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CROSS CAMPUS Yale Bookstore sex scandal?
Regional “sexpert” James Moore of Hartford, the author of a book titled “On Loving Women,” is claiming that the Yale Bookstore cancelled a scheduled appearance next month because New Haven store manager Joseph King found the book “offensive,” the New Haven Register reported. King declined to discuss the matter with the Register, but Moore is speaking out, saying that “‘On Loving Women’ is tamer than Dr. Ruth’s books. It’s tamer than ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ I just feel there’s some kind of bigotry going on. Could it be that I’m a man and my book is for heterosexual men?” In the Times. “Independents,” a musical with a book by the late Marina Keegan ’12 that debuted on campus last fall, received a positive review in the New York Times earlier this week. “Ms. Keegan, a promising journalist and playwright, died in a car wreck days after graduating from Yale in May. ‘Independents’ stands as her tribute to the vitality, vulnerability and bonhomie of young people,” writes the author. “How fortunate we are to be in the company of these performers, and to cherish Ms. Keegan’s lasting presence in her art.” What’s the solution? As antiobesity campaigns and dieting plans thrive in America, a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity says that the public responds more positively to, well, positive campaigns. Research indicates that campaigns promoting specific health behaviors get a better reaction than those which blame or stigmatize those who are obese. End of an era. After 26 years leading the University of Connecticut’s storied basketball program, Jim Calhoun will step down Thursday, the New York Times reported. Calhoun has notched 873 victories and joined the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. Prodigy on campus. Niu Niu,
the 15-year-old piano star, will be on campus Sept. 23 to give a concert featuring famous works of Scarlatti, Beethoven and Liszt. “Piano is much more exciting than Xbox to me,” Niu Niu said in an interview with the Shenzhen Daily.
M. LACROSSE GIBSON ’12 MAKES JUMP TO PROS
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After Harvard squad promoted, questions about future of Yale team
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PWG still covered in blue BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER When students returned to campus this August, they were greeted once again by the sight of Payne Whitney Gymnasium shrouded in blue scaffolding. The University began renovations on Payne Whitney’s exterior in 2007, suspending the project in 2008 due to budget cuts in capital maintenance projects following the recession, said Stephen Brown, the director of administration and space planning at the University Planning Office, in a Wednesday email. The University cut over $1 billion in this area, of which the gym’s restoration was one of the most expensive projects, University President Richard Levin said. Though it remains unclear when work on the gym’s façade will come to a close, Brown said construction on Payne Whitney is included in the current five-year Capital Budget Plan that will go back into effect next summer. Prior to the current project, Payne Whitney had undergone several minor external renovations, but in 2005, the University decided to take a more comprehensive approach to renovating the entire exterior of the both the gym and the adjacent Ray Tompkins house, Brown said. After the results of an investigation in 2005, which included an analysis of the long-term viability of the structure’s stonework, roofs and windows, the University decided that the facility needed a major facelift. The repairs would focus on improving the SEE PWG PAGE 4
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Chief Investment Officer David Swensen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to students in his economics seminar. Swensen, who is responsible for managing the University’s roughly $19 billion endowment, did not attend this Monday’s session of “Investment Analysis,” which he teaches with Investments Office Senior Director Dean Takahashi, five students in the course said. At that meeting, Takahashi informed the class that Swensen has been diagnosed with cancer and will be absent from the course for about one month due to medical reasons, those students said. None of them knew the type of cancer with which Swensen has been diagnosed, or any other information about his prognosis. Neither Swensen nor Takahashi could be reached for comment Wednesday night. University spokesman Tom Conroy declined to comment on whether Swensen has been diagnosed with cancer, and whether he will be able to continue his responsibilities as chief investment officer over the next month. University President Richard Levin also declined to comment. Swensen arrived at Yale in 1985 after spending six years on Wall Street, and is widely credited with redefining the model for institutional investing — pioneering a nontraditional investment strategy that favors illiquid, alternative assets and takes a long-term view. The strategy, often termed the “Yale Model,” propelled the University to investment returns of near or above 20 percent between 2004 and 2007, and has been
Payne Whitney Gynmasium still sports the blue scaffolding of renovations halted in 2008.
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Frats and YPD discuss tailgate rules BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER After the Yale Police Department and fraternities discussed off-campus party registration last week in a meeting deemed successful by both sides, they turned their attention to tailgate regulations Wednesday night. Three fraternity leaders met with several officials from the YPD and Yale Ath-
letics Department to discuss ways to keep student attendance at tailgates high in light of new tailgating restrictions announced last January following the fatal U-Haul crash at last fall’s Harvard-Yale tailgate. Students and administrators primarily discussed concerns about transportation of students and of tailgating supplies to the newly conceived “tailgating village” — which will be located near the student
entrance of the Yale Bowl, not on the intramural fields.
They don’t want you to roll up with a van full of beer, but you can bring stuff in. MIKE WOLNER ’14 Member, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
Shake Shack preview draws crowds
Changes on Chapel. That
parking lot on the corner of Chapel and Howe Streets could turn into a complex of 136 apartments. Stamfordbased developer Randy Salvatore pitched his plans to the Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday evening, seeking a zoning exception allowing less parking than required, the New Haven Independent reported.
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Shake Shack opened on Wednesday night for a sneak peek of a Yale-themed menu featuring Handsome ‘Dogs.’
Charred hot dogs sputtered on the griddle, awaiting a bath of cheese sauce and crispy shallots that would transform them into Handsome Dogs, the Yale-themed signature dish at the newest addition to the Elm City’s food scene — Shake Shack. The restaurant welcomed over 280 guests to a Wednesday night preview party at its new location, across from the New Haven Green at 986 Chapel St. A modern twist on the roadside dive with a cult-like following,the New York-based chain will now bring its signature burgers, flat-top dogs and frozen custards to the Elm City, the alleged birthplace of the hamburger. Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group — SEE SHAKESHACK PAGE 4
The students present at the meeting said they felt more positive about the season’s first tailgate on Sept. 29 because of the clarified expectations and administrators’ commitment to maintain Yale’s tailgaiting tradition. “They’re working hard to try to accommodate us, and make it something that students will be interested in doing,” said Mike Wolner ’14, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra-
ternity. Former SAE President Ben Singleton ’13 said student leaders have been skeptical of participating in tailgates in the 2012 football season because of uncertainty surrounding the new regulations, which bans U-Hauls and kegs, limits student tailgating to a specific area and requires tailgating activity to conclude at kickoff. SEE TAILGATES PAGE 6
New law Ph.D. meets national scrutiny BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER As the Yale Law School prepares to venture into uncharted territory by enrolling Ph.D. students next fall, scholars nationwide are unsure that the school’s new doctoral program will ultimately benefit legal education. The three-year degree Ph.D. program, the first of its kind, is designed to give J.D. graduates an opportunity to broaden their portfolio of scholarly work while learning to teach, Law School Dean Robert Post said. Law School administrators said the program will not only prepare aspiring law professors for an increasingly competitive job market but will also affirm the law’s status
as an academic discipline. Several law professors interviewed said this stance marks a departure from the traditional view of law as a field studied from the perspective of other disciplines, rather than as a discipline on its own, leading many scholars to question the new degree’s relevance. “The point that Robert Post makes about the possibility of there being a study of law that is independent of other disciplines, I think, is a hard point to make,” said Lauren Edelman, the associate dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program, a multidisciplinary doctoral program at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. SEE YLS PAGE 4
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hree days ago, over 25,000 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers walked out of their classrooms to go on strike for the first time in 25 years. As a recent graduate of the CPS system, I spent the last few months of high school watching my fantastic teachers get pushed around by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard’s unionbusting agenda. And I’m 100 percent behind my teachers. Walking around the Yale campus, you would be hardpressed to find a student from an inner-city public neighborhood school. Most of us are products of private schools or wealthy suburban school districts. But education is meant to be the great equalizer, and it is important that a free, highquality education be available to all. But public schools are falling apart all over the country, particularly in Chicago. With budgets squeezed tighter, hundreds of thousands of teachers have been laid off, increasing the burden on those who remain. Neighborhood schools deteriorate as magnet schools and selective-enrollment schools draw away all the top students who are not already in the private school system. Private funders are building for-profit charter schools that drain away public money, wrongly claiming they produce better students. Instead of supporting public schools when they need it the most, politicians have chosen to demonize the teachers who staff them. These teachers are some of the most under-appreciated, underpaid people in the country. They work long hours past the end of the school day, deal with overcrowded classrooms and make an effort to educate students who sometimes have little capacity to learn, for reasons completely outside the teachers’ control. Chicago’s teachers are striking to demand fair compensation for the extra ninety minutes they are going to be working every day this year. They are striking for more funding for arts programs, libraries and recess. They are striking for smaller class sizes and air conditioning during the sweltering summers. Far from seeking to line their own pockets, they are striking for their students. The Chicago Teachers Union’s decision to go on strike and the public support it has received may represent a halt in the recent assault on public sector
unions spearheaded by politicians like Scott Walker and Rahm Emanuel. It is possible that the Chicago teachers will pave the way for working people and unions everywhere to regain the power they deserve. I wish the Chicago teachers, many of whom I credit with getting me where I am today, the best of luck in the upcoming struggles they face. I also hope their actions can alert the rest of the country to the war being waged against working people everywhere. It is time for the working and middle classes to stop allowing politicians and their corporate sponsors to push them around.
CHICAGO’S TEACHERS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR STUDENTS’ BENEFITS AND TO KEEP WHAT THEY HAVE, NOT FOR A FAT PAYCHECK OR SPECIAL TREATMENT
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orgetting usually takes a transitive form. Unlike intransitive verbs — “to stand,” “to wait,” “to live” — which don’t take objects, “to forget” often describes an action done unto something, so the verb precedes the forgotten thing. In most cases, but not always, the verb without an object becomes meaningless. I say this because I’m not American and began to learn English at age eight or nine. The acquisition of a second language requires certain punctiliousness, and it’s a consequence of this exercise that words become rigid, static. Their proper usage is determined by rules that parcel sentences into subject and verb and catalogue verbs as either transitive or intransitive, this being important to determine the need for an object. Since learning these rules, I have moved to Texas and chosen to become an American citizen. I also learned, somewhere along the line, that these rules don’t always apply, that the things that happen in real life are not restrained by syntax. Still, certain phrases sound foreign to me. “Never forget,” for example, lacks an object. I was 10 when the hijackers flew the planes into the two towers. There were other planes, too, flown into other places — one that blew a hole on the side of the Pentagon and another that crashed in Pennsylvania — but the
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9/11 WAS MORE CONFUSING THAN EARTH-SHATTERING
Yale. I know the details and I understand them to a degree. That I can’t remember is a matter of syntax. “To remember,” to me, remains a transitive verb. It describes an action done unto something, a recalling of a past thing. On September 11, 2001, I was a Brazilian boy. The recollection I have is of the absurdity inherent in planes flying into buildings. When Americans speak of remembering, their words are deep and heavy. My own words feel shallow. When the phrase “never forget” first came into use, the implicit object was the Holocaust. In that instance, as with this one, the meaning in the words was too large for the vessels, so the verb acquired its intransitive form. To remember 9/11 is a visceral thing, an experience that transcends facts and understanding. The verb in “we will always remember” carries meaning irrespective of its object and stands on its own for people whose questions on Sept. 11, 2001, were unrelated to Christmas vacations. In its intransitive form, remembering has the power to bring together a nation. I will never forget 9/11. But no matter how hard I try, I can’t remember.
DIANA ROSEN is a freshman in Pierson College. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .
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to internalize the date, to conjure around it the proper associations. I could not, in short, remember. “To remember,” in the intransitive form, is not a matter of knowing the factual details of the event, of knowing the number of minutes between the attacks (17, 34, 30) and the number of people killed (2,977) or of knowing that the New York medical examiner’s office classified all deaths, save those of the hijackers, as homicides, including in this category those 200 or so people whose lives ended in the manner captured by that one photograph of the falling man.
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I received a phone call from Chicago on Monday from my father, who was marching in solidarity with the teachers downtown. He held up his phone in the air so I could hear the people shouting. Thousands of teachers, parents, students and friends had gathered to march through downtown, shutting down the entire Loop. Teachers in Chicago are angry. Parents in Chicago are angry. And they should be. This strike is not just about teachers in Chicago. It is about unions and working people across the country. For far too long, their hard work has gone without fair returns. Seeing familiar faces in the television and newspaper coverage of the strike gives me an overwhelming sense of pride for the school system that got me where I am today. I am proud to be a product of the public school teachers who are out walking the picket line.
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image that remains in my mind is of the two towers, collapsing to the ground in a roar of smoke and TEO SOARES dust and debris. O u r s Traduções was a private school in a wealthy neighborhood of São Paulo, which is probably the reason we were told about the attacks, on the off chance a student’s parents had boarded a U.S.-bound flight the night before. There was confusion, not so much of the existential sort that surfaced elsewhere on the globe — who? why? what does it all mean? — but of a more basic nature: What is the Pentagon? Where is the World Trade Center? Will we have to spend Christmas at home instead of abroad? Last Tuesday, the events of that day — rather, a certain attitude about the events of that day — were the subject of chatter on TV, of commentary on blogs, of posts on Facebook. “Never forget” was said often, as was “we will always remember” (in which “to remember” also adopted the intransitive form). Tuesday was, I knew, September 11, it having come after Monday, September 10, but though I tried, I failed
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ou’ve stepped into Durfee’s. You’ve seen the prices. And you’ve walked out saddened, annoyed, maybe even depressed. You became distressed either because you walked out emptyhanded after seeing the ridiculous prices of that cheese pizza or peach tea you were craving or because you just gave in to your gluttonous desires and spent your life’s savings to pay those prices. Being the white cheddar Cheez-It addict that I am, I have directly suffered from these soaring prices. The extra 35 cents for a now smaller box has forced me to walk a few extra blocks to Walgreens, where that box is a whole $2.06 cheaper. Unlike at Durfee’s, the price of that box of Cheez-Its hasn’t changed at Walgreens over the last year. But living on Old Campus last year, I was about four minutes farther from Walgreens and about four minutes closer to Durfee’s, so I
didn’t mind settling for Durfee’s high prices. As someone who likes to sleep in, I used not to worry about missing brunch on the weekends; I could always just use my $7 meal swipe at Durfee’s and enjoy my breakfast at 4:50 p.m. But now that $7 can no longer buy an adequate meal, I cannot hit the snooze button and skip brunch, lest I lose money! And I, like many students here, have an incredibly poor sleep schedule. I get little sleep as it is, meaning my body loves to torture me during class and let me struggle right as some professor makes eye contact with my shutting eyes. It’s therefore no surprise that I rely heavily on caffeine. But have you tasted the coffee in the dining halls? It’s terrible! And I’m not really that guy who walks around with some pretentious coffee cup from Blue State or Starbucks. (Though I have been guilty of such acts in the past.) So I always counted on that already
expensive shot of 5-Hour Energy or that can of Red Bull right before my incredibly dull “Intro Micro” lecture. While my classes are admittedly better and more interesting this year (just in case any of my current professors are reading this), I still need caffeine. At Durfee’s, a single shot of 5-Hour Energy went from $3 just four months ago to $4.30 today. (For the record, it is still $3 at Walgreens.) And that can of Red Bull? At Durfee’s, it’s a whole dollar more expensive. Now, I am by no means trying to be a poster child for Walgreens. Nor am I trying to propose that all Yale students buy foreign and bolster Walgreens over Durfee’s. But we already have an expensive place to go when we’re not of sound mind on those Wednesday and Saturday nights: Gourmet Heaven. What we do not need is a more expensive GHeav, which is what Durfee’s is apparently trying to be.
Some of you are already thinking “#firstworldproblems,” and you have a point. But I still do not like getting ripped off. I would not be complaining so much if the rise in prices were coupled with a raise in the value of my meal swipe. But no, I still have just $7 to try to figure out what to get. If Durfee’s doesn’t lower its prices — and it is very likely that it won’t — then it is time for YCC or Yale Dining or whoever’s in charge to give us at least a dollar or two more on our meal swipes. As a conservative, I never thought I’d say this, but it is time for some stimulus. To all you economics majors who would argue that stimulus would only increase the inflation, even if indirectly: Well, this is Durflation. It’s different. RICH LIZARDO is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at richard.lizardo@yale.edu .
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Lightning Connector The breakthrough new feature of the iPhone 5, the lightning connector is Apple’s new connector cable that has what the company is calling an “adaptive interface.”
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The article “Outspoken Paglia condemns traditional feminism” misidentified the debate as being held by the Independent Party and not the Yale Political Union. It also misidentified Ryan Pollock ‘13 as Harry Graver ’14. The article “Elis slide eight past Peacocks” misspelled the name and misstated the graduation year of Mary Kubiuk ’13.
New Haven startups react to new iPhone BY AARON LEWIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Through consumers will not be able to get their hands on the iPhone 5 until late next week, the new product’s updated software has long been on the minds of New Haven’s tech entreupreneurs. On Wednesday, when Apple unveiled an upgrade to the software and hardware of their hugely popular smartphone in San Francisco, the heads of three New Haven-based tech companies waited to hear what the annoucement would entail. Developers at local startups based in New Haven’s Science Park said the iPhone’s new features will give them the opportunity to build more robust applications for their clients. But with each new Apple annoucement comes the possibility that the tech giant will build smaller companies’ ideas into their software, said Nick Jaensch, founder of Shizzlr, a New Haven-based software company. Among other features, developers will now be able to take advantage of Apple’s mapping, Facebook integration and new camera tools. Derek Koch, CEO of Independent Software, a company that builds websites and mobile applications for local startups, said he is particularly excited by the possibilities of turn-by-turn directions and real-time traffic data in Maps. He added that the new software has made Facebook’s features more accessible to developers for use in their apps. “Part of how we get ready for a platform change like this is by … getting in and playing around in the context of the new product,” he said. Koch added that he and his team ask themselves, “What’s changing and how does it affect our current products?” Jaensch, whose company helps users discover local events and places and share them with friends in a group chat, hopes to be able to incorporate a new iPhone feature called Passbook into Shizzlr. Passbook is a built-in application developed by Apple that collects boarding passes, loy-
alty cards, coupons and movie tickets and uses GPS to send notifications “at the appropriate time and place,” according to Apple’s website. By tapping into Passbook, Shizzlr will enable users to make plans in a group chat on sites like movietickets.com, buy tickets with friends, and scan them at the theater using Passbook — all without leaving the app. Several of the iPhone’s new hardware features also present local entrepreneurs with the opportunity to improve their products. The new A6 processor, which is both two times faster and 22 percent smaller than its predecessor, will help Jaensch make Shizzlr run faster. Developers will also have more screen real estate to work with as the screen is now 4 inches, up from 3.5. Along with the potential for product improvements and new innovations, though, Apple announcements also carry with them a good deal of uncertainty.
Part of how we get ready for a platform change like this is by… getting in the context of the new product. DEREK KOCH CEO, Independent Software Jaensch said that before these events he often feels nervous that Apple might make his company irrelevant by incorporating its services directly into their software. This worry is not unfounded, he added, as other companies like Instagram may be threatened by new social features in the default Photos app revealed on Wednesday. This time around, Jaensch said, Shizzlr was not affected negatively by the updates. The iPhone 5 is set to go on sale on Sept. 21 at a starting price of $199. Contact AARON LEWIS at aaron.z.lewis@yale.edu .
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University President Richard Levin led Yale in its $109 million purchase of West Campus, a former Bayer Pharmaceuticals campus, in 2007. BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER Despite University President Richard Levin’s integral role in creating Yale’s West Campus, his resignation at the end of this year is unlikely to change the future of the scientific hub, West Campus administrators and scientists say. The majority of the West Campus faculty and administrators interviewed, and Levin himself, said that West Campus has enough momentum to continue growing, regardless of who his successor is. Development of the facility, originally purchased in 2007, was delayed by the collapse of Yale’s endowment in the economic crisis. However, the recent recovery of Yale’s endowment — combined with alumni gifts — has jump-started the recruitment of faculty and forming of institutes to fill the approximately 550,000 square feet of existing research space. “We have great momentum on the West Campus,” Levin said in an email to the News. “My departure will have no significant impact.” Levin said he was not concerned that his successor’s vision for West Campus would conflict with his own. He added that the next president will develop a plan for the facility consistent with his or her strategy for the University as a whole. Gifts like the $25 million given to
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We have great momentum on the West Campus. My departure will have no significant impact. RICHARD LEVIN University President “At this point, I think the West Campus has reached a tipping point,” Strobel said. “There are enough programs and faculty and entire schools now that are calling the West Campus home that the point at which we can turn back has long since past.” Eduardo Groisman, a professor of microbial pathogenesis and a member of the West Campus Microbial Diversity Institute, said that West Campus funding is secure, because a large part of the day-to-day operations budget for the laboratories comes from the state and federal governments. The funding for special initiatives, like the purchase of new laboratory equip-
ment, still comes in large part from the University he said, adding that he believes Yale will continue to support the facility, regardless of who serves as the school’s next president. Howard Ochman, director of the Microbial Diversity Institute, said he is optimistic about the future of West Campus because the sciences have become a key piece of the University’s growth and development in recent years, with West Campus playing a central role. He added that Edward Bass ’67, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, is a strong supporter of the sciences. Yet not all West Campus faculty expressed as much confidence that the University’s next president will prioritize West Campus. “[President Levin was] one of [West Campus’] strongest supporters, and finding a president with an similar vision or a president who will be willing to truly empower institute leaders to build a vision will be challenging,” said Andy Phillips, professor of chemistry and a member of the Chemical Biology Institute at West Campus, in an email to the News. Yale purchased the 136 acre property that would become known as West Campus from Bayer Pharmaceuticals for $109 million in 2007. Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
City weighs options for homeless BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
The coming release of Apple’s new iPhone has some local technology entrepreneurs looking for ways to capitalize on its new capabilities.
establish the Energy Sciences Institute and next year’s move of the Yale School of Nursing to West Campus are indicative of West Campus’s present and future growth, said Scott Strobel, vice president for West Campus planning and program development.
Inspired by the Occupy New Haven protest movement, various members of the local homeless community have petitioned the mayor’s office to set up longterm encampments on the New Haven Green. That proposition was among those discussed at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen’s human services committee, held to address possible encampments and homeless access to city services like seasonal shelters. Chairman of the Homeless Advisory Commission (HAC) John Huettner brought two resolutions to the floor, one addressing the Green proposition and another about resource allocation for homeless services in the city’s budget. “There has been a constant chipping away at the community service and homeless budget,” Huettner told the committee. “So we’re having trouble being proactive, and we’ve assumed a maintenance-mentality — making it work with what we have.” One of the HAC resolutions recommended that the committee dismiss the petition to allow long-term encampments on the Green, arguing that it would prove detrimental to the long-term social recovery of the homeless. Huettner added that the city’s homeless people have a responsibility to use official community and city shelters instead of open encampments. HAC member Kevin Li ’14 said that the commission also opposed the long-term encampment plan because it neglects successful programs currently available
to the homeless. “There are so many existing support structures in place, and we want to show support for those,” Li said. “We don’t want to promote circumventing them.” At the same time, he said, it is important to consider the reasons homeless people may find conditions in shelters unlivable and work on improving and expanding these existing structures. The second resolution Huettner brought before the committee last night addresses these current programs, including both short- and long-term measures the Board could take to improve the conditions of homeless people in the city. Primarily emphasized in the list of six short-term recommendations was the maintenance and operation of the overflow shelter, which houses many homeless during the colder months. Due to recent budget cuts, however, the shelter may have to decrease how long it operates and how many people it serves, Li and Huettner said. Should this happen, more people will have to sleep outside in the cold. “We can budget certain dates [for the shelter to be open], but the weather doesn’t always cooperate,” Huettner said. Another short-term recommendation that Huettner said he would like to see implemented is a Warming Center network. In it, participating Elm City residents with heated spaces would allow homeless people to come by and “warm up,” reducing their exposure to dangerous winter weather. Despite his support of these measures, Human Services Committee Chair and Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez said that the Board’s ability to fund social pro-
grams is at the mercy of recent aggressive budget cuts. Li said that this fiscal tightening has particularly hurt the chronically homeless. Rodriguez recommended that the HAC not limit its search for funding to increasingly scarce grants, but rather follow the example of other homeless commissions throughout the country that invest in “social entrepreneurship,” a growing urban trend in which a business framework is used to raise money for social issues. Doing so would allow them to operate independently of constricted budgets, he said. “We can’t rely on federal funding any more, so we have to set up a system that we do have control over,” he said. “We have to start moving toward self-reliance and taking more responsibility for ourselves — social entrepreneurship offers that sustainability.” Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 made clear to Huettner that no policy could be enacted at the meeting because the resolutions would have to pass through the Board of Aldermen’s formal legislative process. The committee would also have to wait for the still-unnamed replacement of former Community Services Administrator Chisara Asomugha to join the discussion, Rodriguez added. Discretionary spending for federally funded housing and community development programs is set to undergo an estimated 8.4 percent cut across the country this coming January, according to the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Shake Shack takes a Yale twist
“[Shake Shack] aspire[s] to be the anti-chain chain.” DANNY MEYER CEO OF UNION SQUARE HOSPITALITY GROUP
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Shake Shack’s management wants to create a new model for restaurant chains and designed this branch with the location of New Haven — and Yale — in mind. SHAKESHACK FROM PAGE 1 which owns Shake Shack among other restaurants — aimed to create a “new model for a chain” by designing Shake Shack New Haven with its location in mind, he said amid burger-crazed guests at Wednesday’s invite-only party. “We did not parachute a preconceived concept into New Haven,” Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti said. “We designed [Shake Shack] of its place.” In addition to the Handsome Dog, the menu for Shake Shack’s “concretes” — dense frozen custard blended with toppings — includes items that pay homage to Yale, such as Boola Boola Blue, Skull & Cones and Elm City Coffee Break. Meyer’s daughter Hallie Meyer ’15, who performed at the preopening with the a capella group Something Extra, took part in the brainstorming process for Yale-related items, integrating her love of peanut butter and vanilla custard into the recipe for the
Skull & Cones, she said. In advance of its official opening today, Shake Shack has also reached out to members of the Yale community. Brandon Levin ’14, former president of the Yale College Council, said the YCC corresponded with Meyer and the staff of Shake Shack for months to collaborate on joint events. Garutti said the space is ideal for gatherings — it seats up to 90, contains a functioning fireplace and is partially constructed from wood recycled from the bleachers of the Yale Bowl. “This is the perfect place for town and gown,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said, drinking a milkshake at Wednesday’s party. “It is the perfect place to stop by on the way to the Shubert or shopping at Ann Taylor.” Kai Takahashi ’16, a longtime patron of Shake Shack’s Upper West Side location in New York City, claims to have “personally built up the hype” among his peers for the restaurant’s opening, which was postponed for about a month due to con-
struction delays. He arrived on Wednesday night clad in a T-Shirt bearing the restaurant’s logo and said he plans to frequent Shake Shack in between study sessions to indulge in his standard order — a double Shack Burger and a caramel shake.
[Shake Shack] is the perfect place to stop by on the way to the Shubert or shopping at Ann Taylor. MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College Some attendees noted that the opening of Shake Shack does not bode well for all members of the New Haven community. Joseph Tisch ’16 said Louis’ Lunch, a long-established New Haven eatery that claims to have invented the hamburger in 1900, will face
“fierce competition” from Shake Shack. “I grew up eating Louis’ Lunch and it’s great that they pay homage to the traditional burger, but I think we offer a little bit more,” said Mark Rosati, a Connecticut native and Shake Shack’s culinary manager. But Jeff Lassen, the fourth-generation owner of Louis’ Lunch, said that the opening would help downtown businesses by attracting more traffic. He said that Shake Shack’s arrival would merely “solidify” the notion that New Haven is the hometown of the hamburger. “I look forward to them being in business here for quite a while,” Lassen said. Shake Shack first opened in 2004 as a food kiosk in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park and now boasts 17 locations worldwide, including one in Westport, Conn. and another in Dubai, U.A.E. Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .
Scaffolding still shrouds Payne Whitney PWG FROM PAGE 1 building’s six acres of façade and 105,000 square feet of roofing, along with replacing the building’s 2,560 windows, the News reported in 2008. But when renovation was halted, the builders — New Haven-based Fusco Corporation — did not remove the scaffolding. “The scaffolding was put up when the project was started four years ago,” Levin said. “We decided to postpone the project, but we need the scaffolding for safety purposes since it prevents the stonework from falling.” Still, Levin said that since the building’s exterior has no functional effect on the athletic program, the University decided to put the renovation on hold. Though Ed Mockus, the senior associate athletic director of facilities operations who previously served
as the director of Payne Whitney, told the News in 2008 that he expected the project to take five to six years to complete, none of the administrators interviewed for this article could provide a definitive projection for the renovation’s completion.
We’re a division one Ivy League university. We should have better facilities. Harvard and Princeton have much more modern facilities. DANNY CLARKE ’14 Varsity swimmer Seven of 10 students interviewed said that although the scaffolding is an eyesore, the
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renovation has little effect on their ability to use the gym’s facilities or on their perception of Yale. But varsity swimmer Danny Clarke ’14 said he felt the decision to place Payne Whitney on the backburner was embarrassing for Yale’s athletic program. “We’re a division one Ivy League university. We should have better facilities,” Clarke said. “Harvard and Princeton have much more modern facilities, and there is a direct correlation between the facilities and where varsity recruits choose to go.” Hatem Alzahrani GRD ’14 said that though he was initially “turned off” by the scaffolding when he toured Yale, the pictures of the gym’s internal facilities on its website caused him to think that the functional part of the gym was in excellent condition. Payne Whitney Director Anthony Diaz agreed with Levin that the state of the
gym’s exterior renovation is unrelated to the quality of the internal facilities themselves, adding that the gym’s membership numbers and programs are “stronger than ever.” Diaz said he believes that if the renovation were to be completed, the “magnificence” of the gym’s exterior would be impressive to potential recruits and physically convey the strength of Yale’s programs. And despite the correlation Clarke noted between facilities and recruits, men’s varsity swimming and diving head coach Timothy Wise said in a Wednesday email that he does not think the renovation affects recruitment. Payne Whitney was built in 1932 by John Russell Pope. Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .
adopted by many of Yale’s peers. “What David has figured out extremely well is what are the integral parts of a very sound investment process,” Anthony Knerr ’60 GRD ’64, the founder and director of a consulting firm for nonprofits, told the News in 2009. “Wouldn’t it be terrific if every American college had a David Swensen? But alas, that’s not the case.” Yale’s endowment has grown dramatically during Swensen’s 27-year tenure, from just over $1 billion when he arrived to $19.4 billion as of June 30, 2011. The endowment lost almost a quarter of its value in fiscal year 2009, following the onset of the nationwide economic recession, but has since rebounded and returned 21.9 percent in fiscal year 2011. Debra Zumwalt, vice president and general counsel at Stanford University, said she does not think that high-level university administrators are required to disclose serious health conditions. The issue is less relevant in higher education than in the corporate world, where executives are in charge of publicly traded companies, she said.
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Chief Investment Officer David Swensen has worked at Yale since 1985. Swensen earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1980. Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting. Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
YLS pioneers new law Ph.D. program YLS FROM PAGE 1 “It’s somewhat unclear to me what it means to say that [the new Ph.D.] is wholly about law, given that law itself is a field very much populated by Ph.D.s in other disciplines, and much of the legal scholarship takes into account many of the fundamentals and methods represented.” The growing number of legal scholars with doctorates in other disciplines has made the definition of legal scholarship an open question, said Robin West, a professor at Georgetown Law Center who has been involved in its fellows program. But Post said candidates with doctorates who are applying for faculty positions at the Law School occasionally veer too far into the neighboring disciplines. “When you learn to look at something like an economist, you sometimes forget how to look at it as a legal scholar,” Post said.
It’s somewhat unclear to me what it means to say that [the new Ph.D.] is wholly about law. LAUREN EDELMAN Associate dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at University of California, Berkeley Through the new degree program, Post said, students will develop a strong portfolio of legal writing that is critical for securing job opportunities in the legal education market and also gain teaching experience. Despite their concerns about the program, scholars interviewed said the top-ranked Law School’s history of producing law professors makes it a suit-
able home for this unconventional degree. Bob Berring, a former interim dean of Berkeley Law, said the brand of legal education taught at Yale is already so academic that many in the profession consider it impractical. “I’ve been to five law schools in my time, and, of course, graduates of Yale dominate the legal academy,” Berring said. “But whenever someone from Yale comes up in conversation, someone always makes the joke, ‘Yeah, but they didn’t go to law school, they went to Yale.’” James Kwak LAW ’11 said he feared the new degree would start “an arms race” in legal education, where multiple other top-tier law schools would create similar Ph.D. programs, would become a standard at faculty hiring committees nationwide. Kwak, who was offered a position as a law professor during his third year of law school, said he sees no fault in the current system through which J.D. graduates become law professors by first clerking for judges and then doing fellowships. Post said he does not intend for the new Ph.D. to displace Ph.D.s in other disciplines on the job market. Rather, he hopes for the new degree to add another option for students crafting their courses of legal study. A current student interested in a career in legal academia, who requested anonymity because he will soon enter the legal job market, said the major advantage of the new Ph.D. program will be to allow students time to devote to research and writing, which are difficult to work into a J.D. schedule. Approximately 10 percent of law professors nationwide hold degrees from Yale Law School, as do the deans of eight of the top 10 law schools. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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New associate chaplain to engage with grad students BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER After working with HIV-positive adults in the public health sector, serving in the Peace Corps in Malawi and directing a civic service initative at Duke University, Candice Provey is tackling a new role at the Chaplain’s Office. This summer, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Reverend Ian Oliver, the pastor of the University Church, selected Provey from a pool of around 400 applicants to fill the associate chaplain post vacated by Callista Isabelle last year. As associate chaplain, Provey said she will serve as the assistant pastor to the University Church and strive to provide spiritual guidance and pastoral care to Yale students, particularly those in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools. “Right from the start one could see her skillfulness with people, her thoughtful engagement with a variety of religious voices and her calm presence,” Kugler said of Provey. “She also came with considerable experience working with graduate students at Duke along with demonstrating a heart for civic engagement and social justice.” In effort to reach out and involve graduate students in Yale’s faith community, Provey said she will work closely with the two McDougal fellows for religious and spiritual life, a branch added to the larger McDougal fellowship program last year and co-
sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Yale Chaplain’s office. The branch was created in response to a perceived need to increase religious and spiritual life resources for graduate students, many of whom felt that the existing resources were intended for undergraduates, said Jennifer Mendelsohn, associate director for graduate student life. Mendelsohn said she has already spoken with Provey about graduate student outreach, and has been impressed by her enthusiasm and approachability.
“[Provey]… is a person who understands that the mission of the University and the mission of any religious group should be fundamentally compatible. KYLE SKINNER ’11 GRD ’17 McDougal fellow for religious and spiritual life Kyle Skinner ’11 GRD ’17, one of the McDougal fellows, said he will work with Provey to develop programming that encourages interfaith dialogue, generates a sense of fellowship and inclusion in Yale’s faith community, and introduces graduate students to the variety of religious and spiritual opportunities on campus.
“Candice is uniquely qualified to work with this constituency,” Skinner said. “She is a profoundly caring pastor who is strong in her faith, but she is also a scholar at heart, a person who understands that the mission of the University and the mission of any religious group should be fundamentally compatible.” The other fellow, Tyler Hale DIV ’13, said he and Skinner have already met with Provey several times to “brainstorm” ideas about how to address the spiritual and religious needs of graduate students. He described Provey as having a warm and approachable personality, and bringing valuable perspective to the conversation. In addition to engaging with the graduate school, Provey will delivering a sermon each month at Sunday worship services at the University Church, coordinate the weekly Wednesday night services and work with the student leadership board in her role as assistant pastor. “It’s a big job with two large components, between the graduate school and the church, but she seems to be balancing them well,” Oliver said. “She brings good energy and she really seems to enjoy the students.” Provey earned her master’s degree from Duke Divinity School in 2010 and is currently seeking ordination in the Presbyterian Church. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
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Over the summer, Candice Provey was selected to succeed Callista Isabelle as associate chaplain.
Israeli official speaks about country’s future mittee, and the past few years have been reshaping the region for the 21st century. As that new order continues to unfold, Wilf said Israel should avoid inserting itself into conflicts between other Middle Eastern nations, and should instead aim to be a “bunker” by keeping its defense capabilities as strong as possible.
There is this public opinion of Israel as a war-mongering nation, itching to go to war at any moment. In reality… Israel has very prudent and measured, and has calculated its decisions carefully to avoid war at all costs. EINAT WILF Member, Israeli parliament PHILIPP ARNDT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Einat Wilf, a member of the Israeli parliament, spoke to students at William Harkness Hall Wednesday night about the future of her country and region. BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER A member of the Israeli parliament spoke to a packed room in William L. Harkness Hall on Wednesday night about Israel, the Arab Spring and the future of the Middle East.
Einat Wilf, the chair of the Education, Sports and Culture Committee of the Knesset — Israel’s legislative branch — and a native of Israel, said her country is currently in the “eye of the storm” in the Middle East. Despite the violent conflicts throughout the region, Wilf said
the political atmosphere in Israel has been one of “eerie calm” for the past four years. Going forward, she argued that the nation should remain as neutral as possible amid the region’s shifting alliances. “I predict nothing less than a decade or two of these primordial
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forces expressing themselves,” Wolf said. “It will take a while to play itself out.” The 2011 Arab Spring uprisings began to unravel the order that has existed in the Middle East since World War I, said Wilf, who also serves on Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Com-
So far, Wilf said, Israel has adhered to this course of action. “There is this public opinion of Israel as a warmongering nation, itching to go to war at any moment,” she said. “In reality, and especially since the revolutions in the Arab world, Israel has been very prudent and measured, and has calculated its decisions carefully to avoid regional war at all costs.” Wilf said there is also a false
perception that Israel does not want democracy to spread in the Middle East, for fear of losing its status as the only democractic country in the region. Israel would like nothing more than to be the first of many democracies in the region, she said. While the event drew students and faculty from several departments and segments of campus, a large portion of those in the audience were students who already have ties to Jewish life at Yale. The event was co-sponsored by Yale Friends of Israel, the Yale International Relations Association, the MacMillan Center Council on Middle East Studies, and International Security Studies at Yale. Rachel Miller ’15, who said she attends many Yale Friends of Israel and Slifka events, said it was interesting to hear an Israeli perspective on current conflicts in the Middle East, especially since Israel has tried to stay out of revolutions in the region. David Lillenfeld ’15 also said he was excited to listen to a speaker from Israel. “Dr. Wilf gave a perspective tonight, one from the Israeli government itself, that is not often given as much attention as it deserves,” he said. “To have such an articulate, intelligible speaker tonight was such a treat.” In addition to her other roles in the Israeli government, Wilf is also the chair of the Knesset subcommittee for Israel and the Jewish people. Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .
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“I’ve talked to guys who are going to start tailgating at 8 o’clock in the morning. I said, ‘Wow, I hope you make it to the game.’ ” ANTHONY SCHLEGEL FORMER NEW YORK JETS LINEBACKER
Yale Police Department, frats discuss new tailgating rules TAILGATES FROM PAGE 1 At the meeting, YPD officials said each registered tailgating group will be allotted a certain area, in which students can set up tailgating supplies, according to Singleton. He said he brought up concerns about maintaining the traditional tailgating atmosphere, adding that SAE typically brings its own couches, grills, food and beverages to the games.
It’s definitely going to be different — I’m not going to pretend to say that I think it’ll certainly be better. DANIEL TAY ’14 President, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity To transport tailgating supplies to the designated area, the YPD proposed a setup time from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., during which vehicles are allowed to drop off supplies before students arrive, Wolner said. He added that YPD officials also suggested fraternities hire caterers to supply food and drinks for the area and said administrators were considering hiring caterers as well creating a food tent open to all students. “They don’t want you to roll up with a van full of beer,” Wolner said, “but you can bring stuff in [to the tailgating area.]” In addition to how supplies arrive at the tailgate, Singleton said administrators addressed issues concerning student transportation. Previously, more than 10 students were often driven to the tailgates in the back of U-Hauls, he added. Administrators told attendees that they were in the process of drawing up new, more conve-
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Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins, left, met with fraternity leaders including former SAE president Ben Singleton ’13 last week to discuss the University’s new off-campus party registration requirement. Following the success of that meeting, a follow-up meeting was held Wednesday to address concerns about the tailgating restrictions issued in January. nient bus routes to encourage students to take the buses and prevent attendance from dropping, he said. Daniel Tay ’14, president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said he is expecting the tailgating atmosphere to change, but he hopes students can work with administrators to maintain a fun
tailgating tradition. “It’s definitely going to be different — I’m not going to pretend to say that I think it’ll certainly be better,” he said. “It’s going to be a matter of how these issues get figured out in a couple weeks leading up to the tailgate, and the incentives they provide to get students out there.”
Singleton, Tay and Wolner all said they were more optimistic about tailgating prospects after the meeting, and plan to encourage students to attend the first home football game against Colgate on Sept. 29. YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins said he decided to call the Wednesday meeting because of
the success of last week’s meeting about off-campus party registration. “The meeting that we had last week with the Greek leadership was tremendously productive,” Higgins said, “so much so that we were able to identify other areas of mutual interest, including Yale’s new tailgating rules.”
The YPD plans to meet with Greek leaders again for feedback after the first tailgate, according to Singleton. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 12:00 PM “Climate Change and Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean.” Thomas Near, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will give this Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies seminar. A light lunch will be provided. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), room 110. 5:00 PM “The New Haven Green: Heart of a City.” The 452nd Meeting of the Beaumont Medical Club will include a screening and discussion of this new documentary film, followed by discussion with its producer and director, Karyl Evans. Open to the general public. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Historical Library. 8:00 PM The Mingus Big Band. The Grammy Award-winning 14-piece Mingus Big Band will perform as part of the Ellington Jazz Series. Tickets $20-$30, students $10. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.
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U.S. sends marines to Libya after deadly attack BY OSAMA ALFITORY AND MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS BENGHAZI, Libya — The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday following a mob attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. U.S. officials are investigating whether the violence - initially blamed on an anti-Islamic video - was a terrorist attack planned to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. Tuesday’s stunning attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi poses a daunting task for U.S. and Libyan investigators: searching for the culprits in a city rife with heavy weapons, multiple militias, armed Islamist groups and little police control. The one-story villa that serves as the consulate was a burnedout wreck after the crowd armed with machine guns and rocketpropelled grenades rampaged through it. Slogans of “God is great” and “Muhammad is God’s Prophet” were scrawled across its scorched walls. Libyan civilians strolled freely in charred rooms with furniture and papers strewn everywhere. President Barack Obama vowed in a Rose Garden address that the U.S. would “work with the Libyan government to bring to justice” those who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, information manager Sean Smith and two other Americans who were not identified. Three other Americans were wounded. Stevens was the first U.S.
ambassador killed in the line of duty in 30 years. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence. None,” said Obama, who also ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts abroad. Republican Mitt Romney accused the Obama administration of showing weakness in the consulate killings, but the president retorted that his rival “seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later.” Some in the GOP called Romney’s remarks hasty. The mob attack was initially presumed to have been a spontaneous act triggered by outrage over a movie mocking Islam’s Prophet Muhammad that was produced in the U.S. and excerpted on YouTube. The video also drew protests in Cairo, where angry ultraconservatives climbed the U.S. Embassy’s walls, tore down an American flag and replaced it with an Islamic banner. But a U.S. counterterrorism official said the Benghazi violence was “too coordinated or professional” to be spontaneous. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the incident publicly. The FBI was sending evidence teams to Libya, a law enforcement official said. Libya’s new leadership scrambling to preserve ties with Washington after U.S. help to overthrow former dictator Moammar Gadhafi - vowed to find those behind the attack. Interim
President Mohammed el-Megarif apologized to the United States for what he called the “cowardly” assault, which also killed several Libyan security guards at the consulate in the eastern city. Parliament speaker Omar alHoumidan suggested the attack might have been planned, saying the mob “may have had foreign loyalties” - an apparent reference to international terrorists. “We are not sure. Everything is possible,” he said. A Libyan jihadist group, the Omar Abdel-Rahman Brigades, claimed responsibility for a bomb that went off outside the Benghazi consulate in June, causing no injuries. The group, which also carried out several attacks on the International Red Cross in Libya, said at the time that the bomb was revenge for the killing of al-Qaida’s No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. About 50 U.S. Marines were sent to Libya to guard U.S. diplomatic facilities. The Marines are members of an elite group known as a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, or FAST, whose role is to respond on short notice to terrorism threats and to reinforce security at embassies. The Marines, sent from a base in Spain, were headed initially to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, not to Benghazi, according to U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. The consulate attack illustrated the breakdown in security in Libya, where the government is still trying to establish authority
U.S. probes 9/11 link in Libya attack BY MATTHEW LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and not a spontaneous mob enraged over an anti-Islam YouTube video. President Barack Obama declared in a White House appearance that the U.S. would “work with the Libyan government to bring to justice” those who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The attack on the Benghazi consulate was “a planned, coordinated, well-executed military style event,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said. In a show of force, the Pentagon moved two warships to the Libyan coast. Officials said one destroyer, the USS Laboon, moved to a position off the coast Wednesday, and the destroyer USS McFaul was en route and should be stationed off the coast within days, increasing the number of Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean from four to five. The officials said the ships, which carry Tomahawk cruise missiles, do not have a specific mission. But they give command-
ers flexibility to respond to any mission ordered by the president. At the same time, some 50 U.S. Marines headed to Libya to reinforce security at U.S. diplomatic facilities, initially at the American embassy in Tripoli, not Benghazi. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss troop movements. White House press secretary Jay Carney said it was too early to judge whether the Benghazi attack was planned.
When you see [such an attack], it wasn’t some folks who had some guns in their garage and said let’s shoot up the consulate. MIKE ROGERS U.S. Representative, R-Mich. “I know that this is being investigated, and we’re working with the Libyan government to investigate the incident. I would not want to speculate on that at this time,” he said. Several Libyan security guards also were killed. Rogers, R-Mich., said U.S. intelligence had not yet determined who was responsible, but
added, “Our list is narrowing.” “When you see (such an attack), it wasn’t some folks who had some guns in their garage and said let’s shoot up the consulate,” Rogers said in an interview Wednesday. The FBI was sending evidence teams to Libya, said a law enforcement official. Analysts are working on several different scenarios based on intelligence that could lead to a motive for the attack. Some concern the possibility of targeting highranking officials, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. But none of the intelligence has suggested terrorists would specifically target Stevens, said the official who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The attack in Libya, which came hours after a mob stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down the U.S. flag, was presumed to have been triggered by a movie, whose trailer has gone viral on YouTube, depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in disrespectful ways. In an extraordinary move, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called anti-Islamic preacher Terry Jones and asked him to stop promoting the film. A spokeswoman said the church would not show the film Wednesday evening.
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President Barack Obama with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden. months after Gadhafi’s fall. There also were indications that two distinct attacks took place - one on the consulate, then a second hours later early Wednesday on a nearby house to which the staff had been evacuated. The crowd of several thousand that descended on the consulate was armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, said Wanis el-Sharef, the deputy interior minister of Libya’s eastern region. A small contingent of Libyan security protecting the facility
fired in the air, trying to intimidate the mob. But faced with superior size and firepower, the Libyan security withdrew, el-Sharef said. Gunmen stormed the building, looted its contents and torched it, he said. Details of how the Americans were killed were still unclear. Stevens, 52, and a consulate staffer who had stayed behind in the building died in the initial attack, el-Sharef said. The rest of the staff successfully evacuated to a nearby building, preparing to move to Benghazi Airport after daybreak to fly to the capital
of Tripoli, he said. Hours after the storming of the consulate, a separate group of gunmen attacked the other building, opening fire on the more than 30 Americans and Libyans inside. Two more Americans were killed, he said. Dr. Ziad Abu Zeid, who treated Stevens, told The Associated Press that he died of asphyxiation, apparently from smoke. In a sign of the chaos, Stevens was brought by Libyans to the Benghazi Medical Center with no other Americans, and no one at the facility knew who he was, Abu Zeid said.
Romney moves to put Wisconsin in play BY BRIAN BAKST ASSOCIATED PRESS NORTH HUDSON, Wis. — Out of necessity and emboldened by recent GOP strides in Wisconsin, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has drawn President Barack Obama into a fight for a state the incumbent Democrat won handily four years ago and his party hasn’t lost since 1984. Just two months before Election Day, Wisconsin has emerged as the latest presidential battleground. Television advertising is rushing in. And both campaigns are jockeying for its 10 electoral votes as each looks to rack up wins in enough states to accumulate the 270 votes needed for victory. Romney has fewer ways to do that so he’s turned to Wisconsin - where Republicans like Gov. Scott Walker have had success since 2008 and where Romney running mate Paul Ryan lives - presumably in hopes that a win here will offset a loss elsewhere. Republicans and Democrats say internal polling shows Obama ahead, though public surveys show a closer race. Undeterred by the state’s historic Democratic bent, Romney started airing TV ads here this week reminding voters of a ballooning federal debt that now tops $16 trillion. GOP outside groups already have spent weeks running ads raising concern over the Obama health care law and inviting those who backed him in 2008 to switch sides. Ryan, who is also on Wisconsin’s ballot for his House seat, is reinforcing those messages with his own commercials paid for by his congressional campaign fund.
Refusing to cede ground, a pro-Obama group has reserved air time to run anti-Romney spots through November’s election; Obama’s campaign began ads in the state on Wednesday that argue Romney was looking out for the rich at the expense of the middle class. Both candidates also are dispatching their No. 2s to the state; Ryan returned Wednesday for his third large-scale rally in a month and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden is swooping in Thursday to Eau Claire. In neighborhoods like one in North Hudson, competing campaign signs are cropping up again. So are the divisions. Retired teacher Ron Jacobson ticked off a list of reasons he can’t stomach Obama, and confessed he’s more excited about the prospect of Obama losing than Romney winning. “He has to be a little more forceful,” Jacobson said, urging the Republican nominee to show more of his personality, come harder at Obama and “toot his own horn a little bit more.” Chuck Schultz, a retired Methodist minister and counselor, backs Obama but has no illusion that 2012 will be as much of a walkover as 2008. “Nothing is as exciting as the beginning of the new romance even though the long-term relationship is often more productive,” Schultz said. “It’s hard to be wildly enthusiastic about the guy who’s not new anymore.” There are reasons for Romney to think he has a shot here, and that help explain why Obama’s campaign and state Democrats have been girding for a closer election this fall than his 14-point win in 2008.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS THIRD EYE BLIND In the 1990s, Third Eye Blind was known for dropping candy out of piñatas into the mosh pit during concerts. The band is currently working on a fifth studio album, which as yet has no announced release date.
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Typo at root of cheating scandal, letter reveals BY MERCER COOK AND REBECCA ROBBINS STAFF WRITERS The investigation that has heaped scrutiny upon Harvard, sidelined the captains of the men’s basketball team, and landed nearly 2 percent of the student body in disciplinary hot water all began with a 1910 Congressional revolt and a simple typo. In a letter dated May 14 obtained by The Crimson this week, assistant professor Matthew B. Platt described the series of discoveries that led him to bring the final takehome exams submitted by his students in Government 1310: “Introduction to Congress” to the attention of the Administrative Board, a move that launched Harvard’s most
sweeping and public plagiarism inquiry in recent memory. The letter, addressed HARVARD to Ad Board Secretary John “Jay” L. Ellison, narrated Platt’s first suspicions of plagiarism in 13 exams among the 279 submitted in the spring course. Platt’s initial report prompted the Ad Board to spend the summer reviewing all the final exams. By the time the College publicly announced the investigation on Aug. 30, the number of students under investigation had ballooned to about 125 undergraduates.
Platt’s letter identified two groups of students represented among the first 13 suspicious exams: graduating members of the Class of 2012 and members of the baseball team.
I am convinced that the similarities between these papers are not the product of chance. MATTHEW PLATT Assistant Professor, Government 1310 Members of the basketball and football teams have been implicated in the scandal, but no professor or administrator had
previously linked any extracurricular organizations to the case. In his letter, Platt said he had detected similar strings of words in multiple questions on multiple exams, including the same unusual responses, the same misunderstandings of course materials, and an identical typo. On a bonus question, “all the answers use the same (incorrect) reading of the course material in arguments that are identically structured,” Platt wrote. He wrote that one of his teaching fellows originally detected suspicious similarities on that question, which read, “Describe two developments in the history of Congress that ostensibly gave individual MCs [members of Congress] in the House greater freedom and/or
control but ultimately centralized power in the hands of party leadership.” Several students answered that question with the same two “somewhat obscure” responses—the Cannon Revolt of 1910 and longtime 19th century Congressman Henry Clay, Platt wrote. Platt wrote that upon further examination, “comparisons with some of these exams also suggest that there was collaboration on the three other short answer questions and essays.” Then he compared the suspicious exams with a random test selected from the class. “I am convinced that the similarities between these papers are not the product of chance,” he concluded. Also among the shared
phrases were “Freddie Mac’s stealth lobbying campaign” and “22, 500 organizations in 2008,” Platt wrote. He also noted that the same typo—an unnecessary space in “22, 500” — was present in two exams. Interim baseball coach Thomas Lo Ricco could not be reached for comment Tuesday night on the team’s mention in the letter, and team captain Kyle R. Larrow ’13 declined to comment. Ellison declined to comment on the letter, saying it is a confidential Ad Board document — indeed, it is branded with a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp. Platt, who has declined to comment since the scandal first broke, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on Tuesday.
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After 9-year absence, Third Eye Blind to return
Econ prof declares support for Romney BY MARIA BASHKTOVA STAFF WRITER
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Third Eye Blind, seen above performing at Yale’s Spring Fling in 2011, will play at Princeton’s Lawnparties this spring. BY ALICE KILPATRICK STAFF WRITER Third Eye Blind will headline this fall’s Lawnparties USG-sponsored concert, president Bruce Easop ’13 announced Saturday. An alternative rock band, Third Eye Blind debuted with a self-titled album in 1997. The band rose to fame through popular hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Jumper” and “How’s It Going to Be.” Third Eye Blind’s most recent album, “Ursa Major,” was released in 2009. The band last performed on campus in 2003 as part of the USG spring concert in Dillon Gymnasium, before the USGsponsored concert was moved to Quad-
rangle Club. The decision by the USG to have Third Eye Blind perform at that concert was highly criticized because the USG also chose PRINCETON to sponsor a show by Goo Goo Dolls. Some students argued that the two bands appealed to similar audiences and failed to provide a musical option for everyone. However, this time the band’s presence will deviate from recent USG-sponsored performers. The past five Lawnparties performers, such as B.O.B., Wiz Khalifa and Childish Gambino, have all been hiphop or rap artists.
USG social chair Benedict Wagstaff ’14 declined to be interviewed. However, he explained his choice on his Facebook page. “You asked for rock… rock is what you got. You asked to be taken back to your yesteryears ... that is what you got,” he wrote. “You asked to be able to sing along ... show me you can.” Third Eye Blind is currently on a nationwide tour taking them to college campuses beyond Princeton. The band also performed at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in February, at Notre Dame in March and at Boston College in April. Lawnparties will be held on Sunday, Sept. 16.
Professor of Economics George Borts recently signed his name to a statement of support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s proposed economic policy, joining more than 640 economists, including six Nobel Laureates, on the list titled “Economists for Romney.” The statement of support outlines Romney’s proposed fiscal policies, which include cutting taxes, limiting federal spending to 20 percent of the economy to cut down on the federal debt, reducing the growth of Social Security and Medicare, decreasing federal economic regulations, reforming national health care legislation and encouraging the use of domestic energy resources. Disappointment with the current administration’s economic policy, the importance of this presidential election and his respect for other economists who signed the statement factored into his decision to add his name, Borts said. Roberto Serrano, chair of the economics department, declined to comment on Borts’ endorsement. Many other faculty members have taken public stances to support liberal political candidates and liberal policy, wrote Terrence George ’13, president of the Brown Republicans, in an email to The Herald. These have included professors who have protested the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Brown, supported the Occupy movement and signed leftist political petitions, he said. George added that Borts should receive “the same level of quiet acceptance” from the Brown community as mem-
bers of the faculty who voice liberal views. Though Borts’ support for a Republican BROWN presidential candidate may place him in the minority of the University community, differing views can foster intellectual diversity and discussion, said Sofia Fernandez Gold ’14, president of the Brown Democrats. Fernandez Gold said that she would be happy taking classes from professors of all political inclinations, as long as the professor’s personal views do not get in the way of teaching or result in discrimination. “We can only truly understand why we believe what we do when our ideas are challenged, and we’re forced to defend them,” she said. “If I always stayed out of a classroom where a conservative professor was teaching, I don’t think I would learn a lot.” “I try to stay on the economics, and also, if I do deal with issues that are controversial, I try to be sure that I will assign both positions. I don’t feel as if I’m there to proselytize,” Borts said. But he added that he will voice his opinion if asked and that the atmosphere at the University is one of free speech, which leads to healthy discussion among faculty and students. Though offending the administration with one’s views was once grounds for being fired, the freedom of faculty to voice political views has been widespread at universities since the 20th century, he said. “I’d like to think that voting for a Republican is still not going to lead people to be fired,” Borts said.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JIM CALHOUN Calhoun will retire today as the University of Connecticut’s basketball coach, according to several media outlets. In his 26 seasons with Connecticut, his team has won three national championships and earned a reputation for producing NBA-caliber players.
Gibson ’12 becomes Yale’s first Rookie of the Year
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Matt Gibson ’12, No. 33 in the above photos, is the only person from Yale currently on the Major League Lacrosse roster. He had 33 points in his first season with the Long Island Lizards. M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 halfway point of the season Gibson far surpassed all other rookies with 10 goals and 10 assists and was the only first-year player to be named to the 2012 MLL All-Star team. Gibson said that the biggest adjustment for him was not the speed or talent of professional players, but rather the different role he walked into on the Lizards. “In college I was the go-to guy and a lot of our offensive success hinged on me,” Gibson said. “On the Lizards I had to take a back seat and learn how to fit into
a new role. Fortunately, they weren’t asking me to do anything very different than what I did in college … The only difference was the number of touches I was getting.” While Gibson’s emergence as an MLL star may have shocked many in the lacrosse world, it came as no surprise to his teammates and his coach. Both midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 and head coach Andy Shay noted that Gibson played at a high level his senior year, and the jump to the pros was well within his reach. “People didn’t realize how good Matt was last year,” Lev-
ings said. “We may not have expected [Gibson’s Rookie of the Year season] but we certainly weren’t surprised.” Shay added that Gibson scored multiple points on three of the top six defensemen in the country and was the catalyst for the entire Bulldog offense last season. During his senior year, Gibson scored 61 points, earned firstteam All-Ivy honors and finished eighth in Division I with 2.06 assists per game. He led the Bulldogs to a No. 12 national ranking and the team’s first NCAA berth since 1992. The Elis qualified for the
NCAA tournament with two upset wins over then-No. 13 Cornell and then-No. 9 Princeton. Gibson had 14 points in those games and set an Ivy League Tournament record with 8 assists in the Bulldogs’ 14–10 dismantling of the Big Red in the semifinals. Gibson said his triumphs at Yale are the ones he cherishes most. “[Winning the Ivy League Tournament] was the greatest thing I’ve done in my career thus far,” Gibson said. “My first year we won one Ivy League game. Our goal over the past few years was transforming the pro-
Rugby gains prominence W. RUGBY FROM PAGE 12 President and prop Amanda Hall ’14 said the promotion would be positive in the sense that players would not be responsible for administrative duties and can focus on playing, but negative because control would no longer be in the hands of the students. Harvard’s women’s rugby team achieved some remarkable feats in collegiate rugby last year. The Crimson ended the fall 2011 season ranking 23rd nationally in Division I and was named champion in the USA Rugby Collegiate Division II National Championship. While slowly phasing out several of the men’s junior varsity teams, Harvard has been strengthening more lucrative programs, including rugby. Brao said that Harvard hopes other teams will follow its lead. “Brown and Dartmouth have also expressed interest in becoming varsity programs, and they’ll likely become even better with access to increased funding, more institutional support and the opportunity to recruit,” Brao said. “In order for the other Ivy League teams to compete, we’ll also have to go varsity.” Brao added that with six Harvard players named to the All-Ivy squad, the Crimson is using its accomplishments as viable justification for a $10 million fundraising event in order to build a new stadium and enhance its facilities. However, Harvard’s oldest athletic team, men’s rugby, still does not play in the varsity level despite being the first rugby club in North America. Last year, the team was in the final four of the National Sweet 16.
“We would love to have a varsity team,” Harvard men’s rugby head coach David Gonzalez said. “I hope that in the future this will translate to varsity recognition [for men’s rugby], which would afford teams the opportunity to recruit players, hire full-time coaching staff and trainers and, all in all, improve the level of competition,” he said.
It should mean a higher profile for rugby and a greater allocation of resources from the school. The women have been working hard and have found a lot of success recently, so this is a welldeserved promotion. DAVID GONZALEZ Harvard men’s rugby head coach Even so, the Crimson men’s rugby team is excited that its female counterpart has been promoted to varsity status. “It should mean a higher profile for rugby and a greater allocation of resources from the school,” Gonzalez said. “The women have been working hard and have found a lot of success recently, so this is a well-deserved promotion.” He added rugby is on the rise nationally, growing in popularity, organization and level of competition.
If the Yale women’s rugby team enters the varsity level, it will have to forego its status as a club-level team and will lose its self-run status. Hall said that rugby’s club sport status creates a “unique experience.” The time commitment is not as intense, as practices are less frequent and there is not as much game travel as a varsity team would have. Brao said she was partly attracted to rugby because she wanted to take two labs in a semester without her classes conflicting with practice. Hall added that while the team has a schedule set by Ivy League Rugby and has a certified coach at all games and practices, it retains control over just about everything. “I would imagine that [our] schedule would become even more time-intensive and mirror current varsity schedules with daily practice, access to an athletic trainer and time spent in the weight room,” Hall said. “Obviously there would be increased expectations on the field, but the removal of responsibility over things like the budget or scheduling buses, referees and field space would be the most noticeable differences if the team turns into varsity.” The women’s rugby team at Yale was established in 1978. The team practices for two hours three times per week and plays against teams in New England Rugby Football Division Union’s College I. Last weekend, the team travelled to Amherst, Mass. for a two-day tournament. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
gram and turning things around. A couple years ago we got close — we made the tournament and were ranked — and this year we finally did it.” Despite this outstanding performance at the tail end of his college career, Gibson was left off the 2012 All-American list, a move Shay called “an absolute disgrace.” Gibson recorded 36 points his junior season and received Honorable Mention All-American honors, yet his 61 points were insufficient to earn him the same award his senior season. Gibson outscored seven out of the 11 2012 Honorable Mentions and
four out of the seven second and third-team All-Americans. After an entire season of professional play and his Rookie of the Year award, Gibson said he was no longer frustrated about his apparent slight by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. “It’s nice to get some recognition finally, and a lot of people agree that it was strange [being left off the All-American list],” Gibson said. “But I’m a lot happier to have had the senior season that I did.” Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.sullivan@yale.edu .
Fantasy dilutes game energy FANTASY FROM PAGE 12 ESPN fantasy programming on Sunday mornings. Clearly, the NFL does not think fantasy football is destroying the game (nor do I, as of yet). In fact, NFL officials do not seem to share my anxiety and instead actively promote fantasy as part of the League’s brand. The NFL runs its own league manager product for the fantasy game on its official website and is now broadcasting out-of-town fantasy highlights to spectators in stadiums. If fantasy is attracting new fans or turning casual football watchers into serious fans, I have no problem. But when more and more fans are only fantasy football fans, the NFL is distorting the goals and incentives of its main product, football. Live team sports inspire conversation and unity. They are a ritual of competition that have brought people together for generations. Thus it’s hard not to see fantasy as an attack on that ritual. Interestingly, the NFL doesn’t even seem to recognize its own manufactured irony in a 2010 commercial promoting its “improved” fantasy football website that added supple-
mental video to the statistics. If you want to make this column truly interactive, search “NFL Say Goodbye to Dots” on YouTube and follow along for the full effect. The script: “Football’s never been a game of dots. So why should your fantasy game be one? Goodbye dots. Hello video. Sign up and play the first fantasy game with video, new at NFL.com. You want the NFL, go to the NFL.” Fine, that’s all well and good — and a clever advertisement. But brief video clips fail to replicate the full experience — they are only snippets of a game, just like clips of a movie. And they have nothing to do with team success or hometown pride. It’s ironic how video clips are supposed to “improve” the fantasy experience when it should be the other way around — fantasy should improve the existing experience. Let’s change up the script on that commercial: “You want the NFL? Watch the NFL. And if you still want more, then sign up and play fantasy. Football’s never been a game of dots. So why should your NFL experience be one?” Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .
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BOBBY THALMAN ’13 NAMED TO IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLL Thalman, goalkeeper for the men’s soccer team, was recognized after earning an 0.812 save percentage and an 0.93 goals against average last weekend. He has made 13 saves so far this season. The Elis face Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart this weekend.
MARY BETH BARHAM ’13 NAMED TO IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLL Barham, a midfielder on the field hockey team, earned the weekly honor for defensive play against Hofstra and Quinnipiac this past weekend. The Bulldogs will need her to continue her solid play when they take on Harvard on Saturday without the injured Georgia Holland ’14.
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Real football is not fantasy “God bless fantasy football. There are many things a man can do with his time. This is better than those things.” This monologue kicked off the first season of “The League,” an FX series that features a cast of characters joined together by their annual fantasy football league. Going into its fourth season, the show is a testament to the popularity of its already-ficticious subject matter. I enjoy the show for what it is — a lowbrow comedy that relies on its characters and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Fantasy football is just the backdrop. Yet I saw that now-semi-famous dialogue appear last week on my Facebook news feed to welcome in the new NFL season. The decision to mark the occasion by preaching the joys of fantasy football is revealing — because, you know, most people used to be excited about the actual football being played. For some, fantasy football has become more than just a supplement to the season — it has become its own season. Fantasy football doesn’t have to be all bad. Just like “The League,” I enjoy fantasy leagues for what they are; it is fun to draft my team each fall and see how it shakes out. (Unsurprisingly, I lost last week.) There are other positive externalities; much of the contact I have with friends from home is through our fantasy football, basketball and baseball leagues. To be clear: Fantasy football has definitely enhanced my footballwatching experience.
DON’T LET FANTASY FANDOM DILUTE THE REAL GAME OF FOOTBALL Yet enhancing an experience is far different from overshadowing it, and I am troubled by the increasing takeover of fantasy football. Fantasy is not the same experience as the reality of live NFL action. A game has its own unique atmosphere, storylines, triumphs and failures. I know I am biased as a lover of storytelling, narrative and live action, but fantasy is just not as engaging. When pushed to its extreme, fantasy football is diluting the fun of the sport instead of serving as a nice side dish. I know I am starting to sound a little like a cantankerous old man unwilling to accept change. But this is not just a gradual shift or tweaking of the rules; it is a total repurposing of the game. Fantasy football takes a team-based sport and transforms it into a bizarre contest where individual performances shine over team wins. The NFL is about cities packing stadiums and coming together. Teams feed off this energy to work together for wins. It is about the Bills miraculously taking down the Patriots; not that Houston’s Arian Foster ran 100 yards and had two TDs to “get me” 20 points. It’s also unsettling to hear someone’s loyalty for the hometown team diluted in favor of trying to will fantasy scenarios to fruition. As someone told me last weekend (in summary): “Yeah, I want the Bears to win. But I also hope Andrew Luck has a good debut and keeps things close for the Colts … because he’s my fantasy QB.” How far are we willing to take this? Instead of sitting down to watch the game with friends and family on Sunday, some of us are staring at spreadsheets and furiously clicking to make last-minute roster moves. We now have columnists entirely devoted to fantasy football analysis and a full block of SEE FANTASY PAGE 11
Gibson ’12 shines in pros MEN’S LACROSSE
BY JOHN SULLIVAN STAFF REPORTER A Yalie has stunned the lacrosse world as a rising star in the major leagues. At the start of this year’s Major League Lacrosse Season, InsideLacrosse.com published its predictions for the 2012 Rookie of the Year award. Rob Pannell, the 2010 and 2011 National Attackman of the Year from Cornell, topped the list, followed by two-time AllAmericans Steele Stanwick, Mark Matthews and CJ Costabile. But by midseason, each of these four had fallen off the map and only one name remained on the website’s revised list — Matt Gibson ’12 of the Long Island Lizards.
People didn’t realize how good Matt was last year. We may not have expected [the award] but we certainly weren’t surprised. DYLAN LEVINGS ’14 Midfielder, men’s lacrosse Gibson, the only Eli currently playing professional men’s lacrosse, went on to lead all rookies with 33 points his first season and walked away with the Rookie of the Year award that Inside Lacrosse predicted for him with seven weeks left in the season. It was the first time a Yale graduate earned the award. “It’s definitely a big honor, but I wouldn’t have been too upset not to get it,” Gibson said. “There are a lot of other great rookies in the league and mostly it just gives me a bit of confidence going forward.” The former Yale attacker took the league by storm with a goal and four assists in his first professional game and earned Rookie of the Week honors for his debut performance. At the SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 11
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Matt Gibson ’12 of the Long Island Lizards earned this season’s Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year award.
Harvard elevates women’s rugby BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER Harvard announced last month that it will elevate women’s rugby, currently a club sport, to the varsity level starting in the 2013-’14 season. With the move, the women’s rugby team at Yale expects that the Bulldogs will soon match the challenge.
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Yale’s women’s rugby is currently a club sport, but could one day follow the lead of Harvard’s team, which now has varsity status.
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“It is fairly likely that Yale will go varsity in the next few years … in order to remain competitive in the Ivy League,” captain and flyhalf Kriste Brao ’13 said. Amelia Luciano, assistant women’s rugby coach at Yale, added that women’s rugby has been an “emerging sport” for a while, and Harvard is hoping to begin a trend among other Ivy League rugby teams by making the transition to the varsity level. SEE W. RUGBY PAGE 11
THE NUMBER OF HARVARD VARSITY TEAMS FOR THE 2013-2014 SEASON. The Crimson, who boast more varsity teams than any other school in the nation, promoted women’s rugby to varsity status this week. Yale’s youngest varsity team is its sailing program.