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ENTREPRENEURS TREKKING OFF THE BEATEN PATH?

A NEW REUNION

GRASS ROOTS

FOOTBALL

Ezra Stiles to mark 50th anniversary with collegespecific reunion

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Following Georgetown win, Yale travels to Cornell for Ivy opener

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Yale closes gender gap in sciences

Athletes question admit policy after Levin

Today’s the day! Hip college

students across New Haven, rejoice: the iPhone 5 is out today at 8 a.m. At the Apple Store on Broadway Avenue, a few brave fans began forming a line early Thursday evening; just before midnight, four people had lined up. Black curtains in the windows prevented passersby from seeing inside the store.

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER While a gender gap still exists in the sciences, female students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are better represented at Yale on average than at other colleges and universities nationwide.

Predictions. A group of sportswriters from the Ivy League’s student newspapers are predicting that Cornell will defeat Yale in tomorrow’s football game; only Dartmouth thinks the Elis will prevail.

Yale has made advances with regards to gender quite frankly by being Yale.

She had money problems?

Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who became a multi-millionaire as the leader of World Wrestling Entertainment, decided Thursday to repay $1 million in debts she walked away from in a 1975 bankruptcy that has become a part of her campaign narrative, the Hartford Courant reported.

The announcement comes after her opponent, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, had applied pressure on McMahon’s economic record, just as he faced criticism for failing to make payments on his home.

New demographic. The New Haven-based 3Penny Orchestra, whose “Call Me Maybe” cover arranged by Arianne Abela MUS ’10 and Colin Britt MUS ’10 has scored 1.4 million hits on YouTube in just over a week, appeared on Today Thursday morning.

Sorry we’re not sorry. An

article in the Atlantic Wire claims that convenient access to delicious, allnatural burgers in New Haven has ruined Shake Shack for everyone else. Because the New Haven location was the chain’s 15th, New York City law demands that Shake Shacks display calorie counts on their menus. A Double Shackburger, as it turns out, is 770 calories.

More election troubles. The

election saga continues in the fifth Assembly District.

One vote originally marked “deceased” turned out to be from an elderly woman who is not, in fact, dead. The vote could have broken a 774-774 tie in the race between Leo Canty and Brandon McGee for the Democratic nomination, except that it was cast for a third candidate. Now, there will be a revote on Oct. 2 to determine the winner, the Hartford Courant reported.

Yes sir. A ribbon-cutting ceremony today at 11:30 a.m. on the Hewitt Quadrangle will welcome ROTC to campus.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 “The Yale College Council has gotten a reputation for blowing a lot of hot air around,” YCC Chairman Dan Meyer says.

“This year we need to develop more concrete programs.”

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Athletes interviewed said they hope that University President Richard Levin’s successor will reverse his policy on athletic recruitment so that Yale teams can be more competitive within the Ivy League.

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS Yale’s next president will have the chance to reevaluate an athletic recruitment policy that has sparked controversy and frustration among many members of the University’s athletic community.

During University President Richard Levin’s tenure, the percentage of athletic recruits at Yale has decreased from 18 percent in the class of 1998 to 13 percent in the class of 2015. Following his direction, the University has recruited fewer athletes in recent years than the maximum number allowed by Ivy League regulations. regulations.

“[Levin] certainly knows there are, at times, people who disagree with him, and I would be one of those who disagree with him on the limits we have on student athletes to this great place,” Beckett said.

While Beckett said Levin reevaluates the recruitment policy each year through

The percentage of female STEM majors in the senior class at Yale has hovered between 39 and 46 percent — slightly above the national average — for the past six

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COMMUTING TO CLASS

A tale of two cities

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ost commuters travel into New York City from its suburbs.

But a small group of Yale professors make the reverse trip — from their homes in the Big Apple to their classrooms in New Haven. JULIA ZORTHIAN reports.

When Daniel Magaziner wakes up in his Brooklyn apartment, he hopes it is not raining. An assistant professor in the History Department, Magaziner faces a twoand-a-half-hour commute to his office in the Hall of Graduate Studies every Tuesday and Thursday. When it rains, Magaziner said, he cannot use his bike to get to the subway, which adds another half an hour to the trip.

On sunny days, Magaziner leaves by 7:40 a.m. and bikes for five minutes to the Nevins Street subway stop, where he locks his bike before the 25-minute ride to Grand Central Station. He boards the 8:34 a.m.

Metro North train, and always sits in the same spot: the window seat of the second three-seater row on the right through the second door of the last car. At 10:36 a.m., the train pulls into the New Haven State

VINCENT WILCZYNSKI Deputy Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Street stop, and Magaziner walks from there to his office, arriving by 9:30 a.m.

“I get a lot of exercise,” he said, laughing.

While the majority of Yale’s faculty live on campus, Magaziner is one of at least 25 Yale professors who commute from New York to teach. Some only travel for the day, while others split their nights between the two cities — all overcoming the physical distance to support students as if they lived just blocks away.

FILLING OBLIGATIONS

Yale has no policy stipulating where professors must live. The Yale Faculty Handbook requires that full-time faculty spend “most days of the work week” on campus to fulfill all duties required of all faculty

Future of SOM facilities weighed

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTERS Before the School of Management moves to its new campus in December 2013, administrators are planning how best to repurpose the classrooms and office space that the school will leave behind.

The classroom facilities in the school’s main building at 135 Prospect St. will likely remain classrooms, some for use by Yale College, Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle said in a Wednesday email. One block over, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs will move into Horchow Hall, the Tuscan-style

mansion that SOM currently occupies at 55 Hillhouse Ave. To determine the future of the other SOM buildings, the Provost’s Office is forming a faculty committee to determine options for both the short-term and longterm, Suttle said.

“It’s a hodgepodge of interesting buildings that range from grand mansions to excellent modern classroom facilities,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said.

The buildings could serve well as a “swing space” for departments located in facilities that require renovation, Miller said, adding that the Hall of GradSEE SOM PAGE 6

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Obama races ahead of Romney in Conn. polls

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After faltering in late August, President Barack Obama appears to have reaffirmed his grasp on the state’s electorate.

A poll released Wednesday by the University of Connecticut and the Hartford Courant, found Obama leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 21 percentage points, 53 to 32, among Connecticut voters. That result came less than a month after a Quinnipiac University poll put Obama only seven points ahead in a state that the president carried by 22 points in 2008 and is consid-

ered to be among the safest states for Democrats. Experts and politicos on campus suggested that, beyond the presidential race, these numbers could bear on the race for the state’s open Senate seat.

Gary Rose, a professor of government and politics at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield and frequent commentator on polling data, attributed Obama’s gains in Connecticut primarily to a successful Democratic National Convention. The convention, a three-day event held in Charlotte, N.C., in early September, gave the Obama camSEE OBAMA PAGE 6

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Office space in T.M. Evans Hall, located at 56 Hillhouse Ave., will open up when the School of Management moves to its new campus in 2013.

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GUEST COLUMNIST GABRIEL LEVINE

A more intellectual Yale W

e’ve been seduced: by a 6.8 percent acceptance rate, by the extracurricular bazaar and by the career fair. Most of all, we’ve been seduced by Tony Blair and Stanley McChrystal. We’ve been convinced, whether we ever think of ourselves in these terms or not, that we are, to use a phrase once employed to describe my high school, the “joyful elite;” that we are engaged, that we are passionate and that we are on our way to careers of real worth and standing.

We’ve been seduced — and we’ve been silenced.

Yesterday afternoon, Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in the Political Science Department, spoke to a seminar-sized group of students about what he terms “the corporatization of Yale.”

In Sleeper’s account, the University, in pursuing legitimate ends such as global engagement and fundraising, has been caught in a tide overwhelming all academia. Yale has been carried away from the values that undergird its educational mission, towards a model of opaque authority that treats students as customers.

While Sleeper’s critique focuses on the Yale administration, he contends that corporatization has also crept into the student body. Students ingratiate themselves to authority figures and take care not to jeopardize their eventual senatorial prospects. But the confusion about the purpose of the University runs deeper: Too often, we at Yale forget that we came here because we are intellectual omnivores.

We prioritize the extracurricular over the curricular. We are overwhelmed as freshmen by the number of organizations in Payne Whitney — most genuinely interesting, most of genuine value. Nothing wrong with that: Yale really is one of the few places on Earth where so many smart, motivated people are together in one place.

Yet somewhere between being swept away by the energy of our peers and the feeling of obligation to do great things with our lives, we develop unctuous habits of mind and action. We seek to distinguish ourselves within a narrow conception of professional success, prizing high grades over challenging courses, default subjects of study over those that might truly interest us and e-board meetings over office hours. These habits draw us away from the very reason Yale attracts us in the first place: academic excellence.

In short, we come to feel that what sets us apart from the rest of the world — those who didn’t

get in — isn’t our intellectual prowess but what we surely will accomplish as alumni. Intrinsic motivation is crowded out by the extrinsic. Who, after all, remembers what Tony Blair studied in his Oxford days?

Hopefully, some among us will do great things in and for the world. But for many, the price of that opportunity is too dear: How many of us would say that, above all else, we are seeking out the kind of first-rate education Yale can still offer?

WE FORGET THAT WE CAME TO YALE TO LEARN The Yale administration abets this. It hires with pride world leaders who bring titles with enough sheen to surpass the blemishes of their blunders on the world stage, including such gems as the Iraq War. It gestures towards educational principle by instituting distributional requirements and then abandons all pretense of rigor by offering An Issues Approach to Biology and Planets and Stars.

Even Provost Peter Salovey’s signature class, Great Big Ideas, is based on the premise that intellectual exploration is something students can’t be bothered to do outside a class.

Perhaps worst of all, the Admissions Office fails to emphasize — the way, say, the University of Chicago or Swarthmore does — that one comes to Yale to learn.

It’s easy to treat education solely as a path to gainful employment, especially when that’s so hard to find. But Yale can provide haven from those practical pressures. These are the only four years in our lives when we can devote ourselves to thinking.

As the University selects its 23rd president, we students must do everything in our power to ensure that the first priority of those who lead our institution is to rejuvenate its intellectual climate. Of course, President Levin, over the last two decades, has been invaluable in ensuring that the facilities and faculty are of the highest caliber. But those efforts will have been wasted on Yale College if we take no joy in the life of the mind. Now, from the bottom of this University, we must reclaim our highest intellectual ideals and demand that those at the top do the same.

GABRIEL LEVINE is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact him at gabriel.levine@yale.edu .

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Speech, violence and revolution N

ews travels faster than ever. People used to wait for the postman, then the evening news. Now, my iPhone pushes me the latest New York Times headline before I have a chance to look at the newspaper.

This was not the case when I woke up to the news that Chris Stevens, the United States’ ambassador to Libya, had been killed within our own consulate while protesters were massing around our embassies throughout the Muslim world — all due to some video I’d never heard of.

Maybe it was the shock of the news that made it feel far, far worse than the headlines we see and ignore each day, detailing unspeakable atrocities in every part of the world.

But as the days passed after that horrible murder in Benghazi, my shock didn’t dissipate.

True, the discussion among much of the more informed punditry turned to the politics surrounding the event. First, there was Mitt Romney’s pitiful attempt to make political hay of the incident. Then talk turned to the politics in the countries where the protests were taking place — was the attack the spontaneous work of violent protesters or was it planned by terrorists? Were the protests organic or highly choreographed by people with specific agendas?

I’m sure politicians have tried

to harness anti-American rage at a video denigrating the p r o p h e t Muhammad for their own political gain.

HARRY I also trust our LARSON i n te l l i ge n c e services that Nothing in there’s good evidence Particular the attack in Libya may have been planned. Neither of these points, however, can belie the fact that there has clearly been a humongous, spontaneous and very popular surge of anti-American vitriol.

I remember being in England the summer after eighth grade and seeing protests calling President Bush the world’s number one terrorist. Anyone who grew up in the age of Iraq is used to an immense amount of antipathy towards America.

But what’s been most shocking to me about the last few days is not the idea that there are people who are so enraged by a dumb video that they want to see its maker punished. We all know about the fatwa on Salman Rushdie and incidents closer to home where violence has been provoked by mere words. This is something we can deplore but

still comprehend.

What is fundamentally more shocking is the collective blame protesters have been leveling on American society for refusing not to consider that violent reaction a legitimate act of social justice. By not infringing upon the free expression of some bigoted individuals, we are, by this narrative, infringing upon the freedom of the Muslim religion.

AMERICAN FREEDOM DOES NOT EXIST EVERYWHERE The very idea that America could have offended Islam by allowing this video to be aired is un-American. Our conceptions of individual liberties and freedom of expression — rights we treat as universal — are very much the result of a few early Americans’ decision to embrace specific Enlightenment philosophies.

The economic rise of China and India, the pro-democracy protests throughout the Middle East, the fall of the USSR — any number of events in most

Yale students’ lifetimes — have created the impression that the world is converging to some relatively wealthy and relatively free state of being. No one has second thoughts any more about traveling, doing business or living in vastly different parts of the world, where millions of people still lack basic political and economic freedoms we take for granted.

I’ve generally found the concerns about freedom of speech at Yale-NUS College to be overstated, because it seemed as if the world was on an inertial track towards American liberal values.

Well, it’s pretty clear now that much of the world still does not share our conception of political and human rights.

I still don’t think the way to change that is by refusing to engage with the world or by only speaking with others for the sake of preaching to them. But let’s not delude ourselves that Jefferson, Adams and Madison have become universal over the last 200 years. In some parts of the world, their ideas are just as revolutionary as they were in 1776.

HARRY LARSON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SHIRA TELUSHKIN

Clothing has consequences O

n Wednesday night, I was in Battell Chapel with several other Yale students, sipping barley tea and watching the flickering candles as Omer Bajwa, Yale’s Muslim chaplain, led a discussion. He was wearing a kufi — a Muslim head-covering men often wear during prayers and which he usually wears when he represents Islam in an official capacity — and he has had a beard for years.

Bajwa said some Muslim students make assumptions because of his traditional dress, which is sometimes associated with more conservative, stern and fundamentalist orientations. As he explained where these students were coming from and what experiences they might have had with other Muslim men who had beards and wore kufis, I was struck by his sympathy. This was not a man who dismissed these students as prejudiced and intolerant.

While it saddened him that they might not take the opportunity to get to know him better, he recognized how his appearance might cue different assumptions for them.

We all judge people based on appearance, and often we feel bad about it. After all, isn’t judgment wrong? We’re told not to judge others, and we tell others not to judge us. Judging harshly, unfairly or quickly is

one of the more dangerous tendencies a person can possess.

But dispensing with judgment altogether is not the answer either. Dress is a powerful way for human beings to express themselves and their values. To deny that your appearance has significance or is embedded with cultural signifiers is naive. This blanket rejection of the right to judge and be judged not only strips others’ personal choices of meaning but also allows us to evade responsibility for our own choices.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO JUDGE PEOPLE

BY WHAT THEY ARE WEARING The associations people have between clothing and values can undeniably be seen in the way various social groups on campus are defined by stereotypical dress. Most students could at a glance roughly distinguish the hipsters from the jocks. This is not to say that most of us don’t have overlapping identities, but our typical dress tends to align us with certain social communities and their values.

You must take responsibility

for the message your appearance sends, whether or not you agree.

People are allowed to surprise or undercut communal assumptions, but it is ridiculous to pretend those assumptions don’t — or shouldn’t — exist.

Attention to appearance is not material or vain. The most common argument against school uniforms is that they restrict student expression. Shouldn’t we take that self-expression seriously, both for others and for ourselves? By suspending all judgment that may be derived from clothing, we are denying the power of appearance to express who we are. Dyed hair, briefcases, tattoos, piercings, heels, three-piece suits, jeans and sneakers all say something about us, as do very revealing or extremely modest clothing.

Outrageous or subdued, dress is the world’s first impression of who we are.

I find that members of religious communities, often dressed in overt symbolism, are most sensitive to the significance of clothing. Just as Omer Bajwa was conscious that his decision about his dress had wider associations, most religious clothing carries connotations of which the wearer must be conscious.

As part of a senior project in high school, I spent a few weeks at a very religious all-girls school in Brooklyn. On the sub-

way to and from the school every day I wore the school uniform of an ankle-length plaid skirt, black tights and a long-sleeve white button down shirt. Men kept their distance. Even my friends were less comfortable telling crude jokes; they were subtly influenced by my shield of modesty. Because my dress really didn’t reflect personal values, it was easier to compare how people reacted to me differently. But even if I notice it less, it is no different when I wear everyday clothing and signify to others that I am willing to hear vulgar language and hug male friends.

Dress is powerful, and it is wrong to be angry with those who find meaning in how others present themselves to the world.

Others have the right to make assumptions about us based on how we dress. The danger lies in refusing to allow for selfdetermination and not respecting an individual’s interpretation of her own dress once we get to know her. Our assumptions must be subject to change if we encounter new information. But judgment in of itself is not wrong, and it can play an important role in prompting self-reflection.

exploring what else downtown New Haven has to offer.

This is not to say that we’ll turn our backs on our old favorites. Since the publication of our February column, we have become big fans of the burrito cart, but another option is always nice. Come opening day, if you want to find us, we’ll be in line.

Your faithful burrito connoisseurs,

chased for public performance rights or is in the public domain.

I meant to indicate that I wasn’t policing the room if a student on occasion brought a visitor (or parent), just as they sometimes do, with permission, to class. In fact, the screenings of “Film and Fiction” involve short introductory lectures and post-screening discussion, making these de facto class sessions where regular auditors are permitted.

Patrice Bowman is on target overall. If you aren’t in a film studies class, you can and should still explore cinema at Yale, where you can watch movies in the best conditions. Beyond the News, consult the weekly notices sent out by The Whitney Humanities Center, which sponsors or co-sponsors a fantastic set of films, most shown in stunning 35mm. Like Bowman, I urge students to make cinema (and film-going) part of their Yale experience. It’s worth it for a lifetime.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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Welcome, Chipotle Dear Yale, New Haven, and all lovers of Chipotle, You’re welcome. Obviously, Chipotle’s decision to open the company’s first location in New Haven had everything to do with our column several months ago (“Yale needs Chipotle,” Feb. 22). Really, we’ll also go ahead and take credit for Shake Shack, Tomatillo and cheese polenta in Commons too. So, if you wanted to buy us each a burrito (or at least just pay for our guacamole) as a sign of your gratitude, we think that would be appropriate.

We’re genuinely excited about the new Chipotle. It will be a tasty, quick and relatively cheap dining option for both Yale students and the residents of New Haven. Along with the spacious new Shake Shack, the new Chipotle marks quite an industrious year of investment and development on the section of Chapel Street south of the Green.

On a more serious note, this bodes well for other properties in the area as well as downtown commercial and retail development. We hope the new Chipotle will serve as a common meeting place for Yalies and locals, fostering an atmosphere in which both are comfortable. Additionally, with the new location situated just a few blocks from campus, students will hopefully have more interest in

GORDON MCCAMBRIDGE AND MICHAEL WU SEPT. 20 The writers are sophomores in Branford College .

Film at Yale In my enthusiasm to support Patrice Bowman’s enthusiasm for students to watch more films on the big screen during their years at Yale, (“A collection of screenings for the rest of us,” Sept. 14) I gave out the wrong impression. Class screenings are not “open screenings” except when the material shown has been cleared or pur-

DUDLEY ANDREW SEPT. 16 The writer is a professor of film and comparative literature .

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FRIDAY FORUM

WINSTON CHURCHILL “It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations.”

GUEST COLUMNIST CHUCK STETSON

Preparing Yalies for business W

hen University President Richard Levin retires at the end of the academic year, he will leave much to thank him for: The University is doing well financially. Much of the infrastructure has been rebuilt. There are better relations with New Haven, a new science campus and a rescued divinity school. But shouldn’t we pause and think carefully about what students need to know when they graduate so they can begin to participate in the workplace, contribute productively to society, and do well in life?

The presidential search committee should select a president with a commitment on teaching Yalies to be good citizens and contribute to America’s success.

The next president should work with the faculty to train students in, among other things, western civilization and civics.

Yale gave me a lifelong love for

learning and scholarship, but the study of western civilization and civics was not part of my Yale education, nor was it part of my daughter’s education at Yale 40 years later. I have had to learn those subjects since graduating, not only because I now see their intrinsic value but also because they are essential in my business.

It would have been so much more productive to have studied these areas in core courses in my college years.

When we seek to hire people today in my venture capital business, one thing we look for is a grounding in such core concepts.

Some years ago, Tommy Davis, a top-performing venture capitalist, asked me to study the most successful companies he had backed. Those companies’ CEOs attributed their success to traditional, uniquely western values. Most of the undergraduates we review at my firm don’t know

about these values and are thus rejected.

Yale has offered Directed Studies since before I was a freshman. But it should offer a similar course that includes the economic impact of western civilization. That knowledge is essential for all freshmen. They should study the great 20thcentury thinkers who wrote about hard work, property rights and freedom. They should read Friedrich Hayek, C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer. Most important, students should read about Andrew Carnegie, David Rockefeller, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who provided great products and value to millions of people and made America an economic power.

Students need to understand the impact of Western civilization and how it has dramatically increased the per capita wealth of all people in the West since the

16th century. This influence has eluded Africa and, until the last 30 or so years, China and India.

Similarly, students should discuss the political philosophies that led the Soviet Union to collapse and the United States to become the economic leader and leader in innovation in the world.

TEACH STUDENTS TO SUCCEED IN THE WORKFORCE In 2007, the nonprofit Intercollegiate Studies Institute noted that college freshmen averaged a score of 50.4 percent on a broadbased civic literacy test, and seniors averaged 54.2 percent — both failing grades. But our government’s structure was based

on the founders’ deep and careful understanding of world history and political philosophy.

It was carefully crafted by people who didn’t always agree with each other but who understood the issues at hand.

“Should we wander from [these principles] in moments of error or of alarm,” Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address, “let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.” How can we retain our government and way of life if we don’t understand it?

When I was at Yale, the University was very proud of the fact that the largest number of Fortune 500 CEOs came from Yale.

This was approximately 10 years before the School of Management was established. The humanities that CEOs had studied at Yale had led them to big success in business. The decline of the humani-

ties is not a good trend if Yale is to sustain its leadership in business.

As we look to Yale’s future, we should consider what an educated person must know. We should address the decline of survey courses. We must not overlook the steady decline of the humanities, especially at a time when the Singaporean government has decided that, to be world leaders, Asians need a strong grounding in the Western tradition of the humanities.

What is the value — the uniqueness — of a Yale education in training leaders for tomorrow?

That is the question the next president must answer, and the question the search committee must ask.

CHUCK STETSON is a 1967 graduate of Branford College. He is a managing director of PEI Funds and CEO of Essentials in Education .

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11 p.m. Friday night: What everyone wants to do…

… what everyone actually does GUEST COLUMNIST HALEY THURSTON

How studying abroad made me a feminist E

very day this summer, it felt like another woman was sharing her story of being harassed on the street.

There were accounts from high schoolers on the teen blog Rookie and first person articles on jezebel.com. Then, in August, filmmaker Sofie Peeters documented the catcalls she received throughout her day in Brussels, and the video hit a nerve across Europe. And for the first time, I was angry about it.

Yale has afforded me the opportunity to live and work abroad for nearly a third of the time I’ve been a student here — in London, Rome, Madrid, Athens, the United Arab Emirates and many countries in between.

I go because I love it, and because these experiences will help me get a job in nine months.

At odds with the excite-

ment of living in new places and new cultures, however, has been the dreary normalcy of street harassment no matter where I go: getting my butt slapped by a passing biker at 9 a.m. in Barcelona, long invasive stares in Sharjah despite layers of shapeless clothing, getting approached on the metro day after day, country after country, in language after language.

The content of the harassment doesn’t really matter here (although it matters massively that women keep talking about it) so much as the relentlessness and pervasiveness of that harassment.

As I’ve talked to my female friends who have also studied and worked in various places around the world, the fact that harassment is a problem universal to women, regardless of

race, nationality and sexual orientation has only become more obvious. A friend working in Morocco told me about having her crotch grabbed by strangers on the street in full daylight while no one batted an eye.

A friend studying in Bristol, England wasn’t allowed to walk across parts of campus at night because she was told matter-offactly that she would “probably get raped.”

Another spoke rapturously about her year in India but also remembered “standing in front of the Taj Mahal and being nothing but mad, just because of what some stranger had said earlier that day.”

And every girl I’ve ever met who’s been to Paris comes home with more harassment stories than photographs of pastries on Instagram. These stories are

the same in China, Brazil, Canada and Kenya. And also in the United States.

This is insane. But rather than discouraging you, Yale women, from traveling, I hope you take advantage of the chance to go abroad while you have this University to make it easier for you to do so. The benefit of living around people of a different cultural background from yours is that it teaches you to appreciate the humanity of everyone, not merely those like you. In turn, the sooner we (and by we, I mean educated women who live in the U.S. at least nine months out of the year) stop thinking of feminism as merely a matter of national policy, the better. “Women’s issues” don’t uniquely and suddenly emerge during election years; neither are “women’s issues” limited

to specific if important agendas like birth control, abortion and equal pay.

Instead, we need to shout about those issues in the context of how female humans are treated as a whole, globally. There is a sense in America and other developed nations that feminism has won, and this allows us to roll our eyes when a woman uses groaners like patriarchy or privilege, and it allows a male-dominant Congress to treat things like female health care as if they don’t affect the fundamental well-being of half of the population.

I stopped wishing feminists would be just a little quieter, however, when I realized that regardless of how developed a country was, what religion its people practiced or whether or not we could communicate,

I could reliably expect to be harassed at some point in time.

The problem, of course, isn’t street harassment in itself but the fact that the attitude that perpetuates street harassment tells women they are less than people and should be ashamed for the crime of walking around.

(In some less repressed countries, laws make women explicitly less than people.)

I went abroad to affirm the humanity of my fellow humans, but, more important, I learned to assert my own as well. So study abroad because you can, and maybe you’ll become a feminist too— because it’s the only conclusion that remains.

HALEY THURSTON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at haley.thurston@yale.edu .

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According to the United States Census Bureau statistics on commuting, the percentage of Americans who used public transportation to get to work in 2009 was 5.2 percent.

Students and faculty laud Yale’s STEM gender parity GENDER GAP FROM PAGE 1 years. In last year’s graduating class, 43 percent of STEM majors were female, as compared to 38 percent nationally.

But even though the ratio of male to female STEM majors is evening out at Yale, students say that a noticeable divide remains in postgraduation career opportunities for men and women in the sciences.

“Yale has made the advances with regards to gender quite frankly by being Yale — by being a place that values and supports diversity and makes opportunities available to all,” Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Vincent Wilczynski said. “As far as things still being a challenge, here Yale is perhaps no different than other institutions where there is a lack of equal representation of gender in our disciplines.”

When you go to graduate school … then gender differences become more pronounced.

CONNIE WU ’13 Though women have a relatively strong presence in STEM fields at Yale, they are less well represented in science and engineering jobs nationwide. In 2009, women filled less than 25 percent of STEM jobs in the U.S. economy, according to a 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The report also noted that women have a “disproportionately low share of STEM undergraduate degrees,

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Connie Wu ’13, a chemical engineering major and member of Undergraduate Women in Science at Yale, said her group holds networking events and conferences to educate and support female undergraduates in the sciences. She said the gender gap in STEM fields is not a large issue at Yale.

Several other organizations geared toward women in the sciences exist on campus, including a new one — Women in Physics — that started last fall.

Like Undergraduate Women in Science at Yale, Women in Physics also seeks to provide female students with support, networking and career opportunities.

“When you go to graduate school and industry or academia, then gender differences become more pronounced,” Wu said. “We want to help female students prepare for any potential obstacles.”

Ariel Ekblaw ’14, a physics major who cofounded the organization, and Wu said that male and female STEM students have similar opportunities while at Yale, adding that they do not know of any female students who hesitated about majoring in a STEM field because of a gender gap. Ekblaw said the 43 percent of female physics majors in her year doubles the national average. Biology and environmental studies are the only STEM majors at Yale that consistently have a majority of women.

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Among that 20 percent, the University has a number of prominent female STEM faculty members, such as Physics Department chair Meg Urry, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Joan Steitz, and SEAS Dean Kyle Vanderlick. Steitz won two prizes earlier this month — the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize of Rockefeller University and the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science — in honor of her contributions as a female scientist.

Last year, around 20 percent of female seniors graduated with a STEM degree, compared to around 25 percent of male seniors.

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“Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.”

JAMES ROGERS FORMER CHANCELLOR, NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

CORRECTION FRIDAY, SEPT. 14

The article “Post office struggles to keep up” quoted United States Postal Service spokeswoman Christine Dugas as saying that students should contact the supervisor of Yale Station with questions about the status of their packages and lists Mike Madera as that supervisor. In fact, Madera is Yale’s supervisor for campus mail services.

Stiles to hold first college reunion

Promise funds grow as GPA minimum shrinks

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER New Haven Promise will dole out $323,807 in tuition checks this year — more than triple the amount the scholarship program distributed in 2011 — and at the same time relax its GPA requirements, administrators announced Wednesday.

The Promise program, which awards college tuition scholarships to New Haven public high school graduates and is funded

by Yale, has been implementing a tiered phase-in system for students. Graduating seniors are eligible for different funding amounts based on how long they have been in high school since the program’s announcement, which is a driving factor behind this year’s spike in scholarship outlays, program administrators said. Promise students from the graduating class of 2011 receive up to 25 percent of the full scholarship award and incoming college freshmen from the class of 2012 receive up to 50 percent. A total of 220 students at 17 different colleges and universities across the state are receiving Promise scholarships, program administrators said.

It is still an achievement to be proud of to “win” a New Haven Promise scholarship.

PATRICIA MELTON ’82 Executive director, New Haven Promise “This renewed commitment to offer access to higher education is reassurance to our young people that, if they work hard and stay committed and dependable, then opportunities to maximize their full potential are inevitable,” said Dorsey Kendrick, president of Gateway Community College and a Promise board member.

Promise executive director Patricia Melton ’82 added that she is pleased with the size of the funding increase, as “it captures how the benefit will substantially grow until

it reaches 100 percent in 2013’14.”

But increased funding is not the only change Promise administrators are overseeing — the program’s board of directors has also decided to lower the GPA requirement Promise freshmen must meet in order to continue receiving the scholarship, Melton said. Previously, college students receiving Promise funds were required to maintain a 2.5 GPA, but that minimum has now been decreased to 2.0 for a recipient’s freshman year.

Melton said the change will allow 17 current Promise beneficiaries to stay in the program.

“The change in GPA requirements for college freshmen recognizes the fact that the transition to college life can be challenging, both socially and academically,” said Mary Papazian, Southern Connecticut State University president and a Promise board member.

Though Promise administrators have previously said that high academic standards — such as a 3.0 high school GPA requirement — ensure that the program remains an achievement to be proud of, Melton maintained that the lower college freshman GPA requirements will not weaken the program. “ New H ave n P ro m i se requires a consistently strong performance in high school over four years, just as competitive colleges do,” Melton said. “We require that the GPA be met along with a sizeable community service and attendance criteria … It is still an achievement to be proud of to ‘win’ a New Haven Promise scholarship.”

Melton added that the new 2.0 GPA requirement is actually more aligned with achievement criteria at most colleges. She said that “it is universal across institutions that a 2.0 GPA is considered to be in good academic standing.”

New Haven Promise was announced on Nov. 8, 2010 at a ceremony at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School on Crown Street.

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

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In a few weeks, Ezra Stiles will become the first college to hold a reunion event for alumni of a single residential college.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER A new kind of reunion will happen at Yale this fall.

An estimated 150 to 200 Ezra Stiles alumni are expected to attend Yale’s first residential college reunion Oct. 5-7 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ezra Stiles College. Depending on the success of the event — which will include tours of the recently renovated college, musical performances and panel discussions about Ezra Stiles and Yale — other colleges may follows Stiles’ example in years to come, organizers said.

The reunion is the brainchild of Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti ’91 and Association of Yale Alumni directors Jenny Chavira ’89 and Mark Dollhopf ’77 — all of whom are Stilesians.

“We started talking about how exciting it would be to hold an event to gather Stilesians from across the decades,” Pitti said, adding that the reunion will be held at Yale while school is in session, allowing current Stiles students to participate in the event and Stiles alumni to see their old college in action.

Though Pitti said the idea for a Stiles reunion first arose four years ago, he and the AYA decided to postpone the event until the 50th anniversary of the college.

The Stiles reunion is a “pilot project” for the AYA, said Mark Branch ’86, executive editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine, intended to see whether alumni are enthusiastic about the idea of attending residential collegespecific reunions in addition to the traditional class reunions that are held every five years.

We started talking about how exciting it would be to… gather Stilesians from across the decades.

STEPHEN PITTI ’91 Master, Ezra Stiles College Early registration numbers for the event already suggest that there is significant interest. As of Thurday afternoon, the AYA website listed 128 registered participants, and registration does not close until Sept. 28. AYA senior director of strategic initiatives Stephen Blum ’74 said the ideal turnout for the event would be in the “low 100s,” because there is limited space on campus for alumni while the school year is in session, even though the visitors will be arranging their own accommodations in New

Haven.

Blum added that that the AYA is already “having discussions” with the masters of Pierson College and three other colleges.

“We have a runway for having this initiative take off, and we’re so excited with the way this first [residential college reunion] seems to be shaping up,” he said.

Pitti said he hopes attendees will leave the event feeling “energized about being Stilesians.”

Margaret Chen ’90, a Stiles alum who served on the reunion planning committee, said she remembers Stiles as having had “a ton of enthusiasm and spirit relative to other residential colleges” while she attended Yale, and said she is looking forward to meeting Stilesians from other eras.

Branch, a Stiles alum, said he thinks the reunion will be “fascinating” because Stiles has changed a lot over the years. For example, Branch said students were initially disappointed to be placed into Ezra Stiles in his day because of its modern architecture. Nowadays, he said he is pleased to overhear students say to each other, “You’re in Stiles?

Oh, you’re so lucky!”

As of now, students will participate in the reunion by serving on panels, leading tours and giving performances, among other activies. Still, the role for current

students in the Stiles reunion is not yet completely set, said Lee Kennedy-Shaffer ’13, Ezra Stiles College Council president and one of the student panelists involved with planning the event.

Kennedy-Shaffer said ideally the reunion could provide mentoring and networking opportunities for students. Though Stiles students are all aware of the upcoming reunion thanks to Pitti’s emails, Kennedy-Shaffer said he thinks many Stiles students expect to be largely unaffected by the reunion. Others, however, are looking forward to seeing recent graduates such as their old freshman counselors return, he said.

2012 also marks the 50th anniversary of Morse College, but Pitti said Morse is not hosting a reunion this fall because of the demands associated with transitioning to a new master. English and American Studies professor Amy Hungerford assumed the post July 1.

“Planning for this reunion has been pretty intensive for the past nine months,” Pitti said, “so it was difficult for Morse College to consider participation, given the change in leadership.”

Renovations of Stiles, which opened in 1962, were completed in fall 2011.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

As demand grows, food trucks flock to New Haven

BY NITIKA KHAITAN AND NICOLE NAREA CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

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Students line up for lunch at an Indian food cart outside the School of Management.

Street food has been an increasingly popular element in New Haven’s culinary scene.

Jonathan Gibbons, owner of french fry vendor Fryborg and a newcomer to the New Haven food truck scene, bustled about his mobile kitchen on Thursday, flinging bacon bits and ruby tomatoes onto a mound of hand-cut crispy fries embellished with swirls of mayonnaise. For the finish, he impaled his BLT fries with a plastic fork and handed it to a customer with a smile in a manner typical of the Elm City’s street food culture — quick, no-fuss and friendly.

A proliferation of new food trucks hit the city streets this past year, including Fryborg, Mrs. G’s Vegan Cuisine, Szabo’s Little Red Seafood Truck and the Sugar Cupcakery & Bakery. Mostly offshoots of local restaurants seeking to expand their customer base, the trucks contribute to New Haven’s vibrant foodie culture by offering gourmet on the go, using highquality ingredients and forging “intimate” relationships with their customers, Gibbons said. Food carts, such as those operated by Tacuba Taco Bar, have existed in New Haven for decades, but the latest batch of food trucks are comparatively upscale, a trend that owners said may have begun with Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro’s Cheese Truck in 2010.

“People are changing the way they think about street food,” said restaurateur Arturo Franco-Camacho, who first brought Tacuba Taco Bar carts to New Haven 16 years ago. “They used to be too

scared to eat from a food cart, but now they embrace it.”

Food trucks owe their popularity in part to social media, which plays an integral role in helping owners “stay in touch with customers” by informing them of trucks’ locations and special dishes daily, said Tom Sobocinski, co-owner of Caseus.

Rated one of New Haven’s top 10 culinary retailers on Yelp, Caseus’ Cheese Truck has accumulated over 3,400 Twitter followers and 2,700 Facebook likes, even attracting customers from out of town.

Dan Szabo, owner of Szabo’s Seafood Truck, who also posts daily on Twitter, said he sometimes feels like “a deer in the headlights” when he opens up before noon and “20 people have already lined up” for fresh lobster rolls and clam chowder. The truck, affiliated with Szabo’s Seafood Restaurant in Fairfield, Conn., opened last November and now has up to 60 steady patrons daily, which has encouraged Szabo to expand. He said he hopes to refurbish a schoolbus by ripping out all of the seats and installing a mobile kitchen inside, parking it permanently in a local lot.

As the city’s food truck culture has continued to grow, owners have collaborated to increase their sales by parking within the same vicinity. Gibbons claimed to “piggyback” with Michael Debonte, operator of the Sugar cupcake truck, which won the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and opened in April. Debonte said the variety among the food trucks works in favor of their businesses.

The city’s flourishing food truck industry, however, poses a threat to local small businesses, said Tony Schaffer, owner of the Four Flours Cookie Truck.

“The retailers pay rent and taxes, so it’s important that they don’t get overwhelmed with too many trucks,” said Schaffer, who is also a member of the Town Green’s Special Services District.

“The city needs to exercise a sense of control with these trucks, but I also feel that there is room for them.”

Food truck owners said they are wellreceived by the Yale community, but students said the price of venturing out of the dining halls can deter them from frequenting food trucks.

Madelaine Taft ’13 said some members of her friend group are especially fond of particular street food, but that dining halls are more convenient and, as an offcampus resident, she finds that cooking for herself is cheaper.

Though Josh Eisenstat ’15 said he usually eats in the dining halls, he has relished his visits to the Cheese Truck.

“I wish they had a [meal] swipe at food trucks,” he said.

Another recent entrant into the New Haven street food scene is Nuts 4 Nuts, a New York City-based food cart chain, which opened its first two Connecticut locations in the Elm City.

Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu and NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Profs find joy in daily commute

“Educational politics makes corporate politics look like a sandbox.” MARY FRANK FOX PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

After dip, Obama gains on Romney in Conn.

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Assistant professor of history Daniel Magaziner commutes toYale from his Brooklyn apartment by bike, subway and Metro-North Railroad.

COMMUTES FROM PAGE 1 members, such as advising students and attending departmental meetings.

Anthony Smith, director of undergraduate studies in economics, said his department does not take where professors live into account during the hiring process.

Instead, Smith said his goal is to ensure the best professors are recruited to give undergraduates the best education possible.

“If they want to live in New York, or if they want to live in Branford, it doesn’t really matter,” Smith said. “We figure they’ll be able to meet their responsibilities; how they do it is up to them.”

Professors who commute said they make a point to be as available as possible. Magaziner said he spends 16 to 20 hours a week in his office in order to be available to students. English professor David Kastan, who commutes from Morningside Heights, said he tries to meet with each of his students for coffee or a beer at least once during the semester. College seminar lecturer Thomas Herman ’68 arrives a few hours before his first class to meet with students. If a large number of students request conferences, he comes the day before.

Herman and journalism teacher Steven Brill ’72 LAW ’75, who also travels from New York, said that their primary careers in New York also give them the opportunity to spend one or two classes per semester visiting newsrooms in New York City.

Carolyn Brown ’13, who took Herman’s “Press, Business, and the Economy” course, called the trips to New York “applicable and career-altering” because they provided insight into a city to which she had little exposure.

English professor Anne Fadiman commutes to New Haven from Pioneer Valley, Mass., taking the train down Wednesday morning and staying for one night. She maximizes her time by allowing individual students to walk with her

to the train station.

“Those are my office hours,” Fadiman said, explaining that she usually reserves that time to talk with former students, while current students generally meet with her on campus.

Fadiman stays in the guest suite in Branford College on Thursday nights, so she said she has met with students until 11 p.m.

“I can grab a roll or cup of soup from Au Bon Pain and run back to my office to have two more conferences after dinner,” Fadiman said.

THE COMMUTE

Professors interviewed provided a variety of reasons for why they chose to accept jobs in New Haven without moving permanently from their homes in New York City. Some have spouses who hold jobs in New York, some have children enrolled in New York City schools, and some simply prefer the bigger city.

Their commutes, while sometimes arduous, can be productive and enjoyable. Many said living so far from campus means they spend their time at Yale more efficiently.

Magaziner said he views his commute as an opportunity to work. His rules for the hour-and-45-minute train ride include no conversations on the phone or with other commuters. Instead Magaziner, who has two young children, said he likes to put on headphones while on the train and get work done without interruption.

Economics DUS Smith added that recruiting professors who live in New York City can be difficult, given the competition from schools like Columbia University and New York University.

For potential hires from anywhere else, he considers New Haven’s proximity to New York a “selling point.”

Magaziner said he hopes to sustain the commute as long as possible, but did not believe such travel would be possible if he were a science professor who needed to spend more time on campus in labs.

“You’ll find most people who commute are part of humanities or social sciences who don’t have to be in a place touching something to be [doing] work,” Magaziner said.

Assistant mathematics professor Alex Kontorovich, who also takes the train from Grand Central to New Haven because his wife works in New York, said he does not know of any other math professors at Yale who commute between the two cities.

Though Kontorovich hopes to move closer to Yale soon, he and Magaziner had similar schedules last year, so they formed a friendship based on their walks between campus and the station.

“On the train, [Magaziner and I] will say hey, and we sit, and we do our work,” Kontorovich said. “If you’re riding with people, you’re talking with them, you’re not working, and the train time is golden work time.”

Kastan also takes the train occasionally, but usually he chooses to drive on Tuesday mornings from his Morningside Heights apartment to his apartment near campus in New Haven, where he stays until Friday or Saturday. He called the commute by car “seductively simple,” adding that walking outside and jumping in the car is easier than walking to the Harlem train station, especially since he’s usually carrying a load of books.

Kastan said he enjoys his early-morning rides with coffee and music on the radio.

“I see a lot of birds — red-tailed hawks, occasionally wild turkeys on the side of the road. It’s all very exciting,” he said.

He enjoys the split-city lifestyle, he added, because there are more good restaurants within walking distance of his New Haven apartment and “it is much, much easier to go to the movies here than in NYC.” Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

paign significant media attention and an opportunity to present its message to voters.

Meanwhile, Rose added, September has been Romney’s “worst month of the entire campaign.” Over the last several weeks, he said, Romney’s momentum has been stalled due to his premature reaction to the killing of American ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and the release of a video in which he is seen characterizing 47 percent of Americans as parasitic on government entitlement programs at a fundraiser.

Romney’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

The Courant poll represents a significant shift in the state from last month. The late August Quinnipiac poll “was not an outlier” at that time, according to The New York Times polling blog FiveThirtyEight, whose tracking average of Connecticut polls put Obama ahead by 9.4 points on Sept. 16. In her post on the blog, contributing writer Micah Cohen attributed the Democratic Party’s weakening hold on Connecticut since 2008 to the state’s struggling economy — the state’s current unemployment rate of 8.5 percent is nearly a quarter of a percentage point higher than the national average — and a “unique bloc of affluent, Wall Streetconnected voters with whom Mr. Romney may hold special appeal.”

Rose noted that Obama’s lead in Connecticut is likely to settle slightly as the boost from the convention fades, reflecting national polls in which Obama’s “post-convention bounce” has dissipated, with his lead over Romney in national tracking polls declining to 1 percent or an even tie, down from a high of a sevenpoint lead a week ago.

Rose predicted that while Obama will almost certainly carry Connecticut in November, the margin of victory will likely fall between the seven-point spread of the Quinnipiac poll and the 21 points of the Courant poll.

According to the Courant poll, there is significant electoral diversity throughout the state, with Obama only leading by seven points in the wealthy and

suburban Fairfield and Litchfield Counties, traditional areas of Republican strength in the state.

The recent rise in support for Obama in Connecticut might have consequences for the tight Senate race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy and Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon. Rose noted that because most voters decide which presidential candidate to support and then vote down party lines — a phenomenon called the “coattail” effect — Obama’s success could benefit Murphy.

“An enthusiastic vote for Obama will have a positive effect for not just Chris Murphy,” but also Democratic candidates further down the ticket, said Jonathan Harris, executive director of the Connecticut Democratic Party.

The Yale College Democrats, who canvass throughout the state each election cycle, frequently invoke Obama when talking to voters about the Senate race, according to Dems President Zak Newman ’13.

An enthusiastic vote for Obama will have a positive effect for … [Senate candidate] Chris Murphy.

JONATHAN HARRIS Executive director, Connecticut Democratic Party “Obama does a lot for Chris Murphy,” Newman said.

Yale College Republicans Chairwoman Elizabeth Henry ’14 disagreed, suggesting that the contests are independent of each other and that recent criticism of Chris Murphy’s financial past leveled by McMahon was moving the Senate race in the “opposite direction” of the Connecticut presidential polls.

Connecticut last voted for a Republican in a presidential election in 1988, when it supported George H. W. Bush ’48.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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President Barack Obama is gaining in Connecticut polls after a dip that suggested the state had a chance of turning red for the first time in decades.

Admins plan for future of SOM facilities SOM FROM PAGE 1

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Steinbach Hall, located at 52 Hillhouse Ave., currently houses offices for professors in the School of Management.

uate Studies is an example of one building in need of renovation that will require short-term housing before construction can begin. Miller added that she has thought less about how the buildings could be used in the longterm.

The decision to move the Jackson Institute, which is currently housed in part of Rosenkranz Hall, was made during discussions between University President Richard Levin and Susan and John Jackson ’67 when a $50 million gift from the couple created the institute in 2009. James Levinsohn, director of the Jackson Institute, declined to comment on the future move to Horchow Hall.

SOM’s current facilities, which line Prospect and Sachem Streets and Hillhouse Avenue, span 110,000 square feet, less than half

the size of the school’s new campus on Whitney Avenue. While SOM’s central building on Prospect contains classrooms, the Hillhouse mansions primarily house faculty offices.

The heating and the cooling system — that breaks down about twice a year.

AHMED MOBARAK Economics professor, School of Management Faculty that move into the vacated spaces may find infrastructural problems with the facilities, many of which were built in the 1800s, SOM profes-

sors said.

“The heating and the cooling system — that breaks down about twice a year,” said Ahmed Mobarak, an SOM economics professor who works in 55 Hillhouse. “And I’m not exaggerating that, it actually does break twice a year.”

Still, Roger Ibbotson, an SOM professor who works in the International Center for Finance at 46 Hillhouse Ave., said he is “happy where he is.”

“My office has wood paneling and built-in extensive wood bookcases and a corner with nice windows that you can see everywhere,” he said.

The new SOM campus will cost roughly $222 million in total.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES The editor in chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and CEO of its publisher Forbes, Inc., he has twice been a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for president.

As Election Day nears, Ward 1 Dems plan next moves

BY AMANDA CHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At the first Ward 1 Democratic Committee meeting of the school year, members planned to assist their party’s efforts at the state and national levels one vote at a time.

On Thursday evening, the committee met at Yale’s AfroAmerican Cultural Center to discuss their plans for the upcoming presidential and Senate elections. The meeting was led by Ben Crosby ’14 and Nia Holston ’14, the co-chairs of the committee, a component of New

Haven’s Democratic Town Committee, which elects delegates for state primary elections and endorses local candidates. Much of the meeting focused on getting out the vote for Democratic Senate candidate Chris Murphy.

“We’re trying to build in New Haven a politics that is transformative,” said Hugh Baran ’09, who attended the meeting as the coordinator of New Haven For Chris Murphy .

To that end, New Haven “needs to turn around,” he said.

Baran emphasized the need for high voter turnout, stating that his goal this election is for

41,000 people to vote for President Barack Obama and Chris Murphy in New Haven, a much higher citywide Democratic voter turnout than the last presidential election. He also noted the low voter turnout in Ward 1 in 2008. “Students don’t feel invested in this place,” he said.

But Baran said he is increasingly optimistic about the voters of Ward 1, citing the recordbreaking voter turnout for the Ward 1 aldermanic election last year. To the attendees of the meeting, he mentioned that each team of students canvassing on Yale campus is able to register 10

Steve Forbes sings praises of free market

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After delivering a scathing critique of current government policies, publishing executive and conservative thinker Steve Forbes told a room of over 200 Thursday evening that “one way or another, we will get back on track.”

Forbes, who serves as editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine and CEO of its publishing company, Forbes, Inc., spoke for over an hour in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on the economy and the nation’s political climate in a talk titled “How Capitalism Can Save America.” Throughout the address, Forbes, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, fiercely advocated for free markets and harshly criticized the policies of the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve Bank.

Forbes began his talk by making several predications about the upcoming election, suggesting that Republicans will expand their majority in the House of Representatives, take control of the Senate and win the presidency.

He emphasized that the American people are “not happy with the direction of the country.”

Turning his attention to the economy, Forbes said policy makers should take measures to stabilize the U.S. dollar. He recommended that the dollar be re-linked to the gold standard, and predicted this will happen within the next five years. The economy is not moving at “full speed,” he said, because of fluctuation in the value of America’s currency.

“Imagine what your life would be like if Washington did to the clocks what it does to

new voters each time on average.

“It’s really up to you guys how many people you want to get engaged and voting,” he said. “The Democratic Party is depending on us.”

A major obstacle to increasing turnout is misconceptions about convicted felons’ voting rights, a significant issue in New Haven that is “brought up in every Democratic Ward Committee meeting,” said Holston, who organizes registration drives for this very purpose.

“The misconceptions out there are staggering,” said Melissa Lavoie ’12, who works

part-time at the New Haven Reentry Initiative, a non-partisan program that serves exfelons looking for housing and employment, and Unlock the Vote, a program engaging people with criminal records in the political process. “If you’re done with [your] sentence and you’re done with parole, you can vote.”

Ward 28 Democratic Committee Co-chair Jess Corbett also attended the meeting and stressed the importance of registering “sporadic voters.”

“They’re the voters in your ward who didn’t even exist three months ago,” he said. “We need

to go outside what the current polls are showing.”

At the end of the meeting, Christofer Rodelo ’15, a coordinator of the Ward 1 committee, held a forum for tips and experiences on canvassing. The most difficult part of canvassing, he said, is encountering “apathy.”

Beginning this past week, the Ward 1 Democratic Committee plans to lead Yale students in canvassing every Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. until voter registration closes.

Contact AMANDA CHAN at amanda.chan@yale.edu .

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the currency,” Forbes said, referring to the ever-changing value of the dollar.

Forbes also suggested that principles of free markets should be extended to the health care system. Under the current system and government regulations, Forbes said many consumers do not pay attention to the costs of their medical care. Forbes said there is a “disconnect” between health care providers and consumers, which prevents free market competition from driving down costs.

Toward the end of his discussion, Forbes emphasized the importance of recognizing innovations and seizing opportunities. He cited McDonald’s, which he said was the first restaurant chain to standardize and simplify a menu, as a company that exemplifies creative thinking and business development.

Four students interviewed said they found Forbes to be an engaging speaker, though they had mixed feelings about his policy positions.

“I didn’t come because I agree with him, but he’s a very talented speaker,” Josh Clapper ’16 said.

The talk was part of the Irving Brown Lecture Series, which has brought conservative speakers such as Karl Rove and Ann Coulter to Yale since 2008. The event was sponsored by the Federalist Society at the Yale Law School, Young America’s Foundation, which brings conservatives to college campuses, and the William F. Buckley Jr. Program.

Forbes Magazine was founded in 1917 and publishes articles on business and politics, among other topics.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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The Board of Aldermen’s finance committee moved Thursday night to raise the salary of the public works director in a bid to attract top talent for the retiring Jon Prokop, who is paid $98,000.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Steve Forbes, the editor in chief of Forbes Magazine, came to Linsly-Chittenden Thursday to give a talk titled “How Capitalism Can Save America.”

On Thursday night, the Board of Aldermen’s finance committee took the first step toward raising the salary of the city’s director of public works.

At the committee’s monthly caucus, which took place at the Clemente Leadership Academy on Columbus Avenue, aldermen assembled with the intention of discussing pension policy for New Haven Police assistant chiefs. Instead, a last-minute change of plans struck the item from the docket, and the committee turned instead to a discussion of the director of public works’ salary and a report on the city’s employee healthcare plans. Ultimately, the committee passed both proposals, which will now go to the full Board for consideration.

In an interview with the News prior to the meeting, NHPD Union President Louis Cavliere Jr., whose rank and file have lacked a contract for nearly a year and a half, said the committee would not discuss NHPD pension policy because “significant progress has been made in negotiations a few days ago.”

At the committee meeting, the city’s Chief Administrative Officer Robert Smuts ’01 refused to divulge more information about the deal, saying that it “should be announced in the near future.” Cavliere and Smuts said both parties would prefer to deal directly with each other rather

than to go through the Board.

With pension policies off the table, the committee turned to a debate over the salary of New Haven’s director of public works — $98,000, which the city fears is too low to attract high-quality candidates to replace Jon Prokop, who is retiring in January.

“We have a terrific Director of Public Works [John Prokop], but … we haven’t found anyone who is good enough to replace him because we’re not financially competitive,” said Smuts, adding that the committee should expect a qualified replacement to cost the city $125,000.

Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez agreed, citing a survey of other Connecticut Directors of Public Works’ salaries. New Haven is the second largest city in Connecticut with 130,000 people, he said, but 38 other towns and cities in the state pay their directors more than New Haven, including two towns with populations under 10,000.

But New Haven resident Kevin Joyner argued that if the Department of Public Works had to be strengthened, there are better ways to do it.

“In front of my house, there’s a sign that says the streets will be swept on the first and third Thursdays of the month. We’re lucky if they sweep once a month,” said Joyner, adding that a few years ago the city was fulfilling this promise.

Ward 15 Alderman Ernie Santiago concurred, suggesting that the city fill department vacan-

cies below before increasing the director’s salary. He added that “$98,000 isn’t peanuts” and the city should look look internally for Prokop’s replacement.

But the story of former Deputy Public Works Director John Lawlor undermines this argument, Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said.

“Lawlor — a good friend of mine — was a deputy we trained to succeed Prokop, but we weren’t able to financially compete,” Elicker said, adding that while New Haven could only afford to pay him $86,000, Bloomfield, a town with only 33,000 people, offered him $126,000 a year. Smuts said Santiago’s view promotes “pennypinching” — an ostensible savings of $30,000 a year could end up costing New Haven millions in lost efficiency, he said.

Eventually, Smuts’ request prevailed in a 6-2 vote. Ward 16 Alderwoman Migdalia Castro joined Santiago in dissenting.

The proposal will now move to the Board as a whole, which will hold its next meeting in the first week of October.

The finance committee also approved Ward 9 Alderwoman Jessica Holmes’s and Ward 25 Alderman Adam Marchand’s submission of a report from the Health Benefits Review Taskforce which proposed researching ways to lower the city’s healthcare costs.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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At town hall, Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with U.S.

BY DAVID ESPO AND KEN THOMAS ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Obama participates in a town hall hosted by Univision America.

MIAMI — President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could cause teacher strikes to spread from Chicago to other cities. The Republican countered that the U.S. economy “is bumping along the bottom” under the current administration and he predicted victory in the fall.

The two men eyed each other across hotly contested Florida, a state with 29 electoral votes, more than any other battleground in the close race for the White House.

“When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven’t gotten around a lot,” the president said. That was in response to a question about Romney’s recent observation that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and believe they are victims and entitled to an array of federal benefits.

Obama spoke at a town hallstyle forum aired by the Spanishlanguage television network Uni-

vision.

For his part, Romney was eager to move past that controversy, which has knocked him off stride. He disclosed plans for a three-day bus tour early next week through Ohio with running mate Paul Ryan and sought to return the campaign focus to the economic issues that have dominated the race all year.

At a fundraiser in Miami, Romney looked ahead to his televised head-to-head encounters with Obama this fall. “He’s a very eloquent speaker, and so I’m sure in the debates, as last time … he’ll be very eloquent in describing his vision,” the Republican said. “But he can’t win by his words, because his record speaks so loudly in our ears. What he has done in the last four years is establish an economy that’s bumping along the bottom.”

Less than seven weeks before Election Day, polls make the race a close one, likely to be settled in eight or so swing states where neither man has a solid edge.

Obama has gained ground in polls in some of those states since the completion of the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago, while Romney has struggled with controversies of his own making that have left Repub-

Mixed record for Obama in Muslim world

BY ROBERT BURNS AND BEN FELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.

But more than three years after President Barack Obama declared in Cairo that he would seek “a new beginning” in U.S.Muslim relations, a closer look reveals strides as well as setbacks.

One U.S.-led war is over and another is receding, although there are questions about whether America has made lasting gains in Afghanistan. The Arab Spring revolution, a spontaneous combustion that happened independent of Western influence, has given people new power and hope as well as democratic elections that the U.S. supports.

But peace between Israel and the Palestinians is nowhere in sight, Iran is seen as a menace, and broad mistrust with America is still deep and explosive across much of the Muslim world.

As nations across North Africa and the Middle East move chaotically toward democracy, they and Washington have settled into a wary, redefined relationship.

Obama is not ready to call Mohammad Morsi, the popularly elected Egyptian president, an ally, and the democratically elected Iraqi president, Nouri al-Maliki, has dismissed U.S. demands that he stop Iran from using Iraqi airspace to fly weapons to Syria for use against anti-government rebels.

Such is the complicated progress

report that Obama carries toward the United Nations General Assembly next week, his final moment on a world stage before the U.S. election on Nov. 6. For that election, Pew Research Center polling shows Obama has a clear edge over Republican Mitt Romney in handling foreign policy in general and problems in the Middle East specifically.

Across the world his standing remains markedly lower in predominantly Muslim nations. However, Leila Hilal, a Mideast expert at the New America Foundation, said Obama may have made more progress toward improving relations than critics say.

“Obama inherited a very damaged U.S. credibility in the region,” she said, and so

it would be unrealistic to think that his “new beginning” would take hold fast.

“There’s only so much one president can do, given the history” of perceived insults by the U.S., she said. Those include events as major as the American invasion of Iraq and as recent as the privately made anti-Islam video that ridicules the prophet Muhammad and triggered major protests across the Muslim world.

The question of the Obama administration’s relationship with that Muslim world came under new election-year scrutiny when four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

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Pakistani protesters hold a banner depicting U.S. President Barack Obama.

licans frustrated at his performance as a candidate.

Still, there were fresh signs of weakness in the nation’s job market as the two candidates vied for support in Florida.

The Labor Department said the number of Americans seeking unemployment fell only slightly last week, to a seasonally adjusted level of 382,000, suggesting that businesses remain reluctant to add to their payrolls. The fourweek average rose for the fifth straight week to the highest level in nearly three months.

After more than two days of struggle, Romney seemed eager to leave the 47 percent controversy behind as he appeared at the Univision forum Wednesday night. “My campaign is about the 100 percent in America,” he said firmly.

But Obama made his most extensive comments to date on the subject since the emergence of a video showing Romney telling donors last May that as a candidate his job wasn’t to worry about 47 percent of the country.

“Their problem is not they’re not working hard enough or they don’t want to work or they’re being taxed too little or they just want to loaf around and gather government checks,” the presi-

dent said.”

“Are there people that abuse the system? Yes, both at the bottom and at the top,” he added, including millionaires who he said pay no income taxes. He said many at the low end of the income scale pay other forms of taxes, and some who don’t pay taxes are senior citizens, students, disabled, veterans or soldiers who are stationed overseas.

“Americans work hard, and if they are not working right now I promise you they want to go to work,” he said.

As for education, the president said Romney and running mate Ryan advocate a budget that would cut federal funds for schools by about 20 percent.

“And you could see potentially even more teachers being laid off, working conditions for teachers becoming even worse and potentially for more strikes,” he said.

The president added that under his administration, “what we say to school districts all across the country is we will provide you with more help as long as you’re being accountable, and as far as teachers go, I think they work as hard as anybody, but we also want to make sure that they are having high standards of performance in math and science.”

Anti-Jihad ‘savage’ ads going up in NYC Subway

BY KAREN MATTHEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A provocative ad that equates some Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up next week in the New York City subway system, just as violent protests in the Middle East are subsiding over an anti-Islamic film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.

A conservative blogger who once headed a campaign against an Islamic center near the Sept. 11 terror attack site won a court order to post the ad in 10 subway stations on Monday. It reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

The ad was plastered on San Francisco city buses in recent weeks — prompting some artists to deface the ads and remove some of the words, including “Jihad.” The blogger, Pamela Geller, said she filed suit Thursday in the nation’s capital to post the ad in Washington’s transit system, after officials declined to put up the ad in light of the uproar in the Middle East over the anti-Islam film.

Abdul Yasar, a New York subway rider who considers himself an observant Muslim, said Geller’s ad was insensitive in an unsettling climate for Muslims.

“If you don’t want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong here in America — you shouldn’t put this up,” Yasar said.

But “if this is a free country, they have the right to do this,” he said. “And then Muslims have the right to put up their own ad.”

Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and publisher of a blog called Atlas Shrugs, called a New York judge’s order allowing the ads “a victory for the First Amendment” and said she wasn’t concerned that her ad could spark protests like the ones protesting the depiction of Muslims in the video “Innocence of Muslims.” Violence linked to the movie has left at least 30 people in seven countries dead, including the American ambassador to Libya.

“If it’s not a film it’s a cartoon, if it’s not a cartoon it’s a teddy bear,” she said. “What are you going to do? Are you going to reward Islamic extremism? I will not sacrifice my freedom so as not to offend savages.”

New York City police aren’t anticipating adding any security to subways when the ads go up and have received no threats or reports of violence relating to them, chief spokesman Paul Browne said.

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 12:00 PM “Relics: Travel in Nature’s Time Machine.”

Entomologist Piotr Naskracki will give this Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies/Environmental Sciences Center Seminar.

A light lunch will be provided. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), room 110.

4:00 PM “The Intersection of International Relations Scholarship and Policymaking.” University of Virginia politics professor and Security Studies editor-in-chief John M. Owen IV, Jackson Institute senior fellow Alexander Evans and political science assistant professor Jessica Chen Weiss will speak at this panel discussion celebrating the release of the Yale Journal of International Affairs’ fall 2012 scholars’ forum issue. Reception to follow. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 101.

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7:15 PM “How Do You Find Purpose?” Timothy Dwight College Dean John Loge and local pastor Matt Croasmun GRD ’13 will speak about where they find purpose in life and will take questions from the audience. Hosted by the Yale Christian Fellowship.

Connecticut Hall (1017 Chapel St.), faculty room.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 1:30 PM Yale College Chess Club presents: Chess Simul with Robert Hess. Come play chess with grandmaster Robert Hess at the same time as up to 50 other Yalies! First 40 spots are first come, first served. Guranteed spot if you bring your own board.

Cash prizes for wins and chess gear for draws. Old Campus.

8:00 PM “American Night: The Ballad of Juan José.” Written

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University Theatre (222 York St.).

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 8:00 PM “Crossing the Rhine.” Eighteenth-century music of France and Germany, performed by Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba), Eva Legene (recorder), and Arthur Haas (harpsichord).

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AROUND THE IVIES T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

“The road to success is always under construction.” LILY TOMLIN AMERICAN WRITER AND ACTRESS

T H E C O L U M B I A S P E C TAT O R

Allston project moves forward

University trying hand at online education

BY LILLIAN CHEN STAFF WRITER

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Harvard is planning to build a new science building in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.

BY MERCER COOK STAFF WRITER At the end of last spring, the new Charlesview housing site in Allston was only marked by some ground level foundation and the steel frame of an underground garage. Now, a few months later, the sight is impossible to miss, marked by a completed steel frame of three mid-rise buildings and several smaller townhouse buildings.

The project, which was slated to be finished in the fall of 2013, has remained ahead of schedule according to Jeffrey J. Beam, the project manager for The Community Builders Inc., the organization supervising the construction.

Beam added that consultants to the project are currently considering moving in the first tenants to the new buildings in the spring of 2013.

He attributed the project’s rapid progress over the summer to a “good, coordinated team.”

“We had good communication and a good plan of execution,” Beam said.

In 2007, Harvard reached a land-swap agreement with Charlesview’s board of directors. The university received the

site of the current Charlesview residential complex, a five-acre plot that abuts Harvard Business School, in return for a parcel it owned near HARVARD the Brighton Mills shopping center, the site for the new Charlesview complex.

Some of the brick and windows have been installed, which gives the community a better sense of how the project will appear upon completion, said John Viola, the Charlesview project supervisor at John Moriarty and Associates, the construction firm associated with the new Charlesview project.

“You can get a sense of how the buildings will look when they are finished,” Viola said.

Viola also said that he believed that residents of the current Charlesview site would begin to be moved in on a staggered schedule, as more and more buildings will look when they are finished,” Viola said.

Viola also said that he believed that residents of the current Charlesview site would begin to be allowed to move in on

a staggered schedule, as more and more buildings are being completed.

Beam echoed this statement, but said there would be an emphasis on making sure that Charlesview residents still felt that they were part of a residential neighborhood.

“The goal is to not have people living in a construction site,” Beam said. “We want to be able to complete an entire city block and then shrink the construction site so those people are actually living in a normal, functional, completed set of buildings while the other buildings are setting up.”

The new housing complex will consist of 240 mixed-income units, which will be spread across 22 buildings made up of anywhere between two and 84 units.

Additionally, it will contain a number of parks and public recreational spaces.

These recreational areas are consistent with some of the original goals of the new site, which, in addition to providing housing, are also meant to help “reinvigorate pedestrian and commercial activity in this [Allston-Brighton] neighborhood,” according to the master plan for the project filed by The Community Builders with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

At 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Columbia opened registration for its first two massive open online courses.

The university is offering the two courses — Financial Engineering and Risk Management and Natural Language Processing — through Coursera, an online education platform founded by Stanford University professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng last year.

It’s Columbia’s first major venture into the online education market in a decade.

“We’re doing a pilot program in the MOOC stage — massive open online course — and the idea there is to see … the potential of the MOOC stage for education,” said Sree Sreenivasan, who was appointed Columbia’s first chief digital officer in July. “What I’m trying to do in my position is to help see what’s working, try new things and to expand and enhance what we’ve already done and built at Columbia.”

Sreenivasan said that several Columbia schools, including the School of Continuing Education, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Journalism and Teachers College, have had assorted online education offerings for years. But this is the first time Columbia is offering courses that are free and open to anyone in the world with Internet access.

Both courses will begin on Feb. 11, 2013, and run for 10 weeks.

According to descriptions on Coursera’s website, the workload for each course will be eight to 10 hours per week. Industrial engi-

neering and operations research p ro fe sso rs Garud Iyengar and Martin Haugh COLUMBIA will teach Financial Engineering and Risk Management, and computer science professor Michael Collins will teach Natural Language Processing.

“The plan is to give people a broad introduction into the method of financial engineering and risk management and option pricing for portfolio optimization … and also a healthy degree of skepticism,” Haugh said of his course. “Obviously, these models have come under a lot of criticism in the last few years … so we hope to address some of these issues as well.”

Thirty-three schools — including the California Institute of Technology, Duke University and Princeton University — currently offer or are planning to offer classes on Coursera. The more than one million people who have enrolled in the site’s courses are expected to pay attention during video lectures interspersed with interactive exercises and complete homework assignments in between lectures.

Kyle Rego, SEAS, called Columbia’s new online courses a “fantastic opportunity,” noting that he is currently enrolled in the in-person version of Natural Language Processing.

“If I didn’t have the opportunity to go to Columbia … I would definitely take a course” online, he said. “I could easily see other people wanting to.”

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS BILLY GILLISPIE The men’s basketball coach at Texas Tech resigned from his post due to health concerns, the school announced Thursday. Gillespie, who had made his name by turning around basketball programs at UTEP and Texas A&M, led the Red Raiders for one disappointing season.

Athletes look beyond Levin LEVIN FROM PAGE 1 regulations. “[Levin] certainly knows there are, at times, people who disagree with him, and I would be one of those who disagree with him on the limits we have on student athletes to this great place,” Beckett said.

While Beckett said Levin reevaluates the recruitment policy each year through discussions with students and coaches, Levin said in March that the number of recruits has remained low because of an increasingly selective applicant pool and a higher “opportunity cost” for each admit. For the class of 2015, Yale recruited only 177 of a total 230 athletes allowed by the Ivy League.

Levin declined to comment Tuesday on whether the University’s recruiting policy will change after he leaves, saying he would leave the choice to his successor, but 10 athletes interviewed said they believe the turnover in lead-

ership will offer a chance to reconsider Yale’s recruiting policies.

“We won’t know exactly what will happen with the program until we see who gets the job,” softball outfielder Riley Hughes ’15 said. “But it’s definitely an opportunity for the athletic program.”

Hopefully there will be more spots available for all the athletic teams.

CHAWWADEE ROMPOTHONG ’00 Head coach, women’s golf team Matthew Thwaites ’13, a member of the varsity track and cross country teams, said the track team has suffered from a shortened roster since its allotted number of recruits is not enough to fill all 17 events in a track meet. The team forfeited points in three events

at last year’s Ivy Championships, he said, because it didn’t “have enough bodies to put in uniform.”

Chris Gobrecht, the head coach of the women’s basketball team, said she was sad to hear the news of Levin’s resignation because she thinks his tenure has been largely beneficial for the University, but added that his recruitment policies have made it more challenging for Yale athletic teams to succeed, especially for sports that require a larger roster.

“If everyone stayed healthy and everyone [on the team] stayed all four years, [recruitment] wouldn’t be a big deal,” Gobrecht said. “But there is a lot of natural attrition, and that can present problems for you.”

Chawwadee Rompothong ’00, head coach of the women’s golf team, said she hopes to see Yale’s teams on a more level playing field with its competitors in the future.

“I think athletics will continue to do what they do right now, controlling what they can control,

two Bulldogs for their performances.

Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 shared her first Rookie of the Week award with Columbia’s Atlanta Moye-McLauren and outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 was named to the conference’s honor roll.

In just her first season, Johnson has been a key player for the Bulldogs. Following the nonconference portion of their schedule, Johnson is second on the team in kills with 78 and second on the team in assists with 161. Head coach Erin Appleman said that she feels the entire freshman class is ready to take on Ivy opponents.

“I think [the freshmen] are getting more mature as we keep playing,” she said. “Jesse [Ebner], Karlee [Fuller] and Kelly [Johnson] have all played club ball at a really high level, so I think the pressure of the Ivy League is not going to affect them as much as it would young freshmen.”

Brown is currently mired in an early slump. In their past six matches, the Bears have won just three of a possible 18 sets and been swept five times.

However, three of those squads were from the West Coast, where the quality of collegiate volleyball tends to be higher, and two were from major con-

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ferences.

That s t re tc h Saturday, 2 p.m. includes a trip to at New Haven for the Yale Invitational two weeks ago. While at Yale, Brown was Brown defeated 3–0 by both Northwestern and Villanova. In that same weekend, Yale won a set from Northwestern and defeated Villanova with a 3–1 comefrom-behind victory.

“Brown is on the upswing and they’ve definitely improved,” Appleman said about the Bears. “They played tremendous defense [at the Yale Invitational], and Maddie Lord is a very good offensive threat for them.”

Lord led Brown in kills last year and finished fourth in the conference with 3.28 per set. But she did not find success against the Bulldogs last season.

Instead, Lord had two of her worst performances of the season. In the Ivy opener, Lord recorded two kills and eight errors for an abysmal -0.316 hitting percentage.

The action begins at 2 p.m. on Friday in Brown’s Pizzitola Sports Center.

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trying to recruit best student athletes they can get,” Rompothong said. “Hopefully there will be more spots available for all the athletic teams so that we’re at least competitive with other

teams, and we can put a little more emphasis on winning on the field.”

Yale won two Ivy League Championship titles in the 2011’12 school year, while Harvard and Princeton won 10 each.

every game.

In preparing for the tough compevs. tition that faces them this weekend, the Elis have been focusing on team Princeton defense, and for good reason. On the Tigers’ roster is the Ivy League’s leading scorer Jen Hoy, who has already put away nine goals this season.

In contrast, goals from the Bulldogs have been well-distributed across the team. When the Bulldogs defeated the Peacocks by a seven-goal margin, just one player scored twice.

The Elis treat defense the same way — winning for the Bulldogs is a team

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Coming off a three-game winning streak, the Bulldogs (5–3) will take on the Princeton Tigers (3–3) this weekend — the beginning of Ivy League play for both teams.

In the past four seasons, each competition between Princeton and Yale has resulted in a victory for the away team.

“We’ve got to try and break that curse,” head coach Rudy Meredith said.

In their attempt to do so, the Bulldogs will have to out-will the Tigers and play solid team defense. Judging from their last three games, the Bulldogs seem to be on the right track. The Tigers’ five yellow cards and the Bulldogs’ three this season foreshadow a fierce game.

Meredith added that the Tigers have an aggressive mentality on the field that leads to their scoring touch.

“They have scored a lot of goals this year,” Meredith said.

But they are not the only scorers on the field. With an 8–1 blowout over the Saint Peter’s Peacocks on Sept. 11, the Elis have demonstrated their scoring prowess.

Despite the high scoring both teams have demonstrated this year, a highscoring game on Saturday is unlikely.

In the past seven years of matchups between Princeton and Yale, scoring deficits have been held to two or fewer

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Keys to the Game

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Last season against the Big Red the Bulldogs won at home 37-17 on the heels of a victory against Georgetown.

ent in the video that the Elis have been watching.

Sandquist went on to say that Cornell also mixes up its coverages, but that one of Williams’ strengths as a quarterback was read-

Sandquist said. “We’re going to try and dictate the game ourselves.”

Kickoff in Ithaca, N.Y. is at 1 p.m. tomorrow.

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DON’T LET MATHEWS BEAT YOU

ing defenses and taking what he saw, rather than “step[ping] out of what he sees on the field.”

Finally, Sandquist stated that Yale will try to control the tempo of the game.

“We’re going to establish our identity and go from there,”

effort.

Rachel Ames ’16 and Elise Wilcox ’15 have been splitting time in the net.

All of the players that have played in a game have also started for the Bulldogs.

By continuing their team momentum, the Elis are looking to outplay the Tigers across the field. Ball movement, similar to that displayed in the last couple of games, coupled with deliberate spreading of the field will bode well for the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs will kick off against the Tigers at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Reese Stadium.

The women’s soccer team has won all of its home games so far this season.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

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Elis face Bears in away match VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12

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In June, University President Richard Levin will step down after serving 20 years in office. He is pictured here at a Yale football game.

Although it is only their first Ivy League game, the Bulldogs will face possibly the most talented player they will see this season in Cornell University’s Jeff Mathews. As last year’s Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, he has shown no signs of a recession this season. Mathews threw for 489 yards and three scores while rushing for another touchdown against Fordham University last weekend. If the Bulldogs want to win in Ithaca tomorrow, they are going to have to disrupt Mathews and keep the Big Red on the ground. Cornell managed just 29 rushing yards last week, so if the Elis can make this weekend a ground game, the duo of running backs Tyler Varga ’16 and Mordecai Cargill ’13 can help Yale steal a win on the road.

The key to all of this is taking the ball out of Mathews’ hands. Not only will the pass rush have to get to Mathews before he can pick apart the secondary, but the offense will also have to make sustained, time-consuming drives.

Mathews cannot score when he is not on the field, so keeping him on the sidelines will be crucial.

TAKE CHANCES ON OFFENSE

Head coach Tony Reno made several bold play calls last weekend, and they worked out for the Bulldogs. Reno called for a deep pass instead of trying to run and get breathing room from the Yale two-yard line. He was rewarded with the longest play from scrim-

mage in Yale history when receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 hauled in the tipped pass from Eric Williams ’16 for a 98-yard score. Earlier in the game he called for a fake punt, and safety John Powers ’13 — the same player who ran the fake punt in the infamous “fourthand-22” play against Harvard three years ago — dashed for 24 yards. The irony of Powers gaining the yardage that would have vindicated former head Coach Tom Williams in The Game notwithstanding, Reno displayed a knack for taking risks at the right time. That could come in handy against an inexperienced Cornell secondary that is starting two freshmen at corner.

EXECUTE ON SPECIAL TEAMS

Last week Yale won because kicker Philippe Panico ’13 made his field goal while his Hoya counterpart missed both of his attempts. With the exception of giving up a punt return for a touchdown when Kyle Cazzetta ’15 outkicked the coverage, the Elis played well on special teams, but this week they will need to be mistake-free. Giving a quarterback like Mathews a short field to work with does your defense no favors, so the Bulldogs must focus on pinning Cornell deep within its own territory on punts and kickoffs. Last week showed the Elis the difference between scoring a touchdown and settling for a field goal attempt, and they need to take that to heart.

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“This weekend should be a good test...to see if we can build off of the momentum we created... last weekend.”

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Bulldogs hit the road

Football faces first Ivy test

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER After a challenging preseason, it is finally time for Ivy League play to begin for the volleyball team.

VOLLEYBALL The Bulldogs will begin their quest for a third straight conference title this Saturday, when they travel to Providence, R.I., to take on Brown (3–6). This weekend’s match is the beginning of a difficult stretch of five away contests that will keep Yale on the road until Oct. 12. This represents a new challenge for the Elis, who started last season by playing their first five league matches in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

“It’s definitely going to be difficult,” libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 said. “Playing on the road is always a little tougher. You have to get used to a new gym and different lighting … but I think we can pull through and get some wins.”

This weekend’s matches will be just the second time Yale (4–5) hits the road this season after traveling to San Diego last weekend. Yale dropped all three of those matches, which continues a trend the team has developed over the last two years.

Going back to 2010, the Elis have played to a sterling 25–4 record at home but have won just 14 of 30 matches played on the road.

Although Yale did not manage to win a match last weekend, the Ivy League honored SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

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Mordecai Cargill ’13, shown playing against Dartmouth last season, and Tyler Varga ’16 combined to rush for 179 yards in Yale’s win over Georgetown last week.

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accomplishments, Yale (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) quarterback Eric at Williams ’16 said that he will not change his game to compete with the Big Cornell Red signal caller.

“Throwing for 1500 yards in the last three games, that’s something you don’t do too often,” Williams said. “[But] I’m not trying to compare myself to [Mathews]. I’m just trying to play the best that I can.”

Head coach Tony Reno also praised Mathews, saying that he was an NFL prospect who combined a strong

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Saturday, 1 p.m.

The Bulldogs face a long, hard drive to Ithaca this weekend, but the trip will get even harder when they take the field to face Cornell.

Although they lost their season opener to Fordham, the Big Red (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) is a dangerous team led by reigning Ivy League offensive player of the year, quarterback Jeff Mathews.

Mathews started the season where he left off last year, throwing for 489 yards and three scores against the Rams to give him 1,446 yards and 12 touchdown passes in his past three games. Despite Mathews’ recent

arm with an ability to read the field.

Although Mathews is a threat, wide receiver Henry Furman ’14 stated that the team will not go to extremes to counter him.

“Our identity is an aggressive defense,” Furman said. “We’re still going to run the same blitzes. We’re not going to be afraid and put more guys in coverage.”

Wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 added that the offense will also maintain the balance between ground and aerial assaults that led the Blue and White to a 24–21 victory at Georgetown last weekend.

He added that the backfield combo of running backs Tyler Varga ’16 and

Mordecai Cargill ’13 gives the Elis an edge. The duo rushed for a combined 179 yards last week, and Williams said that the backs’ ability to gain yards after contact is especially important.

“I think we’ll fare all right [against Cornell] because we’ve got the run game with Varga and Mo that can be just deadly,” Williams said.

Although establishing the run will be important, Williams said that the Bulldogs will take more chances down the field this weekend in the passing game. He and Sandquist added that although the Big Red secondary is young, the talent of the unit is apparSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

Men’s soccer looks to maintain momentum

BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER

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After failing to score a goal in its first four games of the season, including a 0–0 tie against Colgate, the men’s soccer team has won consecutive games against Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart.

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The Elis will attempt to repeat last week’s sweep when they face Fordham and Marist this weekend.

After demonstrating noticeable offensive strength last weekend, with a goal apiece from forwards Scott Armbrust ’14, Peter Jacobson ’14 and Jenner Fox ’14, the team appears fit and ready to take its third and fourth consecutive wins.

“This weekend should be a good test for us to see if we can build off of the momentum we created for ourselves last weekend,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. “We’ve had a short week of practices, but I think each practice has been very sharp.”

The Bulldogs (2-3-1) will first face Fordham in Reese Stadium tonight. It has been more than 20 years since the two last faced off against each other.

“Fordham is a team that tries to play good, attractive soccer,” Alers said. “That’s how we try to play too, so it should be a fun game.”

Although the Rams (3-3-0) fell to Stony Brook in their last clash, they have scored 11 goals in total so far this season. They beat Brown, 1-0, two weeks ago, whereas the Bulldogs lost to the Bears by a 1-0 margin last year. The Rams’ player to watch is Finnish midfielder Kalle Sotka: Besides scoring two goals so far this

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season — including the game sealer against Brown — he is the team’s most important playmaker who not only shoots but also provides crucial assists.

Although the Bulldogs will have home turf advantage, the Rams have not played a game Marist since Sept. 14, giving them more time to recover.

On Sunday, the Elis will make a trip to Marist (3-3-1) and attempt to repeat last season’s 7-0 shutout against the team.

“Marist will remember the 7-0 pounding and will come out very hard against us,” forward Peter Ambiel ’15 said.

In that game, Yale dominated the first half by tallying five goals, including a goal each from Jacobson, Fox and defender Milan Tica ’13. The Bulldogs added two more goals just for good measure in the second half, and Fox again contributed one of them.

Alers said Marist has some good, athletic players, so Yale will have to play smart and take advantage of its opportunities. at

Although Yale undoubtedly controlled last year’s game, Marist recorded four more shots (22-18).

The Red Foxes have scored ten goals so far this season and in their last game, they defeated the University of North Carolina-Asheville, 4-0.

Yale should focus on marking forward Stephan Brossard, who has contributed a third of Marist’s total goals this season, along with three assists.

He was also named to the First Team All-MAAC and the NSCAA Third Team All-North Atlantic Regional Team last year. Another player to watch is Evan Southworth, who has scored three goals for his team this season.

The Bulldogs will maintain tactics from last weekend against their opponents.

“We had some success with the Flying V formation last week, so I think the plan is definitely to stick with it for now,” Alers said.

Ambiel added the team wants to play good, hard soccer and come out of the weekend with two wins heading into its game against Connecticut.

The kick-off against Fordham is slated at 7 p.m. today at home. The Elis will take on Marist on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE HOME TEAM HAS WON IN THE LAST FOUR MATCHES BETWEEN THE YALE AND PRINCETON WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAMS. The Bulldogs will look to break that pattern this weekend when they face the Tigers on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Reese Stadium.