “We go into every weekend wanting to come away with four points, and this weekend is no di!erent.”

The Elis take on Quinnipiac (17–10–4, 11–6–3 ECAC) on Friday night. In the teams’ last meeting just three weeks ago, the Bobcats came back for a 2–2 tie after Yale took a two-goal lead into the third period. Quin-nipiac forward Kelly Babstock, the ninth-ranked scorer in the country, scored with 30 seconds in regu-lation left to tie the game.

“Since we already played them [so

Yale gets shot at No. 1

BY ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTER

After falling to the fifth spot in ECAC standings over the past couple of weeks, the No. 13 Yale men’s hockey team (13–9–3, 9–8–1 ECAC) is looking at this week-

end’s matchups against the No. 1 Quin-nipiac Bobcats (22–4–4, 15–1–2 ECAC) and Princeton (9–12–4, 7–8–3 ECAC) as nothing but opportunity.

Tonight the Bulldogs will head across town to Hamden to take on the No. 1 NCAA powerhouse Bobcats at 7:30 p.m.

The Elis were ranked at the No. 1 spot in Division I for most of the 2010–’11 sea-son, but the last time they faced off against a No. 1 ranked team was against Boston College in 2001. The following

Elis aim to avenge sweep

BY SARAH ONORATOCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Coming o! its historic sweep of Columbia and Cornell last week, the Yale women’s basketball team will head north this weekend to take on Dartmouth and Harvard for the second time this season.

The Bulldogs (9–13, 4–4 Ivy) will first travel to Hanover on Fri-day to take on the Big Green. In the first meeting of the two teams this season, Dartmouth (6–15, 4–3 Ivy) fought o! a second-half surge by the Elis to hold on for the 63–48 win. The Bulldogs had trouble finding their shooting touch in the game and finished 23.8 percent from the field. Guard Sarah Hale-jian ’15 said the team has come a long way since that game.

“The biggest difference now is that we are sharing the ball on offense more and finding better shot opportunities,” Halejian said. “We are now a much harder team to guard.”

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will compete against Harvard (13–8, 4–3 Ivy) in another rematch from earlier in the season. In a game very similar to their matchup against Dartmouth, the Elis fought back early in the second half against the Crimson but were unable to gain

the lead, even-tually losing 67–54.

Slow starts plagued the B u l l d o g s against Har-vard and Dart-mouth early in the season, but the Bulldogs have improved their energy coming out of the gate in the past few games. After trailing by 12

and 15 points at halftime in its pre-vious games against Harvard and Dartmouth, respectively, Yale has entered the break with a lead in three of its last four games.

“I think the biggest thing we learned from the first time play-ing each team is that we need to start the game strong,” captain Allie Messimer ’13 said. “We did a good job last weekend coming out strong against Cornell and Colum-bia and we need to make sure to do the same again.”

In their first meeting, Harvard took advantage of Yale’s small front line and outscored the Elis 40–12 in the paint behind a career-high 20 points from 6-foot-4-

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The Elis will make a trek to Princeton to face the Tigers. The last time the two teams competed, Yale won, 4–2.

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Guard Javier Duren ’15 will look to build on his career-high seven assists against Cor-nell last Friday as the Elis face o! against Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend.

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The Bulldogs need at least one win and one tie in the three games remaining in their season in order to keep their bid for an ECAC tournament berth alive.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Saturday, 4 p.m.vs.

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Women’s BasketballFriday, 7 p.m.

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Bulldogs look to stay in the hunt