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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 2 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS So long, sweet summer.

Fall term starts today for undergrads. Because you can’t have too many reminders, the Labor Day holiday means classes normally held on Monday will be held on Friday.

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO SHOW LOOKS WEST

RYAN CROCKER

ELECTION 2013

NEW HAVEN PROMISE

Former ambassador to teach this year despite DUI, hit-and-run charges

MAYOR, UNIONS ALREADY GEARING UP FOR REMATCH

Scholarship program’s new director overcame childhood struggles

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Admit yield climbs up

BY THE NUMBERS CLASS OF 2016

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malfunctions while you’re picking classes, you probably don’t need to clear your cookies: University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said class times may go missing for about 15 minutes while the site refreshes its course information throughout the day. Information is refreshed at 7 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 6:30 p.m.

Are pants the problem? A new

book by Nathan Harden ’09 — titled “Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad” — slams Yale for allegedly losing sight of its mission and instead creating a sexobsessed culture. The book landed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and a piece by Harden in The Daily Beast elicited a response from Claire Gordon ’10 and Kathryn Olivarius ’11.

Conservative cometh. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican from Wisconsin who is running for vice president alongside Mitt Romney, will visit Connecticut on Sept. 30 for a fundraiser in — drumroll — Greenwich. Tickets start at $1,000 a person.

More conservative success?

Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who lost to Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in 2010, currently leads Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, 49-46, according to a poll out Tuesday from Quinnipiac University.

Dems do OK. In a threehour voter registration drive on Sunday, the Yale College Democrats signed up more than 150 students to vote in the 2012 election, according to communications director Eric Stern ’15. The Dems also sold 120 “Yale Students for Obama” t-shirts.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2003 Freshmen arriving on campus were met by frocos, move-in crews and 1,000 picketing University employees in the third day of a strike.

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A new blue. Following a contentious yet gentlemanly debate, the Yale Club of New York City has deemed denim — yes, blue jeans — appropriate for certain parts of the club, so long as it is “neat, clean and in good repair,” according to a June announcement. Before the new policy was approved, the matter went to a vote among the club’s members: 60 percent said they supported a decision to relax the club’s business casual dress code, while 40 percent said they wanted stricter enforcement of the status quo.

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to apply to other colleges, including Yale.”

Brenzel said this year’s freshman class includes the largest proportion of students who indicated an interest in science, math and engineering that Yale has ever seen. The University has made a conscious effort to up its STEM recruiting in recent years, notably introducing the Yale Engineering and Science Weekend (YES-W) for prospective students in spring SEE YIELD PAGE 4

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33.3% from the Northeast 17.8% from the West

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BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER After Yale admitted the lowest percentage of applicants in its history this year, the yield rate for the class of 2016 jumped by more than three percentage points — reversing a five-year decline in the rate.

The University posted a 68.4 percent yield rate with 1,356 students accepting the University’s offer to matriculate this fall and 61 postponing their entry until next year, of 2,043 total admits. While

Percent of the matriculating students qualifying for Pell Grants

those tallies pushed up the yield, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel cautioned against attributing too much significance to small yearly fluctuations in the rate.

“This year’s results were close to last year’s in most areas,” Brenzel said Tuesday. “We expected our yield to rise this year after Harvard and Princeton restored their early admissions programs, meaning that more students with those schools as clear first choices were accepted early and did not go on

After decades, ROTC returns

BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER For the first time in decades, Yale students will today attend courses on campus as part of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

Twenty-one students are participating in the return of a program that left campus in 1972, amid protests against the Vietnam War. Yale’s restored Naval and Air Force units are smaller than those typical of ROTC programs — with 11 and 10 Yale students, respectively — and they lack a senior class to provide leadership. But ROTC officials say the units will grow over time, and they are adapting the program’s leadership structure to fit the makeup of their younger cohort.

“You can’t hold more than one leadership position, so there are going to be some incoming freshmen and sophomores who have never seen or done anything with the military who will have leadership positions,” said Andrew Hendricks ’14, an Air Force cadet. “But it will have us communicate better as a team and work harder if we want this to work out.”

In light of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gays and lesbians from

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER A handful of off-campus parties were shut down by the Yale Police Department during the first Camp Yale under new party registration guidelines, but fraternity leaders said they were unsure whether the policy contributed to the police’s activity.

Administrators announced on Aug. 10 that all off-campus parties with over 50 students must be registered with the Yale College Dean’s Office in an effort to increase student safety. A week after residences opened, student leaders said they were still skeptical about the effectiveness of the rule.

“It’s too early to tell what the effects will be and if they will match the stated goals,” said Will Kirkland ’14, president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Under the new policy, a “host” must register parties and take responsibility for attendees, and the Dean’s Office will relay the information about parties to the YPD so officers can monitor them. John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, said the Dean’s Office has received roughly 10 to 15 registrations over the last week.

Kirkland said his fraternity had a closed, registered mixer on Saturday that was broken up by the YPD. But he said the fraternity did not receive any complaints about the event and the officers’ reason for entering was “unclear.” “[The YPD officers] did say at the end that they knew about the event because it was registered, but at the beginning they were asking me if it was registered,” he said. “I don’t think that our event on Saturday was in any way dangerous, so I don’t know if it really helped

international citizens

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Students adjust to party rules

Elis prepare to take field without captain

serving openly, ROTC units remained absent from campus until the policy was repealed in December 2010. The University signed agreements with the Navy and Air Force over the next few months allowing both service branches to reinstate their ROTC programs on campus.

It will have us communicate better as a team and work harder if we want this to work out.

ANDREW HENDRICKS ’14 Air Force cadet The newly formed naval unit is composed of 10 freshmen and one sophomore, while the Air Force unit has no Yale seniors and only four juniors.

Col. Scott Manning, Yale’s Air Force ROTC commander, said he expects that older cadets will assume leadership positions, and that instructors will take extra steps to “mentor and groom this initial group.”

In an effort to develop a SEE ROTC PAGE 4

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The Yale football team will lack a captain for the first time in its history this fall.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Under the management of new head coach Tony Reno, Yale’s football program is already seeing major changes. For starters, this fall will be the team’s first season without a captain in its 140-year history.

Linebacker Will McHale ’13, who was voted captain of the team last winter, had his captaincy suspended following an altercation in May at Toad’s Place in which he allegedly punched another student in the face. Reno said that McHale will not be reinstated or replaced as captain, and that the

player who will represent the Bulldogs at the opening coin toss will be decided each week by a special vote by the players.

Reno took over the reins as the 34th head coach of Yale football last spring and has been picking up the speed of Yale football ever since.

Under the new coaching staff, the Bulldogs will shake things up on both sides of the ball. Tight end Kyle Wittenauer ’14 said that the Blue and White will be employing a spread offense to open up the field and create pressure.

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OPINION

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GUEST COLUMNIST DIANA ENRIQUE Z

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T R YA N P O L L O C K

Accepting vulnerability

Keep the liberal arts in fashion

“I

can imagine the face you are making right now,” says my best friend over the phone. And it’s true: He probably can.

That is part of what makes this relationship and a few other friendships as rewarding as they are. He knows me well enough to know not only how I will react to something, but also how I will communicate this reaction publicly.

Many of the Yale students I have come to know and love started off with similar social patterns: They liked having big networks of friends.

These networks are filled with people to talk to on the street corner and ask “How was your summer?” without necessarily wanting a long and detailed answer. They come with promises of lunches and coffee that may or may not actually happen — and yet we aren’t offended when someone didn’t really mean she would follow through. We also have friends and suitemates with whom we spend nearly all of our time — and yet some Yalies still feel lonely though they are constantly surrounded by activity and groups of so-called friends.

We have all learned to manage challenges and failures and move forward. It’s part of the reality of being a student here. You simply will not be able to do everything offered to you and do it perfectly.

Every single other student I know was in some way unprepared for academic, social or mental challenges. During those low points, we feel more alone than ever in our lives.

We are surrounded by some of the most talented students from across the country and around the world. How can we admit we’ve done something wrong?

Vulnerability is terrifying.

It means standing in front of the mirror of your own judgment and scrutinizing yourself for much more than your physical appearance. You can put on your war paint and a smile for every day you spend at Yale without developing the internal strength and understanding of who you are as a person. What will carry you through every challenge you face here and when you leave Yale comes from that personal fortitude that only you can build up by allowing yourself to be vulnerable.

University of Houston professor of psychology Brené Brown’s TED talk on vulnerability went viral shortly after it was posted on TED.com.

Her message is simple but profound: She defines shame as a fear of unworthiness of peers’ acceptance and friendship. If they know this about me, we think, then they will not accept me. We choose to “numb vulnerability,” Brown says. But we cannot do this without turning off other emotions like excitement and anger and joy, because numbing vulnerability also means numbing emotion.

How often I have listened to this TED talk and felt the weight of truth in her words.

But where could I start when I, like many other Yalies, learned to turn off emotions to get whatever I needed to done, come off as completely put together at all times and be able to adapt quickly and effectively to all environments?

I found peace and acceptance in my friendships — in relationships where everything is laid out in all of the beautiful and ugly truth it holds. My best friends call me out on my mistakes, bad decisions or good work, even when I will not reach these conclusions on my own terms. My friends’ words hold weight for me, because we are able to see, understand and respect each other for all of the pieces that come together and make the whole of the other person. These friendships I have formed at Yale come from late nights sitting in common rooms and hallways, tears, frustrations, failure, unexpected success, celebration of jobs well done, criticism to push the other toward improvement — and acceptance when I never thought it could come.

I could only form these relationships that give me the strength to do everything I do because I accepted vulnerability as part of the bargain. There’s a constant pressure to duck out early and stay emotionally safe. But it’s not worth it. I will tell my friends that I love them because it is true and we both know it, even with the occasional pain that sometimes comes from trusting people on this level.

I believe in them, the same way they believe in me. And that is always worth the price of being vulnerable. So take the time to say what you really mean to those who matter.

The results are something you will always carry with you.

DIANA ENRIQUEZ is a senior in Saybrook College. Contact her at diana.enriquez@yale.edu .

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ast spring, University President Richard Levin dismissed parts of a faculty resolution encouraging Yale-NUS College to uphold a wide range of civil liberties for its students and faculty. “The tone of the resolution … carried a sense of moral superiority that I found unbecoming,” he told the News.

In other arenas, Yale’s campus certainly boasts its becoming conformity to received standards of taste, moral and otherwise. After all, Brooks Brothers just shot its “American Ivy” fall collection ads in and around Sterling library, and the pantscape of our campus looks more and more like schools of salmon swimming. Maybe we shouldn’t blush when Yale’s president feels comfortable demanding an unusually exact pattern of opinion from the faculty and, by extension, the students.

But Levin’s rhetoric reflects deeper truths about Yale-NUS and how Yale-NUS changes Yale in New Haven. The Singaporean government has made certain ideas of propriety in public discourse the law of the land.

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tions held in class or late at night in a friend’s common room have a funny way of spilling over into the way we interact with the world at large, as social beings and as citizens who occasionally take to the streets in bids to bring about change. And when we take to the streets, through action or activism of whatever stripe, loud or quiet, overt or discreet, we do so not out of heady whimsy or adolescent abandon, but because the people we live and learn with and the ideas we encounter in the texts we read sometimes change who we are and compel us to act in certain ways, both in and out of our classes.

By signing on to Yale-NUS, our administration expresses its agreement with the Singaporean government that the ideas or skills we get out of a liberal arts education are essentially neutral, inert things. Now, Yale, like the Singaporean government, believes that what we learn in the classroom — and what we do with what we learn — poses little or no threat to the sociopolitical status quo. Levin, through his support of this venture and his refusal to give all that much credence to its critics, has made

clear that his administration views the things we read and the ideas we discuss in our classes as little better than fodder for polite discussion and debate — training for future cocktail parties.

Set aside the fact that the Yale is helping a government that, in the letter of its laws, has criminalized homosexuality; the fact that Yale’s faculty had no opportunity to vote on this significant change to the University; that the exact nature of Yale-NUS and Yale’s future relationship remains a little murky. What Yale-NUS indicates about our administration’s stance towards the liberal arts should alone give us pause — however ultimately unbecoming such reflections may be.

Happily, we at Yale in New Haven still can (and will) agitate and protest against YaleNUS. We will do this because, sadly, our peers in Singapore won’t have that freedom. Yale, eschewing its commitment to the liberal arts, will be partly to blame.

RYAN POLLOCK is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact him at ryan.pollock@yale.edu .

GUE ST COLUMNIST RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF

The spell-check revolution T

he Greeks had a foolproof method for catalyzing change. If the crops were looking fallow or you were just anxious about marrying off your ugliest daughter, all you had to do was sacrifice a goat. I share many values with the Greeks, including faith that we have a small hand in shaping our fates and an appreciation for yogurt, so allow me to be a sacrificial animal for you all and, hopefully, the greater good.

As a senior, I’ve now read many of the things I’m supposed to have read. I can ride a unicycle and talk about Chaucer and play “Hallelujah” on the ukulele. There are times I almost feel like a Renaissance woman. But then I remind myself I can’t spell renaissance.

And then I remember I can’t spell anything, and my self-satisfaction is immediately replaced by a sinking sense of shame.

A sample of words I’ve recently looked up: ambassador (since embassy starts with a freakin’ “e”), apocalypse, parallel (is it parralel? or paralel?), exacerbate, cemetery (because we say cemetary!), Strebeigh (Streighbeigh?

Streibegh? What if I just called him Fred?) and the list goes on.

I think back to spelling tests in Mrs. Totman’s third grade class

with a heavy heart. I never got anything less than 5/5. I could spell “friend” like it was “cat,” and Mrs. Totman was certain I was destined for great spelling success. So how could I have fallen so far?

Was it that I started writing on computers in high school? Is it the iPhone in my pocket that searches words so easily that it all fails to make an imprint? Or is it that Google will always tell me what I meant to search and those cute red squiggles will always be there to lovingly nestle my mistakes and keep them our little secret?

In my three years at Yale, I’ve only had to write by hand a few times. I understand that the fact that no one needs to know how to spell anymore should be a cause for celebration: Our brains now have so much extra room to store more useful information than the infuriatingly arbitrary order of a bunch of letters.

And yet I cannot help but worry, in my apocalyptic dreams, that Strebeigh would want to bury me in a cemetery of bad English majors if he only knew the truth. I’m afraid that as the little moments in our lives grow more convenient, most technol-

ogy only exacerbates our bigger concerns. We’ve saved time and helped our backs and trees by not carrying around Webster’s wherever we go, but we’ve lost more than we bargained for.

I am obsessed with nuances, etymologies and surprising applications of words, and not being able to spell them makes me feel like I’ll never really get to know any of the words I treasure.

When I realized recently that deodarant was spelled deodorant because it contains the word odor, my relationship with the word suddenly felt unshakeable!

But not being able to spell is like loving someone whose name you can’t remember. It’s so deeply shameful.

Maybe someday in the future, when even famous writers can’t spell and we have no cultural memory of what it was like to write by hand, no one will share my humiliation. But for now, as a lover of words, I lose some dignity with every wayward letter.

I had a debate with a friend recently about whether our generation will ever get sick enough of staring at screens all day to start an anti-digital revolution where we all shut down our Facebook and email accounts for good.

I can’t imagine this will ever happen. I do have hope, however, in a much less ambitious revolution — one so miniscule and un-radical that it’s almost embarrassing.

But I’m going to propose it anyway: What if … we all just wrote more by hand? I’m not saying stop writing emails or using Microsoft Word. I’m just giving you another reason to keep the journal you’ve always struggled to justify or to write that letter to an old friend. And why not write every first draft with a pencil? You’d avoid the distractions of the Internet and rid yourself of the spell-check crutch.

This year, I invite you to join me in my anachronistic attempt to wield a pen more often. Find me anytime and we’ll compare notes. I’ll be the one in Sterling at midnight, nursing a hand cramp and either feigning independence or asking the sorry person sitting next to me whether “i” really does always come before “e.”

RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at rachel.kaudernalebuff@yale.edu .

Lessons from London

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Pericles Lewis’ admirable promise to protect “rigorous debate,” even of a political nature, at the school, in abiding by Singaporean law the University will constrain students’ ability to speak their minds in public.

In the best-case scenario, our counterparts in Singapore will not be able to protest vocally out of doors on campus, and many of the student groups we enjoy here at Yale — like the News, for instance, which depends upon a freedom of the press that simply does not exist in Singapore — would only be able to exist in a highly attenuated form, if at all.

But what do these constraints mean for Yale in New Haven?

Sad to say, we can no longer be sure our administration recognizes one of the most exhilarating things about Yale: that our classrooms aren’t just the wood-paneled rooms in WLH or brutalist concrete tombs like Davies Auditorium. They are the landscape of the many worlds we live in.

Our semi-rabid enthusiasm (as poor, over-recruited frosh I’m sure have noticed!) for our extracurricular commitments, formal and informal, certainly suggests as much. Conversa-

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watched four American women shatter a world record from a distance of only a few hundred yards. Dusk had settled over the Olympic Stadium, and a light haze from the sunset drifted across the manicured central lawn and the hard surface of the track. The tranquility of the scene was undercut by thousands of people screaming, jumping and waving flags: “GO! GO! GO!” I’ve rarely felt so proud to be an American. The runners of the women’s 4x100m relay were strong and powerful; they celebrated their victory with class and weren’t afraid to shed a tear on the podium. I waved my flag giddily with my parents and brother when the medals were placed around their necks, and I sang the national anthem with a full heart.

At other events that same evening, I screamed as loudly for Team GB as I had for Team USA. Not because everyone wants the home team to win, but because the home team was as much mine as Team USA. In many races I found myself yelling for both, one after the other, until the conclusion of an event.

That evening at the Olympic Stadium was the literalization of a conflict I’ve been ZOE MERCER- struggling with GOLDEN my whole life. Born Meditations in Hong Kong and raised between California and London, I’ve spent more time living abroad than I have in the United States. By the time I was naturalized as a British citizen almost three years ago, I no longer felt exclusively American. Passing the UK citizenship test (which required a surprising amount of memorization) and receiving my red passport were both peak life experiences. I was grateful that I had a physical symbol of the shift in my loyalties from affinity with one country to love of two.

Yet ever since returning to the U.S. for college, friends and family on both sides of the Atlan-

tic have been eager to make me choose one. Are you English or American? they ask. Which one do you prefer? When I give my best diplomatic answer about feeling connected to both countries for different reasons, I tend to get disgusted looks. In the aftermath of such conversations, I often feel confused and embarrassed, tired of trying to explain.

But my diplomatic answer is true: I cannot choose. My world is no longer composed of one country, one nationality — I have and am both. Moments like the Olympics are in some ways the easiest and the most challenging: I have two teams to root for, but when the sides are in conflict, there is a greater expectation that I will prioritize, pick and be content.

The more time I have spent musing on this conflict, the more I have realized that every aspect of my life — and indeed, all of our lives — has been full of such decisions: choices between religious traditions, intellectual passions, political positions to espouse.

Perhaps these choices are an integral part of growing up, but I have felt diminished by decisions

that forced me to abandon part of myself so I would progress in one area.

The challenge facing all of us this fall is to be both — to find the passions we love and, as much as possible, not choose between them. Find room to be the athlete who paints, the writer who runs, the mathlete who cooks, the linguist who plants trees. Inhabit the space between worlds and fill it with passion and commitment. And don’t feel that a choice is inevitable or even necessary; it doesn’t have to be.

The Olympics reminded me that it is possible to be both, and therefore more fully myself, because none of us lives in absolutes. While we celebrate the triumphs of our athletes, let us also celebrate what the Olympics represent about our world — one united in the possibility of both, multiple nationalities and accomplishments, instead of either.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .

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Crocker to teach despite charges

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CORRECTIONS

CREATIVE COMMONS

Despite drunk driving and hit-and-run charges from a car crash in Washington state, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Ryan Crocker will teach at Yale this year.

FRIDAY, AUG. 24

The article “Swimming coach Moriarty dies at 98” misstated the name of Frank Keefe, Phil Moriarty’s successor as coach of the swimming team. The article also implied that John Lapides is the current president of the Yale Swimming Association, a position he no longer occupies. Additionally, a caption accompanying a photo in the article incorrectly stated that Don Schollander ‘68 won four Olympic gold medals after captaining the Yale swimming team, when in fact Schollander won the medals in question prior to matriculating at Yale.

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER

FRIDAY, AUG. 24

Due to an editing error, the article “Eight Elis compete in London” contained an extraneous paragraph that was not intended to be included in the text of the article.

Mayor, unions already eyeing 2013

Former U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker will teach at Yale this year as the University’s first Kissinger Senior Fellow despite facing drunk driving and hit-and-run charges in Wasington state.

On Aug. 14, Crocker hit a semi-truck in Spokane Valley, Wash., when he tried to make a right turn from the left lane, before registering a .160 and .152 bloodalcohol content in successive breath tests, authorities allege, according to the Associated Press. A day after the arrest, Yale announced that it had appointed Crocker to a position at the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy and would have the former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and several other Middle Eastern countries teach students in the 2012-’13 academic year.

“Yale was quite concerned, of course, to hear of Ambassador Crocker’s arrest the week before last in Spokane,” said Jim

Levinsohn, director of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, which houses the Johnson Center, explaining that he still expects Crocker to teach this year. “We are in touch with Ambassador Crocker as he answers the charges and addresses his legal situation.”

Driving a 2009 Ford Mustang convertible, Crocker tried to turn right from the left lane, into the path of a truck in the right lane, State Patrol Trooper Troy Briggs told the Associated Press. Though Crocker’s car spun out after the two vehicles collided, he kept driving, Briggs said. Neither Crocker nor the truck driver was injured. “[Crocker] was very cooperative but obviously intoxicated,” Briggs told the Associated Press.

The DUI and hit-and-run charges are both misdemeanors. Crocker would face a maximum of 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine if he is found guilty of either crime.

Crocker pleaded not guilty to the charges against him the following day, Reuters reported. His Spokane-based attorney,

Julie Twyford, did not return a request for comment.

At Yale, Crocker is slated to teach a module on Afghanistan in Levinsohn’s “Gateway to Global Affairs” class this fall. In the spring, Crocker plans to teach two seminars of his own, Levinsohn said.

“Ambassador Crocker is one of the most highly decorated diplomats of his generation, having served in many of the most demanding and dangerous posts in the Foreign Service,” Levinsohn said. “He is a seven-time ambassador, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and I know that his experiences will be invaluable to our students.”

Crocker’s Yale position is within the Johnson Center, which was made possible by the donation of papers by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a gift from Nicholas Brady ’52 and Charles Johnson ’54.

Provost Peter Salovey, whose office handles faculty appointments, deferred to Levinsohn for comment.

Crocker is currently on leave from Texas A&M University, where he is dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service. In his foreign service career, he has served as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon, in addition to his most recent posting in Afghanistan.

“I am so pleased to learn that Ambassador Crocker will teach at Yale,” Kissinger said in a Yale press release. “He has been a remarkable diplomat, and he has served the United States with great distinction in some of the most challenging assignments in the entire Foreign Service.”

Crocker’s next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 12 in Spokane.

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr., seen above celebrating his mayoral primary win last September, is already raising money to run for an 11th term.

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER The Elm City’s longestserving mayor is already eyeing another term.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who won a record 10th term by a modest 1,600-vote margin last November, began showing signs of campaigning this summer. As Yale’s labor unions — which have opposed the mayor’s fiscal policies in recent years — tested the political waters for possible challengers of their own, DeStefano’s reelection committee racked up donations far in advance of next year’s campaign season.

The DeStefano 2013 campaign can be traced back to a May birthday celebration at Anthony’s Ocean View restaurant, with tickets ranging from $150 to $500 per person to “support” the mayor’s reelection. DeStefano also paid a visit to Bella Vista senior housing complex in mid-August sporting bags that read “DeStefano for Mayor 2013.”

A July campaign filing by the DeStefano for Mayor committee indicates that the mayor raised over $75,000 from individual contributions between April and June, plus an additional $5,000 from group donations. According to the filing, many of the individual contributions came from city employees — including city spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04, chief administrative officer Rob Smuts ’01 and corporation counsel Victor Bolden — members of the Board of Education, agencies associated with the city like the New Haven port authority and contractors doing business with the city.

Carter Winstanley, the developer whose company is set to build a $100 million biotech building in the modified Route 34 corridor, donated the maximum of $1,000 towards DeStefano’s reelection. While DeStefano established a pub-

lic financing system in 2007, he abandoned the program last year and defeated challenger Jeffrey Kerekes, who relied solely on public financing, after outspending him by a 20 to 1 margin.

While nobody has declared a bid to oppose DeStefano, some groups are already trying to determine whom to support.

A phone poll by Yale’s unions last week asked New Haven residents for their opinions on DeStefano, Kerekes, State Reps.

Gary Holder-Winfield and Toni Walker, State Sen. Toni Harp, Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez, former city economic developer Henry Fernandez and Greater New Haven NAACP President Jim Rawlings.

The poll focused many of its questions on Perez, who, as president for seven of the 25 years he has spent on the Board, is one of the city’s best known politicians. Organized labor demonstrated its political prowess last November, when aldermanic elections gave the Board a majority of pro-labor members, and union endorsements could be key in next year’s mayoral race.

While labor-backed candidates were elected in an antimayor climate, DeStefano supported many of their proposed policies after the election, including a return to a community policing strategy and the creation of a “jobs pipeline” to connect New Haven residents with local jobs. Labor- and City Hall-backed aldermen have largely cooperated on legislative initiatives, passing DeStefano’s proposed city and federal grant budgets with minimal controversy last spring.

On Oct. 4, DeStefano will become the longest-serving mayor in city history, surpassing Elizur Goodrich, who served from 1803 to 1822.

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

Bailyn urges 2016 to look beyond campus

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Although at times Yale may seem a self-contained “universe,” the Yale experience should extend beyond the campus, astronomy and physics professor Charles Bailyn ’81 told the class of 2016 Tuesday afternoon.

Bailyn, who will serve as the inaugural dean of faculty for Yale-NUS College in Singapore, delivered keynote address of this year’s freshman orientation in Woolsey Hall. Recounting his own experience as a Yale undergraduate, Bailyn encouraged the incoming freshmen to venture beyond the “Yale Bubble” by exploring New Haven and opportunities abroad, and to preserve their “sense of excitement and potential” for the remainder of their college years.

“Just because Yale has so much going on inside does not mean the outside world has ceased to exist,” Bailyn said.

Just because Yale has so much going on inside does not mean the outside world has ceased to exist.

CHARLES BAILYN ’81 Keynote speaker, 2012 Freshman Assembly Bailyn is only the third person to deliver a keynote speech during Freshman Orientation. Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry, who chairs the Freshman Orientation Committee said that the idea of having a keynote address was proposed in 2010 by the committee as a new way to bring the freshman class together and offer inspiration and advice.

Gentry said in selecting each year’s speaker, the committee looks for a faculty member who graduated from Yale College. Since the two prior speakers, Akhil Amar ’80 GRD ’84 and Elizabeth Alexander ’84 GRD ’87, were from the humanities, Gentry said the committee wanted to invite a professor from the

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Physics professor Charles Bailyn ’81, who will serve as the inaugural dean of faculty for Yale-NUS College, delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Freshman Assembly. sciences this year, leading to the selection of Bailyn, and Gentry added that each speaker is given the freedom to impart his or her own wisdom upon the freshmen.

“Having the freshman class come together for the keynote address serves as the very first time that the entire freshman class is together as a class, so it’s a special occasion,” Gentry said.

At the conclusion of the address, the Yale Glee Club led the freshmen class in a traditional rendition of “Bright College Years,” complete with Yale handkerchiefs that Gentry provided. Following the assembly, the freshmen returned to their residential colleges for a special dinner and reception.

Eight freshmen interviewed said they enjoyed Bailyn’s address and thought the advice would be valuable for their Yale experience.

“He talked about topics that were very relevant for us,” Tlalli Moya-Smith ’16 said. “He emphasized things that would create a well-rounded Yale experience.”

Connie Wang ’16 and Laura Peng ’16 said the assembly introduced them to new Yale traditions and made them excited for the school year to begin. They added they hoped to follow his advice and reach beyond the “Yale bubble.”

For Nikolas Laskaris ’16, the assembly fostered a sense of kinship with his new peers.

“I loved being around everyone from my class,” he said. “It really sets the tone for the whole semester.”

A full video of the keynote address will be posted on the Yale Freshman Affairs website.

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

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Post-ROTC careers ROTC’s website lists various careers that ROTC graduates pursue, including veterinary corps officer, quartermaster officer, dental corps officer, army judge advocate general’s corps attorney, signal officer, armor officer and others.

ROTC adjusts model for small unit sizes ROTC FROM PAGE 1 chain of command for the new naval unit, ROTC officials will select the unit’s platoon commander and sergeant from among the underclassmen today, based on their performances during a Aug. 11-18 orientation.

Lt. Molly Crabbe said larger groups of midshipmen, which can reach hundreds of students, would rely on seniors to assume various leadership positions in the unit.

“Here we don’t have that, and we have to artificially give them that environment,” she said.

The Navy’s 11-student ROTC unit consists of only Elis, while the Air Force has created a consortium with nearby schools — including the University of New Haven, Quinnipiac, Southern Connecticut State and Western Connecticut State — which brings the unit’s total to 43 cadets.

Crabbe and Manning said recruiting for their initial class met expectations, adding that they believe the units will grow over time. Crabbe said she expects the Navy to recruit at least 11 midshipmen per year in the future, and Manning said he hopes to see the Air Force unit “explode” with 50 Yale cadets and 100 outside cadets.

“Just the intellectual capability that Yale brings to those who wear the uniform, and even the cross-towns who will take classes with professors like Paul Kennedy, you can not put a price tag on how that will influence the thinking and development of the U.S. Air Force as an institution,” Manning said.

Yale’s Navy and Air Force ROTC units were established in 1926 and 1946, respectively.

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Earlier this month, students enrolled in the new ROTC units at Yale were recognized in the war veterans’ memorial in Woolsey Hall.

Yield rate rises for 2016 YIELD FROM PAGE 1 2011.

The class of 2016 includes a slightly greater percentage of students of color and students from public schools than in past years, Brenzel said, and a roughly comparable percentage of international students.

Fifty percent of incoming students are receiving financial aid, compared to 53 percent of last year’s freshman class, though the average grant increased by $3,000.

Yale was not the only school to see an increase in yield rate this year. Among its peers, both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported record yield rates — 81 percent and 70 percent, respectively — for the class of 2016.

Meanwhile, Princeton’s rate jumped more than 10 points to 66.7 percent.

Four admissions experts and college guidance counselors interviewed said they were not surprised by Yale’s higher yield rate. Still, they said the early action policies now in place

at most of the country’s top schools make it difficult to project future trends.

As long as Yale is one of the most highly valued and, for a family with financial need, often the least expensive option, it’s going to have high yields.

SARAH BEYREIS ’85 GRD ’94 Director of college guidance counseling, Cincinnati Country Day School “I have no idea about the future, but I think it is unlikely that the yields will go up consistently, unless [these schools] take more early action kids,” Jon Reider, a college guidance counselor at San Francisco University High School. “But I don’t think they want to do that for all kinds of reasons, mostly having to do with the perception of

fairness. The yield is as high as it needs to be to demonstrate that Yale is among the most highly regarded schools in the country and world.”

Sarah Beyreis ’85 GRD ’94, director of college guidance counseling at the private Cincinnati Country Day School, attributed the increase in Yale’s yield rate to the University’s alltime low acceptance rate and need-blind financial aid policy.

She said Yale has the resources to make it possible for most accepted students to attend, whatever their background.

“As long as Yale is one of the most highly valued and, for a family with financial need, often the least expensive option, it’s going to have high yields,” Beyreis said.

The yield rate takes into account all students beginning their freshmen year, but not those who postpone their arrivals.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

Police close down several parties REGISTRATION FROM PAGE 1 anyone to end it.”

The YPD did not respond to a request for comment.

Billy Fowkes ’14, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said he registered SAE’s Monday open party and met with YPD officers beforehand, as is standard procedure.

Though the party was broken up by the YPD around 1 a.m., he said, the night went smoothly overall, adding that large crowds and the subsequent police action may be due to annual Camp Yale activity.

Meeske said he knew of one unregistered party that came to his attention because of a noise complaint, adding that the administrators will “be pursuing it and talk to the host to see what they have to say.” He said since the Dean’s Office knows where students live, administrators are able to identify the host of unregistered parties from the address.

“We can find out who lives at a certain location and talk to those people,” Meeske said, “and if necessary, the Executive Committee could possibly bring them in for some conversation.”

If incidents of underage drinking are discovered, ExComm will engage the host in a con-

versation and determine whether disciplinary action is needed, he said, adding that ExComm would be more amenable to hosts who had registered their parties. He said that it will be difficult to determine where intoxicated individuals received alcohol.

Under the new rule, Meeske said, Yale HEALTH still maintains a policy of accepting transports without disciplinary action, and Yale University Health Services Director Paul Genecin said in a Tuesday email that Yale HEALTH has not adjusted its policies about “evaluating and treating and transferring students who become intoxicated.”

Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14 said the YCC found out about the new regulation when the rest of the student body did, though the council plans to work with administrators to ensure the rule does not become “intrusive.” The YCC executive board met with Meeske Tuesday afternoon and intends to meet with Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins in the coming weeks.

Meeske distributed a link to the party registration form in an Aug. 22 email to the student body.

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“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” GLORIA STEINEM WRITER AND ACTIVIST

Over obstacles, Melton comes to Promise

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER Growing up in Cleveland housing projects and living off welfare checks, Patricia Melton ’82 had to beat the odds to earn a degree from Yale. Now, as the new executive director for New Haven Promise, she aims to help high school students in New Haven’s public schools overcome barriers to college.

Me l to n , n ow 5 3 , wa s appointed to lead New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program, on June 25, following a nationwide search for the position, and she officially assumed the role on Aug. 15. Promise awards college tuition scholarships to highachieving public high school students who matriculate to instate universities.

In her childhood home, Melton was the sixth of seven children. Her father, a writer who found himself in and out of prison during Melton’s childhood, was largely absent from the household. Her mother, who dropped out of high school to start a family, was “very proud and determined that her children would do better,” Melton said.

“My mother was not successful in achieving her dreams, but was fierce in instilling in her children to do better than she did. And my father was brilliant but squandered his talents away,” Melton said. “Education thus became a defining element in my life.”

Growing up in a conservative religious environment, Melton used school “as an outlet to spread [her] wings beyond a sheltered family life.” Then in 1971, when she was just 12 years old, her mother suffered a fatal car accident. With her dad out of the picture, the orphaned Melton was left in the care of her older sister. Constantly

relocating, Melton attended eight different schools between kindergarten and 8th grade.

“Patricia is a true success story in terms of making opportunities for herself as a child where she didn’t have opportunities,” said David Dresslar, the executive director of the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis, where Melton used to work.

Despite Melton’s tumultuous home life, the lesson her parents taught her — that education was something to be “admired and respected” — was a steady source of motivation.

I thought about running away, but … I decided I wanted to use my brains to have a better life.

PATRICIA MELTON Executive director, New Haven Promise “I thought about running away, but after watching other siblings hit the streets to notgreat fates, I decided I wanted to use my brains to have a better life,” Melton said. “Education was where I was able to find myself. It provided a lot of stability in my life, at a time when my life was very unstable.”

Melton flourished in elementary and middle school — earning straight A’s and placing into high-level courses. After her freshman year of high school, she won a scholarship from A Better Chance, an organization that pays for talented students of color to attend private schools. Melton attended the Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Mass. At Middlesex, she picked up field hockey and lacrosse and was

recruited in 1977 to play at Yale.

Melton found her first year at Yale to be “quite challenging,” often struggling to balance her course load while playing varsity field hockey. Melton worked throughout her Yale career to pay her financial aid contributions toward tuition.

After graduating in the fall of 1982 with a degree in African American Studies, she began a career in education administration.

“I love being able to give back and help young folks achieve their dreams, and education is really the foundation of that,” Melton said. “I’ve found my experience has helped me have a fulfilling career and impact a lot of young people.”

After working at several nonprofits and schools, Melton served as the chief academic officer for Indiana’s third-largest school district and most recently as an assistant dean at Vincennes University.

Throughout her career, Melton has accumulated years of experience working in both high school and college environments, giving her “an ideal background for Promise,” said William Ginsberg, CEO of the Community Foundation, which administers Promise. Melton worked under Dresslar at the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning to launch a program through which students could earn college credit while still in high school.

“She was a real asset to us and an instrumental part of our launch of the early college model,” Dresslar said. “She brought a passion born from her personal experience.”

Melton is currently gearing up to lead Promise through its third application cycle.

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Yale team finds natural-birth benefits

BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER As the prevalence of Caesarean section births continues to increase in the United States, new research from the Yale School of Medicine suggests that the procedure may impair brain development in offspring.

A team of researchers led by School of Medicine Professor Tamas Horvath found that newborn mice birthed naturally had increased levels of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (Ucp2) in the hippocampus relative to mice delivered through C-sections. Horvath said the team was initially focused solely on the role of Ucp2, an important protein for early neurological development, and was surprised to discover a link between levels of Ucp2 and birthing methods. The study, which also concluded that mice genetically altered to lack Ucp2 exhibited greatly diminished neurological growth, was published Aug. 8 in the Public Library of Science.

“What we noticed what that if we took brains right after birth versus if we took brains from animals right before they were delivered, there were differential expression of these proteins,” Horvath said. “[We thought]: ‘Maybe there is something going on during delivery that promotes the expression of this protein.’”

The study did not investigate the mechanism underlying the correlation between natural birth and increased Ucp2 expression, but Horvath said that he believes that the physical stress of natural birth may explain the connection.

Researchers had previously tied cellular stress to Ucp2 production, and the stress of natural birth — both for the mother and child — might trigger the protein’s pro-

duction, Horvath said.

Holly Kennedy, a professor of midwifery at the Yale School of Nursing who was not involved in the research, said the finding is important because it counters the common misperception that the stress of natural birth is harmful.

“I think what people worry about is that labor and birth is so stressful that it can’t be good for the mother or the baby,” she said. “Well, there are types of stress that are good and actually create health.”

This is the smoking gun to end the whole notion that it is a good thing to just go ahead and do a Caesarean and not even bother to do labor.

ANN COWLIN Founder and director, Dancing Thru Pregnancy Professor Horvath said that he believed that physiological cellular stress, likely caused by temporary fetal oxygen depletion, was the primary mechanism for Ucp2 production in babies. However, Grigori Brekhman, former head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Ivanovo State Medical Academy, in the Russian Federation, said in an email that other factors may be involved in the protein’s production. For instance, Brekhman said that the mother’s emotional response to the birthing process, accompanied by a cascade of neurological transmitters, may promote Ucp2 pro-

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This study substantiates the argument of those who had already supported natural births, said Ann Cowlin, founder and director of Dancing Thru Pregnancy, an organization that helps pregnant women prepare for the physical demands of childbirth. Cowlin, who created Dancing Thru Pregnancy in 1979, said that she would rank Horvath’s finding as one of the top five most important pieces of evidence in the debate between natural birth and C-section.

“This is the smoking gun to end the whole notion that it is a good thing to just go ahead and do a Caesarean and not even bother to do labor,” Cowlin said.

While Brekhman said that he believes the findings will encourage more women to reconsider C-sections in favor of traditional births, Kennedy said that Horvath’s finding is unlikely to cause a major short run shift in birthing practices because it was conduced on mice and not humans.

However, it adds to a growing body of recent research that suggests that the way a baby is born can have long lasting health implications for the newborn, she said.

“I think what it is providing us is food for thought about this process and a call for more research,” Kennedy said.

Horvath, too, said that he hopes that others build on his findings with a human study which could lead to concrete data on best practices for birthing.

While the World Health Organization recommends a target C-section rate of 5 to 15 percent in the general population, the operation accounts for approximately one in three births in the United States today.

Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

Bio introduces placement exams

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER Over 200 freshmen wishing to place out of segments of the new year-long Introductory Biology course took a series of placement exams this summer, marking a departure from previous years.

In the past, students who majored in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, or Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology were exempt from taking each department’s individual introductory course if they had received a score of five on the Advancement Placement Biology exam, or an equivalent score on another standardized test. Since those courses were eliminated this year, all students choosing one of those three majors must now take or place out of the new survey course, which consists of four one-half credit modules in different biological sciences, labeled BIO 101-104. Freshmen with a score of five on the AP Biology exam, or other equivalent score, can place out of some or all of the modules based on their performance in tests corresponding to each module. “[The introductory] courses require students to be able to understand biology at a conceptual level, and to be able to use this understanding to evaluate and analyze new situations the way a working scientist would,” said Biology professor Surjit Chandhoke, course coordinator for the survey course. “The placement exams give students an opportunity to see at what level they will be able to think about Biology once they have completed the introductory sequence.”

The four placement exams, which were administered online through the University’s Classesv2 server between July 17 and Aug. 12, are “more rigorous” than the AP Biology exam or other comparable exams, Chandhoke added. Unlike the AP Biology test, she said, Yale’s Biology placement examination primarily tests the students’ critical think-

ing skills.

“We feel that in biology, just as in chemistry or physics, such skills are more important than knowing facts,” she said.

Two freshmen interviewed agreed that the placement exams were more challenging than the AP Biology tests because they required students to infer from their knowledge. Daniel Lee ‘16, a potential MB&B major, said the placement exams were “fairly sophisticated” and “much harder” than the standardized AP equivalent, but he added that he was not sure whether the tests would accurately reflect students’ preparation.

We feel that in biology, just as in chemistry or physics, [critical thinking] skills are more important than knowing facts.

SURJIT CHANDHOKE Biology professor Alexander Borsa ’16, another perspective MB&B major, said he thought the questions on the placement exams were challenging but still “pretty answerable.”

“While the AP Biology exam was mostly a recitation of facts, the biology placement exam asked the test taker to consider the implications of these facts,” Borsa said.

The survey course will be cotaught by professors from Yale’s three biology departments: MB&B professor Michael Koelle, EEB professor Leo Buss, and MCDB professors Frank Slack and Mark Mooseker.

Students who placed out of the introductory courses in any of the biology majors in past years will not be required to take the survey course.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS THURS. AUG. 16 SUN. SEPT. 2

ARCH STUDENTS DROP PENCILS,

MACBETH Call it Shakespeare in the park... in New Haven. Elm Shakespeare company presents free performances of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in Edgerton park.

Suggested donation of $20 for adults and $10 for students.

Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff St.

“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.” ANDREI PLATONOV RUSSIAN AUTHOR

T

he official reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery in December 2012 may be months away, but the staff of the Gallery’s Nolen Center for Art and Education has already started moving in to their new Street Hall offices.

The News took a look around at the center’s classrooms, libraries and sculpture garden — still a work in progess.

TAKE UP HAMMERS

12 - 1:30 P.M. WED. AUG. 29 BLUES, BERRIES & JAM On Wednesdays, the New Haven Green transforms into a farmers market meets blues concert — also known as the ideal lunch break. The food costs money, but the music is all free.

BY ROBERT PECK STAFF REPORTER

New Haven Green

12:30 P.M. WED. AUG. 29

Life as a student at the School of Architecture is not all paprika carpets and model building: Secondyear students at the school gained real-world experience over the summer by designing and building from scratch a home in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood.

The house was part of the annual Vlock Project, a competition and building initiative that pitted eight teams of School of Architecture students against each other in a home design face-off, with the winning team’s design constructed by the students themselves. Robert Scott ARC ’14, one of two student managers who oversaw this year’s project, said the home will contribute affordable housing to the community.

“Working with this many talented and hard working people, and taking what was once only an abstract collection of ideas to a finished, occupiable space, is a truly remarkable experience,” Scott said.

The Vlock house was designed over the course of the last school year, with the initial design competition phase lasting five weeks, said Katie Stranix ARC ’14, Scott’s co-manager. After the winning design team was selected, the Class of 2014 came together to perfect the house’s plan.

Scott said the house’s design was inspired by pragmatism rather than artistic influences. The student teams did their best to overcome the temptation to create something eccentric, he said, focusing instead on designing a more simple, functional home that could fit into its surrounding neighborhood.

“In the context of this project and this neighborhood, we felt that landing a spaceship on site was not the appropriate solution,” Scott said. “Instead, we made a concerted effort to create a well-designed home that was both sensitive to its context and provocative in its deployment.”

Sheena Zhang ARC ’14, who acted as field crew manager on the construction site, said this year’s

ROBERT ADAMS EXHIBITION TOUR The Yale University Art Gallery presents a guided tour of its latest exhibition, a retrospective of American black and white photographer Robert Adams’ work.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

ONGOING THROUGH SEPT. 16 “SABBATH OF HISTORY: WILLIAM CONGDON, MEDITATIONS ON HOLY WEEK” An exhibition of paintings by William Congdon ’34, known for his use of thickly spatulaed paint to capture abstract expressions of New York’s urban landscape.

The Knights of Columbus Museum, 1 State St.

FRI. JUN. 29 - FRI. SEPT. 7 BOOKS BY THE CLASS OF 1962 In an interesting twist on a 50th reunion, the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library currently plays host to a collection of books penned by members of the Yale Class of 1962.

Sterling Memorial Library

MON. JUL. 2 - SAT. SEPT. 22 CELLULOID WEST Sweeping landscapes, cowboys, tumbleweeds: everybody knows what the West looks like. But do they? Pulling from its extensive collection of cinema materials, the Beinecke presents an exhibition that examines the ways in which the film industry has influenced how Americans see the West.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

WED. AUG. 29 SAT. OCT. 27 PALLADIO VIRTUEL A new exhibit at the Yale School of Architecture, “Palladio Virtuel” is the product of New York architect Peter Eisenman’s study of 20 villas designed by architect Andrea Palladio during the Renaissance.

Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.

6 P.M. THURS. AUG. 30 ALTERNATIVE A CAPPELLA GROUP CONCERT A Capella doesn’t always mean boys in tuxes: Yale’s Women’s Slavic Chorus, Magevet and Tangled Up in Blue (among others) will present a concert of alternative a capella.

Dwight Hall Chapel, 67 High St.

Vlock house provided a special opportunity for designers due to its location. The house was built on “a prominent corner” in Newhallville, which sits northwest of Downtown New Haven, with more land allocated to the project than there had been in for past Vlock projects. This meant that designers also wanted to create a house with a noticeable, welcoming appearance, she said.

After the design phase of the project was complete, the architecture students took to the field to begin construction on the home. Scott said students, managed by field managers such as Zhang, worked building shifts from May to June. From there, a smaller group of Vlock Project students took over for the remainder of the summer, she said, continuing work on the home until last week.

Bryan Maddock, who designed Vlock’s website and helped build the project, said it suffered some setbacks from the fact that the students working on the build had little or no construction experience. He added that this lack of experience was especially difficult to overcome given that the project had a deadline for completion at the end of the summer.

Still, Zhang noted one of the most important parts of the Vlock Project for her has been its ability to bring her architectural studies into the everyday world.

Scott said the house has been built to be as affordable for its residents as possible. In addition to the main home unit, the students also designed and built a rental unit, which Scott said the homeowner who eventually purchases this year’s Vlock house can rent out for additional income, he said.

Scott added that volunteers from New Havenbased Neighborhood Housing Services, a group dedicated to finding affordable housing and support for residents of the Elm City, are at work this week painting the house and staining the deck.

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

IVAN FARR ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Yale School of Architecture class of 2014 built a house in Newhallville over the summer.

The other Adams photographer

Brazilian artist finds beauty in the mundane

BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER A Brazilian artist’s commentary on American materialism is at the forefront of the latest exhibit at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery.

“Hardware Seda — Hardware Silk,” a showcase of work by Sao Paulobased artist Jac Leirner, reopens today after showing for four weeks starting just before Commencement last May. Leirner conceptualized and created the 22 paintings and installations in the exhibition during her eight-week tenure at Yale last spring as an artistin-residence at Yale, said Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art. Storr said he became acquainted with Leirner’s work while serving as curator of the department of painting and sculpture for New York’s Museum of Modern Art during the 1990s, when he bought a collage of Leirner’s cigarette box covers. Storr said he kept in touch with Leirner over the years and decided to ask her to come to Yale as a visiting artist after seeing her more recent work with watercolors.

The Edgewood exhibit focuses on Leirner’s watercolors, as well as installations crafted out of objects from everyday life: cigarette rolling papers, steel rulers, levels, product labels and even the artist’s boarding pass saved from her flight from Sao Paulo to the United States.

While there is no logical progression to the exhibit, Storr said that he attempted to find the best way to highlight how the pieces fit together, in terms of the similarity in the aesthetics and in the time frame during which they were created.

“A big part of this exhibition was shopping,” Storr said, noting that the Brazilian artist was inspired by her first interaction with large all-purpose American hardware stores like Home Depot and Staples. The pieces are very materialistic, he said, and showcase the artist’s fascination with the vast, con-

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

SANDRA BURNS

Brazilian artist Jac Leirner incorporated everyday materials into her installation at the 32 Edgewood Gallery.

fusing variety of goods available.

But, Storr said, there is a very definite organization and composition in each piece. He added that this is particularly evident in an installation made of various steel rulers of different sizes titled “Electra.” Through the arrangement of rulers, the opera-loving Leirner attempted to mirror the rise and fall of a soprano’s voice when singing a very high note and then immediately a low one, Storr said.

The showcase is a juxtaposition of Leirner’s more well-known style of concrete installations with her recent

return to painting watercolors, said Adele Nelson, an art history professor at Temple University and author of the book, “Jac Leirner in Conversation with Adele Nelson.” Though Leirner has worked in watercolors all her life, Yale’s exhibit is only the second time they have been on view, Nelson said.

Leirner often finds beauty in the mundane, Nelson said, noting that the title of the exhibition was inspired by the Portugese word for a cigarette rolling paper, “cigarro,” which translates literally to “little silk.” While Leirner sat in a cafe smoking one day, one of

her rolling papers fell to the table. The beauty of the floating paper inspired a series of work called “Little Silks.”

Leirner returned to the medium in three pieces in her Edgewood show, licking and sticking dozens of the translucent papers onto the wall to form a subtle pattern.

A panel discussion with Leirner, Storr and Nelson will be held on Sept.

24 at 36 Edgewood Ave. Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .

For three months, the Yale University Art Gallery will played host to “The Way We Live,” a traveling retrospective of the work of American photographer Robert Adams, an artist best known for his poignant depictions of the American West. On view in New Haven from Aug. 3 to Oct. 28, the exhibition will have traveled to museums in Canada, Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland before its close. Joshua Chuang, assistant curator of photographs at the Art Gallery and lead organizer of the touring exhibition, said he aimed to develop an exhibit that would do justice to the black and white photographer’s extensive and evolving repertoire. Though Adams is renowned for his poignant depictions of the American West, his work touches upon universal themes of environmental destruction, war and loss. The News spoke with Chuang about the exhibit and Adams’s photographic treatment of abiguity, nature and nation.

Q

To begin, can you describe the nature of the exhibition and what it includes?

A

The exhibition consists of more than 250 black and white photographs by Robert Adams organized into 19 sections corresponding to the photographer’s book projects, each prefaced by text written by the photographer for those projects. The dates of the pictures range from 1965 to 2009, and the sections have been arranged in a rough chronology. The exhibition took on slightly differ-

ent forms in Vancouver, Denver and Los Angeles. This one is the only one, however, that includes objects borrowed from Adams’ personal collection — a special pair of stones he found 50 years ago before becoming a photographer, a fragment of cottonwood bark and objects carved by hand.

Q

When did you first become interested in Robert Adams’ work? What makes his style striking to you?

A

I first saw Adams’s work as an undergraduate, in a book.

Although a few of the images really struck me, I didn’t understand a lot of what I was looking at. Save a few family trips to national parks in the West, I had spent my entire life in the East, where many of the things that Adams depicted, like the suburbanization of an untamed land, and the homogenization of the American experience, had already been played out. It actually hadn’t occured to me that the East was once as wild as the West. So I kept on puzzling over the pictures until I got a chance to see the real things at Yale, where I inherited the job of cataloguing his master sets, which the gallery had just acquired. I was amazed to see the work in a larger context — out of the approximately 1,500 pictures I saw, there were no bad ones, only those I knew I had yet to fully grasp. One of the things that is so striking about Adams’ work is that it really doesn’t have a style. His stated goal as a photographer has been to portray in his work “a tension so exact that it is peace,” and as he’s evolved as an artist, he’s found many ways to achieve that.

Q

You said in your March 14 interview with NPR that Robert Adams’ genius lies in his ability to take photographs that say both ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at once. What do you mean by that?

A

I think it’s related to what the child labor photographer Lewis Hine once said: that he wanted to photograph what was good so we would cherish it, and what was bad so we could change it. Adams has cited this quote

by Hine many times and tries to make pictures that show those two elements — good and bad, yes and no — in the same frame.

Q

In Robert Adams’ photographs, the human beings and houses seem to meld into the natural landscape around them.

Can you comment on this?

A

That’s the subject of his pictures: the different ways that human activity makes [the land] morph, both physically and really almost spiritually. That’s something he talks about explicitly.

In the section of Denver photographs, for instance, quite a few of them depict the inside of workplaces and nondescript offices. These are places in which we spend a lot of time collectively. They have a sadness about them.

Q

There are two sections of the exhibit devoted to places outside of America — Iraq and Gandhara (what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan). How do these photographs differ from the work that Robert Adams is known for?

A

Adams has really only photographed in this country.

Those pictures of Iraq were made

in a public square in Oregon, but they refer to an event that happened half a world away. People found these photographs very jarring, because they depict a protest of the war that wasn’t given due attention. The Gandhara section, titled “Bodhisattva” was photographed around his home. It reflects a tendency in Adams’ later work to focus both inwardly and deeply outward.

There is a very subtle line of text preceding the “Bodhisattva” picture that read: “the representation is of an ideal — a bodhisattva, a person who understands but who has chosen to remain involved in life on behalf of others.” This is very similar to the character of Robert Adams himself.

Q

What was it like working with someone you’ve admired for so long? How would you describe Robert Adams’ work ethic?

A

This is the first major exhibition of his in which he’s been this involved in the presentation of his work, and it was lifechanging. I don’t think I’d ever met a person who has so consistently asked of himself, and others, the biggest questions in life.

And who has been so uncompromising and unflinching in his search for answers. An interesting thing about Adams as an observer is that he’s not really an observer, he’s not just a passive being in this sphere; he really incorporates his voice into his sphere. He’s a photographer that has not ever shied away from the biggest questions.

And there is not a bigger question than, how do we live?

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

YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

A traveling retrospective at the Yale University Art Gallery will highlight the work of renowned American photographer Robert Adams.

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ARTS & CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS THURS. AUG. 16 SUN. SEPT. 2

ARCH STUDENTS DROP PENCILS,

MACBETH Call it Shakespeare in the park... in New Haven. Elm Shakespeare company presents free performances of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in Edgerton park.

Suggested donation of $20 for adults and $10 for students.

Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff St.

“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.” ANDREI PLATONOV RUSSIAN AUTHOR

T

he official reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery in December 2012 may be months away, but the staff of the Gallery’s Nolen Center for Art and Education has already started moving in to their new Street Hall offices.

The News took a look around at the center’s classrooms, libraries and sculpture garden — still a work in progess.

TAKE UP HAMMERS

12 - 1:30 P.M. WED. AUG. 29 BLUES, BERRIES & JAM On Wednesdays, the New Haven Green transforms into a farmers market meets blues concert — also known as the ideal lunch break. The food costs money, but the music is all free.

BY ROBERT PECK STAFF REPORTER

New Haven Green

12:30 P.M. WED. AUG. 29

Life as a student at the School of Architecture is not all paprika carpets and model building: Secondyear students at the school gained real-world experience over the summer by designing and building from scratch a home in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood.

The house was part of the annual Vlock Project, a competition and building initiative that pitted eight teams of School of Architecture students against each other in a home design face-off, with the winning team’s design constructed by the students themselves. Robert Scott ARC ’14, one of two student managers who oversaw this year’s project, said the home will contribute affordable housing to the community.

“Working with this many talented and hard working people, and taking what was once only an abstract collection of ideas to a finished, occupiable space, is a truly remarkable experience,” Scott said.

The Vlock house was designed over the course of the last school year, with the initial design competition phase lasting five weeks, said Katie Stranix ARC ’14, Scott’s co-manager. After the winning design team was selected, the Class of 2014 came together to perfect the house’s plan.

Scott said the house’s design was inspired by pragmatism rather than artistic influences. The student teams did their best to overcome the temptation to create something eccentric, he said, focusing instead on designing a more simple, functional home that could fit into its surrounding neighborhood.

“In the context of this project and this neighborhood, we felt that landing a spaceship on site was not the appropriate solution,” Scott said. “Instead, we made a concerted effort to create a well-designed home that was both sensitive to its context and provocative in its deployment.”

Sheena Zhang ARC ’14, who acted as field crew manager on the construction site, said this year’s

ROBERT ADAMS EXHIBITION TOUR The Yale University Art Gallery presents a guided tour of its latest exhibition, a retrospective of American black and white photographer Robert Adams’ work.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

ONGOING THROUGH SEPT. 16 “SABBATH OF HISTORY: WILLIAM CONGDON, MEDITATIONS ON HOLY WEEK” An exhibition of paintings by William Congdon ’34, known for his use of thickly spatulaed paint to capture abstract expressions of New York’s urban landscape.

The Knights of Columbus Museum, 1 State St.

FRI. JUN. 29 - FRI. SEPT. 7 BOOKS BY THE CLASS OF 1962 In an interesting twist on a 50th reunion, the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library currently plays host to a collection of books penned by members of the Yale Class of 1962.

Sterling Memorial Library

MON. JUL. 2 - SAT. SEPT. 22 CELLULOID WEST Sweeping landscapes, cowboys, tumbleweeds: everybody knows what the West looks like. But do they? Pulling from its extensive collection of cinema materials, the Beinecke presents an exhibition that examines the ways in which the film industry has influenced how Americans see the West.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

WED. AUG. 29 SAT. OCT. 27 PALLADIO VIRTUEL A new exhibit at the Yale School of Architecture, “Palladio Virtuel” is the product of New York architect Peter Eisenman’s study of 20 villas designed by architect Andrea Palladio during the Renaissance.

Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.

6 P.M. THURS. AUG. 30 ALTERNATIVE A CAPPELLA GROUP CONCERT A Capella doesn’t always mean boys in tuxes: Yale’s Women’s Slavic Chorus, Magevet and Tangled Up in Blue (among others) will present a concert of alternative a capella.

Dwight Hall Chapel, 67 High St.

Vlock house provided a special opportunity for designers due to its location. The house was built on “a prominent corner” in Newhallville, which sits northwest of Downtown New Haven, with more land allocated to the project than there had been in for past Vlock projects. This meant that designers also wanted to create a house with a noticeable, welcoming appearance, she said.

After the design phase of the project was complete, the architecture students took to the field to begin construction on the home. Scott said students, managed by field managers such as Zhang, worked building shifts from May to June. From there, a smaller group of Vlock Project students took over for the remainder of the summer, she said, continuing work on the home until last week.

Bryan Maddock, who designed Vlock’s website and helped build the project, said it suffered some setbacks from the fact that the students working on the build had little or no construction experience. He added that this lack of experience was especially difficult to overcome given that the project had a deadline for completion at the end of the summer.

Still, Zhang noted one of the most important parts of the Vlock Project for her has been its ability to bring her architectural studies into the everyday world.

Scott said the house has been built to be as affordable for its residents as possible. In addition to the main home unit, the students also designed and built a rental unit, which Scott said the homeowner who eventually purchases this year’s Vlock house can rent out for additional income, he said.

Scott added that volunteers from New Havenbased Neighborhood Housing Services, a group dedicated to finding affordable housing and support for residents of the Elm City, are at work this week painting the house and staining the deck.

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

IVAN FARR ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Yale School of Architecture class of 2014 built a house in Newhallville over the summer.

The other Adams photographer

Brazilian artist finds beauty in the mundane

BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER A Brazilian artist’s commentary on American materialism is at the forefront of the latest exhibit at the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery.

“Hardware Seda — Hardware Silk,” a showcase of work by Sao Paulobased artist Jac Leirner, reopens today after showing for four weeks starting just before Commencement last May. Leirner conceptualized and created the 22 paintings and installations in the exhibition during her eight-week tenure at Yale last spring as an artistin-residence at Yale, said Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art. Storr said he became acquainted with Leirner’s work while serving as curator of the department of painting and sculpture for New York’s Museum of Modern Art during the 1990s, when he bought a collage of Leirner’s cigarette box covers. Storr said he kept in touch with Leirner over the years and decided to ask her to come to Yale as a visiting artist after seeing her more recent work with watercolors.

The Edgewood exhibit focuses on Leirner’s watercolors, as well as installations crafted out of objects from everyday life: cigarette rolling papers, steel rulers, levels, product labels and even the artist’s boarding pass saved from her flight from Sao Paulo to the United States.

While there is no logical progression to the exhibit, Storr said that he attempted to find the best way to highlight how the pieces fit together, in terms of the similarity in the aesthetics and in the time frame during which they were created.

“A big part of this exhibition was shopping,” Storr said, noting that the Brazilian artist was inspired by her first interaction with large all-purpose American hardware stores like Home Depot and Staples. The pieces are very materialistic, he said, and showcase the artist’s fascination with the vast, con-

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

SANDRA BURNS

Brazilian artist Jac Leirner incorporated everyday materials into her installation at the 32 Edgewood Gallery.

fusing variety of goods available.

But, Storr said, there is a very definite organization and composition in each piece. He added that this is particularly evident in an installation made of various steel rulers of different sizes titled “Electra.” Through the arrangement of rulers, the opera-loving Leirner attempted to mirror the rise and fall of a soprano’s voice when singing a very high note and then immediately a low one, Storr said.

The showcase is a juxtaposition of Leirner’s more well-known style of concrete installations with her recent

return to painting watercolors, said Adele Nelson, an art history professor at Temple University and author of the book, “Jac Leirner in Conversation with Adele Nelson.” Though Leirner has worked in watercolors all her life, Yale’s exhibit is only the second time they have been on view, Nelson said.

Leirner often finds beauty in the mundane, Nelson said, noting that the title of the exhibition was inspired by the Portugese word for a cigarette rolling paper, “cigarro,” which translates literally to “little silk.” While Leirner sat in a cafe smoking one day, one of

her rolling papers fell to the table. The beauty of the floating paper inspired a series of work called “Little Silks.”

Leirner returned to the medium in three pieces in her Edgewood show, licking and sticking dozens of the translucent papers onto the wall to form a subtle pattern.

A panel discussion with Leirner, Storr and Nelson will be held on Sept.

24 at 36 Edgewood Ave. Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .

For three months, the Yale University Art Gallery will played host to “The Way We Live,” a traveling retrospective of the work of American photographer Robert Adams, an artist best known for his poignant depictions of the American West. On view in New Haven from Aug. 3 to Oct. 28, the exhibition will have traveled to museums in Canada, Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland before its close. Joshua Chuang, assistant curator of photographs at the Art Gallery and lead organizer of the touring exhibition, said he aimed to develop an exhibit that would do justice to the black and white photographer’s extensive and evolving repertoire. Though Adams is renowned for his poignant depictions of the American West, his work touches upon universal themes of environmental destruction, war and loss. The News spoke with Chuang about the exhibit and Adams’s photographic treatment of abiguity, nature and nation.

Q

To begin, can you describe the nature of the exhibition and what it includes?

A

The exhibition consists of more than 250 black and white photographs by Robert Adams organized into 19 sections corresponding to the photographer’s book projects, each prefaced by text written by the photographer for those projects. The dates of the pictures range from 1965 to 2009, and the sections have been arranged in a rough chronology. The exhibition took on slightly differ-

ent forms in Vancouver, Denver and Los Angeles. This one is the only one, however, that includes objects borrowed from Adams’ personal collection — a special pair of stones he found 50 years ago before becoming a photographer, a fragment of cottonwood bark and objects carved by hand.

Q

When did you first become interested in Robert Adams’ work? What makes his style striking to you?

A

I first saw Adams’s work as an undergraduate, in a book.

Although a few of the images really struck me, I didn’t understand a lot of what I was looking at. Save a few family trips to national parks in the West, I had spent my entire life in the East, where many of the things that Adams depicted, like the suburbanization of an untamed land, and the homogenization of the American experience, had already been played out. It actually hadn’t occured to me that the East was once as wild as the West. So I kept on puzzling over the pictures until I got a chance to see the real things at Yale, where I inherited the job of cataloguing his master sets, which the gallery had just acquired. I was amazed to see the work in a larger context — out of the approximately 1,500 pictures I saw, there were no bad ones, only those I knew I had yet to fully grasp. One of the things that is so striking about Adams’ work is that it really doesn’t have a style. His stated goal as a photographer has been to portray in his work “a tension so exact that it is peace,” and as he’s evolved as an artist, he’s found many ways to achieve that.

Q

You said in your March 14 interview with NPR that Robert Adams’ genius lies in his ability to take photographs that say both ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at once. What do you mean by that?

A

I think it’s related to what the child labor photographer Lewis Hine once said: that he wanted to photograph what was good so we would cherish it, and what was bad so we could change it. Adams has cited this quote

by Hine many times and tries to make pictures that show those two elements — good and bad, yes and no — in the same frame.

Q

In Robert Adams’ photographs, the human beings and houses seem to meld into the natural landscape around them.

Can you comment on this?

A

That’s the subject of his pictures: the different ways that human activity makes [the land] morph, both physically and really almost spiritually. That’s something he talks about explicitly.

In the section of Denver photographs, for instance, quite a few of them depict the inside of workplaces and nondescript offices. These are places in which we spend a lot of time collectively. They have a sadness about them.

Q

There are two sections of the exhibit devoted to places outside of America — Iraq and Gandhara (what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan). How do these photographs differ from the work that Robert Adams is known for?

A

Adams has really only photographed in this country.

Those pictures of Iraq were made

in a public square in Oregon, but they refer to an event that happened half a world away. People found these photographs very jarring, because they depict a protest of the war that wasn’t given due attention. The Gandhara section, titled “Bodhisattva” was photographed around his home. It reflects a tendency in Adams’ later work to focus both inwardly and deeply outward.

There is a very subtle line of text preceding the “Bodhisattva” picture that read: “the representation is of an ideal — a bodhisattva, a person who understands but who has chosen to remain involved in life on behalf of others.” This is very similar to the character of Robert Adams himself.

Q

What was it like working with someone you’ve admired for so long? How would you describe Robert Adams’ work ethic?

A

This is the first major exhibition of his in which he’s been this involved in the presentation of his work, and it was lifechanging. I don’t think I’d ever met a person who has so consistently asked of himself, and others, the biggest questions in life.

And who has been so uncompromising and unflinching in his search for answers. An interesting thing about Adams as an observer is that he’s not really an observer, he’s not just a passive being in this sphere; he really incorporates his voice into his sphere. He’s a photographer that has not ever shied away from the biggest questions.

And there is not a bigger question than, how do we live?

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

YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

A traveling retrospective at the Yale University Art Gallery will highlight the work of renowned American photographer Robert Adams.

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Campus rapes spark security fears

Student dies after fall from window

BY REBECCA ROBBINS STAFF WRITER After the first two stranger rapes in twelve years were reported at Harvard in the span of five days, some undergraduate student leaders are calling for the University to consider tightening its security policies and providing more safety measures for students.

The first reported incident, which occurred early in the morning on Aug. 10 in Harvard Yard, was followed by a second incident late in the evening on Aug. 14 near the intersection of Oxford and Kirkland streets.

The two women who reported the rapes are not Harvard affiliates, and provided differing descriptions of their attackers, Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said.

HUPD is currently investigating both cases, and has increased its security presence around campus, but some student leaders said they think additional changes should be considered in response to the reported attacks.

Undergraduate Council president Danny P. Bicknell ’13 called the incidents “very unsettling,� and said he would like to see University officials consider extending service hours for the shuttle, the evening van, and the Harvard University Campus Escort Program.

Currently, the shuttle operates from 5:45 a.m. to 4 a.m. on weekdays and from 7:30 a.m. to 5 a.m. on weekends. During the academic year, students can receive a ride from the evening van service until 3 a.m., while HUCEP provides walking escorts to students until 2 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday, and until 3 a.m. from Thursday to Saturday.

Bicknell also said he hopes University officials will evaluate whether more lighting or emergency blue light call boxes need to be installed around campus, and whether the police presence in Cambridge needs to be

increased. “These issues are definitely going to have to be re-examined to make sure that security is always the top HARVARD priority and that there are no lapses in current security measures,� Bicknell said.

Amanda I. Morejon ’13—co-director of Response, a group that offers peer counseling about sexual assault and other issues—also advocated changes to evening shuttle services.

Morejon, who said she has often walked back to the Quad from the stadium after midnight due to what she described as the infrequency or unreliability of University transportation options late at night, called for the route and hours of the shuttle service to be extended.

Nicholas Oo ’13, a Leverett House representative on the Undergraduate Council, suggested requesting the shutdown of Harvard Yard in an email sent to the UC list on Friday.

In an emailed statement to The Crimson, Oo wrote that he was primarily concerned by “how close in time the incidents occurred and how ready the police department will be in handling our security.�

Student leaders also called for changes in the frequency and tone of communications about rape at Harvard.

Abby P. Sun ’13, a former president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said she would like to see HUPD follow up on its initial community advisory emails with messages to update students on the progress of its investigation into these and other reported crimes.

Morejon said she believes safety programs such as the escort service are currently stigmatized at Harvard, and would like to see them become more widely discussed and utilized. “It needs to be fully normal and fully okay for me to say, ‘I’m scared

and need someone to walk with me,’�

Morejon said.

Morejon also said she hoped the University would increase efforts to publicize HUPD’s Rape Aggression Defense program, which offers selfdefense courses for Harvard-affiliated women. “It doesn’t matter how many resources you have—if people don’t know to use that resource, it’s useless,� Morejon said.

College administrators have not signaled whether they are planning to make any of these suggested changes.

In an email sent to the student body on Tuesday, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds wrote that she was “deeply troubled� by the incidents. She wrote that the University has increased the number of security guards on duty, and that she was asking house masters, resident deans, tutors, and proctors to emphasize personal safety precautions for students, but did not say whether any permanent security changes were being considered.

Sarah A. Rankin, director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, wrote in an emailed statement that she believed personal safety should always be part of the campus dialogue, but did not indicate whether she favored any changes to campus security policy.

Several students interviewed for this article said the recent rape reports have already caused them to make changes to their own personal safety plans.

While a number of students interviewed for this article said they already took care to walk in groups at night, incoming freshman Audrey B. Carson ’16 said she had not been overly concerned about her safety on campus until she received HUPD’s two community advisory emails. “I thought Cambridge wasn’t a dangerous area,� Carson said. “It was Harvard—it was supposed to be safe, academic.�

BY YASMIN GAGNE, SAMMY ROTH AND FINN VIGELAND SENIOR STAFF WRITERS Martha Corey-Ochoa, CC ’16, died after falling from a 14th-floor window in John Jay Hall on Monday night, the University has confirmed.

A police spokesperson said Tuesday that the death was an apparent suicide, but that the cause is still being investigated. Corey-Ochoa was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, the NYPD spokesperson said.

Ryan Rodrigues, CC ’16, and Corey Hammond, CC ’16, found CoreyOchoa on the corner of 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue and called 911 just after 11 p.m. Chris Luccarelli, CC ’16, said he arrived at the scene as paramedics were arriving and saw them performing CPR. Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger said in an email to students that Corey-Ochoa, who lived on the 14th floor of John Jay, was “passionate about mathematics and literature, and recognized as a very talented writer.�

Corey-Ochoa graduated as valedictorian at Dobbs Ferry High School, just north of New York City, earlier this year, and she planned to major in English and mathematics at Columbia.

Dobbs Ferry superintendent Lisa Brady called Corey-Ochoa a brilliant student, talented musician, and gifted writer in a statement. She maintained a challenging courseload, Brady said, while still finding time to work on her novel, a political romance set in the 17th century, and compose a violin sonata.

In an interview for the school district’s newsletter in 2011, Corey-Ochoa said, “Music inspires my writing. I love analyzing music and literature and making connections between disciplines.� “She was really looking forward to attending Columbia,� Elizabeth Haus-

man, a public information officer for the Dobbs Ferry school district, said in an email.

Shollenberger COLUMBIA informed students of the death in an email sent around 2:15 a.m., before sending another email at 5:20 a.m. identifying the student as CoreyOchoa. “It’s a time that our community needs to pull together and support one another,� Shollenberger told Spectator on Tuesday morning. “Our returning students should keep in mind our firstyear students have just gotten here, and they are developing contacts and relationships and should be sensitive and reach out to one another.�

It’s a time that our community needs to pull together and support one another.

KEVIN SHOLLENBERGER Columbia Dean of Student Affairs Dean of Community Development and Multicultural Affairs Terry Martinez said that there will be no changes to the schedule of the New Student Orientation Program, which was just getting underway Monday.

Resident advisers and Counseling and Psychological Services representatives are available in John Jay, Carman, Furnald, and Wallach halls until 3:30 a.m. CPS will be open on a walk-in basis from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Shollenberger notified the chaplain and said that religious advisers would also be available on Tuesday.

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GOP nominates Romney at convention

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night at a storm-delayed national convention, every mention of his name cheered by delegates eager to propel him into a campaign to oust President Barack Obama in tough economic times.

Romney watched on television with his wife, Ann, at a hotel suite across the street from the hall as the convention sealed his hard-won victories in the primaries and caucuses of last winter.

“I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a “storybook marriage,” she said in excerpts released in advance of a primetime speech meant to cast her multimillionaire-businessmanturned-politician husband in a soft and likable light. “Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once.”

“A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage,” she said.

Aides said her husband of 43 years would be in the hall when she spoke.

Through the evening, a parade

of convention speakers mocked Democratic President Obama mercilessly from a made-fortelevision podium, as if to make up for lost time at an event postponed once and dogged still by Hurricane Isaac.

The Democratic president has “never run a company. He hasn’t even run a garage sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand,” declared Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican Party.

Said House Speaker John Boehner, “His record is as shallow as his rhetoric.”

To send Romney and ticketmate Paul Ryan into the fall campaign, delegates approved a conservative platform that calls for tax cuts — not government spending — to stimulate the economy at a time of sluggish growth and 8.3 percent unemployment.

Polls make the race a close one, to be settled in a string of battleground states where neither Romney nor the president holds a secure advantage.

While there was no doubt about Romney’s command over the convention, the residue of a heated campaign for the nomination was evident inside the hall.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who never won a primary or caucus, drew several dozen delegate votes — precisely how many were

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New York delegates react as Mitt Romney is nominated for the Office of the President of the United States at the Republican National Convention. not announced from the podium.

Earlier, his supporters chanted and booed after the convention adopted rules they opposed, but were powerless to block, to prevent those votes from being officially registered. “Shame on

Gulf coast braces as Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana

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Hurricane Isaac arrives at the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Louisiana and Mississippi when it struck on Aug. 29, 2005.

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN AND STACEY PLAISANCE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Isaac has made landfall in southeast Louisiana with winds near 80 mph.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm’s center reached land at 6:45 p.m. in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans.

The storm’s arrival Tuesday evening comes

on the eve of the seven-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the region.

While not as powerful as Katrina, Isaac threatens to flood the coasts of four states with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans, where residents have been hunkering down behind levees fortified after Katrina struck.

Isaac also promises to test a New Orleans levee system bolstered after the catastrophic failures during Katrina.

you,” some of his supporters chanted from the floor.

Boehner, presiding over the roll call, made no attempt to have Romney’s nomination made by acclamation, even though Ryan’s was a few moments later.

The night was Romney’s for sure, but some of the loudest cheers were accorded Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a hero among Republicans for fending off a labor-backed recall attempt last spring.

Convention planners squeezed two days of speeches and other convention business into one after scrapping Monday’s scheduled opener because of fears that Isaac would make a direct hit on the Florida Gulf Coast.

Obama raises fuel standards

BY TOM KRISHER AND MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has finalized regulations that will force automakers to nearly double the average gas mileage of all new cars and trucks they sell by 2025.

The rules mean that all new vehicles would have to get an average of 54.5 miles per gallon in 13 years, up from 28.6 mpg at the end of last year. The requirements will be phased in gradually between now and then, and automakers could be fined if they don’t comply.

The regulations, announced Tuesday, will change the cars and trucks sold in U.S. showrooms, with the goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption. Automakers will need to improve gasoline-powered engines, and sell more alternative fuel vehicles. Critics say the rules will make cars unaffordable by adding thousands of dollars to the sticker price.

The “Corporate Average Fuel Economy,” or CAFE standards, will vary by automaker depending on the mix of models they sell.

The requirements will be lower for companies such as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which offer more pickup trucks. The standards can be lowered by the government if people suddenly start buying less-efficient vehicles in the future, although few expect that to happen.

The administration says the latest changes will save families up

to $7,400 on fuel over the life of a vehicle. The standards also are the biggest step the U.S. government has ever taken toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said.

Tailpipe emissions from cars and light trucks will be halved by 2025.

President Barack Obama said the new fuel standards “represent the single most important step” his administration has taken to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

[The new fuel standards] represent the single most important step [to reduce U.S. dependence on oil].

BARACK OBAMA U.S. President But Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has opposed the standards, and his campaign on Tuesday said any savings at the pump would be wiped out by the rising cost of cars and trucks.

Already, automakers have committed to an average of 35.5 mpg by model year 2016 under a deal reached with the Obama administration three years ago.

In the arcane world of government regulations, the rules don’t mean that each new car or truck will get 54.5 mpg. The aver-

age vehicle will get closer to 40 mpg in real-world driving. Automakers will be able to sell pickup trucks and less-efficient vehicles as long as that’s offset somewhat by smaller vehicles that already can get upward of 40 mpg.

Automakers can reduce the mileage they’re required to get with credits for selling natural gas and electric vehicles, changing air conditioning fluid to one that pollutes less, and adding stop-start circuits that temporarily shut off the engine at stop lights.

At showrooms, dealers are likely to offer more efficient gas-electric hybrids, natural gas vehicles and electric cars. There also will be smaller motors, lighter bodies and more devices to save fuel.

Automakers have already been adding technology to boost the efficiency of gasoline-powered engines, mainly because people want to spend less at the pump.

Fuel economy is the top factor people consider when buying a car in the U.S., according to the research firm J.D. Power and Associates. The national average for gasoline hit $3.76 Tuesday, the highest price ever for this time of year.

Fuel efficiency has been rising for the past five years because government regulations and high gas prices have encouraged smaller vehicles and engines.

The average new car now goes almost four miles farther on a gallon of gas than it did in October of 2007, according to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

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Number of countries that will be represented in the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

That figure is an increase from the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, where 146 countries sent paralympians to compete.

N. Korea’s first paralympian scrambled to qualify

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North Korea’s only paralympian, Rim Ju Song, sits in his wheelchair during the team’s welcoming ceremony at the London 2012 Paralympics in London.

France opens inquiry into Arafat’s death

BY SARAH DILORENZO ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow’s lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned.

Many in the Arab world have long suspected that Arafat was poisoned, and a Swiss lab’s recent finding of elevated levels of polonium-210 — a rare and highly lethal radioactive substance — on Arafat’s clothing has fed those claims.

However, the Institute of Radiation Physics said its findings were inconclusive and that only exhuming Arafat’s remains could bring possible clarity. Palestinian officials have waffled on that matter — initially approving the exhumation and then saying the matter needed more study - only further fueling suspicions.

Arafat died in a French military hospital outside Paris in 2004 of what doctors have said was a massive stroke, but the Swiss lab’s tests have renewed interest in his death. The findings were first broadcast by Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, which approached the lab on behalf of Arafat’s widow, Suha. She provided the lab with his clothing and other belongings.

After the results were released, Suha Arafat filed a complaint asking for a murder investigation. Her lawyer, Pierre-Olivier Sur, confirmed on Tuesday that the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, the seat of the district where the military hospital is, has agreed to take up the matter. Next, a judge will be

appointed to lead the inquiry.

Sur said in a statement that his client would not comment because she wanted to let the judge do his work.

“This is a good step forward, any step aimed at revealing the truth about Yasser Arafat’s death is good,” said Abdallah Basher, who heads a Palestinian medical committee investigating Arafat’s death.

He added that experts from the Swiss lab would travel to the West Bank in the next few weeks to take samples from Arafat’s remains — even though the matter of his exhumation is still in limbo. Arafat, who died at age 75, is buried in a mausoleum in the walled government compound where he spent the last three years of his life under Israeli siege.

Testing Arafat’s bones for polonium-210 could offer the last chance to get to the bottom of Palestinian claims that their leader was poisoned, though some experts say it may already be too late for conclusive answers.

Scientists caution that polonium decays quickly and that an autopsy needs to be done quickly.

Although Palestinian officials have long accused Israel of being involved in Arafat’s death, Israel has vehemently denied those charges.

“We heard about it in the media. It’s not really our concern because the complaint is not lodged against Israel,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. “If there is an investigation, we hope that it will shed light on this matter.”

Suha Arafat’s complaint does not name a responsible party, a common practice in France.

Syrian rebels remain divided

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Syrians, who fled their homes due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, shouted slogans as they marched

BY BEN HUBBARD AND ROBERT REID ASSOCIATED PRESS AZAZ, Syria — In the foreign halls of power, the strategy is clear: Syria’s opposition should unite to present an alternative to Bashar Assad’s rule a step France’s president says would lead to diplomatic recognition.

As a move toward unity, Syrian exiles from the main opposition Syrian National Council and other groups unveiled a blueprint Tuesday in the German capital of Berlin for transition to a democratic, transparent society free of religious and ethnic favoritism.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s first and only Paralympian is a swimmer who doesn’t live in North Korea and, until a few months ago, didn’t know how to swim. But he’s an inspiration in a country where disabled people are just beginning to get the support they need to shine as athletes.

Long accused by rights activists of shunting its disabled residents off to isolated detention camps, North Korea gained provisional membership in the International Paralympic Committee earlier this year.

“Healthy or disabled, if you have the will to succeed, there is no obstacle in your way,” said Li Pun Hui, a former table tennis star who has become her country’s leading advocate for disabled athletes.

Clearance to participate in the Paralympics, which open Wednesday in London, came too late to qualify for most events, but swimming was an exception. That made Rim Ju Song, a 16-year-old who actually lives in Beijing, North Korea’s only hope to compete this year.

One problem: Rim, who lost an arm and leg in a construction accident, couldn’t really swim.

His first training session in April was a disaster.

He sank “like a rock,” recalled Kim Sung Chol of the North Korean Paralympic Committee.

Nevertheless, he soon learned the crawl stroke and in May, Rim and his coaches boarded a plane for Berlin and his first international competition.

Only upon arrival did the North Koreans learn that Rim would need a second stroke to compete. He spent the next two weeks learning the breaststroke.

Rim finished last in one event and was disqualified in the other, but that was good enough for a wild card slot in the Paralympics, where on Sept. 4 he’ll compete in the 50-meter freestyle.

Gripping the North Korean flag, he smiled Monday as his nation was introduced at a Paralympics welcoming ceremony in London.

His performance will be watched closely back in North Korea, where sports play a major role in life. From the streets of the capital to the dusty fields of the countryside, kids are constantly kicking around soccer balls, and there’s a basketball hoop in nearly every schoolyard.

From an early age, promising athletes are plucked for rigorous training, and those who win medals at international tournaments are welcomed home as heroes.

One of those heroes was Li, who became her country’s darling after teaming up with a South Korean player in 1991 to beat the seemingly indomitable Chinese and win the team gold at the World Table Tennis Championships. It was the first time players from the enemy Koreas competed together.

After her career ended and her now-15-year-old son was born with cerebral palsy, Li dedicated her life to bringing the disabled out of the shadows and onto the playing fields. In 2010, she organized a table tennis tournament that was covered by state media — the first time many North Koreans saw the disabled on TV. “Caring for my son, I’ve felt that people with disabilities often feel despair,” she told The Associated Press in an interview in Pyongyang. “They feel uncomfortable around other people, ashamed of their disabilities, and purposeless.”

bomb-shattered Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border view such talk as hollow. They are deeply skeptical of all exiled leaders and believe what really matters is their fight on the ground to overthrow the regime.

“They have never come up with a united position that will save the people,” said Fadi Hajji, 25, who had been camped out along the Syrian border with Turkey with his wife and two infant daughters for five days. “All they are good at is arguing. They don’t represent anyone here and they don’t help.”

There was more bloodshed Tuesday as a car bomb ripped through a

Damascus suburb, killing 12 people, according to the state news agency.

Activists also said an airstrike in the town of Kfar Nabl killed at least 13 people as fighting raged nationwide.

With no end to the carnage in sight, French President Francois Hollande called on the Syrian opposition Monday to form a provisional government, saying France would recognize and support it.

Hollande’s statement, believed to be the first of its kind, was quickly shot down by U.S. officials who said talk of a provisional government was premature given the deep divisions within the opposition movement.

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Louisiana Tech postpones season opener against Texas A&M Hurricane Isaac forced Louisiana Tech to reschedule its Thursday game against the Aggies to October 13. The postponement means that Texas A&M will now face Florida in their season opener on September 8.

Football revamps for new season FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1 Nose guard Chris Dooley ’13 added that the Elis will be switching to a 3-4 defense, as opposed to the four defensive linemen, three linebacker alignment deployed under previous head coach Tom Williams.

“I like the 3-4 better because it is harder [for the offense] to block,” Dooley said. “In the 4-3 there was less pressure on me because I wasn’t getting double teamed… [but] I like the pressure.”

The transition to the nohuddle spread offense is one of the differences between Reno’s tenure as head coach and his previous 2003-’08 stint with the Bulldogs as a wide receiver and defensive secondary coach, he said.

In addition to the game plan, Reno has also changed the way the team practices. Recalling the methods of former head coach Jack Siedlecki, Reno has split practices into shorter periods. “[Periods are designed] to keep practice structured and to keep drills and routines moving,” Reno said.

The change has led to more intense practices, players said.

Wideout Cameron Sandquist ’14 added that the practices have already shown dividends in the spring game and in scrimmages.

“We’ve just seen how by overtraining in practice and keeping the tempo high in practice we can keep our opponents on their heels,” Sandquist said.

“It helps slow the game down for us…and allows us to be a lot more comfortable.”

Even with the heightened intensity, the team has lost only three members since preseason started earlier this month. One freshman walk-on and two upperclassmen had quit the program by the first day of practice, according to Reno, though he added that one player may decide to return upon resolving personal issues.

Wide receiver Chris Smith ’13 will also not be playing this season. Reno said Smith has taken the fall semester off for personal reasons, but will return to the Yale Bowl for the 2013 season.

Smith was second on the team with 28 receptions last year and had a team-high 602 yards and six touchdowns before an injury sidelined him for the last two games of the season.

The team will also have to replace leading rusher running back Alex Thomas ’12 and quarterback Patrick Witt ’12. John Whitelaw ’14 is poised to take over as the signal caller, and running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 will try to fill Thomas’s shoes. Last year, Cargill showed his potential at Columbia on Oct. 29, when he rushed for 230 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Elis to a 16-13 win on a snowy day at the Baker Bowl.

Defensively, the Bulldogs are returning just three starters from last year’s squad. The defense will be led by McHale, who has 133 tackles and three interceptions in his Yale career.

The football season will begin Sept. 15 at Georgetown.

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Kvitova takes New Haven Open crown

BY JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTER There’s a new champion in town.

World No. 5 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, the highestranked player at the New Haven Open last week, took the event for the first time with a victory in the final Saturday. She supplanted four time defending champion world No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki, who battled through the first set of the semifinals before withdrawing because of a right knee injury. The same injury hindered her performance at the U.S. Open, where she lost in straight sets in the first round to world No. 96 Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania.

TENNIS Wozniacki had lost the first set of her semifinal match 7–5 to world No. 12 Maria Kirilenko.

Kirilenko fell 7–6(9), 7–5 to Kvitova in the finals.

“Even though it was a very difficult decision, it took me a while to make that, I decided it was best for me to just stop here,” Wozniacki said, adding, “I’ll be ready for

the Open.”

The other semifinal between Kvitova and world No. 10 Sara Errani went to two sets, but whereas Kirilenko was taxed throughout her semifinal match to stay ahead of the injured Wozniacki, Kvitova rolled to a 6–1, 6–3 victory. Kvitova continually exploited Errani’s weak second serve, which consistently floated in around 70 mph. She hit several return winners off both wings.

Even though it was a very difficult decision, it took me a while to make that, I decided it was best for me to just stop here.

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI “About the return, I always step in the court and try to attack from the return because Sara didn’t have the fastest speed on the tour,” Kvitova said in a press conference after the match.

Kvitova, who won the Rog-

ers Cup in Montreal just two weeks ago, went on to edge out Kirilenko in an enthralling final.

The pair had most recently played in the quarterfinals at the London Olympics, where Kirilenko won in straight sets.

In New Haven, the two played a tightly contested match with several twists and turns. During the first set, which lasted one hour and eight minutes, both players struggled to hold serve. Six of the 12 games in the set were breaks; each player’s serve was broken three times. Kirilenko, who has struggled with her serve in the past, rode her recently improved serve to victory in her earlier matches. But in the final, she double-faulted seven times and hit several first serves that landed nearer to the baseline than to the service line.

But neither player was sloppy; both fought hard, and the tennis improved as the set wore on.

The tiebreaker featured a battle of wills as both players saved set points. Kirilenko saved three before taking an 8–7 lead. Kvitova quickly erased that set point, though, smashing a crosscourt forehand return winner off Kirilenko’s 82-mph second serve.

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Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, reigning champion four years running, battled through a set in the New Haven Open semifinals with an injured knee but then decided to retire.

Kvitova finally took the set on her fifth try at 10–9, as she watched Kirilenko’s backhand sail wide.

The second set was equally captivating. Jetting to a 5–2 lead, Kirilenko shook off her tiebreak disappointment to break Kvitova’s serve twice. In climbing from 2–2 to 5–2, Kirilenko won 11 straight points. But by her own admission, she became nervous at the prospect of playing a third and decisive set. Despite the most successful season of her career, she has not yet won a title this year.

“Suddenly I broke her, and I was 5–2 up,” Kirlilenko said.

“Then I start to feel, I have a chance to win the set.”

In the eighth game of the second set, with Kirilenko serving for the set at 5–2, Kvitova seemed to tap into an energy reserve. She began to hit her groundstrokes harder and her returns more aggressively. She won the final five games of the match, breaking Kirilenko three times, twice when Kirilenko was serving for the set.

Kvitova needed five opportunities to break Kirilenko in the lengthy and demoralizing eighth game, which was the turning point of the set. In the 10th and 12th games of the set, Kvitova broke Kirilenko at love.

Since falling in the Wimbledon quarterfinal against Kirilenko, Kvitova has had more hard court success than any other woman on tour. In fact, Kvitova amassed the most U.S. Open Series points over the course of the hard court season. If she wins the U.S. Open, Kvitova will receive a $1 million bonus as a prize for winning the U.S. Open Series in addition to the $1.9 million winner’s check for the U.S. Open itself.

Kvitova said she hopes to carry the momentum from her stellar North American summer into the Open this week.

“Play three tournaments in a row and win two, it’s great for me,” Kvitova said. “I hope it will continue in the U.S. Open.”

The New Haven Open was largely a success this year, showcasing seven of the world’s top 15 players and attracting over 50,000 spectators over the course of the week. The final was played in an energetic atmosphere created by 4,840 fans. The tournament also included high-profile attendees, such as world No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy (Wozniacki’s boyfriend) and NHL star Alexander Ovechkin (Kirilenko’s boyfriend). Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy addressed the crowd

before Kvitova’s semifinal match, and ESPN2 covered the semifinals and finals of the tournament on national television. The tournament also provided entertainment apart from the tennis. Just outside the courts was a large area where fans could partake in various activities, including eating, shopping and listening to live

music.

The U.S. Open is currently underway, with Kvitova and Kirilenko on different sides of the draw. If the two meet, the rematch will take place in the finals, slated for Sept. 8.

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No. 2 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic kissed her trophy after defeating Russian No. 7 Maria Kirilenko.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS RYAN AND CHRISTIAN HARRISON The Harrison brothers of the U.S.A. defeated fourth-seeded Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matowski of Poland in straight sets at the U.S. Open. Two of the youngest players in the draw, Ryan, 20 and Christian, 18, are ranked 88th and 1,025th in doubles respectively.

Sports supporter remembered WALLACE FROM PAGE 16 share his thoughts at half-time or after the game,” Conn said.

By his own admission, Wallace was too small to be a serious football player, but he had a passion for the game that he combined with his gift for writing over the course of a distinguished career. Wallace had a talent for bringing together the things he loved — Yale, football and writing. Until this year he organized a group of former Yale newsmen spanning more than thirty years in age that gathered regularly for lunch at Mory’s.

The group most recently met in April, when they sat at their usual table under a photo of the Yale Ironmen.

During his time at Yale, Wal-

lace was a catcher for Branford College’s baseball team and also wrote a football column for the News. He graduated in 1949 with a B.A. in history after serving four years in World War II. Wallace was a prominent figure on campus, according to his classmates, and was described by his friends as fiercely loyal to everyone around him.

“He was the kind of man who made a friend wherever he went,” said John Rohrbach ’45W, Wallace’s friend and colleague at the News. “He wasn’t casual about his acquaintances though: friendship for him was a longlasting affair.”

Donald Marshman ‘45, a fellow member of the Mory’s group along with Rohrbach, added that Wallace always seemed to

be heading off to another corner of the country for classmate’s birthdays, anniversaries or other special events.

Wallace served as corresponding secretary for the class of ’45W and was responsible for compiling the class notes that are included in every issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine. As the members of a class grow older, it increasingly becomes the job of the corresponding secretary to bear notice of his classmates’ deaths, most often in two or three brief sentences. But Marshman said Wallace treated his role differently. “[He] would write little biographies for each one, so that in each issue there would be five fairly lengthy paragraphs,” he said. “It was partly because

Roddick, V. Williams keep on keeping on at US Open

BY HOWARD FENDRICH ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — That Andy Roddick’s last match as a twentysomething would not be his last match at the 2012 U.S. Open was hardly in doubt Tuesday, especially whenever he was launching that intimidating, tough-to-handle serve of his.

To close the first set: ace at 141 mph.

To close the second: ace at 134 mph.

To close the third: ace at 127 mph.

Yes, even as Roddick’s 30th birthday approaches on Thursday, even as his body has succumbed to injury after injury, that serve is pretty much still the same as it ever was. Now that he more frequently faces opponents who grew up cheering for him — such as 21-year-old qualifier Rhyne Williams of Knoxville, Tenn., the foil for Tuesday’s 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 victory — Roddick knows more than ever he needs to rely on the best thing he’s got, and 20 aces helped this time.

“You really don’t see that shot,” Williams said glowingly about Roddick’s serve.

Heading into his Grand Slam debut, the 283rd-ranked Williams had one primary concern: “I was just hoping he wasn’t going to go at me with a serve.”

“I’m like, ‘Oh, no. Where’s he going?’ That’s the first thing I thought of. Then it was, ‘It’ll be great. I can play in front of a big crowd.’ It was quite an experience,” said Williams, the NCAA runner-up for the University of Tennessee last year and a 12-year-old when Roddick won the U.S. Open in 2003.

That was the last Grand Slam singles title for an American man, the longest drought in history for a country that produced the likes of Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors (not to mention others such as Bill Tilden or Don Budge).

Roddick found himself in an era dominated

by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal — and, more recently and to a lesser extent, Novak Djokovic, who began defense of his U.S. Open title by overwhelming 69th-ranked Paolo Lorenzi of Italy 6–1, 6–0, 6–1 on Tuesday night — and while he is without a second major championship for his resume, he kept adapting his game to try to do just that.

Roddick dedicated himself to stronger fitness. He learned a better backhand. He improved his volleying.

“I saw the way the game was going. You have to get stronger and quicker. I don’t think there was much room for a plodder who could hit the ball pretty hard,” Roddick said. “It was a conscious effort, at times, and I feel like that’s added to longevity a little bit.”

Following Roddick into Arthur Ashe Stadium was 32-year-old Venus Williams, playing her first U.S. Open match since she pulled out before the second round in 2011 and revealed she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.

“Honestly, I didn’t even understand what I was going through at that time last year. I feel like just this summer I’ve come to acceptance.

Like it takes a long time to come to acceptance, especially when you’re an athlete. You see yourself as this healthy person that nothing can defeat you,” Williams said. “So it takes a while before you can kind of see yourself as someone with flaws and chips in the armor. Now that I have come to accept it, it helps me a lot in how I need to prepare for my matches, the mindset I need to come into it.”

After a shaky start, dropping the first two games — and even seven points in a row in one stretch — Williams used her own powerful serve to right herself and beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. 6–3, 6–1. One serve at 124 mph jammed Mattek-Sands’ left index finger, shoving it into a racket string so hard she needed attention from a trainer.

“She was crushing her serves,” MattekSands said. “I don’t think anyone’s returning those, so I’m not going to beat myself up too much.”

Venus Williams won the 2000 and 2001 U.S. Opens, two of her seven career Grand Slam titles. That’s half as many as her younger sister, Serena, who began her bid for No. 15 with a 6–1, 6–1 victory over 75th-ranked CoCo

Vandeweghe in Tuesday’s last match in Ashe, yet another all-American affair.

“Venus is amazing. She’s the ultimate role model for me,” Serena Williams said. “She’s the ultimate fighter and champion - everything she’s gone through and is going through. I have no excuses any more. She makes me a better person.”

The younger Williams won the U.S. Open in 1999, 2002 and 2008, and is among the favorites in 2012 considering the way she dominated the competition recently while winning Wimbledon and a gold medal at the London Olympics.

“We need more American champions here to hold up these amazing trophies,” Serena Williams said.

Three of the day’s most notable upsets were turned in by young, up-and-coming Americans. In singles, 19-year-old Sloane Stephens, who is ranked 44th, eliminated 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 6–3, 6–4. And in doubles, 19-year-old Jack Sock and 22-year-old Steve Johnson knocked out the top-seeded team of Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada 1–6, 7–6 (4), 6–2, while brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison defeated last year’s runners-up, Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland 7–6 (3), 2–6, 7–6 (7).

One other exit of significance: 2009 runnerup Caroline Wozniacki, who began the year ranked No. 1 but has struggled and was seeded eighth, lost 6–2, 6–2 against 96th-ranked Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania. Bothered by a bad right knee, Wozniacki also lost in the first round at Wimbledon.

Ryan Harrison — he’s 20, two years older than Christian — credits Roddick with helping him in various ways.

“The older I’ve gotten, and the more my game has developed, he’s been definitely teaching me about … being energetic and learning how to let bad moments slide off your shoulder and keep moving forward,” said the older Harrison, who faces Benjamin Becker in the first round of singles on Wednesday. “One of the best things that he doesn’t get recognized for is how persistent he is and how competitive he is.

He’s a guy that won’t let you win Xbox.”

Appearing in his 13th consecutive U.S. Open — and wearing all-American sneakers for the occasion, replete with red and white stripes, and white stars on a blue background — Roddick sounded a bit willing to alter the expectations this time around. His own, and those of others.

Asked in an on-court interview what sort of present he would like in a couple of days, Roddick smiled and responded: “I just want to be around for next week. That’s all I want for my birthday.”

After a pause, he added: “And then we’ll renegotiate.”

Next up for Roddick is a second-round match against 19-year-old Bernard Tomic of Australia, who at last year’s Wimbledon became the tournament’s youngest quarterfinalist since Boris Becker.

Another test against another kid.

Roddick, a former No. 1 who is seeded 20th at Flushing Meadows, is coy when it comes to questions about how much longer he can compete at the top of the game.

“I mean, I don’t think you can ask him about retirement right now. I think as long as he’s happy and he’s playing well, I think he’s going to keep playing,” said 27th-seeded Sam Querrey of the U.S., who beat Yen-hsun Lu of Taiwan 6–7 (4), 6–4, 6–4, 7–5.

Like Ryan Harrison, the 24-year-old Querrey is one of several younger Americans who have benefited from Roddick’s advice and offers to train together in Austin, Texas.

Roddick extended that opportunity to Rhyne Williams after beating him Tuesday.

“He’s kind of been the leader of American tennis amongst the guys for the last 10 years.

He’s been great. I mean, when I was 18, 19 — still to this day — he was always one of the first guys to invite me to Austin to practice,” Querrey said.

“He’s always there for motivation. He’s always there to tell you if you had a good win or to tell you, `Hey, step it up,’ if you had a bad loss. He’s really been a great mentor to everyone.”

he was a journalist and he was doing what came naturally, but that work takes time and effort, and he put it in happily. He was very loyal to his class and to Yale.”

Wallace never quit reporting on the Bulldogs, and his readers never quit following.

For the last few years of his life, Wallace wrote and distributed a newsletter on Yale football entitled “Bullpoop.” Set up as a humorous fictional conversation between the old, romantic “Bull” and the younger, betterinformed “Dog,” Wallace’s Bullpoop recapped football games and discussed current events and Yale football trends.

“I was amazed at the length of the list of his followers,” Richard Mooney ’47 said. “As far the Yale

circuit was concerned, he was Yale football.”

While he distributed his newsletter to a few hundred Yale alumni, his nephew Sanford Miller added that many subscribers would send out “Bullpoop” to more people, and readership was likely in the thousands. Wallace’s last issue came out on Apr. 22 of this year.

Wallace remained passionately concerned with the changing state of Yale Athletics for the entirety of his life.

“He was adamant about the fact that Yale sports were a huge part of the culture of the Yale he and his fellow Yalies knew,” Chelsea Janes, a former sports staff columnist for the News, said. Wallace gave a speech at a Yale class dinner in October 2011

on the subject of athletics and admissions, she added.

“In the hospital when we visited him 10 days before he died, he was still going on about the plight of Yale’s recruiting,” Wallace Hamlin said. “Right up to the end he was paying attention to what was going on, he was so keen on the institution of Yale.”

In addition to his daughter Wallace Hamlin, Wallace is survived by his wife, Linda; three other daughters, Eve and Josephine Wallace and Alexis Silverman; a stepdaughter, Samantha De Refler; a sister, Susan Drake; and five grandchildren.

Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu and LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

Elis seek third consecutive title

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After relying largely on underclassmen last season, Yale returns almost all the key players from last year’s team.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 16 Ivy campaign, finishing sixth in the league in kills, with a teamhigh 287. Rogers stepped up when it counted most, playing her best match of the season in an Ivy Leaue title-clinching win over Harvard on Nov. 11. In that match, she recorded 17 kills in 33 attempts to lead the Bulldogs.

“Mollie is the kind of person that just goes out there and plays hard and doesn’t stop,” Wessels said. “I think she will do the same thing this year.”

Second Team All-Ivy selection Reetz, McHaney Carter ’14 and Maddie Rudnick ’15 will also play big roles for the Bulldogs as they attempt to win their fourth Ivy League title in five years.

But Yale will have one major hole to fill: Allie Frappier ‘15, a Second-Team All-Ivy pick last year, has left the team due to an injury. Outside hitters Gabby Bird-Vogel ‘15 and Karlee Fuller ‘16 will need to step up and fill the offensive void created by Frappier’s departure.

The Bulldogs bring in a freshman class composed of five

players. Included in the group, which was named to the High Honorable Mention category by prepvolleyball.com, is Jesse Ebner from Portola Valley, Calif., Karlee Fuller from Olivenhain, Calif., Kelly Johnson from Palos Verdes, Calif., Maya Midzik from Brookline, Mass. and Christine Wu from Naperville, Ill. Appleman said that she expects a few of the freshmen to receive significant playing time this weekend.

Reetz, Wessels and Appleman all said that this year’s team arrived to preseason in great physical condition.

“I think this year, in general, we came back in the best shape that we have ever came back in for preseason,” Appleman said.

“I was really pleased with that.

They must have worked out over the summer. They all jumped a couple inches higher and look in great shape.”

Like last year, Princeton will likely be the Bulldogs’ toughest opponents. The Tigers finished last year 11–3 and will be led by outside hitter Lydia Rudnick, the most formidable offen-

sive threat in the league. However, Rudnick’s former partner in crime, Cathryn Quinn, has graduated and will leave the Tigers with a huge offensive hole to fill. The pair combined for almost 47 percent of Princeton’s kills last year, with Quinn accountable for one of every four Tiger kills.

The Elis have won two straight Ivy titles, but have no NCAA wins to show for those c h a m p i o n s h i ps. A l t h o u g h expectations are high for an extremely talented group to take the next step, Reetz said that the Bulldogs are going to take it one game at a time.

“A new season is a new team and success is defined differently for each team,” Reetz said.

“But we are all really competitive and we have our sights set extremely high.”

The Bulldogs kick off the season Friday night at 7 pm when they take on Texas A&M in the John J. Lee Ampitheater.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

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RYAN LAVARNWAY ’09 DEGREE REMAINS AN OPTION The former Yale star who dropped out to pursue professional baseball and is now playing for the Boston Red Sox told NESN that he might one day return to Yale. “I definitely want to go,” he said. “If I can work it out depending on how old I am, I might finish.”

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JOEL SMILOW ’54 RECOGNIZED IN NYTIMES ARTICLE The Times mentioned Smilow’s $1 million donation to Yale to endow football’s head coaching position in a Monday article about the prevalence of endowed coaching positions. “The athletic director has jokingly referred to me as the owner of the Yale football team,” Smilow said.

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A(nother) fall from grace We thought the Steroid Era was over.

Fans, executives, and analysts alike thought we had finally moved on from the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) that seemed to infiltrate nearly every sport.

Athletes testified, Congress investigated, and strict drugtesting policies were put in place throughout professional and amateur athletics. MLB suspensions for steroid use dropped from seven in 2007 to just one in 2011. We even made it through a virtually positivetest-free Olympics just a month ago.

But just when you thought it was safe to believe that athletes had regained the ability to play fair, three steroid scandals have rocked the sports world in quick succession. San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera was suspended two weeks ago for 50 games after testing positive for high levels of testosterone. A’s pitcher Bartolo Colón received the same suspension for synthetic testosterone just a week later. Three others in the MLB already have been suspended in 2012, bringing the grand total to five. And of course, American cyclist Lance Armstrong will be stripped of all his Tour de France titles after dropping his fight against the U.S. AntiDoping Agency.

Do they think we are not looking anymore? Armstrong’s case has stagnated for years, but did Cabrera and Colón really think they could get away with it? And worse, they know what they’re doing is wrong, but they take absolutely no responsibility for it. I know careers and reputations and millions in endorsements are on the line, but there’s also a total lack of honesty.

Cabrera’s case is the worst example of the extreme effort steroid users take to cover their tracks. Melky’s associates set up a fake retail website with listings for vitamins and other supplements. They planned to challenge Cabrera’s suspension by alleging that he purchased supplements through the website without knowing about their illegal contents.

And Armstrong has challenged the allegations against him for years, despite the fact that almost everyone else on his former USPS cycling team has admitted to blood doping. Of course, we may never know the real story, as Armstrong won’t admit to any wrongdoing. His official statement to the press is a scathing denouncement of the USADA’s investigation — which he describes as a vendetta against him — without any admission or rejection of steroid use. I would like to believe in the notion of “innocent until proven guilty,” but given the circumstances and the conspicuous lack of rebuttal, there is probably some truth behind the USADA’s investigation.

Don’t get me wrong, I still respect Armstrong, his fight against cancer, and his contin-

ued charity work. I understand that doping was extremely common in cycling just a few years ago. But when the truth comes out, it is time to fess up just like everyone else. Instead, his continued failure to confess will only do more damage to his reputation, as will Cabrera’s extravagant attempt at a coverup.

Maybe the recent return of PEDs to the media has made me a bit cynical about the end of steroid use. But there are thousands of athletes who seem committed to playing fair — perhaps Colón and Cabrera are just exceptions to the new baseball order. And Team GB medalist and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins has never tested positive for PEDs. He represents the new generation of cycling stardom — and so far, so good. Yet it’s enough to make you worry that the product we are seeing on the field, or the road, or on the court, is not a true representation of skill, determination, and training.

Instead, to some extent, it’s still soiled by a seedy underworld of corrupt doctors, blood transfusions, and quiet acceptance of wrongdoing.

These lingering issues in professional sports give me hope for the beginning of another season of Yale athletics. Our sports teams may not be constantly in the national spotlight or in the hunt for bowl games, but our student-athletes, and college athletes in general, do represent a “purity” that’s missing from professional sports these days.

They work hard, study hard, and are dedicated to honest training without doping. Without the worries of contracts and sponsorships, there is no need for artificial improvement. They have so much going for them that it is unnecessary.

That is not to say that college sports are a bastion of everything that is right about sports.

Clearly, high-level college football represents a lot of what is wrong. We have been shocked by scandals at Penn State and dismayed by bribes and recruiting violations at Ohio State and numerous other schools. But I believe the lack of intense media scrutiny and analysis makes Yale and the rest of the Ivy League a great home for what a student-athlete should be.

Is that not ironic? The athletes that receive little national attention are the least likely to get into trouble with performance-enhancing drugs. Not to say that the correlation here implies strict causation — our athletes deserve our support and interest. Get out and see your friends and your school on the field this fall. Professional sports can and will still be an entertaining spectacle, but Yale student-athletes are a fantastic reminder of what sport is all about — unobscured by drugs and dishonesty.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

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BY JOHN SULLIVAN AND LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTERS William N. Wallace ’45W, a former New York Times sports writer and lifelong Yale football fan, died Aug. 11 of acute myeloid leukemia in Norwalk, Conn. He was 88.

Wallace’s sportswriting career began at the News, where he covered football and other sports as a Yale undergraduate. After graduation, he reported on local sports for several New York newspapers before joining the Times in 1963.

Wallace wrote about Ivy League football for the Times and was one of the first reporters in the country to cover professional football on a national scale.

Wallace received the Dick McCann Memorial Award from the Pro Football Writers of America in 1986 for his pioneering coverage and his contributions to the field. Throughout his career Wallace wrote extensively about professional football and myriad other professional and collegiate sports, including baseball, yachting and crew, though he always held a special spot in his heart for Yale football.

Wallace’s daughter, Carol Wallace Hamlin, said his passion for sports started at a young age and never relented.

“Sports was a metaphor to him — a narrative,” she said. “He was always able to turn a sporting contest into more than the number of innings or downs.”

In 1934, Wallace, aged ten, attended the famed Yale-Princeton football game at Palmer Stadium. Eleven Bulldogs played both offense and defense with no substitutions for the entire 60-minute game. That roster snapped the Tigers’ two-year, 15-game winning streak, and inspired Wallace’s book, “Yale’s Ironmen” 71 years later. Wallace’s last article of his 44-year career at the New York Times was a Dec. 2007 obituary of James DeAngelis ’35, the last surviving member of the 1934 lineup.

Wallace was a fixture at the Yale Bowl on Saturdays for more than sixty years and rarely missed a home game. Even after his retirement from the Times he kept and was re-issued press credentials so that he could continue to watch the game from the press box.

Steve Conn, Yale’s associate athletics

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William N. Wallace ’45W was a New York Times sports writer, an active follower of Yale football and a devoted Bulldogs fan. director, said Wallace focused carefully on every play.

“It wasn’t a time to ask questions during the game, but he was always happy to SEE WALLACE PAGE 15

Volleyball returns deep squad

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER For the second time in three seasons, the volleyball team will begin its schedule with just one senior on the roster, captain Haley Wessels ’13. The 2010 team was captained by its only senior, Kelly Ozurovich ’11, and finished in a tie with Penn as Ivy League champions. Like that team, this year’s squad will likely be in the mix for the conference title despite its lack of returning seniors.

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Setter Kendall Polan ’14 (14) was Ivy League Player of the Year last season and led the league in assists with 10.69 per set .

“We’re still really growing,” head coach Erin Appleman said about the Bulldogs. “There’s a lot of talent on this team, but we’re still going through some growing parts of it. I’ve had other teams that have been more match-ready at this point in the season, but I think this group has the potential to be really good.”

After winning a second straight conference title last season, the Bulldogs begin play as the team to beat in the Ancient Eight. Last year’s group finished 18–8 overall, including a stellar 12–2 mark in Ivy League play. It followed up the conference championship with a trip to the NCAA tournament, where the Elis lost 3–0 to a University of Southern California team that finished the season ranked No. 5 in the nation.

Last year’s team only started one senior, captain Taylor Cramm ’12, and freshmen and sophomores largely carried the group. As a result, the Bulldogs are returning the strongest squad in the Ivy League. Setter Kendall Polan ’14 will lead the Yale attack a year after being named Ivy League Player of the Year and an honorable mention All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. She finished the season first in the league in assists, with 10.69 per set, and fifth in aces, with .29 per set.

“Kendall is a very good motivator,” outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14 said.

“She’s very good at sensing where we are during the match. She really helps us prepare ourselves for our matches and makes sure that we’re staying competitive.”

Mollie Rogers ’15 will be on the receiving end of the majority of Polan’s assists. The reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year was sensational in her first SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 15

THE NUMBER OF SENIORS ON THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM THIS SEASON. Captain Haley Wessels ’13, a middle blocker, will lead a team that took a share of the Ivy League title in 2010 and won the title outright in 2011.