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Y-NHH, St. Raphael’s close the deal

The wait is (almost) over.

Shake Shack, the burger sensation that has taken New York by storm, will land in New Haven tomorrow, hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Thursday at 11 a.m. In the meantime, there’s a small, invite-only party at the burger joint today, but if you have to ask how to get in, you’ll never know.

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The wait is (actually) over.

Members of the class of 2013 must submit their schedules to residential college deans by 5 p.m. today. Professors, breathe a sigh of relief: Shopping period is finally over.

The battle continues.

Republican Linda McMahon may be winning the cash war, but U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy has some highprofile backers helping him out in Connecticut: NARAL, the pro-choice group, is running ads in Connecticut blasting McMahon for failing to demand that employers pay for their employees’ contraception.

Administrative details.

Though she’s firmly a Republican, McMahon will also be listed as an Independent on the ballot: she received the requisite 7,500 signatures to qualify as an Independent, according to a press release from Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

Murphy already qualified for a double-listing on the ballot, as a Democrat, and as a member of the Working Families Party.

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The CEOs of Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of Saint Raphael signed paperwork Tuesday that made the merger of their hospitals official.

BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER After more than a year of planning and regulatory review, YaleNew Haven Hospital officially acquired the Hospital of St. Raphael for $160 million on Tuesday, making the newly merged 1,519-bed institution the fourth-largest hospital in the United States.

Marna Borgstrom, the CEO of

Yale-New Haven, and St. Raphael’s CEO Christopher O’Connor signed the closing documents for the deal during a press event held in YaleNew Haven’s 55 Park St. auditorium on Monday afternoon. Over 100 attendees attended the signing, including administrators from both hospital systems as well as city and state officials. The hospitals legally merged assets and became one healthcare entity at 12:01 a.m. this

morning, according to Yale-New Haven spokesman Rob Hutchinson.

“This integration will be critical to meeting the extraordinary healthcare challenges that lie ahead,” Borgstrom said. “We are delighted that with all of the necessary approvals and due diligence behind us, we can begin the important work of integrating these two SEE MERGER PAGE 4

Office Hours. Former Yale College Council President Brandon Levin ’14 will hold Office Hours today in Bass Café as he seeks student input to provide to the committee responsible for selecting Yale’s next president.

Harvard cheating expands.

Some students accused in the cheating scandal up in Cambridge are taking preemptive measures: Sports Illustrated reported Tuesday that Kyle Casey, one of the Crimson’s star basketball players, is taking a leave of absence this year rather than face possible suspension.

In all, 125 undergrads have been accused in the cheating scandal, which occurred at the end of last term in Introduction to Congress.

Taking action. Dean Mary Miller reminded instructors on Tuesday of the University’s collaboration and plagiarism policies.

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1979 New Haven’s new sewage system will cost the University $400,000 in water costs, officials announce.

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The Yale Visiting International Student Program, which began last year and currently accepts students from Mexico, Singapore and Hong Kong, is looking to partner with institutions in Japan and Brazil as well.

Yale is negotiating Y-VISP partnerships with Waseda University

in Tokyo and several institutions in Brazil, said Kathryn Bell, assistant director of the Center for International Experience and director of Y-VISP. Bell said the one-year program received positive feedback from its first round of participants, and that by adding new schools the University is hoping both to grow the program’s enrollment and broaden its geographic scope. But since visiting students are not eli-

HackYale to launch open workshops

BY APSARA IYER AND JULIA ZORTHIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER The roughly 240 students not admitted to this fall’s HackYale lecture course will have the opportunity to attend new workshops HackYale is planning to introduce later this semester.

HackYale, a student group founded last year by Will Gaybrick LAW ’12 and Bay Gross ’13, received roughly 300 applications for its survey lecture course, which provides an introduction to website design and programming. Zack ReneauWedeen ’14, HackYale director, said the new workshop series will give students a chance to learn about their interests without making a semester-long commitment, adding that some students’ attendance diminished in courses offered last spring as the semester progressed.

“In the workshops, students can get the same knowledge and

I don’t think there’s any more pressure at all [on Eric Williams ’16]. He’s got 10 guys [with him].

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gible for Yale financial aid, she said Y-VISP must primarily consider whether its potential partner institutions are able to finance a year abroad for their students.

Bell said the program is “very close” to formalizing an agreement with Waseda University. While Yale has also considered collaborating with institutions in Europe, Bell said SEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 6

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Int’l student program weighs expansion

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER

When the football team leaves campus Thursday evening for its season opener at Georgetown, quarterback John Whitelaw ’14 will not be on board.

Whitelaw announced his departure from the football team in an email to his teammates Tuesday, the News has learned.

His decision comes in the wake of head coach Tony Reno’s announcement that Eric Williams ’16 would start at quarterback against Georgetown on Saturday.

After spring practice last year, Whitelaw had widely been expected to be named starter in the fall.

The loss of the veteran Whitelaw is the latest in a string of offseason obstacles for the Bulldogs. Following controversies over the resignation of former head coach Tom Williams and the Rhodes Scholarship candidacy of Patrick Witt ’12, the team experienced another setback in August when linebacker Will McHale ’13 had his captaincy suspended following a fight at Toad’s Place in May.

Prior to his leaving the team, Whitelaw was featured in head coach Tony Reno’s game plan for Saturday and both Whitelaw and Williams were listed as possible starters on the media depth chart.

“Eric will start, I made a decision over the weekend,” Reno said at a lunch with members of the media yesterday, prior to Whitelaw’s announcement. “[But] John [Whitelaw] will play.”

Reno said that Whitelaw left the team “to pursue other interests.” He added, however, that Whitelaw’s departure would not affect his young quarterback.

“I don’t think there’s any more pressure at all [on Williams],” Reno said. “He’s got 10 guys [with him].”

Although he has never taken a collegiate snap, Williams has already gained the confidence of his teammates.

Volunteer in New Haven.

Dwight Hall, Yale’s main undergrad volunteer group, will hold its Bazaar from 7 to 9 p.m. at Dwight Hall on Old Campus.

Quarterback Whitelaw ’14 quits team

Whitney gains new leader

reward from HackYale without the time-block commitment all semester,” Reneau-Wedeen said. “[The workshops will be] a lot more flexible, and Yale students who are busy need that flexibility.”

In the workshops, students can get the same knowledge … without the time-block commitment.

ZACK RENEAU-WEDEEN ’14 Director, HackYale Reneau-Wedeen said he hopes to hold workshops twice per week and cover a range of programming topics, such as how to use Adobe Photoshop SEE HACKYALE PAGE 6

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Professor Gary Tomlinson will serve as the Whitney Humanities Center’s director for five years.

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL AND MONICA DISARE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER A new director took the helm of the Whitney Humanities Center this academic year, with broad but currently undetailed visions for strengthening the humanities at Yale.

The University appointed music and humanities professor Gary Tomlinson to a five-year term as the center’s director in April, and he assumed the post in July.

Now three months into his tenure, Tomlinson said he is still in the “listening stage” and declined to offer specifics on any of his initiatives for the 2012-’13 academic year, but said he generally hopes to makes the humanities more central to discussions about the future of education at the University.

“A university without the humanities at its heart is going to be an impoverished SEE WHITNEY PAGE 4

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The Kindle problem I

have a problem with the Amazon Kindle.

There are two readings of that sentence, of course. I might mean that I take issue with some aspect of the device, the way people have a problem with the air conditioning or taxes. That’s the sense people mean when they ask, “You got a problem with that?” which they do whenever they’re gangsters with poorly written dialogue.

The other sense would be the confessional usage, which is more recent and less common.

This is what people are doing when they say, “I have a problem with alcohol,” which they say whenever they’re trying to qualify for a study at the med school.

What is interesting about my case, at least to me, is that I have a problem in both senses.

While my issues with the Kindle are minor, my addiction is overwhelming.

The addiction is straightforward; I buy books too often — more often than I can read them. I know I have books queued up, and yet I buy more, thinking that I’ve never regretted a purchase but have often regretted not purchasing a book when I had the chance. This is, of course, the sort of thinking that leads people to blockade themselves in their houses with old newspaper; because my purchases are digital, however, I am unlikely to have a charming but stern British person come and help me while putting me on television.

My issue with the Kindle is trivial in comparison, and I’ve managed to work around it. I find the situation so odd, however, that I feel that it must be symptomatic of something more important.

I am speaking of the Shared Highlights feature found on all Kindle products.

For those of you unfamiliar with this feature, let me briefly explain. Kindle users are able to highlight passages in their digital books. This feature is useful for studying and for noting key passages one would like to reflect on later. Thus presented, highlights seem like a useful — even necessary — feature for reading books without actual page numbers. By and large, they are.

However, by default, the Kindle shares these highlights with other users while sharing their highlights with you. Thus, you will come upon a passage and find it underlined with a dotted line indicating that a significant number of readers found it in some way interest-

ing.

One can see how this function might grow annoying; the mind naturally reads highlighted passages as emphasized, which is not the author’s intention. Luckily, this feature can be deactivated easily.

But despite having turned off this feature on my own Kindle, I have frequently caught myself thinking about it, trying to understand why Amazon includes it and why people keep it active. I admit I am uncertain, but I have begun to develop a theory.

My original idea was that these highlights were like a laugh track on a sitcom, letting us know what the funny parts are. And while the highlights superficially resemble a laugh track, they are different in origin. While a laugh track is applied by producers, by The Man, if you will, popular highlights come from other users.

And so I think shared highlights are the Yelp of literature, letting us know what the world thinks of what we’re reading.

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but Democrats’ overt respect for military service highlighted a larger truth about a new Republican Party when it comes to military issues: The Republican Party has begun to flounder.

One striking example of Republican politicians’ hypocrisy is their attitude toward the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. In 2006, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said, “The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to change the policy,’ then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.” And then in 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen went before McCain’s committee to tell him just that — he ought to change the policy.

And yet, two years later, the platform of the party that nominated McCain four years ago still hasn’t budged. “We reject the use of the military as a platform for social experimentation and will not accept attempts to undermine military priorities and mission readiness,” it reads.

Contrast that disrespect of the military leadership with Michelle

Obama and Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative, mentioned frequently at the Democratic convention. This initiative — just a few years old — spurred companies to hire 125,000 veterans in just one year. Meanwhile, at the Republican convention a week earlier, Mitt Romney did not bother to mention the troops once in his speech — because, he said, he wanted to use the speech to talk about the “important” issues.

Right now, just one percent of America serves in uniform, compared to the nine percent who served during World War II. Obviously, the main reason for this disparity is that our military is now an all-volunteer force, a fact that makes most politicians and military commanders very proud. But it also means an increasingly smaller share of the country feels any direct consequences of the wars.

The War in Afghanistan is now the longest war in American history, yet life in America continues mostly unchanged. We don’t need to ration at home. We don’t buy war bonds.

Most of us don’t need to look at the wounds inflicted by IEDs. The worst the majority of the country feels is

war fatigue. Combating this civilian-military divide has been one of President and Michelle Obama’s biggest causes. I am not blind to the fact that it’s a politically beneficial cause, but just because trying to prevent military suicides and strengthening military families is good politics doesn’t mean it is not also the right thing to do.

What is offensive is not just the fact that Romney did not mention the troops; it is that he did not even think they are one of his “important” issues — that at a political convention, he thought he would be able to get away without mentioning the one percent because he was speaking to the other 99 percent. The Democratic Party, at least, made the ideas of sacrifice and determination — military and otherwise — centerpieces of its convention. That party understands that you do not speak only to the one percent in the military or the 99 percent who are not; presidential candidates have a responsibility to speak to 100 percent of Americans.

SAM COHEN is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Contact him at samson. cohen@yale.edu.

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ne of the worst trends in modern America is the civilian-military divide. Last week, I attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte and saw the party trying to bridge that divide, or at least to recognize it. Amid the lofty politicking and speechmaking typical of any political convention was the Democratic Party’s wholehearted embrace of the military and the values it embodies.

Democrats have come a long way since Michael Dukakis’ cringe-worthy tank ride. This time, Democrats showed a real connection to our military servicemen and women: Michelle Obama was introduced by a woman with four sons serving in the armed forces, and a group of veterans — including Vice President Joe Biden’s son — was greeted by a crowd holding “Thank You” signs.

There was none of the booing one might expect from a party often derided as full of peaceniks and hippies; instead, the whole arena seemed entirely comfortable with and grateful for these veterans’ sacrifices. This was a choreographed political event and was clearly meant to evoke certain emotions,

This may not seem to be much of an insight; perhaps it isn’t. Nor may this development seem troubling; social highlights may seem to be a sort of digital and anonymous book club.

But the highlights, unlike any book club, are presented while you read and thus are more pernicious. Social highlights suggest that we must know what everyone thinks of a passage in order to think of it at all. Instead of forming our own opinions and comparing them to those of others, we now form our opinions only by consulting others. Solitude is impossible, even within a book.

I wish I had some sort of sweeping, triumphant conclusion here, but I don’t. I mean, I won’t pretend that this is the greatest problem facing America or anything, and any of you with Kindles can just turn the feature off in your settings. But I do think we need to stay vigilant against the practice of relying on the opinions of others before we consider the issue on our own.

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Committing to service T

onight, the Service Bazaar will be held in Dwight Hall.

Freshmen and upperclassmen will have the opportunity to choose causes they feel passionate about; they will pick the organizations they want to be involved with at Yale, at least for now.

Since my first foray into the Bazaar — and service — at Yale, I have become both a huge advocate of and a huge cynic about service here. I have looked on as students built wonderful organizations that died because they could not make a transition to new leadership; I have listened to stories of (and experienced) nightmare flake-outs from well-intentioned and disorganized fellow students; I have also been moved almost to tears by students doing magnificent work here and around the world.

While studying these different responses to service work, I’ve drawn some conclusions about why Yalies serve and what we must do better — more self-consciously — in the future, because the stakes of service work in this city and outside of it are too high for us to give much less than our full attention.

Many (perhaps most) Yalies came to college having done service work at home. Some found this work inspiring and want to continue it in college; others are entirely burnt out and looking for

a change. But most students I have spoken to seem to feel that there is an unspoken assumption that you ZOE MERCER- should want to serve the GOLDEN local comm u n i ty, Meditations p a r t i c u larly when the community in question is as underprivileged as New Haven.

I am going to make a bold statement that my colleagues at Dwight Hall will have to forgive me for making: Don’t serve because you feel you should, or because it’s good for you, or because people will judge you if you do not. Those people who sign up for service panlists to placate an internal sense of guilt are wasting the energy they will spend deleting or ignoring those emails; likewise, coordinators who go wildly out of their way to recruit massive crowds for their organizations are probably setting themselves up for heartbreak and frustration.

I say this both as someone who has signed up for panlists and never responded to a single email and as someone who has sent out more

than a few emails that have not gotten responses. A little honesty and self-reflection on both sides would have saved all of us from our well-intentioned, eager-to-please selves.

I do not mean to suggest, however, that service work should be a huge commitment of time or emotion. There are many wonderful opportunities to serve the New Haven community and communities outside New Haven in small ways, whether through joining a group that performs locally, signing protests and writing letters or making a regular effort to go serve food at a soup kitchen or fold blankets at a shelter.

What I do mean to say about service work is that actions done, or more often, not done, have substantial effects on organizations and communities. Having spent significant time at New Haven non-profits that count on Yale students for enthusiasm and manpower, I have seen the profound consequences of student flakeouts: People who need important basic services don’t receive them.

Non-profit employees and administrators, an overwhelmingly overworked and underpaid group, are left to struggle on without the student help that can be crucial to making an event or campaign a success.

I trust that the vast majority of last minute cancellations or attacks of extreme lateness are not malicious or pre-meditated: They are merely the results of hectic busyness, exhaustion and failure to think ahead.

But it is this failure to plan and to self-assess that causes problems in the long run. If you feel you should want to help but don’t genuinely want to, if high school service left you reeling and you’d really just like to do class and friends right now, if you’re still looking for the extracurricular that is going to light up your life, don’t half-heartedly sign-up. You’ll regret it — and the people you’re not helping will too.

Ultimately, the greatest service you can do is to give of yourself graciously and completely to whatever cause or organization — and I hope it’s only a few — you do choose. Because the ability to pick one particular activity or cause and truly make it your own is a grossly under-rated virtue at Yale.

Tonight, go to the Bazaar to look and consider new possibilities, and find something you are really, truly excited about. Then, go do it.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a senior in Davenport College. Her column runs on Wednesdays. Contact her at zoe. mercer-golden@yale.edu.

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The environmental studies major at Yale According to the major’s website, its “central intellectual challenge… is to combine the knowledge and diverse perspectives of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in order to help solve environmental problems that we face today.”

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The article “Ivy League LGBTQ conference to come to Yale” stated incorrectly that IvyQ will be only open to students from Ivy League institutions. In fact, some of the registration slots will be reserved for students from outside the Ivy League.

It took aldermen all of 10 minutes to review and approve the street corner name change Tuesday night, but for the church communities of Hill and Fair Haven, it was a move almost 30 years in the making.

With Tuesday night’s city services and environmental services committee hearing, the corner of Congress Avenue and Hillock street officially became known as the “Bishop Clinton and Pastor Julia McCarter Corner” after the couple who founded Deliverance Temple Pentecostal Church at Congress Avenue 30 years ago.

Ward 3 Alderwoman Jacqueline James, who originally petitioned the board for the name change, said the church — along with the Clinton House rehabilitation center and the outreach ministry center, which the McCarters also established — lends “vital spiritual and physical support” to residents of the Hill and Fair Haven.

Ron Hurt, director of the outreach ministry center, was one of the several people to testify in front of the committee as they

BY ISABELLA D’AGOSTO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three researchers at the Yale School of Medicine learned last week that they will receive $15 million from the Nationnal Institute of Health (NIH) for autism research.

The researchers, all of whom are professors in the Child Study Center, found out on Sept. 4 that they had won the grant, called the “Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) program,” to research autism in females. The announcement was the culmination of an application process that began in the fall of 2011, and means that Yale will act as the primary institution in the fiveyear network grant, collaborating with researchers at Harvard, UCLA and the University of Washington.

“It was a very, very competitive process,” said James McPartland, a co-investigator on the team. “It’s an exciting kind of grant to write because it’s a network grant. We get to work with people here but also experts in different institutions.”

The research team said they believe their success stems from the strength of their partner institutions and their unique choice to investigate the incidence of autism in girls rather than boys. Lisa Gilotty, program officer for the National Institute for Mental Health — a subdivision of the NIH — called the proposal “unprecedented.”

“We have this long-standing knowledge … [autism] affects males much more predominantly than females, but we don’t know why,” she said.

“Dr. [Kevin] Pelphrey’s grant will focus on the sex differences: understanding how and why there’s this difference.

There’s really nothing else like it.”

Gilotty, who recently began

working with the group, will remain with them in an administrative capacity for the duration of the grant, monitoring the project’s progress.

Pelphrey, the team’s principle investigator, said that he has a “personal stake” in the project because his daughter is autistic.

“I probably worked harder on this draft then anything else in my life,” he said.

McPartland said that Yale and its three partner institutions have an “existing rapport” as major autism research centers with matching expertise and compatible equipment. But researchers at these universities were also applying for the ACE program as primary institutions, said Pelphrey, resulting in “competition” and “collaborating.”

This inter-institutional collaboration will continue as the project moves forward, McPartland said, with each site running pre-defined experiments with consistent procedures. He added that the goal is to gain information about gene networks and autism in girls.

“The study is really going to come up with many insights … hopefully the causes of autism,” Gilotty said. “It’s pretty exciting.”

In total, Pelphrey said, between 200 and 300 teams applied for the grant, and nine ultimately won funding, including Harvard Medical School, University of California, Emory University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Autism Spectrum Disorders affect approximately 1 in 88 children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Facing growing demand, the environmental studies program has expanded its course offerings this fall.

Since the program graduated its first class of four students in 2004, the major has steadily grown to 31 students in this year’s class of seniors. This fall, the program includes five additional courses that seek to meet the higher demand and strengthen previously underemphasized areas. The new courses this term include a practical writing course, two courses that feature field studies and a course on sustainability.

Amity Doolittle, director of undergraduate studies for environmental studies, said she hopes to hire additional faculty to deal with the larger number of students and course offerings, but said funding constraints currently limit faculty growth. Doolittle said she hopes the program will eventually be able to accumulate the funds to build an endowment and establish an Environmental Studies Department with permanent faculty, though she added that it is unlikely that the major will evolve into a department any time soon.

“The major currently depends on the goodwill of many departments [including] people from English and history and geology that contribute to our major,” Doolittle said.

“To be an independent department means money.”

Several students interviewed intending to major in environmental studies welcomed the additional courses and added that they wished there were more courses available. Environmental studies major Becky Poplawski ’13 said she wished she could have taken a class on research methods, which would have helped her with her senior research project, adding that she appreciates

that the department is offering more courses and fieldwork opportunities.

Still, the students said they worried that without more faculty, the program may lose the intimate professor-student relationships that have become a hallmark of the major. The low student-faculty ratio provides opportunities for small classes, Mary Beth Barham ’13 said, adding that two professors teach each of the Senior Research Colloquium sections.

Doolittle said the department hopes to continue adding more courses in coming semesters to address remaining needs.

In a January internal report evaluating the major, Environmental Studies Chair John Wargo wrote that the program could improve its offerings if the fields of environmental health, urban growth and sustainable architecture, food and agriculture, conservation, consumerism and renewable energy technologies.

“We also hope to increase our emphasis on field studies [and] strengthen our course offerings on research methods,” Wargo wrote, “[and] to develop a seminar that examines diverse ethical issues that surround the conduct of research.”

Doolittle added that she hopes to add some new courses in the spring, including a seminar on urban growth in Eastern countries, though she is unsure the department will be able to acquire enough funding for planned field trips to China and India.

Nearly 1,000 Yale College students take courses in the Environmental Studies Program or the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies each year, according to Wargo’s report.

reviewed the petition for the corner name.

“This application was long overdue,” Hurt said, adding that the pastor and her late husband transformed many lives. “Not to sound political, but the community also became a better tax bracket, because people were in a better state of mind to seek out employment.”

Robert Dodsen and his wife Joanne Carter Williams spoke at the hearing about how the church helped them find a job.

Now a minister-in-training, Dodsen was homeless two years ago, when Pastor Julia said, “Sugar, we got to put you somewhere,” Dodsen told the committee. She was responsible for finding him shelter, helping him receive his driver’s license and getting him involved in the congregation where he met his wife.

Williams had been involved with the bishop and pastor longer than her husband — she said she turned to them and the church in 1984 as a drug addict.

“Some people would call [McCarter] bad things, like a pimp, because he didn’t care who he helped and he was willing to ride anyone in his car,” Wil-

liams said. Now a teacher at the church, she told the committee that “his teachings are still with me.

This application was long overdue. Not to sound political, but the community also became a better tax bracket, because people were in a better state of mind to seek out employment.

RON HURT Director, Community Outreach Center For some, the McCarters were less like church leaders and more like family. James said she fondly remembers calling Clinton’s mother “Mama McCarter” while growing up in Fair Haven. Julia McCarter often cut James’ hair at the beauty salon she operated in the area, and the “loving” Bishop

McCarter was there to help out when her father became unemployed.

“Congress Avenue in the 1960s and ’70s was probably the worst street in the area,” James said at the hearing. “That it’s now so stable is [the McCarters’] legacy that they’ve given this community.”

There was considerable support from the community for the application to change the street corner name, James said, adding that over 300 people signed the petition. The testimonies made an impression: chair of the committee and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said he was “touched” and that he “definitely learned something tonight.”

The street corner name change was passed by the five-member committee, and it now heads for a final vote by the full board.

In order to change a street corner, petitioners need to obtain 250 signatures — two-thirds of which must be from the neighborhood in question — and pay $250.

Contact MEIRYUM ALI at meiryum.ali@yale.edu .

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Last year, the corner of Park and Chapel Streets was renamed Gag Jr.’s Corner, in honor of businessman Vincent Gagliardi Jr., the namesake of the liquor shop. Before such changes are approved by the Board of Aldermen, petitioners must gather 250 signatures, two-thirds from neighborhood residents.

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“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” HENRY FORD INDUSTRIALIST

Yale-New Haven, St. Raphael’s make merger official

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After more than a year of waiting for regulators to sign off on their merger, the CEOs of Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of Saint Raphael made their union official at a Tuesday morning ceremony.

MERGER FROM PAGE 1 great hospitals.”

Hospital administrators said the acquisition, the planning and negotiation of which dates back to March 2011, is a strategic move for the two hospitals given the challenges each faces. According to the Certificate of Need application submitted to the Department of Health’s Office of Health Care Access on Feb. 9, YNHH needs at least 140 additional patient beds in the next five years to cope with increased demand.

At the same time, patient volume is down 8 percent for 2012 at St. Raphael’s, and as a result the institution “cannot remain a viable standalone provider of hospital services,” according to an Agreed Settlement approved by

the Office of Health Care Access in July 2012.

By integrating the two hospitals, St. Raphael’s can stabilize its finances while Yale-New Haven can acquire St. Raphael’s 511 beds and avoid constructing a new, $650 million patient care tower, which Borgstrom said would have otherwise been necessary to meet demand. She added that “those resources can be better invested in the care we provided.”

“To address our imminent financial difficulties … we looked across the nation considering a wide range of options,” O’Connor said. “At the end of the day we realized the most effective solution was to partner with a hospital … located just six blocks away.”

The path leading to the acquisition was not without obstacles — the deal drew some criticism that combining the Elm City’s two largest hospitals would limit consumer choice and would lessen competition for medical services. The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, who have sponsored St. Raphael’s for over 150 years, raised concern over how the move would affect St. Raphael’s tradition of Catholic medicine.

Over the past year, the hospital deal cleared the necessary legislative and negotiating barriers.

After the conclusion of an antitrust investigation coordinated with the Federal Trade Commission, State Attorney General George Jepsen announced on

June 1 that he would not seek to block the acquisition. And in the final regulatory step for the deal’s approval, the state’s Department of Public Health approved the plan on June 27.

We don’t view this as an end of our legacy of caring, instead we view this as an extension.

CHRISTOPHER O’CONNOR CEO, St. Raphael’s Hospital St. Raphael’s administrators were also assured that the hos-

New leader takes Whitney post WHITNEY FROM PAGE 1 university,” he said.

Founded in 1981, the Whitney promotes the study of the humanities at Yale through lectures, concerts, conferences, film screenings and other events. The center is also responsible for overseeing the humanities major and the Directed Studies program.

Tomlinson came to Yale as a visiting professor in 2010 after previously teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and with 32 years of experience in the Ivy League. He served as a fellow of the Whitney for two years before taking over as director.

Over the past two decades, Tomlinson said the humanities have been perceived as increasingly impractical. Students today tend to be focused on the pragmatic value of education, he said, rather than the intrinsic value of learning.

“There is a sense even among Yale students that education is about something very pragmatic — what’s the immediate gain, where’s it going to take me next year,” he said.

Tomlinson said he has also perceived a “disconnect” between the discourse of humanists and the rest of “academic culture,” and that he hopes to help bridge that gap.

Since his appointment in April, Tomlinson said he has been speaking to his colleagues about their ideas and their hopes for the future of the Whitney.

He said he does not expect to make any immediate changes to programs such as

Directed Studies, and wrote in a Tuesday night email that he is “unwilling to make public right now the specifics of plans that are very much in the early stages of formation.”

The center’s previous director, María Rosa Menocal, oversaw renovations of the Whitney, relocated the Directed Studies program to the center, and opened the Whitney fellowship to faculty, staff and graduate students in nonhumanities fields including the sciences, economics and the School of Medicine.

Whenever I hear about a thing that’s going on, it always seems really cool. But I wish things were better advertised at a more central location.

DAVID GORE ’15 Starting in November, Tomlinson will be charged with shaping the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — a program first announced in the spring that will host lectures and discussions aimed at integrating the sciences and the humanities.

Despite his broad goals to improve the humanities at Yale, Tomlinson said he does not think it is the Whitney’s responsibility to “lead the humanities

forward at Yale.” Rather, he said, the center should serve as a “fundamental center of gravity for conversations about the humanities.”

Members of the Whitney’s executive committee said they are optimistic about Tomlinson’s appointment as director.

“He is a strong personality with a brilliant mind,” said Francesco Casetti, a professor of humanities and film studies.

“His idea is to move forward and make the Whitney Center the great forum for debate on campus.”

Deputy Dean of Yale College Joseph Gordon wrote in a Saturday email that he expected Tomlinson to be “a collegial leader” and “receptive to the ideas and suggestions of others.”

David Gore ’15 said the Whitney has been a positive part of his Yale experience, but that he hopes the center begins to advertise its events better under Tomlinson’s leadership.

“Whenever I hear about a thing that’s going on, it always seems really cool,” Gore said. “But I wish things were better advertised at a more central location.”

Other students described the center an integral part of their time at Yale. Serena Candelaria ’14 said students interested in the humanities at Yale have a “wealth of resources” available to them, including the Whitney.

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pital would be able to continue its Catholic tradition through post-acquisition operation, said Moynihan.

“We don’t view this as an end of our legacy of caring, instead we view this as an extension,” O’Connor said. Moynihan added that the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth “enter this new chapter with pride and gratitude … knowing our mission of caring will continue with distinction.”

With the necessary acquisition documents signed and the hospitals now operating as one, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said in a speech at the event that the Elm City will reap economic benefits from the merger.

“Forty-two percent of our city’s workforce are in education

and health care. Our medical district provides 11,600 jobs. Fortytwo of the state’s 46 bioscience companies are right here in New Haven. This is due to an extraordinary institution called the Yale School of Medicine,” DeStefano said. “The combination of the Yale Medical School and these two clinical practices is essential not to just the city’s economic well being but to the region and the state.”

Yale-New Haven was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the U.S. in 1826, and the newly merged hospital will have a combined medical staff of 11,000 employees.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CAMILLE PAGLIA GRD ’74 Paglia was born to Italian immigrants in rural New York. She claims to have been the only openly gay person at Yale during her time as a graduate student. Naomi Wolf called her “the nipple-pierced person’s Phyllis Schlafly.”

Outspoken Paglia condemns traditional feminism

BY NICOLE NAREA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A self-professed “Amazonian feminist,” Camille Paglia GRD ’74 claims to have once initiated a fistfight with a dissenting colleague. Her discussion of gender roles during the Independent Party’s Tuesday night debate was no less spirited.

The feminist author and provocative cultural critic, who describes herself as an “old grizzled warhorse” of the 1950s, urged a crowd of about 100 undergraduates gathered in Linsley-Chittenden Hall to consider gender roles as intrinsic to human biology rather than imposed by society. Throughout her address, Paglia railed against traditional feminist theory and its dependence on social psychology rather than hard scientific evidence.

“Those who espouse the idea that the model for human life should be genderneutral — that we have been born blank slates and society prescribes upon us gender roles — have never made the slightest inquiry into science, history or anthropology,” she said.

Paglia plunged into her critique of what she deemed traditional feminist theory by mocking the latest book from author Naomi Wolf ’84, with whom Paglia has an established rivalry. She condemned Wolf’s lack of “objective” evidence in her latest release, “Vagina,” and her goddesslike characterizations of women.

But then Paglia turned to her own scholarship of ancient mythology, heralding the concept of the femme fatale

and asserting that women should not fear “overwhelming charismatic sexuality.” Her commentary echoed her past praises of female pop culture icons such as Madonna, whom Paglia hailed in a New York Times op-ed as the “savior” of an entire generation of women who struggled to come to terms with their femininity.

Paglia contrasted the ideals of the femme fatale and sexual liberation with the “neutered” American environment of the “white, upper-middle-class” workplace in which women are trained to quash their own “vitality and assertiveness.”

“Girls have been trained how to be nice,” Paglia said. “They have to learn how to say no.”

Drawing laughter from the audience, Paglia peppered her discussion with blunt descriptions of sexual encounters and her own nonconformity with regard to gender norms — as a child, she said she viewed dolls as peculiar “chunks of humanoid rubber” and consistently chose “transsexual Halloween costumes,” such as Hamlet.

Ella Wood ’15, vice chairman of the YPU’s Independent Party, spearheaded the opposition argument, asserting that gender roles are “prescriptive” rather than “descriptive” and provide additional “obstacles to self-expression.” She argued that certain prescriptive norms — such as citizenship — can be unifying, but that gender roles are “self-reinforcing” and “divisive.”

Mark DiPlacido ’15, secretary-trea-

surer of the Party of the Right, dismissed Wood’s notion that gender roles are prescriptive, citing “natural realities” like a woman’s ability to carry a child.

“Feminism tries to dictate that it is oppressive to have children,” DiPlacido said. “Is it something we should try to control and eliminate? Shouldn’t we celebrate it rather than view it as a burden?”

The biological basis of gender roles was a theme of the debate, which members of the audience said they found refreshing.

Jacob Stai ’16 said he thought Paglia was right to question the lack of scientific research generally cited in feminist theory.

But Harry Graver ’14, a member of the Liberal Party and former YPU speaker, said he was disappointed by Paglia’s interpretation of gender roles. While he said her discussion focused too heavily on the physical biological factors, like sex, he also said it was likely that the mostly liberal audience identified with her argument. Graver is a staff columnist for the News.

“She definitely made a good point against pure androgyny, though some argue that it’s not necessarily incompatible with feminism,” Kelsey Larson ’16 said.

Tuesday marked Paglia’s second fete with the YPU — she supported the affirmative of the resolution “Are women are better than men?” at a 1995 debate.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

ANDREW STEIN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Noted social critic Camille Paglia GRD ’74 shared her particular brand of feminism with the Yale Political Union Tuesday evening.

‘E-book revolution’ hits New Haven

BY LAVINIA BORZI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

VICTOR KANG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The New Haven Free Public Library is boosting its e-book collection, but as a result, its print collection will likely stagnate.

In order to shake off the image of a center for “dusty old books,” the New Haven Free Public Library is working to boost its under used electronic offerings, but it may be at the expense of its print collection.

The library’s cache of e-books, electronic copies of books that can be viewed on computers or devices like the Kindle, has grown four times as large since the NHFPL adopted its current electronic book system, called Overdrive, in November 2010.

Budget constraints, though, will not allow the library to continue enriching both its electronic and print collections.

Although Acquisitions and Collections Development Manager Rachael Sherwood said she predicts that the print collection will not suffer, and that a worst-case scenario would see a decline in e-book purchases, with the library’s plans ultimately depend on what the patrons want. “[The e-book system] helps peo-

ple see the library as a center for new technology and all types of learning — not just dusty old books,” said Angelina Carnevale, the NHFPL’s youth librarian. “You get a lot of people who get an e-reader as a gift and come in when they need help using it — people who haven’t been to the library in years.”

The decision to ratchet up e-book purchases last year sprang from comparisons with other libraries and a need for modernization, Sherwood said.

“You want to keep up with the times. You want the library to be relevant,” she said.

Patrons are gradually beginning to use the e-book system, Sherwood said, but the collection was slow to catch on with the public. This problem is not unique to the NHFPL, according to Yale Bookstore General Manager Joseph King. In spite of the popularity of electronic devices like Nooks and Kindles, King said, students are still using more print textbooks than electronic ones.

“Book rentals [still] capture the

imagination more than the e-books,” he said.

Although advertising the e-books is a concern, the main logisitcal issue for the library is allocating its budget between print and electronic content, Sherwood said.

“It’s a big juggling act”, she said, “it’s hard because we don’t want to erode our print collection.”

In the case of a budget crunch, Sherwood said, the Library would probably slow its e-book expansion.

Sherwood and Carnevale, however, both said they are optimistic about the future of both their print and electronic collections.

“I think electronics and paper books can complement each other and coexist,” Carnevale said.

Sherwood said she has faith in the publishers, explaining that she believes they will eventually devise a way to make the e-books more affordable for public libraries. Consumers, however, bear the greatest responsibility for the future of e-books.

“Our decisions depend on the

publishers, but the publishers’ decisions depend on the consumers,” NHFPL tech assistant Vasean Daniels said.

The Yale University Library is undergoing a similar e-book purchasing process with the adoption of a new system for academic resources called Project Muse, according to Associate Director of Collection Development Gregory Eow. The Yale library is seeing an increasing demand for e-books, he added, but it remains to be seen if electronic sources will one day overtake their print counterparts.

“All of our decisions are based on evidence. If faculty and students need print, we’ll give them print, if they need e, we’ll give them e”.

The Yale Library officially launched its e-book strategic plan task-force on Monday to assess the market and make recommendations for how to “best address the e-book revolution,” Eow said.

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The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Known in Spanish as Instituto Tecnolólogico y de Estudies Superiores de Monterrey, or ITESM for short, the school enrolls more than 90,000 students from high school to graduate school. ITESM is based in Monterrey, a large city in Mexico’s northeast, but has 31 campuses all across the country.

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Football quarterback John Whitelaw ’14, center, announced in a Tuesday email to his teammates that he is quitting the team — the latest in a series of offseason setbacks for the Bulldogs.

QUARTERBACK FROM PAGE 1 “I’ve just been really impressed by Eric’s raw talent,” running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 said. “He is a freshman so he makes mistakes here and there, like dropping the ball sometimes or causing us to do extra running

at the end of practice. But there are also times he makes throws that wow you.”

Williams is also no stranger to Yale — his brothers Sean Williams ’11 and Scott Williams ’13 have both played for the Blue and White.

Derek Russell ’13 and Logan

Scott ’16 will be the new primary back-ups, Reno said.

Russell is listed as a wide receiver on the roster and has spent the past three years on the junior varsity team. He threw for 2,100 yards and 21 touchdowns as quarterback for Newton South High School in 2008.

Subject workshops new on HackYale calendar HACKYALE FROM PAGE 1 and Adobe Illustrator, adding that the first workshop will likely meet before the end of September. Gross said the new workshop series will allow the group to remodel the popular elements of the more specialized seminars last spring.

Several students interviewed, who either decided against applying to the lecture course or were not admitted, said they were interested in attending the workshops. Juliet Liu ‘14 said she doesn’t have time to add an entire course onto this semester’s course load, but as a film studies major with a production concentration, workshops on applications like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator would be useful for her coursework and future jobs.

“I would make time for a topical workshop that fits my interests,” Liu said.

Gross said he hopes the workshops will serve as a model for future expansion beyond programming courses to include other “trendy vocational” skills courses that do not fit into the liberal arts curriculum.

“We would want to do courses on things like design, video editing, venture capital, raising money, public speaking, all growing out of the ‘students teaching other students’ model,” Reneau-Wedeen added.

The roughly 300 students who applied for lecture course marked a sharp drop from last fall, when about 600 students applied. Reneau-Wedeen attributed the decline to the fact that

over 100 students took HackYale courses last year and that the lecture time was set before applications were due — a departure from last fall. Also, HackYale decided to reduce its advertisement in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools, in part since the group received an “overwhelming” number of applications from graduate students last year.

For the roughly 60 to 70 students taking the lecture course, HackYale has increased the size of its staff to provide office hours, as the group noticed last year that students could have benefited from more “one-on-one” support outside of the classroom, Reneau-Wedeen said.

The lecture course met in various locations around campus last year, but this fall it will meet regularly at the newly opened Center of Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID), which provides space and research equipment for engineering students and faculty. Reneau-Wedeen said he is excited to teach “with a web developer down the hall actually coding a website, and an engineer a few floors up designing a new product.”

Applications to the lecture required students to answer multiple choice questions about programming, explain why they wished to apply and then write “something funny.” The course met for the first time Tuesday.

He also ran for 500 yards and eight more scores.

Scott was a three-sport athlete for Chaminade College Preparatory School in California and was recruited to play a sport at Boise State, Nevada and San Diego State, among other schools.

Whitelaw was unavailable for comment, and several of his former teammates declined to comment, with one of them doing so because Whitelaw’s departure was “a sore subject.”

Whitelaw saw action in five games last year, completing one of four passes for eight yards and

running for fourteen yards on five carries. He spent his freshman campaign on the JV squad, but he received the spring practice quarterback award in 2012.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO charles.condro@yale.edu .

International student program could expand INTERNATIONAL FROM PAGE 1 tuitions at those schools are significantly lower than at their U.S. counterparts — making it more difficult to convince European institutions to invest in a student’s year abroad.

“It really comes down to how education is funded in different countries,” Bell said. “Some institutions can fund their own students, while some find sponsors willing to help,” she said During its first year, Y-VISP enrolled 16 students from universities in two countries — the National University of Singapore and the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico.

This year, the program expanded to include the University of Hong Kong, and enrollment increased to 20 students.

As Yale continues to develop the program, administrators and students alike said that Y-VISP should remain relatively small. Dean of International and Professional Experience Jane Edwards said Y-VISP was not designed to become a large program, and Yale College Dean Mary Miller said this year’s “modest

expansion” has been “just right.”

Monica Flores ’13, a visiting student from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, said Yale should be careful to preserve the individual attention and “sense of family” in Y-VISP as it looks to expand the program.

It’s good that [the Yale Visiting International Student Program] expands as long as more peer liaisons and advisers come on board.

MONICA FLORES ’13 “It’s good that it expands as long as more peer liaisons and advisers come on board,” she said. “Right now, we have three liaisons and eight advisers for only 20 students, so we each get a lot of attention and opportunities for one-on-one conversations.”

Bell said advisers and peer liasons have been “crucial” in help-

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ing Y-VISP students adjust to academics and social life at Yale. She noted many of the students enroll in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in the discipline they are already pursuing at their home universities.

Rachel Leung ’13, a visiting student from the University of Hong Kong, said she appreciates Yale’s “intense” and “vibrant” learning environment.

Both Leung and Flores said the most rewarding part of their experiences at Yale so far has been interacting with other Yale students. Leung said she was pleasantly surprised when “others hold the door open for [her],” and Flores said she has enjoyed getting involved with extracurricular activities such as a cappella and intramurals, which do not exist at her home university.

Miller announced the creation of the Visiting International Student Program in November 2010.

Payal Marathe contributed reporting.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.

FRIDAY

High of 79, low of 57.

High of 80, low of 60.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 4:30 PM “‘Near China Beyond the Seas’: 19th-Century Indian Convict Tales From Singapore.” This talk, by Anand Yang of the University of Washington, will examine the exile experience of the Sikh rebel Singh (also known as Bhai Maharaj Singh) and of his disciple Kharak Singh in mid-19th-century Singapore. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 203.

5:00 PM “The Song of Achilles — Reading and Discussion.”

The Franke Lectures in the Humanities present a reading and discussion of “The Song of Achilles” with the author Madeline Miller. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 4:30 PM “Portraiture and Memory Amongst the Middling Elites in Tudor and Early Stuart England.” Robert Tittler of Concordia University will speak as part of the British Historical Studies Colloquium. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall st.), room 38/39.

7:00 PM “Meek’s Cutoff.” This 2010 film, about an unfortunate band of travelers on the Oregon Trail in 1845, is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Robert Adams: The Place We Live” and will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Kelly Reichardt, and screenwriter, Jonathan Raymond. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 5:00 PM “The New Haven Green: Heart of a City.” The 452nd Meeting of the Beaumont Medical Club will include a screening and discussion of this new documentary film, followed by discussion with its producer and director, Karyl Evans. Open to the general public. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Historical Library.

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

8:00 PM The Mingus Big Band. The Grammy Award-winning 14-piece Mingus Big Band will perform as part of the Ellington Jazz Series. Tickets $20-$30, students $10. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 6:30 P.M. WED. SEPT. 12 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN In a rare turn of events, the School of Art’s Monday night lecture series will take place on a Wednesday — Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn visits the school to present a lecture on his work.

Yale School of Art, 36 Edgewood Ave

SEPT. 7 - SEPT. 21 INDEPENDENTS “Independents,” the original folkrock musical written by Marina Keegan ’12 that took to the Fringe Festival stage late this summer, is back for six encore performances at SoHo Playhouse.

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” ERNEST DIMNET PRIEST AND WRITER

Theater audition season: blink and you’ll miss it Berke wins U.C. Berkeley arch. prize

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER The casts have been chosen, the designers have been found and the directors have scheduled their first few rehearsals: theater at Yale is prepared to begin a new season.

But bringing together the freshmen that are an integral part of that season has been especially complicated this year, students involved in the Yale theater scene said, as the extracurricular activities bazaar was once again held during the second weekend of Camp Yale, meaning that upperclassmen lost one of their limited chances to advertise shows to members of the class of 2016 before

auditions take place. Per Yale tradition, auditions for more than half of this fall’s productions took place before the first day of classes on Aug. 29.

“I think we won’t know, probably until later in the year, maybe next semester, exactly how bad for theater auditions it was that the bazaar was moved back a weekend, but I think that it definitely posed some problems,” said Irene Casey ’14, the president of the Yale Drama Coalition.

“We definitely had discussions about whether freshmen would know about things like the [Yale Drama Coalition’s annual] season preview and auditions, which all happened before the bazaar … the YDC spoke

to a lot of freshman at the bazaar, and a lot had already auditioned, but a lot missed out on the frenzy.”

Meredith Davis ’13, the president of the Yale Dramatic Association, said that the extracurricular bazaar’s timing meant that the Dramat lost its chance to advertise auditions for its three fall productions at the event.

Instead, Davis said, the organization, Yale’s largest undergraduate theater company, relied on advertising as much as possible, holding an information session and asking some members to sit at a desk on Old Campus.

Alyssa Miller ’16, who stars in this semester’s production of “Spring Awakening,” said she might have

missed the YDC season preview — held on Sunday the 26th of August — if she had not heard about it from the Dramat members at the Old Campus desk. She added that it was after going to that event, at which each director of a fall season show is given a chance to speak about his or her production, that she realized that auditions would begin the very next day.

“The problem is that if there’s only a certain number of weeks in a semester, you want to start putting up shows as early as you can, because you want to have the maximum time to rehearse,” said Ethan Karetsky ’14, the producer of “Spring Awakening.”

Adela Jaffe ’13, a Yale Drama Coali-

tion board member and the director of this semester’s production of “The Seagull,” said that problem has been exacerbated this year by the fact that theater has had two weekends “taken away”: the weekend of fall break and the weekend of the Harvard-Yale game.

Last year, the Dramat’s mainstage production, “Sweeney Todd,” went up the weekend of the Game.

The concern about maximizing rehearsal time by deciding a show’s cast early is especially pressing for the Dramat, Davis said, because the company’s first production goes up four weeks after the semester begins.

“It really has to hit the ground running,” said Alexi Sargeant ’15, the

director of “Measure for Measure,” the Dramat fall experimental production which opens at the end of this month.

Sargeant added that once one production decides to hold its auditions right at the beginning of the semester, most other productions choose to do so as well, to ensure that they get first pick of potential cast and crew members.

“Auditions were literally three days after we got to campus,” said Christian Probst ’16, the lead in “The Drowsy Chaperone,” this fall’s Dramat mainstage. “I signed up for them … they were really hard to fit between ‘sexuality and consent’ workshops.”

Still, Probst added that he is not

SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam St, New York

5:30 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 13 GALLERY TALK Filmmaker and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond will give a talk at the Yale University Art Gallery on the similarities between his work and that of photographer Robert Adams, the subject of a retrospective at the Art Gallery.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

WED. AUG. 29 FRI. DEC. 7 SIMONIDES An exhibition of photographs by Norman McBeath, with texts by Robert Crawford based on the epitaphs written by the ancient Greek poet Simonides.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

5 - 7 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 13 OPEN HOUSE The Yale Center for British Art holds its annual open house, which will feature tours, art activities and live music.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

8 - 10 P.M. FRI. SEPT. 14 THE MINGUS BIG BAND The Mingus Big Band, a Grammywinning ensemble that covers the music of the late Charles Mingus, will perform in Sprague Memorial Hall.

Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St.

JUN. 22 - SEPT. 17 WWII FOOD AND NUTRITION POSTERS What does eating fruit daily have to do with winning World War II? Everything.

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St.

3 - 4:30 P.M. SAT. SEPT. 15 INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTING DESIGN A workshop that will introduce those interested in technical theater to the basics of lighting design.

Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater, 19 Tower Parkway

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complaining, as auditioning early gives freshmen a chance to take advantage of opportunities in Yale theater from the get-go.

“It’s … truly incredible to have my first show at Yale be a mainstage by the Dramat,” he said.

Four students involved in theater said they do not see any clear alternative to the current audition scheduling process.

Even for returning actors, Karetsky said, it can be “overwhelming.”

Casey said the Yale Drama Coalition recognizes that the current process can be particularly stressful for freshmen and tries to provide resources to help them better understand how to audition effectively. The coalition is reviving a mentor program, she added, that will pair freshmen with upperclassmen interested in the same field of theater.

This may help fill a gap. Eric Sirakian ’15, who will act in Jaffe’s production of “The Seagull,” said he was fortunate to know upperclassmen in the theater scene who could guide him in his decisions as a freshman, but added that he recognizes that not all freshmen have that opportunity.

Becoming familiar with upperclassmen by doing shows in the fall can be a major boost that opens up opportunities in productions later in one’s career at Yale, said Paul Hinkes ’15, who will act in “Ugly People” later this semester.

Karetsky and Casey both said that, even if freshmen missed the audition process or do not feel ready to make a major commitment to a show this early, they should always feel open to emailing a director or actor working on a project they are interested in.

“The first impression is that it’s a clique, [but] what I’ve realized and I hope other people realize is that it’s very inclusive and … the people here are very welcoming,” Sirakian said.

“It’s not hard to find a place and soon you’ll have experiences that help you form those kinds of relationships.”

Last year, when he was a freshman, Sirakian was involved in six productions.

“One year later, you’re on the other side of that fence,” he added.

Auditions for some spring shows, including those staged by the Dramat, will begin during Reading Week.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

Because of the late date of the extracurricular bazaar, many freshmen missed the chance to audition for theatrical productions before classes started. Shows going up this fall include “Spring Awakening,” “The Seagull” and “Measure for Measure.”

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER On Monday, the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded School of Architecture professor Deborah Berke with the first-ever Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize. The jury for the $100,000 prize selected Berke for her commitment to the advancement of women in architecture, as well as her focus on sustainability. Berke, the founder of Deborah Berke and Partners, will teach a class at Berkeley this spring before returning to Yale in spring 2014, where she has taught for the past 25 years. are some of the challenges facing QWhat women architects today?

A

I think the issue for me is less about the specific challenges that women architects face — although there certainly are those challenges — and more about making sure that both women and others whose backgrounds are underrepresented in the current practice of architecture have the opportunity feel like being an architect is possible if that is what they want. There must be challenges, because 50% of architecture students are women, but only about 20% of licensed architects are women. Women disappear somewhere along the way. I think there are a host of reasons — having a family is one, but there are a host of other small reasons that accumulate to have an impact. My hope is that the field of architecture is open to all communities.

Q

How has the presence of women architects changed since you were in school?

A

There has absolutely been progress.

Overall, there is more diversity — women, multiple ethnicities and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds are better represented in architecture than they were.

But I don’t think this has been as true [for architecture] as for law and medicine. It’s definitely better, but it could be more better.

Q

Why do you think it has been difficult for the field of architecture to attract and accept a more diverse group?

A

I think that at all but the highest echelons of the profession, architecture is less well compensated than other professions. There are some people who are born to be architects the way Mozart was destined to be a composer. But if you’re

YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

School of Architecture professor Deborah Berke won a $100,000 prize from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design for her efforts in sustainable architecture and advancing women in the field. an intelligent gifted person who could do architecture but could also do something else, you would perhaps do something else because of either the compensation or the quality of life. I find architecture a deeply fulfilling life to have led, and I think that’s a reason people should pursue it, but I think people are turned off by the long hours, the relatively low pay, and the difficulty of finding work in hard times. This certainly could affect [the number of diverse professionals in the field]. That’s my gut reaction.

I’m not a professor of gender studies. gears a little, one element of the QShifting Berkeley-Rupp prize involves teaching a class at Berkeley. What are your plans thus far?

A

I’m very interested in teaching a design studio that will be about buildings and spaces where people make things, a studio about manufacturing and the process of making in an urban environment. I think since being a child I’ve been drawn to the sort of gritty aspects of cities, the making aspects of cities. I’m still fascinated by those kinds of spaces, so teaching a studio in that would allow me to further explore what I’m interested in.

will you incorporate sustainabilQHow ity into this exploration of manufacturing spaces?

A

I think I see sustainability at a very broad level that includes sustainable communities, the engagement of architects in their communities, and the use of old buildings. I’m interested in sustainability as it relates to technology, but more in looking at it with the broadest possible definition.

taught a studio at Yale last semesQYou ter involving manufacturing, specifi-

cally on the design of bourbon distilleries.

How did the topic of sustainability play out in that class?

A

For some of the students, their buildings were driven explicitly by sustainability within the distilling process.

Other students were interested in the other aspects of sustainability, such as reuse of the site and creating urban jobs.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu.

Hoaxster talks Understanding painting through the artist’s past YCBA plans conservation exchange with Haitian artists career, seriously

BY ERIC XIAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER From staging a fake Idi Amin wedding to starting a movement against breastfeeding, Alan Abel has fooled newspapers, television shows and radio programs with his hoaxes, using large-scale satire to criticize society as well as to give his audience a laugh.

On Tuesday evening, in the main floor of New Haven’s Institute Library, legendary hoaxster Abel recounted the highlights of his career to an audience of about 25, often eliciting laughter at his bizarre achievements.

Abel’s career began when he created a movement called the “Society for Indecency to Naked Animals,” or SINA, in 1959. The alleged mission of the movement was to encourage the population to clothe all animals, spawning slogans like “A nude horse is a rude horse.”

In an attempt to criticize what he believes is a rise in selfcensorship among United States media, Abel said he submitted his proposal to the Saturday Evening Post as a satire, expecting the editors to laugh at his ridiculous idea. However, the editors took the idea seriously and issued a harsh rejection of it, Abel said, completely oblivious to the fact that the entire movement was a joke.

Surprised at the inability of the Saturday Evening Post to see through his hoax, Abel decided to grow the SINA movement until it gained nationwide attention. At one point, he said, one could find protesters on the street insisting that animals wear clothes.

Soon, Abel began to appear on the front page of every newspaper in the country for his work with SINA, and he earned multiple appearances on the most popular news programs and talk shows. In his talk, Abel revealed that Walter Cronkite himself was fooled into promoting SINA for seven full minutes on CBS. Abel said that even up to his death, Cronkite was angry at having been tricked by Abel.

Needless to say, Abel had no intention of discontinuing his hoaxes after SINA declined in popularity. Even in his 70s, Abel was still busy at work with his satirical work.

Josh Foer, a writer who hosted the talk with Abel, said he first met Abel at the 2000 Democratic National Convention when Abel was protesting against breastfeeding, proclaiming that it fosters “an incestuous relationship between mother and child.”

Foer said he was amazed with the fact the Abel has built a hugely successful career out of creating and executing hoaxes.

“Alan is obviously a hero, a hero to me,” Foer added.

Abel was the subject of a 2005 documentary titled “Abel Raises Cain.”

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

BY NITIKA KHAITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER

On Monday, curator, author and art historian Pamela Kort gave a lecture on post1945 German artist Eugen Schönebeck at 36 Edgewood Ave. as part of the Yale School of Art’s Monday night lecture series.

Kort, who specializes in the art of German-speaking Europe in the 20th century, said that Schönebeck broke the “tacit agreement” among citizens of postwar Germany that “the true state of material and moral ruin in which the country found itself was not to be described.” Instead, Kort said, he painted grotesque images influenced by the Second World War and had to deal with the consequences.

Schönebeck is an example of artist whose work was shaped by his past, Kort said, adding that while artists may not paint with historical events in mind, incidents in their past often manifest in their work.

“Things come to the surface,” Kort said.

“In Schönebeck’s case, things came to the surface very fast.”

Kort then enumerated the problems she has with art historians’ approach to Schönebeck today.

“You need to know this,” she said, “because you don’t know why you don’t know him.”

Kort said that contemporary historians tend to have a narrow focus on the time he shared with the more well-known artist George Baselitz, between 1961 and 1963.

She added that historians are also predisposed to discuss his later work in relation to Baselitz, which puts him in the periphery, even though after 1963 they had become very divergent and barely saw each other.

Lastly, Schönebeck withdrew from the art world in 1967 as he became angry with contemporary trends — Kort said that no historian today seems bothered enough to contact him or showcase his work except her. “[His] inventiveness is as yet unmatched,” Kort said.

Born in 1936, Schönebeck grew up seeing forced labor marches on the main streets of Heidenau, near Dresden. His school was near a center where the “medically undesirable” were gassed.

As he told Kort, his most vivid impression of the war is a memory of traveling across a 100-kilometer stretch in Germany with his family. He saw a German army

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the Smithsonian Institution began a program to recover and restore artworks marred in the disaster based out of the offices of the United Nations Development Program.

Now, the Yale Center for British Art is hoping to create a cultural exchange program to teach Haitian artists restoration techniques that the artists can apply to damaged works in their home country.

One participant in the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery Project was Mark Aronson, the chief conservator at the British Art Center, who worked on the project with two Haitian artists and professors, Franck Louissaint and Jean Menard Dernoncourt. When conservators at the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered 15 forgotten portraits of Haitian political figures in the museum’s storage facilities last year, Aronson said he invited Louissaint and Dernoncourt to New Haven to learn restoration methods that could apply to artwork in Haiti as the pieces were being examined for restoration purposes by a team of conservators from the Yale Center for British Art. Their visit, which began Aug. 20 and ends Friday, was funded through the Smithsonian.

“The discovery of these paintings is very important to Haitian tradition in terms of dating,” said Dernoncourt in an interview conducted in French.

“After the revolution of 1804 much of the artwork is lost so it is important in the sense that it helps us to place much in a historical context.”

The Peabody artworks were brought into the United States by renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his capacity as Haiti’s commissioner for the Chicago World Fair in 1893, said Richard Kurin, under secretary for History, Art, and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution. The works were likely used as a backdrop during Douglass’ speeches in Chicago, after which the Smithsonian acquired them, Kurin said.

Aronson said that the paintings and lithographs were transferred to Yale much later, in 1963, at the request of

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Pamela Kort, an art historian and curator, spoke Monday at the School of Art about postwar German art. deserter who had been apprehended by the SS, holding a shovel with which he would have to dig his own grave. Kort said she was sharing this memory against the artist’s wishes because she believes history matters — he wasn’t the kind of man that wants to come to terms with his past, she noted.

At his first solo exhibition at the Hilton Colonnade in Berlin in 1965, critics questioned whether Schönebeck’s grotesque works were art, Kort said. Of the 11 works he showed there, only two survive and the rest he destroyed. In his later works, he pushed even further the nightmarish qualities that critics found “alarming.” In his second solo show, critics described him as a “brilliant painter,” but, as in the first, he had no sales.

Schönebeck went through a phase of painting comic grotesque paintings that, according to Kort, didn’t make fun of the events he had witnessed but rather seemed to hint that in all the grotesqueness, one could at least see something funny.

These paintings are political in essence but lack a propagandist message, mocking the bourgeois notion of the time that “everything would be fine,” despite the undeniable ruin of war.

Schönebeck’s four crucifixion paintings

are also political without seeming so. For instance, Bach, in his cantata “Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God,” depicted Christ as a true man. Schönebeck painted a crucifixion of a Communist figure with a German title that translates to “real or actual man,” thus depicting Communism religiously, Kort said.

Kort concluded the talk with a discussion of the artist’s current state: still healthy and angry at current trends. She jokingly said that she hopes he will become angry enough to start painting again.

After the question and answer session, Benjamin Niznik ART ’14 said it was interesting to see how the grotesque was presented in painting. Sunny Park ART ’14 noted that what interested her was the research Kort put into putting the pieces together, showing the contexts that art works belong in.

On Thursday, Sept. 13, an exhibition titled “Eugen Schönebeck: 1957-1967” will open at the David Nolan gallery in New York, curated by Kort.

Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu .

a professor of anthropology who was studying Haitian culture but have remained in storage at the Peabody ever since. With the devastating earthquake in 2010 drawing much attention to restoring art in Haiti, the discovery of these forgotten artworks came at the perfect time, he noted.

“We’re attending to the most flaky

ones, doing some consolidation to make sure no more paint is lost,” Aronson said. “We’re also practicing tearmending techniques so we can imagine what a phase two would be to have all 15 paintings conserved collectively between the Peabody, the Yale Art Gallery and the British Art Center, probably at West Campus.”

Aronson said that he hopes to turn the restoration project into a teaching tool by inviting young Haitian artists and would-be conservators to collaborate on the project. After grasping the fundamentals of conserving and restoring art, he said, the Haitians would be able to help preserve much of the artwork damaged by the earthquake

themselves. “[Conserving art] is very important psychologically for Haitians and the Haitian identity because in these tough times it gives people a sense of who they are,” Kurin said.

Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .

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Conservators at the Yale Center for British Art are working with Haitian art experts to examine and restore portraits of Haitian political figures found in the YCBA’s storage facilities last year.

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CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 6:30 P.M. WED. SEPT. 12 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN In a rare turn of events, the School of Art’s Monday night lecture series will take place on a Wednesday — Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn visits the school to present a lecture on his work.

Yale School of Art, 36 Edgewood Ave

SEPT. 7 - SEPT. 21 INDEPENDENTS “Independents,” the original folkrock musical written by Marina Keegan ’12 that took to the Fringe Festival stage late this summer, is back for six encore performances at SoHo Playhouse.

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” ERNEST DIMNET PRIEST AND WRITER

Theater audition season: blink and you’ll miss it Berke wins U.C. Berkeley arch. prize

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER The casts have been chosen, the designers have been found and the directors have scheduled their first few rehearsals: theater at Yale is prepared to begin a new season.

But bringing together the freshmen that are an integral part of that season has been especially complicated this year, students involved in the Yale theater scene said, as the extracurricular activities bazaar was once again held during the second weekend of Camp Yale, meaning that upperclassmen lost one of their limited chances to advertise shows to members of the class of 2016 before

auditions take place. Per Yale tradition, auditions for more than half of this fall’s productions took place before the first day of classes on Aug. 29.

“I think we won’t know, probably until later in the year, maybe next semester, exactly how bad for theater auditions it was that the bazaar was moved back a weekend, but I think that it definitely posed some problems,” said Irene Casey ’14, the president of the Yale Drama Coalition.

“We definitely had discussions about whether freshmen would know about things like the [Yale Drama Coalition’s annual] season preview and auditions, which all happened before the bazaar … the YDC spoke

to a lot of freshman at the bazaar, and a lot had already auditioned, but a lot missed out on the frenzy.”

Meredith Davis ’13, the president of the Yale Dramatic Association, said that the extracurricular bazaar’s timing meant that the Dramat lost its chance to advertise auditions for its three fall productions at the event.

Instead, Davis said, the organization, Yale’s largest undergraduate theater company, relied on advertising as much as possible, holding an information session and asking some members to sit at a desk on Old Campus.

Alyssa Miller ’16, who stars in this semester’s production of “Spring Awakening,” said she might have

missed the YDC season preview — held on Sunday the 26th of August — if she had not heard about it from the Dramat members at the Old Campus desk. She added that it was after going to that event, at which each director of a fall season show is given a chance to speak about his or her production, that she realized that auditions would begin the very next day.

“The problem is that if there’s only a certain number of weeks in a semester, you want to start putting up shows as early as you can, because you want to have the maximum time to rehearse,” said Ethan Karetsky ’14, the producer of “Spring Awakening.”

Adela Jaffe ’13, a Yale Drama Coali-

tion board member and the director of this semester’s production of “The Seagull,” said that problem has been exacerbated this year by the fact that theater has had two weekends “taken away”: the weekend of fall break and the weekend of the Harvard-Yale game.

Last year, the Dramat’s mainstage production, “Sweeney Todd,” went up the weekend of the Game.

The concern about maximizing rehearsal time by deciding a show’s cast early is especially pressing for the Dramat, Davis said, because the company’s first production goes up four weeks after the semester begins.

“It really has to hit the ground running,” said Alexi Sargeant ’15, the

director of “Measure for Measure,” the Dramat fall experimental production which opens at the end of this month.

Sargeant added that once one production decides to hold its auditions right at the beginning of the semester, most other productions choose to do so as well, to ensure that they get first pick of potential cast and crew members.

“Auditions were literally three days after we got to campus,” said Christian Probst ’16, the lead in “The Drowsy Chaperone,” this fall’s Dramat mainstage. “I signed up for them … they were really hard to fit between ‘sexuality and consent’ workshops.”

Still, Probst added that he is not

SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam St, New York

5:30 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 13 GALLERY TALK Filmmaker and screenwriter Jonathan Raymond will give a talk at the Yale University Art Gallery on the similarities between his work and that of photographer Robert Adams, the subject of a retrospective at the Art Gallery.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.

WED. AUG. 29 FRI. DEC. 7 SIMONIDES An exhibition of photographs by Norman McBeath, with texts by Robert Crawford based on the epitaphs written by the ancient Greek poet Simonides.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

5 - 7 P.M. THURS. SEPT. 13 OPEN HOUSE The Yale Center for British Art holds its annual open house, which will feature tours, art activities and live music.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

8 - 10 P.M. FRI. SEPT. 14 THE MINGUS BIG BAND The Mingus Big Band, a Grammywinning ensemble that covers the music of the late Charles Mingus, will perform in Sprague Memorial Hall.

Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St.

JUN. 22 - SEPT. 17 WWII FOOD AND NUTRITION POSTERS What does eating fruit daily have to do with winning World War II? Everything.

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar St.

3 - 4:30 P.M. SAT. SEPT. 15 INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTING DESIGN A workshop that will introduce those interested in technical theater to the basics of lighting design.

Stiles-Morse Crescent Theater, 19 Tower Parkway

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complaining, as auditioning early gives freshmen a chance to take advantage of opportunities in Yale theater from the get-go.

“It’s … truly incredible to have my first show at Yale be a mainstage by the Dramat,” he said.

Four students involved in theater said they do not see any clear alternative to the current audition scheduling process.

Even for returning actors, Karetsky said, it can be “overwhelming.”

Casey said the Yale Drama Coalition recognizes that the current process can be particularly stressful for freshmen and tries to provide resources to help them better understand how to audition effectively. The coalition is reviving a mentor program, she added, that will pair freshmen with upperclassmen interested in the same field of theater.

This may help fill a gap. Eric Sirakian ’15, who will act in Jaffe’s production of “The Seagull,” said he was fortunate to know upperclassmen in the theater scene who could guide him in his decisions as a freshman, but added that he recognizes that not all freshmen have that opportunity.

Becoming familiar with upperclassmen by doing shows in the fall can be a major boost that opens up opportunities in productions later in one’s career at Yale, said Paul Hinkes ’15, who will act in “Ugly People” later this semester.

Karetsky and Casey both said that, even if freshmen missed the audition process or do not feel ready to make a major commitment to a show this early, they should always feel open to emailing a director or actor working on a project they are interested in.

“The first impression is that it’s a clique, [but] what I’ve realized and I hope other people realize is that it’s very inclusive and … the people here are very welcoming,” Sirakian said.

“It’s not hard to find a place and soon you’ll have experiences that help you form those kinds of relationships.”

Last year, when he was a freshman, Sirakian was involved in six productions.

“One year later, you’re on the other side of that fence,” he added.

Auditions for some spring shows, including those staged by the Dramat, will begin during Reading Week.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

Because of the late date of the extracurricular bazaar, many freshmen missed the chance to audition for theatrical productions before classes started. Shows going up this fall include “Spring Awakening,” “The Seagull” and “Measure for Measure.”

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER On Monday, the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, awarded School of Architecture professor Deborah Berke with the first-ever Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize. The jury for the $100,000 prize selected Berke for her commitment to the advancement of women in architecture, as well as her focus on sustainability. Berke, the founder of Deborah Berke and Partners, will teach a class at Berkeley this spring before returning to Yale in spring 2014, where she has taught for the past 25 years. are some of the challenges facing QWhat women architects today?

A

I think the issue for me is less about the specific challenges that women architects face — although there certainly are those challenges — and more about making sure that both women and others whose backgrounds are underrepresented in the current practice of architecture have the opportunity feel like being an architect is possible if that is what they want. There must be challenges, because 50% of architecture students are women, but only about 20% of licensed architects are women. Women disappear somewhere along the way. I think there are a host of reasons — having a family is one, but there are a host of other small reasons that accumulate to have an impact. My hope is that the field of architecture is open to all communities.

Q

How has the presence of women architects changed since you were in school?

A

There has absolutely been progress.

Overall, there is more diversity — women, multiple ethnicities and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds are better represented in architecture than they were.

But I don’t think this has been as true [for architecture] as for law and medicine. It’s definitely better, but it could be more better.

Q

Why do you think it has been difficult for the field of architecture to attract and accept a more diverse group?

A

I think that at all but the highest echelons of the profession, architecture is less well compensated than other professions. There are some people who are born to be architects the way Mozart was destined to be a composer. But if you’re

YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

School of Architecture professor Deborah Berke won a $100,000 prize from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design for her efforts in sustainable architecture and advancing women in the field. an intelligent gifted person who could do architecture but could also do something else, you would perhaps do something else because of either the compensation or the quality of life. I find architecture a deeply fulfilling life to have led, and I think that’s a reason people should pursue it, but I think people are turned off by the long hours, the relatively low pay, and the difficulty of finding work in hard times. This certainly could affect [the number of diverse professionals in the field]. That’s my gut reaction.

I’m not a professor of gender studies. gears a little, one element of the QShifting Berkeley-Rupp prize involves teaching a class at Berkeley. What are your plans thus far?

A

I’m very interested in teaching a design studio that will be about buildings and spaces where people make things, a studio about manufacturing and the process of making in an urban environment. I think since being a child I’ve been drawn to the sort of gritty aspects of cities, the making aspects of cities. I’m still fascinated by those kinds of spaces, so teaching a studio in that would allow me to further explore what I’m interested in.

will you incorporate sustainabilQHow ity into this exploration of manufacturing spaces?

A

I think I see sustainability at a very broad level that includes sustainable communities, the engagement of architects in their communities, and the use of old buildings. I’m interested in sustainability as it relates to technology, but more in looking at it with the broadest possible definition.

taught a studio at Yale last semesQYou ter involving manufacturing, specifi-

cally on the design of bourbon distilleries.

How did the topic of sustainability play out in that class?

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For some of the students, their buildings were driven explicitly by sustainability within the distilling process.

Other students were interested in the other aspects of sustainability, such as reuse of the site and creating urban jobs.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu.

Hoaxster talks Understanding painting through the artist’s past YCBA plans conservation exchange with Haitian artists career, seriously

BY ERIC XIAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER From staging a fake Idi Amin wedding to starting a movement against breastfeeding, Alan Abel has fooled newspapers, television shows and radio programs with his hoaxes, using large-scale satire to criticize society as well as to give his audience a laugh.

On Tuesday evening, in the main floor of New Haven’s Institute Library, legendary hoaxster Abel recounted the highlights of his career to an audience of about 25, often eliciting laughter at his bizarre achievements.

Abel’s career began when he created a movement called the “Society for Indecency to Naked Animals,” or SINA, in 1959. The alleged mission of the movement was to encourage the population to clothe all animals, spawning slogans like “A nude horse is a rude horse.”

In an attempt to criticize what he believes is a rise in selfcensorship among United States media, Abel said he submitted his proposal to the Saturday Evening Post as a satire, expecting the editors to laugh at his ridiculous idea. However, the editors took the idea seriously and issued a harsh rejection of it, Abel said, completely oblivious to the fact that the entire movement was a joke.

Surprised at the inability of the Saturday Evening Post to see through his hoax, Abel decided to grow the SINA movement until it gained nationwide attention. At one point, he said, one could find protesters on the street insisting that animals wear clothes.

Soon, Abel began to appear on the front page of every newspaper in the country for his work with SINA, and he earned multiple appearances on the most popular news programs and talk shows. In his talk, Abel revealed that Walter Cronkite himself was fooled into promoting SINA for seven full minutes on CBS. Abel said that even up to his death, Cronkite was angry at having been tricked by Abel.

Needless to say, Abel had no intention of discontinuing his hoaxes after SINA declined in popularity. Even in his 70s, Abel was still busy at work with his satirical work.

Josh Foer, a writer who hosted the talk with Abel, said he first met Abel at the 2000 Democratic National Convention when Abel was protesting against breastfeeding, proclaiming that it fosters “an incestuous relationship between mother and child.”

Foer said he was amazed with the fact the Abel has built a hugely successful career out of creating and executing hoaxes.

“Alan is obviously a hero, a hero to me,” Foer added.

Abel was the subject of a 2005 documentary titled “Abel Raises Cain.”

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

BY NITIKA KHAITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER

On Monday, curator, author and art historian Pamela Kort gave a lecture on post1945 German artist Eugen Schönebeck at 36 Edgewood Ave. as part of the Yale School of Art’s Monday night lecture series.

Kort, who specializes in the art of German-speaking Europe in the 20th century, said that Schönebeck broke the “tacit agreement” among citizens of postwar Germany that “the true state of material and moral ruin in which the country found itself was not to be described.” Instead, Kort said, he painted grotesque images influenced by the Second World War and had to deal with the consequences.

Schönebeck is an example of artist whose work was shaped by his past, Kort said, adding that while artists may not paint with historical events in mind, incidents in their past often manifest in their work.

“Things come to the surface,” Kort said.

“In Schönebeck’s case, things came to the surface very fast.”

Kort then enumerated the problems she has with art historians’ approach to Schönebeck today.

“You need to know this,” she said, “because you don’t know why you don’t know him.”

Kort said that contemporary historians tend to have a narrow focus on the time he shared with the more well-known artist George Baselitz, between 1961 and 1963.

She added that historians are also predisposed to discuss his later work in relation to Baselitz, which puts him in the periphery, even though after 1963 they had become very divergent and barely saw each other.

Lastly, Schönebeck withdrew from the art world in 1967 as he became angry with contemporary trends — Kort said that no historian today seems bothered enough to contact him or showcase his work except her. “[His] inventiveness is as yet unmatched,” Kort said.

Born in 1936, Schönebeck grew up seeing forced labor marches on the main streets of Heidenau, near Dresden. His school was near a center where the “medically undesirable” were gassed.

As he told Kort, his most vivid impression of the war is a memory of traveling across a 100-kilometer stretch in Germany with his family. He saw a German army

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the Smithsonian Institution began a program to recover and restore artworks marred in the disaster based out of the offices of the United Nations Development Program.

Now, the Yale Center for British Art is hoping to create a cultural exchange program to teach Haitian artists restoration techniques that the artists can apply to damaged works in their home country.

One participant in the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery Project was Mark Aronson, the chief conservator at the British Art Center, who worked on the project with two Haitian artists and professors, Franck Louissaint and Jean Menard Dernoncourt. When conservators at the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered 15 forgotten portraits of Haitian political figures in the museum’s storage facilities last year, Aronson said he invited Louissaint and Dernoncourt to New Haven to learn restoration methods that could apply to artwork in Haiti as the pieces were being examined for restoration purposes by a team of conservators from the Yale Center for British Art. Their visit, which began Aug. 20 and ends Friday, was funded through the Smithsonian.

“The discovery of these paintings is very important to Haitian tradition in terms of dating,” said Dernoncourt in an interview conducted in French.

“After the revolution of 1804 much of the artwork is lost so it is important in the sense that it helps us to place much in a historical context.”

The Peabody artworks were brought into the United States by renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his capacity as Haiti’s commissioner for the Chicago World Fair in 1893, said Richard Kurin, under secretary for History, Art, and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution. The works were likely used as a backdrop during Douglass’ speeches in Chicago, after which the Smithsonian acquired them, Kurin said.

Aronson said that the paintings and lithographs were transferred to Yale much later, in 1963, at the request of

SELEN UMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pamela Kort, an art historian and curator, spoke Monday at the School of Art about postwar German art. deserter who had been apprehended by the SS, holding a shovel with which he would have to dig his own grave. Kort said she was sharing this memory against the artist’s wishes because she believes history matters — he wasn’t the kind of man that wants to come to terms with his past, she noted.

At his first solo exhibition at the Hilton Colonnade in Berlin in 1965, critics questioned whether Schönebeck’s grotesque works were art, Kort said. Of the 11 works he showed there, only two survive and the rest he destroyed. In his later works, he pushed even further the nightmarish qualities that critics found “alarming.” In his second solo show, critics described him as a “brilliant painter,” but, as in the first, he had no sales.

Schönebeck went through a phase of painting comic grotesque paintings that, according to Kort, didn’t make fun of the events he had witnessed but rather seemed to hint that in all the grotesqueness, one could at least see something funny.

These paintings are political in essence but lack a propagandist message, mocking the bourgeois notion of the time that “everything would be fine,” despite the undeniable ruin of war.

Schönebeck’s four crucifixion paintings

are also political without seeming so. For instance, Bach, in his cantata “Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God,” depicted Christ as a true man. Schönebeck painted a crucifixion of a Communist figure with a German title that translates to “real or actual man,” thus depicting Communism religiously, Kort said.

Kort concluded the talk with a discussion of the artist’s current state: still healthy and angry at current trends. She jokingly said that she hopes he will become angry enough to start painting again.

After the question and answer session, Benjamin Niznik ART ’14 said it was interesting to see how the grotesque was presented in painting. Sunny Park ART ’14 noted that what interested her was the research Kort put into putting the pieces together, showing the contexts that art works belong in.

On Thursday, Sept. 13, an exhibition titled “Eugen Schönebeck: 1957-1967” will open at the David Nolan gallery in New York, curated by Kort.

Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at nitika.khaitan@yale.edu .

a professor of anthropology who was studying Haitian culture but have remained in storage at the Peabody ever since. With the devastating earthquake in 2010 drawing much attention to restoring art in Haiti, the discovery of these forgotten artworks came at the perfect time, he noted.

“We’re attending to the most flaky

ones, doing some consolidation to make sure no more paint is lost,” Aronson said. “We’re also practicing tearmending techniques so we can imagine what a phase two would be to have all 15 paintings conserved collectively between the Peabody, the Yale Art Gallery and the British Art Center, probably at West Campus.”

Aronson said that he hopes to turn the restoration project into a teaching tool by inviting young Haitian artists and would-be conservators to collaborate on the project. After grasping the fundamentals of conserving and restoring art, he said, the Haitians would be able to help preserve much of the artwork damaged by the earthquake

themselves. “[Conserving art] is very important psychologically for Haitians and the Haitian identity because in these tough times it gives people a sense of who they are,” Kurin said.

Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .

ANNELISA LEINBACH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Conservators at the Yale Center for British Art are working with Haitian art experts to examine and restore portraits of Haitian political figures found in the YCBA’s storage facilities last year.

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BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND MEGHAN BARR ASSOCIATED PRESS

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House.

BY JIM KUHNHENN AND BEN FELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney declared a fleeting truce for partisan digs Tuesday as the nation remembered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but campaign politics crackled through even their somber observances.

The campaigns pulled their negative ads and scheduled no rallies. But both candidates stayed in the public eye as the nation marked the 11th anniversary of the jetliner crashes that left nearly 3,000 dead.

Obama observed a White House moment of silence, attended a memorial service at the Pentagon, visited Arlington National Cemetery and then met privately with wounded soldiers and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. But former President Bill Clinton carried on with a campaign stop for Obama in Florida, and the Democrat’s camp issued registration appeals under first lady Michelle Obama’s name.

In an echo of his usual campaign speech, Obama noted that the war in Iraq is over and troops are on track to leave Afghanistan in 2014.

“Al-Qaida’s leadership has been devastated, and Osama bin Laden will never threaten us again,” Obama said

at the Pentagon. “Our country is safer and our people are resilient.”

Romney, in Reno, Nev., to address a meeting of the National Guard, indirectly but clearly drew distinctions with Obama by spelling out his own national security goals.

“I wish I could say the world is less dangerous now,” he said.

After declaring that the day was not the proper moment to address differences with the president, Romney took issue with threatened cuts in defense and the handling of disability claims and called for more assertive international leadership.

“This century must be an American century,” Romney said. “It is now our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace and prosperity. America must lead the free world, and the free world must lead the entire world.”

He alluded to his criticism of Obama over threatened cuts in military spending that would kick in if Congress and the president don’t find agreement on major federal deficit reductions.

While acknowledging that the war in Iraq is over and the U.S. is on a path to exit Afghanistan, Romney warned: “The return of our troops cannot and must not be used as an excuse to hollow out our military through devastating defense budget cuts.”

Obama has insisted on a deficit deal

that includes both spending cuts and increases in tax increases. Romney has blamed Obama for negotiating a deal that would require steep Pentagon cuts if a broad deficit agreement failed to materialize. But in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last week, Romney said he also disagreed with Republicans who voted for that same deal. Among those was Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

For Romney, the appearance before the National Guard also provided an opportunity to address men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Romney has been criticized for not mentioning Afghanistan in his speech to the Republican National Convention two weeks ago.

While Romney said Tuesday the U.S. goal should be to transfer security to Afghan forces in 2014 - the same timeline as Obama’s - he cautioned, “We should evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders.”

Obama’s public appearances were largely spent in quiet contemplation, first during a moment of silence on the South Lawn at the White House at precisely the time that that American Airlines Flight 11 became the first hijacked plane to hit the World Trade Center 11 years ago.

NEW YORK — There were still the tearful messages to loved ones, clutches of photos and flowers, and moments of silence. But 11 years after Sept. 11, Americans appeared to enter a new, scaled-back chapter of collective mourning for the worst terror attack in U.S history.

Crowds gathered, as always, at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania memorial Tuesday to mourn the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 terror attacks, reciting their names and remembering with music, tolling bells and prayer. But they came in fewer numbers, ceremonies were less elaborate and some cities canceled their remembrances altogether. A year after the milestone 10th anniversary, some said the memorials may have reached an emotional turning point.

“It’s human nature, so people move on,” said Wanda Ortiz, of New York City, whose husband, Emilio Ortiz, was killed in the trade center’s north tower, leaving behind her and their 5-month-old twin daughters. “My concern now is ... how I keep the memory of my husband alive.”

It was also a year when politicians largely took a back seat to grieving families; no elected officials spoke at all at New York’s 3 1/2 -hour ceremony.

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney pulled negative campaign ads and avoided rallies, with the president laying a wreath at the Pentagon ceremony and visiting wounded soldiers at a Maryland hospital. And beyond the victims of the 2001 attacks,

attention was paid to the wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Middletown, N.J., a bedroom community that lost 37 residents in the attacks, town officials laid a wreath at the entrance to the park in a small, silent ceremony. Last year, 3,700 people attended a remembrance with speeches, music and names read.

“This year,” said Deputy Mayor Stephen Massell, “I think less is more.”

Some worried that moving on would mean Sept. 11 will fade from memory.

“It’s been 11 years already,” said Michael Reneo, whose sister-in-law, Daniela Notaro, was killed at the trade center. “And unfortunately for some, the reality of this day seems to be fading as the years go by. ... I hope we never lose focus on what really happened here.”

Thousands had attended the ceremony in New York in previous years, including last year’s milestone 10th anniversary. In New York, a crowd of fewer than 200 swelled to about 1,000 by late Tuesday morning, as family members laid roses and made paper rubbings of their loved ones’ names etched onto the Sept. 11 memorial. A few hundred attended ceremonies at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., fewer than in years past.

As bagpipes played at the year-old Sept. 11 memorial in New York, families holding balloons, flowers and photos of their loved ones bowed their heads in silence at 8:46 a.m., the moment that the first hijacked jetliner crashed into the trade center’s north tower. Bells tolled to mark the moments that planes crashed into the second tower, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, and the moments that each tower collapsed.

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Rosemary Trotter places flowers on one of the steel beams from the the wreckage of the World Trade Center that makes up part of the 9/11 Memorial in Sacramento, Calif.

Southerners scarce on U.S. presidential tickets

BY BILL BARROW ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants during the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned as Democrats and Republicans in the region navigate the consequences

of tidal shifts in demographics, migration and party identity.

This is the second consecutive presidential election without a Southerner on either major party ticket. That has happened in back-to-back elections only once, 1968 and 1972, since Franklin Roosevelt, a New Yorker, won four consecutive elections with overwhelming support across what was then Democrats’ solid South. (The 2008 candidates were Democrats Barack Obama

of Illinois and Joe Biden of Delaware, and Republicans John McCain of Arizona and Sarah Palin of Alaska. This year, it’s Obama and Biden, and Republicans Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.)

Besides the national dearth, the South’s congressional power players are either aging icons - black Democrats John Lewis of Georgia and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina - or hail from the

region’s periphery - Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House GOP leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.

But Kentucky was a Civil War border state, while Virginia, for all its antebellum credentials, is increasingly racially, culturally and politically diverse. That puts both states outside the Bible Belt, Deep South core that, fairly or unfairly, has long defined the region on the national stage.

This is all new for a proud

region that produced Presidents George W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Jimmy Carter of Georgia. George H.W. Bush claimed Texas as well, despite his roots as an East Coast moderate, and he was a national figure by the time he was elected. Newt Gingrich of Georgia drove the 1994 Republican resurrection in the U.S. House, and Tom DeLay of Texas extended it. Trent Lott of Mississippi led Republicans in

the Senate. Lott’s fellow Mississippian, Haley Barbour, helped fuel a GOP rise as national party chairman. Before them came a raft of speakers, floor leaders and notables.

Elected officials, party leaders and campaign strategists on both sides cite the old rule that politics is cyclical and say the table is set for their return to prominence, depending on how the parties and their candidates present themselves to the public.

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“I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.�

NEWT GINGRICH FORMER SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

U.S.-Israel divisions over Iran boil over

BY JOSEF FEDERMANN AND GEORGE JAHN ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israel is sounding increasingly agitated over what it views as American dithering with economic sanctions too weak to force Iran to end its suspected drive toward nuclear weapons.

In a clear message aimed at the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday

criticized what he said was the world’s failure to spell out what would provoke a U.S.-led military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The comments came in response to U.S. refusals in recent days to set “red lines� for Tehran.

With his strong words, Netanyahu is taking a bold gamble. He clearly hopes to rattle the U.S. into doing more, for fear that Israel might otherwise soon attack Iran on its own. But he risks antago-

nizing President Barack Obama during a re-election campaign and straining relations with Israel’s closest and most important ally. Relations between the two leaders have often been tense in the past.

Israeli officials say American politics do not factor into their thinking, but that the sense of urgency is so grave that the world cannot hold its breath until after the November election.

“The world tells Israel, `Wait.

There’s still time,’� Netanyahu said Tuesday. “And I say: `Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.�

Israel views a nuclear-armed Iran as a mortal threat, citing Iran’s persistent calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, its development of missiles capa-

ble of striking Israel, and Iranian support for Arab militant groups.

Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Although the United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapon capability under the cover of a peaceful program, the Obama administration has said it does not believe Iran has decided whether to build an atomic bomb - if it in fact devel-

ops the ability to do so.

Israeli officials believe time is running short with Iran moving perilously close to reaching weapons capability. They point to Iranian enrichment of uranium, a key ingredient in building a bomb, the ovement of Iranian nuclear research facilities to fortified underground bunkers impervious to attack, and Iran’s refusal to open its facilities to U.N. inspectors.

Egyptian protesters scale Embassy wall in Cairo

BY SARAH EL DEEB AND MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Mainly ultraconservative protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt’s capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black Islamist flag to protest a U.S.-produced film attacking the Prophet Muhammad.

Hours later, armed men in eastern Libya also stormed the US consulate there and set it on fire as anger spread.

It was the first time ever that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo has been breached and comes as Egypt is struggling to overcome months of unrest following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime. U.S. officials said no Americans were reported harmed in the assaults in Cairo or the eastern city of Benghazi.

The unrest in Cairo began when hundreds of protesters marched to the downtown embassy, gathering outside its walls and chanting against the movie and the U.S. “Say it, don’t fear: Their ambassador must leave,� the crowd chanted.

Dozens of protesters then scaled the embassy walls, and several went into the courtyard and took down the flag from a pole.

They brought it back to the crowd outside,

which tried to burn it, but failing that tore it apart.

The protesters on the wall then raised on the flagpole a black flag with a Muslim declaration of faith, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet.� The flag, similar to the banner used by al-Qaida, is commonly used by ultraconservatives around the region.

The crowd grew throughout the evening with thousands standing outside the embassy. Dozens of riot police lined up along the embassy walls but did not stop protesters as they continued to climb and stand on the wall - though it appeared no more went into the compound.

The crowd chanted, “Islamic, Islamic.

The right of our prophet will not die.� Some shouted, “We are all Osama,� referring to alQaida leader bin Laden. Young men, some in masks, sprayed graffiti on the walls. Some grumbled that Islamist President Mohammed Morsi had not spoken out about the movie.

A group of women in black veils and robes that left only their eyes exposed chanted, “Worshippers of the Cross, leave the Prophet Muhammad alone.�

By midnight, the crowd had dwindled. The U.S. Embassy said on its Twitter account that there will be no visa services on Wednesday because of the protests.

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Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 11, 2012.

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“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” GEORGE F. BURNS COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

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Cheating to reviewed case by case

Impostor posed as student for at least 9 months

BY REBECCA ROBBINS STAFF WRITER After a report circulated over the past few days claiming that Harvard had devised a tiered punishment scheme to uniformly sanction any students found guilty of cheating in Government 1310: “Introduction to Congress,” a Harvard spokesperson reaffirmed the College’s statement that it will resolve each case in the sweeping plagiarism investigation on an individual basis.

On Sunday, IvyGate, a blog that covers news and gossip from the eight Ivy League universities, published the contents of an email from “a tipster” claiming to know how the Administrative Board will issue decisions to students in the scandal.

Citing his or her resident dean, the tipster identified four ways the Ad Board would proceed in specific circumstances—ranging from possible exoneration for students whose similar answers resulted from notes or study guides shared before the exam came out, to a failing course grade and a requirement to temporarily withdraw from the College for students who discussed the exam while it was out.

One student under investiga-

tion, who was granted anonymity by The Crimson because he did not want it known that he is being invesHARVARD tigated for academic dishonesty, said he had also heard “through the grapevine” that administrators had drafted a tiered punishment scheme. Like other students, he said he has not yet heard from the Ad Board what, if any, punishment he personally is likely to face.

The Crimson received an email nearly identical to the one which was published on IvyGate, from a source who identified himself only by initials and an anonymous Yahoo email address. The source would not provide his name to Crimson editors, even on condition of anonymity, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff Neal reiterated in an emailed statement that the Ad Board will investigate and issue decisions to students on a case-bycase basis.

“Every case will be reviewed by the Administrative Board individually and will be resolved in accor-

dance with its ordinary policies and procedures, based on the rules of the faculty and the particular circumstances that pertain to the particular student,” Neal wrote.

According to the Ad Board website, the Board must be “sufficiently persuaded” of a student’s guilt to issue punishment. The severity of those penalties depends on both the gravity of the infraction and any “extenuating circumstances,” including a student’s past disciplinary history.

Sanctions for an academic integrity infraction can either preserve or remove a student’s “good standing” at the College.

Possible punishments that do not change a student’s status include an admonition, a mandatory re-do or a failing grade on the assignment in question, a course grade penalty, or a transcript mark equivalent to no credit for the course.

Sanctions that take away a student’s “good standing” at Harvard including a probationary period or a requirement to withdraw from Harvard, typically for a year.

Neal declined to comment on whether the Ad Board has issued decisions yet to any students implicated the scandal.

BY FINN VIGELAND STAFF WRITER Birva Patel — perhaps better known as Rhea Sen, the young woman who posed as a new student throughout orientation week and the first week of classes — was arrested at least twice in the last week, after it became clear that she had falsely claimed to be a Columbia student for at least nine months.

Patel, 26, was arrested on the Morningside Heights campus for criminal trespass on Thursday and Saturday, according to court documents, and again on Monday night, according to witnesses. Despite reports from students that they encountered her on campus throughout last winter, spring, and summer, she went unnoticed by university authorities until the end of August, when International Student Orientation Program leaders reported her to their supervisor for suspicious behavior.

But on Monday—one day after Spectator reported her first arrest—students told Spectator that they had seen her on campus as early as December 2011, going by her real name and claiming to

be a junior studying engineering.

Patel was arraigned on Sunday before being released on her own recognizance.

COLUMBIA The judge, Abraham Clott, issued a temporary order of protection, according to court documents, although it was unclear to whom it was issued. A police spokesperson was not able to confirm as of press time that Patel had been arrested again on Monday.

Six students said they met Patel earlier within the last year and were immediately put off by her unusual behavior.

“She just had this weird vibe,” said Anna Prouty, BC ’14, who met Patel at UNI Café in April. “I love awkward people — I’m kind of awkward—but it wasn’t like that. It was, ‘Hi, can I hang out with you?’”

Students who interacted with Patel gave similar characterizations of her behavior: She approached them and all but demanded to be friends, and she repeatedly lied about what she was studying and what school she was in.

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Harvard men’s basketball co-captains embroiled in cheating scandal Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry, co-captains of the Harvard men’s basketball team, will likely miss the 2012-13 season. They are among 125 Harvard students accused of cheating on a spring 2012 take-home final exam. Yesterday, it was reported that Casey withdrew from Harvard, and Curry is likely to do the same in order to preserve his collegiate eligibility.

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Anne Song ’13 scored a goal and had two assists in Yale’s Tuesday night win against Saint Peter’s.

SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 and the Elis took off running.

“We kept it simple, kept our players wide and spread out their defense,” Anne Song ’13 said. “That was the key to our scoring.”

With five minutes left in the first half, Song stepped up and intercepted a pass between two opposing team members.

Song sent the ball upfield to Georgiana Wagemann ’15, who slid an area pass to Kristen Forster ’13. Forster booted the ball past the Peacocks’ aggressive goalkeeper for Yale’s second goal.

Just minutes later, Song stepped up to intercept a pass and again threaded the ball between the opposition downfield to Forster, who tapped it over to Kubiak. The forward fought past a defender and chipped the ball over the fingers of the goalkeeper to put the Bulldogs up 3–0 at the end of the half.

Frustrated by the three-goal margin at the half, St. Peter’s came out with fire in their bellies at the start at the second half.

The Peacocks were all over the field, at first trying to control the ball, only to relinquish

possession after a few minutes.

With the ball back in their hands, the Bulldogs prepared to finish off the Peacocks with 37 minutes left in the game. Meredith Speck ’15 picked off another Peacock pass and sent it over to Forster in front of the net. Forster blazed by the last defender left in the Peacocks’ offside trap formation and beat the goalie. She sent a quick dish over to Melissa Gavin ’15, who tapped the ball into the net to put Yale up 4–0. Just four minutes later, the Bulldogs put away their fifth goal, and two minutes later they took a tenable 6–0 lead.

With 22 minutes left, the Peacocks finally came through with a goal off their first corner kick.

But the moment of success was shortlived as the Bulldogs lined up for the kickoff. Juliann Jeffrey ’14 blazed down the field and shot a precise pass from Paula Hagopian ’16 into the back of the net to restore Yale’s six-goal lead.

Kubiak added one more goal for good measure with 38 seconds left to bring the final score to 8–1.

“It was great to get another win at home before Ivies start,” Song said.

Yale will kick off Ivy League competition against Princeton on Sept. 22 at Reese Stadium.

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

YA L E ’ S S E V E N SCORERS MURIEL BATTAGLIA ’15 at 27:17 KIRSTEN FORSTER ’13 at 40:08 MARY KUBIAK ’14 at

41:08 and at 89:22

MELISSA GAVIN ’15 at 53:00 ANNE SONG ’13 at 57:40 SHANNON CONNEELY ’16 at 59:20 JULIANN JEFFREY ’14 at 67:25

college campuses, Ciotti was more than happy to help his old friend.

“It’s an amazing thing,” Ciotti said. “We can make a difference in life.”

Ciotti added that as the football team began to work on its first drive for Talley’s “Get in the Game, Save a Life” program, Mandi Schwartz ’11 was diagnosed with leukemia. The women’s ice hockey team then joined with the football team in a collaborative effort.

Women’s ice hockey forward Jenna Ciotti ’14 said that the team wanted to begin a donor registration drive as a “search for a match for Mandi within Yale and in her memory.”

That year the Bulldogs registered the most potential donors out of anyone in the “Get in the Game” program with more than 850 registrations, according to Ciotti. Ciotti’s work with the program has had an effect on his players.

“To see how … Coach Ciotti is so passionate about [the drive] made me really want to step my game up last year,” running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 said.

Several other members of the coaching staff have been particularly involved in the program.

Head coach Tony Reno said that he works with the players to solicit new potential donors.

Volunteer Assistant Chris Gennaro recently donated his bone marrow. He registered at a similar drive in 2009 when he was a member of the University of Maine football team. He stressed that the procedure was painless, and that he hopes to continue working with donor registration drives.

“As long as I’m [at Yale], I’m going to be involved,” Gennaro said.

Director of Football Operations Nick Kray also has ties to the Get in the Game program.

Joining the Elis after two years at Villanova, Kray was active in Villanova’s donor registration drives, Ciotti said.

The players have taken the examples of their coaches in working on the drive.

Will McHale ’13 has served as a member of the committee that organizes the Mandi Schwartz Donor Registration Drive, quarterback John Whitelaw ’14 said, but McHale’s role in the program could be adding a new dimension. Ciotti said that McHale was contacted by the National Bone Marrow Registry as a possible donor. McHale declined to comment.

Members of the team who are not a part of the committee are still active in the drive soliciting students to join the registry.

“My main responsibility for the job was being a hawker,” nose guard Chris Dooley ’13 said. “I pretty much harass people on the street and try to get them to sign up for the registry. Not to be arrogant, but I’m pretty good at it.”

It’s an amazing thing. We can make a difference in life.

LARRY CIOTTI Running backs coach, football Field hockey back Lexy Adams ’13 said she was recruited by a football player to join the registry and became a bone marrow donor. She said that the size of the football team helps the registration drive.

“As a team of around 100 players and each being responsible for their five recruited registrants, [the football team] massively contributes to our large turnouts each year,” Adams said in a message to the News. “[O]n the day of the drive, the football players stake themselves out on Cross Campus, Old Campus and Commons to convince people to make it over to the drive — and with the numbers we’ve registered in the last four years, they are pretty darn good at it.”

So far, the drive has found 14 matches that have led to lifesaving bone marrow donations.

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

Leonard leads sailing teams to top of rankings SAILING FROM PAGE 14 “I think he is the best collegiate coach in the country,” Cam Cullman ’13, skipper and captain of the coed team, said. “We are really lucky to have him. He is very calm and knowledgeable in addition to being so technically sound.”

Cullman added that Leonard’s sturdy technical foundation has enabled him to impart invaluable skills on the sailing team. Leonard said the two components to effective racing are speed and quick decision-making. His goal has always been to teach both as quickly as possible.

Cullman came to Yale as a strong single-handed sailor.

Under Leonard’s coaching, however, Cullman said he quickly developed the skills and tactics he required as a competitive double-handed sailor. He attributed the acquisition of these skills to a combination of hard work and Leonard’s style.

“He is very focused and always has a game plan,” Cullman said.

“He has a great eye for seeing trends and always knows what is going to happen on the water before it happens.”

This competitive intuition that comes with Leonard’s fruitful sailing experience has helped the team with more than just technical prowess. Crew Kate Gaumond ’15 said Leonard has surrounded himself with some of the best coaching staff in the country to compliment his style.

Bill Healy, the 1995 U.S. Sailing Men’s National Champion and Stuart McNay ’05, who placed 13th at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men’s 470 class, complete Leonard’s team of advisors.

Gaumond said that having three coaches allows the team to

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Under head coach Zack Leonard ’89, the sailing team has made five national championship appearances. The women’s team was ranked No. 1 in preseason, and the coed team No. 2. split into groups for practice, giving it more individual attention.

Also, each coach can attend a different regatta when the team has multiple competitions in a single weekend.

In addition to a world-class

coaching staff and plenty of hard work, Leonard attributes the success of the team to the variety of conditions the Bulldogs sail in on the Long Island Sound.

“We have to be creative and use the conditions we’re dealt

each day, so we are adaptive to our environment,” Leonard said.

“When we have a day that is really shifty off the land, we will work on decision-making and when we have a day where the wind is coming from the sea, we

work on speed.”

Both teams next compete on Saturday. The women will be at Dartmouth for the Mrs. Hurst Bowl and the coed team will be at King’s Point for Nevin’s Trophy.

Both the coed team and the wom-

en’s team have yet to finish out of first place this season.

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

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“[Zach Leonard ’89] is the best collegiate coach in the country. We are really lucky to have him.”

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EVAN FRONDORF

Murray makes it a ‘Big Four’ I didn’t expect to write a follow-up column on the U.S. Open. Andy Murray has been on a roll, sure, but with the world’s best at Arthur Ashe, I didn’t expect him to make it all the way to the final.

Instead, we got a final and much more: Andy Murray managed to hold off Novak Djokovic in a five-set classic to earn his first Grand Slam title. In today’s tennis world, only two things are clear: Serena Williams is the queen of women’s tennis, and in the world of men’s tennis, it’s anyone’s game now.

I would like to think that I willed Murray to victory with my presence at the Open and my lifelong fandom (which began in July). But, to be honest, I totally forgot that the final was taking place Monday evening.

Rain pushed back the men’s and women’s finals (what a surprise), so it took someone shouting into a megaphone near Silliman and TD to remind me to tune in.

“The U.S. Open final is on … RIGHT NOW.” Thanks, megaphone man.

Seriously, I appreciated the help, because I would have missed a match that was a classic right from the start. Djokovic and Murray immediately entered into a series of grueling games in the first set that tested their physical resolve and patience. Murray broke early; then Djokovic broke right back. Once the two reached a nerve-racking first set tiebreaker that ended 12–10 in favor of the Scot, I had a feeling that this final might go the distance.

And it did: five sets in four hours, 54 minutes. That is a tie for the longest final in U.S. Open history. Even the points were long — one rally in the first set continued for 55 strokes. Murray looked like he might take it in straight sets after a breakout effort in the second, but Djokovic was not planning on going home early.

Strong third and fourth sets tied up the match 2–2, and Djokovic seemed to have the advantage.

But in the end, Novak did not have enough to close it out in the last set. He was clearly bothered by leg pain and Murray went up 5–2, leading to a final game that was bizarrely anticlimactic. Before play resumed with Murray having the chance to serve for the championship, the Djoker called a trainer over to his chair, which turned into a lengthy, agonizing break during which Andy anxiously paced around the court. A bit like “icing the kicker,” as the U.S. Open commentators explained.

Once Murray actually had the chance to serve, no point was certain. Murray won an incredibly close challenge to make it 30–0 on an ace. Then Djokovic’s return appeared slightly long on the following point.

No one really knew. Murray looked around, bewildered, thinking a line judge had called the ball out.

With no response from the chair umpire, he begrudgingly issued a challenge — and won again. 40–0, triple championship point. Even then, Murray didn’t exactly have his one shining moment. He did not immediately recognize that Djokovic’s return was long on 40–15. For a brief second, the viewers at home knew Murray had won, but the crowd — and Murray — did not.

When realization set in, Murray sunk to his knees, hands covering his face. Both competitors slowly hobbled around the court, exhausted and depleted by nearly five hours of world-class championship tennis.

There was no outward exuberance and joy, at least not at first — not what we expect from Murray. In fact, he noticeably limped off the court with tournament officials before hobbling back to grab something out of his bag as cameras struggled to keep up. Not my definition of a championship celebration.

Perhaps it was the appropriate reaction. After going 0-for-4 in Grand Slam finals, Andy Murray’s quest neared desperation. So when he finally pulled it off, he understandably could not believe it. It’s been a unbelievable “summer of sport” for Andy, as the British would say — so many years of losses, a crushing Wimbledon defeat, and now an Olympic gold and Grand Slam title within six weeks. He is certainty left an indelible mark on the tennis world, and the Big Three better be on guard. Take note, Rafa, Roger, and Novak: I don’t think Andy’s backing down anytime soon.

Remember Murray’s post-Wimbledon apology?

How he pleaded, “I am getting closer?” Well, that was quick.

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

Elis slide eight past Peacocks SOCCER

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As seven Elis contributed goals to Yale’s 8–1 steamrolling of Saint Peter’s Tuesday night, Mary Kubiak ’14 led the way with two tallies of her own.

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s highest-scoring game of the season did not cast a spotlight on any one player, as more than half the starting lineup scored against Saint Peter’s on Tuesday.

After a brief battle for consistent control at the beginning of the game, the women’s soccer team

(3–3, 0–0 Ivy) dominated the Saint Peter’s Peacocks (1–7) in an 8–1 shellacking at Reese Stadium. Seven Elis scored goals, and Mary Kubiuk ’14 led the team with two. The Bulldogs improved to 2–0 at home so far this season.

“I’m happy that we had seven different people score — that’s unusual in a game,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “Seven goals in a soccer game is

Sailing excels under Leonard

BY ASHTON WACKYM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This year’s preseason sailing rankings of No. 1 and No. 2 for the women’s and coed sailing teams continue a long tradition of success for sailing head coach Zack Leonard ’89.

SAILING Since sailing became a varsity sport at Yale in 2002, the coed team has earned a preseason ranking within the top ten in all but one year, and the women’s team has yet to fall below the ninth spot. This sort of perennial success is not foreign to the sailing team or to Leonard.

Fifty-five All-American sailors, five national champion-

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uncommon, let alone having seven different scorers.”

The Elis protected their territory from the Peacocks and kept the ball in the midfield and offensive zone for most of the game. During the first half, Yale granted the Peacocks only 4 shots and no corner kicks. Muriel Battaglia ’15 initiated scoring after a scramble in front of the Peacocks’ net, fighting through Peacock defenders

to pound in a header off a well-placed corner kick by Frannie Coxe ’15.

The Peacocks followed the Bulldogs’ first mark on the scoreboard with a short surge of ferocity, a fast break up the field and a hard blast on net from a distance. But goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 crushed their momentum with a huge, diving save, SEE SOCCER PAGE 13

Football coaches lead off the field

ship appearances and four current Olympians are just some of the achievements Leonard has helped the Yale sailors attain since he was asked to head Yale’s sailing coaching staff in 2002.

Leonard has also shown his own prowess on the water.

“It was a lot of people working hard together to get things back where they have been,” Leonard, a four time U.S. Team Racing Champion and one time U.K. Team Racing Champion, said.

Leonard added that the last time Yale sailing had found similar success was in the 1970s, when sailing remained a club sport.

Members of the Yale sailing team attribute its success to Leonard and his assistants.

Mostly known for calling plays, Yale’s football coaching staff has been getting in the game to help register potential bone marrow donors.

Forty years ago, Andy Talley and Larry Ciotti were best friends, roommates, and teammates on the football team at Southern Connecticut State University. Now Talley is in his 28th season as the head coach of the Villanova Football team and Ciotti is the Bulldogs’ running backs coach.

When Talley was contacted by the Be the Match Registry in 2008 to help start drives on other

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BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

YALE ATHLETICS

Volunteer assistant football coach Chris Gennaro is a recent bone marrow donor.

THE NUMBER OF BONE MARROW MATCHES THE “GET IN THE GAME, SAVE A LIFE” PROGRAM HAS IDENTIFIED AMONG THE MORE THAN 850 TOTAL REGISTRATIONS IT HAS GATHERED. The women’s ice hockey team and football team, among others, work together on the bone marrow drive.