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CROSS CAMPUS

OWLS LEINBACH ’16 GIVES A HOOT

MEN’S HOCKEY

UNEMPLOYMENT

CURFEW EXTENDED

Bulldogs rely on overtime to defeat two nationally ranked opponents

RATE RISES AS STATE ADDS 1,200 JOBS IN OCTOBER

Cultural houses party it up late into the night, sans alcoholic beverages

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Scholars look to Oxford

YALE LOSES IN HEARTBREAKER

Welcome back! Now that

Thanksgiving break is over, you have officially three weeks left to catch up on readings and learn everything you need to know before final exams. Cram hard, Yale.

BY AMY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A new man in charge. The

Yale football team selected defensive end Beau Palin ’14 to serve as the team’s captain in 2013. The decision brings to an end the team’s first season without a captain in its 140year history. Congratulations!

Just don’t punch anyone.

They waited for hours. The application process was complete, the interviews were behind them and the seven Yale students who would soon be named Rhodes scholars were full of anticipation.

When the Rhodes Trust affiliates came into the waiting rooms on the evening of Nov. 17 and announced this year’s winners — who will be provided full funding for graduate study at the University of Oxford under the scholarship — the students were shocked.

“It overwhelms, to get the news after such a long process,” Micah Johnson ’13 said. “To have it all come down to that moment is kind of hard to believe.”

Johnson and the other scholars — Jennifer Bright ’13, David Carel ’13, Rhiana Gunn-Wright ’11, Catherine LaporteOshiro ’13, Benjamine Liu ’12 and Dakota McCoy ’13 — comprise the largest Rhodes delegation in Yale history, beating the record six scholars the University produced in 1968. When they found out that they will move to the United Kingdom in the fall, the seven students all had a similar reaction: disbelief.

Carel said he thought “there was no way” his name was going to be called.

“When they did, I could barely breathe — I still didn’t quite believe it,” he said.

The scholarship is awarded annually to 32 Americans, along with students from other countries, who exhibit outstanding scholarly achievement and “moral force of character.” Though the seven Yalies

A company of scholars.

Harold McNamara ’11 has been named one of 12 Mitchell Scholars for the program’s class of 2014. McNamara, who is currently studying in the United Kingdom on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, will study neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin next September under the program.

Speaking of awards. Paul

Goldberger ’72 has been awarded the National Building Museum’s 14th annual Vincent Scully Prize, an honor named after history of art professor Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49.

Goldberger, a Pulitzer Prizewinning architecture critic, credited his interest in the discipline to Scully, who had been his mentor at Yale.

Despite a fourth-quarter lead, the Bulldogs made history with their sixth straight loss against Harvard. PAGE 12

Go Bulldogs! The Yale football

team’s running back Tyler Varga ’15 has been awarded first-team all-Ivy League recognition, the only Yalie this season to receive the honor.

Varga ended the season with 935 yards total, averaging 116.9 rushing yards per game this season.

Showdown of the year. New Haven police officers beat the city’s firefighters 14–0 during the departments’ annual “Touchdown for Charity” flag football match. The game raised $1,075 for the early childhood center of the Life Haven shelter.

Hipsters, rejoice! Yale student

band Plume Giant has released a new music video for their song “We Got It Made.” The cheery video features the band members singing and playing musical instruments as they stroll around the Elm City.

Ivy-bound? Princeton and

Columbia have reported increases in their early application counts for the class of 2017. Princeton received 3,791 applications, marking a 10 percent increase from last year, while Columbia received 3,126 applications, a 1.3 percent increase.

In the red. New Haven could

run a $8.5 million deficit by the end of the fiscal year, with only $1.86 million in its “rainy day” fund.

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Yale invests in West Haven

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Tailgate exceeds low expectations

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER In the University’s latest move to help improve local education, Yale announced Tuesday it will invest $100,000 in West Haven public schools.

Since 2007, when the University purchased the Bayer Healthcare Complex and founded West Campus, Yale has invested more than $1 million in the city of West Haven in an ongoing effort to reach out to the West Haven community. This $100,000 will primarily fund reading materials for elementary school students, said West Haven Public Schools Superintendent Neil Cavallaro.

A portion of the funding will be directed toward purchasing computer and Smart Board software.

When [Yale] purchased West Campus, they made it clear that they wanted to be a part of our community.

NEIL CAVALLARO Superintendent, West Haven Public Schools West Haven school administrators said they are grateful for the University’s investment.

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Though most students had low expectations for the tailgate at the Game this year, many said that they still enjoyed the event.

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER Despite a lack of food and music at the Yale-Harvard tailgate, students said they enjoyed the event.

The majority of students interviewed said they had low expectations for the tailgate this year in light of strict pregame event regulations at Harvard, which prohibit students from bringing U-Hauls into the tailgating area and

serving alcohol to underage attendees.

The Yale College Council, Saybrook College and Timothy Dwight College hosted tailgates but were unable to provide the food and music students had grown accustomed to enjoying at Yale’s home games. Still, most students interviewed were generally satisfied with the tailgate.

“Even though I had somewhat low expectations, I thought the tailgate was really fun,” Katy Osborn ’15 said.

Harvard police officers stood directly

behind YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 and the five other YCC members serving alcohol at the event, Gonzalez said, which made it impossible for the YCC members to give drinks to anyone underage. In addition, Harvard police and events staff members stopped Yale’s tailgate at 11:45 a.m., 15 minutes earlier than the stated tailgating period was slated to end. Gonzalez said the officers SEE TAILGATE PAGE 5

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OPINION

.COMMENT “While Yale may not be perfect, thank God it's not Harvard.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

Intellectual doomsday?

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f you haven’t yet seen Steven Spielberg’s new movie about Abraham Lincoln, you should. Daniel Day Lewis makes a compelling Abe, bringing human depth to the iconic American president.

And the film faithfully portrays politics as it was in 1865 — gritty, nasty and personal.

I was a little surprised that the director of "E.T." produced a historically accurate, yet still gripping movie.

(For the record, I have some qualms with the accuracy of "Schindler’s List.") But even more surprising: The theater I attended was packed with a sell-out crowd. Spielberg’s success is a heartwarming sign of American intellectual curiosity.

It has become common (and convincing) to argue that Americans are growing increasingly stupid. Consider just two examples: We hear constantly that our education system is broken, and that American children cannot compete internationally in math and the sciences.

And the media, once the bastion of serious ideas, is crumbling, too. The patria of public intellectualism — long-form, print journalism — lies gasping on death’s doorstep. Twitter forces politicians to cram thoughts into 140 characters, an impossible task. On TV, insipid reality shows capture the most viewership.

All in all, it appears an intellectual doomsday is looming on the horizon.

Happily, Lincoln fights against this trend. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Spielberg’s film grossed $34.1 million, taking the number three spot for total ticket sales. The movie sold, despite having no sex and surprisingly little violence — you don’t even see Abe’s assassination on the screen. What did Lincoln have? Ideas. Ideas about the president’s powers in wartime, ideas about the purposes of the Constitution and ideas about the importance of rhetoric in American culture. Ideas and all, it still sold.

It’s true that "Skyfall" and "Twilight" both beat Spielberg in tickets sold over the holiday weekend. Sex and violence and vampires trumped 19th-century politics. At the same time, the fact that people want to see Lincoln, a movie that forces them to think, suggests that Americans rise to the occasion when given the intellectual opportunity.

And, if upcoming films are any indication, Lincoln is no flash in the pan of public interest. Soon to be released "Les

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY On Point

Miserables" and "Anna Karenina" both come with s ta r- s t u d ded casts.

Personally, I cannot wait to see the hard-faced R u s s e l l Crowe as Javert; oth-

ers seem to agree.

Admittedly, these movies will likely not change our perception of the everyman overnight. It is easy for us — read: me among that “us” — to believe in intellectual doomsday. After all, who can forget 2010 Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell who proudly “didn’t go to Yale,” a comment which won her 40 percent of the electorate in Delaware.

This campaign season, we saw voters on both sides embrace populism and demagoguery over facts and figures. A Spielberg movie cannot erase those images from our mind or the realities behind the images.

REPORTS OF OUR DOOMSDAY HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED So what’s a potential lesson for Yale? For one thing, the University might capitalize on Americans’ desire for serious intellectual engagement, if only to retain Yale’s public brand as institution of knowledge. In his acceptance speech, President-elect Peter Salovey recommitted the University to online education. That said, in this area, Yale’s showing has been dismal. We are far behind peer schools such as Stanford, whose wildly popular web courses give online “students” feedback and tests. Salovey should commit money, not just words, to an expansion of Yale’s Internet footprint.

On a broader note, we as an academy might pledge ourselves to creating intellectual products accessible — not just to our own, but to the public at large. In other words: Let’s go out and produce more Lincolns.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays.

Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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'08' ON 'NEWS' VIEW: HARVARD SUCKS'

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Trusting Cantabs and serendipity I

sometimes feel that here at Yale, we have measured out our lives with coffee spoons.

We forget how to walk barefoot, to act impetuously, to consider the potential promise of an unplanned unknown. Just take a look at a kaleidoscopic GCal, try to schedule in something spontaneous (already inherently doomed if you’re using the word “schedule”), or ask someone in October what he or she is doing for the summer. When he responds, “I don’t know yet,” it is only a cautious preamble to the ensuing list of applications and internships already set at low-tomedium heat on the back burner.

On the Friday night lurking before The Game, I was reminded how on this one weekend, our deeply ingrained mentality of preparedness and risk aversion undergoes a drastic bouleversement. From the moment our soles touch Cambridge pavement until kickoff, there is no knowing where we may find ourselves.

Our biennial pilgrimage to Harvard rests on a transient trust in chance and the unknown — two

ambiguous entities that most Yalies have long striven to avoid.

Not to mention our faith in Cantabs — that after the juvenile bad-mouthing and platitudinous back-and-forth, our witless rivals will still have the decency of heart to swipe us into their entryways, let us crash on their couches and flop on their library floors.

For a short, glorious stretch of uncertainty, we leave our immediate futures up to chance. And quite often, this simple risk leads to some of the semester’s most entertaining stories. A friend of mine still seizes any possible opportunity to recount his 2010 Yale-Harvard tale of waking up alone in a chemistry lab.

This year, a buddy at the tailgate revealed to me, beneath his neon shades, a lazy eye generously imparted the night before by a Harvard student. And one of my girlfriends ended up in the tender embrace of some Harvard chap named Vipple.

I’m not, let me clarify, condoning belligerence or trespassing, renegade romance or intentional

recklessness. Safety is always paramount, and I trust that both Yalies and Cantabs transcend the invisible lines of college loyalty to prioritize mutual well-being.

What I am condoning, rather, is a tryst with chance — a willingness, if only short-lived, to succumb to serendipity. To have absolutely no idea what you’re doing or where you’re going or who’ll be there with you, and to be, for once, okay with that. For many of us, that comes as easily as brushing off a bad grade.

And sometimes, the powers of chance stick around until Game day. For the first time in a long while, hundreds of Yalies are gathered together with their default mode of communication largely incapacitated. At the tailgate, you are better off meandering aimlessly than trying in vain to talk your texts into sending. If they don’t want to, they won’t. Cyber communication crippled, you might stumble into The Game on the arm of someone unexpected, or perhaps let the still-wet wings of a fledgling relationship give a little flap, knowing

in that heart of risk-averse hearts that if those wings don’t fly, the impending vacations will provide a safe and subtle exit.

Yale-Harvard is a curious thing — that one weekend a year when it’s suddenly okay to wear those old-boy H and Y sweaters out in public without feeling like a self-satisfied poseur, to be hailed a safety school and to not check your email for all — yes, all — of Saturday. Perhaps the stories of serendipitous mishaps that we encounter in Cambridge will render more Yalies willing to leave their tomorrows less meticulously planned. I’d like to believe the best things come unseen, and certainly not color-coded. These are our bright college years, and we only live them once; don’t let Yale-Harvard be the only time you let in a little of the unknown.

Chem lab counters and Vipple’s semi-sculpted biceps may not appeal to everyone, but, well, you just never know.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

GUE ST COLUMNIST GENG NGARMBOONANANT

What football can do I

n the middle of the third quarter, when the crowd suddenly realized we had a chance of winning, I noticed a guy about a couple of rows down from me, standing alone in the midst of Yale students. He was bald and stocky, probably in his early 50s. He’d stood up when the announcer asked the fans to recognize veterans who had served the country. Now on his feet again, he was delivering an extended commentary on the state of the game.

“Five years, too much.” “We can do it people.” “Get that damn passing QB back here!” And, after the questionable pass interference call in the fourth quarter, “That ain’t real!”

He did all of this while fidgeting uncontrollably, glancing purposelessly at the empty air, jabbing his stubby fingers skyward.

If I’d seen him anywhere else in the world, I would’ve labeled him crazy. But football does weird things to people. Here, in the middle of the Yale crowd, he was not that “crazy mumbling dude” over there, but one of us, over here. I don’t even know the name of the man, but I felt a surge of respect for him. By the time The Game ended, I actually felt like I knew him like a

long-lost friend.

You know, the beauty of sports is the unity it provides. Unity for the sake of unity, not unity towards something else. After all, this year’s Game was supposed to be a slaughter. The books had already been written, and in official predictions, Harvard won by 31 points. Even many Yalies agreed; just look at the ticket sales.

But we pulled off a feat that not even Nate Silver could have predicted. Touchdown after touchdown, we were so indescribably elated that strangers hugged and kissed in the bleachers. It wasn’t weird, too, because we were one and the same, going through ups and downs together, sharing in the exact same human experience.

Yale, we bonded last Saturday.

It’s such a shame that these experiences are rarely found anymore. No longer do masses of students flock to games; athletics has dropped down everyone’s ladder of importance. From the students’ perspective, the reason for this apathy is clear: watching our teams lose isn’t fun. And the teams themselves? They don’t have enough resources to be competitive.

Our glory days may be behind

us, but we must now build a quasi-dignified (at least) sports program. On recruitment alone, we’ve failed. Ivy League regulations allow for 230 recruits, but for the class of 2015, we only admitted 77 percent of that cap. The result is tangible, and frankly, embarrassing: our varsity track team doesn’t even have enough bodies to fill all 17 events at a meet. How can we even begin to be competitive when we treat our varsity teams as little more than glorified club sports?

The overhaul of our athletic program must begin with genuine initiative from the administration. They must acknowledge that sports have value — a value beyond the physical, and a value that needs to be preserved. Athletics give the entire student body a chance to reflect, to experience raw emotions, to get in touch with what it means to be proud, to appreciate a single moment.

I understand concerns about the financial trade-offs between funding athletics and academics. But there are improvements that can be made without sacrificing our academic strength and integrity — starting with a positive shift in attitude. Alumni have heavily criticized President Rick

Levin for his comments on athletics. President-elect Salovey can change the tone of his administration by dedicating more attention to our teams, and actually attending the games himself. When small trade-offs must be made, we must remember that the college experience is greater than classes — and Yale’s job is not only to teach us to think, but also how to live as part of a community.

When we lost this past weekend by a sliver, the entire Yale crowd fell silent. The walk out of the stadium felt like hell. It was sickening.

But that’s how it was supposed to be. You only feel sick to your stomach when you know you’ve given it your all, fans and athletes alike. I found grace in the fact that a thousand of my fellow classmates — and, of course, my new veteran friend — felt exactly the same way as I did. In a twisted and wretched way, that solemn walk out was one of the most profoundly beautiful moments I have ever experienced at Yale.

GENG NGARMBOONANANT is a sophomore in Silliman College.

Contact him at wischa.ngarmboonanant@yale.edu .

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henever friends back home in Chile rile against U.S. consumerism, shallowness or corporate greed, I often find myself defending this country. My favorite counterargument: Thanksgiving.

As an international student, Thanksgiving has always struck me as the “purest” of holidays.

No other country (except Canada) has an entire national holiday entirely dedicated to simply having dinner with family or friends. There is no explicit religion behind it, no gift-giving or -receiving. Anyone can celebrate Thanksgiving, from the WASP-iest family to the most recent immigrants. Time with those you love is the sole point of the holiday. People spend the day at home, cook together, share a delicious meal, watch football (alas, not soccer) and give thanks for the good things in their lives. Families that are spread out over North America fly hundreds of miles just to be with each other. Christmas Eve dinner is similar, but with two months of anticipation, massive retail consumption and religious origins — it does not reach the same degree of distilled family joy.

But there is a “black” cloud looming over this American wonder. As you know, the day after Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, marked by the largest retail discounts of the year.

This day in principle is good — the shopping season has to start at some point, and Black Friday has been a thing since at least the 1960s.

In the past five years or so, though, it has steadily encroached upon Thanksgiving.

Last year, for the first time, many large department stores opened before midnight. This year WalMart opened at 8 p.m. My stomach churned when I first read about this, as I imagined tens of millions of Americans cutting short their Thanksgiving dinners, with turkeys left warm on the table, to save $150 on a flatscreen TV or a new grill. Thousands lined up outside retailers throughout Thanksgiving Day, possibly forgoing dinner altogether.

According to the National Retail Federation, the number of Black Friday shoppers rose from 140 million in 2006 to 226 million in 2011. I shudder thinking how many of those millions began their shopping on Thurs-

day this year, and how much earlier it will begin next year. I was shocked by the lack of controversy this massive shift in consumer behavior has caused.

There were columns in major papers last year, but very few this year. The country is getting used to this new “Black Thursday.”

Some may wonder why this is a problem. If people want to shop, why shouldn’t they?

Who am I to say they are wrong in wanting to shop, or to blame retail stores for simply meeting their demands? After all, WalMart says it opened at 8 p.m. this Thanksgiving in response to consumer feedback.

Besides the fact that hundreds of thousands of retail employees are unable to enjoy a federal holiday (which has led to strikes in some Wal-Marts), encroachment on Thanksgiving is a market failure and erodes social welfare. Yes, increased consumption strengthens the economy, and Black Friday is rightfully seen as a bellwether of consumer confidence. But the economy is ultimately about what we value. Gross domestic product increases because we sell, produce and earn more, and we only sell or produce things

people value. I’m certain that people value time spent with their families on Thanksgiving, but this non-monetary value is not shown in GDP. Black Thursday savings may offset this value for many families in tough economic times.

Opening this early, though, is not Pareto efficient. If Thanksgiving were shielded by a ban on Thursday retail openings, people (and the economy) would still get the value of Black Friday shopping on Friday, while getting all of the value of Thanksgiving on Thursday. Big shopping sales can fall on any day, so having them begin on Friday instead of Thursday makes little difference, but Thanksgiving only happens on Thanksgiving.

Families value Thanksgiving, retailers do not — this market failure requires correction.

America, please protect the Thanksgiving tradition. I don’t think you realize how unique it is. For one day, let family trump materialism. Please don’t prove me wrong when I defend you back home.

DIEGO SALVATIERRA is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at diego.salvatierra@yale.edu .

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“I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad’s not overly protective, but he’s a dad no matter what.” MILEY CYRUS SINGER AND ACTRESS

CT sees more jobs, higher unemployment GRAPH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

While Connecticut added jobs in October, the state’s unemployment rate rose marginally to 9.0 percent as residents re-entered a labor market that remains shaky.

The increase of a tenth of a percent from September brought the unemployment rate back to its August level, the highest the state has seen since March 2011 when it stood at 9.1 percent. Though the rate rose, the addition of roughly 1,200 jobs in October indicates that more people are entering the labor market — a change politicians and experts said is a sign for cautious optimism.

“If these conflicting results tell any single story,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a press release last week, “it’s that more people are attempting to enter the workforce because conditions are beginning to improve.”

JAN. 2011 State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, meanwhile, attributed some of the improvement to a bipartisan jobs bill passed in Connecticut in October 2011 that, among other provisions, provided subsidies to small businesses for a portion of newly hired workers’ salaries in their first six months on the job.

“We’ve taken some measures over time that will really stimulate hiring in Connecticut,” Looney said.

These improved conditions mirror a positive national trend in which unemployment has gradually declined — dropping below 8 percent for the first time since January 2009 in September — while October saw the consumer confidence index rise 3 percent and housing prices experience their biggest monthly jump since August 2005.

Nevertheless, Connecticut residents searching for jobs still

face a tough labor market, which has largely been blamed on a lethargic national economy, the European debt crisis and uncertainty over federal regulation and budget issues.

The more we learn about the Great Recession, the more we realize how long it’s going to take to get us out of it.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut “We are battling strong headwinds, both at the national level and in Europe,” Malloy said. “The more we learn about the Great Recession, the more we realize

JAN. 2012 how long it’s going to take to get us out of it.”

Connecticut’s unemployment rate stands a full point higher than the national rate, which increased from 7.8 percent to 7.9 percent in October. This is a reversal from a year ago when Connecticut’s unemployment rate hovered at 8.5 percent, fourtenths of a point lower than the national average.

Ed Deak, an economics professor at Fairfield University, told the Hartford Courant last week that a number of factors have contributed to the difference between the state and national unemployment rate, including United Technologies Corp.’s decision to move manufacturing jobs out of the state, the decline in defense work due to the slowing of Pentagon spending and banks’ uncertainty in the face of financial reform regulation.

Some have also pointed to

Hurricane Sandy as at least part of the cause for the marginal growth in the unemployment rate. The storm wrecked havoc on Connecticut’s coastline when it made landfall on Oct. 29.

“I think there are probably a number of businesses that wound up closing for a number of days and in some cases may have laid off employees,” Looney said.

“There is a significant impact of that storm that will take a while to truly quantify.”

Meanwhile, the federal budget fight threatens to derail the national recovery and further hamper Connecticut’s efforts to lower the unemployment rate.

Negotiations to avoid the socalled “fiscal cliff,” which would result in automatic tax increases and spending cuts in 2013, are currently under way in Washington. Failure to reach a compromise could lead to another recession, according to the Con-

gressional Budget Office.

“If [the fiscal cliff] were to go into effect, that would have a severe impact on the state,” Looney said. “Among the things that would be reduced in that federal budget provision would be various forms of aid to states that would compound our problem at the state level.”

Looney said that when the state legislature next meets in January, it is likely to look to further stimulus measures intended to grow Connecticut’s labor market.

Connecticut’s Republican leadership could not be reached for comment.

The state’s unemployment rate peaked at 9.4 percent in August 2010, remaining at that level until January 2011.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Cultural house curfew extended

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Cultural houses such as the Af-Am House, left, and the Native American Cultural Center have seen their curfews extended from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Students socializing at Yale’s cultural houses will now be able to party for an extra hour.

Deans representing La Casa Cultural, the Asian American Cultural Center and the Afro-American Cultural Center decided in a meeting last month to extend the curfew of all cultural house events from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. Previously, each cultural house could only hold one event a year past 1 a.m. — a curfew dictated by weekend “quiet hours” on campus. The extended event

hours are part of a larger effort to provide a “safe, fun and nonalcoholic” social alternative lasting later into the night, said Luming Chen ’14, head coordinator of the AACC. “Many of us around the University want to provide fun programming during the weekend that does not focus on alcohol,” said Rosalinda Garcia, La Casa’s cultural director. “The centers are known for having great dance parties in a dry environment.”

Events hosted by student groups may “on occasion and with special permission” con-

tinue until 2 a.m. provided that they are dry, Chen said. No student groups from the AACC have taken advantage of the new hours yet, she added.

The centers are known for having great dance parties in a dry environment.

ROSALINDA GARCIA Cultural director, La Casa Cultural The cultural centers have

aimed to provide more “great dance parties” without alcohol this year, Garcia said. Since September, La Casa has held two parties lasting until 2 a.m.

— Calentura, an annual event held Sept. 17, and a new Halloween party co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Cooperative. Both events were “packed,” said La Casa staff member Alicia Diaz ’15, adding that the second floor of La Casa had to be opened for the first time ever during Calentura to accommodate the large turnout. Two additional dry parties will be hosted at La Casa in the next two weekends, she

said.

By holding events for students on weekend nights, cultural centers offer a sober alternative to parties at fraternities, said Karmen Cheung ’13, former head coordinator of the AACC. Diaz said she does not believe the events will completely prevent drinking but thinks students will limit their alcohol intake by attending cultural center parties late into the night.

“If you drink and go to these parties, you have more time to get sober during the process versus going to [a] student’s party that may have alcohol [and

more drinking],” she said.

This year, the cultural centers have increased efforts to provide smaller late night and weekend events as well, Garcia said. La Casa held its first “sleepover” on Oct. 20, staying open all night to allow students to socialize, watch movies and do homework, said La Casa staff member Amaris Olguin ’15.

The next cultural center party will occur on Dec. 1 at La Casa following the fall show of Sabrosura, Yale’s Latin dance team.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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The percentage of 2013 Rhode Scholarships awarded to Yale students.

The seven students selected comprise a record number of Yalies chosen in one year. Harvard saw the second greatest representation with six students.

Rhodes delegation is Yale’s largest ever JENNIFER BRIGHT ’13

BENJAMINE LIU ’12 Liu graduated from Yale last year with a degree in biology. He hopes to pursue neuroscience at Oxford, studying the prefrontal cortex to understand better the underlying mechanisms of mental disorders.

In the future, Liu said, he hopes to work as a physician-scientist and help improve the treatment of neurological disorders and mental illnesses, in addition to advocating for policies to improve the quality of health care. Liu is currently studying computational biology at Cambridge, where he is learning how to apply technological developments to improve the counseling, diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from mental disorders. At Oxford, he looks forward to playing basketball, rowing and sampling English ales.

An ethics, politics and economics major, Bright said she plans to earn a degree in public policy at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and focus on urban health. After Oxford, she hopes to attend law school and work at a health policy institution. Growing up in New York and interning in the city for three summers have motivated Bright to pursue public health policy as a career, she said.

She looks forward to participating in intramural sports at Oxford, as well as joining the university’s close-knit residential college community. She is currently editor in chief of the Yale Undergraduate Law Review and a member of the Yale Urban Collective.

RHODES FROM PAGE 1 each received the same award, their interests are varied, ranging from neuroscience to urban health.

McCoy, who plans to study behavioral ecology and environmental policy at Oxford, said it was “like time stopped” when she was awarded the scholarship. Her interests stem from a Yale class she took on collections at the Peabody Museum, and she said she looks forward to studying in the United Kingdom because of its international leadership in conservation policy.

“I already knew I wanted to go there, and obviously [the scholarship] is a great opportunity to do that,” she said.

Carel also said he is excited to study in the United Kingdom given the nation’s leadership in activism and development. He has led several HIV/ AIDS activism groups and stud-

ied the influence of public policy on developing cities.

Johnson and Liu — who share interests in neuroscience and public health — had been interested in their fields even before college. For Johnson, extensive lab research and a summer spent in Ghana helped him develop his interest in medicine and health policy, and for Liu, the freshman science program Perspectives on Science and Engineering confirmed his academic interest in brain disorders.

Laporte-Oshiro also cited Yale experiences as defining points of her academic career.

It was during her study in China on a Richard U. Light Fellowship, she said, that she “really [fell] in love with China,” and she currently hopes to pursue a career in public service as well as academic work on China-related diplomacy.

Unlike five of the six other students, Gunn-Wright decided not to apply for the scholarship

directly out of Yale. But she said she was inspired to apply this year after hearing about Newark Mayor Cory Booker LAW ’97, a Rhodes scholar in 1994, who rescued a woman from a burning building. Booker’s careerlong history of serving the public good made Gunn-Wright aspire to do the same and pursue the scholarship as the same first step that Booker took a decade ago.

“Seeing the way that he served people, he seemed like somebody I could relate to,” she said. “I wanted to be a part of that.”

Bright, who is interested in public policy and urban health, said she is grateful to her personal community of friends and mentors for helping her win the scholarship, and that “without them, [she] certainly could not have been successful.”

Looking ahead to the next several years, the students said they are eager to experience

Oxford’s unique culture and join the network of Rhodes scholars.

“I’m incredibly excited to be part of the Rhodes community, which is a group of unbelievably talented and motivated people with all different backgrounds and interests,” Johnson said.

The students said they look forward to exploring nonacademic pursuits as well at Oxford, such as track and field, music, hiking and ale-tasting. In particular, Bright said she looks forward to participating in intramural sports, and Johnson said he is excited for Oxford’s residential college system — which, he said, is like “the Yale system on steroids.”

The American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2013, chosen out of a pool of 838 nominated students, will begin its studies abroad next fall.

DAKOTA MCCOY ’13 An ecology and evolutionary biology major at Yale, McCoy plans to earn degrees in behavioral ecology and environmental policy at Oxford. McCoy is interested in researching ecosystems in Argentina and studying under Oxford’s Nature, Society and Environmental Policy program. She won the Barry Goldwater Scholarship as a sophomore and has done research projects in primate cognition, ecology and evolutionary biology, in addition to publishing research in peer-reviewed journals. McCoy said she hopes to become a professor, though she also wants to be involved in conservation policy. At Yale, she is a member of the varsity track and field team and sang in the New Blue a cappella group.

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

DAVID CAREL ’13

MICAH JOHNSON ’13 Double-majoring in psychology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Johnson hopes to combine his interests in medicine and health policy in his future career.

Though he has always been interested in medicine, he said, he found a particular niche in neuroscience and brain disorders after coming to Yale. Johnson said that a combination of his lab research and his summer spent in Ghana as part of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute defined his career path, helping him understand the role of health policy in the field of medicine. He is executive editor of the Yale Journal of Medicine and Law and is also a professional magician.

Carel will study comparative social policy at Oxford, with a focus on urban development. Drawn to South African history and politics since childhood, Carel is particularly interested in the roles that economic, health and education policy play in the lives of African youth facing high rates of illness and poverty. He was president of the Yale AIDS Coalition and hopes to continue his activism at Oxford. Carel has also performed as a drummer in a West African dance troupe and as an instructor in Rukdan Israeli dancing. At Oxford, Carel said he hopes to continue running and hiking and might join a band.

CATHERINE LAPORTE-OSHIRO ’13

RHIANA GUNNWRIGHT ’11

Laporte-Oshiro plans to pursue modern Chinese studies at Oxford, developing her skills in both Chinese language and area studies. She is interested in a career in public service, as well as academic work on international relations and China-related diplomacy. Laporte-Oshiro has studied Mandarin in Beijing, interned at the Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong and taught English in Nanjing, China. She has also been involved in economics, serving as team captain of the Yale Fed Challenge Team and the president of the Yale Undergraduate Economics Association. She said she is excited to get involved in Rhodes Women and the Oxford Union, and she also looks forward to hiking and traveling around Europe.

Gunn-Wright plans to study comparative social policy at Oxford and pursue a career in social welfare policy. A double-major in African American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, she initially structured her academic career to look at the intersection between race and gender and later became interested in poverty and welfare rights movements. Gunn-Wright hopes to conduct comparative research into the consequences of American and British welfare policies. As an undergraduate, she was heavily involved in the Women’s Center, the Yale Black Women’s Coalition and the AfroAmerican Cultural Center. She is very excited to live at Oxford, she said, as she has never traveled to the United Kingdom before.

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FROM THE FRONT YCC tailgate lacks food, music TAILGATE FROM PAGE 1 ended tailgating early to ensure attendees had enough time to get to Harvard Stadium before the game began at noon.

Ten of 13 students interviewed said the YCC strictly enforced alcohol regulations at its tailgate. Jeremy Hutton ’15 said he thinks the tailgate could be improved by more effective communication of the time limit on tailgating activities.

I wished the speakers had worked better because there was a lot of mingling and too little dancing.

LISA LIN ’14 Though Harvard served food to students from both schools, only Saybrook and TD served food in the Yale tailgate area. Gonzalez said the council decided not to provide food after discovering that the two colleges would be providing refreshments at the tailgate. While YCC Events Director Bryan Epps

’14 said it is “unrealistic” for the council to provide enough food to serve all Yale students at the tailgate, he added that he wishes YCC could provide “additional perks like hot chocolate and other food.”

Seven students said they wanted more food available at the Yale tailgate.

“I feel like colleges have better food options at Yale tailgates, like the arepas cart at the Yale-Princeton tailgate,” Rachel Miller ’15 said. “I miss the U-Haul trucks and the wide variety of groups offering food.”

Epps said the Harvard events staff had initially told the YCC that Harvard would be providing music for both tailgates, so the YCC decided not to bring a DJ or speakers. TD stepped in and offered to use its own speakers — which the council brought in case Harvard’s music was not loud enough — but 10 students interviewed said the music was still inaudible.

“I wished the speakers had worked better because there was a lot of mingling and too little dancing,” Lisa Lin ’14 said.

The next Yale-Harvard game will be held at Yale on Nov. 16, 2013.

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

“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.” FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ARCHITECT

Yale funds public schools SCHOOL GRANT FROM PAGE 1 “[Yale administrators] have been very generous to us. When they purchased West Campus, they made it clear that they wanted to be a part of our community,” Cavallaro said. “We hope it continues for a long, long time.”

Cavallaro said improving early literacy is one of the most important items on the district’s agenda. It is very difficult for third-grade students behind their appropriate reading level to make up the difference with their peers, Cavallaro said. To prevent such reading level setbacks, the new funding will target young elementary school students and attempt to bring all students to reading at grade level, he added.

“Early literacy skills are critical in the development of our local youth and in placing all children on an equal footing as they take their first steps of their academic career,” said Lauren Zucker, associate vice president and director of New Haven affairs for Yale.

Ritamarie Bouchard, the K-6 English language arts coach for

West Haven public schools, said Yale’s donation will fund programs such as the Daily 5, a West Haven elementary school program in which students rotate through five different reading activity stations, such as “read to self” and “listen to reading.” Daily 5 also allows teachers to work with individuals or small groups, she added.

Reading is magic. Reading is a gift that will take children wherever they want to go.

RITAMARIE BOUCHARD K-6 English language arts coach, West Haven Public Schools Access to a variety of books is vital to students’ ability to improve their reading abilities, Bouchard said. The reading levels and topics of the books need to be varied so students are reading at the right level on topics that interest them, she explained. The

$100,000 donated by Yale will fund books of all genres, from non-fiction to poetry.

“Reading is magic,” Bouchard said. “Reading is a gift that will take children wherever they want to go.”

Zucker said Yale must exhibit “civic leadership” in West Haven analogous to the way the University invests in New Haven.

“Similar to our investment in the New Haven Promise, Yale is pleased to be able to contribute to a program which focuses on improving all children’s opportunity for educational success,” Zucker said.

Cavallaro added that more than half of the money Yale has invested in West Haven has gone to the school district. He noted that, among other programs and activities, West Haven high school students take advantage of internships on West Campus.

In April 2009, Yale gave $500,000 to West Haven for the creation of a West Haven Center for the Arts.

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

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close look around Yale’s campus may reveal an unlikely fauna hero. Owls fill Yale’s nooks and crannies, libraries and building faces.

After spotting an owl outside her dorm room window, contributing photographer ANNELISA LEINBACH documented the symbol of wisdom throughout the University’s buildings and trees.

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8:00 PM Mindfulness Meditation Group Sitting meditation followed by a discussion and informal lecture on the practice of mindfulness meditation, or vipassana. Meditation instruction will be provided for beginners. Attendees should bring their own meditation cushion or bench. Free admission and open to the Yale and New Haven communities. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), Chapel.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 5:00 PM “Sappho, Lincoln and the Senate: Picturing 19th-Century Female Desire” The speaker will be Simon Goldhill of Cambridge University. Part of the Franke Lectures in the Humanities focusing on “Classicism and Modernity.” Free admission and open to the general public. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorium.

5:30 PM “Our Divided Political Heart and the Election of 2012” E.J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post and senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution will give the Sorensen Lecture. A reception will follow in the Sarah Smith Gallery. Free admission and open to the general public. Marquand Chapel (409 Prospect St.).

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“Do not call for black power or green power.

Call for brain power.” BARBARA JORDAN FIRST SOUTHERN BLACK FEMALE ELECTED TO THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Benefits bring couple to high court

BY LISA JEFF ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Like a lot of newlyweds, Karen Golinski was eager to enjoy the financial fruits of marriage. Within weeks of her wedding, she applied to add her spouse to her employer-sponsored health care plan, a move that would save the couple thousands of dollars a year.

Her ordinarily routine request still is being debated more than four years later, and by the likes of former attorneys general, a slew of senators, the Obama administration and possibly this week, the U.S. Supreme Court.

Because Golinski is married to another woman and works for the U.S. government, her claim for benefits has morphed into a multilayered legal challenge to a 1996 law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing unions like hers.

The high court has scheduled a closed-door conference for Friday to review Golinski’s case and four others that also seek to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton.

The purpose of the meeting is to decide which, if any, to put on the court’s schedule for arguments next year.

The outcome carries economic and social consequences for gay, lesbian and bisexual couples, who now are unable to access Social Security survivor benefits, file joint income taxes, inherit a deceased spouse’s pension or obtain family health insurance.

The other plaintiffs in the cases pending before the court include the state of Massachusetts, 13 couples and five widows and widowers.

“It’s pretty monumental and it’s an honor,” said Golinski, a staff lawyer for the federal appeals court

based in San Francisco who married her partner of 23 years, Amy Cunninghis, during the brief 2008 window when same-sex marriages were legal in California.

The federal trial courts that heard the cases all ruled the act violates the civil rights of legally married gays and lesbians. Two appellate courts agreed, making it highly likely the high court will agree to hear at least one of the appeals, Lambda Legal Executive Director Jon Davidson said.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had an occasion where the Supreme Court has had so many gay rights cases knocking at its door,” said Davidson, whose gay legal advocacy group represents Golinski.

“That in and of itself shows how far we’ve come.”

The Supreme Court also is scheduled to discuss Friday whether it should take two more long-simmering cases dealing with relationship recognition for same-sex couples.

This is the gay moment, momentum is building. The politics are profound, and politics influence what the court does.

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Because Karen Golinski, right, is married to another woman and works for the U.S. government, her desire to enroll her spouse in her employer-sponsored health plan has morphed into a multi-pronged legal attack to overturn the 1996 law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

LYNN WARDLE Law professor, Brigham Young University One is an appeal of two lower court rulings that struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The other is a challenge to an Arizona law that made state employees in same-sex relationships ineligible for domestic partner benefits.

The last time the court confronted a gay rights case was in 2010, when the justices voted

5–4 to let stand lower court rulings holding that a California law school could deny recognition to a Christian student group that does not allow gay members.

The time before that was the court’s landmark 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, which declared state anti-sodomy laws to be an unconstitutional violation of personal privacy.

Brigham Young University law

Congress loses moderates

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Democratic Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, left, and current Rep. Tammy Baldwin walk together on Capitol Hill.

BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — When the next Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and 11 fewer tea party-backed House Republicans from the class of 2010 who sought a second term.

Overriding those changes, though, is a thinning of pragmatic, centrist veterans in both parties. Among those leaving are some of the Senate’s most pragmatic lawmakers, nearly half the House’s centrist Blue Dog Democrats and several moderate House Republicans.

That could leave the parties more polarized even as President Barack Obama and congressional leaders talk up the cooperation needed to tackle complex, vexing problems such as curbing deficits, revamping tax laws and culling savings from Medicare and other costly, popular programs.

“This movement away from the center, at a time when issues have to be resolved from the middle, makes it much more difficult to find solutions to major problems,” said William Hoagland, senior vice president of the

Bipartisan Policy Center, a private group advocating compromise.

Congress seems to be going in the opposite direction of the country, just as the country is screaming for solutions to gridlock.

PHIL SINGER Democratic strategist In the Senate, moderate Scott Brown, R-Mass., lost to Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who will be one of the most liberal members. Another GOP moderate, Richard Lugar of Indiana, fell in the primary election. Two others, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Olympia Snowe of Maine, are retiring.

Moderate Democratic senators such as Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Jim Webb of Virginia are leaving, as

is Democratic-leaning independent Joe Lieberman.

While about half the incoming 12 Senate freshmen of both parties are moderates, new arrivals include tea party Republican Ted Cruz of Texas, conservative Deb Fischer of Nebraska, and liberals such as Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono.

There’s a similar pattern in the House, where 10 of the 24 Democratic Blue Dogs lost, are retiring or, in the case of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., are moving to the Senate. That will further slash a centrist group that just a few years ago had more than 50 members, though some new freshmen might join.

Among Republicans, moderates like Reps. Judy Biggert of Illinois and New Hampshire’s Charles Bass were defeated while others such as Reps. Jerry Lewis of California and Steven LaTourette of Ohio decided to retire.

“Congress seems to be going in the opposite direction of the country, just as the country is screaming for solutions to gridlock,” said Democratic strategist Phil Singer.

Whether the changes are good is often in the eye of the beholder.

professor Lynn Wardle, who testified before Congress when lawmakers were considering the Defense of Marriage Act 16 years ago, said he still thinks the law passes constitutional muster.

“Congress has the power to define for itself domestic relationships, including defining relationships for purposes of federal programs,” Wardle said.

At the same time, he said, the

gay rights landscape has shifted radically since 1996, citing this month’s election of the first sitting president to declare support for same-sex marriage and four state ballot measures being decided in favor of gay rights activists.

“This is the gay moment, momentum is building,” Wardle said. “The politics are profound, and politics influence what the court does.”

For Golinski and Cunninghis, getting this far has been a long, sometimes frustrating and sometimes heartening journey.

Citing the act, known as DOMA, the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human relations arm, initially denied Golinski’s attempt to enroll Cunninghis in the medical coverage she had selected for herself and the couple’s son, now 10.

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WORLD

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

JIMI HENDRIX ELECTRIC GUITARIST

Morsi tightens control Gaza cleric backs truce

BY IBRAHIM BARZAK ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

BY HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Supporters and opponents of Egypt’s president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader’s move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.

The standoff poses one of the hardest tests for the nation’s liberal and secular opposition since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster nearly two years ago. Failure to sustain protests and eventually force Mohammed Morsi to loosen control could consign it to long-term irrelevance.

Clashes between the two sides spilled onto the streets for a third day since the president issued edicts that make him immune to oversight of any kind, including that of the courts.

A teenager was killed and at least 40 people were wounded when a group of anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the local offices of the political arm of the president’s Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta city of Damanhoor, according to security officials.

It was the first reported death from the street battles that erupted across much of the nation on Friday, the day after Morsi’s decrees were announced.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, identified the boy as 15-year-old Islam Hamdi AbdelMaqsood.

The tensions also dealt a fresh blow to the economy, which has suffered due to the problems plaguing the Arab world’s most populous nation since Mubarak’s ouster.

Egypt’s benchmark EGX30 stock index dropped 9.59 percentage points Sunday in the first trading session since Morsi issued his decrees. The losses were among the biggest since the turbulent days and weeks immediately after Mubarak’s ouster in a popular uprising last year. The loss in the value of shares was estimated at close to $5 billion.

The judiciary, the main target of the edicts, has pushed back, calling the decrees a power grab and an “assault” on the branch’s independence. Judges and prosecutors stayed away from many courts in Cairo and other cities on Sunday.

But the nation’s highest judicial body, the Supreme Judiciary Council, watered down its opposition to the decrees on Sunday.

It told judges and prosecutors to return to work and announced that its members would meet with Morsi on Monday to try to persuade him to restrict immunity to major state decisions like declaring war or martial law or

breaking diplomatic relations with foreign nations.

Morsi supporters insist that the measures were necessary to prevent the courts, which already dissolved the elected lower house of parliament, from further holding up moves to stability by disbanding the assembly writing the new constitution, as judges were considering doing. Both the parliament and the constitutional assembly are dominated by Islamists. Morsi accuses Mubarak loyalists in the judiciary of seeking to thwart the revolution’s goals and barred the judiciary from disbanding the constitutional assembly or parliament’s upper house.

Opposition activists, however, have been adamant since the crisis first erupted that they would not enter a dialogue with Morsi’s regime before the decrees are rescinded.

Protesters also clashed with police at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the mass protests that toppled Mubarak, and in the side streets and avenues leading off the plaza. The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police, said 267 protesters have been arrested and 164 policemen injured since the unrest began a week ago, initially to mark the anniversary of street protests a year ago against the nation’s then-military rulers. Forty-two protesters were killed in those demonstrations.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory — according a religious legitimacy to the truce and giving the Gaza government strong backing to enforce it.

The fatwa, or religious edict, was issued late Saturday by Suleiman al-Daya, a cleric respected by both ultra-conservative Salafis and Hamas.

Salafi groups oppose political accommodations with Israel.

“Honoring the truce, which was sponsored by our Egyptian brethren, is the duty of each and every one of us. Violating it shall constitute a sin,” the fatwa read.

The truce, which was struck Wednesday to bring an end to an eight-day Israeli offensive against Gaza militants who fired rockets into Israel, remains fragile, however, and details beyond the initial ceasefire have not yet been worked out. The fighting killed 169 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, and six Israelis.

Honoring the truce … is the duty of each and every one of us. Violating it shall constitute a sin.

FATWA ISSUED BY ISLAMIC CLERIC SULEIMAN AL-DAYA The spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas government, Taher Nunu, told reporters Sunday that Hamas is committed to the truce.

“The government reaffirmed its blessing to the agreement sponsored by Cairo and emphasized that it will work to the internal Palestinian consensus and the supreme national

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Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, center, talks with residents of an area damaged during the latest Israeli-Hamas fight. interest,” he said, following a government meeting.

Hamas demands that Israel and Egypt lift all restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Palestinian territory. The restrictions have been imposed since the Islamists seized the territory in 2007.

Israel has eased its fullfledged blockade in recent years, and some goods enter Gaza through smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt. But Israel has continued to impose strict restrictions on exports and the import of construction materials, which has severely hampered the development of Gaza’s battered economy.

Israel is expected to link a

significant easing of the blockade to Hamas’s willingness to stop smuggling weapons into Gaza and producing them there.

A top Hamas official said Saturday that the group wouldn’t stop arming itself, suggesting that talks on a new border deal would not go smoothly.

Nunu also told reporters that the offensive inflicted more than $1.2 billion in damage on the Gaza economy, including damage to buildings, infrastructure, agriculture and trade. Israel continues to restrict the inflow of building materials, but Nunu said that talks on lifting those limitations are to begin in meetings scheduled to start in Cairo on Monday.

Sarkozy battles to save party

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Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, left, and UMP Secretary-General Jean-Francois Cope.

BY ANGELA CHARLTON ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Parents struggle to explain it to their kids. Ambassadors struggle to explain it to their governments. The only thing that’s clear is that French politics is a mess.

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party led one of the world’s biggest economies for a decade and now, in the space of a week, has melted down into something that may never be put back together again.

A mediation effort Sunday failed to reconcile the Union for a Popular Movement party or figure out who’s in charge, seven days after a disputed election for a new party leader. The conflict looks headed now for the courts.

The outcome could reshape France’s political landscape and eventually weigh on Europe’s direction too.

Central to the dispute is debate among French conservatives over immigration

and Islam in the country with Western Europe’s largest Muslim population. The election a week ago split party members into those leaning toward the anti-immigrant far right, represented by Jean-Francois Cope, and those hewing to more centrist views, supporting Francois Fillon.

The conditions for mediation are lacking. My mission is over.

ALAIN JUPPE Former prime minister, France Cope, who led France’s push to ban face-covering Islamic veils and talks of anti-white racism, was initially declared winner of the Nov. 19 election.

Then uncounted votes were discovered that could swing the vote in Fillon’s favor.

Accusations of fraud swirled.

Insults flew. The week wore on, and the party still had no clear leader.

On Sunday, a UMP commission that handles vote disputes met, then broke up in acrimony, the Sipa news agency reported.

Hope turned to former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who said the dispute has been “irresponsible and disastrous” and convened both candidates Sunday night to try to mediate and keep the party he founded in one piece.

After the meeting, he tweeted, “The conditions for mediation are lacking. My mission is over.”

Cope said the party commission should examine the complaints and declare a winner.

Fillon, whose supporters say that commission is too Copefriendly, said he’d go to court instead to uncover “the truth of the results and return the voice to the party members.” In a statement, he said Cope rejected the mediation effort and called him responsible for the party’s “failure.”

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AROUND THE IVIES

“As long as we’re dependent on those fossil fuels, we’re dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we’re certainly captives.” JOHN MCHUGH U.S. SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

University will not divest

Corporation trustee may be implicated

BY MELODY Y. GUAN STAFF WRITER A week after about 2,600 undergraduates voted in support of a referendum calling for Harvard to divest its $30.7 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry, a Harvard representative said on Wednesday that the university has no plans to adjust its investment portfolio in response to the student plebiscite.

“Harvard is not considering divesting from companies related to fossil fuels,” Harvard Director of News and Media Relations Kevin Galvin wrote in an email to The Crimson.

The divestment referendum, which was approved along with two other studentinitiated ballot questions in this month’s Undergraduate Council presidential election, earned 72 percent of the student vote.

Although the three successful referendums will now be adopted as the official position of the UC, they have no power to directly influence university policy. And with the divestment question in particular, administrators have given little indication that they are looking to change course.

In May, Jane L. Mendillo — president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees university investments — said in a statement that Harvard already has a system in

place to ensure that its investments are financially and socially sound.

“Our due dili ge n c e p ro c e s s includes critical evaluation of issues HARVARD related to environment, labor practices and corporate governance,” Mendillo said. “Investments that fall short in any of these areas are unlikely to generate the strong long-term returns we require.”

Harvard is not considering divesting from companies related to fossil fuels.

KEVIN GALVIN Director of news and media relations, Harvard University And at an open forum hosted by the UC and Harvard Graduate Council in October, University President Drew G. Faust reiterated that the Harvard Management Company, which oversees university investments, is principally committed to generating funds to support education

and research.

“That is its sustaining goal, and it devotes itself to that, not to using the investments to advance particular agendas of one sort or another,” Faust said.

Still, referendum organizers say they hope to use the election results as a platform to convince administrators to comply with their demands.

Alli J. Welton — a board member of Divest Harvard, Harvard’s chapter of Students for a Just and Stable Future, which sponsored the divestment question — said that thus far, she and other members of the group have been repeatedly denied in their efforts to schedule a formal meeting with Faust to discuss the issue.

However, Galvin wrote that Faust “always appreciates hearing from students about their viewpoints, and she has addressed this issue with students on several occasions,” citing Faust’s student office hours and her appearance last month at the UC- and Harvard Graduate Council-sponsored open forum.

But Welton said that although she and other members of her group have made use of both of these options, they are not satisfied with this limited access. Welton said she will try again on Monday to schedule an official meeting with Faust, in the hope that the ballot question’s wide margin of victory will make Faust more amenable to meeting with her group.

BY ELI OKUN STAFF WRITER Federal authorities leveled charges Tuesday against a portfolio manager formerly employed by an affiliate of SAC Capital Advisors L.P., the hedge fund founded

by Corporation trustee Steven Cohen.

The charges detail what could be one of the largest insider-trading schemes on record, according to several media and mark the fourth time in recent years that current or former employees of SAC Capital have been embroiled in insider-trading allegations.

Though Cohen was not named in the criminal and civil suits filed Tuesday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the Securities and Exchange Commission, some national media outlets portrayed the charges as part of a federal probe that has been slowly closing in on Cohen.

The Wall Street Journal identified Cohen as the man referred to as “Portfolio Manager A,” the “owner and founder” of the firm, in the SEC’s civil complaint. The suit said Portfolio Manager A authorized several trades based on information obtained via insider trading, though it did not allege Portfolio Manager A was aware of the illegal methods being used.

Mathew Martoma, the portfolio manager implicated in the suits who left SAC Capital in 2010, is alleged to have received advance information in 2008 on the negative results of clinical trials for a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s.

Martoma allegedly urged SAC Capital to sell short its stock holdings in Elan Corporation P.L.C. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the drug companies involved in the trials, just two weeks before their results were made public. The combination of profits earned and losses avoided on the trade amounted to $276 million, which prosecutors deemed the greatest insider-trading windfall ever.

Federal authorities tried unsuccessfully to persuade Martoma to become a cooperating witness in a larger criminal case against Cohen a year before they charged the portfolio manager with insider trading, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. An agent from

the Federal Bureau of I nve s t i ga tion showed up at Martoma’s Florida home but was unable BROWN to get him to assist with the investigation of Cohen, though Martoma’s cooperation could have reduced the length of the prison sentence he would face if convicted. The new revelation highlights authorities’ ambition to build a strong criminal case against Cohen.

The charges come as part of a broader government crackdown on illegal insider trading in recent years, amid extensive federal investigation into whether Wall Street has inappropriately received advance notice about clinical trial results. There have been more than 170 insider-trading actions advanced by the SEC in the past three years, according to an SEC press release.

“Mr. Cohen and SAC are confident that they have acted appropriately and will continue to cooperate with the government’s inquiry,” SAC Capital spokesman Jonathan Gasthalter said.

Martoma allegedly received the information from Sidney Gilman, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School who was involved with the clinical trials. The SEC filed a civil-fraud suit against Gilman as well.

According to news reports, Martoma and Gilman first connected through the system of expert networks, which are legal means for companies to obtain general scientific information. But Martoma allegedly exploited that relationship to get specific private results illegally. In one case, Gilman forwarded Martoma a PowerPoint with the trials’ negative results, the suits claimed.

The shifting nature of clinical trials — which companies now usually conduct on their own products in secret, rather than to advance public scientific knowledge — has made the process “a very different and not a very nice game,” said Roy Poses, clinical associate professor of medicine at the Alpert Medical School.

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SPORTS

Sprinklers go off during NFL game in Miami During the third quarter of a Sunday game between the Miami Dolphins and Seattle Seahawks at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, the sprinklers under the field suddenly went off, drenching the field, players and officials with jets of water. A Dolphins spokesperson told ESPN that the sprinkler system was accidentially running on its Saturday schedule. The game was briefly delayed, and Miami went on to win 24–21.

Bulldogs lose lead in final five minutes FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 going to have to stop the run.”

Both defenses had no trouble reading their opposing offenses in the first half, however, as the two teams battled to a 3–3 tie at halftime.

Entering the game averaging just 1.67 sacks per game, Yale’s offensive line stepped up and sacked Harvard senior quarterback Colton Chapple three times in the first half. The Elis were aided by injuries on the Harvard front line; the Harvard Athletic Department had cancelled the Harvard-Yale JV football game the day before, citing the slew of injuries to the Crimson offensive line.

Reno stressed the disruption of Harvard’s offensive rhythm as part of Yale’s defensive success.

“I think we did a real good job of varying what we were doing,” Reno said. “Our guys up front did a great job. They got off blocks, they were able to execute our schemes well … It was real important to us to get pressure on Chapple.”

Yale broke onto the scoreboard first with 00:21 left in the first quarter when kicker Philippe Panico ’13 gave Yale a 3–0 lead on his 29-yard field goal.

Crimson kicker David Mothander responded on Harvard’s next drive, splitting the uprights from 23 yards to knot the game up at three. Neither team was able to score for the rest of the half, thanks in part to penalties on Harvard’s offensive line. Three false starts were called on Harvard in the first two quarters. The Crimson racked up a total of seven penalties for 55 yards before the break.

“Ultimately there’s no excuses,” Murphy said. “It possibly could’ve been [the crowd noise] but it’s inexcusable. We twitched a couple of times. I kind of ripped our team at halftime and said, ‘Hey, all you need to do is play with poise and discipline and we’re going to move the football and we’re going to score some points.’ They took it to heart and focused.”

The second half started much like the first — the Elis were forced to punt before they could move the chains. From then on, the Game turned into an offensive shootout.

A 37-yard field goal by Mothander put Harvard up 6–3 with 8:53 remaining in the third. After the Cantabs forced another Yale punt, Chapple drove Harvard 63 yards on seven plays for the game’s first touchdown. Passing for 28 yards on the drive, Chapple took it himself with an 18-yard scoring run at the 4:51 mark in the third quarter.

With the score now 13–3 in favor of the Crimson, Reno said he knew the time had come to mix things up.

“When you’re down 13–3, you’ve got to open it up a little more,” Reno said. “That changed the game.”

Reno called on wide receiver Henry Furman ’14 to play quarterback. Furman had been a quarterback but transitioned to wide receiver after Reno came to New Haven last January.

The decision paid off almost instantly for the Bulldogs. Furman found wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14 on a 46-yard strike over the middle that set Yale up

on Harvard’s 5-yard line. Running back Tyler Varga ’15 then went under center for the goal-line situation. Two plays later he cut the deficit to 13–10 with a 3-yard touchdown run at the 2:40 mark in the third quarter.

A sack by linebacker Dylan Drake ’13 and defensive lineman Nick Daffin ’13 on first down helped force a Harvard punt, then Furman found wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 from 12 yards out as he scrambled away from Harvard defenders to retake the lead 17–13 with 13:30 remaining in the fourth quarter.

“I really owe Grant dinner or something because he made a hell of a play on the ball,” Furman said.

“I was rolling out, trying to find a window to throw it in … I have trust in my receivers, especially Grant.”

The scoring was far from done, as Harvard responded on its ensuing drive. Chapple found a diving wide receiver Andrew Berg on a post down the right sideline for a 32-yard touchdown to give Harvard a 24–20 lead with 11:52 on the clock.

Forced to punt on its next possession, Yale’s defense came up with a huge takeaway to give the Bulldogs offense another chance.

Hurried by defensive back Charles Cook ’16, Chapple rushed his throw and it was intercepted by Daffin, setting up the Elis on Harvard’s 29-yard line.

After Furman found Wallace on third-and-ten from the 29 to keep the drive alive, Tyler Varga made quick work of the short field. The sophomore running back dove in from two yards out to regain the

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The Bulldogs fell short of their attempt at an upset against Harvard, losing 34-24. lead 24–20 in favor of Yale with just 7:07 to go.

The senior duo of Chapple and running back Treavor Scales then took over the Game for the Crimson.

Chapple dashed for 61 yards on the next play from scrimmage, but defensive back Collin Bibb ’13 tripped him up at the Yale 9 to prevent a touchdown. The Bulldogs appeared to have kept Harvard out of the end zone when linebacker Ryan Falbo ’13 knocked down a pass on fourth-and-eight, but he was flagged for defensive holding and Harvard was awarded a new first down at Yale’s 4-yard line.

The Elis paid for the penalty two plays later when Chapple hit tight end Cameron Brate in the

Yale beats Army in two overtimes M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 “We’re a young team. We’ve got high expectations, but we’ve had our growing pains,” forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 said.

After the 1–3 road trip, Yale returned to New Haven to play Saturday’s game against Army in the squad’s home opener.

The teams were evenly matched throughout the contest. Although the Elis took a 21–12 lead on guard Michael Grace’s ’13 jump shot with 4:53 left in the first half, the Black Knights closed the half with a 7–0 run to cut the lead to two at the break.

Army carried the momentum from its run into the second half, amassing a lead of eight points on Dylan Cox’s free throws with 10:32 left in regulation. But Yale clawed back to tie the game and send it into overtime.

“It was all senior leadership,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “All three seniors started [against Army] and they led us.”

One of those seniors, guard Austin Morgan ’13, also led the team in scoring despite a rough shooting night from the floor. He made only three of his 15 field goal attempts but converted all 11 of his free throws to finish with 19 points.

None of those free throws were more important than the two that he attempted at the end of each period of extra time.

With a minute remaining in the first overtime period, Morgan made two free

throws to put the Elis up 75–73. The Black Knights’ Ella Ellis earned a trip to the free throw line 22 seconds later and converted both of his attempts to tie the contest and force a second overtime.

At the end of the second overtime period, Morgan and his senior teammates again executed down the stretch to help the Bulldogs to victory. After Ellis made two free throws with 43 seconds remaining to give Army an 83–81 lead, Martin converted a three-point jump shot 11 seconds later to put the Elis up for good.

Morgan made two free throws with eight seconds remaining to bring the Eli lead to 86–83, and Army’s Josh Herbeck missed a 3-pointer with a second left to give the Elis the victory.

“A lot of guys made big plays. Everybody stepped up that got in that game,” Martin said. “There were 10 different guys that made key plays in that game.”

Both Martin and forward Matt Townsend ’15 put in strong performances in the first starts of their career. Martin scored 11 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer, while Townsend set careerhighs with 15 points and seven rebounds.

The Elis will continue their season at home against Hartford on Thursday.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

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Forward Matt Townsend ’15 made the first start of his career and shot 6–7 from the field for a career-high 15 points.

in with 17 points, falling one point shy of matching her career-best in scoring.

“Zenab is one of our most improved players this year and is doing a great job of filling the void left by our graduated post player Michelle Cashen ’13,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said.

The scoring was spread for the Elis, with five Bulldogs in double figures, including guard Janna Graf ’14 with 16, forward Meredith Boardman ’16 with 11 and Vasquez with 12.

Despite a slow 2-for-20 shooting effort to open the game, the Bulldogs made up ground to pull within two at halftime. The Elis came out shooting to start the second half and jumped out to a 48–41 lead on a 13–4 run.

The Cougars came back to take the lead with just under six minutes to play, but a 12–0 run by the Bulldogs secured them their first win of the season.

“I think getting the first win was a good morale builder for the team,” captain and guard Allie Messimer ’13 said. ”At the same time, we have played a lot of games that we had the talent to win.

From here on out we need to focus on getting more wins.”

Although Vasquez netted 21 points against Northwestern (4–0) — her most

so far this season and only her second game so far in double-digit scoring — the Elis fell 75–83. Vasquez, who averaged over 15 points per game last season, missed much of the preseason due to injury and returned to her usual form against the Wildcats.

Yale stormed to a 10–2 lead to start the game off against Northwestern. In a very back-and-forth game, the Wildcats ended up holding a 39–33 lead at halftime after a 7–2 run.

The Bulldogs took control to start the second half, charging to within 43–42 on a 10–3 run. The Wildcats responded with a 17–0 run to put the game out of reach for the Elis. Despite answering back with a 13–1 run in the final 2:35, the Bulldogs fell short.

“We were right in it with Northwestern for the majority of the game, but the biggest lesson was that we need to play hard and work hard for a full 40 minutes,” Messimer said. “We can’t take breaks because that’s when we get beat.”

The one statistical category where the Wildcats beat the Bulldogs by a wide margin was points in the paint. Northwestern netted 54 points in the paint compared to 20 for the Elis.

The Bulldog bench contributed 37 points to the effort led by Vasquez with 21 and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 with 11.

Starting guard Halejian added 11 of her own, while Graf was one point short of a double-double with 9 points and 12 rebounds.

“The scoring distribution on the team is great. The depth allows a player to have a bad night without the major loss in offense,” Messimer said. “I think down the road having so many weapons makes us harder to guard.”

Yale also took on DePaul (5–2) on the Chicago trip and suffered a 80–95 loss despite 16-point performances from Halejian and Sarju and a season-high 13 points from Messimer.

The Bulldogs were once again beat in the paint, scoring only 32 points compared to 64 from the Blue Demons.

Turnovers were also a problem for the Elis, leading to 37 points for DePaul.

“The games against DePaul and Northwestern made for some bittersweet emotions,” Gobrecht said. “We realized we competed very well against quality programs from the Big East and the Big Ten, but we also felt we could have done even better.”

The team will tip off at 7 p.m. at home against Quinnipiac (3–0) on Wednesday.

Contact SARAH ONORATO at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

Scales’ 177 rushing yards tied the Crimson record for most yards in The Game. Chapple threw for 209 yards and two scores and an interception while adding 128 yards and another touchdown with his legs.

Varga led the Bulldogs with 96 rushing yards and two scores. Furman finished 13–20 passing for 158 yards, one touchdown and an interception, and Wallace caught 11 passes for 118 yards and a score.

Harvard’s six-game winning streak over Yale is tied for the longest in the rivalry’s history.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

Two straight OT wins for Elis M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

Women’s basketball faces close losses W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

back of the end zone to put Harvard up 27–24 at the 4:44 mark.

“Cam [Brate] made a great play on pretty decent coverage,” Chapple said.

The Cantabs kept Yale from reaching the first down marker on their next drive, but the Bulldogs had a chance when Chapple fumbled the snap on first down from Harvard’s forty. Scales recovered the loose ball, then dashed Yale’s hopes of a comeback with a 63-yard scoring run with 1:08 left in the game.

Upon reaching the end zone, Scales threw up his hands in celebration. When asked what was going through his mind, Scales said all he was thinking was, “Mama, I’ve made it!”

remaining, and Tigers forward Nick Shore deflected a shot from the point over Malcolm’s shoulder to knot the score at one with just under a minute and a half remaining in regulation to knot the score at one.

Yale earned a power play at the end of overtime, and winger Antoine Laganiere’s ’13 shot from the point rebounded out to forward Kenny Agostino ’14, who threaded the puck past Olkinuora to give the Elis the 2–1 victory.

Denver, the second-most prolific scoring team in NCAA Division I hockey, only managed to slip a single goal past Malcolm on a total of 33 shots and five power plays.

“Our special teams were the difference,” Malcolm said.

“Against Denver our penalty kill did an amazing job holding them scoreless and even managed to get a short-handed goal. Then, obviously, Kenny’s power play goal in overtime won it for us.”

Against Colorado College on Saturday, Laganiere popped a backhand shot over the Tigers’ goaltender just 57 seconds into the game and the Bulldogs went on to amass four more goals throughout the three periods of regulation.

But the Tigers matched the Elis goal-for-goal, including a three-

goal outburst in the second period that put Yale in a 5–4 hole heading into the final period. Captain Andrew Miller ’13 evened the score with a power-play goal with just under eight minutes remaining and the game proceeded to overtime. With both teams down a man three minutes into overtime, forward Josh Balch ’13 gave the Bulldogs their second overtime win in as many nights with his first goal of the season.

Not only did the Bulldogs battle through two overtime periods two nights in a row, but they did so a mile above sea level. After arriving in Denver Thursday night the Bulldogs had less than 24 hours to acclimate to the elevation and atmosphere.

“To come from behind and win it at this altitude is a testament to the preparation our guys have done with their strength and conditioning,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said in an interview with Yale Athletics.

The Elis are now 4–0 against nationally ranked teams, having defeated Harvard, Saint Lawrence, Denver and Colorado College.

The Bulldogs will next take the ice at Ingalls Rink against Brown at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

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“A lot of guys made big plays. Everybody stepped up that got in [against Army].”

SAM MARTIN ’13 CAPTAIN, MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Home sweet home

BY ALEX EPPLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s basketball team began its break with a hectic fourgame road trip before returning to the John J. Lee Amphitheater for its home opener this weekend.

Yale topples ranked opponents in Colo.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The squad posted a 2–3 record over the stretch, capping the busy week with an 86–83 doubleovertime win at home over Army on Saturday.

“To be able to win a tough grind-it-out game like that is nice,” captain and guard Sam Martin ’13 said. “It shows we’re growing. Being able to win games like this will be important when we get into the league.”

The win over Army (3–2, 0–0 Patriot) reversed a tough stretch for Yale (2–5, 0–0 Ivy) leading into the game. The team journeyed to Indiana to play three games during the weekend of Nov. 16 as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Although the Bulldogs recorded a 63–59 victory over Buffalo on Nov. 17, they dropped contests on Nov. 16 and Nov. 18, falling to Evansville by a score of 66–56 and to Western Illinois, 59–47.

Yet the Elis still had another game to play on the road before returning home. The team travelled to Vermont last Wednesday to take on the Catamounts (3–1, 0–0 America East) in Vermont’s home opener, a contest that the Bulldogs lost 65–52.

SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 11

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Kenny Agostino ’14 scored the game-winning goal in a 2–1 overtime victory over Denver.

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While most of Yale was in the midst of its Thanksgiving celebrations on Thursday, the men’s hockey team was boarding a flight to Denver.

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Matt Townsend’s ’15 15 points helped the Elis to an 86–83 double overtime victory over Army in Yale’s home opener at John J. Lee Amphitheater on Saturday.

Mixed results for the Elis

BY SARAH ONORATO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a frustrating start to her season, last year’s leading scorer, guard Megan Vasquez ’13, finally found her stride in the Elis’ three games over Thanksgiving break.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Vasquez broke into double digits in points for the first time this season as the team notched its first win of the season against the University of Houston. The Elis (1–4, 0–0 Ivy) then traveled to Chicago, falling to DePaul and Northwest-

The Bulldogs (5–2–1, 2–2 ECAC) traveled to Colorado to take on the No. 2 University of Denver Pioneers (9–2, 7–1 WCHA) and the No. 14 Colorado College Tigers (7–6–1). In both contests, three high-paced periods of action could not separate the teams, and the games proceeded to overtime. On Friday the Bulldogs fought for a 2–1 win over the Pioneers and followed up that performance with a 6–5 win over the Tigers the fol-

lowing night.

“This weekend was a great test for us,” goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 said. “Both Denver and CC are great hockey teams with a lot of talent. Our team game and [competition] level was outstanding both games.”

Despite the same frenetic pace of play and outcomes in overtime, the two games’ scoring patterns could not have been more different.

In the game against Denver, each team scored just one goal until overtime. The contest remained scoreless until the third period when forward Stu Wilson ’16 poked a short-handed goal past Pioneer goaltender Juho Olkinuora to put the Bulldogs up 1–0. But Denver pulled its goalie with less than two minutes SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 11

Harvard avoids upset

ern in two close contests. Vasquez exploded for 21 points on 4–8 shooting from beyond the arc in the loss to Northwestern.

To kick off the week, the Elis hosted the University of Houston (2–4) on Saturday, Nov. 17. Led by a career performance from center Zenab Keita ’14, the Bulldogs defeated the Cougars in a thrilling 84–82 game to record their first win of the season. In her first career double-double, Keita netted 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs.

Guard Sarah Halejian ’15 chipped SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 11

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Yale’s offensive line stepped up and sacked Harvard senior quarterback Colton Chapple three times in the first half.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Moral victories are not tallied in the Ivy League standings, but after an adversityplagued 2012 season, the Bulldogs’ performance in the 129th episode of The Game last Saturday would be chalked up in that category.

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Megan Vasquez ’13 scored 21 points off the bench for Yale in the Bulldogs’ 75–83 loss to Northwestern.

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In what Harvard head coach Tim Murphy called a “heavyweight fight” with five lead changes, Yale (2–8, 1–6 Ivy) fell short of its attempt at an upset against Harvard (8–2, 5–2), losing 34–24 in Cambridge.

The loss was the Elis’ sixth straight at the hands of the archrival Crimson, though Yale still leads the all-time series 65–56–8.

“These guys have battled through more things this season than any football team,” head coach Tony Reno said. “I’m not happy with the result but these guys came out and showed the world what Yale football is all about.”

The question of who would play quarterback for the Bulldogs had been difficult to answer since the top three-string signal callers all went down with injuries in Yale’s 27–13 victory over Ivy League champion Penn on Oct. 20. The answer on Saturday was Derek Russell ’13, who played for the first time since separating his throwing

shoulder diving into the end zone against the Quakers.

Yale has had five different players take snaps at quarterback this season. Murphy said that the uncertainty surrounding Yale’s quarterbacks made it harder for Harvard to prepare.

“We knew that we were going to get some different packages and we knew that we were going to get some different players,” Murphy said. “We had to prepare for a lot. When you look at all the things they did in different packages in film over the last several games, there’s a lot of stuff. At the end of the day you still knew that you’re SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

NUMBER OF GOAL SCORERS FOR THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM IN YALE’S WEEKEND WINS OVER DENVER AND COLORADO COLLEGE. Each of the Bulldogs’ eight goals were scored by a different Eli, including overtime gamewinners by Kenny Agostino ’14 and Josh Balch ’13.