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Love in this club. If you didn’t find your soulmate at Toad’s last night, don’t worry. Today is Valentine’s Day — otherwise known as “Singles Awareness Day” — and Cupid is reportedly out and about shooting his arrows of love all across campus. And in any case, there’s always Saturday night Toad’s. Or lab. Or section. Or SigEp tonight. Anyway, there are plenty of fish in the sea, so don’t worry.

Brainiacs on campus. Two Yalies have been named Gates Scholars, recipients of a prestigious scholarship that funds postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Matt Shafer ’13, who is involved with the nuclear weapons abolition advocacy group Global Zero at Yale, will pursue a M.Phil. degree in political thought and intellectual history, and physics major Rachel Kurchin ’13 will pursue an M.Phil. degree in materials science. Kurchin has a background in environmental issues, including climate change and renewable energy.

Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Maybe in Morse dining hall. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Morse College will open its dining hall balcony for performances tonight, a once-a-year event that is expected to draw Shakespeare enthusiasts and wannabe actors to the venue. Members of the Morse College Council will act as judges and award “fabulous” prizes to top participants.

On a break. J. Press, the clothing store on York Street that has dressed the University’s gentlemen for more than a century, is temporarily closed after a portion of its front gambrel roof wall dislodged from the roof framing and interior walls, according to the Yale Alumni Magazine. The store will reopen temporarily at 976 Chapel St., conveniently between Ann Taylor and Shake Shack.

Questionable statistics. The National Jurist has released its rankings of top law schools, and the results are, well, surprising. After compiling data taken in part from RateMyProfessors.com, the National Jurist ranked Yale 13th in the country, after Harvard, Columbia, the University of Alabama, Texas Tech University and Louisiana State University. Yale Law School received an A in the “employment” category, but a D in “professor availability” as measured by The Princeton Review.

Good news or bad news? Though New Haven Public Schools will remain closed this week, Elm City students will meet next week during their scheduled February break to make up for lost time.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1966 Pro-segregation Sen. Allen J. Ellender is scheduled to discuss Africa at a Yale Political Union meeting.

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BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

Last Thursday marked the fourth and final public hearing addressing New Haven charter revision.

At each of the meetings held by the Board of Aldermen-appointed charter revision com-mission, city residents testified about potential changes to New Haven’s charter, which dictates the regulations that govern the structure of the city. According to commission members and alder-men, about 100 people attended each meeting, discussing issues including reforming the Board of Education, adopting potential term lengths and limits for pub-lic officials, strengthening the Civilian Review Board — a group that reviews complaints against police — and changing the size of the Board of Aldermen. But as the commission’s final pro-posal is not due before the Board of Aldermen until May, the next task for commission members will be to incorporate public opinions when they draft recom-mendations for charter revision.

“I think it was pretty healthy turnout at all four of the meet-ings, and everyone who wanted to testify had a chance to. The public was given a really excel-lent opportunity,” said Caleb Kleppner ’89, a member of the commission. “I thought the pub-lic hearing process was excellent,

Charter revision moves

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BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

Few Yale students expect to find last-ing love in Toad’s or GPSCY, but fairy tales can take root within the walls of Yale’s finest social establishments — and the 27-year marriage of President-elect Peter Salovey and Marta Moret SPH ’84 is proof.

The tale of Peter and Marta traces its beginning to fall 1983. Salovey had just been elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and he would soon experience the first of many presidential perks: meeting Moret, his vice president for communica-tions. Salovey had just entered GPSCY Bar on York Street for a GPSS meeting

when he first laid eyes on Moret, and Moret remembers the moment vividly because, she alleged, Salovey put his glasses on to get a better look when she introduced herself to the group. But if it was love at first sight, it wasn’t quite reciprocated.

“She at first tried to fix me up with a classmate at the public health school,” Salovey said. “But I persevered.”

Hard work and perseverance may be the root of success, but it did not take much of either before Salovey and Moret decided to go out on their first date: After the second GPSS meeting, the pair agreed to meet up over burg-ers at the Brass Button, a now-defunct New Haven burger joint. The second date followed its fancy precedent when

the pair went to a lunch in Coxe Cage for the Association of Yale Alumni tailgate at the Yale-Princeton football game that year, and then the relationship started gaining momentum. For the third date, Moret flew out to Chicago to accom-pany Salovey to his friend’s wedding over Thanksgiving break.

Two years and countless dates later, Salovey decided to take his relationship with Moret to the next level. The night before the two-year anniversary of their first date, Salovey hid an engagement ring in the pocket of a pair of pants he hoped Moret would wear the next day — and Moret’s fashion sense did not fail her.

BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

University President Richard Levin may only have four and a half months left in o!ce, but when it comes to fundraising, Yale’s leader of 20 years has no intentions of easing up now.

Levin said the University is currently negotiating a number of large donations which he said could raise this year’s fund-raising total well above last year’s, though he declined to comment on the precise num-ber or size of the potential gifts. Vice Pres-ident for Development Joan O’Neill said in an email that the fundraising total for new gifts and pledges is higher now than this time last year, a positive result of what Levin called an informal push for donations at the end of his presidency. Levin and O’Neill said the donations will primarily fund core bud-get expenses in order to create a comfort-able fiscal starting point for President-elect Peter Salovey when he takes o!ce this sum-mer.

“It’s my last year, and I am trying to raise some significant gifts,” Levin said. “The number of significant conversations going on is pretty large, so hopefully we’ll end up with a year that is considerably better than last year.”

The promising number of gifts and pos-sible donations may be a direct result of more assertive fundraising on the parts of Salovey, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and other members of the faculty and devel-

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKASTAFF REPORTER

As Yale-NUS prepares to wel-come its inaugural class of stu-dents, it is constructing a visit-ing faculty that will include some prominent Yale names.

Though the two institutions will

remain separate, 34 Yale faculty members will travel to Singapore over the next four years to teach semester-long courses and inten-sive one- and two-week seminars. Thirteen of these professors, called consulting faculty, will advise Yale-NUS faculty and administra-tors on the new college’s curricu-

lum, while also teaching or holding guest lectures at Yale-NUS. Visit-ing faculty will only receive com-pensation from Yale-NUS for their teaching at the liberal arts college, while consulting professors, who may continue working from New

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President-elect Peter Salovey and Marta Moret SPH ’84 have been married for 27 years.

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Yale-NUS administrators will bring Yale faculty to Singapore for visiting and consulting professorships.

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NEWSBY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG

STAFF REPORTER

The Yale College Council is working on expanding mixed-gen-der housing to sophomores after the Yale Corporation approved a proposal to extend the option to juniors last spring.

The YCC’s four-person Gen-der-Neutral Housing Commit-tee will survey freshmen as well as juniors currently in mixed-gender suites for the proposal for soph-omore gender-neutral housing it plans to submit to administra-tors soon after spring break. YCC members said they think that as gender-neutral housing for juniors and seniors has proved success-ful, it is time to extend the policy to sophomores. Students and admin-istrators involved in last year’s junior mixed-gender proposal said the YCC must include a large amount of data and survey infor-mation in its proposal for it to pass.

“More and more, we have seen that this policy has enhanced stu-dent life at Yale, and concerns that the option might be detrimental have gone down,” YCC Treasurer Joey Yagoda ’14 said. “The prelim-

inary data the new committee has collected gives us reason to think this policy is benefiting the juniors and seniors using it.”

Administrators first approved gender-neutral housing for seniors in 2010, and after the YCC submit-ted a report requesting to extend the option to juniors in December 2011, University President Rich-ard Levin and the Yale Corporation approved the YCC’s proposal the following February.

In spring 2011, an earlier YCC proposal to expand gender-neu-tral housing to juniors was rejected because administrators said they needed to review more data to determine the success of the seniors’ program.

“The greatest impediment to the policy’s expansion to juniors was simply time,” former YCC President Brandon Levin ’14 said. “The Corporation wanted to see that there had been successful implementation of the policy in senior suites.”

Levin added that provid-ing enough data about the e!ec-tiveness of the policy in senior and junior suites will be criti-cal to whether the new proposal

is accepted. Yagoda said he thinks that the committee can currently make a strong case for sophomore gender-neutral housing because four cohorts of data exist — three years of gender-neutral housing for seniors and one for juniors.

Still, YCC President John Gon-zalez ’14 said the policy most likely will not be implemented by the fall.

Martha Glodz ’15, a member of the YCC’s Gender-Neutral Hous-ing Committee, said the commit-tee will take several steps to gather data for its final report. On Sun-day, the YCC sent out a survey that asked freshmen and sophomores if they would support expanding gender-neutral housing to soph-omores and asked sophomores if they would consider living in a gender-neutral suite during their junior year. The survey was not sent to juniors or seniors. The committee will also meet with all juniors currently living in gender-neutral suites to gather feedback, Glodz added.

Assistant Dean of Student A!airs Melanie Boyd ’90, who sup-ported extending gender-neutral housing to juniors, said she thinks now is an “appropriate” time for

the YCC to consider the option for sophomores. John Meeske, dean of undergraduate organizations and physical resources, said he would “recommend the policy” and Dean of Student A!airs Marichal Gentry said he “would not be opposed” to the policy. Both Gentry and Meeske said they have not heard of any specific issues that have arisen out of mixed-gender suites.

“This policy gives students more options, and it makes sense to make it available to people who feel strongly about it, especially because there are such small num-bers involved,” Meeske said.

Council of Masters Chair Jon-athan Holloway said that when members of the Council first con-sidered allowing seniors to live in mixed-gender suites in 2010, they discussed whether the policy would work for juniors and sopho-mores as well and concluded that it would not be e!ective for soph-omores. He added that he does not currently support mixed-gender suites for sophomores.

“There was a feeling that devel-opmentally, sophomores are not ready for mixed-gender suites,” he said. “There are a whole host

of cognitive and social abilities sophomores are still forming, and I think many are not quite ready for the interesting complications that may arise from gender-neu-tral housing.”

All eight freshmen interviewed said they would support giving sophomores the option to live in gender-neutral housing.

Helena Mauer ’16 said she “would definitely consider living

with some of her guy friends,” add-ing that “the policy would be more fair to people of various sexual per-suasions.”

The only other Ivies that restrict sophomores from participating in gender-neutral housing are Cor-nell and Princeton.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at

kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

“Mental health needs a great deal of atten-tion. It’s the final taboo, and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ADAM ANT ENGLISH MUSICIAN

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BY JOHN AROUTIOUNIANSTAFF REPORTER

In the wake of a renewed national focus on mental health services after a gunman left 27 people dead in Newtown, Conn., last December, Gov. Dannel Malloy has released a budget for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addic-tion Services that increases funding for young adult services, but may leave some of the state’s most vulnerable patients without public assistance.

The proposed budget calls for an increase in support for home and com-munity-based services, in addition to brain injury placements and help for ado-lescent and early adult patients. But the plan also reduces funding for legal ser-vices and testing, including eliminating $1.3 million for research at the Yale-a"l-iated Connecticut Mental Health Center.

Jan VanTassel, attorney and executive director of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, said the cuts will have a “seri-ous” effect on her organization’s abil-ity to provide mentally disabled indi-viduals and their families with the legal representation they need to stay in their homes and get much-needed care. The agency works with clients who face evic-tion, whose housing subsidies are threat-ened, and individuals who need disability assistance to be able to enter and exit their homes. CLRP did not anticipate the elim-ination of a significant portion of its state funding.

“I was stunned,” VanTassel said. “We have always had a very strong working relationship with [the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services], and we often get direct referrals from DMHAS sta!.”

CLRP employees have been operat-ing under a salary freeze for the past two years, and VanTassel acknowledged that the cuts, if enacted, will result in “imme-diate layo!s” of legal personnel.

“We will need an additional $493,000 to be operational in the next fiscal year.

What this means in terms of impact on clients is that we’re not going to be able to conduct housing and disability advo-cacy,” VanTassel added. “Some will likely lose their housing.”

Malloy’s press secretary Juliet Mana-lan declined to comment on the cuts and referred the News to the budget speech the governor delivered last week in Hart-ford, in which he proposed reducing ser-vices spending by $1.8 billion.

“The governor has made it very clear that budget cuts were necessary,” she said.

Connecticut is projected to end the current fiscal year on June 30 alone with a budget deficit of $140 million.

The cuts will also have an immediate impact on services in New Haven, where the Connecticut Mental Health Center is located. State Rep. Juan Candelaria, D-New Haven, told the New Haven Inde-pendent in a Feb. 8 article that the elim-ination of funding will directly affect the care that patients in the city receive through the research funding used by the center for treatment. He said he opposes the proposed cuts in Malloy’s budget for DMHAS.

But DMHAS spokeswoman Mary Kate Mason emphasized that the budget for the department will increase as a result of “caseload growth” among young adults requiring mental health services. Mason also said that the budget figures — includ-ing the cut in CMHC funding — reflects an anticipated increase in assistance from the federal government, with continued implementation of the A!ordable Care Act of 2010.

“The governor’s proposed budget for DMHAS increases funding for available community services and accounts for the reduction in need for state subsidies for under- and uninsured individuals as a result of the A!ordable Care Act,” Mason said. “Mental health services are one of the core services provided for under the A!ordable Health Care Act, so it is antic-ipated that mental health services will be

more widely available.”It remains unclear, however, whether

those who are not covered by the A!ord-able Care Act and who do not receive pub-lic health benefits will be able to receive mental health treatment following the implementation of the budget for fiscal year 2014.

The overhaul also has other groups, including the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, con-cerned. Sara Frankel, part of the public policy team at the organization, expressed mixed feelings with the projected budget.

“We’re pleased to see an increase in the line item for young adult services, and we’re thankful that Gov. Malloy recog-nizes the need to expand the state’s work with more young adults,” Frankel said.

But she also called the proposed cuts “concerning,” noting that legal advocacy often represents the key factor in guar-anteeing a patient’s unhindered access to needed care. While state laws di!er, many have regulations that do not accept new patients in the public system until they prove themselves “dangerous” by hurt-ing themselves or someone in the com-munity.

In explaining her surprise at the deci-sion, VanTassel said that the governor has previously been receptive to the need for e!ective legal services for patients with mental illness.

“At a reception last year for people in the profession, Gov. Malloy called legal services the ‘safety net of safety nets,’” VanTassel said.

Another problem with cutting legal advocacy funding is the “ridiculously low” salaries that are generally o!ered to attorneys who are recruited to work on behalf of mentally disordered patients, VanTassel said.

Malloy’s proposed budget increases spending overall by 5.1 percent in fiscal year 2014.

Contact JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

Mental health budget overhauled

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard released a report on mas-ter’s programs Wednesday, fol-lowing a comprehensive review of Yale’s doctoral programs con-ducted in 2011.

The report, which was com-piled by Pollard’s o"ce, examined the 20 terminal master’s programs — one- or two-year programs that do not transition into a Yale doc-toral program — administered by the Graduate School of Art and Sciences. Based on interviews with faculty and a comprehen-sive survey of the 200 students enrolled in the programs, the report recommends that depart-ments review their master’s pro-grams, create a system to track graduates from each program after graduation, conduct regular surveys and find ways to recognize the role master’s students play in relation to other parts of the Uni-versity.

According to the report, 84 percent of master’s students said they would recommend their pro-grams to others, but many felt master’s students were prioritized below the more numerous under-graduate and doctoral candidates and suggested improvements to advising, course offerings and workspace options.

“Terminal master’s programs constitute a small fraction of the education that we provide at Yale, but they are important to students in certain areas,” Pollard said. “Finding out whether they meet the needs of these students was the goal of the study.”

Carl Hashimoto, Gradu-ate School assistant dean, said the Dean’s O"ce wanted to take a separate look at the one- and two-year master’s programs to assess where these students fit into the framework of the Gradu-ate School, which is largely com-posed of doctoral candidates. He said the Dean’s O"ce interviewed the directors of graduate studies for each program that has terminal master’s students and conducted a thorough survey of enrolled stu-dents through the O"ce of Insti-tutional Research.

Hashimoto said the report indi-cated the master’s experience var-ied across disciplines and depart-ments. Students in the humanities expressed the highest degree of satisfaction with their programs, and students in the hard sciences expressed the lowest level of sat-isfaction. One-hundred percent of humanities students, compared to 51 percent of science and 55 per-cent of social science students, said they are “very satisfied” with the quality of instruction and fac-ulty interaction.

Hashimoto added that these results suggest the Graduate School and its individual depart-ments should re-examine the pro-grams with lower satisfaction rat-ings and consider ways to improve student experience with faculty.

“I think the hope is that this report provides a base for assess-

ment and reflection that make change possible,” Hashimoto said. “We wanted to gain information that would be useful for the pro-grams themselves, and ultimately for the Dean’s O"ce.”

The number of applications to master’s programs has doubled in the past 10 years, according to the report, and there has been a roughly 50 percent increase in the number of admissions o!ers extended.

Holly Rushmeier, chair of the Computer Science Depart-ment, said the increase in appli-cations reflects a national trend, as employers look for people with experience beyond their under-graduate program but do not require the intense research train-ing students receive in doctoral programs.

But despite the increase, mas-ter’s students remain a small per-centage of the overall campus student body. In the 2011–’12 aca-demic year, roughly 200 students were enrolled in terminal master’s programs, compared to roughly 2,500 doctoral students and over 5,000 undergraduates. Only four of the 20 programs have more than 15 students per year, and nine of the 20 programs have five or fewer.

Hashimoto said the report revealed that most students applied to pursue terminal mas-ter’s degrees either as a precur-sor to further graduate work or in anticipation of directly enter-ing the workforce, which he said makes it di"cult to address some of the issues that emerge from dif-ferent departments because pro-gram participants have di!erent goals.

Aaron Gerow, director of grad-uate studies for East Asian Stud-ies, said he hopes the report will remind faculty that the master’s programs, while small, are still an important part of the Graduate School.

“My general take on this report is that in general Yale is doing a very good job with its master’s programs, but that in itself should be better known,” Gerow said. “I think Yale should be a little bit more aware of the importance of both the master’s students and these master’s programs.”

Eleven of Yale’s 12 professional schools administer separate mas-ter’s programs that were not examined in the Graduate School report.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at

jane.menton@yale.edu .

Master’s programs reviewed

The hope is that this report provides a base for assessment and reflection that make change possible.

CARL HASHIMOTOAssistant dean, Graduate School

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Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposal would cut $1.3 million of research funding for the Yale-a!liated Connecticut Mental Health Center.

YCC advocates sophomore mixed-gender housing

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The Yale College Council’s Gender-Neutral Housing Committee is consid-ering extending mixed-gender housing to sophomores.

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opment staff, whom Levin and O’Neill said are also meeting with donors. O’Neill told the News in September that she expected this push in light of Levin’s departure.

The collective push has been informal, Levin added, but it is “doing pretty well.”

“The fact that President Levin is retiring and is dedicating sig-nificant time to fundraising is one important factor helping this year’s totals,” O’Neill said, also mentioning efforts from other members of the Yale community

contributing to fundraising.Salovey, who will step into the

presidency on June 30, is also busy meeting with donors. He said in an email Wednesday that he has been traveling to meet with donors as president-elect over the past two months, and will continue to travel within the United States, Europe and Asia to meet with individuals who have donated to Yale in the past.

The donations the University raises will support existing bud-get expenses, such as financial aid, existing professorships and unrestricted current use, O’Neill said.

Until the gifts for the core expenses are secured, Levin and others will continue their regu-lar conversations with donors. Levin told the News he had five fundraising meetings scheduled in New York on Wednesday.

“I suspect it will be a very good year,” he added.

According to the most recent Council for Aid to Education report, Yale raised $580 million in donations in 2011, the third-larg-est college and university total in the country.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Levin steps up fundraising e!orts before departure

Haven, will maintain their Yale salaries and receive an honorar-ium if they choose to teach.

Yale-NUS Dean of Fac-ulty Charles Bailyn said that the presence of Yale profes-sors at the Singaporean liberal arts college will strengthen the links between the two schools, though he added that the two institutions will remain operat-ing independently.

“Even though it’s impor-tant that [Yale and Yale-NUS] are two separate institutions, a close relationship between the two is desirable,” Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said. “This is an opportunity for Yale to put its mark on Yale-NUS and for Yale faculty to advise us on how to proceed. One of their big responsibilities will be quality control, to give advice on what’s working and what isn’t work-ing.”

Lewis said the arrangement will benefit Yale faculty inter-ested in learning more about the new college and research-ing the region while also giving Yale-NUS students a chance to “experience what a Yale class-room is like.” Yale-NUS students will not receive Yale credit upon

completing courses taught by Yale faculty.

Lewis and Bailyn said they expected Yale faculty to be a part of the Yale-NUS community since the new liberal arts college was first conceived.

Bailyn added that the 34 pro-fessors will not all work at Yale-NUS at the same time, and Lewis said four visiting professors are scheduled to teach at the new college next year.

Lewis said all consulting fac-ulty members have already con-tributed to the development of the Yale-NUS curriculum, add-ing that they will continue to give their input in matters such as constructing a tenure sys-tem for the college and devel-oping specific majors. Though the visiting professors’ rela-tionship with the college is not as developed, Lewis said they could become the next cohort of consulting professors. He added that Yale-NUS administrators emailed Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to solicit applica-tions for positions at Yale-NUS.

Twelve visiting professors interviewed said they see the opportunity to teach at Yale-NUS as an adventure and added that they are excited to bring some of the Singaporean col-

lege’s curricular innovations back to Yale. Though most of the professors said they are mind-ful of the political controversies surrounding human rights and civil liberties in Singapore, they added that they expect to pur-sue their intellectual endeavors unhindered while in Singapore.

“I have spoken with many current faculty at NUS, who have persuaded me that most students and faculty at NUS feel

free to speak openly and criti-cally, and I know the leaders of Yale-NUS have worked hard to ensure freedom of inquiry at the new college,” said history pro-fessor George Chauncey, who will teach a course on “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History” and

a seminar on the global his-tory of gay and anti-gay poli-tics in the 20th century. “I am deeply impressed by the cour-age, creativity, sophistication and achievements of the many lesbian and gay activists I have met there.”

French professor and Chair of the Humanities Department Howard Bloch said he is particu-larly interested to see how Yale-

NUS integrates great works of both the Eastern and Western traditions in its curriculum, an endeavor he said does not cur-rently exist at Yale. Bloch added that “Yale has much to learn” from the Singaporean college’s curriculum development e!orts.

Biology professor Frank Slack said he is excited to experiment with novel pedagogical tech-niques — such as courses based

on active and experiential learn-ing — while teaching at Yale-NUS.

Approximately 40 professors attended an information session about the visiting and consult-ing professorships at Yale-NUS.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at

aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Yale-NUS adds visiting and consulting professors

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Thirty-four Yale faculty members will teach at Yale-NUS over the next four years.

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University President Richard Levin plans to continue fundraising aggressively throughout his final four and a half months in o!ce.

V I S I T I N G P R O F E S S O R S

STEPHEN ANDERSONDorothy R Diebold Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science

CAROL BASCOM-SLACKMolecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Lecturer

HOWARD BLOCHSterling Professor of French, Chair of the Humanities Program

GEORGE CHAUNCEYSamuel Knight Professor of History

ALESSANDRO GOMEZProfessor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences

PHILIP GORSKIProfessor of Sociology and Religious Studies

RON GREGGSenior Lecturer in Film Studies, American Studies and LGBT Studies

VALERIE HANSENProfessor of History

AMY HUNGERFORDProfessor of English and American Studies, Master of Morse College

KENNETH DAVID JACKSONProfessor of Portuguese, Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese

MICHAEL KOELLEAssociate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

JEFFREY PARKProfessor of Geology and Geophysics

CARYL PHILLIPSProfessor of English

ERIC SARGISProfessor of Anthropology

STUART SEMMELSenior Lecturer in History

FRANK SLACKProfessor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

STEVEN SMITHAlfred Cowles Professor of Political Science

JING TSUProfessor of English

SARAH WEISSAssociate Professor of Music

STEVEN WILKINSONNilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science and International A!airs

CHRISTOPHER WOODProfessor of History of Art

C O N S U LT I N G P R O F E S S O R S

DIRK BERGEMANNDouglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics

MARVIN CHUNProfessor of PsychologyJohn B. Madden Master of Berkeley College

STEPHEN DARWALLAndrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy

DEBORAH DAVISProfessor of Sociology

JULIE DORSEYProfessor of Computer Science

JAY EMERSONAssociate Professor of Statistics, Director of Graduate Studies (Department of Statistics)

BRYAN GARSTENProfessor of Political Science, Acting Chair (Humanities Program)

JO HANDELSMANHoward Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Frederick Phineas Rose Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

NAOMI LAMOREAUXProfessor of Economics and History

TINA LUProfessor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (East Asian Languages and Literatures)

ROBERT NELSONLehman Professor of History of Art

DAVID SKELLYProfessor of Ecology

JOHN WARGOTweed-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health, and PoliticsChair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program, fellow of Branford College

This is an opportunity for Yale to put its mark on Yale-NUS and for Yale faculty to advise us on how to proceed.

PERICLES LEWISPresident, Yale-NUS

The fact that President Levin is retiring and is dedicating significant time to fundraising is one important factor helping this year’s totals.

JOAN O’NEILLVice president for development, Yale

University

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While Moret called the ring “perfect,” the rock alone could not propose on Salovey’s behalf.

“I was sort of hanging around in case it happened,” Salovey said. “And then I was able to explain myself and formally propose.”

Moret said yes, and the couple was married in June 1986. For the reception, the couple picked the only band in Connecticut that would accommodate Moret’s Puerto Rican family members and Salovey’s Jewish relatives, so the ceremony became a whirlwind of salsa music and “Jewish wedding standards,” Salovey said.

The wedding was almost three decades ago, and the couple still remembers the day fondly.

“My brother took a video of that wedding which we take out and watch sometimes on our anniversary,” Salovey said. “We’ve been married 27 years, so let’s just say we were younger then — it’s pretty obvious when you see the video.”

But with age comes maturity, and Salovey said the past few decades have softened some of the stark contrasts between him and Moret.

Salovey is deeply committed to performing and listening to blue-grass music — a love that Moret, who prefers jazz and opera, hap-pened not to share at first. But the initial dislike of bluegrass gradu-ally faded, and Salovey said the

couple’s best vacation was a drive down the “Crooked Road” in southwest Virginia, a music her-itage trail for hillbilly, old-time and country bluegrass music. Moret said she now croons “along with Ralph Stanley.” For his part, Salovey has grown to share his wife’s interest in historic gar-dening, which involves restor-ing a garden to the way it existed when the area was first devel-oped. While he does not partici-pate, Salovey said he has learned to appreciate his wife’s dedica-tion.

The couple’s dates, too, have evolved with time. They typi-cally attend shows at the Yale Repertory Theatre, hike and drive through rural Connecticut. Most recently, Salovey said he looked forward to making a date of watching President Barack Obama’s State of the Union

address two nights ago, and tonight, the couple will attend a show at the School of Music.

Levin said he expects Salovey and Moret to enjoy their role as Yale’s first couple because they are both enthusiastic about Yale and have attended numerous stu-dent events throughout Salovey’s administrative career.

Always the psychology profes-sor, Salovey insists there is some-thing to be learned from his rela-tionship with Moret.

“I think the lesson from Marta and my story is not necessar-ily that love can be found at the GPSCY (or Toad’s for that mat-ter),” he said in a Wednesday email, “but perhaps it can be by participating in student govern-ment activities.”

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Couple finds love at GPSCY Board of Ed reform discussed at hearing

and it really does help give the commissioners a sense of where the public is coming from.”

Will Ginsberg, a commission member and the president of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, said the public hear-ings were very helpful in educating commis-sion members about what issues the public found important.

Ginsberg said he was particularly interested in the structure of the Board of Education, as the Community Foundation invests in school change and supports New Haven Promise, the Yale-sponsored program that awards scholar-ships to New Haven public school students.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who attended some of the public hearings, said that reforming the Board of Edu-cation to a hybrid model is one of his top pri-orities in the charter revision process. Cur-rently, all members of the Board of Education are appointed by the mayor, but Elicker sup-ports including elected o!cials in the makeup of the board. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has pre-viously warned against electing Board of Edu-cation o!cials, claiming that public elections may lead to politicization of the board.

“Generally, it seems more people want an elected or hybrid Board of Education, and they want some form of direct public representa-tion on the board,” said Elicker, who said that there were some at the hearing who testified in favor of an all-appointed board. “But the issue is the details of any proposal. Do we just want to elect some representatives? Or a majority of the board? How long is the term of elected o!-cials?”

New Haven residents also discussed strengthening the Civilian Review Board, which allows citizens to file complaints against police o!cers for charges of misconduct.

Kleppner and Ward 7 Alderman Doug Haus-laden ’04 said there seemed to be strong sup-port for the charter to incorporate a stronger Civilian Review Board, as it is currently insti-tuted only through an executive order.

Ward 9 Alderman Jessica Holmes was among those who testified in favor of strengthening the Review Board.

“The [Civilian Review] Board currently doesn’t have a very functional role,” Holmes said. “The board only has the power to review

documents and write up reports, but doesn’t actually have any teeth.”

New Haven residents also discussed restruc-turing the city’s political system.

Ginsberg said that DeStefano’s choice not to run for re-election this November opens up the opportunity to have a substantive discussion about term limits. Meeting attendees seemed less interested in decreasing the size of the Board of Aldermen, Elicker said.

Hausladen called the public hearing process “the most public process of charter revision” to his knowledge, and he added that both he and Holmes testified in favor of changing the name of the Board of Aldermen to something more gender-neutral, such as the Board of Alders.

Elicker agreed that there was healthy turn-out at the meetings, but said that he thought the city could have still done a better job of including the public by webcasting the meet-ing, using Facebook to inform residents about the meetings and utilizing other sources of out-reach.

Holmes said she thought that there was a sizeable portion of the public that was unaware that the meetings were occurring. But the pro-cess, she added, is far from over: The commis-sion still has to draft its recommendations, and both the Board of Aldermen and the public at large must approve the changes before they are implemented.

Kleppner said that the commission has not talked much about what the process will look like now that the public hearings are com-plete. Ginsberg said that while the commis-sioners have learned a lot from the public hear-ings, the commission members have had little time to convene and discuss their own personal thoughts.

“I think the biggest obstacle is time. There are lots of topics that people commented on, and there are a lot of topics that you could imagine making a recommendation on, and some of them, such as the Board of Ed or the budget process are really complex issues,” Kleppner said. “There’s no simple solution.”

According to Kleppner, the DeStefano administration will deliver a presentation on topics of its choice at the next commission meeting on Feb. 21.

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

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CHARTER FROM PAGE 1

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

President-elect Peter Salovey met his wife Marta Moret SPH ’84 after they were both elected to the Graduate and Professional School Senate.

The lesson from Marta and my story is not necessarily that love can be found at GPSCY (or Toad’s for that matter).

PETER SALOVEYPresident-elect, Yale University

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BY DAVID KOENIG ASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — American Airlines and US Airways agreed Wednes-day to a merger that will create the world’s biggest airline. The deal caps a turbulent period of bankruptcies and consolidation that leaves the U.S. airline indus-try dominated by four big carri-ers.

The boards of American par-ent AMR Corp. and US Airways approved the deal late Wednes-

day, according to four people close to the situation.

The carrier will keep the American Airlines name but will be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. American’s CEO, Tom Horton, will serve as chairman of the new company until mid-2014, these people said. They requested anonymity because the merger negotiations were private.

The deal has been in the works since August, when cred-itors pushed for merger talks so

they could decide which earned them a better return: a merger or Horton’s plan for an indepen-dent airline. American has been restructuring under bankruptcy protection since late 2011. AMR creditors and possibly its share-holders will own 72 percent of the stock, and US Airways Group Inc. shareholders will get the rest, three of the people said.

A formal announcement is expected Thursday morning.

If the deal is approved by AMR’s bankruptcy judge and

antitrust regulators, the new American will have more than 900 planes, 3,200 daily flights and about 95,000 employees, not counting regional a!liates. It will be slightly bigger than United Airlines by passenger tra!c.

Since 2008, Delta gobbled up Northwest, United absorbed Continental and Southwest bought AirTran Airways. If this latest merger goes through, American, United, Delta and Southwest will control about

three-quarters of U.S. airline tra!c.

The rapid consolidation has allowed the surviving airlines to offer bigger route networks that appeal to high-paying busi-ness travelers. And it has allowed them to limit the supply of seats, which helps prop up fares and airline profits.

Word of an American-US Air-ways merger raised new concern among passenger advocates. Charles Leocha of the Consumer Travel Alliance said that with just

four big airlines instead of five, it will be easier to raise fares. “The benefits of this deal will go only to the corporations, not to con-sumers,” he said.

But industry o!cials say there will still be plenty of competi-tion. A recent study by Price-waterhouseCoopers found that adjusting for inflation, domes-tic U.S. airfares fell 1 percent between 2004 and 2011, a period that included several airline mergers.

American Airlines, US Airways to merge

BY GREG RISLING AND TAMI ABDOLLAH ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — There was no question. The man standing before Rick Heltebrake on a rural mountain road was Christopher Dorner.

Clad in camouflage from head to toe and wearing a bulletproof vest packed with ammunition, the most wanted man in Amer-ica was just a few feet away, hav-ing emerged from a grove of trees holding a large, assault-style rifle.

As teams of officers who had sought the fugitive ex-Los Ange-les police o!cer for a week were closing in, Dorner pointed the gun at Heltebrake and ordered him to get out of his truck.

“I don’t want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog,” Helte-brake recalled Dorner saying dur-ing the carjacking Tuesday.

The man, who wasn’t lugging any gear, got into the truck and drove away. Heltebrake, with his 3-year-old Dalmatian Suni in tow, called police when he heard a vol-ley of gunfire erupt soon after, and

then hid behind a tree.A short time later, police caught

up with the man they believe was Dorner, surrounding a cabin where he’d taken refuge after crashing Heltebrake’s truck in the San Bernardino Mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

A gunfight ensued in which one sheriff’s deputy was killed and another wounded. After the fire-fight ended, a SWAT team using an armored vehicle broke out the cabin’s windows and began knocking down walls. A fire broke out and later charred remains believed to be Dorner’s were found.

San Bernardino County Sheri" John McMahon said Wednesday the fire was not set on purpose.

“We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out,” he said.

His deputies lobbed pyrotech-nic tear gas into the cabin, and it erupted in flames, he said. McMa-hon did not say directly that the tear gas started the blaze, and the cause of the fire was under inves-tigation.

The sheriff said authorities have not positively identified the remains. However, all evidence points to it being Dorner, he said, and the manhunt is considered over.

A wallet and personal items, including a California driver’s license with the name Christopher Dorner were found in the cabin debris, an o!cial briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing probe.

The tourist community of Big Bear Lake that was the focus of the intensive manhunt was returning to normalcy Wednesday and res-idents were sharing stories of the last week’s events. None was more dramatic than Heltebrake’s.

He said he wasn’t panicked in his meeting with Dorner because he didn’t feel the fugitive wanted to hurt him. “He wasn’t wild-eyed, just almost professional,” he said. “He was on a mission.”

“It was clear I wasn’t part of his agenda and there were other peo-ple down the road that were part of his agenda,” he said.

Sheri!: Ex-cop perished in fire

WORLD “The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.” WILLA CATHER AMERICAN AUTHOR OF WORKS SUCH AS “MY ÁNTONIA,” “THE

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BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Syrian rebels knocked down army defenses and moved in on the coun-try’s second-largest airport Wednesday, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and bringing them closer to what could be their biggest conquest since the beginning of the civil war.

Control of Aleppo international airport and a military air base next to it would be a huge strategic shift for Syria’s northeast-ern region, giving the opposition a poten-tial air hub enabling aid and other flights.

Still, activists said it could be days before the rebels would be able to push their way into the airport, 4 miles from the contested city center, and even then, it was unclear whether they would be able to retain control of the sprawling facility for long.

The country’s air space is firmly con-trolled by the government, which uses its warplanes indiscriminately to bomb rebel strongholds.

The advance on the airport, which stopped handling any flights weeks ago because of the fighting, comes on the heels of other strategic gains. Rebels this week captured the nation’s largest dam and a military base near Aleppo. They have also brought the fight closer to Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s regime, mov-ing to within a few miles from the heart of the city.

“There has been some extremely signif-icant advances by the rebels in the past few days. There is real fear and flagging morale among regime forces in the region,” said Muhieddine Lathkani, a London-based member of the Syrian National Council opposition group.

The government tried to reverse the gains with a series of airstrikes in several locations across the country Wednesday. In Jobar, a rebel stronghold in northeastern Damascus, 13 people were killed in govern-ment shelling, according to the Observa-tory. Fighter jets also carried out airstrikes on rebel positions in the central province of Homs, it said.

The rebels have been pushing their way into the capital since last week. The foray marks the opposition’s second significant attempt to storm Damascus since July, when the rebels captured several neigh-borhoods before being swept out by a swift government countero!ensive.

Since then, the regime has buckled down in Damascus, setting up checkpoints and controlling movement in and out of the city. The heavily defended city so far has been spared the kind of violence that has devastated whole neighborhoods in other major cities such as Aleppo and the central city of Homs.

The rebels have had the most success in northern Syria, and have captured large parts of Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa provinces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.

Rebels have been attacking the civilian airport in the city of Aleppo for weeks, and on Tuesday overran large parts of the “Bri-gade 80” base that protects the facility.

By Wednesday, the Observatory said the rebels were “almost fully in control” of the base. Rami Abdul-Rahman, the group’s director, said more than 40 gov-ernment troops were killed in the fighting, including two brigadier generals, a colonel and two lieutenant colonels. He also said an unknown number of rebels died. The report could not be independently con-firmed.

The base is about a mile from the civil-ian airport and the adjacent air base known as Nairab. Both have their own defenses in addition to the protection provided by Bri-gade 80.

Lathkani said it would be one of the opposition’s most significant gains of the civil war if the rebels capture Aleppo air-port, which according to its website is capable of handling 2.5 million passengers a year.

He said rebels were aiming to declare northern Syria a “liberated area” from which they would one day announce a transitional government.

“Aleppo airport would then be used for flying in aid, delegations and diplomats. It would serve as a hub for a self-adminis-tered area,” he said, though he acknowl-edged concerns that the regime would just bomb the runway to disable it.

Also Wednesday, Syria’s former Foreign Ministry spokesman made his first com-ments since disappearing in December, saying he left the country because “of the polarization and violence that left no place for moderation and diplomacy.”

Syrian rebels near airport

BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — With a humble “Grazie” as bishops do!ed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter’s Basil-ica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presid-ing over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.

“We wouldn’t be sincere, Your Holiness, if we didn’t tell you that there’s a veil of sadness on our hearts this evening,” said Cardi-nal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict’s longtime deputy, his voice break-ing.

“Thank you for having given us the luminous example of the simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord,” Ber-tone said, quoting Benedict’s own words when he first appeared before the faithful above St. Peter’s Square after he was elected pope.

Smiling and clearly moved, Benedict responded, “Grazie. Now let us return to prayer” — his words bringing to an end the resounding applause that had grown in intensity over several minutes.

Then, in a rare gesture and sign of respect, the rows of bish-ops, some with tears in their eyes, removed their mitres. One prelate dabbed at his eyes with a hand-kerchief.

“Viva il papa!” someone in the crowd shouted as the pope slowly made his way down the steps of the altar, assisted by two clergy-men. He then departed St. Peter’s for the last time aboard a wheeled platform, sparing him the long walk down the aisle.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church’s liturgical calen-dar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate

the death of Christ and his resur-rection on Easter Sunday. By this Easter, on March 31, the church will likely have a new pope.

In his final homily as ponti!, Benedict sent a clear message to his successor and those who will elect him of his hope for the future: a united church that isn’t “defiled” by internal rivalries.

Each Christian, he said, is called to bear witness to the faith. “I think in particular of the attacks against the unity of the church, to the divisions in the ecclesial body,” he said.

“Experiencing Lent in a more intense and evident ecclesial union, moving beyond individu-alisms and rivalries, is a humble and precious sign for those who have drifted from the faith or are indi!erent to it.”

Earlier in the day, the scene was festive as Benedict took the extraordinary step of speaking directly to the faithful about why he had broken with 600 years of tradition and decided to retire on Feb. 28.

“As you know, I have decided to renounce the ministry that the Lord gave to me on April 19, 2005,” Benedict told thou-sands gathered for the traditional Wednesday general audience. “I did this in full liberty for the good of the church.”

He expressed gratitude for the prayers and love of his flock, which he said he “physically felt in these days that haven’t been easy for me.” And he asked them to “continue to pray for me, the church and the future pope.”

Benedict was greeted with a standing ovation when he entered the packed hall, and his speech was interrupted repeatedly by applause.

A huge banner reading “Gra-zie Santita” — “Thank you, Your Holiness” — was strung up and a chorus of Italian schoolchil-dren serenaded him with one of his favorite hymns in German — a gesture that moved the pope to thank them for singing a piece “particularly dear to me.”

He appeared wan and spoke softly, but his eyes twinkled at the welcome.

“He gave us eight wonderful years of his words,” said Ileana Sviben, an Italian from the north-ern city of Trieste. “He was a wonderful theologian and pas-tor.”

Tears for pope at final public mass

MONICA PRIETO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian rebels gather in the historic city center of Aleppo, Syria, a listed UNESCO World Heri-tage Site that was gutted in October and which is now controlled by the Free Syrian Army.

[Pope Benedict XVI] gave us eight wonderful years of his words. He was a wonderful theologian and pastor.

ILEANA SVIBEN

AROUND THE IVIES “Diversity doesn’t mean black and white only.” HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. AMERICAN

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BY SETH ZWEIFLER STAFF WRITER

When Ruth Simmons and Jim Yong Kim announced last year that they would be stepping down from their posts as presidents of Brown University and Dartmouth College, the Ivy League lost its only racial or ethnic minority leaders at the time.

Months later, the void left by Simmons and Kim is representa-tive of a broader trend in the Ivies: a lack of diversity among the upper ranks of senior administrators.

In virtually all cases, senior administrations at Ivy institu-tions are less diverse than individ-ual schools’ faculties — which are, in turn, less diverse than student bodies.

Penn is no exception.In response to an ongoing dia-

logue on campus about the lack of diversity in the University’s senior administration — which was prompted by a Jan. 30 Daily Penn-sylvanian guest column written by six Africana Studies senior fac-ulty members — the DP found that Penn has the third least diverse administration in the Ivy League, in front of only Brown and Yale universities.

Currently, just two out of Penn’s 31 senior administrators — which, according to an online listing, includes the president, provost, vice presidents and individual school deans, among others — are minorities.

“To hear that we’re near the bottom relative to other Ivies isn’t surprising at all,” said Africana Studies Department Chair Camille Charles, who was one of the authors of the column. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

In the column, titled “Guess who’s (not) coming to dinner,” Charles and her colleagues criti-cized President Amy Gutmann for never appointing a person of color

to a dean-ship at Penn.

The col-umn, which has spurred a campus-wide dia-logue on d i v e r s i t y,

prompted responses in the DP from both Gutmann and Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, among others.

“We live in an environment where ideas and conversation related to diversity are important,” Charles said. “Whether people agree or disagree, it seems that they’re talking about these things, which is good to see.”

‘NUMBERS DON’T LIE’In its analysis, the DP consid-

ered senior administrators and individual school deans as each Ivy defines them on their respective websites. Although the DP reached out to schools for information on minority representation, all of the Ivies — with the exception of Cor-nell University — either declined to provide numbers or did not respond to multiple requests for data.

The DP counted the number of African-American/black, Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic/Latino senior administrators at each school relative to the number of white administrators. Although there is no consensus in the higher education community about how racial and ethnic diversity is defined, these four categories are broadly used by institutions across the country.

The analysis revealed that, com-pared to Penn’s 6.5 percent minor-ity representation, 12.2 percent of overall Ivy League senior admin-istrators are black, Asian or Latino.

Cornell came in with the highest senior administrator minority rep-

resentation at 20.6 percent, while Yale featured the lowest at 3.8 per-cent.

Overall, black, Asian and Latino administrators made up 6.8, 3.2 and 2.2 percent of total Ivy leader-ship, respectively.

Although Penn is near the bot-tom of the Ivy League when it comes to senior administrator and dean diversity, the gap separating the University and its peers is rel-atively small. The largest number of minority administrators can be found at Cornell, which has seven, according to data provided by the school.

At Penn, diversity numbers are consistently stronger as the scope of data is broadened.

According to Vice President for University Communications Ste-phen MacCarthy, for example, 11 percent of Penn’s top 100 admin-istrators are black, Asian or Latino.

At the professor level, Penn’s most recent Progress Report on Minority Equity showed that 17.5 percent of the University’s faculty were minorities in 2009. In addi-tion, 20 percent of the incoming class in 2011 consisted of under-represented minorities, MacCar-thy said.

“I think it would be anybody’s gut that, as you look higher up at a place like Penn, it becomes less diverse,” sociology professor Grace Kao said.

Kao described the issue as part of a larger “pipeline” problem. As minority candidates are left out of positions like department chairs or associate deans, she said, it becomes increasingly less likely that they will be considered for senior administrator positions.

In response to the column, Gutmann has made clear that, despite the University’s $100 mil-lion investment in the Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excel-lence, there is still work to be done

in increasing minority representa-tion among Penn’s administration.

“We need to be more aggres-sive in making sure that the pools of candidates we’re being pre-sented with [for deanships] are more diverse,” Gutmann said in an interview with the DP last month, adding that she wants “the same thing” as the Africana Studies fac-ulty when it comes to diversity.

Although the issue of admin-istrative diversity is hardly a new one on campus, multiple faculty members interviewed said it was not until taking a close look at the University’s online listing of school deans that they realized the extent to which Penn’s senior ranks con-sist almost exclusively of white administrators.

“I think that the lack of diver-sity in our upper-level adminis-tration is deeply troubling,” said Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman, who researches higher education diver-sity. “President Gutmann has done much to diversify the student body and has encouraged increased fac-ulty diversity by putting fund-ing behind the issue and holding deans accountable. That said, this is a time to reflect and act — mak-ing systemic change in terms of the administration.”

Religious studies professor Anthea Butler agreed.

“The proof is in the pudding, and in this case the proof is Penn’s numbers,” she said. “Especially when you look at our peers, the numbers don’t lie. If you don’t have the numbers, you don’t have it.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY

While many undergraduates acknowledge the benefits of having a diverse student body, some have turned their attention over the past two weeks to the question of why,

if at all, it is equally important to have a diverse senior administra-tion.

College sophomore and United Minorities Council chair Joyce Kim believes the issue comes down to one of “role models.”

“I think it’s very powerful when I see an administrator who’s a minority,” she said. “It reinforces the idea that this is somebody like me who I can be as well.”

Similarly, Butler emphasized the importance of having a broad representation of administrators at the table when making decisions that will impact the student body.

“These are the people who make decisions about your everyday lives — what kinds of classes and curriculum you get, what kinds of services you get,” she said. “Even if you don’t see it, they’re a signifi-cant part of your academic life.”

Butler added that, before even beginning a conversation about diversity, it is important to have accurate data from which to draw.

Currently, the University con-ducts its Progress Report on Minority Equity once every three years, which contains numbers on minority faculty. Penn does not regularly publicize data on admin-istrative diversity.

Looking to the future, Butler hopes that the current debate sur-rounding the Africana Studies col-umn will prompt the University to consider compiling and releasing data on an annual basis.

“A huge part of it is about reporting,” she said. “If you don’t report these numbers every year, it’s easy to hide the fact that you’re not doing well.”

Some Ivy peers, however, said they are hesitant to provide data on administrative diversity because not all institutions stand on equal footing for the basis of compari-son.

“Our position is that each insti-

tution will make its own pol-icy decisions based on what suits specific needs or concerns, and the types of general comparisons yielded from contacting multiple institutions are not constructive,” Princeton University spokesman Mike Caddell said in an email.

Other schools expressed a simi-lar sentiment.

Moving forward, Charles said she has been encouraged by a number of conversations she has had with Gutmann since the col-umn ran — including an in-person meeting on Tuesday.

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the Ivy League’s unpredictable season. Enter-ing the weekend, the league still had two unbeaten teams — Harvard and Princeton — while Yale, Columbia (10–10, 2–4 Ivy) and Dartmouth sat at the bottom of the standings at 1–3. Yet on Saturday, Yale beat Princeton 69–65 and on Sunday, Columbia topped Har-vard, 78–63. Yale went unbeaten on the week-end, while Brown (8–12, 2–4 Ivy) lost both of its games and all other squads went 1–1.

Nearing the midpoint of the Ivy League schedule, the three teams sharing last place — Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth — all sit only three games behind league-leading Har-vard.

“If you look at Harvard’s team from last year that won the championship, they had better players at most every position,” Bull-dog head coach James Jones said. “This year, it’s just not the case where their kids are that much more talented than anybody else.”

Jones added that “some of the things that happened at some of the schools” left certain squads without much depth, creating prob-lems for the common back-to-back weekend matchups.

The parity of the Ivy League this season may have interesting implications for how the league determines its bid to the NCAA tour-nament. Currently, the bid goes to the win-ner of the conference’s regular season; the Ivy League is the only Division I conference with-

out a tournament that determines its auto-matic bid. The Ivy League’s athletic directors denied a proposal to establish a four-team conference tournament last year.

ESPN.com writer Eamonn Brennan wrote in an April 17, 2012, Men’s College Basketball Nation blog post, “By the end of the season, the Ivy League ensures that its most deserving team enters the NCAA tournament.”

Brennan’s argument — and one of the argu-ments of detractors against the conference tournament — is that each team plays every other team once at home and once on the road, and the best team will therefore rise to the top.

Yet men’s basketball players and coaches are reconsidering whether this argument holds in a conference defined by parity.

“I’m not certain about the connection, but what I will tell you is that the [athletic direc-tors] believe that our 14-game tournament [the Ivy League regular season] is the best way to find the champion,” Jones said before adding that inequities exist in the current sys-tem. “Having a tournament could be a way of not only finding the best champion, but also doing the best thing for our conference.”

The Bulldogs will face Cornell (10–12, 3–3 Ivy) at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Fri-day night before continuing their home stand against Columbia on Saturday.

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

always know what the other per-son is going to do and where he is going to be,” Miller said.

The sort of chemistry that allows for the Bulldogs’ first and third point-getters to know where the other is going to be contributes to the impressive team o!ense Miller and Agosti-no’s line has generated this sea-son. In 23 games played, Miller has put away 10 goals and 13 assists for an average of one point per game. Agostino has knocked home 12 goals and 15 assists for a total of 27 points on the year. Agostino’s 27 points make him the 33rd-highest scorer in Divi-sion I hockey, although he has played fewer games than his com-petitors.

Agostino attributes his success this season to his development over the years at Yale.

“I think [the nomination of both Andrew and myself] says a

lot about the player Andrew is. He sees the ice so well and makes the game a lot easier for me,” Agost-ino said. “He’s the best passer I’ve ever played with and one of the best playmakers in the country.”

Miller, who has been voted as best passer by his teammates in all four of his seasons at Yale, has accumulated 138 points over his 126 games played at Yale. He currently has the second-most assists ever recorded at Yale with 104, only eight behind record-holder Bob Brooke ’83.

Quinnipiac and New Hamp-

shire also have two semifinal-ists for the award. In both cases, instead of being linemates, play-ers of different positions were selected. The rival Harvard Crim-son is represented as well, with freshman forward Jimmy Vesey a nominee.

Both Miller and Agostino are grateful to be semifinalists for an award that represents a tradition in college hockey.

“It’s certainly an honor to be under consideration for this award,” Agostino said.

The finalists for the award will be announced in March, and the presentation of the honor will take place during New England College Hockey Writers’ Dinner in April.

The winner of the award in 2012, Bentley junior forward Brett Gensler, is also nominated again this year.

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

I stuck with it, right? Cue the uplifting cho-rus: “10,000 hours felt like 10,000 hands/ 10,000 hands, they carry me.”

Nope. It was too cold and my knees hurt and it wasn’t fun and I quit. How much time did I put into this failed endeavor? Couldn’t have been more than 100 hours over two months.

That’s why I have a lot of respect for the time that athletes (and everyone else at Yale) have put into the activity they love. At some point starting out, I’m sure there was the urge to quit, to stop, to give up. Expertise looked unattainable, and the disutility of the moment seemed to outweigh the possible future rewards. For many people, the path will quickly come to an end. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing — it may take a lot of searching to find it, but eventually we find something we love. There are 10,000 fail-ures to launch for every success, and those successes are the people on the court or on the field every day here at Yale. “Put those hours in and look at what you get/ Nothing that you can hold, but everything that it is. Ten thousand hours.”

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS HEDO TURKOGLU

The Orlando Magic forward was suspended for 20 games by the NBA on Wednesday after testing positive for anabolic steroids. Turk-oglu, who is the eighth player to be suspended under the NBA’s drug testing policy, is averaging 2.9 points and 2.1 assists this season.

COLUMN FROM PAGE 12

WALTER BROWN FROM PAGE 12

MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

Two Bulldog semifinalists

O!ense sputters as Elis falldid that well tonight,” Maricic said. “We had trouble creating high-quality scoring chances and getting to productive areas of the ice.”

Yale goalie Je! Malcolm ’13, who has played most of the team’s games this season, is still out of commission with a leg injury from the Feb. 1 game versus Princeton. Maricic and Connor Wilson ’15 have filled his spot in the crease in the past three games. Yale beat Princeton on Feb. 1 but fell to No. 1 Quinni-piac on Feb. 2.

Forward Jesse Root ’14 said Maricic played a strong game on Tuesday, but that the team’s offensive efforts did not do enough to support him. Captain Andrew Miller ’13 added that the Bulldogs struggled to capi-talize on rebounds.

“That is a major issue that must be addressed immedi-ately,” Laganiere added. “It is not enough to generate scor-ing chances. We must be hun-gry to score, every game, every period.”

The Bulldogs hope to break their two-game losing streak as they travel to Union and RPI on Friday and Saturday nights respectively.

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

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The Yale men’s basketball team beat Penn on Friday before emerging victorious against Princeton on Saturday.

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The Elis produced 44 total shots on Tuesday, but Bears goaltender Anthony Borelli stopped all of them and Yale fell, 1–0.

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Two of the top three scorers for the Elis, captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14, are semifinalists for the Walter Brown Award this season.

It’s certainly an honor to be under consideration for this award.

KENNY AGOSTINO ’14Forward, men’s hockey

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CAPTAIN ANDREW MILLER ’13 AND KENNY AGOSTINO ’14 ARE SEMIFINALISTS FOR THE WALTER BROWN AWARD THIS SEASON. Miller has recorded 10 goals and 13 assists for a total of 23 points and Agostino has knocked home 12 goals and 15 assists for a total of 27 points this year.

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SOCCER TIEReal Madrid 1Man Utd 1

NHL TIEOttawa 2Pittsburgh 2

NCAAMIndiana 76Nebraska 47

NCAAMOklahoma 91Texas Tech 67

NBAAtlanta 108Orlando 76

MEN’S GOLFBULLDOGS VS. BULLDOGSThe men’s golf team is slated to face o! against the University of Geor-gia Bulldogs over spring break at the Mountain Lake course in Lake Wales, Fla. The Georgia mascot was allegedly chosen by the university’s first presi-dent, Abraham Baldwin 1772.

MEN’S HOCKEYELIS DROP IN PAIRWISE RANKINGSAfter falling 1–0 to Brown on Tuesday, the Bulldogs slipped from sixth to ninth in the USCHO.com “PairWise Rankings,” the system that most resembles the methods used by the NCAA Selection Committee to determine entrants and seedings in the NCAA tournament.

“Any sport is unpre-dictable, and that’s why they play the games.”

SAM MARTIN ’13CAPTAIN, MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

The men’s basketball team took a big step forward in the hunt for the Ivy League title last weekend. The squad beat Penn (5–17, 2–3 Ivy) on Friday before emerging victorious against Princeton (11–8, 4–1 Ivy) on Saturday.

Yet the weekend before was as discourag-ing as last weekend was optimistic. The Elis dropped a close contest to Harvard (13–7, 5–1 Ivy) on Friday and then were blown out by Dartmouth (6–14, 2–4) the next day.

Are the Bulldogs (9–14, 3–3 Ivy) simply an inconsistent squad? Possibly — the team shot 54.8 percent from the field against Princeton, but only 35.3 percent against Dartmouth a week earlier. The Bulldogs lost to Dartmouth, then 0–3 in the Ivy League, and beat Prince-ton, then 4–0 in the conference. But the up–and-down nature of the Elis’ season has not proven exclusive to Yale this year. Men’s Ivy League basketball thus far has been marked by wild parity.

“The talent is much closer top-to-bottom than it’s been since I’ve been here,” team cap-tain Sam Martin ’13 said. “Any sport is unpre-dictable, and that’s why they play the games. … Some games, you just play better than other games.”

Last weekend served as a microcosm for

Ivy basketball

up for grabsBY ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTER

Two of the top three scorers for the Bull-dogs are American-born players — captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 — and both are semifinalists for the Walter Brown Award this season.

The Walter Brown Award is the nation’s oldest college hockey award, established in 1953 and given annually to the best Ameri-

can-born Division I hockey player in New England. Miller was a semifinalist for the award last year, as was Brian O’Neill ’12 in 2011 and 2012. Though Yale is one of four teams represented twice on the list of semi-finalists, Miller and Agostino are only one of two pairs of nominees that are linemates.

“Ken and I have learned a lot about each other through the last two years. We almost

Miller, Agostino up for Walter Brown

BY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER

After two game postponements due to the blizzard, the men’s hockey team finally made it to Providence, R.I., on Tuesday night, but the No. 10 Bulldogs fell behind in the first period and ultimately lost 1–0 to Ivy rival Brown.

The Bears (9–9–5, 5–6–5 ECAC) dominated the first five minutes of play, taking nine of their eventual 32 shots on goal during that span. At 10:31, with a 20–12 shots advantage, the home team knocked the even-tual game-winner past Bulldog goalie Nick Maricic ’13.

“I would say that our start was mediocre at best,” forward Antoine

Laganiere ’13 said. “We got better as the game went on, but had we come out stronger, the outcome may have been di!erent.”

Toward the end of the first period, the Bulldogs (13–7–3, 9–5–1 ECAC) finally started to pull out of their offensive rut. The Elis outshot the Bears 17–8 in the second period and 15–4 in the third but could not man-

age to convert any of those opportu-nities into goals. Maricic finished the night with 31 saves, and Brown goalie Anthony Borelli stopped an impres-sive 44 shots for his team’s third shut-out of the season.

“Brown’s game plan was to play a shutdown defensive style and they

Brown blanks Elis after blizzard

Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis are coming to Spring Fling this year. Maybe you haven’t heard because you’ve been living in the Branford Bigloo for the past week. While everyone else is excited about popping tags and wearing their grandpa’s coat, one of my favorite songs o! the duo’s debut album is “Ten Thousand Hours.” The title comes from the “10,000-Hour Rule” described by Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book “Out-liers.” I’ll admit I haven’t had a chance to read Gladwell’s book, but the 10,000-Hour Rule is popular knowledge by now: The key to becoming an expert at a particular task is practicing it for 10,000 hours. Or put it Macklemore’s way: “The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint/ The greats were great cause they’d paint a lot.”

How does this all relate to sports? Because 10,000 hours is a really long time, and every athlete playing today at the college level has surely put 10,000 hours into their sport of choice. That’s commitment. Yale students have plenty of 10,000-hour skills — the campus is stu!ed with musicians, painters, dancers — but I want to focus on the time committed by athletes. We’ve all heard the overwrought clichés about athletes per-severing in the face of adversity and over-coming great obstacles in their path to suc-cess. But what about simply discussing the amount of time they put in?

The point is especially valid when you consider that Yale athletes are also full-time Yale students. On top of classes and work, they’re practicing three or four hours a day and often spend the weekend on the road as well. That’s not to say that other Yalies aren’t putting three or four hours a day into their craft, but shouldn’t that show that athletes aren’t that di!erent from everyone else? They’re here because they’re talented, and they’re talented because they’ve put the time in. That doesn’t ring as well as what Macklemore told us above, but it applies to every talent here at Yale.

Spending 10,000 hours working at the same thing must also mean that athletes love what they do. And it takes a special kind of commitment and patience to stick with it. What did I spend 10,000 hours doing as a child? Playing video games? Committing the entire Tokyo subway map to memory? Watching every episode of “Full House”? (Those weren’t jokes.) I did do better than a 980 on my SATs, but I didn’t spend 10,000 hours working at that, either.

I “attempted” to join the cross-coun-try team in high school as a freshman. My friends were on the team, and it seemed like a worthwhile activity. I was hopeless at “ball” sports, but maybe I could run fast for a few miles. I started going to practice during January conditioning before the long-dis-tance track season revved up, and winter in Cincinnati was not unlike what we’re seeing outside in New Haven today. The sidewalks were clogged with snow, freezing rain seared my skin and vehicles were a constant annoy-ance. One unfortunate day ended with me covered in two coats of bus splashback, ice in my shoes and numbness in my hands. But

Putting in the hours

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In the 23 games played this season, captain Andrew Miller ’13 has put away 10 goals and 13 assists for an average of one point per game.

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Goaltender Nick Maricic ’13 stopped 31 Brown shots on Tuesday in the absence of injured starter Je! Malcolm ’13, but the Elis could not muster o!ense in support.

MEN’S HOCKEY

THERE ARE TEN THOUSAND FAILURES FOR EVERY SUCCESS