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CROSS COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN WIN FIRST MEET

FILLING JOE’S SHOES UNDER WATER

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Senate race to succeed Lieberman gets bitter — and personal

DAMAGE FROM AUGUST RAINS PERSISTS

After comeback win against Villanova, Yale falls to Northwestern

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Murphy campaigns at Yale

State Dept suggests immunity for Zedillo

Rumor has it. As the buzz

grows over who will be Yale’s next president, a few pretty high-profile candidates have emerged from the rumor mill, including, surprise, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton LAW ’73.

“When I talk about worldclass candidates, she’d be one of the people you’d put into the pool,” Stephen Trachtenberg, the former president of the University of Hartford and George Washington University, told the Associated Press.

“She’s of the caliber and the standing of the kinds of candidates Yale will seek to attract and should.”

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was “fired up” by the turnout at the registration drive, “especially at such a busy time for incoming and returning students.” Yale students’ efforts, Murphy added, can “hugely” impact the outcome of what he called “a do-or-die election” for Connecticut students.

“You guys are going to make the difference,” Murphy told the students at the registration drive.

The case against Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, a former Mexican president accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, moved one step closer to dismissal following a State Department suggestion that he receive immunity.

The State Department argued for Zedillo’s immunity in a letter issued Friday, claiming his actions — connected to a 1997 massacre that occurred during his term — were taken as part of his official duties as a foreign head of state. If a federal judge defers to the State Department’s suggestion, which two scholars of legal immunity issues said is a likely outcome, Zedillo will see his case dismissed.

While the courts have typically sided with State Department suggestions, the experts said the court’s actions are not governed by any federal statute — a fact they said reflects the politicization of law.

“Are we shocked that the U.S. government decided to take this position?” Roger Kobert, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said. “No, we’re not shocked, but we’re very disappointed. We thought they’d do the right thing, but they chose not to do the right thing.”

The case began when 10 anonymous plaintiffs — represented by the Miami, Fla., law firm Rafferty, Kobert, Tenenholtz, Bounds & Hess, P.A. — alleged Zedillo worked to cover up a Dec. 22, 1997 attack on civilians in the village of Acteal, Mexico in which 45 indigenous villagers died.

Zedillo’s lawyer, Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98, motioned to dismiss the $50 million suit in January, claiming his client was immune

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More stars in New Haven.

From Sept. 25 to Oct. 7, most members of New Haven’s Board of Aldermen will be volunteering as ushers at the Shubert Theater for the city’s run of “Jersey Boys,” the New Haven Register reported.

Smartie moose. For the

second year in a row, Ezra Stiles College has won the Sheffield Society House Prize, awarded to the college whose students achieve the highest standing in scholarship in science, engineering and mathematics. The moose holds it simultaneously with the Gimbel Cup, which is awarded to the college with the highest average GPA across subjects. “Pretty amazing,” Stiles Master Stephen Pitti ’91 wrote in an email to students on Friday.

Fiscal responsibility. Former

U.S. Comptroller General David Walker stopped by the School of Management to launch his “$10 Million a Minute” national bus tour “to educate voters about the federal debt crisis,” a spokeswoman said in a press release. Former president Bill Clinton LAW ’73 appointed Walker in 1998, and he served through 2008.

Can’t get enough a cappella?

The Duke’s Men release their newest CD today, titled “Busted.” They’ll celebrate the launch with the annual Singing Dessert. Albums will go on sale at the end of the concert.

More a cappella! As a cappella rush drags on, members of the Baker’s Dozen travelled to Boston on Sunday to perform the National Anthem at the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park.

Be careful, seniors. New Haven police officers apprehended a man at Red’s Café on Ashmun Street early Sunday morning after he brandished a gun to demand entry. The man, 38-year-old Sean Peterson, was angry he had been denied admission to the bar, even though it was ladies’ night, the Hartford Courant reported.

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1979 After the Yale Corporation mandated that the University run on a balanced budget, administrators scrambling to make necessary reductions consider cutting entire departments.

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The Democratic nominee for Senate, U.S. Rep Chris Murphy, came to Yale Saturday to energize student support for his campaign against Republican Linda McMahon.

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER In preparation for November’s general election, the Yale College Democrats began mobilizing this weekend for U.S. Senate Democratic nominee and current U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy.

During a registration drive organized by the Dems, a crowd of over 85 Yale students holding handpainted signs welcomed Murphy as

he arrived at Phelps Gate just after 3 p.m. on Saturday.

The Dems, who are also working on President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign this fall, plan to hold a series of voter registration drives on and off campus, as well as statewide canvassing trips and phone-banking operations.

Murphy, who will face former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Linda McMahon in November’s elections, said he

Without freshman rush, Greeks struggle to adjust

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER This fall’s new ban on freshman rush has proven difficult to adjust to among fraternities, according to Greek leaders.

Greek organizations have had to adjust their rush plans in light of a policy announced last March that prohibits freshmen from joining fraternities and sororities during first semester. While some fraternities — the only Greek organizations that typically hold fall rush — are considering cancelling their rush periods altogether, most are planning to induct a smaller rush group of sophomores and juniors to keep membership at a sustainable level.

Fraternity leaders said the specifics of the new policy are still unclear, and that they are waiting to see how the regulation will be implemented during its initial year before making final decisions about how to hold rush.

I think everybody’s playing it by ear a little bit.

DANIEL TAY ’14 President, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity “It’s not clear, I think everybody’s playing it by ear a little bit and everybody’s making certain assumptions and we’ll see whether or not they prove to be valid,” said Daniel Tay ’14, president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

According to the Undergraduate Regulations, all fraternities and sororities holding rush events must submit a “rush plan” to the Yale College Dean’s Office. Out of five Yale fraternities interviewed, only AEPi has submitted a rush plan.

John Meeske, associate dean of student organizations and physical resources, did not respond to requests for comment about how many Greek organizations had filed rush plans with the Dean’s Office, or whether that part of the new policy would be enforced. He said earlier that administrators have no plans to meet with Greek organizations to discuss further implementation of and adjustment to the fall rush ban. Last spring, Meeske and other administrators, including Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry, met with Greek leaders on a weekly basis to develop the specifics of the fall rush ban.

Zeta Psi fraternity president Cameron Sandquist ’14, Sigma Nu fraternity president Tommy Racheford ’14 and Alpha Delta Pi fraternity president Cooper Godfrey ’14 said their fraternities have had difficulty adjusting to the new policy because they are composed almost entirely of varsity athletes, whose schedules they must accommodate.

Sandquist said his fraternity is “still trying to find out the rules” and has not yet found a solution to the fall rush ban. He suspects that Zeta will only hold one rush period in the spring and cancel it this fall.

ADPhi is in a similar situation. With roughly 70 percent of its membership coming from the varsity lacrosse team, the fraternity is almost entirely restricted from holding a spring rush, when lacrosse is in season. Godfrey said fraternity members are considering cancelling rush this year altogether, and limiting rush to sophomores in the 2013-’14 academic year. But he added that fraternity leaders are also considering allowing sophomores to rush this fall because of financial constraints.

“The house doesn’t run if you don’t have a certain number of people contributing to the budget,” Godfrey said. “And we want to SEE FRATERNITY RUSH PAGE 6

ELM CITY CREW

New boathouse aims to revitalize harbor

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER In 1843, a group of Yale students decided to form a boat club in the New Haven harbor — creating the first collegiate crew organization in the United States.

Competitive rowing quickly became an integral part of New Haven’s culture. Nine years later, in 1852, the Harvard-Yale Regatta became the nation’s first intercollegiate athletic

competition. Yale’s varsity crew team attracted thousands of spectators for high-profile races and garnered front-page coverage in national newspapers.

Until 1923, Yale rowers used the George Adee Boathouse, built for the varsity crew team in 1911. That year, the team began to practice at Derby — where they practice today — because the waves there are less SEE BOATHOUSE PAGE 6

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The old George Adee Boathouse, used by the Yale crew team until 1923.

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A model of the Canal Dock Boathouse, to be built starting this November, which the city hopes will help revitalize the waterfront area.

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ecent policies on alcohol have wrongly focused on discipline

over safety.

In a campus-wide email this weekend, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry explained the reasoning behind new regulations governing parties.

We admire his honesty but disagree with his methods. With initiatives like the new off-campus party registration rules, Yale is abandoning what had been a progressive alcohol policy. Though there are indeed problems with drinking on campus, the Dean’s Office should rely less heavily on ExComm to solve them.

Gentry wrote with unusual openness about administrators’ concerns about drinking. “To give you a better sense of what is prompting these changes,” he said, “let me tell you candidly what I am seeing: alcohol and other drugs are harming Yale students, in some cases severely.”

That much is undeniably true. Too many students black out too often; too many are taken to Yale Health. That culture of alcoholic excess has led to tragedies and has contributed to concerns about Yale’s sexual climate. We came to Yale to learn, and one of the things we should learn is how to drink responsibly.

Gentry’s email also elevated the discussion beyond questions of regulations, asking students to “continue finding yourself, not losing yourself.” That is the kind of message we should hear from our dean of students; the administration has an important role to play in promoting a healthy drinking culture.

But recent changes are pushing students in the wrong direction. As the administration relies more and more on the specter

of an ExComm case to regulate drinking, students are more likely not to seek out help and to see adults as enemies rather than the allies they should be.

Until recently, Yale maintained that drinking is a safety issue, not a disciplinary one. Freshman counselors are still told to relay that stance to their freshmen. But calling an ambulance to an unregistered party now carries the fear of jeopardizing not only one’s own standing at Yale, but also that of one’s friends’. Gentry said he wants to encourage students to ask for help and to open a dialogue about drinking. Instead, he and his colleagues are creating confusion and anger in the student body.

Still, Gentry put his finger on a problem that is affecting not only Yale but college students nationwide. No one has found a solution. Students — even underage ones — are going to drink, and no policy is going to change that.

But there are methods beyond ExComm for creating the kind of constructive approach that Gentry claims to want. Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti, for example, now offers suites that register parties $50 to be used toward food and non-alcoholic drinks.

Students have a positive incentive to work through official channels, and partygoers get snacks to counterbalance their Dubra.

The University should embrace policies like Pitti’s. It should focus more on educating students about the health problems associated with heavy drinking, not just casting it as a sure path to ExComm.

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ver the summer, while watching baseball one night, I began to think it would be kind of great if professors were more like baseball players.

Now, this wasn’t some secret wish that my Latin professor would grow eight inches and develop an infatuation with human growth hormone. There was just something intriguing about the way players can be moved around the field and traded between teams. (“Yale sends veteran economist to Cambridge for promising physicist and deconstructionist philosopher to-be-named.”)

This thought occurred as I was watching the Atlanta Braves, which is fitting if we carry this loose analogy over to Yale.

The Braves are a solid team, but, by most analyses, there is at least one crucial problem keeping them from seriously contending: They can’t hit left-handed pitching. Why? Their lineup is too stacked with left-handed batters.

On paper, they have a set of good hitters. Together, though, they have a serious structural flaw.

As shopping comes to a close, the similarities between our circumstances and those of the Tribe come into perspective. Our lineup is brimming with some of the best in the game. Yet they’re all stepping up to the plate from the same side.

At the core of a true liberal arts

education is the guarantee that students will be immersed in — not just exposed to — the intellectual tenHARRY sions and GRAVER tendencies of human hisGravely tory. However, this carefully Mistaken tended field of studies needs good groundskeepers. The teachers are the material, as seen in shopping period’s golden rule: Shop professors, not classes.

And to this point, a story from professor Donald Kagan comes to mind. One day, when Kagan was a young professor at Cornell University, professor Al Bernstein detailed his interpretation of a segment of Plato’s Republic in his class on the history of Western civilization. At one point, a student objected. According to the undergraduate, Bernstein’s interpretation was incorrect and missed the deeper, ironic — and in fact opposite — meaning of the dialogue.

“Who told you that?” Bernstein called back to the student. “Professor Bloom,” the student replied, referring to Allan Bloom’s renowned Ancient Political Philosophy course, also being offered at the time. “Ah,”

replied Bernstein without missing a beat. “That is what he told you, but [Bloom’s] deeper ironic meaning is exactly the opposite.”

Kagan caps off this story sometimes with a grin and exclamation: “That is what a true education was!”

It is unclear, though, how easy it is to find this sort of story today at Yale. Where, actually, is the disagreement? Either the rigidity of disciplinary affiliations or simply a consensus of ideas seems largely to crowd out those Bloom-Bernstein moments.

It is missing the point entirely, though, to look towards this uniformity as an issue of party affiliation, as many do in shallowly bewailing “liberal academia.” A much richer, deeper intellectual diversity is what should be discussed.

Bloom — for example — was not seen as a particularly political intellect. His instincts were not immediately tied to a ballot box. Nevertheless, he was fundamentally different from his colleagues. He was, dare I say, on the right: He embodied a healthy distrust of social sciences, a reverence for the Western canon and a firm belief that an absolute truth should be the fundamental guidepost of a true education.

The dialogue between Bernstein and Bloom centered not on taxes, welfare or some politicized issue of the time, but was positioned between two great minds

grounded and subsumed within an intellectual tradition they both revered. It was a matter of first principles, as the complexities of the human condition projected themselves onto the common work in dispute.

This is not to say that Yale needs to follow a cable news model of diversifying faculty — bringing along every conceivable viewpoint, absent any consideration of merit — or that the University should shy away from embodying and putting forth an intellectual worldview of her majority.

Yet we must remember that homogeneity is truly suppressive not because it silences dissent, but because it stifles the larger potential which the liberal arts, with all her divergences and disagreements, uniquely holds.

It is not that Yale needs to link arm in arm with the traditions and dispositions of the traditional Western canon — aptly and often associated with minds on the right — but perhaps the people teaching the revered truths of millennia should be more than devil’s advocates.

We don’t need to gut the lineup. Let’s just make some room for a few more righties on the bench.

HARRY GRAVER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

When Suu Kyi comes, forget NUS F

or just a moment, Yale needs to ignore our venture in Singapore.

Later this month, Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver a lecture as a Chubb Fellow. She is visiting America, in part, to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for her dedication to democracy.

A cynic could dismiss Suu Kyi’s visit as just a public relations ploy by University President Richard Levin. After receiving flak for setting up Yale-NUS College in an authoritarian country, an embattled administration is reviving its image by honoring the most famous living opponent of Southeast Asian juntas — or so the thinking goes.

Some on campus have already advanced this train of thought — and, admittedly, their conclusion is supported by precedent. In 2010, Yale bestowed a Chubb on Mayor John DeStefano. At the time, Levin had just pledged financial support for the city’s school reform efforts, and DeStefano’s lecture was a thinly veiled attempt to boost the may-

or’s credibility. Few students cared to attend, as did few members of the local community, despite Yale NATHANIEL hawking the to the ZELINSKY lecture public — all in all, not a shinOn Point ing moment for Master Jeffery Brenzel ’75, administrator of the Chubb Fellowship.

But Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit is different.

It would be foolhardy to suggest Suu Kyi is playing a hand in whitewashing Yale’s involvement in Singapore. She could have chosen to visit numerous other universities in her time in America — and, unlike John DeStefano, she does not need our validation. Suu Kyi deserves our respect. Juxtaposing her with Singapore overshadows her very real accomplishments fighting oppression.

So we should avoid the allu-

sions to NUS when Aung San Suu Kyi lectures; they are unhelpful and most likely incorrect.

Yet we can still learn something when Suu Kyi comes to New Haven — not just about human rights in Burma, but about our University. The American pivot towards Asia reflects the region’s growing geopolitical importance, and Suu Kyi’s trip to the capitol similarly mirrors our new national policy. The message to the region from this congressional gesture: America will stand against Chinese hegemony without compromising our support for democratic values.

By hosting Aung San Suu Kyi, Yale plays a part in this new American strategy. The Chubb Fellowship has become a form of soft power, a symbol of approbation. (In comparison, by the way, the mistaken Yale-NUS partnership originated from Yale, not Washington, and its place in U.S. strategy is far less clear).

This alignment of our university’s and our country’s goals is welcome. By honoring Aung San Suu Kyi, Yale returns to its mis-

sion of service — not just community service (which is certainly important), but public service to our nation, a higher calling.

America wants to honor Aung San Suu Kyi, and Yale stepped up to the plate.

In the past, young Yalies used to staff the halls of the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies for two-year stints, much like Teach for America today. Now, we see ROTC cadets walk proudly around campus in uniform, representing the return of this proud tradition of service to the nation.

When Aung San Suu Kyi becomes a Chubb Fellow, American policy will benefit. More importantly, though, Yalies will benefit, when we realize the importance of serving our country and her democratic goals around the world.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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he reactions became relatively predictable: a chirpy “Oh, that’s so nice!” accompanied by a pat on my head. A gushing “My, how fun that must be for you!” followed by a story about how the speaker just loves watching cooking shows on TV. This summer, I was a culinary student at the famous Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris.

I can now fillet a fish in my sleep, whip up an unctuous sauce béarnaise without peeking at a recipe or rustle up a transcendent soufflé au fromage on a moment’s notice.

I learned a lot at cooking school, and it was an intensely rewarding experience. I even have a shiny blue and white diploma to hang on my wall. But it was definitely not nice. Nor was it really fun, at least in the way people think of going on vacation or tossing around the old pigskin as being fun. In fact, my life as a Yale student is considerably easier — and certainly less dangerous — than it was as a culinary student. Here are four lessons from Le Cordon Bleu to keep in mind as school begins in earnest.

First, eat breakfast. Early

on, I learned that skipping the first meal of the day — only to spend the next six hours cooking, surrounded by the smells and sounds of sizzling meat and roasting potatoes — is a spectacularly poor life decision.

Why? Because when you are finally released from your ovenheated lockup, you will practically pounce on the unsuspecting pastry students for a taste of their morning’s work: still warm croissants or brioche.

You don’t have to be a pre-med to guess that terrible stomachaches are likely to ensue. Keep it in mind when you’re contemplating when to set your alarm for that 9 a.m. cell biology lecture, because that rushed postclass bowl of Captain Crunch (or whatever dubious variety of muffin is featured in Commons) is likely even less of a good choice than a buttery French pastry.

Everything will be fine as long as all your appendages are still attached — unlike, say, my classmate Thomas, who cut off half of his thumb about a third of the way through the course. With a meat cleaver. While butchering a duck. Don’t worry, he ended up being fine — apparently the tissue regenerates, although the

nerves will not.

Even when the chefs laughed at me for not carving my duck properly, I still knew that at the end of the day all I needed to do was be careful and do my best.

And at Yale? The world will not end if you don’t finish that Marx essay by tomorrow. Promise.

(Your professors probably will not even laugh at you, at least in public.) Take care of yourself first — sleep, run, relax, make tea.

Eat well, and often. Sure, I have plenty of horror stories about prickly, irrational chefs and absurd recipes (poached chicken-stuffed chicken breasts make even tofu apple crisp look appetizing). But I also made, and ate, some truly incredible meals: poached eggs trucked in from the farm that morning, scallops and clams with an incredible delicacy of flavor, fromage good enough to make you abandon all other career plans and become a fulltime cheesemaker.

A good meal is worth the trouble, especially shared with people you love. Sure, dining hall food may not quite measure up, but I am committed to remembering the importance of the relaxed savoir-vivre that prevails in France. Even on a difficult

day, Yale is full of incredible people and some pretty fine culinary options, and you should take the time to enjoy them. Although I do miss macarons.

Finally, make friends. Especially if you’re a freshman, you might view your classmates with a sliver of suspicion, a slight twinge of competition: Will the TA like her paper better? Will he beat me out to get that awesome summer fellowship?

This is true in cooking school, too, and knowing that your peers are armed with a set of 14 razorsharp knives doesn’t help matters. However, experience has taught me that your classmates can literally save your life — or your dish: by warning you when that slippery paring knife is pointing toward your vital organs instead of away; by reminding you that yes, sugar is a rather key ingredient in a caramel glaze; by lending you a pipette to make an artful drizzle of sauce sure to win an approving glance from the chef.

Time to sit down at a new table at lunch.

ELIZABETH CHRYSTAL is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at elizabeth.chrystal@yale.edu .

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C L A R I F I CAT I O N THURSDAY, SEPT. 6

At the Rep, a landmark collaboration

The article “Register’s parent goes bankrupt,” paraphrased Paul Bass ’82 about the fate of for-profit journalism. Bass did not express an opinion on whether the Journal Register Company will succeed; he only expressed pessimism about the for-profit model’s long-term prospects.

Murphy, McMahon spar over finances

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER With less than two months to go before Election Day, the race for the senate seat that will be vacated by Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 has started to turn personal.

The latest round of spars between the GOP nominee, millionaire wrestling magnate Linda McMahon, and Democrat Chris Murphy, who represents Connecticut’s fifth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, has seen the two fighting over each other’s financial history. At the same time, polls have shown an increasingly narrow race between Murphy and McMahon, raising the stakes of their four upcoming debates.

Last week, Murphy challenged McMahon to reveal how much money her creditors lost on a 1976 bankruptcy that she often cites on the campaign trail. McMahon, meanwhile, has blasted Murphy for the low mortgage rate he obtained months after his house was foreclosed while he was a U.S. Representative. McMahon’s campaign has questioned how Murphy received a low 4.99 percent mortgage rate while the mortgage market was failing, suggesting that Murphy’s position on the House Financial Services Committee, which regulates banks, could explain it.

“Congressman Murphy owes it to the people of Connecticut to provide full, detailed and honest disclosure about what exactly occurred and how he was able to qualify for a belowmarket loan rate so soon after default,” McMahon campaign manager Corry Bliss said in a Sept. 7 press release.

But Murphy campaign spokesman Ben Marter said the foreclosure was the result of an honest mistake by Murphy and his wife as they married and merged finances, and the missed payments were quickly repaid.

The mortgage rate he received months later in July 2008 from Webster Bank was a loan any customer would have received, Marter said.

Murphy added that his quick action to repay his foreclosure differentiates his financial past from McMahon’s bankruptcy.

“I think Linda McMahon and I both made mistakes with our personal finances. The difference is I fixed them while she did everything she could to avoid paying back the people she owed,” Murphy said. “To this day, Linda McMahon has still not payed back the creditors she owed in bankruptcy … I don’t understand why after making back millions of dollars you wouldn’t pay back your debts.”

He also criticized McMahon’s decision to attend only four of nine debates, skipping those held by the Connecticut NAACP and AARP, among others. Mur-

phy said that it points to McMahon’s inability to make her case off script, instead relying on an expensive advertising campaign to get her message to voters.

Despite facing a massive disparity in fundraising — the latest campaign filings in July showed Murphy with $5.5 million and McMahon with $14 million, much of which is from her own pocket — Murphy said he is still optimistic for November. He compared his situation to that of U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, who was outspent by McMahon by an 8-to-1 ratio during the Senate race in 2010 but still pulled off a victory.

While McMahon could spend as much as $60 million on the race, largely in expensive television advertisements, Murphy said he is counting on his supporters to win him the election.

“I’m going to get badly outspent in this race. Linda McMahon is trying to buy this race and I’m going to get outspent on TV,” Murphy said. “[But] I’m going to have more committed volunteers and workers on the streets for me … I’m going to have to win this based on enthusiasm, not money.”

The race in Connecticut could have national significance. With approximately twice as many Democrats up for reelection as Republicans, the outcome of the Connecticut senate contest could determine which party controls the Senate next year.

“This is the most important election of [students’] lives, Connecticut is one of the most important states in the nation when it comes to keeping control of the Senate,” Murphy said. “[Yalies’] vote is gonna make a bigger difference here than almost anywhere else.”

While polls of registered voters have given Murphy a substantial lead over McMahon, Connecticut, traditionally an easy win for Democrats, may have shifted to the right.

A Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters — those who pollsters assume will cast their ballots in November — gave McMahon a one-point lead in late August.

But New York Times blogger Nate Silver, whose forecasting model nearly predicted all the races in the 2008 presidential and Senate elections, Tweeted Friday that Connecticut’s “fundamentals” — its history and ethnic and economic diversity — favor Murphy. He predicted that despite current polls, Murphy should win by a four-point margin in November.

The first debate between McMahon and Murphy will be hosted on Oct. 7 by local television channel WFSB-TV 3 during its political show “Face the State.”

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

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon greets KMK Construction owner Paul Runions after meeting his employees.

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The Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of “Marie Antoinette,” jointly produced with the American Repertory Theatre, opens on Oct. 26.

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER In 1966, Robert Brustein, then-dean of the Yale School of Drama, founded the Yale Repertory Theatre. He served as its artistic director until 1979, when he moved to Cambridge, Mass., to become a professor of English at Harvard University.

There, in 1980, Brustein founded a new theater for his new university: Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.

This Friday, the audience at the A.R.T. witnessed the opening of the first ever co-production between the two theaters: the world premiere of “Marie Antoinette,” by David Adjmi. The play was originally commissioned by the Rep after Adjmi’s “The Evildoers” premiered there in 2008, said Jennifer Kiger, associate artistic director at the Rep. The scale of the “opulent, ostentatious” production and the desire for it to have as broad an audience as possible made the Rep seek out a theater to partner with in its staging, and the A.R.T seemed the best fit, she added.

“James [Bundy, dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Rep] knew this was a big show, and if we could bring the resources of [our] two theaters together, we could put together something really magnificent,” said Diane Paulus, artistic director of the A.R.T. Previews of the show began at the A.R.T on Sept. 1, and it officially opened last Friday. It will conclude its run in Cambridge on the 29th of the month and open at the Rep on Oct. 26.

“It just felt like the production that would hold this world [Adjmi] had created needed to be as large in scale as the imagination that had written the play,” Kiger said. “Both theaters … have an interest in programming new American plays, [and] this particular play has a sense of daring and imagination, but also spectacle. It could not exist in any other form but in the theater and both the Yale Rep and the A.R.T are drawn to that: They have similar aesthetics, and both organizations

gravitated towards this specific project.”

Paulus said the A.R.T. has historically been known for its ambitious production scale, particularly pushing the envelope in the context of scenic design.

She added that the benefits of a co-production include being able to pull together resources from the two theaters, such as expertise from employees of each, and the chance that the co-production can grow throughout its longer run.

Victoria Nolan, the managing director of the Rep and deputy dean at the School of Drama, said the Rep typically appreciates being the second theater to host a co-production as that means the show’s team has time to incorporate changes suggested during, and after, the first run.

[This play] could not exist in any other form but in the theater and both the Yale Rep and A.R.T. are drawn to that.

JENNIFER KIGER Associate artistic director, Yale Repertory Theatre “Theater evolves,” Paulus said.

“This cast, this team, is going to have four weeks of running the show before audiences in Cambridge — they will arrive in New Haven with that whole wealth of experience that will allow an opportunity for the play to really reveal itself and to blossom.”

While the Rep administrators said they were glad to be working with the A.R.T, Nolan said that the theater has had to careful in selecting a peer institution to partner with, to ensure that the other theater can match the demands of the show in question.

She added that the other theater the Rep considered partnering with on this project was less desirable because of the longer time-frame it typically requires to

build productions and its lack of in-house shops for set construction.

“Marie Antoinette” is, Nolan said, among the largest productions in the Rep’s history because of the intricate costume designs and the greater level of communication between designers it demanded. For instance, she said, designers had to make the girth of the women’s skirts slightly smaller to ensure that they would fit on the lift that takes actors up to the stage.

“I think this is a pretty difficult play — it’s oblique and complicated, and tonally all over the place, and frankly it is expensive to do,” Adjmi said in an email to the News. “I really felt I needed producers who understood and cared passionately about the material, and had no interest in normalizing it, and I have absolutely found that with these two theaters.”

Kiger said the Rep covered its portion of the “extraordinary production costs, including the costumes and the wigs and the puppets” in part by using resources from the Rep’s Binger Center for New Theatre, an initiative that funds the commission and development of new plays at the Rep and other theaters. In April, the Center received an $18 million endowment donation from the Robina Foundation last April, a gift that Bundy told the News was “focused on endowing [the] program’s capacity into perpetuity.”

Paulus said the A.R.T. and the Rep share a commitment to the new work of American playwrights. Adjmi, she added, was a playwright the A.R.T. had been “tracking” for some time.

Adjmi’s “The Evildoers” premiered at the Rep in 2008.

The playwright, who has since received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award, said he “has a very special place in [his] heart” for the theater.

“I think it is the nonpareil, the crown jewel of American regional theaters, and I think what James Bundy and Jennifer Kiger have managed to accomplish here in the last few years is just staggering,” Adjmi added. “I’m a lucky

boy.”

Bundy said that when he sent Paulus the script, “she loved it.”

Paulus’ values as an artist compel her, she said, to make theater accessible and democratic, in her role at A.R.T., moving it beyond being an elite art form. She added that her decision to stage “Marie Antoinette,” which she said speaks to America today, is an example of how the show she programs are potential catalysts.

“David Adjmi has taken a historical subject matter — Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, the French Revolution — and yet he’s actually setting off a detonating message about America and our contemporary world,” Paulus said.

Kiger said she thinks staging the show in the fall is significant, as it speaks to issues relevant in the upcoming elections.

Adjmi said that his play has an allegorical aspect. The work, he said, is not simply about Marie Antoinette as a historical figure — it explores the parallels between the period and the current state of American democracy and consumer culture.

It is, Adjmi wrote in his email, about “the nature of Human Nature.”

Lily Lewis-McNeil ’12, who worked in the Rep’s development department during her time at Yale and is now a development associate at the A.R.T., said in an email that the choice of this play as the two theaters’ first co-production represents their identities as “wonderful testaments to the legacy of Bob Brustein.”

“In terms of this collaboration, I think it’s indicative of what the two theaters have in common. The play is a world-premiere — it’s political, it’s pushy and it’s simply stunning. I’m proud that they’ve chosen to bridge the HarvardYale gap through theater, and especially with this new play, in this political atmosphere,” LewisMcNeil said. “I can only hope the collaboration continues beyond the stage door!”

“Marie Antoinette” will conclude its run at the Rep on Nov. 17.

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

Disability awareness events planned

BY PAYAL MARATHE AND JULIA ZORTHIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER With the highest number of disabled students ever enrolled this year, the University has planned an array of events next month to prompt discussion about issues faced by disabled members of the Yale community.

The number of disabled students has increased from 125 during the 2000-’01 academic year to 554 both this year and last year, said Judy York, director of the Resource Office on Disabilities.

The events, which are scheduled to coincide with National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month in October, include a Berkeley College Master’s Tea, exhibitions across campus and seminars covering different aspects of accommodating disabilities.

“Our hope is that it’s a subtle beginning to conversation,” said Deborah Stanley-McAulay, chief

of diversity and head of the Education, Awareness and Publicity Subcommittee in the Provost’s Office, which is organizing the events. “The conversation about disabilities is personal, so we want to start it on a personal level.”

York said the number of disabled students is rising at universities across the country, in part because more disabled people are able to leave their hometowns to attend college in this “mobile society.” By spreading awareness about disabled members of the Yale community, the events are designed to encourage students and employees to become more accepting and accommodating for people with both visible and undetectable disabilities.

A majority of buildings on campus are accessible to disabled people, especially after renovations in recent years, but many “nooks and crannies” on campus still are not.

York said she hopes the events will alert the student body to the challenges that disabled students face.

“We can move classes to acces-

sible locations, but when students organize gatherings, I want them to consider wheelchair students in selecting location,” she said. “We want students to be more aware of persons with disabilities and to make positive choices accordingly,.”

As part of the month-long awareness campaign, exhibitions in buildings and courtyards will display alternative keyboards, foot pedals, crutches, magnifying glasses and other devices used by disabled persons living on campus. Also, a van will be parked outside of Sterling Memorial Library that students can attempt to board in a wheelchair to gain an understanding the daily difficulties disabled students encounter.

Angela Crowley, chair of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities, said the committee has been working extensively in recent years to improve transportation accessibility, such as on shuttles and buses.

The Berkeley Master’s Tea will feature Matan Koch ’02, who attended Yale in a wheelchair and has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on Disabilities. StanleyMcAulay said she expects the tea will serve to “build awareness on political and humanistic levels of the value of individuals with disabilities.”

Another event will allow students to meet with information technology specialists to learn how to design websites that are easily accessible to people with certain disabilities.

The Education, Awareness and Publicity Subcommittee, which is organizing the events, reports to the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu and JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” TOM STOPPARD BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT

Dems mobilize for Murphy, register voters MURPHY FROM PAGE 1

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U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic nominee for Senate, came to campus Saturday to mobilize Yale students in support of his campaign.

During the Democratic nominee’s roughly 10-minute stump speech, he said that if McMahon wins the U.S. Senate seat, students will lose access to some of their education resources, including Pell grants and affordable student loans. Murphy said fighting against tuition increases has been one of his priorities as a congressman and, if elected to the Senate, he intends to continue his effort to reduce student-loan debt and make college education affordable.

“I spent my life fighting for education,” the 39-year-old Democratic candidate said. “I’m going to be one of the youngest U.S. senators and one of the few who’s still paying back his student loans.”

In addition to his education policy, the Dems support Murphy’s stance on women’s rights and his collaboration with labor unions, said Nicole Hobbs ’14, elections coordinator for the organization.

“Chris has been such a progressive voice down in Washington,” she said. “Linda’s policies, instead, aren’t going to help Yale students or New Haven residents.”

In the fewer than 60 days remaining before the elections, the Dems plan to organize several rounds of door-to-door canvassing in New Haven and across the state.

The first of such operations was held Sunday afternoon, when teams of students spread out across the Elm City in support of Murphy and Obama.

While Hobbs said most Dems canvasses will take place in the third congressional district — which includes New Haven, Branford and Milford — the group will also send members to Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Himes’s and Murphy’s districts.

Democratic supporters on campus are also planning day trips to

Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as well as a long stay in Pennsylvania over fall break.

In addition, the Dems will organize phone-banking events once a week, starting this Thursday. The group will also work with other Democratic student organizations, Hobbs said, as well as Chris Murphy’s headquarters in New Haven.

While the Dems believe Murphy can win the Senate seat, Dems spokesman Eric Stern ’15 said, they expect the race to be especially tight due “to the money that McMahon has poured into her campaign.”

“Unlike McMahon, Murphy is running a grassroots campaign, talking and engaging with voters in Connecticut,” Stern said.

“So it is more important than ever that Yale students go to the polls.”

McMahon’s bid comes just two years after she put more than $50 million of her own money into a failed Senate race gainst Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73.

Last week, he said, the Dems registered 150 new freshmen, during their first registration drive of the year. This weekend, Stern added, 101 Yale students registered to vote in Connecticut, even though the drive was cut short by an hour because of a National Weather Service tornado warning for New Haven County.

“Not even the threat of a tornado can keep Yale student from showing up to support Chris Murphy,” Stern said. “If Linda McMahon wanted to have an event on campus, she’d probably be able to draw at most a dozen students — and half of those would be protesters!”

Murphy and McMahon are vying for the seat of retiring Senator Joseph Lieberman ’64 Law ’67.

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

Former Law Dean Koh recommends immunity for Zedillo ZEDILLO FROM PAGE 1 from the suit as a former foreign head of state.

Freiman told the News on Sunday that he was pleased with the State Department’s suggestion, but wouldn’t speculate on what it means for the case.

“The accusations in lawsuit are not only false but calumnious,” Zedillo said in a Sunday email. “That is why I am glad that Jonathan’s strategy to get this libelous lawsuit dismissed is making progress.”

Kobert said he and the plaintiffs are weighing their options as they wait for the court’s ruling.

Ingrid Wuerth, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School who has written about immunity issues, said the courts have tended to side with State Department suggestions of immunity. She cautioned that such practices lend the government political power in altering the course of judicial proceedings.

“I think it’s an example of lawmaking by the executive branch,” Wuerth said. “The executive branch is acting as a lawmaker here and interfering in the court, saying that some claims can go forward and some can’t.”

The State Department often provides

immunity recommendations to American courts for cases concerning foreign heads of state, though such cases are rare.

In a letter accompanying the State Department suggestion, State Department legal adviser Harold Koh, a former Yale Law School dean and current law professor, wrote that the suggestion took into account “the overall impact of [the case] on the foreign policy of the United States.” Koh could not be reached for comment Sunday.

But Curtis Bradley, a law professor at Duke University School of Law, said the State Department’s political interests in Zedillo’s case were secondary to the suggestion’s grounding in principles of international law.

He said a federal court would have considered similar principles, and would thus likely have reached a comparable conclusion about Zedillo’s immunity even without the State Department recommendation.

Zedillo was the president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000.

Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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The lawsuit facing professor Ernesto Zedillo came closer to being dismissed as the State Department proposed immunity.

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Secure Communities According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s website, Secure Communities is a simple and common sense way to carry out ICE’s priorities. In practice, it has met with resistance by state and local officials worried that the program will erode the trust built between immigrants and law enforcement agencies.

ICE program remains controversial in Conn.

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER After being discovered through the federal Secure Communities program, Mexican national Jose Angel Lopez-Garcia was sentenced in New Haven’s U.S. District Court for illegal re-entry into the country on Friday and currently awaits deportation.

Federal officials cite the case as an example of the program’s merits, but state criminal justice officials questioned whether Lopez-Garcia’s crime, a traffic infraction, was serious enough to merit deportation — demonstrating the steep divide that still exist between the feds and the state over a program that critics claim undermines local policing. As the state justice department refuses certain detainment requests and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials continue to ramp up immigration enforcement through Secure Communities, it is unclear whether the program will ever be without controversy.

Secure Communities, which was implemented statewide on Feb. 22, allows ICE officials to check police fingerprints of criminal suspects against ICE and FBI databases in an effort to deport criminals residing in the country illegally. When ICE officials believe a suspect may be undocumented, they can issue a detainment request asking the state to hold the individual in custody pending deportation proceedings.

Twenty-seven-year old Lopez-Garcia had been deported from the U.S. on 10 previous occasions, most recently on Sept.

24 2010, only to re-enter the U.S. illegally each time. On June 10, he was arrested by Stamford police officers for a traffic infraction, and through Secure Communities he was identified as an illegal alien. Lopez-Garcia was then turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service and then the Department of Justice, where he was tried for illegal re-entry into the United States, said ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein.

“Under normal circumstances a minor traffic infraction that goes through Secure Communities is not a priority, but someone who has gone through 10 times prior is a serious offender,” Feinstein said. “He’s a repeat offender who has shown a complete disregard for the law, and now he’s a convicted felon.”

Pleading guilty before Judge Joan Margolis, Lopez-Garcia was sentenced to the time he had served in prison prior to the trial and now waits to be deported for the 11th time. Feinstein said the case is illustrative of how Secure Communities is working to keep the country safe while helping ICE manage resource constraints.

He added that there are currently 11.2 million illegal aliens in the United States today, and with ICE to deport 400,000 people per year at most given staff and budget limitations, Secure Communities helps prioritize cases.

But while ICE continues to increase its use of Secure Communities, the program has

University still recovering from floods

endured strong criticism from Gov. Dannel Malloy, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Connecticut government officials. Members of the Latino community, state officials said, will be less likely to cooperate with law enforcement for fear of exposing friends or family residing in the country illegally.

In an effort to curb the implementation of Secure Communities in Connecticut, Malloy announced in March that state administrators would determine whether to honor each detainment request from ICE on a “case-by-case basis.” Mike Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for criminal justice said that today, a “checklist” is in place to review ICE detainment requests to ensure that only serious criminals are targeted.

“ICE claims they are only using this for serious crimes, but people can disagree about what fits that criteria,” Lawlor said. “Our local police have hard enough jobs in the first place. Add Secure Communities, and it gets impossible,” Lawlor said ICE did not need to issue a detainment request for Lopez-Garcia because he was in prison awaiting trial, but he added that he believes state justice officials would have refused any such request.

Under normal circumstances a minor traffic infraction … is not a priority [for deportation].

ROSS FEINSTEIN Spokesman, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) New Haven officials have not let up on their criticism of the program either. City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said the program “is counterproductive to the relationships our police department has attempted to establish within immigrant communities, and essentially invalidates our police order that limits police questioning regarding immigration status during routine law enforcement. Secure Communities will not make our community more secure.”

To date, Lawlor said he estimates the state has refused 20 to 30 detainment requests from ICE since Febuary, adding that ICE “seems somewhat chastened” by the local criticism.

But despite the pushback, Feinstein said the program is ramping up — between Secure Communities’ implementation at the beginning of this year and July 31, ICE has matched 3,893 fingerprints in Connecticut. He added that Secure Communities has led to 277 deportations in Connecticut, 12 of which were of individuals living in New Haven.

During 2011, ICE deported 396,000 individuals residing in the United States illegally.

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

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This room, in the basement of the Yale College Dean’s Office, is one of the many places on campus still recovering from severe rain in August. Dozens of other buildings, including Bass Library and the Hall of Graduate Studies, are also still undergoing repairs.

BY COLLEEN FLYNN AND ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Nearly 50 buildings on campus are still recovering from damage sustained during the torrential downpours that struck New Haven in mid-August.

The rain, which fell at a rate of six inches per hour and left Cross Campus under a few inches of water, affected several residential college basements, Bass Library, the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) and Sheffield-SterlingStrathcona Hall (SSS), among other buildings. People working in the buildings at the time were transferred to temporary locations for the duration of the repairs, which have taken longer than expected but should all be completed within a month, said John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources.

Karen Peart, a spokeswoman for the University, said Yale has many systems in place to minimize damage from storms. Emergency pumps and hoses are kept in buildings particularly vulnerable to water damage, she said, and the University regularly checks to ensure the systems are in working order.

Meeske said he was told by Yale Facilities that the safeguards were overcome since it was “the storm of the century,” adding that repairs are taking longer than planned because more damage

became visible after initial repairs.

“Our windows were completely submerged, and because of that water was leaking in,” Meeske said of the basement of the Yale College Dean’s Office, adding that the water damaged both the carpeting and portions of the wall.

Faculty with offices in SSS displaced by the flood initially moved to temporary offices in the same building, Meeske said. Once it became evident that repairs would take longer than originally anticipated, however, they were moved to other campus locations, he said.

Our windows were completely submerged, and because of that water was leaking in.

JOHN MEESKE Associate dean, Student organizations and physical resources Shiri Goren, senior lector in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, whose office in the basement of HGS suffered severe water damage, said because of the floods, she currently has no office space, phone or designated place to meet students. Calling herself “homeless,” she added that some of her books were destroyed, and

she now stores her belongings in a colleague’s office.

Meeske said the timing of the flood was particularly unfortunate, since the repairs overlap with the beginning of the school year.

Jeffrey Brenzel ’75, master of Timothy Dwight College, said that Timothy Dwight “took on a fair amount of water in [its] lower level,” though no lasting damage was done. He added that workers from ServiceMaster, a company contracted by the University that provides cleaning and maintenance services, arrived quickly at the college to repair the damage. Brenzel said backflow valves have been re-evaluated and pumping equipment has been installed to prevent future incidents, adding that Timothy Dwight is undergoing an evaluation to determine if further fail-safe devices should be installed.

But Paavan Gami ’15, who said his basement suite in Silliman College has some damaged paint and swollen floorboards, said those problems have not yet been fixed.

The last storm to flood the basement of Timothy Dwight, the lowest point on campus, occurred during the fall of 2010.

Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at colleen.flynn@yale.edu .Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

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“People feel emotionally attached, for whatever reason, to the Boathouse.” SHARON FEAREY WITCHITA CITY COUNCIL MEMBER

With boathouse, city seeks new life in old harbor

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Yale’s varsity crew team practiced out of the historic George Adee Boathouse, left, between 1911 and 1923. During this time, members of the 1924 Olympic gold medal winning 8-man team practiced out of the boathouse. Original structures from the Adee, seen at middle and right, were preserved and will be incorporated into Long Wharf’s new Canal Dock Boathouse, which is slated to break ground in November.

BOATHOUSE FROM PAGE 1 rough.

The Adee building was ultimately sold and converted into office space before being demolished in 2007 for the construction of Interstate 95. Once a bustling area, the Long Wharf side of New Haven harbor — about a 20-minute walk from campus — is now a blank patch of beachfront.

But on Wednesday, the city will begin evaluating construction bids for the platform of a new boathouse in the harbor, dubbed the Canal Dock Boathouse. The boathouse aims to reconnect New Haven residents with the waterfront, and its construction is scheduled to begin this November. The boathouse will serve both to commemorate the history of collegiate rowing with a museum and the incorporation of original structures from the George Adee boathouse, as well provide a place to kayak, canoe, sail and row. It will be a destination on the Farmington Canal trail and may serve as home to the University of New Haven’s marine science program.

City planners hope the combination of the boathouse’s nod to history and use by the community will make it a focal point of a currently underused waterfront.

“We’re such a lucky community to have this kind of a facility,” said Donna Hall, the project manager employed by the city. “We’ve been trying to have some kind of a destination at our waterfront for years and years and years.”

REBUILDING HISTORY

The $30 million project will be funded primarily by the federal government because the interstate construction hindered access to the waterfront and required the demolition of the George Adee boathouse. Federal stipulations require the city to preserve the historical significance of the Adee boathouse, and the city is eager to cooperate.

“From the standpoint of the history of collegiate sports, it all starts from one place, right there in the harbor,” said David Vogel, a boathouse consultant and former Yale varsity heavyweight crew coach.

No varsity races were held at

the Adee boathouse, but intramural boats raced out of it, and city residents came out to watch heated collegiate contests.

“There wasn’t TV, there wasn’t radio, there wasn’t movies, there was a lot less entertainment, so the IM spring races were a big deal,” said Thomas Weil ’70, the director of the Yale crew association.

The idea was saving as much of the character of the old boathouse as could be saved.

DAVID VOGEL Former coach, Yale varsity heavyweight crew team Members of the eight-man boat that won the 1924 Olympic gold medal in their event were all Yale men who practiced out of the George Adee Boathouse.

Dean Acheson 1915, who served as secretary of state for President Harry Truman, rowed out

of the Adee boathouse, as did William Averell Harriman 1913, who became the governor of New York.

Plans for the new boathouse have been more than 15 years in the making, but Hall said the city’s commitment to building it hasn’t flagged. Platform plans will be finalized after the city chooses a bidder this week.

The Canal Dock Boathouse will physically incorporate the history of the George Adee Boathouse: the front will be a glass entryway surrounding part of the original front wall from the Adee boathouse, which has an intricate terracotta design and a long row of windows. Original staircases and fireplaces will also be a part of the boathouse’s decor.

On the second floor of the new boathouse, the original Adee common room will be recreated, in addition to a museum exhibit about collegiate rowing.

“The architects who did the deconstruction of the Adee were charged with saving everything that could be saved,” Vogel said, “The idea was saving as much of the character of the old boat-

house as could be saved.”

OLD TRADITIONS, NEW GENERATION

If the city has its way, the Canal Dock Boathouse will also bring a new generation of New Haveners to the waterfront.

City youngsters will not only be able to gaze at the photographs of past crew teams but will also have the chance to participate in the sport through an initiative modeled after a successful Boston program.

The Community Rowing Program in Boston provides an opportunity for military veterans, physically disabled people and students of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to row.

Through grants and fundraising, the program ensures that rowing is free or inexpensive for those who may not otherwise be able to afford a membership at a traditional rowing club.

High school-aged students who participate in the program attend practice five days a week and have access to academic tutoring services. When a rower begins the program, he or she often knows very few

college graduates, said Bruce Smith, the executive director of Boston’s program, who worked closely with New Haven officials to develop the program that will launch in New Haven. But students are taken on college trips and introduced to mentors, he explained.

“I know the relationship between the city and University is productive,” Smith said. “Former Yale coaches and alumni have been super supportive of the project.”

New Haven plans to recreate the Boston model through a company called Canal Dock Incorporated. Vogel hopes the new boathouse will not only benefit New Haven children tangibly but also help them to understand “the mystery of Yale and the illusion of Yale and the walled-in city that is Yale.”

Vogel continued: “The alumni will be able to stop in and shake hands and share their gold medals,” ideally meeting a new generation of New Haven harbor rowers.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

Facing ban, fraternities rethink fall rush FRATERNITY RUSH FROM PAGE 1 contribute to having a presence on campus, and you do that by going out and seeking new members and meeting kids you can bond with.”

Billy Fowkes ’14, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said his fraternity is holding similar rush events as it has in past years, but making sure that freshmen do not attend.

Tay said AEPi plans to hold fall rush for only sophomores and juniors instead of cancelling it altogether. Because the chapter is relatively small, he said, adding more members to the fraternity gives it “certain energy.” He noted that AEPi’s pledge class traditionally includes several upperclassmen in addition to freshmen.

While AEPi has not had to cancel any rush events, Tay said the fraternity has added some programming to increase outreach for sophomores who may not have initially considered rushing. He said the ban on freshman rush in the fall has been difficult because first-semester freshmen are most likely to join a new extracurricular, adding that AEPi will have to adjust its recruiting strategy to appeal to students more familiar with Yale life than the average first-semester freshman.

“When you speak to freshmen in the fall, it’s about how you cultivate a life here and build in a support network and showing them how it’s a valid extracurricular activity,” he said. “The way in which that changes is going to become more apparent as the semester goes on, because they’ll have done that for themselves.”

The freshman fall rush ban came from a recommendation made by the Committee on Hazing and Initiations in spring 2011.

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Facing the newly implemented ban against freshmen rushing Greek organizations in the fall, some fraternities stopped this fall’s rush altogether.

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

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Iraq’s VP convicted as attacks kill 92

BY LARA JAKES ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country.

Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 92 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

It’s unlikely that the attacks in 13 cities were all timed to coincide with the afternoon verdict that capped a monthslong case against Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a longtime foe of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki. Still, taken together, the violence and verdict could energize Sunni insurgents bent on returning Iraq to the brink of civil war by targeting Shiites and undermining the government.

Al-Hashemi fled to Turkey in the months after the Shiite-led government accused him of playing a role in 150 bombings, assassinations and other attacks from 2005 to 2011 — years in which the country was mired in retaliatory sectarian violence that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein’s Sunni regime. Most of the attacks were allegedly carried out by al-Hashemi’s bodyguards and other employees, and largely targeted government officials, security forces and Shiite pilgrims.

The vice president declined to immediately comment on the verdict after meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara.

He said he would “tackle this issue in a statement” in coming hours.

The politically charged case — which was announced the day after U.S. troops withdrew from the country last December — sparked a government crisis and fueled Sunni Muslim and Kurdish resentment against alMaliki, whom critics say is monopo-

lizing power.

Violence has ebbed significantly, but insurgents continue to stage highprofile bombings and shooting rampages. Al-Qaida’s Iraq branch has promised a comeback in predominantly Sunni areas from which it was routed by the U.S. and its local allies after sectarian fighting peaked in 2007.

“These attacks show al-Qaida’s ability to hit any place in Iraq and at any time,” said Ali Salem, 40, an elementary school teacher in Baghdad.

“The lack of security could take us back to zero.”

The worst violence on Sunday struck the capital, where bombs pounded a half-dozen neighborhoods — both Sunni and Shiite — thoughout the day. But the deadliest attacks in Baghdad hit Shiite areas Sunday evening, hours after the al-Hashemi verdict was announced. In all, 42 people were killed in the capital and 120 wounded, according to police and hospital officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

The countrywide attacks began before dawn, with gunmen killing soldiers at an army post in the central Iraqi city of Dujail. A few hours later, a car exploded in a lot where police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs outside Kirkuk in the country’s north. Both Dujail and Kirkuk are former insurgent strongholds.

Over the day, at least 92 people were killed and more than 360 wounded in at least 21 separate bombings and shootings, according to reports from police and hospital officials. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but Iraq’s Interior Ministry blamed alQaida in Iraq.

“The attacks today on the markets and mosques are aimed at provoking sectarian and political tensions,” the ministry said in a statement. “Our war against terrorism is continuing, and we are ready.”

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BY JESSE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS Is it because he’s black?

The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama’s policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president.

It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now rearing its head from college campuses to cable TV as the Democratic incumbent faces Mitt Romney, the white Republican challenger.

Four years after an election that

inspired hopes of a post-racial future, there are signs that political passions are dragging us backward.

“We’re at a tipping point,” said Susan Glisson, director of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. “But I don’t know which way we’re going to tip.”

Glisson knows that many conservatives disagree with Obama solely because of his policies. “But I am also quite certain that there are others who object to the president because of his race, because they have a fear of blacks that is embedded in our culture,” she said.

Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias” — prejudices that people don’t realize they have.

Studies show that due to longstanding negative stereotypes about African-Americans — which give such false impressions as most black

people are dangerous, unintelligent or prefer welfare to work — many people harbor anti-black biases yet don’t even know it. Such unconscious biases, the studies show, are present in people of all backgrounds, not just whites.

“Our history has created this unconscious bias,” said Gail Christopher, vice president of program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has funded research on the subject. “Now we need to create safe places to discuss and educate people about unconscious bias, where we are not blaming and shaming them.”

Those safe places generally do not include the political arena.

“Every time they say, ‘We want our country back,’ I know what that means,” Susan Bankston, a white Democratic National Convention delegate from Richmond, Texas, said at the gathering last week.

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JOHN HUANG ’13 INVITED TO ITA CHAMPIONSHIPS Yale men’s top singles player John Huang ’13 was ranked No. 113 in the ITA’s Preseason Rankings, coming off a junior season in which he went 25-9. Huang will compete in the singles qualifying event, along with teammates Daniel Hoffman ’13 and Marc Powers ’13.

GOLF YALE’S GOLF COURSE RANKED NO. 1 For at least the third year in a row, Golfweek’s latest poll of college golf courses has “The Course at Yale” at No. 1. Designed in 1926 by Charles Blair Macdonald, the fourth hole of the course has been ranked amongst the toughest in the world.

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Elis split two at home

Sailing dominates opening weekend

BY GIDEON BROSHY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s two varsity sailing teams won their three major regattas this past weekend, enjoying an auspicious start to the season. The No. 2 coed team placed first at the Harry Anderson Trophy, hosted by Yale, and the Pine Trophy Sloop Elims, hosted by the Coast Guard Academy. The No. 1 women’s team won the Toni Deutsch Trophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SAILING At the Harry Anderson Trophy, the A division team took second place after eight races. On Saturday, the team consisted of skipper Marlena Fauer ’14 and crew Will Feldman ’14; on Sunday, it con-

sisted of Fauer and crew Eugenia Custo Greig ’14. The B division team, skippered by Morgan Kiss ’15 with crew Custo Greig on Saturday, and Kiss with crew Urska Kosir ’15 on Sunday, took first place in eight races. Overall, the Bulldogs won by 11 points.

At the Pine Trophy Sloop Elims, a sloop event hosted by the Coast Guard Academy, the coed team was represented by skipper Chris Segerblom ’13 and crew Max Nickberg ’14, Eric Anderson ’16 and Marly Isler ’16. After nine races, the Bulldogs finished in first place. The top four teams from the Pine Trophy qualified for the New England Sloop Championship in New York, which will ultimately be the qualifier for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Sloop SEE SAILING PAGE B2

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In its season opener at the Harry Anderson Trophy, the coed sailing team won both the A and B divisions en route to an 11-point overall victory.

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While the volleyball team was able to come back from behind on Friday to topple Villanova, it ultimately could not catch up to Northwestern.

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER After two weeks of nonconference play, the volleyball team has made it clear that it does not go down without a fight. In their second consecutive weekend of tournament play in the John J. Lee Ampitheater, the Bulldogs (3–2) rallied from behind to top Villanova on Friday and issued the weekend’s toughest challenge to Northwestern (8–0) on Saturday.

VOLLEYBALL “I think [this weekend] showed we are a really resilient team, and we play really well together,” middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 said. “We came out against Villanova and didn’t play our best match, but we still fought, and we didn’t give up when we were down.”

The peak of the weekend’s excite-

ment occurred during the Friday night opener against Villanova (5–4). The action-packed match reached its crescendo during a fourth set in which Yale completed a thrilling comeback. In that game, Villanova built early leads of 6–0 and 12–3 and Yale did not take a lead of its own until a Mollie Rogers’ ’15 kill gave the team a 24–23 advantage. A kill from setter Kendall Polan ’14 and a Villanova attack error gave Yale a 26–24 victory and capped a 3–1 victory for the Bulldogs.

However, the night got off to a rocky start for the Elis when they blew a lead in the first set. Down 18–12, Villanova called a timeout and took off with an 11–3 run to take a 24–21 lead. Yale scored two consecutive points to draw within one, but ultimately dropped the set 25–23.

“I didn’t think we were playing at a very composed rate,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “I thought we looked

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like we were young, which we are. I talked to them about playing with confidence and maturity, and it seemed to work well.”

I think [this weekend] showed that we are a really resilient team, and we play really well together.

JESSE EBNER ’16 Middle blocker Yale responded to Appleman’s message by coming out on the attack in the second game and cruising to a 25–15 win to tie the match at one. Yale went on to scratch out a 26–24 victory in the following set with the come-from-behind SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3

Elis finish weekend with loss and tie

BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER Despite stepping up on offense and battling through a double overtime, the Elis (0–3–1) could not gain the upper hand on their opponents this weekend.

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MEN’S SOCCER Friday, numerous Bulldogs supporters filled Reese stadium for a match between the Elis and the defending Patriot League’s champion Colgate that would go to double overtime.

Just a minute before the end of the scoreless first overtime, forward Max McKiernan ’15 shot from a spectacular 15 yards out but his attempt bounced off the

crossbar. True to an age-old soccer superstition that a team will fail to score again after hitting the crossbar, McKiernan’s attempt proved to be the last golden opportunity for the Elis, and the game ended scoreless.

“It was a tough game, but we showed our character and definitely fought to the end,” defender Tyler Detorie ’16 said.

The Elis played a man down for the majority of the match, after defender Andy Hackbarth ’13 took down a Colgate player who had a clear path to the goal and received a red card at 9:55.

Head coach Brian Tompkins said he was generally pleased with the team’s discipline and perseverance despite facing Colgate SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF KILLS BLOCKER JESSE EBNER ’16 HAD ON FRIDAY NIGHT AGAINST VILLANOVA FOR A .480 KILL PERCENTAGE. That night, five Bulldogs reached the double-digits in kills for a come-from-behind win.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ROBERT GRIFFIN III In his first NFL start, Redskins’ quarterback RG3 completed his first eight passes and became the first rookie quarterback to achieve a perfect rating in his first half of play. Griffin ended the game 19 of 26, for 320 yards and two touchdowns as Washington beat New Orleans.

Elis return from Illinois with two losses WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 “It’s as if we are in the Indy 500 and the flag goes up to signal the start, and others move but we don’t react.”

Kristen Forster ’13 balanced the score at the 70-minute mark with a goal off a cross from forward Paula Hagopian ’16.

With the game deadlocked at 1-1, Ames was able to fend off multiple Loyola attempts outside the 18, and the Bulldogs headed into overtime.

But three minutes into the second contentious overtime, Loyola senior Ana Claudia Michelini headed in the game-winning goal. The Ramblers outshot the Elis 5–0 in the overtime periods.

At Northwestern, the Bulldogs also came out slow, and the Wildcats took advantage of the early lull by knocking in two goals within a four-minute period midway through the first half.

With a surge of second half energy, Melissa Gavin ’15 took two of Yale’s three shots on goal for the half, but none found the back of the net.

Over the course of the game, Northwestern, a Big Ten conference member, outshot Yale 14-6.

Team members said they viewed this weekend as a learning experience for future games, particularly for when they take on Ivy League powerhouse Princeton on Sept. 22.

“We realized that we have a lot of potential, but need to play more as a unit. We found that we can definitely do that if we put our minds to it.” Gavin said. “We’re trying out different people in different positions in order to figure out who we are as a team.”

The Bulldogs will continue non-conference play this Tuesday against Saint Peter’s University.

Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

Contact DINEE DORAME at dinee.dorame@yale.edu .

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After falling to Loyola in overtime of the first match of their Chicago road trip, the women’s soccer team fell into an early hole against Northwestern and lost 2–0.

Elis show mettle in Friday comeback VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 victory.

The win was a solid team effort for the Elis. Five Yale players recorded double-digit kills, led by Ebner who notched 15 to the tune of a .480 hitting percentage. Outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14 said that such depth makes the Elis offense very dangerous.

“It helps incredibly to have so many offensive contributors,” Reetz said.

“When you have one person on fire, it’s great to be able to feed them the ball. But when you have two, it makes it impossible for the other side to play defense.”

FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 the field, and she missed the rest of the match.

Teammates said they were especially concerned about the nature of the injury, as Holland was selected last month to be one of 18 American field hockey players representing the United States in the Under-21 (U21) Pan American Championship in Guadalajara, Mexico. The championship begins today, but Holland will not be competing, Stuper said in a Sunday night email.

Stuper declined to comment on the severity or consequences of the injury, but team captain Maddy Sharp ’13 added after the game that she is confident that Holland will recover.

The team has also faced the challenge of a large turnover this year. But Sharp and Stuper said the new freshmen are overcoming the dual challenge of adjusting to both college life and to the team.

“They’re doing really well and forming a cohesive unit,” Sharp said. “We lost some good players, but the freshmen are stepping up.”

As of Saturday, Stuper said she is not sure if the team will continue its goal-a-thon or find other means to meet the $50,000 for the “Get a Grip” campaign for myotonic dystrophy research in honor of team member Ona McConnell ’13 Today’s shutout will ultimately not detract from the amount of money raised, she added.

The Bulldogs are still driven to have the scoreboard reflect their hard work and energy as they enter their first Ivy League game, Sharp said. Training for the upcoming match at Harvard (1–1), Sharp said the team will revisit fundamentals and hold on to Saturday’s high intensity level, which should help the Elis finish their offensive attempts and score some points.

Th Bulldogs will go up against Crimson in Cambridge next Saturday, Sept. 15 at 1 p.m.

It’s incredibly important to be able to pick up the morale and intensity … in the second set.

ERICA REETZ ’14 Outside hitter, women’s volleyball The weekend’s greatest challenge came on Saturday night against Northwestern, a member of the powerhouse Big Ten conference. The Wildcats established themselves early and built an 18–10 lead, but, once again, the Bulldogs crawled back and nearly stole the set. Down 24–14, Yale scored nine straight to pull within one point but fell just short of completing the comeback to give the Wildcats an opening set victory.

But just like they did against Villanova, the Elis bounced back and took the second set by a convincing 25-18 score to tie the match at one. Reetz said that the team’s ability to rebound following a first set loss is crucial.

“It is incredibly important to be able to pick up the morale and intensity and come back out in the second set,” she said. “A lot of teams struggle with that, and it shows a lot about our team character that we can come back from a first game loss.”

Northwestern went on to take the third and fourth sets but only outscored the Elis 51–46 during those two sets. In the box score Yale dominated Northwestern, making the 3–1 final score somewhat deceptive. The Elis hit .240 to Northwestern’s .176 and blocked nine more shots than the Wildcats.

“I think we made big strides in blocking,” Appleman said. “Outblocking a Big Ten team is pretty spectacular, and I was really proud of the effort that they gave.”

After opening the season with five home matches, the Elis are heading to San Diego to take on University of California-Santa Barbara, San Diego and Fresno State this weekend.

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

Holland injured in close loss

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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Middle blocker Haley Wessels ’13, far left, was crucial in Yale’s come-from-behind victory over Villanova.

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Idaho girl fights to play golf with the boys 16-year-old Sierra Harr is petitioning Idaho’s High School Activities Association to continue playing on the boy’s golf team. Opposing coaches believe her dual eligibility in both girls’ individual and boys’ team competition is unfair. The Association is currently discussing rules that will address cases like Sierra Harr’s in their next meeting on September 25.

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Jenner Fox ’14 fighting off a Colgate defender in Yale’s 0–0 tie Friday. After receiving a red card early in the first half, Yale was able to hold off the Red Raiders for the rest of the game despite playing a man down.

First victory escapes Elis’ clutches M. SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 with only 10 players.

“It was hard to play offense with men down since everyone feels more burdened,” defender Pablo Espinola ’16 added.

Just eight minutes after the kick off, the Bulldogs opened up two consecutive scoring chances.

An especially lethal shot by Midfielder Kevin Michalak ’15 hit the post, and shortly after, last season’s top scoring forward Peter Jacobson ’14’s took a shot that went wide.

Without much change in formation, the Elis continued their play with a stable defense and recorded four shots by the end of second half.

“We kept four in the back, although we pressured a lit-

tle lower,” Detorie said. “However, we threw bodies around and blocked shots, and were more compact.”

Captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 was busy playing the life-support for the team. Thalman fended off five shots, and his consistent performance allowed the Elis to secure the draw. The goalie’s instincts shined eight seconds before the close of the second overtime, as he dove to block a sudden, strong shot from Raider Shane Conlin’s.

On the other side of the field, the visiting team proved equally adept at blocking shots from the Elis. In the overtime periods, the Raiders blocked shots from forward Avery Schwartz ’16, midfielder Conner Lachenbruch ’15, defender Milan Tica ’13 and

Michalak.

Overall, the Bulldogs came up just two shots shy of the Raiders (10–12), but far outdid Colgate in saves (5–1).

I felt we possessed the ball better and improved our team defense.

BOBBY THALMAN ’13 Captain, Men’s Soccer Team On Sunday, the Elis’ efforts ended in a 1–0 loss against Fairfield at Lessing Field. Despite demonstrating some impressive moves offensively and highpressure defense, the team failed

to avenge last season’s 1-0 loss to the Stags.

“It was a disappointing result, but there were still some positives to be taken from today’s game,” Thalman said.

The Bulldogs started off strong at Fairfield’s home turf. Just two minutes after the kick off, forward Scott Armbrust ’14 rifled a shot, but it ended up going wide.

For the next 11 minutes, the Bulldogs took two more shots to shake up the hosts and dictated the flow of the game.

The Bulldogs relentlessly knocked at the Stags’ doorsteps, with a shot from Jacobson that Fairfield goalkeeper Michael O’Keeffe blocked.

For the rest of the first half, the Bulldogs effectively shut down the hosts’ renewed offensive drive.

Eight minutes before the whistle, breaking through Yale’s tight wall, Fairfield’s Reco McLaren deftly maneuvered passed through the Elis defense and fired a shot that surprised everyone, but was fortunately blocked.

“I felt we possessed the ball better and improved our team defense,” Thalman said.

In the next half, the Bulldogs took on an offensive approach, but 26 minutes into the second half, the Elis allowed Fairfield’s George Newton to take a 25-yard shot.

The ball went straight past Thalman into the Yale’s net, and the hosts did not stop there. Just 15 minutes after his first goal, Fairfield’s Daniel Shaw kicked a shot, but this time Thalman jumped to deny the ball from

passing the goal line.

Although forward Schwartz nearly found a way to level the scoreboard at 89:34, the Fairfield goalkeeper made a spectacular save to hang onto the lead.

With a stronger record than the Stags in shots and saves, 9-8 and 3-2 respectively, the Elis closed out the weekend’s matches without a win.

“We just now need to improve our finishing quality so that we can score goals and put team away,” Thalman said.

The Bulldogs will seek their first victory Friday when they travel to the home of the local rival Quinnipiac.

Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m.

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

Three regattas, three wins in sailing’s first weekend of races SAILING FROM PAGE B1 Nationals in Fort Worth, Texas.

Meanwhile, the women’s team secured a first place overall victory at the Toni Deutsch regatta in Boston, hosted by MIT. The A division team, which finished in second place, consisted of skipper Emily Billings ’13 and crew Amanda Salvesen ’14. The B division team, which finished in first place, consisted of skipper Claire Dennis ’13 and crew Kate Gaumond ’15.

These early victories suggest that the Bulldogs are picking up where they left off at the end of last year’s successful season.

Having a strong first weekend like we had this weekend bodes well for the future.

CHRIS SEGERBLOM ’14 Skipper, coed sailing “We’ve had really good practices, trying to get continuity from last year, trying to get the ball rolling again,” said Will Feldman ‘14.

The teams lost important members of the class of 2012, but have acquired a strong group of six freshmen.

Chris Segerblom ’14 said this year’s teams both have deep rosters with experienced sailors.

He said he is confident about the teams’ prospects for this season.

“I think everyone has been super excited to get the season started,” he said, “and having a strong first weekend like we had this weekend bodes well for the future.”

Segerblom said that the members of the sloop team are putting added focus into qualifying for the Sloop Nationals, as the team has fallen just short of qualifying for New Englands in past seasons.

Now that it has made it to the first stage, he said, it will put an increased emphasis on practicing match racing, a form of competition in which two boats race around a course. The team plans to practice hard so it can achieve a first place finish in the New England Sloop Championship and go represent Yale at the Nationals in Texas in November, said Segerblom.

Next weekend, the women’s team will compete at Dartmouth in the Mrs. Hurst Bowl Regatta, while the coed team will compete in the Boston Harbor Invitational, the Lake Champlain Open, the Hatch Brown Trophy, and Nevin’s Trophy.

Contact GIDEON BROSHY at gideon.broshy@yale.edu .

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Yale’s women’s and coed sailing teams were unbeatable over the weekend, taking first place in all three regattas in which they competed.

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The women’s cross country team, pictured here racing last season, won its first meet of the season at Fordham over the weekend, led by Millie Chapman’s ’14 first-place finish overall.

Cross country dominates first races

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As rain soaked the men’s and women’s cross country teams during their Saturday warmups, captain Kevin Lunn ’13 referenced t-shirts worn by the football team that read, “No one’s ever drowned in sweat.”

CROSS COUNTRY “No one’s ever drowned in water,” he said.

The cross-country teams did neither on Saturday, scorching the competition at the Fordham Fiasco meet in New York City’s

Van Cortlandt Park en route to first place finishes for both teams.

The women’s team ran first, scoring just 17 points to finish 41 points in front of second-place Rider University.

“It went fantastic,” head coach Amy Gosztyla said. “We dominated.”

Gosztyla added that the meet was, “A really good start for everyone as a whole.”

Millie Chapman ’14 won the women’s individual title, covering the five-kilometer course in 18:19.32.

Captain Nihal Kayali ’13 said that Chapman defended her title

with the victory, having won the race the prior year. Kayali added that defending a title is rare in cross country races.

Elizabeth Marvin ’13, Emily Stark ’16 and Caitlin Hudson ’13 swept the next three spots, and Sarah Barry ’15 placed seventh to round out Yale’s top five. Kayali said that Stark’s third place finish was particularly impressive given the transition from high school to collegiate cross country running.

The team’s performance seemed especially remarkable given its approach to the meet and the stormy weather. “The team went in with a conserva-

tive race plan, and they executed it really well despite the pretty poor conditions,” said Kayali.

Following the tone set by the women’s race, the men’s team finished 46 points in front of Fordham to win the meet by scoring only 18 points. “The competition wasn’t quite as strong as it was a year ago,” said head coach Paul Harkins, “but I didn’t necessarily expect us to have six guys in the top seven.”

Matthew Nussbaum ’15 paced the Bulldogs over the length of the eight-kilometer men’s course, winning the individual title in 26:10.53. Lunn followed close behind to finish second,

Elis drop two games on road

and Kevin Dooney ’16, Timothy Hillas ’13 and Jacob Sandry ’15 placed fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively. Harkins said that the race marked the first cross country race in the career of Hillas, captain of the men’s track and field team. Lunn said that Dooney was a runner to keep an eye on, as he raced at junior world nationals this past summer.

Both teams noted that the level of competition will not be the level they will face the rest of the season. Gosztyla said that many of the teams featured in the meet ran in Divisions II and III, and that the team she

In a gut-wrenching showdown in the final seconds of Saturday’s game, Hofstra (4–1) blocked three consecutive corner shots from the Bulldogs (1–2) and left Johnson field victorious for the first time in six years.

FIELD HOCKEY

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BY DINEE DORAME CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Elis (2–3) struggled to find their rhythm on the road last weekend and fell to two Chicago teams despite second half surges.

WOMEN’S SOCCER After a 2–1 loss to the Loyola Ramblers (3–4) on Friday and a 2–0 loss to the Northwestern Wildcats (4–2–1) on Sunday, the Bulldogs return to campus to focus on their upcoming conference opponents.

Facing off in Loyola Soccer Park, the Ramblers started the game with aggressive offensive play and controlled possession for most of the first half. With veteran Yale goalkeeper Adele Jackson-Gibson ’13 sidelined due to an ACL tear, Elise Wilcox ’15 and Rachel Ames ’16 split playing time in her place. Wilcox had a total of five saves this weekend and Ames made three.

“Losing Adele was tough on the team, but we will bounce back as other players are being forced to step up,” head coach Rudy Meredith said.

Jackson-Gibson was out for most of last season with a dislocated shoulder, and Wil-

cox started six matches in her stead.

With 15 minutes left in the first half of the Loyola game, sophomore Sammy Gage found the back of the net and put a point on the board for the Ramblers. They entered halftime leading Yale 4–2 in shots.

Hoping for a comeback, the Elis brought some momentum in the second half and took five shots on goal. In all five games this season, Yale has been slow to get going on offense.

“Right now, we’re having trouble starting off the game.” Meredith said.

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Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

Clock runs out on Elis

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Kristen Forster ’13 scored Yale’s only goal of the weekend against Loyola on Friday.

expected to be the primary competition, Columbia, wound up competing at another meet.

Even so, Kayali and Harkins offered reasons to be excited about the results for both teams.

Harkins said the meet proved that the team is better prepared than it was at this point in the season last year, while Kayali said the results were encouraging for what is to come. The men’s and women’s cross-country teams continue the season this Friday in a dual meet against Harvard at the Yale Golf Course.

After the Pride scored its only point in the first 10 minutes, the Bulldogs’ tough defense, led by goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14, held the game at a stalemate. But when the clock ran out with the ball still inside Hofstra’s goal circle, field hockey rules dictated that play was allowed to continue until the ball was knocked out or the Bulldogs evened the score. The charged finale that ensued had spectators on their feet.

Though Yale was disappointed with the outcome, Hofstra coach Kathy De Angelis said the game could have easily gone in Yale’s favor.

“We were out-shot and outcornered — statistically, we were lucky to end up first on the scoreboard,” De Angelis said.

The Bulldogs made 21 attempts on goal, including eight direct corner shots, but failed to finish their offensive surges. Strikers Nicole Wells ’16 led a dramatic break-away at the end of the first half and fed Jessie Accurso ’15, but Pride goalkeeper Kaitlyn De

Turo denied Accurso’s shot. De Turo maintains a .833 career save percentage.

Yale head coach Pam Stuper said the best part of the Bulldogs’ play was a tight defense and skillful backfield passing, and added that the team improved these skills in practice last week.

“We were strong defensively and held them quite well,” Stuper said.

Cain made two miraculous back-to-back saves in the first half. Cain’s efforts and the hustle of relentless midfielder Mary Beth Barham ’13 were key to holding off Hofstra’s strong offensive line when the play moved to Yale’s side of the field.

We were out-shot and out-cornered … we were lucky to end up first on the score-board.

KATHY DE ANGELIS Coach, Hofstra University Adversities harmed the Bulldogs’ chances at a win, Stuper said. Hard-hitting back Georgia Holland ’14 went down in the first period with a knee injury.

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