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Mayoral race heats up

Sexual misconduct report criticized

Welcome home, frosh! Today

is freshman move-in day.

Welcome to Yale, incoming freshmen, and be sure to take advantage of the hordes of upperclassmen eager to move your belongings up four flights of stairs.

Sweet crib. The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program, which aims “to promote intellectual diversity at Yale University,” will have a new home this semester. According to a New York Times report, the group will move into the historic William H. Taft Mansion, which is located at 111 Whitney Ave. The group’s lease will last two years, and buying the house will require an additional $2 million.

Professor Clinton? An Aug. 14 Politico story claimed former Secretary of State and social media sensation Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has been “fielding offers” to join the faculties of several colleges and universities. Harvard, Yale, New York University and Baruch College are all allegedly vying to hire the famed politician. Tom Conroy, a University spokesman, said Yale “would defer to [Clinton] for any comment about the Politico story.”

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the city’s longest-serving mayor.

Though New Haven residents will not elect a new mayor until November, the Democratic primary — scheduled this year for Sept. 10 — has long been decisive, owing to a

Yale’s policies on sexual misconduct have come under renewed fire from students and alumni since administrators released the University’s fourth semiannual report a month ago documenting 61 new cases of sexual assault and harassment.

The findings, which detail complaints brought to University officials between Jan. 1 and June 30, include the largest number of cases since the University issued its first report in 2011. Title IX coordinators handled 30 complaints, while the Yale Police Department dealt with 22 and the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct oversaw nine.

Four cases involving undergraduate allegations of nonconsensual sex that first appeared in earlier reports were updated to include the most recent disciplinary action taken by the University. All four cases were filed as formal complaints with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, involving a full investigation and an external fact-finder. In each instance, the UWC found sufficient evidence that the perpetrator engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with the complainant.

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Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 has been endorsed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and Yale unions.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Amid heightened campaign activity in the final three weeks before the Democratic primary, the four candidates vying to replace retiring New Haven Mayor John

DeStefano Jr. are sparring not just over the substantive issues defining the election but also over their respective chances of winning.

The summer months trimmed the field of mayoral hopefuls, turning a once-seven-candidate race into a four-way contest to succeed

More Hillary. Though she

might not become a Yale professor, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 will visit Yale Law School this October. A guest at the Law School’s alumni weekend, she will address event attendees and receive an award of merit from the Yale Law School Association.

Westward expansion. The

School of Nursing’s move to West Campus is almost complete. New students began arriving Aug. 19 for orientation, and about 350 will call the new location home this year. An official dedication for the new facility will take place on Oct. 4 and 5.

No such thing as too much yogurt. Pinkberry, a popular

frozen yogurt chain, will open a New Haven location this October at 1064 Chapel St. The California-based restaurant’s arrival marks New Haven’s fourth frozen yogurt stop; FroyoWorld, Flavors and Polar Delight, all close to campus, also sell the frozen treat to Yalies and locals alike.

Let’s get a meal sometime.

Maison Mathis, a Belgian restaurant, will open next Wednesday at 304 Elm St. Though the store’s exact hours have not yet been confirmed, its offerings will include waffles, homemade pastries, beer and other items typical of traditional Belgian cuisine.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1962 To memorialize a slain East German youth, the Yale Russian Chorus performed Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus” at the Berlin Wall.

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After 20 years, L-Dub undergoes renovation

BY SOPHIE GOULD AND YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS After generations of complaints about living in a cockroach-ridden dorm, Pierson freshmen will finally enjoy a newly renovated LanmanWright Hall.

Lanman-Wright — which Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart called the “most in need of renovation” of any building on Old Campus — is in the midst of a $15.5 million facelift. Entryways D, E and F, home to Pierson freshmen, have undergone renovations this summer, while entryways A, B and C, which house Berkeley freshmen, are slated for comple-

tion by fall 2014. Though the renovations did not affect the timing of freshman move-in this year, the building was still under construction on Aug. 16 when freshman counselor orientation began, so the University arranged for both Pierson and Berkeley counselors to stay at The Study hotel for a week before moving into LanmanWright.

“It really needed renovation,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “The stuff there was not in great shape. It wasn’t dangerous or anything — it wasn’t a safety thing — but it wasn’t to the same standard as other SEE L-DUB PAGE 4

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Lanman-Wright entryways D, E and F, home to Pierson freshman, underwent renovations this summer.

Summer changes shake up city retail

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND AMY WANG STAFF REPORTERS

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER The past several months have seen a series of store openings and closures in New Haven, transforming the area around campus that students left in the spring.

The frozen yogurt market in New Haven has dramatically expanded with the additions of Go Greenly on 48 Whitney Ave., Polar Delight on 940 Chapel St. and Pinkberry soon to occupy the space next to Starbucks on Chapel Street. For soups and sandwiches, Panera Bread opened on 1048 Chapel St. in June, and Maison Mathis, a Belgian restaurant, will open on 304 Elm St. on Wednesday. Also this summer, Au Bon Pain, which used to occupy 1 Broadway St., and Enclave, a skateboarding shop on Broadway, closed their doors.

Each new site is preparing to bid goodbye to the summer lull in anticipation of the SEE NEW STORES PAGE 5

Bridge program draws 33 to campus

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Pinkberry will join the plethora of New Haven frozen yogurt establishments available to Yale students and city residents.

Many of the hundreds of freshmen arriving at Yale this week will be entering a college environment for the first time in their lives. But for 33 students in particular, transitioning to Yale will not be as daunting an experience.

Freshman Scholars at Yale, or FSY, the University’s first pre-college academic summer bridge program, kicked off in July for a five-week pilot session. Originally conceived in 2008, the program — which is jointly run by the Admissions Office and the Yale College Dean’s Office, while also supported by Yale Summer Session — invited a handful of matriculated students from first-

generation college families, low-income backgrounds and under-resourced high schools to partake in a summer term at Yale, for which tuition, housing and transportation costs were completely covered by the University.

Within the program, students lived on campus, enrolled in the English 114 writing seminar and attended a variety of workshops designed to acquaint students with campus resources.

William Whobrey, dean of Yale Summer Session, said he thought the pilot program was a great success and felt that students quickly acclimated to their new environment.

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GUEST COLUMNIST ABIGAIL BESSLER

The obstacles are the path

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2017's traditions

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n this first issue of the new school year, we welcome the incoming freshman class Welcome to Yale, freshmen. When you chose this place, you chose a University proud of its age.

Whether you wanted it or not, you inherited 300 years' worth of tradition.

And now, as you gaze upon your very own Gothic castles for the first time, you can get the feeling that Yale has existed forever, an institution as unchanging and static as its carved stone.

The pride you’re feeling has its purposes. Our love of our University inspires us to achieve, as many before us have. Centuries of traditions, layered upon one another, have built the foundations of the Yale we know today. These traditions are as diverse as the institutions we join and the moments that bind us together.

But the pride we have in the past can also cloud our vision, and blind faith in tradition limits our potential. Now, it will be up to your class to determine which of these traditions are worth keeping — which ones unite this University across time, and which have lived beyond their usefulness.

The best traditions connect us with our University’s history, and allow us to forge our own identities within the context of their legacies. You will find your own place in your residential college, at the Yale-Harvard game and even at Toad’s on Wednesday nights. Right now, many of these institutions may seem strange, even incomprehensible. But like generations of students before you, you will undoubtedly grow to value the traditions that benefit our community and its students, and fight to keep them alive.

Other traditions are

worth tossing aside, and it will be your job to identify them. The worst traditions divide us, but survive under the guise that they are valuable for their own sake. They highlight the worst about us, making us believe we are greater than the community we have entered. They make us believe that what has been done must always be done that way, and stifle the very same originality that adds life to our campus.

In every generation, Yalies have fought for the Yale they want to see, and we sincerely hope the class of 2017 will do the same.

This task may seem daunting, and in truth, it is. But Yale admitted you not only for your individual strengths, but also for the potential you had to give back. Our traditions become yours when you accept that you will be responsible for the way the next class will find them. It will be up to each of you to ensure that in four years, another class of freshmen enters a more diverse, compassionate and intellectually vibrant Yale than the one we see today.

So we ask that you approach Yale the same way you’ve learned to approach yourselves. Consider the things that have gotten you this far, and question whether each is worth keeping. Improve the institutions that work to make Yale great, and swiftly discard those that damage it.

In the coming weeks, we hope you will begin this search.

We are the Yale Daily News, and for 135 years, we have striven to ask these questions. On these pages and on campus, we hope you will join us in shaping Yale’s history.

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’ve gotten my fair share of guidance over the last 18 years. But nothing compares to the tsunami of life advice that has come my way this summer, leaving in its wake scattered remnants of my once self-assured existence, along with a colossal pile of well-wishing graduation cards.

I should have paid more attention to the warning signs of the approaching storm.

Two months ago, I walked into a Barnes & Noble and found that the “New in Fiction” section had been replaced by a selection of college advice books. “The Naked Roommate,” apparently the No. 1 guide for freshmen, promised tips on everything from navigating the “hookup scene” to “avoiding the freshman 15.” I eyed the book suspiciously and moved on.

A month later, I started to notice a change in conversations I had with my parents. Rather than changing topics naturally, they began applying everything we talked about to some all-encompassing moral. A request to pass the salt became a metaphor for being the change you wish to see in the world. Choosing between skim milk and 2 percent turned into a “Walden”-esque lecture on living deliberately.

This phenomenon escalated

until every conversation ended with what sounded to me like the concluding sentence of an overpriced self-improvement manual.

By August, it wasn’t just my parents who had gone into adviceoverdrive. Once anyone learned I was heading off to college, the floodgates opened, prompting another person’s two cents on “surviving” freshman year.

Advice was often contradictory. My boss cautioned that I should always put studying first. My neighbor took a different approach, winking at me and whispering, “Don’t go behaving yourself all the time!” A family friend encouraged me to “screw grades” and join as many extracurriculars as I could manage.

First and foremost, an a cappella group.

The advice was helpful, don’t get me wrong. But as each new adult came forward with new suggestions as to how I should live out my college years, I started to get more and more worried I wouldn’t do things the “right” way.

Unfortunately, the worst was yet to come. None of these exhortations could have prepared me for the bloodbath of gentle guidance and poorly masked counseling that was my family vacation.

My parents and I traveled to

Slovenia, where my mom’s ancestors are from. I quickly found out that there are few worse places to be, a week before heading off to college, than hiking up a mountain with two parents eager to hand off their last great words of wisdom.

Subjects ranged from choosing healthy meals to coping with failure.

It all culminated when my mom cornered me at a large rock at a turn in the trail. She’d recently heard about a Slovenian writer who wrote her children at her death, “People think of obstacles as getting in your way in the path of life. But, in fact, the obstacles are the path.”

Needless to say, “The Obstacles Are The Path” became my parents’ mantra for the entire vacation.

Plane delayed? Menu all in Slovene? Over 100 degrees and no air conditioning? The obstacles are the path. It was the kind of phrase that screamed to be hand-embroidered on a tasseled throw pillow.

At the end of our hike, I turned to my parents and asked why they thought I needed so much advice.

I’d always been pretty independent, and my parents had never worried about me finding friends or setting my own schedule.

“Well,” my dad responded, “we need to instill in you all of

our experience before your college friends start corrupting you!”

Maybe a fair point.

When I noted all the conflicting advice I’d received, my dad whipped out an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: “The test of a firstrate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” An eyeroll seemed the only appropriate response.

I’ve since realized that advice is only useful if taken in moderation; otherwise I become overwhelmed.

Besides, it’s impossible to completely prepare for the unknown.

A chance encounter might change my college experience entirely. In other words, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, the obstacles are most definitely the path.

I need advice, yes, and judging by the size of the Blue Book, advice from upperclassmen is always welcome. But Googling “tips for freshman year” (yes, I’ve been there) is not going to ensure I have a good time at Yale. No amount of advice can change the fact that this path is mine. Here’s to hoping it’s a trek worth taking.

ABIGAIL BESSLER is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST FREDERIC NICHOLAS

From Freshman Scholars to freshman year

T

he mailing about pre-orientation programs must’ve been a joke.

At the time, I tore it open, eager to receive even the most trivial correspondence from Yale.

But my enthusiasm was quickly reduced to crushing disappointment. I scoffed at Harvest, with its grandiose descriptions of picking vegetables and feeding corn to chickens. I didn’t want to subject myself to the torture of FOOT, either. Frankly, I’ve become too fond of proper toilets.

Does Yale really know the meaning of the term “orientation”? Perhaps the cautiousness and care needed to pick vegetables is some profound analogy for the care needed to pick classes.

Maybe arduous hikes up rugged mountains are supposed to represent the perseverance we’ll need to demonstrate throughout our college career. Perhaps Yale just thinks we desperately needed to go outside.

I resolved myself to one last summer of glorious laziness.

My commitment to avoid the world of pre-orientation ended when I received an email about a new program, Freshman Scholars at Yale, which I quickly determined had no emphasis on the outdoors. Clearly Yale had realized

the error of its ways and was vying to regain my trust. It’s okay, Yale. I never doubted you.

The email wooed me with promises of free food and “early engagement in the Yale experience.” Sold. I shuffled off to campus for what would become the best and most confusing summer of my life.

It was explained to me that Freshman Scholars is essentially a trial run before freshman year. Our principal activity is taking a prechosen college course. Between class meetings, we attended seminars covering topics like time management and distributional requirements, listened to professors briefing us on their respective departments, and attempted to stay awake through all of it.

It seemed simple enough, but I never would have imagined the trials that followed.

First there was class — the venerable English 114. The course was to be my punishment for avoiding the other, less academic orientation trips. Understand that summer classes at Yale are actually full-semester courses squeezed into a misleading five-week period. I wrote five papers in those five weeks. But each one became better — clearer and more stylistically proficient. That improve-

ment alone was worth the experience.

Then there were the knowledgeable student technicians who set up wireless printing from my laptop and constantly assured me of the speed and reliability of Yale Wi-Fi. This same Wi-Fi later disconnected precisely three seconds before I needed to submit my important research paper. My professor was merciful.

Then there was my visit to the Financial Aid Office, where everyone speaks an obscure, incomprehensible language. It’s a cryptic mess, rife with acronyms — SIC, SEOG, #!*%, EFC — that are somehow relevant to you. I’m taking L1 “Financial Aid” in the fall semester.

Later, there was a presentation from the Financial Aid Office — this time, they actually spoke English! They were even kind enough to schedule it at 4 p.m. on Aug. 1, precisely when the August bill was due.

There was the time my package was sent to the wrong address, requiring me to trek two miles in the rain to retrieve it.

But despite all these struggles, I’m more excited than ever for college.

I’m excited to meet you all in the dining halls. I’ve already mas-

tered the art of haphazardly balancing trays and avoiding collisions. Never before has someone shown such grace with plates full of Cajun Clam-Tentacle Pizza (Morse and Stiles freshmen will soon understand).

I’m excited to get philosophical with you over ideas from classes.

Let’s just not talk about my English 114 experience.

And I’m excited to hear about your pre-orientation programs, but I can’t be convinced that they were better than my own. I’ve gone through too much to concede so easily.

You, Cultural Connector, may have sampled the languages of different cultures. But would you be able to decipher the lexicon they speak in the Financial Aid office?

And you, FOOTer (FOOTsie? Person with feet?), may have scaled a mountain in Vermont.

But your hike pales in comparison to my summer sprint up Science Hill, four minutes before an important meeting.

This summer, I’ve been here trying to figure things out.

And I’m more excited than ever.

FREDERIC NICHOLAS is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact him at frederic.nicholas@yale.edu .

G U E ST C O LU M N I ST L A R RY M I L ST E I N

Making friends beyond Facebook E

ven before we took our first steps on Old Campus, we, the members of the class of 2017, already knew one another like old friends. From the moment decisions were released, we have become engrossed in a morass of virtual networks with our classmates — from Facebook groups to roommate message threads and Instagram feeds. We now know who among us are chatty, who traveled to Hawaii this summer, who watches Pokémon and who plays bridge. However, there is a danger in acquainting ourselves via the Internet. By allowing online profiles to be the currency of our first impressions, we potentially complicate our transition to this new environment.

When decisions were released in December and March, upperclassman administrators invited accepted students to join the Yale Class of 2017 Facebook group.

With over 1,500 members, the group is often a helpful portal for sharing information and answering questions. However, the commentary has extended beyond the typical “Is there a schedule for orientation?” or “What is Yale’s policy on AP scores?”

For a small minority of particularly gregarious classmates, the group has appeared to become a personal soundboard and an opportunity to share their every thought. This crop of pseudoFacebook celebrities dominates the group by uploading “selfies,” ranting about irrelevant topics, sharing overemotional platitudes or humble-bragging about their extensive resumes. One frenzied student even posted six paragraphs about his fear of being a non-coffee drinker. This post and other similarly outlandish comments have been shared more widely by Accepted2017.com, a website that “catalogues the crazy stuff people say in college admissions Facebook groups.”

In some sense, I admire my classmates’ trust in a group of people they’ve not yet met. Our Facebook group has served as a foundation for class unity and school pride.

Yet there’s a greater risk — rather than fairly reflecting the diversity of the class, our first impressions of Yale are rooted in comments made by a select few.

By becoming too familiar with a small, often awkward, minority

of students, we are given a false sense of introduction, which is arguably worse than not knowing our classmates at all.

Another concern that has emerged is the added pressure to shape our online image. The grooming that we undertake in the weeks leading up to college is not unlike the effort we put into our applications a few months earlier; we aim to present the best possible us. Instead of essays and transcripts, we use profile pictures, “muploads” and posts as our means of evaluation.

When housing assignments were released, a large portion of the class, myself included, rushed online to search for our future roommates. Our curiosity immediately led us to make snap judgments on their character based on things as arbitrary as their choice of cover photo.

Rather introducing ourselves through a personal letter, as was the convention not too long ago, or even in person, we rely on selfcurated pages that give a highly one-dimensional image of who we truly are. Facebook stalking has become such a normalized part of our routine that we no

longer shy away from admitting this behavior. In fact, it would be even more shocking if someone waited until move-in day to match names to faces. Although instantaneously gratifying, this culture sets a harmful precedent of forming relationships based solely on appearance. While many students may enter school with “friends” due to social networking in the months prior, developing meaningful bonds is more difficult than simply hitting an accept button.

Our class is not unique in this respect, though: Social media, and its challenges, have come to define our generation. It was inevitable that our online behavior would shape our adjustment to college as well. Yet as we enter our first weeks and meet hundreds of individuals, we must be even more determined to move beyond the confines of a computer screen. While our virtual connections may have come first, it is the human connections that will last.

LARRY MILSTEIN is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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State legislature passes new budget

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy worked with a Democratic-controlled Legislature to pass a $37.6 billion budget for the next two years.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Between Yale students’ departure from New Haven in early May and the close of the Connecticut legislative session in early June, state lawmakers made substantial headway on several state issues.

With both houses of the Legislature and the governor’s mansion under Democratic control, lawmakers passed and signed legislation to raise the minimum wage, allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the state, label genetically modified food and provide mental health care for youth. At the same time, lawmakers pushed through a $37.6 billion budget that will fund the state for the next two years.

“It seems hard to believe that more than five months have passed since this legislative session began,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a speech marking the end of the session in which he referred to December’s shooting in Newtown, Conn. “I think back to that cold day in January when we came together to begin our work, all of us still reeling from the worst tragedy we could imagine.”

This budget shows that we’ve got our priorities straight.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut The Legislature saved one of its most challenging tasks — crafting and passing a budget for the coming two years — for its final month in Hartford.

Two days before the session’s end, Democrats pushed through the $37.6 billion budget with no Republican support and some defections from their own ranks.

The budget, according to Malloy, reflected the “many tough choices and hard compromises” faced by the state, which continues to struggle in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis.

Legislators avoided major tax increases in order to pay for increases in funding for the University of Connecticut and maintain social services through one-time revenues from an array of sources. Chief among these were moving $6 billion in Medicaid funding out of the budget and allowing a computer-based gambling game in 600 restaurants and bars across the state.

“This budget shows that we’ve got our priorities straight, and we are determined to keep Connecticut moving forward,” Malloy said in a statement.

Before passing the budget, legislators took up raising the state’s minimum wage, which later came into focus at the national level with protests by fast food workers in cities across the country. Legislators and Malloy raised the minimum wage from $8.25 an hour currently to $8.70 in 2014 and $9.00 in 2015.

The state currently has the fourth-highest minimum wage in the country. Only Washington,

which raises its minimum wage with inflation, requires employers to pay more than $9.00 per hour. As with the budget, no Republicans in either house supported the measure.

“Are we looking to reduce jobs today?” Rep. Richard Smith of New Fairfield, the ranking House Republican on the Labor Committee, asked The Connecticut Mirror, emphasizing that high costs for businesses, including minimum wage requirements, are the primary driver of the state’s high unemployment rate.

In addition to raising the minimum wage, lawmakers passed measures making Connecticut increasingly progressive in its handling of undocumented immigrants. One bill, which resulted directly from the detainment of New Haven resident Jose Maria Islas, will prevent police officers from reporting that they have arrested an undocumented immigrant. The second will allow immigrants in the state illegally to obtain a driver’s license.

“Having grown up in a community where police were not trusted, I understand that a community is less safe when it is unable to interact with the police,” state Rep. Gary HolderWinfield said in a statement on the bill inspired by Islas. “The protocols set forth in this bill make communities safer, are cost-effective and shift the responsibility for immigration back where it belongs with our federal government.”

The bill allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses was introduced

by State Rep. for New Haven Juan Candelaria. Over the past several years, efforts by both the New Haven Board of Aldermen and Mayor John DeStefano Jr. have made the Elm City among the friendliest to undocumented immigrants in the nation.

In its final weeks in session, the Legislature also took on a host of other issues, in particular genetically modified foods.

Foods classified as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs as they are commonly known, will now need to be labeled as such.

Connecticut is the first state to require such a label.

Still seeking to enact reforms in the wake of December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, lawmakers passed a measure requiring coordination between schools, mental health agencies and emergency psychiatric services, in addition to augmented mental health training for those providing medical care to children. Supporters argue that the measure could play a role in preventing future acts of mass violence.

“The heart of the matter, getting to young children who may have mental health and behavioral health issues, is so important because we know that we can change the tide of their lives,” said Rep. DebraLee Hovey, whose district includes Newtown.

This year, Gov. Malloy has signed 323 measures approved by the Legislature into law.

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

Yale-NUS students visit Yale

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Before starting courses at Singapore’s first liberal arts college on Aug. 12, YaleNUS’s inaugural class of students got a taste of college life in New Haven.

The students participated in a threeweek orientation program at Yale that consisted of both an academic component, featuring lectures by Yale and Yale-NUS professors, and an extracurricular component, in which students brainstormed student organizations to create in Singapore. Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn said the students’ stay at Yale proved a useful introduction to the liberal arts model for the students, adding that the college has no upperclassmen to facilitate the students’ transition to college life.

Yale-NUS administrators told the News they rejected media requests to interview students during the orientation because they wanted the students to take part in the program free from media scrutiny, though the Yale-NUS website contained information about the orientation. Many Yale students interviewed who were on campus at the time said they encountered the Yale-NUS students, and Berkeley College Master Marvin Chun, who organized and supervised the orientation, invited several Yale students to dine with the participants.

Chun, who also heads the Yale-NUS Faculty Advisory Committee, said in an email that all expenses surrounding the orientation, including travel, were covered by Yale-NUS and none were included in the students’ tuition. He did not comment on the overall cost of the program.

“Flying the entire first-year class from Singapore to New Haven might seem like a bit of an extravagance at first,” said Yale-NUS Rector Brian McAdoo, who was in New Haven during the program’s first week. “But it is important to remember that we are building a college from scratch — we have no pre-existing culture to fit into. As Singapore is investing in a

U.S.-style liberal arts model, Yale was the perfect place to provide an initial framework.”

Each week of the orientation program used daily lectures and discussion sections led by Yale and Yale-NUS faculty to focus on a different topic: environment and sustainability, migration and urbanization, and leadership. Between 15 and 20 Yale professors interacted with the students during the program.

Almost all Yale-NUS students interviewed said they think taking classes at Yale will help them transition to the intellectual work they will do at Yale-NUS. “Discussing these topics will ease us into the Singaporean context, ease us into liberal arts education, especially those of us who aren’t used to it,” said Parag Bhatnagar, a freshman at Yale-NUS from India who grew up in Singapore. “We can kind of understand the atmosphere at Yale, and we can go back and incorporate the things we learned into Yale-NUS College.”

We can kind of understand the atmosphere at Yale, and we can go back and incorporate the things we learned into Yale-NUS College.

PARAG BHATNAGAR Freshman, Yale-NUS The students interviewed said they most enjoyed discussing the new student groups they hope to create when they arrive in Singapore.

Liam Rahman, a Yale-NUS freshman from Wales, said students discussed creating a Model United Nations club, as well as various sports clubs. Bhatnagar said he would like to start a visual arts society, adding that he hopes Yale-NUS students will collaborate with students from the National University of Singapore when creating student groups, because the rel-

atively small size of Yale-NUS’s inaugural class may otherwise limit the scope of some student organizations.

Students said they would feel free to discuss any topics related to politics in class and within their student groups, and all international students interviewed said they hope to learn more about Singaporean politics before passing any judgments about the country’s political system. Chun said students also discussed LGBTQ issues, adding that they had dinner with Yale history professor George Chauncey, who will teach two courses on lesbian and gay history at Yale-NUS next spring.

Before the orientation program began, Yale-NUS freshman Abdul Hamid partnered with other Yale-NUS and NUS students to form an organization called “G-Spot,” which will advocate for LGBTQ rights and address issues such as sexuality, gender and feminism. Hamid said he thinks the response of the Yale-NUS community to the group has been positive, adding that no one has spoken out against its existence thus far.

Some students said they feel the college’s inaugural class is under a lot of pressure because Yale-NUS’s first students will bear responsibility for the institution’s success or failure, but all students interviewed said they are confident in the Yale-NUS administration’s ability to support their efforts.

“I wanted to take some risks, but at the same time be somewhere I know I am supported academically,” Rahman said.

“There are a lot of expectations from us to do something great, but at the same time, we aren’t expected to do it without support.”

In addition to their other activities, the students attended field trips and “Rector’s Teas,” Yale-NUS’s version of Master’s Teas.

The immersion program began on July 12 and ended on Aug. 2.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Ella Wood seeks Board of Alderman spot

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If Ella Wood ’15 defeats Doug Hausladen ’04 for the Ward 7 aldermanic seat, she will be the first Yale undergraduate to represent that ward.

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER A current Yale student is challenging a former Yalie for the aldermanic seat in Ward 7.

Doug Hausladen ’04, who has represented the ward including downtown New Haven since 2011, will face off against Ella Wood ’15 in the Democratic primary this month. If she wins, she will become the first Yale undergraduate to represent that ward, which is home to city residents, Yale graduate students and a small group of undergraduates.

Doing the footwork it takes to reach out to people from different backgrounds and whose experiences are very different from yours … I think that’s the kind of involvement I have had in New Haven.

ELLA WOOD ’15 Candidate, Ward 7 aldermanic race Yale students have previously only won spots on the board in University-dominated Ward 1.

Wood became a resident of Ward 7 and entered the race in early August, days after moving into a house on Humphrey Street.

She previously lived on Dwight Street outside of the ward in which she currently resides.

“It takes a lot of concerted effort to reach out and draw people into the new direction the city has been headed in, and the current leadership in the ward is not invested in that vision of the city and therefore has not drawn in some voices,” Wood said.

Wood, who spent the summer in New Haven working with New Haven Works, a jobs pipeline program, and New Haven Rising, a community advocacy organization, said her previous work in the Elm City inspired her to run for alderman with the goal of serving underrepresented groups in Ward 7.

Hausladen said he looks forward to having a discussion with Wood about the issues facing Ward 7 and encourages voters to look at both of the candidates’ records.

He added that he has been involved in community activities for years now, whereas Wood has just moved into the ward.

Hausladen has been a member of the Downtown Wooster Square Community Management Team since 2007, served as the coordinator of the New Haven Safe Streets Coalition in 2008, and has led several neighborhood working groups.

Wood, however, said she would be able to better represent Ward 7 residents despite having moved there in early August.

“There’s one kind of engagement and familiarity with the community that comes

from living in it for a long time, and I don’t want to devalue that,” Wood said. “But the other kind of familiarity with the community is impossible to get without doing the footwork it takes to reach out to people from different backgrounds and whose experiences are very different from yours. … I think that’s the kind of involvement I have had in New Haven.”

Ward 10 Alderman and mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who serves with Hausladen on the Board of Aldermen, said Hausladen does have that deep connection with his neighborhood and has had “a very positive impact on the board.”

“He’s independent-minded, votes his conscience and is not afraid to ask the hard questions, so I consider him to be the type of person who is vital to the success of the board,” Elicker said. “I think the most important thing for a representative is to understand who they’re representing and what issues are important to them.

“If [aldermen] haven’t lived in the neighborhood or haven’t been to any neighborhood meetings, that brings up the question of how effectively they can represent their constituents,” Elicker added.

Tricia Caldwell, communications manager for the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, said Hausladen has been “visible in the nonprofit realm” and is known for his work in the community.

The Democratic primary is on Sept. 10.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT 61 new complaints filed in report SEXUAL MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 One of the four perpetrators was given a two-semester suspension and placed on probation for the remainder of his time at the University. A second was also placed on probation but was not suspended, and the final two were issued written reprimands, with one prohibited from contacting the victim.

Spangler said in an email to the News that she would not comment on individual cases to protect the privacy of those involved. The report cannot reflect the full circumstances of each case, she said, and it employs the term “nonconsensual sex” rather than “rape” or more explicit language to allow the University to impose consequences for behaviors that may not meet a criminal standard. UWC Chair and philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca declined to comment.

Members of the Yale community have criticized administrators for taking insufficient disciplinary action against perpetrators of sexual misconduct. Fifteen current and former students founded a group called Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale following the report’s release that advocates for changes in University policies and resources relating to sexual misconduct.

SASVY published an open letter with over 350 signatures to Yale administrators on Aug. 12, suggesting expulsion as the preferred punishment for sexual violence perpetrators.

“By allowing offending students to remain at Yale, the administration deprives survivors of justice and puts other students at risk of victimization,” the letter states. “Lenient disciplinary action also sends a clear message to the student body trivializing sexual violence, encouraging future violations.”

An Aug. 19 open letter from over 200 alumni also criticized aspects of the report, such as the minor consequences given in some of the sexual assault cases and the use of the ambiguous term “nonconsensual sex,” which the alumni allege “appears to draw a distinction between ‘real’ rape and its ‘lesser’ counterparts.”

Emma Goldberg ’16, a former staff reporter for the News, posted a petition on Change.org on Aug. 2 calling for stronger administrative action, such as suspension and expulsion, in response to sexual misconduct. The petition had collected 700 signatures as of Thursday night. Another Change.org petition started by Samuel Ward-Packard ’14 on Aug. 4 that has over 1,400 signatures demands that administrators punish all instances of rape and “so-called ‘nonconsensual sex’” with expulsion.

In an Aug. 5 open letter to the Yale

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community, University President Peter Salovey responded to the outcry by reiterating Yale’s intolerance for sexual violence and promising to publish more informative documents on sexual misconduct by Sept. 1, such as a list describing scenarios of assault and potential penalties.

By allowing offending students to remain at Yale, the administration deprives survivors of justice and puts other students at risk.

OPEN LETTER FROM SASVY In an Aug. 14 response to the SASVY letter, Salovey promised a meeting between SASVY members and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler to hear student input and said he would try to meet with the students personally as well, according to SASVY’s website.

Eight new cases in the report involved allegations of sexual assault, which includes unwanted sexual contact or touching and rape. Thirty-three cases pertained to sexual harassment, such as inappropriate comments, threatening and unwanted sexual advances.

In addition to the 61 new complaints, the report also includes 18 updates to earlier cases.

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

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Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 consider Toni Harp ARC ’78, pictured, their chief rival.

MAYORAL RACE FROM PAGE 1 dearth of Republican challengers in the general election.

In contrast, this year’s race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in decades: Three of the four remaining candidates said they will not treat the primary as definitive.

Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, CEO of the consulting firm Fernandez Advisors and former New Haven economic development administrator, said they will run as independents in the general election should they lose the primary. Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina said he has “left that option open.”

The only candidate banking on a primary victory is Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78, positioned as the front-runner by endorsements from Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy; Yale’s UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35, union groups that have acted as powerful vote-pulling organizations in the city; and a majority of the city lawmakers on the New Haven Board of Aldermen.

“I’m far ahead of the other three candidates,” Harp said in reference to polling she said her campaign conducted roughly three weeks ago.

“Henry and Justin are neck and neck from what I can tell, and then Kermit trails both of them.”

Elicker said his polling indicates he has “double the support of [Fernandez],” though he said he trails Harp considerably.

Both Harp and Elicker declined to reveal exact polling figures.

Fernandez and Carolina — who have not conducted polling — dismissed the other camps’ numbers, saying their own measurements of support derive

from conversations with voters.

“One of the major problems for anybody who’s touting polling at this point is the significant number of people who are still undecided,” Fernandez said.

He said accurate polling would cost $30,000, a price none of the candidates have been willing to pay.

Carolina said his polling takes the form of “face-to-face conversations with residents,” which he said have made him “confident about our chances of victory.”

Both Elicker and Fernandez said their chief opponent is Harp.

“At the end of the day, the race is going to be between myself and Toni Harp,” Fernandez said. “Alderman Elicker is a nice guy, but he’s never run anything other than his campaign for alderman. The first time you have responsibility for hiring and firing people should not be when you have a workforce of 4,000 people.”

Elicker contrasted his experience on the Board of Aldermen’s Budget Committee with Harp’s as a state senator co-chairing the Appropriations Committee. He said he has been working to ameliorate the city’s budget woes for the last three years, while “Harp has a track record of putting both the state and the city in a dangerous fiscal position.”

The Harp campaign fired back with a press release holding that Harp helped balance the state’s budget after the 2008 recession and alleged that Elicker is “dangerously unaware of how budgeting works.”

Both Carolina and Elicker said one of their first tactics in attempting to balance the budget would be to meet with the city’s department heads to identify possible cuts. Carolina also said he would seek pension reform.

Fernandez said the city’s budget problems — represented by a $500 million debt balance, the repeated downgrading of the city’s credit rating and the tripling of pension costs — merit more significant measures: controlling expenditures and addressing pension account deficits in the short term, and fostering economic development to build a more sustainable tax base in the long term.

In addition to this week’s intense focus on fiscal issues, all four candidates listed public safety, job growth and education as the primary issues facing the city.

Drew Morrison ’14, a volunteer for Elicker, said the two-term alderman is the only candidate who has detailed “research-based solutions” to combat the problems ailing the Elm City.

“Justin is taking a policy focus and grassroots approach to this campaign,” Morrison said, citing campaign finance reports released in July indicating that Elicker had raised roughly 80 percent of his contributions from New Haven residents, in comparison to Harp and Fernandez, both of whom have raised the majority of their funds from outside of the city.

Fernandez, who led the funding race with $177,081 by the July 10 filing deadline, defended his donor base by saying contributions from U.S. senators and congressmen are indicative of his breadth of experience.

Carolina — who, along with Elicker, is participating in the city’s public campaign finance system — said fundraising remains a struggle for his campaign.

The general election will be held on Nov. 5.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Pierson freshmen to reside in renovated dorm L-DUB FROM PAGE 1 freshman dormitories.”

The decision to renovate Lanman-Wright was made by the Yale Office of Facilities, said John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources.

It is likely that the idea was raised during the University’s routine building assessments, noted Meeske, whose office had not been consulted about the project.

Polak said the costs of the renovation are being covered by “capital replacement charges” — standard funds allocated to every building. Each structure at Yale is on a renovation life cycle that dictates how often it should be refurbished, Polak explained, and Lanman-Wright Hall is due for its “midterm renovation” because it is halfway through its 40-year cycle.

Lanman-Wright Hall was last renovated in 1993, and all other buildings on Old Campus have been renovated since then, Peart said in an email to the News.

The project, led by New Haven-based architecture firm Apicella + Bunton, includes renovated entryways, replaced suite entry doors, and new common room flooring, electrical outlets and fire alarms, Peart said. Bedrooms have been repainted and now have new wood floors, curtains and furniture, she added.

“I don’t know why [Yale Facilities] chose to do the Pierson side first, but we’re very happy that they did,” Pierson Master Stephen Davis said.

Because of a “miscommunication,” many administrators did not find out about the renovations until the last minute, Polak said, so the renovations were not completed in time for freshman counselors, or frocos, to move into Lanman-Wright for the start of their orientation. “[Frocos] have an incredibly busy schedule for orientation, and the alternative was to put them on another space on campus where they would have to negotiate a movein in the midst of this week,” Davis said.

“The priority for us was to make sure that the froco orientation was not disrupted, so that when the freshman came, they were given the care that they needed.”

Polak said that the mix-up with the froco move-in was “not the end of the world” but added that the University does not intend to make a habit of putting up students in hotels.

Though the brownstone exterior of Lanman-Wright was cleaned this summer, Peart said most of the exterior work will be done in 2014. The slate roof and six entryway doors will be replaced and new window screens will be installed. The brownstone will also be repointed — a process that involves removing damaged pieces of mortar from between the stones and replacing them with new mortar to keep the stonework sound and prevent water from seeping into the building.

Students interviewed were all enthusiastic about the renovations. Still, they said they look back on their time in the old “L-Dub” fondly.

“I lived in Entryway F as a freshman and loved it,” said Pierson freshman counselor Kasia Hitczenko ’14. “Sure, you’d hear stories of people showering in the dark because the light didn’t work or somebody’s door falling off its hinges, but when I think back on stuff like that, I laugh — I don’t cringe with disgust, and we didn’t back then, either.”

Rheaya Willis ’14 said she thinks “L-Dub” is the undergraduate dorm most in need of renovations at Yale, primarily because of its dark interior, drafty windows and outdated bathrooms.

While the living conditions in LanmanWright Hall may have made the experience a “mixed bag” in former years, Davis expressed hope that the renovations would not diminish the strength of the relationships that Piersonites typically form during their freshman year. Through living together in facilities that were “a little tighter,” he pointed out, students formed a special bond.

Ezra Stiles College was the last residential college to undergo renovations, which were completed in 2011.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

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The $15.5 million project includes renovated entryways, replaced suite entry doors and new common room flooring.

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“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.” JOSEPH EPSTEIN WRITER AND EDITOR

4 froyo establishments now close to campus NEW STORES FROM PAGE 1 arrival of college students this week.

“We’re right next door to a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Subway, and they’ve all told us that it’s a bit of a madhouse when students come back,” said John Armstrong, the co-owner of Go Greenly.

Go Greenly is a self-serve yogurt destination that serves organic yogurt in 12 flavors that change on a weekly basis. Flavors include cake batter, cappuccino freddo, caramel apple and citrus burst. In addition to frozen yogurt, the store, which was founded in Scarsdale, N.Y., sells yogurt-based smoothies and bubble tea.

Opening July 13 on Chapel Street, Polar Delight is another self-serve destination for Yale students and New Haven resi-

dents. The store offers 11 nonfat and lowfat options, including French toast and Georgia peach, and four premium and sorbet flavors.

They’ve all told us that it’s a bit of a madhouse when students come back.

JOHN ARMSTRONG Co-owner, Go Greenly Santa-Monica based Pinkberry will open across the street from FroyoWorld by Oct. 1. Pinkberry differs from FroyoWorld in that it is full-service while FroyoWorld is self-serve. This difference in dessert styles will help mitigate the competition

between the two frozen yogurt destinations, said William Bok, the owner of FroyoWorld.

Three years ago, FroyoWorld was the first self-serve frozen yogurt store in Connecticut, Bok said. Now it has been joined by four competitors: Go Greenly, Polar Delight, Pinkberry and Flavors on York Street.

“It’s the Wild West out there,” Armstrong said about the current froyo scene in New Haven.

Next door to Pinkberry’s future location, the smell of fresh-baked goods wafts from Panera Bread, which also opened this summer.

The restaurant provides a spacious seating area where customers can eat soups, salads, sandwiches, bread and smoothies.

Maison Mathis, another restaurant soon to open in New Haven, will provide a similar dining experience to Panera but with

a European twist.

In addition to soups, salads, sandwiches and coffee, the restaurant will serve Belgian waffles and Belgian beer. The local owners are Belgian natives who have connections to New Haven, which is why they decided to make the city the flagship location for Maison Mathis in the United States, said Carin Keane, the director of retail leasing and marketing for University Properties, or UP. She added that the

restaurant will be open for breakfast and dinner, but that the exact store hours have not yet been released.

Maison Mathis is expected to have a similar menu and price range as Au Bon Pain, which will no longer be a coffee destination for students at the tip of Broadway Street. The restaurant closed in May after UP chose not to renew Au Bon Pain’s lease to make “necessary upgrades” to the space, UP said in a statement.

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In its Chapel Street location next to Starbucks, Panera Bread will offer soups, sandwiches and salads.

There are currently no tenants signed to occupy the spaces previously used by Enclave or Au Bon Pain, Keane said. However, she added that UP is actively seeking tenants and has seen much interest.

Maison Mathis’ local owners encouraged those that lost their jobs at Au Bon Pain in May to apply for jobs at Maison Mathis.

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Students ease into college life with bridge program BRIDGE PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 we were trying to accomplish in the program,” Whobrey said.

“Students were saying, ‘When I come back, I know exactly what to do.’”

Of the 60 students that the Admissions Office invited to the program in May, a total of 33 chose to attend. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said most of the students who accepted the invitation replied within 48 hours.

FSY participant Frederic Nicholas ’17, a student from Detroit, said he did not know what to expect from the program before he arrived, as the students had only been told that they would be taking an English class

and living in the residential colleges. The whole experience, he said, was an immersion into Yale life before freshman orientation.

Kerry Burke-McCloud ’17, a freshman from Jacksonville Beach, Fla., said he grew close to the other students in the program through attending the same classes and sessions.

“These were really the first friends that we made at Yale, and we all came from very similar backgrounds,” Burke-McCloud said. “As we arrived on campus, we already had that element of familiarity. The friendships we made are long-lasting.”

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English professor Briallen Hopper, who taught a course on American documentary film for FSY, said the intimacy of the program resulted in vibrant classroom discussions.

“It’s important to me to participate in programs that help to demystify higher education at schools like Yale and to make it increasingly welcoming to students from every background,” Hopper said. “Students brought such incredible enthusiasm and insight to the classroom, plus a formidable work ethic.”

Burke-McCloud said he found the many workshops and meetings — which included advice sessions by deans on everything

from the structure of Yale classes to tips on “how to manage time and still have enough time to sleep” — extremely helpful.

During FSY, Quinlan and Whobrey said, a working group of deans met weekly to discuss the program. As for FSY’s next session in summer 2014, Quinlan said he believes the major programmatic elements of the five weeks will not change, although it is “too early to speculate.”

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Yale fined $155,000 for Clery Act violations

BY CYNTHIA HUA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS In an April 19 letter, the Department of Education issued Yale a $165,000 fine for inadequate reporting of campus crime statistics, including the omission of four incidents of forcible sex offenses in 2001 and 2002.

The punishment, reduced this summer by $10,000 after it was challenged by the University, comes two years after the conclusion of a seven-year investigation into Yale’s compliance with the Clery Act. It consisted of a $27,500 fine for each of the four omitted sex offenses and two additional fines for fail-

ing to include crime statistics from Yale-New Haven Hospital in the University’s annual report and failing to include required policy statements in its 2004 assessment. According to the DOE, Yale rendered its crime reports “incomplete and unreliable” by violating Clery Act regulations, which require institutions to compile data on certain crimes, such as sexual assault, on an annual basis.

The University corrected all issues raised with its crime reporting in 2004, except for the reporting of spaces at Yale-New Haven, which was resolved in 2010, said Yale spokesman Tom Conroy. But the DOE maintains

that the University’s changes do not diminish the seriousness of previous inadequate reporting.

“Yale’s correction of the crime statistics only after the department alerted the university of its obligations in 2004 does not excuse its earlier failure to comply with its legal obligations,” said DOE Administrative Actions and Appeals Director Mary Gust in the April letter.

In its response to the DOE’s conclusions, Yale argued that its fine should be reduced because the seven required policy statements were later included in its April 2005 addendum to the 2004 report, according to the letter. Due to this 2005 revision

and because the Clery Act violation occurred almost eight years ago, the DOE reduced the fine for omitted policy statements from $27,500 to $17,500.

The letter noted, though, that Yale only corrected its missing policy statements once they were identified by the DOE. “[The] correction did not occur until close to the end of the 2004-2005 academic year, thereby limiting the value of the correction to students, employees and prospective students and employees,” the letter states.

The DOE rejected Yale’s other requests for fine reductions, according to the letter.

The DOE investigation was opened in 2004 after a JulyAugust 2004 Yale Alumni Magazine article titled “Lux, Veritas, and Sexual Trespass” was brought to the attention of S. Daniel Carter, who was then senior vice president at the nonprofit Clery Center for Security On Campus. Carter filed the original complaint regarding the University’s compliance with campus security requirements with the Department of Education.

The DOE’s investigation into Yale’s compliance with the Clery Act is entirely separate from and has occurred under a different time frame than the investiga-

tion conducted by the department’s Office of Civil Rights into the University’s sexual climate.

The latter investigation began in March 2011 after 16 students and alumni filed a Title IX complaint with the OCR and ended last June after the office reached an agreement with the University.

But Carter said the two investigations both indicate a need for stronger institutional procedures at Yale with regard to sexual misconduct response and reporting.

On a quiet Monday morning in July, staff members at Woodbridge Hall greeted the first new University president in two decades.

Former Provost Peter Salovey officially took the reins of the University on July 1 as Yale’s 23rd president, succeeding his longtime mentor Richard Levin.

The outgoing president, who first assumed the job in 1993, is widely recognized as having been one of Yale’s most successful leaders, with his tenure drawing praise from members of the University and outside observers alike.

While the change in Yale’s senior leadership had built excitement and anticipation throughout the campus community since Levin’s retirement announcement popped into email inboxes on the morning of Aug. 30, 2012, the transition itself proved subdued following months of preparation.

Other than a small staff reception held in Woodbridge Hall, the president’s office remained quiet.

“It will be a big moment for Peter,” Levin told the News earlier that week. “But it’s not like there’s going to be 21-gun salutes. It’s July — there’s not much going on on campus.”

Many of Salovey’s colleagues in the senior administration were absent from his first official entrance into the President’s Office. At the time, Levin was hiking with his wife Jane Levin in Chamonix, France, while Provost Benjamin Polak was also in Europe.

It will be a big moment for Peter. But it’s not like there’s going to be 21-gun salutes. It’s July — there’s not much going on on campus.

RICHARD LEVIN Former president, Yale University University Vice President Linda Lorimer, who had just returned to campus the week before from Italy and London, told the News that she would “pop over” to Woodbridge Hall to give Salovey a congratulatory hug.

The day did not pass completely unmarked — University Secretary and Vice President for Student Affairs Kimberly GoffCrews hosted a small gathering in Woodbridge Hall to welcome

and celebrate the transition.

Roughly 20 people attended, including Salovey’s wife Marta Moret and several newer staff members. The attendees ushered Salovey in with “applause, laughter and cheer,” GoffCrews told the News in an email.

Though Levin could not attend that day, he said the end of his tenure was marked with a number of parties and receptions and that moving out of Woodbridge Hall had been “a somewhat out-of-body experience.”

Salovey said he viewed the transition with optimism, hoping to “carry on the positive momentum of the Levin years.” He added he planned to meet with Yale deans in July and spend time fundraising for the Development Office.

“I think this is a time of renewal,” Lorimer told the News that week. “There is an exciting sense of anticipation and a comforting layer of confidence.”

A campus-wide presidential inauguration will take place in October.

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS While most saw escalating political unrest in Egypt unfold in newspapers or on television screens this summer, a few Yale students experienced the mounting tension on the streets of Cairo — until the conflict forced them to leave the country.

On June 30, the first anniversary of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s inauguration, nearly 500,000 people gathered at Tahrir Square in the country’s capital to protest the ruler’s leadership and demand his resignation. Three people, including an American citizen, were killed during protests in Alexandria on June 28, and death counts would rise in Cairo later that week. As conflict in Egypt mounted, Yale administrators checked in with the handful of students who had registered their travel plans to Egypt this summer, and the two students registered at the time were able to leave the country safely and without a formal evacuation.

Justin Schuster ’15, who expected to stay in Cairo doing non-profit work until mid-July, flew to Jordan on July 2 to finish his internship in Amman. Dean of International and Professional Experience Jane Edwards said Erin McDonough ’14, the other student who had registered her travel, did not require evacuation assistance. Cynthia Deng ’14, who had registered her May but not her June visit to Egypt, departed Alexandria on June 26 before flying out from Cairo.

As the June 30 protests were unraveling on the streets of Cairo, Schuster stayed indoors upon direction from AMIDEAST, the American nonprofit organization with which he was interning. AMIDEAST ordered the lockdown after another intern, 21-year-old Kenyon College student and American citizen

Andrew Pochter, was stabbed to death in Alexandria while witnessing a protest two days earlier. Schuster said AMIDEAST organized his departure from the country.

To know that an American had been targeted … I definitely found myself looking over my shoulder more than beforehand.

JUSTIN SCHUSTER ’15 Intern, AMIDEAST “After Andrew’s death, something definitely changed,” Schuster said. “To know that an American had been targeted, the situation around me may not have changed, but internally I definitely found myself looking over my shoulder more than beforehand.”

On July 3, the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning for Egypt, citing Pochter’s death and advising American citizens to defer all travel to the country. Don Filer, executive director of Yale’s Office of International Affairs, said University policy dictates that when the State Department issues such a warning, undergraduates must also leave the country, and Yale will not fund or offer credit for any undergraduate study in the region.

The last evacuation of Yale students from Egypt occurred in January and February 2011, when thousands of Egyptians protested the 30-year reign of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

VICTOR KANG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Recently sold to the University for $3 million, High and Wall streets were closed to vehicular traffic in 1990.

Amid fervent protest in the aldermanic chambers of City Hall, city lawmakers in early June handed over portions of two downtown streets to Yale in exchange for $3 million.

In a 21–8 vote, the New Haven Board of Aldermen put to bed the issue of the continued closures of High and Wall streets by permanently selling the two city streets to the University.

The streets, which were closed to vehicular traffic in 1990, have since become central pedestrian corridors on campus.

The aldermen who favored the deal — among them Board President and Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez — said the revenue from the sale would help to alleviate the city’s budget deficit.

The eight dissenters — joined by protestors who flocked to City Hall to decry the privatization of city streets — criticized the

deal as a shortsighted solution to budget woes and warned that Yale now has the power to shut off public access to the streets: not just to vehicles, but to the city as a whole.

That outcome is unlikely according to Lauren Zucker, Yale associate vice president and director of New Haven affairs.

“The University currently has no plans to change access,” she told the News in a June email.

“The long-standing practice and reality, which continues, is that Yale has a very accessible campus.”

The promise of continued open access is what Ward 22 Alderman Jeanette Morrison, whose ward includes the two streets and four of the 12 residential colleges, said convinced her to vote for the deal. She said the Yale students living in her ward circulated a petition asking her to support the sale.

But Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said the streets

could have remained closed without selling them to the University. The current agreement already keeps out vehicular traffic, he said.

Mayoral candidate and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 described the sale as “another example of the city making a bad deal to fix the budget in the short term” in a campaign press release.

Yale spokesmen Tom Conroy and Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said the vote was indicative of Yale’s strong relationship with its home city. Morand described the sale as the “logical next step after more than 20 years of successful closure of those blocks to general vehicular traffic.”

Along with portions of High and Wall streets, 182 square feet of Broadway Avenue were sold to Yale for $8,190.

Contact ISAAC DSTANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Former lecturer no longer a suspect in Jovin murder

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER

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

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Conflict forces Yale students from Egypt

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

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

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Salovey takes office on a quiet Monday morning

BY AMY WANG AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS

City sells Yale portions of High and Wall

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Former Provost Peter Salovey became Yale’s 23rd president on July 1, succeeding Richard Levin.

Corporation gains two new members

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Joshua Bekenstein ’80 and Catharine Hill GRD ’85 joined the Yale Corporation in July, following former University President Richard Levin’s May 28 announcement of their elections.

Bekenstein, the managing director of Bain Capital, was selected by the Corporation to serve as a successor trustee, while Hill, the president of Vassar College, was elected by alumni to serve a six-year term as an alumni fellow. They replaced senior fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 and alumni fellow Mimi Gates GRD ’81, respectively.

“These two bring somewhat different skills and interests, and both have plenty to bring,” Levin told the News in May. “[Bekenstein] has great business skills, and [Hill] has tremendous depth of experience in education.”

Joining the 19-person Yale Corporation, the two new members will gather around the walnut table in the Woodbridge Hall Corporation Room, where Yale’s highest governing body meets at least five times a year. To claim her seat on the Corporation, Hill beat out movie producer Bruce Cohen ’83 in an alumni fellow election, which ran from March 26 to May 19 and was open to all alumni who received their first Yale degree at least five years ago.

At the time of her election, Hill served on the governing board for Yale-NUS, but she said she would vacate her position on the board before the conclusion of her threeyear term in order to serve on the Yale Corporation. The Yale-NUS board holds eight meetings annually, two of which take place in Singapore.

“I think to do both would be difficult,” Hill told the News in May,

“mainly because of the time constraints.”

Bekenstein had served as a member of the Yale Investment Committee — a group that reviews the University’s investment strategy — but said he would also step down from his post to join the Corporation.

Levin said he expected the new trustee to continue bringing his financial expertise to the University, possibly by serving on the Corporation’s finance or audit committees.

[Bekenstein and Hill] bring somewhat different skills and interests, and both have plenty to bring.

RICHARD LEVIN Former president, Yale University “I think Yale’s a terrific place. I love Yale. I want to do everything I can to support Yale,” Bekenstein told the News. “I plan on learning a lot before providing oversight and guidance.”

Bekenstein attended Harvard Business School after graduating from Yale and worked on strategic consulting at Bain & Company before helping found Bain Capital in 1984.

Hill, who goes by “Cappy,” received a doctorate in economics from Yale and became the president of Vassar in 2006.

The two new trustees joined the Corporation as part of a routine rotation in the group’s membership.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Fourteen years after the fatal stabbing of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin ’99, the former Yale lecturer who was named as a suspect in the unsolved murder has settled his lawsuit against the city of New Haven and the University.

James Van de Velde ’82 was a political science lecturer at Yale when he became the only publicly named suspect in the homicide of Jovin, a German student who was found dead in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood on Dec. 4, 1998. Never officially charged in connection with the murder, he is now no longer a suspect in the case.

The lawsuit settlement, which was announced on June 3, puts an end to 12 years of legal battles between Van de Velde, Yale University and the city of New Haven. Under the agreement, Van de Velde will receive $200,000 from the city of New Haven and an undisclosed amount from Yale University.

“I am most relieved that this sad episode is over once and for all,” Van de Velde said.

All parties involved agree that the decision to end the litigation was financially prudent, with Yale and New Haven emphasizing that the settlement does not represent an admission of wrongdoing.

“Continuing the civil litigation for several more years would serve little purpose at this point, and it would demand further time, energy and cost with no corresponding benefit,” Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said.

Van de Velde sued the New Haven Police Department in 2001, claiming violations of his constitutional rights and damages to his reputation and career. In 2003, he added several top Yale administrators as defendants, including former University President Richard Levin, Vice President Linda Lorimer and Yale spokesman Tom Conroy.

After losing his teaching position at Yale, Van de Velde

remained unemployed for years, but he eventually landed a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where he now works as an analyst on intelligence and counterterrorism issues.

“I have been able to piece back together my professional life by passing the intelligence community’s most stringent background investigations and polygraph tests,” Van de Velde said.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Jovin’s death is still awaiting closure.

Jack Edwards, chief inspector of the state’s division of criminal justice, said detectives work every day to process and verify new information gathered from a tip line set up in 2007.

“It’s a difficult case, but we have a steady commitment to it,” Edwards said.

Anyone who may have information about the case is encouraged to call 203-6761575.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .

YDN

The 1998 murder of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin ’99, who was fatally stabbed in New Haven, remains unsolved.

Univ. pulls out of Newhallville construction

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In late May, Yale withdrew from its plans to build a lowincome home in Newhallville.

Nearly three weeks later, the neighborhood was given a second chance.

At a press conference held at the construction site on 32 Lilac St. this June, University President Richard Levin announced that Yale would split the costs of the building project with the City of New Haven in order to see it to completion. The house was originally slated for construction by first-year students at the Yale School of Architecture as a part of its annual Vlock Building Project, but work on the site was abruptly put to a halt after Paul Brouard ARC ’61 — a supervisor who had arrived to oversee excavation — was attacked and robbed on the morning of May 9.

When they told us we were moving the project, it felt like we were letting down the neighborhood.

MEGHAN LEWIS ARC ’15 Member, Vlock building team Following the incident, the University announced that it would be pulling out of Newhallville. The Vlock project is instead being undertaken at a new location at 116

New superintendent appointed

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER

ROBERT PECK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

First-year students at the School of Architecture build a house in New Haven through the annual Vlock Building Project, such as the 2012 house in Newhallville pictured above.

Greenwood St., in the city’s West River neighborhood, where the relocation has forced students to work under a tighter deadline.

With funding from the city and from Yale, Neighborhood Housing Services will complete the original work in Newhallville started by students and faculty from the School of Architecture. Three students and faculty interviewed said they were glad to hear that the house will be constructed — though they will not be the ones building it.

“We were of course upset when [Brouard] got hurt,

but we thought we were just going to be more careful,” said Meghan Lewis ARC ’15, a member of the Vlock building team. “When they told us we were moving the project, it felt like we were letting down the neighborhood.”

Lewis said compared to previous years — the Vlock building project began in 1967 — she and her team members had made a more concerted effort to reach out to the neighborhood during the project’s early stages.

The community members and Vlock Building Project team had formed a strong

connection in the short time they were in Newhallville, said Newhallville Community Matters Residents Association member Tammy Chapman.

For a neighborhood striving to right the wrongs of its past, Yale’s “abrupt” reaction to the mugging was disappointing, Chapman said.

“It made the residents feel like we were not worthy of the project,” Chapman said. “As one of our residents stated quite eloquently, we will take the money, but we prefer having the energy of the student bodies here.”

While the decision to move

out of Newhallville was out of the School of Architecture’s control, architecture professor Adam Hopfner, director of the Vlock Building Project, said he will advocate for returning to the neighborhood next summer.

“The decision was made given the circumstances on that particular street, at that particular time,” Hopfner said.

“It wasn’t a blanket statement to say that we’re not going to be working [in Newhallville] again.”

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

Since arriving in New Haven in 2009 tasked with transforming the city’s school district, Garth Harries ’95 has garnered enough respect to earn him New Haven’s highest education leadership position.

The school board voted unanimously at its meeting on July 22 to promote Harries from his current role as assistant superintendent to superintendent of New Haven Public Schools. He began work in the new position following the retirement of Reginald Mayo, who led the district for the last 21 years.

“It’s awe-inspiring in both a wonderful and an intimidating sense,” Harries said. “[The job involves] 21,000 kids and being responsible for their education, and to some extent, helping to ensure that they have the best possible life prospects.”

After graduating from Yale in 1995, Harries attended Stanford Law School and later joined McKinsey & Company, where he worked as a consultant for three years. In 2003, he changed his career to education and worked for six years in the New York Public Schools system.

Harries returned to New Haven in 2009 to design the School Change Initiative, which centers around a teacher evaluation system that has been praised nationally as a model for compromise between teachers’ unions and school administrators. The initiative also includes

New Haven Promise, a college scholarship sponsored by Yale, and has overseen the development of programs like Parent University, which offers workshops for parents, and Boost!, which partners students with nonprofits in the community.

[The job involves] 21,000 kids and … helping to ensure that they have the best possible life prospects.

GARTH HARRIES ’95 Superintendent, New Haven Public Schools From 2009 to 2012, the city’s graduation rate increased from 58.1 percent to 70.5 percent, and the dropout rate declined from 31.7 percent to 21 percent. Of the 1,027 students who graduated high school in 2013, 80 percent had plans to attend a twoor four-year college.

Despite his successes, Harries said he thinks an even bigger push for education reform is needed in the future. While he said that New Haven is headed in the right direction, he spoke of the need to “deepen and extend” the work of the School Change Initiative.

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

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SUMMER BRIEFS

“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”

JERRY SEINFELD AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

Yale fined $155,000 for Clery Act violations

BY CYNTHIA HUA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS In an April 19 letter, the Department of Education issued Yale a $165,000 fine for inadequate reporting of campus crime statistics, including the omission of four incidents of forcible sex offenses in 2001 and 2002.

The punishment, reduced this summer by $10,000 after it was challenged by the University, comes two years after the conclusion of a seven-year investigation into Yale’s compliance with the Clery Act. It consisted of a $27,500 fine for each of the four omitted sex offenses and two additional fines for fail-

ing to include crime statistics from Yale-New Haven Hospital in the University’s annual report and failing to include required policy statements in its 2004 assessment. According to the DOE, Yale rendered its crime reports “incomplete and unreliable” by violating Clery Act regulations, which require institutions to compile data on certain crimes, such as sexual assault, on an annual basis.

The University corrected all issues raised with its crime reporting in 2004, except for the reporting of spaces at Yale-New Haven, which was resolved in 2010, said Yale spokesman Tom Conroy. But the DOE maintains

that the University’s changes do not diminish the seriousness of previous inadequate reporting.

“Yale’s correction of the crime statistics only after the department alerted the university of its obligations in 2004 does not excuse its earlier failure to comply with its legal obligations,” said DOE Administrative Actions and Appeals Director Mary Gust in the April letter.

In its response to the DOE’s conclusions, Yale argued that its fine should be reduced because the seven required policy statements were later included in its April 2005 addendum to the 2004 report, according to the letter. Due to this 2005 revision

and because the Clery Act violation occurred almost eight years ago, the DOE reduced the fine for omitted policy statements from $27,500 to $17,500.

The letter noted, though, that Yale only corrected its missing policy statements once they were identified by the DOE. “[The] correction did not occur until close to the end of the 2004-2005 academic year, thereby limiting the value of the correction to students, employees and prospective students and employees,” the letter states.

The DOE rejected Yale’s other requests for fine reductions, according to the letter.

The DOE investigation was opened in 2004 after a JulyAugust 2004 Yale Alumni Magazine article titled “Lux, Veritas, and Sexual Trespass” was brought to the attention of S. Daniel Carter, who was then senior vice president at the nonprofit Clery Center for Security On Campus. Carter filed the original complaint regarding the University’s compliance with campus security requirements with the Department of Education.

The DOE’s investigation into Yale’s compliance with the Clery Act is entirely separate from and has occurred under a different time frame than the investiga-

tion conducted by the department’s Office of Civil Rights into the University’s sexual climate.

The latter investigation began in March 2011 after 16 students and alumni filed a Title IX complaint with the OCR and ended last June after the office reached an agreement with the University.

But Carter said the two investigations both indicate a need for stronger institutional procedures at Yale with regard to sexual misconduct response and reporting.

On a quiet Monday morning in July, staff members at Woodbridge Hall greeted the first new University president in two decades.

Former Provost Peter Salovey officially took the reins of the University on July 1 as Yale’s 23rd president, succeeding his longtime mentor Richard Levin.

The outgoing president, who first assumed the job in 1993, is widely recognized as having been one of Yale’s most successful leaders, with his tenure drawing praise from members of the University and outside observers alike.

While the change in Yale’s senior leadership had built excitement and anticipation throughout the campus community since Levin’s retirement announcement popped into email inboxes on the morning of Aug. 30, 2012, the transition itself proved subdued following months of preparation.

Other than a small staff reception held in Woodbridge Hall, the president’s office remained quiet.

“It will be a big moment for Peter,” Levin told the News earlier that week. “But it’s not like there’s going to be 21-gun salutes. It’s July — there’s not much going on on campus.”

Many of Salovey’s colleagues in the senior administration were absent from his first official entrance into the President’s Office. At the time, Levin was hiking with his wife Jane Levin in Chamonix, France, while Provost Benjamin Polak was also in Europe.

It will be a big moment for Peter. But it’s not like there’s going to be 21-gun salutes. It’s July — there’s not much going on on campus.

RICHARD LEVIN Former president, Yale University University Vice President Linda Lorimer, who had just returned to campus the week before from Italy and London, told the News that she would “pop over” to Woodbridge Hall to give Salovey a congratulatory hug.

The day did not pass completely unmarked — University Secretary and Vice President for Student Affairs Kimberly GoffCrews hosted a small gathering in Woodbridge Hall to welcome

and celebrate the transition.

Roughly 20 people attended, including Salovey’s wife Marta Moret and several newer staff members. The attendees ushered Salovey in with “applause, laughter and cheer,” GoffCrews told the News in an email.

Though Levin could not attend that day, he said the end of his tenure was marked with a number of parties and receptions and that moving out of Woodbridge Hall had been “a somewhat out-of-body experience.”

Salovey said he viewed the transition with optimism, hoping to “carry on the positive momentum of the Levin years.” He added he planned to meet with Yale deans in July and spend time fundraising for the Development Office.

“I think this is a time of renewal,” Lorimer told the News that week. “There is an exciting sense of anticipation and a comforting layer of confidence.”

A campus-wide presidential inauguration will take place in October.

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS While most saw escalating political unrest in Egypt unfold in newspapers or on television screens this summer, a few Yale students experienced the mounting tension on the streets of Cairo — until the conflict forced them to leave the country.

On June 30, the first anniversary of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s inauguration, nearly 500,000 people gathered at Tahrir Square in the country’s capital to protest the ruler’s leadership and demand his resignation. Three people, including an American citizen, were killed during protests in Alexandria on June 28, and death counts would rise in Cairo later that week. As conflict in Egypt mounted, Yale administrators checked in with the handful of students who had registered their travel plans to Egypt this summer, and the two students registered at the time were able to leave the country safely and without a formal evacuation.

Justin Schuster ’15, who expected to stay in Cairo doing non-profit work until mid-July, flew to Jordan on July 2 to finish his internship in Amman. Dean of International and Professional Experience Jane Edwards said Erin McDonough ’14, the other student who had registered her travel, did not require evacuation assistance. Cynthia Deng ’14, who had registered her May but not her June visit to Egypt, departed Alexandria on June 26 before flying out from Cairo.

As the June 30 protests were unraveling on the streets of Cairo, Schuster stayed indoors upon direction from AMIDEAST, the American nonprofit organization with which he was interning. AMIDEAST ordered the lockdown after another intern, 21-year-old Kenyon College student and American citizen

Andrew Pochter, was stabbed to death in Alexandria while witnessing a protest two days earlier. Schuster said AMIDEAST organized his departure from the country.

To know that an American had been targeted … I definitely found myself looking over my shoulder more than beforehand.

JUSTIN SCHUSTER ’15 Intern, AMIDEAST “After Andrew’s death, something definitely changed,” Schuster said. “To know that an American had been targeted, the situation around me may not have changed, but internally I definitely found myself looking over my shoulder more than beforehand.”

On July 3, the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning for Egypt, citing Pochter’s death and advising American citizens to defer all travel to the country. Don Filer, executive director of Yale’s Office of International Affairs, said University policy dictates that when the State Department issues such a warning, undergraduates must also leave the country, and Yale will not fund or offer credit for any undergraduate study in the region.

The last evacuation of Yale students from Egypt occurred in January and February 2011, when thousands of Egyptians protested the 30-year reign of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

VICTOR KANG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Recently sold to the University for $3 million, High and Wall streets were closed to vehicular traffic in 1990.

Amid fervent protest in the aldermanic chambers of City Hall, city lawmakers in early June handed over portions of two downtown streets to Yale in exchange for $3 million.

In a 21–8 vote, the New Haven Board of Aldermen put to bed the issue of the continued closures of High and Wall streets by permanently selling the two city streets to the University.

The streets, which were closed to vehicular traffic in 1990, have since become central pedestrian corridors on campus.

The aldermen who favored the deal — among them Board President and Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez — said the revenue from the sale would help to alleviate the city’s budget deficit.

The eight dissenters — joined by protestors who flocked to City Hall to decry the privatization of city streets — criticized the

deal as a shortsighted solution to budget woes and warned that Yale now has the power to shut off public access to the streets: not just to vehicles, but to the city as a whole.

That outcome is unlikely according to Lauren Zucker, Yale associate vice president and director of New Haven affairs.

“The University currently has no plans to change access,” she told the News in a June email.

“The long-standing practice and reality, which continues, is that Yale has a very accessible campus.”

The promise of continued open access is what Ward 22 Alderman Jeanette Morrison, whose ward includes the two streets and four of the 12 residential colleges, said convinced her to vote for the deal. She said the Yale students living in her ward circulated a petition asking her to support the sale.

But Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said the streets

could have remained closed without selling them to the University. The current agreement already keeps out vehicular traffic, he said.

Mayoral candidate and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 described the sale as “another example of the city making a bad deal to fix the budget in the short term” in a campaign press release.

Yale spokesmen Tom Conroy and Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said the vote was indicative of Yale’s strong relationship with its home city. Morand described the sale as the “logical next step after more than 20 years of successful closure of those blocks to general vehicular traffic.”

Along with portions of High and Wall streets, 182 square feet of Broadway Avenue were sold to Yale for $8,190.

Contact ISAAC DSTANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Former lecturer no longer a suspect in Jovin murder

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER

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

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Conflict forces Yale students from Egypt

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER

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

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Salovey takes office on a quiet Monday morning

BY AMY WANG AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS

City sells Yale portions of High and Wall

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Former Provost Peter Salovey became Yale’s 23rd president on July 1, succeeding Richard Levin.

Corporation gains two new members

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Joshua Bekenstein ’80 and Catharine Hill GRD ’85 joined the Yale Corporation in July, following former University President Richard Levin’s May 28 announcement of their elections.

Bekenstein, the managing director of Bain Capital, was selected by the Corporation to serve as a successor trustee, while Hill, the president of Vassar College, was elected by alumni to serve a six-year term as an alumni fellow. They replaced senior fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 and alumni fellow Mimi Gates GRD ’81, respectively.

“These two bring somewhat different skills and interests, and both have plenty to bring,” Levin told the News in May. “[Bekenstein] has great business skills, and [Hill] has tremendous depth of experience in education.”

Joining the 19-person Yale Corporation, the two new members will gather around the walnut table in the Woodbridge Hall Corporation Room, where Yale’s highest governing body meets at least five times a year. To claim her seat on the Corporation, Hill beat out movie producer Bruce Cohen ’83 in an alumni fellow election, which ran from March 26 to May 19 and was open to all alumni who received their first Yale degree at least five years ago.

At the time of her election, Hill served on the governing board for Yale-NUS, but she said she would vacate her position on the board before the conclusion of her threeyear term in order to serve on the Yale Corporation. The Yale-NUS board holds eight meetings annually, two of which take place in Singapore.

“I think to do both would be difficult,” Hill told the News in May,

“mainly because of the time constraints.”

Bekenstein had served as a member of the Yale Investment Committee — a group that reviews the University’s investment strategy — but said he would also step down from his post to join the Corporation.

Levin said he expected the new trustee to continue bringing his financial expertise to the University, possibly by serving on the Corporation’s finance or audit committees.

[Bekenstein and Hill] bring somewhat different skills and interests, and both have plenty to bring.

RICHARD LEVIN Former president, Yale University “I think Yale’s a terrific place. I love Yale. I want to do everything I can to support Yale,” Bekenstein told the News. “I plan on learning a lot before providing oversight and guidance.”

Bekenstein attended Harvard Business School after graduating from Yale and worked on strategic consulting at Bain & Company before helping found Bain Capital in 1984.

Hill, who goes by “Cappy,” received a doctorate in economics from Yale and became the president of Vassar in 2006.

The two new trustees joined the Corporation as part of a routine rotation in the group’s membership.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Fourteen years after the fatal stabbing of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin ’99, the former Yale lecturer who was named as a suspect in the unsolved murder has settled his lawsuit against the city of New Haven and the University.

James Van de Velde ’82 was a political science lecturer at Yale when he became the only publicly named suspect in the homicide of Jovin, a German student who was found dead in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood on Dec. 4, 1998. Never officially charged in connection with the murder, he is now no longer a suspect in the case.

The lawsuit settlement, which was announced on June 3, puts an end to 12 years of legal battles between Van de Velde, Yale University and the city of New Haven. Under the agreement, Van de Velde will receive $200,000 from the city of New Haven and an undisclosed amount from Yale University.

“I am most relieved that this sad episode is over once and for all,” Van de Velde said.

All parties involved agree that the decision to end the litigation was financially prudent, with Yale and New Haven emphasizing that the settlement does not represent an admission of wrongdoing.

“Continuing the civil litigation for several more years would serve little purpose at this point, and it would demand further time, energy and cost with no corresponding benefit,” Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said.

Van de Velde sued the New Haven Police Department in 2001, claiming violations of his constitutional rights and damages to his reputation and career. In 2003, he added several top Yale administrators as defendants, including former University President Richard Levin, Vice President Linda Lorimer and Yale spokesman Tom Conroy.

After losing his teaching position at Yale, Van de Velde

remained unemployed for years, but he eventually landed a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where he now works as an analyst on intelligence and counterterrorism issues.

“I have been able to piece back together my professional life by passing the intelligence community’s most stringent background investigations and polygraph tests,” Van de Velde said.

Meanwhile, the investigation into Jovin’s death is still awaiting closure.

Jack Edwards, chief inspector of the state’s division of criminal justice, said detectives work every day to process and verify new information gathered from a tip line set up in 2007.

“It’s a difficult case, but we have a steady commitment to it,” Edwards said.

Anyone who may have information about the case is encouraged to call 203-6761575.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .

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The 1998 murder of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin ’99, who was fatally stabbed in New Haven, remains unsolved.

Univ. pulls out of Newhallville construction

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In late May, Yale withdrew from its plans to build a lowincome home in Newhallville.

Nearly three weeks later, the neighborhood was given a second chance.

At a press conference held at the construction site on 32 Lilac St. this June, University President Richard Levin announced that Yale would split the costs of the building project with the City of New Haven in order to see it to completion. The house was originally slated for construction by first-year students at the Yale School of Architecture as a part of its annual Vlock Building Project, but work on the site was abruptly put to a halt after Paul Brouard ARC ’61 — a supervisor who had arrived to oversee excavation — was attacked and robbed on the morning of May 9.

When they told us we were moving the project, it felt like we were letting down the neighborhood.

MEGHAN LEWIS ARC ’15 Member, Vlock building team Following the incident, the University announced that it would be pulling out of Newhallville. The Vlock project is instead being undertaken at a new location at 116

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First-year students at the School of Architecture build a house in New Haven through the annual Vlock Building Project, such as the 2012 house in Newhallville pictured above.

Greenwood St., in the city’s West River neighborhood, where the relocation has forced students to work under a tighter deadline.

With funding from the city and from Yale, Neighborhood Housing Services will complete the original work in Newhallville started by students and faculty from the School of Architecture. Three students and faculty interviewed said they were glad to hear that the house will be constructed — though they will not be the ones building it.

“We were of course upset when [Brouard] got hurt,

but we thought we were just going to be more careful,” said Meghan Lewis ARC ’15, a member of the Vlock building team. “When they told us we were moving the project, it felt like we were letting down the neighborhood.”

Lewis said compared to previous years — the Vlock building project began in 1967 — she and her team members had made a more concerted effort to reach out to the neighborhood during the project’s early stages.

The community members and Vlock Building Project team had formed a strong

connection in the short time they were in Newhallville, said Newhallville Community Matters Residents Association member Tammy Chapman.

For a neighborhood striving to right the wrongs of its past, Yale’s “abrupt” reaction to the mugging was disappointing, Chapman said.

“It made the residents feel like we were not worthy of the project,” Chapman said. “As one of our residents stated quite eloquently, we will take the money, but we prefer having the energy of the student bodies here.”

While the decision to move

out of Newhallville was out of the School of Architecture’s control, architecture professor Adam Hopfner, director of the Vlock Building Project, said he will advocate for returning to the neighborhood next summer.

“The decision was made given the circumstances on that particular street, at that particular time,” Hopfner said.

“It wasn’t a blanket statement to say that we’re not going to be working [in Newhallville] again.”

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

Since arriving in New Haven in 2009 tasked with transforming the city’s school district, Garth Harries ’95 has garnered enough respect to earn him New Haven’s highest education leadership position.

The school board voted unanimously at its meeting on July 22 to promote Harries from his current role as assistant superintendent to superintendent of New Haven Public Schools. He began work in the new position following the retirement of Reginald Mayo, who led the district for the last 21 years.

“It’s awe-inspiring in both a wonderful and an intimidating sense,” Harries said. “[The job involves] 21,000 kids and being responsible for their education, and to some extent, helping to ensure that they have the best possible life prospects.”

After graduating from Yale in 1995, Harries attended Stanford Law School and later joined McKinsey & Company, where he worked as a consultant for three years. In 2003, he changed his career to education and worked for six years in the New York Public Schools system.

Harries returned to New Haven in 2009 to design the School Change Initiative, which centers around a teacher evaluation system that has been praised nationally as a model for compromise between teachers’ unions and school administrators. The initiative also includes

New Haven Promise, a college scholarship sponsored by Yale, and has overseen the development of programs like Parent University, which offers workshops for parents, and Boost!, which partners students with nonprofits in the community.

[The job involves] 21,000 kids and … helping to ensure that they have the best possible life prospects.

GARTH HARRIES ’95 Superintendent, New Haven Public Schools From 2009 to 2012, the city’s graduation rate increased from 58.1 percent to 70.5 percent, and the dropout rate declined from 31.7 percent to 21 percent. Of the 1,027 students who graduated high school in 2013, 80 percent had plans to attend a twoor four-year college.

Despite his successes, Harries said he thinks an even bigger push for education reform is needed in the future. While he said that New Haven is headed in the right direction, he spoke of the need to “deepen and extend” the work of the School Change Initiative.

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

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A New York crowd reacts to a speech by President Barack Obama about college financial aid at a high school in Syracuse.

BY JULIE PACE AND PHILIP ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid.

But the proposed overhaul faced immediate skepticism from college leaders who worry the rankings could cost their institutions millions of dollars, as well as from congressional Republicans wary of deepening the government’s role in higher education.

The president, speaking to a student-heavy crowd of 7,000 at the University at Buffalo, said he expected pushback from those who have profited from the ballooning cost of college. But he argued that with the nation’s economy still shaky and students facing increasing global competition, making college affordable is “an economic imperative.”

“Higher education cannot be a lux-

ury,” Obama said during the first stop on a two-day bus tour through New York and Pennsylvania. “Every American family should be able to get it.”

Republicans on Capitol Hill weighed in quickly with criticism. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, cast the proposal as government overreach and suggested a state-by-state approach would be preferable.

“Washington needs to be careful about taking a good idea for one state and forcing all 6,000 institutions of higher education to do the exact same thing, turning Washington into a sort of national school board for our colleges and universities,” Alexander said.

For colleges and universities, millions of federal aid dollars could be on the line if schools are downgraded under the government rating system.

However, if colleges line up against the idea of tying ratings to federal aid, the proposal would face nearly impossible odds. Almost all members of Congress have colleges or universities in their districts, and a coordinated effort

to rally students and educators against the plan would probably kill it quickly.

“This is extraordinarily complicated stuff, and it’s not clear we have the complete data or accurate data,” said Molly Corbett Broad, the president of the American Council on Education that represents colleges and universities in Washington.

From Buffalo, Obama climbed aboard his armored black bus for a road trip that was to take him through western and central New York as well as northeastern Pennsylvania over two days. The education-focused trip underscores the degree to which the White House is seeking to keep the president’s public agenda focused on domestic issues, even as international crises flare in Egypt and Syria.

“As we’re weighing these domestic policy positions and foreign policy decisions, the president puts the interests of the United States of America first,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “The fact that we are doing this bus tour is an indication that the president has his priorities straight.”

FORT MEADE, Md. — Three years after rocking the Pentagon by leaking a mountain of secrets, Bradley Manning created a whole new set of potential complications for the military Thursday by asking to be known as a woman named Chelsea and to undergo hormone treatment.

Manning’s gender-identity struggle — a sense of being a woman trapped in a man’s body — was brought up by the defense at the court-martial, and a photo of the soldier in a blond wig and lipstick was submitted as evidence.

But the latest twist, announced the morning after Manning was sentenced to 35 years behind bars, surprised many and confronted the Pentagon with questions about where and how the Army private is to be imprisoned.

The former Army intelligence analyst disclosed the decision in a statement provided to NBC’s “Today” show.

“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible,” the statement read.

The statement asked people to use the feminine pronoun when referring to Manning. It was signed “Chelsea E. Manning” and included a handwritten signature.

The soldier’s attorney, David Coombs, told “Today” he hopes officials at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., accommodate Manning’s request for hormone treatment, which typically involves high doses of estrogen to promote breast development and other female characteristics.

However, George Wright, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said the Army does not provide such treatment or sex-reassignment surgery. He said soldiers behind bars are given access to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

A lawsuit could be in the offing.

Coombs said he will do “everything in my power” to make sure Manning gets his way. And the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, and other advocates for gays, bisexuals and transgender people said Manning deserves the treatment.

“In the United States, it is illegal to deny health care to prisoners. That is fairly settled law,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “Now the Army can claim this isn’t health care, but they have the weight of the medical profession and science against them.”

The Army can claim [hormone therapy] isn’t health care, but they have the weight of the medical profession and science against them.

MARA KEISLING Executive director, National Center for Transgender Equality With Manning in custody and unavailable to comment, the AP is seeking additional information about the statement from Coombs, who did not immediately respond to email and telephone messages. For the time being, AP stories will use gender-neutral references to Manning and provide the pertinent background on the transgender issue.

A Federal Bureau of Prisons policy implemented last year requires federal prisons to develop treatment plans, including hormone treatment if necessary, for inmates diagnosed with gender-identity disorder. But the bureau oversees only civilian prisons.

Manning’s case appeared to be the first time the therapy had come up for a military prisoner.

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BY LEE KEATH AND ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s deputy prime minister told The Associated Press that foreign fighters and their international backers are to blame for a purported chemical weapons attack near Damascus that the opposition says killed at least 100 people, the deadliest such attack in Syria’s civil war.

Government forces, meanwhile, pummeled the targeted rebel strongholds where the alleged attack occurred with airstrikes and artillery for a second day, violence that was likely to complicate any swift investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths.

Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil’s comments were part of a government campaign to use the horror over the deaths to boost its narrative about the conflict — that Syria is under assault by foreign Islamic radicals. It is an argument that has powerful resonance with the Syrian public as the presence of militants fighting alongside Syria’s rebels increases.

Rebels blamed the attack on the Syrian military, saying toxic chemicals were used in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday.

Jamil did not directly acknowledge that toxic gas was used against the eastern suburbs but denied allegations by anti-government activists that President Bashar Assad’s forces were behind the assault.

The murky nature of the purported attacks, and the difficulty of gaining access to the sites amid the carnage of Syria’s war and government restrictions on foreign media, has made it impossible to verify the claims.

But they have fueled calls in the West for greater action against Assad’s regime as amateur videos and photos showed images of the dead, including scores of lifeless children, wrapped in white cloths and lying shoulder to shoulder, while others struggled to breathe.

Many pointed to the fact that their pale skin was unmarked by any wounds as evidence that it was a chemical attack.

The U.S., Britain and France along with a host of other countries demanded that a team of United Nations experts already in Syria be granted immediate access to the site. The timing of Wednesday’s attack — four days after the U.N. team’s arrival — has also raised questions about why the regime would use chemical agents now.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon added his voice to the calls on Thursday, urging the Syrian government to allow the

U.N. team now in Damascus to swiftly investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons outside the capital.

President Barack Obama has called chemical weapons a “red line” for potential military action, and in June, the U.S. said it had conclusive evidence that Assad’s regime had used chemical weapons against opposition forces. But it has so far shown no inclination to intervene.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday the administration was unable to conclusively determine the use of chemical weapons but added “we are focused every minute of every day since these events happened yesterday on doing everything possible within our power to nail down the facts.”

Syria is said to have one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin, but the government has never confirmed that.

Extremist forces carried out [the attack], linked to foreign forces, since no Syrian can do this against another Syrian.

QADRI JAMIL Deputy prime minster, Syria Jamil said he was personally in favor of a fair, transparent international delegation to investigate the incident in Ghouta.

But he said this requires a new agreement between the government and the U.N. and that the conditions for such a delegation would need to be studied.

“We don’t want to be like Iraq, opening our territory up to all sorts of investigators, going through our homes and bedrooms. Syria is a sovereign nation and will preserve its sovereignty,” he told the AP in an interview at the prime minister’s offices in the Damascus district of Kfar Sousseh.

Jamil said foreign militants carried out the attack with the backing of Israel and supporters in the West in a bid to thwart efforts to hold an international peace conference to end the Syrian bloodshed.

“We can only say that extremist forces carried it out, linked to foreign forces, since no Syrian can do this against another Syrian,” he said. “At the head of these forces are those who have promoted vengeance and hatred and spoke of ousting the regime by force over the past two years.”

“I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak, and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.” HOSNI MUBARAK OUSTED EGYPTIAN LEADER

Mubarak under house arrest

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A supporter of Egypt’s deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak holds a poster of him in front of Tora prison, where Mubarak has been held.

BY SARAH EL DEEB ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Wearing a white T-shirt and flashing a smile, Hosni Mubarak was transferred from prison Thursday to a Nile-side military hospital where he will be under house arrest, a reversal of fortune for the former president who was ousted by a popular uprising and is on trial for complicity in the killing of protesters in 2011.

The release of the 85-year-old Mubarak comes amid a sweeping crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, which rose to power after the revolution only to see their Islamist president toppled by a military coup last month.

The latest twist of Mubarak’s fate mirrored the country’s rocky transition, with the longtime autocrat released from prison even as his democratically elected successor remained jailed at an undisclosed location. The release threatened to stoke tensions in the deeply divided country, reeling from violence and the unsettled politics that followed the military coup against Mohammed Morsi.

Many feared the decision to let Mubarak out of prison at such a tense time would serve as a rallying cry for Morsi’s supporters against the country’s interim leaders.

But there was little immediate reaction from the pro-Morsi camp, which called for street protests Friday against the July 3 coup, despite a sweeping arrest campaign that has seen hundreds of its leaders imprisoned.

On Thursday, nearly 80 Brotherhood members were taken into custody, including the group’s spokesman, Ahmed Aref.

Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi ordered Mubarak placed under house arrest as part of emergency measures imposed last week after security forces forcibly dismantled two pro-Morsi protest camps, triggering a wave of violence that has killed more than 1,000 people.

The decision came after anti-Morsi groups called on the interim leader-

ship to use the emergency measures to keep Mubarak locked up, arguing that his release posed a threat to national security.

The decision to place the ex-president under house arrest instead of letting him go free appeared designed to ease some of the criticism and to ensure that Mubarak is in court next week, where a retrial in the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising could place him back behind bars. He also is being investigated in at least two other corruption cases.

Footage on private TV stations showed the helicopter transporting Mubarak from Tora prison landing at a military hospital in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi. Surrounded by armed troops in camouflage uniforms, he lay on a gurney, his hands grasping his head as he was placed in an ambulance for the short drive to the hospital.

The failure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime does not make Mubarak’s regime good.

IBRAHIM TAMIM Member, Egyptian youth group Wearing sunglasses, a white T-shirt, khakis and white loafers, the former leader smiled briefly before disappearing inside the vehicle. As the ambulance drove away, guards, some with their guns drawn, ran after it, apparently fearing it might be targeted for attack.

A short time later, about two dozen protesters gathered on one of Cairo’s main flyovers near Tahrir square, the epicenter of the protests that forced Mubarak from office. Wrapped in white shrouds and smeared with red paint representing the blood of those killed by security forces, they acted out a mock trial for the former leader.

“We demand the retrial of the killers of

the revolutionaries,” read a banner hung nearby. Another called for Mubarak, Morsi and military leaders to be tried in revolutionary courts.

Ibrahim Tamim, a member of the April 6 youth group that helped spearhead the uprising against Mubarak, said the mock trial was a reminder that retribution for victims of the uprising had not been realized and that people should not celebrate Mubarak’s release or Morsi’s fall.

“We are trying to remind people that the failure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime does not make Mubarak’s regime good,” said Tamim, wearing a face mask of one of the victims of the uprising.

Another youth group planned a rally Friday outside the country’s high court to protest Mubarak’s release. Activists and rights groups said the release is a reminder that none of the judicial reforms demanded by those who led the popular revolts against Mubarak and Morsi have been enacted.

Most of the regime officials, including Mubarak, tried for the killing of hundreds of protesters in the early days of the uprising have been released, as lawyers cited shoddy procedures and weak prosecutions and court cases.

Mubarak was held for several weeks of his two-year detention at the same military hospital where he is now under house arrest. His lawyers cited bad conditions in the prison facilities and prison authorities renovated the ward where he was later kept.

Security officials said authorities wanted Mubarak taken to the International Medical Center, a military facility on the desert road between Cairo and the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, because it is easier for police to protect due to its distance away from crowded areas.

But Mubarak insisted that he stay at the military hospital in Maadi because he was comfortable with the medical staff there, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Disgraced Chinese politician mounts feisty defense

BY GILLIAN WONG ASSOCIATED PRESS JINAN, China — Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai denied taking $3.5 million in bribes from businessmen and cross-examined one of them with a lawyer’s precision Thursday, launching an unexpectedly spirited defense at a trial aimed at capping China’s biggest scandal in decades.

It appeared to be a last-ditch effort by the former political star to repair the reputation he had so carefully cultivated of being a man of the people.

Prosecutors ended months of suspense about the details of his charges, rolling out accusations that featured a villa in France, a hot-air balloon project and a football club, giving a glimpse of how colorful corruption can look in China.

Bo’s verbal sparring displayed the media-savvy politician’s keen sense of how to portray himself well in tough situations. He thanked the judge for letting him speak, asserted that he was pressured into making a confession and was selectively contrite.

“I’m not a perfect man, and not a strong-willed person, I’m willing to take responsibility for that,” Bo said. “But as to the basic facts of whether I am guilty or innocent, I must say my piece.”

Once the powerful party boss

in the megacity of Chongqing, the charismatic Bo fell into disgrace early last year following revelations that his wife had killed a British businessman, and that he had allegedly attempted to cover it up. Thursday marked the first time he was seen in public in 18 months, since shortly after the scandal emerged.

In photos and state TV footage from the court, Bo was shown standing in the dock wearing a white long-sleeved dress shirt and dark slacks. His hair was cut short and grey, and he later sat somewhat slumped in a chair with little expression on his face.

The trial is widely presumed to have a predetermined outcome: conviction. But in an unusual display of openness for a major political trial in China, court officials released frequent microblog updates on the testimony, suggesting ruling Communist Party officials are confident of minimizing damage from a scandal that exposed a murder and machinations among China’s elite.

Prosecutors said Bo used his wife, Gu Kailai, and his son, Bo Guagua, as intermediaries in accepting $3.5 million in the northeast city of Dalian, where Bo Xilai once held key posts. They also alleged that Bo instructed an underling to keep quiet an $800,000 payment to the city, and that Bo diverted the money

into personal funds with the help of his wife, according to updates on the microblog site Sina Weibo posted by the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court.

In response, Bo said he had been coerced into falsely confessing to party investigators that he had taken payments from a general manager of a company owned by the Dalian government.

“I once admitted this matter against my will,” Bo said. “However, at the time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the nature of the matter. My mind was a total blank.”

Prosecutors also said Bo helped a Dalian businessman, Xu Ming, in efforts to buy a football club and obtain land for a hot-air balloon project without proper procedures. They said Xu helped Bo’s family finance the purchase of a villa in Nice, France, and that Xu bought a Segway, an electric stand-up scooter, for Bo’s son. Bo denied the accusations and said the two were not even friends.

Bo also cross-examined Xu, forcing him to repeatedly concede that he had not directly raised such matters with Bo. Prosecutors presented written testimony from Bo’s wife that said the couple kept safes in their various homes across China in which piles of cash were stashed, but Bo raised doubts about her account.

Calling her testimony “comical,

very funny,” Bo also questioned Gu’s suitability as a witness, saying she was a convicted killer with a history of mental illness. But in further questions he chose more gentle words in describing his wife as “a person of culture and taste, a woman of modern thinking.”

The prosecution said the confession obtained from Bo was valid and defended the testimony provided by Gu and Xu. In denying the corruption charges, Bo seemed to be using the trial to make a final stab at ameliorating the damage the scandal has done to his image, which he honed in Chongqing with an anti-crime crackdown that gave him nationwide fame.

The trial went into recess after about eight hours of testimony and was to resume at 8:30 a.m.

Friday.

Bo entered the courthouse Thursday in a convoy under police escort. Though kept far away from the media, some of Bo’s supporters gathered outside a security perimeter, intermittently yelling, “He served the people!” and “He was a good cadre!”

“It’s definitely the last performance of Bo Xilai on the platform of history,” said Zhang Lifan, a Chinese historian and political analyst. “Bo is a man with no bottom line and for him, if his political life is ruined, it would be equal to killing him.”

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Disgraced populist politician Bo Xilai stands on trial at the court in China’s Shandong province on Thursday.

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BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER Sixth-seeded Sloane Stephens shrieked in disgust after watching her baseline shot hit the net for an unforced error. Down 5–1 at the change in a first-set tiebreak, Stephens had mounted a furious comeback to close within a point of fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, 5–4. Yet that error dropped Stephens into a 6–4 hole from which she was unable to recover, losing the tiebreak 8–6.

After the closely contested first set ended, the frustration only continued to mount for the American favored by much of the sparsely filled stadium at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Wozniacki defeated Stephens 7–6 (8–6), 6–2 to advance to the semifinals of the New Haven Open at Yale Thursday night, concluding the day’s singles action.

“I thought I played pretty well this whole match,” Wozniacki said, addressing the crowd from the court after her victory.

The night provided more than a couple of scares to the New Haven Open veteran Wozniacki. After the competitors held serve for the match’s first four games, Stephens broke Wozniacki to take a 3–2 lead in the first set. The American then fought off two consecutive break points in the next game to force deuce, followed by two more winning points to hold serve. Stephens would break Wozniacki once more in the set.

The Dane won two games off serve in the set, however, leading to the tiebreak that she ended up winning.

Wozniacki, who won the Open four consecutive times between 2008 and 2011, acknowledged her success at the event after her match.

“I wish every tournament could be here,” she said, receiving a warm round of applause from those in attendance.

Despite her first-set effort, Stephens seemed to lose momentum in the second set. She mustered only one point in her second service game of the set, falling behind 1–2, and managed to win only one game in the set.

The match featured six review requests by the players, but only the final one reversed an official’s call.

With Stephens serving behind 2–4 in the second set, Wozniacki managed to gain advantage out of deuce. Wozniacki’s shot on the next point was ruled long, but the player challenged the call and won the point on review.

The reversal brought the second set score to 2–5, a margin that proved insurmountable to Stephens.

Stephens, the rising star still in search of her first tournament title, remained upbeat despite the loss.

“I played a lot of matches in the last couple of weeks and feel good about my game,” she said.

The first game of the match also featured the third-longest rally at the stadium court during the year’s tournament, a 23-shot point that Wozniacki won. The length of the match was 1:35.

Third-seeded Petra Kvitova, Simona Helep and Klara Zakopalova also advanced to the quarterfinals with wins over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina, respectively. Wozniacki will take on Helep in the semifinals tomorrow, while Kvitova squares off against Zakopalova on the other side of the bracket.

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

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Third-seeded Petra Kvitova, right, competed at the New Haven Open and advanced to the quarterfinals with a win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

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In 2013, the Yale men’s hockey team shut out Harvard 4–0. The two teams will face off in January 2014 in a nationally broadcasted match.

BY GIOVANNI BACARELLA STAFF REPORTER On Jan. 11, 2014, the men’s hockey team will face Harvard at center ice in one of the most storied arenas in the world — Madison Square Garden — for the first time in more than four decades.

This matchup will mark the 239th chapter of the Yale-Harvard rivalry, which dates back to 1900, when the Elis took a 5–4 decision from the Cantabs at St. Nicholas Rink in Manhattan. The last time both schools skated against each other on Garden ice was Dec. 21, 1970, when the Crimson played their way to a 6–2 victory. Now, the reigning national champion Bulldogs will get a chance to take back the world’s most famous arena in the inaugural “Rivalry on Ice” game.

Leverage Agency, the sports marketing group that will handle marketing and promotion for the “Rivalry on Ice,” came up with the idea three years ago.

“I saw the success of [Boston University] and Cornell at Madison Square Garden as a special recurring game that had a lot of buzz and attention from alumni and students,” Leverage CEO Ben Sturner said in an email to the News. “I immediately thought of Yale and Harvard, as

the rivalry is so fierce between the two schools and both have great ice hockey programs.”

The Terriers and the Big Red have met at the Garden every Thanksgiving weekend since 2007 for a matchup billed as “Red Hot Hockey.” The game has sold out the 18,200 seats in MSG three times in its six-year history, and Sturner hopes that the Yale-Harvard game can generate similar interest.

Yale and Harvard have signed a twoyear contract with Leverage, Madison Square Garden and NBC, which will air the contest on its NBC Sports network.

“This has been in the works for over three years with extensive talks and meetings with both universities and athletic departments for approvals and to set the date and time that works best,” Sturner said.

The game is scheduled during an exciting time for both teams. Coming off their first NCAA Championship, the Bulldogs will be defending their title next season.

At the same time, the Crimson will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of its 1989 NCAA Championship, during which current head coach Ted Donato was voted “Most Outstanding Player”.

Yale and Harvard will play their ECAC

conference games on Dec. 7 at Ingalls Rink and on Feb. 21 at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center. The “Rivalry on Ice” game will be the first time the two teams meet in 2014.

“We look forward to this great opportunity to play an old rival in a historic hockey venue,” Yale head coach Keith Allain said in a press release. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for alumni of both schools to support college hockey on a big stage.”

Tickets to the event went on sale June 10 through Ticketmaster as well as the Madison Square Garden website. Harvard and Yale alumni had access to a special presale that began on June 3 through the schools’ athletic departments.

According to SeatGeek, a ticket search engine, the overall average asking price for tickets in the Harvard fan sections is currently at $111, while tickets in the Yale fan sections are averaging at $118. Yale students, however, will have access to subsidized tickets, according to the Yale ticket office.

The “The Rivalry On Ice” game airs live on NBC Sports Network on Jan. 11 at a time to be determined.

Contact GIOVANNI BACARELLA at giovanni.bacarella@yale.edu .

Elis face pro talent over summer in New York City

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Fans who attended the Nike Pro City summer basketball league games to watch NBA stars like Kyrie Irving and Kenneth Faried also got a glimpse of some of the potential that Yale men’s basketball has for the upcoming season.

Guard Armani Cotton ’15 and forward Justin Sears ’16 played for Dyckman New York Athletic Club in the Nike Pro City pro-am summer league this summer in New York City alongside many

elite players from the NBA as well as from overseas professional leagues. Sears said that he plans to apply the lessons he learned from playing in such a talented league to Yale’s upcoming season.

“I got to play with guys who are much older,” Sears said. “They were more mature and experienced so they were able to break down the game a lot more. They were great athletes who were just physically more mature so I had to play harder to keep up.”

Sears said that he got involved in the league when teammate Cotton

texted him over the summer asking if Sears would play in the league and play pickup at the New York Athletic Club three times a week.

According to Sears, a spot opened up for him on the roster because center Brian Dunston’s professional contract would not allow him to play in a pro-am league.

Dunston, a product of Fordham, signed a contract with Olympiacos of the Greek League in July.

Bulldogs head coach James Jones said that Cotton and former Yale star guard Austin Morgan ’13 got the opportunity to

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play for Dyckman because former Yale guard and team captain Matt Minoff ’04, who coaches with the team, asked them to play.

Jones said that although NCAA regulations prevented him from watching his players in summer league games, he was able to stay updated on Sears’ and Cotton’s progress by talking to Morgan. “[Morgan] is still trying to live the dream and play professionally in Europe,” Jones said. “He told me that both guys played extremely well.”

Jones added that both Cotton

and Sears showed their explosive potential on offense. He said that Sears was “a double-double waiting to happen” and had a 30-point game, while Cotton had scoring totals in the 20s in several games.

Nike Pro City was not the only league to feature Elis. Jones said that forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 played in a summer league in Hartford, Conn., while most players participated in summer leagues near their hometowns.

Sears said that playing with some of the best basketball talent in the world helped him to gain

confidence.

“Just to hear [NBA guard Landry Fields] … say that you definitely could’ve been a high major player and made an impact at Stanford or at any other high major school … gave me confidence going into the upcoming season,” Sears said.

The Bulldogs will tip off the 2013-’14 season Nov. 9 against Central Connecticut State University in the Connecticut 6 Classic.

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

THE EARNED RUN AVERAGE THAT LEFT-HANDED PITCHER DAVID HICKEY ’14 POSTED IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE. Hickey struck out 34 batters in 30.1 innings pitched for the Vermont Mountaineers during his summer in the NECBL.