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A whole new wiki. An email sent to Yale students Tuesday night invited them to join in compiling all knowledge of Yale into one “Yale Wiki.” According to the email, the minds behind Yale Wiki will publish a freshman handbook for the class of 2016 based on information posted to the new site.

It’s that time. Underclassmen, get ready — colleges are holding meetings for housing for the 2012-’13 school year, including a meeting in Ezra Stiles last night.

Yale made her famous. Chen Yunyi, a 17-year-old Chinese student, has become the “latest household name” in China after scoring admission to Yale, the China Daily reported Monday. The article explains that Chen’s parents did not use “traditionally Chinese” parenting methods for raising their daughter, and instead opted to give her more freedom. “Neither is my husband a ‘wolf father,’ nor [am] I a ‘tiger mother,’” Chen’s mother told the Sanxiang Metropolitan News.

Bye bye, scholarships. In testimony to the state General Assembly’s Education Committee on Tuesday, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced his intention to cut $6.7 million in funding from the Connecticut Independent College Student grant program (CICS), which provides need-based scholarships to Connecticut students attending in-state private colleges. Malloy proposed the state cut the program for students attending schools with endowments greater than $200 million.

Flip-flop? Gov. Dannel Malloy backed out of a March rally with the Connecticut Parents Union after he found out the Union had teamed up with StudentsFirst, an organization led by the controversial former head of D.C. schools, Michelle Rhee, CTNewsJunkie reported.

End of an era. Guida’s Milk, a leading producer of milk in Connecticut that has gained a reputation for being family-owned, is no longer family-owned. The 20 Guida family members who owned the company sold it last week to a national cooperative of dairy farmers based in Kansas City, the Hartford Courant reported.

Once every four years. Next Wednesday is the first Feb. 29 since 2008. Accordingly, the Yale College Council created a Facebook event Tuesday encouraging students to spend their one leap day at Yale at Toad’s Place.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1962 Leaders of the Directed Studies program announce that, starting with the class of 1965, sophomores enrolled in DS will have choose three of five courses on contemporary issues in the liberal arts.

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BY JAMES LUSTAFF REPORTER

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his city’s police department Tuesday, after reports surfaced Satur-day that it had monitored Mus-

lim students at Yale and at least 14 other colleges around the Northeast.

At a press conference at the Brooklyn Public Library Tues-day morning, Bloomberg said the New York Police Depart-ment’s surveillance helped

“keep the country safe,” the Associated Press reported. His remarks came after University President Richard Levin said in a Monday evening statement to the Yale community that police surveillance on the basis of reli-gion, nationality or “peacefully expressed political opinions” is “antithetical” to the values of Yale.

“If going on websites and

looking for information is not what Yale stands for, I don’t know,” Bloomberg said, accord-ing to the Associated Press. “It’s the freedom of information … Of course we’re gonna look at anything that’s publicly avail-able and in the public domain. We have an obligation to do so. And it is to protect the very things that let Yale survive.”

The NYPD routinely moni-

tored the websites, blogs and forums of Muslim student associations at colleges includ-ing Yale, Columbia University and the University of Penn-sylvania, according to internal reports obtained by the Asso-ciated Press. The names of stu-dents and professors involved in Muslim student associations

Levin, Bloomberg spar over MSA monitoring

BY NICK DEFIESTA AND CHRISTOPHER PEAKSTAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Despite resistance from city and state o!-cials, a controversial immigration enforce-ment program will begin operation today in Connecticut.

Secure Communities, a U.S. Immigra-tion and Customs Enforcement program, will begin checking fingerprints of sus-pected criminals submitted by local police to the FBI against ICE databases in an e"ort to deport criminals residing in the coun-try illegally. While Gov. Dannel Malloy’s o!ce issued a statement Monday that criti-cized Secure Communities, New Haven o!-cials said they are still waiting to see to what degree the state cooperates with the federal program.

Through Secure Communities, when ICE o!cials have reason to believe a suspect may be undocumented, they can issue a detain-ment request to the state, allowing the sus-pect to be held for up to 48 hours, during which immigration o!cials decide whether to initiate deportation proceedings against the suspect. While the program’s stated mission is to prioritize illegal immigrants who have committed crimes for deporta-tion action, critics of the program, including local o!cials such as Mayor John DeStefano

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BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTER

A petition calling for the extension of Harvey Goldblatt’s term as Pierson College master has reopened specu-lation into what led to his decision to depart after the 2012-’13 academic year.

When Goldblatt agreed to a three-year term in 2010, rumors began cir-culating that the administration had pressured Goldblatt to retire sooner than he had intended in part

because of his resistance to reduc-tions in Pierson’s budget. The peti-tion — addressed to University Pres-ident Richard Levin — has garnered approximately 700 signatures since it was sent to Pierson students and alums in a Feb. 13 email, said Je"rey Hartsough ‘12, author of the petition.

“We do not wish to take an adver-sarial stance against the admin-istration, but rather hope that the administration will reopen discus-sions regarding Master G’s departure and what appears to be an attempt to

make the residential college experi-ence uniform across all colleges,” he said in an email, adding that Gold-blatt’s reasons for leaving remain “unclear.”

The administration redistrib-uted funds between the colleges in 2010 to help ensure that students in each of the colleges had commen-surate experiences. Pierson’s budget had become larger than that of other colleges in part because of donations

BY GAVAN GIDEONSTAFF REPORTER

Though Yale’s academic depart-ments are conducting twice as many searches for new faculty members this year as they did in 2010-’11, most of those programs are not expected to see a net gain in faculty.

There are currently 81 authorized faculty searches across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, primarily intended to fill openings left by departed or

retired professors, Provost Peter Salovey said in a Monday email. While the searches span more than 30 departments and programs, Salovey said he does not anticipate that the total number of tenured and tenure-track professors in FAS will grow sig-nificantly from those new hires.

Administrators have aimed to keep the number of tenured and ten-ure-track faculty members in FAS at roughly 700 since the economic downturn hit in 2008. In the coming

academic year, Salovey said, he proj-ects that the faculty size will rise to 700 or more from its current level of 691 professors.

But the overall increase in Yale’s professors will only translate to fac-ulty growth in engineering depart-ments, as the School of Engineering received a $50 million gift last March that will fund 10 new professorships, Salovey said. The decisions to autho-rize all other searches were made to fill specific vacancies, he added.

“Those decisions are based on a review of the department’s teach-ing needs, its coverage of different

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A petition has circulated calling for an extension of Master Harvey Goldblatt’s term in Pierson College.

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BY CLINTON WANGSTAFF REPORTER

With the input of a newly formed committee, adminis-trators plan to reform science teaching and upgrade science facilities to help combat the drift of prospective science majors away from the field.

In December, University President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey con-vened the Science, Technol-

ogy, Engineering and Math-ematics (STEM) Teaching Transformation Committee in response to increased atten-tion on the need to improve STEM education nation-wide, Levin said. The com-mittee will release a report this semester, which will include plans for new teaching strat-egies, research-based science courses for freshmen starting next fall and the renovation of science teaching facilities, said

Timothy O’Connor, associate provost for science and tech-nology.

“The objective of the com-mittee is to organize a more systematic institutional effort to complement the various STEM teaching initiatives that are already taking place in departments on Science Hill,” Salovey said.

O’Connor, a member of the committee, said the commit-tee’s work was motivated in

part by two recent national reports on science education. A working group of the Pres-ident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — which included Levin and was co-chaired by molecular, cel-lular and developmental biol-ogy professor Jo Handelsman — found in a report released this month that more than 60 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field ultimately pur-

sue a different discipline. That followed a September report by the The Association of American Universities which described an “urgent need” to accelerate reforms in STEM pedagogy.

In the time since Yale’s STEM Teaching Transforma-tion Committee formed, a sub-set of it compared Yale’s STEM education to programs at other

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NHPD Chief Dean Esserman denounced the ICE program starting in the state today.

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NEW YORK MAYOR DEFENDS POLICE MONITORING OF YALE MUSLIMS; LEVIN STANDS BY COMMENTS

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On Jan. 1, 2011, Arizona House Bill 2281 took e!ect, having passed the previous

year on a wave of popular political rhetoric of racial tension and dis-trust. Republican Tom Horne, the author of the bill, accused ethnic studies curricula of “promoting resentment” and encouraging the overthrow of the U.S. government, a charge school o"cials in the state have decried as unfounded.

Last month, the Tucson Uni-fied School District voted to enact HB 2281, buckling under threats of $15 million in annual fines if it did not comply. In the words of TUSD superintendent John Pedicone, the penalty “would have been impossible … to absorb.” During an administrative meeting con-ducted in early January, adminis-trators advised teachers to avoid books that address themes of race, ethnicity and oppression, includ-ing Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

The bill is based on the mis-guided belief that ethnic studies promote a radical and hateful dis-course. In fact, an ethnic studies curriculum does the opposite. It intends to shed light on the often ignored and dismissed experi-ences of millions of Americans, including the persecution minor-ity communities have often faced throughout the course of history.

Although HB 2281 includes the caveat that it does not intend to censor instances of oppression,

that is e!ectively what it has done. It has forced the TUSD — 75 per-cent of whose students are not white — to eliminate curricula that included over 50 books deal-ing with issues of ethnicity and social movements. Now, there will be no more “Ten Little Indians” by Sherman Alexie and no more accounts of American minorities’ histories by historians like Ronald Takaki and Howard Zinn.

Now, students in Arizona can-not count on public education to discuss Cesar Chavez and his lead-ership in the nonviolent American Labor Movement. Three-quarters of TUSD students will be taught that their place in history is lim-ited to servitude and violence and will not be able to read narratives of their ancestors’ creative suc-cesses.

High school retention rates show the positive impact of ethnic studies. Studies have found that minority students enrolled in eth-nic studies courses are more likely to perform better in all of their academic classes and are more likely to graduate high school and enroll in college.

However, ethnic studies classes do not solely empower minor-ity students: In their investiga-tion into the value of the courses, the National Educational Associ-ation concluded that “both stu-dents of color and white stu-dents have been found to bene-

fit academically as well as socially from ethnic studies” and that “the overwhelming dominance of Euro-American perspectives leads many students to disengage from academic learning.” A cur-riculum with demonstrated suc-cess including lessons on diverse cultures should be expanded, not eliminated.

HB 2281’s proponents have thus far relied on paranoid rhetoric, making unfounded speculations without ever setting foot inside an ethnic studies classroom. Though the bill attempts to couch its racist motives in legal terms as an e!ort to outlaw “treatment of pupils as anything but individuals,” they ignore the fact that history has rarely acted in accordance with this tenet. History has instead, time and again, grouped people in broad and generalized terms, often on the basis of race.

Though HB 2281 doesn’t explic-itly ban books, books have none-theless been taken from students, boxed up and sent to gather dust in a warehouse. Administrators claim these books are still available to the approximately 63,000 stu-dents in the district through the public school library system, but the system only holds a few cop-ies of select texts. Teachers were also told they would be increas-ingly monitored to ensure they don’t violate the bill, thus turning classroom instruction into a fear-

ful process in which threatened teachers shy away from any cur-ricula that provides more than a slim view of another side of Amer-ican history. This climate of cen-sorship is unacceptable.

The elimination of these pro-grams in Arizona is not just an a!ront to ethnic studies across the nation. It is also an a!ront to the entire purpose of educators: to teach students to think critically, creatively and deeply by endow-ing them with the tools to under-stand perspectives that di!er from their own. The narratives found in ethnic studies texts and courses make up the many faces of Amer-ican identity. States should not be allowed to edit our cultural history.

We urge Yale students, faculty and administrators to vehemently reject this bill and its implicit anti-intellectual crackdown. No his-tory is illegal. As students and scholars, we cannot stand by as our nation’s history is rewritten. Rather than fear them, we must recognize the histories of ethnic minorities as crucial components to truly understanding both this nation’s history and its current state of a!airs. Only then can we be said to fully promote liberty and justice for all.

KATIE ARAGÓN is a sophomore in in Timothy Dwight College. RAQUEL ZEPEDA is a sophomore in Jonathan

Edwards College .

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Don’t ban ethnic studies

I can state without hesitation that I love the New York Police Department. When New York

City was plagued by sky-high crime rates and over 2,000 mur-ders a year in the early 1990s, it was the NYPD that turned things around. The city owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who drove crime to historic lows and did much to make the city the way it is today.

So it is as a friend that I say that the NYPD is going o! the rails. We caught the latest glimpse of this disaster this week when it was reported that the NYPD has been spying on Muslim student associations (MSAs) at colleges across the Northeast, including Yale. The actions o"cers took to gather intelligence on the Yale MSA might seem fairly harm-less: They trawled public web-sites. Even in Bu!alo, where an o"cer went undercover on a raft-ing trip with Muslim students, you might think that such spy-ing shouldn’t concern you unless you have something to hide. But failure to be concerned implies an endorsement of unchecked gov-ernment spying on people based on their religion or politics. And that kind of power, even with the best intentions, can too eas-ily lead to the su!ocation of free thought.

What the NYPD did to the Yale MSA was blatantly in violation of federal rules, not because o"cers looked at websites, but because of what they did afterwards. Even though o"cers uncovered no hints of criminal activity, names and facts about students were recorded in NYPD intelligence files. Under the federal rules that govern the NYPD’s investigations of such activity, o"cers may visit and, yes, spy on things such as public websites or gatherings, but they cannot retain any informa-tion gathered unless it is related to criminal activity. The NYPD’s MSA reports clearly broke those rules.

Police spying on organiza-tions because of their politi-cal views was endemic in New York City in the 1960s. A law-suit in 1971 finally led to the cre-ation of federal guidelines in 1985, in which federal Judge Charles S. Haight ’52 LAW ’55 set strict lim-its on how and when police could investigate political and reli-gious activity. After the terror-ist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD asked Haight to modify the rules. In 2003, Haight agreed to significantly water down the rules, allowing the types of spy-ing activities that we have now seen extended to college cam-puses across the entire region.

Unfortunately, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Jethro M. Eisen-stein was one of the lawyers who filed the original lawsuit in 1971, which remains open to provide a constant check against NYPD abuses. Eisenstein told me he is currently trying to get informa-tion on how extensive the NYPD’s spying is on Muslim communi-ties in the city, in adjacent states

and even in non-adjacent states — an expansion he called “unbe-lievable.”

Here’s what is already known. The NYPD has a Demo-graphics Unit

whose mission has been to col-lect data on the city’s Muslims. A secret NYPD document that was leaked to the press noted that the unit, whose existence o"cials had publicly denied, was identi-fying and mapping “ethnic Areas of Concern” based on which eth-nicities police felt would be most likely to produce or harbor ter-rorists. The NYPD sends under-cover o"cers into such areas to mine for information in local schools, mosques, restaurants and anywhere else frequented by Muslims. In the secret report, the NYPD made clear that none of this was connected to investiga-tions of specific plots or persons, but just for the sake of gathering intelligence on the people o"-cers felt most likely to be up to no good. As one former ranking NYPD o"cial told me, this type of “raking” and general surveil-lance of entire communities is a tactic common in the intelligence community and is thanks to the NYPD’s cooperation with cur-rent and former CIA o"cials.

What’s most concerning has been the lack of checks against the NYPD’s attempt to start marching backward to the 1960s. The 2003 rule change elimi-nated the need to tell an oversight body when police spy on politi-cal activities, and no other inde-pendent body has the authority and subpoena power to investi-gate the NYPD — except for the City Council, which, out of a fear of being labeled soft on terror, has largely kept silent. Most of the media has been self-censoring as well.

The ones leading the charge to rein in the abuses have been the Associated Press and the vet-eran independent police reporter Leonard Levitt. As he described it to me in an email, the depart-ment’s spying, done hundreds of miles away from the city and without the cooperation of the FBI, “makes it appear as though the NYPD has become a rogue agency.”

As Levitt has written, so long as the NYPD lacks oversight, abuses will inevitably plague it and prevent it from remaining the bastion of both security and the rule of law that it has been. Here’s hoping that by spying on Yalies, the NYPD will attract the nega-tive attention necessary to make it clear to all that it is on a danger-ous path and needs an interven-tion from its concerned friends.

COLIN ROSS is a senior in Berkeley College. His column runs on Tuesdays. Contact him at colin.ross@yale.edu .

NYPD needs an intervention

COLIN ROSSGangbuster

Dear Chipotle,Come to New Haven!

Set us free from the repression of the overpriced and underwhelming! Let my people go … order burritos!

We’ve been in New Haven for almost six months now, and while we are just as in love with Yale as ever, we are generally dissatis-fied with the food options New Haven has to o!er beyond the dining halls. Sure, New Haven is a great place for your ca!eine fix or fro-yo or cheap Asian food, but in terms of classic down to earth American nourishment — and what’s more American than 900 calories wrapped in a tortilla with a large drink? — it doesn’t quite deliver.

Neopolitan pizza, Wenzels and Insomnia cookies make for nice midnight snacks, but they don’t leave you with the same sense of gastric satisfaction as a full meal. And we gather we’re not alone in our belief and longing; last Mon-day night we joined a mob in the Branford courtyard waiting not for a Master’s Tea or an a cap-

pella concert but for 80 Chipo-tle burritos waiting for us inside Master Elizabeth Bradley’s house — all of which were claimed and devoured in under five minutes.

Now, not to be whiners (we do love Yale, after all), but some of our other Ivy League brethren have it much better in terms of under-$10, high quality fast food sustenance. Penn, Columbia, Brown, Cornell and Harvard all have Chipotles — in addition to other delectable choices such as Five Guys and Qdoba. Even tiny little Princeton, N.J. has a Panera on Nassau Street.

Sadly, the only school we feel confident saying our options are better than is Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., putting us at dis-mal seventh in the Ivy League fast food rankings. If Yale is vastly superior to all of these schools — as is obvious to all of us — then why shouldn’t our food options be superior as well? Perhaps good nourishment will give us the brains and the brawn to stay on top of our schoolwork and other schools.

Yes, we are aware that there is a Chipotle in Milford, but as far as the Yale bubble and our walking legs are concerned, that might as well be on the other side of the world. While the burrito carts on York Street and outside the Med-ical School can satisfy a Mexican food craving, they’re not always present — and maybe not always trustworthy. On the other hand, a brick and mortar establishment with an awning bearing the name of a reputable restaurant chain would always be there to give us the product we love and expect.

And if the grime of Yorkside and seediness of G-Heav make you feel like you are fighting the American corporate restaurant machine — and if Willie Nelson singing The Scientist to a group of happy farmers and pigs on the newest commercial doesn’t make your heart swoon for Chipotle — well, then, good for you. In our opinion, there is a reason chains like Chipotle are successful: The food and atmosphere are simply excellent.

We are a few weeks past the

one-year anniversary of a News article (“A Chipotle for New Haven?” Jan. 31, 2011) detailing rumors of a potential New Haven Chipotle to open in 2012. Alas, we have heard and seen nothing since then. So, to Steve Ells and the other gods of the Chipotle boardroom, masterminds of all things delicious, allow us to reas-sure you. Take a chance on us. We know that the all-inclusive Yale meal plan and surrounding neighborhoods may not make us look like a prime destination, but allow us to prove you wrong.

Come to Yale and spice up our dining experience; we will per-sonally be first in line to worship you with our orders. We’ll have a Barbacoa burrito with white rice, black beans, hot salsa, pico de gallo, sour cream and cheese, please.

GORDON MCCAMBRIDGE and MICHAEL WU are freshmen in

Branford College.

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Yale needs Chipotle

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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTSWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 223:00 P.M. “Shakespeare at Yale Rep” Exhibit. “Shakespeare at Yale Rep” features production photographs and posters that illuminate the theater’s rich history of staging Shakespeare’s dramas. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), The Gallery at the Whitney.

4:30 P.M. “Concord of Sweet Sounds.” The program explores the various influences that shaped Shakespeare’s musical o!erings in his plays. This rarely-heard music will be performed by members of the Yale Collegium Musicum. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

7:00 P.M. “Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Introduction.” William N. Goetzmann will speak. His purpose will be to introduce and give a perspective on sovereign wealth funds as well analyze their e!ects on the global economy. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 317.

7:00 P.M. “Solutions at the Intersection of Community, Inequality and Health.” Dr. Mindy Fullilove will talk about her work researching AIDS and other epidemics in poor communities with a speical interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park St.), Gallery.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 21The obituary for Ruth Barcan Marcus incorrectly referred to the field of quantified modal logic as “quantitative modal logic.” The article also stated that Marcus brought a “quantitative dimension to the field” of modal logic. In fact, she developed the use of quantifiers in the field.

BY JAMES LUSTAFF REPORTER

Less than a year after the City of New Haven finalized its settle-ment in a bias suit filed by 20 New Haven firefighters that reached the Supreme Court, another case involving claims of racial dis-crimination by the city might wind up at the nation’s highest court.

The city filed a petition last Wednesday requesting that the Supreme Court hear the case of Michael Briscoe vs. New Haven, which had its April 2010 dis-missal overturned by a federal appeals court last year. This suit comes from the same controversy that sparked Ricci vs. DeStefano, in which the Supreme Court in 2009 ruled in favor of the fire-fighters, 19 of them white, who claimed the city discriminated against them after their results on a 2003 New Haven Fire Depart-ment promotional exam were thrown out due to concerns that not enough minority applicants had qualified for promotion. Briscoe, a black firefighter who did not qualify for promotion, claims in his suit that the exam discriminated against minorities and violated his civil rights.

In their petition, city law-

yers say the 2011 federal appeals court decision in the Bris-coe case “flagrantly contra-venes” the Supreme Court’s rul-ing in Ricci, which was handed down after seven years of litiga-tion. The petition claims that the appeals court’s decision to over-turn the case’s previous dismissal exposes the city to legal liability for implementing the “very rem-edies” imposed by the Ricci deci-sion.

“The city believes that it is not in anyone’s interest to continue litigating over the 2003 promo-tional examinations in 2012,” Victor Bolden, the city’s top law-yer, said. “The Supreme Court’s ruling in Ricci resolved any issues resulting from those exams and everyone should be moving for-ward.”

The city’s petition last week would bring the contested 2003 promotional exam before the Supreme Court for the second time in three years.

In 2009, the Supreme Court decided in a 5–4 ruling that the the city had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by throwing out the promotional exam results, which would have left only two of 50 minority can-didates eligible for promotion. The promotional exam results

were subsequently certified, 14 of the plainti!s were promoted and all 20 shared in a $2 million set-tlement agreement distributed last July.

But Briscoe, who finished first on the exam’s oral portion but failed to make the cut for pro-motion because of a low score on the written section, argued in his 2009 lawsuit that the exam’s underweighting of the oral sec-tion was racially discriminatory.

Although Briscoe’s case was originally dismissed in 2010 on the grounds that the holding in Ricci foreclosed the suit, the fed-eral court of appeals overturned that dismissal last year, stat-ing that Ricci “neither precluded nor properly dismissed” Briscoe

since “[the appeals court] cannot reconcile all of the indications from the Supreme Court in Ricci.”

With the case back in federal court on Church Street last Tues-day, attorney Karen Torre, who successfully represented the 20 firefighters in Ricci, filed a motion to intervene in the case because the interests of 19 of the firefight-ers she represented are at stake in Briscoe vs. New Haven. One has since retired.

As part of her motion, she told the New Haven Independent that she will attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the disparate impact doctrine established by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits facially neutral employ-ment policies that negatively impact minority groups.

Judge Charles Haight did not rule on Torre’s motion to inter-vene and ordered a stay on all legal proceedings last Tues-day, in anticipation of the city’s Wednesday request to have the Supreme Court consider the case.

The stay will remain in place until the Supreme Court decides whether or not to take the case, which it will do in the next 90 days.

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

Suit over Ricci exam may reach justices

BY CHRISTOPHER PEAKSTAFF REPORTER

In overseeing a class-wide game of “Assassins,” the Soph-omore Class Council has taken special measures this year to avoid the pitfalls that led to the game’s cancellation last year.

The competition ended pre-maturely last February after an email mistakenly revealed the names of all the contestants, leading to a series of emails from fake Gmail accounts and the infil-tration of an organizer’s Yale email account. John Gonzalez ’14, president of this year’s coun-cil, said organizers have refrained from sending mass emails to pro-tect players’ privacy and allocated prizes between more contestants to lower the stakes.

“There was a lack of protec-tion on their part last year,” Gon-zalez said. “This year we put more e!ort into ensuring emails were individualized.”

On Feb. 4, the 199 contestants received their initial “targets” — who they must try to eliminate by hitting them with socks — in indi-vidualized emails. Though last year’s game included squirt guns, the council elected to use socks since Dean of Student Affairs

Marichal Gentry expressed con-cern about contestants’ use of the guns on campus, Gonzalez said. A “kill” can only take place outside of the “safe zones” of class, work, libraries or a target’s room.

Gonzalez said he considered using websites designed specifi-cally for hosting Assassins, but he eventually decided email com-munication would be most con-venient for competitors. Gonzalez has sent emails to each competi-tor individually throughout the competition to avoid last year’s

complications with group emails. “We put in the extra time so

that now we will not be compro-mised,” he said.

The council has also restruc-tured the system for distribut-ing prizes in an e!ort to prevent cheating which contributed to the abandonment of year’s game.

An email announcing last year’s game said there would only be one prize for first place “to ensure some good old-fash-ioned back-stabbing,” though the runner-up team received Yale apparel as a consolation prize. But 10 winners in this year’s competi-tion will receive gift certificates to Miya’s Sushi, together total-ing nearly $700 in prizes, accord-ing to an email to competitors. In addition, $25 prizes are being o!ered to four sophomores who made the most “kills” — even if they have been eliminated from the contest.

In another attempt to discour-age cheating, Gonzalez said soph-omores are now competing indi-vidually instead of in teams. Omar Njie ’13, last year’s president of SoCo, said he believed the six-person teams “encouraged class cohesion” among the 300 par-ticipants in last year’s game, add-ing that “it would have been nice

if this year’s Sophomore Class Council had done something similar.” Still, he acknowledged that last year’s organizers failed to keep the game under control.

“The competition among students got more heated than expected,” Njie said. “They’ve learned from the events of last year and are ensuring that the same thing doesn’t happen again.” Christina Brasco ’14 said there are some sophomores who are taking the game “extremely seriously.”

“Personally, I was only in it for the fun and wasn’t super bummed when I got taken out,” said Brasco, who was “killed” six hours into the competition.

Player Bryan Epps ’14, who was “assassinated” while working at Freshman Screw, said he thinks despite SoCo’s efforts, some “tech-savvy assassins” could still terminate the game by cheating if they determined it was “worth the risk.”

With two weeks left until spring break starts and the game ends, 62 sophomores remained in the competition as of Tuesday night.

Contact CHRISTOPHER PEAK at christopher.peak@yale.edu .

SOM degree builds o! World Fellows

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER

As the School of Manage-ment creates a new degree program for international stu-dents, it is building on a model of global education estab-lished by Yale’s World Fellows program.

In 2001, University Presi-dent Richard Levin launched the World Fellows program, which brings roughly 20 “ris-ing leaders” from around the world to Yale each year, trains them in leadership and allows them to audit courses at Yale’s various schools. SOM Dean Edward Snyder said the school has looked to the Uni-versity’s World Fellows pro-gram in designing an inter-national initiative specific to SOM: a Master in Advanced Management degree that will bring graduates of roughly 20 partner international business schools to New Haven to take classes at SOM.

While SOM has worked with the World Fellows pro-gram in the past to bring international perspectives to issues in business education, Snyder said the new master’s program will be more inte-grated with the school’s regu-lar curriculum.

“These will be students interested in business and entrepreneurship, whereas the World Fellows obviously have broader interests,” Sny-der said. “I’m not sure that in any given year the World Fel-lows program will necessarily get students from countries like the Philippines or Ghana, and I hope that we will be able to do that through our net-work.”

Though World Fellows can audit classes in any part of the University, SOM has been among the most popular des-tinations for fellows, World Fellows Director Michael Cap-pello said. Fellows often find topics covered in SOM courses more applicable to their back-grounds than those o!ered in Yale’s other schools, Cappello said. SOM professors call on World Fellows to provide a “real world” perspective on

issues, he said, and SOM stu-dents look to the fellows for mentorship and advice.

But both Snyder and SOM professor Victor Vroom, who has taught parts of the core curriculum for World Fellows, said they think the interna-tional students who arrive through the new SOM degree program will be more closely integrated with the school. Vroom noted that all students in the new SOM master’s pro-gram will be more like regu-lar SOM students, as they will have already earned MBAs from international business schools and will take courses for credit. Though students in the new program will be able to take classes outside SOM, they will still be based at SOM, unlike the World Fellows, who come from a range of profes-sional and academic back-grounds and audit courses University-wide.

“SOM […] incorporates global ideas and material into the subject matter of courses,” Vroom said. “But it’s even more powerful to have a per-son sitting next to you in an elective course respond to ideas and bring to bear their own international perspec-tive.”

Vroom said the new SOM program will likely attract students from the nonprofit, public and private sectors. The majority of World Fellows, by contrast, come from the non-profit and public sectors, said Leslie Powell, director of communications and alumni a!airs for the World Fellows program.

The students who pass through the new degree pro-gram will also become SOM alumni, which Snyder said will build and diversify the school’s relatively small 6,300-person pool of gradu-ates.

“We’ll be able to start add-ing a flow of alumni who are from all over the world to our alumni base,” Snyder said. “This will be their academic home within Yale, and I think that’s just going to be great for us.”

Cappello said the start of the SOM degree program will not cause changes to how the World Fellows program col-laborates with SOM, adding that he and Snyder are work-ing to strengthen connections between World Fellows and the school.

World Fellows are admitted each spring and spend the fall semester at Yale.

Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .

We’ll be able to start adding a flow of alumni who are from all over the world to our alumni base.

EDWARD SNYDERDean, School of Management

YDN

Michael Briscoe, a New Haven firefighter who is black and did not qualify for promotion under the exam the city threw out, prompting the landmark case Ricci vs. DeStefano, is suing the city over the same exam, claiming it discriminated against minorities.

The competition among students got more heated than expected. They’ve learned from the events of last year and are ensuring that the same thing doesn’t happen again.

OMAR NJIE ’13Former President, Sophomore Class

Council

Assassins returns in altered form

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Ricci resolved any issues resulting from those exams and everyone should be moving forward.

VICTOR BOLDENCorporation Counsel, New Haven

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“No one would accuse Bloomberg, who owns vacation homes in Vail, Palm Beach, Lon-don and Bermuda, of having the common touch.” BEN MCGRATH JOURNALIST

and related events were recorded in reports prepared for New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, though none were charged with a crime. In a Nov. 22, 2006 NYPD document entitled “Weekly MSA Report,” an NYPD o!cer reported he “did not find significant information” on the Yale Muslim Students Associa-tion’s website.

“Mayor Bloomberg’s remarks reveal a startling acceptance of religious profiling conducted by the NYPD,” said Faisal Hamid ’14, the Muslim Students Asso-ciation’s current vice-president, in a Tuesday evening statement to the News on behalf of the organization. “Profiling on the basis of faith is just as wrong and unacceptable as profiling on the basis of race, gender, sexual ori-entation or any other identity and we hope that Mayor Bloom-berg comes to realize this.”

The statement thanked Levin and the Yale administration for standing by the Muslim Students Association.

Levin said the Yale Police Department did not participate in the NYPD’s surveillance and was “entirely unaware” of NYPD activities until the Associated Press first reported the monitor-ing Saturday.

“The Yale Muslim Students Association has been an impor-tant source of support for Yale students during a period when Muslims and Islam itself have too often been the target of thought-less stereotyping, misplaced fear and bigotry,” Levin said in his Monday evening statement. “Now, in the wake of these dis-turbing news reports, I want to

assure the members of the Yale Muslim Students Association that they can count on the full support of Yale University.”

The American Civil Liber-ties Union of Connecticut plans to submit a Freedom of Infor-mation Act request to the YPD to obtain any documents it may have indicating contact with the NYPD about its monitor-ing activity, Sandy Staub, the group’s legal director, told the New Haven Independent.

Bloomberg criticized Levin’s remarks, arguing that Yale’s freedom to conduct academic research, teach and give people a “place to say what they want to say” is defended by law enforce-ment agencies such as the NYPD.

“I found Mayor Bloomberg’s response to President Levin to be indicative of the very mind-set that got the NYPD into this mess,” said Mostafa Al-Alusi ’13, president of Yale’s Muslim Stu-dents Association. “He chose to defend the religious and racial profiling done by the NYPD instead of owning up to the fact that they have overstepped their bounds.”

In an interview with the News Tuesday evening, Levin

defended his words. “I’m a great admirer of mayor

Bloomberg, for his public lead-ership, for his philanthropy and for his extraordinary acumen as a business leader. On the matter in question, I stand by my state-ment from last night,” Levin said.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne defended his depart-ment’s actions to the Associated Press, saying it was “prudent to get a better handle on” what was occurring at Muslim student associations around the North-east. He noted that the depart-ment monitored collected pub-licly available information from open websites, the Associated Press reported.

The Associated Press also reported that the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a white-water rafting trip with students from the City College of New York, during which the agent recorded students’ names and noted in police files how many times they prayed.

When reporters at the Brook-lyn Public Library asked Bloom-berg about this rafting trip, he denied that such a move went too far. The purpose of law enforce-ment is to “prevent things,” he said, and doing so requires intel-ligence gathering.

NYPD monitoring of Mus-lim student associations took place as recently as 2009, when police set up a safe house in New Brunswick, N.J., to follow the Muslim student group at Rutgers University, the Associated Press reported.

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

universities. According to the findings, Yale is “not behind” its peers in innovative teaching, but the University lags in the quality of its teaching facilities, O’Connor said.

By the summer of 2013, the committee plans to renovate most large science lecture halls, as well around 20 classrooms in Sloane Physics Laboratory, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Osborn Memorial Laborato-ries and J. W. Gibbs Laboratory,

O’Connor said. Some of the renovated classrooms will have multiple projectors, more black-board space, computer stations and flexible seating that can be rearranged. Salovey said these initial short-term projects are intended to facilitate student interaction in small groups — even in large lecture settings — as well as to maximize flexibility in classrooms.

“Pedagogical methods are ever-evolving and we believe that a key principle is to invest in high-quality teaching spaces

that are as flexible as possi-ble,” Salovey said, adding that “improvements in teaching facilities are a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for STEM teaching reforms at Yale.”

O’Connor said there are many “grassroots” efforts led by indi-vidual professors to educate students in innovative ways. For example, he said some profes-sors are using interactive “click-ers,” which enable instructors to immediately collect and view the responses of the entire class, and other courses are send-

ing students abroad to conduct research.

Yale’s Center for Scientific Teaching currently offers train-ing sessions for faculty and postdoctoral and graduate stu-dents in teaching methods that engage students.

Handelsman, who is co-director of the center, said she is collaborating with chemis-try professor Andrew Phillips to introduce an introductory biology and chemistry course next fall targeted towards fresh-men that incorporates lec-

tures, research and field work. Handelsman added that she hopes that more faculty will consider adapting their own teaching methods to better engage students if they see the success of these type of courses.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she hopes to allow more classes to offer trips abroad. She said she invited a group of faculty to meet with her and other deans in October to dis-cuss introducing more field trip courses to the curriculum.

“Trips can enrich the cur-

riculum and deepen interest and commitment to study in a given field,” Miller said. “I wish I could say that we had special funds to inaugurate the oppor-tunities opened by the new [Yale College academic] calendar, but at this point we do not.”

Of 1,281 students who grad-uated last year, 334 earned degrees in STEM fields.

Contact CLINTON WANG at

clinton.wang@yale.edu .

Bloomberg defends NYPD surveillanceBLOOMBERG FROM PAGE 1

ASSOCIATED PRESSNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized University President Richard Levin’s comments condemning the NYPD’s monitoring of Muslim student groups.

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CROSS CAMPUSTHE BLOG. THE BUZZ AROUND YALE THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

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Mayor Bloomberg’s remarks reveal a startling acceptance of religious profiling.

FAISAL HAMID ’14Vice President, Muslim Students

Association

Report finds low retention among STEM students

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“Finish last in your league and they call you ‘idiot.’ Finish last in medical school and they call you ‘doctor.’” ABE LEMONS COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACH

Students to boost med educationBY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS

STAFF REPORTER

A group of Yale medical stu-dents is launching its school’s first Medical Education Interest Group to help make doctors bet-ter teachers next week.

Michael Peluso MED ’13 said the organization, called MedEd, consists of medical students interested in developing teach-ing skills and faculty who will join as both students and men-tors. Officially instituted as a registered organization in Janu-ary, the group will aid the devel-opment of teaching skills among future doctors in ways that pre-vious medical school programs and courses have not, Peluso said.

“All doctors are educators, since they teach their patients on health and diseases,” Chung Sang Tse MED ’15, one of the group’s organizers, said. “Doc-tors also teach residents and students, focusing even more on the link between education and medicine. But are they trained to teach? Are they really good teachers?”

MedEd will meet next Tues-day to formally launch the pro-gram to the rest of the medical community, Peluso said. The group’s goals include provid-ing a forum for people inter-ested in medical education, and connecting students and fac-ulty, he said. One of the fea-tures of the group, member Hil-ary Wang MED ’15 said, is that unlike most interest groups on

campus, theirs aims to encom-pass all students, residents and faculty members at the school.

Pelsuo said that he began to consider forming an inter-est group after attending last year’s Northeastern Group of Educational Affairs conference, in which several schools show-cased their methods for incor-porating education training into their curricula. He said that two of the strongest medical educa-tion programs that inspired him to bring the idea to Yale are at George Washington University Medical Center and the Univer-sity of Chicago School of Med-icine, which offer medical edu-cation as a separate track. After sending an email in Decem-ber to the medical school com-munity, Peluso said he received responses indicating campus-wide interest in medical educa-tion.

One of the group’s aims for this spring is to develop the cur-riculum for a medical education elective, a two-week intensive program that is set to be piloted this summer, Peluso said.

The group also aims to initiate mentorship programs for fac-ulty and students and monthly workshops for skill develop-ment. One of the group’s proj-ects includes setting up a data-base of available opportunities for medical students to build skills as teachers, which include working as teaching assis-tants for histology and anatomy classes, and tutoring first-year students.

So far, more than 35 faculty members and over 60 students have registered to attend next Tuesday’s meeting, Peluso said. He added that medical school faculty and staff have been very supportive of MedEd, and that the group did not expect such a positive response. Recently, he added, medical schools are rec-ognizing the “clinician educa-tor” as a possible post-medical school option. Instead of recog-nition according to the number of published papers or patients, they are noted for their teaching ability.

Janet Hafler, the medi-cal school’s assistant dean for educational scholarship and the group’s primary advisor, said although many doctors are involved in teaching, very few have any training in education.

She added that medical school administrators and fac-ulty have informally discussed the need for better medical edu-cation training in the past. The school’s clinical skills class is one of the few current courses in which students teach each other, she said.

The next Northeastern Group of Educational Affairs confer-ence will take place March 23-25 at Tufts University School of Medicine. The medical school will provide funding for four students to attend the confer-ence.

Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at

mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu .

UCS launches online tools for sophomoresBY ANDREW GIAMBRONE

STAFF REPORTER

Students looking for a sum-mer internship or job now have new tools to use in compiling their resumes and credentials.

Yale Undergraduate Career Ser-vices launched a set of online self-assessments last week that help students match their skills and interests with potential careers. The two resources — called “Do What You Are” and “Focus” — were made available only to soph-omores as “something special” for that class, UCS Director Allyson Moore said. Over the course of the next year, UCS is planning to release other programs tailored to specific portions of the student body, she added.

“Students who are exception-ally bright, as our Yale students are, often struggle with determining an appropriate future career path,” Moore said. “And while assessments are not magic bullets, they do help students to reflect, identify their unique interests and narrow the field of career options they should further research, test and poten-tially explore.”

Moore said the tools, accessi-ble through the UCS website, are designed to help students think about how their interests and per-sonalities might relate to specific professional contexts.

“Do What You Are” asks stu-dents to answer a series of ques-tions about conflict resolution and problem solving, and then generates personality assessments and lists of career fields that seem fitted to their responses. “Focus” uses infor-mation that students supply about their education and work experi-ence to provide links to additional information about potentially suit-able careers. Students must create separate log-in accounts to access each tool.

Moore said she encourages stu-

dents to take both tests, as they serve different purposes. She added that students should visit the UCS office at 55 Whitney Ave. and meet with a representative to “debrief” the results of the tests.

“Do What You are” and “Focus” were announced to the class of 2014 in an email from the Sophomore Class Council last Thursday, and Moore said about 60 students have already registered for or expressed interest in an online assessment. But only one of 10 sophomores interviewed had heard of the new tools. Five of those students also said they have never utilized UCS services.

Serena Candelaria ’14 said she has not yet signed up for either a “Do What You Are” or “Focus” account, but would consider doing so if she does not line up a summer internship or job before the start of spring break. A member of Timo-thy Dwight College, Candelaria said that if she decides to use the new career tools, she would likely make the “relatively short walk” to UCS to discuss her results.

“I’m starting to get a little wor-ried about what I’m doing this summer and whether I’ll gain any experience for future jobs,” Can-delaria said. “Hopefully these new tools will help me figure out what aspects of my personality and resume to emphasize that play to my

strengths.”But Zach Bell ’14 said he was not

aware of the new online tools, add-ing that he thinks UCS needs to do a better job publicizing its resources.

Other student resources on the UCS website include sample resumes, cover letter advice and interviewing tips.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at

andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

U C S C A R E E R A S S E S S M E N T

T O O L S

Last week, Undergraduate Career Services released two online self-assessment tools to sophomores that are designed to help them determine career possibilities. According to the UCS website:

DO WHAT YOU AREis “a personality assessment designed to provide feedback about your patterns of behavior and preferences. This assessment will generate a report which will provide you with information about careers that are matched to you based on your personal strengths and blind spots.”

FOCUSis “an online interactive career and education planning system which combines self- assessment, career exploration and decision making. The assessment will generate a report which will help you connect your interests, values and skill with potential career paths.”YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

UCS Director Allyson Moore encouraged sophomores to take advantage of two new online tools developed by UCS aimed at helping students identify suitable career paths.

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Students who are exceptionally bright… often struggle with determining an appropriate future career path.

ALLYSON MOOREDirector, UCS

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FROM THE FRONT “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of 50 di!erent peoples.” WALTER LIPPMANN AMERICAN JOURNALIST

from alumni.Levin told the News in 2010 that

administrators and Goldblatt had “agreed mutually” that he would step down in 2013 after serving as mas-ter for 18 years. Levin declined to com-ment Tuesday night on the petition, and Goldblatt did not respond to requests for comment.

All seven signatories interviewed said they signed the petition out of their respect and admiration for Goldblatt, and most said they did not completely understand the circumstances that led to his decision to step down.

Bonnie Antosh ’13 said she signed the petition “in case Master G’s choice to leave[was] not voluntary.”

“Students want to express their appreciation for a man who has con-tributed so much to their experience of Pierson as a home,” she said in an email. “If he’s being forced to leave because he refused to back down in administrative debates, then I think Piersonites want some honesty about that decision from the administration.”

All Pierson students interviewed praised Goldblatt’s friendly nature and devotion to his students. Sarah Armitage ’12 said Goldblatt has been a strong men-tor for her throughout her Yale years, and Elise Brown ’12 said he “makes Pierson feel like a home and a community, rather than just a fancy dorm.”

But Nicholas Aubin ’14, who declined to sign the petition, said he thinks the petition inappropriately exploits Goldb-latt’s upcoming departure in order to dis-pute the equalization of residential col-lege budgets.

“There are deeper issues worth addressing in the structure and arrange-ment of Yale’s residential college system, but I think it would be disrespectful to Master G to use the occasion of his res-ignation as a platform to address them,” Aubin said in an email. “Let us instead celebrate the legacy of a great master and a good man.”

Though Goldblatt intends to leave his post in 2013, he will remain at Yale as a professor of medieval Slavic literature.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

Jr. and New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman, argue that in practice it deports undocumented resi-dents who have a minor or nonexistent criminal record, in addition to having damaging collateral consequences for local law enforcement.

In Monday’s statement, Mike Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning, said Malloy has ordered Department of Corrections Commissioner Leo Arnone to review the program, and said the state would decide whether to honor ICE’s detain-ment requests on a case-by-case basis.

“We still have yet to see a specific policy from the state regarding how it will handle detainers issued as a result of Secure Communities,” City Hall spokes-woman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said. “We are looking forward to seeing the policy.”

In a Tuesday email, Lawlor said some jurisdictions choose to ignore every detainment request from ICE while oth-ers decide not to honor a portion of the federal requests. Connecticut, he said, will fall in the latter category.

A 2011 review of Secure Communities by the Department of Homeland Secu-rity found that “the impact of Secure Communities” extended beyond dan-gerous offenders. A Yale Law School study of Secure Communities in Fair-field County, where it has been active since 2010, found that 71 percent of those deported through the program were not violent or multiple o!enders.

DeStefano and several city and state o"cials held a press conference at City Hall Monday calling on ICE to delay implementation of the program, which is currently active in 30 states, and asked Malloy to distinguish between serious and low-level o!enders in han-

dling detainment requests. Benton repeated some of the criti-

cism leveled at Secure Communities.“Secure Communities is a misguided

and mishandled program that will nei-ther make New Haven more secure nor a stronger community,” Benton said. “Conversely, Secure Communities will harm community policing e!orts in New Haven to build trust between immigrant communities and the police department.”

ICE spokesperson Ross Feinstein declined to respond to questions Tues-day, but instead issued a statement that announced a training program — to be run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties — that will train local law enforcement agencies on how to provide more information about Secure Com-munities to the public. Feinstein’s state-ment emphasizes that Secure Commu-nities prioritizes the deportation of criminals.

“Approximately 94 percent of the total Secure Communities removals fall within ICE’s civil enforcement pri-orities, including convicted criminals, recent illegal border entrants and those who game the immigration system,” the statement said.

Lt. Paul Vance, a spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police, said Tuesday that he was unaware of the program’s impending implementation in the state and had not been notified by ICE that the program would begin. Neither were top New Haven officials, including DeStefano and Esserman.

Benton said city officials learned that Secure Communities would begin in Connecticut through secondhand sources, although she added that an email may have been sent to former NHPD Chief Frank Limon, who left New

Haven last fall.Fairfield Police Department Chief

Gary MacNamara said the program has not changed the way his department works. Since his o"cers already submit fingerprints to the FBI, Secure Commu-nities operates in the background and only “piggybacks” o! their arrests, he said.

“We haven’t become immigration o"cers,” MacNamara said. “We aren’t out looking for immigrants. We just do our job the way we always did it.”

MacNamara said he has seen no dif-ference in relations between Hispan-

ics and police o"cers, but he added that “every community is di!erent.”

“We need the community support to do our job, so if there were concerns in our community, we would certainly want to explain ourselves better,” he added.

Secure Communities began under the Bush administration in 2008 and will become mandatory nationwide by 2013.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu and

CHRISTOPHER PEAK at christopher.peak@yale.edu .

fields, opportunities to increase the diversity of the faculty and oppor-tunities to recruit a particularly distinguished scholar or scientist to Yale,” Salovey said.

Currently, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee has authorized searches for West Campus, 14 departments and pro-grams in the humanities, six in the social sciences, four in engineer-ing, and eight in the biological and physical sciences, Salovey said. Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle said in a Tuesday email that the major-ity of those searches began this summer, though roughly 10 car-ried over from last year.

Despite the overall increase in faculty searches, History Depart-ment chair Laura Engelstein said in a Tuesday email that her depart-ment has only been approved to look for two new hires — one junior faculty member in modern Mid-dle East history and one in Latin American history. Engelstein said the department, which currently has 61 assistant, associate and ten-ured professors, has seen a reduc-tion in authorized searches in recent years and has positions that have remained vacant since 2009.

“There are fields we might want to add, but these are decisions the department will have to make, in consultation with the deans and provosts, in relation to the opening of the two new colleges and to the budget situation in coming years,” she said.

Within the Mathematics Department, the only authorized searches are two for senior faculty that began last spring and have yet to be completed, department chair Yair Minsky said. The department has shrunk to its current size of 16 professors over the past 15 years, Minsky said, though he added that it has grown slightly over the past two years and shifted toward hiring more tenure-track faculty.

The Sociology Department, which will have 19 faculty mem-bers after two new professors begin work on July 1, had one search for a senior faculty member approved last semester, department chair Julia Adams said. She added that the department has grown to a “healthy size” over the past decade, following its decline in the early 1990s.

Administrators determine the number of searches to authorize each year based on projections about faculty departures and how many hires will result from ongo-ing searches, Salovey said. He added that senior faculty searches can take two or three years, while searches for assistant professors are generally completed the year they are approved.

There were 34 authorized searches in the 2010-’11 academic year, Salovey said.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .

Master’s departure draws scrutinyMASTER G FROM PAGE 1

Most searches to fill specific vacancies

FACULTY HIRING FROM PAGE 1

Over objections, ICE begins program

CHRIS PEAK/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

State Rep. Juan Candelaria joined city o!cials for a press conference Monday urging a delay in the implementation of Secure Communities, a federal deportation program.

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P R I M A R Y S O U R C E : T E X T O F P E T I T I O N

Dear President Levin,

We write to you as concerned Pierson College students and alumni to a"rm the power of community in the residential colleges and to ask for your help. We understand the centrality of the Master in residential college life and that successfully fulfilling that role goes beyond simply supplying funds for events, research, and summer projects, organizing study breaks, arranging master’s teas, et al. Masters can provide the support, wisdom, and friendship that makes a residential colleges a family rather than a collection of students sharing a dormitory.

Master Harvey Goldblatt, a!ectionately known as “Master G”, uniquely exemplifies these admirable qualities. His emanating warmth, infectious devotion, and compassionate spirit have made him a pillar of Pierson College’s myriad successes over the past seventeen and one-half years. Master G consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty to create a supportive and lifelong community for Pierson College students and alumni.

We understand Master G is currently scheduled to leave the Mastership of Pierson College at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year. Needlessly losing an inspirational leader such as Master G would be devastating not only to Pierson College students, but to our residential college system and Yale University as well.

We ask for your help to prevail upon Master G to remain as Pierson College Master beyond the 2012-2013 academic year.

Thank you,

Pierson College StudentsPast, Present, and Future

If [Goldblatt] is being forced to leave because he refused to back down in administrative debates, then I think Piersonites want some honesty about that decision from the administration.

BONNIE ANTOSH ’13

ARTS & CULTURE

BY MASON KROLLCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

While composing the score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World,” Garth Neustadter MUS ’12 asked himself how the 19th-cen-tury naturalist and preservation advo-cate would have directed the film.

On Tuesday, Neustadter joined the documentary’s actual filmmaker, Emmy Award-winner Catherine Tatge, as well as Char Miller, director of Envi-ronmental Analysis at Pomona College, and Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker in a panel to consider the joint issues of “Music, Media, & the Envi-ronment.” After Neustadter presented a condensed 15-minute clip of the film, members of the panel answered ques-tions and discussed the creative pro-cess behind the making of the docu-mentary, for which Neustadter won

a 2011 Emmy award for his original score.

“It occurred to me that if Muir were directing the film, he may have pre-ferred listening to the sound of trees,” Neustadter said. “I wanted to high-light the sections where music was not being used in addition to the places it was.”

The event, held at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ Kroon Hall, was hosted by Blocker and Peter Crane, dean of the environment school.

Tatge, who described herself as a “city person,” said that making a doc-umentary on Muir, an iconic nature lover, was particularly challenging.

“I think this film was really trans-formational for me,” Tatge said. “I have done films about the human spirit, love, hate and the question of God — but like so many people I am discon-

nected from nature. That’s what was so transformative about making this film. It really put me in touch.”

Tatge met Neustadter through their alma mater, Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. Knowing she wanted an original score for her documentary, Tatge called the dean of the school’s music conservatory to see if he had any recommendations.

With an extensive background in music composition, including a first-prize win in the 2007 Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Com-petition, Neustadster said working with Tatge presented a unique oppor-tunity, as composers often join the film process late in postproduction.

“I felt that the music was able to be incorporated much more organically and naturally with the edits,” Neus-tadter said. “[With this film] often the editor would actually ‘cut’ the film to the music, which is very unusual.”

Neustadter cited the “rustic, unde-fined quality” of 20th-century mod-ernist composer Charles Ives as a par-ticular influence. As Muir was born in Scotland, Neustadter said he also tried to incorporate Scottish themes into the score, which was recorded in Woolsey Hall last year with members of the Yale Philharmonia, a graduate ensemble orchestra.

Neustadter said that in his time studying composition at Yale, he has found support in developing his own style.

“One of the things that attracted me to Yale was how open they were in the composition department to embrac-ing different styles,” Neustadter said. “As teachers, rather than telling me how to compose, they help me find my own voice. That should be the goal for teachers.”

Currently, Neustadter is at work finishing a full orchestra score for a restoration of the 1925 silent film “The Circle.” He said he is also is collaborat-ing with fellow composer Daniel Wohl MUS ’12 in composing the score for “Tar,” a feature-length film starring James Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain.

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

THIS WEEKIN THE ARTS

12 P.M. WED. FEB. 22THE POLITICS OF P(A)LACE: ROYAL SPACE IN DOWNTOWN BANGKOK The Southeast Asia Studies Brown Bag Seminar Series presents Serhat Ünaldi, a doctoral candidate in Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. His dissertation, part-sociology part-architecture, will delve into the city building project that created today’s Bangkok — the world’s 17th tallest city in terms of skyscrapers.

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

12:15 P.M. WED. FEB. 22UNDERSTUDYING HAMLET: A LOOK INTO THE STUDIO PRACTICE OF EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY The worlds of visual art and theater collide in this event where the Yale University Art Gallery’s Cindy Schwarz will walk attendees through the gallery’s paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings by Edwin Austin Abbey — an American painter with a penchant for the Bard. Part of the Shakespeare at Yale series, the talk may elucidate a greater meaning in Act III, Scene ii of Hamlet.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

8 P.M. THURS. FEB. 23BETRAYAL Davenport College presents Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” — a play of love, lust, and backwards time. Katherine Latham ’12 directs the three-person cast through their adulterous journey that critic Roger Ebert said “strips away all artifice. It shows, heartlessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves.”

Davenport College, Davenport-Pierson Auditorium, 248 York St.

8 P.M. THURS. FEB. 23LICENSE TO TAP The opening night of Yale Taps’s newest show promises to o!er a rhythmic good time, complete with resplendent shoes and beats.

O! Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

ALL DAY FRI. FEB. 24THE TEMPEST Yale’s experimental theater company, The Control Group, present a “collaborative, physical, and installation based process of generating a show from the core and framework of Shakespeare’s text.” Come for the classic quips, stay for the inventive use of non-theater spaces in the conveyance of new and exciting meaning.

Payne Whitney Gymnasium, 70 Tower Pkwy., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP

7:30 P.M. FRI. FEB. 24ALICE IN WONDERJAM Undergraduate male a cappella group The Duke’s Men will sing,perform “zaney skits,” and do something called the “doox dance.” Expect throngs of screaming groupies and forced Lewis Carroll references.

Center Church on the Green Parrish House, 311 Temple St.

8 P.M. SAT. FEB. 25YALE PHILHARMONIA William Christie conducts the Yale Philharmonia and the new Yale Choral Artists in an exciting all-Handel concert.

Sprague Memorial Hall, Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St.

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“Theater is one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan … that conversation is almost impossible.” PAULA VOGEL AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT

‘Helvetica’ filmmaker refocuses on urban design

BY NATASHA THONDAVADISTAFF REPORTER

Since 2007, documentary film-maker Gary Hustwit has worked to inspire everyday people to care about design.

Monday evening at the School of Architecture, Hustwit pre-sented a screening of “Urbanized,” the final film in his well-known trilogy about the design process, released in 2011. While the first two films, 2007’s “Helvetica” and 2009’s “Objectified,” deal with the topics of graphic and indus-trial design, Hustwit’s latest film focuses on urban planning, a field central to the study of architec-ture at Yale. The screening filled Hastings Hall with a crowd that included architecture professors, graduate students and undergrad-uates, as well as other members of the Yale community interested in the structure of cities.

In “Urbanized,” Hustwit blends interviews of prominent mem-bers of the urban design field with visual footage of cities around the world accompanied by an original score. The film explores an ongo-ing debate regarding which mem-bers of a community should be responsible for designing cities: government o!cials, architects or the people at large. Hustwit said that by educating viewers about the ways in which urban archi-tecture can a"ect their daily lives, he hopes they can be both more appreciative and more critical of the urban planning process.

“I think the biggest takeaway for me is how much we as citizens need to be, should be and are not involved enough in the shaping of our cities,” Hustwit said. “I think the most interesting projects are the ones that are citizen-driven.”

For several of the undergradu-ates who came to see the film, the discussion of the urban design techniques with which govern-ments respond to their con-stituents’ desires was the most impressive part of the documen-tary. Many assume that urban design is a “top-down” process,

Jared Shenson ’12 said, but he felt that Hustwit showed that a cul-tural shift towards finding a mid-dle ground between city planners and individual citizens is already occurring.

Hustwit said he created the film with the intention of bringing architecture to a broader audience, hoping that it will find an audience among those not already involved in design. Hustwit included him-self in this group, explaining that in part, he made the film to learn more about the issue.

“It’s more valuable as a tool to show people who aren’t involved in design what all of these people do and how it a"ects them,” Hus-twit said.

Although the architects and architecture students present at the screening may already be familiar with many of the techni-cal details of urban design, three architecture professors inter-viewed said it was interesting to engage further in dialogue about urban issues.

“Urbanism is a very impor-tant part of the school,” School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said, adding that every graduate student enrolled in the school’s Master of Architecture I program is required to complete a studio course concentrating on an urban topic.

Stern added that while many undergraduate architecture stu-dents go on to work in urban plan-ning, most graduate students choose “traditional architectural fields.”

Still, several students, both in the architecture school and in other programs said the film inspired them think more seri-ously about getting involved with local or small-scale urban design projects. Elihu Rubin ’99, a polit-ical science and ethics, politics & economics professor, added that the film might motivate students to consider urban design or plan-ning professions.

“I thought the film gave a really positive and optimistic image of the role of urban designers and

planners,” Rubin said. “It didn’t make you feel like there are forces at play you can’t control.”

The first film in Hustwit’s Design Trilogy, “Helvetica,” was nominated for an Independent

Spirit “Truer Than Fiction” Award in 2008.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at

natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

BY ANDREW FREEBURGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Christina Anderson’s DRA ’11 “Good Goods,” in its world premiere at the Yale Repertory The-atre under the direction of Tina Landau ’84, is ambitious in its narrative scope. According to her program notes, Anderson has created a world with no definite geographical place or historical timing that is haunted by an ambigu-ous catastrophe. This ambition, though adroitly acted by a brilliant cast of six and served by a smart, creative sta", has a hard time standing on its own without the aid of those program notes.

The play is set in a non-specific Southern town, in a non-specific year between 1961 and 1994, and begins with no backstory provided. An “invasion,” referenced obliquely through-out the course of the play, has cut the charac-ters and their town o" from phone service but curiously still allows bus service and deliveries of goods to the general store. The only two dis-cernible landmarks in the town are the general store — named “Good Goods” after the owner’s last name — and a “pencil factory.” The factory, Anderson noted, is not necessarily a purveyor of pencils but instead “whatever you think it is.”

The themes of possession and materialism run rampant through the play: the store’s senior employee, Truth, is preternaturally concerned with theft; Stacey, the son of the original owner, wants to own the shop for himself; the other half of Stacey’s former comedy duo, Patricia, wants to own her own life; and Sunny, a vagabond who arrived on the bus with Patricia, becomes pos-sessed by the spirit of a recently-deceased fac-tory worker.

The interest of the play lies in the interplay between realism and the supernatural. The play begins in the realm of the real, but the logic of the play’s reality is not given su!cient explana-tion.

The nature of the mysterious “invasion,” how each character arrived back in town and the nature of their relationships are all hinted at, but never fully explained. To be clear: it isn’t the lack of explicit exposition that weakens the play, but

without any explanation, the arbitrary restric-tions on each character’s mobility and com-munication feel contrived. Even the specter of the factory, as open-ended as Anderson tries to keep it, looks false and plastic behind the fore-ground of the general store. As a result, the ele-ments of the supernatural that enter the world of the play feel cheapened.

Where Anderson’s script fails, the cast and crew succeed with aplomb. Landau, who co-authored a text explaining her theory of physical acting with director Anne Bogart in the late 70s, titled “The Viewpoints Book,” did brilliant work with her cast: The actors are truly phenomenal, especially considering that all six made their Rep debut with this show. Of note are the actors playing Sunny/Emeka and Hunter Priestess/Waymon (Angela Lewis and Oberon K.A. Adje-pong), who showed incredible agility in switch-ing between their two respective characters in scenes of spiritual possession. They embod-ied the nuances of the characters with such boldness and completeness that each moment of transformation was perfectly distinct and believable. Of course, this was to be expected — Landau literally wrote the book on the develop-ment of physical character.

The sharp changes in character and reality were well served by Scott Zielinski’s DRA ’90 lighting design, which created surreal breaks from reality through color and directionality. The timeless costumes of Toni-Leslie James kept the production connected to some sort of reality. Aside from the smoke-belching “fac-tory” in the background of the set created by James Schuette DRA ’89, the production was visually well-integrated and up to the Rep’s cus-tomarily high standards.

But in spite of the play’s great beauty, wide-ranging narrative and brilliant creative team, the objection remains: A play must communi-cate fully with its audience without the aid of its program notes. Especially in the case of main-stream theater, audience members should not have to contribute their own time and work to the research process — the production should stand on its own. Thus, rather than provoking thought with its loose ends, “Good Goods” only prompted questions that were ultimately left unanswered.

Contact ANDREW FREEBURG at andrew.freeburg@yale.edu .

‘Good Goods’ leaves questions unanswered

BY ANYA GRENIERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Opening today, the Yale Dra-matic Association’s spring mainstage production, “Trans-lations,” deals with language and the fate of those confronted by its loss.

Written by Irish playwright Brian Friel in 1980, the play takes place in a small Irish village in the 1830s that is in the midst of being forcibly Anglicized by occupying British troops. While taking on weighty themes, the show maintains a lighter appeal as well — as Dramat Presi-dent Meredith Davis ’13 said, “it’s very intellectual, but it’s a romance and it’s funny.”

In the ensuing culture clash

between the Irish and British, neither understands the oth-er’s native tongue, and the play centers around those characters caught between the two sides. New York-based director Lauren Keating said she was drawn in by the play’s themes of searching for home and community — and sometimes failing.

Keating said that trying to communicate and being unable to do so is a problem to which many theater artists can espe-cially relate.

Despite the universality of the play’s themes, it is also very spe-cific to a particular moment in Ireland’s past, said Edward Del-man ’12, who plays the part of the schoolmaster’s son Manus. He added that it was di!cult for

the cast to understand the con-sciousness of the time.

“It’s a challenge to under-stand where both Brian Friel and these characters are coming from,” Delman said.

Actors and designers worked together to make the produc-tion as authentic as possible, from costume and hair styles to set design. Keating said that by paying such close attention to detail, she hopes the show will convey that the Irish culture is at risk of being lost.

“We wanted to create a very cozy, communal environment, making it textured, to feel like we can touch it and hold it, and then show the loss of that,” Keating said.

Producer Yuvika Tolani ’14

said that from the beginning, the director sought to make the play a wholly immersive experience — even within the enormous space of the University Theatre. To draw the audience into the world of the show, Keating chose to move all of the action onto the first five feet of the actual stage and then build a custom stage extension.

Keating said that manipulat-ing the physical space of the the-ater is also a way of conveying the themes of the play. By not using the entirety of the stage and space until the very end of the play, the production shows a shift in the nature of the com-munity.

“At first we see these peo-ple, and they seem big, and their

world seems very small, and by the end of the play its the world that is very big and the people are very small,” Keating said.

Because language barriers play such a key role in the show, actors took lessons with a pro-fessional dialect coach. While all the actors speak English, Irish and British accents are meant to denote English and Gaelic respectively.

Four members of the cast and crew interviewed cited the accent training as the most chal-lenging part of the production.

“I thought I could do a Brit-ish accent before,” said Daniel Kovalcik ’15, who plays a British captain in the play. “[The dialect coach] went to each one of the actors and told us what we were

doing was completely wrong.” Adding to the challenge of

learning an accent, some actors have to transition seamlessly between proper British and heavily regional Irish accents within a scene.

Working alongside a team of outside designers gave all stu-dents involved a chance to expe-rience how the professional the-ater world works, Tolani said. As the Dramat’s mainstage pro-duction, she explained, “Trans-lations” involved working “on a scale that doesn’t exist any-where else in theater at Yale.”

Jamie Biondi ’12, who plays the part of the town’s school master, said that the opportu-nity to work with “high caliber” professionals has been a major

factor in his decision to act in mainstage productions all four years of his time at Yale.

The Dramat executive board selected Keating from among a pool of professional directors after what Davis described as “a pretty extensive interview pro-cess.” Keating, Davis said, came in with a clear enthusiasm for working with students, as well as a specific vision for the show.

“[Keating] is fabulous,” Del-man said. “She knows how to interact with actors and how to get the results that she wants.”

“Translations” will play at the University Theatre from Feb. 22-25.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

In ‘Translations,’ a language war

Vogel talks revival of Pulitzer-winning playBY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER

Chair of the Yale School of Dra-ma’s Playwriting Program and Yale Repertory Theatre playwright-in-residence Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulit-zer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” just reopened off Broadway on Feb. 13, marking the first time it has played in New York in 15 years. The current production is scheduled to run through March. On Monday, Vogel spoke with the News about the new production, her writing process and her teach-ing commitments at Yale.

Q Your prize-winning play, “How I Learned to Drive,” has just

been revived off Broadway — you must be excited about that.

A I’m pretty excited, yes. I’ve had a great time revisiting the

play and seeing it anew, but from a completely different perspective. There’s a different cast, different director and different designers this time around.

Q To what extent have you been involved in the new production?

A Very much so. I feel like every time a play is produced in

New York it is best to be involved, because there’s a national impact in terms of the opinions of New York theater reviewers.

Q “How I Learned to Drive” focuses on an incestuous and

pedophilic relationship between a young woman and her uncle…

A Can I stop you right there for a second? I talk about this a lot.

Everyone looks down at that char-acter as a pedophile, but what I wanted to do was examine the rela-tionship and look at how one sur-vives relationships like this. If one looks at the demographics, I think that probably four out of 10 people experienced inappropriate emo-tional relationships in their youth. So I prefer to think of this story as

a coming-of-age play, rather than [one of] incest and pedophilia.

Q What draws you to write about a sensitive subject matter like

that?

A I’m interested in looking at things that hurt us or harm us.

I like to look at things that soci-ety puts in a box with a label. And if it’s in a box we can’t really look at it. To me the focus of theater is to take something out of its box and look at it. If I asked you to describe “Lolita,” you would describe that as a book about a pedophile. Then you’d miss the entire journey of “Lolita.” I read Nabokov early in college and fell in love with that book. Nabokov made me feel empathy for a man that I would not have wanted to spend time with and whom I would have labeled and put into a box. Theater for me is to see if I can do something like that.

Q The new production has only been running for a week or so,

but how has the critical and public reception of the play been thus far?

A It’s been going extremely well. In fact, one of the things

I liked about it was that they gave us a long preview period, so we’ve actually been playing since Jan. 24. And, you know, if the ticket demands are high, I’m hoping we can extend the run.

Q You’ve described your writing style as “writing the play back-

wards.” What do you mean by that?

A I usually see an image or an event that is the turning point

of the play. Once I realize that that’s where I’m going, I can figure out how to start it. I have plays just sitting in my head — maybe 30 or 40 at a time — but when I see that moment, I can go backwards and write it.

Q Were drama and playwrit-ing something you were always

interested in?

A: Yes, since high school. I actu-ally fell in love with theater

and tried other things in theater, but I was no good at acting, so I started writing.

Q You helped develop a nation-ally recognized graduate the-

ater program at Brown, the Brown /Trinity Repertory Company Con-sortium. How did that come about?

A I got a very rare opportunity to run a program for playwrights.

I had spent my 25 years there pros-elytizing and advocating for writ-ers to have a stipend so they could write for two years, and towards the end, three years. It was my pas-sion. It’s as strong a passion as my own writing.

Q Are you teaching both graduate students and undergrads?

A I have in the past. But my teaching responsibilities now

are mainly for graduate students. Previously I taught a public class that was open to anyone in New Haven as well. I’d actually like my graduate students to teach under-grads, but Yale College has many interesting traditions and rituals — it’s pretty etched in stone. Right now, [some of] my graduate stu-dents, who have incredible expe-rience by the time they come here, are teaching undergraduates at Wesleyan.

Q Last summer, you announced you would step down from your

position at the end of this school

year. What prompted that decision?

A Well, time is short. I have wonderful opportunities set

in front of me — most recently one which will require me to spend months at a time in Philadel-phia. It’s not possible to keep up a schedule like that while being a full-time administrator at [the School of Drama]. I’m often given these opportunities that I can’t take. I was asked by the Slovenian embassy to come and show “How I Learned to Drive” in Slovenia, but I had to turn them down. I’m seeking a balance now where I can say yes to working with peer artists inter-nationally, and to new opportuni-ties for my own writing.

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

JOE CLARK

Released in 2011, “Urbanized” is the last in a trilogy of documentaries by filmmaker Gary Hustwit that focus on the design process.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Playwright Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” recently reopened o! Broadway.

ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Garth Neustadter MUS ’12 won an Emmy for his original score for “John Muir in the New World” in 2011.

Composing for an American naturalist

ZEENAT MANSOOR/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“Translations,” a three-act play written by Irish playwright Brian Friel, premiered in Derry, Northern Ireland in September 1980.

THEATER REVIEWGOOD GOODS

I was no good at acting, so I started writing.

PAULA VOGELPlaywright-in-residence, Yale Repertory

Theatre

ARTS & CULTURE

BY MASON KROLLCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

While composing the score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World,” Garth Neustadter MUS ’12 asked himself how the 19th-cen-tury naturalist and preservation advo-cate would have directed the film.

On Tuesday, Neustadter joined the documentary’s actual filmmaker, Emmy Award-winner Catherine Tatge, as well as Char Miller, director of Envi-ronmental Analysis at Pomona College, and Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker in a panel to consider the joint issues of “Music, Media, & the Envi-ronment.” After Neustadter presented a condensed 15-minute clip of the film, members of the panel answered ques-tions and discussed the creative pro-cess behind the making of the docu-mentary, for which Neustadter won

a 2011 Emmy award for his original score.

“It occurred to me that if Muir were directing the film, he may have pre-ferred listening to the sound of trees,” Neustadter said. “I wanted to high-light the sections where music was not being used in addition to the places it was.”

The event, held at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ Kroon Hall, was hosted by Blocker and Peter Crane, dean of the environment school.

Tatge, who described herself as a “city person,” said that making a doc-umentary on Muir, an iconic nature lover, was particularly challenging.

“I think this film was really trans-formational for me,” Tatge said. “I have done films about the human spirit, love, hate and the question of God — but like so many people I am discon-

nected from nature. That’s what was so transformative about making this film. It really put me in touch.”

Tatge met Neustadter through their alma mater, Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. Knowing she wanted an original score for her documentary, Tatge called the dean of the school’s music conservatory to see if he had any recommendations.

With an extensive background in music composition, including a first-prize win in the 2007 Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Com-petition, Neustadster said working with Tatge presented a unique oppor-tunity, as composers often join the film process late in postproduction.

“I felt that the music was able to be incorporated much more organically and naturally with the edits,” Neus-tadter said. “[With this film] often the editor would actually ‘cut’ the film to the music, which is very unusual.”

Neustadter cited the “rustic, unde-fined quality” of 20th-century mod-ernist composer Charles Ives as a par-ticular influence. As Muir was born in Scotland, Neustadter said he also tried to incorporate Scottish themes into the score, which was recorded in Woolsey Hall last year with members of the Yale Philharmonia, a graduate ensemble orchestra.

Neustadter said that in his time studying composition at Yale, he has found support in developing his own style.

“One of the things that attracted me to Yale was how open they were in the composition department to embrac-ing different styles,” Neustadter said. “As teachers, rather than telling me how to compose, they help me find my own voice. That should be the goal for teachers.”

Currently, Neustadter is at work finishing a full orchestra score for a restoration of the 1925 silent film “The Circle.” He said he is also is collaborat-ing with fellow composer Daniel Wohl MUS ’12 in composing the score for “Tar,” a feature-length film starring James Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain.

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

THIS WEEKIN THE ARTS

12 P.M. WED. FEB. 22THE POLITICS OF P(A)LACE: ROYAL SPACE IN DOWNTOWN BANGKOK The Southeast Asia Studies Brown Bag Seminar Series presents Serhat Ünaldi, a doctoral candidate in Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. His dissertation, part-sociology part-architecture, will delve into the city building project that created today’s Bangkok — the world’s 17th tallest city in terms of skyscrapers.

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

12:15 P.M. WED. FEB. 22UNDERSTUDYING HAMLET: A LOOK INTO THE STUDIO PRACTICE OF EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY The worlds of visual art and theater collide in this event where the Yale University Art Gallery’s Cindy Schwarz will walk attendees through the gallery’s paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings by Edwin Austin Abbey — an American painter with a penchant for the Bard. Part of the Shakespeare at Yale series, the talk may elucidate a greater meaning in Act III, Scene ii of Hamlet.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

8 P.M. THURS. FEB. 23BETRAYAL Davenport College presents Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” — a play of love, lust, and backwards time. Katherine Latham ’12 directs the three-person cast through their adulterous journey that critic Roger Ebert said “strips away all artifice. It shows, heartlessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves.”

Davenport College, Davenport-Pierson Auditorium, 248 York St.

8 P.M. THURS. FEB. 23LICENSE TO TAP The opening night of Yale Taps’s newest show promises to o!er a rhythmic good time, complete with resplendent shoes and beats.

O! Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

ALL DAY FRI. FEB. 24THE TEMPEST Yale’s experimental theater company, The Control Group, present a “collaborative, physical, and installation based process of generating a show from the core and framework of Shakespeare’s text.” Come for the classic quips, stay for the inventive use of non-theater spaces in the conveyance of new and exciting meaning.

Payne Whitney Gymnasium, 70 Tower Pkwy., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP

7:30 P.M. FRI. FEB. 24ALICE IN WONDERJAM Undergraduate male a cappella group The Duke’s Men will sing,perform “zaney skits,” and do something called the “doox dance.” Expect throngs of screaming groupies and forced Lewis Carroll references.

Center Church on the Green Parrish House, 311 Temple St.

8 P.M. SAT. FEB. 25YALE PHILHARMONIA William Christie conducts the Yale Philharmonia and the new Yale Choral Artists in an exciting all-Handel concert.

Sprague Memorial Hall, Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St.

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“Theater is one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan … that conversation is almost impossible.” PAULA VOGEL AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT

‘Helvetica’ filmmaker refocuses on urban design

BY NATASHA THONDAVADISTAFF REPORTER

Since 2007, documentary film-maker Gary Hustwit has worked to inspire everyday people to care about design.

Monday evening at the School of Architecture, Hustwit pre-sented a screening of “Urbanized,” the final film in his well-known trilogy about the design process, released in 2011. While the first two films, 2007’s “Helvetica” and 2009’s “Objectified,” deal with the topics of graphic and indus-trial design, Hustwit’s latest film focuses on urban planning, a field central to the study of architec-ture at Yale. The screening filled Hastings Hall with a crowd that included architecture professors, graduate students and undergrad-uates, as well as other members of the Yale community interested in the structure of cities.

In “Urbanized,” Hustwit blends interviews of prominent mem-bers of the urban design field with visual footage of cities around the world accompanied by an original score. The film explores an ongo-ing debate regarding which mem-bers of a community should be responsible for designing cities: government o!cials, architects or the people at large. Hustwit said that by educating viewers about the ways in which urban archi-tecture can a"ect their daily lives, he hopes they can be both more appreciative and more critical of the urban planning process.

“I think the biggest takeaway for me is how much we as citizens need to be, should be and are not involved enough in the shaping of our cities,” Hustwit said. “I think the most interesting projects are the ones that are citizen-driven.”

For several of the undergradu-ates who came to see the film, the discussion of the urban design techniques with which govern-ments respond to their con-stituents’ desires was the most impressive part of the documen-tary. Many assume that urban design is a “top-down” process,

Jared Shenson ’12 said, but he felt that Hustwit showed that a cul-tural shift towards finding a mid-dle ground between city planners and individual citizens is already occurring.

Hustwit said he created the film with the intention of bringing architecture to a broader audience, hoping that it will find an audience among those not already involved in design. Hustwit included him-self in this group, explaining that in part, he made the film to learn more about the issue.

“It’s more valuable as a tool to show people who aren’t involved in design what all of these people do and how it a"ects them,” Hus-twit said.

Although the architects and architecture students present at the screening may already be familiar with many of the techni-cal details of urban design, three architecture professors inter-viewed said it was interesting to engage further in dialogue about urban issues.

“Urbanism is a very impor-tant part of the school,” School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said, adding that every graduate student enrolled in the school’s Master of Architecture I program is required to complete a studio course concentrating on an urban topic.

Stern added that while many undergraduate architecture stu-dents go on to work in urban plan-ning, most graduate students choose “traditional architectural fields.”

Still, several students, both in the architecture school and in other programs said the film inspired them think more seri-ously about getting involved with local or small-scale urban design projects. Elihu Rubin ’99, a polit-ical science and ethics, politics & economics professor, added that the film might motivate students to consider urban design or plan-ning professions.

“I thought the film gave a really positive and optimistic image of the role of urban designers and

planners,” Rubin said. “It didn’t make you feel like there are forces at play you can’t control.”

The first film in Hustwit’s Design Trilogy, “Helvetica,” was nominated for an Independent

Spirit “Truer Than Fiction” Award in 2008.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at

natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

BY ANDREW FREEBURGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Christina Anderson’s DRA ’11 “Good Goods,” in its world premiere at the Yale Repertory The-atre under the direction of Tina Landau ’84, is ambitious in its narrative scope. According to her program notes, Anderson has created a world with no definite geographical place or historical timing that is haunted by an ambigu-ous catastrophe. This ambition, though adroitly acted by a brilliant cast of six and served by a smart, creative sta", has a hard time standing on its own without the aid of those program notes.

The play is set in a non-specific Southern town, in a non-specific year between 1961 and 1994, and begins with no backstory provided. An “invasion,” referenced obliquely through-out the course of the play, has cut the charac-ters and their town o" from phone service but curiously still allows bus service and deliveries of goods to the general store. The only two dis-cernible landmarks in the town are the general store — named “Good Goods” after the owner’s last name — and a “pencil factory.” The factory, Anderson noted, is not necessarily a purveyor of pencils but instead “whatever you think it is.”

The themes of possession and materialism run rampant through the play: the store’s senior employee, Truth, is preternaturally concerned with theft; Stacey, the son of the original owner, wants to own the shop for himself; the other half of Stacey’s former comedy duo, Patricia, wants to own her own life; and Sunny, a vagabond who arrived on the bus with Patricia, becomes pos-sessed by the spirit of a recently-deceased fac-tory worker.

The interest of the play lies in the interplay between realism and the supernatural. The play begins in the realm of the real, but the logic of the play’s reality is not given su!cient explana-tion.

The nature of the mysterious “invasion,” how each character arrived back in town and the nature of their relationships are all hinted at, but never fully explained. To be clear: it isn’t the lack of explicit exposition that weakens the play, but

without any explanation, the arbitrary restric-tions on each character’s mobility and com-munication feel contrived. Even the specter of the factory, as open-ended as Anderson tries to keep it, looks false and plastic behind the fore-ground of the general store. As a result, the ele-ments of the supernatural that enter the world of the play feel cheapened.

Where Anderson’s script fails, the cast and crew succeed with aplomb. Landau, who co-authored a text explaining her theory of physical acting with director Anne Bogart in the late 70s, titled “The Viewpoints Book,” did brilliant work with her cast: The actors are truly phenomenal, especially considering that all six made their Rep debut with this show. Of note are the actors playing Sunny/Emeka and Hunter Priestess/Waymon (Angela Lewis and Oberon K.A. Adje-pong), who showed incredible agility in switch-ing between their two respective characters in scenes of spiritual possession. They embod-ied the nuances of the characters with such boldness and completeness that each moment of transformation was perfectly distinct and believable. Of course, this was to be expected — Landau literally wrote the book on the develop-ment of physical character.

The sharp changes in character and reality were well served by Scott Zielinski’s DRA ’90 lighting design, which created surreal breaks from reality through color and directionality. The timeless costumes of Toni-Leslie James kept the production connected to some sort of reality. Aside from the smoke-belching “fac-tory” in the background of the set created by James Schuette DRA ’89, the production was visually well-integrated and up to the Rep’s cus-tomarily high standards.

But in spite of the play’s great beauty, wide-ranging narrative and brilliant creative team, the objection remains: A play must communi-cate fully with its audience without the aid of its program notes. Especially in the case of main-stream theater, audience members should not have to contribute their own time and work to the research process — the production should stand on its own. Thus, rather than provoking thought with its loose ends, “Good Goods” only prompted questions that were ultimately left unanswered.

Contact ANDREW FREEBURG at andrew.freeburg@yale.edu .

‘Good Goods’ leaves questions unanswered

BY ANYA GRENIERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Opening today, the Yale Dra-matic Association’s spring mainstage production, “Trans-lations,” deals with language and the fate of those confronted by its loss.

Written by Irish playwright Brian Friel in 1980, the play takes place in a small Irish village in the 1830s that is in the midst of being forcibly Anglicized by occupying British troops. While taking on weighty themes, the show maintains a lighter appeal as well — as Dramat Presi-dent Meredith Davis ’13 said, “it’s very intellectual, but it’s a romance and it’s funny.”

In the ensuing culture clash

between the Irish and British, neither understands the oth-er’s native tongue, and the play centers around those characters caught between the two sides. New York-based director Lauren Keating said she was drawn in by the play’s themes of searching for home and community — and sometimes failing.

Keating said that trying to communicate and being unable to do so is a problem to which many theater artists can espe-cially relate.

Despite the universality of the play’s themes, it is also very spe-cific to a particular moment in Ireland’s past, said Edward Del-man ’12, who plays the part of the schoolmaster’s son Manus. He added that it was di!cult for

the cast to understand the con-sciousness of the time.

“It’s a challenge to under-stand where both Brian Friel and these characters are coming from,” Delman said.

Actors and designers worked together to make the produc-tion as authentic as possible, from costume and hair styles to set design. Keating said that by paying such close attention to detail, she hopes the show will convey that the Irish culture is at risk of being lost.

“We wanted to create a very cozy, communal environment, making it textured, to feel like we can touch it and hold it, and then show the loss of that,” Keating said.

Producer Yuvika Tolani ’14

said that from the beginning, the director sought to make the play a wholly immersive experience — even within the enormous space of the University Theatre. To draw the audience into the world of the show, Keating chose to move all of the action onto the first five feet of the actual stage and then build a custom stage extension.

Keating said that manipulat-ing the physical space of the the-ater is also a way of conveying the themes of the play. By not using the entirety of the stage and space until the very end of the play, the production shows a shift in the nature of the com-munity.

“At first we see these peo-ple, and they seem big, and their

world seems very small, and by the end of the play its the world that is very big and the people are very small,” Keating said.

Because language barriers play such a key role in the show, actors took lessons with a pro-fessional dialect coach. While all the actors speak English, Irish and British accents are meant to denote English and Gaelic respectively.

Four members of the cast and crew interviewed cited the accent training as the most chal-lenging part of the production.

“I thought I could do a Brit-ish accent before,” said Daniel Kovalcik ’15, who plays a British captain in the play. “[The dialect coach] went to each one of the actors and told us what we were

doing was completely wrong.” Adding to the challenge of

learning an accent, some actors have to transition seamlessly between proper British and heavily regional Irish accents within a scene.

Working alongside a team of outside designers gave all stu-dents involved a chance to expe-rience how the professional the-ater world works, Tolani said. As the Dramat’s mainstage pro-duction, she explained, “Trans-lations” involved working “on a scale that doesn’t exist any-where else in theater at Yale.”

Jamie Biondi ’12, who plays the part of the town’s school master, said that the opportu-nity to work with “high caliber” professionals has been a major

factor in his decision to act in mainstage productions all four years of his time at Yale.

The Dramat executive board selected Keating from among a pool of professional directors after what Davis described as “a pretty extensive interview pro-cess.” Keating, Davis said, came in with a clear enthusiasm for working with students, as well as a specific vision for the show.

“[Keating] is fabulous,” Del-man said. “She knows how to interact with actors and how to get the results that she wants.”

“Translations” will play at the University Theatre from Feb. 22-25.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

In ‘Translations,’ a language war

Vogel talks revival of Pulitzer-winning playBY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER

Chair of the Yale School of Dra-ma’s Playwriting Program and Yale Repertory Theatre playwright-in-residence Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulit-zer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” just reopened off Broadway on Feb. 13, marking the first time it has played in New York in 15 years. The current production is scheduled to run through March. On Monday, Vogel spoke with the News about the new production, her writing process and her teach-ing commitments at Yale.

Q Your prize-winning play, “How I Learned to Drive,” has just

been revived off Broadway — you must be excited about that.

A I’m pretty excited, yes. I’ve had a great time revisiting the

play and seeing it anew, but from a completely different perspective. There’s a different cast, different director and different designers this time around.

Q To what extent have you been involved in the new production?

A Very much so. I feel like every time a play is produced in

New York it is best to be involved, because there’s a national impact in terms of the opinions of New York theater reviewers.

Q “How I Learned to Drive” focuses on an incestuous and

pedophilic relationship between a young woman and her uncle…

A Can I stop you right there for a second? I talk about this a lot.

Everyone looks down at that char-acter as a pedophile, but what I wanted to do was examine the rela-tionship and look at how one sur-vives relationships like this. If one looks at the demographics, I think that probably four out of 10 people experienced inappropriate emo-tional relationships in their youth. So I prefer to think of this story as

a coming-of-age play, rather than [one of] incest and pedophilia.

Q What draws you to write about a sensitive subject matter like

that?

A I’m interested in looking at things that hurt us or harm us.

I like to look at things that soci-ety puts in a box with a label. And if it’s in a box we can’t really look at it. To me the focus of theater is to take something out of its box and look at it. If I asked you to describe “Lolita,” you would describe that as a book about a pedophile. Then you’d miss the entire journey of “Lolita.” I read Nabokov early in college and fell in love with that book. Nabokov made me feel empathy for a man that I would not have wanted to spend time with and whom I would have labeled and put into a box. Theater for me is to see if I can do something like that.

Q The new production has only been running for a week or so,

but how has the critical and public reception of the play been thus far?

A It’s been going extremely well. In fact, one of the things

I liked about it was that they gave us a long preview period, so we’ve actually been playing since Jan. 24. And, you know, if the ticket demands are high, I’m hoping we can extend the run.

Q You’ve described your writing style as “writing the play back-

wards.” What do you mean by that?

A I usually see an image or an event that is the turning point

of the play. Once I realize that that’s where I’m going, I can figure out how to start it. I have plays just sitting in my head — maybe 30 or 40 at a time — but when I see that moment, I can go backwards and write it.

Q Were drama and playwrit-ing something you were always

interested in?

A: Yes, since high school. I actu-ally fell in love with theater

and tried other things in theater, but I was no good at acting, so I started writing.

Q You helped develop a nation-ally recognized graduate the-

ater program at Brown, the Brown /Trinity Repertory Company Con-sortium. How did that come about?

A I got a very rare opportunity to run a program for playwrights.

I had spent my 25 years there pros-elytizing and advocating for writ-ers to have a stipend so they could write for two years, and towards the end, three years. It was my pas-sion. It’s as strong a passion as my own writing.

Q Are you teaching both graduate students and undergrads?

A I have in the past. But my teaching responsibilities now

are mainly for graduate students. Previously I taught a public class that was open to anyone in New Haven as well. I’d actually like my graduate students to teach under-grads, but Yale College has many interesting traditions and rituals — it’s pretty etched in stone. Right now, [some of] my graduate stu-dents, who have incredible expe-rience by the time they come here, are teaching undergraduates at Wesleyan.

Q Last summer, you announced you would step down from your

position at the end of this school

year. What prompted that decision?

A Well, time is short. I have wonderful opportunities set

in front of me — most recently one which will require me to spend months at a time in Philadel-phia. It’s not possible to keep up a schedule like that while being a full-time administrator at [the School of Drama]. I’m often given these opportunities that I can’t take. I was asked by the Slovenian embassy to come and show “How I Learned to Drive” in Slovenia, but I had to turn them down. I’m seeking a balance now where I can say yes to working with peer artists inter-nationally, and to new opportuni-ties for my own writing.

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

JOE CLARK

Released in 2011, “Urbanized” is the last in a trilogy of documentaries by filmmaker Gary Hustwit that focus on the design process.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Playwright Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” recently reopened o! Broadway.

ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Garth Neustadter MUS ’12 won an Emmy for his original score for “John Muir in the New World” in 2011.

Composing for an American naturalist

ZEENAT MANSOOR/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“Translations,” a three-act play written by Irish playwright Brian Friel, premiered in Derry, Northern Ireland in September 1980.

THEATER REVIEWGOOD GOODS

I was no good at acting, so I started writing.

PAULA VOGELPlaywright-in-residence, Yale Repertory

Theatre

BY LOIS LEESTAFF WRITER

Regular decision applicant Caro-line McCue — a senior at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, Md. — had put the University of Pennsylvania out of her mind temporarily until the end of March.

It came to her as a surprise, then, when she received an email on Friday that led her to a website containing a video and a “likely letter” welcoming her to Penn.

This weekend, the Penn Office of Admissions sent out about 230 nonath-letic likely letters, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.

Every year, Penn sends academic likely letters to students the University believes will be competitive in the applicant pools of peer institutions.

In particular, the O!ce of Admissions focused its likely campaign this year on students who expressed an interest in sci-ence, technology, engineering and math-ematics, as well as those with an interest in the arts.

“We’re going after some of the top aca-demic students, and within that, we’re making it more refined going after some subject areas and some geographic areas,” Furda said.

For her part, McCue had not known about the existence of these “ l i ke ly l e t te rs ” before she checked her inbox on Friday.

While McCue’s initial enthusiasm

for Penn had slowly dwindled after vis-iting campus last year because of accep-tance letters from other schools, Friday’s news changed the game.

“Penn wasn’t on the top of my radar, but I got the likely letter and now it’s shot right up to the top,” she said. “I’m really excited for Penn now.”

Last year, the Office of Admissions became one of the first colleges in the country to make use of a video to inform likely recipients, in place of a physical let-ter.

This year, Penn expanded its likely e"orts even further.

Helped by the student-run Admissions Dean’s Advisory Board, Penn created sev-eral di"erent videos — targeted at stu-dents, families and high-school counsel-ors — as part of this year’s campaign.

The admissions office has also been working with ADAB to begin a pilot pro-

gram that pairs likely letter recipients with student leaders on Penn’s campus.

“Based on the feedback we got from the likely students last year, we really addressed the questions ‘Why likely, why Penn, why me?’ through the video, hope-fully in a high-energy way,” Furda said.

Je"rey Durso-Finley — director of col-lege counseling at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J. — said the online explanation of likely letters that Penn provided to students to this year was “incredibly helpful.”

Many students, like McCue, may not know what a likely letter is, and thus may not know what to think upon receiving one, he said.

“Historically, it’s been a problem when they get a letter before the o!cial date and they get confused,” he said. “Having the information coming directly from the admissions o!ce will provide that confi-dence and that assurance that the letter is what it says it is.”

Michael Goran — a 1976 Penn gradu-ate and founder of IvySelect College Con-sulting — said Penn’s unique approach to likely letters may have a positive e"ect on students’ decisions.

“Any time you can do something to personalize the experience to say ‘we really want you,’ it’s obviously very flat-tering and it engenders good feelings,” he said.

However, Furda acknowledged that yield rates — the percentage of admitted students who decide to matriculate — are the most obvious and quantifiable mea-sure of the likely letter campaign’s suc-cess.

While the overall yield for the class of 2015 was 63 percent, the matriculation rate among likely letter recipients was significantly lower, coming in at around 30 percent.

Furda said this gap is to be expected.“You’re going after a cohort of students

who are going to have options,” he said. “Hopefully this does produce some tan-gible results. At the end of it, that’s what we’re going for.”

Regular decision applicant Colton Welch — a senior at West Lincoln High School in Brookhaven, Miss. — said receiving a likely letter this weekend has made him more interested in Penn.

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“If people put things on websites and make them available to everybody, of course the NYPD is going to look at anything that’s pub-licly available.” MICHAEL BLOOMBERG NEW YORK CITY MAYOR

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Harvard Muslims criticize NYPDBY NATHALIE MIRAVAL AND

REBECCA ROBBINSSTAFF WRITERS

Members of Harvard’s Islamic community expressed dismay over the Associated Press news report released Saturday stating that the New York Police Depart-ment had monitored the activities of Muslim students and professors in at least 16 colleges in the North-east, including three Ivy League schools. Harvard was not specifi-cally mentioned in the report.

The investigations, which took place primarily in 2006 and 2007, ranged from questioning local law enforcement o!cials about pro-fessors at the University of Bu"alo to sending an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip attended by Muslim students studying at the City College of New York.

One secret NYPD document dated Nov. 22, 2006 and obtained by the AP states that an under-cover o!cer visited gatherings of Muslim student groups at Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania and also monitored the groups’ websites, blogs and forums. The o!cer reported find-ing “no significant information.”

In defense of the NYPD’s sur-veillance program, police spokes-person Paul Browne told the AP that 12 individuals have been either arrested or convicted on terrorism charges in the United States who previously partici-pated in Muslim student groups.

Although Browne told the AP that the investigations at univer-sities concluded in 2007, the AP reports that documents indicate that the surveillance continued beyond that point.

Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, said he was not sur-prised by the AP’s report because of “the culture of fear that has come to characterize the contem-porary American political scene — particularly the fear of Islam and of Muslims.”

Ana R. Nast ’12, p r e s i d e n t of the Har-vard Islamic S o c i e t y (HIS), said t h a t s h e b e l i e v e s

that the NYPD’s actions violated Muslim students’ and professors’ rights to privacy.

But she added that “it’s encour-aging to see that the amount of support that the Muslim commu-nity receives” in response to what she perceives as inappropriately increased surveillance.

Muneeb Ahmed ’14, director of external relations for HIS, said he was concerned by the NYPD’s investigation and said that it pro-motes an already troubling stereo-type.

“These are hardworking col-lege students,” Ahmed said. “The NYPD should not be wasting its resources in this way.” Asmaa Rimawi ’14, vice president of HIS, echoed her fellow HIS members, calling the NYPD’s actions “a huge setback.”

Rimawi said that she hopes HIS will be able to work with Univer-sity administrators to maintain an environment that supports the rights of Muslim student groups.

According to group leaders, the HIS fosters a religious and social community on campus with events including biweekly dinners, group discussions and Islamic Awareness Week in the spring semester.

The group has no political or ideological agenda, Ahmed said.

Asani, who is also the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, sug-gested that Harvard should “take all steps to make sure that the civil liberties and freedom of expres-sion of not only Muslim students but also Muslim faculty will be protected.” University adminis-trators could not be reached for comment on the AP’s report.

T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y LVA N I A N

Penn targets prospective students

HARVARD

PENN OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS

Penn hopes that likely letters to its most competitive applicants will heighten their interest in the school.

PENN

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ON CAMPUSTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 235:00 P.M. “‘Save Our Children’: Gay Rights, Conservative Politics, and Racial Conflict in the 1970s.” Gillian Frank, a postdoctoral fellow at Stony Brook University, will speak. Sponsored by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 211.

8:00 P.M. “Good Goods.” The Yale Repertory Theatre presents Christina Anderson’s production of “Good Goods.” Directed by Tina Landau ’84. Tickets can be purchased at www.yalerep.org. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2411:00 A.M. “Can Animals be Moral?” The Program in Agrarian Studies presents this lecture by University of Miami philosophy professor Mark Rowlands. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Room B012.

8:00 P.M. Yale TAPS presents: “License to Tap.” TAPS, Yale’s only all-tap dancing group, is putting on its winter show. The program will feature everything from Broadway-style tap to clog-inspired dancing, from the Beatles to Missy Elliott and more. Reserve free tickets at yaledramacoalition.org/taps2012. O!-Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 257:30 PM The Haven String Quartet Presents “Out of Africa, Into Europe.” Steve Reich is widely regarded as the greatest living American composer, and that distinction is largely credited to his 1988 masterpiece “Di!erent Trains.” Composed for string quartet and prerecorded tape, “Di!erent Trains” relies on recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors as a melodic base for the composition. Join the Haven String Quartet for a rare performance of this masterpiece along with original string quartets by African composers Kevin Volans and Justinian Tamuzuza. The Unitarian Society of New Haven (700 Hartford Turnpike).

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BY CHARLES BABINGTONASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX — A surging Rick Santorum is making increas-ingly harsh remarks about Presi-dent Barack Obama, questioning not just the president’s compe-tence but his motives and even his Christian values.

Mitt Romney also is sharpen-ing his anti-Obama rhetoric. He said Tuesday the president gov-erns with “a secular agenda” that hurts religious freedom. In gen-eral, however, the former Mas-sachusetts governor has not seriously challenged Obama’s motives, often saying the presi-dent is decent but inept.

But Santorum and Newt Gin-grich have heightened their claims that Obama’s intentions are not always benign, ahead of Wednesday’s televised GOP presidential debate and next week’s primaries in Michigan and Arizona.

Santorum, the former Penn-sylvania senator who suddenly is threatening Romney in his

native state of Michigan, says Obama cares only about power, not the “interests of people.” He says “Obamacare,” the health care overhaul Obama enacted, includes a “hidden message” about the president’s disre-gard for impaired fetuses, which might be aborted.

Santorum even seemed to compare Obama to Adolf Hit-ler, although he denies trying to do so.

Santorum’s remarks have gotten only scattered atten-tion because he weaves them into long, sometimes rambling speeches. Romney’s team is monitoring Santorum’s com-ments, privately suggesting they could hurt him in a general elec-tion.

But it’s difficult for Romney to openly criticize Santorum on these points because Romney already has trouble appealing to the party’s socially conserva-tive base. Santorum’s remarks could come up in Wednesday’s debate in Mesa, Ariz., sponsored by CNN.

Gingrich, campaigning Mon-day in Oklahoma, called Obama “the most dangerous presi-dent in modern American his-tory.” Gingrich said the admin-istration’s “willful dishonesty” about alleged terrorists’ motives threatens the country.

Gingrich has long been known for over-the-top rhetoric, and Santorum’s rapid rise in the polls has drawn much of the cam-paign’s focus away from the for-mer House speaker.

Some of Santorum’s remarks echo attacks on Obama during the 2008 presidential race, when critics portrayed him as a mys-terious politician with hidden motives and questionable alle-giance to the United States.

White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Tuesday to get drawn into a point-by-point rebuttal of Santorum’s comments. He said Obama “is focused on his job as president, getting this country moving in the right direction, ensuring that the recovery, which is under way, continues forward.”

Santorum blasts Obama on abortion

BY MARK SHERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is setting an election-season review of racial preference in college admissions, agreeing Tuesday to consider new limits on the con-tentious issue of a!rmative action programs.

A challenge from a white student who was denied admission to the University of Texas flagship campus will be the high court’s first look at a!rmative action in higher education since its 2003 decision endorsing the use of race as a factor.

This time around, a more conservative court could jettison that earlier ruling or at least limit when colleges may take account of race in admissions.

In a term already filled with health care, immigration and political redistricting, the justices won’t hear the a!rmative action case until the fall.

But the political calendar will still add drama. Arguments probably will take place in the final days of the presidential election campaign.

A broad ruling in favor of the student, Abi-gail Fisher, could threaten a!rmative action programs at many of the nation’s public and private universities, said Vanderbilt Univer-sity law professor Brian Fitzpatrick.

A federal appeals court upheld the Texas program at issue, saying it was allowed under the high court’s decision in Grutter vs. Bol-linger in 2003 that upheld racial consider-ations in university admissions at the Univer-sity of Michigan Law School.

But there have been changes in the Supreme Court since then. For one thing, Justice Samuel Alito appears more hostile to a!rmative action than his predecessor, San-dra Day O’Connor. For another, Justice Elena Kagan, who might be expected to vote with the court’s liberal-leaning justices in support of it, is not taking part in the case.

Justices to review racial

preference

BY ZEINA KARAMASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Food and water are running dangerously low in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, with frantic cries for help from resi-dents amid government shelling that pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people Tues-day, activists said.

Shells reportedly rained down on rebellious districts at a rate of 10 per minute at one point and the Red Cross called for a daily two-hour cease-fire so that it can deliver

emergency aid to the wounded and sick.

“If they don’t die in the shell-ing, they will die of hunger,” activ-ist and resident Omar Shaker told The Associated Press after hours of intense shelling concentrated on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr that the opposition has extolled as a symbol of their 11-month uprising against Presi-dent Bashar Assad’s regime.

Another 33 people were killed in northern Syria’s mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya region when government forces raided a town in pursuit of

regime opponents, raising Tues-day’s overall death toll to 63, activ-ists said. The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group, said more than 100 were killed Tuesday, but the report could not immediately be confirmed by oth-ers.

Russia, one of Assad’s remain-ing allies, urged the United Nations to send a special envoy to Syria to help coordinate security issues and delivery of humanitarian assis-tance.

Assad’s forces showed no sign of easing their assault on Homs, Syr-

ia’s third-largest city, whose defi-ance has become an embarrassing counterpoint to the regime’s insis-tence that the opposition is mostly armed factions with limited public support.

The rebel defenses in Homs are believed to be bolstered by hun-dreds of military defectors, which has possibly complicated attempts by Syrian troops to stage an o"en-sive. On Monday, reinforcements of Syrian tanks and soldiers massed outside the city in what could be a prelude to a ground attack.

Dozens killed in Syria; Red Cross urges cease-fire

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, Feb. 19.

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Theo Epstein ’95 compensation decidedThe Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox settled a four-month dispute on Tuessday over what Boston should receive as compensation for Epstein’s departure for Chicago. In exchange for Epstein — who won two World Series trophies as general manager of the Red Sox — and a player to be named later, Chicago will send reliever Chris Carpenter and a player to be named later to Boston.

Mahony balances premed and laxning on walking on… It wasn’t until my senior year when I was about to graduate that we played a team from New York and the assistant coach was good friends with the assistant coach of our [Yale] team. They called me when I was just about to graduate and had already put down my deposit together for a di!erent school to not play a sport. And they called me and said, “Listen, if you want to come to Yale, take a year o! and apply again.” And so I did that, and that’s why I’m here.

Q What did you do in your year o!?

A I played [lacrosse] in Canada before I came to Yale. They do

have field lacrosse, but everyone plays box lacrosse. It’s the same equipment but in a hockey rink where they shave o! all the ice so it’s a lot more phys-ical and a lot less space. So you need a completely di!erent skill set. … I went out there, got bruised and bat-tered. And then I came to Yale. It wasn’t the most culturally enriching thing, but I definitely got a lot better at lacrosse.

Q How has the team changed since your first season?

A Our group of seniors, we’ve been on both ends of the spectrum.

When we were freshmen, we [the team] were lacking out on the field and in leadership areas, and then the very next year we went around and took the Ivy League title. Within one year we had seen what it meant to win and lose games, and then took the positive attitude that is takes to win. We’ve had four years of seeing

the team’s attitude get progressively better and better, and so as seniors we try to convey that attitude and those emotions to the other guys and hope that they can continue that trend. No one likes to lose.

Q How do you balance being pre-med and playing lacrosse?

A I knew that I wanted to do some-thing in health care … and play-

ing a sport just keeps my day so struc-tured, I don’t really have the time to sit down and do nothing. When you have something always happening, you’re always on a constant sched-ule. It’s really helped me get through classes because I get in a working mode and can’t really get out of it. Grades go up a little bit, which is sur-prising to a lot of people, and I just function a lot better when I’m busy.

Q What are your plans for the future? Do you intend to play lacrosse pro-

fessionally?

A I haven’t taken my MCAT yet, and I’ll be doing a year of

research, hopefully in a clinical cen-ter or a hospital. And the way draft-ing works, the rosters on the teams are small, so I still have to try out and the chances are slim. But hey, if they [the Boston Cannons] really want me, I’d do it. I’d be one of the two people ever to be drafted from my home state, and so we’d be the first two professional players from Washington if we both make it. I think that’d be really cool.

Q Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

A I just hope that I’m in a posi-tion where people need me, and

I’m not just travestying through life.

I’ll be a position where I can make my own decisions and hopefully impact people.

Q What has been one of your best games in your Yale career?

A It was last year when we played Princeton. Yale historically has

had a tough time with Princeton, and its senior class is one of the top-ranked recruiting classes in the coun-try. Even though we had done very well, it’s always been that the Prince-ton players get all the preseason hype. It’s nice to beat a team that has got-ten all that and accolades, and to just tell them that we’ve been flying under the radar, but we’re still better than you. I remember taking a lap around the field and one of the kids saying, “You haven’t beat us and you guys will never beat us,” and then we beat them [8–7 in overtime]. It was a great game.

Q What do you like about the team? How does it di!er from other col-

lege teams?

A We recently had a preseason scrimmage, and one of the

coaches said something along the lines that we were “small in stature but deceptively physical.” I think that says a lot about us: We may not be the big time recruits or the big-time ath-letes, but we’re a bunch of guys who put everything on the line and scrap and play. In that sense we’re all the same, and I think that’s why we get along so well. We’re scrappy little fighters.

Contact HANNA MORIKAMI at hanna.morikami@yale.edu .

Elis aim to place at Ivies

The championship meet is also scored di!erently than a regular dual meet. The top 24 swimmers score points at the Ivies, while only the top five swimmers count towards a team’s score during the regular season. Since so many swimmers have the potential to score, it is not enough to place first, Albrecht said, swimmers in all posi-tions matter.

While the main focus is on the team, there is also an individual com-ponent to the meet. If their times are fast enough, swimmers may qualify for the NCAA championships in mid March. Although swimmers can qual-ify throughout the year, qualification usually happens at the Ivy champion-ships, since swimmers are rested and

performing to the best of their abili-ties. Last year, no one on Yale’s wom-en’s team qualified for NCAA tourna-ment, and in 2010, only two swimmers qualified.

But this year, the team hopes indi-viduals such as Alexandra Forrester ’13 will qualify, and that one of their relays will also make the cut, sending four more Yalies to the tournament, Hyde said. The team has the best chance to qualify in the 400-yard and 800-yard freestyle relays, she added.

The NCAA championships will take place March 15-17 in Auburn, Ala., after the NCAA zone diving meet from March 9 to 11 in Bu!alo, N.Y.

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

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The women’s swimming and diving team hopes that some of its members will qualify for the NCAA championships at the upcoming Ivy League championships.

ingness to be average, and a willing-ness to commit to something other than excellence. Speaking as someone who loves and takes great pride in this school: that is absolutely unacceptable on any front.

Things wouldn’t be easy even without the extra restraints. Building a highly-competitive program in the only league in Division I that can’t give scholarships has always been challenging. League sanctions aimed at preserving academic excellence make things even harder, and Yale’s added restrictions will eventually leave the Bulldogs battling to stay afloat in Division I. This approach to athlet-ics also suggests that we know some-thing people at seven of the most pres-tigious universities in the country don’t. The academic prestige of Harvard and Princeton certainly hasn’t dropped o! with the growth and these institutions’ e!orts to let their athletics departments flourish in recent years. In fact (and it really does sting to say it), according to those oh-so-infallible U.S. News rank-ings, their academic prestige has sur-passed our own.

Yale prides itself on being one of the nation’s best across the board. Not just in academics, but also in our newspaper, our arts, our music, our debate teams, our libraries, our faculty, our tradition. No one at Yale comes here to be aver-age. No one at Yale got here by com-mitting him or herself to anything but excellence. So why is the one exception athletics?

I won’t be drawn into answering that question. That argument has been waged several times, and regardless of the perspective, it’s always hopelessly polarizing. All I will say (at least this week … ) is that the administration’s dis-trust in the people they’ve put in charge of the Athletics Department to choose student athletes deserving of being here and willing to contribute positively to the Yale community reflects on the abilities of no one but the administrators them-selves.

In my opinion and experience, the people the administration has in place in that regard do recruit wisely and tire-lessly: they put countless hours and log countless miles in doing so. The fact that Yale athletes are accomplishing the Her-culean task of overcoming their com-parative disadvantage while maintaining high standards academically is evidence enough of their e!orts.

Don’t try to throw the “reducing the number of recruited athletes means you’ll get people who just love the sport” argument at me either. Yale athletes — and Ivy Leaguers in general — can’t earn scholarships. They come to play here because they love the game and want to be challenged academically too. If an

athlete wants to go somewhere where they can mess around for four years and grab a diploma, they can pick somewhere easier and cheaper to do it than Yale (and somewhere cooler than New Haven — let’s be honest). Similarly, if a recruited athlete decides to abandon ambition and mishandles him or herself, he or she is a) a rare exception in the athletic commu-nity and b) wouldn’t be unique amongst members of all groups across the Yale student body in doing so. I can say with relative certainty that the majority of the Yale athlete population is highly focused on success on the field and o! it. No one comes to Yale to play and get famous. There are no motives other than high-quality athletics and high-qual-ity academics: the same “excellent-all-around” appeal that draws the nation’s best and brightest in everything to New Haven.

Harvard beat up on us a bit this year. I’m confident we’ll reverse that trend next year, but doing so is going to get tougher and tougher. Yale’s prestige will su!er; our reputation for haughty elitism will harden, and the honor and privilege of being involved in the most prestigious rivalry in all of college sports will soon devolve into an embarrassingly one-sided token matchup, if that. We can be amongst the best and are choosing not to be. Anyone that is willing to let any department that represents this school be anything less than the best it can be is losing sight of everything Yale stands for. We (not athletes, not sports fans, but everyone who loves Yale) deserve better.

Passion for such success aside, and however much Yale athletes are trained to not make excuses and work with what they’ve got, University restrictions are eventually going to make staying com-petitive in an increasingly-ambitious Ivy League impossible. End of story. And end of a storied tradition.

Contact CHELSEA JANES at chelsea.janes@yale.edu .

Administration dooming athleticsCOLUMN FROM PAGE 14

MAHONY FROM PAGE 14

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BY BRIAN MAHONEYASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony briefly had what now belongs to Jer-emy Lin.

Madison Square Garden shook when he was announced. Fans lined up to buy his jerseys, chanted his name, delighted in having the New York native back in the city.

The happy homecoming hasn’t lasted.

The Knicks are a sub.-500 team in the year since Anthony’s celebrated trade from Denver, and the New York Post even wrote Tuesday that the Knicks should try to deal him to the Lakers for Pau Gasol.

Still popular, Anthony is no longer beloved. Fans appreciate his talents but question whether they translate to victories, writing on Twitter they feared he’d mess things up once he returned from injury to play with Lin.

Anthony tried to laugh that off, but the truth is he craves the popu-larity of Lin, an underdog success story whom Anthony compared to Rudy.

“I don’t see why fans (would) not like me. I don’t say I wouldn’t care, I don’t care, because I do care if fans like me or not. But at the end of the day I’m here to do one thing and that’s to win basketball games,” he said last week. “If people don’t like it, then they don’t like it. I move on, I go on.”

The problem for Anthony is he isn’t winning enough games.

The Knicks were 14-14 after acquiring him on Feb. 22, 2011, after going 28-26 before his arrival. They are 16-17 this season, but 6-4 with-out Anthony.

Meanwhile, Lin is the winner, leading the Knicks to an 8-2 record since earning his first meaningful minutes in a victory over the Nets on Feb. 4. Anthony strained his right groin two nights later and missed the next seven games while the o!ense emerged from what had been a sea-son-long funk.

The better they looked without Anthony, the more people specu-lated that Anthony, despite being the Knicks’ leading scorer, had been the problem all along.

One person tweeted on Feb. 12 that he wondered if Anthony “knows or cares how terrified Knicks fans are about his return.”

Yes, Anthony was aware. And yes, turns out they had reason to worry.

The Knicks lost 100-92 to New Jersey on Monday, as a rusty Anthony shot only 4 for 11 from the field for 11 points. He said afterward he was try-ing to play as the Knicks did during the previous two weeks and reiter-ated his belief in Lin’s ability to run the team.

“I want Jeremy to have the ball. Hands down. I want him to create for me. I want him to create for Amare (Stoudemire). I want him to create for everybody and still be as aggressive as he’s been over the past two weeks. I want that,” Anthony said.

“There’s going to be times I have the ball during the pick-and-roll sit-uations, being a distributor, trying to be aggressive. But for the most part, I want Jeremy having the ball in his hands.”

Anthony was greeted with a loud cheer Monday, maybe even louder than Lin’s. He was voted by fans to start the All-Star game — though the TNT analysts announcing the picks unanimously said he was undeserv-ing — so he’s still got a huge follow-ing. He thanked his fans Tuesday with a message on Twitter.

“Big shout to all my fans and the (Knicks) fans as well,” he wrote. “It’s been 1yr. Wow!!!!!!”

Still, it’s fallen short of hopes.He wore a huge grin throughout

his Feb. 23 debut Milwaukee, when the words “I was born in Brooklyn, New York” played across the over-head video board to a raucous ova-tion before he scored 27 points in a victory. He doesn’t flash it nearly as often now in a frustrating season in which he’s battled an assortment of injuries.

The Knicks paid an enormous price to get Anthony, surrender-ing starters Danilo Gallinari, Ray-mond Felton, Timofey Mozgov and top reserve Wilson Chandler, and that’s created expectations that are nearly impossible to meet. He could have waited and joined the Knicks as a free agent with their core intact, and those holding that against him

are likely the ones behind the occa-sional groaning at the Garden when Anthony launches an ill-advised shot.

Lin, on the other hand, was a sim-ple waiver pickup who had already been cut twice this season, the type of guy that’s easy to love.

The undrafted Harvard guard has downplayed concerns of his ability to play with Anthony, noting Monday was also the debut of Baron Davis and the second game with J.R. Smith.

“We’re not in panic mode, because it doesn’t just work where all of sud-den people show up and you have great chemistry,” Lin said. “So we’re going to have to work through some struggles, so as long as we’re all com-mitted and buying in, we’ll be fine.”

D’Antoni and Stoudemire have also used the “buying in” term, and though nobody has ever said so, the hunch is always that they’re talk-ing specifically about Anthony. D’Antoni’s offense flows best with quick ball movement and unselfish play, and Anthony’s preference has also been to isolate and hold the ball before trying to take his man 1-on-1.

Anthony has had moments of bril-liance with the Knicks, such as his 42-point, 17-rebound Game 2 per-formance against Boston in the play-o!s. His 20 game-winning or tying baskets with under 10 seconds left are second among active players to Kobe Bryant’s 22, so the Knicks need him on the floor no matter what this season’s results have been.

Extra practice time around the All-Star break should allow Lin and Anthony to develop cohesion, and eventually New York’s two most popular players might be just as pro-ductive.

Anthony faces N.Y. doubts

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As athletics transitions into spring sports, Yale is in the middle of a much more wide-sweeping, and more weighty transition.

This transition extends further back even than the past decade. It is predominantly out of the con-trol of anyone within the Athlet-ics Department, and it has me, for one, very concerned: a transition to mediocrity.

Soon, even our best year ever will no longer stack up with ancient rival Harvard’s norm, nor Princeton’s, nor that of the rest of the Ivy League.

Grab your tickets to that 2025 Yale vs. Southwestern Connecti-cut State Division III rivalry show-down now, because that’s where we’re headed.

And it’s no secret why.Since the 1993-1994 academic

year, Yale has won 51 Ivy League titles. In that time, only Columbia at 33 and Dartmouth with 39 have claimed fewer. That year coin-cides with the start of a move by Yale University administration to reduce the number of recruited student-athletes. According to a Sept. 2010 interview with Uni-versity President Richard Levin in the Yale Alumni Magazine, the Levin administration has reduced the number of recruited athletes from 17 percent of the Yale’s stu-dent body to 13 percent. Levin told the magazine he wants that num-ber to go down even more. For those few slots Yale coaches are allotted for athletes, recruiting gets harder and harder as coaches’ hands are tied not only with strin-gent restrictions, but also by the obvious gap in Yale’s commitment to support its athletes when com-pared with other schools. Sim-ply put, it won’t be long before we don’t stand a chance.

I am a huge believer in the power of work ethic: recruit hard enough, coach hard enough, work hard enough as athletes and you can compete no matter what. And that’s exactly what the Yale Athletics Department has been doing — to the tune of one of our best years ever and seven Ivy titles in 2010-11. We even bested the Crimson’s total of five titles last year. But that was the first time since 1993 that we’ve outdone Harvard in the Ivy title category and only the fourth time since 1993 that Yale has been in the top three in Ivy League titles in a sea-son.

I see no better future for Yale in the decision to drive one of the most storied Athletics Depart-ments in American history into the ground. I see a willingness to accept less than the best, a will-

THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM, OUT OF A ROSTER OF 41 PLAYERS, WHO ARE NOT FROM THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. Gregory Mahony ’12, a resident of Mercer Island, Washington and a midfielder on the lacrosse team, is one of those players.

STAT OF THE DAY 8

“We’re a bunch of guys who put everything on the line and scrap and play...we’re scrappy lit-tle fighters.

GREGORY MAHONY ’12MIDFIELDER, M. LACROSSE

KENNY AGOSTINO ’14ECAC HOCKEY PLAYER OF THE WEEKAgostino, a forward on the men’s hockey team, earned player of the week follow-ing his three goals and two assists in Yale’s wins against Dartmouth and Har-vard last weekend. Agostino averages .52 goals per game and has scored 13 goals so far this season.

MORGAN TRAINA ’15ECAC ROOKIE OF THE WEEKTraina, a member of the gymnastics team, received rookie of the week hon-ors from the ECAC for the third week in a row. This past weekend against SCSU, Traina earned first place in beam with a score of 9.775. The team had a season-high score of 190.85.

NBACleveland 101Detroit 100

NHLEdmonton 6Calgary 1

SOCCERNapoli 3Chelsea 1

NBAMiami 120Sacramento 108

NCAA BBMichigan 67Northwestern 55

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CHELSEAJANES

A transition to medioc-

rity

Elis aim to place at Ivies

MONICA DISARESTAFF REPORTER

The women’s swimming and diving team has trained all year for the tomor-row’s meet: the Ivy League champion-ships.

From Feb. 23-25, the Ancient Eight will face o! in Cambridge, Mass. Yale is one of the only Ivy teams that has not rested for any other meet this sea-son, and the Elis hope their two-week tapering period will shed seconds o! their times this weekend. Yale’s goal is to place in the top three.

“We’ve been training so hard for so long, we’re all really excited to come together as a team,” Hayes Hyde ’12, who specializes in butterfly and free-style, said.

This is the first meet this season the team will swim fully rested. The Bull-

dogs began tapering on Feb. 10, the day before the Brown meet. During taper, the team has lighter workouts. While a normal in-season practice consists of swimming about 5,500 yards, during tapering period the team swims only about 2,000-2,500 yards, Athena Liao ’12 said in an email. Swimmers also try to use the stairs less, walk less and gen-erally minimize their physical activity outside of the pool.

The is to produce significantly improved times at Ivy League Cham-pionships, the only meet for which Yale’s team rests. In a 200-yard race, for example, swimmers may be able to drop anywhere from two to eight sec-onds o! their time, Molly Albrecht ’13 said. Hayes Hyde said she expects to drop about six or seven seconds o! of some of her race times.

The Bulldogs hope improved times

will be enough to place them in the top three in the Ivy League. The team is

projected to place somewhere between third and fifth, Albrecht said, add-ing that the team would not frown at a third place finish.

“Third is definitely within our reach,” team captain Rachel Rosenberg ’12 said. “It would take every member of the team to step up and perform to the top of their ability.”

The meet’s structure may help the Elis reach their goal. Teams are only allowed to bring their top 18 swimmers (divers count as a third of a spot) to Ivy League Championships. At regular dual meets, teams are allowed to bring their entire squad. A lack of man power is usually a disadvantage, Hyde said, because swimmers on small teams must compete in more events than swimmers on large teams. But since the cap on swimmers makes all teams the same size at Ivies, it helps “level the playing field” for smaller teams such as Yale’s, Hyde said.

BRIANNE BOWEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After nearly two weeks of tapering, the women’s swimming and diving team will compete fully rested in the Ivy League championships Feb. 23-25.

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Third is definitely within our reach. It would take every member of the team to step up and perform to the top of their ability.

RACHEL ROSENBERG ’12Captain, women’s swimmming and diving

BY HANNA MORIKAMICONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Of all the talented lacrosse players in the nation, very few hail from the West Coast. But the men’s lacrosse team picked up a prize in Washington-native midfielder Gregory Mahony ’12. Mahony is a two-time All-Ivy and All-New England selection. In January, he was picked in the 2012 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft by the Boston Cannons. Most recently, last week he was named a candi-date for the national Lowe’s and Tewaaraton awards — two distinctions handed to the top lacrosse player in the country. The history of science and medicine major and pre-med has been a core contributor for the Bulldogs, who enter this season ranked 13th nationally in the Inside Lacrosse poll. The News sat down with Mahony to ask him about his experience play-ing lacrosse at Yale and his future prospects.

Q When did you start playing lacrosse?

A I actually didn’t start until the eighth grade, which surprises a lot of peo-

ple since a lot of college recruits start around third grade and have sticks in their hands their whole life. I was really into soccer, and I was a really big baseball player, and I was play-ing sports so much and I got burned out. My brother saw some kids playing [lacrosse] so I

just followed them to practice. Turns out, we were pretty good at it. We liked it, stuck with it and dropped our other sports to play lacrosse.

Q Did you imagine yourself playing in col-lege?

A I have a pretty interesting recruiting story, not anything mainstream by any stan-

dard. I played football in high school and also played lacrosse, and I knew I wanted to play in college, and didn’t want to sit around. I had been an athlete my whole life and sports kept me going and kept me busy. I was looking at random Division III schools, and I had talked to a couple of Division I coaches for sports, and no one really showed much interest in me playing either sport in college. I was plan- YDN

Midfielder Gregory Mahony ’12 was second-team All-Ivy and first-team All-New England last season. SEE MAHONY PAGE 13

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I have a pretty interesting recruiting story, not anything mainstream by any standard. I played football in high school and also played lacrosse.

GREGORY MAHONY ’12Midfielder, men’s lacrosse

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YALE NEEDS TO COMMIT

TO SUCCESFUL ATHLETICS.