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Solidarity. In response to recent reports that the New York Police Department kept track of Muslim students at Yale, a group of students has launched a “Call the NYPD” photo campaign on Facebook. The campaign’s Facebook page features photos of Yalies holding handwritten “I am … ” signs in various campus locations. The signs range from “I am a Muslim” and “I am a woman” to “I’m sexy and I know it” and “I’m secretly a unicorn.”

Diversity. At a Yale Law School town hall meeting on faculty diversity, the school’s faculty hiring committee announced that it o!ered tenure to a Hispanic professor. The school has never had a tenured Latino faculty member. Six anonymous sources who attended the meeting, which was closed to the press, said the professor o!ered tenure was Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00. Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said an o!er was made to a Latina professor, but she declined to confirm or deny Rodriguez’s name.

Not number one? Yale Law School is the top law school in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report, but when it comes to sending alumni to the nation’s top 250 law firms, the Law School fell below its peers, according to a new ranking by the National Law Journal. Yale landed at 15th on the list. Penn topped the list, followed by Northwestern, Columbia, Harvard and Stanford.

Arepas on High. A new sign emerged in front of the 25 High St. location that once housed ¡Ay! Salsa. Ernesto Garcia, a onetime chef at the Latin restaurant that closed in December, confirmed the new restaurant will open after break.

The Right Track. Lady Gaga is launching her Born This Way Foundation today at Harvard. The launch comes with much fanfare — there will be a lecture on cyberbullying and a youth advocacy boot camp focused on the theme of bravery. A Harvard o"cial declined to say whether the Lady will perform.

Another kind of star. Two men set up telescopes on Broadway outside Gourmet Heaven Tuesday night to let passersby sneak a glimpse of Jupiter or the moon.

Change is … now a video. The Yale College Democrats launched a video Tuesday featuring images of students holding signs reading “Change is …” coupled with a clip of President Barack Obama speaking and a song by Arcade Fire.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1968 Several thousand anti-war demonstrators prepare to gather on the New Haven Green and march a loop along Temple, George, Crown, Chapel and College Streets.

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The 75-minute long leadership presenta-tions, held three times in the same number of days, primarily outlined the hazing and sexual misconduct rules written in the Undergradu-ate Regulations.

The sessions were mandatory for regis-tered clubs because administrators wanted to ensure that all o"cial undergraduate orga-nizations clearly received this information, Dean of Student A!airs Marichal Gentry told the News earlier this month.

“We wanted to make sure students had the proper information about hazing and mis-conduct,” he said, “and we wanted to make sure students had a good understanding of the policies.”

When she first notified students of the training sessions last December, Yale College Dean Mary Miller wrote in an email that reg-

istered groups and varsity teams needed to send representatives in order to remain “in good standing” with the Dean’s O"ce. Clubs who did not participate would lose their sta-tus as o"cial registered organizations if they did not attend the training, Assistant Dean of Student A!airs Melanie Boyd ’90 told the News before the training sessions occurred.

Still, John Meeske, associate dean for stu-dent organizations and physical resources, said that the objective of the training sessions was to communicate information about these matters to students, rather than be “punitive.”

Meeske said the administration plans to provide some framework through which stu-dents can reregister, but a month after the event the administration remains uncer-

BY JAMES LUSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven Police Depart-ment Chief Dean Esserman is expected to finalize his new leadership team within the next two weeks.

Richard Epstein, the chair-man of the city’s Board of Police Commissioners, said Tuesday he believes Esserman will nominate a new slate of assistant chiefs in the “next week or 10 days.” The new assistant chiefs will replace the three Esserman asked to step aside late last month so that he could pick his own leader-ship team. Epstein said he did not know, however, which o"-cers were in the running for the positions, and Esserman has not indicated whether he will make internal or external appoint-ments.

Because of the frequent turn-over in the department’s sec-ond highest rank — the Elm City will have seen 11 assis-

tant chiefs in just three years when the appointments are made — city and police offi-cials said the NHPD may o!er specific contractual accommo-dations to ease potential can-didates’ job security and pen-sion concerns. All o"cers must serve a minimum of 20 years to retire with a regular police pen-sion, and assistant chiefs are not protected by the NHPD’s union contract against firings.

“I’m confident that no [job security] concerns will prevent the department from getting the most qualified people to fill the assistant chief vacancies,” said the city’s Chief Adminis-trative O"cer Robert Smuts ’01, whose o"ce oversees the police department.

Epstein said he expects the chief to select “very high-qual-ity” candidates for the post. Once Esserman nominates his team, the city will see if there are

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Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92, chair of the History of Art Depart-ment and Vincent J. Scully Profes-sor of the History of Art, will leave Yale after this semester to begin teaching at Stanford in the fall.

Nemerov said he decided to accept a position on Stanford’s fac-ulty within the past few days, after initially receiving the job o!er in January. His spring survey course, “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present,” was Yale’s most popular class this term, with the highest number of students registered during shop-ping period.

“I’m very sad that I won’t be teaching here anymore,” Nemerov said in a Tuesday interview. “I have great feelings about Yale and this was a very di"cult decision, but I’m happy to begin the next phase of my career at Stanford.”

Nemerov graduated from Yale with a master’s degree and doctor-ate in the history of art, and taught at Stanford before returning to Yale as an instructor in 2001.

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BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTERS

Several residential colleges are experimenting with web-based hous-ing information systems that may soon spread to the rest of campus.

Saybrook College has developed a new website for the upcoming housing draw that will show which rooms remain available as the draw progresses, while an interactive “platform” used by Cal-houn, Berkeley, Davenport and Branford Colleges has similar features combined with a forum where students can dis-cuss living arrangements. John Meeske,

associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, said adminis-trators will closely monitor two web-based models this spring to determine whether they enhance the process and merit expansion to all of the colleges.

“We’re interested in seeing which system is the best system to continue,” Meeske said. “Should we have no sys-tems, or move towards one or another in the future?”

Saybrook Dean Paul McKinley, whose o"ce created Saybrook’s new site, said students will be able to see how many applications for a particular type of room have been submitted, find out lot-

tery results and choose their bedrooms within suites. The Saybrook housing website also provides detailed informa-tion about bathrooms, adjoining suites and whether or not a given room has a bedroom lock, he added.

But McKinley said the housing com-mittee was careful to keep o#ine some parts of the process, such as the lotteries and the room draws, “both for the sake of transparency and because these are important tribal events in the college.”

Calhoun and Berkeley have been using an interactive platform for the

Housing draws enter digital age

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With the advent of electronic housing systems in five of the residential colleges, traditional housing draws may soon see changes.

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Professor Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92 will leave Yale after this term.

Last month, the Yale College Dean’s o"ce required all registered student organizations to send representatives to its first-ever student leadership training sessions. But while the administra-

tion sorts through data of who attended and for what group, logistical confusion has raised questions for students about the benefits of reg-istering at all. MADELINE MCMAHON and DAN STEIN report.

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The History Department is changing, as the News reported on Monday

(“History plans ‘pathways,’ ” Feb. 27). In order to halt a pre-cipitous slide in the number of history majors (there were 86 fewer in the class of 2011 than in the class of 2002) the major will add freshman seminars and make other seminars more available to underclassmen. It’s not hard to imagine that such changes, if well implemented, could steer at least some stu-dents toward a major they might not otherwise have chosen.

But several other changes — including the addition of a number of optional tracks in which history majors can spe-cialize and the creation of a broad survey course on histori-cal methodology — constitute substantive and oddly contra-dictory changes to the major.

The precise number of spe-cialized pathways students could concentrate in has yet to be decided, though the News listed six proposals, including the history of gender and sex-uality, environmental history, and the history of war and vio-lence. It also mentioned that “additional pathways” are being worked on, suggesting that the final number of approved areas of concentration may, in fact, be higher.

Ideally, such paths are intended to give students an o!cial form of recognition for particular interests and e"orts that previously were grouped with vastly di"erent ones under that single and broad term his-tory. They might encourage students to pursue thematically coherent programs of study. Students who pursue a path will come away from it with a set of skills and accomplishments that can be much more easily defined, whether in a job inter-view or at a cocktail party.

The survey course will do precisely the opposite. Instead of encouraging students to self-segregate, it will push them together. Instead of teaching a set of salient facts about a set of specific issues, it will, at least in theory, attempt to teach stu-dents about historical and his-toriographical methods. They will come out of it not with a set of answers to specific questions, but a set of questions whose

answers are often unclear and con-tested.

The fact that neither the path-ways nor the survey will be required parts of the major, at least for now, will give the depart-ment time

to examine how both changes work in practice. It may even be that both changes will, over time, become integral parts of what is still one of Yale’s larg-est majors. Nonetheless, the changes do make clear inher-ent tensions between the con-tradictory impulses towards increased academic special-ization on the one hand and towards a broader, shared focus on common questions on the other.

I believe in the freedom to specifically tailor one’s program of study in ways that account for divergent interests and pas-sions. Nonetheless, the increas-ing trend towards specializa-tion — not just in history, but in most of the humanities and social sciences — does not nec-essarily bring us more freedom. Choosing a particular path can be just as limiting as the inabil-ity to do so. Even though paths are optional, once students start listing o!cial-sounding tracks on their résumés, the pressure to choose one could be hard to resist.

On the other hand, having students study the same thing can contribute, perhaps coun-terintuitively, to intellectual diversity. Studying common programs grounded in broad questions allows students to develop the common vocabu-lary necessary to engage with each other and thus make for a true diversity of knowledge and opinion. While students in dif-ferent specialized paths might not have that much to say to each other, students in the sur-vey course could have a lot to say and argue about. This is especially true if the course is grounded in inquiry for its own sake, rather than for the sake of a narrow set of answers.

When we choose our major, we already pare down not just the classes we take but the stu-dents we interact with. This is the necessary price of learning something well. But given the limits already imposed by any major, let’s not start subdivid-ing our majors further.

HARRY LARSON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .

No need to divide history

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T S C H A R L E S B A I L Y N , D E B O R A H D AV I S A N D P E R I C L E S L E W I S

Rethinking liberal arts educationIn 2009, two of us (Charles

Bailyn and Deborah Davis) visited Singapore with a Yale

delegation to join a conversation about creating a liberal arts edu-cation that would be unlike what exists at Yale or elsewhere. After that initial trip, three Yale fac-ulty committees met biweekly to imagine what such a curriculum would include. There were many lively debates, and not a lit-tle disagreement, over content, sequencing and format of the curriculum. During 2010, the potential college was the subject of much discussion at two town hall faculty meetings and in numerous consultative sessions with Yale faculty members.

In March 2011, Yale and the National University of Singa-pore agreed to open Yale-NUS College, a new liberal arts col-lege in Singapore, in August 2013. Since then, the three of us, with 15 faculty colleagues from a wide range of disciplines at Yale and NUS, have refined the broad outlines of a curriculum for the college and begun the search for the initial faculty. We have met frequently and consulted widely. Now that our e"orts are about to bear fruit, we are eager to share with the Yale community some of our excitement about this new college.

Yale-NUS College aims to provide a global and diverse education in the liberal arts tra-dition — one that has been re-conceptualized for the 21st cen-tury. From the beginning, no one wanted to export a copy of the Yale curriculum to Singapore, nor merely give a brand name to just one more international ven-ture. Nor did Yale plan to estab-lish a branch campus. Rather, the challenge and the opportunity was to create something entirely new, a true collaboration.

An initial curriculum com-mittee at Yale, chaired by Haun Saussy, professor of comparative literature, and Anthony Kro-nman, former dean of the Yale Law School, and a similar com-mittee at NUS, worked during 2009-’10 and bequeathed to us some key principles.

All or most courses will be taught in small, discussion-based seminars designed to encourage creativity and critical thought.

All students will share a sub-stantial curricular experience in the first two years, spanning the major divisions of the human-ities, sciences and social sci-ences.

Students will have early expo-sure to research.

The curriculum will encour-age exploration across tradi-tional disciplinary boundaries

and will take advantage of the opportunities a"orded by its location in Southeast Asia.

The curriculum will be both broad and deep.

The college will aim to create a robust intellectual community around residential life.

There may be some debate about the desirability of a com-mon curriculum in which stu-dents take many of the same courses together in the early years, but we believe that for a small and new institution with a particularly diverse group of students and faculty, such an approach will provide a cru-cial sense of shared intellectual endeavor.

We asked ourselves: “What does the successful person in the 21st century need to learn?” Not just what must she know — the “furniture of the mind,” in the language of Yale’s curricu-lum report of 1828 — but also what habits of mind and modes of analysis must she develop — the “discipline of the mind” that was equally emphasized by the 1828 report.

We explicitly questioned existing core curricula, mostly designed half a century ago or more. We want a curricu-lum that, while preserving the benefits of traditional liberal arts education, exposes all stu-dents to the experiences of peo-ples outside Europe and North America and draws on much of the scholarship of the past half-century — scholarship that has paid attention to such issues as gender and sexuality, imperial-ism and post-colonialism and sustainability and the environ-ment.

We are committed to incor-porating the full range of dis-ciplines in the arts and sci-ences, including those that are less text-based than the tradi-tional core curricula. Finally, the new college will require fac-ulty to rethink their pedagogi-cal assumptions and to consider such innovations as integrated and interactive approaches to science; writing across the cur-riculum; computation, com-puter simulations and interpre-tation of large data sets; and the honing of quantitative, commu-nication and other skills.

In late August, we invited 40 experienced professors from liberal arts colleges around the country to Yale to engage with our initial ideas about the cur-riculum as well as other aspects of the new college. Their excite-ment at the potential for innova-tion was palpable. They o"ered new insights, which were incor-porated into our plans, and some may even join the Yale-NUS

faculty. We then followed up in October with a meeting of 50 interested members of Yale’s own faculty who o"ered many valuable recommendations and suggestions for improvement. Since December, we have held four additional workshops for potential faculty at the new col-lege, where we refined our sense of the challenges and potential in the new curriculum even fur-ther.

As a result of these conver-sations, we made some major changes, and the plans con-tinue to evolve. The curricu-lum under consideration for the college is now distinctive and wide-ranging and has proved extremely attractive to potential faculty and students. Already, students from around Asia and across the world have expressed great interest in Yale-NUS Col-lege. Thousands have come to our information events, and we expect a healthy group of appli-cations for the College.

At Yale-NUS College, all stu-dents will take courses together in their first two years on a range of subjects across the humani-ties, the arts, the social sciences and the natural and computa-tional sciences. These courses will incorporate a variety of modes of analysis: visual and aural, written and oral, interpre-tive and argumentative, quanti-tative and qualitative, inductive and deductive, data-driven and model-driven. Assignments will be coordinated across the cur-riculum so that students have a manageable schedule and prog-ress in fundamental skills such as writing, speaking and reason-ing over the course of their first two years. An increasing frac-tion of the curriculum will be open each semester for students to explore a diversity of elec-tives and pre-requisites for the majors, which will be interdis-ciplinary in nature and will each culminate in a year-long cap-stone project. All students will spend one semester or summer, or even a year, working or study-ing outside Singapore.

While academic conferences reflecting on educational issues and reforms are common, the set of discussions led by Yale and NUS since 2009 has been an unusually sustained and collab-orative international conversa-tion about the liberal arts. The fact that we have a concrete goal before our eyes gives the discus-sions extra urgency and focus. In the past decade, there has been a great deal of interest in liberal arts education throughout the world. In countries like Singa-pore, whose university system is built on the British system of

early specialization, there is cur-rently tremendous excitement about creating broad-based curricula like that proposed for Yale-NUS. This comprehensive rethinking of the curriculum is distinctive and could serve as a model for others.

Faculty from around the world have expressed consider-able enthusiasm about the cur-riculum and about the broader prospect of a new residential liberal arts college in Singapore. We have received over 2,000 applications for faculty posi-tions and have already inter-viewed approximately 20 in order to identify the best fac-ulty for the new college. Those that we hire will spend next year translating the broad outlines into real courses. We are hope-ful that as some Yale faculty participate in the development of these courses, they will find ways to bring some of the les-sons learned at Yale-NUS back to Yale College itself, to join the exciting conversations recently emerging here about innova-tions in our own liberal arts cur-riculum.

Visits to Singapore by a dozen Yale colleagues in the last two years have given us the opportu-nity to learn first-hand about the broad range of intellectual pur-suits of scholars in Singapore, and we expect that the research and teaching of Yale-NUS Col-lege faculty will reflect the aca-demic diversity and freedom of discussion that both Yale and NUS will create in the new col-lege. We recognize that Sin-gapore has very di"erent laws and traditions from our own. We respect our colleagues who do not share our vision, but we are among those who believe that Yale needs to engage in the world.

Yale has been a leader in American liberal arts education for three centuries. We believe that Yale-NUS College will con-tribute to that tradition of lead-ership and will extend Yale’s lib-eral arts ideals in the 21st cen-tury. At a time when many American universities seem to be turning away from the lib-eral arts, Yale is reasserting their value and enduring importance.

CHARLES BAILYN is A. Bartlett Giamatti professor of astronomy and

physics at Yale and inaugural dean of the faculty at Yale-NUS College. DEBORAH DAVIS is professor of

sociology at Yale and chair of the Social Sciences Search Committee

for Yale-NUS College. PERICLES LEWIS is professor of English and comparative literature at Yale and

chair of the Humanities Search Com-mittee for Yale-NUS College.

If you’ve ever seen a high school yearbook, you’ve undoubtedly come across the quote attrib-

uted to Mark Twain: “I’ve never let schooling get in the way of my education.” Sometimes, this seems to categorize Yalies’ feel-ings about classes all too well.

As a friend of mine once put it, “going to classes is the price we pay for being at Yale.” (As another friend pointed out — no, actually, $50,000 is the price we pay for going to Yale.) Yalies are happy, and we are so proud about being happy, and all that happiness comes from all these awesome, fulfilling, other-than-sitting-in-a-library things we do. Which is great! I love my friends and activities too. But when I hear friends complain about section jerks (more commonly known by a slightly more graphic term), I get frustrated. It can seem like we have forgotten that we are pri-marily students.

I’m not talking here about the kid who dominates section or a seminar with nothing to say. That person sucks, all agreed. Don’t say something unless you are genuinely excited to say it. Done.

No, I’m talking about the other kid, the freshman who shows up with his reading all highlighted and annotated and with accom-

panying notes — the kid who asks clarification questions a min-ute before section is supposed to end, as if maliciously not realiz-ing nobody else cares. I’ve even heard of a kid who printed out every article from the footnotes of his reading.

Typical responses to such reports: ew, gross, ugh and who does that? Someone who does all of his or her reading? Does their best to never miss a lecture? Either it’s a freshman that will soon learn the folly of his ways, or it must be a section jerk.

Guys. I get it. There are days when I too sit in bed listening to Leonard Cohen and eating Ritz crackers, laughing at the thought of 9 a.m. courses. But seriously. For many of us, college is the last time we will ever be students, have the luxury to learn about things formally just because they interest us. Let’s give the kids some slack. Shouldn’t it be admi-rable they care so much?

Frankly, I’m jealous. There are times in seminar I feel I’ve cheated myself, knowing I will probably never again return to these texts, authors and ideas. As a campus, social pressure should encourage, not discourage, peo-ple to work as hard as they can in their classes.

Unfortunately, working hard has a bad rep. If two kids both get As on a paper but one spent hours working on it and the other wrote it in 30 minutes, then logic tells us the second kid must be smarter. Therefore, by admitting you work really hard, you place yourself in the not-the-most-brilliant kid category, because you can’t write papers the morning of and gets As. Nobody wants that.

This creates a culture, kind of like being elect, where people need to act like they are one of the chosen. We start our papers at 5 a.m. because, you know, there was that thing last night, and we, the special, can get away with it. Students boast about writ-ing papers that say nothing but get good grades, about amazing a professor without having done any of the reading — we admire this famous BSing, this admis-sion that we blu" through a good amount of our academic input, this admission that we don’t care and that most of our comments lack substance.

That approach, understand-able as it is, saddens me. I don’t care how hard you have to work — or don’t have to work — to get by in a course. Such a criteria does away with learning for the sake of learning, valuing doing your per-

sonal best and gaining knowledge because you love it. Rarely have I heard of someone who started a paper early because she cared about the subject and wanted to really write the best possible paper. Such a comment, I imag-ine, would be embarrassing to admit.

I’m not saying we should all feel guilty and time our lunches to maximize reading time, but students who deviate from the norm of being satisfied with a lot of BSing deserve respect, not eye-rolling. We are Yale students. We are here to learn, not only to network and socialize and enjoy the shortest, gladdest years of life.

Of course, your identity as a student need not define your time here if you don’t want it to. You can get a great education out of Yale while avoiding as much school as possible. And being a student doesn’t have to trans-late into doing all your reading, tracking down obscure sources in the Beinecke in your spare time or learning Nietzsche weekly with a friend for fun. But let’s stop mak-ing fun of the kids who do.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact her at

shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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Leave nerds alone

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TUESDAY, FEB. 28The article “DeStefano proposes homeowner tax relief” contained several errors. It mistakenly implied that property revaluation causes the mill rate to change; in fact, this was only possible because of growth in the city’s grand list. The article also incorrectly listed the mill rate as a percentage, and implied mistakenly that the proposed adjustments to the mill rate proposed by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. would apply to only a proportion of homeowners; it would in fact apply to all property owners in the city.

TODAY’S EVENTSWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2912:00 PM “Look Behind the Label: Rhetorics and Narratives of Contemporary Slavery.” A talk held by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery featuring Samuel Martinez, a professor at UConn. 230 Prospect St., Room 101.

2:00 PM “Conservation in China: Strategies for Success.” This talk is a fireside chat o!ered by the Yale-China Association and given by Shawn Zhang, director of the Nature Conservancy in China. Yale-China Association (442 Temple St.).

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“[W]e had no choice but to fly by the seat of our pants, making it up as we went along.” HENRY PAULSON FORMER U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY

BY CLINTON WANG AND ANTONIA WOODFORDSTAFF REPORTERS

As Yale College prepares to fol-low a new academic calendar with a five-day fall break in the 2012-’13 school year, Yale College Dean Mary Miller is encouraging pro-fessors to consider holding field trips during the short vacation.

Earlier this month, Miller met with a group of faculty members — many of whom already include field trips in their classes — to dis-cuss how di!erent departments approach these trips, and whether the break could allow for more to happen. Though the fall break will free up time for class trips, such excursions will be largely contin-gent on the finances of individual departments, as the University does not have a central source of funding for them. But with more than seven months to go until the inaugural fall break, only a few professors have considered orga-nizing trips and many said it is too early to make plans.

Miller said field trips can be “integral” to courses from a vari-ety of disciplines, as they can both enrich the curriculum and help students develop greater inter-est in a field. While the Univer-sity does not keep records of how many courses include field trips, classes hold trips that range from excursions in New Haven to trips abroad during spring break and over the summer.

“I just want people to realize [the fall break] is a change in our calendar that may open doors,” Miller said. “Let’s think creatively about it.”

David Evans, a geology and geophysics professor, said he intends to hold a field trip dur-ing the fall break for his course “Dynamic Earth Laboratory and Field Methods.” Though the class has previously taken weekend trips around Connecticut to col-lect earth samples, Evans said he would prefer to take his students on longer excursions to Quebec or Vermont, which he said are better areas for conducting geological studies. Architecture and Urban-ism professor Dolores Hayden, who teaches two fall courses — “American Cultural Landscapes” and “Poets’ Landscapes” — said she will suggest optional, “self-guided” trips that students can take during the new break, such as visiting historic sites around Con-necticut and Massachusetts.

As other professors think about the possibility of taking trips dur-ing the fall break, they must also consider how they would obtain funding for such events. Most departments do not specifically allocate funds for class trips, though many have departmental endowments or other sources of funding they can use to support professors who want to take trips.

Evans said he thinks funding issues can be a determining factor for professors who are interested in holding field trips.

“If [the University] had a dedi-cated allocation of funding avail-able across all departments, that would certainly help a lot of departments in a major way,” he said.

Evans said the Department of Geology & Geophysics is relatively unique in that it has an endow-

ment for travel expenses. The funding allows classes within the department to take regular field trips, he added, on which both undergraduates and graduate stu-dents travel to locations as far as New Zealand and South Africa.

Geology and geophysics pro-fessor David Bercovici, whose “Natural Disasters” class will take students to observe volca-noes in Martinique and Domi-nica over spring break, called field trips “absolutely crucial” in help-ing students absorb material and develop geology skills.

Anthropology professor Rich-ard Burger, who teaches a spring semester freshman seminar on the Incas that takes its students to Peru that summer, said his trip has also been supported by endow-ment funding. The Peru excursion draws money from an endowment designated for travel expenses to conduct Latin American archae-ology, he said.

Four other faculty members said they have not yet considered incorporating class activities into the fall break.

English professor Langdon Hammer, who has taken trips with students before and brought one class to visit poet James Merill’s home in Stonington, Conn. this spring, said he has not decided how to approach academic excur-sions next semester.

“The syllabus is always built around breaks — they shape the rhythm of the semester, and cre-ate problems and possibilities,” he said. “The new fall break will too. But I’m not sure yet how I’ll use it.”

Eight professors interviewed who already hold field trips say the trips help students understand and actively engage with material beyond the classroom.

But two professors who have held field trips said they would like to leave the fall break free of class activities.

“The Yale College curricu-lum is so full that students need more, not less, time for indepen-dent study and the space and lei-sure in which to think about their studies,” classics professor Emily Greenwood said in a Tuesday email.

Zachary Belway ’13, who trav-eled to the Amazon last spring to collect fungi samples as part of chemistry professor Scott Stro-bel’s “Rain Forest expedition and laboratory” course, said he thinks class field trips are often more engaging than traditional lectures and labs.

Catherine Sheard ’12 and Andrew Everett ’12 said their experiences in ecology and evo-lutionary biology professor Rich-ard Prum’s spring 2009 “Labo-ratory for Ornithology” course — which traveled to Ecuador in previous years but did not have enough funding to take the trip in 2011 — was their major motivation for choosing the ecology and evo-lutionary biology track in the biol-ogy major.

The 2012 fall break will run from Wednesday, Oct. 24 through Sunday, Oct. 28.

Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu and

ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

Miller encourages fall break field trips

BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER

Henry Paulson Jr. reflected on his experiences as U.S. Treasury Secretary and stressed the need for leaders to form strong rela-tionships with colleagues at a Tuesday talk at Sage Hall.

Paulson, who served in the administration of George W. Bush ’68 from 2006-’08, told a crowd of more than 100 peo-ple that effective leaders must surround themselves with team members that complement and trust each other. He said his rela-tionships with members of the administration helped him facil-itate the government’s response to the financial crisis, the mag-nitude of which he said exceeded his expectations.

“Leadership is working on common ground and listen-ing to other people,” Paulson said. “A relationship is not just shaking hands, or having dinner together, but working together to get things done.”

He stressed the importance of working with people with “com-plementary skill sets” who can compensate for individual weak-nesses, adding that the defin-ing qualities of leadership are “insatiable” intellectual curios-ity, self-awareness, decisiveness and care for people.

In his time as treasury secre-tary, Paulson said a central chal-lenge was collaborating with a president who fared poorly on public opinion polls. Still, he added that the opportunity to work with Bush for a year before the financial crisis gave him an advantage in dealing with its consequences. In the midst of the financial crisis, Bush appointed Paulson to form a group of experts and consult with mem-bers of Congress on reforms to rescue the financial system from the brink of collapse.

Paulson added that he expressed concern that the financial system was vulnerable in the years leading up to the cri-sis, but he “underestimated the extent of the whole credit bub-ble.”

He said there was no perfect solution available to mitigate the crisis. Still, he said he could have better communicated to the pub-lic the philosophy and mecha-nisms behind the Troubled Asset Relief Program that injected credit into the financial system.

“I never explained to the American people that the bank rescuers were for the American people, not for the banks,” he said.

He said his experience and training as the CEO of invest-ment bank Goldman Sachs gave

him the economic expertise necessary for the o"ce of trea-sury secretary, but the politi-cal element of the job entailed the added challenge of persuad-ing his colleagues and the public about the merits of his ideas.

He added that although he has always prided himself on main-taining his stances in the face of criticism, he said that some situ-ations — such as a financial cri-sis — require leaders to be flex-ible and open to change.

“You show me a leader that doesn’t change his mind, and I think you look at a poor leader,” he said.

Three students interviewed after the talk said the discussion was informative and insight-ful, though one said he wished Paulson had focused more on the ethical consequences of his decisions. Molly Ma ’13 said she particularly enjoyed Paulson’s take on the importance of estab-lishing complementary relation-ships, and Ning Zhang SOM ’13 said Paulson “seemed humble and straightforward.”

Tuesday’s discussion with Paulson was part of a series of conversations on leadership sponsored by the Jackson Insti-tute for Global A!airs.

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

BY LILIANA VARMANSTAFF REPORTER

Yale is on track to meet the goals outlined in its 2010-’13 Sustainability Strategic Plan, according to a progress report released Mon-day by the O"ce of Sustainability.

The report tracks the progress that the Uni-versity made through the end of the 2011 fiscal year, the first year following the plan’s intro-duction in September 2010, said Julie New-man, director of the O"ce of Sustainabil-ity. The strategic plan sets out to accomplish “aggressive yet achievable” goals by the end of the 2013 fiscal year in categories including waste reduction, water distribution and recy-cling, she said. While the University has made progress toward achieving most of its goals, those related to reducing use of single-occu-pancy vehicles and paper consumption will require increased focus for the remainder of the plan’s duration, according to the report.

“For a large percentage of the goals, we’re really on track,” said Sustainability Proj-ect Manager Keri Enright-Kato, who com-piled the relevant data and wrote the progress report.

Newman said Yale has made significant strides in reducing waste and energy use since 2010, which she attributed to ongoing part-nerships and negotiations across various Uni-versity departments to coordinate use of facil-ities, dining and transportation. According to

the report, Yale has successfully increased its recycling rate by 25 percent, up from 21.2 per-cent at the end of the 2009 fiscal year.

Yale Waste and Recycling Manager Bob Ferretti said waste stream analyses and mar-ket research conducted since the release of the strategic plan determined that many materi-als discarded as trash could be recycled or composted into new products. Based on those results, he said, his department evaluated and adjusted Yale’s processes for collecting mate-rials in order to minimize the University’s waste. Since 2010 pre- and post-consumer food waste from residential college dining halls has been diverted for composting, and “clean wood” — wood free of paints, lami-nates and varnishes — is now separated and collected for recycling, he said.

Over the next year, the University will focus on reducing the number of single-occupancy vehicles and the amount of paper consumed, said Enright-Kato. The Strategic Plan’s goal to reduce single-occupancy vehicles used for travel to and from campus by 1 to 3 percent by 2013 has not seen any significant progress so far, she added.

The primary targets of e!orts to reduce sin-gle-occupancy vehicles are faculty and sta!, said Holly Parker, Yale’s director of sustain-able transportation systems. Still, the Uni-versity has made improvements in increasing ridership on public transportation and partic-ipation in carpools and car-sharing organized

by Yale, she added. Although the progress report states that

campus-wide paper consumption increased in the 2011 fiscal year, Enright-Kato said paper use increased by less than 1.5 percent. Based on preliminary data from the first two quarters of the current 2012 fiscal year, she said she is “confident” that paper consump-tion will have decreased by the end of June.

A paper committee consisting of mem-bers from departments across Yale — such as Information Technology Services, Pro-curement and Human Resources — is in the process of analyzing methods the University can use to minimize paper consumption, she added. The 19-person committee, Enright-Kato said, includes representatives from vari-ous departments to ensure that the initiatives are compatible with diverse areas of campus.

In the remaining year and a half of the plan’s implementation, Goodall said, the Uni-versity will continue to pursue the remaining goals outlined in the plan, but will also begin thinking of ways to improve Yale’s sustain-ability on a more long-term scale.

“[The Strategic Plan] is a forward-thinking foundational plan which lays the groundwork for the next three to seven years and beyond,” Goodall said.

The 2011 fiscal year ended on June 30.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

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Yale College Dean Mary Miller, who was part of the team that recruited Nem-erov to Yale’s faculty from Stanford, said he has made a significant impact on the History of Art Department in his 11 years at Yale.

“His contribution to the department, to Yale College students and to the Uni-versity is so great that it cannot easily be measured,” Miller said in an email. “We have all — colleagues, students, friends — benefited from his ability to make the paint on the canvas, the hand of the sculptor, the grain of wood come to life with his careful words and laser-like intellect.”

More than 500 students shopped “Introduction to the History of Art” this semester, but Nemerov capped enroll-ment in the course to about 300 for the first time to match the capacity of the auditorium of the Yale University Art Gallery, where the class is held. Ten stu-dents interviewed said they were disap-pointed to hear of Nemerov’s departure, and five said they had planned to take Nemerov’s course in the future.

Adrian Chiem ’15 said he wanted to

take “Introduction to the History of Art” this spring but did not get in, adding that as a prospective art history major last year, the lecture Nemerov delivered dur-ing his Bulldog Days was one of the rea-sons he chose to attend Yale.

“Listening to him speak … and analyz-ing his strange nuances with people who were also in his class genuinely made me very happy, so I’m very sad to see him go,” said Chiem, who sat in on three of Nem-erov’s lectures this spring. “I was really hoping to take his class next year.”

Jennifer Mosby ’12, an art history major and one of Nemerov’s advisees her sophomore year, said she loved Nem-erov’s survey course because of its incor-poration of broad ideas into its discussion of works of art. Mosby added that while Yale has been lucky to have Nemerov on its faculty, the department “will go on.”

Julia Cortopassi ’13 said she considered majoring in art history after taking Nem-erov’s survey course during her fresh-man year, and has since continued to take courses within the department.

“Nemerov has this lyrical style that distinguished him from a lot of art his-tory teachers,” Cortopassi said. “I really like how sometimes he’ll make up a word.

After class kids would be laughing at these ‘Nemerovian’ terms. They don’t exist in modern language — they were just something he would spin up in lec-ture.”

Stanford is hiring Nemerov as it con-tinues its “Stanford Arts Initiative,” a program launched in 2006 that aims to enhance Stanford’s arts program through the creation of new facilities and faculty positions, according to Stanford’s web-site. The initiative has raised over $250 million since its inception.

The National Research Council’s assessment of research-doctoral pro-grams ranked Stanford’s art history department between 10th and 27th in the nation. By comparison, Yale is ranked between second and ninth.

The chair of Stanford’s art and art his-tory department could not be reached for comment.

In addition to “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Pres-ent,” Nemerov has taught courses on American photography, American Romanticism and Hollywood film.

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

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 4 YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

Registered undergraduate organizationsYale College’s registered undergraduate organizations include the Irish Dancers, the Guild of Bookmakers, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Appreciation Coalition, the Mah-Jong Society, Potlucks on our Porches, Volunteer Doulas of New Haven, the Granny Society, the Yale Undergraduate Electronica Association and the mysteriously named The Cucumber.

“reasonable accommodations” that can be made for candidates who might face “barriers” to selection, Smuts told the New Haven Register.

“I don’t think the [high turnover] detracts people from the post,” said Bishop Theodore Brooks, who served on the Board of Police Commissioners until earlier this month. “Once you get in upper management, if you’re good at your job, and you want to move up, then [the assis-tant chief position] is an excellent spot to work.”

When Esserman announced in January that he would be requesting the resigna-tion of his current assistant chiefs, several community activists protested the move as detrimental to the department’s morale and community policing goals. But Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who serves on the Board of Aldermen’s public safety committee, said Esserman’s forma-tion of a new leadership team upon tak-ing the department’s helm “makes sense organizationally.” He added that he has been impressed by Esserman, who has “rolled his sleeves up and is getting his hands dirty” with a detailed and compre-hensive community policing strategy.

The impact of the volatility in the department’s leadership remains to be seen, however, Hausladen said.

“I imagine [the turnover in assistant chiefs] would detract from the pool of candidates — if you are 17 years with the police department and you are asked to

step into a role [in which] you could be fired immediately, then you have your retirement on the line,” he said.

In the past two years, two police chiefs have asked a total of five assistant chiefs to resign or retire.

While Esserman did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday, he announced in a January statement that he would not bring “anyone from New York or Providence” into the NHPD’s leader-ship. When the chief finalizes his choices for his leadership team, Smuts said, he will consult with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and make a recommendation to the Board of Police Commissioners, who have the ultimate hiring authority.

Brooks said he hopes to see “some young energetic” assistant chiefs with whom Esserman can share his “wealth of policing knowledge.” The new assistant chiefs should be “reflective of commu-nity interests,” he added.

Last April, then-NHPD Chief Frank Limon appointed John Velleca, Pat-rick Redding and Petisia Adger as assis-tant chiefs. Along with the assistant chief positions, the department’s top spot has been in flux recently, with four chiefs in as many years: Limon resigned in October and Esserman was sworn in Nov. 18.

While Velleca announced his retire-ment in December, Esserman asked Red-ding and Adger to resign last month as part of his leadership restructuring.

“We’ve had a lot of volatility with the turnover in the chiefs,” Brooks said. “But now that we’ve got some stability with the

chief, with a four-year contract, hopefully we’ll see some stability with the assistant chiefs.”

Esserman’s contract runs until Feb. 1, 2014.

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

tain about how many clubs were actually represented — high-lighting a larger confusion about the purpose of Yale’s club regis-tration system as a whole.

RELEVANT TO ALL?The training sessions held

last month were intended to empower leaders on campus and teach valuable lessons about leadership, Boyd said.

But seven students inter-viewed — including leaders of Adopted Yalies, a group work-ing to connect Yalies who are adopted or are considering someday adopting, and the Bull-dog Cube Club, a group dedi-cated to solving Rubik’s Cubes and other puzzles — said they did not find the information from the trainings applicable to their indi-vidual groups because they do not initiate their members.

The Yale’s Bartending and Mixology Federation — which aims to teach students how to make classic cocktails — does not have any initiation rituals and only allows students over the age of 21 to join, president Allison Hadley ’12 said. As a result, she said, she felt the workshop didn’t apply to the group “too much.”

Michael Knowles ’12, who attended the event as co-presi-dent of the Yale College Repub-licans, said he did not learn anything during the training ses-sions that he had not previously heard but felt the sessions were a natural response for the Univer-sity given the increased focus on sexual climate at Yale.

“In 99 percent of occasions it’s completely unnecessary, but given the controversies that have gone on campus, it was fine,” Knowles said.

Alpha Epsilon Pi is the only fraternity listed as a registered organization on the Dean’s O!ce website, though all unregistered groups were “strongly” encour-aged to attend, Miller wrote in her email to students. Alpha Epsilon Pi president Avi Arfin ’14, though, said that while he appreciated the attempt to deal with hazing, he did not find the training relevant because his fra-ternity does not haze.

Still, Meeske said that he thinks the leadership trainings accomplished their goal by cre-ating a dialogue on campus about the definition of leadership as avoiding sexual misconduct.

“Even if people will criti-cize the meetings, it succeeded nonetheless just by the fact that people were talking about it,” he said.

IT PAYS TO REGISTERAll groups who sent at least

three representatives will con-tinue to enjoy privileges con-ferred by registration, includ-ing access to classroom space, use of Yale website hosting, par-ticipation in the extracurricu-lar bazaars and funding from the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee.

Knowles said the access to funding is the reason he believes most groups register with the Dean’s O!ce.

“There has never been too much of a push to actually reg-ister unless you’re getting the UOFC to fund your organiza-tion,” he said.

The UOFC donates up to $600 to each organization per semes-ter, drawn from a budget pri-marily dependent on the student activities fee. UOFC represen-tatives review budget applica-tions submitted by the groups — often requesting to cover costs such as food, advertising and transportation — but Gran-zberg said UOFC typically only denies requests to fund alcohol purchases or any proposals that seem extravagant.

Regardless of the size or pur-pose of the group, all are eligi-ble for funding if they are reg-istered, Granzberg said. The Bulldog Cube Club used $1,100 of combined UOFC and Sudler Fund money to purchase 2,700 Rubik’s Cubes for an art project called Yale^3, said club president Anthony Hsu ’12.

Registration for a group expires every October and each group must reregister annually in order to maintain its status as an o!cial undergraduate organi-zation and continue receiving the associated benefits, Meeske said. While many register in order to

have this University support, some groups meet these logisti-cal needs without reregistering.

The Liberal Party of the Yale Political Union became unregis-tered when members of the exec-utive board forgot to reregister, said Isaac Park ’13, secretary of the party. Park is a copy sta"er for the News.

Still, the group has had no trouble reserving rooms, as it has been directly communicat-ing with the Calhoun Master’s O!ce, which doesn’t check reg-istration status, Park said. He added that the group still has enough UOFC funds left over from its previous requests that it does not need additional fund-ing.

Liz Asai ’13, co-coordina-tor of Demos, a club that sends students to teach simple sci-ence experiments in public ele-mentary schools in New Haven, said she also did not realize her group was not registered with the Dean’s O!ce. She added that it participated in the extracur-ricular bazaar, which the Dean’s O!ce limited to only registered organizations beginning this fall, and said that Demos has contin-ued to be successful by receiving funding from Dwight Hall, rather than UOFC.

MOVING FORWARDAlthough 993 students

attended the sessions, the administration has not yet iden-tified which registered groups were represented and which ones failed to send the three required members. Hannah Peck DIV ’11, a student a"airs fellow who helped coordinate the training sessions, said because groups entered their organizations manually through a Google form, the administra-tion has to manually examine every record.

The Dean’s O!ce hired a stu-dent to provide extra help while organizing the data, she added.

Meeske said the training ses-sions will be held again next year, but the administration hopes to make the data processing more e!cient.

“It’s difficult to do anything in the first year, and you figure out what worked well and what didn’t,” he said.

In the past week, at least two groups registered for the first time, but neither had been con-tacted about a makeup training session.

Scott Stern ’15, who leads the Student Origami Society at Yale, registered his organization last Wednesday with hopes of gain-ing UOFC funding to pay for supplies, such as paper and food. Although they registered after the leadership training sessions took place, he said the admin-istration has not contacted him about any issues relating to sex-ual harassment training. Stern is a sta" designer and columnist for the News.

This past Thursday, Jack Doyle ’14 founded the Yale Undergrad-uate Thoreau Club, and said the group hopes to bring in speakers who are experts on Henry David Thoreau. Doyle said he wanted to register the group o!cially both for reasons of funding and to ensure the group appears cred-ible.

“Once it becomes a regis-tered organization, it will be eas-ier to get new members involved because it’s more legitimate,” Doyle said, adding he hasn’t been contacted by anyone in the administration about a makeup for the event either.

While Peck said 391 groups were registered as of this week, Yale’s registered organization website listed 441 groups as of Tuesday night.

Contact DAN STEIN at daniel.stein@yale.edu and

MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

TIMELINE NHPD ASSISTANT CHIEFSJUNE 2010Former NHPD Chief Frank Limon brings on Thomas Wheeler and Tobin Hensgen as assistant police chiefs.

MARCH 2011Wheeler resigns to work in academia.

APRIL 2011Limon appoints John Velleca, Patrick Red-ding and Petisia Adger as assistant chiefs

DECEMBER 2011Velleca retires after more than 20 years at the NHPD.

JANUARY 2012Newly appointed Chief Dean Esserman asks Hensgen, Redding and Adger to resign or retire so he can pick his own leadership team.

TIMELINE NEMEROV’S CAREER1985Nemerov graduates from University of Vermont with B.A. in Art History and English

1992Nemerov receives Ph.D. in Art History from Yale

1992Nemerov becomes an assistant professor of Art History at Stanford

1996Nemerov’s book “Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America” wins a Choice Outstand-ing Academic Book Award

2000Nemerov becomes a professor at Stanford

2001Nemerov accepts teaching position at Yale

2010Nemerov is named the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Art History

FALL 2012Nemerov will return to teach at Stanford

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past several years after it was designed by Eli Luberoff ’09 and Stephen Sch-wink ’08, and Davenport adopted the system last year. The platform features a page called the “whiteboard,” which allows students to see the intended liv-ing arrangements of their peers, invite each other to live together and observe how the supply compares to the demand for certain types of rooms. This site uses the same software for each of the four col-leges, but displays di"erent information and procedures depending on the college of the user that has logged in using their Yale credentials.

Michael Adkins ’14, a member of the Branford housing committee, approached Information Technology Services last fall about the potential expansion of the plat-form to other colleges, and ITS agreed to host the platform on its servers this spring and use Branford to pilot the expansion.

Adkins said he thinks the site better organizes the process of selecting rooms without taking away from the community rituals of the draw.

“Every college is starting to get ideas

that they would like something online to handle the housing process, and this is the year that people are starting to come together and figure out what that applica-tion will look like,” Adkins said.

Rachel Ruskin ’12, co-chair of the Branford housing committee, said the platform will make the housing process fairer by ensuring that everyone is part of the conversation. In previous years, rooming arrangements were often deter-mined through private Facebook groups, she said.

Colleges not using the new platforms are drawing on other strategies to orga-nize the selection process. Silliman Mas-ter Judith Krauss said the college’s website features a floor plan of Silliman and a list of lottery rules, and Jonathan Edwards is planning to use Google Docs this semes-ter, according to Vivian Wang ’15, who serves on the Jonathan Edwards Housing Committee.

Pierson Dean Amerigo Fabbri said Pier-son currently uses the Internet to facili-tate the submission of rooming cards, but the rest of the housing process is con-ducted on paper or in person. He added that Pierson is considering “following the

example of other residential colleges that are using an online system.”

Five students interviewed who have used the interactive site said the plat-form simplifies the process of selecting a room. Amanda Shadiack ’14, who lives in Davenport, said the site assists students in determining which suites are avail-able and whom groups are “competing against.” Michael Giu"rida ’12, a student in Calhoun, said it is useful to see how suites are allotted for students of di"er-ent class years, along with the logistical details and deadlines.

“Just about everybody uses the website when housing rolls around,” he said. “I think it streamlines the housing process, which is probably more stressful for stu-dents whose colleges don’t use the hous-ing website.”

Students are not required to submit forms indicating their housing prefer-ences until after spring break, and the process ends in April.

Madeline McMahon contributed sourcing.

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

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Electronic housing systems spread

Even if people will criticize the meetings, it succeeded nonetheless just by the fact that people were talking about it.

JOHN MEESKEAssociate Dean for Student Organizations

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“Hip-hop isn’t as complex as a woman is.”TALIB KWELI RAPPER

BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSASSTAFF REPORTER

On Tuesday evening, Yale sci-entists taught New Haven res-idents about the physiologi-cal reasons why Facebook can be addictive.

The talk was part of Science in the News, a lecture series run by the Yale Science Diplomats, a campus group devoted to edu-cating the public about science issues and encouraging scientists to engage in the political process. More than 100 members of the New Haven community attended the talk at the New Haven Free Public Library on Elm Street, where two graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher discussed addiction and how it a!ects the human brain.

“We want to educate the com-munity on scientific topics that they often see in the news,” said Jessie McDonald GRD ’12, spokes-woman for the Yale Science Diplo-mats. “We also want people to see what scientists really look like and to inspire high school students to pursue careers in science.”

At the talk, titled “Addiction in 2012: What Facebook, Xbox and Extreme Sports Do to Our Brains,” Kenneth Buck, a postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology at Yale, explained that the Internet may be considered an addiction. Viewing the Internet in this way could have consequences for questions of government policy, he said, such as whether Medicaid insurance should cover Internet addiction.

Buck also discussed the phys-iology of the brain, comparing the transmission of information between neurons to forwarding funny pictures of cats to friends over a phone.

Lu Jin GRD ’15 explained the mechanisms of addiction. Under normal conditions, she said, external stimuli cause a neu-rotransmitter called dopamine to be released by presynaptic neu-rons and received by postsynaptic

receptors, producing a emotional response that is essential for sur-vival. But she said that in the case of cocaine addiction, for example, dopamine can no longer return to the presynaptic cell, causing large quantities of the neurotransmitter to bind to the postsynaptic recep-tors and produce a “superhappy” response with negative long-term consequences.

Addiction “hijacks” the brain, altering behavior, Dipon Ghosh GRD ’15 said. Normally, the brain recognizes the distinc-tion between short-term gains and long-term gains, balancing between the two in everyday life. But when su!ering from addic-tion, he added, the normal balanc-ing instinct is thrown o!, causing the person to seek only short-term gains.

Ghosh used Facebook as an example of a potentially addictive agent in modern life. Stress can cause the brain to seek more plea-surable behavior, he said, leading people under stress to use Face-book more often and possibly become addicted.

Members of Yale Science Diplo-mats said they enjoy the opportu-nity to connect with the commu-

nity.Secretary of the group Mahala

Burn GRD ’16 said she feels that graduate students have a respon-siblity to share their scientific knowledge. Talks like those in the Science in the News series give graduate students the opportu-nity to discuss science with vot-ing adults, said MacDonald, which is important helping them make informed decisions when casting votes in elections.

Victor Acorda, a New Haven resident who attended the talk with his three children and his wife Lenie, said it was educa-tional and that he plans to come to another lecture in the series.

“Topics like these make the science real for day-to-day life, taking it out of the textbook and keeping you engaged,” Lenie Acorda said.

“Addiction in 2012” is one of six scheduled talks organized by the Yale Science Diplomats. The next talk, “Disease Detectives: Stop-ping Outbreaks Before They Stop You,” will take place March 27.

Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at

mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu .

Students educate community on addiction

KELLY HSU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale Science Diplomats, a campus group, lectured Tuesday on the addictive e!ects of some features of modern life, such as Facebook.

Panel critiques rise of corporate hip-hop

BY LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDOSTAFF REPORTER

Law professors and hip-hop artists joined forces Tuesday to discuss how corporations and marketing have impacted the hip-hop industry.

Four experts on the hip-hop industry — Hofstra Law School professor Akilah Folami, Earle Mack School of Law professor Bret Asbury, and rappers Jasiri X and Paradise Gray — analyzed how the hip-hop industry has changed over the past decades in front of nearly 35 students and New Haven community mem-bers at the Yale Law School. During the discussion, the pan-elists spoke about how hip-hop music, which began as a genre devoted to exploring social injustices has become domi-nated by images of violence and misogyny — a development they attributed to the corporatization of the industry.

The hip-hop industry began in the 1970s as a musi-cal movement for address-ing social problems and wit-nessed a “golden age” during the next two decades, said Jasiri X, who is signed by Wander-ing Worx Entertainment, a Van-

couver-based music label. Since then, Jasiri X said large corpo-rate record labels have driven smaller independent labels out of the hip-hop market. He said this trend of corporate domi-nation has been problematic for hip-hip artists who want to pro-duce songs about social change, as corporate labels tend to be more heavily focused on profits, not the social value of their art-ists’ work.

Jasiri X added that even though hip-hop has become a largely “mainstream” indus-try, he still feels the genre can address important social issues, such as inner-city violence and political corruption.

“If as an artist I didn’t believe hip-hop can bring social change, I wouldn’t be doing it,” Jasiri X said. “Mainstream hip-hop has been corporatized to sell Nikes, Gatorade and McDonald’s.”

Paradise Gray said when hip-hop emerged in American cul-ture, it immediately created a rift between the R&B artists whose music inspired the move-ment and those who considered themselves part of a new music genre. R&B artists considered hip-hip a “fad,” Paradise Gray said, not taking the music seri-

ously and allowing corporations to commercialize hip-hop with “drugs, sex and violence.”

Folami said advertisers have contributed to the corporate character of the hip-hop indus-try. Advertisers aim to attract mainly white male consumers, Folami said, who she said would rather listen to music about vio-lence than songs about politics and injustice.

Though the panelists said misogyny, homophobia and sexism are all found in today’s hip-hop culture, the speakers agreed that the music should not be censored. Instead, older artists should mentor younger artists in the early traditions of hip-hop, Jasiri X said.

Jamelia Morgan LAW ’13, who attended the talk, said she thought the panel discus-sion showed how hip-hop can inspire social change.

The event was hosted by the Yale Black Law Students Asso-ciation and designed to accom-pany Black History Month, said Jamil Jivani LAW ’13, the associ-ation’s president.

Contact LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO at

liz.rodriguez-florido@yale.edu .

JENNIFER CHEUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

According to speakers at a Law School panel, the prevalence of misogynistic and violent themes in hip-hop music is due to the increasing influence of corporate record labels over the past three decades.

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4:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 29VULGAR VENUS AND POLITIC POETRY: READING SHAKESPEARE IN THE RENAISSANCE Adam G. Hooks, assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa and a scholar of Shakespeare and the history of the book, will present a lecture on Shakespeare in the Renaissance. Part of the Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book series of talks.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.

6:30-9:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 291/2 REVOLUTION A screening of “1/2 Revolution,” a film made during the Arab Spring that captures the chaos and protests escalating in a neighborhood near Tahrir Square, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi.

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

12:30 – 1:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 29CLASSICAL GUITAR Students at the Yale School of Music will perform classical music for guitar in a concert in the Library Court of the British Art Center.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

8 P.M. WED. FEB. 29A SKULL IN CONNEMARA Theater Studies major Peter Kaufman ’12 presents a staging of Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s deathly and dark comedy for his senior project.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

4 – 5:15 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART TODAY Professor of African-American Studies Elizabeth Alexander will present a lecture on African-American art with artist Kerry James Marshall, whose work has been featured at the Yale University Art Gallery.

She!eld-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., Room 114

7 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1ROMEO AND JULIET Screening of Paul Czinner’s 1966 filmed version of the Royal Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” introduced by Ron Gregg, the director of film programming at the Whitney.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

8 – 9 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE Director Hunter Wolk ’12 takes on contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s classic play, the second McDonagh show to be staged this weekend.

O" Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

7:30 – 9 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1BEGINNER BELLY DANCE WORKSHOP The Yale A!liates Belly Dance Society o"ers a free workshop to those eager to learn how to body roll and shimmy.

O!ce of International Students and Scholars, 421 Temple St.

“Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both. But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz.” LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICIAN

BY KAT HUANGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Jim Hubbard, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based experimental and documentary filmmaker and co-founder of MIX, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, screened his new film “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” on Monday night at the Loria Center. Hub-bard spoke to the News about the motivations behind “United in Anger,” a feature-length doc-umentary on the AIDS activist group ACT UP. Hubbard’s films, including the Ursula Award-winning “Memento Mori,” have screened at the Museum of Mod-ern Art, the Berlin Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

Q Your films are heavily con-centrated on the LGBT experi-

ence and community. What is the motivation for that?

A In 1982 or so, when suddenly we were confronted with

AIDS, I wanted to make a film about it. I didn’t want to do what the mainstream media was doing, which was invading people’s hos-pital rooms, showing them in the most objectified, victimized way possible. But it was di!cult because people were dealing with this strange new di!cult disease and they often didn’t want cam-eras shoved in their faces. It was often a bit problematic.

My ex-lover Roger Jacoby died of AIDS. He wanted to be filmed. I filmed the last year and half of his life, and when he died, I inher-ited the outtakes. In 1987, sud-denly ACT UP appeared. With those two elements, I made the film “Elegy in the Streets,” a 29-minute silent film that was a combination of public and pri-vate responses of AIDS. I made several short films. They all relate to AIDS or, in the case of the film “Memento Mori,” death.

Q Your newest piece, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, is

not the first time you have filmed ACT UP. You previously worked on the ACT UP Oral History Project, which featured 102 ACT UP inter-views at Harvard in 2009 and 114 interviews in New York in 2010. What initially attracted you to documenting ACT UP?

A If I can go back to June 2002, it was the 20th anniversary

of AIDS. I got a phone call from Sarah Shulman. Sarah and I have been friends for a long time; we actually started a film festival called MIX. June of 2002, it was a bright blue, sunny early summer morning, and I get this phone call from Sarah. She was really upset because she had heard this radio broadcast that essentially said, “At first Americans were upset by AIDS … and then they got used to it.” What had been erased was the e"ort of hundreds and thou-sands who forced government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. She said,

“We have to do something about this.” People with aids and people in the trenches fighting the dis-ease are the real experts of AIDS and these are the people who should be on the screen repre-senting themselves.

Q Are you a member of ACT UP?

A Yes, I’m in ACT UP. It is really a self-determined

membership. If you wanted to vote at a meeting you just had to attend three meetings before vot-ing — that is the closest thing to a membership criterion we had. It started in New York. At its height, 400 to 500 people went every Monday night. They carried out hundreds of demonstrations and zaps.

Q Zaps?

A A zap is a quickly created, highly focused political

intervention. If there is particu-lar problem, say, a political fig-ure does something that needs to be addressed immediately, you go and do something right away. You say, “We need to zap the govern-ment tomorrow.” And so, tomor-row a dozen people will be there and do something that will upset the government because the gov-ernment did something that was antagonistic to the people.

There were small instanta-neous demonstrations. Then, there were the larger demonstra-tions that took months of plan-ning and [involved] a thousand people. So that’s why it is hard to tell how many members of ACT UP there were. The first chap-ter was in New York and in a very short time, chapters sprung up all around the country and the world. At its peak, there were 147 chapters. Now, there are only a handful left.

Q And why is that?

A People burned out. Lots of people died. When the

Clinton administration came in, it was harder to demonstrate against them. AIDS became insti-tutionalized and it became part of the landscape instead of the crisis that it was in the mid-80s through the 90s. In ’96, the AIDS Cocktail came in. People were healthy, there was less urgency, and a lot of people were getting proper healthcare. I mean, you know what a mess healthcare is in this country, but people were getting healthcare. There was ADAP-AIDS Drugs Assistance Program, and there was Social Services. But, all that stuff, all those benefits and services had to be fought for and won. And that’s what ACT UP does.

Q Since you have already done extensive archival work on

ACT UP, why was it necessary to

make a feature-length documen-tary of ACT UP?

A AIDS was the essential trag-edy of my generation of gay

men. I started filming ACT UP in June 1987 because all my friends and colleagues were dying. I felt compelled to continue deal-ing with it in my art. When we started the ACT UP Oral His-tory Project, it was always my intention to make a film as well. The oral history interviews are available to people as primary research material, but I felt like I had to make some kind of state-ment of my own.

Not everyone in ACT UP has AIDS. Friends, lovers and rela-tives also joined. We see ourselves as members of a community pre-serving our history. We don’t see ourselves as outsiders going and taking things. When I was film-ing ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, I saw myself as filming my own community. I was telling my story as well as the story of my friends and colleagues.

Q How does “United in Anger” di!er from other documenta-

ries stylistically?

A The normal mode of docu-mentary in this country is

to take five people and have them stand in for the entire history of your subject. This film is the opposite of a five-character talk-ing-head documentary. There are dozens of people in this. You can’t tell the story of ACT UP properly by relying on a small number of people. The only way to tell the story of ACT UP is to get lots of people to tell the story.

Q Is there anything particularly unique about ACT UP’s brand

of protest?

A ACT UP brought a whole new way of doing direct

action and civil disobedience to this country. I always say that the universal lesson of ACT UP is that a small number of people, highly focused, who know more than their opponents, can utterly change the world. We would pick particular targets and go out using expert, colorful graphics and various methods of street theater. We sat in the streets sometimes … whatever tactics worked.

Q What should viewers take away from the film?

A I guess there are only two underlying purposes of the

film. One, to put ACT UP and the AIDS activist movement into their rightful place in mainstream U.S. history. And two, to fos-ter additional activism, not even necessarily AIDS activism.

Contact KAT HUANG at katherine.huang@yale.edu .

HARRY SIMPERINGHAM/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORFilmmaker Jim Hubbard spoke about his new documentary, “United in Anger,” at the Loria Center on Monday.

BY AKBAR AHMEDSTAFF REPORTER

On Tuesday, founding members and fellows of the Whitney Humani-ties Center gathered to take stock of the interdisciplinary institution’s history since its conception in February 1981.

Peter Brooks, the Center’s founding director and a Sterling Professor Emer-itus of Comparative Literature, joined three of the Whitney’s first fellows to discuss their experiences developing the Center and defining its role on Yale’s campus for faculty and students alike. The Center’s current Director and Ster-ling Professor of the Humanities María Rosa Menocal said Tuesday’s talk was inspired by a concern for the lack of documentation about the founding and early years of the Whitney.

“Given the institutional importance of the Whitney at Yale, there isn’t so much extant history, so we thought a celebration and the remedy [to the defi-cit of documentation] could be the very same thing,” Menocal said.

This push for greater institutional memory comes at a time of transition for the Whitney: this spring, Menocal will step down after ten years as direc-tor, making way for new leadership next fall. Associate Director Norma Thomp-son, who is the director of undergrad-uate studies for Humanities, said the Whitney’s executive committee has yet to select the new director.

Thompson said that Menocal’s ten-ure has been marked by an increased focus on involvement with undergrad-uates and the broader Yale commu-nity. Since she took over from Brooks in 2002, Menocal has overseen a com-plete renovation of the Whitney build-ing, increased ties with undergraduates by relocating the Directed Studies pro-

gram to the center and broadened the Whitney fellowship to faculty, sta" and graduate students in non-humanities fields including the sciences, econom-ics and the School of Medicine, Thomp-son said.

Brooks, the Whitney’s founding director, said he was asked to set up a humanities center in the 1970s by then-University President A. Bartlett Gia-matti, in an e"ort to bring together fac-ulty who would otherwise have worked exclusively within their own depart-ments, separate from one another.

“The center was needed [because of] specific concerns like departmental-ization, the lack of an intellectual com-munity and the University becoming increasingly atomized and privatized,” Brooks said. “My own thinking was most influenced by a remark that Yale was an exceptional place for students but did little for faculty.”

Sterling Professor Emeritus and senior research scholar of English and Comparative Literature and Whit-ney founding fellow Geo"rey Hartman GRD ’53 said he suggested creating such an institution in the 1950s because he sensed that professors wanted to meet more people in fields other than their own. Hartman, however, said he faced opposition in 1958 from the Dean of the Yale School of Drama, who said that Yale had no need for a multi-disciplin-ary venue for faculty.

“The foundation of this center was not inevitable,” Hartman added.

But the right moment came in the early ‘80s, Brooks said, when human-ities scholars called into question the ways in which their field was tradition-ally studied, and many of the social sci-ence, such as economics and politi-cal science, began to rely heavily on the reading and writing skills traditionally

associated with the humanities. Brooks noted he hoped faculty would come together for the sake of scholarship and the defense of the humanities — Yale, however, was lacking in institutions for this purpose.

“Some of us wanted to believe that a university is more than a suite of class-rooms and computer clusters,” Brooks said.

The Whitney was established in 1981 with money donated by John Hay Whit-ney ’26, who had originally intended to help fund two new residential colleges, Brooks said. After the New Haven Board of Aldermen refused to grant approval for this construction, Whitney’s money was reallocated to help renovate Old Campus, and the remainder enabled Yale to purchase the Whitney’s cur-rent building from the local Episcopal church at 53 Wall St.

In its first year, the Whitney founded the Whitney Fellows program, which appoints Yale faculty members as fel-lows and invites them to weekly lun-cheons featuring informal presenta-tions from other fellows and graduate students across departments.

“Right from the beginning, [the Whitney’s] conversation covered all of human understanding,” said Kai Erik-son, a professor emeritus of Sociology and American Studies who was among the founding fellows.

The establishment of the Whitney also gave a home to junior faculty mem-bers looking to speak with peers outside their departments, said Martin Bresn-ick, the coordinator of the composition department of the Yale School of Music. He noted that prior to the founding of the center, communication between departments was unusual for senior faculty members, creating a “climate of fear” among junior instructors con-

cerned about not receiving tenure o"ers because of interdepartmental politics.

American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies pro-fessor Laura Wexler agreed that the Whitney was an “extraordinary gift” to junior faculty members, adding that her involvement with the Yale Journal of Criticism, which was run under the Whitney’s umbrella until its discon-tinuation, shaped her entire intellectual life at Yale.

Jane Levin GRD ’75, a former Whit-

ney fellow and director of undergradu-ate studies for the Directed Studies pro-gram, said that most Directed Studies faculty members now hold o!ces in the Whitney, and all lectures and colloquia for the program are hosted in the cen-ter’s auditorium. As a result, she said, the Whitney has provided Directed Studies faculty and students a sense of place and community.

“It’s exhilarating to have all these faculty members from across the Uni-versity talking to you about work com-

pletely outside your discipline,” Levin said.

Dale Martin GRD ’88 said that becoming a Whitney fellow after he joined the faculty in 1999 was an inte-gral part of learning to appreciate Yale’s intellectual environment.

In addition to Yale students and fac-ulty, the Whitney has built a commu-nity that also includes local residents, who can attend events and screenings at the center that are free and open to the public.

“At the Whitney, we’re actually drawing from the New Haven commu-nity as well as the Yale community,” said Ronald Gregg, a Film Studies profes-sor and the director of programming at the Whitney. “We’ve been able to build up a pretty incredible email list [which helps] introduce Yale to the humani-ties [and] issues of import both within a contemporary moment [and] a time-less sense.”

The Whitney also plays a crucial role in Yale’s film culture, as its auditorium serves as one of Yale’s principal screen-ing spaces, Gregg said. He added that no comparable venues exist on cam-pus for screenings, particularly 35mm films, which has enabled the Whitney to establish itself as a leader in the com-munity. The number of film screenings at the Center has increased “exponen-tially” in recent years, Gregg said, add-ing that interest in film screenings may grow to the point where another space is developed on campus.

The Whitney is also home to the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemi-tism, which was launched last sum-mer. Maurice Samuels, the director of the program, a member of the Whitney Executive Committee and the director of graduate studies in French, said in an email that he is very happy to have the initiative based at the Center, which he added has an “extraordinary” sta".

“Under Maria Rosa Menocal’s lead-ership, it has been a very vibrant place, one of the most intellectually exciting corners of Yale,” Samuels said.

Thompson said Menocal’s replace-ment will be announced later this semester.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

BY SARAH SWONGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Eli String Quartet, silent in shades of grey, walked onto the stage of Morse Recital Hall Monday night. But instead of sitting to play Béla Bartók’s “String Quartet No. 3,” second violinist Shawn Moore ’13 lifted a microphone to speak.

The concert, titled “Vista: A Fresh Look at Cham-ber Music,” showcased four out of the School of Music’s roughly 50 chamber music ensembles. Director of Cham-ber Music Wendy Sharp said that in addition to giving stu-dents an opportunity to per-form full chamber works, the performance was intended to offer audiences a “fresh look at chamber music” by having group members comment on the composer and the history of the work before playing each piece.

The onstage commentary made the atmosphere “a little less formal, gave insight into the piece and provided a hook into the piece,” Sharp said. Hear-ing directly from the perform-ers puts a “more human face” on the music, she added.

In the concert’s first perfor-mance, an ensemble comprising two violins, a cello and a harpsi-chord performed two pieces by Arcangelo Corelli and George Frideric Handel, adding impro-visation to the written music. In the preceding commentary, violinist Holly Piccoli ’12 noted

that the musicians composed all the ornamentation and embel-lishments like trills and turns on the spot. Baroque improvi-sation brings spontaneity to a classical music concert, said Robert Mealy, the group’s coach and a professor at the School of Music.

Verbal communication is one approach that classical musi-cians have taken to engage today’s audiences. To break the stigma of inaccessibility, clas-sical musicians need to empha-size education and outreach in their performances, students and professors interviewed said.

Conversation from the stage makes the experience of listen-ing to classical music friend-lier and “more personal,” vio-linist Colin Brookes ’13 said. Some professional musicians today hold pre-concert discus-sions that help them connect with and welcome the audi-ence, bassist Nicholas Jones ’12 added.

Chamber music is uniquely suited for engaging audiences, Sharp said, because the groups are small, and audience mem-bers tend to sit closer to the per-

formers. “It’s up-close, exciting and

visceral,” she said. “You see how exactly they pass melodies and shape the music.”

Kikeui Ikeda, who coaches the Eli String Quartet, said chamber music is a “demo-cratic” style of music, as there is no conductor and each musi-cian must contributes to the interpretation of the work. Ikeda is the second violinist in the Tokyo String Quartet, the School of Music’s current art-ist-in-residence group.

Outside of Yale, some cham-ber groups have come to per-form in more casual perfor-mance spaces. Many bars and clubs on the West Coast and at

New York’s Poisson Rouge, for example, now feature classi-cal musicians, Mealy said. Last year, the Chiara String Quar-tet toured nationally at bars and clubs to fulfill their slogan of “chamber music in any cham-ber,” according to the Seattle newspaper Crosscut.

On campus, some musicians create fresh performances by collaborating with visual art-ists, Piccoli said. Recent shows by Music School students have included light shows and incor-porated dance into the staging, she said.

Live-streaming concerts such as “Vista” has also altered the way audiences receive clas-sical music, Piccoli said, adding that while Internet access may draw audiences away from live performances, musicians hope that live-streaming will inspire people to attend more concerts.

Before performing the last piece in Monday’s program, Beethoven’s “String Quartet No. 3, Op. 59,” violinist Ste-ven Chang ’13 discussed how the piece portrays Beethoven’s struggles and perseverance in the face of hearing loss. The foreboding introduction, he explained, transforms into heroic triumph.

“The dynamic fugue has moments of conflict and oppo-sition,” said Chang of the piece’s fourth movement. “But they also have moments of unity seeking hope.”

Chamber groups regularly perform lunchtime concerts at Morse Recital Hall within Sprague Memorial Hall and the Yale Center for British Art.

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A NEW KIND OF MUSICIn a concert Tuesday afternoon at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, “Chamber Music Galore VI,” student composers performed original chamber music. They were joined by New York’s Argento Chamber Ensemble, a nine-person group that oper-ates as a branch of the Argento New Music Project. Among the original pieces performed were compositions by students Anderson Alden ’13, Emily Cooley ’12, Baldwin Giang ’14, Nathan Prillaman ’13, Alex Vourtsanis ’14 and Gabriel Zucker ’12.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADISTAFF REPORTER

This evening, the Yale Jazz Ensem-ble will premiere a collection of original jazz pieces.

In Sprague Memorial Hall, the Yale Jazz Ensemble will present its third of four concerts that will take place this academic year. The performance is the first YJE concert to showcase exclu-sively student-written pieces, featur-ing four pieces composed by current members of the group and three alumni creations, said Thomas Du"y, School of Music professor and the director of University bands. While the oppor-tunity to perform original composi-tions did not result in a significantly different practice method, both stu-dent composers and other members of the ensemble said it proved to be a cre-atively engaging experience.

Garth Neustadter MUS ’12, the ensemble’s assistant director who won a primetime Emmy award for his score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World,” said he was excited to see his piece “Express Delivery” per-formed in a public setting for the first time, explaining that opportunities to perform original jazz compositions are often limited.

“This is a special performance because it focuses primarily on the works of Yale jazz performers,” Neus-tadter said. “It’s not always possible to get your works performed, especially when you do jazz.”

While the focus on original compo-sition will unite the works performed, the lineup of pieces incorporates many di"erent styles within the jazz genre, Du"y said. Alexandra Pappas ’15, one of the ensemble’s members, said that the blend of pieces made the concert different from a typical jazz perfor-mance. Alyssa Hasbrouck ’14, another YJE performer, added that the pieces range from fast bebop and salsa to funk and swing.

Hasbrouck added that such variety is typical of YJE concerts, explaining that while today’s performance is the first to feature entirely student-written music, the group does not always play “tradi-tional” pieces.

“There are some pieces of music that are considered standards in the jazz ensemble world, but even if we play one of them, we always try to have a diverse selection of songs,” she said. “We are always pushing the edges of what we can do as a group.”

Both Hasbrouck and ensemble member Zoe LaPalombara ’13 said that

for the most part, the process of prepar-ing the performance did not di"er sig-nificantly from the group’s usual prac-tice methods, adding that the group usually plays a few student-composed songs at each concert.

Still, Neustadter and three stu-dents interviewed said that the abil-ity to discuss each piece with its com-poser helped the ensemble understand it better.

“You get to know a little more about your fellow musicians through the music they write or arrange,” Pap-pas said. “You get a better, more per-sonal explanation of musical ideas that sometimes can’t really be communi-cated through ink on a page.”

Hasbrouck said that during rehears-als a few pieces were still works in prog-ress, so each composer would occasion-ally edit his or her song after hearing the group play it. She added that the pres-ence of the composers compelled the ensemble to try especially hard to per-form each piece perfectly.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble is composed of 16 instrumentalists who play sax-ophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, drums and guitar.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

New student jazz to debut tonight

EARL LEE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Crowds have gathered for free lectures and screenings at the Whitney Humanities Center since its founding in 1981.

At 31, Whitney looks back on beginnings

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“Vista” provided a new take on chamber music, mixing performance with spoken explanations of the music.

“It’s up-close, exciting, and visceral.”

WENDY SHARPYSM Director of Chamber Music

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Student musicians perform classical chamber music.

Chamber musicians revamp performance

AIDS activist discusses film

CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BEINECKE

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4:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 29VULGAR VENUS AND POLITIC POETRY: READING SHAKESPEARE IN THE RENAISSANCE Adam G. Hooks, assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa and a scholar of Shakespeare and the history of the book, will present a lecture on Shakespeare in the Renaissance. Part of the Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book series of talks.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.

6:30-9:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 291/2 REVOLUTION A screening of “1/2 Revolution,” a film made during the Arab Spring that captures the chaos and protests escalating in a neighborhood near Tahrir Square, followed by a discussion with filmmakers Karim El Hakim and Omar Shargawi.

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

12:30 – 1:30 P.M. WED. FEB. 29CLASSICAL GUITAR Students at the Yale School of Music will perform classical music for guitar in a concert in the Library Court of the British Art Center.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

8 P.M. WED. FEB. 29A SKULL IN CONNEMARA Theater Studies major Peter Kaufman ’12 presents a staging of Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s deathly and dark comedy for his senior project.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

4 – 5:15 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART TODAY Professor of African-American Studies Elizabeth Alexander will present a lecture on African-American art with artist Kerry James Marshall, whose work has been featured at the Yale University Art Gallery.

She!eld-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., Room 114

7 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1ROMEO AND JULIET Screening of Paul Czinner’s 1966 filmed version of the Royal Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” introduced by Ron Gregg, the director of film programming at the Whitney.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

8 – 9 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE Director Hunter Wolk ’12 takes on contemporary Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s classic play, the second McDonagh show to be staged this weekend.

O" Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway

7:30 – 9 P.M. THURS. MAR. 1BEGINNER BELLY DANCE WORKSHOP The Yale A!liates Belly Dance Society o"ers a free workshop to those eager to learn how to body roll and shimmy.

O!ce of International Students and Scholars, 421 Temple St.

“Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both. But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz.” LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICIAN

BY KAT HUANGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Jim Hubbard, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based experimental and documentary filmmaker and co-founder of MIX, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, screened his new film “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” on Monday night at the Loria Center. Hub-bard spoke to the News about the motivations behind “United in Anger,” a feature-length doc-umentary on the AIDS activist group ACT UP. Hubbard’s films, including the Ursula Award-winning “Memento Mori,” have screened at the Museum of Mod-ern Art, the Berlin Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

Q Your films are heavily con-centrated on the LGBT experi-

ence and community. What is the motivation for that?

A In 1982 or so, when suddenly we were confronted with

AIDS, I wanted to make a film about it. I didn’t want to do what the mainstream media was doing, which was invading people’s hos-pital rooms, showing them in the most objectified, victimized way possible. But it was di!cult because people were dealing with this strange new di!cult disease and they often didn’t want cam-eras shoved in their faces. It was often a bit problematic.

My ex-lover Roger Jacoby died of AIDS. He wanted to be filmed. I filmed the last year and half of his life, and when he died, I inher-ited the outtakes. In 1987, sud-denly ACT UP appeared. With those two elements, I made the film “Elegy in the Streets,” a 29-minute silent film that was a combination of public and pri-vate responses of AIDS. I made several short films. They all relate to AIDS or, in the case of the film “Memento Mori,” death.

Q Your newest piece, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, is

not the first time you have filmed ACT UP. You previously worked on the ACT UP Oral History Project, which featured 102 ACT UP inter-views at Harvard in 2009 and 114 interviews in New York in 2010. What initially attracted you to documenting ACT UP?

A If I can go back to June 2002, it was the 20th anniversary

of AIDS. I got a phone call from Sarah Shulman. Sarah and I have been friends for a long time; we actually started a film festival called MIX. June of 2002, it was a bright blue, sunny early summer morning, and I get this phone call from Sarah. She was really upset because she had heard this radio broadcast that essentially said, “At first Americans were upset by AIDS … and then they got used to it.” What had been erased was the e"ort of hundreds and thou-sands who forced government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. She said,

“We have to do something about this.” People with aids and people in the trenches fighting the dis-ease are the real experts of AIDS and these are the people who should be on the screen repre-senting themselves.

Q Are you a member of ACT UP?

A Yes, I’m in ACT UP. It is really a self-determined

membership. If you wanted to vote at a meeting you just had to attend three meetings before vot-ing — that is the closest thing to a membership criterion we had. It started in New York. At its height, 400 to 500 people went every Monday night. They carried out hundreds of demonstrations and zaps.

Q Zaps?

A A zap is a quickly created, highly focused political

intervention. If there is particu-lar problem, say, a political fig-ure does something that needs to be addressed immediately, you go and do something right away. You say, “We need to zap the govern-ment tomorrow.” And so, tomor-row a dozen people will be there and do something that will upset the government because the gov-ernment did something that was antagonistic to the people.

There were small instanta-neous demonstrations. Then, there were the larger demonstra-tions that took months of plan-ning and [involved] a thousand people. So that’s why it is hard to tell how many members of ACT UP there were. The first chap-ter was in New York and in a very short time, chapters sprung up all around the country and the world. At its peak, there were 147 chapters. Now, there are only a handful left.

Q And why is that?

A People burned out. Lots of people died. When the

Clinton administration came in, it was harder to demonstrate against them. AIDS became insti-tutionalized and it became part of the landscape instead of the crisis that it was in the mid-80s through the 90s. In ’96, the AIDS Cocktail came in. People were healthy, there was less urgency, and a lot of people were getting proper healthcare. I mean, you know what a mess healthcare is in this country, but people were getting healthcare. There was ADAP-AIDS Drugs Assistance Program, and there was Social Services. But, all that stuff, all those benefits and services had to be fought for and won. And that’s what ACT UP does.

Q Since you have already done extensive archival work on

ACT UP, why was it necessary to

make a feature-length documen-tary of ACT UP?

A AIDS was the essential trag-edy of my generation of gay

men. I started filming ACT UP in June 1987 because all my friends and colleagues were dying. I felt compelled to continue deal-ing with it in my art. When we started the ACT UP Oral His-tory Project, it was always my intention to make a film as well. The oral history interviews are available to people as primary research material, but I felt like I had to make some kind of state-ment of my own.

Not everyone in ACT UP has AIDS. Friends, lovers and rela-tives also joined. We see ourselves as members of a community pre-serving our history. We don’t see ourselves as outsiders going and taking things. When I was film-ing ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, I saw myself as filming my own community. I was telling my story as well as the story of my friends and colleagues.

Q How does “United in Anger” di!er from other documenta-

ries stylistically?

A The normal mode of docu-mentary in this country is

to take five people and have them stand in for the entire history of your subject. This film is the opposite of a five-character talk-ing-head documentary. There are dozens of people in this. You can’t tell the story of ACT UP properly by relying on a small number of people. The only way to tell the story of ACT UP is to get lots of people to tell the story.

Q Is there anything particularly unique about ACT UP’s brand

of protest?

A ACT UP brought a whole new way of doing direct

action and civil disobedience to this country. I always say that the universal lesson of ACT UP is that a small number of people, highly focused, who know more than their opponents, can utterly change the world. We would pick particular targets and go out using expert, colorful graphics and various methods of street theater. We sat in the streets sometimes … whatever tactics worked.

Q What should viewers take away from the film?

A I guess there are only two underlying purposes of the

film. One, to put ACT UP and the AIDS activist movement into their rightful place in mainstream U.S. history. And two, to fos-ter additional activism, not even necessarily AIDS activism.

Contact KAT HUANG at katherine.huang@yale.edu .

HARRY SIMPERINGHAM/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORFilmmaker Jim Hubbard spoke about his new documentary, “United in Anger,” at the Loria Center on Monday.

BY AKBAR AHMEDSTAFF REPORTER

On Tuesday, founding members and fellows of the Whitney Humani-ties Center gathered to take stock of the interdisciplinary institution’s history since its conception in February 1981.

Peter Brooks, the Center’s founding director and a Sterling Professor Emer-itus of Comparative Literature, joined three of the Whitney’s first fellows to discuss their experiences developing the Center and defining its role on Yale’s campus for faculty and students alike. The Center’s current Director and Ster-ling Professor of the Humanities María Rosa Menocal said Tuesday’s talk was inspired by a concern for the lack of documentation about the founding and early years of the Whitney.

“Given the institutional importance of the Whitney at Yale, there isn’t so much extant history, so we thought a celebration and the remedy [to the defi-cit of documentation] could be the very same thing,” Menocal said.

This push for greater institutional memory comes at a time of transition for the Whitney: this spring, Menocal will step down after ten years as direc-tor, making way for new leadership next fall. Associate Director Norma Thomp-son, who is the director of undergrad-uate studies for Humanities, said the Whitney’s executive committee has yet to select the new director.

Thompson said that Menocal’s ten-ure has been marked by an increased focus on involvement with undergrad-uates and the broader Yale commu-nity. Since she took over from Brooks in 2002, Menocal has overseen a com-plete renovation of the Whitney build-ing, increased ties with undergraduates by relocating the Directed Studies pro-

gram to the center and broadened the Whitney fellowship to faculty, sta" and graduate students in non-humanities fields including the sciences, econom-ics and the School of Medicine, Thomp-son said.

Brooks, the Whitney’s founding director, said he was asked to set up a humanities center in the 1970s by then-University President A. Bartlett Gia-matti, in an e"ort to bring together fac-ulty who would otherwise have worked exclusively within their own depart-ments, separate from one another.

“The center was needed [because of] specific concerns like departmental-ization, the lack of an intellectual com-munity and the University becoming increasingly atomized and privatized,” Brooks said. “My own thinking was most influenced by a remark that Yale was an exceptional place for students but did little for faculty.”

Sterling Professor Emeritus and senior research scholar of English and Comparative Literature and Whit-ney founding fellow Geo"rey Hartman GRD ’53 said he suggested creating such an institution in the 1950s because he sensed that professors wanted to meet more people in fields other than their own. Hartman, however, said he faced opposition in 1958 from the Dean of the Yale School of Drama, who said that Yale had no need for a multi-disciplin-ary venue for faculty.

“The foundation of this center was not inevitable,” Hartman added.

But the right moment came in the early ‘80s, Brooks said, when human-ities scholars called into question the ways in which their field was tradition-ally studied, and many of the social sci-ence, such as economics and politi-cal science, began to rely heavily on the reading and writing skills traditionally

associated with the humanities. Brooks noted he hoped faculty would come together for the sake of scholarship and the defense of the humanities — Yale, however, was lacking in institutions for this purpose.

“Some of us wanted to believe that a university is more than a suite of class-rooms and computer clusters,” Brooks said.

The Whitney was established in 1981 with money donated by John Hay Whit-ney ’26, who had originally intended to help fund two new residential colleges, Brooks said. After the New Haven Board of Aldermen refused to grant approval for this construction, Whitney’s money was reallocated to help renovate Old Campus, and the remainder enabled Yale to purchase the Whitney’s cur-rent building from the local Episcopal church at 53 Wall St.

In its first year, the Whitney founded the Whitney Fellows program, which appoints Yale faculty members as fel-lows and invites them to weekly lun-cheons featuring informal presenta-tions from other fellows and graduate students across departments.

“Right from the beginning, [the Whitney’s] conversation covered all of human understanding,” said Kai Erik-son, a professor emeritus of Sociology and American Studies who was among the founding fellows.

The establishment of the Whitney also gave a home to junior faculty mem-bers looking to speak with peers outside their departments, said Martin Bresn-ick, the coordinator of the composition department of the Yale School of Music. He noted that prior to the founding of the center, communication between departments was unusual for senior faculty members, creating a “climate of fear” among junior instructors con-

cerned about not receiving tenure o"ers because of interdepartmental politics.

American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies pro-fessor Laura Wexler agreed that the Whitney was an “extraordinary gift” to junior faculty members, adding that her involvement with the Yale Journal of Criticism, which was run under the Whitney’s umbrella until its discon-tinuation, shaped her entire intellectual life at Yale.

Jane Levin GRD ’75, a former Whit-

ney fellow and director of undergradu-ate studies for the Directed Studies pro-gram, said that most Directed Studies faculty members now hold o!ces in the Whitney, and all lectures and colloquia for the program are hosted in the cen-ter’s auditorium. As a result, she said, the Whitney has provided Directed Studies faculty and students a sense of place and community.

“It’s exhilarating to have all these faculty members from across the Uni-versity talking to you about work com-

pletely outside your discipline,” Levin said.

Dale Martin GRD ’88 said that becoming a Whitney fellow after he joined the faculty in 1999 was an inte-gral part of learning to appreciate Yale’s intellectual environment.

In addition to Yale students and fac-ulty, the Whitney has built a commu-nity that also includes local residents, who can attend events and screenings at the center that are free and open to the public.

“At the Whitney, we’re actually drawing from the New Haven commu-nity as well as the Yale community,” said Ronald Gregg, a Film Studies profes-sor and the director of programming at the Whitney. “We’ve been able to build up a pretty incredible email list [which helps] introduce Yale to the humani-ties [and] issues of import both within a contemporary moment [and] a time-less sense.”

The Whitney also plays a crucial role in Yale’s film culture, as its auditorium serves as one of Yale’s principal screen-ing spaces, Gregg said. He added that no comparable venues exist on cam-pus for screenings, particularly 35mm films, which has enabled the Whitney to establish itself as a leader in the com-munity. The number of film screenings at the Center has increased “exponen-tially” in recent years, Gregg said, add-ing that interest in film screenings may grow to the point where another space is developed on campus.

The Whitney is also home to the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemi-tism, which was launched last sum-mer. Maurice Samuels, the director of the program, a member of the Whitney Executive Committee and the director of graduate studies in French, said in an email that he is very happy to have the initiative based at the Center, which he added has an “extraordinary” sta".

“Under Maria Rosa Menocal’s lead-ership, it has been a very vibrant place, one of the most intellectually exciting corners of Yale,” Samuels said.

Thompson said Menocal’s replace-ment will be announced later this semester.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

BY SARAH SWONGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Eli String Quartet, silent in shades of grey, walked onto the stage of Morse Recital Hall Monday night. But instead of sitting to play Béla Bartók’s “String Quartet No. 3,” second violinist Shawn Moore ’13 lifted a microphone to speak.

The concert, titled “Vista: A Fresh Look at Cham-ber Music,” showcased four out of the School of Music’s roughly 50 chamber music ensembles. Director of Cham-ber Music Wendy Sharp said that in addition to giving stu-dents an opportunity to per-form full chamber works, the performance was intended to offer audiences a “fresh look at chamber music” by having group members comment on the composer and the history of the work before playing each piece.

The onstage commentary made the atmosphere “a little less formal, gave insight into the piece and provided a hook into the piece,” Sharp said. Hear-ing directly from the perform-ers puts a “more human face” on the music, she added.

In the concert’s first perfor-mance, an ensemble comprising two violins, a cello and a harpsi-chord performed two pieces by Arcangelo Corelli and George Frideric Handel, adding impro-visation to the written music. In the preceding commentary, violinist Holly Piccoli ’12 noted

that the musicians composed all the ornamentation and embel-lishments like trills and turns on the spot. Baroque improvi-sation brings spontaneity to a classical music concert, said Robert Mealy, the group’s coach and a professor at the School of Music.

Verbal communication is one approach that classical musi-cians have taken to engage today’s audiences. To break the stigma of inaccessibility, clas-sical musicians need to empha-size education and outreach in their performances, students and professors interviewed said.

Conversation from the stage makes the experience of listen-ing to classical music friend-lier and “more personal,” vio-linist Colin Brookes ’13 said. Some professional musicians today hold pre-concert discus-sions that help them connect with and welcome the audi-ence, bassist Nicholas Jones ’12 added.

Chamber music is uniquely suited for engaging audiences, Sharp said, because the groups are small, and audience mem-bers tend to sit closer to the per-

formers. “It’s up-close, exciting and

visceral,” she said. “You see how exactly they pass melodies and shape the music.”

Kikeui Ikeda, who coaches the Eli String Quartet, said chamber music is a “demo-cratic” style of music, as there is no conductor and each musi-cian must contributes to the interpretation of the work. Ikeda is the second violinist in the Tokyo String Quartet, the School of Music’s current art-ist-in-residence group.

Outside of Yale, some cham-ber groups have come to per-form in more casual perfor-mance spaces. Many bars and clubs on the West Coast and at

New York’s Poisson Rouge, for example, now feature classi-cal musicians, Mealy said. Last year, the Chiara String Quar-tet toured nationally at bars and clubs to fulfill their slogan of “chamber music in any cham-ber,” according to the Seattle newspaper Crosscut.

On campus, some musicians create fresh performances by collaborating with visual art-ists, Piccoli said. Recent shows by Music School students have included light shows and incor-porated dance into the staging, she said.

Live-streaming concerts such as “Vista” has also altered the way audiences receive clas-sical music, Piccoli said, adding that while Internet access may draw audiences away from live performances, musicians hope that live-streaming will inspire people to attend more concerts.

Before performing the last piece in Monday’s program, Beethoven’s “String Quartet No. 3, Op. 59,” violinist Ste-ven Chang ’13 discussed how the piece portrays Beethoven’s struggles and perseverance in the face of hearing loss. The foreboding introduction, he explained, transforms into heroic triumph.

“The dynamic fugue has moments of conflict and oppo-sition,” said Chang of the piece’s fourth movement. “But they also have moments of unity seeking hope.”

Chamber groups regularly perform lunchtime concerts at Morse Recital Hall within Sprague Memorial Hall and the Yale Center for British Art.

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A NEW KIND OF MUSICIn a concert Tuesday afternoon at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, “Chamber Music Galore VI,” student composers performed original chamber music. They were joined by New York’s Argento Chamber Ensemble, a nine-person group that oper-ates as a branch of the Argento New Music Project. Among the original pieces performed were compositions by students Anderson Alden ’13, Emily Cooley ’12, Baldwin Giang ’14, Nathan Prillaman ’13, Alex Vourtsanis ’14 and Gabriel Zucker ’12.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADISTAFF REPORTER

This evening, the Yale Jazz Ensem-ble will premiere a collection of original jazz pieces.

In Sprague Memorial Hall, the Yale Jazz Ensemble will present its third of four concerts that will take place this academic year. The performance is the first YJE concert to showcase exclu-sively student-written pieces, featur-ing four pieces composed by current members of the group and three alumni creations, said Thomas Du"y, School of Music professor and the director of University bands. While the oppor-tunity to perform original composi-tions did not result in a significantly different practice method, both stu-dent composers and other members of the ensemble said it proved to be a cre-atively engaging experience.

Garth Neustadter MUS ’12, the ensemble’s assistant director who won a primetime Emmy award for his score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World,” said he was excited to see his piece “Express Delivery” per-formed in a public setting for the first time, explaining that opportunities to perform original jazz compositions are often limited.

“This is a special performance because it focuses primarily on the works of Yale jazz performers,” Neus-tadter said. “It’s not always possible to get your works performed, especially when you do jazz.”

While the focus on original compo-sition will unite the works performed, the lineup of pieces incorporates many di"erent styles within the jazz genre, Du"y said. Alexandra Pappas ’15, one of the ensemble’s members, said that the blend of pieces made the concert different from a typical jazz perfor-mance. Alyssa Hasbrouck ’14, another YJE performer, added that the pieces range from fast bebop and salsa to funk and swing.

Hasbrouck added that such variety is typical of YJE concerts, explaining that while today’s performance is the first to feature entirely student-written music, the group does not always play “tradi-tional” pieces.

“There are some pieces of music that are considered standards in the jazz ensemble world, but even if we play one of them, we always try to have a diverse selection of songs,” she said. “We are always pushing the edges of what we can do as a group.”

Both Hasbrouck and ensemble member Zoe LaPalombara ’13 said that

for the most part, the process of prepar-ing the performance did not di"er sig-nificantly from the group’s usual prac-tice methods, adding that the group usually plays a few student-composed songs at each concert.

Still, Neustadter and three stu-dents interviewed said that the abil-ity to discuss each piece with its com-poser helped the ensemble understand it better.

“You get to know a little more about your fellow musicians through the music they write or arrange,” Pap-pas said. “You get a better, more per-sonal explanation of musical ideas that sometimes can’t really be communi-cated through ink on a page.”

Hasbrouck said that during rehears-als a few pieces were still works in prog-ress, so each composer would occasion-ally edit his or her song after hearing the group play it. She added that the pres-ence of the composers compelled the ensemble to try especially hard to per-form each piece perfectly.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble is composed of 16 instrumentalists who play sax-ophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, drums and guitar.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

New student jazz to debut tonight

EARL LEE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Crowds have gathered for free lectures and screenings at the Whitney Humanities Center since its founding in 1981.

At 31, Whitney looks back on beginnings

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“Vista” provided a new take on chamber music, mixing performance with spoken explanations of the music.

“It’s up-close, exciting, and visceral.”

WENDY SHARPYSM Director of Chamber Music

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Student musicians perform classical chamber music.

Chamber musicians revamp performance

AIDS activist discusses film

CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BEINECKE

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BY DAVID ESPO AND KASIE HUNTASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state triumph in Mich-igan and powered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and precious momentum in the most turbulent Repub-lican presidential race in a generation.

Romney tweeted his delight - and his determination: “I take great pride in my Michigan roots, and am humbled to have received so much support here these past few weeks. On to the March contests.”

The two other candidates, Newt Gin-grich and Ron Paul, made little e!ort in either state, pointing instead to next week’s 10-state collection of Super Tuesday pri-maries and caucuses.

Romney’s Arizona triumph came in a race that was scarcely contested, and he pocketed all of the 29 Republican National Convention delegates at stake in the win-ner-take-all state.

Michigan was as di!erent as could be - a hard-fought and expensive battle in Rom-ney’s home state that he could ill a!ord to lose and Santorum made every e!ort to

win.Returns from 74 percent of Michigan’s

precincts showed Romney at 41 percent and Santorum at 37 percent. Paul was win-ning 12 percent of the vote to 7 percent for Gingrich.

Santorum was already campaigning in Ohio, one of the Super Tuesday states, when the verdict came in from Michigan.

“A month ago they didn’t know who we are, but they do now,” he told cheering sup-porters, vowing to stay the conservative course he has set.

In Michigan, 30 delegates were appor-tioned according to the popular vote. Two were set aside for the winner of each of the state’s 14 congressional districts. The remaining two delegates were likely to be divided between the top finishers in the statewide vote.

With his victory in Arizona, Romney had 152 delegates, according to The AP’s count,, compared to 72 for Santorum, 32 for Gin-grich and 19 for Paul. It takes 1,144 to win the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next summer.

In interviews as they left their polling places, Michigan voters expressed a nota-ble lack of enthusiasm about their choices.

Just 45 percent said they strongly favored the candidate they voted for, while 38 per-cent expressed reservations and 15 percent said they made the choice they did because they disliked the alternatives.

The lengthening GOP nomination struggle has coincided with a rise in Demo-cratic President Barack Obama’s prospects for a new term. A survey released during the day showed consumer confidence at the highest level in a year, and other polls show an increase in Americans saying they believe the country is on the right track.

Along with the improving economy, the long and increasingly harsh campaign, in which Gingrich and Santorum have chal-lenged Romney as insu"ciently conser-vative, has prompted some officials to express concern about the party’s chances of defeating Obama in the fall.

Exit polling showed a plurality of Repub-lican voters in both Michigan and Arizona saying the most important factor to them in the primaries was that a candidate be able to beat Obama in November. Romney won that group in Michigan, where it mat-tered most, and also prevailed among vot-ers in the state who said experience was the quality that mattered most.

Romney sweeps Santorum

BY DANIEL WAGNERASSOCIATED PRESS

The Dow Jones industrial average rode a surge of confi-dence in the economy Tuesday to close above 13,000, a thresh-old it last crossed four months before the financial crisis of 2008 and the darkest days of the Great Recession.

The milestone extended a strong rally in stocks since the start of the year, and it came after a fitful week in which the Dow repeatedly floated above 13,000 only to fall back by the end of the trading day.

The Dow closed at 13,005.12, a close enough call that the gain of a single stock, Johnson & John-son, made the difference. The Dow last closed above 13,000 in May 2008, four months before the fall of the Lehman Brothers investment bank and the worst

of the crisis.“I think it’s a momentous day

for investor confidence,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank. “What this number implies is that the financial crisis that we were all losing sleep over, it never happened, because now we’re back.”

Dow 13,000 comes at a time when Americans are feeling bet-ter about the economy than they have in a year. The Conference Board, a private research group, said its consumer confidence jumped to 70.8 in February, up from 61.5 in January.

The report came out at 10 a.m. and lifted the Dow above 13,000. It stayed there most of the day.

“Two months ago, we were talking about a double-dip recession. Now consumer con-fidence is growing,” said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strat-

egist for Scha!er’s Investment Research.

He said the Dow’s milestone “wakes up a lot of investors who have missed a lot of this rally.”

The average first pierced 13,000 last Tuesday but fell back by the close. It floated above the milestone again on Friday and Monday, but slipped below both days. A strong rally for stocks this year seemed stalled as worry built on Wall Street about climbing prices for oil and gas-oline.

Tuesday’s gain puts the Dow 1,160 points below its all-time high, set Oct. 9, 2007. The Great Recession began two months later.

The milestone could draw some fence-sitting investors back into the market and add to the gains, said Brian Gendreau, market strategist at Cetera Financial Group.

Dow closes above 13,000 for first time since crisis

BY DAVID KOENIGASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — Airfares are up and headed higher this summer.

Airlines blame soaring fuel prices which could cost them bil-lions more than last year. That means fares, which normally rise as the summer travel season nears, could increase faster than usual.

Airlines have already pushed through two price increases this year, and it’s only February, when leisure travel is slow.

It’s a sign of things to come.“You’ll see gradual increases

and then a much bigger jump in April and May when people start shopping for the summer travel season,” says Rick Seaney, CEO of travel website FareCompare.com.

The latest data on average fares show that Southwest charged $140 each way during the fourth quarter, JetBlue charged $156 and United Continental charged $270. Length of flight accounted for most of the di!erence - on a per-mile basis, prices were similar.

The average fare rose 9 percent between January 2011 and Janu-ary 2012, according to Airlines for America, a trade group of the big-gest carriers. Fuel is driving the increases. The spot price of jet fuel rose 18 percent over the same period, according to government figures. Airlines burn 48 million gallons per day, making fuel their biggest expense.

There’s little that airlines can do about fuel prices. They hedge, which is like buying insur-ance against big price spikes, and they’ve been adding more-e"-cient planes, but it takes years to replace a whole fleet.

The simplest response is to raise fares - that’s what they did nearly a dozen times last year.

Airlines will respond to higher fuel prices this year by boost-ing fares, running fewer sales, and cutting some flights, pre-dicts Deutsche Bank analyst Michael Linenberg. He noted

that despite a weak economy last year, the seven carriers in Airlines for America used the same moves to boost revenue by $14.1 billion, more than o!setting a $12.2 bil-lion increase in fuel spending.

If they aren’t careful, airlines could price more passengers out of the market.

That’s what’s happening to Jessica Streeter, a 27-year-old teacher and doctoral candidate in Philadelphia who took four plane trips last year. She and a com-panion planned to fly to Florida next month, but when fares shot above $300, they decided that they’ll visit friends in Pittsburgh instead. A planned summer trip to Belgium with an aunt is look-ing doubtful unless they can find a last-minute deal.

“With the economy down, these fares are hard on people,” she says. “It’s hard to get away when you’re on a budget.”

Vacationers are usually the first to cut back on travel if it becomes too expensive. Ameri-cans are already paying an aver-age of $3.72 a gallon for gasoline, up 30 cents in just the last month.

“About 75 percent of lei-sure travel is not essential,” says George Hobica of the travel web-site airfarewatchdog.com. “Fares have reached a ceiling. I think you’ll see more people stay home, or they’ll drive or take the bus or the train.”

Even business travel, which accounts for an outsized share of airline revenue, could be a!ected. Corporate profits rose strongly in 2011, which helped prop up busi-ness travel. But research firm FactSet, which surveys analysts, estimates that first-quarter earn-ings will barely rise.

Kevin Mitchell of the Business Travel Coalition, which repre-sents corporate travel managers, says big corporations have set their travel budgets for the year. But at smaller firms, he says, “if it feels like it’s getting more expen-sive, they’ll cut back or look for cheaper ways to do things.”

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BY LAYA ANASU AND ELIZABETH AURITTSTAFF WRITERS

When Lady Gaga travels, paparazzi and packed concert halls typically follow.

However, when the pop sensa-tion blazes through Harvard Yard on Wednesday, she will bring a research symposium and a youth boot camp in her wake as well.

Lady Gaga will announce the cre-ation of her new charity, the Born This Way Foundation, at an event in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Wednesday afternoon. The foun-dation’s launch will be marked by a

series of events around Harvard throughout the day which share t h e fo u n d a -tion’s focus on bullying in the 21st century.

In the morn-ing, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium on the manifestation of bullying online, according to Graduate School of Education Director of Communi-cations Michael G. Rodman.

Next, the California Endowment, a health organization which is spon-

soring the new Born This Way Foun-dation, will hold a Youth Advo-cacy Boot Camp at the Ed School. The boot camp, which California Endowment spokesperson Bran-don Hersh described as a leader-ship summit focused on the theme of bravery, is open to any attend-ees from the Harvard community. Eighteen young people from vari-ous regions of California have been invited to the program.

“The key idea is how to create change in [the participants’] com-munity,” Hersh said.

Hersh said that his foundation decided to support Lady Gaga’s e!ort in order to bring its health-focused message to a wider audi-ence.

“We want to reach a few million kids. Health happens in our school, in our neighborhood, in our grocery stores. Everything we do a!ects our health. We want to get our message through,” Hersh said. He added that in Lady Gaga, the California Endow-ment “found not only a great mega-phone, but also a genuine supporter living as who she is.”

The Ed School will host a sec-ond youth summit that same day on the theme “Prevent Bullying, Cre-ate Caring Communities.” Students from Cambridge and Boston will participate in this forum. The youth who will be flown in for the Cali-fornia Endowment’s event will also attend the second summit to share their personal stories of bullying, according to Rodman.

The main event of the day will fea-ture guests from a variety of fields: entertainment magnate Oprah Win-frey, author and speaker Deepak Chopra, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen G. Sebel-ius, and Harvard Law School profes-sor Charles J. Ogletree.

Rodman declined to state the for-mat of the event or answer the ques-tion on the minds of many—whether Lady Gaga will sing.

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Gaga to launch foundationBY JEREMY BUDD

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Fifty students joined University Presi-dent Lee Bollinger to discuss the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim student organiza-tions on Monday night, with many Muslims saying they feel uneasy knowing they have been watched and could be watched in the future.

Student leaders from across the Univer-sity attended the fireside chat to listen to Bollinger discuss Columbia’s response and question him about how he would follow up with the police.

The Associated Press reported last week that the NYPD monitored the Muslim Stu-dents Association’s website as recently as 2007.

“This is something that is deeply dis-turbing,” Bollinger said. “We live in a world where we think the role of the state is not to watch us, to follow us, to monitor us, unless there is some predicate for investigating criminal activity.”

Bollinger echoed his earlier University-wide statement, which said that “such an intrusion into the normal, daily activities of our students raises deeply troubling ques-tions that should concern us all.”

L i kew i s e , P ro -vost John Coatsworth called the monitoring of Muslim students an “outrage.”

“I think Columbia’s position on police sur-veillance is exactly the right one,” he said. “I

am very grateful to the Muslim Students Association for making such a fuss about this.”

Irem Bilgic, SEAS ’12 and president of the MSA, said she was thankful that Bollinger hosted the chat to engage with students directly, but emphasized that the issue was not exclusive to members of the MSA, but one involving the entire student body.

“We were shocked and disappointed by the surveillance,” she said. “Since coming to Columbia, I have found comfort in MSA and the greater Columbia community.”

Bilgic said that it was alarming that stu-dents were being monitored without any evidence that they were engaged in criminal activities. “I think all Columbia students, whether American or not, religious or non-religious, activists or non-activists, deserve the University’s protection. We really want to feel safe on campus,” she said.

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Provost John Coatsworth and University President Lee Bollinger discussed the e!ects of the NYPD’s surveillance of the MSA on Monday.

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ball, basketball and baseball. My mom sat with me in our base-ment while we sorted the thou-sands of basketball cards I had collected into binders based on all-star appearances, shoot-ing percentage or career point totals. My mom consoled me on that October night in 2003 when the Cubs imploded against the Marlins — just five outs away from winning the pennant.

My mom fanned my com-petitive flame. I would stay up at night playing basketball on the hoop a!xed to my wall until I could sneak a game o" of her. My mom, throughout my time in high school, woke up day after day at 5 a.m. to take me to early-morning practice, and then ducked out of work early in the afternoon to make sure she saw me play. My mom let me sneak away from family func-tions to run to the bar and catch the final minutes of a big game. And it was my mom who — just because they are my favor-ite team — donned a Colts jer-sey, strutted into Foxboro and started talking smack to Patri-ots fans who were three or four times her size. My mom intro-duced me to my first love, and she continues to share it with me today.

Here’s the dirty little secret, though. I’m not sure my mom even really likes sports that

much. I think when it really comes down to it, she is just a diehard fan of being a mom. I think that all those years ago, she could sense that I was fall-ing in love with these hobbies, and she decided that rather than sitting on the proverbial side-line to watch it happen, she pre-ferred to get in the game with me. That’s why she sends me texts such as “Bulls doing a good job hanging in, but I have a feel-ing they will come up short. If only Luol Deng weren’t hurt … ” during the Bulls-Heat game two weeks ago. It’s her way of talking about the one thing that’s con-stantly on my mind.

And that’s why, 10 years ago, my mom started the most important tradition we share — watching the NCAA tour-nament. As college basket-ball quickly became my favor-ite sport, my mom recognized how important March Mad-ness was to me. I’ll never forget how, when I was in fifth grade, my mom came into my room the first Thursday morning of the tournament and told me that I didn’t have to go to school. She took o" work, and we spent the next four days glued to the TV comparing brackets, drink-ing Slurpees and catching each other up on our lives. This rit-ual has continued for the past 10 years and fills several scrap-books’ worth of memories. Those four days are my Mother’s Day — a chance to celebrate and thank the woman who has given so much to me.

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ticing]. We will be staying here during [the first part of] spring break and then we [the team] will be going to Florida for five days.

Q: As one of the team’s key players, do you ever feel pressure to perform?

A: I don’t think there is actually any extra pressure. We look at the stats

before matches, and I am sure the oppo-nents do too. Defenders can see who has the most points, and since I have scored the most goals, I could be a player to watch, which could stress me a bit.

Q: When did you start playing lacrosse?

A: I have been playing lacrosse since third grade. My whole family,

starting from my grandparents, played lacrosse too.

Q: Tell us about your high school lacrosse days. Did high school help

prepare you to become a better player at Yale?

A: I played for a club team called the Yellow Jackets in Long Island. Since

lacrosse is very popular in that area, it was automatically very competitive, and I was fortunate to play in such com-petitive environment. I actually hope to make to the national team at one point.

Q: What are some of the di!culties you face as a lacrosse player at Yale?

A: It’s completely doable to be an ath-lete and student at Yale. Time com-

mitment is the most di!cult challenge since you put in five hours in practice on a daily basis. It is somewhat frustrating, but I can handle it.

Q: What was the most memorable, unforgettable match for you at Yale?

A: My freshman year, we played against Harvard. It was my first big

rivalry match. It was a beautiful day, and I scored eight goals in the game. We beat them, and it was just great.

Q. Do you plan to continue playing lacrosse after graduation?

A: Yes. There are not that many opportunities for girls to play, but I

still want to have it in part of my life.

Q: What are your goals for the season?

A: I think as a team, we definitely hope to get to the Ivy Champion-

ship. Personally, it would be an honor to be in the All Ivy, but to be more practical, I want to lower my turnover and increase my shot percentage.

Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .

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Ultimate team aims for nationalsand consolation matches — will be held Sunday.

Head coach Jake Taylor said the team has a chance to meet that goal and compete in the national championships, but the road ahead will not be easy. Last year, he added, Yale lost a tight game to Columbia University in the regional quarterfinals.

“I believe if we have a decent tournament, we’ll end up in the regional finals against UConn, which will be very difficult, as they’ve had great results already this year,” Taylor said. “But we are not without a chance.”

Superfly will play in a tourna-ment every weekend until mid-April, when the top two or three teams in each section will go on to play in the Metro East regionals. Yale’s region, Metro East, which includes New York, Connecti-cut and New Jersey, only sends one team to nationals, although larger regions may send up to four teams.

The team has made it to regionals every year since 2008, and it reached nationals four out of five times from 1995-’99.

“Nationals is our goal this year,” Chen said. “We have a great core of seasoned players as well as some talented new ones. We have a great coach, a good system and lots of discipline.”

In 2011, the team tied for fifth place at regionals — its best record since 2004.

The team has been dedicated to training hard over the winter sea-son, he added, and two of the top players in the region, Ray Xi ’12 and Ra! Greenburg ’12, play for the Elis.

While Superfly is one of the top teams in its section, along with UConn, regionals will bring some tough competition, Chen said. Cornell has represented the region at nationals for the past several years, and NYU is partic-ularly strong, he added.

Team captain Will Desmond ’12 said Ultimate Frisbee is one of the nation’s fastest-growing sports. While traditionally pop-ular in the Northeast, Desmond said big state schools such as Florida State and Wisconsin are now “perennial powerhouses.” Desmond added that the first pro Ultimate league, American Ulti-mate Disc League, is on the hori-zon. The AUDL will have teams

from across the country, but pri-marily from the East.

“The sport is starting to shake the stereotype of being a hippie sport,” Desmond said.

He said that most people join the team with no previous Ulti-mate Frisbee experience, but in recent years, the number of expe-rienced players joining the team is increasing.

“Most of the guys who play now have backgrounds in track, cross country, soccer, lacrosse,” Desmond said. “Most played at the varsity level in high school and wanted to change it up.”

Many people do not real-ize Ultimate Frisbee is a legiti-mate sport, Desmond added,

but anyone who knows a player or watches a game quickly learns that the sport involves both fit-ness and skill. Players run for the entire game and often sprint to intercept passes, and the Ulti-mate technique has a steep learn-ing curve. It typically takes new players a semester before they can throw forehands and back-hands consistantly, he said.

“We had a football player play with us for a bit one time, and he was like, ‘Dude, this is exhaust-ing,’” Desmond recounted.

During the fall and spring, the team practices three times a week and competes in games on Satur-days and Sundays. In the winter, Superfly focuses on conditioning.

The team’s workouts include lifts, running, suicide runs on the bas-ketball court and indoor practices at Cox Cage.

Since only the spring results count towards sectional, regional, and national standings, the fall season is dedicated to try-outs and teaching, Chen said.

This year, 20 players made the Superfly A team, with approxi-mately 20 making the less com-petitive B team, Desmond said. One of the team’s first tourna-ments in the fall is Yale’s “Cof-fee Cup,” when teammates take on Ultimate alumns for one of the games.

Desmond said he enjoys seeing alumni who appreciate the tradi-

tions of the team. They play same game and know the same Yale Frisbee cheers.

“The one thing I hope never changes about the Ultimate com-munity is that people are there first and foremost to have fun and be relaxed,” Desmond said. “It does get competitive, and since there are no refs and you call your own fouls, you can win through lying. But for that reason, play-ers value honesty — we call it ‘spirit of the game.’ It allows Fris-bee to be sustainable, and it is at the core of what it means to play Ultimate.”

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

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Thanks, mom for my sports fanaticism

SUPERFLY YALE MEN’S ULTIMATE

Superfly is one of the top teams in its region, but will likely have to beat with a talented UConn squad this season if it is to qualify for the national tournament.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY MOTHER AND THE ACADEMY

Rhodes discusses team improvements

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Devon Rhodes ’13, center, an attacker from East Northpoint, N.Y., played on a club team in Long Island in high school.

The one thing I hope never changes about the ultimate community is that people are there first and foremost to have fun and be relaxed.

WILL DESMOND ’12Captain, men’s club ultimate

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THE NUMBER OF YEARS THAT HAVE ELAPSED SINCE SUPERFLY, THE MEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE TEAM QUALIFIED FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. Superfly, along with women’s counterpart Ramona, will test its skills in March when the team hosts the Yale Cup on the intramural fields.

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“Last year, we had a tumultuous season, but we bounced back. To start this season with a big win is huge.”

DEVON RHODES ’13ATTACKER, W. LACROSSE

W. TRACK AND FIELDECAC CHAMPIONSHIPS AHEADNihal Kayali ’13 leads a group of Elis who have qualified for the ECAC Indoor Track and Field Championships following the team’s eighth-place finish at Ivy champi-onships last weekend. Pole vaulter Emily Urciuoli ’12 is the only member of the team to qualify in an event other than a middle distance or distance race.

WOMEN’S SWIMMINGSEVEN ELIS NAMED ALL-IVYCaptain Rachel Rosenberg ’12, right, who won the three-meter springboard, was named Diver of the Meet after Yale’s third-place finish at Ivy championships last weekend. Hayes Hyde ’12 earned the title of Career High Point Swimmer after winning the 200-meter butterfly, and five other Elis were honored.

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BY LINDSEY UNIATSTAFF REPORTER

This March, Superfly, the Yale men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, is hoping that one of the sport’s first tournaments — the Yale Cup — will be a step on its road to a national championship.

Yale’s Superfly team is one of the old-est college Ultimate teams in the coun-try. Yale was home to the nation’s first collegiate Ultimate Frisbee champion-ship in 1975 — then called the Intercol-legiate Ultimate Frisbee Championship and later renamed the Yale Cup. Legend has it that the sport originated when Yale students threw pie tins from the Frisbee pie company around the quad, although most Ultimate fans trace its beginnings to Columbia High School in New Jersey. Columbia High School alumnus Joel Silver introduced the idea in 1968 and brought the sport to Yale in the 1970s. Since then the team, and the sport, have grown and widened in their appeal, yet players retain many of the same traditions, including the annual Yale Cup.

This year, the tournament, which draws men’s and women’s teams from the Northeast, will take place on March 24 and 25 on Yale’s intramural fields, although organizers on the team are still

waiting for final confirmation of the venue from Yale Athletics. Yale’s oppo-nents will come from throughout the Metro East and New England regions of the College Division of USA Ultimate — the governing body of Ultimate Frisbee in the U.S.

“Hopefully we’ll get some interest-ing Ivy League matchups,” tournament director Kan Chen ’13 said. “We’re try-ing to get the word out at Yale, and any-one can come and watch.”

USA Ultimate sets the rules, divides teams into conferences and hosts nationals each year at a di!erent school. Each team will play about three games each day at the Yale Cup. The scheduled pool games will take place on Saturday, while the bracket games — qualifying

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Behind every true sports fanatic lies an ethusiastic supporter. It’s high time that I thanked the woman who introduced me to my love of sports.

Indulge me for a moment. To those who brave the bitter cold to watch their team take the field, or spend hours upon hours each week pouring over box scores, there exists for each fan a catalyst, someone who helped incite this rabid fanaticism. Ask any lover of sports where it all started, and I guarantee that without skipping a beat, each one could launch into the origin of their own narra-tive — the person who first put a ball in their hands or let them stay up late to watch the end of a nail-biting playo! game. Jordan had his father, Ali his trainer, and Larry Bird his brothers.

Though I may not possess the same talent or prowess as any of these aforementioned sports deities, I too, like so many others, can trace my passion back to one very spe-cial person. And as I have come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever extended an ade-quate thank-you for first exposing me to the world of sports — a world which has come to carry tremendous weight and importance throughout my life. So, while this may be more self-serving than my normal column, I hope that you’ll bear with me. With that said, this one is for you, Mom.

I’m not really sure where, when, or how my mom stumbled into an a"nity for sports. She was never an athlete herself, and grew up in a household where the sports section was the first thrown into the trash from each morning’s paper. What matters is not how it happened, but that from the time I was born, my mom served as my guide, concur-rently exposing my malleable mind to foot-

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BY EUGENE JUNGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Following the Bulldogs’ suc-cessful season opener against Holy Cross, the team has high hopes for this season. During the game, attacker and leading scorer Devon Rhodes ’13 scored four of Yale’s goals to lead the Elis to a 17–13 win against the Crusaders. The News sat down with Rhodes, an American Studies major from East Northport, N.Y., to talk about the team’s prog-ress.

Q: How was the kicko! game of the season? What did you think

about the team’s play?

A: I think we did really well. We looked fast. Last year we

had [a] tumultuous season, but we bounced back. To start the season with a big win is huge.

Q: What was the biggest di!erence in the team’s play, compared to

last season’s?

A: Definitely speed. The nine freshmen upped the speed

[of the game]. We have [a] di!er-ent confidence this year. Last year, we started with a loss [against Holy Cross], but this was a revenge game.

Q: What happened last season? The team did not fully meet its

expectations and finished last in the Ivies.

A: Last season a lot of players quit the team. I think we got o!

[on the wrong foot]. The team was really low after a few losses, and then after that it was just downhill.

Q: How are practices structured?

A: We go to the weight room twice a week, and we have

practice every day at Reese [Sta-dium], either from 1:30 to 3:30 or from 6 to 8. We basically spend about four, five hours a day [prac-

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EUGENE JUNG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Devon Rhodes ’13, center, scored four goals in Yale’s season-opening win against Holy Cross last weekend. Last season, she led the team with 16 goals in 15 games.

JOELSIRCUS

Happy Mother’s

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SUPERFLY YALE MEN’S ULTIMATE

Superfly, the Yale men’s Ultimate team, is aiming for a spot in the national tournament this season.

Rhodes leads Eli attack

Superfly starts spring season

The sport is starting to shake the stereotype of being a hippie sport.

WILL DESMOND ’12Captain, men’s club ultimate