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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASSTAFF REPORTER

John DeStefano Jr.’s decision not to seek re-election after 10 terms as the city’s mayor leaves a vacuum in New Haven politics far larger than the space normally reserved for his name on the ballot.

Several candidates, transformed overnight from unlikely challeng-ers to serious contenders, have already emerged to replace DeSte-fano when the next mayor will be sworn in on Jan. 1, 2014. Although only three — Ward 10 Alder-man Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, State Rep. Gary Holder-Win-

field and plumber Sundiata Keit-azulu — have officially declared their candidacies, two others have strongly suggested the possibil-ity of running. At least three more are considered possible candi-dates, making this year’s race the most competitive in more than two decades.

Despite the plethora of poten-tial candidates, individual pol-icy priorities are unlikely to di!er significantly, with contenders all emphasizing fiscal responsibility, education reform and crime reduc-tion throughout the city. Rather, voters will choose between vastly different personalities and man-

agement styles.“The next mayor has to listen to

his constituents more, has to listen more to his Board of Aldermen, and has to be more transparent,” Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate said.

City officials interviewed said they hope the next mayor will cap-italize on DeStefano’s successes, such as a revitalized downtown and improved town-gown rela-tions, while avoiding issues that have become persistent stumbling blocks for the mayor. Several noted DeStefano’s often-tense relation-ship with the Board of Aldermen and a governance style Democratic Party activist and Board of Alder-

man candidate Charlie Pillsbury considered “one-party rule.” “I believe the person [who becomes mayor] has to be somebody that not only has a vision and passion for community, but also under-stands checks and balances,” Ward 16 Alderman Migdalia Castro said.

Both Elicker, who announced his candidacy at an event last week, and Holder-Winfield, who told the News Tuesday night he planned to file paperwork to run for mayor on Friday, have emphasized transpar-ency and connecting with constit-uents as major planks of their plat-

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKERSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo will retire as early as this June, a city o"cial told the News Tues-day afternoon.

City Clerk Ron Smith, who said he talks with Mayo daily, said the superintendent called him Sun-day to share news of his planned retirement. Mayo’s decision, Smith said, is linked to Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s announce-ment that he will not seek re-election this fall after over 19 years in o"ce, the longest mayoral ten-

ure in the city’s history. Mayo was first appointed as superintendent in 1992, the year before DeSte-fano was first elected, and the pair has overseen a multi-million dol-lar investment in the city’s public schools over the past two decades.

“You have to look at the sac-rifices both of these men have made,” Smith said following DeStefano’s official announce-ment. “I think it’s mainly for fam-ily reasons. Mayo’s been working for the city for over 30 years. It’s time.”

Prior to his appointment as superintendent, Mayo was a sci-ence teacher and then an adminis-

trator at Troup Middle School. His 1981 promotion to the position of K-8 Director of Schools marked the beginning of his tenure in city government. He became execu-tive director of school operations in 1984 before being appointed as superintendent by then-mayor John C. Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor.

Mayo declined to confirm reports of his planned resignation at DeStefano’s announcement.

“I won’t say anything at this time — this is his night,” he said.

Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries and NHPS spokes-woman Abbe Smith both declined

requests for comment on the superintendent’s plans, saying only that Mayo was not taking phone calls or doing interviews.

Ron Smith, meanwhile, said he was surprised when Mayo told him he would be retiring in a mat-ter of months.

“I was shocked and disap-pointed,” he said. “I know a lot of people were shocked.”

With Mayo at the helm, the school district saw the reno-vation of nearly all of the city’s schools, which paved the way for an ambitious school change intia-

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BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

With just under a year left in his tenure, Mayor John DeSte-fano Jr. will go down in history as the Elm City’s longest-serving mayor.

DeStefano announced Tuesday evening at the Russian Lady on Temple Street, where he has cel-ebrated previous election nights, that he does not plan to run for re-election this November. With his family on stage, DeSte-fano described the transforma-

tion New Haven has undergone in the past two decades and told the audience that his decision not to run does not mean “goodbye.”

“Why now? A lot of it had to do with being, frankly, 57. I want to do something else and I want to do it vigorously and for a period of time,” DeStefano said. “Two years ago, with the violence in the city where it was, and school reform just getting off the ground, it

didn’t make sense to me. Now I feel better about both.”

THE END OF AN ERA

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro intro-duced DeStefano at Tuesday night’s event, describing his leg-acy as “progressive,” “deep” and “broad.”

“When I think about the city of New Haven, it is unimagina-ble that it would be such a vibrant

place but for the leadership of Mayor John DeStefano,” DeLauro said. “He takes big gambles, big risks — and those risks have paid o! for people.”

In his speech, DeStefano drew a stark contrast between the New Haven of 20 years ago — when large swaths of downtown sat empty, crime rates were high and town-gown relations were strained following the murder of

Christian Prince ’93 — with the city of today. He cited infrastruc-ture like Gateway Community College, Science Park and State Street rail station as well as pro-gressive initiatives like the Elm City Resident Card, which pro-vides identification to undocu-mented immigrants, as examples of how far New Haven has come

DESTEFANO DECADES COME TO AN END

SEE DESTEFANO PAGE 9

SEE MAYO PAGE 8

SEE ELECTION PAGE 9SEE TOWN-GOWN PAGE 8

BY MONICA DISARESTAFF REPORTER

University President Richard Levin and Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s historic 20-year partnership, which has been praised for substantially improv-ing the relationship between Yale and the city of New Haven, will o"cially come to an end this year when the two men step down from their posts.

DeStefano’s decision not to seek re-election

Town-gown thrives under partnership

Following mayor, superintendent to retire

Mayoral race wide open without DeStefano

EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Mayor John DeStefano Jr., New Haven’s longest-serving mayor, announced on Tuesday that he does not plan on running for re-election. He has served as the Elm City’s mayor for two decades.


Richard Levin and John DeStefano Jr. worked closely together to improve town-gown relations.

AFTER 20 YEARS OF LEADERSHIP, MAYOR JOHN DESTEFANO JR. WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION

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We’re living in Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s New Haven.

After his 20-year tenure, a once-abandoned down-town department store is now home to a bustling community college. Schools that were falling apart stand rebuilt inside and out. The city that once saw a Yale student shot to death on Hillhouse Ave. now stands as the University’s greatest partner.

As Yale students, we have many reasons to thank DeStefano.

The mayor has unques-tionably made our city safer and stronger. Downtown development has helped to provide a much-needed tax base, drawing resident back to the city. Amidst increas-ing violence, the recent return to community polic-ing under New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman has set the Elm City on the right track.

We can especially ap-preciate how a stronger town-gown relationship has brought fortune to both city and University — a result of the close, constructive part-nership between DeStefano and University President Richard Levin, who will also be ending a 20-year tenure this year.

But as residents of New Haven, we have much more to do.

New Haven simply can-not a!ord to backtrack on these twenty years of prog-ress. Our city’s gains could be easily undone by a politi-cian with less experience.

But the next mayor must also succeed where DeStefano has fallen short, providing a more transpar-ent leadership style than the Elm City has seen in recent years.

The manner in which the mayor has fundraised,

accepting donations from city employees and contrac-tors doing business with the city, has raised concerns for many in New Haven. And the appointment-based politics seen in government — most notably, with the Board of Education — must be reconsidered to build a more democratic New Haven.

We need a mayoral race with candidates who pres-ent specific policy propos-als that will build on the foundation carefully laid by DeStefano over two de-cades, while promoting the ideals of open government. It should not be enough for a candidate to campaign on the platform that he or she will be di!erent from DeStefano.

As Yale students, we want to know about the relation-ship between the potential mayoral candidates and President-elect Salovey — about their views on the re-lationship between Yale and New Haven. As residents of New Haven, we want to know how school change can continue, how our streets can be made safer and how the city can match up local residents with nearby jobs that require increasingly higher levels of education.

If there has ever been a time to become involved in New Haven, this is it. With a slew of candidates sure to fight for the city’s votes in September’s primary elec-tion, and an ongoing charter reform process set to change the very constitution of this city, the uptick in participa-tion seen during the mayoral and aldermanic campaigns of 2011 must be sustained.

Yale and New Haven are about to undergo major leadership changes. We cannot sit idly by in our home city.

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NEWS’VIEW

Securing DeStefano's successes

As the DeStefano era ends, the

News looks forward to the

upcoming mayoral race.

Over the last few weeks, I have had di!erent itera-tions of the same conver-

sation with many of my senior friends. We went home for break, some of us for the first time in a long time, some of us just as we always do. This time, going home was complicated, exhausting and left us feeling grateful (shock-ingly so) that we were back at school, starting class.

Let me be clear: We love our parents and our siblings. Much of the time, we get along well with them, and look for-ward to spending time in their company. Going home to clean sheets, laundry service and reg-ular nutritious meals is always a delight. At home, we get to see old friends and family mem-bers, eat at favorite restaurants, visit familiar places that remind us of what it meant to live in that place.

As one year away from home became four, the dynamics changed. Friendships from mid-dle and high school became less important — conversation space became harder to fill as inter-ests and experiences diverged. Our grandparents got older and

quieter, while our siblings evolved from being annoy-ing pests or superior know-it-alls to friends. Our par-ents — eter-nal, steadfast — grew more grey hairs and wrinkles.

We are liv-ing in the

shadow of these changing rela-tionships in our families and communities, and also in the shadow of the changes to our hometowns and loved places. Home no longer is or can be the place it was when we were younger: We haven’t been home enough to watch changes as they unfolded. I am left a little melan-choly in the wake of change that I can neither slow nor alter.

For many of my breaks in col-lege, the picture and experience of being at home has felt rose-hued. This break, that experi-ence and picture began to crum-ble in some troubling and unex-

pected ways, as it did for many of my senior colleagues. I’m trying to decide if I can go home again — for good — and discovering as I ponder that the answer may be no.

This made this past break hard. My parents are sending eager emails about the job opportu-nities close to home. My grand-parents make less-than-subtle remarks every time I call them. Even my cousins — bless them — who have graduated and moved to the area are waging their own quiet war of o!hand remarks. It is wonderful to be loved, but the love is part of the reason why it is hard for me to go home.

At Yale, I have found my own independence. I have worked and earned a wage, set and met my own deadlines, built a com-munity from nothing and pre-served that community despite incessant busyness and perpet-ual sleep deprivation. My space at Yale is fully mine in ways that my room at home or even a place near my parents’ house won’t be. I am worried that I will lose that sense of personal autonomy if I go home to the relationships that already exist there. I am wor-

ried that I will have to work to fit myself into the spaces and places that I outgrew while at college.

Going home felt like a strange kind of goodbye to the self who had spent college pretending that home was still home. From now on, I will be a perpetual visi-tor in the place where I grew up, who drops in without the pre-tense of staying for long. Home has and will become less home: I will have to build a life some-where else, both to protect the person I have become and to move towards the person I want to be.

Some of us will be forced to move back home for financial or family reasons. Some of us will want to — the lure of food and laundry will be too strong. I hope, however, that wherever we go next year, the movement will be towards a home that we make and remake for ourselves. We no longer need define ourselves by our connection to one town or one institution: The choice is, at last, ours.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at [email protected] .

A visitor at home

To whom it may concern,I hope this column

finds you well. My name is Harry Graver, and as an under-graduate at Yale University I am writing to apply … Oh wait. Sorry.

Certain habits are tough to shake. Over the last few weeks, I, like many students across Yale, have begun countless emails and letters in a very similar fashion. During the months of December and January, drafting a cover let-ter becomes a daily ritual akin to brushing one’s teeth, showering, eating — or, as some websites tell us, actually far more important than any of those three.

It’s impossible to escape the climate of job season. The amal-gam of uncertainty, deadlines and interviews creates an ele-phant in the room that — rather than sitting pleasantly in the corner — plays a loud, incessant game of paddleball on the back of your head. Attempts to out-wit this beast with a long jog or riveting book are futile — sooner or later, you’ll hear the “ding” of Gmail app on your phone.

Perhaps, though, the most meaningful aspect of the whole process is not the answer about your candidacy. It is the exam-ination you are forced to do beforehand.

We are asked to put down our identity on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. On one hand, it’s quite jarring. On the other hand, it’s quite reveal-ing. As we are forced to quantify our-selves, we employ a set

of value judgments which can only be made from the outside, looking in. What am I proud of? What have I done? How in God’s name am I already twenty? (Maybe not as much the last.)

A lot of good, though, comes from this longstanding ordeal. It is not some arbitrary construct, passed down from generation to generation as a sort of intellec-tual hazing. There is a method to the madness, even if it is tough to see anymore after a third reading of Case in Point.

Everyone has heard the advice to, “know your resume’s story,” before going into an inter-view. But, the genuine value of this suggestion is not as much revealed when a question is answered at an interview, as it

is in the hours worth of ques-tions we pose to ourselves in the nights prior.

That is not to suggest that our quest is all cheer and roses, without serious dangers. As we attempt to describe ourselves, the impulse arises to redefine. As we put ourselves before the prospect of failure, there is a defensive inclination to protect oneself by, in a way, creating a distance from oneself. In doing so, we can forget to shift gears at times, failing to return from the application to the applicant, and are thus left looking to the sum of our experiences, our passions in practice, as sterile, analytical means to an end.

And these pitfalls seem par-ticularly audacious at Yale, where our extracurricular groups are so fundamentally a part of both our college experi-ence and personal character. It does not take long at the Extra-curricular Bazaar, or after a few conversations with friends from other schools, to realize just how unique Yale’s emphasis on developing the mind outside the classroom fosters its students’ hopes and expectations of each other.

This remarkable dynamic, though, can also lay the ground-work for a prevalent trap. We

look too often upon our resumes as a zero sum game — a tradeo! wherein we pay for each line of paper, each leadership title, with those memories’ sincerity.

In the end, these wounds are self-inflicted, and understand-able, given this overwhelming process. In fact, this is where its very virtue lies. As we craft our candidacies amongst our peers, we are a!orded a reorientation to our surroundings — one without the fashioned persona we flirted with before. And naturally, as we come back to ourselves, the road is as littered with humility and fear as it is with esteem and ful-fillment.

What appears as a stack of resumes is really a profoundly shared endeavor. It is indeed exhausting at times to be one of the many in there — but it is also a tremendous blessing. If the process is done right, the pile can stare back at us like a mirror, as we gain glimpses of ourselves through those around us, be it dear friends or distant strangers.

How this will all shake out is out of our hands. How we make and are shaped by this journey is entirely up to us.

HARRY GRAVER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at

[email protected] .

Life as a resume drop

Some say knowledge is the only thing that increases when shared. I would

include in that category infec-tious diseases and Gang-nam Style, but it certainly is an impressive and exclusive list. Regardless of your health or your horse dance, every one of you reading this has immoder-ate skill in your strongest aca-demic areas, as well as talent at applying to college you’ll never use again — unless you give it away. Each year in the United States, some three million peo-ple enroll as undergraduates for the first time. But many enter unprepared; they take remedial math and English courses, are overwhelmed by independent life or find themselves trapped for years in lecture halls without ever meeting a professor face-to-face.

We, in a small way, can change this.

Only 1350 freshmen entered Yale this year, and unless some-one funds the new colleges tomorrow, that number will not change much before we gradu-ate. Thanks to Adopt-a-Pre-frosh and Bulldog Days, most of these future Yalies will know roughly what they are in for, and their own resourcefulness will take them far. However, most of

us come from high schools where juniors are preparing applica-tions to every sort of school, and where seniors of all stripes are preparing to leave home. In my own school, there are at least one hundred students per class who head straight to college after graduating. Most of them spend very little time with a guidance counselor; many are completely unfamiliar with college academ-ics and college life. When they arrive, many will panic, su!er-ing unnecessary confusion as they are swallowed by a more-or-less impersonal state college system or struggle to find mean-ing in their coursework.

We should adopt them.It’s likely that you know some

high schoolers well, especially if you’re a freshman or sopho-more. Maybe they’re siblings, old friends or teammates. When was the last time you spoke to them about college? Per-haps it was recent; if you’re at Yale, you probably had a strong role in your school’s commu-nity, and helped advise a group of kids who looked up to you for your mind or skill or personal-ity. But what about those you didn’t know? Many might be going it alone. Maybe their par-ents will help with the Com-mon App; maybe they’ll take

a pricey SAT course that will get them over that particular hurdle. But imagine the boost they’d get from an older student o!ering an extra set of eyes for an essay, someone to help them with a pre-college shopping list, someone to explain the virtues of small classes and o"ce hours and whatever other lessons you’ve learned since you got here. Your contribution may be small, but thanks to the massive knowledge disparity between 17-year-olds and 20-year-olds, it could have an outsized impact.

I taught SAT classes last sum-mer, which made it relatively easy to find students interested in learning more about college than their parents could remem-ber. Since then, a week rarely goes by when I’m not comment-ing on an essay, recommending books and blogs or just giving disa!ected youngsters a glimpse of the light at the end of the high school tunnel. But even if you don’t have tutoring experience, you are a resourceful reader, and there are many roads to mentor-ship.

One such road: Email your guidance counselor(s) or favor-ite teachers. Tell them you’re looking for students with col-lege hopes who may need extra help along the way. Give them

your contact information. It will take five minutes and the upside is very high.

Less formally, ask high school friends whether they know any-one who might want advice. Set up a Facebook conversation or phone call or email exchange. You’re two degrees of separa-tion from dozens of people with questions you can answer.

Final idea for now: Make a sta-tus, or a post in your high school Facebook group, along these lines: “If anyone from [your school here] wants help with a college or scholarship applica-tion essay, or has any questions about college they want to ask, I’m happy to help!” Tag some friends so they’ll spread the word.

If you don’t have the time, that’s understandable. But I think of mentoring as a per-sonal, flexible version of one of the dozen Dwight Hall pro-grams that work with New Haven schools, but make you sign forms and set a consistent weekly time and all the rest. We live in a world where shar-ing knowledge is very, very easy. Take advantage.

AARON GERTLER is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact

him at [email protected] .

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NEWSCORREC T IONS

FRIDAY, JAN. 25The article “The Yale Law School Wine Society: they came, they drank, they conquered” included a number of factual errors. The article failed to mention that during the interview, Tyce Walters LAW ’13 mentioned Lisa Granik’s LAW ’93 ’97 status as a Master of Wine and that Walters said, in response to question three, that “The law school has been very supportive of the team — we’re all very grateful.” In addition, the article did not clarify that Walters tasted 600 wines while writing wine books after college, instead suggesting that the team consumed that number of bottles in preparation for its recent competition in New York. The article also misquoted Walters in response to question five — the student who responded was not Walters but Joseph Pomianowski LAW ’15.

TUESDAY, JAN. 29The article “Gun hearing draws thousands” misidentified Nia Holston ’14 and Ashley Ison ’14 as members of Black Students at Yale, when in fact the organization is called the Black Student Alliance at Yale.

TUESDAY, JAN. 29The article “Pledge debate reignited, postponed” mistakenly stated that the full Board of Aldermen will vote on a Pledge of Allegiance proposal at its next meeting, when in fact the Board will vote on the proposal at its Feb. 19 meeting.

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER AND POET

BY JASMINE HORSEYSTAFF REPORTER

Fifty years ago, the Bei-necke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened to mixed reviews.

“The whole thing’s built crooked,” one construction worker told the News in 1963.

Many at the time felt the build-ing was out of touch with Yale’s famous Gothic style, but nobody could deny that the architec-ture was groundbreaking. At a talk honoring the Beinecke’s 50th anniversary last week, Architec-ture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern described the Beinecke as “Yale’s new center of gravity” and “the jewel in the University’s new crown of modernity.” Since its opening, the library has become a pioneer in the collection of rare books and manuscripts, and is accessed by scholars from all over the world.

Consuelo Dutschke, curator of medieval and renaissance man-uscripts at Columbia University, said that the Beinecke’s collection is growing like none other.

“It is absolutely — I can guar-antee to you — the absolute pre-mier institution in the U.S. for buying medieval manuscripts,” she said. “Their collection is growing more furiously, more grandly, than any other institu-tion in the country.”

But as the Beinecke begins its 50th year, the library is running into problems with its present facilities. Head of access services Steve Jones admitted the library has “been out of storage space for a while.” Due to the growing col-lection, materials are increasingly being sent to an offsite storage facility in Hamden, Conn. Access Archivist Michael Rush said there has been a “longstanding imbal-ance” between the library’s rate

of acquisition and the relatively slow speed with which librarians can catalogue new materials.

THE IDEAL CONDITIONSUpon its construction, the Bei-

necke sparked controversy not only due to its unusual appear-ance but also for what students felt was a lavish display of wealth. Funded by a generous donation from the Beinecke brothers, all three of whom were Yale gradu-ates, the Beinecke was commis-sioned in the wake of concerns that Sterling Memorial Library was no longer equipped to deal with Yale’s growing collection. Sterling lacked the air condition-ing and humidity control needed to best preserve its documents, an obstacle that worked against Yale’s desire to become a leader in the collection of rare books.

The Beinecke was designed using state-of-the-art technol-ogy able to maintain the temper-ature at 70 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity at 60 percent — the ideal conditions for hous-ing fragile documents. Particular care went into choosing the best type of stone to line the walls, Stern said at his talk. The mate-rial needed to not only be sliced thin enough to allow sunlight to penetrate, but also robust enough to withstand the weather. The

translucent marble slabs chosen are often cited as the building’s most outstanding feature, Stern said.

“It’s one heck of a building,” Beinecke Director E.C. Schroeder said. “It’s a building that, as you bring visitors in, they come to the door and their eyes light up.”

The library celebrates the fact it has never undergone any major structural revisions since 1963, and it currently houses 180,000 of its rare books in a glass tower for all to see, with a further 320,000 kept below the plaza.

Although the library has become integral to Yale’s cam-pus, librarians interviewed expressed concern that the build-ing is not equipped to deal with its rapidly growing collection and aims of increasing accessibil-ity to its resources. At the top of the library’s targets is to increase accessibility for students, par-ticularly with regards to teach-ing, Beinecke spokeswoman Zoe Keller said. This semester, an unprecedented five classes are taking place in the Beinecke, but Schroeder said he would like to see the number increase even fur-ther.

“We could easily use at least one or two more classrooms,” Schroeder said.

INCREASING ACCESSDespite its architectural

restrictions, the Beinecke is tak-ing a number of steps to encour-age students, professors and the public to access its materi-als. Keller, the Beinecke spokes-woman, emphasized the library’s desire to broaden its outreach, and said students should not be intimidated by the library’s façade.

“I’d say what’s different in recent years as opposed to recent

past is that the mission of acces-sibility is now forefront,” she said. “Because of the architecture, there is perhaps the illusion of exclusivity, but in fact any serious researcher can access incredibly rare materials as prime resources.”

To encourage physical interac-tion with the materials, the library has implemented a policy change allowing students to handle man-uscripts with bare hands and people to take photographs in the reading room for personal use.

At the heart of the library’s desire to bring more students into its doors is its position as a pio-neer in rare book and manuscript research. Barbara Shailor, deputy provost for the arts and a former Beinecke director, said that the research done by students work-ing with manuscripts has the potential to spark discussion on a national scale.

“In the field of medieval man-uscripts we look for things that have potentially not been pub-lished, authors that are either unknown or not well-known,” Shailor said. “We look for pieces that really have the potential to change the discipline, and actively acquire items that might make a di!erence to the future of the field.”

The move toward staging more exhibitions and increasing class-room teaching through a series of renovations is evidence of the Beinecke’s desire to combat its limited space, ultimately allow-ing the library to reach out to a broader audience.

The Beinecke was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architec-ture Prize, and opened on Oct. 14, 1963.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at [email protected] .

BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

Over 500 staff members packed into the pews of Battell Chapel Tuesday morning for a town hall convened by Presi-dent-elect Peter Salovey, who answered questions on staff development and acknowledged concerns he plans to address as president.

Salovey, who will assume the presidency on June 30, opened the meeting by discussing his intention to create a more uni-fied, innovative, accessible and excellent Yale — four goals he first outlined in his Nov. 8 speech delivered after the Yale Corporation announced that he willsucceed current University President Richard Levin. Dur-ing the town hall, he noted his plans to respond to concerns by ensuring the sta! feels inte-grated with other segments of the University, continuing to improve the University’s rela-tionship with local merchants and creating opportunities for upward mobility for current sta! members.

“I know we have an excel-lent sta! here, but I want Yale to be more than just a job for you,” Salovey said. “I want it to be a career path.”

Salovey said he already reviewed over 20,000 com-ments from a workplace sur-vey issued to staff in Novem-ber, adding that a theme central to the survey’s responses was a general desire for the prospect of a more substantial career tra-jectory at Yale. He explained several ways he hopes to create a more career-oriented environ-ment for sta!, such as rewarding staff innovation with promo-tions and filling vacant positions with internal candidates instead of individuals from outside the University.

Creating a more career-ori-ented environment for staff would require supervisors to be more flexible in encourag-ing sta! members to change jobs within the University, he said, as well as allowing them to feel

that they can branch out beyond their initial area of expertise.

Salovey also said he under-stands that sta! are concerned about unity, both within the staff body and between staff members and the rest of the University.

“I think we have far too many divisions — we talk much too much about main campus and the medical school. We talk much too much about Science Hill versus central campus,” Salovey told the audience. “All of that isn’t very meaningful. We’re all serving a greater uni-versity with a shared sense of mission.”

Salovey discussed ways in which he would promote inno-vation throughout the entire University, including build-ing the science and engineering programs “to the level of excel-lence that Yale has historically had, and will continue to have, in the humanities and in the arts.”

He also cited Yale’s partner-ship with the National Univer-sity of Singapore in the creation of Yale-NUS as an example of the University’s bringing inno-vations in liberal arts education to the global community.

Four staff members inter-viewed said they enjoyed hear-ing Salovey’s plans for the upcoming academic year first-hand.

Davenport College Opera-tions Manager Carolyn Haller said she hopes Salovey acts on his words about sta! unity soon after he enters o"ce.

“We used to be a family, but because of the economy and policies, I believe there’s fric-tion,” Haller said.

Silliman College Operations Manager KC Mills called herself “a cheerleader” for Salovey, and said she believes the sta! as a community has the responsibil-ity to share their concerns with him.

Salovey announced the town hall in an email to sta! on Jan. 16.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at [email protected] .

Salovey holds sta! town hall

JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Fifty years after opening, the Beinecke’s collection continues to grow, and library curators have made acessibility to students a top priority.

BY TIANYI PANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After spending four years serving as legal adviser to the State Department, for-mer Law School Dean Harold Koh recounted his experiences working under Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 at a Davenport College Master’s Tea Tuesday.

Koh, who was named a Ster-ling Professor of International Law last week, left his post at the State Department last Tues-day to return to teaching at the Law School after serving as its dean from 2004 to 2009. At the Master’s Tea, Koh explained policy decisions made by the current administration and dis-cussed issues facing the inter-

national community, including human rights, climate change and Syria’s ongoing civil war.

“It was a completely fascinat-ing experience running an inter-national law firm of 350 people, the finest in the world,” Koh said.

As Clinton’s primary legal adviser, Koh said he simultane-ously acted as the State Depart-ment’s general counselor, conscience and its defender — during his tenure, Koh repre-sented the State Department before influential bodies such as the International Crimi-nal Court and the International Court of Justice.

Koh said that accomplishing goals while working with gov-ernment o"cials can be di"cult

because of the government’s process of collective decision-making as well as its constant e!orts to achieve perfection.

Koh said he dealt with the challenge of solving 21st century problems under 20th century laws. Because the law cannot be changed as quickly as problems arise, he had to identify which laws were relevant and translate them to current situations.

“This translation, I believe, is what Montesquieu would call ‘the spirit of the laws,’” Koh said.

Koh cited Clinton’s inclusion of LGBT rights in the broader framework of human rights — a moment that he called “incred-ibly powerful and pivotal” — as an example of translating laws to

present-day application.He said the American politi-

cal system has also been slow to adjust to the 21st century, men-tioning specific cases in which Congress rejected several inter-national treaties that would have benefited American foreign relations.

The current division of laws into public, private, domestic and international categories is a “construct,” he said, adding that some legal cases can straddle multiple categories, so trans-national laws — ones between individuals and countries in which the individual does not reside — should emerge as the predominant legal form in years to come.

Koh also touched on sev-

eral recent events, including the publication of classified infor-mation by the online organiza-tion WikiLeaks. While he criti-cized the actions of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Koh added that in general he favors government transparency and believes that certain materials are overclassified.

“The release of the names of the human right activists could get them killed,” Koh said. “We had to devote huge amounts of U.S. government resources to apologies and damage mitiga-tion.”

Students interviewed said they appreciated that despite Koh’s background in govern-ment, he spoke directly and honestly to the audience.

Jimmy Murphy ’13 said that he found Koh not only approach-able and funny but also “a tre-mendously thoughtful speaker.”

“It was inspiring to see how much he focused on making sure that the U.S. was doing the right thing, instead of just defending what they did,” Murphy said.

Jessica Leao ’16 said she appreciated Koh’s global per-spective of law, which gave her insight into the workings of the U.S. government and interna-tional organizations such as the United Nations.

Koh became a professor at the Law School in 1985 and has lived in New Haven since 1961.

Contact TIANYI PAN at [email protected] .

Koh shares State Department experiences

ANN IVER SARY

Fifty years later, Beinecke pushes access

It’s a building that, as you bring visitors in, they come to the door and their eyes light up.

E.C. SCHROEDERDirector, Beinecke

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BY PAYAL MARATHESTAFF REPORTER

Before a full Sudler Hall last night, American Conservative publisher Ron Unz called for Ivy League universities to admit 80 percent of their students ran-domly and eliminate undergrad-uate tuition — all in an e!ort to remedy an “outright corrupt” col-lege admissions process.

The Yale Political Union hosted Unz, who has publicly criticized racial quotas in college admis-sions, to debate a"rmative action processes in American colleges. Unz decried what he described as the subjectivity in admissions to elite American universities, adding that admissions officers today work to fulfill two conflict-ing goals: meritocracy, which pri-oritizes ability with no regard to background, and diversity, which priotizes ethnicity and aims to fill racial quotas. Unz’s arguments were met primarily by hissing from members of the YPU, who said they found his statements controversial and radical.

“We have to ask ourselves, ‘how do we select students with-out inherent favoritism?’” Unz said. “My plan would replace the pseudo-diversity enforced by a small group of people sitting in a room behind a closed door with actual diversity based on random selection.”

Unz proposed that universi-ties should admit 20 percent of students on purely meritocratic grounds, and randomly select the remainder of their students from the entire pool of applicants. Unz argued that under his pro-posed system, students who have a chance at making the top 20 per-cent would work very hard, but the majority of students would be able to spend high school explor-ing their extracurricular interests rather than chasing after a 4.0 grade-point average or a perfect SAT score.

He added that the modern sys-tem of a"rmative action creates “pseudo-diversity” by ignoring

the diversity that exists within broad racial categories. African-Americans whose parents were once slaves have a di!erent expe-rience than Africans who have very recently immigrated to the United States, he said, but a"r-mative action overlooks this com-plexity and arbitrarily groups individuals together. A random admissions process is more likely than a"rmative action to produce a “truly diverse student body rep-resentative of American society,” he said.

Unz said the second prong of his plan, which proposes that college be free of charge, would encourage students to apply to schools they would otherwise not consider because of high tuition fees. At schools like Harvard, Princeton and Yale, “endow-ments are so enormously large that admissions are a tiny frac-tion of one percent of the exist-ing endowment,” he said, adding that endowments exist primarily to help with tuition.

Members of the YPU said they disagree with Unz’s claim that a"rmative action is inappropriate for American society. While Unz said he believes a"rmative action makes “negative factors a preva-lent force in deciding admissions,” several audience members said they think a"rmative action is a positive policy.

“I would love to tell you that all the scars of American history have been healed, but I can’t,” Ugonna Eze ’16 said. “One day a"rmative action will be irrelevant, but as of now it’s not.”

Eight of 12 audience members interviewed after the debate said they think a"rmative action pos-itively contributes to Yale’s cul-ture.

Unz published his most com-prehensive argument against a"rmative action, an article titled “The Myth of American Meritoc-racy,” in The American Conserva-tive in November 2012.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at [email protected] .

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ron Unz castigated current admissions practices, including the use of a!rmative action, for being oversimplistic.

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YALE STUDENTS FLOCK TO CHIPOTLE FOR GRAND OPENING

Chipotle’s highly anticipated opening attracted students, faculty and the New Haven community eager to try the restaurant’s fare on Tuesday. The a!ordable and tasty chain, famous for its burritos and burrito bowls, opened its first restaurant in New Haven after persistent campaigning from stu-dents.

CHIPOTLE FINALLY ARRIVES TO THE ELM CITYPublisher talks admissions

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 314:30 PM “Central Plains” Movie Screening with AIDS Activist Wan Yanhal. The documentary “Central Plains” is the story of how a blood plasma donation scheme led to the infection of thousands of Chinese people with HIV and hepatitis C. Come learn how the government business corporations, public health o!cials and activists such as Wan Yanhal were involved in this scandal. Wan Yarhal, who will lead a discussion after the screening, is the director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute, the largest AIDS NGO in China. He has also organized a national compensation campaign for victims of HIV infection caused by blood transfusion or blood products. The documentary will be screened in English. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 207.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18:00 PM Super Night Shot by Gob Squad. Exactly one hour before the audience arrives, Super Night Shot begins. Four performers take to the streets armed with video cameras and embark on a set of comic and fantastical adventures that celebrate unexpected encounters with strangers. Once the 60 minutes are up, they return to the theatre, to a rousing hero’s welcome, and the footage is mixed live into a film. For two nights only, New Haven will become the set of Super Night Shot, as Gob Squad transforms the banality of everyday life into the glamour and glitz of a big-screen blockbuster. Moving, funny, and completely unpredictable, in Super Night Shot anything can happen — and usually does. University Theatre (222 York St).

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TSQ says farewell to Yale

BY DANA SCHNEIDERGUEST COLUMNIST

The internationally renowned Tokyo String Quartet gave a farewell performance to the Yale community last Tuesday eve-ning, Jan. 23, in Morse Recital Hall. After serving thirty-seven years on the School of Music faculty, the quartet-in-resi-dence has decided that its 2012-2013 season will be its last.

Replacing two retiring quartet members would be a “Herculean task,” first violinist Martin Bea-ver explained, and so the group has chosen to come to a “grace-ful close.” The quartet breathes in unison with the natural ease that accompanies the rare com-bination of deeply understand-ing both the music and each other. Each member is irre-placeable.

Dean Robert Blocker awarded a Sanford Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the School of Music, to each member of the quartet: Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda (violins), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) and Clive Green-smith (cello). Peter Oundjian, current Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orches-tra and a faculty member at the School of Music, also received the medal for his tenure as the longest serving first violinist of the quartet. In describing the quartet, Blocked praised: “They never lost their sense of passion and wonder about the music they create.”

The program opened with the dynamic energy of the Haydn Quartet in G minor. Nicknamed the “Rider” quartet for its gal-loping licks, the violist captured the audience immediately with his bursting energy and excite-ment. As the music pressed forward, the quartet switched tempi with such e!ortlessness that it is hard to believe they have not known each other for their entire lives.

To contrast the tonality of the first piece, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 exhibited the bril-liance of each member. Each voice navigated the virtuosic passages while still maintaining perfect cohesion with the whole. When all four instruments, each made by the famous Stradivarius family, were set down to play the pizzicatos in the fourth move-ment, each member smiled with anticipation. While Bartók’s complex rhythms traditionally have a disorienting tendency, the TSQ seemed to be having a wonderful conversation with each other.

The opening of the Mendels-sohn Quartet in E minor follow-ing intermission was the apex of the evening. The pure emotion of the floating melody expressed the passion each quartet mem-ber felt as they sang good-bye to the hall that they have learned to call home. Underneath the beauty of the melody an urgent rhythm served as an ominous reminder of the finality of the evening.

After bringing the entire hall to its feet, the quartet gave its audience an encore: Mozart’s “Ho!meister” quartet.

It was impossible to under-stand what each musician was feeling as the concert pro-gressed. The music moved through an extensive range of emotions: the energy of Haydn, the forward tones of Bartok and the rich sonorities of Men-delssohn. What shined through every note was a moving love for the wonderful music they cre-ated.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at [email protected] .

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EACH MEMBER IS IRREPLACEABLE.

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

While most art galleries place security sensors on their sculptures, School of Art professor Martin Ker-sels’s exhibitions have served as stages for singers, dancers and even DJs.

In a lecture he gave to roughly 15 students at the School of Art on Tuesday, Kersels discussed how the concept of “performance” has remained important to him through-out the projects he has undertaken during his decades-long career. Ker-sels progressed through a slideshow displaying his diverse work, includ-

ing dance performance images, pho-tographs and multimedia sculptures equipped to play sound and video.

“One could say I have a lack of fol-low-through, but I change what I do and I change my interests based on di!erent times in my life,” Kersels said.

Kersels spoke at length about his dynamic sculptures, some of which he has modified for di!erent exhi-bitions. One such piece, “Tumble Room,” consists of a bedroom rotat-ing vertically, with many objects fall-ing as the room turns upside down. He explained that he has bought or created new furniture, collages and clothing in the sculpture for each

exhibition, partly because many of the objects are destroyed in each iteration. Kersels said he spent time envisioning and researching the objects likely to be found in teenage girls’ bedrooms and discovered that many of these rooms contain col-lage-type decorations. As a result, he said he created collages using pic-tures of figures like Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Eminem and many oth-ers.

“I enjoyed thinking like a young lady,” Kersels said.

Aside from his mobile struc-tures, Kersels has experimented with manipulating sound in his work. In a piece titled “Attempt to Raise

the Temperature of a Container of Water by Yelling at It,” Kersels said he placed an underwater speaker and temperature probe into a container of water. The speaker was attached to an audio device that played a 7 min-ute long tape of Kersels repeating the phrase “I am trying to raise the tem-perature of this water by yelling at it!” while the temperature probe was attached to a thermometer.

Though Kersels’ recent works have been sculptures, his early career showed a di!erent side to the artist. In the 1980s, he joined a group called “SHRIMPS,” which put on post-modern dance performances. Then, starting in the 1990s, Kersels worked

on creating photo series. For one, which sought to capture tripping and falling, Kersels said he tripped him-self roughly 10 times to obtain the exact photographs he wanted.

“I was interested in the failure of a body in a simple action like walk-

ing — something we feel like we have under control,” he said.

All three audience members inter-viewed said they have worked with Kersels at the School of Art and have enjoyed having him as the Director of Graduate Studies in sculpture.

“His art and lecture are more or less the same,” Maya Manvi ART ’14 said. “There is a lot of performance in his lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.”

Kersels was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Contact ERIC XIAO at [email protected] .

Kersels talks performance through sculpture BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY

STAFF REPORTER

On Tuesday, four photog-raphy department heads from the nation’s leading art schools debated the state of academic photography programs through a Museum of Modern Art Forum on Contemporary Photography.

Roughly 20 students gath-ered at the School of Art’s Green Hall to watch the livestream of the forum, which attracted an audi-ence of artists, teachers and stu-dents from universities across the country. Gregory Crewdson, the School of Art’s director of gradu-ate studies in photography, joined Ashley Hunt of California Insti-tute of the Arts, Stephen Shore of Bard and James Welling of UCLA to compare their respective pro-grams. Topics ranged from under-standing the purpose of a photog-raphy degree to balancing teaching and working as an artist.

Crewdson described the School of Art’s photography program as “small, intense and rigorous.” The two-year professional photogra-phy program, which accepts only nine students each year, is known for its challenging environment, featuring weekly critiques of stu-dent work by a panel of artists, curators and critics.

“It’s very dramatic at times and very rigorous, but I think it’s a great way of applying pressure to the students’ pictures,” Crewd-

son said. “It’s also important to have a collusion of viewpoints so there’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.”

The forum went on to discuss the value of a photography degree, the rising cost of an arts education and the academic side of photog-raphy education. Crewdson said he hopes students break out of a strictly academic approach in their work, and that he encourages them to connect their work to culture at large.

Crewdson addressed audi-ence questions about art school “branding” — when a school emphasizes a particular aesthetic — by explaining that he encour-ages a diversity of approaches and viewpoints, not one style based on his personal artistic work.

After an audience member questioned the absence of women or minorities on the panel, the group discussion turned to gender and race disparity in high-level art

school administration. Another audience member pointed out a trend in photography education toward predominantly male fac-ulty members and female stu-dents. After the event, five stu-dents expressed frustration while discussing their own experiences with gender disparity in academia.

But Meghan Uno ’13, an under-graduate photography major, said she was surprised by the cynicism that came out at the forum.

“I was expecting them to dis-cuss di!erent methods of teach-ing, but I was surprised people would think to criticize what was being presented,” Uno said. “I do feel like there is a lot of emphasis on feminine photographers and have had a lot of female photogra-phy teachers [at Yale].”

The School of Art employs 26 photography faculty members.

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at [email protected].

Forum mulls photography

BY ANNA-SOPHIE HARLINGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In an architectural landscape increasingly dominated by com-puter imaging, the latest exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center gives viewers a glimpse into the practice of traditional sketchbooking.

“Roman Sketches,” which opened Monday and will run until Jun. 28, is a display of pages taken from School of Archi-tecture professor Alexander Purves’ own sketchbooks. Since 2001, Purves has led a group of 30 architecture students to Rome for an intensive draw-ing class. Although architects like Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn frequently employ digital mod-eling in their practices, Purves said he believes that an archi-tect’s sketchbook is a vital tool for preliminary observation and design.

“Nothing is more efficient and less restricted than when the hand and the brain work together,” Purves said, adding that an architect can accomplish this only with a sketchbook.

The exhibition showcases scans of Purves’ own ink draw-ings and watercolors. The draw-ings, grouped by the structure depicted, are mounted on grey panels, while the watercolors stand alone behind glass. Some sketches feature floor plans jux-taposed with less technical ren-derings.

The professor’s work demon-strates the versatility of sketch-books. His strokes depict Rome’s buildings in a variety of ways; seemingly hasty scribbles are placed beside intricate drawings. In some cases, only portions of a building are shown — half a

dome or the delicate outline of a plaza.

“Purves believes that you have to sketch a building fully in order to truly see it — to under-stand how all of its components work together to create the whole,” said Rob Bundy ARC ’13, who went on the 2012 Rome trip. He recalled how, over the course of four weeks, the students each filled three or four sketchbooks with their depictions of the city. Bundy said he learned that the sketchbook is invaluable for his work, and he sketches every-thing by hand before using the computer to render already con-crete ideas.

Catherine Shih ’15, who intends to major in Architec-ture and took Purves’ introduc-tory architecture class this fall, described how the professor expected his students to sketch alongside their notes. She said she felt the sketchbook was one of the most important themes of the class.

“It brought together parts of architecture that I hadn’t thought about,” Shih said. “Sometimes you think too hard about drawing. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.”

Kyle Tramonte ’15 said that by taking the class, he gained the ability to approach space with a

critical eye. “You go [into the class] think-

ing that architectural drawing is very precise, neat and mea-sured, but you quickly learn with Purves that this is not true,” Tra-monte said. “The best drawings don’t just depict what a space looks like — they represent form

and shadow. They emote.”Purves became a faculty

member at the School of Archi-tecture in 1976.

Contact ANNA-SOPHIE HARLING at

[email protected] .

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

The Yale Club of New York may be the next landmark to line east Midtown’s skyline.

Last fall, Mayor Michael Bloom-berg announced a rezoning outline that would allow for the construc-tion of taller skyscrapers in New York’s East Side, specifically the area from 39th Street to 57th Street, where activity is centered around Grand Central Terminal. The New York Times reported in Decem-ber 2012 that Bloomberg’s desired “upzoning,” which involves demol-ishing old architecture to make room for new buildings, threat-ens the preservation of some of the neighborhood’s historic mainstays. While the public process of certify-ing the rezoning proposal is not set to be completed until March, two conservation groups — the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Municipal Arts Society — have submitted landmark designation requests to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in the hopes of protecting buildings that could be torn down, including the Yale Club.

“We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown,” said Ronda Wist, vice president of preservation and government relations at the Munic-ipal Arts Society. “That involves taking into consideration planning

and preservation issues.”Among the buildings in the

rezoning area, the group’s propos-als cited 17, the Yale Club included, that “convey historic, architectural and cultural significance.” The list also names hotels such as The Lex-ington and the Marriot East Side, as well as the Center for Fiction, which was formerly the 1820s-era Mercantile Library.

Among the region’s 587 build-ings — of which 32 are already des-ignated landmarks — the Yale Club is one of 38 that have been demar-cated as “soft sites,” structures vul-nerable to replacement because of new construction. Wist said that due to the club’s large lot size and central location, it fulfills the city’s criteria for development.

“Designed by James Gamble Rogers 1889, the Yale Club is one of only eight buildings remaining from Grand Central’s original Ter-minal City district,” Wise noted. “That’s significant.”

Andrea Goldwyn, director of

public policy at the Landmarks Conservancy, said the building drew the group’s attention because it is a “fine example of neo-classi-cal style that hearkens back to the City Beautiful Movement [in North American architecture].”

In the Landmark Conservancy’s testimony to the New York City Planning Commission, Goldwyn cited Rogers as a prominent archi-tect. Responsible for creating Yale’s trademark gothic revival style, he also designed Sterling Memorial Library, Harkness Tower and the original eight residential colleges.

Wist said she has no estimate for how long the commission will take to process the Municipal Art Soci-ety’s proposal. While the Plan-ning Commission’s website states that the review process typically lasts 20 to 30 working days, Direc-tor of Communications Elisabeth de Bourbon said there is no set timeline for decisions on propos-als related to the rezoning study. De Bourbon declined to comment on the status of the application, add-ing that the commission has yet to decide whether to consider the 17 buildings individually or as a group.

Founded in 1897, the Yale Club of New York moved to its current location on 30 West 44th St. in 1915 following an increase in member-ship.

Contact YANAN WANG at [email protected] .

Yale Club of New York nears demolition

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The historic Yale Club of New York is the largest private clubhouse in the world.

We’re trying to think about an alternate vision for 21st century east Midtown.

RONDA WISTVice president, Municipal Arts Society

Sometimes you think too hard about drawings. [The sketches] help you loosen up your hands.

CATHERINE SHIH ’15

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Architecture professor Alexander Purves’s “Roman Sketches” depicts Rome’s buildings in hasty sketches, quick studies, and intricate drawings.

There is a lot of performance in [Kersels’] lecture, and he uses a lot of humor.

MAYA MANVI ART ’14

There’s not just one monastic view of looking at pictures.

GREGORY CREWDSONDirector of Graduate Studies, School of Art

Professor’s sketchbook on display

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tive launched in 2009 that seeks to foster a college-going culture in the city’s pub-lic schools. That e!ort, Ward 7 Alder-man Doug Hausladen ’04 said — along with a landmark 2010 teachers’ contract negotiated with the help of the American Teachers Federation — has placed New Haven at the forefront of national educa-tion reform.

“Mayo and DeStefano have not left any tool in the tool kit when trying to address the education gap in this city. That’ll be their legacy,” Hausladen said. “Test scores and rising graduation rates show it’s working.”

Smith said that DeStefano’s principal legacy will “without a doubt” be educa-tion reform. A major foundation of that e!ort, he added, was his working part-nership with the superintendent.

Hausladen also pointed to the leaders’ school construction project, in which decades-old city public schools were rebuilt into modern facilities, as a symbol of the city’s progress in education reform.

Between the school change initia-tive and the city’s charter reform pro-cess, which could see major structural changes to the way the Board of Educa-tion is selected, Mayo’s departure will

come as the school district is subject to increasing scrutiny. Debates over Mayo’s legacy — and over how Elm City schools will be managed following his exit — are likely to play a major role in this year’s mayoral race.

State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, who told the News he is o"cially running for mayor on Tuesday, said Mayo’s tenure as superintendent has not been without its di"culties.

“The city has gotten a lot of positive press for its education reform efforts. Mayo is the captain of that ship, so he gets the credit,” Holder-Winfield said. “But before 2008, New Haven education was not in a good place. That was also on Mayo’s watch.”

Holder-Winfield said Harries, who has overseen much of the school change e!ort, is a likely choice to replace Mayo.

Ward 10 Alderman and mayoral candi-date Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 has previously criticized the exclusive priv-ilege of the mayor to appoint the Board of Education. In his speech announc-ing his o"cial bid for the mayor’s o"ce last week, Elicker said he favored a new appointment process that would allow for a “new independent-minded and reform-minded superintendent.”

Elicker told the News Tuesday eve-ning that school reconstruction does not go far enough. He emphasized curricu-lar reform, early childhood education and character training as key elements to improving schools “on the inside.”

Mayo has spent over 45 years working in education.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at [email protected] .

coincides with Levin’s plan to pass on the presidency at the end of the academic year, clearing the way for a new era of town-gown relations led by President-elect Peter Salovey and New Haven’s next mayor, who will be elected in Novem-ber. Those interviewed fol-lowing DeStefano’s Tuesday announcement said they expect Yale and New Haven to continue to see improved relations after both men leave their current positions.

“New Haven got not only tan-gibly better under Mayor DeSte-fano, we got our pride back,” said Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, Yale’s deputy chief communica-tions o"cer. “Governing a fabu-lously polyglot place is no easy task — John DeStefano has done it well.”

DeStefano was elected mayor of New Haven in 1993, the same year that Levin assumed Yale’s presidency. Their simultaneous assent to the two most promi-nent positions in New Haven marked the beginning of a long and storied relationship that eased town-gown tensions and benefited both the University and the city.

When Levin and DeSte-fano took office, the relation-ship between Yale and New Haven was tense and fraught with safety concerns for stu-dents who stepped outside the University’s ivy walls. Levin said half of the storefronts in down-town New Haven were boarded up when he took the reins of the University, adding that he com-mitted to building a strong part-nership with the city in his pres-idential acceptance speech.

Since that speech in April of 1993, DeStefano and Levin have worked together to pro-mote economic development around Yale and New Haven and to strengthen the New Haven public school system. One of the most notable accomplishments to emerge from their partner-ship was the creation of the New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded full tuition college scholarship for students who graduate from New Haven public schools and attend an in-state institution. Their economic development work has also yielded tangible results — today, 3,000 to 4,000 people live downtown compared to 200 to 300 when he took o"ce, Levin said.

New Haven and Yale lead-ers alike praise the relationship as having been mutually ben-eficial for both the city and the University. Garth Harries, the assistant superintendent of New Haven Public Schools, called the city’s School Change Ini-

tiative “as powerful as I’ve seen anywhere in the country” and lauded DeStefano’s “vision” and “inspiration.”

From the University’s per-spective, an improved New Haven makes Yale more appeal-ing for prospective students, said Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Je!rey Brenzel, call-ing the relationship between the University and the city, “histori-cally unprecedented.”

“New Haven is not the place it was 20 to 25 years ago,” Bren-

zel said. “That has an e!ect on how Yale students feel about the place and that gets communi-cated to candidates and admit-ted students.”

University o"cials said that new leadership at Yale and in New Haven should not hin-der town-gown relationships moving forward. Bruce Alexan-der ’65, vice president for New Haven and state a!airs and cam-pus development, said that it is important to remember the rela-tionship between the University and the city is more than a part-nership between two people — it is a broad commitment shared by many leaders on both the town and the gown side.

“I really have no concerns about continuing in the fashion that we have grown to be accus-tomed to,” Alexander said. “Over time the partnership is only going to get stronger.”

Salovey has lived in New Haven for 30 years and “loves the city,” Alexander said.

Salovey said that he is proud that Yale has promoted the arts, education, a retail climate and New Haven home ownership in the last 20 years and pledged to continue strengthening the relationship. As Levin and DeStefano step down, the path

is paved for a new set of town-gown initiatives.

“I very much plan to continue these e!orts in the coming years and also focus further attention on economic development and job creation,” Salovey said.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin

Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield and Sundiata Keitazulu, a plumber, have all announced that they plan to run for mayor this year.

Contact MONICA DISARE at [email protected] .

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 8 YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JOHN DESTEFANO JR.

DeStefano met his wife, Kathy, at the University of Connecticut when they were both undergraduates. He also earned a Masters in Public Administration there. He assumed the o!ce of mayor of New Haven in 1994.

Superintendent led city’s school reform e!orts

Levin-DeStefano leadership to end this year

Mayo and DeStefano have not left any tool in the tool kit when trying to address the education gap.

DOUG HAUSLADEN ’04Alderman, Ward 7

New Haven got not only tangibly better under Mayor DeStefano, we got our pride back.

MICHAEL MORAND ’87 DIV ’93Communications o!cer, Yale University

TIMELINE REGINALD MAYO1967Reginald Mayo begins teaching at Troup Middle School

1981Mayo is appointed as New Haven Public Schools K-8 Director of Schools

1984Mayo becomes executive director of school operatons for the school district

1992Mayo is appointed superintendent of the New Haven Public Schools

1994John DeStefano Jr. is elected mayor of New Haven

2001School Reconstruction Plan begins

2009School Change Initiative is launched

2010New teachers’ contract takes e"ect

YDN

The concurrent terms of Rick Levin as Yale’s president and John DeStefano as New Haven’s mayor have seen a greatly strengthened relationship between the city and University.

TOWN-GOWN FROM PAGE 1

MAYO FROM PAGE 1

JOY CHEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After 20 years in o!ce, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo will retire in June.

forms.Likely candidates beyond

Elicker and Holder-Winfield include Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina and Probate Court Judge Jack Keyes, who served as city clerk nearly three decades ago. Carolina, who refused to support DeStefano in his 2011 re-election bid, has pub-licly come up against the mayor on a variety of issues, including

his three-day suspension over an alleged transcript-tampering scandal in 2012.

“I am strongly considering running for mayor,” Carolina said in a statement Tuesday, calling DeStefano’s retirement “exciting because it opens up opportunities for new leadership and energy in the city.”

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, a longtime law partner of Keyes, Board of Alder-man President Jorge Perez and

State Rep. Patricia Dillon are also possible candidates. Although neither Looney nor Dillon has publicly considered running, Perez admitted Tuesday, albeit subtly, that he may run, respond-ing “I’m not ready to say,” when asked if he was running for mayor.

“Over the next week or so, I will be talking to my family, my col-leagues, my constituents and oth-ers, and only then will I make a decision concerning in what role I will continue to serve the city,” he

said in a statement.Looney remained noncommit-

tal, telling the New Haven Inde-pendent Tuesday, “I don’t even want to discuss [a mayoral can-didacy] at this point. It’s far too early.”

Democratic Town Chairwoman Jackie James, who told the New Haven Independent Tuesday that she would not run for mayor, said that she has not put her support behind any candidate yet.

Exactly where the candi-

dates stand against each other is uncertain. A recent poll commis-sioned by a group of Connecticut labor unions put Looney and fel-low State Sen. Toni Harp in the lead, although Tarp told the New Haven Independent Tuesday that she would not run.

Challengers will face off in a September Democratic primary before moving on to the gen-eral election in November. Win-ning the primary has tradition-ally meant winning the general

election, which no Republican has claimed since 1951.

Candidates who elect to run will have to decide whether to fundraise themselves or make use of public financing — an initiative once triumphed by DeStefano that would provide $50,000 in cam-paign funds.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at

[email protected] .

under his tenure.In her introduction, DeLauro

noted that the partnership between DeStefano and Yale Uni-versity President Richard Levin helped combat the “dividing line” between Yale and the rest of the city that existed when DeStefano took o!ce. Levin, who was pres-ent Tuesday night and hugged DeStefano before the mayor gave his speech, praised DeStefano for partnering with Yale on a number of initiatives, such as New Haven Promise, labor union negotia-tions and the University’s New Haven Homebuyer Program.

Peter Salovey, who will assume the presidency after Levin, said in an email to the News that DeSte-fano has been a “terrific partner” for Yale.

“I look forward to as produc-tive a partnership with the next Mayor. As a New Haven resident for more than 30 years, I have watched as our City has become a better and better place to live and work,” Salovey wrote. “The Mayor has had great vision for New Haven, and a deep under-standing of the interdependence of the city and the University.”

DeStefano also discussed the state of education 20 years ago — when school buildings were an average of 50 years old — before he spearheaded a school rebuild-ing e"ort nearly a decade ago. The mayor praised the work of super-intendent Reginald Mayo and the Board of Education for their suc-cess with increasing the gradua-tion rate and implementing new programs like New Haven Prom-ise.

Mayo said that DeStefano’s departure is “obviously a big loss to the city” and a “big loss to edu-cation in general.”

Carl Goldfield, who served as the president of the Board of Alderman for six years until his departure in 2011, called DeSte-fano a “great leader.” He said DeStefano was very skilled at bal-ancing the opposing interests of constituents, and noted DeSte-fano’s role in ending contract dis-putes between Yale and its unions as an example of his talent.

“He’s very creative, and where other people would see only obstacles, he would never see things as being irresolvable,”

Goldfield said. “He approached governing as if there was always a solution to every problem, and he was very imaginative and creative at crafting solutions.”

NAVIGATING CITY HALL

DeStefano began his service to the city long before he became mayor, working for Mayor Ben DiLieto’s administration as a chief budget aide during the 1980s. He then ran for mayor but lost in 1989 to John Daniels, New Hav-en’s first black mayor, by a wide margin in the primary. But Dan-iels faced mounting budgetary issues, high crime and seemingly intractable poverty, and DeSte-fano capitalized on Daniels’ deci-sion not to run after two terms, winning the election in 1993.

“It was just a really tough time in the city at that point, and I think the city was looking for more aggressive management,” said Jim Farnam, who worked for the DiLieto administration along-side DeStefano. “I think DeSte-fano brought that aspect with his experience, and I think there was a lot of unhappiness with how the city was working at that point in terms of basic management.”

Farnam said that DeStefano played a large role in revitalizing downtown and increasing eco-nomic investment in the city, with projects like 360 State Street and Route 34 bringing developers to New Haven.And while the ini-tial implementation of commu-nity policing began under Dan-iels, Farnam said people believe DeStefano was responsible for putting in place a police team largely credited with the drop of homicide and crime in New Haven.

But for all of his work, DeSte-fano has also had his fair share of struggles.

A scandal engulfed DeStefano’s administration in 1998 when fed-eral funds disappeared from the Livable City Initiative, an anti-blight program that promotes home ownership. DeStefano’s administration was dealt another blow in 2009 when it was forced to pay $2 million to firefighters and $3 million in legal fees after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the city in Ricci v. DeSte-fano, in which the city was con-victed of discriminating against firefighters on a promotional test, as the test results were disquali-fied after none of the black fire-fighters passed.

In 2011, amid a city facing the highest crime rate in nearly two decades and still reeling from the e"ects of the onset of the eco-nomic recession in 2008, DeSte-fano won re-election by his narrowest margin ever, 55-45 percent, against challenger Jef-frey Kerekes, even after choos-ing to opt out of public financing which allowed him to outspend

Kerekes by a 14-1 margin.Ward 10 Alderman Jus-

tin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Conn. Rep. Gary Holder-Win-field, who are both running for DeStefano’s position this Novem-ber, have criticized him for being in o!ce for too long. They have described the mayor as “out of touch” and called for new ideas and fresh faces in City Hall.

When Elicker announced to a crowd of over 100 people last Thursday that he was running for mayor, he said he could not imag-ine being mayor for 20 years, add-ing that the only thing he wanted to do for 20 years was to be mar-ried to his wife.

DeStefano said Tuesday, how-ever, that he disagrees with Elick-er’s sentiment.

“Someone recently said that they couldn’t imagine being mayor for 20 years, and frankly, that’s an observation born of fail-

ure on two counts: first, a fail-ure of imagination, and second, a failure of expectations of all the good and decent people,” DeSte-fano said in his speech.

DeStefano added that after serving for as long as he has, every election is now just him running against himself.

MOVING FORWARDNow that DeStefano is no lon-

ger running, the field for Novem-ber’s election is wide open, with Elicker, Holder-Winfield and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu already having declared their intention to run and other polit-ical figures potentially following their lead.

But even without an incum-bent in this year’s election, the issues remain largely the same.

“The way I think about it is we’re electing someone to run a $600 million business,” Farnam

said. “The biggest challenge is how to deal with the fiscal situa-tion and the state and federal cut-backs in the face of growing needs of the city.”

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Haus-laden ’04 said that a major issue will be continuing school reform and ensuring that the new school buildings and construction are complemented with improving school personnel. Levin agreed, telling the News that he thinks education reform should be the “first priority” of the next mayor.

The next mayor will need to juggle these issues and more, with Salovey’s ascent to the Univer-sity presidency and a new public schools superintendent providing ample opportunity for change.

“I hope we get someone who’s as skilled as he was,” Goldfield said. “We have to have someone with a vision. DeStefano had a vision.”

Though DeStefano said Tues-day night that he does not sup-port any specific candidate, he did share his thoughts on what attributes his successor should have.

“The next guy you hire to replace me: Do not hire a town manager,” DeStefano said. “Hire a mayor who’s going to make deci-sions, stand for something, be willing to be held accountable and get something done for our people.”

But with almost a year still left in o!ce, DeStefano did not ref-erence any specific plans for his post-City Hall life. Instead, he assured the audience that he is “not going anywhere yet.”

Contact DIANA LI at [email protected] .

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FROM THE FRONT 10Terms DeStefano has served as mayorJohn DeStefano Jr. is New Haven’s longest serving mayor. He was also the 2006 Democratic candidate in Connecticut’s governor’s race, but he lost to popular incumbent Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. He has focused on issues of education and public safety in New Haven.

Elicker, Holder-Winfield lead campaign field

Destefano ‘not going anywhere yet’

[DeStefano is] very creative and … would never see things as being irresolvable.

CARL GOLDFIELDFormer president, New Haven Board of

Aldermen


Mayor DeStefano has been crucial in the e!ort to revitalize downtown New Haven and to implement community policing.

A member of the Board of Aldermen representing East Rock, Elicker announced his candidacy last week.

A member of the state House of Representatives representing Hamden and New Haven, Holder-Winfield will file paperwork for his candidacy on Friday.

A New Haven resident and plumber, Keitazulu filed to run in November.

The Hillhouse High School principal, an outspoken critic of DeStefano, said Tuesday he was “strongly considering running.”

A Probate Court Judge and former city clerk, Keyes is reportedly seriously considering a run.

The State Senate Majority Leader, who represents New Haven, said Tuesday it was too early to discuss whether he will run.

The President of the Board of Aldermen declined to say whether he will run, but noted that he is talking to family and colleagues about how he will “continue to serve the city.”

A member of the state House of Representatives representing New Haven, Dillon is yet to say whether she will run.

DESTEFANO FROM PAGE 1

ELECTION FROM PAGE 1

POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR OF NEW HAVENJUSTIN ELICKER FES ‘10 SOM ‘10

GARY HOLDER-WINFIELD SUNDIATA KEITAZULU KERMIT CAROLINA JACK KEYES MARTIN LOONEY JORGE PEREZ PATRICIA DILLON

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BY JULIE PACE AND DARLENE SUPERVILLEASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS — Declar-ing “now is the time” to fix the nation’s broken immigra-tion system, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined broad proposals for putting mil-lions of illegal immigrants on a clear path to citizenship while cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the bor-ders. He hailed a bipartisan Sen-ate group on a similar track but left unresolved key details that could derail the complex and emotional e!ort.

Potential Senate roadblocks center on how to structure the avenue to citizenship and on whether legislation would cover same-sex couples — and that’s all before a Senate mea-sure could be debated, approved and sent to the Republican-con-trolled House where opposition is sure to be stronger.

Obama, who carried Nevada in the November election with heavy Hispanic support, praised the Senate push, saying Con-gress is showing “a genuine desire to get this done soon.” But mindful of previous immigra-tions e!orts that have failed, he warned that the debate would be di"cult and vowed to send his own legislation to Capitol Hill if lawmakers don’t act quickly.

“The question now is sim-ple,” Obama said during a cam-paign-style event in Las Vegas, one week after being sworn in for a second term in the White House. “Do we have the resolve

as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do.”

Shortly after Obama fin-ished speaking, cracks emerged between the White House and the group of eight senators, which put out their propos-als one day ahead of the presi-dent. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, faulted Obama for not making a citizenship path-way contingent on tighter bor-der security, a central tenet of the lawmakers’ proposals.

“The president’s speech left the impression that he believes reforming immigration quickly is more important than reform-ing immigration right,” Rubio said in a statement.

House Speaker John Boehner also responded coolly, with spokesman Brendan Buck say-ing the Ohio Republican hoped the president would be “careful not to drag the debate to the left and ultimately disrupt the dif-ficult work that is ahead in the House and Senate.”

Obama calls for immigration overhaul

BY DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Senate over-whelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama’s choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from col-leagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate For-eign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four years.

No date has been set for Kerry’s swearing-in, but in a letter to Massa-chusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Kerry says his resignation is e!ective at 4 p.m. Fri-day. The State Departments plans a wel-coming ceremony for Kerry on Monday.

Obama tapped Kerry, 69, the son of a diplomat, decorated Vietnam veteran and 2004 Democratic presidential can-didate, to succeed Clinton, who is step-ping down after four years. The Massa-chusetts Democrat, who had pined for the job but was passed over in 2009, has served as Obama’s uno"cial envoy, smoothing fractious ties with Afghani-stan and Pakistan.

“Sen. Kerry will need no introduction to the world’s political and military lead-ers and will begin Day One fully conver-sant not only with the intricacies of U.S. foreign policy, but able to act on a mul-titude of international stages,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who will suc-ceed Kerry as committee chairman.

Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the panel’s top Republican, called Kerry “a realist” who will deal with unrest in Egypt, civil war in Syria, the threat of al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Kerry, a forceful proponent of climate change legislation, also will have a say in whether the United States moves ahead on the Keystone XL pipeline from Can-ada, a divisive issue that has roiled envi-ronmentalists.

Obama had nominated Kerry after

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, removed her name from consideration following criticism from Republicans over her initial comments about the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Voting against Kerry were three Republicans — Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas. Absent from the vote were Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and John Hoeven, R-N.D.

“Sen. Kerry has a long history of lib-eral positions that are not consistent with a majority of Texans,” Cornyn said in a statement. The senator is up for re-election next year and could face a tea party challenge.

Kerry’s smooth path to the nation’s top diplomatic job stands in stark contrast to the harsher treatment for Obama’s other national security nominees — Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary and John Brennan to be CIA director.

Hagel, the former two-term Republi-can senator from Nebraska, faces strong opposition from some of his onetime GOP colleagues who question his sup-

port for reductions in the nuclear arse-nal and cuts in defense spending. Law-makers also have questioned whether he is sufficiently supportive of Israel and strongly opposed to any outreach to Iran.

Democrats have rallied for Hagel, and he has the announced support of at least a dozen members in advance of his con-firmation hearing on Thursday. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi will sup-port Hagel, a spokesman said Tuesday, making him the first Republican to sig-nal he will vote for the nomination.

Six Republicans have said they would vote against him, with some opposing Obama’s choice even before the presi-dent’s announcement.

Brennan faces questions from the GOP about White House leaks of clas-sified information and from Democrats about the administration’s use of drones.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threat-ened to block the nomination of both men until he gets more answers from the Obama administration about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Senate confirms Kerry

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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., shown after a vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become the next secretary of state, replacing Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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“If Syria spirals further into civil war, not only will more civilians die … but instabil-ity will most certainly spill into neighboring states.” HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

BY BRIAN MURPHYASSOCIATED PRESS

KUWAIT CITY — International aid o!cials are framing their lat-est gathering on Syria’s humani-tarian crises in terms not seen in the region since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers pos-sibly swelling toward 1 million, more than double that number in need of help inside the country and political policymaking among Bashar Assad’s foes torn between the battlefield strategies and the civilian costs.

The urgency for a dramatic increase in international relief funds for Syria — seeking total pledges of $1.5 billion — will be the central message Wednes-day in Kuwait from U.N. Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-moon and other leaders such as Jordan’s King Abdullah II, whose nation is struggling with more than 320,000 refugees and more arriv-ing every day.

The meeting also seeks to reorient some of the political cal-culations among Western nations and allies supporting the Syrian rebels. With the civil war near-ing its two-year mark and no end in sight, U.N. o!cials and others are pressing governments to rec-ognize the potential long-term humanitarian burdens and spread resources and support to both the Syrian opposition and the mil-lions of people caught in the con-flict.

“The crisis is not easing on any front,” said Jens Laerke, a spokes-man for the U.N. o!ce in charge of coordinating humanitarian a"airs. “It’s relentless.”

The venue in Kuwait also high-lights the increasingly high-pro-file role of Persian Gulf nations in Syria’s civil war.

The Gulf states, led by Qatar

and Saudi Arabia, have been key backers of the political opposi-tion against Assad and have urged for stepped up arms shipments to rebel fighters — a call that has met resistance from the U.S. and Western allies fearing that heavy weapons could reach Islamist militant factions that have joined the rebellion.

Now, the wealthy Gulf nations may come under direct calls to significantly boost contributions for U.N.-led humanitarian e"orts in addition to their own pledges, including $100 million promised by Saudi Arabia in December for Syrian relief and $5 million from the United Arab Emirates this month for the refugees in Jordan.

Representatives from more than 60 nations are expected at the one-day conference, possi-bly including envoys from Assad’s main allies Iran and Russia. They are unlikely to be put under spe-cific diplomatic pressures, but could face uncomfortable descriptions of civilian deaths in a nearly 2-year-old civil war that the U.N. says has claimed more than 60,000 lives.

Last week at the World Eco-nomic Forum in Davos, Switzer-land, Turkey’s Foreign Minis-ter Ahmet Davutoglu said Syria’s bombardment of citizens should be declared a war crime and aid groups must be given greater access to help displaced or suf-fering people inside the coun-

try. Relief groups, however, have struggled in Syria because of shifting front lines and risks of kidnapping or convoys comman-deered. The U.N. also has pulled back some sta" in Damascus as fighting intensified in the capital.

Also in Davos, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, called the Syrian humanitarian situation “already catastrophic.”

“What we are seeing now are the consequences of the failure of the international community to unite to resolve the crisis,” she said before heading to Damascus for a two-day visit that included talks with Syrian o!cials.

While the Kuwait meeting is certain to showcase the strong international coalition against

Assad’s regime, it also will under-score the shortfall in nailing down funds for humanitarian relief.

Laerke said the U.N. has in hand less than 4 percent of $519 million sought for aid inside Syria. Nearly $1 billion more in emergency money is now needed for the refugee influx into neigh-boring nations. U.N. o!cials say more than 21,000 Syrian refugees have arrived at Jordan’s sole refu-gee camp in just the past week.

“This is the just the six-month price tag,” he said. “This just gets us through the middle of year.”

On the eve of the Kuwait meet-ing, President Barack Obama authorized an additional $155 mil-lion in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people as his administra-

tion grapples for a way to stem the violence there without direct U.S. military involvement.

The fresh funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian aid to Syria over two years to $365 mil-lion, according to the White House. O!cials said the money was being used to immunize one million Syrian children, purchase winter supplies for a half million people, and to help alleviate food shortages.

“The relief we send doesn’t say `Made in America,’ but make no mistake — our aid reflects the commitment of the American people,” Obama said in a video announcing the additional fund-ing, which was posted on the White House website.

The European Union also promised another 100 million euros ($134 million) for Syrian relief aid, said the EU humanitar-ian aid commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, in Brussels.

“They seem to be taking the appeals more seriously now when the conflict appears to be tak-ing the shape of a crisis that will last for some time,” said Ayham Kamel, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group in London. “Most expected the Assad regime would be toppled by now, end-ing the crisis. In reality, however, the Assad regime is still there and the international community has no alternative but to face the cri-sis and managing refugees costs money.”

UN seeks aid boost for Syrian ‘catastrophe’

BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLOASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took o!ce promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico’s drug cartels continue unabated.

Only the government’s talk about them has dropped.

Eighteen members of a band and its retinue were kidnapped and apparently slain over the weekend in the north-ern border state of Nuevo Leon by gun-men who asked them to name their car-tel a!liation before they were shot and dumped in a well. Fourteen prisoners and nine guards died in an attempted prison escape in Durango state. Nine men were slain Christmas eve in Sinaloa. In the state of Mexico, which borders the capi-tal, more than a dozen bodies were found last week, some dismembered.

The difference under this adminis-tration is that there have been no major press conferences announcing more troops or federal police for drug-plagued hotspots. Gone are the regular parades of newly arrested drug suspects before the media with their weapons, cash or con-traband.

Pena Nieto has been mum, instead touting education, fiscal and energy

reforms. On Monday, he told a summit of Latin American and Caribbean lead-ers in Chile that he wants Mexico to focus on being a player in solving world and regional problems.

Some political observers praise him for trying to change the conversation and presenting an alternative face of Mexico. Critics suggest the country’s new leaders believe that the best way to solve a secu-rity crisis is to create distractions.

“What Pena Nieto is doing is ... sweep-ing violence under the rug in hopes that no one notices,” said security expert Jorge Chabat. “It can be e"ective in the short term, until the violence becomes so obvi-ous that you can’t change the subject.”

The Pena Nieto government declined to respond publicly to the critics. But in

an interview last month with The Asso-ciated Press, he said he would not put any goals or deadlines on his campaign against organized crime and would focus on prevention.

“That way we avoid generating fertile ground where violence and insecurity can keep growing,” Pena Nieto said.

Secretary of Interior Jose Osorio Chong had a closed-door meeting with the gov-ernors of Mexico’s central states about security on Monday. In a press confer-ence afterward, he promised to increase patrols along a highway system already bristling with military and police road-blocks and checkpoints.

The apparent weekend killing of 18 members of Kombo Kolombia, which had played at a private performance late Thursday, was the largest mass kidnap-ping and killing since 20 tourists disap-peared and were later found dead in 2011 near the resort city of Acapulco. Search-ers this week were pulling bodies from a well in northern Mexico that they said likely belonged to the band.

An area known as the Laguna, where Coahuila and Durango states meet, has been the scene of numerous battles between factions of the Sinaloa and the Zetas cartels.

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The recruit, who helped lead De La Salle High School to a perfect 15–0 season, verbally committed to Yale last week. Egu recorded 42 tackles and seven sacks total, intercepted a pass and recovered two fumbles while playing defensive end for the Spartans.

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NCAAMVirginia 58NC State 55

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NCAAWConnecticut 76Villanova 43

“It was just nice to see happy faces on the kids.”

JOHN REESE ’16MIDFIELDER,

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AUSTIN MORGAN ’13 AND JUSTIN SEARS ’16ELIS PULL IN TWO IVY AWARDSMorgan was named co-Ivy League Player of the Week along with Har-vard’s Christian Webster after scoring 16 points and going 4–6 from down-town in Yale’s 76–64 win over Brown. Sears was named Player of the Week for his 18-point, eight-rebound e!ort.

NFL INJURY RESEARCHNFLPA TO FUND HARVARD STUDYThe National Football League Player’s Association plans to award $100 million to Harvard over 10 years to study and treat player injuries and illnesses. The move comes as part of a broader shift in the league’s focus on concussion-related brain injuries.

BY FREDERICK FRANKCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Last Friday, 20 members of the Yale men’s lacrosse team made the 45-minute trip to Newtown, Conn., to conduct a clinic with the New-town lacrosse community.

Head coach Andy Shay and his players spent five hours with chil-dren ranging from second to eighth grade at the Newtown Youth Lacrosse indoor facility. The Yale players said they aimed to bring a sense of normalcy back to a commu-nity still recovering from the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children.

“Driving in was pretty eerie and very somber and it made the whole thing feel very real,” sophomore defensemen David Better ’15 said.

Players ran shooting drills for the older kids and gave individual suggestions on how to hone their lacrosse skills. The younger partic-ipants played sharks and minnows at the facilityand watched while the Yale athletes demonstrated the plays

themselves. “It didn’t matter if the kids

couldn’t play well. It was just nice too see happy faces on the kids,” midfielder John Reese ’16 said.

After the clinic finished, the Elis huddled together with the Newtown lacrosse community and passed out Yale paraphernalia including hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts and draw-string bags. Before the team left, it took pictures with the children and coaches from the Newtown clinic.

Team captain Michael McCor-mack ’13 said the most rewarding part of the trip was when a Newtown coach presented the team with a jer-sey labeled No. 26. The team said it plans on hanging the jersey in the locker room this coming season to honor and remember the victims of the Newtown shooting.

The Bulldogs said they were proud to know they were able to bring hap-piness into a community that is in desperate need of positives.

“It felt amazing to be able to give these kids an experience that they will remember from this age in their life instead of just the tragedy,” mid-fielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. Fla-herty added that coaches, parents and members of the Newtown com-munity expressed palpable gratitute to the Bulldogs.

The Elis face o! in a scrimmage against Le Moyne on Feb. 9.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at [email protected] .

Men’s lacrosse visits Newtown

BY CHARLES CONDROSTAFF REPORTER

Players who are recruited by PAC-12 schools do not often come to the Ivy League, but that is exactly what outside linebacker Victor Egu has decided to do.

The Concord, Calif. native reneged on his verbal commitment to attend the University of Califor-nia, Berkeley last week and said that he has verbally committed to Yale.

Fans of the Elis will have to wait to see him in the Yale Bowl, how-ever, according to Egu’s former head coach at De La Salle High School, Justin Alumbaug.

“Victor will first be attending a prep school,” Alumbaugh said in an email to the News. “Then he intends on going to Yale.”

While ESPN had reported that Egu received offers from schools such as Oregon and Notre Dame — which both finished in the top five of the Associated Press final poll this season — the four-star recruit has become the highest-ranked recruit in the Ivy League this sea-son. Egu could not be reached for comment.

Mercurynews.com first reported that Egu would be switching his commitment to the Elis on Jan. 26. In the report, Egu said that aca-demics were an integral part of his decision.

“Education was also a factor,” Egu said in the article. “I know football isn’t everything and with a degree from Yale, I’ll have a wide range of opportunities.”

Reno declined to comment on the signing, citing NCAA regulations.

“It’s an NCAA rule and it’s also an Ivy [League] rule,” Reno said. “We can’t comment until after the player has matriculated in May.”

In 2012, Egu helped lead De La Salle to a perfect 15–0 season and

its fourth consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Open Division state title. He recorded 42 total tackles and seven sacks, inter-cepted a pass and recovered two fumbles while playing defensive end for the Spartans.

Egu joins a strong Yale recruit-ing class. O!ensive lineman Mason Friedline is a 6’5” 280-pound three-star recruit from Shore-line, Wash., who committed to the Bulldogs last Aug. 7. Earlier this month, redshirt freshman quarter-back Morgan Roberts announced his decision to transfer to Yale from Clemson.

Roberts was the third string

quarterback in Death Valley behind first-team all-ACC quarterback Tajh Boyd and sophomore signal caller Cole Stoudt. He appeared in just one game for the Tigers, com-pleting two of three passes for 20 yards in a 52–27 blowout of Ball State on Sept. 8.

Although NCAA rules normally require transfer students to com-plete an “academic year in resi-dence” before competing, Rob-erts may be able to compete for the Bulldogs next fall. The NCAA could waive the year in residence require-ment because Roberts will be trans-ferring from a scholarship program in the Football Bowl Subdivision to

a university that competes in the Football Championship Subdivision and does not award athletic schol-arships.

In 2012, Egu helped lead De La Salle to a perfect 15–0 season and its fourth consecutive California Interscholastic Federation Open Division state title. Egu recorded 42 total tackles and seven sacks, inter-cepted a pass and recovered two fumbles while playing defensive end for the Spartans.

Yale will kick o! the 2013 season on Saturday, Sept. 21 at Colgate.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at [email protected] .

Elis land top recruit

Last Saturday, world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka defeated sixth seeded Li Na 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to claim her second consecutive Australian Open title. The Belarusian was the more consistent of the two players and her strokes seemed to become stronger as the match went on. Meanwhile, Li’s improved forehand broke down as the match extended and the Chinese player fell in her sec-ond trip to the Australian Open finals.

But this final was far more than a story about groundstroke consistency. The real tale of the match was each player’s extraordinary faith in herself and commitment to winning.

This final had the makings of a great match from the outset. The number one player in the world was playing against the most impressive player in the tournament up to that point. Both players were already champions, having each won a Grand Slam tournament and appeared in another final. Both players fully understood the stakes.

For Li Na the pressure was immense. When she advanced to the Australian Open final in 2011 an estimated 120 million people watched the match in her native China. At that time she was attempting to become the first Chinese ten-nis singles Grand Slam champion. In that match Li won the first set as she did in 2013. However, in 2011 the moment seemed too big for her as she lost her mental focus and allowed Kim Clijsters to win the next two sets to claim the title.

In 2013 Li seemed to have learned from her past experience. With crowd behind her she appeared fully composed. In her post match interview she said, “I can hear a lot of Chinese fans, yeah … I was, oh, looks like China Open.” Again, she began the match well and claimed the first set, 6–4 applying constant pressure on Azarenka’s serve, breaking the world number one three times. But although she took the set, Li dropped two ser-vice games and struggled with her own serve throughout the set. In the second and third sets, as Azarenka’s serve becamse stronger and her holds easier, Li’s serve became a liability.

The match included a number of bizarre delays. First, during the second set Li turned her ankle, an injury that looked more serious than it ended up being. Then, at the start of the third set play was interrupted by fireworks celebrat-ing Australia Day. Finally, the point immediately after the fireworks delay ended when Li turned her ankle a second time and slammed her head onto the Plexicushion court. Throughout all of this Azarenka kept her cool. The delays, and the partisan crowd who cheered for her demise failed to a!ect her.

Azarenka has been no stranger to controver-sial delays. Two days earlier in the semifinal she defeated Sloan Stephens, a 19-year-old Ameri-can who had knocked o! Serena Williams. In the second set Azarenka served for the match but was unable to convert on any of her five match points. During the change over Azarenka called for the trainer claiming a need for a medical timeout. The timeout was given and Azarenka was allowed to leave the court for ten minutes to receive med-ical attention. Many commentators and fans felt the timeout was dubious given the peculiar tim-ing. Azarenka had not seemed to have had an injury at any time during the match. Also, it was clear her nerves were getting the best of her as she tried to serve out the match. Many felt that Azarenka had stretched the rules to give herself a better chance at victory. In fact, the next day the New York Times called the incident The Time-out Jeered Around the World. Due to this back-drop the crowd at the women’s final supported Li as passionately as they booed Azarenka.

While she may not be the most liked No. 1 ever, with this victory Azarenka must be commended on her fighting spirit. Only five months ago she surrendered a 5–3 lead in the US Open final to Williams. In the press conference after the disap-pointing loss she said, “When there is still a point you always have a chance.” Azarenka fights to the end. Though she was not victorious in New York her fighting spirit carried her in Melbourne. That is why she is the world No. 1.

Contact DAVID CARTY at [email protected] .

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The four-star recruit, Victor Egu, verbally committed to Yale last week.

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The Bulldogs went to the Newtown Youth Lacrosse facility and conducted a five-hour clinic with the local children.

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