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So long! Farewell! As soon as it started, today is the last day of Bulldog Days. If you want to bid the prefrosh adieu, there’s a pizza party on Old Campus from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. You wouldn’t be the first troll this BDD —the Yale Record pranked yesterday’s extracurricular bazaar for freshmen, advertising a group opposed to extracurricular involvement known as “That’s Enough Already.”

Goodbye to you. To help New Haven say goodbye to its Occupy encampment Wednesday morning, College Street will likely be closed by 7 a.m., which could complicate Bulldog Days travel plans for those expecting to use a shuttle that picks up at Phelps Gate, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Je!rey Brenzel said in an email to prefrosh and their parents.

Jamestown, First Place. The Yale College Council held its annual Battle of the Bands Competition Tuesday night. Winners will open for the still-unannounced Spring Fling headliners (T-Pain, Passion Pit, 3LAU). Jamestown, The First Town in America took home first place, followed by A Streetcar Named Funk and Nine Tigers. All three will play at Spring Fling.

Miss you guys! Students in professor John Lewis Gaddis’ biography writing seminar brought Claire’s cake and popped bottles (of cider) to celebrate Gaddis winning the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography — but the Pundits, who were rumored to be making an appearance, were nowhere to be found.

Davenport drama. An email controversy broke out Tuesday on the Davenport College email list, when a student organizing next year’s Big Sib/Lil’ Sib program said each family should have a “mommy” and a “daddy.” Several Davenporters were less than thrilled, and the student sent a follow-up email, saying that “this new system is not seeking to be heteronormative or to define what a family unit is and is not.” But each family in Davenport will still include one male and female student.

A new opportunity. For the first time, the University will o!er three postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic sciences for recent Ph.D. graduates during the coming academic year. The two-year fellowships come as part of e!orts to build a larger postdoctoral community in the humanities at the University.

Bad karma. Two men have been arrested for the December stabbing deaths of four alpacas at Applesauce Acres farm in Essex, the New Haven Register reported.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1980 Seven seniors prepare for the first public concert of Whim ’n Rhythm on April 20.

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BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

After last week’s Yale College Council election left the presi-dency contested, John Gonzalez ’14 captured 59.91 percent of the votes and next year’s YCC presidency in a runo! election against Eric Eliasson ’14.

Though the YCC had declared Gonzalez the win-

ner of the YCC election in an email last Friday night, the council’s Election Commit-tee retracted the statement the next day — citing an overlooked clause in the YCC constitution, which indicated that Gonza-lez had not won by a su"cient margin — and announced that a runoff election would take place between the top two can-didates. The YCC informed

the student body of the run-o! election results in an email early Wednesday morning, also announcing that Aly Moore ’14 earned 53.71 percent of the vote to defeat Bobby Dresser ’14 in a runo! election for chair of the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee.

Gonzalez, the current Soph-omore Class Council president, called the runo! election “very, very stressful,” but said he was glad for an additional opportu-

Gonzalez ’14 claims victory

BY NICK DEFIESTASTAFF REPORTER

After more than six months, Occupy New Haven may finally leave the Green following Tuesday decisions by a federal appeals court and a state housing court.

A panel of three judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld District Court Judge Mark Kravtiz’s rul-ing that the city could legally remove pro-testers from the Green after a court hearing Tuesday morning. After an appeal to a state housing court was rejected Tuesday after-noon, the city is free to resume its eviction of Occupy New Haven, which was interrupted last week when Occupy attorney Norm Pat-tis won the group its third stay.

“Once again, the court’s action today was decisive. The plainti!s have no meaningful chance of success,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton said in a statement on the court of appeals ruling. “The city of New Haven has respected the rule of law and we expect that members of Occupy New Haven will do the same.”

City o"cials declined to comment fur-ther on the case or say when they might act to evict the Occupy encampment, although police o"cials asked protesters to leave by 8 a.m. Wednesday.

After questioning Pattis, the panel of fed-eral appellate judges ruled that the city had constitutionally valid restrictions on First Amendment expression on the Green. They

Ruling seals Occupy’s demise

A D M I N I S T R A T I O N

Levin’s ‘alter ego’ to fill role of VP

BY ANTONIA WOODFORDSTAFF REPORTER

Last May, Yale College Dean Mary Miller called a meeting of all human-ities department chairs. Her ques-tion for them, she said, was simple: “What are we going to do about the future of the humanities?”

Across the country, the value of a

humanities degree has been called into question as more students pur-sue fields of study they view as “practical” for future careers. Even at Yale, which professors said is bu!-ered by its traditional strength in the humanities, the number of under-graduates majoring in these fields is declining, and humanities Ph.D. graduates are struggling to find aca-demic positions in a bleak job market.

Miller, a professor of art history, continued to meet with department chairs in the fall, as they consid-

ered how national trends are a!ect-ing Yale and brainstormed ways to ensure the humanities do not become overshadowed by other fields.

These conversations have led to a push by administrators to broaden graduate training in the humanities to give Ph.D. graduates an extra edge when seeking jobs. Meanwhile, some humanities departments are devel-oping new courses that reflect the evolving interests of undergraduates

With the arrival of Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 as University secretary this sum-mer, Linda Lorimer’s title is set to change.

Currently, Yale has seven vice presidents whose titles specify their roles in vari-ous facets of the University, ranging from development to finance and business opera-tions.

But when students return in the fall, Lorimer will be just “vice president.”

While the change might seem one of semantics —

Lorimer’s job will remain largely the same — the new title may be indicative of Lorimer’s 19-year career working at the top of Yale’s administra-tion with University President Richard Levin.

“She is really a senior coun-sel to the president: She is his senior adviser and has been for the whole time she’s been here,” said Martha Highsmith, Lorimer’s deputy secretary, who has worked with her for 18 years. “I think this is a recogni-

This summer, Linda Lorimer will drop her title as University secretary to become Yale’s vice president, formalizing her role

as President Richard Levin’s trusted adviser since his first year in o"ce. TAPLEY STEPHENSON reports.

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Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer’s title will change to just vice president come this summer.

[Yale’s] historic strength is in the humanities, and I think to tinker with that formula is potentially to invite big prob-lems.

KATIE TRUMPENER DIRECTOR OF GRAD. STUDIES, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

IN PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, GONZALEZ CLINCHES 20-POINT MARGIN OVER ERIC ELIASSON ’14

Students in the United States and the world are becoming extremely practical, and the humanities doesn’t have an instant payo! in most people’s views.

DUDLEY ANDREW CHAIR, COMP. LIT. DEPT.

The humanities at Yale are the top-ranked humanities departments in the country. They are jewels, and nobody is going to abandon them.

FRANCES ROSENBLUTH DEPUTY PROVOST FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Humanities face identity crisis

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John Gonzalez ’14 learned early Wednesday morning that he had won the runo! in the YCC presidential election.

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S T A F F I L L U S T R A T O R A U B E R E Y L E S C U R E

Wisdom of the ages

As a member of the Chinese Undergraduate Students at Yale, I recently partic-

ipated in organizing the Night Market event co-hosted by the Asian American Students Asso-ciation and the Taiwanese Amer-ican Society. Night Market fea-tured approximately 20 booths that o!ered various types of Asian cuisine, activities and cul-tural performances.

Our organization ran a booth that taught traditional Chinese calligraphy and paper cutting. To encourage our customers to participate in our activities, we ordered about 70 cups of bubble tea from Great Wall, a local Chi-nese restaurant. Our plan was to reward each visitor who com-pleted a piece of calligraphy or paper cutting with a cup of deli-cious bubble tea, a Taiwanese specialty.

As soon as we set down the boxes of bubble tea, I felt the heat of a dozen pairs of eyes fixat-ing on what I had in front of me. Our small booth, located at the periphery of the market, sud-denly became the center of atten-tion.

A crowd quickly gathered. “Can I have bubble tea? How do

I get bubble tea?” The anxious crowd pressed us with their hands held out. When we explained that they had to participate in our activities in order to receive the free drinks, the disappointment on their faces could hardly be concealed.

Soon, dozens of people were carelessly copying down Chinese characters and then scrambling to exchange their sheets for bubble tea. Some didn’t even bother to take their work with them when they left.

When we gave away our last cup of bubble tea, my co-orga-nizers and I breathed a sigh of relief. Our customers dwindled to a trickle, but those who still came were genuinely interested in what we had to o!er.

I am not blaming our custom-ers. If anything, it was our fault for failing to anticipate the high demand. In retrospect, we should have prepared more cups of bub-ble tea in smaller serving sizes and kept the free drinks separate from the cultural activities we o!ered.

But perhaps there is an inher-ent hypocrisy in our approach of trying to promote our event by advertising free food. On the one hand, we expect people to devote

themselves to the educational element of the activity, yet by adding the incentive of free bub-ble tea, we’re appealing to a whole di!erent audience.

Many cultural events at Yale consist largely of using Yale money to feed our fellow stu-dents. But when something becomes free, it becomes cheap.

Earlier this year, my asso-ciation hosted a Spring Festi-val event in the Stiles dining hall. We decorated the dining hall with traditional Chinese couplets and handmade red lanterns, invited various cultural groups to come perform and spent over $1,000 buying catered food from Great Wall.

Although our event attracted over four hundred people, I am not sure all of them truly appre-ciated what Spring Festival is about. As Buddhist Chaplain Bruce Blair pointed out to me, the spirit of Spring Festival con-sists in building and developing genuine relationships with other people. It brings people and fam-ilies together for something more deeply fulfilling than a late-night snack. Something tells me that those people who, after eating, stayed for the cultural show and

indulged in conversation with their classmates gained a deeper understanding of what the holi-day stands for.

If our goal in hosting the Spring Festival celebration event truly was to celebrate the values of the New Year, then we can-not measure its success solely by the number of people who came or the amount of food they con-sumed. We would have to rely on a di!erent set of metrics, one that is less tangible but closer to heart.

At Yale, we have it easy — there are more than enough funds available for whatever extra-curricular activities we decide to organize, and free food is an easy draw. However, in organiz-ing events, we should think more clearly about what we are trying to achieve and make sure that the means we take don’t distract from the ends.

It might mean lower atten-dance, or less of a big deal on campus, but it will be more gen-uine. If you ask me, calligraphy and bubble tea don’t really go together, anyway.

XIUYI ZHENG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at

xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .

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Free food cheapens our groups

Now that John Gonzalez ’14 has won the run-o! for the Yale College Coun-

cil presidency, all the vestiges of election season — countless emails from the candidates and their friends, fliers in the dining halls and filmed debates — will give way to his agenda.

Certain students want that agenda to be bolder than it has been this year. They seem to think that the YCC shies away from advocating a transforma-tional agenda. The story goes like this: The council focuses on small, limited changes that barely a!ect the average stu-dent’s life. On more controver-sial issues, the YCC defers to Yale’s administration and sells out its constituency.

Yalies seem to believe much of this baloney. According to a recent News survey, only 36 percent of students say that the YCC represents them. I’m guessing the number simply means that most students don’t feel connected to student gov-ernment. Still, some have seized upon the number to conclude that the YCC exists as a student branch of the Yale Corporation, representing the administra-tion’s interests rather than our own.

Complaining about this con-flict of interests allows students who generally couldn’t care less about student government — and believe me, I count myself as one of these — to hide our apa-thy behind a veil of cynicism.

This conflict is largely non-existent. I would hope that, in cases of a direct conflict between administrators and students, our representatives would advocate for us. Still, it is telling that for all the bluster of some student leaders, the actual issues the YCC has purportedly sold us out on seem rather con-trived.

Take, for instance, the coun-cil’s failure to come out in favor of gender-neutral housing for all students. It is true that half of Yale still doesn’t have gender-neutral housing, and it may be that most Yale students support its expansion to sophomores. Still, the YCC is the student voice that was most responsi-ble for the expansion of gender-neutral housing to juniors.

Its accomplishment was due to a carefully calibrated strategy to convince the administration. The council showed the admin-istration that the vast majority of students were demanding gen-der-neutral housing for juniors. The YCC might be able to e!ect similar changes for future soph-omore classes if it were backed up by strong student consensus. The way for students to achieve that change would be to per-suade their peers, not lambast the YCC.

But it isn’t the criticism of the YCC’s lack of accomplish-ments that is the most trouble-

some. Stu-dents who feel o!ended or mistreated by Yale’s housing policies or any other issue — from Yale’s reinstatement of ROTC to its lack of cover-age of certain health ben-efits for trans-gendered stu-dents – have

every right to voice their com-plaints. They have the right to — misguidedly, in my opinion — blame the YCC for their griev-ances.

No, what is truly upsetting is the criticism that the YCC’s actual accomplishments are too pedestrian. As Jimmy Mur-phy ’13, who opposed outgoing YCC President Brandon Levin ’13 in last year’s election, told the News last week, “summer storage is not a philosophical change, it doesn’t question val-ues.”

True, summer storage doesn’t question values. It does, however, allow me to store pos-sessions that I would other-wise have had to get rid of, con-vey home or pay to store in New Haven. That seems like exactly the sort of thing student gov-ernment should focus on.

Whether we’re talking about summer storage, sopho-more seminars, clearer emails or extended lunch hours at Durfee’s, the YCC has found tangible ways to improve our Yale experience. Some changes have been significant, and some, admittedly, have been small.

But Yale’s administration doesn’t always know what small, annoying things in our lives we would like changed. Even if it does, it knows students will apply to Yale regardless of our storage policies. It’s the YCC that can and should be taking on such issues.

When we speak of our national government, we remember its concrete accom-plishments — the Interstate Highway system, the railroads — almost as much as we remem-ber its more ideologically signif-icant moments. The more local you get, the more you are bound to care about concrete things: your child’s school, the snow blocking your car. This is not to say that local governments must avoid all controversy.

But let’s not criticize our local government precisely because it is so good at meeting our day-to-day needs. Let’s ask it to keep meeting them.

HARRY LARSON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. His

column runs on alternate Wednes-days. Contact him at

harry.larson@yale.edu .

For a grounded YCC

HARRY LARSON

Nothing in Particular

I have been observing crime and policing in New Haven for four years now. So, as this

academic year and this column ease o! into the sunset, it’s time to review the recent history of city policing — and especially to recall one of its most successful, overlooked leaders.

It has been a tumultuous time for the city. In four years, four chiefs have led the New Haven Police Department, each with a di!erent style, strategy, demeanor and vision. The lead-ership was sometimes e!ective, sometimes incompetent, but never steady.

Crime, too, has fluctuated wildly in the past few years. Though the overall rate has declined fairly steadily and slowly, violence — particularly murder — has reached record highs and more tolerable lows. But the core reality that there is too much crime still looms over life in many of New Hav-en’s neighborhoods. And that fact, unfairly magnified, contin-ues to infect the way many Yalies look at the city and the way many across the country look at Yale.

Police and city o"cials have the power to change that real-ity with the right approach. All too often, however, a sincere e!ort at self-examination is stifled by the unwarranted opti-mism of the news conference or the empty promise of the press

release. It is now popular among o"-cials to discuss the lessons of the city’s suc-cessful polic-ing practices of the 1990s, rather than the more compli-cated lessons of the past few years. Recent

history is inherently fraught with biases, passions and con-troversies and is therefore more painful and di"cult to examine. But those more recent events provide crucial insight and guid-ance for e!ective police leader-ship.

The department’s current leaders should remember that recent progress has been built on the back of former chief James Lewis. A veteran police chief who had been brought out of retirement in mid-2008, Lewis restored order to an NHPD still reeling from a corruption scan-dal that saw its narcotics unit disbanded for over a year. Lewis was a quiet, friendly man from Wisconsin and began his ten-ure by going to the start of each shift until he had shaken hands with and met every member of the force — approximately 400 o"cers.

But he expected much from

men and women in uniform: When o"cers misbehaved, he recommended the strictest sanc-tions. Perhaps most importantly, Lewis revamped the city’s drug unit so that it operated in both the most e!ective and commu-nity-friendly way: by focusing on drug dealers who were dealing out the most violence to neigh-borhoods. Crime fell by about 10 percent during his last year in o"ce. Most of the department loved him; even the police union threw some compliments his way. What he was not was a pal of Mayor John DeStefano Jr.: In 20 months, Lewis met alone with him a grand total of two times.

The new chief, Dean Esser-man, has mostly carried on the legacy Lewis left, but with some significant gaps. Esserman believes in the type of aggres-sive, targeted operations typified by the drug unit under Lewis. But just three weeks after Esserman took o"ce, the innovative o"cer whom Lewis had appointed to lead the unit — who by then had risen to the rank of assistant chief — announced his retirement. The o"cer said it was for per-sonal reasons, but departmental rumors said it was because of a conflict between him and Esser-man. If true, the incident would be typical of Esserman: a smart, hard-charging leader who is not afraid to step on other people’s toes. In his previous posting, he

was suspended for a day after threatening to dump co!ee on a sergeant.

There are already hints of sim-ilar strong-arm tactics that have alienated some o"cers here. Chief among them was Esser-man’s move to dump the depart-ment’s leadership, even one assistant chief widely liked in the community. In his quest to return the department to the 1990s, Esserman should not dis-regard the experience of the o"-cers who have served since then. Lewis knew that morale matters.

As for mayoral involvement, Esserman is a pal of the mayor’s. There’s no harm in that neces-sarily, but we should remember that the police leadership is still largely controlled by the mayor. Last year, that meant that DeSte-fano was able to fire the previ-ous police chief in the middle of a heated election, lie about it and keep it secret for several days and then unilaterally hire Esserman before anyone in the city had a chance to discuss what should be done. Conflicts will arise, and when they do, Esserman should again think of the integ-rity and independence of Lewis and remember that he serves the residents of New Haven first, the mayor second.

COLIN ROSS is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact him at

colin.ross@yale.edu .

Lessons from a quiet leader

COLIN ROSSGangbuster

PAGE THREEBY LORENZO LIGATO

STAFF REPORTER

Prospective freshmen visiting campus for Bulldog Days had the opportunity to meet Gov. Dannel Malloy at a Tuesday night talk in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

The event, sponsored by the Yale College Democrats, drew over 100 admitted students to hear Malloy discuss politi-cal activism on campus, the upcoming presidential election and what it means to be a Demo-crat today. The governor praised the Dems’ activism on state and local issues, and urged audience members to be politically active during their college years.

M a l l oy, wh o n a r rowly defeated Republican former diplomat Tom Foley in the 2010 gubernatorial election, encour-aged his audience to participate in the Dems should they choose to attend Yale.

“If you come to Yale, I invite you to find community within this organization full of people that believe that there’s a bright future ahead of us,” Malloy said.

While several Yale under-graduates and graduate students hold positions in local govern-ment, Malloy said, others are involved in politics on an advo-cacy level. For instance, he said, the Dems galvanized student support for reforms such as the repeal of the state’s death pen-alty passed last week and the education reform package that has been one of Malloy’s primary priorities while in o!ce.

Malloy said his plans include increasing funding for pub-lic schools, promoting jobs and boosting the state’s literacy rate, among other objectives.

The governor also stressed the potential impact that stu-dents can make on the upcom-ing U.S. presidential election in November. Student participa-tion as volunteers in President Barack Obama’s reelection cam-paign is essential, Malloy said, adding that the Dems need to be active not only in Connecti-cut, but also in nearby states like Pennsylvania.

“Campus by campus, con-versation by conversation, we will work together to make sure

Obama gets reelected,” Malloy said, adding that the November presidential election will have “dramatic consequences.”

Malloy, who originally endorsed Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomi-nation, said he believes Obama has learned a lot in a relatively short time period. He added that while he appreciates Obama’s leadership in foreign policy, he believes the president should concentrate on creating a long-

term vision for the U.S. economy and improving his relations with city governments and mayors.

Dems President Zak Newman ’13 said Malloy’s talk shed light on political involvement at Yale and, in particular, on the proj-ects the Dems are working on.

Before taking the helm in Hartford, Malloy served as mayor of Stamford, Conn., for 14 years.

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

C O R R E C T I O N STUESDAY, APRIL 17A pull quote in the article “Despite decline, students concerned about city crime” was mistakenly attributed to Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins. It should have been attributed to University President Richard Levin.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13The article “One year later, shop safety hard to measure” incorrectly stated the circumstances of Michele Dufault’s ’11 death. She died while using a metal lathe, not a wood lathe. It also incorrectly stated that Dan Ewert ’12 works at the School of Architecture shop to construct theater sets. In fact, he works there for an architecture class.

TODAY’S EVENTSWEDNESDAY, APRIL 1812:00 PM “Building Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of Cities and Institutions.” Mark Bomford, director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, will discuss how Yale could make a significant contribution to the sustainability of the nation’s food system and will review the strengths and shortcomings of global and local food systems. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.).

5:15 PM Brass presents: “From Russia with Love: Music from Eastern Europe.” This concert will feature Slavic music performed by harpist Colleen Potter Thorburn, as well as Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

6:00 PM “Patterned Poems: Hand-Decorate a Shakespeare Sonnet.” Hand-decorate a Shakespearean sonnet with the Yale Student Guide Art Club. Open to students only. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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93Number of votes by which Rep. Joe Courtney won the 2006 election. According to the Yale College Democrats’ website, they helped Courtney, a Democrat representing eastern Connecticut, win his race. According to two di"erent New York Times articles, Courtney won by 83 votes or by 91 votes.

BY GAVAN GIDEONSTAFF REPORTER

Administrators have agreed to work with faculty and sta" in drafting a formal docu-ment that would guide Univer-sity-wide e"orts to streamline administrative services.

Roughly 10 professors met with Vice President for Busi-ness and Finance Operations Shauna King last Wednes-day to discuss their concerns with shared services, the busi-ness model intended to reduce burden on faculty and sta" by moving common tasks out of departments to centralized ser-vice units. King said the group discussed the possibility of convening a committee of fac-ulty, administrators and staff “to draft a declaration of prin-ciples or set of best practices to guide our thinking about sta" reorganization” in depart-ments, adding that she sup-ports the idea and has already discussed it with Provost Peter Salovey.

“There’s this promise of fac-ulty consultation, but there isn’t any definition of what that would be or exactly how that would work,” English profes-sor Jill Campbell said after the meeting.

The gathering marked the first time King had met with a group of faculty members to discuss shared services since the February Yale College fac-ulty meeting, at which the ini-tiative faced significant push-back from professors who claimed that administrators have implemented the busi-ness model without first con-sulting departments. Some fac-ulty members, many of whom are from the humanities, have complained that the shared services model constitutes an across-the-board system that does not meet the needs of individual departments and has led to harmful restructuring of sta".

A formal document would clarify the process by which employees from King’s office work with departments, Camp-bell said, and could spec-ify what kind of assessment would take place to determine a department’s needs and how disagreements between mem-bers of departments and King’s o!ce would be resolved.

King said she recognizes her o!ce has not met the faculty’s expectations of communica-tion in the restructuring of sta" prompted by the onset of the recession in 2008. She told pro-fessors at their February meet-ing that all restructuring over the past three years, including the elimination of more than 600 sta" positions across the University, has been driven by

the budget crisis, not shared services.

“We have certainly attempted to be collaborative and con-sultative throughout the chal-lenging process of responding to the budget crisis,” King said in a Tuesday email. “It is clear from faculty discussions, like the one held last week and the Yale College Faculty meeting in February, that our e"orts have not met expectations and more is needed.”

Campbell said professors at the meeting sought to clarify how King and members of her o!ce have responded to con-cerns raised by faculty since the February meeting. They discussed the need for “struc-tural mechanisms” that ensure consistent, substantive steps are taken to work with faculty through any restructuring of sta" and changes to adminis-trative services.

Assistant Vice President Ronn Kolbash, director of the Shared Services Center, and Assistant Vice President for Business Operations Julie Grant were also at last week’s meet-ing.

Professor of statistics and mathematics David Pollard, who attended the meeting, said he thinks a formal set of guide-lines could help clear up confu-sion among faculty concerning the implementation of shared services.

Though she was unable to attend the meeting, history professor Glenda Gilmore told the News beforehand that she thinks King’s office should include a manager who can serve as an ombudsman for fac-ulty and work with professors to respond to their “adminis-trative support needs.” Gilm-ore also said administrators should have included faculty in the initial decision to introduce the business model because the services support their teaching and research.

King will meet with depart-ment chairs on May 4 to discuss shared services.

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

Faculty and admins discuss shared services

BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

Philosopher and former Slove-nian presidential candidate Slavoj #i$ek explained his concerns with the current state of capitalism Tuesday night.

In Sheffield-Sterling-Strath-cona Hall room 114 packed with Yale undergraduates and prospec-tive freshmen, #i$ek and members of the Yale Political Union debated whether capitalism is the “opi-ate of the masses.” #i$ek argued that capitalism and democracy are no longer synonymous — since nations like China and Singapore are developing capitalist econo-mies but are not democratic gov-ernments — and that capitalist systems should be reexamined. While he o"ered no clear revision of what capitalism should look like, #i$ek maintained that peo-ple need to consider how the sys-tem could radically change from its current state.

“I am afraid that this eternal marriage between democracy and capitalism is slowly coming to an end,” he said. “We have to reinvent capitalism.”#i$ek emphasized that an

inability to assess capitalism crit-ically and to consider radical changes to the system have repeat-edly caused Western nations to advocate ine"ective solutions to the challenges they face. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, #i$ek noted, has argued that even if people had known in the early 2000s that their actions would cause a recession to strike in 2008, they would not have acted dif-ferently because of an inability to redefine the capitalist mindset.

He cited the European Union’s proposed plans to stabilize Greece’s economy as another example.

“Everyone knows these plans are total bulls---,” #i$ek said. “They won’t work, and everyone knows this, but nonetheless we pretend to believe.”

#i$ek said few members of Western societies can imagine a shift in the deeply entrenched capitalist mindset, one he said people accept and practice with-out questioning. But he said the most important step for people of Western countries to take today is to “start being engaged in radi-cal dreams” rather than resisting change.

“We can imagine the end of the earth, or the end of the world — that’s all very easy to imagine,” he said. “But to imagine a small change in capitalism, in the mar-ket, is impossible for us.”

The Chinese government, on the other hand, introduced a law in April 2011 that prohibited artistic works that involved alternate uni-verses or time travel, #i$ek said. He described the law as an attempt to discourage Chinese citizens from imagining how their lives could change, but he added that the law and the government’s concern also demonstrated that the Chi-nese people are “still at least able to dream.”#i$ek attributed part of the

failure to question capitalism to the extensive influence of pow-erful government officials. For example, he said Congress was at first strongly against the Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $787 billion stimu-lus package intended to stimulate jobs and spur the economy, but that President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, among others, persuaded Con-gress to pass the act.#i$ek cautioned against creat-

ing atmospheres in which indi-viduals can wield disproportion-ate influence, which he said skews democratic processes and dam-ages the capitalist system.

“It’s so easy to blame people. The problem is not people like Bernie Mado" — there were always people like that,” #i$ek said. “It was the social context that allowed him to do what he did that was the problem.”

Four students interviewed said they thought #i$ek was a dynamic speaker who expressed his con-cerns with capitalism persuasively and succinctly.

“I think he really shook peo-ple’s understandings about the structures that affect their lives and called on us to ask more rad-ical questions, which maybe had a tint of irony on Bulldog Days at an esteemed Ivy League school, but was important to say and hear nevertheless,” said Elias Kleinbock ’14, a member of the Party of the

Left.Three prospective freshmen

said they were similarly impressed by #i$ek’s speech. Zach Plyam ’16 said #i$ek kept his discussion “light-hearted” while making important points about redefining the capitalist system.#i$ek ran for president of Slo-

venia in its first free elections in 1990.

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

Zizek calls for reexamination of capitalism

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Gov. Dannel Malloy visited campus Tuesday to speak at a Yale College Democrats event.

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Slavoj !i"ek, a philosopher and former Slovenian presidential candidate, spoke about the ethical dimensions of capitalism at a YPU event Tuesday.

Malloy urges campus activism

There’s this promise of faculty consultation, but there isn’t any definition of what that would be or exactly how that would work.

JILL CAMPBELLEnglish professor

Campus by campus, conversation by conversation, we will work together to make sure Obama gets reelected.

DANNEL MALLOYGovernor of Connecticut

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 4 YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS LINDA KOCH LORIMER

Before coming to Yale Law School, Lorimer went to school in her home state of Virginia: at the Norfolk Academy in Norfolk and Hol-lins University, a women’s college in Roanoke.

tion that her role in the Univer-sity really is University-wide. She has that peripheral vision that spans the entire University.”

With such experience, sev-eral administrators and for-mer Yale Corporation mem-bers interviewed said Lorimer is capable of serving as the Uni-versity’s first female president. But Lorimer maintains that she could never be president of Yale: she has never held a teaching role, as every other president of the University for the past cen-tury has.

Still, Lorimer has received o!ers over her career at Yale to serve as president at other insti-tutions. And for Lorimer to leave and become president of another university would be no exception — eight Yale admin-istrators have left the Univer-

sity to become presidents at elite institutions during the 19 years that Levin and Lorimer have been in o"ce.

Two former Corporation members interviewed said she chose to stay due to an alle-giance to Levin, with whom she has helped execute most major presidential initiatives of the past two decades.

THE ‘UTILITY INFIELDER’Today Lorimer, 60, oversees

eight divisions at Yale, six of which — ranging from the Yale University Press to the Office of Sustainability — were added to her responsibilities since she assumed her role as secretary.

Highsmith said this increase in responsibilities is indica-tive of what she called Lorimer’s ability as an “incubator” for University projects, taking new initiatives and overseeing them until they can operate indepen-dently.

“How she has worked as part of President Levin’s team, is to work on a number of specific projects for which she initially has had the primary responsibil-ity, and then delegated respon-sibility to others once the proj-ect has been established or has stabilized,” said Margaret Mar-shall LAW ’76, a former Corpo-ration fellow and general coun-sel at Harvard.

Marshall added that, within and beyond Yale’s campus, Lorimer is widely considered to be one of the most adept admin-istrators in higher education.

During her 37 years at the University, Lorimer has worked in several of Yale’s top o"ces — including the Provost’s O"ce, the General Counsel’s Office, the Yale Corporation and now the Secretary’s O"ce — giving her broad insight into the Uni-versity’s administration.

Lorimer first arrived at Yale in 1974 as a student in the Law School. As a student there, she began work as associate general counsel under Jose Cabranes LAW ’65, Yale’s first general counsel and a former Corpora-tion fellow. She would work in the same o"ce after graduation,

eventually running it alongside current University Vice Presi-dent and General Counsel Dor-othy Robinson upon the depar-ture of Cabranes’ successor. In 1983, Lorimer became the youngest associate provost in the University’s history — a role in which she oversaw academic and administrative policy for several of Yale’s departments.

Lorimer refers to herself as Yale’s “utility infielder,” a term that then-University Presi-dent and eventual Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti gave her in the early 1980s.

“I have always thought that was a lovely description,” Lorimer said. “I may have had five or six di!erent titles at Yale, but my role has been the same: I have always just wanted to do what was needed for Yale.”

LEVIN’S ‘ALTER EGO’After leaving the University

in 1986 to become president of Randolph Macon Women’s Col-lege — now the coeducational Randolph College — in Ashland, Va., Lorimer continued to serve on the Yale Corporation and returned in 1993 as University secretary at the request of newly appointed President Levin.

Lorimer had served as one of the Corporation’s representa-tives on the 1992 search com-mittee for a successor to for-mer University President Benno Schmidt ’63 LAW ’66. Over their 19-year partnership, Levin and Lorimer have worked closely on a number of University projects, e!ectively establishing Lorimer as one of Levin’s closest advis-ers.

After assuming the role of secretary, Lorimer’s first major project was to take on the Uni-versity’s New Haven Initiative, an urban development program spearheaded by Yale. With New Haven’s crime rate having just reached its peak, town-gown relations at the time were in decay, and they became Levin’s first priority upon assuming o"ce.

The two worked closely to build a program that is now overseen by the University vice president for New Haven and state a!airs and campus devel-opment, a position created in 1998.

“There were a smattering of initiatives around town-gown relationships, and Linda took those on,” Highsmith said. “A similar thing has occurred with the University’s international focus. When it became it was clear that was a major presiden-tial priority, Linda was the one who gave that its life.”

Two years into her role as secretary, Lorimer received the additional title of vice presi-dent, becoming the first vice president and University secre-tary.

Since then, Lorimer has worked closely with Levin on high-profile projects such as the Yale India Initiative, the World Fellows Program and Yale-NUS College, among others. In that time, Lorimer’s international work led to the creation of the O"ce of International A!airs, which her o"ce now oversees, Highsmith said.

All five administrators inter-viewed described Levin and Lorimer’s working relation-ship as uncommonly strong, with Lorimer serving as a close adviser to Levin on many of his major decisions as president.

Cabranes said the relation-ship is one in which “they com-municate telepathically,” while Marshall described their part-nership as two people with the ability to see a problem “from 360 degrees,” approaching issues holistically.

“You would expect one to be the visionary and one to be the

implementer, but in many ways, each has the attributes of both and Yale benefits from the very best of both,” Marshall said.

Since the two work so closely together, Cabranes said Lorimer might even be considered Levin’s “alter ego.”

A JOINT DEPARTURE?In the past, Levin said he

would remain in o"ce at least through the conclusion of the Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign, which ended last June. As Levin nears his 20th year in o"ce, it remains to be seen when he will leave.

Given her experiences at Ran-dolph Macon and Yale, Lorimer could have already become pres-ident at any leading institution, Marshall said. Lorimer is often approached by other schools regarding the subject, Levin noted.

But her relationship with Levin has kept her at the Uni-versity, Marshall said.

“It is an amazing tribute to him, I think, that had she ever wanted to do so, Linda could have become a university presi-dent again,” Marshall said. “But she has, I think, enjoyed being and has been an important part of President Levin’s team.”

For now, Levin has given no further indication of departing from his office in Woodbridge Hall, but over the past 100 years, only Arthur Hadley 1876, Uni-versity president from 1899-1921, served a longer term than Levin.

Lorimer said she has too much to accomplish at Yale to leave any time soon. When asked whether she would either retire or become president of another university when Levin steps down, Lorimer paused before replying.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I can’t predict the future. But I’ve been grateful for every year I’ve had to serve Yale.”

Contact TAPLEYSTEPHENSON at

tapley.stephenson@yale.edu .

My role has been the same: I have always just wanted to do what was needed for Yale.

LINDA LORIMERVice president, Yale University

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F O R M E R YA L E A D M I N S

A T O T H E R C O L L E G E S

ALISON RICHARDVice-Chancellor, Cambridge

SUSAN HOCKFIELDPresident, MIT

JUDITH RODINPresident, UPenn

ANDREW HAMILTONVice-Chancellor, Oxford

KIM BOTTOMLYPresident, Wellesley

RICHARD BRODHEADPresident, Duke

JARED COHONPresident, Carnegie Mellon

REBECCA CHOPPPresident, ColgatePresident, Swarthmore

TIMELINE LINDA LORIMER AND YALE 1977Lorimer graduates from Yale Law School.

1978Lorimer returns to the University and serves in a number of admin-istrative roles through 1986.

1983Lorimer becomes associate pro-vost of the University, the young-est person appointed to the posti-ion in Yale history.

1986Lorimer temporarily departs Yale to become the president of Ran-dolph-Macon Woman’s College in Ashland, Va.

1990While still serving at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lorimer is elected to the Yale Corporation and serves in the role until 1993. 1993

Lorimer returns to Yale as Univer-sity secretary. During her tenure, the position expands to encom-pass six additional o!ces. 1995The title of vice president is added to Lorimer’s current role.

2012Lorimer will relinquish her title of secretary and become University vice president.

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FROM THE FRONT “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ELIE WIESEL WRITER

nity to meet students and hear their opinions.“I just spent the last 10 minutes clicking my heels and

screaming out the window in glee,” Gonzalez said early Wednesday morning, minutes after learning of his vic-tory from YCC Vice President Omar Njie ’13.

Gonzalez ran on a platform of proposed changes to students’ academic experiences, Yale Dining, and other aspects of student life. His initiatives include reform-ing the credit/D/fail system, expanding meal plans to accommodate students who stay on campus over fall and spring breaks, and creating a centralized calendar for campus events.

Though the newly elected YCC Board members do not take o!ce until May, according to the YCC consti-tution, Gonzalez is scheduled to meet with Dean of Stu-dent A"airs Marichal Gentry at 3:30 p.m. today and said he is excited to jump into his new role.

“I’m ready to go, to start day one tomorrow — bring it on,” he said. “From here to the end of the year I’m going to be acting like a sponge, absorbing every single thing [current YCC President Brandon Levin ’13 and Njie] know so I can do my job to the best of my abilities as soon as possible.”

Eliasson, who won 40.09 percent of the vote in the presidential runo" election, built his platform on improving overall student life, interactions between the YCC and the Yale College Dean’s O!ce, and commu-nication between the YCC and the student body. More specific plans included opening Commons Dining Hall at night as a study space and creating a system that would allow students to change their Yale ID photos.

Over the past two years, Eliasson has served on the YCC as the Freshman Class Council chair, the YCC Aca-demics Committee chair and a member of three other committees. He had the most previous YCC experience of the three presidential candidates.

Reached after the polls closed, Eliasson congratulated Gonzalez on his win.

“I’m really excited for what YCC will do next year,” Eliasson said. “I hope he gives it his all, because he’ll do a good job.”

This year’s YCC elections headed to a runo" after Eli-asson contacted the Election Committee about a clause in the YCC constitution stating that if the first-place candidate in an election wins less than 40 percent of the votes, he or she must win by “at least 10 percent more votes than the nearest candidate.” Gonzalez won 39.79 percent of the votes in the first election, while Eliasson took 30.73 percent and Cristo Liautaud ’14 took 29.47 percent.

The YCC interpreted the clause to mean that the can-didate needed to win by a margin of 10 percentage points, though the constitution’s wording is in terms of “percent [of] votes.” While elections for three YCC positions did not meet this condition in 2007, 2008 and 2010, the YCC did not hold runo" elections in those cases.

“Although this election rule of the YCC constitution has been neglected in years past, we feel it is our respon-sibility to uphold the YCC constitution,” the Election Committee wrote in a statement Sunday.

Voting for the YCC runo" elections ran from 9 a.m. Monday to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

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

Gonzalez prevails

denied his request for an additional stay and said the city could act as it pleased.

Tuesday afternoon, protesters said they could still succeed in an appeal to the state housing court by arguing that the city broke Connecticut’s anti-lockout law last week when it began to remove protesters from the Green. But that appeal, filed by Occupy attor-ney Irv Pinsky, was rejected by housing court judge Terence Zemetis for being incomplete.

Pinsky could file the appeal again Wednes-day morning, but the housing court does not open until 9 a.m., an hour after police asked protesters to leave. If Pinsky is unsuccessful, members of Occupy New Haven will be out of legal avenues to remain on the Green. Pattis has said he will not appeal the appeals court’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

After the appellate panel issued its deci-sion, protesters began to disassemble some tents at the six-month-old Occupy encamp-ment. While many protesters packed away personal belongings Tuesday, most said they would sleep overnight on the Green on the tents that remained.

Tuesday’s ruling came amid calls to leave not only by City Hall, but also by many

New Haven residents and some members of Occupy New Haven itself.

Josh Smith, who has been involved with the protest since October and is one of eight plainti"s listed in the original lawsuit against the city, asked fellow protesters in a post on the group’s Facebook page last week to con-sider leaving the Green following the group’s six-month anniversary celebration on Sun-day. Occupy New Haven’s real enemy, he said, is the “1 percent,” not the city or the police, and he said he would drop his name from the case.

Nearly all members of Occupy New Haven have said they will continue to remain on the Green until forced o" by the city. Still, mem-bers like Danielle DiGirolamo and Ray Neal,

both plainti"s in the lawsuit against the city, said they will continue protesting with or without an encampment.

Pattis first came to Occupy New Haven’s rescue in mid-March, when o!cials were set to evict protesters after talks between the two groups had failed to reach a consensus. Just as city o!cials prepared to remove campers, Pattis successfully received an injunction for the campground from federal judge Janet Hall that lasted until Kravtiz could hold a hearing.

Before his hearing on March 28, Kravitz extended the stay preventing Occupy’s evic-tion to April 9 in order to give himself time to consider the case and issue a written decision. After deciding in City Hall’s favor, he asked city o!cials to wait until noon on April 10 to remove protesters.

Just before noon, however, Pattis success-fully received a third, week-long stay from the appeals court in order to allow the court to hold a hearing to review Kravitz’s ruling. Word of the stay arrived minutes after city bulldoz-ers arrived to remove the encampment.

Occupy New Haven is the longest surviving Occupy encampment in the Northeast.

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

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Occupy New Haven protesters began packing their belongings Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the city, paving the way for the pro-test’s eviction. The ruling ended a protracted lawsuit in which Occupy protesters hoped to prevent the city from removing their months-old encamp-

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The court’s action today was decisive. The plainti!s have no meaningful chance of success.

ELIZABETH BENTONSpokeswoman, City Hall

Court rules city can evict Occupy

and are changing how they pres-ent their majors to better demon-strate to students what they can gain from a humanities degree.

As Yale’s social sciences grow more popular and the University pours resources into improving its science programs, some humani-ties professors said the humanities must evolve to collaborate more with other disciplines.

“I do think there are inevitably trade-o!s — there is a finite num-ber of students,” Classics Depart-ment Chair Christina Kraus said. “[But] we need to be a little less ‘doomsday crying’ and a little more upbeat about how to make connections.”

Given the embattled state of the humanities, professors said the University must find innova-tive ways to keep the humanities prominent in a changing academic landscape.

STEMMING A CULTURAL SHIFTThough many universities

across the country are downsizing humanities departments, more than 30 humanities professors at Yale interviewed said they are gen-erally confident in the University’s continued support. A more press-ing concern, they said, is a cultural shift away from the humanities within the student body.

The popularity of many humanities majors has waned in the last decade. History, which was the most popular major in 2002 with 217 graduating seniors,

had only 131 graduating seniors in 2011, and political science and economics have surpassed it to become the college’s largest two majors.

In addition, fewer students are majoring in English, American studies and literature than 10 years ago, according to data from the O"ce of Institutional Research, though the size of some smaller majors such as philosophy, history of art and religious studies have remained steady. Roughly 40 per-cent of undergraduates currently major in humanities disciplines overall.

Professors and administrators said Yale’s e!orts to diversify the student body may be contribut-ing to movement away from the humanities. International stu-dents are less familiar with the lib-eral arts model than their Ameri-can counterparts, and students from lower socioeconomic back-grounds may feel added pressure to earn a degree that will likely land them a higher salary, they said, adding that this mindset is spreading among students of all backgrounds.

But Dean of Undergradu-ate Education Joseph Gordon said majors in the social sciences are not as “practically-minded” as many students and par-ents assume, since they are still grounded in the liberal arts. Eco-nomics Department Chair Ben-jamin Polak expressed concern about students entering the eco-nomics major solely to prepare them for a career in finance, even

though the major is consciously designed not to be preprofes-sional.

“I can recall many conver-sations with students who say, ‘Shouldn’t I do economics, rather than literature?’” said Moira Fradinger GRD ’03, director of undergraduate studies for the Comparative Literature Depart-ment. “Their concern is mostly how they’ll be able to find a job after Yale, and whether they should follow the advice of their parents and major in economics.”

Professors interviewed said they think students are misguided in their fears that humanities courses will not lead them to a job after graduation. In response to students’ concerns, some human-ities departments are reconsid-ering how to best present their majors to students.

Fradinger said the comparative literature major will add infor-mation on its website to highlight possible careers. She added that in an increasingly globalized world, knowing foreign languages and literatures is an “incredible asset” but that students often do not realize how widely they can apply these skills to jobs.

The History Department is organizing its courses into “path-ways” to show students in the his-tory major how to form a plan of study organized around a particu-lar theme. The pathways, in areas such as intellectual history and environmental history, are meant to show students they can explore many di!erent topics within his-tory, Steven Pincus, director of undergraduate studies for History, told the News in February.

But Miller and some other pro-fessors said they are not overly concerned by the declining pop-ularity of humanities majors, so long as enrollments in humanities courses remain high. Even though a smaller percentage of Yale Col-lege students may major in the humanities going forward, the humanities could retain a strong presence though the electives stu-dents take. Miller said taking just a few courses in a humanities field can significantly enrich students’ intellectual experience.

Still, undergraduate course registrations in Yale’s humanities departments have fallen steadily over the last decade, from 19,250 in the academic year 2000-’01 to 14,604 in 2010-’11. The down-ward trend in Yale’s most well-established humanities disciplines is especially dramatic: Annual enrollments fell from 4,448 to 2,259 in history courses and from 3,248 to 2,595 in English courses over the last 10 years, according to OIR data.

Miller said she thinks main-taining strong enrollments in humanities courses depends on excellence in teaching.

Italian Department Chair Giuseppe Mazzotta said he views the decline in the humanities enrollments as an opportunity to re-evaluate course o!erings. He said translation skills are becom-ing increasingly useful, so his department will o!er a “Theories of Translation” course and incor-porate more translation assign-ments, such as the translation of movie scripts, into its cultural courses.

Music Department Chair Dan-

iel Harrison GRD ’86 said he does not consider fluctuations in the number of music majors a cause for worry, but that his department should try to “get more students involved in musical study.” Harri-son said he would like to reintro-duce a course he used to teach on interpreting rock and pop music, which proved popular before he had to lessen his teaching load as department chair.

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PUSHWhile enrollment levels in

Yale’s traditional humanities departments have decreased, several interdisciplinary pro-grams that draw on the humani-ties — such as the “humanities” program, history of science and medicine, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies — have seen growth over the past decade.

The number of enrollments in the “humanities” program jumped from 260 to 695 annually over the last 10 years, according to the OIR. French professor How-ard Bloch, the program’s director, said the program was “originally somewhat of an experiment,” add-ing that it has succeeded because “undergraduates are drawn to broad courses that have meaning for their lives.”

Several professors said more traditional humanities depart-ments should alter their course o!erings to account for students’ growing demand for interdisci-plinary studies.

“Everyone is saying, ‘God, [stu-dents] are all going and major-ing in politics and economics.’ Well, OK, let’s study the politics and economics of antiquity, and let’s teach politics and economics something about their own his-tory,” Kraus said of the Classics Department.

Louis Menand, an English pro-fessor at Harvard University who has studied higher education, said universities are “trapped” in an outdated departmental structure, and moving towards interdiscipli-narity would better facilitate aca-demic research, which already fre-quently overlaps between fields.

The push towards interdis-ciplinary study is also central in recent e!orts to broaden the scope of graduate training at the Gradu-ate School of Arts and Sciences.

Though the number of appli-cations to the Graduate School’s humanities programs has contin-ued to rise, graduate students at Yale still su!er from the nation-wide dearth of tenure-track jobs in the humanities.

Graduate students nationwide have reacted to the dismal job market by specializing ever more narrowly, said Pamela Schirmeis-ter, associate dean of Yale Col-lege and the Graduate School, but this tactic “has turned around and slapped everyone in the face.” Students emerge from Ph.D. programs with very specialized knowledge on a topic, but increas-ingly the universities looking to hire them will expect them to be able to teach a much broader area of inquiry, she said.

To combat the tendency toward overspecialization, administra-tors and professors are working to create opportunities for gradu-ate students to teach and research beyond their individual special-ties.

Professors hope to organize a “pan-departmental seminar” in which graduate students from dif-ferent disciplines would work on “topics of general interest,” Bloch said.

Schirmeister said Yale would also like to give graduate students more opportunities similar to the Associates in Teaching Pro-gram, which lets Ph.D. students design and teach an undergrad-uate course along with a faculty member. She added that graduate students could use this as a chance to teach subjects beyond their dis-sertation topics, possibly with faculty from other departments.

The University is currently trying to attract a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help support these types of initia-tives, Miller said.

In addition, administrators are building a larger postdoctoral community in the humanities. Postdoctoral positions give stu-dents a few years after completing a Ph.D. to further their research and gain additional teaching expe-rience, often beyond their imme-diate discipline.

For the first time next year, the University will o!er three post-doctoral positions in the human-ities for students who earned their doctorates from Yale in 2011 or 2012, Miller said. Yale already gained seven postdoctoral fel-

lows in the humanities this year through a program of the Ameri-can Council of Learned Societies, six of whom will stay at the Uni-versity for a second year, and three more postdocs funded through the ACLS will arrive next fall.

Miller told the News in March that she would like to see a “crit-ical mass” of postdocs in the humanities at Yale.

AN EVOLVING IDENTITYThough administrators and

humanities professors have inten-sified e!orts to revamp humani-ties o!erings, the humanities do not dominate the intellectual life of the University as much as they have in the past.

During part of the 1920s, Eng-lish “ruled heaven and earth in Yale College” and more than half of the undergraduate population majored in the subject, historian George W. Pierson ’26 GRD ’33 wrote in a study of Yale College education published in 1983.

Until the middle of the 20th century, talented lecturers in Eng-lish and other humanities courses outshone professors in other departments, and the University “really lagged” in the social sci-ences, said Gaddis Smith, Yale historian and a professor emeritus of history.

“After the Second World War, especially on the economics side, there was a sense of, ‘My God, we don’t have any talent here to speak of!’” Smith said. “And so starting with the provost and the president and the [Yale] Corporation, they said, ‘All right, let’s go get some good economists.’”

Since then, the University made e!orts to grow its social science departments, and more recently its science and engineering pro-grams.

Political science professor Ste-ven Smith said he feels that the University has begun spreading its attention more evenly across dis-ciplines since he arrived at Yale.

“When I came here in 1984, there was a definite feeling that the social sciences, to say nothing of the natural sciences, were not full members of the Yale family,” he said. “That’s the way I felt, and I don’t think I was alone. In the last number of years, these have all become much more real parts of Yale.”

Steven Smith said even the geography of campus reflects the historical centrality of the human-ities: Humanities departments are clustered at the center of campus, with the social sciences further away along Prospect Street and Hillhouse Avenue, and the sci-ences secluded on Science Hill. He added that plans to build two new residential colleges near Science Hill are of symbolic importance, since they will become a physical “anchor” between the academic divisions.

Administrators said they do not see the development of Yale’s var-ious departments as a “zero-sum game.”

“The rebuilding of a depart-ment such as Chemistry, or the expansion of engineering fields, is of critical importance, but it should in no way be understood as representing a change in anyone at Yale’s feeling about the impor-tance of the humanities,” Provost Peter Salovey said.

University President Richard Levin said the humanities con-tinue to play “a fundamentally critical role” at Yale as the Uni-versity tries to revamp weaker departments. He added that some

humanities departments — such as the Classics and Philosophy departments — have had “huge improvements” over the last decade.

Humanities professors said they welcome improvements in other disciplines as long as they do not come at the expense of their own programs. Some pro-fessors pointed to projects such as the expansion to West Cam-pus, the 136-acre science research facility located seven miles from central campus that Yale pur-chased in 2007, as being a “diver-sion” of resources that could have strengthened other programs.

“[Yale’s] historic strength is in the humanities, and I think to tin-ker with that formula is poten-tially to invite big problems,” said Katie Trumpener, director of graduate studies for Comparative Literature. “You can strengthen other parts of the University, but the humanities should stay king.”

SETTING A NEW STANDARDProfessors said Yale’s long-

standing strength in the humani-ties uniquely positions the Uni-versity to pioneer innovations in how humanities are taught and studied, which could help invigo-rate these fields nationwide.

“[Yale] is probably the univer-sity in the United States that is most associated with the human-ities, and it could be so in all the world,” said Dudley Andrew, chair of the Comparative Litera-ture Department. “We don’t want to let that go away, and we don’t want anyone to look at this place and think, ‘Aha, the humanities are dimming at Yale, so they must be dimming everywhere.’”

Miller said she believes it is “incumbent” upon Yale to pro-vide leadership in how universi-ties train graduate students in the humanities and in “how we imag-ine the role of the humanities in public life.” She cited the “public humanities” master’s program in American studies as an example of how graduate students learn to share their research to communi-ties beyond Yale.

As members of the Yale com-munity engage with the larger academic community, English Department Chair Michael War-ner said they should confront the danger that the humanities become too narrowly defined as humanities departments nation-wide are pressured to defend their programs.

One way humanities professors already reach beyond Yale’s cam-pus is by showcasing their courses to the rest of the world on Open Yale Courses, the website that makes 42 Yale courses available for free online, said Dale Martin, director of graduate studies for religious studies.

For Philosophy Department Chair Tamar Gendler ’87, the most significant way Yale can support the humanities is by continuing to train graduate students who will become leading researchers and teachers at universities nation-wide.

Gordon said Yale should avoid becoming “complacent” about Yale’s pre-eminence in the humanities.

“We should build on our his-toric success,” he said, “not just coast on it.”

Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at

antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Yale English Department faculty interestsFaculty members’ academic interests, as listed on the department website, include “fiction and sensory experience,” “alliterative poetry and prose,” Victorian “working-class autobiographies,” “the afterlife of Tacitus,” “literature of genocide,” “editing and editorial theory,” “a!ect studies,” “scholasticism and its vernacular intersections,” “glosses, commentaries, and paratexts” and “prison studies.”

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Let’s imagine this as a horse race with three horses racing over 100 years, starting in 1900. The humanities horse, which was namely the English Department, cer-tainly was in the lead through the period of the Second World War. But today I don’t think the humanities horse has broken a leg or anything like that. It’s the other two

horses that have come on stronger. GADDIS SMITH YALE HISTORIAN

We want the humanities to continue to lead the way, but it would be great if we could be strong across the board. It isn’t anything to do with the sciences sup-

planting the humanities — that’s not going to happen tomorrow, or in a decade, or ever. THOMAS POLLARD DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

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7:30 PM “Tribute to Rumi: An Evening of Sufi Whirling & Meditation.” The evening will feature a performance of the “Whirling” meditation by Sh. Bapak Waleed, in honor of the mystical poet Rumi, who lived 800 years ago in Central Asia. The program will include poetry readings, a video presentation, and a selection of spiritual, meditative songs and chants accompanied by traditional music of Central Asia. Saint Thomas More Center (268 Park St.).

FRIDAY, APRIL 204:00 PM “Bloom on Shakespeare.” Professor Harold Bloom, author of “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,” will read passages from plays crucial to his view of the Bard’s achievement. Part of Shakespeare at Yale. Battell Chapel (400 College St.) 8:30 PM Yale Unity Spring Show. Traditional Korean drumming will be performed. Pierson College (231 Park St.), dining hall.

SATURDAY, APRIL 217:00 PM “Give Me A Shot of Anything: House Calls to the Homeless.” This documentary follows a Boston street doctor as he delivers lifesaving medical care to his struggling patients, who must deal with their demons, disease and death. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session featuring the film’s director, the executive director of Care for the Homeless, and other experts on health care for the homeless. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

8:00 PM “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).” See all 37 comedies, histories and tragedies put onstage. Part of Shakespeare at Yale. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 102.

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BY JORDAN KONELLSTAFF REPORTER

Last month, classical pianist Reinis Zarins MUS ’09 was awarded the Great Latvian Music Award, the highest musical honor in Latvia, in the category of “Out-standing Interpretation.” The News spoke with Zarins about the award and his time at Yale.

Q What did you win the Great Latvian Music award for? What does the “Inter-

pretation” category signify?

A The Great Latvian Music Award is awarded every year in various cat-

egories, just like the Grammy. This year, I was nominated along [with] two oth-ers for ‘Outstanding Interpretation.’ I had performed many times in Latvia dur-ing 2011, and a few of those performances were noticed as really excellent, so it was actually not a single concert, but three concerts, that were taken into account by the jury: a Mozart concerto, a solo recital and a duo recital with a Latvian violinist, Paula Sumane. It was stated that my abil-ity to di!erentiate between various genres, styles etc. has been ‘outstanding.’ Inter-pretation itself is a weird thing. People want to hear Chopin or Mozart, but at the same time they want to hear it my way, not some generic way. I guess, when such a ‘my way’ turns out totally convincing, then you say, wow, what an outstanding interpreta-tion!

Q Do you compose any music?

A No, I do not. However, I love to impro-vise, to create music on the spot, as I

feel. But this has been my private pleasure so far, and I do not write it down, for it’s not checked by my intellect, it’s only my feel-ings. Feelings come and go.

Q How did you end up being considered for the award? Did you enter, or did they

select you?

A The nominated musicians often even do not know that a member of the jury

has come to their concert. When the nomi-nations are published in the beginning of a new year, they come as a sweet surprise to all. The actual voting is closed so even the jury members find out the winners only when they are announced from the stage.

Q What did you study at Yale?

A At Yale, I had the enormous privi-lege to study with Boris Berman at the

School of Music. I did a Certificate in Per-formance degree which lasts three years, and so allowed me to experience Yale in its richness. Yale has a special place in my heart now since it was there that I could

really grow up, being just two weeks new-lywed when [my wife and I] moved in.

Q How does it feel to have won such a prestigious award? What was your ini-

tial reaction?

A Well, it’s joyful of course. But here’s what I think: any award can serve to

encourage a man in his endeavors, yet it easily feeds one’s pride and conceit and thus serves ill instead of blessing. My wife after the announcement honestly said, ‘Too bad you got it!’ And I love her all the more for these words because she knows my true heart not the appearance only.

Q Who do you consider to be your biggest musical inspiration?

A Though I have learned so much from my teachers, from other musicians

and composers, I nevertheless must give all the glory to Jesus, who is the inspiration for me to love and do music in the first place.

Q Do you play other instruments besides piano?

A Nope, it’s not possible practically. Even to do the piano really [well], I

need more time than I have now with two children and all, let alone other instru-ments. But I am thankful to Yale again for giving me brilliant opportunities to learn to deal with harpsichord, fortepiano and organ at least, so now I go to a museum of instruments to check out how Bach would have heard his works in his day or Mozart in his. This obviously is an advantage to me.

Q What are you currently working on musically?

A Soon I will record two albums on Champs Hill Records, one on the

theme of circus, the other as a tribute to the first Latvian national composer, Jaz-eps Vitols. Then there’s Gidon Kremer who has just signed me up for his festival in Lat-via this summer. There’s plenty to do, and that’s a blessing!

Contact JORDAN KONELL at jordan.konell@yale.edu .

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THIS WEEKIN THE ARTS

6-8 P.M. WED. APR. 18THE FILM STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS OUR ANNUAL AWARD TO STANDISH LAWDER Short films director Standish Lawder will present five of his films, ranging in length from 3-20 minutes, with a Q&A session to follow.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

8-9 P.M. WED. APR. 18YALE BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Under the direction of Robert Mealy, the Yale Baroque Ensemble presents a concert featuring the chamber music of Handel, Boccherini and Mozart.

Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave.

4 P.M. THURS. APR. 19SHAKESPEARE, LINCOLN, AND AMBITION Sterling Professor of English David Bromwich, who teaches “Lincoln in Thought and Action” and “Shakespeare’s Political Plays,” will present a lecture on the two icons. Part of the Shakespeare at Yale festival.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall, LC 102, 63 High St.

4-5 P.M. THURS. APR. 19MASTER’S TEA WITH DICK CAVETT Dick Cavett, the former host of the Emmy award-winning “The Dick Cavett Show,” lands on campus to participate in a Saybrook College Master’s Tea.

Saybrook College Master’s House, 70 High St.

8-10 P.M. THURS. APR. 19GLASS ACT Written by Cleo Handler ‘12 and Alex Ratner ‘14, this original musical draws inspiration from J.D. Salinger’s “Glass Family” short stories and novellas to narrate the adventures of a “1930s family of celebrity whiz kids.”

Saybrook College Underbrook Theater, 242 Elm St.

THURS. APR. 19 - SAT. APR. 21THE GIRL FROM ANDROS Translated by Michael Knowles ’12 for the first time into an English language play, Machiavelli’s “The Girl from Andros” makes its world premiere this weekend.

Morse Stiles Crescent Theater 302 York St.

4 P.M. FRI. APR. 20BLOOM ON SHAKESPEARE Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom will read passages and expound upon his 1998 book “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.”

Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm St.

FRI. APR. 20 - SAT. APR. 21WEST SIDE STORY President Levin — Brandon Levin ’13 of the YCC, that is — stars as a lovestruck Romeo in the classic musical this weekend.

O! Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.” FRANCIS BACON ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

In an otherwise typical o"ce building, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven has cre-ated an exhibition showcasing the work of local abstract artists Blinn Jacobs and Tim Nikiforuk.

For eight years, the Arts Council has been using “Gallery 195” on the fourth floor of the First Niagara Bank office building on Church Street as a venue for two-person art shows. At first glance, the gallery seems to be no more than a hallway, but viewers realize soon enough that there are works of art hung along both walls. By placing the artists’ work within the context of a corporate institution, the Arts Council hopes to encourage visitors to see the pieces in an unex-pected way, said Director of Artistic Services & Programs Debbie Hesse. She added that Jacobs and Nikiforuk were paired together because

while Jacobs’ style is geometric and Nikiforuk’s more organic, both artists’ pieces inspire inter-pretative dialogue.

“We want to create a conversation between these two seemingly divergent styles,” Hesse said of the show, which opened March 20.

At the exhibition’s reception on Tuesday night, Jacobs, who studied as a special student at

the Yale School of Art for four years, said she is very interested in color and transparencies and works with closely with linear patterns. Three of her larger pieces feature layers of gift ribbon glued on top of one another and sandwiched between two pieces of Lexan, a material resem-bling Plexiglas.

As a “non-representative” artist, Jacobs noted that her work does not intend to evoke a specific emotion from the viewer. Nevertheless, she said that people have described her pieces as “zen” and “contemplative.”

Meanwhile, Nikiforuk’s style is more fluid and dynamic, characterized by amorphous shapes and complementary colors intermingled with swirling inked outlines.

“They remind me of the fanciful drawings around the text of illuminated manuscripts,” said one New Haven resident who attended the opening.

Three visitors to the gallery interviewed said that they appreciated the imaginative element of Nikiforuk’s works, most notably the way in which they conjure images of seemingly incon-gruous objects and ideas. As former Arts Council Executive Director Frances “Bitsie” Clark said, “You can read so many things into it: it could be cities, flowers, an airport hub — some of it is even reminiscent of a tornado.”

Nikiforuk said he originally derived the design for his pieces from photographs of bacteria, cells, viruses and human skeletons. In recent years, he said, his work has gotten increasingly darker. His drawings have the vague contours of a mush-room cloud because he is interested in biological warfare and its implications for human society. Ultimately, though, Nikiforuk said he is con-cerned with the personal reactions of his view-ers.

“I create the pieces with a certain imagery

in mind,” he said. “But as people come in, they become the artists.”

Ewa Buttolph, the assistant to the president of Newman Architects LLC on York Street, said she thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit because both artists gave the visitors a “tremendous opportu-nity” to open their imaginations.

Arts Council member Marion Sachdeva remarked that sometimes one can be startled by one’s own conceptions of a piece of art.

“The ribbons are beautiful to look at,” she said. “And with [Nikiforuk’s] work, you can just fall into them — it’s like entering a di!erent world. You can go in and stay there for a while.”

The exhibit, one of four that the Arts Council stages annually at Gallery 195, will close June 15.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

BY CAROLINE MCCULLOUGHCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

This Thursday in the Morse Stiles Theater, Niccolò Machiavelli’s first comedy will make its world debut on an English-speaking stage.

Machiavelli’s “L’Andria,” though well-known among Italian scholars of Renaissance Drama, has been until now relatively unknown within English criticism of Machiavelli. Start-ing last semester, Michael Knowles ’12 began translating the play into the first English script that could be performed on stage. The final product, titled “The Girl from Andros,” will be presented by a cast of 11 Yalies this weekend. “This is not an unknown play by any means,” Knowles said. “In fact it is a well-known play. But somehow there was never an English ver-sion done before.”

Knowles said he was approached by Italian professor Angela Capodivacca, a scholar of the Early Modern Renaissance, who asked him to translate Machiavelli’s Italian script into Eng-lish as a senior project. As a history and Ital-ian literature double major, Knowles described the project as “the spot on the Venn Diagram” of his interests, as it merges both theater and politics.

Machiavelli’s play is in itself an adaptation of a play by the Roman playwright Terence, which is in turn an adaptation of a play of the same name by the Greek playwright Mean-

der. Producer Allison Hadley ’12 noted that the text has changed subtly with each translation, adding that with each iteration, the play has been appropriated by the culture of the time. Knowles, she said, has captured how a mod-ern audience would interpret the “class and authoritarian dynamics that are the undercur-rents of this play,” 500 years after Machiavel-li’s time.

“The new translation and performance of the Andria is hopefully going to open new ways of inquiry and thinking about the relationship between Machiavelli and translation, Machia-velli and theatre, and, last but not least, Machi-avelli’s understanding of the phenomenology of the political sphere,” Capodivacca said.

Knowles explained that Machiavelli’s play works to confuse Terence’s plot, which focuses

on the exploits of a wily servant, David, who manipulates his princely master from behind the scenes. David — who is called wicked, evil and brilliant throughout the play — is modeled on Machiavelli himself, he said.

Like much of Machiavelli’s work, the author wrote himself into the play, inserting the poli-tics of contemporary Florence and alluding to many themes present in his works of political philosophy, Knowles said.

“Machiavelli is obviously an influential fig-ure in political thought, but his comedies show this in a very di!erent manner than, say, ‘The Prince,’” Hadley said.

Capodivacca said this would be a “water-shed” event for the English-speaking world because “the Andria stages many of the recur-ring political issues at stake for Machiavelli, underlining with unprecedented importance Machiavelli’s interest in the theatrical.”

Director Sam Lasman ’12 agreed that this play demonstrates a new side of Machiavelli, showing audiences what amused him in the form of an absurdist, witty comedy.

“He was drawn to something in this very silly Hellenistic comedy,” Lasman said in an email. “Something about its exploration of human connections, its blithe approach to injus-tice, and the underlying deadly seriousness of its stakes: citizenship, miscegenation and the simultaneous fragility and vitality of male-female relationships.”

Knowles said he looks forward to the play’s contribution to next year’s 500th anniversary celebration of Machiavelli’s political treatise “The Prince.” Knowles added that he hopes that the play will be published, so that it can be preformed regularly.

Currently, the play is part of this semester’s Shakespeare at Yale festival. Hadley explained that “The Girl from Andros” is representative of the influence of Machiavelli’s — and more

broadly Italian Renaissance comedy’s — on Shakespeare. The Bard, she said, frequently borrowed source material from the Italians.

With funding from both Shakespeare at Yale and a Morse College Creative Performing Arts award, the show has a relatively high budget of $2,700, Knowles said, which has gone toward elaborate sets and costumes.

“Because this play is going to be such a his-toric production everybody wanted to be a part of it,” Knowles said, “Yale does a lot of impor-tant things first. I’m proud that this English World premiere is happening here.”

The show will run April 19 to 21.

Contact CAROLINE MCCULLOUGH at caroline.mccullough@yale.edu .

Any award can serve to encourage a man in his endeavors, yet it eaily feeds one’s pride.

REINIS ZARINS MUS ’09

BY ROBERT PECKSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven theater company Theatre 4’s upcoming show, “SALVAGE,” aims to take audiences by storm, quite literally.

Written by Cleveland-based play-wright George Brant and commis-sioned by Theatre 4, the play will make its worldwide debut Thursday night at UpCrown Studios on Crown Street. Set on the day of a man named Dan-ny’s funeral, the show follows Danny’s mother, sister and high school ex-girl-friend as they attempt to save his pos-sessions from the path of an oncoming storm. The story was inspired by themes of responsibility and personal sacrifice, said co-producing director and Theatre 4 co-founder Mariah Sage, who plays Danny’s sister.

“The theme of saving someone or saving yourself is interwoven through-out the play,” Sage said. “In the face of personal loss, what is valuable about a human’s life and about the things that we carry with us?”

Theatre 4 commissioned the show after working with Brant in the past on shorter pieces, she said. The one stipu-lation to the author, she added, was that the show be written for her and fellow Theatre 4 founders Rebecka Jones and Jane Tamarkin. Beyond that, Brant was free to pursue his own artistic goals with the show. Tamarkin said the play is espe-cially significant because it is written for three women of varying ages, which she said is rare among dramatic works.

Sage said her character, Kelly, is determined to preserve the mem-ory of her brother before the oncom-ing storm floods their home’s base-ment and destroys his possessions. This goal is confounded by Jones’s character Amanda, who, after dating and dump-ing Danny in high school, has gone on to become a successful author on the strength of a book based on her relation-ship with Danny and his family. When she walks into the family’s home on the eve of the flood, Sage said, Kelly is ini-tially very excited to see her, while Dan-ny’s mother Roberta, played by Tamar-kin, is less welcoming, since she blames Danny’s post-high school depression on Amanda.

“[Roberta] is a challenging role to play,” Tamarkin said. “Roberta is a pit-bull. I’ve got a little bit of that in me maybe, but not very much.”

Of her character, Jones said Aman-da’s motivations in the play are often unclear. While Amanda initially seems

to want merely to pay her last respects to Danny, Sage said, her goals become much more complex as they show goes on. The stakes for Amanda are just as high as they are for Kelly and Roberta, Jones said.

Although she declined to elaborate out of a desire to maintain suspense, Sage said that one of the show’s charac-ters will be forced to make “the ultimate sacrifice” out of responsibility to her deceased loved one.

In a press release, Brant said he hopes his script can help audience members examine guilt and loss in their own lives, just as the characters will confront it on stage.

“If [viewers] leave the play with a determination to sort through the guilt and regret in their own lives in order to release themselves from any emotional impediments to their happiness, well, then that would be wonderful,” Brant said.

Theatre 4 Executive Director Susan Clark said the show is part of Theatre 4’s practice of performing in non-tradi-tional spaces. The show will be staged in a repurposed room that formerly housed an art gallery, a “theatrically raw” per-formance space, Clark said. In the past, Clark said, productions have been staged in hotel lobbies and co!ee shops.

The play will run through May 6, with showings Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Contact ROBERT PECK at robert.peck@yale.edu .

YANAN WANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven holds four exhibitions annually at the First Niagara Bank o!ce building on Church Street.

VICTOR KANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Actors rehearse for Machiavelli’s “The Girl from Andros,” translated from the original Italian by Michael Knowles ’12.

The new translation and performance of Andria is hopefully going to open new ways of inquiry and thinking about … Machiavelli.

ANGELA CAPODIVACCAProfessor, Yale Italian Department

We want to create a conversation between these two seemingly divergent styles.

DEBBIE HESSEDirector of Artistic Services & Programs

In the face of personal loss, what is valuable about a human’s life and about the things that we carry with us?

MARIAH SAGE“Kelly”

REINISZARINS.COM

Reinis Zarins won the Great Latvian Music Award in the category of “Outstanding Interpre-tation.”

MUS alum wins top Latvian award

First-time Machiavelli translation debuts at Yale The lull before the storm, taken to the stage

Set in an o!ce, abstract art abounds

ARTS & CULTURE

BY JORDAN KONELLSTAFF REPORTER

Last month, classical pianist Reinis Zarins MUS ’09 was awarded the Great Latvian Music Award, the highest musical honor in Latvia, in the category of “Out-standing Interpretation.” The News spoke with Zarins about the award and his time at Yale.

Q What did you win the Great Latvian Music award for? What does the “Inter-

pretation” category signify?

A The Great Latvian Music Award is awarded every year in various cat-

egories, just like the Grammy. This year, I was nominated along [with] two oth-ers for ‘Outstanding Interpretation.’ I had performed many times in Latvia dur-ing 2011, and a few of those performances were noticed as really excellent, so it was actually not a single concert, but three concerts, that were taken into account by the jury: a Mozart concerto, a solo recital and a duo recital with a Latvian violinist, Paula Sumane. It was stated that my abil-ity to di!erentiate between various genres, styles etc. has been ‘outstanding.’ Inter-pretation itself is a weird thing. People want to hear Chopin or Mozart, but at the same time they want to hear it my way, not some generic way. I guess, when such a ‘my way’ turns out totally convincing, then you say, wow, what an outstanding interpreta-tion!

Q Do you compose any music?

A No, I do not. However, I love to impro-vise, to create music on the spot, as I

feel. But this has been my private pleasure so far, and I do not write it down, for it’s not checked by my intellect, it’s only my feel-ings. Feelings come and go.

Q How did you end up being considered for the award? Did you enter, or did they

select you?

A The nominated musicians often even do not know that a member of the jury

has come to their concert. When the nomi-nations are published in the beginning of a new year, they come as a sweet surprise to all. The actual voting is closed so even the jury members find out the winners only when they are announced from the stage.

Q What did you study at Yale?

A At Yale, I had the enormous privi-lege to study with Boris Berman at the

School of Music. I did a Certificate in Per-formance degree which lasts three years, and so allowed me to experience Yale in its richness. Yale has a special place in my heart now since it was there that I could

really grow up, being just two weeks new-lywed when [my wife and I] moved in.

Q How does it feel to have won such a prestigious award? What was your ini-

tial reaction?

A Well, it’s joyful of course. But here’s what I think: any award can serve to

encourage a man in his endeavors, yet it easily feeds one’s pride and conceit and thus serves ill instead of blessing. My wife after the announcement honestly said, ‘Too bad you got it!’ And I love her all the more for these words because she knows my true heart not the appearance only.

Q Who do you consider to be your biggest musical inspiration?

A Though I have learned so much from my teachers, from other musicians

and composers, I nevertheless must give all the glory to Jesus, who is the inspiration for me to love and do music in the first place.

Q Do you play other instruments besides piano?

A Nope, it’s not possible practically. Even to do the piano really [well], I

need more time than I have now with two children and all, let alone other instru-ments. But I am thankful to Yale again for giving me brilliant opportunities to learn to deal with harpsichord, fortepiano and organ at least, so now I go to a museum of instruments to check out how Bach would have heard his works in his day or Mozart in his. This obviously is an advantage to me.

Q What are you currently working on musically?

A Soon I will record two albums on Champs Hill Records, one on the

theme of circus, the other as a tribute to the first Latvian national composer, Jaz-eps Vitols. Then there’s Gidon Kremer who has just signed me up for his festival in Lat-via this summer. There’s plenty to do, and that’s a blessing!

Contact JORDAN KONELL at jordan.konell@yale.edu .

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THIS WEEKIN THE ARTS

6-8 P.M. WED. APR. 18THE FILM STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS OUR ANNUAL AWARD TO STANDISH LAWDER Short films director Standish Lawder will present five of his films, ranging in length from 3-20 minutes, with a Q&A session to follow.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

8-9 P.M. WED. APR. 18YALE BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Under the direction of Robert Mealy, the Yale Baroque Ensemble presents a concert featuring the chamber music of Handel, Boccherini and Mozart.

Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave.

4 P.M. THURS. APR. 19SHAKESPEARE, LINCOLN, AND AMBITION Sterling Professor of English David Bromwich, who teaches “Lincoln in Thought and Action” and “Shakespeare’s Political Plays,” will present a lecture on the two icons. Part of the Shakespeare at Yale festival.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall, LC 102, 63 High St.

4-5 P.M. THURS. APR. 19MASTER’S TEA WITH DICK CAVETT Dick Cavett, the former host of the Emmy award-winning “The Dick Cavett Show,” lands on campus to participate in a Saybrook College Master’s Tea.

Saybrook College Master’s House, 70 High St.

8-10 P.M. THURS. APR. 19GLASS ACT Written by Cleo Handler ‘12 and Alex Ratner ‘14, this original musical draws inspiration from J.D. Salinger’s “Glass Family” short stories and novellas to narrate the adventures of a “1930s family of celebrity whiz kids.”

Saybrook College Underbrook Theater, 242 Elm St.

THURS. APR. 19 - SAT. APR. 21THE GIRL FROM ANDROS Translated by Michael Knowles ’12 for the first time into an English language play, Machiavelli’s “The Girl from Andros” makes its world premiere this weekend.

Morse Stiles Crescent Theater 302 York St.

4 P.M. FRI. APR. 20BLOOM ON SHAKESPEARE Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom will read passages and expound upon his 1998 book “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.”

Battell Chapel, Corner of College and Elm St.

FRI. APR. 20 - SAT. APR. 21WEST SIDE STORY President Levin — Brandon Levin ’13 of the YCC, that is — stars as a lovestruck Romeo in the classic musical this weekend.

O! Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.” FRANCIS BACON ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

In an otherwise typical o"ce building, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven has cre-ated an exhibition showcasing the work of local abstract artists Blinn Jacobs and Tim Nikiforuk.

For eight years, the Arts Council has been using “Gallery 195” on the fourth floor of the First Niagara Bank office building on Church Street as a venue for two-person art shows. At first glance, the gallery seems to be no more than a hallway, but viewers realize soon enough that there are works of art hung along both walls. By placing the artists’ work within the context of a corporate institution, the Arts Council hopes to encourage visitors to see the pieces in an unex-pected way, said Director of Artistic Services & Programs Debbie Hesse. She added that Jacobs and Nikiforuk were paired together because

while Jacobs’ style is geometric and Nikiforuk’s more organic, both artists’ pieces inspire inter-pretative dialogue.

“We want to create a conversation between these two seemingly divergent styles,” Hesse said of the show, which opened March 20.

At the exhibition’s reception on Tuesday night, Jacobs, who studied as a special student at

the Yale School of Art for four years, said she is very interested in color and transparencies and works with closely with linear patterns. Three of her larger pieces feature layers of gift ribbon glued on top of one another and sandwiched between two pieces of Lexan, a material resem-bling Plexiglas.

As a “non-representative” artist, Jacobs noted that her work does not intend to evoke a specific emotion from the viewer. Nevertheless, she said that people have described her pieces as “zen” and “contemplative.”

Meanwhile, Nikiforuk’s style is more fluid and dynamic, characterized by amorphous shapes and complementary colors intermingled with swirling inked outlines.

“They remind me of the fanciful drawings around the text of illuminated manuscripts,” said one New Haven resident who attended the opening.

Three visitors to the gallery interviewed said that they appreciated the imaginative element of Nikiforuk’s works, most notably the way in which they conjure images of seemingly incon-gruous objects and ideas. As former Arts Council Executive Director Frances “Bitsie” Clark said, “You can read so many things into it: it could be cities, flowers, an airport hub — some of it is even reminiscent of a tornado.”

Nikiforuk said he originally derived the design for his pieces from photographs of bacteria, cells, viruses and human skeletons. In recent years, he said, his work has gotten increasingly darker. His drawings have the vague contours of a mush-room cloud because he is interested in biological warfare and its implications for human society. Ultimately, though, Nikiforuk said he is con-cerned with the personal reactions of his view-ers.

“I create the pieces with a certain imagery

in mind,” he said. “But as people come in, they become the artists.”

Ewa Buttolph, the assistant to the president of Newman Architects LLC on York Street, said she thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit because both artists gave the visitors a “tremendous opportu-nity” to open their imaginations.

Arts Council member Marion Sachdeva remarked that sometimes one can be startled by one’s own conceptions of a piece of art.

“The ribbons are beautiful to look at,” she said. “And with [Nikiforuk’s] work, you can just fall into them — it’s like entering a di!erent world. You can go in and stay there for a while.”

The exhibit, one of four that the Arts Council stages annually at Gallery 195, will close June 15.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

BY CAROLINE MCCULLOUGHCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

This Thursday in the Morse Stiles Theater, Niccolò Machiavelli’s first comedy will make its world debut on an English-speaking stage.

Machiavelli’s “L’Andria,” though well-known among Italian scholars of Renaissance Drama, has been until now relatively unknown within English criticism of Machiavelli. Start-ing last semester, Michael Knowles ’12 began translating the play into the first English script that could be performed on stage. The final product, titled “The Girl from Andros,” will be presented by a cast of 11 Yalies this weekend. “This is not an unknown play by any means,” Knowles said. “In fact it is a well-known play. But somehow there was never an English ver-sion done before.”

Knowles said he was approached by Italian professor Angela Capodivacca, a scholar of the Early Modern Renaissance, who asked him to translate Machiavelli’s Italian script into Eng-lish as a senior project. As a history and Ital-ian literature double major, Knowles described the project as “the spot on the Venn Diagram” of his interests, as it merges both theater and politics.

Machiavelli’s play is in itself an adaptation of a play by the Roman playwright Terence, which is in turn an adaptation of a play of the same name by the Greek playwright Mean-

der. Producer Allison Hadley ’12 noted that the text has changed subtly with each translation, adding that with each iteration, the play has been appropriated by the culture of the time. Knowles, she said, has captured how a mod-ern audience would interpret the “class and authoritarian dynamics that are the undercur-rents of this play,” 500 years after Machiavel-li’s time.

“The new translation and performance of the Andria is hopefully going to open new ways of inquiry and thinking about the relationship between Machiavelli and translation, Machia-velli and theatre, and, last but not least, Machi-avelli’s understanding of the phenomenology of the political sphere,” Capodivacca said.

Knowles explained that Machiavelli’s play works to confuse Terence’s plot, which focuses

on the exploits of a wily servant, David, who manipulates his princely master from behind the scenes. David — who is called wicked, evil and brilliant throughout the play — is modeled on Machiavelli himself, he said.

Like much of Machiavelli’s work, the author wrote himself into the play, inserting the poli-tics of contemporary Florence and alluding to many themes present in his works of political philosophy, Knowles said.

“Machiavelli is obviously an influential fig-ure in political thought, but his comedies show this in a very di!erent manner than, say, ‘The Prince,’” Hadley said.

Capodivacca said this would be a “water-shed” event for the English-speaking world because “the Andria stages many of the recur-ring political issues at stake for Machiavelli, underlining with unprecedented importance Machiavelli’s interest in the theatrical.”

Director Sam Lasman ’12 agreed that this play demonstrates a new side of Machiavelli, showing audiences what amused him in the form of an absurdist, witty comedy.

“He was drawn to something in this very silly Hellenistic comedy,” Lasman said in an email. “Something about its exploration of human connections, its blithe approach to injus-tice, and the underlying deadly seriousness of its stakes: citizenship, miscegenation and the simultaneous fragility and vitality of male-female relationships.”

Knowles said he looks forward to the play’s contribution to next year’s 500th anniversary celebration of Machiavelli’s political treatise “The Prince.” Knowles added that he hopes that the play will be published, so that it can be preformed regularly.

Currently, the play is part of this semester’s Shakespeare at Yale festival. Hadley explained that “The Girl from Andros” is representative of the influence of Machiavelli’s — and more

broadly Italian Renaissance comedy’s — on Shakespeare. The Bard, she said, frequently borrowed source material from the Italians.

With funding from both Shakespeare at Yale and a Morse College Creative Performing Arts award, the show has a relatively high budget of $2,700, Knowles said, which has gone toward elaborate sets and costumes.

“Because this play is going to be such a his-toric production everybody wanted to be a part of it,” Knowles said, “Yale does a lot of impor-tant things first. I’m proud that this English World premiere is happening here.”

The show will run April 19 to 21.

Contact CAROLINE MCCULLOUGH at caroline.mccullough@yale.edu .

Any award can serve to encourage a man in his endeavors, yet it eaily feeds one’s pride.

REINIS ZARINS MUS ’09

BY ROBERT PECKSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven theater company Theatre 4’s upcoming show, “SALVAGE,” aims to take audiences by storm, quite literally.

Written by Cleveland-based play-wright George Brant and commis-sioned by Theatre 4, the play will make its worldwide debut Thursday night at UpCrown Studios on Crown Street. Set on the day of a man named Dan-ny’s funeral, the show follows Danny’s mother, sister and high school ex-girl-friend as they attempt to save his pos-sessions from the path of an oncoming storm. The story was inspired by themes of responsibility and personal sacrifice, said co-producing director and Theatre 4 co-founder Mariah Sage, who plays Danny’s sister.

“The theme of saving someone or saving yourself is interwoven through-out the play,” Sage said. “In the face of personal loss, what is valuable about a human’s life and about the things that we carry with us?”

Theatre 4 commissioned the show after working with Brant in the past on shorter pieces, she said. The one stipu-lation to the author, she added, was that the show be written for her and fellow Theatre 4 founders Rebecka Jones and Jane Tamarkin. Beyond that, Brant was free to pursue his own artistic goals with the show. Tamarkin said the play is espe-cially significant because it is written for three women of varying ages, which she said is rare among dramatic works.

Sage said her character, Kelly, is determined to preserve the mem-ory of her brother before the oncom-ing storm floods their home’s base-ment and destroys his possessions. This goal is confounded by Jones’s character Amanda, who, after dating and dump-ing Danny in high school, has gone on to become a successful author on the strength of a book based on her relation-ship with Danny and his family. When she walks into the family’s home on the eve of the flood, Sage said, Kelly is ini-tially very excited to see her, while Dan-ny’s mother Roberta, played by Tamar-kin, is less welcoming, since she blames Danny’s post-high school depression on Amanda.

“[Roberta] is a challenging role to play,” Tamarkin said. “Roberta is a pit-bull. I’ve got a little bit of that in me maybe, but not very much.”

Of her character, Jones said Aman-da’s motivations in the play are often unclear. While Amanda initially seems

to want merely to pay her last respects to Danny, Sage said, her goals become much more complex as they show goes on. The stakes for Amanda are just as high as they are for Kelly and Roberta, Jones said.

Although she declined to elaborate out of a desire to maintain suspense, Sage said that one of the show’s charac-ters will be forced to make “the ultimate sacrifice” out of responsibility to her deceased loved one.

In a press release, Brant said he hopes his script can help audience members examine guilt and loss in their own lives, just as the characters will confront it on stage.

“If [viewers] leave the play with a determination to sort through the guilt and regret in their own lives in order to release themselves from any emotional impediments to their happiness, well, then that would be wonderful,” Brant said.

Theatre 4 Executive Director Susan Clark said the show is part of Theatre 4’s practice of performing in non-tradi-tional spaces. The show will be staged in a repurposed room that formerly housed an art gallery, a “theatrically raw” per-formance space, Clark said. In the past, Clark said, productions have been staged in hotel lobbies and co!ee shops.

The play will run through May 6, with showings Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Contact ROBERT PECK at robert.peck@yale.edu .

YANAN WANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven holds four exhibitions annually at the First Niagara Bank o!ce building on Church Street.

VICTOR KANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Actors rehearse for Machiavelli’s “The Girl from Andros,” translated from the original Italian by Michael Knowles ’12.

The new translation and performance of Andria is hopefully going to open new ways of inquiry and thinking about … Machiavelli.

ANGELA CAPODIVACCAProfessor, Yale Italian Department

We want to create a conversation between these two seemingly divergent styles.

DEBBIE HESSEDirector of Artistic Services & Programs

In the face of personal loss, what is valuable about a human’s life and about the things that we carry with us?

MARIAH SAGE“Kelly”

REINISZARINS.COM

Reinis Zarins won the Great Latvian Music Award in the category of “Outstanding Interpre-tation.”

MUS alum wins top Latvian award

First-time Machiavelli translation debuts at Yale The lull before the storm, taken to the stage

Set in an o!ce, abstract art abounds

NATIONPAGE 10 YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

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BY JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service prostitution scandal escalated Tuesday with the disclosure that at least 20 women had been in hotel rooms with U.S. agents and military personnel just before Presi-dent Barack Obama arrived for a summit with Latin American leaders. The head of the Secret Service said he had referred the matter to an independent government investigator.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, shuttling between briefings for lawmak-ers on Capitol Hill, was peppered with questions about whether the women had access to sensitive information that could have jeopardized Obama’s security.

Sullivan said the 11 Secret Service agents and 10 military personnel under investigation were telling di!erent sto-ries about who the women were. Sulli-van has dispatched more investigators to Colombia to interview the women, said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

“Some are admitting [the women]were prostitutes, others are saying they’re not, they’re just women they met at the hotel bar,” King said in a telephone interview. Sullivan said none of the women, who had to surrender their IDs at the hotel, were minors. “But prostitutes or not, to be bringing a foreign national back into a secure zone is a problem.”

King said it appeared the agency actu-ally had “really lucked out.” If the women were working for a terrorist organization or other anti-American group, King said, they could have had access to informa-tion about the president’s whereabouts or security protocols while in the agents’ rooms.

“This could have been disastrous,” King said.

The burgeoning scandal has been a growing election-year embarrassment for Obama, who has said he would be angry if the allegations proved to be true.

At the White House, Obama was asked at the end of a Rose Garden event whether he believed Sullivan should resign. The president ignored the shouted inquiries; his spokesman later Obama had confi-dence in the Secret Service chief.

“Director Sullivan acted quickly in response to this incident and is oversee-ing an investigation as we speak into the

matter,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

On Thursday, eleven Secret Service agents were recalled to the U.S. from Colombia and placed on administrative leave after a night of partying that alleg-edly ended with at least some bringing prostitutes back to their hotel. On Mon-day, the agency announced that it also had revoked the agents’ security clearances.

At least 10 U.S. military personnel staying at the same hotel were also being investigated for their role in the alleged misconduct.

Two U.S. military officials said they include five Army Green Berets. Both o"-cials spoke on condition of anonymity about an investigation that is still under way.

One of the o"cials said the group also includes two Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal technicians, two Marine dog handlers and an Air Force airman. The Special Forces Green Berets were working with Colombia’s counterterrorist teams, the o"cial said.

The agents and service members were in Colombia setting up security ahead of Obama’s three-day trip to the port city of Cartagena for a summit attended by about 30 other world leaders.

People briefed on the incident said the agents brought women back to Carta-gena’s Hotel Caribe, where other mem-bers of the U.S. delegation and the White House press corps also were staying. Anyone visiting the hotel overnight was required to leave identification at the front desk and leave the hotel by 7 a.m. When a woman failed to do so, by this account, it raised questions among hotel sta! and police, who investigated. They found the woman with the agent in a hotel room and a dispute arose over whether the agent should have paid her.

While the identities of those being investigated have not been revealed, Maryland Republican Senate candidate Daniel Bongino told The Associated Press Tuesday that his brother, an agent who was on duty in Colombia, is “cooperat-ing” with the investigation. Bongino, a former agent himself, insisted that his brother was not a target of the investiga-tion.

The Secret Service has insisted that Obama’s security was not undermined by the incident, which happened before he arrived in Colombia.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the rank-ing Republican on the Homeland Security Committee said Tuesday that “20 or 21 women foreign nationals” were brought to the hotel. Eleven of the Americans involved were Secret Service, she said and “allegedly Marines were involved with the rest.”

In at least one of his briefings with law-makers, Sullivan said he was calling on an inspector general to hold an independent review. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, welcomed that news, saying an inde-pendent review “should help the agency regain some respect from the American taxpayers and from people around the world.”

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Grassley’s account.

Meanwhile, a person familiar with the agency’s operations said it was unlikely the agents involved would have had access to detailed presidential travel itinerar-ies or security plans. Those materials are often given to agents only on the day they carry out their assignments and are kept in secure locations, not hotel rooms, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Danny Spriggs, a 28-year veteran of the service and a former deputy director, said there was no doubt that the agents had put themselves in a compromising situ-ation in which security could have been a!ected. But he said the incident did not reflect a systemic problem.

“I think we need to be careful not to paint that incident and paint the agency with a broad brush,” said Spriggs, now the vice president of global security for the AP. “The vast majority of the men and women of the Secret Service conduct their duties with the utmost profession-alism.”

Prostitution scandal ricochets through DC

BY BRETT ZONGKER AND SETH BORENSTEINASSOCIATED PRESS

CHANTILLY, Va. — The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style.

After three spectacular spins above the nation’s capital, the world’s most traveled spaceship completed its final flight and was ready to become a grounded museum relic.

But what an exit. Discov-ery took victory laps around the White House, the Capitol and the Washington Monument that elicited cheers and awe - the same sounds and emotions that used to accompany every thun-derous launch.

Bolted to the top of a modi-fied jumbo jet, the shuttle took off at daybreak Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Three hours later, the combo took a few final swoops around Washington at an easy-to-spot 1,500-foot alti-tude.

“It was pretty amazing,” said 12-year-old Riley Jacobsen of Bethesda, Md. “Pretty freak-ing crazy. It looked like it was inflated.”

Sorena Sorenson, a geol-ogy curator for the Smithso-nian Institution, was among thousands watching from the National Mall. For 43 years, she has carried an Apollo 11 medal on her keychain.

“This to me is just so bitter-sweet,” she said.

People filled the Capitol bal-cony and stood on rooftops to catch a glimpse of Discovery as it circled three times through partly cloudy skies. Construction workers staked out prime view-ing spots on cranes.

The nostalgia extended to the crew at the controls of the 747. “The sad part is we’re retiring a very well-oiled machine,” pilot Bill Rieke said.

After landing at Dulles Inter-national Airport in northern Vir-ginia, the shuttle will undergo final preparations to go on dis-play Thursday at the Smithso-nian’s National Air and Space Museum annex near the airport.

“We pledge to take care of her forever,” said retired Gen. John R. “Jack” Dailey, the museum’s director. The shuttle will show young visitors “what America is capable of.”

John Porcari, 13, came out to Dulles because his dad is an administrator with the Trans-portation Department. He said he was blown away by Discov-ery’s size when it landed.

“It’s huge,” he said. “That’s something you don’t realize from seeing pictures.”

The landing “was just unbe-lievable,” said John, who would like to work in the space program someday. “This is history right here.”

NASA ended the shuttle pro-gram last summer after a 30-year run to focus on destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. Dis-covery - the fleet leader with 39 orbital missions - is the first of the three retired shuttles to be turned over to a museum. It first launched in 1984.

Terri and Bill Jacobsen used the flyover as a teaching expe-

rience for Riley, their son. They calculated the speed and angle at which the shuttle and plane would bank, plus other factors, to determine the perfect view-ing spot.

“Oh, my God, look at that,” Terri Jacobsen said as the shut-tle first appeared. “That thing is mammoth.”

Harold and Theresa Banks of Washington have watched many historic events on the mall since 1958: the inauguration and funeral of John F. Kennedy, Mar-tin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, the Million Man March and Barack Obama’s inau-guration. Discovery’s flight ranks high up with those events, they said.

When Discovery departed Florida’s Kennedy Space Cen-ter, thousands of people - former shuttle workers, VIPs, tourists and journalists - gathered along the old shuttle landing strip and the nearby beaches.

The plane and shuttle initially headed south and made one last pass over Cape Canaveral before returning to the space center in a final airborne salute.

Discovery’s list of achieve-ments include delivering the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit, carrying the first Russian cosmo-naut to launch on a U.S. space-ship, performing the first ren-dezvous with the Russian space station Mir with the first female shuttle pilot in the cockpit, returning Mercury astronaut John Glenn to orbit and resum-ing shuttle flights after the Chal-lenger and Columbia accidents.

At the Smithsonian annex, Discovery will take the place of the shuttle prototype Enterprise. The Enterprise will go to New York City. Endeavour will head to Los Angeles this fall. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy.

With the shuttles grounded, private U.S. companies hope to pick up the slack, beginning with space station cargo and then, hopefully, astronauts. The first commercial cargo run, by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is set to take place in a few weeks.

For at least the next three to five years - until commercial passenger craft are available in the United States - NASA astro-nauts will have to hitch rides aboard Russian Soyuz capsules to get to the International Space Station.

Smithsonian space shuttle curator Valerie Neal lobbied for years to get the shuttle with the most history. She knew Discov-ery had logged the highest miles, completed every type of mission and had the distinction of being the first flown by a black com-mander and the first flown by a female pilot.

“It just has such a rich history,” Neal said. “It’s the champion of the shuttle fleet.”

Discovery takes a few victory laps

The sad part is we’re retiring a very well-oiled machine.

BILL RIEKEPilot

Some are admitting [the women] were prostitutes, others are saying they’re not, they’re just women we met at the hotel bar.

PETER KINGU.S. Representative (R-N.Y.)

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The World Bank announced Dart-mouth President Jim Yong Kim ’82, a physician and public health expert whose nomination marked a depar-ture from the traditional selection of candidates in politics and finance, as its next leader Monday. Kim was an unconventional choice for the posi-tion given his medical background, but some observers of the process called him a good candidate to move the bank in a new direction.

Under an informal agreement, the United States generally selects the World Bank president, while Euro-pean countries choose the head of the International Monetary Fund. This year, though, Kim’s nomination faced two challengers — Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo — amid con-cern that the U.S. had too much con-trol in the selection process. Ocampo dropped out of the race last week, but many African countries ral-lied around Okonjo-Iweala as a bet-ter voice for representing developing countries.

Kim is the first Ivy League presi-dent of Asian descent and has served at Dartmouth’s helm since 2009. His tenure has been marked by rocky rela-tions with the campus community. In the wake of a fraternity hazing scan-dal this semester and increased num-bers of reported sexual assaults, Kim was largely silent. The Dartmouth reported that many students felt Kim focused on boosting Dartmouth’s public image at the expense of inter-nal matters. Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees will announce an interim president today and the head of the presidential search committee Thurs-day, the Dartmouth reported Monday.

In the month since his nomina-

tion, Kim trav-eled to many African, Latin American and Asian nations as part of a global “listen-ing tour,” which observers said

was intended to bolster his creden-tials among developing countries critical of the nomination. Kim’s past work, such as co-founding the non-profit Partners in Health and work-ing at the World Health Organization, has often focused on development in these areas.

Kim told the New York Times last week that he saw South Korea, where he was born, as an exemplar of rapid modernization and strong economic growth. “What I bring to the bank — which is a very special bank — is this unshakable optimism that coun-tries can go down the same path I saw Korea go down,” he said. “There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, but every country can do it.”

Terrie Wetle, associate dean of medicine for public health and pub-lic policy, said she applauded Kim’s selection as an innovative and impor-tant step for the World Bank. “I think he’s a fabulous choice, and as some-one who’s spent my professional career in public health, it’s so excit-ing to have a director of the bank who understands the intimate relationship between health and well-being and the economics of countries,” she said.

Wetle said others in her field were eager to see Kim e!ect change on a global financial level. “There’s huge excitement because we see such an opportunity to use the vast resources of the World Bank to address really difficult but important population health questions,” she said, add-ing that Kim is “just a really nice and funny guy.”

BY JOSEPH NICKZYSTAFF WRITER

As Gannett has bolstered its mental health services in the past two years, stu-dent demand for these services has risen to meet the increase. Administrators say the continued surge in those seeking coun-seling can be partially attributed to new outreach programs, which they say have brought about a culture change in student views toward counseling services.

Increased funding from the University, as well as alumni donations, contributed to an $800,000 net increase in Gannett’s budget for counseling and hiring sta! last year, according to Greg Eells, director of counseling and psychological services for Gannett.

“Every time we’ve expanded the avail-ability of services, students have utilized them,” said Tim Marchell ’82, director of mental health initiatives for Gannett. “When you combine that with efforts that we are pursuing University-wide to encourage students to seek help … All of these things contribute to increases in uti-lization.”

Fifteen percent of the student body — about 3,000 students — see counselors at Gannett in a year, and one third visit at least once during their time at Cornell, accord-ing to Eells.

Eells also credited the increase in stu-dents seeking Gannett’s services to a change in attitude that has removed the stigma of asking for help to cope with depression.

“It’s been our goal for at least a decade or more to really reduce stigma and I think there’s been a lot of people much more engaged on our campus in doing that from President [David] Skorton to [Cor-nell] Minds Matter to faculty,” Eells said. “I think we’ve really engaged faculty in a way we weren’t 10 years ago.”

However, some students expressed con-cern that the increased demand for these services might come with pitfalls.

Joanna Chen ’14 said she is sometimes unable to schedule appointments with CAPS in addition to her regularly sched-uled weekly appointment.

“Sometimes I get the impression that if

I wanted to see them more I couldn’t. Everything seems so busy,” Chen said.

She also said she was unable to sched-ule appointments when calling on a weekend.

“I have an issue with that,” Chen said. “If a student has the resolve to call CAPS, they should be available 24 hours ... Instead, they just transfer you out to someone who can’t help you make an appointment.”

Eells denied there is a problem with students being able to schedule CAPS appointments.

“The way our system works is you get a brief phone assessment, and then we’ll look at what’s going on with you and sched-ule you based on your level of concern,” he said. “If we talk to someone on the phone and we think they really need to be seen right away, we get them in right away. So if someone has a serious mental health con-cern, we would get that person in the same day — and that doesn’t change, no matter how busy we get.”

Although students calling Gannett may not always be able to speak to their regu-lar counselor, there will always be someone available to speak on the phone, added Vice President for Student and Academic Ser-vices Susan Murphy ’73.

Despite the occasional di"culties she has experienced in scheduling appoint-ments, Chen said she is happy with Gan-nett’s counseling services.

“I just like going to someone you can talk to even if it doesn’t always help,” Chen said. “It’s a safety net.”

Murphy credited the reduction of the stigma surrounding mental health services to the work of new outreach programs that the University has created in the past two years.“There’s some examples of superb work and really groundbreaking work that we’ve done,” Murphy said. “Our efforts in the outreach to students directly — but also to faculty and sta! in addition to stu-dents — are often recognized by our peers as among the best.”

These new programs include “Real Students, Reel Stories” and “Notice and

Respond: Friend 2 Friend,” as well as its partner program, “Staying Balanced.”

The three programs focus on prepar-ing freshmen for life at Cornell and recog-nizing when other students need help, and have received positive feedback since their inception two years ago, according to Mur-phy and Carol Grumbach, associate dean for new student programs.

“It got an extremely favorable response [among students],” Grumbach said of “Real Students, Reel Stories.”

Also important to the University’s out-reach e!orts have been activities coordi-nated by Cornell Minds Matter, according to Casey Carr ’74, assistant dean of stu-dents and CMM’s advisor. Carr said the student group has seen a “huge” rise in its membership in the past year.

Carr also said that in the past two years, she has noticed that students are more concerned with their own mental health.

“Students are more aware that when they take care of their emotional and men-tal health that they will be more success-ful socially and academically,” Carr said. “I think that in the past two years, the conver-sation and dialogue around these issues has become much more open and acceptable.”

Despite the recent successes of its out-reach programs, the University needs to do more to include graduate students in its e!orts, Murphy said.

“We probably have not done as much in reaching out for our graduate and profes-sional students as we have with our under-graduates and that’s an area that we’re try-ing to address in the coming year,” Murphy said. “We’ve been a little bit undergradu-ate-focused.”

In addition to reaching out to gradu-ate students, Marchell said the University needs to intensify its e!orts to help minor-ity students.

“Given what we know about higher lev-els of distress among certain subgroups on campus — for example Asian and Asian-American students — it’s important that we continue to pursue our diversity initiatives, our commitment to inclusion and reduc-tion of bias,” Marchell said. “Experiencing bias and feeling marginalized, misunder-stood or alienated can exacerbate some-one’s risk for a mental health problem.”

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Kentucky’s starting lineup pursues NBA draftThe three freshmen and and two sophomores, Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Marquis Teague, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb, who led the Kentucky men’s basketball team to anational title this year announced in a news conference Tuesday night that they would declare for the NBA draft. Davis is expected to be the top pick for the NBA draft, which will take place in June.

showed up at Yale Field to help support the local rivalry.

“The fans in the right field were really our fighting factors,” pitcher Michael Coleman ’14 said.

However, Yale did not start o! on the right foot.

After giving away one run in the first inning, the Elis slipped again in the second by allowing another two runs.

But in the third inning, the Bulldogs began a dramatic comeback.

Dave Boisture could not get the third out in the third inning pitching for Sacred Heart (11-24, 7-5 NEC) and gave up four runs before getting pulled. The big blow came o! the bat of second baseman Jacob Hunter ’14, who drove in Hanson with a two-run home run to left-centerfield. Hanson had just extended his Ivy League-best on-base streak to 34 games with a double before Hunter’s blast.

With the score narrowed to 4-2 in Sacred Heart’s favor, des-ignated hitter Josh Scharff ’13 hit a two-run triple to even the score.

The Bulldogs tacked on two more runs in the fourth on a run-scoring single by Hanson and a sacrifice fly by Hunter.

The rest of the game belonged to Yale hurler Joseph, who struck out six Pioneers while letting just one runner reach base.

“It was good to be back and help the team win despite my arm troubles,” Joseph said.

Joseph earned his first col-legiate victory since he was

the Bulldogs’ pitcher when the game became o"cial in the fifth inning.

Southpaw Hsieh gave up three earned runs over four innings, but kept the Elis in the game and left with a 6-4 lead heading into the fifth inning.

Pitcher Chris O’Hare ’13 tossed a scoreless eighth and Greg Lyons ’12 earned his first save of the season with a score-less ninth.

Coleman said yesterday’s match had fantastic hitting with consistent pitching.

The Bulldogs will return to Ivy League competition this weekend, this time taking on the Dartmouth (12-15, 7-5 Ivy) for a pair of doubleheaders.

Joseph said all the team wants

is to sweep its opponents.The upcoming matches will

be an opportunity for Yale to grab third place in the confer-ence standings. Yale is currently in fourth place, but Harvard and Brown, who hold the second and third places respectively, will face each other this weekend.

“Dartmouth is in first place whereas we are on the bottom,” Hanson said. “We have nothing to lose but everything to gain.”

The Yale-Dartmouth matches start in Hanover at noon on Sat-urday.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO and EUGENE JUNG at

charles.condro@yale.edu and eugene.jung@yale.edu .

all three regattas to date. Gladstone said that the suc-

cess of a team is not contingent on the number of boats it races, but rather on the strength and moti-vation of all the athletes.

“I wouldn’t describe it as downsizing,” Gladstone said. “We wanted to get a core of like-minded people striving for excel-lence and dedicated to performing at the highest level. It’s successful addition by subtraction.”

Gladstone added that since a di!erent coach had recruited all of last year’s team, some of the athletes were not prepared for his expectations of team protocol, behavior and dedication. That, in addition to the heightened fitness

standards, made a few oarsmen elect to leave the team.

Team captain Tom Dethlefs ’12 noted that this year, Yale is one of only a few rowing programs in the nation to be undefeated at all lev-els at this point in the season.

“Perhaps the biggest differ-ence between last year and this one is that we now have a critical mass of guys who are really push-ing the limits and making boats go fast,” Dethlefs said, describing the current squad as “smaller but more elite.”

In contrast to this season, last spring the Bulldogs’ varsity squad fell to Brown, Princeton and Cor-nell in the season cup races and placed seventh in the Eastern Sprints in mid-May and 10th in the Intercollegiate Rowing Asso-

ciation (IRA) National Champi-onships in June.

Dethlefs said that while last year’s championship finishes were solid and mid-pack, the team was disappointed with its results. This “period of adjust-ment” allowed the team and coaches to reevaluate the team and figure out a strategy to elevate Yale to medal standing.

Dethlefs said that the fall fit-ness requirements kept every-one motivated over the summer and that some team members returned in better physiological shape than when they had left in the spring.

“While we do miss those who decided they couldn’t fully com-mit, the downsize left a solid core of guys who you know you

can absolutely count on,” varsity oarsman Zach Johnson ’14 said. “It has pretty much eradicated the culture of self-doubt that had plagued our team in past years.”

The Bulldogs hope to continue their winning streak against Cor-nell and Princeton as they race for the Carnegie Cup in New Jer-sey on Saturday. The upcom-ing regatta will be the last cup race of the season, and Yale’s last opportunity to compete before the season-defining Eastern Sprints regional championships, Yale-Harvard boat race, and IRA regatta in May and early June.

Yale last won the Yale-Harvard boat race in 2007.

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

Grizzlies, Golden State War-riors and San Antonio Spurs all requested press passes for scouts to attend Yale games this past season.

The Spurs were one of two teams, along with the Boston Celtics, who contacted Jones after Mangano filled out the paperwork for the draft after last season, Jones said.

Jones suggested that Man-gano test the waters of the NBA draft to create interest follow-ing a junior season during which he averaged 16.3 points and ten rebounds per game. But Man-gano did not hire an agent last year and returned to Yale for his senior season.

“There was nothing really last year that he did other than put

his name into the draft,” Jones said. “I [suggested he enter the draft] because I thought Greg should’ve been Player of the Year and he wasn’t. I thought it important for him to have his name put out there.”

Although it is not likely that Mangano’s name will be called on draft day, Jones said, Man-gano will still have a good chance to make an NBA team. The cen-ter will be able to try out over the summer to sign a free agent contract with a team, and if not, he will have the option of play-ing the NBA’s Developmental League — the NBA’s version of the Minors. Mangano also said that he could play in Europe, adding that he is open to playing overseas and has talked to repre-

sentatives from teams in Spain, Israel and Lithuania.

In this case, Mangano will face a tough choice, Jones said, because the D-League gives players more exposure to NBA teams but European teams can pay more.

“I want to show that I’m a versatile 6’ 11’’ player who can stretch the floor,” Mangano said.

Although Mangano is the more traditional NBA prospect with his superior height, Willhite is also looking to play profes-sionally and has hired an agent in the hopes of landing with a team in the United States or abroad.

“Reggie’s a great prospect and I wish him just as much luck in the process,” Jones said. “It’s just easier when you’re six-eleven.”

Willhite did not respond for comment Tuesday.

As the 2012 Ivy League Defen-sive Player of the Year, Willhite could make a team as a lockdown defender rather than as a long-range scoring threat like Man-gano.

The Ivy League is not tradi-tionally a pipeline to the NBA, but with Jeremy Lin’s sensa-tional run with the New York Knicks earlier this year, new hope has been given to Ancient Eight ballers such as Mangano and Willhite.

The 2012 NBA draft will be held on June 28.

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

Elis take second straight win

Gladstone raises expectations

Two Elis plan to chase NBA dreams after graduation

A book re-view of sorts

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Designated hitter Josh Schar! ’13 hit a two-run triple in the third inning.

YALE 7, SACRED HEART 4

YALE 0 0 4 2 0 0 1 0 x 7

SACRED HEART 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

It was good to be back and help the team win despite my arm troubles.

BEN JOSEPH ’15Pitcher, baseball

of these university communi-ties, and evidence of a debili-tating divide between student and student-athlete in these schools. With arguments based almost entirely on statistics, the book’s points are therefore hard to refute, though it is easy to see manifestations of these ideas in Yale policy.

As far as I can tell, Bowen and Levin’s arguments are sim-ilar, if not identical, to those misleading decision-makers in Woodbridge Hall. For multi-ple reasons, including the sheer drain caused by reading a clin-ical book about an issue that inspires such a guttural reac-tion (the place of college sports at the university), and also lim-ited space for print, I will point out only a few main conclu-sions that I found particularly troublesome. People say the stats don’t lie, especially when written up in an extensive study by someone with three degrees from Harvard and a former president of Princeton. But what can I say, I’ve always loved an underdog story.

Because I’m so limited on what I can discuss, I suggest to everyone that you read this book and draw your own con-clusions. But I will here out-line a few of the most trouble-some points. One of the first is the idea of “opportunity cost” when it comes to the admis-sion of a recruited athlete over a student getting in purely on academics. Bowen and Levin back their argument with sta-tistics that paint a picture of the recruited athlete getting in taking a spot from some-one who, by virtue of a ques-tion or two more on the SATs or an extra AP art class, is in some way more qualified. The authors cite the grow-ing number of cases of stu-dents frustrated when they see athletes admitted instead of them, believing they are more deserving of that spot because they are somehow more able to capitalize on the school’s aca-demic resources. First of all, the quantification of an appli-cant’s value is a necessary evil, but one against which I push strongly, particularly when evaluating the power of a com-mitment to sport on an ath-lete’s application. Addition-ally, looking at a case-by-case basis, one would see that just because a recruited athlete is admitted on a coach’s list does not mean his or her credentials are any less impressive than another student’s. In some cases, yes, some aspects may be less statistically impressive, but even in this case, who is to say that athlete is going to take less advantage of what the uni-versity has to o!er than a non-athlete?

Stereotypes that lead to such conclusions are perpet-uated by the student-athlete divide such policies create. Bowen and Levin, in infinite sympathy for the college ath-lete’s experience, explain that athletes should want things to change because they face an unfair stigma in some places. Feigned sympathy for the ath-letes is, in this case, appalling,

as are several of the book’s sta-tistics-based conclusions that pinpoint athletes without con-sidering alternative, yet logi-cal, explanations. The book stipulates, for example, that statistics show female ath-letes are less likely to major in the sciences than females in the normal student popu-lation. But only for one brief second was scheduling of labs suggested as a potential expla-nation! If you’ve ever met an engineer at Yale, you’ll have a good idea why athletes shy away from the major: labs are often inflexibly scheduled, mandatory classes offered only during practice times and other requirements clash with an athlete’s somewhat pro-hibitive schedule. Does their choice to pursue a major to which they can actually fully commit, even if it might not be their first choice, mean ath-letes are somehow a detriment to the academic community? Statistics can’t prove that to me either.

Similar points go on and on, using statistical data of ath-letes’ academic performance relative to other portions of the school population, admissions rates, etc. to show what can’t be quantified: an athlete’s value to an academic community relative to who might be there instead. This clinical approach, however, is the main theme of the entire book and it is pre-cisely such a calculated, quan-titative approach that is lead-ing the University to its athletic policies. Say Bowen and Levin, “Athletics has often been said to teach ‘character,’ although it is notoriously hard to define, let alone measure, that much-prized but elusive attribute.” If we only teach those things we can measure here, if we only find value in people and their contributions in those things we can quantify, then what are we really teaching here at Yale? It is also hard to measure the value of a liberal arts educa-tion, and yet that is precisely what this school was founded on. We cannot quantify char-acter, and so we dismiss it as an important part of an edu-cation? Sports teach character, a fact evident not in a spread-sheet on a statistician’s com-puter, but deeply entrenched in the heart of an athlete or even a devoted fan. Is that not reason enough to value them?

So while I don’t know for sure that such a clinically mathematic simplification of athletics is the basis of the University’s current approach, I will say that if it is, it does not have me convinced. Sure, I don’t have a Ph.D. from Princ-eton, two graduate degrees from Harvard or a flurry of sta-tistics to back me up. But I’m about to be a graduate of Yale, and more importantly of four years in Yale sports where I learned about character, integ-rity, and the importance of standing my ground. And I’ll do just that, because from where I’m standing, those are lessons worth learning, and no stat can tell me otherwise.

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

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Reggie Willhite ’12 is hoping to play professional basketball next year.

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THE NUMBER OF ATHLETES ON THE HEAVYWEIGHT CREW TEAM THIS SEASON, COMPARED TO LAST YEAR’S ROSTER OF 47. Team members had to meet a 6000m time standard in the fall in order to be on the team.

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“I wouldn’t describe it as downsizing... It’s suc-cessful addition by sub-traction.”

STEPHEN GLADSTONE HEAD COACH, HEAVYWEIGHT

VOLLEYBALLTEAM ANNOUNCES 2012 SCHEDULEThe volleyball team, which has won the Ivy League Championship for the past two seasons, will face top out-of-confer-ence competitors next season, including Texas A&M (Big 12), Northwestern (Big Ten), Villanova (Big East), and San Diego (West Coast).

STEPHANIE GOLDSTEIN ’13ELECTED GYMNASTICS CAPTAINGoldstein has been a consistent con-tributor to the gymnastucs team in each of the three seasons she has competed for the Bulldogs. As a molec-ular, cellular and developmental biol-ogy major she earned the 2012 ECAC Scholar-Athlete Award for gymnastics.

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Elis get revenge at Yale Field

BY CHARLES CONDRO AND EUGENE JUNGSTAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING

REPORTER

All season, the Elis have been looking for games where they put all aspects of the game together at once, and yesterday’s game proved to be just that.

Yale got strong performances from two freshman pitchers and nine hits to sink Sacred Heart University 7-4 at Yale Field on Tuesday, continuing its winning streak.

“All four pitchers were great, but it was special that the fresh-men pitchers, Eric Hsieh ’15 and

Ben Joseph ’15, stepped up,” shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 said.

The win not only got back at the Pioneers for the loss Yale su!ered against them two weeks ago, but also marked the first time the Elis (9-26-1, 2-10 Ivy) won back-to-back games since March 23-24 against Hartford.

“We have met the Pioneers before, and we were falling behind in the beginning, but it turned out to be a good game with high energy,” Hanson said.

Although it was not an Ivy League match, eager fans

Two seniors chase hoop dreamsBY CHARLES CONDRO

STAFF REPORTER

May is a time of uncertainty for Yale seniors as they look to begin the rest of their lives, but two Yale seniors are searching for a job on the hardwood rather than in an o"ce or classroom.

Center Greg Mangano ’12 and forward Reggie Willhite ’12 are currently preparing to enter the world of professional basketball after Commencement.

Mangano has produced most of the buzz between the two players, as he has tried to show NBA teams around the country what he is capable of. He recently returned to campus after partic-ipating in the Portsmouth Invi-tational Tournament in Ports-mouth, Va., from April 11 to 14.

“I thought he did a real nice job at proving that he can shoot from the perimeter,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “[That was] the emphasis that his agent has put on him.”

At the Tournament, Man-gano averaged 10.7 points and six rebounds while shooting 46.2 percent (6–13) from beyond the arc in three games. The next step for Mangano will be to partici-pate in individual workouts with several NBA teams, Jones said.

“I thought I played well. I shot the ball from deep,” Mangano said. “Going to a small mid-major school, you don’t get the same kind of exposure.”

Mangano added that he has a work-out set up with the Utah Jazz. He has been training in New Jersey during the weekends.

Although all 30 NBA teams had scouts at the Portsmouth

tournament, it was not the first time that scouts have seen Man-gano play.

“During the course of the sea-son there were a couple of scouts that requested credentials to

the games,” Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett said.

He added that the Memphis

Heavyweights trim roster for speed

BY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER

At the end of the 2010-’11 rowing season, his first year with the Bulldogs, heavyweight crew head coach Stephen Gladstone set a 6000m time standard for all oarsmen plan-ning to return to the team in the fall.

“[Gladstone] made it clear that only people who were entirely committed to the team and to going fast were welcome back,” varsity cox-swain Oliver Fletcher ’14 said.

On the first day of practice in September, the entire roster was tested, and Gladstone said approximately two-thirds of the oars-men bested or nearly beat the 20-minute time limit. He added that the other one third of returning rowers either did not make the cut or decided to leave the team due to the higher

expectations.Fletcher said the result of this was a drastic

decrease in the roster size. Last season, there were 47 athletes on the team. This academic year there are only 32.

The smaller roster means the team is racing fewer boats this season. So far this spring, Yale has raced in three regattas against Ivy rivals Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia and Penn. The Bulldogs have raced three boats — varsity, junior varsity and freshman eights — in each regatta, whereas Brown and Penn have each raced five. Dartmouth and Columbia also have a smaller roster and only raced three boats against Yale.

While one might think that with fewer crews the Blue and White is at a disadvantage against bigger teams, that has proven not to be the case this season. The three Yale boats are undefeated this spring, as the team has swept

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Freshmen pitchers Eric Hsieh ’15, above, and Ben Joseph ’15 both played a large role in Yale’s victory against Sacred Heart yesterday.

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The roster of the heavyweight crew team is significantly smaller than last season’s.

This week, I decided to delve even deeper into the arguments upon which the calculated destruction of the Yale ath-letic tradition have been based. Since I have so far been unable to ascertain any concrete out-line for those motivations from any sources in Woodbridge Hall, I’ve begun some research regarding potential rational motivations for the policies with which I’ve taken issue.

For all my concerns regard-ing its approach to athlet-ics, Yale’s administration has done great work in various realms to keep Yale at the top of the world’s university pack: if they’re taking such strong measures regarding athletics, they must feel they have good reason.

Again, in the absence of any primary sourcing regard-ing what that reason might be, I began to look for poten-tial influences on the stance of the Yale administration. Like any good Yalie, I began at the library and checked out a book published in 2005 called

“Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Val-ues.” Admittedly, the book was published years after the cur-rent policies came into e!ect. Yet the source of my interest was in its authors, one William G. Bowen, a former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and one Sarah Levin, daugh-ter of Yale’s current president, with three degrees from Har-vard and fellowships at Harvard and Penn. The book is a statis-tically based look at the detri-mental e!ect of college sports on the academic climate of academically selective schools in the Ivy League and NESCAC, and concludes that the place of athletics in these institutions must be thoroughly re-exam-ined for the negative e!ect it is having on them. The book’s conjectures include ideas regarding limiting the num-ber of recruited athletes, sup-posed statistical proof that athletes underachieve as part

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CHELSEAJANES

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Greg Mangano ‘12 is entering his name into the NBA draft for the second time in hopes of pursuing a professional basketball career.

A book review of sorts