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CROSS CAMPUS The Dark Knight has risen.

Late Thursday night, a calling went out for New Haven’s own vigilante superhero. Several Davenport students set up a Batman light outside their third-floor window, projecting the famous Batman silhouette against the Yale Repertory Theatre.

A sea of blue. The bulletin board on High St. outside Sterling Memorial Library was covered in blue paint as of Thursday afternoon. Each flier, except the few that were posted after the incident, was blocked by a symmetrical square of blue paint.

After 18 years and 278 days.

Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. became the Elm City’s longestserving mayor on Thursday, surpassing the record of Elizur Goodrich, who retired as New Haven’s mayor on June 4, 1822, 18 years and 277 days after he began his tenure.

It’s back. After a brief hiatus,

the popular student-run website “YaleFML” has returned for another academic year... just in time for midterms. As of late Thursday night, the site had already garnered 13 new posts about academics, relationships and the fact that YaleFML was closed over the summer.

Celebrating the arts. Yale

School of Art Professor Tod Papageorge has been selected to receive a Lucie Award for documentary photography.

Papageorge, who has won two Guggenheim photography fellowships, is perhaps best known for his black-andwhite street photography.

Dead heat. A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday indicated that Conn. Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon are closer than ever in the battle for the open Senate seat. According to the poll, Murphy is likely to receive 47 percent of the popular vote while McMahon is expected to receive 48 percent.

Going, going, gone. Members

of Yale’s Class of 2012 were notified Thursday that their email accounts would be deactivated on Nov. 1, 2012.

Though the accounts were initially scheduled to close Oct. 1, the University said it decided to give the recent graduates more time with their Yale email addresses.

Public service announcement.

A anonymous Timothy Dwight “observer” sent an email to the college asking students to fill out a dining hall survey to improve the college’s food quality. While the survey said the dining hall had a great staff, it acknowledged that TD’s food “leaves a lot to be desired.”

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BY LORENZO LIGATO AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS After enduring another shopping period riddled with uncertainty due to fluctuating course enrollments, faculty members debated ways to make the first weeks of the semester less volatile.

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with shopping period hurts both students and faculty. Semi-annual reports by the Executive Committee and the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct were also presented at the meeting, but discussion focused on issues surrounding shopping period, which took up 45 minutes of debate,

With a new residential housing development in the works, the corner of Chapel and Howe Streets may soon become a destination for more than Miya’s Sushi and Rudy’s Bar and Grill.

Stamford-based construction firm RMS Companies submitted a proposal to the New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals in mid-September for a 136unit apartment complex at the corner of Chapel and Howe Streets. RMS founder and lead project developer Randy Salvatore said the complex will enliven the neighborhood by drawing significantly more foot traffic. Local residents, however, fear a large residential building will overwhelm the area’s parking capacity and clash with the neighborhood’s historic roots.

“The proposal sits in front of the Board of Zoning Appeals right now,” said Joy Ford, an official at the city plan department.

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meeting of the academic year on Thursday, roughly a dozen professors voiced their frustrations about shopping period and discussed ways enrollment decisions could be made sooner, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said.

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BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER With the announcement of a new federal grant this week, the Connecticut Department of Transportation is on track to upgrade one of New Haven’s rail lines.

On Oct. 1, the federal government awarded Connecticut $120 million, which will fund greater track capacity and an upgraded signal system on the rail line connecting New Haven to Springfield, Conn. The grant, which will be matched by $141.9 million from the state of Connecticut, will result in 11 additional round-trip routes from New Haven to Hartford each day as well as faster travel times by SEE HIGH SPEED RAIL PAGE 4

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Conn. will see upgrades to its rail lines by 2016 thanks to a $120 million grant.

Six recent Yale grads who attended this year’s Olympic games attributed part of their Olympic success to their athletic experiences at Yale in a Thursday night panel discussion.

In the Yale Law School auditorium, the Olympians — rowers Ashley Brzozowicz ’04, Tess Gerrand ’10, Jamie Redman ’08 and Taylor Ritzel ’10 and sailors Sarah Lihan ’10 and Stuart McNay ’05 — shared stories from the 2012 London games and offered advice on

the transition from a collegiate athletic career to an Olympic one.

Many student-athletes filled the audience, including members of men’s and women’s crew teams and the co-ed sailing team who attended to support their teams’ alumni.

At the Games, three Yalies won medals, a greater count than 36 countries. Ritzel, who won a gold medal in 2012 , said she had been dreaming about the Olympics from a young age, adding that her coaches and peers at Yale helped motivate her to achieve her Olympic aspirations.

“The Olympics increasingly became a much more tangible possibility than they had been before I arrived at Yale,” she said.

Yale sent its first athletes to the Olympic games in the early 1900s, according to Athletic Director Tom Beckett. Since then, 199 members of the Yale community have won a total of 108 medals including 53 golds, he added.

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OPINION

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ince Silliman College Master Judith Krauss’ decision to cancel all future Safety Dances, student response has ranged from outrage at the decision — “Why is the whole college being punished because of eight kids?” and “What happened to treating alcohol as a health issue?” — to the sense that we got what we deserved. Eight kids in the hospital — and any associated liability for Silliman — was clearly the last straw.

But what unites both critics and supporters of Krauss’ decision is a belief that the decision to cancel Safety Dance — an effort to reduce binge drinking at Yale — will not in fact reduce binge drinking. Even Krauss agrees with her critics on this point, writing in an email to the News that, “Canceling the dance in and of itself is clearly not the solution to the problems with the alcohol culture at Yale.”

Terms like “alcohol culture” have been tossed around quite a lot lately to describe the broader context surrounding alcoholrelated hospitalizations. We all received that email from Dean Marichal Gentry emphasizing the seriousness with which he views Yale’s alcohol problem.

Though endearingly earnest, the email had a touch of tragedy to it — instead of advancing or justifying any policy, Gentry wrote as though desperately trying to persuade us ohso-gifted, but oh-so-troubled, Yale students that it’s not too late to save ourselves from ourselves.

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF POLICIES. Students and administrators have earnestly implored, guilttripped, reproved and tried to shame the rest of us out of our insidious drinking culture.

Despite their efforts, few seem to think any actual policy might help. I disagree; policies matter.

I haven’t been to Safety Dance since freshman year, and I don’t honestly care that much whether it stays or goes for my senior year. Krauss’ rationale for canceling the dance seems reasonable, but so do students’ complaints that they should not be punished for the actions of eight overly drunk kids. What I do reject, however, is the notion that the dance’s cancellation will have no measurable impact on alcohol consumption at Yale.

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eight hospitalized kids might decide to stay home that night.

Of the remaining six, HARRY two more LARSON m i g h t decide not Nothing in to drink quite as Particular much that we e ke n d , simply because there would be less general excitement, fewer pre-games and not quite as many bottles of Dubra. That’s 50 percent fewer hospitalizations directly due to the cancellation of the dance. Meanwhile, the great debate of this election season amounts to a difference over whether federal spending should be 20, 22 or 24 percent of GDP. Safety Dance is only on one weekend, but it is a weekend during which the negative effects of our “drinking culture” take a much higher toll than usual. While it’s true that limiting tailgates to before halftime in football games doesn’t eliminate drinking all together, it’s not unreasonable to imagine that the new restrictions also will have some impact on student drinking. And when I went to The Game at Harvard my freshman year, fewer parties meant that I consumed less alcohol. I could doubtlessly have been more resourceful and found plentiful quantities of cheap, hard alcohol even in the middle of the night in Cambridge, but I was far too lazy for that.

Rarely do policies fully solve a problem or eliminate an issue, but making something marginally easier or harder changes how much of it happens. When we talk about Yale’s drinking culture, what we really want to eliminate is not all excessive drinking, but rather a specific set of circumstances in which such drinking becomes truly unsafe or, in the worst cases, fatal. If more of those instances occur on certain specific occasions, a policy that restricts those occasions themselves might have some impact, not by ensuring that accidents won’t happen but by reducing their likelihood. If Yale wants to solve the problems with our so-called drinking culture, it shouldn’t preoccupy itself with the social norms or national laws that are beyond its control.

It should instead focus on specific problems — like hospitalizations — and target its policies towards mitigating them.

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

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his past weekend, the News elected the Managing Board of 2014, which will steer the newspaper through its 135th year and includes the following members:

EDITOR IN CHIEF Tapley Stephenson Wenham, Mass.

CULTURE EDITOR Natasha Thondavadi North Barrington, Ill.

MANAGING EDITORS Gavan Gideon Cottonwood, Minn.

Mason Kroll Encino, Calif.

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CITY EDITORS Nick Defiesta Bothell, Wash.

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MANAGING EDITORS Alon Harish Drew Henderson ONLINE EDITOR Daniel Serna OPINION Julia Fisher DEPUTY OPINION Jack Newsham NEWS David Burt Alison Griswold CITY Everett Rosenfeld Emily Wanger FEATURES Emily Foxhall CULTURE Eliza Brooke

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t the beginning of my freshman year of high school, I sat down at a sticky cafeteria table to write a letter to my senior-year self in a half-hour of mandatory selfreflection.

When I read the letter four years later, the most shocking thing was not how much I had grown and changed and matured, but just how much of my 14-year-old self remained.

On those pages, I accurately predicted which of my middle school friendships would survive and which new relationships would develop. I anticipated which clubs I would join and where I would spend my after-school hours.

In three separate places, I asked the older me whether or not she had a boyfriend, knowing full well that she probably would not. I did not.

And my estimation of my senior year GPA was accurate within an almost embarrassing 0.02 points.

“I am literally the same person,” I told the girl sitting next to me when I reached my signature at the bottom of the last page.

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When I arrived at Yale, I decided to go through the same exercise, nostalgic for that sticky laminate and the feeling that I had something to say — about myself, to myself. After a night of orientation activities, I sat down at the desk designated as mine to scribble down some thoughts for the Caroline Sydney entering her senior year of college.

I left boys out of it (mostly). I didn’t try to make pointed predictions — I couldn’t; I had almost nothing on which to base them; free from the pressure to quantify my future, I could present my expectations more organically. There were no lists of extracurricular activities that night, no prophetic estimates of my GPA. After a few pages, I got tired and went to bed, telling myself that I would add a little more the next day.

And then something strange happened. By the end of that next night, I felt like it would have been cheating to go back and add content to the letter. Like I had already changed in some way, or my perspective had already shifted. I couldn’t

go back to that utter sense of not knowing.

There’s something weird about time in college. And I don’t mean Yale time — you were five minutes late to everything in high school too.

TIME AT YALE SEEMS DIFFERENT: SPED UP AND STRETCHED OUT Time here has an altogether different quality to it. A, waitthat-was-this-morningness to it. An I-feel-like-I’veknown-you-for-longer-ness to it. A how-could-I-possiblyplan-anything-two-weeks-inadvance-ness about it.

It could be the fact that the days aren’t broken into neat little blocks of classes the way that they were in high school. The “school” part of being in school floats in an agar of long lunches and improv performances and

lit mag readings and late-night buttery runs.

Or this stretched-out-yetsped-up sensibility could result from the feeling that I’m almost always either running to something or missing something — or both at the same time.

I can easily identify the ways this impacts my day-to-day behavior. I try to cram more in. I waste less time because I have so many more constructive things to do with it. I’ve changed my sleep schedule; I’m learning how to nap.

It’s much harder to put a finger on the way that this distortion is changing me as a person.

As a freshman in high school, I looked at the future as a series of goals to meet or specific accomplishments to accumulate. To a certain extent, I still think that way — my uncle loves to poke fun at my ten-year plans, vague as they are — but at this point, the next four years are not about accomplishing anything other than being here, being fully here.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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‘YALEMARXIST’ ON ‘REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE’

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ometimes ancient holidays wither into mere occasions for a shared meal and genial palaver. I have no problem with that. But some holidays, perhaps because they are so out of sync with mainstream culture, offer us perspective on the world in which we believe we live.

A bookish people, we Jews celebrate a fall holiday that affords us an opportunity to shamelessly express and demonstrate our bibliophilia, our erotic attachment to the sheer beauty of the written word. In an age of gradual digitalization and virtualization of the reading experience, an age that weans us slowly from the touch and fragrance of magazines, journals and volumes, students here and around the world will soon remember and reenact once again what it means to love a book — not merely a printed folio edition, but a parchment scroll hand written by a scribe who devoted a year to the project.

Jews will sing and dance with their book of books, their urtext, known variously as the Torah, the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses. They will chant the final lines of the last chapter of Deuteronomy where Moses dies and then the first words of Genesis where God says, “Let there be light.” And they will dance and whirl and sing as they clasp the scrolls in their arms, giving legs to the written text.

We Yalies know that we are privileged to live and work in one of the world’s great book cultures; we can feel the sacred hush inside the nave of Sterling Library, the sense that, like pilgrims, we are entering the precincts of “Our Lady of the Book.”

Library culture treasures silence, a climate within which one may hear the disembodied, still, small voice. I am grateful for it.

But the holiday of Simchat Torah — to be celebrated on campus on Monday night, October 8th — reminds us that human

love is carnal, that book-love is passionate, romantic, tactile and noisy, that there is a time to make love to our books.

LET US REMEMBER TO DANCE WITH OUR TEXTS. Imagine: a professor of physics dancing with an early edition of Einstein’s “Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity;” a philosopher whirling with Spinoza’s “Ethics” or Kant’s “Critiques;” a political scientist dancing a tango with Machiavelli’s “The Art of War;” classicists giving legs to Homer, Horace and Ovid.

Ah yes, and a troupe of economists dancing with Malthus, Milton Friedman, Galbraith and Marx. A supply-side waltz, a

revolutionary polka, an unemployment-deficit-downsizing ballet. Book and reader merge, as author and book merge, a Dionysian bookishness explodes for a moment, and we are all once again people of the book.

So consider, my fellow freshmen of the spirit: though Sterling and Bass may feel like dungeons just now, your world having shrunken to papers, problem sets and midterms, in reality you sit in a dance hall, and yours is the opportunity each moment to come to your feet to stomp and jump and twist and spin, to remember the book love that brought you and me here in the first place. Remember: Love cannot be graded, or proved or earned, or lost. Though sometimes we forget.

JAMES PONET is a 1968 graduate of Timothy Dwight College and the Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish chaplain. Contact him at james.ponet@yale.edu .

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WOODY ALLEN “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.

I want to achieve it through not dying.”

YALE TALKS PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH G U E S T C O L U M N I S T E D WA R D B A S S

GUE ST COLUMNIST DIANA ROSEN

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he selection of the president is the most important responsibility of the Yale Corporation.

The members of the Corporation and of the Presidential Search Committee care deeply for this great university. Our duty, and our goal, is to identify and appoint the very best president possible to lead Yale forward.

The selection is also, unquestionably, an institutional matter that will affect faculty, students, staff and alumni, as well as others in New Haven and beyond. The Presidential Search Committee is firmly committed to engaging with all constituencies of the Yale community — on campus, in the city and around the world — to solicit input about the strengths, weaknesses and challenges facing Yale, and the attributes we should seek in the next president. Our process of engagement and learning began shortly after President Levin announced his decision to step down, leading up to an intensive Day of Outreach last week. These efforts will continue throughout the search, using every possible mode of communication — open forums, surveys, in-person

meetings, email communications and other means of engaging all constituencies.

The input received to date from faculty, students and alumni is providing essential guidance to the development of a broad description of the president’s job and the primary attributes to be used in identifying and evaluating candidates. The Yale community will be kept updated as these are developed.

It is clear the Yale community has highest expectations for the next president of Yale, and for this reason it is essential that the search process attracts the very best candidates and that the candidate who is ultimately appointed has the best chance of succeeding as Yale’s president.

To ensure this is the case, there are certain fundamental approaches customary to any high level search for an institutional leader. Perhaps most important is the need for confidentiality in the application, interview and final selection process. This is necessary to protect both potential candidates and Yale. Without it, we cannot count on the participation of many of the very best candidates we would want to consider but who

require confidentiality so as to avoid compromising their work in their current positions, be they at Yale or elsewhere.

Or consider what might happen if Yale were to publicly announce a “finalist” it plans to appoint as its next president, and then that person declines the appointment, for whatever reason. This would not only be an embarrassment to Yale, but also leave the person eventually appointed Yale’s president branded “second choice.”

THE SEARCH PROCESS REQUIRES CONFIDENTIALITY Moreover, in the current competitive environment for university presidents — Princeton, Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon and nine of the most prominent public research universities are also currently seeking presidents — it is essential that Yale’s search be conducted so

as to attract the best of candidates, and not be disadvantaged when there are other attractive presidential openings available where confidentiality in the search process is assured.

The Corporation and the Presidential Search Committee are sincere in seeking and considering the views of every constituency for whom the selection of the next Yale President matters. We are committed to providing regular updates as the process proceeds by posting information on the Presidential Search website. We are also committed to continuing dialogue, through one-on-one discussions with Campus Counselors and members of the PSC, and comments sent by email. Most importantly, we are committed to identifying and appointing an individual who will be an exceptional leader for Yale in the years ahead, continuing the extraordinary momentum achieved during Rick Levin’s two decades as President.

EDWARD BASS is a 1967 graduate of Saybrook College and the Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Contact him at presidential.search@yale.edu.

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ast Friday, I stepped up to the microphone at Battell Chapel to voice my concerns with the presidential search process. I told the members of the search committee sitting before me that as a member of Students Unite Now, I did not believe that the three minutes allotted to me were sufficient to communicate what I wanted to see in Yale’s next President. The audience cheered — the committee did not respond.

We, the students of Yale University, are not being represented in the presidential search process. Yale has fallen far behind its peer institutions in the level of democracy and transparency displayed in its search to replace President Richard Levin.

Two other members of the Ivy League, Dartmouth College and Princeton University, are currently undertaking searches for new presidents as well, yet a striking difference exists between their processes and ours — their search committees include staff members and students, both of which are missing from Yale’s committee.

The Princeton presidential search committee consists of nine trustees, four faculty members, two undergraduate students, one graduate student and a staff member. The Dartmouth search committee is made up of six trustees, seven faculty members, a staff member and a student.

In comparison, the Yale committee has only eight trustees and four faculty members. Not a single student or staff member will be present at the meetings during which the next president of Yale University, someone who will be representing both aforementioned groups, will be selected.

In their emails last year, Yale administrators cited the policies of “peer institutions” as justification for changing tailgating policy and eliminating fall rush for fraternities and sororities. Why should the Presidential Search process not be held to the same peer-based standard?

Instead, student participation in the selection process has been reduced to the presence of a Trustee Liaison to Students, Peter Dervan GRD ’72 , on the committee. Dervan’s primary qualification for this position, according to the email sent to students by the Yale Corporation, is that he is the father of a recent Yale graduate. He is a professor at the California Institute of Technology, not Yale.

Brandon Levin ’14, the Student Counselor to the committee, essentially serves as a liaison to the liaison on the committee, while students at other colleges are sitting on the search committees themselves.

In an email to students who attended his office hours, Levin explained the rationale that the search committee gave him for not having a student seat on the committee. “No one or two students can represent the full diversity of the Yale student body,” he wrote.

The concept that no representation is preferable to potentially imper-

fect representation is illogical. Even though no one or two students can sufficiently represent the entire student body, they still share a common undergraduate experience with each of us. None of the faculty or trustee members on the committee have the experience of being a student at Yale in 2012.

To be effective, a president has to represent and work with multiple constituencies, including trustees, alumni, faculty and students.

Only three of these four groups are represented on the search committee. The administration has denied us our opportunity to responsibly represent not only ourselves — but also future undergraduate students who will become part of a student body that we know better than they do.

The new president will be a key decision maker on issues that affect each of us directly, including financial aid, the new residential colleges and Yale’s role in New Haven.

OUR PEER INSTITUTIONS HAVE STUDENT REPRESENTATION. The town hall meeting held with four members of the committee last Friday involved very little discussion between parties. The committee refused to respond to the concerns and questions raised by students, including me. When Charles Goodyear ’80, chair of the Presidential Search Committee, spoke at the conclusion of the meeting, he said he could not respond to student concerns until he spoke with the rest of the committee.

Students have been continuously offered countless meetings, liaisons, surveys and polls, but with no student on the committee we have no way of knowing that our words are being considered seriously.

Last year in his welcome speech to the class of 2015, Richard Levin said the following: “The simple truth is that we need you. In these times of great uncertainty, when we seem unable to deal with our gravest problems, we desperately need an infusion of broadly educated citizens and leaders to join the debates, raise the level of discourse, and move us in the right direction.”

If Yale needs our help to move in the right direction, then they should solicit our help by placing a member of the student body on the search committee. We must organize and demand a larger role in the selection of the future leader of the university.

DIANA ROSEN is a freshman in Pierson College. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu .

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very year, approximately 1,300 students graduate from Yale College.

We have no idea how many of those students care deeply about Yale. We have no idea how many of those students plan to stay involved with university affairs as alumni. After four years, there is no guarantee that this institution will resonate with us beyond our individual experiences. We are not obligated to consider Yale in its universal context, or even as anything more than a place where we passed some years. For this reason alone I question the outrage of those demanding student representation in choosing the upcoming president of Yale University.

We acknowledge that there are situations when we don’t have the right to demand our voices be heard. If a suitemate has a guest

over for a week, we can say something. If the boys down the hall do, it is not our place to comment.

No students currently on campus were involved in the choice of President Richard Levin twenty years ago, a choice that has had far more impact on our Yale experience than this upcoming decision will. Students here now will all graduate and leave Yale early in the next president’s tenure. The Yale Corporation has made many decisions during our time here without our input, or notice. Maybe this debate should be about the role of the President in daily student life, and why it is currently so minimal. But it is minimal, and that has been fine for most of us.

When we chose to attend Yale we were subjected, both knowingly and without realizing, to a thousand rules and regulations

already in place. Yet we agreed to attend. As students, we are one part of Yale, and the least reliably invested. If nothing else, the members of the search committee have proven, with their feet, that they care about Yale and are devoted to a long-term vision.

Our role within Yale makes us the wrong population to decide who will lead this university long after we’ve been replaced.

I agree that there are aspects of the search committee that should be more transparent. I recently heard a voice clip of Charles Goodyear ’80, chair of the Presidential Search Committee, at the open forum meeting in Battell Chapel answering a student’s question about how counselors were chosen. Counselors are charged with relaying campus opinion to the search committee. Goodyear

explained, “they were chosen in a process that the Corporation has, that the senior fellow has.”

He continued to not really clarify that the senior fellow chose them in consultation with whomever he decided to consult with.

WE HAVE NOT YET DEMONSTRATED OUR COMMITMENT TO YALE. It seems pretty clear that Brandon Levin ’14 is our Student Counselor because whoever chose such things knew him, and it just made sense. And it probably does make

sense. Levin has spent a healthy chunk of his time here working on behalf of students with the Yale administration. But there was no process. That the committee didn’t go out of its way to consider other students bolsters the fear that only an inner circle of individuals who are “in the know” will have a say in this process, and little effort will be made to consider the vast and diverse needs and opinions of the whole Yale community.

These selection meetings are going to be very delicate. Many of us have been in intense deliberations for student board positions. We know that arguing over whether someone is a good fit for a position can be messy. To speak frankly one needs to be in the company of individuals he or she trusts. Such open conversations cannot happen with the ears

of the world in the room. Forcing the search committee to release all of its meeting minutes would either make members discuss real concerns in private, outside of meetings, or limit conversation to fruitless, carefully considered and meaningless deliberations. I don’t see how a bold choice can be made if 12,000 Yalies, without even including alumni, believe they have the right to scrutinize the process.

As much as we love this institution, as much as we plaster our walls with “For God, For Country and For Yale,” we are still only students. Only time will tell whether we are invested in a long-term vision for this University.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

Conn. rail to see upgrade by 2016 HIGH SPEED RAIL FROM PAGE 1 2016, U.S. Department of Transportation officials said. State and federal administrators said they hope more frequent train departures will make daily commuting between New Haven and Hartford a viable option for Connecticut residents. The project is also expected to create new construction and operation jobs, decrease traffic congestion and lessen the state’s environmental impact.

“It was an exciting day this week with the announcement,” Connecticut Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said. “It now means that people will be able to commute on a regular basis with convenience.”

This changes the game for a lot of people to access jobs that they really can’t right now.

DREW MORRISON ’14 State officials first began discussing railway improvements in 1993.

Over the years, the project has made incremental improvements as those involved worked to get funding and support from the state and federal government, Looney said. The federal government finally judged Connecticut’s planning, environmental studies and railway design to be ready for the grant this month, said Rob Kulat, the spokesperson for the federal railway administration.

“It is a very significant milestone,” said Michael Piscitelli, the city of New Haven’s deputy economic development administrator. “It truly allows the state DOT to dive into the first major batch of infrastructure investment.”

The new infrastructure includes 10 miles of double track, an upgraded signal and signage system on the railway lines, 13 repaired bridges and culverts and the installation of platforms at four Amtrak

stations that are in accordance with standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act. This construction is designed to increase the number of people who can commute from New Haven to Hartford. It may also allow lowincome New Haven residents, who cannot afford cars, to travel to jobs in Hartford or the surrounding suburbs, Drew Morrison ’14, the president of New Haven Action, said.

“This changes the game for a lot of people to access jobs that they really can’t right now,” he added.

The project is also estimated to create a combination of 13,000 temporary construction and permanent railway jobs, Looney said.

An increase in train commuting may also alleviate highway congestion on I-91, the route from New Haven to Hartford. The project will be “critically important in getting cars off the highway and reducing use of fossil fuels and also helping to make sure I-91 corridor does not become as congested with traffic as the I-95 corridor already is,” Looney added.

Improvements to the railway will also benefit future Yale students.

The new train line will provide service to Bradley Airport and make Hartford accessible to students who want to attend concerts and events in the city, Morrison said.

Although the $120 million grant is significant, additional funds are still needed to complete the project.

Approximately $176 million are still needed, Looney said, adding that he hopes the money will come from the federal government. Piscitelli agreed that there is a long way to go to ensure the project is ready by 2016.

“This is substantial step forward, but it does not get this the whole way home,” Piscitelli said.

Since 2009, the Obama Administration has invested over $3.7 billion in passenger rail projects across the Northeast.

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

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The federal government’s $120 million grant was matched by $141.9 from the state of Connecticut.

Professors consider stresses of shopping period FACULTY MEETING FROM PAGE 1 Miller said.

“The shopping period interacts with serious resourcemanagement issues such as allocating slots in limitedenrollment courses, allocating classrooms, assigning graduate TAs to courses, and even letting graduate students know whether or not they will have a job after the shopping period is over,” computer science professor Michael Fischer, who attended the meeting, said in an email to the News.

Professors present said they would like to see improvements in the technological capability of the Registrar’s Office, so that they could have constantly updated data on enrollment during shopping period and bet-

ter gauge which classes students intend to take, Miller said. They also spoke about procedures departments could adopt for determining admission to limited-enrollment classes — citing departments such as English that have precise enrollment rules for seminars — and the benefit of requiring students to accept or decline seminar spots early in shopping period, she said.

But faculty present deferred any decision on shopping period for now, asking the Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee to develop a more specific course of action and explore new technology the Registrar’s Office could use.

Five professors who were not at the meeting said they have had to devise their own strat-

egies to deal with the uncertainty of shopping period. English professor Leslie Brisman, who teaches “The Bible as Literature” and “Romantic Poetry” this semester, said he generally assigns a brief essay for students due by his second class session so that interested students commit to his courses from the start.

Though 11 students interviewed said they believe shopping period is useful for understanding the nature of potential classes, they said the course selection process is often stressful because students juggle more courses than usual.

Erik Aldana ’14 said shopping period might be too brief, noting that he had only one opportunity to shop a class that meets on Fridays this year.

John Mark Taylor ’13 said he

would welcome “a clearer signup process” for seminars and classes with limited enrollment.

Often you don’t know whether you get into a seminar or not [until the end of shopping period.]

JOHN MARK TAYLOR ’13

“Often you don’t know whether you get into a seminar or not [until the end of shopping period],” Taylor said. “There are many uncertainties in that way.”

Reports of cases seen by the Executive Committee and com-

plaints received by the UWC last spring were also presented at the meeting, though Miller said neither report generated significant discussion.

The Executive Committee saw an uptick in cases related to alcohol misuse, with 80 students referred to their residential college deans because of alcohol-related incidents in the spring of 2012, compared to 53 in Fall 2011.

The committee also dealt with significantly more cases of academic dishonesty than last fall — 31 compared to eight. But Executive Committee Chair and comparative literature professor Carol Jacobs said cases carried over from the end of the fall term to the spring could be responsible for the increase.

The UWC report, released

this summer, outlined 49 cases of sexual misconduct that were brought to University officials between January and the end of June.

Faculty inquired about whether the UWC saw any trends in sexual misconduct cases, but Miller said the committee has not been operating long enough to draw any conclusions. Its first report, released in February, detailed 52 cases of sexual misconduct brought to Yale officials between July 2011 and the end of December 2011.

Yale College faculty meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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NEWS THURSDAY, OCT. 4

The article “CCEs talk sexual climate creatively” misattributed a quote from Jessica Tordoff ’15 to Hanna Morikami ’13.

THURSDAY, OCT. 4

The article “Veteran support expands” misidentified Robert Peter Cuthbert Jr. as a 2012 graduate of the Yale Law School. In fact, Cuthbert was a student in the Department of History during the 2011-’12 school year. In addition, the article misstated the number of veterans enrolled at the University last year. Though there were 13 veterans enrolled in Yale’s Yellow Ribbon Program, additional veterans are enrolled independently of the program.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3

The article “YCBA unveils treasure” mistakenly stated that the Yale Center for British Art exhibit, “The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour,” tells the story of an 18th century shipwreck, when in fact it tells the story of an 18th century ship and the artwork aboard. It also suggested that the urns discovered by José María Luzón Nogué were from ancient times, when in fact they were reproductions from the 1700s.

TUESDAY, OCT. 2

The article “At forums, discontent grows” stated Brandon Levin felt students “misused” their time before the committee by criticizing the presidential search procedure.

In fact, Levin said in the original interview that the time “could have been allotted differently.”

Conviction reexamined

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN AND CORINNE KENTOR STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On the evening of March 8, 1987, Bernice Martin was raped and murdered in her apartment in Manchester, Conn.

More than five years later, her granddaughter’s husband, Richard Lapointe, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of release.

Now, the courts are questioning the confessions that have kept Lapointe behind bars for the past two decades.

The Connecticut State Appellate Court announced its decision to retry the case on Monday, more than 20 years after Lapointe, who is mentally impaired, was initially arrested in 1989. The court decision cited the prosecution’s failure to present a crucial piece of evidence as grounds for his retrial. As a result, the new trial will determine the validity of Lapointe’s initial conviction. Lapointe’s attorney, Paul Casteleiro, said he is optimistic Lapointe will be found innocent.

Waiting 20 years to be exonerated for a crime he did not commit is a very long time to wait.

ANNE TREIMANIS Webmaster, Friends of Richard Lapointe On the night of July 4, 1989, police investigators asked Lapointe to come to the station for questioning. He complied, believing he would be home in time to watch the fireworks with his wife and young son, said Robert Perske, an expert on mentally impaired people moving through the justice system who has worked with the Lapointe case for 20 years. But investigators held Lapointe for nine-and-a-half hours, during which he confessed on three separate occasions to a crime he said he did not remember committing.

On the wall, Perske said, police had posted a chart listing types of evidence, including “fingerprints,” “DNA” and “pubic hair,” each with a large red checkmark. Throughout the night, police repeatedly referenced this chart, which was fake, hoping it would spur Lapointe to confess, Perske said.

But Lapointe suffers from Dandy Walker Syndrome, Perske said, a mental disability that causes the brain to fill with fluid.

In Lapointe’s case, this has prevented him from learning to read or write.

Psychology professor Kristi Lockhart said that 25 percent of all wrongful convictions involve

false confessions, adding that young and mentally impaired suspects are particularly prone to giving false confessions in circumstances similar to those surrounding Lapointe’s interrogation.

According to Perske, Lapointe told investigators “if you said I killed her then I did, but I don’t remember being there” at one point in the night.

Perske, along with a team of 25 supporters, known simply as the Friends of Richard Lapointe, said his case is a breakthrough for all mentally disabled suspects who have been wrongfully imprisoned.

“We really hope that future prosecutors, judges [and] defense attorneys … get more informed about the human beings that are involved in this game, so that they can not just look at how you can trick somebody into solving or getting these cases solved, but actually looking at whether justice has been done,” said George Ducharme, a member of the Friends.

Over the past 20 years, the Friends of Richard Lapointe have been visiting the prison and working to overturn the conviction that they say was wrongfully issued. After Lapointe was sentenced, he lost contact with his family, and the Friends became his only visitors. They describe Lapointe as a jokester who prides himself on his puns but said he has grown more pessimistic in recent years.

“He told me that he was starting to lose hope and began to believe he would leave prison in a body bag, instead of leaving as a free man,” Anne Treimanis, webmaster of the Friends website, wrote in a Thursday email.

“Waiting 20 years to be exonerated for a crime he did not commit is a very long time to wait.”

Lapointe’s attorney said that the state of Connecticut can either send the case to the state Supreme Court, which would decide if it wishes to review the case, or can do nothing, in which case a fresh trial will be held. Mark Dupuis, a spokesman for the chief state’s attorney’s office, said that his office is still reviewing the court’s decision and has not yet determined what its next action will be. But Casteleiro said recent events suggest the state is likely to do nothing, sending the case back to the original trial court, and he is optimistic that Lapointe will be found innocent.

More than 2,000 people have been wrongfully convicted of crimes in the United States during the past 23 years, according to the University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

Contact CORINNE KENTOR at corinne.kentor@yale.edu .

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DeLauro leads race GRAPH DELAURO CONGRESSIONAL VICTORIES

BY RISHABH BHANDARI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As a hotly contested Senate election in Connecticut continues to capture media attention, the race to represent Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District has — in the eyes of many observes — become a mere formality.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat who has held the seat since 1990, will face radio broadcaster Wayne Winsley this November in a race to retain her seat. In every election since her initial 1990 victory, DeLauro has won with at least 60 percent of the vote — including during the 2010 midterm elections when Democrats nationwide experienced crushing defeats.

“Congresswoman DeLauro’s attention to issues such as equal pay, job creation, nutrition and food safety is why the people of New Haven will re-elect her with a great margin again,” said DeLauro’s campaign manager, Jimmy Tickey.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said DeLauro is popular among Elm City residents, citing her advocacy for safe food and support for victims of Hurricane Irene in East Haven as instances of her positive impact on New Haven.

Ranked the most liberal of Connecticut’s five members of the House of Representatives by the National Journal, DeLauro is one of the Congressional Democrats who has not shrunk away from her support of the unpopular Affordable Care Act, which was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year. DeLauro has instead been vocal about her support, telling the New Haven Independent in September that “it is one of the proudest votes I’ve cast [and] a transformative piece of legislation.”

According to Tickey, DeLauro’s role as the ranking Democrat on the Labor, Health, Human Services and Education subcom-

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mittee has allowed her to address issues such as food safety and nutrition. Both are “specific staples of her re-election agenda along with the mainstream focuses on job creation and equal pay,” he added. DeLauro spoke at the Democratic National Convention to celebrate the passing of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and to exhort the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Because the seat is considered so safe, Tickey said he does not know of any polling that has been done on the district yet.

“It’s certainly too Democratic [a district] for us to get our hopes up,” said Elizabeth Henry ’14, the president of the Yale College Republicans.

Though Henry predicts that the group will be more active in politics this year, she said it does not make sense to “expend both time and money” on a campaign for a candidate who is behind by so much “in terms of both money and infrastructure.”

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the Yale College Republicans will be involved in the campaigns for Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon and Mass. Sen. Scott Brown, as well as the presidential campaign, where “we can best make a difference.”

In an email to the News, Nicole Hobbs ’14, elections coordinator for the Yale College Democrats, said that “as of now, the DeLauro, Murphy and Obama campaigns are fully coordinated, so any work the Dems do for Murphy in [the third congressional district] will also be for DeLauro.” Zak Newman ’13, president of the Dems, said the club would be supporting DeLauro if there were not more prominent races taking place at the same time. The Dems will be canvassing weekly for DeLauro and Murphy in New Haven, Newman added.

“We’ve done a lot of work with the Yale Democrats,” said Tickey, adding that the campaign really appreciates “their energy and vigor.”

Winsley, known as “The

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Conservative Capitalist” in his broadcast work, said DeLauro has raised 30 times as much money as him but added that he still believes he has a shot at the seat.

“Everyone but the voters thinks this race is decided, but I believe I have a very good chance of winning,” he said.

Winsley added that voters he meets are impressed by his policies and “disgusted by the direction in which this country is going.” He said his biggest opponents are “those in the Republican establishment who have already conceded this race.”

WInsley also said he wants the Yale College Republicans and Democrats to host a debate between DeLauro and himself so that the voters can closely compare the two candidates.

According to the Cook Partisan Voter Index, the 3rd Congressional District swings 9 percentage points in favor of the Democrats.

Contact RISHAB BHANDARI at rishab.bhandari@yale.edu .

Open studios give local artists visibility MAP CITY-WIDE OPEN STUDIOS Alternative Space

New Haven Register Building 40 Sargent Dr. Oct. 20–21 12:00–5:00 p.m.

Passport Weekend Studios

Individual artists’ studios Oct. 6–7 12:00–5:00 p.m.

Artspace

Exhibition hub with one representative work from each artist 50 Orange St.

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Most consumers of art wonder how the pieces they admire in galleries develop over time but do not get the opportunity to witness the process for themselves. Every October, New Haven artists open up their studios and allow the city’s residents this chance.

The grand opening for the annual CityWide Open Studios festival will take place today at Artspace, a local art gallery, which coordinates the showcase over three consecutive weekends. Now in its 15th year, the event features about 280 artists from the New Haven area in their own studios. And while several other Open Studios festivals take place around the country each year, New Haven’s is the largest on the East Coast, surpassing even that of Brooklyn, said Shannon Conners ’12, the outreach coordinator of Artspace.

The scope of the event has helped the show attract sponsors year after year, Conners said.

In honor of the festival’s anniversary, Artspace Executive Director Helen Kauder said she set up a “host committee” of around 15 members responsible both for attracting people to the event and pitching in anywhere from $400 to $7,500. While Open Studios brings in dif-

Erector Square Studio Complex 315 Peck St. Oct. 13–14 12:00–5:00 p.m.

ferent sponsors every year, Yale has been a “faithful, sustaining sponsor” since the second year of the showcase, she added.

Connors said that at first some artists have been reluctant to participate in Open Studios, explaining that veterans of the festival hold workshops to quell first-timers’ fears and “walk them through” the do’s and don’ts of Open Studios.

“Some artists feel like [open studio] derails them in their quiet zone and their space where they work solo and independently,” Kauder said.

An artist’s desire to preserve the sanctity of his or her own creative workspace can explain why an event called “Alternative Space” is a popular choice for artists, Kauder said. For this event, Artspace found abandoned buildings or warehouses around the city — this year, the event is being held in the former New Haven Register building — and set up temporary studios there to revitalize the neighborhood.

But, Kauder admitted, nothing compares with visiting an artist’s permanent studio, whether it’s “in a minaret … or a garage.”

Connors explained that artists who have already participated in the event often tell their mentees to lay bare the entire creative

process.

“Having things in various stages of completion is something that the public really responds well to … artists enjoy letting people see their process,” Connors said. “It’s not just you talking about your work, but also you talking about materials, your creative thinking, how you brainstorm.”

Kauder said the gallery serves as a starting point for visitors planning which studios to visit. Artspace centralizes the event without commanding it, she said, minimizing its mediation in interactions between artists and the public, she added. J.P. Culligan, curator of the Alternative Space event and a featured artist at the festival, said that the gallery directors did not limit how many artists could hold an open studio — any Connecticut resident who self-identifies as an artist can participate.

City-Wide Open Studios will take place during the coming three weekends. The first will feature private studios; the second, studios in New Haven’s Erector Square; and the third, the Alternative Space event in the Register building.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Apartment upsets locals HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 The residential development would occupy the current 1229, 1245 and 1249 Chapel St. properties as well as the 169 and 175 Dwight St. lots. According to Salvatore, the location is a strong site for housing and will help meet the large demand for more high-quality housing in New Haven.

While Salvatore said the project has been met with broad support from Yale-affiliated, neighborhood and government organizations in New Haven, the proposal is not without its critics. Celeste Greer GRD ’15, a resident of 1249 Chapel, said she believes the 10 zoning variances the proposal seeks — which would exempt the property from certain zoning regulations — are too many for one building.

“The apartment complex doesn’t include any yard space and it destroys important his-

Five years ago, Yale promised to open its Chapel Street parking garage to local residents … but the University has not kept that promise.

OLIVIA MARTSON Former alderperson, Ward 2

toric buildings. Neighborhood events like the annual Chapel West party would be permanently altered,” Greer said.

If the proposal were approved, Greer’s building at 1249 Chapel St. would be demolished.

Olivia Martson, a Dwight Street resident and former Ward 2 alderperson, also voiced opposition to the proposal, raising concerns regarding the 90 parking spaces to be included in the apartment complex.

“Five years ago, Yale promised to open its Chapel Street parking garage to local residents who are not affiliated with Yale, but the University has not kept that promise,” Martson said. “I am frustrated that this apartment complex will add even more private parking spaces to the area when, with the stillprivate Yale lot, public options for parking are extremely limited.”

In spite of these and simi-

lar concerns, the New Haven Preservation Trust, the Chapel West Services District and the city’s Department of Economic Development all voiced support for the proposal.

John Herzan, preservation services officer of the New Haven Preservation Trust, said he is most focused on how the project will affect neighborhood historical properties. He said he was pleased to learn at a meeting held in August that two buildings on Dwight Street, both of which belong to the Dwight Street historical district, would be rehabilitated as part of Salvatore’s project. Tony Bialecki, deputy director of economic development for New Haven, said the Department of Economic Development and Salvatore both agree the complex will revitalize its surrounding neighborhood.

“The developer is proposing a building type that fits in well with the immediate neighborhood, serves a need, will activate the street and immediate area with 130-175 new residents who will shop, eat and enliven the streets and immediate neighborhood,” Bialecki said.

Salvatore said he is intent on making compromises with wary neighbors in the hopes of gaining their support for his project. In response to locals’ concerns, he said he has altered the original façade of the building to appear more like a retail location. He also added a provision to the project proposal that would allow the space devoted to parking to be significantly reduced in the future, should residents decide less parking is needed.

Regardless of the concerns neighbors’ have expressed, Salvatore said he is highly optimistic that the Board of Zoning appeals will approve his proposal, adding that the neighbors’ opposition is typical of compromises between developers and local residents.

“Certain neighbors definitely want parts of the proposed project tweaked. We at RMS are trying our best to accommodate these requests as best we can,” Salvatore said. “In fact, we have delayed meeting with the city plan commission until November or December just so we could continue meeting with people affected by the project.”

The New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals will vote on the proposal on Tuesday, Oct. 9th.

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53 of the 108 medals won were gold.

Olympians talk post-Yale success

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The Thursday night panel discussion featured six recent Yale grads who attended this year’s Olympic Games.

OLYMPIANS FROM PAGE 1 academic success, in addition to athletic success, gives athletes confidence to train harder.

“Having sports and academics makes you a balanced person,” he said. “Knowing your worth in a sense other than sports allows athletes to push themselves more in their sports.”

Ritzel said she focused most of her time at Yale on rowing, sometimes at the expense of other Yale experiences. Upon graduation, she tried out for the U.S Junior National Women’s Team and eventually joined the Olympic team. Traveling to

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London, she said, gave her the chance to be around “worldclass athletes from every sport.”

Redman said attending the Olympics brought her a level of excitement she describes as “the culmination of college spring break, your birthday, Christmas and Super Bowl madness.”

But since the Olympics have ended, she said, she has found herself struggling to fill her new free time, which has been “driving her crazy.”

“We had been part of a team for so long,” she said. “You’re training, it’s intense, you’re at the Olympics and when you come home you’re excited to see everyone. Then all of a sudden

there is nothing. It was very disorienting.”

Lihan said that progressing from Yale to Olympic training provided her structure, adding that after the Olympics ended, her days were no longer rigidly scheduled.

In spite of their post-Olympic transition, the athletes said they strongly encourage studentathletes at Yale to take advantage of the opportunity to bring their athletic skills to the next level.

“You only have one chance to be an elite athlete for so long,” Brzozowicz said. “It may not go the way you think, but you have to try it. The chance comes up so

rarely.”

Head women’s crew coach Will Porter, who coached all four rowers on the panel, said he can tell which of his athletes are Olympic-quality immediately.

Porter said he wanted to bring the athletes back to campus for the panel so they could share their accomplishments with other student-athletes.

Rower Charlie Cole ’07 competed in the 2012 Olympics but was not able to attend Thursday’s panel.

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

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SARAH LIHAN ‘10 SAILING UNITED STATES

“The excitement I felt in the last 500 meters of the race this summer, and the support of the crowd as we finished that race, was one of the most exceptional moments of my Olympic experience.”

“In my opinion, there is no better place to be a college athlete who wants to go to the Olympics than Yale.”

TAYLOR RITZEL ‘10 ROWING UNITED STATES

STUARY MCNAY ‘05 SAILING UNITED STATES

“One of my favorite parts of the Olympics was the opportunity to be around so many world class athletes from all over the world…

Getting to see up front what athletes from different sports do was eye-opening.”

“My goal to participate in the Olympics really solidified at Yale. Here, the Olympics slowly became a realistic and concrete goal I could reach through specific stepping stones.”

ASHLEY BRZOZOWICZ ’04 ROWING CANADA

JAMIE REDMAN ’08 ROWING UNITED STATES

“The Olympics helped me realize even more that all the hours spent training really do mean something. This is especially true because crew doesn’t get much attention from the media.”

“I like to tell people the Olympics is like a combination of college spring break, your birthday, Christmas, and Super Bowl Madness. It is the culmination of the most awesome athletic experience I can think of.”

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Promise sees new director

BY ROSA NGUYEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded scholarship and support program created to encourage college enrollment, received a new assistant director in August.

Suzanne Lyons, a Newington, Conn. native and social worker specializing in college access, was appointed to New Haven Promise in August, the organization announced earlier this week. Designed as a tool to keep talented youth in state and enhance New Haven’s economic development, the 2-year-old program has awarded 138 scholarships and more than an estimated $323,000 to graduating seniors who attend colleges in Connecticut.

Lyons received the position after 10 years of service in out-of-school programs, University-community collaborations and national nonprofit organizations. Formerly the associate director of the University of Pennsylvania High School Upward Bound, Lyons left Pennsylvania amid uncertainty regarding the program’s fiscal future, accepting her “dream job” in Connecticut.

“I’m excited to be in a city that is galvanized with making sure that we’re investing in our children’s education,” Lyons said.

The addition of Lyons to the New Haven Promise staff is one of many changes the organization has seen since its foundation in November 2010. Originally just a scholarship program, New Haven Promise has collaborated with support programs like College Summit, a non-profit organization that encourages college attendance in 170 high schools across 12 states. In the fall of 2011, New Haven Promise partnered with College Summit to create Pathways to Promise — a program that developed curriculums integrating college goals in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms.

As the number of scholarship recipients in college increases, the organization plans to focus not only on college access, but also on college success.

Lyons will supervise the creation of the Promise College Support Network, a system she said will provide a “continuum of services” including connections to professors, other Promise scholars and New Haven businesses and nonprofit organizations.

New Haven Promise now extends its services to 11 high schools, 35 elementary schools and five transitional schools throughout the state of Connecticut. Greg Baldwin, principal of New Haven academy, is particularly supportive of the program.

“We’re trying to instill a collegegoing culture, and New Haven Promise has helped kids realize that money is not an obstacle,” Baldwin said. He also said he admires the organization’s effectiveness in spreading its message, adding that the college-going culture has “really filtered down into younger generations.”

I’m excited to be in a city that is galvanized with making sure that we’re investing in our children’s education.

SUZANNE LYONS Assistant Director, New Haven Promise Essence Staton, a student at New Haven Academy, said she agreed. “[New Haven Promise] motivates kids to want to learn,” Staton said.

Familiar with the program since middle school, Staton, a high school sophomore, said she dreams of attending Spelman College in Atlanta. But Promise scholarships, designed to promote an increase in college-trained professionals in the New Haven community, are only awarded to students attending in-state colleges. Two years away from college, Staton has signed the program’s pledge and is still a potential recipient.

“While New Haven students may choose not to go to school in Connecticut, it is reassuring that they will have the option to have an almost-free education,” said Devin Mahoney ’16, a Timothy Dwight freshman who received the scholarship earlier this year.

The New Haven Promise team will canvass Fair Haven neighborhoods on Oct. 13 for Boost!, a partnership between the city, school district and the United Way of Greater New Haven that provides social services for students and their families.

Contact ROSA NGUYEN at rosa.nguyen@yale.edu .

Panel discusses food policy

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Panelists discussed practices of labeling and regulation across the food industry in the Yale Law School Thursday afternoon.

BY JOSEPH TISCH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Representatives of the fields of law, consumer advocacy, business and journalism conversed about food regulation and sustainable practices at a Thursday afternoon panel in the Yale Law School.

Hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, the Yale Environmental Law Association and the Yale Sustainable Food Project, the discussion touched on practices of labeling and regulation across the food industry. The panelists, including Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti, University of Texas Law Professor Thomas McGarity, freelance journalist Kristin Wartman and Urvashi Rangan, director of Consumer Reports’ consumer safety and sustainability group, offered several perspectives — ranging from business to regulatory — on the complications consumers face in gaining knowledge about the origin of their food.

“People want to know more about where their food comes from,” Rangan said. “They expect to know more and more as time goes on about how it is produced, and they do want to know more about how it’s raised.”

Rangan said she thinks consumers must be able to differentiate between accurate and false labeling, such as the distinction between “organic,” an official designation by the USDA, and “natural,” a vague term. In addition, she said differences in labeling can also be more subtle. For instance, “hormone-free beef” holds signifi-

Titanic discoverer shares stories

BY ANDREW KOENIG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When Titanic discoverer Robert Ballad opened his Alan Tetelman Lecture Thursday afternoon, he made it immediately clear that he was an explorer.

The 70-year-old oceanographer and explorer paced back and forth, ascended the staircase and interacted with the audience throughout the talk he delivered at the Yale Center for British Art lecture hall. Never at home in one place onstage, the discoverer of the Titanic and other shipwrecks described his life’s many pursuits to an audience of over 200 Yalies and members of the New Haven community.

Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans, who introduced Ballard, said she had spent over two years tracking the explorer down.

“He’s a hunter himself, and I finally hunted him down,” she said.

The reception of audience members, almost all of whom stayed after the lecture for a Q&A session with the oceanographer, showed that Ballard was well worth the wait.

Those expecting a talk on the oftrepeated history of the Unsinkable Ship were greeted with an engaging, discursive discourse. Ballard, who has given a TED talk in the past, shed light on the life of a scientist-explorer. He touched on many topics related to science and the sea, using slideshow images to illustrate his adventures in the uncharted waters he has quite literally mapped.

Grace Liu ’16 said she expected Ballard’s talk to focus primarily on the Titanic, but was surprised by his lecture’s broad scope.

“I actually love science, so the way [Ballard] synthesized archaeology, geology and education was really fascinating and exciting for me,” she said.

Ballard’s adventuresome spirit — both nautical and academic — was on display during the lecture. Ballard credited this spirit to a childhood spent near the coast of San Diego and steeped in works like Jules Vernes’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” His passion for geology was visible as he explained the theory of plate tectonics. “The earth is made of pieces,” he said, comparing them

cance, but not hormone-free poultry or pork because all poultry and pork are hormone-free. Consumers deserve as much information as possible, she added, so they can make informed purchases.

Garutti said Shake Shack emphasizes sustainable practices such as using recycled construction materials and researching their ingredient suppliers. He said that when Shake Shack was trying to choose a supplier for the restaurant’s new bacon, most ranchers were unable or unwilling to provide the quantity Shake Shack demanded — 2,000 pounds per week — and to disclose their practices.

Shake Shack employees make an effort to use unprocessed food from farms that use humane practices, Garutti said.

“The pigs we get, [they] get to be pigs,” he said, “and [there are] that many more farmers who get to do things the right way [because of us].”

But Garutti, who treated attendees of the panel to burgers and shakes compliment of Shake Shack, said he admits the restaurant chain’s sustainable practices are far from perfect. Shake Shack does not use grassfed beef, he added, because grass-fed beef does not taste as good as grainfed beef.

McGarity, who has worked both in government and academia, said government regulation and pressures from industry giants such as Monsanto make it difficult for smaller companies to market food as organic and sustainable because small companies cannot afford to criticize the

larger ones. He said the USDA has an “immense institutional conflict of interest” between supporting the agriculture industry and regulating suppliers. He added that he questions government inspection practices, noting that inspectors in poultry slaughterhouses can be responsible for overseeing three birds per second.

Wartman said she is concerned about consumers who have “unknowingly been sabotaging their own health” because of misleading advice from corporations and doctors. She said she would advise consumers to eat a diet of unprocessed foods and recommends that individuals partake in their own food production.

YSFP Director Mark Bomford, who moderated the panel, said he helped organize it as a response to strong interest in food policy among students. Bomford said he advocates for learning about the source of ingredients, rather than food that comes from “global everywhere and nowhere.”

Jacob Wolf-Sorokin ’16 said he attended the panel because he wanted to learn more about eating responsibly, but that he would have liked more opportunity for audience participation.

The Yale Sustainable Food Project will hold another panel on Friday at 2:00 p.m., co-sponsored by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale.

Investment officer talks African aid

BY JASMINE HORSEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Robert Ballard talked to over 200 Yalies and New Haven community members about the life of a scientist-explorer Thursday afternoon. to a “wonderful, synchronized ballet.”

Ballard proceeded to show some of the finds he and his crew had made during his time on the high seas. Rapt listeners watched as Ballard projected pictures of him and his crew holding strange and exotic forms of sea life discovered during his submarine voyages. One such image depicted what appeared to be a clam. The next slide showed the creature’s interior — filled with something resembling red marmalade — which Ballard said was similar in substance to “human blood.”

Later in the talk he showed the preserved wooden hull of a ship he and his crew had discovered at the bottom of the oxygenless Black Sea. Gasps filled the lecture hall as audience members observed the wellpreserved state of the hull.

Although the Titanic remains Ballard’s most famous discovery, he spent little time discussing the ship’s excavation.

He showed a few pictures of the Titanic’s sunken hull, which was covered in “rusticles,” a neologism coined by Ballard and now included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Ballard said his legacy extends beyond oceanography and discused his forays into education.

After receiving over 16,000 letters from children after his discovery of the Titanic, Ballard said he saw a golden opportunity to inspire students. Ballard said his desire as an explorer and an educator is to “go where no one has gone before.” In view of the deplorable state of the American educational system, especially in the sciences, Ballard established the JASON project.

Named after the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, the JASON project aims to get kids interested in the fields of engineering, geology and science. Ballard also focuses on fostering the growth of female participation in STEM — his submarine crew now is split almost evenly between the two genders, and his successor will be a female crew member.

America, he said, must take “a new approach to education,” adding that he hopes students will aspire to follow in the footsteps of his crew members.

David Wells ’58 endowed the Tetelman Lecture Series in memory of his friend Alan Tetelman ’58 GRD ’61.

Contact ANDREW KOENIG at andrew.koenig@yale.edu .

Contact JOSEPH TISCH at joseph.tisch@yale.edu .

A leading investment officer from the African Development Bank spoke Thursday about the difficulties of development aid in Africa.

Oumama El Kettani, who gave a talk entitled “Development in Africa: What Role for International Financial Institutions?”, said Africa receives 46 percent of total aid funds worldwide — making it the most aid-dependent continent. Yet due to the level of political and infrastructural instability in Africa, organizations that provide aid are often unable to ensure their contributions are applied to the benefit of the nations involved. Because aid that has traditionally aimed to alleviate poverty or provide assistance in emergencies has often not led to longterm development, El Kettani said many international financial institutions are working to support economic growth through a mix of loans, grants, equity investments and other measures.

“The idea of aid and development is really a gray area,” El Kettani said. “There are projects that are very successful on the ground, but at the same time, there are a lot of political pressures for any project.”

The 54 nations in Africa receive an estimated $26 billion in aid per year, and some countries receive more than 100 percent of their individual budgets from aid, El Kettani said. She added that access to such large sums of money often contributes to political corruption, as governments are inclined to operate primarily on aid money rather than investing the funds they receive into economic growth.

Because of the historical inef-

fectiveness of aid and humanitarian assistance, El Kettani said international financial institutions are focusing more and more on development co-operation by working with both public and private sector agencies. As a result, aid money is becoming increasingly scarce, she said, and financial institutions are monitoring countries’ use of grant money.

“African countries can benefit from these grants, but they have to prove why,” El Kettani said.

The African Development Bank aims to increase investor interest in private-sector growth, which El Kettani said is limited due to rampant political uncertainty in Africa, such as the Arab Spring. But government-focused aid remains a controversial topic in Africa, because organizations struggle to ensure their funds are being properly used on the ground, El Kettani said.

The talk received positive reviews from two audience members interviewed. Justin Scott GRD ’13 said he appreciated the opportunity to hear from an investment officer working directly on issues of financial assistance in Africa.

“It’s really nice to have people come in while they’re still employed by big international institutions and hear them speak frankly about controversial aspects of their work,” Scott said.

“These are huge issues and Africa is often marginalized in this discourse.”

The talk was one installment of the Council of African Studies’ Brown Bag Speaker Series, which hosts weekly lectures on Africa.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .

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Meningitis scare spreads Romney eyes victory

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Dr. Al DeMaria, Mass. state epidemiologist, discusses the meningitis outbreak in a Thursday news conference.

BY MIKE STOBBE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened dramatically Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk.

Clinics and medical centers rushed to contact patients who may have received the apparently fungus-contaminated shots. And the Food and Drug Administration urged doctors not to use any products at all from the Massachusetts pharmacy that supplied the suspect steroid solution.

It is not clear how many patients received tainted injections, or even whether everyone who got one will get sick.

So far, 35 people in six states — Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, North Carolina

and Indiana — have contracted fungal meningitis, and five of them have died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All had received steroid shots for back pain, a highly common treatment.

In an alarming indication the outbreak could get a lot bigger, Massachusetts health officials said the pharmacy involved, the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass., has recalled three lots consisting of a total of 17,676 singledose vials of the steroid, preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate.

An unknown number of those vials reached 75 clinics and other facilities in 23 states between July and September, federal health officials said. Several hundred of the vials, maybe more, have been returned unused, one Massachusetts official said.

But many other vials were used. At one clinic in Evansville, Ind., more than 500 patients got

shots from the suspect lots, officials said. At two clinics in Tennessee, more than 900 patients — perhaps many more — did.

The investigation began about two weeks ago after a case was diagnosed in Tennessee. The time from infection to onset of symptoms is anywhere from a few days to a month, so the number of people stricken could rise.

Investigators this week found contamination in a sealed vial of the steroid at the New England company, according to FDA officials. Tests are under way to determine if it is the same fungus blamed in the outbreak.

The company has shut down operations and said it is working with regulators to identify the source of the infection.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we advise all health care practitioners not to use any product” from the company, said Ilisa Bernstein, director of compliance for the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan wave to supporters.

BY DAVID ESPO AND KASIE HUNT ASASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Buoyed by a powerful debate showing, Mitt Romney said Thursday he offers “prosperity that comes through freedom” to a country struggling to shed a weak economy. President Barack Obama accused the former Massachusetts governor of running from his own record in pursuit of political power.

Both men unleashed new attack ads in the battleground states in a race with little more than a month to run, Obama suggesting Romney couldn’t be trusted with the presidency, and the Republican accusing the president of backing a large tax increase on the middle class.

The debate reached 67.2 million viewers, an increase of 28 percent over the first debate in the 2008 presidential campaign. The measurement and information company Nielsen said Thursday that 11 networks provided live coverage of the debate.

Not even Democrats disputed that Romney was likely to benefit politically from the debate

Wednesday night in which he aggressively challenged Obama’s stewardship of the economy and said his own plans would help pull the country out of a slow-growth rut. Still, there was no immediate indication that the race would expand beyond the nine battleground states where the rivals and their running mates spend nearly all of their campaign time and advertising dollars.

Debate host Colorado is one of them, and Virginia, where Romney headed for an evening speech, is another. So, too, Wisconsin, Obama’s destination for a mid-day rally. Nevada, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and North Carolina are the others.

Among them, the nine states account for 110 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win the White House, more than enough to tip the campaign to one man or the other.

“Victory is in sight,” Romney exulted in an emailed request for donations to supporters. It was a show of confidence by a man hoping for a quick reversal in predebate public opinion polls that showed him trailing in battle-

ground states as well as nationally.

Reprising a line from the debate, he told an audience of conservatives in Denver that Obama offers “trickle-down government.” He added, “I don’t think that’s what America believes in. I see instead a prosperity that comes through freedom.”

Another possible pivot point in the campaign neared in the form of Friday’s government report on unemployment for September.

Joblessness was measured at 8.1 percent the previous month.

Obama campaigned with the energy of a man determined to make up for a subpar debate showing. Speaking to a crowd not far from the debate hall, he said mockingly that a “very spirited fellow” who stood next to him onstage Wednesday night “does not want to be held accountable for the real Mitt Romney’s positions” on taxes, education and other issues. “Governor Romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president you owe the American people the truth,” he said.

Archbishop riles activists

BY LISA LEFF ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — The installation of a new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco — a backer of California’s same-sex marriage ban — drew support and concern Thursday as the 56-year-old priest assumed the ceremonial seat at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Such inductions have not historically been cause for much interest or angst in San Francisco, where the population of church faithful is smaller than in many major U.S. cities. But attention has been intense this time.

On Thursday, it drew about three dozen gay rights advocates, who protested outside the cathedral opposite a group singing hymns as they celebrated the new archbishop. Salvatore Joseph Cordileone took the seat before a crowd of some 2,000 people and an appointment letter from the pope was read during the threehour Mass.

It is our Christian duty to take stands in public or from our pulpits.

MARC ANDRUS Bishop of California, Episcopal Church Cordileone, a native Californian who served as bishop of neighboring Oakland for the last three-and-a-half years, has a nationwide reputation as a fierce defender of the Catholic Church’s positions on homosexuality in general and same-sex marriage in particular. He was installed amid heavy security and the splendor of his religion’s celebratory rites, wearing red and gold robes.

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Salvatore J. Cordileone, right, is installed in a Thursday ceremony as the new archbishop of San Francisco.

His stance, a key factor in his rapid, decade-long ascension from auxiliary bishop to archbishop, has endeared him to fellow Catholic conservatives who have long regarded the San Francisco Bay area’s gay-friendly parishes as wayward sheep in the flock.

More liberal Catholics and other faith communities that welcome gay, lesbian and transgender members, however, are worried about that part of Cordileone’s resume, reflected in his experience as one of the early engineers of California’s voterapproved ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, and since 2011 as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ subcommittee charged with opposing efforts

to legalize gay unions.

Those concerns prompted Marc Andrus, the Episcopal bishop of California, this week to write an open letter to his parishioners stating that while he planned to attend Thursday’s ceremony and to work with the new archbishop on issues such as immigration reform, he would also welcome into the Episcopal fold Catholics who “may find themselves less at home with Salvatore Cordileone’s installation.”

Andrus wrote, “It is our Christian duty to take stands in public or from our pulpits when others — especially those of our own faith — are in error and trying to suppress the rights of others who, too, have been created in God’s image.”

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 12:00 PM Free Yoga. Free yoga! What more could you want?

There will be yoga — provided by Battell Chapel and the Chaplain’s Office – and the yoga that is provided will be free of charge. That is, the yoga that is provided will be “on the house.” Battell Chapel (Corner of Elm St. and College St.).

4:00 PM A Discussion with Richard Montoya: “Deconstructing the American Dream.” The title should appeal to those Derrida fans out there. Playwright Richard Montoya is one of the founding members of Culture Clash — yes, that Culture Clash — and author of “American Night,” which is playing right now! Office of International Students and Scholars, (421 Temple St.).

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 7:30 PM Underbrook Coffeehouse featuring Michael Blume and Anthony Da Costa. Unwind after a long week with live music and a cup of coffee. Completely free! Saybrook College (242 Elm St.), Saybrook Underbrook.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 2:00 PM Puppet & Art Workshops for the Carnival and Day of the Dead Parade in Fair Haven All ages welcome. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Bregamos Community Theater (491 Blatchley Ave.).

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“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

RAY BRADBURY AMERICAN AUTHOR

UN condemns Syria

Egypt’s Islamist party unravels

BY EDITH LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council overcame deep divisions to unanimously approve a statement Thursday condemning Syria’s shelling of a Turkish town that killed five women and children “in the strongest terms.”

Council members managed to bridge differences between the strong statement demanded by the United States and its Western supporters and backed by their NATO ally Turkey, and a weaker text pushed by Russia, Syria’s most important ally, after negotiations that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday.

In the press statement, which needed approval from all 15 council members, the U.N.’s most powerful body said the incident “highlighted the grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbors and on regional peace and stability.”

It also extended condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Turkey.

The council demanded an immediate end to such violations of international law and called on the Syrian government “to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors.”

Earlier Thursday, Syria’s U.N. envoy said his government is not seeking any escalation of violence with Turkey and wants to maintain good neighborly relations.

Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said the government hasn’t apologized for the shelling from Syria because it is waiting for the outcome of an investigation on the source of the firing.

He read reporters a letter he delivered to the Security Council that sent Syria’s “deepest condolences” to the families of the victims “and to the friendly and brotherly people of Turkey.”

It urged Turkey and its other neighbors to “act wisely, rationally and responsibly” and to prevent cross-border infiltration of “terrorists and insurgents” and the smuggling of arms.

During Thursday’s negotiations on the text when the outcome was still in

BY MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Turks hold banners that read “no to war” during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Turkey fired on targets in Syria for a second day following a Syrian shelling. doubt, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters “we think it’s very important that the council speak clearly and swiftly to condemn this shelling.”

“This sort of cross-border military activity is very destabilizing and must be stopped,” she said.

This sort of cross-border military activity is very destabilizing and must be stopped.

SUSAN RICE U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations The border violence has added a dangerous new dimension to Syria’s civil war, dragging Syria’s neighbors deeper into a conflict that activists say has already killed 30,000 people since an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began in March 2011.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm Thursday at the esca-

lating border tensions and warned that the risks of regional conflict and the threat to international peace is increasing, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

The U.N. chief called on all parties “to abandon the use of violence, exercise maximum restraint and exert all efforts to move toward a political solution,” he said.

Nesirky said Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, has been in contact with Turkish and Syrian officials “in order to encourage an easing of tensions.”

Syria’s Ja’afari said the “Syrian government is keenly interested in maintaining good neighborly relations with Turkey.”

“The Syrian government is not seeking any escalation with any of its neighbors, including Turkey,” he stressed.

But he said Syria wants to explain to the Turkish people that their government’s policies supporting the opposition “are wrong and have been wrong since the beginning of the crisis.”

CAIRO — Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark, puritanical version of Islam.

The fight for leadership could paralyze the Al-Nour Party, which rocketed out of nowhere to become Egypt’s second most powerful political force, behind the Muslim Brotherhood.

Together, the Brotherhood and Al-Nour embodied the rise of Islamists to prominence after last year’s fall of Hosni Mubarak.

It also underlines the key dilemma in the project of political Islam - what to do when the maneuverings of democratic politics collide with demands for strict purity of religious ideology, particularly the unbending, black-and-white doctrine of the Salafis. Infighting among the Salafis could discredit their aims of radical Islamization of Egypt in the eyes of some Egyptians who saw the movement as pious and uncorrupt, calling for strict adherence to the Quran and the ways of the Prophet Muhammad.

“The party is exploding from inside,” Mohammed Habib, who was once a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, said of AlNour. “In the street, it has lost its credibility. People see clerics who they used to see as men of God engaging in earthy disputes. They used to trust them.

This will have a negative impact not only on Al-Nour or Salafis but on all Islamists in politics.”

Salafis are among the most

hardcore conservatives in Egypt, with a stricter vision of Islam than the Brotherhood.

Salafi men are known for their long beards, with the mustache shaved off - a style they say was worn by Muhammad - while the women wear the “niqab,” an enveloping black robe and veil that leaves only the eyes visible.

They advocate strict segregation of the sexes and an unbendingly literal interpretation of the Quran, saying society should mirror the way the prophet ruled the early Muslims in the 7th Century. They say they want to turn Egypt into a pure Islamic society, implementing strict Shariah law.

They also reject democracy as a heresy, since it would supplant God’s law with man’s rulings.

Nevertheless, after Mubarak’s fall in February 2011, the movement’s main institution of clerics, the Alexandria-based “Salafi Call,” backed the creation of AlNour to run in parliament elections on the religious principle that “what is necessary permits what is prohibited.” The party’s showing was stunning, winning a quarter of the seats, second only to the Brotherhood’s 50 percent of the legislature - a testimony to the popular networks Salafi clerics set up under Mubarak’s rule. Parliament was disbanded by a court ruling this year because of faults in the election law.

Now the party is in a bitter feud over leadership.

The first camp is led by the party’s founder and chief Emad Abdel-Ghafour, who advocates separating between the party and the Salafi Call to give the party ability to maneuver away from clerics’ edicts.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS BOBBY VALENTIN The first-year Red Sox manager was fired Thursday after a 14–2 loss to the New York Yankees capped the ballclub’s worst season in almost 50 years. The Red Sox finished in last place in the American League East division for the first time since 1992 under Valentine.

Bulldogs to take on Big Green

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team will have to improve its one-onone game and transitional play to take home a win in Saturday’s matchup against Dartmouth at Burnham Field.

Yale has defeated the Big Green the past four seasons and is looking to continue the streak this weekend in Hanover. But after being shut out by the Crimson last weekend and putting up just one goal against Princeton the week before, the Elis (5–5, 0–2 Ivy) have been fighting to get back into a scoring rhythm.

In recent matchups, the Bulldogs have struggled to create scoring opportunities against opponents more skilled in oneon-one play. According to Bulldog head coach Rudy Meredith, the Big Green (6–4, 1–1 Ivy) will pose its own challenges for the Yale squad.

“They are overall a tough, blue-collar, hard-working team,” Meredith said. “They can beat you physically, they can beat you dribbling and they can beat you one-on-one.”

Last weekend, the Bulldogs were unable to move the ball up field against Harvard without clearing it out-of-bounds, interrupting the flow of their transitions. Meredith said the team will focus on the details of gameplay during practice so that it can replicate last season’s 4-1 victory against Dartmouth.

“We’ve been working on our transition game from both offense to defense and defense to offense,” Meredith said.

The Big Green is home to the Ivy League’s second leading scorer, while the Bulldog’s Kristen Forster ’13 is tied with Dartmouth’s Emma Brush for the three spot. Over the course of the season, Dartmouth has scored 20 goals, twice as many as their opponents. The Elis are not far behind with 19 goals this year.

Despite the Big Green’s physical style of play, the team has only been issued four yellow cards this season, just one more than the Bulldogs’ three.

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The Elis are coming off a 47–24 trouncing by Colgate at home last week but stay optimistic for tomorrow’s match against Dartmouth.

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The women’s soccer team will head to New Hampshire aiming to notch their first Ivy win of the season.

Dartmouth has started its season at strong with an early fourgame winning streak, Dartmouth marking a significant turnaround from last year’s injury-afflicted season. Meredith

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said Big Green head coach Theresa Romagnolo, who is in her second year with the Big Green, has brought success with her. “[She] is putting her stamp on the program now,” Meredith said.

The game will begin at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Elis head to Hanover MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 “Being strong defensively was definitely what helped win the game last year.”

Because of Mkosana’s departure, the Big Green will present new challenges for the Bulldogs.

Even without the star forward, Dartmouth has scored 13 goals in its nine games and has been shut out only once. Alers said the Elis are aware of the need to adjust.“They’re definitely going to be a different team than last year,” Alers said. “They still have

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a lot of talent [and] they’ll maybe have a little bit more balanced of an attack without [Mkosana], but they can be just as dangerous.”

Performing well on the defensive end has not been a problem for the team this year. The Bulldogs have allowed less than a goal a game so far this season and have given up only four goals in their last eight games.

In limiting the Big Green on the defensive end last year, the Bulldogs were able to manufacture scoring chances that led to two goals. Alers said that the Bulldogs

will attempt to perform similarly on offense this year, noting that the team was able to score because of its ability to possess the ball, move the ball out wide and serve crosses toward the middle created the two goals last season.

games.

“We have come out pretty slow in the first half,” linebacker Ryan Falbo ’13 said. “If there is a way that we can come out with that same intensity [as] in the second hal f… I think we’ll be better off going forward.”

The defense has not been the only problem for the Bulldogs, as the offense leads the Ivy League with 12 turnovers this season. Quarterback Eric Williams ’16 sets the pace in the Ancient Eight with eight interceptions.

But Reno said that even in just three games under center, Williams has shown maturation as a player. Offensive lineman Roy Collins ’13 added that blocking for a dual-threat quarterback like Williams has been a change of pace.

“Eric is definitely a little different than the

other quarterbacks we’ve had,” Collins said.

“It’s so exciting — he’s got that spin move.”

That spin move helped Williams dash for a career-high 114 yards against Colgate, but he has been only one aspect of the Yale running attack.

Although running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 did not dress last week because of an injury, fellow running back Tyler Varga ’16 has made up for the loss. Varga is averaging 106.3 rushing yards per game this season. Reno credited his offensive line for helping his talented backfield.

“Some seams were there and we’ve got some guys who can take advantage of those seams,” Reno said.

The Bulldogs will kickoff at noon tomorrow.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Last year against Dartmouth we played one of our most complete games.

DEFENDER NICK ALERS ’14 This year, however, the Elis have had a difficult time on the offensive end. While the team has had its share of chances, it has struggled to convert them into goals, scoring only five in their ten games.

Both Alers and Armbrust said that the team has focused on improving the offense during practice this week.

“We just need to really be calm and confident in front of the goal,” Armbrust said. “I think as soon as we get our first Ivy goal we’ll break through the ice.”

The Bulldogs will be playing their second consecutive road game after battling Harvard to a scoreless draw in overtime last week. Dartmouth also played in overtime on the road last Saturday, falling 2–1 to Princeton.

Since then, the Big Green have rebounded with a 3–1 victory at the University of Vermont. Still, both Yale and Dartmouth will be searching for their first Ivy League wins in their second Ivy League games of the season.

The game against Dartmouth will start at 7 p.m. Saturday night.

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The men’s soccer team is hoping to achieve its first Ivy win of the season.

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

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Libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 is third in the conference with 4.56 digs per set.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 displayed some impressive performances this season. This past weekend alone, the Crimson took a five-set win from Penn and lost narrowly in five sets to Princeton after holding an initial 2–1 lead. Princeton is currently 3–0 and tied with Yale for first place in the league.

Senior outside hitter Taylor Docter drives the Crimson offense. Docter was a SecondTeam All-Ivy pick last season and is near the top of several offensive categories this season.

She is third in the conference in kills per set, fourth in service aces per set and second in points per set behind Princeton’s Lydia Rudnick.

But given the way the Yale defense has been playing this season, Docter should have some trouble offensively. The Bulldogs are second in the nation in digs per set with 19.39 and libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 is third in the conference with 4.56 digs per set.

Rudnick said she focuses on the defensive side of the ball so her teammates can concentrate on other aspects of the game.

“I just try to be in the right position to support the team,” she said. “I want them to have confidence that I will get the ball so they can focus on hitting and blocking.”

Friday’s match against the Big Green (2-11, 1-2 Ivy) may prove challenging as well. Dartmouth dealt last year’s team one of only two Ivy losses the Bulldogs suffered all season, a 3–2 defeat that came after Yale had already

clinched the conference title. Like this weekend’s match, last year’s loss took place at Dartmouth.

“They have a very interesting offensive and defensive system,” Bulldog head coach Erin Appleman said. “Last year we struggled at Dartmouth.”

After last weekend’s showing against Cornell and Columbia, setter Kendall Polan ’14 and middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 were the team’s only conference award winners for the second consecutive week. Last week, Polan won Ivy League Player of the Week and Ebner was named to the league’s Honor Roll, while this week both were placed on the Honor Roll.

Already this season, Ebner and Wessels have become a formidable tandem at the middle blocker position. The two have hit .328 and .335 on the season respectively, the two highest marks on the team. They also have identical marks of 2.28 kills per set and have combined for 46 total blocks.

Wessels said that their success is a result of strong play by the rest of the team.

“The setters have been doing a really good job,” she said. “Whenever our passing is on it’s a lot easer to run the middle and makes our job a lot easier as hitters.”

The action for the Elis tips off at 7 p.m. at Dartmouth tonight and continues Saturday evening at 5 p.m. at Harvard.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu

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“We just need to really be calm and confident in front of the goal. I think as soon as we get our first Ivy goal we’ll break through the ice.

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Big Green to visit Yale Bowl

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for this week’s matchup. “ [Co l ga te vs. is] similar in a sense to Dartmouth in that they Dartmouth have the same p r i n c i p l e s ,” Reno said. “They want to run the ball, they have got similar personnel groupings and they have got similar packages.”

Reno added that Dartmouth has a deep wide receiving corps

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After two disappointing losses, the Bulldogs look to right the ship with a victory versus Dartmouth tomorrow.

Yale (1–2, 0–1 Ivy) will host the Big Green (2–1, 0–1 Ivy) in the first Ivy League matchup at the Yale Bowl this season. The Elis are coming off a 47–24 trouncing

by Colgate at home last week, but head coach Tony Reno said that the Raiders were good practice

that combines height and speed.

So far this season eight different players have hauled down passes for the Big Green.

In order to reverse last Saturday’s result, the Blue and White defense will have to keep Dartmouth’s wide receivers and runners out of the end zone. That is something that the Elis have had difficulty doing in the first half this season — allowing 84 first-half points through three SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

Keys to the game

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

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The Bulldogs will take on the Dartmouth Big Green this Saturday at the Bowl.

Soccer seeks first Ivy win

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Looking to capture its first league win of the season, the men’s soccer team will travel to Hanover this Saturday to take on defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth.

Despite the strength of last year’s Dartmouth team, the Elis recorded one of their best performances of that season in a 2–0

win against the Big Green.

“Last year at against Dartmouth we played one of our most comDartmouth plete games,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. “They ended up winning the league, and we beat them pretty soundly.”

In the win, much of Yale’s

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COME OUT SWINGING In the past two weeks, Yale has been outscored in the first half by a combined scored of 70–17. Two weeks ago at Cornell, the Bulldogs turned the ball over three times to give the Big Red a short field. Cornell converted all three of those opportunities into touchdowns.

Then last week, Yale’s defense did little more than escort Colgate into the end zone, allowing the Raiders to score on all five of their first-half possessions. The Bulldogs cannot expect to win games if they do not come out ready to play from the opening kickoff. Although the Elis have responded well after halftime in both games, they have been unable to make up the ground ceded in the opening half. If the offense takes care of the ball

and the defense can make early stops, then the Blue and White can win its first Ivy League game of the Tony Reno era.

GET OFF THE FIELD ON THIRD DOWN Opposing offenses have converted on 50 percent of thirddown plays. Last Saturday, the Bulldogs allowed Colgate to convert seven of their 11 third downs. Yale’s biggest strength has been the ground game this season, but running backs Tyler Varga ’16 and Mordecai Cargill ’13 cannot get on the field if the Eli defense does not make stops. Last week, the Elis were rewarded with excellent field position when they were finally able to force a Colgate punt in the second half. Quarterback Eric Williams ’16 cashed in with a touchdown pass, but the offense could use more opportunities to work with a short

field to get into a rhythm.

KILL THE PENALTIES Twice last Saturday, Varga broke off big runs against Colgate, only to have them called back on penalties. Both of those penalties happened more than 10 yards away from the ball.

Rather than advancing deep into Raider territory, the Bulldogs ended up punting away the football as well as any chance to come back in the game. Head coach Reno attributed the penalties to players losing focus, so he will need to make sure his players are in the zone for a full 60 minutes against Dartmouth.

Being outplayed physically is understandable, but taking yourself out of a game because you are not focused is inexcusable.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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game plan revolved around limiting the touches of former Dartmouth forward Lucky Mkosana, who was drafted into the MLS in January. Alers helped anchor the Eli defense, playing a key role in last year’s match-up.

“He had an exceptional game,” forward Scott Armbrust ’14 said, noting that Alers’ play factored strongly in containing Mkosana.

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The Elis are looking for their fourth win in the Ivies after defeating Cornell and Columbia last week.

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER

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The men’s soccer team hopes to revive last season’s 2-0 shutout against the Big Green.

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The volleyball team will face its stiffest challenge of the Ivy season thus far when it travels to Dartmouth and Harvard for its final away matches until Nov. 2.

The Elis (7–5, 3–0 Ivy) are trying to build on a current four-match winning streak, which included 3–0 sweeps of Cornell and Columbia last weekend.

Captain and middle blocker Haley Wessels ’13 said that although the Bulldogs have played well of late, they are focusing on the future.

“We take it one week at a time,” Wessels said. “If we start thinking about how at we’ve done in past weeks, we might get a little shaky.”

While Cornell and Columbia failed to put up Dartmouth much of a struggle last weekend, Dartmouth and Harvard should prove to be tougher opponents.

The Cantabs (4–10, 1–2 Ivy) do not have the wins to show for it, but they have already

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THE RANKING OF YALE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM IN THE IVY LEAGUE. THE ELIS ACHIEVED THIS RANKING AFTER TAKING DOWN CORNELL AND COLUMBIA LAST WEEKEND.