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CROSS CAMPUS

MOLLUSKS FOSSIL QUESTIONS EVOLUTION

SENATE DEBATE

COMICS

MEN’S SOCCER

Candidates Murphy and McMahon continue personal attacks

CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS STOPS

BY CAMPUS

Falling to Cornell, Bulldogs remain winless in the Ivy League

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María Rosa Menocal passes away AS ITS FORMER DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR MENOCAL EXPANDED THE WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER

What’s for dinner? Berkeley

College’s plan to close its dining hall to non-Berkeley students for two Mondays each month, and before 6:30 p.m. for the other two Mondays, went into effect yesterday. Berkeley College Master Marvin Chun said the new policy aims to address the dining hall’s overcrowding problem and alleviate the “unsustainable demand” that had been faced by Berkeley’s facilities and employees.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER

YALE

After a three-year fight with melanoma, humanities professor María Rosa Menocal passed away Monday afternoon.

A Sterling professor of the humanities since 2005, Meno-

Trouble at Harvard. An article

published in The Harvard Voice last weekend has come under fire for its offensive editorial content and the way editors of the publication later responded to national criticism. Voice editors went through multiple apologies and changed the author line of the piece from “The Harvard Voice” to “Anonymous” after facing criticism, a move that then brought the publication additional waves of criticism.

cal served as director of the Whitney Humanities Center from 2001 to 2012. She told the Yale Bulletin in 2005 that the WHC is “the University’s center for conversations across the arts and humanities,” and spearheaded a period of expansion at the Center, where she appointed

285 fellows from several different academic fields and added new programs such as “Films at the Whitney.”

“María Rosa Menocal was among the most brilliant, creative and original of Yale’s extraordinary scholars in the humanities,” University President Richard Levin told the News on Monday. “Her passions inspired and energized her students and colleagues and shaped a vibrant community at

‘We’re still here.’ Six months after Occupy New Haven members were evicted from the New Haven Green, movement leaders are affirming that their message still stands. Members have since focused their activist energies in different directions, working on foreclosure issues, homelessness prevention and education.

YSO tests ‘residency’ concept

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS

dency to the YSO, which had never appointed a designer-in-residence before. And he receives no pay for his experiments.

Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence, described her appointment in 2004 as “one of those mysterious Yale things.”

Gilad Shalit, a 26-year-old Israeli soldier released from five-year captivity by Hamas in 2011 came to Yale Monday afternoon in a rare public appearance.

In an event hosted by the Eliezer Society, Shalit and 14 members of his unit addressed an audience of approximately 200 students and faculty in Davies Auditorium. Professor Charles Hill, a former Israeli government official, and co-founder of the Eliezer Society Rabbi Shmully Hecht introduced Shalit and his unit, who then fielded prepared questions from audience members about their reactions to Shalit’s 2006 abduction and life in the Israeli Defense Force.

The Slifka Center, Yale Friends of Israel and the Yale administration, headed by Provost Salovey and Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs Don Filer, helped Eliezer coordinate the day’s logistics and planning, said Aaron Hakim ’13, a member of Eliezer. He added that the Eliezer Society brought Shalit and his unit to campus during a 10-day-long visit to the New York area which aimed to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his release from captivity and provide closure for the unit members.

“From the day Gilad Shalit was released, we hoped to bring him and his unit to Yale in a celebration of their courage and moral leadership,” Hakim said.

Students interviewed said they appreciated the opportunity to hear the story of Shalit’s abduction firsthand. Danielle Ellison ’15, who heads YFI and helped organize the event, said she thinks Shalit’s visit

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he Yale Symphony Orchestra’s introduction of a new residency program raises questions about what arts residencies at Yale can be.

JEFFREY DASTIN reports.

MATTHEW CHRISLIP

Staying informed. For those

of you looking for a midterms study break, consider tuning in to tonight’s presidential debate, which will focus on foreign and domestic policy issues. U.S. President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will meet at Hofstra University in New York tonight to answer questions from the crowd in a town hall debate format.

Matthew Chrislip ART ’13 at work in his apartment on a scaffold to be used for sonic and visual experiments.

BY JEFFREY DASTIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Every time Matthew Chrislip ART ’13 enters his living room, he is reminded of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Since beginning a design residency with the orchestra in September, Chrislip designated a wall of his apartment for sonic and visual

experiments. Today a six-and-ahalf foot tall scaffold occupies the space, which Chrislip called “a physical diagram to manipulate and to work with.”

Chrislip is not “in residence” in the traditional sense. Rather than an established artist visiting the University, he is a second-year MFA candidate. He proposed the resi-

Another kind of debate.

Connecticut Senate candidates Chris Murphy (D) and Linda McMahon (R) faced off for the third time Monday night in New London, Conn. Much of their debate focused on the economy, though both candidates spent time discussing foreign policy issues and cybersecurity.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1985 More than 100 students return a dating questionnaire as part of a new dating service launched in Timothy Dwight College three weeks prior.

Participants agree to meet with their matches at least once for dinner.

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Israeli soldier visits campus

MUSIC AND DESIGN

Go pink. Pink and white

balloons on Cross Campus kicked off the start of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which began Monday. The effort aims to raise awareness of breast cancer issues and encourage students to take an active part in fighting breast cancer. In honor of the month, several local health centers, including Yale-New Haven Hospital, will hold screening and support services at a reduced cost.

the Whitney Humanities Center.”

Levin said Menocal was interested in every medium of “human expression,” ranging from politics to cooking and professional hockey. Much of her research revolved around the cultural and religious environment of medieval Spain, and she authored several books on the time period, according to

Fall break activities revealed

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER For students staying in New Haven, this year’s new October recess can be more than just rest and relaxation.

The Yale College Dean’s Office, or YCDO, sent out an e-mail Monday night outlining the activities and services available to students during next week’s fall break, which runs from Wednesday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Oct. 28. The events, which include Yale-sponsored bus trips to New York City and discounted movie tickets, provide students staying in New Haven with cheaper transportation, several off-campus activities and academic workshops. According to a Yale

College Council survey sent out last week, 870 out of 1149 students said they plan to remain on campus during the recess, said YCC Events Director Bryan Epps ’14.

Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said the Yale College Dean’s Office worked with other organizations to offer additional activities for students staying on campus so they can take advantage of the break from normal academic schedules.

“It’s a long span of time to have no break between August and Thanksgiving break, and this new fall break provides a welcome pause in the action,” Gentry said. “For those SEE FALL BREAK PAGE 4

Specter remembered for reasoned politics

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Arlen Specter LAW ’56, a former United States senator from Pennsylvania who stood out in Congress for his independent politics, died Sunday in Philadelphia of complications related to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

He was 82.

Considered one of the few remaining moderates, Specter served as a Republican senator for almost 30 years before announcing in 2009 that he would run for reelection as a Democrat because the ideology of the Republican party had shifted too far to the right — a decision that preSEE SPECTER PAGE 8

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OPINION

.COMMENT “When the gestalt of high school melts away, little is left but memoyaledailynews.com/opinion

Cheap talk at a high price “I

t’s just rhetoric, you know?”

I was sitting in an interview the other morning, making small talk about the vice presidential debate, when this familiar phrase reared its ugly head: just rhetoric.

The art of manipulating the American people has been on display for so long that many of us recognize the game. We’ve realized the so-called arguments trumpeted by both sides in the electoral circus are mere varnish on the decidedly unattractive products they peddle.

In his closing statement, Congressman Paul Ryan channeled the Platonic form of the ideal used car salesman as well as anyone could have ever done.

Many of the people with whom I have subsequently discussed the debate perceived that lack of transparency.

Others remarked on the vice president’s clever strategy of laughing and interrupting Ryan’s key points to shore up the Democratic ticket’s perceived doggedness following the President’s lackluster performance in the first debate. Some, myself included, have suggested Obama’s reticence was a calculated strategy — designed to allow Biden, not Obama, to shoulder the lion’s share of blame for injecting negativity into these exercises.

Throughout these debates, what was missing was a sense that these events were emblematic of the true underlying principles held by the speakers. At best they are ex tempore versions of constantly mutating and carefully vetted general sentiments, adjusted for the particular constituency that needs to be targeted that week.

Thus, the GOP pretends "Romneycare" never happened and Democratic stalwarts assert that their guy has always been a fervent supporter of gays and immigrants. Any counter-narrative is propaganda peddled by the enemies of Freedom! Forget what the party line or platform was yesterday, pay attention to the new one.

At worst, these “debates” consist of completely scripted monologues grafted onto any question with the slightest hint of topicality or relevance. A question about Libya gets you a well-rehearsed answer about Iran, Afghanistan and all of foreign policy in just two minutes.

What a great value for your time, dear viewer! And don’t get me started on those paragons of pernicious sophistry, the god-awful zingers.

Everyone knows speeches and debates rarely advance truly innovative or thoroughly jus-

tified and explained policy. Positions are carefully tested by focus groups and the wording of MICHAEL any proposal MAGDZIK r e m a i n s deliberately Making vague. We are left with Magic meaningless statements such as Ryan’s on foreign policy, indicating that his ticket stands for peace, democracy and individual rights. These, of course, are values unique to his platform. Personally, I’m a vicious autocrat with lucrative connections to sinister war profiteers, so I’m glad Ryan is so open about what he stands for so I can vote for the other side.

It’s just rhetoric, and we all know it. But is there a harm? The American people get a spectacle, because let’s face it, quips about Big Bird and the like are great fodder for comedy shows.

The four dozen cavemen we call undecided voters in swing counties come no closer to a decision.

Political scientists tell us the debates don’t really alter electoral results. So does any of it matter?

We have to remember the broader audience for our American political tragicomedy. The world is watching and taking note, and unlike American voters, it has a very different stake in the outcome of the race. When we hear Romney articulate the position that Russia is the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S., American voters roll their eyes.

Just rhetoric. We know that.

But imagine you are Vladimir Putin. Or better yet, imagine you are the average 20-yearold Russian. Do you understand the intricacies of the Electoral College and the need to appeal to prejudiced, low-information voters? Or do you take these things at face value, fearing the fact that one of the major political parties of the most powerful country on the planet, led by a man who would have access to a nuclear arsenal capable of ending the world many times over, has singled out you and your countrymen as the enemy? Is it any surprise that anti-American sentiment runs high, poisoning the minds of future leaders there?

It’s not for nothing that words are mightier than swords. Just rhetoric? Not so much.

MICHAEL MAGDZIK is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact him at michael.magdzik@yale.edu .

ries.”

'THEANTIYALE' ON 'DON'T JUST DUMP YOUR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND'

Acting affirmatively L

ast Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, the latest major legal challenge to race-based affirmative action programs. A few days earlier, the deans of the Harvard and Yale law schools published a joint opinion piece in the Washington Post (based on their joint amicus brief) calling on the Supreme Court to leave the program intact.

The deans write about law school admissions, but central elements of their case certainly seemed to cohere with my experiences as an undergraduate here. And so whatever the Court’s specific conclusions in this case, I hope the majority leaves room for educational institutions to continue promoting the values the deans defend.

The deans’ argument was simple: Their institutions aim to accept the “best possible students” and to “assemble the best possible class.” In their experience and estimation, both of these goals require the consideration of race as part of a “holistic evaluation” process.

After all, in determining what qualifies someone as “the best possible student,” law schools often search for amorphous and intangible qualities. Harvard and Yale seek not just academic merit, but indicators that applicants will somehow “give back to society.” Most of us think this is perfectly appropriate. Naturally, unscientific judgments

about character should include all aspects of an individual’s biography — and racial identity can be an essenYISHAI piece of a SCHWARTZ tial revealing personal narraDissentary tive.

S i m i l a rly, the deans argue that the assembly of the “best possible class” might take into account considerations of racial diversity. Personally, I’ve often been skeptical of “diversity for education’s sake” arguments. A central premise of a liberal arts education is that we can learn a great deal about human experience from books and lectures.

Besides, given the myriad of different ways we assess merit, diversity within a meritocracy is inevitable anyway — so the deliberate construction of diversity strikes me as artificial and unnecessary.

Recently though, I’ve had a change of heart. What’s more, I largely owe it to some insensitivity within our very own Yale Daily News.

Every year, shortly after the News changes its leadership (through an egregiously timeconsuming and self-important elections process), the outgoing managing board publishes a “joke issue” ridiculing the pre-

vious year. The content is traditionally outlandish and ridiculous, and so the News refrains from posting the issue online.

This past joke issue contained a story chronicling a particularly farcical and circus-like paternity battle, and it used slang and tropes closely identified with certain strands of urban AfricanAmerican culture.

Six months ago, I probably wouldn’t have been troubled by the article. Ambiguous slang and meaningless apostrophes would have struck me as fair game for mockery. These tropes seem to add needless ornamentation, reflect poor education, and are simply incorrect uses of the English language. Why not mock it? Aren’t ignorance and dismissal of social norms essential elements of paternity circuses? Criticism of the piece for racial insensitivity would have irritated me. I would have argued that the very act of associating these apparently shallow linguistic deviations with AfricanAmerican identity was the true offense.

But then I started talking to Julian. Julian has strong opinions on the cultural significance and legitimacy of these dialectic tropes — what’s more, he intentionally and actively employs them. And he does so without the characteristic silliness, unintelligible theorizing and self-righteousness of some activists and academics. And so I came to see the mocking of “K’rystal” and

“trippin’” differently.

I realize that even relating this story will trigger eye-rolling and smug charges of Orientalism. After all, there is something that feels trite and self-congratulatory about “White guy talks to black guy and understands racial identity and racism better.”

But some truths are trite precisely because they are true.

And those rolling their eyes at my parochialism are just as limited by their own orthodoxies; they understand as little about the perspectives of the joke article’s well-intentioned authors as I do about the linguistic patterns outside of the New York Jewish community. We all could do with a dose of humility.

And so we return to the question of race as a factor in admissions. On the level of my own experience, the deans seem right: race is still important, and the cultural identities that surround race are still woefully misunderstood. Moreover, one student’s ability to embody and articulate a perspective can play an important role in another’s education.

So however the justices rule, I hope they preserve space for the kind of values and processes the deans articulate. Ruling otherwise would do higher education a monumental disservice.

YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. His column runs Tuesdays. Contact him at yishai.schwartz@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SHIRA TELUSHKIN

Is this good enough?

F

reshman year, my roommate was fond of a saying attributed to Winston Churchill: “Sometimes it is not enough to do your best. You must do what is required.”

This phrase intrigues and terrifies me. How often do we justify our less-than-satisfactory performance by claiming that we did our best?

Usually when I say I did my best, in a situation where I fell short, what I mean is that I did my best given the low priority I gave the activity. I did my best despite the fact that I don’t care and don’t have time or found the event unnecessary and burdensome. In fact, I didn’t even realize how much just-doingour-best was an internalized standard for me until I took a statistics class this semester.

You have to appreciate just how funny it is to my friends that I am in statistics. Math is an area of life that I have pretty much written off. My small and very supportive high school found creative ways for me to pass required math courses.

Let’s just say that I wrote a lot of

humanities papers about math and learned very little algebra.

Finding two QR credits at Yale has been a fear I’ve carried since I received my acceptance letter.

I knew I was going to have to work hard in statistics. Pay attention, take notes, read the textbook. Yet I also inherently felt I would need to develop a good relationship with my professor and TA. It was these people I would have to win over with my dedication, embellished interest in the subject and willingness to work hard despite my poor math background. I would have to convince them I was doing my best.

It is now six weeks in (or eight, depending on your professor and his or her syllabus), and my professor has no idea who I am. Yes, I know that he is teaching over 300 students this semester. But I come to his weekly sessions once a week, and I have emailed him numerous times when my second problem set of the year was lost for a few weeks. In any other course I’ve taken at Yale, this professor would be my best friend, or at least recognize who

I was.

But I’m still only doing my Yale best. I don’t own the highly recommended textbook. I asked to postpone my midterm the night before.

For the first time in my Yale career, my effort — whether I’m giving my best or it just comes off that way — will have no relevance on my final grade. I have literally never seen the TA who has been grading my homework for the past however many weeks. He likewise has no idea who I am. His office hours are during another course of mine, and I can never find him at lectures. He doesn’t know that I go to other TA office hours, that I stop by the professor’s drop-in sessions, or how annoying it is for me to open Minitab, the statistical software we use, on my Mac laptop.

It doesn’t matter that I have only the most basic math background, that sometimes I forget how to convert percentages into statistics, or that the first few weeks of school were consumed in an endless cycle of Jewish holidays that only finally ended last

week. My personal struggles in the course and how hard I am working stand completely independent of my grade. Here, no one cares if I am doing my best.

When it comes to my problem set answers or the midterm, I just need to have the answer that is required.

Being in a course where my work is bifurcated from my effort has made me re-evaluate the honesty with which I assess my own effort. Even in my areas of passion and interest I know there are situations where I wish I could say with absolute confidence — whether it is an event I planned or a paper I wrote — that I did my absolute best. But I can’t.

There is rarely the time or the need to do one’s absolute best in most of our daily activities.

Something worth doing may be worth doing well, but it is probably also worth doing poorly.

Sometimes we just need to do what’s required.

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

GUEST COLUMNIST MAGGIE YELLEN

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W

hen I was growing up, all I wanted was to be a superhero. Whenever I went on a car ride, I would turn up the music and launch myself into elaborate fantasies; for twenty minutes, at least, I could fly around in a tight, elegant unitard, beating up all the bad guys.

The fantasy didn’t end with the music. I started to believe that maybe I actually could be a superhero — and so, two years ago, I came to Yale to learn how to save the world.

Yale, it turns out, is actually a perfect school for superheroes. We learn how to forge iron (but highly professional) masks, how to brandish facts like weapons or conjure drivel like magic. Everyone becomes that kid in TD or Berkeley or insert-college-here, that kid from section — recognized but unknown. Yes, we make a pretty comic book. Love the world, love humanity and bust out the spandex at Safety Dance.

But superheroes aren’t sup-

posed to cry.

Freshman year, I cried in my room — quietly, of course, so my roommate couldn’t hear. For all my love of humanity, I wasn’t sure I could ever fall in love myself. One of my good friends had a disgustingly perfect long-distance relationship, and I simply couldn’t imagine the logistics. How did something like that happen? It must be either magic or fake. Beyond my powers, for sure. So, one day, I flopped down on his bunk bed and asked him the question that fills libraries and pays philosophers.

“What is love?”

After a few minutes of thought, he responded. “Love,” he said, “is looking at the person next to you and realizing that they are a whole person.”

That summer, I travelled to Cape Town and discovered what he meant. For my work, I went to the townships and interviewed single mothers and their families; I spoke to daughters who had pulled their mother out of an abusive relation-

ship, a young man who aspired to be a DJ, a woman who had burned down her boyfriend’s house.

During the interviews, all of my personal thoughts and emotions melted away. As long as the red “RECORD” light glowed, the person talking seemed more real than I did. I became the extra in the ongoing movie of their lives, just some student in a half-written script. When I returned to Yale, I couldn’t stop imagining them, those people with their mysterious joys, fears and loves. And then I understood.

In the end, it’s easy to be a superhero. It’s easy to write a paper or wear a mask — to travel around the world, save the citizens and leave before they can hurt you. For me, it was easy to interview people thousands of miles and a culture away from home. It’s much harder, I discovered, to imagine the full stories and lives of the people who surround me every day — to realize that an annoying classmate goes home, falls asleep and dreams. It’s

hard to love someone distasteful.

It’s even hard, on bad day, to look beyond personal anxiety and see any whole people at all. It’s strange that the most superhuman task ends up being the most human.

Sometimes, I think that it would be impossible to love everyone.

Stupid, even. After all, there are times when we need to get something done, times when an argument really matters.

But why not try? If you dare, stop reading and look at someone sitting near you. If you dare, imagine their childhood, their fears, their dreams. If you dare, actually ask them. Try, for a moment, to see a whole person. Maybe we can’t save the world — but, bit by bit, person by person, maybe we can make a place with more love and fewer masks.

MAGGIE YELLEN is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at margaret.yellen@yale.edu .

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“I’m not going to take any special interest money … when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.” LINDA MCMAHON CONN. U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE

CORRECTIONS MONDAY, OCT. 15

Cross Campus mistakenly stated that the inflatable movie screen that was to be used at Davenport College’s movie night last Friday blew away due to gusty wind. In fact, the movie screen did not blow away at all. It had previously been secured.

‘Cyanide’ talks web humor

Debate centers on character EMILIE FOYER/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Cyanide and Happiness author Rob DenBleyker develops ideas for strips by reading classical philosophy and collaborating with friends.

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BENJAMIN ACKERMAN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Both Senate candidates have attacked the other’s record.

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER In their third of four debates, U.S. Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon continued to evade describing specific policies in favor of criticizing one another’s pasts.

The candidates met at the Garde Arts center in New London, Conn. for a town hall-style debate sponsored by local TV channel WTNH and the New London Day, the city’s newspaper. After several polls last week gave Murphy, a Democrat, a small lead in the upcoming election to replace current U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67, the two candidates were eager to cast one another as unfit to represent Connecticut in the Senate. Though debate questions involved the candidates’ plans to restructure entitlement programs, their views on women’s access to contraception and U.S. involvement in Iran, both used their answers to blast each others’ records and personal character.

In one exchange, Murphy pointed out that, during her tenure as CEO of the wrestling television network WWE, McMahon took $10 million in tax cuts from the state and laid off over 100 workers.

“This is a perfect example of tax credits not creating jobs when a CEO puts herself ahead of dozens of her own employees,” he said.

McMahon countered that Murphy had not put forward a specific plan to bolster job growth or deal with climbing federal entitlement spending. She added that his record as a U.S. representative from Connecticut’s fifth district did not boast job creation.

“I don’t know why you haven’t already put forth your plan,” she said to Murphy during the debate.

“Why haven’t you already created these jobs? You haven’t created any jobs.”

Throughout the hour-long debate, both echoed stances that have been overshadowed by personal attacks from the other side. Murphy voiced his support for increased education spending, while McMahon opposed spending more money on public

schools without first strengthening the state’s economy. Murphy repeated his support to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans making less than $250,000 a year, while McMahon praised tax cuts as a way to bolster spending and create jobs.

On issues of defense, the two candidates came to a concensus: Both agreed that Congress should take stronger measures to combat possible cyberattacks, and both supported placing stronger economic sanctions on Iran.

Throughout the night, both candidates sought to cast doubt on their opponents’ honesty.

When McMahon dodged a question on whether she would consider raising the taxable salary cap for federal payroll taxes, Murphy accused her of shielding her true views on the topic because they would be unpalatable to her constituents. He then read a quote from McMahon at a Tea Party rally in April in which she supported phasing out entitlement programs as they exist today, but McMahon charged that he had read the quote out of context.

Unlike in past debates, neither candidate brought up the hotbutton controversies that have defined their race so far. McMahon avoided discussing a 2008 mortgage that Murphy received soon after a foreclosure while he sat on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee. And Murphy did not allude to McMahon’s 1976 bankruptcy, after which McMahon did not pay back any of her debts until her 2012 campaign against Murphy.

In his closing statement, Murphy emphasized that his record set him up to represent Connecticut’s interests in the U.S. Senate. McMahon, meanwhile, used her closing remarks to appeal to the crowd to elect the state’s first female senator — but no one heard, as a pre-programmed epidode of Law and Order interrupted McMahon’s remarks at 8 p.m.

The final debate between the two candidates will take place on Thursday in Hartford, Conn.

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

Upon arriving on campus Monday afternoon Rob DenBleyker tweeted: “If this is New Haven I’d hate to see the old one! [cue laugh track].”

DenBleyker, one of four authors of the popular web comic Cyanide and Happiness, came to New Haven for a Davenport College Master’s Tea, where he maintained the same sense of humor he displayed in the tweet as he answered questions from a crowd of 70 students. Cyanide and Happiness is known for its unusual, graphic and insensitive jokes and draws over one million visitors to its website every day. DenBleyker discussed the history and creative process behind the web comic, which he said often plays off the “darker side of humanity.”

“My inspiration comes from people and how horribly they treat each other,” DenBleyker said. “I don’t think of it in terms of what’s okay and what goes too far — just in terms of what’s funny and what’s not.”

DenBleyker and the other co-authors of Cyanide and

Happiness started working on the comic’s development in 2004. Though the comics were published daily beginning in 2005, the authors did not meet each other face-toface until the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. The comic’s popularity grew in part due to the authors’ unique sharing policy, which encourages readers to repost and re-blog comics, effectively allowing anyone to spread Cyanide and Happiness’ content.

I don’t think of it in terms of what’s okay and what goes to far, just in terms of what’s funny and what’s not.

ROB DENBLEYKER Co-author of Cyanide and Happiness At age 26, DenBleyker said he has not held a “real job” since he was 17. But his career in Internet humor started when, at 15, he founded “StickSuicide,” a website

devoted to animations and games graphically depicting the violent deaths of stick figures. While many of his Cyanide and Happiness stick figure characters have been ill-fated as well, he said he has at least “graduated from death humor to more mature themes like cancer and hookers.”

Cyanide and Happiness regularly makes jokes about abortion, suicide and AIDS. Responding to a student’s question about the extent to which the comic will make fun of these controversial topics, DenBleyker said the authors have not received a huge amount of serious negative feedback and do not intend to tone down the edginess of their comics.

The comic DenBleyker referenced that got the most laughs out of the crowd was one in which a young boy cries for four panels over the mangled corpse of his father who just got hit by a car.

In an effort to come up with the high volume of content a daily comic series requires, DenBleyker said he develops comic ideas by reading classic philosophy texts, writing for up to ten hours a day, and

collaborating with friends.

Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld said DenBleyker’s creative process resembles that of Yale students in their studies.

Three students interviewed at the event, who all read Cyanide and Happiness daily, said they enjoyed hearing DenBleyker discuss his work.

“We need a reminder in this gray, crime-ridden city that the rest of the world is this depressing,” said Natalia Dashan ’16, who attended the event.

After the Master’s Tea, a cluster of the comic’s fans converged around DenBleyker and asked him to sign their books. Though DenBleyker and the other authors have published two collections of Cyanide and Happiness’ strips, the site generates most of its revenue from advertising.

The website’s newest book, a collection of each year’s most depressing and distasteful comics, will be released next month.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.

YALE CONCERT BAND FALL CONCERT

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SOUND AND SMOKE, AMERICAN FANFARE IN WOOLSEY HALL An excited listener eagerly awaits the second half of the Yale Concert Band’s Fall Concert last Friday in Woolsey Hall. Along with several friends, he was participating in a local elementary school’s field trip to the concert. About 10 kids started out listening patiently and all but this little one had disappeared after intermission. He started dancing excitedly in his seat during the jazz drum set solo played by guest soloist Jonathan Allen MUS ’13.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Now all I have left is to pay the fine that I incurred for committing a ‘hate crime’ against what the city is now claiming is a ‘Jewish’ tree!” LIZ LEMON “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

Gilad Shalit makes rare public appearance GILAD SHALIT FROM PAGE 1 garnered significant attention on campus because his capture and eventual release captivated global Jewish communities.

“Essentially, the Jewish community around the world and in the U.S. got so attached to following Gilad’s story,” she said.

“After he was released, there was an incredible feeling of relief and pride. We wanted to be able to share that feeling with the Yale community.”

In 2006, Shalit was captured

by Hamas, a Palestinian political party considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and Europe, in a raid on the Israeli border that killed two of his unit members. He was released in a 2011 exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, a negotiation that met considerable international

GILAD SHALIT

From the day Gilad Shalit was released, we hoped to bring him and his unit to Yale in a celebration of their courage and moral leadership.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was 19-years-old when he was abducted by the radical Palestinian political party Hamas on June 25, 2006. Hamas held Shalit captive for more than five years in an unknown location within the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas reached a deal for a prisoner swap, and Shalit was released on Oct. 18, 2011, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners. Shalit is now a sports columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, a daily newspaper in Tel Aviv, for which he covered the NBA finals earlier this year.

AARON HAKIM ’13 Member of Eliezer Society attention.

Due to the soldiers’ high public profiles and the sensitive nature of their story in a broader political context, the event was closed to the press, said Danny Avraham ’15, who served in the Israeli military before coming to Yale.

Attendees said Shalit never spoke directly to the audience besides saying “Thank you” during the concluding remarks, though members of the unit answered audience questions through a translator. Shalit received a standing ovation from the audience when he was introduced with his unit, several attendees added.

Ellison said Hecht contacted her a few weeks ago about working as a student organizer for

ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES/CREATIVE COMMONS

Gilad Shalit salutes Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after landing in IDF airbase in the center of Israel Oct. 18, 2011. Shalit and his unit spoke in Davies Auditorium Monday. the event, which members of Eliezer had been planning since last year. She added that University administrators were minimally involved besides providing security for the event. Assistant Chief of Police Michael Patten said Yale assigned a supervisor and two police officers for the event, following normal security protocols.

Members of Eliezer, Slifka and YFI discussed whether or not to make the event open to the public, Ellison said, ultimately dis-

tributing tickets through several student organizations — including the Politic, Slifka, the Yale College Democrats and Yale International Relations Association — earlier this month.

Hill said in an interview with the News that the Yale community can learn from the values communicated in the experiences of Shalit and his unit in the Israel Defense Forces.

“What is important is the concept of not leaving a fellow soldier behind,” Hill said. “That’s

a major value in our civilization and in our military’s sense of the right way to do things.”

Though student groups featured Shalit himself as a speaker at the event in advertisements, a majority of students interviewed said they understood why Shalit did not talk about his own experience.

Will Jordan ’13 said he was not surprised that Shalit declined to speak because he thinks Shalit is still transitioning into civilian life.

But Leah Sarna ’14 said she thought the event was poorly organized and orchestrated, attributing her disappointment in part to “false advertising” that Shalit would speak.

“I don’t think I got anything out of it and that was upsetting,” she said.

Elizabeth Villarreal ’16 said she was surprised by the event’s unscrutinized assumption of an “unquestioned Israel-America alliance.”

Avraham said Shalit’s story

Students eye discounted NYC tickets FALL BREAK FROM PAGE 1 Yalies staying in New Haven, we recognized that it would be helpful to provide some services.”

The YCDO worked together with Vice President for Student Life Kim Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86, the YCC, WYBC radio station and the Undergraduate Organizations Committee to organize the events and services during fall break. On Tuesday evening, the YCDO will sponsor a block party on High Street with food vendors and a DJ. Later in the week, the Writing Center will provide writing workshops and the Science and Quantitative Reasoning Center will offer open houses with tutors, science and quantitative courses and research opportunities. In addition, the University plans to host a bowling night and a trip to Westfarms Mall in Farmington, Conn., as well as a bus ride to New York City for a day trip and another for the Yale-Columbia football game.

The YCC survey also asked students to outline potential activities they would like to see over the recess.

YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 said that most students requested

discounted bus trips to New York City.

Epps added that he thinks the YCC — together with the Dean’s Office and the other collaborating groups — was able to accomodate most other events students suggested.

Besides the activities offered, stu-

The block party was a creative event. On the other hand, the workshops are probably the last thing I would want to go to during break.

SEYI ADEYINKA ’15 dents will be able to eat brunch and dinner in all residential college dining halls throughout the break. The YCC had previously worked on this intiative over the summer, Gonzalez said.

All students interviewed said they think the cheaper bus tickets to New York City are the most helpful service offered by the University during fall

break. Two students said that it was “refreshing” to see Yale recognize that not all students can leave school for break.

Sophia Jia ’14 said she thinks that if the YCDO had notified students of these services and activities earlier, some students who have now made plans to go away for fall break may have decided to stay on campus.

Seyi Adeyinka ’15 said she is impressed by the range of activities and opportunities offered in Gentry’s email, but added that she does not think all are applicable to all undergraduates.

“The block party was a creative event,” she said. “On the other hand, the workshops are probably the last thing I would want to go to during break. For the freshmen however, they might be helpful.”

All emergency services will operate their normal schedule during fall break.

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

FA L L B R E A K F U N KICK-OFF, TUESDAY

Block party on High Street between Chapel and Elm, 8:00 p.m.-midnight.

ACADEMICS, WEDNESDAY

Listening and Note-taking Workshop, 11:00 a.m. - noon, LC 102 Writing Center Workshop, 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m., 35 Broadway TRAVEL, WEDNESDAY

Bus to NYC leaves from Phelps Gate at 9:00 a.m. Round trip cost is $10.

ACADEMICS, THURSDAY

Science and QR Center Open House, 4:00-5:30 p.m., SSS410.

SHOPPING, FRIDAY

Bus to Westfarms Mall leaves from Phelps Gate at noon.

SPORTS, SATURDAY

Bus to the Yale/Columbia Game leaves from Phelps Gate at 9:00 a.m.

TGIWEEKEND YOU LIVE FIVE DAYS FOR TWO.

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carries an additional emotional aspect for Israelis on campus. After the event, Avraham gave the entire unit a tour of Yale’s campus, and he said they were excited when they noticed Hebrew on the Yale crest.

Gilad Shalit was a Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Menocal leaves mark on humanities MENOCAL FROM PAGE 1 Yale News. Her 2002 book, “The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain,” has been translated into several languages and is slated to be adapted into a television documentary.

[María Rosa Menocal’s] passions inspired and energized her students and colleagues.

RICHARD LEVIN University president Menocal served as director of graduate studies and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese before stepping into her role at the Whitney.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Menocal attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.A. in Romance languages, an M.A. in French and a Ph.D in Romance philology. After teaching at Penn and at Bryn Mawr College, Menocal joined the Yale faculty in 1986, teaching Spanish and Portuguese. She became a tenured professor in 1992.

Menocal is survived by her parents, three siblings, husband, ex-husband, two children and one grandchild.

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

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NEWS

The first Venice Biennale exhibition took place in 1895.

The event was intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of King Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy. It featured both well- and lesser-known artists, each of whom could participate with no more than two works.

Curator outlines development

Grad school honors alums

BY AMY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Museum curator Viktor Misiano related anecdotal challenges in adapting a “collaborative” approach to artistic presentation.

BY NITIKA KHAITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Monday lecture at the School of Art exposed members of the Yale community to a myriad of anecdotes about the curating process: from the effect of political upheavals on art exhibits to an artist’s unforeseen decision to perform naked as a dog and to bite audience members.

International curator and art critic Viktor Misiano, who spoke as part of the school’s Monday night lecture series, explored his creative development as a curator for an audience of about 30.

Misiano, who has curated exhibitions at several museums in Russia, focused his talk on his more innovative curating creations, rather than the more conventional exhibits he worked on early in life.

Although curating is a primarily intellectual endeavor, Misiano also spoke to the logistical hassles that force the curator to look at the exhibit in a new light.

“I want to think about curatorship as a permanent challenge,” he said.

Misiano said he transitioned from his role as a mediator between various artists to a storyteller focused on conveying a historical narrative to an activist engaging with contemporary political issues over the course of his career.

In 1995, for instance, Misiano was invited to curate the Russian Pavilion in the biannual Venice Biennale international art festival, where he said he acted as a curator focused on facilitating collaboration and dialogue between the artists.

But he also provided the audience with an example of how the collab-

orative method can fail. Misiano said that in 1996, he co-curated the “Interpol” exhibit in Stockholm with Swedish curator Jan Aman. Meant to serve as a metaphor for the European condition in the post-Berlin world by bringing artists from different regions into the same artistic tradition, the exhibition was a “total disaster,” Misiano said.

He explained that the Swedish artists had grown up in an art bubble, shielded from outside influence, and were thus uncomfortable with the idea of collaboration.

The audience that came to see the opening [was confronted] with the disgusting screaming of a newly converted musician.

VIKTOR MISIANO International curator and art critic Misiano jokingly described the dinner with all the artists before opening day as “The Last Supper”: During the meal, Russian artist Alexander Brener declared he did not want to be an artist any longer under such conditions and would instead become a musician. At the opening, he played the drums for the first time in his life and physically destroyed many of the exhibition pieces, changing the exhibition’s focus from collaboration to his work alone.

“The audience that came to see the opening [was confronted] with the dis-

gusting screaming of a newly converted musician,” Misiano said.

Oleg Kulik, another artist involved in the project, declared that he hated humans and did not want to work with them, leading him to perform naked as a dog, Misiano said. He caused an “enormous, enormous scandal” by biting audience members, Misiano said, adding that he co-edited a book on the subject.

Misiano said he faced another challenge during a 1991 Moscow exhibition, which featured “fresh and crazy” young artists to emphasize perestroika and what then-USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev called “Russia’s return to the civilized return of nations.” A week before the exhibition’s scheduled start, Misiano received news of the coup d’état against Gorbachev and phone calls from artists asking if the exhibition would still be held. He replied that it would, saying that if the coup lasted three days, the exhibition would be one of victory and celebration; if the coup lasted three months, it would be one of resistance.

Ria Roberts ART ’15 said she feels it is important to understand the political aspect of art history so as to better understand what contemporary artists can do in politically troubled situations. Darja Bajagic ART ’14 said she enjoyed gaining an understanding of how different artists work.

Misiano has held curator positions at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Center in Moscow.

Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu .

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were welcomed back to campus last week to accept the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals and hold public talks on their respective career fields.

The Graduate School Alumni Association gave the awards to recognize distinguished achievements in the areas of scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service — the areas in which Wilbur Cross 1885 GRD 1889 himself excelled. The medalists — ecologist John D. Aber ’71 GRD ’76, historian Alfred W. McCoy GRD ’77, linguist Sarah Grey Thomason GRD ’68 and scientist and entrepreneur Jonathan M. Rothberg GRD ’91 — were chosen by a selection committee to receive the medal, which is the graduate school’s highest honor.

They spoke in four separate lectures on Thursday about ecosystems, global surveillance, linguistic change and DNA sequencing.

“I am deeply honored,” said McCoy. “The whole event was the most elegant thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.”

All four honorees said that their academic experiences at Yale shaped much of their career paths and interests. McCoy and Rothberg said they both looked up to mentors in their departments who led them to pursue their current paths.

Aber said that as a undergraduate at Yale, he appreciated the independence given to students when choosing a field of interest to pursue, and was surprised at the lasting effect of the positive intellectual environment.

“There was a tremendous freedom and respect for students and their ability to pick a path and follow it,” Aber said. “It was a very intense time — a really rich intellectual environment. I didn’t think it would resonate so much.”

Aber, who conducts research on climate change and ecosystems at the University of New Hampshire, said his Thursday talk on ecosystems and agriculture was well-received, which he said demonstrated college students’ growing interest in creating an environmentally friendly food industry. One student even suggested that the sustainable food movement could be the “next edge for student activism,” he said, adding that most recently, Aber has focused on sustainable agriculture practices.

McCoy, a history professor at the University of WisconsinMadison, said he thought the discussion during the question-

and-answer period of his talk on the history of surveillance was “lively” and thought-provoking.

During his time at Yale, McCoy published a book on covert Central Intelligence Agency surveillance that met considerable political controversy. He said he was “stunned” to receive the award because of the intense scrutiny surrounding his book, including a period of academic probation at Yale and an investigation into his academic affairs. He added that he found his reception back on campus “very welcoming” and that he felt his work was validated.

It was a very intense time — a really rich intellectual environment.

ALFRED M. MCCOY GRD ’76 Rothberg studied chemical engineering as an undergraduate and later worked in the field of molecular biology at Yale, where he was able to apply engineering principles to develop technologies for understanding the human genome. As the founder and CEO of Torrent Systems Inc. — a company based in Guilford, Conn., that develops DNA sequencing systems — Rothberg said he was happy to see students and faculty express interest in his work.

“It’s great to be recognized for one’s work, and it’s even better for me to be recognized locally,” he said. “It’s better when the award is next door and your family can go attend.”

Thomason, who works as a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, said in an email to the News that receiving the medal reminded her of the appreciation she felt toward Yale as the only woman in the linguistic graduate program in her class year. During her time as a graduate student, she said, the University prepared her well for her academic career and gave her the same treatment as male students, even though male faculty and students far outnumbered female ones.

“They might not have wanted to hire women faculty [at the time], but I was treated like all the other students,” she said.

In addition to their public lectures, the four award recipients attended a private medal ceremony with their family and friends.

Contact AMY WANG at xiaotian.wang@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” ROBERT FROST AMERICAN POET

New fossil may end mollusk evolution debate

BY JESSICA HALLAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MICHAEL MCHUGH

An unassuming, golf ball-sized rock unearthed from volcanic ash in the United Kingdom has flipped the scientific community upside down.

A paper released in the scientific journal “Nature” Oct. 3 detailed the newly discovered evolutionary implications of the fossil Kulindroplax perissokomos. Yale and United Kingdom researchers found the fossil approximately a decade ago in the Herefordshire fossil deposit in the Welsh borderlands. The Kulindroplax fossil could resolve the long-lasting dispute about the evolutionary relationships of shelled chitons and shell-less Aplacophorans, two classes of mollusk.

Bristol University’s Jakob Vinther, who helped with the research, said traditional hypotheses state that shelled mollusks evolved from their shell-less counterparts. However, evidence collected over recent years supports the contrary argument, which suggests the worm-like shape of Aplacophorans is a derivative of something much like a chiton. Kulindroplax delivers the physical evidence necessary to prove that the worm-like body of the Aplacophorans evolved from shelled chitons.

“To understand where mollusks fit in the big tree of life you need to understand what the most primitive mollusks looks like,” said Imperial College London professor Mark D. Sutton, the lead author of the paper.

Kulindroplax has characteristics of both the shelled chitons and shell-less Aplacophorans, Sutton said. Whereas chitons have shells, spicules and a large, flat foot for mobility, Aplacophorans have no shell and no foot, but instead possess a round, wormlike body.

To determine Kulindroplax’s morphology, researchers had to create a threedimensional image of the fossil. Scientists had to repeatedly grind away small portions of the fossil and, after washing the remaining structure, photograph the exposed portion of the fossil at micronlength distances. These photos were then compiled into a digital three-dimensional reconstruction of the entire Kulindroplax specimen. This virtual image is now all that remains of the fossil, which was completely ground away.

Through this reconstruction, the researchers were able to deduce that Kulindroplax had a series of seven shells, spicules, no foot and a wormlike body.

Therefore, Kulindroplax is an intermediate between shelled and shell-less mollusks, said co-researcher Derek E.G. Briggs, Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Vinther said the research done on Kulindroplax has sufficiently shut down the argument that chitons evolved from Aplocophorans.

“With this discovery we really put the nail in the coffin of the traditional hypothesis, and radically,” Vinther said.

The Kulindroplax fossil evidence, Briggs said, confirms genetic evidence from

FES researcher talks metal recycling

BY MAREK RAMILO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Industrial ecology professor Thomas Graedel and associate research scientist Barbara Reck of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies recently published a paper in “Science” calling for an improvement in the recycling of scarce specialty metals. Current techniques do not favor scarce metal recycling, and as a result, specialty metals are inefficiently recycled. In addition, manufacturers are only just learning of the economic benefits of following recycling practices. A lack of recycled rare metals — such as indium, tantalum and europium — have led manufacturers to use up has dwindling supply because these specialty metals are the only ones that can serve their respective production purpose. Reck, who contends that a feasible solution is to collect and recycle these metals more effectively, spoke with the News Friday afternoon. you provide some backQCould ground that led you to consider this policy?

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We have 60 metals on the periodic table, and 10 to 15 are the big ones — iron, aluminum, copper. What we found is that these are recycled relatively well: once they’re used in products and discarded at the end of their life, more than half of them come back and are recycled. And we have a few metals, those that we call specialty metals, which are currently not recycled at all at end-of-life, or only very little.

there are efforts currently QBut being made to recycle these specialty metals?

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Researchers at the Yale School of Forestry support a rare metals recycling policy.

A

They are sometimes recycled — not from end-of-life products, but during the manu-

facture of products. Here, they are recycled for two reasons: One, the fabricators are very well aware of the value that’s in these particular materials, and two, these are clean materials that are not contaminated through mixing during the use phase or at end-of-life collection.

Q

What are some of the applications of these specialty metals?

A

Indium, for example, is required for LCD technology used in televisions and touch screens for smartphones. There, it is currently non-substitutable.

It is concerning to see how rapidly the use of these LCDs is growing when we consider that indium is currently entirely supplied from primary sources, while no recycled material is being used. Another example is tantalum, which is widely used in capacitors found in many electronics.

Q

On the note of substitutability, is it worth researching whether or not certain elements can be substituted for, as opposed to conceding that another element cannot be found for a given function, which in turn increases the need for recycling?

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Yes, this is a huge topic, and there’s a lot of research going on. For example, indium in LCD technology — do we really need indium, or are there other material combinations that would provide similar properties? In a lot of these technologies, there is quite good knowledge where we have more substitution possibilities.

But then there are some key applications for which no substitute materials can be used.

there hope for something QIssynthetic or artificial for these purposes?

molecular sequences in DNA and proteins that also refutes the traditional argument, Briggs said. He added that he would be surprised if the scientific community did not accept Kulindroplax as definitive evidence of the evolutionary history of mollusks.

Yale University ecology and evolutionary professor Thomas Near said that Kulindroplax provides a line of evidence for the evolution of mollusks that has never existed before — evidence that turns the traditionally accepted evolutionary path of the mollusk on its head. A re-evaluation of the data, he added, would have to argue against Kulindroplax’s classification as an Aplacophoran.

“This is the missing link that the model predicts,” said Briggs. “It’s confirming what we thought based on molecular evolution — the controversy is resolved.”

Or, at least, it is resolved for now. Briggs said there is always the possibility that new evidence, such as different gene sequences, could come along and derail what is currently accepted as the truth. Since evolutionary biology is an inference-based science, these disputes are never completely settled, Sutton said. He said he hopes, however, that the strength of the newly discovered fossil evidence will shift people from the opposing camp into his own.

Researchers from the University of Leicester and Queens University Belfast also contributed to the paper.

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

Study links genetics, autism

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers have come one step closer to unraveling the genetic origins of autism.

A study examining the relationship between genetic abnormalities and autism, which appeared online on Oct. 9, is slated for later publication in the journal “Molecular Psychiatry.” Yale School of Medicine psychiatry resident Daniel Moreno De Luca, the study’s lead author, said the researchers were interested in a particular kind of autismrelated genetic abnormality called Copy Number Variant, or CNV. CNV abnormalities display increased amounts of DNA and are distinct from genetic mutations, which show a deficiency of DNA, he said.

“There are many different genetic causes for autism,” he said. “Some places in the human genome are more predisposed to it.”

De Luca said the additional Yale authors of the project, Stephan J.

Sanders GRD ’17, A. Jeremy Willsey GRD ’16 and Matthew State GRD ’01, looked for CNVs in three large databases — the Simons Simplex Collection, the Autism Genome Research Exchange and the Autism Genome Project. From these databases, the project team monitored 30,000 documented cases of neurological patients and also observed a controlled population of 13,000.

CNVs were found to be more common in the population of neurological patients than in the controlled population, indicating that CNVs were correlated with autism, De Luca said.

Willsey, a graduate student working towards his Ph.D. in genetics, said the researchers also observed factors affecting the prevalence of autism among siblings — genetically and environmentally matched siblings showed different probabilities of developing the disease. He added that the Simons Foundation’s database provided the researchers with a record of 2,650 “simplex families,”

which consist of two parents, one offspring with autism and another unaffected by the disease.

The study has laid out a clear path to finding the genes central to autism, Willsey said, as nobody had previously categorized these mutations as carrying risks for the disease.

Autism spectrum disorders are amongst the most poorly understood.

ANDREW TIMBERLAKE ’11 GRD ’18 MED ’19 “We have to take these genes and say what’s actually happening in autism,” he said. “That’s the next step.”

De Luca said the research provides statistical evidence suggesting that CNVs have clinical relevance in detecting autism. He added that

he would like to continue observing mutations and CNVs in patients and that he is currently participating in a sequencing project that observes each DNA base pair.

Andrew Timberlake ’11 GRD ’18 MED ’19 said the CNV research exemplifies the vast resources and established collaborations that make Yale ideal for biomedical research.

“Autism spectrum disorders are among the most poorly understood,” Timberlake said. “These findings contribute to a greater understanding of the genetic etiology of such disorders, which will hopefully lead to more efficient diagnosis and clinical management.”

All the sequencing conducted for the project was performed at the Yale Center for Genomic Analysis, located on West Campus, Willsey said.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .

Neural activity necessary for vision

BY HARVEY XIA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have demonstrated in living mice that a spontaneous wave of neural activity occuring in early mammalian development is crucial for proper brain development.

Michael Crair, professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, James Ackman, postdoctoral fellow and Timothy Burbridge GRD ’14 published an article in the Oct. 10 issue of the scientific journal “Nature” presenting their findings.

Crair said the findings have “fundamental implications” for understanding diseases and that mental illnesses such as autism or schizophrenia could potentially be linked to disruptions of the neural burst.

“For the first time, we’ve shown explicitly that this spontaneous activity exists in vivo and propagates all the way up into the higherorder brain structures, like the cortex,” Crair said. This wave of neural activity, which originates in the ret-

ina, plays an important role in priming the development of vision, Ackman said.

For the first time, we’ve shown explicitly that this spontaneous activity exists in vivo and propagates all the way up into the higher order brain structures, like the cortex.

MICHAEL CRAIR Professor of neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine Research on this topic has been conducted in the past, but Crair’s study is the first to observe the activity in live animals.

This study has “confirmed a lot

that people have suspected for a long time,” Burbridge said.

Using a technique called photon microscopy, Crair and his team created a fluroescent image of the mouse nervous system that allowed them to visualize the burst.

Ackman said the waves are caused by interactions between different cells in the retina, but the precise mechanism remains unknown. The wave is spontaneous, meaning that it does not require external sensory input to occur. This phenomenon is analogous to dreaming, in which human brains exhibit spontaneous activity even though we are not receiving significant environmental stimuli.

“I think it’s amazing that even in the womb there is ongoing, patterned activity in the developing brain, which is essential for wiring the brain,” Crair said. “If you disrupt that activity, then the wiring of the brain gets messed up.”

This research could provide a more complete explanation as to why smoking and drinking alcohol

are detrimental to a baby’s growth in the womb. For instance, the study shows that the neural burst involves acetylcholine receptors, which are the same neural receptors involved in nicotine addiction. Because nicotine activates these receptors, the presence of the drug could alter the neural burst and potentially affect the development of the fetus’s nervous system.

Though the research was conducted in mice, the information can be applied to understanding how human brains develop. Ackman said mammalian nervous systems follow similar principles of organization.

“The power of genetic technologies in mice makes them a very powerful model.”

Further study is necessary to elucidate the exact relationship between developmental diseases and the spontaneous burst of neural activity.

Contact HARVEY XIA at harvey.xia@yale.edu .

Smoking bans in bars may cut drinking

A

In some cases you have nanotechnology that can come in. Sometimes you have a substitute that’s not a metal, like PVC or ceramics.

else must one consider in QWhat the recycling process?

A

One of the key factors for efficient recycling is economics.

Economies of scale play a major role. That’s much easier to achieve for iron than for lithium.

this — getting economies of QIsscale — feasible with the specialty metals addressed in this policy?

A

That is currently a big challenge, and often it is not the case. If something is recycled at end-of-life, you have two other aspects [to consider]: Is it technologically feasible, and do I have enough material to allow economies of scale for this to make sense? We find both. We find those that are easily recyclable, that can be reprocessed with the same technology as the primary ores.

But then, there are a lot of metals, where, until a few years ago, nobody even thought about [recycling] because they were used in so small amounts and the technology is more complicated.

some form of polluQIstionthere reduction that comes as a

result of recycling specialty metals?

A

Yes, you have much lower energy requirements when you recycle metals — up to 70 to 90 percent less energy when you use recycled materials as opposed to primary metals. That means lower carbon dioxide emissions, so there is definitely a big difference.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Smoking bans in bars may reduce alcohol consumption, according to a recent Yale School of Medicine study.

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A study conducted by the Yale School of Medicine has found that states with smoking bans in bars may also have higher recovery rates from alcohol use disorder, or AUD. Past data have shown that smokers are four times as likely as non-smokers to have AUD, and approximately 35 percent of individuals with AUD are nicotine-dependent. However, the Yale study was the first in the country to observe the relationship between smoking bans in bars and AUD remission rates. The study’s findings were published in the journal “Drug and Alcohol Dependence” in late September.

Using information collected by the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, researchers analyzed data that surveyed

19,763 citizens in 49 states from 2001-’02 and 2004’05. Almost 85 percent of the study’s participants came from states that do not have smoke-free bar policies. The other 15 percent came from the eight states in the country that do — Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

“Smoking and drinking are considered complements, so if smoking becomes more difficult, use of alcohol may decline,” said Jody Sindelar, one of the study’s lead authors and a professor at both the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. “This would be likely to occur in bars in which smoking is banned.”

Professor Kurt Ribisl of the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health said the findings were intriguing. Smoking bans, he

said, were originally created to decrease tobacco smoke in public places and private establishments, but this finding adds a new boon to a longfought public health campaign.

Yet policy recommendations related to smoking bans in bars may not necessarily result from this study.

“This is not a strong enough study, with strong enough results linked to causality, for which you could make [a policy] recommendation and not be faced with a lot of criticism,” said Adam Goldstein, Professor at the UNC School of Medicine and Director of the UNC Nicotine Dependence Program.

Location-specific smoking bans, Goldstein added, may not necessarily lead to an overall decrease in smoking — only smoking in those locations.

This principle may extend to

alcohol consumption as well, he said.

In order to prove causality between bar smoking bans and AUD, Goldstein said, experiments would need to eliminate existing differences in factors besides the presence or absence of a smoking ban. Both Goldstein and Ribisl said states with smoking bans in bars tend to focus more on public health and may already have strong campaigns focusing on AUD. Although causality has yet to be proven, Ribisl added that studies establishing relationships usually occur before those determining causality.

“It’s the natural evolution of research,” he said.

The study was funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Approximately 35 percent of individuals with alcohol use disorder are nicotine-dependent.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” ROBERT FROST AMERICAN POET

New fossil may end mollusk evolution debate

BY JESSICA HALLAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MICHAEL MCHUGH

An unassuming, golf ball-sized rock unearthed from volcanic ash in the United Kingdom has flipped the scientific community upside down.

A paper released in the scientific journal “Nature” Oct. 3 detailed the newly discovered evolutionary implications of the fossil Kulindroplax perissokomos. Yale and United Kingdom researchers found the fossil approximately a decade ago in the Herefordshire fossil deposit in the Welsh borderlands. The Kulindroplax fossil could resolve the long-lasting dispute about the evolutionary relationships of shelled chitons and shell-less Aplacophorans, two classes of mollusk.

Bristol University’s Jakob Vinther, who helped with the research, said traditional hypotheses state that shelled mollusks evolved from their shell-less counterparts. However, evidence collected over recent years supports the contrary argument, which suggests the worm-like shape of Aplacophorans is a derivative of something much like a chiton. Kulindroplax delivers the physical evidence necessary to prove that the worm-like body of the Aplacophorans evolved from shelled chitons.

“To understand where mollusks fit in the big tree of life you need to understand what the most primitive mollusks looks like,” said Imperial College London professor Mark D. Sutton, the lead author of the paper.

Kulindroplax has characteristics of both the shelled chitons and shell-less Aplacophorans, Sutton said. Whereas chitons have shells, spicules and a large, flat foot for mobility, Aplacophorans have no shell and no foot, but instead possess a round, wormlike body.

To determine Kulindroplax’s morphology, researchers had to create a threedimensional image of the fossil. Scientists had to repeatedly grind away small portions of the fossil and, after washing the remaining structure, photograph the exposed portion of the fossil at micronlength distances. These photos were then compiled into a digital three-dimensional reconstruction of the entire Kulindroplax specimen. This virtual image is now all that remains of the fossil, which was completely ground away.

Through this reconstruction, the researchers were able to deduce that Kulindroplax had a series of seven shells, spicules, no foot and a wormlike body.

Therefore, Kulindroplax is an intermediate between shelled and shell-less mollusks, said co-researcher Derek E.G. Briggs, Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Vinther said the research done on Kulindroplax has sufficiently shut down the argument that chitons evolved from Aplocophorans.

“With this discovery we really put the nail in the coffin of the traditional hypothesis, and radically,” Vinther said.

The Kulindroplax fossil evidence, Briggs said, confirms genetic evidence from

FES researcher talks metal recycling

BY MAREK RAMILO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Industrial ecology professor Thomas Graedel and associate research scientist Barbara Reck of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies recently published a paper in “Science” calling for an improvement in the recycling of scarce specialty metals. Current techniques do not favor scarce metal recycling, and as a result, specialty metals are inefficiently recycled. In addition, manufacturers are only just learning of the economic benefits of following recycling practices. A lack of recycled rare metals — such as indium, tantalum and europium — have led manufacturers to use up has dwindling supply because these specialty metals are the only ones that can serve their respective production purpose. Reck, who contends that a feasible solution is to collect and recycle these metals more effectively, spoke with the News Friday afternoon. you provide some backQCould ground that led you to consider this policy?

A

We have 60 metals on the periodic table, and 10 to 15 are the big ones — iron, aluminum, copper. What we found is that these are recycled relatively well: once they’re used in products and discarded at the end of their life, more than half of them come back and are recycled. And we have a few metals, those that we call specialty metals, which are currently not recycled at all at end-of-life, or only very little.

there are efforts currently QBut being made to recycle these specialty metals?

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Researchers at the Yale School of Forestry support a rare metals recycling policy.

A

They are sometimes recycled — not from end-of-life products, but during the manu-

facture of products. Here, they are recycled for two reasons: One, the fabricators are very well aware of the value that’s in these particular materials, and two, these are clean materials that are not contaminated through mixing during the use phase or at end-of-life collection.

Q

What are some of the applications of these specialty metals?

A

Indium, for example, is required for LCD technology used in televisions and touch screens for smartphones. There, it is currently non-substitutable.

It is concerning to see how rapidly the use of these LCDs is growing when we consider that indium is currently entirely supplied from primary sources, while no recycled material is being used. Another example is tantalum, which is widely used in capacitors found in many electronics.

Q

On the note of substitutability, is it worth researching whether or not certain elements can be substituted for, as opposed to conceding that another element cannot be found for a given function, which in turn increases the need for recycling?

A

Yes, this is a huge topic, and there’s a lot of research going on. For example, indium in LCD technology — do we really need indium, or are there other material combinations that would provide similar properties? In a lot of these technologies, there is quite good knowledge where we have more substitution possibilities.

But then there are some key applications for which no substitute materials can be used.

there hope for something QIssynthetic or artificial for these purposes?

molecular sequences in DNA and proteins that also refutes the traditional argument, Briggs said. He added that he would be surprised if the scientific community did not accept Kulindroplax as definitive evidence of the evolutionary history of mollusks.

Yale University ecology and evolutionary professor Thomas Near said that Kulindroplax provides a line of evidence for the evolution of mollusks that has never existed before — evidence that turns the traditionally accepted evolutionary path of the mollusk on its head. A re-evaluation of the data, he added, would have to argue against Kulindroplax’s classification as an Aplacophoran.

“This is the missing link that the model predicts,” said Briggs. “It’s confirming what we thought based on molecular evolution — the controversy is resolved.”

Or, at least, it is resolved for now. Briggs said there is always the possibility that new evidence, such as different gene sequences, could come along and derail what is currently accepted as the truth. Since evolutionary biology is an inference-based science, these disputes are never completely settled, Sutton said. He said he hopes, however, that the strength of the newly discovered fossil evidence will shift people from the opposing camp into his own.

Researchers from the University of Leicester and Queens University Belfast also contributed to the paper.

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

Study links genetics, autism

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers have come one step closer to unraveling the genetic origins of autism.

A study examining the relationship between genetic abnormalities and autism, which appeared online on Oct. 9, is slated for later publication in the journal “Molecular Psychiatry.” Yale School of Medicine psychiatry resident Daniel Moreno De Luca, the study’s lead author, said the researchers were interested in a particular kind of autismrelated genetic abnormality called Copy Number Variant, or CNV. CNV abnormalities display increased amounts of DNA and are distinct from genetic mutations, which show a deficiency of DNA, he said.

“There are many different genetic causes for autism,” he said. “Some places in the human genome are more predisposed to it.”

De Luca said the additional Yale authors of the project, Stephan J.

Sanders GRD ’17, A. Jeremy Willsey GRD ’16 and Matthew State GRD ’01, looked for CNVs in three large databases — the Simons Simplex Collection, the Autism Genome Research Exchange and the Autism Genome Project. From these databases, the project team monitored 30,000 documented cases of neurological patients and also observed a controlled population of 13,000.

CNVs were found to be more common in the population of neurological patients than in the controlled population, indicating that CNVs were correlated with autism, De Luca said.

Willsey, a graduate student working towards his Ph.D. in genetics, said the researchers also observed factors affecting the prevalence of autism among siblings — genetically and environmentally matched siblings showed different probabilities of developing the disease. He added that the Simons Foundation’s database provided the researchers with a record of 2,650 “simplex families,”

which consist of two parents, one offspring with autism and another unaffected by the disease.

The study has laid out a clear path to finding the genes central to autism, Willsey said, as nobody had previously categorized these mutations as carrying risks for the disease.

Autism spectrum disorders are amongst the most poorly understood.

ANDREW TIMBERLAKE ’11 GRD ’18 MED ’19 “We have to take these genes and say what’s actually happening in autism,” he said. “That’s the next step.”

De Luca said the research provides statistical evidence suggesting that CNVs have clinical relevance in detecting autism. He added that

he would like to continue observing mutations and CNVs in patients and that he is currently participating in a sequencing project that observes each DNA base pair.

Andrew Timberlake ’11 GRD ’18 MED ’19 said the CNV research exemplifies the vast resources and established collaborations that make Yale ideal for biomedical research.

“Autism spectrum disorders are among the most poorly understood,” Timberlake said. “These findings contribute to a greater understanding of the genetic etiology of such disorders, which will hopefully lead to more efficient diagnosis and clinical management.”

All the sequencing conducted for the project was performed at the Yale Center for Genomic Analysis, located on West Campus, Willsey said.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .

Neural activity necessary for vision

BY HARVEY XIA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have demonstrated in living mice that a spontaneous wave of neural activity occuring in early mammalian development is crucial for proper brain development.

Michael Crair, professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, James Ackman, postdoctoral fellow and Timothy Burbridge GRD ’14 published an article in the Oct. 10 issue of the scientific journal “Nature” presenting their findings.

Crair said the findings have “fundamental implications” for understanding diseases and that mental illnesses such as autism or schizophrenia could potentially be linked to disruptions of the neural burst.

“For the first time, we’ve shown explicitly that this spontaneous activity exists in vivo and propagates all the way up into the higherorder brain structures, like the cortex,” Crair said. This wave of neural activity, which originates in the ret-

ina, plays an important role in priming the development of vision, Ackman said.

For the first time, we’ve shown explicitly that this spontaneous activity exists in vivo and propagates all the way up into the higher order brain structures, like the cortex.

MICHAEL CRAIR Professor of neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine Research on this topic has been conducted in the past, but Crair’s study is the first to observe the activity in live animals.

This study has “confirmed a lot

that people have suspected for a long time,” Burbridge said.

Using a technique called photon microscopy, Crair and his team created a fluroescent image of the mouse nervous system that allowed them to visualize the burst.

Ackman said the waves are caused by interactions between different cells in the retina, but the precise mechanism remains unknown. The wave is spontaneous, meaning that it does not require external sensory input to occur. This phenomenon is analogous to dreaming, in which human brains exhibit spontaneous activity even though we are not receiving significant environmental stimuli.

“I think it’s amazing that even in the womb there is ongoing, patterned activity in the developing brain, which is essential for wiring the brain,” Crair said. “If you disrupt that activity, then the wiring of the brain gets messed up.”

This research could provide a more complete explanation as to why smoking and drinking alcohol

are detrimental to a baby’s growth in the womb. For instance, the study shows that the neural burst involves acetylcholine receptors, which are the same neural receptors involved in nicotine addiction. Because nicotine activates these receptors, the presence of the drug could alter the neural burst and potentially affect the development of the fetus’s nervous system.

Though the research was conducted in mice, the information can be applied to understanding how human brains develop. Ackman said mammalian nervous systems follow similar principles of organization.

“The power of genetic technologies in mice makes them a very powerful model.”

Further study is necessary to elucidate the exact relationship between developmental diseases and the spontaneous burst of neural activity.

Contact HARVEY XIA at harvey.xia@yale.edu .

Smoking bans in bars may cut drinking

A

In some cases you have nanotechnology that can come in. Sometimes you have a substitute that’s not a metal, like PVC or ceramics.

else must one consider in QWhat the recycling process?

A

One of the key factors for efficient recycling is economics.

Economies of scale play a major role. That’s much easier to achieve for iron than for lithium.

this — getting economies of QIsscale — feasible with the specialty metals addressed in this policy?

A

That is currently a big challenge, and often it is not the case. If something is recycled at end-of-life, you have two other aspects [to consider]: Is it technologically feasible, and do I have enough material to allow economies of scale for this to make sense? We find both. We find those that are easily recyclable, that can be reprocessed with the same technology as the primary ores.

But then, there are a lot of metals, where, until a few years ago, nobody even thought about [recycling] because they were used in so small amounts and the technology is more complicated.

some form of polluQIstionthere reduction that comes as a

result of recycling specialty metals?

A

Yes, you have much lower energy requirements when you recycle metals — up to 70 to 90 percent less energy when you use recycled materials as opposed to primary metals. That means lower carbon dioxide emissions, so there is definitely a big difference.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Smoking bans in bars may reduce alcohol consumption, according to a recent Yale School of Medicine study.

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A study conducted by the Yale School of Medicine has found that states with smoking bans in bars may also have higher recovery rates from alcohol use disorder, or AUD. Past data have shown that smokers are four times as likely as non-smokers to have AUD, and approximately 35 percent of individuals with AUD are nicotine-dependent. However, the Yale study was the first in the country to observe the relationship between smoking bans in bars and AUD remission rates. The study’s findings were published in the journal “Drug and Alcohol Dependence” in late September.

Using information collected by the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, researchers analyzed data that surveyed

19,763 citizens in 49 states from 2001-’02 and 2004’05. Almost 85 percent of the study’s participants came from states that do not have smoke-free bar policies. The other 15 percent came from the eight states in the country that do — Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

“Smoking and drinking are considered complements, so if smoking becomes more difficult, use of alcohol may decline,” said Jody Sindelar, one of the study’s lead authors and a professor at both the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. “This would be likely to occur in bars in which smoking is banned.”

Professor Kurt Ribisl of the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health said the findings were intriguing. Smoking bans, he

said, were originally created to decrease tobacco smoke in public places and private establishments, but this finding adds a new boon to a longfought public health campaign.

Yet policy recommendations related to smoking bans in bars may not necessarily result from this study.

“This is not a strong enough study, with strong enough results linked to causality, for which you could make [a policy] recommendation and not be faced with a lot of criticism,” said Adam Goldstein, Professor at the UNC School of Medicine and Director of the UNC Nicotine Dependence Program.

Location-specific smoking bans, Goldstein added, may not necessarily lead to an overall decrease in smoking — only smoking in those locations.

This principle may extend to

alcohol consumption as well, he said.

In order to prove causality between bar smoking bans and AUD, Goldstein said, experiments would need to eliminate existing differences in factors besides the presence or absence of a smoking ban. Both Goldstein and Ribisl said states with smoking bans in bars tend to focus more on public health and may already have strong campaigns focusing on AUD. Although causality has yet to be proven, Ribisl added that studies establishing relationships usually occur before those determining causality.

“It’s the natural evolution of research,” he said.

The study was funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Approximately 35 percent of individuals with alcohol use disorder are nicotine-dependent.

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FROM THE FRONT

““I wasn’t sent to Washington to play it safe. I have something to show for what I’ve done.”

ARLEN SPECTER LAW ’56 U.S. SENATOR

Resident looks beyond poster design YSO ARTIST FROM PAGE 1 A committee of mostly English department faculty shortlisted Fadiman before she had even heard of the opening.

There is no grand strategy to residencies at Yale. A donor may approach Yale with a strong idea about the character of the residency, as Fadiman said occurred for her — or the Yale Office of Development will initiate the process. A lucky alumna could attach her name today to an artist-in-residence fellowship envisioned by the Development Office, just for $300,000.

NO COMMON THREAD

Chrislip’s residency is the newest chapter of the YSO brand, orchestra manager Brian Robinson said. Robinson reviewed School of Art portfolios and approached the students he liked.

He ultimately offered Chrislip a yearlong, paid contract to design the posters last month.

After accepting, Chrislip said he wanted to explore design’s relationship to music beyond the confines of an 8.5-by-11 flier — so he proposed a “residency.”

“I liked the idea of an organization supporting an individual in a context that they end up supporting each other,” Chrislip explained. So he offered a “residency.”

“We definitely had to ask him for clarification,” Robinson said.

“We were very curious about the idea. It was a new thought for us, a new way of going about it …

Getting a wider artistic purpose [was] intriguing.”

Since the YSO’s founding in 1965, the orchestra has hired artists like Christopher Pullman ART ’66 — now a professor at Yale — to create collectors’ items as much as advertisements. The posters were in such high demand that the YSO had to rip the edges of posters — known as “the YSO tear” — to deter their theft prior

to concerts, Robinson said.

Megan Jenkins ’14, the YSO’s president, said she thinks Chrislip’s residency will create continuity in this brand.

“By the end of the year, you could look at a poster and know that it was part of this YSO series of posters,” she said.

Chrislip described his non-

ABSTRACT DESIGN

I liked the idea of an organization supporting an individual in a context that they end up supporting each other.

MATTHEW CHRISLIP poster projects as “extracurricular,” and said he is careful to bill the YSO only for hours spent on poster design. But he also spends time diagramming, recording and researching music for the residency, he said.

The Yale College Dean’s Office provides a quarter of the YSO’s budget, from which Chrislip’s paycheck is drawn, Robinson said. The YCDO also manages the funds of the Francis residency, paying Fadiman’s salary and once subsidizing snacks at a public reading. The Dean’s Office manages other residencies as well such as the Rosencranz writing residency, held by poet Louise Glück.

But the oversight of residencies is far from transparent. Jane Phillips, the director of development for the School of Art, directed questions about the artist-in-residence fellowship to Art Dean Robert Storr, who didn’t know enough to comment.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon GRD ’78 said he couldn’t comment on managing particular funds either.

The duration of residencies

MATTHEW CHRISLIP

In his design residency with the YSO, Chrislip tests the orchestra’s visual identity as he tests his own ability. varies as well. The Tokyo String Quartet, a group in residence at the School of Music, came to Yale in 1977 and decided to stay until 2013. Fadiman said she received a three-year contract but has since signed two five-year extensions.

In that time Fadiman has made the residency her own, innovating beyond the contract’s loose requirements. She meets with her students individually for an hour every other week. She makes a point to go to her students’ plays.

She created the “Francis Conversations,” to bring esteemed writers to her class.

Fadiman is an example of an

artist who interacts with the student body and enjoys a creative benefit from the experience.

Every week she spends a night and two days on campus.

“When I’m at Yale, Yale is my universe,” she said. “I don’t have my family there. I don’t have any of my other work there. And I’m also not grading or preparing classes or reading when I’m at Yale. I spend every second when I’m on campus with students or faculty.”

While this devotion may not be the norm, it explains why the University has so much at stake investing in residencies.

Chrislip drew three circles — one solid, one dashed, one dotted — in a compact Venn diagram.

Below he drew a rhombus inside a rectangle inside a rhombus. It was a fractal. To make his first YSO poster, Chrislip had studied the composers featured in the YSO’s Oct. 6 show. He said he translated their techniques like counterpoint and polyrhythm into geometric designs.

But Chrislip said he does not want to peg his work in its early stage.

“It’s the sort of project that only will be completely transparent if you follow from the beginning to the end, because there is a recycling of ideas and a recycling of the same visual problems,” he said. He noted that he recycled musical concepts even in the layout of his website.

No one has tried to pigeonhole Chrislip, however. Excepting the YSO’s managing board, no one in the orchestra even knows who Chrislip is — the YSO has yet to announce the residency, Jenkins said.

But Chrislip’s work may be too esoteric to help the YSO brand.

“There is sort of a level of obscuring what I’m doing. It’s neither intentional nor unintentional,” Chrislip said.

Most of his work is abstract.

He provides some explanation on his website: a popup shaped like a question mark, links to Wikipedia articles on melody, harmony and fractals. He also said he’s open to reaching a greater audience.

“It’s sort of hard for me to get a sense of what [Chrislip] was doing,” said Gabriel Levine ’14, a bassoonist in the orchestra.

Levine said the first poster was not concert-specific. The design didn’t suggest “Brahms,” for example.

“I’m sure it’s very wellthought-out, but it doesn’t seem immediately compelling or evoc-

ative of the spirit of the music we play in the YSO,” Levine said.

The YSO residency may well end with Chrislip. Robinson said he would consider a residency next year, so long as the new designer met the needs of the orchestra. If the orchestra had enough funds, it probably would prioritize a composer-in-residence.

But for now, and for a year longer, Chrislip will test the orchestra’s visual identity as he tests his own ability. Fadiman agreed: A residency is a creative exchange.

“I feel that teaching is just as creative as writing,” Fadiman said. “And the success of students after they graduate of course is incredibly exciting to me; it’s much more exciting than my own success would be.”

Contact JEFFREY DASTIN at jeffrey.dastin@yale.edu .

MATTHEW CHRISLIP ART ’13 The 2012-2013 designer-in-residence for the YSO Interested in multi-disciplinary work and the confluence of art, design and music Designed clothing in his spare time. Visit http://dowland.us/ to vieww Recorded a New Jersey Transit bus to relate noise and rhythm. Visit http://sound.dowland.us/ to listen Built a nearly seven-foot-tall scaffold in his living room to be the center of his art experiments Views his art openly: he does not know how the residency will progress

Classmates recall Specter’s time at the Law School SPECTER FROM PAGE 1 ceded the end to his political career when he lost in the 2010 Democratic primaries. A politician whom President Barack Obama called “fiercely independent,” Specter was rarely partisan: he opposed gay marriage but held “pro-choice” beliefs and voted in favor of the Iraq War. Specter’s classmates at Yale said they will remember Specter for his academic excellence, his sense of humor and his unbiased approach to political issues.

“He distinguished himself by his principled positions on many issues, resulting in muchneeded legislation and funding, and he took those positions regardless of the political consequences,” said Jan Dubois LAW ’57, a federal judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Born in 1930, Specter grew up in Kansas, selling melons along-

side his father, Harry Specter, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine.

He attended Russell High School and the University of Oklahoma before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1951.

Specter had a warm personality and loved to make jokes, Dubois said, adding that Specter had remained in good spirits even while he battled cancer.

When Specter lost the Democratic primary in 2010, he turned his attention to an amateur comedy career, performing stand-up in Philadephia and New York.

“I’ve been in comedy now for 30 years,” Specter said at a comedy show in Philadelphia last December, referring to his career as a Senator. “The only difference is, it’s not stand-up — we all have comfortable chairs. It costs about 27 million dollars to win a seat, so when you win one, you like to sit down.”

Well before Specter’s political career began, he served in the United States Air Force before enrolling at the Yale Law School.

Dubois met Specter when he and his wife were invited for Sunday brunch at the Specters’ home in New Haven.

At the time, the Specters inhabitated one half of a quonset hut — a type of prefabricated metal structure used by the military during World War II — Dubois said. Clusters of these inexpensive buildings, erected at the foot of Science Hill and on the athletic fields, housed married Yale students, many of whom were veterans. “[The Specters] had to stoke their own coal furnace,” Dubois said. “It was far from luxurious.”

Despite his humble circumstances, Specter distinguished himself as an outstanding student at Yale Law School, winning prizes in competitions and serving as an editor of the Yale

Law Journal.

Jon Newman LAW ’56, a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, recalled competing with Specter — a college debater — against two other finalists in the Law School’s annual Moot Court competition. Specter won the prize for best oral presentation.

Specter remained a dedicated Law School alumnus, attending several reunions. An honorary member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee, he endowed a scholarship to the Law School in 2007 and hosted almost 80 members and guests from the Class of 1956 for a tour of the Capitol Building in 2008.

Specter is survived by his wife, Joan; sister, Shirley Kety; children, Shanin and Stephen; and four grandchildren.

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

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 11:50 AM Seeking Asylum, Finding God: Korean Chinese Migration to the US. Speaker Jaeeun Kim examines the migration careers, settlement patterns and legalization strategies of ethnic Korean migrants from northeast China (Korean Chinese henceforward) to the United States. Although focused on Korean Chinese, the project addresses questions of much more general import. Department of Sociology (210 Prospect St.), Rm. 203.

7:00 PM Bhangra Dance Lessons. The Yale Bhangra Society will be hosting bhangra lessons beginning Oct. 9. Bhangra is an aerobic dance from northern India so prepare for a fun time!

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White House mulls Detainees cooperate at 9/11 hearing Libya response

BY RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaidalinked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya.

But officials say the administration, with weeks until the presidential election, is weighing whether the shortterm payoff of exacting retribution on al-Qaida is worth the risk that such strikes could elevate the group’s profile in the region, alienate governments the U.S. needs to fight it in the future and do little to slow the growing terror threat in North Africa.

Details on the administration’s position and on its search for a possible target were provided by three current and one former administration official, as well as an analyst who was approached by the White House for help. All four spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the high-level debates publicly.

The dilemma shows the tension of the White House’s need to demonstrate it is responding forcefully to alQaida, balanced against its long-term plans to develop relationships and trust with local governments and build a permanent U.S. counterterrorist network in the region.

Vice President Joe Biden pledged in his debate last week with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan to find those responsible for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.

“We will find and bring to justice the men who did this,” Biden said in response to a question about whether intelligence failures led to lax security around Stevens and the consulate.

Referring back to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, Biden said American counterterror policy should be, “if you do harm to America, we will track you to the gates of hell if need be.”

The White House declined to comment on the debate over how best to respond to the Benghazi attack.

The attack has become an issue in the U.S. election season, with Republicans accusing the Obama administration of being slow to label the assault an act of terrorism early on, and slow to strike back at those responsible.

“They are aiming for a small pop, a flash in the pan, so as to be able to say,

‘Hey, we’re doing something about it,’” said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rudy Attalah, the former Africa counterterrorism director for the Department of Defense under President George W. Bush.

Attalah noted that in 1998, after the embassy bombing in Nairobi, the Clinton administration fired cruise missiles to take out a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan that may have been producing chemical weapons for al-Qaida.

“It was a way to say, `Look, we did something,’” he said.

A Washington-based analyst with extensive experience in Africa said that administration officials have approached him asking for help in connecting the dots to Mali, whose northern half fell to al-Qaida-linked rebels this spring. They wanted to know if he could suggest potential targets, which he says he was not able to do.

“The civilian side is looking into doing something, and is running into a lot of pushback from the military side,” the analyst said. “The resistance that is coming from the military side is because the military has both worked in the region and trained in the region.

So they are more realistic.”

Islamists in the region are preparing for a reaction from the U.S. “If America hits us, I promise you that we will multiply the Sept. 11 attack by 10,” said Oumar Ould Hamaha, a spokesman for the Islamists in northern Mali, while denying that his group or al-Qaida fighters based in Mali played a role in the Benghazi attack.

Finding the militants who overwhelmed a small security force at the consulate isn’t going to be easy.

The key suspects are members of the Libyan militia group Ansar al-Shariah.

The group has denied responsibility, but eyewitnesses saw Ansar fighters at the consulate, and U.S. intelligence intercepted phone calls after the attack from Ansar fighters to leaders of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, bragging about it. The affiliate’s leaders are known to be mostly in northern Mali, where they have seized a territory as large as Texas following a coup in the country’s capital.

But U.S. investigators have only loosely linked “one or two names” to the attack, and they lack proof that it was planned ahead of time, or that the local fighters had any help from the larger al-Qaida affiliate, officials say.

If that proof is found, the White House must decide whether to ask Libyan security forces to arrest the suspects with an eye to extraditing them to the U.S. for trial, or to simply target the suspects with U.S. covert action.

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Military installations in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland are welcoming families of 9/11 victims this week to watch pretrial hearings in Cuba for five men charged in the terrorist attacks via closed-circuit television.

BY BEN FOX ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — There were no rants this time, no ignoring the judge or getting out of their seats to pray — just one scornful remark from the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks as a weeklong pre-trial hearing began for five Guantanamo Bay detainees.

It was a sharply different atmosphere as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants returned to court at the U.S. base in Cuba for the first time since their arraignment in May, when their concerted effort to disrupt the proceedings turned what was supposed to be a brief hearing into an unruly, 13-hour spectacle.

This time, the defendants sat quietly, cooperated with their attorneys and responded to the judge when asked. And they were awarded a small victory: The judge granted a defense request to allow the five men to skip the rest of this week’s hearing if they choose, rather than risk

CROSS CAMPUS THE BLOG. THE BUZZ AROUND YALE THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

being forced out of their cells and into the court by military guards.

Asked if he understood the implications of not attending court while hearings go on without him, Mohammed made his only statement of the day: “Yes, but I don’t think there is any justice in this court.”

The issue was only one of a handful to be resolved Monday in a weeklong hearing on about two dozen motions before the formal trial, which is at least a year away.

Most of the day was taken up by the debate over whether defendants must attend all proceedings under the rules of the special tribunals for wartime offenses known as military commissions.

Lawyers for two of the defendants said the threat to forcibly remove them from their cells and bring them to court is traumatic for men who were subjected to harsh interrogations that they say amounted to torture while in CIA custody, before going to Guantanamo in September 2006.

“Our clients may believe that … I don’t want to be subjected to this procedure that transports me here, brings up memories,

brings up emotions of things that happened to me,” said Jim Harrington, who represents Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping to provide support to the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

Harrington’s statement elicited groans from a small group of family members of Sept. 11 victims who were chosen by lottery to come to Guantanamo to view the proceedings. A few other families watched the proceedings on closed-circuit TV from U.S. military bases.

Prosecutors wanted the men to be required to attend court sessions. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl finally ruled that Mohammed and his codefendants would not be forced to attend the hearings.

He said he may require them to attend future pretrial sessions and said they would have to be present for their trial.

His questioning of the defendants brought a rare light moment to what is considered of the most significant terrorism prosecutions in U.S. history.

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“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” BILL SHANKLY

Big Red too strong for the Elis MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 to take a toll after a while,” head coach Brian Tompkins said.

Cornell, which started its Ivy League season with three goals in each of its first three games, turned it up in the second half, almost doubling their shots — 15, compared to eight in the first half — and taking three corner kicks to Yale’s 0. Tompkins noted Cornell’s ability to turn even passive situations into dangerous ones.

We’ll continue to tinker and hopefully the end result will be more chances because we’re just not providing the midfielders with enough options.

NICK ALERS ’14

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The Bulldogs will return to the Reese Stadium and play against Lehigh tonight.

“They don’t need a clear-cut opportunity to score,” he said.

“They’re one of the best offensive teams in the country.”

The Big Red were led by highscoring Daniel Haber, who was involved in all three goals scored on Saturday. Haber took the free kick that led to Cornell’s first goal off a header by Tyler Regan (63:56) and he was assisted on the second goal by Atticus DeProspo (75:25), before calling his own number at 81:25 to put the finishing touch on a wellrounded effort.

Haber leads the nation in goals per game, spearheading a powerful Cornell offense that also holds the record for goals

Men’s golf finishes fourth MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 12 ished the weekend 14 over to tie for 17th.

Yale’s top five was rounded out by freshmen Joe Willis ’16 and Will Davenport ’15, who finished tied for 42nd and 71st, respectively. Both have been key players for the Elis this fall, each posting second-place finishes of their own — Willis in the Adams Cup and Davenport in last week’s Macdonald Cup.

per game.

Bulldog captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 had a successfull first half, making six saves as the team wore down its opposition with good ball movement. Thalman cited previous experience against Cornell as key to his preparation, noting the importance of “staying alert even when the team has the ball in order to organize the defense.”

According to defender Nick Alers ’14, who was out with a concussion, the team played a new formation on offense, hoping to open up new goal-scoring opportunities.

“Unfortunately, nothing’s working right now,” he said.

“We’ll continue to tinker and hopefully the end result will be more chances, [because] we’re just not providing the midfielders with enough options”.

After falling to an Ivy powerhouse, Tompkins pointed out that the Bulldogs’ schedule was shifting in the team’s favor.

After being on the road the last three games, the Bulldogs have their next three at home, where Thalman hopes the familiar environment will help them with their struggling offense.

“It will be a huge advantage playing at home,” Thalman said.

“Not only having the familiarity factor and not having to travel, but the general feeling of being more confident and knowing what we’re getting into, and also to have all of our home fans motivating us.”

The Elis will take on Lehigh at the Reese Stadium tonight at 7 p.m.

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Cricket falls to Harvard CRICKET FROM PAGE 12 The goal for next year, according to all four Yale players interviewed, is to play under the sport’s national collegiate governing body, American College Cricket, or ACC. ACC is a national organization that oversees more than 60 university cricket programs and organizes both regional and national championships. Khan said that ACC has provided Harvard’s team with the opportunity to play more games and get more exposure.

Of the Ivy League, only Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Penn are current members of ACC. Yale’s players interviewed said the team is much more focused this year than last season. Khare noted that the team is practicing weekly this year, though it still struggles to get full attendance at its practices.

“Our two biggest obstacles now [are] the team’s inability to host games and, thus, get sufficient game practice,” the other co-vice captain Suyash Bhagwat ’14 said.

Yale cannot host games because the team lacks a cricket pitch or a cricket mat that could be used as a substitute.

“Once we play enough games, we’ll be eligible for ACC membership, and that leads to us being invited to regional tournaments like Harvard [is],” Bhagwat added.

Deegahawathura said that because Yale is not part of the ACC, it is especially important for the team to cultivate relations with teams at schools such as Princeton and Harvard to find matches.

“The game itself got testy at times,” Khan said, adding that both sides indulged in the game’s leniency towards trash talk or “sledging” as it is called in cricket. Khare agreed that there were points of tension, though both Khan and the Yale players said the competitive animosity subsided after the game.

The loss dropped Yale’s record to 0–1 this season, while Harvard improved to 5–0 after wins against Princeton, Williams, Boston University and Long Island University.

Brad [Kushner]…has been everything you could hope for in a senior and a leader.

COLIN SHEEHAN Head coach, men’s golf “The team is really strong again this year,” Davenport said.

“Freshman Joe Willis has played extremely well this fall for us, and Brad [Kushner] and Sam [Bernstein] have been consistently awesome as usual. We have a lot of depth after that for the five spot, so the whole team is pushed to work hard and get better.”

The team finished above all other Ivy League competitors in the field this weekend, edging out Princeton by one stroke and outscoring Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn as well.

“I think we’re hungrier than ever for an Ivy Championship, and it’s showing in our work ethic and results thus far,” Davenport said.

Yale will compete in the Ivy League Matchplay Tournament on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 in Princeton, N.J. to close out the fall season. The Ivy contest will be played in a head-to-head matchplay format, rather than the aggregate team score format that is used to decide most matches.

Sheehan said that the team has been preparing for the tournament and its different style for the entire fall.

“We are very proud of our conference, which always has a very high standard for golf,” Sheehan said. “We relish the opportunity to compete against our Ivy foes.”

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Captain Bradley Kushner ’13 shot rounds of 72 and 76 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, to finish in fourth place with a a score of 148.

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RACHEL AMES ’16 FRESHMAN RECEIVES IVY HONORS Goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 became the second Yale player to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season after Ames posted her first career shutout in Saturday’s 1–0 win over Cornell.

Ames made four saves in the Elis’ first shutout of the Big Red since 2004.

“We’re hungrier than ever for an Ivy Championship, and it’s showing in our…results thus far.”

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Cornell overtakes Bulldogs

Yale falls to Harvard cricket

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The Yale cricket team could not keep pace with Harvard’s 249 runs on Saturday.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Harvard-Yale rivalry just got a little bigger.

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No. 16 Cornell proved to be too strong for the Elis, as it defeated Yale 3-0 last Saturday.

BY DIONIS JAHJAGA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Elis had no luck once again in the Ivies last Saturday, falling to No. 16 Cornell by 3-0.

MEN’S SOCCER

Despite the Big Red’s potent offense, the Bulldogs (3-6-3, 0-2-1 Ivy) were able to hold Cornell (12–0, 3–0 Ivy) off in the first half, allowing them only eight shots. But the story changed in the second half, when the Big Red took control — scoring three goals — and the Bull-

dogs’ weak offense struggled to reciprocate.

“We have good opportunities, but the concentration and execution haven’t always worked out.

The psychological side of it begins SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

Last Saturday, Yale played its first ever collegiate cricket match against the Cantabs at Jordan Field in Cambridge. Although the Crimson soundly defeated the Elis in this Twenty20 match by 175 runs, members of Yale’s team say they saw the game as a learning experience for them.

The hosts batted first, running up a virtually insurmountable 249-run lead. Yale’s inexperienced batting order was unable to respond, eventually being bowled out for 74 and ending the three-and-a-half hour struggle.

“I think our inexperience showed in how we handled the conditions,” Yale co-vice captain Anand Khare ’15 said, adding that “it was freezing when Yale batted in the second innings.”

The Yale team did not come prepared mentally or in terms of attire for

temperatures that were “near freezing,” Harvard cricket captain Ibrahim Khan ’14 said.

Four Yale cricketers interviewed said the team’s inexperience contributed to its loss. Both sides were allowed to pick graduate students for their team, and while Harvard’s XI included eight graduate students, Yale chose just three. The graduate students generally had more cricket experience, and some had played at international schools before coming to Harvard. One of Harvard’s grad students, for example, had played cricket at a high level for Cambridge University as an undergraduate.

Though the team has existed for about 10 years, practice has been “irregular” in the past, captain Heshika Deegahawathura ’14 said.

“The team only used to play the local teams from New Haven and Greenwich as opposed to other collegiate sides,” Deegahawathura said. “If we can build links with colleges like Harvard and play more frequently, this program and our play will rise quickly.”

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Kushner ’13 leads Elis at Big Five

BY SARAH ONORATO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Led by the fourth-place finish of captain Bradley Kushner ’13, the men’s golf team capped off play at the Big Five Invitational this weekend with a fourth-place finish overall.

MEN’S GOLF Yale entered day two of the tournament tied with Sacred Heart for the top spot in the field, but slipped in the rankings on Sunday to finish fourth out of the field of 19 with a score of 614 — coming up five strokes short of tournament champion Uni-

versity of Hartford’s score of 609.

Kushner, who was the top finisher for Yale, ended the tournament eight over par for the two days of play.

“Brad [Kushner] has had a tremendous fall. He has been everything you could hope for in a senior and a leader,” head coach Colin Sheehan said. “He is a conscientious golfer who is dedicated to his crafts, is swinging well, and is leading by example.”

Kushner’s dominant performance this weekend came on the heels of his tie for second place in the Macdonald Cup last weekend and a ninthplace finish in the Adams Cup to kick off the fall season. Kushner’s con-

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sistently strong play has helped the team notch three top-five finishes so far this fall.

The Bulldogs entered the Big Five Invitational following their win at home last weekend in the Macdonald Cup. While the team was unable to match that performance this weekend, the fourth-place finish represents a significant improvement from the team’s 15th place finish in the Big Five Invitational last year.

Along with Kushner, Yale saw strong performances this weekend from Sam Bernstein ’14 and Michael Lewis-Goldman ’14, who both finSEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE 11

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Captain Bradley Kushner ’13 finished in fourth place overall with a two-round score of eight-over-par.

The number of saves men’s soccer team captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman’13 recorded on Saturday’s match against Cornell.