THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY · FOUNDED 1878 CROSS CAMPUS INSIDE THE NEWS MORE ONLINE cc.yaledailynews.com y MORNING RAINY 40 EVENING CLOUDY 40 In memoriam. Moira Banks- Dobson ’11 was killed Tuesday night in a five-car crash caused by a drunk driver. She was 24. Launched. Oprah, Lady Gaga and mama Gaga Cynthia Germanotta were all at Harvard on Wednesday to celebrate the launch of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, an organization that follows the message of acceptance and self- confidence expressed in Gaga’s hit 2011 single, “Born This Way.” But not without controversy. A Facebook event asked Harvard students and aliates to meet at 3 p.m. in front of Sanders Theater — where, inside, Gaga would be launching her Foundation — to ask the university to ocially renounce a secret court it created in the 1920s to find and expel gay students and award them honorary degrees. Protestors said they would present Harvard administrators with an online petition in support of these demands which as of Wednesday night had received more than 5,600 signatures. America’s Next Top Historian. After winning high praise among reviewers for his biography of George F. Kennan, history professor John Lewis Gaddis has won the seventh annual American History Book Prize for his work. The prize, which has been handed out by the New York Historical Society, is awarded for a nonfiction American history book “that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience.” Happy Fifth Birthday! During Wednesday night’s dinner, Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti delivered a cake to his college’s dining hall to celebrate the birthday of EB Saldaña ’14, whose Feb. 29 birthday makes her a “leap baby.” “The cake was delicious,” according to a source who attended the event. Going viral? Fresh o the heels of their “Scarves” video, The Yale Record released a new video on Wednesday called “Jelly Beans.” The video features a scene in which Bea, played by Kat Lau ’13, is frustrated as Natey Weinstein ’14 and Olivia Scicolone ’14 loudly attempt to eat jelly beans as she tries to force them to watch a video on her smartphone. Town-gown. Architecture professor Alan Plattus ARC ’76 spoke Wednesday night at the Milford Library on ways the city could improve its downtown. “I’m a huge fan of downtown Milford,” Plattus said, according to the New Haven Register. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1962 A trend piece remarks on a “revolution” in which students choose paperbacks over hardcover books. Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected] 2012 ELECTIONS State unlikely to sign onto a pact challenging the Electoral College PAGE 5 CITY YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL SEEKS EXPANSION AS MERGER FINALIZED PAGE 3 CITY IMMIGRATION ICE arrests 2 New Haveners, 43 others in four-day operation PAGE 3 CITY FOOTBALL HILL ’69, FROM YALE TO THE PROS PAGE 10 SPORTS NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 103 · yaledailynews.com BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER As Yale works to improve its sexual grievance pro- cedures for students, its eorts have also adjusted the resources available to staff and faculty members. After the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) clarified its Title IX regulations last April, administrators nation- wide have taken steps to make their universities’ responses to complaints of sexual mis- conduct more consistent across sta, faculty members and students, according to six higher education law experts interviewed. Deputy Pro- vost Stephanie Spangler, who began overseeing Yale’s Title IX compliance in November, said in a Wednesday email that her appointment is part of a larger eort to improve coordination between the University’s various griev- ance processes. Still, some of the University’s procedures remain separate for differ- ent subsets of the Yale com- munity, and some policies — such as the use of nondis- closure agreements — dier between those procedures. “This process [of review- ing Yale’s sexual grievance procedures] has not been limited to complaints involv- ing students but rather has addressed the procedures for reviewing complaints from all members of the University community, thus providing opportunities to harmonize the University’s approaches to sexual misconduct com- plaints and provide enhanced coordination of related pro- cedures,” she said. Higher education law experts said universities gen- erally assign dierent admin- istrators — such as student life ocials, academic deans and human resources offi- cials — the responsibility of addressing sexual miscon- duct issues for certain seg- ments of a college’s campus, adding that this division can create confusion among indi- viduals seeking help. At Yale, while undergrad- uates and graduate students are encouraged to seek advice from the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Edu- cation Center, employees and postdoctoral students can reach out to the Office of Equal Opportunity Pro- grams, which addresses com- plaints related to racial and gender-based discrimina- tion. All members of the Yale community can file com- plaints with the Yale Police and Title IX coordinators, and the newly-established University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) hears all complaints except those filed by faculty or sta members against sta mem- bers. Employees with griev- ances against other employ- ees can also bring complaints to human resources ocials. One library staff member interviewed, who filed a sex- ual harassment complaint against a colleague two years ago and wished to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said she thinks the University “compartmentalizes [its pro- cedures] too much.” When she approached adminis- trators with her complaint, she said she had been asked to talk to a variety of dier- ent administrators, who she said were each responsible for handling dierent parts of her case. She added that she felt this process “divided up all the dierent oenses until it looked like not much had happened” since no admin- istrator was responsible for At a town hall on faculty diver- sity held Tuesday afternoon, more than 140 Yale Law School students gathered to learn about the school’s faculty hiring pro- cess. But early in the hourlong meeting, Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 made an announcement: a Hispanic woman had been oered tenure. Six attendees of the meeting, who requested ano- nymity because the session was closed to the press, identified Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 as the potential hire. If Rodriguez — who was a vis- iting faculty member in fall 2009 — accepts the offer, she will become the first Hispanic pro- fessor to whom Law School has awarded tenure. Rudolph Aragon LAW ’79, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Asian Native American law stu- dents association (LANA) during his years as a student at the Law School, said the announcement was “long coming.” His classmate and fellow LANA co-chair, Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, had already become the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. The Law School — ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report since the publication began evaluating law schools in 1987 — has diver- sified its tenured faculty ranks in recent decades, but has not yet given tenure to a Hispanic pro- fessor. “How can it be that the Supreme Court has a Latina jus- tice, and YLS has never had a tenured Latino faculty mem- ber?” said Carel Alé LAW ’11, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Law Student Association while at the Law School. But even as Rodriguez decides whether to take an oce at 127 Wall St., students, alumni and faculty interviewed said they hope the Law School’s eorts to diversify its faculty will not end with Rodriguez’s oer. BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Wednesday marked the end of New Haven’s second- straight month without a homicide, an interval not seen since summer 2009. The number of violent crimes is down citywide by more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to data from the New Haven Police Department. But city and police ocials said it is still too early to tell what role, if any, the community policing strat- egies implemented in the past three months by NHPD Chief Dean Esserman have played in the drop. “We’ve implemented many strategic changes, and there are more cops walking the beat, so I think it would be unwise to spe- cifically attribute [the drop in violent crime] to any one thing,” NHPD spokesman David Hart- man said. “What we do know is that we have a new chief, a new direction, and have zero homi- cides to date this year.” While Hartman said the sta- tistics so far this year are prom- ising, he stressed that “statis- tics are simply statistics” and rarely provide an insightful look into the city’s crime situ- ation. Since the statistics can change instantly, it would be “arrogant or foolish” to declare the department’s community policing eorts successful yet, he added. Hartman could not immedi- ately supply detailed statistics of New Haven crime in Feb- ruary, but in January, the vio- lent crime rate was 28.7 percent below the rate in January 2011. This figure includes a 29.9 per- cent drop in robberies and a 16.7 percent decrease in assaults. This figure followed a year in which violent crime dropped 11 percent citywide even as the number of homicides rose by 10 to 34 — a 20-year high. By this time last year, the Elm City had recorded four murders. “It’s a very short period to judge on, but I do think com- munity policing is making a difference in bringing violent crime down significantly,” said Richard Epstein, the chairman City sees second murder-free month Juniors tapped for Whis, Whim JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER WHIFFS, WHIM TAP NEXT GENERATION New members of Yale’s two senior a cappella groups, the all-male Whien- poofs and the all-female Whim ’n Rhythm, were tapped Wednesday night. Admins focus on faculty, sta misconduct BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS Professors say they intend to raise objections to the liberal arts college Yale has planned with the National University of Singapore at today’s Yale Col- lege faculty meeting. Though Yale-NUS was o- cially announced in March 2011 and is set to open in fall 2013, professors said they still wish to debate the merits of the proj- ect. Yale-NUS is the only major item on the agenda, which tem- porarily caused Yale College Dean Mary Miller to cancel the meeting on Feb. 17 because she did not feel there were enough issues to be discussed. But Miller said the meeting was reinstated after faculty stated their desire to address Yale- NUS “sooner rather than later” — a conversation that will begin after University Presi- dent Richard Levin reports on the developing college. “It is time for the Yale Col- lege faculty to be heard on issues aecting our own future relations with this new insti- tution that bears our name,” French and African American studies professor Christopher Miller said in an email Wednes- day. Beginning in September 2010, faculty were invited to discuss Yale-NUS at “town hall” meetings, and over the next two years some expressed concern about whether aca- demic freedoms and civil rights would be suppressed at Yale- NUS because of Singapore’s allegedly authoritarian gov- ernment. But professors said they do not recall addressing the liberal arts college at their monthly faculty meetings, which they said allow for more formal discussion than town hall gatherings. Classics professor Victor Bers said deliberation on Yale- NUS should take place in fac- ulty meetings because they fol- low parliamentary procedure, Faculty to raise Yale-NUS concerns SEE COMPLAINTS PAGE 4 SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 6 SEE NHPD PAGE 4 SEE FACULTY MEETING PAGE 4 FACULTY HIRING Yale Law aims for diversity O n Tuesday, Yale Law School Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 announced to students that it had oered tenured positions to sev- eral professors. Those receiving oers included one woman who — if she accepts — will become the first person of Hispanic descent to join the school’s tenured faculty. DANIEL SISGOREO reports. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 may become the Law School’s first tenured Latina professor. SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
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In memoriam. Moira Banks-Dobson ’11 was killed Tuesday night in a five-car crash caused by a drunk driver. She was 24.
Launched. Oprah, Lady Gaga and mama Gaga Cynthia Germanotta were all at Harvard on Wednesday to celebrate the launch of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, an organization that follows the message of acceptance and self-confidence expressed in Gaga’s hit 2011 single, “Born This Way.”
But not without controversy. A Facebook event asked Harvard students and a!liates to meet at 3 p.m. in front of Sanders Theater — where, inside, Gaga would be launching her Foundation — to ask the university to o!cially renounce a secret court it created in the 1920s to find and expel gay students and award them honorary degrees. Protestors said they would present Harvard administrators with an online petition in support of these demands which as of Wednesday night had received more than 5,600 signatures.
America’s Next Top Historian. After winning high praise among reviewers for his biography of George F. Kennan, history professor John Lewis Gaddis has won the seventh annual American History Book Prize for his work. The prize, which has been handed out by the New York Historical Society, is awarded for a nonfiction American history book “that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience.”
Happy Fifth Birthday! During Wednesday night’s dinner, Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti delivered a cake to his college’s dining hall to celebrate the birthday of EB Saldaña ’14, whose Feb. 29 birthday makes her a “leap baby.” “The cake was delicious,” according to a source who attended the event.
Going viral? Fresh o" the heels of their “Scarves” video, The Yale Record released a new video on Wednesday called “Jelly Beans.” The video features a scene in which Bea, played by Kat Lau ’13, is frustrated as Natey Weinstein ’14 and Olivia Scicolone ’14 loudly attempt to eat jelly beans as she tries to force them to watch a video on her smartphone.
Town-gown. Architecture professor Alan Plattus ARC ’76 spoke Wednesday night at the Milford Library on ways the city could improve its downtown. “I’m a huge fan of downtown Milford,” Plattus said, according to the New Haven Register.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1962 A trend piece remarks on a “revolution” in which students choose paperbacks over hardcover books.
Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected]
2012 ELECTIONSState unlikely to sign onto a pact challenging the Electoral CollegePAGE 5 CITY
YALE-NEW HAVENHOSPITAL SEEKS EXPANSION AS MERGER FINALIZEDPAGE 3 CITY
IMMIGRATIONICE arrests 2 New Haveners, 43 others in four-day operationPAGE 3 CITY
FOOTBALLHILL ’69, FROM YALE TO THE PROS PAGE 10 SPORTS
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 103 · yaledailynews.com
BY CAROLINE TANSTAFF REPORTER
As Yale works to improve its sexual grievance pro-cedures for students, its e"orts have also adjusted the resources available to staff and faculty members.
After the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) clarified its Title IX regulations last April, administrators nation-wide have taken steps to make their universities’ responses to complaints of sexual mis-conduct more consistent across sta", faculty members and students, according to six higher education law experts interviewed. Deputy Pro-vost Stephanie Spangler, who began overseeing Yale’s Title IX compliance in November, said in a Wednesday email that her appointment is part of a larger e"ort to improve coordination between the University’s various griev-ance processes. Still, some of the University’s procedures remain separate for differ-ent subsets of the Yale com-munity, and some policies — such as the use of nondis-closure agreements — di"er between those procedures.
“This process [of review-ing Yale’s sexual grievance procedures] has not been limited to complaints involv-ing students but rather has addressed the procedures for reviewing complaints from all members of the University community, thus providing opportunities to harmonize the University’s approaches to sexual misconduct com-plaints and provide enhanced coordination of related pro-cedures,” she said.
Higher education law experts said universities gen-erally assign di"erent admin-istrators — such as student
life o!cials, academic deans and human resources offi-cials — the responsibility of addressing sexual miscon-duct issues for certain seg-ments of a college’s campus, adding that this division can create confusion among indi-viduals seeking help.
At Yale, while undergrad-uates and graduate students are encouraged to seek advice from the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Edu-cation Center, employees and postdoctoral students can reach out to the Office of Equal Opportunity Pro-grams, which addresses com-plaints related to racial and gender-based discrimina-tion. All members of the Yale community can file com-plaints with the Yale Police and Title IX coordinators, and the newly-established University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) hears all complaints except those filed by faculty or sta" members against sta" mem-bers. Employees with griev-ances against other employ-ees can also bring complaints to human resources o!cials.
One library staff member interviewed, who filed a sex-ual harassment complaint against a colleague two years ago and wished to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said she thinks the University “compartmentalizes [its pro-cedures] too much.” When she approached adminis-trators with her complaint, she said she had been asked to talk to a variety of di"er-ent administrators, who she said were each responsible for handling di"erent parts of her case. She added that she felt this process “divided up all the di"erent o"enses until it looked like not much had happened” since no admin-istrator was responsible for
At a town hall on faculty diver-sity held Tuesday afternoon, more than 140 Yale Law School students gathered to learn about the school’s faculty hiring pro-cess.
But early in the hourlong meeting, Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 made an announcement: a Hispanic woman had been o"ered tenure. Six attendees of the meeting, who requested ano-nymity because the session was closed to the press, identified Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 as the potential hire.
If Rodriguez — who was a vis-iting faculty member in fall 2009 — accepts the offer, she will become the first Hispanic pro-fessor to whom Law School has awarded tenure.
Rudolph Aragon LAW ’79, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Asian Native American law stu-dents association (LANA) during his years as a student at the Law School, said the announcement was “long coming.”
His classmate and fellow LANA co-chair, Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, had already become the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. The Law School — ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report since the publication began evaluating law schools in 1987 — has diver-sified its tenured faculty ranks in recent decades, but has not yet given tenure to a Hispanic pro-fessor.
“How can it be that the Supreme Court has a Latina jus-
tice, and YLS has never had a tenured Latino faculty mem-ber?” said Carel Alé LAW ’11, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Law Student Association while at the Law School.
But even as Rodriguez decides whether to take an o!ce at 127 Wall St., students, alumni and faculty interviewed said they hope the Law School’s e"orts to diversify its faculty will not end with Rodriguez’s o"er. BY JAMES LU
STAFF REPORTER
Wednesday marked the end of New Haven’s second-straight month without a homicide, an interval not seen since summer 2009.
The number of violent crimes is down citywide by more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to data from the New Haven Police Department. But city and police o!cials said it is still too early to tell what role, if any, the community policing strat-egies implemented in the past three months by NHPD Chief Dean Esserman have played in the drop.
“We’ve implemented many strategic changes, and there are more cops walking the beat, so I think it would be unwise to spe-cifically attribute [the drop in violent crime] to any one thing,” NHPD spokesman David Hart-man said. “What we do know is that we have a new chief, a new direction, and have zero homi-cides to date this year.”
While Hartman said the sta-tistics so far this year are prom-
ising, he stressed that “statis-tics are simply statistics” and rarely provide an insightful look into the city’s crime situ-ation. Since the statistics can change instantly, it would be “arrogant or foolish” to declare the department’s community policing e"orts successful yet, he added.
Hartman could not immedi-ately supply detailed statistics of New Haven crime in Feb-ruary, but in January, the vio-lent crime rate was 28.7 percent below the rate in January 2011. This figure includes a 29.9 per-cent drop in robberies and a 16.7 percent decrease in assaults.
This figure followed a year in which violent crime dropped 11 percent citywide even as the number of homicides rose by 10 to 34 — a 20-year high. By this time last year, the Elm City had recorded four murders.
“It’s a very short period to judge on, but I do think com-munity policing is making a difference in bringing violent crime down significantly,” said Richard Epstein, the chairman
City sees second murder-free month
Juniors tapped for Whi!s, Whim
JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
WHIFFS, WHIM TAP NEXT GENERATIONNew members of Yale’s two senior a cappella groups, the all-male Whi"en-poofs and the all-female Whim ’n Rhythm, were tapped Wednesday night.
Admins focus on faculty, sta!
misconduct
BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD
STAFF REPORTERS
Professors say they intend to raise objections to the liberal arts college Yale has planned with the National University of Singapore at today’s Yale Col-lege faculty meeting.
Though Yale-NUS was o!-cially announced in March 2011 and is set to open in fall 2013, professors said they still wish to debate the merits of the proj-ect. Yale-NUS is the only major item on the agenda, which tem-porarily caused Yale College Dean Mary Miller to cancel the meeting on Feb. 17 because she did not feel there were enough
issues to be discussed. But Miller said the meeting was reinstated after faculty stated their desire to address Yale-NUS “sooner rather than later” — a conversation that will begin after University Presi-dent Richard Levin reports on the developing college.
“It is time for the Yale Col-lege faculty to be heard on issues a"ecting our own future relations with this new insti-tution that bears our name,” French and African American studies professor Christopher Miller said in an email Wednes-day.
Beginning in September 2010, faculty were invited to discuss Yale-NUS at “town
hall” meetings, and over the next two years some expressed concern about whether aca-demic freedoms and civil rights would be suppressed at Yale-NUS because of Singapore’s allegedly authoritarian gov-ernment. But professors said they do not recall addressing the liberal arts college at their monthly faculty meetings, which they said allow for more formal discussion than town hall gatherings.
Classics professor Victor Bers said deliberation on Yale-NUS should take place in fac-ulty meetings because they fol-low parliamentary procedure,
Faculty to raise Faculty to raise Yale-NUS concerns
SEE COMPLAINTS PAGE 4
SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 6
SEE NHPD PAGE 4SEE FACULTY MEETING PAGE 4
FA C U LT Y H I R I N G
Yale Law aims for diversityOn Tuesday, Yale Law School Dean Robert
Post LAW ’77 announced to students that it had o"ered tenured positions to sev-
eral professors. Those receiving o"ers included one woman who — if she accepts — will become the first person of Hispanic descent to join the school’s tenured faculty. DANIEL SISGOREO reports.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYCristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 may become the Law School’s first tenured Latina professor.
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A number of plausible expla-nations have been given for why Yale undergraduates
don’t flock to the natural sciences in the same numbers as their peers at other Ivy League institutions do, including a lack of interest-ing intro-level courses, a harsher grading scale in science depart-ments and the sheer di!culty of natural sciences. However, I’d venture to guess that while our peer institutions may be doing a better job combating these issues than we are, none of these issues is unique to Yale.
But at least one uncomfortable issue does appear to be Yale-spe-cific: the unhealthy and unnec-essary amount of competition among faculty in natural sciences at Yale. I am all for healthy compe-tition between researchers — after all, the race to make new discov-eries is an essential part of what makes the scientific process so exciting — but it’s hard to make students feel welcome in a world where everyone seems to hate each other.
Yale’s unhealthily competitive
atmosphere in the natural sciences exists both within and between departments. Within depart-ments, I suspect that much of this competition stems from the ten-ure process at Yale. Unlike at other schools, where senior faculty assist their junior faculty in nego-tiating the tenure process, Yale’s faculty often do little to make their young faculty feel wanted and welcome.
Even the most successful junior faculty who get hired at Yale real-ize they’ll have to outcompete their peers for a permanent posi-tion because the chances they’ll all get tenure are extremely slim. Although things aren’t quite as bad as they were in the days when two junior faculty were brought in to compete for a single posi-tion that neither were likely to get, many young faculty I’ve spoken to still view a job at Yale as an inse-cure extended post-doctoral posi-tion.
Academic criticism for the sake of improvement is one thing, but the tenure system at Yale cre-ates a catty network of cliquey lab
groups in which it’s not uncom-mon for competing faculty mem-bers to bad-mouth others in their department. With some notable exceptions, those who eventually make it to the ranks of senior fac-ulty generally do little to prevent this or to foster anything in the way of departmental collegiality and cohesion.
As bad as things are within departments, Yale’s unhealthy levels of competition are often even worse between departments. Take, for example, the schism between researchers in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biol-ogy. Despite the fact that profes-sors I’ve worked with in the two departments often work on sim-ilar or complementary research topics, they rarely even communi-cate, much less collaborate.
When they mention the other department at all, what they say usually isn’t positive. Even stu-dents who have tried to work across departments haven’t been able to break down this barrier
and bring about more collegial-ity. Getting the people who advise me to sit in a room together for five minutes last year was a small mir-acle that isn’t likely to be repeated again any time soon.
As a Yale undergraduate, I assumed this was just way the way it was everywhere. On top of the challenging course load, Yale’s natural science majors enter a sys-tem in which their mentors have nothing but negative things to say about each other. Is it really any wonder that such a large portion of our science majors decide to opt out of this type of environment?
It wasn’t until I visited a num-ber of other equally well-regarded research institutions as a prospec-tive doctoral student — including several other Ivies — that I realized it didn’t have to be this way. Colle-giality doesn’t have to come at the expense of top-notch research. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite.
LILY TWINING is a student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a 2011 graduate of Pierson
College.
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Unhealthy competition
Takashi Kawamura is the mayor of Nagoya, Japan. Yet he wasn’t representing
the citizens of Nagoya last Mon-day when he publicly denied that the Nanjing Massacre of 1937 had ever occurred. What’s perhaps most bizarre is that he chose to make this statement in front of a visiting delegation of govern-ment o!cials from Nanjing, who were in Nagoya to celebrate the sister relationship between the two cities.
Kawamura’s statement has stirred Chinese communities worldwide, including at Yale. It is easy to criticize Kawamura for his grossly inappropriate remarks, but more needs to be said about the underlying causes of this incident and what an appropriate response entails.
First of all, the Nanjing Mas-sacre is a well-known histori-cal fact. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial estimates that the Japanese Imperial Army murdered more than 200,000 civilians and pris-oners of war in the 1937 invasion. Although exact number of people killed remains disputed, there is irrefutable evidence to show that a horrific massacre indeed took place. In fact, there is an impres-sive collection of first hand pho-tographs and documents record-ing the massacre in the Yale Divinity School Library.
Since his original statement, Kawamura has tried to frame his comment as a “personal opinion.” According to Japan’s
Mainichi News, he remarked at a press conference in Tokyo a few days after the incident: “Since I became a lawmaker I’ve said there was no massacre of hun-dreds of thousands. It is better to say so openly, rather than saying it secretly.” Although he recog-nized that it was “uncourteous” to express “a personal opinion during a visit of senior Nanjing o!cials to Nagoya City Hall,” Kawamura has not apologized for his actions.
Suppose we believe that Kawamura was simply being forthright about his personal opinions. Under the most chari-table interpretation, Kawamura’s position can be reconstructed in the following manner: The alleged massacre in Nanjing was a historical incident, and there-fore its veracity and scope should be open to academic scrutiny and debate. One should certainly be permitted to hold his or her opin-ion in a discussion of history, no matter how unpopular that opin-ion might be. There is no reason to treat an issue di"erently sim-ply because of its politically sen-sitive nature.
Indeed, Kawamura is treating himself like a beleaguered aca-demic surrounded by a furious mob. Instead of retracting his claim, he o"ered to hold a pub-lic debate in Nanjing to discuss whether the massacre happened.
Kawamura’s assumption that the issue can be settled in an open debate reveals his igno-
rance about the nature of the Nanjing Massacre. Certain his-torical events are so emotionally charged and so deeply embed-ded in the collective conscience of nations and peoples that they cannot possibly be limited to purely academic discussions.
Furthermore, such histori-cal events such as the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima do not remain static through-out time. They become concepts and evolve with the reflection and imagination of each passing generation. The Nanjing Massa-cre must be understood in con-text. For the Chinese, it has come to symbolize the countless atroc-ities that the Japanese commit-ted in China in the Second World War.
Kawamura’s open denial of the Nanjing Massacre throws into doubt his stance on Japanese war crimes in general. It is a purpose-ful attack on the goodwill of the Chinese people and perpetuates hatred between the two coun-tries.
More troubling is the fact that Kawamura isn’t alone. He isn’t the first Japanese politician to deny the massacre, and, sadly, he will not be the last. Just days after Kawamura’s statement, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara stepped forward to defend him.
Despite the fact that certain Japanese right-wingers have not been shy about historical revi-sionism, the Chinese people must resist the temptation to
make generalizations about Japa-nese politicians and the Japanese people as a whole. More than anything, generalizations feed stereotypes and fatten the radi-cal nationalism that lies at the core of those historical revision-ists’ beliefs.
Kawamura and Ishihara deny the Nanjing Massacre because the glorious Japanese national character they uphold does not square with what occurred in Nanjing. They deny history in an e"ort to honor their nationalist beliefs, but they fail to recognize that it was the latter that blood-ied history in the first place.
Kawamura and Ishihara’s claims must be rebu"ed. They must apologize. Yet the Chinese must not respond to extreme nationalism in kind. I cannot help but worry about a growing Chinese nationalist sentiment that harbors regrettable miscon-ceptions of Japanese people and constantly pushes the Chinese government toward hard-line responses.
Hate begets hate. If we let the perpetrators of hatred bring out the worst in us, then they win. We don’t need to be hyper-national-ists to see through Kawamura’s farce. Rather, we simply need to stand firmly by history’s side.
XIUYI ZHENG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at
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S T A F F I L L U S T R A T O R I L A N A S T R A U S S
Unlike the 18th birth-day — that due moment of pomp and
circumstance that triggers the right to vote for o!ce and die for country — the 19th birthday confers no partic-ular responsibility. It passes relatively unnoticed.
Consider the ghost of your birthdays past: the cul-tural milestones of double-digits, the bar or bat mitz-vah, the quinceanera, the sweet sixteen and so on. Pre-teens really dig birthdays. And why shouldn’t they? In third grade, I turned however many years old I turned and got a paper crown and card signed by every member of my elementary school class. Our teacher displayed little construction-paper cakes on the bulletin board, each cake signifying one unique cele-bration for one special snow-flake of a child. Now, time stops for neither cupcakes nor candles — and the lowly birthday once again assumes its rightful insignificance. The temporary extravagance of the 21st cannot salvage the birthday from its ultimate demise into routine.
Today, I turn 19 years old. I’m shocked — not because I feel particularly old, but not because I feel particularly young, either. Today, my birthday poses an existential threat to the perceived slug-gishness of collegiate time. Each day drags on, a seeming year in 24 hours of lecture, classes, papers, parties. You look at Yale as a freshman — you look at the Blue Book, at your reading, at your Satur-day night — and you feel like you’ll be a freshman forever.
Turning 19, in a way, means coming to terms with the ephemeral nature of my freshman year — each action I take might very well be my last performance of that action as a freshman. My last midterm. My last all-nighter. My last 19th birthday.
And turning 19 means realizing college won’t last forever, either.
Maybe I’m thinking about this because of Chipotle. You see: I took a road trip to Chipotle last Sunday, piling into a beat-up red rental car with a handful of friends and a handful of cash. The sky turned burnt orange and we cruised along the highway, exit after exit blurring past into the evening.
Did you know that New Haven’s just a few min-utes away from the interna-tional Pez Visitor Center? You won’t learn that dur-ing Camp Yale, of course, because either nobody knows or nobody cares enough to tell you between whispered
words of W e n z e l s and soci-eties and all the lit-tle things y o u ’ r e finally old e n o u g h to know about. But k n o w i n g that Yale is so close to the Pez
Visitor Center is like a little piece of chocolate or a penny you find on the ground — an amuse-bouche of knowl-edge, secrets shared between two people like seats in a red rental car.
I don’t think driving to Chipotle signifies the ulti-mate act of independence. I don’t think driving to Chi-potle is comparable to rais-ing a family on my own, or buying my first apartment, or filing my own taxes.
But there’s a sort kind of magic that comes from taking a Sunday road trip to Chipo-tle, even if the guacamole is soggy and the only table left shakes a little. It’s the same kind of unexpected magic that comes from watching the sky turn orange, or find-ing the Pez Visitor Center hidden on the exit of a high-way. It’s the same thing that happens when you venture o" campus and realize that New Haven is bigger than Yale, that Connecticut is bigger than New Haven and that you are smaller than you thought. There’s a certain wonder that comes with not having everything here in a place that tries to give you everything: Go forth and find it.
Today, birthdays lose their magic. We’re not in third grade anymore; we buy our own cupcakes. But we make our own magic now. After all, it’s pretty easy to find it on the way to Chipotle. And, honestly, there are a lot of ways to get there.
MARISSA MEDANSKY is a freshman in Morse College. Her
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TURNING 19 MEANS
REALIZING COLLEGE WON’T LAST FOREVER
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 29 The article “Chamber musicians revamp performance” misspelled the name of Kikuei Ikeda, the coach of the Eli String Quartet. The article also misattributed a quote from violinist Geo!rey Herd ’12 to Colin Brookes ’13.
TODAY’S EVENTSTHURSDAY, MARCH 1 12:15 PM “How Environmentalism Shapes People’s View of Nature.” Sudha Vasan of the Delhi School of Economics will speak. Lunch will be provided. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Room G01.
4:30 PM “Tomorrowland: American Prosperity … or Bust.” Paul Solman, a correspondent for “The PBS NewsHour,” will give this International Security Studies Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Lecture. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), lecture hall.
7:30 PM Belly Dance Workshop. This relaxed, beginner-level workshop will teach you some basic moves! Free. O!ce of International Students and Scholars (421 Temple St.).
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966 Beds at Yale-New Haven Hospital According to the Yale New-Haven Hospital website, there are currently 966 beds available to patients at the hospital, the largest medical facility in the state.
BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS AND BEN PRAWDZIK
STAFF REPORTERS
With patient intake lev-els pushing maximum capac-ity, Yale-New Haven Hospital — Connecticut’s largest medical facility — is attempting a twofold approach: increasing the number of beds at its current campus, and finalizing its purchase of the Hos-pital of Saint Raphael, the state’s fourth-largest hospital.
Yale-New Haven is asking state regulators to approve the addition of 70 beds to its cam-pus over the next two years — an investment of $1.4 million — that will grow the facility’s current 1,008 beds and ease a spike in patient volume, said Vincent Petrini, senior vice president of public a!airs at the hospital. But Petrini added that local expan-sion is only a first step: On Feb. 9, Yale-New Haven and Saint Raphael’s submitted an applica-tion to the Department of Pub-lic Health’s O"ce of Health Care Access for regulatory approval of Yale-New Haven’s acquisi-tion of Saint Raphael’s facility on Chapel Street for $160 million. If approved, the acquisition would spare Yale-New Haven from hav-ing to construct a fifth patient tower, which Petrini said would cost an estimated $400 million and take five years to build.
The terms of the acquisition would help Yale-New Haven meet excess demand and allow Saint Raphael’s to recover financial stability, Petrini said. According to the Certificate of Need appli-cation submitted to the Office of Health Care Access on Feb. 9, Yale needs at least 140 additional patient beds in the next five years to cope with demand. At the same time, Saint Raphael’s future “is uncertain,” as it has experienced significant financial losses for several years — making it impos-sible for it to survive without out-side assistance.
“We have seen a significant increase in patients, and because of the large demand, we need more space,” Petrini said. “The proposal makes perfect sense for our community and growth while stabilizing Saint Raphael’s finan-cial challenges — we’re optimis-tic about it.”
Saint Raphael’s currently has 511 beds, but only 421 are used, according to the Certificate of Need. Under the proposed agree-ment, Yale-New Haven would have control over both hospi-tal facilities and could use the 90 unoccupied beds at Saint Rapha-el’s Hospital, in addition to the 70 additional beds pending approval at the Yale-New Haven campus, to meet future demand.
Within the first five years after the acquisition’s approval, Yale-New Haven Hospital would invest $129.5 million to finance capi-tal improvements, clinical ser-vice enhancements and expand its electronic medical records system to Saint Raphael’s Hos-pital, according to the Certificate of Need. Yale would also assume Saint Raphael’s long-term debt and contribute to its current shortfall in pension funding for hospital sta!.
While proponents of the acquisition said the proposal meets the needs of both hospi-tals — increased capacity at Yale-New Haven and financial stabil-ity for Saint Raphael’s Hospital — the deal raises questions about the future of hospital competi-tion within the Elm City. Yale-New Haven and Saint Rapha-el’s are the only two hospitals in the city and are often considered rivals. An acquisition joining the two facilities as one entity would eliminate competition between the two and could create a single health care option for city resi-dents.
“I don’t know if the acquisition will be approved,” said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale Medical School. “The Federal Trade Com-mission is going to have to decide if [the deal creates] a monopoly and if it’s good for the commu-nity.”
Petrini said he has not heard any complaints that the pro-posed acquisition would create a monopoly hospital in the Elm City. He added that Yale-New Haven’s patient base is much broader than just the city of New Haven. He said Yale-New Haven receives patients from several bordering states and is competing with hospitals across Connecti-cut, New York City and Boston.
In addition to expanding its inpatient care capacity, Yale-
New Haven announced plans earlier this week to expand its options for outpatient care — medical services where patients do not stay in a hospital — by developing an outpatient cen-ter in North Haven. Accord-ing to a Feb. 29 press release, Yale-New Haven will purchase a 120,000-square-foot, four-story building formerly owned by AT&T and remodel it to become a walk-in primary care center.
“The concept of a Yale-New Haven ambulatory [outpatient] center has received widespread community support,” said Rich-ard D’Aquila, Yale-New Haven president and chief operat-ing o"cer. “It will create access to key health services for resi-dents of North Haven, Hamden, Cheshire and other surrounding communities.”
According to Petrini, Yale-New Haven is experiencing a rapid 2 to 3 percent annual patient rate growth while other hospitals in the state have not seen similar rises. He said he attributes this demand to the rising number of transfer patients, about 4,000 a year, that Yale-New Haven received after implementing the “Y Access Line” — a phone line which allows neighboring hos-pitals to request space at Yale-New Haven for their critical care patients. Petrini said well-known physicians and new facilities, such as the Smilow Cancer Hos-pital, also contributed to this growth.
Across the state, inpatient vol-ume was flat for several years, and has dropped slightly since 2009,
Connecticut Hospital Associ-ation spokeswoman Michelle Sharp said. She added that the decline in patient volume is partly due to the loss of insurance that accompanied loss of jobs in the economic recession. But as the state’s population continues to age, these rates are expected to climb higher, she said.
“We expect to see inpatient utilization increase as Connect-icut’s population ages, though that increase will likely be tem-pered some by systems changes resulting from health care reform,” Sharp said.
Alpern said he thinks the acquisition will have a positive e!ect on the Yale Medical School. Some Saint Raphael’s doctors will form part of the school’s faculty, and Saint Raphael’s facilities will be available for student and resi-dent training, Alpern said.
“We think the acquisition is a really good thing for the commu-nity, the hospitals and the Medi-cal School,” Alpern said. “It just makes sense for the two hospitals to work together.”
The Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Care Access has 30 days following the submission of a Certificate of Need application to decide whether to approve the deal. The department will announce by March 10 whether the acquisition will be permitted.
Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at
[email protected] and BEN PRAWDZIK at
Y-NHH to expand patient care
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Yale-New Haven wants to increase its capacity through new constuction at its current location and by acquiring the Hospital of Saint Raphael.
BY JAMES LUSTAFF REPORTER
In a four-day operation that kicked o! last Friday, U.S. Immi-gration and Customs Enforce-ment arrested 45 undocumented residents in Massachusetts and Connecticut, including two in New Haven.
ICE officers in the agen-cy’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested the 45 indi-viduals, 40 of them Connecticut residents, as part of “Operation Threats Against the Commu-nity,” which targeted convicted criminals, according to a Wednesday afternoon ICE press release. The arrests come after last Wednesday’s statewide roll-out of Secure Communities, an ICE program that seeks to deport criminals residing in the country illegally.
“The results of this targeted enforcement operation under-score ERO’s ongoing commit-ment to public safety,” ERO Bos-ton field o"ce director Dorothy Herrera-Niles said in the press release. “Because of the tire-less e!orts and teamwork of ERO o"cers — along with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners — there are fewer crimi-nal aliens in our neighborhoods.”
According to the press release, “numerous” law enforcement agencies throughout Massachu-setts and Connecticut assisted ERO in making the arrests.
When reached Wednes-day evening, City Hall spokes-woman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said the city had only learned of the arrests several hours before ICE announced the news to the press. New Haven Police Depart-ment spokesman David Hart-man could not immediately be reached for comment.
Benton said it was too early to comment on the arrests or
whether they were related to Secure Communities, which city and police officials have denounced as harmful to com-munity policing efforts in the past several weeks.
The arrests were made as part of ICE’s “Criminal Alien Pro-gram,” ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein told the New Haven Independent Wednesday. Those arrested will be held at an ICE detention facility pending deportation proceedings before an immigration judge, he added.
Of the 45 people arrested, 24 had felony histories and 18 had multiple convictions, includ-ing prior charges for assault and battery of a child, sexual assault, possessing and selling drugs, drunk driving and larceny.
This is the second time in five years ICE has made arrests in New Haven after city officials openly opposed federal immigra-tion policy.
In 2007, the Board of Alder-
men approved a plan to issue identification cards to city resi-dents, regardless of immigrant status, that would allow them to borrow library books, pay parking meters and open bank accounts. The cards — popular within New Haven but criticized nationally as overly friendly to illegal immigrants — protected New Haven’s estimated 10,000 to 15,000 undocumented resi-dents, who had been targets of robberies due to their inability to deposit money.
Two days after the Board passed the Elm City Resident Card plan, ICE agents raided Fair Haven, home to the major-ity of the city’s undocumented residents, and detained 29 indi-viduals the agency claimed were in the country illegally. ICE o"-cials denied the resident card plan’s passage and the raids were connected, calling the agency’s actions “routine.”
More recently, city officials
have criticized ICE’s Secure Communities program, which will collect suspected crimi-nals’ fingerprints from the Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation and check them against ICE’s data-base in an e!ort to deport crim-inals living in the country ille-gally.
“Secure Communities is a misguided and mishandled pro-gram that will neither make New Haven more secure nor a stron-ger community,” Benton said on Feb. 21. “Secure Communi-ties will harm community polic-ing e!orts in New Haven to build trust between immigrant com-munities and the police depart-ment.”
ICE launched Secure Commu-nities in Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland last Wednesday, and the program will become mandatory nationwide by 2013.
Contact JAMES LU at [email protected] .
ICE arrests 40 in Conn.
CREATIVE COMMONS
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 40 undocumented Connecticut residents over four days.
BY DANIEL SISGOREOSTAFF REPORTER
In an effort to make the School of Management more competitive among admitted students, SOM Dean Edward Snyder has identified scholar-ships as a fundraising priority.
As SOM currently pays about 6 percent of the student body’s annual tuition costs through merit-based scholarships — roughly one-third the per-centage at its peer institutions — Snyder said he is working to increase the school’s scholar-ship budget from its current level. Though Snyder said SOM attracts strong applicants, he said a shortage of scholarship funding leads some applicants to choose other schools. Still, directors of financial aid at peer business schools said they did not think variations in schol-arship funding would markedly a!ect admissions yields.
“We have a really strong applicant pool,” Snyder said. “We’re doing very well, but having said that, we’re working out of a scholarship budget that is not very robust.”
Bruce DelMonico, SOM’s director of admissions, said the school’s admissions yield has historically hovered just below 50 percent, which he described as “not dramatically lower” than those of peer busi-ness schools. DelMonico said the school naturally attracts highly qualified applicants who have many enrollment choices, and said he could not predict whether increasing scholar-ship availability would impact the yield.
Even if bolstering scholar-ship funds may not improve the yield, DelMonico said he and Snyder agree that money “should be taken out of the equation” of an admitted stu-dent’s enrollment decision. SOM does not o!er need-based financial aid but sets aside roughly $3 million for combined scholarship and loan forgive-ness funding, he added.
Joel Getz, SOM senior asso-ciate dean for development and alumni relations, said fundrais-ing for scholarships is one of his o"ce’s “top priorities.” The
majority of the money needed to construct the school’s new campus — another central fun-draising priority — has already been raised, Getz said, allow-ing SOM to pursue other goals. He added that donors have responded positively to the idea of giving to scholarship funds.
“We’ve already seen the idea resonate with people,” Getz said. “People definitely under-stand the need for it, as Dean Snyder has prioritized it based on his vast experience as a dean.”
Laurence Mueller, the direc-tor of financial aid at the Uni-versity of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said improving scholarship avail-ability could help business schools distinguish them-selves from similarly ranked peer institutions. But Mueller said he did not think increas-ing scholarship funding would dramatically impact students’ decisions, particularly for those choosing between schools with large di!erences in rankings.
Jack Edwards, director of financial aid at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, said in an email Wednesday that roughly half of the school’s student body is on need-based financial aid — the only type the school o!ers. But he added that business programs can be competitive without o!ering a strong financial aid program.
“For graduate schools, there typically is an expectation that the student has saved to cover [tuition costs],” Edwards said.
Though SOM does not o!er need-based financial aid like Stanford does, DelMonico said the school’s loan-forgiveness program, designed to support recent graduates who enter eli-gible low-paying careers, is more generous than those of many peer institutions. DelMo-nico said SOM pioneered loan forgiveness repayment e!orts, though he added that many students value up-front schol-arships over loan repayment when deciding where to enroll.
SOM tuition for the 2012-’13 academic year is $55,050.
Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at [email protected] .
Snyder looks to bolster scholarships
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School of Management Dean Edward Snyder to expand the school’s financial aid budget.
HOSPITAL SEEKS APPROVAL FOR MORE BEDS, FINALIZES PURCHASE OF SAINT RAPHAEL’S
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“If you were smart in 1807 you moved to Lon-don, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.” JIM ROGERS ’64 AMERICAN INVESTOR
addressing the complete issue.Nancy Cantalupo, an
adjunct law professor at Georgetown University who has been working on sexual misconduct issues for over 15 years, said confusion about the pathways available for fil-ing complaints is “inevitable” because of the di!erent legal regimes that govern members of a campus community.
Spangler said adminis-trators have been working to improve consistency between different departments, add-ing that o"cials reviewed the updated Title IX regulations in April’s “Dear Colleague Letter” as part of its “broader review of issues relating to sexual misconduct.” Uni-versity President Richard Levin appointed Spangler in November following a report by the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, which was convened last April after the OCR launched its ongo-ing investigation into whether Yale has a hostile sexual cli-mate.
Colleges and universi-ties nationwide have pursued different strategies as they attempt to streamline the pro-cess of filing sexual miscon-duct complaints. Peter Lake, director for the Center for Excellence in Higher Educa-tion Law and Policy at Stetson University, said initial reac-tions to the Dear Colleague Letter involved attempts to “find some consistency” within a university’s di!erent
procedures, but added that the change did not necessar-ily entail “unifying” its pro-cesses.
“You may not need to have one singular system,” he said. “Suppose you could have polytheism: you could have many ‘gods’ of Title IX enforcement, but there does have to be one master Title IX coordinator who oversees all of the ‘lesser deities.’ So there does need to be some coher-ence to the system.”
David Armstrong, general counsel and vice president for development at Notre Dame College of Ohio, said the Dear Colleague Letter prompted Notre Dame o"cials to stan-dardize its policies for di!er-ent subsets of people in the community, though univer-sities could have interpreted the letter in di!erent ways. He added that he thinks the OCR is not always clear about its expectations for Title IX com-
pliance.“The federal government
needs to get away from a ‘got-cha’ system and work more towards educating so we as an institution know what to expect,” he said. “If a situation occurs on campus, the prob-lem is that it’s ex post facto. The Department of Education will come in after and say ‘you did this wrong,’ but nobody tells us how to do it right.”
Yale’s use of confidenti-ality contracts serves as one instance in which procedures for students and staff differ — a discrepancy some experts attributed to differing legal obligations between admin-istrators and the two groups. Michael Della Rocca, chair of the UWC, said in a Janu-ary interview that the com-mittee does not use written nondisclosure agreements, though he said administrators do request during complaint processes that all parties maintain confidentiality. On the other hand, Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson said Yale may ask sta! members to sign nondis-closure agreements, a practice she said is “common” among employers.
One complainant, who also requested anonymity, said she was asked to sign a nondis-closure agreement with the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. The contract she signed prohibited her from discussing the terms of the agreement — except with fam-ily members and legal coun-sel — and requested that she
“forever discharge Yale and its current and former employ-ees” from liability, according to a copy of the agreement she provided to the News.
Valarie Stanley, director of the O"ce of Equal Opportu-nity Programs and the Title IX coordinator for employees, said in a Monday email that all people involved in a com-
plaint investigation are asked to keep the matters confi-dential, adding that her o"ce informs individuals of all sex-ual grievance resources avail-able to them.
Last month, Spangler released a report documenting 52 sexual misconduct com-plaints brought to adminis-trators from July 1 to Dec. 31 of
last year. The report included sexual harassment issues among undergraduates, grad-uate students, postdoctoral students, staff and faculty members.
Contact CAROLINE TAN at [email protected] .
of the Board of Police Commissioners. “Some of that is attributable to more visibility of o"-cers on the beat, and other strategies imple-mented [by Esserman] will make a di!erence.”
Like Hartman, Epstein cautioned that it is “too early to declare victory yet” but said the Board of Police Commissioners is encouraged by the crime figures posted so far this year.
Hartman said the NHPD’s progress in solv-ing cases, both in the Major Crimes Unit and the newly formed shooting task force, has helped prevent other crimes from being com-mitted.
“When warrants are being signed for past homicides … along with the general increase in solved crimes, if you are a criminal, and you see people being caught and convicted left and right, that seems to be quite a deterrent,” he said.
The last time New Haven saw multiple months without a homicide, between April and August 2009, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. attrib-uted the trend to “more enforcement.”
The community, not just the depart-ment, has contributed to the decrease in vio-lent crime, said Bishop Theodore Brooks, who served on the Board of Police Commissioners
until earlier this month.“It has to do with the community itself, with
people reaching out to each other and asking them to stop the violence and the senseless kill-ings,” Brooks said.
The involvement of federal and state o"-cials in New Haven policing may also explain the positive crime statistics so far this year, said Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who serves on the Board of Aldermen’s public safety committee.
Hausladen said the drop in violent crime may also be related to an improving economic climate in the city. While Hausladen said he did not know specific data about youth employ-ment in the Elm City, hiring has picked up and jobless claims are decreasing in the city.
“Job availability is definitely a factor in crime,” Hausladen said. “Economic viability and possibility and hope — those things do help solve crime. They take the violent o!ender and make them an active member of society.”
A report presented to the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Feb. 10 showed that crime is at a 44-year low in Connecticut.
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allow faculty to bring issues to a vote and are recorded in perma-nent minutes.
Sociology professor Deborah Davis, who is chairing the social sciences search committee for the new college, said town hall meet-ings and faculty meetings facili-tate similar types of discussion because both invite professors to attend and air potential grievances. The University has also provided other opportunities for discussion of Yale-NUS, Davis said, such as holding meetings with groups con-cerned about the rights of LGBTQ faculty in Singapore.
But Davis also said Thursday’s faculty meeting is necessary in providing a forum for the profes-sors who “feel that they haven’t been heard” on Yale-NUS issues.
Art history professor David Joselit said in a Wednesday email that universities depend on the free exchange of ideas, and that Yale must consider whether its educa-tional aims are compatible with the political climate in Singapore.
“Yale is undertaking an alli-ance with a state that does not
share these values,” Joselit said. “It is imperative for us as a fac-ulty to practice what we preach — to probe, explore, question and debate the great dangers, as well as the possible virtues, of such an alliance on the part of our Univer-sity.”
Faculty have also continued to raise objections to the “feedback loop” administrators have said they envision forming between the two schools, which could bring policies tested in Singapore back to New Haven. Four professors inter-viewed said faculty should have a voice in the process because the college will be impacted by Yale-NUS, though Levin said Feb. 19 that the decision to create Yale-NUS ultimately rested with the
Yale Corporation since the project is a new school and not a program within Yale College.
“The Yale College faculty is sup-posed to govern itself and to con-trol matters related to the college,” Christopher Miller said. “That should and must include its rela-tions with Yale-NUS.”
Two professors also expressed concern over the possibility of fac-ulty leaving to teach abroad, and over Yale-NUS bringing students to study in New Haven as part of programs like a master’s degree in environmental studies that was announced in early January. If fac-ulty members choose to teach at Yale-NUS for a term, the Singa-porean government — which is underwriting the new college — will pay their salaries while abroad.
Yale College faculty meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month, and are designed to address issues specific to Yale Col-lege.
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ANTONIA WOODFORD at [email protected] .
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NEWS “I have ever considered the constitutional mode of election ultimately by the Legislature vot-ing by States as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution...” THOMAS JEFFERSON FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT
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Last Friday, at the culmination of Yale’s first Engineers Week, students enjoyed operating homemade catapults in Davies Auditorium.
BY ROBERT PECK AND CLINTON WANGSTAFF REPORTERS
Last Friday, students wrapped up Yale’s first Engineers Week by using homemade catapults to fling stu!ed animals into targets set up throughout Davies Auditorium.
The catapult launch was one of the culminating events for the week, which was planned by Enping Hong ENG ’14 and Ying Zheng ENG ’13 to showcase Yale’s engineering resources and address the gap in career guidance for engineers between Yale and other top-tier schools. Five out of six undergraduates interviewed who attended the week’s events, all future engineering majors, said they felt that the program pro-vided them with valuable insight on extracurricular and job oppor-tunities available to them.
“The problem isn’t that [engi-neering] opportunities aren’t here at Yale,” Hong said. “The problem is that people aren’t connected to them.”
The duo planned Engineers Week to include fun activi-ties such as the catapult launch and ice cream social that would appeal to undergraduates, Hong said. He said he hoped the week, which also included a career panel hosted by the Center for Interna-tional and Professional Experi-ence, would put undergraduate engineering majors in touch with career opportunities.
Jennifer Saucier-Sawyer ENG ’15, who helped organize the ice cream social, said graduate stu-dents discussed research oppor-tunities with undergraduates and referred them to friends and col-leagues who work in their fields of interest.
This sort of informal net-working is valuable, Zheng said, because the lack of publicity about Yale engineering opportu-nities could put Yale students at a disadvantage compared to gradu-ates of other schools. Yale’s pro-gram is not as well-known as that of Harvard or MIT, and it is too small to attract as many recruit-ers as a school with more engi-neering majors, she said. Only 4 percent of Yale College students major in engineering, compared to 60 percent at MIT and 10 per-cent at Stanford.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Deputy Dean Vincent Wilczynski said the pri-mary purpose of the week was not career guidance but to cele-brate engineering at Yale. How-ever, he added that providing a new avenue to showcase engi-neering resources was also a posi-tive aspect of the week.
Wilczynski said he did not think there was a lack of engineering opportunities at Yale College, and pointed to the annual academic and activities fairs as examples of outreach by the department.
Daniel Noble ’15 and Pablo Napolitano ’15, both prospective engineering majors, said that they learned of new research oppor-tunities from Engineers Week. Noble added that the week also exposed him to undergraduate engineering organizations at Yale for the first time.
Napolitano said Engineers Week helped him make connec-tions to faculty and graduate stu-dents, which helped him decide to perform research with a Yale professor this summer. He said he regrets that there were no earlier engineering events to inform him of such opportunities, because he has now missed deadlines to apply for research fellowships.
“I feel like the opportunity is definitely there, but this is the first I’m being told about it,” Napoli-tano said. “Outside this event, I haven’t been told how to get in touch with profs or find research opportunities.”
Sagar Yadama ’15, also an engineering major, said he did not think Engineers Week over-came the deficit in career ser-vices for Yale engineering majors. He said Yale needs to devote more resources to its engineering departments to keep them com-petitive.
Both Hong and Zheng are part of the Advanced Graduate Lead-ership Program, which gives SEAS students the chance to have expe-riences in fields other than engi-neering, such as academia, public service and business. They are in the International and O!-Cam-pus Undergraduate Engagement track of the Leadership Program, focusing on expanding resources and opportunities for Yale under-graduate students.
“I believe that, as someone considering an academic pro-fession, serving and helping my students is as important as doing quality research,” Hong said. “In graduate school, it’s too easy to focus solely on the next project or paper, and spend one’s time divorced from the vibrant under-graduate community other than the students one teaches or men-tors.”
In the fall, Hong said, the pair collaborated to host repre-sentatives from the engineer-ing firms Sikorsky, Engineering World Health, Covidien and Ora-cle at on-campus talks and career recruitment events. They also held a “how to apply to gradu-ate school” information session for seniors interested in pursuing higher engineering education.
The Leadership Program was created in February 2010 through a $1.91 million grant by The Goi-zueta Foundation, a cooperative funding program for universities and charities.
Contact ROBERT PECK [email protected] and
CLINTON WANG at [email protected] .
Majors applaud career guidance at Engineers Week
BY NICK DEFIESTASTAFF REPORTER
State legislators said it is unlikely that Connecticut will sign onto a system in which it assigns its Electoral College votes based on the national popular vote in time for the 2012 presidential election.
The National Popular Vote Compact, which requires its sig-natories to award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presiden-tial elections, was not proposed by lawmakers in Hartford before last week’s deadline set by the General Assembly’s Government Admin-istration and Election Committee. Despite e!orts by members of the National Popular Vote, a nonprofit advocacy organization, state leg-islators said the bill was not intro-duced because they prioritized other legislation, such as educa-tion reform, but supporters of the bill said they are hopeful that it may still pass through nontradi-tional channels.
“There is some interest in [the National Popular Vote bill], although I don’t know if there’s enough to take action on it this year,” said Senate Majority Leader
Martin Looney, who represents New Haven. “It is a short [legisla-tive] session.”
Without the committee’s sup-port, Looney said it is more di"-cult, though not impossible, for the bill to advance any further. National Popular Vote regional director Ryan O’Donnell said the bill is unlikely to pass given the short length — three months — of the current legislative session, though he added that there are “a number” of ways for legislation to go forward and that he did not dis-miss its chances.
The National Popular Vote bill — which 74 percent of state res-idents support, according to a 2009 poll conducted by Pub-lic Policy Polling — was cleared by the Government Administra-tion and Election Committee last year by a 10 to 5 margin, but was never brought to the House floor for vote. Looney attributed the General Assembly’s failure to raise the bill to the body’s acknowl-edgement that it would generate a “very time-consuming debate” and take time away from other pressing issues.
Given the Electoral College’s structure, in order to become the
system by which presidents are elected, the National Popular Vote Compact would need enough states to join such that it repre-sents a majority of the nation’s electoral votes — more than 270. Currently, eight states and the District of Columbia have joined the compact, representing a total of 132 electoral votes.
Though Looney said support for the bill is “growing” in the state legislature, he added that members will continue to con-
sider how the bill might affect other states’ voting outcomes. Some state Democratic lawmak-ers, he said, have expressed con-cern about the fact that Connect-icut’s electoral votes in the 2004 national election would have gone to George W. Bush ’68 if Connect-icut and enough other states had passed the National Popular Vote bill before the election.
Still, deciding elections by the national popular vote would ensure that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes across the country is vic-torious, O’Donnell said. He added that this has failed to hap-pen in four presidential elec-tions, including the 2000 election between Al Gore and Bush.
The enactment of the National Popular Vote, he added, would force presidential candidates to campaign more widely, rather than focusing on a few impor-tant battleground states as they do now.
“It’s going to be obvious [dur-ing the 2012 elections] that Con-necticut and two-thirds of our states are going to be ignored once again,” O’Donnell said. “If you want to get involved in Connecti-
cut, or get involved as a Connect-icut resident, you should get in your car and drive to your nearest swing state.”
He said one of the Compact’s goals is to make each state equally important to administrations and campaigns. He added that around 200 million Americans live in states that are virtually ignored by presidential candidates because they are considered noncompeti-tive.
But David Mayhew, a Ster-ling Professor of Political Sci-ence whose work focuses on U.S. elections, said he does not believe establishing national popular vote system would significantly alter the behavior of national politicians toward Connecticut. Instead, he said, they would visit “media-heavy” Boston and New York City.
Mayhew added that he does not think changing the current Elec-toral College system would be ben-eficial. Overall, he said, the current system does not tilt the political playing field to either major par-ty’s advantage, and changing to a national popular vote system could “end up in a mess” because of different voting laws in each
state. He said that state legisla-tures could potentially renege on their commitments to the Com-pact in order to affect national elections depending on which political party held the majority.
O’Donnell said the Compact has seen national momentum in recent years, with California and Vermont both passing the bill last year. But Mayhew said he does not expect that enough states will sign on to reach the 270 Electoral Col-lege vote minimum, given that the Compact tends to be more popular with Democrats than with Repub-licans.
“[The national popular vote] has the support of very Demo-cratic states … It makes it hard to make it past 13 states if the politi-cal situation stays as it is,” Mayhew said. “It would take some election event for this project to gather steam.”
Currently, Vermont, Maryland, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are members of the National Popular Vote Compact.
Contact NICK DEFIESTA at [email protected] .
State unlikely to join popular vote compact
It’s going to be obvious [during the 2012 elections] that Connecticut and two-thirds of our states are going to be ignored once again.
RYAN O’DONNELLRegional Director, National Popular Vote
I feel like the opportunity [for research] is definitely there, but this is the first I’m being told about it.
PABLO NAPOLITANOProspective engineering majors
‘THINGS WILL CHANGE’When Aragon was a student,
he said LANA encouraged admin-istrators to increase the Law School’s faculty diversity.
The student body at the time was itself far from its current diversity. Today, according to data from the American Bar Associa-tion and Law School Admissions Council, Yale Law School’s stu-dent body of 629 full-time stu-dents includes 46 Hispanic stu-dents, 1 Native American student, 83 Asian students and 41 black students.
But when Aragon was a stu-dent, he said, the school required groups to have 10 initial mem-bers in order to be formally recog-nized. There were too few minor-ity students of each ethnicity to form group to exist separately, so Aragon said three minority back-grounds had to band together in order to create LANA.
Aragon, who identifies as His-panic, recalled questioning Harry Wellington, the Law School dean at the time, about what he per-ceived as a shortage of people of color on the faculty.
“His words to us were, ‘We have to be patient, we have to wait, things will change,’ ” Aragon said.
More than 30 years later, law students interviewed said many of their peers remain dissatisfied with the level of diversity in the
school’s faculty. Of the 104 pro-fessors listed as tenured, adjunct, visiting, clinical or emeritus fac-ulty on the Law School’s website, eight are black, two are Hispanic and seven are Asian, according to data from the Association of American Law Schools, individ-ual interviews with professors and biographical research conducted by the News.
When Cynthia Liao LAW ’14, who identifies as Asian, came to the Law School last fall, she said she quickly noticed a lack of fac-ulty members of her own racial background.
As the first person in her fam-ily to attend law school, Liao said she looked to the faculty for men-torship. But the shortage of pro-fessors of color at the Law School, she said, “inhibits her imagi-nation” about her future career prospects in law.
When asked whether she felt she could enter a career in legal academia, she said she found the idea intimidating.
“I know that, theoretically, if I worked really hard and broke bar-riers, it could happen, but I don’t imagine it would be an easy thing,” Liao said.
Marbre Stahly-Butts LAW ’13, who identifies as black and is the political action chair for the Black Law Students’ Association, said professors could bridge the gap between a student’s background and the legal profession. But pro-fessors and students are naturally inclined to approach those who remind them most of themselves, she said.
Lani Guinier LAW ’74, a pro-fessor at Harvard Law School who was a visiting faculty mem-ber at Yale last fall and identifies as black, said studies conducted at three law schools suggest that many female students as well as students of color are hesitant to approach faculty who do not exhibit clear “friendliness cues.”
“They await a direct invitation or at least a clear signal that they are welcome to come see a pro-fessor during o!ce hours or after class,” Guinier said.
Viviane Scott LAW ’14, a stu-dent of mixed racial descent who identifies as black, said the num-ber of professors who make e"orts to be “proactive mentors” is small throughout the tenured faculty. Finding a minority professor to serve as a mentor is all the more difficult, she said, as there are already relatively few minority professors in the first place.
Scott said she has not yet found a mentor among Yale’s tenured faculty.
HIRING DIVERSITYTwenty-five years after he
graduated, Aragon returned to the Law School to serve on its execu-tive committee, which he said is a group of interested alumni that the dean asks to work with the school on fundraising and boost-ing alumni involvement in the school. While the student body had become more diverse than it was when he was a student, he said little had changed in the way of faculty diversity.
The Law School had hired an openly homosexual professor, several Asian professors and more African-Americans and women since Aragon’s time, but the school still had a gap in its grow-
ing diversity profile: it continued to lack a tenured Hispanic faculty member.
Aragon said he appreciated the increased diversity across several minority groups, but noticed the school still had not given tenure to a Hispanic professor. Aragon took this issue to then-Law School Dean Anthony Kronman GRD ’72 LAW ’75, and said received the same response as he had when broaching the issue with Welling-ton a quarter of a century earlier — that he should be patient. Ara-gon said he continued to raise the same questions with Kronman’s successors, Harold Koh and Post, who still serves as dean of the Law School, and all gave the same response.
“I’ve had three successive deans look me straight in the eye and say that this was one of their top priorities,” Aragon said. “I don’t think they were really com-mitted to getting a tenured His-panic professor — if they were, it would have happened long ago.”
When asked to describe the criteria for hiring new professors, Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said the school’s faculty hiring committee seeks candi-dates with “scholarly excellence no matter the field of expertise.” She added that the school adheres “rigorously” to the University’s non-discrimination policies in its hiring.
Post could not be reached for comment this week.
In a paper presented at the 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Ming Zhu, a gradu-ate of Harvard Law School, inves-tigated whether race plays any role in faculty hiring. While her study noted that identification with a minority group increased a candi-date’s chance of being hired, this minority status correlated with hires at less prestigious institu-tions. Zhu’s study also noted that of the top 16 law schools, none had given tenure to a minority profes-sor in the 2004-’05 hiring year, the year the study examined.
Though alumni and students interviewed questioned whether hiring processes at elite law schools might have unintentional biases against minority candi-dates, deans and chairs of fac-ulty appointment committees at other law schools said the pool of minority legal scholars remains small.
Kevin Johnson, the dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law, said many hir-ing committees give preference to alumni from a small group of elite institutions, namely Harvard, Stanford and Yale. Because such institutions have historically been less diverse than others, minority alumni are scarce.
In an e"ort to increase diver-sity, Mark West, associate dean for academic a"airs at the Univer-sity of Michigan Law School, said schools could increase the size of the pools from which they draw candidates. Simply increasing the size of the pool, he said, is bound to increase the number of strong minority scholars considered for positions.
BROADER STRUCTURAL CHANGE?
As Aragon’s frustration with the lack of a tenured Hispanic fac-ulty member at the Law School
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FROM THE FRONT “Diversity at YLS is not a talking point in a brochure; it is a reality for which I am thank-ful.” “M.W.” STUDENT PERSPECTIVES: THOUGHTS ON LIFE AND LAW AT THE
LAW SCHOOL
FLOW CHART LATERAL FACULTY HIRING AT YALE LAW SCHOOLStudents and professors rec-ommend scholars to the faculty appointments committee, which consists of tenured faculty and the Yale Law School dean. The com-mittee also considers candidates it finds on its own.
The appointments committee reads the candidates’ scholarship. The strongest candidates are recom-mended for either a visiting or ten-ured position.
The work of each scholar is pre-sented to the entire tenured fac-ulty, which then votes. In order for a scholar to receive an o!er, he or she must be voted in by at least a two-thirds majority.
Successful candidates decide whether to accept the o!er and are then hired.
At Yale Law, tenure o!er raises diversity questions
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JOY CHEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERYale Law School has never had a tenured Hispanic professor on its faculty, though that will change if Christina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 accepts the school’s o!er of tenure.
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escalated, he said he stopped donating to the Law School four years ago in an e"ort to make his frustrations known to the school.
The thought of refusing to donate to their alma mater because of a lack of racial diver-sity in the faculty has crossed the minds of other Law School alumni.
When Rodriguez taught at Yale three years ago, many students lobbied for her to be o"ered ten-ure, said Elisabeth Centeno LAW ’11, who co-chaired the Latino Law Students Association when she was at Yale. She said a stu-dent put up a sign-up sheet in a central Law School hallway urg-ing signees to refuse to donate to the school until a Hispanic pro-fessor was given tenure. Centeno said the sheet, which she recalled had a heading similar to “Would YLS hire Sonia Sotomayor?”, drew few signatures but was emblem-atic of broader student frustra-tions shared by students of color and white students alike.
Centeno said the o"er to Rodri-
guez was “a wonderful thing,” adding that current students had told her about it within an hour after the town hall. She took Rodriguez’s “Immigration Law and Policy” course in 2009 and said Rodriguez was one of the two best professors she had at Yale.
Still, while all students inter-viewed said they were happy with the Law School’s o"er of tenure to Rodriguez, they expressed con-cern that the Law School might not continue to build faculty diversity if she accepts.
“Just because you have a black person doesn’t mean you have enough black people,” Stahly-Butts said. “Just because you have a Latino face, doesn’t mean you have enough perspectives.”
Roberto Saldaña LAW ’14, who identifies as Latino and said he was happy a Hispanic woman was given an o"er of tenure, said the offer was not necessarily a sign of “broader structural change,” which he said many are look-ing for. He said such disciplines as critical race theory, which
examines race and racism from a legal perspective, continue to be underrepresented in the faculty’s academic interests. Saldaña and Stahly-Butts both said they hope Rodriguez will accept the Law School’s tenure o"er.
One source who attended the town hall meeting said the fac-ulty hiring committee announced at the meeting that it currently has five standing offers of ten-ure, three of which are to women and two of which are to people of color. Conroy, the Law School spokeswoman, declined to com-ment on current hiring o"ers.
“Our appointments commit-tee [...] is only halfway through its work this year, but has already put us in a position to make o"ers to some excellent scholars and teachers in a range of subject areas that are important to our curricu-lum,” Conroy said.
Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at [email protected] .
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North Korea agrees to halt nuclear activities BY MATTHEW PENNINGTON AND
FOSTER KLUGASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — North Korea raised hopes Wednes-day for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend ura-nium enrichment at a key facil-ity and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid.
It was only a preliminary step but a necessary one to restart broader six-nation negotia-tions that would lay down terms for what the North could get in return for abandoning its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang pulled out of those talks in 2009 and seemingly has viewed the nuclear program as key to the survival of its dynastic, com-munist regime, now entering its third generation.
But the announcement, just over two months after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il, also opened a door for the secretive government under his untested youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to improve ties with the United States and win critically needed aid and international acceptance.
It also opened the way for international nuclear inspec-tions after years when the North’s program went unmoni-tored.
Secretary of State Hillary Rod-ham Clinton said the agreement, which was announced at separate but simultaneous statements by the long-time adversaries, was a modest step but also “a reminder that the world is transforming around us.”
“We, of course, will be watch-ing closely and judging North Korea’s new leaders by their actions,” Clinton told a congres-sional hearing.
Indeed, North Korea has reneged on nuclear commit-ments in the past. An accord under the six-party talks col-lapsed in 2008 when Pyongyang refused to abide by verification that U.S. diplomats claimed had been agreed upon.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry’s statement, issued by the state-run news agency, said the North had agreed to the nuclear moratoriums and U.N. inspectors “with a view to main-taining positive atmosphere” for
the U.S.-North Korea talks.North Korea faces tough U.N.
sanctions that were tightened in 2009 when it conducted its sec-ond nuclear test and fired a long-range rocket. In late 2010, it unveiled a uranium enrichment facility that could give North Korea a second route to manu-facture nuclear weapons in addi-tion to its existing plutonium-based program.
In the meantime, its people have continued to go hungry. The North su!ered famine in the 1990s and appealed for the aid a year ago to alleviate its chronic food shortages. U.S. charities reported after a trip to North Korea last fall that children were su!ering “slow starvation.”
Clinton said the United States will meet with North Korea to finalize details for a proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of food aid. She said intensive monitoring of the aid would be required — a reflection of U.S. concerns that food could be diverted to the North’s powerful military.
A senior Obama admin-istration official said it was only in talks last week in Bei-jing that presaged Wednesday’s announcement that the North had dropped its demand for rice and grains — viewed as easier to divert — and agreed to accept the U.S. “nutritional assistance” such as corn soy blend and other food targeted to young children and pregnant women.
The o"cial spoke to report-ers on condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitiv-ity.
North Korea’s chief rival, South Korea, a staunch U.S. ally supported by 28,000 Ameri-can troops, welcomed the agree-ment, although it has yet to receive the apology it wants from the North for two mili-tary attacks that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
Those hostilities nearly pitched the divided Peninsula into war, and the elder Kim’s Dec. 17 death had fueled concern that the North could attack again and conduct another nuclear test.
Wednesday’s announcement should ease those concerns, and was a welcome development for President Barack Obama in an election year when he will be looking to avoid another secu-rity crisis to add to the pressing list of urgent U.S. foreign policy
concerns. Those include Iran’s nuclear program, the bloodshed in Syria and a deeply unstable Afghanistan.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped North Korea would take steps toward “a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” Britain’s For-eign Secretary William Hague said it was positive news and that the change in North Korean leadership o!ered a chance for “renewed engagement with the international community.”
Outsiders have been closely watching how the younger Kim, believed to be in his late 20s, handles nuclear diplomacy with the United States and deli-cate relations with South Korea. His consolidation of power, with the help of senior advisers who worked with his father and grandfather, appears to be going smoothly, although determin-ing the intentions and internal dynamics in Pyongyang is noto-
riously di"cult.Since Kim Jong Il’s death,
North Korea has vowed to main-tain the late leader’s policies and has linked its nuclear program to Kim’s legacy. Many observers are skeptical whether North Korea will ever give up its nuclear pro-gram.
“North Korea uses (the nuclear program) as leverage to win con-cessions in return for disarma-ment measures. Since Kim Jong Il’s death, it has called (the pro-gram) the country’s most impor-tant achievement,” Baek Seung-joo, an analyst at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Anal-yses in South Korea, said. “There is still a long way to go.”
While Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. welcomed the agree-ment, some Republicans reacted with skepticism, warning that Washington was heading down a path it has trod before - o!ering aid in return for nuclear commit-ments, only to see North Korea
renege.“Pyongyang will likely con-
tinue its clandestine nuclear weapons program right under our noses. We have bought this bridge several times before,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The administration official echoed some of that caution. But he also said the U.S. took it as a positive sign that the new North Korean leadership had carried on with a policy set in train before Kim Jong Il’s death, and had shown some swiftness in reach-ing the accord before the o"cial 100-day mourning period was over.
While North Korea’s commit-ments meet the pre-steps set by the U.S. for the resumption of six-party disarmament-for-aid talks, the official said the U.S. had made no promise to restart them. He said North Korea would first have to make good
on its latest commitments. The U.S. would also have to map out a strategy with the other parties in the talks — China, Japan, Russia and South Korea — on what they could o!er the North in return for the irreversible dismantling of its nuclear weapons program.
The U.S. and North Korean statements on the agreement di!ered on some details, includ-ing whether inspectors from U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency would be allowed into both the uranium enrich-ment and plutonium-based pro-grams. The North Korean state-ment referred only to uranium enrichment.
A senior Obama administra-tion o"cial acknowledged that omission but said the U.S. was in no doubt that the North had agreed to let IAEA inspectors in to confirm the disabling of plu-tonium-producing reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yong-byon.
Romney, Santorum continue intense battle
BY DAVID ESPOASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A victorious Mitt Rom-ney and runner-up Rick Santorum both claimed satisfaction from the close Michigan primary on Wednesday as they swiftly shifted their duel for the Republican presidential nomination to Ohio and the rest of next week’s delegate-rich Super Tuesday contests.
Campaigning in Bexley, Ohio, Romney promised “more jobs, less debt and a smaller government” if he wins the nomination and defeats President Barack Obama in the fall. “Interestingly, the people who said that the economy and jobs were their No. 1 issue, they voted for me, overwhelmingly” in the Michi-gan primary, he said.
Santorum saw the events of the previous 24 hours di!erently, having won half of the 30 delegates in his rival’s home state primary even though he lost the popular vote. “We had a much better night in Michigan than maybe was first reported,” he said, in Tennessee.
While Santorum contended the race to pick an opponent for Democrat Obama was down to two men, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul had other ideas as they set their own priorities for the 10 Super Tuesday contests.
That made Washington’s caucuses on Sat-urday something of a campaign way-station, worth 40 delegates but squeezed in between two big primary nights.
The pattern of the candidates’ schedules underscored a shift in the nature of the race, away from one-or-two-state nights where political momentum counted for much, and into a period of multiple contests, where the object is to pile up delegates in pursuit of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination at the party convention this summer in Tampa, Fla.
As the campaigns pivoted toward Super Tuesday, it appeared Romney’s narrow home state triumph after a string of weak perfor-mances had quelled talk of a late entrance into the race by another contender.
There seemed no doubt that the next major clash would occur in Ohio, a big industrial
state with 8.1 percent unemployment, 63 con-vention delegates at stake and a long history as a battleground in general election cam-paigns. Romney and Santorum have already campaigned there, and television advertising has topped $4 million in the state, a total that includes not only the two leading contenders but also super PACs that support them and Gingrich, as well.
In a renewed commitment, the super PAC supporting Gingrich also disclosed it would spend more than $800,000 in radio ads in upcoming primary states, including Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Santorum has been running a shoestring campaign, but a spokesman, Hogan Gid-ley, said the former Pennsylvania senator had raised $9 million in February for his candidacy.
Romney is all but assured of victories in at least two of next Tuesday’s states — Massa-chusetts, where he was governor and faces lit-tle or no competition in the primary, and Vir-ginia, where neither Gingrich nor Santorum qualified for the ballot. Those two contests o!er 84 delegates combined.
Gingrich looked to Georgia, where he launched his political career 30 years ago, to ignite an improbable comeback. The former House speaker conceded it was a state he must win, and he predicted he would, decisively. Polls show him leading but below the 50 per-cent level he would need to sweep all 76 del-egates.
Surveys show Santorum running strongly in Oklahoma, which has 40 delegates, while Ten-nessee, with 55, shapes up as a struggle. There are modest amounts of television advertising in both states, indicating that several camps view then as competitive.
Paul appears to be contesting Romney in Vermont, with 17 delegates.
Paul also intends to make a rare campaign trip to Alaska for the weekend in hopes of gaining his first victory of the year in the state’s caucuses. There are 24 delegates up for grabs. Two other caucus states, Idaho, 32 delegates, and North Dakota, 28, were drawing unusual interest from all four contenders.
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SPORTSterback and was heavily recruited by many colleges, including Ivy League schools. However, Hill did not initially consider the Ancient Eight seriously. Instead, he har-bored hopes of attending a big football school from the Pacific-8 (now the Pacific-12) or the Big Ten and was especially drawn to football powerhouse UCLA.
Nonetheless, on Riverdale’s college visitation day for seniors, Hill decided to visit Columbia. But Hill said that decision was motivated more by an excuse to skip class for the day than by gen-uine interest in the Ivy League.
When he returned to Riverdale and told one of the football assis-tant coaches there that he had gone to see Columbia, the coach assumed Hill was considering Ivy League schools and arranged for him to visit Yale that weekend.
“He was a pretty tough coach, and I didn’t want to let him know that I was more interested in missing class than I was going into the Ivy League,” Hill said.
But that weekend in New Haven changed Hill’s attitude
towards the Ancient Eight. Dur-ing his stay, he attended a foot-ball game and watched the Bull-dogs defeat Dartmouth, 14–7, in front of a crowd of 70,000 peo-ple at the Yale Bowl. Hill was also impressed by Yale’s “gorgeous” campus, urban location and proximity to New York City.
“It was a really spectacu-lar visit,” Hill said. “I came back kind of reinvigorated about the Ivy League and started thinking about some of the other schools. But I always liked Yale.”
In the end, Hill turned down all the football scholarships o!ered to him and decided to become a Bulldog.
BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS Despite being an All-American
quarterback in high school, when Hill first arrived at Yale he was only the third-string fullback on the freshman team.
“It wasn’t the greatest thing for my confidence,” Hill said. “I had gone from the top of the mountain to the base of the mountain.”
But it was not long before Hill was climbing toward the top. In a
game against Princeton his fresh-man year, Hill — who played as both a fullback and a linebacker for the freshman team — led the Bulldogs to a win by scoring five touchdowns, intercepting a pass, forcing a fumble and blocking a punt.
His junior and senior sea-sons, Hill earned first team All-Ivy honors as a running back and helped lead the Bulldogs to Ivy League Championships in 1967 and 1968. His senior year, the Elis went undefeated, though Hill’s final football game at Yale ended with the infamous 29–29 tie at Harvard. With the Bulldogs lead-ing 29–13 and 45 seconds left on the clock, Harvard launched an improbable rally and scored 16 points to tie the game and earn a share of the Ivy League title.
“It just shows you what can happen,” Hill said. “Everything went right for Harvard, and everything went wrong for us. It was a forgettable day.”
Hill’s athletic talents also extended to the track. Though he joined the team mostly to stay in shape for football season, Hill became one of the best jumpers in school history. In his first ever meet, Hill’s mark in the long jump beat not only all of the freshmen, but it also exceeded the best var-sity jump on the team.
Hill went on to become a dou-ble champion in both the long jump and triple jump at the Out-door Championships in 1968 and helped the Elis capture the Hep-tagonal Championship his senior year, when he once again won individual titles in the long jump and triple jump. He still holds the school record for the outdoor tri-ple jump.
Hill’s athletic abilities also earned him the respect of his teammates both on and off the field.
“Having all that ability and talent, he was a nice guy,” Ed Franklin ’69 LAW ’73, a former defensive back and teammate of Hill, said. “He was not inflated with himself.”
When he was not competing for Yale, Hill immersed himself in campus culture. He pursued a major in history, with a partic-ular interest in Russian history and the antebellum South. Out-side of class, Hill was a brother in the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater-nity, although he said that “they weren’t quite as wild as they seem to be now, from what I read.” Hill also was a member of Black Stu-dents at Yale from its inception and belonged to St. Elmo Society.
ENTERING THE DRAFTEven with his successes as
a football player, Hill’s initial career plan involved contin-ued education, not the NFL. In fact, Hill said his primary rea-son for attending Yale was always the education. Although he had been drawing interest from pro-fessional teams, his original goal was to enroll at Union Theologi-cal Seminary in New York City. Hill said he hoped he would be
drafted or sign a free-agent con-tract with a team so that even if he ended up getting cut, he could make enough money to pay for two years of divinity school. But Hill never expected to be drafted in the first round.
“It was a shock,” he said. “It was totally out of left field because it wasn’t something I had been planning on doing.”
Still, Hill continued to excel on the gridiron. In his rookie year with the Cowboys, he rushed for 942 yards and scored eight touchdowns, earning Offensive Rookie of the Year honors and a selection to the Pro Bowl.
Hill said his transition from collegiate to professional athlet-ics was an easy one.
“I was doing basically the same thing I had done at Yale,” he said. “In some respects you didn’t have class to worry about … [That] took a lot of discipline, whereas when you were through with football practice in the pros you just went home.”
In 1972, Hill became the Cow-boys’ first-ever running back to break the 1,000-yard mark for the season in a game against the Redskins, finishing the season with a total of 1,036 yards. That year proved exciting for other reasons: Hill and his wife, Janet, welcomed the birth of their son,
Grant, who would go on to col-legiate glory at Duke and a suc-cessful career in the NBA with the Pistons, Magic and Suns. Hill’s football season culminated with a championship ring, as the Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24–3 in Super Bowl VI.
The following year, Hill broke his own franchise record by rush-ing 1,142 yards and earned his third Pro Bowl selection.
After six seasons with Dallas, Hill left the NFL to compete with the Hawaiians of the World Foot-ball League for one season before returning to the NFL to finish his career with the Washington Red-skins and the Cleveland Browns.
LIFE AFTER THE NFLAfter retiring from the NFL,
Hill stayed on with the Browns as a consultant and helped develop player programs to provide sup-port for athletes who were strug-gling with substance abuse. In 1986, he joined the board of directors of the Baltimore Ori-oles and eventually became vice president of the club from 1987 to 1994. Hill hired future MLB gen-eral manager Theo Epstein ’95 in 1992 to work for the Orioles. Hill now works as a consultant for the Cowboys.
Hill also has remained con-nected to the New Haven com-munity even after he gradu-ated. During his rookie season with Dallas, his Yale teammate Schmoke approached him and asked if he would give his name to a daycare center a group of undergraduates were founding to help with fundraising e!orts. That center, the Calvin Hill Day-care Center on Highland Street, has been in continuous operation for over 40 years.
Schmoke said that while Hill was an outstanding football player in college and profession-ally, his character was also exem-
plary. In November 2010, Hill
returned to the Yale Bowl to receive the Doak Walker Legends Award for his achievements as a collegiate football player and his dedication to the community.
Hill appreciates Yale as much as Yale appreciates him.
“[Yale] was a wonderful com-munity,” he said. “The four years — they were some of the best years of my life.”
Contact MARIA GUARDADO at [email protected] .
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TIMELINE CAL-VIN HILL’S ’69 CAREERFALL 1965Hill enrolls at Yale as a freshman .
FALL 1968Hill helps Bulldogs go undefeated, end season with 29-29 tie at Har-vard.
1969Hill is named NFL O!ensive Rookie of the Year.
1972Hill become first running back in Cowboys’ history to break 1,000 yards.
1981Hill retires from playing in the NFL, hired the Cleveland Browns as a consultant the following year.
NOV. 2010Hill presented with Doak Walker Legends Award.
ciation as well as an independent arbitrator (who ruled in Braun’s favor).
Braun won the appeal by con-vincing arbitrator Shyam Das that the chain of custody sur-rounding his sample had been broken. After collecting the sample at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 1., the testing o"cial took it home for the weekend on the incorrect grounds that the Fedex shipping location was closed for the weekend. Samples are meant to be brought to Fedex imme-diately, where a player’s name becomes a number and thus full objectivity is ensured. The 44-hour window during which the sample sat in the official’s home refrigerator was enough to convince the arbitrator to throw out Braun’s negative test.
Maybe he did it. Maybe he took steroids. Maybe the test-ing official tampered with the urine, or maybe that was just a convenient defense by Braun’s legal team. Maybe, as suggested by some, Braun was too embar-rassed to admit that the test result was actually caused by herpes medication. At the end of the day, only Braun and the
urine tester will know for sure what happened. But all of that is beside the point.
What’s most troubling about this case is not a league MVP’s failed drug test but rather the alarming breach of confiden-tiality by the Commissioner’s O"ce. MLB has a strict policy under which Braun’s failed test should not have been made pub-lic until he had been given every chance to prove his innocence. And he did prove his innocence. Unfortunately for Braun, his test result was leaked prema-turely and the case immediately entered the court of public opin-ion. Braun and the Players Asso-ciation certainly didn’t leak it, and no one else but the Com-missioner’s Office had knowl-edge of the failed test. (Even the testing lab only knew Braun as an anonymous number.) MLB had a responsibility to uphold its con-fidentiality agreement under the CBA, and it failed completely. It’s not the first time.
Baseball began routine ste-roid tests in 2003. All failed tests from the initial year were sup-posed to remain completely anonymous — the Commission-er’s Office was responsible for destroying the list of 100 ste-
roid abusers identified that year. For reasons never made clear, the results were not destroyed and fell into the hands of federal agents investigating the role of steroids in professional sports. The Players Association and the government are still locked in a legal battle over possession of the list. Over time, names have been leaked.
David Ortiz and Alex Rodri-guez were the most high-pro-file victims. Despite the promise of anonymity, both were outed publicly as steroid abusers. Ortiz chose to deny the allegations, while Rodriguez confessed. Both, however, were dragged over the coals in the court of public opin-ion. Manny Ramirez would have su!ered the same fate had he not already failed another drug test in 2009. Other “anonymous” violators included Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley, David Segui and Barry Bonds.
Taking steroids is not cool. It leads to a whole host of health problems and compromises baseball’s level playing field. It sends a terrible message about cutting corners to legions of young fans. It has cast a shadow over two decades that might otherwise be regarded as the
most exciting in the history of the game. There is no defense for taking steroids.
But that’s not what is at stake here. MLB has a responsibility to preserve the confidentiality of its players as clearly outlined in its CBA. The integrity of its test-ing program depends on it. Even steroid abusers should feel con-fident in their rights as guaran-teed in baseball’s bylaws. Those accused are given the opportu-nity to overturn their suspen-sions by proving themselves innocent before an independent arbitrator. In the court of pub-lic opinion, however, proving oneself innocent is not possible. Ryan Braun will forever su!er the stigma of a crime that, accord-ing to baseball’s clearly defined appeals procedure, he did not commit.
During his post-appeal press conference, Braun announced he would hold back from reveal-ing full details of the case out of respect for the confidentiality of the process and the best interests of the game. I only wish MLB had as much respect for the game as the very man they have defamed.
Contact JOHN ETTINGER at [email protected] .
HILL FROM PAGE 10
ETTINGER FROM PAGE 10
YDN
Hill was a two-sport athlete at Yale. In addition to football, he was a cham-pion in the long jump and triple jump on the track and field team.
YDN
Calvin Hill ’69 earned first-team All-Ivy honors his junior and senior seasons as Yale won consecutive Ivy titles.
MLB leaks have lasting repercussions
Hill’s NFL career was a surprise
It [the NFL] was a shock. It was totally out of left field because it wasn’t something I had been planning on doing.
CALVIN HILL ’69Yale football alumnus
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Ryan Braun’s failed steroid test result was leaked before he had the oppor-tunity to clear his name.
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THE NUMBER OF SEASONS CALVIN HILL ’69 PLAYED IN THE NFL. Hill played for the Cowboys, Redskins, and Browns over the course of his career, amassing 6083 rushing yards and 42 touchdowns. He was NFL O!ensive Rookie of the Year and won a Super Bowl in 1972.
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“[Yale] really teaches you to figure out where your boundaries are, and you learn to go beyond where you thought..you could go.
CALVIN HILL ’69
DICK JAURON ’73NOMINATED FOR HALL OF FAMEJauron is on the 2012 Football Bowl Subdivision Ballot for the College Foot-ball Hall of Fame. Jauron was a running back at Yale who went on to play for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengels. He is currently the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns.
WOMEN’S LACROSSEGAME POSTPONEDThe women’s lacrosse team’s game against Boston University was can-celled yesterday due to weather and will now be played on March 21. The Bulldogs will visit No. 14 Dartmouth in Hanover on Saturday. The Elis beat Holy Cross in their season opener.
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Hill ’69 leaves legacy BY MARIA GUARDADO
STAFF REPORTER
When Calvin Hill ’69 received a call from the Dallas Cowboys informing him that he had been selected as the team’s first-round pick in the 1969 NFL Draft, he thought it was a joke.
Earlier that day, Hill had called his Yale teammate Bruce Weinstein ’69 pretending to be an o!cial from the New York Giants and tricked him into believing that he had been selected in the second round of the draft.
“I just started laughing,” Hill said. “He got really pissed o". I locked my door because he’s a big guy.”
Forty minutes later, Hill’s phone rang, and he assumed another one of his teammates was trying to pull a similar prank on him, so he played along. It was not until he got on the phone with Tom Landry, the head coach of the Cowboys at the time, that he realized this was no joke.
After starring at Yale as both a running back and a jumper on the track team, Hill went on to play pro-fessional football and enjoyed a suc-cessful 12-year career in the NFL. Today, Hill is still regarded as one of Yale’s greatest athletes. But his teammate at Yale, Kurt Schmoke ’71, said Hill’s success was an anomaly in that era.
“A lot of Ivy League athletes
weren’t even given the chance dur-ing that particular era to compete at the pro level,” Schmoke said. “He was given the chance and he dem-onstrated what a great star he could become.”
But Hill said the Yale experience itself was a huge life opportunity for him. Yale taught him how to succeed — a lesson he applied even after he left New Haven, he said.
“It really teaches you to figure
out where your boundaries are and you learn to go beyond where you thought perhaps you could go,” Hill said. “I always thought that Yale gave me that confidence. It didn’t matter what the challenges were after Yale — I felt somehow I could figure it out.”
HIGH SCHOOLThough Hill grew up in Baltimore,
he left his hometown in ninth grade
to attend boarding school at River-dale Country School in the Bronx, N.Y., after winning a scholarship.
Hill’s first encounter with orga-nized football was at Riverdale. It was also at Riverdale that Hill first developed into a star on the gridiron.
His senior year, Hill was named to Parade magazine’s 1964 high school All-America team as a quar-
Guilty Yet Proven
InnocentMajor League Baseball holds suspected
steroid users guilty until proven innocent. But these suspects are at least granted an opportunity to prove themselves innocent before an independent arbitrator as outlined by MLB’s collective bargaining agreement. In the court of public opinion, no such privilege is granted.
Despite successfully clearing his name before an arbitration panel, reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun has been irrevocably convicted in the public eye. Braun’s failed test result was leaked to the public before he had a chance to successfully defend himself, and the Commissioner’s O!ce is unquestion-ably to blame. What’s worse, the Milwaukee Brewers’ left fielder is not the first victim of MLB’s serious confidentiality problem.
On Oct. 1, Braun provided a routine urine sample after a playo" game. Eighteen days later, he was informed that he his sample con-tained sky-high levels of artificial testoster-one. He would be suspended for 50 games at the start of the 2012 season. The test results, however, would not be revealed until Braun had been given an opportunity to appeal, as clearly stated in the CBA. Braun indeed chose to appeal the ruling but was shocked when ESPN reported news of his failed test Dec. 10. The left fielder immediately shot down the result and went on to win his Feb. 23 appeal, two votes to one. The three-man arbitration panel consisted of representatives from the Commissioner’s O!ce and the Players Asso-
YDN
At Yale, future Super Bowl champion and NFL star Calvin Hill ’69 lived in Pierson College and was a history major.
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JOHNETTINGER
Trumbull captured the title in the lowest level of intramural basketball on Tuesday with a 25–12 rout of regular-season champion Davenport.
The guys were really amped up about it. It was cool to see everybody get excited.
DARIO MARTINEZ ’13Trumbull Co-Captain
I think it’s been pretty intense. I’ve been very surprised by the intensity.
TESS MCNULTY ’13Delete if second line is unnecessary
Having all that ability and talent, he was a nice guy. He was not inflated with himself.
ED FRANKLIN ’69Hill’s teammate on the Yale football team
Trumbull rolls to CHoops IM title
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