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Building a campus culture
Weekly digest. Your friendly neighborhood newspaper would like to inform you that chicken tenders will be served for lunch today in both the colleges and in Commons. Eat up. It wasn’t Yale. After
confusion about missing campus squirrels spiraled into national accusations of a mass squirrel extermination, University spokesman Tom Conroy told the News that Yale has not engaged with the local gray squirrel species and “has not made any effort to reduce or manage the squirrel population.” Conroy’s statements followed rumors published on Gawker that the University had surreptitiously massacred the squirrels over the summer. As of 10:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, though, one squirrel — very much alive — was spotted on Old Campus scurrying across the grass.
And “it wasn’t me.” Those
immortal words from Shaggy’s hit single may soon be coming to the Elm City. According to the Toad’s Place schedule, Shaggy will be performing at Toad’s on Sept. 27. Get ready.
Power pair. In partnership
with venture capital fund Connecticut Innovations, the University has allocated $2.5 million for the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) Innovation Fund, which will help finance student ventures emerging from YEI programs. The fund aims to provide certain companies with up to $100,000 to improve their chances of success and help them attract clients.
Goin’ places. The University
of Connecticut has signed an agreement with developers that marks the first step in redeveloping the former Hartford Times building and creating a regional UConn campus in downtown Hartford, Conn., according to The Hartford Courant. The college campus is slated to be about 220,000 square feet and indicates UConn’s intention to move into West Hartford. Say what? According to an
email from Saybrook Master Paul Hudak, the Saybrook dining hall will be welcoming 50–60 athletes from the Yale football team at dinner Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1984 The Yale Alumni Fund reports $21,314,503 in gifts for the 1983–’84 fund drive, a record amount for the fund’s 94-year history. The majority of the funding will go to the Yale Alumni Fund Endowment and the general fund endowment. More than 44,250 University alumni and friends made donations to this campaign. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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NUS students, professors and staff members for a picnic funded by the Yale-NUS student activities fund. The group’s appearance took place almost two months before classes at the new Singaporean liberal arts college began on Aug. 12. Since then, its presence on campus has expanded significantly. A few days after Yale-NUS’s 155 freshmen arrived on campus last month, “The G-Spot” distributed sex education materials and condoms in student dorms. Last week, several group members attended a reading of LGBTQ literature by Singaporean writers such as Jasmine Ann Cooray and Jason Wee that took place off-campus. On Tuesday, the group hosted a talk by Singaporean LGBTQ activists Jean Chong and Ng Yi-Sheng titled “Southeast Gaysia — LGBT Issues in the ASEAN Region” that was held in the students’ resi-
After Tuesday’s primary saw half of the city’s remaining mayoral candidates drop out of the race, two opponents are left to contest the general election in November — State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78 and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. November’s election will now largely depend on which candidate unaffiliated and Republican voters, as well as the supporters of once-mayoral hopefuls Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 and Principal Kermit Carolina, will favor for the Elm City’s top seat. At the primary, Harp recorded 49.8 percent of the vote, while Elicker, Fernandez and Carolina followed with 23.2 percent, 18.9 perecent and 8.1 percent, respectively. For the next two months, Harp and Elicker will fight to capture the remaining votes and advocate their visions for how New Haven should move forward. “I think that Harp’s candidacy and her career has really been based on becoming adept and proficient at old style party politics, and that’s not necessarily the sort of Democrat that a Republican is likely to cross party lines and vote for,” said Republican Town Committee Chairman Richter Elser ’81. “If the future of Connecticut is going to be changed, then we need a new approach to how the urban areas are run, and someone who has built a successful career in the traditional style of machine politics may not be the best person to bring about that change.” Harp has received endorsements from key
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The Yale-NUS campus is slated to be completed in 2015. Until then, students will live in a NUS dorm.
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n August, the inaugural class of students at YaleNUS College began their studies at the first liberal arts institution in Singapore. Will the college be able to create an identity separate from those of its parent institutions? ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA reports.
On a hot afternoon in June, over 20,000 Singaporeans gathered at the Speakers’ Corner in Singapore’s Hong Lim Park to celebrate the country’s LGBTQ community. At least a dozen of the activists were freshmen at the newly opened Yale-NUS College.
UPCLOSE The Yale-NUS students at the Pink Dot rally — an annual event that draws thousands of Singaporean LGBTQ rights supporters to the only stretch
of land in the country where public demonstrations are allowed without a permit — attended as members of “The G-Spot,” a group they had informally founded earlier that month with several students from the National University of Singapore to tackle issues concerning sexuality as well as gender, feminism, race, social class and disability. “We’re queer, and we’re finally here,” reads the group’s first description on both its official website and Facebook page. During the event, “The G-Spot” members met up with other Yale-
Lorimer remains after transition
Singers applaud shorter rush
TITLE CHANGED TO VICE PRESIDENT FOR GLOBAL AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES UNDER SALOVEY BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER During talk of the many recent changes in University administration — a new president, a new provost and new Yale Corporation fellows — one small change in Betts House on Prospect Street has gone relatively unnoticed: A new title for Linda Lorimer. Lorimer, now vice president for global and strategic initiatives, said the title does not change her role, which has brought her to the forefront of Yale’s internationalization efforts and other major projects. Although University President Peter Salovey said he wanted to make her title more specific after hearing that administrators’ roles seem “opaque” to many in the Yale community, other administrators have described her previous titles — “University Secretary” and “Vice President” — as emblematic of the all-encompassing scope of her authority and her close relationship with former University President Richard Levin. Lorimer and Levin worked together for 20 years: Lorimer served on the search committee that appointed Levin, and the new president promptly offered her a position at Yale. Former members of the Yale Corporation and faculty interviewed said the pair tackled all major Univer-
sity initiatives together. Lorimer’s close relationship with Levin has fueled rumors that she might leave the University in the wake of Levin’s retirement this summer, said Barrington Parker ’65 LAW ’69, a former Yale Corporation fellow. “Everyone’s wondering what she’s going to do,” Parker said, “and if she’s going to stick around after Rick leaves.”
LORIMER’S NEXT MOVE
Students may know her best from her University-wide emails in times of emergency, but Lorimer has become thoroughly entrenched in University affairs since she arrived to Yale as a law student in 1974. “It seems like whenever anything important happens at the University, Linda’s always at the middle of it,” said Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine. Lorimer has worked, in some capacity, for five different Yale presidents. Since her Law School graduation, she has left the University for only two other jobs: Once, to work for a year on Wall Street, and then again to serve as the president of RandolphMacon Woman’s College for seven years starting in 1986. Joseph Zolner SOM ’84, a Harvard expert in University leadSEE LORIMER PAGE 4
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Yale’s a cappella rush ended Tuesday as members ran through Old Campus tapping their freshmen. BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER Tuesday’s tap night looked much like it had in past years, as the singing and yelling of Yale’s 13 Singing Group Council a cappella groups resounded throughout Old Campus. But this year, the celebratory night followed the shortest “rush” period in recent memory. Members of the a cappella community interviewed unanimously said they believe the revised rush process — which shortened the
period to two weeks, eliminated mandatory rush meal requirements and condensed singing dessert events into less than one week — was a better experience for all involved. “[Rush is] a lot of undue emotional effort. It’s a lot of worrying and time for something that isn’t actually that important,” said Madeleine Witt ’15, a rush manager for Living Water this year. “It’s all-consuming and stressful in a way that is kind of silly often, SEE TAP NIGHT PAGE 6
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The gay marriage conversation Don’t be afraid of being small G U E ST C O LU M N I ST SA N J E NA SAT H I A N
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ale is a place of profound clarity and confusion, each deceptively entwined with the other. Four years well-spent here should wade in the deep end of a muddled pond, challenging faith, family and popular whim. It should come with vast divergences of opinion, equally reached in good conscience and ideally in conflict with a former version of yourself. We should kindle these moments of introspection, not suppress them in a mob of mutual assuredness. One of the perks of being a campus conservative is the license to take some swings at the low-hanging fruits of excess inherent in a culture of occasional homogeny. But this comes with a trade-off: being part of a political leper colony makes self-criticism immensely unappealing. Especially when a change of opinion often results in a smug “I’m glad you came around” or “At least you’re not one of the crazy ones.”
THIS CONVERSATION REQUIRES INTELLECTUAL MATURITY But sometimes, the hesitancy to refrain from friendly fire grows into cheap cover. Ideas have consequences, even if nurtured and harbored in the shadows. And if we are willing to adopt certain principles, we should be willing to force ourselves into the hard conversations — as President Peter Salovey urged us in the beginning of the year — that challenge them. Our campus — both left and right — needs a better dialogue when it comes to the issue of gay marriage. It is about time those of us, especially in the latter group, to stop being so quiet about it. Here’s my part: It is time to endorse, embrace and throw flower pedals down the isle for gay marriage. Yale is a place that simultaneously presses the tension of our intellect and intuition, which wrestle like Jacob and the angel. They struggle and jockey above one another. As we fashion ourselves for adulthood, we hopefully find a glimpse into what their stalemate looks like. Through this, though, a picture can emerge, as fragmented perspectives begin to point in the same direction: sexual orientation is not a choice, love — created equal — is the requisite for a stable family and social norms are the province of civil society, not the lumbering arm of the law.
At the end of the day, these are our dearest friends’ lives: not exercises HARRY in political philosophy. GRAVER I can grow in a reliGravely gious setMistaken ting that speaks to the faith afforded to me while standing as a groomsman of my friend and his husband whose conscience I know has been fashioned by the same brush. But let’s also not be so callous as to conflate difference with malice. The notion that opposition to gay marriage is sine qua non the outgrowth of bigotry or small-mindedness is a false, intellectually shallow narrative. And it’s all too common for confident students to brush aside millennia of traditions, thinkers and multifaith theology — let alone slander peers — from the pedestal of the enlightened undergraduate. We shouldn’t be so willing to indulge in this isolation, both from the generations of great minds before us and that niche group of roughly half the country. Additionally, let’s not be so eager to scorch the earth. It was particularly baffling last year how so many students were quick to label Mitt Romney a homophobe for a position that they voted for in 2008; that is, before Barack Obama evaluated gay marriage as politically advantageous. And it’s even more incoherent for a campus committed to a professed pluralism to immediately discard certain faiths for deeply holding a view of human flourishing that conflicts with their academically constructed system of ethics. So if we want to have a conversation about marriage, let’s have one. The love that radiates from the steps of an increasing number of courthouses across this country also serves as a reminder for how much work there is to be done: from divorce, to the proliferation of single parents, to the sexual norms that enforce these perilous trends. Years from now, I want my son to know that I got this right. I also want him to understand how I got here, how to strike a balance between heart and head, how to have the courage to change. These are the moments, though, lost to a campus geared towards blunt dismissiveness. It is ethos we would be better to do without. This is how things actually get better. HARRY GRAVER is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu.
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et me tell you something about life after Yale. It’s small. Yale makes us infinite. We exist in past, present and future at all times. We are the roads we took to get there. We live for the people we will one day become. Meanwhile, we thrive in a present unlike any other present because it is composed of an infinite, shimmering bridge of our potential. At Yale, we get to be every version of our future selves all at once. We interact with our peers under an unspoken contract, which, if articulated, might go something like: “I believe that we can both be every version of our selves in this moment. We will not ask each other to be smaller than that.” At Yale, you and your friends and your lives are sprawled out in front of you forever and you hold this conviction that when you graduate, you will take a big, scary jump, but where you land will be some continuation of that infinite. It isn’t, exactly. Where many of you will land is in a series of days that have a different pace. You wake up and sit and work or write or think; you lunch and drink and come
home and sleep and do it again. There will be people who matter and those who don’t; sparks some days, dullness on others. The daily gestures you make will be small ones. Careful reaches, inspired by small goals: to meet one new person, to learn one new skill. Never again will your menu of life choices be Blue Book-able in quite the same way. Out here, away from the Gothic spires, things become finite. You don’t instantly become every version of your best self. You don’t, in most cases, immediately take up residence in the skin of the person you wanted to grow up to be. Because in all likelihood, you wanted to be a mermaid and an astronaut and a doctor. And maybe right now, you want to be an MBA and humanitarian and a doctor. A writer and a doer. A dancer and a scientist. But one day, sometime soon, someone will ask you to make a choice: be one or the other, for a month or a year. Be a noun (as opposed to a verb), they will say. And that choice will take you from infinite, to suddenly, frighteningly, finite. I’m not writing to tell you what kinds of jobs you should
or shouldn’t apply for. I’m not writing to tell you whether to move to New York or not. (I didn’t.) I’m not writing to try to group your futures into collective categories of “sell-out” or “not sell-out.” I’m writing to you, you lucky current Yalies, because I’m guessing some of you will be where I am now next fall. You’ll know some things, but you won’t know most things. You’ll be doing something, but you won’t be doing everything you thought you would be. You’ll be living a small, finite life, and grappling with your infinite dreams.
YALE MAKES US INFINITE Let me tell you something I’m learning about a small life: each finite moment — each moment I’m doing a job that isn’t what I’ll be doing forever, driving across the country through city after city that will never be my home, meeting and dating and crying and laughing and dancing with people who aren’t quite
my people, but who do just fine — each small moment actually is, somehow, an incarnation of that larger infinite, even if I don’t always feel so infinite. You still hold your dreams loosely out in front of you, out here. You still see them and run toward their smoky shapes. But sometimes, you stop and look down in the dirt and see your own footprints and realize that where you tread right now matters, that the small things build to big things. That what matters is when you wake up and how you think about your daily dose of sun and books and breath. That a dinner on a porch with new, foreign people matters just as much as your esoteric, wintry trudge to a seminar. That even though you aren’t striding along in the current of a Great University’s history and future, you are striding along in the current of your history and future. That your pleasure and your happiness bud from the smallest of places, even when you aren’t doing the biggest of things — just yet. SANJENA SATHIAN is a 2013 graduate of Morse College.
GUEST COLUMNIST SCOT T REMER
Education and the public good
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efore we are inundated by schoolwork and extracurricular activities, we should take these last few golden days to consider an important question. It’s one of those questions you hear bandied about at high school graduation ceremonies or freshman assemblies, but the answers given are usually superficial. Namely, what is the purpose of an education? This is an especially timely question. The recent furor over grading reform at Yale (when students protested the proposed implementation of a 100-point grading scale) brought the purpose of our intellectual training to the forefront of campus conversation. Some believe our education is nothing more than a glorified vocational program intended to churn out the next generation of elites. Others describe it as a method of learning how to think clearly. Others see it as ethical training — a preparation for a lifetime of sacrifice to the common good, and a tool to impart humanity’s collective wisdom about the good life. I’m a sophomore, and undecided about a major. Some people I’ve sought advice from believe education’s prime directive is to equip us with “marketable” skills so that we can be slotted, sheep-
like, into the prevailing neoliberal order. It would seem that many Yalies think this way: annually, large numbers of recent graduates flock to Wall Street to channel their intellectual energies and quantitative creativity into designing the esoteric instruments that spawned the Great Recession and will hatch the next economic calamity. I’m no angel, and I cannot claim to be morally unblemished. Nor can I truly blame Wall Streetbound grads for obeying the societal imperative they’ve imbibed: to go out there and make money. But surely it is a tremendous waste of talent to shunt hundreds of intelligent men and women into a financial system that has proven to be corrosive to our democracy and antithetical to the principle of humanity. So many of our fellow students have succumbed to Mammon’s siren call despite the accumulated philosophical wisdom of the past three millennia and psychological evidence that suggests that the selfish pursuit of money cannot buy happiness. Why, then, is our educational system, believed by many to have virtue as its guide, failing to combat our era’s vitiated values? As the old phrase goes, “knowledge is power,” and though this is undoubtedly the case, knowledge has no inherent morality. It
can be used to create H-bombs and napalm, but it can also create vaccines and design irrigation systems. Reasoning well is essential for politics and the world of work, but even scholarship does not constitute a true education when it becomes distanced from moral norms. In our pluralist liberal democracy, inculcating morality in schools is a touchy subject. That is just as it should be. But the fact remains that none of us would be at Yale without a culture of moral investment. We would not be here without the concerted effort of countless community members, parents and teachers. Society has lavished money and opportunities on us, and deserves a return on its investment. We have an obligation to give back to those who languish in poverty and those who might have joined us here if equality were a reality. Currently, we receive a valueneutral education. But a true education should show us what is worth striving for and how it may be achieved. Almost every philosophy (with the possible exception of today’s Republicans’ virulent libertarianism) recognizes the existence of the public good — a common interest that transcends self-interest, and is larger and more enduring than the individual.
Why not recognize this public good in the classroom? We face a catastrophic environmental crisis, a global recession, Gilded Age levels of socioeconomic stratification and festering threats of pandemics and nuclear attacks. Our generation does not lack problems to solve. A true education would reflect the urgency of these needs. It would also reflect our recent advances in psychology and neuroscience. Too many in our age flounder in search of a guiding philosophy, but by synthesizing ancient philosophers’ wisdom and the insights of modern science and social science, we are getting to the bottom of the question of what creates happiness. The truths we have discovered should be taught to every student prior to graduation. A true education would foster both self-cultivation and societal flourishing. No one should be forced to jettison his own religious or philosophical beliefs. But knowledge without humanity is sterile, even dangerous. A world in which the few prosper while the many suffer is a world where education, however you define it, is in grave peril. SCOTT REMER is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact him at scott.remer@yale.edu .
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ccasionally we are with someone who mistakenly hurts themselves by tripping or dropping something on their toe. When with them, we instinctively blurt out “I am so sorry.” This response is usually met with a familiar reply. “Don’t worry,” our friend says. “It is not your fault that I am clumsy!” We colloquially say “I’m sorry” in situations that are beyond our control, but that we wish would be different. Through these words, we attempt to become closer to the sufferer by empathizing with their pain in the present moment. This beautiful gesture actually captures the entomological origins of the word “sorry” which come from the Old English root sarig, which means to feel sorrow and distress. This time of year, during the Jewish high holy days, we are charged with the mandate of saying “I am sorry” for hurt that we have caused and therefore morally responsible for repairing.
The Jewish sages say that Yom Kippur cleanses the misconduct between man and God but not between people; for interpersonal offenses, we must appease our fellow person directly. It is not enough to feel regret and remorse for ridiculing or slandering a roommate or professor. We must approach them, face to face, and have a reconciliatory encounter. There are moral and religious systems in which such an encounter — between the offender and offended — is not necessary for reconciliation. The Stoic, for instance, grants forgiveness as a way of distancing himself from toxic dependency that might harm his inner life. The goal is not to restore the relationship, but to achieve autonomy in order to accept what is. In Judaism, the requirement for direct contact between the person apologizing and the person offering forgiveness reflects the unique nature of the model formulated in the Talmud.
The power of a real life conversation with the people we have harmed is scary, though. It presupposes the admission of guilt, which forces us to internalize our shortcomings. At the same time, there is a serious risk of causing even more harm by bringing up a painful memory that had been buried for some time. For all these reasons, the act of apologizing must be a premeditated gesture that is inspired by courage and hope — the idea that we can actually change ourselves and actually heal broken relationships. The great 12th century Jewish scholar Maimonides offers us guidelines for this process: Someone who injures a colleague must verbally confess to the victim and make a commitment to change behavior. It is not enough to feel regret and remorse in our hearts; we must externalize it through speech in order for our emotions and aspirations to gain some actuality and permanence.
Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the founder of the Mussar (character refinement) movement, was concerned that detailed apologies could potentially become counterproductive by deepening the wound, especially when the victim has long moved on or is even blissfully unaware of the misdeed. He urges us to utilize our careful discernment when offering an apology, distinguishing the need to work through specific details that require healing and those that would engender needless discomfort. As we work on working on ourselves this time of year, I invite you to think concretely about one person who needs to hear you say “I’m sorry.” I anticipate that saying these words will be painful, but equally if not more, comforting. NOAH CHESES is associate rabbi at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. Contact him at noah.cheses@yale.edu .
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CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, SEPT. 10
The article “The Blue and White go green” misstated the title of the report “Collegiate Game Changers: How Campus Sport is Going Green” as “College Game Changers: How Campus Sport is Going Green.” It also misstated the of the organization responsible for the report, the Natural Resources Defense Council, as the National Resources Defense Council. TUESDAY, SEPT. 10
The article “Faculty advising a mixed bag” mistakenly stated that psychology professor Julia Kim-Cohen meets with her advisees twice a semester, when in fact she meets with them twice during shopping period and twice more throughout the semester. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11
The article “Elicker wins over Ward 1 voters” misstated the class year of mayoral candidate Toni Harp ARC ’78. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11
The article “And then there were two” mistakenly stated that 14,273 voters were cast Tuesday for the mayoral candidates in the Democratic primary, not including absentee ballots, when in fact the count did include absentee ballots. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11
The article “Morrison defeats two Ward 22 challengers” failed to include contributing reporter Sarah Bruley as an author of the story.
Chabad moves to new home BY RACHEL SIEGEL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With the renovation of Chabad at Yale’s new house, attendees of the organization’s Shabbat dinners now have a space in which to light candles and enjoy challah without crawling under tables and bumping shoulders. Following a $6 million campaign and two years of construction and renovation, Chabad at Yale’s new home on 36 Lynwood Place stands roughly 10 times the size of the organization’s previous space on Edgewood Avenue. At nearly 11,000 square feet, the Alice Bender Family Chabad House and Berger Family Building will offer students more regular programming, as well as a haven in which to study and relax. “What was a ‘negative’ about the old house was that due to the physical limitations of the building, there were people that wanted to come to Chabad that couldn’t,” Chabad President Ron Taitz ’15 said. “That’s why the move was so needed and appreciated.” Students attending Friday night dinners or holiday services at the Edgewood house frequently found themselves without room to walk, standing during meals and crawling under tables just to navigate the tight space. Such limited mobility often caused Chabad Rabbi Shua Rosenstein not to publicize events and programs to avoid turning people away. Rosenstein said the former Chabad house could accommodate an average of 40 people comfortably, while the new location is an easy fit for 150. Comprised of three floors, the Lynwood house features a library, conference room, sanctuary, dining room, kitchen, lounge area, and two full guest suites for visitors and guest speakers. Adam Zucker ’17, who said he is heavily involved in Chabad programming, hopes the increase in square footage will encourage students not only to come to Friday night dinners but also to holiday programs and weekend hangouts as well. Zucker said the Lynwood location can serve the community in multiple ways while still maintaining a homey feel. Chabad board member Brit Sharon ’16 said she likes being able to come to a physical house instead of a dorm or office to celebrate Shabbat and learn in a Jewish setting. Taitz and Sharon are thinking of using the new space to found a Jewish athletics club, an endeavor that would be next to impossible at the former Chabad house. Until the Lynwood house’s first Friday night dinner on Aug. 23, almost all Chabad at Yale programming had been stationed at Edgewood since 2005. Rosenstein began talking
with potential donors about an alternative space in the spring of 2010 and bought the Lynwood house in September of that year. The cost of the building and its renovation totaled $4 million, with the remaining $2 million set aside for the operating endowment. The Lynwood house will be named after the mother of Chabad lead benefactor Norman Bender ’67. Bender chose to dedicate the new house in memory of his mother, Alice Bender, who he says epitomized much of what Chabad stands for. “The mission of Chabad is to create a home away from home, and that’s what my mother was all about,” Bender said. “For my friends and classmates, my mom’s home and cooking were their homes away from home. I may have given to the building, but it sure has given to me.”
For my friends and classmates, my mom’s home and cooking were their homes away from home. I may have given to the building, but it sure has given to me. NORMAN BENDER ’67 Lead benefactor, Chabad at Yale house Brad Berger ’77, another major donor, will dedicate the building itself to the memory of his father, Martin Berger, who played a role in the move from Edgewood to Lynwood until his death five days before the building’s groundbreaking ceremony. A real estate developer based in Los Angeles, Berger not only provided financial backing for the renovation but was also involved in projects ranging from the physical layout of the property to the design of the sanctuary’s ark. Chabad at Yale’s physical location may be changing, but those involved with the organization expect its community feel to transfer into the Lynwood house. “Despite the massive square footage upgrade, the closeknit and loving vibe of Chabad at Yale will never falter,” board member Peter Ginsberg ’14 said. “But unfortunately, one aspect may be gone from Shabbat dinner forever — the shvitzing.” An official dedication ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. Chabad house donors from New Haven and elsewhere are expected to attend, as is a lineup of speakers and college administrators. Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
Yale dining adds card swipe BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER This year, the dining halls are changing their menus to reflect student opinion — but students have hardly noticed. Along with a collection of minor edits to food options available in each dining hall, Yale Dining will include a “comfort food” course during each meal and will continue its foray into international cuisine through its “world flavor themes.” But perhaps the biggest and most permanent change to the dining halls’ daily operation is the implementation of new card swipe technology, which allows students to pay for meals with credit cards. The majority of students interviewed said they had not recognized the additional comfort food on the menus, and many students said they have enjoyed their dining selections as much as in past years. “My world for my adult life has just been committed to having people enjoy their meals,” said Ron DeSantis, Yale Dining director of culinary excellence. “And if they’re paying attention to the menu that’d be great, but if they’re enjoying the meal and food is prepared properly… that’s the most important thing.” Four students singled out the “Yale Creamy Mac & Cheese” as comfort food they found to be “reliably good” and “a classic.” Chefs tinkered with the popular macaroni and cheese recipe over the summer and are prepared to introduce variations this year, such as buffalo-chicken or creole flavored entrees, DeSantis said, adding that a cheeseburger version is in the works. Lucas Sin ’15, a co-editor of the Yale Epicurean, a food magazine, said the authenticity of certain ethnic cuisines remains questionable, although the variety in Yale Dining’s repertoire is visible. The dining hall does not have the advantage of specific equipment
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Along with adding more “comfort food” and changing international options, Yale Dining will now accept credit cards. or skill sets that would be found in a traditional Chinese or Vietnamese restaurant, Sin said. Residential college dining halls will now feature different international cuisines for lunch and dinner each day. For instance, chefs will pair a noontime offering of Italian-style sliced, sautéed chicken with Vietnamese vegetable curry in the evenings. Of 49 students interviewed, 45 said they had not realized that Yale Dining introduced an initiative varying the international options from lunch to dinner. Chelsea Watson ’17 said she appreciates Yale Dining’s efforts to expand into foreign cooking, adding that she has particularly enjoyed the Asian fare offered in the Jonathan Edwards College dining hall.
“There are a lot of world flavors for sure,” Watson said. “There’s always some tofu, curry — there was even a noodle station once.” Dining hall workers are also adjusting to new swipe machine interfaces, as new technology was put in place over the summer to allow for a greater range of payment functions. Credit card payment — previously available at Durfee’s and other retail dining locations — is now an option at all residential college swipe counters, said Howard Bobb, Yale Dining director of finance. He added that the function has already been used at least once in all the dining halls. Yale Dining’s website, which used to consist of “home-made webpages,” has been replaced with a professional interface that is part of the new swipe technology soft-
ware, Bobb said. “The challenges with the prior system were less about functionality than the age of the prior system,” Bobb said. “The system we had worked [but] we were looking for a system with a little more flexibility.” On Wednesday in the Morse and Stiles dining halls, Lewis Walters, a squash coach, was one of five people paying for his lunch with a credit card for the first time. “It’s a great new idea,” Walters said. “I reckon in the future it will make my day more convenient.” Pasta with butternut squash, pear and sage is one of this year’s new menu items. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
CT lawmakers favor diplomacy in Syria BY SAMUEL ABER AND MICHELLE HACKMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Connecticut’s congressional delegation, largely skeptical of President Barack Obama’s planned military strike against Syria, welcomed his proposal to delay a Senate vote on the strike to pursue diplomatic alternatives. Before Obama announced that he wanted to halt the Senate vote, Connecticut’s two senators and five representatives voiced doubt about the prudence of involving the United States in yet another Middle Eastern conflict. Although their reasons varied, the two senators from Connecticut, Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, indicated that they would have opposed the Senate resolution if it had come up for a vote on Wednesday. But despite the widespread opposition to a Syrian strike among Connecticut’s representatives, all commended the president for pursuing a diplomatic solution, with the backing of the United Nations, to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons. “When the U.S. strikes unilaterally, it comes at the cost of our international security — we
come across as a bully,” Murphy said in an interview with the News. “[But] if we were able to do it in a multi-lateral way, it would advance a long-held international norm against chemical weapons. It would satisfy many people’s concerns.” In a 16-minute address to the nation Tuesday night, the president made his case for a military strike to reinforce an international norm against the use of chemical weapons in warfare. The Obama administration claims to have concrete evidence that the chemical agent Sarin was used in a Damascus suburb on Aug. 21, including blood samples and video footage of men, women and children convulsing and screaming in the immediate aftermath of the attack. But, after several weeks of lobbying Congress without a guarantee that either chamber would authorize a strike, Obama said he would be willing to consider a proposal, put forward by Russia, to allow Syria to turn over its stockpile of weapons to the United Nations. “It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commit-
ments, but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force,” Obama said in his speech, adding that he had asked the Senate to hold off on a vote. Members of the state’s delegation expressed relief that the President is considering a diplomatic solution. Reflecting the sentiments of his colleagues, Representative John Larson told the News that a vast majority of his constituents are opposed to the president’s strike proposal.
When the U.S. strikes unilaterally, it comes at the cost of our international security. CHRIS MURPHY Senator, Connecticut “I was not surprised but certainly heartened by what I heard in the district,” Larson said. “About three-quarters of people were opposed to military intervention, but with a lot of caveats — mostly opposed to going alone, most feel-
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Mohamed Elfayoumy, Egyptian liaison to the Syrian opposition and Yale World Fellow, discusses the situation in Syria.
ing that there should be a global response.” The possibility of moving forward on a plan that would include a multilateral solution with the support of Russia, an ally of Syria that had previously been blocking attempts by the U.S. to gain United Nations approval for an airstrike, put many constituents’ concerns to rest. “The newly emerging possibility of bringing Syria to the U.N. with a diplomatic resolution to secure the chemical weapons, if the proposal can be effectively negotiated, is a very important development that should be pursued,” Representative Elizabeth Esty said in a statement immediately preceding the President’s remarks. Mohamed Elfayoumy, a Yale World Fellow and the Egyptian liaison to the Syrian opposition, agreed that any action on the part of the United States would be viewed with mistrust. “Most of the people don’t really trust the U.S.’s intentions, and even if they do not talk about the intentions, they will actually think that the U.S. does not really have a proper plan, and that the U.S. does not really know the region,” Elfayoumy said. “Large sectors in the Arab world have an intrinsic skepticism toward any American military action in the region.” Still, he added that Syria’s chemical weapon stockpile should not be the main focus in the discussion of U.S. intervention. “It is not morally justifiable [to strike] because the reason why chemical weapons are evil is that they’re weapons of mass distruction,” Elfayoumy said. “But the situation in Syria that we are witnessing is a situation of bigger mass destruction than anybody can imagine. So if you just go and intervene because you are targeting chemical weapons and leave the mass killing continuing, you are not enforcing any kind of norm.” The U.N. is expected to release its findings regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria within the next week. Contact SAMUEL ABER at samuel.aber@yale.edu . Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .
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“Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.” JEB BUSH FORMER GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA
Elicker to seek independent vote ELECTION DAY FROM PAGE 1 players at both the city and state level: She counts in her camp two-thirds of the Board of Aldermen, many of the major Yale labor unions, the three mayoral candidates who dropped out of the race prior to Tuesday’s primary, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and a number of other key individuals and groups. This support made Tuesday’s numbers unsurprising, though it has opened her to criticism that she represents a continuation of the status quo. But Jason Bartlett, Harp’s campaign manager, contests the idea that Harp is simply a continuation of old politics. He argued that she is a change from Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who is the longest serving mayor of New Haven.
“The incumbent was there for 20 years, so to say that she is anything but new and fresh is just not being intellectually honest,” Bartlett said. “She’s new and fresh and she’s got great ideas.” A common theme thus far in Harp’s campaign has been her ability to build relationships and coalitions as a result of her 20 years of service in the state legislature. Bartlett pointed to her position as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee as evidence that she has the ability and experience to fix the city’s budget. Community activist Gary Doyens said Tuesday’s primary was evidence that over 50 percent of New Haven Democrats sought an alternative to Harp and what they saw as more of the same politics. With Fernandez
and Carolina out of the race, 27 percent of the voters will have to choose a new candidate if they vote again in November. “I think Justin can pull from [Fernandez’s and Carolina’s] voters, because [Fernandez and Carolina] were all about fundamental change in City Hall: real, significant change, and it wasn’t about more of the same,” Doyens said. “I know Harp would disagree with this, but she represents the machine, the special interests, the unions and the people who want to do business with City Hall.” Elicker described his campaign as an “alternative” to Harp’s campaign, and during his speech Tuesday night at his post-election party at O’Tooles on Orange Street, he said he believes
Republican and unaffiliated voters will vote for his message of change from “politics as usual.” He added on Wednesday that many of the undecided voters he spoke with were choosing between him and Fernandez, meaning Fernandez pulled away some his votes on Tuesday night. A total of 14,723 votes were cast for the mayoral candidates on Tuesday night. According to Elser, New Haven has 50,243 registered Democrats, 18,315 unaffiliated voters, 2,552 registered Republicans and 343 registered as “Other,” meaning there will be over 21,000 new eligible voters in November. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
Lorimer holds spot on board of Pearson LLC LORIMER FROM PAGE 1 ership, said presidential transitions invite questions over whether highranking administrators will join the new administration or leave soon after. Many administrators see presidential transition as a prudent time to re-evaluate their own career paths, Zolner said. With this aspect of presidential transitions in mind, Salovey said he met with all the vice presidents when he took office to discuss their ideas for the upcoming few years and longerterm futures. But he said he hopes Lorimer’s new title — which encompasses a wide range of possible projects she could work on — will last her for years to come. Professor and former School of Management Dean Sharon Oster said she would not be surprised if Lorimer decides to leave Yale, adding that Lorimer may have “one more inter-
esting career move in her.” “If she does want to, she’s probably going to want to do that one more exciting thing pretty soon,” Oster said.
A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY
If she were to leave the University, Lorimer’s options would not be limited to higher education. On July 1, the same day Salovey stepped into the presidency, Lorimer also stepped into a new role on the board of directors of Pearson LLC, a multinational publishing and education company — a job that comes with an approximately $100,000 annual paycheck, according to the company’s latest annual report. Chairman of the Pearson Board of Directors Glen Moreno told the News in an email that they invited Lorimer to the board as part of a global search for new directors. They were impressed, among other things, with Lorimer’s extensive knowledge of university systems and lifelong commit-
ment to education, Moreno added. But Oster said her foray into the corporate world does not necessarily mean she has one foot out Yale’s door. University administrators regularly hold board positions for non-profits or private-sector companies, and Lorimer has held positions at companies such as McGraw-Hill in the past. Jose Cabranes, a former University general counsel and member of the Yale Corporation with whom Lorimer worked, said Lorimer would be a very attractive recruit to foundations, museums and other companies, and he knows many employers have appealed to her to leave Yale for other positions. Cabranes added that if Lorimer had higher aspirations for a school’s presidency, she could have left long ago. The fact that she has stayed at Yale for so long suggests that she has already decided against a university presidency elsewhere. “At some point she decided she
didn’t wish to be a university president or college president. She clearly could have been, and indeed she was,” Cabranes said. “But she was very devoted to Yale, always, and she has remained here.” And with a new president set to further Yale’s strategies in online education and internationalization, Lorimer may well choose to stay for the long term. For her part, Lorimer said she has her hands full with her responsibilities. If she chooses to leave, she said she would most likely do so for an extended vacation. “I would think that after I leave Yale I might well decide to have a welldeserved holiday,” she added, counting on one hand the days off she has had between jobs in her life. “But for now, I have a lot of time here.” Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .
‘G-Spot’ a campus presence YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 dential building. According to “The G-Spot” members and Yale-NUS administrators, no one has spoken out against the group’s existence or activities thus far. “Singapore does have a law on the books that makes sex between gay men illegal, but it is not enforced,” Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said. “There are a lot of pro-LGBTQ organizations here that operate without government interference, and we expect “The G-Spot” to be able to operate in any way it likes.” Though administrators of Yale-NUS, a collaboration between Yale and the National University of Singapore conceived in 2009, have reiterated the college’s commitment to academic freedom and nondiscrimination on campus stated in its charter, many critics of the venture believe that the setting of the school undermines that commitment. One month into college life in Singapore, however, Yale-NUS students testify to a different reality. About 20 members of the Yale-NUS community interviewed, including students, professors and dean’s fellows — Yale-NUS’s version of Yale’s freshman counselors — said they have either participated in or heard discussions about controversial issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to media censorship, both in and out of the classroom. Most of them cited the existence of “The G-Spot” as a rebuttal of critics’ claims that Singaporean authorities will censor student activities at Yale-NUS. But some who have experienced life at YaleNUS said they have struggled with several aspects of the institution. Keith Darden, a former Yale-NUS professor who taught in the Political Science and Ethics, Politics and Economics departments at Yale before joining the inaugural Yale-NUS faculty, resigned from the institution in March on grounds that profesSEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6
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“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” NELSON MANDELA FORMER PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Turnover gives psych fresh face
Hospital begins legal partnership
BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER A spate of hires and departures of psychology faculty has changed the face of one of the most popular departments at Yale. This year and next, the Psychology Department welcomes five new junior faculty — a group more than 20 percent the size of the entire department — in response to a large number of faculty departures in recent years. In the last three years the department has lost about seven faculty members for a variety of reasons, said department chair Frank Keil. The turnover is invigorating the department with youth and fresh research directions, according to psychology faculty. This year brings Yarrow Dunham, David Rand and Gregory Samanez-Larkin, while next summer Steve Chang and Avram Holmes will join the ranks. Despite hiring five new faculty, the Psychology Department is searching for two new professors this year — the only department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences authorized for new faculty searches this year, Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steve Girvin said. The recent departures of two senior clinical psychologists has left the department with an “acute” need for replacements in those positions. Psychology also teaches the most undergraduates per ladder faculty in all of the sciences and is still undersized relative to past years’ numbers and its peer departments in other institutions, Keil said. “I think the department was very strong before, albeit in need of more people, and we are in that exactly same position now, but it’s a very different department,” said psychology professor Brian Scholl. “The foci have shifted a little bit — we have new exciting frontiers.”
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AN OPEN SEARCH
While many faculty searches are for specific positions — clinical or social psychology, for instance — all five searches were open searches within the department, Keil said. For Keil, the open search gave the search committee the ability to search for academics doing the most interesting psychology research instead of going in with a preconceived notion of what type of research interests would best suit the department. Scholl, who served on the search committees, said the open searches were the first in the department in his 12 years on faculty. He said the committee received more than 350 applications for the final three faculty slots. “The people we ended up hiring do things like the study of aging and the study
of cooperation in economic contexts,” Scholl said. “We let ourselves through this process be surprised, be captured by types of excellence that we might not have had the insight to look for, and I think the outcome was very positive.” All four psychology faculty interviewed said the new members bring an infusion of youth and new research directions to the department. While three of the five new faculty — Holmes, Chang and Samanez-Larkin — regularly use neuroscience techniques in their psychology research, Keil said he does not think this development represents a department shift toward neuroscience. Keil said the new hires do not represent a unifying intellectual direction for the psychology faculty, but rather a range of inquiry
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across psychology. “We have been very fortunate to get five spectacular people who really complement the rest of the department beautifully and bring all sorts of new ideas and interesting interests but also intersect with so many of us,” he said. “We are very, very pleased with this group.” Psychology professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Laurie Santos said the new hires bolster the neuroscience teaching and research the department can offer. These hires represent research interests from an array of emerging trends in the field, psychology professor Tyrone Cannon said. In particular, many of the new faculty link traditional areas of psychology — like cognitive and social — and neuroscience methods to understand the connection between mental processes and brain mechanisms, he said.
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On Jan. 2, department chair and clinical psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema passed away from complications from heart surgery. At the end of the spring semester, professor of clinical psychology Kelly Brownell left Yale to become the dean of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. The two departures left the department in need of clinical psychology expertise. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee recently met with the chairs of the divisional committees and acknowledged the needs of the Psychology Department to continuing hiring, Girvin said. The three largest classes taught by psychology faculty this semester have nearly 1,000 undergraduate enrollment total.
“There was a recognition that if there was going to be one department to do the searches, it should be psychology, both for their research needs and because of their impact on Yale College teaching,” Girvin said. The department was authorized the only two new faculty search slots in all of Yale this year, and Keil said they are focusing on recruiting clinical psychologists to fill the holes left by NolenHoeksema and Brownell. The target size for psychology faculty is “definitely substantially larger” than it is now, Keil said. Many psychology faculty said the historical numbers of the psychology department are larger than the current ranks, and Cannon said that target figure would be in the high twenties, about 20 percent greater than the department’s current size. Bolstering faculty ranks would allow the department to teach more students, engage them in research and expand graduate training, Keil said. Santos said hiring more faculty would allow many teachers in the department to spend more time in the classroom instead of fulfilling administrative duties. For instance, her current post as psychology DUS has prevented her from teaching her highly-regarded “Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature” course. “We would like to grow, but we would like to do it in a responsible way and in keeping with the institution’s resource base,” Cannon said. “Hopefully the economy will continue to recover and the university finds the resources to do those searches in the future.” Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
Acclaimed surgeon joins med school ranks BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon David Mulligan has been appointed director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center, or YNHTC. In his 15 years at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Mulligan helped grow the transplant service from 33 operations per year to more than 350 today. In 2006, Mulligan was recognized with the Distinguished Mayo Clinician Award, given to one outstanding physician in the entire Mayo Clinic network each year. At Yale, Mulligan will also serve as chief of the hospital’s surgical transplantation and immunology section and professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mulligan is an internationally respected and accomplished transplant surgeon who brings a wealth of expertise to Yale,” said Robert Udelsman, chair of the Department of Surgery.
Former Director of the YNHTC Sukru Emre praised Mulligan’s abilities as a surgeon and leader in a Wednesday email, adding that Mulligan will help raise the national and international status of the center. During his time at the Mayo Clinic, Mulligan and his team performed approximately 3,150 organ transplants. The YNHTC performs more kidney transplants annually than any other center in New England. Mulligan was “instrumental” in developing high quality programs at his time at Mayo, said chair of operations for Mayo Clinic in Arizona Kevin Paige, who has worked with Mulligan for over a decade. Mulligan is “incredibly passionate” about his work, and sincerely cares about his patients, Paige said. As the chair of the Liver and Transplant Committee for the United Network for Organ Sharing, Mulligan has influence on national organ allocation, Udelsman said, adding that Mulligan brings partic-
ular strengths in leadership skills for the transplantation center. “He is a great surgeon and a great guy,” said David Douglas, the director of the transplant center at Mayo Clinic Arizona who has known Mulligan for more than 15 years. “Patients love him — he always puts the interest of the patient first. You guys are lucky to get him.” Both Paige and Douglas saw Mulligan’s move to Yale as one motivated by the opportunity to continue serving as an active clinician and a national figure for organ transplantation. Mulligan attended medical school at the University of Louisville and completed internships and residencies at the University of Louisville and Case Western Reserve. Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
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David Mulligan has been appointed director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center.
Children in Yale-New Haven Hospital now have access to better legal support through a new state-based nonprofit for children advocacy. The Center for Children’s Advocacy, a nonprofit that works to promote the legal rights of vulnerable children in Connecticut, and YaleNew Haven formed a new Medical-Legal Partnership Project in June. The collaborative aims to improve the health outcomes of children from low-income backgrounds through on-site legal intervention, such as improving housing conditions, protecting educational rights or providing access to appropriate services for disabilities. “In order to impact the medical problems, the legal issues had to be taken care of,” said Bonnie Roswig, the senior staff attorney of Center for Children’s Advocacy. She added that regardless of the medicine doctors prescribe for sick children, some problems cannot be fixed because of the environments in which children live. Among the program’s targets are children who suffer from preventable conditions, such as asthma and skin problems, that arise because of poor housing conditions. In one instance, a doctor discovered that a child who suffered from asthma and epileptic seizures was living in a house with bed bugs that could exacerbate the diseases. The program helped the child’s family move to a clean apartment, according to Alice Rosenthal, the attorney who works on-site at the hospital. She added that the child has also benefited from special education services with the help of the program.
In order to impact the medical problems, the legal issues had to be taken care of. BONNIE ROSWIG Senior staff attorney, Center for Children’s Advocacy “[The families] are so excited,” said Rosenthal. “Sometimes they are worried that they shouldn’t talk about their private information, but they are mostly excited to talk to the lawyer right at the hospital.” In addition to direct outreach to New Haven residents, project staff members will lead training sessions with faculty at YaleNew Haven and other healthcare providers about the legal issues that affect children’s health. The idea of bringing a medical-legal partnership to Yale-New Haven was first brought up eight years ago by a Yale Law School student who was studying medicine at Stanford, said Ada Fenick, the acting director of Yale-New Haven’s Pediatric Primary Care Center and medical site director of the project. Fenick started looking for more supporters and took steps to implement the student’s idea, and the project finally started in New Haven earlier this summer. Medical-legal partnerships have gained momentum throughout the country over the last decade after first launching in Boston. The Center for Children’s Advocacy expanded the collaborative to Hartford’s Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in 2000. There are currently over 180 medical-legal collaboratives operating throughout the nation. The project’s “ultimate mission” is the improvement of health outcomes on an individual basis as well as systematically throughout an entire area, said Jay Sicklick, the deputy director of the Center for Children’s Advocacy and director of the Center’s MLPP. The multidisciplinary nature of the collaboration allows the organization to approach specific issues through means such as faculty training at hospitals while also working toward the implementation of better policies statewide. Though the Yale branch of the project will operate out of Yale-New Haven, the Center for Children’s Advocacy also offers services throughout the state in schools, clinics and after-school programs. The organization provides a wide range of legal counsel and also offers representation to children who are victims of abuse, on the verge of juvenile detention or who have disabilities and lack adequate resources. In order to access the legal services, children and their families must visit the lawyer’s office located in the hospital’s pediatric clinic. The service is free of charge and operates with funds provided by Yale-New Haven, a grant from the Wiggin and Dana law firm and community donations. “We are hoping we can hire more attorneys [to expand the service] to the adult side of the hospital so that we can affect the whole family,” Rosenthal said. “There are thousands of adults who could also benefit.” Yale-New Haven is the largest hospital in New England, with 5,799 pediatric discharges in 2012. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu . Contact LIZA RODLER at liza.rodler@yale.edu .
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A Cappella A cappella derives its origin from religious music. The phrase, in Italian, means “in the manner of the church” or “in the manner of the chapel.” Most Jewish and Christian music began as a cappella, and much of the secular music of the Renaissance was done in this style. There are 15 a cappella groups at Yale. The tradition originated with the Yale Whiffenpoofs in 1909.
Yale-NUS seeks its own identity
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Students engage in class at the newly opened Yale-NUS College in Singapore. YALE-NUS FROM PAGE4 sors do not have enough say in the institution’s governance. One month after the school’s opening, members of the YaleNUS inaugural class said they feel responsible for whether the experiment of constructing a liberal arts college in Singapore will succeed. Some students said reading articles arguing against their institution angers them, and some said they have stopped paying attention to critics altogether. “Hearing all the controversy and seeing the students is just such a juxtaposition,” said Adriana Ortiz ’13, a dean’s fellow at the college. “It is hard for the students to know that so many people are arguing against the school when they know that at home, on the ground level, it’s working.”
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Anne Caroline Franklin, a freshman at Yale-NUS, wakes up around 7 a.m. in her dorm room in RC4, the still nameless residential college where students are being housed until construction on the Yale-NUS campus is completed in 2015. On her way to her first lecture at 8:45 a.m. she glances at a giant white board positioned right outside the building’s common room, onto which members of all YaleNUS student groups scribble down the time and place of their meetings and open practices. Once class ends at 5:45 p.m., Franklin, a U.S. citizen who graduated from the United World College in Swaziland, usually attends meetings of an a-capella group, a sketching club and “The G-Spot.” Willie Khoo, a Singaporean freshman, said he has tried to be spontaneous when choosing which groups to join, adding that he has volunteered for an Indian dance group in an effort to “expand [his] comfort zone.” Examples of student groups that currently meet at Yale-NUS are debate clubs, literary societies, a film appreciation society, a dragon boating club, an a capella group, dance groups and a Model United Nations club, among others. Khoo described his typical day as “striking a balance between studies, social life and trying to participate in residential college activities.” Franklin said she thinks the college community does a particularly good job “bridging the academic and non-academic” aspects of students’ lives. When students had to read the Hindu epic “The Ramayana” for class, a professor organized an optional screening of the
movie “Sita Sings the Blues,” which refers to several episodes from the epic. Dean’s Fellows often organize events such as “pizza night” or “waffle night,” during which students combine socializing and debating their readings. “I’ve never been in a situation where people are so eager to continue conversations from the classroom,” Franklin said. “We will be debating human nature or conservatism, and at most schools when you try to talk about that outside of class people will tell you to leave it in the classroom, but not here. People stay up until 2 a.m. talking about these things and doing work together.”
A DISTINCT IDENTITY
Some Yale-NUS students interviewed said they consider the Yale community, which they experienced during a three-week long pre-orientation program that took place at Yale in August, a model for the community they are trying to create in Singapore. Swedish freshman Adrian Stymne said he had a mixed reaction when he found out the preorientation program for the Singaporean college would take place in New Haven. “I was like, ‘I chose Yale-NUS, not Yale,’” Stymne said. But after a couple of days at Yale, he said, he understood the importance of Yale-NUS students spending time in New Haven. Styme said he could “feel the sense of community pouring from the walls,” adding that the pre-orientation gave Yale-NUS students an idea of “what [they] could become in a while.” “I think we will start off by taking many elements from Yale and NUS,” said Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn. “We wanted to expose students to Yale precisely so that they can take the parts they liked and adapt them to their new institution.” Some Yale-NUS students and faculty interviewed said the new liberal arts college is already stepping out of the shadows of its parent institutions. Others recognize that the college may need a few years to carve out a separate niche, particularly because students still share their cafeteria and residential college building with NUS while the Yale-NUS campus is under construction. “This is a very young institution, obviously, so it will take a few years — and a few graduating classes that will constitute the beginnings of an alumni body — for it to become a truly established institution,” University President Peter Salovey said
in an email to the News. Yale French and African American Studies professor Christopher Miller, an outspoken critic of YaleNUS, said he is skeptical that the new institution aims to be independent from Yale and NUS. He referenced Yale-NUS’s decision to attract more applicants by placing an option to apply to Yale-NUS on Yale’s application as well as the presence of many Yale professors at the new school in Singapore. Franklin said she expects the school’s identity to evolve over the next several years as Yale-NUS becomes physically independent from its neighbor. Though she said she enjoys interacting with NUS students on a daily basis, Franklin said she is looking forward to her school having “a bit more autonomy.” Despite the school’s close ties with Yale and NUS, students, professors and dean’s fellows interviewed said that they already feel the school’s culture is much different from the cultures of either of its parent institutions. Several students said their adventurous spirit most distinguishes them from freshmen at any other college around the world. Most of them said they rejected offers from Ivy League and liberal arts schools in the United States and around the world to come to Singapore and start an institution from scratch. “This is an experiment — it’s not a tried and tested formula, yet we rejected offers from prestigious universities … to come here,” Franklin said. “If we can maintain this adventurous, risk-taking spirit throughout our years [at Yale-NUS], it will be the main thing that will distinguish us from anyone else.”
A TABOO-FREE CULTURE
Darden said he thinks the Yale-NUS debate has mistakenly focused on whether students will have enough academic freedom to sustain a liberal arts institution. The real problem, he said, is that the school was designed without any significant faculty involvement — an issue that he said interferes with Yale-NUS’s liberal arts spirit. “Yale-NUS looks more like a bureaucratic, hierarchical arm of NUS than like the autonomous liberal arts college it aspires to be,” he said. Darden added that the college community functions within the framework of a “centralized, opaque and easily-politicized bureaucracy” — a major issue discussed at Yale-NUS faculty meetings over the past year and one that
led to his resignation. Lewis and Bailyn dismissed Darden’s claims. Bailyn said that some Yale-NUS professors have expressed concerns about excess bureaucracy at the school, but added that such concerns exist at all institutions, including Yale. He said he does not think Darden’s claims represent the views of any current Yale-NUS faculty members. Still, Darden said he thinks YaleNUS is a great place to be a student and that Yale-NUS freshmen are engaged, questioning and curious. Professors, dean’s fellows and administrators interviewed said they hear students discuss all elements of Singaporean life on a daily basis, which they said reflects the college’s open atmosphere. “It’s baffling and alienating to read blog posts and such saying that students here can’t discuss and debate whatever they please,” said Andrew Bailey, philosophy professor at Yale-NUS. Bailey regularly overhears students in the cafeteria passionately discussing Singaporean politics, media reporting and same-sex marriage. Yale-NUS humanities professor Matthew Walker said that while his course, “Philosophy and Political Thought,” does not explicitly focus on current issues related to politics and sexuality, his students have discussed classical Confucian views in relation to issues such as coming out. He added that he has debated Section 377A as well as Singaporean policies regulating public assembly with students outside of class. Dean’s Fellow Ryan Huynh, who graduated from Princeton in 2011 and taught at a local school in Singapore for three semesters before coming to Yale-NUS, said he thinks some of the topics tackled openly at the college, such as sexuality, would be considered taboos at most other schools in Singapore and the region. This week, all students are analyzing both sides of the same-sex marriage debate for one of their courses, “Comparative Social Institutions.” Each student will then write an essay on the impact of same-sex marriage on the definition of family. Miller said the freedoms students at the college are enjoying at the moment do not surprise him, adding that the effects of Section 377A are felt throughout Singaporean society even though the government states it does not enforce the law directly. “It was clearly part of the Singapore government’s plan to bring in a certain measure and a certain
semblance of carefully modulated freedom through the device of Yale-NUS,” Miller said. “All of this — the entire expensive enterprise of Yale-NUS — serves the interests of the PAP regime, at least for now.” Almost all faculty members interviewed said they are familiar with the initiatives of The G-Spot, and The G-Spot members said several Yale-NUS faculty members have personally expressed their support for the group. YaleNUS social science professor Bernard Bate said he thinks Yale-NUS professors are proud of the group’s growing presence on campus and Walker said he thinks The G-Spot offers a broad support network for LGBTQ students throughout Singapore. Miller said he thinks Yale-NUS students and their groups exist in a bubble that will burst immediately if students’ activism crosses over into demonstration or protest. “If the students of Yale-NUS mount a demonstration for the abolition of 377A, I will salute them — and hope they don’t get caned,” Miller said.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Most members of the inaugural class interviewed said they are conscious of bearing the future of Yale-NUS on their shoulders, adding that the constant public scrutiny motivates them to do their best but can sometimes feel overwhelming. “Students are conscious that this is an institution under scrutiny and that the things they do will have repercussions for the future,” Bailyn said. “Everybody is working like mad, and to be honest at a rate that’s kind of unsustainable.” Zula Badral, a freshman from Denver, Colo., who said she did not know about Yale-NUS until she shared her Yale application with the new college through the check-box option, said Yale-NUS students are expected to create student groups and communities that will last for the next hundreds of years. The impressive caliber of students and professors she has met at the school, she said, makes her confident they can create a sustainable institution. “Tenure-track professors at very good schools left their jobs to be a part of what we are creating,” Badral said. “I knew it was going to be hard, but I wasn’t nearly as excited by the acceptance letters of schools in the U.S. as I was by my acceptance letter from Yale-NUS. I turned down Stanford and Georgetown to come here.” Franklin said she thinks the responsibility of creating a vibrant campus culture for current students and for future generations motivates her classmates to work even harder than they normally would. But on a daily basis, Franklin said she can be so consumed by her classes and other activities that she often forgets she is a member of the college’s first class. “During our inauguration ceremony, someone asked [former Yale President] Richard Levin what he expects from us,” Khoo said. “He just told us we shouldn’t feel any
pressure, we should do things we normally wouldn’t do and defy expectations. He challenged us to go on a journey of personal selfdiscovery with no pressure.”
AN AGENT OF CHANGE?
But some students, particularly the Singaporeans, expect Yale-NUS to do more than simply launch them on a personal intellectual journey. They believe in the college’s potential to gradually change Singaporeans’ outlook on education. Huynh said he thinks Yale-NUS graduates will defy the region’s widespread belief in specialized education because the school’s liberal arts model emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to learning. “I think in the long run YaleNUS really has an opportunity to revolutionize education in Singapore and the region,” said Khoo, who is Singaporean. “Coming from the typical mainstream education route, I have always found it a bit too competitive, and after coming to Yale-NUS, I have realized that people can genuinely be interested in learning for learning’s sake. I hope Yale-NUS can spread that idea.” Lewis said he is in touch with representatives from multiple universities in the region — such as the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and the Chinese University of Hong Kong — to discuss potential collaborative projects. Robert Kamei, the vice dean of education at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, said he thinks Yale-NUS will need to demonstrate that its liberal arts approach can develop students’ skills, given the Singaporeans’ practical outlook on education. “Whereas a medical degree is a clear path toward a productive career, a liberal arts background may be seen as less direct,” he said. Franklin said she thinks the college will exert its influence on a micro scale through Yale-NUS students’ and professors’ interactions with Singaporeans. She said she hopes Yale-NUS students can influence Singaporeans’ attitudes toward pedagogy and persuade them to shift away from the “cutthroat hierarchy of test-scores.” Vice-president of the Yale Club of Singapore Shawn Tan ’01 said citizens of Singapore and its surrounding region consider medicine, banking and law as fields that all graduates should try to pursue professionally, while other, less well-paid careers remain on the sidelines. He added that he thinks Yale-NUS’s liberal arts approach has the potential to change such notions, but that it will not be an easy process. “It’s a ridiculously crazy cycle here — there is an obsession about numbers,” Tan said. “Yale-NUS is definitely a step in the right direction. It may be an indication that something will change in the future, but there is no guarantee.” Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .
BY THE NUMBERS YALE-NUS 150 62% 26 15
Students in the inaugural class Proportion of students from Singapore Countries represented by the student body Students from the United States
With shorter rush, freshmen enter new communities TAP NIGHT FROM PAGE 1 so shortening that to make that as minimal as possible is good.” Shades member Keren Abreu ’15 said that when the group was no longer struggling to cram in rush meals for every rushee, it was able to invest more time and energy in the 37 they called back. Each call back candidate attended two rush meals with the group, as opposed to one in previous years, and longer callback auditions allowed candidates to better display their skills. Vidya Sethu ’17, who rushed four groups and joined Shades, said she expected to feel more pressure during rush. “I know they [made] a lot of
effort to make sure rushees had the best experience possible,” Sethu said. “I was sure it was going to be very competitive … I thought it was going to be a ‘Pitch Perfect’ kind of situation.” David Gore ’15, head rush manager for the Yale Alley Cats, said he was initially concerned that fitting rush meals into the shortened schedule would be impossible, even without mandatory meals for all applicants. Gore ultimately found the scheduling “completely doable,” though on some days he needed to attend five to seven rush meals. But some consequences of the shortened rush proved difficult to navigate. Trey Pernell ’17, who
rushed seven groups and joined the Duke’s Men of Yale, said the week of rush meals turned into “a huge scheduling nightmare.” Gore said cramming all 13 Singing Desserts into five days prevented freshmen rushing many groups from attending the concerts of all the groups they were rushing. While the schedule included separate slots for co-ed groups and single-sex groups, with no overlaps within each category, Gore said it was simply too much to ask rushees to attend so many full-length concerts in one week. “That’s one problem that needs to be worked out,” Gore said. “I think it’s an important indicator of what that group is about. This year
I talked to a lot more rushees who were saying, ‘I didn’t go to this one.’ I wouldn’t recommend joining any group without seeing their Dessert.” Seth Lifland ’15, a member of the Spizzwinks(?), said he did not get to know many of the group’s taps as well as last year’s, giving tap night a different feel. Still, he added that he thinks rush could be shortened even further. “Some groups weigh how personalities work very heavily, so rush meals are valuable for them in terms of, ‘Do we think this personality fits in with our group?’” Lifland said. “For me I think the music is more important, and the camaraderie comes second and
comes pretty naturally out of the music.” Luis Cartagenova ’15, a member of Redhot & Blue, said he felt the Singing Group Council was more visible and vocal about making sure everyone knew the rush rules this year. When Shades inadvertently violated the rush rules by booking a gig at Shake Shack, the group received a “hardcore” email from the SGC and immediately canceled the event, Abreu said. “We heard that the SGC was getting a lot more serious,” Abreu said. “It was cool to see that … they’re actually taking action.” Gore said he thought there were fewer late night walks this year, perhaps due to the SGC’s
stricter tone or simply because a shorter rush meant the groups did not feel as much of a need to constantly “stay on rushees radars,” he explained. “In the shorter rush you have just enough time to focus on what’s important,” Abreu said. “With the longer rush you get competitive and you get really set on certain rushees and getting that rushee into your group, when what it should really be about is letting the rushee choose what group is right for them.” Last year’s tap night was Sept. 19. Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .
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Food insecurity on the rise in CT BY ISABELLE TAFT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER FISH of Greater New Haven, a nonprofit organization that delivers groceries to needy individuals, sends out as many as 650 bags of food every month. But whenever executive director Marsha Royster clears the organization’s voicemail, which holds up to 42 messages, it fills up within 30 minutes with requests for aid. “The demand is so high we take the calls as they come in,” Royster said. “Everybody’s situation is desperate at this point.” Royster’s observations reflect a nationwide trend. A report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sept. 5 found that 13.4 percent of Connecticut residents are “food insecure,” meaning they lacked the resources to provide adequate food for each member of their family at some point over the past year. Connecticut improves upon the national average of 14.7 percent, but the state’s food insecure population has been rising rapidly — it increased by 5.8 percentage points from 2002 to 2012, compared with a national increase of 3.9 percentage points. Lucy Nolan, executive director of advocacy and outreach group End Hunger Connecticut!, attributed the increase primarily to the lingering effects of the Great Recession. The recession hit the state’s suburban areas particularly hard, where those who cannot feed their families are reluctant to seek help. “We’re finding a lot more hunger in suburbs,” she said. “It’s sort of the hidden hunger because people don’t want their neighbors to know they’re having issues.” Geography can play a major role in determining whether people with limited resources are able to maintain food security. Nolan said cities tend to have more easily accessible offices that manage the State Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — formerly known as food stamps — well-run school nutrition and summer feeding programs for kids, and stronger non-profit networks. Poncho Jackson, the dining supervisor at the Community Soup Kitchen on Broadway, said clients from across the state make treks to New Haven for food. “They come from Waterbury, East Haven, Torrington — everywhere,” Jackson said. “We have programs down here that they don’t have.” But even in New Haven, resources to help the hungry cannot stretch far enough. A fall 2012 survey of the Elm
City’s six lowest-income neighborhoods — published by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at the Yale School of Public Health — found that four of 10 residents said they had been unable to buy adequate food for their families at some point over the past month. In 2009, the same survey found just one in five residents was food insecure. As non-profit organizations work to keep up with demand, New Haven’s city government has sought to coordinate the activities of non-profits and governmental agencies, such as the state Department of Social Services. The city established the New Haven Food Policy Council in 2007 to address food issues in the city.
It’s sort of the hidden hunger because people don’t want their neighbors to know they’re having issues. LUCY NOLAN Executive director, End Hunger Connecticut! Within the council, William Bromage chairs the Food Access Working Group, which focuses on improving food security in the city. Bromage’s group has three specific goals: expanding enrollment in SNAP and WIC — food assistance for women, infants and children — increasing donations to non-profit emergency food providers and improving access to food for senior citizens. The working group has been training local residents to conduct outreach work, Bromage said, instructing 12 people in “priority categories,” such as girls and low-income seniors, in advocacy work via paid internships. Bromage said some eligible people do not enroll in SNAP because they are not aware of how to apply for benefits. He hopes that the internship program will enhance access to information and also create a group of advocates who are able to participate in crafting policies that directly affect them. “We’re trying to get a cohort of people that are willing to advocate for other people in their situation by telling their stories,” Bromage said. “We feel like that voice is not [currently] accessible.” In July 2013, 220,644 Connecticut households were enrolled in SNAP, up from 203,744 the previous year. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
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I-95 faces safety concerns BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the wake of recent accidents and heightened traffic, plans have been released that make safety more tightly monitored on Interstate 95. Effective Aug. 29, the I-95 New Haven corridor will be subject to increased enforcement by police officers from the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP). Many of the safety concerns arise from the new Pearl Harbor Memorial (Q) Bridge, which is still currently under construction. A traffic shift that occurred in July moved all southbound traffic from the old Q-Bridge to the new one. Brian Mercure, the Assistant District Engineer for the I-95 New Haven Harbor Crossing Corridor Improvement Program, said that the shift poses “difficult weaving and merging issues” for drivers. While Mercure said the new Q-Bridge will ultimately “increase capacity” and reduce traffic, the conditions prior to the safety enhancements elicited an “outcry from the traveling public.” Yale students who have experienced the conditions on the I-95 echoed the negative feedback heard in the New Haven community. Daniel Raynor ’17 said pointedly that
the I-95 is “one of the worst roads [he has] ever traveled on.” He cited a study conducted by USA Today that ranked Bridgeport, Connecticut number six on the list of cities with the worst traffic and blamed the I-95 as the chief culprit. Speeding, however, is one of the main gripes of the public as well as the police. In a joint press conference with the DESPP and the Connecticut Department of Transportation, it was said that “the new conditions of the highways make motorists think it’s okay to drive faster than the 40 mph speed limit.” Mercure suspects that one of the reasons behind the speeding is the fact that the new Q-Bridge is much smoother than the bridge of old. Drivers are “are used to the old Q-Bridge,” Mercure said, and are still adjusting to traveling on the newly constructed bridge. The onramp at exit 50 is also posing problems for drivers. The press conference highlighted that “motorists on the I-95 move into the right lane as on-ramp traffic is merging left onto the highway.” The I-91 southbound merge to the I-95, at exit 46, is a site of many rear-end collisions, as “traffic from the I-91 makes the merge increasingly difficult.” “Rude and inconsiderate drivers” on the I-95 were a common com-
plaint from the general public. Mercure said that while the construction on the Q-Bridge plays into the issues on the I-95, accidents are mostly a “function of courteous driving,” or the lack thereof. The press conference underscored that accidents typically occurred when drivers “[sped] up and cut off traffic.” Mercure also emphasized the high amount of rear-end collisions that occur as a product of “distracted driving.” Solutions pertaining to engineering and realignments have largely been exhausted. In regard to the construction zones themselves, Mercure added that glare screens have been useful in avoiding distraction. The chief safety issues, he said, must be solved through a “social engineering solution that changes mindsets.” Increasing police presence in the affected area, Mercure hopes, will “enforce all the laws” that drivers sometimes neglect in construction zones. For “everyone’s safety,” he encourages drivers to “give extra time for going slow” by “leaving earlier for [their] commutes.” Tickets for misconduct on the road could run up to $300. Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .
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White House looks to pin Syria success on Russia BY JULIE PACE AND NANCY BENAC ASSOCIATED PRESS
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.
WASHINGTON — The White House tried Wednesday to pin the success or failure of a diplomatic option to secure Syria’s chemical weapons on Russia rather than the United States as Secretary of State John Kerry headed for Geneva to work on a Russian proposal for international inspectors to seize and destroy the deadly stockpile. On a different diplomatic front aimed at taking control of the stockpile away from the Assad government, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council met Wednesday to consider goals for a new resolution requiring Syria’s chemical weapons to be dismantled. Whether a U.N. resolution should be militarily enforceable was already emerging as a point of contention. Rebels who had hoped U.S.led strikes against the Syrian government would aid their effort expressed disappointment, if not condemnation of the U.S., over President Barack Obama’s decision to pursue diplomacy in the wake of a chemical weap-
ons attack in the Damascus suburbs last month that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people. “We’re on our own,” Mohammad Joud, an opposition fighter in the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo, said via Skype. “I always knew that, but thanks to Obama’s shameful conduct, others are waking up to this reality as well.” With the American public focus on diplomacy rather than military might, Vice President Joe Biden and senior White House officials summoned House Democrats and Republicans for classified briefings. The sessions followed up Obama’s nationally televised address Tuesday night in which he kept the threat of U.S. airstrikes on the table and said it was too early to say whether the Russian offer would succeed. White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to put a deadline on diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff but said that bringing Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile under international control “obviously will take some time.” “Russia is now putting its prestige on the line,” he said. Asked
whether U.S. prestige also was on the line, Carney said: “The United States leads in these situations. And it’s not always popular and it’s not always comfortable.” On Capitol Hill, action on any resolution authorizing U.S. military intervention in Syria was on hold, even an alternative that would have reflected Russia’s diplomatic offer. Senators instead debated an energy bill. “The whole terrain has changed,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told reporters after a meeting of Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We want to make sure we do nothing that’s going to derail what’s going on.” That didn’t stop Republicans from announcing their opposition to Obama’s initial call for military strikes and criticizing the commander in chief. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., who had attended a Sunday night dinner with Obama and Biden, accused the president of engaging in “pinball diplomacy.” “Unfortunately, what we’ve seen from the commander in chief so far has been indecision, verbal gymnastics and a reluctance to
step up and lead,” Fischer said in a statement. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., an outspoken advocate of aggressive U.S. military intervention for months, said he was concerned that the Russian plan could be a “rope-a-dope” delaying tactic while “that the slaughter goes on.” Kerry was to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva on Thursday. At the same time, Obama said the United States and its allies would work with Russia and China to present a resolution to the U.N. Security Council requiring Syrian President Bashar Assad to give up his chemical weapons and ultimately destroy them. Russia and China, both permanent Security Council members, have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to end the conflict. That has left the U.N.’s most powerful body paralyzed as the war escalates and the death toll surpasses 100,000. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this week called the council’s paralysis embarrassing.
Bloomberg’s legacy unclear BY JONATHAN LEMIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg is shaping up as a referendum on the 12-year legacy of the billionaire who guided the nation’s biggest city through the aftermath of 9/11 and the meltdown on Wall Street. The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, was the most vocally anti-Bloomberg of the major candidates, railing against the mayor’s pro-police, pro-development, pro-business, pro-trickle-down politics. On the Republican side, Joe Lhota, a one-time deputy mayor to Rudolph Giuliani, handily won his party’s nomination after tying himself closely to many of Bloomberg’s policies. “It is clear that the narrative going forward is that this election is a verdict on Bloomberg,” said Jeanne Zaino, a New York University political science professor. Bloomberg, a Republicanturned-independent who made his vast fortune from the financial news company that bears his name, is leaving office after three terms. The Democrat most closely allied with Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, was crushed in the mayoral primary, finishing a distant third amid polling that showed that New Yorkers are eager for a change after more than a decade with Bloomberg in charge. But those same polls showed that most New Yorkers still generally approve of Bloomberg’s tenure. “If you were dropped into the Democratic primary from space, you’d think that voters simply
hated Bloomberg,” Zaino said. “It’s a more complex picture than that.” Whether de Blasio will, in fact, be the Democratic nominee in the November election remains to be seen. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, he had 40.3 percent of the vote, just above the 40 percent needed to win the nomination and avoid an Oct. 1 runoff against second-place finisher Bill Thompson. Election officials said that it will be at least Monday before all votes, including absentee ballots, are counted.
The narrative going forward is that this election is a verdict on Bloomberg. JEANNE ZAINO Political science professor, New York University Neither de Blasio nor Thompson addressed the election on Wednesday, as both followed city tradition by abstaining from campaigning on Sept. 11. De Blasio ran as a Bloomberg antagonist, putting the fight to end economic inequality at the heart of his campaign and accusing the mayor of creating a “tale of two cities” by favoring real estate developers and Wall Street. With far greater clarity than his Democratic rivals, he positioned himself as an opponent of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program of aggressively questioning people deemed suspicious.
The program’s critics said it unfairly targeted minorities, while its supporters — including Bloomberg — credited it with helping to drive crime down to historic lows. When a federal judge ruled stop-and-frisk was being conducted improperly, Blasio got far more of a lift than Quinn or Thompson. Bloomberg himself underscored the differences between himself and de Blasio in a New York Magazine interview published last week. He said de Blasio was running a “racist” campaign by highlighting his interracial family. And Bloomberg ripped de Blasio’s “tale of two cities” theme, saying of the rich: “We want these people, and why criticize them? Wouldn’t it be great if we could get all the Russian billionaires to move here?” During the primary campaign, de Blasio consistently painted a possible Quinn administration as the equivalent of a fourth Bloomberg term. Quinn embraced many the mayor’s signature policies, backed his police commissioner and allowed the city charter change that enabled Bloomberg to run for a third term in 2009. “At that time, when she was making that calculation, Bloomberg was still pretty popular,” said Andrew White, a scholar at The New School. Lhota, whose party is outnumbered by Democrats 6-to-1 in the city, is trying to project an aura of stability to independents, moderates and business leaders wary of de Blasio’s fiery rhetoric. He has ardently defended stopand-frisk, refused to raise taxes and pledged to continue Bloomberg’s tough rhetoric with unions.
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A flag recovered from the World Trade Center is presented as friends and relatives of the victims of the 9/11 attacks gather at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site.
Nation pauses on 9/11 to pay tribute to victims BY MEGHAN BARR AND JIM FITZGERALD ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago. For the families, the memories of that day are still vivid, the pain still acute. Some who read the names of a beloved big brother or a cherished daughter could hardly speak through their tears. “Has it really been 12 years? Or 12 days? Sometimes it feels the same,” said Michael Fox, speaking aloud to his brother, Jeffrey, who perished in the south tower. “Sometimes I reach for the phone so I can call you, and we can talk about our kids like we used to do every day.” On the memorial plaza overlooking two reflecting pools in the imprint of the twin towers, relatives recited the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked jets crashed into the towers, the Pentagon and in a
field near Shanksville, Pa. They also recognized the victims of the 1993 trade center bombing. Bells tolled to mark the planes hitting the towers and the moments when the skyscrapers fell. In Washington, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden walked out to the White House’s South Lawn for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the time the first plane struck the south tower in New York. Another jetliner struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. “Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said. A moment of silence was also held at the U.S. Capitol. In New York, loved ones milled around the memorial site, making rubbings of names, putting flowers by the names of victims and weeping, arm-in-arm. Former Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others were in attendance. As with last year, no politicians spoke. Mayor Michael Bloomberg watched the ceremony for his final time in office.
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“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” GEORGE ORWELL FROM HIS BOOK “HOMAGE TO CATALONIA”
Russia returns to Mideast BY DAN PERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS With a few days’ worth of surprise diplomacy, Vladimir Putin has revived memories of an era many thought was long gone, when Washington and Moscow jostled for influence while others looked on. Whatever happens with its proposal to relieve Syria of chemical weapons, Russia, at least for now, has re-emerged as a central player in the Middle East. And for good measure, it is seen as a player that does not easily dump allies. That’s meaningful in a region where America’s sudden abandonment of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak two years ago has emerged as a seminal moment, focusing the minds of many an authoritarian on the sometimes ephemeral nature of U.S. support. By contrast, Putin braved outrage by standing by his Syrian ally, claiming publicly there was insufficient evidence that Damascus used chemical weapons on Aug. 21 — and even hinting he would somehow assist Bashar Assad in case of a military strike. The way events ultimately play out — in impressions as well as with facts on the ground — will also resonate with Iran, whose leaders surely are watching as the clock ticks toward another possible showdown, this one over their nuclear program. “The message delivered in Syria will be carefully received in Iran,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pressing the world to force Iran to abandon its programs before it achieves weaponization - a goal Tehran denies. Complications may well bedevil a disarming of Syria’s chemical weapons. With trust in short supply, verification will be an issue that could drag on,
Bomb hits Benghazi on attack anniversary BY ESAM MOHAMED AND MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Syrians hold photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a pro-Syrian regime protest in 2012. and some will doubt Syria has ever completely come clean. Security for inspectors may also become an issue, since the stockpile is believed to be scattered all around a country that is an unpredictable and ferocious war zone. But an impressive thing has happened already: the arresting, at least for the moment, of what had looked like a march toward a U.S. military operation that domestic and world opinion did not want and might have skirted the edges of international law. Even the administration of President Barack Obama seemed uncomfortable with the puzzling scenario in which officials argued an attack is essential but also explained it must not alter the course of Syria’s civil war betraying little desire to choose between a discredited dictator and a rebel movement increasingly dominated by jihadi elements who hate the West.
That a face-saving climbdown might have been engineered by the Kremlin adds irony to what is at the very least a tactical victory in global strategic diplomacy. A Kremlin leader seen as a hardhearted utilitarian, self-serving and occasionally brutal, may find new associations with peaceful resolutions and deft realpolitik. “Putin appeared to save Obama from a potential embarrassment domestically,” said Leon Aron, the top Russia policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington. “It’s a huge international geostrategic win for Putin. … Russia is on equal footing now as a power in the Middle East.” Putin hosted a Group of 20 summit last week that tested U.S. ties with Russia and saw tensions rising over foreign policy issues. Heading into the meeting, however, he offered an upbeat assessment of his relationship with Obama.
TRIPOLI, Libya — A car bomb tore through a Libyan Foreign Ministry building in the eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, a powerful reminder of lawlessness in the North African nation on the anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate there as well as the 2001 terror attacks in the United States. Prime Minister Ali Zidan issued a stern warning to militias blamed for much of the violence that has plagued Libya since the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi two years ago, proclaiming that “we will not bow to anyone.” But the challenges are mounting. The prime minister said that armed men had just stormed a post office in the capital, Tripoli, taking employees hostage. A witness at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, told The Associated Press that the attackers were seeking to cut off mail to the southern city of Sabha in retaliation for a rival tribe from Sabha cutting off the water supply to Tripoli for a week, forcing hospitals and homes to rely on wells and large tanks. Other groups have shut down oil fields to protest corruption or demand regional autonomy, causing the country to lose out on millions of dollars a day in potential revenue. The Benghazi blast caused no deaths or seri-
ous injuries, but destroyed the Foreign Ministry branch building in an attack rich in symbolism. The building once housed the U.S. Consulate under the rule of King Idris, who was overthrown in 1969 in a bloodless coup led by Gadhafi. The bombing took place about 6 a.m., well before anybody was due to arrive at the Foreign Ministry for work and at a time when the nearby streets were nearly empty. The explosion blew out a side wall of the building, leaving desks, filing cabinets and computers strewn across the concrete rubble. It also damaged the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank. Pictures circulated on Facebook showed men carrying dead doves, with one person commenting that “the dog who did this will be punished for the guilt of killing doves.” Another photo shows black smoke smoldering out of the charred Foreign Ministry building, along with wrecked cars and burned palm trees. A green tarp was later placed over part of the building. The blast also rocked Benghazi’s main boulevard, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, which runs through the city from north to south. Several pedestrians were slightly wounded. Mohammed el-Ubaidi, head of the Foreign Ministry branch in Benghazi, told Libyan television that the car carried 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of explosives and was blown up by remote control.
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People gather at the site of a car bombing near Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in Benghazi Wednesday.
A chain in Spain for Catalan separation BY JOSEPH WILSON ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA, Spain — More than 1 million people showed their support for Catalan independence Wednesday by joining hands to form a 250-mile human chain across the northeastern region of Spain. The demonstration on the region’s annual public holiday aimed to illustrate the strength of local backing for political efforts to break away from Spain. The Catalan regional government estimated 1.6 million people in the region of 7.5 million residents took part in the human chain, many of them with red, yellow and blue pro-independence flags draped around their shoulders. “Today is a historic day. The Catalan people have reaffirmed their determination to be a free state,” said Carme Forcadell, president of the Catalan National Assembly, which organized the human chain. The protest in Catalonia was peaceful, but a small group of Spanish fascists in Madrid
stormed their way into the office of the Catalan government’s delegation building in the capital. Television images showed about 10 men with Spanish fascist flags shouting, pushing people, knocking over furniture and hitting a journalist’s TV camera. They yelled “Catalonia is Spain!” and quickly left, but reportedly opened a tear gas container, forcing the 100 or so people gathered there to evacuate. During Francisco Franco’s fascist dictatorship from 1939-1975, the Catalan language was banned in schools, publishing and from public use. Despite sharing many cultural traits with the rest of Spain, many Catalans claim a deep cultural difference based on their language, which is spoken side-by-side with Spanish in the wealthy region. Catalonia’s regional leader Artur Mas has promised to hold a referendum on independence in 2014, but the Madrid-based government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional.
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“You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.” ROGER FEDERER NO. 6 MEN’S SINGLES PLAYER
Elis aim to break records WOMEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 14 to Yale.” When the Bulldogs step out on the course this weekend, it will mark the first event since they fell at the Ivy League tournament in April. Not only has the team been working hard this year, but they also are returning much of the talent that they brought to Ivies last year. Last season, three Yale competitors — Marika Liu ’15, Seo Hee Moon ’14 and Shreya Ghei ’15 — received all-Ivy honors by finishing in third, fifth and ninth place, respectively. Liu and Moon made the All-Ivy first team, while Ghei qualified for the second team. Sun Gyoung Park ’14 was voted captain by her teammates last spring and expressed optimism for the upcoming season. “My responsibility as captain
this year is to be a leader who can be an example of good character, morale and excellence,” she said. “I am very optimistic about this season because we have great talent on the team.”
My responsibility as captain this year is to be a leader who can be an example of good character, morale and excellence. SUN GYOUNG PARK ’14 Captain, women’s golf The squad is entering the Dartmouth Invitational with confi-
dence — they won the meet last year by a whopping 15 strokes over second-place Boston University. For the team, fall competition will conclude Oct. 18 at the Lehigh Invitational, while the spring season gets underway on March 16 at the William & Mary Invitational. The end to last season still has not dampened the team’s hopes for this year. “The goals this season is to break records and worker harder than we ever have,” Rompothong said. “We are focusing on what we can control and hopefully, that will lead to great results.” The Dartmouth Invitational will take place on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend in Hanover, N.H.
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Men’s tennis season starts MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 National Championships at just 15 years old. Photiades has also benefitted from international exposure on the Cyprus Davis Cup Team alongside players such as Marcos Baghdatis, a former world top-10 player. Captain Kyle Dawson ’14 has high hopes for the incoming class. “To be honest, I think the team has already adjusted to losing the seniors. I think the two freshmen, Tyler and Photos, will have a huge impact this year,” Dawson said. “They both expect to contribute immediately, and that will be key for the team’s success.” In addition to the two recruits, the team also accepted two walk-
ons onto the varsity roster, James Ratchford ’17 and Alex Hagermoser ’17. “Ratchford and Hagermoser proved in tryouts that they are more than capable of making a positive impact on the team’s success,” Dawson said. The four freshmen are competing for spots in the starting lineup as the team prepares for a busy fall schedule. The Bulldogs face a demanding slate of tournaments from September through November, including the USTA Regional Championships from Oct. 17-27 and the USTA National Collegiate Indoor Championships at Flushing Meadows, N.Y, from Nov. 7-10. The team will then enjoy some time off before starting the spring
circuit on Jan. 18 at Virginia Tech. Dawson said the team is gunning for an Ivy League title, which would come with an automatic berth into the National Tournament. “At this point, we control our own destiny in the Ivy League. We just want to go out on the court, take care of business, and hopefully when all is said and done, we will be Ivy League champions and be headed to the [National] Tournament,” he said. The Bulldogs’ coaches for the 2013-’14 season are Dorato and assistant coach Christian Appleman. Contact NIKOLAS LASKARIS at nikolas.laskaris@yale.edu .
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The women’s cross country team beat Harvard for the second time in a row at the annual meet last fall, placing six runners in the top seven spots. CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 in performance both on and off the race course. Our seniors and upperclassmen lead through actions rather than ‘rahrah’ cheers.” Last fall the women bested Harvard for the second time in a row at the annual meet, placing six runners in the top seven spots, while Harvard only managed to place three into the top 10. Liana Epstein ’14 earned first place in that race with a time of 17:34.78 and will be looking to repeat her strong performance this time around.
We’ve made progress over the past two years — we’re not there yet, but we can be. PAUL HARKINS Head coach, men’s cross-country
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The men’s tennis team will travel to Princeton this weekend to kick off the Princeton-Farnsworth Invitational.
“The whole Ivy league is very strong, and this is really exciting,” Gosztyla said. “Cornell is the returning favorite this year, and Princeton and Harvard are nationally ranked. … We’ve set realistic and appropriate goals and expectations … [and] are definitely in the mix with those schools.” After defeating Harvard, the women went on to finish the 2012 season in seventh place at the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championship meet, with four Bulldogs placing in the top 50 runners and all seven within the top 100. They achieved a top-25 national ranking last year, and with fresh legs and a lot of experience this year, energy and hopes within the team are high for the women to potentially
surpass that. The men’s squad lost to Harvard last fall, but the nine personal records set by the Eli runners in that race demonstrated the team’s potential. They continued to improve throughout the season, solidly finishing in eighth place at the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championship meet. The men’s team has added six new freshmen to its cross-country roster. Both captain Ryan Laemel ’14 and head coach Paul Harkins said that the 2017 class is one of the strongest classes the team has ever brought in, and he expects them to contribute right away. “Although size-wise this class is a little smaller in comparison to other Ivies, our quality is on par, if not better with the other schools’ recruiting class,” Laemel said. He added that the team has been impressive in its workouts thus far, and Harkins noted that the Bulldogs’ “confidence in their consistency and repetition” that will bring success on the course. Harkins also expects at least two to three of the freshmen running in the top five to seven in the squad this year. Harkins has high hopes for the team and believes it has the potential to win Yale’s first Ivy League title since 1960. “We’ve made progress over the past two years — we’re not there yet, but we can be there. The goal will always be to get to the top of the Ivy League,” Harkins said. “We’ve made a lot of gains, especially from the end of last season. It should be interesting going in to face Harvard first.” The first race for the Bulldog runners is set for this Saturday at 1 p.m. Contact RHYDIAN GLASS at rhydian.glass@yale.edu .
Against all odds, Rafa is back CARTY FROM PAGE 14 al’s ability to win anything but the French Open, where he has won a record eight times, was in doubt. Nadal answered such questions emphatically in 2013. As long as the Spaniard stays healthy (which is still a huge question mark) he could easily keep playing tennis for another four or five years. If that is the case he should capture three more French Open titles at minimum. If his knees hold up, he should be able to seriously contend for two other grand slams in the next five years and that could
put his career total at eighteen, one more than Federer.
AT THE U.S. OPEN, NADAL PROVED HIS DOMINANCE OF 2013 While Nadal’s victory signals reaffirms his place in history, Djokovic’s defeat leaves him at a career crossroads. In 2011, the Serb dominated tennis and it seemed
his time was beginning following the era of Federer and Nadal. However, while he reached his fourth U.S. final in a row and fifth in seven years, he lost for the fourth time. Over the past two years Djokovic has reached six finals but captured only two Grand Slams to bring his career total to six. In 2011 it seemed as though he were a lock for double-digit majors, but now that estimate seems lofty. As Murray continues to emerge (winning two of the last three Grand Slam finals he has played versus Djokovic) and Nadal returns to his pre-2012 form, Djokovic’s
place amongst the upper echelon is uncertain. During the three hour, nineteen minute match Djokovic looked a quarter-step slow, physically weary, and less intense than Nadal. In the opening two sets Djokovic seemed to be a mix of the player that lost to Nadal at Arthur Ashe in 2010 and the player who beat him in 2011. The opening set on Monday took the part of their 2010 final in which Djokovic, physically weak from his semifinal win against Federer, did not have the ability to keep up with Nadal’s pounding shots from the
baseline (interestingly enough, in 2013 Djokovic also had to go five sets in the semis, this time against Stanislas Wawrinka). In the second set though, Djokovic turned the tables on Nadal and the 2013 final began to look like their 2011 match in which Djokovic dictated from the baseline and overpowered Nadal. The turning point in the match came in the ninth game of the third set when Nadal rallied from down love–40 to take a 5–4 lead. In the next game Nadal broke Djokovic to take the set and the match was effectively over. During the post match award
ceremony Djokovic thanked the crowd and acknowledge the brilliance of Nadal saying, “ … He was too good. He definitely deserved to win this match and this trophy.” However, the smiles Djokovic used to offer during such ceremonies are gone. He carried the sullen face of a man who realizes that while the computers still rank him number one, it is clear to everyone including himself that for 2013 Nadal was the best player in the world. Contact DAVID CARTY at david.carty@yale.edu .
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GABRIELLE GARCIA ’14 ELI NAMED TO IVY HONOR ROLL The Bulldog midfielder/forward tallied two goals and an assist in Yale’s seasonopening loss to No. 7 Virginia and 6–0 shutout against Sacred Heart this weekend. The field hockey team returns to the field this week at Albany for its first away game of the season.
ANDREW MILLER ’13 OILERS TRAINING CAMP BEGINS The NCAA tournament MVP began training camp with the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday looking to earn a spot on the team’s final roster. Miller captained the Elis to a 4–0 victory over Quinnipiac for Yale’s first NCAA tournament championship last season.
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freshman recruits, Tyler Lu ’17 from Irvine, Calif., and Photos Photiades ’17, a native Cypriot. Lu enters his freshman year as a blue chip recruit, one of the top 25 players in his age bracket nationally. Photiades too has an extensive resumé of success on the court, having won the Cyprus U-18
A year ago, as Andy Murray shrugged off his Grand Slam demons and hoisted his first Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open, Rafael Nadal sat at home in Majorca, Spain resting his ailing knees. Nadal, who won the U.S. title in 2010 and was a runner up in 2011, withdrew from competitive tennis completely after falling in the second round of Wimbledon a month and a half before the U.S Open. Even when Nadal finally returned to tennis in the spring of 2013 after a more than eight-month absence, many doubts persisted. For years, Nadal’s aggressive and tenacious play from the baseline had wreaked havoc on his knees. These same knees had caused him problems in 2009 and left him unable to defend his 2008 Wimbledon crown. His 2013-year did not begin as expected, as Nadal lost to 73rd ranked Horacio Zeballos at the Chile Open and further fueled fears of his decline. However, since that defeat, Nadal has lost only twice, winning over 95 percent of his matches including a perfect 22–0 on hard courts. Since a surprise loss to Belgian Steve Darcis in the opening round of Wimbledon, Nadal has been undefeated, capping off a perfect summer by suffocating Novak Djokovic in a 4-set U.S. Open final on Monday. By winning his second U.S. title Nadal, age 27, won his 13th major and is now only four grand slam titles away from tying Roger Federer for the most in the history of the men’s game. A year ago talk that Nadal could be considered the greatest of all time was laughable. The real question was whether or not he could stay healthy enough to compete with the likes of Federer, Djokovic, and the ascendant Murray. Not only that, but Nad-
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The Elis face a difficult slate of tournaments the next two months, including the USTA Regional Championships and the USTA National Collegiate Indoor Championships. BY NIKOLAS LASKARIS STAFF REPORTER A year removed from its secondhighest national ranking in 33 years, the men’s tennis team is looking toward the 2013-’14 campaign as an opportunity to rebuild — and continue to win. Last season, four senior starters
— Marc Powers ’13, John Huang ’13, Daniel Hoffman ’13 and Zachary Dean ’13 — led the team to an NCAA ranking of No. 57 and a fourth-place finish in the competitive Ivy League, marking a benchmark year for the program and for the school. “With four seniors in last year’s starting lineup, this will be a rebuilding year. All of the returning play-
ers recognize the opportunity to play higher in the lineup and the extra work that it will take to succeed at that level,” head coach Alex Dorato said. The Elis will travel to Princeton this coming weekend to kick off the season at the Princeton-Farnsworth Invitational. Looking to make an immediate impact will be the two
Women’s golf begins season BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER Last season’s women’s golf did not end the way that the squad intended. Entering the Ivy League Championship meet on April 26, the Bulldogs were one of the — if not the only — favorites to take home the crown.
WOMEN’S GOLF Championships, however, did not go the Elis’ way. Yale finished in third place, two spots behind archrival Harvard. Behind an experienced field of players that includes three returning all-Ivy performers, the Bulldogs will look to rebound in a major way this season. Their fall campaign gets underway this weekend at the Hanover Country Club for the Dartmouth Invitational. “Dartmouth is a fun event and a great warm-up to our home invite next week,” head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said. “The Hanover CC reminds me of a miniature Yale and I am hoping to defend both the team title and the individual title.” Last April, the team headed into Ivy League Championships with high expectations. The Elis had won the Brown Invitational the preceding week, and buoyed by the success of the hockey
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team in winning the national championship, the Bulldogs went to Ivies looking to do some damage. But the competition did not go as planned. The squad finished in fifth place on the event’s first day before climbing into second after the second round. The Elis went no higher than that, however, finishing the event in third.
High hopes as XC preps for Harvard BY RHYDIAN GLASS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Expectations are high and prospects are looking good for both the men’s and women’s cross country teams as the Bulldogs prepare to head up to Harvard’s Franklin Park this weekend for their first official meet of the fall.
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“I was obviously disappointed by how we placed in the Ivy League Championship. We came off a great win at Brown the week before, and I truly believe we had the talent and drive to win,” Rompothong said. “I know the team is working harder this year and we would like to bring the trophy back
Over the summer, the Eli athletes built up mileage, strength and duration, maintaining rigorous and consistent routines in preparation for the 2013 season, which begins against their longtime rival this Saturday. Seven new freshmen have joined the women’s cross country roster, which will be led by captain Millie Chapman ’14 and head coach Amy Gosztyla. “Out of the seven, three are state champions — they are a very competitive group, and I anticipate them to make an immediate impact,” Gosztyla said. In addition to the new freshman prospects, the women’s team has considerable experience. “Our whole senior class will help this team be successful,” Gosztyla said. “A lot of leaders,
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The Hanover CC reminds me of a miniature Yale, and I am hoping to defend both the team title and the individual title. CHAWWADEE ROMPOTHONG ’00 Head coach, women’s golf
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The men’s cross country team will look to avenge last season’s loss to Harvard this weekend at Franklin Park in Boston.
PHOTOS PHOTIADES ’17 AND TYLER LU ’17. The two new freshman recruits of the men’s tennis team are expected to make an impact. Lu is one of the top 25 players in his age bracket nationally, and Photiades won the Cyprus U-18 National Championships at just 15 years old.