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CROSS CAMPUS A reminder. Today is shopping period day 2; another reminder that tomorrow will follow a Monday schedule, because Monday is Labor Day. N64 lives. By the 9 a.m. start

time for professor A. Douglas Stone’s PHYS 420 course, “Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, around 30 students had gathered in Mason Lab 107. When a professor failed to show, a man marched into the room, and without saying a word wrote on the blackboard, “Your princess is in another castle. Stone will be back next Wednesday.” The man went on to say, “I am your TA,” before walking out of the room without further comment.

Must be true. In his ever-

popular lecture “Death,” professor Shelly Kagan addressed his reputation as a tough grader, saying he first learned of it through an article in the News. He then asked whether anyone in the room had previously taken a class with him. Though TA Alex Worsnip said about 240 people showed up to class, only two people in the back raised their hands. “See? They don’t come back,” Kagan said.

Some do come back. A few thousand miles away from New Haven, Jonathan Kreiss-Tompkins ’12 won his (uncontested) Tuesday primary election for a seat representing Sitka, Alaska, in the Alaska State House.

Local controversy. A Monday

report commissioned by New Haven’s school board found Hillhouse High School principal Kermit Carolina guilty of “grade tampering” and “preferential treatment” of three student-athletes, the New Haven Independent reported. Carolina is maintaining his innocence, calling the allegations “baseless.”

National import. Heartened by better-than-expected poll numbers, Jerry Labriola, head of the state GOP, has been working Republican officials at the national convention in Tampa to try to turn Connecticut into a Republican victory, the Courant reports.

Yet so far. Though Republican Linda McMahon led Democrat Chris Murphy in the race for the U.S. Senate in a QPac poll released this week, another poll from Public Policy Polling shows Murphy up by four percentage points.

Smizing. Promotional materials for this fall’s season of “America’s Next Top Model” — the “College Edition” — feature shots of the Branford College courtyard.

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Shopping spree begins HIST 261 The Cold War 489 438 ECON 115 Introductory Microeconomics 411 BIOL 101 Biochemistry and Biophysics 385 PSYC 110 Introduction to Psychology BIOL 102 Principles of Cell Biology 336 319 PSYC 120 Brain and Thought 304 ECON 159 Game Theory 242 PHIL 176 Death PHYS 165L Phys. Lab 224 AFAM 112 NY Mambo 223

$198M DOWNTOWN EXPANSION HAILED AS JOB CREATION BOON

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Service Corps, the number of residential college coordinators was reduced from two to one, with another assigned to Old Campus. The subcommittees previously dedicated to communications and special events, among other topics, were eliminated and replaced with a “compost crew,” an “energy squad,” and a green events consulting team — each consisting of five students who are not sustainability coordinators. Garrard said the consulting team will work with planners of major campus events, potentially including Safety Dance and Spring Fling, to help minimize energy consumption and waste.

In an effort to keep the Office of Sustainability more involved in student outreach, Garrard said one college coordinator and one leader from the compost

After over a decade of planning and construction, the new Gateway Community College campus officially opened on Tuesday with a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring politicians, donors and school officials.

The ribbon cutting, part of a full-day schedule of opening events, was led by Gov. Dannel Malloy and Gateway President Dorsey Kendrick. Speeches from the governor, Kendrick, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and State Sen. Martin Looney to an audience of over 800 gathered within the new 367,000-square-foot facility hailed the completion of the $198 million project — the most expensive of its kind in state history.

“We watched in awe as this amazing building rose in steel, concrete and glass over the past months, taking its rightful place in the downtown New Haven skyline,” Kendrick said in her opening speech. “Now at last, we are poised to begin the real journey, the one that truly counts — it’s time for us to deliver on the promise and the potential this new campus offers.”

The downtown campus has long been touted by state politicians and education officials as a strategic investment to equip the state’s workforce with “the right skills and talents” for “present and future jobs,” Blumenthal said.

The new Gateway campus features culinary and hospitality management labs, a nursing skills lab sponsored by the YaleNew Haven Hospital, a nuclear medicine technology lab, a computerized tomography lab and a

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This term’s most shopped classes feature both old and new names, including courses from the new introductory biology sequence. The numbers above are based off students’ schedules entered in the Online Course Selection system as of 9:05 p.m. Wednesday.

STEP gets overhaul from above

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER The Sustainability Education Peers (STEP) program was overhauled this summer in an effort to improve its efficiency and oversight.

The Office of Sustainability announced in late August that it was reorganizing STEP — a student-led organization designed to educate Yalies about sustainability — in response to student criticism that the program was disorganized and vague in its goals. This fall, the organization relaunched as the Sustainability Service Corps with new job structure and greater supervision from the Office of Sustainability. The program is also rebuilding its student staff from scratch, as even former STEP coordinators have been asked to reapply for positions.

The STEP program was originally cre-

ated to help Yale Facilities, which paid STEP coordinators’ salaries, meet green goals on campus. Two coordinators were hired for each residential college to organize study breaks and other events promoting sustainability, and to serve on one of the subcommittees within the larger STEP team for all of Yale College.

But student coordinators complained that their positions required them to wear too many hats, said Amber Garrard, education and outreach coordinator for the Office of Sustainability.

“It seemed like motivation was at times an issue,” Garrard said. “The students weren’t sure what they were meant to accomplish.”

So the office decided to restructure its student outreach program, with a larger advisory role for the Office of Sustainability.

In the newly formed Sustainability

Gateway campus opens

Berry to chair Van Dyke takes dining No. 2 academic review

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BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER Beginning this fall, Yale will conduct the first extensive academic review of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in two decades.

Appointment of the committee follows a recommendation made in a spring report on faculty resources that an academic review be held roughly every 10 years to help “keep Yale at the frontiers in the advance of knowledge.” The committee — consisting of economics professor Steven Berry as chair, Yale College Dean Mary Miller, Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard and 11 other faculty members — will be tasked with recommending changes to the allocation of faculty positions across departments.

“What they really want to focus on is how best to use the resources we have available to support the Faculty of Arts

and Sciences,” said Provost Peter Salovey, who announced the committee’s apppointment last week. “I think everyone recognizes the answer to that question is multidimensional, and reflects excitement in fields, student interest, opportunities for diversity, change and emerging areas of scholarship.”

In a report released in March, a committee chaired by economics professor William Nordhaus ’63 made a series of proposals designed to improve faculty search and hiring processes, one of which was the appointment of the Academic Review Committee.

According to the Nordhaus report, departments have had more existing faculty positions than the budget has allowed them to fill since the onset of the recession in 2008, creating what it termed a “slot overhang.” The comSEE ACADEMIC REVIEW PAGE 4

Saybrook College Associate Master Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 will now wear a second hat as Yale Dining’s director of residential dining, filling the vacancy left last January by Regenia Phillips.

Though Van Dyke, who was selected this month after a nationwide search, has no experience with dining services, she comes from an operations management background, having previously worked with RPM systems, a New Haven-based environmental consulting firm. Rafi Taherian, executive director of Yale Dining, said Dining administrators ultimately chose to hire Van Dyke because of her prior experience within the Yale community.

“Cathy is already embedded in the [residential] college experience and didn’t have to learn it all over,” Taherian said.

“This is a huge head start.”

Van Dyke, who is the wife of Saybrook master Paul Hudak, is

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Saybrook Associate Master Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86 will replace Regenia Phillips as director of residential dining for Yale Dining. currently helping Ron DeSantis, Yale Dining’s director of culinary excellence, to rework the menu choices and improve healthfulness by eliminating packaged and processed food, she said. The director of resi-

dential dining also acts as an interface between residential dining, the Yale College Council, residential college masters and deans and the Yale College SEE DINING PAGE 5

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“Yale is now ranked as having the HAPPIEST feeble-bodied, slovenly, .COMMENT self-centered … future CEOs in the Ivy League.” ‘KENMCKENNA’ ON ‘COLLEGE yaledailynews.com/opinion RANKINGS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY’

GUEST COLUMNIST ERIC ELIASSON

S TA F F C O L U M N I S T T E O S OA R E S

Building Finding happiness in cliches (and God) on failure Last semester, I ran for YCC president. I lost. The campaign was an exhausting, emotional roller coaster. Being a good candidate is tiring. Crafting a thoughtful image and platform, constantly going door to door — all the while with a smile and positive attitude — wore me down. A balance must be found among being friendly and personable, articulating experience and ideas and also not being annoying and intrusive.

By the end of the campaign, I was drained. And I had lost. I had given my all and I had failed.

I’ve never thrown myself into something so fully before, only to fail with no reward for runner-up.

Failure is an awkward thing, especially for Yalies. Before coming to Yale, most of us aren’t very acquainted with failing. Few things we have done previously compare to the purely humbling nature of competing and pursuing activities with such impressive peers.

Whenever I talked with someone about the election, or anything else that wasn’t going well, I could feel a hesitation, a slight discomfort that devoured the conversation. Often, my friends and acquaintances seemed like they were just trying to make sure I wasn’t feeling uncomfortable or hurt. It was a nice gesture — after all, it was difficult to talk about — but I was looking for something more than the good old “you’ll feel better next semester” type of response.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR FAILURES This summer, I met a Yale graduate who ran for U.S. Senate in Colorado. He went all out: He used all his savings, resources and energy in an attempt to win.

He even refused PAC money.

He truly believed in himself and the popularity of his ideals. The election was close, but he failed. When I talked to him, he disguised his wound with self-deprecating humor and a hurt but determined vision of moving forward — not cheerily bouncing back, but pressing on all the same. He impressed me.

After suffering through such a loss, he was in the process of picking himself back up. But he was a sad man, with the burden of his failure clearly weighing on him. I could relate.

While couch surfing in Cody, Wyo. on my road trip back to Yale, I met a traveling country

musician. Before playing a private concert in the living room, he explained his story. A few years ago, he was a successful businessman, but then he lost it all with the housing crash: his job, his relationships and, in true country singer fashion, even his dog. Although my experience was different, failure offered me the ability to empathize and fully relate. He told me his story with a smile and a laugh; he had gotten sick of feeling sorry for himself. Now he is traveling the country sharing his music, which is inspired by his hardships. He was going on, not despite his failures, but because of them.

Unfortunately, when we don’t talk about pain and failure, our avoidance often goes unchallenged. If we ignore failure, we gloss over some major elements of our stories, identities and characters. My failures in tryouts, interviews, elections and relationships are just as important to who I am as my successes. The darks make the grays and whites brighter. We lose depth if we edit out our failures. They allow us to relate; emotional intelligence and empathy require experience, even if our experiences of failure differ wildly in nature and gravity.

I used to think that although we may not always get what we want, we must, at the very least, get what we deserve. But that isn’t the case either; merit can be subjective. Even if we have the support and sympathy of others, we don’t always get what we pursue.

I am starting to embrace failure — not bounce back but consciously pick myself up. Understanding and making sense of failure takes time, but I’m coming back humbled and craving for more, excited to see what else is in store. We might not always get what we believe we deserve, but we do have the ability to own what we get served.

We can embrace our failures as much as we embrace our successes and learn to define ourselves by them as well. Our failures or fear of failing shouldn’t stop us from getting back up again, but we also shouldn’t carry on despite them, as if they never happened. Regardless of whether we’ve just walked onto Old Campus or left years ago, we’ll continue to experience hardship. But to be the best we can be, we should embrace failures. Moving on despite them doesn’t seem to be enough.

Failure matters.

ERIC ELIASSON is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at eric.eliasson@yale.edu .

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YOU CAN FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT A BONES TAP The more ambitious among us should at this point have already spent one summer at a Wall Street firm, although the summer between sophomore and junior years is not nearly as important as the summer before senior year. This is the summer that leads to job offers and the promise of two light semesters, which is important because senior year is reserved for the capstone of the Yale life: membership in a secret society.

It’s a testament to the weight of these expectations that the senior on the flier had to turn to God to compensate for his failure to fulfill them. I don’t know how this came to be the standard trajectory of a Yale career, but even as a freshman I knew I was expected to follow this course.

That I say “I was expected to follow this course” is telling. I find it easy, when talking about Yale, to adopt the passive voice, to speak in generalities, to use words like “culture” and “climate,” or to refer to Yale as an entity that is disembodied but somehow capable of coercive action, as in “Yale made me do it.” I do this because when I talk about Yale, I’m generally talking about people, and this is uncomfortable. The passive voice allows me to mask the fact that expectations are always held by people, including myself. When I ask friends what they did this summer, I pay no mind to the assumption behind the question. That something must have been done this summer is to me so self-evident that I fail to see how anyone could have spent a summer doing nothing.

I don’t think this is good. In trying to conform to expectations, you forget that you

can fulfill them all and still be unhappy. You can be elected YCC president and tapped for a society and offered a job at Bain after your summer internship, but none of those things will necessarily make you happy.

Happiness comes from that cliché piece of advice we occasionally hear and which we halfheartedly offer to others: do what makes you happy.

There are some others: Defy expectations. Tread your own path. Take the road less traveled. That all sounds vague but isn’t. It means accepting that some expectations will go unmet. It means doing things because you want, when you want. For me, it meant joining the News as a second-semester junior when my classmates were already editors. It meant going untapped by secret societies, and it means commuting to New York on Thursdays for an internship instead. It means that though I haven’t found God, I’m also unwilling to say He’s out of the realm of possibility.

TEO SOARES is a senior in Silliman College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST ALEC TORRES

The one-sided campus This year student organizations will invite conservative speakers to campus, offering much-needed opposing views to our stifled intellectual culture. Undoubtedly, many socalled open-minded people on the left will treat these speakers with derision and hostility.

Last year, when Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield came to a Pierson College Master’s Tea to talk about masculinity, some people came dressed in drag simply to provoke. Others asked ridiculous questions meant to denigrate Mansfield’s opinion rather than address it.

Norman Podhoretz, the former editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine, refused to speak at Yale two years ago because he expected that he would be received disrespectfully by the student body.

(Instead, he chose to speak at the Yale Club in New York.) This is not even to mention the reception of many True Love Week speakers last spring. The list goes on and on.

This hostility is a singularly liberal phenomenon. I have heard no reports of conservative students staging protests inside (or outside, for that matter) Sex Week seminars on blowjobs or masturbation. Nor have I heard of conservatives insulting or disrupting lecturers who advocate the fluidity of gender and the necessity of a gender-neu-

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As freshmen we are expected to spread ourselves thin across four or five organizations, one of which might prove tolerable enough to warrant membership during sophomore year.

By then momentum has taken hold, so as juniors we dedicate ourselves to the organization’s presidency or captaincy or editorship.

tral social culture. Liberal tolerance seems to end when conservatives assert their opinion, as many liberals so often choose protest over peaceful conversation.

Here at Yale, where civil discussion of opposing opinions is expected, the effects of disrespectful combativeness are particularly harmful. Conservatives are not only the minority on college campuses, but their opinions are too often disregarded rather than engaged. As such, liberals are rarely challenged, and they become complacent in their opinions and assured they are righteously correct.

Many liberals do not understand opposition as anything other than malevolence. So much of liberal ideology is based on intentions, and the left certainly means well, but liberals think good intentions alone constitute goodness. Liberals thus often equate disagreement with their policies with malicious intent. For example, those who dislike President Obama, they say, do so not because of politics but rather racism.

Favoring traditional gender roles is sexism. Calling for tax cuts is greed and hatred of the poor. In all these instances, liberals attack the ethics or character of the opposition as opposed to the content of their opinions.

Gay marriage provides an even more contentious exam-

ple. When many conservatives promote traditional marriage, the liberal sees fear or hatred of homosexuals at play. A conservative cannot advocate traditional marriage without immediately being labeled a bigot.

No other explanation for their opinion is sought nor deemed plausible.

CAMPUS LIBERALS WOULD CHANGE YALE FOR THE BETTER IF THEY TOLERATED CONSERVATIVES FOR A CHANGE Ironically, and contrary to common opinion, it is liberals who have such an elevated view of their opinions that they seek to socially castigate dissenters.

This leaves them in an intellectual vacuum.

Yale and its mission to provide a well-rounded education cannot exist properly with such closed-mindedness. When students do not attempt to understand conservatism, they do not tolerate conservatism and, as

a result, they disrespect conservatism and conservatives as well.

This is not to say there are not exceptions. I have had many wonderful, respectful conversations with liberals with whom I disagree. However, these isolated incidents don’t change what seems like a common liberal approach to conservatism.

Overall, liberals remain ignorant and hateful of conservative opinions.

So as this new school year comes to a start I ask that liberals — especially the freshmen, who have three more years than I do to make this school a better place — at least try to engage with opposing viewpoints, particularly those of conservatives.

Engage, even if others’ views are disagreeable.

As many of you in the freshman class will soon discover, Yale prides itself in diversity despite existing as a liberal echo chamber. This does not have to be so. Students truly have the ability to change Yale for the better, if only by respecting conservatives as reasonable peers and allowing dialogue responsibly to take place. It is our duty as scholars at Yale.

ALEC TORRES is a senior in Trumbull College. Contact him at alec.torres@yale.edu .

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Once during my freshman year, I saw in the Silliman dining hall a flier that showed the picture of a senior. The senior had, I was told by the flier, gone through some rough times his junior year. He had been expected to find a prestigious summer internship and earn a tap from a secret society, and he had failed to do either thing.

He had become depressed, and so he had turned, for comfort, to God. The flier had been posted by an undergraduate Christian group. Mostly I reacted with the sort of cockiness that comes from being an observer removed from the situation. He was a senior. I was a freshman.

I had not, at that point, fully internalized the fact that being a freshman is not a long-term proposition. And, at any rate, I was convinced that I would, as a senior, be tapped for Skull and Bones.

That flier came to mind late last semester when the Bones tap didn’t materialize. I understood then why the senior on the flier had turned to God. That this reasoning fell on the far side of logic also occurred to me at the time.

There is, regarding the four years most of us spend at Yale, a certain set of expectations.

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Yale-NUS is committed to liberal arts

I read with interest Ryan Pollock’s recent op-ed (“Keep the Liberal Arts in Fashion,” Aug. 29). I disagree with his conclusion that “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.” I and others involved in the new College are developing Yale-NUS precisely because we think that a liberal arts education contributes to progress and positive change. Otherwise, we would not devote our energies to it. While the external constraints in Singapore are different from those in the United States, both countries can benefit from free and open inquiry, pluralistic debate, and respect for diversity.

We expect Yale-NUS students to develop as robust a culture of extracurricular groups as students currently enjoy at Yale, including perhaps a Yale-NUS Daily News.

PERICLES LEWIS Aug. 29 The writer is president of Yale-NUS College.

Exporting Yale’s model means showing our hand Yale’s educational partnership with Singapore has hit the national news because of objections based on Singapore’s velvet authoritarianism (which was on full display when I was a student and Singapore’s founding father Lee Kwan Yoo visited Yale’s campus). But I object to this project and Yale’s analogous China ventures on other grounds: America’s preeminent educational system (especially in liberal arts) is often cited as one of our few remaining comparative advantages in a global economy where we seem steadily to be losing ground and suffering long-term structural unemployment as a result, with real peril to social peace. Why is Yale giving that educational advantage away? It is a form of self-defeating technology transfer, and it is yet another

example of the empire-building hubris that seems to affect university administrators no less than corporate CEOs: the desire to grow ever larger even at the cost of risking the winning formula of the institution or, in this particular case, of adding to Yale’s core mission of educating America’s leadership the wholly irrelevant task of playing missionary to the world. Yale’s drive is expand is to the disadvantage of the country which sustains Yale and which Yale is supposed to serve.

MARC E. NICHOLSON Aug. 28 The writer is a 1971 graduate of Saybrook College.

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Ghana Ghana, which has a population of over 25 million, is bordered by Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and the Gulf of Guinea. With an area of 238,533 square kilometers, it is a little smaller than Oregon. Ghanaians speak many different languages, including Asante, Ewe, Fante, Boron and others.

Alumni take service trip to Ghana

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 6:00 PM Alternative A Cappella Groups Concert. Hear Sur et Verital, the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus, the Yale Russian Chorus, Magevet, the Yale Klezmer Band, the Yale Madrigal Singers, Asempa, and TUIB perform — then sign up for auditions! Dwight Hall Chapel (67 High St.).

7:00 PM Beginner Belly Dance Workshop. Bootcamp style — come learn belly dance moves and a fun one-minute choreography. Good for beginners or anyone looking to brush up on basics. Harkness Lounge/Ballroom (367 Cedar St.).

8:00 PM Yale Splash Information Session. Pop in for milk and cookies and learn about this biannual event, which draws hundreds of middle school and high school students to Yale’s campus for a day of learning, run completely by Yale students!

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LESLEY KIGER

The Yale Alumni Service Corps led a group of 155 volunteers to Ghana in late July as part of its first community service trip to Africa.

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER In its first ever trip to Africa, the Yale Alumni Service Corps led a group of 155 volunteers to Ghana this summer to perform a variety of community service activities.

The participants, which included alumni and their families, worked from July 27 to Aug. 7 in the village of Yamoransa, a community of about 5,000 people where the volunteers collaborated with natives to teach in local schools, give medical care, help with construction projects and provide business consulting.

Kathy Edersheim ’87, the Association of Yale Alumni’s senior director of Yale educational travel, said the trip was so successful that another trip to Ghana is already in the works for next year.

Four alumni participants interviewed said they found the trip “inspiring” and would “definitely” consider future service programs through YASC, but they all added that AYA should bolster its publicity efforts to attract more young Yale alumni to its programs. A majority of alumni participants graduated in the 1970s

or ’80s, Edersheim said. Though the trip cost $2,000, participants could apply for need-based financial aid.

“I want AYA to be a little more vocal to young people about what they’re doing and really mobilize the community to pitch in,” Metty Markwei ’15, a Ghanaian international student who helped organize the program, said. “There’s so much more that can be done [in Ghana], but the AYA is definitely on the right path.”

The Yale Alumni Service Corps was founded in 2008 and has conducted seven other service trips so far in Mexico, China, Brazil, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Though Edersheim acknowledged that the AYA “could certainly do a better job” of preparing for trips like these, she said the AYA is ultimately a volunteer organization that relies on the support of its volunteers and needs to “pace” itself.

In preparing for the trip, the YASC coordinated with three other institutions: the University of Cape Coast, AFS-Ghana, a volunteer exchange program, and ONE, the international nonprofit cofounded by U2 lead singer Bono.

Though volunteers occasionally ran into problems communicating with locals, Edersheim said a team of translators from AFS-Ghana and ONE helped facilitate interactions with the participants.

“There were some logistical issues in terms of preparation and a bit of a culture shock at first, but the volunteers did a fabulous job and really put their hearts and soul into the trip.” Edersheim said.

“The community understands that there are people out there who care, who are willing to spend their time and their money to help them.”

Markwei said the trip “meant a lot to her and the community” of Yamoransa. Though she said the trip was a “life-changing experience” for many of the Yalies and locals with whom she interacted, she hopes next year’s volunteers will focus more on training Ghanaian teachers and doctors to adopt better methods in the long term.

Edersheim said finding ways to leave a lasting impact on the local community is a main objective of YASC’s service trips.

“One of the most meaningful things on this trip was when we

sat down with the chief [of Yamoransa] and some of his supporters on the last day, and he told us his people had regained a sense of community and were inspired to be productive themselves,” Edersheim said. “For us, it’s important that we understand the culture and do sustainable things to make sure the alumni and the locals aren’t just showing up and leaving.”

Lesley Kiger ’10, who taught history and athletics classes to the Ghanaian schoolchildren, said the number of Yale families participating and the range of ages on the trip impressed her.

“The diversity of the group allowed everyone to develop their own unique way of contributing to the service work, whether it was explaining a concept one-on-one to a student, visiting a hair salon to see the business first-hand, or helping to lay the foundation of the community center,” Kiger said.

The community of Yamoransa is known for its kenkey, a type of cornmeal and a staple throughout Ghana.

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

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The NHPD union, seen above protesting police layoffs in February 2011, is at a standstill in contract negotiations with the city.

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER After a summer of upheaval, the New Haven Police Department’s union has yet to negotiate a new contract with the city, leaving some officers worried for their jobs.

Newly appointed union president Louis Cavaliere Jr. and two other NHPD union members said the union’s inability to settle on a contract with the city may cause officers to leave the force. Cavaliere came to power after former union president Arpad Tolnay was ousted from his post in July following unease in the rank and file at his interaction with NHPD leadership and allegations that he had used a union credit card for personal expenses. The appointment put Cavaliere in a position occupied by his father for three decades until Tolnay took up the position last year.

“We need to replenish the troops and retain officers,” said one NHPD officer stationed downtown near Yale’s campus who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his job. “We’re shorthanded and being shorthanded and without a contract affects morale … A lot of good people that shouldn’t leave are, and these are people you don’t want to lose.”

The most recent contract expired on June 30, 2011, but negotiations toward a new contract have stalled as the city pushes for what NHPD officers called major pension and medical benefits concessions.

Cavaliere said the city’s current proposal is unfair and that if the dispute reaches state arbitrators, “people may bail.”

Under Tolnay’s leader-

ship, the union sent NHPD Chief Dean Esserman a letter in June that criticized his leadership and claimed that he was the reason several officers retired.

“I think that the letter woke him up a bit,” Cavaliere said. “He’s been openminded; [Esserman] seems more approachable … He doesn’t want to lose veterans with experience. If anything, Esserman is trying to help us.”

Concerns about the contract loomed in the backdrop of this summer’s changeover at the union’s helm. Tolnay announced in late June that he would step down amid rank-and-file anger at what some viewed as his subdued approach in dealing with NHPD leadership and allegations that he used a union credit card for between $2,000 and $5,000 of personal expenses.

Fo l l ow i n g To l n a y ’s announcement, the union’s executive board unanimously picked Cavaliere to take the helm of the union.

Tasked with leading the union’s contract negotiations with the city, Cavaliere is no stranger to the job — he has served almost a decade on the union’s executive board and his father, Louis Cavaliere Sr., now a consultant for the union, led the union through several confrontations with City Hall.

After Cavaliere Jr. handed Tolnay a letter of suspension on July 6, Tolnay told the New Haven Register on July 9 the move was “unnecessary and ridiculous” and vowed to fight his removal as union president, so far unsuccessfully. Tolnay could not be reached for comment for this story.

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

Yale tree plan sparks local concern

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A Yale proposal to replace maple trees on Prospect Street has caused concern among local residents.

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER A proposed Yale project to beautify Prospect Street — at the expense of its 18 Norway maple trees — has been met with criticism from city residents.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said Yale would fund the entire project, which includes creating a planting bed and curb on Prospect Street, as well as replacing the maple trees with 21 oak trees. But signs on Prospect Street posted Aug. 15 informing city residents of the trees’ removal sparked public disapproval, prompting the city to organize a public hearing at which Yale and city officials will detail the plan. Anne Hartjen, senior project manager with the New Haven City Plan Department, said that while anticipating public reaction to any city project is impossible, tree removal does not usually sit well with the public.

“Generally, people do not like trees being taken down, and we know that,” Hartjen said. Hartjen added that the City Plan Department did not need to approve the proposal since it will be constructed on Yale’s private property, but the University underwent the process as a courtesy.

Even though the project will be constructed on Yale’s property, the decision whether to remove Prospect Street’s maples belongs to Christy Hass, deputy director for New Haven’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees, because the trees are city property. Hass said she received a “fair amount” of negative response to to the slated tree removal in the form of phone calls, emails and letters. Hass added that state statute requires public notification when tree removal is requested, followed by a 10-day period for public comments. If any written complaints are made during this time period, Hass said, a public

hearing must be held.

Hass said she is in favor of their removal because several of the maples are diseased and “less desirable” than other trees found in Connecticut.

Though Norway maples are the city’s predominant type of tree, they are considered an “invasive species” in Connecticut because they are non-native plants, said Hass. In addition, Conroy said, the trees’ roots are shallow and cause landscaping problems. Norway maples, he added, suffer from limb loss during storms. Hass said she will likely invite researchers to the hearing to inform the public of these problems.

Hass said the maples may be replaced by scarlet oaks, although the city is also considering several other types of oak trees. The Urban Resources Initiative, a nonprofit University initiative affiliated with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, will take up the replanting pro-

cess, she added.

New Haven resident Susan Klein said she sent Hass an email on Aug. 16 asking for more information after seeing the tree removal notices.

Though she said she was initially unsure if a public hearing was necessary, Klein said it will allow city residents to express their opinions after learning more about the University project.

“I was just concerned about the loss of mature trees that are not only providing shade but also helping with air quality and the beauty of the street,” Klein said.

Conroy said the creation of a new planting bed curb for flowers and new trees will improve the landscaping along the Grove Street Cemetery wall.

Hass said the public hearing is expected to take place around Sept. 17.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.” DARRYL CHERNEY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST AND MUSICIAN

STEP rebooted as Sustainability Service Corps

SHARON YIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER; YDN

The Sustainability Education Peers program, newly renamed the Sustainability Service Corps, works on issues ranging from food waste in the dining halls to recycling in the colleges.

STEP FROM PAGE 1 crew, energy squad, and green events consultants will meet with her regularly to help the groups collaborate. Like STEP positions, student jobs with the Sustainability Service Corps will be paid by Yale Facilities.

The Sustainability Service Corps has already hired a few members, Garrard said, and is working to recruit more employees. STEP coordina-

tors were not automatically offered positions in the reorganized program, and Garrard said they are not being given priority in the hiring process.

“STEP coordinators from last year are wonderful and definitely encouraged to reapply,” she said. “If they present a good argument for why they should be a part of the Service Corps, I will consider that — and if they think their STEP experience is important to their qualifications, I will def-

initely consider that as well.”

They said they’d let us know — they’d keep us on if we wanted to stay.

JEREMIAH KREISBERG ’14 Former STEP coordinator, Silliman College Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14, a

former STEP coordinator for Silliman, said all STEP coordinators were notified toward the end of the spring semester that the program would undergo major changes over the summer. But Kreisberg said that, at the time, STEP promised coordinators they would be able to have positions in the new organization.

“They said they’d let us know — they said they’d keep us on if we wanted to stay,” he said.

Kreisberg said he does not plan to apply to the Sustainability Service Corps, but that he thinks the new structure will improve the scope and efficiency of the program.

Emily Farr ’14, a former Berkeley STEP coordinator who will not participate in the new program because she is studying abroad this semester, said the new student teams have clearer and more substantive goals than the old STEP subcommittees.

The smaller number of student college coordinators will also likely make the program’s work more effective, she said.

A 2011 report on Yale’s sustainability efforts for 2010-’13 found that the University has met its goal to increase recycling by 25 percent, and has approached its goal for reducing waste.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

Yale to see first academic review in decades with faculty to understand the needs of departments. Salovey said the review held under May can be used as a model for the current committee.

ACADEMIC REVIEW FROM PAGE 1 mittee suggested a number of strategies to reduce this overhang, and recommended any decrease in the number of existing positions take place through an academic review.

The faculty appointed to the Academic Review Committee, announced in a memo to the FAS last Friday, represent 15 departments in the FAS and include all four directors of the divisional advisory committees — in the physical sciences and engineering, biological sciences, social sciences and humanities. The review will evaluate department sizes and help shift resources toward emerging academic fields. Berry said in a Tuesday email that the committee will focus on the “core academic mission of the University” by consulting with the four divisional advisory committees.

Salovey announced in June that he accepted almost all of the proposals made in the Nordhaus report, including the recommendation that an academic review be held. The last such review, held between 1990 and 1992 when Benno Schmidt was University president, drew contention from the faculty after it initially called for a 10.7 percent reduction in the size of the faculty. Professors deemed that number too high, and the planned figure was ultimately reduced to 6.6 percent.

What they really want to focus on is how best to use the resources we have available to support the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

PETER SALOVEY University Provost

YALE

Economics professor Steven Berry served as chair of the Academic Review CommitA more successful academic review, which recommended reducing ladder faculty positions by about 4 percent, was held at Yale between 1979 and 1981 under former Provost Georges May. This review was conducted “very effectively,” Salovey said, largely because the committee took time to interact

Holly Rushmeier, chair of the Computer Science Department, said she supports holding an academic review and hopes the committee finds that her department needs to grow, as it is currently smaller than those at Yale’s peer universities like Princeton and Harvard.

“I’m confident we’ll have a fair and well-informed process,” Rushmeier said.

Berry said the committee’s work could extend past the end of the 2012’13 academic year. Its first meeting is scheduled for next week.

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M E M B E R S O F T H E ACA D E M I C REVIEW COMMIT TEE Steven Berry, James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics and Director of the Division of Social Sciences, Chair Julia Adams, Professor and Chair of Sociology Michael Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Jack Dovidio, Professor of Psychology Jonathan Ellman, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering Donald Engelman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Director of the Division of Biological Sciences Tamar Gendler, Professor and Chair of Philosophy Jonathan Holloway, Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Lawrence Manley, William R. Kenan Professor of English and Director of the Division of the Humanities Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art Tom Pollard, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Ramamurti Shankar, John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Jing Tsu, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

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FROM THE FRONT College insider picked as Dining No. 2

“Community colleges are the gateway to access and opportunity for … opening the doors for all to succeed in the workplace and in life.” BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES

Years later, Gateway opens downtown campus

DINING FROM PAGE 1 Dean’s Office, Van Dyke said, so she hopes to “ensure communication is there.”

As she settles into her new role, Van Dyke plans to meet with all residential college dining hall workers and dining hall managers, she said. She added that she intends to develop specific goals and initiatives with each dining hall.

Before beginning her post at Yale Dining on Aug. 20, Van Dyke chaired the service committee for the Council of Masters, which handles residential college interactions with grounds, facilities, dining and transportation services. Through her work with the committee, Van Dyke said, she became close with Taherian, who encouraged her to apply for the position.

I think the food quality is good, but no offense, everything is curry.

CONNIE ELLISON-DOUGLASS Employee, Jonathan Edwards dining hall Van Dyke said the move is a return to her “operational roots,” where she specialized in manufacturing and process improvement. Because residential college dining involves taking a recipe and making it identical on a large scale, she added, her skills are tailored well to her new role.

“Yale Dining isn’t your typical operation, so it’s exciting to tackle the complexity of it,” she said.

Jonathan Edwards dinning hall worker Connie Ellison-Douglass said she met Van Dyke briefly at a meeting last week and thinks Van Dyke “seems like she’s willing to get to know people.” EllisonDouglass added that she hopes Van Dyke will focus on creating a wider variety of food options for students.

“I think the food quality is good,” she said, “but no offense, everything is curry.”

After leaving her post at Yale, Phillips now works with Aramark as general manager of nutrition services at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

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Gateway Community College formally opened its downtown campus Wednesday. The $198 million campus is expected to increase the college’s enrollment by half.

GATEWAY FROM PAGE 1 graphic design studio among other facilities.

“We will have no progress in this state unless we throw our shoulder to the wheel, unless we produce the kind of product in this state that will allow us to compete with the rest of the world,” Malloy said. “That’s our goal in this state.

And this campus and this institution, combined with the other institutions of higher education both public and private,

are in fact the cornerstones of our bringing that about.”

The speeches and ribbon-cutting ceremony were followed by a reception in the campus’s new cafeteria and an open house throughout the facility lasting until 3 p.m. Gateway’s two older campuses in Long Wharf and North Haven collectively serve over 11,000 students. College administrators said the new campus, located on Church Street between Frontage Road and Crown Street, adds over 90 classrooms and will

increase student enrollment capacity by 50 percent.

In his speech to audience members at the morning event, DeStefano predicted that the influx of downtown Gateway students and faculty will shift the college dynamic in New Haven — a city whose urban center has historically been home to Yalies.

“There’s another college downtown …

Each day, the first thing that everybody who comes into downtown New Haven is going to see is Gateway Community

College,” DeStefano said. “And it is the college that will serve our families, our businesses, our possibilities and opportunities.” DeStefano also emphasized the significance of Gateway’s new downtown presence toward the city’s current goal of fostering a “college-going culture” among public school students.

The first classes at the new Gateway campus will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 4.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

JOIN THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY OPEN HOUSE Monday, September 3rd 9PM Hastings Hall at Loria Center Be there.

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Ryan: Romney won’t ‘duck tough issues’ on economy

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — Seizing the Republican National Convention spotlight, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan promised Wednesday night that Mitt Romney “will not duck the tough issues” if he wins the White House this fall and their party will move forcefully to solve the nation’s economic woes.

“After four years of getting the runaround, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney,” the Wisconsin lawmaker said in remarks prepared for delivery to a convention dogged by Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm, though downgraded from a hurricane, was still inflicting misery on millions along the nearby northern Gulf Coast.

Ryan’s vice presidential acceptance speech marked not only his turn to address convention delegates but also a prime-time national debut by a 42-yearold lawmaker lauded by fellow Republicans for his understanding of the complexities of the nation’s budget.

In a secondary role if only for a moment, Romney accused Democratic President Barack Obama of backing “reckless defense cuts” amounting to $1 trillion. “There are plenty of places to cut in a federal budget that now totals over $3 trillion. But defense is not one of them,” Romney said in remarks that referred elliptically to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Romney spoke to the American Legion in Indianapolis as his aides in Florida scripted an econ-

omy-and-veterans-themed program in their own convention hall and kept a wary eye on Isaac.

The storm was threatening levees in the New Orleans area almost exactly seven years after the calamitous Hurricane Katrina.

In excerpts released in advance of his speech, Ryan said, “The present administration has made its choices. And Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems.

“And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have much time.”

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan is the architect of a plan to curb long-term deficits by reducing taxes and making deep cuts in accounts ranging from farm programs to education. He also advocates saving billions from remaking Medicare and Medicaid, the government’s health care programs for seniors and the poor.

The Medicare changes, in particular, are potentially incendiary in an election campaign. Democrats say that Romney, with his selection of Ryan, has accepted political ownership of a plan that would turn the program from one in which seniors’ medical bills are automatically paid into one in which the government would give them checks to purchase coverage at costs that would require them to dip deeper into their pockets.

Romney delivers his own nationally televised acceptance speech Thursday night in the final act of his own convention. The political attention then shifts to the Democrats, who open their

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Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. gestures during a walk through ahead of his delivering a speech at the Republican National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. own convention on Tuesday to nominate Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden for a second term.

Deep into a two-week stretch of national gatherings, the race for the White House is in a sort of political black hole where the day-to-day polls matter little if at all as voters sort through their impressions.

Book shows Bin Laden raid up close

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A Navy SEAL’s firsthand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden pulls back the veil on the secret operations conducted almost nightly by elite American forces against terrorist suspects.

Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette’s account contradicted in key details the account of the raid presented by administration officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the alQaida leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to only use deadly force if they deemed him a threat.

Bissonnette wrote that the SEALs spotted bin Laden at the top of a darkened hallway and shot him in the head even though they could not tell whether he was armed.

Administration officials have described the SEALs shooting bin Laden only after he

ducked back into a bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.

Military experts said Wednesday that if Bissonnette’s recollection is accurate, the SEALS made the right call to open fire on the terrorist mastermind who had plenty of time to reach for a weapon or explosives as they made their way up to the third level of the house where he hid.

Bissonnette wrote the book, “No Easy Day,” under the pseudonym Mark Owen as one of the men in the room when they killed bin Laden.

The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)’s Dutton imprint. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday.

For years, the primary weapon in the war on terror has been unmanned drones firing missiles from the sky.

But the Bissonnette book reveals a more bloody war waged by special operators, one the public almost never gets to see close up.

The book offers intimate details of a special operations mission. The most memorable scenes are also the most human moments.

Bissonnette describes one of the SEALs dressing the wounds of a woman who was shot when she lunged toward the SEALs. In another scene, a terrified mother clutches her child and a young girl identifies the dead man as Osama bin Laden, seemingly unaware of the significance of those words.

In that regard, the bin Laden raid seems destined to become an anachronism.

Nearly every top al-Qaida figure killed by the United States since the 9/11 attacks has died in a remote-controlled strike by unmanned drone aircraft - their deaths seen back in Washington via high-definition video.

An estimated 80 top terrorist leaders have been killed in places like Pakistan and Yemen, according to The Long War Journal.com, which tracks such airborne strikes.

Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on television commercials by the candidates, their parties and supporting groups, the race has appeared unusually close since Romney clinched his nomination last spring.

Only eight or so battleground states appear to be competitive, although Republicans say they

hope to expand the campaign after Labor Day, particularly in industrial states struggling to recover from the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.

Yet for all of the attack ads and inflammatory rhetoric, the two campaigns tiptoed carefully around the storm ravaging the Gulf Coast, vying to demonstrate

concern for the victims without looking like they were seeking political gain.

Obama told an audience in Virginia he had spoken on the phone with governors and mayors of the affected states and cities while aboard Air Force One earlier in the day. Romney’s aides let it be known he might visit the region once the storm had passed.

Romney’s reference to $1 trillion in defense cuts was a 10-year figure that combined reductions already enacted by Congress and reductions scheduled to begin next January as a result of Congress’ failure to reach agreement on a broad plan to cut deficits.

He did not say so in his speech, but most Republicans, including Ryan, voted for the first installment as well as the second.

The reference to 9/11 was glancing in a speech that accused Obama of unwise defense cuts.

Romney noted the economy is the top issue in the race, but he said, “Our debates can change suddenly, with a ringing phone in the dead of night ... or a plume of smoke on a clear blue morning.

“The first job of government is to keep the American people safe,” he said, pledging to do so.

Democrats spent part of their time working to tarnish the Republican brand. They pointed to an ABC News report that said Romney’s campaign had held a reception in Tampa Tuesday night aboard a yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands.

Romney has been criticized for having investments there by Democrats who say the effect is to reduce his taxes.

Police surround Tampa convention

DAVE MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police officers separate two different groups of demonstrators during a protest, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Protestors gathered in Tampa to march in demonstration against the Republican National Convention.

BY TAMARA LUSH ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — They seem to be on every street corner. Police officers riding bicycles, horses and golf carts that look like baby Humvees. Metal barricades surround all of Tampa’s government buildings. State police, FBI, the Secret Service - some in riot gear - throng the city’s streets surrounding the Republican National Convention.

Some, from visitors to downtown business owners, wonder if the convention security is all a little too much.

“I think it’s overwhelming,” said Ellen Brown, the owner of a bookstore in downtown Tampa.

“It seems oppressive to me.”

“It’s overdone,” said Tom Neal, a guest of the Texas GOP delegation. “Once you go this far, you’re only a step away from becoming a police state.”

During a normal August, downtown Tampa is a bit sleepy.

Workers shuffle from air-conditioned offices into the steamy outdoors, past palm trees that sag under the oppressive humidity and through the city’s lush green parks.

But with the convention in town, the city looks somewhat like it’s under siege. Helicopters fly almost constantly overhead and packs of police cruise by on bicycles. Fast boats whiz by the region’s three bridges, looking for unseen threats. Tall chain-link fences shield the pretty parks along the Hillsborough River from view. The main library is closed.

Brown said she spoke with one protester who spotted the fences and long green tarps blocking the view of the city’s waterfront.

He was carrying a sign that said, “Is this what democracy looks

like?”

“Welcome to Tampa,” sighed Brown.

City officials maintain the massive show of force - more than 3,000 officers - is needed to ward off possibly violent protests, pointing to several clashes with police at the 2008 Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Civil liberties advocates have worried about the amping up of security at political events, where dissenters are kept in socalled “protest zones,” fenced enclosures often far from the actual event. In Tampa, the protesters and city-sanctioned parade routes are blocks away from the RNC and the nearby media center. Surveillance cameras installed on public streets (a few dozen are in place in Tampa) also give some free speech advocates pause.

Ron Krotoszynski, a professor of law at the University of Alabama, said that security at conventions has grown since 1988, when more than 300 anti-abortion protesters were arrested after blocking clinics during the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta that year. Since 9/11, “measures have become even more draconian,” he said.

“Organized dissent has been banished from downtown areas.”

The American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern about Tampa’s ban of poles, posts and rope from the so-called “event zone.” The items can be used to hang banners, prop up signs and make puppets (mostly protesters have used hand and sock puppets, but larger ones are made of papier mache and held together with planks or 2 X 4s).

“Some of these restrictions make sense from a security standpoint,” said Baylor John-

son, a spokesman for the Florida ACLU. “But who are you keeping safe by telling someone they can’t bring in a puppet?”

In the months leading up to the convention, city officials and police estimated that more than 10,000 protesters could descend on the city. They studied what happened during prior conventions - especially the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, where thousands of protesters demonstrated and a few smashed cars, punctured tires and threw bottles in a confrontation with pepper-spray wielding police. Hundreds were arrested over a few days, including dozens of journalists.

Seeking to avoid that kind of violence, city officials planned to bring in more than 3,000 officers from 59 state law enforcement agencies, along with Florida National Guard troops. A $50 million grant from Congress allowed Tampa police to buy everything from armored vehicles to radios.

Brown said it all might be worth it if there were actually protesters or problems. But, as she points out, the streets are largely empty and only a few hundred protesters gather at a time - likely due to Hurricane Isaac, which was a tropical storm when it brushed past Florida on its way to hitting the Gulf Coast.

Even police have acknowledged that there have been few problems; a public safety news briefing was canceled on Tuesday because there was no news to report. During some of the actual protests, the number of law enforcement officers has rivaled the number of demonstrators.

“So far, the groups we have dealt with have been very reasonable,” Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor said.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“There are some today who, in the name of equality, would have us practice discrimination. They have turned our civil rights laws on their head.” RONALD REAGAN FORMER PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES

T H E D A I L Y P E N N S Y L VA N I A N

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Penn brief backs affirm. action

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BY ALEX ZIMMERMANN LAST STAFF WRITER Penn affirmed its commitment to racebased affirmative action earlier this month, as the school co-signed an amicus curiae brief in support of the University of Texas’ affirmative action policy.

UT’s policy is under scrutiny in Fisher v.

University of Texas at Austin, an upcoming Supreme Court case involving Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied admission to the university. Fisher is arguing that the school’s policy of using race as a consideration in admissions decisions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Oral arguments in front of the court are scheduled for Oct. 10.

Penn joined the seven other Ivy League institutions, along with other highly selective schools like Duke and Stanford universities, in submitting the brief arguing that race-based affirmative action is crucial to ensuring a diverse student body, and that diversity is a compelling interest in students’ educational experiences.

“Penn does not often, but does from time to time, join with our peers to file amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on issues of major significance to Penn and the higher education community,” Penn Senior Vice President and General Counsel Wendy White said in an email. “I believe our brief does an excellent job of explaining the importance of diversity to Penn and higher education.”

Many Supreme Court experts believe the justices will strike down UT’s policy as unconstitutional, shifting away from previous judicial precedent that schools may take race into account in admissions decisions.

By preventing schools from enrolling a diverse student body, some believe that the Court’s strike down would be detrimental to students.

“As someone who has been teaching in highly selective universities for over 30 years, we provide a much better education than we did in the era before affirmative action,” said political science professor Rogers Smith, who specializes in constitutional law. “To say it’s unconstitutional, it will send a signal that efforts to promote greater racial and ethnic inclusion in many

forms of life are in constitutional jeopardy.”

A shift in the court’s stance on affirmative action could also come as a shock to Penn, which PENN may be forced to substantially alter its policy of valuing diversity in admitted classes. Penn currently uses race as a factor in a holistic review process of applicants.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda stressed that this commitment to diversity matters to students, and not just in terms of percentages.

As someone who has been teaching in highly selective universities for 30 years, we provide a much better education than we did in the era before affirmative action.

ROGERS SMITH Political science professor, University of Pennsylvania

“We’re not just trying to keep a scorecard so Penn can say we’re more diverse,” Furda said. “This isn’t just to say we have ‘X’ percent of ‘Y,’ it’s how that matches up with the academic offerings here, how this plays out on Locust Walk every day … that’s where we realize the value of diversity.”

The brief co-signed by Penn makes a similar claim, arguing that schools should not only be permitted to achieve diversity through “mechanistic policies.”

Should the court rule against UT, it may simply hold that the university’s affirmative action policy is inconsistent with standards created by a 2003 case on race-based affirmative action, Grutter v. Bollinger.

Given the change in Supreme Court justices since that time, however, Law School

professor and constitutional law expert Kermit Roosevelt believes the court is likely hearing the case to reexamine Grutter and the constitutionality of affirmative action as a whole.

“The idea that the purpose of the Equal Protection Clause is to prevent society from making progress toward racial equality is absurd,” Roosevelt said. “I do not think that any sensible understanding of the Equal Protection Clause would prohibit race-based affirmative action.”

Opponents of UT’s practice, though, argue that race is an unnecessary factor for the university, since its policy to admit all students in the top 10 percent of their high school class already creates substantial diversity. Some argue that focusing on race distracts schools from more important measures of diversity.

Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of “The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action,” believes that if schools are prohibited from explicitly taking race into account, they will be encouraged to recruit and admit more lower-income students as a way of indirectly promoting racial diversity.

“I’ve been a long-time advocate of universities considering economic status in admissions, giving a break to low-income and working-class students of all races,” he said.

Although Penn, unlike UT, is a private school, it receives some federal funding, as do most other private universities.

Roosevelt said that should the court strike down UT’s policy, another round of litigation would ensue, raising the question of whether the Fisher decision would govern private schools’ admissions practices.

At the end of the day, White believes any decision would have broad impacts on schools across the country.

“The courts have long incorporated the constitutional standards barring racial discrimination into Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits race discrimination in programs that receive federal funding. So while not directly applicable, it will effectively govern all admissions practices,” White said. “Whatever the Supreme Court decides in the UT case will effectively apply to public and private institutions alike.”

THE DARTMOUTH

Student impacts immigration reform

BY MATTHEW MCNIERNEY STAFF WRITER President Barack Obama’s executive order allowing the children of illegal immigrants to defer their deportation for two years went into effect Aug. 15, due in large part to the efforts of Daniela Pelaez ’16, a Miami resident who moved to the United States with her parents illegally when she was four years old, according to Nera Shefer, Pelaez’s immigration attorney and an advocate for undocumented youth.

Pelaez, the valedictorian of her North Miami Senior High School class, was told that she would be deported and not allowed to graduate from high school until her classmates organized a protest that attracted the attention of the national media. She has since become a symbol for immigration reform for young people.

Shefer, who first met Pelaez after the latter’s request to have her deportation deferred had been denied, decided to take her case pro bono because she saw an “opportunity” in Pelaez’s situation. Over 2,500 students, school administrators and members of Congress had petitioned to grant Pelaez “deferred action.”

Pelaez was at the top of her high school class, her father was already a permanent resident of the United States and her brother was enlisted in the U.S. military — all factors that made Pelaez’s case exactly what the proposed DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants who arrived in the country as minors and who have completed high school and spent the last five years in the country to become citizens, intends to remedy.

“Finally we have something good about [undocumented youth] to show the world and to show Washington,” Shefer said.

“Attracting that attention was once-ina-lifetime, and if she didn’t take it, then it wouldn’t come around again, and she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do this for herself or for anyone else.”

After her request for deferred action was approved — thanks to an expedited process instigated by the support of her local Congressional representatives and of the media — Pelaez and Shefer flew to Washington, D.C., to speak with policymakers interested in her case, Pelaez said.

In addition to meeting with U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., and Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Pelaez and her lawyer were able to speak with some of Obama’s presidential advisors.

“ I m m i g ra t i o n has just been statistics, but I got to put a face to the cause,” Pelaez said.

Pelaez’s acceptance into DartDARTMOUTH m o u t h h e l p e d Washington officials — many of whom are graduates of Ivy League schools — relate to her cause, Shefer said.

“One of my main points was — this is who she is, she has long been part of this community, and in addition to that, she was accepted to one of the best schools in America,” she said.

[S]he has long been part of this community, and in addition to that, she was accepted to one of the best schools in America.

NERA SHEFER Immigration attorney This case is especially important to the cause because Pelaez was willing to publicize her family’s status as illegal immigrants, despite the chances of being deported and the embarrassment about not being citizens of the country. Up until the day before the protest, Pelaez said she had to convince her father that it was the right thing to do.

“Most of these [undocumented youth] came here at a very young age, and they feel American,” Shefer said. “Then, they find out the cruel reality that they don’t belong here legally.”

While Pelaez said she knows that she is not the only Dartmouth student affected by immigration laws, she is the only one who has made her struggle public.

Pelaez said she has felt some of the negative consequences of making her citizenship status public, especially through the often negative comments that accompany newspaper articles published on the Internet. Commenters have written that Jesus and the Bible say that she should be deported.

“I’ve learned to live with it,” Pelaez said.

Although there are some notable exceptions, including an immigration reform hunger strike organized in

November 2010, Dartmouth students have generally not fought for immigration rights, according to Geovanni Cuevas ’14, a member of La Unidad Latina and Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. “There are no organizations on campus that can say they have consistently and thoroughly advocated for the DREAM Act,” Cuevas said in an email to The Dartmouth. “The general indifference is typical of Dartmouth students and political issues. People here do not like talking about points of contention, or at the very least we’ve yet to find a suitable forum for expressing them.”

While some Dartmouth students have shown interest in immigration issues, it is difficult to get a campus so far removed from the problem to engage in it fully, according to Institute for Writing and Rhetoric professor Claudia Anguiano, who teaches speech classes at the College and has been involved with Latino student organizations.

“It’s challenging to speak to an issue that doesn’t have the same immediate consequences as if you were in New Mexico,” Anguiano said.

Anguiano said that regardless of the Dartmouth community’s level of engagement, the issue of illegal immigration will likely be an important topic in the national political debates as the presidential election season approaches.

Obama passed his executive order to grant undocumented youth deferred action in June, one month after Shefer and Pelaez traveled to Washington to promote their cause. Although some political analysts say that Obama was motivated by the upcoming elections, Shefer said it is a step in the right direction.

“I wouldn’t focus on what the motive is — I would focus on the results,” Shefer said. “It was the right thing to do because Congress hasn’t passed a law. They have ignored the issue for too long.”

While the executive order has bought Pelaez some time, her fight to remain in the country is not yet over — Pelaez said she will spend the next two years finding a way to gain U.S. citizenship, most likely through her father, who is already a permanent resident of the United States.

Shefer and Pelaez also said that they will continue to fight for more comprehensive immigration reform.

“It doesn’t stop here,” Shefer said. “It’s a good accomplishment, but it’s not the goal.”

BY ERIN ELLIS STAFF WRITER This semester, Cornell released its most comprehensive student health insurance plan yet — a policy that will expand coverage while raising the cost of insurance, according to officials from Gannett Health Services.

The changes make the University’s Student Health Insurance Plan fully compliant with the coverage required by President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which represents the most significant overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system since Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

The ACA, which aims to reduce the cost of healthcare, requires all health insurance plans to meet its requirements by 2014.

The changes to Cornell’s updated health care plan affects the 11,000 Cornell students — more than half the student population — enrolled in SHIP. The new plan, approved in April, is more comprehensive than previous plans. It provides preventive care without a co-pay, whether that Cornell student studies in Ithaca or at another campus; no limit to the amount one can spend on prescription drugs; and there is no annual ceiling on the amount of money covered on health care services, according to Valerie Lyon M.H.A. ’91, associate director for business and finance for Gannett.

Lyon said these are major additions to the previous health insurance plan, which had provided only limited preventive services to Ithaca-based students; capped prescription expenditures at $4,000; and had a $1 million annual ceiling.

The new plan, however, is more expensive than previous plans. It is priced at $1,998 — representing a $100, or 5.3 percent, markup from last year. The rates for dental and eye care, which are optional add-ons to the health plan, were unchanged.

Lyon said the increase in premium cost is reasonable given the quality and breadth of the insurance plan’s services. The plan would cost about $8,000 if it were sold on the market, she said.

“The fact that 11,000 students are enrolled means we can offer a very cost-effective plan,” Lyon said.

Given that the ACA requires health providers to implement its guidelines by 2014, SHIP’s

premium h i ke wa s unavoida b l e , according to John Rhee ’12, a former member of CORNELL the Student Insurance Advisory Commitee — which meets annually to review the health plan.

“Other universities are also adjusting [prices] similarly to fall in line with ACA regulations by 2014,” Rhee said.

Heather Fullerton grad, also a former member of SIAC, said that the new plan will reduce prescription costs for students.

She added that, for many graduate students, the value of extending benefits to same-sex partners outweighs the five-percent increase in the cost of the plan.

Due to the passage of ACA, changes may also be coming to the students not enrolled in Cornell’s health insurance plan.

Under the ACA, dependents will be able to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they are 26 years old, according to Lyon.

Still, Lyon said that with the ACA, many employers are shifting more health care costs to their employees, meaning health care for students on their parents’ plans could get more expensive.

Because of their insurance plans, some students must pay deductibles of more than $1,000 for services at Gannett. Additionally, many students’ plans “have limited coverage in the Ithaca area,” according to Lyon.

Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations for Gannett Health Services, said that she believes students are pleased with the changes so far.

“Neither Gannett Health Services nor the Cornell University Office of Student Health insurance has experienced pushback related to the premium increase,” Dittman said.

However, Rhee said SHIP’s cost increase — albeit small — could become problematic in the future.

“I think that [these changes] can be difficult for some students financially,” Rhee said. “The University should think of ways to invest in financially supporting students who may have difficulty paying for health insurance, especially if they cannot be covered by their parent’s insurance.”

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS PETRA KVITOVA The fifth-seeded Czech tennis star, who won the New Haven Open last week, sailed into the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday after beating France’s Alize Cornet 6–4, 6–3 at Armstrong Stadium.

Kvitova will face 25th-seeded Pauline Parmentier in round three.

Cross country teams aim for nationals

BY MASON KROLL STAFF REPORTER With the cross country teams hoping to make the national championships for the first time in team history, the women’s team is determined to capitalize on its successes from last year, while the men’s team aims to improve upon a series of low league finishes.

Last season, the women’s team skyrocketed from one of the worst in the Ivy League to a major championship contender. Under new head coach, Amy Gosztyla, the team reversed its streak of three consecutive last-place finishes at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Heps), placing a hardfought fourth. Two weeks later, the Bulldogs ended the season, by finishing sixth at NCAA Regionals, the team’s best result since 2005.

“Everyone on the team was very focused and shared a belief that we could turn the program around,” team captain Nihal Kayali ’13 said. “It definitely paid off last year.”

Kayali said that this year she expects the team to do even better: While last season, Gosztyla jumped into her role without a full understanding of the team and how it best responds to training, she now has a year of Yale coaching experience under her belt.

In addition, each of last season’s top seven Bulldog finishers has returned this year. Kayali said the graduating seniors provided great leadership but did not rack up many points for the team. Many of the fastest runners — including Kayali and last year’s All-Northeast Elizabeth Marvin ’13 — are entering their senior year, providing an extra incentive for the team to do well.

“We want to go out with a bang and end on a high note,” Marvin said.

By the time this year’s Heps rolls around at the end of October, the team plans to challenge for the title. Kayali said the team aims to improve upon last year’s fourthplace finish and break into the top three, ideally finishing first if possible.

“Now we’ve shown ourselves to be contenders,” Kayali said. “It’s not just something to believe in anymore. It’s more concrete.”

The men’s team has not finished

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The women’s cross country team is hoping to finish in the top three in the Ivy League this season, one year after makiing the jump from the conference cellar to fourth place. in the top half of the Ivy League since 2006, and the Bulldogs have seen similar disappointments at the regional level. While the Elis began the season with a new head coach, Paul Harkins, the team placed sixth at Heps and 11th at NCAA Regionals.

“We’re a team with a lot of talent, but we’ve underperformed at key meets,” Michael Cunetta ’14 said. “For the last four or five years, we have been in the lower end of the Ivies, when really we shouldn’t be that far down.”

Team captain Kevin Lunn ’13 said that the many changes Harkins has inspired have not really

taken hold until this season. Harkins stresses recovery and slow consistent progress in a sport where injury can take a runner out of the game for a season or longer.

This year, the team has one fewer intense workout a week so its athletes can approach, but not exceed, their personal limits.

“You don’t get faster by killing yourself in a workout,” Lunn said.

“You get faster after the workout ends when your body recovers on its own and gets stronger.”

Although the men’s team graduated a few top runners, Lunn said the team is looking strong. New threats include track standouts

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John McGowan ’15 and Timothy Hillas ’13. Hillas, who was elected men’s track and field captain at the end of last year, is running cross country for the first time at Yale.

Additionally, the current senior class, including Lunn and Demetri Goutos ’13, is looking to lead the team in practice and the rankings at meets.

“We’re a lot more focused than last year,” Cunetta said. “The senior class has set a great example in terms of dedication and commitments. The younger guys have a good group to look up to.”

For the first time, freshman runners were incorporated into

preseason training, and both captains mentioned the strength of the incoming freshman class. Key freshmen to look out for include Emily Stark ’16, who Kayali said may break into the top seven, and Kevin Dooney ’16, the younger brother of former cross country runner Conor Dooney ’12.

Last season, both the men’s and women’s teams fell short of a ticket to the NCAA National Championships, but this year qualifying for the November meet is a key goal for both teams. In addition to the Paul Short Invitational, both teams will travel to the Wisconsin Invitational to rack up

points against ranked cross country programs. This national experience, coupled with a high finish at regionals, may launch the teams to the national championships.

“If we didn’t think we could compete at the highest level, we wouldn’t be going to Wisconsin,” Cunetta said.

The Elis will first compete at Fordham Follies and Fiasco on Sept. 8. The annual Yale-HarvardPrinceton meet, earlier than usual this year, will follow at the Yale Golf Course Sept. 14.

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Captain Bradley Kushner ’13 finished in fourth place at the Ivy League Championships last year, but Yale finished a disappointing sixth overall.

GOLF FROM PAGE 10 Championship this summer.

Both teams are looking back on last season’s Ivy losses as motivation to regain focus on training throughout the fall and spring.

“I know we knew we were capable of winning Ivies, and we had a really great season, [so it was] definitely disappointing,” Davenport said, “We’re going to come back a stronger team and more prepared to win Ivies,” he added.

Harvard won the women’s Ivy League Championship last year, while

Yale came in third behind Penn. The team is especially motivated to beat rival Harvard this year, Lipa said, adding that she believes the Ivy League Championship is within reach this year.

The women’s team will kick off the season Sept. 15 at the Dartmouth Invitational, and the men’s team will begin competition Sept. 17 with the Adam’s Cup in Newport, R.I. Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

season ended but was informed of the search in late June.

The softball team, which is currently in its off-season, has not yet set its team goals. Goodwin said she hopes to see the team “catapult up” in the Ivy League standings from last year’s lastplace finish. Nelson said one of Goodwin’s strategies is to reevaluate the team arrangement and force the team to fight for their positions before the season begins.

Rhydian Glass ’16 said Goodwin struck her as enthusiastic and very out there to win. “[Coach Goodwin] is incredibly motivated, very enthusiastic and very competitive,” Glass said.

“She’s got some great plans for bringing the program to the next level.”

While the search was taking place, Reinalda led the team’s recruiting effort. She traveled around the country throughout the summer and presented Goodwin with a strong group of prospective student-athletes, Goodwin said. Goodwin has already seen some of them, and she said she has been extremely pleased.

Backus said the pairing of Goodwin and Reinalda will be very beneficial for the softball team this season.

“We hope that [Reinalda’s] wealth of experience will continue to be a great asset to the program,” Backus said. “We’ve partnered her with a new head coach who will bring new ideas on strategy. We hope that she will have the success she envisions and that it will be a great partnership for years to come.”

Last year, the softball team finished with a 12–34 overall record and a 5–15 record in the Ivy League.

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

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Softball is still in its off-season, but is beginning to get to know new head coach Jen Goodwin, who was previously an assistant coach at Harvard.

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Prior to Ohio State, Baxter was an offensive and defensive coordinator at Drexel University.

“Everyone on the team was very focused and shared a belief that we could turn the program around.”

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Bulldogs top preseason standings

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER Starting with their highest preseason rankings in more than a decade, the Yale sailing teams hope the momentum continues to build throughout the fall.

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Jen Goodwin joins the Yale softball program from two years at the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

BY MASON KROLL STAFF REPORTER Over the summer, the Yale softball program made a change at the top, replacing former head coach Barbara Reinalda, who had led the team for eight seasons, with Jen Goodwin and moving Reinalda to the position of associate head coach.

SOFTBALL A search committee was formed near the beginning of the summer to select the Bulldogs’ new coach. Administrators, students and alumni interviewed candidates and ultimately selected Goodwin for her strong hitting background and Ivy League coaching and recruiting experience, senior associate athletic director Amy Backus said.

Goodwin’s selection was announced Aug. 10. She said her transition has been very smooth, and she and the team are looking forward to getting out on the field.

“Yale is an outstanding university with a lot to offer,” Goodwin said. “Having coached in the league previously, I understand the philosophy and the goals and truly believe Yale offers the ultimate balance for our student-athletes.”

As associate head coach, Reinalda will continue to lead the team on and off the field.

While her exact responsibilities are still to be determined, she said she plans to work with the pitchers and catchers and maintain a role in the office operations. Reinalda was inducted into the softball Hall of Fame in 1999 for her hugely successful 19 years pitching for the Raybestos Brakettes.

Although she is no longer head coach, Reinalda said she has no intentions of leaving the softball program.

“In the coaching world there are changes every year,” Reinalda said. “I am on board with whatever is going to better the program.”

Goodwin spent the last two years as the assistant executive director for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. Prior to her work at the NFCA, she spent two years as Harvard’s assistant coach. There, she recruited two-time Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Rachel Brown and helped lead the Crimson to the Ivy League championship in 2007.

The search committee placed heavy emphasis on Goodwin’s experience, especially in recruiting, and in the Ivy League, Backus said. Goodwin said her passion for offense and intention to focus on the team’s infield and hitters will also allow her to balance Reinalda’s pitching and catching expertise.

“We know we need to be a better hitting team,” Backus said. “We think that [Goodwin’s hitting background] will be a very important balancing process for the duo we have.”

Goodwin met team captain Christy Nelson ’13 last Thursday and the rest of the team on Friday. Nelson said the team did not know there would be a new head coach when the SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 9

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The women’s sailing team finished second in the nation last season and goes into this season ranked first by a 51-point margin. The coed team earned a preseason No. 2 ranking.

The women’s sailing team is coming off a second-place finish at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championships and topped the preseason Sailing World College Rankings, released Monday, with 201 points, a 51-point lead over Boston College in second. The coed team placed third in the ICSA nationals, and ranked No. 2 in the standings at 247 points, behind Georgetown with 270 points.

“Our team’s goal is to keep improving [and] stay motivated,” women’s captain Emily Billing ’13 said. “We have a strong group of girls this year,” Morgan Kiss ’15, who competes on both the women’s and the coed teams, said she is optimistic about the upcoming season and added that she refined her skills during her freshman year. Despite the nine members of the class of 2012 on the combined teams who graduated, Kiss said she thinks the team’s six freshmen — four women and two men — will adjust quickly.

The team hopes to carry the momentum from its strong finish in the nationals last season and its No. 1 preseason ranking through to victory this fall, though Billing said team members will be particularly focused on using the regattas to boost their skills in competition setting.

Billing said she hopes the teams will improve the tactical and boathandling skills that can help them sail in a successful fall season.

“We are going to take every race at a time, and we want to make sure we learn from each one to help us in the long run,” Billing said. “We want to bring that attitude from our races more into our practices to help us all improve as much as possible.”

The first regattas of the season will be the Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale and Pine Trophy Sloop Elims at the Coast Guard Academy on Sept. 8 to 9 for the coed team, and the Women’s Toni Deutsch Trophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the women’s team.

Elis seek season improvement

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER As freshmen move in across from the New Haven Green, Yale’s golf teams head back to the putting green.

GOLF Both the men’s and women’s golf teams are aiming for an Ivy title this coming spring. After a disappointing sixth-place Ivy finish last year, the men’s golf team has retained all but one of its players, and hopes the extra year of experience can help reclaim the Ivy ring it earned in 2011. The women’s team returns the dynamic junior duo of Sun Gyoung Park ’14 and Seo Hee Moon ’14 along with two freshmen — Deanna

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Song ’16 and Michelle Fogarty ’16.

Members of both teams said they are excited to begin competing in September.

I think we’re going to be really strong this year… I can’t wait to go to our first tournament.

BRADLEY KUSHNER ’13 Captain, men’s golf “I think we’re going to be really strong this year,” men’s captain Brad Kushner ’13 said. “Everybody’s been improving. I can’t wait to go to our first tournament.”

While the fall season does not

culminate in an Ivy League Championship, each team hopes to gain experience from fall competition.

Women’s captain Alexandra Lipa ’13 said that the upcoming season is a chance to scope out the other Ivy League teams and get a better feel for where Yale stands, while William Davenport ’15 of the men’s team said the season will provide an opportunity to establish the Yale team as one to watch.

The men’s team graduated its captain, Jeff Hatten ’12, but will look to new teammate Joe Willis ’16 to help fill the hole. The squad will still miss the leadership and talent of Hatten, Davenport added.

“Our captain last year was a natural leader, someone we all looked up to and a close friend,” he added.

Kushner, who said becoming

captain had been a dream of his since age 10, added that he hopes to lead the team to improve its national ranking. Kushner explained that the Yale men’s team will play more national powerhouses in the fall season, which will give them the opportunity to climb the rankings faster.

The women’s team also said farewell to its former captain, Lily Boettcher ’12 as well as Callie Kemmer ’12 but gained Song and Fogarty. The freshmen will hopefully help the women’s team on their way to victory, Lipa said. They will be playing alongside experienced players such as Caroline Rouse ’15 and Park, who finished 25th at the Pure Silk Women’s Collegiate Team SEE GOLF PAGE 9

THE COLLEGE PRESEASON RANKING THE WOMEN’S SAILING TEAM EARNED MONDAY FROM SAILING WORLD. The women’s team has a 51-point lead over preaseason No. 2 Boston College. Yale’s coed team is ranked second in the country, behind Georgetown.