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CROSS CAMPUS Yale and CT at the DNC.
Gov. Dannel Malloy will take the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte today at 6:45 p.m. — just a few hours before former president Bill Clinton LAW ’73 takes the stage tonight to speak in support of President Barack Obama.
Also at the DNC. Jack Schlossberg ’15, a descendant of President John F. Kennedy, is also in Charlotte reporting for CNN on “what young Democrats are buzzing about” at the DNC. Schlossberg’s first piece during the convention ran Tuesday night. One more. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who represents New Haven in Congress, took the stage at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday along with a number of women members of the House of Representatives, urging women to support Obama. In other news, the menu for the downtown New Haven Shake Shack is now online. It features Yale-themed items, including “The Handsome Dog” hot dog, “Boola Boola Blue” blueberry-lemon frozen custard, and “Skull and Cones” chocolate, vanilla and peanut butter custard. Shake Shack is scheduled to open later this month. Could it happen here?
News broke last week that Harvard’s Administrative Board is investigating 125 undergraduates for cheating on a take-home final exam in a government class. On Tuesday, Zara Kessler ’12 published a column in Bloomberg View arguing that universities should mandate in-class, closed-book final exams to avoid the lack of clarity about what is and is not allowed on open-book finals that may have led to cheating at Harvard. We have a winner. Bruce
Alexander ’65, the University’s vice president for New Haven and state affairs, was honored in August with a Communiversity Award from the Board of Aldermen’s Black and Hispanic Caucus for his work on the Jobs Pipeline Committee, which helps New Haven’s unemployed and underemployed get job training.
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In between birthing future Facebooks, students in Yale’s Computer Science Department will meet with faculty today to discuss what espresso machine to purchase for the building’s kitchen, and how to manage its use.
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Thousands arrive for class at Gateway BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER In a 2011 study, consulting firm Right Management found that over 84 percent of working Americans want to change their jobs or career paths. Tierra Driffin, a New Haven resident who falls firmly into that category, hopes her time at the new downtown Gateway Community College campus can help her achieve that goal. “I’m working part time right now as a nurse’s aide, but I’m really interested in criminal justice,” said the 24-year-old, who has been out of school for five years. While she may be several years away from a career change, Driffin made an initial step yesterday by sitting down in her first criminal justice class at Gateway Community College’s new Elm City campus on Church Street. The $198 million Gateway campus, the most expensive of its kind in state history, officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony last Thursday after over a decade of planning and construction. But on Tuesday the school truly set to work — opening its doors to an estimated 7,800 students for the first day of classes. According to its website, Gateway offers over 95 different degree and certificate programs “preparing students to enter the workforce or to transfer to a four-year university,” and with the start of classes yesterday, city and school administrators are hoping those 7,800 students, like Driffin, will use their education to reach their career goals — and to take up jobs in a stagnant economy. SEE GATEWAY PAGE 4
BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER The University is “one or two gifts away from breaking ground” on the two new residential colleges, according to former Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Roland Betts ’68. Ever since University President Richard Levin announced in 2009 that construction of the $500 million project would be placed on hold, Yale officials have worked to fund-raise the colleges’ entire cost from donors. With $300 million still outstanding, Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said the University is currently in talks with potential donors over “very significant gifts” but declined to give specifics. Levin also said the University has “significant conversations underway” but would not comment on the size, donor or timeline for the gifts.
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Amid protests, Santorum laments ‘withering’ American family BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Former Republican Pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum addressed a packed Woolsey Hall during the Yale Political Union’s first debate of the year Tuesday night. Santorum argued that government has facilitated the downfall of what he labeled the “traditional” and “nuclear” family model of a man, wife and child while debating “Resolved: the government is destroying family.” He cited welfare, changing marriage laws and popular culture as root causes of what he said is a significant problem facing America. Santorum opposition to same-sex mar-
riage sparked protests, with both undergraduate and graduate students holding signs and handing out fliers to those waiting in line for the debate. “I’m sure there are some people here who don’t care — who think if the American family dissolves and goes away, that it’s just a dinosaur ready for anthropologists to study,” he said. “But of course, there is an impact: It’s a profound impact when the family breaks down, because family is the principle in any healthy society.” While discussing his views on the meaning of family, Santorum argued that children raised in a family without a mother and a father are much more likely to be in poverty, participate in crime, drop out of school and
ultimately receive government benefits later in life. In arguing that government facilitates non-nuclear families, he cited Wisconsin state law. According to Santorum, an unwed mother of two with an income of $15,000 a year receives around $38,000 in government benefits, and for her, staying unmarried would be economically preferable to marrying a man with an annual income of $38,000 because that would put her in a higher tax bracket. “As the family has withered, the government has grown. Now I know that just because two tasks may correlate, does not mean they’re causal,” Santorum SEE SANTORUM PAGE 8
New vacation meal options offered BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER To adjust to Yale College’s new academic calendar, Yale Dining will now keep residential dining halls open over school recesses this year. Students on a meal plan will be able to dine on campus at no additional cost during this year’s October break and for four days over Thanksgiving vacation. All residential colleges will remain open for two meals a day during fall break, while Pierson and Calhoun will each serve two meals a day during Thanksgiving. For the last five days of both the winter and spring breaks, Yale Dining will begin offering dinner in Morse and Stiles Colleges’ dining halls for $7 per meal. Executive Director of Yale Dining Rafi Taherian said the extended dining hall schedule is intended to help students with affordable dining options if they do not return home over
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Shortly being accepted to Yale, Jay Wong ’16 joined the Yale College Class of 2016 Facebook group, a page that provides a platform for online discussion among all admitted freshmen. Wong commented on several posts regarding Yalerelated topics, totaling 37 posts in the week after he joined the group. He also commented on posts that had sparked political debate on national issues, such as a thread about fastfood chain Chick-fil-A’s stance against same-sex marriage, which garnered a total of 263 comments as of Sept. 4. Eventually, Wong said he began to correspond directly
with other incoming freshmen: Wong “friended” students with whom he had interacted on the Facebook group, posting on their personal Facebook walls and video-chatting with them via Skype and Tiny Chat, a live video chatroom, all before finally meeting on campus. “I felt like I had a circle of friends once I already got here,” Wong said. This year’s freshman class Facebook page was the first to be created and administered directly by the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Last spring, the Admissions Office also launched a Twitter account and Tumblr page, setting the stage for an unprecSEE FRESHMEN PAGE 8
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statistics and reason — regardless of whether he reached conclusions I agree with — ought immediately to qualify him as deserving a debate. Treating political opponents as unworthy of acknowledgement is pure cowardice. As opposed to making a sincere attempt to understand or refute Santorum, the orchestrators of the walk-out merely pasted a few of Santorum’s most controversial stances on a six-by-nine inch pamphlet and, assuming the audience would rather laugh at Santorum’s quotes than think critically about them, dismissed his views entirely.
ARGUE AGAINST SANTORUM; DON’T RUN AWAY Then, in an irony almost too perfect to be real, the letter concludes: “Interested in real political thought, discourse, and action on campus? E-mail y s y n d i c a t e @ g m a i l . c o m .” Thanks, but no thanks. Yale’s true leaders of political dialogue opted to remain in Woolsey Hall last night, challenging the senator with insightful questions and enthralling rebuttals. One questioner critical of Santorum asked about his views on minimum wage. Others delivered speeches including point-bypoint refutations of Santorum’s views. Everyone who stayed in their seats that night — Santorum included — understood that the only way society can advance is through the reconciliation of opposing ideas in an open dialogue. If everyone followed the Y Syndicate’s advice, Yale would not be half as intellectually stimulating as it is today. “I appreciate all the responses I’m getting,” Santorum said while audience members both hissed and cheered. “Even the snake noises. The fact that you react to my facts — it’s hope.” Say what you will about his other positions, but Santorum hit the nail on the head. Nobody should be unfairly castigated or ignored because he holds different opinions. The hope for genuine discussions about political issues that Santorum spoke of is the same one I had when I decided to attend Yale. It’s a shame that not everybody believes in it. ZACHARY PLYAM is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at zachary.plyam@yale.edu .
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ick Santorum scares a lot of people here. That much was clear when he was still running for president, and even clearer yesterday as he spoke to the YPU amid choruses of profanity and other kindergartenappropriate responses. Santorum’s outspokenness on issues like gay rights and abortion gives his opponents ample license to bellyache about “insensitivity” and are always good for an indignant Facebook status or eye-roll. While we have heard other controversial conservative speakers, Santorum seems particularly good at provoking Yalies’ ire. Through the campaign season, one of Santorum’s platform planks that most negatively reverberated around campus was his critique of elite academia, which he referred to as “indoctrination centers for the left.” He also frequently criticized the Obama administration for its taxpayer-funded support of widespread college education. At the same time, Santorum was a well-learned holder of a law degree who liked to quote classic works of political philosophy offhand — it seemed a contradiction. Interpreting his speeches as anti-intellectual, though, completely misses the point of Santorum’s critique. Rather than being a learned anti-intellectual (in other words, a hypocrite), Santorum is critiquing the tack that education in elite institutions has taken in recent years. While he may undermine his
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THE ACADEMY NEED NOT CONTROL EVERYTHING Now that we claim to understand the human psyche in our psychology classes and divine how they will behave in groups through political science, we the learned are privileged with a higher position in society than ever. Beyond an education in the classics, studying the conflicting great thoughts and leaders of the past, the social sciences give us the false assurance that we know all the answers and have a greater right to design our fellow citizens’ lives than ever before. New disciplines like behav-
ioral economics provide a forum for the socially learned to try out their inventions. Therefore, a social science-centered academy will always be, in the bigger government sense, liberal. The social sciences tell the ennobled they have both the right and the responsibility to lead where everyone else’s understanding falls short. Our modern academia will always demand a more centralized government power, because leaving so many daily decisions up to all the little people will seem irresponsible and a waste of time. Plus, it feels good to be important. Modern conservatives and economic liberals have always staked out the opposite approach. Friedrich Hayek, in his “Road to Serfdom,” identified central planning as the greatest bugaboo of freedom and prosperity. This is the classic academic tradition — the desire for academic humility, for the realization that no matter how many right answers the ruling class may have, the free human spirit always loses something in the transfer. Rick Santorum thinks “the purpose of government is to create an opportunity for people to be free.” No matter how smart one person or group may be, they are never smart enough. This is why, when Santorum accuses President Obama of trying to “remake Americans in his image” by trying to get more Americans college-educated, he may as well be attacking the academic desire for bigger gov-
ernment control, not education itself. So many see inconsistency in Santorum’s stance because they fail to distinguish between leadership and control. They fail to see how it is not hypocrisy that a man with a law degree who talks about leadership while quoting Burke and Tocqueville simultaneously tells an audience that many American universities are centers of liberal indoctrination and that too many Americans go to college. Santorum believes in the real liberal education, which values debate, experience and everyday life over formulas. We can argue all day about whether universities really are liberal indoctrination centers or whether Obama really wants to nationalize curricula. It is clear, though, that Santorum’s problem is not with intellectualism but with modern academia’s lack of diverse thought, and, though he may not say this directly, its slide toward the desire to control. Santorum’s ideas of replacing government with a powerful social infrastructure, grounded in faith, family and, as he stated last night, a sense of shame, will never ring true to Yale or the rest of modern academia. This tone of Santorum’s made Yale so reflexively angry at his appearance. To Santorum, the educated class — that is, us — are a little less special than we think. JOHN MASKO is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at john.masko@yale.edu .
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ver the years, people have used a variety of words in conjunction with my name — many charitable and flattering, and a few not so. But ”exotic” had never come up. Certainly, I would never think of myself as being anything distinct from anyone else, growing up in a place where everyone looked like me, talked like me and, for the most part, dressed like me. There, nobody described my accent as exotic. Indeed, the similarities were such that it pushed me to look outside of ethnic constraints: to look at people, politicians, popular media artists and personalities with whom I shared certain traits, if not nationality or ethnicity. I admired Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and even Meryl Streep. Empathy was founded on similarity of thought, not of identity. So coming to a place like Yale should have blurred whatever provincial, identity-based conscience I might have had, right?
Having so firmly defined myself against the limitations of ethnicity, I found myself dumbfounded when I identified by the very same characteristic I had run away from. But as it turns out, one tends to assert one’s origins most strongly when furthest from them — in this case, on the greens of Old Campus. During the international student orientation, we are reminded of where we come from and who we are through various events, notably the talent show, where highly stereotypical depictions of countries and their cultures show the best — and the worst — of the places we come from. But it is not when you are on stage, festooned in traditional garb, that you realize that there is an intrinsic definition of who you are. It’s in the day-to-day conversations with the other brilliant people who constitute the student body at Yale. From being asked why labor is so poorly paid in India to being questioned about whether the
world’s largest democracy is actually a theocracy to being compared to the shopkeepers in Queens, I’m constantly reminded that where I’m from piques the interest of others. Some people may say this goes against the idea of modern Yale — a global college where the place you come from is irrelevant and what matters is where you want to go after your time here. However, assertions of national identity often take on vibrant hues at Yale, with associations as diverse as the South Asian Society and the Slifka Center catering to various needs of their core members, such as a feeling of homesickness, wanting to feel at home somewhere or even tasting one’s ethnic food. Then there’s the opportunity to clarify the misconceptions other people may have, even if it entails engaging in slightly irritating conversations. This being Yale, I probably don’t have to convince people that I don’t live in a jungle, nor do I ride an ele-
phant to school. However, I don’t know much about many fascinating parts of the world Yalies come from, and I would love to return the favor by clearing up the stereotypes and learning about those places. As I embark upon an exciting period of discovery and reinvention, perhaps one of the first lessons Yale has taught me is that to start afresh, one need not wipe off whatever was on the canvas. While we all are Yalies first and foremost and should be identified by ideas, ideals and deeds before anything else, recognizing our identities — or multiple identities — can never hurt. As one of my friends and fellow Farnam residents told me, my accent could help me in improv comedy. Or maybe it could just remind me of how lucky I am to be here, at Yale. DHRUV AGGARWAL is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .
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own argument by his conspiratorial tone, implying that American leftists set up academic institutions to indoctrinate students, his argument would be better served by a different justification: Academia, simply by its inherent egoism, is liberal and statist by nature. Why does it seem so natural that elite institutions be liberal? They certainly haven’t always been. Conservatives like to scapegoat the licentiousness of the ’70s, but, as William F. Buckley brought to light, liberal bias in education far predated the victim studies era. The roots of this bias, rather, lie in the social sciences.
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Why fear debate? hen I came to Yale for the first time this fall, I was told it would be a place where I could explore opinions contrary to my own, where rational discourse was cherished above all else and where individuals who fundamentally differed in their values, views and backgrounds would come together to investigate the beliefs of others in search of a more complete education. I looked forward to last night’s Yale Political Union debate with Senator Rick Santorum for these exact reasons. And although the debate largely met my initial expectations of what discourse at a university should look like, the decision of a group of undergraduates to deliberately walk out before Santorum’s speech left me appalled and bewildered. The Y Syndicate, a student protest group, asked audience members to “walk out and refuse to engage in this spectacle” in a flier the group distributed before the debate. According to the flier, Santorum’s sole purpose was to “spew ignorance and hate,” and inviting him to speak was an “attempt to legitimize ignorance and bigotry.” When the senator stood up to speak, this group stood up and filed out of the hall. This group’s actions were misguided and hostile to the public discourse it claims to support. I agree that every person has the right not to listen to Santorum if he does not want to. But portraying Santorum as somebody with views so wretched and unforgivable that they are beneath debate is the ultimate intellectual cop-out. It allows dissenters to hide behind a wall and claim that, although the opposition may make valid arguments, we ought not recognize them. Santorum did not deserve this treatment. His speech used facts and logic, not appeals to prejudice. He grounded his conclusions on a structure of premises, statistics and experiences which — though anyone can freely disagree with them — can hardly be labeled “ignorant.” Only the unabashedly arrogant could claim that any view which doesn’t coincide with their own must be wrong. Furthermore, Santorum’s views are clearly not just those of an irrelevant minority. As a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Santorum received over 3 million votes and won 11 primaries and caucuses. Do those who walked out truly feel so self-confident that they can dismiss an entire realm of thinking without offering any reasons why? Santorum’s willingness to use
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y dog was diagnosed with cancer more than a year ago. Sasha, then a sixyear-old golden retriever, was limping heavily on her daily walks and had stopped making the frenetic puppy runs she did whenever she was let off leash at the park. At the time, we assumed that she had pulled a muscle and would improve. Weeks later, after a battery of tests — all of which she endured with the affectionate stoicism other owners of retrievers will be familiar with — we received the diagnosis. We had two choices: amputate the leg and try to prolong her life, or let her live as long as possible, as comfortably as possible — until it came time to put her down. While initially amputation seemed the better option — Sasha wasn’t old by any stretch of the imagination — there was a high probability the cancer would return despite it. Fearing the trauma she’d feel after losing her leg, we took her home and bought painkillers. I had a year to prepare for the inevitable ending, but as it approached, I found myself put-
ting it more and more out of mind. I couldn’t be a present, loving owner to Sasha while dwelling on ZOE MERCER- the fact that next ThursGOLDEN day at 10 a.m. she Meditations would be put to sleep. As the day approached, I found myself increasingly struck by the strangeness of knowing the hour that a creature you loved was going to die. Sometimes I questioned the decision not to amputate; often I hoped that by some miracle Sasha would wake up the next morning the dog she had been only a year ago and we could indefinitely postpone her death. My parents announced around the same time as Sasha’s diagnosis that we would be selling our house in London. We’d spent the better part of 10 years in the house; I went home for school
breaks there, studied under the willow tree in the backyard, knew every kink in the staircases and could tell you what time of night it was by the sounds I heard outside my window. It was the last of my childhood homes that I still visited, all the others having been sold.
WE MUST ACCEPT WHAT WE CAN’T CONTROL Both in the case of Sasha and the sale of the house, I had to live in the shadow of certain endings. Not cataclysmic ones, but small, aching changes that will come and are impossible to stop. As a senior, I am also facing another certain ending: a conclusion of my time at this institution that, like my house in London, is home, intimately and profoundly. My struggle has become balancing a desire to live this
moment, with my dog, in my house, at my school, while wondering how many more such moments there will be. In a strange way, certainty is the harbinger of uncertainty: On the other side of a known ending lies an unclear future. While the certain future is limited, there is at least the illusion that you can shape the time you have left. The world presents both more opportunities and more anxiety on the other side of endings, a thought I am working to find exciting instead of chilling. Ever the control freak, I have only a matter of months to learn how to let go, put the dog to sleep and cope with both certain endings and uncertain beginnings. I am searching for ways to forgive myself for not always being in control and, more importantly, to learn how to forgive myself for not always being able to save the things, people and places I love. ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a senior in Davenport College. Her column runs on Wednesdays. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 3:00 PM “S I M O N I D E S.” Photographs by Norman McBeath, texts by Robert Crawford. This exhibition encourages contemplation of how we remember the dead, especially those killed in battle. The texts are versions of epitaphs and poetic fragments by the ancient Greek poet Simonides. Said to have developed a special art of memory, Simonides is associated with atrocity, war, loss, and remembrance. He made epitaphs for people, including friends, killed in the Persian Wars. Two and a half millennia ago, the city-states of Greece fought in conflicts against the empire of the Persians, which included the territories now known as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), The Gallery. 5:00 PM Calling all Quest Scholars! Join us for an annual diner to meet and chat with all the other cool Quest Scholars at Yale! Silliman College (505 College St.), Dining Hall Annex. 7:00 PM Yale Gospel Choir Open Rehearsal. The Yale Gospel Choir is having open rehearsals this fall, which all students are welcome to attend! Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park St.).
College seminars see continued demand BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though long-term plans for the Residential College Seminar program are still unclear, this semester’s 21 seminars again attracted far more applications than there are spots. Finalized course demand statistics will not be released until the end of shopping period, but preliminary data shows that most seminars attracted between 40 and 60 applicants for 18 spaces, with a few courses drawing well over 100 applications. “The particular value of college seminars is that the subject matter often deals with topics outside a traditional academic department, and the instructor often brings an interesting perspective from outside the University,” newly appointed program coordinator Aisling Colon said. “The difficult budget climate over the last few years has forced some cutbacks, but it is hoped that the program will return to previous levels.” Following the departure of long-term director Catherine Suttle in December 2010, the program underwent a review last January given concerns over its cost. In part because of these financial constraints, the program offered a reduced number of seminars — hovering between 12 and 15 — until last spring, when 20 were available. Colon said the review also concluded that college seminars provide “a very valuable complement to the Yale curriculum.” Peter Amos, a postdoctoral fellow in the Medical School who is teaching a seminar offered through Yale College titled “Perspectives on Stem Cells,” said 87 students formally submitted online applications for his class before the start of term and over a dozen additional students have emailed him since
the application deadline. Several students interviewed expressed dissatisfaction with the competitive nature of admissions to college seminars. Eric Stern ‘15, who is taking his second residential college seminar this year, said he had to be “persistent” in displaying his interest and relevant experience in order to gain acceptance to a Timothy Dwight college seminar titled “Ethical Dilemmas of Legislators” last year. He emailed the professor before applying, he said, and later attended the first meeting even though he was waitlisted after the initial application. Beth LaBossiere ’14, who took a college seminar last year and is currently waitlisted for another this semester, said the hurdles students encounter when applying filter out those who are less motivated. “All the people in the class want to be there,” LaBossiere said. “You don’t have slackers. You don’t have people browsing Facebook during class.” All five students interviewed said they were drawn to college seminars because of the diversity of topics covered and the chance to take a class taught by someone with experience that is not strictly academic. Stern, who will take Amos’ course this semester, lauded the program for presenting students with opportunities to delve into specific research topics corresponding to his academic interests. College seminars offered this term include “Documentary Photojournalism of New Haven,” “Literature and Film of the Uncanny,” and “Policing America,” taught by New Haven Chief of Police Dean Esserman. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu and NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .
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SOM Dean Edward Snyder’s unusual Global Network for Advanced Management, which brings 20 MBA graduates from around the world to Yale as SOM collaborates with international business schools, has fully launched with the arrival of its inaugural class. BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER In the first test of School of Management Dean Edward Snyder’s unconventional and much publicized Global Network for Advanced Management, 20 MBA graduates from leading schools across the globe have descended on campus to participate in a new degree program. Through the newly created network, which has brought SOM together with 21 business schools from around the world to collaborate on curricula and other initiatives, the Master of Advanced Management students are pursuing a one-year degree designed to allow them to explore electives they may not have had access to at their former institutions. As the students learn an American perspective on business at Yale, they increase the proportion of international students at the roughly 475-student school by about 4 percent. SOM professor Stanley Garstka, who oversaw admissions for the new degree’s first class, said the students’ arrival will bring perspectives from developing countries into the school. Twelve of the 20 students earned their MBAs in developing countries including China, Venezuela and Indonesia. Other countries represented include South Korea, Spain and Ireland. “Management is like the portal for all that’s going on in globalization, and all we do is listen to Western powerhouses tell us about how people in developing economies should do and how they should behave,” Garstka said. “One of the purposes of having the students here is to tell us what they need, what’s specific to
them, what they think.” Garstka recalled speaking at an information session for SOM students about the global network where he asked the audience to state the population of Indonesia. The students’ answers, he said, ranged from 20 to 40 million, while Indonesia’s population is actually over 240 million, an example of a fact he said he expects to become better known at SOM given the arrival of MAM students from Indonesia and other developing economies. Six MAM students interviewed said SOM’s electives allow students to approach business disciplines from more angles than were available at their previous institutions. Though the students are based at SOM, they are permitted to take courses throughout Yale’s schools.
Two different perspectives on management strategies are better than one. DAVID BACH ’98 Senior associate dean for executive MBA and global programs, School of Management Sojung Lee SOM ’13, a South Korean MBA graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, said she is shopping courses at the School of Forestry & Environmental Science, adding that she decided to focus her degree on sustainability — a term she described as unfamiliar given her educational background. “In China, they always talk about profit and growth,” Lee
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said. “But here, everyone talks more about sustainability.” Four of the MAM students interviewed said Yale’s prestige outweighed the risks of enrolling in a new program when they were considering whether to matriculate. David Bach ’98, SOM senior associate dean for executive MBA and global programs, said access to Yale’s resources is a primary benefit for students enrolled in the degree. “Two brands are better than one, two alumni networks are better than one, two different perspectives on management strategies are better than one,” said Bach, a former dean of programs at IE Business School in Madrid, who took office at Yale on Sept. 1. “Very few people can say that they have two degrees from two top institutions in different continents.” Though the students described their transition to Yale as smooth overall, they all said adapting to classes taught exclusively in English is difficult. Joan Garces-Duran SOM ’13 said he sometimes has trouble understanding when professors use slang or unfamiliar phrases, even though he earned his MBA at the Englishlanguage IE Business School in Madrid.
Tony Xiong SOM ’13, an alumnus of Renmin University in Beijing, said he felt part of the effectiveness of the MAM degree is its language immersion component, since he said he and some of the other students have previously been exposed to English only in contained classroom settings. Garstka said he interviewed applicants to the new degree before admitting them in order to ensure they had advanced English skills, but he said professors at SOM should still make greater efforts to use a level of English that would more effectively cater to the school’s international student population. “We are negligent as a faculty, and it’s not just for the MAM students but for the full-time MBA students too,” Garstka said. “For us to go in and speak where every other sentence is a baseball idiom or analogy, that’s not quite right, and we’ve got to break ourselves of that habit.” The MAM students arrived on campus in August and participated in an extended orientation program before classes began. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
Ivy League schools partner to teach uncommon languages remotely BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER Students at Yale, Cornell and Columbia will see new languages taught this fall — but they won’t necessarily meet all the instructors in person. In an effort to expand its language course offerings, Yale’s Center for Language Study is partnering with Columbia and Cornell to offer videoconference-based classes in eight uncommonly taught languages. Each of the classes, which meet on a regular basis, are taught by instructors on one of the three campuses and streamed live in designated classrooms outfitted with videoconferencing technology. This fall, the shared course initiative is bringing four brand-new courses to Yale — elementary Bengali, advanced Indonesian, elementary Romanian and intermediate Tamil — and expanding language programming at relatively low cost to all three universities. “Columbia, Cornell and Yale
are academic centers with genuinely global reach in their research and teaching activities, which means being able to offer instruction in a very broad range of language and cultures,” said Nelleke Van DeusenScholl, professor of linguistics and director of Yale’s Center for Language Study. “This initiative provides [students] with access to languages that might otherwise not be available at their institutions, which is an incentive for students to enroll in a course.” For its part in the collaborative project, Yale instructors will teach classes in elementary Dutch, intermediate Modern Greek and advanced isiZulu. The first two will be livestreamed to students in Ithaca, while the last will be offered to those in Manhattan. The shared course initiative was piloted during the 2011’12 academic year, when Yale taught a class in intermediate Dutch and streamed it live for Cornell students, while Colum-
bia University made its classes in elementary Romanian available to the University of Pennsylvania. Cornell also used videoconferencing technology to offer its students classes from Syracuse University in Turkish, Bengali and Tamil. These pilots, Van DeusenScholl said, helped her and the language center directors at Columbia and Cornell gather information about optimal teaching methods and remotelearning technology. She said the pilot programs received overall positive feedback from both instructors and students who participated in the courses. “They seemed to adapt easily to the videoconferencing and enjoyed interacting with the students at the other institutions,” she said. Richard Feldman, director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell, said the shared course initiative will help diversify conversation in language courses, with students and professors from multiple uni-
versities interacting over webcams — unlike the independent nature of many prerecorded online courses. The program is funded through a grant that covers the videoconferencing equipment and the instructors’ salaries, he added, thereby allowing the three institutions to expand their foreign language curricula “at relatively little cost.” Even though the pilot prog ra m s re c e ive d p o s i t ive reviews, Van Deusen-Scholl cautioned that these videoconferencing courses still require “extra commitment and a certain degree of flexibility” to address the challenges inherently related to remote education. She said Yale, Columbia and Cornell are currently in the process of developing a “compatible technological infrastructure,” with classrooms specifically designed for videoconferencing and distance learning. “Our goal is to create a synchronous, interactive and
learner-centered environment that will closely emulate a regular language classroom,” Van Deusen-Scholl said.
Our goal is to create a synchronous, interactive and learner-centered environment. NELLEKE VAN DEUSEN-SCHOLL Director, Yale Center for Language Study Feldman said all three universities are training their instructors so that they can make the most of the equipment and handle any technological issues that arise. “Sometimes technology can get complicated,” Feldman said. “We are working to make the installation as smooth and transparent as possible.” Dutch professor Chrissy Hosea, a former instructor at
Cornell, is teaching classes in Dutch at Yale as part of this year’s program after participating in the pilot. Hosea said that live-streamed courses do raise some challenges and take “a lot more planning than a normal classroom, because of technology involved.” But she added that she strives to “make the class as normal as possible,” and that teaching a class with students from different institutions is academically stimulating. Dashiell Turner ’15, who was enrolled in Hosea’s class last year, said the videoconferencing program turned out “surprisingly good,” and that he welcomes additional remotelearning courses in the future. “The prospect of more longdistance learning classes is very exciting,” he said. All together, Yale, Columbia and Cornell offer more than 100 language courses. Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .
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Students descended on Gateway Community College’s new downtown campus as classes started at what administrators hope will be a job creation engine for the city. GATEWAY FROM PAGE 1 “Over the past week, I’ve seen students walking the corridors to find their way to admissions, the bookstore, financial aid and their classrooms,” said Gateway President Dorsey Kendrick. “Now we must educate and graduate students — [helping] them make their dreams of a better future come true and [supporting] the regional business community by preparing tomorrow’s workforce.” As they arrived for class, in some cases seeing the new Gateway campus for the first time, students interviewed described the scene as one of “awe,” “excitement” and “a bit of confusion.”
Thousands of Gateway community members, including students, faculty, administrators and service staff, began arriving in the early morning and quickly filled the campus’s parking garage, forcing later commuters to find other lots. Lines to register for courses, pick up student IDs and purchase textbooks snaked across the brand-new 367,000-squarefoot facility. Administrators said a supplemental security and police detail was hired to help direct traffic, students and media crews. “We anticipate a busy week, as our enrollment is up 10 percent over last year,” said Evelyn Gard, public relations and marketing director for Gateway, which also maintains campuses in Long Wharf and North Haven. “School
traffic peaks at different times than business traffic though, so our schedule shouldn’t hurt business. And by next week, we expect to be in our groove.” Inside the building, thousands of students shuffled from class to class through sleek hallways and staircases with high ceilings, wide walkways and floorto-ceiling windows facing outside. Long stretches of wall space along the campus’s central hallway were decorated with quotations such as “Greatness is not where we are but in what direction we are moving,” or individual words like “Motivate” and “Compete.” Many students turned for a double-take when walking past a multi-story LED light display showing smiling college students.
“It’s craziness — there’s always a big scene the first week,” said Symphany Joseph, a fourth-year liberal arts major who also serves as Gateway’s Student Government Association president. Joseph and other SGA members held a free hot dog bar for students as a musician sang and played guitar nearby, and her group is holding a school-wide bingo game Wednesday in which participants can win new school supplies. “It was a really gratifying feeling to walk through the building and have a whole new group of people ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh.’ Its been worth all the work,” Gard said. “We’ve wanted this campus so our students could have what other colleges and universi-
ties have. Now they have top-rate facilities and access to the city.” Clara Ogbaa, director of the school’s new 23,000-squarefoot library said students have already voiced their appreciation of the revamped facilities, which include larger group study areas and a day care center for students with children. On a poster board in the library lobby, students wrote messages such as “It’s simply amazing” and “Love the windows.” The nearly 200 full-time Gateway faculty members who relocated to offices in the downtown campus have expressed gratitude for the new teaching capacity the building affords, said Paul Silberquit, director of the school’s engineering and applied technologies division. Silberquit
added that the new technology equipment and large classrooms will allow professors to reach more students while enhancing course materials. The downtown Gateway campus adds over 90 classrooms to the college and administrators expect it to increase total student enrollment by half. The facility houses 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 graphic design studio among other facilities. Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .
Large gifts on horizon Meal service planned for breaks RES. COLLEGE FROM PAGE 1 While the University broke ground on the School of Management’s $322 million new campus in May 2011, before fund-raising had been completed, Levin said construction on the new colleges will have to wait until the entire $500 million is raised. The University initially planned to break ground this fall, but Levin said he does not expect construction to begin before he steps down on June 30. “[We began construction early on SOM] because SOM was $25 million short of its fundraising goal and we were quite confident that was money that could be raised,” Levin said. “It’s a big difference to be $300 million short.” If one or two gifts were able to meet the $300 million shortfall, they would be among the largest in Yale’s history. The amount raised so far has only increased slightly since February — when then-Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said $187 million had been raised — to a total of “over $190 million,” according to O’Neill.
Once the money is raised, the University will still have to make room in the budget to pay for operating costs, Levin said. In a Thursday interview, Levin said that the new residential colleges project was the most notable unfinished goal of his administration, and that he planned to prioritize fund-raising for the colleges during his last year as president of Yale. “The best thing I can do is to raise as much for my successor as I can, to leave some sort of dowry behind,” Levin said. Betts said he expects Levin to continue pursuing the gifts during his sabbatical after he steps down, though Levin said he does not have any plans during his sabbatical year beyond writing on economics and higher education. The new colleges will be located north of Grove Street Cemetery in the triangle comprised of Prospect, Canal and Sachem streets. Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
DINING FROM PAGE 1 pus, said Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86, the newly appointed director of residential dining. Keeping the dining halls open over the October break will not come at any additional cost the University, Van Dyke said, as dining hall workers must come into work anyway during that week. Student meal plans will automatically include the extra days because the new calendar did not eliminate any days from the fall semester, even though students will have fewer days of class with the new break. Carl Sandberg ’14, president of the International Students Organization, said he knows many international students stay in New Haven over fall break because they live far away. “For an international, sometimes it’s a 20-hour flight home, so its not
really an option,” he said. “Especially for fall break, which is a fiveday break, it’s not feasible.” Sandberg said one of ISO’s main initiatives last year was working with Yale Dining to open the Pierson College dining hall over Thanksgiving. Because that initiative proved highly popular, Yale Dining added Calhoun College to the list of residential colleges staying open from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20, a portion of this year’s Thanksgiving break. In addition to revamping fall break dining options, Yale Dining is extending a new option to students on campus for winter and spring breaks: the option to get dinner in Stiles and Morse Colleges’ dining halls for $7 apiece, cheaper than the standard dinner price of $13.25. The two dining halls have contracted with Yale Athletics in past years to stay open for athletes in preseason
training for the last five days of each break but will now be open to all students. Van Dyke said the $7 “pay as you go” initiative is designed for any students who might decide to come back early — not only international ones constrained by travel plans. Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14 said the YCC submitted a list of dining proposals over the summer, which included keeping the dining halls open for fall break and suggested extending meal options over winter and spring break. “The plan is not necessarily ideal, but it’s better than what we had before, so we’re happy,” he said. Fall break will take place from Oct. 24 to Oct. 28. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .
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“You have to beat back the B.S.” DANNEL MALLOY GOVENOR OF CONNECTICUT
Jobs program passage marks board’s first major achievement BY NICK DEFIESTA AND DHRUV AGGARWAL STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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In the Board of Aldermen’s first significant legislative achievement, a “jobs pipeline” program to connect city residents to jobs with local employers passed unanimously Tuesday night.
The Board of Aldermen unanimously voted to approve the creation of a “jobs pipeline” Tuesday night. Aldermen voted in their biweekly meeting by a 25–0 margin to create New Haven Works, a coordinating agency that will partner with employers in the city to help connect local residents with jobs. The emphasis of the new program will be on preparing people for jobs in industries considered to be growing in New Haven. The pipeline, the culmination of eight months of board discussion and deliberation, is the most tangible achievement of the new aldermen to date. Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez, chairman of the human services committee, said the underemployed and jobless of New Haven are struggling to put a dent in a local unemployment rate of 11.6 percent — more than 3 percent more than the nationwide rate of 8.2 percent. Describing the jobs pipeline as a “light at the end of the tunnel,” Rodriguez said that the pipeline will be “one of the most significant and beneficial programs ever for the betterment of New Haven residents.” Participants in the program will be recruited through community outreach and invited to attend an orientation session, where they will fill out a registration form and learn about the jobs opportunities available. Once registered, each participant in the jobs pipeline will be placed with a partner employer where they will receive on-the-job training. The idea for a jobs pipeline originated with a slate of labor-backed aldermanic candidates who were elected to the board last November. Upon their inauguration, the new board created a jobs pipeline working group, which was supported by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in his February State of the City address. The jobs pipeline working group formally began its work in March — reviewing an array of local jobs programs and employers — and submitted a proposal to the board’s human services committee, which approved the suggestions in a meeting last week. The report found that New Haven did not need any new jobs programs but instead would benefit most from an organization to better prepare and connect city residents with existing jobs openings.
Ward 9 Alderwoman Jessica Holmes said that the mandate of New Haven Works would be to recruit, screen and train city residents for work in growing industries, while not duplicating existing services. New Haven Works, aldermen said, would act more as a supervising agency to coordinate all the unemployment programs administered by the city.
It is a plan that makes a lot of sense and has the potential to create a lot of change. BEN CROSBY ’14 Co-chair, Ward 1 Democratic Committee The report recommended a goal of finding and filling 1,000 jobs in the next four years, a target it says is comparable to existing programs. According to municipal estimates, there are 6,400 unemployed people in New Haven, and 24,400 in the Greater New Haven labor market. The working group recommended New Haven Works be supported by an individual fund overseen by an independent board of directors, who would be selected from stakeholders including unions, the city administration, local employers and the Board of Aldermen, among others. The report by the jobs pipeline working group does not, however, specify exactly how the board of directors will be selected. “The report is very compelling. It is a plan that makes a lot of sense and has the potential to create a lot of change,” said Ward 1 Democratic Committee cochair Ben Crosby ’14, who led several Yale students to City Hall Tuesday night in support of the program’s passage. “The challenge before all of us is to make sure that this actually happens, that the folks who have agreed to take part actually take part in ways that they said they would.” According to the report, the city can expect to spend between $2,000 and $4,000 for every job added. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu and DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .
In sign of rising stature, Malloy to address Democrats BY CASEY SUMNER STAFF REPORTER As Democrats from around the country converge on the party convention in Charlotte, N.C., this week, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will play a direct role in the proceedings, one in keeping with his new, more elevated profile in the party. Malloy will deliver a speech at 6 p.m. tonight to the convention hall to rally support for the re-election of President Barack Obama, a task in which he will be joined by numerous other high-profile and up-and-coming Democrats during the threeday event, which began Tuesday. The 6 p.m. billing comes before prime time and will not be broadcast on television. Nonetheless, Malloy told reporters last Monday that he was “tickled pink” to be speaking at all, and that he did not mind the time slot. Since then he has offered few clues about the content of the speech. But if his remarks from the last month are any guide, it will feature a sharp critique of the policies embraced by the Republican ticket. Malloy has been particularly critical of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, a Republican of Wisconsin and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate. “I think Congressman Ryan is the gift that keeps on giving,” he said to reporters last Monday. “If you want to force senior citizens into poverty, if you want to take a gigantic share of their Social Security benefits and dedicate it to their private purchase of an insurance policy, then that’s your ticket,” he said. Malloy also took aim at Clint Eastwood’s speech to the Republican convention last week, in which Eastwood pretended that Obama was sitting in an empty chair next to the podium. “I may bring a chair up with me and talk to it,” Malloy joked to the Hartford Courant on Monday. “That was one of the high points of the entire convention — my favorite part of the convention. In a serious conversation,
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Gov. Dannel Malloy, seen aboove addressing the Yale College Democrats last year, will speak this evening at the Democratic National Convention, a sign of his elevated status within the party. we’re going to talk about what the president has done and what the threats are of the policies of Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan,” he said. Though Gov. Malloy is not speaking during prime time, his selection as a speaker showcases his rising profile in the party, said Gary Rose, professor of political science at Sacred Heart University. “He’s been getting some
national press, and he travels a lot for a sitting governor,” Rose said. “He has made a name for himself by taking on teachers unions and public employee unions and forcing concessions from them.” But the governor’s immediate role in the election, said Rose, is a practical one. “Malloy’s task right now has become more refined, which is to deliver Connecticut’s seven electoral votes to President Obama,” he said.
Connecticut, he explained, is less securely Democratic than in recent election cycles. The president carried Connecticut by 22 points in 2008, but an Aug. 28 poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed Obama ahead of Romney by only seven points among likely voters. To assist the president’s reelection effort, Malloy has taken to the campaign trail in recent weeks, speaking at two
events in New Hampshire on Aug. 25. Addressing supporters at a community picnic in Hampton, N.H., Malloy said the RomneyRyan ticket would “take apart America as we know it,” according to Seacoast Online, a regional newspaper. He also said that the Republican ticket is “worse than Barry Goldwater’s would have been for the United States” and that “any-
one who votes for the RomneyRyan team is out of their mind.” Although it will not be televised, Gov. Malloy’s speech can be viewed via an online live stream. The Democratic National Convention runs until Thursday, ending with President Obama’s speech accepting the party’s nomination on Thursday night. Contact CASEY SUMNER at casey.sumner@yale.edu .
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ARTS & CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 7-9 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5 THE BEATLES FIRST US VISIT Beatles expert Scott Freiman, who is teaching a college seminar on the British band, will host the first in a series of film screenings relating to Paul, Ringo and the other cute ones. Linsley-Chittenden, Room 317
SEPT. 7 - SEPT. 21 INDEPENDENTS “Independents,” the original folk-rock musical written by Marina Keegan ’12 that took to the Fringe Festival stage late this summer, is back for six encore performances at SoHo Playhouse.
BY LEAH MOTZKIN STAFF REPORTER Elihu Rubin ’99, associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, published his latest book, “Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape,” with the Yale University Press in May. Rubin, a native Bostonian who also works as a documentary filmmaker and city planner, said he became interested in the Prudential Center not because the building is architecturally attractive or sound, but rather because it represents the interweaving forces that shape and change a city’s landscape. The
News spoke with Rubin about the process of writing the building’s history and how a reader should approach the book. did you choose to write about the QHow Prudential Center?
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The book started as a Ph.D. dissertation in the history of architecture and urbanism at UC Berkeley. I was looking to research an urban landscape from the ’50s and ’60s — a large, complicated place that I could analyze to uncover the forces that led to its production. That was my mission. I chose the Prudential Center despite the fact that it was not consid-
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out of the Pru. The first chapter is about the patron, the insurance company, and shows how the Prudential Center in Boston was part of a broader corporate strategy. The next chapter sets the stage in Boston and discusses the city’s early efforts at urban renewal. The third chapter shows how the Prudential Center aligned itself with the “public interest” and thus merited a tax break from the city. I’m very interested in this topic, how the “public interest” is established and produced in cities. Chapter 4 discusses the highway connection and shows how the Mass Pike and the Prudential Center were joined as a single megastructural project. The fifth chapter is about the design and construction of the Prudential Center. The conclusion brings us up to the present and talks about the substantial renovations that have vastly altered the Prudential Center from its original design.
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architecture to connect to the building and recognize its importance?
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Elihu Rubin ’99, associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, published a history of Boston’s iconic Prudential Center in May.
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WWII FOOD AND NUTRITION POSTERS What does eating fruit daily have to do with winning World War II? Quite a lot, it seems.
ent aspects of the building’s construction or importance?
I am very enthusiastic about the Prudential Center. I’ve gotten hooked on the story. There are many subplots to the story and depending on the audience, you could tell it in any number of ways. That’s what I really like about the subject of my book: it creates many different opportunities for thinking about cities.
A reader does not need special knowledge to appreciate the book. That said, those who come from a specific background might pick up some aspects and nuances that others might ignore. My strategy is to get as many people as possible interested in the Pruden-
even when they disagree with them. Look for how Prudential, the corporate patron, positions itself in relationship to the “public interest.” And in terms of architecture, look at who Prudential chose to design the project and how it ultimately came together. I hope to disarm a few misconceptions about how large projects are designed and built.
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I really enjoy doing archival research. I get a real kick out of leafing through musty old documents. Whether they are the internal corporate memoranda that established the company’s policies or the records of the architect, Charles Luckman, and his firm’s efforts to realize the project. I love that part of the process.
courses will you be teaching this QWhat year, and are your students going to be reading “Insuring the City”?
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This year in the fall, I teach a course with Alan Plattus called “New Haven and the American City,” which is an interdisciplinary course about American urbanism using New Haven as a key model. I teach my seminar “Urban Life and Landscape,” and I am asking my students to read “Insuring the City” as a model for how to study the urban landscape. I’m assigning it as much as a way to talk about methodology as for the story itself.
does this book fit in context with QHow other works you’ve created, either publications or films?
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My background is in documentary film, and I’ve made several films about New Haven and I hope to bring that sensibility about storytelling to the book. I think putting together a lecture is, in some ways, even more like documentary film. There are pictures in the book, but slide lectures — well, I use Keynote — are even more multimedia including a live action voice-over.
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What are you currently working on?
I’m working on several essays, some of which relate to another book project. It’s about cities, of course, but not just the American city this time. Ultimately, I’m hoping that the new book will address broad questions about urban sustainability and vitality. Why do some cities thrive while others fade away? How do we balance creative destruction with preservation? How much do we rely on “the market” and what is the role of “planning”? Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .
Putting Yale drama in a global context BY NITIKA KHAITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale University Theatre’s play program on May 14, 1942, causally mentions, right at the end, a paragraph titled “Air Raid Instructions,” politely informing audience members to remain in their seats should a siren go off in the middle of the play. This anachronism is what sparked the idea for a collection of similar artifacts titled “Staging History, Making History,” which explores the effects of contemporary global events on the Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre. Curated by librarian Lindsay King for the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, the exhibition opened on Aug. 27. The show arose out of the library’s collection of ephemera, said King, and includes pamphlets, tickets and notices printed for the Repertory Theatre and the School of Drama that the library has collected over the years. Upon going through boxes of papers that the Haas Arts Library inherited from the School of Drama Library when the two were combined, King said she was inspired by the air raid instructions pamphlet to highlight other such finds in the ephemera. The exhibition, organized chronologically, comprises play scripts, dean’s memos and AIDS benefit posters, all with the common theme of showcasing how issues in the outside world influenced theater at Yale. The 1942 play program including the air raid instructions, for instance, also explains how props were minimized to cut costs during wartime. The Vietnam War, Chernobyl, Watergate and apartheid all influenced a number of plays performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the scripts of which are displayed and available to interested students for further perusal. The exhibition also includes a section on the pageant theatre collection of the first chairman of the Department of Drama at Yale, George Pierce Baker. Pageantry plays were based on historical events and with this exhibit, King said she wished to show the interest in history that the Yale School of Drama has always had. Continuing the theme of global influence in the theater, the first Yale Repertory play of this season, “American Night,” deals with modern-day immigration. “Staging History, Making History” will remain on view until Dec. 18. Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu .
Seminar sends students on historical ‘Grand Tour’
was your favorite part of the QWhat creation process?
do you recommend readers look A QWhat for when reading “Insuring the City”?
does your book allow people I want readers to be able to see the QHow without a basic understanding of Amotivations of the different players,
4-5 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
JUN. 22 - SEPT. 17
is the book divided into sections QHow — chronologically, or based on differ-
Would you say that the book is accessible to a general audience or better for people with a background in architecture or another specific field. In other words, who is the book’s intended audience? I worked hard to make the book accessible to the general reader. There’s not a lot of jargon in the book. I wrote the book to appeal to people with a general interest in urban history, urban planning, architecture, business history, transportation and, of course, for those readers with a particular interest in Boston. The book tells a story, but it also represents original scholarship and the reader has a chance to sift through some of that material with me.
GALLERY TALK Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, will present “Some Memories of Growing Up Amidst the Sprawling Suburbs of the West.” The talk accompanies the gallery’s current retrospective of the American photographer Robert Adams.
Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.
war Urban Landscape,” clearly hints at the main themes of the book. How does the book’s title reflect its message?
Q
12:30 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
tial Center. There are many stories that can be told based on the “Pru” — I tried to take a place that you might think is boring and show how vital and connected it is to so many different urban trends.
book’s title, “Insuring the City: The book is organized thematically. QThe The Prudential Center and the Post- AEach chapter takes a different bite
A
CONTROL GROUP RECRUITMENT SHOW Freshmen, open your minds. Yale’s experimental theater company brings art to the young masses, followed by snacks and conversation.
NATURE-CITY Amale Andraos and Dan Wood present a lecture at the School of Architecture titled “NatureCity.” Andraos and Wood are founders of the architectural firm WORKac and designers of the Edible Schoolyard project in Brooklyn.
ered to be good architecture or urbanism. In fact, this made it all the more interesting — here was a building and an urban complex that Bostonians love to hate; it is an icon in spite of itself — yet plays a crucial role in the city’s history. Through the Prudential Center, I had found a vehicle to tell the broader story of how cities changed in the postwar period.
On a visceral level, I like the ring of “Insuring the City.” The title alludes to the role that Prudential, a life insurance company, had in investing in American cities in the 1950s. At that time, the leaders of many rust belt cities, like Boston, were legitimately concerned about the future of the city. (Many of these cities, like Buffalo and Detroit, are still in an extremely uncertain position.) When Prudential decided to build its Northeastern Home Office in Boston — the Prudential Center — it was an important validation of the city’s urban future. In this way, Prudential helped to insure the future of the city.
8-9 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
6:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 6
An educational rite of passage originating in the 1660s, the Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by young students of means. The trip afforded these young men the opportunity to view and appreciate the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance while experiencing the fashionable society of the European continent.
‘AN ICON IN SPITE OF ITSELF’
SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam St, New York
DESIGN FORUM The Office of Undergraduate Production offers a forum for members of Yale’s theater community to discuss their design needs, be it design tools, design workshops, or, indeed, designers.
The Grand Tour
YDN
The new seminar “Classicism and Modernity” coincides with an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art opening on Oct. 4. BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Young Western intellectuals of the mid-1700s often traveled to major ancient Greek and Roman monuments in Italy in order to infuse the ideas of antiquity into their work — an intellectual coming-of-age known as the Grand Tour. This fall 12 Yale students will have the opportunity to recreate the popular journey as part of the new course, “Classicism and Modernity.” The course, cross-listed between the Humanities, History of Art and Classics departments, examines classical works from an 18th-century perspective, the era of classical modernity. Taught by art history professors Timothy Barringer and Milette Gaifman, who also teaches in the Classics Department, the class will explore the links between two disparate eras of art history. The course accompanies an upcoming exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art featuring artifacts from the Grand Tour and will culminate in a field trip to cities in Southern Italy that were stops on the path of the tour. “We want students to become
experts equally in the classical and [the 1750s],” Barringer said. “It’s a double expertise, and therefore double the excitement.” Barringer said that part of the inspiration for the seminar came from an exhibit slated to open on Oct. 4 at the British Art Center, “The English Prize: The Capture of the ‘Westmorland,’ an Episode of the Grand Tour.” The Westmorland, a British merchant ship, was carrying purchases made abroad by several British Grand Tourists when it was seized by the French navy and sold to Spain in 1779. The bulk of the ship’s cargo remained at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid until this summer, when it made its way to England for an exhibition at Oxford. In October, this “time-capsule” of 18th-century tastes in classical art will come to Yale, said Peter Wilcox, curator of “The English Prize.” Consisting of roughly 140 objects ranging from paintings to rare books to prints and travel guides, the exhibit will be the first showing in America of the Westmorland artworks. Specific pieces include portraits by Pompeo Batoni, an
artist who frequently painted portraits of Grand Tourists, as well personal belongings of Grand Tourists such as journals, sheet music and books, Wilcox said. Art history major Thomas Burns ’13, who is enrolled in the course, said he is looking forward to working with the British Art Center’s collection. “We get to go into the collection just like all other students, but our studies will directly pertain to the collection itself,” Burns said, adding that it was the course’s intersection of two different points in art history that drew him to apply for the class. The collection will be a unique combination of high-quality 18th-century artwork and “tourist souvenirs,” said student Elena Light ’13. “Classicism and Modernity” also includes two trips, the first to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the second a four-day tour around Italy to Naples, Paestum, Pompeii and Heculaneum at the start of Thanksgiving break. Naples holds some of the world’s greatest collections of Greek and Roman sculptures, Barringer said, adding that the monuments, architec-
ture and museums at Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum will allow students to recreate a portion of the Grand Tour, having spent the semester being trained to examine classical works with an 18th-century eye. Students in the seminar were chosen by written application, with 12 students selected from around 40 applicants, Barringer said. Both trips are funded through the Franke Center and the Paul Mellon Center for British Art. “Classicism and Modernity” is offered as a Franke Seminar, a yearly course in the humanities. The curriculum will be supplemented by two visiting speakers from the UK: Frank Salmon, a specialist in 18th-century architecture who will present a lecture on the influence of the classical world on British architecture, and Simon Goldhill, a classical scholar who will speak about the Victorians and the classical world. “The English Prize” will open at the British Art Center on Oct. 4 and runs through Jan. 14. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at xi.hua@yale.edu .
At the Art Gallery, remodeling education BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER
JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A new exhbition featuring ephemera from the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Yale School of Drama opened on Aug. 27 at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.
Though the long-awaited reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery is slated for Dec. 12, the Nolen Center for Art and Education is already becoming a center of activity within the gallery. Located on the lower level of Street Hall, the Nolen Center is the physical space given to the art gallery’s newly expanded academic facilities, said Kate Ezra, Nolen curator of education and academic affairs. The Center itself boasts three new object-study classrooms, which are intended to allow students and faculty access to the vast collection of artworks in storage, along with a library and several multipurpose classrooms, Ezra said. The department itself will comprise seven staff members once it is fully functioning, Department Director for Collections and Education Pamela Franks told the News last Tuesday. Besides these full-time members, the department also includes to a large number of curators who teach courses in addition to their responsibilities in the gallery. Both Ezra and Franks anticipate that the object study classrooms will have a substantial impact on the number of object-study based seminars taught per semester. “Each year we have more classes from more departments using the collection,” Franks said, adding that the increased space would allow for more objects to be displayed in the art gallery’s permanent collection, enabling even large classes like the History of Art survey course to use the gallery spaces and hold discussion sections in the object study class-
rooms. The new climate-controlled classrooms are fully modernized, Ezra added, noting that each seminar-sized classroom is equipped with facilities for hanging works on the wall, displaying 3-D works on tabletops and ledges, along with an AV setup to view images over the web and on slides. If a class requests a work deemed too delicate to be displayed, Ezra said that the Art Gallery, after consulting with a curator and a conservator, will provide another object that can stand in for the work. “The professor will call up objects from the collection using the collection database and then we will have them installed in the room for the seminar,” Ezra said. Ezra anticipates the impact of the Art Gallery’s education department to reach much beyond the Yale community, she said, adding that it will also be a boon for people outside of Yale including K-12 teachers and students at Gateway Community College. The Center’s library, which contains resources on its vast collection of artwork, will be open to the public and will remain accessible even after the museum itself closes for the night, Ezra said. While the Center officially opens with the rest of the gallery on Dec. 12, Franks said that a dry run of the classrooms has already finished with the help of 19 New Haven high school art teachers. “They’re a very friendly audience,” Franks said. “They have the perspective to offer us feedback.” Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .
ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The library in the new Nolen Center for Art and Education will be open in December.
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ARTS & CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 7-9 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5 THE BEATLES FIRST US VISIT Beatles expert Scott Freiman, who is teaching a college seminar on the British band, will host the first in a series of film screenings relating to Paul, Ringo and the other cute ones. Linsley-Chittenden, Room 317
SEPT. 7 - SEPT. 21 INDEPENDENTS “Independents,” the original folk-rock musical written by Marina Keegan ’12 that took to the Fringe Festival stage late this summer, is back for six encore performances at SoHo Playhouse.
BY LEAH MOTZKIN STAFF REPORTER Elihu Rubin ’99, associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, published his latest book, “Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape,” with the Yale University Press in May. Rubin, a native Bostonian who also works as a documentary filmmaker and city planner, said he became interested in the Prudential Center not because the building is architecturally attractive or sound, but rather because it represents the interweaving forces that shape and change a city’s landscape. The
News spoke with Rubin about the process of writing the building’s history and how a reader should approach the book. did you choose to write about the QHow Prudential Center?
A
The book started as a Ph.D. dissertation in the history of architecture and urbanism at UC Berkeley. I was looking to research an urban landscape from the ’50s and ’60s — a large, complicated place that I could analyze to uncover the forces that led to its production. That was my mission. I chose the Prudential Center despite the fact that it was not consid-
Ballroom, 220 York St.
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St.
6:30 P.M. MON. SEPT. 10 PAMELA KORT LECTURE The artist Pamela Kort will present a lecture at the Yale School of Art as part of the school’s Monday night lecture series. Yale School of Art, 36 Edgewood
out of the Pru. The first chapter is about the patron, the insurance company, and shows how the Prudential Center in Boston was part of a broader corporate strategy. The next chapter sets the stage in Boston and discusses the city’s early efforts at urban renewal. The third chapter shows how the Prudential Center aligned itself with the “public interest” and thus merited a tax break from the city. I’m very interested in this topic, how the “public interest” is established and produced in cities. Chapter 4 discusses the highway connection and shows how the Mass Pike and the Prudential Center were joined as a single megastructural project. The fifth chapter is about the design and construction of the Prudential Center. The conclusion brings us up to the present and talks about the substantial renovations that have vastly altered the Prudential Center from its original design.
section of the book do you find QWhich most riveting?
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architecture to connect to the building and recognize its importance?
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Elihu Rubin ’99, associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, published a history of Boston’s iconic Prudential Center in May.
Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway
WWII FOOD AND NUTRITION POSTERS What does eating fruit daily have to do with winning World War II? Quite a lot, it seems.
ent aspects of the building’s construction or importance?
I am very enthusiastic about the Prudential Center. I’ve gotten hooked on the story. There are many subplots to the story and depending on the audience, you could tell it in any number of ways. That’s what I really like about the subject of my book: it creates many different opportunities for thinking about cities.
A reader does not need special knowledge to appreciate the book. That said, those who come from a specific background might pick up some aspects and nuances that others might ignore. My strategy is to get as many people as possible interested in the Pruden-
even when they disagree with them. Look for how Prudential, the corporate patron, positions itself in relationship to the “public interest.” And in terms of architecture, look at who Prudential chose to design the project and how it ultimately came together. I hope to disarm a few misconceptions about how large projects are designed and built.
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I really enjoy doing archival research. I get a real kick out of leafing through musty old documents. Whether they are the internal corporate memoranda that established the company’s policies or the records of the architect, Charles Luckman, and his firm’s efforts to realize the project. I love that part of the process.
courses will you be teaching this QWhat year, and are your students going to be reading “Insuring the City”?
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This year in the fall, I teach a course with Alan Plattus called “New Haven and the American City,” which is an interdisciplinary course about American urbanism using New Haven as a key model. I teach my seminar “Urban Life and Landscape,” and I am asking my students to read “Insuring the City” as a model for how to study the urban landscape. I’m assigning it as much as a way to talk about methodology as for the story itself.
does this book fit in context with QHow other works you’ve created, either publications or films?
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My background is in documentary film, and I’ve made several films about New Haven and I hope to bring that sensibility about storytelling to the book. I think putting together a lecture is, in some ways, even more like documentary film. There are pictures in the book, but slide lectures — well, I use Keynote — are even more multimedia including a live action voice-over.
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What are you currently working on?
I’m working on several essays, some of which relate to another book project. It’s about cities, of course, but not just the American city this time. Ultimately, I’m hoping that the new book will address broad questions about urban sustainability and vitality. Why do some cities thrive while others fade away? How do we balance creative destruction with preservation? How much do we rely on “the market” and what is the role of “planning”? Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .
Putting Yale drama in a global context BY NITIKA KHAITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale University Theatre’s play program on May 14, 1942, causally mentions, right at the end, a paragraph titled “Air Raid Instructions,” politely informing audience members to remain in their seats should a siren go off in the middle of the play. This anachronism is what sparked the idea for a collection of similar artifacts titled “Staging History, Making History,” which explores the effects of contemporary global events on the Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre. Curated by librarian Lindsay King for the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, the exhibition opened on Aug. 27. The show arose out of the library’s collection of ephemera, said King, and includes pamphlets, tickets and notices printed for the Repertory Theatre and the School of Drama that the library has collected over the years. Upon going through boxes of papers that the Haas Arts Library inherited from the School of Drama Library when the two were combined, King said she was inspired by the air raid instructions pamphlet to highlight other such finds in the ephemera. The exhibition, organized chronologically, comprises play scripts, dean’s memos and AIDS benefit posters, all with the common theme of showcasing how issues in the outside world influenced theater at Yale. The 1942 play program including the air raid instructions, for instance, also explains how props were minimized to cut costs during wartime. The Vietnam War, Chernobyl, Watergate and apartheid all influenced a number of plays performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the scripts of which are displayed and available to interested students for further perusal. The exhibition also includes a section on the pageant theatre collection of the first chairman of the Department of Drama at Yale, George Pierce Baker. Pageantry plays were based on historical events and with this exhibit, King said she wished to show the interest in history that the Yale School of Drama has always had. Continuing the theme of global influence in the theater, the first Yale Repertory play of this season, “American Night,” deals with modern-day immigration. “Staging History, Making History” will remain on view until Dec. 18. Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu .
Seminar sends students on historical ‘Grand Tour’
was your favorite part of the QWhat creation process?
do you recommend readers look A QWhat for when reading “Insuring the City”?
does your book allow people I want readers to be able to see the QHow without a basic understanding of Amotivations of the different players,
4-5 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
JUN. 22 - SEPT. 17
is the book divided into sections QHow — chronologically, or based on differ-
Would you say that the book is accessible to a general audience or better for people with a background in architecture or another specific field. In other words, who is the book’s intended audience? I worked hard to make the book accessible to the general reader. There’s not a lot of jargon in the book. I wrote the book to appeal to people with a general interest in urban history, urban planning, architecture, business history, transportation and, of course, for those readers with a particular interest in Boston. The book tells a story, but it also represents original scholarship and the reader has a chance to sift through some of that material with me.
GALLERY TALK Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, will present “Some Memories of Growing Up Amidst the Sprawling Suburbs of the West.” The talk accompanies the gallery’s current retrospective of the American photographer Robert Adams.
Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.
war Urban Landscape,” clearly hints at the main themes of the book. How does the book’s title reflect its message?
Q
12:30 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
tial Center. There are many stories that can be told based on the “Pru” — I tried to take a place that you might think is boring and show how vital and connected it is to so many different urban trends.
book’s title, “Insuring the City: The book is organized thematically. QThe The Prudential Center and the Post- AEach chapter takes a different bite
A
CONTROL GROUP RECRUITMENT SHOW Freshmen, open your minds. Yale’s experimental theater company brings art to the young masses, followed by snacks and conversation.
NATURE-CITY Amale Andraos and Dan Wood present a lecture at the School of Architecture titled “NatureCity.” Andraos and Wood are founders of the architectural firm WORKac and designers of the Edible Schoolyard project in Brooklyn.
ered to be good architecture or urbanism. In fact, this made it all the more interesting — here was a building and an urban complex that Bostonians love to hate; it is an icon in spite of itself — yet plays a crucial role in the city’s history. Through the Prudential Center, I had found a vehicle to tell the broader story of how cities changed in the postwar period.
On a visceral level, I like the ring of “Insuring the City.” The title alludes to the role that Prudential, a life insurance company, had in investing in American cities in the 1950s. At that time, the leaders of many rust belt cities, like Boston, were legitimately concerned about the future of the city. (Many of these cities, like Buffalo and Detroit, are still in an extremely uncertain position.) When Prudential decided to build its Northeastern Home Office in Boston — the Prudential Center — it was an important validation of the city’s urban future. In this way, Prudential helped to insure the future of the city.
8-9 P.M. WED. SEPT. 5
6:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 6
An educational rite of passage originating in the 1660s, the Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by young students of means. The trip afforded these young men the opportunity to view and appreciate the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance while experiencing the fashionable society of the European continent.
‘AN ICON IN SPITE OF ITSELF’
SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam St, New York
DESIGN FORUM The Office of Undergraduate Production offers a forum for members of Yale’s theater community to discuss their design needs, be it design tools, design workshops, or, indeed, designers.
The Grand Tour
YDN
The new seminar “Classicism and Modernity” coincides with an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art opening on Oct. 4. BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Young Western intellectuals of the mid-1700s often traveled to major ancient Greek and Roman monuments in Italy in order to infuse the ideas of antiquity into their work — an intellectual coming-of-age known as the Grand Tour. This fall 12 Yale students will have the opportunity to recreate the popular journey as part of the new course, “Classicism and Modernity.” The course, cross-listed between the Humanities, History of Art and Classics departments, examines classical works from an 18th-century perspective, the era of classical modernity. Taught by art history professors Timothy Barringer and Milette Gaifman, who also teaches in the Classics Department, the class will explore the links between two disparate eras of art history. The course accompanies an upcoming exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art featuring artifacts from the Grand Tour and will culminate in a field trip to cities in Southern Italy that were stops on the path of the tour. “We want students to become
experts equally in the classical and [the 1750s],” Barringer said. “It’s a double expertise, and therefore double the excitement.” Barringer said that part of the inspiration for the seminar came from an exhibit slated to open on Oct. 4 at the British Art Center, “The English Prize: The Capture of the ‘Westmorland,’ an Episode of the Grand Tour.” The Westmorland, a British merchant ship, was carrying purchases made abroad by several British Grand Tourists when it was seized by the French navy and sold to Spain in 1779. The bulk of the ship’s cargo remained at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid until this summer, when it made its way to England for an exhibition at Oxford. In October, this “time-capsule” of 18th-century tastes in classical art will come to Yale, said Peter Wilcox, curator of “The English Prize.” Consisting of roughly 140 objects ranging from paintings to rare books to prints and travel guides, the exhibit will be the first showing in America of the Westmorland artworks. Specific pieces include portraits by Pompeo Batoni, an
artist who frequently painted portraits of Grand Tourists, as well personal belongings of Grand Tourists such as journals, sheet music and books, Wilcox said. Art history major Thomas Burns ’13, who is enrolled in the course, said he is looking forward to working with the British Art Center’s collection. “We get to go into the collection just like all other students, but our studies will directly pertain to the collection itself,” Burns said, adding that it was the course’s intersection of two different points in art history that drew him to apply for the class. The collection will be a unique combination of high-quality 18th-century artwork and “tourist souvenirs,” said student Elena Light ’13. “Classicism and Modernity” also includes two trips, the first to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the second a four-day tour around Italy to Naples, Paestum, Pompeii and Heculaneum at the start of Thanksgiving break. Naples holds some of the world’s greatest collections of Greek and Roman sculptures, Barringer said, adding that the monuments, architec-
ture and museums at Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum will allow students to recreate a portion of the Grand Tour, having spent the semester being trained to examine classical works with an 18th-century eye. Students in the seminar were chosen by written application, with 12 students selected from around 40 applicants, Barringer said. Both trips are funded through the Franke Center and the Paul Mellon Center for British Art. “Classicism and Modernity” is offered as a Franke Seminar, a yearly course in the humanities. The curriculum will be supplemented by two visiting speakers from the UK: Frank Salmon, a specialist in 18th-century architecture who will present a lecture on the influence of the classical world on British architecture, and Simon Goldhill, a classical scholar who will speak about the Victorians and the classical world. “The English Prize” will open at the British Art Center on Oct. 4 and runs through Jan. 14. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at xi.hua@yale.edu .
At the Art Gallery, remodeling education BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER
JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A new exhbition featuring ephemera from the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Yale School of Drama opened on Aug. 27 at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.
Though the long-awaited reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery is slated for Dec. 12, the Nolen Center for Art and Education is already becoming a center of activity within the gallery. Located on the lower level of Street Hall, the Nolen Center is the physical space given to the art gallery’s newly expanded academic facilities, said Kate Ezra, Nolen curator of education and academic affairs. The Center itself boasts three new object-study classrooms, which are intended to allow students and faculty access to the vast collection of artworks in storage, along with a library and several multipurpose classrooms, Ezra said. The department itself will comprise seven staff members once it is fully functioning, Department Director for Collections and Education Pamela Franks told the News last Tuesday. Besides these full-time members, the department also includes to a large number of curators who teach courses in addition to their responsibilities in the gallery. Both Ezra and Franks anticipate that the object study classrooms will have a substantial impact on the number of object-study based seminars taught per semester. “Each year we have more classes from more departments using the collection,” Franks said, adding that the increased space would allow for more objects to be displayed in the art gallery’s permanent collection, enabling even large classes like the History of Art survey course to use the gallery spaces and hold discussion sections in the object study class-
rooms. The new climate-controlled classrooms are fully modernized, Ezra added, noting that each seminar-sized classroom is equipped with facilities for hanging works on the wall, displaying 3-D works on tabletops and ledges, along with an AV setup to view images over the web and on slides. If a class requests a work deemed too delicate to be displayed, Ezra said that the Art Gallery, after consulting with a curator and a conservator, will provide another object that can stand in for the work. “The professor will call up objects from the collection using the collection database and then we will have them installed in the room for the seminar,” Ezra said. Ezra anticipates the impact of the Art Gallery’s education department to reach much beyond the Yale community, she said, adding that it will also be a boon for people outside of Yale including K-12 teachers and students at Gateway Community College. The Center’s library, which contains resources on its vast collection of artwork, will be open to the public and will remain accessible even after the museum itself closes for the night, Ezra said. While the Center officially opens with the rest of the gallery on Dec. 12, Franks said that a dry run of the classrooms has already finished with the help of 19 New Haven high school art teachers. “They’re a very friendly audience,” Franks said. “They have the perspective to offer us feedback.” Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .
ZOE GORMAN/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The library in the new Nolen Center for Art and Education will be open in December.
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FROM THE FRONT
“I’m always told that what I say is controversial [ ‌ ] because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country.â€? RICK SANTORUM FORMER SENATOR
For first time, Yale joins incoming students on social media FRESHMEN FROM PAGE 1 edented use of social media to facilitate connections between prospective students and the University as well as among the students themselves.
CENTRALIZED CONNECTIONS
When high school seniors received their online admissions decisions from Yale, they were given a link to an admitted students website hosted on the University’s server. The site allows students to message one another and create viewable profiles, but it also provides a link to join the Class of 2016 Facebook group as well. “We wanted to try out a Facebook page to provide another space for admitted students to connect,� said Mark Dunn ’07, director of outreach and recruitment for the Admissions Office, “and have their questions answered by current students.� All current and incoming Yale students were admitted to the group upon request. As of Sept. 4, there were 1,622 members. The page, which Dunn said his office intended to serve as a platform for admitted students to contact one another as well as older students, proved “very successful.� In the past, the Admissions Office oversaw only the admitted students website. Incoming freshmen would independently create and administer Facebook groups for their class, which sometimes resulted in multiple competing groups. Students in previous years also could not ensure that only other admitted Yale students were members of the group, while administrators of the 2016 page are employed by the Admissions office and cross-reference all membership requests with Yale’s database of admitted students. The Admissions Office wanted
to be involved with the Facebook page because “so much communication happens over Facebook,� Dunn said. While the Yale Admissions Office has embraced social media, not all universities have fostered online communication amongst incoming freshmen. At Stanford University, students are not given rooming assignments until they arrive on campus. “[W]e have found that roommate relationships are more positive and successful when they start out with face-to-face interaction, rather than on preconceived notions based on fragments of information or online communications,� according to Stanford’s housing website. Incoming Stanford freshman Meaghan Carley said she would have liked to know a few characteristics of her new roommate before arriving at Stanford, but she understands the need to develop a deeper relationship with her future roommate. “Because online media is so shallow, judgments can be made that aren’t necessarily true,� she said. “I kind of respect the idea of allowing that relationship to develop itself naturally when we’re together.�
NEW FRIENDS?
All students interviewed said Facebook is a convenient tool for exchanging information with peers, but not all students believed the relationships they formed online were meaningful. Thirteen of 15 freshmen interviewed said they joined the Class of 2016 Facebook group, citing motivations such as curiosity about their peers and a desire to post questions about Yale. All interviewed said they corresponded with their suitemates over Facebook before arriving. One such freshman, Katie Galbraith ’16, said that while she “friended� all of her suitemates
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Jessicu Su ’16, left, and Charlotte Wang ’16 were among the hundreds of incoming freshmen who corresponded via Facebook before arriving on campus. over the summer she did not become close friends with them until arriving on campus. “We did a little bit of introducing,� she said, “but it’s hard to get a sense of someone over Facebook.� Charlotte Wang ’16 said she sometimes recognizes freshmen on campus because they are her Facebook friends, but that meeting them for the first time can be “awkward.� Two students interviewed who actively used social networking tools to communicate over the summer said they gained reputations as active
users of the page but still felt they had an advantage upon arriving to campus with a ready circle of friends. Helder Toste ’16 said he regularly corresponded with a total of 20 students, who he met on Facebook, over a variety of social media platforms during the summer. Toste said he became a so-called Facebook celebrity because of his frequent posting on the Class of 2016 Facebook page, adding that some students have even called him the “Facebook guy.� Toste said that he sometimes felt his peers thought nega-
tively of him because of his large online activity, but he explained that many people have told him they perceived him differently on Facebook than in person. “Some people judged me, but I made some really good friends,� Toste said. Freshmen interviewed who did not use the Facebook page or other social media tools to forge early friendships said they did not feel left out in any way. Lillian Crabb ’16 said she was not a member of the Class of 2016 Facebook group and did not know the group existed. She considers herself somebody
who would rather make friends in person, rather than over the Internet, she said. “I wasn’t even aware of the idea of getting to know people on Facebook,� Crabb said. Ariel Hernandez-Leyva ’16 also said he did not join the Class of 2016 Facebook group because he rarely uses his account. His mother joined instead. “She was more into it than I was,� he said. “I’m a face-to-face meeting person.� Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .
Students protest Santorum visit SANTORUM FROM PAGE 1 said, adding that both the number of children born out of wedlock and the level of government spending have drastically increased since 1970. “But that doesn’t mean they’re not.� Graduate students awaited Santorum’s speech outside of Woolsey Hall, many holding up signs showing the names and images of youth who have committed suicide in reaction to homophobia and bullying. “We’re law students: we study the First Amendment and we’re not going to disrupt Mr. Santorum’s speech,� Adam Goldenberg LAW ’14 said. “We just think it’s important that we send a very simple reminder to everyone in attendance and the young people who might watch the speech or read coverage of it that the sentiments of Mr. Santorum do not represent the views of the Yale community at large.� Santorum emphasized the importance of free speech and said that if students were truly interested in understanding the consequences of government policies, they would support open and fair discussion and debate. “I appreciate all the response — the snakelike response — to all of the facts that I’m laying out here,� he said as some members of the
audience demonstrated their disapproval by hissing in the YPU’s tradition. Graduate students from other schools, such as the School of Management and the Divinity School, were also protesting Santorum’s speech. Panlists for various graduate organizations mentioned potential protests and other responses to Santorum’s visit to New Haven.
I’m sure there are some people here who ‌ think if the American family dissolves and goes away, that it’s just a dinosaur ready for anthropologists to study. RICK SANTORUM Former presidential candidate “A lot of different graduate students feel that they have different things at stake,â€? said Patrick Burrows DIV ’14, who was holding signs made by Yale Law School students and
signs made by other Divinity School students. “For me, a major part of this is to show people that the Christian religious tradition, which has given so much meaning to my life, does not have to be construed as hatred and toxic messages.� A group called the Y Syndicate also handed out fliers in Woolsey Hall with quotes from Santorum on topic such as homosexuality, immigration, and environment. Members declined to speak with the News. “Tonight, Rick Santorum will take our university’s grandest stage and continue to spew ignorance and hate about all kinds of people, including many members of our community. He may be a guest on this campus with a right to voice his opinions, but that does not mean we have to listen,� the flier reads. “We will walk out and refuse to engage in this spectacle. We ask you to join us in sending a message to Santorum, the YPU and your fellow students that this attempt to legitimize ignorance and bigotry is unacceptable.� Santorum spoke for approximately 35 minutes before answering questions from the audience. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum addressed the YPU Tuesday night in an address that drew protests outside Woolsey Hall.
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Dems: Romney just ‘doesn’t get it’
Better off? Dems say yes, cite health law BY LAURIE KELLMAN AND JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada waves to delegates after his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. BY DAVID ESPO AND MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats ridiculed Republican Mitt Romney as a millionaire candidate for president who “quite simply doesn’t get it” and worse Tuesday on the opening night of a national convention aimed at propelling Barack Obama to a second term despite high unemployment and national economic distress. Obama “knows better than anyone there’s more hard work to do” to fix the economy, said San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, the convention keynote speaker, sharing the prime-time spotlight with first lady Michelle Obama. After the deep recession, Castro said in excerpts released in advance of his speech, the nation is making progress “despite incredible odds and united Republican opposition.” He pointed to the creation of 4.5 million jobs since the president took office. Obama was back home in the White House after a campaign appearance in Virginia
earlier in the day. He said he’d be watching on television when his wife spoke. Polls made the race for the White House a tight one, almost certain to be decided in a string of eight or 10 battleground states where neither the president nor Romney holds a clear advantage. And during the day there was ample evidence of an underperforming economy, from a report that said manufacturing activity declined for a third straight month to the Treasury’s announcement that the government’s debt exceeded $16 trillion at the close of the business day. Castro, the first Hispanic chosen to deliver a keynote address, was unsparing in criticizing Romney, suggesting the former Massachusetts governor might not even be the driving force on the Republican ticket this fall. “First they called it `trickle down, the supply side,” he said of the economic proposals backed by Republicans. “Now it’s Romney/Ryan. Or is it Ryan/Romney?” “Either way, their the-
ory has been tested. It failed … Mitt Romney just doesn’t get it,” Castro said. Romney’s running mate is Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
Now it’s Romney/Ryan. Or is it Ryan/Romney? Either way, their theory has been tested. It failed. … Mitt Romney just doesn’t get it. JULIAN CASTRO Mayor, San Antonio The divide over taxes goes to the core of the campaign. Romney and the Republicans favor extension of all of the existing Bush-era tax cuts due to expire on Dec. 31, and also want to cut tax rates 20 percent across the board. Obama, too, wants to keep the existing tax cuts in place — except for people with earnings of $250,000 a year or
more. Democrats unspooled insult after insult as they took their turn on the convention stage. Said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, speaking of Romney: “Never in modern American history has a presidential candidate tried so hard to hide himself from the people he hopes to serve.” “When you look at the one tax return he has released, it’s obvious why there’s been only one. We learned that he pays a lower tax rate than middleclass families. We learned he chose Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island tax shelters over American institutions.” Obama, by contrast, was lauded for helping win approval of health care legislation and for supporting abortion rights and gay marriage. “He said he’d take out bin Laden, and with our great SEAL team, he did,” added Tim Kaine, former national party chairman and Virginia governor, now running for the Senate.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Better off than four years ago? Even some of President Barack Obama’s biggest fans have to work to get to “yes,” but they expect him to make the case more forcefully. “He has got to continue to be clearer on what has happened for the good,” said retired Vermont school superintendent Charles Sweetman, one of the thousands of delegates to the Democratic National Convention this week. The nation’s climb out of recession, he added, “is a little slower than we wanted, but boy, the train is moving and don’t get us off the track.” The question left some Obama campaign surrogates flustered this past weekend. Ask the delegates and you get a list of Obama successes: He ordered the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. His health care overhaul insured millions more Americans. Pell grants, which help pay for college tuition for 9 million students, are on the rise. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is law. But the realities of a slowmoving economic recovery temper their enthusiasm: The unemployment rate hovers at 8.3 percent, compared to 6.1 percent four years ago. Millions of Americans are out of work and home values are down. New job numbers come out Friday. The better-off question sounds like yes or no would suffice, and Republicans insist that after three years of any presidency, it should be that simple. It’s no coincidence that the query is version of the question that, in 1980, helped Republican Ronald Reagan make Democrat Jimmy Carter a one-term president. “As a matter of fact, President Obama’s record is worse than Jimmy Carter’s record,” said vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Heading into the conventions, Americans apparently weren’t so sure. An August Associated Press-GfK poll showed that just 28 percent of adults said their family’s financial situation is better today than it was four years ago while another 36 percent said it’s the same. Thirtysix percent said it’s worse than
it was back then. Among critical independents, there’s a decidedly negative tilt to these results: Just 21 percent said they are better off, 38 percent said they are worse off and 42 percent said they are the same. On the Sunday talk shows, Obama’s aides and surrogates stumbled over the answer. Asked on CBS whether he could “honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago,” O’Malley answered, “No.” “But that’s not the question of this election,” O’Malley continued, trying to reframe the choice voters will face in two months. “Without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recessions, the Bush deficits.” Vice President Joe Biden had more success on Labor Day in Detroit, citing two of Obama’s biggest successes, including the auto bailout. “You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you,” Biden said before chanting three times: “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” That’s more like it, two dozen Democratic delegates said in interviews, as they gathered in Charlotte, N.C., ahead of Obama’s acceptance speech Thursday night. “He needs to be more forceful about what he has accomplished and what he still wants to accomplish in the next four years,” said Mary Beth Pyle, 68, of Grand Junction, Colo. “Our unemployment rate has dropped nearly eight points, so for us, this is personal,” said Jaladah Aslam, a delegate from Youngstown, Ohio. Christopher Martinez, a 57-year-old delegate from swing-state Colorado, said he supported his son and 2-yearold grandson through a period of unemployment that lasted almost a year. “If I was not better off than I was four years ago, then I would not have been able to help my son and his family through their difficulties,” Martinez said. Kaeleen Ringberg, a 23-yearold delegate from Wisconsin, says he can stay on his parents’ health insurance for another three years under Obama’s health care law.
SPORTS
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS TIGER WOODS With his third-place finish in the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday and the accompanying $544,000 purse, Woods’s career earnings reached $100,350,700. No other golfer has passed the $100 million mark; Phil Mickelson’s $67 million in earnings is second all time.
Elis secure first season shutout W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 stepped into goal to relieve Jackson-Gibson. Both teams showed resolute defending and great pressing in midfield. Sacred Heart came close to equalizing in the 38th minute when Ashley Roth fired a header on goal, only to be denied by a superb Bulldog block. Soon after, Jacquelyn Roth nearly capitalized on a defensive mixup, but only managed to shoot straight at Wilcox who caught the shot and punted it back to her teammates.
If we play together, and work for each other off the ball, we can be dangerous this season. MELISSA GAVIN ’15
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Muriel Battaglia ’15, right, scored Yale’s final goal against Sacred HeartTueday night to bring the score to 3–0.
The Bulldogs came out strong in the second half, and Kristen Forster ’15 almost doubled Yale’s lead when she directed a free header over the crossbar. The Elis continued to press and earned a corner kick in 56th minute. Gavin stepped up to take the kick and found the back of
the net to bring the score to 2–0. After Gavin’s goal, the Elis played with an added confidence. Had it not been for some end-game defense by the Pioneers, and profligacy in front of goal by the Elis, Yale might have won by an even larger margin. Anne Song ’13 was released by an exquisite through ball from Gavin and fired wide with only the keeper to beat. Shannon McSweeney ’14 found herself unmarked off a corner but sent it high, and minutes later, Gavin nearly doubled her tally for the night with a curling shot that sailed just wide. But the Elis were not to be denied their third goal, and Muriel Battaglia ’15 nodded home her first of the season off a Frannie Coxe ’15 corner. “The positives today were that we managed a shutout, and scored three goals”, head coach Rudy Meredith said. “The negative was that we need to play the way we played in the second half right from the start. We need to make sure we move forward with each game, not backwards.” Yale will travel to Chicago over the weekend to play Loyola on Friday and Northwestern on Sunday. Contact HAMMAAD ADAM at hammaad.adam@yale.edu .
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: None of my family members played soccer. I first started playing baseball, but realized it did not fit me as I enjoyed running and being more active on the ground. Then my best friend played soccer when I was young, and I wanted to play with him. I found out I was good at soccer and scored a lot in my first game, so that is why I continued.
: It happened in my freshmen year, back in 2009 … when I scored my first goal against Quinnipiac. It gave me confidence in front of the goal for the rest of the season.
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: Harvard. It is true they struggled last year, but the fact that it is Harvard makes the team’s emotions high. Everyone is very motivated to win against the Crimson.
priority of mine. I wanted to spend senior year with my friends, but when an opportunity like that appears you’ve got to take it.” Having withdrawn for “personal reasons,” Lavarnway said that when he finishes his career he will have to take two semester-long classes from an accredited university before reapplying to Yale. Although he already graduated from Yale with a degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, the possibility remains that Breslow could also return to school. He was accepted to New York University Medical School, but deferred enrollment to pursue his big-league dream. “The window to play professional baseball is significantly narrower than the one to go to med school,” Breslow said on his decision to defer medical school. “For my whole life I’ve been playing baseball, and I didn’t know what it would be like waking up and not thinking about practice or a game … I just felt like I still wanted to play.” He added that the length of his major league career, however, could lead him to decide against pursuing his M.D. upon retiring. For their teammates, the two Elis are something of an oddity. Players near Lavarnway’s locker chuckled as he talked about majoring in philosophy. Breslow is not immune from the jokes either, and he was named the smartest professional athlete by Sporting News in 2010. “I get made fun of,” Breslow said. “I don’t know what truth there is to that, or about the objectivity of the voting on that, but … considering the other things that people get made fun of for, it’s not that bad.” When asked how he felt about having two Yale teammates on the Red Sox, former MVP second baseman Dustin Pedroia said jokingly, “Well, we could sure as hell win a debate.” The Red Sox are 2–6 in the games Breslow and Lavarnway have played in together before last night.
even after graduation, I actually want to continue soccer. I am engineering major and I have interned during the summer, but it was not as exciting as soccer.
How do you evaluate the team’s Q:current forwards?
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Scott Armbrust ’13 started in 13 games in his sophomore year of play for Yale. Is there anything specific or any Q:special strategies that you do as a forward? Sometimes you also play the role of an attacking midfielder. Is there any sort of playing style that you favor or consider to be your own?
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Craig Breslow ’02, who currently pitches for the Boston Red Sox, majored in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and was pre-med. BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12
Armbrust anticipates strong season ARMBRUST FROM PAGE 12
Two Elis call Fenway Park home
Who is your favorite soccer Q:player, and what is your favorite team?
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Roddick-del Potro match suspended by rain BY HOWARD FENDRICH ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — His match, and his retirement, put off for at least another day, Andy Roddick stepped out of Arthur Ashe Stadium and into the drizzly night, a black jacket’s hood pulled overhead, a bag of ice soothing his right shoulder. He’ll try to prolong his U.S. Open — and his professional tennis career — on Wednesday. Roddick’s fourth-round showdown against another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, was suspended because of rain Tuesday night, with the American leading 1–0 in a first-set tiebreaker. A little more than a half-hour later, the players were told they could head to their hotels. They were scheduled to resume Wednesday as the second match in Ashe, after four-time major champion Maria Sharapova’s quarterfinal against 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli. That was halted Tuesday with
Bartoli ahead 4–0. Other matches stopped in progress, also in the first set, included defending champion Novak Djokovic against No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, and No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic against No. 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber. On a day of off-and-on action because of intermittent showers, only two singles matches were completed: Top-seeded Victoria Azarenka reached her first U.S. Open semifinal by cobbling together a 6–1, 4–6, 7–6 (5) victory over defending champion Sam Stosur, and No. 4 David Ferrer reached the quarterfinals by beating No. 13 Richard Gasquet 7–5, 7–6 (2), 6–4. So, Victoria, what went through your mind as your hightension, high-quality match stretched into that third-set tiebreaker? “You don’t want to know what I kept telling myself,” Azarenka deadpanned. “I would have to beep that, I think.” She went on to offer a cleanedup version of what her thoughts had been — “Don’t be a chicken”
— while assuring herself of retaining the No. 1 ranking no matter what happens the rest of this week. “Definitely I don’t want to stop. I really want it bad,” Azarenka said about the prospect of adding a second Grand Slam trophy to the one she earned in January at the Australian Open. “I’m going to do absolutely everything I have, you know, to give it all here.” Her match, like most at Flushing Meadows so far, took second billing to one involving the 20thseeded Roddick, who surprisingly announced last week that this tournament would be the last of his career. Since then, he picked up victories over players ranked 43rd and 59th, but the No. 7-seeded del Potro figured to provide more of a challenge. Del Potro is the only man other than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Djokovic to win any of the past 30 Grand Slam titles. There were thousands of empty blue seats when Roddick and del Potro took to the court, probably owing to the showers that led
to about an hour’s delay at the start of the marquee match. It was hardly the full house of rowdy, partisan fans that Roddick might have hoped for. More spectators filed in as things progressed, and those who were there certainly grabbed each and every opportunity to cheer for their man. They even gave del Potro a bit of a hard time when he had a couple of ball boys go wipe a wet spot near the baseline with white towels. It was misty at the outset, and the humidity topped 80 percent, leaving both men’s shirts sopped with sweat. Roddick came out the aggressor, looking for any opportunity to get to the net, and the volley he smacked to end the third game glanced off the 6-foot-6 del Potro’s right shoulder. Not much later, Roddick nosed ahead, breaking for a 4–2 lead and shaking his right fist vigorously when del Potro flubbed a backhand into the net. Roddick held for 5–2, saving a break point along the way and
showing off quite a varied repertoire: an ace, a drop-shot winner, a backhand winner down the line and an inside-out forehand passing shot. Seemingly in control, Roddick suddenly slowed, and del Potro finally began showing off the big, flat forehand that carried him past Federer in the 2009 U.S. Open final. Del Potro pounded one forehand so hard that Roddick shanked an attempted reply off his racket handle, sending the ball into the fourth row of the stands behind him. It was a rough 15 minutes for the crowd favorite, who five times stood two points from claiming the set, but couldn’t get closer. When Roddick served for it at 5–3, he played a loose game, rolling his eyes after putting one backhand into the net, then sailing an approach shot long and rushing a forehand long. Del Potro broke there and eventually, as drops began to fall, they headed to the tiebreaker. After only one point, an insideout forehand winner by Roddick,
chair umpire Carlos Bernardes stepped down to inspect the wet court and declared it unplayable. A few spectators booed. Roddick and del Potro sat in their changeover chairs for a few minutes, until being told the delay would be substantial enough that they could wait it out in the locker room. Not much after that, they found out they would need to come back Wednesday, when the forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of rain. Azarenka and Stosur needed to wait out a 75-minute delay in their first set, but at least they got done. Stosur never had taken so much as a set off Azarenka in six previous tour meetings, including one match in qualifying. That changed in Tuesday’s second set, although forcing a third might not have given Stosur all that much self-belief. And in the end, Azarenka improved to 11–0 in threesetters this season, while Stosur fell to 9–7. “I think I’m capable of beating her one day,” the seventh-seeded Stosur said. “Just would have liked it to have been today.”
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KENDALL POLAN ’14 IVY LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Polan earned the honor yesterday on the heels of her outstanding performance in the Yale Classic. Against Texas A&M, she had 15 digs, 17 kills, and 18 assists. Polan was named Player of the Week two times last season, and was the 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year.
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“The most important thing we can take from today is that we have a lot of potential.” MELISSA GAVIN ’15 FORWARD, WOMEN’S SOCCER
YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
Gavin ’15 inspires 3–0 shutout
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Melissa Gavin ’15 scored the second goal of Yale’s Tuesday night victory against Sacred Heart directly off a corner kick in the 56th minute. She was also the last Eli to touch the ball on a Sacred Heart own goal that made the score 1–0. BY HAMMAAD ADAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team produced a dominant display in its
WOMEN’S SOCCER first home game of the season with a 3–0 victory over the Sacred
Heart Pioneers on Tuesday evening. The match started out looking as though it might go either way with both offenses probing without creating any clear chances, though the Pioneers scored on themselves to give Yale an early lead. But the tide turned when Melissa Gavin ’15 curled the ball
on a corner kick past the Pioneers’ keeper and into the far corner of the goal to put Yale up by two. The Elis took control of the rest of the game and came off the field with a shutout. “I think the most important thing we can take from today is that we have a lot of potential,” Gavin said. “If we play together,
Armbrust return gives Elis boost BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER Despite dropping its opening contests against Central Connecticut State University and Albany over the weekend, the men’s soccer team has high hopes for the season. One factor contributing to the Bulldogs’ positive outlook is the return of forward Scott Armbrust ’14, who missed last season due to a hip injury. His sophomore year, Armbrust started in 13 games for the Elis. The News sat down with the Davenport College junior to discuss his return to the team and prospects for the season.
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: What do you think about the team’s performance in the matches over the weekend, against CCSU and Albany?
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: We have a lot of experience coming back, and I am looking for players to step up who will serve us well in the Ivy season. The matches over the weekend were a wake-up call.
How does it feel to be back? You Q:missed last season with an injury. Was there anything in particular you did so as not to lose the feel of the sport?
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: I am very excited to be back with the teammates. I am looking forward to working out and competing with them. I was out for six months due to a hip injury. I was in machines alternating from icing to mobility for about a month. I could not do anything much, but once I was able to move around, I went to the gym for arm and upper-body workouts. I also got physical therapy in my leg. I needed time for the bone to heal. A lot of players actually suffer from hip injuries, but I am happy that I am now fully recovered.
You had a fantastic season back in Q:2009. You were named the Ivy League
Rookie of the Week and your six goals placed you tied for fifth in the Ivy League. What would be the biggest difference between the current season and that one three years ago?
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: My role on the team is different now. I have more of a leadership role and help determine the tempo of the game. When game situations get tough, I am in the position to take care of them. It is definitely a lot different. The expectations from my coach are higher as well as my own. SEE ARMBRUST PAGE 11
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and work for each other off the ball, we can be dangerous this season.” Sacred Heart (2–3–0) started strong, and almost found an opening when Ashley Moore shimmied past two defenders, only to strike a tame cross straight at goalkeeper Adele Jackson-Gibson’13. The Bulldogs (2–1–0) were
passing the ball fluently in midfield, but struggled to find their rhythm in the final third. Still, they took the lead in the 18th minute, when Gavin swung a free kick into the box, where a Pioneers defender inadvertently put the ball into her own net. Minutes after taking the lead, the Elis were dealt a large blow,
as Jackson-Gibson was forced to leave the game with a knee injury after an awkward landing. Jackson-Gibson had been playing in just her third game after recovering from an injury that had sidelined her for a substantial chunk of last season. Elise Wilcox ’15 SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 11
Bulldogs in Beantown BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Pitcher Craig Breslow ’02 and catcher Ryan Lavarnway ’09 were never teammates at Yale, but they have been brought together with the Boston Red Sox. Breslow and Lavarnway became the first Elis to be Major League teammates since 1949 after Lavarnway was called up from Triple-A on Aug. 1, a day after Breslow was traded from the Diamondbacks to Boston. Then, on Aug. 18, they became the first All-Yale battery in the majors since 1883. Although the two are now on the national stage, they have not left Yale behind them. Lavarnway said that he still talks to head coach John Stuper and several of his teammates from his days in the Blue and White. But his friends are not the only thing he misses from New Haven. “Whenever I drive home, I always try to stop there,” Lavarnway said. “I miss the food … I always loved Alpha Delta Pizza [and] the Wenzel.” Breslow, a Trumbull, Conn., native, has also kept ties to the University. His Strike 3 Foundation is in its fourth year of helping to fund the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at Yale-New Haven Children’s hospital. For Lavarnway, Yale may not just be a part of his past, but part of his future as well. The catcher left Yale following
CREATIVE COMMONS
Ryan Lavarnway ’09 was called up for his second stint with the Red Sox on Aug. 1. his junior year when he was selected by the Red Sox in the sixth round, but he said that he wants to return to Yale to finish his degree. “There wasn’t a lot left for me in Ivy
League baseball at that point,” Lavarnway said. “It was tough to leave Yale, because graduating was definitely a SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11
THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS A CORNER KICK BY MELLISA GAVIN ’15 TOUCHED EN ROUTE TO THE SACRED HEART GOAL IN THE 56TH MINUTE OF YALE’S WIN TUESDAY NIGHT. Gavin’s shot, which curled inside the far post and across the goal line, gave Yale a 2-0 lead.