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Richard Levin was seen with CNN host and former Yale Corporation Trustee Fareed Zakaria ’86 last night at a Yale event at Per Se restaurant in New York City. No word on Levin’s long-term plans after Yale, but could we start seeing his face on CNN anytime soon? We can only speculate.

History repeating itself. Ten

New Haven police officers are seeking a court injunction to block the city from promoting sergeants based off a recently administered test. The legal action is reminiscent of Ricci v. DeStefano, a 2009 Supreme Court case in which 20 firefighters filed a reverse discrimination lawsuit against New Haven. The Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

Where fun goes to die.

Harvard students have expressed confusion over the college’s updated alcohol policies, which ban competitive “activities that promote high-risk drinking.”

Does beer pong count?

Do your part. The Yale School

of Art is holding a silent auction to raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

Officials have asked faculty and graduate students in the school to donate a piece of their work for an upcoming auction. All proceeds will be donated to charity to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways and Staten Island in New York, and those in the creative arts community.

No money, mo’ problems.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy told the Appropriations Committee yesterday that the state is running a $365 million deficit. Medicaid accounted for about $260 million of the shortfall.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1982 A new committee chaired by professor Donald Kagan evaluates and aims to define the residential college system.

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Former Harvard president discusses the looming ‘fiscal cliff’

‘EUROCENTRIC’ MODEL CHALLENGED

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Elm City native declared his candidacy for New Haven mayor on Tuesday, becoming the second person — after incumbent Mayor John DeStefano Jr. — to make his candidacy official so far. A 55-year-old plumber, Sundiata Keitazulu is running on a platform of poverty alleviation and increased policing for his hometown of Newhallville.

to hear more comments of that nature after a new Facebook page, “Yale Compliments,” launched earlier this week.

As of Wednesday night, the Facebook page already had more than 300 friends and delivered more than a dozen compliments. Compliments ranged from the heartfelt to the lighthearted, with people praising each other’s writing skills, clothes and even moustaches.

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As of Wednesday night, the Freshman College Council, which makes the official Harvard-Yale shirts each year to fund Freshman Screw and other freshman activities, had sold 430 of the 600 shirts they ordered. FCC Chair William Sadock ’16 said students were so enthusiastic about the shirts last year that the council had to place a second T-shirt order and sold a total of 850 shirts. Maia Eliscovich ’16, a member of the FCC, said the group did not sell as many shirts on the first night as it had anticipated. Eliscovich said she attributes this year’s SEE TICKET SALES PAGE 6

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BY COLLEEN FLYNN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While tickets for the HarvardYale football game sold out in a matter of days the last two times it was held in Cambridge, 250 student tickets were left unsold this year by the time sales ended Wednesday.

Of the roughly 3,100 tickets Harvard allotted to Yale students this year, 2,550 were purchased by students and an additional 300 for students’ guests, said Jeremy Makins, associate athletic director of Ticket and Rink Operations at Yale Athletics. In 2008 and 2010, the last two times Harvard hosted the game, the

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Yale ticket office sold out their allotted student tickets — roughly 2,750 and 3,100, respectively — within five days of going on sale, Makins said.

“It hasn’t been a rush like normal,” said Andrew Breault, assistant at the ticket office, adding that he has not seen lines snaking out the door of the Ray Tompkins House, where tickets are sold, as there have been in past years.

Student groups selling HarvardYale apparel in Commons Rotunda, on Cross Campus and in residential college dining halls have felt a similar decrease in sales this year compared to last year.

Wooster square to see facelift

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s historical Wooster Square district, known for its cherry blossom trees and proximity to delectible pizzas and canolies on Wooster Street, is about to get a facelift.

The Elm City plans to sell four parking lots in Wooster Square to convert them to four small family homes. Erik Johnson, the executive director of the Liveable City Initiative, said these parking spaces are highly underutilized, as less than a dozen cars park there each day.

After the city receives bids on Nov. 27 for the lots, a five-person committee, including aldermen, City Hall staff and Wooster Square residents, will review the bids and present Johnson and the Liveable City Initiative with a recommendation.

“These parking lots are not well-used right now,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said. “Selling these lots will produce revenue for the city and will help provide housing for families in a beautiful historic area.”

The development marks a major neighborhood change in the minds of locals. Charlie Murphy, a resident of the district and member of the historic Wooster Square Association, said he cannot remember any new construction in the neighborhood since 1970.

Johnson said the highest bidder will not necessarily receive the site. The initial committee will choose a proposal it

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believes is in the best interest of the neighborhood, Johnson said. Since the parking spaces are within a designated historic district, buildings will have to uphold the integrity of the Wooster Square neighborhood.

“Wooster Square is a neighborhood we found people want to live in,” Johnson said. “The city needs to build more quality housing … to try and strengthen what’s already a great neighborhood.”

City Hall Spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 stressed that the bidding process is open to anyone, not only construction companies. An individual may purchase a property and hire a construction company to do build his or her home, she said.

The city needs to build more quality housing … to try and strengthen what’s already a great neighborhood.

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BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER After Hurricane Sandy prompted administrators to cancel classes for the first time in 34 years, professors have had to adjust their curriculum to the shortened schedule.

Due to the severe weather conditions immediately following Yale’s fall break, University Vice President Linda Lorimer announced in an email to the Yale community that all classes and extracurricular activities for Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 were cancelled. Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard said in an email after the storm that administrators would not declare an official makeup period and that faculty members could adjust their schedules or arrange for additional classes at their own discretion. Professors interviewed said they have taken different approaches to rescheduling based on the format and content of their courses, and while several scheduled one additional class, others modified the syllabus or condensed material into shorter time periods.

All nine professors said students would be responsible for the same amount of material as before the storm.

“I’ve been at Yale an awfully long time and can’t remember another time when they cancelled classes,” Italian professor Risa Sodi GRD ’95 said. “But I think we’ve come up with good solutions for this unusual problem.”

Miller said that this year’s lengthened fall term meant professors could present the same amount of material without the University requiring professors and students to reschedule missed class time. Last year’s academic calendar scheduled regular class on 12 Mondays and Tuesdays, but this year’s addition of fall break and shortened reading period resulted in 13.

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Linda McMahon has said she does not plan to pursue political office in the future.

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER When Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon saw a check mark placed next to her Democratic opponent Chris Murphy’s name early on election night, she knew her dreams of ever becoming one of Connecticut’s U.S. senators had been dashed.

For the second time in three years, McMahon lost the race to her Democratic opponent, despite having spent nearly $100 million of her personal fortune on the two campaigns combined. In doing so, she joined the likes of Meg Whit-

man, Carly Fiorina and Ross Perot, multimillionaires who invested in their own political careers with little payoff. It remains unclear what McMahon — who ran World Wrestling Entertainment before her first Senate run against Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in 2010 — will do next.

McMahon said in a Nov. 9 interview with Businessweek that much of her post-election efforts will be channeled into her family’s philanthropic work. Along with her husband, McMahon runs the Vince and Linda McMahon Family Foundation, which awards grants to projects and institutions across

the country such as sports facilities and Sacred Heart University, where McMahon is a trustee.

In the same interview with Businessweek, she said she does not plan to pursue political office in the future.

“I don’t really anticipate running for public office again.

I think I’ve given that a really good, strong shot,” McMahon told Businessweek. “Things can always change but it’s not something I anticipate right now.”

McMahon’s campaign could not be reached for comment.

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VIEW Education Studies at Yale has reached a crossroads.

Two years ago, administrators announced that Yale’s Teacher Preparation program would end. Student voices temporarily saved the program, causing administrators to extend it until the end of last semester. But the program — and the certification it offered — is now gone.

Today, the future of its replacement, the Education Studies program, remains unclear. It is time for students to find their voices once again and to express what they wish to see in a strong and sustainable Education Studies program.

The program is not ending; it is transitioning and this moment of transition is when students can have the greatest impact. But no students currently serve on the Education Studies Advisory Committee that will help determine the future of the program. And, at the end of this semester, the program will lose director Linda Cole-Taylor — a passionate, dedicated and experienced advocate for the study of education in an academic context. With these resources gone, students must advocate for themselves.

On campus, at a time when John Starr’s political science seminars on public schools are consistently oversubscribed, and Teach for America remains a top destination for Yalies after graduation, it makes little sense to reduce access to classes on education. What Education Studies classes need is the same sense of legitimacy that has been bestowed by administrators on any of Yale’s major departments or programs.

This can be accomplished by strengthening and expanding class offerings in Education Studies, many of which should be cross-listed with other academic departments, so that learning about learning can be part of an integrated liberal arts education. But the program must also be able to stand on its own. Education Studies should not be vocational, it should be rigorously philosophical, intellectual and

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The Education Studies program has been criticized for being pre-professional, a buzzword liberally applied to courses that supposedly should not be part of a liberal arts education. But the Global Affairs major culminates in a work-based senior capstone project and the Journalism Initiative trains students to write articles. We should not eliminate offerings associated with a specific profession — studying education can only make us more effective learners, the very desire that first brought us to Yale.

Students in Cole-Taylor’s “Schools, Community, and the Teacher,” the central seminar of the Education Studies program, are placed as observers in New Haven schools. They have often worked with former members of the Yale Teacher Preparation program — graduates of the College who now teach in local New Haven high schools. Education studies at Yale, despite its shaky and uncertain future, has created a cycle of Yalies learning from one another and giving back to our greater community. Our University cannot afford to lose this invaluable resource.

We hope to see a new director of Education Studies appointed soon, one who will be able to continue ColeTaylor’s efforts with the full financial and administrative support of the University.

We expect this director to continue some form of the central Education Studies seminar, allowing students who were turned away this semester another opportunity to enroll. This new director must maintain Cole-Taylor’s relationships with local schools, so that the cycle of Yalies involved in New Haven schools can go unbroken. To truly fulfill our New Haven promise, to be full citizens of our city, we must continue to teach.

If we raise our hands and speak, we can show Yale administrators that they have underestimated the passion for teaching and education on this campus.

t is almost 12 a.m. on a Friday night and four 12-year-old boys are riding their bikes on Elm, going the opposite direction of traffic. They disrupt traffic as one of the boys tries to cross all three lanes. His friend is riding on the handlebars of the bike with a broken arm, which makes them slower than the rest of the group, and they annoy all the cars trying to speed away. Upon seeing this dangerous behavior, a Yale police officer that happens to be driving by tells the boys to pull over. Their friends also stop. They roll their eyes out of annoyance and one of them shouts, “Com’ on, his arm is broken!”

I was on my way to G-Heav for my regular bacon, egg and cheese as the scene unfolded.

When I walked out with food, the boys were still there. Now there was another cop car, and the boy struggled to hold his broken arm to his chest as he was getting searched.

I am not trying to make any assumptions about these boys, nor about policing protocols.

Maybe they stole a couple of the iPhones that Chief Ronnell Higgins recently emailed the Yale community about. Maybe they

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visit me in Swing Space late at night. A New Haven Police car was driving by, and upon seeing a football-build black male wearing a fitted cap and baggy jeans, the officer felt the need to slow down and eventually just pull his car over and stare until we went into Swing. I don’t know what the cop expected my friend to do, maybe sell me a couple of grams — but it was clear the officer was suspicious of my friend.

I do not want to discredit cops’ intuition. They know the field they work in and are obviously experienced at determining what situations need further attention. I trust cops to make sound judgments to keep me safe. And as a white girl, I feel confident enough to say hello when I walk past a cop, even if I am far from sober. But my black friends should be able to feel the same way.

The anger I saw in my friend’s eyes that night showed me a distrust that I have never experienced when it comes to the police. “What the hell is he staring at me for,” was his response.

He did not see the protection that cops are supposed to provide. Rather, he saw a distrusting official trying to catch him

doing something he was not supposed to do.

At a young age, many black parents sit their boys down to discuss possible run-ins with officers. They are told to always carry an ID, especially as they get older. They are told to be wary of sudden movements that may make officers feel threatened. And above all, they are told to show respect even if it is not reciprocated. “Boys will be boys” does not hold true for them. It feels as though the police strip black boys of their innocence as children because they will someday be black men, and black men commit crimes.

How are the boys on the bikes, my friend and all the other minorities that have ever been in similar situations supposed to trust policemen when it seems that they constantly carry the burden of proving themselves innocent? It is 2012, and my president is black. But what value does that hold if the simple act of being black and walking down a street can be considered suspicious?

SARA SILVA is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at sara.silva@yale.edu .

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n the night of Oct. 6, I was led into a dark room illuminated solely by fake votive candles. A tribunal of three men asked me nonsensical questions. I engaged in a mock debate between Republican presidential candidates, playing the role of Gingrich.

No, I’m not the only freshman inductee to a secret society, nor was this YPU hazing (is that something they do?). This is how I was set up with my date for Branford Screw.

Look, I’m familiar with the school dance “ask” phenomenon.

In high school around homecoming season, the hallway buzzed with girls recounting the ways their dates selected them — “He brought me a cookie cake!” “He recorded his voice into a teddy bear!” “He plastered the school with posters!” “The editor of the lit mag gave me a signed copy in which he asked me in the inscription!” (Three guesses which one was mine.)

Nonetheless, I was a bit taken aback by the whole ordeal — and also by the kid handcuffed to a tree waiting for his date in the Branford courtyard.

Yale loves its traditions, but it loves screw for more than just sentimental reasons. Why does it captivate us? Why are we fascinated by a night with an anonymous date (wouldn’t it almost be more fun to replace Screw with its sister phenomena, the crush party)? Why do freshman talk about Freshman Screw in September, the same way freshman in high school talk about winter formal the day after homecoming?

Screw is the lowest commitment relationship among the low-commitment relationships that Yalies know and love. Screw can lead anywhere from a DFM to a ring (right? It has to have happened). Screw promises unlimited potential, and the best part is nobody has to make the first move. Plus, if you’re unable to locate a match within your reallife social network, you can consult Screw Me Yale because really, it wouldn’t be an Actual Thing in College if there weren’t a companion app.

On the screw-ee side, there is practically zero pressure — they aren’t the ones planning a set-up that strikes the right bal-

ance between cute, original and embarrassing. They aren’t the ones deciding if the concerned parties are compatibly hot — or have similar personalities. They aren’t hedging their future screwhappiness on a successful match.

AWKWARDNESS ASIDE, SCREW YIELDS UNEXPECTED BENEFITS There is no room for self-selection — that takes the fun out of it.

There is no way for a mismatched Yalie to blame him or herself for awkwardness or lack of chemistry: “It’s not my fault I was rejected … it’s my roommate’s,” goes the reasoning. And even the most disastrous of evenings are just funny stories by the next day, because hey, you didn’t even know your date in the first place.

Perhaps it’s the flickering hope that maybe, just maybe, this rando

date will be the one you’ll actually want to screw that keeps the tradition going. But screw serves another unintended purpose: bringing the Yale community a little closer together (and no, I don’t mean it like that). Screw only happens because Yalies are able to draw upon an extensive network of friends of friends of friends to come up with pairings that are both plausible and untested.

Every set up, successful or otherwise, connects two more dots in a community so often divided by residential college or major or favorite New Haven pizzeria. It forces us to take a moment to consider what really matters to our suitemates and to reach beyond our immediate friend group.

However superficial the circumstances may be, it brings people together in a way that no other campus tradition can.

So the next time I arrive at what appears to be a candlelit vigil, I’ll know what to tell the assembled council: Yeah, I’m totally DTS. CAROLINE SYDNEY is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu

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had planned to steal a bicycle later that night, explaining why there were four of them but only three bikes. Maybe they smelled of weed and needed to be searched.

But maybe they are just innocent kids riding while black.

Had it been a drunken Yale student (preferably not Hispanic or black) stumbling across Elm Street during a pedestrian red light, he would not have been searched. He would have received a slap on the wrist and that would have been the end of the story. How many times have cops seen belligerent students stumble home and not interceded? I have seen people hold Solo cups while in line for Toad’s with cops only a few feet away and face absolutely no consequence.

But these children — who were possibly just being kids and not thinking about the dangers of riding on handlebars and crossing lanes of oncoming traffic — they are not as lucky. They fit the description of “problematic,” and innocent until proven guilty does not seem to hold.

Last year, one of my friends from home happened to be going out in New Haven and came to

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sk anyone who knows me, and they’ll tell you I develop irrational hatreds of things. The fall of my senior year of high school my hatred (which, side note, is still with me to this day, so at least I’m consistent?) was Taylor Swift. But the peeve du jour is now a phrase bandied about a lot: “Let’s get a meal.”

I know I’m not the first to hear that phrase, and I can’t imagine I’m the first to take pause and wonder whether I’ve just been invited somewhere or subtly insulted. On the face of it, it’s great that so many people want to socialize with so many other people, and it’s so great that there’s a culture where people just casually eat with one another. Plus, I’ve just been invited somewhere! New friends! Winning.

But take a second to read the subtext of the phrase. Does the person (for greater ease, let’s assume it’s a she) inviting me to some ambiguous meal have my phone number? If the answer is no, and we didn’t exchange numbers, then tell me — how exactly are we going to go about arrang-

ing said meal? The offer to get a meal then seems utterly superficial, more about the image of extending an offer than deriving any actual pleasure out of my company.

Something about the exclusively public settings in which this phrase is uttered makes me disbelieve it. Let’s say this person does have my phone number.

But if she really does want to get a meal with me, then why hasn’t she just texted me that same question? Logistically speaking, isn’t a text conversation or (gasp) a phone call easier? We’re back to the impression from the first scenario — that this offer is more for the show of it than for any other purpose. It serves as a placation, not as a real invitation.

But I’ll give my mysterious inviter the most genuine motives: Let’s say she sincerely does want to get a meal with me; let’s say she follows through and we grab lunch or some other meal. Then why does the phrase still rankle me?

I think it’s because of the slightly self-satisfied way in which I’ve heard it said so many times. Telling someone that the

two of you ought to get a “meal” with no use-by date implies that the person asking is too busy to commit to any actual place or time. Every time I hear that phrase I feel like I’ve just been told, “Let me find room in my GCal for you.” And sure, it’s nice that she wants to find room in her GCal, but I can’t help but think that the offer is more about reminding me of the busy life she leads than anything else.

If the desire to get a meal is real, at best this genuine offer still reduces me to another item on the to-do list of a Yalie’s life: Rather than being a sociable break between Errand A and Errand B, I feel like I’m being scheduled in as Errand C. This isn’t to say that I don’t ever want to socialize or share meals with people; I’m not an antisocial crank. And maybe I’m simply reading too much into every aspect of this casual phrase. But I also don’t think it would hurt for people to try to rephrase the offer in a way that seems less flippant and more sincere. What if, the next time my fake interlocutor found herself in the same situation, she specified

a bit?

Something about “Are you free for lunch this week? I’d love to chat,” feels so much more compelling than “Let’s get a meal.”

The simple introduction of some specific meal makes me feel like it is actually the lunch she’s after, rather than a chance to network or remind me of her constant preoccupation. Suddenly, this is a treat again, rather than a chore.

So my two cents to those of you out there who invite new acquaintances or old friends to ambiguous meals is this: Keep doing what you’re doing. Make new friends and keep the old, etc. etc. But if the real aim is to forge new connections, then make sure someone as cynical as me would believe you. Suggest a specific meal; offer a way to follow up on it (like, for starters, your phone number); and please, do us all a favor and try not to sound like you’re doing us a favor. Let lunch be lunch, and maybe we can both actually enjoy it.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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Art history major develops new requirements

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER Starting next year, students majoring in art history may be better able to determine how to study art across time periods and geographic regions.

After complaints from students about the current requirement that majors take a select number of classes labeled as either Western and non-Western, Mimi Yiengpruksawan, the director of undergraduate studies in the History of Art Department, said she is hoping to change how the requirements are classified so students can more easily plan cross-cultural paths within the major. This year, the department has been developing a new set of requirements to address these concerns and to move out of a “Eurocentric” model, she explained. Though the Committee on Majors has approved of the changes — which will categorize classes in a five-by-five grid that crosses different time periods and geographic regions — the Faculty of Arts and Sciences must discuss the changes and put them to a vote at a faculty meeting in December.

“One of the things we’re trying to do is think about our responsibility in teaching a global art history,” said Edward Cooke ’77, chair of the History of Art

Department. “We’re really interested in expanding and taking advantage of what the faculty is interested in, which is oftentimes transnational boundaries, in thinking about a larger universe, and not just a typical history of art that’s told through western European eyes.”

Come next year, requirements for the number of courses majors must take in different areas will not change. Instead, the grid simply allows students to look at their options in a more comprehensive way and decide how to navigate a pathway through the major, history of art professor Kobena Mercer said.

The new grid structure changes the way in which students distinguish between courses that look at different geographic regions and time periods. Rather than categorizing courses using the binary of Western or non-Western art, the grid offers students a clearer way of seeing the array of time periods and regions from which they can choose. Three faculty members said they hope the grid will not only provide students with a visual representation of the major but will also allow the department to see where it needs to improve.

“What I like about the chart is that it makes it clear where we are weak, and any strong program

will always work to strengthen its coverage because our competitors — other institutions — look better on that grid than we do,” Yiengpruksawan said. “Often a visual representation will be much more alarming, and it provokes a response.”

Yiengpruksawan said she hopes Yale’s underperformance on the grid will prompt the department and university to focus more on increasing the number of art history faculty members who specialize in global art history. In the last two years, the department hired Youn-Mi Kim, a specialist in Chinese art who also studies Korean art, and Erica James, a Caribbean art specialist.

The new requirements also address the department’s need to cater to a more global student body, Yiengpruksawan added. She explained that students, many of whom come from diverse backgrounds, are beginning to think more “transregionally” and are increasingly interested in courses that cover more than one specific area and discuss the interactions of multiple cultures.

“Students are often interested in learning about their heritage in a global context,” she said.

Three students agreed that labelling classes “Western” or “non-Western” is unrepresen-

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New requirements in the art history major will address complaints that the curriculum is too “Eurocentric.” tative of the department’s offerings. Thomas Burns ’13 said courses on African-American art were previously considered “non-Western” under this system, though that label has since been removed.

But three students interviewed said they feel that the department has already done a good job developing a more diverse course

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“I think they do a good job forcing people to take non-Western art and art from different ages that aren’t in their special interest,” Janne Salo ’14 said.

Sinclaire Marber ’15 said a class cross-listed in the Islamic Studies, History of Art and Humanities Departments is a sign that Yale is moving to a more “inter-

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BY DHRUV AGGARWAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a talk entitled “Economic Possibilities for Our Children,” economist and former Harvard President Larry Summers spoke about how the nation must respond to the impending fiscal cliff.

Speaking before an audience of roughly 80 students and faculty in Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall on Wednesday evening, Summers discussed unequal growth in various sectors of the economy and the increasingly pressing issue of the fiscal cliff — a collection of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that could stifle growth if they to go into effect at the start of 2013. In addition to the fiscal cliff, Summers said America faces underlying economic and structural issues that must be resolved in order for long-term progress to be possible. During his lecture, Summers emphasized the need for President Barack Obama and Congress to come to an agreement on tax and budget policy, lest the nation slip into another recession.

“If we screw up, we’ll severely damage the economy,” he said. “But success [in resolving the fiscal cliff

alone] won’t drive the economy forward or address its basic fiscal and structural imbalances.”

Summers called for an increase in spending on infrastructure to boost consumer demand, which he said will keep the nation fiscally afloat both in the coming months and in the long term. Infrastructure spending will bolster employment, Summers said, adding that the nation must continue to target unemployment given that a fifth of working-age men are currently without work.

He’s rather optimistic about America’s future, but he didn’t address the reality about the gridlock in Congress.

SANDY JIN ’16 Summers said Obama’s policy proposals — which advocate infrastructure spending and tax increases for the wealthy — will adequately address the fiscal cliff. He also discussed the growing income inequality in the

United States, adding that the share of pre-tax income that belonged to the top 1 percent of the population had more than doubled from 7.8 percent in 1973 to 17.4 percent in 2010.

The economist also criticized elite universities like Harvard and Yale for not becoming more inclusive — which he described as a symptom of mounting financial inequality. He added that such universities are often seen as “exclusive clubs.”

Four students who attended the lecture said they found Summers’ speech to be incisive and informative.

Sandy Jin ’16, who said the lecture was insightful, added that Summers did not address American politics as much as he had expected.

“He’s rather optimistic about America’s future,” he said. “But he didn’t address the reality about the gridlock in Congress, or the difficulties the process has.”

Summers is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu .

Connecticut House elects new leadership

BY APSARA IYER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Economist and former Harvard President Larry Summers spoke Wednesday about the future of the U.S. economy.

disciplinary approach.”

“That type of class, which is integrating the different cultures and time periods and how they interacted, is a step in the right direction that I think Yale is definitely taking in regard to that,” Marber said.

Come January, the Connecticut House of Representatives will have a new speaker of the house after the state Democrats held elections last week.

J. Brendan Sharkey, the former House majority leader was nominated and elected for speaker during a meeting of the newly elected House Democrats, but he awaits confirmation by the House at the start of the next session in 2013. But since the Democrats hold a 99-52 house majority, Sharkey will most likely win the nomination, taking the helm from former speaker Christopher Donovan, who left his post during his unsuccessful run for the seat vacated by U.S. Senator-elect Chris Murphy.

As speaker, Sharkey will be responsible for coordinating debate on the House floor, controlling what is discussed and setting the agenda for the majority party and the House. Sharkey also enters his sixth term as a State Representative from Hamden, Conn.

This year’s House will be tasked with assembling the budget and voting on the new energy plan proposed earlier this year by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, said Gabe Rosenberg, Sharkey’s spokesman. Rosenberg added that Sharkey will continue his advocacy for growth and attention to issues that matter to different regions of the state following his appointment.

Pat O’Neil, spokesman for the Connecticut House Republicans, also highlighted the importance of the budget within the House agenda this year.

“The deficit that we are facing for the current fiscal year is $365 million, according to the latest report from the Governor, despite the denials of more fiscal problems ahead, that’s the number one priority,” O’Neil said.

The House’s discussion of Malloy’s energy plan and alternative energy, O’Neil said, will happen within the context of repairing the state’s “fiscal health” following several years of a

recession. O’Neil described Sharkey as a “very capable and bright” guy, adding that Sharkey was a good House majority leader.

Sharkey was elected majority leader by the Democratic caucus for the 2011’12 legislative term, serving only two years before his election to speaker last week. He described the 2012 session of the House as “truly historic” in a May press statement, citing progress made with policies related to education reform, natural disaster responsiveness, racial profiling and domestic violence.

He highlighted, in particular, the efforts of the House to deal with the budget deficit.

“A year ago, we dealt with a shortfall in excess of $3 billion — 15 percent of our total budget,” Sharkey said. “This year, the House passed a budget adjustment that keeps appropriations under the state’s constitutionally-mandated spending cap and continues our investments in education and job growth.”

Malloy, though, will need to work with the new Democratic leadership to make his legislative agenda a reality. House Democrats also elected Joe Aresimowicz, a former union president, to fill Sharkey’s role as House majority leader, while Democrats in the Senate re-elected their leadership of Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr. and Majority Leader Martin Looney of New Haven.

“I want to congratulate Brendan Sharkey and Joe Aresimowicz on their new leadership positions,” Malloy said in a press release last week. “From our work to balance the state’s finances to the historic Jobs Bill, we’ve worked together to affect positive changes for state residents. I look forward to working with them and the entire caucus next year.”

Elections for Speaker of the Connecticut House occur every two years.

Contact APSARA IYER at apsara.iyer@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT he and the other instructors decided to offer a makeup section at several different times so that all students would be able to attend. He added that attendance in the optional problemsolving sections has increased following the storm.

colleagues contemplated many options to make up canceled class including scheduling class during reading period, but ultimately determined students would benefit from maintaining the planned course schedule. Instead, he said, General Chemistry professors chose to remove extraneous information from their lectures and concentrate on the important subjects.

“In the past there [were] situations where I have spent more time than necessary on certain topics, and this year I’m going to be more aware of that and not going to do that,” Ganapathi said.

Sodi, who directs the Italian language program, said her department will also cover the same amount of material without additional class by transforming “culture days” — days when the professor discusses aspects of Italian culture instead of teaching the language — into regular class days and by assigning an in-class movie as homework instead.

But Jim Rolf, the course director for Math 115, said

The strain is on the professors. They’re putting in the extra time so that we don’t feel rushed.

SHARIF VAKILI ’13 “We wanted to give the students as much support as we thought we could,” Rolf said.

“My personal opinion is that [cancelled class] doesn’t add too much of an extra burden on the students as long as they are willing to come to the makeup sections.”

All thirteen students interviewed expressed satisfaction with professors’ strategies to make up for the missed classes, and five students said the time off was beneficial because the

extended break gave them a chance to catch up on reading.

Candice Gurbatri ’14 said her professors stayed in touch with students throughout the storm and updated them on how they would compensate for the lost time. She added that only one of her professors rescheduled classes, but he solicited student input to determine the best time and bought pizza for all the students who attended the makeup session.

Sharif Vakili ’13 said he thinks the cancelled classes did not add additional stress because professors handled the altered schedule with their students in mind.

“The strain is on the professors,” Vakili said. “They’re putting in the extra time so that we don’t feel rushed and feel less of an impact of the storm.”

The last University-wide cancellation of classes occurred during the “Blizzard of ’78,” a February snowstorm that resulted in over two feet of snow.

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

Pundits mull McMahon’s future spend without limitation. After two races, he said, Connecticut residents are more familiar with her credentials.

After McMahon’s first loss, Stamford Mayor Mike Pavia, a Republican, publically offered her an economic development position in his cabinet. He said that considering his own background in the business sector, he thinks McMahon would bring crucial “real world” experience to public office.

MCMAHON FROM PAGE 1 Despite McMahon’s vow to steer clear of politics, speculation is arife over whether she will throw her hat into a different political arena over the next few years. Among the possibilities discussed by political observers are a gubernatorial run in 2014 against sitting Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy or a congressional challenge in the fourth congressional district against Democratic Congressman Jim Himes.

Connecticut has a long history of failed Senate candidates, typically Republicans, who emerged from the private sector to seek public office, flaunting their business credentials to make up for limited political resumes, said Sacred Heart University political science professor and Connecticut politics expert Gary Rose. After losing their respective bids, they typically fade from popular memory, a fate that has befallen previous senate candidates from Gary Franks in 1998 to Alan Schlesinger in 2006.

“They came out of the woodwork, presented their business credentials as well as their wallets — but most people, including the Republican Party, knew they were sacrificial lambs, anyway,” Rose said.

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When asked about speculation over a possible gubernatorial bid in 2014, he responded that the state “loves” female governors.

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ment in politics. Last week, Chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party Jerry Labriola said in an interview with Connecticut Public Radio that the “era of massive self-funders is over,” hinting that he would not throw his weight behind any more McMahon runs. He added that he had “deep” concerns about McMahon’s candidacy all along.

Labriola could not be reached for comment.

Jennifer Steen, a political science professor at Arizona State University and an author of a book about self-financed candidates, said that candidates who spend lavishly on their campaigns tend not to be trusted by voters. Moreover, she added that the overwhelming majority of self-financers do so because they are inexperienced in politics and trying to “leapfrog” the traditional routes to higher office.

“If you graduate from Yale, are you going to apply to be CEO of a company? No,” Steen said.

“But McMahon didn’t have any other way to win.”

McMahon spent a combined $97 million of her personal fortune on her two Senate bids, shattering the previous personal spending record of $75 million

by Ross Perot in his 1992 and 1996 bids for the presidency.

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WOOSTER SQ. FROM PAGE 1 tee has come to a consensus, the recommendation will be passed to Johnson, who will make an assessment of what is “financially feasible,” he said. It is too early to speculate on when construction will begin since they city has not received bids, Johnson said.

Some residents, like Murphy, have reservations about the new buildings. While Murphy said he generally supports the idea

of new development because additional homes lead to a more “alive” neighborhood, he is concerned about the loss of parking.

At times, parking around the square can be scarce, so eliminating some parking may cause traffic problems, he said.

Murphy said he parks in the street instead of in the parking lots because the lots cost money, but he said some of his friends use the parking space on the corner of Green and Olive — one of the parking lots that will be

converted. He added that several cars are usually parked at the lot.

Wednesday marked the deadline for bidders to submit questions about the site to city officials, and city representatives will respond to questions by the end of the week.

Wooster Square became a historic district on June 11, 1970.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I won the Amory Blaine Handsomeness scholarship to Princeton, and then I attended Harvard Business School where I was voted ‘Most.’” JACK DONAGHY “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

Students see decline in apparel sales

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Students selling Harvard-Yale apparel in Commons Rotunda, on Cross Campus and in residential colleges have seen a decrease in sales this year compared to last.

TICKET SALES FROM PAGE 1 decrease in sales to the fact that the game will not take place at Yale, adding that she does not have data for 2010 sales.

Michelle Taylor ’13, chair of the Yale Record, said that this year, the publication “has had a bit more trouble convincing people to buy our shirts,” which the Record staff sells every year to raise funds to offset its printing costs. Taylor added that in years when the game is not at Yale, it has been harder to sell

shirts, though she did not have specific numbers from past years available. With only two days of sales remaining until the game, the Record has yet to break even, said Jack Newsham ’14, a former Opinion Editor for the News who is the publisher of the Yale Record.

AIESEC, which sold 500 Harvard-Yale shirts when it first began selling shirts last year, has sold 80 of the 200 shirts ordered this fall, said Raymond Zhu ’16, who runs T-shirt sales for AIESEC. He added that the group

will continue to sell shirts until Friday.

Though members of the ticket office declined to speculate on the change in sales this year, students interviewed who did not purchase tickets cited the hassle and expense of travel to Boston along with the likely loss for Yale as reasons for not attending the game. Last year, approximately 3,600 Harvard students bought tickets to the the game at Yale — roughly 1,000 more than the number of Yale students who bought tickets for the game at

Harvard this year — despite the cost of transportation and game tickets.

Joshua El-Bey ’16 said the $20 ticket fee, along with transportation costs, made him decide not to attend the game.

“It just didn’t seem worth it, since we are probably going to lose,” he said.

Breault, the ticket office assistant, said the $20 ticket fare for Yale students is typical, adding that Harvard charged students the same price in 2010. Though Harvard students were only

charged $15 to come to the game at Yale last year, Breault said that ticket prices for Harvard students next year will probably increase to $20.

Haining Wang ’16, who cited the costs associated with the game as her main deterrent from going, said that she also does not want to sleep “on the floor of some common room” at Harvard.

Five students interviewed said they chose not to attend the game because flights home out of Boston Logan Airport are

more expensive and less convenient than those out of airports closer to Yale.

Pedro Rolon ’14 said he decided not to go to the game, though he went his freshman year, because plane tickets home to Puerto Rico are roughly $100 cheaper from JFK than from Logan.

The 129th Harvard-Yale football game will begin at noon in Harvard Stadium on Nov. 17.

Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at colleen.flynn@yale.edu .

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There are 76 women in the House of Representatives (52 Democrats and 24 Republicans) and 17 in the Senate (12 Democrats and 5 Republicans). This is an overall decrease of two women from the 111th Congress.

GOP picks woman for top leadership post

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President Barack Obama makes an opening statement during his news conference, in which he addressed the fiscal cliff.

BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama challenged congressional Republicans Wednesday to let taxes rise on the wealthiest Americans on both economic and political grounds, noting he campaigned successfully for re-election on the point and contending it would instantly ease the threat of the “fiscal cliff” plunging the nation back into recession.

“A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs,” Obama said of the nation’s top income earners. “They’ll still be wealthy,” he said at his first news

conference since winning a second term.

At the same time, the president stressed he was amenable to compromise on other approaches from Republicans who say they will refuse to raise tax rates. “I believe this is solvable,” he said during the news conference.

At a news conference of his own a short while later, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, agreed that a bipartisan “spirit of cooperation” has been evident since the election that augurs well for talks expected to begin Friday at the White House.

However, he said of the president’s proposal, “We are not going to hurt our economy and make job creation

more difficult which is exactly what that plan would do.”

Obama seemed eager to avoid issuing any ultimatums. Asked if it would be a deal-breaker for Republicans to refuse to allow the top tax rate to revert to 39.6 percent from the current 35 percent, he sidestepped. “I just want to emphasize I am open to new ideas if the Republican counterparts or some Democrats have a great idea for us to raise revenue, maintain progressivity, make sure the middle class isn’t getting hit, reduces our deficit.”

Wall Street wasn’t encouraged that agreement was becoming more likely. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 185 points for the day.

WASHINGTON — Stinging from double-digit election losses among female voters, House Republicans elected a woman to their top leadership team Wednesday in a tense test of gender politics and the clout of the GOP’s power brokers.

The election of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state to the No. 4 leadership position among House Republicans dispatches conservative favorite Tom Price of Georgia, who had been endorsed by Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. House Speaker John Boehner didn’t take sides, but McMorris Rodgers was considered the leadership favorite.

Newly elected Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana said it was important to have a woman in a top role.

“It does show our party values strong female leadership,” Brooks said of McMorris Rodgers’ election.

She said she expects the party now to “try and do a better job of getting our message out to a broader audience.”

The race for such an obscure post carried big symbolism after women voted for Democrats by an 11-point margin in the presidential and generic congressional races, according to an exit poll by The Associated Press and television networks. Republicans widely decried their party’s domination by white males, and Democrats declared themselves the party of diversity.

In the Senate, the GOP was once thought to be poised to gain control of the chamber but instead lost two seats to Democrats. In the House, Republicans retained the majority but lost as many as eight seats, with some races still uncalled. And Obama defeated Romney 332-206 in the Electoral College.

The lessons of the election weighed

heavily on the lawmakers returning this week to Capitol Hill for a lameduck, end-of-year session. McMorris Rodgers’ supporters had touted her conservatism and her work as Romney’s House liaison. Ryan touted Price as a proven leader and advocate of conservative policies on budget, tax and health care issues. Vote totals were not released.

If America is going to reach its full fulfillment as a nation, we must have the further empowerment of women.

NANCY PELOSI House Minority Leader, D-Calif.

Earlier in the day, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., surrounded herself with other female lawmakers to announce that she will run again for leader despite her party’s failure to gain the 25 seats it needed to flip control of the House.

The nation’s first female speaker of the House, Pelosi largely skipped over that disappointment and focused on election results that she said made her caucus the most diverse in history.

“The point is that if America is going to reach its full fulfillment as a nation, we must have the further empowerment of women,” said Pelosi, who put the formality of leadership elections off until after Thanksgiving.

Her motivation was closer to home, too.

“Being actively involved in politics at this level is really insatiable,” Pelosi said. “There’s so much more I want to do, I don’t know how to get any more hours in the day. You can only sleep so less.”

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WORLD

“No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.” VLADIMIR PUTIN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT

Israel kills Hamas leader

Russia expands treason law

BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Palestinian security forces wheel into a hospital the body of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing.

BY IBRAHIM BARZAK AND JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel carried out a blistering offensive of more than 50 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, assassinating Hamas’ military commander and targeting the armed group’s training facilities and rocket launchers in Israel’s most intense attack on the territory in nearly four years.

Israel said the airstrikes, launched in response to days of rocket fire out of Hamas-ruled Gaza, were the beginning of a broader operation against the Islamic militants codenamed “Pillar of Defense.” Israeli defense officials said a ground operation was a strong possibility in the coming days though they stressed no decisions had been made and much would depend on Hamas’ reaction. There were no immediate signs of extraordinary troop deployments along the border.

The attack came at a time when Israel seems to be under fire from all

directions. Relations have been deteriorating with Egypt’s new Islamist government, Egypt’s lawless Sinai desert has become a staging ground for militant attacks on Israel, and the Syrian civil war has begun to spill over Israel’s northern border. Earlier this week, Israel fired back at Syria - for the first time in nearly 40 years — after stray mortar fire landed in the Israelicontrolled Golan Heights.

With at least 10 Palestinians dead, including two young children, Wednesday’s offensive was certain to set off a new round of heavy fighting with Gaza militants, who have built up a formidable arsenal of rockets and missiles.

It also threatened to upset Israel’s relations with neighboring Egypt and shake up the campaign for Israeli elections in January. In a preliminary response, Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest.

In a nationwide address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could no longer stand repeated

attacks on its southern towns. Days of rocket fire have heavily disrupted life for some 1 million people in the region, canceling school and forcing residents to remain indoors.

“If there is a need, the military is prepared to expand the operation.

We will continue to do everything to protect our citizens,” Netanyahu declared.

The Israeli military said it was ready, if necessary, to send ground troops into Gaza. The defense officials who said a ground operation was likely in the coming days spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing sensitive military plans.

“We are at the beginning of the event, and not the end,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, in a joint appearance with the prime minister.

“In the long run I believe the operation will help strengthen the power of deterrence and to return quiet to the south.” In a sign that the operation was expected to broaden, the military was cleared to call up reserve units.

MOSCOW — Adding to fears that the Kremlin aims to stifle dissent, Russians now live under a new law expanding the definition of treason so broadly that critics say it could be used to call anyone who bucks the government a traitor.

The law took effect Wednesday, just two days after President Vladimir Putin told his human rights advisory council that he was ready to review it.

His spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies Wednesday that Putin would be willing to review the treason law if its implementation reveals “some problems or aspects restricting rights and freedoms.”

But what Putin might consider a problem is unclear. His opponents say a series of measures enacted since Putin returned to the Kremlin in May for a third term show he is determined to intimidate and suppress dissidents.

I believe this law is very dangerous.

LILIYA SHIBANOVA Member, Russian Human Rights Council One recent measure imposes a huge increase in potential fines for participants in unauthorized demonstrations.

Another requires non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents if they both receive money from abroad and engage in political activity.

And another gives sweeping power to authorities to ban websites under a procedure critics denounce as opaque.

After fraud-tainted parliamentary elections last December, an unprecedented wave of protest arose, with some demonstrations attracting as many as 100,000 people. Putin still won the March presidential election handily, but the protests boldly challenged his

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to review new bills seen by critics as a crackdown on dissent. image as the strongman Russia needs to achieve stability and prosperity.

Under the new law, anyone who without authorization possesses information deemed a state secret - whether a politician, a journalist, an environmentalist or a union leader - could potentially be jailed for up to 20 years for espionage.

While the previous law described high treason as espionage or other assistance to a foreign state that damages Russia’s external security, the new legislation expands the definition by dropping the word “external.” Activities that fall under it include providing help or advice to a foreign state or giving information to an international or foreign organization.

The definition is so broad that rights advocates say it could be used as a driftnet to sweep up all inconvenient figures.

“I believe this law is very dangerous,” said human rights council member Liliya Shibanova, according to the ITARTass news agency. Shibanova also heads Golos, Russia’s only independent elections watchdog group.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MIKE D’ANTONI After resigning as head coach of the New York Knicks in March, the former Italian player served as an assistant coach for Team USA during the 2012 London Olympics. On Nov. 12, D’Antoni was chosen to replace Mike Brown as Los Angeles Lakers head coach.

Last match for seniors CARGILL FROM PAGE 10 lost its last game to QHarvard Penn, who we beat earlier in the season. How does that affect the team’s mindset going into Harvard-Yale?

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I mean, it was very encouraging for us, as we beat Penn earlier in the season. But there is no transitive property of football. We still have to go out there and handle business in order to have a favorable outcome this weekend.

of the quarterbacks QSeveral are currently injured. How does this affect the team?

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Actually, we’re in a pretty good position. We’re all rallying behind Henry Furman, who does a very good job as quarterback. He had been switched to wide receiver earlier this year, but he’s going to be playing as quarterback for the rest of the season. He played really well against Princeton last weekend, and I have all the confidence in the world he will do well this weekend. You really need a quarterback to play football, and he makes my job a lot easier.

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The team has played well in some of its seemingly most challenging games. What is it about the team that plays so well under pressure?

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Honestly, it goes back to what coach Reno preaches every day. He wants us to not get too high when things go well and not get too low when things

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go bad. He tells us to keep our nose to the grindstone. I personally feel the most excitement surrounding big games because they give me a chance to be remembered and make history.

Most of my teammates feel the same, so we’re really excited. we going to do this again QAre for Harvard?

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Yes, that’s the plan. We got to take care of business this weekend. My class hasn’t beaten Harvard since we’ve been here, so we are looking forward to it.

are you feeling about QHow the fact that this is your last Harvard-Yale game?

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It’s somewhat surreal in the sense that it’s almost here — only a couple days away. You always feel like you have more time, but the season’s really flying by. I’m excited for one more opportunity to play against Harvard. There’s just something special against playing against Harvard, especially at Harvard, in their environment. It’s certainly always something memorable.

are your hopes for the QWhat team after you leave?

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I have the utmost confidence that they’ll improve next year. There are lots of young players who are ready to step in and a great coaching staff. I am excited to have one more chance for this year’s team to really leave our mark on the program by beating Harvard.

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Mordecai Cargill ’13 earned the running backs award last year. do you hope that ProQHow vost Salovey approaches athletics when he assumes the presidency on June 30?

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I was really encouraged by the fact that he came to speak to us after practice yesterday. It was a really big show of support, and I hope he continues after in this manner. I feel like athletics are important in any college and people should support us. I am obviously biased as an athlete, but I think it’s a part of being at college.

Contact LEAH MOTZKIN at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .

and looking for defensive energy. Having forced the Wildcats into 21 turnovers overall, Yale had trouble on the other side of the court and finished with a 30.3 field goal percentage.

“In pressure situations we need to improve our game,” Halejian said.

Due to a five-point surge by guard Amanda Tyson ’14, Yale managed to tie the game with four minutes left. While keeping the score close, Halejian knocked in a threepointer, making it a onepossesion game with only 20 seconds remaining. However, despite Yale’s last-minute efforts, New Hampshire’s Kelsey Hogan and Cari Reed each knocked down two free throws within the final seconds, leaving the Bulldogs just short of victory.

“It’s ok. We just need to keep playing the game as a team, finishing at the basket and playing good defense,” Sarju said.

New Hampshire forwards Kaylee Kilpatrick and Morgan Frame dominated the paint with a combined 20 points.

Yale’s center Zenab Keita ’14 led Yale in rebounds and contributed her own eight points.

Despite their man-to-man defensive effort against the Wildcats, the Bulldogs were still out-rebounded 44-36.

“I thought we challenged them defensively and did a good job, but we could have improved our rebounding down the stretch,” Halejian said.

The Bulldogs will continue non-conference play on Saturday, Nov. 17, against Houston.

Contact DINEE DORAME at dinee.dorame@yale.edu .

Bulldogs face Mercyhurst

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Bulldog center Zenab Keita ’14 had eight points and five rebounds in the team’s loss to New Hampshire.

Head injuries pose serious problem COLUMN FROM PAGE 10

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Yale will take on the No. 4 ranked team in the nation twice this weekend.

W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 penalty kills this year, which is 10th in the conference. Mercyhurst, meanwhile, has converted on 25.71 percent of their power plays and ranks second in the country in power play goals.

Mercyhurst has been a national power since moving into Division I in the 1999’00 season — the Lakers advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals in each of the past eight years.

Last year’s meetings between the teams did not go well for Yale. The Bulldogs lost 9-1 and 6-2 despite Jaimie Leonoff’s ’15

115 saves in the two games combined. Her 63 saves in the 6–2 loss were the most by a Yale goaltender since 1998. Forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 said Leonoff’s skill between the pipes is crucial to the team’s success.

This year, a large portion of Yale’s offense stems from the freshman class.

The team’s three leading scorers are Ferrara, Jamie Haddad ’16 and Kate Martini ’16 and Hanna Astrom ’16 has also made significant contributions. Ferrara is also the only Eli with a positive plus/minus on the season.

“Her presence in net and some of the

huge saves she’s made help us get the momentum back,” she said.

This year, a large portion of Yale’s offense has stemmed from the freshman class. The team’s three leading scorers are Ferrara, Jamie Haddad ’16 and Kate Martini ’16, while Hanna Astrom ’16 has also had significant playing time. Ferrara is also the only Eli with a positive plus/ minus on the season.

The Bulldogs are 0-12-1 in their alltime series against Mercyhurst.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

is six times the national average.

Recently, there have been a slew of suicides among former players, who frequently shoot themselves in the chest so that their brains might be studied.

Currently, there is a massive class-action lawsuit that former NFL players are bringing against the league. The plaintiffs claim that the NFL was aware of the cognitive dangers of playing football, yet still went ahead in promoting the most violent and jaw-dropping hits that so often capture the attention of live and television audiences. Perhaps under pressure from the lawsuit, there’s been a recent attempt by the league to curb the number of concussions, but it doesn’t seem to be working. The one successful rule change has been moving up the kickoff from the 30- to the 35-yard-line prior to the 2011 season.

Since then, spinal and head injuries on kickoff returns have decreased immensely, entirely because there are fewer kickoff returns. In 2010, the last year before the new rule, 16.4 percent of kickoffs went for touchbacks.

In 2011, that percentage had rocketed to 43.5.

Even though it has taken away from the excitement of special teams, we can all agree that this has been a successful rule change.

Nothing is worse than seeing a kickoff returner break his neck on a football field or get his bell rung so hard that he’s out cold on the field for minutes.

And now it’s time for the NFL to extend its concern to other parts of the game, even if it’s at the risk of making the game a little bit less exciting.

A significant number of concussions come on helmetto-helmet hits, when a defensive player uses his head as a weapon and leads his tackles with his cranium. The reason that players feel comfortable leading with their heads is because modern helmets are so heavily padded.

This is a case where better technology in helmet security has

led, paradoxically, to less safety.

There are two ways to rectify the situation. The first is to create a disincentive strong enough that it actually forces a decrease in the number of concussions on helmet-to-helmet hits.

Specifically, the NFL should impose a several-game ban for such hits.

The second, which I believe to be the most promising solution, is to abandon the idea that helmets are protecting players. As was written in an op-ed in The New York Times in September, “No helmet can offer much help, since the injury occurs when a fast-moving body suddenly stops or changes direction.

The brain keeps moving until it collides with the inside of the skull, causing damage that can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.” The padding and sturdiness of modern helmets is illusory. If the league were to mandate something like a rugby scrum cap, which is headgear with modest foam protection, players would be forced to stop using their heads as tackling weapons. At the same time, they would still be significantly protected from suffering incidental concussions at the bottom of a pile or from a thrown football hitting them in the head.

I spoke with a member of the Yale football team who said that no fewer than five of his teammates have suffered significant concussions through the nine games so far this season.

In fact, one has even been forced to retire from football because of an accumulation of them.

As we all watch our Elis take on the Crimson this weekend in Cambridge, here’s hoping that we won’t see anyone get up woozy from a tackle or remain motionless on the field. Even if we don’t, though, it’ll be a deviation from the norm until the rules or technologies of the game are changed to discourage the use of the head as a tackling tool.

Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .

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BASEBALL WILL PLAY AT CITI FIELD IN MARCH The Facebook page for the baseball team revealed Wednesday that the team will play the Michigan Wolverines in a special matchup at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets. The game will take place on March 26, 2013, just six days before the Mets open their season.

MEN’S SOCCER THREE BULLDOGS ON ALL-IVY TEAM The Ivy League announced on Wednesday that Bobby Thalman ’13 has been selected to the All-Ivy second team for the second straight season. Thalman led the league in saves. Nick Alers ’14 and Max McKiernan ’14 were chosen as honorable mentions.

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“The most important thing … is that everyone buys into what we’re trying to accomplish.”

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Yale falls in home opener

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Brain Power

BY DINEE DORAMET CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s basketball team fell to the New Hampshire Wildcats 57-51 in the home-opening game of its historic 40th season.

Did anyone else watch the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football this week? The most striking thing about the otherwise boring game was how every play seemed to end with someone writhing on the ground. In fact, Steelers safety Ryan Clark was concussed for the second time in three weeks. The first one didn’t stop him from playing the next two games though, and this one looks like it won’t force him to sit next week either.

Concussions were, yet again, a trend in the NFL’s Week 10: In addition to Clark’s concussion, three starting quarterbacks in other games left after suffering concussions.

Let’s be clear, concussions are a big deal, and football players are extremely likely to suffer them. Repeated concussions have been shown to cause chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative neurological disorder that can result in dementia, Parkinson’s syndrome or severe depression. In fact, recent research has shown that CTE appears to manifest itself not only in players who have an extensive history of concussions, but also in players who have taken myriad subconcussive blows to the head. Previously, players judged the danger of brain damage by the number of concussions they had suffered. It turns out the smaller hits were just as important.

We generally think of the most dangerous positions (other than quarterback) as the speed ones — mostly wide receivers and running backs get concussed. But consider this: An NFL lineman engages in helmetto-helmet contact on nearly every play. It is estimated that a lineman gets hit in the head 1,000 times per season. Take the years of high school, college and professional football together, and for someone who plays a 15-year career in the NFL, that’s 25,000 blows to the head.

Although the repercussions of this brutal game often appear much later in life, there’s no question that they trace back to football.

The suicide rate among former NFL players SEE COLUMN PAGE 9

W. BASKETBALL Coming off a disappointing loss to Holy Cross, the Bulldogs (0-2, 0–0 Ivy) struggled to find offensive consistency last night.

Head coach Chris Gobrecht said the team was still adjusting to a number of changes this season, including shifts in the roster and coaching staff.

“We haven’t had a lot of offensive poise in these first few games,” Gobrecht said.

In pressure situations we need to improve our game.

SARAH HALEJIANME ’15 Guard, women’s basketball Guard Hayden Lantham ’15, center Arrice Bryant ’15 and forward Alexandra OsbornJones ’14 are all currently out due to injury, leaving Yale with only 10 players on the bench.

With much of their inside presence missing, the Bulldogs went scoreless for the first three minutes of the game.

Guard Sarah Halejian ’15, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, led the Bulldogs with 12 points and two assists, while guards Janna Graf ’14 and Nyasha Sarju ’16 contributed 7 and 9 points, respectively. As a team, Yale struggled from behind the free-throw line, making 63.6 percent of their free throws Wednesday night, while New Hampshire (1-0) finished made 78.9 percent.

Going into the second half, the Bulldogs were down 25-32 SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 9

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Yale was out-rebounded by the New Hampshire Wildcats 44-36. The Bulldogs fell 57–51 at home.

Bulldogs look to end skid

Cargill talks last chance

BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After hitting a recent rough patch, the women’s hockey team hopes to turn it around this weekend with a pair of games against No. 4 Mercyhurst.

BY LEAH MOTZKIN CONTRIBUTING REPROTER With the 129th Harvard-Yale Game fast approaching, the News spoke with senior running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 about his hopes for his last match as a Bulldog. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, he earned the running backs award for last year’s spring practice.

W. HOCKEY The Bulldogs (1–7–0, 1–5–0 ECAC) come into the homestand after losing five straight, three of which came against teams currently ranked in the top six in the nation.

Earlier in the year, the Bulldogs looked to be turning things around from last season, when the team won one game all year, after capturing a hard-fought win over Colgate and narrowly losing to No. 2 Cornell. Since then, Yale has surrendered at least four goals in each game.

After last weekend’s losses to Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the Elis agreed that it will take a team effort to gain a victory.

“The most important thing at this point in the season is that everyone buys into what we are trying to accomplish,” defenseman Jamie Gray ’13 said.

The Yale defense will be tested this weekend by the potent Mercyhurst attack, which is currently second in the country with 4.92 goals per game. The Lakers are led by forward Christine Bestland, who has

is the season going so QHow far?

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Well, it’s been kind of a tough season. The record isn’t great, although the season has been somewhat rewarding in other ways.

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Danielle Moncion ’13 has two assists and 11 shots on goal in eight games played this season.

what other ways has it been QInrewarding?

the third most points among all players in Division I. Stopping an opposing offense often comes down to penalty kills, and spe-

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cial teams has been a problem for Yale this year. Yale has a 73.5 percent success rate on SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 9

I’ve gained a lot respect for my teammates because we’ve continued to fight, beginning to end. We’ve been tested

a lot, but we’ve been playing in every game. We’ve definitely bought into what coach Reno is selling to us. It’s hard not to care, but we try to be physical and just deal with whatever adversity may come our way. the game plan for QWhat’s Harvard-Yale?

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Well, basically speaking, it’s the same game plan we’ve had all year. It’s kind of a situation where what we do is what we do. We try to tailor it to put ourselves in the best position. Generally, it’s the same every week, but we might do certain things to put ourselves in the best situation. Harvard’s a good team: strong in front, good linebackers, and strong in secondary also. It’s a good defensive match. We’re all excited to go out and play. The reason why we come to Yale is to play in this game. It’s going to be a good match up.

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NUMBER OF SAVES MADE BY WOMEN’S HOCKEY NETMINDER JAIMIE LEONOFF ’15 AGAINST ST. LAWRENCE LAST SATURDAY. Leonoff already has 300 saves in eight games for an average of 37.5 saves per game, including a record 44 saves against Harvard.