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CROSS CAMPUS

DANCE ART TO SOME, SPORT TO OTHERS

MAKING THE GRADES

POP-UP VINTAGE

VOLLEYBALL

Hillhouse High School principal suspended over grade-tampering scandal

TEMPORARY STOREFRONT OPENS ON CHAPEL

Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 talks early career and transition to Yale team

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After 20 years, stability? Classes cluster again

Shots fired on Crown.

Witnesses reported a shooting on Crown Street early Thursday morning that could be heard from the Taft Apartments on College Street.

The victim reportedly walked himself to the ambulance and was seen conversing with paramedics. New Haven police officers at the scene declined to comment.

Slowdown in Cambridge.

Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson

TUESDAY, THURSDAY AFTERNOONS POPULAR TO PROFS, STUDENTS

Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews

Harvard University’s endowment fell to $30.7 billion in the latest fiscal year after experiencing a 0.05 percent loss on investments.

The slight decline of the largest endowment in higher education is a substantial reversal from fiscal year 2011, when the school reported a 21.4 percent return on investments.

The rumor mill begins. David

BY SOPHIE GOULD AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS

Vice President Linda Lorimer

Petraeus, a Princeton alum and the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is reportedly interested in becoming Princeton’s next president, the Daily Princetonian reported.

Current Princeton President Shirley Tilghman announced last weekend that she would step down at the end of this academic year.

Keeping it safe. The

Davenport Communication & Consent Educators invited DPort upperclassmen to a “falafel focus group” Wednesday evening, in which students received a falafel sandwich from Mamoun’s in return for their advice to freshmen on how to do Safety Dance right, from staying with friends to finding the best legwarmers. The advice will go on table tents.

Roll out the red carpet. The

big day is here: Aung San Suu Kyi will speak this morning at Sprague Hall. Tickets for the event ran out in just minutes last week, but the event will be livestreamed online.

Some jokester. A new Twitter

account has popped up titled “Fake John DeStefano” (@ FakeDeStefano, Twitterati) lampooning the mayor and his various issues. One recent Tweet: “Did I mention I’m launching an investigation into whether Kermit Carolina is a real name or from one of those porn star name generators?” The account has four followers.

Kickoff. The New England

Festival of Ibero American Cinema kicks off today at the Yale University Art Gallery with a 6 p.m. screening of Sebastián Cordero’s Pescador.

The festival continues through Wednesday.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander

Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King

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Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel

It would require some further resolve on the part of the faculty to create [a firm policy to spread out classes].

YALE

It remains unclear whether the many officers appointed under University President Richard Levin will leave Yale with Levin at the end of the year.

BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER When Richard Levin assumed the office of University president in 1993, Yale had seen three presidents in three years.

UPCLOSE

In the 20 years since, Yale’s administration has stabilized — with Levin selecting nearly every top official. All 14 deans of Yale’s schools are Levin appointees, and Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson is the only remaining officer who preceded his era. The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest

governing body, has inevitably changed its entire membership under Levin because of term limitations.

Just as Levin has shaped the Yale administration, he has also helped shape the leadership of other universities. Over the course of his tenure, eight Yale administrators have left the Uni-

versity to serve as presidents of nine other institutions — Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Colgate, Duke, MIT, Oxford, Swarthmore, U-Penn, and Wellesley.

By all accounts, Levin’s presidency has been one of stability.

But that stability may have come

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL AND LAVINIA BORZI CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS The Yale Club of New York City is outlining plans to begin funding undergraduate organizations — particularly those representing cultural and racial minorities on campus

— through the Undergraduate Organizations Committee.

Jennifer Warpool, director of marketing and communications at the Yale Club of NYC, said the club is excited about the initiative, though most of its details have yet to be determined. The project was announced to the UOC by Associate Dean for Stu-

dent Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske on Sept. 18, said UOC chair Aly Moore ’14, adding that having additional funds from the Yale Club of NYC will give the UOC more leeway in its budget for all undergraduate organizations.

Moore said she expects student groups will apply for Yale

JOSEPH GORDON Dean of undergraduate ediucation, Yale College

Club of NYC funds through an online process, and receive money if their events meet the club’s criteria. She said Meeske mentioned that the Yale Club of NYC initiative would focus on organizations representing minority groups, but added

students’ course options because of overlap, they said Yale College is unlikely to adopt stricter scheduling policies any time soon.

“It would require some further resolve on the part of the faculty to create [a firm policy to spread out classes],” Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon said. “Although such guidelines would probably result in fewer ‘forced choices’ by students between course options, I don’t know that such a system would necessarily be welcomed by students, because that advantage would be bought at what some might perceive to be the cost of having to get to class earlier in the day and on more days of the week.”

Two-hour seminars are clus-

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Yale Club to fund minority campus groups

City plans ID McMahon falls behind Murphy card expansion

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER

a survey designed to gauge the Elm City Resident Card’s success and plan for its future expansion. The survey, available on the city’s website and on social media platforms, asks respondents what functions New Haven residents would most like to see on future versions of the card — which is intended to improve the quality of life of the city’s undocumented population — including the possibility of its use as a debit card.

After weeks of worries among Connecticut Democrats that their nominee for the state’s open Senate seat, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, was in danger of losing to Republican Linda McMahon, Murphy appears to be pulling away in the race.

A Wednesday poll by Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling found that Murphy leads McMahon by six percentage points, confirming a positive trend for Murphy that was suggested by the four-point lead reported last week in a University of Connecticut poll. And while McMahon has made overtures

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THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1978 New Haven’s Commission on Equal Opportunities sues the University, claiming it fired a black computer operator because of race discrimination.

The University claimed the man was fired for unauthorized absences.

Provost Peter Salovey

Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill

Students who found their shopping lists for this term clustered within the same time slots were not alone.

This fall, as in past years, seminars and large lecture classes are concentrated in the middle of the week during the late morning and afternoon, despite past efforts to get departments to assign course times more evenly.

Administrators said the trend is driven by students and professors alike, who often prefer concentrating their class time in the middle of the week and avoiding early morning classes. Though administrators acknowledged that this leads to inefficient use of classroom space and limits

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER Five years after the creation of the Elm City Resident Card and the controversy it generated, City Hall is seeking to expand the program, which provides identification and access to financial services for New Haven residents.

In a Wednesday afternoon press conference at JUNTA for Progressive Action, a New Haven-based Latino rights advocacy organization, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced

LINDA MCMAHON CAMPAIGN

After poll numbers for weeks indicated a dead heat between Republican Linda McMahon and her Democratic opponent in Connecticut’s Senate race, Chris Murphy, she now appears to be losing ground.

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GUEST COLUMNIST A M A L I A S K I LT O N

Corporate doesn’t mean efficient M N

obody likes inefficiency.

Especially at Yale, we have limited time and energy, and we’re not interested in spending more resources — whether they’re hours on a paper or minutes in a meeting — than we need to accomplish our goals. When others take longer on work than we think they need, we get impatient; we feel like they’re wasting our time as well as theirs.

Our love of efficiency is no secret. Job recruiters, professors and student organizations all play on it. They promise that their company, class or group will use our time better and deliver more results than the competition. Yet no one sells efficiency better, or with more expertise, than consulting firms. They tell the same story to their clients and to Yalies: “Work with us and we’ll teach you what makes a business efficient. We’ll teach you how to be effective.”

Tomorrow, McKinsey consultants will be telling a slightly different version of this story to a roomful of Dwight Hall group leaders. The program’s description promises that the consultants will tell Yalies about McKinsey’s “social sector engagements” and help us “develop nonprofit management skills.” Read: After the McKinsey employees explain how their company has made some nonprofits more efficient, they will tell you how you can do the same for your student group.

Don’t believe them for a minute. Like every consulting firm, however serious its “social sector engagements,” McKinsey is a for-profit company. Its primary clients are other companies, not the government or nonprofit organizations. The firm has succeeded because it has a strategy for evaluating businesses and devising ways for them to make more money.

When it advises nonprofit organizations, chances are strong that it uses that same strategy, albeit with a few verbal tweaks and a dash of social conscience.

That strategy, created for the world of private business, will not help your student group now or your nonprofit later.

It may teach you a few tricks, or make you feel more efficient. Yet in the long run, taking advice on service or social change from private-sector consultants will not advance the mission of your organization. It will just make it more like a private company.

That might not sound so bad at first. After all, private companies make their own money.

They don’t have to write endless grant applications, or make awkward phone calls asking

for donations, or worry about sending thank-you notes on time. But businesses also don’t have to think about their purpose, structure or strategy in the same way social service and social change organizations do.

When nonprofits adopt business strategies, they fail in their missions — just like a business that decided to put a social mission ahead of profits would fail and close. The difference is that in the nonprofit world failure is more subtle. It doesn’t come when your organization’s bank account goes red or your doors close. Instead, it comes when you stop reaching toward your mission and start reaching toward something else.

The most important nonprofit management skill is humility. It’s easy for managers to believe they’re the experts on their organization and that they can evaluate it well. But a nonprofit’s clients — not the management or the people who crunch its numbers — are the experts on their own experience, and they know best whether the organization that serves them is succeeding or failing. Client opinions are the most important feedback any social service or social change organization can receive. When clients speak freely, they can tell truths we don’t want to — but must — hear about our programs. They know best if the quality of an agency’s services is low, if it’s spending too much money on staff, if the organization is too hierarchical, if more people need a say in management decisions.

In any social service or organizing work that serves marginalized people, you might well need to make choices that make your organization less efficient as private business understands the term. To provide your clients with the quality of service they deserve, you might decide to adopt a less hierarchical leadership structure, or less centralized strategies for decision-making, or different rules about how staff and clients interact. Making such choices might cost you the support of donors or volunteers, but not making them would cost you the integrity of your mission.

Private businesses face fundamentally different decisions.

McKinsey and other consulting firms’ advice may help companies make profits, but it cannot help social service and social change organizations address their unique problems. Outside the private sector, adopting corporate strategies only leads to false efficiency.

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We are young

y bout of blepharospasm began a few weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, when I woke up hungover and tired but unable to fall back asleep. Beyond the generalized agony — the parched throat, the raging headache, the feeling of a chain tied around my gullet — that morning’s hangover also brought a more peculiar symptom. Every once in a while, I felt as though someone were poking the corner of my eye, pushing my eyelid up and down with the butt of a pen.

The twitching was only mildly annoying at first. I found that if I closed my eye and massaged the lid, the spasms would go away.

For a few minutes I’d be in peace, but it was only a matter of time until the invisible pen returned, poking me in the eye, incessantly, persistently, maddeningly.

I don’t usually turn to the Internet for medical advice, but by the afternoon I had grown desperate. I found it comforting that when I typed “eye twitching,” Google suggested “eye twitching causes” as a popular query. (Less comforting at the time was the second suggestion: “eye twitching for days.”)

The causes of blepharospasm, WebMD told me, include alcohol consumption, stress, TEO SOARES sleep deprivation and high Traduções caffeine intake — all of which happen to be consequences of enrollment at Yale.

But also listed on the website were a host of neuropathies: dystonia, Bell’s palsy, Tourette’s syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.

To be sure, my eye twitching was not caused by young-onset Parkinson’s. But it occurs to me that my optimism was grounded on only one fleeting factor: Youth.

I’m 21. I’m young. Most of us are in our 20s. We are, statistically speaking, safe from Parkinson’s for at least 40 years; from hypertension for 20 or so; from incontinence for 60 and from arthritis for 25. Most hip replacement patients are between 60

and 80 years old, meaning that our hips have, in all likelihood, at least 40 good years left in them.

At our age, we can live life with a degree of abandon that we’ll never enjoy again. This is partially about being a college student. Soon the things that now loom large in our minds — tests and papers and internship applications — will be dwarfed by realworld worries: rent and car payments and grocery bills.

But it’s also larger than that.

We’ll only be young once; for now, we can chug penny drinks and dance at Toad’s on the stage and dip Wenzels in ranch dressing without worrying about our livers or joints or arteries. We can sleep on couches without needing a chiropractor in the morning, and we can play IMs without having to take breathers every three minutes. We can put on the freshman 15 and lose it in time for junior year. We can take cool but poorly paying jobs after graduation because we can survive on a diet of ramen noodles.

True, we’re not invincible.

Our bodies are resilient, but they have limits. They’re breakable.

What’s more, the choices we make now have an impact on our

health later. But being aware of our youth puts things in perspective. No one is healthier at age 60 than they were at age 20. Slowly, surely, our bodies will deteriorate — our muscles will weaken, our bones will wear, our eyes will go cloudy and our minds, which now soar, will begin to flutter.

Eventually we’ll be unable to do the things we once did with ease.

That time will come inevitably, and when it does, I suspect we won’t regret all the bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches we ate, even if they end up making the needle climb a little higher.

So wake up at 7 a.m. on Saturday to tailgate and nap in the afternoon instead of doing homework, even if it means you’ll need to pull an all-nighter on Sunday. Be sleep-deprived — that’s how Blue State stays in business.

Drink a little too much — a quart of Gatorade and an Advil or two and you’ll be good as new.

If worst comes to worst, you’ll end up with an eye twitch.

TEO SOARES is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST MAREK RAMILO

C

Beware the freshman wall

ollege coaches of all sports have come to accept it as a necessary phase in the typical student-athlete’s development. From the blue chips to the diamonds in the rough, it doesn’t discriminate. Consequently, those who manage to grind through it not only put themselves in position for continued success in college athletics, but they also gain the experience needed to overcome similar difficulties at the next level. What allows these athletes to become the superstars we admire is their willingness to adapt and endure in the face of this infamous impasse: the freshman wall.

So what exactly does it mean to “hit the freshman wall?”

Consider the athlete who, on the strength of the raw talent, instincts and athleticism that got him recruited in the first place, excels immediately during his initial season in college.

An extraordinary showing during preseason camp lands him a significant role for the start of the season, which he dominates in the limelight. As a result, there comes the media hype,

the awards talk, the coronation as the big man on campus, the comparisons to Reggie Bush, Kevin Durant, Stephen Strasburg — life is good for our young up-and-comer.

Then, out of nowhere, bam!

The budding athlete slams right into the wall. And suddenly, he falls back to earth, disoriented.

Be it the onset of increasingly unbearable fatigue, the discovery of a certain predictability in his game, or a sudden sense of anxiety in the face of all the pressure that comes with such high praise, he struggles to get back on track. Should he fail to replicate the heroic deeds of his pre-wall career, this athlete is reduced to nothing more than yet another ex-phenom who couldn’t hack it on the big stage.

A bust.

Most people are familiar with this story, even if they have never heard of the freshman wall. For every player that breaks through it and emerges on the other side as a veritable icon within his sport, there might be thousands of former hopefuls who just could not deliver on the promise they displayed by bursting onto

the scene. I contend, however, that the athletes aren’t the only ones on this campus who should brace themselves for such a psychologically rattling event. Yes, my fellow normies. Even we have cause to beware the freshman wall.

At the moment, I feel pretty good about my standing as a Yale student. The workload hasn’t been that overwhelming, the classes are stimulating, and my peers are friendly. All in all, I’d rate my performance as “good.”

Most indicative of my comfort with the pace of life as an Ivy League student, however, is my naïve belief that the occasionally cruise-controlled study habits that got me through high school will cut it in an academic institution of this caliber. Initially, this caused me to consider the idea that I might be able to just tiptoe my way through Yale the same way the first-year athlete thinks he can pick up where he left off in high school: on the strength of the raw intellect, curiosity, and studiousness that (I think) got me accepted in the first place.

But it is at that precise moment

during which one thinks he is invincible that he is most susceptible to being brought down.

I’d like to think that the freshman wall can be avoided. There might be, among the class of 2016, those remarkable few who encounter nothing but unmarred success in their time here. Such flawless talent is hard to come by, and it’s not purely a question of dedication. No matter how committed you may be to toiling through your work 24/7, you’ll eventually burn out and inexperience will catch up.

Instead of scheming some convoluted way around the wall, we have to accept the inevitable: at some point in time, probably sooner rather than later, we hit the freshman wall. But we can act to soften the blow. Once it hits, we’ll know, but we won’t be knocked off our feet. At that point, we just have to grind it out and play to the strengths that helped us get here, and prove that we belong in the big leagues.

MAREK RAMILO is a freshman in Morse College. Contact him at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

G U E ST C O LU M N I ST K AT H E R I N E A R AG O N

AMALIA SKILTON is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at amalia.skilton@yale.edu .

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Promise still to be filled in Burma I

was working in Thailand this summer when Aung San Suu Kyi came to town. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of democracy was on her first trip out of Burma since 1988. Though I didn’t see her, colleagues described a mood of ecstasy and hope among the crowd of 5,000 Burmese refugees.

Suu Kyi spent an hour in Mae La, the largest refugee camp in Thailand and home to over 40,000 Burmese refugees. The camp residents waited for hours in the mud and sun to hear Suu Kyi speak, after having woken at dawn to decorate the camp with pictures of her. Despite the often bleak life in a refugee camp, these people welcomed their hero with open arms, asking only that she not forget them.

Burmese people and others deeply admire Suu Kyi, but after decades of oppression and violence, many also deeply distrust the Burmese government. Burmese leaders have done little to assuage their fears.

In Burmese refugee camps this summer, I got to know many young students in a peace and conflict education program.

In discussions of recent Burmese reforms, students often said they feared the changes are

more aesthetic than substantive. Political prisoners have been released, only to meet restrictions on speech. Military rulers have refused to honor president Thein Sein’s two requests to cease fighting in the eastern ethnic states. In February, the military began bombing one of those states, ending a 17-year ceasefire.

One girl I spoke to described the refugee camp as a safe cage.

Though opportunities for educational and economic advancement are highly limited in the camp, at least inhabitants know they can send their children to camp schools and that rations will reach the table. Refugees worry that as soon as displaced minority populations return to Burma, the government will return to its discriminatory — and, historically, genocidal — practices or ignore the people completely, in line with decades of systematic neglect.

Disappointingly, however, Suu Kyi and her political allies have remained largely silent on the subject of the continued persecution of ethnic minorities. This silence has everything to do with the undemocratic military hierarchy still in place: The top official in Burma today is the military commander-in-chief rather than the civilian president, who

is relegated to a third-tier role.

Though Suu Kyi is a member of parliament, that body is only partly elected; a quarter of the seats are reserved for military officials.

In her address to students during last night’s Chubb Fellow dinner, Suu Kyi acknowledged that the ethnic Burmese had not treated the ethnic minorities in the country fairly. She reminded students that though Burma had made progress, there was still much to do to secure a free and democratic country for all Burmese citizens.

While she was under house for much of the last two decades, Suu Kyi refused to back down from advocating for democracy and freedom in Burma. Now, out from house arrest, elected to the parliament and internationally influential, she must be all the more emphatic in her support for peace and collaboration with Burma’s beleaguered ethnic minorities. If the current leaders of Burma want true progress and unification, Suu Kyi and those around her must not shy away from these issues for fear of political retaliation.

They must remember that they stand not just for citizens in Burma’s capital but also for the refugees who turned out in droves to

embrace Suu Kyi and her promise of equality.

I was walking around the refugee camp in Thailand one day when I heard a young man calling after me, yelling “Teacher, teacher!” I turned around, startled by the urgency in his voice. In a quick exchange, the young man introduced himself as a school teacher in camp. He was in the middle of an English class and wanted me to speak to his students so they could practice English with a native speaker.

As I stood at the front of the bamboo schoolroom asking the teenagers questions, the young teacher interrupted me. He began to explain that he was going nowhere in life, because even after reaching the highest education level possible in the camp, neither the Thai nor the Burmese government recognizes his school certificates.

The man wanted to know what I could do to change this situation. Almost in tears, he asked me “Can you change this? Can you tell anyone? We don’t have a future here in camp. I don’t have a future.”

I didn’t have an answer.

KATHERINE ARAGON is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at katherine.aragon@yale.edu .

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” MARK TWAIN WRITER

CORRECTIONS

Vintage shop pops up on Chapel Street

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26

The article “When hakespeare met Orwell” misspelled the name of Alexi Sargeant ’15.

The article “New frat clashes with Yale policy” incorrectly implied that Yale’s anti-discrimination policy protects only the classes of sex, race, color, religion, age, disability and national or ethnic origin. In fact, these are only some of the classes protected by the policy.

The story “100 Years later, Cole Porter still ‘Most Entertaining’” incorrectly identified Sarah Peterson as working in the Jonathan Edwards College Master’s Office.

Ms. Peterson is in fact a professional actor and director. The actors listed in the article as appearing in January 2013’s production of “Kiss Me Kate” are not yet confirmed.

The article “Utility workers prepare to strike over contract” incorrectly implied that blackouts would result from a strike.

Because of a contingency plan, Northeast Utilities claims a strike would not trigger blackouts.

The article “Students navigate dining options” misstated the costs of Brown’s, Princeton’s and Harvard’s meal plans.

Brown’s costs $4,284 per year and Harvard’s and Princeton’s cost about $5,000 per year.

The article “For country or for Yale?” was unclear about the timeline of ROTC’s departure from Yale. The decision to eliminate the program was made in 1970, while the class of 1972 was the last to have ROTC participants. Due to an editing error, factboxes for two ROTC participants contained incorrect biographical information. In fact, Josh Clapper ’16 is a member of the Naval ROTC program from Coronado, Calif; he is in Davenport College and majoring in American studies; and his parents have both served in the Navy. Warner Overhauser ’16 is a member of the Naval ROTC program from Philadelphia, Ind; he is in Saybrook College and majoring in chemical engineering; and both of his grandfathers and two of cousins have been involved in the military.

Principal disciplined for grade tampering

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER Amid ongoing allegations of grade tampering, the New Haven Board of Education issued Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina a suspension-without-pay order on Wednesday — discipline that Carolina’s attorney said was “bully ball” from Mayor John DeStefano Jr. The charges levied against Carolina, which he has denied, date back to last fall, when his assistant principal Shirley Joyner allegedly altered the academic records of student-athletes attending the school. Attorney Floyd Dugas conducted an investigation into charges on behalf of New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Reginald Mayo, and in the investigation’s August report, Dugas found that Joyner and Carolina had changed grades, course titles and attendance rules for several students.

While a statement from schools spokeswoman Abbe Smith said the tampering “was not a widespread problem,” Mayo met with Carolina Wednesday afternoon and issued a suspension without pay to be served from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 along with several other disciplinary measures.

“It is time to put this matter behind us and return to our core mission of educating our children,” Mayo said. “Our role as educators and leaders is to help our students succeed in the classroom, go to college and build a bright future.”

But Carolina is not taking the punishment lying down — his attorney, Michael Jefferson, has contested the disciplinary measures and the integrity of Dugas’ investigation, arguing in a letter that “the investigation was orchestrated by John DeStefano because of Mr. Carolina’s refusal to support his re-election bid.”

Jefferson added that he and Carolina “are not accepting any discipline imposed by the district” and that it is time “someone stand up to [DeStefano].”

DeStefano declined to comment on Wednesday, but City Hall

spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said the findings were “carefully reviewed, and all involved were given an opportunity to respond.” She said Carolina’s allegations of political motivations were a “smoke screen” to distract from the issue at hand.

In his criticism, Jefferson also questioned why the investigation took nearly a year to complete and denounced Mayo’s conduct during his long tenure as superintendent.

“If Dr. Mayo was held accountable for all that is wrong with this district he should have been fired as superintendent a long time ago,” Jefferson added. “But because he’s useful as a political hack for the mayor’s political ambitions he conveniently remains as the Mayor’s faithful servant in the black community.”

Smith dismissed Jefferson’s accusations, adding that the investigation was lengthy because it was “very thorough,” including reviews of transcripts, grade reports, correspondence documents and interviews with staff.

Mayo also reviewed all the relevant documents himself, she added.

“The investigation had nothing to do with politics. It grew out of a whistleblower complaint by an assistant principal at Hillhouse,” Smith said. “It would have been irresponsible not to fully investigate the allegations and not to discipline staff who played a role in the wrongdoing.”

In addition to a suspension, the school board has stipulated in its disciplinary measures that Carolina must also meet with Mayo and his director, Iline Tracey, within 30 days to outline a set of professional goals. He is also required to attend all professional development events for administrators offered by the school district this year.

James Hillhouse High School, located at 480 Sherman Parkway, currently serves just under 1,000 students in grades nine through 12.

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

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{Cut.Cloth}, a vintage clothing retailer, opened on Chapel Street Wednesday — but the pop-up storefront will be gone by next week.

BY ELAINA PLOTT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Until next Wednesday, Yale students can pass up Broadway’s chain retailers in favor of clothing from a bygone era.

Wednesday marked the relaunch of {Cut.Cloth}, a New Haven-based vintage pop-up boutique that has opened three times in storefronts around New Haven and once in New York’s TriBeCa neighborhood since its establishment in December 2011. Currently located on Chapel Street, the shop was conceived by Janis Foo LAW ’13. When the idea of practicing law after graduation was no longer appealing, Foo said, she decided to dabble in business, creating a model she felt was lacking in New Haven.

“I saw clothing as an opportunity in New Haven. Many of my friends grew up shopping in secondhand clothing stores but are unable to do so here. There’s a huge gap in the market for vintage clothing,” Foo said.

Foo sought the help of Danyel Aversenti, the owner of Our Empty Space, a company with the intent of transforming the lifeless storefronts lining the New Haven streets into thriving businesses.

Among Aversenti’s previous clients are Apple Inc., Chocopologie Cafe and the Tacky Christmas Sweater Shop, which sold out of its merchandise just days after its opening in December 2011.

After the nearly overnight success of the Tacky Christmas Sweater Shop, Aversenti was left with an empty storefront, already rented out and paid for.

It was a perfect opportunity to take a chance on Foo’s boutique, she said.

“I asked Jan if she’d like to pop-up within my pop-up and together we hosted her first pop-up,” Aversenti said.

The first opening of {Cut.Cloth} proved a success, with 80 percent of Foo’s dresses — styles handpicked from her travels to thrift stores in the New York

and San Francisco areas — sold in just a few days.

“That’s when I knew that this could actually be possible,” Foo said.

Foo said the styles she sells provide Yale students a welcome change from a local retail industry dominated by chains like J. Crew and Urban Outfitters.

“With only two major stores on campus catering to students, you always run the risk of dressing like your classmate.

But when you buy a vintage piece, that problem just doesn’t exist,” she said.

Aversenti echoed this sentiment, noting that it’s not uncommon for her to walk down the street and see her same outfit “strutting in the opposite direction.”

“To me, this is frustrating,” she said.

Foo keeps this sentiment in mind as she travels with one big, empty suitcase ready to collect items for the next season. When hunting for clothing, she said she prefers to search for what she prizes as “contemporary clothing with vintage flair.”

Much vintage today is too costumelike to appeal to a wide market, Foo said.

Part of her inspiration, she said, derives from her grandmother in Hong Kong.

“My dad’s mom was incredibly stylish, and loved wearing Jackie O-style sunglasses. I’m always trying to find pictures of her to look to when buying,” she said.

This week’s flash sale, Foo’s fourth pop-up, ranges from winter coats to party dresses. Bags, shoes and men’s ties are tastefully aligned throughout the store’s airy expanse. Before the store officially opened at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the sidewalk outside the store was busy with Yale students and New Haven residents waiting to shop.

“It’s nice to shop in a store that’s both student-run and not a chain. I really like the idea of bringing student entrepreneurship to the spirit of the city,” said Sheela Ramesh LAW ’14.

Foo’s next goal is to scale the business, with the hopes of designing her own

clothing line and later mass-producing it. Though she doesn’t envision herself remaining in the industry for a long time, {Cut.Cloth}, she said, has been a valuable stepping stone into the business world.

“It’s been a fun learning process.” {Cut.Cloth} will be open through next Wednesday.

Contact ELAINA PLOTT at elaina.plott@yale.edu .

Iraq scholars criticize sanctions

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER Two experts on Iraqi politics asserted that economic sanctions against Iraq throughout the 1990s resulted in disastrous humanitarian consequences in a Wednesday afternoon talk.

Joy Gordon, a philosophy professor at Fairfield University, and HansChristof von Sponeck, head of United Nations operations in Iraq from 1998 to 2000, each gave talks at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies about the history and humanitarian impact of economic sanctions placed on Iraq. Von Sponeck said he initially supported the economic sanctions that were imposed against Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1990, but that it became clear to him once he assumed his post as head of U.N. operations in Iraq that the sanctions were hurting the Iraqi people, particularly because the U.N. was not effectively delivering humanitarian aid alongside the sanctions.

“In reality, the sanctions actually helped Hussein consolidate his power and influence,” von Sponeck said.

In listing the negative consequences of the harsh economic sanctions of the 1990s, von Sponeck mentioned the collapse of Iraq’s education system, an unemployment rate of between 60 and 70 percent, low rates of residential con-

struction and an unprecedented growth in the number of Iraqi orphans. According to von Sponeck, the U.N. Security Council and other countries erroneously believed these sanctions would cripple Saddam Hussein’s rule.

In order to dispense humanitarian aid during this time, the U.N. set up an office in Iraq dedicated to the task that was separate from the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs — an organizational structure that had never before been tried. He said the newly formed office failed to properly integrate humanitarian, human rights and disarmament efforts. While the Iraqi people were receiving little support in upholding their civil rights, he said imposing sanctions that caused them suffering was unfair.

“As I carried out my job in Iraq, the growing gap between what the U.N. Security Council grasped as its responsibility and the actual implementation of policies in Iraq became very clear to me,” he said. “As this gap grew, I began to see the sanctions placed on Iraq as unjustified.”

After von Sponeck concluded his speech, Gordon followed with a detailed analysis of the challenges faced by humanitarian officials in Iraq. Gordon said the secrecy and hypocrisy of the 661 Committee, the U.N. committee responsible for implementing humani-

tarian aid in Iraq during the sanctions, carried most of the blame for the lack of humanitarian aid delivered to the country.

“661 Committee meetings did take minutes, but these minutes were highly restricted, and not circulated to the entire committee,” she said. “Only permanent members were allowed to see them. This created the problem, right from the beginning, of holding any specific committee members responsible for their actions and votes,” she said.

In providing an example of the committee’s hypocrisy, Gordon said the United States, a permanent member of the 661 Committee, released public statements saying that Iraq could import desperately needed items, while it simultaneously supported legal restrictions that prevented Iraq from importing these goods. In one case, she said, the United States forbade Iraq from importing antibiotics on the grounds the medicine could be used as an antidote to anthrax.

Gordon is the author of “Invisible War,” and von Sponeck is the author of “A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanction Regime in Iraq.” Both books focus on the sanctions against Iraq in the last 20 years.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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Number of current Yale University deans (out of 14 total) named Robert They are Law School Dean Robert C. Post, School of Art Dean Robert Storr, School of Music Dean Robert Blocker, School of Medicine Dean Robert J. Alpern and School of Architecture Dean Robert A. M. Stern.

Future of Levin ‘academy’ in question at a price, as experts say the top administrators who anchored the Levin presidency may very well depart with him.

The average tenure of Yale’s officer corps — the president, provost and vice presidents at the top of the administration — is 13 years, excluding two new appointments this year. By the same standard, the average tenure of an officer at Harvard is five years and at Princeton seven.

Recruited, trained and largely unified around a single president, will the Levin brain trust survive his departure in June? And if the University’s top administrators leave, how will Levin’s successor — the one administrator he can’t recruit — find their replacements?

AN UNSTABLE BEGINNING

On May 25, 1992, then-University President Benno Schmidt ’63 LAW ’66 sat down with the Yale Corporation for Commencement breakfast. To the Yale community’s shock, the University would lack a president by the meal’s end.

In many ways it seemed like another in a long line of crises. In the early 1990s, Yale found itself in a state of disrepair — the University was running a $12 million deficit, allowing buildings to deteriorate and considering significant cuts to the faculty.

Ian Shapiro GRD ’83 LAW ’87, Sterling professor of political science and director of the MacMillan Center, recalled the expansive list of problems Yale faced when Levin took office.

“When I came here in 1978 the buildings were falling down — the result of decades of deferred maintenance. The University was broke; it had one of the worstperforming endowments in higher education. The faculty and educational programs were in desperate need of renewal. Relations with the alumni were poor, and those with the unions and the city were worse. Strikes and confrontation were routine. People were dispirited and fatalistic,” Shapiro wrote in an email to the News. “Benno Schmidt understood many of the challenges, but he lacked the institutional imagination and support of the faculty that are essential for leading Yale. Rick Levin had both.”

Former Yale College Dean and current Duke President Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 said the original members of the Levin administration emerged from the instability of the early 1990s.

In February 1991, Schmidt and then-Provost Frank Turner tasked 12 faculty members with serving on a restructuring committee to reduce the size of the Yale faculty. In doing so, Brodhead said, those professors made the transi-

tion from academia to university administration.

“If you go back to the period, it’s about 1990-’91, it was in one of the many recessions of that time.

The Yale administration became convinced that it needed to reduce the size of the faculty, and the number that was first proposed was by 15 percent,” Brodhead said.

“Under any circumstances that would be regarded as extraordinarily drastic.”

At the time of appointment, the Committee on Restructuring the Faculty of Arts and Sciences included Levin, chair of the Economics Department; Brodhead, chair of the English Department; Judith Rodin, chair of the Psychology Department; and Alison Richard, professor of anthropology and director of the Peabody Museum.

By 1994, Levin would be University president, Brodhead would be Yale College dean, and Rodin and Richard would have both served as Yale provost.

“The whole administration came off of that committee and the education it supplied,” Brodhead said. “A whole cohort of people who would have never foreseen themselves as administrators found, in a sense, the positive power of administration.”

All four would go onto lead other universities — Brodhead at Duke, Rodin at the University of Pennsylvania, and Richard at the University of Cambridge. Levin would stay at Yale, building his own administration.

“sell the candidate on the job” by explaining the university’s vision for a school, office or department.

Those whom Levin appointed recalled that the president explained his goals for Yale in a way that made it hard to decline the offer.

“I would say he has a reputation for being very persuasive and being someone to whom it’s difficult to say no,” Provost Peter Salovey said.

“In my case, he didn’t have to talk me into it, but at the same time, I don’t think it really occurred to me that I was going to say no to him.”

Salovey said Levin called him into his office in December 2002, just before winter break, and offered him the role of dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. At that time, Salovey was the chair of the Psychology Department and was serving on the influential Committee on Yale College Education.

When Levin made the offer, Salovey asked to use the winter break to consider whether or not to take the position, but the president refused to wait.

“He said, ‘Peter, it’s 10 a.m.

Why don’t you go home, have lunch with Marta [Salovey’s wife], and come back after lunch and give me an answer?’” Salovey recalled.

He took the job.

A year later, Levin would appoint Hamilton to the position of University provost. Hamilton also recalled a strong sell, saying that Levin “made it an inevitability” that he would accept the offer.

“That’s part of the secret,” Hamilton said. “You ask about the influence he has, with his track record with academic leaders, and that is because he engages you very much at the highest level of the future of the University.”

Levin also recruited administrators from outside the University, several times using Yale ties to recruit business leaders considering retirement. In 2004, Levin appointed former Proctor & Gamble CEO and former Yale Corporation Senior Fellow John Pepper ’60 to help improve labor relations as Yale’s vice president of finance and administration — a position with historically quick turnover.

“Here you had a guy who was the head of one of the world’s 50 largest companies, the number one trustee of Yale, and then he’s going to retire from Proctor and Gamble,” University Vice President Linda Lorimer said. “This person had probably not held the title of vice president for 15 years.”

Pepper said he never would have taken the job if not for his regard for Levin, whose “contagious enthusiasm” for Yale made the decision “quite easy.”

Several years prior, Levin recruited Bruce Alexander, a former senior vice president of com-

mercial real estate developer Rouse Company, straight from retirement to serve as Yale’s first vice president and director of New Haven and state affairs. Alexander said in a Wednesday email that he has remained at Yale longer than he originally planned, and will “certainly do whatever [he] can” to help Yale’s next president sustain a close relationship with the New Haven community.

Like many others, Swarthmore’s Chopp said Levin made a compelling pitch when recruiting her as dean of the Yale Divinity School, explaining his hopes for the school and how he thought she would help accomplish those goals.

“I’ve become a big believer in the president taking a proactive stance in recruiting people in the top positions,” Chopp said. “Rick was a big influence on me in that way; I think that had a big impact on me.”

THE LEVIN ACADEMY

While Levin was an intense, personal negotiator when recruiting, he took a step back once administrators joined his team, those around him said.

Hamilton described Levin’s approach with his colleagues — what he called “the Levin academy” — as one of close collaboration that “drilled down quite deeply to the core issues” but left autonomy to administrators.

“I’d say that President Levin is absolutely not a micromanager — that he gives the people within his senior team considerable authority to take responsibility in their areas, to determine strategic direction, to make decisions where they are needed,” Hamilton said.

Howard Gardner, an expert in leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said successful presidents are generally skilled at “being involved without trying to mastermind.” While Gardner said he is not familiar with Levin’s specific style of management, he said the president’s reputation as a mentor made these qualities seem likely.

“Sure, Rick’s an excellent president, but he’s also an excellent colleague,” Brodhead said. “He’s a strong leader of the institution, but he also knows how to leave people their own space and how to support their good ideas.”

Levin also made sure to offer support when administrators decided to leave the University, several formal Yale officials said.

Judith McLaughlin, who chairs the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents and has worked with over 1,000 college and university presidents, said presidents must be careful not to prevent talented administrators from leaving.

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As Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom told the News in January 2011, he and president Levin had an agreement: Bloom would keep teaching until Levin retired.

Reached by email Tuesday, Bloom says he currently plans to continue teaching despite Levin’s resignation. Still, the tongue-incheek deal might be indicative of a larger trend at the University — after Levin’s announcement to retire, some of Yale’s top administrators have said they are re-evaluating their own career plans.

“It’s oftentimes [that] senior leaders beside the president, once the president steps aside, see that as an opportunity for them to move,” said Joseph Zolner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who specializes in management development.

“They might be thinking, ‘This might be a time for me to look to another position.’”

Given Levin’s influence across the administration, will Yale see change beyond the President’s Office once he is no longer there to hold it together?

University Vice President Linda Lorimer, who also served as University secretary from 1993-2012, said she will consider her future at Yale in the upcoming year.

“It will depend on two things: one, what the new president wants, and two, what I decide I want to do, when I have the chance to catch my breath and think about the next part of my professional career,” she said. “I’ve worked for four presidents at Yale, with four different titles, and very different roles. So I hope to catch my breath sometime this year and think about what I might want to do.”

Robinson, the only officer from before Levin’s time, said she has remained at Yale largely because she enjoys working with Levin, extending a tenure as Yale’s general counsel stretching back to 1986. Asked if she is re-evaluating her own career at the University, Robinson said it is normal to re-evaluate at certain times.

“Everyone considers these things from time to time. I’ve hugely enjoyed my time here — it’s been professionally very rewarding, it’s been a terrific opportunity, and I’m very happy here,” Robinson said. “I think that regardless of this particular event, there are always times when one considers one’s path, and I’m not immune to that.”

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RECRUITING THE NEXT RECRUITER

AN INEVITABLE RECRUITMENT

As remnants of the Schmidt, Lamar and early Levin administrations left the University, Levin began to recruit successors.

Today, he is considered one of the most adept university presidents at identifying administrative talent, said Lawrence Bacow, Tufts University president from 2001’11 and current president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

“I have to believe [Levin is] someone who’s got a good nose for identifying the right people, the people who have ability, and in part because he’s served in his position long enough, he’s had a lot of experience doing that,” Bacow said.

Four former Yale administrators and current university heads interviewed for this article — Brodhead, Colgate and laterSwarthmore President Rebecca Chopp, Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon and Oxford Vice-Chancellor Andrew Hamilton — all said Levin is considered a highly skilled recruiter.

Cohon said that since search committees often take care of finding the individual, the chief task of the president is usually to

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Regardless of which administrators may need replacements in the coming months, the most important appointment Yale will see in the next year will be its president. And for all his influence across the University, the one person Levin can not appoint is his successor.

The Yale Corporation appoints all presidents, and one week after Levin announced his plans to step down at the end of the academic year, Corporation Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 appointed a 12-person presidential search committee. Those involved with the search have given few details so far on what traits they will look for in a successor.

Harvard’s Gardner said he thinks Levin’s successor will likely be someone with similar qualities as the president.

“If the community is well-satisfied with the president, it tends to be conservative and to choose someone who will carry on his predecessor’s legacy,” Gardener said. “If I had to make a prediction,

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I would predict that Yale will pick someone who is much like President Levin was 20 years ago — and hope that history repeats itself.”

Paul Portney, a professor at the University of Arizona who has written on leadership in higher education, said Yale might be more inclined to look outside the University for a successor after nearly 20 years under an internal appointee.

“Because the president is someone who for the last 19 years was somebody who had been a Yale faculty member and chairman of the Economics Department before, because they have had an insider for so long, that might make them a little more willing than other universities might be to look on the outside,” Portney said.

If the Corporation wants both an administrator similar to Levin and an outside perspective, there are at least eight clear candidates: the administrators who left Yale under Levin to head other universities. One of those presidents, CMU’s Cohon, said it would be surprising if the Corporation did not reach out to the eight as part of a global search.

If the Corporation tries to find an internal candidate, it may look to Yale’s most influential academic committees, which identified top administrators of the last two decades.

Nine years after the restructuring committee gave its report in 1992, the University organized the Committee on Yale College Education, which Brodhead said was partially created to train the next generation of leaders within Yale.

“One of the things Rick and I both had in mind was, ‘Maybe we could create a peacetime committee, a non-crisis committee that would give the same kind of education to rising people that we had had on the restructuring committee,’” said Brodhead, who served as chair of the CYCE. Much like 1992’s restructuring committee, 2001’s CYCE helped identify many successful administrators within the Yale administration — including Brodhead, Hamilton, Salovey, current Wellesley College President Kim Bottomly, Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn, and Morse Master and 2012-’13 presidential search committee member Amy Hungerford.

In July 2012, Salovey accepted a recommendation that Yale hold an academic review every 10 years through an appointed committee. By institutionalizing the use of what Brodhead termed “peacetime” committees at least once a decade, the University may have created an avenue to identifying future leaders — or even university presidents.

In the immediate future, the Yale Corporation may look for a successor president with characteristics and experiences similar to Levin’s. But many of the challenges he originally faced have faded since the early 1990s.

Penelope Laurans, Jonathan Edwards College master and special adviser to the president, recalled the expansive list of changes over his 20-year administration.

“When President Levin was appointed, Yale was in great need of stability and long-term leadership. It has received it from him, in spades. He has helped to physically restore the University, transform its relationship to New Haven, hire superb deans and directors to lead its schools, galleries and programs, enlarge its programs and its core faculty, preserve and expand undergraduate financial aid, develop a new partnership with labor, and create a far less parochial University, one which welcomes a more international community to New Haven and generously sends many more of its students abroad,” Laurans wrote in an email. “History will see him as one of Yale’s great presidents.”

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Yale Club to fund minority groups

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The Clubhouse offers a fitness center, saunas, a massage therapist, guest rooms, event planners and a library stocked with financial and legal reference books, Yale memorabilia, travel guides and children’s books. “Yes,” its website states, “this is where you belong: enjoying the understated elegance and old-world charm, the high-tech conveniences and attentive, personal service of your Club.”

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The Yale Club of New York City is beginning a funding initiative in which it will support groups that represent minorities on campus..

YALE CLUB FROM PAGE 1 that the additional funding would ultimately benefit all student groups by helping the UOC expand its activities and pool of funds.

“Regardless of what group they will reach out to, they are still providing funding and that means we will have more money in our budget,” Moore said, adding that she is excited about the effort.

Warpool declined to offer specifics on the Yale Club of NYC’s plans, as she said the organization does not know most of the details. She said a budget has been approved for the project.

Meeske declined to comment because the Yale Club of New York did not yet want to release any information.

Melina Sanchez Montanes ’15, the political and cultural chair

of the Latin American Students Organization, said she was happy to hear about the funding initiative. Montanes, who said LASO’s activities are partially funded by the UOC, explained that the Latin American Week the group held last year could have used more funding to bring in speakers and arrange special events. She added that receiving money from the Yale Club of NYC might encourage LASO members to join the club in the future.

“If we knew about the funding by the Yale Club of [NYC], or had events sponsored by them, we’d be more likely to join them as members,” she said.

The New York club is a part of a network of 120 domestic and 40 international Yale clubs spread across the world. Ken Yamaguchi ’92, president of the San Francisco club, said his branch is not involved in any similar funding

initiative, as it does not have as large a budget as the club in New York. He said the San Francisco club does not “really have the diversity problem that maybe the Yale Club of New York wants to address,” and that he thinks “Yale clubs evolve with the population of alumni.”

Yamaguchi said he would not rule out the San Francisco branch becoming involved with the initiative, though it has never been discussed, as all the clubs “learn from each other.” Moore also said she believes the New York City club initiative could attract involvement from other chapters.

The Yale Club of NYC is located at 50 Vanderbilt Ave. in Manhattan.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu and LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

to women — whose lack of support for her was crucial in her 12-point loss to Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in 2010 — the PPP poll showed that her efforts have fallen short, with Murphy leading 54 to 35 percent among women.

At a Saturday campaign rally featuring Republican former Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell and Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, McMahon strongly dismissed the notion that she is “antiwomen,” which she said was invented by the Murphy campaign.

“I’m a wife, I’m a mother, I’m a grandmother,” McMahon said at the rally, according to the Connecticut Mirror. “I’m a woman. Why on earth would I be against women?”

With negative campaigning in full swing — Murphy and McMahon have continued to trade barbs over their financial pasts — the PPP poll also reported a plurality of voters have a negative impression of both candidates.

Only 36 percent of voters said they had a favorable impression of Murphy, while 44 percent said they had an unfavorable impression of him. Murphy was better liked in July, when 38 percent of respondents reported a favorable impression of him and only 31 percent said they had an unfavorable impression.

Murphy’s worsening favorability numbers are no doubt due in part to an overwhelming number of negative advertisements by McMahon, who has poured millions of dollars of her own private wealth into the campaign, just as she did in 2010.

McMahon’s campaign has focused its critique of Murphy on a low mortgage rate the congressman received in 2008, when he was a member of the committee in the House of Representatives that regulates banks. That mortgage rate, in addition to Murphy’s refusal to release documents proving the legality of the loan, led to McMahon’s campaign manager Corry Bliss’ description of Murphy as a “corrupt career politician.”

After Murphy responded to the negative ads with some of his own, attacking McMahon for her failure to repay investors after a 1976 bankruptcy, McMahon said last week that she would repay investors 36 years later.

But it might not be enough put the Republican ahead in the polls.

“McMahon’s done a good job of hitting Mur-

phy but she hasn’t done anything to prop herself up, and in a race between an unpopular Democratic candidate and an unpopular Republican candidate in a state like Connecticut, the Democrat is going to win,” according to a PPP statement accompanying the poll. “Murphy’s still not up by as much as you would expect a Democrat in Connecticut to be but he does look again like the clear favorite.”

McMahon’s image was hurt during the course of her 2010 campaign against Blumenthal, when she was criticized for the violent and sexualized programming of World Wrestling Entertainment, the wrestling entertainment company her husband Vince McMahon heads.

Connecticut voters haven’t forgotten McMahon’s involvement in the company, with only 17 percent in the poll released Wednesday reporting a favorable impression of her WWE affiliation versus 51 percent who reported a negative opinion.

McMahon’s campaign released a statement Wednesday afternoon dismissing the poll results as politically biased.

“While all polls are just a snapshot in time, PPP’s newest findings in Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race must be noted for what they are: Democratic numbers from a Democratic polling firm,” the statement said. “In an effort to resurrect his failing campaign, Congressman Murphy’s Washington cronies have recently given him money, staffers and now brand new poll results.”

Connecticut’s Senate race could have national implications, with the race’s potential to swing the Senate’s majority from one party to another. That might help swing voters in Murphy’s direction — 50 percent of voters said they want Democrats to control the Senate, versus 38 percent who said they would prefer a Republican majority.

Murphy and McMahon will face each other in a series of four debates this fall, with the first debate scheduled for Oct. 7. McMahon, though, has refused to meet with editorial boards of Connecticut newspapers or respond to a survey that would show how she would vote on legislation Murphy has previously voted on, describing the survey as a “senseless exercise.”

If McMahon is elected in November, she will be Connecticut’s first female senator.

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

City aims to expand controversial ID card program CARD FROM PAGE 1 “We’re announcing today a survey as we go into the next several years of the program to ask folks who have or who don’t have the card how they used it, how it’s been meaningful and

how we might best apply it in the future,” DeStefano said. “One of the areas we’re going to explore as part of this is access to financial services, basic core banking services as well, and part of the purpose of the survey is to gauge the level of interest and use for

that.”

Over 10,000 Elm City Resident Cards have been issued since the program’s inception in 2007. According to City Hall, card holders have used the card to open bank accounts, cash check, apply for jobs, use public transit, interact with utility companies and even obtain a Costco membership.

Also at the press conference was Daniel Diaz, a New Haven Public Schools Parent Advocate who works with the New Haven Board of Education. Diaz said the card took on a greater significance in the wake of President Barack Obama’s June executive order halting deportation for young undocumented immigrants. Under the new policy, young undocumented residents can receive “deferred action,” which provides them with protection from deportation and work permits for two years with the possibility of renewal.

“Students … are using them as a form of identification, especially a lot of those who are

applying for deferred action,” Diaz said. “They’re asking for identification when they get the waivers, so it’s a great card to have.”

The survey will remain available throughout October, DeStefano said, and the consulting group managing the survey is aiming for a response rate of at least 300. City Hall, though, hopes to achieve a response rate of several thousand people, DeStefano said.

The Elm City Resident Card initiative sparked nationwide controversy when it was first approved by the Board of Aldermen. With the cards, undocumented residents could borrow library books, pay parking meters and open bank accounts.

The cards, which grew from a desire to protect New Haven’s undocumented residents who had been easy robbery targets due to their inability to deposit money, were popular within New Haven, but criticized nationally for being overly friendly to illegal immigrants.

Less than two days after the initiative passed, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Fair Haven — home to the majority of New Haven’s undocumented immigrants — and detained 29 individuals that the agency said were in the country illegally. Kica Matos, who was New Haven’s community services administrator at the time, said after the raids that she thought they were conducted in direct response to the board’s passage of the card plan.

Earlier this year saw the passage of an federal deportation program in which local police fingerprint records are automatically shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which can send a request to local police to detain the offender if federal agents suspect he or she is undocumented.

Despite resistance from City Hall and from several governors including Connecticut’s, who say Secure Communities destroys the trust between police and immigrant commu-

nities, the program has been used to deport Connecticut residents since it was implemented in the state last winter — including more than a dozen in New Haven.

At Wednesday’s press conference, DeStefano stressed the importance of the Elm City Resident Card in making New Haven a city that welcomes everyone, including undocumented residents.

“Five years ago, the city made a powerful statement about what it means to be an open and welcoming community,” he said.

“With the creation of the Elm City Resident Card, we chose to define our community not by failed federal immigration policies, but instead by what we know and see every day.”

Secure Communities has led to 277 deportations in Connecticut as of Sept. 10.

Marek Ramilo contributed reporting.

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

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“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF — ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.” “WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?” RICHARD NELSON BOLLES

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Tuesdays and Thursdays are also more popular for 75-minute lectures to meet, with 51 lectures meeting at 1 p.m. on Tuesday/ Thursday compared to only 25 at that time Monday/Wednesday.

Besides creating logistical problems, the trend raises questions about whether current scheduling patterns best fulfill Yale’s educational goals. Yale College Dean Mary Miller said students learn better when they do not cram all of their class time into a short period.

“I think pedagogically it is

superior to have the acquisition of knowledge be less compartmentalized,” Miller said.

Several professors interviewed said shorter teaching weeks enable them to satisfy their other responsibilities as academics.

History professor Daniel Magaziner, who teaches only on Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester, said Yale has “rigorous productivity expectations” for its faculty that make it necessary for instructors to budget enough time for their own research and writing, as well as teaching. He said choosing a condensed class week generally helps with the issue.

Professors also said Mondays and Fridays can be undesirable teaching times if they anticipate traveling to conferences during the semester.

“I try not to schedule on Fridays because I wouldn’t want to cancel class,” psychology professor June Gruber said. “Tuesdays and Thursdays are safer in that way.”

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Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle said the University has encouraged departments to distribute their course offerings more evenly over the day and week “at various times in the past,” but these attempts “don’t always work” because they take the form of guidelines and not firm rules.

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As popular class times shift to later in the day, they can also create added conflicts with athletic practices. Zachary Leonard ’89, head coach of the sailing team, said most of his athletes have to miss team practice — which starts at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday — at least once a week because of conflicts.

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But he added that it would be difficult for Yale to offer as diverse a range of classes as it does without holding classes in afternoon time slots.

Yale is not unique among Ivy League universities in having courses clustered in the middle of the week, but some schools such as Brown University are more successful in spreading out their class offerings. A 2009 reaccreditation report by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges said that Brown “may be the best among its peers in scheduling classes five full days a week.”

This was due partly just to practical issues: Brown’s university registrar, Michael Pesta, told the Brown Daily Herald in 2009 that Brown did not have enough classrooms to have a more condensed school week.

Several students interviewed

said they were satisfied with the current system, since they are able to distribute their classes according to their preferences.

Taylor Nicolas ’15 said she “basically [has] four-day weekends” because her only class on Mondays and Fridays is French. She plans on replicating this schedule in the future, she said, even though her back-to-back class schedule midweek is “rough” as a result.

But Emily Bosisio ’16 said a condensed week can be exhausting because “there’s a lot more work to do in a shorter period of time.” She added that she may try to spread out her course schedule more next term.

There are only 38 lectures and seminars in Yale College that meet on Fridays.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 8:00 PM Premiere: Yale Dramat’s production of “Measure for Measure.” “Measure for Measure” is Shakespeare’s most provocative and paranoiac play, a portrait of a city in turmoil thanks to its citizens’ unruly desires and its rulers’ oppressive hypocrisy. A panoply of comedic characters from Vienna’s underbelly round out this vivid, voluptuous, politically charged morality tale. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 9:00 AM “The Pink Hard Hat Event.” Employees of Tucker Mechanical, Yale Cancer Center, and Yale School of Medicine will wear pink hard hats and arrange themselves in the shape of a ribbon in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The event is sponsored by EMCOR Group. Dr. Anees Chagpar will speak at the event. Amistad Park.

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Lorenzo and Silvia Cook hug after they meet in a Cimarron Plaza in Stillwater, Okla. Wednesday Sept. 26, 2012. A 13-year-old student shot and killed himself in the hallway of Stillwater junior high school on Wednesday.

BY TIM TALLEY AND JEANNIE HUSS ASSOCIATED PRESS STILLWATER, Okla. — A gunshot rang out at an Oklahoma junior high school before classes began Wednesday, terrifying teenagers who feared a gunman was on the loose.

Soon, though, students learned no one else was in danger. One of their eighth-grade classmates had taken his own life, shooting himself in the head with a handgun in the hall, authorities said.

“Throughout the entire thing, we all thought someone shot someone else,” said student Paiton Gardner, 14. “We

didn’t know it was a suicide.

We were freaking out.”

Some students bolted outside Stillwater Junior High.

Staffers quickly locked down the building and evacuated the rest of the school’s 700 eighthand ninth-graders, along with students from an adjacent elementary school, police Capt.

Randy Dickerson said.

Dickerson said the 13-yearold didn’t leave a note, and authorities said they don’t know why he killed himself.

Superintendent Ann Caine, who oversees the district about 70 miles west of Tulsa, said there weren’t any reports that the teen had been bullied.

“There is no indication that that’s what occurred,” Caine said. She said the teen was a good student who got along with other kids.

About 120 people attended a vigil Wednesday evening at Highland Park United Methodist Church.

Hana Sumpter, a 14-yearold eighth-grader, said she was friends with the boy and was standing nearby when the student shot himself.

“I heard the gunshot. I turned around and he was on the floor,” Sumpter said, adding that he had given no indication of problems beforehand.

The Rev. Derrek Belase led the group in prayer. Members of the student’s family did not attend the service.

Police wouldn’t say where the weapon came from or how the eighth-grader got it into the school. Caine said there aren’t any metal detectors but expects there will be discussions about the policy.

Gardner said she realized something was wrong early Wednesday when students began to run past her.

“People looked terrified,” said Gardner, a ninth-grader.

“The football coach was like, ‘Get out, get out! Someone’s been shot.’”

AUSTIN, Texas — If good help is hard to find, just how expendable is expertise?

In a year of strife between worker and manager, NFL referees found themselves with a bargaining chip that Chicago teachers, striking bulldozer builders and locked-out sugar makers lacked: a staggering blunder by overmatched replacements, resulting in a worst-case, toldya-so fiasco laid bare for millions to watch in disbelief on national television.

On Wednesday, the NFL and the referees’ union appeared on the brink of ending a threemonth stalemate, two days after the Green Bay Packers lost a game they would have won if not for a less adept crew of replacement officials.

The whole mess - and pretty much everyone involved agrees it is precisely that - puts the spotlight on a nebulous notion that is often overlooked when it works as it’s supposed to: the question of expertise.

Workers leverage theirs by going on strike, while lockouts are a bet by management that they can make do without it. It’s an impasse that usually plays out on picket lines and private bargaining tables, and the fight has trended in recent years toward management.

But few unions have benefited as much as the NFL’s striped shirts from such a high-profile validation of the value of expertise. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from rank-and-file laborers to the most senior of American managers, this one has hit home.

“The big difference is that 100 million people can see football on TV, so the mistakes are glaring,” said Mark Froemeke, who’s been locked out of his job as a loader-operator at an American Crystal Sugar Co. plant in East Grand Forks, Minn., for 14 months. “The mistakes that the scabs are making in the factories are behind closed doors.”

The mistakes that the scabs are making in the factories are behind closed doors.

MARK FROEMEKE Loader-operator, American Crystal Sugar Company Froemeke said he knows the people hired as replacements for the 1,300 locked-out union workers inside the plants are bumbling with beet slicers and unable to dry pulp in techniques passed down through generations. “If the farmers and the management want to be like the NFL owners and deny it, that’s what they’re going to do. But nevertheless, it’s the reality.”

Ken Margolies, a senior associate at the Worker Institute at Cornell University, said the instant upper hand that NFL referees commandeered this week is increasingly rare for uniquely skilled workers in labor disputes.

One major culprit is technology: tool-and-die workers in the auto industry couldn’t be replaced easily before automation, and management can now outsource jobs like customer service to overseas.

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NFL nears deal with referee labor union Two days after an incorrect call on a last-second Hail Mary cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seattle Seahawks, the NFL is close to an agreement that would end its three-week lockout of referees, ESPN reported Wednesday.

During the lockout, there have been widespread complaints by players, coaches, and fans about replacement officials’ inability to make the appropriate calls.

Dancers leap to athletic heights

Mythbusting Yale football COLUMN FROM PAGE 10 took place right here in New Haven.

The Game drew in a near-capacity 55,000 attendees, which clearly biases the average of a sample with only four other home games (using the median might be more appropriate considering the small sample size, am I right statistics majors?).

But even in 2010, when The Game was played in Cambridge, Yale football still attracted an average of 15,000 people per game. That’s not bad, and ranked Yale at 16th in the FCS. But we can do better. There are huge crowds of alumni, New Haven parents and their wide-eyed kids that make the Yale Bowl come alive on Saturday.

Everyone else is showing up; it’s time for students to do our part.

2. THE STANDS ARE EMPTY.

The Yale Bowl is one of the most historic, epic football stadiums in the country. It was packed year after year when Yale was one of the most dominant teams in football during the first half of the 20th century. The Bowl even played host to the New York Giants for a season when the original Giants Stadium was under construction. One of the first bowl designs in the U.S., the stadium set the precedent for the Rose Bowl and Michigan Stadium (“The Big House”), among others. It’s the third-largest stadium by capacity in FCS, and the largest among teams that actually own their stadium. (The two largest FCS teams rent out NFL stadiums.)

But now, the 61,000-seat capacity works against the football program.

Even with 20,000 fans, the Bowl is only one-third full, and the amount of negative space doesn’t particularly enhance the fan experience.

Never have 20,000 people in one place seemed so insignificant as they do when spread throughout the Bowl.

My proposal to tame the Yale Bowl is an idea that has been unpopular in other stadiums: tarps covering unnecessary seating sections. For professional franchises, tarps can signal the decline of a fan base. But Yale is different — it’s not a professional franchise in danger of packing up

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Members of the Ballroom Dance Team practice two to three days a week and compete at scored competitions throughout the year.

DANCE FROM PAGE 10 Sharon Yin, the team’s captain, added that specific types of dance may find their way into skating routines.

(Yin is a staff reporter and staff photographer for the News.)

Skating routines often utilize dance music such as tango, Riverdance, bolero or folk music, Yin said, adding that that skaters and choreographers often watch videos of the off-ice dances before they begin choreographing their programs.

Despite the intersection of dance and sport in ballroom dancing, break dancing and figure skating, some professional dancers maintain that dance is an art and not a sport.

“People perform dance for different reasons than they do sports,”Lacaina Coulibaly, a professor in the dance studies program, said in an interview in French. “Dancers must concern themselves more with what the audience and is feeling, and how movement can arouse emotion in viewers.”

Bartholomew also pointed out that

some types of dance are judged visually, and much less objectively, than traditional sports. Most dance groups at Yale stress artistic elements and perform productions rather than compete.

The expertise dance requires is very similar to that required in a more traditional sport.

AMYMARIE BARTHOLOMEW ’13 Artistic director, Alliance for Dance at Yale Within the Alliance for Dance at Yale, there are 24 different dance groups at Yale.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu and J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

Club programs challenge Ivies CLUB SPORTS FROM PAGE 10 Like men’s rugby, the women’s club rugby team also recently transitioned into an all-Ivy club league. According to captain Sarah Kelley ’13, the Bulldogs’ division features teams from Cornell, Penn and Columbia.

While noting that the quality of the Ivy teams fluctuates significantly from year to year, Kelley said the team typically fares well against all of its Ivy opponents.

In men’s club water polo, the Ivy teams normally finish first or second within their division, player-coach Dominic Kwok ’13 said. The level of play among Ivy club water polo teams is fairly even — and high, he added.

Because of New Haven’s geographic location, the men’s club water polo competes in the New England Division with only one other Ivy team — Dartmouth.

But Yale competes against the other Ivy programs in an annual Ivy championship tournament.

As Harvard, Brown and Princeton sponsor varsity programs, the club Ivy champion plays against these three varsity teams to determine an overall Ivy champion.

Harvard is home to 41 intercollegiate varsity sports for men and women, more than any Division I college, so Yale club teams take on Harvard varsity squads for some sports. Yale offers 48 club teams and 34 varsity teams.

In men’s volleyball, Yale’s program does not match up against Ivy rivals Harvard and Princeton. While Princeton and Harvard both have varsity men’s volleyball programs as well as club teams, Yale does not face any of them.

The Elis play in Division I of the New England Collegiate Volleyball League, which also includes Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth. Princeton also plays in the Middle Atlantic Club Volleyball Conference, while Harvard’s team plays in Yankee League tournaments. Penn competes in both the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association and the Middle Atlantic Club Volleyball Conference.

While the Bulldogs compete

against some varsity Division III programs in tournaments, they do not play the Ivy varsity programs. On the club level, however, Yale often outshines its Ivy opponents.

“Typically we’ve been undefeated against the Ivies,” captain Martin Shapiro ’14 said.

GOING VARSITY

Some of the club sports at Yale, like soccer or basketball, have parallel teams at the varsity level, so the club teams will never transition to varsity. But for those that lack a counterpart, such as men’s water polo, men’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s rugby, some team members envision a future in varsity athletics.

For men’s water polo and volleyball, other schools throughout the country have varsity programs, and the NCAA has classified women’s rugby as an “Emerging Sport.”

When asked if their teams are considering turning varsity, team members expressed different opinions.

Kwok said the club model works well for men’s water polo.

For one, he enjoys that the team is student-run.

For men’s rugby, very few collegiate varsity teams exist, and there is little discussion among team members about making the jump to varsity.

But Shapiro said he was interested in exploring the idea of adding a varsity men’s volleyball program.

“It’s hard to say. I feel like it’s such a different vibe,” he said, adding, “I definitely think Yale could support both a club and a varsity team.”

With its new “Emerging Sport” status, Harvard’s women’s rugby squad will transition from club to varsity next year, a possibility that Kelley said the Yale team is considering.

“There hasn’t really been a huge amount of discussion about making us varsity, but I think that’s the direction that college rugby is going in,” Kelley said.

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

and leaving town. The program also doesn’t suffer from a lack of attendance — the Yale Bowl is just too big.

It’s similar to the problem the Oakland A’s faced at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. (Fine, it’s technically called the O.co Coliseum, after yet another sponsor change.) When a large upper deck was added to the stadium in 1996, mainly for Raiders football games, the Coliseum became too expansive for baseball. The section has been covered with a tarp during A’s games since 2006, and it’s made the stadium look more populated.

DESPITE ATTENDANCE MYTHS, FOOTBALL GAMES ARE POPULAR. YOU SHOULD BE THERE THIS SATURDAY. I’m suggesting that Yale Athletics cover the stands closest to the opposing sideline. By cutting the capacity by a little less than half, 20,000 fans will suddenly cluster together in a much denser environment, allowing for more energy and excitement — with plenty of room for attendance to grow. No longer will the Yale Bowl look so empty on game day, especially with our growing national TV presence. Two upcoming Yale games this year will be televised on NBC Sports Network, one will be featured on ESPN3 and three more games will air on YES. Clearly there’s an audience at home — let’s make it look like there’s actually an audience at the game.

3. NEW POLICIES WILL MAKE TAILGATING TERRIBLE THIS YEAR.

I’ve spent most of this column talking about quirky attendance and stadium design factoids — topics maybe only I care about. But in order to actu-

ally get you to the game this Saturday, let’s talk about tailgating. First off, tailgating wasn’t that great last year, or even the year before. Other than during The Game, I’ve never been impressed with the scope of attendance from residential colleges and fraternities. Yet the Yale administration has been criticized for its overhaul of the tailgating policy in light of recent events — criticism I don’t think the administration deserves. I think Yale Athletics is trying hard to improve tailgating safety and the tailgating experience, instead of completely neutering it.

In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by the email I received last Friday from Marichal Gentry about the new “Student Tailgate Village.” Not only does the new system streamline the tailgate process for student organizations and residential colleges by setting up a reservation system for spots in the lot, but the amenities available to students are generous and certainly not in a line with a Yale that wants to “stop the party.” There will be more shuttle buses, free food, free T-shirts, two DJs, an inflatable obstacle course, and importantly, free beer for the 21-and-over crowd. Other than banning U-Hauls and kegs, the administration has set few new restrictions on student groups. The village may take some time to get off the ground, but I have faith in Yale Athletics to provide an environment that is both safer and more communal than in earlier years.

As I said before, I don’t think the administration is trying to eliminate student tailgating — instead, it’s taking reasonable interest in an area once largely ignored.

With that in mind, please come out to the game on Saturday. Tony Reno’s brand of football has been gutsy, aggressive and unpredictable over the first two games. I’ll be there early, and so should you. Perhaps attendance stats and the vision of tarps didn’t convince you. But if free food, beer and obstacle courses aren’t enough, I don’t know what else to say.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF AT evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

Freshman makes her mark VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 10 the street, she’s probably a volleyball player. It’s also big because of the beach. know that volleyball players tend Q:toI play different positions throughout their careers. When did you begin playing setter?

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makes you feel better — getting Did you play competitively or just Q;aWhat Q:recreationally? kill or an assist?

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They’re both great feelings. The kill is probably a bit better, but I love the set as well.

From reading the [Yale Athletics] Q:website, I saw that you’ve played some beach volleyball. What was the extent of your experience in that sport?

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: I started playing when I was 13. I wouldn’t have much time during the year because club was so intense, but during the summer I was at the beach quite frequently playing. It’s really fun because you can get a big group of people and go practice whenever you want. This summer and last summer were probably my two biggest summers playing beach volleyball.

A

: I played in tournaments. The California Beach Volleyball Association and the [Amateur Athletic Union] beach volleyball league are two leagues that sponsor tournaments, and I would travel with my partner to the different tournaments.

How did playing beach volleyball Q:help your indoor game?

A

: It really helps because beach volleyball is a lot about strategy and where to place the ball. It helps if you’re a hitter because it helps your vision of the other side of the court and helps you place the ball in spots where they’re not.

It also helps you get a better vision of where they are. Overall, it makes you a smarter volleyball player.

Q

: What did you enjoy watching more in the Olympics — beach volleyball or indoor volleyball?

A

: I liked watching beach volleyball more. I’m a big Misty May [Treanor]

ing the same position as a great player like her?

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: It is an absolutely unbelievable working with her. I could not have gotten luckier having a setter and hitter like her. She’s a phenomenal player and helps me so much with having confidence in myself and teaching me what the other hitters like because she has played with them longer. She gives me feedback on my sets and teaches me how Yale volleyball works.

: The freshman class has already been Qasked to contribute in a big way this year. How do you think you guys have responded to that pressure?

A

: I think the freshmen are responding well. We’re all pretty nervous, but we just try to put it aside and play the best we can.

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

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“A good setter is very aware of the court and what’s happening on the other side of the net as well.”

KELLY JOHNSON ’16 SETTER, VOLLEYBALL

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The artist, the athlete, the dancer

EVAN FRONDORF

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG AND J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Come watch some Yale football

While many might consider dance only a form of artistic expression, club sports teams at Yale that incorporate dance showcase both its artistry and its athleticism.

DANCE

Did you know that there’s a home football game this Saturday? Even if you do, are you planning on going? Your Bulldogs are 1–1 with a freshman quarterback and a first-year coach, and they’re showing a lot of promise. They’ve got a good chance for a win against Colgate, and they could use some more fans to fill the colossal 61,446seat Yale Bowl. On average, just over 23,000 spectators walk through the Bowl gates to watch the Bulldogs take on their opponents.

“Wait, what? Twenty-three thousand people go to Yale football games? That seems crazy,” the average Yalie might say.

But it’s true, and I think there’s a huge misconception about the unpopularity of Yale football that’s keeping students away.

If students believe no one will attend a game, they’re likely to skip as well. Biologists call this phenomenon “positive feedback.” In economics, it’s sometimes referred to as the “death spiral.” However you define it, the end result is a continuing decline in student attendance for the wrong reasons.

My goal here is to reverse the spiral. In no particular order, I want to dispel existing myths.

1. YALE FOOTBALL IS UNPOPULAR AND POORLY ATTENDED.

Last year, among all 126 teams in the Football Championship Subdivision, Yale ranked fourth in attendance — with an average of 23,730 fans attending the five home games. Fourth! That puts us just behind Appalachian State, James Madison, and Montana, arguably the best-known FCS teams. In fact, the stadiums at Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth can’t even seat 23,000 people.

Granted, this average attendance figure was taken from a year when Yale-Harvard SEE COLUMN PAGE 9

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Dance teams bring out both the artistry and athleticism of their sports.

Dance and sports that contain dance elements require tremendous athletic ability. When combined with competition, in teams such as the Yale Ballroom Dance Team, dance can become a sport in itself. According to the artistic director of the Alliance for Dance at Yale, Amymarie Bartholomew ’13, athleticism and competition are the two factors that can make dance a sport.

“There are more athletic, vigorous types of dancing, in which you can also compete, which I think certainly could be seen as sports,” Bartholomew said. “The expertise dance requires is very similar to that required in a more traditional sport.”

Nineteen students out of 25 interviewed said they consider competitive dance a sport.

There are no varsity dance teams at Yale, and the only official club sport at Yale that incorporates dance is the Yale Ballroom Dance Team. Ballroom dance team captains Allen Granzberg ’13 and Natalie Drucker ’14 said the team considers itself a club sport because ballroom dancing contains a distinct competitive side. The team, in its 25th season, attends six to eight scored competitions each year.

“Competitions require the team to travel together, spend an entire day at the venue and compete in a variety of different dances, gaining points for each other as a team,” Drucker said.

“The dances require the same discipline and focus as other sports. You have to practice every day, for the same amount of time, if you want to do well.”

The team’s practice schedule is intense, and requires a time commitment similar to that of other club sports. Advanced dancers have two to three lessons a week, and new dancers take two. The dancers teach each other and bring in two coaches about once a week, and the entire group comes together on Fridays to practice, Drucker said.

Granzberg who described the sport as “very strenuous,” emphasized that like other sports, ballroom dance requires strength, flexibility and endurance.

“The best ballroom dancers are also runners, gymnasts and acrobats,” he said. “Ballroom dancers must be physically fit and able to execute speed changes in their movements.”

For Drucker and Granzberg, ballroom dancing is definitely a sport.

While not all dancers consider themeselves athletes, ballroom dance is not alone in the dance sport category. Theater studies professor Deborah Margolin pointed out that break dancing incorporates extremely athletic movement.

“Movements set to rap music can be beautiful, strenuous and very demanding of the dancer.

In break dancing, I see sport and dance coming together very directly,” she said.

While ballroom and break dancing are examples of dance that incorporate athleticism, some sports also incorporate dance. Two members of Yale’s Club Figure Skating Team said their sport contains many elements of dance and artistry as well as physical training.

“While figure skating requires athletic abilities like core strength and endurance, it also demands a high level of artistry.

Skaters must look artistic in all their movements, and not look like they are putting any physical effort into their routines,” team member Allison Mandeville ’15 said.

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Ivy rivalries cross club divisions Johnson ’16 makes impact with vball

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

While Yale football fans spend much of the year looking forward to the team’s annual matchup against Harvard, some Yale teams go several seasons without playing Harvard — or other Ivy rivals.

Unlike Yale varsity sports, which compete with all of their Ivy rivals in yearly Division I play, club sport divisions vary by sport and often include teams from beyond the Ancient Eight. While a team’s primary league may feature only a few Ivy teams, club sports often schedule out-ofleague matches to accommodate the school’s traditional rivalries.

Since some counterparts of Yale club sports compete at the varsity level at their schools, Elis who play on club teams often find themselves taking on varsity squads throughout their seasons.

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Over the past few years, Ivy League club rugby teams broke away from traditional regional groupings in order to form the Ivy

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The men’s club water polo sometimes competes against varsity teams from Harvard, Princeton and Brown.

Rugby Conference, a conference classified by USA Rugby as a I-AA conference.

Along with Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard, Yale competes in the North division of the conference, whereas the other Ivy teams

play in the South division.

“It’s pretty nice to play an Ivy schedule because you’re playing a similar competition where all the schools are recruiting people more for academic abilities than athletic,” said men’s rugby team

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captain John Lesnewich ’13.

Lesnewich added that Yale remains competitive against schools it plays outside the Ivy conference.

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Kelly Johnson ’16 is a setter on the volleyball team from Palos Verdes, Calif. During her career at Palos Verdes High School, Johnson was an All-Area selection twice and captained the varsity team her junior and senior years. This season, she is second on the team in kills and assists with 91 and 185, respectively, and was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Sept. 18.

The News sat down with her to discuss her high school career, beach volleyball, and the transition to the college game.

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: When did you start playing volleyball? Were you playing other sports at the time?

A

: I started when I was 11. I was playing volleyball, basketball, soccer and softball. I loved sports as a kid, and I still

love them all. Once I got into high school, I quit all the other sports and I just focused on volleyball.

When did you realize you Q:would have the opportunity to play at the collegiate level?

A

: In my sophomore year of high school. That’s when most of the college coaches come to tournaments and start the recruiting process, so it was around then that I realized I could go to college and play volleyball.

: What is the volleyball culQture in Los Angeles like?

A

: It’s very intense. There are over 200 club teams just in Southern California in each age division. If you see a tall girl on SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9

THE NUMBER OF ECAC TOURNAMENT TITLES THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HAS WON IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS. Last season, the Elis fell in the tournament’s second round and Union took the championship. Yale finished last season tied with Clarkson for sixth place in the conference.