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CROSS CAMPUS No rest for the weary. Though today is Columbus Day and the United States Postal Service will be taking a break, Yalies will still have to go to class.

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The acoustics of architecture HENDRIE HALL

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

But Columbus Day is not for everyone. The Association for

Native Americans at Yale will instead recognize “Indigenous Peoples Day” in protest of the federal holiday.

When Don Edwards ’64 moved into Silliman College as a freshman in the fall of 1960, a row of storefronts stood opposite Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Over the next two years, the space would be filled by two residential colleges, and Edwards, searching for “adventure,” decided to become one of the first students in the newly built Ezra Stiles College.

This weekend, Edwards returned to Stiles for the college’s 50th anniversary celebration, the first residential college reunion in Yale’s history.

We have a winner. One hungry

Yalie, Peter Kelly GRD ’15, completed the Caseus Cheese Truck Challenge on Friday, successfully demolishing 10 grilled cheese sandwiches in under an hour. After his conquest, Kelly promptly threw up all over JE’s wall. He named his cheese and tomato sandwich the “Barberis and Kelly (2012),” an homage to his advisor Nicholas Barberis, a finance professor in the School of Management.

Stiles alums reunite

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I was interested in something a little smaller in scale with the people I knew best here.

MARK ELLIOTT ’81 GRD ’84 Reunion attendee

R.I.P. Safety Dance.

Several students erected an impromptu cardboard tombstone on Cross Campus on Friday, memorializing the 1980s-themed dance that was canceled last week. An inscription on the tombstone read “Safety Dance, R.I.P., 1980s-2012: Never gonna give you up.” Neon-colored clothing and two grieving roses were also thrown around the base of the memorial.

Keegan’s ’12 words live on.

On Friday, the New Yorker published “Cold Pastoral,” a short story by Marina Keegan ’12 that describes a woman who struggles to deal with her emotions at the hands of an unexpected death. Keegan died in a car crash near Dennis, Mass. over the summer. She is the author of the highlyread column “The Opposite of Loneliness,” a piece that was published last May for a special issue of the News.

We’re number 11? Yale was ranked 11th in the world, according to the Times Higher Education world university rankings published last week. The rankings took into account teaching, research citation, industry income and international outlook.

Based on these standards, Yale was edged out by Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

Troubles on the horizon. In the face of rising costs, Wesleyan University announced that it will drop its blanket “needblind” financial aid policy during the college admissions process. As a result, some qualified applicants may be denied admission if they need scholarship money. Wesleyan estimates that the new policy will affect only about 15 to 20 out of 10,000 applicants.

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between buildings and their acoustic dimension. “[The symposium] was not only about what [the speakers] had to say, but also how they made us think about sound,” Burt said. “It’s

The event drew 250 attendees — ranging from the first Stilesians to recent graduates — who toured the newly renovated college, participated in panel discussions with current and former Stilesians, and reconnected with each other from Friday afternoon through Sunday morning. Though alumni were united by their Stiles affiliation, the events consisted mostly of discussions about Yale rather than about the college.

Jenny Chavira ’89, Yale Alumni Association deputy executive director, said other colleges will potentially host similar events, adding that Pierson College has tentatively scheduled a reunion for this February.

“One of the things that always bothered me as an undergraduate and right out of college was that at reunions I’d just see classmates,” Mark Santangelo ’91 said. “But [as an undergraduate] I didn’t just sit with my classmates in the dining hall.”

The most popular panel of the weekend was University President Richard Levin’s talk on the future of the Yale, which drew roughly 200 guests. At the event, Levin discussed the partnership between Yale and the University of Singapore in the creation of Yale-NUS College, the development of West Campus and the construction of two new residential colleges, as well as issues in American higher education more broadly.

Before he started, he asked attendees whether they had been to a Yale reunion in the past decade, and only about two-thirds of audience members raised their hands.

Mark Elliott ’81 GRD ’84, who said he had never been to a traditional class reunion,

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ast weekend, the Yale School of Architecture hosted “The Sound of Architecture” symposium, inciting a debate over how the study of sound can and should interact with the principles of design as Yale’s performance spaces suffer from acoustic problems.

YANAN WANG reports.

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Friday’s School of Architecture keynote address implored budding architects to consider acoustics in their designs.

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Before last weekend, David Burt ARC ’14 said he barely noticed the sounds that occur around him on a daily basis. But walking up the stairs in the School of Architecture’s Loria

Center on Friday, he said he was aware of every noise his footsteps made.

Burt had just finished listening to the keynote address of the school’s first symposium this year — “The Sound of Architecture” — which aimed to explore the relationship

In tight race, Senate Anti-Semitism program hosts talks candidates debate

BY LORYN HELFMANN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a recent poll found that Senate candidate Linda McMahon leads Democratic challenger Chris Murphy in the race for Connecticut’s Senate seat, Murphy threatened to turn the tables on the race with an aggressive debate performance Sunday morning — the first of four in the election season.

In one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races, the two candidates have been neck and neck since August’s primaries. On Friday, Quinnipiac University released a poll that placed McMahon slightly ahead of Murphy. McMahon boasted the support of 48 percent of polled voters compared to Murphy’s 47 percent.

The poll also showed a decline in enthusiasm among Murphy voters, with 27 per-

cent of Murphy supporters describing themselves as “very enthusiastic” and 55 percent calling themselves “somewhat enthusiastic.” For McMahon, the numbers are reversed, with 50 percent “very enthusiastic” and 39 percent “somewhat enthusiastic.”

For the first time, more Connecticut voters have a negative opinion of Murphy than a positive one, although opinions about McMahon remain favorable overall. McMahon has a 45–41 percent favorability spread with Connecticut voters, while Murphy suffered from a 36–40 negative approval rating.

“McMahon has done a good job defining Murphy, who was not well-known statewide, in a negative way,” said Douglas Schwartz, director of the QuinSEE SENATE PAGE 5

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The conference “Anti-Semitism in France” examines France’s large Jewish and Muslim populations.

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism hosted its first major conference on Friday, combining a historical approach to the French-Jewish community with contemporary

political analysis.

The conference, entitled “Antisemtism in France: Past, Present and Future,” featured 11 leading scholars of anti-Semitism from France, Israel and the United States and attracted an audience of roughly 70 academics, New Haven commu-

nity members, undergraduates and graduate students. Program director and French professor Maurice Samuels said the conference focused on France in particular because the country, which has the largest popuSEE ANTI-SEMITISM PAGE 5

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o everyone’s chagrin, the conversation around the Yale presidential search continues. Selfstyled student activists, small in number, demand unreasonable representation in the selection process. In dining halls and classrooms, students and faculty alike debate the method for picking President Levin’s replacement.

How did we get here? Why do so many — not just those few bent on activism — have little faith the Corporation’s presidential search process?

Allow me to postulate an answer: by remaining largely absent from campus in the past decade, the trustees have created a crisis of confidence.

When we don’t know them, when we don’t see them — we don’t trust them.

While we should not romanticize the past, the Yale Corporation circa 1970 contains some lessons for the present day. Then, the Corporation contained distinguished national figures, such as New York Mayor John Lindsay ’44 and civil rights activist Bishop Paul Moore ’41. These trustees were visible presences in New Haven. Students recognized them because of their prominence and frequent visits to campus.

THE CORPORATION NEEDS TO EARN OUR TRUST. That Corporation shepherded the University through tumultuous times ranging from coeducation to a financial crisis. Was there popular discontent with the Corporation’s decisions? Of course — it was the ’70s. Alumni rebelled against the inclusion of women in Yale College; student activism was in its heyday. But the visibility of the Corporation, including President Kingman Brewster ’43, lent the University’s trustees a legitimacy the current Corporation lacks. Most famously, in the midst of the May Day riots, Brewster spoke to a tense audience of students and faculty at the Whale — and they listened, because they knew him and respected him.

In contrast to Lindsay and his peers, Senior Fellow Edward Bass, Levin and their colleagues lack the community’s confidence. For the most part, the current trustees are businessmen and women — highly successful people to be sure, but not prominent public servants. What Yalie can name the CEO of Chanel, let alone know that she — Maureen Chiquet ’85— is a member of the

Corporation? When have she or her peers sat down with Yale students?

Indeed, this search NATHANIEL process ZELINSKY marks the first subOn Point stantial time the trustees have consulted with the Yale community. Other important matters, such as Yale-NUS, were approved without serious discussion between the Corporation and the rest of the Yale community. And so, it is understandable that many believe that the recent public forums on the presidential search are window dressing — a way to create a veneer of popular buy-in for the trustees’ eventual decision.

What is worse, realizing they lack our confidence, the trustees have tried to correct their failure by pleasing special constituencies at Yale.

The next president, Corporation members tell us, must expand the sciences, but without comprising our commitment to the humanities. Yale will move across the globe, but also maintain vibrancy in New Haven. Residential colleges will be strengthened and the labor unions satiated; online education embraced and faculty hired. The list goes on.

In labeling everything a priority, the Corporation fails to articulate a coherent vision for the university and its next president. We live in a time of limited means. In the next few years, we cannot accomplish all our desirable goals — we need to identify and support specific, achievable objectives for Yale. Some activities, while worthy, will not make the cut. My own conception of that vision is another column.

What is important is that the Corporation at least confronts these hard choices. Sadly, the trustees have decided to placate special interest groups.

This attempt at regaining popular support will prove to be too little, too late.

Where do we move from here? The Corporation needs to come to campus and regain the community’s confidence on the search and other issues through consistent visible engagement. Bass cannot be Yale’s lone ranger — here only for the presidential search, gone in a flash, identity masked. Instead, he and his peers should look to Lindsay, Moore and Brewster as models.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College.

Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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'LOGICALCOMMENTS' ON 'ON THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH'

Great man or good man?

“H

e’s not inspiring.”

This is the conventional wisdom surrounding Gov. Mitt Romney. Even after last Wednesday, this remains, by wide regard, Romney’s fatal flaw. He will never give that great, transformative speech. He will never be that generational candidate. Despite all efforts, he will just be Mitt — and that will be far from enough.

This is a reasonable intuition. In our first real presidential election — as we were either actual voters or at least of the age to reasonably think about these issues — we witnessed the immense power of inspiration. Moreover, it is at the heart of the American character — as a nation founded on an idea — to place the quality of hope as an integral facet of our national identity.

However, while necessarily bound by our optimistic spirit, we often overlook the types of inspiration that exist within the political realm.

When we treat inspiration solely as the product of oratory, we run the risk of overlooking the intimate qualities that America sometimes needs from a leader. Last Wednesday, Romney exemplified this — he was, without any glitz and glamour, presidential.

Many have attributed Romney’s success to that of a snake oil salesman, peddling an ultimately fictitious product to an unsuspecting audience. However, this is too shallow and too convenient a narrative. These debates, in actuality, are not really hinged on policy disputes.

For whatever merit, they are exercises in disposition, where two candidates seek to gain the trust and hope of the American people.

Governor Romney decisively defeated President Obama — not through lofty lines, zingers and grand promises — but through a calculated, calm competency.

His greatest victory was in demonstrating that a stark contrast exists between the two regarding what the character of a president must be the next four years.

Romney was HARRY strong, skillful and GRAVER moderate — more in temperament than Gravely anything else. He pivoted towards inspiMistaken ration in the conventional sense, appearing as someone who would not merely gather the aspirations of a nation on a stage, but be able to prompt action and commitment once actually taking on the unglamorous act of governing. He did not appear as a partisan; he was a man willing to lead, absent any cult of personality.

This is the sort of guidance America — both as a matter of morale and policy — desperately needs and the sort Obama does not appear to provide.

To most observers, the president was not inspiring in any sense of the word last week. He was dull, distant, largely unclear and seemingly much less prepared than his opponent. But this, in all honesty, is largely irrelevant.

Obama has branded himself, quite successfully and permanently, as a very special type of inspirational candidate.

In 2008 he became a persona over a person, rising to a higher plane as the personification of something larger than ourselves. He was not merely met with admiration, but also reverence.

This worked in 2008. However, one’s inspirational capacity cannot be continually treated as a political panacea. One cannot remain motivational over meritorious once becoming the incumbent.

Obama is still offering the nation a figure larger than life, but the American people don’t seem to be taking to it.

IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE WE ARE ASKING FOR THE WRONG BRAND OF INSPIRATION FOR OUR COUNTRY With the image of Obama already established and Romney finally having made his true introduction last week, Mitt set the foundation for a crucial contrast.

Romney broke from the president in that he demonstrated that a great president must not always be a great man.

Instead, in the right times, he should strive to be a good man — grounded, humble, thoughtful.

Granted, Romney is incapable of carrying any mantle of idealism, which will forever cap his oratorical ability.

But, Mitt just isn’t an idealist. He is a manager, aware of his own limitations, yet confident in his ability to effectively lead, delegate and compromise.

He introduced to the race a simpler, yet immensely powerful version of inspiration.

Mitt Romney will never be Pericles.

He is not a great man. But, on Wednesday, he made the case that this may make him an exceptional President.

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

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T S E B A S T I A N M E D I N A - T A YA C

Columbus’ legacy of categorization “I

n 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This rhyme pervades elementary schools across the United States on the second Monday of October. Teachers often briefly state that we celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate the friendly discovery of the American continents, then skip to the first Thanksgiving. What schools overlook are the effects of that voyage: Columbus devastated indigenous communities like the Awarak and Taíno with disease, extraction of natural resources, forced labor, rape and outright genocide.

This less-glamorous narrative has become familiar to most people in the Americas. For that reason, no other American nations celebrate Columbus Day. Day of the Americas, Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity and Day of the Latino Race are examples of holidays that acknowledge painful histories and celebrate the resilience of native cultures.

In the United States, Indigenous People’s Day serves as an alternative to Columbus Day and similarly celebrates the survival of American Indian people and cultures. The day also offers us an opportunity to reflect on and address the issues brought about and symbolized by Columbus’s arrival. Many Native peoples throughout the hemisphere are still hurt by disease, discrimination and extreme poverty.

But at Yale, my Native peers and I don’t face these specific challenges.

Rather, we are attacked by a more subtle part of Columbus’s legacy: the pressure to conform to a stereotypical image in order to be recognized as a “real Indian.”

When I identify myself as a Native American, the most common response

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is the loathed question, “How Native are you?” The question itself is problematic; never are white Americans asked how European they are.

A HISTORY OF RACIAL CATEGORIZATION REINFORCES STEREOTYPES FOR TODAY'S GENERATION Our obsession with racial measuring and categorization mostly stems from policies instated by Columbus and early Spanish colonial rulers. Society in New Spain was organized into a racial hierarchy based on whites’ supremacy over imported Africans and Native Indians.

But as most of the people in the colonies came from mixed racial backgrounds, an extremely meticulous hierarchy called casta (“caste”) emerged. The specificity was absurd. For example, there was a specific category for someone who was half-Indian, one-sixteenth white and seven-sixteenths black, called salta atrás (“jump back”).

This colonial practice developed into our modern obsession with racial categorization in the United States. It manifests itself in the shared experiences of many Native students, for whom questions like “How Indian are you?” or “What are you?” are not only unanswerable, but also reflective of a lack of knowledge that belies the diversity and unique identities present in Native

Safety's legacy "Thirteen-year tradition ends"? I don't know about "consecutive years," but my friends and I danced Safely, and rather more safely, as far back as 1995, my junior year at Yale. If recollection serves, the Safety Dance is even older; I think it was around my freshman year, 1992. It's hard to tell from your article if the Safety Dance has in recent years been an ’80s-music nostalgia dance, but that's what it was then (the name is, of course, an homage to a Men Without Hats song from 1983). We partied like it was 1999, under 99 luftballoons.

MARK OPPENHEIMER The writer is the director of the Yale Journalism Initiative.

Sounding off on American Night American Night puts our country and its history, flaws and all, on stage, including more than 80 characters and 15 distinct

America.

Many sovereign Indian nations only enroll members with a minimum blood quantum, a measure of so-called Indian blood created by the United States government. While the government initially created the measure to restrict rights on the basis of race — a manner of categorization reminiscent of the colonial casta — tribal authorities now use the quantum to define who is “Native enough” for membership. Restricting entitlement to tribal resources to those who can prove they have an arbitrary fraction of Indian ancestry seems no less ridiculous than assigning someone social privileges based on, say, 1/16 of his or her ancestry. Not only does this process deny many culturally involved people membership to their tribe, it also reinforces the false idea that to be Indian is to be part of a rapidly shrinking ethnic group, and by extension a decreasing cultural presence.

As we reject the colonial past of Columbus, it is also important to reject the legacy of racial hierarchy of Spanish colonial rule that remains prevalent in our society. At Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations today, you will see Native students from diverse regions and heritage expressing their unique identities.

This in itself accomplishes the goal of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: to remind the 97.2% non-Native Yale student body that we are a presence that defies categorization.

locations, historical and contemporary. What the play says about race, class, and more in America is open to interpretation. That’s its point — which last Tuesday’s reviewer missed when he chose to focus on one (intentionally) provocative character, and, ironically, employed racially charged language to do so ("No way 'Juan Jose!' Oct. 3).

This play is about and intended for all, not any one group of, Americans. (It was also written by Richard Montoya, and Shana Cooper directed our production. The review should have mentioned them.) At every performance I’ve attended, I’ve seen people of a wide range of ages, races and experiences rise to enthusiastically applaud Juan José, a Mexican immigrant — one of

SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC is a freshman in Davenport College and a member of the Association of Native Americans at Yale. Contact him at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

the most vilified figures in our culture today, now humanized.

American Night pulls its audience into a huge, hilarious grizzly-bear hug in order to to hold us accountable for our American past, present and future. It hopes to encourage our active citizenship and ultimately, the nation’s progress. In our divided political age, this play brings real, honest and unafraid civic dialogue back into the theater, where it belongs. American Night is radical, not racist.

LAUREN DUBOWSKI The writer is a student at the Yale School of Drama and the production dramaturg for American Night at the Yale Rep.

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NEWS

“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.”

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR RETIRED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

CORRECTIONS

COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATIONS

FRIDAY, OCT. 5

Due to an editing error, the article “Conn. receives rail grant” mistakenly referred to a rail line connecting New Haven to Springfield, Conn. In fact, the rail line connects New Haven to Springfield, Mass.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5

The article “Open studios give local artists visibility” misspelled the name of Shannon Connors ’12.

Republicans seek to expand

BY DIANA LI AND ANDRE MANUEL STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In preparation for the upcoming presidential and congressional elections, Republicans at Yale are looking to increase their presence and visibility on campus.

Support for Republican candidates at Yale has for years been marginalized by liberal attitudes on campus — while the Yale College Democrats, the official representative of the Democratic Party at Yale, has over 150 active members, the Yale College Republicans, the campus’s equivalent Repulican-supporting organization, has 30 to 40, said Alexander Crutchfield ’15, the latter group’s political director. Heather May ’13, a member of the Yale College Republicans, said the group has been strategizing ways it can most effectively leverage its smaller membership to support Republican political candidates and grow the organization this fall.

“If you come to Yale and you’re a Democrat, you can very easily plug into the Dems: They have all the connections, but there’s no such facilitating organization for Republicans wishing to do the same thing,” said Elizabeth Gray Henry ’14, current chairwoman for the Yale College Republicans.

“Hopefully in the future, the Yale College Republicans will serve as that facilitating organization in the same way that the Yale Dems do.”

While Yale College Republicans have struggled in the past to establish themselves on campus, Crutchfield said the group wants to use enthusiasm for the election as a tool to build its presence on campus. In the weeks leading up to November, Crutchfield said members will volunteer for Conn. Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s campaign, travel to Massachusetts to canvass for Senate candidate Scott Brown and hold a phone bank for presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

He added that the tight-knit conservative community is an advantage for Republican activism.

“Being conservative more so than being liberal or a Democrat is much more a part of your identity,” Crutchfield said. “Therefore, when we get involved in these organizations, it’s not on a project-by-project basis, like the Yale Dems … it’s much more on a personal level. It’s about getting to know people who share similar identities as conservatives, and this identity-based way of doing

politics intrinsically makes us a very close community.”

Ben Mallet ’16, who is a member of the Yale College Republicans and a volunteer for McMahon’s campaign, said his involvement in her campaign was a good way for him to get involved in the community and meet politically active volunteers who attend nearby universities, such as Quinnipiac University and the University of New Haven, early on in his freshman year.

“I often feel that the Democrats also have the loudest voice on campus. There are students out there who are conservatives that really think that they’re in the one percent,” Mallet said.

“Obviously campus is pretty dominated by Democrats, but I think that’s going to change.”

Henry said that while the Yale Democrats are more visible on campus than their Republican counterparts, she believes there is untapped potential among conservatives on campus, noting that there are over 175 students on the email list of the Yale College Republicans.

Enlisting this unengaged population is a key challenge the Yale College Republicans face in their efforts to grow the organization, Henry said. Events like voter registration drives are sensible recruiting options for the Democrats but not for the Republicans: If a Republican group were to hold a voter registration drive on campus, the voters registered would be Democrats “nineand-a-half times out of 10,” she added.

As Republicans on campus seek to expand their membership and political presence, their Democratic counterparts have been supporting the campaigns of key candidates running for federal office. Those candidates include Conn. Senate candidate Chris Murphy, House of Rep. candidates Elizabeth Esty and Rosa DeLauro and Mass.

Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, according to Becca Ellison ’15, the events coordinator of the Yale College Democrats. Ellison added that the group will spend fall break canvassing for President Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, in addition to holding regular phone banks and voter registration drives.

The Yale College Republicans are holding elections for officers today, Henry said.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu and ANDRE MANUEL at andre.manuel@yale.edu .

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THE NEW HAVEN COLUMBUS DAY PARADE The city’s annual Columbus Day parade began on Sunday in front of City Hall. Local organizations like the Yalesville Fife and Drum Corps (pictured) dressed in colonial costumes and marched to Wooster Square. The parade, which prompted the police to block off Temple and Church Streets, continued despite light rain.

Yale joins global film festival

BY JESSICA HALLAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Ten films, 10 countries, in two hours. A recipe for teleportation? Maybe. The essence of the Manhattan Short Film Festival?

Definitely.

Manhattan Short made its way to Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center for the second time in its 14-year history Friday night.

Organized at Yale this year by film studies major Jason Douglass ’13, Manhattan Short has been taking place for the past week in 192 venues in 20 different countries — reaching its largest audience since its founding. Originally conceived in 1998 as a celebrity-judged New York event, the festival’s founder and director Nicholas Mason said he wanted to expand the festival’s presence globally after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

“If the whole world can’t come together and just judge 10 short films for one week in the year, then we sure as hell should be asking, ‘Why not?’” Mason said.

The world’s first global film festival, Manhattan Short received 520 film entries this year from 49 countries, out of which the 10 finalists screened at the Whitney were chosen.

Mason, who travelled to New Haven to introduce the festival at the Whitney, said he has received fan letters praising the event for providing a worldwide cultural connection. One fan, for instance, expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to watch a movie in Maine that was being screened in Russia at the same time.

In 2004, the event spanned only seven cities in seven states, with one show per state — this

year, the festival took place on all six habitable continents.

Douglass said in an email that Yale had to pay Manhattan Short for the film and rights to public screening. Since Whitney events are free to the public, funding must come from Yale, he said. Wanting to share with fellow Yalies the experience he had when he viewed the films during the 2011 screening in Prague, Douglass said he was not deterred by the challenge of paying for the event.

“I’ve organized screenings and festivals where I have needed to find sources of funding from all over Yale, but it can certainly be done with enough effort,” Douglass said.

The Whitney auditiorium saw a full house for the screening. In addition to saying they enjoyed the individual films, six students who attended the festival

said they were grateful for the opportunity to be part of something global.

“The fact that it’s an international film festival is very important,” Andrew Sotiriou ’13 said. “I think this is maybe an example of us being involved in the history of filming.”

Renita Heng ’16 said that without Yale’s support for Manhattan Short, she would never have had the opportunity to view international short films.

In Mason’s eyes, Manhattan Short has “a permanent home” at Yale, and he hopes that the festival will return to campus next year.

The worldwide audience will decide the winner of the 2012 Manhattan Short Film Festival via ballot vote at each venue.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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Started in 1998 but expanded after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Manhattan Short is the world’s first global film festival.

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“Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music.” JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE GERMAN WRITER, ARTIST AND POLITICIAN

Stiles sees first residential college reunion REUNION FROM PAGE 1 noted that the Stiles reunion provided a new opportunity to interact with other alumni in a smaller, more intimate setting.

“I was interested in something a little smaller in scale with the people I knew best here,” Elliott said.

Many of the weekend’s formal events focused on Yale rather than on Stiles, but alumni who came to New Haven still reminisced about their time as Stilesians and Yalies and about national events that defined their college years.

Edwards and Kai Lassen ’64, who lived across the hall from each other, remember coming to the Stiles dining hall one morning in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and noting an uncharacteristic silence as undergraduates pored over the New York Times for information on the possibility of a draft.

“We were all 19 years old, or 20, and we knew what going to war with Russia would mean,” Edwards said.

Stiles alumni interviewed over the course of the weekend said their fondness for Stiles and its students brought them back to Yale for the weekend.

Sarah Hsieh ’81 said that while Stilesians might initially feel unhappy with their residential college assignment, they often come to love Stiles’ tight-knit community.

“We were all initially maybe a little disappointed,” Hsieh said. “But from the beginning, all the freshmen that were here were very connected.”

Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti ’91 said the weekend was an opportunity for current students to interact with alumni, adding that he has received several emails from students describing their conversations with alumni at the reunion.

Andrew Goble ’15 said he enjoyed meeting alumni, especially from the first Stiles classes — an opportunity he said students in older colleges will likely never have.

Stiles and Morse College opened in 1962 and are the youngest residential colleges.

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

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This weekend, 250 Stilesians returned to Yale for their college’s 50th anniversary celebration. Other residential colleges have considered doing the same in the future.

Symposium spawns discussion of sound and structure ARCHITECTURE FROM PAGE 1 the question of how an architect makes people listen.”

Based on the premise that “architecture is not tone-deaf,” the symposium brought together a comprehensive group of professionals from a wide range of disciplines — from art historians to composers, acousticians to architects. Joseph Clarke GRD ’15, who organized the symposium along with the school’s Director of Graduate Studies Kurt Forster, said he hoped to initiate discourse and critical thinking about the sonic dimension of buildings, which is too often dismissed as an afterthought.

Symposia are typically held in the school’s Hastings Hall lecture facility, but Architecture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern said the event’s organizers moved it elsewhere since Hastings has poor acoustics. School of Music professor and composer Ingram Mar-

shall said that though Yale has several good performance venues, it lacks “one terrific, first-class place.”

And although performance spaces both at Yale and elsewhere face a myriad of sound-related problems — the Alice Tully Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center has been renovated multiple times due to acoustic problems — the intersection of musical science and architecture is not often discussed in the educational context, Stern said.

“I don’t think there has been such an event anywhere for a long time,” he said.

ARCHITECTS SOUND OFF

Clarke, who is writing his Ph.D. dissertation on the history of architectural acoustics, began planning the symposium one and a half years ago because he believed architects do not pay enough attention to the intersection of sound and design, Stern

ARCHITECTURE: NEED TO KNOW ELIZABETH DILLER

Keynote Speaker, one third of the “maverick” architect firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. In 1999, Diller and her husband Ric Scofidio became the first architects to receive a MacArthur “genius” grant. Their firm is a design studio that incorporates visual and performance art into architecture. Diller worked on the design of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall, a venue that has been lauded as an innovative and refreshing addition the New York’s Lincoln Center. Her keynote address, entitled “B+/A-” in reference to the original acoustic quality of the space, addressed the trials of creating a concert hall that is both grand and intimate.

SOUNDLAB

Virtual listening environment designed by interdisciplinary consulting firm Arup. SoundLab helps architects plan out the sonic dimension of their designs by simulating what a conceived room would sound like. It is among an emerging group of architectural softwares aimed at allowing architects to manipulate sound in the same way that they can currently alter the effects of light on a space.

GESTALT

A set of architectural design principles concerning illusions in visual perception. Savvy architects may use Gestalt principles to their advantage, but on the other hand, inadvertent optical illusions may cause people to view buildings differently than the designer intended.

said. An architect by training, Clarke said there is a tendency to view architecture as an entirely visual discipline, though emerging technologies in sound simulation have made it possible to imagine a space’s capacity for sound during the design process.

“Thanks to new digital simulators, architects can be much more deliberate in creating particular acoustic environments,” Clarke said.

Raj Patel, an acoustic consultant who designed a 3-D studio modeling system called SoundLab, said during a panel discussion that the software allows architects to create a virtual listening room in which they can simulate the sound of their designs.

But SoundLab has few equals, whereas there is an abundance of software available to help architects manipulate the movement of light within structure, Carl Hodgetts of the LA-based firm Hodgetts+Fung said, explaining that in comparison to how developed light analysis is, sound is still a rudimentary science. Architect and University of Toronto professor Brigitte Shim agreed, saying that most people are prone to “privileging the visual.” Architects consider light in every project they undertake, yet they seldom evaluate sound when they are not designing a performance venue, she added.

Patel attributed this discrepancy to biology, explaining that a simple Google search for “optical illusions” yields far more results than one for “auditory illusions.”

“It’s very easy to trick the eye, but it is much harder to trick the ear,” Patel said.

Most architects, faced with the inherent difficulty in understanding sound, are afraid to manipulate it to their advantage when designing buildings, said Caroline VanAcker ARC ’14, who attended the symposium. And while the challenge of incorporating sound into design is mandatory when confronted with a performance hall or musical practice space,

School of Architecture professor Joel Sanders said that architects should be paying attention to the sonic atmosphere of everyday spaces such as cars, telephone booths and restaurants as well.

But two of the three audience members who spoke at “Designing Architectural Soundscapes,” where Patel spoke about his software, expressed skepticism about the extent of sound’s relevance to architectural design.

It’s good to remember that architecture includes an aural component.

COLIN SUTHERLAND ’13 Undergraduate Architecture Major “Acoustic scientists b---- and moan about why no one is taking them seriously,” said Barry Blesser, a leading audio engineer.

“They want [architects] to learn their language, but the architects are the clients. [They] don’t need rules or equations.”

“People jokingly call it ‘the bathtub’ because there is so much echo,” Marshall expalined.

Clarke acknowledged in his closing address that the symposium left them with as many questions as answers. But two undergraduate architecture majors said that they might be able to incorporate a heightened awareness of sound’s influence on design into their work. Melissa Weigel ’13 and Colin Sutherland ’13 said the issues tackled by the symposium are relevant to their current studio work, for which they are collaborating with Music Haven, a School of Music nonprofit organization that brings string quartet performances to the city’s poorer neighborhoods. As part of a senior assignment, they will be designing hypothetical performance and rehearsal spaces for Music Haven’s new central facility, to be located on Dixwell Avenue.

“There’s a real scientific component to it that is not studied much in the [Yale undergraduate architecture] program,” Sutherland said. “It’s good to remember

that architecture includes an aural component.”

And while some professional architects do consider sound in their practice, the incorporation of aural technique into design is hard to teach, Cristian Oncescu ARC ’14 said. VanAcker echoed these sentiments, noting that the school has offered few classes on sound in the past.

Stern said that Yale students are too media-saturated, making a connection between the current lack of awareness of sound and the listening habits of the emerging generation of architects. He hopes the symposium drew attention to the nuances of the sound environments all around campus, from the bells of Harkness Tower to the unique sounds of each residential college courtyard.

“We need to get your generation to take its earphones off and rediscover the real world,” Stern mused.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

THE SOUND OF YALE

The Yale administration told the News in September that it has prioritized renovating Hendrie Hall, the practice space for Yale’s bands, orchestra and Glee Club.

There are a number of acoustic limitations to the rehearsal space, which Music School public relations and media manager Dana Astmann said she hopes will be addressed in the renovation process.

“Acoustically, it will be expected to represent the needs of having a lot of things going on in the same building,” Astmann said.

Marshall said that the Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, while currently the acoustically best performance space at Yale, needs to be a third larger to accommodate a full orchestra. Woolsey Hall, while larger, is “sketchy,” he added.

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The purpose of the symposium was to interrogate and encourage critical thinking about the sonic dimension of architecture.

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“POLITICS, n. — A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” AMBROSE BIERCE “THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY”

Murphy attacks McMahon on economics SENATE FROM PAGE 1 nipiac University poll.

McMahon has captured the majority of male voters, the wealthy and those without college degrees, while Murphy is in the lead among females, those with incomes of $100,000 or less and voters that have received a college degree.

McMahon has also retained her lead among Connecticut voters unaffiliated with a major political party.

It’s a myth to think I would be against women’s health issues.

LINDA MCMAHON Republican Senate candidate for Connecticut The two candidates faced off Sunday morning in their first televised debate on issues ranging from their economic plans to their support for women’s healthcare. In her opening remarks, McMahon warned that, if elected, Murphy would

push the Connecticut economy “off a fiscal cliff” and that she “has no plan” for fixing the state economy.

Murphy responded to McMahon’s attack with allegations that the economic plan she does have is plagiarized.

“Linda does have a plan on her website, but as we’ve recently learned, a good part of that is just lifted word for word, paragraph by paragraph from rightwing Republican sites in Washington,” Murphy said. “It’s not a plan for Connecticut — it’s a plan that essentially parrots a bunch of talking points that haven’t worked for this country.”

In a press release Sunday afternoon, McMahon’s campaign fought back against Murphy’s allegations, citing an article written by Kevin Rennie of Daily Ructions that said “the footnotes were there all along” under the plan published on her website. They blasted Murphy for his accusations, writing in the press release that “a fellow from a privileged background … could not have contrived to miss every class that touched on what a footnote is and where you find them.” But Rennie never claimed the economic plan was actually

written by McMahon.

The candidates also clashed on air over their views on women’s healthcare. Murphy voiced his disagreement with McMahon over her support of the Blunt Amendment, which if passed would allow Connecticut employers to refuse to cover contraception for their female employees. Murphy pointed out that this amendment would not just apply to employers with a specific religious affiliation, but to secular employers as well.

But McMahon disputed Murphy’s claim.

“It’s a myth to think I would be against women’s health issues,” McMahon said during the debate, reminding viewers that she is “a woman.”

She said she only supported the Blunt Amendment because she is not in favor of “government overreach” because “part of what’s wrong in Washington today is that our government is too big.”

The candidates are fighting for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67.

Contact LORYNN HELFMANN at lorynn.helfmann@yale.edu .

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On Sunday, Murphy attacked McMahon for her support of the Blunt Amendment, which would allow Conn. employers to refuse to cover contraception.

In first conference, program focuses on academics ANTI-SEMITISM FROM PAGE 1

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The conference included panels on the intersection of Jewish and national identities and case studies of anti-Semitism in French society.

lations of Jews and Muslims in Europe, is on the “front lines” of a new strain of anti-Semitism. Samuels said Friday’s conference demonstrates that YPSA, which replaced an earlier program on anti-Semitism that came under fire in 2011 after holding an allegedly Islamophobic conference, does not shy away from political or controversial subjects.

“I think the conference showed that YPSA is not afraid to confront current events or to touch the issue of Muslim antiSemitism,” Samuels said. “Over three-quarters of the papers at the conference dealt directly with these issues and all of them touched on them in some way… The important thing for me is to confront these issues in a serious and responsible way, and I think the conference did just that.”

In four different panels, speakers debated the intersection of Jewish identity and national identity, approaches to discussing the Holocaust, case studies of anti-Semitism in the French academic setting and the relationship between Jews and Muslims in modern France, among other issues.

Samuels said the new anti-Semitism in France is both “mainly ideological and anti-Zionist” and reached a fever pitch with the shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse by a Muslim extremist last March, in which four people were killed.

“France has also had a long history of anti-Semitism stretching back to Vichy, the Dreyfus Affair and beyond,

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as well as a long history of positive treatment of its Jewish minority — it was the first European country to grant Jews full civil rights and Jews reached a high level of social integration there much earlier than in other countries,” Samuels said in a Saturday email to the News. “I thought it would be useful to try to place the current crisis in the context of this complex history.”

The conference showed that YPSA is not afraid to confront current events or to touch the issue of Muslim antiSemitism.

MAURICE SAMUELS Director, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism When YPSA was introduced in June 2011, Provost Peter Salovey said the new program would emphasize a scholarly approach to anti-Semitism studies. University administrators said earlier that month that they had canceled the program’s predecessor — the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism — because it was not supporting enough student courses or faculty research. But some Jewish groups accused the University of yielding to political pressure by closing YIISA after it was widely

criticized for holding a conference in August 2010 — with a focus on modern global anti-Semitism — that some called Islamophobic.

Samuels added that Friday’s conference “became quite heated at certain points.” One such moment occurred when panelist Nicholas Weil, a researcher from Université de Paris I, criticized members of a different panel for ignoring the previous murders of black and Muslim soldiers committed

by Mohammed Merah, the shooter at the Toulouse school.

Stephanie Hertz, who works at the Anti-Defamation League offices in Hamden, attended the conference and praised its “interdisciplinary nature,” but said she was disappointed by its largely “theoretical” discussion.

“I would have liked them to answer the question a little bit more: ‘OK, what can we do?’” she said. “But that might not have been as much the focus of the conference.”

But Zola Chihombori Quao ’13, a French major in Samuels’ seminar on French-Jewish identity, said she was “astounded by the breadth and depth of analysis” at the conference, adding that it gave her “a much better grasp of anti-Semitism and how it’s changed over the years.”

The next YPSA event will be an Oct. 18 lecture by Jeffrey Herf of the University of Maryland, titled “At War with Israel: East Germany and the West German Radical Left, 1967–1989.”

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

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NATION

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Obama raises CA cash

Union: Border agents opened fire

BY BOB CHRISTIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One as he arrives to Los Angeles on Sunday for a series of campaign fundraisers.

BY JOSH LEDERMAN AND STEVE PEOPLES ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Fresh off his strongest fundraising month this year, President Barack Obama is looking to raise millions of dollars from celebrities and wealthy donors in California with just one month left in a tightening race.

The two-day swing through the solidly Democratic state highlights the critical role that fundraising will play in the campaign’s final weeks as Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, escalate their barrage of television ads in competitive states like Ohio. The president is to return there Tuesday.

Romney, campaigning in up-forgrabs Florida, sought to build on the momentum from a debate performance

last week that even Democrats conceded was “masterful.” The Republican told a crowd of about 12,000 in Port St. Lucie that he had enjoyed himself, ticking off a list of Obama shortcomings he said he had exposed during the first debate.

“Now of course, days later, we’re hearing his excuses,” Romney said. “And next January we’ll be watching him leave the White House for the last time.”

As Romney finished speaking spoke, someone in the crowd of supporters behind him held up a giant Israeli flag alongside smaller American flags, underscoring the amplified role that foreign affairs and the Middle East is playing as the presidential race draws to a close. Romney on Monday plans a major foreign policy address at the Virginia Military Institute, intended to throw

Obama back on his heels over his handling of unrest in Libya and elsewhere.

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, dismissing what she called Romney’s fourth or fifth attempt to explain his global intentions, said the bar is high for Romney to convince voters he’s prepared to be commander in chief.

“We are not going to be lectured by someone who’s been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy every time he sticks his toe in the foreign policy waters,” Psaki said aboard Air Force One as Obama made his way to California.

Even as Romney sought to reap further rewards from his debate performance, a string of good news for the president threatened to steal the former Massachusetts governor’s spotlight.

Pharmacy linked to outbreak

PHOENIX — The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire, the head of the Border Patrol agents’ union said Sunday.

The two sets of agents approached an area where a sensor had been activated early Tuesday from different directions early Tuesday and encountered each other in an area of heavy brush, National Border Patrol Council president George McCubbin said.

Agent Nicholas Ivie apparently opened fire first and wounded one of the other agents but was killed in the return fire.

“I don’t know what it was he saw or heard that triggered this whole event,” McCubbin said. “Unfortunately it resulted in his death and another agent injured.”

Acting Cochise County Sheriff Rod Rothrock confirmed the scenario but would not say if Ivie was the first to shoot, saying that was up to the federal agencies involved.

The new details add to a FBI statement Friday that the shooting appeared to be a friendly fire incident that involved no one but the agents.

Sensors are set up in different areas along the U.S.-Mexico border to detect smugglers or illegal immigrants, with Border Patrol agents responding when they’re set off. The shooting occurred in a rugged hilly area about five miles north of the border near Bisbee, Ariz., an area known for illegal trafficking.

McCubbin and Rothrock both said the two sets of agents knew the others were heading to the area on foot but apparently didn’t know they were so close.

McCubbin said he’d been briefed by the agency, while Rothrock’s

agency has been involved with the investigation.

“It was dark, very, very rugged terrain, and what they could see of each other was further obscured by the fact that there was brush and cacti and stuff like that between them,” Rothrock said. “I have no doubt that these agents were in as heightened a state of alert as you can get due to the proximity to the border and the history of trafficking in that area.”

These agents were in as heightened a state of alert as you can get due to … the history of trafficking in that area.

ROD ROTHROCK Acting Sheriff, Cochise County Rothrock said that when the agents spotted each other in the dark, “they apparently took defensive postures, which was probably interpreted as aggressive postures. Like readying your weapons, for example.”

Ivie, 30, died at the scene, and one of the other agents was wounded but has since been released from the hospital.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the Border Patrol and other federal and local agencies flooded the area with personnel looking for who they believed were assailants who had attacked the agents.

“That was the initial reports from the beginning,” McCubbin said. “That was the reason for the saturation manhunt there.

They even had permission to fly into Mexico. They were seeking people out. What this was based on, we’d have to assume it was based on the initial statements given by the agents on the scene.”

BY GREG SCHREIER ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products, calling the move a precautionary measure.

The New England Compounding Center announced the recall Saturday. The company said in a news release that the move was taken out of an abundance of caution because of the risk of contamination. It says there is no indication that any other products have been contaminated.

The Food and Drug Administration had previously told health professionals not to use any products distributed by the center.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted updated figures to its website Sunday showing there are 91 confirmed cases of the rare form of fungal meningitis. The outbreak spans nine states and has killed at least seven people.

The states with reported cases are: Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.

The steroid linked to the outbreak had already been recalled, and health officials

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Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Mass. Bureau of Healthcare Safety, answers a reporter’s question regarding a meningitis outbreak during a news conference in Boston. have been scrambling to notify anyone who may have received an injection of it. The Massachusetts pharmacy that made it has said it is cooperating with investigators.

It is not yet known exactly how many

people may have been affected, though it could affect hundreds or even thousands of people who received the steroid injections for back pain from July to September.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers drive the roads near where U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie was shot and killed in Bisbee, Ariz.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 5:00 PM “Topographies of Value in Natsume Soseki” A lecture by Timothy Van Compernolle, an Associate Professor of Japanese at Amherst College. Natsume Soseki, Japan’s most canonical modern novelist, wrote a loose trilogy of works between 1908 and 1910: Sanshir, And Then and The Gate. The lecture analyzes the motifs of reciprocity and circulation in Soseki’s works by extending anthropological theories of the gift into the literarycritical domain of narratology. Part of the Japan Colloquium Series. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 202.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 6:30 PM “A Separation” A 2011 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi. Part of the Law and Religion Film Series. 123 min. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorium.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

8:00 PM “Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality in the 2012 Elections” You’ve heard politicians, journalists, pundits and super PACs give their views of the upcoming elections. But scholars in the fields of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ethnicity, Race and Migration and labor history have insights to share based on their research and their fields. Join us for an hour of fast-paced conversation and questions on topics that matter to us. American Studies and WGSS professor Laura Wexler, African American Studies professor Crystal Feimster, ER&M and American Studies professor Albert Sergio Laguna, history professor Jennifer Klein and Trinity College WGSS professor Robert J. Corber will speak.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 8:00 PM Horowitz Piano Series @ Yale Presents: Wei-Yi Yang.

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“Remember, little girl, I’m like the thorn tree that flowers on the plain. I waft my scent to passers-by and prick he who shakes me. Don’t mess with me, Condoleezza.” HUGO CHAVEZ PRESIDENT

Israeli jets fly over Lebanon

Iran rulers avoid currency collapse backlash

BY BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS

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An Israeli army helicopter lands as soldiers search for the remains of the drone in the Negev in southern Israel.

BY ZEINA KARAM AND JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages Sunday in a menacing show of force apparently aimed at the Hezbollah guerrilla group after a mysterious raid by an unmanned aircraft that was shot out of Israeli skies over the weekend.

Israel was still investigating Saturday’s incident, but Hezbollah quickly emerged as the leading suspect because it has an arsenal of sophisticated Iranian weapons and a history of trying to deploy similar aircraft.

The Israeli military said the drone approached Israel’s southern Mediterranean coast and flew deep into Israeli airspace before warplanes shot it down about 20 minutes later. Israeli news reports said the drone was not carrying explosives and appeared to be on a reconnaissance mission.

Military officials would not say where the drone originated or who produced it, but they ruled out the Gaza Strip, which is ruled

by Hamas, a group not known to possess drones. That left Hezbollah as the most likely culprit and suggested the drone may have flown with the blessing of Iran.

Tensions are high between Israel and Iran over Tehran’s suspect nuclear program.

“It is an Iranian drone that was launched by Hezbollah,” Israeli lawmaker Miri Regev, a former chief spokeswoman for the Israeli military, wrote on her Twitter feed. “Hezbollah and Iran continue to try to collect information in every possible way in order to harm Israel.”

She did not offer any further evidence and was not immediately available for comment.

Hezbollah officials would not comment on speculation that the group had launched the drone.

The Israeli dailies Yediot Ahronot and Maariv published maps based on military “estimates” that claimed to show the route taken by the drone.

The maps said the aircraft took off south of the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, headed south and then turned east over the Gaza Strip and into Israel. Yediot also claimed the drone was made in Iran.

The Israeli military said it began tracking the aircraft over the Mediterranean but waited until it was over an empty, desert area to bring it down in order to avoid casualties on the ground.

Sunday’s Israeli air raids, buzzing over pro-Hezbollah villages in southern Lebanon, appeared to be aimed at reminding the guerrilla group of Israel’s air superiority.

The war between Hezbollah and Israel was not extinguished at any moment, be it in the media or at the intelligence level.

IBRAHIM BAYRAM Expert on Shiite affairs At times of heightened tensions, the Israeli air force often carries out mock raids over Lebanese territory. Israel has U.S.made F-15 and F-16 warplanes, but it was not clear exactly what type of planes were flown Sunday.

Lebanon’s national news agency said the planes flew low over the market town of Nabatiyeh and nearby villages.

With a formidable arsenal that rivals that of the Lebanese army, Hezbollah is already under pressure in Lebanon from rivals who accuse it of putting Lebanon at risk of getting sucked into regional turmoil. Confirmation that Hezbollah was behind the drone would put the group under further strain internally.

Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite group committed to Israel’s

destruction, has long served as an Iranian proxy along Israel’s northern border. The two sides fought a brutal, monthlong war in mid-2006. Hundreds of people were killed, and Hezbollah fired several thousand rockets and missiles into Israel before the conflict ended in a stalemate.

Hezbollah has attempted to send unmanned aerial vehicles into Israel on several occasions dating back to 2004. Its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has claimed that the group’s pilotless aircraft were capable of carrying explosives and striking deep into Israel. The last known attempt

by Hezbollah to use a drone took place during the 2006 war, when Israel shot down an Iranian-made pilotless aircraft that entered Israeli airspace.

Since the fighting ended, the sides have been locked in a covert battle against one another.

“The war between Hezbollah and Israel was not extinguished at any moment, be it in the media or at the intelligence level,” said Ibrahim Bayram, an expert on Shiite affairs who often writes about Hezbollah for Lebanon’s An-Nahar newspaper.

“Israel is always trying to breach Hezbollah’s security and in return Hezbollah is also working day and night to breach Israel’s security,” he added.

Hezbollah has accused Israel of assassinating a top Hezbollah operative in 2008 in Syria.

The group and Lebanese officials say they have broken up several Israeli spy rings inside Lebanon over the past few years.

Israel, meanwhile, believes Hezbollah, with Iranian backing, is behind a string of attempted attacks on Israeli diplomatic targets in India, Thailand and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, plus a deadly bombing earlier this year that killed five Israeli tourists in a Bulgarian resort. Last week, Israel announced the arrest of an Arab citizen it accused of spying for Hezbollah, the latest in a string of such cases.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Just as Iran’s currency was rattling near bottom after a stunning free fall, officials in Tehran opened a trade exhibition that included advanced engineering tools, heavy machinery and robotics. Nearly every Iranian booth had some connection to the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and the ruling system it safeguards.

This display of the regime’s industrial muscle showcases why the collapse of Iran’s rial is unlikely to pose any immediate threats to the country’s real centers of power, despite protests last week that brought quick speculation in the West about the stirrings of a popular revolt.

The top end of Iran’s economy remains fully in the hands of the Revolutionary Guard and its networks, which span from oil to aerospace. And the lifeblood for the ruling clerics and the Guard still comes from Iran’s oil exports that — on paper at least — bring in tens of millions of dollars a day to buffer against the blows hitting the rest of the country: a tanking currency, skyrocketing prices for imported goods and double-digit inflation.

“There is a lot of breathless talk about the regime collapsing,” said Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. “It is no doubt under severe pressures and cannot ignore the currency situation, but the fundamentals of the economy, from the standpoint of the ruling system, are still OK.” The sanctions target oil exports, banking, and other sectors. They are imposed over Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. and allies fear that the country’s uranium enrichment labs could eventually produce warhead-grade material. Iran insists its nuclear efforts are only for energy and medical uses.

But some in Washington and European capitals openly say that, the nuclear issue aside, they would be delighted if sanctions brought the downfall of Iran’s clerical leadership.

To be sure, it would take far more than the small-scale demonstrations in Tehran last

week to pose any immediate threat to Iran’s ruling establishment, which has the huge strength of the Revolutionary Guard behind it.

But neither can Iranian leaders afford to ignore the latest upheavals. The battle for perceptions and longer term stability goes by different rules.

They must now explain to a reeling public how they intend to stabilize an economy slammed by Western sanctions that have cut into oil exports and a deflated currency that lost nearly 40 percent of its value in a weeklong plummet — and why taking to the streets in protests is not the answer.

Iran’s leaders are desperate to quell any sense of uncertainty and panic - which largely drove the downward pressures on the currency. Even small flare-ups could start to erode their claims that sanctions and economic isolation cannot unravel the country.

“Iran knows it needs to keep a tight lid on open opposition,” said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a Syracuse University professor who follows Iranian affairs. “As everyone knows well, these things can snowball out of control.”

One thing that cannot be contained is Iran’s internal political skirmishing.

Conservatives are using the crisis to hammer President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who once enjoyed the favor of the real powers in the country — top clerics and the Revolutionary Guard — but whose star has been in decline since he tried last year to challenge the authority of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad must leave office next year and the battle is on to determine who will be his successor in June 2013 elections.

Ahmadinejad’s political foes have openly scapegoated him as the cause for the rial’s drop, which hit an all-time low of 35,500 to the dollar on Wednesday and touched off merchant strikes at Tehran’s bazaar and sporadic clashes as police tried to round up sidewalk money changers. The rate was about 10,000 as recently as early last year.

On Sunday, the dollar was fetching about 30,000 rials among unofficial street traders, who effectively set the daily rate used in nearly all commerce.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“The election isn’t very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.”

KIN HUBBARD AMERICAN CARTOONIST AND JOURNALIST

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

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

Obama campaign opens office

Gov 1310 off the class list

BY IKE KITMAN AND ALESSANDRA POBLADOR STAFF WRITERS Chants of “O-ba-ma, O-bama” echoed across Broadway Saturday afternoon at the opening of the Upper West Side Obama/ Biden Campaign Center, the second Obama office in the city.

With exactly one month to go before the November election, the event at the new office, between 102nd and 103rd streets, was attended by local political luminaries as well as nearly 100 supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ’83.

Rep. Charles Rangel pumped the crowd up, telling them that New York volunteers are important for the Obama campaign. “For our kids and our grandkids, we can’t afford the luxury of waiting to see what happens in November,” he said.

After his speech, he told Spectator, “We might be a blue state, but we have red blood in our veins, and the courage to make sure this fight goes on.”

Some attendees said they were unhappy with Obama’s widely criticized performance in the first presidential debate Wednesday night.

“This election is very, very close,” Minh Nguyen, a volunteer from the Upper West Side, said. “It wasn’t close two weeks ago, but it’s very close now.” Nguyen, who said he was worried Obama’s lead in the polls might waver, called the debate “a wake-up call” for the campaign.

Christine Verzar, another volunteer, said she was “disappointed in Obama’s affect” in the debate. “It was horrible to listen to all the lies that Romney was spewing,” Verzar said.

Rangel said voters would not be swayed by Romney’s performance.

“The arrogant contempt that Mitt Romney and the Republican Party have shown for decent Amer-

icans has at last been caught on tape, and he can’t run away from it,” the veteran congressman told COLUMBIA the crowd.

Other Democrats, including city council member Robert Jackson, said that the Obama campaign had reasons to remain optimistic, pointing to Friday’s announcement of the national unemployment rate, which at 7.8 percent has dipped below the 8 percent mark for the first time since January 2009.

“That’s due to President Obama,” Jackson told Spectator. “Clearly the country is happy to hear that — and obviously President Obama is also.”

Volunteers widely acknowledged that New York is a Democratic stronghold and vowed to focus efforts toward persuading swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia.

Besides manning phone banks and distributing materials, the campaign office has planned several bus trips to take volunteers into the crucial states to persuade “the significant level” of remaining undecided voters.

State Senator Bill Perkins, dressed in traditional bejeweled Nigerian attire, told the crowd that it was time for “the nitty-gritty work” of “getting on the phones and to the important parts of the country.”

“We may have it solid in New York,” he said. “But we have to make sure it’s solid in other places as well.”

Campaign offices in the city have always been an important engine for Democratic campaigns, according to State Democratic Committee Chair and Assembly member Keith Wright.

Political clubs like the Three

Parks Independent Democrats and the Broadway Democrats, which both organized the event, “make this campaign the easiest campaign in the world,” Wright said.

Curtis Arluck ’73, a Morningside Heights Democratic district leader and Broadway Democrats member, said he hopes the new office will bring out more college students in the push of the final month.

“Whether students vote at Wien Hall or in their home states, this campaign needs their energy and enthusiasm,” Arluck said.

Organizers said that the new office would serve as a draw for an

increasing number of local volunteers, like Upper West Side residents and famed comedic duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who stopped in to show their support.

“Everyone knows that the Upper West Side is going to go blue,” Stiller said. “But it’s still important for this office to be here, for people to know there’s a democratic hub. That’s good for the community.”

After the event, the crowd dissipated and volunteers went off to man a phone bank and reach a 968call target for the weekend, conscious as ever of how much work remained to be done.

OLACHI OLERU/COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR

Rep. Charles Rangel pumps up the crowd at the opening of the new Upper West Side Obama/Biden Campaign Center.

BY REBECCA ROBBINS STAFF WRITER Government 1310: “Introduction to Congress,” the class at the center of Harvard’s largest cheating scandal in recent memory, is no longer listed as a spring 2013 course in the course cataHARVARD log.

Even after Harvard announced its sweeping plagiarism investigation at the start of this semester, the listing for Government 1310 in the my.harvard course planner tool indicated that Matthew B. Platt, who has taught the course each time it has been offered, would teach it again next semester.

But now, the course planner says that Government 1310 is next expected to be offered in the 2013–14 academic year by an “instructor to be determined.”

Harvard is currently investigating about 125 students for inappropriately plagiarizing or collaborating on the final take-home exam in the 279-person spring course. Students found guilty of academic dishonesty in Government 1310 could be required to withdraw from the College for a year, among other possible punishments.

The Government 1310 course website still indicates that the course will be offered in spring 2013 and lists Platt as its professor.

Platt had taught Government 1310 for the past three spring semesters. The course has seen declining overall student ratings on the Q Guide each year, dropping from 3.70 in spring 2010 to 3.57 in spring 2011, then dipping to 2.54 in spring 2012, the semester that the alleged cheating occurred.

Platt, who is not teaching a course this semester, is currently listed in the Harvard Web Directory as an assistant professor of government.

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oing to class. Grabbing a meal. Returning at the end of the day to one of 12 residential colleges. Contributing photographer PHILIPP ARNDT set out to observe, examine and document the rich variety of gates that dot Yale’s campus.

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MLB Detroit 5 Oakland 4

MLB Washington 3 St. Louis 2

SPORTS QUICK HITS

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CREW BOATS DEDICATED TO OLYMPIANS After the conclusion of the Head of the Housatonic Regatta on Saturday, the men’s heavyweight and women’s crew teams dedicated boats to the Yale alumni who competed at the Olympics this summer. Five graduates took part in rowing events in London.

NFL NY Giants 41 Cleveland 27

FOOTBALL NC State 17 Florida State 16

SOCCER Tottenham 2 Aston Villa 0

MONDAY

‘LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY ATHLETES’ CORNELL ATHLETES BUILD WEBSITE The Cornell Daily Sun reports that two members of the university’s football team, Shane Savage and Nick Tandy, have created the “League of Extraordinary Athletes,” a website that make it easier for athletes to build resumes and connect with potential employers.

“We have a whole bunch of hitters that are all doing a pretty good job, so we’re not one-dimensional.”

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FOOTBALL

ELIS FADE IN SECOND HALF Yale scored touchdowns on two of its first three drives, but the Big Green overcame a 14-13 halftime deficit to defeat the Bulldogs 34–14 on Saturday. PAGE B3

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Despite a stong start in the first quarter, Yale could not clinch a win against its Ivy rival Dartmouth, losing to the Big Green for the first time since 2002.

Yale stays on top

Soccer falls to Dartmouth

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three minutes into the second half, forward Avery Schwartz ’16 found himself in a one-onone breakaway situation against Dartmouth goalkeeper Noah Cohen. Yet Cohen was able to make a superb save on Schwartz’s attempt, blocking the Bulldogs’ best opportunity of the evening.

M. SOCCER The men’s soccer team struggled to find the back of the net Saturday night in Hanover, losing 1–0 at Dartmouth. The loss leaves the Elis

still searching for an Ivy League win.

“In a lot of ways it was a typical Ivy game.

It was close, a lot of action, very competitive, very spirited and it was played at a high tempo,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “But unfortunately for us, they got a goal at a very opportune time — well, inopportune time for us — and we weren’t able to answer with a goal of our own, even though we played well.”

Just as in the team’s previous game against Harvard, Yale (3–5–3, 0–1–1 Ivy) again started strong on Saturday.

Captain Bobby Thalman ’13 said the Bulldogs outplayed the Big Green (5–5–0,1–1–0 SEE M. SOCCER PAGE B2

YDN

In two games this weekend, the volleyball team dropped just one set on the way to two Yale victories.

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team just keeps rolling.

VOLLEYBALL The Bulldogs won their fifth and sixth straight matches this weekend with 3–1 and 3–0 victories against Dartmouth and Harvard to maintain their hold on first place in the Ivy League.

During the six-match streak, which dates back to a 3–0 sweep

of Albany on Sept. 19, Yale (9–5, 5–0 Ivy) has dropped just two sets out of 20 played in total.

Head coach Erin Appleman said the key to the team’s success has been its evenly balanced offensive attack.

“We don’t have one person who we set all the time,” she said. “We have a whole bunch of hitters that are all doing a pretty good job so we’re not onedimensional.”

In their Friday night tilt against Dartmouth (2–13, 1–4 Ivy) the Elis dropped one set,

a closely contested 25–22 loss in the third set, but cruised to a victory anyway.

Last year, the Big Green defeated the Bulldogs 3–2 in Yale’s final Ivy match of the season in Hanover, but Yale was not caught off-guard this time around. With the exception of that third-set loss, the Elis dominated. In the first, second and fourth sets, Yale outscored the Big Green 75–44 to pick up the 3–1 victory.

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B2

STAT OF THE DAY 13 10

SARAH ECKINGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Yale recorded ten threatening shots but failed to produce any goals Saturday night.

NUMBER TEXT TEXT OFTEXT KILLS TEXT MADE TEXT BYTEXT KELLY TEXT JOHNSON TEXT TEXT ’16 INFIRSTNAME THE VOLLEYBALL LASTNAME TEAM’S ’## SATURDAY TEXT TEXTWIN TEXT TEXT TEXT AGAINST HARVARD. TEXT TEXT The TEXT 13 kills TEXT tied TEXT a season TEXT.high Textfor textJohnson. text textShe textalso textcontributed text text text 20text assists text and text text text nine digs,text justtext onetext dig away text text from text a triple-double. text text text text text text text text text.

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SPORTS

“I keep her running back and forth like a soccer team.” LIL WAYNE, “BEDROCK”

Bulldogs take down Harvard VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 It became clear early in the match that the Bulldogs meant business. Yale jumped out to a 15–5 lead in the first set behind three kills from captain and middle blocker Haley Wessels ’13. The Elis then went on to take that set 25–13 and the second one 25–14 for a fast start.

“Having a quick start even in a game as opposed to a match gives you such an advantage,” outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said. “You don’t have to be fighting back every point, and you can take some more risks and be a little more comfortable.”

Yale got off to another fast start on Saturday evening against Harvard (5–11, 2–3 Ivy) when it raced out to an early 10–4 lead in the first set. Leading that charge was middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16, who logged two kills and consecutive service aces to score four of Yale’s first five points of the match.

“Maya is very athletic and that obviously is such a big help in a game like volleyball,” Rogers said. “She jumps really high and is really powerful. Because she jumps so high she can hit balls around and over the block that others can’t.”

But the Bulldogs were not able to hold on to the lead as Harvard went on their own 10–4 run to tie the score at 14. A trio of underclassmen then responded for the Bulldogs as Kelly Johnson ’16, Rogers and Jesse Ebner ’16 blasted three straight kills to put Yale in front for good en route to a 25–19 first-set victory.

The kill from Johnson, which gave the Elis a 15–14 edge, was part of one of the best performances from any Yale player this season. Johnson hit with ruthless efficiency and logged 13 kills

SARAH ECKINGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman made significant contributions this weekend — Maya Midzik ’16 scored four of Yale’s first five points against Harvard, and Kelly Johnson ’16 had an efficient .722 hitting percentage. on just 18 attempts, good for a .722 hitting percentage. She also added 20 assists and nine digs to fall just short of her third tripledouble of the season.

Despite Johnson’s strong play, however, Yale managed to fall behind early in the second set to

the Cantabs. Harvard took leads of 6–0 and 12–4 before Appleman used her second timeout of the set. Ebner said that during the timeout, Appleman tried to refocus the team.

“We really just needed to focus on our side,” Ebner said.

“We had a lot of unforced errors in the beginning so basically she just told us to kind of focus on our play.”

Following the timeout, the Bulldogs went on a 13–2 run to pull ahead 17–14 and led the rest of the way for a 2–0 lead. Fol-

Tough weekend for soccer

lowing a blowout 25–15 thirdset victory, the Elis headed back to New Haven with another successful weekend of Ivy play behind them.

Yale will be back in action and facing its toughest Ivy test of the season this weekend, when

Princeton and Penn will come to the John J. Lee Ampitheater to take on the Bulldogs.

The action starts against the Tigers on Friday night at 7 p.m.

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

No Ivy win for the Elis M. SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 Ivy) for most of the first half, but ended up letting Dartmouth score “a scrappy kind of goal.”

Attacking from the left side, a Dartmouth player was able to evade two Yale tackles before firing a shot toward the right goalpost. Thalman blocked that initial attempt, but because of the charge up the left side, the Elis left the Big Green’s Sten Stray-Gundersen unmarked on the right side, who scored off the rebound in 42:00.

The Bulldogs created chances to tie the game during the second half, including Schwartz’s breakaway and a shot by forward Jenner Fox ’14 late in the half, but they were unable to convert their chances.

“I think it was kind of twofold,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said.

“I think one, we did get a decent number of chances and we weren’t able to put some of them away, but also I think Dartmouth was a team that I feel that we could have had a lot more chances than we actually did.”

Thalman expressed some frustration with the team’s perfor-

mance, but he remained confident in the team’s ability to stay focused and improve on its ability to execute when the chance arises.

Despite the team grabbing only one point in its first two Ivy contests, Tompkins said that the team will continue striving to reach the top of the standings.

We’re certainly looking to fight our way back into contention for the title.

BRIAN TOMPKINS Head Coach, Men’s Soccer

“At this stage of the season, there’s still everything to play for,” he said. “We’re certainly looking to fight our way back into contention for the title.”

The Bulldogs continue the season and will travel to Cornell next Saturday.

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

GRAHAM HARBOE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Despite Kristen Forster ‘13 leveling up the scoreboard in the first half, the Elis gave away two more goals in the second half.

W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 Saunders boasted a .800 save percentage.

“You’re not going to win any Ivy games if you give up three goals,” head Coach Rudy Meredith said.

Despite losing the one–on–one bat-

tles and ultimately losing to Dartmouth, Meredith said they were successful in making some of the changes necessary to hone their gameplay.

He added that, in recent practices, the Bulldogs have improved in their fitness and mid-game flexibility.

For the Bulldogs to boast a winning

Ivy record, the team must beat every Ivy competitor for the rest of this season.

The Bulldogs’ next game will take place Saturday at Cornell.

GRAHAM HARBOE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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

The men’s soccer team was left scoreless at the end of their match against Dartmouth.

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PAGE B3

Obscure infield fly rule causes chaos in Atlanta When the St. Louis Cardinals could not catch a shallow fly hit ball by the Atlanta Braves’ Andrelton Simmons during a Friday night playoff game, the Braves thought they would have the bases loaded. Yet left field umpire Sam Holbrook invoked the infield fly rule, meaning that Simmons was out despite the error. The infuriated Atlanta crowd covered the field with trash, leading to a delay of nearly 20 minutes.

Bulldogs can’t hold lead

S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S

FOOTBALL IVY 1

4

6

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Harvard

2

0

1.000

4

0

1.000

Princeton

1

0

1.000

2

2

.500

Penn

1

0

1.000

1

3

.250

Dartmouth

1

1

.500

3

1

.750

Cornell

1

1

.500

2

2

.500

Brown

0

1

.000

3

1

.750

Columbia

0

1

.000

1

3

.250

Yale

0

2

.000

1

3

.250

LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 Yale vs. Lafayette, 12 noon

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 Dartmouth 34, Yale 14

MEN’S SOCCER IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

T

%

W L

T

%

1

Cornell

2

0

0

1.000

10

0

0

1.000

2

Brown

1

0

1

.750

8

1

2

.818

Princeton

1

0

1

.750

5

3

1

.611

Dartmouth

1

1

0

.500

5

5

0

.500

Columbia

1

1

0

.500

3

6

1

.350

4

6

8

Yale

0

1

1

.250

3

5

3

.409

Harvard

0

1

1

.250

1

6

3

.250

Penn

0

2

0

.000

2

9

0

.182

LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 Dartmouth 1, Yale 0

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Yale at Cornell, 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER IVY SARA MILLER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

1

The Bulldogs failed to revive last season’s 30-0 big win.

3

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The football team coughed up a firsthalf lead over the weekend, falling to Dartmouth in the Bulldogs’ second Ivy loss this season.

FOOTBALL The Big Green overcame a 14–13 halftime deficit to defeat the Bulldogs 34–14 on Saturday at the Yale Bowl. Yale (1–3, 0–2 Ivy) lost to Dartmouth (3–1, 1–1 Ivy) for the first time since 2002, ending a streak of nine straight wins.

In the first half, running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 and quarterback Eric Williams ’16 both ran on fourth downs to move the chains for the Elis and set up a field goal attempt from the Dartmouth 18. Trailing 10–7, head coach Tony Reno decided to go for the lead instead. Holder and backup quarterback Derek Russell ’13 took the snap and found linebacker Dylan Drake ’13 in the end zone for the score.

“Derek threw a great pass,” Drake said.

“I guess I had the easy part of catching

it. It was just exhilarating to make that touchdown catch.”

Drake said it was his first reception since his junior year of high school, as well as his first offensive touchdown ever.

The play was also Russell’s first varsity touchdown pass for the Bulldogs. The trick play helped Yale to a 14–13 halftime advantage.

Throughout the game, Reno led aggressive fourth down plays. He decided to “go for it” on seven fourth down plays despite making that decision just six times in the previous three games combined.

“I have a lot of faith in our offense that we can convert on those plays,” Reno said.

That confidence was not misplaced in the first half, as the Bulldogs converted all three attempts. After the break, however, Yale’s luck on the final down ran out.

Yale’s first four drives ended in turnovers on downs. The Big Green took advantage, finding the end zone on three of the resulting possessions and missing a 35-yard field goal on the other.

The Elis were stopped on all four of their fourth down tries in the second half.

Running back Tyler Varga ’16 and his 5.8 yards per carry were sorely missed on those fourth down plays, as he did not dress due to eligibility concerns. According to a University statement released Saturday, Varga was withheld pending clarification from the NCAA regarding his transfer from a Canadian university.

Varga transferred to Yale after one year at the University of Western Ontario.

Bearing the brunt of the load without Varga, Cargill carried the ball 25 times for 96 yards. Williams was 17–24 throwing for 181 yards and a score with no turnovers.

Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens stated that the Big Green defense began to expect the fourth down fakes.

“I give them tremendous credit,” Teevens said. “It was very imaginative special teams play … we defensed them.

We’ve seen some of [the plays] before.”

Yale will try for its first win at the Bowl this year against Lafayette next Saturday.

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

Rockies manager Jim Tracy resigns

5

SCHOOL

W L

T

%

W L

T

%

Princeton

3

0

0

1.000

7

3

1

.682

Penn

3

0

0

1.000

7

4

1

.625

Dartmouth

2

1

0

.667

7

4

0

.636

Columbia

2

1

0

.667

5

6

0

.455

Harvard

1

1

1

.500

5

3

3

.591

6

Cornell

0

2

1

.167

1

10

1

.125

7

Brown

0

3

0

.000

6

4

0

.600

Yale

0

3

0

.000

5

6

0

.455

LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 Dartmouth 3, Yale 1

DENVER — Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy resigned Sunday, stepping down after the team set a franchise record for losses.

The Rockies said a search for Tracy’s replacement would begin immediately but they have no time frame for making a hire. Colorado finished last in the NL West this year while going 64–98.

Tracy was promoted from bench coach to manager in May 2009. He was voted the NL Manager of the Year that season after guiding Colorado into the playoffs.

The Rockies went 294–308 under Tracy.

“I was surprised,” Bill Geivett, the team’s director of league operations, told The Associated Press. “You know, Jim and I go back a long time. We worked together for three different clubs.

“Basically, Tracy called me and told me his intentions and we talked about a lot of different things, but he had already made up his mind,” said Geivett, who also worked with Tracy in Montreal and Los Angeles.

Energized by the young players and the challenge of fixing things, Tracy had said repeatedly the last several weeks that he wanted to fulfill the final year on his con-

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Yale at Cornell, 4 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Yale

5

0

1.000

9

5

.643

Princeton

5

0

1.000

8

7

.533

3

Penn

3

2

.600

8

8

.500

4

Columbia

2

3

.400

7

7

.500

Harvard

2

3

.400

5

11

.312

Brown

1

4

.200

5

10

.333

Cornell

1

4

.200

4

11

.267

Dartmouth

1

4

.200

2

13

.133

1

6

LAST WEEK

BY ARNIE STAPLETON ASSOCIATED PRESS

OVERALL

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Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy argues with umpire Mark Ripperger during the baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Phoenix. tract in 2013. But he changed his mind after meeting with Geivett for several hours on Friday and then mulling those discussions over the weekend.

Asked why Tracy resigned, Geivett said: “I don’t think there was any one thing in particular that seemed to stand out, but you’d have to ask him that.”

Tracy didn’t return phone calls and

texts from the AP. Geivett said he wanted Tracy to return next season.

“I mean, that’s how I started our meeting on Friday, that he was the manager of the club,” Geivett said. “Like I said, it was surprising.”

Geivett, however, didn’t try to change Tracy’s mind.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS DREW BREES During a Sunday night win over San Diego, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees broke the NFL record for consecutive games with a touchdown pass. His 48 straight games with a touchdown strike passed Johnny Unitas’ streak, which ended in 1960.

Men’s crew starts fall season MEN’S CREW

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Men’s crew kicked-off its season — the first in which freshmen are eligible to race in the varsity boats — at the Head of the Housatonic.

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER Both of the men’s crew teams started their fall seasons Saturday at the 18th annual Head of the Housatonic race in Shelton, Conn.

M. CREW The regatta was the first of two fall head races, or time trials, for the lightweight and heavyweight crew teams. It served as an opportunity for the freshmen to gain racing experience and for the new line-ups to integrate before winter training and the spring cup races and championships.

Lightweight crew head coach Andy Card said the fall races provide a break from fall training and were originally started by oarsmen who were bored without any races in the fall.

The lightweight crew team raced one single, two pairs, one novice 8+, four 4+’s and three

varsity 8+’s. Yale’s fastest eight boat, which won the collegiate event, finished in 13:27 and beat Yale’s top heavyweight 8+ by 20 seconds. The other two 8+’s finished in third and sixth places, with times of 13:49 and 14:11 respectively, “Great preparation from our coaches in the previous weeks and solid racing condition led to a well-earned win in the varsity category,” lightweight oarsmen Greg Hausheer ’13 said.

The heavyweight crew team raced two collegiate 4+’s, which placed first and third, and two novice 8+’s, which placed fourth and sixth. Three eight boats raced in the collegiate event and finished second, forth and seventh at 13:47, 13:51 and 14:13, respectively.

Heavyweight captain Jon Morgan ’13 said the team has come together well throughout fall training. He noted that a mixture of varsity oarsmen and freshmen raced in each of the eight boats.

All Yale oarsmen had the opportunity to race on Saturday, and some raced twice.

The Head of the Housatonic is one of the nation’s largest head races, with race categories for everyone from high schoolers and collegians to veteran masters.

Boats start the 2.7 mile course at staggered intervals and “race against the clock” to achieve their best possible times. By contrast, the crews race on a 2000 meter course in the spring races and championships.

Card noted that this year is unique for men’s crew because freshmen as well as sophomores must be integrated into the varsity level. The 2012-’13 season is the first in the history of American collegiate rowing in which freshmen are eligible to race in the varsity boats and are not strictly kept in their own category.

Lightweight crew captain William Ferraro ’13 said the team’s freshmen and sophomores are adjusting well to the varsity level.

“We need them to be fast learners and hard workers, and they’re answering that call,” he said in an email to the News.

While the fall races do not hold as much importance as the spring championship races, Ferraro said he was happy to see the team apply techniques it has worked on in practice into a race setting.

“Fall head races are good for building racing experience and exposing strengths and weaknesses,” Ferraro said. “We learned a lot about how we can improve, and we look forward to gaining boat speed in the days and weeks leading up to our next race.”

Both the lightweight and heavyweight crews will race in the Head of the Charles in Boston, Mass., on Oct. 20 and 21. The lightweight crew team will finish its fall season at the Princeton Chase on Oct. 28.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

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The heavyweight crew team raced two collegiate 4+’s and placed first and third.

Dartmouth outwork Bulldogs

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Losing the tough battles and foot races on Saturday cost Yale the game.

W. SOCCER In the Bulldogs’ third Ivy League matchup this season, the Dartmouth Big Green (7–4, 2–1 Ivy) stormed the field and outbattled the Elis (5–6, 0–3 Ivy) for a 3–1 victory in Hanover. It was Dartmouth’s first win over Yale in five years.

“We worked hard, but not nearly hard enough,” captain and midfielder Jenny Butwin ’13 said.

“We lost because they outplayed us at almost every position.”

While the Elis earned a yellow card in the game, the Big Green had a total of seven fouls compared to the Bulldogs’ four. The ferocity that Dartmouth displayed on Saturday won them the ball and won them the game.

In the first half, the Big Green outshot the Elis 11–2. Dartmouth demonstrated higher ball possession and gave the Bulldogs no space to work in an attack.

“We struggled with how fast they came out,” forward Anne Song ’13 said.

Just 14 minutes into the game, Dartmouth’s Emma Brush — the second-leading scorer in the Ivy League — tapped the ball past goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 on a corner kick that landed in the box to put the Big Green up 1–0.

Six minutes later, however, Yale fought back when midfielder Kristen Forster ’13 pounded a shot past Dartmouth keeper Tatiana Saunders on a clean pass from midfielder Muriel Battaglia ’15. Forster’s goal tied her for the second spot in Ivy League scoring.

As the first half came to a

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The Bulldogs played to a tie at the end of the first half, but they could not handle Dartmouth’s offensive onslaught during the final 45 minutes. close, the Bulldogs held the Big Green to a 1–1 draw, in spite of the flurry of 11 shots that were blasted on the Bulldogs’ net. As the second half started, how-

ever, things began to turn south for the Elis.

The Bulldogs outshot the Big Green 7–5 in the second half, but it was not enough.

Dartmouth put themselves up 2–1 just two minutes into the second half when forward Corey Delaney popped a shot past Ames on a cross from mid-

fielder Marina Moschitto. Dartmouth sealed the fate of the Elis 22 minutes later when freshman forward Lucielle Kozlov fired a cannon from 18 yards out into

the bottom corner.

In goal, Ames stopped seven of 10 shots while Dartmouth’s SEE W. SOCCER PAGE B2