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Don’t know what to watch on TV? The News’ website will
be live streaming the third presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney today at 9 p.m. If you need a quick study break, or if you just want to freshen up on U.S. politics before the fall recess, make sure to check out the website to witness the final showdown.
BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER
Swinging back. After a month-
long repair process, the Branford Courtyard swing is back in business, continuing to serve stressed-out students and young tourists with a new wooden plank. The swing, which had to be repaired because the wood near the rope connector was wearing down, had been temporarily unavailable since Sept. 18.
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Pierson Master Harvey Goldblatt and Dean Amerigo Fabbri GRD ’03 have taken the theme of Pierson’s annual “Inferno” dance to heart. The two college administrators decked out in colorful garb and head gear as part of a promotional campaign to advertise Pierson’s upcoming costume-themed dance, which will take place Nov. 3.
FALL FOLIAGE ANTICIPATES BREAK With the leaves on campus beginning to turn, students only have two days of classes this week before October recess — a new five-day fall break first introduced by University President Richard Levin and Yale College Dean Mary Miller over a year ago.
More sex and God at Yale.
Nathan Harden ’09, author of the controversial book “Sex and God at Yale,”is back again to take another hit at the University’s sexual culture. In a recent editorial, Harden cited a flyer for a fake Saybrook Master’s Tea with “Wilma Dickfit” as an example of Yale’s spiral into a “bizarre and sad sexual dystopia.” Despite his claim that the flyer “wouldn’t be so troubling if it weren’t so true to life,” Dickfit did not appear on campus.
Row, row, row your boat.
London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Charlie Cole ’07 is in the running to become America’s favorite rower. He is a finalist in the USRowing’s Fan’s Choice Award for “National Team Rower of the Year.” Voting ends at 5 p.m.
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New Haven eyes charter reform BY DIANA LI AND CHRIS PEAK STAFF REPORTERS
Partying politics. Over the weekend, the Yale College Democrats battled the Yale College Republicans in their annual game of “Partisan Pong.” After a grueling match, the Democrats came out on top, clinching the victory after winning 11 points compared to the GOP’s eight.
With the November elections in two weeks and a debate over the direction of the country’s school system taking place nationwide, ongoing education reform in New Haven has become the subject of praise from local, state and national political officials. On Sunday afternoon, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. attended Hill Central School’s dedication ceremony to celebrate the renovation of the pre-kindergarten to eighth grade building. Last week, Gov. Dannel Malloy visited Community High School in New Haven to observe progress on the school’s reform initiatives. And according to a press release last week from United Way, White House officials are impressed with the city’s efforts to engage local residents as part of the School Change Initiative and are looking to spread the reform model to other communities. All of this recognition comes amidst New Haven’s school change effort — the result of a 2009 teachers’ contract many observers said was groundbreaking.
New Haven residents will have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to make major changes to city government in coming months, potentially reshaping City Hall and the political playing field. The city is initiating a pro-
cess to revise its charter — the basis for the city’s government — which has not been revised since 1993. City Hall is required to consider charter revisions at least once every 10 years by the charter and must follow specific procedures set out in state law. Last week, the Board of Aldermen took the first steps
Div school dean articulates vision BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER As he awaits his inauguration this Tuesday, Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling has already started to implement his vision for the school. Sterling, who served as the dean of the University of Notre Dame’s Graduate School before he assumed leadership of the Divinity School in August 2012, said his plans for the school focus on inclusivity. He said he intends to bolster financial aid, which will help the school recruit students from a broader range of geographic and theological backgrounds, and he has begun working to meet current students and faculty in the Divinity School. “Openness to engage one another is something we need to model for the rest of the world,” Sterling said. “We need to embrace people from across the theological spectrum, so that individuals can openly disagree with others in a civil way. This is often absent in ecclesiastic circles.” In an effort to increase diver-
of the process by proposing a list of potential topics and candidates for a charter revision commission of up to 15 members. After the commission proposes a series of changes, voters must decide whether or not to approve them at the ballot box. Charter revision could include changing the number
of aldermen that represent the city, lengthening the mayor’s term or setting limits on the amount of time public officials can spend in office. “The charter is to the city like the Constitution is to the country, so revising it is a serious and important opportunity,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said.
APPOINTING A COMMISSION
According to the city charter, the charter revision process must be initiated before June 30, 2013 with the creation of a charter revision commission of up to 15 members. SEE CHARTER PAGE 4
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sity at the Divinity School, Sterling aims to raise $35 million for financial aid and make it possible for some students with financial need to attend the school for free by 2025.
Openness to engage one another is something we need to model for the rest of the world. GREGORY STERLING Dean, Yale Divinity School HENRY SIMPERINGHAM/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Sterling said financial aid reform is particularly pressing because Divinity School alumni rarely secure lucrative careers right after graduation, which makes many applicants hesitant to take out student loans to finance their education. “The challenge is that many of our students will not immediately enter positions where they will make six figures after SEE STERLING PAGE 6
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Friday lecture at Battell Chapel was the last of three events on Yale’s campus featuring the Supreme Court Justice. BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Through a mix of personal anecdotes and legal case analysis, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on her role in shaping the U.S. legal system at a Friday afternoon talk. Ginsburg, who was introduced by Yale Law School Dean Robert Post, took part
in an hour-long discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Yale Law School lecturer Linda Greenhouse LAW ’78 before a packed Battell Chapel. Friday’s lecture was the last of three events featuring Ginsburg that took place while she was on campus for the first Gruber Distinguished Lecture Series in Women’s Rights, organized by SEE GINSBURG PAGE 6
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Embrace Not a Christian incivility GUEST COLUMNIST BRIAN MCNELLIS
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ast week’s presidential debate certainly hit its low point when Governor Romney turned to President Obama and said, “I predict, sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease.” Or perhaps you thought it hit rock bottom when Obama replied, “That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.” What? No, you must have missed it. Certainly, you’ve heard that Romney referred to Obama as “a hideous hermaphroditical character, who has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” But then again, that was prompted by the president referring to the governor as “the son of a half-bred Indian squaw.” Of course you missed them — they were never said, at least not in this campaign. But the first exchange occurred between Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, the second between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and both stand to remind us of a valuable lesson. Before we join the pundits in calling this campaign the ugliest ever, maybe we can take a deep breath, look back, and take solace in the fact that our candidates are no longer beating each other over the head with walking sticks, as men of Congress did as late as the 19th century.
WE NEED TO SEE CANDIDATES FOR WHO THEY ARE To be fair, it is far from a syllogism to say that since our elected officials are no longer dueling or striking each other down with canes, we have crossed the threshold of acceptable political discourse. However, the combativeness and contentious hostility of the last few months should not be something we instinctually lament. In fact, this very incivility is integral to our political process. Are we really to say that our historical inheritance is worse off for Cicero’s orations against the conspiracies of Catiline? Imagine the horror on cable news if Barack Obama took a page out of the Roman orator’s book: “How long, Governor Romney, will you abuse our patience? And for how long will that madness of yours mock us? To what end will your unbridled audacity hurl itself?” Just as war is the common
state for civilization, incivility is for politics. By our nature, this is just who we are. To expect our HARRY presidential GRAVER ca n d i d a te s to actively Gravely quash, or at least miracMistaken u l o u s ly hide, their fierce personal stake in their election would be to expect them to be even more sociopathic than we already do. More importantly, the climate of incivility creates an indispensible test — a political purgatory of sort — for our future leaders. Outside of the election, our president is relatively isolated from direct personal confrontation. We don’t have anything close to the system in Great Britain, where the prime minister is subjected to the regular questioning and scorn of his opponents. But, for two months every four years, we let two men slug it out. The obsession with civility is a quest for an imaginary magic bullet. The fact that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are passionate, fierce, and combative is not indicative of a fallen political era — it is a sign that they are men who realize, and actually deeply care, that ideas have consequences. In practical terms, a “presidential” persona is one forged in the stresses, assaults and tortures of the job. Beyond the political disagreements, there is a much more personal aspect to the competition of the campaign. On stage, in front of the nation, they are challenging the core of the other man: Do you have the resolve it takes to handle the next four years? So tonight, it’s likely we will see a lot of the same fireworks from last week. And, depending on your political persuasions, you’ll either be cracking up or grinding your teeth. The jabs will be prepared, personal and pretty much fictitious. However, before we clear our throats and bewail the fall of American discourse, be mindful of the virtues — qualities inseparable from the political history of mankind — that come from the combat that is politics. At the end of the day, we need a president who can hold up against Bob Schieffer for 90 minutes – and that’s a lot harder than it sounds. HARRY GRAVER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .
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tive Catholics and the Christian Right in general tend to forget one important detail about our country: The United States of America is not a Christian nation. Regardless of the religious beliefs of the Founders, they very clearly embedded separation of church and state in the Constitution. Given the diversity of religious beliefs now found in the United States, it is more important than ever that public policy be justified by the facts, not religious beliefs. A book about an Iron Age god of war is never proper justification for public policy in a modern, secular nation. The Founders were well aware of the threats of extreme factionalism. A republic like ours is well suited to dealing with factions, as James Madison explained in "Federalist No. 10": “If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.” Those of us, religious or not, who do care about true religious liberty must still oppose the religious right. However, history does seem to be on secularism’s side. Our generation is the least religious yet, with one-third of Americans ages 18–29 belonging to no religion at all, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Among the population as a whole, atheists and agnostics (at about 6 percent of the population) outnumber Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus combined. In the past, politicians have pandered to the religious while routinely ignoring the non-religious. In the future, politicians would be wise to recognize America’s changing demographics. Because of this, I am not terribly worried that the Catholic Outrage Brigade will actually be able to impose their will on the country as a whole. Let them rant and rave, let them lobby, let them fight the separation of church and state in a battle they know they’re losing. They will have their minor victories, and their rights should certainly not be ignored. But they will never be able to take their beliefs and put dogma above the Constitution. They are still on the wrong side of history.
s a former Catholic turned atheist, I have come to reject many of the positions of the Catholic Church: its oppressive stance toward gay rights, its bizarre and unfounded opposition to contraception and of course, essentially all of its teachings about Jesus, God and the Bible. But one issue where I stand at least partially on the side of the Catholic Church is the everinflammatory issue of abortion. I am certainly in the minority among atheists on the abortion question, but I would like to think that it’s a somewhat more nuanced position than the typical pro-life stance. Essentially, while I do not personally support abortion in normal circumstances, I recognize that it is a complex, emotional and uncertain issue whose resolution is best left to individuals; it is not for the government to decide. That seems like a fairly conservative, if moderate, position to me. Some Catholics, however, would disagree, especially those among the Church’s leadership. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, effectively the head of the Catholic Church in the United States, has used his uncanny publicity skills to rile up conservatives around the country, often sounding more like an evangelical preacher than the typical Catholic priest. Similarly, in the Republican primaries, the candidate who was most successful in drawing the (typically Evangelical) social-conservative vote was Rick Santorum, a Catholic.
FOLLOW THE RULES OF SECULAR SOCIETY There’s no doubt that Catholics are hugely influential in the United States. One-quarter of Americans are Catholic, including the two vice-presidential candidates, and no presidential candidate since 1972 has won the popular vote without winning the Catholic vote. There are some (even at Yale) who suggest that Catholics should bully politicians into making the Church’s regressive social doctrine the law of the land under the guise of religious liberty. The right has, in recent years, been quite susceptible to attempts at this sort of domination of the majority by a political minority, most recently seen in the startling rise of the Tea Party. Fortunately, conserva-
BRIAN MCNELLIS is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at brian.mcnellis@yale.edu .
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t the close of the first presidential debate, President Barack Obama knew he’d lost, and the rest of us agreed. Consensus held that he had been tentative and detached, that Governor Mitt Romney had dominated the format, that the President hadn’t delivered any YouTube-ready soundbites. He had been what he never was in the past: boring. What’s missing here? Hardly a single analysis of the debate gave victory to Romney on the grounds of his actual political argument. Despite his overwhelming victory, he had simply hammered on his favorite catchphrases and political bullet points about Obamacare and small businesses and our growing debt. During the most recent debate, according to The New York Times, Romney used the phrase “I have what it takes” seven times. The president offered little more. Like his rival, he repeatedly insisted on a set of EZ-listening talking points: millionaires and billionaires, the auto bailout, Massachusetts healthcare. His fault lay in not spouting these truisms with enough panache. I guess this is neither new nor surprising, but the degree to which these contests have represented a made-for-TV distillation of politics is alarming. Even questions fielded from the audience usually serve as segues into prepackaged responses, often leaving the actual question unanswered. These debates have been nothing but an opportunity for the candidates to perform their favorite campaign ads in front of a live audience. All this turns debate from an intellectual forum into a theatrical blood sport. The strength of a candidate’s performance is based not on what he says, but where his eyes wander while his opponent talks, whether he forcefully rips the spotlight away from the moderator, how gleefully he twists the knife. The contestants constantly interrupt each other, giving the impression that neither of our two options for Leader of the Free World learned his manners. Again, this is nothing new. Yet I can’t help but wonder what the voting public gains from watching Obama, Romney and Candy Crowley all trying to shout each other down for a full half minute. The truly alarming development of these past few debates is that they seem to be conducted in an alternate reality where there is no such thing as “the truth.” What other explanation is there for the fact that, for 90 minutes, two completely opposite claims can both be backed up by the facts? How else is it possible that Mitt Romney’s tax plan both will and will not leave $5 trillion dollars unaccounted for? How else could Obama both cut and not cut $716 billion from Medicare? Apparently
these debates are held in a logical vacuum, with neither candidate held to any standard of objectivity. With each contestant free to assert his own set of facts, the argument devolves into an exchange of yesyou-dids and no-I-didn’ts reminiscent of third graders bickering over freeze tag. Perhaps debates were never meant to be an intellectual forum. In a democracy, knowing how to get elected and knowing how to run a country are often two different things. Maybe the idealized notion of debate valuing policy over performance has always been naïve, and while our current format does encourage demagoguery over intellect to a worrying extreme, winning a debate may always be a matter of smiling at the camera rather than explaining your tax plan point-by-point. Letting presentation outweigh substance is one thing; letting fiction outweigh fact is another entirely. No matter what form these debates take, they retain value only as long as some basic idea of objectivity is respected. Otherwise, it’s like playing football without referees or holding a spelling bee in gibberish. The outcome is meaningless, but the “winner” claims victory anyways. It betrays the point of a debate to tolerate these fabrications on a national and critical stage. No one should win by being better at lying than the other guy is at telling the truth, but Romney’s performance — one that so drastically reshaped the electoral landscape — was riddled with fictions. This is why a fourth party should be added to the debate arena: an objective fact-checking group responsible for verifying the claims that each candidate makes throughout the debate. This group would have to be mutually agreed upon and extremely efficient, their conclusions unassailable. Obviously, this would be a delicate task, and perhaps such a fact-checking apparatus would concern itself only with “whoppers,” the most damaging and most dishonest statements. Intermissions could be made throughout the debate to let the audience know who was bending or demolishing the facts. Opposing the institution of such a group would be extremely awkward for candidates who claim to have the facts solely on their side. This is probably just the pipedream of a naïve college kid, but I’m tired of debates in which no distinction is made between true and false. The president, as Mitt Romney noted with such exquisite irony, is not entitled to his own facts. Dealing with this is a major part of being president. Why should the campaign be any different? DAVID WHIPPLE is a freshman in Pierson College. Contact him at david.whipple@yale.edu .
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lack youth unemployment sits at almost 40 percent. Overall black unemployment is around 14 percent. This is the case we face today, even though black unemployment in the 1930s and '40s was actually lower than white unemployment. Isn’t it generally assumed that the economic situation of blacks has improved since then? What happened? The minimum wage happened. When a person’s skills or productivity do not have value to an employer in excess of the minimum wage, that person will not get hired. So, when a young black teenager drops out of our ailing education system — which happens a lot by the way — he often cannot find a job, even though he is clearly an able-bodied, capable individual. When asked, slightly more than 90 percent of economists agree that minimum wage laws create unemployment. And yet the minimum wage law enjoys more than 80 percent support among the general American public. Black politicians are some of the most ardent supporters of
the minimum wage. Where is the disconnect? Many respond to the idea of getting rid of the minimum wage by claiming it protects workers from exploitation by employers. First, I simply do not agree with the claim that workers would be “exploited” without the minimum wage. If an employer were to pay a worker less without the law, it would not be obvious to me how that constitutes exploitation of the employee. If the firm lowers the person’s wage and that person keeps working, then clearly that person still finds it beneficial to work. No one forces them to, and therefore, there is no exploitation. One could perhaps make the argument that they are no longer being paid a “fair” wage for the work they are doing, but what does that mean? What is “fair”? Who are you or I, a third party, to say what is “fair” or not in a private, voluntary transaction? If I negotiate with someone to sell my home, and the eventual sale is lower than my initial asking price, does that mean I was
“exploited”? Hardly. Second, if one wants to talk about exploitation, perhaps we should look at how high school students across the nation are essentially forced to accept unpaid internships because companies cannot legally pay anything below minimum wage. And what about the many teenagers and young adults who cannot even afford to do unpaid internships since, after living expenses, they often become financially unsustainable? What about the local New Haven high school students, who can’t get a job without any experience, and who can’t get experience without first having a job? They don’t have that parent or family friend who can give them a job just to be nice. Only 2 percent of workers above the age of 24 actually earn the minimum wage, but on the other hand, half of all minimum wage workers are under 24. It’s our youth who are being harmed. The minimum wage delays and inhibits entry into the labor force, where young people can begin to develop skills
and build a resume attractive to future employers or educational institutions. President Obama stated in his first debate that he wanted to “strengthen the ladder into the middle class.” But he and other supporters of the minimum wage have taken the ladder that normally sits at ground level — where anyone with any modicum of education or skill can grab on and start climbing — and pulled it up. It now hovers where only some of us are tall enough to reach the lowest rung, leaving the rest to suffer. And many of our black youth simply do not currently have the skills to warrant being paid at least the minimum wage. With a lower or nonexistent minimum wage, we could get them climbing the ladder to the middle class sooner, rather than allowing them to wallow in the ghetto of the high-spirited, but lowskilled. NNAMDI IREGBULEM is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at nnamdi.iregbulem@yale.edu .
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“Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake — you know, to send the right message to kids.” BILL MAHER COMEDIAN AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR
Former Med School admin sues Yale
BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER Tonight, the School of Drama will stage a one-night reading of Dustin Lance Black’s play “8” in the University Theater. “8” is based on Perry v. Brown, the trial that in February struck down Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The play was simultaneously brought to the school’s attention by students Jabari Brisport DRA ’14 and Chris Bannow DRA ’14 and “Broadway Impact,” a marriage equality activist organization. Together with the American Foundation for Equal Rights, “Broadway Impact” seeks to license and help coordinate readings of “8” as widely as possible — over 100 productions have already taken place nationwide — in an effort to propel community conversations about marriage equality. Californian and former lawyer Sonja Berggren DRA ’13, who is currently a special research fellow at the School of Drama, will direct the reading. Black, who won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay of the 2008 film “Milk,” was inspired to create “8” after the court prohibited the use of cameras in the courtroom. By incorporating large segments of the court transcripts, Black aimed to bring the trial’s events directly to audiences, said Lico Whitfield DRA ’13, one of “8”’s primary organizers.
I want to make it feel like a court room, not a theater … I want [the characters] to be people. SONJA BERGGREN DRA ’14 Director, “8”
But despite the use of courtroom documents, “8” is far from “dry,” Whitfield said, explaining that the play takes the “good parts” of a trial and infuses them with invented dramatic elements, such as private conversations between a lesbian couple and their twin sons or “journalistic cat fights” outside the courtroom. Berggren, however, added that for much of the play, adding drama is unnecessary. “The trial itself has very nice theatrical moments,” Berggren said. “There’s nothing you have to do to it — it’s just there.” “8” premiered on Broadway in 2011 and again in Los Angeles in 2012 with a celebrityfilled cast featuring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Since then, Whitfield explained that the production has taken on the role of a community-centered, grassroots movement, a model the team at Yale has followed. The large New Haven reading cast includes current drama school students, faculty and staff — including some who have not been on the stage in decades, if ever. “People just came out of the woodwork to get involved,” Whitfield said. Having such a diverse and not exclusively professional cast helps to advance Berggren’s vision for the show, she said. For her, the Los Angeles production was “actorly” to the point of feeling inauthentic. “I want to make it feel like a court room, not a theater … I don’t want these to feel like characters, I want them to be people,” Berggren said. While increasing the show’s believability, the mix of actors and non-actors nonetheless created obstacles stemming from their differences in training, Brisport said. Nonactors, for example, have spent less time developing skills like projecting one’s voice on the stage — and being heard in the enormous space of the University Theater is difficult. The reading will be followed by a “talkback” session where the audience will have an opportunity to discuss issues the play raises with members of the Yale community. Present will be law professor Robert Burt LAW ’64, Jeannie O’Hare, the chair of the Playwriting Department at the School of Drama, and Jared Gilbert DIV ’12. Joan Channick DRA ’89, the associate dean at the school, will moderate the discussion. These discussion sessions, which are built into every reading of “8,” aim to create a conversation within that community and, ideally, to attract people from both sides of the debate, Whitfield said. “The idea behind it is to have a rational conversation with those opposed to gay marriage, to ask, ‘What is your reasoning for that?’” Whitfield said, adding, “It’s not a protest. It’s a way to propel a conversation.” Here at “The Gay Ivy,” however, Brisport said he does not anticipate the performance attracting many beyond the University’s own overwhelmingly liberal community. If any were to come from the other side of the aisle, he said he “would be really interested in hearing what they had to say,” and hopes the rest of the community would be able to engage in a respectful and productive conversation with them. The event is free and open to the public. Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .
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Former Yale School of Medicine administrator Martin Donovan claims that the University unjustly fired him because of his age. BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER A 63-year-old former Yale School of Medicine administrator is suing the University on the grounds that he was fired because of his age. In a complaint filed in April at the United States District Court in New Haven, Martin Donovan claims the University decided he had reached retirement age and justified his March 2011 termination by fabricating missteps he made while an employee. Yale filed a denial of these claims on July 17, and last week Donovan requested a motion for additional time to respond. Donovan is seeking financial compensation from the University for multiple reasons, including loss of income, “loss of personal and professional reputation [and] severe emotional distress,” according to the filing. “I think it was unfortunately short-sighted for the University to deal with Mr. Donovan in such a
poor and shabby manner,” said William Palmieri, Donovan’s lawyer. “I think they lost out as much as Mr. Donovan lost out — they lost out on an excellent employee and Mr. Donovan lost out on his rights and his career.” Donovan worked for 32 years in the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, serving the first 20 years at Yale New-Haven Hospital and the final 12 at the School of Medicine. Most recently, Donovan served as the director of finance for the Yale Medical Group and as an administrator for the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. The complaint states Donovan received consistently “excellent” performance reviews, and he was “shocked and alarmed” in May 2010 when, in separate meetings, Assistant Dean for Finance Carrie Capezzone and Deputy Dean for Finance and Administration Cynthia Walker ’78 asked him about his plans to retire. Donovan told both superi-
ors he had no plans to retire and had never mentioned such intentions. After these two meetings, Palmiere said, the University began falsely claiming that Donovan had committed various errors on the job. These alleged errors included causing the premature departure of a physician, failing to investigate charges that staff were distributing the business cards of a former physician, failing to implement an adjustment to the fee schedule and permitting a co-worker to leave early every day, according to Donovan’s complaint. The court document states that all of these assertions are unfounded. “A representative of the University determined that this man had reached the age that it was time for him to retire,” Palmieri said. “They knew that they had done wrong, and the only way that they were going to address having done wrong in this particular case was to find pretextual reasons to cover up for their
behavior.” In August 2010, Donovan received a written warning demoting him and stating that he would be fired at the end of November 2010. According to Donovan’s complaint, the University lengthened his employment by four months because of the “excellence” of his work. Palmieri said this contradictory extension of employment based on performance contradicts and undermines the University’s purported reason for his ultimate firing on March 31, 2011. In a written statement to the News Sunday evening, University spokesman Tom Conroy said Yale denies Donovan’s accusation. “The University does not believe the claim has any merit and will defend the lawsuit,” he said. Donovan could not be reached for comment Sunday. Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
Photographer analyzes YUAG exhibit BY LEAH MOTZKIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Friday, renowned photographer Tod Papageorge discussed how Robert Adams has left his mark on the world of photography. In front of an audience of about 50 art enthusiasts and aspiring photographers, Papageorge delivered a lecture on the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibit “Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs.” The exhibit, which opened Aug. 3, is the first conclusive look back at Adams’ work, detailing the American experience through 193 prints taken over almost 50 years, Papageorge said. Though some critics discuss Adams’ photos as an “ecology” of the American West, Papageorge said he aimed to analyze the exhibit from the perspective of an artist.
I like that [Papageorge] contextualizes the photos on such a grand scale. LIZZY CHAPPINI Student, Bard College A professor at the School of Art, Papageorge began his own career as a photographer in New York City during the 1970s as a contemporary of Adams. He recalled his first encounter with Adams’ work at a 1971 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, explaining that he found the style, rather than the subject, of the photos the most striking. Adams’ work, in Papageorge’s eyes, is defined by a tension between its own beauty and the realistic subjects it often depicts. “Art is interesting to the degree
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Tod Papageorge delivered a Friday lecture on the legacy of fellow photographer Robert Adams, whose work is currently being exhibited in the Yale University Art Gallery. that it describes the solution and incorporates the difficulty of achieving the solution,” Papageorge said. Jock Reynolds, the director of the Gallery, said that Papageorge was uniquely qualified to give the talk on Adams, since he was a contemporary of Adams and knew his work so well. “[It was] a very generative time of photography as a medium,” Reynolds said. Papageorge began his lecture by acknowledging the impossibility of addressing Adams’ entire canon of
work. Instead, he highlighted individual photos from many of Adams’ projects, reading descriptive passages from a 2001 essay he published in Adams’ catalogue entitled “What We Bought.” These excerpts illuminated the importance of minor details in each shot, though Papageorge also engaged the audience in a more technical discussion about Adams’ use of different cameras and ways of developing his film. Lizzy Chappini, a member of a photography class at Bard College that visited New Haven for the talk,
said she appreciated Papageorge’s rich understanding of Adams’ work. “I love the exhibit — particularly hearing about it from someone so knowledgeable,” she said “I like that [Papageorge] contextualizes the photos on such a grand scale.” The exhibit, curated by the Gallery’s assistant photography curator Joshua Chang and Reynolds, runs through Oct. 28. Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.” GERRIT SMITH U.S. SOCIAL REFORMER, ABOLITIONIST, POLITICIAN AND PHILANTHROPIST
Reform praised at state and national level EDUCATION FROM PAGE 1 “Connecticut’s future economic success depends on a well-educated workforce,” Malloy said. “Beginning with early childhood education and continuing through a strong postsecondary education, students must learn the skills they need to compete so we can meet the needs of employers who are looking to grow their business or relocate.” During Sunday’s dedication ceremony, hundreds of students, community members and parents packed into the Hill Central School’s gymnasium. Students praised the new building for its bright, arched central hallway, a gymnasium full of college flags and a brightly painted mural that spans one wall of the cafeteria. The building also has a new playground and improved technology, such as laptops and smart boards, said Glen Worthy, the principal of Hill Central School. In contrast, DeStefano said, the old Hill Central School was “old and tired and it leaked — sort of like how I feel sometimes in the morning.” He added that the school is a “critical investment in New Haven School Change and in our future.” “It is a powerful investment that will continue to pay dividends for our youth and our community for years to come,” DeStefano said. Hill Central School is the 36th school built or rehabilitated since the city began district construction efforts in 1995. Three parents at Hill Central School agreed that investing in the building is important to their children’s education, citing more security and teaching space as elements central to the renovation. Earlier in the week, Malloy visited Community High School in New Haven, one of the four Commissioner’s Network Schools in Connecticut, which are low-performing schools that receive substantial support from the state. Malloy was pleased with the school’s progress, said Imma Canelli, assistant superintendent for curriculum and
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Parents and students were impressed by Hill Central School’s renovated facilities, increased security and improved technology resources, such as laptops and smart boards. instruction for New Haven Public Schools. District officials said they were glad to have the governor visit and take notice of the reform initiatives. “Just to have the governor in one of our schools is exciting,” Canelli said, “[The government is] sinking so much money into education — it is nice he comes on the ground to see how the
money is actually being spent. On a national level, Jack Healy, the president and CEO of United Way of Greater New Haven, traveled to Washington, D.C. to discuss education reform with White House officials. According to United Way’s press release, the Obama administration was enthusiastic about Boost! and particularly the door-to-door canvassing Boost! and other edu-
cation reform programs have utilized. Boost!, a program sponsored in part by United Way, offers activities and services to students outside class designed to foster social, emotional and physical well-being. Though New Haven’s programs have been widely discussed leading up to the November elections, it is unclear whether they will have an impact
on specific races. Education has been discussed in the national presidential debates, said Zak Newman ’13, the president of Yale College Democrats, but he added that he wishes the issue was more central to congressional races. “Education is a really complicated issue,” Newman said. “I think members of Congress running for House seats try to avoid
that conversation.” Newman added that local and state government in New Haven and Connecticut, respectively, have nonetheless been very strong advocates for education. Hill Central School serves approximately 500 students and is about 85,000 square feet. Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .
Revised city charter may include education, term changes CHARTER FROM PAGE 1 Only one-third can hold public office, and only a bare majority can be from the same political party. The commission will hold public hearings and deliberate on potential amendments to the charter for up to 16 months before presenting recommendations to the Board of Aldermen. A majority vote by the full Board sends the amendments to New Haven’s voters in a citywide election. “The entire process can take as little as six months and as much as 40 months to complete,” said Carl Amento, the assistant corporation counsel for the city, in a 2009 memo to DeStefano. “A reasonable time for the completion of a substantive charter revision process is
about 24 months.” The last charter revision commission, appointed in 2002, recommended extending the terms of the mayor and the Board of Aldermen from two to four years. But the recommendations were put on ballots as a package, and voters narrowly rejected all the changes in a citywide election. Eight years later, in April 2010, another charter revision commission was proposed. But former Ward 30 Alderman Darnell Goldson argued that the slate of candidates proposed by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. represented the mayor’s perspective too heavily and excluded other voices. The commission was rejected 20–5 by the Board of Aldermen, far from the twothirds majority necessary to begin the revision process.
POTENTIAL CHARTER REVISIONS TERM LENGTH
The mayor, aldermen and city clerk could serve four-year terms. Advocates say adding two years to terms could allow politicians to spend less time worrying about elections, but opponents say frequent elections increase accountability. TERM LIMITS
The mayor and aldermen could see term limits imposed. Advocates say that term limits would bring new people to City Hall, but opponents say that qualified candidates should not be restricted from office. NUMBER OF ALDERMEN
The number of aldermen could be significantly reduced. Advocates say a smaller Board would be more efficient and more balanced with the mayor, but opponents say a large number of aldermen maximizes representation across the city. BOARD OF EDUCATION
The Board of Education could be elected, appointed or a hybrid of both. Critics of the current system say the Board is not accountable. Opponents of an elected Board say elections could politicize the board’s mission. COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS
The Board of Aldermen may gain the power to reject candidates for the city’s boards and commissions. Currently, the mayor appoints all candidates without approval by the Board.
But city officials say they are optimistic about successfully appointing a commission this year. “The charter anticipates a charter revision commission be formed every 10 years and there is no reason to believe that won’t occur here,” Benton said. This year, the Board’s leadership proposed a list of 13 names after soliciting recommendations from all of the aldermen.
‘TRANSPARENT, FAIR AND INFORMED’
New Haven residents, city officials and Yale students alike are gearing up for the long process ahead. Aaron Goode, a member of the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team and New Haven Votes coalition, formed a Facebook page with fellow activist Rachel Heerema to increase awareness about the upcoming revision. “We just want to make sure the process is transparent, fair, and informed by robust public participation,” Goode wrote in an email to the News. “We strongly believe that no issues, no matter how controversial, should be considered off the table. The commission should take its cues from public testimony, and should resist advice from the Board of Aldermen and mayor’s office about what to include in, or exclude from, its agenda.” Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker said public input is particularly important, since the final result of the charter revision process will depend on passing the amendments in an election. “If the public isn’t included from the start, it’s going to be much more difficult to get them excited about the process and to support the final recommendations that the commission comes up with,” Elicker said. During a full Board of Aldermen meeting on Oct. 16, the Board looked at two items: an
item regarding members of the commission and an item regarding issues to be considered by the commission. During the next full Board meeting in November, they will vote on the items. Ward 3 Alderman Jackie James, who proposed the Board vote on both items without a committee hearing, declined to comment.
The charter is to the city like the Constitution is to the country, so revising it is a serious and important opportunity. ELIZABETH BENTON ‘04 Spokeswoman, New Haven City Hall Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen criticized the process and said that it did not allow for enough public input about the makeup of the commission. “When the committee meets about the commission, that’s the only time public input and public workshop happens. At the full Board of Aldermen meeting, nothing really gets debated or discussed,” Hausladen said. “The number one thing I’ve heard from New Haven citizens is that they want this process to be open and accountable.” But other aldermen said the public has had the opportunity to be involved. Board of Aldermen President and Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez said that he felt the public had many different ways of giving their input to their respective aldermen. He said aldermen, who submitted the nominations for the members of the commission, got names from emails, conversations with constituents and people who expressed interest in serving on the commission themselves. Ward 25 Alderman Adam
Marchand GRD ’99 agreed and added there was sufficient time for the aldermen to interact with their constituents and make the appropriate nominations. Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 could not be reached for comment.
A ONCE-IN-A-DECADE OPPORTUNITY
The charter revision commission can recommend a revision of almost anything in the city’s charter. Topics the charter revision commission could consider include increasing the length of terms for the mayor and aldermen, imposing term limits for those positions, changing salaries, reducing the number of aldermen and considering whether the members of the Board of Education should be appointed, elected or a combination of both. Elicker said the list addressed the main topics that are consistently brought up in discussions of city government, but he worried that the list was “too comprehensive.” Since voters might reject all of the proposed amendments if they do not like one item, the commission needs to focus, he said. Drew Morrison ’14, president of New Haven Action, said he thinks the most important part of the charter revision process is discussion of the Board of Education and the public school system. Currently, some criticize the board for being distanced from constituents, he said. Adding an elected student member and a representative from the parent-teacher association would make the board more representative of the city’s diverse concerns, he said. Elicker said one of the most important issues he hopes the committee considers is the size of the Board of Aldermen. Currently, the Board has 30 members, who are each paid an annual salary of $2,000. By reducing the number of aldermen, the Board could be much more effective
and balanced with the mayor, Elicker said. H a u s l a d e n , m ea nwh i l e , said term limits and campaign finance are two particularly important issues. DeStefano, who became New Haven’s longest serving mayor earlier this month, is serving his 10th term in office. “People say if eight years is good enough for the President, it should be good enough for the Mayor,” Hausladen said. He also added that the Board should consider expanding campaign finance options for both mayoral and aldermanic elections, given the expense of campaigning and its potential to promote equal opportunities for candidates. Ward 6 Alderman Dolores Colon agreed and said she wants to discuss term limits, though she said there are arguments for both sides. She said campaigning for elections often can be a way for aldermen to get in touch with their constituents, but that it also took up time and energy that could be put into serving as representatives. And while the public will not receive another chance to shape the formation of the charter reform commission before the final vote at the next meeting of the Board, they still have a chance to affect the commission’s recommendations. “This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for us to determine how fundamental governance in the city of New Haven works,” Morrison said. “Yale students should think about and talk with people in the community about what ways democracy is working well in New Haven. Wherever it is not, we can make it more democratic and more responsive.” There are currently 30 New Haven aldermen. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu . Contact CHRIS PEAK at chris.peak@yale.edu .
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NEWS
“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.” BERTRAND RUSSELL BRITISH PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND SOCIAL CRITIC
Experts mull discipline BY HANNAH SCHWARZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three Connecticut residents, including a Yale professor and a state representative from New Haven, have been selected for a national education focus group examining the state of discipline in U.S. schools. Yale School of Medicine professor James Comer, University of Connecticut professor George Sugai and state Rep. Gary HolderWinfield were selected for the focus group by the Department of Education, the Department of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs. The 18-month project builds on a July 2011 report from Texas A&M University, “Breaking Schools’ Rules,” which found that around 15 percent of public secondary school students studied were suspended or expelled 11 times or more. The focus group, comprised of 100 education specialists — including psychiatrists, social workers and policymakers — met for the first of three times in Washington, D.C. last week. The bipartisan group will put forth policy recommendations to the federal government regarding how public schools should approach disciplinary measures in a mid-2013 report. The underlying problem with discipline in public schools, said Abby Anderson, executive director of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, is that society has “criminalized” normal adolescent behavior. Anderson cited an incident at Connecticut’s Middletown High School in which a 17-year-old student stole a Jamaican meat patty from the cafeteria and refused to put it back when a police officer told him to, leading to the student being Tasered. While state laws typically mandate that schools suspend or
expel students for certain types of crimes, the report found that most public high schools discipline students at a higher rate than what is required. In making this discovery, Texas researchers noticed another phenomenon — minority students are much more likely to be suspended, expelled or disciplined in a manner that involves police.
Juvie is just a younger version of the adult justice system … There’s a lot that comes with touching that system. JAMES COMER Professor, Yale School of Medicine For similar types of infractions, the disciplinary measures can differ based on race and class, said Holder-Winfield. “In some schools, a student will never have to end up in the juvenile justice system because [their actions are] treated as a behavioral issue,” he added. “There’s somewhat of a preconceived notion about who these [minority] children are before they enter school, and then when they act up, they confirm that, and then there’s a belief that these schools need different types of punishments.” Kyisha Velazquez, Program Manager of the New Haven Family Alliance Juvenile Review Board, added that Connecticut public schools’ zero-tolerance policy — the state laws that require certain disciplinary measures for certain offenses — significantly increases the likelihood of a student ending up in the juvenile justice system. Even if a principal wanted to use discretion in choosing an alterna-
tive punishment, Velazquez said, he or she would likely have to follow the zero-tolerance policy, leaving little room to treat these infractions as behavioral, instead of criminal, problems. Comer, who founded the Comer School Development Program to assist in school intervention, said that certain types of interactions involving students can be “misunderstood” as behavioral problems because of cultural differences between different schools. He cited a case in which students were arrested for shadowboxing, which he said he used to do as a kid because it was “part of the culture.” Focus group members were especially concerned that unnecessary suspensions and expulsions put students at a much higher risk of ending up in the juvenile justice system. “When students are excluded from school for problem behavior that is not addressed effectively at school, they are at increased risk of school failure and later problems like delinquency,” Sugai said. The 2011 study found that entrance into the juvenile justice system makes a student more likely to end up in the adult justice system, perpetuating a cycle of incarceration. “Juvie is just a younger version of the adult justice system, and it puts these kids into contact with individuals they might not have come into contact with before,” Comer said. “There’s a lot that comes with touching that system.” The Texas A&M study found that only 40 percent of students disciplined 11 times or more graduated high school during the period in which the study was conducted. Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .
Yale hosts Physics Olympics
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Danny Meyer, the creator of the Shake Shack restaurant chain, spoke at a Silliman College Master’s Tea on Friday. BY PAYAL MARATHE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
BY HAYLEY BYRNES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER If all the rain from a summer rainstorm were gathered into a single drop, how large would that drop be? On Saturday, about 200 high school students tried to answer this question and more as they competed in the 15th annual Yale Physics Olympics, held in Sloane Physics Laboratory. Organized by the Yale Physics Department, YPO drew 50 high school teams from five states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. Physics professor Cornelius Beausang, who organized the first YPO in 1998, said he was inspired by a similar event hosted in Ireland. “The event is a way to demystify academia. You don’t need a million-dollar lab to do something that’s meaningful,” he added. Stephen Irons, this year’s YPO organizer, said the five timed challenges that make up the competition are designed to be more experimental than factually based. He added YPO organizers aim to create an experience students can replicate at home by relying on everyday materials instead of sophisticated equipment. In one of this year’s challenges called “On the Move,” students were given paper clips, cardboard, some batteries and a hot glue gun. With that, they were told to create a device that could move across a track. For the event’s 15th anniversary, graduate and undergraduate students hosted a question-andanswer session about student life and research at Yale. The rest of the event was structured the same as past years. Along with the five signature challenges, the day ended with a demonstration that included a hovercraft, a laser show and a bed of nails. Students said the event provided a more hands-on experience than those of their high school classes. Eric Adieri, a Bristol Central High School senior, said that each station forced students to be creative with limited materials, an approach that differed from his more instructional experience in AP Physics. Though technically a competition, some students said YPO fostered an atmosphere of social collaboration rather than com-
Shake Shack owner balances food, service
Danny Meyer, the brains behind Chapel Street’s popular new burger joint Shake Shack, visited Silliman College Friday afternoon for a Master’s Tea. Meyer is the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which has won 25 James Beard Awards and runs over 30 restaurants, including the Shake Shack chain. During the Tea, Meyer discussed his path to culinary success and his ability to mesh his early interest in public service with his passion for high-quality food. In each of his restaurants, he said, he places an emphasis on developing a positive culture to maintain the happiness of both his employees and his customers. “The best tomato sauce in the world won’t taste better than the worst tomato you put into it,” Meyer said. “The same applies to hospitality, and I believe you have to put your team first.” Meyer said he credits his Midwestern upbringing with influencing the way he runs his business. He looks for new employees with a “high hospitality quotient,” or people who enjoy making others feel good, he said. Instead of following the philosophy of “always
TIMELINE DANNY MEYER’S CAREER 1985 At age 27, Danny Meyer opens his first restaurant, Union Square Café, in Manhattan. The café was the first project of Union Square Hospitality Group, which now oversees over 30 restaurants. HAYLEY BYRNES/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Saturday’s 15th annual Yale Physics Olympics drew 50 high school teams from five states. petition. “Being able to bounce ideas off of friends made the challenges more fun,” said Matthew Oldenburg, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Conn. Roughly 25 undergraduate and graduate students volunteer at the event, along with several physics faculty members. Ariel Ekblaw ’14, who competed in YPO throughout high school and has volunteered each year at Yale, said the event helped her see that women are visible in the sciences and influenced her decision to come to Yale. Along with teaching students physics, the event also served to showcase Yale’s commitment to the sciences. The event includes a tour of Yale’s lab facilities,
including the recently renovated SPL. After working with enthusiastic Yale volunteers, Hannah Lee, a senior at St. Mary Academy in Riverside, R.I., said she is now considering applying to the University. Irons said that the idea of a Physics Olympics is not unique to Yale. Lewis S. Mills High School physics teacher Jennine Lupo said that her school’s team has also attended a similar event hosted by the University of Connecticut, adding that Yale’s was especially well-organized. Rain from a summer rainstorm would form a single drop about 2,600 feet in diameter. Contact HAYLEY BYRNES at hayley.byrnes@yale.edu .
1992 Union Square Hospitality Group wins its first James Beard Award 1994 Meyer collaborates with Tom Colicchio, who is now most well-known as a judge on “Top Chef,” to open Gramercy Tavern 1996 Meyer wins the James Beard Humanitarian of the Year Award. Meyer’s business philosophy is centered on serving the communities his restaurants are in, and he is also a vocal leader in the fight against hunger. 2004 Union Square Hospitality Group launches Shake Shack, a restaurant serving Chicago-style hot dogs, burgers and custards, in Madison Square Park 2012 Union Square Hospitality Group opens a Shake Shack in New Haven
putting the customer first,” he said that he is more concerned with interactions among his staff and does what he can to ensure that they are cooperating and having fun. Quality service and treatment will follow, he added. The majority of employees working at New Haven’s Shake Shack, which opened on Sept. 13, had previously been unemployed, Meyer said. “It’s really a jobs training program in addition to being a restaurant, and we tried to hire from pockets of the New Haven neighborhood that needed employment,” Meyer said. He said he developed an early interest in public service from his upbringing with a Republican father and a Democrat mother and grew an “idealistic but pragmatic” attitude while working on independent John Anderson’s 1980 presidential campaign. Though he had planned on becoming a lawyer, Meyer said that on the night before his LSAT exam — while out to dinner with his family at an Italian restaurant — he realized he was unsure if it was the right path for him. “Sitting over my bowl of spaghetti in that restaurant, the answer wasn’t just staring me in the face but was smashing me in the face,” Meyer said. “Looking back, I realized that even when I was a traveling salesman in New York for a while, I would plan my route not around where I could make the most sales, but around where I could eat the best street food.” Meyer said he sees his current job as a combination of his love for tasty food and his desire to serve the public — he is also a national leader in the fight against hunger through collaborations with charities such as New York-based City Harvest. He added that he values integrating his restaurants into their respective communities. The New Haven Shake Shack, for example, would not work well in New York’s Theater District because several of its qualities, including its architecture and wood from the original Yale Bowl, give it a uniquely New Haven character. Shake Shack is also collaborating with Rock the Vote in an effort called “Shack the Vote” to encourage registration for the upcoming election, Meyer said, adding that he “[does not] need to run for office to be a public servant.” Students who attended the Tea were impressed by Meyer’s conviction and commitment to his goals. “He has a worldview and he’s so sure of it,” Eli Feldman ’16 said. Spencer Bokat-Lindell ’16 said he was encouraged by Meyer’s transition from politics to food and appreciated that Meyer said, “You don’t have to choose between doing what you love and addressing [the world’s] problems.” This week, Meyer will celebrate the 27th birthday of his first-ever restaurant, Union Square Café. Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Dissents speak to a future age.” RUTH BADER GINSBURG ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Sterling aims to bolster financial aid STERLING FROM PAGE 1 graduation, [but] they will make far less,” Sterling said. “My concern is, how do we keep student debt at a minimum? If one of our competitors offers full aid, we lose, and we are keenly interested in attracting the country’s and the world’s best students.” Though Sterling said 95 percent of current students receive financial assistance, he said that some international students, particularly those from developing countries, may be deterred from coming to the Divinity School because they are unable to cover the costs of tuition and living expenses. He added that he hopes the school’s expanding financial aid program will draw students from continents like Africa and Asia to the school. Nicholas Lewis DIV ’13, president of the Divinity School’s student council, said he is impressed with how open Sterling is about soliciting dialogue on campus, adding that the new dean has been encouraging students and faculty to participate in projects addressing the topics of race and inclusivity. Sterling is also planning to create hour-long leadership courses taught by leaders from a variety of industries outside the Divinity School who have been shaped by a theological perspective, such as pastors, politicians, law firm partners and NGO leaders. “This would offer our students an opportunity to engage not only with the faculty but also with
people who have been phenomenally successful in society while operating in a theological framework,” he said. Even as he contemplates broader initiatives for the entire Divinity School, Sterling has worked to become acquainted with the school’s community by having dinner with each faculty member and students in the incoming class in groups of 10. Whitney Waller DIV ’13 said Sterling spent much of his time during student orientation getting to know both old and new students, adding that this willingness to interact with the student body has carried on into the school year. “His regular presence during both daily activities, like chapel, and special events, like day-long inclusivity training, signal to me that Dean Sterling cares deeply about being attentive to and accessible for the students of our community,” she said. Katharine Toledano DIV ’14 said she has enjoyed seeing Sterling worship alongside the students almost every day, and Corinne Ellis DIV ’14 said she thinks Sterling is approachable and responsive to student concerns. Sterling’s official installation ceremony will take place Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Divinity School Quadrangle. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .
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Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling, who assumed his role this past August, will be inaugurated on Tuesday. Sterling’s plans include bolstering financial aid and fostering a more inclusive community.
Ginsburg discusses women’s rights advocacy GINSBURG FROM PAGE 1 the Yale Law School. During the event at Battell, both Ginsburg and Greenhouse addressed topics ranging from Ginsburg’s career as an advocate of women’s rights to the challenges she has faced on the Supreme Court bench. “The major problem that gender equality advocates faced in the 1970s was the perception that laws that differentiated between men and women did so for a benign purpose — to protect the woman,” Ginsburg said. Ginsburg discussed her advo-
cacy for women’s rights by explaining the influence of specific legal cases brought to the Supreme Court — such as the 1996 case of M.L.B. v. S.L.J., in which the majority opinion for the Court, written by Ginsburg, found that M.L.B. could not be denied an appeal of a decision stripping her of parental rights because of her inability to pay court fees. Ginsburg said the key to the M.L.B. case was eliminating the line between a civil and a criminal case. “[We] first [compared] what was at stake for M.L.B. — loss of
None of us operating in [a Supreme Court] setting can hope to prevail if we try to be king or queen. I would try to get men to think not so much about what good husbands or fathers they have been, but how they want the world to be for their daughters.
her parental rights — with what was at stake for a petty offender who faced not even jail time,” Ginsburg said. Ginsburg also discussed cases from her career as a lawyer, such as the 1972 Struck v. Secretary of Defense case, in which she represented a pregnant woman who was forced to either have an abortion or relinquish her career in the military. Ginsburg said that because the case was dismissed as moot, it could not serve as the first landmark case in the abortion debate, and Roe v. Wade in 1973 did so instead. Ginsburg said her clients were “extraordinary” people because they maintained faith in the U.S. justice system. Through her litigation style, Ginsburg could tell her clients’ stories in a compelling way, Greenhouse said, adding that Ginsburg’s clients “were never abstractions to [her].” Greenhouse emphasized Ginsburg’s “out of the box” legal thinking, adding that she now assigns several of Ginsburg’s cases to her law students. She added that Ginsburg’s legacy does not only include advocating for gender equality — though she is often described as the “founder of constitutional women’s rights” — but rather for equality among all people. Ginsburg also described the importance of collaborating with
other justices on the Supreme Court bench. By accommodating the views of the other justices, she added, the Court’s final opinion often ends up as a compromise. Audience members said they were impressed by Ginsburg’s ability to communicate complicated issues in an accessible manner. Ezra Bialik LAW ’67 said he was impressed with her firm grasp of the numerous cases she mentioned during the discussion. His wife, Joyce Bialik, said the event allowed her to learn about Ginsburg’s career before she became a Supreme Court Justice. She added that she was impressed with the breadth and depth of Ginsburg’s memory. Victor Ojukwu LAW ’15 said that as a current law student, he was particularly excited by the event because he had recently read some of the cases that Ginsburg and Greenhouse cited. The Gruber Foundation at Yale, which was formed in May 2011 and sponsors the Gruber Distinguished Lecture Series in Women’s Rights at Yale Law School, is dedicated to the advancement of science, support of young scientists, global justice and women’s rights. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .
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“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” GEORGE MCGOVERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IN THE 1972 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
In race to 270, it may come down to 106 counties BY THOMAS BEAUMONT AND MIKE SCHNEIDER ASSOCIATED PRESS LEESBURG, Va. — How Virginia goes in the presidential election may come down to voters who live amid the small wineries, affluent subdivisions and Civil War battlegrounds of Loudoun County. Voters in the tony Hamilton County suburbs around the humming riverside economic engine of Cincinnati may tip the balance in Ohio. To win Florida, either President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney probably will have carried Hillsborough County, where the urban seaport town of Tampa bleeds into communities of Spanish-speaking voters and retired Midwesterners. Those areas are vastly different, yet each is full of fickle voters and bound by a proclivity to swing between Republican and Democrat every four years. All are main targets as the president and his Republican challenger look for enough victories in enough states
to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House. The race may come down to an even narrower slice of the electorate than the nine most contested states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. The outcome probably will depend on what happens in the 106 counties that Republican George W. Bush won in 2004 and that voted Democrat Obama in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis. The AP reviewed the vote returns in those nine states during the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections to identify the counties that have swung between the parties and were most likely to do it again on Nov. 6. These counties are home to people such as Matt Blunt, a 42-year-old IT manager from Sterling, Va., in Loudoun County, outside Washington. Blunt voted for Obama in 2008, hoping he could change Washington’s bitter tone, but now backs Romney. “What I see in Romney is the
stronger potential for leadership than we’ve seen in the past four years,” Blunt said, adding that Obama “hasn’t lived up to the promise.” In these counties more than anywhere else, voters’ phones ring every night with automated telephone surveys. Every day, glossy mailers hit their mailboxes. Televisions crackle day and night with campaign ads.
What I see in Romney is the stronger potential for leadership than we’ve seen in the past four years. MATT BLUNT IT manager In fact, voters in the Cincinnati, Tampa and northern Virginia TV markets have been subjected to presidential campaign advertising totaling $127 million, almost one-fifth the total spent
nationwide this year. “There’s more — and more concentrated — contact with voters in these counties that swung back and forth in these states than anybody,” said Charlie Black, a veteran Republican presidential campaign strategist and informal Romney adviser. In a race where any bit of an advantage could make the difference, the campaigns go to all this trouble to sway a tiny fraction of the electorate. In 2008, there were 6.2 million votes from those 106 counties; that was not even 5 percent of the roughly 137 million who voted for president. There is no single reason to explain why these counties seem to shift with the political wind. Their voters are far from monolithic, having little in common other than their voting patterns. In most of these places, there are few truly undecided voters, forcing Obama and Romney to subdivide the electorate in their attempt for any edge. In northern Virginia, for example, Obama is reaching out to newcomers and younger veter-
Former Sen. McGovern dies BY KRISTI EATON AND WALTER MEARS ASSOCIATED PRESS SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, calling Nixon the most corrupt president in history. But the Democrat could not escape the embarrassing missteps of his own campaign. The most torturous was the selection of Missouri Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton
as the vice presidential nominee and, 18 days later, following the disclosure that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression, the decision to drop him from the ticket despite having pledged to back him “1,000 percent.” It was at once the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and called “possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate” by the late political writer Theodore H. White. After a hard day’s campaigning — Nixon did virtually none — McGovern would complain to those around him that nobody was paying attention. With R. Sargent Shriver as his running mate, he went on to carry only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, winning just 38 percent of the popular vote in one of the biggest landslides losses in American presidential history.
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Former Sen. George McGovern, who lost the 1972 presidential bid to President Richard Nixon, died on Sunday. He was 90.
“Tom and I ran into a little snag back in 1972 that in the light of my much advanced wisdom today, I think was vastly exaggerated,” McGovern said at an event with Eagleton in 2005. Noting that Nixon and his running mate, Spiro Agnew, would both ultimately resign, he joked, “If we had run in ’74 instead of ’72, it would have been a piece of cake.” A proud liberal who had argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a Democratic senator from South Dakota and three-time candidate for president, McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice, family spokesman Steve Hildebrand told The Associated Press. McGovern was 90. McGovern’s family had said late last week that McGovern had become unresponsive while in hospice care, and Hildebrand said he was surrounded by family and lifelong friends when he died. “We are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life advocating for the hungry, being a progressive voice for millions and fighting for peace. He continued giving speeches, writing and advising all the way up to and past his 90th birthday, which he celebrated this summer,” the family said in the statement. A funeral will be held in Sioux Falls, with details announced soon, Hildebrand said. A decorated World War II bomber pilot, McGovern said he learned to hate war by waging it. In his disastrous race against Nixon, he promised to end the Vietnam War and cut defense spending by billions of dollars. He helped create the Food for Peace program and spent much of his career believing the United States should be more accommodating to the former Soviet Union. Never a showman, he made his case with a style as plain as the prairies where he grew up, sounding often more like the Methodist minister he’d once studied to become than longtime U.S. senator and three-time candidate for president he became.
ans. Romney’s pitch is stronger toward retired military members, sportsmen and social conservatives. In counties in the West, Obama is courting educated women and Hispanics. Romney is attempting to make inroads with both, but is more focused on businesswomen and small-business owners. As a whole, voters in these counties are less racially diverse than the nation, with a smaller percentage having with a college education. One such area is workingclass Sandusky County, Ohio, where the automotive industry’s rebound has pushed the county’s unemployment below the state average. The list also includes parts of southern Virginia with a substantial African-American population and North Carolina’s Research Triangle. If there’s one area where these counties are linked, it may be that many have a wide segment of working-class white voters, an important group for Romney and one that Obama has struggled with.
In the hunt for 270, Obama starts with more states and electoral votes in his column. Romney must take back from the incumbent some states that Obama carried four years ago, including North Carolina and Virginia, which had been reliably Republican until 2008. In Virginia, public and private polls show Obama narrowly ahead. Internal Republican polls have shown Romney leading in Loudoun and Prince William counties. Over time, these once reliably Republican counties have become more politically diverse, as younger, well-educated, racially and ethnically diverse voters have flocked to Washington’s suburbs. Obama won four years ago by aggressively going after them and the state’s robust African-American electorate. Romney can win Virginia by taking Loudoun County away from the Democrats, holding down Obama’s likely edge in other Washington suburbs, and running up big numbers in rural southern Virginia and the conservative Tidewater area.
Wis. spa shooting suspect shot self BY DINESH RAMDE ASSOCIATED PRESS BROOKFIELD, Wis. — A man police suspected of killing three and wounding four by opening fire at a tranquil day spa was found dead Sunday afternoon following a six-hour manhunt that locked down a shopping center, country club and hospital in suburban Milwaukee. Authorities said they believed the shooting was related to a domestic dispute. The man they identified as the suspect, Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, had a restraining order against him. Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said Haughton died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was found in the spa. Authorities initially believed Haughton had fled and spent much of Sunday looking for him. The shooting happened about 11 a.m. at the Azana Day Spa, a twostory, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall in Brookfield, a middle-toupper class community west of Milwaukee. Hours later, a bomb squad descended on the building, and Tushaus said an improvised explosive device had been found inside. It was not clear whether it remained a threat. Haughton’s father, Radcliffe Haughton, Sr., spoke to a television station and The Associated Press shortly before police announced his son’s death. In telephone interviews from Florida, he said he had last spoken to his son a few days ago, but didn’t have any indication anything was wrong. He begged his son to turn himself
in. After learning of his son’s death, he said, “This is very sad.” Police released little about Haughton other than a physical description and a photo. Online court records showed a temporary restraining order was issued against him Oct. 8 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court because of a domestic abuse complaint. Haughton appeared in court Thursday, when a no-contact order was issued, and he was told to turn all his weapons over to the sheriff’s department. It was not clear who sought the restraining order, but his father said he was married. A sea of ambulances and police vehicles collected at the scene shortly after the shooting. A witness, David Gosh of nearby West Allis, told the Milwaukee JournalSentinel he was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend when he saw a woman emerge from the spa, screaming, as she ran into traffic. The area is near an interstate and a busy commercial road. “She ran right out into the street was pounding on cars,” Gosh told the newspaper. Moments later, a man with a handgun ran out. He appeared to be chasing the woman but then went back inside, Gosh said. The mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where survivors were taken were among the buildings locked down as police searched for Haughton. At the hospital, staff members were escorted inside and critically injured patients were accepted with a police escort. Officers were stationed at all main entrances.
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“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than die with the saints. The sinners are much more fun.” BILLY JOEL AMERICAN SINGER-SONGWRITER
Pope names new saints
Lebanon protesters try to storm palace BY ELIZABETH KENNEDY BEN HUBBARD ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Members of the procession arrive at the altar to conduct a mass to celebrate the life of Kateri Tekakwitha on the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal on Sunday. BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Some 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other traditional garb flooded St. Peter’s Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints onto the roster of Catholic role models in a bid to reinvigorate the faith in parts of the world where it’s lagging. Two of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii. It seemed as if a third saint, Pedro Calungsod, a 17th century Filipino teenage martyr, drew the biggest crowd of all, with Rome’s sizeable Filipino expat community turning out in flag-waving droves to welcome the country’s second saint. In his homily, Benedict praised each of the seven as heroic and courageous examples for the entire church, calling Cope a “shining” model for Catholics and Kateri an inspiration to indigenous faithful across North
America. “May the witness of these new saints … speak today to the whole church, and may their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world,” he said. The celebrations began at dawn, with Native Americans in beaded and feathered headdresses and leather-fringed tunics singing songs to Kateri to the beat of drums as the sun rose over St. Peter’s Square.
It’s so nice to see God showing all the flavors of the world. GENE CALDWELL Member, Menominee reservation Later, the crowds cheered as the pope read out the names of each of the new saints in Latin and declared that they were worthy of veneration by the entire church. Prayers were read out in Mohawk and Cebuano, the dialect of Calungsod’s native Cebu
province, and in English by a nun wearing a lei. “It’s so nice to see God showing all the flavors of the world,” marveled Gene Caldwell, a Native American member of the Menominee reservation in Neopit, Wisconsin, who attended with his wife, Linda. “The Native Americans are enthralled” to have Kateri canonized, he said. The canonization coincided with a Vatican meeting of the world’s bishops on trying to revive Christianity in places where it’s fallen by the wayside. Several of the new saints were missionaries, making clear the pope hopes their example — even though they lived hundreds of years ago — will be relevant today as the Catholic Church tries to hold on to its faithful. It’s a tough task as the Vatican faces competition from evangelical churches in Africa and Latin America, increasing secularization in the West and disenchantment due to the clerical sex abuse scandal in Europe and beyond. The two American saints actually hail from roughly the same place — what is today upstate New York — although they lived two centuries apart.
BEIRUT — The funeral for Lebanon’s slain intelligence chief descended into chaos Sunday as soldiers fired tear gas at protesters who tried to storm the government palace, directing their rage at a leadership they consider puppets of a murderous Syrian regime. The assassination of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in a massive car bomb Friday threatens to shatter the fragile political balance in Lebanon, a country plagued by decades of strife - much of it linked to political and military domination by Damascus. “The Sunni blood is boiling!” the crowd chanted as hundreds of people clashed with security forces. More than 100 protesters broke through a police cordon of concertina wire and metal gates, putting them within 50 yards (meters) of the entrance to the palace. Authorities responded with tear gas and several officers fired machine guns and rifles in the air. One plain clothes guard pulled a pistol from his belt and fired over protesters’ heads. Then a roar of automatic gunfire erupted, sending the protesters scattering for cover. It was unclear if the guards fired live bullets or blanks, but no protesters were reported injured by gunfire. Several were overcome by tear gas, and the government’s media office said 15 guards were injured. The killing of al-Hassan has laid bare some of Lebanon’s most intractable issues: the country’s dark history of sectarian divisions, its links to the powerful regime in Damascus and the role of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group that dominates Lebanon’s government and is Syria’s closest ally. Many fear the crisis could lead to the kind of street protests and violence that have been the scourge of this Arab country of 4 million people for years, including a devastating 1975-1990 civil war and sectarian battles between Sunnis and Shiites in 2008. Al-Hassan, 47, was a powerful opponent of Syria in Lebanon. He headed an investigation over the summer that led to the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, one of Syria’s most loyal allies in
Lebanon. He also led the inquiry that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. Al-Hassan was buried near Hariri in Beirut’s central Martyrs Square, where thousands of people gathered earlier Sunday for the funeral. TV footage showed al-Hassan’s wife Anna, his young sons Majd and Mazen, and his parents shedding tears near his coffin. There were significant parallels between the life and death of Hariri and al-Hassan — both powerful Sunni figures struck down by car bombs at a time when they were seen to be opposing Syria. Syria denies any role in either killing.
Everything suggests that it’s an extension of the Syrian tragedy. LAURENT FABIUS Foreign minister, France Hariri’s death sparked massive street protests in Lebanon that forced Damascus to withdraw its tens of thousands of troops from the country. Al-Hassan’s killing, seven years later, has not had such a galvanizing effect: Turnout at his funeral fell well short of expectations, suggesting the country’s anti-Syria bloc is rudderless. Friday’s killing also exacerbated sectarian tensions, which already were enflamed over the crisis in Syria. Many of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims have backed Syria’s mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiite Muslims have tended to back Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it was likely that Assad’s government had a hand in Friday’s assassination. Fabius told Europe-1 radio that while it was not fully clear who was behind the attack, it was “probable” that Syria played a role. “Everything suggests that it’s an extension of the Syrian tragedy,” he said.
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ELIS SNAP LOSING STREAK With starting quarterback Eric Williams ’16 out early, the Bulldogs’ back-ups and kicker Philippe Panico ’13 stepped up big for a 27–13 win over Penn. PAGE B2 MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Running back Tyler Varga ’15 added another 117 all-purpose yards for the Elis in their win over Penn.
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Bulldogs extend Ivy lead BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team suddenly has some breathing room at the top of the Ivy standings.
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and scoreless streak. “There’s in old saying in England that ‘football’s a funny game,’” said head coach Brian Tompkins, who hails from London. “And I think you saw that today.” Midway through the second half, it appeared as though the Bulldogs’ skid would continue. After an opening 65 minutes in which neither team could generate significant momen-
Following a 3–0 victory over Brown and Princeton’s 3–2 loss to Penn this weekend, the Bulldogs increased their lead over the second-place Tigers to two matches. Just 10 days ago, the two squads were tied atop the Ancient Eight standings with identical 5–0 Ivy records. “Throughout the whole season we’ve had the ability to determine our own destiny,” outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14 said. “Having a cushion now doesn’t really change what we do going forward.” This weekend’s win extended the Elis’ winning streak to nine matches, a run that began over a month ago with a sweep of Albany on Sept. 19. In that time, Yale (12–5, 8–0 Ivy) has dropped just three of the 30 sets it has played and built the program’s longest winning streak since the 2010 squad won 10 straight conference matches. Despite the 3–0 final score, Saturday’s contest against Brown (5–13, 1–7 Ivy) was not an easy win for the Bulldogs. The Bears pushed the Elis to the limit in each set and were only outscored by 11 points overall. “Brown is a really scrappy team,” head
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An 88th minute goal put Yale ahead for good against Penn on Saturday.. BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the 88th minute of Saturday’s men’s soccer game, forward Jenner Fox ’14 found himself on the right side of Penn’s penalty area facing only one defender and the goalie. As the defender stepped toward Fox, he crossed the ball into the middle of the area to forward Peter Jacobson ’14, whose one-touch finish past the Quaker goalkeeper set off cele-
bration on the field and among the nearly 1,000 spectators in attendance at Reese Stadium.
MEN’S SOCCER Jacobson’s shot elevated the Bulldogs (4–7–3, 1–2–1 Ivy) to a thrilling, come-from-behind 2–1 win over the Quakers (2–11–0, 0–4–0 Ivy) at home. The Elis not only earned their first Ivy League victory, but also ended a five-game winless
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Kendall Polan contributed a double-double against Brown on Saturday.
NUMBER OF SACKS MADE BY THE FOOTBALL TEAM’S DEFENSE ON SATURDAY AGAINST PENN. BEAU PALIN ’14 led the defense with two takedowns for 17 yards. The four sacks were a season-high — before Saturday, the team had only seven previous quarterback tackles for loss.
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Fan runs on field — during a live play! During a the first quarter of college football matchup between No. 14 Florida State and Miami (FL) on Saturday, a fan ran onto the field during gameplay. Shayon Green, a defensive end for Miami, just barely missed tackling the man mid-play. The bizarre moment led to a stoppage of play where game officials reviewed if the fan interfered with gameplay. Their conclusion? “The fan on the field had no effect on the play.”
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Kelly Johnson ’16 had a match-high 12 kills against Brown. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1
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Midfielder Kevin Michalak ’15 had one of Yale’s six shots on goal in the Bulldogs 2–1 victory over Penn at Reese Stadium on Saturday. MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 tum, Penn drew a penalty kick after a battle for the ball in the Yale penalty area left a Quaker player down on the field. Penn forward Stephen Baker converted the kick, finding the bottom right corner of the net despite goalkeeper and team captain Bobby Thalman’s ’13 diving deflection. “I just didn’t get quite enough to push it around the post,” Thalman said. “But knowing that we still had a decent amount of time left in the game, [I] just had to pick up the ball out of the net and make sure that the guys were still motivated because everyone still believed that we could win. I think that showed.” The Quakers nearly struck again three minutes later, as Penn back Jonny Dolezal fired a volley off of a corner that went wide of the Bulldog goal. Yet the Elis quickly answered back. Fox sent a cross towards the middle of the Quaker
penalty area to midfielder Scott Armbrust ’14, who corralled the ball with his chest before taking a touch to his right. He then turned and fired a low shot to the left post past Penn goalkeeper Max Kurtzman to even the score. The 70th minute tally represented the first goal that the Bulldogs recorded in their previous 559 minutes of play. “It was a great ball played in by Jenner,” Armbrust said. “I had my opportunity and I put it away.” Tompkins noted that the goal relieved the psychological pressure on the Elis to break their scoreless run. While Armbrust’s effort knotted the score at 1–1, the Elis were faced with another measure of adversity in the 79th minute when defender Philip Piper ’16 received his second yellow card of the game. The referee showed Piper a red card, sending him off and forcing the Elis to play one man down for the remaining 11 minutes of the game.
Despite the disadvantage, the Bulldogs took the lead on Jacobson’s shot in the closing minutes of the game. Fox and midfielder Max McKiernan ’14 were credited with assists on the goal; Fox’s assist represented his second of the game. “It’s great to win under any circumstances,” Tompkins said. “But to pick ourselves up off the floor twice, after going a goal down and then going a man down, I thought our guys showed a tremendous amount of character today.” The excitement of the second half followed a fairly uneventful first. Neither side consistently kept possession, and as a result, both sides were unable to generate genuine scoring opportunities. The Bulldogs will continue conference play this Saturday at home against Columbia. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .
Penn dominates on offense
coach Erin Appleman said. “They have a tough serve and they dig a lot of balls.” The opening set came down to the wire but the Bulldogs managed to pull out a 25–21 victory. The Bears scored the opening point for their only lead of the set, but hung around to make it interesting down the stretch. With Brown down 19–16, outside hitter Maddie Lord hit three kills in a row to pull the Bears even. But the Elis responded with a three-point run of their own that included a Reetz kill to take a 22–19 lead that they did not relinquish. “Sometimes we refocus during the set when we feel like things are off,” Reetz said. “We come back together and get focused in on what we need to do to win that set and move forward.” The Bulldogs kept that momentum rolling in the second set and jumped out to a 14–7 lead. But Brown managed another comeback to make the final moments of the game difficult for Yale. The Bears stormed back from a 22–14 deficit with a 7–1 run and, after two straight kills from opposite Amanda Nickel, were down just 23–21. But outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 responded for Yale with
a kill and setter Kendall Polan ’14 added one of her own to seal a second straight 25–21 win. The Yale offense played well enough to win but had its worst statistical showing of the Ivy season so far. The Bulldogs hit just .178, below their previous Ivy low of .211, which they posted against Penn last weekend. They also finished with their lowest kill and assist totals of the Ivy season thus far. “We were not very efficient this weekend,” Appleman said. “I don’t think we played as well as we had earlier in the season. It was not a good showing for my team.” Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 once again set the pace for Yale offensively and led all players with 12 kills to the tune of a .320 hitting percentage. Reetz was the only other Yale player to record more than five kills and had seven on 15 attempts while Polan contributed 23 assists. The Bulldogs are back in action on Friday night when they take on Columbia at 7 p.m. They will follow that contest up with a 5 p.m. Saturday showdown against Cornell. Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
XC wins on short course CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B4 that nine runners had already earned their spot,and that he was looking for three runners who excelled at the CCSU meet to take the last three spots. On the women’s side, captain Nihal Kayali ’13, who did not run in the race, said that the CCSU meet featured Eli athletes who did not run in last weekend’s Wisconsin Adidas Invitational. She added that five of the runners in the CCSU meet will race in the Ivy League Championship meet, though not necessarily the Bulldog’s top five finishers at Stanley Quarter Park. The women’s team placed its first five runners in the top eight overall en route to its first-place finish among the 14 teams at the meet. Annelies Gamble ’13 placed second overall behind Bryant University’s Eimear Black and first among Eli runners, covering the three-kilometer course in 10:19.44. Anna Demaree ’15, Sarah Barry ’14, Shannon McDonnell ’16 and Jenny Donnelly ’13 closely followed Gamble, finishing third, fourth, seventh and eighth overall, respectively. “In general it was pretty good across the
board for the team,” Kayali said. The men’s team was able to carry the momentum into the day’s second race. Laemel ran the five-kilometer course in 15:33.75, finishing behind only CCSU’s Colby Delbene. He was trailed closely by teammates Isa Qasim ’15 and Michael Cunetta ’14, who finished fourth and fifth overall, respectively. By finishing as the top three Bulldog runners in Friday’s race, Laemel, Qasim and Cunetta earned spots on the Yale team that will compete in the Ivy League Championship meet on Saturday. Rounding out the Bulldog top five were Sam Kirtner ’13 and Ahmad Aljobeh ’16 in sixth and ninth place overall, respectively. “I wish I could take more than 12 [athletes to the Ivy Championships],” Harkins said. “There were definitely more than three guys that ran well.” Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will continue their seasons this Saturday at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs could not hold off a blistering Penn offense in a 2–0 loss. WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 Quakers launched an explosive attack against the Eli defense at the beginning of the second half. With the pressure proving to be too much for the Bulldogs, the Quakers got a lucky bounce five minutes into the second half when a corner kick was inadvertently knocked into the net by a Yale defender. The quick turn of events flipped the Bulldogs on their heads. “You have to play differently [from behind] than when the game is 0–0.” Meredith said. “It’s harder to keep your composure and it’s frustrating for us to chase the game.” The Quakers had another
solid opportunity at the 65-minute mark when a pass split two Yale defenders, giving the Quakers a two-on-one opportunity. But goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 rushed up and beat both Penn attackers to the ball, breaking up the play. Nonetheless, the Bulldogs could not fend off the growing momentum of the Penn attack forever. Fo rwa rd C l a ra M i d g ley chipped the ball past a Yale defender 79 minutes into the game, splitting Ames and another defender, which left an open ball for forward Kathryn Barth to tap for the Quaker’s second goal of the game. In the end, Penn outshot Yale 13–5, and held a 9–2 advantage in
shots on goal. But the Elis suffered more than a loss on the scoreboard. During a defensive scramble with 10 minutes left in the first half, defender Christina Bradley ’16 was kicked in the face, chipping her mandible. Butwin said she may need oral surgery. The game was part of a double-header series with the men’s soccer team against the Quakers. Yale soccer went 1–1 on the weekend with a 1–0 win from the men’s team. The Bulldogs’ next game is next Saturday at 7 p.m. against Fairfield University at Reese Stadium. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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The Bulldogs competed at Friday’s Central Connecticut State University Mini Meet.
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SPORTS
“Big win today against Penn. But we’re not done, looking to ruin everyone’s season.” TWEET FROM WIDE RECEIVER GRANT WALLACE ’16 (@GWALLACE29)
Back-up QBs take over
S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S
FOOTBALL IVY
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W L
%
1
Princeton
3
0
1.000
4
2
0.667
2
Harvard
2
1
0.667
5
1
0.833
Dartmouth
2
1
0.667
4
2
0.667
Penn
2
1
0.667
2
4
0.333
Brown
1
2
0.333
4
2
0.667
Cornell
1
3
0.333
3
3
0.500
Yale
1
2
0.333
2
4
0.333
Columbia
0
3
0.000
1
5
0.167
5
8
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Yale at Columbia, 12:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Yale 27, Penn 13
VOLLEYBALL IVY
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Derek Russell ’13 dominated as a dual-threat quarterback, passing for 94 yards and rushing for a touchdown. BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER A lot has happened since Yale last won a football game. The St. Louis Cardinals have won 19 games. “Binders Full of Women” has accrued more than 350,000 likes on Facebook. And professor John Gaddis has assigned 720 pages of reading in his Cold War history lecture. But on Saturday at the Yale Bowl, the Bulldogs put weeks of adversity behind them and returned to their winning ways.
FOOTBALL Yale (2–4, 1–2 Ivy) overcame the loss of quarterback Eric Williams ’16 to an upper body injury on the third series of the game to beat Penn (2–4, 2–1 Ivy), 27–13. Backup quarterbacks Derek Russell ’13 and Logan Scott ’16 combined for three touchdowns and 161 yards passing to drive the Elis to victory at the Yale Bowl. Quaker head coach Al Bagnoli stated that the Bulldogs were able to stick with their game plan despite the injury. “[Yale is] a running team anyways,” Bagnoli said. “They want to run the ball with those two backs and the quarterbacks.” After a slow start on his first series under center, Russell drove the Bulldogs 80 yards, but a fumble by running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 on the Penn 11-yard line squandered the scoring opportunity. Quaker quarterback Andrew Holland then came in for the
Quakers to replace senior signalcaller Billy Ragone for the next drive. Bagnoli said he brings in Holland to rest Ragone because of the starter’s “high-risk” style of play. Holland capped an 89-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown pass to running back Lyle Marsh to put Penn up 7–0 with 5:52 remaining until halftime. After a 39-yard drive powered by 13 rushing yards from running back Tyler Varga ’15, the Elis chipped away at the deficit when kicker Philippe Panico ’13 drilled a career-long 43-yard field goal to make it 7–3. After the game, Reno said that he was impressed with the Elis’ kicking game. “We’ve got a ton of confidence in [Panico],” Reno said. “He had a great three days of practice and a great game today.” Penn had a chance to take a lead into halftime, but Yale’s defense forced a three-and-out by the Quakers to give Yale a chance to score with 1:26 left in the second quarter. Reno opted to have Scott run the two-minute drill for the Elis and the freshman delivered. Scott went 5–8 for 49 yards on the drive and capped it with a 4-yard score to wide receiver Henry Furman ’14 to give the Bulldogs a 10–7 lead at the break. The Elis added to the momentum in the third quarter when linebacker Brian Leffler ’13 intercepted Ragone and returned the ball 47 yards to the Quaker fouryard line. Russell capitalized on the takeaway on the next play with a touchdown pass to tight
end Elijah Thomas ’14. Defensive end Beau Palin ’14 agreed with Reno’s statement that the defense has come a long way from the beginning of the season. “Everybody is working their butts off,” Palin said. “There’s no big changes, we’re just getting better every week.” The next three drives saw the two teams trade field goals back and forth. Quaker kicker Connor Loftus connected on field goals from 34 and 27 yards while Panico split the uprights from 42 yards as Penn pulled to within a touchdown at 20-13 with 13:14 remaining in the fourth quarter.
We’ve got a ton of confidence in [Panico]. He had ... a great game today. TONY RENO Head coach, Football But the Eli offense went back to work and Russell finished a 14-play, 77-yard drive by rolling to his left and diving into the end zone to give Yale a 27–13 lead at the 8:01 mark. The touchdown was Yale’s third red zone score of the game, a reassuring sign for a team that came into the matchup scoring touchdowns on just 39 percent of their red zone opportunities. According to Reno, converting near the goal line was the difference on the day.
“When you look at the difference between this week and last week it’s red zone opportunities and red zone points,” Reno said. Given a lead by the offense, Yale’s defense clamped down on the Quakers to preserve the victory. Palin sacked Holland two times in the span of three plays — the second to force a turnover on downs with 6:12 remaining in the game. Yale’s defense recorded four sacks for the second straight game after totaling just three sacks in the team’s first four games. The Elis also held the Quakers to a 38 percent third-down conversion rate and stopped Penn on each of its three fourth-down conversion attempts. Russell finished the game 13–20 with 94 yards and a touchdown through the air, plus 61 yards and another score on the ground. Scott was 8–11 with 67 passing yards and a touchdown strike of his own. Varga totaled 96 yards on the ground for the Bulldogs as well. Reno said that he was unsure of the nature of Williams’ injury other than that it was to the quarterback’s upper body and that it prevented his return to action that day. If Williams is unable to go next Saturday, Reno confirmed that Russell would be the starter. Yale will hit the road next Saturday to visit Columbia (1–5, 0–3 Ivy) for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
Field hockey celebrates 40th anniversary FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 momentum just seven minutes later with the second goal of the first half. A few minutes into the second half, the Quaker forward Sunny Stirewalt scored the goahead goal off of a penalty corner. Unfortunately, the string of unanswered goals did not end there. Although Yale continued to hammer away shots, Penn forward Julie Tahan managed to put away a pass from midfielder Sarah Hasson, bringing the score to 3–1 and forcing the Elis to call a timeout. “Penn did a good job of riding their train of momentum,” Garcia said. “They kept balls [in their offensive] circle and at times, we were unable to tie up their sticks.” The Bulldogs responded quickly, fueling hope for a comeback. Forward Brooke Gogel ’14 deflected a pass from midfielder Erica Borgo ’14 high over the Penn keeper Carly Sokach’s shoulder in the 51st minute to pull the Elis within one. In the final minutes of regulation time, Borgo appeared to score what would have been the game-tying goal, but the goal was waved off because of illegal foot contact. The Bulldogs could not find the equalizer before the final whistle and Penn came away with the victory. Goalkeeper Emily Cain ’13 stopped
six of Penn’s nine shots on goal. Sokach saved 13 of the 15 shots the Elis sent her way. On Sunday, the Bulldogs faced defeat by a larger margin. No. 23 Albany (10–7, 2–2 America East) scored four goals in the first half, three of which came on penalty corners. The Bulldogs gave up 16 penalty corners across both halves, while earning only two of their own. “We are lucky to have an incredible defensive unit for penalty corner’s, but it’s unfair that we put them on the line as much as we do,” Garcia said. “I think circle play will be an emphasis in practice this week. If we focus on good positioning and hard outlets, we should be able to lower the number of corners significantly.” Yale was limited to only one shot before halftime, while the Great Danes had 17. The Elis dispelled the possibility of a shutout when forward Jessie Accurso ’15 scored an unassisted goal at 48:36. But the Great Danes answered with a goal less than a minute after Accurso’s, and scored again 17 minutes later to push the score to 6–1. Albany midfielders Corrine McConville and Jessica Longstretch each had two goals, and Yale was outshot 35-3 by the Great Danes. Caine had 15 saves and Heather Schlesier ’15, who
came in with 12 minutes to go, had two. “Albany is a very skilled and talented team,” Schlesier said. “I think they read our offense very well which obviously made it difficult for us to penetrate their defense. We did manage to catch them off guard on some fast breaks, one of which provided us with a beautiful goal by Jessie.” Schlesier actually started the game as a forward for the first time this season before her late
appearance in net, demonstrating her versatility on the field. She said that she had not played out of goal in years, but was able to provide intensity and effort with the help of her teammates. The Elis will remain at home over fall break, playing Columbia and Boston University this weekend. Contact GIOVANNI BACARELLA at giovanni.bacarella@yale.edu .
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W L
%
1
Yale
8
0
1.000
12
5
0.706
2
Princeton
6
2
0.750
9
9
0.500
3
Penn
5
3
0.625
10
9
0.526
Harvard
5
3
0.625
8
11
0.421
5
Columbia
4
4
0.500
9
8
0.529
6
Cornell
2
6
0.250
6
13
0.316
7
Brown
1
7
0.125
5
13
0.278
Dartmouth
1
7
0.125
2
16
0.111
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Yale vs. Columbia, 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Yale 3, Brown 0
MEN’S SOCCER IVY
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L D %
W L
D %
1
Brown
3
0
1
0.875
11
1
2
0.857
2
Cornell
3
1
0
0.750
12
1
0
0.923
Dartmouth
3
1
0
0.750
7
6
0
0.538
Princeton
2
0
2
0.750
6
5
2
0.538
Yale
1
2
1
0.375
4
7
3
0.393
Columbia
1
2
1
0.375
3
7
3
0.346
7
Harvard
0
3
1
0.125
2
8
3
0.269
8
Penn
0
4
0
0.000
2
11
0
0.154
5
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Yale vs. Columbia, 4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Yale 2, Penn 1
WOMEN’S SOCCER IVY
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L D %
W L D %
1
Princeton
5
0
0
1.000
10
3
1
0.750
2
Dartmouth
4
1
0
0.800
11
4
0
0.733
Penn
4
1
0
0.800
8
5
1
0.607
4
Harvard
2
2
1
0.500
7
4
3
0.607
5
Columbia
2
3
0
0.400 6
8
0
0.429
6
Brown
1
4
0
0.200
7
6
0
0.538
Yale
1
4
0
0.200
6
7
0
0.462
Cornell
0
4
1
0.100
1
12 1
0.107
8
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
MONDAY, OCT. 22 Yale vs. Fairfield, 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Penn 2, Yale 0
FIELD HOCKEY IVY SCHOOL
W
L
%
W L
%
1
Princeton
5
0
1.000
13
1
0.929
2
Dartmouth
4
1
0.800
9
5
0.643
3
Columbia
3
2
0.600
8
6
0.571
Cornell
3
2
0.600
7
7
0.500
5
Penn
2
3
0.400
7
7
0.500
6
Brown
1
4
0.200
5
9
0.357
Yale
1
4
0.200
4
10
0.286
Harvard
1
4
0.200
3
10
0.231
LAST WEEK
SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Albany (N.Y.) 6, Yale 1 SAT: Penn 3, Yale 2 MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Forward Jessie Accurso ’15 (right) scored Yale’s lone goal against Albany.
OVERALL
THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Yale vs. Columbia, 12 noon
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SPORTS
“What’s the difference between a three-weekold puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.” MIKE DITKA FORMER NFL COACH
Own goal dooms Bulldogs against Penn
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Midfielder Kristen Forster ’13 had three of the Bulldogs five shots against Penn on Saturday, but neither Forster nor the rest of the Elis were able to find the net in Yale’s 1–0 loss. BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A header and a well-placed cross inside the six-yard box helped Penn to top the women’s soccer team 2–0 at home.
WOMEN’S SOCCER A week after picking up their
first Ivy win at Cornell, the Bulldogs (6–7, 1–4 Ivy) dropped their conference game against the Quakers (8–5–1, 4–1 Ivy) at Reese Stadium Saturday evening. Penn’s quick attack caught the Elis off guard and gave the Quakers quality scoring opportunities, while the Bulldogs had trouble finishing on their chances inside the 18-yard box.
“We’re not creating enough chances to score,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “We’ve only scored two goals in [five] Ivy League games.” Despite the Bulldog’s solid control of the ball and Penn’s slim 4–3 advantage in shots at halftime, Yale was unable to convert on any of its first-half chances. Meredith said an average of nine
opportunities are needed to convert chances into any goal, but by the end of Saturday’s game, the Elis only had five shots. But early in the game the Bulldogs showed strong scoring potential and were able to keep the ball in their offensive zone for much of the early going. “The first 10 minutes we did a really good job creating oppor-
Eli cross country teams dominate BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With about a mile left in the men’s race at Friday’s Central Connecticut State University Mini Meet, Ryan Laemel ’14 ran behind a pack of Yale runners. But knowing that the top three Bulldog finishers would earn spots on Yale’s team at next weekend’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, Laemel moved up past his teammates and almost all of the field at the meet. He finished first among the Elis, eight seconds ahead of the next Yale runner and second overall.
CROSS COUNTRY Laemel was not the only Yale runner to excel despite wet conditions at the weekend’s meet at Stanley Quarter Park in New Britain, Conn. The men’s team won their race with 26 points, 60 points better than secondplace CCSU. The Bulldogs similarly excelled in the day’s first race, as the No. 22 women’s team posted a dominant 65-point victory over No. 10 Providence College with a score of 24 points. “It was one of those days where it’s just raining; it’s in general just not a
pleasant day,” Laemel said. “Despite the rain, our team did a really good job of getting excited for the race, keeping good perspective, not letting negative thoughts about the weather or anything else seep into our head.” The Elis dominated in spite of the fact that neither Bulldog squad trotted out its top runners on Friday. Paul Harkins, head coach of the men’s squad, said that the team is only allowed 12 slots for runners at the Ivy League Championship meet. Of those 12 spots, he added, he felt SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE B2
LATE SCORE LIFTS YALE RUGBY OVER HARVARD
tunities,” captain and midfielder Jenny Butwin ’13 said. “But, it didn’t carry through the whole game.” The Bulldogs won their first corner kick just three minutes into the game. A minute later, a precise cross from forward Anne Song ’13 connected with the head of a Yale attacker and zipped just over the crossbar.
At the 25-minute mark, a crisp cross slid between two Penn defenders up to midfielder Kristen Forster ’13 on the left side of the net, but she slipped the ball just outside of the right post. But Yale’s offensive force dwindled as the minutes in the first half wound down, and the SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
Bittersweet weekend for field hockey BY GIOVANNI BACARELLA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Emotions ran high this weekend as team members and alumnae of Yale’s first female varsity sport gathered for a celebration of the field hockey team’s 40th anniversary.
FIELD HOCKEY The Bulldogs fell to Penn 3–2 on Saturday despite the loud cheers and packed stands at Johnson Field. Hoping to break even on Sunday with a win against Albany, the team instead suffered a 6–l loss to the Great Danes. But players said that the significance of Alumnae Day could not be minimized by the losses. “The alumnae turnout this weekend was phenomenal,” forward Gabby Garcia ’16 said in an email to the News.
“Their presence added so much more meaning to the game because they are demonstrative of the legacy that is Yale Field Hockey. The final result wasn’t in our favor, but it was wonderful having them back and hearing how much this program means to them.” The final score of Saturday’s game did not tell the full story of the Bulldogs’ (4–10, 1–4 Ivy) performance against Penn (7–7, 2–3 Ivy). Although the Quakers came out on top, the Elis outshot them 21–15. The Bulldogs came out hard and struck first. Immediately after a Yale penalty corner, forward Nicole Wells ’16 found the net from inside the circle in the 20th minute. Midfielder Emily Schuckert ’14 was awarded an assist for the goal. But Penn managed to steal the SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B3
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ELIS DEFEAT THE CRIMSON 15–12 AT HOME Yousef Alireza ’15 scored a try with 10 minutes remaining to bring Yale back from a 12–10 deficit. Dalton Carr ’15 scored two tries for the Bulldogs and the Yale defense made a prolonged goal-line stand in the waning minutes of the contest to preserve the victory.
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Goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14 saved six of the nine shots she faced in a 3–2 loss to Penn.