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We’re saved. Last year, the Yale College Council created a promotional website to ask students the all-important question: “What has the YCC done this year?” This year, we finally have an answer. After months of working with Yale Dining, the YCC has released its six-page comprehensive “YCC Salad Report,” which outlines specific research and recommendations regarding the salad dressing, croutons and romaine lettuce available in dining halls. Guys, #TheYCCIsOnIt.

He’s back. New Haven’s favorite gra!ti artist, Believe in People, has struck Elm City walls again, this time painting the words “SUPA-THUG” in large block letters on a wall facing State Street. But that’s not all. Believe in People also drew a young girl, wearing a pink dress and staring innocently at the block letters as a used paint roller stands beside her. But what does it all mean?

May the force be with you. Last night, students in Engl 130 “Epic” got a taste of what their course truly means. Gathered in LC, the lucky academics watched a screening of “Star Wars” — the film that made Luke Skywalker a household name.

And another one bites the dust. Yale College Council Secretary Leandro Leviste ’15 will take the spring semester o" to work on his mother’s re-election campaign in the Philippines, Leviste announced in a Thursday email to the YCC. Leviste’s departure marks the second time a YCC Executive Board member has left Yale in the past month. His replacement will be chosen by the YCC Executive Board, who will select among members of the YCC’s subsidiary bodies.

Did you get your flu shot? Might want to consider that now. The number of flu deaths in the state has reached 17, according to the Connecticut’s Department of Public Health. All victims this season have been over 54 years old. Watch your health!

On academics. Last night, the YCC also released a report on this year’s changes to the academic calendar, which discussed the introduction of fall break and shortened reading period. According to the report, the shortened reading period caused “unprecedented” amounts of stress and generally had a negative e"ect on students’ academic abilities. Still, 62 percent of students said they preferred having a fall break, even at the cost of a shorter reading period.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1977 The Yale Corporation decides to raise fees to $6,950, marking an 8 percent increase. Administrators say the increase is necessary to o"set an anticipated 6 percent national inflation rate.

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Elicker seeks mayor’s o!ceBY DIANA LI AND

ISAAC STANLEY-BECKERSTAFF REPORTERS

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 o!-cially declared his candidacy for mayor to a crowd of over 100 people Thursday night.

In an event held at Cafe Manjares on Whalley Ave-nue, Elicker laid out his vision for the Elm City and spoke about the need for education reform, greater fiscal respon-sibility and the development of neighborhoods beyond down-town. Elicker, whose oppo-nents include 19-year Mayor John DeStefano Jr., emphasized that New Haven residents have expressed a desire for a “new direction” and a “two-way government that listens.”

“I hear from people that they want their next mayor to be someone who hears them out, who respects their ideas and incorporates their input into the plans that they make — someone who brings new energy and excitement to their government,” Elicker said. “I will be that mayor.”

As attendees passed around volunteer sign-up sheets, Elicker spoke about some of the initiatives he hopes to imple-ment as mayor, such as partic-ipatory budgeting that would give individual neighborhoods more authority to determine their priorities in the alloca-tion of city funding.

He also stressed that addi-tional education reform is nec-essary, adding that despite a $1.5 billion investment by the city in New Haven Public Schools over the last 20 years, more work remains to be done. Elicker cited three education

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASSTAFF REPORTER

In a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday morning, Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy joined California Sen. Dianne Feinstein as she introduced legislation to ban assault weapons in the wake of December’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

If passed, the legislation, titled the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, will ban the sale, transfer, importation and manu-facture of assault weapons while expand-ing the kinds of firearms categorized as assault weapons. The ban’s introduction comes just over one week after President Obama announced a series of executive actions and legislative initiatives, includ-ing an assault weapons ban, intended to curtail gun violence. But the proposed ban faces strong opposition from gun rights supporters and certain members of both houses of Congress.

“It will be a tough, demanding debate,” Blumenthal told the News Thursday. “But I’m hopeful. No single measure can be a solution. There’s no panacea, but these are reasonable regulations.”

The ban has already come up against fierce criticism from gun rights groups across the nation. The National Rifle Asso-ciation, which counts over 4 million mem-bers, released a statement on Thursday stating that Feinstein “has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades.”

“The American people know gun bans do not work, and we are confident Con-gress will reject Sen. Feinstein’s approach,”

CT senators support

weapons ban

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BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKASTAFF REPORTER

Though the School of Management is roughly $25 million short of fully financ-ing its new campus, slated to open in Jan-uary 2014, administrators have broadened the school’s fundraising priorities under the leadership of SOM Dean Edward Snyder.

The 2011 departure of Sharon Oster, Sny-der’s predecessor, coincided with the end of a University-wide five-year campaign that raised money for Edward P. Evans Hall, the new campus, and Snyder said he has expanded the school’s fundraising objec-tives since the campaign ended. A proven fundraiser, Snyder — who brought in a $300 million donation, the largest in U.S. busi-ness school history, while dean of the Uni-

versity of Chicago Booth School of Business — has raised several gifts of over $1 million since his arrival at the SOM in July 2011. While he said he will continue to prioritize fundraising for the new campus, he added that the SOM is turning its sights to fund-raising for other initiatives.

“In addition to working together [with Dean Snyder] to secure funds for the new SOM campus, we’re also collaborating to raise funds for other SOM needs, includ-ing support of financial aid, research and teaching support and other priorities the dean identifies,” said University Vice Pres-ident for Development Joan O’Neill in an email Thursday. “The fact that Dean Snyder has such strong previous experience in fun-

SOM fundraising priorities broaden

BY NICOLE NAREA AND JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTERS

When John Darnell agreed to a one-year suspension from the Yale faculty following numer-ous University policy violations, he left the Egyptology division of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department without a chair and with just one full-time faculty mem-ber — associate professor Col-leen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05, with whom he allegedly had the inti-mate relationship that led to his suspension.

Darnell, the only tenured Egyptologist at the University, served as chair of the NELC Department prior to his suspen-sion and advised all seven Egyp-tology graduate students. Eckart Frahm, acting NELC chair, said he and Graduate School Asso-ciate Dean Pamela Schirmeis-ter are in the process of estab-lishing a “committee structure” advising program for Egyptol-ogy’s seven graduate students, who he worries will su"er from the e"ects of Darnell’s suspen-sion even after they graduate and advance in their careers. Frahm said it would be “naive” to suggest that Darnell’s res-ignation and suspension will not taint the reputation of the department in the field, calling his departure a “huge psycho-logical blow” to NELC.

“Clearly what we have to deal with right now is a rather major crisis that affects mostly the graduate students in Egyptol-ogy,” Frahm said.

Darnell announced his resig-

nation as NELC chair in a Jan. 8 email to graduate students and faculty in the department, cit-ing an intimate relationship with a student under his direct supervision and with a profes-sor whom he reviewed as rea-sons for his departure. Since his suspension, multiple sources have told the News that the per-son involved in Darnell’s viola-tions was Manassa, who alleg-edly began an a"air with Darnell in 2000, according to divorce documents filed by Darnell’s wife before the Connecticut Superior Court on Nov. 5, 2012.

Frahm said he is determined to minimize the e"ects of Dar-nell’s resignation and suspen-sion, especially for the Egyptol-ogy graduate students.

“Students shouldn’t be held responsible for anything outside their control,” Frahm said.

Frahm said he plans to meet with Schirmeister in the next two weeks to finalize the o!cial structure of the advising com-mittee, in which each gradu-ate student will be assigned one primary adviser, as well as at least two additional professors or professional Egyptologists to consult on drafts of their disser-tations. While members of the NELC faculty said they are will-ing to step into advising roles, Frahm said he also has been in talks with potential advisers at other universities and met pri-vately with each graduate stu-dent.

Despite Frahm’s efforts, Egyptology students remain

Darnell scandal rattles Egyptology

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The School of Management’s new campus is expected to open next January.

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Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 announced that he will challenge Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s bid for re-election at Cafe Manjares on Thursday.

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Yale has fallen behind its peers in relevant introduc-tory computer science education.

Stanford, located in a hub of technological in-novation, is known world-wide for its programs; at Harvard, an introductory computer science course provides students with programming knowledge that is also based in real-world applications.

But at Yale, a focus on the theoretical has left non-computer science majors without a practi-cal, modern and creative programming course. Classes that might give students a foundation to produce smartphone apps or websites are simply not o!ered.

And while Yale’s extra-curricular computer sci-ence opportunities — most notably, HackYale — are popular, they simply aren’t enough. These o!erings aren’t just a testament to the growing entrepreneur-

ial spirit of Yalies. They’re signs that the administra-tion isn’t doing enough on its own.

Perhaps there is a con-cern that such a course would stray from Yale’s commitment to the liberal arts, but we believe these skills are essential to any graduating Yale student — regardless of his or her field of interest.

The Computer Science Department must step out of the past by creating an intellectually rigorous yet accessible introductory class that teaches Yalies from all majors the practi-cal skills needed to succeed in a society that so often pairs intellectual growth with technological tools.

Yale administrators can-not sit passively by while students are forced to cre-ate the academic o!erings they hope to see. We hope to see a course that re-flects an active embrace of common-sense computer science.

Just a year ago, on a cold January day, over 500 Yalies crammed into a sin-gle auditorium to shop the first lecture of HSAR 115, an introductory art history course taught by Alexan-der Nemerov GRD ’92, the chair of the department. The course, which covered works from the Renais-sance to the present, was the definition of a clas-sic Yale course. Nemerov inspired — carrying on the legacy of a class made famous by legendary Yale professor Vincent J. Scully ’40 GRD ’49. Under the guidance of these profes-sors, generations of Yalies from every field of study gathered twice weekly to study Vermeer and Van Gogh, Pollock and Poussin.

But last February, Nem-erov announced that he would leave Yale for Stan-ford. This semester, Yale failed to o!er HSAR 115.

Nemerov’s departure is no excuse for the Univer-sity to forgo the spirit and the substance that guided his introductory course: to make art history accessible for students from a broad swath of the University community; to expose stu-dents to a potential major; to help Yalies contextual-ize the iconic images they grew up glancing at in textbooks and postcards; and to teach students, as his syllabus wrote, “the power of looking at art.”

Next year, we hope to see Yale o!er a new introduc-tory history of art course that provides the same broad survey of knowledge as Nemerov’s did, with a professor who can equal the former chair’s charis-ma and experience. With-out Nemerov at the helm, it may not be as popular, but we have no doubt it can be as powerful.

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An average mother pig raised in the pork industry weighs about 500 pounds.

Yet it’s currently legal for farms in our state of Connecticut to confine her, day and night, for her entire life in a metal cage less than the width of this newspaper.

In “gestation crates,” these pigs, among the most highly intelligent creatures on earth, are unable to turn around or fully extend their limbs. If they can lie down at all, they must push their legs, fragile from lack of use, through the bars into the neigh-boring crates.

Veal calves, too, raised on Connecticut factory farms spend nearly their entire lives crammed into wooden crates so small they can hardly move. For their short 16-week lives, they are chained around the neck.

Most of us flinch to hear this. Treating animals with basic decency is a widely accepted, common-sense value of our society. We know this cruel con-finement is just plain wrong, and we’re repulsed by it. Yet the law as it stands does not reflect these values. These cages are inexcus-able, but gestation crates and veal crates remain legal in the state of Connecticut.

With your help, this wrong could be righted in the com-ing month. Thanks to Bill 5838, introduced to the Connecti-cut Legislature yesterday, we as Connecticut residents have the opportunity to join the nine other states that have already banned these unnecessarily cruel confinement systems. If passed, the bill, introduced by seven state representatives, will simply require that mother pigs and veal calves in our state have enough room to lie down, turn around and fully extend their legs.

In the process, we can become a leader in standing up for our nation’s treasured values of basic civility and respect.

The science is clear that pigs are one of the smartest animals on earth, with a highly inquis-itive nature, intricate social structures and the ability to learn complex tasks with ease. Pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and use reflected images to sur-vey the land and food sources around them; can learn how to play video games with joysticks; have radar-dish-like ears that make them one of the best local-izers of sound among animals; and have snouts that can locate tru"es a dozen feet below the

ground. In nature, they build communal nests and form strong social bonds, including spe-cial relationships between indi-viduals who will join together to farrow, forage and sleep. Con-trary to their reputation, they are very hygienic; they’ll go to great e!orts to defecate far away from their nests.

Cows, too, are regarded as very smart animals. Accord-ing to animal behaviorists, cows develop strong friendships, will hold grudges against cows that treat them poorly and mourn the deaths of cows to which they were close. Mother cows are deeply bonded to their young, and will cry frantically in search of their babies that have been taken away to be sent to veal farms.

It is beyond my comprehen-sion to imagine what it must be like for such capable and feeling creatures to be confined to such cages, unable to express the most basic behaviors that come natu-rally to them. The closest analogy that I have come across is if we were forced to spend our entire lives strapped to an airplane seat, covered in our own feces.

Gestation crates and veal crates are unnecessary. Today, cost-e#cient group housing sys-

tems exist as more humane alter-natives that better allow pigs to be pigs and veal calves to be baby cows. There is no justification for their continued legality.

Even Randy Strauss, the CEO of Strauss Veal, the nation’s larg-est veal producer, called veal crates “inhumane and archaic” and said they “do nothing more than subject a calf to stress, fear, physical harm and pain.”

Yale undergraduates and Yale Law School students have already expressed support for the passage of Bill 5838 and plan to testify at the upcoming hearing. I encourage you to express your support as well by calling state Sen. Edward Meyer, the head of Connecticut’s Joint Commit-tee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, and tell him that you want to see Bill 5838 passed. Call your state sen-ator and representative and urge their support, too.

We each now have a short window of opportunity to make a di!erence. Let’s ban this cru-elty from our state now and for-ever more.

VIVECA MORRIS is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at

viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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I am not entirely sure when I first encountered the phrase “real talk.” I want to say that I heard

it from Justin Bieber, but it’s hard to account for all the unfiltered wisdom that the Biebs has passed down to me over the years.

Nevertheless, whatever the source, “real talk” was the defining crisis of the five hours I was awake over winter break. I was Neo dis-covering the Matrix. I was Septi-mus Smith standing at the win-dow ledge. I was Holden Caulfield for the duration of “The Catcher in the Rye.”

In short: I was an enlightened man trapped in a world of phonies. (In my fantasies, I am male in gen-der; I know you won’t relate to me otherwise.)

And so I agonized: What have we come to? Where are we as a society if our only means of e!ec-tive communication — our only moments of connection in this world of silence and white noise — come to us in interjections of “real talk” within an otherwise empty conversation? Have I really just wasted a lifetime of discourse on “fake talk”? How can I, like Jus-tin Bieber, penetrate to something real?

Like the majority of my unchecked musings, this was all nonsense. But my overreac-tion was, I think, a reflection of

the worldview implied by the notion of “real talk.” Even as a joke, “real talk” reveals a discursive cri-sis which our c o m m u n i t y — and if I may be so bold, our genera-tion at large —

appears to be quietly, mistakenly su!ering.

It’s the obsession with sincerity LCD Soundsystem parodied back in 2005. “You want to make some-thing real,” James Murphy real-izes of the artist who is replacing his old electronic equipment with new, di!erent electronic equip-ment. “You want to make a Yaz record.”

The relevance of Yaz as a genre aside, I’ve had enough unpleasant conversations to know that there’s a place and a time for soul-baring and a place and a time to zip up our verbal pants. I’ve also had a few good conversations, which is how I know that it is an art form as real and as fulfilling for the soul as any “real talk” can be.

I’m not denying that there are conversations that we have — the ones late at night, in our deserted common rooms or shivering alone

under the lamplight on Cross Campus — that feel more real than others, that o!er us a deeper con-nection to the human being with whom we’re sharing our private selves.

But there’s a sort of imper-sonal laziness that has pervaded our casual conversations of late. In defaulting to “real talk” — in fall-ing back upon the thought unme-diated, unconsidered, unfiltered — we place our own needs to express and to be known above the needs and the comfort of others.

There are, unfortunately, times when people don’t really want to know exactly how your day went — when they’d rather be spared the knowledge that your after-noon seminar was ruined by an incautious extra serving of creamy corn casserole. But there’s a way — increasingly, it seems, lost on us — to say “it was okay,” or “seminar was … uncomfortable,” in such a tone that invites concern, should your auditor truly care. There’s a way to talk around, and to imply, the unpleasant details of your hor-rific night out without putting an acquaintance in the awkward sit-uation of reacting to something so complicated and overpersonal that it seems both to demand and to preclude comment.

There is a way to be a polite con-versationalist.

I promise I’m not some stu!y Victorian. It’s not that I believe that some subjects are “taboo.” But I do believe that conversa-tionalists should make their part-ners comfortable, and we should never presume that a person’s dis-comfort with a topic is the prod-uct of some reprehensible prud-ery. I’m as tempted as the next girl to respond to, “Hey, it’s nice to see you,” with “Yeah, I’d jump you too after a beer.” But there’s no escape from such impositions of self, and my TA would feel much more comfortable not having to explain to me why he finds me unattract-ive.

No: For him, at least, I will try to be less selfish. I will notice what makes him uncomfortable, and I will speak in sentences that tell the truth subtly, in all its parts, without shoving it into his brain like he’s a baby and my words are an oncoming spoonful of mashed peas. We all deserve more subtlety than that.

As a great poet once wrote: “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant.” I may be wrong, but I think that was also Justin Bieber.

MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Her column runs

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

In the fall of 1980, several stu-dents at Yale Law School noticed something disturbing.

There was something o! about the portraits on the walls of their building.

After careful examination, the students realized that they all depicted men. All of them. These students, now outraged, strongly urged the Law School to recog-nize the contributions of women by including portraits of accom-plished females alongside the men. Eventually, with the support of the administration, they com-missioned and unveiled a por-trait of Ellen Ash Peters. Peters, who fled Nazi Germany at the age of 9 and went on to graduate cum laude from Yale Law School and then teach there, became the first female justice on the Connecti-cut Supreme Court. Her portrait hangs in a lecture hall to this day.

One of those young students was my mother, then in her first year. I’d like to say that things have gotten better in the decades since my mother was in New Haven, and in many ways, they have. But when it comes to por-traits on the walls, things remain nearly as unequal as they were more than 30 years ago.

Since arriving as a freshman, I have become increasingly aware that nearly all the portraits on

the walls of dining halls and com-mon rooms were of white men. The faces staring down at me as I ate or studied were remark-ably homoge-neous, look-ing a little too much like the all-male, basically all-

white Yale of yesteryear for my liking.

So, since returning from winter break I have embarked on a survey of all of the dining hall and com-mon room portraits (where the vast majority of portraits seem to reside). Nine of Yale’s 13 din-ing halls, including Commons, have at least one portrait on their walls. Four of the common rooms have portraits. Of the 89 portraits I saw, 79 depicted white men, eight white women and two black men. To put that another way, less than 10 percent of the por-traits are women; hardly 2 percent are portraits of nonwhite people. No black women were pictured, nor were any Asians, Hispan-ics, Native Americans or other minorities (so far as I could tell).

In a Yale that claims to sup-port and embrace diversity, the walls that surround us — the walls we call home — should reflect a more diverse Yale. In a Yale that is half female and 41 percent peo-ple of color, we need more than our stodgy, lily-white, antiquated portraits.

I can attest to the fact that there is adequate room for more. Calhoun’s dining hall has plenty of room — it only has four por-traits (all white men, including the noted racist and pro-slav-ery politician, John C. Calhoun). Timothy Dwight’s dining hall has plenty of room, despite the 10 white, male faces staring down from its walls — and these the only 10 faces there.

The most diverse dining hall is Davenport’s — it has three white men, one black man and one white woman. Before Davenport feels too proud of itself, it should look at the portrait of its one woman: Anne Allen, a poor rendering of a severe old woman in a maid’s uni-form. “Faithful and Beloved Ser-vant,” the plaque reads.

My own treasured Branford dining hall — where I eat, conser-vatively, 90 percent of my meals — is the most homogenous of them all. Fifteen portraits adorn its walls. Every one is of a white man.

When I bring up this homoge-neity to friends, they invariably raise the argument: The portraits are probably depicting old mas-ters and deans; we can’t help it if that’s just why they’re there. Yet I can say with authority that a huge number of merely outstand-ing graduates are pictured as well, including numerous mem-bers of the clergy or government. And let’s not forget the scores of “benefactors” and “philanthro-pists” who somehow merited a portrait. Furthermore, plenty of them are still living. Overall, por-trait allotments seem remarkably arbitrary. Surely we can find an outstanding graduate who is not another white man — the names Hillary Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Benjamin Carson, Meryl Streep and even Clarence Thomas (if he’ll accept) spring to mind.

It’s time to change the portraits that surround us. What we put on the walls matters — it sends a message to the Yale community, as well as to the world at large. As Yale enters a new era of leadership under two white men, we have a chance to show our true commit-ment to a culture of diversity.

SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at

scott.stern@yale.edu .

NEWS’VIEW

MICHELLE TAYLOR

Tell It Slant

Yale's white walls

SCOTT STERNA Stern

Persepective

Zip your verbal fly

Yale must restore 'Intro Art History'

For common-sense computer science

FRIDAY FORUM

My grandmother has, from time to time, forgotten my name, age, col-lege, hometown and mother, but

she has never forgotten the words to “Some-where Over the Rainbow.” I stumbled upon this lyrical archive by accident when I was living with her last year. The song was stuck in my head, I hummed it, and she hummed the tune back. Soon enough, we were sing-ing the words together as she twirled me between her pill cabinet and mail covered kitchen table, spinning me by the Post-it and photograph-coated fridge. Since, we’ve danced to the tune in living rooms and park-ing lots. We have sung together about a land over the rainbow.

Over break, when I arrived in Pittsburgh, snow was piling up on the ground and weighing down the pine boughs. I spent the day in my grandmother’s living room, knit-ting and reading and refilling a bowl with maple syrup and snow. Her back was to the window. Each time she turned to look out-side, she gasped. Once in a while, she got up and walked toward the glass, the white from outside dancing in her milky grey-blue eyes. “It’s just amazing, isn’t it?” she asked.

She has asked many times, “Isn’t it just amazing?” She is always pointing out the slope of the hills, the flow of the rivers. She loves the clouds. She leans forward in the car and points up through the windshield. “Can you believe it?” she asks. It’s as if the mix of sun and clouds is always utterly unlike any she has seen before.

I forget about the sky sometimes. I know it’s there, but it so easily slips away, passes by unnoticed as I watch sidewalk pass below my feet. I don’t gasp each time I’m reminded it’s there, either. I get carried away puzzling over myself, wondering where I’ll go, which street I’ll take, how long I’ll stay. I’ve usually been like my grandmother, too: easily dis-tracted by rivers and clouds. In New Haven, though, my eyes often feel crusty or tired, having stared too long at a little screen in my hand or on my desk. I often forget the famil-iar refrain of clouds and light right here, made di!erent by each passing moment. I forget to look up. I know what she’d say, if she were here, wandering around New Haven next to me, her eyes never stuck to a phone or the pavement. “Isn’t it just amaz-ing, Diana?”

Much of my grandmother’s amazement of the world is tied to her city. She still prays every Sunday at the same church where she was baptized and married, the church where she has buried two parents, a sister and a husband. After 86 years in Pittsburgh, my grandmother has never forgotten the words to its particular song: Each stoplight cues some story about her group of middle school friends or an old French teacher, her first post-marriage home or a particular year’s family feast.

Soon, she may have to move, though. We have more family in Colorado. There is a small nursing home there. My grandmoth-er’s short-term memory loops every three minutes. While I lived with her last year, I sometimes came home to find her limping with black bruises splattered across her skin and a swollen knee she couldn’t figure out how she got.

For a while, I have been scared for her to leave Pittsburgh. I do not know if she will like the music of some other town. I am not sure she can learn new lyrics so late in the game.

But when she was visiting Colorado recently, one of my cousins apparently drove her along a highway. Steep mountains and thick clouds blurred out the windows. He drove her up and down the same road several times, and she gasped the whole way, most likely asking him, “Isn’t it just amazing?”

Hearing this story made me remember the obvious: wherever my grandmother is, she is under the sky. She is seeing what I often forget: the constant surprise of light and beauty moving around me, even right here, in New Haven, at this very moment.

These days, my grandmother only has the present tense. I try to live like that too, sometimes trying, for moments on end, to untangle myself from the past and loosen my mind from the anxiety-inducing grip of the future. For her, I try to exist in the exact space where I am. I try to notice better what is in front of me and see it like she would — as some land over some rainbow where bluebirds might fly — because for my grand-mother, that place is often right where her gaze happens to land.

DIANA SAVERIN is a senior in Berkeley College.

Contact her at diana.saverin@yale.edu .

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”

STEVE JOBS

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What she sees and

what I forget

A couple of days ago, this country marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,

a case that , despite all its consti-tutional controversy, remains a watershed moment in American politics, as well as a reference point for women’s rights movements across the world. The early 1970s, when the famous case was decided, was also when India, my home country, established an early law that gave women access to facili-ties for the medical termination of pregnancy. About 20 years later, however, India needed to criminal-ize prenatal tests that determined the sex of the fetus, a step that the government hoped would reduce the alarming rate of sex-selective abortion in the country. Today, both Indian laws represent pyrrhic victories at best — each law prom-ised to create positive change in the way we discussed sexual equality, but both proved inadequate over time.

The theory that economic growth augments social progres-sivism remains elusive in India.

Part of the problem is that the conversation has always centered on trivialities, rather than substan-tive issues. Discourse is shaped by news media that is bankrupt in terms of ideas — one that is unwill-ing to drive the national conversa-tion in the direction it should go. And the failures of the media have been especially noticeable as of late. After the incident on Decem-ber 16 — when a young Indian woman was brutally gang raped on a bus — the culture of sex-ual inequality in India attracted national outcry and unprece-dented international attention.

Unfortunately, the questions asked and solutions debated in the aftermath of the tragedy were, and continue to be, the wrong ones. India’s major television chan-nels and newspapers gave airtime and precious space to advocates of ludicrous proposals, like enforc-ing a mandatory death penalty for any convicted rapist, or encour-aging every woman to carry a fire-arm with her at all times and in all places.

In a country where the cur-rent justice system remains woe-fully inadequate at addressing sex-ual assault and rape cases, far too much time was lost bemoaning the situation or proposing unfeasible “Band-Aid” solutions. Far too lit-tle time was spent engaging con-structively with the steps neces-

sary to correct the systemic issues that promote and propagate sexual violence.

The issue, however, is that Indi-ans are blind to the futility of the conversations they’ve been hav-ing. Goaded on by a media that satiates their visceral desires for short-term solutions and acts of brutal retribution, I worry that we’ve lost sight — as a people and as a populace — of the correct ref-erence points for what we’re trying to achieve.

Rallying the social move-ment for sexual equality around the fickle nature of the national media is also unsustainable. All it takes is another headline story — for India to win a major cricket series, a skirmish along the Line of Control or even just another elec-tion — and all the momentum and public mobility that has been built up over the last few weeks will be entirely lost as the public eye turns elsewhere.

In fact, India is no stranger to this kind of collective amnesia. In 2011, Anna Hazare notably called for an independent ombudsman to check government corruption. Today, these e!orts have mostly fallen by the wayside.

How can we change this cul-ture? The long-run solution even-tually lies in ensuring that the des-serts of Indian growth are more fairly allocated across the country. In the short-term, however, the onus lies on India’s large middle class to become more involved in the political process. Fortunately, the political apathy that the middle class was known for finally seems to be giving way. One need only look at the scores of college stu-dents and young professionals who protested, even at threat of arrest, across big Indian cities. Directing this energy of political engagement towards meaningful outcomes is the challenge, especially in a soci-ety with an admittedly chronic deficiency of good leadership.

The answer, ultimately, lies in not satisfying ourselves with the pyrrhic victories of the past. We must continue to mobilize and fight for justice, even when the media switches to another flavor-of-the-week issue, and when pol-iticians dodge the hard questions. It will take e!ort, but I’m confident we can get there.

ANIRUDH SIVARAM is a sopho-more in Calhoun College. Contact him

at anirudh.sivaram@yale.edu.

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Asking the right questions in India

The events that unfolded in Israel this week should make Americans optimis-

tic. Unfortunately, that’s some-thing you don’t hear every day. But this past Tuesday, on Jan. 22, the results of the 2013 Israeli elections revealed that perhaps, in the midst of great fragmen-tation and extremism, there is place for moderation and com-promise — in both Israel and the United States.

Because of the coalition sys-tem in Israel, it’s still uncer-tain what the composition of the next government will be. The parties winning the most votes were Likud/Beiteinu with 31 mandates, Yesh Atid with 19 and Labor with 15. Likud is on the right, known for its stances on foreign policy and security, and it is also the party of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu. Yesh Atid is a new centrist party focusing on social equality, and the left-wing Labor Party is looking to spearhead eco-nomic reforms. While the pre-vious Israeli coalition included far-right parties and failed to provide the change that much of the Israeli public desires, there is hope that this new coalition can be built on compromise. This election provided an opportu-nity for a broader, more moderate and more productive representa-tion of the Israeli people. At this point, there is strong likelihood that Netanyahu and Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid will form a right-cen-ter government that will also include Hatnua, the new left-center party led by Tzipi Livni. As a result of Israeli electorate’s call for moderation, the num-bers leave the possibility that this coalition will be free from extreme-right religious parties – a long-time woe for many Israe-lis.

In the context of the changes this election may lead to, we should consider the United States. There should of course be hesitation before making overly general comparisons between two very di!erent countries and political systems. But both Israel and the U.S. have a diverse pop-ulation of immigrants, a frag-mented political culture pulling on both the left and the right, and a fear that the legislature’s utter ineptitude will result in crisis both at home and abroad.

Twelve di!erent Israeli politi-cal parties won seats in the next Knesset (Parliament); many more ran, but did not achieve the electoral threshold to gain repre-sentation. Israel’s political par-ties span the spectrum from left to right, secular to religious, eco-nomic-focused to foreign-policy gurus.

In contrast, the United States has only two major parties. But these parties include a multi-tude of divergent opinions and preference sets within the par-ties themselves. Both Israe-lis and Americans are frustrated with their divided governments’ inability to solve many key national problems. In Israel, the focus is on economic stratifica-tion, lack of social egalitarianism and foreign policy, while in the U.S., the primary current issues are the economy and social wel-fare programs.

And so the 2013 Israeli elec-tions may yield a compromise coalition that could be a turning point in this political deadlock. But why now? It may be that the crises in Israel are coming to a head. Perhaps Israelis have decided that enough is enough – “dayenu!” as said at the Pass-over Seder. In America, we must look no further than our Con-gress’ 11th-hour handling of the fiscal cli! and debt ceiling crises to observe a political by-prod-uct of human nature: Only when things have come to a crisis point will compromise be reached.

These Israeli elections should provide encouragement for the United States. In fact, Wash-ington has it easier than Jerusa-lem — there are only two political parties to reconcile, not 12. Long before the State of Israel’s estab-lishment in 1948, Theodore Herzl famously stated, “If you will it, it is not a dream.” American politi-cal pundits, journalists, workers and students have long lamented that even in their wildest dreams Congress could not pull itself together to pass laws that would truly address the nation’s prob-lems. Perhaps the U.S., like Israel, has finally reached enough of a crisis point that compromise will no longer be a dream.

DANIELLE BELLA ELLISON is a sophomore in Davenport College.

Contact her at danielle.ellison@yale.edu .

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Crisis and compromise

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Winter has arrived at Yale

YALE TALKS GLOBAL POLITICSAPPRECIATE WHERE WE ARE AND STAY IN THE MOMENT

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“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.” DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FIVE-

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improvements that are ready to be implemented immedi-ately: increased transparency and parental involvement in the school district, funding for early childhood education and a new focus on what Elicker described as “technology and life skills.”

The mayoral candidate also stressed the need for an inde-pendent school board — as the entire board is currently appointed by the mayor under city charter — and criticized the politicization of develop-ment projects.

“Developers need to feel that they don’t have to contribute to political campaigns to play ball in New Haven, and if I am mayor, I will end that practice,” Elicker said to applause. “If you are a developer, you need not give to the DeStefano cam-paign today because you won’t need to play ball after Novem-ber of this year.”

Also running for mayor are DeStefano, who after over 19 years in office is currently serving his 10th term, and Sun-diata Keitazulu, a plumber and New Haven resident. State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield said he plans on making a decision about whether to run at the end of this month, although he has previously suggested that he

will run.Elicker contrasted his com-

munity outreach efforts in the last few months — which i n c l u d e d a t te n d i n g t h e Newhallville toy drive, city park advocacy groups and Hill Community Management Team meetings — with what he said was minimal involvement on the part of the other two candidates.

“Do you know who was not there 99 percent of the time? The two other guys who are talking about running for mayor,” Elicker said.

Also present for Elick-er’s mayoral announcement was Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who has said that he is officially support-ing Elicker for mayor and that he is “proud of him” for using public financing, which limits the total amount of money that candidates can spend. After helping to create the system nearly a decade ago, DeSte-fano abandoned public financ-ing in 2011 after criticizing the system for failing in its aims of generating new candidates and becoming subsumed in “bureaucratic nonsense.”

After Elicker’s speech, Tim Holahan, a Westville education activist and friend of Elicker, asked supporters to make donations to the campaign. Because Elicker has opted to

use public financing, indi-vidual contributions may not exceed $375.

Attendees interviewed said they hoped Elicker would use his experience as an alderman to stay in touch with neighbor-hood issues as mayor. Katha Cox, who has lived in New Haven all her life and volun-teers at Fair Haven School, said Elicker was responsible for bringing the East Rock Park back to life. She added that she thinks Elicker has promoted fiscal responsibility on the Board of Aldermen.

Many supporters said they were excited by the prospect of a fresh face in the mayor’s office after DeStefano’s two-decade tenure, a theme that Elicker riffed on in his speech.

“DeStefano’s been in office for 20 years. I’m 37 years old, and I haven’t done anything for 20 years,” Elicker said. “The only thing I really want to do for 20 years straight is to be married to my wife.”

DeStefano, who had said he will not rely on public financ-ing, outspent his previous opponent by a 14-to-1 margin.

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

STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

the statement said.Scott Wilson, president of the

Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights organiza-tion with approximately 3,000 members, said he thinks the bill is unlikely to pass, adding that “House [of Representatives] Republicans will put up a pretty good fight.”

Nevertheless, Feinstein, Blu-menthal and Murphy said the importance of enacting gun control legislation outweighs staunch resistance both inside Washington and across the nation. Blumenthal said that despite the influence of the gun lobby, public opinion has shifted decisively in favor of gun con-trol since the Newtown shooting, adding that “there has been a sea change in public consciousness, a seismic shift in public support.”

“If assault weapons and high capacity magazines were not so readily available, including the weapon Adam Lanza used to take 26 lives last month, there would be more little boys and girls alive in Newtown today,” Murphy told the News.

In addition to listing 157 spe-cific firearms as assault weapons, the ban also defines any semi-automatic rifle, handgun or shot-gun that can accept a detach-able magazine and has at least one military characteristic as an assault weapon. Semi-automatic rifles and handguns with fixed magazines that accept more than 10 rounds fall under the proposed assault weapon definition as well. The new definition of assault weapons is significantly more expansive than previous itera-tions — the 1994 Assault Weap-ons Ban, which expired in 2004, defined assault weapons as those with detachable magazines and two or more military character-istics.

The proposed legislation also bans all ammunition feeding devices, such as magazines, clips

and drums capable of holding more than ten rounds.

The 1994 ban, which gun advocates claim was ine!ective in stemming the tide of gun vio-lence, has come under criticism from supporters of tighter regu-lation for allowing firearm manu-facturers to circumvent the defi-nition of an assault weapon easily.

“The main lesson [of the 1994 ban] is that we should prevent an assault weapons ban that allows exceptions and exemptions,” Blu-menthal said.

The fate of the legislation is likely to be decided by moderate senators, such as Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats of Virginia. Many moderate legisla-tors have yet to take a stance on the issuse formally. On Thursday, an aide to Sen. Kaine remained noncommittal on how the sena-tor is likely to vote.

“He supports a comprehensive approach to reducing gun vio-lence,” Lily Adams, a press sec-retary for Kaine, said in a Thurs-day email to the News. “Sen. Kaine also believes we should adopt reasonable restrictions on super-size magazines and com-bat weapons, and looks forward to reviewing bills aimed at curb-ing gun violence.”

Only hours after the announcement of the proposed legislation, Vice President Joe Biden, who led a task force that proposed federal actions to reduce gun violence, partici-

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Connecticut Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 joined California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the introduction of an assault weapons ban.

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If assault weapons … were not so readily available … there would be more little boys and girls alive in Newtown today.

CHRIS MURPHYU.S. Senator, Connecticut

pated in a “hangout” on Google Plus on the topic of gun control. Tomorrow, Biden will travel to Richmond, Va., to campaign for the president’s proposals on gun control.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United States had

3.75 gun-induced homicides per 100,000 people in 2009, com-pared to 0.03 in the United King-dom.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at

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NEWS

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERGSTAFF REPORTER

Following the completion of a report evaluating Yale’s new academic calendar that debuted this year, the Yale College Coun-cil plans to work toward two final exam policy changes to alleviate the stress of the shortened read-ing period.

The Academic Calendar Report includes data from a Jan. 10 survey asking undergradu-ates questions about fall break and the three-day reading period — two new additions to the cal-endar that began in the 2012–’13 academic year — and recom-mends changes to the calendar and academic policies during finals. YCC President John Gon-zalez ’14 said that after present-ing their findings in the Aca-demic Calendar Report to the Yale College Calendaring Com-mittee on Wednesday, the YCC concluded that the Council will focus on implementing the aca-demic policy changes — moving back the deadline for final papers and allowing flexibility in 7 p.m. exam time — during the spring semester because the significant calendar changes the YCC pro-posed are not feasible goals in the short term.

“If any changes happen to the academic calendar, they will not happen during the next school year,” Gonzalez said. “In the interim, the YCC is examin-ing what it can change in terms of academic policies. These aca-demic policy proposals will try to alleviate the problems calen-dar changes have caused for stu-dents’ academic well-being.”

The survey, to which 1,340 students responded, found that 75 percent of students think the shortened reading period had a negative influence on their aca-demic performance, but that 62 percent of students supported keeping a fall break next year, even at the expense of the longer reading period. From the data, the YCC outlined four calendar recommendations — to sched-ule fall break one week earlier, to maintain the length of Thanks-giving break and to lengthen the reading and exam periods — and the two academic policy recom-mendations.

John Meeske, dean of under-graduate organizations and phys-ical resources and member of the Calendaring Committee, said the 2013–’14 provisional academic calendar is “relatively stable” and that “no radical change to the cal-endar for next year” is possible.

Meeske added that the report’s recommendation to shorten win-ter break is “complicated and tricky” to implement. Extending reading and exam periods into winter break can conflict with the timing of Christmas in some years, and the Calendaring Com-mittee has historically tried to

ensure the length of winter break remains consistent, he said.

YCC Vice President Danny Avraham ’15 said he plans to focus on implementing the report’s two academic policy recommenda-tions before final exam period this spring. Avraham said he has already been in contact with administrators about both pro-posals, adding that he thinks they will help reduce students’ stress during finals period without changing the calendar itself.

Avraham and Gonzalez said Spring Fling, which will take

place the Monday during reading period, will exacerbate the nega-tive e!ects of the shortened read-ing and exam periods.

Students interviewed said they are in favor of allowing students to petition moving a 7 p.m. exam, but that they do not think mov-ing paper due dates to the end of finals period will alleviate stress associated with the shorter read-ing and exam periods.

“This policy would enable procrastination. I don’t think it helps that much with planning,” Rachel Miller ’15 said. “The cur-

rent deadline delineates between essay-writing time and exam-studying time, which I find very useful.”

The Calendaring Committee will receive access to all written responses on the YCC’s survey, as well as a version of the report more detailed than the one sent out to students.

Reading period this semester will begin on Friday, April 26.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at

kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23The article “State may get new charter schools” stated that Jo Lutz is the director of the Connecticut Charter School Network. That organization is currently in the process of merging with the New York chapter of the network into the Northeast Charter School Network.

“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.” BILL CLINTON 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASSTAFF REPORTER

Six weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the Sandy Hook Advisory Commis-sion met Thursday for the first time.

The commission, charged with investigating the shoot-ing and providing public policy recommendations “in the areas of public safety, with particular attention paid to school safety, mental health and gun vio-lence prevention” by Gov. Dan-nel Malloy, is comprised of 16 members and chaired by Ham-den Mayor Scott Jackson. Mem-bers of the commission include teachers, public safety offi-cials and experts in the fields of gun violence, mental health and school security.

“When this is done, we will have made our children and our entire state safer,” Malloy told the commission in his opening remarks. “The desire for chang-ing our policies and our laws is increasing on a daily basis.”

Beginning with a moment of silence for those killed in New-town, the panel heard from Danbury State’s Attorney Ste-phen Sedensky, who is lead-ing the police investigation of the shooting. Sedensky updated the commission on what he

described as an ongoing inves-tigation. After Sedensky, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter spoke to the commission. Ritter served as district attorney in Denver and was a member of the Columbine Commission, which investigated the 1999 high school shooting in Littleton, Colo. that killed 13.

Rather than suggesting spe-cific policy proposals, Ritter provided a blueprint of the work that lies ahead for the commis-sion. Describing both Colum-bine and Newtown as “incidents we can look to where innocence is lost,” Ritter emphasized the importance of listening for the commission.

“There’s no one-size-fits-all in how people grieve. You’ll find them along a spectrum,” Ritter said. “You as commissioners are really tasked just to listen.”

After Ritter, the commission heard from University of Vir-ginia professor Richard Bonnie. Bonnie, who chairs the Virginia Commission on Mental Health

Reform, served as a consultant to the Virginia Tech Review Panel. In 2007, a gunman on the Vir-ginia Tech campus killed 32 and injured 17 in the deadliest shoot-ing in American history.

The commission, however, has already come under criticism from Connecticut gun advocates who feel that the group’s con-clusions, and subsequent policy initiatives by Malloy, will be the same regardless of testimony.

Ed Peruta, a director at Con-necticut gun-rights group CT Carry, emphasized enforc-ing existing laws, longer sen-tences for those committing gun offenses, and an improvement in mental health care as better solutions than more regulation.

“I don’t think the gover-nor wants to know the facts. He wants an outcome,” Peruta said. “Connecticut does not have the intestinal fortitude nor the financial resources to solve all the problems.”

Shortly after the commis-sion’s meeting, Sen. Rich-ard Blumenthal, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, introduced the Mental Health First Aid Bill “to expand men-tal health first-aid training and increase the effectiveness of mental health care across Amer-ica.” Mental health care has been widely recognized by parties on both sides of the gun control debate as an important factor in

preventing future mass shoot-ings.

In addition to the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, the state’s recently formed Task Force on Gun Violence Preven-tion and Children Safety will hold four working-group pub-lic hearings between Friday and next Wednesday on school safety, gun violence and mental health.

Activists on both sides of the gun debate have encour-aged their supporters to attend the hearings. The website of the National Rifle Association Insti-tute for Legislative Action said, “It is important that pro-Second Amendment supporters show up to these hearings to voice their opposition to any reactionary anti-gun legislation.”

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, who supports increased regulation, told the News that there has been a “public expression of interest in additional prohibitions,” and that he also expected many gun control advocates to attend the hearings.

The final hearing, which is scheduled for this coming Wednesday, will take place at Newtown High School.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at

matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Sandy Hook commission meets

Shortened reading period has negative influence on academic abilities:

The 7 p.m. exam time slot:

Keep fall break next year at the cost of a shorter reading period:

75 percent agree 25 percent disagree

13 percent support 87 percent oppose

62 percent support 38 percent oppose

Shorten winter break by two to three days:

66 percent support 34 percent oppose

BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER

After more than a year of negotiations, New Haven Police Department officers have reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with the city.

A n n o u n c e d T h u rs d a y morning, the tentative agree-ment between the city and unionized NHPD o"cers rep-resented by Local 530 includes a wage increase as well as long-term changes to pen-sion and health benefits. The contract agreement is await-ing approval from the over 400 police officers in the NHPD who have been working with-out a contract since the previ-ous contract expired on June 30, 2011.

“This agreement is fair but competitive,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said in a state-ment following the announce-ment. “It will allow us to attract the best and the bright-est to the New Haven Police Department by compensating them fairly, while saving the taxpayers of the city money.”

The tentative agreement comes after months of uncer-tainty during which the police union seemed unable to set-tle on a contract with the city. Negotiations appeared to have hit a dead end, as the city pushed for pension and med-ical benefits concessions that police union President Louis Cavaliere Jr. described as “unfair” in August 2012. That same month, Cavaliere — who was appointed president of the union in June — told the News that if the dispute remained unresolved and reached state arbitrators, officers might leave the force.

Upon reaching yesterday’s agreement, Cavaliere called the proposed contract “fair” and far better than what the union could have obtained if contract negotiation went to arbitration.

“It’s not a high-five con-tract, but it’s not the worst contract in the world, espe-cially considering the financial situation of the city,” Cavaliere said. “We’re definitely going in the right direction.”

The proposed contract — which, if ratified, will begin retroactively on July 1, 2011 and will last until June 30, 2016 — would raise the pay of New Haven cops by 9 percent over five years while allow-ing the city certain long-term changes in health and pension benefits. Under the contract, officers’ pay would rise by 3 percent in the current fiscal

year, 0 percent next year and 3 percent in the years 2015 and 2016, while monthly health premiums would rise for o"-cers who retire after 2014: Instead of a flat $135 monthly health premium, all retirees would be required to pay the same premium they were pay-ing at the time of retirement, with a 6 percent increase a year. Medical premiums would also increase by 7 percent for current o"cers.

The new contract will also reduce the number of annual sick days from 15 to 12. How-ever, current police officers will maintain their right to retire after only 20 years on the job, which was one of the major points of contention with the city.

“We’re the only department in the state that has a 20-year finish line,” Cavaliere said. “Hartford, Bridgeport and Waterbury all have a 25-year finish line.”

However, the 20-year retirement benefit will not hold true for new police o"-cers, who would have to spend 25 years in service before retir-ing under the new contract. New hires and current cadets will also be denied some of the benefits enjoyed by current police o"cers, Cavaliere said.

If ratified, the proposed contract could go into effect as early as February, Cavaliere said. Meanwhile, he said he is planning a “double meeting” next week with a union attor-ney and medical experts to explain the details of the med-ical package. The tentative agreement will then go before the union’s general member-ship for a ratification vote and then move to the Board of Aldermen for final approval.

“I don’t know if [the con-tract] will be ratified,” Cava-liere said. “But I tell people, ‘If you want to vote no because you’re going to lose three sick days a year, that’s insane.’”

New Haven experienced the first two homicides of the year on Wednesday, one day before the tentative agreement was reached.

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

NHPD union nears contract

TIMELINE NHPD CONTRACTJUNE 30, 2011NHPD union three-year contract expires

JUNE 22, 2012Arpad Tolnay steps down from his position as president of the NHPD union

JUNE 27, 2012Louis Cavaliere Jr. is appointed NHPD union president

JANUARY 24, 2013Union and city reach a tentative five-year contract agreement

It’s not a high-five contract, but it’s not the worst contract in the world.

LOUIS CAVALIERE JR.President, NHPD union

When this is done, we will have made our children and our entire state safer.

DANNEL MALLOYGovernor, Connecticut

YCC proposes changes to finals

SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER/KAMARIA GREENFIELD

Former NHPD Union President Louis Cavaliere Sr. led a protest at City Hall in February 2011 after 16 o!cers were laid o" due to budget cuts.

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draising is an added benefit for Yale and for the school.”

Since Snyder arrived, he has raised roughly $5 million toward the construction of Evans Hall, along with gifts of $4 million and $1 million, the largest since Sny-der’s arrival, for two new SOM programs: the Leadership Devel-opment Program, which aims to educate SOM students about ethical leadership, and the Initia-tive on Leadership and Organiza-tional Performance, a three-year project that will provide SOM faculty with funding for research starting in July 2013, as well as aid faculty recruitment, develop-ment and retention. Snyder said he cannot disclose specific infor-mation about his fundraising e!orts or strategy because these e!orts are currently under way.

Though Snyder said the SOM has not received “what [he] would call large, really substantial gifts that would represent sub-stantial portions of the fundrais-ing process” for Evans Hall since

his arrival in July 2011, he said the school has continued to receive a steady flow of gifts for the cam-pus, adding that construction e!orts have also benefited from the timely payments of dona-tions Oster solicited. He added that two of the most significant donations for Evans Hall raised prior to his arrival — the $50 mil-lion donation by Edward Evans ’64 and the $10 million donation by Wilbur Ross ’59 — have been paid in full, adding that an anon-ymous donor has paid 80 percent of his $25 million gift. Snyder and Joel Getz, senior associate dean for development and alumni rela-tions, said they encourage donors who have pledged gifts to the school to pay their donations’ full amount as quickly as possible.

“Evans Hall is one of several priorities rather than our sole priority,” Snyder said. “Dean Oster and [University President Richard Levin] were so success-ful and many people were so gen-erous before I came that [the $25 million] shortfall is something we want to eliminate, but it’s in our

budget plan.”Snyder said the SOM expects

to borrow the remaining funds from the University in two stages: The school will first request funding to complete construction once its current resources run out, and then request a second

sum once the SOM community moves into the new building. He said the second loan will resem-ble a mortgage and exceed $20 million. Both loans are within the parameters of the original budget plan for the school, he said.

University Vice President for

Finance and Business Opera-tions Shauna King said in a Jan. 16 email that the University has supported the SOM’s fundraising e!orts “every step of the way,” adding that the school is rais-ing all funds for Evans Hall as planned.

Snyder assumed o"ce as the 10th dean of SOM on July 1, 2011.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at

aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

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concerned for their academic career prospects.

One Egyptology graduate stu-dent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to a reluctance to be associated with Darnell’s resignation, said the disciplin-ary action taken against Dar-nell has resulted in an “unfor-tunate situation” that a!ects all Egyptology students to vary-ing degrees. The student added that the Egyptology students have been approached by Grad-uate School administrators, who expressed their intention to work with students for the betterment of the program as a whole, and have been assured by Frahm and Schirmeister that the graduate students are their first priority.

Though another Egyptology graduate student said the pro-gram’s small size means that fewer classes will be offered to the students during their course-

work years following the sus-pension, Frahm said he does not anticipate that the department will struggle to provide teaching in Darnell’s absence.

Manassa, who serves as direc-tor of undergraduate studies for NELC, declined to comment on the effect of the department’s leadership transition on under-graduates. She is currently the only Egyptologist on the NELC

faculty. Frahm said he does not think

Darnell’s resignation and sus-pension have had an “enormous impact” on the other two subdis-ciplines of NELC — Arabic Stud-ies and Assyriology. NELC gradu-ate students said the three NELC subfields operate essentially as three different departments, despite the fact that they share the same administration. Ara-bic professor Beatrice Gruendler said her students have not inter-acted extensively with Egyptol-ogy and were “not at all a!ected” by Darnell’s absence.

Five graduate students in other NELC subdivisions said Darnell’s absence will not impact their research, adding that Frahm has fulfilled his duties as acting chair.

The NELC Department has a total of 21 graduate students across its subdivisions.

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

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The site of the Yale School of Management’s new campus, Edward P. Evans Hall, is located near Whitney Avenue.

We have to deal with … a rather major crisis that a!ects mostly the graduate students in Egyptology.

ECKART FRAHMActing chair, NELC Department

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BY THE NUMBERS MAJOR GIFTS SOM HAS RECEIVED IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS$50M Gift for Evans Hall from Edward Evans ’64.

$10M Gift for Evans Hall from Wilbur Ross ’59

$4M Gift for the Leadership Development Program from two Yale College graduates

$3M Gift for the largest classroom in Evans Hall

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NEWSBY MICHELLE HACKMAN

STAFF REPORTER

Gov. Dannel Malloy announced the creation of a commission to address the gender pay gap in Connecticut in a press confer-ence Wednesday afternoon.

The Department of Labor and the Department of Economic and Community Development — which together comprise the commission — have been charged with investigating the factors that contribute to gender wage disparity in Connecticut and rec-ommending policies designed to eliminate it. Malloy has asked the commissioners to make recom-mendations to address the gender wage gap by October 2013.

“While gender wage dispar-ity impacts women first and fore-most, the ramifications can a!ect entire families,” Malloy said in a Wednesday press release. “In many families, women are the breadwinners. In others, they are the only source of income. The disparity in Connecticut is unac-ceptably high, and while this is a complicated issue, that cannot be an excuse for inaction.”

The governor’s o"ce did not respond to requests for comment on the timing of the commission.

While the press release said that women comprise 47 per-cent of Connecticut’s workforce, the typical woman working full-time in Connecticut in 2011 was paid 78 percent of what her male counterpart was paid, rank-ing Connecticut 25th on a list of states with the lowest wage dis-parity according to the National Women’s Law Center. That dis-parity, however, translates to a gap of over $13,000 per year on

average. Katherine Gallagher Rob-

bins, a senior policy analyst at the National Women’s Law Center, said that Connecticut politicians can address much of this gap by creating policies to address wom-en’s tendency to accept lower-paying jobs. Such initiatives, she said, include raising the mini-mum wage and creating training programs to prepare women to enter more lucrative professions.

A 2006 Cornell study — which Malloy cited in the press release — found that much of the wage gap can be attributed to di!er-ences in education, experience, choice of occupation and indus-try. However, 41 percent of the variability in wages could not be attributed to any factor, and it is widely believed that the variabil-ity is caused by gender discrimi-nation.

Still, Steven Lanza, a labor economist at the University of Connecticut, cautioned against making such an assumption. Many other factors, including having children, were not con-trolled for in this particular study.

“In every social science study, there is always an unexplained portion of the analysis and 41 percent isn’t bad,” Lanza said. “Besides other secondary factors

that haven’t been controlled for, unexplained variation arises from measurement error and from the simple random variation that is a part of life.”

Lanza added that Connecticut women di!er from the national average in that they are gener-ally more educated, so the factors that may lead to wage disparity in Connecticut might di!er from those across the country.

Fred Carstensen, the head of the Connecticut Center for Eco-nomic Analysis at UConn, said that Connecticut faces a partic-ularly formidable barrier in dis-cerning such unique factors. The state’s system for storing admin-istrative data, he said, is the 47th worst in the nation according to a study he commissioned. The lack of data will make research questions much more di"cult to

answer, he added.“What I hope the commission

will do is not only look at poli-cies that might be implemented, but also address the more funda-mental issue, which is creating the kind of data that will permit you to track [gender wage dispar-ity] on a regular basis,” he said. “We’re famous for having these one-off commissions, but we almost never go back and revisit

the issues.”According to a October 2012

study by the American Associa-tion of University Women, full-time working college graduate women on average make 82 per-cent of what their male counter-parts earn.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at

michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

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NEWS “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

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BY LAURA PENGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet Jacques D’Amboise loves to be on stage.

D’Amboise, a dancer and choreog-rapher, got back on stage on Thurs-day at a Master’s Tea in the Jonathan Edwards College Theater to discuss his nonprofit National Dance Institute and the importance of an education in art. At the talk, D’Amboise said he believes that ensuring art is included in edu-cation is essential because it offers students a more fluid perspective on learning than traditional education.

“Music used to be in public schools — but these were gone, as if these are not important,” he said. “So I thought at least I could give that back to them and give them another way to learn.”

D’Amboise said he founded the National Dance Institute, a nonprofit that o!ers music and dance classes to public school students, in 1976 based on his belief that promoting art educa-tion can motivate and empower chil-dren. Since he established the first National Dance Institute in New York City, the organization has expanded to 13 more cities throughout the country and opened a location in Shanghai last year.

A distinction exists between learn-ing and education, D’Amboise said, because people are continuously

learning, but education stops when a degree is given.

“The most talented artists and poetry writers are children around 4 or 5. Then they start going to school to get an ‘education,’ and they’re told to draw straight lines,” he said. “So now they can’t draw those crazy rays of wire and convoluted lines.”

D’Amboise said he learned to value an unstructured education from his mother, who insisted that he and his siblings learn a variety of skills such as public speaking and French. Due in part to his mother’s conviction, D’Amboise added, he read “anything and everything” all the time. At age 8, his mother sent him to the School of American Ballet to expand his arts education, and while there, he met George Balanchine, co-founder and choreographer of the New York City Ballet.

D’Amboise said his career took off when he was 8 after Balanchine cast him as Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and he left school to join the New York City Ballet by age 15. D’Amboise said he had tea with the queen of England before he turned 16, and had been on “The Ed Sullivan Show” three times by the time he was 35 years old. In his career, D’Amboise has received many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Kennedy Center Honors Award and a National Medal of the Arts.

D’Amboise said that in his career he hopes the National Dance Institute will immortalize his goal of educating oth-ers.

“I formed this nonprofit because I could hire other people, and then quit or die, and the place would continue,” he said. “It doesn’t depend on [me].”

Megan Valentine ’16, who partic-ipated in a demonstration on stage where she was instructed to combine dance and science, said she felt that she better understood D’Amboise’s message about learning after partici-pating in the demonstration.

“[D’Amboise] decided to teach me how to be a molecule, which was pretty exciting because I’ve never learned to do that in school before,” she said.

Amymarie Bartholomew ’13, presi-dent of the Yale Ballet Company, said she had been looking forward to meet-ing D’Amboise because he has made such a significant impact on the danc-ing community.

“He has a lot of character,” she said. “People always have such interesting stories, especially about Balanchine because he’s such a canonical figure in American dance.”

A documentary film made about D’Amboise called “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’” won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 1983.

Contact LAURA PENG at laura.peng@yale.edu .

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Dancer and choreographer Jacques D’Amboise spoke at a Jonathan Edwards College Master’s Tea on Thursday.

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2:00 PM “Stage Combat” Students will learn some of the basics of hand-to-hand combat, partnering and the techniques needed to perform violence on stage safely. Applicable for actors, directors or stage managers. Free but register in advance with thomas.delgado@yale.edu. Open to students only. Broadway Rehearsal Lofts (294 Elm St.), Third-Floor Dance Studio.

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NBA’s New Orleans Hornets become the New Orleans PelicansAfter weeks of speculation, the New Orleans Hornets ownership group o!cially announced the team’s name change to the Pelicans, e"ective at the end of the 2012-’13 NBA season. The change also includes a new color scheme for the franchise —blue is the primary color, with gold and red playing secondary roles. The new name, logo and jerseys are designed to better reflect Louisana heritage and Gulf Coast culture.

Third ‘White Out’ pits Elis against Raiders

Remembering Mandi

Bulldogs face Bears on road

BY DINEE DORAMECONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The women’s basketball team will continue conference play this weekend with a rematch against the Brown Bears, a team that bested them narrowly last Saturday night in John J. Lee Amphitheater.

The Bulldogs (5–10, 0–1 Ivy) are looking for their first Ivy League title since 1979 and their first conference win this sea-son. Yale fell to Brown (7–8, 1–0 Ivy) in their past two matchups,

including a close 68–67 loss last week.

“We added a few new strate-gies to our game, mainly defen-sively. However, none of these changes are major because we know that we just had an extremely off night on Satur-day,” guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said. “If we are able to play at the high level we are capable of playing at, we should definitely win.”

The Elis hope to improve defensive e"orts and free-throw shooting in the upcoming game

against the Bears. Last weekend, the Bulldogs shot 10–19 from the line — a 52.6 percent aver-age — and su"ered from Brown’s quick transition o"ense.

“In the last game we strug-gled getting aggressive rotations on defense. We also fell into the trap of playing their slow half-court game when we need to push the ball,” team captain and guard Allie Messimer ’13 said.

Messimer said she hopes that the Bulldogs can focus on tak-ing care of the boards. For-ward Meredith Boardman ’16 is

Yale’s leading rebounder with 5.1 rebounds per game, contrib-uting to the team average of 35.9. Brown has a slight edge over the Bulldogs with 37.8 rebounds per game.

“We know last weekend was a learning experience. We’re lucky to have a deep bench, so every-one is a key player,” guard Megan Vasquez ’13 said.

The Bulldogs are currently ranked 11th in the nation for 3-point shooting, averaging 8.1 per game. They are also ranked third in the conference in scor-

ing with 67.3 points per game. Last week, guards Halejian and Janna Graf ’14, who both average over 12 points per game, were appointed to the Ivy League’s women’s basketball honor roll.

Team members are optimistic about upcoming league play.

“Although we would have liked to have started out 1–0, we aren’t discouraged. We’re still confident that we are one of the top teams in the Ivy League and can compete with anyone,” Halejian said.

The Ivy League is the only

Division I conference lacking a postseason tournament. Yale’s 14-game Ivy series is the final stretch of regular season play and the determinant of which team earns a bid in the NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs will face both Harvard and Dart-mouth in the coming week.

The team will take on Brown tonight at 6 p.m. at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center in Providence, R.I.

Contact DINEE DORAME at dinee.dorame@yale.edu .

Ciotti is another co-organizer of the event, along with Adlon Adams ’15.

Fans are encouraged to wear white, and “White Out” T-shirts will be on sale today at Commons during lunch, as well as at both of the team’s games this week-end.

Ciotti said that the goal of the “White Out” is to raise awareness in both the Yale and New Haven communities about bone marrow donations and how to get involved in the foundation.

Decker said people can show support just by attending.

“Many people are pledging per spec-tator, so just by showing up … you will be donating towards our cause,” she said.

Saturday’s game has another sense of importance: The Bulldogs are looking to collect another league win against the Raiders, who they beat in October in the teams’ only other matchup.

“We need to put more shots on net and carry over the intensity and fire we brought to Brown to this weekend’s

events,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said.Haddad was given ECAC Rookie of

the Week honors for her pair of second-period goals that led to the Brown defeat last Thursday.

“It definitely doesn’t change the way I think or play,” Haddad said. “I’m here to play hockey for myself and my team-mates, not for any reward or recogni-

tion.”The Elis will compete tomorrow night

against No. 4 Cornell at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink. Saturday’s game versus Colgate is at 4 p.m.

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

Sasketchewan with a popu-lation of 300. To this day, the town revolves around hockey. In Mandi’s time, there were two female hockey teams and 10 men’s teams. If you weren’t playing hockey, you were watch-ing hockey. Every social event in Wilcox involved hockey. It’s what Mandi knew best and loved best, before coming to Yale.

When Mandi first came to

Yale, she was scared. She really didn’t know whether she could handle the intellectual rigor and the academic demands that Yale would challenge her with. (Who does?) Yet, it was exactly because of this challenge that she decided to come to Yale. As it turned out, because Mandi was so resolute and driven and bright, she excelled in the class-room. But she also wanted to set an example for the other kids in Wilcox and throughout Sas-

katchewan. She was determined to show them that someone from a small town could be suc-cessful at a place like Yale. She carried this extra responsibility quietly — the way she did most everything — from day one.

Mandi was a very good hockey player. She worked hard at con-ditioning, she strove to become the best she could be and she really knew the game. From the minute she dressed for her first practice, we knew she had pos-

itively changed the culture of Yale women’s hockey. It was her smile, her absolute joy at work-ing at and playing hockey that set the tone for our team. Yet Mandi was no superstar, and this is what made her so spe-cial. It was her unique ability to put others ahead of herself that will always be her hallmark. Although she was respected on the team for her skills and her dedication, she was absolutely adored on the team for her self-

lessness and her rare ability to lift up everyone around her. She helped her teammates, her classmates and her friends grow and prosper in the way Dean Brodhead would have wanted. In the end, it really wasn’t that Yale had changed Mandi, it was that this shy girl from the middle of Saskatchewan had changed Yale. This is why I urge you to walk over to Ingalls this Satur-day afternoon. Take a minute to salute one of your own. To rec-

ognize the possibility that any-one of you can be Mandi—that you all possess the capacity to be that special. Understand it and honor it. This is why Mandi matters now. This is why Mandi will matter always.

HARRY ROSENHOLTZ is a former assistant coach for the Yale women’s hockey team. He recruited

Mandi Schwartz.

Mandi’s story was larger than life, and she inspired us to continue her legacy as a means of helping others.

ALECA HUGHES ’12Founder, Mandi Schwartz Foundation

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Yale women’s basketball is looking for its first Ivy League title since 1979 and its first conference win this season.

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The Elis are looking to collect another league win against Colgate, who they beat in October in the teams’ only other matchup.

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“Either you are the most naïve person on the planet, or this is the saddest story ever writ-ten.” KATIE COURIC, INTERVIEWING MANTI TE’O ON GIRLFRIEND HOAX

Women’s squash falls to BantamsNo. 9 to record the first point for Yale with a convincing three-game win. After creat-ing a new game plan with head coach Dave Talbott, Ballaine said her mental power helped her prevail and overcome Trin-ity’s wild crowd and home-court advantage.

“This match showed me that no matter where you are in the lineup or how old you are, every match counts just as much as the next. I really wanted to pull out a win,” Bal-laine said.

Entering the second half of competition, the visiting Bull-dogs saw Kim Hay ’15 lose in a well-fought four-game match at the No. 2 spot. Yale bounced back with three consecutive game wins started by Lilly Fast ’14 at the fifth position, who kept Yale’s hopes alive after a four-match win.

Anne Harrison ’15 followed Fast’s victory and dug deep with skill and guile that paid o! in a decisive four-game win of her own.

“Before I went on to play, I

didn’t ask what the score was because I wanted to focus on my match and my opponent. I always knew it was going to be close [between us and Trinity], but I didn’t think that we’d be down two matches before I went on,” Harrison said.

Her win, combined with Fast’s, brought the visiting Bulldogs even at 3–3.

The thrilling night rolled on when Issey Norman-Ross ’15 soundly won her match in four games to secure a Yale lead of 4–3. Team cap-tain Katie Ballaine ’13 suf-fered a hard-fought loss in her match, bringing the Bantam to an even score at 4–4. The dra-matic competition closed with Trinity clinching the victory in the final match in a five-game nail-biter with Tomlinson.

Team members said that lessons can be learned from adversity. Annie Ballaine and Harrison said the loss is, in a sense, a gain, as the Bulldogs now have something to prove.

“Although it was tough los-ing to Trinity, I think it will really help us in the long run. It definitely gives us motiva-tion to get in some extra ses-sions and work hard before the weekend [versus Princeton],” Harrison said.

Heading back into league competition, Yale, still unde-feated in Ivy play, will face No. 1 Princeton on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Brady Squash Center at noon.

Contact FRANCESCA COXE at francesca.coxe@yale.edu .

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Yale women’s squash remains undefeated in the Ivy League and will face No. 1 Princeton tomorrow at the Brady Squash Center.

and Tyson Spink lead the attack for the Raiders. For Yale, forward Kenny Agos-tino ’14, Laganiere and Miller shoulder the bulk of the scoring e!ort.

Playing on the road again after sweep-ing two Ivy rivals will be a challenge for the Bulldogs, and the two upstate New York teams’ similar up-tempo styles will test the Elis’ conditioning.

“They are both fast and strong teams,” Miller said. “They both play with a lot of speed and creativity, so we must be sharp defensively.”

This is the first set of matchups in a two weekend series against Cornell and Colgate, with both the Big Red and the Raiders returning to Ingalls on March 1 and 2 for the final games of the Bulldogs’ season.

Goaltender Je! Malcolm ’13 earned ECAC Goaltender of the Week honors for the second time in a row this week, and Laganiere received the ECAC Player of the Week designation.

Tonight’s game will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcasted live on NBC Sports. The puck will drop Saturday night at 7 p.m. at Starr Rink in Hamil-ton, N.Y.

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

Yale seeks revenge BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

Opening its conference slate in Providence last Saturday, the men’s basketball team learned firsthand the truth of its opponent’s reputation: the Brown Bears can shoot.

While the Bears shot only 45.3 percent from the field overall, they drained eight 3-pointers and shot 40 percent from downtown. Brown’s strong shooting display, coupled with the Elis’ rough night on o!ense, car-ried the Bears (7–8, 1–0 Ivy) to a 65–51 win.

The Bulldogs (6–12, 0–1 Ivy) will have an immediate chance for redemption, as the two teams square off again on Saturday. This time, however, the Elis will compete at home in John J. Lee Amphitheater in their home conference opener.

“They shoot a lot of 3s, and when they make them, they win,” team cap-tain Sam Martin ’13 said. “If we guard the 3-point line, we should be good.”

While the Bears put up solid o!en-sive stats on Saturday, the Elis strug-gled with the ball in their hands. The team shot 32.8 percent from the floor overall, nearly 9 percentage points below its season average. Perhaps more frustrating was the squad’s dis-mal long-range performance, espe-cially given its opponents’ success from beyond the arc. The Bulldogs converted four out of 22 attempted 3-point shots, a conversion rate of only 18.2 percent.

Yet Martin noted a number of take-aways from last weekend’s game that the Elis will look to use to improve this weekend. The Elis will heighten their defensive focus on Bears guard Sean McGonagill, who used pick and rolls to open up the floor and cre-ate open shots for many of his team-mates last weekend. McGonagill fin-ished last weekend’s game with 20 points on 8–15 shooting and added four assists.

“Everything really starts with him on their team, so if we can do a good job of containing him, guys won’t get open looks and hopefully he won’t go for as many points as he did last week,” Martin said.

Offensively, head coach James Jones expressed frustration over the Elis’ lacking ball movement after last

Saturday’s game — movement that led to a total of only four assists that day. Martin said that the Elis would often run plays but became stagnant on o!ense when the play ended; typically, the

team goes into its motion set if its ini-tial play does not lead to a shot.

Brown also challenged the Bull-dogs on o!ensive inbounds plays, on which the Bears played man-to-man defensively. Most of Yale’s opponents this year have played zone defense on inbounds plays.

Martin said that the team has been working on inbounding against man-

to-man defenses. He added that the coaches have stressed moving the ball on o!ense during practice.

“We’ve been getting points in practice for ball reversals,” Martin said. “I think we’ll be better on Satur-day moving the ball and getting guys moving a little bit.”

Still, the Elis have spent the week adjusting in preparation for the quick rematch.

“We’re gonna come out hungry on Saturday,” forward Greg Kelley ’14 said. “The Bulldogs are gonna eat.”

The game will tip o! at 2 p.m. at John J. Lee Amphitheater.

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

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The Bulldogs shot just 32.8 percent from the field and 18.2 percent from beyond the arc in last Saturday’s conference-opening loss to Brown.

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The Bulldogs boasts the sixth best power play conversion rate in the country at 23.08 percent. They scored two power play goals in two tries against Dartmouth last week.

It definitely gives us the motivation to get in some extra sessions and work hard before the weekend.

ANNE HARRISON ’15Women’s squash

They shoot a lot of 3s, and when they make them, they win. If we guard the 3-point line, we should be good.

SAM MARTIN ’13Captain, men’s basketball

They both play with a lot of speed and creativity so we must be sharp defensively.

ANDREW MILLER ’13Team captain, men’s hockey

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“We’re gonna come out hungry on Saturday. The Bulldogs are gonna eat.”

GREG KELLEY ’14FORWARD, M. BASKETBALL

19 FORMER IVY LEAGUERS ON NHL ROSTERSWhen the NHL returned to action last Saturday, 19 former Ivy players had made a team roster. Chris Higgins ’05, the only former Yale player on a squad, is a winger with the Vancouver Canucks. Higgins played at Yale for two seasons before he was chosen by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2002 NHL Draft.

EVA FABIAN ’16, WOMEN’S SWIMMINGSLATED TO COMPETE IN BRAZILAfter already breaking Yale long-dis-tance records this season, the fresh-man is headed to Brazil for the first race of the FINA 10km Marathon Swim-ming World Cup on Sunday. Fabian was previously named the 2010 USA Swim-ming Open Water Swimmer of the Year.

NCAABNo. 2 Mich. 68Purdue 53

NCAAB (F/OT)Richmond 86No. 19 VCU 74

NHLPhiladelphia 2N.Y. Rangers 1

NBAToronto 97Orlando 95

AUS OPEN SEMDjokovic 6 6 6Ferrer 2 2 1

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NUMBER OF POWER PLAY GOALS MADE BY ANTOINE LAGANIERE ’13. The six power play goals, which include a one-timer last Saturday against Dartmouth, put Laganiere at third in power play goals in Division I. Yale’s entire power play unit is ranked sixth in the nation in conversion percentage.

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Trinity rally topples women’s squashBY FRANCESCA COXE

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Despite multiple chances to close out No. 4 Trinity College, No. 3 Yale was handed its first loss of the season after falling in the final thriller of a match.

Tied at 4–4, the ultimate matchup came down to the No. 1 spot and Millie Tomlinson ’14, ranked second in the nation. She valiantly battled Trinity’s Kanzy El Defrawy, but could not prevail in extra points in the decisive fifth set. Tomlinson was relent-less, losing the first game 9–11 only to rally back to win the sec-ond 11–8 and the third 13–11, to then falter 3–11 and 9–11 in the fourth and fifth games. Yale had not lost to Trinity (10–1) since 2010.

From the start, the deep Yale (9–1, 2–0 Ivy) roster put on a show in a roller coaster ride of a matchup. Shihui Mao ’15 played in the third position and Gwen Tilghman ’14 at the sixth to open the contest for the Bull-dogs, though Trinity took down both Mao and Tilghman after four close games.

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Why Mandi

mattersBY HARRY ROSENHOLTZ

GUEST COLUMNIST

This Saturday at 4 p.m., Yale women’s ice hockey will host the third-annual “White Out for Mandi” at Ingalls Rink. It’s been almost two years since Mandi Schwartz lost her coura-geous battle to cancer. And this year will be the fifth anniversary of when she was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Here’s why every student at Yale should pause for a moment and attend.

Mandi was Yale. Former Yale College Dean

Richard Brodhead once told me that the way he measured suc-cess at Yale was not necessarily by how much a student achieved while at Yale, or even the level of success he or she attained in later years, but by the distance that student was able to travel during their time here. How changed was that student, how much had that student grown and prospered?

Surely, very few students come here from the kind of upbringing that Mandi had, raised in the town of Wilcox,

Saturday marks third ‘White Out’BY GRANT BRONSDON

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

On the ice, the Yale women’s hockey team has struggled, winning just three games so far this season.

Off the ice, however, the team is making a big di!erence.

This Saturday’s game against Col-gate marks the third annual “White Out for Mandi,” honoring Mandi Schwartz ’10, who died in 2011 after a 28-month-long battle with acute myeloid leukemia.

“As a freshman, it was clear on day one that Mandi was a very impor-tant part of our team,” said forward Paige Decker ’14, a co-organizer of the event.

The goal of the “White Out” is to fundraise for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation. Founded by former team captain Aleca Hughes ’12, the foun-dation supports youth hockey play-ers with life-threatening injuries, and last year’s “White Out” raised over $25,000.

“Donations were c o n s ta n t ly c o m -ing in,” Hughes said. “[Forming] the foun-dation seemed like the next natural step. Mandi’s story was larger than life, and she inspired us to continue her legacy as a means of helping others.”

Hughes will also be presented with the Mandi Schwartz Award for 2011–’12 at the game, which

honors the top student-athlete in the ECAC. The prize will be awarded by Carol and Rick Schwartz, Mandi’s par-ents.

“Mandi’s legacy is [that of] an incredible person that you can learn so much from and [who can] inspire so many people,” Jenna Ciotti ’14 said.

Elis hit the road in search of six straightBY ASHTON WACKYM

STAFF REPORTER

The men’s hockey team is looking for its third-straight weekend sweep as it travels to upstate New York this weekend.

The Bulldogs (11–4–3, 7–3–1 ECAC) will take to to the road to face the No. 18 Cornell Big Red and the Colgate Raiders on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. Yale hopes to continue its success on special teams, while the Big Red (8–7–2, 4–4–2 ECAC) will look to take advantage of its strong defensive play to shut down the Eli attack.

“They are a very good defensive team,” top-scoring forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 said. “I think we can expect conservative play from them.”

The Big Red has held opponents to a goal or less six times this season, but it will be challenged by Lag-aniere, who has put away seven goals in the past seven games, and the rest of the Eli

o!ense.In the past four games, the Big

Red has picked up one road win and dropped three other contests, while the Bulldogs have won two on the road and two at home.

Though Cornell’s stifling defense will clash with an aggressive Bulldog attack that has found the net 16 times in the past four games, the Elis will have to manage a speedy and creative attack from the Big Red, team captain Andrew Miller ’13 said.

The Bulldogs will also have to face a scoring threat on Saturday night when they face o! against the Raid-

ers. Colgate (11–9–2, 3–6–1 ECAC) just had its five-game winning streak snapped with a pair of losses to Union last weekend, but the Raiders have put up an impressive 33 goals in their past seven contests.

Against Colgate, the Elis will also contend with a power-play unit nearly as strong as their own; the Raiders are 13th in the nation with a 21.43 percent success rate, while the Elis are sixth at 23.08 percent.

Senior forward Robbie Bourdon and freshmen twin forwards Tylor

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This Saturday’s game against Colgate honors Mandi Schwartz ’10.

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman Anne Ballaine ’16 at No. 9 recorded the first point for Yale with a convincing three-game win.

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