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CROSS CAMPUS

MEN’S SOCCER THALMAN LEAVES BIG CLEATS TO FILL

EMOTIONAL INTEL

AMERICAN AIRLINES

MEN’S GOLF

New center replaces lab directed by Salovey prior to his promotion

NEW ROUTE STARTS BETWEEN HARTFORD AND LOS ANGELES

Coming off a secondplace finish, Elis in hunt for conference title

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Candidates near primary

Is it chicken tenders day?

Yes, yes it is. There will also be sliced bacon in Commons for breakfast, in case you were wondering.

Traveling wanderer, or wandering traveler? New

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Haven’s favorite street artist, known only as “Believe in People,” has apparently moved his work across the globe.

The graffiti artist — who once painted a portrait in LC of a young man writing, “I will only work finance 1 year” before changing tone and saying he will only work finance for two years — recently posted photos on Twitter of his work on the streets of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Still, it looks like this wanderer misses the Elm City: He wrote that he craves Pepe’s Pizzeria and could use a walk around Wooster Square.

Water shortage. The main water supply line to Payne Whitney Gymnasium was shut off at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night because of emergency water repair issues. Until repairs are made, water supply will not be available in Payne Whitney. As of Wednesday night, administrators planned to reopen the facility at 6 a.m. today.

They’re back. HackYale, the popular student-led series of computing courses, is back for the 2013–’14 school year. This semester, HackYale is offering two weekly workshop-style courses: “Web Development 101” and “Intro to Front-end Development.” Classes will have roughly one to two hours of homework per week.

More construction updates.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons sent an email to the Yale community on Wednesday with updates on the progress of the Sterling Memorial Library renovations.

The restorations will include the full interior of the nave — including cleaning and repairing its stained glass windows, stonework and woodwork — new heating and air-conditioning systems, and reconfiguring the circulation desk. In addition, new service desks and study areas will be added. The renovations were funded by a $20 million gift from Richard Gilder ’54 and his wife, Lois Chiles.

Awarding excellence. In

March, the University announced the nine winners of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, which awards an unrestricted grant of $150,000 to support their writing. University President Peter Salovey will confer the awards on Sept. 10 in a public ceremony — the same day as the start of the inaugural Windham-Campbell Festival.

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Shopping period to be reformed

nandez LAW ’94. The question asked the two candidates how New Haven residents could be assured the candidates were not beholden to special interest groups given that they did not participate in the Democracy Fund, New Haven’s public campaign-finance program. The question also asked the candidates why a high proportion of their donations have come from citizens not from New Haven.

“In our city budget, we spend

For the first two weeks of every semester at Yale, lecture halls spill over into hallways and students compete for the few spots around seminar tables, all the while balancing the many uncertain slots in their schedules. But next fall, shopping period may become a tamer process.

In February 2013, the Yale College faculty approved a set of rules designed to minimize the ambiguity that plagues the first two weeks of classes. Under these new guidelines, which will go into effect in fall 2014, all professors will post preliminary syllabi online at least a week before the term starts, students will submit an online nonbinding preliminary schedule before classes meet, all course schedules will be due on the same day and a five-day schedule amendment period — in which students can add or drop one course as well as elect to enroll in a course Credit/D/Fail — will be added to the schedule.

“The complaints about shopping largely focus on uncertainty,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said. “Students would like to know that they have a seat in the class they aspire to get into, and faculty members would like to know that if they take you, you’ll actually come back. … The sooner that both faculty members and students can make their decisions and communicate clearly, the better off we will be.”

A May 2012 report compiled by the Yale College Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee concluded that fluctuating course enrollments adversely impact both students and professors. Miller said losing

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A debate held on Yale’s campus provided the four mayoral candidates with one of their last public engagements.

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER With just under one week remaining before the Democratic primary, the four New Haven mayoral candidates had one of the last public opportunities to engage each other at a debate held on Yale’s campus.

Hosted by the Black Student Alliance at Yale, Yale Divinity Students for a Democratic Society and My Brother’s Keeper, a grassroots New Haven organization that

advocates for social justice, the debate had scheduled segments focusing on jobs, housing, youth services, police brutality and gun violence, immigration and education. Toward the end of the debate, the issue of the Democracy Fund sparked controversy and backand-forth dialogue among the four candidates.

A Democracy Fund question was submitted by the audience and directed to State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 and former city economic development director Henry Fer-

Mayoral race hits Ezra Stiles tea STUDENT, MASTER CLASH OVER FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

BY MONICA DISARE AND DIANA LI STAFF REPORTERS As students gathered for a Master’s Tea in Ezra Stiles College Wednesday, tensions related to campus political expression arose outside.

Before the tea featuring New Haven mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 began, Sam Ward-Packard ’14 said Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti prevented him from handing out fliers in support of Fernandez’s opponent, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. But Pitti, who hosted the tea, challenged Ward-Packard’s claim, and said he was only enforcing a policy he has always held regarding campaign literature.

Ward-Packard, a volunteer for Ward 10 Alderman Elicker, said the pamphlet contained information about Elicker, former city economic development administrator Fernandez, and State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78. He said he started handing them out by the master’s house, where the tea was hosted, when Pitti approached him and told him he could not hand out fliers there.

Ward-Packard and Pitti offered different versions of the ensuing events: Pitti said in an email to the News that he invited WardPackard to continue handing out campaign literature either inside the master’s house or on the street side entrance of the house, as long as he was not inside the college courtyard. Pitti also said he invited Ward-Packard to attend the tea and engage with Fernandez.

“I told the student that he could distribSEE FERNANDEZ PAGE 4

Annual career fair canceled

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Large posters, colorful flyers, bustling gymnasiums — the traditional career fair, with students and employers rushing back and forth among cluttered booths and crowded aisles, is a familiar scene at universities nationwide.

But after 12 years, the annual career fair will no longer be a fixture of the fall semester at Yale.

After considering feedback and

requests from both students and employers, Undergraduate Career Services has decided to replace the annual fair with a series of smaller, industry-focused events throughout the year that will concentrate on specific career fields, such as health care, education and finance. These events are aimed at tailoring career opportunities for students and providing chances to interact one-on-one with industry professionals and potential employers.

“We started to think about this

change last year,” said UCS Director Jeanine Dames, recalling the six pilot industry-focused events that UCS held in 2012–’13, in addition to its usual career fair. “Feedback has been very strong. The smaller events are so much more of an asset.”

Dames said these types of focused career events have been highly successful at other institutions at which she has worked, particularly in law schools and at the Yale School of SEE CAREER FAIR PAGE 5

Yale station faces continued delays

BY JIWON LEE STAFF REPORTER Despite the Yale Station post office’s efforts for improvement, students have been dissatisfied with its service during the busy opening weeks of school.

With the beginning of classes, Yale students have received a flood of packages with course materials, causing delays in parcel sorting leading to long lines at the post office. After student outcry last fall, post office officials implemented new measures to mitigate the delays, such as adding two new employees and a new window for distribution. Still, students said the post office has not achieved an efficient system of dealing with the rush of activity.

Connecticut United States Postal Service spokeswoman Christine Dugas said Wednesday that the new window looks to address the long lines and the new employees aim to help distribute packages more quickly. The post office currently has no backlogs —

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Students complained of long lines and delays at the Yale Station post office, which has been overburdened with parcels in recent days. a delay between employees sorting parcels and handing out receiving slips — she added.

But the changes may not have improved the situation substantially. Nineteen out of 30 students interviewed said they expe-

rienced some trouble with the post office in the past two weeks — several received their packages two to three days later than the arrival date listed on the online trackSEE YALE STATION PAGE 4

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.COMMENT "[Salovey] is trying to do things outside of his job, so that he will not do his job."

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GUEST COLUMNIST EMMA GOLDBERG

GUEST COLUMNIST SARAH EIDELSON

GUEST COLUMNIST PA U L C H A N D L E R

Against hipster sexism

Effective leadership

Building a better New Haven

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want to talk about Miley Cyrus’ performance at the Video Music Awards last Sunday.

Don’t worry, not actually — I’ve been in one too many VMA-focused conversations since then. But what I do want to talk about is whether it makes sense to spend our energy demonizing Miley as the epitome of cringe-worthy objectification in America given the amount of sexism we encounter in our everyday lives at Yale.

What we have at Yale is hipster sexism, the I’m-not-sexist breed of sexism that justifies itself with irony. But as it turns out, ironic sexism is still sexism. It’s a subtler, sometimes well-intentioned but ultimately more insidious version of a pop star belting “Blurred Lines.”

WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAYS TO GO TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE I think we can all agree that it is no longer cool to be overtly sexist at Yale. Zeta tried to bring sexism back in 2008 with their whole “We Love Yale Sluts” stunt, but it didn’t really work. Much of that misogyny has gone underground. But sexism at Yale still exists. Now, it’s just wrapped in so many layers of irony that it’s hard to spot. Here are a few common forms that make the rounds on campus.

Let’s start with one common variety — the idea that objectifying women can actually be female empowerment if all of society would just embrace it. One major example of this is SWUG life. The idea that a girl can be washed up at age 22 — as she’s graduating Yale — is ridiculous. But what’s even more ridiculous is to view SWUG life as a form of female liberation when inherent in SWUGdom is the idea that seniors must compete with freshmen girls for male attention.

But there are other examples, too. Like the guy who jokingly refers to a girl as his “ho,” but thinks that’s okay if it’s said with a sufficient amount of eye-rolls. Classic sexists don’t see anything wrong with calling a girl unprintable names. Hipster sexists recognize that this language is wrong, but they use it anyway and pretend it’s empowering,

or see themselves as immune to its implications.

Another variety of hipster sexism argues that some sexist things are so absurd that they’re just funny. Some of us might blast “Blurred Lines” at a party; now that we’ve all recognized it’s offensive, but over the top, we can enjoy its catchy beat. Some of us might ironically dress up as a sexy animal for a mixer or Halloween party.

This strain of hipster sexism is best embodied, however, by the Spring Fling Committee’s 2010 response to criticism of their headliner, the Ying Yang Twins. In an op-ed, the committee wrote that “while the Ying Yang Twins may appear offensive, most who listen to their music, regardless of whether they are fans, understand that the songs are too ridiculous to be taken at face value.”

Finally, there’s the “Hey, I’m just trying to have fun here!” variety of hipster sexism. This category consists of Yalies who take every class that Kathryn Lofton offers, but when performing in comedy shows or just hanging out with friends, they’ll sarcastically use derogatory language. I’m sure many of the girls leading Yale’s sororities can talk about feminist theory fluently — yet when those same girls are initiated into Greek life, they are told to dance for frat boys.

Yale has made significant progress with issues of gender and sexuality on campus.

The creation of the Communication and Consent Educators program and the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct indicate that progress. But that doesn’t mean we live in a post-sexist campus where it’s safe to make jokes about objectification and SWUG life. Words matter, and people don’t always notice when they’re spoken sarcastically. And as progressive as Yale is, we still have a long ways to go to end the culture of sexual violence and promote female leadership on campus.

Joking around about women’s empowerment doesn’t really help the cause.

So the next time you’re in a conversation with someone slamming Miley Cyrus for wearing too little clothing at the VMAs, think about the little bits of misogyny we see everywhere at Yale. I’ll take Miley’s up-front sexism, but not this hipster kind from people who know better.

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Violence Prevention Grant initiative that is currently serving hundreds of young people citywide.

I want to live in a New Haven where no one lives in fear, so I’ve facilitated discussion about campus safety among the NHPD, the Yale Police and students, and advocated for real communitybased policing citywide, with more walking beats and deeper relationships between officers and residents.

I want to live in a New Haven where government works for the people, so I supported the revision of our city charter to make our government more democratic and accountable, particularly to move from a fully appointed Board of Education to a hybrid board with some elected members and student representation.

I want to live in a New Haven where government is accessible and residents are engaged in the decisions that affect our lives, so I’ve created opportunities for substantive student involvement on issues that matter to us. I’ve collaborated on student-led policy initiatives, such as National Popular Vote legislation, and organized a series of charter revision discussions on campus, culminating in key student testimony to the Charter Revision Commission. I’ve sent regular email newsletters to keep students up to date and aware of opportunities to get involved in the legislative process, and held open office hours on campus each week to ensure that I’m available when you have questions or ideas you’d like to discuss with me.

As Yale students and New Haven residents, we have many opportunities to be part of positive change in our city and to make this place our home. It’s up to us to decide whether we see ourselves as visitors, just passing through, or whether we actually claim New Haven as our city, taking advantage of all it has to offer and using our power as residents to help change it for the better.

I’m running for re-election to continue fighting for that change. As your advocate and your neighbor, I hope you will join me in working to build the New Haven where we want to live.

SARAH EIDELSON is a 2012 graduate of Jonathan Edwards College.

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would like to extend a big “Welcome back to New Haven!” to those of us who spent the summer outside the city, and an even bigger welcome to the freshmen, class of 2017, for your first, unforgettable semester at Yale College. I hope everybody is as excited as I am to close out shopping period next week and embark on another term here at Yale.

There are many exciting things going on in New Haven right now — this is a big year in city politics.

As many of you know, there is an open seat in the mayor’s office for the first time in 20 years. I hope everyone will explore the mayoral candidates and take part in this historic election. In addition to choosing a new mayor on Nov. 5, you will also get to vote for a candidate even closer to home — your alderman.

My name is Paul Chandler, I am an economics major and senior in Pierson College, and I want to represent you, the community of Ward 1, on the New Haven Board of Aldermen.

I believe that working with the Board of Aldermen is the most direct way to make tangible, structural improvements to the city, to Yale and to the lives of the residents in all 30 wards.

As a lifelong Connecticut resident, I was raised on Friday pizza nights in Wooster Square, I spent years running track in Hillhouse High School’s field house and I attended numerous field trips at the Peabody Museum — my mother was once even a Yale employee. I consider myself very fortunate for the opportunity to continue breathing New Haven air as a student at Yale College.

As one of the largest cities in Connecticut, New Haven needs to set an example in pursuing community engagement and responsibly providing services to residents. New Haven is unique in that the education and medical sectors are the foundations of the economy and the main employers for the city. For that reason, I believe it is our responsibility as students to engage the city Legislature directly. We are important members of a complex interchange between Yale and the city, and we deserve a representative on the Board of Aldermen who will be both an active presence and an accountable representative of Ward 1. As an independent member of the Yale community, with no obligation to the special interest groups that dominate our

city’s politics, I believe I am that candidate.

Now, for the elephant in the room. I am a Republican candidate. For the most part, the word “conservative” evokes particular thoughts on federal social policy or divisive partisan issues. I have my own, very moderate, opinions on the federal government, but those are not the issues that will cross my desk as alderman. When you hit the polls on Election Day, I hope you will look at what we want to accomplish here in New Haven.

To reach its full potential, our city must adopt strategies that target the systemic causes of the issues facing New Haven. The pillars of my policy and interests are: investing in our communities, developing sustainable and responsible government, and educating New Haven students for the future. These basic ideas can be implemented through specific policy prescriptions that are tailored to the unique character and challenges of New Haven.

I am passionate about education, budgetary responsibility and public safety. I believe that sensible reforms, which address the root of these issues, can be both manageable and effective.

I also recognize, however, that the solutions that I propose may address some, but not all of the issues that concern us as Yale students. That is why I will continue to reach out and engage fellow student groups as well as individuals to discuss the spectrum of ideas that we would like to bring before the city. I am on campus, walking to class every day with the other members of Ward 1. I welcome opportunities to discuss the issues that matter most to us, and I am always available to stop and chat throughout the day. You can usually find me trekking Science Hill most days of the week.

I want to be a strong advocate and independent voice for my constituents. This is why I am not accepting donations from special interest groups, trade unions or lobbyists. I will always strive to listen to you, the residents of Ward 1. It is with your support that I will be elected, it is your ideas that I will bring before the Board of Aldermen and it is with your help that we will build a better New Haven.

PAUL CHANDLER is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at paul.chandler@yale.edu .

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Tapley Stephenson

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hen I came to New Haven as a Yale freshman five years ago, I had high expectations. I chose Yale for its academics, its campus community, and its reputation for public service, political advocacy and social justice activism. My Yale experience far surpassed my expectations, but it was my New Haven experience that most shaped my time as a student and that made this place my home.

As Ward 1 alder, I have the honor of representing you and about 4,000 other students and downtown residents in our local legislature. In 2011, I ran to represent students on the Board of Alders because I believed that, like residents of other neighborhoods, we have an integral role to play in shaping New Haven. Each year, thousands of Yale students choose to engage with the world beyond our campus through service, advocacy and community organizing. I took advantage of many of these opportunities — helping out at an early childhood care center, doing voter engagement and community organizing in low turnout neighborhoods, and working on local political campaigns, to name a few. These experiences changed my relationship to New Haven — as I became more connected to communities across the city, I stopped feeling like a visitor.

New Haven became my city, too.

New Haven is a vibrant and diverse city, with so many strengths, as well as some serious challenges. My leadership on the Board of Alders has been driven by the commitment I made to you two years ago: to work collaboratively to take on our city’s deepest challenges in order to build the New Haven where we want to live. I’m running for reelection this fall because we’ve made real progress in the past two years, and so much more is possible in the next two.

I want to live in a New Haven where all young people have opportunities to thrive, so I have served as chair of the board’s Youth Services Committee, where I’ve led our Comprehensive Youth Agenda to establish a network of youth services and spaces to provide every young person with the resources they need to thrive. In my 18 months as chair, we’ve made real progress toward achieving this goal, advocated for more youth jobs and developed a $700,000 Youth

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udubon, Iowa, could be described as the storybook small town. You’re sure to find more livestock than people. You’ll struggle to find someone who doesn’t have a weakness for at least one country song. And if you took three minutes to drive our entire stretch of highway, you’d even get a peek at the town’s claim to fame: Albert, the world’s largest concrete bull. But if you looked a little closer, you’d get a look at the close community bonds that shape Audubon. You would be greeted by some sort of story — usually told by grandparents over morning coffee — at every turn. Soon, everyone would know your family, your achievements, your future plans, even an embarrassing story or two.

This is small-town Iowa, or as I know it, the last 18 years of my life.

FRESHMAN VOICES When my father decided we should go college shopping halfway across the country, I was scared. When I found my dream school halfway across the country, my fear turned into nervous excitement. In April, after I was accepted, that nervous excitement transformed into a wide

array of new emotions. Elation.

Curiosity. Enthusiasm. And a pretty healthy dose of pre-college jitters.

For a while, the sheer size of Yale had me scared to death. I graduated with 53 other students I’d attended class with since the age of 5. I was very comfortable and familiar with this small group, and had come to regard many of them as family. When I realized the size of Yale’s freshman class was roughly half of my entire hometown, I’ll admit I was a little on edge before deciding to matriculate. As the months have gone on, I have really started to embrace Yale’s size. Growing up in Audubon, I became accustomed to one sort of culture: small-town life. But as I’ve geared up for Yale this summer, I have become more and more excited to get a look at cultures, backgrounds and personalities I have never experienced before.

I, along with many of my classmates, have come to the startling realization that my parents aren’t going to be a few rooms away anymore. As many of my fellow Audubonites have pointed out within the last few months, Connecticut isn’t exactly in Iowa’s backyard.

Almost every grocery store run has led to a familiar conversa-

tion, usually involving the following elements: “Are you really going to Yale?” “Wow! You must be really smart!” And then: “That’s pretty far from home.”

You have to love a bit of this small-town predictability, and I do appreciate that the repetitiveness of the conversation has allowed me to consider appropriate responses. As for the first part, that’s always been a proud, resounding “Yes!” The second, I smile and attempt to brush over that comment. (I don’t mean to sound full of myself, but I would say it’s a pretty safe bet that no one at Yale has been accused of being the dullest knife in the drawer.)

The third comment, however, has caused a bit of inner reflection on my part. Connecticut is undeniably far from Audubon, Iowa. But I have also come to realize the importance of breaking out of my parental — and cultural — cocoon as a part of growing up. It is inevitable to miss home, no matter whether I’m half an hour away or half a country.

The thing I worry about the most, though, is leaving my tight-knit community. I have become so accustomed to the comfort of knowing every person I meet that the prospect of thousands of introductions over

the course of the school year scares me to death. I no longer have the luxury of my comings and goings being publically known. I have no people in New Haven idly discussing me over morning coffee (although I can guarantee that my grandmother will continue that in Audubon).

I realize that I must make a giant leap into the nervewracking world of meeting new people. I have to prepare myself to learn hundreds of names as well as introduce myself to hundreds of new people, something I haven’t had the luxury of doing for years. I must develop the skills to create my own community of peers and friends.

Despite the many differences between Audubon and Yale, my fears of being a new college student, and the many other worries tucked in my brain, I do know one thing. No matter how scared we are, how different our backgrounds and what our future plans include, my classmates and I are about to embark on 1,300 different journeys of a lifetime over the next four years.

And honestly, who wouldn’t be excited about that?

KATELYN ASMUS is a freshman in Saybrook College. Contact her at katelyn.asmus@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”

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CORRECTION WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4

Center to promote social skills

The article “Salovey embraces pulpit” mistakenly included a photograph of former Yale history professor C. Vann Woodward when the quotation accompanying the photograph was in fact made by former Yale President Kingman Brewster.

Language program enters second year

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Launched last fall, a University initiative that allows students to study obscure languages like Classical Tibetan, Dutch and isiZulu is grappling with low student interest.

The Shared Courses Initiative — which brought together Cornell, Columbia and Yale to offer varying levels of instruction in eight different languages — is taught from one of the three universities and videoconferenced with students in satellite classrooms at the other institutions.

Although Director of Yale’s Center for Language Study Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl said the initiative is unique among online courses in that it blends a traditional classroom environment with a virtual component, other administrators involved in the program said they have struggled to draw high levels of student participation.

“It’s harder when you don’t have a professor at the school,” said Richard Feldman, the director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell. “Maybe that’s why students don’t sign up.”

The program currently offers courses at varying levels of proficiency in Bengali, Dutch, Khmer, Romanian, Tamil, Ukrainian, isiZulu and Classical Tibetan.

Minjin Hashbat, the program administrator at Yale, said the initiative’s combination of traditional and online teaching has resulted in a variety of opportunities for students, ranging from office hours on Skype to cultural get-togethers in New York City.

After the program’s first year, administrators said the Shared Courses Initiative has been successful overall. Van DeusenScholl said students participated in the online model with relatively few setbacks, adding that she received positive feedback from students. A student taking Nigerian last year was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to further his studies, said Columbia Director for the Language Resource Center Stéphane Charitos.

Still, Feldman cautioned that the program is still “in flux.”

Feldman, Charitos and Van Deusen-Scholl lamented that student awareness of the Shared Courses Initiative remains too low, and Feldman said finding enough students to fill classes remains difficult. Additionally, problems with conflicting schedules — Columbia, Cornell and Yale each have different academic calendars and class times — are a major obstacle. The initiative also encountered technological hurdles with audio and visual systems, but Hashbat said the program uses the most stateof-the-art equipment in every classroom.

Despite these challenges, Charitos noted that enrollment is up in 2013 and students are generally “very enthusiastic.”

Nathan Chan FES ’15, who took “Introductory Bengali” through a videoconference from Cornell, said the administrative staff at Yale ran the course effectively, adding that he recommends the initiative to others.

Still, Chan noted there were “hiccups,” and in the future, better technological training for the professors could be a benefit for the program. Chan added that the satellite classroom made it difficult to connect with other students.

The Shared Courses Initiative has garnered attention within the Ivy League and from other universities across the country, Charitos said. Schools are interested in both the model of remote videoconferencing and the Shared Courses Initiative itself. In the future, Feldman and Van Deusen-Scholl said the model could be extended to small humanities seminars and other less-taught languages. In a course with only three students, collaborating with another peer institution would augment the classroom experience, Feldman said, and Van Deusen-Scholl said the program also allows the three universities to pool their resources and reduce strain on their individual budgets.

Last year, the program offered six languages, adding two more this year.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

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Yale’s new Center for Emotional Intelligence will officially open Oct. 1 at 340 Edwards St.

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER Though the official launch will not take place until Oct. 1, Yale’s new Center for Emotional Intelligence has already hit the ground running.

Located on 340 Edwards St., the center replaces the Health, Emotion and Behavior Lab directed by University President Peter Salovey prior to his move to 43 Hillhouse Ave. The center will continue research on emotional intelligence while also promoting the importance of emotional intelligence in schools and the workplace, associate director Robin Stern said.

Directors of the center named several reasons that the development of social and emotional skills has become increasingly critical in recent years.

Deputy director Susan Rivers said the increased need for emotional intelligence education in schools partly stems from the pressure on districts to perform well on standardized tests.

“There’s a growing trend in school systems to encourage teaching to the test, which doesn’t leave enough time in the day for children to interact socially and for teachers to emphasize the development of social and emotional skills,” Rivers said.

She added that the rise in online communication has reduced face-toface interactions, giving children fewer opportunities to practice appropriate social behavior.

Increasing reports of bullying, especially cyberbullying, further highlight the importance of educating kids on emotional intelligence, center director Marc Brackett said. Experts in education have realized that teaching empathy and tolerance is more effective than a zerotolerance policy when it comes to coun-

teracting bullying in schools, he added.

In addition, Brackett said the 21st century demands social competence — being academically gifted is no longer sufficient to be successful in the workplace.

Yale is the only place where there is a center dedicated to both the science and practice of emotional intelligence in the way we are.

ROBIN STERN Associate director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence To further its goal of promoting emotional intelligence, the center has already hosted sessions to train educators nationwide in the RULER approach.

The acronym — recognizing emotions, understanding the causes and consequences of emotions, labeling the full range of feelings, expressing feelings appropriately and regulating feelings — represents a set of social and emotional skills that Brackett said everyone deserves to learn.

Although emotional intelligence is being pursued at other universities across the country, Stern said the new Yale center is unique because the concept of emotional intelligence originated here when Salovey first published his work in 1990. Brackett developed the RULER approach at Yale from Salovey’s original work in emotional intelligence.

“Yale is the only place where there is a center dedicated to both the science and practice of emotional intelligence in the way we are,” Stern said.

While other approaches to emotional development exist, Bonnie Brown, a senior consultant at the center, said she has seen the effectiveness of the RULER method firsthand through her career in special education.

Perhaps the most important feature of RULER is that it engages adults just as much as children, Brown said. She added that children and teachers alike are stakeholders in creating a positive emotional climate in schools, which is why the center is especially invested in training parents, school administrators and teachers.

Brown said she is confident that RULER successfully “levels the playing field,” because regardless of background or upbringing, all children benefit from developing a core social and emotional skill set.

Stern said she agreed that RULER applies to people of all backgrounds and all ages — even professionals at Yale.

Directors at the center are working with human resources in University administration as well as with the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Management to infuse the RULER approach in daily work. She added that she is excited by the fact that Yale students and faculty have shown appreciation for the significance of emotional intelligence.

The center is also developing online training materials so parents can implement RULER strategies in the home, and is working with Facebook to reduce cyberbullying, Stern added.

Brackett said the center’s official launch will include an academic conference open to all Yale students and faculty from 2:30–4:30 p.m. on Oct. 1.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

LA-to-Hartford flight expands options for students

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With the addition of a direct route on American Airlines between Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Hartford and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Yalies flying to and from the West Coast have gained another transportation option.

The inaugural flight occurred on Aug. 27, and most students interviewed were excited about the change. Yale and New Haven officials said the announcement is a positive development for Bradley, though they expect it will have limited consequences for the Elm City’s Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport.

American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller said that the decision to add the direct flight was primarily motivated by the airline’s desire to foster more connections to the West Coast and beyond, broadening possibilities for international travel to destinations like Australia or China. The nonstop service is “not contingent” on the merger between U.S. Airways and American Airlines, Miller added.

Robert Zartarian, director of Yale Travel Management, said he finds the advent of this flight to be promising news.

“LAX is one of Yale’s top destinations for business travel for faculty and staff with over 1,000 annual travelers,” Zartarian said,

“so I believe this new AA service will be vastly welcomed.”

Bradley is one of the University’s most utilized airports, seeing around 40 percent of outbound travelers, while Tweed and the New York City metro airports pick up much of the remaining traffic.

Each of the six Yale students interviewed from the West Coast was happy with the new development. Zack Williams ’17, who lives in Southern California, said he would “definitely” utilize the new service due to its convenience.

Few experts were concerned that the additional flight could negatively impact traffic at Tweed — which does not offer any flights to the West Coast. Currently, LAX-bound travelers use New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport about 60 percent of the time to “enjoy the luxury of non-stop service,” Zartarian said.

He said that Yale Travel Management’s clients use Tweed to reach LAX “only roughly twice a week,” and that he “[suspects] that those travelers who are accustomed to flying from Tweed will continue to take advantage of the benefits of the local airport.”

Michael Piscitelli, the city’s deputy economic development administrator, said that the presence of an additional flying option will “certainly help air travelers in Greater New Haven,” though he

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American Airlines added a direct route between Los Angeles International Airport and Bradley International Airport, above, on Aug. 27. added that he had concerns about Tweed’s long-term future.

“Approximately 65 percent of all New Haven area passengers now use out-of-state airports to reach their destinations,” Piscitelli said. “This is a significant challenge that cannot

be addressed solely at BDL and that is why it is very important to further improve Tweed to better serve the market and grow the economy.”

The current fare for a nonstop flight on American Airlines from BDL to LAX is $372, while the fare

from JFK to LAX is lower at $313.

Dale Tager ’17 said he thinks the higher cost of transportation to get to New York City over Hartford will sway Yalies to utilize BDL more often.

The new flight will depart Hartford at 9:20 a.m. daily and

arrive in Los Angeles at 12:35 p.m.

The returning flight is a red-eye, leaving LAX at 11:55 p.m. and arriving at BDL the following morning at 8:10 a.m.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

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“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”

JOHNNY CARSON COMEDIAN

New rules to govern shopping period

Students face post office lines YALE STATION FROM PAGE 1 ing system and others spent an extensive amount of time in line waiting for their parcels. Many said they do not think this year’s situation is significantly different from last year’s.

“We’re just overwhelmed,” said a staff member at Yale Station who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to the press. “They tried their best, but there are so few workers. We have at least a thousand parcels a day.”

This year, he said, the station has been distributing packages from USPS as well as United Parcel Service and FedEx. The post office previously only distributed mail from USPS and the change adds “a couple hundred parcels more” per day, he added.

I feel like I’m waiting to get a license or a formal document in Mexico.

MONTSE LEGORRETA ’14 Mexican student, Yale Visiting International Student Program

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Students and professors alike often feel overwhelmed by the frenetic pace and uncertainty of shopping period.

SHOPPING PERIOD FROM PAGE 1 two weeks of class time limits students’ ability to immediately delve into course material. She added that open enrollments also make it difficult to assign properly sized classrooms and the correct number of teaching fellows for each course.

Miller said the shift of Blue Booking and course registration to an online forum has enhanced the uncertainty surrounding shopping period.

“I think the danger with shopping when it first became an electronic process was that it was more like shopping for shoes on Zappos — you could put 300 pairs in your cart, but at the end of the day, you were only going to buy one,” Miller said.

“Shopping electronically is very different than shopping as it was first conceived.”

But despite the difficulties, Miller said shopping period is an important part of the culture of Yale College, and the faculty hopes to make the process easier on both professors and students without eliminating it altogether.

Though students and faculty agreed that the uncertainty of shopping period is undesirable, those interviewed had mixed reactions to the new guidelines.

Shopping electronically is very different than shopping as it was first conceived.

MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College History professor Paul Freedman said he hopes the new rules will reduce the “anarchy” of shopping period while preserving flexibility.

“I think shopping period is charming — the students don’t make up their minds on the basis of lunchtime or naps or convenience but actually on the basis of course content,” Freedman said. “These changes encourage students to think of their schedule as a somewhat more stable thing, without preventing them from visiting courses, so I

think it’s worth a try at least.”

But other professors were less certain that these reforms will make a difference.

English professor R. John Williams said he thinks the best way to eliminate the complications of shopping period would be to eliminate shopping period altogether.

“A more refined registration process that locks things in place would allow instructors to begin with instruction earlier, begin building community earlier and reduce the stress of the first two weeks of the semester for students,” Williams said. “At Yale, we like to have difficult choices between multiple good things … but sometimes too many choices can feel overwhelming and stressful.”

Alex Nguyen ’15 said he believes that a more definite class roster will prompt students and professors to delve into core course material in the first few days of class, allowing content to be spread over a longer period of time. He added that more productive class time in the first few sessions could incentivize professors to spread out midterms, reducing the

midterm crunch.

Alex Haden ’14 said the new policies could lessen shopping period’s impact on extracurricular activities.

“I think it will benefit a lot of people because their lives won’t be as crazy,” said Haden, a freshman counselor and intramural secretary in Pierson College. “I really want you to come play basketball, but if you’re doing six classes, you don’t really have time to do that.”

But students such as Ben Della Rocca ’16 expressed doubt in the effectiveness of the University’s plan to provide useful course-selection information through syllabi. Della Rocca, who shopped three seminars this semester, of which he ultimately chose one, said he had to attend class, meet professors and interact with students before he could come to a final decision.

Schedules for members of the class of 2014 will be due at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11.

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

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

In spite of the post office’s recent changes, students said they continue to be frustrated by the long wait to receive packages. The News visited Yale Station four times Tuesday and Wednesday, and each time, the new distribution window was not manned.

Rachel Scot ’15 said she ordered a package with a two-day shipping guarantee one week ago, but she still has not received a slip informing her that she had a package waiting, though the online tracking system indicated that it had already arrived.

Marvin Qian ’15 said he budgeted 30 minutes before class to wait at the post office, but only reached the line’s midpoint during that time.

Anabel Starosta ’17 said she went to the post office intending to pick up her package a total of three times because she left twice due to a long line.

Some freshmen said they were unhappy with delays in receiving keys for their new P.O. boxes. While Dugas said she has been informed that the delays were “fixed,” students said they had to wait for over a week after setting up their P.O. boxes before being able to access them.

Montse Legorreta ’14, a student from Mexico enrolled in the Yale Visiting International Student Program, said she completed a form requesting a P.O. box two weeks ago but received its key on Tuesday.

“We need a larger station with more people that work faster,” she said. “I feel like I’m waiting to get a license or a formal document in Mexico.”

The post office is located at 206 Elm St. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu .

Six days to primary, Stiles hosts Fernandez Master’s Tea FERNANDEZ FROM PAGE 1 ute his pamphlets at the front door of the house — on the street side — but not inside the college courtyard itself, which has always been our policy regarding any campaign literature; or he could come inside our house and pass them out inside our living room at the tea, which seemed fair in this case,” Pitti said in his email to the News. “I made clear that if any Fernandez supporters asked about distributing pamphlets I would ask them to follow the same rules.”

Yet Ward-Packard told the News that Pitti asked him to leave the college grounds, and that the only alternative Pitti gave him was to stand at the street entrance of the master’s house, but that most students were entering the Master’s Tea from the other entrance, which was inside the college.

“He definitely did not tell me I could distribute pamphlets inside the house.

That’s absurd,” Ward-Packard said.

“He told me I had to leave the college grounds and he did not invite me to come in and ask questions and participate. It was much more hostile than his account makes it sound, and he went very quickly to threatening me with disciplinary action.”

The Yale College undergraduate regulations for 2013-’14 state that the University protects freedom of expression on Yale’s campus, including “picketing and the distribution of leaflets.” Actions are permittable “subject to approval as to schedule and location by the appropriate University official, until or unless they disrupt regular or essential operations of the University or significantly infringe upon the rights of others,” according to the regulations.

University spokesman Tom Conroy did not respond to requests for comment

on how the Yale College undergraduate regulations would apply in this particular circumstance or on Pitti’s hosting of a Master’s Tea featuring Fernandez.

Pitti’s wife and Ezra Stiles Associate Master Alicia Camacho serves as cochair of JUNTA, a New Haven organization aimed at empowering Latino and low-income communities. Fernandez sits alongside Camacho — a professor of American studies and ethnicity, race and migration — as a board member of JUNTA. Pitti also hosted a Master’s Tea featuring Fernandez, who is a fellow of Ezra Stiles college, this past April.

Following Wednesday’s Master’s Tea, Brian Brooks ’17 said in the Stiles dining hall that he observed the incident that occurred between Ward-Packard and Pitti. Brooks said Pitti asked Ward-Packard to stand outside and Ward-Packard replied that this abridged his freedom of speech. Brooks said he could tell the student was angry but “it wasn’t a big scene.”

Yale for Elicker leader Drew Morrison ’14 said that this was an independent expenditure and activity by WardPackard and thus has no affiliation with the Elicker campaign whatsoever, though he added that he believes the “masters of all colleges should allow campaigning because that contributes to a vibrant democracy in our city.”

When asked about the event, Fernandez said that he had not heard of the incident and had no involvement.

“I certainly don’t know what occurred, but I always feel like it’s the right of students or anyone to participate actively in democracy, and if they want to hand out fliers, that’s certainly their right, but I really have no idea what occurred,” Fernandez said. “I enjoyed the Master’s Tea and I enjoyed talking about the future of the city.”

Pitti also said that he made it clear at

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Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 debates Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, a former city economic development administrator. the Master’s Tea that students should educate themselves about New Haven politics and make their own decision about which candidate to support. Pitti said that he did not tell students for whom they should vote or about how Pitti himself would vote.

Ward-Packard, however, argues that Pitti’s actions were unacceptable.

“This isn’t about the campaign at all:

It’s about a master doing something that is totally inappropriate for a master to do,” Ward-Packard said. “I think that the master of a Yale residential college should be delighted that students are interested in engaging in discourse about local elections when they’re trying to get students involved in local elections, and handing out pamphlets is one of the oldest and most polite forms of political activism

imaginable.”

In addition to Fernandez, Elicker and Harp, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina is also running to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

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

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“When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.”

LYNDON B. JOHNSON FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

Candidates spar over Democracy Fund MAYORAL DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 over $200,000 on the Democracy Fund while cutting programs to our young people, so I am very concerned that when we have these conversations, we haven’t looked at the whole picture,” Harp said. “If I could get money from outside the state I would, but most of my money has come from New Haven: I’ve

gotten New Haven residents who have supported me, and the reality is that the Democracy Fund itself has issues.”

According to an article published in the New Haven Independent on Wednesday, 75.46 percent of Fernandez’s donors and 60.44 percent of Harp’s donors are not from New Haven.

Those numbers are significantly lower for mayoral can-

didates Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ‘10 SOM ‘10 and Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina at 18.71 percent and 3.38 percent, respectively.

Fernandez said that while he thinks the Democracy Fund is a good system, he opted out because he knew he would have to face a union-backed candidate who was going to forgo the Fund and raise large amounts of

money. He also explained that his previous work in other parts of the nation, such as his work for the Obama administration, explains his donations from outside of New Haven.

Harp also questioned candidates who are using the Democracy Fund for the primary but plan on abandoning the Fund for the general election. However, Ward 10 Alderman and mayoral

candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who is participating in the Democracy Fund along with Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina, responded by saying that both he and Carolina have committed to using the Fund for both the primary and general elections.

“Looking at the contributions, we need to look at those who are interested in doing

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The debate was held by the Black Student Alliance at Yale, Yale Divinity Students for a Democratic Society and My Brother’s Keeper, a New Haven grassroots organization.

business in the city and giving large contributions. They’re not just giving them because they’re kind people — I hope we have enough common sense to understand that they want something back,” Carolina said. “It’s a quid pro quo approach here. … I’m very proud of the fact that I have the highest percentage of New Haven voters.”

The debate also covered a range of other issues that saw more agreement among the candidates. All four candidates spoke of the need to increase the proportion of Elm City jobs held by New Haven residents and the need for Yale to make a concerted effort to employ New Haven residents.

The candidates also discussed their plans for education and safety. Harp emphasized her role in securing state funding for youth programs, while Fernandez spoke about his experience co-founding and serving as executive director at LEAP, a youth programming organization. Carolina pointed to his work at Hillhouse High School, and Elicker argued for better utilizing existing organizations to strengthen youth programming.

A question from the audience asked the candidates about their opinions on police brutality, and the candidates talked about the need to make police officers more accountable.

Harp mentioned that the New Haven Civilian Review Board, a group that reviews complaints against police officers, has been included in the revision to the city’s charter earlier this year.

Fernandez said that one of the police department’s top priorities should be to make sure New Haven residents see the police force as legitimate.

The candidates also debated the issue of how to improve the city’s fiscal situation, with Elicker emphasizing the need to stop borrowing money and Carolina arguing for audits of city departments and a re-evaluation of high spending on new school construction.

Wednesday’s event marked the final scheduled debate before next Tuesday’s primary election.

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

Career fair replaced by industry-specific UCS events CAREER FAIR FROM PAGE 1 Management. Planned events for the new system at Yale also include networking nights, in which students will have the opportunity to attend on-campus interviews or meet more casually with potential employers.

Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience and associate dean of Yale College, said in an email that the structure of the new system will allow for events to be tailored to the needs of employers and students. Additionally, UCS can now plan events around the appropriate hiring timelines of different industries.

There’s a flavor to the event that allows the student to better strategize which events they’d like to go to.

BRIAN FRENETTE Staff member, UCS Robyn Acampora, who coordinates nonprofit and government events, said UCS has already lined up a series of general information sessions pertaining to job-hunting. In the coming weeks, UCS will host sessions for students interested in marketing, consulting and finance, in addition to a variety of other events throughout the year. Acampora said recruitment in the nonprofit sector normally takes place in the spring.

According to an Aug. 7 release from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, institutions are increasingly encouraged to move away from traditional career fairs into smaller, more focused events, if “resources and logistics permit.”

“Students have often complained that they do not really know how to use big fairs very well,” Edwards said. “Those events date to an era before you could learn all the basic information you needed from the Internet.”

Rather than hosting one large fair in Payne Whitney, Dames said the new events will now be dispersed around campus at locations that include the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design and the Omni New Haven Hotel. Dames acknowledged that the lack of one large career fair could make it more difficult for students to explore all their career options, but she added that students have told her they would be willing to attend multiple events to gauge their interest in a variety of fields.

Despite the potential benefits of these new events, however, students interviewed had mixed reactions to the lack of an allinclusive career fair. While some said they think job-hunting will now be more efficient, others were wary of the complications that could arise.

“It’s not as convenient, especially for seniors because we’re very busy with other classes and there’s no one-stop opportunity to just drop off a resume,” James Cheng ’14 said. “I’m a computer science and economics double major, and I heard that the individual events are later in the fall [than last year] — this means we don’t get as much time to review the information before we decide to apply. Everything’s going to be pushed back.”

But Brian Frenette, the UCS staff member who coordinates events focused around science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, said he believes breaking down events will be beneficial for students who might otherwise feel overwhelmed by the amount of information thrown at them at a large-scale career fair.

“In this case, there’s a flavor to the event that allows the student to better strategize which events they’d like to go to,” Frenette said. “If you were to attend a general event, you might walk in and say, ‘Where do I begin?’”

In addition to events focused on specific careers, UCS will continue to hold panels and workshops focused on topics such as applying to graduate school, social media management and resume-writing throughout the year.

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

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BY THOMAS J. SHEERAN AND ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — Residents in the tough Cleveland neighborhood where three women were secretly imprisoned for a decade reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday after Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell barely a month into a life sentence.

Even the prosecutor joined in.

“This man couldn’t take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade,” said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.

Castro, 53, was found hanging from a bedsheet Tuesday night at the state prison in Orient, corrections spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said. Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The coroner’s office said it was suicide.

“He took the coward’s way out,” said Elsie Cintron, who lived up the street from the former school bus driver. “We’re sad to hear that he’s dead, but at the same time, we’re happy he’s gone, and now we know he can’t ask for an appeal or try for one if he’s acting like he’s

crazy.”

As the shocking news sank in, prison officials faced questions about how a high-profile inmate managed to commit suicide while in protective custody. Just a month ago, an Ohio death row inmate killed himself days before he was to be executed.

Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr announced a review of Castro’s suicide and whether he had received proper medical and mental health care. State police are also investigating.

The announcement came after the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio called for a full

investigation.

“As horrifying as Mr. Castro’s crimes may be, the state has a responsibility to ensure his safety from himself and others,” executive director Christine Link said.

Through a spokeswoman, Castro’s three victims declined to comment.

Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping and rape, in a deal to avoid the death penalty. At his sentencing, he told the judge: “I’m not a monster. I’m sick.”

Castro had been in a cell by

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himself in protective custody, meaning he was checked every 30 minutes, because of fears his notoriety could lead to attacks from other inmates, authorities said.

He was not on a suicide watch, which entails constant supervision, Smith said. She would not say why.

Officials would not say whether he left a suicide note.

Castro had been on a suicide watch for a few weeks in the Cuyahoga County jail, before he pleaded guilty and was turned over to state authorities, and police said after his arrest that they had found a years-old note in which he talked

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Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, center, officiates at the wedding of the first gay couple legally married in Minnesota.

Even 20 weddings would be tens of thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars [for the Minneapolis economy].

R.T. RYBAK Mayor, Minneapolis Rybak figures the campaign, if successful, could be extremely lucrative for Minneapolis, profiting on everything from hotel rooms to flowers to caterers.

“Even 20 weddings would be tens of thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Rybak said.

Some same-sex couples in Illinois say their first choice would be to get married locally. But they say Rybak’s offer makes some sense, particularly if lawmakers in Illinois fail to come up with anything anytime soon.

Aana Vigen, a college professor in

Chicago, said that although she and her partner haven’t given a Minnesota wedding any thought, they would consider it if they thought it could benefit her family.

“I can tell you that [we] are very concerned about protecting our family … and if we can reinforce for our son that we are a family and have something that recognizes that we are a family, we might take the mayor up on his offer,” she said.

The thought of all those couples and their families hopping in the car and driving to spend their money elsewhere angers Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has spent two-plus years in office trying to generate revenue for the city.

“Failing to extend marriage to gay and lesbian couples is bad for Chicago, bad for Illinois, and bad for our local economy and the jobs it creates,” he said in a statement.

“Our robust tourism and hospitality industries will thrive most fully when our state hangs out the ‘welcome’ sign for everybody.”

Rybak’s planned visit also caught the attention of Gov. Pat Quinn, who’s overseeing a state that is grappling with a $100 billion public pension shortfall and billions of dollars in unpaid bills to state service providers. In a statement, he said failure to pass a same-sex marriage law not only “costs people their rights, but also has an economic cost.”

tary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Weiner, once a front-runner among the Democratic candidates for mayor, was in the neighborhood greeting voters ahead of the Sept. 10 primary. Support for his campaign has collapsed amid a new sexting scandal similar to the one that forced him to resign from Congress. Polls show Weiner is now a distant fourth among the Democratic candidates seeking to replace independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who’s serving the last of three consecutive terms.

Weiner, who’s Jewish, was buying sweet cake at the bakery ahead of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, which was to begin Wednesday at sundown.

Weiner defended his behavior outside a campaign stop at a Manhattan senior citizens center after the 2-minute video gained attention online, saying he put the man, who hasn’t been identified, in his place.

“He was saying things within my earshot but not to me and saying some pretty vile things, and apparently he didn’t expect that I would not stand idly by for it, and I think I put him in his place,” Weiner told reporters. “Just because someone is running for office doesn’t mean you have an unabridged right to say whatever vile, nasty thing you want.”

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Anthony Weiner, left, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for the New York City Mayor’s Office, has a heated argument with Shaul Kessler at Weiss Bakery in Brooklyn.

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CHICAGO — With all of Illinois’ financial woes, residents have grown accustomed to politicians from other states trying to raid its companies, jobs and best workers.

Now one of them is making a similar pitch to the state’s gay couples: Come north to get married, and spend lots of money.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who recently married 46 same-sex couples following his state’s passage of a law legalizing gay weddings, will appear in a predominantly gay Chicago neighborhood Thursday to launch a campaign called “Marry Me in Minneapolis.” He plans to follow with campaigns in Colorado and Wisconsin, two other states that haven’t approved same-sex marriage.

Rybak is trying to convince Chicagoans that rather than take a long — and expensive — plane trip to one of the coasts, just drive six hours to his city. Recently, many gay couples in the Midwest have said their vows in Iowa — the only state directly bordering Illinois that allows samesex weddings.

He’s trying to capitalize on disappointment among Illinois gay couples that the state, dominated by Democrats, still hasn’t approved a marriage law and likely won’t anytime soon with lawmakers on recess.

“I love Chicago and love to come spend money there, but if people there don’t get the rights they deserve I am more than happy to have them come and spend their money in Minneapolis,” he said in a telephone interview.

NEW YORK — Ex-congressman and struggling mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said Wednesday a video showing him in a shouting match with a bakery customer is just an example of him putting a heckler in his place.

The 2-minute video shows Weiner, surrounded by reporters and campaign supporters in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, going back inside the bakery after someone yells, “Scumbag!”

A clearly annoyed Weiner, his mouth full of honey cake, turns around and yells at the man.

“Yeah?” Weiner says. “It takes one to know one, jackass.”

Weiner, who quit Congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal, and the man then confront each other inside the bakery as onlookers take photos.

“You did disgusting things … you have the nerve to even walk around in public,” the man tells Weiner.

“Oh, yeah? And you’re a perfect person? You’re my judge?” Weiner responds. “What rabbi taught you that?”

In another video, released by the Weiner campaign later Wednesday, the man can be heard saying “married to an Arab,” presumably a reference to Weiner’s Muslim wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to former U.S. secre-

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about suicide. But authorities at the jail dropped the suicide watch in June after concluding he was unlikely to take his own life.

Castro’s captives — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20. They were rescued from Castro’s run-down house May 6 after Berry broke through a screen door.

Elation over the women’s rescue turned to shock as details emerged about their captivity.

Castro fathered a child with Berry while she was being held. The girl was 6 when she was freed.

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“I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.” JOE LIEBERMAN FORMER U.S. SENATOR FROM CONNECTICUT

Obama defends surveillance

BY JULIE PACE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended anew the United States’ controversial surveillance programs, trying to reassure Europeans that the National Security Agency’s spying apparatus acts in limited fashion to root out threats — even though recently revealed programs show a more widespread informationgathering effort.

“I can give assurances to the publics in Europe and around the world that we’re not going around snooping at people’s emails or listening to their phone calls,” Obama said in response to a Swedish reporter’s question during a news conference with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as he began a whirlwind, 24-hour trip to Sweden.

“What we try to do is to target very specifically areas of concern.”

Still, the president acknowledged that questions about privacy were likely to trail him in Europe — a continent that is protective of privacy rights — for some time. The issue also bubbled up during his trip to Germany in June, shortly after newspapers published reports based on documents leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden.

Despite Obama’s assertions of a more narrow-scope effort, the Snowden-leaked documents show the NSA collects and stores all kinds of data traveling through the Internet, including emails, video chats and instant messages. Under one such classified program, known as Prism, the government can obtain secret court orders and gather mass amounts of data from major Internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.

The documents also revealed how other NSA programs can tap into trans-Atlantic fiber optic lines so the agency can collect and store raw Internet traffic, including email messages

sent overseas.

Those programs incensed Europeans. Germany’s Social Democratic leader Peer Steinbrueck, the main election challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel, said last month he would suspend negotiations with the U.S. over a free-trade agreement until Washington clarified details about the NSA’s surveillance programs. Merkel also raised the issue with Obama when he visited Berlin earlier this year.

I can give assurances … that we’re not going around snooping at people’s emails or listening to their phone calls.

BARACK OBAMA President, United States The controversy surrounding the NSA surveillance programs is sure to follow the president when he attends the Group of 20 economic summit in Russia, the second stop on his threeday overseas trip. Russia’s government granted Snowden temporary asylum, defying Obama’s demands that the 30-year-old American be returned to the U.S. to face espionage charges.

Snowden is accused of leaking highly secretive documents to The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers.

Russia’s decision to allow Snowden into the country worsened the already tense ties between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. president called off plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin in Moscow before the G-20, choosing instead to add a last minute stop in Sweden to his travel itinerary.

While the Swedish government bills itself as a champion of Internet freedom, officials said ahead of Obama’s

visit that they wouldn’t raise the sensitive issue with the U.S. president.

However, Internet freedom advocates protesting U.S. surveillance programs were among thousands of demonstrators who gathered in Stockholm for a peaceful protest against Obama’s visit.

Swedes reacted with outrage in 2008 over a law that gave a Swedish intelligence service the green light to snoop on email traffic crossing the country’s borders. Sweden’s small Pirate Party, which advocates freedom on the Internet and is highly critical of government surveillance, has inspired the creation of similar parties across Europe and beyond.

Air Force One touched down in Stockholm Wednesday morning after an overnight flight from Washington.

Obama was greeted on the mild, sunny morning by crowds that lined the streets in central Stockholm to watch his motorcade speed by.

Obama’s trip marked the first bilateral visit by a sitting U.S. president to the northern European nation. Thousands of armed police were deployed on city streets, many roads and parks were closed in the downtown area, and concrete barriers and steel fences have sprung up in many locations near where the president was staying.

Following his meeting with the prime minister, Obama paid tribute to the late Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving at least 20,000 Jews during World War II. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet forces in 1945 and mysteriously disappeared.

As he spoke of Wallenberg, Obama appeared to make a veiled reference to the choice that confronts him about using military force in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria, where more than 100,000 people have already died in a civil war. The president spoke of “our power when we choose, not simply to bear witness, but also to act.”

Syria rebels hit Christian village

BY KARIN LAUB AND ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Al-Qaida-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus — part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.

As the world focused on possible U.S. military action against Syria, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel in the village of Maaloula and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The attack came hours before a Senate panel voted to give President Barack Obama authority to use military force against Syria — the first time lawmakers have voted to allow military action since the October 2002 votes authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

The measure, which cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a 10–7 vote, was altered at the last minute to support “decisive changes to the present military balance of power” in Syria’s civil war, though it

ruled out U.S. combat operations on the ground. It was expected to reach the full Senate floor next week.

The Syria conflict, which began with a popular uprising in March 2011, has been stalemated, and it’s not clear if U.S. military strikes over the regime’s alleged chemical weapons use would change that. Obama has said he seeks limited pinpoint action to deter future chemical attacks, not regime change.

Obama has been lobbying for international and domestic support for punishing President Bashar Assad’s regime, which the U.S. says fired rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin on rebel-held areas near Damascus before dawn on Aug. 21, killing hundreds of civilians.

So far, however, he has won little international backing for action.

Among major allies, only France has offered publicly to join the U.S. in a strike.

In a parliament debate, France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault made a passionate appeal for intervention in Syria, placing the blame for the alleged chemical attack on Assad and warning that inaction could let him carry out more atrocities.

The debate ended without a vote since President Francois Hollande

can order a military operation without one.

Obama has called chemical weapons use a “red line,” and top administration officials argued before the Senate on Tuesday that Assad would take inaction by Washington as a license for further brutality against his people. The fighting has killed more than 100,000 Syrians and uprooted nearly 7 million from their homes.

During a visit to Sweden on Wednesday, Obama said a red line had been drawn by countries around the world that have backed a longstanding ban on chemical weapons. “I didn’t set a red line, the world set a red line,” he said.

With the Syria debate in Congress in full swing, questions arose around the administration’s assurances. It’s not clear, critics said, how the U.S. could expect to deliver surgical strikes in Syria’s chaotic battlefield or predict the repercussions, including possible Assad regime reprisals against Syria’s neighbors.

The civil war in Syria hit a stalemate almost from the start. The rebels control much of the countryside in the north, east and south, but the regime is hanging on to most urban centers in the west, where the majority of Syrians live.

Israeli proposal detailed in talks

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A masked member of the “Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam” militia, the military wing of Hamas, stands behind a machine gun during a march in Gaza City on Wednesday.

BY MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH AND JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel has proposed leaving intact dozens of Jewish settlements and military bases in the West Bank as part of a package to establish a Palestinian state in provisional borders, a Palestinian official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, in the first detailed glimpse at recently relaunched peace talks.

The official said the proposal is unacceptable to the Palestinians, underscoring the tough road ahead as the sides try to reach an agreement ending decades of conflict.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Israel and the Palestinians have pledged to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry not to discuss the content of their talks with the media - a pledge that has largely held up until now.

We seek to … ensure that the peace will be a real and enduring peace. Not a ceremony, not an agreement that we celebrate for two minutes and then collapse.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Prime minister, Israel For their future state, the Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed to a return to the pre-1967 lines, the idea of a Palestinian state in temporary borders has gained appeal with the Israelis.

Such a deal could give the Palestinians independence, while leaving the thorniest issues, such as the fate of Jerusalem and the status of millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, to later negotiations.

The Palestinians reject any notion of a provisional agreement, fearing that a temporary arrangement that falls short of their dreams will become permanent.

Talks resumed in late July after a nearly five-year break stemming largely from Israeli settlement construction. The Palestinians have objected to Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians say these settlements, now home to more than 500,000 Israelis, make it increasingly difficult to partition the land between two people.

After months of U.S. mediation, the Palestinians agreed to resume talks. Although Israel did not pledge to freeze settlement construction, U.S. officials have said they expect both sides to avoid provocative moves.

Negotiators have been quietly meeting once or twice a week for the past month or so.

The Palestinian official said formal talks on borders have not yet started, and that negotiations have focused on security matters. He said the Israelis want to retain control of the West Bank’s border with Jordan, keep earlywarning stations on hilltops, and retain military bases near the Jordanian border.

“Israel is using the issue of security to take land,” he said. “From the general discussions we had in the last couple of weeks, the Israelis have shown no intention to dismantle any settlement.” He said the current proposals indicated that Israel would seek to retain control over about 40 percent of the West Bank.

“They said, ‘Let’s discuss a state with provisional borders.’ We said, `Let’s agree on a state based on the 1967 borders first, and then we can agree on having this state in phases.”

In the previous round of talks, conducted in 2008 under then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel offered to withdraw from roughly 94 percent of the West Bank, and compensate the Palestinians with the equivalent of 6 percent through a “land swap” that would allow Israel to keep major settlements. Olmert also proposed international administration of Jerusalem’s holy sites.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of — another Jew?” HEINRICH HEINE GERMAN POET, JOURNALIST AND ESSAYIST

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Housing lottery potentially to move online

BY BRITTANY NIEVES STAFF WRITER The housing lottery may move out of Sayles Hall and onto the Internet later this academic year.

The proposal for this change is under review by Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services, and Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services.

A decision is expected by the end of the month, said Richard Hilton, associate director of residential life.

The website’s construction began in March and members of the Residential Council reviewed the new online system in April, Hilton said. “[The Office of Residential Life] and the lottery chair told us that they had the technological capacity to just do the whole thing online,” said Olivia Conetta, ResCouncil member and former Herald copy desk chief. “We discussed it for a while and decided

we’d like to go through with it.”

Fo c u s groups consisting of 20 ra n d o m ly selected BROWN students will test the new housing lottery process and provide input.

As part of the online lottery system, students will have designated time slots over the course of several days in which they can go online and select their desired rooms. “[Students] will have a threeminute window verses 30 seconds at the podium,” Hilton said.

“It’ll also allow students to log in wherever they are into the system.

So they can do it in the privacy of their rooms, they can do it in the coffee shop, they can be studying abroad and be able to go into the system and choose. They won’t have to have a proxy anymore.”

By moving the housing lottery

online, ResLife hopes to make the room selection process less stressful for students, Hilton said.

The online format will provide a less chaotic environment, so students can select rooms without “having to make that split-second decision when they get up to the board and the group before them just picked the room they wanted,” Hilton said.

“I think it would be less stressful because many people end up using their computers to follow the live updates in Sayles, and it would be much easier to just open a second window on the computer to enter housing selections,” said Rudy Chen, a ResCouncil member.

But some students lament the loss of a campus custom.

“I feel like it’s a tradition at Brown to have the housing lottery — everyone there, the wild stuff — it’s part of the Brown thing,” Arturo Cardenas said. “Also, Brown hasn’t ever been good at any online thing.”

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Students gather in Sayles Hall at Brown for the annual housing lottery.

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Email not at risk of data mining

Shopping overlaps with Rosh Hashanah

BY JONATHAN SWARTZ STAFF WRITER As anger grows over the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs, which have given it access to Gmail users’ emails, Cornell officials said students using their University-affiliated email accounts are not at risk for data mining by the Internet giant.

Privacy advocates expressed outrage when Google stated in a June 13 court filing that Gmail users should have “no legitimate expectation[s] of privacy in information he [or she] voluntarily turns over to third parties.” In the last few months, Google, along with other tech companies like Facebook and Verizon, has faced increasing pressure from the public to explain its role in the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals.

Despite the concerns civil liberties organizations, politicians and journalists have raised over the NSA’s surveillance program, University officials said students and community members are safe using their Cornell-affiliated Gmail accounts.

According to Tracy Mitrano, director of IT Policy, the University has an enterprise contract with Google that offers a greater degree of privacy protection than the contracts most consumers have with Google. Under the University’s contract, students and faculty are protected from Google’s data mining and advertisements.

“Our enterprise contract prohibits data mining except for internal purposes such as indexing — a function that all users appreciate when they look for specific emails,” she said. “Also, while a student is at Cornell, advertisements are not allowed in the enterprise Gmail system.”

In April 2009, the University’s legal contract office signed a contract with Google to transition all students to the Google Apps Education Edition Gmail servers, or Cornell’s “Cmail,” according to Mitrano. Mitrano said that when signing the contract with Google, the University needed to be certain that its enterprise contract provided all the foundational rights and privileges to students under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects a student’s edu-

cational record.

According to Mitrano, although the University’s Google Apps and Gmail systems are protected from Google’s data minCORNELL ing, Google and the University are nonetheless subject to disclose information when presented with government search warrants.

“Cornell and Google alike are subject to NSA letters, warrants under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and subpoenas,” Mitrano said. “Essentially, there is no difference in terms of legal process for Cornell or Google as recipient of those legal papers.”

Mitrano said that a distinction between consumer privacy and privacy under the Fourth Amendment needs to be made to understand Google’s data mining practices.

Most people don’t have enough information to think through the distinction between Fourth Amendment surveillance … and consumer privacy.

TRACY MITRANO Director of IT policy, Cornell University According to Mitrano, under the Fourth Amendment, the government needs a search warrant with probable cause to search a person’s private property. However, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, former President George W. Bush enacted the USA Patriot Act, increasing the ability of law enforcement to search email and telephonic communications.

“People are confused. Most people don’t have enough information to think through the distinction between Fourth Amendment surveillance … and consumer privacy. Everyone is talking about

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these issues and are curious because they don’t understand how [privacy laws] function,” Mitrano said.

According to Google, under its typical consumer privacy policy, Google collects and analyze large amounts of its users’ email data. Gmail users should assume that any electronic correspondence that is passed through Google’s servers can be accessed and used for an array of options, such as for selling advertisements to customers, according to the court brief Google submitted.

“Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use Web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery,” the motion states.

Mitrano, however, said she is confident that Google will protect Cornell students from excessive government surveillance.

“Google has a good track record with respect to protecting users’ mail against government surveillance and has always been at the forefront of fighting for Fourth Amendment rights for its users,” Mitrano said.

According to Wyman Miles, director of Information Technologies Security, email generally does not have the safeguards to make it an appropriate vehicle for sensitive communications.

“It’s just much too porous and open,” he said. “There are training and awareness issues around the handling of email, such as what not to forward, risks of mailing lists, use of the BCC field [and] ease of forged communications … that greatly increase the likelihood of unsafe information handling practices.”

Justin Schindler said that most students do not think about email privacy when writing emails.

“Email privacy is like avoiding getting mono. You know that you need to pay attention to its risks, but most of the reflection is done in hindsight, after harm has already been done,” he said. Mono, or mononucleosis, is a virus that is spread by saliva and close contact and causes symptoms such as fever, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes, according to the National Institute of Health.

BY DAVID SONG ASSOCIATED PRESS As members of the Harvard community prepare to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah — which begins at sunset Wednesday and restricts all work, including writing — students and professors are working to accommodate those observing the holiday.

Those observing Rosh Hashanah cannot work from sunset on Wednesday to sundown on Thursday or Friday, depending on denomination, which could lead to conflict during classes or events such as the Activities Fair.

[Harvard] is really accommodating to [students observing Rosh Hashanah] right now.

JON ASCHERMAN Vice president for community relations and social justice, Harvard Hillel Several Jewish professors will not be offering classes during the period of Rosh Hashanah, while many students will miss classes to attend services.

“It’s very unfortunate that there is not anything else [the University] can do,” said Jon L. Ascherman, vice president for community relations and social justice at Hillel. “But I think the College is really accommodating right now.”

Many professors still holding classes, for example, plan to utilize office hours and offer notes for students who cannot attend class during the holiday.

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Students observing the holiday will not be penalized fo r wo rk missed during shopHARVARD ping week, wrote Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Colin Manning in an email statement to The Crimson.

David F. Sackstein, president of the Hillel Undergraduate Steering Committee, said that most of the outreach to support students observing the holiday has involved emailing deans and House masters and communicating with student organization leaders. Hillel has made various efforts to support the Jewish community during the week, he added, and has been especially attentive to incoming Jewish students who may not know what resources are available to them.

To help students take part in the Activities Fair, Hillel created paper slips on which observing students can write their names before the holidays begin. Students will submit these slips to organizations instead of signing a list.

Some Jewish students noted the difficulties of dealing with the holiday in the middle of shopping week. “Harvard did make scheduling a frustration that could have been avoided with the Activities Fair,” Talia Weisberg said. “It could have been scheduled any other time, but it’s on Rosh Hashanah.”

Sackstein acknowledged that the timing creates a “difficult situation,” but was optimistic about the services in place for the community. “There are ways to make the best of it,” he said.

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SPORTS

“Playing goal is like being shot at.”

JACQUES PLANTE CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL ICE HOCKEY GOALTENDER

Blake Brown ’15 to step into goal

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MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 and received Ivy League player of the week twice during his Yale career.

“Bobby exemplified leadership through example,” forward Avery Schwartz ‘16 said. “He was constantly focused on improving both on and off the field and was always willing to put the team before himself.”

While replacing Thalman in net will be a major issue for the Elis this season, Tompkins has put his faith in Blake Brown ’15 for the upcoming season. The 6-foot-4-inch goalkeeper, who hails from Mansfield, Texas, has only featured in three games during his career at Yale, though he has yet to let in a goal in just over 100 minutes in net. Brown, who was first team allstate selection his junior year in high school, has much experience from helping lead the Solar Red ’93 soccer club to the national championship in the 2007-’08 season in addition to numerous tournament appearances with his academy team. Brown earned his first win of his career last season, posting two saves during a comeback victory against Marist.

“Blake has been an observant and hard-working apprentice in his first two years, and he has learned a lot by training with Bobby and watching him play,” Tompkins said. “I think he is ready and able to accept the task ahead of him. Blake has worked hard for his opportunity and will be the starter.”

Brown commented that Thalman helped him adjust to the new speed and style of college soccer. He added that the coaching staff, including goalkeeper coach Cailean Bailey, have

helped to improve all aspects of his game, especially strength and fitness.

“I’m not nervous at all about stepping into the role of starting goalkeeper because I know that I have a great defensive line in front of me and I am confident in my abilities to complement them as well as their abilities to complement me,” Brown said.

[Thalman] was constantly focused on improving both on and off the field and was always willing to put the team before himself.

AVERY SCHWARTZ ’16 Posting a record of 4-8-5 in 2013, the Bulldogs will be gunning for improvement with a talented and deep team that features an unusually large and experienced senior class. Brown will officially take over the starting role for Yale’s first game this coming Friday with Ryan Simpson ’17 on the bench. Simpson is the only other goalkeeper on the team, yet he comes with considerable experience from high school where he earned Prep School all-state honors in both his junior and senior seasons at Buckingham Browne & Nichols.

The Elis take on Fordham at Jack Coffey Field this Friday at 5 p.m.

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another strong start to this season.

Beyond Bernstein, a number of other Bulldog veterans appear ready to shoulder the load of long spring and fall seasons after improving during the offseason.

Asked about players to watch for this season, Sheehan said, “I could go up and down the lineup listing talent and abilities of the players.”

He did, however, note that Joe Willis ’16 was able to compete in several tournaments this summer, capped by a fourunder par performance on Tuesday in an event at the Oak Lane Country Club in Woodbridge, Conn.

The team also welcomes four new additions this year: Johnathan Lai ’17, Nick McNiff ’17, James Park ’17 and Li Wang ’17, hailing from Hong Kong; Plymouth, Pa.; Seoul; and Sammamish, Wash., respectively.

“Jon Lai, Li Wang, Jimmy Park and

Nick McNiff comprise a powerful fourman addition to the team, which is already stacked with four or five starters from the Ivy League championship last year,” Will Davenport ’15 said. “We have all had extremely successful summer campaigns, and we are carrying a lot of that confidence into our first match against Texas A&M this Saturday.”

The men’s golf team will kick of its season on Saturday against Texas A&M at the Bridge in Southhampton, N.Y — the first test for the team since the disappointing defeat at Ivies. They will play a fall season culminating in the Ivy League Matchplay tournament in October, and will return to the course for the spring season in March.

As always, expectations remain high for the Elis.

“The goal is to win an Ivy League Championship,” Sean Gaudette ’14 said.

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

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Bobby Thalman ’13 played all 90 minutes in his final game, ending his season with only 0.96 goals allowed per game on average.

Concussion deal may not be end of NFL legal battle

BY MICHAEL MAROT ASSOCIATED PRESS The NFL’s concussion settlement may not have settled anything.

On Wednesday, two former Super Bowl champions - Troy Aikman and John Lynch, now Fox Sports broadcasters - contended the league has more work to do.

Aikman wants the NFL to

divulge more details about what it knew regarding the long-term impact of repeated blows to the head, and when it knew it. Lynch said he expects even more litigation after the league tentatively agreed last week to pay out $765 million to a group of former players.

“What I’m happy about is that there are players that need it (the money) and need it now,

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In 1986, Miami Dolphins linebacker Jay Brophy (53) is unable to stop Cleveland Browns running back Greg Allen (26) from scoring .

FRONDORF FROM PAGE 12 After the NFL and former players agreed to a $765 million settlement last week over claims that the league failed to provide adequate safeguards and warnings about the potential for head trauma, Prisco felt he had to be that one columnist that took the NFL’s side in the matter, claiming that the players don’t “deserve” the money because the former athletes were already aware of the risks when they signed up to play. This is a ridiculous argument, akin to saying that construction contractors can’t be held liable for working conditions that are dangerous beyond reasonable expectation. A contract law course might also be helpful here to learn that the U.S. legal system doesn’t follow a strict code of caveat emptor, but I’ll let Prisco off on the technical stuff. I’m not so lenient when it comes to ignorance of current science. Prisco’s most disturbing belief is that, “The good news is that the NFL, as we know it, isn’t going anywhere.” Apparently blind to the last decade of research about concussions and head trauma, the rigorous syllabus offered by Physiological Systems would bring Prisco up-todate on the findings that show football “as we know it” must change.

TEXAS A&M QUARTERBACK JOHNNY MANZIEL: EP&E 204 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Professional Ethics has the notable distinction of being cross-listed in Ethics, Politics, & Economics as well as Engineering and Applied Science, but none of that matters to Johnny Manziel, who continues to demonstrate behavior that is neither “professional” nor “ethical.” The drinkin’, fightin’, New Haven Omni-autograph-signin’ Texan clearly needs help learning to live with his meteoric rise to stardom, and perhaps some basic philosophical pondering about decision-making would give him a jumpstart, because that halfgame suspension last Saturday obviously failed to rearrange his worldview. In little more than a quarter of play, Johnny Football taunted lowly Conference USA opponent Rice with gestures mimicking autograph signing and money counting and drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for celebrating after a touchdown.

Though they had high expectations going into last April’s Ivy League Championship, the Bulldogs faltered on the last round to finish second to Princeton.

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and they’re going to be taken care of,” Lynch said. “But I think the notion that this is done now and we can move on is not really the reality. A new lawsuit was filed today, and from talking with Scott (Fujita) I think there are more to come.”

It wasn’t immediately clear which lawsuit Lynch was referring to, though one was filed Sunday in New Orleans. Former NFL players Jimmy Williams, Rich Mauti, Jimmy Keyes and Nolan Franz claim the league hid information about the dangers of brain injury.

While neither Lynch nor Aikman were part of the original lawsuit, both know a thing or two about concussions.

Lynch was one of the league’s hardest hitting safeties in Tampa Bay and Denver from 1993 through 2007. Though Lynch has said he was never officially diagnosed with a concussion, he told a Tampa columnist in 2011 that there were times he was “woozy” and asked a teammate to take his spot closer to the line of scrimmage while he recovered.

Aikman won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys during the 1990s, but his 12-year career ended prematurely in part because of repeated concussions.

Today, Lynch and Aikman say they feel “great” and have shown no symptoms of long-term damage.

In fact, Aikman said he recently was tested in Dallas.

Doctors, Aikman said, told him Tuesday that the tests were all clear.

While Aikman believes the settlement will help the former players with the most immediate need, he called the settlement a “win” for the NFL. “It’s a lot of money, but I think in terms of what could have been paid, it’s not that much,” Aikman said. “I think probably in the big scheme of things, it’s a real positive. These guys will be able to benefit some and some money will be put into research, which will help. The one thing I’m disappointed about is that the NFL didn’t have to acknowledge what they knew about (the long-term impact) and when they knew about it. I think full disclosure would have been the best way to go, but that’s not going to happen now.”

If Lynch is right, perhaps the league will be forced into divulging more details.

Until then, the two will continue calling games on Fox Sports, where they have a new

teammate in Randy Moss. The former receiver has rarely held his tongue, which is exactly what Fox executives wanted.

“He’s being himself,” Fox Sports executive producer John Entz said. “He’s being very natural and organic, which is what we love about him.”

Moss acknowledged that he hasn’t settled on a style, and he may show a certain penchant for teams he played with during his career. When asked to pick which NFC North team he thought would pose the biggest challenge to Green Bay’s reign, he first said he was “biased” before blurting out the expected: The Minnesota Vikings.

And like the eccentric receiver who started his career in Minnesota, Moss didn’t mince words, noting the two most important positions in football are quarterback and running back.

“I’m just excited to have something different in my life and something that I do know about is football,” he said.

“There’s not too many things I do know about, but I do know football.”

While he does seem to have an answer for everything, there is one exception. He doesn’t want to talk about concussions.

THE NCAA: MGT 695 – NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS CLINIC

Johnny Manziel is more than a few credits short of becoming an adult, but that doesn’t absolve the Manziel-“punishing” NCAA from being the most hypocritical “nonprofit” organization this side of the College Board. Jay Bilas’ summer finding that the NCAA sold player jerseys through its online store despite its regulations against using player names and likenesses for commercial purposes was just another bullet-point in a fact pattern that shows the numerous ways that the association takes advantage of its so-called student-athletes instead of promoting their best interests. In fact, I’ll go ahead and sign the NCAA up for MGT 695 in the spring as well, because I don’t think they’ll be able to handle the course material the first time through.

DENNIS RODMAN: EAST 212 – POLITICS IN SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA, PLSC 111 – INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HIST 422 – HUMAN RIGHTS IN HISTORY Any of these will do. Rodman should actually just enroll for the entire semester, because Tuesday’s news that the former basketball star has returned to North Korea for another “basketball diplomacy tour” demonstrates that Rodman is going to need a lot of repetition to understand why exactly the majority of the developed world doesn’t see Kim Jong-un as the “awesome kid” Rodman thinks he is.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

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YALE FOOTBALL ELIS COLLECT PRESEASON HONORS Four Bulldogs, led by running back Tyler Varga ’15, have been recognized as preseason standouts by college football media and coaches organizations. Varga was honored on three lists, while Kyle Cazzetta ’15, Chris Smith ’14 and captain Beau Palin ’14 were also recognized.

IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL EIGHT IVY GRADS ON NFL ROSTERS Tennessee Titans quarterback and Harvard alum Ryan Fitzpatrick headlines the list of former Ivy Leaguers who made the cut to an opening day roster. Shane Bannon ’11 was the most recent Yale player drafted and is currently an unsigned free agent.

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“The team that feels like every time we tee it up, we’re capable of winning.”

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Trading the playbook for the Blue Book

Bulldogs to replace legend in net MEN’S SOCCER

Another shopping period at Yale is drawing to a close, ending two weeks of pre-registration, overcrowded lectures, frustrating seminar waitlists and unintelligible Blue Book worksheets. Yet we should really be thankful for the sheer wealth of intellectual opportunities we have on this campus, because there are some figures in the sports world that could surely benefit from a Yale course or two. Here are my shopping period picks for a few new non-degree students:

NEW YORK JETS COACH REX RYAN: PLSC 340 – LEADERSHIP, COORDINATION AND FOCAL POINTS

The Jets desperately need a leader — a focal point — to rally around after their coach chronically mismanaged the team through a summer quarterback circus, climaxing in the decision to put likely regular season starter Mark Sanchez on the field during the fourth quarter of a preseason game. Tempting the football gods was a poor decision: Sanchez quickly suffered a shoulder injury and will miss at least the season opener on Sunday. Perhaps Rexy would learn that leadership isn’t particularly effective when it seems like there’s a new quarterback under center every week. Maybe he’d also realize that new signee Brady Quinn is under no circumstances what the course description calls a “natural meeting point for … action.”

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Kevin Michalak ’15 scored his first career goal in 2012. The men’s soccer team will take on Fordham at Jack Coffey Field this Friday at 5 p.m.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER During the past three tumultuous men’s soccer seasons, one thing had been a constant: Bobby Thalman ’13 in net.

Last year’s captain, who played a total of 4,556 out of 4,815 possible minutes over his final three seasons, was an ever-present key to keeping the Bulldogs in tight games. Last year the Elis had 12 contests decided by one or fewer goals, including five

shutout performances by Thalman.

“Bobby had tremendous size and range which made him hard to beat,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “He was probably the best pure shot-stopper in the league.”

The 6-foot-5-inch Colorado

native had the most saves out of any goalkeeper in the Ivy League both his junior and senior seasons. Thalman was also a second team All-Ivy League selection for both seasons SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 11

With Kushner gone, golf team aims for strong season

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER The men’s golf team had been on a roll entering the Ivy League Championship tournament last April. The Bulldogs had not lost in three weeks, taking victories at the Princeton Invitational and Century Intercollegiate, and looked to be the favorites at the conference championship meet behind the leadership of Ivy League player of the year Sam Bernstein ’14 and captain Bradley Kushner ’13.

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Ivy League player of the year Sam Bernstein ’14 was named captain of the men’s golf team for the coming year.

TOP ’DOG BLAKE BROWN ’15

Though the Elis led by three strokes heading into the final day of the championship, they faltered in the final round, finishing in second to Princeton. But with a new team built around core veterans and a promising freshman class, Yale appears poised to compete down to the final day of competition again this year.

“I think we have another great team,” head coach Colin Sheehan ’97 said. “The team that feels like everytime we tee it up, we’re capable of winning.”

Sheehan noted the talent of the entering freshmen as well as the improvement of the upperclass-

men, stressing that the team features a combination of both youth and experience. He also emphasized the leadership capabilities of the senior class helmed by Bernstein, who assumed the captaincy after Kushner’s graduation last year.

We have all had extremely successful summer campaigns, and we are carrying a lot of that confidence into our first match.

WILL DAVENPORT ’15 With the honor of conference player of the year already in his back pocket, Bernstein will be the player to watch this year not only on the Yale team, but perhaps in all of the Ivy League. Last year he took the individual title at the season-opening Adams Cup last September and is capable of SEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE 11

THE JUNIOR WILL BE THE STARTING GOALKEEPER OF THIS SEASON. Brown posted two saves during a comeback victory against Marist last year and was selected first-team All-State in high school.