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Yale president, then what?
Provost may come from within Yale
A colorful statement. Yale’s LGBTQ alumni association recently released a new music video to promote its second alumni reunion this February. The video features an a cappella medley that includes a range of songs associated with the gay rights movement, including “Over the Rainbow,” “Prove It On Me Blues” and “I’m Coming Out.” Just four days after its release, the video has already garnered more than 25,000 views on YouTube.
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to Levin and in the pages of The New York Times, which mentioned Levin as a possible Treasury Secretary for a second-term Obama administration in an Oct. 19 article. Colleagues at Yale said two major options loom in Levin’s future: remaining at Yale, or leaving higher education behind. “I don’t think he would want to return to teaching because for the last 20 years he’s run something,
Though Provost Peter Salovey has secured the post of Yale’s 23rd president, he still has several items on his to-do list in his current position. One of the first tasks — appoint his successor. The Yale Corporation announced last Thursday that Salovey will assume the presidency on June 30 after University President Richard Levin steps down following 20 years at the post. In doing so, he will vacate the position of provost, the second-highest-ranked administrator at Yale. While the timeline for a search for a new provost remains unclear, two deputy provosts interviewed said Salovey’s successor will likely be someone from within the Yale faculty. “I’m motivated not to wait until June 30 to appoint someone,” Salovey told the News Thursday, though he said in a Sunday email that “no decisions have been made about the timeline or process” for the search and that he will be discussing the issue with University President Richard Levin soon. The nomination of a provost is typically the responsibility of the sitting president, but Levin told the News Saturday that Salovey would be conducting the search. Levin will have stepped down by the time the next provost begins his duties this summer, and Yale has traditionally enabled a president to choose his or her own provost in the event of a vacancy — a system that Levin called “very wise” in an interview with the News during Yale’s last provost search in 2008. “There has to be real chemistry between the president and the provost,” Levin said in 2008. “To be successful, the president and provost have to have a really close, mutually trusting relationship.” Salovey’s search for a new provost marks
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Bringing Canada to Yale.
Yalies in the Yale Law School courtyard got a taste of Canada yesterday morning when roughly 30 students and several faculty members gathered together to join Canadians around the world in observing Remembrance Day. Attendees wore poppies pinned to their coats, sang the Canadian national anthem in unison and listened as three students delivered poetry readings by Canadian writers. The saga continues. In a
Friday email to students affiliated with the Buddhist community, former Chaplain Bruce Blair ’81 said Indigo Blue would continue at his home near campus. Though not affiliated with Yale, the program would hold activities such as tea and conversation and a congee brunch in the future. Blair also launched a new website for Indigo Blue to post updates about the program.
Sushi showdown. More than
30 teams of three met at Sushi Mizu last night to put their eating skills to a test — collectively consuming more than 3,200 pieces of sushi as part of the Yale Event Management Association’s “Sushi Showdown” competition. The winning team, “Sushi All Eaten,” clinched the win after eating 100 pieces of sushi in 2:02 minutes. They are entitled to one free Sushi Mizu meal per month for the rest of the year.
Never say never. After four
tries, the Freshman Class Council finally received approval for its newest T-shirt design for the Yale-Harvard game this weekend. The final design features the words “The Game 2012” with a standing bulldog on the front, and the phrase “Try cheating your way out of this one” on the back. The shirts cost $10 each, and any extra funds will go toward Hurricane Sandy relief.
Honoring our veterans. New
Haven residents and local officials gathered around City Hall yesterday as part of the Elm City’s annual Veterans Day ceremony, which featured artwork, flags and homemade signs that thanked U.S. veterans for their service.
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University President Richard Levin is reportedly under consideration for U.S. Treasury Secretary. BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER For University President Richard Levin, Monday, July 1, 2013, will be unlike any other Monday of the past two decades. He will not have to wake up at 5:45 a.m. He will not have to rush to meetings in Cincinnati or on West Campus. He will no longer be responsible for 11,875 students, 3,953 faculty and 9,183 staff mem-
bers. For the year starting that Monday, Levin will be on sabbatical. After he steps down from his position as Yale’s top administrator, Levin says he plans to compile a collection of his recently written works and write a book about economic development and university management. Though he has not made any final decisions concerning his future professional life, speculation about what lies ahead for Levin is already growing among those close
BSAY celebrates Fiscal cliff looms over science legacy of activism RESEARCH
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[African-Americans] didn’t always have a place at Yale. To have a homecoming week and a home to celebrate it in is truly extraordinary. WESLEY DIXON ’15 Staff member, Afro-American Cultural Center
cal cliff. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provided 83 percent of Yale’s federal research dollars in fiscal year 2012, would see an 8.2 percent cut on Jan. 1. The NIH said in a statement to the News that the potential SEE FISCAL CLIFF PAGE 4
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Founding member Ralph Dawson ’71 said the group has been one of the “most important organizations on campus” since its founding in 1967 due to its achievements in tackling on-campus civil rights as well as advocating for political issues within the New Haven community. The group was formed to help black students
If Washington fails to extend some form of tax breaks and automatic cuts to a slew of government agencies and programs, the United States will tumble off what has been termed a “fiscal cliff” starting on Jan. 1.
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The dining room of the Afro-American Cultural Center was full of students and alumni wearing their best suits and dresses Friday night for the inaugural Edward A. Bouchet Ball — named in honor of the first AfricanAmerican student to graduate from Yale — commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Black Student Alliance at Yale. Over 150 students and several faculty and alumni attended the culminating event of BSAY’s Homecoming Week, a weeklong series of panels and events intended to promote discussion about the history of black students at Yale. Students and alumni who attended the event said they think BSAY has played a pivotal role in the black community both on and off campus since its founding four and half decades ago. “ [ A f r i c a n -A m e r i c a n s ] didn’t always have a place at Yale,” said Wesley Dixon ’15, a staff member for the AfroAmerican Cultural Center. “To have a homecoming week and a home to celebrate it in is truly extraordinary.” Today, with over 130 members, BSAY is one of the largest and the oldest student groups associated with the AfroAmerican Cultural Center.
While black student enrollment consisted of roughly 10 students per incoming class in the late 1960s, said BSAY President Denise St. John, a look around the packed dining room Friday night demonstrated the success of BSAY’s efforts in countering injustices towards black students on campus.
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We're not in Chindia anymore I
grew up in a neighborhood in central New Jersey fondly dubbed “Chindia” — for obvious reasons. My core group of friends was firstgeneration Chinese, middleclass and successful in school. We ate dumplings for Thanksgiving and almost exclusively watched anime, Studio Ghibli films and Korean soap operas. One of my goals as I entered my first year of college was to expand my cultural horizons by befriending people of different ethnic backgrounds. I had told myself that I wasn’t going to do “Asian things.” But then an employment opportunity as a graphic designer at the Asian American Cultural Center popped up. It was a wonderful opportunity, so I took it, predominately because I wanted to design posters, not because I wanted to be involved in the Asian community at Yale. I expected to play with Photoshop a lot. And I have, and it’s fun. But I’m also staffing the many events that the AACC organizes — events that encourage not only the pan-Asian community to come together, but the larger Yale community as well. I’ve discussed racism and how it applies to a so-called "model minority," and how that minority may not be as model and homogenous as it may seem. I’ve spent a lot of time working with my co-workers to make the AACC feel welcome to all students on campus, regardless of race or affiliation. In fact, the amount of time (and money) we spend trying to conjure up ways to bring together different groups within Yale’s pan-Asian community, collaborate with other cultural houses and invite non-Asian people to the house is pretty unbelievable. Actually, scratch that — it’s very believable, because this is the central purpose of the AACC: to connect people. Self-segregation is facilitated by the individual, not the institution. It might seem counterintuitive to suggest that a group of Asians and AsianAmericans is diverse, but I beg to differ. To someone who grew up knowing only one type of Asian (primarily middleclass, ethnically Chinese, Japanese and Korean), exposure to minorities within the AsianAmerican community, and even internationals, was quite eyeopening. My increased awareness of race and how it affects interpersonal relationships has enriched my interactions with friends belonging to different ethnic backgrounds. For example, I have more insight on the objectification of black women (explored by the Yale African Students Association in a dis-
cussion about black women and dating) because of conversations we’ve had in the AACC about the eroticization of Asian women, something about which my friends and I have had many conversations. And I’m sure that I’ve only just cracked the surface of so many issues that need to be thought about and talked about. I would venture to say that Chindia was sadly uniform, and we were self-segregating, if not by conscious choice then by unfortunate circumstance. Because of our close proximity, our shared heritage and upbringing and coincidence of classes, we clumped together in our high school. We existed as chunks thrown not into a melting pot, but into a sort of incongruent and coarsely chopped salad. However, at Yale, this is not the case. That isn’t to say that cultural houses are perfect. How do we go about addressing what freshmen and the larger Yale community think of the AACC? How would their perceptions change if they attended AACC events more often, and what should we do to convey a more accurate image of ourselves? How can we make the AACC a place where more students can relax, play and study without reservation? These are questions that the staff have been asking and are trying to address. In some ways, I may be biased. Yes, I do get paid to work at the AACC. And yes, I do spend a lot of time at the center pouring over stock images and typography, answering the door and signing people into the kitchen. So yes, I do spend a lot of time with Asian people and enjoy their company. But that doesn’t mean that being involved with the center has limited my social circle — if anything, it’s only expanded and enriched my relationships, strengthening them and giving them deeper meaning. A cultural center brings together people who are similar, but those people don’t have to be similar in every way: shockingly, people of the same race aren’t actually the same people. Communities strengthen the individuals within them, but they also strengthen the connections to individuals in other communities as well, and in this way, there is no clearly defined line between one community and another. A cultural house doesn’t only build pillars to support itself; it’s an essential building block of the larger ecosystem that is Yale.
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irst, let me say outright: I like Presidentelect Salovey. While not an undergraduate alumnus, he was an exceptional dean of Yale College. And he has … spunk. Experience and personality make a potent combination. I expect that Salovey will not just administer, but also truly lead, the University. We’ll have plenty of time to see what Salovey does as president, so there is little point in prognosticating about his presidency. We should instead examine President Levin to discover why we, as a university, should actively preserve his legacy. President Levin did great things for Yale. He fundraised. He renovated. He tied us to the world. I grew up in New Haven, and watched the downtown turn from seedy to posh in two decades. While I might disagree with some of Levin’s more specific and recent policies, the bottom line is that he grew the University in tremendous ways. But I am afraid that time will forget him. Levin is an institutionalist. He runs campus not by the
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force of his c h a ra c t e r, but through persistent and effective management. Unfortunately, hisNATHANIEL tory often emembers ZELINSKY rthe flashy few. In the On point Pantheon of great Yale presidents, Kingman Brewster and Ezra Stiles occupy Zeus’ seat as kings of them all. Why? These men certainly ruled admirably in times of difficulty. Even more, though, their unique personalities made them stand out as memorable figures. By any account, President Levin does not have the biographical presence to endure in Yale’s historical memory. Why must we sustain Levin’s legacy? For one, as gratitude for his tremendous service to his alma mater. As a community, we can offer no higher reward than posterity. More importantly, however, we risk losing the significant lesson Levin’s tenure has taught
us: Sometimes, universities need institutionalists. In remembering the Brewsters of the past, we run the risk of unduly fetishizing the presidents who govern Yale through force of personality. In the process, we blind ourselves to the drawbacks of such men — they can inspire, but they also can have trouble executing plans that span decades and require dogged persistence. At the end of his time in Woodbridge Hall, Brewster famously left classrooms and residential colleges in physical shambles. Right now, we need a president who can articulate a vision for Yale and, chiefly, for Yale College. In Peter Salovey, we got that kind of leader. And if his tenure as provost says anything, we’ve got a great manager, too. Thanks to his time as provost and his personality, Salovey might defy binary categorization. A time will come, though, when Yale will need another builder — someone who can reorganize the multibilliondollar corporate beast that is a modern university. That future president will need a model,
both to know what to do and what to not to do. He or she will find such an example in Richard Levin. How do we preserve legacies in general — and Levin’s in particular? That’s the truly tricky question. Call me a sucker for things archaic, but a statue might do the job. I know: nonabstract public art is way out of vogue — but hey, picking a white man for a university president isn’t hip either. If the Corporation can permit political incorrectness in its presidential appointments, perhaps it can also commission an art installation that depicts a person. For the statue’s inscription, one simple line: “He rebuilt Yale.” Place the statue somewhere central, so all the tour guides talk about Levin’s accomplishments. (Can it replace that horrid Alexander Calder sculpture on Beinecke Plaza?) Maybe, then, we’ll remember the institutionalists, for all their strengths and flaws. NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .
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Indigo Blue, a test of trust A
story I read recently in the Yale Daily News reminded me of my first experience with Indigo Blue. My own narrative began very similarly to that of a person quoted. A few weeks into freshman year, three Pierson friends and I went to check out the meditation in Battell Chapel. Buddhist Chaplain Bruce Blair ’81 was setting up, as did he did every night for nine years. He asked if we'd be willing to pick up mats for him from the Buddha shrine in Harkness Tower. Saying he thought we might enjoy seeing it for ourselves, he entrusted us with his ID to get us in the door, and he stayed behind to finish setting up for Stillness & Light, the evening meditation space offered by Indigo Blue. We were happy to oblige and excited to see the shrine. But being eager freshmen new to the grandiose Gothic beauty of Yale, we were even more excited by the prospect of getting to the top of Harkness Tower. We scurried up the spiral staircase, but were soon stopped by the Carillonneurs’ locked door. When we finally left Harkness Tower, Bruce was there, standing on the other side of Memorial Gate, looking disappointed and a bit defeated. “Well, it would have been
nice,” he said to us. We apologized nervously, embarrassed that we had been caught. He asked for his ID back and who our FroCos were, then walked away. I was devastated. I had been interested in Buddhism for years prior, and I had now violated the only space available. I was furious with myself. I was too ashamed to go to Stillness & Light again for nearly two months after. Eventually, I could no longer resist the urge to go. I went, nervous, hoping to heaven that Bruce wouldn’t recognize me, afraid that he would reference what I had done and make me relive the betrayal of his trust. I half-expected him to ask me to leave and felt worse for knowing that I would have deserved it. But he did not. I sat down timidly on one of the mats that surrounded the glimmering tea candles and closed my eyes to meditate. I heard a clink as a cup of barley tea was set before me. I opened my eyes to see his gray coat drifting by, refilling the cups. From that first sip of steaming tea, I began to feel that the wrong I had done could be bridged, that I was welcome. I began to go to Stillness & Light regularly. I started to talk with Bruce, and it was dur-
ing an early conversation that he calmly referenced our first interaction. At first, I felt my face go red, the shame coming back to me. He started to laugh, and it was in his laughter that I realized I had his complete forgiveness. Chuckling, he told me that he had recently received permission to give students swipe card access to Harkness, and said that he would be happy to give me access, too, if I wanted. Besides attending Stillness & Light, I had done nothing other than apologize to regain his trust. Yet he forgave me. Since then, I have joined in setting up and clearing Stillness & Light, in chanting, in installing a life-sized Buddha in the shrine in Harkness Tower. The holy spaces offered by Indigo Blue became central to the identity of one of my accomplices from that night, a home for her. I do not come from a Buddhist background, but since the closure of Indigo Blue I have realized that these spaces have a cultural and personal meaning for deeply religious Buddhist students. It is something that I appreciate but cannot fathom fully. Having seen the profound suffering of my Buddhist fellow-humans stripped of their identity, I have gained a truly
“multifaith” admiration and learned to trust in the central importance of these spaces for many. Taking the identities of Bruce and the Buddhist student body away from them now is just an administrative and corporate version of what four ignorant freshmen did when we made off with his ID card. It was equally fueled by ignorance. Bruce put his trust in us and had it exploited, the opposite of what a cult leader would do. I know that Bruce was not testing us in giving us his ID card, but trusting us. I would have failed the test, and no doubt he would have treated me differently. But it was not, and he did not. He treated me the same way he treats every other student, with an open mind and an open heart. And yet, now Bruce and Buddhist life at Yale suffer again from a crisis of identity. Bruce was counting on us that night and trusting us. He is counting on us, trusting us, again. Now, let us demonstrate that we are trustworthy by working to reunite Indigo Blue with Yale. PATRICK CAGE is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at patrick.cage@yale.edu .
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s I walked out of a Friday morning test with a student-reporter friend, I probed his thoughts on the exam. The bags under his eyes revealed his thoughts before his words could. “What a week,” he responded. “I’m glad that’s done.” It has indeed been an exciting week for Yale: two new presidents in two days. In a nail-biter election, President Obama reemerged President-elect under a sea of balloons and prolific rhetoric. His podium Tuesday night rose from the ashes of roughly $6 billion in campaign spending, invocations from rock stars and Hollywood superstars and most importantly the sweat of thousands of young people — so many of them Yalies, many of them my friends. Only hours later the News’ website released another headline in all capital letters (reserved for only its most prestigious news) to declare our provost as Yale’s new president. Thousands of student emails, new counselors and committees and a university-wide forum culminated in the Corporation’s decision. All the while, a
third, arguably more important, leadership transition has been unfolding “in the dark,” as the Financial Times’ David Pilling described. What China’s leadership handover lacks in fanfare, inclusiveness and spontaneity, it substitutes with significance. As Yalies, we owe it to ourselves to pay close attention to the developments in Beijing. From a policy perspective, Mr. Xi Jinping’s tenure will probably bear greater impact on U.S. foreign policy than President Obama’s second term. To begin with, Mr. Xi’s term should last until 2022, by which time many of us will have reached 30. His term should oversee substantive geostrategic reorientations both economically and militarily. If President Hu’s 100-minute address last Thursday offered any indication of Mr. Xi’s plans, China’s economic growth remains the ultimate priority. The OECD calculates China will overtake the United States’ economic preeminence by 2016. One cannot forget China’s role in Washington’s impending fiscal crisis. The Chinese sovereign wealth fund cur-
rently holds over $1.2 trillion in U.S. government debt, a number that should continue to rise in coming years. China has also indicated its ambitions for maritime superiority. As the U.S. grooms military partnerships with Asian countries such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, China’s plans in the Pacific place small territorial disputes, such as that of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, into a larger, potentially more dangerous, context. In response, 60 percent of U.S. naval ships will operate in the Pacific Ocean by 2020, up from the current 40 percent. From a generational perspective, China’s leadership transition also presents an opportunity for young people. Some pundits believe the 18th Party Congress’ ceremonious tribute to past party leaders such as Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji represents the last of its kind. China’s post-'90s (lit. meaning: born between 1990– 1999) generation constitutes one of the largest, most educated and online 10-year segments of China’s population. Thirty million of its approximately 150 mil-
lion people avidly use the Internet. Digital learning of English is growing at 41 percent annually. In 2012, 7.8 million will have graduated from university. Students our age are already closing the decision gap between the people and the central leadership: just this year, their protests have halted manufacturing and chemical plant plans in cities such as Shifang, Taiyuan and Ningbo. In Beijing, speculation suggests Mr. Xi’s attitude toward political reform will only increase our generation’s influence under his leadership. As an international student body of aspiring leaders, we must maintain an eager awareness of China’s leadership developments. Beijing has already sketched China’s path to global significance, but our leadership as a young global generation will draw the shadow it casts. So, for this week, let’s stay excited about leadership transition a little bit longer. CRISTO LIAUTAUD is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at cristo.liautaud@yale.edu .
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The article “YDT takes transnational turn” misidentified the class year of Emily Coates GRD ’11 and misstated the dates for an information session and the audition for YDT, which will take place on Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, respectively. A caption included with the article also misidentified a 2011 photo as of a Merce Cunningham project when it is in fact of Compagnie Auguste Bienvenue for the World Performance Project. FRIDAY, NOV. 9
The article “Bulldogs seek balance” mistakenly stated that the men’s basketball team would open its season against the University of Hartford on Saturday. In fact, the team began its season against Sacred Heart University. FRIDAY, NOV. 9
The sports section mistakenly included the article “Hockey opens ECAC competition,” which was a reprint of an article on the men’s hockey team published on Nov. 2.
Future of Ed. Studies unclear BY MAREK RAMILO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Undergraduates hoping to pursue careers in education may be running out of options as the University continues to phase out what remains of the Education Studies track. Yale canceled the Teacher Preparation track in 2010, citing budgetary issues and the preprofessional nature of the training program as reasons behind its termination, but continued to offer a series of courses under the Education Studies umbrella. The University’s decision to end Teacher Preparation caused then-Director of Education Studies Jack Gillette to resign, and professor Linda Cole-Taylor took over, currently running the track and teaching the majority of its courses. But Cole-Taylor will also leave the University at the end of the fall after negotiations with the University to change the program fell through. “We are going to be making some new appointments to continue offering Education Studies,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said. “It’s actually a transition rather than a phasing out, making a transition to a non-certification program, and I actually think we have a lot of exciting opportunities ahead of us.” The certification component of the Teacher Preparation program provided students who aspired to careers as teachers with training and clinical experience. But the Yale College Dean’s Office deemed the high costs associated with placing students in schools around New Haven unworthy given low student interest in certification. Though Miller said the number of stu-
TIMELINE EDUCATION STUDIES NOV. 15, 2010 Students in Teacher Preparation receive an email from Yale College Dean Mary Miller revealing that the program was to end in June 2011. DEC. 2, 2010 Current and former students of the program host a panel to promote awareness of Education Studies in response to its cancellation. DECEMBER 2010 Miller announces that Education Studies will continue long enough for juniors in the program to complete it. JAN. 18, 2011 Director and professor Jack Gillette announces plans to leave Yale at the end of the 2010-’11 school year. 2011–’12 SCHOOL YEAR Professor Cole-Taylor assumes role of director of Education Studies after negotiations for an altered program through fall. FALL 2012 Cole-Taylor announces plans to leave Yale at the end of the fall 2012 semester, leaving the future of the Education Studies Program unclear.
dents graduating with teacher certification in Connecticut had dwindled down to zero by the program’s end, Cole-Taylor said she does not recall the numbers ever attaining such a low level, adding that a student graduated with teacher certification last spring in the last class of Teacher Preparation students. Cole-Taylor said the Education Studies program, even without teacher certification, has been criticized by administrators as being overly pre-professional, but she added that the true merit of Education Studies lay in its focus on psychology and teaching theory rather than on hands-on training.
I don’t see how Yale, as an institution of higher learning, can’t be invested in perpetuating [Education Studies]. KATY CLAYTON ’14 Four Education Studies students interviewed said they think Education Studies should persist at Yale without its certification component, adding that the Education Studies classes they have taken have drawn students from multiple majors. Sophia Weissmann ’14 said the Education Studies courses she has taken, including ColeTaylor’s “Schools, the Community and the Teacher,” were all oversubscribed and competitive to get into. While M iller maintains that the University will hire a replacement for Cole-Taylor, students in the Education Studies program fear that the Dean’s Office will soon eliminate the program’s course offerings altogether. Cole-Taylor said prospective students have contacted her out of concern over the fate of the Education Studies track, adding that Yale may lose some of its prospective applicants as a result of its relatively small Education Studies program. Katy Clayton ’14 said she came to Yale in part to pursue the Teacher Preparation program, adding that now, with what appears to be a gradual phasing out of Education Studies, students like her will likely turn to other universities. “When [the program] was discontinued, I was kind of shocked, because I don’t see how Yale, as an institution of higher learning, can’t be invested in perpetuating that,” Clayton said. Grace Lindsey ’15, who has taken Education Studies courses and shadowed New Haven schoolteachers, said she has encountered several Yale alumni who completed the Teacher Preparation program. “[There is] a substantive impact that Yale is making on the community by having Teacher Preparation and real Education Studies,” said Lindsey. Current courses offered in Education Studies include “The Teaching of History” and “Observation.” Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
City spokeswoman to leave BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER The voice of the Elm City is stepping down after a year representing City Hall and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04, whose responsibilities included informing the public about the city’s initiatives and speaking on behalf of City Hall, recently announced she will leave her post to take a position as the Connecticut communications director for U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73. While a job posting appeared on the City Hall website last week, the city has not announced Benton’s replacement, who started the job last November. “I have enjoyed immensely my time with the City, both as the Mayor’s Legislative Liaison and in my current role as the Director of Communications,” Benton wrote in a Friday email to the News. “I am proud of the work of this City and what it stands for, from the Elm City Resident Card ensuring that all residents are welcomed and engaged as members of this community, to the work of New Haven School Change ensuring that every student has the support, opportunity and resources to succeed in college and beyond.”
When [Benton] was lobbying for something for the Mayor’s Office, she was very persistent and kept lobbying. JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Alderman, Ward 10 Before assuming her current position, Benton was the City Hall and schoolsystem reporter at the New Haven Register, which she left to work for City Hall as DeStefano’s legislative liaison to the Board of Aldermen. City Hall chief administrative officer Robert Smuts ’01 said she brought a new focus on social media that enabled the Mayor’s office to reach out to residents. “It’s important for the city to reach out to its residents and let them know important information about what’s going on and to answer questions people have,” Smuts said. “My departments do a lot of basic work of the city, like public works, libraries, etc., and whenever we asked to communicate with the public, [Benton] would follow up and help us do that.” New Haven Independent founder and editor Paul Bass ’82 said he agreed, adding that Benton was effective at increasing the use of social media, particularly Facebook, in City Hall. Both Bass and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said that Benton was very effective at communicating with the public and getting out the mayor’s messages, adding that she fulfilled her role of representing and defending the mayor’s views well. Elicker added that when he worked with Benton during her time as the liai-
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City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 recently announced that she would step down from the position, which she has held since last November. son to the Board of Aldermen, she was “very loyal to the mayor.” “When she was lobbying for something for the Mayor’s Office, she was very persistent and kept lobbying,” Elicker said. “An example is the Route 34 development: A lot of people were unsure and unhappy with the proposal the city was coming up with and had issues with the street design, but she advocated for the mayor’s policy and that’s her job.” Bass, who said he has worked with all 11 City Hall spokesmen of DeStefano’s tenure, said that reporters have often had to work around the Mayor’s Office, which may withhold information through mechanisms such as Freedom of Information laws. He said that the “job” of the City Hall spokesman is to be a “road-
block,” adding that Benton fulfilled that role effectively. But he declined to comment on whether he was critical of Benton, explaining that it would be unfair to do so because withholding information was simply a part of her job description. “The title of the job was public information director, but it should really be political operative for the mayor … When the press inquires about programs and new developments, she would hold off and make reporters fight for it,” Bass said. Benton will continue living in New Haven. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
Retired profs offer alumni classes BY AMY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For six weeks in a small downstairs room of the Rose Alumni House, retired English professor Traugott Lawler has led a weekly discussion with an enthusiastic group of Yale alumni and their family members on “The Canterbury Tales.” Lawler, a professor emeritus of the English Department, is one of a handful of retired professors who are teaching a pilot series of non-credit courses as part of the Association of Yale Alumni’s new Alumni College program. Alumni and their family members can gather for weekly seminar-style courses in New Haven and New York City, discussing topics such as literature and the current state of higher education. The program will officially wrap up its first six-week semester this week, and so far participating professors and alumni have praised the program for its intellectual and social opportunities. “It’s an evolving concept [that] outperformed our expectations,” said Marv Berenblum ’56, the coordinator of the program and an AYA board member. “It’s not just a class — it’s developing a community.” Berenblum said the idea for an alumni college initially developed from the desire to create a “lifetime learning center” for alumni in New Haven. After completing a comparative analysis of other universities’ approaches to continuing alumni education and surveying thousands of alumni, he said, the AYA decided to design six courses — three based in New Haven and three at the Yale Club of New York City — each with roughly 10 to 25 students. Though
the original intent was to offer classes only in New Haven, Berenblum said, the survey revealed that many Yale alumni living in the metropolitan areas of New York were also interested in participating in courses. Professors emeriti John W. Cook, Frank William Kenneth Firk, Michael Holquist, Alan Trachtenberg and Annabel Patterson also taught alumni courses for the pilot semester, and each course costs $300 to enroll, in addition to a $100 membership fee.
It’s the same as undergraduate discussion … Everybody does the reading and has a lot of interesting things to say. TRAUGOTT LAWLER Professor, Alumni College program Due to the success of the pilot semester, he said, the AYA expects to roll out a “full-blown” program next fall with more courses. He added that the AYA has received interest from Yale alumni groups in cities across the country, which could lead to the expansion of the program on a national scale. “We expect that at some point we’ll open it to the larger community,” he said. For their last meeting of the six-week semester, some of the courses have planned social activities for their faculty and students, Berenblum said. Additionally, he said that there are currently plans for program-wide social events, such as an architectural boat trip around
Manhattan. Trachtenberg, who teaches a course on Walt Whitman at the Yale Club, said he has a close relationship with many of the 26 alumni and family members in his class. The classroom has been a “wonderful experience,” he said, because his students are well-educated and pose challenging discussion questions. “It’s wonderful for these people to undertake a serious academic class — not quite a class on the Yale College model, but they do the reading and they’re prepared,” Trachtenberg said, adding that all the reports he has heard from other classes have been completely positive. Most Yale graduates, often with busy lives and full-time careers, do not have the time to revisit classroom education. But Lawler said his students are always active and enthusiastic. “It’s the same as undergraduate discussion,” Lawler said of his class, which has a total enrollment of 10 students. “I’m enjoying myself. Everybody does the reading and has a lot of interesting things to say.” All six professors emeriti involved in the program teach topics that have been of academic interest to them in the past. Lawler previously taught Chaucer as part of the English 125 poetry course while at Yale. The four other classes offered this semester are “Paradise Lost,” “The Age of Einstein,” “A History of Christian Architecture” and “Is There a Crisis in Higher Education?” Contact AMY WANG at xiaotian.wang@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Research funding scarce cuts would be “deeply destructive” to ongoing and future science research nationwide and should be avoided. Though Yale, like its peer schools, has a longstanding practice of financially supporting investigators who have temporarily lost grant funding, increased demand for external funding has put a strain on researchers across the country. While Yale research may weather the potential cuts, the increasing scarcity of federal grants has forced some faculty to scale back their ambitions. “I think we are all terrified,” said Chris Cotsapas, assistant professor of neurology and genetics at the Yale School of Medicine. “If I don’t bring money in, then I can’t pay the people in my lab, and I can’t pay my salary. It’s kind of that simple.”
agenda. “I personally don’t spend the time worrying about a fiscal cliff,” he said. “In the end, if we are doing the best science that we can, we’ll be able to push forward as long as it is the strongest science that we can do.” Institutions that rely heavily on federal grants may feel the cuts more acutely than other schools, O’Connor said. In fiscal year 2011, total grants and contracts constituted approximately 24 percent of revenue at Yale, a relatively large portion compared to other Ivy League schools. Only Brown University, at 25 percent, relied more heavily on grants. Breaker said he is confident that Yale would continue to be competitive for grants because it recruits the top researchers from around the world. But even institutions with top faculty will feel the fiscal cliff’s effects, he added.
TOUGH CLIMATE MADE WORSE
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FISCAL CLIFF FROM PAGE 1
Like researchers at most medical schools across the country, faculty at the Yale School of Medicine raise almost their entire salaries and lab funding from external sources such as the NIH, the school’s Dean Robert Alpern said. As a result, the potential cuts to these funding institutions have some researchers at the medical school worried about the future of their labs. Cotsapas said he joined the School of Medicine two years ago in an “already challenging” funding climate, and the looming fiscal cliff has the potential to make matters even worse. Despite a 49 percent increase in the NIH’s funding budget from 2001 to 2011, higher demand for research dollars has greatly increased competitiveness for grants, he said. The potential cuts from the fiscal cliff have already had an impact on the Cotsapas Lab, which investigates the genetic cause of disease in the immune system and the brain. For instance, Cotsapas said he wanted to hire five or six more researchers for his lab this year, but ended up hiring only three. The shifting funding climate has also had a significant impact on how Cotsapas approaches the grant application process. While he said he would like to spend less time crafting grants, Cotsapas tries to write four to six a year because the chance that strong grants will be accepted has become increasingly slim in recent years. He has also started asking everybody in his lab to write at least one grant proposal a year — an activity which he said takes away from research time. Alpern said the medical school will have to slow research operations if it receives fewer grants. While faculty at the School of Medicine have to raise almost their entire salaries from external sources, those at Yale College rely much less heavily on grants. Most faculty members receive the equivalent of nine months of their salary from the University spread out over the calendar year for their teaching duties. Professors are left to raise the remaining three months’ pay from grants, said Associate Provost for Science and Technology Timothy O’Connor. Assistant professor of chemistry Jason Crawford said he is not fixated on the potential funding cuts but rather on continuing to pursue his research
In any funding climate, most research programs encounter difficulty in raising funds, said Ronald Breaker, chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department. Research programs in the biological sciences are especially vulnerable to these temporary lapses, which can harm delicate organisms and set research back by a decade or more, he said. Breaker said that if a faculty member experiences difficulty raising grant support for research, many departments have “bridge funds” that allow research to continue while the investigator secures external funding. If the department is unable to help the researcher, faculty members often turn to the Provost’s Office for support. The Provost’s Office does not have a formal policy regarding bridge support and evaluates each researcher’s request on a case-by-case basis. O’Connor said a successful candidate for bridge funding is a well-established research program that has temporarily lost external funding but presents a strong plan for restoring it. Even if the need for bridge funds increases because of the fiscal cliff, O’Connor said the University will continue supporting programs with future plans to secure grants. Yale has no set allocation of funds for bridge programs. He added that his office has begun informal planning about an institutional policy regarding bridge support. Bridge funding is a common practice at Yale’s peer schools. Brown’s Provost Office, like Yale’s, has no fixed allocation of funds for bridge support, Brown Provost Mark Schlissel said. Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs said in an email that the university is concerned about the fiscal cliff’s potential impact on funding. Cornell has a “modest pool” of resources to provide bridge support for faculty, he said, and, like Yale, will not permanently sustain research that has lost grant support. Geology and Geophysics postdoctoral researcher Peter Driscoll said he does not think he can rely on his department for more research funding when his fellowship expires at the end of the academic year because it would rather bring on new researchers than extend his position. Driscoll said the department did not pro-
vide additional research funds to a colleague whose grant recently ended, contributing to his departure from the University. “That could be me nine months from now,” he said. While Yale must support its graduate students in any funding climate, Breaker said the University has much less of an obligation to postdocs and support staff. Cotsapas said he knows there is a limit to how long the University can sustain any lab struggling for support. “If I can’t get funding at the level that makes my lab self-sustaining, then I’ll have to resign my position and go do something else,” he said.
AN ERA OF CONSERVATIVE RESEARCH?
Even if Yale continues to pull in grant money and support struggling faculty through bridge grants, many researchers and administrators have expressed concerns that the current funding climate and the potential fiscal cliff have shifted the mentality of scientific research for the worse.
The research enterprise has not yet ground to a halt. It’s just creaking ominously at this point. CHRIS COTSAPAS Assistant professor of neurology and genetics, Yale School of Medicine The lack of funding and potential for greater cuts have tempered the research ambitions of many of his peers, Cotsapas said. Many of the grant proposals with the highest potential for profound scientific breakthroughs are those that carry the highest risk for failure and are rejected when federal research dollars tighten up. As a result, researchers propose less ambitious projects that are more likely to succeed, Cotsapas said. O’Connor said the looming cliff has intensified his preexisting fears about the effect of limited funding on training future scientists. Less money threatens undergraduate research, graduate student support and postdoctoral training and, by extension, budding scientists’ abilities to pursue future research, he said. Breaker said he becomes most frustrated when the scarcity of federal research dollars interrupts not only strong faculty research programs but also delicate thesis research that graduate students must complete to further their careers. Cotsapas said the future of science research is not all “doom and gloom,” Cotsapas said, as long as money still flows through labs and important science continues. “The research enterprise has not yet ground to a halt,” he said. “It’s just creaking ominously at this point.” Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
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Levin considers post-presidency LEVIN FROM PAGE 1 and I think he really enjoys running things,” former senior fellow of the Yale Corporation Roland Betts ’68 said. “Honestly, I think he wants a bigger horizon than a classroom.” But Economics Department chairman Benjamin Polak said in a Nov. 7 email that he is “very excited” to have Levin back in his department. Though he said he has not discussed the courses Levin will teach, he added that he is certain they will appeal to economics majors and non-majors alike. While he has not taught full-time since stepping up to Yale’s highest office in 1993, Levin said he is flattered that some of his colleagues wish to see him return to the classroom, but added that he has not made any decisions about returning to academia. Vice President Linda Lorimer said Levin was a very popular teacher and he could easily return to the Economics Department, even though it has been “a bit of time.” If Levin does re-enter Yale’s lecture halls as a professor, he will be the first Yale president to do so. Benno Schmidt, whose Yale presidency ended in 1992, started a for-profit education organization, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, whose term ended in 1986, entered the sports business after leaving Yale. Kingman Brewster became the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom after stepping down as president in 1977. Levin has reportedly been under consideration for a position in President Barack Obama’s administration multiple times. Various newspapers reported that Levin was a contender to lead the World Bank in 2007, though the position went to Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim. In December 2010, Bloomberg News reported that Levin had discussed an economic administrative position with Obama, which sparked questions over whether Levin would leave Yale to lead the National Economic Council. The NEC position had been vacated by former Harvard President Larry Summers. New York Times reporter Peter Baker, who wrote the recent article on the potential candidates for Treasury Secretary, told the News in a Nov. 7 email that he has heard Levin’s
name come up “for any of several possible economic-related positions,” but he does not have knowledge of these possibilities advancing any further. Levin declined to comment on his chances of becoming Treasury Secretary. Economics professor Kenneth Gillingham, who served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers under its then-chair Ben Bernanke — who is currently chairman of the Federal Reserve — said Levin’s academic background qualifies him for a number of Cabinet roles, including chair of the CEA. “You don’t become chair of the Economics Department at Yale unless you’re extremely well-respected,” he added, referring to a position Levin held prior to his presidency. Levin’s academic research focuses on industrial economics, and he has written about topics such as patents and railroad deregulations. His academic interests do not center on the budget or tax reform — two major challenges the Obama administration is facing as it begins its second term. Though Betts, the former Yale Corporation senior fellow, said Levin enjoys leadership positions, he added that he doubts the president will seek a job in the corporate world after leaving Yale. Still, Betts said Levin enjoys serving on advisory boards — Levin currently sits on the board of American Express and is a trustee of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation — and could transition into leading a foundation. “There’s probably 10 major foundations in the United States,” Betts said. “I would imagine that any one of those that opened up would be talking to [Levin].” Betts added that Levin may be inclined to take a position on the West Coast, where his four children and seven grandchildren reside. For his part, Levin has declined to discuss his future job prospects until his tenure ends. “I’m really going to do my job until the end of my year,” he said. “Then I would have to see what happens.” Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .
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“Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.” GEORGE NELSON INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
Symposium sheds light on Nelson
City attracts startups BY JASMINE HORSEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In an effort to encourage local entrepreneurial spirit, New Haven held its second annual Startup Weekend from Nov. 9 to Nov. 11. The event, which was organized by the national Startup Weekend nonprofit organization to give locals the experience of starting their own business ventures, attracted around 120 community members. On Friday evening, participants were given just 60 seconds to present their entrepreneurial ideas to an audience that subsequently voted to determine the crowd’s favorite concepts. Participants then formed teams to develop the winning ideas over a 54-hour period with the ultimate goal of building creative technological working products and businesses. The best product at the end of the weekend was then deemed the event’s winning startup. Following presentations Sunday evening, “Snagit Deals”, an application seeking to help users find the best daily deals, was announced the winner of Startup Weekend New Haven.
The goal is to encourage more and better startups. We have a great reserve of untapped talent, creativity and drive right in our own backyard. MIKE ROER Co-organizer, Startup Weekend New Haven
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A retrospective of George Nelson’s ’29 ARC ’31 work is currently on view in the School of Architecture’s Rudolph Hall. BY MARGARET NEIL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER George Nelson ’29 ARC ’31 is not as famous as some of his modernist contemporaries, such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Charles and Ray Eames. But as the focus of an exhibition and a recent symposium at the School of Architecture, he may be worth rediscovering. On Friday and Saturday, the School of Architecture hosted a symposium on Nelson’s life, work and legacy. The conference, organized by Dietrich Neumann, a professor of the history of art and architecture at Brown University, was planned in conjunction with the retrospective of Nelson’s work, “George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher,” currently on view at the second-floor gallery in the School of Architecture’s Rudolph Hall. Together, the 17 lectures of the symposium painted a profile that is unexpected for a modernist architect, School of Art professor Christopher Pullman ART ’66 said. Speakers repeatedly described Nelson as a Renaissance man and independent thinker who, while less good with technical details, believed that art has a social impetus and was willing to hire women at a time when it was uncommon to do so. In the lecture series “Context and Collaboration” given by Paul Makovsky of Metropolis Magazine, Pullman and architect Jane Thompson of the Thompson Design Group, Nelson was described as rejecting the Howard Roark paradigm of the “hero architect” due to his socially conscious approach and his choice
to work on interiors during the mid20th century when furniture design was considered “feminine.” As head of the Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his team designed icons of modernist furniture, such as the “Ball Clock” and the “Bubble Chair.” Nelson also served as the head designer of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, for which he designed the kitchen that served as the backdrop for Nixon and Khrushchev’s famous “Kitchen Debates.” School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said Nelson had an important impact on furniture design. “For the last 10 to 15 years, architects as well as the general public have rediscovered the mid-century modern design … not only [Nelson’s] individual pieces, but a virtual revolution in the way interior offices were furnished. He was focused on breaking down walls in favor of open offices, which are more collegial and promote interactivity,” Stern said. Symposium speakers also focused on Nelson’s prolific writing. Ralph Caplan, a writer for Industrial Design Magazine who knew Nelson personally, said in his lecture “The Georgian Perspective” that Nelson came to design through writing, and that he was a designer because he had been a writer. Nelson had in fact landed the job at Herman Miller while he was a journalist, after Miller was impressed by a piece Nelson wrote about design. Nelson’s interdisciplinary approach to design was echoed by the breadth of professionals invited to speak, which included historians, professors, designers, architects, writers and gallery owners.
Renowned Australian designer Mark Newson, whose projects include furniture design for Cappellini, aeronautic design for Qantas and Airbus and clothing for G-Star, delivered the keynote lecture. Neumann said he selected Newson because he is one of the top designers in the world. “I was looking for someone who could relate to Nelson [in terms of] breadth,” Neumann said, adding that the two designers are different, but he “senses that [Newson] knows [Nelson’s] work. Some of it is an ironic play with aesthetic standards established by Nelson [and other modernists].” Brian Butterfield, the director of exhibitions at the school that mounted the Nelson exhibit in Rudolph Hall, said he sees Newson and Nelson as very different designers who nevertheless have commonalities in their visions of design. “[Newson] is someone of today who is doing something differently,” Butterfield said, adding that Newson is a respected critical voice and bridges the world of retail, industrial design and art like Nelson. Butterfield worked with the show’s curator, Jochen Eisenbrand from the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, where Nelson’s works are entrusted, to bring the exhibition to Yale, its last stop after a four-year international tour. Butterfield said Yale is a fitting last venue, given the time Nelson spent here as an architecture student. The first major retrospective of Nelson’s work, the exhibition includes drawings, posters, models and furniture that Nelson designed or collaborated on. Eisenbrand said in an email that
he hoped the show broadened public appreciation for Nelson. “We wanted to show that he is much more than just the designer of the handful of design classics everyone knows,” Eisenbrand said. “[His] interest was in broader questions about how we live in our houses and apartments, how we work in our offices, how [we] treat the whole man-made landscape and how that could be changed to the better, for instance by teaching people how to see.” The Yale show differs from other stops on the exhibit’s tour in its inclusion of an architecture section, with photographs by well-known architectural photographers Robert Damora and Ezra Stoller, Neumann said. Two School of Architecture students interviewed said they were aware of Nelson’s work but did not fully understand his philosophy of design until the symposium and exhibition came to Yale. In his lecture “Ways of Seeing George Nelson,” Rob Forbes, who runs Studio Forbes, a San Francisco studio aimed at discussing design, and the more recent venture PUBLIC, which is focused on improving public spaces, echoed the students’ praise and said he thinks Nelson would have broad appeal to young American designers. The exhibition of George Nelson’s work is on view at Rudolph Hall until February 2013. Contact MARGARET NEIL at margaret.neil@yale.edu .
Global health competition held BY HANNAH SCHWARZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale held its first Global Health Case Competition this Saturday at the Yale School of Public Health. This weekend’s competition, which sought to bring students from Yale’s different schools together to propose solutions to global health issues, was an intramural round, the winner of which will represent Yale at Emory University’s Global Health Case Competition on March 23. Though only one team advanced to Emory, the top three winning teams were awarded $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. Yale’s competition was arranged by Jared Augenstein SPH ’13, Sunny Kumar ’13 and Sejal Hathi ’13, who comprised the first Yale team to participate in last year’s competition at Emory. “We wanted other students here to have the opportunity to do the same thing [we did last
year],” Augenstein said, adding that the competition forces students to “think critically about a global health issue and design feasible, realistic, but innovative solutions.” Hathi said that since many of the teams competing at Emory are strong, the competition’s organizers wanted to ensure Yale’s team was as strong as possible. This year, Yale will be represented by a six-person team spanning five of Yale’s schools. The 20 competing teams were given their presentation topic — proposing a solution to the health and economic concerns of miners in South Africa — online on Sunday, Nov. 4. Each team then scrambled to compile research and create policy proposals for their first presentations held the following Saturday morning. The winning team, which went by the name “Salovey and Sons Consulting Company,” was comprised of Yale undergraduate
Hilary Rogers ’13 SPH ’14, Jordan Sloshower MED ’14, Yi Zhou SOM ’14, Bingnan Zhang MED ’14 SOM ’14 and epidemiology and microbial diseases students Javier Cepeda GRD ’16 and Ryan Boyko GRD ’18. Friday evening was the first time “Salovey and Sons” practiced their presentation together, Zhang said. “We started meeting on Monday, when we discussed the case. On Wednesday, we did research and presented what we found [to each other], and on Thursday, we broke up into smaller groups to hammer out some policy,” she added. The panel of judges was a balance of professors from the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health, as well as public health practitioners and government consultants, Kumar said. In addition to awarding prize money, the judges gave out an Innovation Award to a team whose “concept of using moral-
Mike Roer, one of the organizers of Startup Weekend New Haven and an instructor of entrepreneurship at Gateway Community College, said that the formation of new organizations is of great importance given current job shortages in the U.S. economy. “The goal is to encourage more and better startups,” he said. “We have a great reserve of untapped talent, creativity and drive right in our own backyard; and if we give aspiring entrepreneurs encouragement and assistance, they can fulfill their dreams of creating a new company and at the same time create jobs for others.” The event, which charged a $99 entrance fee, featured several expert coaches to assist in the product development stage. Despite its fledgling nature, Startup Weekend New Haven has already proved its potential to have a positive impact on the local community. ShugaTrak, an application that provides incentives for teenagers with diabetes to test their blood sugar, won last year’s event and has since grown into a viable business. John Seiffer, a member of the Startup Weekend New Haven organizing committee, commented in a press release on the success of last year’s event. “Last year in New Haven, we had 14 teams form over the weekend. A year later, two are ongoing companies and one has gotten funding from the state of Connecticut,” Seiffer said. “People who have an idea for a startup and those who have skills they want to contribute — developers, designers, marketers and business types — can all learn a lot and have a great time.” Startup Weekend, which is headquartered in Seattle, Wash., touts itself as a “global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs” and has held similar events in around 100 countries.
ity to change market forces was remarkably innovative,” said judge Martha Dale, director of Global Health Initiatives at Yale’s School of Public Health. At the competition’s conclusion, Fatima Hassan, one of the judges and a Senior Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, suggested that all the groups’ policy proposals be compiled for potential use in on-theground efforts in South Africa. Hathi said she enjoyed seeing how committed teams were to addressing these global health issues. “One team approached me, at the end of the day’s events, to ask if there was any way they might join current advocacy efforts or pilot their solutions on the ground,” she said. Augenstein, Kumar and Hathi plan to hold the competition again next year. Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Black students show solidarity BSAY FROM PAGE 1 on campus engage with Yale administrators to address issues such as establishing an African-American cultural center and creating an African-American Studies major, Dawson said, adding that both efforts were successful in the late 1960s. BSAY also concentrated on improving student life including concerns surrounding residential college housing for black students, said former BSAY president and Af-Am Center historian Joshua Penny ’13. BSAY served as an umbrella organization for multiple minority groups at Yale during the late 1970s, turning into a “coalition of black, Asian and Puerto Rican students,” said former BSAY member Gretchen Vaughn ’79. At the time, few other groups catered to minority students, she added.
[Activism is] the main reason BSAY was founded … There will always be some kind of injustice to fight [against]. PATRICA OKONTA ’15 Membership coordinator, BSAY “It was one of the few student orgs that really made us feel we had a voice and made our needs known,” Vaughn said. BSAY also served as a political advocacy organization, though it strove to be nonpartisan. The organization’s founding in the late 1960s came during a period of social upheaval — the Black Panther trials began a year later, the May Day riots occurred in 1970 and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination made national headlines in 1968, said former member Vera Wells ’71. BSAY became a gathering place for a wide range of students during a “volatile time,” she said, adding that she remembers current Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel “hanging out” at the Afro-American Center and participating in the conversation about
the social changes of the time. “We were kind of at an inflection point both in our society and in university life and in what was going on in the country,” Dawson said. “[Through BSAY] we felt we were a part of that.” Dawson said a large portion of BSAY’s efforts in the early years involved social activism, particularly efforts to improve relations between Yale and its surrounding neighborhoods. The group started “Operation Breakthrough,” which aimed to work with Yale administrators to provide more employment opportunities for members of the New Haven community, he added. Since its early programs of social activism, BSAY has sought to continue its relationship with the “predominantly African-American and Latino community” in New Haven, said Vanessa Williams ’14, vice president of BSAY. Today, BSAY meetings remain open to New Haven community members, and families from the local area have been present at recent events such as debate watch parties and last week’s election night gathering, she said. The group has also shifted focus from student affairs to become “both a cultural and social justice organization,” Penny said, offering opportunities for involvement in local politics and community service, such as organizing around mass incarceration and planning voter registration drives, as well as holding regularly scheduled social events, such as a Kwanzaa dance. Will McPherson ’15, secretary of BSAY, said that the group welcomes all students concerned about issues of diversity on campus, regardless of racial affiliation. “I think in the first constitution you had to be of African descent to be on Board … I am a white person on Board for BSAY, so obviously things have changed,” he said. Though its membership and campus politics have changed significantly in the last half-century, BSAY will retain its founding spirit of social activism, said Patrica Okonta ’15, BSAY’s membership coordinator. “Whether it’s two, or five, or 50 years from now, [activism is] the main rea-
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TIMELINE BLACK STUDENT ALLIANCE AT YALE 1874 Edward A. Bouchet becomes the first AfricanAmerican to graduate from Yale University. 1967 Students form the Black Student Alliance at Yale. 1968 African-American Studies major established. 1969 The first African-American Center is established at 119 Chapel St. 1970 The Af-Am House moves to its current location at 211 Park St. 1974 Khalid Lum installed as first director of the Af-Am Center. 2010 Dean Rodney Cohen appointed. 2012 45th anniversary commemorated by the Edward A. Bouchet Ball.
son BSAY was founded and I don’t think it will ever be lost. There will always be some kind of injustice to fight [against],” Okonta said. Funds raised at the Bouchet Ball went toward the “First Steps, Second Chances” scholarship, which is granted to previously incarcerated New Haven students. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
“The African race is like a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.” AFRICAN PROVERB
Search for next provost begins SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 the beginning of a larger transition between the Levin and Salovey administrations. Levin is well-known for his ability to identify and nurture administrative talent, and many of his appointees — which include all 14 deans of Yale’s schools and all but one University officer — have been at Yale for more than a decade. Two deputy provosts interviewed said a Yale faculty member will likely be chosen as Yale’s next provost but did not comment on possible front-runners for the post. Of the past 10 provosts before Salovey, nine of them were members of the Yale faculty when they were appointed, and the 10th had previously served as a Yale trustee. Three of those 10 were deans or deputy provosts prior to becoming provost. Frances Rosenbluth, deputy provost for social sciences and faculty development, said that because the economy has not yet fully recovered, the next provost needs to be able to “manage difficult budget compromises.” “The provost, to preside over lean times, needs to have institutional authority and latitude, and the full respect of the faculty,” she said. “It will be important to have a provost from the ladder faculty at Yale.” Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle said the new provost must interact regularly with the faculty as well as other officers of the University. Unlike searches for presidents, masters and deans, searches for provosts have historically been conducted without the contributions of a search
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The provost, to preside over lean times, needs to have institutional authority and latitude, and the full respect of the faculty. FRANCES ROSENBLUTH Deputy provost for social sciences and faculty development
Though Salovey is only the second provost in Yale history to be tapped as University President, after Kingman Brewster Jr. in 1963, five of Salovey’s 10 immediate predecessors went on to become presidents or vice-chancellors at prestigious universities. The three provosts Levin appointed before Salovey advanced to the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The position of provost at Yale was created in 1919 during a reorganization of the University that also led to the addition of a dean of students. Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .
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“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” TORI AMOS AMERICAN MUSICIAN
Reps want Petraeus answers BY KIMBERLY DOZIER, ANNE FLAHERTY AND ADAM GOLDMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Members of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer, questioning when the retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren’t told sooner. “We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt,” said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee. The FBI was investigating harassing emails sent by Petraeus biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell to a second woman. That probe of Broadwell’s emails revealed the affair between Broadwell and Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other intelligence officials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign. A senior U.S. military official identified the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Fla., and serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military’s Central Command and Special Operations Command are located. Staffers for Petraeus said Kelley and her husband were regular guests at events he held at Central Command headquarters. In a statement Sunday evening, Kelley and her husband, Scott, said: “We and our family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for over five years. We respect his and his family’s privacy and want the same for us and our three children.” A U.S. official said the coalition countries represented at Central Command gave Kelley an appreciation certificate on which she was referred to as an “honorary ambassador” to the coalition, but she has no official status and is not employed by the U.S. government.
Healing the divisions in postelection America BY PAULINE ARRILLAGA ASSOCIATED PRESS APPOMATTOX, Va. — Baine’s Books sits in the heart of this historic village, a Main Street institution where townspeople gather for coffee and conversation and, every Thursday after sundown, an open mic night that draws performers from near and far with guitars and banjos in hand, bluegrass and blues on their lips. Talk of church and school, and most certainly music, almost always takes precedence at Baine’s. But we’ve stopped in at election time, and Lib Elder is at a corner table tucking into a chicken pot pie, an Obama-Biden button pinned to her blouse right next to her heart.
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U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.” The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, said Kelley is known to drop the “honorary” part and refer to herself as an ambassador. The military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, said Kelley had received harassing emails from Broadwell, which led the FBI to examine her email account and eventually discover her relationship with Petraeus. A former associate of Petraeus confirmed the target of the emails was Kelley, but said there was no affair between the two, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the retired general’s private life. The associate, who has been in touch with
Petraeus since his resignation, says Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and wife, Holly. Attempts to reach Kelley were not immediately successful. Broadwell did not return phone calls or emails. Petraeus resigned while lawmakers still had questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Lawmakers said it’s possible that Petraeus will still be asked to appear on Capitol Hill to testify about what he knew about the U.S. response to that incident. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the circumstances of the FBI probe smacked of a cover-up by the White House.
It’s not that people hate the election … They just hate everybody screaming all the time. LIB ELDER Appomattox resident She knows without asking why a reporter has come to this corner of southern Virginia to write about an election that divided America among so many lines. Red or blue. Left or right. Big government or small. Tea party or Occupy. Ninety-nine percent or 1. Employed or out-of-work. Black or white or brown. This is, after all, “‘where our nation reunited,’” said Elder, her voice tinged with slight sarcasm as she quotes the slogan adorning every sign into the town where, on Palm Sunday 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War. It’s a nice idea, that a place could symbolize peace and harmony and, even, healing after what was inarguably the
most divisive time in our nation’s history. It’s just not something that Elder finds particularly authentic after another cutthroat election year across these “united” states. The acrimony is still too fresh and far too raw. There was the family member, related by marriage, who accused Elder of “hating” her country because she had sent him a fundraising email for Barack Obama; Elder mistakenly believed he was a Democrat. And the white teenagers at the Appomattox Railroad Festival who saw her Obama button and jeered: “You know he’s black, don’t you?” Peace and harmony? Elder, for one, doesn’t see them. Not in Appomattox. Not in America. Not even now that Election 2012 is behind us at last. “I think we are much more divided,” said Elder, who heard similar concerns when she made get-out-the-vote calls during the campaign. “It’s not that people hate the election. … They just hate everybody screaming all the time. It’s harder to hear anything, the louder you get.” And these days, she added: “Everybody’s voice is louder.” It’s a familiar election-year narrative, that Americans — not just the candidates, not just the parties, not just the pundits who shriek at us from partisan programming — but everyday Americans themselves are divided by an everwidening gulf. We see it in the narrow margin separating winner from loser on Tuesday. Exit polling also seems only to reaffirm these chasms. On one side we have most women, the poor, people of color, urbanites, young voters and those who worship infrequently. On the other we have most men, those who are rich and white, rural Americans, senior citizens and those who worship regularly. Said Republican strategist and CNN commentator Alex Castellanos as he visibly agonized over this on election night: The country, “right now, it is split into pieces.”
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The names above, engraved on the walls of Woolsey Hall, are Yale students and faculty who died in service to their country.
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“We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.” GEORGIOS A. PAPANDREOU FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE
Greece passes 2013 budget
Israel drawn into Syria fighting BY JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras speaks at the Parliament meeting in which lawmakers voted on the country’s 2013 budget. BY DEMETRIS NELLAS AND ELENA BECATOROS ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, Greece — Greek lawmakers approved the country’s 2013 austerity budget early Monday, an essential step in Greece’s efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment without which the country will go bankrupt. The budget passed by a 167–128 vote in the 300-member Parliament. It came days after a separate bill of deep spending cuts and tax hikes for the next two years squeaked through with a narrow majority following severe disagreements among the three parties in the governing coalition. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged that the spending cuts will be the last Greeks have to endure. “Just four days ago, we voted the most sweeping reforms ever in Greece,” he said. “The sacrifices [in the earlier bill and the budget] will be the last. Provided, of course, we implement all we have legislated.” “Greece has done what it was asked to do and now is the time for the creditors
to make good on their commitments,” he stressed. Athens says that with the passage of the two bills, the next loan installment, worth 31.5 billion euros (about $40 billion), should be disbursed. Without it, the government has said it will run out of cash on Friday, when 5 billion euros ($6.35 billion) worth of treasury bills mature. Finance ministers from the 17-nation eurozone are meeting in Brussels later Monday, with Greece high on the agenda. However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has indicated it is unlikely that the ministers will decide on the disbursement at that meeting. “We all … want to help Greece, but we won’t be put under pressure,” Schaeuble told the weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Schaeuble said the so-called troika of debt inspectors likely won’t deliver their report on Greece’s reform program by Monday. The creditors also want to see what the debt inspectors have to say about Greece’s debt sustainability. But speaking minutes before the vote,
Samaras pledged the bailout funds would be disbursed “on time.” Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras also stressed the precariousness of Greece’s cash reserves, with the treasury bills due on Friday. “Without the help of the European Central Bank, the refunding of these treasury bills from the banking system will lead the private sector to complete suffocation,” Stournaras said. Disbursement of the next installment is essential “because the state’s available funds are marginal, although better than expected because the 2012 budget is being executed better than expected,” he said, adding that the funds are needed to pay salaries and pensions, as well as for the import of medicines, fuel and food. Hours before the vote, 15,000 people converged outside Parliament in a peaceful demonstration. The crowd was far smaller than the 80,000-strong crowd which protested last Wednesday’s austerity bill vote. That demonstration degenerated into violent clashes between riot police and hundreds of protesters.
JERUSALEM — Israel was drawn into the fighting in neighboring Syria for the first time Sunday, firing warning shots across the border after an errant mortar shell landed near an Israeli military installation in the Golan Heights. While Israel appeared eager to calm the situation, its response was a potent reminder of how easily the Syrian civil war — already spilling across borders with Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan — could explode into a wider regional conflagration. Israeli officials threatened even tougher retaliation if attacks persist. They have feared that the instability in Syria over the past 19 months could spill across the border into Israel, particularly as President Bashar Assad’s grip on power grows increasingly precarious. Israel has little love for Assad, who has provided refuge and support to Israel’s bitterest enemies through the years. But the Syrian leader — and his father before him — have kept the frontier quiet for nearly four decades, providing a rare source of stability in the volatile region. The Israeli military said the mortar fire caused no injuries or damage at the post in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and then annexed. In recent weeks, incidents of errant fire from Syria have multiplied, leading Israel to warn that it holds Syria responsible. Israeli officials believe most of the fire has come from Syrian government forces, although they think it has been inadvertent and not been aimed at Israel. After responding to Sunday’s mortar strike, the Israeli military moved quickly to defuse tensions. “We understand this was a mis-
take and was not meant to target Israel, and then that is why we fired a warning shot in retaliation,” said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman. Defense officials said an anti-tank missile was fired, and there were no reports of casualties in Syria. The Israeli military also said it filed a complaint through United Nations forces operating in the area, stating that “fire emanating from Syria into Israel will not be tolerated and shall be responded to with severity.”
Additional shelling into Israel from Syria will elicit a tougher response, exacting a higher price from Syria. EHUD BARAK Defense minister, Israel Israeli defense officials said the incident was not considered a serious military threat, but Israel felt the need to respond in order to set clear limits for the Syrians. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israeli defense forces have been instructed “to prevent the battles from spilling over into our territory.” “Additional shelling into Israel from Syria will elicit a tougher response, exacting a higher price from Syria,” Barak said. Nineteen months of fighting and the mounting chaos engulfing the Assad regime have already shaken the region, spilling into Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. In new violence Sunday, Syrian army forces backed by helicopter gunships and artillery attacked a border area with Turkey after rebels captured a crossing point, activists said.
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NCAA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS FOUR IVY LEAGUE TEAMS QUALIFY After regional races this weekend, two men’s and two women’s Ivy teams have qualified for the NCAA Championship. Columbia and Princeton clinched spots for the men, while Cornell and Harvard women will represent the Ivies at the race in Louisville, Ky, on Nov. 17.
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HARVARD HOCKEY PLAYERS COMPETE ABROAD PART OF WINNING USA TEAM Over the weekend, two current members of the Harvard women’s hockey team, Lyndsey Fry and Michelle Picard, competed as members of the U.S. national squad in the Four Nations Cup held in Vantaa, Finland. Team USA won the cup for the second straight time.
“It’s not appropriate to comment about the referee. Even though he sucked.” BRIAN TOMPKINS HEAD COACH, MEN’S SOCCER YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
VOLLEYBALL
ELIS ACHIEVE PERFECTION
THE ELIS ONLY NEEDED 131 MINUTES TO WIN TWICE AND COMPLETE AN UNDEFEATED 14–0 IVY LEAGUE SEASON. PAGE B3
HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Kendall Polan ’14 recorded a match-high 14 kills on .667 hitting to lead Yale to its fastest victory since at least 2006.
Yale splits at home BY LINDSEY UNIAT AND ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Tigers claw their way past Bulldogs
After a close 1–0 loss to Clarkson on Friday night, the Bulldogs bounced back to top nationallyranked No. 13 St. Lawrence 4–2 in their first home weekend of the season.
M. HOCKEY Yale (3–2–1, 2–2 ECAC) fell to Clarkson (1–4–4, 1–0–1 ECAC) after 57 minutes of tied 0–0 play. With just two and a half minutes left in the third period, the Golden Knights tipped the puck past Bulldogs goalie Jeff Malcolm ’13 to take the lead and ultimately the game. Malcolm played a strong game with 27 saves, but the Blue and White were outshot 28–22. “We turned the puck over way too often [on Friday] and in the end that’s what cost us,” head coach Keith Allain said. “We played well but not well enough.” Allain said turnovers were the main difference between Saturday’s high tempo win and Friday’s loss. When the Bulldogs lost control of the puck in the neutral zone late in the third period, Clarkson drove in on a two-onone opportunity and fired a shot off Malcolm’s pad. The Golden Knights’ Jarrett Burton picked up the rebound and popped it past Malcolm’s stick. The Bulldogs may have lacked momentum on Friday, but they
ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Henry Furman ’14 stepped in at quarterback for the Bulldogs on Saturday, going 18-for-28 on passing with 184 yards and a touchdown .
MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Kenny Agostino ’14 scored his fourth goal of the season 19 minutes into the first period against St. Lawrence on Saturday. stormed the ice on Saturday night with plenty of hits, an eagerly competitive mentality and poised goal tending, ultimately beating St. Lawrence (5–2–1, 0–1–1 ECAC) by two points. “We came out with intensity
and obviously a little chip on our shoulder after [Friday] night,” forward Kenny Agostino ’14 said. That chip on their shoulders was enough to get the Bulldogs
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SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B2
BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER One play can change a game.
FOOTBALL The Elis’ losing streak reached three games as Yale (2–7, 1–5 Ivy) gave back an early lead to lose 29–7 to Princeton (5–4, 4–2 Ivy) at the Yale Bowl on Saturday. With little over a minute remaining until halftime, however, the Bulldogs looked poised
to take a lead and the momentum into the break. Then on second and goal from Princeton’s 5-yard line, head coach Tony Reno called for a trick play in which running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 passed across the field to quarterback Henry Furman ’14 — but the ball never reached Furman. Instead, Princeton cornerback Trocon Davis leapt in front of Furman on the goal line and raced 100 yards the other way to give Princeton a 14–7 edge. The Tigers never looked back after SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
NUMBER OF KILLS MADE BY KENDALL POLAN ’14 FOR THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM AGAINST DARTMOUTH. The 14 kills were a match-high and second-best for Polan on the season. The setter’s contributions helped lead the Bulldogs to a victory and their first undefeated (14–0) Ivy season.
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SPORTS
Condensation wreaks havoc with aircraft carrier games After the success of last year’s Carrier Classic college basketball game held on the USS Carl Vinson, teams across the nation clamored to be part of future aircraft carrier games. However, the unique idea may have come to an abrupt end, as one game was cancelled, another ended at halftime and a third match was postponed this weekend after court conditions on carriers became too dangerous for play.
Elis drop finale, say goodbye to seniors BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s soccer team was unable to extend its three-game undefeated streak against Princeton on Saturday in the final game of five seniors’ Yale careers.
M. SOCCER Before this weekend’s game, the Elis (4–8–5, 1–3–3 Ivy) recognized slow starts as a primary weakness. The Bulldogs allowed their opponents to score the first goal in each of their previous three games before roaring back to earn points in the standings with two draws and a win. Yet the Bulldogs were unable to score first for a fourth straight contest, falling 1–0 to the Tigers (8–6–2, 4–1–2 Ivy) at Reese Stadium in a hard-fought, contentious season finale. With the defeat, the Elis finished sixth in the Ivy League this season. “It was a good showing for Yale in the sense that [the team] never gave up, even in these past three weeks when for the league-wise we weren’t playing for a spot in the championship,” captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 said. “We still played hard and fought to the last minute so I’m proud of [the team] for that.” The opening 33 minutes of play lacked much action, as neither team garnered any dangerous scoring opportunities from the outset. In the 34th minute, however, Princeton midfielder Myles McGinley served a ball into the Yale penalty area from the right side of the end line. Midfielder Matt Sanner, the team’s second-leading goal scorer, charged in from the weak side and, finding himself unmarked, headed the ball to the right corner of the Eli net. Thalman dove to get a hand on the shot, but he did not deflect the ball enough to keep it out of the goal, and the Tigers took a 1–0 lead. The first half expired without the Bulldogs recording a single shot. “We weren’t very sharp. Certainly in the first half I thought we were a little bit slow moving the ball,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “We showed a bit more energy and a bit more determination in the second half.” The Elis came out of halftime with more intensity, creating two significant scoring chances within the period’s first 10 minutes. In the 48th minute, forward
Jenner Fox ’14 served a cross into the Tiger penalty area to the feet of defenseman Milan Tica ’13, who received the ball with Princeton goalkeeper Seth MacMillan out of position. But Tica could not effectively corral the pass and managed only a weak shot that MacMillan handled easily. Forward Keith Bond ’16 crossed a nearly identical ball to Fox only six minutes later, but Fox was also unable to han-
We still played hard and fought to the last minute. BOBBY THALMAN ’13 Captain and goalkeeper, men’s soccer team dle the pass well enough to level a dangerous shot. The best opportunity for the Bulldogs occurred in the final minutes of the match. Forward Avery Schwartz ’16 broke though the Tiger defense in the 86th minute and had an open path to the goal before appearing to be tripped by a Princeton defender; the referee did not signal for a penalty, and play continued. The primary official took criticism from coaches and players from both sides throughout the evening and seemed to lose control of the game’s last 10 minutes as players nearly came to blows on multiple occasions. “It’s not appropriate to comment about the referee,” Tompkins said. “Even though he sucked.” With the conclusion of the season, the squad said goodbye to five seniors: Thalman, Tica, defender Andy Hackbarth ’13, midfielder Frank Shaw ’13 and midfielder Tony Wilbar ’13. The players were honored for their contributions to the program before the game. “We’ll look back on this season and we’ll remember the senior leadership,” defender Nick Alers ’14 said. “The work we put in this year is definitely going to go a long way to helping us next year.” Cornell clinched the Ivy League title on Saturday with a 1–0 victory at Columbia. The Big Red finished the season with a conference-leading 18 points in the standings. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .
ANNELISA LEINBACH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Bobby Thalman ’13 played all 90 minutes in his final game, ending his season with only 0.96 goals allowed per game on average.
Bulldogs take down No. 13 St. Lawrence
MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Yale stormed the ice on Saturday night with plenty of hits, and ultimately beat No. 13 St. Lawrence by two points. M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 moving early. While St. Lawrence controlled the puck for the first few minutes of the game, gaining a quick 10–4 shot advantage over the Elis, Yale quickly battled back and ended the period down just 10 shots to 13. With just over a minute left in the first period, Nicholas Weberg ’15 drove the puck wide and circled behind the net. He then hit defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 who fired a low-wrist shot between the legs of several Saints defenders. Agostino was in front to pick up the rebound and slide it around Saints goalkeeper Matt
Weninger to give Yale a 1–0 lead at the end of the first. Second period play heated up as both teams dolled out open ice and along the boards hits, but Yale fought through the physical play and outshot the Saints 15 to 9 in the period. The Bulldogs scored their second goal when forward and team captain Andrew Miller ’13 drove the puck wide and then slowed down to create space between the tops of the circles and the blue line. He then moved to the hole he created in front of the Saints’ defensemen and ripped a wrist shot over Weninger’s shoulder for his first goal of the season. Just two min-
utes later, however, the Saints broke up Yale’s power play breakout attempt and snuck a shorthanded goal past Malcolm to cut Yale’s lead back to one. The Bulldogs maintained their dominance after the second period to clinch the win. Just 4 ½ minutes in, Trent Ruffolo ’15 picked up a rebound from a wrap around attempt by Clinton Bourbonais ’14 and slid it past Weninger to replenish the Bulldogs’ two-goal lead. With just over 13 minutes left to play, Miller was hit from behind while battling for a puck along the boards. St. Lawrence’s Jeremy Wick was sent to the box
for boarding and Miller skated off the ice briefly but refused to miss a shift. Less than a minute later on the ensuing power play, Miller got his chance for retribution as defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 set Miller up for a slap shot that went past the Saints’ goalie to give the Elis a comfortable three-goal lead. “The hit didn’t feel great,” Miller said. “But the goal felt great.” Five minutes later St. Lawrence managed to get one past Malcolm, but by then it was too late for the Saints to even the scoreboard.
Allain said he has wanted Miller to take more of a scoring role on the team, and the team captain managed to do just that on Saturday, scoring his first two goals of the season. “We want him to shoot more and hit the net more,” Allain said. “We saw that tonight.” The Bulldogs’ first weekend of games at Ingalls Rink drew a large crowd of supporters, including Provost and President-elect Peter Salovey, who said that he and his wife try to make it to many Yale hockey games. “[Yale] played three strong periods of hockey,” Salovey said. “St. Lawrence is a nationally
ranked team and we beat them solidly. That bodes well for the rest of the season.” St. Lawrence currently has the top scorer in the NCAA on its roster: Kyle Flanagan. He has put up six goals and nine assists in just seven games to lead all of NCAA Div. I scoring. In two weeks, the Bulldogs are set to travel to the Centennial State where they will take on Denver and Colorado College in two non-conference games. Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Elis win both in straight sets
Minutes of football played in an NFL tie game
After both the San Francisco 49ers and St. Louis Rams failed to score in a 15-minute overtime period on Sunday, the game ended in a rare 24–24 tie. Only four other ties have occurred since 1989, the last coming in 2008. Ties are not possible in NCAA college football and most high school leagues.
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OVERALL
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Penn
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4
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THIS WEEK
Princeton 29, Yale 7
Sat. Yale at Harvard, 12:00 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL IVY
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The Bulldogs outscored Harvard and Dartmouth by a combined score of 150–80 over the weekend. BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team wanted to make history, and they wanted to do it as quickly as possible.
VOLLEYBALL In just two hours and 11 minutes of total play, the Bulldogs (18– 5, 14–0 Ivy) swept Harvard and Dartmouth 3–0 to become just the second team to go undefeated in Ivy League play since the conference converted to a 14-match schedule in 2001. The two victories extended Yale’s win streak to 15 matches, a run dating back to a sweep of Albany on Sept. 19. “We have really been playing with confidence,” setter Kendall Polan ’14 said. “We all give 100 percent and nobody on the team is ever slacking. It’s really nice to play with a group of girls who all have a common passion for the game, and it’s been a really fun year.” The Bulldogs finish the season as Ivy League champions for the fourth time in the last five seasons and will head to the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. Yale steamrolled the opposi-
tion en route to the title, losing just six sets out of 48 played in total and outhitting their opponents .237 to .152 overall. The Elis were particularly dominant this weekend and outscored Harvard (10–16, 7–7) and Dartmouth (2–22, 1–13) by a combined score of 150–80.
This year, we could tell we were representing the school and bringing something back for Yale. GABBY BIRD-VOGEL ’15 Outside hitter, volleyball team But the weekend did not get off to a good start. Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16, who is currently seventh in the conference in hitting percentage and sixth in service aces per set, suffered a sprained ankle during Thursday’s practice and could not play against Harvard or Dartmouth. Head coach Erin Appleman said that although Ebner will be out about a week, the team adjusted well without her. “[McHaney Carter ’14] has
been starting for us on and off so it hasn’t really been that big of an adjustment,” Appleman said. “We have a lot of people that can go in and play a lot of minutes and do a good job. Mac hit unbelievably tonight and did a fantastic job.” On Friday night, outside hitter Mollie Rogers ’15 continued her hot play from last weekend to lead the Bulldogs to a victory. She logged 13 kills on just 25 attempts and chipped in 13 digs defensively. The Crimson only managed to compete in the opening set of the match. Although they fell into an early 4–0 hole, Harvard managed to pull within 21–19 following a kill from outside hitter Taylor Docter. But the Bulldogs responded with four straight points, capped off with a kill from Carter, to take a 25–19 victory. Following consecutive sets in which they converted 14–4 leads to 25–10 victories, the Bulldogs received the Ivy League championship trophy in front of the home crowd. Yale had clinched the title the prior weekend with a win over Princeton on Nov. 3. “Getting the trophy on Friday and having all of our alumni there was special for the program,” outside hitter Gabby Bird-Vogel ’15 said. “It was a lot different than
last year when we received it at Harvard. This year, we could tell we were representing the school and bringing something back for Yale.” On Saturday night the Bulldogs matched the 2007 Princeton Tigers as the only team ever to go undefeated in Ivy League play since 2001 with another 3–0 win, this time against Dartmouth. As the team’s last home date of the season, the match was preceded by a brief ceremony to honor the team’s lone senior, captain Haley Wessels ’13. Wessels went on to record 10 kills and two solo blocks to hold down the middle for Yale. Polan had one of her most efficient matches of the season for the Bulldogs as well. She recorded a match-high 14 kills on .667 hitting to go along with a match-high 18 assists to lead Yale to its fastest victory since at least 2006, with a match time of just one hour and 10 minutes. The Bulldogs will have a few weeks off until the NCAA tournament begins. The date and the location of their first-round match will be announced Sunday, Nov. 25.
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W L
%
1
Yale
14
0
1.000
18
5
0.783
2
Columbia
9
5
0.643
14
9
0.609
Princeton
9
5
0.643
12
12
0.500
4
Penn
8
6
0.571
13
12
0.520
5
Harvard
7
7
0.500
10
16
0.385
6
Cornell
5
9
0.357
9
16
0.360
7
Brown
3
11
0.214
7
17
0.292
8
Dartmouth
1
13
0.071
2
22
0.083
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
Fri. Yale 3, Harvard 0 Sat. Yale 3, Dartmouth 0
NONE NCAA opening rounds Nov. 29 - Dec. 1
MEN’S SOCCER IVY
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L D %
W L
D %
1
Cornell
6
1
0
0.857
15
1
0
0.938
2
Dartmouth
5
2
0
0.714
9
7
0
0.562
Brown
4
1
2
0.714
12
2
3
0.794
Princeton
4
1
2
0.714
8
6
2
0.562
5
Columbia
2
3
2
0.429
4
8
4
0.375
6
Yale
1
3
3
0.357
4
8
5
0.382
7
Penn
1
6
0
0.143
3
13
0
0.188
8
Harvard
0
6
1
0.071
3
11
3
0.265
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
Sat. Princeton 1, Yale 0
Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Turnovers hurt Bulldogs FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 Davis made the longest interception return in the 98-year history of the Yale Bowl. “It definitely got us going,” Tiger quarterback Quinn Epperly said. “It was a huge relief for me after throwing the [interception that led to Yale’s drive] … that really got our momentum going,
and we just took it from there.” Playing without the top three quarterbacks on their depth chart and with star running back Tyler Varga ’15 standing on the sidelines with a leg contusion, the Bulldogs were still able to manage 348 yards of offense. But three of Yale’s Ivy Leagueleading 26 turnovers kept the Elis from capitalizing on their offen-
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Cameron Sandquist ’14 led all Yale receivers with nine receptions for 103 yards for an average of 11.4 yards per catch.
sive production. All three of these turnovers came within 30 yards of Princeton’s end zone, including two on the goal line. “The tale of the game was the turnovers in the red zone for us,” Reno said. “We gave the ball back to them … Those three opportunities in the red zone you’ve got to cash in and get points.” Reno added that despite the outcome of the running back pass play that led to the interception, he would make the same call again. In addition to his earlier interception, Cargill fumbled while trying to stretch the ball into the end zone with 5:23 remaining in the third quarter. The Tigers recovered Cargill’s second fumble of the game in the end zone to end Yale’s scoring threat. The Elis struck first on their second drive of the game in the first quarter. Furman threaded the ball down the middle of the field to hit wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 in stride for a 14-yard touchdown pass that put Yale up 7–0. The Tigers appeared to tie the score early in the second quarter, but wide receiver Roman Wilson’s touchdown catch was called back because of offensive pass interference. Defensive back Collin Bibb ’13 then ended Princeton’s drive with an interception in the end zone on the next play. Wilson would get into the end zone to tie the game at 7–7 on Princeton’s next drive by running around the right edge untouched from 1 yard out. Epperly dominated for the Tigers in the second half. He scored on a 1-yard run at 11:23 in the third quarter to push the Tigers lead to 13. A fumbled hold on the extra point actually worked in favor of the Tigers, as kicker Nolan Bieck was able to dive over the end line for a two-point conversion to make the score 22–7. “That was the first time the ball has ever been in my hands,” Bieck said.
Epperly then found wide receiver Matt Costello with a 9-yard fade to the back right of the end zone to put the game out of reach at 29–7 with 4:23 to go in the fourth quarter. Furman matched the Tigers’ quarterback tandem of Epperly and Connor Michelsen. Having started the season as a wide receiver, Furman went 18–28 on the day for 184 passing yards and a touchdown. Furman credited his experience under center last year with easing the transition back to quarterback. “It’s only been about six months since I stopped being a quarterback,” Furman said. “That wasn’t that bad of a transition … the offense is complicated but it’s also pretty fun to run.” Cargill added 101 yards on the ground for the Elis. Bibb led the defense with seven solo tackles and two interceptions. Epperly paced the Tigers with 91 rushing yards in addition to going 5–10 for 66 yards through the air with one touchdown and one interception. Varga had been the primary rusher for the Elis for most of the season and saw time as quarterback against Columbia and Brown. Without any of their top three quarterbacks, the Bulldogs have heavily favored the run in their past two games. Princeton head coach Bob Surace said he was caught off guard at the beginning of the game when Yale came out in a traditional formation. “We did not know that the running back wasn’t going to play,” Surace said. “We prepared all week for the wild cat and they came out and spread [their formation] … They jumped us.” Yale travels to Cambridge next Saturday to play Harvard for the 129th time. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
IVY 1
4
6
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L
%
Brown
0
0
0.000 1
0
1.000
Dartmouth
0
0
0.000 1
0
1.000
Princeton
0
0
0.000 1
0
1.000
Cornell
0
0
0.000 1
1
0.500
Harvard
0
0
0.000 1
1
0.500
Penn
0
0
0.000 0
1
0.000
Yale
0
0
0.000 0
1
0.000
Columbia
0
0
0.000 0
2
0.000
LAST WEEK
W L
%
THIS WEEK Wed. Yale vs. New Hampshire, 7:00 p.m.
Sat. Holy Cross 87, Yale 71
MEN’S HOCKEY ECAC
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L D %
W L D %
Dartmouth
4
0
0
1.000
5
0
1
0.917
Princeton
2
0
0
1.000
2
2
0
0.500
Harvard
2
2
0
0.500
3
2
0
0.600
Yale
2
2
0
0.500
3
2
1
0.583
5
Cornell
1
2
1
0.375
3
2
1
0.583
6
Brown
0
2
2
0.250
1
3
2
0.333
1 3
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
Fri. Clarkson 1, Yale 0
NONE
WOMEN’S HOCKEY ECAC 1
OVERALL
SCHOOL
W L D %
W L D %
Harvard
4
0
0
1.000
4
0
0
1.000
Cornell
4
0
0
1.000
6
1
0
0.857
3
Dartmouth
3
1
0
0.750
4
1
0
0.800
4
Princeton
1
3
2
0.333
3
3
2
0.500
5
Brown
1
5
0
0.167
1
5
0
0.167
Yale
1
5
0
0.167
1
7
0
0.125
LAST WEEK
THIS WEEK
Fri. Clarkson 4, Yale 1 Sat. St. Lawrence 5, Yale 1
Fri. Yale vs. Mercyhurst, 7:00 p.m. Sat. Yale vs. Mercyhurst, 2:00 p.m.
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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
SPORTS
“The owners made it clear that there is no give with respect to any of their proposals.” DONALD FEHR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NHL PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATION, SPEAKING ABOUT NEGOTATIONS TO END THE NHL LOCKOUT
Elis outlasted by Pioneers in OT BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER It is not how you start, but how you finish.
M. BASKETBALL
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Guard Austin Morgan posted a career-high 28 points on six of 11 shooting from beyond the arc in Yale’s 85–82 overtime loss to Sacred Heart.
The Elis (0–1, 0–0 Ivy) learned that lesson the hard way as they blew a 24-point lead to Sacred Heart (1–0, 0–0 Northeast) on Saturday before falling 85–82 in overtime. A balanced offensive effort helped the Elis take a 44–28 lead over the Pioneers into halftime. Eight Elis scored during the first half and the Bulldogs registered assists on 11 of their 14 baskets before the break. “Everyone was looking for the open man,” guard Austin Morgan ’13 said. “That led to an efficient offense.” The lead reached its apex with 14:51 remaining in the second half when guard Michael Grace’s ’13 layup gave Yale a 61–37 advantage. But the Pioneers responded with an 11–0 run over the next 3:44 until Morgan ended the run with a threepointer. Morgan led the Elis with an impressive display from beyond the arc. He finished 6–11 from three on his way to a careerhigh 28 points. In his first collegiate game, forward Justin Sears ’16 added 19 points and seven rebounds for the Bulldogs. Sacred Heart ended the game on a 28–12 run, forcing overtime on senior guard Shane Gibson’s layup with eight seconds on the clock. The Bulldogs had left the door open for Gibson’s heroics when Morgan missed a free throw with 16 seconds left. “They were smart and tried to push the tempo,” guard Jesse Pritchard ’14 said. “We got
caught up and did not use the clock and make them work on defense.” Morgan had made his first eight free throws of the game before that miss. He finished fifth in the nation last year with a .900 free throw percentage. The Elis scored the first five points of the extra period, but the Pioneers scored the final eight and guard Jesse Pritchard’s wild three at the buzzer banged off the rim to end the Connecticut Six tournament with a disappointing loss for Yale. “We took our foot off the gas,” Sears said. “We got content with our lead and let them back into the game.” The Pioneers comeback was led by Gibson. He scored a game-high 29 points, with 22 of those coming after the break. Last year Gibson finished fourth in the nation with 22 points per game and he was a preseason all-Northeast Conference firstteam pick. The Elis were also hurt on the boards, and Sacred Heart ended the game with a 41–29 rebounding advantage. Morgan said that the Pioneers fought harder for rebounds when they were losing. “Down 24, they got aggressive,” Morgan said. “They got to all of the rebounds they needed to.” He added that the game was a learning experience for the young Yale team and that they need to play well for the full 40 minutes, not just the first 30. Yale returns to the court tomorrow at St. Joseph’s (0–0, 0–0 A10) in Philadelphia, Pa. as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
Elis fall in season opener BY SARAH ONORATO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale women’s basketball dropped its season opener 71–87 Friday at Holy Cross, despite an 18-point performance from guard Nyasha Sarju ’16.
W. BASKETBALL “Nyasha has been a steady performer in practice, so her good first game was no surprise. She has a great feel for the game,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said. Sarju’s 18 points led the Bulldog offense, while guard Sarah Halejian ’15 chipped in 15 points and four assists. Center Zenab Keita ’13 and guard Janna Graf ’14 contributed seven rebounds each and 12 and 11 points, respectively, but they could not overcome an experienced Holy Cross team. Although Yale trailed by only six at the half, Crusaders (1–0) broke the game open in the second half, leading 63–48 at the 11:38 mark. The Crusaders scored 23 points off of Yale turnovers and an additional 14 fast break points in the game.
Holy Cross came out hungrier than we did and overall just had a lot more energy. SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard, women’s basketball team “Holy Cross came out hungrier than we did and overall just had a lot more energy. They did a good job of pushing the ball in transition and we struggled against their zone defense,” Halejian said. “As a young team, we definitely took some lessons from their veteran group.” Holy Cross dominated in nearly every offensive category, including a 48 percent shooting percentage from the field. The Crusaders outscored the Elis 48–20 in the paint and fought for 22 second-chance points compared to 14 for the Bulldogs. Bright spots for Yale included a 40.7 percent three-point percentage, helped by four threepointers from Sarju (4-for-8) and two from Graf. Halejian
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Center Zenab Keita ’13 and guard Janna Graf ’14 contributed seven rebounds each and 12 and 11 points, respectively. said despite being at a size disadvantage compared to Holy Cross, the Elis battled hard on the boards. The Elis pulled down 37 rebounds to nearly match the Crusaders’ 39. “It would be awful if we lost to them and knew that there was nothing more we could have done, that we played our best game and weren’t good enough,”
Keita said. “But that was not the case at all. We know that we are much better than that and can only go up from here.” The biggest problems for the Bulldogs proved to be transition defense and turnovers. The Elis let up 14 fast break points while scoring none, and turned the ball over 21 times. “The turnovers came from
struggling with our poise,” Gobrecht said. “Turnovers were probably the biggest disappointment in our game because they gave Holy Cross so many opportunities for easy scores. Plus, that is supposed to be our game.” The win was the first for the Crusaders in the last five meetings between the two teams.
The Bulldogs will take the court again this Wednesday against the University of New Hampshire. Keita said that the Bulldogs are trying hard to prepare for their home-opener. “We are working on building a more competitive practice atmosphere that will encourage a greater sense of urgency and persistence, allowing us to be
more tenacious and assertive on offense and defense,” Keita said. “We just have to go harder, and we are committed to having that start in practice.” Yale will tip off against the Wildcats at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Contact SARAH ONORATO at sarah.onoratot@yale.edu .