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BY PAYAL MARATHESTAFF REPORTER

Former Republican presidential can-didate Jon Huntsman had a simple request for every student at his talk yes-terday — “change the world when you leave this institution.”

At Tuesday’s Pierson College Mas-ter’s Tea that was co-sponsored by the William F. Buckley Jr. program, Hunts-

man, a former governor of Utah and U.S. ambassador to China, condemned the current climate of polarization in Wash-ington. To fix the state of politics in the United States, he said before an audience of roughly 200 students, the country needs future politicians who follow the University’s motto of “Light and Truth.”

“Politics is in need of some freshen-ing up in the 21st century — folks [who come] together around common themes

of growth,” he said.Huntsman shared experiences from

his campaigns and his time as a diplo-mat to highlight his view that the fore-most problem in America today is the declining level of trust in government. The “lessening of believability” in U.S. politics is graver than any single national issue, such as unemployment and the

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THEATER‘THEORY OF FLIGHT’ RETURNS TO YALEPAGE 8–9 CULTURE

Calling all musicians. A new endowment in honor of University President Richard Levin and Jane Levin will help fund visiting artists looking to teach and support programs at the School of Music. Known as the “Jane and Richard Levin Music Fellow,” the lucky designee will be a “person of distinction,” such as a visiting conductor, according to School of Music Dean Robert Blocker.

It’s o!cial! Chairman of the Federal Reserve and former Princeton professor Ben Bernanke will speak at Princeton’s Baccalaureate ceremony on June 2, administrators announced on Tuesday morning. Bernanke, who has chaired the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors since 2006, previously served as chair of Princeton’s Economics Department.

It’s casual. Yale alum and Rhodes Scholar Jake Sullivan ’98 LAW ’03 has been appointed the national security advisor for Vice President Joe Biden, a new role he is expected to start this week. Sullivan previously served as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 director of policy planning and deputy chief of sta!, and has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Move over, Bill Nye. Here’s the real science guy. Yale immunologist Ruslan Medzhitov has snagged another major science prize — the Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences. Medzhitov, who was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Sciences with Yale immunologist Richard Flavell earlier this month, will receive a $100,000 award for his work on the immune system.

Remembering Sandy Hook. Facebook has agreed to remove several alleged “tribute pages” to the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings in light of ongoing concerns that the pages were being used to harass victims’ family members and commit financial fraud. The move came after Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty banded together Monday morning to write a joint letter asking that the pages be taken down immediately.

Considering violence. Connecticut legislators expressed mixed reactions Tuesday to a proposal that would forbid children under 18 years old from playing point-and-shoot video games in arcades and similar establishments.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1902 The University Library releases a report detailing its financial situation and total holdings of books. According to the report, the library holds 270,000 volumes, 100,000 pamphlets and 1,000 manuscripts. It has $310,000 in funds.

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BY NICOLE NAREASTAFF REPORTER

Over two months after John Darnell announced his resigna-tion as chair of the Near East-ern Languages and Civilizations Department and one-year sus-pension from the Yale faculty, Title IX experts said that his illicit relationship with a stu-dent-turned-professor may also be associated with a breach of Title IX regulations.

A complaint addressing Dar-nell’s relationship with associ-ate professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 was listed in the January semi-annual report released by the University, which includes cases of sexual assault and harassment brought to Yale o"cials. Experts said the University may be at fault under the Title IX statute for failing to address what two sources close to NELC described as a “hos-tile work environment” created by Darnell and Manassa’s rela-tionship. The experts also said the University was not at fault in allowing Manassa to retain her faculty position because viola-tions of consensual relationship policies — which govern inti-

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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASSTAFF REPORTER

As dusk settled on Beinecke Plaza Tues-day evening, a group of 30 students and New Haven residents lit candles in a vigil com-memorating the one-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin and calling for an end to gun violence plaguing inner cities across the nation.

The anniversary of Martin’s death has, at least temporarily, thrust light upon urban gun violence, which largely escaped public debate in the wake of the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn. At the same time, the lingering memory of New-town has reshaped public understanding of

the Trayvon Martin shooting, placing it as much in a framework of gun control as one of racial prejudice, which dominated pre-vious discussions.

In 2012, George Zimmerman, a neigh-borhood watch coordinator, killed the 17-year-old Martin while he walked through Zimmerman’s gated commu-nity in Sanford, Fla., after visiting a con-venience store. Although Martin was unarmed, Zimmerman claimed that he had acted in self-defense and because of Flori-da’s controversial Stand Your Ground Law was not charged with second-degree mur-der until over a month later. He is currently

One year later, a focus on urban violence

BY SOPHIE GOULD AND KAMIL SADIKSTAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING

REPORTER

Donna Diers, a champion of nursing research and for-mer dean of the Yale School of Nursing, died of cancer on Saturday. She was 74.

An early advocate for the acceptance of nursing as an academic profession, Diers authored the first textbook on nursing research and trans-formed the Yale School of Nursing into a leading research institution during her ten-

ure as dean from 1972 to 1985. Diers is credited with stretch-ing the boundaries of the field of nursing to encompass scholarly research in addition to clinical practice, and the American Academy of Nursing named her a “Living Legend” — the highest honor bestowed by the organization — in 2010 for her unparalleled impact on the profession. Diers’ friends, students and colleagues remember her as a captivating storyteller, prolific writer, car-ing mentor and inspirational figurehead within the field.

“I think that being a leg-end is understating it,” said Sharon Eck Birmingham NUR ’99, who was the first doctoral student to study under Diers. “She probably made as much, if not more, impact on the pro-fession of nursing in modern times as Florence Nightingale did.”

During her time as dean, Diers forged close relation-ships with her students, many of whom went on to become research nurses, rather than clinical nurses, either at Yale or elsewhere. Former students said she “demystified” the process of collecting, manag-ing and interpreting data, and inspired them to emulate her scholarly approach to nursing.

Current Yale Nursing School Dean Margaret Grey praised

Nursing School pioneer dies at 74

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Huntsman blasts polarization

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Jon Huntsman criticized current polarized political attitudes at a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Tuesday.

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A Tuesday evening candlelight vigil commemorating the shooting of Trayvon Martin marked the one-year anniversary of his death.

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Donna Diers was dean of the Yale School of Nursing from 1972 to 1985.

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As someone who keeps up pretty well with current events, I have a dread-

ful knowledge of Yale politics. Despite my best e!orts, I can-not help but find my eyes glaz-ing over articles or columns about the administration, apparent issues with transpar-ency or some presidential hub-bub.

For whatever merit, though, this not-so-informed state characterizes the average stu-dent’s perspective far more often than not. Despite the fact that we study, work, and live here, we really know next to nothing the details of actually running a University. None-theless, we still absolutely care about Yale’s future, and there are certain reforms — from the perspective of the casual, lay-man student — we can see that might be helpful under Presi-dent Peter Salovey.

Three pretty good ideas:First, make Distributional

Requirements Credit/D/Fail. As a humanities-oriented stu-dent, I have often sought the academic Holy Grail that is a “gut” SC or QR. We all do this, repressing a small, deep-seated sense of guilt in exchange for a low-placed hurdle on the road to graduation. Yet, it doesn’t need to be this way. If we allowed distributional require-ments to be taken Credit/D, we would immediately find a more adventurous academic culture, where students are willing to sincerely explore areas outside their comfort zone without fear of damaging their GPAs.

Second, allow inter-residen-tial college housing. Without a doubt, the residential college system is an invaluable aspect of Yale’s culture. For every stu-dent, it immediately estab-lishes a sense of community as well as a network of friend-ships perhaps otherwise never discovered. Nevertheless, for upperclassmen, this boon does come with diminishing mar-ginal returns. As one gets older, looking only to a year or two left here, a question arises as one looks to their group of friends: Do you live o!-campus or never live with certain friends at all? Allowing some flexibility in the on-campus housing process can rid us of this dichotomy.

Third, diversify the faculty. While much attention recently has been paid to issues of gen-der or racial diversity, intellec-tual diversity has been wholly looked over. We should take a page from the conservative bastions of Harvard Law School (under Elena Kagan) and the University of Colorado at Boul-der, and make the e!ort to hire at least a few rebellious aca-demics. With the majority of Yale’s right-leaning professors beginning to resemble the men they teach about, the next gen-eration of tenured professors will likely determine whether or not any political diversity at all

will exist on campus.

Two pos-sibly good ideas:

F o u r t h , Mr. Presi-dent, teach a class. Hav-ing Presi-dent Salovey teach a lec-ture would not only be an intellec-tual benefit

to campus in its own right, but also an important step in bridg-ing the chasm between Wood-bridge and the student body. President Levin accomplished a number of admirable goals while in o"ce, but he was also a president largely absent from campus. For students to care about the administration, we need a face for the bureaucracy. And if Newt Gingrich could do it while speaker, then Peter Salovey definitely can as presi-dent.

Fifth, add a spring term Camp Yale. The academic cal-endar right now is a mess. The newly inserted October break was a valiant e!ort, but also a tremendous disaster that pro-duced a remarkably di"cult fall term reading week. The new break, coupled with a prolonged winter break, disrupts the rhythm of the academic year — leaving freshmen still unset-tled. We should scrap the new break, restore a regular reading week and replace a few days o! the winter break for a revamped Camp Yale. The extra days will importantly allow students to get back in a groove, be it with their Freshmen Counselors or Tommy at Box63.

One probably terrible idea:Sixth, sell alcohol at

Durfee’s. As Hobbes described life as “poor, nasty, brutish and short,” the existence of the collegiate drinker is “expen-sive, unsafe, unregulated and blurry.” There are litanies of problems that come from uni-versity drinking policies, but we can take at least one step for-ward by distributing and regu-lating the product itself. O!er-ing a factory-price on-cam-pus option for beers and wines would not only save Yale stu-dents immeasurable amounts of money, but it will allow us to both track student consump-tion, cut down on the currently prolific use of fake IDs (has any-one ever seen a fake Yale ID?) and keep students from travel-ing deep into the city for cheap booze. Durfee’s already sells plastic shot glasses, solo cups and a barrage of chasers — let’s just put the whole thing under one roof.

HARRY GRAVER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at

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Six uninformed ideas for Salovey

HARRY GRAVERGravely

Mistaken

Last December, I ran into a friend in Bass Cafe. Our conversation drifted from

winter woes to summer plans. Instead of pursuing an internship in the corporate world like many economics majors, my friend told me she wanted to do academic research.

“Yale’s full of closet academ-ics,” she blurted out. “People talk about their extracurriculars all the time, but it’s taboo to talk about your academic life.”

I was once a closet academic. My identity at Yale centered on the Yale Daily News, where I spent 30 hours each week. The only time I discussed classes with friends was to complain about problem sets. Not many people knew about the political science research I conducted about international democratization. Furthermore, I didn’t know so many of my class-mates were also helping professors with original research or consider-ing applying to graduate schools.

Even though I attend a world-class university, I often felt my experience is far from “academic.” And as Yale College Dean Mary Miller and the ad hoc committee on grading policy begin to con-sider ways to curb grade inflation, I, too, begin to question the state of our undergraduate education.

As historian George W. Pier-

son once wrote, “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of schol-ars, a society of friends.” Often times, however, I feel Yale Col-lege has become too much a soci-ety of friends than a company of scholars. Or, to be blunt, my friend at the University of Chicago calls Yalies dandies who squirm at a gentlemen’s B.

The biggest problem about Yale’s undergraduate academic culture is not grade inflation, as many students — including col-umnists writing for the News — have opined. While many of us celebrate Yale’s model of the lib-eral arts curriculum, some of us don’t seem to take classes seri-ously. On multiple occasions, my peers claim that they spend more time rehearsing, reporting or debating than completing their homework.

One argument I often hear is that the lessons Yalies learn out-side the classroom are the ones that truly build character. Or that Yale’s emphasis on extracurricu-lars makes undergraduates well-rounded individuals. While I cer-tainly value my time working in soup kitchens and writing for the News, I believe my classroom and research experience are equally fundamental.

The word “scholarship” fre-quently evokes the image of a her-

mit toiling away in some library. In reality, modern scholarship is a process that involves teamwork as well as dedication. No natural sci-entist can man a laboratory alone. No social scientists can carry out field experiments by themselves. Even humanists, often perceived to be solitary, are coming together for interdisciplinary collaboration that spans history, literature and philosophy. The joy of learning and creating new knowledge need not be solely private.

Rather than only focusing on grade inflation, administra-tors and faculty can also improve undergraduate education by encouraging collaborative learn-ing and research among under-graduates. Programs targeting sci-ence majors, such as the Yale Cen-ter for Engineering Innovation Design, are a great start. Oppor-tunities with a similar ethos can be extended to students in the humanities and social sciences. The establishment of research forums and workshop seminars for undergraduates across the disciplines would make learning seem less like a chore and more like an engaging experience.

Sure, we still have to take our exams and write our own papers. But as I learned over the past three years, it’s better to struggle with friends and classmates than alone.

I am grateful for those who have helped me edit my first Directed Studies paper, my senior essay and everything in between.

Now, I am about to begin a PhD program in political sci-ence. Today, I talk frankly about my survey research on interna-tional security, sexism and a"r-mative action. But you don’t have to be a future academic to tell your friends that you’re really into Renaissance literature or labor economics or atomic physics. Though many of us try to down-play our academic interests, the numbers don’t lie; Yalies are seri-ous about their learning. Accord-ing to a 2011 survey conducted by the News, undergraduates reported they spent an average of six-and-a-half hours on classes and schoolwork each weekday — more than what they spent on extracurriculars and leisure activ-ities combined.

There is only so much that administrators and professors can do to foster a community of learn-ing. Yale College can only become a true “company of scholars” when more of us came out the aca-demic closet.

BAOBAO ZHANG is a senior in Cal-houn College. She is a former multime-dia editor for the News. Contact her at

[email protected] .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T B A O B A O Z H A N G

Becoming a company

It’s clear now that a Department of Defense-funded center at Yale was never a serious possi-

bility. But the real story here is no longer whether or not this center was ever going to be established, but the vociferous and knee-jerk reaction from some members of the Yale and New Haven commu-nities. A particular form of fear mongering replaced genuine dia-logue — it became clear that the divide between those who fight this nation’s wars, and those in whose names the wars are fought, has gotten dangerously wide.

It is not necessarily a problem that under 1 percent of American citizens serve in the army. But it is a problem that most Americans, particularly Ivy League students, lack even a basic understand-ing of military functions and the moral codes on which they oper-ate. And this ignorance, as dem-onstrated by this most recent back-and-forth on the potential Yale-DoD partnership, engen-dered fear.

This fear led critics of the pro-posed center to oppose the train-ing of these U.S. service mem-bers at Yale. It’s true that these

soldiers might have to execute certain foreign policies that Yale students might find immoral. Yet it is equally true that many of these Yale students will take their diplomas and go o! to cre-ate those self-same immoral for-eign policies. Wouldn’t they be benefited by a better understand-ing of the people who are actually going to be putting themselves in harm’s way to fulfill the directives that many Yale graduates will spend their careers writing?

Sensationalist claims have quickly followed this fear. The most significant have sought essentially to mischaracterize Dr. Charles Morgan’s purpose in attempting to establish a special forces training center at Yale by calling it an interrogation center (à la "Zero Dark Thirty"). This is akin to Sarah Palin’s mischarac-terization of Obamacare as pro-viding for death panels. Accord-ing to the original, now infamous, story in the Yale Herald, the sys-tem Morgan sought to impart to Green Berets would “promote a positive rapport.” The center then, far from seeking to teach soldiers how to do harm, sought

instead teach them to how better to relate to civilians. Aside from saving lives (by ensuring that a misunderstanding didn’t lead to unnecessary violence), it appears that the purpose of this instruc-tion was rather similar to that of Yale’s liberal arts education: teaching students how to relate to the “other.” What is the pur-pose of reading Buber, Hagel or even Sartre if not to learn about the many di!erent ways that fun-damentally di!erent people can relate to one another?

In order to truly fulfill Yale’s mission — “to seek exceptionally promising students … to develop their intellectual, moral, civic, and creative capacities to the full-est” — community members have argued that it is necessary to limit the military presence on campus. Their argument then, appears to be that in order to protect Yale’s free-thinking environment, we must bar certain types of people and certain practices. The hypoc-risy here is self-evident.

Far from putting Yale’s mission at risk, including more veterans and active service members in the student body would enrich our

campus discussion. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportu-nity to get to know a few veterans and to learn more about how the military functions on a practi-cal level. These interactions have had an impact on my own aca-demic and political interests and this impact has been all the more significant because it is unlikely that I will ever fight our nation’s wars. They’ve allowed me to bet-ter understand an institution that is an incredibly important part of the fabric of our country, and one whose culture is very di!erent from the one to which I’m accus-tomed. Isn’t that the purpose of a Yale education?

What was lost in all the con-troversy over the U.S. Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neu-roscience was an opportunity to improve military-civilian rela-tions and bring SOCOM onto campus, a place where it could grow in the sunlight of academic scrutiny.

URIEL EPSHTEIN is a junior in Morse College. Contact him at

[email protected] .

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A missed military opportunity

Sudler Hall has the capac-ity to seat 200 people. So it felt strange to walk into a

sparsely populated auditorium at 6:50 p.m. Monday, just ten min-utes before the Yale College Coun-cil Open Forum with President-elect Peter Salovey was due to start. The News estimates only roughly 50 people attended the event; out of those 50, I’d estimate that the entire first row was com-prised of YCC members.

I wasn’t entirely unsurprised by the thin crowds. People were probably busy cramming for that Con Law midterm and John Negroponte was lecturing over in LC; I’m sure a lot of people needed to attend their sections. Nonethe-less, there’s still something puz-zling about the small number of Yale students who attended the event — and stayed for a signifi-cant portion of it. After all, this wasn’t just another lecture; this was an opportunity to directly engage with the man tasked with leading starting summer this year.

Moreover, the small crowd seemed incongruous with past behavior on campus. My mind hearkens back to earlier this year when Yale was abuzz with impas-

sioned undergraduate voices demanding their concerns be heard and their views represented on an issue that a!ected the entire Yale population — the presidential search. All through the summer, Yalies had challenged the admin-istration for its involvement with Yale-NUS, a decision that they believed severely compromised our community’s principles. And this past fall, Students Unite Now (SUN) got 369 Yalies to sign a peti-tion asking that the presiden-tial search be made more open and accountable. Likewise, every week, campus publications are replete with strong voices berat-ing the administration for not doing enough to solve wide range of problems; students consis-tently ask questions in the hopes of receiving answers.

However, Monday evening seemed like a case of cometh the hour, disappear-eth the man.

Only in rare circumstances do Yalies have a direct opportunity to put the President-elect of the University on the spot, forcing him to engage with our concerns. So I had hoped to see the passion of many op-eds and numerous Face-book statuses translate into a loud,

raucous event. What transpired instead were six pre-prepared questions, a couple of unprepared inquiries and a few senior mem-bers of the Yale administration casting a quiet gaze over an intel-lectual atmosphere far disposed from that of a town hall.

The poor attendance at the event should lead us to ques-tion our own principles. Do Yalies seriously care about sharing their concerns? Or was all the petition-signing and rhetoric about our community principles that flew around Yale’s campus last fall just a fad we embraced because it had happened?

If its the former, and we really care about sharing our views, then the obvious question is whether we’re anything but armchair intellectuals who want our views to be known, but aren’t willing to engage in constructive dialogue about those views with the admin-istration. Some Yalies might have been skeptical whether Salovey would have answered their ques-tions honestly, leading them to stay home. There is something deeply intellectually dishonest about adopting this default atti-tude of cynicism. At Sudler Hall

that Monday, Salovey directly engaged with all questions that students asked, and seemed can-did about Yale’s limitations and failures.

However, if its the latter — if activism is a short-term man-tra we embrace and abandon soon after — then we need to seriously think about tempering the culture of protest on this campus, and not letting it stride too far.

Don’t get me wrong: Yale is special because students aren’t just satisfied with the way things are; they constantly challenge the status quo. However, ever so often, situations crop up when we raise a hue and cry just because we can, not because we should. Oftentimes, we need to step back and recognize the immaturity of adopting default skepticism towards administrative intent.

Was the concern over the presi-dential search a case of protest for its own sake? Judging by the audi-ence turnout for Salovey’s event on Monday, it may very well have been.

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

at [email protected] .

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Questioning the lack of questions

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CORREC T IONS

MONDAY, FEB. 25The article “Elis fall out of Ivy race” mistakenly stated that the men’s basketball team will conclude its season this weekend, when in fact it has two weekends remaining.

MONDAY, FEB. 25The article “Malloy o!ers gun proposals” mistakenly stated that Rep. Craig Miner, one of the co-chairs of the legislature’s gun violence working group, is a Democrat, when in fact he is a Republican. It also mistakenly stated that multiple Republican legislators on the gun task force did not respond to requests for comment.

TUESDAY, FEB. 26The article “Stress may o!er workplace benefits” mistakenly stated that President-elect Peter Salovey, Columbia adjunct professor Alia Crum GRD ’12 and former Harvard researcher Shawn Achor drew from the work of Yale researcher Jeremy Gray, whose study was published in the Journal of Psychological Science, for their recent study to be published in the April edition of The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences. In fact, the researchers drew from the work of researcher Jeremy Jamieson, whose study was published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

“I won the Amory Blaine Handsomeness scholarship to Princeton, and then I attended Harvard Business School where I was voted ‘Most.’” JACK DONAGHY “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

On Monday, 12 graduate students from eight different departments who were admitted to the interdisciplinary Mel-lon concentration assembled for the pro-gram’s inaugural meeting.

The year-long concentration, designed for students in their third year of doctoral study, was announced in October after the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University $1.95 million to enhance humanities education. Admitted stu-dents receive an additional year of fund-ing beyond the typical five-year fund-ing package to pursue interdisciplinary research and are enrolled in a two-semes-ter core seminar entitled, “Technolo-gies of Knowledge.” Associate Dean of the Graduate School Pamela Schirmeister ’80 GRD ’88, who is the director of graduate studies for the Mellon concentration, said the students and professors will spend the semester finalizing the format of the pro-gram, which will o"cially begin next fall.

“Sometimes institutional constraints do not encourage students to challenge the borders of their discipline,” said film and humanities professor Francesco Casetti, who will co-teach the core sem-inar. “What we want was not to subvert specific fields but to provide opportuni-ties for a group of students to challenge themselves to take a new look at their own

discipline.”The concentration is part of a larger

e!ort by the University to use the Mellon grant to “reimagine” the ways students and professors approach the humanities. The core seminar, which will be taught by Casetti, classics professor Emily Green-wood and philosophy and psychology professor Tamar Gendler ’87, aims to study di!erent techniques for dissemi-nating knowledge such as writing sys-tems, higher education, film and digital media.

Casetti said the class is designed to help students discover the roots of the human-ities by identifying how the various fields interact, adding that he hopes this pro-cess of reflection will continue beyond the one-year program.

Students in the first cohort, who come from departments including architecture, Italian and classics, said they think the concentration will help them within their own field and later on the job market.

“This is a good way to rethink the canon in our fields and how that canon interacts with other tools of learning,” said Luca Peretti GRD ’17, who is studying Ital-ian. “This is a chance to be with 11 fellow graduate students to reconsider what we do here and what we will hopefully do as scholars.”

Stephen Krewson GRD ’17 said the class design will also expose students to di!er-ent approaches to teaching the humani-ties, such as integrating film and music into a class curriculum, and that these new techniques will be helpful in their future careers. He added that being con-versant in other humanities disciplines will also help students looking for a teach-ing position upon graduation.

Students enrolled in the concentra-tion also said they think it will allow them to take advantage of the resources and research methods of disciplines other than their own.

The Mellon grant also funds a program for post-doctoral students and a series of 10 faculty workshops to assess strategies for teaching the humanities throughout the University.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation also provided a 2010 grant to fund the Interdis-ciplinary Performance Studies at Yale ini-tiative.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at [email protected] .

Students admitted to Mellon program

BY PATRICK CASEYSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven’s Charter Revi-sion Commission met Tues-day night for the first time since concluding four public hear-ings and one briefing from city administration.

The evening meeting lasted about an hour and a half and focused mostly on planning the next stages of the commission’s work. As New Haven is required by law to consider revisions to its charter every 10 years, the commission, which was selected by the Board of Alder-men last year, must submit its recommendations to the Board of Alderman by May 13. The Board will then have the final say in drafting any revisions, which will have to be approved by city-wide referendum in the fall.

Ward 8 Alderman and com-mission Chair Michael Smart announced the creation of three working groups, each of which will examine a di!erent set of issues related to charter reform. Commission members Melissa Mason, Elizabeth Torres and Joelle Fishman will each chair a working group.

Some of the potential changes that have attracted the most attention so far include enshrining the Civilian Review Board in the charter and enhancing its powers to inves-tigate and punish police mis-conduct, as well as establish-ing elections for positions on the Board of Education, which is currently chosen entirely by mayoral appointment.

New Haven Public School District Assistant Superinten-dent Garth Harries ’95 attended the meeting as an observer. He briefed the commission last week as a representative of the mayor’s o"ce, and he encour-aged members to keep the keep the appointed Board of Educa-tion. By moving to an elected board, he said, the commission would be introducing “interest-based politics” into the city’s education system, adding that

an elected school board would deter qualified candidates and imperil New Haven’s education reform agenda.

Citywide Youth Coali-tion Director Rachel Heerema attended the meeting as well. Her organization is not taking an opinion on whether to select the Board of Education by elec-tion or mayoral appointment, but it does support expand-ing the Board of Education to include student representation. She said it is unclear, however, if state law would allow a student representative on the board to vote.

“If at all possible, we seek full voting rights for the students. If that’s not possible, then we seek for them to have an advisory role,” Heerema said.

While Harries said that the administration is open to non-voting student involvement on the Board, he claimed that the Board is already very open to input.

“[The Board of Education has] meetings every two weeks,” he said. “People don’t come. It’s not a question of lack of access or lack of opportunity for input.”

City corporation counsel Victor Bolden, who also briefed the Commission last week, spoke about the administra-tion’s recommendation to not enshrine the Civilian Review Board in the charter. Adding too much to the charter, Bolden explained, limits citizens’ abil-ity to amend policies and city government in the future.

Smart said that every com-mission meeting will be public, including working group meet-ings.

“We’re going to continue to make sure that this is an open process,” he said. “We’re taking our roles very seriously.”

The full commission’s next o"cially scheduled meeting is on April 9. It may decide, how-ever, to schedule an additional full meeting on March 21 as well.

Contact PATRICK CASEY at [email protected] .

Charter revision moves forward

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKASTAFF REPORTER

The School of Management, which currently allocates roughly $3 million of its bud-get for financial aid, plans to increase its combined schol-arship and loan-forgiveness budget to $6.4 million by 2015.

SOM will spend $1.2 mil-lion more on student aid in the 2013-’14 academic year than it currently allocates, said Joel Getz, SOM senior associ-ate dean for development and alumni relations. He added that the school has submit-ted four “reasonably large” funding requests to interested donors, each of which would

increase the scholarship fund by over $5 million, in addi-tion to soliciting several other smaller gifts ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. SOM administrators said they hope the additional funds will help the school attract more diverse applicants.

“The first part of the pro-cess is to recognize where you stand, and we are behind peer institutions, but we have set goals and have started to move towards them,” SOM Dean Edward Snyder said. “We are just getting started — we need more time.”

Snyder said increasing the school’s financial aid budget has been challenging because

tuition rises annually and the SOM student body is increas-ing as the school prepares to move to its new campus next year — two factors that the target financial aid budget will have to accommodate. SOM’s financial aid budget is cur-rently equivalent to 6 percent of the revenue SOM receives from MBA students’ tuition, which is roughly one-third the percentage at peer schools. SOM Assistant Dean Anjani Jain said Snyder has set an “ambitious” goal to increase this number to 10 percent by 2015.

Bruce DelMonico, director of admissions at SOM, said in a Tuesday email that the school

has been at a “competitive dis-advantage” due to its histori-cally smaller per capita schol-arship budget than its peer institutions. He added that he hopes Snyder’s e!orts will help the school eliminate the disadvantage.

Jain said SOM has also evolved its loan-forgiveness program, which waives part of students’ loans if they enter relatively low-paying careers after graduation. He said the program has expanded eligi-bility to students who pur-sue careers in benefit corpora-tions, while only students who took jobs in non-profit and governmental organizations were eligible in the past.

SOM administrators said they hope bolstering the financial aid budget will bring a more diverse student body to the school. Snyder said addi-tional scholarship funds have already increased the percent-age of underrepresented U.S. minorities at SOM.

Snyder said SOM’s finan-cial aid program shows the school’s commitment to “dif-ferent elements of diversity,” adding that the school is also looking to strengthen its loan program for international stu-dents. SOM currently guar-antees international students with financial need 10-year loans, with the school bearing all risks of loan defaults.

SOM currently offers 15 general merit scholarships, five scholarships by area of interest, four diversity schol-arships and two scholarships for women.

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economy, he said.He added that he is “embarrassed at what

we’re about to hand o! to the next genera-tion” and that youth must replace competi-tiveness with transparency and better collab-orate across political lines.

Huntsman said he attributes much of his own professional success to his policy of maintaining honest politics.

After winning re-election as governor of Utah by being straightforward with his con-stituents, he was appointed ambassador to China by President Barack Obama, Huntsman said, adding that he took the job from a Dem-ocratic president not because of party ties or a political agenda but because of his patriotism.

Huntsman also discussed his support of gay marriage to demonstrate the ways in which issues can be solved without competitiveness between the right and the left. Long-term, loving relationships are a core conservative value, he said.

“Some would say I support gay marriage in spite of the fact that I’m conservative, but I say I support it because I’m a conservative,” he said.

Still, Huntsman said he hopes young peo-ple today do not become cynical despite major flaws in the current state of politics. The United States is a world power with a “sound constitution, some of the greatest universities in the world and an innovative population,” he said, adding that Yale students should take note of the positive aspects of the United States to see what is worth salvaging.

Three students interviewed said they appreciated Huntsman’s goal of increasing cooperation within the American political system. Kelsey Larson ’16 said while she does not see a simple solution, she is confident that young, open-minded politicians will find a way to counter excessive political polariza-tion.

“It’s not going to be easy, but our country has come up against a lot before and our gen-eration isn’t going to be the first to encounter an unsolvable problem,” Larson said.

But two students said they were not con-vinced that the next generation’s politicians will be any less divided. Eli Feldman ’16 said he hopes for less rigid political boundaries but “there have been no signs” that Democrats and Republicans will start working together soon.

Huntsman left his post as governor of Utah with an approval rating of over 80 percent.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at [email protected] .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JON HUNTSMAN

Jon Huntsman was the United States ambassador to China for the Obama Administration and, before that, the governor of Utah. He recently expressed support for same-sex marriage in a February op-ed.

Experts consider Yale Title IX responsibilities

Huntsman: Politics needs ‘freshening up’

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mate relationships between indi-viduals and their superiors — usu-ally result in strong punishment for the superior and little or no repercussions for the subordinate.

“Administrators have to address the culture in that depart-ment with appropriate investiga-tions and documentation,” said attorney Saundra Schuster, an advisory board member of Asso-ciation of Title IX Administrators.

Title IX protects against dis-crimination based on gender and sexual miconduct under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assis-tance. It also requires academic institutions to respond to o"cial notices of potential violations by launching an investigation, halt-ing the discriminatory behavior,

providing remedial support for injured parties and ensuring that the incident will not occur again.

Schuster said Yale could be seen to have fulfilled the requirements — the incident was included in the University’s Title IX report, Dar-nell faced termination as chair of NELC and suspension from the faculty and administrators have created a temporary advising sys-tem for graduate students in his absence. But she added that the University has not made explicit e!orts to ameliorate the alleged hostile work environment, which could be perceived as a failure on the University’s part to uphold Title IX policies. Schuster cited the example of department-wide workshops as a means of improv-ing conditions.

But Erin Buzuvis, a Western New England University School

of Law professor, said a hospitable professional atmosphere can be a “hard standard to meet.” Dep-uty Provost Stephanie Spangler, who is also the University Title IX coordinator, could not be reached for comment on the University’s e!orts to improve NELC’s work-ing environment.

While issues of amorous rela-tionships between faculty mem-bers and students can be prob-lematic and create issues of favoritism, Katherine Erwin, Title IX coordinator for the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder, said they are not categorically related to Title IX. She added that a con-sensual relationship between two adults does not generally translate into an issue of gender discrimi-nation.

Peter Lake, director of the Cen-ter for Excellence in Higher Edu-

cation Law and Policy at Stetson University, said universities do not normally punish individuals involved in intimate relationships with their perceived superiors, even if such relationships vio-late consensual relations policies. Erwin said Boulder would also generally refrain from punishing a subordinate, such as a student, who violated the University’s con-sensual relationships policy.

In typical cases involving con-sensual relationship policy viola-tions, the superior generally faces explicit consequences, Lake said.

Title IX attorneys said cases should be decided in an equitable manner so that all parties involved receive fair treatment. But they said Manassa’s faculty position should not have been terminated because Darnell seemed to main-tain authority over Manassa since

the inception of their relation-ship, which allegedly began while Manassa was an undergraduate.

Lake said subordinates involved in consensual relationship dis-putes may also find public scru-tiny of the relationship to be a “career killer” even if they do not face explicit punishment. But

Rosa Gonzalez, Stanford Universi-ty’s Title IX coordinator, said uni-versities do not usually release the specific terms of a faculty mem-ber’s termination as a result of sexual misconduct or a Title IX violation.

Darnell announced his suspen-sion from the faculty in a Jan. 8 email to his department, and the message was immediately fol-lowed by an email from Univer-sity President Richard Levin, who explained how the department would move forward in Darnell’s absence.

Manassa is the director of undergraduate studies for Egyp-tology and is currently teaching a course titled “Egyptomania.”

Contact NICOLE NAREA at [email protected] .

HUNTSMAN FROM PAGE 1

DARNELL FROM PAGE 1

Administrators have to address the culture in that department with appropriate investigations.

SAUNDRA SCHUSTERMember, Association of Title IX

Administrators

JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called on students to avoid cynicism and look for positive solutions to the world’s problems.

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NEWS PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JOHN “JACK” TWEED

Mayor Thomas H. Tulley and Gov. John H. Trumbull started construc-tion of the airport in 1929 with a gold and silver spade. The spade was air-delivered to them by Ed Sherman, who parachuted from a Viking “Kitty Hawk” piloted by Jack Tweed.

BY KRISTEN LEECONTRIBUTING REPORTER

National Football League play-ers Hamza Abdullah and Husain Abdullah visited campus Tues-day to share ways in which their Muslim faith has impacted their careers.

At the lecture — which was co-sponsored by the Murgado Family Fund, the Athletics Department, the Chaplain’s Office, Calhoun College, the Intercultural A!airs Council and the Yale Muslim Students Association — the two brothers explained their decision to forgo the 2012 NFL season to perform the hajj, the obligatory Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Hamza Abdullah, who plays for the Arizona Car-dinals and has been in the NFL since 2005, and Husain Abdul-lah, who plays for the Minnesota Vikings and has played football professionally since 2008, said that through their faith, they have learned to be humble and respect others while playing on a team.

“We’ve been covered by NBC, ESPN [and] CNN not because we’re professional football play-ers, but because we stood for what we believed in,” Hamza Abdullah said.

Hamza Abdullah, the older of

the two brothers, said brotherly love is a lesson found at the heart of Islam that he values in his own life. “You want for your brother what you want for yourself,” he said, citing a verse his mother taught him when he younger.

During his Islamic upbringing, Hamza Abdullah said, he learned to be unselfish and to celebrate the feats of others. He added that his fondest memory in the NFL was when his younger brother signed to play with the Minnesota Vikings. Husain Abdullah said while he was participating in the hajj, he most enjoyed experienc-ing the journey with his wife, two brothers and parents.

The brothers also discussed the misconceptions of Islam in America. Husain Abdullah said Muslims can be held respon-

sible for the negative actions of another individual in their faith — a serious misunderstanding because an entire demographic should not take the fall for others’ transgressions.

Hamza Abdullah said that while balancing his career with his faith, he is often pressured to gamble alongside his teammates, an act that is forbidden in Islamic culture.

“I’m a competitive person, so that’s my struggle,” he said. “That’s the test I have to walk away from.”

Hamza Abdulla also said he has faced di"culty fasting for Rama-dan during the football season but accomplishes it through prepara-tion consisting of a strict diet to get enough nutrients and height-ened awareness of one’s own body.

Saad Syed ’16, a member of the MSA, said he was impressed by the Abdullah brothers’ gracious attitude throughout the talk.

“It’s pretty cool that someone so successful could be so humble,” Saad said.

The brothers were raised in a Muslim household in Southern California with 10 other siblings.

Contact KRISTEN LEE at [email protected] .

NFL players discuss faith

BY VANESSA YUANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

At a Tuesday night meeting, Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidel-son ’12 and Ward 28 Alderman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe led the Go!e Street Armory Plan-ning Committee in repurpos-ing the unoccupied Armory, which spans one city block and approximately 155,000 square feet.

The committee held its third hearing to address the future of the building on Tuesday, accepting suggestions for how best to utilize the Armory from interested city residents, many of whom were members of local community organizations. Many suggested using the Armory as a community center, though Eidelson and Robinson-Thorpe said there remains uncertainty about how the committee would run community programs while also maintaining the building, given limited funds and pro-jected revenue.

The building was last occu-pied over four years ago by the National Guard. Since then, the Armory has been left in dis-repair, suffering damage to its floors, roofs and heating and cooling systems.

Because of the large amount of space available, some attend-ees recommended partitioning the building into various spaces. While part of the Armory would be used to house community organizations, the rest of it, a

teaching pastor at the Elm City Vineyard Pastor Church sug-gested, could be rented out to interested organizations at mar-ket-rate prices to generate reve-nue. Other suggestions included using the space for classrooms, parenting and health centers, performances, a library and fit-ness centers.

Helen Kauder, director of a contemporary art gallery and non-profit organization in New Haven called Artspace, pro-posed a similar art gallery use for the facility. Last October, Artspace ran City Wide Open Studios, an event that brought together works of art by visual artists in Connecticut, encour-aging community members to visit the space and to purchase works of art.

Kauder had first brought this project to the committee’s attention at a previous meeting. At the end of Kauder’s presen-tation, Eidelson and Robinson-Thorpe said that the Artspace program would be one of the

projects that the Committee will heavily consider.

“It’s a win-win situation,” Robinson-Thorpe said. “It costs the city nothing and it might generate funds.”

In a previous meeting, Eidel-son said that the redevelop-ment of the Armory would also add city jobs, as the commit-tee would be required to employ

local residents for the project. The committee is currently

waiting for $2.8 million in fund-ing from the state to refurbish the space and will vote on the project after the final meetings. Even so, at the end of the pub-lic portion of the hearing, Rob-inson-Thorpe made clear that some portion of the space would be used as community space.

“What I said from day one is that if the Armory is nothing else, it will be a community cen-ter,” Robinson-Thorpe told the News after the hearing.

In the meantime, the com-mittee will continue to listen to public opinion before finaliz-ing the plans for the Go!e Street Armory. Committee members agreed that they would prefer to

hear more from city youth in the final meeting, as the refurbished Armory would likely benefit them most.

The last of four public hear-ings on the Armory will be held on Tuesday, March 5.

Contact VANESSA YUAN at [email protected] .

In third meeting, Armory possibilities arise

BY ROSA NGUYENSTAFF REPORTER

With a recently proposed budget cut under negotiation, the future of New Haven air travel may take a turn for the worse.

Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, the city’s small airport that offers four daily flights to Philadelphia, runs the risk of los-ing $300,000 in state funding as state leg-islators continue to make significant budget cuts. The airport operates under a $3 million budget, currently receiving $1.5 million from the state and $350,000 from the city of New Haven.

“We felt that [$300,000] was an amount that [Tweed] could absorb with alternative revenues,” said Benjamin Barnes, secretary of the O"ce of Policy and Management. “Given the constraints that we face on the state bud-get, I think it’s appropriate to ratchet the level of support.”

The $300,000 loss in state allocations comes as the result of Gov. Dannel Malloy’s overall proposed spending cut of $1.8 billion over the next two years. To accommodate Malloy’s proposed budget cuts, Barnes sug-gested a 20 percent reduction in the airport’s state subsidy.

“I’m sure [the airport] generates economic activity, and we are continuing to support it,” Barnes said. “We’re still giving them $1.2 mil-lion.”

But Timothy Larson, executive director of the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority, said $1.2 million is not enough. According to Larson, the $300,000 reduction would have a significant impact on airport operations, resulting in a “drastic reduction” in Tweed’s services, such as the airport’s fire and rescue services, security, maintenance and passen-ger delivery services.

“We need those dollars to provide safe operation for the airport, and we are not

going to sacrifice safety,” Larson added.Tweed New Haven Regional Airport

accommodates about 40,000 passengers a year, Larson said, many of whom are stu-dents, hospital patients and tourists visiting the University.

“The airport is a necessity and an eco-nomic driver for the region,” Larson said. “Tweed is an asset that provides a tremen-dous economic incentive, and the state should support this asset.”

But Barnes said the airport is “probably not that important,” claiming that in his experi-ence living in New Haven, most Elm City res-idents do not use airports or fly out of John F. Kennedy International Airport instead of Tweed.

Other state budget items also face pro-posed reductions, Barnes said, including a $150 million cut in Medicaid and a $450 mil-lion cut in hospital funding.

The airport’s Board of Directors will speak to the Appropriations Committee, a coun-cil operating under the Connecticut General Assembly, to argue in favor of the current $1.5 million state allocation.

The state Appropriations Committee will submit its final decisions in late April.

Contact ROSA NGUYEN at [email protected] .

State budget cuts may hit Tweed

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Hamza Abdullah and his brother, Husain, spoke about the role their Muslim faith has played in their NFL careers.

VANESSA YUAN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

On Tuesday, the Go!e Street Armory Planning Committee had its third hearing to determine how to transform the unoccupied Armory.

What I said from day one is that if the Armory is nothing else, it will be a community center.

CLAUDETTE ROBINSON-THORPEAlderman, Ward 28

We’ve been covered by NBC, ESPN [and] CNN … because we stood for what we believed in.

HAMZA ABDULLAHSafety, Arizona Cardinals

We need those dollars to provide safe operation for the airport, and we are not going to sacrifice safety.

TIMOTHY LARSONExecutive director, Tweed New Haven Airport Authority

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Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, which runs four flights a day to Philadelphia, accommodates an estimated 40,000 passengers each year.

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FROM THE FRONT 58Percent of Americans feel that laws on the sale of firearms should be made more strict. According to the same Gallup poll, 43 percent of Americans have a gun in their home.

Diers remembered as nursing leader

Martin anniversary honored with vigilawaiting trial.

“The ship has turned more directly on gun control,” said Arziki Adamu ’13, president of the Yale chapter of the NAACP. “Instead of asking why George Zimmerman shot a black boy, they’re asking why George Zim-merman had a gun.”

Since the Newtown shoot-ing, long-time advocates of gun reform have sought to translate public furor over mass shoot-ings into change on urban gun violence. Even though Martin was killed in a suburban area, his death has become representative of what gun reform advocates have characterized as the sense-less deaths of young black males due to gun violence in cities. Proponents of reform such as John DeStefano Jr. have argued that the two types of violence have fundamentally different causes and consequences.

DeStefano emphasized in a statement last month that an assault weapons ban, while important, would be unlikely to curb violence in New Haven, as most gun crimes in the Elm City are committed with hand-guns. Instead, DeStefano said, a gun o!ender registry, stricter licensing and purchasing stan-dards and a licensing require-ment for ammunition purchases would be more likely to make a significant impact.

Whether such proposals will gain traction remains uncertain, although any push for new leg-islation will only become more di"cult as time passes and pub-lic anger fades.

“Despite the strong leader-ship and goodwill in Connect-icut’s House and Senate, we run a risk of letting this criti-cal moment in history pass us by,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a speech last Thursday. “None of us want that to happen, and none of us should let it happen.”

Malloy’s gun reform pro-posals, introduced last week, include universal background checks but not a gun offender registry.

Although the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and Bipartisan Gun Violence Pre-vention and Children’s Safety Task Force, created in January by Malloy and the state legisla-ture, respectively, were expected

to release their findings in early February, both have yet to do so. Nevertheless, Ron Pinciaro, the executive director of Connecti-cut Against Gun Violence, said he remains optimistic about the possibility for significant state-wide legislative change on both mass shootings and urban gun violence, adding that the New-town shooting has ignited a “passion” among Connecticut

residents who had not previ-ously engaged in the gun debate.

“Originally that passion was directed toward the events of Newtown,” Pinciaro said. “But we are seeing it now being con-verted into a better understand-ing and awareness of the urban problem.”

Connecticut Against Gun Violence, in conjunction with the Black and Latino Cau-

cus of the Connecticut Gen-eral Assembly, will host a press conference today in Hartford on urban violence. According to Barbara Fair, a New Haven com-munity activist who attended Tuesday’s vigil, several mem-bers of the legislature are plan-ning on drafting a bill to target gun tra"cking, which Pinciaro pointed to as one of the main contributors to urban gun vio-

lence.At the vigil Tuesday, however,

optimism on urban gun reform was scarce. Although organizers said that Newtown had shifted the conversation toward gun control, they suggested it was unlikely to result in any mean-ingful reform aimed at prevent-ing urban gun violence.

“I don’t think [Newtown] has a trickle-down e!ect,” said Nia

Holston ’14, who leads the Black Students Alliance at Yale and is a Ward 1 co-chair.

In 2011, 85 percent of the murders in New Haven were committed with guns.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at

[email protected] .

Diers for inspiring her to pursue a doctorate in nursing at Columbia and to begin a career in academia as a research nurse.

“That was the beginning for me of my career as a nurse scientist,” Grey said. “I fell in love with the research here.”

Diers’ book, Research in Nursing Practice, was the first definitive text on nursing research, former students said. Diers was able to explain the his-torical trajectory of nursing and “how we’re supposed to take it and move it forward, basing our practice on evi-dence and not just tradition,” Susan Sullivan-Bolyai NUR ’99 said.

Marjorie Funk NUR ’84 SPH ’92 GRD ’92, a Nursing School profes-sor and former student of Diers, said Diers had a profound influence on key figures in the school today. Research scientist Dena Schulman-Green said even members of the school who have not worked directly with Diers “have the greatest respect” for the influence she has had on the field of nursing.

Though former students said Diers was a “very private person” and informed few people of her illness, Maureen O’Keefe Doran NUR ’71 said Diers was still directing classes over Skype from her hospital bed this win-ter — a testament to her devotion to teaching.

Diers helped the School of Nurs-

ing secure grants and scholarships from the National Institute of Men-tal Health and “led the quest” to make the school a first-class gradu-ate institution, Doran said. She added that Diers used humor in her speeches and writings to advocate for increased respect for nurses and to raise aware-ness about their crucial role in build-ing the modern hospital system.

In the 1970s, Diers was part of a group led by Yale professors Rob-ert Fetter and John Thompson that invented the diagnosis-related group system for classifying hospital cases, which is used to determine how much Medicare reimburses hospitals, Bir-mingham said.

Born in 1938 and raised in Sheri-dan, Wyo., Diers attended the Uni-versity of Denver, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1960. After receiving a Master of Sci-ence in Nursing from Yale in 1964, Diers began teaching as an instructor in psychiatric nursing at Yale, before continuing her studies in Australia.

Diers owned a house on Martha’s Vineyard and collected small doll-house-sized items to make minia-ture versions of the rooms of Florence Nightingale’s house as a hobby, Bir-mingham said. Diers donated these model rooms to the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nurs-ing’s annual silent auction, Birming-ham said, adding that the miniature rooms often fetched thousands of dollars, which were then donated to nursing research.

Diers is survived by her brother, Jim.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at [email protected] .

Contact KAMIL SADIK at [email protected] .

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GUN VIOLENCE FROM PAGE 1

[Diers] made as much … impact on the profession of nursing in modern times as Florence Nightingale did.

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“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: All you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH BAROQUE COMPOSER

BY DANA SCHNEIDERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

We d n e sd ay n i g h t , School of Music compos-ers will add a contemporary twist to the music of Bach in collaboration with the Yale Baroque Ensemble.

“Reflections on Bach,” organized by YBE Director Robert Mealy and ensem-ble cellist Jacques Wood, will feature a mix of tradi-tional works by Bach along with reinterpretations of the originals by six emerg-ing composers from the school. The six compos-ers were given the resource of the YBE, a postgradu-ate fellowship quartet, and the freedom to interpret the Bach works however they chose.

“[The concert] is a merg-ing of two worlds, allowing us to see old music in a new way,” Wood said. “It is all music — new, old or in the middle.”

The result has been an amalgam of new works, from the “loosely inspired” to “direct reactions,” Wood said. He explained that the project’s goal is to inter-est composers in baroque instruments and old per-formance practices. Yet composers all added a modern element to their use of the Baroque style — William Gardiner MUS ’13, for instance, is using a historic harpsichord, but amplifying it using modern technology.

While Bach’s influ-ence permeates through the entire Western musi-

cal canon, “Reflections on Bach” highlights a more direct lineage because the newly commissioned works evoke Bach without neces-sarily referring to the usual Classical and Romantic intermediaries, said David Fung, a pianist and harpsi-chordist with the ensemble.

“What we have is a blank canvas in the 21st century,” Fung said. “How can we rediscover Bach?”

Gardiner said in an email that he wanted to reinter-pret one of the most tradi-tional themes of Bach, the repeating descending scale.

“Something that is very special about Bach’s music is the evocation of the “sublime” — of some-thing very profound, much larger than ourselves,” Gar-diner said. “I noticed that in many of [Bach’s] pieces, particularly at the open-ing, there is an unchanging, infinite musical idea or pro-cess, with a recursive logic of its own.”

In Bach, the theme even-tually gives way to the rest of the music, but Gardiner used his piece to explore the consequences of a descending scale that never resolves. The work, titled “Camel’s Nose,” reflects the

Arabian proverb that small things lead to even greater results, just as the theme of the descending scale grad-ually takes over Gardiner’s entire piece. The title also highlights the fascination with the exotic during the Baroque period, exhibited by the ‘chinoiserie’ decora-tion echoing Chinese influ-ences on harpsichords at the time.

Some of the compos-ers in tonight’s concert superimposed a modern style onto Bach’s themes. Composer Benjamin Wal-lace MUS ’14 began his work with the Andante from Bach’s Second Violin Sonata. But after a friend told him to “let loose,” Wal-lace said he found himself writing disco music with a harpsichord that loosely reflects the Allegro of the same Bach sonata.

“After that first realiza-tion that I was doing some-thing completely ridiculous that treads very precari-ously on the boundaries of taste, the rest of the move-ment followed quickly and was incredibly fun to write,” Wallace said in an email. “The few players I’ve talked to have said they’re enjoy-ing the piece, so I’m very excited to hear what they do with it.”

“Reflections on Bach” will take place at 8 p.m. this evening in the Morse Recital Hall.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at

[email protected] .

Bach, reinterpreted

BY ANYA GRENIERSTAFF REPORTER

Almost a year after the launch of The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the interdisciplinary ini-tiative’s first performance venture will take flight this weekend.

“Theory of Flight,” created by Anna Lindemann ’09 and first performed in 2011, explores one human’s obsession with flight through a combination of scientific lecture, projected animation and operatic arias sung live over elec-tronic music. “Theory of Flight” has already been mounted several times with varying directors, but Lindemann said the show is returning to its roots in coming to Yale. The performance begins with a scientist named Alida Kear, played by Lindemann, delivering a lec-ture about the mechanics of flight. The factual, scientific portions of the show alternate with an ambiguous dreams-cape world that becomes increasingly “wild and chaotic” as the show goes on, said Sara Holdren ’08 DRA ’15, who will be directing the Yale production.

Although the Franke Program has already brought a number of speak-ers from broad disciplines to campus, “Theory of Flight” will mark the ini-tiative’s first foray into art and per-formance as a way of bringing the sci-ences and humanities together, said ecology and evolutionary biology pro-fessor Richard Prum, who special-izes in ornithology and is serving as the Franke Program’s first director. Dif-ferences in culture and research style between the sciences and humanities can lead to misunderstandings between the two fields, he added, explaining that the program seeks to foster interaction between the disciplines to further aca-demic progress.

“We have an opportunity to rein-tegrate the culture of sciences and humanities on campus,” Prum said. “I don’t know any other universities doing this better — I think there’s an oppor-tunity for international leadership at Yale.”

Holdren said the low ceilings of the Off Broadway Theater space forced the production to find a way to convey flight theatrically without using the lit-eral, rigged flying of some past produc-tions of “Theory of Flight.” Lindemann said every space that has hosted the show has had its own unique physical restrictions forcing the team to rethink its approach to staging, adding that the Yale production will include “some sur-prises.”

The projections used in the show serve in part as a “magical chalkboard” to supplement the scientific informa-tion, Lindemann said. Holdren said the stop motion animation in “Theory of Flight” uses a very “tangible, phys-

ical vocabulary.” Yarn might repre-sent a strand of DNA, and pieces of lace might stand in for proteins, Lindemann explained.

“The science is really real, but it doesn’t preclude the possibility of magic,” Holdren said. “It seems magical in and of itself.”

Although Lindemann first presented the show as her Master of Fine Arts the-sis work in integrated electronic arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she said she began to think of the ideas that would later become “Theory of Flight” when she was an undergraduate studying evolutionary developmental biology and immersing herself in Yale’s musical and artistic culture.

The compact, two-person show pairs live opera singing with electronic music, Lindemann said, explaining that this marriage allows “Theory of Flight” to explore an extremely wide range of tim-bres which would be both more di!-cult and more expensive to achieve with live performers. Electronic-based com-position also allowed Lindemann, who wrote the show’s music, to experiment with the use of algorithms as a base for building music, she said. Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon ’10, who plays the “Bird Spirit” in this weekend’s produc-

tion, said it has been more challenging to work with electronic music than live music since it forces her to align per-fectly with the production’s music and video elements.

Fitz Gibbon said much of what she sings involves repeating certain gene sequences and scientific phrases tied to flight. Fitz Gibbon said the musical aspects of the show embody its more otherworldly side, adding that the lines between the lecture and “moments of music” blur as the scientist begins los-ing her grip on reality.

Prum said he believes that “The-ory of Flight” is the first of many artis-tic exchanges that will come out of the Franke Program, with a combined lec-ture and concert celebrating the music of bugs already scheduled to take place at the Yale Peabody Museum this May.

He added that the still nascent pro-gram is actively recruiting input from different parts of the science and humanities communities as the initia-tive grows into its role as a permanent, endowed program at Yale.

“Theory of Flight” will run at the O" Broadway Theater March 1-2.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at [email protected] .

‘Theory of Flight’ takes o!

BY HELEN ROUNERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

“When you play music, you can’t offend anyone or hurt people, but you can make people feel your passion,” said Siwar Mansour, an 18-year-old Palestinian violinist and ukulele player in Heartbeat: The Israeli-Palestinian Youth Music Movement.

Consisting of Israeli and Palestinian musicians ages 17 through 21, Heartbeat will be visiting Yale this Sunday on the group’s debut tour in the United States. Avi Salloway, Heartbeat’s global ambassa-dor and tour producer, said the group planned the tour to engage more with the global community and garner sup-port for peace-making e"orts in Israel and Palestine. The event is co-hosted by Jews and Muslims at Yale, or JAM, and Yale Hillel.

Mansour explained that she discovered Heartbeat when she was asked to partic-ipate in a music video for the group by a Heartbeat leader who had been one of her counselors at Seeds of Peace, a program that educates youth about conflict resolu-tion. Mansour said she has found music to be an e"ective strategy for fostering under-standing among Israeli and Palestinian youth.

“A lot of programs are mostly dialogue, which leads to yelling and being upset.

Music does things that words can’t do,” Mansour said. “When I play music, it comes out, and it comes out right.”

Ziv Sobelman-Yamin, an 18-year-old Israeli drum-mer and pianist in Heart-beat, also said he believes in music’s power to promote understanding. He explained that participating in Heart-beat has helped him realize how much all people have in common. He added that the friends he has made in Heart-beat have drastically changed how he views the Israeli-Pal-estinian conflict.

“A friend was talking about how his home isn’t exactly home because someone occupied it,” he explained. “It suddenly opened my eyes that I had such a comfort-able life in Israel. I hadn’t seen people really su"er, and it really touched me.”

Although both Mansour and Sobelman-Yamin partic-ipated in dialogue programs before joining Heartbeat, no more than 5 percent of Israelis and Palestinians have partic-ipated in any kind of dialogue program in the past 15 years, according to Heartbeat’s website. The organization is the first to bring together young Jewish and Arab musi-cians through popular music.

Jessica Saldinger ’15, the co-president of JAM, said Heartbeat contacted her in the fall about performing at Yale on their two-week U.S.

tour. Heartbeat is perform-ing at a number of other uni-versities including Brown, Brandeis and the Univer-sity of Vermont, as well as at music venues and congrega-tions.

Saldinger said JAM typi-cally sponsors events such as interfaith dialogues, social events and interfaith prayer swaps. She added that she hopes Heartbeat will give students a more personalized exposure to the Israeli-Pal-estinian conflict and increase awareness of the peace-mak-ing efforts taking place in the region. Yale Hillel is pro-viding the space and help-ing with advertising for the Heartbeat performance, she said.

Mansour said one of her goals for the tour is to change her audience’s perspectives.

“The next time people see the news, they’ll think of us,” Mansour said.

Sobelman-Yamin said he feels it’s important for him personally to find a con-structive way to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding that he hopes some Americans will begin to think of the conflict as one among real people through Heart-beat’s performances.

Heartbeat will perform at the Slifka Center at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at [email protected] .

Peace through music

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKINCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

On Feb. 21, the American Institute of Architects Col-lege of Fellows awarded Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02, the assistant dean and director of undergraduate studies at the School of Architecture and co-founder of the New Haven-Based firm Plan B Architec-ture and Urbanism, and Joyce Hsiang ’99 ARC ’03, princi-pal and co-founder of Plan B and a critic at the school, with the 2013 Benjamin Henry Latrobe prize for research that will advance the field of architecture. The two archi-tects received the $100,000 prize for their project “Urban Sphere: The City of 7 Billion,” which imagines the entire world as one urban landscape. Mendis and Hsiang discussed their plans and experiences with the News.

Q How can readers best understand your project?

BM You could concep-tualize our product

as three pods. One is a kind of concept, which is the fact that we have a global problem and a global approach, and also that we’re trying to expand the scope of the profession and so on. The [second] is creating a model, which is the idea of the digital model where we can actually integrate all this data — that’s primarily what we will be working on. The third is how that thing feeds into a tool that people can plug into. I think each [prong] is equally important.

Q How did this project emerge?

JH This research project … is after a series of

research projects that we’ve worked together on.

BM That’s been a five-year process start-

ing with [researching] the scale of urban development and addressing issues of sus-tainability. Through our research we’ve also been look-ing at national and global scale issues. How this par-ticular topic came about is an increasing realization that we can’t understand urban-ism as isolated cities, because the boundaries of cities now far exceed their administrative stance — like their resource networks and flows of commu-nication and energy and so on go beyond their literal bound-aries. So through our research we came to realize that every-thing is — it’s a very simple conclusion I guess — much more interconnected, and to really understand urbanization at the global scale, you need to have a global approach.

Q Why this project? Why now?

BM One thing about this project is that

it builds on research we’ve been doing. But also perhaps in the last 15 to 20 years this has been a particular trend — that urbanization and popula-tion growth in particular have been in the news as something that we will need to confront. This is something that we saw emerge in the sixties — you know, through the population boom — but there’s been an increasing focus on urbaniza-tion and population growth. This is the first time, I think, in our era where you do begin to see the global e"ects of all those things coming together. In the past things were still disconnected enough that it didn’t really have the kind of global repercussions that we see today. But we see great urgency in trying to tackle this through a global approach because for the first time in human history you do begin to see the global impacts of local-ized events and vice versa, so I think that’s something that we find to be particularly per-

tinent, relative to not just the scope of our work profession-ally in terms of what we want to do, but again as a global design problem.”

JH This is the greatest problem that every-

body faces. It is [of an] enor-mous scope that cannot fall within any category … [every-body] says this is beyond [their] purview. Part of the issue is that you have to find ways for every person to con-tribute and to have value in addressing what is the global problem.

Q How will your students play a role in the reseach?

JH [Part of our previ-ous research has used]

a lot of the students here at [School of Architecture] as research assistants. The stu-dents are often the ones who are not only at the forefront of the technology, but the ones who are being really innova-tive with it, because it’s not one standard program that you’re using [and] it’s not one kind of technique. Part of this is inventing that technique — it’s using multiple platforms and hybridizing between mul-tiple tools. A lot of times, even when you start, you just kind of put a question out there. Certainly being at Yale, not only in the School of Archi-tecture, but [also] at the Uni-versity, is really an incredible resource. If you have a ques-tion, it’s really easy … to be able to just shoot an email or call another colleague or pro-fessor in another department and say, “You know we have this kind of question about this algorithm, how would you deal with this?” So that’s another great thing that doing this research in a university setting provides for us.

Q This project is about expanding the scope of the

architecture field to o!er solu-tions to these global problems. Is it also a response to the eco-nomic conditions that have hit architects hard over the last handful of years?

JH On the one hand you might think, “Well it’s

because of the economy — it means you have to find work in other places.” That certainly is true, but I think if anything, the kind of recession or eco-nomic situation has high-lighted even more how inter-related everything is, how you can’t do something without having an enormous impact globally. Before that, the pro-fession was riding high, the projects that we were working on, everything was fast-paced — we were building every-where. There were specula-tive master plans sprouting up around the world, frequently so fast that there was very little opportunity for reflection or criticism to actually question [what impact architects were making]. A lot of the time as architects, we do what we can with certain parameters, but we don’t necessarily have con-trol over a lot of the parameters — whether it’s driven by the clients or the cities or the poli-cies or the zoning or the finan-cial structures — you work as best as you can within a lim-ited realm. A lot of what hap-pened in 2008 forces every-body to question those kinds of structures to try to under-stand more so that [we are] not leading into a similar situation.

Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at

[email protected] .

Architecture professors

discuss Latrobe

HEARTBEAT

Heartbeat is a program that seeks to bring together Israeli and Palestinian youth via music.

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

Extravagance abounds in the Yale Center for British Art’s latest major exhibition.

A decade in the making, “Edwardian Opulence: Brit-ish Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” presents a comprehensive display of English art, design and fash-ion during the reign of King Edward VII. Correspond-ing roughly with the period between the end of the Victo-rian era and the beginning of World War I, the Edwardian age refers to a time marked by duality — one of both lav-ishness and tumult, high and low, exhibit co-curator Andrea Rager GRD ’09 said. Using a range of media, from sculptures to reproduced autochrome photographs, the exhibition traces not only the English public’s changing attitudes at the time, but also the global influence of impe-rial-era London.

“Edwardian Opulence” opens tomorrow and will be the museum’s last exhibit before the first phase of its refurbishment project begins this summer.

“[This exhibit] is a long, deep study of a period of enormous power and conse-quence,” YCBA Director Amy Meyers said. “The conver-sation between and among objects from that era reflects Britain’s state of mind at the turn of the 20th century.”

Meyers added that the opening aligns with the mod-ern American public’s cur-rent interest in Edwardian-era England. This fascination

with the period is demon-strated by the popularity of the television series “Down-ton Abbey,” which reflects a desire to revisit the era, she said.

At the start of the exhibit — which spans the YCBA’s second and third floors — visitors are greeted by four figures representing the full breadth of the imperial elite at the time, co-curator Angus Trumble said, refer-ring to the three portraits and white gown that stand at the entrance to the display. Alongside a portrait of Lady Evelyn Cavendish, a high-ranking member of the aris-tocracy, there is a painting of Florence Phillips, whose min-ing magnate husband made her a member of the rising class of “nouveau riche.”

“We wanted to emphasize the tension between the con-spicuous consumption hab-its of the ‘new money’ and the British established, yet impoverished, aristocracy,” Rager said.

She added that she hopes visitors will pay attention to not only the central characters of the exhibit but also “the bodies and unseen hands” of those at the periphery: the African diamond miners who made Sir Lionel Phillips rich, or the garment workers who sewed the hem of Mary Cur-zon’s dress. Such broader networks are reminders of the Edwardian age’s global scope, Rager said.

Within its study of deca-dence, the exhibit explores the movement of lavish inte-riors from the private to the public sphere, as well as the

migration of people from the countryside and into London. Following the development of technologies throughout this time period, the exhibit features electric bell pushes — which are still used in Buckingham Palace today — electric lamps, early video footage and audio recordings of the people whom the por-traits depict.

Trumble explained that while the exhibit traces a pattern of extravagance and excess, it ends on a somber note. The last section, titled “War, Sleep, and Death,” cul-minates in William Orpen’s oil-on-canvas piece depict-ing the casket of the unknown British solider.

“The Edwardian era rep-resented the pinnacle of cer-tainty, pride and pretension,” Trumble said. “But underly-ing these public moods were themes of sleep and doubt, madness and anxiety.”

“Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” will be on view at the British Art Center through June 2.

Contact YANAN WANG at [email protected] .

YCBA highlights Edwardian era

HAROLD SHAPIRO

“Reflections on Bach” features reinterpretations of Bach works by students from the School of Music.

The Edwardian era represented the pinnacle of certainty, pride and pretension.

ANGUS TRUMBLECo-curator, Yale Center for British Art

How can we rediscover Bach?

DAVID FUNGPianist and harpsichordist, YBE

Through our research we’ve also been looking at national and global scale issues.

BIMAL MENDIS ’98 ARC ’02Assistant dean, School of Architecture

YCBA

The YCBA’s exhibit showcases art from the reign of Edward VII.

TOP: ELLIE MARKOVITCH, BOTTOM: KATHY HIGH AND JIM DE SÈVE

“Theory of Flight” — a show by the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — explores one human’s obsession with flight.

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“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: All you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH BAROQUE COMPOSER

BY DANA SCHNEIDERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

We d n e sd ay n i g h t , School of Music compos-ers will add a contemporary twist to the music of Bach in collaboration with the Yale Baroque Ensemble.

“Reflections on Bach,” organized by YBE Director Robert Mealy and ensem-ble cellist Jacques Wood, will feature a mix of tradi-tional works by Bach along with reinterpretations of the originals by six emerg-ing composers from the school. The six compos-ers were given the resource of the YBE, a postgradu-ate fellowship quartet, and the freedom to interpret the Bach works however they chose.

“[The concert] is a merg-ing of two worlds, allowing us to see old music in a new way,” Wood said. “It is all music — new, old or in the middle.”

The result has been an amalgam of new works, from the “loosely inspired” to “direct reactions,” Wood said. He explained that the project’s goal is to inter-est composers in baroque instruments and old per-formance practices. Yet composers all added a modern element to their use of the Baroque style — William Gardiner MUS ’13, for instance, is using a historic harpsichord, but amplifying it using modern technology.

While Bach’s influ-ence permeates through the entire Western musi-

cal canon, “Reflections on Bach” highlights a more direct lineage because the newly commissioned works evoke Bach without neces-sarily referring to the usual Classical and Romantic intermediaries, said David Fung, a pianist and harpsi-chordist with the ensemble.

“What we have is a blank canvas in the 21st century,” Fung said. “How can we rediscover Bach?”

Gardiner said in an email that he wanted to reinter-pret one of the most tradi-tional themes of Bach, the repeating descending scale.

“Something that is very special about Bach’s music is the evocation of the “sublime” — of some-thing very profound, much larger than ourselves,” Gar-diner said. “I noticed that in many of [Bach’s] pieces, particularly at the open-ing, there is an unchanging, infinite musical idea or pro-cess, with a recursive logic of its own.”

In Bach, the theme even-tually gives way to the rest of the music, but Gardiner used his piece to explore the consequences of a descending scale that never resolves. The work, titled “Camel’s Nose,” reflects the

Arabian proverb that small things lead to even greater results, just as the theme of the descending scale grad-ually takes over Gardiner’s entire piece. The title also highlights the fascination with the exotic during the Baroque period, exhibited by the ‘chinoiserie’ decora-tion echoing Chinese influ-ences on harpsichords at the time.

Some of the compos-ers in tonight’s concert superimposed a modern style onto Bach’s themes. Composer Benjamin Wal-lace MUS ’14 began his work with the Andante from Bach’s Second Violin Sonata. But after a friend told him to “let loose,” Wal-lace said he found himself writing disco music with a harpsichord that loosely reflects the Allegro of the same Bach sonata.

“After that first realiza-tion that I was doing some-thing completely ridiculous that treads very precari-ously on the boundaries of taste, the rest of the move-ment followed quickly and was incredibly fun to write,” Wallace said in an email. “The few players I’ve talked to have said they’re enjoy-ing the piece, so I’m very excited to hear what they do with it.”

“Reflections on Bach” will take place at 8 p.m. this evening in the Morse Recital Hall.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at

[email protected] .

Bach, reinterpreted

BY ANYA GRENIERSTAFF REPORTER

Almost a year after the launch of The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the interdisciplinary ini-tiative’s first performance venture will take flight this weekend.

“Theory of Flight,” created by Anna Lindemann ’09 and first performed in 2011, explores one human’s obsession with flight through a combination of scientific lecture, projected animation and operatic arias sung live over elec-tronic music. “Theory of Flight” has already been mounted several times with varying directors, but Lindemann said the show is returning to its roots in coming to Yale. The performance begins with a scientist named Alida Kear, played by Lindemann, delivering a lec-ture about the mechanics of flight. The factual, scientific portions of the show alternate with an ambiguous dreams-cape world that becomes increasingly “wild and chaotic” as the show goes on, said Sara Holdren ’08 DRA ’15, who will be directing the Yale production.

Although the Franke Program has already brought a number of speak-ers from broad disciplines to campus, “Theory of Flight” will mark the ini-tiative’s first foray into art and per-formance as a way of bringing the sci-ences and humanities together, said ecology and evolutionary biology pro-fessor Richard Prum, who special-izes in ornithology and is serving as the Franke Program’s first director. Dif-ferences in culture and research style between the sciences and humanities can lead to misunderstandings between the two fields, he added, explaining that the program seeks to foster interaction between the disciplines to further aca-demic progress.

“We have an opportunity to rein-tegrate the culture of sciences and humanities on campus,” Prum said. “I don’t know any other universities doing this better — I think there’s an oppor-tunity for international leadership at Yale.”

Holdren said the low ceilings of the Off Broadway Theater space forced the production to find a way to convey flight theatrically without using the lit-eral, rigged flying of some past produc-tions of “Theory of Flight.” Lindemann said every space that has hosted the show has had its own unique physical restrictions forcing the team to rethink its approach to staging, adding that the Yale production will include “some sur-prises.”

The projections used in the show serve in part as a “magical chalkboard” to supplement the scientific informa-tion, Lindemann said. Holdren said the stop motion animation in “Theory of Flight” uses a very “tangible, phys-

ical vocabulary.” Yarn might repre-sent a strand of DNA, and pieces of lace might stand in for proteins, Lindemann explained.

“The science is really real, but it doesn’t preclude the possibility of magic,” Holdren said. “It seems magical in and of itself.”

Although Lindemann first presented the show as her Master of Fine Arts the-sis work in integrated electronic arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she said she began to think of the ideas that would later become “Theory of Flight” when she was an undergraduate studying evolutionary developmental biology and immersing herself in Yale’s musical and artistic culture.

The compact, two-person show pairs live opera singing with electronic music, Lindemann said, explaining that this marriage allows “Theory of Flight” to explore an extremely wide range of tim-bres which would be both more di!-cult and more expensive to achieve with live performers. Electronic-based com-position also allowed Lindemann, who wrote the show’s music, to experiment with the use of algorithms as a base for building music, she said. Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon ’10, who plays the “Bird Spirit” in this weekend’s produc-

tion, said it has been more challenging to work with electronic music than live music since it forces her to align per-fectly with the production’s music and video elements.

Fitz Gibbon said much of what she sings involves repeating certain gene sequences and scientific phrases tied to flight. Fitz Gibbon said the musical aspects of the show embody its more otherworldly side, adding that the lines between the lecture and “moments of music” blur as the scientist begins los-ing her grip on reality.

Prum said he believes that “The-ory of Flight” is the first of many artis-tic exchanges that will come out of the Franke Program, with a combined lec-ture and concert celebrating the music of bugs already scheduled to take place at the Yale Peabody Museum this May.

He added that the still nascent pro-gram is actively recruiting input from different parts of the science and humanities communities as the initia-tive grows into its role as a permanent, endowed program at Yale.

“Theory of Flight” will run at the O" Broadway Theater March 1-2.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at [email protected] .

‘Theory of Flight’ takes o!

BY HELEN ROUNERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

“When you play music, you can’t offend anyone or hurt people, but you can make people feel your passion,” said Siwar Mansour, an 18-year-old Palestinian violinist and ukulele player in Heartbeat: The Israeli-Palestinian Youth Music Movement.

Consisting of Israeli and Palestinian musicians ages 17 through 21, Heartbeat will be visiting Yale this Sunday on the group’s debut tour in the United States. Avi Salloway, Heartbeat’s global ambassa-dor and tour producer, said the group planned the tour to engage more with the global community and garner sup-port for peace-making e"orts in Israel and Palestine. The event is co-hosted by Jews and Muslims at Yale, or JAM, and Yale Hillel.

Mansour explained that she discovered Heartbeat when she was asked to partic-ipate in a music video for the group by a Heartbeat leader who had been one of her counselors at Seeds of Peace, a program that educates youth about conflict resolu-tion. Mansour said she has found music to be an e"ective strategy for fostering under-standing among Israeli and Palestinian youth.

“A lot of programs are mostly dialogue, which leads to yelling and being upset.

Music does things that words can’t do,” Mansour said. “When I play music, it comes out, and it comes out right.”

Ziv Sobelman-Yamin, an 18-year-old Israeli drum-mer and pianist in Heart-beat, also said he believes in music’s power to promote understanding. He explained that participating in Heart-beat has helped him realize how much all people have in common. He added that the friends he has made in Heart-beat have drastically changed how he views the Israeli-Pal-estinian conflict.

“A friend was talking about how his home isn’t exactly home because someone occupied it,” he explained. “It suddenly opened my eyes that I had such a comfort-able life in Israel. I hadn’t seen people really su"er, and it really touched me.”

Although both Mansour and Sobelman-Yamin partic-ipated in dialogue programs before joining Heartbeat, no more than 5 percent of Israelis and Palestinians have partic-ipated in any kind of dialogue program in the past 15 years, according to Heartbeat’s website. The organization is the first to bring together young Jewish and Arab musi-cians through popular music.

Jessica Saldinger ’15, the co-president of JAM, said Heartbeat contacted her in the fall about performing at Yale on their two-week U.S.

tour. Heartbeat is perform-ing at a number of other uni-versities including Brown, Brandeis and the Univer-sity of Vermont, as well as at music venues and congrega-tions.

Saldinger said JAM typi-cally sponsors events such as interfaith dialogues, social events and interfaith prayer swaps. She added that she hopes Heartbeat will give students a more personalized exposure to the Israeli-Pal-estinian conflict and increase awareness of the peace-mak-ing efforts taking place in the region. Yale Hillel is pro-viding the space and help-ing with advertising for the Heartbeat performance, she said.

Mansour said one of her goals for the tour is to change her audience’s perspectives.

“The next time people see the news, they’ll think of us,” Mansour said.

Sobelman-Yamin said he feels it’s important for him personally to find a con-structive way to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding that he hopes some Americans will begin to think of the conflict as one among real people through Heart-beat’s performances.

Heartbeat will perform at the Slifka Center at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Contact HELEN ROUNER at [email protected] .

Peace through music

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKINCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

On Feb. 21, the American Institute of Architects Col-lege of Fellows awarded Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02, the assistant dean and director of undergraduate studies at the School of Architecture and co-founder of the New Haven-Based firm Plan B Architec-ture and Urbanism, and Joyce Hsiang ’99 ARC ’03, princi-pal and co-founder of Plan B and a critic at the school, with the 2013 Benjamin Henry Latrobe prize for research that will advance the field of architecture. The two archi-tects received the $100,000 prize for their project “Urban Sphere: The City of 7 Billion,” which imagines the entire world as one urban landscape. Mendis and Hsiang discussed their plans and experiences with the News.

Q How can readers best understand your project?

BM You could concep-tualize our product

as three pods. One is a kind of concept, which is the fact that we have a global problem and a global approach, and also that we’re trying to expand the scope of the profession and so on. The [second] is creating a model, which is the idea of the digital model where we can actually integrate all this data — that’s primarily what we will be working on. The third is how that thing feeds into a tool that people can plug into. I think each [prong] is equally important.

Q How did this project emerge?

JH This research project … is after a series of

research projects that we’ve worked together on.

BM That’s been a five-year process start-

ing with [researching] the scale of urban development and addressing issues of sus-tainability. Through our research we’ve also been look-ing at national and global scale issues. How this par-ticular topic came about is an increasing realization that we can’t understand urban-ism as isolated cities, because the boundaries of cities now far exceed their administrative stance — like their resource networks and flows of commu-nication and energy and so on go beyond their literal bound-aries. So through our research we came to realize that every-thing is — it’s a very simple conclusion I guess — much more interconnected, and to really understand urbanization at the global scale, you need to have a global approach.

Q Why this project? Why now?

BM One thing about this project is that

it builds on research we’ve been doing. But also perhaps in the last 15 to 20 years this has been a particular trend — that urbanization and popula-tion growth in particular have been in the news as something that we will need to confront. This is something that we saw emerge in the sixties — you know, through the population boom — but there’s been an increasing focus on urbaniza-tion and population growth. This is the first time, I think, in our era where you do begin to see the global e"ects of all those things coming together. In the past things were still disconnected enough that it didn’t really have the kind of global repercussions that we see today. But we see great urgency in trying to tackle this through a global approach because for the first time in human history you do begin to see the global impacts of local-ized events and vice versa, so I think that’s something that we find to be particularly per-

tinent, relative to not just the scope of our work profession-ally in terms of what we want to do, but again as a global design problem.”

JH This is the greatest problem that every-

body faces. It is [of an] enor-mous scope that cannot fall within any category … [every-body] says this is beyond [their] purview. Part of the issue is that you have to find ways for every person to con-tribute and to have value in addressing what is the global problem.

Q How will your students play a role in the reseach?

JH [Part of our previ-ous research has used]

a lot of the students here at [School of Architecture] as research assistants. The stu-dents are often the ones who are not only at the forefront of the technology, but the ones who are being really innova-tive with it, because it’s not one standard program that you’re using [and] it’s not one kind of technique. Part of this is inventing that technique — it’s using multiple platforms and hybridizing between mul-tiple tools. A lot of times, even when you start, you just kind of put a question out there. Certainly being at Yale, not only in the School of Archi-tecture, but [also] at the Uni-versity, is really an incredible resource. If you have a ques-tion, it’s really easy … to be able to just shoot an email or call another colleague or pro-fessor in another department and say, “You know we have this kind of question about this algorithm, how would you deal with this?” So that’s another great thing that doing this research in a university setting provides for us.

Q This project is about expanding the scope of the

architecture field to o!er solu-tions to these global problems. Is it also a response to the eco-nomic conditions that have hit architects hard over the last handful of years?

JH On the one hand you might think, “Well it’s

because of the economy — it means you have to find work in other places.” That certainly is true, but I think if anything, the kind of recession or eco-nomic situation has high-lighted even more how inter-related everything is, how you can’t do something without having an enormous impact globally. Before that, the pro-fession was riding high, the projects that we were working on, everything was fast-paced — we were building every-where. There were specula-tive master plans sprouting up around the world, frequently so fast that there was very little opportunity for reflection or criticism to actually question [what impact architects were making]. A lot of the time as architects, we do what we can with certain parameters, but we don’t necessarily have con-trol over a lot of the parameters — whether it’s driven by the clients or the cities or the poli-cies or the zoning or the finan-cial structures — you work as best as you can within a lim-ited realm. A lot of what hap-pened in 2008 forces every-body to question those kinds of structures to try to under-stand more so that [we are] not leading into a similar situation.

Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at

[email protected] .

Architecture professors

discuss Latrobe

HEARTBEAT

Heartbeat is a program that seeks to bring together Israeli and Palestinian youth via music.

BY YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTER

Extravagance abounds in the Yale Center for British Art’s latest major exhibition.

A decade in the making, “Edwardian Opulence: Brit-ish Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” presents a comprehensive display of English art, design and fash-ion during the reign of King Edward VII. Correspond-ing roughly with the period between the end of the Victo-rian era and the beginning of World War I, the Edwardian age refers to a time marked by duality — one of both lav-ishness and tumult, high and low, exhibit co-curator Andrea Rager GRD ’09 said. Using a range of media, from sculptures to reproduced autochrome photographs, the exhibition traces not only the English public’s changing attitudes at the time, but also the global influence of impe-rial-era London.

“Edwardian Opulence” opens tomorrow and will be the museum’s last exhibit before the first phase of its refurbishment project begins this summer.

“[This exhibit] is a long, deep study of a period of enormous power and conse-quence,” YCBA Director Amy Meyers said. “The conver-sation between and among objects from that era reflects Britain’s state of mind at the turn of the 20th century.”

Meyers added that the opening aligns with the mod-ern American public’s cur-rent interest in Edwardian-era England. This fascination

with the period is demon-strated by the popularity of the television series “Down-ton Abbey,” which reflects a desire to revisit the era, she said.

At the start of the exhibit — which spans the YCBA’s second and third floors — visitors are greeted by four figures representing the full breadth of the imperial elite at the time, co-curator Angus Trumble said, refer-ring to the three portraits and white gown that stand at the entrance to the display. Alongside a portrait of Lady Evelyn Cavendish, a high-ranking member of the aris-tocracy, there is a painting of Florence Phillips, whose min-ing magnate husband made her a member of the rising class of “nouveau riche.”

“We wanted to emphasize the tension between the con-spicuous consumption hab-its of the ‘new money’ and the British established, yet impoverished, aristocracy,” Rager said.

She added that she hopes visitors will pay attention to not only the central characters of the exhibit but also “the bodies and unseen hands” of those at the periphery: the African diamond miners who made Sir Lionel Phillips rich, or the garment workers who sewed the hem of Mary Cur-zon’s dress. Such broader networks are reminders of the Edwardian age’s global scope, Rager said.

Within its study of deca-dence, the exhibit explores the movement of lavish inte-riors from the private to the public sphere, as well as the

migration of people from the countryside and into London. Following the development of technologies throughout this time period, the exhibit features electric bell pushes — which are still used in Buckingham Palace today — electric lamps, early video footage and audio recordings of the people whom the por-traits depict.

Trumble explained that while the exhibit traces a pattern of extravagance and excess, it ends on a somber note. The last section, titled “War, Sleep, and Death,” cul-minates in William Orpen’s oil-on-canvas piece depict-ing the casket of the unknown British solider.

“The Edwardian era rep-resented the pinnacle of cer-tainty, pride and pretension,” Trumble said. “But underly-ing these public moods were themes of sleep and doubt, madness and anxiety.”

“Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” will be on view at the British Art Center through June 2.

Contact YANAN WANG at [email protected] .

YCBA highlights Edwardian era

HAROLD SHAPIRO

“Reflections on Bach” features reinterpretations of Bach works by students from the School of Music.

The Edwardian era represented the pinnacle of certainty, pride and pretension.

ANGUS TRUMBLECo-curator, Yale Center for British Art

How can we rediscover Bach?

DAVID FUNGPianist and harpsichordist, YBE

Through our research we’ve also been looking at national and global scale issues.

BIMAL MENDIS ’98 ARC ’02Assistant dean, School of Architecture

YCBA

The YCBA’s exhibit showcases art from the reign of Edward VII.

TOP: ELLIE MARKOVITCH, BOTTOM: KATHY HIGH AND JIM DE SÈVE

“Theory of Flight” — a show by the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — explores one human’s obsession with flight.

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BY DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s next defense secretary, hand-ing President Barack Obama’s pick the top Pentagon job just days before bil-lions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the mili-tary.

The vote was 58-41, with four Republicans joining the Democrats in backing the contentious choice. Hagel’s only GOP support came from former colleagues Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Dick Shelby of Alabama and Mike Johanns of Nebraska — all three had announced their support earlier — and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The vote came just hours after Republicans dropped their unprece-dented delay of a Pentagon choice and allowed the nomination to move for-ward on a 71-27 vote.

Hagel, 66, a former two-term Nebraska senator and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran, succeeds Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Hagel, who is expected to be sworn in at the Pentagon on Wednesday, said in a statement that he was honored that the president and the Senate “have entrusted me to serve our nation once again.”

Obama welcomed the bipartisan Senate vote, although 41 Republi-cans opposed his nominee, and said in a statement that “we will have the defense secretary our nation needs and the leader our troops deserve.”

The president looked past the divi-sions and said he was grateful to Hagel “for reminding us that when it comes

to our national defense, we are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans, and our greatest respon-sibility is the security of the American people.”

Republicans had opposed their onetime colleague, casting him as unqualified for the job, hostile toward Israel and soft on Iran. The objections remained strong well after the vote.

“I continue to have serious ques-tions about whether Chuck Hagel is up to the job of being our secretary of defense,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement. “I hope, for the sake of our own national secu-rity, he exceeds expectations.”

Hagel joins Obama’s retooled sec-ond-term, national security team of Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA Director-designate John Brennan at a time of uncertainty for a military emerging from two wars and fight-ing worldwide terrorism with smaller, deficit-driven budgets.

Among his daunting challenges are deciding on troop levels in Afghani-stan as the United States winds down

its combat presence and dealing with $46 billion in budget cuts set to kick in on Friday. He also will have to work with lawmakers who spent weeks vili-fying him.

Republicans insisted that Hagel was battered and bloodied after their repeated attacks during the protracted political fight.

“He will take o!ce with the weak-est support of any defense secretary in modern history, which will make him less effective on his job,” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate GOP’s No. 2 Republican.

Not so, said Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, who pointed out that Hagel now has the title and the fight is history.

“All have to work together for the interest of the country,” said Reed, D-R.I.

The vote ended one of the most bitter fights over a Cabinet choice and former senator since 1989 when the Democratic-led Senate defeated newly elected President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of Republican John Tower to be defense secretary.

Senate confirms Hagel BY ANNE FLAHERTYASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Internet users who illegally share music, movies or TV shows online may soon get warn-ing notices from their service providers that they are violating copyright law. Ignore the notices, and violators could face an Internet slow-down for 48 hours. Those who claim they’re inno-cent can protest — for a fee.

For the first time since a spate of aggressive and unpopular lawsuits almost a decade ago, the music and movie industries are going after Inter-net users they accuse of swapping copyrighted files online. But unlike the lawsuits from the mid-2000s — which swept up everyone from young kids to the elderly with sometimes ruinous financial penalties and court costs — the latest e"ort is aimed at educating casual Internet pirates and convinc-ing them to stop. There are multiple chances to make amends and no imme-diate legal consequences under the pro-gram if they don’t.

“There’s a bunch of questions that need to be answered because there are ways that this could end up caus-ing problems for Internet users,” such as the bureaucratic headache of being falsely accused, said David Sohn, gen-eral counsel for the Center for Democ-racy and Technology, a Washing-ton-based civil liberties group. But he added: “There’s also the potential for this to have an impact in reducing piracy in ways that don’t carry a lot of collateral damage.”

The Copyright Alert System was put into e"ect this week by the nation’s five biggest Internet service providers — Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Cablevision — and the two major associations representing industry — the Motion Picture Asso-ciation of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.

Under the new program, the industry will monitor “peer-to-peer” software services for evidence of copyrighted files being shared. Each complaint will prompt a customer’s Internet provider to notify the customer that their Inter-

net address has been detected sharing files illegally. Depending on the ser-vice provider, the first couple of alerts will likely be an email warning. Sub-sequent alerts might require a per-son to acknowledge receipt or review educational materials. If a final warn-ing is ignored, a person could be sub-ject to speed-throttling for 48 hours or another similar “mitigation measure.”

After five or six “strikes,” however, the person won’t face any repercus-sions under the program and is likely to be ignored. It’s unclear whether such repeat o"enders would be more likely at that point to face an expensive law-suit. While proponents say it’s not the intention of the program, it’s possible the alert system will be used to initiate lawsuits.

The number of Internet users subject to the new system is a sizable chunk of the U.S. population. Verizon and AT&T alone supply more than 23 million cus-tomers.

For the recording industry, which blames online piracy for contributing to a dramatic drop in profits and sales during the past decade, the new alert system is a better alternative than law-suits. In December 2008, the Record-ing Industry Association of Amer-ica announced it had discontinued that practice — which had been deeply unpopular with the American public — and would begin working with the Internet providers on the alert system instead.

“We think there is a positive impact of (alert) programs like this, and that they can put money in the pocket of artists and labels,” said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the trade group.

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Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his secretary of defense confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.

When it comes to our national defense, we are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans.

BARACK OBAMAPresident, United States

[Alert] programs like this … can put money in the pocket of artists and labels.

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“You may have the universe if I can have Italy.” GIUSEPPE VERDI ITALIAN COMPOSER

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BY PAN PYLAS AND FRANCES D’EMILIO ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — Italy emerged from elec-tions Tuesday with no clear winner, driving markets around the world markedly lower as investors worried that one of Europe’s biggest econo-mies would be unable to build a gov-erning coalition that can stay the course on unpopular austerity mea-sures.

A day after polling ended, a few seats in Parliament based on Ital-ians’ voting abroad still remained to be decided, but their numbers won’t ease the gridlock. European leaders pleaded with politicians in Italy to quickly form a government to con-tinue to enact reforms to lower Ita-

ly’s critically high debt and spare Europe another spike in its four-year financial crisis.

If Italian parties fail to form a governing coalition, new elections would be required, causing more uncertainty and a leadership vac-uum.

“What is now decisive for Italy — but, because Italy is such an impor-tant country for Europe, also for the whole of Europe — is that a stable government that is capable of acting can be formed as quickly as possi-ble,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin.

The results of the election are a rejection of the tough auster-ity approach of the previous tech-nocratic government led by Mario

Monti. A center-left coalition led by Pier Luigi Bersani appears to have won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, while the Sen-ate looks split with no party in con-trol.

Italy’s FTSE MIB index fell nearly 800 points, or 5 percent, to 15,552 Tuesday. Some of its banking stocks were briefly suspended after precipi-tous falls at the bell.

The interest rate on the coun-try’s benchmark 10-year bond — an important gauge of investor sen-timent — rose by 0.39 percentage points to 4.83 percent. Investors sought protection in the bonds of more stable and prosperous econo-mies, such as German government bonds.

Italian election inconclusiveBY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Two ponti!s, both wearing white, both called “pope” and living a few yards from one another, with the same key aide serving them.

The Vatican’s announcement Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI will be known as “emeritus pope” in his retirement, be called “Your Holiness” and continue to wear the white cassock associated with the papacy has fueled concerns about potential conflicts arising from the peculiar reality now facing the Catho-lic Church: having one reigning and one retired pope.

Benedict’s title and what he will wear have been a major source of speculation since the 85-year-old pontiff stunned the world and announced he would resign Thursday, the first pope to do so in 600 years.

There has been good reason why popes haven’t stepped down in past centuries, given the possibility for divided alle-giances and even schism. But the Vatican insists that while the situation created by Benedict’s retirement is certainly unique, no major conflicts will arise.

“According to the evolution of Cath-olic doctrine and mentality, there is only one pope. Clearly it’s a new situa-tion, but I don’t think there will be prob-lems,” Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said in an interview.

Critics aren’t so sure. Some Vatican-based cardinals have privately grumbled that it will make it more di"cult for the next pope with Benedict still around.

Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, Bene-dict’s one-time colleague-turned-critic, went further: “With Benedict XVI, there is a risk of a shadow pope who has abdi-cated but can still indirectly exert influ-ence,” he told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine last week.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Fed-erico Lombardi, said Tuesday that Bene-dict himself decided on his name and

wardrobe in consultation with others, settling on “Your Holiness Benedict XVI” and either “emeritus pope” or “emeritus Roman ponti!.”

Lombardi said he didn’t know why Benedict had decided to drop his other main title: bishop of Rome.

In the two weeks since Benedict’s res-ignation announcement, Vatican offi-cials had suggested that Benedict would likely resume wearing the traditional black garb of a cleric and would use the title “emeritus bishop of Rome” to avoid creating confusion with the future pope.

Adding to the concern is that Bene-dict’s trusted secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, will be serving both ponti!s — living with Benedict at the monastery being converted for him inside Vatican grounds while keeping his day job as prefect of the new pope’s household.

Asked about the potential for con-flict, Lombardi was defensive, saying the decisions had been clearly reasoned and were likely chosen for the sake of sim-plicity.

“I believe it was well thought out,” he said.

Benedict himself has made clear he is retiring to a lifetime of prayer and med-itation “hidden from the world.” How-ever, he still will be very present in the tiny Vatican city-state, where his new home is right next door to the Vati-can Radio transmission tower and has a lovely view of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Benedict to be called ‘Emeritus Pope’

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Italian Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani speaks at a press conference in Rome on election day.

According to the evolution of Catholic doctrine and mentality, there is only one pope.

GIOVANNI MARIA VIANEditor of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore

Romano

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“I don’t have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur.” BRADLEY COOPER AS EDDIE MORRA IN LIMITLESS

BY JEFF STEINSTAFF WRITER

A recent false report of attempted rape should not stoke fears about Cor-nell’s new policy for handling sexual assault accusations, several high-rank-ing administrators have said in defense of their controversial decision to lower the burden of proof in these proceed-ings.

In Spring 2012, over the dire warnings and desperate pleas of many law profes-sors and local attorneys, the university pushed through a series of changes to its sexual assault policy.

The new system, which is motivated in part by a contested directive from the U.S. Department of Education but also by a desire to reduce the number of campus rape cases, makes it far easier for students to be found guilty of sexual assault.

But does the new policy make it too easy for innocent Cornell students to be wrongly found guilty? That is the objec-tion vociferously raised by opponents of the change, who say that false reports of sexual assault — including one high-profile announcement this November by Cornell police — highlight the perils of stripping the accused of certain tradi-tional safeguards.

Under the new sexual assault sys-tem, accused students’ attorneys can-not cross-examine the accusing party, defendants must only be found guilty on a “preponderance” — or 51 percent — of the evidence to face punishment, and students can no longer appeal deci-sions to a hearing board that includes students. The previous, higher standard for these cases was “clear and convinc-ing evidence.”

“False reports … serve as a reminder of the dangers of Cornell’s policy, and of the eternal need for procedural protec-tions, no matter how well-intentioned the authorities are,” Prof. Kevin Cler-mont said. “The university should pro-vide protection to the accused as a mat-ter of fairness.”

Several key defenders of the change, however, say the allegedly false sex-ual assault report does not weaken the rationale behind the policy change. Going further, they say that the ratio-

nale for the new policy is affirmed, even strengthened, by Cornell police’s determination in November that a sexual assault claim was invented.

“I thought the fact that this incident was investi-gated carefully and professionally, that we figured out what the story was, was a terrific example of the system work-ing,” President David Skorton said in an interview with The Sun. “That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t upsetting … But, right now, I’m convinced the way we’re doing it is the right way.”

On Sept. 27, police said in a mass email alert that a female student barely escaped after a man dragged her into the woods and tried to rape her. The attempted rape was reported to have occurred on the Trolley Bridge near the Engineering Quad, on a Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

Two months later, police announced that they had “irrefutable evidence” — supported by video footage — that the attempted rape report was invented. Although she has not faced charges for what is considered a criminal o!ense, the student who filed the report is no longer enrolled at the university, according to Police Chief Kathy Zoner.

Citing student confidentiality, Zoner declined to comment on several other aspects of the case, including whether or not the student has since admitted to fabricating the report, whether or not she was expelled by Cornell and whether she named an individual as her attacker.

Like Skorton, Cornell Judicial Admin-istrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. said the apparently false sexual assault report is

evidence that Cornell police are careful about not charging innocent students.

“I think the false sexual report dem-onstrates that the Cornell police did their job: they worked hard to deter-mine if there was evidence to support a case of sexual assault, and they worked hard to determine if there was evidence of a false report,” Grant said, noting that she cannot comment at length about the case due to student confidentiality laws. “I think people who are worried there’d be more false complaints should take stock in the fact that police really worked hard and did not charge some-one when the evidence did not support the allegations.”

Clermont sees it differently. Like other legal experts, he blasted the Uni-versity for vesting too much adjudica-tory power in the hands of those inves-tigating the accusations.

“The university’s attitude is, ‘Trust us.’ A good part of the American legal system has grown up because centuries of experience have shown that trust-ing authority does not provide su"cient protection,” Clermont said. “For the accused, a lot is at stake.”

Clermont and other law professors, including Prof. Cynthia Bowman, law, have focused their complaints on Cor-nell’s new policy. But the dispute may stem from a more fundamental diver-gence in perspectives. Whereas Cler-mont and other critics of the change cite statistics that recognize the potential for false rape accusations, proponents of the lower burden of proof typically — but not universally — downplay the prevalence of false rape reports.

This world-view can be found on websites like that of the Cornell Wom-en’s Resource Center, which vocally supported the new policy, saying it would create a fairer process and better protect students who have been sexually assaulted.

Citing national studies, the WRC website says that one in four women on college campuses are victims of rape or attempted rape.

It also says that “women do not lie about experiencing sexual harassment.”

Estimates about the prevalence of false sexual assault reports vary.

Sexual assault rules defended

BY LAURA ANTHONYSTAFF WRITER

The idea came to him as he was lying on a beach in Hawaii, think-ing about Bradley Cooper.

The summer before his fresh-man year at The College of New Jersey, sophomore Ryan Dolan watched the movie “Limitless” on his flight down to Hawaii for vacation, and was inspired to create a real-life version of the pill that grants Bradley Cooper’s character superhuman power and focus.

Dolan is the chief executive o"cer of Naderol, a company that produces an all-natural, focus-enhancing dietary supplement. Naderol is a 2.5-ounce, grape-flavored beverage that provides cognitive energy and memory enhancement, and according to Dolan, the name intends to evoke the image of a natural Adderall. The first shipment of products will be sent out this week.

“There are people who are looking for an edge but don’t want to do it illegally,” said Wharton sophomore Luke Roskowinski, who joined the company as chief financial o"cer in August 2012. He said that Naderol is a safe, legal alternative to abusing prescrip-tion drugs like Adderall, a trend that he has noticed on Penn’s campus and across the country.

A study published in the med-ical journal “Addiction” found that 6.9 percent of college stu-dents had ever used a prescrip-tion stimulant for non-medi-cal purposes, and the rates of use within the past year were as high as 25 percent of the student body at some of the colleges studied.

Roskowinski said that Nade-rol is a response to such statistics. “There’s no need to abuse pre-scription drugs if you can achieve the same e!ect with something that’s not harmful to you and that’s not drug abuse,” he said.

Timothy West, a sophomore at Monmouth University and the

company’s chief oper-ating offi-ce r, sa i d that Nade-ro l p ro -vides cog-nitive rather than phys-

ical energy, improving memory and increasing synapse connec-tions in the brain. Those e!ects can help students study produc-tively without incurring any of the health or legal risks involved with taking prescription drugs, he said.

The e!ects of drinking a bot-tle of Naderol set in after about 15 minutes and typically last five to six hours, according to West.

Dolan said that when he has used Naderol when studying, “it’s a very calming rise in energy.”

Because Naderol is classified as a dietary supplement, it can-not be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Instead, the agency sets out a set out of guide-lines of what can and can’t be put into a supplement. Dolan says they have met all of the necessary standards for FDA compliance.

Roskowinski said that natural ingredients are intended to stim-ulate major neurotransmitters — dopamine, acetylcholine and nor-epinephrine — in order to increase brain function, while simultane-ously activating GABA, a neuro-inhibitor that calms down brain function.

However, professor of neu-rology Anjan Chatterjee, who is not a"liated with the company, said that combining these two processes wouldn’t necessarily have the claimed e!ect of acti-vating but not over-stimulating the brain. “It would be like saying you should give someone Adderall and give them Valium at the same time,” he said, because Adder-all a!ects epinephrine levels and Valium works with GABA, two of the main targets of Naderol that Roskowinski cited.

Student to sell ‘natural’ Adderall

I think the false sexual report demonstrates that the Cornell police did their job.

MARY BETH GRANTJudicial administrator, Cornell

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Wharton sophomore Luke Roskowinski is CFO of Naderol, a company that sells a natural dietary supplement that is meant to boost mental focus.

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Woods and McIlroy play own match-play finalAfter being eliminated in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world met at the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla., to face o! in a 36-hole match play final by themselves. According to McIlroy, Woods won the first 18 holes, while the Northern Irishman prevailed in the second 18.

Bulldogs open season

formance on the first day, even with-out having had the chance to prepare.

On Sunday, regatta o"cials short-ened the first leg of the racecourse when a strong breeze and heavy cur-rent from the rainfall made upwind sailing di"cult. Yale won four races to finish the first round-robin with a 8-1 record. Without enough time to complete another full round-robin, the competition was narrowed down to a final round of four teams: Yale, Georgetown, Stanford and the Col-lege of Charleston. Regatta o"cials planned for each of these teams to be able to race their three opponents twice more.

In the first round, Yale lost to Stan-ford but beat out Charleston and then looked to avenge their loss against the Hoyas the day before. With Segerb-lom and May in the lead, the remain-ing Yale boats fought to stay out of last place and secure their team the

victory. Coleman and Gaulmand were able to take third place and seal the win. The teams began the sec-ond round of races, but the wind died out before the last race could be com-pleted. The regatta was then called to an end, and only the first round between the final four teams was counted in the o"cial score.

Yale and Georgetown both finished with 10-2 records and had split their two races, so a further tiebreaker was needed to decide the winner. Because Georgetown won the teams’ first race with a lower and better score, it won the head to head point total 19–23 and was declared the winner of the Bob Bavier Team Race.

Despite the narrow defeat, head coach Zachary Leonard was pleased with the team’s performance.

“It was very much a team e!ort. All six of the sailors did a great job. It was pretty much a warm up for us,” Leon-ard said, adding that his team has the depth and talent to maintain a bal-

anced attack all year. “We have a lot of kids who are quite good at their roles. We’ll just keep trying to get better. We have a lot of kids who can contribute.”

Segerblom said that the team’s goal is to qualify for both the team and fleet racing national championships and to be in a position to win both competitions in May.

The team will begin sailing inten-sively on its spring break trip to Flor-ida, but until then, Segerblom said, the team’s anxiousness to get back on the water will work to its advantage.

“This first regatta in Charles-ton bodes well for what we can do this season,” he said. “Once we get to actually start practicing, who knows what can happen?”

The coed sailing team travels to a regatta on the Charles River in Cam-bridge, Mass. this weekend.

Contact JOSH MANDELL at [email protected] .

The allure of Lee

enough talent to win the Ivy League as early as next year. But in order to do so, it would be very helpful to have the help of a sixth man: the crowd.

Here are ten reasons that for the end of this season and next season (and beyond) you should make it a habit to head over to Lee Amphitheater for games on win-ter weekends.

1) The Ivy League has the best basketball schedule of any con-ference in the country. Ivy games are played on Friday and Satur-day evenings, back–to–back. This means the team is easy to follow, and that you will be able to see all their home games, should you wish to – you don’t have an exam on Saturday or Sunday morning.

2) Every game matters. The Ivy League season is really just a 14-game round robin tourna-ment, where each team plays every other team twice. There is no post-season conference tour-nament, and only the first place team automatically qualifies for the NCAA tournament.

2) The vast majority of Ivy League games tip-off at 7 pm. This is perfect timing. Come over together with your friends after an early dinner and before you go out for the night.

3) This is very good basket-ball. Last year’s team included two players who went on to play basketball professionally—Reg-gie Willhite in the NBA D-League and Greg Mangano in Turkey.

4) No wasted time. The John J. Lee Amphitheater is in Payne-Whitney, literally a 30-sec-ond walk from Stiles and Morse. The action at basketball games is nearly non-stop. Whereas for football games, you need to devote half a day to attend, bas-

ketball games require little more than the two hours that the game lasts.

5) The Lee Amphitheater is an amazing place to watch bas-ketball. And you don’t have to take my word for it. In November 2011, the Lee Amphitheater was featured in ESPN The Magazine as one of the top five places in the country to watch a college bas-ketball game.

6) You might very well see a spectacular play. This past week-end’s game vs. Harvard featured the No. 3 play on SportsCenter’s Top 10 the following day.

7) The team right now is young and on the rise. It features just three seniors and three juniors and several of the team’s biggest contributors are sophomores or freshmen. The team’s improve-ment this year is the start of something, not the end of it.

8) You will likely see Yale win. The team is 17-5 in its 22 home games over the past two seasons. With a more fervent home sup-port, perhaps that record could even be improved.

9) Attending is plain fun. If you don’t like basketball, I chal-lenge you to go to a game with a friend of yours who does. You might find yourself venturing back and back again.

10) Support your friends on the team. It is true that our ath-letic teams represent Yale in a very visible way. It is important and fun to cheer for them and for our University.

The Bulldogs next play at

home on March 8 and 9 against Penn and Princeton. If you’d like to kick your spring break o! right, I’ll see you that Friday night at the Lee Amphitheater.

Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at [email protected] .

Pole vaulters shine for Elis

“Pole-vaulting is a very technical event,” Chandler said. “There’s a lot of discrete elements you can kind of put together in order to be an e"cient, good vaulter … You really kind of need a lot of assistance among your teammates.”

The vaulters from both the men’s and women’s team work out together in practice. Urciuoli said collaboration among the athletes is important for their success despite the ultimate individual nature of the sports.

Although Urciuoli and Chandler did not have the advantage of having older vaulters as mentors during their first years here, they worked together closely after Chandler returned from injury. Now, the two juniors continue to col-laborate on how to improve their train-ing in terms of workouts on the track and while vaulting. But the two upperclass-

men also play a role in supporting the younger members of the squad.

“I’m probably closest with Paul on the team,” Sullivan said. “[The upperclass-men are] very good at helping me out.”

While team members have di!erent individual goals for the rest of the season — Urciuoli wants to earn a spot on the podium at the outdoor Heps, Chandler will look to qualify for an NCAA regional meet and Sullivan will try to earn at spot at the outdoor Intercollegiate Associ-ation of Amateur Athletes of America competition — there is no doubt that the increased size of the squad and the nature of the team has led to its success.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue their seasons next weekend at the ECAC champion-ships at Boston University.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

ANDREW GOBLE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Paul Chandler ’14 and Brendan Sullivan ’16 earned 5.5 points for the Elis at Ivy Heps.

Feld ’13 wins Ivy title in floorteam captain Stephanie Goldstein ’13 said. “But it really speaks to our potential that we still broke 191.0 even having to count so many falls, particularly on beam.”

Head coach Barbara Tonry said the team has not been able to turn in a complete per-formance on the bars, beam, vault and floor this season. Working to translate technical results in practice to competitive success remains one of the Bulldogs’ primary di"-culties, Camila Opperman ’16 added.

Sophomore standouts Li and Morgan Traina ’15 led the team in the all-around competition. Traina finished with 38.300 points to finish fifth, two places behind Li.

“They’re superstars.” said Goldstein. “[Li and Traina] consistently deliver great routines, due in large part to the work they always put in during practice. They’re both extremely dedicated and set a great exam-ple for the team to follow.”

In addition to the sophomore duo’s suc-cess in the all-around competition, Lind-say Andsager ’13 tied for second on the bars with a score of 9.800.

Yale also placed four gymnasts in the top seven of the all-around competition. Feld finished sixth with a score of 38.150, while Goldstein posted a 37.625 en route to a sev-enth place finish. Feld, Andsager and Gold-stein, who tied for seventh in the floor exer-cises, all competed for the last time at home in New Haven.

Goldstein said that fan support was exceptional at the Classic, particularly a group of four Berkeley seniors bearing the body-painted letters Y-A-L-E.

“[Gymnastics] is a performance sport, so having the crowd behind you really helps,” Opperman said. “The Classic was the first time I really felt the energy from the fans this year.”

The Bulldogs will get another shot at the Bears when both teams compete at the New Hampshire Invitational, in Durham, N.H.

“We want to give Brown a hard time,” coach Tonry said. “The di"culty is trying to get the kids, after all they put into Sat-urday, to try and get them motivated about what we have to do on our next series of goals. We have to take it week by week.”

The New Hampshire Invitational will take place this Saturday at the University of New Hampshire.

Contact NIKOLAS LASKARIS at [email protected] .

PHILIPP ARNDT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Elis slipped to 191.100 points from their season-high performance of 191.325 last week.

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The second round of this weekend’s round-robin at the Bob Bavier Team Race in Charleston, S.C. was canceled due to a storm.

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THE SENIOR GYMNAST WON THE IVY CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE FLOOR EXERCISE WITH A SCORE OF 9.825 AT THE IVY CLASSIC AT YALE THIS SATURDAY. Feld starred in the final home meet of her career, though the Elis finished in fourth place overall.

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“This first regatta in Charleston bodes well for what we can do this season.”

CHRIS SEGERBLOM ’14CAPTAIN, COED SWIMMING

JENNIFER ONG ’13ELI NOMINATED FOR CLASS AWARDThe softball team’s All-Ivy second baseman was named a candidate for the 2013 Senior CLASS Award, which is given annually to one senior in 10 NCAA sports who demonstrates excel-lence in four areas: community, class-room, character and competition.

MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATIONMSA HOSTS NFL PLAYERS AT YALEThe Muslim Students Association held an event in Battell Chapel on Tuesday evening entitled Faith and Football: A Conversation with NFL Players Hamza & Husain Abdullah. The brothers inter-rupted their careers last year to make a pilgrimage to Mecca with their parents.

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For the past three years, I have announced Yale men’s basketball games for WYBC stu-dent radio. While there have been a handful of times over the past seasons when the John J. Lee Amphitheater has been packed with students, there have been far more sparsely populated home games.

So far this season, the average home atten-dance for the five home Ivy League games has been reported at a generous 1526. The Lee Amphitheater holds 2532. Although that indi-cates that games have been about three-fifths populated, the large swaths of open, wooden seats stand out loudly.

In contrast, I know what it is like to take in a sell-out game at Lee Amphitheater. Two con-tests in particular come to mind: last year’s match-up vs. Harvard and hosting Florida this past winter break. When Harvard visited last winter, the atmosphere was incredible, as anyone who was at the game would tell you. Unfortunately, the result was just the opposite: a 30-point loss. But if you were at that game, don’t let it fool you: last year’s team was 11–1 at home.

This Jan. 6, while many of us were away on winter break, the mighty Florida Gators, then-ranked No. 9 in the country, came to town. And what fun it was to be at a game against one of the best teams in the country. Of course, Lee Amphitheater was sold out for that one, but it was mostly orange and blue in the stands.

Sell-outs are the exception, not the norm. The regular lack of attendance is a shame, both for the students and the players.

Of course, there has been a debate at Yale over recruiting caps and how it effects our teams. I believe that our basketball team has

BY JOSH MANDELLCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Back on the water for the first time this year, the No. 2 coed sailing team overcame canceled flights and can-celed races to put in a strong show-ing at the Bob Bavier Team Race in Charleston, S.C.

The Bulldogs finished second out of 10 teams in the round-robin style regatta. Georgetown, the nation’s top ranked fleet, won the regatta through a tie-breaking procedure after Yale and Georgetown both fin-

ished with identical 10–2 records.“We went into this weekend not

having practiced on the water since November,” crew Heather May ’13 said. “That put us behind some of the teams that had been practicing for a couple weeks. I think we did a really good job of not stressing out about that stu!.”

Six Yale sailors made the trip down to Charleston with head coach Zachary Leonard ’89. May and newly elected captain Chris Segerb-lom ’14 raced together, as did skip-per Cameron Cullman ’13 and crew

Kate Gaumond ’15. Skipper Gra-ham Landy ’14 was paired with crew Eugenia Custo Greig ’15.

The team did not arrive in Charleston until 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, after inclement weather forced the team’s Friday night flight from Charlotte to Charleston to turn back. All six team members and their coach packed into a rental car and drove the 200 miles to their hotel in Charleston. The next morning at 9:00 a.m., less than seven hours after arriving, the sailors reported to their boats on the Cooper River,

but more bad weather kept the races from beginning until 2:30 p.m. Sat-urday afternoon. The Elis raced only five of their nine races scheduled for that day and won four, their only loss coming to Georgetown after a slow start.

“It’s kind of unfortunate that we’re at the mercy of mother nature, but that’s the way it is in this sport,” May said.

Segerblom added that the Bull-dogs were satisfied with their per-

Elis weather storms, finish second

ZEENAT MANSOOR/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The No. 2 coed sailing team competed for the first time since its second-place finish at the ICSA Match Racing National Championships on Nov. 18.

BY NIKOLAS LASKARISCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After posting its best team per-formance to date at the Bulldog Invi-tational two weekends ago, the Yale Gymnastics team looked to build on its momentum at the Ivy Classic at home this Saturday. Despite a disappointing overall team result, several individual gymnasts turned in impressive per-formances, including an individual Ivy

championship.

The Bulldogs’ overall score of 191.100 left them in last place among the field of four, just o! the pace of Penn, which finished with a score of 191.600. Brown won the meet with a score of 193.925 and Cornell finished second with 193.025 points.

Tara Feld ’13 shone for the Elis, scor-

ing a 9.825 in the floor event to secure the individual Ivy championship in that event. For the third meet in a row, Joyce Li ’15 turned in the Bulldogs’ best individual all-around result, finish-ing third with a score of 38.700, 0.150 points behind winner Michelle Shnay-der of Brown.

“Our overall finish was pretty disap-pointing and frustrating for the team,”

Bulldogs fall short at Ivy ClassicBY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

At the 2011 Indoor Heptagonal Track and Field Championships two years ago, the Elis did not score a single point in either the men’s or women’s pole vault. A single freshman, Emily Urciuoli ’14, was the only competitor in the event for the Bulldogs — the men’s squad did not send a pole-vaulter to compete at the Ivy championships. Both Yale squads strug-gled to last-place finishes overall.

The team results at the 2013 Heps on Saturday and Sunday do not show much overall improvement from the Bulldogs. The men finished last, while the women placed seventh out of eight teams. But in a season that has featured few prom-ising moments from the Elis, the pole-vaulters, an oft-forgotten category of track athletes, have provided glimmers of hope.

Vaulters Paul Chandler ’14 and Bren-dan Sullivan ’16 accounted for more than a third of the men’s team’s 15.5 points, with 5.5 between them this past week-end. While Urciuoli did not score for the women’s team, she won the pole vault

at a number of other meets this season, including the Giegengack Invitational and the Yale-Columbia-Dartmouth tri-meet.

“Track and field is definitely an indi-vidual sport. At the end of the day, it’s you who’s scoring the points,” Urciuoli said. “But at the same time it’s also a very mental sport, so I think having other people around you helps you relax.”

Urciuoli did not have the benefit of having another pole-vaulter to help her with the mental aspect of the sport her freshman year. While she and Chandler entered school the same year, Chandler redshirted his first year due to injury. Urciuoli recalled feeling nervous and unconfident during freshman year.

Furthermore, while the Bulldog track and field athletes in other disciplines — distance, sprinting and throwing — have assistant coaches to train them, Yale does not have a jumping coach on sta!. The director of the track and field pro-gram, David Shoehalter, works with the vaulters for an hour before each practice. Still, the small group of vaulters, includ-ing Chandler, Sullivan, Urciuoli, Cathe-rine Shih ’15 and Renee Vogel ’16, rely on one another for improvement.

PHILIPP ARNDT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tara Feld ’13 scored a 9.825 in the floor event, and Joyce Li ’15 finished third in the individual all-around with a score of 38.700.

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