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Happy Halloween! Hurricane
Sandy left just in time for Yalies to grab their fake wigs, huge pearls, neon leotards and giant sunglasses and deck out in costume to celebrate everybody’s favorite holiday. Whether you dress up as a binder full of women or a Maine lobsterman, make sure to stay safe. And unlike the last two days, class today isn’t canceled, so don’t forget to show up. In costume.
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states may provide the candidates with the edge they need for victory — particularly Ohio, without which no Republican challenger has won the election. Cody Pomeranz ’15, an Ohio native who worked for the Obama campaign this summer in Pennsylvania, has attempted to contribute to the Ohio
After Hurricane Sandy ripped through Connecticut — disrupting power, transportation and work across the state — students emerged from curfew at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning to find Yale’s campus sunny and largely unscathed. University Vice President Linda Lorimer said the minimal damage to Yale, which consisted of little more than fallen branches and felled trees, is comparable to that caused by a more common “Nor’easter storm.” Director of Facilities Services Roger Goode said his department is collaborating with New Haven crews to clear debris on campus by the end of the week, adding that it is currently too early to estimate the cost of the damages. Yale College and the Graduate School are working to determine a course of action for making up two days of missed classes. “We were nervous about what [the storm] would do to Yale University and we’ve seen what it’s done to faculty and staff in the shore area,” Goode said. “Yale has done pretty well but the surrounding area is
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Our very own ghost story.
In keeping with the spirit of Halloween, a skeleton was discovered in the roots of a tree on the New Haven Green yesterday afternoon. One student walking past the Green said he could see the back of the skull, socket of the right eye and a portion of the ribs. According to investigators, the skeleton may have belonged to an early New Haven resident who had been resting under the Green for years. Until now.
Sweepin’ after Sandy. Sandy
may have left the Elm City, but the cleanup and recovery process has only just begun. For the next few days, the University will offer support services — including warm showers, ice and discounted lunches — to all community members affected by the hurricane. Hot lunch will be served in Commons for $5 through Friday, and ice will be available at the corner of Grove and College streets.
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As presidential candidates scramble to take the lead in swing states, Yale students who call those states home are struggling to influence the election despite their geographical distance. While all students inteviewed from key swing states, such as Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Nevada, said they plan to send in absentee ballots, many have struggled to find ways to stay involved in their home state politics beyond just
ith less than one week before Election Day, candidates have focused their efforts on nine key swing states. Swing state students now in New Haven weigh their involvement in local politics. DIANA LI reports. voting. While some students have volunteered for a campaign in their home states, some have decided to become involved in Connecticut’s own close elections and others have reduced their political involvement entirely. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, at a statistical tie in national polls, are looking to swing states to reach 270 electoral college votes. Nine swing
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Leaving Halloween behind.
For some, Halloween may have to wait another week. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has urged Elm City residents to refrain from trick-or-treating tonight as New Haven recovers from the Frankenstorm. Officials from Milford, East Haven, West Haven, Branford and Orange, Conn. are also urging families to keep their children at home for Halloween.
In hot water. Former defensive
lineman Pat Moran ’12 is facing a criminal investigation after he was caught on tape discussing a plan to cast up to 100 fraudulent ballots. The plan involved forged utility bills and bank statements to pass voter registration laws. Moran resigned last week from his father’s — U.S. Rep. Jim Moran — re-election campaign when the video was released.
Rounding up support. After
the University abruptly cut ties with Buddhist nonprofit center Indigo Blue and the center’s leader Bruce Blair ’81, the former Buddhist Chaplain emailed the center’s participants Tuesday morning urging the students to support one another. In his email, Blair said he was “taken by surprise” when his nine-year relationship with Yale ended.
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BY MONICA DISARE AND MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTERS Latino voters may have the power to swing this year’s Connecticut Senate election. A report released by Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill on Oct. 25 counted 176,000 registered voters of Hispanic origin in Connecticut, which represents almost nine percent of all registered voters in the state. Both campaigns are making an effort to court the Latino vote, in the hope that appealing to this demographic will swing the election in their favor. “I think those of us in public service should learn very quickly that it would be wise to listen to the voices of our Hispanic voters in Connecticut,” Merrill said in a statement. Among Connecticut’s Hispanic voters, 90,012 are registered as Democrats, 71,488 are registered as unaffiliated voters and 14,449 are registered as Republicans. Although these numbers show a decided Democratic advantage, a spokesman for Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, Todd Abrajano ’02, said McMahon has been working to win over Latino voters. “Linda McMahon has been reaching out directly to Connecticut’s Latino voters for the SEE LATINOS PAGE 4
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Hurricane Sandy caused widespread, yet minimal damage throughout New Haven, including the destruction of 195 trees. BY JESSICA HALLAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though New Haven’s encounter with Hurricane Sandy was milder than some predicted, the city was left with a daunting relief project Tuesday morning. A day after Hurricane Sandy brought winds and flooding to New Haven, President Barack Obama declared an expedited major disaster in New Haven County — along with Fairfield, Middlesex and New London — allowing the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) to organize relief efforts in the city. But while flooding damage and fallen trees were reported across the city, New Haven did not see the brunt of the storm that affected areas farther south along the coast. “The worst of the storm is behind us. Now the hard work begins,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said in a Tuesday morning press release. “Our first priority today will be safety: making wires safe, restoring power and opening public right of ways.” DeStefano asked that New Haven citizens stay inside Tuesday unless it
was necessary to leave their shelter. Although the storm had passed, DeStefano said hazardous conditions still existed, and 10 percent of New Haven power customers were left without electricity. Sandy brought much of the Eastern seaboard to a halt as the hurricane pounded the coast with wind and large storm surges. As of Tuesday night, the reported death toll in the United States was 40 — in addition to the 69 lives the storm claimed before leavSEE CITY CLEANUP PAGE 4
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.COMMENT “Not interested in economics. Am interested in character” yaledailynews.com/opinion
Why I don’t vote I
watch all of the debates. I allow myself to be drawn into long back-and-forth conversations on Facebook and in the dining hall. I write columns and papers on politics and policy issues. I even major in Political Science. For these reasons, most of my friends are genuinely surprised when I reveal to them that as a rule, I do not vote in elections. They remind me that I’m opinionated and informed, that I love democracy. I reply that these things have nothing to do with voting. What’s in a vote? In my view, voting is primarily an affirmation of the central conviction of a democracy: The notion that the best government is achieved by determining the true collective will of the people. I believe wholeheartedly in that concept. I wish more people would view it as their duty to vote for what they think would be the best policies for the polity, instead of voting merely to indicate what they perceive to be best for themselves, but we can’t always have our druthers. Churchill gets the last word on this one: Democracy is the worst form of government, save for all the rest. Case closed. But voting is one more thing besides that affirmation. It is an expression of faith that the system by which we vote actually and truly reflects that collective will. Our current system is a far cry from that, and so I cannot in good conscience express my faith in our system with a vote. Because of the way the electoral college works, geographic proximity to people of a particular political persuasion nullifies my vote for any president. In Connecticut, if I vote for Obama, he doesn’t receive any more advantage than he would have if I had not voted. If I vote for Romney, he doesn’t get a whit of credit for having convinced me, even if he loses by one vote statewide. I may as well vote for Reagan or Jesus Christ for all the good it’ll do the Grand Old Party. And because we’re such a blue state, I can’t even help decide which way we’re going to swing. It’s already a done deal for the Dems. Many of my friends will be voting in their home states via mail-in ballot to dodge that problem, but I’m a lifelong Nutmegger (that’s a term for denizens of Connecticut, for all you non-Yanks). I’m still plum out of luck, even if some of you originally from Ohio and Pennsylvania get the dubious pleasure of being courted by campaigns targeted specifically to your particular plot of land on God’s green earth. What’s left? Well, there are newspaper opinion columns and conversations with friends and colleagues. In those, I have a voice, I can change minds
and the only determinant of my success or failure is the persuasiveness of my a rg u m e n ts. MICHAEL Right? actuMAGDZIK ally,Well, I’ve been reading quite Making a bit about millionMagic aires and billionaires all across the country using their superior financial standing to flood media markets with television ads. I don’t even watch television anymore, with the exception of Patriots games, and so I can count the number of election advertisements I’ve been exposed to this season on one hand. But I know that’s how a lot of the country is persuaded, and I know I won’t enjoy that kind of reach for a long time. Money and moneyed interests drown out my voice and most likely yours as well. The people who have the filthy lucre aren’t forced to do the hard intellectual work of painstakingly convincing others. They blanket the airwaves with hypnotic, focus-group-tested messages appealing to the lowest common denominator. And that wins elections.
OUR SYSTEM IS BROKEN If you believe one candidate or another is capable of fixing these two problems, by all means, pull that lever (or however it works — I’ve never been). I haven’t seen any leadership out of either party on electoral college and campaign finance reform, or at least not enough to be personally motivated. Now, it certainly occurs to me that were everyone to be persuaded by my thoughts on this topic, democracy might break down even further. So perhaps my aim isn’t necessarily to get you to abstain from voting too. Rather, I only seek to make you realize the systemic disenfranchisement that takes place in our politics. If you’re a campaign staffer who might get hired after your boss wins, or your suitemate grows up to be a congressman or you yourself are someday president, remember this plea. Votes and voices should matter. Until then, count me out — mine don't.
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alloween on campus is probably the single most distasteful annual occurrence at Yale. In the next two days, students will receive emails from Deans and professional staff desperately warning us to be careful and responsible in our drinking and sexual activity. Nevertheless, Yale Acute Care will add extra staff and prepare for the inevitable and nightmarish inflow of violently ill patients. Multiple people will make mistakes that will likely cause significant suffering to themselves and others. As with most tragedies and unfortunate events, the harm is all too easy to disconnect from our own experience. Most students’ eyes will glaze over as they reach this sentence; they will discount the kill-joy columnist who seems to be auditioning for a role as the Halloween version of the Grinch. After all, the vast majority of us won’t do anything all that irrevocable in the next few days. And those who do, the thinking goes, have no one to blame but themselves. This cavalier, dismissive attitude is as self-absolving as it is inaccurate. Halloween is a holiday, and its celebration on campus is a cultural phenomenon. And though the worst of Halloween is experienced by relatively few students, the seeds of the holiday’s destructiveness are felt and created by many more. For starters, Halloween as a holiday seems utterly meaningless. Other American and Christian holidays celebrate great moments in history, dynamic personalities and actual values. The modern Halloween does none of these things. It is a heavily commercialized ritualization of nothingness. Perhaps we could hold onto the candy and the costumes of childhood memory. Certainly, there is something beautiful about children’s imaginations coming to life and neighbors visiting one another and sharing food. But these positive and familial Halloween moments barely exist at Yale. Instead of neighbors greeting children with kind words and candy, we have depersonalized masses of students wreaking havoc as they move from suite to suite drinking themselves into oblivion. And instead of using costumes to express magical, childlike fantasies, we privilege the very worst of Halloween’s historical origins: the celebration of the horrible. Unlike the Celtic celebrants of old, hardly anyone at Yale
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uses Halloween as an opportunity to worship demonic spirits. Neve r t h e less there is something YISHAI emonic SCHWARTZ dabout our own modern Dissentary fascination with terror and pain. Most people who wear bloody costumes and enjoy horror films don’t think of themselves as condoning violence. Yet their actions help create a world in which terror and suffering feel more acceptable. For each axemurderer that walks by us on Cross Campus on Wednesday night, we become a little more conditioned to violence. We grow a little less viscerally repulsed by evil. On campus, the problem isn’t simply that the ghoulish aspect of Halloween is privileged, but that the ghoulish becomes intertwined with the sexual. The combination of costumes and alcohol supposedly allows people to give expression to their deepest fantasies and desires. But as the Playboy bunnies and Grim Reapers stream through campus, we have to ask ourselves: what sort of collective fantasies are we expressing and promoting? Even worse, the violence and the sex are oddly gendered. Nearly every female outfit seems to begin with “sexy.” “Princesses or “fairies” aren’t good enough for a college student; no, only “sexy princesses” and “sexy fairies.” The men, of course, wander around as blood-spattered axe-murderers and Sweeney Todds. So the men are bloody and women are sexy — and everyone of course, is incredibly drunk. We thus have alcohol, violence and sex being stirred together in one big toxic brew. For some students, that brew will boil over obviously and viciously. But the rest of us should not delude ourselves into thinking that we have gotten through unscathed. The glorification of evil and the gendering of violence and sexuality do subtle but pernicious damage to our way of viewing the world. So dial back the gore and sex. After the YSO show, why not simply eat candy? YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at yishai.schwartz@yale.edu .
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he best Halloween costumes don’t exist. Case in point: In fourth grade, I was a Ravenclaw. Before this goes on, I’d like to point out that, in the entirety of the Harry Potter series, there are no important male characters in Ravenclaw. Roger Davies, Marcus Belby and Michaeal Corner weren’t mentioned until at least book four, and even then, who wants to be known for hitting on Fleur, having a famous uncle or snogging Ginny Weasley?
I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE A RAVENCLAW, ANYWAY. This made the early 2000s rather hard being for an aspiring male know-it-all. Harry and Ron are, obviously, idiots. No little boy, no matter how hot Emma Watson became, succeeds in elementary school if he’s called Hermione (As if Cho Chang or Luna Lovegood are better role models). But, one day, I came up with a solution: invent a Ravenclaw. On October 31, I went door to door in a blue polo shirt (hey, it seemed British!) a pair of khakis and a handmade eagle insignia. There also may have been a twig that stood in for a wand, but it didn’t make into the night’s pictures. I don’t remember how much candy I earned, inevitably less than my brother, but I do remember being incredibly proud of my accomplishment. I got to tell people that I was a Ravenclaw and, mysteriously, I became one. Of course, no matter how hard I tried, Jackson McHenry, Ravenclaw prefect, Quidditch star and number one at potions (because, come on, someone has to be good at it!) would never work his way past the Sorting Hat. But, on Halloween, I was that Jackson McHenry. J.K. Rowling couldn’t stop me from inventing what I wanted to exist. Astute writers of valedictory speeches will probably realize that now is the perfect time to segue with Gandhi’s famous line, “be the change you want to see in this world” (and I just did, so there) because that’s what Halloween seems to allow you to do. But that’s not true. Halloween isn’t about becoming what you
want to be; it’s about becoming what you cannot be. At the bottom of my heart, I never really wanted to be a Ravenclaw, because I knew that I never would be. Sure, you could argue that in the past couple of years I did realize that fourth grade dream by going to Yale — true intellectual curiosity, a magical sort of passion and lots of pretty stone buildings, yadda yadda yadda. But please, I’m not seeing any flying broomsticks, house elves, or Divination classes (yes, I tried Bluebooking them; no, I’m not ashamed to admit that). Even if I could, I doubt I would I want to sacrifice seven years of my life to a British boarding school with awful health and safety records. Would I enjoy having my identity determined by talking headwear? Being bullied by Slytherins? Having to deal with Snape? Probably not. But on Halloween, it’s still fun to pretend. There is something powerful about assuming an identity you won’t have. Even the most blasé of Halloween costumes, Mean Girls sexy animals or political talking points, allow you to become someone who is fundamentally not you. Buried behind all the home invasion and binge eating, Halloween is actually a wonderfully innocent embrace of escapism, something that, by college age, is less and less possible. College is supposedly marked by opportunity, but even a year in, I know that there are classes that I can’t take, majors I won’t enroll in (damn prereqs!) and versions of Jackson McHenry that will simply never exist. Even if I wouldn’t enjoy being an Olympic athlete, a virtuoso violinist or even a student at Hogwarts, it’s too bad to know that, by now, I couldn’t be. I like my life the way it is. I want my life the way it is, but every once and a while, I want to break the rules, to be a doctor without going to medical school, a politician without an election or a ghost without dying. It’s fantasy — achieving what most people dedicate their lives to with 15 minutes of work and a trip to Salvo. It’s wrong — reducing a politician’s candidacy to a single sound bite joke (Big Bird outfits, I’m looking at you). It’s ridiculous — there are no boys in Ravenclaw! It’s Halloween. JACKSON MCHENRY is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu .
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tillness and Light was a place of refuge on your worst possible day. A day filled with so much anger that by the time you arrived at Battell Chapel, your fingernails left marks in your clenched fist. A day filled with so much sadness that by the time you walked down the aisle and took off your shoes, you had no more tears. A day filled with so much anxiety that when you sat down on a cushion, you still clutched your stomach. But then, not always, but sometimes, the feelings leave for a moment. You watch the reflections of the candles in other students’ faces, eyes and teeth. And then, you feel a presence behind you, a light tap on the shoulder and you are greeted with the warmest pair of eyes. It’s Bruce Blair, the Buddhist chaplain, pouring you tea, asking, “Are you all right? How can I help you?” Stillness and Light was one of the most precious spaces at Yale. It has seen hundreds of students come and go over its nine-year tenure. And now, it is gone. Bruce Blair has been removed from his post as Buddhist chaplain, and
Indigo Blue, the center for Buddhist life, along with the Buddha shrine in Harkness, has been shut down. The end of Indigo Blue by itself would have been a great loss. The Harkness shrine has served as a place of worship for Buddhist students. It was a beautiful space; a sacred space. It was a space that had been blessed by monks, and rightly so. There would be days when Bruce would text us pictures of the space in the middle of the night and ask, “Is this right? Or do you prefer this?” and the difference would be a lamp, moved an inch to the right. But the result was something breathtaking. After you took off your shoes and felt the linoleum mats under your toes, you looked up at the ceiling, at the lamp that sways back and forth, then at the two strings of lanterns, and as your eyes followed them down you saw where the lanterns met: at a Buddha, smiling, reminding you of what is precious and unseen. But what makes this loss all the more painful was the way in which Indigo Blue ended. For
one, the decision to dissolve Indigo Blue was communicated poorly. There was no warning, no campus-wide email. Instead, we had to find out by way of a locked door and a notice taped to the entrance of Battell: “The Indigo Blue event has been cancelled.” No official universitywide communication has gone out explaining why Indigo Blue was terminated. But there are other issues as well. For example, no students were consulted in the decision. Another: The closure of Buddhist spaces literally happened overnight, without any time for students to transition to the absence of a Buddhist chaplaincy. All of this conduct conveys something to us that is very clear and very hurtful: Buddhist students are expendable. Apparently, at Yale, it is okay to close Buddhist places of worship overnight. It is okay to dissolve the Buddhist chaplaincy without warning or consultation. Let us reiterate: This is not okay. It is not okay to treat Buddhist students, as well as nonBuddhists who found their place
at Indigo Blue, as though they count for nothing. Perhaps some of the fault lies with us; we did not convey how important Indigo Blue was to us. But now that the spaces are gone and the chaplaincy closed, we want our message to be heard clearly: Indigo Blue provided, for some of us, our only place of refuge. For others, Indigo Blue provided the only space in which we could practice our faith. These are not trivial matters. Absent a chaplain and a space to pray, we have no religion. We hope in the future that decisions to terminate an entire religious ministry are made with greater care. Maybe the decision to end Indigo Blue was a difficult one. But we assure you that the distress that may have accompanied this decision is dwarfed by the grief that students feel from the loss of their chaplaincy. GEOFFREY LIU is a student at the Yale School of Medicine and ALAN ELBAUM and HESHIKA DEEGAHAWATHURA are juniors in Pierson College .
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District 5 race tightens
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The article “Senate race nears end” referred to Nicole Hobbs ’14 as a student working on the Chris Murphy campaign, but Hobbs only volunteers for the Murphy campaign through the Yale College Democrats. The article also mistakenly stated that Hobbs said each campaign is in “get out the vote” mode — increasing canvassing and phone banking initiatives to convince people to vote. In fact, she said this is typically how campaigns operate in the week before an election but added that the Murphy campaign has put its voter turnout efforts on hold in the wake of the hurricane.
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UCS director search begins
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BY ISABELLA D’AGOSTO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER According to the latest polling data, the race between Democratic former state representative Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85 and current Republican state senator Andrew Roraback ’83 for the open fifth congressional district seat is almost sure to be decided by a narrow margin. November’s approach signals a close to the recent reshuffling in Connecticut politics that began earlier this year with Democrat Joe Lieberman’s retirement from the Senate. Esty will face off against Roraback in this year’s election for the historically conservative district as Democrat Chris Murphy — district five’s representative since 2007 — will be running to replace Lieberman in the Senate rather than campaigning for re-election. The results of two recently published surveys indicate the race’s competitiveness. An Esty campaign poll conducted between Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 indicated Esty leading the race with a 4-percent
margin while a Roraback campgaign poll conducted between Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 showed Roraback holding a 6-percent lead over Esty. Both polls, which were conducted via a telephone survey of 400 likely voters, reported a five percent margin of error. Jeb Fain, the communications director of Elizabeth Esty for Congress, said the disparity of the polls’ sponsorship had no impact on the results. The fifth district race has gained media attention for candidates deviating from traditional party lines — both candidates have been the subject of outcry from their respective parties for being too moderate, collectively sidelining socially conservative voters. Roraback and Esty are both fiscally conservative and socially moderate, supporting abortion rights and previously voting to abolish the death penalty. Opposition to capital punishment, according to The New York Times, cost Esty her seat in the Connecticut House of Representatives after one term. Esty, who supports the Affordable
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Allyson Moore will leave her position as UCS director after taking the job just over a year ago from Philip Jones.. BY AMY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After over a month spent without a director, Undergraduate Career Services is set to begin searching for a new leader this week. Allyson Moore, the former UCS director and Yale College associate dean, left her post on Sept. 21, according to Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience and Yale College senior associate dean. Edwards declined to comment on Moore’s reason for leaving, and other administrators in the UCS office deferred comment to Edwards. She also declined to comment on criteria for Moore’s replacement because the search committee for a new director has not yet met for “substantive discussion.” “We will begin to review applications after Oct. 30, but of course we do not know exactly how long this process will take, and I wouldn’t want to predict when a new director will be on board,” Edwards said in an email to the News last week. Moore left her position at UCS just over a year after taking the reins in spring 2011 from Philip Jones, who held the position for 12 years. Before stepping into her role, Moore served for two years as director of the Career Center and associate dean of students at Amherst College. Before that, she spent another two years as director of the Career Services Development Office at the Yale School of Management. Moore was UCS’s firstchoice hire for the open position in 2011. Yale College Dean Mary Miller said in an email that Moore “structurally transformed the office of Career Services, making it much more efficient in terms of student career interests.” During her term as director, Moore enacted a series of new programs to connect the UCS office to students. In fall 2011, she expanded the peer advi-
sor program, assigning teams of juniors and seniors to act as UCS student liaisons in residential colleges to help inform students about career resources and interview preparation strategies.
She always seemed to both respect and understand the perspective of the undergraduates.
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Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85 and Andrew Roraback ’83 are battling for the fifth district congressional seat.
Care Act and the DREAM Act, has been endorsed by President Bill Clinton, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the women’s advocacy group Emily’s List, Connecticut’s American Federation for Teachers, the Connecticut Education Association, the Hartford Courant and the Lakeville Journal, among others. Roraback, who served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000 and has been in the state senate from 2001 until now, has been endorsed by the Danbury News-Times and former state Governor Jodi Rell. “Andrew has an 18-year record as a socially moderate, fiscally prudent legislator with the courage to be independent and to always stand up for the best interests of those he represents,” said Chris Cooper, press secretary for Roraback for Congress, in an email to the News. Both candidates have seen successful fundraising efforts throughout the campaign. Esty’s campaign has raised more than $2 million from about 6,000 donors across Connecticut and the country, Fain said, the campaign’s Communications Director, noting the strong “grass roots feel” due to the outpour of support from volunteers. Andrew’s campaign committee raised $241,722 in campaign funds during the 17-day period between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17, as reported in the latest FEC campaign filing. He also raised $554,605 in campaign funds during the 3rd quarter of 2012. Cooper also said that Roraback has used $25,000 of personal funds during the election cycle. This stands in contrast to Esty who, according to an article in The CT Mirror, is estimated to have spent $500,000 of her personal funds during the primary alone. The current fifth congressional district is a consolidation of the former fifth and sixth congressional districts, a result of the 2010 U.S. Census in which Connecticut lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Contact ISABELLA D’AGOSTO at isabella.dagosto@yale.edu .
RYAN ARNOLD ’13 Peer Advisor, UCS Ryan Arnold ’13, a UCS peer advisor, said he thinks Moore’s greatest contribution to her office was the “incredible energy that she brought to every meeting.” “She was incredible at relating to students, and she always seemed to both respect and understand the perspective of the undergraduates that sat before her in her office,” he said. Responsibilities for the new director, according to the job posting on the Yale Human Resources webpage, will include building programs for students to learn career management skills, collaborating on strategic initiatives with colleagues in the Center for International and Professional Experience, and developing strong ties to employers across a variety of industries and fields. The job posting also suggests a minimum duration of three years in the position, with the option for renewal. Edwards said UCS currently has two deputy directors “who are doing an excellent job moving our agenda forward.” The UCS office is located at 55 Whitney Ave. Contact AMY WANG at xiaotian.wang@yale.edu .
Int’l students offer election perspective BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER With U.S. elections just one week away, international students on campus find themselves in a unique position. Students who come from countries outside the United States, many of whom are unable to vote next week, offer an outside perspective on the upcoming elections, especially in regard to the American twoparty system. Noting robust on-campus political activity, such as phone banking, canvassing and debate-watching, they said that American students often do not realize how high the level of participation in the American political process is. “Americans might not appreciate how substantive their political discourse is compared to other countries. For example, in Filipino elections, you’d never have discussions involving health care as a deciding factor in an election,” said Leandro Leviste ’15, a Philippines native who is the son of Filipino Senator Loren Legarda. “As much as people paint the American political system as elitist, it is still more open to people rising through the ranks than many other countries in the world.” Seven international students interviewed said that, compared to their home countries, American voters seem more engaged and passionate about politics,
and the American media is more heavily focused on covering election news. Specifically, two students mentioned the widely viewed presidential debates as an example of Americans paying close attention to national politics.
I think people around the world are both fascinated and baffled by American elections. FIL LEKKAS ’14 “People in America seem more involved in politics than back home [in Pakistan], especially the Average Joe,” Hannia Zia ’16 said. “That’s really heartening to see. Back home, we have more than two parties, but most people seem so disillusioned with the corrupt political system that most don’t vote. In the United States, the debates are watched with rigor, although most people already know who they are going to vote for.” Ben Mallet ’16 said that in contrast to the U.S., in his home country of England, television ads for political candidates are banned, limiting the amount of money that candidates can spend.
Students also commented on America’s two-party system compared to coalition governments found in many of their home countries. “I think people around the world are both fascinated and baffled by American elections,” said Fil Lekkas ’14, who holds both German and Greek citizenship. “The domination of the political scene by two parties and the total absence of coalition forming is strange, especially to Europeans.” Nick Lo ’15, a citizen of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the United States, said that although he plans on voting next week, neither party really reflects his views. He added that the two-party system does not give him much flexibility when filling out his ballot. “The two parties are not that different in reality, in terms of their policies,” Lo said. “The United States needs more varied opinions and political representation than just Democrats vs. Republicans, because you miss out on many segments of the population who don’t agree with either party’s views but are forced to vote for one of them.” International students comprise 10 percent of Yale College enrollment, according to Yale’s admissions website. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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Candidates eye Latino vote LATINOS FROM PAGE 1 entire campaign,” Arajano said. “Aside from advertising in Latino newspapers and on Hispanic radio, Linda has done interviews on Latino networks like Univision, conducted campaign events in the homes of Latino supporters and visited Hispanic-focused charitable organizations in Connecticut’s urban communities.” Matt Barret, the founder of national polling firm Latino Decision, said that the most important issue for Latino voters in this election is the economic recovery, but they also form decisions based on immigration, expanded funding for education and health care access. He added that Latinos have the highest rate of being uninsured. Diana Enriquez, the president of Latinoaffiliated education advocacy group MEChA, agreed that immigration reform, education opportunities and health care access are important political isues to Hispanic voters, adding that Democrats have focused on reaching out to the Latino demographic on that basis. “The Democratic party over the last 10 years has appeared much more friendly toward Latino voters,” Enriquez said. “They see the Republican party as pretty antiimmigrant. That’s an image that’s been pretty solid.”
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Workers struggle to clean up the debris left from Hurricane Sandy in the streets of New Haven. CITY CLEANUP FROM PAGE 1 ing the Caribbean — and over 8.2 million Americans faced power outages. The New York Stock Exchange closed for the second day in a row — the Exchange’s first weather-related closure since 1888. Obama’s expedited major disaster declaration authorizes the federal government to reimburse Connecticut state and local agencies at 75 percent federal funding for any approved emergency measures and debris removal and gives eligible individuals disaster assistance. “When I spoke with the President earlier today, he made it clear that the federal government was going to do everything in its power to help our residents get back to normal as quickly as possible,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said. Malloy said that during his visits to various Connecticut counties Tuesday, he found that wind and water damage was especially prevalent around the shoreline area. Malloy directed the FEMA team delegated to Connecticut to deliver aid “as soon as possible” to regions of Connecticut they deem in greatest need. Local New Haven agencies have already begun relief work, with storm crews working throughout the storm Monday night to ensure the safety
of the city’s residents. In New Haven, 107 roads were blocked or partially blocked by the storm’s destruction, and the hurricane took down 172 wires in public right-of-ways and cut off power to 39 traffic signals, DeStefano said in the Tuesday press release. The downed wires impeded the progress of the cleanup of the reported 195 fallen trees. “United Illuminating ‘Make Safe’ crews are currently working to de-energize fallen power lines throughout the city,” DeStefano said. “Until that can occur, city tree crews cannot begin to remove entangled trees that may be blocking public streets and sidewalks.” In response to the safety hazards still present in public walkways and roads, New Haven Public Schools, which were closed Monday and Tuesday in response to Sandy, will also be closed Wednesday, DeStefano said. Two schools reported damage as of Tuesday morning, and eight were left without power. DeStefano said that the conditions facing New Haven schools will be reassessed Wednesday, and a decision about the reopening of schools Thursday will be made by mid-Wednesday. To further protect New Haven children from any potential dangers Wednesday, DeStefano — along with the mayors of East Haven and West Haven —
requested that Halloween activities be postponed until next week. “I am urging families to keep children inside this Halloween and to consider celebrating Halloween next Wednesday, Nov. 7 instead,” DeStefano said. Governor Malloy extended the voter registration and absentee voting deadlines from Tuesday to Thursday in response to the storm. While New Haven City Hall remained closed Tuesday, the Registrar of Voters and City Clerk’s offices opened to the public to allow for the coordination of such pre-election activities. Other city staff made visits and phone calls to businesses, major residential buildings and New Haven properties Tuesday in order to evaluate damages they faced. Career High School was open Tuesday for residents still in need of shelter, and New Haven citizens were welcomed by the city’s fire stations to charge equipment and take advantage of wireless Internet access. Malloy will give media briefings today at 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. to provide updates on recovery efforts. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .
The Senate campaign for Democratic candidate Chris Murphy could not be reached for comment. Merrill noted that there has been a historical disparity between the number of Latinos eligable to vote and those who show up on Election Day. The communities with the highest numbers of registered Hispanic voters are Bridgeport, with more than 25,519 Hispanic registered voters, and Hartford, with 24,911 Hispanic citizens registered to vote. Contact MONICA DISARE and MICHELLE HACKMAN monica.disare@yale.edu and michelle.hackman@ yale.edu .
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Students take part in the bagels-and-lox breakfast offered at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER
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The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale stands at 80 Wall St.
Since last spring, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale has undergone several structual changes that aim to revamp the organization given new economic realities. Over the past several months, the Center has seen multiple staff transitions, including the re-appointment of the Slifka Center Board of Trustees, the selection of David Raphael as interim executive director, as well as two additions and two departures within the Slifka Center’s day-to-day staffing. The changes have arisen largely due to financial concerns associated with recent dips in the Slifka Center’s endowment. The Center’s staff said they hope to maintain previous programs offered by choosing leaders who possess experience in organizational management and financial budgeting. The economic downturn in 2008 caused the Slifka Center’s endowment to fall significantly, prompting organization leaders to reevaluate the Center’s structure and priorities, said David Rosen ’69, who has served on the Board of Trustees for 15 years. In June, the Board was reconfigured to bring on new members with greater experience in finance and business management, he said. Since then, he added, two-thirds of the Board has been replaced and David Slifka ’01 was selected to be the new chairman of the Board of Trustees. “The last Board of Trustees was composed a lot of Yale professors,” said Samantha Greissman ’14, co-president of Yale Hillel. “There wasn’t a lot of specific expertise on board. We really need people that could help us act as consultants and
help us build and expand the Slifka Center.” Following the resignation of former Executive Director Steve Sitrin, who left for personal reasons last May, the Center hired Raphael to temporarily fill his place as the interim executive director, said Sarah Marx ‘14, co-president of Yale Hillel. In a Tuesday email to the Slifka Center community, Raphael said a new executive director will be appointed by the end of the 2012-’13 academic year.
Every year, the most important thing that is happening at the Slifka Center is change. DAVID ROSEN ’69 Trustee, Joseph Slifka Center Two staff members, Rabbi Jordie Gerson and Director of Operations Jim Hess, also left the organization last spring while part-time rabbinical intern Sarit Horwitz and Israel Fellow Amir Sagron were hired, Marx said. She added that she thinks the existing staff has recently had to handle a larger workload because Raphael is only in the building a few times a week and, without Gerson, the Center has one fewer rabbi. Rabbi James Ponet ’68 said his duties have also been modified to focus on his role as a spiritual leader and exclude administrative functions. “What this [new] Board has done [is say] that they will take responsibility for administrative and financial functions of the Center and [that they] want [me] to function exclusively in what
[I] love. It’s a very good turn for me,” Ponet said. Greissman said the Center has been able to offer students the same amount of events and activities as in previous years despite the personnel changes. Horwitz and Sagron have helped create new programs, such as weekly classes on the Talmud led by Horwitz that begin this week and the expansion of the birthright program led by Sagron, she added. “Everyone recognizes [the change] in the building, and I think everyone in the building has been making a huge effort to make things happen and pick up extra slack,” Greissman said. Student organizations affiliated with the Slifka Center have received equal financial support as in years past but worked with fewer staff members, said Leah Sarna ’14, president of the Young Israel House at Yale. She said she has noticed more substantial changes in dining rather than programming — hot breakfasts have been canceled and the amount of alcohol offered at events has been reduced. Rosen said the Slifka Center staff often changes because several of its members come to Yale only for a few terms or to work during one particular period of their professional lives. “Every year, the most important thing that is happening at the Slifka Center is change,” Rosen said. “What Slifka’s task is today, like yesterday and tomorrow, is to keep that change going and have it be exciting, productive, stimulating and enriching.” Raphael will be holding office hours on Nov. 7 through Nov. 9 to meet with students about their opinions on the Center’s future. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
Group sells t-shirts to help Sandy victims BY RISHABH BHANDARI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In response to Hurricane Sandy — one of the worst storms to hit Connecticut in the past few decades — eight freshman launched a website, www.shirtsforsandy.com, that aims to sell t-shirts to benefit those affected by the storm. The website, created by a group called Shirts for Sandy, offers t-shirts with a design that reads “stay afloat” for $14 and solicits donations of any amount. Frank Wu ’16, one of the founders of Shirts for Sandy, said the group has not yet decided to which charity it will donate the proceeds, but he said members are considering AmeriCares and Red Cross Disaster Relief. As of Tuesday night, the group had sold 26 t-shirts. Students interviewed said they appreciate the initiative to help victims of the hurricane but found that the website did not provide enough clarity and detail. “I think I would like to know more about where the money will be going, what causes, in what ways will the money be used, what larger organization will they
be using,” Yoonie Han ’15 said. “I just want more details.” Wu said that though the website’s initial language explaining the group’s intentions for the t-shirt revenue was confusing, he edited the phrasing to say that donations after production costs will go to the relief effort. Each t-shirt costs the group $3 to make, so each purchase yields an $11 donation, said Hammaad Adam, a member of Shirts for Sandy. The group aims to sell anywhere from 500 to 1000 shirts or raise $10,000, Wu said, and members plan to set up a t-shirt stand on Cross Campus later this week.
I think I would like to know more about where the money will be going. YOONIE HAN ’15 Wu added that Shirts for Sandy hopes to partner with local businesses, including Tyco, Claire’s Corner Copia and Shake Shack,
to cover production costs so 100 percent of the revenue can be funneled directly to a charity. All students interviewed said Shirts for Sandy was the first relief-effort they had heard of on campus. Still, students said they were hesitant to donate until they learned more specific details about where the money will go. “I would like the website to have more specificity as to which charities… the funds will be going to,” Jennifer Friedmann ’13 said, adding that she wished the website would explain Hurricane Sandy’s devastation and “why it is necessary to put forward a relief effort.” She said she found it frustrating to see the “flippant” reactions of Yale students to Sandy given that the hurricane had killed dozens of people in the Caribbean and in other parts of the U.S. East Coast, and she said she was pleased that a group of students recognized the severity of the storm. Elliah Heifetz ’15 said he would be less inclined to purchase a t-shirt or donate to Shirts for Sandy until the group decided which charity it would partner with, but added that he thought
the idea was “very cool.” Han said she thinks a group of “random freshmen” might have difficulty finding donors, adding that she would be more comfortable if the group affiliated itself with a more legitimate organization such as the YCC or Dwight Hall. Suyash Bhagwati ’15 said he would be more likely to donate if the funds went to a “badly-hit part” of America such as New York rather than New England, which went relatively unscathed. The current website does not explicitly state the region where the funds will be used. He said he was still “unclear how much [he] was donating,” because the phrase “production costs” was vague. Javan Oluoch ’16 said he thought the old language was “misleading” because he previously thought the entire $14 would go to charity, but said he was still buying a shirt because “it’s helping people.” The shirts have no shipping costs for any address in North America. Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .
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The t-shirts benefitting Sandy victims, with the design above, cost $14.
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FROM THE FRONT Swing state students stay involved SWING STATES FROM PAGE 1 Obama campaign from within New Haven. While he cannot go door-to-door to speak with Ohio voters, Pomeranz has used the Obama campaign’s phone bank website to get in touch with voters from his home area code. “I can talk to them about issues that both of us care about and know about, since we’re both from the same place,� Pomeranz said. “I’m still able to have some influence on the Ohio race given how advanced the campaigns are in terms of social networking and digital media.� Many students who were active during 2008’s elections have found that a combination of distance and less excitement around the election have caused them to lose contact with politics back home. Elizabeth Hylton ’15, from Virginia, campaigned for Obama in 2008, former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello in 2008 and 2010 and gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds in 2009. Hylton said she feels there is less excitement in the state for this year’s elections compared to 2008, although she added that she would have participated in election efforts had she been home. While at Yale, she said she has kept up with Virginia politics and news but has not been able to influence politics back home. Florida native Lauren Blonde ’16, who canvassed in Florida for Obama in 2008, was contacted by the Obama campaign to canvass again this year but said she had to decline since she is not currently living in the state. Instead of remaining involved in their home states, some students hailing from swing states have chosen to become polit-
ically active in Connecticut instead. While Alex Lew ’15 agreed that there seems to be less excitement about this election, he said that the number of people who have voted in his home state of North Carolina has been higher so far this election than in the 2008 election, according to public figures released each day. Earlier this year, Lew participated in canvassing and phone-banking against North Carolina’s Amendment 1, an amendment that defines marriage as between a man and woman. Lew has found other ways to stay involved in politics in Connecticut, including canvassing for Senate candidate Chris Murphy. He also said he plans to travel to Maine this weekend to help campaign for the state’s marriage equality amendment. Similarly, Hector Pina ’16 said his inability to influence the Floridian election has not stunted his interest in politics, and he plans on continuing his involvement in both local and national elections. “I can’t really influence Florida politics from here, and in that sense, I’m detached,� Pina said. “But it’s more of a shift: Rather than being very involved in Florida politics like I was in high school, I just need to move on and become very involved in Connecticut politics and/or stick to national politics.� Election Day is next Tuesday, Nov. 6. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
Admins look to reschedule SANDY FROM PAGE 1 struggling.� Goode said an “ancient, very large� tree that fell across Grove Street at Temple Street caused the most hazardous damage on campus, pulling down power lines and blocking traffic. Another large tree crashed down onto Hillhouse Avenue by the School of Management campus. In addition, high winds and tree branches broke several windows across campus. Though staff placed sandbags around Timothy Dwight College and Payne Whitney Gym to minimize flooding, Lorimer said the measures were hardly necessary given the mild levels of rain. Goode and Lorimer said the school is tabulating repair costs and will determine a figure for total hurricane-related expenses in the next couple of weeks, adding that the figure will be minimal because the storm did not cause extensive property damage. “It was a great case of ‘better to be safe than sorry,’� Lorimer said. “Our emergency preparedness programs and staff made a real difference.� Administrators still are unsure of how many faculty and staff members are left without power or face significant personal property damages, Lorimer said, but she has invited students or professors hit hard by Sandy to reach out to the University. As Yale undergoes a swift recovery from physical damage, administrators and professors are working to determine a course of action for making up lost class time. Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Graduate School Dean Tom Pollard sent an email to faculty on Tuesday afternoon in part to solicit suggestions for the systematic rescheduling of missed classes. Pollard and Miller will announce the process for making up missed class time after a group coordinated by University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski discusses the options, Pollard said in an email to the News. Normal classroom schedules resume at 8:20 a.m. today. Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .
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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 8:00 PM Marie Antoinette. The young queen Marie Antoinette delights and inspires her French subjects with her three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture. In David Adjmi’s humorous and haunting Marie Antoinette, idle gossip turns more insidious as the country revolts, demanding liberté,égalité, fraternité! Directed by Rebecca Taichman. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.). 11:59 PM YSO Halloween Show. The Yale Symphony Orchestra presents their annual Halloween Show. Beginning at midnight, audience members will witness a fusion of cinema and symphony. Doors open at 11:00 PM. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 2:30 PM Microsoft’s Head of Research and Strategy to Discuss “Tomorrow’s Technologies.” Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, will talk about how computer technolgy will continue to shape the future and demonstrate new technologies in development at Microsoft. Audience members will have a chance to try out the technologies demonstrated by Mundie after his talk. Mundie is Yale’s 2012 Gordon Grand Fellow. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Aud. 5:00 PM The Inaugural Franke Program in Science and the Humanities Lecture with Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker from Harvard University will give the first lecture for the Franke Program in Science and Humanities on the topic, ”The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.” Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.
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YSO sells fewer tickets BY HAYLEY BYRNES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER 150 tickets in two hours. That’s how long it took Trevor Auman ’13 to sell his share of tickets for the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s annual Halloween Show. The annual concert, performed in Woolsey Hall at 11:59 PM on Halloween night, will seat 300 fewer people this year because of safety concerns associated with Woolsey. Several large columns block the view of some seats, causing students in past years to leave their assigned seats and crowd the aisles, YSO President Megan Jenkins ’14 said in an email. Jenkins said school administrators found the crowding of aisles to be a fire safety and crowd management concern. YSO leaders, after meeting with administrators, chose not to sell tickets for those blocked areas, she explained. The rest of the orchestra members, who are each typically responsible for selling tickets, were notified of the decision roughly two weeks before Halloween, Gabe Levine ’14 said. Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry and Associate Dean for Student Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske did not respond to multiple requests for comment. At $10 per ticket, the YSO will lose $3000 in revenue because of the decreased seating. Auman, a senior in the orchestra, said he worries about the consequences of the loss. “This sucks for the orchestra — this is where we make a lot of money,”
Auman said. “The Halloween show is important to the financial stability of the orchestra.” To recoup some of the lost revenue and seating, the YSO is selling “overflow” tickets for the first time this year. These tickets, still $10, seat students in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall 114, where the concert will be broadcast overhead. Jenkins said she supports the decrease in seating, which she thinks will improve safety and ensure that all attendants can see the stage. Auman agreed, saying that he understands the fire marshal’s viewpoint, since audience members who arrive late tend to sit in the aisles and block exit routes.
The Halloween show is important to the financial stability of the orchestra. TREVOR AUMAN ’13 Member, Yale Symphony Orchestra “Safety is our first priority,” Jenkins said. Tickets for the Halloween show first went on sale last Monday, Oct. 22. By the Yale College Council Fall Break Block Party the next day, tickets were sold out. Levine said that while there has always been “immediate demand” for tickets, they have never sold out this quickly. Overflow tickets went on sale
in the Commons rotunda yesterday and will continue to be sold today. Of 16 upperclassmen interviewed who attempted to purchase tickets, 11 said they found them sold out already. Eight said tickets seemed less available this year than in past years. Three freshmen said they found it especially difficult to navigate the decrease in ticket availability. Jr Reed ’16 said he did not realize how quickly tickets sold out and overlooked a YSO table selling tickets last Monday. For James Lee ’16, a member of YSO, the decrease in seating came as a disappointment. “There are so many people that have been working so hard for this to be a great experience for every person at Yale,” Lee said, “This is a loss to the Yale community and to everyone working so hard on [the show] — the orchestra, the directors, the actors.” Three YSO members interviewed declined to comment about the content of this year’s show. Renita Heng ’16, who bought a ticket last week, said she is not expecting any theme in particular. “I’m really looking forward to the element of surprise — you don’t really know what to expect,” she said. Lyndon Ji ’16, who also snagged a ticket to the concert, hopes to spot his freshman counselor, a member of the orchestra who will be dressing as Catwoman, at the event. Contact HAYLEY BYRNES at hayley.byrnes@yale.edu .
A new kind of theater BY LAVINIA BORZI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
MCKAY NIELD
“Richard 2012” will bring election rhetoric to the stage for the next two weekends. BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER “If you care about America, you care about this” reads the tagline of the second theatrical senior project this year. “Richard 2012 or The Body Politic: An Election Event Conceived and Performed by Alex Kramer, Charlie Polinger and Raphael Shapiro, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and the 2012 US Presidential Campaign” opens Friday at the Whitney Theater and has performances scheduled for the next two weekends. The three seniors collaborated on the script, using text from Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and rhetoric from presidential campaign speeches, debates, newscasts and attack ads. The show’s two production weekends frame the presidential election on Nov. 6, and the script is likely to change based on the results, director Charlie Polinger
’13 said. “It’s incredibly specific to this space and time,” Raphael Shapiro ’13 explained, adding that by living in a culture saturated with the election, the audience has “been preparing to see this show for as long as we’ve been working on it.” The show’s constantly evolving script is based loosely on the events of the unfolding presidential campaign, Polinger said. Even the candidates’ responses to Hurricane Sandy will play a role in the show. “Richard 2012” is a two-man show, with Alex Kramer ’13 and Shapiro filling all the parts, which are loosely grouped into “Incumbent” or “Challenger” roles. The two will embody not only Obama, Romney and their Shakespearean equivalents, but also everyone related to them, from Michelle Obama and Ann Romney to minor characters from the original play.
Theater Studies professor Deborah Margolin, one of the show’s advisors, described the script as a “collage” that “gracefully yet jarringly” brings together the two narratives. Both in its use of previously written text and devised theater technique — where actors create the script through experimentation — “Richard” is a departure from most theater done at Yale, Polinger said. Most undergraduate productions polish an existing script instead of building each moment from scratch, he explained. For “Richard,” on the other hand, the team often spent an hour testing out different versions of a single exchange or action. Billed as an “election event” rather than a play, the show falls more into the category of performance art than traditional theater, Margolin said. “In classical theater, what we try to do is disappear inside a character,” Mar-
golin said. “Here there’s a translucence between actor and character … and a conversation going on [between the two] that is inherently political.” This aspect of the production was informed by Thomas Hobbes’ political treatise “The Leviathan,” in which he describes the masses coming together to make up a single leader, Polinger said. Similarly, in today’s political discourse, just two individual presidential candidates are imagined to represent the entire American constituency, Shapiro explained. “We’re putting all our hopes and dreams in Obama and Romney, as if they’re going to take the country and drive it somewhere … we put a bit of ourselves in the ballot when we go to vote,” Shapiro said. Despite its political subject matter, the creators emphasized that the show does not have a partisan message.
“It’s not trying to make a statement about Democrats and Republicans … but about what it means to be a political figure, about how the election is almost becoming a fiction itself,” Polinger said. “Richard II” is Shakespeare’s only play to portray a peaceful transition of power, which makes for a particularly striking parallel with the current election, Shapiro said, calling each presidential election a “non-violent coup.” But the show’s use of Shakespeare might surprise audiences, Shapiro said. The “flashy,” public moments of the show are all sound bites from the presidential campaign, while the Shakespearean text provides “a way of becoming more natural,” and is spoken mostly during the characters’ soliloquies or informal exchanges, Shapiro said. That the characters are speaking two different languages throughout the show reflects how politicians today are forced into “a
performance of the genuine,” he added. Kramer explained that while Shakespeare is often seen as “refined” and untouchable today, “Richard” will treat the text more loosely, cutting up some parts while mashing others together. “Shakespeare in his day was a very base theatrical form: He wrote to the masses, and the masses understood it,” Kramer said. Because “Richard” is one of only three senior projects this semester, the team had the unusual opportunity of having an entire month to spend rehearsing in the Whitney Humanities Center’s Whitney Theater — the site of all senior shows — instead of the week shows usually receive, Polinger said. Kramer said that nearly always rehearsing in the performance space is “unheard of” and allowed the show to be much more ambitious in design and scale than other productions, Polinger said.
Despite the three seniors’ lengthy preparation for the show, Kramer said “Richard 2012” will begin to lose its relevance just weeks after the election. “It exists for us now, it won’t engage for anyone else ever again in quite this way,” he said. “Theater is so transient, it gets to do that.” But Margolin said she disagrees, explaining that the questions raised in the show will continue to grow only increasingly relevant “in this age, where elections can be bought, where the power of wealth and money are becoming a threat to democracy.” “Richard 2012” is a theater studies senior project for Kramer and Polinger, and an American studies senior project for Shapiro and will run at the Whitney Theater Nov. 2 to 4 and Nov. 8 to 10. Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .
Eisenman talks architecture as politics BY EMMA GOLDBERG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
politics, which it really wasn’t in America in the 1960s. I decided that the best way to understand that difference was to analyze primary sources, so over a period of ten years I began to search for all of the publications you’ll see on display now at the Beinecke. I found these publications in small bookshops — in the basements of small bookshops. No one knew about these things. I was able to put together this collection of media that influenced me. That research goes hand in hand with the way I practice, the way I teach [and] the way I am.
On Thursday, architect Peter Eisenman will lead a panel discussion of his exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library titled “Architecture in Dialogue.” The exhibit, which will be on display until Dec. 14, features Eisenman’s collection of books, periodicals, posters and other print media from Europe’s interwar period that convey the impact architecture had on social agendas and the rise of political regimes. The News interviewed Eisenman to learn more about the connection between architecture and political thought.
Q
Q
A
The basis of your new exhibit is the concept that architecture interacts with many other aspects of society across disciplines. How did you begin collecting materials that support that theory?
A
I’m both a practicing architect, a teacher and someone who writes about architecture. I started this collection when I started teaching at the University of Cambridge [in the 1960s]. I was interested in the difference between how architecture was perceived in Europe versus America. In Europe it was always seen as something that shapes
You said that architecture is a form of politics. How so?
If you look at the basis of the collection it has all of these works that were in communities where fascism started. All of the early Soviet propaganda led to the same thing in Russia. Beliefs in Nazi Germany had much to do with architecture in that regime. Germany and Russia in the 1920s are fantastic examples of how regimes use architecture and the arts as propaganda.
said that America did not use QYou architecture in a political way in the
1960s. Is this still true today? Does contemporary America treat architecture as
a political force?
A
Things are absolutely still the same. Public space is a form of politics in Europe that just isn’t present in the United States. The idea of architecture as journalism in Italy, for instance, just doesn’t happen in the United States. In fact, the very concept of what constitutes public space is different in Europe. Public space is used in a more powerful way.
Q
Do you hope you or your architecture students at Yale will change that?
A
You’d have to ask my students what I think about what they will do and could do. I wouldn’t believe anything I had to say.
a computer, but I need to print it out in order to correct it. To me, the original print sources are really important. For example, in this collection there are actual magazines with notes from a very famous architect written on the pages. Those kinds of sources are something really important for architects. They are also an invaluable resource for architecture students.
enormous socio-political impact on the whole city and the culture of remembrance. I’ve gotten personal letters from the president of Germany, from major figures in Berlin [and] from [Chancellor of Germany] Angela Merkel about the impact the memorial had on the city. There have been many newspapers articles published about how that memorial shaped the culture of Germany.
Q
Q
Your collection at the Beinecke focuses on how architecture shaped radical political thinking. Do you encourage your students to use architecture to challenge social norms?
A
exhibit focuses on the power of QYour print media. How do you feel about
students’ reliance on information technology? Do you allow your students to research entirely on the computer?
Isn’t that what a university is all about? Professors have to challenge students’ perceptions of what they constitute as their disciplines. That’s especially what a university like Yale is about — challenging the status quo. That’s why I teach at Yale. The students also challenge me, and my work is also about that same kind of challenge.
A
sorts of responses do you get to QWhat your work that challenges the status
Well I can’t read a book on Kindle. I have to have a book in my hand, take notes [or] dog-ear a page. I need to go back and find something when I do research. I have to do research on actual paper. I may type something on
quo?
A
One of my major works was a Holocaust memorial in Berlin that had an
In the past, how have you used print media in research for your architectural projects?
A
It’s not that I do print research for each individual project, it’s a continual process of cross-fertilization between books, paintings [and] actual buildings. It’s something that builds up overtime. You build up a way of thinking about architecture from all of the reading that you do [and] the buildings you see. Every year we take Yale students to Europe to look at famous works. Students look at print material, especially in the Beinecke. It’s a resource we try to get students to understand as they’re building their careers. Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .
THOMAS STELLMACH/CREATIVE COMMONS
Peter Eisenman will discuss his print media collection at a Thursday panel.
This weekend, New Haven residents will get one last chance to see their library transformed into a stage. The New Haven volunteer theater company A Broken Umbrella is presenting “The Library Project,” a production that celebrates the history and treasures of the New Haven Public Library for its 125th anniversary. The show, which debuted on Oct. 20 and ends this weekend, consists of seven different short plays and is staged by 60 volunteer artists who compose the largest ensemble A Broken Umbrella has created in its four-year history. Director Rachel Alderman said that while the show is intended for children, it appeals to audience members of all ages and backgrounds. Just as public libraries are “great equalizers,” providing all visitors with the same access to services, Broken Umbrella hopes that the show will draw people from all monetary backgrounds. Accordingly, the tickets are sold under a “Pay What You Can” policy. “Just like the library itself, we aspire to have both traditional and non-traditional audiences,” Alderman said. “The mission of the library and the mission of the company are similarly aligned in spirit.” While the main peculiarity of “The Library Project” is its setting in a library as opposed to a traditional stage, Alderman said this approach aligns with the company’s philosophy. “We’re never in a traditional theatre space,” she said. “We let New Haven history inspire the production and match the content to the site.” Dana Astmann, company member and School of Music press secretary, said A Broken Umbrella began gathering ideas for the show by looking closely at the library’s spaces and researching its history. During the show, each of the seven short plays explores one of the library’s rooms and uses the space to establish a unique atmosphere. “In one space we had the audience sitting on blocks covered with drop cloths, [and] in another we set up chairs to make it feel more like a traditional audience,” Astmann said. “Each space has its own feel.” Alderman said the show’s main aim is to honor the library’s core importance to the New Haven community in addition to its own history. While Alderman said the company found it difficult to assemble the large company needed to do justice to such a great celebration, A Broken Umbrella has faced now challenges related to performances in such an untraditional space. Rather, she explained, the library’s unique look and feel brought the production to life. “The library building is amazing,” she said. “The architecture really influenced the types of stories that we were going to tell.” Alderman said the performance, which features actors playing librarians and giving tours to small groups of audience members, is designed to allow people to notice features of the building they might never have stopped to notice before. One audience mem-
PROLOGUE
This weekend marks the final performances of A Broken Umbrella’s library production. ber, she recalled, asked her if the theater company had built the beautiful alcoves in the library, but Broken Umbrella had simply used lighting to highlight the already existing structures. The show’s focus on teaching New Haven history is evident in both the script and the setting. “All of our stories ground themselves in the history and explode creatively,” Alderman said. “People end up learning a lot even while they’re invested in a fictional or a partially fictional story.” Sharon Lovett-Graff, the manager of the library’s Mitchell Branch on Harrison St. and an audience member, agreed that the show highlights the library’s importance both in the past and in the present. “We wanted to spark curiosity in our history and the show has definitely done that,” she said. “I’ve been a librar-
ian for 15 years, and I found it really inspiring. It really rejuvenated me in terms of our treasures and our mission in sparking people’s curiosity for books.” Lovett-Graff also said that the show brought back patrons who had not been to the library in years and even people who had never visited before. “The Library Project” reminded New Haven residents that the library is relevant even with the advance of technology, she said. “Technology is wonderful but in many ways it’s limited,” she said. “Libraries aren’t going anywhere.” A Broken Umbrella will perform “The Library Project” four more times this weekend. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
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ARTS & CULTURE
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
‘Richard 2012’ questions election
YSO sells fewer tickets BY HAYLEY BYRNES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER 150 tickets in two hours. That’s how long it took Trevor Auman ’13 to sell his share of tickets for the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s annual Halloween Show. The annual concert, performed in Woolsey Hall at 11:59 PM on Halloween night, will seat 300 fewer people this year because of safety concerns associated with Woolsey. Several large columns block the view of some seats, causing students in past years to leave their assigned seats and crowd the aisles, YSO President Megan Jenkins ’14 said in an email. Jenkins said school administrators found the crowding of aisles to be a fire safety and crowd management concern. YSO leaders, after meeting with administrators, chose not to sell tickets for those blocked areas, she explained. The rest of the orchestra members, who are each typically responsible for selling tickets, were notified of the decision roughly two weeks before Halloween, Gabe Levine ’14 said. Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry and Associate Dean for Student Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske did not respond to multiple requests for comment. At $10 per ticket, the YSO will lose $3000 in revenue because of the decreased seating. Auman, a senior in the orchestra, said he worries about the consequences of the loss. “This sucks for the orchestra — this is where we make a lot of money,”
Auman said. “The Halloween show is important to the financial stability of the orchestra.” To recoup some of the lost revenue and seating, the YSO is selling “overflow” tickets for the first time this year. These tickets, still $10, seat students in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall 114, where the concert will be broadcast overhead. Jenkins said she supports the decrease in seating, which she thinks will improve safety and ensure that all attendants can see the stage. Auman agreed, saying that he understands the fire marshal’s viewpoint, since audience members who arrive late tend to sit in the aisles and block exit routes.
The Halloween show is important to the financial stability of the orchestra. TREVOR AUMAN ’13 Member, Yale Symphony Orchestra “Safety is our first priority,” Jenkins said. Tickets for the Halloween show first went on sale last Monday, Oct. 22. By the Yale College Council Fall Break Block Party the next day, tickets were sold out. Levine said that while there has always been “immediate demand” for tickets, they have never sold out this quickly. Overflow tickets went on sale
in the Commons rotunda yesterday and will continue to be sold today. Of 16 upperclassmen interviewed who attempted to purchase tickets, 11 said they found them sold out already. Eight said tickets seemed less available this year than in past years. Three freshmen said they found it especially difficult to navigate the decrease in ticket availability. Jr Reed ’16 said he did not realize how quickly tickets sold out and overlooked a YSO table selling tickets last Monday. For James Lee ’16, a member of YSO, the decrease in seating came as a disappointment. “There are so many people that have been working so hard for this to be a great experience for every person at Yale,” Lee said, “This is a loss to the Yale community and to everyone working so hard on [the show] — the orchestra, the directors, the actors.” Three YSO members interviewed declined to comment about the content of this year’s show. Renita Heng ’16, who bought a ticket last week, said she is not expecting any theme in particular. “I’m really looking forward to the element of surprise — you don’t really know what to expect,” she said. Lyndon Ji ’16, who also snagged a ticket to the concert, hopes to spot his freshman counselor, a member of the orchestra who will be dressing as Catwoman, at the event. Contact HAYLEY BYRNES at hayley.byrnes@yale.edu .
A new kind of theater BY LAVINIA BORZI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
MCKAY NIELD
“Richard 2012” will bring election rhetoric to the stage for the next two weekends. BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER “If you care about America, you care about this” reads the tagline of the second theatrical senior project this year. “Richard 2012 or The Body Politic: An Election Event Conceived and Performed by Alex Kramer, Charlie Polinger and Raphael Shapiro, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and the 2012 US Presidential Campaign” opens Friday at the Whitney Theater and has performances scheduled for the next two weekends. The three seniors collaborated on the script, using text from Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and rhetoric from presidential campaign speeches, debates, newscasts and attack ads. The show’s two production weekends frame the presidential election on Nov. 6, and the script is likely to change based on the results, director Charlie Polinger
’13 said. “It’s incredibly specific to this space and time,” Raphael Shapiro ’13 explained, adding that by living in a culture saturated with the election, the audience has “been preparing to see this show for as long as we’ve been working on it.” The show’s constantly evolving script is based loosely on the events of the unfolding presidential campaign, Polinger said. Even the candidates’ responses to Hurricane Sandy will play a role in the show. “Richard 2012” is a two-man show, with Alex Kramer ’13 and Shapiro filling all the parts, which are loosely grouped into “Incumbent” or “Challenger” roles. The two will embody not only Obama, Romney and their Shakespearean equivalents, but also everyone related to them, from Michelle Obama and Ann Romney to minor characters from the original play.
Theater Studies professor Deborah Margolin, one of the show’s advisors, described the script as a “collage” that “gracefully yet jarringly” brings together the two narratives. Both in its use of previously written text and devised theater technique — where actors create the script through experimentation — “Richard” is a departure from most theater done at Yale, Polinger said. Most undergraduate productions polish an existing script instead of building each moment from scratch, he explained. For “Richard,” on the other hand, the team often spent an hour testing out different versions of a single exchange or action. Billed as an “election event” rather than a play, the show falls more into the category of performance art than traditional theater, Margolin said. “In classical theater, what we try to do is disappear inside a character,” Mar-
golin said. “Here there’s a translucence between actor and character … and a conversation going on [between the two] that is inherently political.” This aspect of the production was informed by Thomas Hobbes’ political treatise “The Leviathan,” in which he describes the masses coming together to make up a single leader, Polinger said. Similarly, in today’s political discourse, just two individual presidential candidates are imagined to represent the entire American constituency, Shapiro explained. “We’re putting all our hopes and dreams in Obama and Romney, as if they’re going to take the country and drive it somewhere … we put a bit of ourselves in the ballot when we go to vote,” Shapiro said. Despite its political subject matter, the creators emphasized that the show does not have a partisan message.
“It’s not trying to make a statement about Democrats and Republicans … but about what it means to be a political figure, about how the election is almost becoming a fiction itself,” Polinger said. “Richard II” is Shakespeare’s only play to portray a peaceful transition of power, which makes for a particularly striking parallel with the current election, Shapiro said, calling each presidential election a “non-violent coup.” But the show’s use of Shakespeare might surprise audiences, Shapiro said. The “flashy,” public moments of the show are all sound bites from the presidential campaign, while the Shakespearean text provides “a way of becoming more natural,” and is spoken mostly during the characters’ soliloquies or informal exchanges, Shapiro said. That the characters are speaking two different languages throughout the show reflects how politicians today are forced into “a
performance of the genuine,” he added. Kramer explained that while Shakespeare is often seen as “refined” and untouchable today, “Richard” will treat the text more loosely, cutting up some parts while mashing others together. “Shakespeare in his day was a very base theatrical form: He wrote to the masses, and the masses understood it,” Kramer said. Because “Richard” is one of only three senior projects this semester, the team had the unusual opportunity of having an entire month to spend rehearsing in the Whitney Humanities Center’s Whitney Theater — the site of all senior shows — instead of the week shows usually receive, Polinger said. Kramer said that nearly always rehearsing in the performance space is “unheard of” and allowed the show to be much more ambitious in design and scale than other productions, Polinger said.
Despite the three seniors’ lengthy preparation for the show, Kramer said “Richard 2012” will begin to lose its relevance just weeks after the election. “It exists for us now, it won’t engage for anyone else ever again in quite this way,” he said. “Theater is so transient, it gets to do that.” But Margolin said she disagrees, explaining that the questions raised in the show will continue to grow only increasingly relevant “in this age, where elections can be bought, where the power of wealth and money are becoming a threat to democracy.” “Richard 2012” is a theater studies senior project for Kramer and Polinger, and an American studies senior project for Shapiro and will run at the Whitney Theater Nov. 2 to 4 and Nov. 8 to 10. Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .
Eisenman talks architecture as politics BY EMMA GOLDBERG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
politics, which it really wasn’t in America in the 1960s. I decided that the best way to understand that difference was to analyze primary sources, so over a period of ten years I began to search for all of the publications you’ll see on display now at the Beinecke. I found these publications in small bookshops — in the basements of small bookshops. No one knew about these things. I was able to put together this collection of media that influenced me. That research goes hand in hand with the way I practice, the way I teach [and] the way I am.
On Thursday, architect Peter Eisenman will lead a panel discussion of his exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library titled “Architecture in Dialogue.” The exhibit, which will be on display until Dec. 14, features Eisenman’s collection of books, periodicals, posters and other print media from Europe’s interwar period that convey the impact architecture had on social agendas and the rise of political regimes. The News interviewed Eisenman to learn more about the connection between architecture and political thought.
Q
Q
A
The basis of your new exhibit is the concept that architecture interacts with many other aspects of society across disciplines. How did you begin collecting materials that support that theory?
A
I’m both a practicing architect, a teacher and someone who writes about architecture. I started this collection when I started teaching at the University of Cambridge [in the 1960s]. I was interested in the difference between how architecture was perceived in Europe versus America. In Europe it was always seen as something that shapes
You said that architecture is a form of politics. How so?
If you look at the basis of the collection it has all of these works that were in communities where fascism started. All of the early Soviet propaganda led to the same thing in Russia. Beliefs in Nazi Germany had much to do with architecture in that regime. Germany and Russia in the 1920s are fantastic examples of how regimes use architecture and the arts as propaganda.
said that America did not use QYou architecture in a political way in the
1960s. Is this still true today? Does contemporary America treat architecture as
a political force?
A
Things are absolutely still the same. Public space is a form of politics in Europe that just isn’t present in the United States. The idea of architecture as journalism in Italy, for instance, just doesn’t happen in the United States. In fact, the very concept of what constitutes public space is different in Europe. Public space is used in a more powerful way.
Q
Do you hope you or your architecture students at Yale will change that?
A
You’d have to ask my students what I think about what they will do and could do. I wouldn’t believe anything I had to say.
a computer, but I need to print it out in order to correct it. To me, the original print sources are really important. For example, in this collection there are actual magazines with notes from a very famous architect written on the pages. Those kinds of sources are something really important for architects. They are also an invaluable resource for architecture students.
enormous socio-political impact on the whole city and the culture of remembrance. I’ve gotten personal letters from the president of Germany, from major figures in Berlin [and] from [Chancellor of Germany] Angela Merkel about the impact the memorial had on the city. There have been many newspapers articles published about how that memorial shaped the culture of Germany.
Q
Q
Your collection at the Beinecke focuses on how architecture shaped radical political thinking. Do you encourage your students to use architecture to challenge social norms?
A
exhibit focuses on the power of QYour print media. How do you feel about
students’ reliance on information technology? Do you allow your students to research entirely on the computer?
Isn’t that what a university is all about? Professors have to challenge students’ perceptions of what they constitute as their disciplines. That’s especially what a university like Yale is about — challenging the status quo. That’s why I teach at Yale. The students also challenge me, and my work is also about that same kind of challenge.
A
sorts of responses do you get to QWhat your work that challenges the status
Well I can’t read a book on Kindle. I have to have a book in my hand, take notes [or] dog-ear a page. I need to go back and find something when I do research. I have to do research on actual paper. I may type something on
quo?
A
One of my major works was a Holocaust memorial in Berlin that had an
In the past, how have you used print media in research for your architectural projects?
A
It’s not that I do print research for each individual project, it’s a continual process of cross-fertilization between books, paintings [and] actual buildings. It’s something that builds up overtime. You build up a way of thinking about architecture from all of the reading that you do [and] the buildings you see. Every year we take Yale students to Europe to look at famous works. Students look at print material, especially in the Beinecke. It’s a resource we try to get students to understand as they’re building their careers. Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .
THOMAS STELLMACH/CREATIVE COMMONS
Peter Eisenman will discuss his print media collection at a Thursday panel.
This weekend, New Haven residents will get one last chance to see their library transformed into a stage. The New Haven volunteer theater company A Broken Umbrella is presenting “The Library Project,” a production that celebrates the history and treasures of the New Haven Public Library for its 125th anniversary. The show, which debuted on Oct. 20 and ends this weekend, consists of seven different short plays and is staged by 60 volunteer artists who compose the largest ensemble A Broken Umbrella has created in its four-year history. Director Rachel Alderman said that while the show is intended for children, it appeals to audience members of all ages and backgrounds. Just as public libraries are “great equalizers,” providing all visitors with the same access to services, Broken Umbrella hopes that the show will draw people from all monetary backgrounds. Accordingly, the tickets are sold under a “Pay What You Can” policy. “Just like the library itself, we aspire to have both traditional and non-traditional audiences,” Alderman said. “The mission of the library and the mission of the company are similarly aligned in spirit.” While the main peculiarity of “The Library Project” is its setting in a library as opposed to a traditional stage, Alderman said this approach aligns with the company’s philosophy. “We’re never in a traditional theatre space,” she said. “We let New Haven history inspire the production and match the content to the site.” Dana Astmann, company member and School of Music press secretary, said A Broken Umbrella began gathering ideas for the show by looking closely at the library’s spaces and researching its history. During the show, each of the seven short plays explores one of the library’s rooms and uses the space to establish a unique atmosphere. “In one space we had the audience sitting on blocks covered with drop cloths, [and] in another we set up chairs to make it feel more like a traditional audience,” Astmann said. “Each space has its own feel.” Alderman said the show’s main aim is to honor the library’s core importance to the New Haven community in addition to its own history. While Alderman said the company found it difficult to assemble the large company needed to do justice to such a great celebration, A Broken Umbrella has faced now challenges related to performances in such an untraditional space. Rather, she explained, the library’s unique look and feel brought the production to life. “The library building is amazing,” she said. “The architecture really influenced the types of stories that we were going to tell.” Alderman said the performance, which features actors playing librarians and giving tours to small groups of audience members, is designed to allow people to notice features of the building they might never have stopped to notice before. One audience mem-
PROLOGUE
This weekend marks the final performances of A Broken Umbrella’s library production. ber, she recalled, asked her if the theater company had built the beautiful alcoves in the library, but Broken Umbrella had simply used lighting to highlight the already existing structures. The show’s focus on teaching New Haven history is evident in both the script and the setting. “All of our stories ground themselves in the history and explode creatively,” Alderman said. “People end up learning a lot even while they’re invested in a fictional or a partially fictional story.” Sharon Lovett-Graff, the manager of the library’s Mitchell Branch on Harrison St. and an audience member, agreed that the show highlights the library’s importance both in the past and in the present. “We wanted to spark curiosity in our history and the show has definitely done that,” she said. “I’ve been a librar-
ian for 15 years, and I found it really inspiring. It really rejuvenated me in terms of our treasures and our mission in sparking people’s curiosity for books.” Lovett-Graff also said that the show brought back patrons who had not been to the library in years and even people who had never visited before. “The Library Project” reminded New Haven residents that the library is relevant even with the advance of technology, she said. “Technology is wonderful but in many ways it’s limited,” she said. “Libraries aren’t going anywhere.” A Broken Umbrella will perform “The Library Project” four more times this weekend. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES THE DARTMOUTH
Athletes may face separate punishments BY AMELIA ROSCH STAFF WRITER Although rumors have recently circulated that studentathletes who are Good Sammed can no longer compete with their teams, coaches are not automatically notified if one of their players has been picked up by Safety and Security under the Good Samaritan policy. If a varsity athlete chooses to inform a coach that a Good Sam call was made on his or her behalf, the student can be punished at the coach’s discretion in addition to facing the normal consequences, according to Executive Associate Athletic Director for Varsity Sports Brian Austin. In the past few years, there have not been many cases of serious sanctions for athletes who have been subjects of Good Sam calls, Austin said. The repercussions that student-athletes face from coaches in response to Good Sam calls vary from case to case. The Athletic Department is typically notified when a varsity athlete is the recipient of a Good Sam call, but it is up to the athlete to notify their coach, Austin said. “Usually, athletes do feel compelled to tell their coach themselves because they may feel that they are letting down the team,” he said. If an athlete decides to inform his or her coach, a meeting takes place between the athlete, the coach and members of the department to discuss how the student could change his or her behavior in the future and what, if any, consequences he or she will face, according to Austin.
“We have an initial discussion focused on h ow the athlete in question DARTMOUTH let the team d o w n ,” Austin said. “Typically, we want to get the person thinking about being part of the team and the responsibility that entails.” Sarah Williams, a member of the varsity sailing team, said that her team’s policy regarding a Good Sam call is a two-week suspension for members who are sent to Dick’s House or to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
We want athletes to know that drinking that heavily can let down their team. BRIAN AUSTIN Executive associate athletic director for varsity sports “You can’t go to any of the team activities,” Williams said. “You can’t go to the workouts for two weeks — you have to do them on your own time.” Austin said that the Athletic Department’s policy is not punitive because the department does not want to discourage students from taking advantage of the Good Sam policy. “We believe in the Good Sam policy and what it does,” Austin said.
“Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.” ANDERSON COOPER ’89 BROADCAST JOURNALIST
C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N
City residents face Sandy BY MANU RATHORE STAFF WRITER Several Collegetown businesses and thousands of Ithaca residents suffered power outages Monday afternoon as landlords warned their tenants to take all necessary precautions to protect themselves from the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Many stores on College Avenue — including Collegetown Bagels, Stella’s and 7-Eleven— lost power Monday afternoon. Shortly after midnight, however, electricity appeared to still be running for most, with only two of more than 40,000 New York State Electric and Gas customers experiencing outages, according to NYSEG’s website. Henry Wells witnessed what looked like a power line exploding as he went on a run through Collegetown Monday evening. “I was running down near the intersection of Maple Avenue and Dryden Avenue and there was a brief yellow flash and a loud bang [from a power line box],” he said. Meanwhile, Collegetown landlords also took measures to ensure the safety of their tenants. Although he did not send any “special alerts,” Nick Lambrou, a landlord at Lambrou Real Estate, said he encouraged students to take precautions during the storm. “We rely on the Tompkins County’s announcements and the local government’s measures … though we are also encouraging tenants to make sure that their windows are tightly shut,” he said. Cheryl Beach, a realtor at Avramis Real Estate, said she checked on houses over the weekend before the storm was set to hit Ithaca. “We checked stuff over the weekend and made sure that everything was in working order,” she said. “We have also taken care of garbage so that everything is not flying around.” Lambrou added that he also checked for potential sources of water leakage into buildings. “We have a couple of buildings that
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have emergency smoke hatches up on the roof,” he said. “Our primary measure was to make sure that these smoke hatches were sealed. We don’t want them to pop open and the water
to come pouring in.” High speed winds, however, remained the primary concern for most landlords. “What concerns me about this storm is not even the water but the wind,” Lambrou said. “The wind will cause power outages. The buildings are strong, but the power outages can be a problem.” In an email, Pam Johnston Apartments warned tenants not to use their stoves if their houses lose power. They also said that if a houses loses power, staff would come by to shut off all gas appliances. Mayda Dorak, who lives on College Avenue, said she is also concerned about losing power due to the storm. She has shut all her windows in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.
“The wind might cause trees [to] fall, but there is not much that I can do about that,” she said. Alex Cheng, a resident of Dryden Road, said he was concerned about possible power outages. “I think it’s going to be pretty bad. I came back from classes and witnessed a power outage on the block from [Collegetown Bagels] to Stella’s,” he said. “Everything is down right there. I expect that it will happen to my apartment sometime soon.” Most say the worst of the storm is yet to come. “I have stocked up on toilet paper and frozen food,” he said. “We have just had a taste of what the hurricane is going to be like. We are yet to see the real Sandy.” Though Ithaca has “made it through major snowstorms” and “24 hours of snow” in the past, Lambrou said that the approaching Hurricane Sandy poses a unique threat to the city. “It’s powerful and now it’s coming here,” he said. “We have never had such a situation before. I have never faced such a situation before.”
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NATION
“I am two with nature.”
WOODY ALLEN AMERICAN SCREEN-
WRITER, DIRECTOR, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN
Millions without power in Sandy’s wake BY TED ANTHONY ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country’s most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menaced homes wondered when — if — life would return to normal. A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 50 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn’t finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York to dump more of its water and likely cause more havoc Tuesday night. Behind it: a dazed, inundated New York City, a waterlogged Atlantic Coast and a moonscape of disarray and debris — from unmoored shore-town boardwalks to submerged mass-transit systems to delicate presidential politics. “Nature,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, assessing the damage to his city, “is an awful lot more powerful than we are.”
More than 8.2 million households were without power in 17 states as far west as Michigan. Nearly 2 million of those were in New York, where large swaths of lower Manhattan lost electricity and entire streets ended up under water — as did seven subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn at one point, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
Everybody knew it was coming. Unfortunately, it was everything they said it was. SAL NOVELLO Construction executive The New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day from weather, the first time that has happened since a blizzard in 1888. The city’s subway system, the lifeblood of more than 5 million residents, was damaged like never before and closed indefinitely, and Consolidated Edison said electricity in and around New York could take a week to restore.
“Everybody knew it was coming. Unfortunately, it was everything they said it was,” said Sal Novello, a construction executive who rode out the storm with his wife, Lori, in the Long Island town of Lindenhurst, and ended up with 7 feet of water in the basement. The scope of the storm’s damage wasn’t known yet. Though early predictions of river flooding in Sandy’s inland path were petering out, colder temperatures made snow the main product of Sandy’s slow march from the sea. Parts of the West Virginia mountains were blanketed with 2 feet of snow by Tuesday afternoon, and drifts 4 feet deep were reported at Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. With Election Day a week away, the storm also threatened to affect the presidential campaign. Federal disaster response, always a dicey political issue, has become even thornier since government mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And poll access and voter turnout, both of which hinge upon how people are impacted by the storm, could help shift the outcome in an extremely close race. As organized civilization
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Sandy caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to over 6 million homes and businesses. came roaring back Tuesday in the form of emergency response, recharged cellphones and the reassurance of daylight, harrowing stories and pastiches emerged from Maryland north to Rhode
Island in the hours after Sandy’s howling winds and tidal surges shoved water over seaside barriers, into low-lying streets and up from coastal storm drains. Images from around the
storm-affected areas depicted scenes reminiscent of big-budget disaster movies. In Atlantic City, N.J., a gaping hole remained where once a stretch of boardwalk sat by the sea.
GOP targets democratic turf
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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan waves at reporters as he arrives in Minneapolis on Tuesday. BY THOMAS BEAUMONT AND BRIAN BAKST ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into play. It’s forcing President Barack Obama to defend his own turf — he’s pouring money into television ads in the states and dispatching top backers — in the campaign’s final week. The question is: Why this Republican move? GOP efforts in the trio of Rust Belt states could indicate that Romney is desperately searching for a last-minute path to the needed 270 Electoral College votes — without all-important Ohio. Or just the opposite, that he’s so confident in the most competitive battlegrounds that he’s pressing for insurance against Obama in what’s expected to be a close race. Or perhaps the Republican simply has money to burn. Use it now or never. Former President Bill Clinton was dispatched in response on Tuesday. “Barack Obama’s policies work better,” he declared on the University of Minnesota campus, one of his two stops in a state that offers 10 electoral votes and hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972. This late-game expansion of a campaign playing field that, until now, had focused on just nine states was taking place exactly a week from Election Day. At the same time, Obama spent a second day in Washington to focus on his presidential duties and Romney edged back into active campaign-
ing in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. “This is a tough time for millions of people … but America is tougher,” the president said during a brief visit to the American Red Cross, where he sought to reassure victims, encourage aid workers — and warn of more storm damage to come with rising floodwater. In Ohio, Romney, too, spoke of concern for storm victims, telling supporters who were collecting supplies that “a lot of people hurting this morning.” Beyond the candidates’ pause from feverish campaigning, the impact of the storm on the election wasn’t all that clear.
Barack Obama’s policies work better. BILL CLINTON Former President National polls show an even race for the popular vote, though Obama appears to have both an edge in key battleground states in the electoral vote hunt and more state-by-state pathways to reach the 270-vote threshold. Of the nine states where the two men have spent more than $1 billion in advertising since June, Romney is in the strongest position in North Carolina. But public and internal campaign polls show he’s locked in stubbornly tight battles in Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada and Virginia and is fighting to overtake Obama’s advantage in crucial Ohio as well as Iowa and Wisconsin.
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WORLD
“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.” MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI DEPOSED LEADER OF LIBYA
Protestors delay vote on Libyan cabinet BY ESAM MOHAMED ASSOCIATED PRESS TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s new prime minister on Tuesday put forward a Cabinet for parliamentary approval, but protesters stormed the building during the session, forcing a postponement of the vote on the new government. Around 100 protesters, a mix of bearded civilians and self-proclaimed rebels, broke into the hall during a session in which Ali Zidan, the new prime minister, was telling the National General Congress that he tried to strike a geographic balance among different regions and cities. The protesters faced little resistance as they entered, and a local TV station showed video of the break-in before it went off air. The protesters had various complaints about the nominated ministers, including that some had connections to the ousted regime of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Interim President Mohammed al-Megarif talked to the protesters, and they left the hall. Then they returned, forcing the parliament to postpone the vote on the new Cabinet until Wednesday. “Let Libyans know the atmo-
sphere in which we operate,” alMegarif said. “The least we can say about what happened is that it is pressure on the Congress members.” He said criticism of the Cabinet was welcomed but appealed for a peaceful expression of opinion.
Let Libyans know the atmosphere in which we operate. MOHAMMED AL-MEGARIF Interim President of Libya “The Congress represents legitimacy in this country,” he said. A year after the overthrow and death of Gadhafi, Libyans are seeking a broader distribution of political power among the country’s three main regions, after decades of domination and discrimination by the dictator’s highly centralized state based in the capital, Tripoli. The new Cabinet faces the herculean task of reigning in a mushrooming number of armed groups, filled mostly with former rebel fighters who defeated Gadhafi’s
forces during last year’s eightmonth civil war. The government must also build state institutions such as the judiciary, police, military and others from scratch, and rebuild cities and towns demolished during the conflict. Zidan, a former human rights lawyer chosen Oct. 14, is the second prime minister to be named by the 200-member parliament. Legislators dismissed his predecessor, Mustafa Abushaqur, after they said he had put forward unknown people for key Cabinet posts and proposed a government lacking diversity. Zidan said he held talks with the country’s political parties including the two biggest blocs in parliament, the Alliance of National Forces, led by liberal wartime Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Justice and Construction Party. Such talks are seen important to ensure that his 27-member Cabinet lineup passes the vote of confidence. The proposed Cabinet gives the interior and defense portfolios to ministers from Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, and reserves at least two posts for ministers from the third largest city, Misrata. Two proposed ministers
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Two Libyan girls run with national flags on the anniversary of Moammar Gadhafi’s fall. are women. The protesters named the proposed foreign minister and religious endowment ministers as linked to Gadhafi’s regime. The new Cabinet will also have to deal with the displacement of tens of thousands of residents of the western town of Bani Walid. The town, a stronghold of Gad-
hafi’s loyalists, fell in a battle to pro-government forces last week. After rounding up a number of suspects, pro-government militias withdrew from the town. Abdullah Boushnaf, named head of Bani Walid’s city council, complained the government had no plan to fill the vacuum and said the
situation was “disastrous.” “We don’t understand what is happening. The government made promises and said that there are plans to bring back the displaced, but nothing has happened until now. Looters are taking over everything from public to private properties,” he said.
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SPORTS
NBA back in season
The 2012-’13 NBA season opened last night with contests in Miami, Cleveland and Los Angeles. The defending champion Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics 120–107. Reigning MVP Lebron James had a double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds.
Rudnick leads from back
In support of amateurism ROSENBERG FROM PAGE 14
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Maddie Rudnick ’15 has played libero in each game since she came to Yale despite not having played the position full-time until college. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16, all attended La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, Calif. Rudnick played two years each with Polan and Fuller at La Costa Canyon, which boasts a powerhouse volleyball program. In Rudnick’s sophomore year, which was Polan’s junior year, the team finished No. 1 in the nation and won the California state championship. “She’s always been very consistent and someone you can trust to do her job,” Polan said. “She always comes up with the balls
you expect her to get.” La Costa Canyon’s success was in large part due to Rudnick’s sister, Lydia Rudnick, who is currently a senior outside hitter at Princeton and one of the best offensive players in the Ivy League. She currently leads the conference in kills per set with 4.26 and has been named FirstTeam All-Ivy each of the past two seasons. Maddie said that Ivy matchups are always contentious between the two. “It’s definitely competitive,” Rudnick said. “She always texts me to tell me to be ready for our matches. I want her to play
well because she’s my sister but at the same time there’s nothing I want more than to beat her.” The Rudnick sisters will go head-tohead in their final collegiate matchup when the Bulldogs travel to Princeton for a crucial Ivy match this Saturday. Yale will tackle Penn on Friday night in Philadelphia before taking on Princeton the following day. Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
Bulldogs aim to win the Ivies MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14
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He is working with the goalies, which will be good to have him as a teaching resource for them. Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindesy.uniat@yale.edu . Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
small amount of these subsidies, however, is not the primary problem. The major issue is that schools aspire to be like one of the 22 “moneymakers” of 2010. Today, having a good sports program has become beneficial in more than pure economic terms: It boosts a school’s reputation as well. For example, two economists from the University of Chicago and Brigham Young University showed that the year after winning a national championship in football, a school sees a 10 percent increase in applications. Of course, winning the national championship in football has nothing to do with how good a school is academically. But applicants are not the only ones confused. About five-sixths of FBS schools are public institutions, which means they rely on state governments to provide around one-quarter of their revenue, according to Duke economist Charles Clotfelter. Inexplicably, state governments give more money to schools with big-time, successful sports teams. The current system is set up to encourage schools to strive for athletic excellence, at the expense of other pursuits.
IT IS HARD NOT TO SEE THAT THESE ARE SEMIPROFESSIONALS IN COLLEGE UNIFORMS This leads me to my second point: Is this what we want for our universities? Do we want to leave the market to dictate what universities should do? Absolutely not. Universities are for educating young people and for cultivating skills that will aid their students through the rest of their lives, both personally and professionally. The football and basketball teams at big-time sports universities are businesses. Just listen to how coaches refer to their teams as “programs.” We should believe them: In many cases, the teams have little to nothing to do with the universities that they nominally represent. Many coaches of big-time college teams have no interest in their players attaining a degree, which should be a goal of every student enrolled at a university. John Calipari, head coach of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team, promises recruits that if they come to Kentucky and do well enough, they will be in the NBA the following year. Year after year, Calipari’s teams top the rankings, often making the final four or winning a national championship. Then his slew of talented freshmen leave for the NBA, and Cali-
pari recruits a new batch. Sadly, it seems Calipari’s measure of success is similar to Kentucky’s: The state-funded university will pay him at least $5.2 million per year until 2020. By now it is well known that being on a big-time football or basketball team is a full-time job that leaves little to no time for studying. In many cases, courses are pre-picked for the players. The coaches and professors often have an “understanding” about the expectations for athletes in those classes. In 2003, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team must have been very excited to find a final exam including multiple-choice questions such as: “How many halves are in a college basketball game?” and “How many points does a 3-point field goal account for in a basketball game?” I forgot to mention that the teacher of this class was not only the head coach’s son, but also an assistant coach on the team. Of course, there is a place for college sports. It seems to me that Yale, and other schools with similarly serious-but-moderate sporting scenes, has just about got it right. For example, it is terrific that much of our student body will travel to Cambridge in three weeks for The Game. It is also good that when our football team loses the campus doesn’t go into a communal depression. I know that on this same page last year, Chelsea Janes argued that Yale was falling behind in athletics and that President Levin was the major culprit, lowering recruiting admissions from 17 percent to 13 percent. Here’s what I think: The difference neither significantly hurts teams, nor does it marginalize athletes on campus. Recruited walk-ons now fill the extra 4 percent. At the same time, it does a world of good in establishing the purpose of our university. It is not elitist to care less about athletic success than big-time sports schools or even than Harvard, which has lowered its admissions standards for athletes and is winning more Ivy League titles as a result. Although we could certainly support our teams more, I like how we have it here. There are people who couldn’t care less about Yale sports and people who care quite a lot. When we go to sporting events, we see our friends on the court or on the field. This is how college sports should be. At some other schools, young men our age are on NBC and CBS playing football and basketball in front of massive crowds and television audiences. It is hard not to see that these are semi-professionals in college uniforms. The obsession with big-time college sports is not good for the universities involved. In fact, it is diluting their integrity. Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .
Freshman goalkeeper steps up WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE starter Adele Jackson-Gibson ’13. But an early and unexpected accident changed the path for the Bulldogs. After just three games in net, Jackson-Gibson suffered a seasonending injury. With only young talent at his disposal, Meredith needed to give his goalkeepers some experience. Ames and Elise Wilcox ’15 began splitting time, each playing half a game. Both were working incredibly hard in practice and both had gained some experience during the season, Ames said. Then, on a Friday night, Ames stepped up. In overtime against Iona, a hard shot was fired from outside the box. As the Bulldogs watched the ball curve towards the net, appearing as if it would sail way over Ames’ head, they thought it was over. But Ames leapt up and knocked the ball over the net, keeping the Elis in a game they went on to win. “She completely just blew
everyone away — our fans, their fans and our goalkeeper coach who had been working with her,” captain and midfielder Jenny Butwin ’13 said. “It was a good moment for us, especially our defenders.” Meredith said making a bigtime save in a big game indicates that a goalkeeper has taken the step to the next level. A few games later, Ames was put in net to start against Princeton, and she has worked to make it her home since. Her competitive edge is what keeps her growing and improving, Meredith said. “We’ve been working on details like being one step closer to the ball and letting my defenders know where their marks are,” Ames said. “We’ve also been working on being a little more aggressive.” Butwin said aggression and competitiveness are key to a goalkeeper’s success. When recruits were sending emails asking teammates questions about classes and social life at Yale, Ames’ first question to Butwin was whether she would be given the
opportunity to earn her spot. But part of what makes Ames unique is her ability to balance her fierce edge with her kinder side. “She always says, ‘Yes, sir’ which you don’t really hear anymore,” Meredith said. Since starting in net, Ames earned Ivy League Rookie of The Week honors for the week of Oct. 15 after scoring her first collegiate shutout in a game against Cornell. Focused on the game, she did not realize her accomplishment until her coach congratulated her. “All I was thinking is I have to keep this shutout right here,” Ames said. “It was a great feeling.” Ames said she is looking forward to the last two games of her freshman season against Brown on Thursday and Sunday night. The Thursday night game will be broadcast live on the Fox Soccer Channel at 7 p.m. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 was named Ivy League Rookie of the week after the match against Cornell.
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BY JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF COLUMNIST This weekend, the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide football team steamrolled No. 13 Mississippi State in front of 101,821 fans for its eighth win in eight tries this season. This was a relatively normal fall Saturday in Tuscaloosa: Football is a religion at Alabama, as it has become at many universities. Last year, a rogue Alabama fan poisoned two oak trees near the Auburn campus that Tigers fans paper after victories. And this was in the national news. It’s about time this madness stopped. The size of big-time college sports is growing out of control. NCAA football and men’s basketball, in particular, have ballooned into spectacles as televised and discussed as the NFL and the NBA. Many argue that football and basketball make money for universities. Thus, really, they are performing a service to improve their universities. Both of these arguments are wrong. I’ll address big-time college sports’ profitability first. While some schools do make money from their athletic programs, that number is much smaller than one would think. In 2009, only 14 of the 120 athletic programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly Division I-A, turned a profit for their schools. In 2010, that number was up to 22. The median revenue of the 22 profitable schools was over $7.3 million. Yet this increase masks a disturbing fact: the median loss of the other 98 schools was over $11.5 million. As the NCAA noted in its 2011 Revenues and Expenses report, “the gap between the financially successful programs and others continues to broaden.” The universities themselves must subsidize those programs that lose money. The relatively SEE ROSENBERG PAGE 13
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Libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 tallied 25 digs in Friday’s 3–1 win over Columbia. Rudnick is third in the Ivy League with 4.7 digs per set. BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER While the volleyball team streaks through one of the greatest seasons in program history, one player’s deeds have quietly flown under the radar. Although Maddie Rudnick’s ’15 contributions generally show up in just one column of the box score, the California-native has been one of the most important players for the Elis on the court this season. “Maddie is an unbelievably great defensive player,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “She’s really steadied our defense out and is one of the best passers in the conference.” Rudnick is a libero, meaning she wears a different colored jersey than
her teammates and can only play in the back row. Liberos are not permitted to spike or set the ball and, as a result, are primarily on the court to dig spikes and pass to the setters. Although liberos often do not receive as much glory as their teammates, outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 said it is one of the most important positions in volleyball. “It’s really important to have someone on the court that 99 percent of the time will have control of passing and defense,” Rogers said. “Without the first pass, you can’t do anything.” Rudnick has appeared as the libero in all 39 matches the Bulldogs have played over her first two seasons at Yale. This year, the team is 10–0 in
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Ivy League play and has consistently been one of the top defensive teams in the nation. The Elis are currently second among all Division I squads with 19.74 digs per set. Rudnick has anchored that effort with a team-high 4.7 digs per set. That mark is third in the conference behind Penn libero Dani Shepherd and Brown libero Kathryn Conner. The fact that Rudnick had never played libero full-time when she arrived to Yale makes her accomplishments all the more impressive. The sophomore instead played outside hitter throughout much of her high school career. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to hit in college because I’m not tall enough and I don’t hit hard enough,” Rud-
nick said. Although it was her first full season at libero, Rudnick excelled in her freshman year. She finished seventh in the conference and first on the team with 4.63 digs per set. Rudnick said her success did not come easily, adding that she had to make some adjustments in getting used to the new position. “I’m not the loudest person [on the court] but I have to run the back row,” Rudnick said. “Being in the position where I needed to be calling for the majority of the balls was a transition.” Helping Rudnick to make that transition was setter Kendall Polan ’14. Polan and Rudnick, along with SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 13
Bulldogs find young leader BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Women’s soccer team goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 came to Yale looking forward to a year of solid practicing and training at the collegiate level. Instead, she has started in eight games, made 12 appearances and made 46 saves. “It’s extremely rare [to have a freshman start],” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “She stepped up.”
While playing soccer for her club in Alabama, Ames was looking at playing for a small school in her home state. But when Yale assistant coach Todd Plourde sent Ames a letter after seeing her play at a tournament, Ames began to reconsider. On her first unofficial visit, she was sold on Yale. Her plan was to take her first season as an adjusting experience, as she wanted to learn from more seasoned SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 13
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Captain Andrew Miller’13 has high expectations for the season after taking down Princeton past weekend. BY LINDSEY UNIAT AND ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Bulldogs are off to a solid start this season with a tie against Dartmouth and a win over Princeton in the Ivy League Showcase this past weekend. Captain and forward Andrew Miller ’13 — who has scored 116 points in 106 games as a Bulldog and has been voted by his teammates as the team’s best passer for the past three seasons — sat down with the News to discuss his big expectations for the team this year.
last year’s quarterfinal loss to QAfter the Crimson in March, this weekend’s game is a big deal. What is the team doing to prepare?
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We are having a normal week of practice. We are preparing like we would for every other team, going over our systems, learning theirs and preparing to put ourselves in position to get two wins.
guys are off to a good start, with QYou no losses so far. What have been the team’s strengths?
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Our defensive play was key last weekend. As a core we played pretty well defensively, giving us opportunities to win.
are some of the team’s big QWhat goals for the season?
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The Elis will compete in the last two games of their season against Brown this Thursday and Sunday.
THE NUMBER OF POINTS MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM CAPTAIN AND FORWARD ANDREW MILLER ’13 HAS SCORED. He has played in 106 games and has been voted by his teammates as the team’s best passer for the past three years.