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BY NICOLE NAREA AND JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTERS

John Darnell, chair of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, announced his one-year sus-

pension from the Yale faculty in a department-wide email Tues-day, explaining that he had vio-lated University policy by main-taining an intimate relationship with a student and a professor under his review — infractions

that sources said were an open secret within the department.

Four individuals with close ties to the department told the News that Darnell’s policy vio-lations involve NELC assis-tant professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05, who was his student as both an under-graduate and doctoral can-didate. The relationship was

common knowledge within the department, the sources said, and three sources confirmed that Darnell and Manassa, who are both professors within the Egyptology subdivision of the department, have had roman-tic relations at least since when Manassa was a graduate stu-dent.

Professors, students and alumni declined to be quoted

due to the small size of the department, which currently has 10 professors, includ-ing Darnell, and 21 gradu-ate students. Darnell, who will retain tenure at the Univer-sity throughout his suspension, did not respond to multiple requests for comment last week. Manassa declined to comment

MEN’S BASKETBALLThe Bulldogs boasted a 3–4 record over break, including a 104–39 winPAGE 12 SPORTS

CITY HALLMARIOTTI STEPS INTO ROLE AS NEW SPOKESWOMANPAGE 5 CITY

ADMISSIONSYale welcomed a record 14.4 percent of early applicants in DecemberPAGE 3 NEWS

WINTER BREAKPHOTOGRAPHERS CELEBRATE 2012PAGE 7 THROUGH THE LENS

Welcome back! It’s been three weeks, but it feels like three years. Shop ’til you drop, and don’t forget to register with your college’s dean’s o!ce today to avoid that $50 fine.

From Bulldog blue to red carpet. Yale alums graced the 70th annual Golden Globes last night as Jodie Foster ’85 won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Allison Williams ’10 took the stage when HBO’s “Girls” won best comedy series. Even former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 made a special guest appearance, introducing “Lincoln.” After Clinton’s remarks, Amy Poehler exclaimed, “That was Hillary Clinton’s husband!”

Do you want candy? Then skip to Toad’s. Teenage singing sensation Aaron Carter, known for his popular song “I Want Candy,” will be performing at Toad’s next month. Looks like all roads really do lead to Toad’s.

Phi Beta Kappa inducts 71 students. Honor society Phi Beta Kappa inducted 13 juniors and 58 seniors at the end of the fall semester. Admission is determined by the percentage of straight-A grades earned in college coursework, and no more than 10 percent of the graduating class may be elected in total.

Need help shopping? Two Yalies have launched a new website, YalePlus Bluebook, aimed to help Yalies navigate shopping period. The website is based on Excel spreadsheets and lets users quickly evaluate a professor’s or course’s past ratings.

The search begins. The Yale College Council will elect a new vice president this semester after YCC Vice President Debby Abramov ’14 announced she will not return for the spring term. The YCC Executive Board will review applications from the YCC’s subsidiary bodies — FCC, SoCo, JCC and the UOC — and choose two final candidates before voting on the new VP.

Apocalypse hits the stage. Stephen Feigenbaum MUS ’13, Charlie Polinger ’13 and Matthew George ’11 raised $15,000 for an experimental classical-music theater show, titled “Abyss,” that will go up this February. The show recounts the story of the apocalypse and includes an ensemble of musicians, dancers and actors.

Congratulations! Cristina Rodríguez ’95 LAW ’00 has been named professor of constitutional, administrative and immigration law at Yale Law School. She will be the school’s first tenured Hispanic professor.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1941 Freshmen have the opportunity to submit nominations for the Freshman Prom Committee.

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BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTER

This semester, Yale will debut its first Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) classroom, which aims to improve students’ classroom experiences through a more inter-active learning format.

In the new classroom — which is located on the ground floor of 17 Hillhouse, Yale’s old health center — students will sit with laptops provided by the classroom at 10 round tables, each of which is equipped to project stu-dent work onto one of 10 flat-screen displays around the room. The professor can walk among the tables with a wireless microphone or stand at an instructor station in the middle of the room, from which he or she can control

the five additional projectors and screens and eight high-definition whiteboard cameras.

Modeled on similar facilities at North Car-olina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the TEAL classroom will be home to at least five courses, mostly in the Physics Department, beginning this semester.

“The idea is for the room not to [have] one-way teaching between professor and student,” said El Lolis, the Information Tech-nology Services technology project manager for the TEAL classroom. “It’s supposed to be more of an interactive, ‘lecture-lab’ type of environment.”

Lolis said the room, which is available to

Tech-enabled classroom unveiled

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema ’82, a psychology professor described by her colleagues and students as a devoted, generous teacher, died Jan. 2 in Yale-New Haven Hos-pital while recovering from heart surgery. She was 53.

A highly respected researcher who received national recog-nition for her work on depres-sion, women’s mental health and mood regulation, Nolen-Hoeksema led the Yale Depres-sion and Cognition Program and served as chair of the Psychol-ogy Department. Her peers and mentees said she demonstrated a genuine interest in people and an extraordinary ability to balance her duties as a researcher, teacher and mother.

“Susan had a real warmth that was combined with wisdom, good judgment and the ability to be straightforward with people,” said psychology professor Kelly Brownell, who helped recruit Nolen-Hoeksema to Yale’s fac-ulty. “She was just an all-star, and it breaks my heart to lose her so suddenly.”

Students and colleagues said they were shocked by Nolen-Hoeksema’s unexpected death. After contracting a serious blood infection, she was treated at Yale-New Haven and Yale Health over the past month, and doc-tors eventually diagnosed a heart

issue requiring surgery, accord-ing to an email sent to faculty, sta" and students in the Psychol-ogy Department. She died in the Yale-New Haven intensive care unit following heart surgery.

For those in her department, Nolen-Hoeksema served as a motherly influence. Colleagues described her “quiet energy” and desire to support both friends and students.

Nolen-Hoeksema, who was awarded the Graduate School’s mentoring prize in 2007 for excellence in advising students, went out of her way to make time for those she taught, hold-ing individual hourlong meet-ings every week with the students she advised. She brought freshly baked treats to each lab meeting, and at the end of every semester, she invited her advisees to her house for a home-cooked meal.

Katie McLaughlin GRD ’08

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Nolen-Hoeksema ’82 won national recognition for her work on depres-sion and women’s mental health.

BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER

Roughly one year after the New Haven Police Department introduced an updated model of community policing, the number of homicides and deadly shootings in New Haven has decreased significantly.

The Elm City saw a 50 percent drop in homicides from 2011 to 2012 after the rate had increased for three consecutive years. Over-all shooting victims in 2012 also plummeted by a third compared to 2011. But despite these signs of less violent crime in the city, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said there is more work to be done.

The 2012 crime statistics were unveiled last week at a City Hall press conference, during which Esserman and DeStefano discussed the new initiatives implemented by the NHPD last year and presented their plans for 2013.

“It’s a beginning,” Esserman said at the press event. “We have a ways to go.”

Last year’s reduction in homicides and shootings follows the return to a strategy known as community policing. When crime reached a 17-year high in 2011, DeStefano

announced the appointment of Esserman as New Haven’s new police chief. Esserman — who had previously served as NHPD assis-tant chief from 1991 to 1993 — spearheaded a return to community policing in New Haven, a strategy that moves o!cers away from their desks and cars and puts them on walking patrols on the streets.

As police o!cers roam New Haven neigh-borhoods and interact with residents, this community-oriented policing strategy aims to increase police visibility, build trust with community residents and deter criminal activities, said City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti.

“People talk to us: They might not talk to the 911 operator, but it’s amazing how they reach out to their police o!cer,” Esserman said.

Esserman’s strategy seems to have borne fruit. New Haven saw only 17 homicides in 2012, a significant drop compared to the 34 homicides in 2011 and 24 in 2010. Last year’s homicide rate was the lowest since 2009, when 13 homicides were reported to have

Violent crime drops

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Yale’s new TEAL classroom at 17 Hillhouse Ave. promotes an interactive learning environment.

DEPT. CHAIR MAINTAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH FELLOW PROFESSOR, FORMER STUDENT

Darnell suspended following faculty a!air

[Nolen-Hoeksema] was just an all-star, and it breaks my heart to lose her so suddenly.

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In March, the Supreme Court will hear two cases regarding the constitutionality of laws

against same-sex marriage. There is a chance that the high court will rule against marriage equality. Ironically, that outcome could be a partial win for LGBTQ advocates.

By most logic — human rights or public policy — allowing same-sex couples to marry is the right thing to do. My gay and lesbian friends deserve the same dignity and tax incentives I will one day receive when I marry. And they’ll make great parents, too. In an America where two-parent homes are increasingly rare, how can we say “no” to more stable families?

Today, society is slowly accept-ing same-sex marriage. Currently, nine states allow LGBTQ cou-ples to marry. In the past decade, public opinion on same-sex mar-riage has changed from a majority opposed to a majority approved. Prominent figures on the right, most recently Newt Gingrich, have begun switching their posi-tions on the issue.

However, while frustrating to some, change is gradual, and gradual change has three bene-fits — benefits to which advocates of marriage equality might look if the court rules against a consti-

tutional right to same-sex marriage.

First, the slow pace of progress forces Americans to e!ect change via the bal-lot box. In the long run, vot-ers might see this process as more legiti-

mate than a court decision. Here, the lesson of Roe v. Wade

is instructive. In 1973, state laws were becoming increasingly pro-choice, when Roe abruptly granted women control over their bodies on a constitutional basis. The rul-ing quickly created a rallying cry for pro-life advocates. Today, lib-erals scrutinize judicial nominees’ take on Roe and worry that a con-servative majority in the Supreme Court could overturn the case. In spite of Roe, the abortion debate continues precisely because it hinges on a 5–4 judicial decision. Marriage equality could similarly su!er if it comes via the courts — becoming an issue we debate 40 years later and whose only protec-tion is a contentious ruling.

Second, forcing communi-

ties to debate the merits of same-sex marriage also forces them to confront larger questions regard-ing sexuality. We need to solve a plethora of issues, from the bully-ing of LGBTQ children in schools to parents throwing children out of homes simply for being gay or lesbian. If the court rules against marriage equality, activists must campaign for change in every state, encouraging interaction with the many Americans who believe an LGBTQ person is immoral.

Will a state-by-state conver-sation about same-sex marriage change everyone’s mind? No. But local conversations like these have already convinced millions of Americans to support marriage equality in the last 10 years. We can make people think di!erently.

Finally, if the court rules against LGBTQ advocates, the justices could also paradoxically give the Republican Party time to reform itself. Right now, it’s di"cult to be a gay Republican. I know a few and they are not wholly welcome in either the LGBTQ community or the GOP.

Why? A tradition of virulent homophobia stains the Republi-can Party. And that stain a!ects its entire platform, not just its stance on social issues. Many gay Ameri-

cans are expected to be “progres-sive” on issues other than mar-riage, from health care to defense spending. Right now, some leaders on the right are trying to transform the party’s position on same-sex marriage. But if the court decides in favor of marriage equality, the GOP will lose out on the chance to reform. The party legacy will be homophobia, and people may continue to assume all LGBTQ people must be Democrats.

Let’s be clear: I am not argu-ing that marriage equality advo-cates should hold their cause hos-tage to the Republican Party’s ref-ormation — rather, I’m noting that if a defeat in the courts occurs, a small benefit might come of it: Someone’s sexuality would have no bearing in his or her perceived political a"liation in 20 or 30 years

If the court rules for marriage equality this March, it will be a vic-tory for advocates. But if the court rules against marriage equality, activists can take comfort in the fact that the result may contain silver linings for the LGBTQ cause.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs

on Mondays. Contact him atnathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

Marriage equality after the ruling

On our way back home from my grandmother’s this winter, my dad picked up a

copy of the local newspaper to kill time on the train. A short snip-pet caught his eye. According to the piece, People’s Daily, the o"-cial state newspaper of China, announced that it would “try hard to tell the truth” in the coming year as part of its new reformat-ting e!ort.

It was a moment of candor from the Communist Party’s o"-cial broadcasting organ. While few people take seriously the “news” reported by state publica-tions such as People’s Daily, hon-est reporting can be di"cult to find even in commercial newspa-pers thanks to notoriously harsh media censorship in China.

A recent incident surround-ing Southern Weekly, an influen-tial newspaper famous for its lib-eral-leaning content, once again pushed China’s controversial media inspection system to the fore. Last week, editors at South-ern Weekly exposed how o"cials from the provincial propaganda department made last-min-ute changes to the paper’s New Year’s issue without their con-sent. The provincial propaganda chief allegedly inserted personal revisions to the newspaper’s sta-ple New Year’s editorial, resulting in numerous factual errors.

Even by China’s standards, the censors had gone out of line. As the revisions were ordered after

the entire issue had been finalized and the sta! had gone on hol-iday, they were tech-n o l o g i c a l l y u n f e a s i b l e . The propa-ganda depart-ment then took matters into their own

hands.The censors’ latest tampering

proved to be the last straw. Previ-ously, the Southern Weekly edi-tors had tailored the contents of the New Year’s issue according to propaganda department direc-tives, and had then endured mul-tiple rounds of forced revisions, which reduced the 16-page issue to 12. Such levels of o"cial scru-tiny were reportedly routine. Increasingly frustrated over their lack of control over news con-tent, the sta! members decided to make their last stand.

After it was made public, the incident quickly spread onto Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. China’s highest-profile bloggers, intel-lectuals and celebrities rallied behind the newspaper and called for increased press freedom. Small-scale demonstrations also took place outside of Southern Weekly’s headquarters in the city of Guangzhou.

When the dust finally settled, it seemed that Southern Weekly and its sympathizers had scored an impressive victory against China’s all-powerful censorship machine. Not only did authori-ties agree to discontinue recently introduced measures of directly censoring content prior to publi-cation, they also promised not to retaliate against the journalists who were involved.

It would be a mistake to cel-ebrate the incident as anything more than a temporary achieve-ment, however. In all likelihood, the events that unfolded in the past two weeks will only have the e!ect of restoring China’s media inspection system to the status quo of one year ago, before the new direct censorship rules were put into place. Local propaganda departments still hold full power to delete or trim news content to their liking. Since all commercial newspapers in China must exist as subsidiaries to state-owned enterprises, state authorities are also fully capable of influencing personnel decisions and can eas-ily dismiss dissident journalists.

Chinese media outlets lead a paradoxical existence. On the one hand, with the exception of a handful of state-run ventures, they must compete commercially for profit. That prompts news-papers to diversify and pursue quality journalism. On the other hand, the government expects each publication to stand in line

and serve as a mouthpiece for the Communist Party’s agenda, which calls for homogenization and the suppression of indepen-dent thought.

The end result is a bitter tug-of-war between ideology and professionalism, between prac-tical interest and high ideals, from which every Chinese citizen emerges the loser.

As state censorship strangles Chinese journalism in its vice grip, it is also driving China’s brightest away from an indus-try that desperately needs their idealism and intellect. During break I had a conversation with a friend who is a senior media stud-ies major at Tsinghua University, China's equivalent of Harvard. I had known her as a thought-ful underclassman with piercing insights about the future of Chi-nese journalism, but now she was interning at a commercial bank and planned to go into finance.

As we ate dim sum in a fancy restaurant across from the shiny skyscraper she worked in, she talked fondly of China’s Central Press and Broadcasting Bureau and its role in ensuring a stable social environment. She had the worldly smile of someone who had matured far beyond her age.

It broke my heart.

XIUYI ZHENG is a junior in Daven-port College. His column runs on alter-

nate Mondays. Contact him atxiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .

One last stand

Sometimes I think it would be a lot easier if Inspec-tor Javert from "Les Miser-

ables" showed up every time I got o! my plane flight home. That way, I would only have to answer “the question” once, and at least I would get to answer in song.

For the uninitiated, a quick catch-up on the plot of the movie-musical: Inspector Javert chases Jean Valjean across several decades of French history, all because Valjean stole a loaf of bread. As the plot grinds forward, every time Valjean appears to escape, Javert shows up. And each time, Javert insists that “Men like you can never change,” and that Valjean is still on the line for grand theft car-bohydrate.

And, if you were at home dur-ing winter break, I’m willing to bet that you heard a variation of the same accusation. Your friends and family may not be holding you at sword point when they ask you, “What are you doing?” or “How’s college treating you, honey?” But their impulse is like Javert’s. They want you to be the same, because sameness is easier to deal with, and easier to understand.

If you mentioned that you’re interested in writing, as I made the mistake of doing over Thanksgiv-

ing, your grandfather will explain to your uncle at Christmas that you’re a “writing person.” Your high school physics lab partner, who is now majoring in the sub-ject, wants to see if you still do sci-ence.

I’ve heard a lot of people refer to the experience of seeing old friends as similar to putting on an old coat: comfortable. When my friends and I climbed into a car to drive across L.A. over break, for instance, we knew exactly where to sit, what to say, and even what radio stations to tune to, because, to quote Javert, “So it has been and so it is written.”

Javert wants the same sort of thing from Valjean that your high school friends want from you (and, if you’re being honest, you want from them). Javert’s the kid who tries to convince you to marathon-watch "The Lord of the Rings" when you’re trying to act sophisti-cated at a reunion. He’s you when, out of rigid habit, you heartily agree.

But, as I remembered when Frodo was about halfway to Mor-dor and I no longer seemed to care, the point of "Les Mis" is that Javert isn’t right. Old habits may die hard, but they do die. I am simply not the same person I was two years ago.

I wasn’t out in high school. None of my friends dated anyone, or went to parties. My personality was well-enough defined by a cou-ple of sports teams and significant-enough academic success. The rest, like to whom I was attracted or what I would major in, was never important or pressing enough to be considered, like the parts of a col-oring book you learn to leave blank because, halfway through, the pic-ture seems complete.

College means confronting those details in the corners, and returning home means having to redefine what the new “you” has come to look like. This involves blabbering endlessly about how awesome the people I go to college with are, being accused of brag-ging and then taking refuge near the appetizers in a fake text con-versation.

I know that people understand that I’ve changed, just as I under-stand that the girl who I always saw in the library is now head of her sorority, or that the guy I always heard practicing the piano has gone into film. Despite what Javert may imagine, people aren’t fixed in place like stars.

In real life, as opposed to fiction, we watch others change slowly. Instead of seeing our friends after

15 years on the run, we experience smaller gaps away from the peo-ple we know: three to six months, a year or two. People come together and grow apart without easy explanation.

The sweeping, swollen conclu-sion of "Les Miserables" is another story: lovers reunite, the good guys die and the bad guys lose. Through it all, Victor Hugo’s underlying Christian allegory of forgiveness is jackhammered into the minds of the audience. It’s ridiculous. I cried.

Musicals deliver the kinds of lessons that only make sense when bellowed from the barricades or whispered in the gathering rain. Of course, nothing in my life has ever been solved in time with a grand falling cadence. I know that. But some romantic part of me is stuck, ignoring the bum voices and the over-direction, because, come on, this clearly speaks to me.

Damn this growing-up busi-ness. There’s something to be said for the fact that people will change — and that’s a moral so big and stu-pid, you could even learn it from a musical.

JACKSON MCHENRY is a sopho-more in Silliman College. Contact him

at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu .

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Returning again and again

NEWS’VIEW

An editorial series with our hopes

for the next Yale presidency

We are returning to a University in transition.

This year marks Yale’s last under current Uni-versity President Richard Levin, and its first under the leadership of current Provost Peter Salovey, who will take his seat in Woodbridge Hall this July.

Predicting the length of Salovey’s tenure is impos-sible, but we are confident that the man currently in Warner House will lead the University for the foreseeable future. Levin’s own predecessor stepped down nearly 20 years ago, when the majority of cur-rent freshmen were not yet born and the Clinton administration had just begun.

Two decades later, we are attending Yale during its largest administrative change in recent memory. The presidential search is behind us, leaving a new University president — and a new moment for discourse — in its place. Our position in Yale’s history demands we share our vision for the Univer-sity with the many new administrators, Salovey included, who will come to shape it.

The debate and dis-cussion surrounding the presidential search pro-cess caused some to ques-tion the role of student opinion in driving Univer-sity policy. It is true that our tenures here are far shorter than those of the average professor, ad-ministrator or president. Our commitment to the University may one day diminish, and our identi-ties as Yalies may fade.

But today, we are Yale students, immersed in the daily life and operations of our University. What

we lack in institutional memory we o!er in im-mediate experience. Only we know what it means to be Yale students in 2013; no one else can speak for us.

To that e!ect, the News will be publishing a series of weekly editorials this semester outlining our hopes for what a Salovey administration might achieve and reform. We hope to evaluate where we see Yale now, and where we want to see the Uni-versity when President Salovey eventually steps down.

As we consider the long-term future of Yale, we ask you to share in our project. This semester, begin a conversation on campus. Take the time — in your classes and your common rooms — to consider your vision for the University. Our lives are too often preoccupied with small details and daily considerations, but this semester calls for in-stitutional introspection on a grand scale.

Yalies have concerns about our endeavor in Singapore, athletic re-cruitment policies and the new residential colleges, but we remain hopeful about our relationship with New Haven, our social climate and the role of the sciences. With such issues in mind, we can begin to imagine the Uni-versity we hope to return to as alumni.

The face in Woodbridge is changing, but it re-mains to be seen whether the values and policies that guide our University will change as well. These are the questions we hope to answer this semester. We hope you will join us.

WARNER TO WOODBRIDGE

NATHANIEL ZELINSKYOn Point

XIUYI ZHENG

Propergandist

NEWSBY AMY WANG

STAFF REPORTER

Following a nearly across-the-board increase in early applica-tions for the class of 2017, most Ivy League schools experienced dips in their early acceptance rates this year.

Yale accepted 649 early appli-cants from a total pool of 4,514 this year, making the University’s 14.4 percent acceptance rate the lowest in the Ivy League. Harvard, Princ-eton and Brown — which received 4,856, 3,810 and 3,010 applica-tions, respectively — all accepted roughly 18 percent of their early action and early decision pools and were the most competitive schools after Yale. Despite plum-meting early acceptance rates among competitive colleges, col-lege counselors interviewed said they have not seen noticeable variation in the numbers of stu-dents admitted to Ivy League schools from their schools.

With the exception of Dart-mouth, the eight Ivy League schools all reported increases in early application counts for the class of 2017. Dean of Undergrad-uate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said he has seen applications ris-ing steadily at selective universi-ties such as the Ivies for the past 15 years.

Kent Denver School college counselor Jane Horn said in an email that the overall acceptance rate for her students to the Ivies has remained “fairly consistent,” but added that each year’s success rate at individual schools varies widely.

Andrew McNeill, college coun-selor at the Taft School in Water-town, Conn., said low acceptance rates have not deterred his stu-dents from applying early, adding that three-fourths of seniors at his school submit early applications.

“Most of the schools that prac-tice early decision legitimately are a little easier to get into earlier than in regular … so our kids apply because they have the advantage,” McNeill said. He added that if stu-dents are unwilling to commit to a school early, they often choose early action programs — such as Yale’s — to either “take a crack at” getting in or use as a backup.

Still, Michael Hallman, college

counselor at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, said he encour-ages students to apply early to a school only if they are particularly interested and have a significant chance at acceptance. Otherwise, he said, he encourages students to build up more qualifications and apply in the later regular decision rounds.

Tom Walsh, college counselor at Roxbury Latin School — where two out of four students were accepted in Yale’s early round —

said in an email that he believes the early application process ben-efits high school students apply-ing to college because it can “streamline the process, simpli-fying the process in the long run.” Walsh added that an early accep-tance to a school can signifi-cantly reduce the number of other schools a student will later apply to, reducing the number of overall college applications in an already “overflowing” system.

Students who applied to any of

the Ivy League schools’ early pro-grams were notified of their deci-sions mid-December. Cindy Xue, a high school senior from New York who was accepted early to Yale, said that finding out about her acceptance was a “moment of pure happiness.” Xue added that she is fairly certain she will attend Yale, especially after communi-cating with other accepted stu-dents on Facebook and reading about academic and extracurric-ular opportunities at Yale.

Kathleen Yu, an accepted stu-dent from Maryland, also said she is mostly certain that she will attend Yale in the fall.

“Seeing the bulldog on my computer screen was proba-bly one of the happiest moments of my life,” she said. “I started screaming and crying. … I think I walked around with a smile on my face for the entire weekend.”

Another accepted student, Mimi Pham from Florida, said she will “definitely choose Yale” and

did not apply to any other schools after receiving her early accep-tance.

Students accepted under the early action programs at Harvard, Yale or Princeton have until May 1 to make an o!cial decision. Stu-dents accepted under early deci-sion programs are required to withdraw all applications to other universities.

Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .

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AND THEATER DIRECTOR

Across Ivies, early admit rates plummet

Driver’s license restrictions eased

BY MONICA DISARESTAFF REPORTER

Last Sunday, 439 people gath-ered at St. Rose of Lima Church in Fair Haven to celebrate what could be a breakthrough year for undocumented workers in Con-necticut.

The crowd praised the first milestone this year for immi-grants — that undocumented youth protected under President Obama’s executive order DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, can now obtain legal driver’s licenses in Connecti-cut. State leaders also announced their plan to introduce a bill this session allowing all undocu-mented workers in Connecticut to acquire driver’s licenses.

The Sunday gathering was run by CONECT, or Congrega-tions Organized for a New Con-necticut, which is composed of 25 di"erent congregations across the state that advocate for social and economic justice, accord-ing to the group’s website. It was attended by Mayor John DeSte-fano Jr. and three state senators including Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, who is hopeful that the bill will pass this year.

“It’s a realistic possibility,” said Father James Manship, the co-chair of CONECT and the pastor at St. Rose of Lima, when asked if he believes undocumented work-ers could attain driver’s licenses in Connecticut this year. “We’ve done an awful lot of grassroots work on this, and I just think the time has arrived.”

Looney agreed that this year presents an opportunity for the bill to pass, but added that it will be controversial since those who have traditionally fought new immigration legislation will likely oppose this bill.

Diana Enriquez ’13, former moderator of MEChA, a Yale stu-dent organization that promotes

Latino political activism, said she suspects this legislation will be di!cult to pass given the conten-tious national debate on immi-gration. She added that if the legislation were being consid-ered in isolation in Connecticut, it may be easier to pass since the state has traditionally supported progressive immigration poli-cies. Enriquez also pointed out that licenses do more than allow a person to drive — they provide identification and allow individ-uals to open bank accounts.

Despite the certain political resistance, Manship believes that because undocumented youth have been given the opportunity to have a license, it is logical that their parents and others in the community will soon share the same benefit.

CONECT estimates that 54,000 people statewide who need licenses in order to drive to work, drive their chil-dren to school or attend medi-cal appointments cannot legally obtain them. Some who attended the gathering at St. Rose of Lima shared their personal stories of hardships caused by the inability to obtain a legal driver’s license, citing steep fines and anxiety that roadside accidents could spell extreme economic loss or depor-tation.

Looney noted that since many undocumented workers will drive regardless of whether they have a license, regulating the process will help drivers become prop-erly trained, licensed, registered and insured, which will make the roads safer.

Illinois, Washington and New Mexico are the only states that currently allow undocumented workers to apply for driver’s licenses.

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

BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

Miles Austrevich, who planned to enroll in Yale’s class of 2017 and was known for his fierce optimism and easy-going sense of humor, died on Dec. 23 at his home in Chicago after a four-year bat-tle with brain cancer. He was 20.

Austrevich was diagnosed with can-cer when doctors discovered he had a brain tumor in 2008. He graduated from Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago in 2011 but deferred his enrollment to Yale twice, when his cancer recurred that spring and again in Decem-ber 2011. His parents, Len Austrevich and Adriene Booth, said he hoped to soak up as much knowledge as possible at Yale, on subjects including literature, physics and endocrinology.

“Part of his whole energy and aura was looking at the glass as all-full, not even half-full. He was such a sweet soul,” his father said. “It was so, so infectious.”

Austrevich had a wide range of inter-ests, from electronics and Apple products — “He was totally a technology geek,” his father said — to literature, film and pho-tography. Mary Mussman ’15, Miles’ friend from high school, said he was “notorious” for his good taste in music and would fill friends’ iPods with his col-lection, which was too large to fit on his computer. She remembered how they would listen to artists like Yelle and Flight of the Conchords together during French class, and Booth, his mother, said Aust-revich’s tastes spanned genres, includ-ing alternative acts like Beach House and electronic bands like Hot Chip.

Mussman said Austrevich “almost oozed cool,” adding that he had a strong creative streak, cool clothing and the “chutzpah” to follow through with ideas like tattooing the words “No Chloraprep,” an antiseptic commonly used in hospitals to which Austrevich was allergic, onto his arms.

Austrevich’s friends and family mem-bers noted his keen sense of humor and his ability to adapt his jokes to di"erent contexts, switching between satire, puns and silly jokes with ease.

Len, Austrevich’s father, is a profes-

sional comedian, and he and his son’s shared a!nity for humor prompted Len to start Jokes4Miles.com, a website to which people could submit videos of themselves telling jokes to Austrevich as an e"ort to cheer him up during treat-ment. The site has received over 3,100 jokes from friends, strangers and celebri-ties, including Jay Leno and Amy Poehler.

Len said his son loved the site, recall-ing a “particularly grueling” day of che-motherapy Austrevich faced last Janu-ary that left him too drained of energy to walk from his kitchen table to the hall-way. During the bout of exhaustion, Len received a video of a child rapping, which “completely energized” Austrevich to the point where he could get up and walk around on his own.

Austrevich wanted to share the jokes with others, so Len and volunteers for Jokes4Miles have started an initiative to gather jokes for other children with can-cer and have plans to continue in the future. Je" Solin, who taught Austrevich in high school, said Austrevich’s desire to share his jokes exemplified his compas-sion.

“The cancer didn’t define him,” Solin added. “If you took the cancer away, you still have an amazing, amazing person that was selfless, fun to be around, help-ful, caring and all that stu".”

Booth said Austrevich never lost his temper or got angry throughout his battle with cancer. Instead of asking “Why me?” she said Austrevich would ask, “Why not me?”

Those who knew Austrevich said he wanted to study many subjects at Yale, including endocrinology, which he became interested in after the first round of treatments for his tumor. He was drawn to the flexibility of Yale’s curriculum when choosing between colleges.

When Austrevich’s cancer first relapsed, Len said he did not want to fan-tasize about his son’s major and career choices after Yale. Still, Len added that Austrevich was so excited about start-ing college that he even looked forward to the most minor details of moving to New Haven, like buying a microwave for his dorm room.

Mussman said she remembers how

Austrevich’s treatment kept him from visiting Yale for Bulldog Days for the sec-ond time last spring. She and Austrevich were supposed to enroll together in fall 2011, and Mussman said she is still pro-cessing the fact that he never was able to experience Yale like she did.

Through an event on Facebook, stu-dents at Northside College Preparatory High School coordinated wearing Jokes-4Miles merchandise or anything orange, Miles’ favorite color, on Jan. 3, the first day back to the school in 2013.

Miles is survived by his mother, father, stepfather and younger brother.

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

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last Friday on whether she had an intimate relationship with Dar-nell. She remains employed as an assistant professor.

In the Jan. 8 department-wide email, Darnell said he agreed to the suspension and resigned as chair, writing that his violations consisted of maintaining an inti-mate relationship with a stu-dent under his direct supervi-sion, participating in the review of a faculty member with whom he had an intimate relationship and using his leadership role in Egyptology to cover up his illicit behavior. The Yale University Faculty Handbook states that professors must avoid sexual relationships with students over whom they have “direct peda-gogical or supervisory responsi-bilities.”

According to the Faculty Handbook, the University presi-dent may convene a body called the University Tribunal to rule on tenured professors accused of violating policy. The Handbook also states that “it is desirable that informal procedures (look-ing to the possibility of a settle-ment of the dispute) be invoked before a Tribunal Panel exercises jurisdiction.”

University President Richard Levin and University spokesman

Tom Conroy declined to com-ment on how administrators and Darnell determined his punish-ment.

Darnell and Manassa have col-laborated on numerous academic projects in recent years. The two professors taught the undergrad-uate course “The Age of Akhena-ton” in spring 2011 and co-authored multiple publications. According to Manassa’s faculty page, she is currently working on a monograph titled “Inscribed Material from the Quarries of Gebel el-Asr” with Darnell.

Manassa majored in NELC as an undergraduate and enrolled as a doctoral candidate in the department after graduation, earning her Ph.D. and joining the faculty as an assistant professor of Egyptology in 2006.

Though Darnell will not teach “Demotic Texts,” the course he was slated to teach this semester, Manassa will supervise senior essays and teach the undergrad-uate course “Egyptomania” and two graduate courses during the spring term, according to Online Course Information. Darnell and Manassa were scheduled to give a lecture titled “Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pha-raohs” at the Peabody Museum on Jan. 16, but Melanie Brigockas, public relations director for the museum, said she was “informed

by Colleen that she will be giv-ing the talk herself and not in conjunction with John as origi-nally planned.” She added that Manassa provided no further details.

Levin wrote in a Jan. 8 email to the department that Yale Col-lege Dean Mary Miller will inter-view members of the department and advise Levin on the selection of a new department chair for the fall 2013 term, and Director of Graduate Studies Eckart Frahm will serve as acting chair in the meantime. Frahm said Egyptol-ogy students are currently one of his “main concerns,” particularly those whose dissertations Darnell advised. Frahm said he is coordi-nating the reassignment of Egyp-tology students to other advisers, adding that the new advisers may come from other departments at Yale or outside the University.

“For NELC students, this may be somewhat embarrassing, but I don’t think they are substantially a!ected in their classes or any-thing else,” Frahm said. “I will try to make this as least disruptive to the department as possible.”

As of last Friday morning, Frahm had met with all Egyptol-ogy graduate students currently in New Haven to discuss their plans and concerns, and he said he will speak with the remain-ing few when they return to cam-

pus. Frahm added that their main concerns pertain to dissertation advising and course selection.

Though Darnell’s departure leaves the Egyptology disci-pline within NELC with one pro-fessor, one professor emeritus and Manassa, Frahm said Dar-

nell’s absence should not signifi-cantly impact course selection for Egyptology students since Dar-nell was scheduled to teach only one credit class this semester. He added that he does not antic-ipate Darnell’s absence to have any additional e!ects on teach-

ing this year. Darnell joined the Yale faculty

as an assistant professor in 1998.

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

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

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any department, is intended to be flexible and to enable the profes-sors to develop their own methods for using the technology.

The TEAL format is an adap-tation of the Student-Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies (SCALE-UP) model, which was developed at NCSU in the 1990s by Robert Beichner, a profes-sor who specializes in education research. Beichner, who estimates that the SCALE-UP format is now used in over 150 schools, said the format allows schools to take col-laborative and discussion-based learning found in smaller classes and “literally scale them up to large enrollment classes.”

Provost Peter Salovey said he

first became enthusiastic about TEAL when he was an accredi-tor for MIT in 2009 and sat in on a demonstration of one of their TEAL classrooms. Salovey said he believes the TEAL format reflects the changing nature of education.

“Although we have many inspiring lecturers, the future is really not lecture-based learn-ing,” Salovey said. “We have a generation of students coming up who’ve led their lives online, and this kind of approach is just much more familiar to how they think and learn and what they’ve expe-rienced in their lives, than a fac-ulty member standing behind a podium and saying things and the student writing things in a note-book.”

Physics professor John Har-ris — one of the professors signed

up to teach in the TEAL classroom this term — said he is excited to try the new format with his introduc-tory physics course for nonscience majors, “Quantum Physics and Beyond.”

Harris said he and Helen Caines, who also teaches the “Quantum”

course, have had to limit their class sizes to 25 in past years so they can sit around a large, oval table and have open discussions. In the new TEAL classroom, Harris said they will be able to team up to co-teach the course and have room for almost 100 students.

Harris said he thinks the TEAL classroom will prove popular in future terms, and Lolis said ITS is already talking about putting in another TEAL space.

“Once people get wind of this, it’ll be oversubscribed,” Harris said.

Harris said the Yale Science Council has been considering how to bring more active learning to science education for more than five years, and began pushing for a classroom with the technology of the TEAL classroom a few years

ago. According to Beichner’s stud-

ies, students taking part in the SCALE-UP format tend to do about a letter grade better on a standard test than students who learned in a traditional lecture format. SCALE-UP is also dif-ferent than online education, he said, because it is face-to-face and helps students grow by developing “teamsmanship skills.”

John Belcher, who developed the first TEAL classroom at MIT, said he began looking into SCALE-UP when he and his colleagues became frustrated with the low attendance rates at their lectures, despite the good reviews they received on student course evalu-ations.

“There’s just a tradition of stu-dents not coming to class,” Belcher

said, adding that students assume that the “passive” learning they do in the lecture hall could just as easily be done on the Internet. With a TEAL classroom, profes-sors can monitor student atten-dance. Belcher said he now sup-ports a “blended” learning format, where students engage in passive learning online on their own time, while active learning is done in a TEAL classroom.

TEAL has been a success at MIT, he said, though he added that MIT initially faced criticism for adopt-ing TEAL because the teachers had not been properly trained in the new technologies.

The classroom has nine chairs per table.

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

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School district sets new sibling policyBY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER

STAFF REPORTER

When New Haven parents scramble in the coming months to secure a spot for their children in one of the city’s most popu-lar public schools, brothers and sisters of current students will receive first priority enrolling at their siblings’ schools.

The new sibling preference policy — so named in a Jan. 3 New Haven Public Schools press release — is the first of a series of NHPS registration procedure rec-ommendations by the city’s Board of Education. Set to take e!ect for the 2013–’14 school year, the sib-ling policy is the brainchild of the board’s school redistricting com-mittee, which formed last year to consider redrawing attendance

zones and streamlining registra-tion and enrollment processes for the city’s schools.

The policy adds an additional tier of preference for public school enrollment, said Ed Line-han, the former education board director of magnet schools who headed the redistricting commit-tee. With the shift, children who live in a given school’s attendance zone and have siblings already enrolled in that school have top preference, followed by those with siblings and those residing in the attendance zone, respec-tively.

Prior to the change, top prior-ity was given to students solely based on attendance zone, while those who lived outside a school’s zone but had a sibling already enrolled received second priority.

At popular schools like Edgewood Magnet, attendance zones are so large that spots were typically claimed entirely by neighborhood students, forcing siblings to look elsewhere.

Keeping siblings together eases the burden on families while tying parents to their childrens’ school, NHPS Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries said.

“For parents and families, it’s a hardship to have students in mul-tiple schools,” Harries said. “One of our big challenges is family engagement in schools. This pol-icy will make it easier for parents to be engaged in local schools and devoted over the long term.”

NHPS spokeswoman Abbe Smith said parent complaints helped accelerate the sibling preference shift. The superinten-

dent’s o"ce moved on the pro-posal after the Board of Educa-tion — with the input of Mayor John DeStefano Jr. — asked the school district to move forward on the enrollment policy change and encouraged expediting this recommendation for the coming school year. According to Smith, sibling preference is an admin-istrative policy over which the school district has ultimate juris-diction.

As the shift in priority enroll-ment procedure does not auto-matically guarantee placement, the sibling policy still may leave many students without the spots they seek.

“This will be one part of the application process for the start of the fall 2013 school year,” Smith said. “It’s not going to guarantee

anyone a spot because it all still depends on the space being avail-able.”

The difficulty in achieving a spot in certain schools was made evident when the district revealed last year’s numbers behind the annual public school lottery that every year leaves thousands of students without their top choice for the city’s charter and magnet schools. At Hill Regional Career School alone, where only 59 seats were available for the ninth grade last year, 290 applicants were turned away.

According to Linehan, the problem of space remains the central issue before the Board of Education.

“This sibling policy is an important but relatively small issue within the broader ques-

tion of people getting their chil-dren into the schools they want. It has to be understood in the con-text of New Haven’s long-stand-ing commitment to both neigh-borhood schools and to parental choice,” Linehan said. “There’s a tension between those two com-mitments because attendance zones, which create neighbor-hood schools, aren’t always in line with the schools that parents want for their kids.”

Applications for magnet and charter schools are due Feb. 15, and the NHPS lottery — where the new preferences will offi-cially take e!ect — will be held on March 12.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at

isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERGSTAFF REPORTER

Over 200 students participated in a new meal program o!ered for six days during winter break — Yale Dining’s latest addition to a string of dining hall changes this semester.

Over winter break, Yale Din-ing introduced two new dining plans that allowed students and student-athletes to eat lunch and dinner in Morse and Ezra Stiles dining halls from Jan. 7–12. Stu-dents could only access the two dining halls, and non-athletes were charged $7 for each meal. Despite the extra cost, students said they found the new plans to be useful.

“It was really convenient to not have to spend money o! campus, and it was nice to be able to social-ize with some of the other varsity teams,” said John McGowan ’15, a member of the men’s track and field team.

Under one of two new meal options, non-athletes could pre-purchase two to 12 lunches for $7 each to be eaten in the two allot-ted dining halls, according to a December email from the Yale College Council. The meals were available to students both on and o! the meal plan, and any unused swipes expired after Jan. 12.

Yale Dining also collaborated with the Yale Athletics Depart-ment to introduce a dining option for athletes who arrived on cam-pus early for winter practices. In previous years, the Athlet-ics Department gave students money to purchase food at local New Haven eateries, but this year it covered the cost of dining hall meals through the plan.

Director of Residential Din-ing Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 said Yale Athletics had initially approached Yale Dining about a new dining plan over winter break just for athletes last spring.

“There are always people researching and international students as well that are back on campus early, and the athletes’ meal plan made it financially fea-sible to open the dining halls to these students as well,” she said.

Van Dyke said 114 students prepurchased meals, and 120 ath-letes were given meal cards. While she said the changes in the Yale calendar were not the primary motivation behind the new plans, she added that she thinks they have helped students a!ected by the new winter break that extends further into January. Yale Dining plans to o!er the same plans dur-ing spring break in March.

Students’ regular dining plans did not cover any meals from Jan.

7–12, but students who did not prearrange meals could also pay the usual $10.25 for lunch and $13.25 for dinner.

Leandro Leviste ’14, YCC sec-retary and the YCC dining com-mittee chair, said his committee had been working on providing students with a dining option over break since the fall semester began.

Morse and Stiles Dining Hall Production Manager Jeff Hardy said the new meal options have been running smoothly, but the dining halls have not served a large number of students.

Students said the new meal plan worked well, even though they had to pay extra for the meals and only eat in Morse or Stiles.

“It was just necessary,” Tom Harrison ’15 said. “Without [the meal plan] I would have far less incentive to come train and not be endorsed or acknowledged by the school.”

These new plans follow another recent change in Yale Dining that allowed students on a meal plan to dine on campus at no additional cost during fall break and for four days over Thanksgiv-ing vacation.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at

kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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The new winter break meal plans allowed students to eat at Morse and Stiles dining halls from Jan. 7–12.

BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

The new year has brought a new spokes-woman to City Hall.

Anna Mariotti, a seven-year New Haven resident originally from Hartford, Conn., will now serve as the new public information o"cer and director of communications for the city of New Haven. Mariotti started the position last Monday and is replacing Eliz-abeth Benton ’04, who assumed the role in November 2011 and left her post a year later to work as the communications director for Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73.

“There are so many good things about New Haven and I sort of always talk about it anyway, that it just seemed like the perfect job: something I really, really wanted to do,” Mariotti said.

Mariotti, who is a 2005 graduate of Trinity College with an American studies major, has served as the president of the City Point His-toric District Neighborhood Association and the board chair of the New Haven Democracy Fund, a group that provides matching funds and public financing grants for mayoral can-didates.

Benton said that Mariotti is “passionate” and “dedicated” to New Haven, and that she has shown her commitment through her work in the City Point neighborhood.

“Anna has demonstrated a commitment to the city and a talent that will serve her well as communications director,” Benton said.

Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said he sat in on Democracy Fund meetings and has seen Mariotti chair the group. He said that Mariotti “seemed like someone with strong integrity, a good work ethic and an interest in improving government.”

Mariotti has also served as a legislative liaison and assistant to the Hartford City Council, as well as working with a number of nonprofit organizations, such as United Way.

For the 2010 census, she helped the Census Bureau reach and educate “hard-to-count” populations, including immigrants, lower-income populations and college students such as Yale students, who may be initially resistant to census surveys.

“I really want to increase communica-tion: not just the social media, but the grass-roots communications with residents,” Mar-iotti said. Benton was known for increasing City Hall’s social media presence, and Rob Smuts, the chief administrative officer of New Haven, said that he hopes Mariotti will “keep up with changes due to technology” to ensure that residents stay informed.

Mariotti added that she wants to ensure that certain New Haven programs, such as New Haven Promise, get the national atten-tion and recognition that she thinks they deserve.

Alex Johnston, the former president of the City Point Historic District Neighborhood Association, said that Mariotti has been active in a number of neighborhood activi-ties, including preserving the Long Wharf Nature Preserve from highway construction and coordinating the relationship between the City Point neighborhood and the Sound School.

Johnston said that one of the challenges he hopes Mariotti will address is the di"-culty of understanding and representing the concerns of di!erent neighborhoods that all have “their own sets of concerns,” though he said Mariotti is “good at listening and good at building relationships” and that in City Point, she has been a “tireless leader and advocate” for the neighborhood.

Mariotti will serve as the twelfth spokes-person for Mayor DeStefano since he first assumed o"ce in 1994.

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recalled her former professor’s dedicated involvement even in the less glamorous aspects of her stu-dents’ studies. When McLaugh-lin was conducting tedious, time-consuming research outside of New Haven, Nolen-Hoeksema would show up early every morn-ing for the duration of the project with Dunkin’ Donuts and co!ee for the entire research team before assisting them with their data col-lection.

“Susan was happy to do the dirty work of research with her students,” McLaughlin said. “Most people that successful don’t see the need to do that kind of work anymore, but she really got into the trenches with her stu-dents.”

Vera Vine GRD ’15, a graduate student in Nolen-Hoeksema’s lab, said her professor encouraged stu-dents not to lose sight of human-ity in their academic pursuits, reminding them that their stud-ies were not simply about abstract concepts but also a!ected people.

While dedicated to the mem-bers of her workplace commu-nity at Yale, Nolen-Hoeksema’s generosity was grounded in her life at home as a devoted parent. Students in her lab called her “the ultimate soccer mom” because of her enthusiastic support for her son’s soccer team.

Several of Nolen-Hoeksema’s students remembered a major psychology convention that coin-cided with the finals of an impor-tant soccer tournament for her son. Though Nolen-Hoeksema was one of the convention’s key-note speakers, students said she kept her laptop open on her lap to live stream her son’s game and would sneak out of the room for score updates.

“She showed so much devo-tion,” said Kirsten Gilbert GRD ’14, one of her students. “For graduate students used to working all the time, she was a great role model, reminding us that life out-side of psychology and academia is important.”

Nolen-Hoeksema was born in Springfield, Ill. and completed her undergraduate degree in psy-chology at Yale. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and served as a fac-ulty member at Stanford Univer-sity and the University of Mich-igan before returning to Yale in 2004.

In addition to scholarly works and a psychology textbook, Nolen-Hoeksema authored mul-tiple books on women’s men-tal health, including “The Power of Women” and “Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life.”

“I think of her as the person I want to be,” Vine said. “She exem-plified kind of everything you wanted to be: the kind of aca-demic, parent and friend, and the kind of teacher you want to be to your own students.”

Nolen-Hoeksema is survived by her husband, Richard, and son, Michael.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

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Homicides lowest since 2009

occurred in the city.“Literally hundreds of family members

and neighbors were a!ected by that car-nage,” DeStefano said concerning the high homicide rate in previous years. “Clearly, we were o!-track from where we needed to be. The community knew it, and we all wanted to reset our expectations.”

In addition to community policing, the NHPD created a shooting task force last year composed of police officers, state troopers, prosecutors and the Department of Correction to investigate shootings aggressively.

Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of DataHaven, a nonprofit organization that compiles and shares public statistics for the Greater New Haven and Valley region, said he agreed that the decline in violent crime

is a result of the new community policing strategy introduced by Esserman, as well as the new police chief’s “more aggressive” approach to the issues around crime that were facing the Elm City.

“I hope New Haven continues to make this type of progress that we’ve seen,” Abraham said.

While the numbers of homicides and violent crimes are on the decline, Esserman and DeStefano said the goal is to reduce crime further this year. Extending his com-munity policing strategy, Esserman will soon assign 40 new police o"cers to walk-ing beats around New Haven, four for each of the 10 city police districts. Despite bud-get constraints, the department also plans to hire about 100 o"cers over the next two years.

“The focus of NHPD is and will always be violence, saving lives in the streets of

New Haven,” DeStefano said. Additionally, the NHPD has recently

implemented a comprehensive plan called Project Longevity, which is aimed at com-bating gun and gang violence in the city. The program o!ers current gang members services like substance abuse therapy and career counseling as an alternative to a life of crime, but grants no tolerance to those who continue to commit violent crime.

Project Longevity, which is modeled after similar initiatives that have reduced gun violence in Boston, Chicago and other cities across the country, was first launched in New Haven on Nov. 26 and will soon be implemented on a statewide basis.

Esserman’s current contract as NHPD chief runs through 2014.

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

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foundation.”Forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 scored the

only goal for Yale with 3:35 left in the third period, tying her with defenseman Kate Martini ’16 for the team lead in points with 10.

“I definitely didn’t expect [to be leading the team], but I’m excited to contribute in any way that I can in order to finish the sea-son o! well,” Ferrara said.

Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the team could not match its one-goal total in Sat-urday’s game against Clarkson. Leono!’s 39 saves proved to be one too few, and the Golden Knights’ short-handed goal late in the first period proved decisive. Leono! described the showing as “one of our better defensive performances of the year.” How-

ever, Yale managed a combined 40 shots between the two weekend games, while its opponents had at least 40 in each.

“If we possess the puck more, we will

create more quality shot opportunities,” Ferrara said. “It’s time we start capitalizing on these opportunities.”

Over break, the Elis fell 3–2 to Provi-dence in overtime on a goal with 17 seconds left in the extra frame. Leono! made 47 saves in that contest, three short of her sea-son high, but was shaken up on a hit with 35.6 seconds left in overtime. The team’s goals were scored by Patricia McGauley ’14 — her first goal of the year and second career goal — and Ferrara’s game-tying goal with 4:01 left in the third period.

Yale plays Brown on Thursday night at Ingalls Rink before traveling to Providence for Saturday night’s matchup against the Bears.

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

make 36 saves. With the teams level at two goals each and nearly the same number of shots after the second period, the Bulldogs secured their two-point win in the final frame.

Forward Kenny Agostino ’14 opened the scoring with a goal at 12:53 in the first period with a wrist shot to the upper corner of the oppos-ing net. St. Lawrence responded with its own goal just 25 seconds later, and scored again at 7:05 in the second. Top-scoring freshman Stu Wilson ’16 tied the game for Yale at 2–2 on a power play midway through the sec-ond period.

Yale successfully killed all four of its penalties on Friday night and converted two of its four power plays. The second of these goals came at 9:43 in the third period, when Antoine Laganiere ’13 tipped in a shot o! an assist from forward Trent Ru!alo ’15. Nicholas Weberg ’15 extended the Bulldogs’ advantage with a goal at 13:09 o! Miller’s 100th

career assist.St. Lawrence pulled within one

only 26 seconds later but could not make up the di!erence after Miller scored an open-net goal in the final minute of play.

Dueck said Yale’s speed and “killer instinct” helped the team secure its wins this weekend “against a faster team like St Lawrence and a big, strong team like Clarkson.” But Lag-aniere noted that the team could work on its defensive play.

“I thought on Friday night, we could all have done a better job defensively, but the positives in our o!ensive game ultimately gave us a chance to win,” he said.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs got their payback for the Nov. 9 loss against Clarkson. Despite high energy and many shots from both teams, the first period ended scoreless. But Jesse Root ’14 broke the stalemate with a power-play goal at 6:24. Agostino then increased the Bulldogs’ lead to two with a goal shortly after.

Down 2–0 going into the third

period, Clarkson battled back, out-shooting the Bulldogs 11–9 in the final period. The Knights scored at 17:23, but an empty-net power-play goal by Clinton Bourbonnais ’14 sealed the victory.

“Clarkson pushed hard right to the end, but Malcolm made some big saves and we weathered the storm,” Dueck said.

Laganiere added that while the team wants to win every time it plays, Saturday’s victory was special after the team’s earlier loss to Clarkson.

“From the drop of the puck, although they played tough, we were determined to not let that happen again, and we didn’t,” Laganiere said.

Next weekend, the Bulldogs will take on Harvard and Dartmouth at Ingalls Rink on Friday and Saturday nights. Friday’s game will air live on NBC Sports Network.

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

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

Track returns early for meetonly other male Bulldog athlete to win his event on Saturday, placing first in the 3000-meter run with a time of 8:40.26. Teammate Kevin Dooney ’16 finished close behind and third overall with 8:44.66.

One of Dooney’s fellow fresh-men, Max Payson ’16, also put forth a remarkable showing on Saturday, Hillas said. While Pay-son placed no higher than fifth in the two events he ran, he posted back-to-back personal records at the 800-meter distance. He set a PR as the lead leg in the dis-tance medley relay, then bested his e!ort with a time of 1:58.25 in the open 800-meter run — which took place roughly 30 minutes after the relay.

“One thing I am happy about is the competitive efforts,” Hil-las said. “We just gotta continue being competitive during the races.”

While the men’s team impressed with a number of key performances, the women’s team also featured several notable dis-plays.

“As far as I can tell, it looks like they’ve done their workouts,” women’s team captain Allison Rue ’13 said.

The women’s team equaled the men’s team’s tally of two vic-

tories with first-place finishes in the mile and the distance medley relay. Caitlin Hudson ’13 narrowly edged Williams’ Brianne Mirecki in the mile, winning the race in a time of 5:03.76. Yale seniors per-formed well in the event, as Jen-nifer Donnelly ’13 and Tori Flan-nery ’13 finished fifth and sixth, respectively.

The Eli women’s distance med-ley relay squad also captured a victory in one of the more domi-nating displays of the afternoon. The team finished the race in 12:29.02, more than eight seconds faster than second-place Central Connecticut.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue their seasons next Sunday against Columbia and Dartmouth at home at Coxe Cage.

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

Elis fall twice in tough weekend

Elis beat Holy Cross on road

18, Yale cruised to a 112–63 victory over Division III Albertus Magnus (12–1, 7–0 Great Northeast Athletic Confer-ence). Guard Austin Morgan ’13 led the team with 16 points on four 3-point-ers and guard Michael Grace ’13 had a game-high seven of the Bulldog’s 27 assists.

After a 10-day respite for the hol-idays, the Elis returned to action at Nevada on Dec. 28. The trip to Reno was a homecoming for Morgan, who is the all-time leading scorer at Reno High School with 2,046 points. Morgan had 20 points and the game was tied at 56 with 10 minutes left before the Wolf Pack broke ahead for an 85–75 victory.

Two days later Yale fell 78–62 to St. Mary’s (13–4, 2–1 West Coast Confer-ence). That game was played close to center Jeremiah Kreisberg’s ’14 home in Berkeley, Calif. Kreisberg, who said that he used to attend basket-ball camps at St. Mary’s, scored seven points against the Gaels, then followed that performance with a career-high 16 points two days later as the Bulldogs lost a close contest 80–70 to Iowa State (11–4, 1–1 Big 12) in Ames. Yale held a 53–47 advantage over the Cyclones with just over 10 minutes remaining. Jesse Pritchard ’14 is an Ames, Iowa, native, although the guard was unable to play due to injury.

“I think that in those games their athletes start to wear you down,” Mar-tin said of the Elis’ high-caliber oppo-nents.

Returning to the East Coast, the Elis snapped their three-game skid with a 61–54 victory over Holy Cross (8–8, 0–1 Patriot). Forward Armani Cotton ’15 recorded his first career double-double with career-high 20 points and 12 rebounds. Head coach James Jones said that Cotton’s hard work has begun to pay o! on the court.

“Armani is somebody who lays his body out each time he is out on the court,” Jones said. “He never takes a possession off … Certainly play-ing against teams in our league and the Holy Crosses of the world he has a chance to take over.”

After almost three weeks away from the friendly confines of John J. Lee Amphitheater, the Bulldogs returned home to host No. 13 Florida (12–2, 2–0 Southeast Conference) on Jan. 6.

Yale cut the deficit to 21–20 on a pull-up jumper from the elbow by

guard Michael Grace ’13 with 5:33 until halftime. But the Gators (10–2, 0–0 SEC) pulled away to a 35–23 lead at the break as several 3-point attempts from Yale rimmed out.

Still within striking distance, Yale saw its chances take a nosedive as the second half began. After a missed three by Kreisberg, the ball did not cross the half-court line for two minutes as the Gators forced four Bulldog turnovers. Florida went on a 12–0 run during that stretch en route to a 24-point lead.

Guard Austin Morgan ’13 finally broke onto the scoreboard with two free throws, but the Elis would never come closer than 17 points again and lost, 79–58.

“We just kind of froze in a couple of instances in the second half,” Jones said. “They went from 12 [points ahead] to 20 in just three possessions.”

Cotton had his second-straight strong game with 12 points and five rebounds, while guard Javier Duren ’15 had a new career-high with 14 points to pace the Bulldogs.

In their final game before the begin-ning of Ivy League play, the Elis routed Division III Oberlin College (4–10, 2–4 North Coast Athletic Conference) 104-39. The 65-point margin of victory was the largest in Yale’s history. Martin said that the game helped prepare the team for conference play.

“We got to go through a lot of the options in our offense,” Martin said. “We got to see it working, the things that we’ve practiced. Guys made shots. We shot the ball really well and it is nice to see the ball go through the basket.”

Although the Bulldogs lost all four of their marquee matchups over the break, coach Jones said that these games helped point out weaknesses that the team will want to fix in the Ancient Eight.

“To beat really good teams we have to limit mistakes,” Jones said. “We need to make sure that we can corral a big-time scorer … we need to play better team defense.”

One such scorer that Yale faced was Florida guard Kenny Boynton, who scored a career-high 28 points against the Bulldogs on 8–10 shooting from three.

Yale travels to Providence, R.I., next Saturday to open its Ivy League slate against Brown.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Forward Kenny Agostino ’14 tallied two goals for the Elis over the weekend to push his season total to nine.

SARA MILLER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale men’s team captured two first-place finishes on Saturday at the Yale Classic to open the new year.

JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Elis were outshot 82–40 by their opponents in this weekend’s losses to St. Law-rence and Clarkson. Yale faced St. Lawrence without goalkeeper Jaimie Leono! ’15.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

If we possess the puck more, we will create more quality shot opportunities. It’s time we start capitalizing on these opportunities.

JANELLE FERRARA ’16Forward, women’s hockey

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TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 12

We kind of call it a ‘rust-buster’ just because everyone’s coming o! break … but we did have some great performances.

TIM HILLAS ’13 Team captain, men’s track and field

Yale earns North Country sweep

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MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM IN YALE’S WIN OVER OBERLIN ON SATURDAY. The blowout came against a Division III squad but still sets the record for Yale’s largest margin of victory. Four Yale players scored more than 10 points in the 104–39 victory.

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“Winning on the road is tough, and sweeping on the road is alwaysbig.”

ANDREW MILLER ’13CAPTAIN, MEN’S HOCKEY

WALTER CAMP AWARDS HELD IN COMMONSLimos lined College Street last night for the Walter Camp National Awards Dinner, held in Commons each year to honor achievement in college football. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o was awarded Player of the Year, while Heis-man winner Johnny Manziel was named a first team All-American.

THREE NAMED TO HOBEY BAKER AWARD BALLOTFAN VOTING NOW OPENThree Yalies were named to the bal-lot for the Hobey Baker Award, which honors the top player in men’s college hockey. Andrew Miller ’13, Antoine Lag-aniere ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 were named to the initial ballot of 77. Fans and coaches will vote to narrow the list.

BY CHARLES CONDROSTAFF REPORTER

The men’s basketball team bookended a tough winter road trip with two big wins as the Elis rounded out their nonconference schedule.

Yale (6–11, 0–0 Ivy) went 3–4 over the recess in its final tune-up contests before

entering the 14-game Ivy schedule. Captain Sam Martin ’13 said that these games showed the Bulldogs what they could accomplish this season.

“We played really well against a lot of good teams,” Martin said. “When we get in the league that will really help us out … There’s nobody where you look at the schedule and think ‘We can’t win that game.’”

Celebrating the end of finals period on Dec.

Wins bookend winter break

BY LINDSEY UNIAT AND ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTERS

The men’s hockey team started its final stretch of ECAC games with a pair of wins and four points at St. Lawrence and Clarkson this weekend.

On Friday night, No. 14 Yale (9–4–3, 5–3–1 ECAC) beat St. Lawrence (9–10–2, 2–5–2 ECAC) for the second time this season, out-scoring the Saints 5–3. Then on Saturday, the Bulldogs secured a 3–1 victory over the No. 19 Knights (4–12–5, 3–5–1 ECAC), who had beat Yale 1–0 when the two teams last faced o! in November.

“We played really well as a team and had great goaltending [this weekend],” team cap-tain Andrew Miller ’13 said. “Winning on the road is tough, and sweeping on the road is always big.”

This weekend’s triumphs were partic-ularly big. Forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 noted that in recent years the Bulldogs have not had much success on the St. Lawrence/Clarkson road trip, so this weekend’s victo-ries showed the team’s mental toughness and perseverance. The last time the Bulldogs won both games of this annual series was in the 2003–’04 season.

“That trip is a tough trip — especially with the amount of time it takes to get up there,” assistant coach Dan Muse said. “With those long road trips we have to do the little things well, and I think we did that in both games.”

The Bulldogs returned to conference play after a win, a loss and a tie in their three games during winter break — the Elis’ last nonconference games of the regular season.

“This weekend gave us some great momen-tum leading into the second half of the year,” defenseman Colin Dueck ’13 said. “We have nothing but league games left in the season, so every weekend and game is important. The league standings are still pretty tight — we have to keep putting some wins together and staying consistent.”

With this weekend’s sweep, the team is o! to a strong start in the second half of the season. Friday night’s game saw five di!er-ent Bulldogs score and goalie Je! Malcolm ’13

2013 brings conference wins for Elis

BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

After returning to campus when dorms opened on Wednes-day, the members of the men’s and women’s track and field teams had only a few days to prepare as a squad for this Sat-urday’s 31st Yale Intercollegiate Track Classic, held at Coxe Cage. While some of the winter varsity programs hold practices over the recess, the track and field teams do not and athletes are expected to hold training sessions and workouts on their own.

Still, members of both the men’s and women’s teams posted impressive results dur-ing this weekend’s meet, the first since the break. Though o"cials did not tally team scores after results were announced, the meet featured several standout performances from Bulldog ath-letes against competitors from across the Northeast, includ-ing UConn, Sacred Heart and Brown. The men’s team amassed two first-place finishes, two second-place finishes and two third-place finishes, while the women’s team earned two first-places finishes, three second-place finishes and a third-place finish. The teams each competed

in 15 events.“We really don’t consider

score for something like this,” men’s team captain Tim Hil-las ’13 said. “We kind of call it a ‘rust-buster’ just because everyone’s coming o! break … but we did have some great per-formances.”

Eli thrower Michael Levine ’13 started o! the day with one such showing in the weight throw. Levine, who was the only Yale athlete named to the men’s track and field All-Ivy first team last year, threw 17.96 meters, his best effort since his freshman year. Demetri Goutos ’13 was the

Yale shakes o! rust

BY GRANT BRONSDONCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Yale women’s hockey team continued this season’s string of improvements this weekend, although its strides failed to pro-duce victories as the Elis lost 5–1 to St. Lawrence on Friday and 1–0 against No. 6 Clarkson on Satur-day.

After being blown out by St.

Lawrence due to the absence of starting goaltender Jaimie Leono! ’15, the Bulldogs (2–14–1, 1–7–1 ECAC) rebounded with a strong defensive performance against one of the top 15 o!enses in the coun-try. Despite their e!orts, Yale came up a goal short against Clarkson.

Leono! missed Friday’s game due to a concussion she su!ered in the team’s game against Prov-idence on Jan. 5, forcing backup Erin Callahan ’13 into action in just her second career start and her first since the 2010–’11 season.

After an early first-period goal from St. Lawrence forward Abbey McRae, who had a hat trick in the Saints’ previous game against the Bulldogs, Callahan kept the high-powered St. Lawrence o!ense in check until the third period, when three goals in a 4:21 span doomed the Elis.

“[Leonoff’s absence] put the pressure on everyone to play well,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “She’s [our] backbone and our

Bulldogs swept in homestand

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ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Forward Clinton Bourbanais ’14 tallied an empty-net power-play goal in the final minute of the third period to ice the Bulldogs’ 3–1 victory over Clarkson on Saturday.

MEN’S HOCKEY

TRACK & FIELD

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Elis fell to three major conference opponents over the winter recess, but they rebounded with wins against Holy Cross and Oberlin College.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL